#the-transistor

I see the lights Dance on the bay All of the dark falls away...

Hey Red... thanks for the lift...

You're all I have...

See you in the Country...

Photo - Leo.Ch

I know... You can hear me. Stay with me... Stay with me...

Photo - VladimirN 

When Red absorbs the trace data from them as she finds them, their specific attributes form an attack into the Transistor, as it is, among other things, a weapon. Since it’s built to control and destroy the Process, any program that adapts to it serves as a Function to facilitate those ends.

As to how their data adapts to the Transistor so well is unclear, but it’s probably to do with the fact that they were methodically dispatched by it, creating a connection to them in a way. On approach of each character, as the game goes along, you can also see their “disposition” information pop up. Lillian Platt’s for example, was explosive, matching with Spark(). 

Not every function is obtained from finding these characters themselves, though, but you can still find clues about their connection on the Function screen. Cull(), for example is described as “Destructive, Kinetic” for Olmarq, a leading player in the Hammers team, who was known to cause a lot of injuries during games.Ping() is described as “Rapid, Efficient” which does make some sense for Henter Jallaford as a prolific, and successful detective. 

Hope that helps some. Thanks for your question!

I’d like to add a few more key questions I had copied and pasted, and repeat the one transistored was able to log during all the excitement, because it highlights Red’s agency as a character!

Part 1 - logged by transistored ●⊙◍o◐—-▽∇▽—-◐o◍⊙●●⊙◍o◐—-▽∇▽—-◐o◍⊙● On the Country’s Existence and Boxer [8:23 PM] saklad5: Is the Country a metaphor or physical location? [8:24 PM] mossy_toes: *Boxer [8:24 PM] zhanaeldaiche: Mossy, cut off at "but that's a" [8:24 PM] fytransistor: Back! [8:24 PM] zhanaeldaiche: wb, Lor! [8:24 PM] mossy_toes: that's  all inference on my part [8:24 PM] fytransistor: thanks [8:24 PM] transistorchat: You can see the same barn at the end during the fight with Royce [8:24 PM] saklad5: He definitely caused some problem. [8:24 PM] transistorchat: Perhaps it's part of the same place> [8:24 PM] swordhead: I'm back to editing that floatie. Eventually I will see an actual color on the transistor [8:24 PM] superbashsister: Something I've been wondering is if the Country is the "afterlife" or whatever you wanna call it, is that all it is? [8:24 PM] osiriskun: Does Unnamed speak through the Transistor because he was killed by it, as opposed to killed by the Process and captured with i [8:25 PM] crou: it makes sense that boxer wouldnt be there during the final fight imo [8:25 PM] kasavin: @saklad The people of Cloudbank do regard it as a real place where people go. [8:25 PM] saklad5: Oh. [8:25 PM] zhanaeldaiche: Osiris, cut off at "and captured with i" [8:25 PM] saklad5: Not a metaphysical one? [8:25 PM] crou: hes inside the transistor but theyre inside the transistor but red still has the transistor [8:25 PM] crou: so many odd loops [8:25 PM] osiriskun: captured with it [8:25 PM] saklad5: Wait... what do you mean "regard"? [8:25 PM] kasavin: @osiris You're on to something. There's something special about him. -the following from Part 1: fytransistor: and I guess I’m interested why her character decided to continue despite the mentioned uprisings kasavin: Music was an important part of Red’s life and who she was.