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P L A Y E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
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Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: Nope! 12/21/1990
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Characters Played at Ataraxion: Jai-006 : grayleader

C H A R A C T E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Silver
Canon: Sapphire and Steel
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: Post Assignment 6
Number: 042 if possible! If not RNG!

Setting:

"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available. Gold, Lead, Copper. Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."

Sapphire and Steel is set on Earth and primarily in the present day for the medium you're watching/listening too (in the television series it's the 1980's, the audios 2003-4 etc). In this universe Time is a corridor that surrounds everything and when there's weak points in it's walls it breaks through in order to cause trouble. Agents, like Sapphire and Steel and Silver, are sent to the planet in order to handle such things. Who they work for or what exactly they are is well never fully explained though based on the show opening they are agents based on the elements though how their names all tie into that theme is never explained (Sapphire, Jet and Ruby aren't even metals or elements and Steel isn't an element). The series spans across a television series as well as an audio drama range, which exist in the same canon and act as a continuation of the tv series story.
[Episode guide with summaries][Wiki]

History:

Like the other characters in the series, little is known about Silver's life before the series starts. He's in an on again off again relationship with Copper, which is apparently big gossip among the various agents, and he works for some sort of organization dedicated to fighting breaches in Time. As a Technician he's called in when Operators, like Sapphire and Steel, need a more specialized touch during their work and he's good enough at his job to have an ego.

Assignment 3 "Oh Sapphire."

Our first introduction to Silver is shortly after Sapphire goes missing while on assignment in an apartment building. Steel is prowling the floor for her and comes up to the roof after discovering the elevator, which he had tied a knot into the cable of to prevent people coming up to their floor, was working in coming up to their floor. Being suspicious that somehow the evil swan thing that had attacked him previously was somehow involved in this he goes to the roof and discovers Silver, standing on the roof of another door area on the roof. Silver explains he fixed the elevator because he could and is there because they clearly need his help in order to get into the capsules that Steel and Sapphire are investigating which are invisible. Getting down to where Steel is via his teleportation ability he goes into the main part of the building and starts looking for shiny things he can use later on, indulging his magpie tendencies, while explaining to Steel that there are in fact, multiple capsules and the only way into them is with his help and the powers that be sent him. Steel isn't the most happy with this conclusion as he follows Silver all over the place as he explains it all, including a closet, a kitchen and several other empty rooms, but sucks it up because Sapphire is missing.

This leads to Silver, after gathering a bunch of supplies, to make a detector in order to find the communications room of the invisible capsule, as the capsules share the exact same layout as one of the apartments. How they do this is, well, by Silver fiddling with a light bulb and a door knob and using them to figure out where the room is. It's Steel that finds it and then Silver is a troll to him before they enter it, and by the time they are in there and Silver says he's going to set up a way to get to the capsule, Sapphire gets in touch with them via telepathy. After a little flirting, Silver gets to work while Steel does as Sapphire tells him too and it's shortly after that they all enter the main capsule that's the cause of this entire mess. After an odd encounter with the time field around it, they all arrive and Silver is a smarmy man in person. After a little flirting and a little yelling at Silver as he sits on a chair that activates the communications system between the capsules (which doesn't help at all because everyone else is dead), they go looking around as a group. What they discover as they go is a distinct lack of the people that should be there, including a lack of their bodies, and discover there's someone else lurking around. It's when they find this someone else that Silver lets his idiot show and declares this person a robot and tries to approach the man who then touches him and sends him back in time.

Sapphire and Steel then mourn their loss of their Technician and while they attempt to investigate things realize they're very much stuck without him. So after a sappy moment Steel encourages Sapphire to take time back to before he disappeared and after some trial and error on their part to figure things out, which involve discovering the man that had sent Silver back was the baby Sapphire had sensed before, Steel hatches a plan. A really stupid plan, but a plan all the same and he goes and confronts the man again and forces his hands together as the man's hands have the ability to send things forward or backwards in time depending on which hand he uses. Forcing both hands to touch cancels out all of his actions and not only makes Steel hold a baby in his hands but brings Silver back! As well as the baby's parents.

Sapphire and Steel find Silver and then they fill him in on what he missed, which is basically that there's blood in the walls and could he please find out what the hell is running the capsule and also he screwed up (as Silver doesn't remember anything post arriving in the room before he got touched by the man). This leads to a conversation with the people from the capsule to figure things out but they have no clue how the place works so after taking the ladies necklace, Silver gets to work on the wall after grumbling that he has to guess about it. Which leads to some very disturbing revelations, mostly involving a discovery of animal parts and things used on animals in scientific experiments. After this disturbing revelation they confront the couple again about it and after waxing poetic about animals,brought on because in the future animals are used to control technology but aren't for eating, and the bits controlling the time capsule have decided they want revenge, the trio work together with the people to send the capsule back to it's own proper time. Which involves throwing a leg of lamb into a wall and then holding hands in a circle around the happy family.

