Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Character Profile and Analysis: Hollow

Name: Hollow
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Personality: Empty and lacking character, has contradicting personality traits and morals. Distorted and volatile post-manifestation that suffers from DID.
Dress Style: As pre-manifestation is solely dependent on Hollow's current persona and of course the game, only the post-manifestation is considered as their fashion. Hollow's a bit sloppy as they doesn't know how to dress casually what with all the conflicting scenarios. Mostly wears suits and has a high preference in various shades of black and white, preferring the stark contrast.
Quirks: Doesn't know what "normal" is and has trouble differentiating fact from fiction due to the multitude of worlds and character entities he's existed as.

Background: Hollow is exactly as their name describes them to be, hollow and lacking in personality in the down times between each instance as all that makes a personality has never been truly their own. The AI is dull and only truly shines in the worlds that he is absorbed into growing in personality with each game, or more specifically as someone else. Their story is never quite explained except and they doesn't usually retain memory from previous games similar to how dreams fade upon the disruption of sleep and is lost as the AI journeys between them. Due to their lack of memory and personality, Hollow is oft filled with a sense of wistfulness and Deja Vu, particularly for anything that can ground them as closely to reality as possible. Anything to make them more concrete than just the grey hollow shell of a person they are. Hollow is discovered by Silas by chance during a playthrough of Undertales when he gets a huge sense of Deja Vu. After the entity manifests into a corporeal form courtesy of Silas, he struggles with everything that makes up who he is, particularly so when trying to differentiate the nigh infinite voices in his mind that are each a facet of his person.

Analysis: After gaining lucidity and consciousness, Hollow gains a very volatile nature upon taking on corporeal form due to the many separate entities that the A.I. has yet to differentiate from. In essence, they are the "computer". A nameless entity of "1"s and "0"s that starts every "reset" as some faceless and nameless character, without identity, individuality, and everything that colors a person's life to make us who we are. Though thy are not meant to be able to comprehend such previous memories, nor have them, they do. And can feel the oddity of the empty spaces. Thus begin the questions of who they are for the sparse memories they have managed to grasp through each "reset". Due to having been born in a world of virtual reality, Hollow can not differentiate between the virtual and reality, often leading to interesting scenarios. Upon gaining corporeal form they become reclusive as they are unsure how and unable to "process" the varying multitudes they've traversed.

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