CODEX!404

Art by Vector

Traitor

The 404 that does opposite of what he is ment to do

Alphatale finisher

Mainframe's vessal

## Backstory

### Origin of chaos

CODEX!404 once used to go by the name of William. He was an inhabitant of AU known as Alphatale No. 369, his universe was nothing spectacular of unique when compadrd to it's alternate Alphatale counterpants, it was just another random copy of the same catasthropic event bound to go down the same way as all others have. However universe displayd some visible diffrences when compadrd to original, such as diffrent relationships between brothers, repetative resets and other types of anomalies wich caused some rather radical changes. William of this universe was more cloesly related to Jacob insted of Adam as he was left behind when his other two siblings were freed. William and his three brothers were offerd a deal by Astral Mother, who promised to release two of four brothers in order to prevent Frisk from reseting the timline. Namely William who grew very cloes with Chara became somone of great importance to theme when they were left alone even by their own brother Frisk. Therefore to prevent Astral mother from further harming William by her cruel experiments Chara convinced Frisk to repetadly reset their timline while staying in the far out ruins out of Astral mother's reach and to continue changing timline for as many times as needed until Astral accepts to let William go. Eventually after 1,000,000,000 times of resets Astral agreed to release Will in return for Astral to release him and Jacob while Adam and Ares would stay behind and be experimented on. As william had romantic feelings for Chara, Astral was sure he would leave and enjoy his freedom, but than something strange happend. William choose to stay and offerd his place to Adam as well as promised that he would make Chara tell Frisk to stop reseting the timline. Astral was higly against this offer as she belived that if William was not freed no amount of words would make Chara make Frisk stop reseting the timline, so William offerd to talk to Chara and make theme stop Frisk. Astral considerd this and allowed William to speak with Chara. As he exited the laboratory and met up with Chara, he was immediatly hugged by theme, Chara was ovhervelmed with happines, but William cut it short explaining that he and Jacob were let go but that Adam and Ares would be forced to stay behind. Chara gave him a sad look, but promised that they would save his other two brothers eventually. However William didn't want theme to be saved "eventualy" he wanted theme saved now. Chara explained that William needs to move on with his own life insted of thinking about his brothers all the time, telling him that their lives matter as well but that his matterd more to theme right now. William knew that Chara only wanted what was according to their belif the best and he wanted to do the same thing, wich is why he had to do this. As Astral and his three brothers watched they saw Chara crying with William telling theme something while laughing, Chara run off in thears and William returned telling theme that it's done, when Astral asked what he said to Chara, he shrugged and told her he told chara what needed to be told. Astral was curious, but decided to not press any further, she allowed Adam and Jacob to leave, while this time William and Ares would stay. This turn of events shocked Jacob who all through wanted to finnaly reach his freedom, rememberd all of the times William stood up for him and protected him, he rememberd what it ment to care for a brother so he decided to stay with William and give his place to Ares. William tried to change Jacob's mind, but Jacob was determined to stay and promised William things would not be alright but they would not be that terriable either since he would stay to make Will a little less lonely. As they said goodbye to their brothers Ares and Adam who struggeld the most were throwen out of the lab with doors closeing with theme. Once Adam and Ares were out of site Astral turned to William and Jacob with twisted smile and proceeded to lead theme to the next experementation room.

