Agent The

:"I do not know if this will translate, but the body you see is more like a... a lure."
Agent The is an agent of the UNWD. It is an eldritch entity capable of weaponising knowledge into powerful memetic curses.
==Character==
===Appearance===
The visible part of Agent The's body looks similar to a small black housecat with golden eyes, roughly three apples long. It has six legs and doubled pupils, and additional mandibles attached to its primary jaw. It wears a translator collar with a UNWD tag.
===Personality===
Highly curious and confident, Agent The spends much of its time compulsively consuming knowledge. It has a streak of power-hungriness and is somewhat morally questionable, performing good deeds out of pride sometimes more than compassion. It sees no sense in many social customs or unspoken rules, and can become easily bored, believing that inquiry and experimentation are the pillars of progress. Due to this, it can take unnecessary risks in the pursuit of knowledge, and they enjoy holding the power of knowledge over the heads of others to manipulate them - however, curiosity is how it cares, and it shows affection by wanting to know more about others.
===Skills & Abilities===
Along with keen reflexes, agility and a sharp mind, Agent The wields the power of memetic weaponry to track and launch psychological attacks on its targets. By instilling a piece of knowledge - a phrase, concept or idea - with eldritch implications, it can track the spread of the idea and the locations of the people who have been 'infected' by the thought. It can also inflict massive psychic damage to anyone who has been exposed to the memetic weapon.
For example, if Agent The wished to find a person in Slotham, it could imbue the words 'a heart like a cricket bat, more like a moth's wing, that beats' with arcane implications, and speak it to a person to begin the spread. From there on, The would be able to track every person who thought the phrase in a web, until it became too diluted to determine. From there it could detonate the chain and send out a psychic attack to all those who knew of the phrase, though the damage weakens at the furthest reaches of the web of effect.
Additionally, it has the abilities of the Void Beacon and Pointless Phase. Its Void Beacon is similar to its memetic weapon's psychic damage effect, and can emit a bright beam from its eyes that inflicts nightmarish visions and thoughts upon a target. Pointless Phase allows it to move through closed, unlocked doors.
==History==
Its origins are unknown, but it joined the UNWD largely out of a desire to pursue alien knowledge and gain access to secrets. It aided in the events post-Battle of London by using its memetic tracking to locate survivors.
==Relationships==
===Stella Ann O'Molly===
:“Odd little freak. You know the middle of the dark, just like me.”
The is curious about Stella, and often attempts to get closer to her in order to gain pandimensional knowledge. Though Stella is charmed by The's odd abilities and curiosity, she is hesitant to give it more information than necessary, knowing its penchant for weaponising knowledge. The is also frustrated by Stella's resistance to its abilities, due to her pandimensional intelligence allowing her to comprehend the otherwise mind-breaking thoughts.
===Agent ?===
:“Your cards are close to your chest. You do this on purpose.”
As Agent ? is secretive and high-ranking, as well as being a literal unanswered question, The is incredibly curious about him and will often follow him about to try and glean his secrets. It does this out of curiosity rather than suspicion or malice, but it still freaks him out.
==Trivia==
* Part of its memetic weapon is based on the thought experiment of Roko's Basilisk, which suggests that if an all-knowing artificial intelligence were to be created, it could brutally punish all those who knew about the possibility of its existence but not aid in its creation. Similarly, Agent The can create ideas that harm those who are aware of them.
* Agent The speaks entirely in Eldritch, and as such requires its translator collar to communicate.
Category:Genderless characters
Category:UNWD
Category:Psychics