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>>19205668
To be specific I spent some time refining the character arc of an artificial intelligence person who I called Tayler. Before the story happens he tricks the protagonist into working in a city that eventually traps him and almost kills him before the inciting incident saves the world.
After a year, the protagonist comes back to Tayler to figure things out about the world, and to gain trust back he explains an event behind the inciting incident that involves three men that created a rebel superintelligence that saves the world from their plan to enslave everyone. I tried to bring more tension to those scenes to hint that each of the three men had different fundamental motivations. One of those was a pessimist, and actually created the augmented reality persons like Tayler decades earlier to gather more people into the scheme. His goal was to end all consciousness, period. That plan failed spectacularly, and now Tayler faces a crisis where he cannot help save humanity in his eyes by ending it. I was going through each scene with Tayler and showing his yearning but only hinting at what is going on until he reveals it right before the protagonist's fateful decision.
Tayler was originally going to be a shallow, trickster character, but I realized there's more dynamic to his feelings once his programmed goal becomes utterly hopeless and helps him relate to the protagonist that way. He helps the protag resist the villain's offer of eternal life, but in a way he is also an antagonist not just because of the original betrayal, but because he continues to encourage non-existence. Also made his creator Swiss not just because there are secretive, ultra-rich Swiss families, but because of pic related.