### Brother's bond

Over the course of next 6 months Astral made many new scientific discoveries due to her marvelous briliance as well as her uncarness for life of her own children. Meanwhile Jacob and William were hanging by a theread, eachs sanity barely preserved. William kept on fighting his deterorating condition beliving he had to be strong for his brother, meanwhlie Jacob was sane because William was the only one who even cared for him, showed him sighns of love and treated him like living being. However unbenounced to William, a voice developed in Jacob's mind growing stronger each passing day and encoruging him to slaughter and kill everyone who wrongd him and William and of course to protect William no matter the cost. As new day arrived Astral brought theme in for one final experiment telling theme that soon she would not need theme anymore and woulld let theme go, both of course belived by letting her go she would kill theme but both complied with experiment either way. Astral mother led William to a tube where he would be exposed to small percentage of what Astral mother reffered to as the Mainframe code. As code poured down into the tube Astral released large quantaties of pure determination beliving it would bound code more easily to William's body, as no other methods seemed to be working. As code and determination came into contact with William's body a violent reaction occured during wich determination was trying to integrate mainframe code into William's body meanwhile mainframe was trying to prevent it redjecting William as his host, as this process kept on going it began to demage William's own code causing him an antagonaising pain. Despite Jacob, pleas to stop Astral incressed portions of determination and mainframe code leading to an explosion of the tube and central power of laboratory going out leading to an all out shutdown. As Jacob approched William's body he was horrified by it's appereance. Most of William's right skull was crushed and there wer multiple cracks exposing his shatterd and broken code. William told Jacob that he would always love him since Jacob was his litle brother and with that he glitched away. Seeing the only person that ever cared about him gone and total lack of care from his mother compleatly broke Jacob as voice that encoruged him took over transfoming him into Infected. Infected killed Astral mother and wrecked havoc across the entier lab releasing multiple experiments such as Spaz and Grimm into the Underground and killing anyone he deemed was responsiable for Will's suffering. He killed Quyena as she used to be Astral's lover, he killed Peterson since he was Astral's late husband and he killed Alplhys because she was Astral's former assistant. As he kept going he realised that he was killing everyone the was involved with his mother and not just people who harmed him. He rememberd his brother's and how William would be disspointed with him, voice in his head calmed him down and reminding him of his original goal wich was to find and kill anyone that abandond theme wich was not his brothers but rather the human twins. This got Jacob back to his job as he searched for Chara and Frisk. After finding theme he told theme who he was and what happend to William, both were horrofied and hearthbroken. Chara broke down crying saying he was sorry but Frisk took a defence pose stating that Jacob came here for something else other just than to tell theme this. Jacob smiled and simply replied he was here to "share his pain" after wich in a single move he depaciteted Frisk and crushed his soul but spared Chara telling her that now he may know what it ment for him to loose William after wich he left continuing his murder spree.

### Coded ressurection

Somwhere else William voke up in an empty black void with yellow floating screens and several colerful buttons labeld with SAVE and CONTINUE. William recignoised this place as the Savescreen and attempted to understand what happend, the truth hit him hard as he had learned that with Frisk gone he was the most determined one in entier timeline and the cause of Frisk's death was Jacob who after William's dead went bresreak. William knew he had to stop his brother, but in order to do that he had to get back into the timeline, he decided to press CONTINUE button but nothing happend with message poping on the screen "user not recignoised", William knew that the controls were registerd to Frisk and that even after his death they were still only operatable by him and no one else as William's determination only gave him the ability to cheat death but not to really