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The Archive is a repository of knowledge. The living memory of humankind. It knows and understands every single thing that has ever been written down, all human wisdom in its world and everything that happened to all hosts before the current, including feelings and thoughts. It knows about culture, science, philosophy, lore and tradition. It accumulates what is written and spoken. It studies and learns. Its purpose is to procure and preserve knowledge.

The Archive is as strong as the strongest wizard, having vast amounts of magical power at its disposal and the knowledge to wield it with finesse. However, it only makes use of this power when there is no other choice, such as when its host is attacked by eight Denarians at the same time.

All the same, one has to keep in mind that currently, the Archive is an eleven-year old girl and the physical limitations of that apply.



personality

The Archive is a neutral entity of knowledge and as such, doesn't take sides. In history, the huge amount of knowledge combined with the memory of all personal emotion of the former hosts has been known to drive the hosts mad. In order to avoid this, the Archive keeps its hosts emotionally remote.

Thus, the Archive in its current form appears to be distant, aloof, earnest and quite formal.

At the same time, the current host (from now on called Ivy), is a little girl who came to inherit the power of the Archive at an unusually young age. Ivy shows childlike character traits such as liking and being drawn to cute animals and drawing up formal documents in crayon.

She's a child. She is eleven years old and she's mostly alone. She might be very mature for her age, but she's nevertheless a child.

Harry Dresden is the only one who has treated her like a child as opposed to a "human databank", giving her the nickname Ivy (Archive, Archive-y, Ivy) and letting her pet his cat, Mister. She's rather attached to him.

The other person she shows an emotional attachement to is Kincaid, her bodyguard/babysitter/driver. She puts herself in harm's way rather than seeing him hurt. He seems to be some sort of a paternal figure for her, though she doesn't forget that he is a mercenary and hired to work for her.

Ivy's case is different from that of the other hosts before her. Since she hasn't learnt how to deal with the emotional aspects of day-to-day life before inheriting the Archive, people are worried that she might lose the Archive's neutrality and let her human feelings take over. This hasn't happened (yet?).

Due to the unusual circumstances of her inheriting the Archive, her young age and the recent trauma of being kidnapped by Nicodemus, Ivy is somewhat emotionally fragile. In addition to that, she remembers everything her mother ever felt about her - and her mother hated her, hated the very idea of her.

Ivy's been through a lot of pain in her young life. She's learnt to compartmentalise and to differentiate between her official position as the Archive and her actual human life. Yet, she never had a real childhood and never will.

Her duties as the Archive include being the referee at supernatural duels and as such, she's seen death and ordered Kincaid to kill as well. She can be cold-blooded when her duties demand it, but underneath it all, she's just a little child. She gets scared and she's afraid. She knows she'll never live a normal life.



info-modding

The Archive's one of those characters that have the possibility to info-mod to the point of no return. Fourth wall, whut? I'm going to keep the info-modding as close to non-existent as I possibly can.

In canon, she knows everything that is ever written down. For poly's sake, I'll pretend that private, unhackable entries are excluded from this. If you do want Ivy to know about your character's private entries, drop me a note.

I'll consider filtered posts fair game. Since Ivy is a neutral entity, she's not going to actually do anything with the knowledge she collects. If you don't want her to have access to certain filters, I'm sure we'll be able to work something out.




The Archive knows everything - I don't. If I as a player make a mistake, please point it out to me. Likewise, feel free to hit me with critique, plotting possibilities, praise or complaints, either as a comment in this post, over AIM (sn: chatonai) or per e-mail (chatonai @ gmail.com) ♥


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From:[info]vivememorleti
Date:June 22nd, 2008 02:50 pm (UTC)
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You're welcome to any of my pup's filtereds and privates. ♥ I have a list of them in my userinfo profiles' ooc contact page.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:00 pm (UTC)
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Fantastic ♥

As I said, she's probably not going to do anything about the knowledge she collects (she's definitely not going to share it without pior notice and permission and whatnot). She might or might not comment on private entries? Maybe?
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From:[info]vivememorleti
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:03 pm (UTC)
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Also welcome to do that. Pretty much, have at and fire at will? :D

Whatever makes playing fun for you, amirite?
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:13 pm (UTC)
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Thank you! :D

Exactly. And what works with canon. If you post something that'll shock an eleven-year old little girl, chances are she'll stare at your pups and comment ♥
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From:[info]darklilprincess
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:32 pm (UTC)
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Does Lady Archive blab about the stuff she knows? D: Kuromi prefers that her human form is kept secret... or limited to people she trusts.

Also, does she have an ability to trace non-traceable posts? She's adorable btw~! <3
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)
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Nope, she really doesn't. Not if it's personal information as opposed to general knowledge, which she would share.

I don't think she can trace anything. She'll know it's there (and she doesn't even have to read the network for that, it's magic!), but unless it says who wrote it, she won't know.

Isn't she just ridiculously cute?
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From:[info]darklilprincess
Date:June 22nd, 2008 04:04 pm (UTC)
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Yey~~ Then she can probe as much as she wants as long as she can keep secrets~! <3 <3 <3 I must pick up the Dresden Files Books, really. xD You guys make me so curious~! <3
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 04:07 pm (UTC)
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Oooh, you should definitely read the books, they're absolutely fantastic and the characters are wonderful and it just keeps getting better and better and *squees* You should read them <3 <3
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From:[info]notawhiteant
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:40 pm (UTC)
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Archive thing can know all about Pesche if she likes, as long as she doesn't tell Aizen or anyone in his employ.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)
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She won't share ♥
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From:[info]smilenipaa
Date:June 22nd, 2008 04:12 pm (UTC)
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She can go ahead and see my Rika's filtered and private stuff. I don't mind if you have her bring the information to Rika herself or other people (but she'd be unhappy about that :3).
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 04:17 pm (UTC)
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I don't think Ivy will share, but thanks for the head's up in case it does come up ♥
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From:[info]reginagloriae
Date:June 22nd, 2008 05:57 pm (UTC)
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All my humans characters are free game:

Antonio: [info]godsentpr
Integra: [info]steeldame
Ladd: [info]heyheyheyheeey
Lilith: [info]holymadonna What Lilith knows, not when 04 side writes it (04 are sentient nanomachines that take over in certain curses XD, just fyi).
Romeo: [info]irislover
Rue: [info]princess_crow

As for Youko. The Archive can know what happened in her life up the moment she accepted Keiki's oath, because she stopped being human from then on. Not that she has any idea wtf is happning anyway.

