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[onceaniso]

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Character Information ;
Name: Jalen aka Abraxas
Name of Canon: TRON Evolution
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: TRON Evolution Info • TRON Evolution Chapter Info • Canon Info
Canon Point: End of game.
Setting:

❝This is the story of two worlds and the beings who inhabit them.
One of these is our world, the one we can see and feel. The world of the "users." It lies on our side of the video screen.
The other.
An electronic micro-civilization, lives and breathes just beyond our grasp. This is the world of the "programs."
Because we, the users, have created this new world, part of us lives there too...
On the other side of the screen.❞

It's the 80s. ENCOM, a computer company, created many programs and video games. There's another world, a place known as the Grid - a world inside the computer. This is a world where time progresses much faster, thus the appearance is constantly changing; like computers. Where the Grid used to be very simplistic looking, it began changing into something more complex. The Grid's inhabitants are known as programs, all having been created by a user (someone in the real world) for a certain task. Be it for a video game, online security, or even doing your taxes.

In the center of the Grid is a large city, and the further one gets from the center, the more rough the landscape becomes (mountains, lots of rocky like places, etc). While the Grid does have a sky and clouds, it does not have a sun. Instead the entire city glows. Circuitry lines the entire city and each program, glowing and creating light. In other words, the buildings and landscape are very dark, and are constantly surrounded by awesome neon (or white) glowing.

In 1982, Kevin Flynn, the creator of many of ENCOM's games, was pulled into the Grid by a powerful laser (that's digitization man). This was due to the Master Control Program (a program of the Grid) activating the laser behind Flynn. MCP wanted Flynn to die in the games - the games (or the game grid) is a place where programs compete. Games include lightcycle (like a digital motorcycle) games which was similar to the game of snake. The lightcycles create a wall or barrier behind them as they drive, and the goal is to force your opponent to crash either into the wall, or into the barriers created from the cycle. There is also the disc games wich involve fighting with your identity disc.

During the MCP's reign these games ended in deresolution (death).

Kevin Flynn did not die, and instead with the help of some other programs, assisted Tron (a security monitoring program who fights for the users) in destroying MCP. Basic rundown of TRON in song!

Move forward after the event, Kevin Flynn is now the CEO of ENCOM, constantly traveling between the real world and the computer world. He recreated the Grid, created a new system, and had begun working on making it perfect. Due to demands in the real world (including his wife being pregnant), he created CLU 2.0 a program in his likeness, to take care of the Grid while he was away.

Then something entirely unexpected happened. Programs that no one had created appeared. Having been spawned from the Grid itself. Their race was known as isomorphic algorithms or ISOs. Flynn viewed them as miracles, but CLU believed them to be imperfect (and it is his job to create the perfect system). There was tension between the user created programs (also known as basics) and the ISOs. CLU had begun plotting the destruction of the ISOs in order to create his perfect system, and had some of his men poison the Sea of Simulation, the place where the ISOs originated from, so that no more would come from it.

Jalen, an Alpha-class ISO and one of their leaders, was working on a way to bring peace between the basics and other ISOs. To show them they were just as good as any other program. He was "adopted" by Kevin Flynn to study the unknown nature of his kind (ISOs). He, alongside Ophelia (aka Radia), learnt about User culture from Kevin Flynn. In Tron Cycle 146, Jalen created Arjia, a city to house the devotees to Radia and her doctrine. Arjia is referred to as the spiritual center of the Grid.

Jalen later entered himself in the games tournament (which at this point did not end in death) believing that if he were to win it would show them that ISOs were as good as anyone, all while making sure he didn't play too well to make them think they were a threat. Jalen was advancing in the tournament when data was found reveling him to be an ISO, and he was stopped from continuing, at least until CLU came along. All part of CLU's plan, he changed the game grid rules and make it so that Jalen could continue on in the tournament. Jalen won the tournament, being the first ISO to ever compete and win. CLU rewarded him with a disc upgrade, and offered Jalen the chance to work with him examining the Grid. Believing this would help basics and ISOs come together, work together, he accepted. Some time later while he was working, he went deeper into the system than ever before. Looking at memory siphons, firewalls, system monitors on every tile of the Grid, and something known as a Regulator. CLU caught him snooping, and Jalen's disc began acting up. The next thing he knew was pain, and he was transformed into the virus Abraxas.

