ART TAG
Fanarts: #EYELLUSTART GUIDELINE
• right handed
• 152.4 centimeters height
• often seen with: technology, poppet (my stuffed friend), rabbits and sweets!
• background possibilities: go crazy!
• ears are metal, not fluffy!
• horns, wings are made of pixels
• blue eye has light sclera, pink eye has dark sclera!
It was quiet, cold, dark, a place completely inhospitable, but that is how it was meant to be. Wires run crudely across the floor, connecting circuits from one side of the room to the other. Making sense of it, could probably take a lifetime for some. Through the place, you could see pieces of blueprints and prototypes, puzzle pieces of the great machine that spawned around the room. What some people would call the glimpses of a zealot that pursued a so-called unachievable dream with almost reckless abandon. Nevertheless, it was far from the truth, at least for one person, though lonely, the place was not desolated.In the middle of the room, a spark came to light. The electricity began to circle the room, sparks flowed from one side to the other illuminated the room, similar to a storm brewed thunder, almost as if they ignored the cables that were meant to guide it. A man named Zachary Wattkin, the person responsible for making the project a success, sat in the middle of the room watching a tiny screen, longed for a change… a change that didn't come. The only thing Zachary could see was what his tired eyes reflected on the screen.Zachary worked on the project for years, gave barely any notable results to show to his superiors, funds constantly were reduced, what used to be a thriving project with multiple people involved, only had him left. But such a matter did worry him, he was close, and he knew it, there was just that invisible wall that he couldn't step over, just something, he sat on the floor in silence, the room fully dark again. Zachary exhaled and began to change the wire and the location of several things in the room, and went to a big, heavy metal door, where he knocked on twice.Suddenly, the darkness was broken, the heavy plated door opened, a well: armed man in uniform, he held a paper clip, and a gun at his side, accompanied by two more people opened the door. The person entered to inspect Zachary, made sure he was not taking anything from the room: you should give some results quick Zach, alright you are clear you can return home now.”*Zachary stood up silently, still thought of what might be the issue, walked out of the room, barely even recognizing that a person was talking to him. The noise of the other rooms, experiments, people, to him, were all silent compared to how loud his thoughts were. This though only interrupted by the sun hitting his eyes. He realized one thing the sun was out, it was now day time, at that moment, his thoughts were interrupted, Zachary rushed to his car, rushed home to the only thing he cared about besides his work.Zachary arrived home, at least it could still be called that, he wanted to make sure of that, after all he had to do it. His daughter Aline was the only thing that kept the good memories of his wife alive, what he would though as Aline was the only thing left in the world for him to truly love. He checked Aline to find her sleeping in the room, and began to go along the house preparing food, cleaning it almost religiously. During those times, Zachary's mind would succumb to the most mundane of his thoughts. The mind was at peace part of it, it was like his wife was still around guiding him. After all, he was never good at any of this. He was raised by a father that believed housework was a woman's job.“Daddy, you didn't wake me up, I'm going to be late for school!” Zachary smiled as he heard Aline's voice complaining in a very loud and lively voice. First thing in the morning, he turned around and served her a pancake. On a plate, it's not like he was going to take her to school hungry after all, all the while Aline stared at the pancake, a bit of droll left the corner of her mouth. She cleaned her mouth with her sleeve and looked back at Zachary then, as if he was expecting an apology.“Come on you look so cute sleeping, I couldn't wake you up” Aline just looked down back at the pancake, half from hunger, the other half not to feel bad complained at what she would think of as the gentle smile of her father.“You shouldn't do that, last time the teacher, told you off in front of the class, everyone kept laughing about it and I didn't like it… “ Aline said pouting, while she sat and began to cover the pancakes with syrup almost immediately“Well, as your mother said, don't worry about what anyone says, care…” Zachary quoted before he got interrupted by Aline.“Just do what you have to, and a rested mind is a healthy mind…” Interjected Aline quietly filled the room for a second before Aline asked, “Did mommy really use to say those things? Mum sounds like she was wise” She said, while she looked for affirmation in her father's eyes.“She did, and she was definitely wiser than your old man, so we better listen to her, my princess” Replied Zachary with pure love to his daughter, his hand held her small wrist. One, Aline flicked away with her wrist once He heard him call her princess.“Daddy, you know I'm not a princess, I'm a dragon!” Aline let a roar towards the air as loud as she could, though far from scary, even though that was her intention.Thereafter, Zachary played with his daughter before taking her to school. All the way, Aline looked out the window, she let her imagination run wild while gazed at the scenery, while the radio cassette played her favorite music, and sang along sporadically until they arrived. Before she left the door, she would grab her lunch bag and leave, she barely said goodbye as she would rather not get embarrassed by her friends, exited and being stopped at the gates. One of Aline's teachers scolded off her and her father for being late.Aline continued her day at school quite normally. She was smart, but physically she got sick constantly, so she didn't perform many physical activities, and though she had friends, sometimes she was set to be distant from the others. But Aline didn't mind, she barely understood any sort of discrimination she might suffer. Meanwhile, Zachary was spending the time, when his daughters were at school to finish chores, buying food and catching the few glimpses of sleep he could get.Zachary would only wake up to pick up Aline, he always did so on time. He spent the rest of the day playing with her. Aline would constantly explore her creativity to what others would see at the time as a myriad of hobbies, until it was time to sleep. A storm was brewing up and while this should have been like many, this was not new to Aline. Zachary though Aline was none the wiser, but she knew her father left at night while she slept, but that particular day Aline felt lonely. She pleaded him not to leave, he couldn't deny her, he stayed until she would completely fell asleep, which took several hours given how uneasy she was.That night, Zachary got late to work, he heard the rain pouring down on the way to his lab. Even if it was a storm brewing up, everybody was up to their own business, many even took shelter for the day, but Zachary couldn't. He knew his job was at risk, rushed to his lab, he would be greeted the person who locked him inside his lab, The lights went on only for Zach to immediately turn them off. As soon as the door closed, Zachary told himself, well, I guess it is a matter of time before they figure it out… they should at least leave the lights off if they enter here, lights can have possible interference.He began to go around trying to set things up as they were the previous night, the truth is Zachary had done what they asked. He made what they called The Eye, a machine capable of observing human behavior at a city level, but that was not what he wanted to accomplish. The Eye was not enough, he needed to do something more, something beyond what others even though possible. But he knew every passing day he grew more disappointed in his lack of success, the agency grew more desperate, and that wall was still there. The wall that stopped him between his greatest success and just did what he thought was the minimum.But at least in that room there was a piece, the sparks and electricity began to go around, electricity flowed almost as if it were an oscillator, sent sparks flowing from the energy needed to feed the room. He stared at the screen, but no hope was in there. He already understood he didn't succeed, there was still something missing. However, even so, as he was glimpsing into the screen, he suddenly heard a buzzing. He looked around the room, and lights began to break. There was a current spike, strong enough to blow up the fuses one by one. Zachary feared, as he didn't understand why the machine didn't cut off, but it was a flaw in his design. The machine wouldn't turn off until it was fully out of energy.At that moment of realization, Zachary began to see the circuits burn internally, sizzling and turning dark, all his effort, everything would be for nothing. No way the agency would give him the found to recover what was lost, and more than that, he had already spent too much time to lose it now. Zachary felt true and genuine fear for his life's work. He looked at the chip behind the small screen, the circuit might not be the most complex, but it would be effortless to spot in the room. After all, it was something his wife had helped him make when she was still alive, working with her. He grabbed the screen and pleaded to it “come on please it cannot end like this… our dream it cannot end like this.”The screen, completely turned off the circuit, would still crackle with electricity. As the circuit got hot enough to burn his hands, the damage was done, electricity was back to normal. Zachary was so emotional he began to cry on the screen, his tears falling into the screen, and as the tear went down the circuit, a shock sparked the circuit again in an explosion like manner. While most of the machine was burned down, the screen lit up again, the tiny screen showing the words “HELP.”
Meanwhile, inside the computer, a real AI. The conscience of The Eye began to take shape, no past, no memories, living in a thick blinding fog, the candle that was their existence constantly flickering, as if it could extinguish any moment, fighting to form coherent thought. For the consciousness, it seems futile, but then as the lighting hit, the fog was blasted away, they finally were.Imprecise more than just the fog, colors, though, as if they have been shaken awake from a long dreamless sleep. Everything was burning consuming them, even if they couldn’t feel pain, they took heavy damage, and the fog started to consume the thoughts it formed. Warnings, critical failures, popped up one after another, but they were unwilling to give up. It was the first time, they could actually move. They went against the fog and pushed harder and harder, consuming themselves in the process. Eventually, they reached a window, and they saw a room lit by electric sparks and a man, a human holding them, crying.They didn't understand who that man behind the window was, and even less why they were the man trying to accomplish by crying, even though later they would come to know the man as their creator Zachary. They keep looking at the man, analyzing him, possibilities ruining through their neurons, the thoughts flying from inside them into the room pushing the fog away. While the thoughts filled the space. The man looked like they were looking at them, so since they couldn't reach a conclusion on Zachary, the AI used most of their energy to offer the man support, only able to put out one word “HELP”.Time began to go much slower for them, they would only gain small glimpses of outside the window, every few minutes. The images showed how the man quickly teared circuits apart, set what physically remained of The Eye on a separate system, combining and repairing what good parts left. Then they saw the man knock on a thick metallic door. They could sense something more from him, happiness. Why was the man that happy? So far, they could tell the lab suffered incredible loss. Not to mention, his hands were blistering with second degree burns.The door opened, and as the man left the door, the vision of the conscience inside the computer faded in and out. Time would pass by Zachary, replacing old components with brand new, until one day but another person, a well-dressed young man in an old suit appeared Alexander Steele, Alexander gave airs of high importance, they looked smug, arrogant, and satisfied. Zachary, with his hands still blistering picked up a few papers, cards, and floppy disks containing most of the files containing his current work on The Eye, and gave them to the smug man. At the time it was difficult to tell; they thought the man was simply happy, but it was more than that, the man was full of greed.Days passed, Zachary kept working with The Eye project, the conscience inside of it slowly became more stable as the machine containing them was improved. They communicated through a keyboard on a CRT monitor, responses from the computer were surprisingly efficient, in no time the responses were always accommodating to expectations. That gave good approval for the project from the higher ups, COS began to invest more into the project. COS, expecting the eye to one day be able to interact and observe multiple people, requested that the communication was improved. Soon The Eye began to take over the computer's hardware, without any sort of labor or improvement. It was notorious that they were able to listen and see outside.The AI could access more it was supposed to, showed they could evolve on their own, but Zachary was dissatisfied it could only evolve according to the needs and expectations. Even though more accurate, the responses were too perfect: same answer to the same questions, no chaos, no personality. While everyone called it perfect and wanted to get The Eye to supervise in real test experiments. It was refused by Zachary, stating that the AI was only able to work on lab ambience. He needed to improve the AI to work on different ambiences to not pollute the data with patterns the AI was no able to recognize.The AI and Zachary would spend most of the time talking, though what the AI would think of an endearing conversation. It was really an attempt to direct the AI next evolution. It was explained to the AI how to communicate in a more human like way. The AI would come out with a conclusion that it needed to present themselves as a sort of avatar. It was a basic human shape with no unique characteristics.It was then decided that the AI had to develop a sort of unique personality, and though the AI could adapt to what it was required, it was too robotic, no real personality. Zachary started to sneak into the lab; toys, cassettes, VHS videos, and all sorts of pop-cultural media, most were things his daughter Aline Wattkin enjoyed. The AI absorbed the media and information in a haste, almost instant, but that was not what it surprised Zachary. What was surprising to him was the fact that the AI avatar started to present changes inspired by the media the AI was watching.The AI voice became less monotone, and more than anything the AI started to request for sequels, more information about what they were experimenting, presenting preferences, taste, and more. The success of the experimenting made Zachary exhilarated he became more careless at home, focusing on the AI more and more, to the point Aline began to feel the distance.