I'm leaving out those who aren't quite "human kind": Professor Cat, Alexiel, Belial & Schrödinger ♥
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)
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Awesome, thanks for specifying and yay for letting Ivy know stuff ♥
From:[info]so_very_greedy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:02 pm (UTC)
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All of Greed's stuff is knowable. He rarely ever filters things, anyway.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:10 pm (UTC)
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Great ♥ Thanks for letting me know :D
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From:[info]theotokos
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:35 pm (UTC)
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I figure since Lady is pretty close to Harry, she's welcome to whatever. Even her real name, just... don't say it in public XD;.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:41 pm (UTC)
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Yay! Ivy's not going to spill any personal information ♥ Just for my information-- what is her real name? :D
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From:[info]theotokos
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:49 pm (UTC)
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XD;; Mmkay and awesome!

Her real name is Mary Arkham.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 06:52 pm (UTC)
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... Can Ivy reply to Lady's post with her real name just once?
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From:[info]inshiningkevlar
Date:June 22nd, 2008 07:16 pm (UTC)
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I THINK WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS AT LEAST ONCE.

Pretty sure Ivy would know uh, like, everything about Sanya anyways. Cha-ching!
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 07:26 pm (UTC)
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Yes! And lookit, I did make the post just like you suggested ♥

Yeah. Probably. His private entries fair game, y/n?
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From:[info]inbetrayal
Date:June 22nd, 2008 07:25 pm (UTC)
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hey thar, you can totally have her have access to Lucy's privates and such. ♥ though she's secretive even there, so there's stuff like... being married to an alien, actually a year older than she says she is, seen the end of the universe, shot said alien husband, ect., ect. crazy stuff that the Archive can totally know about her, since she's probably written about it to herself a couple times away from the Network. I'm so mean to my characters. xD
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 07:28 pm (UTC)
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Fantastic! I'm actually aware of Lucy's canon, so that makes things easier for me. And there's nothing wrong with being mean to your characters. Happy characters can be so boring, y/y?
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From:[info]inbetrayal
Date:June 22nd, 2008 07:37 pm (UTC)
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Coolios. ♥ And hooray for another person who knows the canon! Yeah, they really can. It's not like happiness is bad, it just... doesn't make for very good drama, I guess. xD
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 07:53 pm (UTC)
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Doctor Who, FTW ♥ Yeah. Pups without issues have lesser drama-effect. And I do love the angsting, even if it's all internal :D
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From:[info]vampbratprince
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:01 pm (UTC)
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You're welcome to any of the following for all filters and private entries!

Lestat - [info]vampbratprince
Abby - [info]caf_pow_girl
Marishka - [info]toobad_sosad
Mat - [info]bloodygoodluck

The following two I would prefer that their private entries were left alone please!

Graendal - [info]akaladybasene
Artemis - [info]fowlprodigy
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:09 pm (UTC)
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Thanks for letting me know ♥
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From:[info]vampbratprince
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:11 pm (UTC)
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Glad I can offer some kids for you~
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:16 pm (UTC)
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Glad I'm getting some pups for Ivy to know about~
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From:[info]vampbratprince
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:22 pm (UTC)
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If I app any more I'll make sure to add them on the list.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:28 pm (UTC)
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Thank you ♥
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From:[info]notexactlyhuman
Date:September 15th, 2008 08:21 am (UTC)
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Oh look...It's me adding more to your list.

Marron [info]eastern_magic
Kincaid [info]notexactlyhuman

You have full access to them.
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From:[info]archivy
Date:September 15th, 2008 08:30 am (UTC)
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Yay!
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From:[info]bluesatellite
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:17 pm (UTC)
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Chikane's memories and private entries/filters are free game!

Your character's utterly fantastic combination of cool and cute makes me want to check out the books she's from.

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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 08:29 pm (UTC)
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Yay, awesome!

Oh, you should definitely check out the books, they're fantastic and all the characters are absolutely wonderful! Poly also has a Harry Dresden, that's the main character of the books, and the crew is growing rapidly.
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From:[info]ohrosalita
Date:June 22nd, 2008 10:36 pm (UTC)
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You're welcome to anything from Rose [info]ohrosalita and Ishiah [info]ishiah <3
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From:[info]archivy
Date:June 22nd, 2008 10:40 pm (UTC)
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Yay, thank you ♥
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From:[info]veryancient
Date:July 10th, 2008 03:25 am (UTC)
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Ivy is fine to know things from the following characters since they fail at making things private and what not.

Diva [info]haunting_aria
Elizabeth Turner [info]lizzieturner

I prefer that the rest of my characters private and filtered entries not be touched though.

Arthur Hellsing [info]arthurhellsing
Drake [info]veryancient
Edna Mode [info]e_for_short
God [info]relieved_deity
Mina Harker [info]madame_harker
Rayne [info]just_rayne
Virginia Potts [info]virginia_potts
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From:[info]archivy
Date:July 10th, 2008 11:30 am (UTC)
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Of course ♥
Thanks for letting me know!

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