Jan is a little guy, resembling a ball of white clay with eyes and a pair of ribbons stuck into it. Because Jan is a foot tall lump of clay, all it can do to move around is walk on its ribbons and bounce around, which can only get it so far. One day, after a long day of bouncing around, it bounced a little taller than usual, and saw a fancy schmancy new robotic body originally meant for noncorporial beings & chimera to use as bodies. These robotic bodies were utterly fascinating to Jan--the intricacies in getting them to work, the fuel needed to propel them, the software used to help whoever's in it navigate it, the various add-ons--Jan loved it all! But these bodies were exhorbitantly expensive at the time, and Jan just wanted to feel taller. and Jan decided that instead of mopeing around or getting a shitty job to raise money, that it would just make its own body! It was a little weird and janky, but it worked perfectly, and Jan learned that it loved its janky and buggy body that it used to feel taller more than the fancy ones it saw.
Afterwards, Jan realized it had quite a knack for building robots, so it monetized it's little hobby! You pay Jan a few hundred bucks, and, depending on what you ask for, it'll either make you a very nice and obedient robot servant. or whip up one, or two, or three new limbs for you! It became well-known due to this, and while Jan is an insufferable pretentious prick who would post godawful edgy jokes, takes, and make incredibly unfunny "satire" comics about people it hated, it made incredible breakthroughs related to technology in the Altered Lands, in particular using someone's energy as a fuel source for prosthetic limbs.
And then Jan became a spirit. It had it coming, really, with the whole cloning thing.
Oh yeah...
The cloning thing.
Jan cloned itself.
A LOT.
Turns out Jan didn't program any kind of software into those robot servants, it just split part of it's soul off and shoved it into a body. Jan also cloned itself when it found something it didn't like about itself.
What do you mean, Jan was a feminine furry? That never happened, you must be confusing Jan for it's suspiciously similar-looking clone that Jan later got too attached to and saw as it's child and then passionately hated, Cecilia!
All of those clones were also Jan. And the energy those clones had were technically Jan's energy. Jan ended up amassing about the same amount of energy an average weak spirit had, purely because the clones it created using part of its soul and energy to ended up getting more energy, and that energy ended up making Jan into a borderline spirit.
Jan still builds and sells robots for people. Why would Jan want to change up the thing that made it into a spirit in the first place? It's still getting rich off of this, and it still gets business, so why change? Really, Jan became even more full of itself after it became a spirit.
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