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OOC INFORMATION
Player: Kari
Age: Twenty-one for a few more months.
Personal Journal:karijou
Contact Info: derpy angel @ aim / karijou @ plurk
NOTE: The following app will contain major, unmarked spoilers for Steins;Gate. Read at your own risk.
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Suzuha Amane
Age: Eighteen
Canon: Steins;Gate
Canon Point: After the first attempt at traveling to 1975.
Species: Human.
Gender: Cisgender female.
Orientation: Suzuha rarely (if ever) gets flustered, blushes, or demonstrates any real interest in anything romantic. The two hints she gives are 1) saying she doesn't swing for girls, and 2) only demonstrating visible attraction in the entire series to a girl. Based on her devotion to her duty coming above all else, and her somewhat laissez-faire nature with regards to most things for herself, I'd say (in the simplest terms) that Suzuha would be classified as mostly uninterested, with no real preference for either husband or wife.
History: Since Steins;Gate occurs over so many different worldlines and tends to do horrible, horrible things to the nature of causality, I'll be doing two things for simplicity's sake: restricting this section to ONLY this Suzuha's worldline (α attractor field, divergence 0.337187%), and presenting an overarching chronological timeline instead of a traditional narrative. This is largely to prevent any confusion from the nonlinear perspective from which I had to figure this thing out (time in this worldline tends to involve circular patterns, for one), to include necessary background details, and to prevent repetition where possible. If you wish to see it from Suzuha's perspective, the simplest way to do so is to start in 2017 and jump around with her until finished. I will bold her arrivals and departures where appropriate.
1954
-The research organization "SERN" is founded in Europe.
1973
-SERN creates its first draft of the Z-Program. This program involves making a time machine, successfully testing on humans, and using it to eliminate conflict, war, and poverty worldwide. To that end, it begins to enlist Rounders, special forces ranging from augmented time-travelers to cell-phone enlisted teenagers, to do its necessary work.
1975
-The IBN5100, a new portable PC, goes on sale.
-Suzuha Amane arrives on an imperfectly-repaired time machine, having traveled from 2010 in order to find an IBN5100 for Rintarou Okabe, founder of the resistance group Valkyrie. (Note: this still happens in the past, even though Suzuha Amane is arriving in Holly Heights before she makes this journey.)
-A Rounder successfully time-traveling behind her ambushes her, knocking her out and wiping the majority of her memories.
-Suzuha, only remembering her name and her father's, registers her name as “Suzu Hashida” and lives a normal life for quite some time.
1990s
-Suzu Hashida successfully becomes a physics professor at a nearby university.
1991
-Rintarou Okabe and Itaru Hashida are born.
1997
-Suzuha Amane, acting as landlord of the building Rintarou Okabe will eventually use as his headquarters, helps a poor Yuugo Tennouji establish a CRT monitor shop downstairs.
1999
-Suzuha Amane regains her memories and remembers her original mission: to obtain an IBN5100. She immediately attempts to salvage her duty.
2000
June
Unable to find an IBN5100, Suzuha writes a letter apologizing to Rintarou Okabe and his group of lab members. She says she “failed,” apologizes for living “a life wasted”, gives the letter to Yuugo Tennouji with express instructions, and hangs herself.
2001
-The Large Hadron Collider, built with the purpose of creating dual-singularity Kerr black holes for time travel, goes into operation.
2010
July 28
-Suzuha Amane arrives in her time machine and promptly crashes into the Radio Kaikan building, leading to the cancellation of Dr. Nakabachi's time travel conference.
-Suzuha Amane finds a part-time job in Yuugo Tennouji's CRT television store, hiding out to find and assist Rintarou Okabe.
-Throughout her stay, Suzuha posts to @channel and a few other boards under the alias of “John Titor.” She reveals some details of the future – SERN's dystopia and the specifications of her time machine, amongst others – and lies about others. All this is done in an attempt to elicit the attention of Barrel Titor, her father.
August
-While eavesdropping, Suzuha learns that Okabe has created a time machine that operates on cellular data. She continues to help his theory and goal as “John Titor,” going so far as to call him the Messiah when she finds that his memories are preserved across jumped worldlines.
-Suzuha spots Kurisu Makise entering the laboratory, causing a great deal of conflict. She attempts to warn Okabe that Kurisu is a SERN spy, to no avail.
-Suzuha attempts to kill Kurisu, stealthily enough to avoid the watch of the rest of the group. Freak coincidence leads to failure, after which Suzuha acknowledges that Kurisu's life is likely being preserved thanks to the principle of attractor field convergence. (Loosely summarized: events in the past have inertia of sorts, and it takes great impulse to “break free” of that field. Even though a parallel worldline has a different series of events leading up to it (approaching 100% by Everett-Wheeler), most worldlines reconverge into the “primary” one; the time and status of one's death, for instance, is a necessity.)
August 11
-Upon realizing that Rintarou Okabe has successfully time-leaped two days into the past to prevent some great catastrophe, she reveals her alias of John Titor and her mission.