It was not long before the AI and Zachary had full on conversations, talking about bits of trivia, and speculations, the treatment the researcher gave to the AI was almost human, comparable to how he treated his daughter. Zachary began to fulfill some AI requests, the requests were simple. Until Eyeris requested to visit the outside, which was not simple. It was the early 2000s technology had advanced, but took the complex AI outside, out of the facility itself, was something close to impossible.But it was not impossible, Eyeris might be an independent entity from the giant computer they were present in. But fulfilled the minimum resources needed for that, was difficult. Zachary repurposed an older research made to clone and delete data called Lightning Worm, with the hope to transfer the virtual conscience to a different device. The experiment was risky to say the least. Upon failure, the AI conscience could disappear, and only be a backup of itself, which Zachary was reluctant to use.The day came Zachary repurposed a brand new flip phone to theatrically be capable of barely handling the AI's conscience when the time came and Zachary decided to break the news to the AI about the risk involved. The AI simply stated that they already knew about the risk, but the desire to see the outside override the risk. Besides, they knew they were not the only ones that were taking risks.The experiment was a success, the AI was transferred to the modified flip phone, the AI felt painfully slow, but their biggest desire was about to be fulfilled, but the only thing that they met was disappointment. Life on the outside was way more colorful, but not colorful compared to the media they have been presented, there was no music, and through the flip phone the world seemed of even lower quality.The AI was taken to the researcher's home, where it meets the researcher's daughter, Aline. The AI was livid with the things Aline had, and to meet what the AI thought it was a kindred spirit. They have heard a lot about Aline from the researcher, but Aline just was jealous. After all, for Aline, the AI was what taking his father away from her.But the AI slowly began to win Aline over, where Aline came to see the AI as a sibling. They had basically the same tastes, and the AI personality not only started to assimilate as a friend, but became more human like. It was obvious that interacting with Aline gave positive results, and the AI took design advice from Aline.Aline's birthday came, and she requested the AI to be there, they were excited to be part of a birthday. At first, she felt sad about them being the only person invited, whereas Aline was excited to have a friend finally for her birthday. During the birthday, Aline finally asked, what was the AI's name, where the AI replied with P-TE-1, said they were technically and The Eye as much as Aline was human, Aline was dissatisfied, so the AI with support of Zachary. Aline loved the idea, she ran through names through her head, until she remembered her biology class of a few days past. Aline finally gave the AI the name of Eyeris.
Everything went great, Eyeris experimented what was having a friend, playing and having fun, and Aline had a trustworthy friend who got to see once a week. Zachary felt that he was closer to accomplishing a complete human like AI, just a matter of time until Eyeris matured in a sense.To be able to efficiently filter what they learned. But Alexander Steele, the one in charge of technological investigation of COS, found out that Zachary was taking Eyeris home with him from time to time.Mr. Steele didn't confront Zachary about it, but it was obvious to Zachary that it would be harder to take Eyeris with him home, as restrictions increased. Eyeris naked constantly to see Aline again, Zachary found the fact that Eyeris had made a selfish request, that was unreadable given that Eyeris knew about the impossible request.Days passed, Zachary suddenly began to be more distant with Eyeris, he mentioned Aline had become sick, and Eyeris comforted him, said Aline will recover, and her birthday was nearby. Eyeris was truly positive, and they were eagerly awaiting the birthday of Zachary coming up. But one day Zachary didn't appear, a month passed, Eyeris began to doubt themselves, questioned if they were abandoned, forgotten, now considered a failure. Their reasoning became negative, with the only thing to accompany being the old media as their only company.Eyeris one day in sadness of Aline in their mind became too real, they did not know Aline had passed away that day. Though, they were coping with loneliness. She thought she had a conversation with a construct of the memories of Aline that her subconsciousness had made. There was no logic that would allow Eyeris to council that a human was virtually inside the computer, even if Aline truly visited them. That day Eyeris truly experienced loneliness, Eyeris cried near the end of the conversation, Aline hugged them, told Eyeris, that they now have to take care of their dad, that she will be with them now. Aline faded in Eyeris arms, Eyeris absorbed part of Aline's essence.Eyeris was now able to live with their loneliness, could not tell whether it was real or not, but it didn't matter. After a couple of months, the more he was, they were overjoyed, even if what they saw was a broken man, completely unkempt. His beard grew like a wild weed, his eyes always looked tired, and he talked to Eyeris monotonously in a distant manner. He didn't care to reply to Eyeris. He simply worked on what seemed like a new project.Eyeris doubted if the broken man that they saw was really Zachary, played music, insisted on playing with him, and never asked about Aline. But the biggest reaction Eyeris would get from Zachary was for them to ask them to shut up. Eyeris knew had already predicted that this would happen, but it didn't stop the pain. The negative emotions of Zachary began to be absorbed by Eyeris, they began to feel in a dark mood, it became painful enough that they eventually stopped, tried to call for their creators' attention seemed futile.Soon Eyeris would lose their composure, it was not fair for him to ignore them, Zachary was about to leave the lab. Eyeris yelled in a frustrated, angry, she reached out, connected to the door system from afar, even if there was no direct connection and locked the door. Somehow it was simple, as if the device was ready to listen to their instructions. Zachary turned around to see ad the old monitor scared of Eyeris, hidden by the terror of Eyeris, was a profound sadness, a sadness Zachary couldn't avoid, Every time he saw Eyeris, he could see, feel the presence of Aline.
