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SAGE-tan is depicted as a light-skinned woman in her mid-thirties, of average height, and sturdy build with a full chest. She has long brown hair tied into dual buns,<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,599.msg42842.html#msg42842 Inspired by the Hopi squash blossom hairstyle]</ref> and blue and yellow eyes. She decorates her hair with red and white checkered ribbons and wears rectangular glasses.<ref>Her buns and ribbons evoke the shape and coloration of radar antennae, while her eye color represents the SAGE console and plotting board projections.</ref> | SAGE-tan is depicted as a light-skinned woman in her mid-thirties, of average height, and sturdy build with a full chest. She has long brown hair tied into dual buns,<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,599.msg42842.html#msg42842 Inspired by the Hopi squash blossom hairstyle]</ref> and blue and yellow eyes. She decorates her hair with red and white checkered ribbons and wears rectangular glasses.<ref>Her buns and ribbons evoke the shape and coloration of radar antennae, while her eye color represents the SAGE console and plotting board projections.</ref> | ||
In her youth, she wore a beret, blue and yellow two piece, and her hair long. <ref>[https://safegallery.ostan-collections.net/posts/668 Chocofreak13's concept sketch]</ref><ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/kattlanna/art/SAGE-and-GENIAC-circa-1955-169477579 SAGE and GENIAC - circa 1955]</ref> During her time in service, she wore contemporary women's USAF uniforms<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,876.msg72897.html#msg72897 stewartsage's description in "old-tan?"]</ref> or antiquated military-style garb consisting of a long coat, ruffled shirt and ascot, puffy pants, boots, and a red sash across worn across her forehead or over her eyes.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,599.msg42842.html#msg42842 Original description in "Siya's Concept Hut"]</ref><ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/gallery/picture.php?/35834/category/884 Original SAGE-tan sketch]</ref> | In her youth, she wore a beret, blue and yellow two piece, and her hair long. <ref>[https://safegallery.ostan-collections.net/posts/668 Chocofreak13's concept sketch]</ref><ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/kattlanna/art/SAGE-and-GENIAC-circa-1955-169477579 SAGE and GENIAC - circa 1955]</ref> During her time in service, she wore contemporary women's USAF uniforms<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,876.msg72897.html#msg72897 stewartsage's description in "old-tan?"]</ref> or antiquated military-style garb consisting of a long coat, ruffled shirt and ascot, puffy pants, boots, and a red sash across worn across her forehead or over her eyes.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,599.msg42842.html#msg42842 Original description in "Siya's Concept Hut"]</ref><ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/gallery/picture.php?/35834/category/884 Original SAGE-tan sketch]</ref> Today she dresses in plain clothes mixed with pieces of her old uniform, particularly her overcoat. | ||
SAGE-tan has been blind since being cut off from her radar stations.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/SAGE-Diary-11-11-09-Pt-1-143317560 "Being cut off from her sensory organs, i.e. the radar net that fed SAGE information, SAGE-sama is now almost totally blind despite her efforts to correct it with glasses."]</ref> She speaks with a Massachusetts accent and favors antiquated slang.<ref>"Out of touch with the world, speaks in 60s slang if she uses any"</ref> | SAGE-tan has been blind since being cut off from her radar stations.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/SAGE-Diary-11-11-09-Pt-1-143317560 "Being cut off from her sensory organs, i.e. the radar net that fed SAGE information, SAGE-sama is now almost totally blind despite her efforts to correct it with glasses."]</ref> She speaks with a Massachusetts accent and favors antiquated slang.<ref>"Out of touch with the world, speaks in 60s slang if she uses any"</ref> | ||
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====Powers==== | ====Powers==== | ||
SAGE-tan's perception and mental faculties are tied to the hardware in her network,<ref>(In the present day) "All of her Senses are very poor, when they aren't useless; wears glasses but they don't help her eyesight (due to be disconnected from her actual 'eyes' the radar stations"</ref> which gave her excellent senses and a sharp mind during her active years. She could see radio frequencies with her radar stations, and demonstrated slight precognition because of their reach.<ref>Referencing over-the-horizon radar systems.</ref> | SAGE-tan's perception and mental faculties are tied to the hardware in her network,<ref>(In the present day) "All of her Senses are very poor, when they aren't useless; wears glasses but they don't help her eyesight (due to be disconnected from her actual 'eyes' the radar stations"</ref> which gave her excellent senses and a sharp mind during her active years. She could see radio frequencies with her radar stations, and demonstrated slight precognition because of their reach.<ref>Referencing over-the-horizon radar systems.</ref> | ||
As a corollary to this, SAGE-tan can detect and identify other computers by their energy signatures.<ref>SAGE meanwhile can fully read the EM frequencies of other computers, this is how she can track UNIX-tan all the time. StewartSage, personal communication, 2026</ref> | |||
[[IBM 728 | IBM 728-kun]] acted as her memory, while her stations had a generally stabilizing effect. | [[IBM 728 | IBM 728-kun]] acted as her memory, while her stations had a generally stabilizing effect. | ||
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Despite her loneliness, psychological instabilities and cynicism, her old self shines through interacting with friends. Although she's hostile toward younger generations of OS-tans, she has a good rapport with the survivors of her era, and is generally protective toward hardware. | Despite her loneliness, psychological instabilities and cynicism, her old self shines through interacting with friends. Although she's hostile toward younger generations of OS-tans, she has a good rapport with the survivors of her era, and is generally protective toward hardware. | ||
She enjoys writing, and watching planes. | She enjoys writing, and watching planes. She also practices art, favoring pinups.<ref>Referring to SAGE's role in producing the first computer generated figural artwork.</ref> | ||
===Family and relationships=== | ===Family and relationships=== | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
SAGE-tan attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was a trained pilot.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/Commendations-and-Insignia-169027595 Commendations and Insignia] "Originally the F-94 Starfire, then the Delta Dart, the Voodoo, and the Phantoms II before she was grounded in 1975. She was also qualified to fly the EC-121 Warning Star."</ref> | SAGE-tan attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was a trained pilot.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/Commendations-and-Insignia-169027595 Commendations and Insignia] "Originally the F-94 Starfire, then the Delta Dart, the Voodoo, and the Phantoms II before she was grounded in 1975. She was also qualified to fly the EC-121 Warning Star."</ref> | ||
She is an unreliable narrator.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/journal/SAGE-and-Morality-224292660 SAGE and Morality] "I can only recommend that you remember just how unreliable a narrator SAGE is. At any given time she can only remember about 60% of her life with varying degrees of relevance (i.e. knowing she likes cornflakes, but not how many children she has) and 0% of her love life. That being said, what you learn about her past has been filtered first through her perception then her psychosis, so the final written version in her journal (which despite then tone she {IC} never expected to be published) should be taken with enough salt to choke a horse."</ref> | |||
==Fanworks== | ==Fanworks== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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