Assignment 6 "No wonder I wasn't having any fun."

For once Silver arrives before Sapphire and Steel do, to a small gas station which is otherwise empty except for himself, Sapphire and Steel when they arrive, and a couple that Silver watched drive up to the place. After Sapphire checks to make sure he's telling the truth about what he saw, they all then realize the station is basically in a vacuum, where time doesn't move at all and things stay constantly the same except for the peoples movements, no one can enter but no one can leave. It's when everything is sorted out between the group proper that they go inside and talk to the couple about how they arrived and it confirms what Siler had said. Steel waners off to investigate things while Sapphire and Silver talk to the couple about their time period (1948) and Silver fiddles around with a calculator, pinball machine and cash register. He even brings the calculator over to the couple and asks them why they don't take it back with them and make a small fortune and in a fit of genre savy they say no because they shouldn't do it. Which naturally confuses the crap out of Silver because since when do humans actually care about such things? After seeing the image of an old man behind the station, a ghost moments later, they go back inside as a group and start to interrogate the couple proper when suddenly time shifts forward by ten minutes, but it only effects the place and not the people.

Which naturally makes the trio want to get the full story out of the couple even more. They split the couple up to see if they can get information out of just one of them easier, and Sapphire and Silver get the man. It's while doing this and shortly after the man starts hitting on Sapphire while they lean on the car outside, that they hear a strange sound and go in to investigate it and people disappearing into shadow like forms then reappearing (which is just the woman and the man). While Silver wanders off to figure out where the sound was coming from, Sapphire and Steel chat, Silver discovers the old man is back and he grabs the others so they can hear the man talk about how he's from 1925, before disappearing. Then the duo turns on Silver and interrogates him as to why he was there before them as Technicians come after Operators into such things, and they all discover that they weren't given a briefing so much as a summons to show up. After that unsettling realization a time shift happens again, this time by twenty minutes.

In this time shift, not only have items moved but new things have changed, namely the arrival of a traveling music man, the phone ringing and the rain, which had started with the last time shift had stopped. The music man they discover is the one responsible for the weird sound they were hearing, namely his tambourine. In between all the posturing that happens they interrogate the music man and Silver looks over his tambourine, while doing that he makes a duplicate of his tambourine which he hides in his suit. Because Silver is Silver he starts to look it over while everyone else is busy elsewhere and he tells Steel that the tambourine is normal except that it's never made music, just noise. It's made no noise with rhythm basically, which is just odd with a music man being it's owner and this is all said while ominous music is playing. In a natural fit of "we must do things" they hatch a plan to move the car into the garage so they can look over things in it, and by combining powers with Sapphire, Silver manages to do so. After doing that he wanders off to investigate the area around them to better get a grasp of what's keeping them stuck there and he finds a barrier which he runs into. Which pisses off the three men (the music man, the dude with the lady and the old man), and he wanders back to the garage to be filled in on Sapphire and Steel's thoughts about who could be setting this up. They all come to the same conclusion, the Transient Beings, which are people like them with the same skill set but operate in the past (the men were from 1925, 1948 and 1957 where the show takes place in the 1980's). They talk to the woman and find out the Transient's plan, to trap them there (Sapphire and Steel had turned down positions with the Transients and they didn't like it, Silver presumably is there because he's close to them). But in a fit of paranoia Silver rips open the woman's shirt to find little nods on her chest that are controlling her and after removing them they get filled in about a box the Transients are using. This box controls time and if you look into it acts like a fortune tellers crystal ball, it can tell you the future and it looks like a perfectly ordinary travel chess set. Silver, recognizing what she's talking about, runs back to the garage to find it and it's when he's caught doing so by two of the men that a time shift happens.

Using this time shift of forty minutes, he gets back to the office where the others are and shows Sapphire and Steel the box, which he had made a duplicate of. Which means the next time shift would be quadrupled etc. as time tries to fix itself. Deciding to make a break for it they decide to make a run for the barrier and Silver and Steel argue over taking the woman with them, but Steel in the end bullies Silver into it. It's while they're escaping that one of the Transient's catches them and tries to recruit Silver who tells him to fuck off and sends him back in time with the box. Steel does likewise to another and they go into the building to do similar to the third when Sapphire tells them he's cornered her and the girl. Rushing to her rescue the last Transient uses his box on Sapphire and Steel and they're trapped in the gas station/garage thing while Silver is not.

