Tiris

"“I'm smiling, but who says I'm happy?”"Tiris is one of the protagonists of The Zoo. Originally a Darwin, Tiris was raised in relative safety in The Haven [working title]. He has dual personalities: Tiris (Good), and Tyrese (Anti-Hero). Tiris gains this extra personality and a prosthetic arm from ‘Paramedic’, losing his Darwin status. His second personality is gained along with his prosthetic arm. In an attempt to create a cyber-slave, Paramedic inserted a chip containing software to control Tiris into his brain. The full implementation of the chip was never completed and as such the villainous side of Tiris, which comes from the insidious software, is intermittent and sporadic. The software affects Tiris’ personality, making him angry, violent, and psychopathic. It also activates certain hidden abilities in his robotic arm, unavailable when the software is not active. The effect of the software is not overruling however. When the software takes over, some of Tiris’ normal personality is present, and vice versa, some lingering psychopathy is present when Tiris is his normal self. The gang nickname Tiris’ violent personality “Tyrese”. The activation of the software can be triggered by aggravating events such as anger and pain.

Tiris and Poet are business partners.

In one episode Tiris seems to become possessed by the chip in his brain. In some sort of attack hack or supernatural occurrence, Tiris begins to have seizures while shouting about the coming “Dark Lord”. When he recovers he is surrounded by the gang; he has no recollection of the occurrence and his onlookers appear concerned and bemused.