-When she is unable to find her father, she vows to go back after one try: a science-fiction convention, one which her mother told her that her father had attended. She is followed by Rintarou Okabe and his lab members, who inform her that they want to help find her father. She shows them the badge that was passed on into her possession and they begin to search.
-Kurisu talks with her person-to-person about her father and the grudge Suzuha holds. Suzuha admits to Kurisu that she was in charge of killing her with a sniper rifle in 2034 and failed, a fact which Kurisu Makise keeps close.
-After the group searches with no luck, Itaru Hashida commissions a con badgemaker under the name “Barrel Titor” (a pun on his own name – Ha-shi-da-i-ta-ru for Titor, Daru → Taru for “Barrel”) to make Suzuha's badge. He plans to tell her he found it at the sci-fi convention, and thus allow her to leave with the “knowledge” that her father is safe.
-Itaru Hashida begins to repair Suzuha's time machine.
August 12
-Itaru Hashida figures out that the time machine is one way only – once Suzuha leaps, she will be unable to return.
August 13
-Itaru Hashida successfully repairs the time machine.
-Mayuri Shiina deduces that Itaru Hashida is Suzuha Amane's biological father and explains her reasoning.
-Suzuha and Itaru share a moment, after which they say goodbye.
-Suzuha travels with the intent of reaching 1975. Instead, she blacks out mid-travel and wakes up in Holly Heights.
August 14th
-Yuugo Tennouji gives Rintarou Okabe the suicide note of Suzu Hashida.
-SERN raids Rintarou Okabe's laboratory. Mayuri Shiina is killed, and Okabe, Itaru, and Kurisu are all taken as hostages.
2011
December 29
-Rintarou Okabe and Itaru Hashida escape from SERN and go into hiding during the Winter Comiket. Kurisu Makise is unable to escape.
-Itaru Hashida switches names entirely to “Barrel Titor.”
-Itaru Hashida meets Yuki Amane at the Winter Comiket.
-When their safety is confirmed, Rintarou Okabe and Itaru Hashida commence Operation Valkyrie: the anti-SERN resistance.
2017
September 27
-Suzuha Amane is born to Barrel Titor and Yuki Amane.
2020
-Evidence surfaces which leads Attractor Field Convergence, a minor theory until now, to become the standard accepted model of parallel universes.
2025
-The Rounders successfully find Rintarou Okabe, leader of the resistance, and kill him.
-Barrel Titor becomes the new leader of the resistance. Suzuha vows to follow in her father's footsteps, and begins to train herself for survival and combat. She also learns quickly to avoid being spotted or becoming a noted figure at all costs, as the nature of time travel would allow for her immediate elimination if this were to happen.
2033
-Barrel Titor is discovered by the Rounders and killed.
2034
-Suzuha Amane is given a sniper rifle and a mission: to assassinate Kurisu Makise, the “mother of time travel.” Kurisu spots her, causing Suzuha to miss the shot, and the majority of her companions are immediately killed by the Rounders. Suzuha escapes unharmed.
-Kurisu Makise finishes the time machine for SERN.
-Kurisu Makise dies in a “freak accident” a few months later.
-Using their time machines, SERN eliminates all opposition and successfully creates “world peace” through forcible brainwashing. Dystopia fully arrives.
2036
September 27
-Valkyrie commences Operation Jormungandr, the execution of a SERN official. Suzuha is once again given the honor of sniper duty. She is unable to take the shot thanks to memories of her past failure, and thus escapes the waiting ambush undiscovered. Yuki Amane gives her daughter Barrel Titor's last recorded message, a movie in which he explains that he created a time machine for her to use.
-Her mission is to travel to 1975 and obtain an IBN5100 for Rintarou Okabe's formation of Valkyrie. This old computer will allow Rintarou Okabe to access SERN's database, compile the proprietary programming language, and delete the text he sent to alter the timeline.
-While the time machine is moved into position on top of Radio Kaikan, an ambush causes it to crash into the building. Suzuha's mother is killed by the Rounders.
-In a moment of weakness, Suzuha time travels to July 28, 2010 instead of 1975. Her goal: find her father, spend a few moments with him, and head to 1975 in order to change the future.
Appearance: Anime style, VN style, and Suzuha on patrol.
Miscellaneous details: she's just a bit over 5'4”, she weighs 112 pounds (somehow), and evidently has 31.5/23/34 measurements. Judging from Okabe's commentary, she's fairly muscular; her bicep is firm, and her spats cover “sinewy muscle.”
Personality: When people look at Suzuha Amane, they're most likely to assign her the classic “genki girl” trope and leave it at that. To be fair, she is exceedingly quick to excite: she responds jokingly to nearly everything thrown at her, her voice is singsong (reaching the point of tilde abuse in the visual novel), and she runs or bikes everywhere she goes. Everything she does, she does with zest and zealotry, save for maybe her part time job at a CRT monitor store. Even her standard greeting, one used by an idol in 2000, gives the impression of an overly enthusiastic young woman.
