Dr Tesla Quine plays the role of the scientist likely in charge of creating Delphi as well as being a founding member of the Burke project for the GTX corporation, his developments in science is what gives P. Burke took this chance at life through Delphi albeit for monetary value but also to prototype new augments to make such a life like being until her death at the end of the story where he is the realist that tries to tell Paul that she is indeed dead by his intrusion of the neurolab.
Mr Joe Cantle acts as an adopted fatherly figure to Delphi Though his true intentions only lie with using her to defy the Huckster acts so that her advertising career can land him and the corporation mor money, we can witness more of his personality becoming apparent when Paul seemingly kidnaps her which leaves Mr Cantle to loses his fatherly tone before realizing they can isolate them in the lab to which he regains his composure.
Paul Isham the 3rd is a more complex character next to Delphi in the story because of his adopted love for her as she rises in acting but also his dissociation with the company after he notices much of her augments when he climbed over her in bed which starts to drive him into a chivalrous insanity with the sole idea of saving her. This of course goes further when he uses his connections to break into the GTX facility that then causes P.Burke to seek him out from the lab and dying at his feet which causes Delphi to die as well leaving him a confused mess of a person with a gun.
This is a story set in the future where someone can feed their consensus into an android body within a digital age that outlaws advertising of any product less it be through GTX or other illegal means. This is similar to how we have policies for the internet today and constant debate over the rights of speech and whether the technology becomes available to project ourselves somewhere else physically that doesn’t change the outcome of effects that media holds on people and just what lengths people will go to control it or out maneuver the any policies against such.
I liked how during your comparison of the story and our life today you mentioned how even if that technology was present, the effects of the media wouldn’t change and the power for it wouldn’t either.