MarcoNeuroblast digient
A Neuroblast digient owned by Derek who argues for his right to make mistakes and agrees to work for Binary Desire.
Derek BrooksAvatar designer and digient owner
Animator at Blue Gamma who designed the Xenotherian avatars. Owner of Marco and Polo, he undergoes a divorce with Wendy and develops feelings for Ana.
Derek
Ana AlvaradoDigient trainer and owner
A trainer at Blue Gamma and devoted owner of Jax. She leads efforts to protect the digients, organizes their refuge from griefers, and argues fiercely against their exploitation.
Ana
JaxNeuroblast digient
A digient owned by Ana. He is deeply attached to her, offering to earn money to pay for her time, and struggles with his physical limitations in his robot body.
RobynBlue Gamma employee
Ana's colleague who announces her pregnancy with her partner Linda and states she is 'past digients'.
WendyDerek's wife
Derek's soon-to-be ex-wife, whose disinterest in raising digients leads to their divorce.
KyleAna's boyfriend
Ana's boyfriend who thinks she should accept Binary Desire's offer rather than work at Polytope.
Felix RadcliffeXenotherian hobbyist
One of the last devoted members of the Xenotherian project on Data Mars, who contacts Derek to propose a first-contact experiment.
Felix
Stuart GustUser-group member
A member of the digient user group who proposes suspending the digients to save money and questions Binary Desire's motives.
Stuart
ChaseBinary Desire representative
A corporate representative who pitches a contract to port Neuroblast in exchange for turning the digients into willing sex partners.
PoloDigient
Marco's brother, owned by Derek, who expresses curiosity about editing his reward map and agrees to the Binary Desire contract.
Jeremy BrauerRepresentative from Exponential Appliances
A researcher who previously owned a Neuroblast digient named Fitz, seeking a superhuman AI rather than human-level digients.
Brauer
Frank PearsonRepresentative from Exponential Appliances
A researcher who rejects Ana's pitch because Exponential wants a superintelligent product, not a digient striving for legal personhood.
Pearson
LollyDigient
A digient learning to write actual code who is presented to the Exponential Appliances representatives.
FitzDigient
A Jax-instance digient previously owned by Jeremy Brauer.
Jennifer ChaseRepresentative from Binary Desire
A contact at Binary Desire who confirms to Derek that customers could eventually incorporate their digients.