There's a bit of self-awareness that rears its head at times, too. When people comment on her dated greeting, she just laughs and asks if that's not what's popular these days. She often teases the people interacting with her about any given situation: a close male friend asking to speak with her might receive a "what's this, another love confession?" without the slightest bit of hesitation or embarrassment on her end. All this lends itself well to the idea that the way Suzuha acts might not be a perfect representation of how she feels at any given moment.
Occasionally, though, she accidentally drops small hints as to her real nature, and these are where her inner self begins to shine through. Her interactions with others often end up stilted or problematic due to various cues; she steadfastly refers to everyone by their full names, and she has a tendency to take sarcasm or jest at face value. All of this is likely because Suzuha Amane comes from a world that has fallen into brainwashed dystopia, one where the nature of social interaction has changed by necessity. When Okabe says that it's likely he was brainwashed, Suzuha pins him to a wall to check – not because she is gullible or naïve, but exactly the inverse. At one point, she even mentions that grasshoppers aren't bad at all with some butter. (This comment is all the more horrifying in retrospect, and confirmed in her spinoff manga: in order to survive without running into rounders or law enforcement at any point in time, Suzuha has to go long stretches of time eating whatever she can find, usually averaging out weeds and edible bugs.) She has never seen an ear of corn before, and when given one as a present shows visible delight.
All this lends itself well to a final point regarding her interactions with others: Suzuha tends to play her role as needed, smiles and laughter acting as a buffer against suspicion. This is hammered home in two specific ways: when she interacts seriously with Okabe she does not smile or inject enthusiasm into her voice, and when she posts as "John Titor" her method of speech is once again calm and methodical. However, it it at this point that we reach an interesting contradiction: even when shown in the future or when alone, she still tends to act in this specifically cheerful way. Why would she put up a show in her own internal monologue, especially when she seems almost bluntly honest with herself aside from that? Using this as evidence, it seems more likely that Suzuha is in fact a naturally energetic person, and instead shuts down her cheer and happiness when she feels she has to. What could force a shift like that? Motivation is likely more important than presentation, and Suzuha Amane cannot be found lacking in either. Beneath her exterior, at her very core, lie three important aspects.
The first is simple: as she says, she is a soldier. Suzuha has lived her entire life in a world teetering on the edge of ruin; her memories of her father before he left to lead the resistance are far and distant, and she followed in his footsteps at an incredibly young age. What is left at this point is a young woman who has never had time to do anything but survive. After all, Suzuha lives in a world where movies are things in archives, where food is scarce enough to merit living off of weeds and bugs for long stretches of time, and where being spotted at any time means the loss of free will. The only way to make it through such a situation is to continuously adapt, and if nothing else Suzuha is remarkable at surviving against all odds. (This is no small source of guilt for her, at times: she is a sole survivor in many scenarios, and she regrets it intensely.)
As a soldier, though, something comes even before survival: her duty. Suzuha has a force of will akin to a woman possessed, stopping at nothing to reach her ultimate goal. Her own death – or worse yet, cessation of existence – means little when compared to the things that she could achieve with the power she has been given. She grimly takes jobs nobody else is willing to, because someone has to, ranging from sniper duty (which she is the most qualified for, despite her failed attempt at shooting Kurisu Makise) to taking a one-way ride into the past. She never complains or expresses regret for what she loses in the process; she just buckles down and does what must be done, even if her own life is the cost. This leads to a selfless method of acting, even if her goals are not necessarily kind or idealistic; her own desires simply come after the common good by virtue of the mission she has been assigned.
Unfortunately, she fixates on her duty to unhealthy extremes at times. It makes sense, of course – given the time period and setting where she came from, finishing the mission takes absolute priority in almost all cases. However, in the event that her competence is not enough to allow her to succeed, Suzuha completely loses her composure. The two times we are able to see her fail a job, she utterly breaks down, screaming about her failure and taking out her frustration on herself and the world around her. When her time travel job is irreversibly failed (thanks to her search for her father), leaving no chance for reparation, Suzuha goes so far as to apologize for “a life wasted” before killing herself. She is not one to tolerate failure, especially when she has a power at her fingertips that would allow her to fix things if she just did them right.
And that leads us into the final aspect of Suzuha's personality. At her core, she is the daughter of Barrel Titor. She is consumed by the idea of ”what if,” observing every failed movement and wondering what it might be like in a different worldline. When she first travels back in time, she heads out to observe Rintarou Okabe and possibly push him in the right direction. When she sees Kurisu Makise, the woman she failed to kill two years prior, she attempts another assassination in the hopes that it would cause a significant divergence from her base worldline. When she makes posts as “John Titor,” it is partially to elicit a response from her father and partially to provide information where it might be useful. And, paradoxically enough, this aspect of her is both what dooms her mission (when she stays to search for her father a few days more) and what allows her to successfully complete it (when she acknowledges that she can change so much for the better).
