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The Creator


Name: Velal Entellis

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Appearance: Average height, average body; Velal is 6'1", weighing about 152 lbs. He doesn't exercise, so he isn't muscular; he doesn't eat too much, but he does remember to eat enough. All in all, fairly "normal" looking. Short, scruffy blonde hair, slightly bronze tone skin, and freckles. Freckles everywhere. Alternatively wears glasses or contacts; green eyes. Dresses in plain, one-color shirts and usually black slacks.

Nationality: American

Place of Residence: Louisiana area

Affluence level: Eats, pays bills. Saves anything extra. Doesn't pay attention to it, probably has a sizeable account and simply ignores it.

Family: Three sisters and a brother in various parts of the country. Mother and father still alive, living in Texas area.

Friends: Primarily online.


Short History Synopsis: Velal was born to a relatively middle-class family, youngest of four children. Became not-youngest when he was five, when his only baby sister was born. The family lived in Texas, with none of the children living anywhere else until it was time for them to move out.

Velal developed as a bit of a recluse, finding the people in his neighborhood and city rather distasteful. He spent most of his youth online, playing various MMOs and chattering with friends. As he grew older, he withdrew further, beginning to turn rather irritable to most people in person. He took up a programming hobby, dreaming of being able to support himself without the need to interact with the "outsiders" more than necessary.

It was during this time period of young-adulthood that he began to develop an interest in more unusual things. He picked up a bit of a roleplaying habit, and began to discover odd and often somewhat violent fetishes. Being secluded as he was, these interests began to flourish and take root as a core part of his formative personality. In addition, it was here that he began to learn how to actually create AI and various useful functions - though he never studied formally, and never bothered to learn how to code properly. He has an amazing grasp on logic, which lead to functional programs, but unfortunately he also has no standards but his own, leading to a flurry of bugs and oddities within everything he created.

After graduating from highschool, his parents insisted on sending him off to college. Having no interest in any of the classes, he enrolled primarily in online courses whenever possible, gladly holing up in the small apartment his family afforded him. This was when he first began development on his GESTALT project. This was also when his primary ... funding source was created. When not programming, Velal was, and is, often collecting or creating material for his site. The site itself is fairly popular, but the content makes it that many people never complain about his multiple tiny charges to their credit cards. Unethical, of course, but over the years Velal learned to hate most "outside" people and the sour taste they left in his mouth.

After a year and a half of college, Velal quit and moved to Louisiana. There wasn't any particular reason for the location, other than the fact that he actually enjoyed the food.

He has lived in the city for years now, running his website and developing various programs. His primary focus has been GESTALT, who absorbs much of his time.

Descent into hatred and the GESTALT project: Velal is not a person with a tragic past; there is no large, defining event that shaped who he is today. He isn't a figure with a sole source of inspiration. More, instead, his feelings towards the outside world generated as the result of a rather sneaky hate spiral.

His intelligence is above average; he isn't exactly a genius, but he's not "normal" either. Early on, the slow-speaking drawl of life and speech in his native Texas began to irritate him. His interest in electronics and online life wasn't unsual, but he found it more fascinating than many - here, a collection of ideas and people that weren't "normal." He wasn't held to any particular standard but his own, and people would still like him for it. And if they didn't, he could easily ignore them. This lack of ease and understanding began to grate on his nerves, as did the "idiocy" of the general populace.

As he grew, everything that made him mad began to stick with him - particularly after he quit college and experienced the "real" world. While he is not homocidal by any stretch of the world, his jaded view has led him to greatly resent most of humanity and desire harm to most of the populace. Everything - from getting cut off in travelling to getting the wrong food delivered to his home to bad decisions by politicians - everything sticks with him, making him more and more irate at the world.

Hence the evolution of GESTALT - referring to the project - and Gestalt, referring to the AI.

In the beginning, GESTALT was designed as an anti-virus. The purpose was to assist Velal from potential attacks. Being so opinionated and into so many "odd" things leads one open to attacks, after all. After leaving college, much of the functionality was erased (leaving the AI bits as "why not? It won't hurt anything") and GESTALT shifted to a more aggressive focus. Velal worked on the project as a trojan for a while, intent on simply infecting and disabling others.

Somewhere around his 25th birthday, Velal realised something he wasn't sure why he hadn't earlier - if he wanted to be on the offensive side, why didn't he really put himself on the aggressive? So the program functionality was deleted again, once again leaving behind fragments of AI code. From there, Gestalt was born.

Once the gate was unlocked, the flood began. All of the violence and surpressed hatred Velal harbored was poured into the AI of the new project.The fantasized sadism, the cruelty, the irritation - all of these formed the majority of Gestalt's personality.

Now, the continued development of the project is a bit of a catharthic experience for Velal. It satisfies the hateful, violent urges he has and simultaneously pleases him that Gestalt is more than happy to completely devestate the systems of any of those "outsiders" that are stupid enough to let him in.

RP Sample

Sweet.

Honestly, the only reason that the manipulation was worked in was that I was afraid he was turning into too much of a destructive brute. I'm more than happy to take it out of his abilities, though I think fragments of it might fall into his actual personality.

I have a lot of development forming in my head for him, and his creator, but I wanted to make absolutely sure that having something that cruel and destructive in nature was ... well, you know, cool. 'Cause I thought it fit a virus but I know that having something rather deranged might not fly in some shops.

Imma edit him + write up character pre-bio today.

Finished writing out Velal: Violence fetishist (sadist, guro, etc) with a penchant for hating idiots. Basically. *snerks*

Reopening for crit. That was fast. :U