Obsidius

"There is no certainty in flesh, only decay." - Obsidius

Built like a stick insect, possibly literally, to some degree.

## Design and Description

(Enderjed's Chipspeech OC, although it has been used in various other mediums before reaching Chipspeech.)

Obsidius is what can be defined as "It's working because so many things are broken" in terms of machinery. They are notably quite spindly in proportions, with their joints generally being just slightly too long for their body, giving them an elongated appearance. Their somewhat rushed construction has left their external plating to be cheaply rivetted, and leaving gaps, giving the somewhat vague impression of an insect's carapace. Their antenna aren't just for show, they work akin to both an insect antenna, and a transmitter antenna, being able to both receive digital data, and send data.

Their design is mostly inspired by what someone saw Enderjed as, while said someone was high (Yes, this was IRL). This design was then interpreted by Enderjed, and then modified further, firstly for a character in an online novel that has been taken down, due to the old servers hosting it having been shut down for good in 2019.

They are commonly wearing their dark stone grey cloak, mostly to hide their shoddy external construction. They do not wear shoes, for their feet are closer to that of a construction clamp than humanoid feet.

They are commonly portrayed as being quite cute, by Seb Templar, despite the original source material being grimdark, if anything. This different is further portrayed with a lizard-like snout, which is not on the original material. *That does not stop it from being both allowed and adorable.*.

## Personality

Due to the rushed process that they performed to murder themself in a very specific way so their tortured mind would accept whatever stimulus it receives, Obsidius's personality is a conglomeration of what they were in life, and the insanity caused by the process mentioned earlier. Because of this, they live in a constant state of paranoia, but despite it, they remain to most morals that directly follow their logic, which does leave them.... debatable at various times, but they do still cling to their intellect, although humanity is far behind them in terms of priority. Of course, they can only keep this up for so long, they will literally lose their mind to the technology eventually.

## Background Information

Obsidius was originally a human, known for their knack at reverse-engineering and having a human name. Of course, at one point in their life, they got contracted to reverse engineer something... *concerningly human.* They still accept the offer, for a mountainous compensation. They do somewhat regret having to reverse engineer something that was sentient, while it was still alive, although they still performed the job. However, they did their job too well, and ended up drafting their own plans to use the technology for themself, they are caught drafting, and thusly, an illegal bounty is placed on them. This puts them in an immense rush, in which they ask for help from everyone they know (Of which, denial is their reply), and thusly have to rely on their own knowledge from years of reverse-engineering, along with their new-found secrets. This gives them the idea to recycle the technology for, if it can contain a human brain inside of a half-baked human body, then surely it can contain a human brain in a completely artificial body. Needless to say, they were right to a point, but not to the degree they hoped, for not only did their identity drown in the sea of machinery, but so did their humanity. The artificial body was rushed, and some of the technology in it had conflicted with other technology, resulting in various gambits to have been made. After figuring out how to get their brain in the damm thing, they bid farewell to their fleshbag of a carcass, and entered the mechanical vessel. `[What their mind went through to get inside, and what it felt after getting inside however, would be too descriptive for this wiki, so we'll let you visualise the literal DDOS attack of pain.]` Then, they had to escape, and quickly, since the bounty hunters have a job to do, after all. **To this day, the bounty remains, even if those who set it are just history examination questions.**

## Relationships

This article is just tumbleweed in comparison to everything else. No seriously, there's nothing, just nothing, no interactions have been made between them, or other OC's yet.

## Songs that contain Obsidius

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## Technical Information

Obsidius is based upon Enderjed's voice, although sometimes sent through various engines and compression forms.

UTAU: Currently a CV bank, with variations for: Raw (no filters), Amigacrushed (Amiga-compatible bitrate), MOZER compressed (MOZER compression algorithm), LPC-10 (Texas Instrument's LPC-10 algorithm), Waveguided Vocoder (A rather crude replica of Dandy 704 achieved by vocoding the samples, and keeping the frequency files and cfg files of the raw, resulting in a poor man's physical waveguide modelling formula). Generally quite a deep, masculine and British tone.

Alter/Ego: Just a concept so far.

## Appearances outside of music.

Currently implemented as a custom TABS unit, along with many other chipsonas, and the original chipspeech cast.

Appeared in an online novel which no longer exists.

Appears as a modded decal in the game "Sprocket"

Mentioned in the now depreciated "Memphis Faction" mod for the game "TerraTech"

Has appeared in various concept games in "Tabletop Simulator" made by Enderjed.

A small, highly compressed jpeg of them exists hidden inside a corporate application that Enderjed had worked on in the past. This program, and the business it was made for no longer exist (presumably for the program, but Enderjed does not have it on any of their own devices)

Appears in one of Enderjed's card games, under the name "LONG STEEL" as a rare talking card in the 'Inscryption' knock-off 'Encrypted' , possibly making a reference to the term "Long Pork" or "Long Horse"