Watson Padilla

Template:CharacterWatson J. Padilla is a 23 year old Filipino male with blonde hair. He works as an IT repairman, but also occasionally goes around selling street food as a side job. He brings his AI friend Pinkson everywhere alongside him.

## Character Biographies

### Watson Padilla

Watson was born in the Philippines within Luzon to a Spanish gentlemen with British genes and a Filipino lady with Spanish ancestry, hence having blonde hair which is unusual for a Filipino. He skipped out on preschool and ended up having graduated from university a year earlier than most.

When he was 6 years old, he recieved an ugly strawberry-scented fat teddy bear as a Christmas gift from his aunt and uncle. This seemed rather insignificant at first, but because he didn't like this teddy bear, he didn't value it very much and frequently repurposed it as a target dummy. When he was 7 years old, he cut it open and put a Bluetooth speaker in for fun, and played voices from his family's Windows XP computer. Realizing the potential fun for this, he kept trying to upgrade it.

He started school late, but did not go to preschool and instead was immediately in 1st grade at 5 years old. He graduated from University of Santo Tomas at 21 years old. During his time in a university, he needed extra money so he sold street food as a side job and just barely got enough to support himself. He sustained himself entirely on instant ramen, something his friend consistently advised him against.

A year later, in hopes of finding greater success than he can attain back in the Philippines, he moved to San Andreas. However, it was not as great as he had thought, being hit with the harsh reality of the place and finding out that it's not any easier to get a good profit here. He lived in the Pinkcage Motel for several months working as a mere phone repairman before finally moving out after his friend snatches, reserves and purchases a very cheap house in the Vespucci Canals for sale before anybody else humanly could.

He is lonely, and has only Pinkson as his one true friend. He consistently gets friendzoned by anyone he dates.

### Pinkson

Pinkson was created by Watson Padilla when he was 7 years old. His 'AI' was extremely primitive back then, being a Bluetooth speaker stuffed into a random spare unliked teddy bear connected to a Windows XP computer playing computer-generated voices through text-to-speech, and the speech in question being a set of predetermined lines decided by a random number generator. Watson learned to upgrade him ever since; first he moved him into a laptop, then his mom gave the idea of extra functionality and his dad helped him install a camera and microphone into the plush bear itself and add even more features with connections to the laptop, essentially turning into a multi-functional tool. A few years later, Watson developed his own AI and was starting to have conversations with it. It eventually earned its name Pinkson based on where the Bluetooth speaker was placed, and after a while was eventually able to code and update itself based on its own intuition, essentially being a self-improving program that gets better with time. This was when Watson started considering it sentient, and jokingly asked if it had a preference - to which it replied, saying it'd prefer to be considered a male given its voice.

Watson and Pinkson kept helping each other out over time, with Pinkson being a huge motivation and Watson continually improving and adding features. Eventually, this landed them multiple rewards from various organizations and contests, and they would keep sticking together regardless of the circumstances (except during examinations.) Unfortunately, they would get banned from contests to make room for other contestants.

## Character Description

### Watson Padilla

Watson Padilla is a tech geek, with vast knowledge in various fields. Unfortunately, opportunities to demonstrate that knowledge are quite rare.

He currently has three vehicles in possession: A white Gallivanter Baller II, a mountain bike and a black and green Shitzu Defiler. He also has a franchise burger stand known as Beefy Bill's Burger Bar which he opens on occasion to sell burgers, although he does not own the business itself.

He usually smells partially like sweat and partially like tears. Either that, or he smells like cooking oil.

His favorite instrument is the Synth. He enjoys spicy chicken and tuna sandwiches.

### Pinkson

Pinkson is really an AI. Most of his processes run locally on a small computer housing a modified Nvidia Grace Hopper superchip, 64 gigabytes of RAM and a 2TB NVMe M.2 internal solid state hard drive, contained in a 25\*25\*8 waterproof steel box with a unique passive water cooling system. It is powered by two external Anker 757 Powerhouses. There is a magnetic copper coil on the flat bottom of the teddy bear connected to the battery packs that allow for wireless charging, a speaker located where the belly is, two fisheye lenses in place of the plush's eyes, two small microphones beneath the ears and an extra camera at the back of the head. He also has the capability of connecting to satellites, however this feature is unfinished and flimsy at best, and very unreliable. He weighs 2.1kg in total. He has the capability of connecting to an external server located in Watson's house for additional processing and storage, such as that of a work in progress scent feature.

His software is optimized to a point where just a single 3 hour charge is enough to last two weeks.

He presently smells like vanilla and starfruit, instead of only strawberry. This is because Watson did not exactly like the smell of just strawberry, thinking it to not be that unique. He yearns to be able to smell.

He typically plays a beat sequencer or various drum samples whenever Watson plays with the synth.

## Concept and Creation

The concept behind Watson Padilla and Pinkson is inspired by the dynamic between Bad Cop and Wilson from the critically acclaimed 2022 Half-Life 2 mod Entropy: Zero 2. In the game, the player (Bad Cop) discovers an obsolete Aperture Science turret named Wilson who was used and abandoned by Clone Cop. Wilson is able to aid the player, opening locked rooms with loot and serving as an annoying companion throughout the rest of the game.

The character(s) first appeared in PGN within September 2022, but did not appear in a video until May 2023.

Lonely at Vespucci.Just chillin'By the sunset.Just upgrading, don't mind me.