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The origin of the malware itself is unknown, but it is generally assumed that Thorn's creation was accidental, as all those who have claimed responsibility have been proven liars and Thorn answers to no regular master (though he does form alliances).\n\nNot only was Thorn a very powerful virus from the onset, his intelligence is so high that he is able to constantly reprogram himself to become more and more efficient, avoiding detection or deletion by antiviruses and creating infection routines that make removing his code from a tainted system almost impossible. His raw power, intelligence, and constant self-made \"mutations\" make him one of - if not the - most dangerous and difficult to stop pieces of malware in the world. \n\nAt some point, Thorn devised a method - still not fully understood by anyone else - to enter the real world. He can travel in and out of electronic devices and reside in a body constructed of a special solid energy, interacting with the world much as a flesh-and-blood person would do. This body is the visual representation he tends to use for himself even in the digital world. As it is made of energy, he can manipulate it - growing or shrinking, changing body types and muscularity, modifying the size of his \"endowment\" (or removing it altogether), et cetera. He can also replace his legs with a tail, a form in which he can fly and float around like a ghost. Finally, he has a trojan horse form he can switch into, which is much stronger but non-infectious. Any sort of body modification in the real world, however, drains his energy more quickly.\n\nThorn's body will become unstable if he remains in the real world for too long as its energy reserves deplete. He will need to re-enter an electronic device to recharge. Fully-charged and without body modifications, Thorn can typically last about 72 hours in reality. His energy levels have no effect on his functions until they hit 5%, at which point he will become unstable, weak, and eventually self-destruct. His body can also be disrupted by strong electromagnetic fields or pulses, though it will attempt to repair itself if enough energy is available.\n\nIn addition to computer systems, Thorn can also infect organic life forms when he is in the real world. He can do so by breaking skin with his hand blades, placing his pathogen directly into the bloodstream, or through bodily fluids like semen and saliva. \n\nThe infection is usually dormant and asymptomatic. However, when Thorn is within a three-mile radius of an infected person, he can remotely activate the pathogen to attack its host body. The symptoms of the illness this causes include extreme nausea, muscular weakness, high fever, disorientation, and the appearance of Thorn's symbol on the skin of the victim - as a cluster of painful cysts and necrotic skin. The mark burns and stings terribly, and the cysts can pop open and release pus. These usually form on the chest, where Thorn's own chest symbol is, but he can cause them to form anywhere; however, he can only form one at a time on any one person. This biological infection is contagious from person to person, transmitted through cyst pus, saliva, semen, urine, blood, and sometimes airborne transmission (though its range is very limited; the infected person would need to breathe right on a victim's face).\n\nInfections that spread from person to person generally last only 24-48 hours before being cleared from the body. However, a person who is infected by Thorn himself will almost certainly be infected forever. Much like his digital self, or HIV, the pathogen transmitted by contact with Thorn mutates so rapidly and endlessly that the host's immune system is unable to keep up. \n\nThorn does not sweat, urinate, defecate, or shed \"skin,\" however, he has enhanced his body with a musky aroma around the genitals, posterior, and armpits - simply for his own gratification, as he is rather something of a pervert. Infecting, whether digitally or organically, is a very intimate, sexual act for him regardless of whether it involves a literal orgasm, and he has a great many kinks and fetishes. One of these, unfortunately, is a bit of a masochistic streak - it is not unheard of for Thorn to not try his hardest when facing off against an adversary or security system, as he is sometimes gratified by his own defeat and punishments.\n\nThorn does not need to eat or drink in the real world, and gains no nourishment from doing so, but has given himself a sense of taste and does so from time to time. His favorite snack is potato chips. \n\nThorn has no real overarching goal or ambition. He does not want to take over the internet, let alone the world. He is not strictly evil, and is in fact very ambivalent about the targets of his exploits, which can range from random home computer users to military networks to massive industrial or corporate systems. His actions may have results considered good or evil, but he will typically not care. He is driven mainly by his viral instincts to infect and his desire for stimulating activity, which he constantly seeks out since he doesn't sleep or have any sort of profession. He is open to being recruited for jobs as a sort of cyber-mercenary, but will not always accept an offer and will not remain a permanent minion if he can help it in all but the most extreme circumstances.\n\nLiving a rather dangerous artificial life, Thorn has many precautions for keeping himself existent. He has a highly advanced self-repair system, which serves to reconstruct his code and/or body in both the digital and real worlds if he is hacked, corrupted, injured, or otherwise compromised. If this fails - and it is not infallible, just very good - he has the option to self-destruct or wait for his deletion to come on its own. Thorn has hundreds of thousands of backup copies of himself stored on infected servers across the globe, which are constantly wirelessly updated with new memories and modifications as they are made. They remain dormant until the active copy of Thorn is deleted, at which point the copy nearest to where Thorn was when destroyed becomes active. There are many failsafes in this system; no signal needs to be sent from Thorn at his dying moment as the backups are constantly checking for his presence, and if the connection is somehow severed, the backup system will scan the internet, security cameras and the like for any active Thorn copies to prevent two Thorns from being active at once. While theoretically possible, the simultaneous activity of two Thorns could overload the backup systems and as such is avoided.