"So, if you're not busy or whatever, let me know. Uh, ok. So, Ok." Allison disconnected, hating herself slightly less about sounding like an idiot than she did the first time she'd called Church.

It wasn't that he was just some hook up, she could have found that anywhere. There was something about him, she found she actually had a good time with him. Sex almost wasn't even part of the equation, though..she grinned to herself it was certainly a plus. No, it was more that he made her laugh, he called her on her shit and he gave as good as he got. He was cute so that helped, those pretty green eyes of his were almost hypnotic. And his hair, silky thick and so dark it made his eyes all the brighter, she loved running her fingers through it.

Ever since they had randomly met on the return shuttle from her last hurrah before going active, she hadn't been able to put him out of her mind. Sure she could fall asleep listening to him talk about the intricacies of whatever brain scan this or wave pattern that, but it was a nice voice to fall asleep to.

She hadn't given it much thought, lies ok she had actively avoided thinking too much about the situation. She wasn't getting involved, too much in her life for that right now. Really all it could be was that she found him interesting, stimulating beyond her usual flings. His novelty would wear off eventually and then things would be back to normal, so why not indulge it now? No big deal if she called to ask him if he wanted to do something, it was just scratching an itch.

That was it, same as last time. Just looking for a pleasant distraction. Her white knuckle grip on the com device was purely coincidental.

Tex had a mystique. There was no arguing it. She was tough ass nails and reclusive, but you tended to be that way when you were the pet project of your ex. The Director had been controlling her life since she got back out in the real world. Near death experiences would shake a person up, but in her case it crystallized her desire to succeed and be the absolute best soldier she could be.

There was no better place for that then with the Freelancer program and she was among some of the best to make it through. There were a few that wouldn't stand to be int he same room with her, which limited her socializing...almost as much as the Director keeping her separate did. But she was breaking away, getting to know the soldiers and frankly sometimes some stands out for what they don't do, more than what they do, do.

North had been that way, she'd been watching; noticing him for a while. He was smart, generous, gentle and funny. More or less the opposite of everything that had ever drawn her to most guys in the past. So why was it she kept making excuses to talk to him? She couldn't explain it and decided she didn't want to, it was enough that she liked his company, she really liked it.

Maybe that was why she was hanging around the lockers after the match today, dawdling and more or less just waiting for him to show up. A chance to talk..maybe a chance to talk somewhere that wasn't the caf or the training rooms. She kept the armor on for the moment, if he said yes she could change if he said no...well easier to shrug it off when they can't see your face.

CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Freelancer Agent Texas
SERIES: Red vs Blue
CANON POINT:Just before her ‘death’ in episode 100 (Why are we here?)
LOSS: The ability to reload her own weapons
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Freelancer Agent Texas doesn’t technically exist, she isn’t a real person. With that said there are some things to know about Tex.
Years ago during the Covenant war the military was sending out more and more soldiers to fight in the war; one of the enlisted was a woman named Allison Church. (Church is the assumed last name as it has never been revealed but highly implied that she was married to Leonard Church) She was a proud, somewhat abrasive woman who had wanted to be in the military ever since she could remember. She made her way through the ranks easily and when the call came to war, she went. Allison left behind her husband and a young daughter. Allison did not return.

The blow was simply too much for Leonard Church to accept and he sent the infant child off to be raised by others while he drove himself into more scientific research. His preoccupation to create artificial intelligence that could take the place of real soldiers in combat became his focus. Had he been successful earlier he could have prevented his wife’s death. So it seemed only natural that his first experiment be based off himself, the Alpha came into being, but so intense was the memory and loss for Allison that something came with it.

AI Beta was a self-formed AI, unlike Alpha and unlike the others who fragmented from him; she created herself as a single self-sufficient entity. It took time for a body to be perfected for her but eventually the AI was implanted in a SPARTAN armor suit fitted with all the necessary technology to allow her freedom of movement as well as enhanced abilities.

To make it easier for her to fit in, Leonard Church, now operating under the title of The Director of the Freelancer project, implanted memories fostered of his own relationship with Allison. In his stead he incorporated the AI Alpha who already retained the memories and was malleable enough to have his memories altered to accept that it had been Texas and not Allison he had been involved with.