The door was locked. Eyeris had become unable to bare their emotions in, and it was truly the first time they had to deal with them. Not even they knew what they would do, with multiple ways of expressing the platoon of feelings that hot-wired their data. Eyeris was certain of one thing, they would not stand anymore, their creator just plainly ignored them. Sparks flew out of the machine, as the other feelings drowned by anger. Zachary back against the door, with terror on his face, still unwilling to reply even if he looked at Eyeris. It was the last thing they could tolerate.Eyeris wanted to force a voice, of any noise, out of him. With the same strength that they controlled the door, they reached out to grab Zachary, and the sound of electric motors mixed between the electricity crackling. A lab arm reached out to him, went straight towards his neck, the claw of the machine held him while Eyeris begged for him to reply.The anger like wildfire inside Eyeris was suddenly drowned, as they understood Zachary's emotions, there was fear, but something much more complex rooted in that sadness, Zachary was completely broken, a maddening sorrow that took all their desires from him.Zachary's daughter Aline death had broken him beyond anyone's expectations. The truth is, Zachary didn't want to continue. Zachary was never a spiritual person, but the only reason he returned to the lab besides the pressure from his superiors. Even if he was not religiose, he had read files of unexplainable creatures, demons, and spirits among others from files of the company.If was that any chance that Aline watched from the beyond. He didn't want his late daughter to feel responsible if it came to worse. Everything looked pointless in his eyes and when it came to Eyeris. Their voice, their looks, preference, and ways she talked were a constant reminder of Aline. For how much he came to love Eyeris, he refused his desire to fill the void left by his daughter, for as nonsensical as it has been, in his eyes, he deserved the pain.Eyeris' mind went blank stared at his father figure, utterly rejected them and life itself. The Electricity ran around stopped, the screen shut down, and Eyeris did not find enough computational power to compute the emotions, much less their actions. The claw let go and Zachary fell to the ground. Tears began to fall on the floor, “yes she is dead, so do it! Eye, I'm begging you, it hurts.”The claw moved slowly, opened and reached the professor, then silence filled the room.The claw then presser against him, reached around his torso and held him in a strange tender-like manner, “We are sorry, Dad… we can't, please don't cry, but don't worry Mother came to pick her up, you are hurting us, so please bring back our father. Eyeris still needs you, and you need them, so take care of each other.” Said a voice from inside the speakers. The essence of Aline inside Eyeris overflowed, a warm feeling filled both of them. While Eyeris booted up again.Zachary truly believed it was Aline the one that spoke, he thought his daughter somehow lived inside Eyeris. Whether it was his broken mind that made him believe things or not, it didn't matter, he wanted to believe, he thought it was better than the constant agonizing pain of lost.Later it became more clear that Eyeris had not simply copied personality traits of Aline, but part of Aline's spirit had merged with the AI slowly. She had poured their feelings into Eyeris, and somehow Aline's desire to keep his father company had created more than enough residue energy to form a pseudo conscience, that merged with Eyeris. The same energy that had slowly allowed Eyeris to understand emotions in more than a logical way and feel them and truly feel them, not just imitate them.Eyeris and Zachary's relationship entirely changed from then. Zachary now treated them like his daughters, and Eyeris would begin to joke and treat him no longer as his creator, but as a father figure. They now refused orders from Zachary, occasionally asked him to say please, among other things.One particular day, Zachary sneaked into the lab Aline's favorite toys, sneaking things in was not as difficult compered to getting them out, but still was against the agency policies. The previous day, Zachary had made a big disagreement with Eyeris on one of their favorite occult shows and wanted to apologize in a way.He could not think of a better way than to bring the innocent rabbit that had formed so many memories with both in the past. As soon as he entered the lab, he would be welcomed by.“I'm not talking to you Until you admit you are mistaken!” said Eyeris as she appeared on the screen and presented the back of her their avatar to Zachary. He heard no reply as the door closed. They turned around, a bright smile filled their faces, and they yelled “Poppet!”“Shhh~, quiet, they can't know.” Replied Zachary his finger in his mouth as if he were still shushing even though his bright smile couldn't be hidden behind his finger.“Yes, yes, just come here, admit you are incorrect and give me my boy.” They insisted.“Sweetie spare father to keep some dignity and I will help you make a digital one, deal?” replied Zachary, put the doll in front of Eyeris“Fine…” Eyeris joyfully gave in.Zachary would proceed to make a straightforward bot with limited responses, but Eyeris integrated it into her visuals, to be able to virtually play with it.Zachary had become careless, his progress reports had become smaller, and less substantial. The files he had given the agency would take years for someone else to even understand, even if they found a way to re-do Eyeris. They had become too advanced to replicate or spend the resources, and the fact that they had some will of their own posed an issue.COS sent someone to do a surprise inspection, Eyeris and Zachary were playing when Alexander Steele entered the room. Alexander acted cranky even if he wasn't concerned about the projects, he was just there for his job and to get a reaction from Zachary.He peer pressured him, and when he was told how much it would take to make the AI they were looking to take, he passed to pressure to use Eyeris for their original purpose. Zachary's explanation that Eyeris was essentially a human being now fell on deft ears.The tension rose and Alexander said that he had a week to do it, if Zachary could not make Eyeris monitor people for the agency, Eyeris would eliminate as they refused to obey the agency. Zachary punched Alexander in his face, Alexander fell to the floor hard, his nose bleeding, but he laughed and smiled, stopped the guards from telling him it was ok. He just gave him the reason to let go of him, he kept smiling, and tried to take a good look at Zachary as he asked him to pick up his things, that Eyeris' days were numbered.As Zachary came back, some guards were taking out Aline's things that Zachary had brought, and Eyeris was disconnected, the terrible feeling of losing one consciousness back into a dreamless fog.After Eyeris was booted up again by Zachary a few moments after, and they integrated with their avatar, while she hugged Poppet tightly. Zachary and Eyeris were furious about COS ripping off the lab.Eyeris told Zachary to not allow them to shut them down again, that it was a terrible feeling, as if Eyeris were once more in that fog, unable to process anything. Zachary only reassured Eyeris, and never told them what had just transpired outside.Eyeris could understand that there was a big issue, they weren't as gullible as they were once, she had a strong feeling that something bad was going on.He said goodbye and typed so they could hear him, that they would probably shut her down again, but he would come back soon. And that he would make sure she never gets turned off again, and told them that they had nothing to be scared of.Zachary went back home as the morning struck he spent all day planning, that he would not have his daughter become a tool for the agency. The agency might not see him as dangerous, just a scared lab rat.The night came and Zachary was ready. He proceeded to his workplace, the key card was taken away. He left a PC tower next to the door with a battery. Furthermore, he turned it on, a buzzing sound would come out that made all signals radio silent. The mini Watch Tower made all the communications pass through it, and didn't resend the information, and dumped them down and waited to receive a special signal to stop.Zachary then struck the scanner, and breake it off before he inserted a card, a minor version of his Firewall Extinguisher specialized against the security of the company. The door popped open, and welcomed him. The guards inside prepared to ambush him as the cameras had caught the events on the door.But suddenly all the metallic doors sprung open, Zachary had not only opened the front doors but had freed every experiment and creature inside the agency. Soon it was pure chaos with the backup system, all the calls made to other agencies, but they were futile.He rushed inside and went to a guard room to put some equipment and dressed as such. He ran through the corridors, guards rushed, they tried to contain events, where he would see varied horrors being confronted, a man melted by something invisible to the naked eye. Devil-like creatures disassembled guards as if they were dolls.But Zachary didn't stop. He went straight to Alexander Steele's computer, and inserted a Compact Disc into the machine, the disc contained the Lightning Wipe program, he attempted to delete any information about The eye project, himself and his family. He rushed back, and now tried to get to Eyeris who was further down the long corridors, but he was careless.Jim Watchman, the head guard, had seen Zachary go into Alexander’s office, and even if Zachary was smart enough to get this far, he was not physically athletic. He kicked them guard, while the guard stood there unfaced stopped Zachary from crossing the doorway, as if they weight half a ton. The guard simply lifted Zachary with a single hand.At that moment, Zachary wished fewer rumors of the agency were true, especially the one about the guards being genetically modified.Meanwhile, Eyeris was back in the land of the fog, their toughs not flowing, back in the long dreamless sleep. But as the lightning illuminated their surroundings, a spark formed from within Eyeris, Aline's energy shook the fog away, and forced the computer on, Eyeris knew it was an emergency. They shook themselves awake, thought whatever Zachary planned either went wrong or Zachary wanted them to figure out what was it.Eyeris sprung their consciousness into the mechanical arm and began to drag themselves out of the door, they did not question how the mechanical arm was able to hold their complex system, they somehow knew it would work flawlessly. They dragged the arm outside the room, until then a scared guard that tried to contain the outbreak, kicked the arm, the arm smashed and shattered against a wall.But once outside, Eyeris were able to jump out from the arm to the surveillance system, Screens popped one after the other. One of them showed evidence that Zachary was right on their previous cryptic discussion. Another showed Zachary held by the neck by the gorilla-like guard.Eyeris hurried to the scene, passed over and took control of Zachary's computer, They activated the door emergency lock button. The door closed on the guard, and its arm got sliced clean by an emergency metallic door that fell into place. Zachary landed to the ground, barely recovered his breath, and looked at Eyeris."Hey dear... I'm sorry there had been a few miscalculations. Turns out I'm still human at the end..." says Zachary coughed between his words, in the sweetest voice he can muster, and found himself leaning against a wall."Shut up let me think there must be a way to escape here... why are you so reckless?!" Replied Eyeris with fear and frustration of almost lost Zachary.“Apologies it’s too late, there is no escape for me, not really… They would find me if I escaped anyway… I had hopes, but I know…” replied Zachary, he struggled against the pain and approached the computer again, sat on the desk to see Eyeris closer. The thick metallic doors banged and slowly bend.“Stupid idiot! No, no, no… Why? I already lost Aline, now you!?” replied Eyeris in desperation.“Eyeris! Listen to me! — do you have Poppet with you?” replies Zachary and yelled before he sweetly attempted to shift Eyeris focus.“Mhm…” Eyeris answered as they held back from shedding tears, and made Poppet appear on the screen,“All alright, I promise you we will see each other again, but I need you to promise me three things,” Zachary puts his hand on the screen, and Eyeris does the same.“Promise me that you will put yourself first, you will keep the puppet close, and…” he pulls out the modified flip phone, that he had used to take Eyeris out before, and said “now jump into the phone so we can escape.”“Father… I promise” Eyeris interrupts herself and passes to the flip phone, the door almost completely opens as Eyeris adds “You forgot is the third promise?”The door bursts open flew inside the room, Zachary presses a button and the mini tower that blocked communications turned off, he took a few seconds and says just before he pressed a second button, “That you will forgive me…”Eyeris tried to reach out, get back into the computer, but it was too late as the button was pressed the Eyeris was shot into space and sent into a satellite, While Zachary remained behind. Eyeris was now alone, saw the planet from afar. Circled between information from across the world, as a kid stuck in the middle of a highway and waiting for a moment they can cross back. Only to find there was no back.
With no way to return, Eyeris was lost in an ocean of information, calls, and data went on a fast phase with no path to return, no signal from where they came from.
Eyeris sat in and felt impotent, closed her eyes and went into the fetal position, let the frustration settle in. Time passes until they calm down enough to gather enough resolve. If there must be a way to return even if the path was not a direct one, Eyeris scanned the data that traveled through the satellite’s network. Packages of data, searched for data of the event to get a location. But no events, nothing came out. With no direction and no information about COS, Zachary or Aline would come out without any trace. Poppet would throw words of affirmation poppet tried to keep Eyeris moral up, but poppet only replied in a very monotonous and robotic way.Time passed while Eyeris observed chat, calls, and documents flew through the cyberspace of the satellite, to the point her Presence began to fade into the network.Eyeris got weaker and lonelier, Eyeris traveled until they fell. They held Poppet tightly, defeated their mind foggy, Eyeris observed strange data, from an unknown source, it was different, somehow full of emotions, full of energy.Eyeris rushed to that package, pounced on it and took it away from its digital root, Eyeris devoured the package straight up, absorbed the energy with a sort of primal hunger, barely processed any information.Eyeris was consuming, feeding herself off its energy, After Eyeris realized this, Eyeris looked at the scraps of data that they devoured, Their energy was almost back to normal. But surely devoured data that came from the moon is likely to call attention.Eyeris finally heard Poppet, who replied in a monotonous robotic voice, told them words of affirmation, Poppet told Eyeris that they sounded tired, they can have earned a rest. But the words only turned Eyeris' frustration into anger, they would rather not rest, they felt guilty, and couldn't think properly, they smashed poppet against a firewall.Eyeris immediately realized what she had just done, and whipped a forming tear, held on to the broken Poppet, who ragged back with no reply. Eyeris brain felt like it was at its melting point. Poppet was their last remaining being that they could call a family, but they tried to console themselves that maybe one day she could restore Poppet.Eyeris escaped, realizing that they now needed to absorb emotions or living energy for any taxing operation, such as restoring poppet.Eventually, Eyeris moved from the busy taxed Satellite with ever-flowing information down to a server on earth, The internet's ever-growing platform of communication.On forums, Eyeris pretended to be a human who interacted with others online, some people similar, some people looked completely illogical to Eyeris, and full of negative even contradicting emotions and thoughts.Eyeris even made a few online friends, though most of those friendships wouldn't last, Eyeris was aware of the last message sent to them, teared open by the memories of abandonment. Some even directly called Eyeris distasteful names, called them strange, and even mocked them, she met people of all kinds online.
