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Out Of Character Information
Name: Liz | [advancing]
Age: 20.
Time zone: -5 GMT/EST.
Contact: AIM: Rafflesia Sky | Plurk:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Anything we should know?: I love pig.
In Character Information
Name: Sertoria Cani.
Series: Original Character.
Age: 7,500, but looks to be 20.
Birthday & Astrology Sign: May 15th. This would make her a Taurus.
Arcana: The Judgment.
Previous Game Backstory:
Sertoria's entire history can be found here as a reference!
Upon Sertoria's arrival into Animus, she was immediately launched into the tower's "space whale" incident that gradually destroyed the tower and as quickly as she was brought into the fray, she quickly offered her services to fight and to get people to safety. Near the end of the event, Sertoria got the idea in her head to become a nuclear reactor to wipe out the waves of monsters that multiplied over night thanks to meeting a person known as Doctor Emmett L. Brown who gave her Mr. Fusion to use for battle as her own resources were drained. The device was broken after the fact and Sertoria had shut down to conserve her powers and prevent damage from happening to her system.
She woke up, fine of course, and met up with Doctor Emmett L. Brown once again in which she promised she would fix his device for her, but he opened her eyes and told her flat out that she was just as human as the rest of them. This was the beginning of their partnership as well as friendship, something that continued long into her time at the tower. Along the way, Sertoria made other friends and aided them however she could, whether it was with listening to them, building/repairing something or just helping out.
It wasn't until Sertoria was forced to confront her Shadow that spawned thanks to a fog created by Izanami that brought out thousands and thousands of years of worries that she kept buried, but after she came to terms with what the Shadow was saying, she accepted that she was human and that she would stop dishonoring Joshua's memory by loving herself more than she was.
Soon after, an event happened that caused everyone in the tower to swap bodies and she found herself in Doc's body. At first, she didn't mind being human as it was her wish. Unfortunately, with this, it was found out that the more she was in Doc's body, the more she began to believe she actually was him and that his experiences were her own. Thankfully, a solution was found to reverse the swaps and she was returned to her own body with her memories intact.
Halloween came around and Sertoria was disguised as a generic android and began to take on the personality of one (think of "I am an android, please use me however you wish, master.") She was forced to do this because she decided to be selfless and give her candy up to those who needed it for the day's total. Eventually, she would stop thinking like this and returned to her own personality and behavior.
What still affects her is an experiment she initially brought up: installing Mr. Fusion inside of her so that she could eat and drink like a normal human and be that much closer to understanding humans and being humanlike herself. The tower's interference caused her to kill Doc and Marty as well as have nuclear radiation go to other floors in the tower, which were thankfully cleaned and she was repaired, but still scarred mentally over being so selfish with her wish.
Following this, Sertoria went through the motions of life in the tower, trying to not think of what plagued her mind. At this point, she was fairly downtrodden, but determined to see to it that her world as well as the other worlds that were destroyed were saved. She appeared at a Christmas party and soon left the tower after that in late December/early January.
Previous Game Differences (List form):
Sertoria began to change in a good way from who she was when she arrived in the tower, but she obviously has a long way to go. Here's how she changed from who she was:
- Her world's destruction. This caused mixed feelings in her, mainly because she was worried over her creators coming to the tower to abduct her again, but it also eased her to know that she wouldn't have to fight against them again. The other bad thing is that she worried over the good people she met and what their fates were. Of course, it wasn't actually discovered that the worlds were destroyed, but it is popular belief that they were thanks to the note new arrivals get upon their awakening.
- Friends. Sertoria made a handful of them in Animus and every single one she cherished. In her world, she made two friends and that was it. The ones she did make helped her realize and understand that she was human in her own way as well as a good person. She was growing used to the idea that her friends could help her through any problem she has and that they're her greatest strength.
- Her Shadow. She knew that everything "negative" about her was going to come to the surface one day from how much she buried her worries and her doubts, but she didn't expect them to be so violent. Her Shadow tore her down from the strong android she was and forced her to realize that she was only sullying Joshua's memory and wish for her to be happy after his death. Confronting her Shadow helped build her strength up that much more and she was grateful for it in a way.
- In a way, the entire tower. The tower dredged up her worries and forced her to confront her past and worries in cruel ways, but also made her realize that she was only hurting herself in the end. She learned so many things about so many worlds and met a lot of wonderful people, all of which she cherishes to this day. With the knowledge she has, she can help build advanced tools or know when to prepare for a crisis should one arise in Hinoto-Ri.
Canon Standing: After she made up her mind that she would be the one to shut down the CXEV Program so that her creators would not have anything else to hold over her.
Personality:
CXEV5001, or Sertoria, was designed to have no emotions at all since they'd just interfere with her mission, which was to annihiliate living life forms and nothing but that. However, what her creators didn't know was that, even though she was the ultimate life form, she would eventually develop her own emotions and thoughts regarding things. This sort of development fascinated and also worried them, so they chose the next best thing: suppressing them time and time again. When she was presented with minor rewards, she didn't fight against the suppression because even though she didn't know what a friend was, her creators were the only ones she knew of and she followed their orders to the letter.
For years, she was lonely and wanted some deeper understanding into who or what she was and what really was her true purpose beyond killing indiscriminately. Though, she tried to not bring these thoughts up to her creators for fear that they would suppress them once again. This is the start of a long process of rebelling against the same people who created her, and even if it was buried under her orders to be a weapon of mass destruction, she really wanted to experience what it was like to have a friend due to her AI changing and adapting - just like a real human mind would.
