Syndeticism

- He/him
- Isha's older brother.
- Supportive of him, despite their family.

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- Sig, short for Sigmund
- He/him
- German
- Dating Isha
- Works from home, but barely has to actually work
- Owns the worlds largest collection of Trio cans
- Goes by 3rio online

Sig is a relatively private guy living in a big city in Germany. He doesn’t trust most people or things. He has a work from home job that he’s automated entirely, so he doesn’t have to actually do anything on a day to day basis. He spends the bulk of his free time gaming online, or hanging out with Isha.

He’s addicted to Trio, a coffee / meal replacement / energy drink combo that’s been banned in several countries. They’re only sold out of official vending machines, and the colors are both randomized and considered collectable. He has shelves and shelves of cans in every color in the rainbow, but the pink ones are his favorite.

He’s largely distrustful of and uncomfortable with augmentation and tends to get into petty arguments about “robots” online, which is how he met Isha. No matter how blatantly baiting his comments got, he’d take him seriously and reply with in depth information, links to sources, and too much sincerity. This won him over. Though he never really stopped teasing him about his “robot wife” (Aashvi) (Not a robot, not his wife.)

He doesn’t trust VR, so the only games he plays are ones he can play online in the usual way. He spends a lot of his time online with Kousei, which Isha certainly doesn’t need to know about.

- Ishaan (he/him) or Ishana (she/her)
- Bigender, has girl days and boy days
- Born in Mumbai, lives in Germany with Sig
- Dating Sig
- A VR sculptor who primarily focuses on sculpting prosthetics
- Obsessed with Aashvi, and her activism
- Goes by AgeOfAutonomy online

Isha is a VR artist in the 2070s, living in Germany with his boyfriend Sig. He’s bigender, and goes by Ishaan and he/him on boy days and Ishana and she/her on girl days.

He was born into a lower class family in Mumbai. After being disowned by his family for being transgender as a teenager, he dove into trans activism, and then pro-augmentation activism from there. Already having some skill with computers, he made money doing tech repair and built himself a cheap machine out of spare parts to do activist art on in his free time.

He met Aashvi when she was holding a pro-augmentation rally in the city, during the early days of her activism. She recognized his screen name from art he’d done in support of her, which only solidified his obsession with her and her work.

He later met Sig online due to his many comments about his distrust towards “robots” - which Isha felt compelled to correct. (Augmented people are not robots!) This led to them arguing over DMs, which led to actual productive conversion and the two becoming friends. (Sig did not stop leaving bait comments, though.)

After a lot of applying, she got a grant for “promising artists in poverty” that sponsored her visa and gave her access to a VR studio based out of a physical studio in Germany. The studio was so close to Sig’s apartment that it only made sense for her to move in, at least temporarily. They started dating not soon after, and she never moved out.

Isha makes the majority of her money selling 3D models that people could use as part of their avatars in a popular immersive VR game. She primarily makes true to life copies of irl augmentations, copying the intricate details of different models of various limbs and body parts that people may have, so they can represent themselves accurately. (The available defaults are… limited.) The rest comes from selling other kinds of art, both as in-VR sculptures and as holographic versions that can be displayed in real life.

Despite all of her work on models for it, she doesn’t play the VR game recreationally, and only really uses it as a place to sculpt.

- She/her
- Pro-augmentation activist
- Born in Mumbai, works more globally
- Works with Emil and Oko
- Has many augmentations

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Aashvi is a radical pro-augmentation activist, working to expand safe and affordable access to both medical and “recreational” augmentation on a global scale. She is the loudest voice in the movement by far.

She was born into a relatively wealthy family in Mumbai. When she needed a lot of surgical intervention as a child to survive, she was taken out of the country to specialists who could help her. She continued to get more augmentation work done as she aged and her medical problems progressed. Angry that this was available to her and not to others who might have the same needs but no resources, she started to pour her time into her activism.

She advocates for complete bodily autonomy and the legalization and regulation of human augmentations of all kinds, regardless of why someone is seeking it out. She started out holding small rallies in her home city and spreading her message online, which eventually took off with the help of people like Isha. Her impact and activism grew as she spent time in other countries, doing research and talking to people impacted by a lack of access or by poorly regulated markets, although it continues to be heavily debated in most areas.

- He/him
- Works for Aashvi

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- E or no prounouns
- Augmentation technician / surgeon / scientist working for Aashvi

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- He/him
- Anti-augmentation activist
- Full time wheelchair user
- Goes by Kouseidou online
- Friends with Sig

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Kousei is an anti-augmentation activist from Japan. He is a full time wheelchair user without the funds or the desire to “fix” his body, despite the people around him insisting that augmentation would make his life easier.

He does most of his activism online, due to accessibility issues locally. He has a very popular social media presence, which he uses to spread his message. He feels that the push for more augmentation leaves out people like him, and leads to worse accessibility and support for those who don’t want to augment their bodies to meet other people’s standards.

Like Aashvi, he’s made his name a part of his branding and will tag it stylized on pro-augmentation art or in public places in VR. He’s vandalized Isha’s publicly displayed artwork more than once.

He makes most of his money playing games online, by selling the in-game currency for actual money. A significant amount of that in-game money comes from Sig.