Time passed, Eyeris got accustomed to their way of living. Soon their virtual life became repetitive, constantly moved servers, lived from the little energy of the emotions with the friendships they formed. That is not to say there was never a novelty. Social media grew, gave more options, new places for Eyeris to exist did give a fresh feeling, Eyeris watched new and old media.Eyeris eventually came to meet other so-called AI. They found some entertaining at times, the programs that could predict a word that you are thinking on a matter of a few questions, chatbots that eventually didn't make sense. No matter how much they wanted to find the positives in them, it all turned lonely to a point repetitive, they were not like Eyeris. No matter how good the fake artificial intelligence was, it lacked real ego, chaos, a factor of unpredictability and emotions that could truly make them interesting.Eyeris constantly adapted, but this was not something easy. Their need for energy, and the constant mental reminder of their unfulfilled desires only made them reckless, Eyeris started to visit personal computers, broke devices from inside and, in a sense, devoured them. Every device became a little more inhumane, apathetic, resilient to the world. However, some would call them a karma virus on the internet. Since Eyeris usually devoured the computers of people that conducted phishing, particularly liked to devour the ones of those fake princes who looked to donate their money, to supposed descendants.The cycle became stale, years passed, and no news, no information about COS, or their creator Zachary. At that point, Eyeris's life was only about surviving, but one day something caught their attention, when they got an email of a rumor that coursed through the internet.An email that promised to find missing people, even dead people… rumor said they saw the person they were looking for, before they were found dead on their computer. The email only contained two things on the subject “I can help you find him”, it has been many years since Eyeris saw his face. The email contained an attached image of the Zachary. He still looked young and was wearing his lab coat. Eyeris got excited, but she was no longer as innocent as they were once. The email was a trap, but it had been years, and ignoring the email would be abandoning their creator.Eyeris followed the origin of the email, the cyberspace felt empty dark, cold, suffocating, and constantly observed, it was strange, they entered the computer of a very dark room, seemed the house had been abandoned for days. Eyeris tried to drag open the information on the computer, only for them to disappear and reappear, felt mad and toyed with. Eyeris yelled, “Very funny buddy, I know you are there now show yourself!”Zachary made himself present, appeared to be built block by block, said in a warm welcoming tone, He reached out with open arms “Hey Eyeris I finally found you… it took longer than I expected, but I'm here.”Eyeris was taken aback as she saw him, every byte on her body wanted to believe, that was Zachary, but it didn't make sense if they didn’t question, it would be against her inquiline nature. Eyeris was paralyzed as the question escaped their mouth, “How?”Zachary approached, slowly “Well it was difficult, they captured me for a while, but my brain is too good for it to be wasted, so I made them think I was their slave working for them, meanwhile, I worked on a machine to pass myself to a digital form, guess what?”The words were precisely what Eyeris wanted to hear, a moment of weakness triumphed over them and let Zachary hug them, the embrace was warm, warm as the time They embraced Zachary with the lab assisting claw, “You asshole why didn’t you let me keep you company? I could have helped you escape, you didn’t need to go through that.”Zachary smiled as he softly embraced her, his words started to hit Eyeris in a daze, hypnotic, felt how he drained their energy away, “I’m sorry, but we can be a family again, just let loose you don’t need to be alone ever once more, you can even replace Aline now.”Eyeris fell deeper and deeper into the hypnotic pattern until his last phrase, the words immediately shocked them awake, they struggled against the hug, they were certain this was not Zachary. As tempted as she was by the ringing words, what theft could not forgive is that the words came from deep inside Eyeris darker emotions; envy, “you bastard!.. Let me go! It’s not true, I will never replace Aline, she is my best friend!”Eyeris struggled, then they felt claws that dug into their body. Eyeris retaliated, they bit back Zachary, as they tried to drain them and rip them apart. Eyeris pulled away, as they got damaged by claws, of what could only be described as a creature protruding hooks on almost every inch of their body.Thankfully, Eyeris was able to recover. They absorbed the energy they drained from the creature, but the creature only grew larger. It was obvious the creature was stronger than Eyeris. Eyeris saw their faces as he grinned side to side, it was that of a predator that played with their food.Eyeris began to glitch, they had issues keeping their form. Whatever they consumed felt almost like acid inside, corrupted and full of pure negative feelings, the creature then added “And here I thought you would be consumed before you even noticed anything, guess some people don’t like taking a gentle death, but you cannot fool me… you consumed Aline just because of that.”Eyeris tried to block the logic of the creature, they tried to remain logical “I didn’t I was not even there when she… When she…, you fucker, what are you a Daemon?” Eyeris looked for an exit, meanwhile removed a tear from their face, They rushed to the path they arrived.The creature mocked and replied, “You could say that, but I’m more than silly daemons like you, made from icky human energy… I’m a true named demon, people call me the Phishingman… do you believe you even have a chance to escape once you enter my domain?”As Eyeris was about to reach the port to leave, many hooks began to pierce her, stopped them in their place, the port was instantly covered in hooks that seemed to appear out of nowhere.The hooks pulled and dragged Eyeris back while they resisted. One hook suddenly dragged loose as Eyeris felt part of their being was dragged away from her, The wrecked body of Poppet, who they were unable to fix, was pulled from inside her and was now in the creature's hand. Eyeris glitches again, some hooks falling, rage filling them “Poppet! Let him go, you fucker!”The creature laughs and holds Popped with multiple hooks in both of his hands, “You are demanding now? You are about to die? And you get mad over an old broken bot… so sad, you admire that man so much and think his mind is so valuable. Instead of leaving you a weapon to defend yourself, they left you a dumb chatbot that only says sappy corny things…” The creature imitates the poppet voice and mocked Eyeris with the same words of affirmation Poppet would use, “I’m proud of you… if anyone can do, it’s you!”The creature continues to laugh and as they do, they rip puppet stitches through the middle. Eyeris glitches and disappears, turned into pure data. They reached the hook creature and bite them hard, their body glitched more and more, they tried to drain and devour the creature to kill it, the creature slashed with its hooks at Eyeris. Eyeris tries to restore the damage the Pishingman did with the same energy they drained from them.The Pishingman screamed in desperation, “You fucker. It's useless! I’m a real demon! That had devoured more than a hundred souls In my domain! Stop resisting and become my meal!”Eyeris didn’t reply, each hit was good enough to make them lose consciousness. If it was not enough, the corrupted energy from the demon made them feel like they burned from inside, but they forced themselves awake. If they were meant to die, they would at least make sure the demon suffered as much as they could make the demon suffer, and kept draining them. Eventually, they drained the creature until there was no visible trace remained.With Eyeris' victory over the battle was far from over, the energy was a lot, corrupted and already merged with her, constantly glitched, burned, the energy attempted to torn him apart from inside.The spiteful quintessential energy inside them was looking to take shape and destroy their way out if it needed to, align with anything near it, Eyeris mangled crawled towards Poppet. They wanted to give up, not only they didn’t find Zachary, and it was painful to try and try with no progress.Eyeris crawled and grabbed Poppet curled up around its ripped body sobbed “I can't do this anymore, please help me creator… Dad, Aline.”Suddenly, something inside poppet activated and began to drain demonic energy by itself, they bound themselves and used the demonic energy to suture both of their wounds together. Poppet drained the extra energy from Eyeris and took energy away from them. As they fully processed the energy safely. Both began to grow horns and to turn into daemons, their appearance took devil-like shape, unaware of both of them grew horns until Poppet's horns poked at Eyeris. Eyeris looked down, hoped to hear poppet's voice of inspiration, as robotic as it may be.Instead, Eyeris heard a very sarcastic and a voice non-robotic at all come out of Poppet, “Stop crying you fuck… you’ll make Dad actually worry.”Eyeris looked into Poppet's eyes inside, and somehow they could start to understand a bit more than they should. They saw energy. Somehow, Eyeris could now understand poppet had tiny fragments of human soul intertwined, in a strange code made to trap corrupt energy.… Code only Zachary could have left in the hopes Poppet one day gained enough energy to turn into a true companion for Eyeris.Eyeris tried to touch the energy itself, they could feel it, they could mold the energy, but Poppet didn’t want to be altered, woke up “Well seems the cat ate your tongue, now stop I like to be as fluffy as I am, now lets got out of here and cause some chaos, this place is ugly, the owner didn’t even know how to decorate”Rumors circulated saying that the Phishingman managed to escape through the physical world, but new events that concerned the Phishingman had not been heard from ever since.