It wouldn't be until a chance meeting with Joshua had her completely question her motives and why she was doing this. But, this wouldn't happen at first. At the prophet, due to her programming directive, she was angry, scared, confused and skeptical as to why he was so nice to her. Why would someone like him just waltz right on in and flip her life upside down from what she was used to? Moreover, how dare he say that she was just like him - human, a term that is dear to her even to this day. Who did he think he was to even suggest such a ludricrous thing?! Over time, Sertoria grew closer to him than intended and let him see who she really was - a naive, curious android with a maturing AI that was developing normally.
And so, this was the beginning of a long process of healing. Sertoria learned things that she ordinarily did not know before - how to treat others with respect, how to not raise a sword against someone who was innocent, that talking it out meant more than fighting it out, etc. Learning these things fascinated her and she actually enjoyed it. Of course, with being so new to so many experiences, she learned things at a snail's pace, but Joshua was patient with her and helped her when it was needed. Eventually, she was able to stand on her own two legs and try to talk things out first before raising a weapon.
However, when this stability was threatened by her creators, she, for the first time in her existence, felt powerless and helpless, and thus she reverted to her old ways: obey, slaughter - all in the name of surviving so that she would eventually be able to return to the life she enjoyed. It shook her up so much to where she wanted to deactivate herself so that she wouldn't cause anyone else strife. Though, when Joshua took it upon himself to right the wrongs her creators doled out, she was overwhelmed by grief, confusion, as well as thankfulness - emotions that she did not understand at the time, but again, it was due to her AI developing that he would fight against the very people who created her all because he saw her as a human, not a weapon of mass destruction.
It took some time for Sertoria to trust others again, but when she did, she decided that enough was enough and that she'd protect humanity and try to reason with her creators that continuing the CXEV Program was a bad idea, but her plea fell on deaf ears as she thought they would. But, this did not deter her. It actually made her AI mature that much more to where she was determined to see her goal through. While any ordinary being would have either decided to give up or give in, thanks to the emotional and mental backing that Joshua gave her, she had faith that things would work themselves out. She wouldn't be afraid anymore and would show that an artificial life form was just as much human as anyone else.
When Joshua died due to natural causes, Sertoria did not know what to do outside of ask what was going on. Death of a loved one was not something she understood in full, but she did understand sicknesses and other ailments, so she thought he was sick and therefore did what she could to help him out. Eventually, he died and the emotional response from her was both filled with confusion and uncertainty. What caused humans to die? Why did they have to go away? These sort of questions were what helped her finally come to terms with what she did in the past: Death was a bad, but necessary thing, and she decided to try to have a better understanding on what it meant to be a human in full.
And, so, as she wandered the world for thousands of years to observe, study and research humans as she bonded with them and saw many go on to the next life. It was a long process, but she worked tirelessly to try to understand humans and broaden her already exceptional database more than it was. While she was going through this, she felt at ease and at rest, things that she did not know that she could feel. And this was what she thought was a normal life after seeing others be happy with their current living situations.
Although, by the time that CXEV5002 threatened to deactivate her and put an end to the so-called happy life that Sertoria worked so hard for, she decided that she was going to fight to the bitter end so that humanity could remain in their peaceful state. It was a long and grueling fight and Sertoria felt her previous self that would follow orders absolutely. This would be the virus' objective: Wear down Sertoria's defenses and then eliminate her. As she became unrecognizable from the happy and calm android she set forth as, she was terrified and tried whatever she could to stay alive. Survival, even to this day, is key for her so that she can prove that androids are just as human as, well, humans are as well as keep her promise to Joshua up.
In battle, Sertoria, while she has been reformed to not automatically kill someone outright, still knows how to fight as it's second nature to her. She's ruthless, strong and and fights to amazing lengths. She'll still show mercy, but if someone threatens to harm those she cares about or a direct threat to her life, she won't be as kind and will make that other person learn that fighting does not solve everything and talking things out is preferred for the reformed weapon of mass destruction.
One thing that Sertoria is fascinated with is that, even though she has been designed to fight as many battles as possible, why can't she feel pain? As an android, she's been programmed to not have receptors that make it possible to feel pain. Sure, she's caused others pain a lot of times, but one of the things she feels that, to this day, she's missing is what is pain? Why do people feel pain, and yet, still manage to continue to persevere? This concept has fascinated her absolutely and she still researches the concept even though she's read and studied everything there is to know.
What was her lowest point was when the virus threatened to take over and she was fearful for the first time in her existence. She was helpless and did not know what to do other than to try and end her program, but as many times as she tried, it failed, and she didn't know why. She thought terminating herself was the only way to protect the people of Quaeda from the monster she was inside and this sort of thinking didn't stop until Drusilla entered her life. At first, Sertoria told her to go away and let her deal with the ramifications of what CXEV5002 did to her. But, it was Drusilla's kindness that broke through her wall and made her finally accept her help with her issue.
Sertoria did not mind the girl's company, and as such, their bond formed and strengthened to where she decided to protect the girl from her creators and whatever or whomever wanted to hurt her. To be saved not once, but twice, meant a lot to her and she wanted to pay both Joshua and Drusilla back for their generosity to see that she wasn't just an android built to destroy everything: she was as humanlike as possible and set forth to prove that with every day she was alive. Thus, these are the two most important people in her life and she will not tolerate any pain or sadness to come to them.
To others, she will still speak mechanically and emotionlessly due to the AI that is inside of her, however thanks to years of development and understanding, she carries a sort of warmth in her voice that is distinctly reminscient of an aged soul. Conversely, while talking with others, she will be to the point and very blunt. If someone is wasting their time doing erroneous things in her eyes, she will scold them and say that there is time for that later and that they need to work on what they have now if survival is what they aim for. Casual and smalltalk? It'll happen in spurts if the time is right, but beyond that, she ordinarily won't engage in it if she can help it.