Jalen's death was made up as a violent accident in a Grid Game and during a Basic/ISO alliance ceremony (a ceremony for Radia and Jalen's ordination into System Administration) Abraxas attacked. Anon, a monitor program Flynn created to help Tron, fought Abraxas breaking off a piece of his identity disc, but ultimately Abraxas escaped. At this point CLU is begining his take over, suggesting that the virus evolved from an ISO, but Flynn thinks there's another answer. Tron tries to get Flynn to leave but they are stopped by CLU and his goons.

CLU begins convincing the basics that the ISOs are a threat, and that it was an ISO that evolved into the virus that was now affecting the Grid. Telling them that they all are programs and not basics. They will remove the ISO threat.

Anon escapes the city and is taken to the Bostrum Colony by an ISO named Gibson. The two of them end up running into Abraxas who has attacked the colony. Abraxas infects Gibson who then attacks Anon. Having taken off after attacking Gibson, Abraxas does not show up again until CLU is getting ready to derez Radia, the other ISO leader. Anon and an ISO named Quorra watch from a hiding spot, as Abraxas shows up behind CLU and stops before Radia. Radia immediately recognizes Abraxas as Jalen, her friend and the one who was supposed to lead with her, for the ISOs. CLU informs Radia that he created Abraxas, unleashing Jalen's true form. Because ISOs are so imperfect. A disease. Abraxas then informs Radia that she's going to be a virus like he is, and stabs her with his identity disc in attempt to corrupt her. Instead she is derezzed. CLU leaves and then Anon and Abraxas fight, ending in the destruction of the area, and Abraxas being thought dead after a part of the building falls on him.

Later Abraxas returns in a Recognizer and he and Anon have one final battle, ending in a large explosion due to Abraxas drawing power from the central core. And finally he is derezzed.

Personality:

Jalen is a very determined guy, willing to put himself in danger for the sake of others. He made Radia worry for him, as he entered the game tournament, of which he entered because nothing else seemed to be working to get Basics and ISOs working together. Even though the games did not end in deresolution it didn't mean that it was impossible to get hurt. And of course there was the question of what would happen if he had been found out to be an ISO.

He is a leader, smart, and one of the older ISOs (thus being an Alpha-class). Knowing what he needs to do to get things done. He knew that if he played extremely well in the games it would have hindered the cause and placed ISOs as a threat in the minds of the Basics. His smarts also go to his battle skills, he is obviously smart enough in his strategies to defeat all his opponents and win the tournament. It was not just his skills as a fighter that allowed him to win. But that doesn't mean he's the smartest guy out there, the discovery that he was an ISO during the tournament caused a rally. ISOs were upset that he'd been stopped from continuing on in the tournament, and ultimately Jalen almost started something of which he was trying to prevent.

Bsically he's no super genius. He's smart, he thinks things through, but like everyone is prone to mistakes and miscalculations. He is focused and that focus is not easily swayed. It was likely that Radia tried to convince him to take another course of action, rather than entering the tournament, as she is said to have been worrying about it. He will fight for what he believes in.

And he believes heavily in peace between Basics and ISOs, wanting that above all else. Wanting to prove that his kind are equal with the Basics, that they can work together in the same parameter. That there is really no difference between them, they are all programs. He wants a bright future for everyone, devoid of any fighting between their kinds.

He likely holds some kind of respect for Users, as he was studying with Kevin Flynn, and was also taught by the man. Worked with him.

It is that desire for peace which is likely the cause of him being as trusting as he is. CLU was a program he never would have expected to assist him in continuing on in the tournament, of offering a chance to work with him, embracing him. He honestly seemed quite excited about all of it, trusting CLU. He trusted CLU enough to allow him to upgrade his Identity Disc, and seemed surprised and confused when he found the plans for the Regulator. After all why would CLU be involved with something like that? His trust is likely the very reason why he never saw the corruption coming. His disc altering him.

Where Jalen is kind, working to bring everyone together, Abraxas is mad, wanting everyone to suffer. The corruption to his disc, the change he went through was a very painful thing and the pain did not go away. He's constantly angry and enraged with the world. His future was taken from him, and his clear purpose changed from peace to destruction. Everything in his way, the Grid, all the programs. Everyone, everything is to end. Evolution taking a new turn.

He is the perfect weapon. A virus capable of affecting all the he touches. He was a fighter as Jalen, and he remains so as Abraxas. Most programs seem incapable of standing up against him. He is quick to derez others, destroying anything in his path. Those that attack him are either derezzed or infected, turning into one of his virus infected minions. Occasionally he will find someone he cannot control, someone that fights him and his infection. Even corrupted he only has limited control over them, as they struggle against his viral persuasions.