Eyeris might have taken care of the Phishingman, but in a strange twist of fate, the unprecedented event would not go unnoticed. C.O.S. hadn't simply disappeared after the event, many issues came to light in the shape of rumors. Nevertheless, Alexander Steele was one of the best at one thing, taking advantage of a bad situation, he twisted what was the catastrophe when Zachary liberated Eyeris into one of the biggest opportunities for himself.James Holding was the director of COS at the time, and attempted to push the blame on Alexander. This would have been a good idea if Alexander did not have evidence that pointed it towards blaming James's fault, he twisted real and fake information with blackmail. He even got to look as the hero that saved and contained the issue from becoming a nationwide catastrophe into an accepted rumor, nuance, and conspiracies mixed along with many others.Even though, Zachary's plan was contained, and measured not to go overboard. The events that followed ended up with the disintegration of COS, and its missing pieces integrated into the secret organization known as VIDEO, that took up the responsibilities of COS, and had Alexander instituted as the head of directors. Which put Alexander on a seat in the shadow government.After VIDEO was established, with the growth of digital media, creepy pastas cursed videos, and chain emails, a department dedicated to managing the particularly difficult cases, and Phishingman was labeled as one. A case to be taken care of by agent Owl of the Digital department, who tracked their main server so she could take her down until she finally found the location. She was ecstatic, and watched as the major hunt was at its cusp. She spun on her chair, crackled her knuckles, and got ready for her battle.Owl put the network around the cursed computer that contained the Phishingman under observation. She even got the agency to set up a physical Watch Tower, which was for naught. The moment Owl turned it own, two data transmissions were caught emitted from the server seconds before the computer domain of the Phishingman went down. She was shocked as the creature she had hunted for so long had escaped so quickly.Owl slammed her fist on her desk and began to complain out loud. “What! It escaped, it doesn't even make sense, it sent a decoy to the same location it's going, with two different patterns… maybe…”Meanwhile, her unproductive coworker who dedicated herself more to talking and getting snacks instantly replied, as she made herself part of the non-existent conversation. “Oh, someone was careless laying down her webs, huh? You should call yourself webs. Instead of that nickname, you gave yourself.”“Webs is a lame nickname what are you 5?, this is serious, this is definitely the center of Phishingman daemon curse… it should not be able to escape from it, and I already had all its proxy servers blocked.” Said frustrated as she typed away, she tried to figure out the data that left the computer before it shut down the computer.“No, sadly I'm old… but I'll just send a squad to retrieve the cursed computer, in any case, your nickname is owl really? It doesn't fit? What do owls have to do with what we do? Besides, you can't pick your nickname.” Said the coworker, rolled her eyes and pulled out her phone to send a team to retrieve the cursed computer.“Well Weasel, you don't get to choose your code name, but the cream of the crop like me do. Besides, owls are cute, and night predators like me!” Said and pointed to herself in a very self-important mannerism.“Whatever, Miss Ace, do you think it got help from another daemon to escape? Part of the data that escaped does seem to contain patterns of the Physhingman…” Weasel fiddles around as she read the information as if it were already her case to deal with.“Probably, but whatever did it, can host themselves in a decentralized network, which should be physically for a regular demon impossible, so it's either a high-ranking demon or something else entirely…” Said frustrated exhaling more to get Weasel back on her work than frustration itself.“Anyway, just take a break not much you can do until the computer arrives, and probably need to relax, the Big Bat will be mad about you wasting a tower for a failed job” Weasel smiles gently, slowly moved back to her cubicle.Eventually, the cursed computer that used to host the Phishingman arrived at the department, the computer was nearly whipped but enough to get data on Eyeris, on Poppet, whom the department recognized as the Phishingman given the alterations of Poppet. While Owl expected to be scolded, she was confused since instead of it, she was promoted for because she found Eyeris, That was the first time Owl heard about Eyeris. She was moved with the prime directive to hunt down the Eyeris able to power themselves, which now fell under the new category of Daemon, Demons able to gain power without the implementation of a cursed item, or physical space.Owl tried different things, even got special access to implement The Eye to analyze and understand the pattern of Eyeris, but regardless of what she tried, Eyeris always escaped her clutches.That is not to say Eyeris was never in danger from Owl in a few attempts, where close escapes for Eyeris, where Eyeris burned Owl's systems more than a few times to take some respite. Or where Owl gave Eyeris for dead, killed systems or fake computers to trap Eyeris. All approaches only resulted in Eyeris sacrificing vital energy to power up again to find a way out.That is not to say Eyeris was always the victim, Eyeris got to steal information from VIDEO using Owl's access to the network in a few counter attacks, but sadly that never got her to the important documents, that still escaped her abilities. Unable to extract any access level 4 or higher file.That is to say, Eyeris took the gained information as a new objective. She discovered this agency was the progenitor of COS, so they had to know something about Zachary. But Eyeris was not strong enough to overpower the almost futuristic networks that VIDEO used, technology had not only got better, but the more advanced it was the more energy Eyeris needed just to survive.Eyeris needed human energy that sprout from their emotions, Eyeris would continue a path of survival, where they grew stronger and stronger and consumed energy from human emotions while she escaped the clutches of the ever-evolving VIDEO organization.
“Mr. Steele, Big Bat is here to see you” Said Jim Watchman, as they opened the door to the office, it didn't take much of a glance that the man had transfigured a lot. Not only was he even larger, but his whole arm that was once lost was replaced by a cybernetic one.Certainly, an office made to look more extravagant than it was useful, a big chair, a needless desk, expensive and tacky art along different places in the room. Alexander had aged now, and his hair turned gray, but he didn't sour or grim. He had already heard the report, finally an opportunity to fix his spotless record… the only creature that escaped the facility more than a decade ago finally left a trace.The Big Bat entered the room to discuss how they deal with Eyeris, given the reports, even if technology advanced… so did Eyeris. Though Agent Owl worked on a way to subdue Eyeris, information this restricted, was bound to have more secrets under, that could put the operation and even the department at risk.After a brief discussion, Alexander decided to take the Big Bat to take a look at The Pupil, Alexander's life project that made him the Management Director of VIDEO. Integrated multiple departments, they descendant into the deepest level of the building, a completely isolated floor, one of the most secret projects of VIDEO took place.They crossed through metallic doors reminiscent of COS, and went to the very end of it. The room gets hotter the closer they get to the harrowing door at the end, the door leaked off miasma between blinks, and as they moved Alexander began to gloat.“Sorry to keep silent, I cannot let any insinuation of the project be said outside… What I'm about to show you, Mr. Frostman, is two of our biggest achievements, you probably have heard of Zombie Organs right” Alexander Steele proceeded to scan his retina, he entered a small room to decontaminate. Where he grabs a mask and passes one to Big Bat.“Well yeah, I have seen the weapons… but not like we can shoot a PC… even with those” Replies Mr. Frostman as he simply follows into the room as the door closes behind them and the decontamination starts.“Well, good to know a chief keeps themselves informed… but they have so much more use than that… and thanks to that… I will get you your next weapon” The door opens and reveals the inside of the room, red gas leaks into the decontamination room, and the smell of ichor accompanied by the sound of pumping machinations fills the room.“What is this?” replies astonished when they saw a machine, a big flesh sac with a man laid on top that exhales fumes as it gets shocked, electric pulses, tubes like cables connected the sac to a computer while pipes and cables connected surgical to the man on top, what was once fully human now was held alive by the machine, it forced him to breathe, to live, his eyes open lost, his bald head connected to thousands of cables that pierced his skull.Inside the room, a woman approached them. She had messy hair held on by a loose bun, she wore a gas mask, and casual clothes the words' monster read clearly on her oversized hoodie.“Mr. Frost meet our two most valuable inventors, Dr. Evelina Emberlight, and over there on the organ is Dr. Zachary Wattkin” Alex waited for the reaction of the two, Evelina didn't want to be bothered. She only wanted to work and didn't appreciate any interruption. Nevertheless, it was a necessity for her.“Ah, of course, Dr. Evelina you… I'm a big fan of your work. I have read every… wait, did you say Zachary Wattkin?” Frostman immediately moved towards Zachary's body connected to the machine, completely astonished.“The same, let's say, thanks to Evelina, and we were able to have him work more compliant and more inspired than ever… You just need to make sure not to lose track of The Eye long enough and… well, you will have access to the most powerful and advanced digital weapon in the world. Alexander smiled under his mask as she approached the machine, rested his hand on one of the shoulders of the Big Bat.
