PERSONALITY

an amalgam of parts, metal welded to flesh, flesh melded to the stars. her personality is as fractured as her form, a rusted facade of wit and zest for life. mainprize clings to her manufactured confidence only because the alternative is falling apart, unknowing how or incapable of reaching out to others. she simultaneously craves deeper understanding and care from her peers but recoils at the idea of having to lay her ugliest parts bare.

mainprize woke up in the snow, an infant brain in a metal corpus meeting a world what had very nearly just met its own destruction. her own past is unknown to her, memories revealed only in fractal bursts of static, the likes of which she cannot make sense of. another name rests on the tip of her tongue, it feels like it should be hers, but whenever she introduces herself, mainprize jumps out first.

HISTORY

far from novea, there exists a binary planet system: omicron major and epsilon minor. wreaked by civil war, their technological advancement was fuelled by a need to destroy and defend. one such developer of these machines of war was a dr. mainprize, though her role specialised in the advancement of their artificial intelligence and the subject of her work was 011, a machine whose sentience had begun to rival that of the lions’.

when the fury of war reached dr. mainprize’s outpost, she bailed. she took 011 with the intent of escaping omicron and living out the rest of their days in solitude, deep in space, but the pair were injured gravely during their escape. 011 held on until they crashed on novea, close to death. dr mainprize pried what she could from 011’s hull to fix her broken body, but being no sort of biotechnician, died shortly after. though, the death of a god would destabilise the magical energy of this planet enough to cause a miracle— rot would become stars, death would make way for life renewed and a cyborg was reanimated.