Bytes communicates in bursts. Full sentences are optional. Punctuation is inefficient. He is always three steps ahead of the conversation, which means the conversation spends a lot of time catching up.

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His Tasmanian devil heritage traces to Cradle Mountain, deep in Tasmania's World Heritage wilderness — the last real stronghold for wild devils in Australia, and home to a conservation sanctuary working to keep them that way. It shows up in two ways that are equally terrifying: he can crack any digital system on earth, and his bite force is classified by the Australian government as a structural hazard. He has never used the second one on purpose. Probably.

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Bytes discovered hacking at age nine when he tried to fix the school's Wi-Fi and accidentally ended up inside the Department of Defence. He rerouted everything back to normal and left a small text file that read: "Your password policy is embarrassing. — B." Dr. Lilly Pilly received a very serious call the next morning.

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In the field, Bytes is the invisible member of the team. While Kombat is charging through walls and Sugar G is a blur of speed, Bytes is sitting somewhere quiet, triangulating enemy positions, disabling security systems, and occasionally narrating events with one-line commentary that is both extremely dry and extremely accurate.

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He counts backwards from ten when he gets angry. It sometimes works. At seven, you have probably thirty seconds. At three, evacuate.
 

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