Ok as a word of cation, I am suffering from a major dose of Si-Fi overdose, primarly a lot of Orson scott card and Isaac Asimov.
The idea came to me while thinking of a AI character, what about a character who for some reason or other needed a comlink implat to be able to function with other humans and the program that he had became sentient. By "fuction with other humans" I mean he was born with a brain defect so that the area of his brain that manages communication was dammaged to the point that his brain can not normally process human speech or other means of communication. Though much like autism with one part of the brain non-functioning the rest of his brain exelled giveing him a higher perseption and somewhat higher intellect than normal. He can understand intintions and body movement but nothing else.
Shortly after birth he was implanted with a special comlink that would compleatly interface almost totally with his mind to if not translate realy what others are saying and the information displayed in writeing. The nature of the connection would be so that the proccess would be slightly iffy, sometimes his brain would have trouble getting the full message, as a result the program with his parents programing helped his brain learn and explaned the world to him, in a way raising him.
Eventualy the pure creativity of his mind and the intimate level of wich he interfaced with the program it began to become more human to the point at wich it became a full AI.
Basicly I see him as protecting the AI with wich he shares the world and becomeing a runner becaus if it were ever found out the nature of their connection has never been heard of before and all kinds of tests and isolations would happen if it were discoverd. Mechanicly though my somewhat limited knowledge of SR (I've red through the corebook and the companion and a bit of some of the supplements) is inadequate to begin to know how to make it into a runnable character. I'm thinking the human himself as somewhere between a hacker and a bun bunny. Basicly a high logic "action hero" style runner. And the AI as a very complex hacker like character with probibly a little less focus on the breaking and intery and more on data gathering, though cracking would be nice as well.
As it is I don't know how to handle this and would greatly apperiate your help, sorry for the length of the post and any grammatical and spelling errors, I'm a bit dyslexic. Any rollplaying ideas for the character would be nice to, I kind of see the relationship between the character and the AI as a mixture of parent and child/ sister and brother/ man and wife. I know thats realy broad but its as close as I can get to explaneing how I would see it.
Thanks in advance
AllenT