Egomorph.SP

Name: Egomorph.SP
Gender: Female
Element: Elec
Subtype: Team
Appearance: Egomorph, or 'Ego' as Arch tends to call her, bears the appearance of a young girl, no more than 7 or 8 years old. Her body is waif-like, borderline skeletal depending on the light she's viewed in. Her clothing is limited to a simple, sleeveless white dress, with silver rings around the arm-holes and neckline; she wears no shoes or adornments, tiny feet poking out of the dress' long hem. Ego's face is almost perpetually caught in a haunted, deer-in-the-headlights stare, as though everything she sees is far more horrifying than anyone else could perceive. Much of her face is obscured by a long curtain of stark white hair, chopped into messy bangs over about half her face and left hanging over the rest. Her one visible eye is bright silver and plagued with eternal dark circles under it; the eye itself is flecked with tiny strands of crimson that occasionally move about, seemingly of their own accord.

An extension of Hex's morphic pool will always remain under Ego's feet, following beneath her wherever she goes; her extension will always remain attached to him, and when recovering or otherwise inactive, she is pulled into the depths of Hex's body. Additionally, Ego is followed by a large dual-halo that floats around her, usually directly behind her head but capable of moving elsewhere. The outer ring is much larger, a huge, thick silver circle with a dull red stripe running down the centre. The inner ring is much smaller and thinner, and appears as a simple band of silver metal. Faint bursts of energy, somewhat resembling red forks of lightning, occasionally dart between the two rings at rest, at approximately the same interval as the red flecking in Ego's eyes.

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Personality: Egomorph's very existence came about as the result of Hex effectively eating an SP base. Within his body, a massive cluster of corrupted data separate from the protoplasmic gestalt almost voluntarily flooded into the base, just before Hex himself could assimilate the data. Due to being formed from the data of so many different sources, Ego suffers from what seem like near-constant self-generated hallucinations, both auditory and visual. Her consciousness is built from a myriad of fragments of other minds, and while they act as a gestalt to form her amalgamate consciousness, each one can still think individually, with her getting the residual feedback whether she likes it or not.

One of the only true constants to her state of mind is a general state of confusion, as Ego often has trouble distinguishing which thoughts are actually hers from the random chaos inside her head. The only time she's truly able to isolate her mind from the amalgamation is when her Manifest Conduit is active, during which the myriad others wrench control of her body from her and she's left trapped in her own head.

Custom Weapon: Manifest Conduit

The Conduit is the name of the dual rings that float behind Egomorph. When inactive, it appears as a simple halo, the red stripe running through the larger ring dull and faded. When it's activated, the red shines in an incandescent glow, arcing flashes of red energy between the two rings. The arcing power is the collective minds' emotions made manifest; it is not necessarily exclusively red, but the horde is so perpetually trapped in rage and misery that the negative red emotion is pretty well all that ever materializes. The rings can change positions and configurations depending on the attack being used; a standard attack generally involves a forked flash of red lightning. While the Conduit is active, the gestalt mind rises up to control Ego's body, dying her eye luminescent crimson and pushing her sole original mind deep into herself, where she can only watch her body moving independent of her will.

Name: Egomorph.SP
Gender: N/A, presenting female
Element: Elec
Subtype: Team
Appearance:
Base form: a small, featureless extension of Hex's pool, identifiable as a separate being only by the vaguely humanoid shape it takes, and the two large metal hoops that float behind its back. It has no face, and often no legs, appearing as a blobby, amorphous upper body sunk to its waist in the white. It is Hex's habit to armour its projections with the hollow shells of things it has fed upon - Egomorph is no exception, though unique in its ability to reanimate these bodies while inhabiting them. Without a protective shell to hold and define its shape, Ego has little to no agency of its own, to the point of being unable to even lift its arms out of the pool if it doesn't have the barrier of solid hands.

Current form: Ego's original body, badly damaged. A pale waif of a girl, perhaps 7 or 8, her tattered sleeveless white dress is practically all that remains of her now. Her head has been torn off, leaving a hole in her torso with a jagged, flaring ridge from where her 'true' form' burst out from within. As to the rest of her, being immersed in acid has irrevocably damaged a shell that was already less than a centimetre thick at its thickest point. Everything delicate, jointed or meant to bend: hands, feet, elbows, knees, are either unworkable splinters or gone completely. The rest, already brittle, has melted to the breadth of millimetres in places and crumples at the slightest touch. Her halos alone remain pristine, untouched by the damage to their client.

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Personality: Living with the constant specter of Hex underfoot, bound to endlessly follow it as it pursues its monstrous ends, can be a traumatic experience. Egomorph has begun to despair her position, now that she has come to better understand it. To her perception, her life is a series of terrible questions, followed by horrifying revelations she is powerless to do anything about. Over half the thoughts in her head aren't her's to begin with, to say nothing of what she sees and hears on a daily basis from the voices that lurk inside the white. She has no control over where she goes, lacking even the ubiquitous power of jacking out.

Though she does not realise it, Egomorph is purpose-built. Protecting its higher processing functions against the white's increasing self-cannibalistic tendencies, Hex created an administrator unit to direct the growth of its system. Created from a gestalt network of half-digested central cortexes and a thousand other tragedies, Ego is Hex's brain, personified into a Support Program. Though she is often not conscious of it, every thought and memory the white has ever processed is accessible to her. Where she herself came from is a mystery - simple conversation is often challenging enough for the cobbled-together being, let alone scraping enough processing power together to recall her conception in Hex's depths. Many of the remnants that comprise her are still half-alive in her head, so loud and so vast she barely has room in her own head to think.

Ego is only present in her own head when not in use. The white by itself is barely sapient, more a series of instinctive directives, repeating until it encounters a problem its perpetual motion alone will not solve. In such a case, it can recognize when proper strategic direction is necessary, and activate its Administrator to do its thinking. The Conduits that hang and wheel behind Ego's head are its entry point: a strange device recovered from its own hungry depths, Hex has subsumed control over their activation. One unseen command from it, and Egomorph is shunted from control of her body, while Hex makes use of its now-accessible processer to better direct its growth and consumption. Egomorph remembers nothing of what happens while Hex has control; activation appears to her first as a crackle of static in her perception, and suddenly she's somewhere completely different, or in some varying stage of damage; or outright broken in the depths of the white.

Custom Weapon: Manifest Conduit

The true name of Egomorph's dual halos, the Conduit is a rare uneaten relic. Comprised of two metal rings, the smaller primary ring floats tight against her back (though they do move on occasion), while the larger secondary wheel hangs slightly farther back. The rings are plain silver, although unique among Hex's usual aesthetic in being polished and undamaged. Threads of deep red light arc down to the primary from a ruby stripe along the inside of the secondary - the intensity of the energy scales up the more data is flowing through the Conduit.

Whether Hex couldn't digest it, or otherwise understood some aspect of its use, the mismatched rings were one of three initial components that formed Egomorph, along with Hex's neural network and the SP Base itself. While Hex uses it to facilitate its own movement, linking to its Administrator to provide directives for the greater growth, the Conduit performs a number of other tasks. Though the mechanics are unclear, it plays a role in linking Egomorph to her provided bodies, such that she possesses the one working face and body in all Hex's gallery of grotesqueries. The energy produced from processing Hex's internal data is, as with all things Hex-derived, inherently harmful to virtual life.