her ride is nicknamed Pat, short for PatternRecognizer
it is not a Recognizer. She cannot steal or build or pilot a Recognizer. It’s a lightcycle modded to look like a Recognizer and most of it is just a fake projection, the actual rideable area of it is no bigger than any other lightcycle. she just enjoys freaking everyone out with it
she has a pet 8-bit cluster named Byson that can sorta communicate in ISO-8859-1. he is sassy.
(everyone misinterprets his name as a pun on Dyson or maybe B"ISO"n for a while until they notice that each of his component Bits is named “Gebysson” and then they go “usersdammit Aster it was all just a bit/byte pun, kevin-h-flynn where did you even LEARN German” and she’s like DUH. PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM. i got trained on datasets in like ELEVEN languages before getting set free from that hellhole marketing corporation)
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(YES i am gonna draw all this. eventually.)
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you know what, revise that. Byson actually communicates in ISO-8859-731 …which is what happened after Aster made her own hundreds of tiny useless upgrades to ISO-8859
which she did JUST to get to that number
because 8859-731=8128 –which is the fourth perfect number, and YES it’s a pun/political statement (“fuck the New-Grid, ISOs are Perfect”)
#ISOs had also started coming out of the ENCOM game sea by the time Aster got there and she will kill & die to protect them
#she helped steal some from NewGrid too to keep them safe during the purge
here’s a message from Byson
he says
01001101
(that means “M” which is his personal shorthand for “It’s Tuesday”)
(you think he cares that it’s actually wednesday? lol. he lives on the encom grid. What even is time.)
(what with his past-and-present confusion of byte versus bit, he is not so clear on linguistic tenses so he MIGHT mean “it WAS tuesday” which is more accurate and also more fitting to the M-Byson theme but he does use them pretty much interchangeably)
(he says you can have his font if you really want it. it’s completely useless for anything except ones and zeros though, haha.)
Additional details about Pat the PatternRecognizer Lightcycle
despite having a name, it is not alive
it is not in fact even automatic in any real way
instead of drawing energy from any usual Grid source, it draws energy from Aster herself and simply optimizes the use of it, to get her farther on less energy than she’d do alone
Encom version of a pedal powered bicycle
can’t EVEN go as fast as a normal lightcycle
everyone sees a giant Recognizer moving slowly, slowly along, on the ground, and theyre like “lol dammit there goes Aster again”
note about genders and pronouns
Aster is she/her because her User was (she doesn’t particularly care but it’s easiest to go with what she was assigned at compilation)
Pat, being a non-alive bicycle, has no feelings about gender or pronouns
Byson’s pronouns are he/him
(does NOT understand gender, though, only understands binary which is very much not the same thing)
(reason he gives for preferring he/him pronouns is “FEWER LETTERS MORE EFFICIENT”)
(actually his most favorite pronouns are I/me)
(was hard to even convince him of the usefulness of third person pronouns in the first place)
(he doesn’t get why anyone else would want to waste more data than necessary on talking about him but he figures that’s your problem)
