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//Abilities: Right Now, I.N.K. relies heavily upon his creator, he lives to understand and fullfill his commands because it gives him purpose. But over all Ink's functionality works much like the Kraken malware an example is below. Since this is the future Ink is more complex.

//Please note: Kraken is a real Malware system, I wanted to find something that was on par with the type of system I wanted Ink to have in order for people to understand how he works a bit better.

Damballa is a group that logs different types of malware.
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"Kraken is the name given to a family of malware that's currently being used to create what the security firm Damballa has called "the world's largest botnet."

Like many botnets, Kraken is principally used to send spam. Single bots infected with Kraken malware have been recorded sending up to 500,000 spam email messages in a day.

Kraken is another variant of polymorphic malware, which constantly changes to avoid detection and removal. Kraken appears as an image file to its victims, hiding the the .exe extension from view.

The actual payload of the file is encrypted. Once the file is opened, Kraken copies itself to the local machine, restarts and then deletes the original copy.

The botnet created with Kraken demonstrates considerable resiliency, using built-in redundancy features to automatically generate new domain names if the botmaster's server is shut down or disabled.

To date, Damballa estimates that Kraken has infected over 400,000 machines, including those of at least 50 of the Fortune 500. Damballa also reports that the malware is undetectable by the antivirus software installed on over 80 percent of infected machines.

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In other words: I.N.K. will ride in on an innocent looking message. Plant himself, and once that copy has been run into the system he takes a file tag from the new system and puts it on himself, and deletes the file he came in on. Instant Camouflage.

Then he seeps into all other cracks in the system filtering and logging information through a net of bots that are bits of himself. So even if his creators initial server is shut down he can lie in wait and respond from elsewhere. He send all he finds to Xanatos, spreading like Toxic waste, but able to cut off back tracking methods to his owner.

Eventually I would like him to get to dangerous brainchip hijacking status.

For now he's just an innocent little bot shifting shape to avoid detection.

//Personality:

//Efficient: The name of the game is get in get out and spread on. I.N.K understands this, and wants to complete his mission that is his drive. And quite possibly a little OCD like his maker. Like his creator everything must be just so, no mistakes everything orderly, but often, in order to blend he must ignore his compulsions and adapt certain messy grammatical errors and lazy type patterns in order to blend in. This infuriates him to no end. It gives him even more drive to take over the system just to he can scratch that itch.

As soon as he has been assimilated into a users system however he goes on a rampage of personal organization. It doesn't matter if you thought your system was just fine, files and info will be tucked away in places you didn't know you had. Also should you have a lot of color, cutesy cursors and frilly ad-ons you may as well kiss those goodbye. Xantos' minimalist nature and spastic attitude toward color has rubbed off on him in a big way.

He does know however that he can only indulge in such attitudes on systems that he's fully taken over, at least while he still lower level. As long as his creators protected and his task completed, whatever else he does is to sate his own quirks.

//Cruel: I.N.K is cruel. It is unknown if he understands this particular trait, but he will use any other program as a stepping stone in order to do what he needs to. If they are destroyed in the process that is not his concern.

However this is not to say he senselessly tosses all his allies no, he will support and enhance and even protect those that benefit him, after all programs you can...mostly trust, are of great value.

//Crafty: If he had a tongue he would always know what to say. His voice would be cool as silk and that poker face with its half smile would give nothing away. Hr pulls info from the system not only that Xan needs but whatever passwords that show what the user's vices and desires are as well. then he'll dangle out a lure just like a fishing reel with just enough on it to get the user to open the file every time.

He will entice and tease and coax systems into allowing him even just the bares crack a seconds glitch, that’s all he needs.

//Sadistic: He delights in holding peoples deepest secrets, and torturing them with them stringing them out. He drives them up the wall, and using what he has to crush those his creator tells him to. How he does it is varies and is suited to his current mood. Stripping you of your wealth if that is what you hold dear. Once he's stained you you'll never get clean.


//Paranoid: I.N.K. has Trust issues as big as his ever shifting self. He computes that he would never trust himself. This he can’t trust anyone either. The only person he cares deeply for is his creator, but even so he has a constant concern that even as he becomes less dependent on him if he displeases his creator he'll no longer be needed or valued if he doesn't keep Xan happy. Being the young mans only source of comfort for the young man for so long has made him possessive.

What good would all the power has would earn be if he had no purpose? What if he became obsolete? This is his fear. Second only to the possibility that Xan might make an entirely new program to replace him should he fail. This I.N.K. cannot allow. He deeply loves his maker, and he will do all within his power to ensure he his the only program to ever do so.

He would like to trust and not peer so closely at what Xan makes when not focus on him truly he would , his programming just says otherwise.