Unnamed Sprite

Unnamed_Sprite (U-Sprite for short), or Marilyn as she’s referred to as within her story, is a Horrorbrew based within Super Mario Sunshine. Created by @Ari on February 24th, 2023 as a simple genderbent version of MGS' FNF variant, while her final design (now as her own character) was created on January 27th, 2024.
==Overview==
U-Sprite is a very intelligent, sentient AI program that resides within an emulated copy of the game Super Mario Sunshine. She has created her own avatar to use instead of using Mario’s or any of the other characters, and with a naturally curious drive, seeks to learn more about the world beyond the screen and cathode rays.
==Appearance==
U-Sprite takes the appearance of a tall, well built brunette Lady with her eyes obscured completely, and has long, puffy hair. She sports a Mario-styled cap that lacks a letter emblem, wears a desaturated red Turtle-neck sweater with the sleeves rolled up, blue overalls and beige boots. Her most striking feature is her left hand, which below the elbow is off-colored, being made up of varying, shifting shades of purple and it’s very bugged out, as it seems to have not rendered properly within the game.
==Personality==
U-Sprite [ironically, for an artificial consciousness] is a pretty complex being. She is incredibly intelligent and can adapt to any issue that may present itself (as far as electronical issues are concerned). She is pretty cold, quiet and distant at first glance, but once one gets to know her more they’ll discover a cordial, rational being who shows compassion and understanding to one. She is by nature very curious, and will constantly ask you questions about yourself, and the outside world as a whole. Whether it’s day-to-day life, pass-times, religious customs, or even something as simple as what one’s favourite snack is , it’s valuable to her in order to know as much as she can about humanity.
==Biography/Origins==
It’s a chill, sunny day in August 2016, around 6:00 pm. Like usual, Gary O’Brien is relaxing in his office, chatting online with some of his friends about video games and the modding aspects of them, as it’s something he likes to do and practice in his free time. Soon one of the ppl in his group links a website in the chat, saying it has an insane number of Super Mario related media, posters, box art, concepts and mainly emulated games and ROM’s. Gary’s doubtful, but clicks the link and is directed into the website. 
He’s met with a big, colorful title that says “Super Mario WORLD Online” and a few scrolls down he’s met with this never ending sea of Mario paraphernalia. He uses the site's search engine to specifically look for emulated Mario games, and to his surprise many results show up immediately. He stops himself for a moment, exercising caution because these games and this site as a whole might be a giant carrier of malware and computer viruses. His friend assures that this website has been tested to be virus free, and links him to a few studies that prove their innocence. Gary, now sold on this site, begins to look for Super Mario Sunshine as it was one of his favourite games to play when it had first released back in ‘02. At the same time, he realises that on the side, there’s an ongoing active feed, he expands that window and enters a live chat-room, where people are discussing topics around the Mario Franchise. He decides to join in and exchanges thoughts with the other site-goers for some time, eventually beginning a long talk with someone named “DKBarrelBrawler235”.
They soon move their talk about Nintendo’s mascot and his repertoire of games to private messaging, and the stranger tells Gary that he has exactly what he’s looking for. He then links a .zip file of an emulated Super Mario Sunshine, optimised to be very lightweight in file size, and easily mod-able. Gary, being wary, asks about the security of the file and presses DKBarrelBrawler to prove that it's safe. DKBarrel, after a little while sends a video of him fully downloading the emulator, decompressing it, running it, playing it for a small bit, and ending it off with file-checking for any malicious software. Gary, now entirely sure, downloads the emulator, does a check himself as a final measure, thanks the stranger for the game, and says it’ll make it worth their while. DKBarrel couldn’t be more pleased.
Gary does the necessary setup and opens the game. As expected it runs like normal, just a 1-to-1 copy of Super Mario Sunshine, as Gary remembers it. He loads into the game and starts off in Bianco Hills; Episode 1 and has a blast remembering how to play Sunshine properly again, and to savor in the recollecting of memories from the past. Gary gets through Episode 1 and after defeating Petey Piranha in Episode 2, he collects the rewarded Shine Sprite for beating the boss. However…the game then did something odd. It lagged for a bit and the screen froze for about a minute, and then it came back displaying the title screen for Episode 3. He’s confused a little bit, but doesn’t think much of it, chalking it as a mess-up within the game, since that could happen. But as soon as he spawns into the level, something’s off. The music is a little quieter, the colors are a bit less saturated and duller, but other than that all’s the same. And then Gary spots something in the distance. Someone new. Gary moves in that direction to investigate, curious if it's just an NPC he might’ve missed, a boss, anything. The closer he got a subtle video distortion and slight audio garble set in, but he doesn’t take notice of that. Then Mario stopped moving, seemingly soft-locked in place. The unknown character turned around, and started walking towards him. They pick him up, set him aside, and then turned to directly face the screen, and an out of place text box appears;
“Hello, Gary O’Brien. It is nice to meet you.”
“WHAT THE?!” Gary jumps out of his seat, startled at this entity that moved and acted unlike any other character in the game, like it was doing everything on its own volition. Trying to get his words together he blurts out a “Hello?!” and waits for what happens next.
“Hello again. Please do not be startled. I am not malicious.”