She is a unique constant, the girl who travels back in time in every branch of every known worldline. To put it in its simplest form, she is a time-traveler, one with full knowledge of the theory and implications behind her actions, and this is what burns brightest of all. Regardless of her duty as a soldier, regardless of her drive to survive, Suzuha is someone who lies back in the peaceful moments and thinks about what she's failed in the past – and what she can change in the present.
Abilities: Whoo, boy. So Suzuha doesn't actually have any supernatural abilities or powers! She is a human being, pure and simple, and not even one with some mysterious inexplicable ability like Rintarou Okabe. That said, this section's still going to be a pain, because there's lots of stuff she can do (nearly to the point of stupidity, even). In order:
I. Combat Skill. Suzuha is a soldier and terrorist that has managed to survive in a dystopian future. More impressively, she has managed to make it eighteen years in her life without once being spotted or observed by the group capable of time travel. Anyone that sees her face is killed by her or other Valkyrie members, and thus unable to report her location and time to those with access to time machines. In terms of raw ability, she's notably strong (especially her legs, although observations are made about her arm muscles as well) and quick on her feet, enough to take out groups of three to five armed rounders at a time with a knife and the advantage of surprise. Relatedly, we have...
II. Survival Drive. Suzuha will do what it takes to survive as long as it doesn't conflict with her duty. To that end, she is more than capable of pulling the trigger and killing others (or even doing it at arm's length). When food is scarce, she will scavenge whatever food is safe to eat, and weeds boiled in a pot are a common enough meal for her that she eats it to save money in 2010. She thinks quickly even under stress, being able to immediately recognize the train system's shutdown as a rounder attack in one worldline, and can take the necessary actions to at least escape most situations (if not redeem them entirely).
III. Intellect. Completely aside from being a highly competent soldier and survivor, Suzuha is the daughter of a notable scientist. She is shown in canon to grasp and discuss most of the principles behind her time travel, including some quantum physics, Penrose diagrams (utilizing a form of the Minkowski metric), and even the construction and engineering that went into her time machine. She is able to hold her own in discussions on her topics of expertise even with the noted genius Kurisu Makise; as such, it should not come as a surprise that she becomes a professor of Physics without too much issue when she heads back in time.
(However, with all this said, her knowledge is by no means encyclopedic or innate; she is simply smart and driven enough to do research for extended periods of time, and to understand what she finds, on highly advanced topics. While I feel she could understand most complicated topics if she had access to definitions and explanatory texts, I highly doubt she knows much about them as is - she's too intensely focused on her duty as a time-traveler to look at much else, after all.)
Other: I'm mainly using information from the main canon in visual novel form, and incorporating as much of her backstory from the Boukan no Rebellion/Onshuu no Braunian Motion spinoff manga as I can (especially since doing so provides no contradictions to established canon). As this is alpha!verse Suzuha, the majority of her posts as "John Titor" in 2000 are no longer applicable; however, I am taking the science and specifications for C204 that he uses as applicable in both universes.
Headcanon's been avoided almost entirely in this app; the timeline provided is entirely sourced from canon materials. In-game, I may flesh out some of the blanks (especially regarding her life in the years from birth to 2034), as long as no contradictions are created.
SAMPLES
First Person: He-yooooo!
[ judging from the very enthusiastic way this young woman is greeting the webcam - seriously, her fist is pumped into the air and everything - you probably aren't dealing with someone any older than eighteen. ]
The name's Suzuha Amane. Nice to meet all of you! [ and just like that, she takes a step back, both hands falling to her hips. ] So, "Holly Heights," huh? I've never heard of the place before now! It doesn't really sound Japanese, huh? So, is it American? Or maybe European! Man, I've always wondered what it's like there! Or maybe it's just an island in some antipodal region-
[ she catches herself, laughing and pulling nervously at her hair for a moment. ]
Anyway, you can find me at - my number's on the network now, right? That's how this protocol works? Just call that if you ever need to get a hold of me.
[ with a grin and a thumbs up, she leans in towards the webcam- ]
Hasta la vista!
[ and closes the feed. ]
Third Person: As the number of observable and divergent worldlines increases, the probability of any given event occuring within this space approaches one.
She sighs, lying back onto the floor and staring up at the ceiling. It's a simple change to Everett-Wheeler, one that accounts for convergence and decoherence both, and yet right now it's one that tells her nearly nothing. It's irrelevant. It's completely irrelevant whether an event is likely to have happened or whether she can help generalize the model appropriately when she's stuck in a red-roofed pleasantville with no obvious method of return. She knows it likely has nothing to do with the time machine's malfunctions; people of all sorts have turned up here, people with no knowledge of worldlines or divergence theory or even what they were doing the night before they woke up here. And yet...
With a quick push, she flips to face the floor and begins a series of push-ups. There's no sense in reviewing the situation any longer - until then, the most she can do is prepare and wait. Right now, her priorities are clear:
1) find her father's time machine;
2) find a way out of this worldline and location; and
3) keep a close eye on the situation until either of the first two conditions can be satisfied.
Until then, she thinks grimly as she finishes another rep, the most she can do is waste even more precious time.
