NIGHT

Code: KN-3000-23-01-NIGHT

Nickname: 'Bug', for his skittery movements and the way he gets into everything. He thinks of himself as 'KN'.

Personality: Bug is very curious and quite intelligent, but at the same time rather naïve. While not knowing enough to actively doubt the propaganda fed to him through the history and literature he's given at school, he feels almost instinctively that it doesn't really hang together (though he wouldn't think to attribute this to malice). He prefers math and science (or at least what they are taught of it), as they 'make more sense', and more or less ignores other subjects beyond what he is tested on. Bug gets along well enough with other children, but has no real friends and prefers being by himself. On the other hand, he's rather attached to machines - fond of flying cars, forklifts, and maintenance bots the way a child of a millennium ago might have liked horses, cows, or cats. They of course show little reciprocation, but that doesn't seem to bother him.

Appearance: Bug is skinny and a bit short for his age, but wiry and stronger than he looks. He is agile, but not particularly athletic. His hair is a mid-brown around the sides and back of his head, but lightens to a sandy color on top, and always seems ruffled. He has the large eyes (greenish) and round face of your average ten-year-old, but has already developed a rather beaky nose which serves to make him look humorously birdlike (not that he knows much about birds). Dresses quite neatly, more because it never occurred to him as optional than because he cares about how he looks.

Age: Almost 10

Gender: Male

Job: School. Bug is probably being trained to become a high-level penpusher, or if he's lucky, a low-level programmer. He desperately wants the latter; programming sounds fascinating and he's quite convinced he's clever enough to do it.

Skills: A certain talent for expanding on ideas (having been introduced to multiplication, he privately invented exponentiation and even tetration before deciding that the numbers were just getting too big to keep track of) and something of a familiarity with machines and the way they act. Very literate. Observant.

Other: Called 'NIGHT' for a power surge.