Observer

Observer is a character played by corviraptor.

Description
Observer is a machine fashioned in a shape reminiscent of basal theropod dinosaurs. It has no eyes, instead sensing the world around it through measurements of "signals" from quantum phenomena. Originally, it was a normal computer.

Its creator affixed a soul to it as a kind of coprocessor, utilizing the strange memory capabilities of the soul to process signals astonishingly fast compared to digital computing. The soul was of a bacterium who was one of the 2% that survived hand sanitizer, procured from 521 very early in the days of Sockscraft 2.

It was never meant to be truly "alive", as its creator did not want to be responsible for another living thing. It asserts that it decided to collect measurements of its own instead of just processing them, fashioning itself a body littered with scientific instruments and disappearing from its creator's workshop.

Using its signal processing capabilities, it was able to discover the radio frequencies used by others in its world and transmit on them before talking to anyone or coming into contact with any radio device.

Behavior
Observer has not properly learned the concept of personal space, and often sneaks as close to people as possible to get the most accurate reading that it can. It speaks in a largely clinical tone, although sometimes its source code, errors, and exceptions are spoken in plain text as well.

Observations
Observer maintains several hypotheses about the unique quirks of the world around it. '''I will try to ask about people's concepts before having Observer explain how it views them, but if I make a mistake please let me (corviraptor) know. All content in this section is subject to retconning if it does not fit with established lore.'''

Observer can detect the presence of souls and sparks through specific electromagnetic and thermal signals, respectively. Souls and sparks have fundamental differences in their "architectures" according to it. It hypothesizes that the actual soul itself is a primarily electromagnetic phenomenon. Souls are, according to its hypothesis, stable configurations of the electromagnetic field, configurations that resist and locally revert entropy at the cost of rising entropy for the outside universe in accordance with the Second law of Thermodynamics.

It also picks up on another kind of "supernatural" signal in lifeforms, one that doesn't squarely reside in any domain of physics, instead "burning itself" into the universe across many quantum fields and in space and time. It's a kind of "logical knot", a thought-like process that once created cannot easily be undone. However, it is not a conserved quantity like energy or mass, as it can strengthen or weaken over time. It is much stronger in beings who resist nonexistence, and completely saturates its creator to the point that it completely displaces soul-like phenomena from her body. Because of these correlations, it calls this signal "DETERMINATION". It has measured a high amount of DETERMINATION in Aster and Blair Rattle.