Leliel

Artificial Intelligence Given Name 02 Leliel AI Type Support AI (prototype) Factions The Chosen Lacroix Foundation Master Flügel Valkyrie/Othinus Host Suit Purpose Made None

“I just want things to go back to how they were before!”

— Leliel during her interrogation

History

Leliel was created by The Chosen as a means to combat the Armor Corps overwhelming superiority. She was the second AI completed in the Chosen's experiments, receiving the designation "02". The leader of the Chosen, Flügel, abruptly ordered that she be given the personality and neural traits of a young girl, taking her under his wing and giving her the name "Leliel"; angel of night. Although Flügel was well-known to treat the AI as though she were a daughter to him, her status as an experimental AI meant that she was prohibited from leaving the Chosen's base of operations. The only time she was able to travel anywhere was inside Flügel's armor, as he disliked carrying other intelligences in his cyberbrain.

Leliel's first encounter with anyone outside of the Chosen was during her first deployment about a month after her creation, where she accompanied the AI 01, nicknamed "Blackjack" by her, in the cyberbrain of The Black Swordsman. Although she was supposed to support Blackjack, when the time came she instead hid while Othinus confronted him. With Blackjack's defeat, she and the other AI were captured and transferred to Valkyrie.

After the Armor Corps' retreat from Ascension Island, she was taken to the Engineer headquarters in Japan. Valkyrie made a request to the president of TE, Tommy Wilder, to build a specially-designed avatar drone that would fit the AI's self image without giving her the option of causing any damage to personnel or the base. She was transferred into this body upon its completion - much to Valkyrie's gratitude, as the strain from having four AI in one cyberbrain was getting unbearable.

Although dismayed at being "anchored" into the physical world with a body, she was forced to put up with it after quickly concluding that there was no possible way for her to escape it (and, by that extension, no way to escape the Armor Corps) after immediately trying to contact home and having her body drop like a puppet with its strings cut thanks to the variety of killswitches installed in the event she tried "ghosting". As a result of her Collaborator ties, she spends the entirety of her time locked in this form.

After being captured by the Armor Corps, she was questioned at length by Valkyrie and Othinus. She was slow to open up, and when she did, was revealed to actually know very little about Flügel and the Chosen other than some basic facts due to her short lifespan up to that point. Following the (failed) attempted meeting at Elgataia El Kebira between Armor Corps and Flügel, Othinus told Leliel that Flügel had written her off as a liability. Leliel was devastated by this, which Othinus used to convince her to join the Lacroix Foundation and support Armor Corps.

Personality

Leliel has a cheery and excitable personality befitting that of a child. Its hard to say whether this is a facade or a consequence of her unique programing as an experimental Support AI, but her attitude seems genuine enough. She think highly of her master, Flügel, whom treats her much like a daughter. She seems to dislike Blackjack, or, at least, is creeped out by him, and regards Othinus as the strongest AI around due to her defeating him singlehandedly. She was actually rather intimidated by "the Witch" for a while, but quickly latched on to the other AI after being told that she had been abandoned by her former master.

Appearance

Leliel's physical body.

Leliel appears as a young girl with six glowing wings emanating from her back. Contrasting her fellow Collaborator AI Blackjack's sinister and shadowy appearance, Leliel's digital avatar has a colorful palette of bright pinks and purples. She has long pink hair and bright orange eyes.

The avatar drone built to Valkyrie and Othinus' specifications to serve as a physical vessel (and technically prison) for her differs slightly from her digital self. Her hair in this form is much shorter and covered by a hat, and her dress is a much more subdued brown. She also lacks wings of any kind in this form, much to her dismay.