Another weakness is that for all the time and energy devoted into studying humans and being around them, she still doesn't understand many things. Humans have fascinated her for millennias with their ability to adapt to new situations and other such things while she still remains mostly the same. How is it that they are still able to remain strong through strife and conflict? How have they lived for so long in harmony and still can pick themselves back up? These are just a couple of the endless questions she has surrounding humans themselves and this unsatiable curiosity is what compels her to keep on studying them so that she has something to keep protecting through the worst of times.
At her creators, while she is thankful that they gave her life and worked tirelessly to make the ultimate life form, she cannot forgive their actions to make her obey every command they wanted her to perform. Moreover, she was disappointed in their inability to let her go since she was clearly content in her current life. In this case, she is stubborn and defiant to not bend to their wills and said straight up that if they dared to threaten the peaceful Quaedans that they would suffer for their actions. This is largely thanks to what she has seen, but also her drive to protect stems from Joshua and it has not gone away. Even though the prophet is long since dead, she still believes in him and thanks him for the work he done. Additionally, she finds it to be difficult to think another way beyond what Joshua has reinforced in her AI - take care of others, be kind and just, and most importantly, see what they think first before making hasty generalizations. So, for someone to attempt to make her think differently would take a lot of work - just like what Joshua did before he passed on.
One thing that Sertoria holds dear to her is the concept of trust. When she puts her trust in someone, she expects that they won't sell her out to her creators, backstab her, or even decide to manipulate with her AI during maintenance. She has fought long and hard for her freedom from them, so should someone decide it's in their better interests to hand her over to her creators, she will not forget it and instead let them feel her wrath that is well known by now. Additionally, when she trusts someone enough to perform her maintenance, she expects them to not muck around with her AI and her memories. This makes her very skeptical and wary to the point of where she'll want to believe that they can be trusted to do said tasks here and there without fail.
Her reluctance to kill could also paint her as weak because she gives others too many chances to redeem themselves - just like she was given by Joshua and then Drusilla. Others could see this and use it to take advantage of her, and should this be the case, she will try to reason with them that she has changed from the ruthless killing machine she used to be and likes her way of life. Couple this with her stubbornness and her belief in Joshua and she will be very hard to persuade to think otherwise after all this time of being used to think in one specific way. Therefore, if someone does want to try to persuade her to think another way, it will take time and time as well as energy to do so.
Physically, though? While she has extremely heightened defenses, a brilliant attack system, and a rather advanced AI system that's capable of developing, her system is highly susceptible to viruses, malware and trojans. Should she contract one through improper usage, she will begin to shut down and turn into a more berserk version of the advanced android she was. Whereas she'd be willing to forgive someone who might have accidentally hurt her, under the influence of a virus, she will outright attack a person and attempt to kill them all because of how weak she is to viruses. Should someone she trusts do this to her, she won't know what to do or to think because she has never experienced betrayal or being backstabbed beyond with her creators.
In conclusion, she is still learning everything she can about humanity in full as well as fight the good fight against the very ones who gave her life. If it means that she has to end her program, then she is willing to take that risk - all in the name of protecting the ones who have fascinated her for so long. Ultimate life form she may be, there are still so many things she still has left to learn. And, that is what drives her to continue fighting and trying to make others see that no one needs to fight anymore.
Key Personality Differences:
The tower changed Sertoria somewhat, but not to the degree where she would be unrecognizable from the android she was upon her arrival. She persevered through what happened and strengthened her mind against such horrific events from happening.
First off, she's willing to speak to people a lot more now. It wasn't as if she didn't know how to do that before, it was just that she didn't know if they wanted to listen to her. Shooting the breeze is a lot easier for her now and so is understanding where people come from with their grievances as she was through a fair share of ordeals herself in the tower. Another thing is that she's more open physically with hugging and consoling others now that she's believing that she's human in her own way. Before, she would be hesitant with touching others for fear of being called a monster or harming them, but beyond that, she's certainly grown into her own person with what the tower threw at her.
Sertoria's also more careful and more thankful for her life. She knows that someone who's been through what she has and hasn't given up yet is a feat to itself and she's stopped wishing for death -- deactivation as she calls it -- as much as possible. After seeing people die and having people want her to be better, all positive thinking, she knows that life is precious and is more cautious as a result of things.
Although, for all the positive development Sertoria had, the nuclear reactor incident is still fresh in her mind and it backtracked some of the progress she already had made. She knew Doc was trying to help her out to become more human physically, but the fact that her supposed selfishness had caused both Doc and Marty to die made her think to what her creators told her: "No matter how hard you try, you'll never be human, CXEV5001!" She would have tried to work through this if she had the time, but it's baggage she'll be carrying in to Hinoto-Ri that will hopefully be solved.
Another thing is that she's still developing human characteristics, such as using contractions in her speech and to not put so much focus on the mechanical side of her. That, and making mistakes is a good thing to learn from, such as blurting out her thoughts, among other such things. Thus, continuing her development is a crucial thing so that she doesn't revert to who she used to be when she just arrived in Animus. Another thing that helped her understand humans was the body swap event. She got to experience what it was like to feed yourself, have limited strength and then some. In a way, while she was regretful for causing Doc's body so much pain while being in it, she was thankful for the opportunity to understand them beyond her studies.
Beyond these, though, she got a fair share of development in the tower and will only continue developing in the game.