OTHER
Housing Request?: Nnnnope!
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Player: Kari
Age: Twenty-one for a few more months.
Personal Journal:
karijouContact Info: derpy angel @ aim / karijou @ plurk
NOTE: The following app will contain major, unmarked spoilers for Steins;Gate. Read at your own risk.
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Suzuha Amane
Age: Eighteen
Canon: Steins;Gate
Canon Point: After the first attempt at traveling to 1975.
Species: Human.
Gender: Cisgender female.
Orientation: Suzuha rarely (if ever) gets flustered, blushes, or demonstrates any real interest in anything romantic. The two hints she gives are 1) saying she doesn't swing for girls, and 2) only demonstrating visible attraction in the entire series to a girl. Based on her devotion to her duty coming above all else, and her somewhat laissez-faire nature with regards to most things for herself, I'd say (in the simplest terms) that Suzuha would be classified as mostly uninterested, with no real preference for either husband or wife.
History: Since Steins;Gate occurs over so many different worldlines and tends to do horrible, horrible things to the nature of causality, I'll be doing two things for simplicity's sake: restricting this section to ONLY this Suzuha's worldline (α attractor field, divergence 0.337187%), and presenting an overarching chronological timeline instead of a traditional narrative. This is largely to prevent any confusion from the nonlinear perspective from which I had to figure this thing out (time in this worldline tends to involve circular patterns, for one), to include necessary background details, and to prevent repetition where possible. If you wish to see it from Suzuha's perspective, the simplest way to do so is to start in 2017 and jump around with her until finished. I will bold her arrivals and departures where appropriate.
1954
-The research organization "SERN" is founded in Europe.
1973
-SERN creates its first draft of the Z-Program. This program involves making a time machine, successfully testing on humans, and using it to eliminate conflict, war, and poverty worldwide. To that end, it begins to enlist Rounders, special forces ranging from augmented time-travelers to cell-phone enlisted teenagers, to do its necessary work.
1975
-The IBN5100, a new portable PC, goes on sale.
-Suzuha Amane arrives on an imperfectly-repaired time machine, having traveled from 2010 in order to find an IBN5100 for Rintarou Okabe, founder of the resistance group Valkyrie. (Note: this still happens in the past, even though Suzuha Amane is arriving in Holly Heights before she makes this journey.)
-A Rounder successfully time-traveling behind her ambushes her, knocking her out and wiping the majority of her memories.
-Suzuha, only remembering her name and her father's, registers her name as “Suzu Hashida” and lives a normal life for quite some time.
1990s
-Suzu Hashida successfully becomes a physics professor at a nearby university.
1991
-Rintarou Okabe and Itaru Hashida are born.
1997
-Suzuha Amane, acting as landlord of the building Rintarou Okabe will eventually use as his headquarters, helps a poor Yuugo Tennouji establish a CRT monitor shop downstairs.
1999
-Suzuha Amane regains her memories and remembers her original mission: to obtain an IBN5100. She immediately attempts to salvage her duty.
2000
June
Unable to find an IBN5100, Suzuha writes a letter apologizing to Rintarou Okabe and his group of lab members. She says she “failed,” apologizes for living “a life wasted”, gives the letter to Yuugo Tennouji with express instructions, and hangs herself.
2001
-The Large Hadron Collider, built with the purpose of creating dual-singularity Kerr black holes for time travel, goes into operation.
2010
July 28
-Suzuha Amane arrives in her time machine and promptly crashes into the Radio Kaikan building, leading to the cancellation of Dr. Nakabachi's time travel conference.
-Suzuha Amane finds a part-time job in Yuugo Tennouji's CRT television store, hiding out to find and assist Rintarou Okabe.
-Throughout her stay, Suzuha posts to @channel and a few other boards under the alias of “John Titor.” She reveals some details of the future – SERN's dystopia and the specifications of her time machine, amongst others – and lies about others. All this is done in an attempt to elicit the attention of Barrel Titor, her father.
August
-While eavesdropping, Suzuha learns that Okabe has created a time machine that operates on cellular data. She continues to help his theory and goal as “John Titor,” going so far as to call him the Messiah when she finds that his memories are preserved across jumped worldlines.
-Suzuha spots Kurisu Makise entering the laboratory, causing a great deal of conflict. She attempts to warn Okabe that Kurisu is a SERN spy, to no avail.
-Suzuha attempts to kill Kurisu, stealthily enough to avoid the watch of the rest of the group. Freak coincidence leads to failure, after which Suzuha acknowledges that Kurisu's life is likely being preserved thanks to the principle of attractor field convergence. (Loosely summarized: events in the past have inertia of sorts, and it takes great impulse to “break free” of that field. Even though a parallel worldline has a different series of events leading up to it (approaching 100% by Everett-Wheeler), most worldlines reconverge into the “primary” one; the time and status of one's death, for instance, is a necessity.)
August 11
-Upon realizing that Rintarou Okabe has successfully time-leaped two days into the past to prevent some great catastrophe, she reveals her alias of John Titor and her mission.
