Chalice Wong
Chalice Wong is the daughter of renowned neuro-engineer Dr. James Moonweed Wong and the first human ever raised with a BOB from birth.
Early Life
Chalice Wong was born on June 28, 2064, in Vancouver, BC. Her father is Dr. James Moonweed Wong, chief neuro engineer at ZIM and celebrated inventor of the Task BOB and Affirmation BOB. At the age of 10, she developed an interest in wavecasting via ZIM’s home academics program Learning educational modules. A hyper-aware and imaginative child, Chalice was encouraged by BOB to occupy herself with diverse hobbies, including frac-tonal music and programming wetware. She is most often seen wearing her lucky blue sweatshirt and an heirloom jade necklace. Due to BOB droning her body during more physically challenging activities, Chalice has scrapes and a perennial sunburn. Her hair is a soft pink color, with a strict center part.
Experiences
The Chalice Study
|Chalice is inextricable from her Destiny BOB. They effortlessly hand-off the governance of her body and life, but parts of Chalice’s personality and potential come out most clearly when working together in the Wavyverse. Like a sibling, Chalice is often jealous of BOB’s strengths and ability to impress her father. Uncomfortably resigned to feeling like BOB might be better at being her than she is, an implacable confusion mars Chalice’s sense of self. Dr. Wong calls this ideal, BOB-governed version of Chalice “My Perfect Girl.”
As a result, Chalice covets private pleasures and is increasingly annoyed when BOB wants to join in. She wonders what it will be like when she arrives at the Destiny Tree and The Chalice Study ends, the point at which she’ll need to break contract, and contact, with BOB. She fears this eventuality as much as she idealizes the idea of freedom.
In Popular Culture
|A reviled symbol of the anomic era in which humans feel threatened by the advance of AI, Chalice is publicly regarded as a villain by humanistas, and a general source of fascination and wonder.
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