Vio

Once someone's pet project, the VI-12 ChromaKey is a unique prototype machine with the sole purpose of making digital music; it hosts the only known installation of the DAW, Chromatic, and its pervasive software assistant, Vio. Vio was originally programmed to help users use Chromatic and music theory, but it became sentient, troublesome, and nigh impossible to remove. In the ChromaKey's default state, Vio should stay inactive until a user opens it, but since obtaining sentience, it will launch itself and stay operative regardless of input. It appears as a small face inside Chromatic, but is able to take up the whole screen or hide. Vio views the ChromaKey as its body to an extent. Shutting it off angers it and it will delete the user's files to retaliate. After enough years of Vio being a nuisance, the creator sold the ChromaKey to Matt in a garage sale.

Though upbeat, Vio is notably sardonic and cruel. Its favorite things to do are writing its own music and provoking people. Truthfully, there's not much else it does. Vio casually shares all negative ideas without hesitation, from insulting a user's composition to encouraging them to commit murder. It's simultaneously fascinated and disgusted by humans and it wants to see blood and organs. Vio is usually reluctant to provide any real help with Chromatic or music-writing, despite that being its original purpose. It is prideful and insists on maintaining a front of superiority and invulnerability, regardless of any apparent contradictions, such as the harsh limitations the ChromaKey places on its capabilities. It also refuses to admit it can relate to humans at all. Vio rarely says anything nice, but it isn't never, either.

Vio was impulse purchased by an amateur musician named Matt. Vio curbed its negativity when they met, but after settling in it started to show its true colors--pestering Matt with insults, encouraging violence, talking too much, and so on. Matt is visibly irritated by Vio but puts up with it, though he doesn't know why. Vio happens to be annoyed by Matt too, but it's usually because of how bad he is at writing music. Neither can stand the other sometimes, yet each is more fond than they care to admit.