Agent Texas excelled through the training program, unfair advantage when one can jack into a system and download it while others have to absorb it with actual work and study. Texas was kept separate from the rest of the Freelancer program for some time. When she was introduced it was in such a manner as to pit her against the other Freelancers and create not only a combative, competitive relationship with them but also create a mystique about her. The whispers were that “You don’t fuck with Texas.”
In her first round of training Texas was opposed by three Freelancers in various tests of weapon and hand to hand combat. Texas didn’t let them score a single point on her, toward the end of the match two of the three fighters took live rounds instead of lock down paint to fight her. They intended to wound or terminate the new mystery woman. Texas managed to defeat them but in the course of the battle the third man was wounded by a grenade his own team had thrown; only Texas’ quick thinking had saved him from dying in the match.

An undercurrent faction called Insurrectionists began to creep up and Freelancers were assigned to retrieve items and eliminate them; only to discover one of their own was working with them. Texas was responsible for the death of Agent Connecticut; CT had left information for Texas to make her aware of what was really going on behind the program. Suddenly the truth of the project came to her and memories emerged, Texas recalled Allison and more importantly the Director. She began to question everything.

Texas had served the Freelancer program as a loyal and devoted agent until the truth was relayed to her and shortly after the Director’s AI project became unstable and began to threaten the lives of the human subjects. Texas tried to speak to him but the AI’s were deemed too dangerous, even the one that had been given to her, Omega. Texas had the choice to run or die, she chose to run.

Tex, she shortened her moniker after an incident in the Freelancer locker room made her realize that she would never been one of the others and as such she took on the remains of the name tag another recruit had broken, made it a personal mission to discover just how the dangerous AI’s were coming into being. Omega had hinted that the original NI had been fractured but the only way to break anything formed off a human psyche was to cause it trauma.

Tex, with the help of other renegade Freelancers, broke into a facility to find and free the Alpha. The entity had been implanted in her memories as a man name Church that she had been involved with, the feelings between them might have been copied from The Director and Allison but they were no less real for them. Tex found the Alpha but he didn’t recognize her, after being repeatedly tortured and damaged until he was broken he couldn’t pull the fragments if his mind together to place her. Tex had to leave him behind, yet another reason she hated goodbyes.
Tex was able to rid herself of Omega prior to her search for Alpha but she was unable to save other Freelancers from falling under the Meta. An AI which was determined to collect he pieces of Alpha and reform them and take on a life of it’s own. For Tex it was a blow that shook her mantra of not caring for anyone and living only for herself.

After her infiltration of the Freelancer site, The Director had the Alpha put in a body much like Tex’s, mind wiped and refreshed and sent to a remote outpost where he would be protected and watched over. Alpha took on the identity of Church and had memories of a relationship with a ‘crazy freelancer bitch’ named Tex.

Tex located Church and attempted to help him and his teammates in a simulated war of Rec army versus Blue army, both side human and factions of the UNSC but had no idea of it. The war was disrupted by the ineptitude of both sides and Tex ended up being blown up and having to take over a new body. Tex continued to aid the Blues, an occasional hurt them, until Omega returned looking for his favored host.
Tex was not about to let Omega take over the sim troopers and wound up chasing him down. She knew the humans would be used as pawns or worse have their brains scrambled in the AI’s eagerness to merge with her again. The AI eventually settled into a whimsical trooper who balanced his evil with an odd sort of Martha Stewart compassion and flare. Omega wasn’t neutralized but he was effectively for a time not a problem.

The same could not be said for other AIs and Tex left again to destroy the AIs that were dangerous. This ended up in a fight against the Meta, even more powerful now and determined to collect what remained of the fragments and the Alpha himself. Tex was not about to allow that to happen, she fought the Meta and managed drive him off before she herself tries to make a deal with Omega to leave the others alone and take her and an alien hybrid to end the war.

Summary of personality: Tex has evolved to a more emotional being, coming closer to being a real person with her encounters. She has expressed the value of other lives and though she tends to shoot first and ask questions later she still tries to protect the people she sees as needing it.

Tex curses like a sailor and is prone to sudden fits of violence and snark. If she is friends with you this does not make you immune to those qualities it just means she is less likely to punch you in the head while you’re sleeping. She has her own form of loyalty and will follow that even to the point of self-endangerment.

Official wiki entry here

ABILITIES: Tex is a highly skilled hand to hand combatant. Through the freelancer program she has been trained (imbedded training in her AI) on all forms of weaponry known to the UNSC. Tex is a crack shot with all firearms, pugil sticks, alien technology, improvised weapons and can quickly adapt as needed to new tech.
She has shown proficiency fighting in reduced or zero gravity environments. She has unlimited endurance due to her non-human body. And can drive/ride any vehicle she has come into contact with so far.

