Holographic avatar

A fully-sentient avatar of Zoe Graystone inhabiting the virtual world of the V-Club.

A holographic avatar is a digital representation of a person in the virtual world of the holoband. Avatars are created by scanning devices upon purchasing a holoband headset.

While a majority of avatars are controlled by a user in the real world, Zoe Graystone, who inherited her father's brilliant computer skills, found a way to create a fully sentient online holographic avatar of herself, Zoe-A, with all of her memories and experiences - essentially a twin who existed only in cyberspace and could interact with Zoe's separate representation there. After her death in a suicide bombing caused by her boyfriend, Ben Stark, Zoe-A is uploaded by Daniel Graystone into a robot body, the first Cylon known as Zoe-R (Caprica pilot).

When a person leaves the virtual world their avatar will "derez", removing that persons presence in the virtual world. Avatars can also derez due to a number of other factors such as timing out from inactivity, or due to extreme pain from various causes, such as being shot . The only exception to this is Tamara-A who will heal over time when shot, but does appear to "bleed" and experience pain when shot. Additionally, any wounds that she acquires appear to display the images from the datastream in place of flesh, further emphasising her virtual nature. This was shown when she examined herself in the apartment in New Cap City (There Is Another Sky).