Canon Powers:
Sertoria is an android and has been designed to be a weapon of mass destruction. She has a vast amount of weaponry in a sleek female form and can use it for battle and other such purposes. She can turn her limbs into machine guns, submachine guns, plasma rifles and swords, etc. Inside of her, she has kinetic energy inside of her that manifests itself into lightning and is also the energy source needed for her plasma weapons.
As an android, she has super strength, acute hearing, a built-in scanner that allows her to find out about her opponent's weaknesses, accelerated speed and an inability to feel pain due to not being built with any receptors in which to handle it. Her eyes, which are known as optic sensors, allow her to see through the darkness and from far-away distances, among other such things. Another thing is that she does not age, and as long as she maintains her systems and works to eliminate bugs, she can live for years and years and years. However, if she is unable to perform maintenance on herself, she will have to have someone help her so that her system can continue running at full capacity.
She also can interface with various computer systems thanks to two chains that are connected to her "brain" and she can plug them in to any computer she's around. This also helps for maintenance as it allows her to still be awake and let changes take place.
Though, for all of her terrific strengths and stats, she willingly downsizes her capabilities considerably thanks to two restraints that are around her neck and her wrists. They help keep her powers in check so that she can either conserve energy before a mission or so that she doesn't hurt someone in a friendly spar. They also prevent her from going out of control from the kinetic and electromagnetic energy being unleashed. Should they break, it'd take a considerable amount of time for her to calm down and to stop letting her powers go haywire.
She is also apparently immortal, having withstood thousands and thousands and thousands of years of Quaedan development while she didn't age a day herself. This is largely thanks to the system she was designed with, too, so that she'd be able to survive in even the harshest conditions should her mission require her to be launched in other places, such as space.
She will need to be recharged every so often just to give her system a full and complete chance to work any bugs out of it as well as run her diagnostic program in full. Sertoria also has mechanical knowledge in order to keep her systems up to date and free of problems.
Below are a couple of attacks she can do, but the drawback is that they are her most powerful and have the appropriate cooldowns:
Blazefire Cannon (In the middle of her chest, she can summon a huge cannon-like armanent and with enough time to charge [15 to 30 seconds], she can send out waves of electromagnetic energy in rapid succession and in a large radius. Can only be used once per battle.) [Elemental]
Price of Sins (By charging up enough kinetic energy, Sertoria can launch a sphere of it around an enemy and freeze them in place as they take continual damage and shocks. This can only be used once per battle and has a recharge time of 20 minutes.) [Elemental]
Canon Weapons|Items:
Her weapons are all stored inside of her thanks to Spatial Technology, which allows her to be able to store a lot of things in her body at once and it does not weigh her down. Again, her weapons do need to be maintained time to time and she's capable of performing the necessary checks herself, however if she's unable, she will need to have someone else perform the checks for her. They are listed below:
Plasma sword (stored inside of her arms, but she can only wield two.) [Elemental/Physical]
Plasma rifle (stored in legs or arms, but can only wield two at a time. There is a seemingly endless ammunition supply.) [Elemental]
Plasma beams (protrude out of her hands/energy is stored in her arms) [Elemental/Physical]
Plasma minigun (stored in hip or fingers. Ammunition is stored in fingers. Has a low charge.) [Elemental]
GX-0 (stored in forearm and has the ability to lock on to an opponent. Can also fire poison-tipped needles [stored in fingers and has around 20 to 30 of them normally] and flames.) [Elemental]
Toxin Rifle (fires up to three salvos of highly potent poison. stored in chest.) [Elemental] Since this poison is dangerous, she'll only use it if she needs to.
Gunblade (stored in her legs. gun is able to have a blade extend out of it and can retract on her command. ammunition is stored in chest.) [Physical]
Hellfire Submachine Gun (Like the name implies, she has two quadruple-barreled guns in her back and can summon them to her arms. The ammunition is stored in the back of her legs.) [Physical]
Canon Allies:
N/A!
Canon Baggage:
CLOTHES:
• One robe.
• Three outfits.
• Three pairs of laced-up sandals.
MISCELLANEOUS
• One manual on how to perform her maintenance.
• Two restraints for the wrist and the neck.
• One tattered, worn journal with Joshua's teachings.
• One photo album with pictures of the people she's met and Joshua himself.
• One mechanic's kit.
• One detachable visor.
• One music box.
• One headset.
OBTAINED ATtowerofanimus
• One pair of glasses to help see through Izanami's fog.
• Various blueprints for different machines.
• One note that reads, "Your world has been destroyed. I saved you. Let's all be happy here."
Persona
[MALKI-SHUA]
LVL (1) | JUDGEMENT
COMBAT SKILLS
► Assault Dive (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.)
► Skewer (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.)
► Skull Cracker (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage with a 10% chance of Confusion on one enemy.)
► Holy Arrow (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage to one enemy with a 10% chance of inflicting the Charm ailment. )
▷ Torrent Shot (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage two to three times on one enemy.)
▷ Herculean Strike (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage on all enemies.)
▷ Seal Bomb (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage with a 10% chance of Silence on all enemies.)
▷ Aeon Rain (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage up to three times on all enemies.)
★ Seraphic Smash (Inflicts a medium amount of Light damage on all enemies and a light amount of Physical damage on one enemy with a 20% chance of inflicting the Confusion ailment.)
SUPPORT SKILLS
► Hama Amp (Light-based attacks are 1.5 times more effective.)
▷ Physical Amp (Increases Physical damage output by 50%.)
▷ Evade Physical (Triples evasion against Physical attacks.)
Writing Sample
Here are some third person samples from Animus and then here are some first person samples!
