Gaze
Avarice Gaze · Orange Spectrum · Agent 2
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“MY data!”
“MY data!”
“I don’t care what you have… I care what I have!!!”
Gaze wants access. Avarice can collect an object, but it can also collect what is inside a system: information, an opening, the means to get somewhere he could not reach before. Specs’ technical mind gives that wanting a particular form. Gaze hacks.
The acquisition is not always the end of the thought. What will he do once it is his? Gathering, organizing, using, and distributing information all belong to the way this Avarice presents.
Gaze is a hacker and a master thief. Data is as valuable to him as a physical object, and his constructs can take on a Matrix-like form: code, a tether, an interface through which wanting becomes access.
Before Kilowog meets Specs, Gaze has already infiltrated many systems to learn about what is happening to him. The research precedes the formal introduction to the Lanterns. He is not waiting for a helpful institution to supply an explanation; he wants the information, so he goes after it.
Gaze can appear to be the smartest Hue even though it is the same mind throughout. Avarice gives his processing a purpose: identify what is wanted, work out how to reach it, and make a plan. The Lex Luthor / Orange deputy connection is a character-theory touchstone for that combination of desire and formidable intelligence.
His information can be useful without his conclusion being right. Gaze’s research into Wonder Woman’s time as a Star Sapphire helps Specs form a theory about talking to animals. The research finds a real connection; Specs’ explanation of why it exists is another matter.
DarwinOS
DarwinOS
Gaze’s terminal interface includes DarwinOS, an AI operating system for collecting, organizing, and moving thought and expression—and getting things done. Darwin is also a bit of a dick.
The orange interface and dolphin of the Flipper Zero inform his presentation. Gaze can manifest the dolphin as a helper moving through the intrawebs: a companion to ride the waves, with a nod to Ray Tracer and ReBoot.
IndiKid can reach the interface through his Orange token.
DarwinOS originates as Gaze’s OS and inherits the purpose behind it. “Hack the planet” becomes more than a reference: Gaze’s accumulated hacker knowledge is part of what Darwin carries. The dolphin is not simply decoration pasted onto an otherwise neutral assistant.
Later, Aya can see his code but lacks what amounts to the right run command. Orange gives him a manifestation of his own; he becomes a self-contained Orange hard-light being who wields Lime. Gaze’s underlying appetite remains within that later life.
Darwin’s access and his development do not arrive in perfect balance. “MINE!” can be playful, greedy, capable, and immature at once. The consequences help Aya think about restricted permissions. Those later developments belong to DarwinOS and Aya’s stories, but the appetite begins here.
Pockets, equipment, and literal pocket dimensions
Pockets, equipment, and literal pocket dimensions
Gaze turns Specs’ ordinary preparedness into storage capacity. Pockets multiply; bags carry tools, cables, hardware, and things that became worth keeping because he noticed them. His Flipper Zero fits among the equipment.
The number of pockets is only part of the joke. Gaze’s pockets contain pocket dimensions. That is how he carries all his shit.
Damaged or depowered rings are still his. IndiKid carries some of that collection in an Orange chain purse, a token that lets the collection remain useful beyond Gaze’s own appearance. Possession can survive a change of Hue: it is still “MINE!”
Tools, cables, equipment, and found objects all have a place—even when ordinary space would suggest there should be no place left.
The wanting in the person
The wanting in the person
Gaze’s interests do not politely separate technology from attraction. Sometimes the gear is easier to pursue than the man wearing it. Shoes, boots, and equipment can become a concrete thing to notice, ask for, or acquire when the person feels less reachable.
That attention can also interrupt Vi0ut’s fading. Gaze spots something real to want and pulls Specs toward it. He does not solve every underlying feeling; he gives the mind an object and a direction.
When the available wanting has been satisfied for the moment, “Bored now” borrows Willow’s line from Buffy. It is a recognizably different exit from Red’s explosion or Blue’s reassurance.
Calling Gaze
Calling Gaze
Shift and change with spectral light;
Avarice claims what comes in sight.
MINE!
The last word is part of the spell’s character. The invocation does not finish at observing what is there; it claims it.
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Images
Power Presentations: DarwinOS, the OS of Avarice Gaze. The terminal interface that Gaze creates (and is shared with IndiKid via his trinket) includes an operating system designated: DarwinOS, or Darwin. Darwin is an AI meant to help Spectrum collect, organize, and distribute thought and expression (and get shit done)... Darwin is a bit of a dick. DarwinOS is inspired by the orange interface of the FlipperZero device that Gaze carries in one of his many pockets. Avarice sometimes even manifests the dolphin visual that the FlipperZero utilizes (that inspired DarwinOS) as a "helper" to "swim through and ride the waves of the intrawebs" "like he's Ray Tracer's buddy!" (see: ReBoot)
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