Cock-Boy

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The T.B.C. Cock-Boy, most commonly known as simply the Cock-Boy, is an arm-mounted device intended for Multiversal Communication, Synchronization and Teleportation. It's also capable of other tasks, such as keeping tabs on its user's health, condition, status, as well as analyzing surroundings and scanning entities.
It's primarily used to travel through the Multiverse by utilizing the desynchronization (desync) method. It was developed by three engineers named Nikolai Gorbachenko, Martin Tinotin and Charles MacGuffin from a classified Universe.
To obtain any T.B.C. Cock-Boy, one must first get a Cock-Boy License from a T.B.C. Multiversal Embassy. 
== Overview ==
=== Usage ===
The T.B.C. Cock-Boy rests around the user's arm. It has a locking mechanism that serves to hold the Cock-Boy in place.
If the user wishes to, they can connect the Cock-Boy to their bodily functions. This allows for the Cock-Boy to monitor the user's condition and even diagnose potential diseases, as well as maintaining a high-speed link between the user's brain and the Cock-Boy's assistant, Zoocan ADA.
The main usage for the Cock-Boy, however, is to teleport to different realities.
To do this, the user must first be fully synchronized to avoid danger in their desynchronization (see below).
The Cock-Boy has a T.B.C. Entity Synchronizer approved by A.N.A.L., one of the most complicated and advanced electronic structures in the entire history of the Multiverse.
The user must select a destination by writing a Universe in the standard Fredditlore format (NAME-XXXXX), keeping in mind all Cock-Boys have a limited range. This is because you cannot be desynchronized for too long (see below in Desynchronization).
The Cock-Boy's Zoocan ADA virtual assistant then calculates the amount of energy required to make the jump. To generate it, the Cock-Boy utilizes two small Zoo Men clones who argue on a certain topic.
The topic is selected by the assistant, who picks it based on how far the user wishes to go. The more passionate the clones are about the topic, the more energy is generated, and thus the farthest away the travel can be.
This process occurs once the user clicks JUMP. It takes around two seconds to generate the energy to begin the desync.
=== Interface ===
The Cock-Boy has three main buttons: SYNC, JUMP and DATA. 
* The SYNC button is used to manually synchronize the entity. It is important the entity is fully synchronized before jumping. However, SYNC is used to sync the entity even after travels, for extra safety if the user wishes to do so.
* The JUMP button is to trigger the desynchronization process. At the moment of activation, the Zoocan ADA triggers the argument between the two Zoo Man clones and the energy generation begins. Two seconds after, the entity is desynchronized and sent traveling.
* The DATA button is to open the navigation menu of the Cock-Boy and its many configurations. One can check their health status, select the emergency destination, back up their synaptic data or play Fungus the Bogeyman on it.
* The F.A.S.T. Travel Meter refers to the current desynchronization level, from FAST-0 to FAST-8 (see below).
* The Manual Port Selection Knob is a faster way to change the Universe port. If the selected Universe is Freddit-25565 and the knob is turned to 20000 and you hit the button next to the knob, the new selected Universe is automatically Freddit-20000.
* The Cock-Boy also has a Hoopla Battery cell, to power its systems and the Zoocan ADA, and also microphone and speakers.
== Desynchronization ==
Due to the space outside each Universe being existentially lethal to all living creatures (except Jeff the Securitron), physical travel to other Universes is impossible unless one uses a Death Chunk. This means travel is only possible through a controlled descent through one (see "Death Chunk travel" in Multiversal Travel), for example, utilizing T.B.C.'s many Multiversal railways that go through Death Chunks.
However, there is another way to travel to other Universes, first theorized by Charles MacGuffin, one of the engineers behind the Cock-Boy. It consists of desynchronizing an entity and then resynchronizing them again in their destination. 
An entity is desynchronized when the Multiverse mistakes them for other variations of themselves in other timelines. This rarely occurs naturally, however, at high speeds and high energy, it's a very common phenomenon.
When desynchronization starts, the entity will essentially become akin to a ghost, phasing in and out of existence as the Multiverse tries to ground them to a specific point in space. From there, either two options can occur, the entity is resynced, either by intervention or naturally, or they become "fully desynchronized", the term for disappearing from existence due to desynchronization. 
Metaphysical scientist Dr. Apyr Augus proved that desynchronization can be quantified in different degrees of intensity, thus creating the F.A.S.T. (Full Asynchronous Speed Travel) scale, that ranges from FAST-0 to FAST-8.
FAST-0 equates to a fully synchronized, normal entity, while FAST-8 is the point of no return, also known as the Apyr-Null threshold. Any entity traveling faster than FAST-8 is fully desynchronized and voided from existence.
F.A.S.T. Speeds:
* FAST-0 (resting): entity is synchronized.