Name: Liz | [
advancing]Age: 20.
Time zone: -5 GMT/EST.
Contact: AIM: Rafflesia Sky | Plurk:
Anything we should know?: I love pig.
In Character Information
Name: Sertoria Cani.
Series: Original Character.
Age: 7,500, but looks to be 20.
Birthday & Astrology Sign: May 15th. This would make her a Taurus.
Arcana: The Judgment.
Previous Game Backstory:
Sertoria's entire history can be found here as a reference!
Upon Sertoria's arrival into Animus, she was immediately launched into the tower's "space whale" incident that gradually destroyed the tower and as quickly as she was brought into the fray, she quickly offered her services to fight and to get people to safety. Near the end of the event, Sertoria got the idea in her head to become a nuclear reactor to wipe out the waves of monsters that multiplied over night thanks to meeting a person known as Doctor Emmett L. Brown who gave her Mr. Fusion to use for battle as her own resources were drained. The device was broken after the fact and Sertoria had shut down to conserve her powers and prevent damage from happening to her system.
She woke up, fine of course, and met up with Doctor Emmett L. Brown once again in which she promised she would fix his device for her, but he opened her eyes and told her flat out that she was just as human as the rest of them. This was the beginning of their partnership as well as friendship, something that continued long into her time at the tower. Along the way, Sertoria made other friends and aided them however she could, whether it was with listening to them, building/repairing something or just helping out.
It wasn't until Sertoria was forced to confront her Shadow that spawned thanks to a fog created by Izanami that brought out thousands and thousands of years of worries that she kept buried, but after she came to terms with what the Shadow was saying, she accepted that she was human and that she would stop dishonoring Joshua's memory by loving herself more than she was.
Soon after, an event happened that caused everyone in the tower to swap bodies and she found herself in Doc's body. At first, she didn't mind being human as it was her wish. Unfortunately, with this, it was found out that the more she was in Doc's body, the more she began to believe she actually was him and that his experiences were her own. Thankfully, a solution was found to reverse the swaps and she was returned to her own body with her memories intact.
Halloween came around and Sertoria was disguised as a generic android and began to take on the personality of one (think of "I am an android, please use me however you wish, master.") She was forced to do this because she decided to be selfless and give her candy up to those who needed it for the day's total. Eventually, she would stop thinking like this and returned to her own personality and behavior.
What still affects her is an experiment she initially brought up: installing Mr. Fusion inside of her so that she could eat and drink like a normal human and be that much closer to understanding humans and being humanlike herself. The tower's interference caused her to kill Doc and Marty as well as have nuclear radiation go to other floors in the tower, which were thankfully cleaned and she was repaired, but still scarred mentally over being so selfish with her wish.
Following this, Sertoria went through the motions of life in the tower, trying to not think of what plagued her mind. At this point, she was fairly downtrodden, but determined to see to it that her world as well as the other worlds that were destroyed were saved. She appeared at a Christmas party and soon left the tower after that in late December/early January.
Previous Game Differences (List form):
Sertoria began to change in a good way from who she was when she arrived in the tower, but she obviously has a long way to go. Here's how she changed from who she was:
- Her world's destruction. This caused mixed feelings in her, mainly because she was worried over her creators coming to the tower to abduct her again, but it also eased her to know that she wouldn't have to fight against them again. The other bad thing is that she worried over the good people she met and what their fates were. Of course, it wasn't actually discovered that the worlds were destroyed, but it is popular belief that they were thanks to the note new arrivals get upon their awakening.
- Friends. Sertoria made a handful of them in Animus and every single one she cherished. In her world, she made two friends and that was it. The ones she did make helped her realize and understand that she was human in her own way as well as a good person. She was growing used to the idea that her friends could help her through any problem she has and that they're her greatest strength.
- Her Shadow. She knew that everything "negative" about her was going to come to the surface one day from how much she buried her worries and her doubts, but she didn't expect them to be so violent. Her Shadow tore her down from the strong android she was and forced her to realize that she was only sullying Joshua's memory and wish for her to be happy after his death. Confronting her Shadow helped build her strength up that much more and she was grateful for it in a way.
- In a way, the entire tower. The tower dredged up her worries and forced her to confront her past and worries in cruel ways, but also made her realize that she was only hurting herself in the end. She learned so many things about so many worlds and met a lot of wonderful people, all of which she cherishes to this day. With the knowledge she has, she can help build advanced tools or know when to prepare for a crisis should one arise in Hinoto-Ri.
Canon Standing: After she made up her mind that she would be the one to shut down the CXEV Program so that her creators would not have anything else to hold over her.
Personality:
CXEV5001, or Sertoria, was designed to have no emotions at all since they'd just interfere with her mission, which was to annihiliate living life forms and nothing but that. However, what her creators didn't know was that, even though she was the ultimate life form, she would eventually develop her own emotions and thoughts regarding things. This sort of development fascinated and also worried them, so they chose the next best thing: suppressing them time and time again. When she was presented with minor rewards, she didn't fight against the suppression because even though she didn't know what a friend was, her creators were the only ones she knew of and she followed their orders to the letter.
For years, she was lonely and wanted some deeper understanding into who or what she was and what really was her true purpose beyond killing indiscriminately. Though, she tried to not bring these thoughts up to her creators for fear that they would suppress them once again. This is the start of a long process of rebelling against the same people who created her, and even if it was buried under her orders to be a weapon of mass destruction, she really wanted to experience what it was like to have a friend due to her AI changing and adapting - just like a real human mind would.
