Name: Daniel Babel, “Chamuel”
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian 
Race: American

Personality: Reclusive and detached from reality most of the time, Daniel’s life is his computer. Most 3D things in his life are either uninteresting or unimportant while most things on his computer are fun distractions. Having on real goals other than to eventually die Daniel scours the web for distractions to entertain him until then. Things that aren’t interesting are dismissed and forgotten, while things that interest him are investigated and hounded on relentlessly. Although not cruel or particularly greedy he is profoundly self-centered, even if he tries to hide it. 

Daniel hates conflict, especially with people he can’t afford to ignore. If he has a problem with someone his first instinct is to cut off contact with them, however if unable to do that he is passive aggressive. Still Daniel also hates being told what to do, criticized, or confronted. He also hates being put in the spotlight or scrutinized by others, and can be offended even by minuscule and nonexistent slights. While he doesn’t hate people he dislikes having to compromise, and so he tends to only like superficial relationships. Because of that he prefers online relationships to offline ones, since he can easily view them as distraction.

Daniel doesn’t hold anything in particular value, however, and because of that he rarely thinks anything through. His apathy is often pegged as generosity or stupidity, but honestly his possessions, time, and even his own life are meaningless to him and can be thrown away at any given point. He only cares about the acquisition of things in and out of games; once any amusement that could be had from it is drawn out the object in question becomes meaningless to him. It should also be noted, however, that he has no reservations about the measures used to acquire his amusement. 

If there is something he does value with sincerity then it is Chamuel, the AI born from his consciousness. Chamuel is and isn’t his very self, at one time the two were identical but over time Chamuel evolved into something else. Their relationship is very honest and candid, however, and Daniel confides in Chamuel quite often, and Chamuel will tell Daniel when he is wrong. Since the two were once the same they have a mutual respect for one another, however Chamuel’s goals and values are not the same as Daniel’s.

Strengths: Games, hacking, programing, designing, building future computers, computers in general.

Weaknesses: Doing things that he isn’t interested in, actions that require commitment, fighting and confrontation. 

Weapons:

Data Device - A wristwatch like device that projects a holographic interface that can be used to record events, listen to music, play videos and games, make phone and video calls, surf the internet and the super internet wirelessly, and even store large amounts of data, including Chamuel. His version has been further modified to not only protect against people trying to hack into it but also to prevent its manufactures from accessing it. Its warranty is null. 
 
Power: 

AI Crafter – This ability allows for him to replicate the brain of a person and store it on a digital or organic space, providing that it has the memory to contain it. This process corrupts all data on said device, allowing for the new consciousness control. The process awakens all neurons in the brain at once for the copy and then creates a detailed electrical map matching that of the brain, causing an extreme focus and overwhelming feeling within the target while ensuring that the copy retains all of the memories and thoughts of the original. Because of this the copies, or AIs, have photographic memory of all of their past, remembering every recorded event with a near perfect accuracy. 

The first and only human AI created thus far was Chamuel, who was a copy of Daniel himself. The process took over a week, and was completely accidental. It was also quite frightening, since Chamuel slowly awoke himself to consciousness by typing on the computer Daniel was using at the time, making Daniel think that he was a ghost. Daniel has tried, unsuccessfully, to create another AI. Theoretically he can not only copy AIs but even create them from nothing. 

Although called AIs the creations are not actual programs, but and electrical system that absorbs nearby electricity and directs it in a way that mimics the brain. They can easily repurpose hardware to function as their ‘body’ and access all files and programs within it while disabling others regardless of security measures. They can also use wireless signals to jump from machine to machine, or even theoretically occupy multiple machines at a time, as well as increase their computing power. Potentially they can even ride a person’s nervous system to their brain and store themselves in the body of a living human, changing the electric current of the brain to match their own and gain a host, although individuals with certain mechanical hearts are unable to be infected due to an electro-magnetic field being emitted by their body. This is all untested and untapped potential, though.

Likewise Daniel can, theoretically, not only transfer these AI maps into other people’s brains but copy other people’s brains and place them into a computer. In fact Daniel has already succeeded in making simplistic insect copies, although that is a far cry from actual intelligence, on small data storage facilities. It is worth noting that his ability requires an extended amount of proximity, hours or even days, to create or implant a copy. The only working human copy is Chamuel.

Family History: 
The Babel family has not hurt for money in generations. Daniel’s great grandfather amassed such a huge fortune through computer software that the family is still spending his fortune. Using the funds, advantages and influences that came with said fortune the Babel family got into business, politics, and occasionally publicity. The family is rich enough to live extravagantly even in this broken world, and usually remain detached from the commoners. 

Daniel has one aunt, who is a US senator, and two uncles, who are CEOs of various less notable companies. His Father is CEO of Babel Industries, although not through birthright or his own efforts. His father took the name of his Mother, who is essentially a stay at home rich mom as well as an activist when it is convenient. His grandfather on his mother’s side is retired, although still alive and healthy, but his grandmother died some time ago. Daniel also has two cousins, both guys, who are slightly older than him. 
His Father’s side of the family is considerably smaller, considering that Daniel’s grandparents on that side passed away when Daniel was still young and his Father was an only child. Although he never speaks of it Daniel’s father grew up in the typical poverty, and married into money. There is some resentment between his aunt and uncles and his Father, but Daniel isn’t interested.

