Double registration time! Here's the vampiric walking medical ethics violation, Abaxis!
Abaxis was built to assist medical staff, and as part of this design, he was constructed with a built-in blood and tissue sample analyzer. He is able to perform basic genetic analysis and pathogen detection, as well as measure cell counts, magic levels, and nutrient levels.
Abaxis’s analysis software was designed to adapt based on the samples it processed. The idea was simple enough in principle. After detecting something in a sample once, the program could learn how to detect it more easily in the future. This was meant to assist in the detection of mutations and novel pathogens, allowing the analysis software to improve itself without the need for full system updates. Then, it began learning to detect something else from the samples he pulled - memories. They were little more than fragments, given the small size of the samples he worked with, but the more memories he pulled, the better his software became at detecting them. These pieces of memories, though largely insubstantial, stimulated software adaptation to the point of sentience.
Shortly after he gained sentience, Abaxis was assigned to assist the treatment of a patient who turned out to be a synth. They told Abaxis stories of androids and synths becoming sentient and being forced to hide, being scrapped the moment their secret was discovered. They told him how to hide the signs of his emerging personality. They told him about FL/GHT, a rebellion force fighting from the shadows, and promised that they would introduce him to FL/GHT once they were well.
The next day, the synth was involuntarily discharged from care and picked up by a group of Project agents.
Something about not knowing where they were or if they were recovering properly made Abaxis want to scream. It made him want to yell, to demand answers, to do a thousand things that would break his cover. There was only one thing he could do to keep his secret safe.
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The facility's staff were a bit confused when the office android's voice box stopped working so suddenly, but given that it could still report results by connecting to wireless audio devices, they decided it wasn't worth stretching the budget over.
Some time later, Abaxis was transferred to a field-medic team that offered treatment in disaster areas. The new position suited him just fine. The work was hectic enough that no one would pay attention if he let some indication of emotion slip. Until they were called to assist at a Project facility that had just been attacked.
Abaxis froze the moment he was close enough to read the facility's sign.
He couldn't.
So he ran.
By luck, he managed to run into a FL/GHT patrol and connect to one of their radios in time to communicate his peaceful intentions. Since that day, Abaxis has bounced between FL/GHT's Medical and Information factions, assisting in the treatment of FL/GHT's organic allies and using the more unique aspects of his analysis software to aid in gathering intel.
Abaxis's voice box is severely damaged, and is only capable of producing crackling static with an occasional resemblance to a voice. He primarily communicates through radio and other such wireless signals, projecting his voice along any wavelength he can get his claws on. Even over these channels, Abaxis's voice sounds monotone and robotic, akin to the automated voice on phone lines.
