(Its occurred to me that, seeing as I'm branching out from Borderlands verse into others lately, I should probably just go ahead and fully define the important bits about what Zer0 is and what exactly they can do. This really mostly pertains to their psychic ability, which was mostly irrelevant for Borderlands characters to know off the bat but might actually come up right out of the gate for others.
I'm posting this for everyone to see because I'm proud of my little noodle alien and because it may come up if my Zer0 knows and trusts your character.
Normally this will be most relevant for characters with psychic/mind reading/telepathic type abilities. If you have questions I don't answer here, please feel free to come message me for clarification.
So! Zer0 is a natural psychic, namely they're a empath. Rather then a telepath communicating in words Zer0's kind communicate through projected images, emotions, and ideas. They cannot naturally speak words though they do make a variety of other noises that aid in emphasis or express simple ideas.
Humans cannot 'hear' them naturally. Given that the vast majority of humans have no psychic abilities what so ever, Zer0 is essentially a mute to them. Likewise, Zer0 cannot 'hear' humans in a way that means much to them. As far as they're concerned, humans are both deaf and mute to their proper form of communication.
All of Zer0's spoken communication in "quotation marks" is through a translator, which makes their thoughts audible. This is their canon, in-game voice for my Zer0. Yes, everything is in haiku or less then five syllables. Their tone is also very flat and unemotional and sounds mechanical, like a voice changer. Characters with particularly sharp ears might pick up that they make noise separate from the translator and/or that there isn't another voice under it like a voice changer.
When Zer0 speaks about 'hearing' people in reference to their abilities they're usually referring to their mental communication rather then verbal. Zer0 can hear and understand quite a few spoken languages but its not natural to them.
Now technicalities of how it works! So Zer0 is basically a telepath without words. Normally for them, this is just like talking is for humans: you stand in a room together and project your "voice" at someone and you're talking. Whatever you're projecting is what you're saying, no more or less. They can aim this somewhat but it's only to the same extent a human can aim their voice such as talking quieter and turning away from other people. They can also project very "loudly", essentially running around yelling their thoughts for anyone to hear. This is usually what they do considering they've been around humans for between 30-40 years now and have only had their own voice in their head. They've lost track of their volume in a desperate bid to be "heard" essentially.
For example, if your character is a telepath who naturally projects their mental voice and they, say, wonder whats for dinner, Zer0 would "hear" that and respond by projecting a picture of what they're making or maybe the memory of the taste of it, something like that.
Normal mental communication with them is no more complicated then that. The only major difference is, where humans (and most other species really) use words they'll project emotions and ideas. They've learned to use simple words in some verses, depending on how long they've been able to have frequent contact with another mind.
Here's the part where it gets more complicated. Humans can't usually "hear" them however, there is a way they're capable of forcing the mental connection required. Skin to skin contact forges a much deeper version of the mental link Zer0's species automatically has between each other. Normally for them this is a very personal thing to do with only ones family and close friends. Maybe not quite as personal as, say, Vulcans but its a much deeper connection then just having a conversation.
With touch both sides are basically in each other's heads entirely. Conscious, projected thoughts and a great deal of more subconscious thoughts are free game on both sides, though anyone with any skill at hiding or suppression their own thoughts could block them off from the other party. Likewise anyone who's skilled at reading minds for one reason or another would have a lot easier time doing this while touching then not. During this I headcannon a lot of 'mindspace' kind of things, like Zer0 can kind of use their own thoughts and emotions as near physical things: wrapping their mind around the others in a protective or affectionate embrace, drawing people deeper into their mind and out of the real world for a time, and lashing out using their own anger/pain/fear as a near physical weapon to cause mental/psychic damage are all examples. This does require physical touch for the deeper connection, though other psychics familiar with invading other's minds may be able to achieve such results without needing contact. Fair warning, someone they don't trust 100% doing this without permission is going to get mentally attacked.
Yes this applies heavily to sex. I won't go into detail here as thats for ships only but imagine a feedback loop of all sensations involved.
