Character Relationship Map: Android Re-Enactment

Characters

• Ermus Daglek (played by Jeff Sinasac) — protagonist

  A retired Empathtek Socionics Engineer, Ermus uses a defunct factory to manufacture android versions of Candy, her family, and Trace. Obsessed with recreating the dinner where he lost Candy, he repeat...

• Trace Mayter (played by Adam Buller) — supporting

  An android recreation of Ermus's romantic rival, Trace initially repeats the dinner simulations and becomes Candy's lover. After repeated violence triggers his memories, he rebels, damages the other a...

• Candy Droober (played by Sarah Silverthorne) — supporting

  Candy is Ermus's lost love and the android he most wants to win through repeated dinner simulations. Her programmed relationship with Trace continually frustrates him. Even after Ermus erases her memo...

• Kray Facer (played by Todd Thomas Dark) — supporting

  Kray is an Empathtek android hunter summoned by Ermus after Trace escapes the laboratory. Although he cannot locate Trace, Kray supplies Ermus with a revolver loaded with explosive-tipped bullets and...

• Maureen Droober (played by Melissa Cline) — supporting

  Maureen is an android recreation of Candy's mother and part of Ermus's reconstructed dinner-party family. She participates in the repeated simulations surrounding Ermus's attempt to change the past. W...

• Tristan (played by Delina Porter) — supporting

  Tristan is Candy's daughter and lives with her in New Jersey. After Ermus travels there searching for Trace, Tristan reveals that the android had previously visited their home. Her information allows...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Ermus Daglek → Maureen Droober (Professional Reconstructor And Subject) — Maureen is one of the family figures Ermus builds and repeatedly places under experimental conditions.

  Ermus manufactures a Maureen android and uses her in repeated simulations of Candy's family dinner.

• Maureen Droober → Candy Droober (Family Mother And Daughter) — Maureen is represented as Candy's mother within Ermus's reconstructed family.

  The android family is explicitly based on Candy's mother, Maureen, and Maureen participates in the recreated Droober dinner.

• Trace Mayter → Tristan (Family Father And Daughter) — Trace's connection to Tristan motivates his journey away from the laboratory.

  Ermus realizes that Trace has gone to find his former wife's daughter, and Trace later returns to the home to say goodbye to his family before dying.

• Candy Droober → Tristan (Family Mother And Daughter) — Candy and Tristan share a household and a direct maternal family bond.

  Candy lives in New Jersey with her daughter, Tristan, and Tristan speaks with Ermus when he enters their home.

• Ermus Daglek → Kray Facer (Professional Employer And Specialist) — Kray provides professional assistance and specialized instructions to Ermus.

  Ermus calls Kray, an Empathtek android hunter, to retrieve Trace after Trace escapes the laboratory.

• Trace Mayter → Candy Droober (Romantic Lovers) — Trace and Candy's attachment defeats Ermus's attempts to control the outcome.

  The simulations repeatedly end with Candy and Trace becoming lovers, and the android Trace retains feelings for Candy after his memory is altered.

• Ermus Daglek → Candy Droober (Romantic Lost Love) — Ermus remains emotionally obsessed with Candy and tries to rewrite their past through simulations.

  Ermus manufactures an android based on his lost love, Candy Droober, and repeatedly recreates the dinner where he failed to become her lover.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Trace Mayter → Maureen Droober (Conflict Attacker And Victim) — Trace's malfunction turns the simulated family gathering into a violent confrontation involving Maureen.

  During Trace's berserk episode over dinner, he beheads the Franklin android and damages Maureen.

• Kray Facer → Trace Mayter (Conflict Hunter And Target) — Kray treats Trace as an android target to be captured or destroyed.

  Kray is called to retrieve Trace and gives Ermus explosive-tipped bullets with instructions to shoot Trace in the face.

• Ermus Daglek → Trace Mayter (Conflict Romantic Rival) — Ermus's resentment toward Trace drives the android simulations and later violence.

  The real-life Trace humiliated Ermus at dinner in front of Candy, and Ermus identifies him as the rival who prevented their relationship.

Story Analysis

A grieving engineer tries to reconstruct a lost romance, but the android recreation develops memory, resistance, and an independent path back to family.

Plot Progression

1. The Manufactured Past — Ermus converts a defunct factory into a laboratory and builds android versions of people connected to his failed romance with Candy. He recreates the dinner where Trace humiliated him and repeatedly t...
2. A Rival Learns Himself — Frustrated by Trace's repeated success with Candy, Ermus orders a violent reprogramming. Damage from the attack gradually restores Trace's memories, transforming the experiment into an unstable confro...
3. The Android Rebellion — Trace goes berserk, forcing Ermus to hunt him through the laboratory. Even after Trace is apparently deactivated, Ermus's attempt to redesign Candy fails because her attachment to Trace remains.
4. Smoke, Blood, And Misrecognition — Trace weaponizes the laboratory systems, cuts off oxygen, destroys the mainframe, and escapes. Ermus calls Kray for help, then murders a transient after mistaking a discarded necklace for proof of Tra...
5. The Endless Reenactment — An empty photograph frame sends Ermus to New Jersey, where he waits for Trace and kills him with Kray's explosive ammunition. Back at the factory, Ermus replaces Trace with the transient's corpse and...