Head AS Code

Head AS Code

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#1
  • Color – Green
  • Initial – G
  • Name – Greta Penmill, codenamed Ancora
  • Occupation – Formerly the newest recruit of "My Emptiness" in order to extract her sister; mentions Avaritia teaching her about couch rating.
#2
  • Color – Blue (assigned), Green (favorite)
  • Initial – S
  • Inventory
  • Name – Simon Fournier
  • Occupation – Pizza deliverer with a graphic design degree.
  • Misc – Straight.
#3
  • Color – Orange
  • Initial – M
  • Identity – Alpha level Ex Machina.
  • Name – Marco Martin, codenamed Invidia, used to be a Mark Ex Machina
  • Occupation – possesses Master's degree in applied noematics.
  • Misc – Former game-runner of the Kill ME program; member of a resistance against the Empty S; allergic to coconut.
#4
  • Color – Yellow
  • Initial – A
  • Inventory – Bag.
  • Name – Agnos
  • Occupation – Researcher for the Empty S that designed E's headset & mask.
  • Misc – An elderly man dressed in somewhat ostentatious clothing; "speaks" tactile sign language for E; defected from MTS due to an experiment killing his wife.
#5
  • Color – Aqua
  • Initial – H
  • Identity – GEM (Gamma Ex Machina)
  • Name – Hannah Penmill, codenamed Pandora
  • Occupation – Former leader of My Emptiness, a criminal organization.
  • Misc – Victim of assault by Nico Hope; red-green colorblind; keeps making "subtle" comments (doesn't Smiley's mask seem familiar, sometimes traitors are really close to you); doesn't like the word hope.
#6
  • Color – White
  • "Initial" – Ray
  • Identity – Alpha level Ex Machina
  • Inventory – Flask of noematic placebos, watch.
  • Name – Raymond
  • Occupation – Teacher; second job.
  • Misc – Almost met J in an ES clinic; under the false impression he is dying; cousin Larry; speaks French; visits orphans; makes the same fingers gun to temple gesture in text that Alex does later on fully drawn out in D4G.
#7
  • Color – Red (assigned), Yellow (favorite)
  • Initial – E
  • Identity – A GEM of the original Emily.
  • Name – Emily Fiction
  • Occupation – Student of noematics.
  • Misc – "Blind and deaf"
#8
  • Color – Purple (assigned), Blue (favorite)
  • Initial – J
  • Identity – Hannah, the biological original.
  • Name – Jasmine
  • Occupation – Graphic designer; likes strawberry cakes.
All Else
Unnumbered
Anastasia Plante
  • A girl Marco once knew; silly in the head; white hair.
SMILEY
  • Identity – Emily Fiction
  • Nickname – E288
Annie Sansoucy
  • There's a passing reference to a girl in pink pigtails on the train.
Ms. Penmill
  • College professor Simon had a crush on; presumably related to the twins.
The Magnificent Zachary
  • Poster for his show in the bedroom.
God
  • You, the player.

Continued Themes
  • The number nine
  • MTS – My Emptiness, Empty S, Montreal Transport System
  • Deja vu
  • Gravity machine
  • Bombings
  • Traitors
  • Dust to dust, ashes to ashes
  • Time being one's greatest enemy (possibly the Empty S' motto, given their gravity machine and infinity symbol?)
  • ME-cards
  • Couch-rating
  • Malapropism (misunderstanding words and saying similar-sounding phrases)
  • Smile and shine
  • Enneagrams
  • Animals – Lions, Wolves, Eagles, and Rabbits are the sports teams in the gym, with S calling the Wolves the deadliest.

Timeline
  • The events of Birth ME Code occur from 2002-2014.
  • Beirut is bombed in 2020.
  • A few months before the metro kidnapping, New York is likewise bombed.
  • 39 Complexes are built by Empathy Systems.
  • Jasmine and Simon lose touch four years before Head AS Code, so... 2018?
  • E collapses in October 2021, whereupon her senses are removed and rebuilding begins.
  • Eight people are brought by Smiley into a modified section of the MTS designated Complex 27 under Montreal on April 22, 2022.
  • Simon-17 escaped in 2218.
  • Simon-? escaped in 2286.
  • The cycle is repeated 288 times until Simon-19 finally reaches the true end in 2310.
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