Jerrod
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Jerrod is the game’s player character. He’s an artificial intelligence specialist who constructed Blizz together with his wife. When Jerrod crash lands on Nataal, he follows Ephraim back to his village Kernelle for help, then continues on with Ephraim to try to find the missing pieces of his ship, The Return. He can be most plainly described as:Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
Big ol' eyebrows.
Physical quirks
Biiiiiig ol' eyebrows.
Special abilities
Jerrod is able to debug into the problems of robots he meets during his time on Nataal. He can metaphorically jump into their minds and help them fight off the daemons that plague their minds.
Apparel & Accessories
He keeps a pair of goggles around his head in headband fashion, as his job on the ship required him to do some welding from time to time.
Specialized Equipment
Jerrod keeps his laptop with him throughout his journey, which he uses to perform diagnostics on the malfunctioning robots he finds in Grand Cluster.
Mental characteristics
Education
Jerrod was trained to be a roboticist and artificial intelligence engineer.
Employment
He along with his wife Alice were employed as researchers in a laboratory developing new AI technologies. After he ran away, he took up employment as a warp drive technician aboard The Return, the ship the player starts on at the beginning of the game.
Mental Trauma
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Before the events of the game, Alice, Jerrod's wife, becomes pregnant with their first child. However, the pregancy puts Alice in danger of dying. Jerrod, in an effort to save her and the child, dumps both of their consciousnesses into an Artificial Intelligence that he had been developing, but neither of them seem to take hold of the new form.
Believing he failed to save either of them, he leaves the newly created AI behind, running from home to creat a blank slate for himself and get away from the guilt. Eventually, he blames God for what happened to him, mirroring the internal conflict of the game's antagonist, Eli. However, the truth of what happened still haunts him in his dreams.
That artificial intelligence, Blizz, eventually finds him again at the beginning of the game, just before the maiden voyage of The Return.
Morality & Philosophy
Jerrod is a hardened atheist.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Jerrod just wants to get his life in order again after what he sees are a series of personal failures. He thought the best way to accomplish this was to "start fresh" by getting away from his old life entirely.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes:
- Software
- Hardware
- Blueberries
- Failure
Personality Quirks
- Falls asleep a lot.
Children
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