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Player Information
Name: Tracy
Age: 21
AIM SN: turbotracy14
email: within_eternal_dreams@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep!
Currrently Played Characters: Zoey Redbird, Greening “Po” Grandemalion
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Xenosaga
Canon Format: Video Game
Character's Name: KOS-MOS | Mary Magdalene (Just list her as KOS-MOS since she’s the dominant personality)
Character's Age: Technically 2/3 years old, however she’s built to look roughly 18 years old
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.
While KOS-MOS is technically under the age of 13, she is not mentally or physically built as anything close to that. She’s a specially built android with the intelligence that would match some of Vector Industries top minds.
What form will your character's NV take? A Connection Gear often seen in the Xenosaga series as the left half of a Playstation controller. Seen here, the Connection Gear is shown in a typical standby mode on the right and with it activated on the left.
When in use, whether for text, video or audio transmissions, a screen will appear (as the left image shows) and record/display video transmissions. Text will appear on the screen during text transmissions and audio will play normally.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
KOS-MOS is gifted with superhuman strength and speed as part of her function to fight and destroy the Gnosis. Her body is formed from some sort of highly advanced nanomachines that allows her to morph parts of her body (specifically her arms) into various energy projectile and melee weapons. Her body is also able to self-repair and is very durable (but not indestructible as we learn during battle against T-elos), and she is also protected by a force-shield. She also possesses the ability to summon various weapons from compressed space.
KOS-MOS, although an android, is capable of using Ether (“Ether” is short for “Especial Theory of Rudimentary”) abilities. In some worlds, Ether abilities would be considered magic however these are based purely on scientific reasoning which to some degree is similar to alchemy. It refers to nanomachine abilities characters can use, which is why KOS-MOS is capable of using it.
A-BURST I - Small fire attack.
A-BURST II - Medium fire attack.
B-BIND - Medium physical attack + small chance of sealing boost.
B-Buster - Small physical attack + effective on type-B enemy.
B-SPIKE - Medium physical attack + small chance of reflecting damage.
CANNON - Medium fire attack.
CANNON II - Heavy fire attack.
D-TENERITAS - Covered in weapons.
G-BUSTER - Small physical attack + effective on type-G enemy.
Hilbert Effect - Brings Gnosis out of Imaginary Space into our own dimension.
K-AXE - Medium break attack + higher critical to type-G enemy.
K-PIKE - Medium break attack + higher critical to type-B enemy.
M-BUSTER - Small physical attack + effective on type-M enemy.
NEMESIS - Massive fire attack + higher critical to type-G enemy.
Phase Transfer Cannon - Covered in weapons.
Short Revenge - Small chance of revenge during short range attack.
Tertiary Weapons System - Covered in weapons.
VALKYRIE: Two quick slices with her R-BLADE, a leap in the air and a blast from her R-CANNON and the top of their head before landing.
W-BLADE - Medium physical attack + higher critical to type-G enemy.
W-FANG - Two horizontal slices across the enemies chest.
X-BUSTER - Covered in weapons.
The following Ether abilities are available to KOS-MOS:
Medica S - Recover small amount of HP.
Medica S All - Recover small amount of HP for all allies.
Break Heal S - Recover small amount of break damage.
Quick - Increase speed of all allies.
Analyze - Analyze an enemy's data.
Poison - Poison damage to a single enemy.
Rare Steal - Medium chance of stealing an item from an enemy.
Slow - Decrease speed of all enemies.
Fire Bolt I - Small fire attack.
Ice Bolt I - Small ice attack.
Thunder Bolt I - Small lightning attack.
Beam Bolt I - Small beam attack.
Inferno I - Small fire attack to all enemies.
Blizzard I - Small ice attack to all enemies.
Lightning I - Small lightning attack to all enemies.
Satellite I - Small beam attack to all enemies.
Medica M - Recover medium amount of HP.
Medica M All - Recover medium amount of HP for all allies.
Break Heal M - Recover medium amount of break damage.
Revert M - Revive and recover medium amount of HP.
Disengage - Disengage status support of all enemies.
Refresh - Recover status effects of all allies.
Recover HP - Recover small amount of HP with each turn.
Recover EP - Recover small amount of EP with each turn.
Fire Bolt II - Medium fire attack.
Ice Bolt II - Medium ice attack.
Thunder Bolt II - Medium lightning attack.
Beam Bolt II - Medium beam attack.
Inferno II - Medium fire attack to all enemies.
Blizzard II - Medium ice attack to all enemies.
Lightning II - Medium lightning attack to all enemies.
Satellite II - Medium beam attack to all enemies.
Medica L - Recover large amount of HP.
Medica L All - Recover large amount of HP for all allies.
Break Heal L - Recover large amount of break damage.
Revert L - Revive and recover large amount of HP.
EP Vamp - Small EP damage + recover small amount of EP.
