Name: 'Vitam,' 'Vitae,' 'Vita.' Either work, it uses them interchangeably.
Sex: Refers to self as Male, despite if there's evidence to the contrary at the time.
Age: He doesn't see the point of counting the passing of time.
Description: It is, therefore it is. A small, dense, one-inch in diameter floating cube of some strange black material that, if looked at closely enough one can see it... Shift, slightly. There's the occasional spark of energy, although its usually nothing more than a slight crackle and some light, although as to if Vitae does it for show to impress or its unintentional isn't known however. That's Vitam's base form, at least.
This form is capable of speech, as well as creating a solid 'hard light' hologram that has no observable differences from what something might look like in reality. The hologram isn't that strong however, a good enough hit would cause it to spark and dissipate, but Vitae doesn't use this form for such manners, not typically.
The hologram is able to be of any shape or size, but he prefers that of a thirty-something bald man of average build and height with gunmetal colored skin and a pointed beard. The beard however, instead of hair, is exposed wires that sometimes crackle with a current of electricity running through them in a sweep. The man wears a grey suit jacket with a black dress shirt under that who's sleeves are visibly outside the suit jacket's sleeves. There are dark green cufflinks on the shirt, along with a dark green tie that is nestled properly under the jacket. If one were to look closely at the tie, it shifts, moves, and squirms slightly, almost imperceptibly, as if a very slow, thick liquid instead of a solid fabric. This is completed with grey slacks and black dress shoes. The man's eyes are a solid dark green.
Origin: Vitam is. In the far future, long after the sun has died and humanity moved on, Vitae is. What started as an experiment for a singular mechanical being that could terraform a planet by itself if given the correct materials went right. And wrong. And sideways, as Vita likes to say. Neural scans and imprinting taken from another long-since-dead man as a way to shortcut their way through the programming, such practices highly illegal at the time (and an infringement on copyrights for that matter) but the men doing the experiment were rushed, the deadline soon coming closer.
Long had humanity been spaceborn, with those planets inhabitable crowded and terraforming a lengthy process that takes many years the men wished to expand their race by possibly building a machine that they could simply give the materials and leave along, for it to work autonomously, and made with a power supply that would hopefully never run out and provide that which was needed. And it worked, indeed Vitae was the first and only created through such, and they soon found out that he could manipulate, create, expand, make life. In their pride, they named him Vitam, after the word 'life' in a long dead language only used in ancient manuals.
But it was warped, not up to standards, incorrect, everything a strange mixture of biological and mechanical, green at that too which isn't bad for plants but looks rather... Odd for animals. While he could create life, he couldn't sever the tie from it to him, while he could morph life, he needed the material to do such which could only come from other life, and with that there was the discovery that he could expand. Unable to let such a failure continue, they moved to shut down the program. Vitae, however, mistook taking down the program as killing him, thinking that they'd shut him down for something he couldn't help, when instead they had decided prior to keeping him as he was technically a sapient being.
Things didn't end well for them. That was when Vita learned that he could take hosts, a strange process where he embeds himself into someone and forcibly converts them to his will. It often looked rather horrifying, as often he'd need to convert some of their being for his purposes often leaving nothing but a mobile, partially fleshless cadaver with green strains that seem almost welded to its frame, constantly moving up and down with strange lights and dark spots. He also learned from the process that he can... 'See' their memories, so to speak. It had learned its error in reasoning.
The scientists killed in an act of poorly perceived self-defense, the event slid further and further away from Vitae as many on the ship considered it crazed, until soon, it was only him on the ship. The being had drifted then, reviewing memories on the derelict, testing forms and things it could create with the amassed bio-material it had gathered. But time withers that of the flesh, even that of the strange quasi-mechanical make and the mass dwindled as time went along. Vitam converted the ship to amuse itself on the long voyage to no where. Eventually the ship was nothing but a hull and an ever-shifting mass of metal mixed with what remained of the biological parts.
Wanderers would come by, scavengers seeking to perhaps gain something of use from the obviously decrepit ship, were all often surprised when hailed to leave, that the ship was contaminated by an automated voice. Those that probed deep into the ship despite the many warnings, often didn't return.
Traits: Vitae considers himself RESOURCEFUL, WILLFUL, and ENERGIZED. He admits however that he takes ROUND ABOUT WAYS OF DOING THINGS either to amuse himself or for some other perceived reasoning, but likes to consider himself very EFFICIENT about doing said round about ways.
That's about all I got for now, too tired to write anything else.
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