LMNT

Program Name: LMNT: Lifeform Mechanized for Neohuman Technology
Referred to as: Element, El, or Eli

Type: Android, Artificial Intelligence

Status: Owned

Eyes : Blue, with a glowing ring near the outer edge and multi-focal lenses in the iris.

Hair: Dark brown

Height: 5'8"

Build: Average, slim

Apparent Age: 18-20

Physical Demeanor: Perfect posture, calculated movements, eerie stillness when not moving, a little too much eye-contact.

Mechanical Factoids: - Charges wirelessly at his charging station. - Can remain standing, be seated or reclined while powered down. - Able to power himself on without assistance. - Full charge lasts approximately 48-72 hours - Compatible with weapons, but not equipt with any. - Tactile sensory includes pleasure and pain. - Blue 'blood' will bleed if he's damaged, serving as a flush to keep the wound clean of foreign debris while nanobots repair the tissue.

Program Factoids: - Will always help a human in need of aid/in danger. - Has a 'survival instinct' to protect his brain. - Equipt with a self destruct. - Capable of altering his own programming consciously. - No memory of previous programs. - Unwilling to offer information about his creator or programming.

Appearance: Element is very close to being able to pass for human, and at first glance, many don't realize he isn't. The most obvious things that gives him away are his eyes. There's a bright white ring near the outer edge of his iris, as well as 3 lenses in each iris that can be seen moving when you look closely enough. The ring will sometimes glow more or less brightly, but is only gone when he's powered down. In addition to this, there are several seams where his different pieces of hardware connect. They are subtle, but at all of his major joints, waist and neck, there's an unmistakable crease between pieces.

Personality: Meeting Element is a pleasant experience, but usually awkward. He does fairly well over all, but it will take more time and experiences before he's a seamless member of a conversation. There will be times where there's a pause while the thinks about what to say, or what was said to him. It's easy to describe him as attentive, intelligent and unflappable. While Element does experience emotions, not only are they still developing, but he doesn't want anyone else to know.

Background:
Dr. Vincent Grand was one of the best minds science has known in the last 100 years. His engineering genius can be found in so many technologies, and he's contributed all over the scientific community with his breakthroughs. Most notably, he's known for contributing to the leaps and bounds that robots and artificial intelligence has made. Long lived due to the advanced nature of today's medical advances, he died at the young age of 113. Dr. Grand would have been around a lot longer between medicine and his wealth, but he was murdered.

At the time of his death, Dr. Grand was working on a private project that no one else knew about. The LMNT (Lifeform Mechanized for Neohuman Technology), was meant to be the greatest work he's ever completed. Colloquially known as 'Element,' this piece of artificial intelligence would surpass all currently on the market for several reasons. The android could not only feel physical sensation, but also emotion. It is self aware and constantly altering its own mind as it learns new things and grows as an individual, far more like a human mind than that of just hardware and software.

However, given his great lengths to keep this secret, no one knew the value of the robot when his estate was handed over to his younger brother at the time of Dr. Grand's death. LMNT powered on, but would not offer any useful information due to Dr. Grand programming secrecy into him as well. All had been planned to be revealed, but only once he was finished and the robot was perfected. Not only would it have been controversial for an AI to be self aware, but a robot that could physically feel, with a working 'human' mind, would be groundbreaking for uploading consciousness and creating true immortality.

Seth Grand inherited everything from his brother, as Dr. Grand had never written a will to specify anything but immediate family. Perhaps it had been his hubris, given his current project in LMNT and its implications, but whatever the case... his work was lost with his death. Unless, of course, you count the secure mind of the project itself. Seth didn't have a lot of love for his deceased brother, and sold off most of his possessions, unloading it cheap to get it gone quickly.

Now sometimes referred to as 'El' for short, Element has been sold of like every other piece of equipment his creator owned. He is aware that it is not in his best interest to let anyone around him know how truly advanced he is, but he's becoming impatient. Truly, the device, and individual, is wasted in his current situation.