( gideon @ entranceway )

[waverides]

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[waverides]

After one mission saw Gideon, and the Waverider, shut down and Sara nearly lost it seemed as if everything was against them. Thankfully the rest of the team managed to get both the ship and Gideon operational again, allowing Gideon to save Sara's life. With the crew back in one piece they were able to bring Rip in, placing him in one of the holding cells and instructing Gideon to not respond to his commands. Which was difficult, and Rip knew this. Rip attempted to make contact on multiple occasions, and though Gideon responded she called him Mister Hunter instead of Captain Hunter, her tone a little colder showing her displeasure for what had become of him, and the situation. Rip didn't like this, and in an effort to release himself (and screw over the team) gave Gideon an override command. Although she asked him to not make her do it he repeated the command, and Gideon had no choice but to comply -- though she didn't do it happily.

With the command releasing Rip he made his way to the artifact that Gideon had been analysing, activating the Waverider's self destruct sequence. In order to stop the self destruct sequence they needed to reboot Gideon, causing the Waverider to crash land. When a complaint was made over the piloting of the landing Gideon huffed that she had already apologised, not at all pleased about the remark.

With the crew searching for Rip on the ship, finding him, he destroys the artifact before being knocked unconscious and taken to the medical bay. With Rip's mind altered by Eobard Thawne, his thoughts twisted - lending Rip to not know what was real, Mick suggested using a cognitive intrusion to try and find out the information from Rip, and potentially bring him back. Although Gideon wished to have her Captain back with them, she found the process to be barbaric and recommended against it. Despite her opinion the procedure was conducted, causing Gideon to also take presence in Rip's mind.

Inside Rip's mind, a twisted version of the Waverider, Gideon first set about reuniting with Jax and Sara to help them find Rip and free him from the torment. Finding Jax first Gideon explained the situation, though kept the nature of how she was there (and in a human form) cryptic, stating only that she was real. With Jax the two located both Sara and Rip, freeing them from the cell. Though Gideon is ultimately relieved to have found Rip, the first stage to helping him, she's troubled by the state of his mind and focuses their attention on helping to free Rip rather than getting the information about the Spear of Destiny. Though the group ran into obstacles Gideon was fundamental in helping Rip remember who he was, reminding him that Jax and Sara were real. This helped Rip, seeing his crew in danger, to save them, causing the walls of his mental construct to fall. Once Jax and Sara had departed Rip's mind Rip turned to thank Gideon for keeping him company during his tormented days, and for guiding him home, though he was reluctant to leave her -- fearing losing her. Noting this Gideon assured him that she would always be there, in one form or another.

Abilities/Special Powers:

SUPERCOMPUTER. Gideon has full control over the Waverider and her systems and frequently pilots and time jumps the ship. She also has a vast knowledge of the timeline and is capable of detecting time aberrations, including predicting how altering past events may affect the future. In addition to operating the navigation of the Waverider Gideon also administers medical treatment, including healing crew members and administering sedatives. She has also guided Martin Stein in how to perform brain surgery.
TELEPATHY. Gideon has shown that she is able to see into the team's dreams, and knew the state of Rip's mind prior to entering it, able to advise Sara and Jefferson on how to help save him.
HACKING. Gideon is able to sabotage other AI systems and can mask her data trail to appear as a different source.
TACTICIAN. Gideon is able to produce plans and strategies which have helped Rip out on numerous occasions, particularly when he sees the situation as hopeless.

Third-Person Sample:

Wonderland had already done one thing to Gideon -- it had humanised her. She wasn't human, she didn't eat, sleep or breathe but the body that she now had had been mistaken enough as human that sometimes she didn't argue it. There were more questions than she really should give answers for, and this small technicality didn't always require correcting.

It had taken Gideon a while to get used to her new form -- to having a body. She'd observed humans for a long time, with a long life over her years with Captain Hunter, but performing similar tasks wasn't quite so intuitive. Walking, requiring to be physically present... and feeling. That had been perhaps the most difficult thing to adjust to. Gideon had seen how emotion had affected Rip -- how happy, or sad, he could become but she didn't know what it was like to be gripped by those emotion; how difficult it became to think, or sometimes smile.

Even though Gideon had been changed by Wonderland already, and she'd read about everything that had occurred in Wonderland previously -- the events, she didn't expect it to happen again.

Wings. Wings were the first thing that Gideon had noticed, and then her smaller size. That hadn't come until she'd started speaking to Ray, and had questioned why things seemed abnormally larger than usual.

There had been an announcement of something coming in the previous few days but as yet Gideon had yet to find a pattern that could dictate what was to be expected in advance. Now it seemed that she was experiencing another event. It wasn't her first, not even her fifth, but it was the first time where her form had been changed.

Doctor Palmer had been able to explain much to her, even giving her suggestions as to what she possibly was, how long this might be effective for and what was happening to them. The latter was the least certain part of it all, but even a guess helped Gideon to feel reassured. It helped her to feel a little safer.

Many people had given Gideon suggestions for what she should do through this event -- try to fly, cause mischief, hide people's things. The latter two ideas had no appeal, and the first-- some days Gideon found it difficult enough being 'human'. To walk, to feel, to be a person that couldn't simply disappear if they wished to be alone. Trying to fly, not only for it seeming difficult but when it would have little relation to anything that she would be able to do after this event was over?

Perhaps if her size had remained as normal she may have found this event a little easier, and some of the changes simpler to ignore. At least it would soon be over, if Doctor Palmer's estimate had been correct. Gideon really hoped that it was.

First-Person Sample:

I have counted numerous inconsistencies in this location with what should be possible. Whilst it is likely that this location does exist outside of time it should not be possible that we are able to exist here on multiple occasions. Crossing over into your own time stream can causes unmentionable consequences.

The frequent alterations made to our lives and physicality should also not be possible in the manner that they occur. Such changes would require an object that could rewrite reality, though given that we remember the alterations I do not believe such a thing has occurred.

( In short she is stumped, and that is not something that happens to Gideon often. She knows a lot about time -- history, the future, and things that can change it, and given that there have been no time quakes, subtle changes or anything familiar whatever does happen is something outside of her knowledge. That already seems like it shouldn't be possible on its own, and yet here she is. Here she is also changed from what she should be, the second 'impossibility' )

Discovering how and why these changes occur would be paramount to discovering a way to prevent or reverse them. I am aware that many attempts have previously been attempted, but the solution still remains to be discovered. I would like to know of any that are familiar with time so that a solution can be attempted. Sooner, rather than later.