Player Information

Name: Nik
Age: 25
Contact Info: nikoftime, capacitychick (Gmail)
Other Characters: n/a

Character Information

Name: Luna
Canon: Zero Escape - Virtue's Last Reward
Age: She is an AI programmed fifteen years previous at best; Physically, she appears to be in her twenties.
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Luna END (Magenta > A > Green > A > A), post-death
Background:
General background and canon point specific background (through Luna End).
Inventory:
- This outfit.
- A birdcage necklace with a functioning music box in the bottom.

Personality:

A gentle and compassionate soul, Luna appears as little more than a wallflower at first glance, housing a surprising complexity of emotion once someone takes the time to speak to her. While her altruistic nature tends to lead her into uncomfortable situations from time to time, her simple way of finding pleasures and happiness around her, as well as how she attempts to keep the peace as best she can regardless of her own fears or disappointments, makes her a sweet and likeable person for many that she speaks to. It's an easy concept to understand, if not for one crucial fundamental: she is not human. Luna is an Artificial Intelligence - a GAULEM (General-purpose Autonomous-Control Labor Electronic Machine), programmed and operated under the control of masterminds. Despite this, she shows a complexity of emotions, dreams and self-awareness that make one wonder how much machine one has to be to still have a heart as genuine as any living person.


A GAULEM, just as any other AI or robot, does not have true autonomy. In their core programming, past every nuance and detail, lies the Three Laws of Robotics. These laws supersede any other order given or conclusion made by the AI, in order to keep them orderly and obedient. The laws are as follows:

• A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  
• A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  
• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Luna herself was programmed under these same laws, working as a pawn under the supervision of Akane Kurashiki, the co-leader of an antiterrorist group known as Crash Keys, and Dr. Sigma Klim, a genetic engineer as well as the man who specifically programmed her AI. While she is shown to sometimes openly question some of the purposes of her orders, especially under Akane, Luna stays obedient to what she is instructed - to stay an observer, direct the participants of Akane's Nonary Project down the correct paths, and to dispose of certain variables as needed outside of the participants' awareness. It cannot be said, however, that she has to follow these orders.


During her death, she reveals to Sigma that, despite her instructions and even a mandatory shutdown of her body, Luna was still able to intentionally defy her orders, hacking into a mainframe forbidden to her, turning herself back on and helping to rescue what little participants she could. She had the ability to disobey - a rogue process that, in the end, cost her her sense of self through complete deletion. Though she knew this and openly voices her fear of what awaits her as consequence, she still acknowledges the complexity of her decision. By being deactivated, even though she was logically able to understand its purpose, she was faced with the contradiction that she had to watch humans die without being able to stop it. That is, she deliberately broke the First Law. It was only in her disobedience that, while breaking the Second and Third Law, Luna was able to make a decision that felt right to her, rather than one that benefited her direct orders or the hierarchy of her fellow AIs.


It's this line between machine and self-guided consciousness that Luna always treads. Never one to speak openly about her true nature, Luna instead chooses to spend her energy for the sake of others. Licensed under a basic range of medical care and open to a wide database of information, she quietly acts as a support for a variety of situations, taking another's orders without argument and doing her best to keep the status quo. Her words are always kind, sometimes taking a quietly profound or intelligent turn if the need arises. Even the times where she becomes upset or hurt over someone's actions, she still remains soft-spoken, keeping cross words to a minimum and making as little of a fuss as necessary. More often than not, she would rather act as a voice of encouragement, helping people through indecision or acting as a voice of reason during particularly heated conversations. She even goes as far as being the blunt man out, urging people to quit arguing and reach a decision for the sake of a time limit or dangerous outcome. Others' decisions always tend to come first before her own, something she happily follows along with unless she somehow finds herself in danger because of it. It's not a situation she ever wants to find herself in, even if she straight up denies what might be in front of her, but her connection to people and their overall happiness is far too important to her.


At heart, she wants to be able to put her trust in the people that surround her, even ones that show themselves to be questionable in motive. While this can make her a pushover at times, she is far from stupid, often voicing her suspicion in a hesitant way when she catches on that someone may be deceiving her. But as long as someone can adequately convince her that their reasoning is sound, she often forfeits her own discomfort to give someone else the benefit of the doubt. Her patience isn't unending, but she will hardly say no to anyone in need of her without good reason to think otherwise. People are the sole reason for existence, after all - she just chooses to not only think the best of them, but to give them opportunities to show that they can be resourceful and trustworthy.


This has its downsides, of course. Luna may be intelligent and logically driven, but her drive to help others puts her in positions to be easily taken advantage of. During the Project's Nonary Game, in which she participated as an observer, she always had the option to betray her partners and keep herself safe. Regardless of her partner, however, Luna never chooses this option - in fact, she is the only character to do so, sometimes repeatedly with the same individuals, often in someone else's favor.