-When she is unable to find her father, she vows to go back after one try: a science-fiction convention, one which her mother told her that her father had attended. She is followed by Rintarou Okabe and his lab members, who inform her that they want to help find her father. She shows them the badge that was passed on into her possession and they begin to search.
-Kurisu talks with her person-to-person about her father and the grudge Suzuha holds. Suzuha admits to Kurisu that she was in charge of killing her with a sniper rifle in 2034 and failed, a fact which Kurisu Makise keeps close.
-After the group searches with no luck, Itaru Hashida commissions a con badgemaker under the name “Barrel Titor” (a pun on his own name – Ha-shi-da-i-ta-ru for Titor, Daru → Taru for “Barrel”) to make Suzuha's badge. He plans to tell her he found it at the sci-fi convention, and thus allow her to leave with the “knowledge” that her father is safe.
-Itaru Hashida begins to repair Suzuha's time machine.
August 12
-Itaru Hashida figures out that the time machine is one way only – once Suzuha leaps, she will be unable to return.
August 13
-Itaru Hashida successfully repairs the time machine.
-Mayuri Shiina deduces that Itaru Hashida is Suzuha Amane's biological father and explains her reasoning.
-Suzuha and Itaru share a moment, after which they say goodbye.
-Suzuha travels with the intent of reaching 1975. Instead, she blacks out mid-travel and wakes up in Holly Heights.
August 14th
-Yuugo Tennouji gives Rintarou Okabe the suicide note of Suzu Hashida.
-SERN raids Rintarou Okabe's laboratory. Mayuri Shiina is killed, and Okabe, Itaru, and Kurisu are all taken as hostages.
2011
December 29
-Rintarou Okabe and Itaru Hashida escape from SERN and go into hiding during the Winter Comiket. Kurisu Makise is unable to escape.
-Itaru Hashida switches names entirely to “Barrel Titor.”
-Itaru Hashida meets Yuki Amane at the Winter Comiket.
-When their safety is confirmed, Rintarou Okabe and Itaru Hashida commence Operation Valkyrie: the anti-SERN resistance.
2017
September 27
-Suzuha Amane is born to Barrel Titor and Yuki Amane.
2020
-Evidence surfaces which leads Attractor Field Convergence, a minor theory until now, to become the standard accepted model of parallel universes.
2025
-The Rounders successfully find Rintarou Okabe, leader of the resistance, and kill him.
-Barrel Titor becomes the new leader of the resistance. Suzuha vows to follow in her father's footsteps, and begins to train herself for survival and combat. She also learns quickly to avoid being spotted or becoming a noted figure at all costs, as the nature of time travel would allow for her immediate elimination if this were to happen.
2033
-Barrel Titor is discovered by the Rounders and killed.
2034
-Suzuha Amane is given a sniper rifle and a mission: to assassinate Kurisu Makise, the “mother of time travel.” Kurisu spots her, causing Suzuha to miss the shot, and the majority of her companions are immediately killed by the Rounders. Suzuha escapes unharmed.
-Kurisu Makise finishes the time machine for SERN.
-Kurisu Makise dies in a “freak accident” a few months later.
-Using their time machines, SERN eliminates all opposition and successfully creates “world peace” through forcible brainwashing. Dystopia fully arrives.
2036
September 27
-Valkyrie commences Operation Jormungandr, the execution of a SERN official. Suzuha is once again given the honor of sniper duty. She is unable to take the shot thanks to memories of her past failure, and thus escapes the waiting ambush undiscovered. Yuki Amane gives her daughter Barrel Titor's last recorded message, a movie in which he explains that he created a time machine for her to use.
-Her mission is to travel to 1975 and obtain an IBN5100 for Rintarou Okabe's formation of Valkyrie. This old computer will allow Rintarou Okabe to access SERN's database, compile the proprietary programming language, and delete the text he sent to alter the timeline.
-While the time machine is moved into position on top of Radio Kaikan, an ambush causes it to crash into the building. Suzuha's mother is killed by the Rounders.
-In a moment of weakness, Suzuha time travels to July 28, 2010 instead of 1975. Her goal: find her father, spend a few moments with him, and head to 1975 in order to change the future.
Appearance: Anime style, VN style, and Suzuha on patrol.
Miscellaneous details: she's just a bit over 5'4”, she weighs 112 pounds (somehow), and evidently has 31.5/23/34 measurements. Judging from Okabe's commentary, she's fairly muscular; her bicep is firm, and her spats cover “sinewy muscle.”
Personality: When people look at Suzuha Amane, they're most likely to assign her the classic “genki girl” trope and leave it at that. To be fair, she is exceedingly quick to excite: she responds jokingly to nearly everything thrown at her, her voice is singsong (reaching the point of tilde abuse in the visual novel), and she runs or bikes everywhere she goes. Everything she does, she does with zest and zealotry, save for maybe her part time job at a CRT monitor store. Even her standard greeting, one used by an idol in 2000, gives the impression of an overly enthusiastic young woman.