It wouldn't be until a chance meeting with Joshua had her completely question her motives and why she was doing this. But, this wouldn't happen at first. At the prophet, due to her programming directive, she was angry, scared, confused and skeptical as to why he was so nice to her. Why would someone like him just waltz right on in and flip her life upside down from what she was used to? Moreover, how dare he say that she was just like him - human, a term that is dear to her even to this day. Who did he think he was to even suggest such a ludricrous thing?! Over time, Sertoria grew closer to him than intended and let him see who she really was - a naive, curious android with a maturing AI that was developing normally.
And so, this was the beginning of a long process of healing. Sertoria learned things that she ordinarily did not know before - how to treat others with respect, how to not raise a sword against someone who was innocent, that talking it out meant more than fighting it out, etc. Learning these things fascinated her and she actually enjoyed it. Of course, with being so new to so many experiences, she learned things at a snail's pace, but Joshua was patient with her and helped her when it was needed. Eventually, she was able to stand on her own two legs and try to talk things out first before raising a weapon.
However, when this stability was threatened by her creators, she, for the first time in her existence, felt powerless and helpless, and thus she reverted to her old ways: obey, slaughter - all in the name of surviving so that she would eventually be able to return to the life she enjoyed. It shook her up so much to where she wanted to deactivate herself so that she wouldn't cause anyone else strife. Though, when Joshua took it upon himself to right the wrongs her creators doled out, she was overwhelmed by grief, confusion, as well as thankfulness - emotions that she did not understand at the time, but again, it was due to her AI developing that he would fight against the very people who created her all because he saw her as a human, not a weapon of mass destruction.
It took some time for Sertoria to trust others again, but when she did, she decided that enough was enough and that she'd protect humanity and try to reason with her creators that continuing the CXEV Program was a bad idea, but her plea fell on deaf ears as she thought they would. But, this did not deter her. It actually made her AI mature that much more to where she was determined to see her goal through. While any ordinary being would have either decided to give up or give in, thanks to the emotional and mental backing that Joshua gave her, she had faith that things would work themselves out. She wouldn't be afraid anymore and would show that an artificial life form was just as much human as anyone else.
When Joshua died due to natural causes, Sertoria did not know what to do outside of ask what was going on. Death of a loved one was not something she understood in full, but she did understand sicknesses and other ailments, so she thought he was sick and therefore did what she could to help him out. Eventually, he died and the emotional response from her was both filled with confusion and uncertainty. What caused humans to die? Why did they have to go away? These sort of questions were what helped her finally come to terms with what she did in the past: Death was a bad, but necessary thing, and she decided to try to have a better understanding on what it meant to be a human in full.
And, so, as she wandered the world for thousands of years to observe, study and research humans as she bonded with them and saw many go on to the next life. It was a long process, but she worked tirelessly to try to understand humans and broaden her already exceptional database more than it was. While she was going through this, she felt at ease and at rest, things that she did not know that she could feel. And this was what she thought was a normal life after seeing others be happy with their current living situations.
Although, by the time that CXEV5002 threatened to deactivate her and put an end to the so-called happy life that Sertoria worked so hard for, she decided that she was going to fight to the bitter end so that humanity could remain in their peaceful state. It was a long and grueling fight and Sertoria felt her previous self that would follow orders absolutely. This would be the virus' objective: Wear down Sertoria's defenses and then eliminate her. As she became unrecognizable from the happy and calm android she set forth as, she was terrified and tried whatever she could to stay alive. Survival, even to this day, is key for her so that she can prove that androids are just as human as, well, humans are as well as keep her promise to Joshua up.
In battle, Sertoria, while she has been reformed to not automatically kill someone outright, still knows how to fight as it's second nature to her. She's ruthless, strong and and fights to amazing lengths. She'll still show mercy, but if someone threatens to harm those she cares about or a direct threat to her life, she won't be as kind and will make that other person learn that fighting does not solve everything and talking things out is preferred for the reformed weapon of mass destruction.
One thing that Sertoria is fascinated with is that, even though she has been designed to fight as many battles as possible, why can't she feel pain? As an android, she's been programmed to not have receptors that make it possible to feel pain. Sure, she's caused others pain a lot of times, but one of the things she feels that, to this day, she's missing is what is pain? Why do people feel pain, and yet, still manage to continue to persevere? This concept has fascinated her absolutely and she still researches the concept even though she's read and studied everything there is to know.
What was her lowest point was when the virus threatened to take over and she was fearful for the first time in her existence. She was helpless and did not know what to do other than to try and end her program, but as many times as she tried, it failed, and she didn't know why. She thought terminating herself was the only way to protect the people of Quaeda from the monster she was inside and this sort of thinking didn't stop until Drusilla entered her life. At first, Sertoria told her to go away and let her deal with the ramifications of what CXEV5002 did to her. But, it was Drusilla's kindness that broke through her wall and made her finally accept her help with her issue.
Sertoria did not mind the girl's company, and as such, their bond formed and strengthened to where she decided to protect the girl from her creators and whatever or whomever wanted to hurt her. To be saved not once, but twice, meant a lot to her and she wanted to pay both Joshua and Drusilla back for their generosity to see that she wasn't just an android built to destroy everything: she was as humanlike as possible and set forth to prove that with every day she was alive. Thus, these are the two most important people in her life and she will not tolerate any pain or sadness to come to them.
To others, she will still speak mechanically and emotionlessly due to the AI that is inside of her, however thanks to years of development and understanding, she carries a sort of warmth in her voice that is distinctly reminscient of an aged soul. Conversely, while talking with others, she will be to the point and very blunt. If someone is wasting their time doing erroneous things in her eyes, she will scold them and say that there is time for that later and that they need to work on what they have now if survival is what they aim for. Casual and smalltalk? It'll happen in spurts if the time is right, but beyond that, she ordinarily won't engage in it if she can help it.