Curse - Reflect inflicted damage to a single enemy.
Best Ally - Auto revive with full HP (1 time).
Short Counter - Small chance of counterattack during short range attack.
Fire Bolt III - Heavy fire attack.
Ice Bolt III - Heavy ice attack.
Thunder Bolt III - Heavy lightning attack.
Beam Bolt III - Heavy beam attack.
Inferno III - Heavy fire attack to all enemies.
Blizzard III - Heavy ice attack to all enemies.
Lightning III - Heavy lightning attack to all enemies.
Satellite III - Heavy beam attack to all enemies.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: Here. We. Go. (some double as part of her powers)
D-TENERITAS: Just… Look at these two icons. Basically, it’s a ball of concentrated Ether energy that she shoots from her boobs. Except, not really from her boobs. Outside influences, like the impact of a weapon, will cause the energy to explode around the victim and cause intense damage.
F-GSHOT: Her F-GSHOT is used with two large triple barrel gatling guns. basically she just shoots things with them.
F-SCYTHE: A very large and very dangerous scythe which, when swung, strikes all enemies before her.
Handgun: Exactly alike in appearance to T-elos' handgun, the Magdalene 16 but KOS-MOS' own is unnamed.
Knife: At the end of the last battle with T-elos, KOS-MOS takes a knife from her boots. It's just a simple, silver colored knife.
Phase Transfer Cannon: This, right here. The Xenosaga wiki has this to say: “Phase transition is the change from one physical state to another. Given the scientific explanations given in-game such as the reference to Planck Scale and that Phase Transition Weaponry seems to be a very powerful form of energy emission in the form of powerful plasma beams this likely refers to the direct conversion of mass to energy according to Einstein theory which eventually led to atomic weaponry. This would be therefore similar to what happens when anti-matter comes into collision with its corresponding matter resulting in the release of massive amounts of energy hence Shion's comment "You could vaporize a whole star with this."”
R-BLADE: She changes her arm into a blade to attack.
R-CANNON: She turns her arm into a mini-cannon and fires a powerful blast at her opponent.
R-DRAGON: A weapon summoned from compressed space which has three “claws” to it. Used to attack the enemy by grabbing onto them twice before the weapon itself is fired at them as a projectile.
R-DRILL: Another weapon summoned from compressed space, it is quite literally a large, hand-held drill which KOS-MOS uses to stab the enemy before using the drill function to drill into them.
R-HAMMER: Summoned from compressed space, the R-HAMMER appears more like a large mace than a hammer and is used to bash the enemy multiple times.
S-CHAIN: A seemingly Ether based combat ability in which KOS-MOS hovers over the ground and three circles appear in the air and then form a triangle of energy directed towards the enemy. Apparently results in an instant kill.
Tertiary Weapons system: Visible in this image and this one, KOS-MOS' optional weaponry, consisting of two phase transfer cannons, one on each shoulder, was designed by Kevin while he was still alive and built at Vector Second R&D Division on Second Miltia. Her Tertiary Weapons System is capable of a range of 130 nanometers and was developed to prevent the worst case scenario from occurring and is capable of destroying an entire armada of Gnosis. When the cannons are fired, a cooling field in the shape of glowing wings is created behind the unit. She does not often use this weapon. It’s seen, at most, three times in the entire saga.
X-BUSTER: A powerful burst of energy beams from her abdomen that attack and destroy enemies and can absorb the Gnosis.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III and this
Point in Canon: Just before defeating/absorbing T-elos at the end of Episode 3
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality:
KOS-MOS is programmed with a “Simulated Personality OS” which is tantamount to having an actual personality. While it never developed on it’s own as any human or Realian’s would, it functions exactly as any personality would. However, KOS-MOS functions primarily on logic and probability though this is by choice.
She is not friendly. Not often in any case, however she does grow close to Jin Uzuki, chaos and MOMO. Those three are probably the closest things to friends KOS-MOS has. ‘Your welcome’s’ and ‘thank you’s’ are pretty foreign to her, only ever doing as logic dictates. Some people will die by her hands but only when she determines that the odds of saving more people are worth the deaths of others (in the case where she shot Virgil on the Elsa because it increased the odds of Shion’s survival). Vector personnel always takes precedence over military personnel or civilians, as per her programming. KOS-MOS has no qualms, in the very beginning of the series, with threatening people to gain what she needs (like when she threatened captain Matthew’s right after the destruction of the Woglinde). She even had to remind Shion that she is an android, a weapon and that she should know that better than anyone.
She’s often cold and blunt, giving people direct facts no matter how much it might hurt them. If someone manages to earn KOS-MOS’ respect or even can get her to consider them a friend, she might attempt to spare their feelings.