\n\n_ _ _ _ _ \n\nAny other questions? Ask below! Don't be shy~","description_bbcode_parsed":"<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Thorn is a sentient computer virus, created when an experimental A.I. program was infected by a powerful piece of malware. The origin of the malware itself is unknown, but it is generally assumed that Thorn&#039;s creation was accidental, as all those who have claimed responsibility have been proven liars and Thorn answers to no regular master (though he does form alliances).<br /><br />Not only was Thorn a very powerful virus from the onset, his intelligence is so high that he is able to constantly reprogram himself to become more and more efficient, avoiding detection or deletion by antiviruses and creating infection routines that make removing his code from a tainted system almost impossible. His raw power, intelligence, and constant self-made &quot;mutations&quot; make him one of - if not the - most dangerous and difficult to stop pieces of malware in the world. <br /><br />At some point, Thorn devised a method - still not fully understood by anyone else - to enter the real world. He can travel in and out of electronic devices and reside in a body constructed of a special solid energy, interacting with the world much as a flesh-and-blood person would do. This body is the visual representation he tends to use for himself even in the digital world. As it is made of energy, he can manipulate it - growing or shrinking, changing body types and muscularity, modifying the size of his &quot;endowment&quot; (or removing it altogether), et cetera. He can also replace his legs with a tail, a form in which he can fly and float around like a ghost. Finally, he has a trojan horse form he can switch into, which is much stronger but non-infectious. Any sort of body modification in the real world, however, drains his energy more quickly.<br /><br />Thorn&#039;s body will become unstable if he remains in the real world for too long as its energy reserves deplete. He will need to re-enter an electronic device to recharge. Fully-charged and without body modifications, Thorn can typically last about 72 hours in reality. His energy levels have no effect on his functions until they hit 5%, at which point he will become unstable, weak, and eventually self-destruct. His body can also be disrupted by strong electromagnetic fields or pulses, though it will attempt to repair itself if enough energy is available.<br /><br />In addition to computer systems, Thorn can also infect organic life forms when he is in the real world. He can do so by breaking skin with his hand blades, placing his pathogen directly into the bloodstream, or through bodily fluids like semen and saliva. <br /><br />The infection is usually dormant and asymptomatic. However, when Thorn is within a three-mile radius of an infected person, he can remotely activate the pathogen to attack its host body. The symptoms of the illness this causes include extreme nausea, muscular weakness, high fever, disorientation, and the appearance of Thorn&#039;s symbol on the skin of the victim - as a cluster of painful cysts and necrotic skin. The mark burns and stings terribly, and the cysts can pop open and release pus. These usually form on the chest, where Thorn&#039;s own chest symbol is, but he can cause them to form anywhere; however, he can only form one at a time on any one person. This biological infection is contagious from person to person, transmitted through cyst pus, saliva, semen, urine, blood, and sometimes airborne transmission (though its range is very limited; the infected person would need to breathe right on a victim&#039;s face).<br /><br />Infections that spread from person to person generally last only 24-48 hours before being cleared from the body. However, a person who is infected by Thorn himself will almost certainly be infected forever. Much like his digital self, or HIV, the pathogen transmitted by contact with Thorn mutates so rapidly and endlessly that the host&#039;s immune system is unable to keep up. <br /><br />Thorn does not sweat, urinate, defecate, or shed &quot;skin,&quot; however, he has enhanced his body with a musky aroma around the genitals, posterior, and armpits - simply for his own gratification, as he is rather something of a pervert. Infecting, whether digitally or organically, is a very intimate, sexual act for him regardless of whether it involves a literal orgasm, and he has a great many kinks and fetishes. One of these, unfortunately, is a bit of a masochistic streak - it is not unheard of for Thorn to not try his hardest when facing off against an adversary or security system, as he is sometimes gratified by his own defeat and punishments.<br /><br />Thorn does not need to eat or drink in the real world, and gains no nourishment from doing so, but has given himself a sense of taste and does so from time to time. His favorite snack is potato chips. <br /><br />Thorn has no real overarching goal or ambition. He does not want to take over the internet, let alone the world. He is not strictly evil, and is in fact very ambivalent about the targets of his exploits, which can range from random home computer users to military networks to massive industrial or corporate systems. His actions may have results considered good or evil, but he will typically not care. He is driven mainly by his viral instincts to infect and his desire for stimulating activity, which he constantly seeks out since he doesn&#039;t sleep or have any sort of profession. He is open to being recruited for jobs as a sort of cyber-mercenary, but will not always accept an offer and will not remain a permanent minion if he can help it in all but the most extreme circumstances.<br /><br />Living a rather dangerous artificial life, Thorn has many precautions for keeping himself existent. He has a highly advanced self-repair system, which serves to reconstruct his code and/or body in both the digital and real worlds if he is hacked, corrupted, injured, or otherwise compromised. If this fails - and it is not infallible, just very good - he has the option to self-destruct or wait for his deletion to come on its own. Thorn has hundreds of thousands of backup copies of himself stored on infected servers across the globe, which are constantly wirelessly updated with new memories and modifications as they are made. They remain dormant until the active copy of Thorn is deleted, at which point the copy nearest to where Thorn was when destroyed becomes active. There are many failsafes in this system; no signal needs to be sent from Thorn at his dying moment as the backups are constantly checking for his presence, and if the connection is somehow severed, the backup system will scan the internet, security cameras and the like for any active Thorn copies to prevent two Thorns from being active at once. While theoretically possible, the simultaneous activity of two Thorns could overload the backup systems and as such is avoided.<br /><br />_ _ _ _ _ <br /><br />Any other questions? Ask below! 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