Editing Expunged (section)

== Personality ==
Expunged is goofy, cruel, and likes to scare people.[https://x.com/OfficialMTM101/status/1717433181216047546?s=20][https://x.com/OfficialMTM101/status/1709311437460697233?s=20] He is aggressive and sarcastic towards others, frequently insulting the other characters. Their [[Terminal|terminal]] entry reads "[FILE DELETED] [FUCK YOU!]"[https://github.com/FuseIsHere813/VsDave-3.0/blob/8dd98b48f95d123b8a4723e0149f09eb16c5c8c3/source/TerminalState.hx#L238]; they call Exbungo "fat and ugly"[https://github.com/FuseIsHere813/VsDave-3.0/blob/8dd98b48f95d123b8a4723e0149f09eb16c5c8c3/source/TerminalState.hx#L242], Dave "pathetic"[https://x.com/OfficialMTM101/status/1577811132852510720?s=20], and mockingly refer to Dave extracting his own power as a "tragic backstory".[https://x.com/OfficialMTM101/status/1577811107602784256?s=20]. They "hacked" the background image of Exbungo's home for seemingly no reason.[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/main/assets/shared/images/backgrounds/void/exbongo/Exbongo.png] They are prone to laughter, which occurs during Cheating, Exploitation, and as randomized messages in their takeover as admin[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L458] and in Exploitation's text file popups[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/PlayState.hx#L7385].

He is strongly fixated on and values power, hating those who give it up and expressing interest in those that have great potential for it. This single attribute governs many of his relationships with other characters; he can't understand why anyone would give up any amount of power at all.[https://x.com/OfficialMTM101/status/1577811169011675137?s=20] When granted admin in the terminal, various messages from Expunged flood the screen that further indicate this obsession with power and ego, such as "THIS IS MY WORLD NOW", "EXPUNGED'S REIGN SHALL START", "THIS REALM IS MINE", "TAKING OVER....", "I WIN, YOU LOSE.", and, more humorously, "I HAVE THE PLOT ARMOR NOW!!". After given such power, they are confident in and gleeful to see the player lose, stating on the menu screen "Play my song as I wish and fail". They gloat every time the player dies in popup messages such as "nice try.", "do that again. i like watching you fail.", and "i could do this all day.". 

Expunged seems to be fixated on the concept of fairness and honesty, punishing those who do not adhere to it. Their appearance in the game, after all, is initially triggered when the player attempts to open the debug menu in '''Supernovae''', which loads the song '''Cheating'''. The terminal screen preceding it states it is loading "AntiCheat.dll", which may be referring to Expunged directly or indirectly. The bottom left of the screen during this song reads "Notes are scrambled! FUCK YOU!", suggesting that Expunged likes to spite or make things difficult for those who try to cheat. This worsens when the player opens the debug menu in Cheating, which loads '''Unfairness''', where this message instead is "Ghost tapping is forced off! FUCK YOU!". This theme is reinforced in the terminal command '''open cCGVyZmVjdGlvbg''', where Expunged lambasts [[Dave]] for lying to him about creating [[Minor Characters#Blade|Blade]]. One could make the argument that things are no longer fair when Expunged is granted admin, although it is worth noting that the effects of this are reset if the player closes the game window.

[[File:Whats my purpose.png|200px|thumb|Artwork by Rapparep. Posted to Twitter on Nov 12, 2022 at 2:56 PM UTC. |200px]]

Expunged is described twice in BIRTHDAY as a creature.[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NpzvRAwsQCIWQEJgOw07Opt1T2h2HiCg_3_pDc6njho/edit]. They are also referred to numerous times throughout the [[Terminal|terminal]] and its external materials as an entity that must not be named, including "the one whose name shall not be stated"[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L208], "the unnamable [sic]"[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L211], and "the unnamable [sic] one"[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pg8BZmgtZMs-bZSJqYUyN_2w_JZvD7Q9]. One of Expunged's lines when taking over the terminal is simply "[DATA EXPUNGED]"; Dave exclusively refers to him as [DATA EXPUNGED] as a name[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L267][https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L271], as well as (formerly) [[Recurser]] in the 3.0a build.[https://github.com/FuseIsHere813/VsDave-3.0/commit/0e5ab3d7e6bc61e3538ab51077c770dc76434278#diff-c37d0deb77707b5c89b7a25ac18d3b6e018ebd1154eaae13b81ed68e60b00a6fR305] It is ambiguous whether [DATA EXPUNGED] is their literal name, or a redaction of another name that has not yet been revealed. It is worth nothing that Expunged's characteristic typing style of all-caps letters surrounded by brackets shares the same syntax as a large number of terminal entries containing the similarly phrased text "[FILE DELETED]"[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L209][https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L227][https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L235] and "[REDACTED]"[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L249], and the command ''open deleted'' is specifically talking about Expunged (which goes as far as to call them an "accident").[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/TerminalState.hx#L211] Even Exploitation's song creator icon, which is the same as Expunged's health icon, is titled "whoAreYou.png".[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/main/assets/shared/images/songCreators/whoAreYou.png] All of these seem to point to ''something'' about Expunged, whether it be its name or some other characteristic of them, was and actively is suppressed or ''expunged'' by others, perhaps out of fear or disdain for them.

Expunged has various styles of writing beyond their primary typing quirk. In some areas of the game, the brackets are omitted or the text is written in normal sentence casing or all-lowercase. Some of these have been changed in the source code to instead be written in their usual typing quirk.[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/63bdbb6ee51d73d224d926b3eee8f302168718e7/source/PlayState.hx#L7383]

Numerous artworks outside of the game from rappareplol illustrate Expunged as having issues with identity or purpose. One image depicts Unfairness Expunged saying ''"I was once something and now im a husk of what I once was!"''.[https://x.com/rappareplol/status/1671443916317442051?s=20] Originally their stated purpose (which they made up themselves because it was fun[https://x.com/rappareplol/status/1472799927667507202?s=20]) was to torture whoever accidentally entered the 3D world[https://x.com/rappareplol/status/1472799926455345152?s=20], but this has possibly been retconned[https://x.com/rappareplol/status/1591309424744071168?s=20], and the ambiguity of their purpose is emphasized in another image showing their true form asking what their purpose is.[https://x.com/rappareplol/status/1591565726938451969?s=20] It's unclear how serious or canonical these illustrations are, but given the context of their associations with being deleted, redacted, or avoided in conversation, this could be interpreted to mean that these things also quite literally reflect on them as a person feeling incomplete or missing something, not feeling truly fulfilled by their pursuit for power.