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[[Image:Zoe-A.jpg|thumb|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, although avatars can be altered so that they don't represent the user's physical appearance. Such is the case with [[Emmanuelle]], an avatar used by [[Evelyn]].

While a majority of avatars are controlled by a user in the real world, [[Zoe Graystone]], who inherited her father [[Daniel Graystone]]'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 (RDM)|Cylon]], known as [[Zoe-R]]. Zoe's program is also used to create [[Tamara-A]], an avatar of [[Tamara Adama]], who died in the same bombing, due to Daniel Graystone's collaboration with Tamara's father [[Joseph Adama]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

When a person leaves the virtual world their avatar will "[[List of terms (RDM)#Other Colloquialisms|derez]]", removing that person's 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 known exceptions to this are Tamara-A and Zoe-A, who will heal over time when shot, but do appear to "bleed" and experience pain when shot. Additionally, any wounds that they acquire appear to display the images from the [[datastream]] in place of flesh, further emphasizing their virtual nature. This was shown when Tamara examined herself in the apartment in [[New Cap City]] ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]", "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

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