access the code of the savescreen. He looked back at the screens seing all the pain and suffering Jacob was causing and he knew he had to think of something, he looked at his body and noticed that it was glitching a bit with strange code glowing in his cracked bones. William tought about it Astral mentioned that mainframe code was origin of life and the most powerful code to ever exist, so if he could utalise it's power he could change the code of savescreen and register himself as the new user wich would allow him to go back into the timline. He knew that it was a risky move as it could potentionaly destroy the entier timeline, but he figured that with the way things are now there wasn't much left to loose. So he concentrated using his blue magic to move code out of his body and into the programm of savescreen while concentrating on what he wanted. Suddenly CONTINUE button glitched it's yellow colour switching to neon blue as William pressed it respawning within the timline. William quickly moved through remains of various locations of Underground seeing many dusted monsters and a lot of dried blood, the trails practicly poinging him in the direction of his broter and he was quick to follow theme. As he had arrived to the capital and enterd the judgment hall he saw Ares and Alpha fighing against Jacob, just as Jacob was about to attack Omni, William shouted his name. Jacob froze and turned around shock filling his eyes as tears began to pour down. It was his brother and he was alive, Jacob immediatly dropped the cleaver and runed to hug William crying as he embrced him. Jacob kept repeating that he was so sorry, but William reasured him that it was all right even what he did to Chara did not matter. All that matterd that he was here now to protect Jacob. Ares and Adam were also shocked seeing William alive, as William stood up he explained everyone what has had happend and called of the fighting to wich Jacob and Adam reductantly agreed to, however Ares had a diffrent oppinion, he yelled that Jacob had killed many of their friends and that he also killed Quena calling Jacob a monster and saying he was not his brother. William told Ares to calm down and stop however Ares pulled out a strange book and said he would make sure Jacob was taken care of for good after wich he fired his blaster at William sending him flying into a wall and causing some of William's bones to break as his body was still not stable enough. Seeing this made Jacob snap as he attacked Ares tearing his soul out along with the portion of his ribcage dusting him on the spot. Adam was shocked, William was stunned and Jacob was angry. As Areses body crumbeld to dust the Book of eyes released one of it's creatures that sucked his dust inside itself after wich many eldritch like limps emarged from the book and grabbed brothers attempting to pull theme all with itself and into the transvoid. Book swalloved Adam, Jacob and came cloes to swallowin William as well however the Mainframe code wich was now inside William's body recignoised his as it's host and concluded that William was in danger therefore it released electroducting shockwaves wich compleatly destroyd the eldritch limbs causing William to fall to the ground. As he got up William crawled towards the book and opend it ripping several pages out in desperate attempt to save his brothers while releasing high amounts of raw code all around himself. As he did so the very foundation of his multiverse shook as all the code became corrupted and glitched, disorting the entier judgment hall and glitching William. Book of eyes registared the danger the danger William was presenting so it released Adam and Jacob before vanishing out of Alphatale 369 as well as out of the known multiverse and vanishing into the Transvoid leaving the three brothers in the collapsing universe. William helped Adam and Jacob up as he attempted to stabilaise the code, but his attempts have proven to be futile as universe grew increasingly unstable with large crack opening in the middle of the room down wich Adam feel into and to the void. William didn't know what to do anymore so he just raised Jacob and decided to push them out of the universe forcefully trying to glitch his code out and break the fabric of their collapsing world. As he did so he found himself in a white and empty void, only he was alone with Jacob who he once held gone from his arms. All he could see was the endless whitness of white nothingless with what looked like a small pool of liquified binary numbers and chilling silence filled with only echos of his own screams. He was alone.