KOS-MOS has a set of programmed objectives, all of which override current orders. The protection of Shion Uzuki overrides them all, including direct orders from Vector CEO Wilhelm or Kevin Winnicott. She’s stubborn, opinionated, one might say, because of how she works, and Shion often refers to her as a handful because she follows orders through in her own way unless given exact instructions.
This is only the programmed KOS-MOS. She has another influence. Within her sleeps the soul of Mary Magdalene, a young woman who gave her life to protect the universe. Steadily throughout the series, Mary’s soul influences KOS-MOS’ own personal development, helping her to become a bit kind and more sincere. There are even times when Mary’s own personality seems to take control. However, as KOS-MOS develops, Mary and KOS-MOS are both changing, making it more KOS-MOS than anybody.
When Mary awakes, KOS-MOS is much more human, having a desire to protect all life and asking Shion “Would feeling pain make me complete?” with the advanced nature of her construct, and the fact that she has a Simulated Personality OS, it’s logical to assume that she’s capable of feeling physical things but the function is deactivated or inaccessible. Especially after the Archetype incident.
With Mary’s influence, KOS-MOS can become a selfless being and do as Mary did: breaking past her designed purpose. She’ll become capable of making her own choices, even able to completely disobey orders from Wilhelm despite the fact that the order wouldn’t place any Vector employees in danger. And she’ll do this with the simple revelation that she is not Mary, but KOS-MOS. By the third game, KOS-MOS has become her own person but has not completely lost her robotic exterior or all of her personality quirks.
By this time, she’s completely loyal to her companions. Especially after T-elos’ attack in Rennes-le-Chateau which left her in an inoperable state. It’s thanks to the efforts of her friends and the Professor that she was able to function again and that she’s taken that final step towards becoming a new KOS-MOS without assimilating Mary’s personality into herself (yet).
The new Mary, that changed within KOS-MOS, is capable of defying Wilhelm's will, of placing her wants and needs before the universes. She places her friends before herself and protects them without fail. As much as she desires to protect the universe, her friends have become more important to her. She will protect them with as much diligence as KOS-MOS' original programming to make the protection of Vector employees one of her highest priorities. Her friends are her highest priority. She is not the original Mary any longer and is, instead, part of KOS-MOS and can't truly be called Mary.
Mary can awaken completely within KOS-MOS and her personality will overtake KOS-MOS' own. While her awakening is rare, I feel that it's necessary to cover Mar's personality as well since her will sleeps within KOS-MOS. (I'm copy-pasting the original personality I wrote for Mary now. And if necessary, I will confirm that I am the owner of the journal animus-sorrow that the personality can be found on.)
Mary is a kind and loving soul, whose compassion towards humans caused her to break past her intended purpose at the birth of the universe and take on a position of protecting them and the universe. The wellbeing of those around her always takes precedence over her own, much to the displeasure of those that care for her. However, this changes nothing and Mary will still place herself in harms way to protect them. Part of this is due to a number of painful events throughout her life, which makes her treasure her friends and lover, Yeshua, even more. She very much dislikes being alone, as shown in a cutscene where she drops to her knees in sorrow, watching Yeshua leave.
Her birth in the universe did not go as expected. As mentioned earlier, she has a great amount of compassion for humans. This wasn’t how things were meant to be. Human life was meant to be disposable but somewhere in the early moments of her life, a compassion for them was born and Mary refused to fulfill her purpose as originally intended. The young woman saw beyond her purpose and saw the potential that humans possessed and so sought out ways to protect them and the universe. However, her hopes were found to be slightly naïve, and in her attempts to do so, sped up the process in which Anima would trigger. Her self-confidence dropped drastically as a result of this and she took the last option available to her: She divided Anima. She gave her life, in a supreme act of love for the humans she’d taken to, to give them as much time as possible.
Along the way, Wilhelm persecuted Mary and her companions in an attempt to slow the triggering of Anima. Her friends all suffered because of him but she couldn’t ever bring herself to hate him. Truthfully, it appears as though Mary is completely incapable of hating anyone. In fact, somewhere along the way, Mary began to see Wilhelm’s point of view and eventually started to help him. If anything, at least they’d have another chance at everything as the universe is never reborn in quite the same way.
While hatred is a foreign emotion to her, anger is not. Seeing those she cares for so deeply in danger will result in her lashing out in their protection, even if she would find herself in even greater trouble as a result. Mary would gladly suffer for others and this isn’t because of some form of masochism but because she cares that deeply that her own pain doesn’t hurt her nearly as much as watching others in pain.
It also appears that her sense of loyalty is unwavering. Throughout the Lost Jerusalem Era, she stood by Yeshua, the Messiah and her friends and when it became apparent that her methods were failing, and all of her friends were persecuted, she turned her hopes to Wilhelm’s method. And, 6000 years after her death, it appears that she will still assist him in the activation of Zarathustra. If it weren’t for KOS-MOS’ personality taking dominance after a failed (well, perhaps not failed but it didn’t go as it should have) merging of Mary’s body and soul, Mary would very well have helped him in started Eternal Recurrence.
