Doctor Londes

Audiences only ever meet Londes as a broadcast image, an elderly man delivered through commercials, television feeds, and the Brain Dream software. Listed at ninety-five years old, slight and roughly five foot seven, the figure is engineered to project the calm authority of a scientist who has lived a very long life.

The persona runs on false credibility, posing as a kindly researcher who has cracked the puzzle of eternal life online. Every message he delivers steers believers toward recruiting fresh converts, making the whole identity a study in manufactured charisma built to grow a following. Fittingly, the character reads as the mirror image of Wen, since here a boy hides inside the mask of an old man rather than the reverse.

The invented backstory claims a researcher who, around 2021, abandoned conventional science to chase the notion of moving human minds onto the network, then vanished. He supposedly reemerged in 2069 to launch Scratch and served as its living proof that the process worked, guiding followers to bring in more members. In truth the entire figure belonged to Rosny Spanngen, who wore the projected image the way he would his own body. A thirty-eight million Woolong bounty from the ISSP, posted in 2071, drew the Bebop crew in. Faye slipped inside the group only to be knocked unconscious, and Spike later reached the hideout to speak with the on-screen Londes while Jet and Edward found Spanngen's real body and shut the program down.