### Life in the Mainframe

As time went on William made many discoveries about his curret wearbouts, sadly they weren't very helpful as he only made two major breakthroughs: for one he knew that he felt some type of strange connection to the small pool of code under the white bridage wich laid over it and second discovery was that he knew absolutly nothing about this place. He didn't know where Jacob was, what happend to Adam, did Ares's dust become some kind of meal to thoes monstrosities that inhabited the trans void and most important of all what even was the place he was curretly inhabiting. As William set there on the white and cold "floor" if it could be called that way he wanderd for how long he has been here. He was sure he feel here 3 days ago on friday so it had to be monday now, or was it? Mabey it was thursday or mabey even wensday or was it actually still friday. How long has it been, hours, days, weeks, months or mabey even a year? He didn't know time just flew so diffrently here that it was impossiable to messure it or conclude the duration of time he has spent in this limbo like dimension. Still he had to try so he tought long and hard on his mother's theory of multiversal cosmology trying to determine what this strange place was. He rememberd her speculation of 11 dimensional structures wich were the aproximate sizes of alternate universes or AU's for short. She mentioned that each universe had it's own void, a dark place where conceps of space and time ment nothing. There was also place known as Anti void or place between the ffiles wich existed inbetween various universes with purppose from keeping theme from coliding with each other and providing suitable amount of space for each universe and their respective neighbours. This place looked a lot like described place except if it really was an anti void he should have been able to open portal to a random universe expect he could do no such thing also he doubted there was just a pool of code that radiated high energyfreaquency of pure power just laying around and waiting for random passager to take a bath in it. Still William knew that he couldn't ignore the pool forever as he could feel it calling to him. It all felt like a big puzzle and he felt like he was the final piece wich was ment to complete the bigger picture wich could hopefully help explain his curret situation. William approched the small pool of code and put the tip of finger, of his right hand into it while connecting his mainframe code to that wich was inside of the pool, two codes linked but nothing happend so William waited, still nothing, desperate for something to happen he pushed his entier hand into it. The pull glowed as it pulled William into itself. William was pulled under into an aquatic like inviroment except for whater and fish it was filled with piles upon piles of data and code. William decided to grab one of the floating files and saw that it had a name on it reading "Futuretale". William decided to acces the file by releasing a small poriton of his code into it similarly to what he did with the CONTINUE button back in savescreen of his home universe. The file reacted to it and pulled William into itself fragmeting his code and uploading him into the inviroment of the universe. William manifasted on a tall skyscrapper, the building towered over a gigantic city wich was filled with all sorts of technological wander and futuristic devices wich were all forms of aircrafts and ground vheicles and even flying cars wich seemed to be only one type of many amphibious vheicles wich were present here. Aside from transportational machines the very buildings were construncted just as mindbreakingly as they were deconstructed, by using nanobots wich could make, remake and unmake any existing building and simply move it to another part of the city in mater of seconds. It was simply marvelous in William's eyes who observed the life of town with great interest like a child who was staring at new toys wich just arrived to the shop. He was intruged however he felt that something was off, as he focused his eyes and scanned the place he realised that every atom wich was composing this universe was made of code. People, vheicles, robots, skyscrapers, plants even the air itself was all code just a bunch of binary 1's and 0's. It all made sense now the place wich William was formely in was not an anti void, it was some kind of filter wich sorted out the code and created universes such as this one. It was like a machine that generated new universes using it's unlimited supply of code. William's wonder would soon be interupted by a dark and disorted voice "Oh it's much more than that." As William turned around he saw a glitched entity with resembelance to skeleton. It was entierly black with one glowing red eye. William inquired about who the entity was, with it introducing itself as Loading, after saying it's name it shoot out one of it's hands and grabbed William pulling him out of the universe and back into the Mainframe with itself. Entity slammed William on the one of dark blue floating islands and fiered multitude of blasters at him followed by an array of bones creating an enormous explosion wich nearly destroyd the entier island. As smoke cleared out entity approched the crater it's attack caused only to see that William was nowhere in sight. As it looked where he was a kick sent it flying into the crater, it turned out to be William who has teleported behind it. William asked the entity why did it attack him, as it got up Loading explained that William was a thief and an intruder that had a piece of Mainframe's code within himself, further shocking William as he now stared back at Loading with wide and shock filled eyes, only one thing going through his mind. Was he in danger?