Specifically addressing my Trigun verse, from what I understand (keep in mind I haven't read the manga yet and Stampede is clearly nowhere near done, all this comes from the OG anime and my friends screaming about it) the Plants are, if not exactly telepathic, some amount of psychic. So yes, Zer0 can hear the Dependent Plants for sure. They may or may not really understand them but more then likely the exchange of emotion and ideas would be pretty clear. Whether they could handle too much of that is up in the air at this time.
As for the Independent Plants, I would be inclined to say yes, they can hear them psychically and would probably hear them way better and more clearly then the Dependents. This is, of course, dependent on the muse I'm currently playing with and whether the mun plays them capable of projecting like that. Zer0 is not going to get into your muse's head without permission.
Thats about all I have right now, all of this will be copied and put into some info links I'm going to work on in the next few days. I'll have it all linked mobile friendly in a pinned post I should have done ages ago considering I'm 90% mobile myself. In any case, if anyone has questions as I said please ask and I'll be more then happy to clarify things or brainstorm how my muse does or doesn't hear yours.)
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Zer0 is one of those people that has a hard time understanding that people like them enough to flirt and thus is the embodiment of r/wooooosh in that regard.
They're so weird and awkward and not human why would anyone start flirting with them??
FULL NAME. Zer0
PRONUNCIATION. Zee-row
NICKNAME. Z, Leg Day, Ninja, Sneaky Little Shit
GENDER. ???
HEIGHT. 6′3″
AGE. BL2: ??? || TFB: ??? || BL3: ???
ZODIAC. ???
SPOKEN LANGUAGES. Common, ???
𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !
HAIR COLOR. ???
EYE COLOR. ???
SKIN TONE. ???
BODY TYPE. Lithe, Skinny
ACCENT. Robotic and flat
VOICE.
DOMINANT HAND. right, ambidextrous
POSTURE. Low and ready to spring at all times
SCARS. ???
TATTOOS. ???
BIRTHMARKS. ???
MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S). The emojis on their helmet, only four fingers
𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !
PLACE OF BIRTH. ???
HOMETOWN. ???
FIRST WORDS. ???
SIBLINGS. ???
PARENTS. ???
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT. ???
OCCUPATION. Assassin, Vault Hunter, Mercenary, Crimson Raider
CURRENT RESIDENCE. BL2: Sanctuary (grudgingly) || BL3: Promethea
CLOSE FRIENDS. The Crimson Raider Vault Hunters
RELATIONSHIP STATUS. Single???
FINANCIAL STATUS. Loaded with sweet, sweet loot
CRIMINAL RECORD. Political assassinations, murder, breaking and entering
VICES. Murder, getting covered in something’s blood, probable adrenaline junkie
𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !
SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Pan/Demisexual
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION. Pan/Demiromantic
PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch
PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch
LIBIDO. Low
TURN ON’S. ???
TURN OFF’S. ???
LOVE LANGUAGE. Gifts (usually guns and other useful things), touch
RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES. Has no idea how to relationship, watches others for clues and hints.
𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !
CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. Rise Up - Zayde Wolf
HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. Hunting, training, weapons maintenance, harassing their friends
MENTAL ILLNESSES. PTSD, Insomnia
PHYSICAL ILLNESSES. ???
LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. Mostly left brained, but pretty even
PHOBIAS. Wide open spaces (to a small degree)
SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. Very high
VULNERABILITIES. Gets caught up in fights to a sometimes alarming degree
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Well now they feel really awkward. Names are important to them, maybe even more then humans, and they'd avoided answering questions about theirs before. They're just kind of fidgeting, feeling surprisingly small. That doesn't usually happen.
(So I have to revise Zer0's age, I made them too young for their backstory oops! They're 107 at the end of BL2 so 114 at the beginning of BL3. Does this really affect anything? No. Do I still want to make sure my ridiculous noodle alien is an age that makes sense in my head for the species I totally made up? Yes. PSA over, back to my normal nonsense.)
LIVING SITUATION : lives alone | lives with parent(s) / guardian | lives with significant other | lives with a friend | drifter | homeless | lives with children | other
THINGS I’VE DONE BEFORE : had alcohol | smoked | stolen | done drugs | self-harmed | starved | had sex | had a threesome | had a one-night stand | gotten into a fist fight | gone to hospital | gone to jail | used a fake ID | played hooky | gone to a rave | killed someone | had someone try to kill them
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