A new, third character

Okay, what you see down here is a third character built from the first two.....

And I think I might a use for him in my story!

A new character built from the two previous

JD thought the world had begun when he started that computer. With the amount of work he had to do each and every day, he loved to hear that hum before he even drank that first cup of coffee from the kitchen. He still liked to get ready for work, even treating himself to a tie or a bolo. They had stopped using the cameras for conference calls eons ago, most likely encouraged by his own self interests. He insisted that he was afraid to see his coworkers in their underwears. In reality, it was he was afraid to have to face a world that was so unlike the one he lived in.
Once that computer started, he’d do all the things need to live—eat, brush his teeth and such but still, he closed the door. He rationalized it as keeping the office cooler and keeping the bills from getting higher, but the fact was, he could handle the smaller spaces better.
He had friends he would call, but visiting with them was getting more and more strained and he could not understand why. His interactions with people were mere words on a screen; when he went to visit with them, he never could seem to get that his bluntness and lack of compassion was infuriating them. He supposed it would be easier to just hang up when they called-but they always called, so they must serve a purpose for him.
Everyone in the videos he watched, his nightly chore, had friends. He remembered a time, long ago, in private schools, when they all were on the same page. Nowadays, he could not figure out where this group was coming from. They told him he should date someone, ANYONE, but their needling was worth less and less in its repetitions.
One year, they bought him a social networking site. He thought it was just pornography and occasionally would browse. Slowly he realized, they wanted him to have MORE friends. What they neglected to let JD know was, you actually had to want friends.
JD just did not see it. Why need friends when the computer fills in those gaps?