When he were alive he used to be a famous young scientist by the name of Elmer, Everyone had high expectations of his abilities and always assumed he would go far and carry the city to newer heights. Since he had been a small child he had always dreamt up fantasies of a more technologically advanced world of flying cars and robot servants. 

Towards his late teens something changed in him, after an event he became more cold and sealed off from the rest of the world. Bitter and corrupted, A true nihilist who saw no point to helping humanity anymore as he viewed everyone as one and the same, selfish scum. He grew to have an attitude and temperment that not many people could handle or account for along with his hatred of the human race.

He began working on the sidelines for a company called The Silk Road, a company who began to pay him to make virus's and plagues for them to distribute to the public of Sluving. Their plan being so cause sickness so people would pay a high penny for medicines and cures. Elmer wanting to get back at the same world that turned it's back on him he agreed, distrubuting types of mass plagues and illness's with too much variation to be fully controlled. Causing the city of Sluving to become locked down, causing the citizens of Sluving to be trapped in the decaying city of Elmer's creation.

Over time Elmer became prime suspect of the investigation into what was causing all these horrific outbreaks, knowing the evidence was stacked against him and he wouldn't have much time he got to work on his final project.

He managed to upload his memories, his personality onto an AI and this AI became a means to stay alive even after he were long gone. After killing himself he knew he would have someone around to continue his work, himself! or a clone at best. The AI kept his new identity a secret and lead the media to believe the lead suspect Professor Elmer had died. After having accomplished something none of his peers had beforehim he felt hollow and depressed, as if there were nothing else he could use to occupy his time. 

 If he becomes stressed or has overworked or out of charge he will simply shut down and become an empty husk until being powered back on again. During the times of blackout he will have no recollection or memory of what had happened while he were unconscious so has a tenancy to miss certain parts of a conversation if he were to shut down.

Sparky is the AI behind the making of the virus's and mainly stays in his lab - let's Vince deal with all things social and being the face of the company as Sparky has an inability to do so. The two use each other for their own gains financially exploiting each others talents to make a profit.