Intelligence Program Delta

OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Anarin
Contact: anarin
Other characters: The Vision (DF AU) 
DF Alum: Y

IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Delta
Character journal: alaspooryork
Series name: Red vs Blue
Canon notes: Delta's canon point is Season 6, chapter 8, while his host is unconscious. He is coming in from the game sanctums, a sci-fi horror game set in a domed city on a dying planet, the last known bastion of civilization in the zombie apocalypse. In the Sanctum, he was trapped inside a human body on arrival and has been slowly trying to get used to it ever since. More detail in the History section.
Species: AI, but currently stuck in a human body.
Age: About 5 (typical smart AI lifespan is 7)

Arrival Condition: Uninjured, no diseases. Luckily for everyone else, he was never exposed to the dysthrophy virus.

History: This is his wiki entry. Delta lives in a spinoff of the Halo universe. He comes from the mid-26th century during the first year after the Human-Covenant War as part of Project Freelancer. Specifically, he is an AI, a fragment of a smart AI. Due to extensive torture, the Alpha AI was fragmented into several aspects and then rebuilt by an Engineer. Because of this, Delta shares several characteristics of a full smart AI such as adaptability, but because he is a logic fragment his understanding and ability to express other emotions is limited. His exact age is unknown but an estimate based on the vague timeline of the canon, but unlike a full smart AI, Delta is not subject to rampancy.

Delta was assigned to a human partner, Freelancer York, and came to work closely with the man both during and after the Project. Although the project was designed and the AI created with the intention of winning a war humanity had been losing for decades, the intense focus on interpersonal competitiveness and sidetracking into the Director's own pet interests meant they spent more time fighting each other than the external threats. Because they realized the Project was doing more harm than good, Delta and York rebelled and left, living as fugitives rather than be involved. They were called in for a last assist on a mission by another Freelancer, Tex, during which York was killed and Delta shut down.

However, he had only gone into recovery mode, a low-power mode that encrypted him rather than destroying him (which was a violation of the Cole Protocol, but then, so were so many other things the Project did). He was recovered by Agent Washington and then implanted again, this time into Agent South Dakota, who subsequently betrayed Wash and ran off on her own. Forced by his override protocols to help her, he only assisted South to the bare minimum of his ability until she was in turn hunted down and killed by Wash. Finally, he was implanted in a simulation soldier, Caboose, until a strange creature known as the Meta shot Caboose down and stole Delta for itself. This is his canon point.

CRAU info: Rather than being taken by the Meta, Delta was pulled into a dystopian city set on the planet Zeus and contained in a dome, outside which a fearsome virus transformed the native population into terrible zombie-like monsters called dysthropes. As a last-ditch effort, the Bifrons corporation in the city Proles used their resources to bring in other denizens of the multiverse under the theory that fresh blood might provide a resistance to the virus. The Immune, as they were called, came from all places and times: some from twenty-first century Earth, some from his own twenty-sixth century human diaspora, and others from more distant worlds and times. Incensed that they had placed him in a human body (he would have been perfectly immune as an AI, but wrongly assumed they didn't have the technology to support his native form here), Delta was mollified to find his old partner York alive and well in Proles.

York helped Delta adjust to his new human body, but conditions inside the city were strained. Some other of his AI "siblings" arrived and were given human bodies of their own, and York's long-lost girlfriend Carolina was there as well - with whom Delta forged a true sibling bond. He forged strong connections with both other "Immune" and with native residents, which served him well when a memory-alteration glitch in the neural ports everyone was equipped with caused a split between himself and York. He found, to his surprise, that he could live perfectly well without York, and has developed a sense of independence.

Aside from the danger of space zombies, the ports implanted into the spines of the residents meant that Bifrons could rewrite memories, though the Immune were not always consistent in their reactions. After watching some violent personality changes in people he knew, Delta came to a strong dislike for the taste of honey (an infallible tag of memory alteration) and for the word "compliance", and if he never hears the phrase happiness is mandatory again it will be too soon. He also trends toward vegetarianism after a certain meaty meal was revealed to be made from people....

Physically, Delta looks suspiciously like Matthew Gray Gubler. There are Matrix-style ports along his spine, and he got a chip implanted into his brain as well. He has a glow-in-the-dark green tattoo with his canon's version of the FTL equation, a piece of knowledge he hung on to fiercely because the last place he was stuck in didn't have an equivalent - they'd lost contact with Earth when a terrorist group destroyed their local wormhole gate, a problem they could have solved in a matter of weeks instead of decades or centuries if they'd had the same tech as in Delta's timeline.

Pets: Delta has a grey tabby kitten named Euclid. He is a very smart and empathetic kitty, but is otherwise normal.

Personality: Delta is logical. The entire purpose of his creation was to separate the logic from the emotional centers of the original AI so it would not realize what was occurring as it split. So, while he is not pure logic as a "dumb" AI might be, he is unfamiliar with and at times uncomfortable around strong human emotions. As clearly shown in the last episode of Out of Mind, he is strongly attached to his partner; even when given an opportunity to work with the top-rated Agent in the field, he prefers to stay with York and be deleted rather than let him die alone and in pain. This decision is noted as kind by Tex, to which Delta responds "It's just part of what makes us human" - ironic, of course, as he had earlier noted the human perspective as flawed, yet recognizes the tendency to react emotionally in severe circumstances within himself as well. Another example of this trend is noted later in canon, when he remarks to Church that, once part of the Meta, he may not want to help Church and his allies anymore.

He strives to be objective where others are concerned, stating that good and evil are human constructs, but is more willing to be subjective where York is concerned. He indulges York's pride, his need for revenge, and his trust of Tex beyond what he is simply ordered to do: unlike with his later partners, Delta does not try to talk York out of a course of action, merely asking for York's reasoning and providing his own logical opinion. He will often tease York, however, as he is fully comfortable in the knowledge that his partner knows when to take him seriously. He does this to a lesser extent with Agent Washington in Recovery One, although expressly not with Caboose or South in Reconstruction; in South's case, because he does not sympathize with her and in Caboose's case because Caboose would not understand. Delta has a distinct dislike or fear of loneliness. He refers to himself as being analogous to a fragment, which is true as revealed in the latter half of Reconstruction. He expresses this several times, beginning when he would prefer to be destroyed when his partner dies and progressing to insisting to Agent Washington that Wash should implant him, and lastly joining his fellow intelligence programs inside the Meta when the situation leaves no alternatives. His relaxed nature with York compared to his other partners suggests that he does not feel that way with York.

In the Sanctum, due to the nature of the psychological torture games set upon the residents, he split with York and ended up forming close bonds with a native of the city and
another of the Immune. This shows a certain flexibility, though it was not without cost; it is harder for him to trust, now, and though his demeanor is friendly and helpful, it is difficult to get to the wounded mind beyond that.

In conclusion, although most observers only see Delta's logical side, that's hardly all there is to the little AI - but it might not show unless he's with someone he trusts.

Abilities: Delta is extremely good at math. Because he is no longer an AI, he doesn't have all of human knowledge at his beck and call anymore, but he has at least a general grasp of a lot of subjects, including history, literature, and science.  He knows a great deal about the theory of combat, but without the weapons and power armor he's used to this amounts mostly to weak hand-to-hand skills. He also has a chip implanted in his brain that allows short-range (about twenty feet) wireless communication at the speed of thought; with a properly paired computer or processor of sufficient strength, he can replicate most of the effects he could as an actual AI, which include piloting a ship or running full tactical support for a fireteam.

Personal Item A silver bracelet, torc-style, with a dragon's head on either end.

Sample: TDM Toplevel

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