There's a bit of self-awareness that rears its head at times, too. When people comment on her dated greeting, she just laughs and asks if that's not what's popular these days. She often teases the people interacting with her about any given situation: a close male friend asking to speak with her might receive a "what's this, another love confession?" without the slightest bit of hesitation or embarrassment on her end. All this lends itself well to the idea that the way Suzuha acts might not be a perfect representation of how she feels at any given moment.
Occasionally, though, she accidentally drops small hints as to her real nature, and these are where her inner self begins to shine through. Her interactions with others often end up stilted or problematic due to various cues; she steadfastly refers to everyone by their full names, and she has a tendency to take sarcasm or jest at face value. All of this is likely because Suzuha Amane comes from a world that has fallen into brainwashed dystopia, one where the nature of social interaction has changed by necessity. When Okabe says that it's likely he was brainwashed, Suzuha pins him to a wall to check – not because she is gullible or naïve, but exactly the inverse. At one point, she even mentions that grasshoppers aren't bad at all with some butter. (This comment is all the more horrifying in retrospect, and confirmed in her spinoff manga: in order to survive without running into rounders or law enforcement at any point in time, Suzuha has to go long stretches of time eating whatever she can find, usually averaging out weeds and edible bugs.) She has never seen an ear of corn before, and when given one as a present shows visible delight.
All this lends itself well to a final point regarding her interactions with others: Suzuha tends to play her role as needed, smiles and laughter acting as a buffer against suspicion. This is hammered home in two specific ways: when she interacts seriously with Okabe she does not smile or inject enthusiasm into her voice, and when she posts as "John Titor" her method of speech is once again calm and methodical. However, it it at this point that we reach an interesting contradiction: even when shown in the future or when alone, she still tends to act in this specifically cheerful way. Why would she put up a show in her own internal monologue, especially when she seems almost bluntly honest with herself aside from that? Using this as evidence, it seems more likely that Suzuha is in fact a naturally energetic person, and instead shuts down her cheer and happiness when she feels she has to. What could force a shift like that? Motivation is likely more important than presentation, and Suzuha Amane cannot be found lacking in either. Beneath her exterior, at her very core, lie three important aspects.
The first is simple: as she says, she is a soldier. Suzuha has lived her entire life in a world teetering on the edge of ruin; her memories of her father before he left to lead the resistance are far and distant, and she followed in his footsteps at an incredibly young age. What is left at this point is a young woman who has never had time to do anything but survive. After all, Suzuha lives in a world where movies are things in archives, where food is scarce enough to merit living off of weeds and bugs for long stretches of time, and where being spotted at any time means the loss of free will. The only way to make it through such a situation is to continuously adapt, and if nothing else Suzuha is remarkable at surviving against all odds. (This is no small source of guilt for her, at times: she is a sole survivor in many scenarios, and she regrets it intensely.)
As a soldier, though, something comes even before survival: her duty. Suzuha has a force of will akin to a woman possessed, stopping at nothing to reach her ultimate goal. Her own death – or worse yet, cessation of existence – means little when compared to the things that she could achieve with the power she has been given. She grimly takes jobs nobody else is willing to, because someone has to, ranging from sniper duty (which she is the most qualified for, despite her failed attempt at shooting Kurisu Makise) to taking a one-way ride into the past. She never complains or expresses regret for what she loses in the process; she just buckles down and does what must be done, even if her own life is the cost. This leads to a selfless method of acting, even if her goals are not necessarily kind or idealistic; her own desires simply come after the common good by virtue of the mission she has been assigned.
Unfortunately, she fixates on her duty to unhealthy extremes at times. It makes sense, of course – given the time period and setting where she came from, finishing the mission takes absolute priority in almost all cases. However, in the event that her competence is not enough to allow her to succeed, Suzuha completely loses her composure. The two times we are able to see her fail a job, she utterly breaks down, screaming about her failure and taking out her frustration on herself and the world around her. When her time travel job is irreversibly failed (thanks to her search for her father), leaving no chance for reparation, Suzuha goes so far as to apologize for “a life wasted” before killing herself. She is not one to tolerate failure, especially when she has a power at her fingertips that would allow her to fix things if she just did them right.
And that leads us into the final aspect of Suzuha's personality. At her core, she is the daughter of Barrel Titor. She is consumed by the idea of ”what if,” observing every failed movement and wondering what it might be like in a different worldline. When she first travels back in time, she heads out to observe Rintarou Okabe and possibly push him in the right direction. When she sees Kurisu Makise, the woman she failed to kill two years prior, she attempts another assassination in the hopes that it would cause a significant divergence from her base worldline. When she makes posts as “John Titor,” it is partially to elicit a response from her father and partially to provide information where it might be useful. And, paradoxically enough, this aspect of her is both what dooms her mission (when she stays to search for her father a few days more) and what allows her to successfully complete it (when she acknowledges that she can change so much for the better).
