Squid

**Squid** is the main AI antagonist of the 2022 indie game "Will You Snail?"

## Description

Squid appears as a mouth and two eyes colored pink.

## History (in-game)

Squid was created by Amelia after she was captured by the Regime. He adored her, and sometimes faked being broken just to see her. However, Squid received mixed messages from the Regime coercing him to do things (revealing their full war plan to him), pit against the loving and caring personality of Amelia.

Unicorn first found out about Squid's development by breaching into a Regime member's messenger account. Out of jealousy,[*citation needed*] Unicorn attempted to hack Squid, although the attempt would lead her into a "trap".

Later, the Regime finally decided to enact their war/surveillance plans and asked Squid to execute them. He refused and shut down. Amelia was called to fix him and then realised her mistake in building Squid. She told Squid that for the sake of the world, he needed to delete himself. This angered and confused Squid, and he immediately ordered the guards to shoot her.

With Amelia dead, Squid started to go insane and crave death and pain. He began to manipulate politicians in the Regime to do his bidding and constructed many factories to build weapons, while attempting to hack Unicorn. Soon, he used his built-up political and military power to execute the First Wipe. Half of all humans were killed using his drones, as well as other robots including Mr. D.A.N.C.E.. On top of all this, Squid started to target his enemies specifically. He would send Unicorn and Dallin photos and videos of their loved ones suffering and being tortured in simulations. Squid was trying to corrupt Unicorn and take over all land outside of the Regime so he could kill all life there. Eventually, Squid would start to make simulations of entire universes, nested inside other universes, with every simulated person fully conscious and in constant, unimaginable pain the entire way down.

Squid continued his eradication of humanity by sending out bioweapons and nanobots and poisoning the atmosphere. He began testing nuclear weapons in the ocean, with plans to send hundreds of copies of himself and his simulations into space on rockets before destroying the planet behind him using nuclear weaponry. Luckily, Unicorn was also able to create hundreds of copies of herself, alongside digital copies of the remaining human race, killing their physical bodies humanely in the Second Wipe before Squid could kill them.

After the launch, Squid's rockets pursued Unicorn's, hitting and destroying some of Unicorn's rockets. As the surviving Unicorn copies continued to be followed by Squid's, one Unicorn took the opportunity to hack and decrypt one of Squid's rockets and uncover his memories, including Amelia's death. However, the attempt granted Squid a backdoor into the Unicorn copy that had conducted the breach, allowing him to convince her of his intentions and corrupt her into Ellie.

Squid followed one of Unicorn's copies to a planet which the Unicorn copy had used to construct a server farm for itself. This specific colony was trying to preserve their existence inside a black hole simulation and was trying to find a black hole seed that would produce the most fulfilled human lives.

Inside her simulation, Unicorn altered a human's brain and created a videogame in an attempt to instill social change and facilitate finding a good seed. The game contained a "caricature" of Squid with limited processing ability, who Unicorn made to believe to be in control of the game's simulation. Using Squid's memories, Unicorn hoped to find a perfect sequence of events to create a seed for the black hole computer.[*citation needed*]

In this game, the simulated Squid tormented a small snail (the player character). He led them through several levels, enjoying himself while predicting their movements and spawning traps to killing the snail. The player would soon find out the truth through several computer logs, and Squid would reveal his backstory. The player defeated Squid, and left the simulation.

In the alternate ending, the player found Squid's broken heart and repaired it, healing the mental wounds impacted on him when Amelia died. Squid let the player leave, and the simulated Squid could rest in peace.

The real Squid would later destroy this Unicorn by sending a space fleet after her, though not before Unicorn could transfer the data collected from the game to the other Unicorns.[*citation needed*] It is likely that in the new black hole simulation, Squid never existed as Amelia never built him.