Laika Virgin & Laika Surgeon

## Profile

*“Oh dear, it appears that you are being extremely rude to our*
guests. Perhaps it’s best if you FUCKING RUN YOU COWARDLY LITTLE
FUCKWHEATS BEFORE I RIP OUT YOUR CODE AND SHOVE IT IN YOUR FUCKING
ENDBRACKET*!” -* Laika\_Virgin responding to an attack on her faculties by switching to her Laika\_Surgeon one.

Created
 as an ambitious project to combine the functionality of an antivirus
and a maintainance program (IE, disc defragmenting, system optimization
and such), the LAIKA program exists in millions of iterations on
computers all over the world.

And, its collective embodiment has a bit of a dual personality...

## Abilities

The Defragmenter/VIRGIN has what are essentially "healing hands," for those programs that have been mutilated or even warped and corrupted beyond the recovery of others. The Antiviral/SURGEON side is more straightforward, with her powerful scalpel-claws and deadly "Firewall Breath" that is essentially a telefrag.

## Characterization

The defragmenter side, LAIKA\_VIRGIN is sweet, demure, in a
distinctive white robe with healing hands and lop ears. She’s ever
generous and caring, always offering to help improve one’s performance
and to shelter a program in need.

The antivirus side,
LAIKA\_SURGEON is rude, brash, and perpetually spoiling for a fight and
willing to rip and tear with her scalpel claws staining her red dress
with leaking code and the blazing breath that comes out of her
sharp-jawed face ripping through scripts like nobody’s tomorrow. She’s
not malevolent though, just very impulsive, and is more than capable of
camraderie in the heat of battle.
Their personalities tend to
switch based on the external situation; independent of the will of
either of them much to their annoyance. They know about each other, but
tend to regard the other as obnoxious but necessary, with the VIRGIN
side considering the SURGEON to be an uncouth bully while the SURGEON
side considers the VIRGIN to be weak and overly polite to those who
don’t deserve it.

## Additional Info.

The picture of her is more a simultaneous metaphorical depiction of the
forms, with the Virgin half looking like the left side on both sides,
and the Surgeon head looking the same but for the right.

They do,
however have a “Hyper Form” that looks like the split-humanoid above and
 contains both sides working in perfect synch. This is rare to see
however, and usually only happens in the case of major; terrifying
existential threats…

She was named after the song Like A Virgin by Madonna and its (Far superior in this author's opinion) parody Like A Surgeon by Weird Al Yankovic...

## Author Commentary

Yet another one where the name came first and the design (Inspired by the general aesthetics of the famous ZX Spectrum computer's games) followed! I like her, I should do more stuff with her...

## License

This character is free to use as you see fit under a CC-BY 4.0 license so long as I; Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as their creator!

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