Another weakness is that for all the time and energy devoted into studying humans and being around them, she still doesn't understand many things. Humans have fascinated her for millennias with their ability to adapt to new situations and other such things while she still remains mostly the same. How is it that they are still able to remain strong through strife and conflict? How have they lived for so long in harmony and still can pick themselves back up? These are just a couple of the endless questions she has surrounding humans themselves and this unsatiable curiosity is what compels her to keep on studying them so that she has something to keep protecting through the worst of times.
At her creators, while she is thankful that they gave her life and worked tirelessly to make the ultimate life form, she cannot forgive their actions to make her obey every command they wanted her to perform. Moreover, she was disappointed in their inability to let her go since she was clearly content in her current life. In this case, she is stubborn and defiant to not bend to their wills and said straight up that if they dared to threaten the peaceful Quaedans that they would suffer for their actions. This is largely thanks to what she has seen, but also her drive to protect stems from Joshua and it has not gone away. Even though the prophet is long since dead, she still believes in him and thanks him for the work he done. Additionally, she finds it to be difficult to think another way beyond what Joshua has reinforced in her AI - take care of others, be kind and just, and most importantly, see what they think first before making hasty generalizations. So, for someone to attempt to make her think differently would take a lot of work - just like what Joshua did before he passed on.
One thing that Sertoria holds dear to her is the concept of trust. When she puts her trust in someone, she expects that they won't sell her out to her creators, backstab her, or even decide to manipulate with her AI during maintenance. She has fought long and hard for her freedom from them, so should someone decide it's in their better interests to hand her over to her creators, she will not forget it and instead let them feel her wrath that is well known by now. Additionally, when she trusts someone enough to perform her maintenance, she expects them to not muck around with her AI and her memories. This makes her very skeptical and wary to the point of where she'll want to believe that they can be trusted to do said tasks here and there without fail.
Her reluctance to kill could also paint her as weak because she gives others too many chances to redeem themselves - just like she was given by Joshua and then Drusilla. Others could see this and use it to take advantage of her, and should this be the case, she will try to reason with them that she has changed from the ruthless killing machine she used to be and likes her way of life. Couple this with her stubbornness and her belief in Joshua and she will be very hard to persuade to think otherwise after all this time of being used to think in one specific way. Therefore, if someone does want to try to persuade her to think another way, it will take time and time as well as energy to do so.
Physically, though? While she has extremely heightened defenses, a brilliant attack system, and a rather advanced AI system that's capable of developing, her system is highly susceptible to viruses, malware and trojans. Should she contract one through improper usage, she will begin to shut down and turn into a more berserk version of the advanced android she was. Whereas she'd be willing to forgive someone who might have accidentally hurt her, under the influence of a virus, she will outright attack a person and attempt to kill them all because of how weak she is to viruses. Should someone she trusts do this to her, she won't know what to do or to think because she has never experienced betrayal or being backstabbed beyond with her creators.
In conclusion, she is still learning everything she can about humanity in full as well as fight the good fight against the very ones who gave her life. If it means that she has to end her program, then she is willing to take that risk - all in the name of protecting the ones who have fascinated her for so long. Ultimate life form she may be, there are still so many things she still has left to learn. And, that is what drives her to continue fighting and trying to make others see that no one needs to fight anymore.
Key Personality Differences:
The tower changed Sertoria somewhat, but not to the degree where she would be unrecognizable from the android she was upon her arrival. She persevered through what happened and strengthened her mind against such horrific events from happening.
First off, she's willing to speak to people a lot more now. It wasn't as if she didn't know how to do that before, it was just that she didn't know if they wanted to listen to her. Shooting the breeze is a lot easier for her now and so is understanding where people come from with their grievances as she was through a fair share of ordeals herself in the tower. Another thing is that she's more open physically with hugging and consoling others now that she's believing that she's human in her own way. Before, she would be hesitant with touching others for fear of being called a monster or harming them, but beyond that, she's certainly grown into her own person with what the tower threw at her.
Sertoria's also more careful and more thankful for her life. She knows that someone who's been through what she has and hasn't given up yet is a feat to itself and she's stopped wishing for death -- deactivation as she calls it -- as much as possible. After seeing people die and having people want her to be better, all positive thinking, she knows that life is precious and is more cautious as a result of things.
Although, for all the positive development Sertoria had, the nuclear reactor incident is still fresh in her mind and it backtracked some of the progress she already had made. She knew Doc was trying to help her out to become more human physically, but the fact that her supposed selfishness had caused both Doc and Marty to die made her think to what her creators told her: "No matter how hard you try, you'll never be human, CXEV5001!" She would have tried to work through this if she had the time, but it's baggage she'll be carrying in to Hinoto-Ri that will hopefully be solved.
Another thing is that she's still developing human characteristics, such as using contractions in her speech and to not put so much focus on the mechanical side of her. That, and making mistakes is a good thing to learn from, such as blurting out her thoughts, among other such things. Thus, continuing her development is a crucial thing so that she doesn't revert to who she used to be when she just arrived in Animus. Another thing that helped her understand humans was the body swap event. She got to experience what it was like to feed yourself, have limited strength and then some. In a way, while she was regretful for causing Doc's body so much pain while being in it, she was thankful for the opportunity to understand them beyond her studies.
Beyond these, though, she got a fair share of development in the tower and will only continue developing in the game.
