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BenRG:
I'm going to go out on a limb here. Agent Alucard here is definitely human (or at least is mostly biological); the speech bubble is definitive proof of that. The pale skin and vertical slit pupils are probably an expensive personal aesthetic affectation acquired by surgical means. It's probably frowned upon by her superiors but they've found it has a positive effect on her job performance (specifically, scaring the wits out of suspects).

So, I'm thinking that the Agency has one of two objectives:

* Ensure that all remaining data regarding Bubbles blacker-than-black past experiences is locked away forever (not a good thing for Corpse Witch);
* Bring down Corpse Witch and all those she has corrupted in Northampton (Bubbles and Faye have just been drafted, whether or not they want it).Either way, getting Bubbles' memory back is not a priority for this agency. Indeed, it's quite possible that the senior agents would be much happier if the key was lost forever. I suspect that Alucard will also cheerfully and soullessly deploy all forms of coercion (both by implied threat and explicit threat) to get Faye and Bubbles to cooperate.

I guess that the point that I'm making is that Detective Basilisk was the nice option. Now we've skipped over 'bad cop' to 'I wish I worked in 1930s Germany cop'.

This being QC, I also expect Alucard to be slightly defensive on occasion and will fall back on her love of the arts and regular charitable giving as proof that she's 'not as bad as you think'.

Shjade:

--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 08 Jan 2017, 21:15 ---I have been reading too much Sandman, I think, as my first thought on seeing our new friend was "Oh Crap, now Desire's involved? We're all gonna burn!"

In fact, based on their dialogue thus far, I'm still not convinced we wont...

--- End quote ---

It's not you. "Wait, is that Desire?" was my first reaction, too. If the eyes were gold instead of red I'd be 100% sure it's at least intended as a reference.

Indicible:
Somehow, our new pale rider agent reminds of a sister of Boa Hancock in One Piece. Must be the eyes and the shape of the face.

In any case, the piece of excretation is about to eat the rotating ventilation device.

Too many conflicting interests here for it to end well: Bubbles wants her memories accessible, but not necessarily accessed, Corpse Witch wants Bubbles at her beck and call, Faye would very much like a job, the badgering agent (cannot remember her name) wants CW gone and maybe the rest of tbe people working at the arena detained...
In French, it is called "un sac de noeuds" (a bag of knots. Alternately, it can also be understood as a bag of dicks, because noeuds is also slang for dicks... Never mind that interpretation...).

BenRG:
So, who does Agent Alucard represent? I don't think that she represents any local, state or federal agency. I can't see them tolerating such aesthetic extravagance. In any case, most Federal agencies have very limited remits and I can't see the FBI (organised crime) and the NSA (maintaining the confidentiality of 'black' projects) tolerating the other on their patch.

No, I think that she works for The Company - Ellicott-Chatham Robotics. I think that, early on in the development of the AIs, several governments across the world expressed concern about the hypothetical ability of AIs to choose a criminal lifestyle and the difficulty that human police officers would have in tackling this (on a psychological, intellectual and physical level). They made it a term of ECR's license to operate that they provide investigative and enforcement staff with the specific training and equipment to tackle AI criminals on their own level. The result were people like Alucard: Augmented investigators and enforcers.

Although she is technically a licensed private investigator and an employee of the modern world's equivalent of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, in practice, Alucard is much more. She has the ability to do almost anything it takes to stop serious AI crime; the 'proper authorities' will look the other way and even cooperate, glad to have someone on hand who has the ability to do what it takes. She has the ability to interrogate, coerce and subborn in ways that no official police force would be permitted to do. She has the right to act as judge, jury and executioner in the event of serious and life-threatening incidents. Because the authorities fear rogue AIs so much, their definition of 'life-threatening incident' is disturbingly broad.

The badge says that she is an agent of Ellicott-Chatham Robotics Special Defective Equipment Safety Division. The AIs know them by a different name.

They call them...
BLADE RUNNERS

Mehre:
So i actually made account for this.

I think simplest solution is most probable. That is ms. CreepyBot is big fish or one of her enforcers. Its more likely that she is criminal than agent or law enforcer of some sort.

Also who are "they" precisely?

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