It's at this point I'm taking him from. He has further adventures in the audios as well but those are beyond my canon point.

Personality:

Silver is a lot like his name says, flashy and quick and delicate, or at least so if you ask him. He's not a delicate flower, he can take insults to his person and brush them off but as he's a Technician and not an Operator, he's rather quick to mention he's not fit for various roles. He'll hide behind Steel if something is about to confront them if at all possible, and yet he's quick to try and prove his worth or his own skill set. His fear is never for lack of ability, just his own sense of self-preservation that kicks in, and it's that sense of self-preservation that makes him particularly stubborn at times. He will argue over things if it means saving his own hide, particularly seen when Steel insists on taking the woman with them from the diner and Silver argues against it as she's a liability. He caves eventually to it however and trusts in Steel's thoughts but he's clearly not thrilled with the idea.

He's always posing, always emoting in some fashion in stark contrast to Sapphire and steel who remain composed. Leaning in door ways, sprawling in chairs, banging doors open in a rush, even little tricks with items like rolling a ball bearing down his arm and then popping it up in the air to catch it. Like actual silver he's flashy and he's unashamed in doing so, much to the annoyance of others a lot. In a lot of ways it also makes him more personable compared to his fellows, at least around humans. To go along with this he's incredibly boastful about his abilities and will never tire in talking them up to people or himself. He's got an ego a mile long and as obvious as the metal he's named after. This isn't without some basis in reality, he's intelligent and intuitive with an analytical streak, capable of figuring out problems with a bit of help from his fellows. He knows what he does is important to the job at hand and he handles the delicate work and his touch is just as delicate as he likes to pretend he is and it's made him over confident in a lot of ways. Flattery especially goes to his head, and it just makes him crank up the charm when around that person.

Constantly talking, constantly in everybody's space and interrupting people, flitting from one thing to another, Silver is a nuisance, especially with his constant flirting and he doesn't care if it annoys anyone, which is usually because he has at times, the attention span of a five year old when there are shiny things around. He makes no discrimination as to who it's aimed towards and men or women are equal targets to him. Which really is a thing to note about him, he could care less if the person he's talking to or working towards saving is human or animal, man or woman, and tends to reach out and chat with just about anyone, even taking on the ability to cook when he doesn't have to even eat. He stays as friendly as possible to try and chat people up and usually always has a smile on his face and even charms a woman into giving him her necklace. A lot of this is because of his abilities and his need of metals in order to do anything, especially if a certain precious metal is required like a gold necklace, though he has magpie tendencies in his need to hoard all the small metal objects he can find. He's a people person at his core however, a bit too human among agents meant to protect them but he's never really ever seen a problem with it.

But he isn't human, which is a key part of him as well. He's mighty curious about the beings he's meant to save and has taken after them in a lot of ways yes, but he stands apart from them and certain things have a habit of passing over his head. This isn't just a trait he has, the others have been shown to have it as well and even the Transient Beings show it, letting their knowledge about time travel slip in which is the first clue that they really aren't human when they meet them in the diner. Unlike some of the others he doesn't hold himself above humans though, he knows in time that they'll eventually come to understand what damage they are doing to Time and until that happens he'll just do his work and make sure they see that day. He genuinely cares for the humans he comes across and protects, especially if he's taken a shining to them and mourns their loss or harm if it happens while he's around. This extends naturally to the people he considers his friends, Sapphire and Steel are the most obvious of them, asking for their help when on a space shuttle and going out of his way to help them get the other back if they're in trouble. He genuinely mourns Steel's perceived death at one point, but it doesn't stop him from focusing on the work at hand. He has a detachment to such things and an ability to prioritize what should come first above even his friends or himself, he can set aside his desire to stay alive if the mission calls for it.

As carefree and flirtatious as he can be he also has a particularly stubborn and angry side. One that rarely comes out but it's there and seen especially when careless deaths or betrayal happens. Betrayal has also been seen to make him angry enough to strangle someone, seen when he's left outside a space shuttle to either die or float away to never be seen again and it takes Sapphire telling him to stop and that this person can help them save another for him to relent. But he holds that grudge up until the betrayers eventual death, even though he genuinely mourns the loss of life as well. He can be demanding, and demands Sapphire examine the blood they found in the wall because he needs to know what he's dealing with and doesn't stop until she relents. He always has reason for it however and doesn't let his temper out without reason.

Really the man is a flirty ginger magpie with occasional desires to strangle people and no concept of personal space.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

This is basically what you guys are looking at here for his abilities. By the power of plot need, Silver has some odd abilities.

