Seeing the MXES Entity made me think of the Phantom Virus from Scooby Doo. Are they cousins, or was Phavir reprogrammed and that is their fursona? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Virtual Character Tourney - Round 2 - Bracket III - 4
Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)
The Phantom Virus propaganda:
He's a digital virus who wreaks havoc and hunts the Scooby Gang, forcing them to beat the levels of the game they've been trapped in.
Chiaki Nanami propaganda:
She's an AI made for this weird VR therapy world, based on a real person I guess, but this is specifically about game-Chiaki and not anime-Chaki so she is 100% virtual. She's also the Ultimate Gamer, #dies but like since she's a program she's still in there somewhere and is able to influence the protagonist still. i love her
She's a virtual peer to peer therapy observer, she's a Big Reveal, she's got narcolepsy (in as much as a virtual guy can have narcolepsy), she's a Gamer who forgets to breathe when she's in the zone, she has terrible handwriting, she illustrates her therapy progress report in crayon, she's blunt to a fault, she'll defend people she cares about even when she doesn't understand them, she dies for your sins, and she's even autistic. I'd do anything for her.
She holds the title of "Ultimate Gamer" and is also soooo autistic coded. Normally I'm not a big fan of that in characters that are secretly AI because of the unfortunate implications, but the plot goes out of its way to say that just because she's an AI doesn't make her any less real, and she's never denied of her personhood, which balances it out in my opinion. Also, she has THE most heartbreaking moment in her home game, which says a lot for a piece of media about teenagers who are forced to kill each other.
So if the phantom virus came back with a very vengeful idea
How Gorey would his kills be
I think they would ranger from frying someone to a crisp, death by electrocution, or wait..this is worse.
The phantom virus could stick their electrical spear arms inside someone, fry them like a microwave, and cause their bodies to explode or melt into liquid due to high voltage electrocution.
This time it’s the villains of Witch’s Ghost and Cyber Chase.
Sarah Ravencroft: I wanted to go with a charred skeleton for her ghost. It was never stated but they probably burned her body back in the day. In my version of the movie instead of trapping her they manage to make her spirit ‘move on’
Ben Ravencroft: He gets special attention cause he’s voiced by Tim Curry. Where Sarah’s spirit moved on HE was trapped in the witch’s book that-instead of accidentally being set on fire-the gang keep it. Using its information on the supernatural to their advantage. But that means they’re stuck with Ben who can appear out of the book as a shadow and be rude/vaguely helpful.
Phantom Virus: Personality wise he hasn’t changed much but I wanted to give him a slightly more detailed look (that I personally find a bit attractive)
Ben: This dude was so unhinged. He literally created an AI sentient being because his dumb baseball game didn’t win an award. I gotta make him look like a man who doesn’t sleep and would stab you if you turned around.