Venus

CONNECTION: AR Glasses + Digital Assistant

AI ASSISTANT: Weak AI “G”

DIGITAL APPEARANCE: Whatever avatars her clients request A Doll and Voyeurcam-girl who works at the White Lotus in Sunridge, Venus' real name is Dahlia Wilson—a name she tells no one. She is in the middle of a five-year contractual obligation to The Pan Sibs, who paid for her reconstructive surgery after her fathers were killed in a suspicious fire at a housing project in the CBD. Unbeknowst to her, the Sibs track her every movement, and can control her emotions via a covert wireless connection rigged to her neural implants.

Venus wear a heart-shaped pendant on a velvet choker around her neck, covered with synthetic diamonds of pink and yellow. Hidden in one of the diamonds is a wireless node linked to a private network owned by the Pan Sibs; they are capable of using this pendant as a digital hotspot whenever it is activated by Venus, giving them access to dark and offnet systems that would ordinarily be beyond their reach.

Book 2: “Playing with Dolls” (D M Dore)