While what she did may appear that her loyalty to her friends, Yeshua and the Messiah was false, it was hardly anything like that. Mary is a devoted woman who will do anything to protect the universe and humans. And to that extent, her devotion to protecting everything took precedence over her loyalty to them. In her own mind, she was still being loyal to them and their purpose, she was just taking another path to achieve it.
Mary is also a very generous person. We can’t see this in-depth in Xenosaga but that fact that she gives up everything for others shows that she is a generous young woman. Mary is the type of person that will break herself completely for the sake of making another person happy. She feels pleasure from giving her own well-being to other people who are lacking in it. This is a huge personality flaw but it also shows, again, how loving and caring and generous she can be.
Friendly is another way to describe Mary. Among such a large group of people that followed the Messiah and being so close to Yeshua and the Maiden (Shion’s Lost Jerusalem Era incarnation), friendliness was a common trait. Without it, the group have torn themselves apart but Mary and Yeshua, in the center of it all, kept them all together and guided them.
Mary also suffers from guilt, and often. The death of the Maiden of Mary wore on her and after, the division of Yeshua’s powers. Both things she found herself directly responsible for. While the division of Anima was her fault directly, the potential for it trigger prematurely was not. The deaths of those that followed the Messiah are also on her conscience, constantly, as well as the loss of Lost Jerusalem.
And finally, we’ll cover how ambitious Mary can be. Her intentions from day one of her physical life has been to save the lives of every human being in the Lower Domain while making sure that the universe does not collapse. This is a very high goal for one whose intended purpose was to protect the integrity of the universe at the cost of life within it.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans:
Since she’s an android built for the sole purpose of fighting and destroying Gnosis (and to reawaken Mary Magdalene to bring about Eternal Recurrence but let’s leave that out for now), KOS-MOS’ll spend a LOT of time outside after evening sirens to fight the Darkness. Likely, she’ll end up starting a Darkness Escort Service, pretty self explanatory there.
Appearance/PB: Long blue hair, red eyes (which sometimes turn blue when Mary awakens) and suggestive clothing. Her heights is five feet and six inches and she weights 203 pounds thanks to being made completely out of mechanical parts. We also learn in Ep. 2 that KOS-MOS’ ears are pierced and her hair is apparently fiber optic (we can see a few strands shining, sparkling or turning purple in official images)… Know what, how about I just give you a link to her appearance, would that be good?
Also, since she’s from Episodes 3~ She can change her outfit back to her first version or into her swimsuit. Even to her third version. Although this all depends on if she can either find someone to help to replicate them or find a way to do so herself. Dying of laughter here, thinking of KOS-MOS trying to sew.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[With a careful flick of her fingers, the screen of her NV springs to life and the denizens of Sirens Port are greeted by the image of a blue haired young woman with crimson eyes. The dreadfully low temperature doesn't affect her in the slightest. The most notable feature at the moment right now is the fact that she's listening as the evening sirens go off and the Greeter tries to coax her into the dugouts.]
Unnecessary.
[Is all she says and looks around the baseball diamond. For a good ten minutes, all she does is observe until growls can be heard. There's a flash of light and KOS-MOS is holding a large chain gun that almost dwarfs her in size.]
Threat established. Beginning defensive measures.
[And with that, she fires the weapon towards the nearest Darkness monster as it attempts to leap at her. It falls quickly only to be replaced by another.]
If these are the monsters the Greeter attempts to warn me about, I am not concerned.
[Another monster attempts to take a bite out of her, this time from the back. With inhuman speed, she turns around. The chain gun vanishes in a flash of light similar to how it appeared and in it's place, her arm has transformed into a blade. A blade which she proceeds to use to impale the monster.]
Shion. My appearance has decreased 5%. I need to be cleaned.
Residents of the city. I require information regarding the location of Shion Uzuki.
Third Person Sample
Without Shion in Sirens Port, KOS-MOS was... honestly, at a bit of a loss regarding what to do. There were no Gnosis present in the city, none of her friends. She would have no choice but to admit to feelings of loneliness which made her wish she could deactivated her Simulated Personality OS.
Days went on longer than she liked and nights were filled with monster eradication. At least she was doing something relatively close to what she had been built for. And she'd located someplace to store her maintenance bed that provided ample power to charge herself. She'd worn her power cells down quite a bit prior to arriving and it would have been disastrous (for her) if she wasn't able to charge her power cells.
Her services would be invaluable, to those that wished to travel after evening sirens. She was one of Vectors constructs, an android of incredible power. Never-mind that they'd built a more advanced model, she was still stronger than many people here and more than capable of protecting them on her own. With enough money, she could probably even open a business dedicated to this very venture.