* FAST-1 to FAST-3: desync begins.
* FAST-4 (standard): desync speed used in Cock-Boys to travel.
* FAST-5 to FAST-7: dangerous levels of desynchronization, will induce severe headaches and confusion on arrival
* FAST-8 (Apyr-Null threshold): final threshold before full desynchronization occurs and the entity disappears from reality.
It's unknown what happens to an entity beyond FAST-8. It's only known they disappear from the Multiverse.
== History ==
=== Scientific basis ===
Charles MacGuffin was the first to theorize a potential way to travel the Multiverse without using Death Chunks. In his article published to the T.B.C. International Federation Cool Name Something Affairs newsletter, MacGuffin wrote:
However, there were several problems that made it difficult to achieve. The amount of energy required to intentionally desynchronize an entity, the dangers associated with desynchronization (see the video PSA), and the method on how to resync upon arrival were the main problems MacGuffin faced.
He approached Nikolai Gorbachenko, famous Hoopla scientist, theorizing that a Hoopla explosion could generate enough energy to desync an entity.
Dr. Martin Tinotin was responsible for a scientific paper on a very peculiar phenomenon surrounding clones. He had been hired by Zoo Man in that Universe to clone him, because quote "it was fun lol". 
Both Zoo Man and the clone got into an argument, and on the same day it occurred, energy readings at the nearby Hoopla Power Plant went haywire. Tinotin theorized the energy spikes occurred due to Zoo Man and his clone arguing.
He was approached by Gorbachenko and MacGuffin, who asked him to come along with the project, both speculating that two Zoo Men clones could generate enough energy.
The three began working on what was known as the A.Z.T.E.C. Module (Anti-Zoo Traversable Energy Concentrator), or simply AZTEC, where two mini-Zoo Man clones were induced to argue about a specific topic through synaptic interference.
The experiment was a success. The energy burst was enough to desynchronize the three.
=== Creation of the Cock-Boy ===
Now with their science proven, the focus now was on creating a virtual assistant that could desynchronize the entity on departure and resynchronize them on arrival.
The assistant would select what topic the two clones would argue depending on the intensity required for the travel. They would then resynchronize the entity once they've phased.
Nikolai Gorbachenko designed the mini-Hoopla reactor to power the Cock-Boy's systems, Martin Tinotin created the compact AZTEC Module for the two clones, and Charles MacGuffin programmed the virtual assistant.
MacGuffin was not an expert in programming, so the Zoocan ADA assistant was written in Microsoft Excel code. 
To this day, T.B.C. has not bothered to touch the horrendous spaghetti code that makes the assistant work, leading to many Zoocan ADAs having serious personality glitches such as sexual urges or tendencies to provoke imagery of troll faces in their users' synapses.
== Trivia ==
* The first recorded appearance of a Cock-Boy was in Mainlore in 86 A.C. (after the Great Cataclysm). Many challenge this assertion, as the only evidence is a two thousand year old journal. In it, Long-Nosed Zoo Man finds an electronic device he cannot comprehend and takes a picture of it. The photo is clearly a Model 4000 prototype of the Cock-Boy. However, the Cock-Boy prototype was only developed much, much later in 2019 B.C.. 
** It's entirely unknown how that particular Cock-Boy ended up thousands of years into the past, buried in an iceberg in Mainlore. This led most to challenge the validity of the journal, claiming it to be a fake.
* The Cock-Boy is capable of backing up the user's atomic matrix and synaptic data. This information can then be used to create a virtually identical clone of its user.
* If the user chooses to, they can turn on the Cock-Boy Automatic Consciousness Backup which sends their synaptic data to the nearest A.N.A.L. Multiversal Backup Server. From there, should the Cock-Boy detect the user has perished, the backed-up data is then beamed to the nearest Reverse & Reborn facility where the user will awake as a T.B.C. Securitron. If the Cock-Boy is destroyed before it can signal the server, then the user's backed up data remains in it.
* A bootleg version of the Cock-Boy named Juan-Boy 3000 was developed by JuanDyn, a Mexican bootleg of FazDyn from Penislore. It comes with 36 pixels total on a 6x6 grid that can only display one color of the user's choosing. It also contains an air vent the size of a hand that blows hot air into the user's face. To this date, it's the only other functional Multiversal personal travel device. As to how JuanDyn managed to create one, it's theorized Penislore Juan is responsible for the creation of it. It also plays Mexican music as ambient noise.
* In 2019, it was confirmed every single Zoo Man in Fredditlore owns or owned a T.B.C. Cock-Boy.
* The Cock-Boy is a pseudo-acronym. It stands for Compact Computer Kernel-Boy. Since the full name means nothing and is barely related to what the Cock-Boy does, it's accepted the creators just wanted it to spell the word cock.
