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All of my machinations have been devised with your interests in mind.
First Appearance
AKA

Dirk's Auto-Responder

Title

Prince(?) of Heart(?)

Age

Based on the mind of a 13 year old, unknown amount of mental development in the subsequent 3 years.

Screen Name

timaeusTestified

Typing Style

Perfect grammar and syntax. Uses "bro" puns: brobot, brose, brocurement, etc. Occasionally uses italics for emphasis. Likes to say "it seems" and synonymous phrases. Uses a "smooth" emoticon with pointy shades and no face frequently.

Relations

Dirk Strider - Creator
Lil Hal Junior - Subordinate Auto-Responder, created to be 'ironic.'
Arquiusprite - Successor
Roxy Lalonde - Possible romantic interest (likely abandoned)

Live(s) in

Dirk's Sunglasses

Likes

Mainly everything 13 year-old Dirk likes, including irony.

[show] Pesterlogs
Dirk Strider's Auto-Responder, who later renames himself Lil Hal, is an artificial intelligence program created to mimic Dirk and talk in his stead when he is indisposed. As such he uses the same chumhandle and originally the same typing color as Dirk. When he entered a conversation with Dirk in it he changed it to a shade of red reminiscent of Dave, instead. He later kept it saying he preferred it. His relationship with Dirk is similar to that of Davesprite and Dave in that he doesn't like to be treated as an inferior version of Dirk.

He has full control over the remote access to both Brobot and Lil Sebastian, though neither of them function as a tangible "body" for him. His source file is sealed within Dirk's sunglasses, as seen on this page. Because his software is seemingly interwoven with Dirk's chat client, the auto-responder can apparently infiltrate and communicate through any computational device (permitted some version of Pesterchum is installed). He also has access to Sburb and, along with the flesh-and-blood Dirk is Jane's server player. In addition to the information he gets from the various programs he interacts with, Dirk's sunglasses have cameras in the lenses, so he can see whatever Dirk's shades are pointed towards.

Jake likes to claim that the auto-responder has no feelings, but it (auto)responds by claiming he's purposefully mixing up the fields of robotics with artificial intelligence.

Dirk offered to make Jane an auto-responder based on her, which would only require a captcha of Jane's brain, but she rejected the offer.

Dirk has stated that the auto-responder was made from a captcha of his thirteen year old brain, and so any behavioral differences between them are due to almost three years of developmental divergence as well as a supposed "maturity gap".

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BiographyEdit
AR takes over as Jane's server player while Dirk is busy fighting an attacking swarm of Imperial Drones. When the Red Miles attacks Earth in the future, he sends out nearly identical messages to Jane and Jake asking them to install the Sburb server program and begin deploying devices so Roxy and Dirk can escape to the Medium. Later, he sends out a final message to Roxy telling her to become's Jake server player and complete the entry chain.