BOY KAVALIER is the youngest trillionaire and owner/CEO of the Prodigy Corporation. In the episode "The Real Monsters", Boy told the story of how he grew up with an abusive, alcoholic and jealous father who regularly beat his young son. At the age of 6, Boy created a synthetic person which subsequently murdered "Old Daddy" and became "New Daddy". He then founded the Prodigy Corporation and when he needed an adult to be the figurehead of his new company, "New Daddy" fitted that role. Prodigy concentrates on creating synthetics and hybrids, in which the human consciousness is transferred into a synthetic body. Boy used terminally ill children as his subjects as their young consciousnessess (yes, it is a word) were more able to withstand the transition. As Boy is obsessed with JM Barrie's novel, "Peter Pan", he named the new hybrids after characters of the Lost Boys. Boy is hyperactive and has severe ADHD. He has no compassion or empathy for anyone else's point of view, and yet his enthusiasm is strangely attractive. After creating the hybrid he is bored and wants something new to interest him. The alien lifeforms released on Earth when the Weyland-Yutani ship Maginot crashes in Prodigy territory feed into his desire for something new. However, while Boy has no one in his life who is capable of putting the brakes on his wild ambition, by the end of the first season, he realises that he has created something even more devastatingly self willed than he.
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ATOM EINS is the enigmatic sidekick to Boy Kavalier. We're not told until the last episode, that he is a synthetic person and connected to the Prodigy network. At a guess he is "New Daddy", who was created to dispose of Boy's father, and act as the face of Prodigy, until Boy was old enough to take over. He accompanies Boy to a confrontation with Yutani, the CEO of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Although a synthetic person, he not merely a "yes man". When Boy decided to send the hybrids to the Maginot crash site, Atom strongly disagreed, given the high cost of creating them. However, he had no choice but to allow Boy to have his own way. When talking to the hybrids, he has an air of quiet menace, like a public school headmaster who knows exactly where his cane is and is more than happy to use it.
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ARTHUR & DAME SYLVIA are the technicians who look after the hybrids, maintaining them, and in Dame's case, nurturing them. Arthur is perhaps rather naive about Boy's intentions for the children. He does not seem to understand that he is working for a ruthless CEO who will not stop at anything to get what he wants. When Nibs begins to act strangely, Boy orders the Sylvias to tinker with her brain and erase all memories of the Maginot and everything that took place there. Arthur refuses, and is promptly fired by Boy. Oddly, Dame agrees to alter Nibs and tries to persuade Arthur to apologise and stay. He again refuses, but what he doesn't know is that Boy does not fire people, they are simply not allowed to leave the Neverland facility and the island, implying that he has them killed. I wonder why she didn't just tell Arthur of that, but Dame lets him go, and operates on Nibs, which is disturbing when she is so nurturing to the hybrids that they think of her as their mother. In the end, Arthur does not leave the island. He dies when Smee and Slightly arrange for him to be caught by an escaped face-hugger and the inevitable young xenomorph bursts through his chest. However, I doubt we'll see the last of him. As his body lay on the beach, T. Ocellus found him and entered into him through one of his eyes. So in an odd twist of fate, Arthur becomes a hybrid, with a human body and an alien intelligence inside.
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KIRSH is a synthetic person and doesn't hide it, while working as chief scientist and advisor on Neverland. He believes that humans are obsolete and that synthetic people, particularly hybrids, are the way forward for the planet. He gives the impression that he merely puts up with Arthur, Dame, and even Boy, while he is tied to the Prodigy network, and their skills are needed to go on creating and developing more hybrids. His attitude towards the Lost Boys (and girls) is curious. He is the other half of the nurturing-mentoring team with Dame Sylvia, so in a sense, he is "Daddy" to her "Mummy". But while he appreciates that they are complex synthetics, he cannot understand why they persist in having human feelings. He discounts Wendy's care for her brother, Joe Hermit, and Slightly's assertion that "everybody needs friends" confuses Kirsh. Yet, when Toodles/Isaac is seriously damaged by the alien flies, he makes every attempt to repair the hybrid and perhaps re-create him. Kirsh is assigned by Boy, to take especial care of Wendy, Boy's favourite hybrid. But he shows an oddly casual attitude towards her safety when he allows her to go further into the damaged skyscraper to find Joe, even though any number of strange alien creatures are wandering about. Kirsh is the epitome of the passive-aggressive person and is sneaky. Being synthetic, he cannot fight back and has no autonomy. But he is very good at manipulation and persuasion. As well as Boy, Kirsh is one of the most complex characters in "Alien Earth". In the last episode he is captured by Smee and Slightly and locked up in a holding cell with the other adults. His back was broken in a fight with Morrow, so will he return in the next season?
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JOE HERMIT is a medic in the Prodigy Corporation tactical response team, and also the older brother of Wendy. He grew up with his younger sister Marcy and their father, Frank Hermit. Marcy became terminally ill and Joe was told that she had died. When Frank Hermit was dying, he made Joe promise to go on studying for his medical degree, and so he decided to try to get out of his contract with Prodigy and take up a place in the university of Mars. Unfortunately, Wendy dreaded losing him and made sure that his petition was rejected. Joe is sent into the site of the Maginot crash to search for survivors and rescue them. But poor Joe had to quickly adjust to the fact of his sister not being dead after all, and that she is in a synthetic body. And then his life changes again when he first sees a full-grown xenomorph. He was badly injured and had to have a lung transplant, and so now he belongs to Prodigy, body and soul. But Joe sticks to Marcy/Wendy, even to the inner circle on Neverland and tries to find a way to get her off the island. His life is threatened several times, not the least when Smee tries to entice him into the lab so that he can be infected by a face-hugger. He escapes that, only for Atom to try the same trick, with T. Ocellus. Happily Wendy is in time to save him from that horrible fate. He could have been locked up with the adults, but he is aligned with the hybrids, especially as Slightly says "he's one of us".
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KUMI MORROW is the odd one out, being an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. He was the only survivor of the Maginot crash, the chief security officer and a cyborg. It comes out that he feels a deep sense of loyalty to the Yutani family, as the elder Yutani found him as a street child with a withered arm. She gave him a cybernetic arm and other implants to turn him into a cyborg-human. His loyalty was so strong that he left his daughter Estelle behind when he went on the 65 years long mission to find alien animals. Estelle died in a house fire at the age of eight. Morrow ensured that while the Maginot crash crew all perished, the xenomorph eggs and other cargo were unharmed. He all but declared war on the Prodigy Corporation to keep possession of the aliens for Yutani. Even to the extent of blackmailing Slighty by threatening his mother (who had been convinced that her son had died of a terminal illness). Although he had seriously injured Kirsh, he is locked up along with the other adults in a holding cell, by the hybrid children.
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