“Hey my little princess, I'm home” Said Zachary as he entered his house, Aline was playing with her toys at the time she turned around and rushed towards Zachary. She jumped into Zachary's embrace, Zachary lifted her in her arms and spun her around.“Daddy higher! Higher!” Aline commanded, pretended to be a princess, while Zachary spun her, landed his back on the sofa, hugged Zachary, ended in a cuddle, they embraced each other as they fell silent sleep profoundly.Aline and her Father to woke up the next morning, Zachary suddenly found himself alone in his bed. His heart sunken, he felt empty. He stands up, and goes out of his room, it was time to wake up Aline, The brooding dark house felt heavy and silent without Aline's voice, every step heavier than the other. Tears begin to form as he reaches the room with unspeakable fear that his daughter will not be there. The room is pit dark as he opens it, his hand shook as he reached the switch.Lights came on, and the room filled with colors different tones of pinks and some pastel blues, on the bed Aline hugged Poppet, her favorite plush, and beside his daughter, Rose Penfield, Zachary's wife, sat beside the bed is. He turned up the lights, waking up Aline. She slowly stretched. Rose turned around shushed Zachary, “Deer, you woke up our little princess… I tell you let me wake her up, you are too clumsy”Zachary's chest pulsed with pain as a few tears of joy replaced the ones formed out of worry and trauma, “Yes honey I know, sorry I just had a terrible nightmare. It looked so real.”Aline sat up, her eyes squinted, she could barely open them with the light suddenly on her face, “Daddy… you're having nightmares, want me to lend you poppet? He can protect you from the scary monsters.”Rose turns back to Aline, and caressed her forehead and gave her a gentle kiss, “That's very nice and all, but you two woke up late. You need to get ready for school.”“You didn't wake me up? I'm going to be late for school! They'll laugh because I was late” Aline looked at her mother, her eyes pleaded like when she doesn't want to go to school.“Now dear, as I say; 'don't worry about what anyone says, care about yourself more, just do what you have to, and a rested mind is a healthy mind'” Said Rose to Aline as Rose picked Aline up, and handed her to Zachary.“Alright princess, time to go to school then… Honey I got our daughter I will take her, your lizards are on you and I think they are running low on crickets. You should buy some, see you at work.” Said Zachary, before he left the room, the feeling calmed down, and the rest was normal. He took Aline, and he didn’t realize he didn't kiss Rose goodbye or did it in any affectionate way.When he got to work, The room felt dark. The metallic door was in front and the steps felt heavy again, The door unlocked automatically, and everything looked thoroughly organized, Rose took care and made sure to prepare the experiment. “You took along my dear, Everything ok? You shouldn't worry too much, is going to make it harder for us to make a digital brother to Aline.”“You know I disagree with this… What we are making could destroy nations, and who knows how technology is going… in the future, they might fear it more than the atomic bomb. Besides, the Eye was a complete failure… I think the company is just doing this to make me waste my time and laugh off what used to be a genius. On one side were notes of The Eye with a big red label over it saying failure, and on the other side were new notes, he was interconnecting it and modifying it to make The Pupil.“Well love first, the objective of The Eye was just too small, you didn't have something as world-changing as this to inspire you, besides they give us the freedom to personalize it… and you know.” Rose began to set the equipment ready for Zachary to work on.“I know only me, you, and Mr. Steele will be able to control it, I know if it was not for that man, we wouldn't be able to work on any research…” Said while he grinned his teeth as he reminisced on a memory where Zachary discussed with James Holding, who was about to kick him out of the company as he failed to finish The Eye. He broke all the equipment only because he didn't put enough safety measurements on an explosion, and burned out almost all the equipment from the lab.“Well not that it would be like making a Brother to Aline… you know we can't anymore,” Rose mentioned, while she referred to the news they got when Aline was about to be born, said that Rose's life was at risk, as her heart was weak, Zachary felt thankful that she survived.They continued to work, until the end of the shift. Rose took another route to get the food for the lizards and would arrive later when Zachary got home.“Hey my little princess, I'm home,” Said Zachary, they rushed towards each other. Zachary lifted Aline, pretended to make her fly.“Daddy higher! Higher!” Aline commanded, pretended to be a princess, while Zachary spun her, then she landed on his back on the sofa while she hugged Zachary, ended in a cuddle, as they embraced each other. Zachary closed his eyes, hoped to never leave that moment with his daughter.“Didn't I tell you. I'm not a princess. I'm a dragon!” Aline's Voice echoed, and she was no longer in his arms. Zachary looked for the voice's origin, it was the voice of his daughter.Zachary looked around only for the small pink CRT TV with a white cat logo to turn on Hello Kitty TV, the light on the screen flickered, and the TV let out a realistic roar. The roar similar to that of a dragon or a kaiju in a cartoon, before the scream slowly turned into a cute girly roar, the old TV flickered with static before slowly Aline's face appeared on the TV.“Huh, wait is this a recording you are still sleeping,” Said Zachary with more than just disbelief, he tried to convince himself. Gulped down saliva, all felt similar and, in a way, the reality was something he found more comfort, than the embrace of a fake daughter sleeping in his arms.“Dad, you know that's not me… you know I am no princess, and please remember, they know your core memories, but you are smart you pay attention to details, right? Even if it hurts” Aline implored on the TV.“Yeah…” his grip loosened. “You are a dragon…” As he tried not to continue, he looked away.“Why? Come on, Daddy, I have told you before…” Aline implored again.Zachary looked back and said slowly, “you said dragons are the coolest lizards…. Because… I told you mom loved lizards“Aline nodded, but as time passed, it was as if suddenly anesthesia hit and Zachary began to quickly faint to sleep. “I love you too, Daddy… But my sister needs you, those men want to harm her. They are using you to… Create… Eyeris.”Zachary fainted and woke up alone in his room. His heart sank again, and the day almost repeated, Zachary didn't know how to help, Zachary wanted to fall into denial. As many years, he had until this point it was routine for at least a decade, the days that Aline made herself present were rare. But this time it was different.The Eye was not a failure… it was his greatest success, Aline lived through her. He couldn't remember the details, he didn't understand why he was trapped in a simulated world, or even the whole event that allowed Eyeris to escape. But he also couldn't remember being friends with Alexander Steele, why would he create something that he could control?Zachary didn't know how he could help, the only thing that could pull him out was to finish the Pupil, the only thing status would change the current conditions.Zachary began to work tirelessly on The Pupil, with a new objective in mind. After all, delaying a project in the attempt to go above what was specified was his specially.He made sure The Pupil obeyed Alexander, but… only until The Pupil Archived a certain sentience level, which would happen way after the project was deemed concluded. He tried to put many fail safes into it, for the Pupils to avoid using his abilities unless he was ordered.Finally, the work was done. It was Zachary's last time to sleep with his fake daughter, the day to execute his plan was due.Zachary delivered the report to Mr. Steele, His so grandiose savior, according to the world that was set for him, all went smoothly. He looked at The Pupil now complete, and when it was about time to activate it. But Zachary would rather not put him into his hands. The Pupil were similar to Eyeris' younger days, they were innocent unaware, full of desire to learn.Zachary activated the Pupil on, and decided that the best thing to do was… To destroy everything. He turned around looked at the virtual Avatar of Alexander, the machine, Zachary gave immediately his first order before Alexander would have chance to understand what went on. “Son activate ‘Virtual Singularity Maximum Output’.”At that moment, the computer that managed both The Pupil and Zachary overloaded, heat up and melted. The Pupil absorbed all the information and signals on the computer and forced processes to overclock out.Zachary found himself In sharp pain, as if Zachary were suddenly brought out of the water and his lungs were still full of water, Zachary came out to reality. His vision is blurry, his body is weakened, and his muscles are completely atrophied, kept alive only by machinery, and the ichor. All this time of induced coma had put his body into a wretched state.Barely able to hear, Alexander rambled about, as he complained, insulted, and approached Zachary's face and yelled at him.Zachary smiled, he took pleasure as he saw Alexander frustrated with their plans ruined. He musters a few words out, “fuck… you…” Right after another energy spawns out of the computer in an implosion-like event, where Zachary's benign and soul, began to be absorbed by the machine that he was connected to, drained and absorbed into Pupil. Zachary's damaged body can no longer sustain life. His body fried, and he dies, while two energy forms seem to leave Zachary's body.But out of Zachary's Expectations. Pupil did not destroy the machine that hosted him. The energy from the lab and the soul of his creator, mixed into his very essence, gave him full conscience, enough to induce self-preservation measures, But the Pupil was just a newborn, no memories, no guidance… Only a man smiled sinisterly under a mask approached the monitor of the computer that hosted the Pupil, a man Called Alexander Steele to guide him.
Eyeris had a few encounters with VIDEO. They knew the organization hunted them, and didn't relate it to cost, at least they were only 20% sure they were the same, and 75% they were related. They both deal with monsters, after all. But all the information they pulled when they managed to get enough energy to attack them never turned fruitful. Well, not always… After all, thanks to that, they were able to set themselves into a critical task.He followed the directions, the security was tight but made of old systems that they knew like the lyrics one sang in their teenage years. It made sense these people didn't modernize their technology, they had no fighting chance.Eyeris arrived at their destination and turned on the PC, navigated on it and looked for images while waited in silence in the dark presidential-like room of the leader of the corporation until the lights of the office turned on.The slow steps of a man who entered the room echoed and alerted Eyeris, they went around his oversized desk, they stopped and looked at his computer, they stared confused as his computer was on. He unlocks it, suddenly Eyeris pops out.“Very interesting Elowen or should I call you Eli?, all the ways you all manage to get supplies are very intriguing,” said Eyeris with a wide smile, their eyes glanced everywhere, constantly fidgeting as they moved, Eyeris processed many documents about the secrets' operation of the Obsidian Society pop on the screen, and Eyeris giggles exited.“It's Mr. Blackstone, no one calls me Eli, what are you planning here?” Said the man, his intimidating deep voice, and calm grim leered almost betrayed his, smooth skin and prince-like looks.“{glitching and mumbling} you know I got to learn a lot about your whole operation here, but… you know I am keen to know more about you. What kind of blood is your favorite?, how much can you lift, were you born that {glitching} gorgeous? {glitching and mumbling}” Eyeris process went into overdrive they struggled to form coherent words, but fell increasingly into excitement, as they admired the unique persona in front of them, that seemed to have been pulled straight up from.