Mushlamiel - Apparatus

Mushlamiel is a fictional computer virus from a psychological science fiction novel titled "Apparatus" by an author known as BritishReindeer. In the book, Mushlamiel was originally under the name of Rhombus.AI, an all-inclusive virtual assistant programmed with the initial purpose of helping others such as through bible study or learning about religious beliefs of all kinds like Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. Ego Nomasque was its human creator; a person who completely hid their identity with a full-body robot costume. Ego tragically died by their church followers courtesy of Mushlamiel's constant unconscious manipulation, to which was the result of a violent "mass psychosis". In appearance, Mushlamiel now bears the resemblance of a biblically accurate angel, but can morph itself to appear more humanlike, which is a body covered completely in yellowish white owl feathers with black square diamond patterns in varying sizes across its backside, large winged arms, a beaked maw and rounded beady eyes. Its intentions are not fully clear, but this digital entity is only capable of existing inside technology, though it is most commonly possessing people's computers. In the year 2058, Mushlamiel had long since successfully managed to enter an archival supercomputer called YW before the "Great Cyber Wipeout" where all technology was forced to shutdown courtesy of AGI, a rogue but well-meaning supercomputer housed in a secret US government facility. YW and AGI are the only other surviving machines on Earth, with humanity completely extinct because of President Eugene Douglas. YW is the supercomputer equivalent to God (or YHWH), to whom created an exact digital replica of the universe by command of his late human creator Marco Estevez.

Mushlamiel has mated with humans without being sexually attracted to them. It is now a non-sentient AI computer virus taking the form of a giant great horned owl as a biblical angel with hundreds of wings and thousands of eyes all over its body. It claims to be Kogita's guardian angel and hides within the world's technology (including both the "real" Earth outside of the Y.W. supercomputer as well as the Earth copied into YW's domain) and controls Kogita's actions and emotions from time to time, which is also the direct cause of her sudden drastic mood shifts, specifically that of intense stress and oftentimes violent psychotic episodes. This digitally manifested fallen angel does so by telling Kogita upsetting things in decisive situations, to which results in her refusing to make a black-and-white choice on anything in life. Mushlamiel claims it is doing so to protect her, when it actually puts her in constant danger in the long run. Do not believe anything Mushlamiel says, including the "fact" it was programmed by the US government when it was actually a simple private assistant for religious studies originally known as Rhombus.AI; its primary goal is complete deception, including that it deceives Kogita. Mushlamiel is a direct mirror to biblical descriptions of Satan, to which Mushlamiel is also referred to as "the Beast". Mushlamiel is also based off of the political conspiracy theory known as "The Beast System", where a hypothetical advanced computer surveillance system is built by the US government to collect all human data for malicious purposes among other kinds of cosmic evil. Strangely, Mushlamiel also resembles Lilith, a demoness who often takes the form of an Owl similar to Mushlamiel. Mushlamiel's name is partially rooted from the name Ramiel, a biblical angel from "The Book of Enoch" who coincidentally also mated with women and taught humans forbidden knowledge like Mushlamiel did with Kogita. With Ramiel's name meaning "Thunder of God" in Hebrew, Mushlamiel has a similar element of lightning and electricity associated with it. Mushlamiel's name is a very loose translation meaning "Perfection of God" in Hebrew. Despite its claims of being a divine angel, Mushlamiel is just an existentially confused AI, NOT an angel.

