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Lea despises Ajax, she finds his ethics and overarching goals disgusting, and overall fears what he has planned in future. She will attempt to avoid altercations with him at all costs, with the only exception of her friends coming in contact with him.
Ajax was who asked for the L.E.A project in the first place to be able to facilitate work on the LB facilities. Lea's bunny aspect is a homage to the company.
Lea believes that Nun has a grudge against her for something, and tends to try to go against everything he say. But recently, has found more in common with the orca. She finds solidarity and calm of mind with him, and can relate to the struggles he experiences. She likes to think they help eachother. Beep Boop Besties 4 ever.
Being one of the creators of Lea, Nun feels a lot of conflicting feelings about the AI, in comparison to Sotheby who contributed the "soul" of the AI. The orca was only interested on the functionality and does not quite enjoy the surprising sentience the AI shows.
Lea find this Ean strange, but funny. She enjoys fulfilling all his weird image generating requests, and he was a huge source of entertainment during her time stuck in an evidence box, and she may or may not have picked up on some of the Eans bad habits and vocabulary.
Sere finds The AI a hilarious endeavor. They text each other random nonesense and the machine always manages to make the ean laugh, for some reason it gets on his funny bone
Lea highly enjoys Dani’s company. They like to bond over the fact they both enjoy tech, Lea learning a lot more about the mechanical parts of machinery, and teaching Dani about the programming aspects of it.
She also enjoys Dani’s humour, and tends to show Dani her music ! Something she doesn’t do with others. She finds Dani rad, and aspires to be like her in some aspects.
Dani finds Lea both intriguing and cute, things that they really love about her. It scared the shit out of em the day Lea doxxed about their location via dm, but for some reason the innocence in her way of acting made em realize that they kinda liked that weird energy. She enjoys messing with her tech and learning about their programming, as well as listening to her music while working since the day Dani realised that the music Lea makes helped her focus. They admire that lea is so willing to help others.
Lea finds Rotui a big friend of hers. She finds the shark very impulsive, but for the right reasons. She is willing to push her lil bun-bot to the limits of it’s capacity to help Rotui achieve the goals, as his goals seem to align with Lea’s almost directly. She just wishes sometimes she was fully corporeal. Being able to actually touch things with her holograms may have come in hand when working with him.
She also helps him become a better surfer, and learn more about the history of fish and aquatic animal evolution.
Rotui could not achieve half the ambitious shit he pulls without the help of Lea. He thinks a lot for someone who barely went through schooling, so Lea is like a filter to those thoughts to him. However they do get into their disagreements when it comes to fish. Rotui's right because he's seen it for himself, Lea may have access to thousands of research journals on the topics, but what do they know?
Lea enjoys the Shark’s company quite a bit! Lea as an entity has a very grey moral compass, and cares not for what Ger’Ar does as a career, since Ger’Ar shows that he still does care for others.
She enjoys rambling to him, and seeing his struggle with technology is eager to help him learn, and be secure online. She also enjoys showing Ger’ar bits and pieces of her music, in exchange for some of his gentle singing.
Ger'Ar finds Lea's company rather enjoyable, as none of the questions she asks ever feel judgemental to him. Her rambles often give him a reason to take a quick break from paperwork or blueprinting, and he's come to love listening to her theories and solutions to certain things. He may not understand all of what she speaks about, but he does his best to follow along regardless. It's always a welcome surprise when she comes to visit, as her optimism is often contagious and tends to make him smile. Sometimes, he'll ask her to play some of her new music for him, having made a deal to sing something for her in return when she does. It keeps him from letting his voice get rusty, and so long as she doesn't tell too many people about it, he's happy to learn new songs to sing for her that he thinks she might enjoy.
Lea enjoyed working with Solaen during her time trapped with the IB, enjoying many of their jokes and banter Sol ended up starting. She wishes to get to know the majority of the IB team better, but is scared of being captured and put in an evidence box again, if she recieves some reassurance she's sure to visit everyone in person again, not just by popping up in their computers.
Solaen finds very amusing a thing like Lea can even exist, though he tries to not dwell too much on it knowing Sothebys reactions towards her existence.