All abilities will drain his energy over time just to prevent overuse!
Telepathy: Silver, like many agents of his kind, has the ability of telepathy. Used as a means of communication between himself and others, he chatters away a lot and can barge right into telepathic chats if he feels like it. This ability can be blocked and has been in the past by others. I'll regulate this and a lot of his abilities through a permissions post and asking players before using it.

Teleportation: He can teleport as well, seemingly through walls and with no fanfare what so ever. He can also do it through time, which is how they're capable of going to their assignments. On board the Tranquility I'd like for him to be able to keep the teleportation but limit it to places he's seen before and line of sight if it's a new place and we're totally nixing the time travel all together.

Appearance Change: Like Sapphire and Steel, Silver can change his appearance to how it was at some point in the past. Which with his age can mean a lot of things, but he primarily keeps it to suits, but he can change his hair style or color as well as his clothes.

Transmutation: This is Silver's primary ability. Using his hands and whatever materials are available to him he can make one thing into another, but only if all the materials needed for such a thing are available to him. So like he can make sand into glass because all the components for the glass were right there, but he can't say turn wood into gold. He primarily uses this to manipulate metals into various components which has lead to his magpie tendencies as metals are just easier to manipulate into things. He is however limited to the mass of the metal object he has and how malleable it is, gold can be made into practically a towel because it can be rolled so thin but a thimble couldn't give him that at all and he makes that into a small ball bearing. Obviously he won't use this on the walls of the ship, and obviously because of the materials requirement he won't be able to do anything huge unless someone gives him a lot of little things, which would use them up, or a massive collection of just stuff. This is also why he has magpie tendencies.

Device Creation: This is an off shoot of his transmutation and is getting shoved in here. Silver's talents also allow him to create devices almost, it's a little hard to explain. He can create portals into time capsules if he's in the appropriate spot and even turns a door knob and light bulb into a device to find the room he needs to for such a thing. This again is limited to what he has available to him at the time and he has to know what it is he's looking for or needs. When he needed a blow torch for example he made one out of a metal tube and by simply blowing into it. It's mostly small things again because otherwise he'd have to have more materials than is usually available. Anything huge and potentially a problem I'll run by the mods in this regard, or that may be constituted as game breaking.NERFED: Fully Gone

Item Knowledge: As well as knowing all about the items of Earth on his own just by having been around them for so long (and when they should be from too), Silver can read an item by holding it. By doing so he can learn about what it's made from, how it's made and how it's components work together, if it has any sinister feelings to it, how old it is, and even hear the recordings on it if it's that sort of thing (on instruments he can run a tool around it and let others hear if it makes noise or music, on an old wax cylinder he can do similar). His knowledge is mostly based off of what he's dealt with before and when confronted with a cell phone he gets excited as he's always wanted to play with one. He won't know too much about what he'll find in game and if he tries to read an item I'll always ask the mods first if it's okay and what he'll find out, as well as ask for player permission.

Instant Reproduction: As it says on the tin! By picking up an item Silver can, if he wants too, make an instant copy of it. The only difference really being the item in questions age, but if you're not sure he did it then you'll never know. Doing this means there are two identical copies of the item around with abilities if the item has them (so like if he copied the One Ring there would be two One Rings, with abilities present). Obviously this will be run by players first before he does it because unless it's like an item of importance somehow, he'll never do it, and any plot items I'll run by the mods as well, and if he can't do it I'll have him get distracted by something stupidly shiny. NERFED: Fully gone

By Our Powers Combined: Put together with other agents, Silver can combine his abilities with theirs, whether to enhance his own when paired with Steel to lock all the doors in a building or by working with Steel and Sapphire to transport a family back to the 35th century, it takes some effort to do it as noted by him wiping away sweat after it.

Misc. abilities: A catchall for the other random stuff he can do!

> Silver can automatically picklocks by pushing his finger against it, which in game I will just ask for permission about. He won't be able to open up doors on the ship unless I directly ask about it.
> He can follow electric currents and figure out where things go with it and what the thing is as well as seeming to have some innate ability to light things up like light bulbs and door knobs...and even hot wire cars with just a touch of his finger. Clearly any chances for such things will be run by the people responsible for it.
> As an element, Silver doesn't have to eat or sleep to function but can if he wants too. He can also cook.
> Like Sapphire he can sense if something is evil about, or just an issue with time itself. However he's not as sensitive to it as she is. This will be naturally handled by a permissions post too.

