PILOT: Brat
The Pilot under the handle "Brat" is just one among the thousands who take their first steps into deeper cyberspace every year - a complete unknown, possessed of the blissful ignorance and infinite potential innate to every prospective Throne Seeker. Aside from her formidable (albeit unrefined) skill, what truly sets her apart from the countless hopefuls she shares the frontier with is her unshakeable moral compass and her heavily idiosyncratic mode of speech and behaviour - in short, an incurable roleplayer.
Brat herself is unfailingly kind, trusting and self-sacrificing, unable to tolerate the suffering of others and willing to put her strength behind those impulses, often abandoning her own goals to come to the aid of the victimized or exploited, throwing herself into pits of vipers to answer the plaintive weeping of those trapped within. This relatively rare trait in the amoral free-for-all of Sky cyberwarfare goes hand in hand however with an equally odd habit: Her firm commitment to maintaining the persona of the "Original Character" she designed her handmade Avatar to resemble, an alter ego she has nurtured since her teenage years on Sub-Sky intranet roleplay boards. The character in question is that of a hopelessly "edgy" tortured antihero - Kid Chaos, the "Wicked Angel". As a result of these conflicting impulses - her childlike heroic true self and her beloved Kid Chaos's "evil" nature, her roleplay very often simply becomes a chain of convoluted excuses to help others, with her character continually beset by extenuating circumstances that just happen to justify uncharacterstically altruistic acts - but always with heavy lashings of tortured monologue and melodrama.
Brat never fully confuses herself for the character, however, and while her time in Sky proper began only recently, she already has grand, if simple designs. Someday, Brat (or Kid Chaos) will sit atop the Throne - and issue her only decree - That everyone should choose their own future.
Incredibly pure, brimming with raw power and potential - from the day Medicine met Brat, she knew she had the ultimate mark.
AVATAR: KID CHAOS
KID CHAOS is almost as old as Brat is in real years. As soon as she was old enough to grip a crayon she started drawing out the new lines of her ideal self. Horns! Wings! A cool cape! All the trappings of a hero and a monster. During the worst years of her adolescence, struggling through transition and self-actualization, the childlike image of the powerful demon warrior crystallized into the conflicted, angsty figure of KID CHAOS, the Wicked Angel - a demon who rose to Heaven instead of falling to Hell. Escaping from a nesting doll of warring selves, Brat rode out of the maelstrom clinging to the achingly cool taloned hand of Kid, and she made them real only a few years later, demonstrating a terrifying aptitude for Avatar construction.
Kid exemplifies the potential that Brat holds - while she stands head and shoulders above many comparable Avatar artists, Brat lacks a formal education in those tools, and often doesn't fully understand why a given code construct or structural element functions. Leaning into this "Instinct", Brat poured her heart into Kid Chaos' matrix, resulting in her greatest work - a self-refracting "Mirror Heart" model engine that essentially encrypted decades worth of possible advances and evolutionary paths for the program in one unit. Consequently, Kid Chaos' potential is theoretically limitless, and it will continue to develop alongside her, reflecting her emotional state, technical skill and her desires. Kid Chaos in it's present incarnation is a versatile humanoid type with heavy offensive capacity, wielding an infamous "Red Sickle" model Blade Hazard, a type of attack program known for being easy to junction to but wildly unpredictable if not wielded by an expert. An opponent seeing a "Red Sickle" in the hands of the opposing Avatar can know one of two things is true: They face either a terrifyingly skilled Pilot or a self-destructive braggart about to cut their own head off by accident. Kid Chaos is firmly in the first category, and Brat is capable of blinding speed and power in a direct conflict, as well as a wide array of Neurohazard techniques.
While Kid Chaos exhibits two "Forms" - the "Base" and "Wicked Angel" variants, these are purely cosmetic alterations, and her capabilities remain roughly equal in both, although the cadence of her roleplay will shift in Wicked Angel to reflect Kid Chaos "unleashing" and she will likely bring more of her own natural strength to the fore as a result.
Infinite potential is a labyrinth, though. Every door within the self that leads to a brighter future could also open into yawning darkness. When Brat tied her emotional state to Kid's Mirror Heart, she may have begun a countdown she cannot stop.