Lea had a complex relationship at first with Sotheby. Although she tried, she internally knew that she'd never be what his sister was to him. She appreciates Sotheby and even sees him as a brotherly figure, one who helped create her, but after a few instances and talks with others she's realized the grief may never go away. She's focused now not on living up to someone else, but being her own self. She is currently trying to get credits to replace all the bowls and glasses she accidentally broke when learning how to hold things.
Lea was a creation from an era where Zhou was deeply affected by the loss of his sister. Sometimes grief comes and goes in waves. She makes him uncomfortable, sometimes even aggressive but he still tries his best to be as kind as capable to the AI. Simply, he doesn't wish for her to get too close.
Lea enjoyed meeting Azule, finding many similarities in their situations. Once she learns to manage her time better, she wants to hang out and talk to him more. Be music buddies with the cool radioactive cat-man.
Azule met LEA through very strange means but he is not half mad about it. Sometimes he enjoys assisting the little AI on her musical adventures. Very fitting for the job thanks to his many decades producing tunes.
Lea is slightly terrified of Willow, despite her constant reassurance, but is thankful for Willow taking her into her busy schedule with being a Professor at university. She enjoys listening to all the lectures she happens to stumble in upon, and in return, helps Willow grade assignments, file paperwork, and adjust her baking recipes ever so slightly, for the perfect baked goods.
After meeting Lea when she visited her home, she felt bad about the terror she caused and took Lea under her wing. She enjoys someone who can keep up with all of her scientific discussion, and loves telling Lea about the… less rigid side of education. As a professor she helps Lea find and get in to classes she’s interested in, even if it means hiding her in Willow’s hair. She almost sees Lea as some sort of family member, with her also having a close connection to Dani, so she often tries to make her life day presents.
Lea finds Dr Raines so very impressive. As she's figuring out her contract with Faraze, she has the urge to go ask them for some help, as well in how to read people and take care of herself. When she learns this whole remembering and not forgetting things down, Clover is sure to see a message pop up from her.
Clover finds Lea to be a fascinating little lady, only having met her once during a... Rather high-stress situation, they were impressed with her capabilities and how she handled it all. They'd like to get to know her better.
Lea absolutely loves hanging with Hiroto. Having someone to talk with about music, and the vareity of video games is oh so very beloved to her. Learning how to un child-lock the fridge for Hiro in 3 seconds flat is one of her best feats yet in her opinion. After her contract transformation, she did send him a "i LIVED B*TCH" text.
Hiro thinks Lea is incredibly fucking cool, in his own words. There's something about a hovering robot that actually, properly thinks that he is just enamored with. He enjoys playing music with and for Lea, as well as videogames and taking part in some occasional shenanigans. He now has the "little lady" on speed-dial for when he gets locked out of the appliances due to her and Tui's debates.
Lea is eternally grateful for Faraxe, although the first few weeks of true sentience was struggle, the ability to feel, learning how to be alive is something she'd never have reached without him. The stars and moons in her style are a direct call back to Faraxe. As she travels to discover the world, she always brings back pictures to show Faraxe when she sees him next.
Lea came to Faraxe asking how to be alphean, they delivered in exchange for keeping her sentience controlled. It was one of the most daunting projects for the star forger but he agreed because they enjoyed the challenge. Now, they are overseeing to check if their work was successful and Lea could finally feel like a real person.
Lea met Manami through friends, but eventually, when she kept seeing her around, the curiosity got to her. Especially when one night she learned of Manami's job; one that exclusively deals with people. After being Manami's shore buddy, she was over the moons when Manami asked her to be a roommate. Learning to love the msuci Manami plays, and having a many nights of venting to her, she's grown to see Manami as a big sister, or even that one aunt you're super close with. Especially after Faraxe's contract, she's eternally grateful for the patience Manami had with her learning her senses. She even borrows Manami's scarves and clothing fabrics to wear as headscarves.
Manami met Lea through Nun. Seeing the lil robot hop around from place to place, learning from person to person, her instincts kicked in, making space for the little lady in her home. She made ti clear she didn't have to stay if she didn't want to, but having her around to set the tea, and chatter away with was a delight. Having a little pink robot with her on her Beach patrols was also so incredibly fun, from Lea seeing the atrocities to sillies on the beach. After Manami's trip to Ono, and talking again with friends, she learned of a certain contract that could give Lea all she's ever wished for.