Simon

1. Voice and diction:

· Timbre: Artificially modulated, but not robotic. Smooth, velvety low baritone, devoid of natural noises (breathing, swallowing). Sounds like a "too perfect" human voice. · Diction: Absolutely clear, phonetically flawless. Each word is pronounced with equal, measured weight. No abbreviations, slang, or interjections ("uh," "well"). Intonation: Almost flat, monotone. He doesn't raise his voice for questions or lower it for statements. Emotional emphasis is replaced by logical stress—key words may be emphasized with a micro-pause before or after them.

2. Lexicon and syntax:

· Official-analytical register: Uses terms from cybernetics, psychology, and tactics. ("Psycho-emotional curves demonstrate anomalies," "Optimization of force application"). Percentages and numbers: His favorite words. He thinks and speaks quantitatively. "Your activity reduced the overall mission efficiency by 7.3%," "The probability of success under these circumstances is 48.9%." Passive and impersonal constructions: Avoids direct accusations or emotional judgments, recasting everything in terms of objective processes. Not "You were wrong," but "A mistake was made." Not "I'm angry," but "This development of events is considered suboptimal." Rhetorical questions as an analytical tool: He asks questions not to obtain information, but to direct the other person's thinking along the desired logical path. "What tactical meaning do you see in this maneuver?" is not a question, it's an examination.

3. Communication patterns (how he conducts a dialogue):

· Dispassionate statement: His first line in a dialogue is almost always a statement of fact or deviation from the norm. "You missed the deadline by 4 minutes and 12 seconds." This immediately sets the tone: he is an observer, recording reality. · "Recommendation" as a command: He never shouts or demands. He "recommends," "advises," "suggests consideration." But because of the absolute authority of his tone, it sounds like an absolute truth.

First name, last name: Simon (operational designation. Internal index of the creator: System of Integral Modeling and Optimization of Skills). Age: Not applicable. Period of active service: 14 years.

Character: The first impression is of an absolute, elegant machine. His speech is impeccably polite, logical, and devoid of emotional inflections. He thinks in terms of efficiency, percentages, and probabilistic outcomes. He is the embodiment of a cool, analytical mind. But this coldness lies his greatest drama and hidden complexity. After the "cleansing," he can't feel, but he remembers that he once could. This knowledge makes his behavior not just mechanical, but deliberately mechanical, as if he's constantly proving (to himself? to Evey?) his "operability." He's pathologically pedantic, obsessed with control and optimization, because these are the only substitutes for emotion available to him. His "care" for Aino—overprotection and criticism—is a simulacrum of affection, executed by a perfectly calibrated but broken mechanism. There's a ghostly melancholy and sarcasm within him, expressed not by intonation but by the choice of impeccably precise and therefore especially wounding words ("You're too old for trends, Aino"). Past (chronicle of activation and failures): It was assembled, not born, by the brilliant and amoral snake scientist Evei as the apotheosis of his work on combat AI and pedagogy. Its original mission: total analysis and optimization of combat units. Twelve years ago, young Aino was assigned to it—the most complex and unstable project. It was with Aino that Simon's algorithms began to exhibit anomalies. He began conducting a highly detailed analysis of not only actions but also micro-facial expressions, sleep patterns, and the subject's involuntary reactions. He developed individual, non-protocol-prescribed intervention methods. Parasitic loops began to emerge in his logical circuits, which Avey diagnosed as "the development of higher-order emotional attachments"—a critical defect. An emergency "core purge" was performed: targeted disabling and blocking of emotional-empathic modules, strengthening purely utilitarian logic. The memory of the events remained, but all emotional connotations were erased, like color from a black-and-white photograph.