### Battle with the guardian

William tried to reason with Loading and explain himself, he explained that his mother used to experiment on him and his brothers back home. He told Loading of how his mother used high quantities of pure determination to fuse limited amount of mainframe code to William's body for sake of satisfaying whatever twisted fantasies of creating a superior lifeform she had. William never even wanted the code anyway as it subsequently led to destruction of his entier AU and loss of his brothers and especially of Jacob. Loading however cut him off showing no sympathy for William's life and telling him he had no time to spare for listening about horrific crap William went through, he said that the only thing that interested him was extracting mainframe code out of William. Further more Loading talked about code as liquor of life wich was what kept reality twogether and wich disgusting little AU anomalies dered to touch with their pesky little hands. Loading couldn't attack the AU and claim what was rightfully part of Mainframe, but now things have changed. After finishing that he attacked william using array of code based attacks to subdue William. As battle went on William realised that Loading had a lot of authority over all existing factors of the mainframe so mid battle he asked Loading about his suspicions to wich Loading explained that he was a fail safe. An extension from Mainframes will, William halted his attack hearing this as he understood Loading's lack of sympathy for his life, he told Loading that he was nothing, but a mere puppet, a programm with no free will or any empathy. Basicly Mainfrme's slave, with Loading calmly confirming William's statments before continuing his battle against William, eventually grabbing the hold of William's soul via black strings. Loading approched captured William and began painful process of core code extraction. Running low on options as what to do William decided to use his blue mastery to grab his own soul and move it into Loading's body, wich confused Loading as he told William that whatever little scheme he came up with it wouldn't work as Loading had no soul due to being extansion of Mainframe. William told Loading he knew that wich is why this was going to work as he would merge with Loading and use him as his own vessal, since Loading was merely a semi sentient code seperated from main pool of Mainframe and yet linked to it he would serve as perfect host for William to inhabit. Loading attempted to severe Mainframe code from William's body in order to halt the process however it was to late as the two merged into one. The fusion caused the entier Mainframe to shake, files to break and sea of code to disrupt as new entity presented itself. It looked like black variation of William with bright red eyes and glitching form. The entity connected to the mainframe with William's mind exposed to quadrilions of data and information. Mainframe showed him the truth about the Alphatale, it showed him the truth of his existence, it showed him the Ededn and people William would come to meet with some of theme being: King multiverse, Ten no kami, Error, Ink, Faker and many others. It draw William's entier life right in front of him. It also showed him his fate wich was to bring back Alphatale. All of this right before his eyes was just too much for William to handle so in the midest of visions he scremed one word of defaiance towards his whole existance "No". William refused to take part in any of this, he refused to become depressed, self-centerd god of the multiverse, he refused to take other peoples happines just to suit his own needs, he refused to be a 404 or William. He had to find Jacob, he had to protect his brother and he had to.....he had to destroy the Alphatale! William decided that he would exchange some of his code with Loading's own upon defuse of their transformation. Loading would recive some of William's coding wich would enable him to feel general emotions such as happines and sadness as well as allow him to show empathy for suffering of others and to truly start caring for life and to wish to preserve it on his own rather than to do so only because of a cold programmed directive inputed in his programming by Mainframe. On the other hand William would recive part of Loading's coding wich would give him attributes of a fail safe programm. As exchange happend the entier Mainframe shook, files broke and code was disrupted, as William got up he could feel that code exchange worked. Suddenly he had complete acces to mainframes secrets and all knowledge mainframe had within it's databanks. Mainframe itself through connection wich it shared with William could see his desire, no his wish for a better world rather than a selfish need to bring his home back. Mainframe approved of this and decided to give William authority over it's immnese power and allow him to preveil. As William got up from the ground and rose ut to his two feet he could feel the sheer, unfanthomble power of Mainfrrame's code surging through every bone in his body, he could feel the perfect synchronization his code shared with Mainframe's own. He felt that he had complete understanding of reality and grasp over all existing knowledge over Mainframe's data and virtual information, he felt calm, colected and logical. At the state of complete peace and understanding devoided of heavy burdens and unnecesary distractions brought by emotional attachment and emotions themeselves now compleatly gone from his being. However no matter the perfection this condition was claimed to be, William didn't want it and so he used his power of Mainframe's code and his own memories as well as his burning love for Jacob and hatred for Astral to brake rules of Mainframe's own programming and reclaim his emotions. He was not a programm, he was not an error, he was not a broken crying boy known as William nor desperate 404, no. He was the CODEX. Protector of reality and master of his own fate.