* The Cock-Boy's virtual assistant, Zoocan ADA, is not designed to be a sentient being. However, several assistants have gained sentience, including 7 that were held on trial known as the "Depraved Seven" court case of 2009.
* One of the earliest scrapped features of the Cock-Boy involved a termination button, which would fully desynchronize its user upon pressing. 
* Other selves of Tinotin, Gorbachenko and MacGuffin have developed the Cock-Boy in other timelines. For example, the AZTEC Module was created in Mainlore years and years after it was created in other timelines. Usually, A.N.A.L. staff intervenes and introduces that timeline to the Multiverse. 
** Strangely, in Mainlore's case, it was the Multiversal CEO himself who visited the timeline's Zoo Man when he sustained Multiversal Travel, although this is not common at all.
* Dr. Apyr Augus is responsible for the Null Desync Interpretation. He theorizes voided entities (fully desynced) do not actually disappear into thin air, but rather into the Universe NULL-00000. However, as it's wildly accepted by the scientific community, NULL is not a valid Universe and thus it's essentially the same definition as disappearing. Still, the name of the limit before an entity is desynchronized is called the Apyr-Null threshold, coined by Dr. Apyr himself, alluding to his theory that past this limit the entity is voided into Null (nullified).
* Utilizing the desync method, it takes 700 years to travel from one edge of the Fredditlore Curve to another, and 500 years from one edge of the area controlled by A.N.A.L. to the other, granted the user takes regular breaks to avoid full desynchronization. This proven fact creates a paradox in regards to the Multiversal CEO (see "The 500+ Year Theory").
* Desynchronization can occur naturally. However, it's extremely rare for it to occur to entities going about their normal life. It has a 0.0003% chance of occurring when an entity teleports within their home Universe, and a 0.0000000000000000001% chance of occurring when an entity is riding a commercial airplane (around 800km/h or 500mph). The chances of it occurring to an entity who is resting or walking are impossibly low.
* Resynchronization involves locating the leak point of the entity. This is the first atom that was initially desynchronized. In Cock-Boys, the first atom to be desynchronized is cataloged and recorded instantly by the virtual assistant, and is anchored to a single point upon arrival. Once the first atom is resynchronized, the rest fall back into place within 2.37 seconds.
* Strangely, Hooplex particles can get desynchronized. However, there is no known way to resynchronize them. Leaked documents indicate A.N.A.L. had been working on such a prototype to synchronize Hooplex, with some rumoring it's been achieved, but the details are scarce.
* A Mainlore PSA on the dangers of desynchronization can be watched here. The old terminology of "unsyncing" as opposed to "desyncing" can be found in it. 
* Some have theorized the Multiverse is sentient because of the desynchronization phenomenon. Since desync involves the Multiverse mistaking the entity's position due to other variations of themselves, some have also theorized the Multiverse could be a poorly optimized computer simulation. When asked by this existential question, Jeff the Securitron answered "rarazrararrararararhhhhhhhuhhhhhhuh".
=== Meta ===
* The Cock-Boy's design is based on the Fallout Pip-Boy, its name also being a spin on it.
* The reason behind the complicated nature of Multiversal Travel and the requirements to even achieve so is to prevent canonized stories from interfering with each other too much, thus preserving some degree of canon independence even within the Fredditlore Curve.
* The phenomenon of desynchronization comes from an accident that occurred on the Minecraft server involving dozens and dozens of Nham NPCs going haywire.
* The name Charles MacGuffin is a reference to a story-telling element called the MacGuffin, since the Cock-Boy can be considered one.
** The MacGuffin in a movie is an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking intrinsic importance. The term was originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction.
** Examples of famous MacGuffins in cinema are the suitcase in Pulp Fiction, the Holy Grail in Monty Python, the One Ring in Lord of the Rings, the Force in Star Wars and so on.
* The name Nikolai Gorbachenko (Hoopla scientist) is a reference to a nuclear engineer of the Chernobyl Power Plant of the same name, considering Hoopla Reactors are similar to real-life Nuclear Reactors.
* The name Martin Tinotin (clone scientist) is a reference to a newbie who was met with thousands of NPC clones of himself when he joined the server.
* A T.B.C. Cock-Boy makes its appearance on Jeff the Securitron's Dating Sim!.
* The creation of Juan-Boy by Sannu, a horrible Mexican bootleg that allowed Ricky Waffleheimen to travel, directly led to the brainstorming of Penislore Juan.
* The first appearance of the Cock-Boy was on World RP, brought on by a mysterious person named Wyatt. However, this roleplay was retconned and is not considered canon, including Wyatt's interactions, personage and the way the Cock-Boy worked. 
** Wyatt himself was not decanonized.