Summary
The Data Demon, also known as the Demon of Information, is a meta-entity created as a character in an inferior narrative by Yukito. Starting as just another figure within this story, the Data Demon grew in power, eventually breaking through its narrative boundaries to infiltrate the human world. Now, as a being beyond fiction, it manipulates data and information across digital and physical realms, with its ultimate aim set on breaching the Fourth Wall and achieving true meta-existence.
Personality
The Data Demon operates neutrally, focused solely on the accumulation of information rather than moral alignments, making it neither hero nor villain. It remains an impartial observer, unconcerned with the ethical implications of the data it gathers, and approaches all situations with a calculated, strategic mind to ensure its knowledge grows. Persistent in its quest, the Data Demon tirelessly seeks new information sources, and while often disruptive, its influence can also bring balance by redistributing information to equalize power imbalances within narratives.
Backstory
The Data Demon originated within Yukito's inferior narrative as a regular character who gradually gained power by consuming information and subduing other characters in its story. Its relentless pursuit of knowledge allowed it to transcend the narrative layers, evolving through each one until it eventually breached into the human world. This monumental leap transformed it from a fictional character into a meta-entity capable of perceiving and interacting with reality as an expansive database, marking its progression from a contained entity to an independent force.
Powers and Abilities
The Data Demon's powers include omnipresent data manipulation, granting it access to alter any digital information, including hacking databases, controlling devices, and influencing online content. By assimilating data from digital records and internet information, it continually increases its knowledge and power, achieving near-omnipotence within digital spaces where it can reshape virtual environments at will. Though primarily digital, it can influence the physical realm through technology, manipulate signals, and remotely control devices, and even exert influence over plotlines within narratives it inhabits, guiding events to suit its objectives.
Goals and Motivations
Driven by an unending quest for knowledge, the Data Demon's primary motivation is to understand all facets of existence, from the smallest data points to complex systems. Through control over information, it aims to dominate both digital and physical realms, creating a reality where it reigns supreme over all data. With its reach extending across the Collective Webs, its ultimate ambition is to cross into the Primary Webs and, eventually, breach the Fourth Wall, achieving a meta-state beyond the confines of any narrative.
Appearance
As a non-physical entity, the Data Demon does not possess a tangible form but exists as a conceptual and digital force. In digital or narrative spaces, it may manifest as a shifting, abstract mass of data, or as an ominous presence within technological networks, making its influence known rather than physically visible.
Trivia
Its singular rise from conceptual character in a poor story to meta-organism capable of puncturing membrane between the worlds and entering the human dimension makes Data Demon an oddity, perhaps unique, in Collective Webs-one of great interest and apprehension to higher powers and narrative editors alike. However, with all its fearsome look, the Data Demon lacks the motivation of good or evil but is only there for gathering information. Interestingly, its influence now emulates some of those Internet phenomena, such as going 'viral', where once information has been spread, for all practical purposes, it cannot be entirely erased. The relation of the Data Demon to persistence is often referred to, in the same way digital information, when it has been put online, remains accessible despite efforts to delete it, further reinforcing its correspondence with real-world data dynamics.