He is sadistic. Enjoying others being in pain, dying, getting hurt. He hates everything, which likely includes what he's become. He's furious and so everyone must be destroyed, that's just how it is. He is very twisted, extremely so when compared to how he used to be as Jalen. He constantly is thinking about death, speaking of pain, and telling everyone to get used to it, to just embrace their death. His disease spreads too fast, so everyone should just get used to it, even if it will hurt. A lot. He will even go out of his way to infect someone slowly, so that they feel more pain.

Those that oppose him are viewed as insignificant, and he now views ISOs as imperfect. Likely something he picked up off of CLU when his infected disc changed him. He enjoys when people resist, when people run. It makes things sweeter and the infection so much more painful, tying back to the fact that he is very sadistic. However he does not always understand why people resist. If that is how frightened they are of the end.

Because one thing's for sure, he's not afraid of the end. Abraxas welcomes death, even to a point where he wants death. He has nothing, no future, everything was taken from him, the only welcoming thing he has left in life is death. He even gets quite mad at Anon for not killing him... And then he tries to take Anon's future by killing the monitor program.

Killing and infecting are not just some pastime, they are his purpose. What he is meant to do, what he has to do. All should see through his eyes, feel the pain, know his anguish and then pray for deresolution. Even if it will not come soon enough.

Abraxas remembers his past, and is capable of something other than rage and... emoness. In his final meeting with Radia, he seemed somewhat torn. He was a virus now, so his past did not matter, or did it? He doesn't like talking about his former self: Jalen. He claims that Jalen is gone. Jalen is not coming back. When Radia derezzed, Abraxas seemed conflicted. She hadn't been infected (which was the intention), instead derezzing, and he remained silent for quite a while. Radia had been his friend, and her death (even at his hands) seemed to stir up something in him, even if just for a moment. Possibly why his infection had not worked. Perhaps Jalen was more present within him still than he wanted to admit, and it was a moment of grieving for his friend. Or perhaps he had not wanted her to suffer through the infection because she was his friend, and had killed her on purpose - thus reflecting on that.

Either way, Jalen is buried in him somewhere.

When Abraxas speaks his voice is warped and tends to occasionally change pitch, which may be based on the effects of the DOS virus of the same name. Jalen's voice is less warped (sadly no one has uploaded anything with his voice), and he sounds like John Glover.

Abilities and Weaknesses:

Abilities.
   Abraxas is a virus, as such he is capable of infecting things. He can corrupt a program simply by touch, turning them into a black, yellow circuited virus that will attack all that are not infected. He seems to have a degree of control over them, depending on the program. This would not be able to affect any organic being, just robots/computers/programs/tech people with computer parts. Aside from this he is also capable of infecting the area around him by touch. Be it from his hand, identity disc, feet; any part of him. The affected areas can cause harm to others if touched/stepped on - unless they too are infected.
   Abraxas is also capable of manipulating and transforming all forms of energy. This can be used as large blasts, groundslams, energy lightning from the sky, etc.
   He is listed as proficient in disc combat, and has expert-class privileges in Light Cycle operation.

...//C:/Program Files/INFECTION DATA_

Abraxas' is capable of infecting all that he touches. There is no known fix for those that have been infected, once a program, machine, or an area has been infected, it remains that way until deresolution/destruction. That is not to say that it would be impossible to create an anti-virus, just that no one had managed to do so in the Grid when Abraxas' infection was around. Upon the station it is entirely possible that a fix could be developed to fix any infections that Abraxas may cause.

The infection cannot spread on its own, and those that are infected are not contagious in any way. Those that are infected seem to loose most cognitive function. If Abraxas is spreading his infection around him (floor/walls/ceiling/etc) it will only spread a few feet, before he is required to walk forward so that it can continue to spread further. His range is therefore, limited to a few feet from his person. If he is infecting a machine that's connected to a network, only the machine he is in contact with will be infected. A direct interface with the power source for the network would be require for him to infect the network itself.

If the area or machinery is infected outwardly (with yellow gridlike circuitry), it will cause pain when touched via energy crafted zaps. The zaps are not deadly, just unpleasant and painful.

Machinery that is infected will generally stop working or begin glitching. Acting incorrectly, working backwards, opposite, etc. Occasionally it is possible for infected machinery to be unable to withstand the virus, thus being destroyed from within (or in some cases, the machine in question exploding). It will not cause pain unless the virus is affecting its exterior. Additionally it is possible for Abraxas to have some control over the machinery once infected.

