o1. As a child, Motoko lost her entire family in a plane crash. She was one of twenty people to survive the crash, and of those only two survived the related injuries. She was in a coma for nearly a year, and though she could not move or open her eyes, was aware the entire time.
o2. She has no memory of her family, and went through the surgery to become a cyborg at the tender age of seven. For this reason, her emotional patterns are a little childish. For example, she hates losing with a fiery passion, and will go to stupid lengths to assure victory.
o3. Her visible body is actually a series of panels covering a much thinner inner bodyform like a turtleshell. She can lift these panels at will to reveal the underlying structure, and aside from the defensive shielding, the fact that they make her look human is a mainly cosmetic decision.
o4. How much of Motoko's brain is still flesh is left ambiguous. What's clear is that whatever portion of her body that's still physically human is probably not actually related to her consciousness, except in the abstract. She is capable of finding the computer processes that control the emotion-producing chemicals in her brain and turn them off. This provides her with a colder, more logical view of the world, and as a result she is slowly losing her ability to feel spontaneous emotions.
o5. If someone she loved ever told Motoko, with sincerity, that they loved her, she'd probably run for the hills and never, ever return. She seeks out rules and regulation, but cannot stand to be constrained. Childish emotions, again: it's safe for Motoko to love someone, and for them to love her, so long as no one says it aloud and makes it real.
o6. Her ego could outweigh a planet. It's not that she's prideful or arrogant, it's that she's better than you.
o7. She has had some commercial success running VR cross-immersion lesbian threesome porn on the net. Batou once walked in on one of these sessions.
o8. Motoko once did all her stealth work in nothing but a transparent body-stocking. Once thermoptic technology improved she put her clothes on, but there was never anything like the thrill of beating a heavily armed man into the dirt while technically naked.
o9. Her employers used to audit her thoughts. If they ever saw the memories of Stacy, they'd force her to delete the lot of them as anomalous. As a result of her own skill and Aramaki's meddling, she's no longer subject to this treatment: in exchange she will be killed when her employment is terminated, if at all possible.
1o. The Net is her Spice. If she were less stubborn, she'd ask Stacy to simulate it in the sensorium. As it is, she's just really annoyed and harrowed all the time, which results in her seeking out more social interaction to distract from how goddamn quiet everything is all the time. For someone used to having all of humanity talking over themselves in the back of her head, Stacy is a very silent place.
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o2. She has no memory of her family, and went through the surgery to become a cyborg at the tender age of seven. For this reason, her emotional patterns are a little childish. For example, she hates losing with a fiery passion, and will go to stupid lengths to assure victory.
o3. Her visible body is actually a series of panels covering a much thinner inner bodyform like a turtleshell. She can lift these panels at will to reveal the underlying structure, and aside from the defensive shielding, the fact that they make her look human is a mainly cosmetic decision.
o4. How much of Motoko's brain is still flesh is left ambiguous. What's clear is that whatever portion of her body that's still physically human is probably not actually related to her consciousness, except in the abstract. She is capable of finding the computer processes that control the emotion-producing chemicals in her brain and turn them off. This provides her with a colder, more logical view of the world, and as a result she is slowly losing her ability to feel spontaneous emotions.
o5. If someone she loved ever told Motoko, with sincerity, that they loved her, she'd probably run for the hills and never, ever return. She seeks out rules and regulation, but cannot stand to be constrained. Childish emotions, again: it's safe for Motoko to love someone, and for them to love her, so long as no one says it aloud and makes it real.
o6. Her ego could outweigh a planet. It's not that she's prideful or arrogant, it's that she's better than you.
o7. She has had some commercial success running VR cross-immersion lesbian threesome porn on the net. Batou once walked in on one of these sessions.
o8. Motoko once did all her stealth work in nothing but a transparent body-stocking. Once thermoptic technology improved she put her clothes on, but there was never anything like the thrill of beating a heavily armed man into the dirt while technically naked.
o9. Her employers used to audit her thoughts. If they ever saw the memories of Stacy, they'd force her to delete the lot of them as anomalous. As a result of her own skill and Aramaki's meddling, she's no longer subject to this treatment: in exchange she will be killed when her employment is terminated, if at all possible.
1o. The Net is her Spice. If she were less stubborn, she'd ask Stacy to simulate it in the sensorium. As it is, she's just really annoyed and harrowed all the time, which results in her seeking out more social interaction to distract from how goddamn quiet everything is all the time. For someone used to having all of humanity talking over themselves in the back of her head, Stacy is a very silent place.