Name: Tracy
Age: 21
AIM SN: turbotracy14
email: within_eternal_dreams@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep!
Currrently Played Characters: Zoey Redbird, Greening “Po” Grandemalion
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Xenosaga
Canon Format: Video Game
Character's Name: KOS-MOS | Mary Magdalene (Just list her as KOS-MOS since she’s the dominant personality)
Character's Age: Technically 2/3 years old, however she’s built to look roughly 18 years old
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.
While KOS-MOS is technically under the age of 13, she is not mentally or physically built as anything close to that. She’s a specially built android with the intelligence that would match some of Vector Industries top minds.
What form will your character's NV take? A Connection Gear often seen in the Xenosaga series as the left half of a Playstation controller. Seen here, the Connection Gear is shown in a typical standby mode on the right and with it activated on the left.
When in use, whether for text, video or audio transmissions, a screen will appear (as the left image shows) and record/display video transmissions. Text will appear on the screen during text transmissions and audio will play normally.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
KOS-MOS is gifted with superhuman strength and speed as part of her function to fight and destroy the Gnosis. Her body is formed from some sort of highly advanced nanomachines that allows her to morph parts of her body (specifically her arms) into various energy projectile and melee weapons. Her body is also able to self-repair and is very durable (but not indestructible as we learn during battle against T-elos), and she is also protected by a force-shield. She also possesses the ability to summon various weapons from compressed space.
KOS-MOS, although an android, is capable of using Ether (“Ether” is short for “Especial Theory of Rudimentary”) abilities. In some worlds, Ether abilities would be considered magic however these are based purely on scientific reasoning which to some degree is similar to alchemy. It refers to nanomachine abilities characters can use, which is why KOS-MOS is capable of using it.
A-BURST I - Small fire attack.
A-BURST II - Medium fire attack.
B-BIND - Medium physical attack + small chance of sealing boost.
B-Buster - Small physical attack + effective on type-B enemy.
B-SPIKE - Medium physical attack + small chance of reflecting damage.
CANNON - Medium fire attack.
CANNON II - Heavy fire attack.
D-TENERITAS - Covered in weapons.
G-BUSTER - Small physical attack + effective on type-G enemy.
Hilbert Effect - Brings Gnosis out of Imaginary Space into our own dimension.
K-AXE - Medium break attack + higher critical to type-G enemy.
K-PIKE - Medium break attack + higher critical to type-B enemy.
M-BUSTER - Small physical attack + effective on type-M enemy.
NEMESIS - Massive fire attack + higher critical to type-G enemy.
Phase Transfer Cannon - Covered in weapons.
Short Revenge - Small chance of revenge during short range attack.
Tertiary Weapons System - Covered in weapons.
VALKYRIE: Two quick slices with her R-BLADE, a leap in the air and a blast from her R-CANNON and the top of their head before landing.
W-BLADE - Medium physical attack + higher critical to type-G enemy.
W-FANG - Two horizontal slices across the enemies chest.
X-BUSTER - Covered in weapons.
The following Ether abilities are available to KOS-MOS:
Medica S - Recover small amount of HP.
Medica S All - Recover small amount of HP for all allies.
Break Heal S - Recover small amount of break damage.
Quick - Increase speed of all allies.
Analyze - Analyze an enemy's data.
Poison - Poison damage to a single enemy.
Rare Steal - Medium chance of stealing an item from an enemy.
Slow - Decrease speed of all enemies.
Fire Bolt I - Small fire attack.
Ice Bolt I - Small ice attack.
Thunder Bolt I - Small lightning attack.
Beam Bolt I - Small beam attack.
Inferno I - Small fire attack to all enemies.
Blizzard I - Small ice attack to all enemies.
Lightning I - Small lightning attack to all enemies.
Satellite I - Small beam attack to all enemies.
Medica M - Recover medium amount of HP.
Medica M All - Recover medium amount of HP for all allies.
Break Heal M - Recover medium amount of break damage.
Revert M - Revive and recover medium amount of HP.
Disengage - Disengage status support of all enemies.
Refresh - Recover status effects of all allies.
Recover HP - Recover small amount of HP with each turn.
Recover EP - Recover small amount of EP with each turn.
Fire Bolt II - Medium fire attack.
Ice Bolt II - Medium ice attack.
Thunder Bolt II - Medium lightning attack.
Beam Bolt II - Medium beam attack.
Inferno II - Medium fire attack to all enemies.
Blizzard II - Medium ice attack to all enemies.
Lightning II - Medium lightning attack to all enemies.
Satellite II - Medium beam attack to all enemies.
Medica L - Recover large amount of HP.
Medica L All - Recover large amount of HP for all allies.
Break Heal L - Recover large amount of break damage.
Revert L - Revive and recover large amount of HP.
EP Vamp - Small EP damage + recover small amount of EP.
