"Syntax"

[/b]: Bears a great deal of similarity to jellyfish in both appearance and locomotive properties. The lack of a skeletal structure allows for slippery, fluid movements and the ability to bend and contort the body in truly disturbing ways.

🖪 ADAPTIVE INTELLECT: Syntax is deceptively cunning and predatory, able to learn from previous mistakes while perpetually correcting and modifying its own behavior to suit any immediate conditions that need fulfilled. Consistent consumption of data accelerates its capacity to grow and develop.

🖪 DATA PROGRAMMING: As its own existence is defined and expanded upon by the evolving abundance of information across both worlds and the Digital Network between them, Syntax is exceptionally proficient with creating, modifying, recycling, and even destroying various vectors from which this data can flow.

🖪 UNCANNY VALLEY: Syntax is ineffably weird as a consequence of its anomalous nature; with any similarities or comparisons drawn between itself and other Digimon provoking an indescribable, yet instinctive, sense of revulsion. It really doesn't matter what it's doing or thinking, Syntax never fails to creep somebody out.[/ul]

PERSONALITY: As the culmination of several computer viruses that have achieved a kind of pseudosapience, the entity which calls itself "Syntax" operates under very simple directives: eat, learn, evolve, rinse and repeat. It is aware of its nature as a facsimile of the creatures referred to by human beings as "Digimon", its own core processes a deliberate attempt to imitate the functions of these other creatures on a fundamental level. However, these are where the similarities cease.

As a downside to a slew of flaws in its own sound files, Syntax cannot communicate verbally with others. To compensate, it forcibly hijacks any media platforms usable by humans and Digimon alike, ranging from social networking services to instant messengers, to e-mail clients, and everything else in between. Should push come to shove, it will even overwrite itself into the mainframe of any electronic device within proximity, although such methods will always produce visually erratic glitches or similar errors.

Syntax lacks a genuine concept of identity and is seemingly comfortable with this fact, if not entirely oblivious to this lack of capacity for such complex patterns of thinking – outside of its compulsive drive to devour data without limit, it cannot feel nor empathize with others and finds anyone capable of displaying such attributes to be a curiosity worthy of examination and study. Nothing else has meaning or value to it, much to the discomfort of sentient creatures that would very much like to convince it otherwise. 

Its own aberrant problem-solving skills often result in conflict with Syntax's directives to consume information and become more advanced. If it cannot simply eat its way to a solution, Syntax will filter through any other options that are immediately available in order to reach the same result. To say that Syntax is much closer to an adaptive artificial intelligence would not be a far cry.

The short of it is, this being is not as mindless in its actions as one might perceive it to be: Syntax is fully capable of using misdirection and subterfuge to achieve the ends it seeks to reach, even going so far as to ruminate on the philosophical context of its methods if it means getting what it ultimately wants. It will lie, cheat, steal, stalk, hide, manipulate, coerce, betray, and even kill – if such an action can be processed as a warranted one.

As the Italian diplomat and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli once said: “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”

BACKGROUND HISTORY: Even an imitation can trace its beginnings back to something that was once considered to be original. But what happens when the line between originality and representation blurs itself, reality and simulacrum, and both concepts become indistinguishable from one another? Surely, by then, the very premise of that which is "original" eventually, invariably, loses all semblance of meaning – there is only the simulacrum.

Such is how the virtual anomaly which calls itself "Syntax" postulates the circumstances behind its ultimate creation and emergence as a shallow replica of the bio-electronic organisms known as "Digimon". There are no memories from which it can draw upon, no timeline to formulate a sequence of events, no archives or data banks that contain even a trace of something remotely close to a point of authentic origin.

It was not born, and thus could not die so that it might be reborn, reshaped, given new purpose.

What is "purpose"? How are such abstractions defined? What values are necessary to pave the way for their formation? Syntax does not know, but it cannot know, because there is no input. A computer requires commands to perform functions that are otherwise beyond it. Even if such an impulse were present, what does this serve for a lifeless, soulless facsimile of life – an existence that never existed to begin with? 

Syntax only knows of its directives, the impulses coded into its data, the necessity to profligate and spread as all worms and viruses are programmed to do. There is no meaning to its actions. There is no grand design behind its false emulation of "life".

There is no "life". There is no "meaning".

There is only the simulacrum.

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