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Ada Lovelace
Class	Invalid class value. Must be a valid Servant class
Born	1815
Died	1852
Height	180cm
Weight	100kg
Alignment	Invalid alignment value. Must be one of the nine D&D alignments
Parameters
Strength Endurance Agility D C C Mana Luck NP B B A

A highly disciplined and serious intellectual, willing to set aside personal differences to work with any master for the advancement of humanity.

…5 minutes post summoning and any master would find themselves disillusioned.

Forthright, passionate and rebellious, Ada’s personality is akin to an explicit function of X: he does not withhold his opinions, hide his emotions, or try to ask for what he wants in a roundabout way. Thankfully, this Servant has manifested with working knowledge of basic etiquette, so the master only needs to remind him of it periodically.

Ada takes his work seriously and passionately, believing he could solve anything with the right tool and the right mindset. He can be kind of nerdy and kind of greedy in the process, not unlike an obsessed researcher asking for more funding than his silly project could justify.

However, such an uncompromising principle meant he could be easily frustrated should he feel that his master is restricting him without any satisfactory explanation other than Ada must respect the master/servant hierarchy. He holds deep loathing for manipulative individuals, believing them to be the reason for his death and therefore will not hesitate to nip any potential problem in the bud. He isn’t dumb enough to relive his tragic life a second time.

On the other hand, he gets along great with single minded people who are willing to take a bit of risk. He is fascinated with modern day electronics and would quickly develop a fondness for gaming (especially gacha games), at the expense of his master’s funds and sanity.

Backstory

Overview

Ada Lovelace was born in London as the only legitimate child of two high society parents with clashing morals: Lord Byron, a romantic poet who was the definition of a ‘bad boy’ in his time and Lady Byron, an educated and religious woman who believed in reform and good work. Suffice to say that the marriage did not last, and Lady Byron took over the responsibilities of rearing her child.

Ada’s interest in maths and logic bloomed at a young age, which drove her to pursue them well into adulthood. However, she was often deterred in her studies due to poor health conditions that accompanied her throughout her life, having to constantly put them off even months or years at a time, during which she stayed bedridden. But despite all that, Ada’s passion never waned, and she would go on to meet a great number of accomplished scientists, eventually leading her to working with Charles Babbage and producing the first computer program in human history.

Family Trouble

Ada had a rather difficult relationship with her mother, who was often portrayed as controlling and manipulative in her private accounts. After her divorce, Lady Byron raised Ada in isolation, enforcing an unusual system of education on her that involved strictly ‘unimaginative’ subjects in science, dubious exercises in ‘self control’, and even paying people to befriend and spy on her in an attempt to purge creativity and romantic thoughts from Ada’s head, so she wouldn’t turn out like her wild poet of a father. Yet, Ada remained very conscious of her background and of being Lord Byron’s son. She eschewed poetry at her mother’s behest, but was inadvertently drawn to abstract ways of thinking, which shone through maths. She even went on to conclude that her greatest strength lay in bridging the scientific with the romantic, a term she lovingly coined ‘poetical science’.

Unfortunately, even her advancements in science couldn’t bridge Ada’s relationship with her mother. They had numerous falling outs throughout Ada’s adulthood, often over the topic of her father: bickering after Ada had visited Lord Byron’s former residence unannounced, dropping bombshells of her father’s incestual scandal which shocked Ada so much that she stopped pursuing maths, and failing to attend Ada’s funeral after she had requested to be buried next to her father. She would even go on to collect Ada’s letters with her acquaintances after her death and destroy a portion of them in private.

Major Accomplishments

Perhaps the biggest highlight of Ada’s life was her encounter with the Difference Engine (a mechanical calculator) courtesy of its inventor, Charles Babbage. The machine ignited her interest in mathematics and subsequently a lifetime of correspondence with Babbage on many intellectual topics. Babbage would eventually introduce Ada to his latest conception of what would be a modern day computer called the Analytical Engine, which was capable of performing multiple logical operations without human-prone error, something that was inconceivable in the 1900s.

After offering to translate the paper on Babbage’s machine, Ada went on to include extensive notes of her own that were full of ingenuity: a fully working example of using the machine to compute complex formulae not unlike how a modern day programmer would write a piece of code along with all the necessary steps of debugging, suggestions of using punched cards to mimic loops, and even visionary proposals of using the machine to create music by replacing keys with numerical values, which would be the predecessor to the modern day notion of variables in computation.

Babbage may have had the technical prowess to invent the Analytical Engine, but the machine only truly gained life of its own in Ada’s hands with her abstract, big picture thinking. Even Babbage himself admitted that Ada understood and saw in his machine more potential than he would ever have conceived on his own.

The Downward Spiral

Ada’s later years were less spectacular to say the least. Despite her passionate intent on spearheading the Analytical Engine project in Babbage’s stead, her health steadily and continuously declined. Numerous collapses wasted her months at a time on doctor visits and various dubious cures from her mother, massively hindering her scientific endeavors. She was also addicted to gambling, throwing away what would be the equivalent of millions in horse races while she tried (and failed) to design an algorithm to predict horse racing outcomes. Rumors of multiple affairs also accompanied her frequently, much to the chagrin of her mother. Eventually, Ada was diagnosed with cancer and had to be put on opiates to alleviate the pain, which accompanied her until the end of her life.

Legacy

Ada Lovelace was no doubt a woman as recorded in history, but here she is summoned as a man who is half machine. Perhaps it is an extension of her unending rebellious phase against her mother, or a reflection of her father’s bad boy image, which she always seemed to be drawn towards despite being ushered away from it for all of her life.

Nevertheless, here stands a visionary, an Enchanter of Number, an Embodiment of Poetical Science and an enforcer of the many formulae he would willingly devise in order to ensure his Master’s victory.

Other Info

Goal

Despite not having seen the Analytical Engine project come to fruition, he had always been quite content with the idea that humanity would no doubt embark on an age of computational discovery beyond his time. Hence, he is quite happy with how the world has turned out and simply wants to tinker (read: play) with as many electronic devices as he can.

Wish

But what if his health hadn’t failed? What if he hadn’t had to keep putting off science to rebel against his mother? Ada has come to the conclusion that the enmity of his parents was the root of much of his suffering, hence he wishes for a reconciliation between them, which he believes would give him more time to complete Babbage’s machine in his time.

Alias

Due to ‘Augustus’ being more known for the Roman emperor than his actual name (most people in present day only know him by his nickname), Ada deems it a safe alias, especially when he can throw Roman history buffs for a loop. Though he doesn’t mind being referred to as ‘Archer’. After all, names are only given meaning when they are used in associating with an existing entity.

Description

Ada is mechanical from the leg down, alluding to a combination of his debilitating illnesses, many of which resulted from emotional trauma when arguing with his mother. The robotic design also pays homage to his and Babbage’s working relationship. Unlike Babbage, he chose to forego a grotesque suit of mech armor for something more elegant, perhaps as his way of conveying the elegance and romanticism he had found in emotionless numbers. In addition, he also wears gloves that are linked to his weapon and gadget, the Chicago Typewriter. His glasses are just for show despite accounts of vision impairment in his early life.

Weapons

Refer to The Chicago Typewriter.