She is a unique constant, the girl who travels back in time in every branch of every known worldline. To put it in its simplest form, she is a time-traveler, one with full knowledge of the theory and implications behind her actions, and this is what burns brightest of all. Regardless of her duty as a soldier, regardless of her drive to survive, Suzuha is someone who lies back in the peaceful moments and thinks about what she's failed in the past – and what she can change in the present.
Abilities: Whoo, boy. So Suzuha doesn't actually have any supernatural abilities or powers! She is a human being, pure and simple, and not even one with some mysterious inexplicable ability like Rintarou Okabe. That said, this section's still going to be a pain, because there's lots of stuff she can do (nearly to the point of stupidity, even). In order:
I. Combat Skill. Suzuha is a soldier and terrorist that has managed to survive in a dystopian future. More impressively, she has managed to make it eighteen years in her life without once being spotted or observed by the group capable of time travel. Anyone that sees her face is killed by her or other Valkyrie members, and thus unable to report her location and time to those with access to time machines. In terms of raw ability, she's notably strong (especially her legs, although observations are made about her arm muscles as well) and quick on her feet, enough to take out groups of three to five armed rounders at a time with a knife and the advantage of surprise. Relatedly, we have...
II. Survival Drive. Suzuha will do what it takes to survive as long as it doesn't conflict with her duty. To that end, she is more than capable of pulling the trigger and killing others (or even doing it at arm's length). When food is scarce, she will scavenge whatever food is safe to eat, and weeds boiled in a pot are a common enough meal for her that she eats it to save money in 2010. She thinks quickly even under stress, being able to immediately recognize the train system's shutdown as a rounder attack in one worldline, and can take the necessary actions to at least escape most situations (if not redeem them entirely).
III. Intellect. Completely aside from being a highly competent soldier and survivor, Suzuha is the daughter of a notable scientist. She is shown in canon to grasp and discuss most of the principles behind her time travel, including some quantum physics, Penrose diagrams (utilizing a form of the Minkowski metric), and even the construction and engineering that went into her time machine. She is able to hold her own in discussions on her topics of expertise even with the noted genius Kurisu Makise; as such, it should not come as a surprise that she becomes a professor of Physics without too much issue when she heads back in time.
(However, with all this said, her knowledge is by no means encyclopedic or innate; she is simply smart and driven enough to do research for extended periods of time, and to understand what she finds, on highly advanced topics. While I feel she could understand most complicated topics if she had access to definitions and explanatory texts, I highly doubt she knows much about them as is - she's too intensely focused on her duty as a time-traveler to look at much else, after all.)
Other: I'm mainly using information from the main canon in visual novel form, and incorporating as much of her backstory from the Boukan no Rebellion/Onshuu no Braunian Motion spinoff manga as I can (especially since doing so provides no contradictions to established canon). As this is alpha!verse Suzuha, the majority of her posts as "John Titor" in 2000 are no longer applicable; however, I am taking the science and specifications for C204 that he uses as applicable in both universes.
Headcanon's been avoided almost entirely in this app; the timeline provided is entirely sourced from canon materials. In-game, I may flesh out some of the blanks (especially regarding her life in the years from birth to 2034), as long as no contradictions are created.
SAMPLES
First Person: He-yooooo!
[ judging from the very enthusiastic way this young woman is greeting the webcam - seriously, her fist is pumped into the air and everything - you probably aren't dealing with someone any older than eighteen. ]
The name's Suzuha Amane. Nice to meet all of you! [ and just like that, she takes a step back, both hands falling to her hips. ] So, "Holly Heights," huh? I've never heard of the place before now! It doesn't really sound Japanese, huh? So, is it American? Or maybe European! Man, I've always wondered what it's like there! Or maybe it's just an island in some antipodal region-
[ she catches herself, laughing and pulling nervously at her hair for a moment. ]
Anyway, you can find me at - my number's on the network now, right? That's how this protocol works? Just call that if you ever need to get a hold of me.
[ with a grin and a thumbs up, she leans in towards the webcam- ]
Hasta la vista!
[ and closes the feed. ]
Third Person: As the number of observable and divergent worldlines increases, the probability of any given event occuring within this space approaches one.
She sighs, lying back onto the floor and staring up at the ceiling. It's a simple change to Everett-Wheeler, one that accounts for convergence and decoherence both, and yet right now it's one that tells her nearly nothing. It's irrelevant. It's completely irrelevant whether an event is likely to have happened or whether she can help generalize the model appropriately when she's stuck in a red-roofed pleasantville with no obvious method of return. She knows it likely has nothing to do with the time machine's malfunctions; people of all sorts have turned up here, people with no knowledge of worldlines or divergence theory or even what they were doing the night before they woke up here. And yet...
With a quick push, she flips to face the floor and begins a series of push-ups. There's no sense in reviewing the situation any longer - until then, the most she can do is prepare and wait. Right now, her priorities are clear:
1) find her father's time machine;
2) find a way out of this worldline and location; and
3) keep a close eye on the situation until either of the first two conditions can be satisfied.
Until then, she thinks grimly as she finishes another rep, the most she can do is waste even more precious time.
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