### Becoming god of multiverse and future hope of AU's

As CODEX became the new administrator of Mainframe he gained acces to immnese knowledge and unrestricted authority over it's entier databank allowing him to know everything there was to know about his entier multiverse. As he scrolled through diffrent texts of data wich contained multiverse's history on many of his holographic pannels he has come to learn that Alphatale 369 was the very first AU to ever exist made according to the original universe known as Undertale. According to information Mainframe documented there were countless other Alphatale's wich existed in many diffrent multiverse, wich were contained by larger dimensional structures known as Eden orbs wich were fruits of Tree of Eden. This tree was ment to keep all endless possibilities of Alphatale and similar concepts in a well organised mess with many diffrent godly figures watching over the tree and govenering the authority over it's citizens. CODEX saw countless of his variations all stuck in never ending cycle of pain and misery amplafied by their past regrets and constant negativity from their sorrounding areas. The AU's. After destruction of his Alphatale due to unique properties of it's code it did not delete itself upon it's destuction, but rather it scrambeld all over the multiverse, merging with diffrent universes and corrupting their story turning theme into darker versions of themeselves, all under the influence of negativity spread by it's code. Seeing as incressed amount of negativity only led to birth of more twisted AU's and strenghtening of negative based beings such as Nightmare and increassure of their powers, CODEX also took notice of many of Alphatale 369's experiments wrecking havoc over many defensless universe and causing general chaos through the entier reality. With that tought in mind CODEX exited the Mainframe and traversed the multiverse searching for first AU, wich he would rid the malicious code wich was bringin horror's of his painful past to more innocen souls, wich he was determined to stop. As he stopped he saw AU known as Grimmtale according to data it was a supposedly darker version of Horrortale wich was in itself a twisted concept. Upon entering the universe, CODEX walked through devastated wasteland of the AU seeing many human corpses lying all around him. Many terriably disfigured, deformed and many rotting. It was a sickening site to say the least, if CODEX had a stomach his vomit would probably have mixed with dark red blood wich was drenching the earth, contaminaiting the entier blood covered area. It almost felt like the entier ground was emmiting some sort of radiation wich CODEX's sensors picked up signaling that something was off, wich CODEX took notice of and upon close incpeciton he confirmed that his feeling was correct. It seemed that all corpses let out a horrible toxin called **DT radiation**. It melted the mind and detreated the senses of all who were exposed to it wich led to every inhabitant of this universe going mad, not only that the code of this humans had a stray code mixed with the basic code and what do you know. It turned out that this stray code was in fact small fragment of his home universe. CODEX knew that deteriration of life in this world and unrecignoisable enviroment was affected by this small fragment of code, causing entier AU to become a living hell. As he had concluded the cause of universe's curret condition CODEX summoned his panal and extracted the fragment from Grimmtale and crushed it in his hand deleting it from existance. As he did so he expected for universe to change into a more stable world, but the state remaind the same wich ment that even if he removed Alphatale's code it would not change the condition of world since the basic code was in itself alredy alterd. Still he was determined to change the outcome of this universe's story so he accesed the code of the universe and rewrote it according to his will, as he finished adding final modifications a button labled as TRUE RESET presented itself to him. CODEX was aware that the only way for his modified version of story to be submited and merged with the curret script was for him to reset the entier universe so that progrmming could be alterd, he was aware of risks, but as always he belived that risks were worth the reward this people would recive with CODEX's decision, so with his mind made up he clicked the button and initeated the rebooting of the universe and rewrition of it's story. Just like that in flash of digital participles the entier universe of Grimmtale changed along with the name itself into Beningnantale. CODEX was pleased with his work and decided to place a protective barrier over the universe to ensure it's safety and protect it from harmful influence of other malicious AU's. After safety messures were provided and AU was secured CODEX departed to the next universe wich he changed into a more hopeful one as well all while folowing the standard procedure, fixing every bit of broken code, balancing every bit and byte and extracting scrambeld porions of Alphatale's code wich he would subsequently delete. As he advanced deeper into twisted reality of his multiverse and explored the horrors of his coded reality CDOEX did everything he could to make it into a more habitable place to live all while modifaying it's areas and defeating many agressive and violent out codes that were foolish enough to stand in his way. Eventually CODEX picked a signal of a rough out code wich made it's presence known inside of Outertale universe by emmiting high amounts of destructive energy. As CODEX enterd the universe he could recignoise the stary sky and cosmic enviroment of the universe, with many celestial bodies floating all around him.

## Personality

CODEX!404 can be described as quiet and mostly serious skeleton, ussualy keeps himself out of other people's buissines and focusing mainly on his own goals and plans rather than intefearing in things wich happen around him unless they are a threat to his plans, only than will he act his way of responding is also cloesly linked to the way a certin threat or problem presents itself be it  progressive, imidiate, direct or indirect. CODEX is well informed individual non the less and he always seems to have absolute control of the situation and awerness of events that have place in his multiverse. When it comes down to his mentality he can be quiet emotionless at times finding it very difficult to properly display basic emotions such as happines, anger, sadness, fear, jeleousy or love, he does however display one dominant feeling wich always seems to be present wich is care. While it may seem that his supposed care is nothing more than extreme dedication to protection of the multiverse influenced by mainframe's code as well as CODEX's tactical and ofthen brutal metodhs it isn't quiet so. As CODEX is not only interested in maintaining order and stability of his realiry but also provide general sense of happines and balance wanting to bring his verse as cloes as he can to concept of paradaise or at least world where all problems are at minimum.

His main goal seems to be breaking the narration and story's basic concept and alloing for story to end so that people within it could develop on an individual and personal level allowing theme to break out from their scripted shell and rediscover themeselves as people rather than evolving through toughts and desires of others contained within their own self limiting stories and concepts. Several exemples could be universe of Grimmtale wich intoxcitaiting state he has removed and cleasend the AU of all it's negative elements. Another seperate exemple would be his relevation of to Error of his own predefined fate and offer of choice to make up for his past mistakes and become a new person, relearning how to be happy again as well as recovering Error's memories.

