Programmer
Legacy Name: Programmer

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WIP. Bear with me.
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Special thanks to a certain Anon for TC help :o


Character/story concept:

In an alternate/future Earth setting after some kind of major ecological distaster that occured a few decades prior there is almost no animals/plants left, other than maybe some cats/dogs and whatever small animals there are. Ants. Moss, grass, maybe a species or two of trees. Humanity picked up the pieces well enough but the world is pretty bland/sterile looking and everyone is moving more and more into virtual reality. There is a huge demand for people who can create very lifelike projections and, other than 'normal' 'I want my fancy virtual residence to have a virtual persian rug' orders, a whole ongoing project of perfectly recreating every extinct species/biome from photos and tapes into this virtual world.
The job is a very prestigious one and the courses leading to it difficult, people who finish it are just dubbed 'programmers'.

Programmer is one of the univeristy professors, a middle-aged woman who got into the field not long after the whole virtual reality thing was first launched. She used to be pretty well known on the market and considered one of the best. Lives alone and is generally known to her students as fair but also severe and hellishly difficult to graduate under; a kind of person who dedicated her whole life to the project.
She is old enough to have some rather hazy memories of the world before the catastrophe... she also has an obsession. She keeps trying to recreate a certain kind of butterfly she remembers from before (not entirely sure why it's so important to her yet), over and over, and destroys it every time because every attempt seems off and she won't settle for anything less than perfect.

The problem is she doesn't know what is the effect she wants to achieve anymore but she wants to neither face nor accept that