An Avatar is the physical representation of an Artificial Intelligence or AI, used as a way to better interact with Humans.
While not used by all AIs, every "Smart" AI uses an avatar as do many "dumb" AIs. This physical representation is chosen by the AI upon their creation and can be whatever they desire it to be. Although the duty which the A.I. is to perform, combined with the Human brain that was used to create it, have a great deal to do with what avatar they chose to appear as.[1][2]
List of Known UNSC A.I.s and their Avatars
- Cortana: Tall and slender woman, appearing to be nude, albeit censored by symbols across her body, with short-cut hair in Halo: Combat Evolved, then long hair in Halo 2 and Halo 3. She is often described to have calculations faintly scrolling across her body, and resembles her creator, Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey.
- Deep Winter: An old man with a snowy cape, often accompanied by holographic ice and snow.[5]
- Déjà: The appearance of a Greek goddess: barefoot, wrapped in the toga, motes of light dancing about her luminous white hair and holds a clay tablet in her left hand.[6]
- Endless Summer: A tall, red Cherokee Indian chief, bare-chested, wearing buckskins, and with a feathered spear in hand.[7]
- FitzGibbon: An elderly 18th century British Army officer with a teal glow.[8]
- Iona: One of the two known AI with more than one appearance, her default appearance is that of a slender woman with short, curly hair with angular shapes across her body, reminiscent of a skin-tight suit. She also appears to wear metal boots and knee pads. She has an additional appearance resembling a child version of her default avatar for her more simplistic "ghost" interface to deceive remote scanners. She glows dark red.[9]
- Lysithea: A sweet feminine voice with a laugh that sounds like "fine bone china clinking together."[11]
- Melissa: Tall and slender with long hair, Marathon symbol on her left shoulder. Yellow or black or brown, depending on the image.Template:Fact
- Rebecca: She is one of the few known A.I. to have two appearances. Her first appearance is described as "half-Athena, half-Ares" with a feathered Greek headdress and ancient armor. She then changed her appearance to a flabby, middle-aged Mediterranean woman in a flower dress.[15]
- Serina: A tall and slender woman with long brown hair, wearing black boots, tight pants or leggings and a white shirt.[17]
- Sif: A slender woman with a long neck and elevated chin, wearing an ankle-length, sleeveless gown of "interwoven sunset hues" and has long, golden hair, which falls "in waves to the middle of her back".[18]
- Superintendent: A series of emotion icons.[19]
- Watchmaker: An old man holding a large pocket watch with a dozen dials.[20]
Gallery
Cortana's avatar.
- FitzGibbon.png
FitzGibbon's avatar.
Iona's avatar.
Melissa's avatar.
Mo Ye's avatar.
Serina's avatar.
A full color render of Serina's avatar.
- Superintendent emotions.jpg
The icons used to express the Superintendent.
Sources
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page ??
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page ??
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 127
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 95
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 106
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 28
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 178
- ^ Halo Wars: Genesis
- ^ Halo: Blood Line - Issue 1
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 147
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 100
- ^ Halo: Evolutions, The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole, page 422
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, pages 28-29
- ^ Halo: Evolutions, Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian, page 83
- ^ Halo: Evolutions, The Mona Lisa, pages 231, 233
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole, pages 463-465
- ^ Halo Wars
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 68
- ^ Halo 3: ODST
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole, pages 448-252
- ^ Halo: The Flood, page 209