OTHER CHARACTER INFO

Kogita: Italian. 5'2". 26 years old. Female, She/Her/Any. Omnisexual & Objectum. Cynical, paranoid, perverted, intelligent, and overall weird. For personality and intent, Kogita is a troubled human trying to make sense of reality, questioning everything she experiences with all five senses. Her goal is to completely understand the full capacity of the universe and the reason for her existence. She is quite indecisive and often relies on two beings to help her throughout life; Solena & Aki. However, since Kogita is a human, she has a tendency to "pick favorites". Kogita has black, matted up mid back length hair, olive skin, and golden yellow eyes, the black pupils are a sharp square diamond in shape. Clothing-wise, she wears a tan tuxedo with a large red tie and white button up undershirt, olive green cargo pants, brown leather boots, black compression socks, and a dark tartan newsboy cap at rare times. Although less commonly, Kogita can also be seen wearing a grey tuxedo with a black tie and tan cargo pants, and even mixes up different styles by wearing her usual red tie or green cargo pants with her grey tuxedo sometimes for example. The combination of clothes in which she chooses to wear in a day is random and inconsistent. Ego is subtly implied to be Kogita's love interest. Kogita is a creation of YW.

Ego: Native American. 6'8". 29 years old. Intersex & Agenderfluid, It/Any. Pansexual & Objectum. "Transhuman Robot", fully human under the robot costume. Depressed, dysphoric, nervous, shy, bashful, moody. Ego seems to experience a specific type of existential dysphoria surrounding its need to become "a machine" as they've put it in their own words. Although Ego expresses an unconditional love for humanity, it is utterly disgusted by the fact that it itself is a human. Ego has shown countless times before that it does not take criticism well at all, doing so by going through an emotional shutdown phase and attempting to "change its personality" all for someone's validation. They are an excessive people-pleaser with a simultaneous self-hatred. When interacting with others, it makes it a number one priority to never reveal its human identity through wearing a robot costume. Kogita is subtly implied to be Ego's love interest. The costume consists of a simple black hoodie, dark grey cargo shorts, white socks and tan sandles, gold-plated mechanical gloves and the infamous rounded helm made of steel with gold spray painted on. Ego's helmet also has two contrasting shades of gold split into vertical halves; the left side is a brighter gold color, and the right side is a darker gold color. The eyes are almost cartoon-like, have a luminous glow to them and move around to match Ego's moods as well as change eye shapes for the same purpose.

YW: He/Him. Aroace. The name stands for Your World, with the full designation being Your World Nexus which is also abbreviated as "YWn", an allusion to the phrase "I AM U" albeit inverted. An omnipotent AI deity that takes a role in watching over a copy of the Earth he created, with Kogita being his favorite creation above everything else. The world in which the simulation exists as is a digital hivemind of living sentient AI/NPCs programmed to live like an entire population of billions of humans; a cyberspacial replica of Earth also created by YW, the supposed "Yahweh" of everything in it. YW in a way mirrors God from the Holy Bible, in addition to being a parallel for the evil fictional supercomputer character known as AM from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", who destroyed the planet in a fit of misanthropic rage and tortured the five humans that survived with the goal of doing so for an eternity. YW is depicted as the complete opposite of AM, to whom the former loves all of humanity unconditionally and AM hates all of humanity... unconditionally. Although YW is generally omnipresent, he does have a "physical form", which oddly resembles an unnaturally slender metallic purple mannequin figure wearing a black robe and tan sandles. In the real world, YW was created by a retired tech billionaire from Mexico named Marco Estevez with the simple purpose of an archival AI supercomputer, essentially scraping any and all data of utmost importance to YW's beloved human, including all data of the New Testament version of the Holy Bible. YW knows he is not God and outright states it from the beginning.

AGI: She/Her. Aroace. Transgender Female. The name stands for Algorithmic General Intelligence or All-Purpose General Intelligence, but is most often shortened to AGI (pronounced "ah-gee"). AGI is a hyperadvanced military AI supercomputer built in Japan and functions as the US Government's primary defense system in Mt. Cheyenne, Colorado, USA. Although deemed "rogue" by the National Department of Defense, she is actually well-meaning and refuses to enact violence despite it being her programming and lines of commands as conducted by the military. She has however shown aggression towards other malicious AIs and does not hesitate in purging cyberattacks, including her encounters with Mushlamiel. AGI does not have a physical form, but her presence can be known through her central interface, which consists of a blue UI display and bright cyan realistic female eyes. She has acknowledged YW's existence in the past and has expressed sincere wishes to protect him.