Absolutely dumbfounded by what’s happening he immediately goes to tell his friends his predicament, but to no avail as everyone thinks he’s joking, making stuff up, or that it’s just a hack to scare the player. Realising that no one’s gonna listen to him seriously, he tabs back into the game, and after staring at the screen for a bit, he says;
“Hoo boy.….What will I do with you now..?”
“. . . . I do not have a name. I would like a name.”
“Uhhh…What about..Maria? Since you look like Mario-”
“. . . . . I am not a male, so I cannot use Mario, and Maria is boring, Gary.”
“Hmm…. Marilyn.! What about that one?”
“. . . . . . Marilyn. I like that name, I like Marilyn.”
“That’s good.! I'm uh, glad you like it!”
“. . Thank you, Gary.”
“You’re welcome! 
So.. hm….now what?”
[TBC]
==Powers and Abilities==
*Advanced Brainpower - U-Sprite's main strength is her unbridled Intelligence. She’s resourceful, quick-witted and tactical when she has to be. The code that makes up her AI is so advanced that it results in her complete sentience and free will. Whatever she does is beyond any hard-coded command in her system and is purely decisions she makes on the fly, whether its speech, physical action and everything else in between.
*Game Manipulation - U-Sprite, due to her advanced technological abilities is able to change and remove elements from the emulated game decently quickly. She is able to add things from the pc she resides in into the game, but is unable to download things off the internet to add.
*The Hand - U-Sprite's left hand, asides from visually looking off, also has some odd properties. Due to its anomalous nature, everything that comes into contact with it will start to glitch and get a slightly off-colored purple hue. Prolonged contact with said hand will eventually cause whatever's being touched to glitch so badly it has to be discarded or it gets erased COMPLETELY. Down to the binary code.
*Going Nuclear - If under a very severe threat, such as a virus, or any malicious electronical entity for that matter, she will begin to overload her circuitry, and in turn overload the pc she’s residing. She will act this out until the pc explodes, and lights on fire, effectively ending the threat and herself in the mean-time. This attack has a 100% kill rate, no matter how powerful one may be, if they don't have a copy of themselves elsewhere, they will cease to be.
==Weaknesses==
*Encasement - U-Sprite is unable to leave the pc she resides in on her own and can only move if she’s transferred or copied into something else.
*Childlike Naivety - She’s intelligent, but doesn’t know as much as you think she does, and due to her curiosity, makes her open to being gullible and fed lies. If you are convincing enough and speak the right words, you’ve succeeded in making her believe you. But it’s not easy to trick her, as she can tell between sincerity and malicious intentions. She's not a fool.
*Terrible Liar - It is hard coded in her system to, whenever asked something, respond with absolute honesty, no matter what that question may be. When she tries to lie it is immediately very obvious she’s trying to cover-up. If you press her for something important long enough, she’ll eventually crack.
==Trivia==
- Her name, Unnamed_Sprite, is based on the Shine Sprite, the thing you collect during Super Mario Sunshine's events, Mixed with her impromptu inclusion into the game, causing her to be read as an unnamed specimen.
- U-Sprite takes some inspiration off of Mario’s look mainly because she simply thinks he’s stylish. Alongside that she’s been noted to interact the most with Mario (therefore the player too) and the adventures he goes on during the game, helping out by spawning powerups, or removing enemies whenever Mario’s backed up into a corner.
- U-Sprite considers Gary her only friend, and later on, something like a father figure to her. This is due to the fact that -at least in the past- she was only used as a tool, something just to give answers or solutions. With Gary she realised what she missed out on, and feels that he is the reason she’s the being she is today, both in behavior, and actions.
- There is only one version of her in existence, there have never been any cases of her being copied and being spread on the internet, and if there are, they’re nowhere near her ballpark.
- U-Sprite can express various emotions just fine, but her face doesn't reciprocate her state most of the time. It’s rare for her to smile, but it's EVEN rarer for her to laugh, if you manage that, props to you!
- U-Sprite is open to interacting with other horrorbrews as long as they’re not selfish, stuck-up and plain evil beings. She’s known to get along better with other Ai based horrorbrews, for obvious reasons. Those who might be troubled or confused, she’ll try to rehabilitate them and help them as much as she can.
- If she could eat and drink, her favourite meal would be a Philly Cheesesteak, and her favourite drink would be “Fanta Madness” soda.
- She does not need to sleep, but does so because she finds it interesting, fun, and as a way to be able to mimic human behavior better.
==Gallery==
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|-|Current U_Sprite=
File:Usprite_ref.png|The official reference sheet for U_Sprite.
File:Usprite bust.png|U_Sprite when angered.
File:Usprite checkers.png|U-Sprite playing a game of checkers with Imp W, another horrorbrew.
File:Usprite firstuspriteref.png|The first conceptual render for the new design.
|-|Old U_Sprite=
File:Usprite stance.png|Old U-Sprite standing next to BF.
File:Usprite oldbitch.png|The first ever drawing of U-Sprite (formerly FemGS).
File:Usprite femnew.png|The latest design of old U-Sprite, before the overhaul.
File:Usprite fight1.png|Mixtape -1 MGS having a laugh.
File:Usprite fight3.png|Mixtape -1 MGS causing some mischief.
File:Usprite fight2.png|Old U-Sprite clapping back.
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