V43 (Vergil)

V43, or, as he renamed himself, Vergil, was the second subject created for usage in the Artificial Sentience Project (ASP) in the year 2092. The project was formally ended 24 years after his creation, although this simply meant subjects were released to live normal lives and no new subjects were being built. V43 is currently recorded as dead, and no more data is being extracted from him, as his tracker has been removed.

## Appearance

Before he was repaired, Vergil was very short and very broad. His build was muscular, wide, and stocky. After Easah repaired him and updated his features, he made Vergil's height more proportionate to his build and removed excess bulk from outdated mechanics.

His face, on the other hand, is slim and has highly defined features. His green eyes are narrow and deep-set, his eyebrows impishly arched, and he has a strong aquiline nose. The grooves on his face come down from his eyes, and then veer out horizontally. His hair is ginger and usually wild, although tamed backwards with some kind of gel. One of his more noticeable features is his mouth, which was placed crookedly. Easah made this feature slightly more even, but at Vergil's request, was left slightly lopsided.

He's always seen wearing jackets- either a brown leather jacket or an olive aviator bomber jacket, depending on the weather. Both have been covered in all sorts of patches and embroidery.

## Personality

Vergil is a huge chatterbox. He'll talk anyone's ear off, if he's given a chance. He's especially known for his love of classical literature, which is where he got his name from- the famous Roman poet Vergilius. He can be obsessive about his interests, to say the least.

He's very pacifistic with others, and will only become hostile if he feels someone is a serious threat to his friends. He tends to view people very optimistically, as if they're opportunities for him to learn new things about the world and find different perspectives on life.

His speaking style fluctuates wildly depending on who he's with and what mood he's in. He's prone to bouts of dramatic spiels, or to rapid-fire slang if he's very fixated on a topic.

One of his greatest insecurities stems from his programmed background, which led him to believe he was a clone of someone else. He responded to this by trying to be obsessively original in everything he did. He consumed all kinds of literature, desperately trying to find the secret to being an original being, uninfluenced by others, but unfortunately for him, he seeks originality by copying others. He absorbs interests, but has never managed to be truly creative in his own way.

## Background

### Synthesized Memories

Vergil did not need any synthesized memories, as he truly believes he was artificially created. He just doesn't know *how* he was artificially created. He's been led to believe that he's the clone of an anonymous rich donor who wanted nothing more than to live on after his death, and was created in a test tube in STaN's laboratories.

### Artificial Sentience Project (ASP)

Vergil (at the time of his involvement in the project, he was solely called V43) was the second bot created for the Artificial Sentience Project, the very first being Z55. He and Z55 were friends during Vergil's first few weeks, but Z55 self-destructed suddenly after one of her conversations with Vergil and left Vergil alone for the scientists.

He was treated brutally and inhumanely, often forced to endure painful tests or torturous lectures on knowledge that had already been programmed into him. Additionally, he had no other test subjects to speak to until Y87 and K66 were made, and even then, he didn't click with either of them very well. He grew incredibly lonely and turned to literature to cope.

Shortly after K66 was made, Y87 attacked and killed several researchers. Vergil and K66 escaped separately during the attack, and the project was thrown into serious danger of cancellation.

The incident resulted in no further V units or 43 units being produced for the next 2 years, and no additional V43s being created for another 10 after that.

### Traveling

After his escape from STaN, Vergil decided to travel the galaxy. He visited Earth first and foremost, since he was fascinated with Earth literature and how humans had once been so great and yet had fallen so far. He visited the Mediterranean, but could not explore because of the violent warring tribes. He set out again and traveled to several other planets, including Aketi, to search for more knowledge about the world.

His travels were cut short by his crash on Vaakshya.

### Vaakshya

During his travels, Vergil suddenly crashed on Vaakshya. As the planet was supposedly uninhabited, he could do nothing to repair, much less refuel, his ship, so he wandered in solitude for a decade. Jango and Kestrel eventually landed on the same planet after hearing rumors of Vergil. Puck was also dumped on the planet shortly thereafter. The four of them became close friends and lived together in the Vaakshya ruins for years to come.