Debug is my Regretevator oc whos mostly focused on the concept of the Melanie Clones and the Infection!
(if you're unaware of what i mean by the melanie clones, in the "melanie recovery log" Scag says she might clone her... and well, Dupes of Melanie are easily gathered in the Elevator so!! I think theyre scag made clones :3)
The idea is she (debug) WAS a melanie clone made by scag, who was friends with kasper before his infection, and was present when That happened, and it corrupted her system. She was shut down, and presumed dead, and... well, promptly thrown out in the trash. Resident junkyard scrapmetal hoarder Pest showed up and started to tear her apart for her parts and internals- which were all infected, and nearly unusable. He was simply going to break her down for her metals, when he accidentally reactivated her, and she booted into an empty personality state, and was only capable of saying [DEBUG NEEDED], an error code warning about the infection!
(this is completely unreadable i know, but the gist is he activated her again and she started mimicking him)
So, as a sort of Pet Project, Pest took her in to try and repair her!
Nowadays, her personality is heavily influenced by Pest, Kasper, Melanie, and leftover files from her previous state as a Melanie. She's kinda a dick, but also a lovable dick LOL
Debug lives with Kasper and Unpleasant, and is besties with Kasper, and has a father daughter situation with Pest due to how much he takes care of her :3
If you ask him if he sees Debug as his kid, he would say no, but ... we know what he is
^ this one is a dream sequence of a bigger comic
she has a whole situation going on where people cannot stop mistaking her for Melanie, and she HATES it. only a few people know her as Debug, because most just see "tv rabbit" and think Melanie, and even worse, some particular people exclusively see her as a busted melanie clone that needs fixing. She has a hard time knowing who she is herself, so people saying it make her really upset
Her infection also causes her really bad pain, as it's corroding away at her internals, and sometimes even turning them into new things, so she requires constant maintenance and ALOT of parts and scrap- but Pest tries his best to keep up with it, and with Melanie's help, they keep her running fairly smooth.
But, she feels... guilty. Pest drives himself sick to find her new parts and take care of her, even more so when her infection flairs and gets worse, and she has to keep fighting for her individuality as something More than just a melanie clone... and well, the desire to be less of a "burden", and to be more than just a "broken melanie", she's started to look into some... not so great avenues.
(please note that if you need help, you are not a burden! She simply thinks this way)
(^ a mockup of some of her elevator dialogue with Melanie!)
However, besides all that, she runs a little shop behind the apartment complex, called the Bugsnare Shop, which sells a bunch of things she borrows* from other shops, with a huge markup. It does fairly well though, and is how she pays her part of the rent, besides shaking down Unpleasant for any coins it hides away.
I. Am ill about her. if you cant tell. ive got whole write ups for her relationships with the NPCS. ive got SO MUCH on her relationship with Pest. shes got weird beef with Bive.
I EVEN MADE HER ACHIEVEMENTS AS YOU SAW FROM HER ORIGINAL POST. IM ACTIVELY WORKING ON GETTING DIALOGUE WRITTEN AS IF SHE WAS AN ACTUAL NPC.I NEED TO LEARN TO 3D MODEL TO MAKE HER. GRIPS HEAD. DEEEEBUGGGGG
