Aptitude

Content warnings.: Cartoon Blood and Gore, Physical Violence, Guns, Politics, Death.

Overview
Aptitude is an original sci-fi animated series by Spider Ren and planned to be released on Youtube in episode installments and shorts. The series has yet to debut but a preview of the first episode was released July 29th 2017 in the video ‘Aptitude Scene 1 Preview + Comparison’. Another clip of episode one was released August 28th 2018 in the video ‘Animation Breakdown’. The short ‘Where are his Arms?’ was released December 21st 2018 and features the character Parker as he answers comments received asking about his lack of arms in a surprise interactive addition to the series. Scripts for Aptitude are edited by Spockzilla and backgrounds are credited to WarriorRainyDay the creator behind the series Scion.

Plot
In the year 3447, the world has been divided into two groups. The super powered Splice and Regulars. Seventeen years after a terrorist attack Parker Denham, Brutus Fitzgerald and Wyatt Blakely join the ranks of the army at the base known as Tartarus. Parker Denham is hired as the first arm less soldier and placed as part of project ‘Comebacks’. A political based propaganda campaign to calm the public by showing positive relations between Splices and Regulars using children orphaned by the attack of 3428. Everything seems to be going well until a new movement forms.

A Splice named Dakota Cornish murders a renowned surgeon on live T.V. Claiming the attack to be justified and his allies to be freedom fighters. In the midst of all the mayhem Wyatt explores an abandoned Aptitude project building. He discovers a device that contains an A.I program called Artificially Enhanced Progression Intelligence. Or A.E.P.I for short. The very same A.I program that helped create the Aptitude “gene” decades before. Wyatt manages to build a compatible robot shell and is ecstatic to find A.E.P.I still working. Eager to ask questions about the Aptitude project. However, A.E.P.I has a new project in mind but it needs Wyatt’s help.

Characters
The main cast of Aptitude consists of Parker Denham, Brutus Fitzgerald, and Wyatt Blakely. But also includes a large cast of side characters such as Dakota Cornish, Carter (Hyun Woo) Sung,  Evelyn Wheeler, and Harper Sayegh.

Links
Youtube, Aptitude Lore site, Twitter.