Curse - Reflect inflicted damage to a single enemy.
Best Ally - Auto revive with full HP (1 time).
Short Counter - Small chance of counterattack during short range attack.
Fire Bolt III - Heavy fire attack.
Ice Bolt III - Heavy ice attack.
Thunder Bolt III - Heavy lightning attack.
Beam Bolt III - Heavy beam attack.
Inferno III - Heavy fire attack to all enemies.
Blizzard III - Heavy ice attack to all enemies.
Lightning III - Heavy lightning attack to all enemies.
Satellite III - Heavy beam attack to all enemies.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: Here. We. Go. (some double as part of her powers)
D-TENERITAS: Just… Look at these two icons. Basically, it’s a ball of concentrated Ether energy that she shoots from her boobs. Except, not really from her boobs. Outside influences, like the impact of a weapon, will cause the energy to explode around the victim and cause intense damage.
F-GSHOT: Her F-GSHOT is used with two large triple barrel gatling guns. basically she just shoots things with them.
F-SCYTHE: A very large and very dangerous scythe which, when swung, strikes all enemies before her.
Handgun: Exactly alike in appearance to T-elos' handgun, the Magdalene 16 but KOS-MOS' own is unnamed.
Knife: At the end of the last battle with T-elos, KOS-MOS takes a knife from her boots. It's just a simple, silver colored knife.
Phase Transfer Cannon: This, right here. The Xenosaga wiki has this to say: “Phase transition is the change from one physical state to another. Given the scientific explanations given in-game such as the reference to Planck Scale and that Phase Transition Weaponry seems to be a very powerful form of energy emission in the form of powerful plasma beams this likely refers to the direct conversion of mass to energy according to Einstein theory which eventually led to atomic weaponry. This would be therefore similar to what happens when anti-matter comes into collision with its corresponding matter resulting in the release of massive amounts of energy hence Shion's comment "You could vaporize a whole star with this."”
R-BLADE: She changes her arm into a blade to attack.
R-CANNON: She turns her arm into a mini-cannon and fires a powerful blast at her opponent.
R-DRAGON: A weapon summoned from compressed space which has three “claws” to it. Used to attack the enemy by grabbing onto them twice before the weapon itself is fired at them as a projectile.
R-DRILL: Another weapon summoned from compressed space, it is quite literally a large, hand-held drill which KOS-MOS uses to stab the enemy before using the drill function to drill into them.
R-HAMMER: Summoned from compressed space, the R-HAMMER appears more like a large mace than a hammer and is used to bash the enemy multiple times.
S-CHAIN: A seemingly Ether based combat ability in which KOS-MOS hovers over the ground and three circles appear in the air and then form a triangle of energy directed towards the enemy. Apparently results in an instant kill.
Tertiary Weapons system: Visible in this image and this one, KOS-MOS' optional weaponry, consisting of two phase transfer cannons, one on each shoulder, was designed by Kevin while he was still alive and built at Vector Second R&D Division on Second Miltia. Her Tertiary Weapons System is capable of a range of 130 nanometers and was developed to prevent the worst case scenario from occurring and is capable of destroying an entire armada of Gnosis. When the cannons are fired, a cooling field in the shape of glowing wings is created behind the unit. She does not often use this weapon. It’s seen, at most, three times in the entire saga.
X-BUSTER: A powerful burst of energy beams from her abdomen that attack and destroy enemies and can absorb the Gnosis.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III and this
Point in Canon: Just before defeating/absorbing T-elos at the end of Episode 3
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality:
KOS-MOS is programmed with a “Simulated Personality OS” which is tantamount to having an actual personality. While it never developed on it’s own as any human or Realian’s would, it functions exactly as any personality would. However, KOS-MOS functions primarily on logic and probability though this is by choice.
She is not friendly. Not often in any case, however she does grow close to Jin Uzuki, chaos and MOMO. Those three are probably the closest things to friends KOS-MOS has. ‘Your welcome’s’ and ‘thank you’s’ are pretty foreign to her, only ever doing as logic dictates. Some people will die by her hands but only when she determines that the odds of saving more people are worth the deaths of others (in the case where she shot Virgil on the Elsa because it increased the odds of Shion’s survival). Vector personnel always takes precedence over military personnel or civilians, as per her programming. KOS-MOS has no qualms, in the very beginning of the series, with threatening people to gain what she needs (like when she threatened captain Matthew’s right after the destruction of the Woglinde). She even had to remind Shion that she is an android, a weapon and that she should know that better than anyone.
She’s often cold and blunt, giving people direct facts no matter how much it might hurt them. If someone manages to earn KOS-MOS’ respect or even can get her to consider them a friend, she might attempt to spare their feelings.