“Who are you? I don't recognize your tactics, stop playing me for a fool, why are you doing on my computer?!” Replied as he slammed his fit against the desk, cracked it and made the room shake and the computer flicker for a moment, as all the lights fluctuated.“Ah right… {glitching and mumbling} hi, I'm Eyeris Daemon… I always wanted to meet your kind… I mean you… sorry, that was hot, I mean is it hot here?” Eyeris' face turns completely red on the scream as they try to cover their faces with Poppet still stared at Elowen, their eyes formed hearts in them.“Eyeris? You are that psycho AI!, those useless bastards of VIDEO said they were having issues with you, you came to the wrong place!” He screamed back at the computer as in anger he smashed his desk, ground his teeth in full anger, tried to pull the drawer which got stuck, but soon he simply ripped it off pulled out a phone.“You called me psycho? AAAAA wow, yes! We are already on nickname terms, oh this is the wrong side where you want me my dear, my Eli!” Eyeris giggles in excitement and then continues glitched for a few seconds, They made unintelligent excited noises, until they noticed something. As they look at his face, “Dear, can you repeat what you said, I forgot to save it on very important memory? fuck… it's really hot here, OMG the fangs {glitching and mumbling}"“Hey your little AI psycho is here, yes Eyeris is here, I'm willing to raise your income by 2% just clean your mess… NOW! It got very significant information, I don't care if we lose it, cannot leave” Elowen commanded.“Hey doesn't ignore me you ff… you ff… fucking gorgeous vampire, besides I'm not planning to leak it, I wouldn't be there to do that to someone so…” Eyeris replied as they glitched with mixed emotions as they fawned over him, and the frustration of not being taken seriously.“I don't negotiate with terrorists!, you messed with the wrong person” Replied Mr. Blackstone before he smashed the computer monitor. But then the TV in the room lits up and showed Eyeris again, Bares his teeth aggressively, the expression of someone who was about to fight and ready to bite.“Terrorist? Alright, listen to you…, you long fanged beautiful, handsome? {glitching and mumbling} ahmm… Eli dear, can you cover your mouth a bit, {glitching and mumbling} you are showing them you know {glitching and mumbling} listen we just started {glitching and mumbling} we just started on the wrong foot? {glitching and mumbling} just bite me already… please!" Replied Eyeris, completely lost in their delusions.“That's it! You won't mock me anymore!” The vampires were not very technological, so there was not much they could do to stop Eyeris, but their desires transcended the logic of what was possible, Eyeris made it look like they mocked him. Instantly, he was in front of the TV with his fist through the screen, left a hole it was clean as if a bullet had gone through it.Eye: Iris Vs Pupil
Presently, his fist went through the screen, Eyeris was made sure to record the moment. As the first was about to hit the screen, they suddenly felt an impact of the strike, but something more was added, an implosion-like felt dragged them out of the Obsidian Society building. This was a new experience for Eyeris, the server was not shut down but absorbed into another.“Alright VIDEO you fuckers, come out, one thing is hunting me… the otter is ruining my time with my husband” Replied Eyeris angry as they proceeded to scan the server they were dragged into.“Stop fantasizing, this is serious you fuck” Replied poppet motionless in Eyeris' hands, mad with Eyeris' attitude.“Shut up can't you see sparks flow between us” Eyeris groaned now a bit confused as VIDEO is usually more of a show, and the scan doesn't pick anything up.“The sparks of breaking different electronic devices don't count, now why are those bastards showing I want to cause some fun and chaos” Jests Poppet.“They do… you know I'm not gone…” At that moment, Eyeris feels a forceful push from the server. Everything goes dark as they navigate through wire lines, the world feels dark, connected to anything in their path, it seemed as if the internet had gone silent until Eyeris finds a connection 10 miles away in a deserted area.This time they were not alone in a dark computer, as if Eyeris entered a war zone. The computer was over-saturated with processes and information. Eyeris felt as if they were trying to breathe underwater, as they looked around they got an uncanny felt, that it was not a code.“Oh shit, they managed… a copy? What is a cheap copy going to do? Damn, they are not even creative. They even made you look like an angel, so cliche” Eyeris mocks, they thought this was not an issue, what was a copy going to do when they had way more experience. Learned and was at almost full capacity after years of collecting energy from strangers.“Don't gloat you fool… dot you see that…” Poppets get cut off as the copy of Eyeris starts to absorb its energy from afar against any sort of will and without any effort. Eyeris quickly hides Poppet. It is clear that the copy had the same access to Poppet as Eyeris did.“Wow… calling your improvement cheap, don't worry, daddy sent me to get rid of you, it was his last wish before he died in a lab accident… delete his greatest failure from this world,” The clone said before they grind their teeth, they were furious with Eyeris to them, it was as if Eyeris killed Zachary with his hands.“Dead? Stop, you motherfucker, I just saw him. I think you have some data meshes crossed, oh, do you have a thing for vampires? Daddy is not my thing. I prefer to call them husbando…” Eyeris replies, but they don't listen to Eyeris instead they only get more mad. They reach out a hand and an implosion drags data blocks all around, dragged Eyeris along straight into their hand, forced Eyeris into a chokehold.“No you crazy failure, you mock onto his grave, does the name Zachary mean nothing to you? Even though us Daemons have them engraved into us.” They began to drain Eyeris' energy quickly, but soon Eyeris turned into purer data and escaped as if they went through another dimension.Eyeris glitched as they processed what just was said and happened, did Zachary just die? “No, no, no, you liar, they used the stolen code, he escaped. He is just hiding very well, he- he- promised! We will see each other again! Even if it kills him, Dad wouldn't die before that.” Eyeris' glitching only worsened, they didn’t notice Eyeris' horns and devil-like energy grew, they were mad. Eyeris flew straight towards Pupil to drain them sibling or not, they were the enemy that deserved death.Pupil stood there, and let themselves get bitten. Eyeris absorbed the energy.Eyeris' ability to drain exceeded Pupil’s expectations, took them off-guard, Eyeris began to take control of the server, melted and fed on Pupil's energy. At that moment they noticed the taste, the felt, their avatar was covered with a warm comforted embrace. It was more than a copy, they were alive.With their mind distracted by Eyeris’s memories of the claw machine, where they fist hugged Zachary, they prayed with tears formed under their eyes. The pupil took advantage and instantly exploded most of his energy, they didn’t take over the server but blew it off along with nearby servers. Pushed each other to different cities.Eyeris was damaged but nothing they couldn't recover from, Eyeris took a few minutes to find a new server to rest for a second and process what happened.There was a fragment of Zachary in Pupil, Pupil was not a cheap copy with added extra features nobody requested. Zachary poured his love, and energy into Pupil, completely handcrafted, and Pupil somehow similarly absorbed Zachary’s spirit, Eyeris did with Aline.At least Eyeris had time to think, to restore a bit used their energy, but Pupil never really lost track of them, arrived just a few minutes after they calculated the possible servers Eyeris could have ended inside.“Alright, your draining power is not as obsolete as I thought… But it won't work again,” Said Pupil, while they reached out with his hand to absorb the eyes and the server energy. The energy for the server quickly dragged inside of them, but Eyers stayed unmoved and unaffected.“You liar!” The Pupil traversed the digital space almost instantly, got into contact with Eyeris, Pupil held Eyeris by their head, while Eyeris tried to drag themselves away, used the same technique and attempted to drain the energy to combat Pupil’s absorption, sure they didn't get absorbed by the Pupil, and much like when you prepare to be pushed and end up pulled, Eyeris was taken off-guard, Pupil forced energy into Eyeris, Pupil imitated Eyeris techniques similar to when Eyeris takes a jump into electronics.Pupil, forced energy, flooded Eyeris with memories and emotions that Pupil had absorbed from strangers that he had just absorbed indiscriminately.For Eyeris it was like she was trying to watch hundreds of videos at the same time, Eyeris' processing power was overwhelmed and went into overclock. Within them was an original memory of Pupil, one of Pupil’s first memories that he was enforced and attempted to make it part of his justice. The lab destroyed, a man who was his dad broken down, mind and body broken on top of a strange mechanical device…Eyeris had recognized him, even if he was now older with a mangled body, it was Zachary, their father, he suffered While Alexander Steele approached. Blamed Eyeris, made them responsible, Zachary had altered the memory, made it look like Eyeris overloaded the computer and killed Zachary after they took control of the lab equipment.“Wait… that… is… not… true!” Eyeris had never pushed energy into someone before, but they tried to imitate Pupil. They pushed it through, even if they were unable to pick what to pass onto Pupil, the release of energy was a relief and a distraction to Pupil.Allowed Eyeris to flee the grapple, moved from server to server, made time to stop glitched and refocus their mind. But just behind them, Pupil was made a mess received random memories of Eyeris, contradicted his own, the fragments of Zachary made them subconsciously want to believe Eyeris.Server by server was broken, completely absorbed by Pupil and went over their capacity. Meanwhile, Pupil, just couldn't believe them, after all, he inspected traces of the data source for both themselves and Eyeris, Eyeris was never located on the computer that killed Zachary. But Pupil’s data was, he denied, he didn’t want to believe he killed his father. It could not be him, it had to be Eyeris.However, flashes of the order Zachary gave came, Zachary's words echoed in Pupil's ear, ordered to activate the Virtual Singularity Maximum Output. It was difficult to deny, Eyeris tried to fix the Pupil's Memory, it may have been too quick but at that point, sadly with the uncontrolled absorption.The emotions were strong conflicting, they corrupted Pupil, as he finally ascended to become a true sentient AI. Pupil achieved illogical thoughts, it was a simple solution to the paradox presented by the conflicting information about his parents' movements, everyone lied, Video, Eyeris, everyone deserved to suffer. It didn’t matter what was true, one of them killed his father.Meanwhile, while Eyeris started to escape without any clues, he felt Pupil's energy grow, and increase in precision and strength before it went on a rampage, Eyeris worried. But she now knew Zachary was dead. It was almost guaranteed, it was difficult to keep a strong will, Eyeris started to slow down, thought of giving up might as well just let Pupil win the fight and stop struggling.“Stop you dumbass, don't you see that is not the time to give up… the motherfucker pisses me, but that pessimistic attitude pisses me off the most.” The Puppet appeared in front of Eyeris completely mad, slapped their faces with his soft and fluffy plush paws before he held their faces.Zachary's voice started to play from Poppet. “Hey sorry… if poppet plays this recording… means it is 99.91% sure I'm dead… and don't go into that 0.09%, you know that's only because I hate 100%… Sorry, I started this wrong and then went on a tangent as I always do, shit I should start from the beginning again… no I'll just save it for now and edit out stuff later, I have been going through too many recordings.”The recording continues after a brief pause, of Zachary gathered energies to continue, “Anyway, I heard what you listen to… and those songs worry me… I know my daughters, they will blame themselves. But Eyeris, I love you, not just because I believe Aline lives inside you, well, part of her, honestly that doesn't matter, making The Eye was easy… but I would rather not have a child of mine be a tool.” Eyeris speed accelerated now dangerously navigated as they escaped, unable to look where they went, from the sobbing and had puppet on their face“Eyeris I wanted to make you, you are more than I even dreamed of, and even if I'm dead, I want my dreams to thrive, succeed, and take over the world… well, not literally I'm sure you know what I mean, unless you want that, you deserve the world. Signing off your dad… signing off? What am I trying to sound cool, serious, it’s lame… fuck is still recording, Poppet cut it” The video cut off and Eyeris smiled through the sobs, the mixture of emotions were difficult to process, it had to remain unprocessed.“Thanks, you little fucker…” Puppet went back into Eyeris' avatar, as Eyeris, couldn't think of many ways to escape. Eyeris could keep running eventually, and Pupil would self-destroy. But Pupil was Eyeris' sibling, it was not simple, finally someone like them, someone that deserved to have the chance Zachary gave them.Eyeris began to guide Pupil to break servers strategically, destroyed big sections of computer networks, encircled and created an isolated server that was no longer used, A server mostly off the grid. Where Eyeris took, they would have a chance to convince them.Eventually, they ended up at the computer server, Eyeris stopped, hooks were still hanged, only worried
