May as well make another Hacker, along with some other things. I'll vote on stuff later, ideally when other's give their thoughts and opinions.
Rangers_Constellation
Rangers_Constellation is someone who, by their own admission, never thought they'd actually end up here in their entire life. Their real name is apparently Irma Raedler, and they used to be a soldier. No, they weren't a part of any sort of computer based job in the army, or even a mechanical based job. No, they were just a soldier, a sharpshooter, but still just a soldier. She was such for some time too, a bit over ten full years, after which she was quite lost with where or what she was supposed to do with herself and her life. And in that, she did the somewhat foolish thing of signing a NDA and contract to basically be used in a secret project that a corporation that our people are quite familiar with had, one that got her a decent chunk of cash, but little more and also effected her even now. With the money the traveled the world for some time, still lost but at least able to enjoy the free time. However, eventually during a trip to the eastern portion of Europe, she met someone who is partially responsible for how she ended up here. Suvorova Amaliya Timurovna.
Initially, Irma was found in some interest by Suvorova, though for her marksmanship as Irma was and still is quite fond of hunting, though eventually, while Suvorova took her under her wing to train her as a sort of apprentice. And part of that training grew to information gathering, and that included to an extent hacking. Something Irma initially was adverse to, but grew on her. Over time, she would grow to be better at such skills, and gather far more skill and technique on hacking and a dabbling skill in coding. And such activities would slowly over time grow to become a hobby. And while things were going good for a time, one major reason why she was taken as an apprentice of sorts was soon discovered. Suvorova was not exactly long for the world, and she wished to pass on her knowledge. She never knew what exactly it was that got her, nor did she actually get told or learn about this until after the fact. It was just something she figured out after a long time of no contact, and some searching that found where she was laid to rest.
Even so, she continued on, and slowly but surely learned to hone her craft, in her time working on a special program in Suvorova's memory, and their life would peacefully continue, eventually ending them up in a nice home in the middle of no where living with someone they cared quite a bit about. And then, that NDA came to bite her. See, due to the nature of the project, by leaving home without a number of coverings to hide certain effects that project had on her, she technically broke it, which means she owed over half a million dollars in fines from the money she was payed, and even more money as a fine for breaking that NDA, along with a possible prison sentence... It was around this time she also heard of Zero Forma, which considering she was going to go down if she ever returned home without being stupidly careful, she thought it'd be best if she went down swinging instead of simply waiting to be crushed by fines she could never dream to pay.
In terms of personality and skill, Rangers_Constellation is, as one might expect, actually quite tactical in combat considering they actually had military's training and were in such for over ten years. They subscribe to the doctrine of wasting shots rather than viri, and also that of divide and conquer, sort of a reverse of Torrent Jones. Naturally, due to this, they rarely use melee viri, preferring to use long range viri, or at least viri with ranged weapons, and naturally they tend to adapt their strategy to an extent depending on the environment. Also, she is fairly relaxed and live and let live to those who aren't her enemies, though a bit of a snark. And occasionally will make witty comments whenever someone says something stupid, or her opponents make a mistake. They also are quite the fan of forcing their enemy into a position where they have to chose what is, for lack of better words, the least shitty of two incredibly shitty options.
Red_Death.RSD
Red_Death.RSD is an old program that Rangers_Constellation has been working on for some time now. In terms of appearance, she was designed to look like their old mentor, and it is attributed to them. Naturally, as such, she was designed to be a long range fighter, given what is called the Gatecrasher, which is basically a very large rifle that takes about twenty seconds to set up before it can fire, and the shot that it launches is designed to take out anything in sight. Doesn't matter what it is, if one's hit by it, they are gone. And, best of all, the beam fired by such a thing can easily punch through multiple targets. Naturally, because of this, they are suited to long range and are basically able to make even the most durable of Viri crash. The name Red Death is actually a reference to this weapon, as the beam forces a large number of processes to crash the operation of whatever it hits and give a blue screen of death, except in the process due to a minor little accident causes computers to switch the hex code for the color of the blue screen and make it red, something Irma actually is quite proud of despite it being so minor. While this is all well and good, most oddly is that the Red_Death.RSD's Gatecrasher can be used as a blade of sorts at close range, and due to the way it looks it fits the part. This too is an unintentional boon that was a happy little accident.
In terms of personality and intelligence, Red_Death.RSD has a learning algorithm so that it can learn from mistakes and get better as time goes on, and due to extensive effort, it is about as smart as Irma, and Sapient and Sentient. Despite this, they are someone cold and harsh, yet fair. They care little for theatrics, and only about what gets the job done, similar to the person they were based on. In other words, they are what Rangers_Constellation would call a 'hard ass'. Despite this, they do occasionally seem to show genuine care for others, usually hackers or other ADI, but even so, it's usually not something shown and can be missed, as they usually try and put others on an orderly and diligent path, even if they are firm and harsh about ensuring such at times. Though, obviously their attempts at doing all of this have...mixed success to say the least. Regardless, Rangers_Constellation is quite pleased with how similar she is to the one she's based on at least, although it's clear that Red_Death.RSD is often non to pleased with her creators sarcasm and other antics at times.
Vivi_Paltest.dat
Vivianaja Palladian as their full name apparently is in her coding, or Vivi as they most often call themselves, is...not actually a ADI, or at least they shouldn't. Their proper file name is quite literally Vivi_Paltest.dat, implying that the coder responsible either misspelled Viri, they thought it was Vivi and not Viri, or they were intended for some sort of AI that went wrong due to the mess that is it's code. Regardless of their origins, their coding is full of extremely redundant and unnecessarily messy and complex code for extremely simple actions and other such things, and all of this has been made worse by random data that has been taken up and absorbed by the thing. One might wonder then how on earth she managed to last so long and the answer is quite simple. Due to the massive amounts of padding from random data, and a decent amount of redundant code, she is stupidly durable, and by adding the coding of defeated viri can gain further 'armor' to replace that which is knocked away or off. Though likewise due to lasting so long she also very large, both in data space and in the raw amount of data it actually takes up on a PC, thankfully that size doesn't impact speed much on any proper PC that can actually manage to run them, or in virtual space.
Ophelia is the one who managed to find her, though this was completely by accident as she was working on some code that Vivi seemed to find interesting and, surprisingly, asked nicely and politely if she could look at it. Vivi soon after found said code something they desired and asked to have it as they started to take it. Ophelia managed to 'subdue' her by simply giving her the data Vivi really wanted and a nice chat, though a major reason Vivi stayed was that she apparently was quite lonely.
With regards to her intelligence, Vivi is both exceptional and sorely lacking at the same time. They are equal to a human, but a very unintelligent one. Further they are quite kind and protective of those they care about, and are fairly trusting. Especially to those who give her code she likes. However she also can easily be made upset and sad by calling her stupid, chastising her for any sort of action, or otherwise being 'mean' though people she doesn't know doing similar will usually get her annoyed at them.
She also seems to collect data they find interesting for some reason or another and eat more generalized scripts, which may explain why she's a bit of a mess. Speaking of, apparently the 'prettiest code' that Vivi has is potentially military in nature, which might be some cause for concern especially as she parades it around like jewelry. In regards to their form, they are serpentine, similar to that of a Lamia or Naga.
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