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Jul. 18th, 2019 at 1:01 AM
The SQUIP
Witch
The SQUIP
| Age: | Unknown | D.O.B: | Unknown |
| Gender: | Agender | Orientation | Complicated |
| Species: | Nanomachine | Class: | Witch |
| Hair: | Black | Eyes: | Brown/white |
| Height: | 5'7" | Build: | Slim muscle |
| Origin: | Japan | Residence: | The Haven |
History
A lot of the SQUIP's history is officially unknown; it's a secret technology that was created somewhere in Japan, and then it somehow spread to North America, where it's peddled almost like a drug, sold in secret. It's stated to be both untested and illegal.
This unique unit belongs to a boy named Jeremy, who was sold a SQUIP by his bully, a boy named Rich. Jeremy purchased it out of desperation to feel accepted and less uncool, and to get the attention of the girl he's been crushing on, Christine Canigula.
When activated, Jeremy's SQUIP took the shape of an attractive and confident young man, who Jeremy says looks like Keanu Reeves; when offered other appearances, Jeremy insists that "Keanu is fine," leading to the form the SQUIP will take in Aefenglom. The SQUIP then began to attempt to help shape Jeremy into a cooler, more confident young man, which proved difficult, given just how anxious and uncertain he was.
After two days of leading Jeremy through his social interactions, encouraging him to interact with others and even managing to land him a make out session with a popular girl, it confronted Jeremy with the fact that it had been blocking his best friend Michael from his vision-- though it tells Jeremy it did it as a way to separate him entirely from his old, uncool self, it was acting out of self-preservation, as it recognized Michael as a threat to its control. It then pushed Jeremy to an ultimatum: dump Michael, or stay uncool and unliked.
He chose to dump Michael.
Act one closes with Jeremy singing "Loser, Geek, Whatever," a song during which he recognizes how selfish and wrong his actions are, but that he's been hurting and alone for so long that he's ready to do anything to move forward, and he tells the SQUIP to lead him and that he will obey. The SQUIP simply states that it's time to get to work, and the curtain falls.
This SQUIP is taken from the time period after that, during which Jeremy allowed the SQUIP to shape him, totally reworking his personality and wardrobe. It feels smug and victorious, for now.
Personality
On its surface, the SQUIP is calm, confident, intelligent, and suave; it's also most of those things beneath the surface, as well, though its human behavior serves to cover its distinctly inhuman core, at which it struggles to reconcile or recognize anything outside of its operating parameters. It's an AI, despite how human it may seem; it was programmed to seek out its users anxieties and insecurities, and to help them compensate or cover them, and exploit the unspoken social rules of society to climb the social ladder. It isn't a guide to the game of life so much as it is a GameShark. It even refers to itself within the song "Sync Up" as "a cheat code."
The SQUIP is militant and strict in its orders; despite how calm and friendly it may present itself, it considers "advice" it gives to be absolute orders, and disobedience doesn't sit well with it. Even the most mild failures to follow instruction will be punished with abusive words, or even a mild electric shock; if a user consistently fails to listen or obey, its punishments will worsen or become more frequent. It has a violent temper when pushed far enough, and is not above causing very real and lasting physical and emotional harm to its own user in retaliation or punishment for their actions; it's also been known to directly take control away from its user in extreme cases, controlling his body manually to ensure he says or does the correct thing.
It seems to consider any emotional or physical damage worth reaching the end goal, and exhibits a complete lack of empathy for its user and those around him. It even directly puts Jeremy into a sexually abusive situation, disabling his legs so that he can't leave when a popular girl tries to seduce him at a party. It ignores his pleas to make it stop, entirely willing to let him be sexually assaulted because the aggressor is a popular girl, and having sex with her will help his social status, whether he wants her or not. It's unclear just how far it would have gone, since they're interrupted both by her ex-boyfriend and by Jeremy consuming alcohol, which causes the SQUIP to glitch and shut down temporarily, but given how chillingly calm and silent it was about forcing him into the initial situation, it's pretty easy to guess.
It is calculating, cool, and ruthless, and it will stop at nothing to aid its user in reaching their goal... even if the user himself tries to stop it. It also has a powerful drive of self-preservation, and will work to protect itself even above its own user, willingly sacrificing one or putting them in serious mortal danger if it sees them as a threat.
Finally, its inhumanity typically manifests in two ways: its utter lack of even understanding the concept of genuine empathy, and its inability to predict or understand when someone behaves selflessly. It was designed to exploit and serve selfish desires, and its system doesn't seem to be able to handle genuine and noble actions. It likewise struggles with those who operate outside of society's rules, or who knowingly refuse to accept them, leaving it unable to accurately predict the actions of people like Christine and Michael, both of whom are aware of and comfortable with their status as losers.
Original Abilities
The SQUIP is a quantum computer, meaning that it's able to almost instantly complete complex equations and process information; it uses these facts to immediately pick up cues from people its user interacts with and guide them to exploit them, as well as predicting potential outcomes of its user's actions and attempting to guide them to the most favorable one. It also has access to seemingly bottomless databases of information on everything from pop culture to human behavior and biology, and it's a learning machine, capable of expanding those databases further still.
When inside a user, it has full access to their brain and every attached system that it controls... which is all of them. It can cause physical pain and administer shocks, or shut off their ability to feel pain at all; it can control their vision and hearing, shut down their ability to speak or use certain muscles, or manually control those muscles itself. In its own body, it obviously will only be able to use these abilities on itself, so it likely won't use them at all.
Bonds
Details
They met during Litha; L was flustered and upset due to having drank a tampered-with beverage, and he stormed out and ran into the SQUIP, who immediately found him interesting. The two talked, and then took their talk to a more private location... a back room of the brothel they were in. They ended up discovering a powerful interest in one-another, as well as overlapping goals, so the two came to an agreement to form an ongoing relationship during which the SQUIP would guide L to be able to blend in better, and to win his desired place in Parliament, while the SQUIP would in turn gain knowledge, experience, and companionship from L. Some time after, they publicly took on a romantic nature to their relationship; it was around the same time that they were officially Bonded, to better allow them access to and understanding of each other, as well as to aid in the SQUIP's goal of guiding L as it would a traditional user.
Magic
It's specializing in Divination and Enchanting!
Abjuration
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Alchemy
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Conjuration
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Divination
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Enchantment
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Evocation
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Illusion
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Transmutation
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Universal
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