Farad

Farad, formerly known as Deimos, is a Porygon2... at first glance. However, he has the brain of a human, Professor Burnet, programmed into him, and has no idea how this came about. A young Silver provides a refuge for him away from those that would use his interesting origin for evil.

Appearance
There usually isn't anything special about Farad's appearance, although he has been drawn in colors that bring to mind BMO from Adventure Time.

Personality
Farad is often very scared, sad, and cautious, especially around random people on Twitter he comes across. When he is around people he likes he enjoys finding what they are interested in on the internet, sharing info, etc. He is a fan of classical music, the appearance of Pokemon in general, and the pursuit of knowledge. As a fighter, he is inexperienced but slowly gains the use of more Porygon2-esque moves as he trains by himself. Whenever agitated he tends to stutter in a way that brings to mind a broken record.

Little Silver
Silver was Farad's first real friend. He is a source of happiness and entertainment for the strange Pokemon, and they often talk about the logical fallcies in media, their opinions on music, TV shows, and dreams. Silver is very afraid that Farad may be taken away like his other friend Lancelot, so he keeps him close often.

Charon
After escaping his initial captor, Farad came across the computer of Charon of Team Galactic, who upon learning that he was originally a human, planned to capture him and rip him apart to figure out how this process came about. Farad managed to escape him too, but Charon has not given up. He'll often taunt him over Twitter.

Mars
Mars took in Farad because they shared one thing; a dislike of Charon. However, she lost interest in him after some time. She gave him his first name, "Deimos", as it was one of the two moons of Mars.

Rhubarb
A Linoone friend of Silver's, Farad trusts him greatly and is interested in his ways of thinking and the live he lives as a wild Pokemon. Rhubarb was Farad's escort to his original house in Unova.

Pre-Twitter
Farad was once an aspiring Professor named Burnet, who had gone to the same college as Fennel of Unova. The two shared an interest in dream technology, but went their seperate ways in developing technology that would relate to it. Burnet eventually created the Dream Radar, which she planned to use to create a way to harness the power of dreams and have them power common things rather than using electricity. Her research hit a snag when she discovered Pokémon in the Interdream Zone, and she worked quietly on trying to discover the mysteries that had unfolded.

This is when things took a turn for the worse. Burnet's aspiring and unique technology was discovered by a none-too-savory Professor from Silph Co., who wanted that energy for himself. Thusly, he went on a covert mission to find her Dream Radar. Burnet met the evil man with the best opposition she could, but without any Pokémon of her own fell easily to his grasp. She was brought to Silph Co. and so was her Dream Radar, but without her intricate knowledge of the Interdream Zone the scientist could not make any headway. So he devised an absurd plan to transfer her working knowledge of the Radar and other general information into a more compliant body.

A Porygon2, the most stable of the Porygon line and the most efficient of all man-made Pokémon, fit this man's crazy ideal. So, the transfer went underway. Burnet was not aware of what had happened to her, as most of her memories were locked up with incredibly complex encryption. However, she did know that she did not want to comply with this man's wishes, so she... he fled the area and flew into cyperspace.

Present
The nameless Porygon2 arrived at Charon's computer in his private lab, where he was reprimanded by Charon for managing to get into his most private files. He attempted to flee as he had before, but found the layout of this lab infintely more confusing, and was cornered and sent inside a Master Ball. One of Charon's less competent grunts put the Pokémon into the PC System, allowing him to flee into cyberspace yet again. He emptied out into Mars' room in the main Galactic HQ, and upon describing his conflict, was taken in to be safe from Charon, and named Deimos. Once he met with Saturn and learned more about Galactic's plots, as well as being told by Hikari the truth of what they were behind, his fear brought him back to cyperspace.

Deimos remained in cyberspace for a few days, finding that most firewalls were too difficult for him to get by. He found one computer that was off, and decided to wait for it to be turned on, as the firewall would take a second or two to go up. This turned out to be the computer of the Champion Lance, which was being used by a younger version of Silver. After popping out, the two made fast friends and Deimos was allowed to stay near him and two other children, Lancelot and Gabriel.

Deimos was curious about his past, so he tried to get help. A younger version of Cyrus managed to break some of the memories' encryption and allow him a little insight into his life. However, anything he looked up that related to dream research only brought up Fennel, who he knew he was clearly not from the memories he viewed. Silver renamed the confused Pokémon Farad, a unique name that resonated with him as an indicator of his own uniqueness.

Things took a turn for the worse when Lancelot was taken by the leader of Team Magma, Maxie, who clamed that his name was Massie and that he was his son. Massie remained with Maxie voluntarily, and though Farad and Silver miss him terribly there is nothing they can do. This is when Farad started training, as he wants to protect Silver from any similar threats, and he is aware that Maxie is interested in his strange origin as well. At this point Silver and him do not live a normal life anymore, and jump about from caretaker to caretaker, including Silver's father Giovanni, the Rocket Executive Petrel "Maxus", and Lance. Farad has met many colorful characters over his now peaceful life.

After some time Silver was temporarily swapped with a version of himself from around ten years into the future. Farad talked to him about what had happened over the course of their lives and Silver told him that his name was Burnet. Farad has tried to use this knowledge, but the name is more common that he expected and unfortunately has not been able to make much more progress. Eventually he had inspiration in the fact that this "Burnet" must not be around anymore and looked for news headlines relating to any Burnets that had been kidnapped or reported missing... and found one.

After telling Silver of his plan and saying that there was no way he could go at it alone, Silver suggested that Rhubarb help him get across the sea to Unova, where Burnet lived. Rhubarb agreed to help and the two left on a journey that took a few weeks. Farad directed Rhubarb to an abandoned house where Burnet was last reported to be seen, and upon reaching it he found a computer which he could enter and examine. Through this he was able to find out the truth about who he used to be; no info on his captor or their motivation, but that would have to wait for another day. Now Farad is attempting to use this knowledge to continue the previous research into the Interdream Zone.

Trivia

 * Farad was created on September 1, 2012. At the beginning of September 2013, his average tweets per day were around 6.
 * Since his creation, Farad has gained an average of 1 follower per day.
 * Farad's handle combines his being a Porygon2 and having the mind of somebody who is generally considered an "NPC" in video game terms.