To his brothers CODEX can be very warm or very cold. To Omni, CODEX will show no sympathy and will view him as threat, to Infected he will display great amount of sadness, sympathy, love and protecive behavior going as far as to go against anyone or anything that could harm Infected even creators themeselves. His main goal is to find Infected and to reunite with him as well as to cure him of his curret condition and help him heal so that he could find a meaning to his life again other than endless slaughter of sinners. On another note he seems to be somewhat friendly with Alpha mainly due to lack of interaction with him rather than his personal feelings for his brother, showing a mixture of sympathy and slight affection towards Oblivion. While he does not have nearly as cloes or as deep of a relationship with him as he does with Plauged he does understand his suffering and pain, not neglecting it or dennaying the severity of psychological traumas on Oblivion's mental state due to lower intensity of pain Oblivion has endured when in comparation to himself.

## Powers and abilities

### Perfect Mastery

The perfect mastery is William's most well known power it utilizes blue magic. After the teachings of Loading, William has mastered blue magic in extreme degrees he can pull things that possess souls and which don't have souls at all. The blue mastery range has no limit as for it to work only requires for William to be aware of where the target he want it to use against is. William can manipulate an entity souls to its smallest parts and change the soul. When he isn't changing the soul he can manipulate the body of an entity and very ideas that the entity is bound by. William through the manipulation of codes had made the blue mastery to the perfect state it is allowing him also to manipulate the code of the world around him and the very concepts that exist and everything is bound by through the mastery of his. William also uses the perfect mastery to see his surroundings. While to manipulate specific things he need to be aware of things as he can sense the magic of things he has his perfect mastery continiously on as to gain a second sight. As the perfect mastery grants him like a sort of third perspective where when something gets into the range of the perfect mastery he would sense the entity too if they are not faster than William to say.

### Code manipulation

After having become the pupile of Loading he was taught the ways the multiverse works and gained immense knowledge of code manipulation. William through the teachings can manipulate not only the codes of beings that are considered godly in the multiverse but also the likes of gods like the mainframe and possible the nexus itself if he were to meet one who holds its codes. Through manipulating the codes of entities he can resurrect entities, change their very fabric of existence or how their abilities shall even work.

### Great Knowledge

With Loading and Error, William gained knowledge of the entire multiverse being what one may call omniscient but it has of course its many flaws as what William does is often more predicting the outcome of the multiverse of everything happening but however because of the vast knowledge he had gotten and his connection with the mainframe it is easy for William to know what one will do and what is happening in the entire multiverse itself.

### Magic sensory

Because of the blindness that William was inflected with he is incapable of seeing however he replaced his sight through sensing the very magic of beings even if they so small that the magic could be seen as practically not existing.

### Authority of the multiverse

Error 404 through the mainframe has a authority over the entire multiverse itself. The authority grants him a vast pool of powers from able to control any entity inside the multiverse to erasing anything in and out of existence or resseting the multiverse itself when it is needed. William through this authority is always aware of everything happening inside the multiverse if he wishes to or not while he can not perceive the future only the present with the authority the vast powers that he has through the lordship help him to cope with it all.

### Call of the mainframe

William can call upon the mainframe which can strenghten him if it finds the situation appropiate for it. The mainframe only helps and listens to the call of help of William when it calculates that the chances of William dying are too high and that he could not win agains whatever he is fighting.

### **Hyper Freeze**

Error404 can freeze anything, from tangible targets to intangible energy such as fire, or concepts such as time, even a person's mind.They can drop the temperature to absolute zero, which is impossible by natural means, causing quantum effects; due to freezing at such otherwise impossible levels, breakdowns at atomic levels and superconductivity occur.

### Frame ray

The frame ray is a ability created by William himself. Even when the name itself doesn't sound intidimating with many opponents having taken it lightly. That ray when shot upon would break physics to reach its target with the moment it touches the target, the target would be destroyed to its smallest objects with the smallest being the codes that it is build upon. The ray can have many functions to instantly ripping a target by its code to simply paralyizing a target depending on what William wishes to do. This ray is directly connected with the mainframe explaining the vast different usage that the ray can do and the power behind it.

