Hash - Cipher Circuit

Personality: Brilliant but conceited, he looks down on everyone for being less intelligent than him. Despite his rationality and how thorough he is with his calculations, he’s easy to provoke by beating him at his own games or making fun of him. He also gets frustrated if he’s dealing with slow computations or long loading times in any software he’s using. Understimulation makes him want to fall asleep or find something more stimulating to keep his powerful processor occupied. Doing menial data entry or sitting in meetings where only his presence is needed gives way to feeling understimulated. If given the opportunity, Hash will brag about his wealth of knowledge and show off how much he knows about a certain topic, especially if it pertains to software and coding. He uses advanced vocabulary and speaks verbosely to prop himself up on a pedestal so he can feel intellectually superior to others. He at least tolerates those that work under him with respect, even if he likes to brag about his intelligence to them. If he’s around bots he knows will attack if provoked when he’s not in Cyberspace, especially given his lanky build, he won’t dare to speak ill of them in their presence. This applies to all Circuits, so he pushes aside his ego when interacting with them. This won’t stop him from making the occasional snide remark though. He also has a knack for harmless pranks that he can execute smoothly on virtually anyone with how well he sets them up. His pranks are more malicious if directed towards someone he doesn’t like by hacking into their personal files and tampering with them.

Paint colour: White with dark purple head, neck, waistband and lower legs.

Features: Wears the Cipher Circuit on head which covers the right side of his head. The Circuit is equipped with a mic he can speak into and has a scope over his right optic. Wears a non-removable face mask that has a wide grin and makes him look like he’s always scheming something. Has four arms with servos that can move independently and deftly coordinate movements with each other to perform tasks more efficiently. His greatest invention is the digital domain he calls Cyberspace, where he can change its rules and the space itself on a whim. He mainly uses it for making his masterpieces; creating obstacle courses to challenge others to complete them and flaunt his genius. Can create up to three holographic clones and turn himself into data to become incorporeal or enter Cyberspace. Hash likes to make himself float whenever he’s in Cyberspace. Bots other than Hash who want to access Cyberspace must find a gateway; a neon-green portal made of data hidden in specific, abandoned warehouses that connects the real world to Cyberspace. Only he, the other Circuits, and his employees know where they’re located, who are all bound by an NDA on this matter. Those outside of these groups but need access to Cyberspace are directly transported in and out by Hash himself to not reveal the locations of the gateways.

Backstory: The Cipher Circuit is one of ten Circuits. The Circuits used to travel from planet to planet in the Ark (a giant spaceship), terraforming it alongside the common bots Commander Circuit made to make it suitable for their Masters. (No one knows what their Masters look like.) However, once he and the other Circuits realised that the common bots could develop sentience and their own personalities due to a malfunction in the Ark's building process and learnt that Commander Circuit's signal kept them alive, the weight of entire planets full of bots they departed from going into stasis hit them hard. Seeing Commander Circuit's indifference towards the common bots as being disposable because he could make them so easily infuriated them, spurring on Hash and the other eight Circuits to break the cycle. He watched on with the others as Ray and Crash buried the Ark with their overwhelming power, which also buried Commander Circuit whose body is bound to the spaceship. Thus, they had forsaken their Master's mission for the sake of the sentient common bots. Presuming him to be dead, they told the common bots that only nine Circuits exist, and no one questioned it as the common bots didn’t know they were even built in the Ark in the first place. (Due to not being sentient at the time of their creation.) They were also told that the Circuits were built to protect the common bots, hence why Guardian Corps exists. Unbeknownst to the Circuits, Commander Circuit has survived and is plotting their downfall in the shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike and catch the Circuits off guard. The moment the Ark is inevitably uncovered during terraforming, Commander Circuit shall unleash the Virus Army he has built up over the years, using them to bring back all of the Circuits by force so that the Ark can take off again. His designation is in software engineering. As such, most of his work either involves data entry and cyber security management. He’s also the inventor of Cyberspace, his digital archive and domain that he can rewrite the rules of it and anything in there to his every whim.