KOS-MOS has a set of programmed objectives, all of which override current orders. The protection of Shion Uzuki overrides them all, including direct orders from Vector CEO Wilhelm or Kevin Winnicott. She’s stubborn, opinionated, one might say, because of how she works, and Shion often refers to her as a handful because she follows orders through in her own way unless given exact instructions.
This is only the programmed KOS-MOS. She has another influence. Within her sleeps the soul of Mary Magdalene, a young woman who gave her life to protect the universe. Steadily throughout the series, Mary’s soul influences KOS-MOS’ own personal development, helping her to become a bit kind and more sincere. There are even times when Mary’s own personality seems to take control. However, as KOS-MOS develops, Mary and KOS-MOS are both changing, making it more KOS-MOS than anybody.
When Mary awakes, KOS-MOS is much more human, having a desire to protect all life and asking Shion “Would feeling pain make me complete?” with the advanced nature of her construct, and the fact that she has a Simulated Personality OS, it’s logical to assume that she’s capable of feeling physical things but the function is deactivated or inaccessible. Especially after the Archetype incident.
With Mary’s influence, KOS-MOS can become a selfless being and do as Mary did: breaking past her designed purpose. She’ll become capable of making her own choices, even able to completely disobey orders from Wilhelm despite the fact that the order wouldn’t place any Vector employees in danger. And she’ll do this with the simple revelation that she is not Mary, but KOS-MOS. By the third game, KOS-MOS has become her own person but has not completely lost her robotic exterior or all of her personality quirks.
By this time, she’s completely loyal to her companions. Especially after T-elos’ attack in Rennes-le-Chateau which left her in an inoperable state. It’s thanks to the efforts of her friends and the Professor that she was able to function again and that she’s taken that final step towards becoming a new KOS-MOS without assimilating Mary’s personality into herself (yet).
The new Mary, that changed within KOS-MOS, is capable of defying Wilhelm's will, of placing her wants and needs before the universes. She places her friends before herself and protects them without fail. As much as she desires to protect the universe, her friends have become more important to her. She will protect them with as much diligence as KOS-MOS' original programming to make the protection of Vector employees one of her highest priorities. Her friends are her highest priority. She is not the original Mary any longer and is, instead, part of KOS-MOS and can't truly be called Mary.
Mary can awaken completely within KOS-MOS and her personality will overtake KOS-MOS' own. While her awakening is rare, I feel that it's necessary to cover Mar's personality as well since her will sleeps within KOS-MOS. (I'm copy-pasting the original personality I wrote for Mary now. And if necessary, I will confirm that I am the owner of the journal animus-sorrow that the personality can be found on.)
Mary is a kind and loving soul, whose compassion towards humans caused her to break past her intended purpose at the birth of the universe and take on a position of protecting them and the universe. The wellbeing of those around her always takes precedence over her own, much to the displeasure of those that care for her. However, this changes nothing and Mary will still place herself in harms way to protect them. Part of this is due to a number of painful events throughout her life, which makes her treasure her friends and lover, Yeshua, even more. She very much dislikes being alone, as shown in a cutscene where she drops to her knees in sorrow, watching Yeshua leave.
Her birth in the universe did not go as expected. As mentioned earlier, she has a great amount of compassion for humans. This wasn’t how things were meant to be. Human life was meant to be disposable but somewhere in the early moments of her life, a compassion for them was born and Mary refused to fulfill her purpose as originally intended. The young woman saw beyond her purpose and saw the potential that humans possessed and so sought out ways to protect them and the universe. However, her hopes were found to be slightly naïve, and in her attempts to do so, sped up the process in which Anima would trigger. Her self-confidence dropped drastically as a result of this and she took the last option available to her: She divided Anima. She gave her life, in a supreme act of love for the humans she’d taken to, to give them as much time as possible.
Along the way, Wilhelm persecuted Mary and her companions in an attempt to slow the triggering of Anima. Her friends all suffered because of him but she couldn’t ever bring herself to hate him. Truthfully, it appears as though Mary is completely incapable of hating anyone. In fact, somewhere along the way, Mary began to see Wilhelm’s point of view and eventually started to help him. If anything, at least they’d have another chance at everything as the universe is never reborn in quite the same way.
While hatred is a foreign emotion to her, anger is not. Seeing those she cares for so deeply in danger will result in her lashing out in their protection, even if she would find herself in even greater trouble as a result. Mary would gladly suffer for others and this isn’t because of some form of masochism but because she cares that deeply that her own pain doesn’t hurt her nearly as much as watching others in pain.
It also appears that her sense of loyalty is unwavering. Throughout the Lost Jerusalem Era, she stood by Yeshua, the Messiah and her friends and when it became apparent that her methods were failing, and all of her friends were persecuted, she turned her hopes to Wilhelm’s method. And, 6000 years after her death, it appears that she will still assist him in the activation of Zarathustra. If it weren’t for KOS-MOS’ personality taking dominance after a failed (well, perhaps not failed but it didn’t go as it should have) merging of Mary’s body and soul, Mary would very well have helped him in started Eternal Recurrence.
