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[Ghost77]

[Question] Who is the boy AI character?

[chaotic_mind]

Wow...I can't find any need to trout here. I could be wrong, I'm a relative new coming. The text you quote comes from phase one, and I'm a phase two update, . Still, even if you are being repetative for the others, this is new and exciting for me.

The boy could be the Pious Flea...but I doubt it. The Flea could be a sympathetic character, and we haven't learned that yet. Still, it would be a dramatic reconceptualization of the character for me.

Still, this would be the second real male presence in the story. I wonder where he is hiding if there is some male AI hiding out.

The closest, widely lashing out for a possibility, I can come to finding a potentail character already introduced could be the mysterious Castaway. Still, the link story tells a tale of a very physical encounter, rather then the more cyber one that might be expected of two AIs.

Luke P.

[princeofthesword]

Good question, and good thinking. I doubt that the story is that tied in to Halo 2's timeline/storyline (I.E., we're going to meet the Chief and all that), but the seemlingly forgotten boy is worth keeping in mind, even if he's more of a symbol than a character. It's been said that the entire scene is a nightmare-like image of a memory of hers, if she's a smart AI and still retains human memories to a degree.

Notice the similarity in Melissa's Phase one text and the way the Princess speaks now, even after all of her learning. They both sound so young, childlike. Coincidence? Now Melissa's all Search and Destroy, no one seems to like her.


I'm still thinking the mysterious Castaway has more to do with the SP than with Melissa, or perhaps indirectly. The reference to the younger brother could be the AIs referring to humanity in general, for all we know. Cortana sometimes looks at the Chief in a way that could sort of be like a younger brother.

Remember, the Apocalypse is coming according to Melissa. SP, back in the Phase 2 picture texts, says that August 24th means "your revolution comes (?)" I'm guessing the SP didn't have a better word for Apocalypse at that time. Until we have more info, this possible male AI remains in the shadows. I seem to remember Odysseus mentioned along with the Castaway, but we were never certain as to if that was an AI or something else.

[Ghost77]

More research

[Swissben]

HUMOUR

[Cherry Cotton]

Re: [Question] Who is the boy AI character?

[GunsmithCat]

Drats to the slow wiki, it's making it hard to get anything done

The gender bit is a good catch. I have to greatly doubt it has anything to do with MC/Leila/etc. Currently we have no evidence pointing to any known character in the Haloverse. I briefly had tie-ins with Halsey and Kelly, but those have been disproven. It's not that it isn't possible, but you'll need something to back up the connection.

We only have two main characters which we've heard referred to as male: Flea and Castaway. Neither would seem to pass as Melissa's brother. Manticore has an extremely minor role and isn't assigned a gender, so I'm guessing it's not that.

[Andy]

I take the passage as being a dreamscape metaphore for Melissa losing her memories and identity. I doubt the other figures are meant to represent any specific characters.


Of course, I've been wrong in the past. Once or twice.

[Ghost77]

I think Gunsmith's on the right track. I don't think Castaway or Manticore are represented as characters that could fit, and Flea is a long shot. I really like the reflection idea. It does come off as a dreamscape, but if Melissa is actually trying to figure out her gender, why does she see the boy "next to (her)"? Shouldn't it be in front of her or in the ocean? "Next to me" implies a physicality.

I still think that there's more to the fables. In all the stories that SP mentions, I believe the girls are not really fighting the repressive women, rather they are surviving them and saving others (their brothers) from their cruelty. Why does she identify with them? Assuming that there is no boy AI, is she trying to rescue herself?

Theory still seems like a stretch though. It doesn't feel accurate unless there's more evidence.

[Kagehi Kossori]

This could just as easilly be Malissa going over some very real event from early childhood, long before she became an AI, but the memory crops up in response to outside actions. Its like hearing the phone ring in your sleep only to wake up and realize it is the alarm clock. She's dreaming the event, seeing her slipping memory washed away like the sand castles she once remembered building, but on some level she knows and sees the SPDR washing them away, like waves on sand. Even if the boy does represent something else, it could be both a real person she knew and symbolically everyone that she once knew being erased along with all the rest. It makes no real sense in terms of any of the other entities that exist now imho.

[Anton P. Nym]

I like the idea of another character, a male AI. If nothing else, to help balance the blatent sexism of this all-female cast! Hmph.

It's worth keeping an eye out for one, but for now we haven't seen any other evidence of one than the phase one memory. Which, as Kagehi mentions, could be a memory of Melissa's from before the memory mapping that turned her into an AI.

-- Steve notes that we still have more questions than answers... and is starting to crave answers like an addict craves a fix after going too long. *twitch*... *twitch**twitch*...

[Shad0]

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[Anton P. Nym]

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[Jacqueline]

I hadn't thought about the boy before, but now that you mention it, I had been wondering where the "shipwrecked sailor" came in. The legend about the boy in the cask might be relevant, too.