Johnny is a 13-year old junior at Santa Cruz High School. His father is an engineer at Program Object Technologies, while his mother stays at home. Since an early age, it has been clear that Johnny is a genius. By ten, he understood every appliance in the house -- and by now what he can't fix never worked in the first place.

         Two years ago, Johnny found in some old company archives secret correspondence from the 1950s with a Ted Buchanan in Sunnydale, detailing plans to build an advanced android body. He quickly became obsessed and started to create his own android assembler, with added improvements using modern technology.

         During junior year, he's been helped particularly by his science teacher Mr. Brentmeyer, who's given him his own private space in an unused school building - which was great since his parents had started to wonder at his stuff in the garage. He now has a working assembler, but he's been afraid to fully complete a prototype and turn it on. He was heartbroken after his robot dog Chomps broke down, and he knows he'd be even more responsible if he created a new person. So he's instead tried creating a few different bodies and making sure the parts work before he brings anything to life.

         Physically, Johnny is short even for his age, and has short curly blonde hair along with distinguished-looking glasses.

Relations:

• Tori: is your dream and your nightmare at once. She's smart, practical, and beautiful. She's also violent, rebellious, and seems to have slept with everyone except you.
• Max: is a friend and fellow nerd, but you rarely talk to him about anything other than movies and comic books.
• Ashley: is a basket-case. She believes half a dozen different religions, all of them contradictory; and then criticized you for the illogic of your patriarchy.
• Owen: is, well, Owen. It's hard to think ill of him; but then, it's hard for him to think.