Human But Not: While he looks human, Silver is very much not. He's longer lived, by who knows how many years than a human, has all of the aforementioned abilities and never hides it. However this also puts him at a disadvantage, as while he's more human than say Steel, he's still not and some human concepts he just never gets.

Been Assigned: Silver relies heavily on his innate information of objects to get him through assignments but he also relies on the briefings he gets to give him an idea of a situation or even the Operators in the area to give him support. As such being in a place where he lacks that support will hamper him and he'll have to investigate things on his own.

Technician: Above all else Silver is a Technician, which means he's more fragile than your average Operator. His skill set is more specialized and he doesn't have the same understanding of things like Time that they do. As such he tends to find himself in trouble far more often than not because of that.

Magpie: His abilities reliance on the materials at hand mean he has habits of taking things he think will be useful later. Whether it's door knobs or thimbles he has no shame in looting it all, and well okay how many people would be happy if he walked up and took a necklace from them?

Ego: Above all else the man has an ego that got him sent into the past because he thought someone was a robot. It gets him into a lot of trouble and he doesn't always see the problem with things until it's right in his face.

Inventory:

> 1 screwdriver set in a travel leather case (1 handle, various removable tips)
> 1 sapphire and silver ring (picture here)
> 1 box of 100 paper clips
> 1 box of 25 ball bearings
> 1 box of 36 bulldog clips
> 1 sewing thimble
> 1 door knob
> 1 gold necklace
> 2 each plain silver and gold rings
> 1 Slinky
> 1 silver pocketwatch

Appearance:

Silver is played by David Collings in the show, whose roughly six feet in height. Usually dressed in a grey suit that's got some sort of little embellishment to make it less serious.

Pretty sure he does it to annoy Steel but you know, it's Steel. Totally legit reason to do it.

Age: Apparent age somewhere in his 40s, actual age? I HAVE NO CLUE GUYS. Like really.

AU Clarification: N/A

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

This isn't what I had in mind when I said I wanted a solo assignment you know.

Silver mentally narrates as he follows the crowd, having not found any of his fellows among the crowd. On some off chance that they were on board and not answering him, he's taken up telepathically narrating his thoughts to all those around him that can hear him. Maybe, just maybe, someone will recognize him. Or tell him to stop. Or try and kill, really anything at this point like that would be a relief, it'd at least be normal from this well, utterly normal human existence he's found himself in.

I had thought it'd be somewhere more, well you know. Glamorous. With perhaps someone interesting as the cause of the problem.

He doesn't need clothes, he's already willed them on by the time he's hit the locker room (an old outfit but a good one, a simple grey suit with white shirt and red tie) and is just digging around his locker now, taking stock of what he has and making a face at the jumpsuit in there. It's really not his color or thing, and he tosses it back in there even as he stuffs his pockets full of what else is in there.

And at least then you'd be talking to me, and not this utter quiet. You are there, aren't you? This isn't some sort of punishment, I didn't mean to lose them. I had no control over them you know that, I wasn't able to get there in time. I tried to get there, if I had a choice they wouldn't be missing.

Reaching up to straighten his tie, Silver frowns at the lack of response from the ones in charge of them all, tilting his head as if it will help him hear something utterly quiet.

You didn't abandon me, did you? I don't mean to be rude but this silence is a little worrying. If I didn't know any better I'd say you lost me.

Still frowning he glances down at the collection of things in his pocket, slowly digging out a ball bearing to roll around in his fingers as he closes the locker, leaning against it with one hand. There's little flare to him as he stands there, worry mixed with confusion on his face.

You can't have lost me. I'm not exactly easy to lose and they couldn't have taken me. Not like this. So why aren't you answering me?

Hello?

Comms Sample:

Fascinating device, isn't it?

[Silver's large grin pretty much takes up the entire screen as he tilts the device around to look at it before pulling it away, that grin still in place.]

Always amazes me what you humans can do you know, give you a few more years here and I imagine this will be half the size or even in your eye! I thought mobiles were interesting, but these things, can't say I've ever come anything quite like it before. Even this place, you all never do know when to quit do you?

[There's a chuckle here as he sighs, brushes the hair out of his eyes, and shrugs.]

Space is not my favorite thing really, I mean imagine if you got lost out there. Alone. Why come out here at all? Human curiosity? I suppose that's what drives you to create even new things, makes you all fascinating.

[His face falls though, ever so slightly as he remembers that Steel wouldn't think so but Steel isn't here and he brushes it off.]

That being said I was wondering if you had seen anyting peculiar. Ghosts, things out of place even among everyone here, anyone with blue glowing eyes by chance? This isn't my first time dealing with things like here, and I'm wondering of course if there's anything familiar for me to work off of.

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