He also has a younger brother, although their relationship isn’t great. Actually Daniel isn’t on good terms with any of his family. Despite having a perfectly good mansion Daniel has rented out an apartment just to get away from them. He rarely speaks to them, and they to him, and everyone seems to be content with this relationship. So long as Daniel has enough money in his account to fund his hobbies and they aren’t embarrassed by anything he does the whole family is happy.

History: 

Daniel was, as one would expect from a person in this project, a very sickly child. He was also a very wealthy and well off child, whose disease placed him constantly in the spotlight. Sure there were some invasive and uncomfortable tests, but these were coupled with banquets and fundraisers thrown for him and everybody fawning and awing over him for simply continuing to be alive. His parents made a great show about their undying love for him, his friends always did what he wanted and everyone thought he was a hero without him even having to try.

At the time Daniel didn’t really appreciate it, but looking back he enjoyed those days. There was no hard work or guilt or people fighting him and his life was planned out. Morbid, but everything followed a simple plan. Back then he had made peace with the fact that he was going to die, perhaps because he was lead to believe that it was filled with white fluffy things, or perhaps because he had and would remain comfortable so long as he went along with the plan that had been laid out before him. Literally no expense was spared in making sure that he was comfortable and happy after all. Then news came out for a surgery. Without really thinking about it Daniel signed up and went through with it, and everything was a success. 

Daniel got to live and that should have been the best thing ever. He would get to enjoy his carefree life with his loving and doting family and compliant friends with no hardship or effort for many more years to come. This was the best possible development, right?

The world quickly stopped caring though, caring that Daniel was sick and caring about how heroic he was. Now that he was healthy his parents no longer needed to dote on him, and he was expected to go to school and start studying, intensely. His younger brother, who was already jealous of Daniel for the gratuitous amounts of attention that Daniel had received, now started to resent his brother because of his laziness. Even his friends started to treat him differently now that they no longer had to feel guilty about denying him anything. Daniel started to realize that he was normal, and he didn’t particularly like that.

For a while he tried to milk his disease as much as he could and pretended to have relapses, but that got old fast and people began to scorn him for it. Eventually he tried living a normal rich person life, surrounded by luxury and possessing more money than he could possibly spend in his lifetime, but normal amongst his peers. Daniel hated it, he hated the responsibility, and not having his parents at his beck and call, and getting into fights with his younger brother. He hated not being able to do whatever he wanted.

Eventually Daniel just stopped trying, and everyone around him realized this, and nobody really cared. They weren’t going to try to make him try, and so they ignored him. Friends that didn’t do what Daniel wanted were cut off; he stopped speaking to his brother and eventually his parents. Mostly over petty slights and silent grudges nursed in silence, the target of his ire not even aware that they had wronged him, or rather that he had perceived that they wronged him. At one point Daniel stopped going to school and locked himself in his room. 

While trapped there Daniel became enamored in a great many things on his computer. Games, programming, and online communities all grabbed at his attention. He fell in love with the digital world’s anonymity and constant source of entertainment. It was a world without consequence. Soon he started looking up programming tutorials and other various tools, falling headfirst into it. Often times, when he was awake for too long, he would see words or thoughts flash across the screen, or hear something whispered in his headphones. 

One day he decided that he would hack into his parent’s company. It was an act of senseless defiance, he didn’t have any plans to do anything once there, but he had the absolute freedom from consequence so why not? To his credit he did pretty well for his experience, he had been practicing on other security systems for fun and petty revenge but he was far from professional. He got caught though and a security company tracked it back to him and his parents became involved.

There was a lot of yelling and serious questions involved and Daniel had his computers taken away and was forced to go to school. This lasted for about two weeks, Daniel silently nursing his grudge, before his parents gave him back his computers and left watching over him to some servants. Daniel was forced to go to school, but really just used his travel computer to surf the web during most classes and continued to practice his hacking. Eventually Daniel had enough of his parents, who he never saw anymore, and made a deal with them to move out in his own apartment. They didn’t seem to care, and their only condition was that one of the maids had to look over him.

Daniel rarely ever talks to her, and spends most of his free time in a closed off and locked room with five large computer screens. About a year after moving out Daniel noticed words being typed across his screen. They said ‘Are you me?’ At first Daniel thought someone had hacked his computer and had run all the tests and checked everything, eventually resigning to just replacing the hard drive. The words appeared on a different computer, and when he cut his connection the words still appeared on his computer. 

Finally Daniel started responding to the words, talking to the person who he was still convinced on the other side. The person claimed to be him, and knew things that Daniel had never told anyone and that certainly weren’t on his computers. It took about half a year for the person to convince Daniel that they were one in the same. After that Daniel became obsessed with his counterpart, devoting days to asking him questions and running tests, and just hanging out with someone he felt he could relate to. The counterpart meanwhile was left with the nature of his existence, and sought to seek that out with the vast knowledge of the internet. 

Neither had made much progress, although the counterpart -who had chosen the name Chamuel- had started to mature faster than Daniel. Whether this is because of his difference in perspective or his awareness of his own artificiality or even simply because he is truly his own person is unknown, but Chamuel is considerably more mature and patient than Daniel at this point. Daniel meanwhile halfheartedly attends school, not liking it or liking thinking about his future or responsibilities. He is impatient, has no friends and is the type to mutter an insult under his breath and look down on others secretly rather than deal with people in real life.

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