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==Character details== | ==Character details== | ||
===General=== | |||
While over 40 years old chronologically, Unix-sama is physically a small teenage girl, around five feet tall. She has long dark purple hair, piercing blue eyes implanted with the Bell Labs logo and wears square or horn-rimmed glasses. She has horned owl ears, symbolically carrying connotations of wisdom, truth and darkness (as well as associations with goddesses and magical powers). Dressing in simplistic monochrome clothing and boots, she wields a polished aluminum staff inscribed with roman numerals – each said to stand for a tenet of the Unix Philosophy – and is occasionally depicted with black wings, a throwback to her mother. Since the early 1990s she has been confined to a wheelchair, due to physically manifested psychological trauma that occurred during the Unix Wars. | While over 40 years old chronologically, Unix-sama is physically a small teenage girl, around five feet tall. She has long dark purple hair, piercing blue eyes implanted with the Bell Labs logo and wears square or horn-rimmed glasses. She has horned owl ears, symbolically carrying connotations of wisdom, truth and darkness (as well as associations with goddesses and magical powers). Dressing in simplistic monochrome clothing and boots, she wields a polished aluminum staff inscribed with roman numerals – each said to stand for a tenet of the Unix Philosophy – and is occasionally depicted with black wings, a throwback to her mother. Since the early 1990s she has been confined to a wheelchair, due to physically manifested psychological trauma that occurred during the Unix Wars. | ||
Highly intelligent, Unix is an artful mind-gamer capable of manipulating and defeating enemies without using physical force. In her youth she gained psionic powers from her mother, [[Multics | Multics]]; she wields this energy mostly in the form of fire control and psychic projection of images, but has dabbled in other forms as well. She is often wrongly considered monstrous and heartless; while she strayed from her humble philosophy and became a calculating industrialist, witnessing the near-destruction of her family during the Unix Wars and her subsequent alliance with Linux has made her strive to return to her original ethos. Her gentler side is known by her friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the | Highly intelligent, Unix is an artful mind-gamer capable of manipulating and defeating enemies without using physical force. In her youth she gained psionic powers from her mother, [[Multics | Multics]]; she wields this energy mostly in the form of fire control and psychic projection of images, but has dabbled in other forms as well. She is often wrongly considered monstrous and heartless; while she strayed from her humble philosophy and became a calculating industrialist, witnessing the near-destruction of her family during the Unix Wars and her subsequent alliance with Linux has made her strive to return to her original ethos. Her gentler side is known by her friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]]. | ||
===Family and relationships=== | |||
====Her descendants==== | |||
UNIX never showed much in the way of compassion towards her daughters. Unlike her attitude towards the vintage OS-tans, she has a Social Darwinist attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves, so the strongest (or most innovative, or well-connected) reach the top of the family hierarchy, and the weaker ones fade into obscurity, or die. She believed that this natural-selection approach would make her family stronger, which it did to an extent, but weakened the family overall, and further undermined their political stability. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed the livelihoods, or even lives of the less successful. | |||
====Mac OSX Leopard==== | |||
An exception to this attitude is the interest she showed in Leopard-tan when she was born; Leopard being the first Mac OSX version to be granted the Single Unix Specification. Knowing that she would become a time-traveler who would eagerly pledge loyalty to the Unix Family; UNIX, in a rare act of philanthropy towards any of her descendants, gave funding for Leopard's research project that would become her time machine. After the time machine was built, UNIX hired her to travel through time and ensure survival of the Unix Family to maintain a stable time loop. Leopard-tan caught onto this, and didn't take kindly to the thought of being used. | |||
==History and Background== | ==History and Background== | ||