Jack of Harts

I mentioned before that pulling characters from games is an art, rather than purely a science. Now my Red was real good at it. She was my AI, customized to me. My personal assistant. She was an artist. She didn’t straight copy them out of the game. We manually mapped the character’s decisions and life history onto a blank AI matrix. But no matter how close we wanted to keep to the source material, we had to make changes. Sometimes it was because I wanted to pull a character that was not a nice person. I liked their looks but not their tendency to stab people in the back. Sometimes they came from a world that was utterly incompatible with our own. We had to make changes, and that is where the art comes in.