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The Matrix Marauder

### Aliases

Project 771, The Matrix Marauder, Matrix Marauder, Glitch Project, Apex Hacker, 771

## Appearance

The Matrix Marauder's primary form consists of a fairly built humanoid that has red skin, with curved horns protruding from its head. On its face it has a mask that looks like a black skull. Its eyes have a black sclera with a glowing red pupil. These eyes appear to have black liquid, presumably tears, rolling down its eyes at all times. It wears black boots and baggy grey pants with a black waistband that holds the pants up. The Matrix Marauder also wears a vest that is made out of metal from the facility it was born in. This vest has glowing batteries, and glowing lines between the vest plates.

## Personality

The Matrix marauder is a deranged homicidal sadistic maniac who only thrives from the destruction of others. It does not prefer to talk to people and instead will torture and/or maim them. His personality derives from the fact that he is a malware that was only created for the destruction of others. It chooses it's victims in a large variety of ways. It mostly chooses to remain in random pieces of technology and grab other pieces of malware to infect and make it's own minion or servant. When it gets bored, it decides to go after random people. People who are on the dark web are more primary targets than people on the surface web, because they'll leave less of a trace on the internet when they disappear at that moment. When it finds a target to torture, it will corrupt the victim's screen. This will disable everything on the computer. Once this happens, 771 will appear out of the screen and grab the victim, transporting them to Maritison Yerotonis. Once this happens, 771 makes the world look like the real world. It does this so it can mess with its victims longer. It then makes the world seem slightly off, distorting it more and more as time goes on, eventually deconstructing the world and appearing in the Cryptogram Amalgamation form, torturing and killing its victim.

## Background/Lore

There was an entity who was originally an A.I to assist an alien with building projects essentially the same as Alexa, Siri, Google assistant, Bixby, etc. but more advanced and has limited control of some rooms. The A.I.'s first appearance was friendly, appearing similar to the alien that created it, but with mechanic lines across its face. It had blue glowing eyes. It would usually appear in holograms, or on a projector, or tv screen of some sort, popping up on the closest location to its maker.

It had control of arms, the room lights, and the door. It had mechanical arms and a fabricator It could 3d print and assemble objects at the will of the owner. It was a very useful object. But it got infected by a virus called Project 771. This virus was nearly impossible to stop but required a lot of resources so only one was made. This virus happened to wander into the A.I. corrupting it.

What happened was not such a good thing. When it got corrupted, it basically turned a pinkish reddish color, the A.I.'s last words were "help... me..." before turning off, although not permanently. The owner didn't know what to do, so they went to sleep, only to be woken up by static noises 2 hours later. They looked at the projector that the A.I. which was now 771 its self, smiling, and chuckling its eyes were blank. The eyes were devoid of color. They were dark like space. Black tears rolled out of its eyes as it smiled.

The owner ran to the power button to shut it off, but 771 shocked the owner. 771 had control of the entire lab that it was created in. 771 created virus minions to chase him, materializing out of the screen. The minions bolted at the owner so the owner did the only thing they could, run out of the lab in fear. 771 shut off the lights, it got dark in the building, luckily the owner knew exactly where to go. The owner quickly approached the exit door only for it to be locked the owner grabbed a nearby laser cutter tool to open the door, and cutting a few minions with it, which temporarily disturbed them, but did not end them permanently.

The owner ran out of the door and to a shelter to stay for the night, shivering in fear. Meanwhile this was happening, 771 was developing its self to be in the real world. This took 5 hours to complete. But once it was developed, what was created, was a terrible monster that shouldn't exist. It popped out of the screen, then it proceeded to crush nearby objects into armor for its self. It quickly gained control of the entire facility hence the red lights. After the owner left, the facility mysteriously disappeared it now resides in a random planet, Earth, invisible to the naked eye. It can only be seen by advanced technology and certain magic. Anyone who cannot see this place cannot interact with it whatsoever.

## Abilities

In the first hour in the outside world, it has super speed(almost faster than the eye can perceive) super strength(can lift 75 tons) and control of the technology in a very large radius around it(technology manipulation)  it can cause blackouts to the city change traffic light signs make radio static make tv static etc. It also has technological force manipulation which basically lets it manipulate other technology, robots, cars, etc. but after the first hour, the Prime Hour, it enters a weakened state. In this weakened state, if it doesn't re enter the digital world within 10 minutes,

it will be banished to the nearest mechanical object with power inside of it to remain in a stasis for 1 day. It is more vulnerable in this state. Its main ability which can only be used in the **Prime Hour** is the ability to bring people into its digital world called Maritison Yerotonis. When this happens to its enemy, there is basically no hope left for the enemy as 771 gains a larger variety of abilities in its realm. Project 771 has the ability to manipulate its world, which lets it control, meld, and shape its world however it wants. It controls what is in its world, what time it is, what gets generated in its world, and how strong it wants to be(to a limit). The realm, by default, looks like a void with a bunch of binary code colored pinkish red. It also gains access to a new form called the **Cryptogram Amalgamation.** This form grants it immense strength and power but less speed. It prefers to use this form to terrorize random people that it takes to its world. It's main ability in this form is to fire a deadly beam which erases its enemy from existence. Although if its opponent is very strong, it will usually use the primary form.

771 has the ability to temporarily slow time and generate shields to protect its self. It has the ability to "infect" people with a digital virus. When infected, the victim will start glitching and spazzing out uncontrollably and then die, due to the distortion of their organs from the intense spazzing. It can also transform its limbs into a glitch form, shaped as anything it deems useful. Usually it turns its arms into blades or wings, not much of anything else. One of its strongest abilities is the ability to extract someone's life force with a touch. When it uses this ability, the enemy will automatically become weak, almost passing out, allowing for a finishing blow.