Player - Zora Domina zora_domina@sbcglobal.net

Character: Charybdis

Gender: Female

Type: Vampiric Rogue Program. Charybdis used to be a format/reformat type program whose usefulness ended at the close of the 3rd Matrix. She somehow managed to outlast the 4th, and now exists almost entirely to escort human minds around.

Age: possibly more than 400 earth-human years technically. However, her apparent age is around 40.

Physical: Though Charybdis is almost entirely human in appearance there are some distinct differences. She seems to be around 7 feet tall, this is an effect of not only her bizarre hair but the fact that she likes to float. Her skin tone is fair to pale, unmarred, and she is somewhat shapely, with a narrow waist and strong shoulders. Her hair has been replaced with a representation of Sentinel tentacles, which unnerves most people - including other programs. Each of these things moves on its own, she looks rather like a techno-medusa in that way. Her eyes are a shining silvery-green. Charybdis wears pale grey pants, no shoes, and an off-the-shoulder split-front dress that is visually reminiscent of the Matrix coding - it does move on its own and seems to flicker sometimes. (Code readers - heh. you'll go nuts trying to figure out what her dress is doing...)

Powers and Abilities: Charybdis reads and re-writes Matrix codes at will. She can reformat an area to a "null" state, effectively clearing out any undesirable presences - including Agents, other programs, people, and rendered buildings/backgrounds. She can rebuild these areas, with great effort - it's not what she's designed to do. Because she is a reformat program, very few Agents are willing to go head to head with her. She's able to do close up reformatting and very finely controls her ability, she likes to get right up next to an Agent before wiping them off the Matrix. Her delete ability extends to about the volume of a 4-unit apartment complex, or basically one single-story city block worth of space. She cannot destroy entire blocks or buildings, but she can do almost any number of nearby programs. Charybdis can relocate herself across the Matrix in the same manner as an Agent, but prefers not to do this. Instead she likes to zoom around with her hair looking all sweepycool.

Personality - Charybdis is a fairly open minded and pleasant person in general. She goes through moments of doubt - wondering whether she's real as the people outside the Matrix are, or if it's okay for programs like her to do what they do. She is a bit jealous of the unplugged Humans, because they have a freedom that she cannot ever have. She is defensive about herself, and will protect herself quickly. She also will defend any given person or program that happens to catch her fancy.

History - as above, created as a reformat program in the 3rd Matrix, and unable to be cleansed from this one. (In the future, the 6th Matrix where Neo and the others are, she will have entirely lost her memory, but knows she's important.)

Enemies/Allies - nothing specific yet. I would think that the Architect would really hate having her around.

Goals - to assist whoever she likes, and to shoo out of the way anyone else.