Canon Powers:
Sertoria is an android and has been designed to be a weapon of mass destruction. She has a vast amount of weaponry in a sleek female form and can use it for battle and other such purposes. She can turn her limbs into machine guns, submachine guns, plasma rifles and swords, etc. Inside of her, she has kinetic energy inside of her that manifests itself into lightning and is also the energy source needed for her plasma weapons.
As an android, she has super strength, acute hearing, a built-in scanner that allows her to find out about her opponent's weaknesses, accelerated speed and an inability to feel pain due to not being built with any receptors in which to handle it. Her eyes, which are known as optic sensors, allow her to see through the darkness and from far-away distances, among other such things. Another thing is that she does not age, and as long as she maintains her systems and works to eliminate bugs, she can live for years and years and years. However, if she is unable to perform maintenance on herself, she will have to have someone help her so that her system can continue running at full capacity.
She also can interface with various computer systems thanks to two chains that are connected to her "brain" and she can plug them in to any computer she's around. This also helps for maintenance as it allows her to still be awake and let changes take place.
Though, for all of her terrific strengths and stats, she willingly downsizes her capabilities considerably thanks to two restraints that are around her neck and her wrists. They help keep her powers in check so that she can either conserve energy before a mission or so that she doesn't hurt someone in a friendly spar. They also prevent her from going out of control from the kinetic and electromagnetic energy being unleashed. Should they break, it'd take a considerable amount of time for her to calm down and to stop letting her powers go haywire.
She is also apparently immortal, having withstood thousands and thousands and thousands of years of Quaedan development while she didn't age a day herself. This is largely thanks to the system she was designed with, too, so that she'd be able to survive in even the harshest conditions should her mission require her to be launched in other places, such as space.
She will need to be recharged every so often just to give her system a full and complete chance to work any bugs out of it as well as run her diagnostic program in full. Sertoria also has mechanical knowledge in order to keep her systems up to date and free of problems.
Below are a couple of attacks she can do, but the drawback is that they are her most powerful and have the appropriate cooldowns:
Blazefire Cannon (In the middle of her chest, she can summon a huge cannon-like armanent and with enough time to charge [15 to 30 seconds], she can send out waves of electromagnetic energy in rapid succession and in a large radius. Can only be used once per battle.) [Elemental]
Price of Sins (By charging up enough kinetic energy, Sertoria can launch a sphere of it around an enemy and freeze them in place as they take continual damage and shocks. This can only be used once per battle and has a recharge time of 20 minutes.) [Elemental]
Canon Weapons|Items:
Her weapons are all stored inside of her thanks to Spatial Technology, which allows her to be able to store a lot of things in her body at once and it does not weigh her down. Again, her weapons do need to be maintained time to time and she's capable of performing the necessary checks herself, however if she's unable, she will need to have someone else perform the checks for her. They are listed below:
Plasma sword (stored inside of her arms, but she can only wield two.) [Elemental/Physical]
Plasma rifle (stored in legs or arms, but can only wield two at a time. There is a seemingly endless ammunition supply.) [Elemental]
Plasma beams (protrude out of her hands/energy is stored in her arms) [Elemental/Physical]
Plasma minigun (stored in hip or fingers. Ammunition is stored in fingers. Has a low charge.) [Elemental]
GX-0 (stored in forearm and has the ability to lock on to an opponent. Can also fire poison-tipped needles [stored in fingers and has around 20 to 30 of them normally] and flames.) [Elemental]
Toxin Rifle (fires up to three salvos of highly potent poison. stored in chest.) [Elemental] Since this poison is dangerous, she'll only use it if she needs to.
Gunblade (stored in her legs. gun is able to have a blade extend out of it and can retract on her command. ammunition is stored in chest.) [Physical]
Hellfire Submachine Gun (Like the name implies, she has two quadruple-barreled guns in her back and can summon them to her arms. The ammunition is stored in the back of her legs.) [Physical]
Canon Allies:
N/A!
Canon Baggage:
CLOTHES:
• One robe.
• Three outfits.
• Three pairs of laced-up sandals.
MISCELLANEOUS
• One manual on how to perform her maintenance.
• Two restraints for the wrist and the neck.
• One tattered, worn journal with Joshua's teachings.
• One photo album with pictures of the people she's met and Joshua himself.
• One mechanic's kit.
• One detachable visor.
• One music box.
• One headset.
OBTAINED AT
towerofanimus• One pair of glasses to help see through Izanami's fog.
• Various blueprints for different machines.
• One note that reads, "Your world has been destroyed. I saved you. Let's all be happy here."
Persona
[MALKI-SHUA]
LVL (1) | JUDGEMENT
COMBAT SKILLS
► Assault Dive (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.)
► Skewer (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.)
► Skull Cracker (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage with a 10% chance of Confusion on one enemy.)
► Holy Arrow (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage to one enemy with a 10% chance of inflicting the Charm ailment. )
▷ Torrent Shot (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage two to three times on one enemy.)
▷ Herculean Strike (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage on all enemies.)
▷ Seal Bomb (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage with a 10% chance of Silence on all enemies.)
▷ Aeon Rain (Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage up to three times on all enemies.)
★ Seraphic Smash (Inflicts a medium amount of Light damage on all enemies and a light amount of Physical damage on one enemy with a 20% chance of inflicting the Confusion ailment.)
SUPPORT SKILLS
► Hama Amp (Light-based attacks are 1.5 times more effective.)
▷ Physical Amp (Increases Physical damage output by 50%.)
▷ Evade Physical (Triples evasion against Physical attacks.)
Writing Sample
Here are some third person samples from Animus and then here are some first person samples!