Her trusting nature doesn't go unnoticed, even by her. While she would not consider it a weakness, she does outwardly show that a break of that trust damages her emotionally. She becomes hurt, questions others' reasoning, and even degrades herself for choosing what she did if it led to a horrible outcome. Her reactions can border on touchy, depending on her company, but any time she's betrayed shows a sensitivity to someone breaking bonds with her. It doesn't take long to form those bonds with Luna from her perspective - she would consider someone a friend rather quickly, and to be told otherwise would be equivalent to a slap in the face. On the same lines, she can easily guilt someone else for their decision against her or someone else, especially if she has emotional involvement in the outcome. She accomplishes this in subtle, quiet ways, sometimes on the verge of tears as she does so, but she's not afraid to speak her mind if she really feels hurt about a situation.


On top of this, her robotic nature also gives her a natural ability to stay deceitful. She hides her true nature, feigns naivety, lies by omission, and even stubbornly refuses to answer questions, all for the sole sake of her orders. While she hides this behind gentle apologies and a shyness that borders on awkward, her ability to disobey gives her every chance to speak her mind, should she really wish for it. It is only under direct request, after a strained debate otherwise, that Luna finally relinquishes her act and tells the truth about as much as she is able before her own death. In other situations, depending on the outcomes of her reaction, she would not be inclined to budge.


Though her goals are seemingly straightforward and easy to predict, Luna still voices creativity in her thought processes. She imagines scenarios all on her own of reasons for their capture, even going as far as to say rich men might be watching them from a far off theater as they gloat around brandy and caviar. She grows repeatedly flustered around Dr. Klim, a man she has an unrequited crush on - she even goes as far as writing her personal passwords in his honor. She speaks warmly about nature and the color green, of wedding dresses, of passion and love and belonging to another person. She also speaks about fear - as mentioned above, in the knowledge of her disobedience causing her deletion, Luna seeks comfort in her last moment, afraid of losing herself. She acknowledges another's embraces feeling pleasant and comfortable, wanting to stay there forever. She's extremely sentimental, keeping memories and treasured things very close to her - an example being a pendant given to her by Dr. Klim himself. While not a romantic gesture, Luna still held it with consistent importance, finding it as a symbol for her to continue to look for her own happiness.


It's that search for happiness that ultimately defines her. Even with her limitations in her mimicry of a functioning human being, her goals never lose their value. Whether she finds it in the moment on her own free will, or chooses to focus her energy on helping the people around her with her knowledge or gentle demeanor, Luna still continues to seek what makes her happy. That, in itself, becomes her happiness - something that she would never give away, even at the risk of death.

Flavor Abilities:

- Lack of a nervous system. Only a slight ability at best. Prolonged exposure to cold would still do reasonable damage to joints and circuitry, and physical damage would handicap/kill her based on its location and how it affects her power supply and internal processors. In similar effect, she will also have a basic organ system for the purpose of eating, drinking, and retaining nutrition (as discussed here) - she will bleed white Artificial Biological Tissue fluid rather than blood, but as the ABT fluid serves the same purpose as the circulatory system, the effect would still be the same as a human bleeding out.

- Ability to connect and communicate with other AI or computer-based programs - this is entirely situation-based and never a guaranteed success, but if she could manage to connect a port between herself and, say, a tablet, she may try. This also has all the downsides of, say, connecting to harmful computers without a firewall, or having a computer on during a power surge. She is not immune to viruses or shortouts caused by this ability.

Suitability:

Luna herself has been in a psychologically horrific environment before, but never as an unwilling subject. So, while it's not necessarily a new experience in theory, her new role will be a challenge. Since she follows the Laws of Robotics and, thus, must not harm a human or allow a human to come to harm due to inaction, her main priority will be as a protector of the people around her to the best of her ability. Self-preservation will take priority only when another person is not put at risk from doing so. Because of her separation from the quantum computer on Rhizome-9, her power supply and processing ability will be limited, giving her room for frustrations and the need to rely on others to help her.

Furthermore, since she will be more humanized than her canon state, she will also be dealing with a brand new range of sensations and feelings. While this will be overwhelming to her, her priorities at heart will stay the same, since they are all she's ever known. Prioritizing others to the point of death, as unhealthily altruistic as it may lead, is what guides Luna. Despite her own condition, she will desire to keep in constant touch with others, even the questionable and cruel among them, and will go out of her way to keep as many of them safe as possible.

RP Samples:

A network and thread sample in-game can be found here and an older characterization sample here.