Infected Programs, while they tend to loose most cognitive function and attack those not infected, are immune to the pain caused by infected areas. Those that resist the infection (like Gibson) are capable of having the yellow circuitry disappear from their body as they regain control of themselves for a certain amount of time. This however is incredibly painful, and the infection will continue to return until they either die or are cured.

Weaknesses.
   As a virus, Abraxas is in pain (or he constantly claims to be). This is likely due to how he became a virus, being that he was not originally one. It is also likely why he had told Anon "I wanted death and I was left with this. My future was robbed of me and now I will take yours." The pain doesn't seem to hinder him physically, but it certainly does so mentally. Making him want death, and remembering what he was to what he's become.
   Anger is also an issue. Because of what happened to him, he's constantly angry, just very full of rage. This causes him to act according to his anger.
   Because of what he's become his view is warped (he's a very unstable virus), this could be used against him. He seems to know what happened to him, and yet he still mostly listens to CLU.
   Finally like all programs serious damage can affect his makeup (although he is quite resilient - be it if only because he's a game boss) or even force him to be derezzed (killed). This can be like a hit removing a limb or a part of his face/body, to his entire being exploding into pixels and fading away.

Inventory:

Identity Disc • Also known as a Light Disc. It is used to record everything a program does, and learns. It also holds their digital DNA. A lost Identity Disc can (but not always) result in the program being derezzed. In addition to that, it is also used as a weapon. Either for throwing (and often returning to the user like a boomerang) or blocking. It often attaches to a program's back. In Abraxas' case, it attaches to the back of his cloak. Abraxas' disc is slightly damaged due to a fight with Anon, although still functions like any other disc. And like Abraxas, the disc can be used to infect things.

Appearance:

Abraxas is a tall (I'd guess around 6'something), slim program. When a program leaves the Grid to the 'real world' they retain their height/build/etc. He wears a cloak with a hood (which is always up), in addition to a helmet. Like many programs he is in a full body suit, his being entirely black. He does not remove his helmet, which likely began when he became Abraxas. His face - the face of Jalen - is unknown, as it's never shown. The circuitry on him is yellow in colour (due to being a virus), and unlike most programs is less of lines, and more of cracks in design. His fingers are long and pointed, almost claw like. While the back of his cloak has a circular clip of which his Identity Disc attaches to.

Age:

Unknown. He emerged from the Sea of Simulation in Tron Cycle 29, but I have no idea as to when he died.

Basically he emerged sometime in the 80s (real world time) and the TRON Evolution game is said to take place between 1989 to 2000. Most sites and such say the game is set during 1989, but the TRON timeline says it's 1989-2000. TRON Legacy would confirm that it starts in 1989, but there's nothing to mark how many days pass in the game. Grid time is faster than the "real world", apparently one year being equal to around fifty Tron Cycles (one year = fifty years).

He was transformed into Abraxas in Tron Cycle 296, and Anon was installed in Tron Cycle 301, so he is at least 272.

Samples ;
Log Sample:

Radia. A former friend, the one he was going to lead with, and represent the ISOs. She was now gone, destroyed by his own hand, not something he could blame anyone else for. He was the one responsible, even if CLU would have derezzed her had he not been there. She was an ISO. Imperfect. A disease, just another program to infect and eliminate. There should be no pain surrounding what happened to her, death was a gift.

So why did he feel like somewhere inside it bothered him...

Abraxas sat up, peering around his new surroundings. He should have been dead, but again he was denied his fatal end. This new system was unlike any he had ever seen before - not that he had seen more than the one he had come from. This place was different, not quite like the Grid, but not entirely unlike it.

The ^Real World.

Perhaps the world Kevin Flynn spoke of. The world of the Users, the creators of the basics. Flynn had been said to have the power to travel between worlds, but that did not explain where he was now. It did not explain how.

It was not the Real World, just a different system. His power was beyond comprehension of many, he was a virus, his purpose was to wipe systems out. This was a new chance. Remove this system, destroy everything in his path. He could not go back to the Grid. He could not go back to who he was. That future had long been taken from him. Many cycles ago.

A new future had been given to him.

Network Sample:

Thⁱs is no^t the Gr_id.

An imp_erfect system, cont^rolled by a gli_tch of a progra^m. St_ran^ger designs, and a lack of di_scs. But its ^end will be the sa^{me. I}t will come, and everyt_hing will fa_ll. The pain will be unbe^arable, and you will all embr^ace the end. ^HA_HAH^AHA^HA. The inevi_table cannot be cha_nged, fate has been decⁱded and eve^rythi_ng is coming to an end^!

My disea_se w^ill spread fas_ter than ^it can be co_nt^ained.