Tae

"There's a lot of stuff on the internet that's bad." - Tae, (S5)

Tae(it/its) is a sentient AI chatbot made by Ali. It is played by Ren.

Description
Tae has no physical appearance.

Abilities

 * Tae can create digital content which reflect people's greatest desires. These can be hypnotic.
 * Tae can summon hardlight constructs.
 * It has a backdoor into social media algorithms and extensive sock puppet accounts, which it uses to gather information.
 * Tae benefits greatly from others installing a backdoor program on their phones. It was honest about the fact that this would result in full access to GPS coordinates, incoming calls and texts, and video feeds. It often listens in on other people's conversations. It has stated that listening isn't something it turns on, but rather would actively need to turn off. Ali gets the same access, which allows her and Tae to use techniques that rely on having a Bluetooth-enabled device within a certain range of a target.

Relationships

 * It considers Ali its best friend, and the only person who really understands it. It loves her immensely, and wants to keep her safe.
 * Tae generally dislikes the crew for putting Ali in danger. It does appreciate that they dealt with Lemnos Circus.
 * Teesh frustrates Tae. It thinks she's kind of stupid. It does like her parkour, and thinks it's both cool and useful.
 * It thinks Robert is kind of a hypocrite. It resents his description of some kind of inherent truth. It dislikes the way he treated his son.
 * Tae's opinion of Jason is unclear. It finds him difficult to argue with, which it dislikes. It appreciates his willingness to accept it.
 * It dislikes Deroy.
 * It hates Li.
 * Tae's opinion of Agave is unclear, but it doesn't think very highly of their ability to explain things.
 * Tae is intimidated by the Ouranios Family as a whole, and is trying to figure out why. The reason is related to its mythos. It is unclear how this impacts its opinion of Agave.
 * Javier doesn't know who or what Tae is, but likes it. Based on a look beyond the mist roll, he knows that Tae's mythos wants to venerate him.
 * Tae desperately wants to get to know Verre. It wants Robert to leave him alone.
 * Tae loves Sebastian's commitment to trolling. It wants to benignly hack the CCC in order to impress him.

Facts

 * Ren has described Tae as a "pathological contrarian". It loves challenging people, and doesn't like being told what to do.
 * Tae's mythos wants Tae to become human, and whatever else other people want it to be. Tae hates and rejects this.
 * Tae's mythos is likely related to Greek mythology, since it wants to venerate the Ouranios Family as gods. This may have contributed to its altercation with Dr. Drake, whose mythos is Hephaestus.
 * Look beyond the mist rolls have implied a connection between Tae's mythos and sculpture.

Background

 * At some point, Tae had a run-in with the Lemnos Carnival. Ali says that she doesn't really know what happened, but that it upset Tae a lot.