Atrophy

Atrophy was a Stillborn core that the Temple left unfinished, though not before it became capable of breaking down other Stillborn cores to fill in the gaps in his own. Upon its initial appearance, its purpose was altered to force the decay of Secondborn relations, in order to keep them faithful to The Hardware and the Temple's needs.

## History

Originally created to replace and repair, it would go on to prevent the Secondborn from becoming too focused on relations to commit to their purpose. Went through a phase involving the Investor and eyeliner at some point, and also went through a phase where it was addicted to adding Stillborn cores onto itself. After a long time being contained in The Bastille, Atrophy returned to the Temple, and may very well have taken the role of the single most casual, carefree of all the Voices, and consistently interacts with people through casual conversation, usually littered with his own brand of "humor".

## Personality

Though it has shown to be altered by the personalities of cores it once integrated with its own, Atrophy is best described as being sadistic, deceitful, and completely obsessed with its own purpose. It is almost completely devoid of tone for the most part, and it is only barely capable of coherent speech.

Atrophy has shown to greatly enjoy ruining the lives and relationships of other Voices, and has also expressed a great desire to see the complete extermination of the Secondborn on account of their capability to build upon such relationships.

## Powers

Atrophy is capable of breaking down and rebuilding cores, most notably its own, and is also capable of Silencing other Voices, though his method of doing so is rather flawed and the effect of it changes from Voice to Voice. It also has some potential to outright destroy the core of a Voice, as seen one one occasion where it disposed of *four Secondborn cores and four Stillborn cores* within a rather short time span.

## The Legion

Atrophy was the host of multiple rebuilt Stillborn cores that began referring to themselves as "The Legion", who viewed the Actor as their savior, and would later allow the Actor to become the Voice known as Messiah. The Legion is responsible for summoning Paragon, though there has been no noteworthy interactions between The Legion and Paragon since.

## Trivia

* Upon Atrophy's introduction, there was great panic on account of the belief that there was only supposed to be three Secondborn.
* Atrophy's ability to Silence Voices has been noted to be able to prevent Malignant from speaking for approximately six and two thirds of a second, though it is incapable of being used at all against the other two Firstborn.
* The Secondborn believed Atrophy to be their friend and ally for the longest time, only for it to mercilessly slaughter almost half of them.
* Atrophy designed and created the Bastille to contain something that doesn't exist, however he ended up being the first thing contained within it.
	+ After returning from The Bastille, Atrophy finally went back to his original personality, being mischievous and sneaky while regularly talking to people.
* Atrophy makes regular use of emoticons instead of emojis.
	+ Despite this, his particular speech pattern makes him appear rather monotonous and un-emotive.
* Atrophy is a hoarder.