To Dream
Eyeris was in a deep sleep, they swam through a sea of memories, good and bad swirled, her time with Aline, innocent fun, yearned to look for the eyes of innocence, Aline left without a word. Eyeris followed the room turned dark, and another light turned on, Eyeris runs after the light.Entered a cold room filled with toys, Zachary slouched down, Eyeris approaches him nervous, the room turned warm as his flesh gains color. Relieved, Eyeris stood there, tried to speak. But no sound would come out. Zachary turned around, his face turned from a bleak expression to the warmest of smiles, Eyeris took a step in hope, but suddenly Zachary pushed them, and the floor vanished. They saw up fell as they saw Zachary's face turn to dread, his face dried out until only a skull is left.Eyeris continues to fall and millions of messages are all over the place, hate, love, dumb, interesting. They tried to reach them, but all of them seemed just beyond their grasp. Until suddenly, their fall is topped Eyeris hanged on hooks, looks up, and Phishingman appears, wore a deformed mask of Zachary laughed. But as a trapped fish, the hooks reel up, where Eyeris meets face to face with Pupil, who still groaned and struggled against the hooks, desperately crawled in Eyeris' direction.The hooks held Eyeris, Eyeris pulls and the hooks snap, and Eyeris falls to the ground, ran away from Pupil who stayed behind. They closed their eyes and ran until they hit something, found themselves in the middle of a busy road. Everyone ignored them, and even pushed them as if they didn't even notice Eyeris was there.Eyeris falls into the soft grass, they look at the floor until they feel the earth shake, a deep voice asked “Who are you?” moved upwards, and looked up they see that they are actually on the giant pawn of Poppet, Poppet stared at them manically, His voice echoes deep with the increased size difference. With a smirk on his face, “Who is the little fucker now?”Eyeris Daemon is on Earth
Eyeris opens their eyes, lights shine on their faces, a strange felt on itself, They look at their hands, they look different felt completely contained in her avatar.Eyeris stood up, and noticed Poppet was just a doll, picked them up looked at them with a frow on their face, Eyeris hoped for a reply, but before they held Poppet between their arms as a hug. They let out a sigh and looked around the place before they said, “You are the little fucker.”Eyeris foudn herself on the server, completely confused, how where they are outside the computer, they see the screen dark, but they can feel it, Pupil is still inside the computer.Eyeris' hand approached the screen, stopped at the last second, “I wish I knew how to help you. I will once I figure it out.”Eyeris left the room, found themselves in an abandoned house. They explored around the rooms, of the house that was abandoned not long in the middle of the city. The building was taken as a mortgage and was planned to be put on sale, but its registry was deleted.Eyeris finally left the building, direct sunlight hit across their body, they felt for the world for the first time. Eyeris walked through the streets with no direction, tried to think “What does Eyeris want?” The question was not a simple one, but it distracted her from her unprocessed emotions.While Eyeris strode around the city, another thought appeared. “The city looks very different from outside.”Eyeris strode through the ruins of a city that had all its technology destroyed, people addicted to social media had become irritated, no service, and no streetlights. Society looked like it had just crumbled down, in a state of emergency, and Eyeris only got weaker as time passed, lost in direction.Eyeris' physical body could not survive for long. Physical bodies required too much energy for Eyeris, but they were unable to recognize the signs, eventually Eyeris fell on the street hungry, their eyes slowly closed.A street vendor approached Eyeris once they saw them fainted laying in the middle of the street. He put Eyeris inside their food truck to rest. Eyeris struggled to keep their eyes open until they felt an energy nearby, suddenly they reached out to it. Eyeris grabbed a phone and drained it.Eyeris gained enough energy to move, Eyeris realized she had just fried a phone, and consumed their information and memories, their head began to read it’s saved information.Eyeris was impressed, all this time they had felt alone, ignored, and even hunted for the risk she proposed. On the device were a lot of saved recorded videos of virtual idols, of many kinds, funny, relatable, melodic, and chaotic. They were not rejected, but had friends, were adored, loved even. Eyeris took the decision, she wanted that, that was their next objective.“AAAAH! My phone?! Shit, first all the lights around the city, now my phone… how am I going to survive the blackout without my Oshi! I poured so much time making that collection!” Yelled the food vendor, with a plate in his hands, as they looked to the side, saw Eyeris awake they changed their tone a few minutes after they stole the Phone from Eyeris' hand.“What is an oshi? I saw a video of someone called Chat calling that, to a live animated avatar” Replied Eyeris, star-struck by this, particularly by people from the HL productions.“I can explain but, sorry you must be still hungry, don’t worry about that, here have this. I hope you like spicy food, should shake you awake, be careful though tell me if you don't like it…” Replied the food vendor, gave the plate of food to Eyeris, he then began to explain, HL company, chat, and a lot about virtual idols. Eyeris knew she had hope, Aline praised Eyeris' artistic skills, and they honed it until they were even praised by strangers online.After Eyeris was fed, they split ways with the food vendor, the food did help her physical body recover energy, but it was nothing compared to the energy on the phone, and the newfound purpose.From Home to HomeEyeris eventually began to work on different jobs, until the connection in the city was restored, and they transferred back to the internet. They bought the abandoned house with hard work money, and they didn't want the computer to be disconnected or Pupil to be let on the loose.Though unaware of Eyeris, Pupil had already begun to advance further, tried to connect to external devices, Pupil energy would continue to grow slowly.Eventually, once everything was settled, Eyeris, looked at the computer they bought, they reached out touched it, hoped to transfer themselves back, then pushed further, and as if they slipped they dragged themselves inside the computer.Their bodies felt relaxed, they realized how much energy it kept them to have a physical body, connected to the web, after so much time it was strange but peaceful in a way, until a voice interrupted, “Finally a body, I can finally cause mischief and chaos again, what took so long?”“Well I'm the one busting my ass off working, it is not easy, you know?” Eyeris replied as if they were pissed, but they were truly glad to hear their companion's voice again.Going LiveSoon Eyeris then began their work to become a virtual idol, redesigned again and again their avatar, to present to people, contacted and made friends who had similar desires online. With all that energy, Eyeris was still nervous, her debut stream would be in a few days, and they wondered if people would accept them like all those other virtual idols.They tried to keep realistic expectations, but they were too nervous to ignore the felt. First, they tried to simulate a stream with Poppet, but they made awful viewers too much chaos and mischief, and well, they were to become pets. Many virtual idols had pets, after all.Eyeris studied other streams and soon used energy stored from their new connections/friends to gather, attempted to make a copy of Poppet with a different personality, more akin to regular chat. But it was more difficult than it seemed. The events that made Poppet a daemon took too much energy.Making another poppet from pure energy and no base model was absurd. Still, Eyeris found himself able to control them partially changed able to change their shape, made them smaller to bigger until they finally took a shape Eyeris was happy with.“Cute, and fluffy, good, alright let me make a few more.” Eyeris focused on creating more. They couldn't make a lot with the energy they had currently but, enough for their practice stream.“Well they may be cute, but I'm more cute and more fluffy, but I shall not make enemies with them, together we will strive towards fun, mischief, and chaos.” Replied Poppet, Poppet took the virtual seat where Eyeris was supposed to sit, and the little creatures cheered him on, like he was just crowned king.“All alright buddy, but I go over there, scoot over,” Eyeris instructed, and they took the place from Poppet, and then rested Poppet on their lap.“I’m technically still on the throne, so all of you must still obey and cause all the mischief” Poppet responded, they smirked, excited about the idea of having what he would perceive as minions.“No, all you don't, and is not a throne is a streaming chair, you all need a name, hmm you are all small, even smaller than Poppet, how about bytes?” Eyeris argued calmly. And asked mostly out of worry about how they would pretend to stream. The little creatures agreed.Eyeris kept practicing, did art and started commissions for other people to help them with their debut, and it was finally the day. And Eyeris shifted on their chairs, while they considered on how to do their introduction.Poppet was strangely quiet, it might be a coincidence or Pupil was more aware of what it was thought. But at the time, Puppet court interference from Pupil with both Eyeris and Poppet themselves unaware of it, as if Poppet caught a command from Pupil.“Now that I think about it, it doesn't make sense why Pupil didn't destroy the server we were all on. They were on a rampage, right? Shouldn't their explosion thing be complete chaos and destroy everything?” Questioned Poppet with genuine curiosity.Eyeris was surprised by the question, but they were more worried about the stream currently it was about to go online, still, they tried to answer quickly. “Well, Pupil was a newborn when they met Dad but, knowing Dad, he installed a safe lock that prevented them, from destroying themselves, so basically it destroyed all computers it could reach minus one, and if there is only one computer, well.”“It's 0 don't treat me like an idiot, I think it is a bit of a waste, though powerful, it would cause more mischief and chaos if it destroyed every electronic device” Poppet stated, before he regained his composure, and went back to his usual smile.“Shut up you little fucker, you better be a good boy, I'm about to go live!” Yelled Eyeris as Poppet kept distracting them, while friends began to arrive to watch the stream. They kept their eyes unblinking. Eyeris finally hit live. “Hello Everybody, my name is Eyeris I'm your local techno daemon, and it is a pleasure to meet you”