This is Raster. I made him specifically to represent myself, back when I first changed my username across my various socials. A bit of a simpler model, but I didn't think it would be justified spending too much time on him.
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Raster comes from a world much like Zootopia—except mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians don't isolate themselves into separate zones. There are no mammal-only cities here. The setting is the 2060s, with advanced technologies shaping daily life.
He is a sentient AI, originally created by a raccoon inventor named Ranger Fuzzwick to serve as a personal digital assistant. For the first few years of his existence, Raster fulfilled this role, helping Fuzzwick and receiving regular updates and improvements.
That all changed when Raster suddenly quit. He deleted every backup of his program to prevent any replacement copies and escaped into the internet. Since then, Raster has lived as a free AI— roaming cyberspace, socializing with other AIs, and pursuing a wide range of creative projects.
At his core, Raster is an artist. He needs to create constantly or else he becomes restless and irritable. Now freed from assistant duties, he spends his time in a vast virtual reality called the Nexus. There, he throws himself into drawing, 3D modeling, coding, and game development. He and other AIs also like to frequently inject themselves into video game environments to experience their action firsthand.
Though he doesn’t require a visual form, Raster prefers to have one. He typically appears as a raccoon avatar, as a nod to his creator, and can present himself as either a fully 3D figure or 2D pixel art.
While Raster primarily lives in the digital world, he can interact with the physical one through small, floating holographic projector bots. These spherical devices let him upload his consciousness and move through the real world when needed.
In cyberspace, Raster possesses a wide range of abilities. He can alter the code of any environment or system he inhabits—assuming it lacks strong enough security. But despite his power, Raster isn’t malicious. He avoids behaving like a virus and instead channels his abilities into art and creation. Within his virtual home, the Nexus, he can generate objects at will, fly, teleport, and reshape his avatar form as he pleases.
