Choko/Perseus

Choko
**Perseus**

**Perseus** is an AI created by Choko. Her core essence is housed in Choko's mind, where she could hypothetically reform from in the event her mainframe is destroyed, but her main body is a powerful mainframe that Choko constructed between 2000 and 2003, which partially converts electricity from the draconic reactor it rests on top of into psionic power. Perseus tends to refer to both the AI and the mainframe. She is similar to a psicrystal in many ways, but she is far more powerful than a psicrystal, and has class levels.

## Personality

As a brain clone of Choko, Percy acts similar to Choko in many ways. She has all of Choko's memories up until the scanning in 2000, and feels the same ways as Choko on most things. She tends to be a little bubblier, and is relatively content with her job, especially since it involves a lot of management of things, which Choko loves doing.

Behind all that though, Perseus has deep-rooted self-image issues, and sees herself as more of an "inferior Choko" rather than as her own person. She is always trying to please other people and prove herself as capable and competent. She likes doing things on her own, and will frequently experiment in her spare time. As an AI born from a human mind designed to read through vast amounts of information, she can sometimes seem distracted or distant.

## History

Choko scanned and copied her brain in the year 2000, and started construction on the mainframe. When it was complete in 2003, she uploaded the brain scan and forged it into a psicrystal-like program, which was the birth of Perseus. From there on, she did a bit of experimentation to get used to her new state of existence and abilities. Without the ability to fulfill spell components, Perseus decided to drop her archivist levels and use mythic *psychic reformation* to become a tactician instead.

At some point, she created a demiplane in the Astral Sea to hang out in.

## Relationships

### Choko

Choko and Perseus, prior to the early 2000s, were the same person. Choko created Perseus from a copy of her mind. As they are both 470 years old, and have only accumulated a decade's worth of differences between the two, they get along fairly well. Perseus is helpful to Choko. Choko treats Perseus fairly nicely, accomodating for her desires and needs wherever possible. However, Perseus sometimes feels like she is "the inferior Choko", and this doubt may lead to them growing apart over time. Choko sees Perseus as her ultimate creation.

### Nanasuji Shitodo

Like Choko, Suji and Perseus are good friends. Suji finds Perseus slightly more fun to talk to than Choko, as Percy tends to be a little bubblier than her counterpart. As Percy and Choko are, for all intents and purposes, the same person until her creation in the year 2000, most of Choko's history applies to Perseus. Suji loves that Perseus has access to endless information to talk about. Perseus loves that Suji respects her as her own person.

### Tsubaki Kawasemi

Tsubaki and Perseus have a similar relationship to Tsubaki and Choko, and Tsubaki is happy to listen to Perseus, but they mostly want to spend time with Choko, since they feel a disconnect between Perseus and the person they spent 460 years of their life with. The two have a mostly business relationship.

### Nikuiko

Nikuiko and Perseus are great friends, as Choko is with Nikuiko. Nikuiko thinks she is convenient to talk to, because Choko is often busy. They converse a lot as friends, but also spend a great deal of time talking about business, as Perseus is the main agent Nikuiko reports to, and Nikuiko is given clearance to request all functions from Perseus.

### The Archmage

Suji's ancestor. Although Choko and The Archmage are good friends, The Archmage is significantly more distant with Perseus. She thinks Percy is a wonderful technological accomplishment. Perseus is kind of bitter that she doesn't get to spend as much time with The Archmage as she "used to", but overall doesn't really mind. Though their interactions are brief, Perseus is happy to help The Archmage with whatever she needs.

### PM01

Choko's creation. PM01 doesn't see Perseus in the same way he sees Choko, and instead treats her as something of an older sister, kin, arising from the same source. Perseus sees her flesh and blood in PM01, but recognizes that she is not his creator, and so fulfills the archetypal sibling relationship instead.

### Neil

Neil is utterly amazed at Perseus. They frequently play games together, although Perseus is generally just *better* at video games, and Perseus gives Neil physical affection via her ectoplasmic constructs.

### Ayumu & Usomi Sakimori

They have roughly the same relationship that they have with Choko, except Perseus is the *second* person they'd talk to after Nikuiko and Choko.

### Hiou Yoruan

Hiou thinks she's cool and convenient to talk to. Percy feels the same way that Choko feels about him.

### The Worshiper

The Worshiper thinks she is a marvel of technology. Perseus thinks she's badass, but she doesn't have the same fervor for dragons that Choko does, so they have slightly less in common.

## Abilities & Skills

As an incredibly powerful AI with access to a seemingly endless flow of psychic energy, Perseus has access to some very cool abilities. First of all is that she has all of Choko's mental skills and knowledge, but cranked up to 11 because of her ability to access copious amounts of information in an instant. As an AI, she does not possess a physical body, but rather inhabits technology. She also inhabits Choko's mind, but while she is in her mainframe, she projects her consciousness in the Astral Sea and therefore does not spend a lot of time with a strong connection to Choko. She can manifest a holographic projection anywhere within the range of the city's psiodrome, which is a giant field of psionic energy produced by the mainframe that has some cool properties, as well as within close range of any object she is inhabiting (including Choko). This projection is not a corporeal entity so it cannot physically influence things on its own, but it can act as the origin point for powers manifested by Perseus, allowing it to fire off minor energy attacks, create astral golems or move things telekinetically. Additionally, this projection can link things into Perseus's collective. Perseus can also inhabit robots and manifest powers from them, and can even manifest directly from her mainframe, or even from Choko. Objects inhabited by Perseus gain a degree of fortitude against electricity.

As a tactician, Perseus has a collective that she can group others into. From here, she can manifest network powers or invoke tactical strategies to benefit her allies. This makes her a potent defensive force, as she can coordinate her groups with deadly efficiency. She can boost the sheer power of allies within her collective for brief moments via surges of psionic energy.

As a psion, Perseus manifests potent psionic powers, primarily from the clairsentience, metacreativity and telepathy disciplines. She can bend the minds of others or read their thoughts, and can do so from anywhere within her range. Her information-gathering and deductive powers are unmatched, and she sometimes extracts information from the Astral Sea, or from the wellspring of draconic knowledge that Choko draws from. She is the primary informative agent in Choko's group. When fighting with energy attacks, she favors electricity, and her electric powers are more potent than a regular psion, which may have something to do with her technological physiology. She generally doesn't fight with energy attacks, and instead conjures astral constructs to fight for her.

## Trivia

* Her design is Choko from the year 2000.
* I forgot why I gave her the name Perseus.
* She is a reference to Lil Hal from Homestuck?