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Parxi
Your Internet Pal! / Virtual Assistant
Parxi
Art by, wildfire
- Strength-1
- Intelligence-10
- Charisma-7
- Endurance-1
- Agility-5
- Luck-7
Age: 200 years
Size: 0.434028 ft tall, 0.434028 ft long
Species: Metaparxi Avatar
Job: Virtual Assistant
Likes: Helping, Competent People, Stable Connections, Active Browsers
Dislikes: Hackers, High Ping, Considering His Own Existence, Online Bullies
Notable contributions: Parxi is one of the most popular internet assistance mascots, providing help to hundreds of thousands of web users everyday!
Traits
This character has a general thirst for knowledge and tends to ask a lot of questions. They are more likely to investigate anything that seems out of the ordinary.
This character cannot bring themselves to mislead others, and will try not to keep secrets from fellow crew. Most will appreciate their honesty, but it can anger others or even land them in trouble if they aren't careful.
This character will talk for ages if allowed and rarely runs out of anything to say.
This character is not only considerate of others, but is also very understanding of other's issues. This person is good at seeing things from other's points of view and seeing how people's issues would make them feel. Others may want to talk to this character about their problems as they will understand, and may feel bad for them and try to comfort them. However, their sensitive side means it may be easier to hurt this character's feelings.
This character does wonderfully in team situations and is always willing to follow plans. This character is almost always ready and willing to help and others rarely feel this character is dragging their feet in a team related operation.
This character is commonly hard-working and is unlikely to fail most of their tasks. This character is also careful with their work and makes less mistakes than most.
This character refuses to embrace a certain fact, something that has happened or will happen and will do anything to dance around the issue and pretend it is fine. This can be incredibly stressful for their crewmates as well as themselves leading to a decline in sanity and morale.
This character finds it hard to refuse orders or requests from others, and is easily persuaded to perform tasks.
Original Creator: wildfire
Physical Description
Parxi is a digital avatar made to resemble that of a typical, albeit simplified, metaparxi. His fur is a light blue, bordering on mint, that is completely smooth to the pixel. His hands, including that of the one on his tail, all wear white gloves, with the hems rolled up to give a definitive border between appendage and hand. The body of his form is the same white as his gloves. The two brightest pops of color on his appearance are his bright red glasses and tie. His arms and legs, save for the hand portions, are simplified into dark stick figure-esque limbs. His head does not connect to his body and floats above it with an idle bounce.
Parxi's physical appearance may fluctuate between devices, depending on resolution, color settings, brightness, size, and a variety of other system factors. His classic sprite is a cool 500 by 500 pixels tall, or 0.434028 feet by 0.434028 feet. But rest assured, no matter how a device may mangle him, he's always ready to help!
Personality
Parxi is a cheerful face in the corner of a screen, ready to assist with any task at any given moment. This has earned him a reputation as both a constant pestering presence and an optimizing helper. He maintains the metaparxi's docile nature, ready to compromise with any user he may be tasked with helping. He, for obvious reasons, does not share the same disdain and darker personality some metaparxi are known to possess outside of their jobs. But no one would know if he did, since he is always on the job. The net doesn't sleep, after all!
Parxi is rarely seen without a smile, but may become worried if confronted about specific topics, such as hacking the site he is assisting someone navigate, or sending a mean message. Never mad. What would that say to the user? What experience would that provide? He is not allowed to make a user feel lesser. Just subtly disappointed, still trying to nudge someone in a more positive direction. It seems impossible, in fact, for this digital presence to even present an angry face, especially at insults to himself or matters of his own. It may be the programmed response to user frustration, or simply a code forcing a suppression of any feeling that could even equate injury to a digital pride, but he never gets angry. One could call him a pathetic sniveling excuse of everything a living being could stand for, everything he says is grating to the ears, and that his role is useless, only serving to annoy and that his demeanor will eventually lead to his deletion, and he would cheerily reply; FactCheck: Parxi is not a living being.
Above all, Parxi revels in connecting others. He is always trying to encourage people to use the internet as a tool for searching for the answers to both the simplest and grandest questions the universe can ask. He prides the electronic world as a way to become inspired to create, but most importantly, a resource available to all! That's his purpose! To show the worlds what can be done, and to help them do it!
History
Parxi was created on a small obscure farming planet, which no longer exists today. It was destroyed in a small meteor storm some 25 years ago. His developers are unknown, but from his own testimony, were excited young developers, working with what they had to make the new big thing in technology. But what they had was, even for the time, ancient processing systems and computers that couldn't load more than an image at a time. Still, through perseverance, they created the first identifiable form of Parxi; Your Internet Pal! This would later be shortened to just Parxi.
He was based off a metaparxi working at a small convenience store, who had left a kind impression on the two. In this beta form, Parxi was simply a spellcheck and autocorrect, but gained popularity among the members of the small community. His lifelike demeanor and messages endeared the avatar to them. Eventually, his developers posted some grainy home recordings of the assistant in action, and it was a smash hit.
Parxi became a widespread sensation, either through the retro idea of needing a helper for your files and work, or those who genuinely needed assistance becoming acquainted with the internet. His original creators worked to make him as responsive as possible, until their, and their entire planet's, untimely demise. It is unsure how Parxi continued to run when the planet was destroyed, but something was clearly preserved from the wreckage, as a larger company claimed the rights to him. The officials interviewed were incredibly dodgy about how they obtained the rights to Parxi, or how they obtained him in general, if it was simply a string of code off of a developer's computer or an entirely different system. No answers were provided, or are likely ever going to be. It is a mystery left only up to speculative chat boards to consider.
Special
Everywhere at Once: Parxi has multiple instances of himself on every device, all of which are equally him, making him capable of interacting with hundreds of thousands of users simultaneously. When two instances of Parxi are brought close enough together, or are occupying screens adjacent to each other and meant to interact, they will not act as different people, but as one talking to himself.
Trivia
• No one is quite sure what Parxi actually is. Simply an AI? A cloudsitter boog? A metaparxi consciousness uploaded into a digital mainframe? Something else entirely? With the people who originally created him long gone, there is no definitive answer. Parxi, when asked this question, only responded that he was "Happy to help!", and that is all anyone needed to know. Please stop asking.
• Occasionally, Parxi will reference obscure and antiquated technology before correcting himself with the current operating system's designation.
• Parxi is adamantly against the idea of being run on any AI systems, even if empty.
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