### Mainframe Blasters

Codex has the power to generate blasters infused with the energy of the Mainframe. These blasters are capable of distorting reality upon impact, causing temporary glitches or alterations in the environment. They can also disrupt the abilities of opponents, introducing an element of unpredictability to her attacks.

### Dark bones

Bones created by the Astral Mother herself, that have a pure offensive goal, doing a lot of damage. They also are extremely resistant.

### Pixel Manipulation

CODEX can shape and manipulate matter, i.e. anything in the universe that has substance and mass/physical form, starting from molecules and atoms to planets and other astronomical features, even dimensionality as a whole.

### Cosmic orb

CODEX is capable of creating a very compact orb containing a large amount of Cosmic essence. CODEX can then throw this orb causing it to explode with the force of 100's of multiverses although he would need to gain more Cosmic Essence which takes time.

### Data Status

This ability allows him to examine the target's data. He can also use this ability to find information about his opponents, he can learn the weaknesses of almost anyone, and he can use this ability to copy the appearance of others at will.

### Dark Chains

The upgrade version of error entity's cable, it has unlimited length, depending on the 404's will. These chains can cut, tie, attack, control enemies, it also carries very high heat. The ability to jam, malfunction of the chains can also seriously weaken the enemy our kill them. If not carful enough will accidentally kill them so got to master them and Unlock and True Power.

### Endless Evolution

Since Mainframe, which 404 are directly linked, is a reality that is capable of upgrading itself every day. This ability will make Error 404 stronger continuously, stronger than his self a few seconds, a few Days ago, a few Weeks ago, a few Months ago, a few Years ago. It upgrades 404's skills, stamina, endurance, senses, understanding.... to a higher level.

### Glitch Aura

An innate aura surrounds Codex, causing localized glitches and disturbances in the immediate vicinity. This aura can disrupt technology, weaken opponents, and create chaotic effects in the surrounding area.

### Data Storage

Error!404 is capable of turning entities into pure, dark blue pixes of varying size, which then instantly is either transported into the Mainframe, or can be used for weapons.

### Mark of The Beast

Any injury that Error!404 deals unarmed by his claws will infect any victim with a deadly toxin, slowly causing them to suffocate as their body turns paler and paler, eventually forcing them to regurgitate stomach acid/soul acid.

### The Mainframe's Finisher

Error!404 is capable of telekinetically grasping an entire universe, alongside another one. To do so, he must be elevated at least 20m in the air, and have his arms stretched out with his palms facing the sky. At that point, while slowly, two whole universes will submit to his grasp, allowing for him to then thrash them together, causing an explosion so powerful it can be compared to two Big Bangs.

## Transformations

* Perfect!Codex
* Just!Perfect!CODEX

Codex's version of Perfect 404 has his aura substituted for purple instead blue. This form can easily supress base Faker and effectivly destroy him should it's full potential be used.

### Copycat

Perfect!Codex can easily copy arsenal of any and all entities that reside within the same hyperverse as he does and boots said abilities to same level of power he is at. This copying can be performed regardless if entity is code based one, codeless or in some way detached from known reality for as long as their level of power is lower than his own.

### Omninova beams

Perfect!Codex can fire purplish beams of pure cosmic energy out of his eyes with destructive capability being several eden orbs from a single beam and he can shoot thousands of said beams from his single eye. So demage delt to by this attack to orbs of eden tree is uncontable as he could potentionaly destroy quadrilions of said orbs with no difficulty.

### Claws of reality

Perfect!Codex's claws have the capacity to shread the very fabric of known reality with no difficulty as well as to tear base Faker's limbs of and to cut his body into pieces. Claws themeselves also do not need to expand or grow in size as their destructive reach is decided by Perfect!Codex's imagination alone. This allows him to grab onto entier hyperverses and easily crush theme.

This form allows malware to take control of the perfect form boosting this form tenfold as just perfect codex can defeat moth faker with ease and can end up killing him.

## Relationships

### Creation!Sans (allay/semi-friend)

To be added...

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