While what she did may appear that her loyalty to her friends, Yeshua and the Messiah was false, it was hardly anything like that. Mary is a devoted woman who will do anything to protect the universe and humans. And to that extent, her devotion to protecting everything took precedence over her loyalty to them. In her own mind, she was still being loyal to them and their purpose, she was just taking another path to achieve it.
Mary is also a very generous person. We can’t see this in-depth in Xenosaga but that fact that she gives up everything for others shows that she is a generous young woman. Mary is the type of person that will break herself completely for the sake of making another person happy. She feels pleasure from giving her own well-being to other people who are lacking in it. This is a huge personality flaw but it also shows, again, how loving and caring and generous she can be.
Friendly is another way to describe Mary. Among such a large group of people that followed the Messiah and being so close to Yeshua and the Maiden (Shion’s Lost Jerusalem Era incarnation), friendliness was a common trait. Without it, the group have torn themselves apart but Mary and Yeshua, in the center of it all, kept them all together and guided them.
Mary also suffers from guilt, and often. The death of the Maiden of Mary wore on her and after, the division of Yeshua’s powers. Both things she found herself directly responsible for. While the division of Anima was her fault directly, the potential for it trigger prematurely was not. The deaths of those that followed the Messiah are also on her conscience, constantly, as well as the loss of Lost Jerusalem.
And finally, we’ll cover how ambitious Mary can be. Her intentions from day one of her physical life has been to save the lives of every human being in the Lower Domain while making sure that the universe does not collapse. This is a very high goal for one whose intended purpose was to protect the integrity of the universe at the cost of life within it.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans:
Since she’s an android built for the sole purpose of fighting and destroying Gnosis (and to reawaken Mary Magdalene to bring about Eternal Recurrence but let’s leave that out for now), KOS-MOS’ll spend a LOT of time outside after evening sirens to fight the Darkness. Likely, she’ll end up starting a Darkness Escort Service, pretty self explanatory there.
Appearance/PB: Long blue hair, red eyes (which sometimes turn blue when Mary awakens) and suggestive clothing. Her heights is five feet and six inches and she weights 203 pounds thanks to being made completely out of mechanical parts. We also learn in Ep. 2 that KOS-MOS’ ears are pierced and her hair is apparently fiber optic (we can see a few strands shining, sparkling or turning purple in official images)… Know what, how about I just give you a link to her appearance, would that be good?
Also, since she’s from Episodes 3~ She can change her outfit back to her first version or into her swimsuit. Even to her third version. Although this all depends on if she can either find someone to help to replicate them or find a way to do so herself. Dying of laughter here, thinking of KOS-MOS trying to sew.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[With a careful flick of her fingers, the screen of her NV springs to life and the denizens of Sirens Port are greeted by the image of a blue haired young woman with crimson eyes. The dreadfully low temperature doesn't affect her in the slightest. The most notable feature at the moment right now is the fact that she's listening as the evening sirens go off and the Greeter tries to coax her into the dugouts.]
Unnecessary.
[Is all she says and looks around the baseball diamond. For a good ten minutes, all she does is observe until growls can be heard. There's a flash of light and KOS-MOS is holding a large chain gun that almost dwarfs her in size.]
Threat established. Beginning defensive measures.
[And with that, she fires the weapon towards the nearest Darkness monster as it attempts to leap at her. It falls quickly only to be replaced by another.]
If these are the monsters the Greeter attempts to warn me about, I am not concerned.
[Another monster attempts to take a bite out of her, this time from the back. With inhuman speed, she turns around. The chain gun vanishes in a flash of light similar to how it appeared and in it's place, her arm has transformed into a blade. A blade which she proceeds to use to impale the monster.]
Shion. My appearance has decreased 5%. I need to be cleaned.
Residents of the city. I require information regarding the location of Shion Uzuki.
Third Person Sample
Without Shion in Sirens Port, KOS-MOS was... honestly, at a bit of a loss regarding what to do. There were no Gnosis present in the city, none of her friends. She would have no choice but to admit to feelings of loneliness which made her wish she could deactivated her Simulated Personality OS.
Days went on longer than she liked and nights were filled with monster eradication. At least she was doing something relatively close to what she had been built for. And she'd located someplace to store her maintenance bed that provided ample power to charge herself. She'd worn her power cells down quite a bit prior to arriving and it would have been disastrous (for her) if she wasn't able to charge her power cells.
Her services would be invaluable, to those that wished to travel after evening sirens. She was one of Vectors constructs, an android of incredible power. Never-mind that they'd built a more advanced model, she was still stronger than many people here and more than capable of protecting them on her own. With enough money, she could probably even open a business dedicated to this very venture.