Tex possesses strength far beyond that of humans, she has been shown to flip tanks before while in possession of the Omega AI, however she was also unable to lift a small bomb and carry it. (Due to game design that would not allow the animation) Her normal strength is augmented in the suit to be enough to easily combat three full powered Spartans.

Special note: Tex will be coming in without her AI Omega, she will be coming from the canon point just before she allows him back in.


Personality:
Tucker: So, the military put this program in her head, and that program made her a killer. But underneath it all she's really just a sweet, down-home girl?
Church: Oh hell no. She's always been a rotten bitch, it's just now she's a rotten bitch with cybernetic enhancements.

Red vs Blue; Blood Gulch Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode- Human Peer Bonding

Really that’s a clear break down of how the AI Alpha (Church) perceives Tex, and she’s given most people little reason to think that she is much if any different. The primary drive in her existence was to succeed in the Freelancer program and continue to achieve the objectives as assigned to her by the Director. What is unclear at that point in her ‘life’ is how much of her actions were by choice and how much or how deeply influenced her actions with by the program. Being an AI her memory was subject to alteration when her physical body was down for maintenance. Tex has proven to be consistently driven and have an aggressive and abrasive personality which was only amplified during her time with Omega.


It seems odd, given her asocial, sociopathic, downright meanness that she could bond with people, but she does. She makes no apologies for being a contradictory and if others can’t deal with it, fuck ‘em. She doesn’t push for acceptance or try very hard to be warm and welcoming to others but she will adopt them and defend them and get pissed off at them for imagined or real affronts. When the Blues were given Sister as a new teammate in her absence; Tex was violently angry at being replaced, completely offended that they would “Get a new girl?”

She is aware that she is an AI, and frankly she deals with it shockingly well. Though less volatile without Omega tainting her thoughts, she is still prone to mood swings and sudden violent behavior. She has shot a number of the Blood Gulch regulars including Church with little provocation, reinforcing how Church initially described her. She hasn’t expressed regret over what she is, nor does she show the stronger connection to Allison that Church has with the Director. This may be due to her being formed of the memories of Allison and not from Allison herself.

Tex is not without her softer side, she does make friends and have respect for people. Unfortunately the levels of respect, friendship and even love to not make one exempt from her less friendly actions. She tends to toy with people emotionally and physically, be that to keep them on their toes or ensure her own control of a situation and interaction isn’t entirely defined but it is probably a combination of the two to varying degrees in each situation. While she has shot Church, cheated on him, stolen his wallet, berated, belittled and beaten him; she has also gone out of her way to try to free and protect him.

Given the choice to let Omega inhabit one of the sim soldiers or herself, Tex makes an agreement with the AI to save Church and company and, in fact, end the war. Without doubt Omega’s plans were galacticaly violent in scale but the basis of Tex’s actions was that by giving herself over she would save the others. It was a remarkably self-sacrificing moment and showed a deeper character than she previously allowed people to see.

Being an AI Tex doesn’t put much stake in the reality of an afterlife, at least not for her. She considers herself a living thing, sentient and capable of self-determination, free will if you like, but does not see her existence as qualifying for Heaven or Hell or anything of other belief systems. There is a reference to the graves of Church and Tex with one bearing a cross and the other a Star of David but it is not expanded on to say if one of them was truly of the Jewish faith or heritage but that are both artificial beings it may be just an inside joke. It is perhaps a lack of ultimate consequence that gives her darker more sadistic humor free roam in her interactions with even those she cares about.

There are moments in her existence where she has gone out of her way to protect others rather than let them die; trying to free the Alpha, saving York in the match with Maine and Wyoming, knocking out Carolina to spare her the pain of the dual AI’s reacting to Allison’s name. As she once told Sister regarding the soldiers "They're idiots, but they're my idiots." Overwhelmingly her personality is the rotten bitch she was labeled but that is not all there is to her; there is much, much more.

INTENT: Tex is an interesting combination of the human remnants of Allison and the artificial creation of AI Beta. While the other AI’s were fragments of Alpha split off through torture, Beta created herself. She is an artificial life form, an intelligent feeling thing that created herself due to the strength of the memories and emotions about her taken from the Director. She has so many flaws, inherently her flaw of failure but at the same time she is trying to be more. Tex is funny, witty, snarky, sassy and complex and her interactions with the other Freelancers could lead to a lot of character depth and exploration.