songerein App!

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Player: Hayley
Age: 31
Contact: ShadetoShade, Hayley#0847 @ Discord
Current Characters: Hythlodaeus (nomoresharks)

Character: Angela
Canon: Library of Ruina, post True Ending
Age: Considers herself to be over 1 million due to time and perspective shenanigans


Background Information: Wiki Link!

Personality: Angela presents herself as an aloof, businesslike woman, perfectly polite some times and almost callously blunt at others. She brooks no nonsense and refuses to let anything get in the way of her goals, even if she has to dirty her hands to see it done.

However, she would prefer she not have to dirty her hands at all.

Beneath that steely shell lies a wounded soul, kind at heart and slowly, painfully on the mend. The 10,000 years of time loops within Lobotomy Corporation went on 100 times longer for Angela, the world slowed and sluggish from her perspective due to her programming, and she was forced to remember every last detail of every person she wasn't allowed to save, every wrong she was forced to perform, every step of the script that painted her as the villain and her creator as the savior, over and over and over until it wore her down.

Her work with the Library was meant to be her final "evil" act, a search for the "perfect book" to make her human and grant her the freedom she'd been denied, to understand what it was she was created to work towards. Her one chance, she believed, to find a place all her own where she was accepted and free to act upon her will alone.

During that journey, Angela shows off a curious side of herself, along with a certain sense of naivete. Having been restricted to Lobotomy Corporation's facilities for so long, she has little knowledge of the outside world and wishes to know as much about it as possible.

By the end of Library of Ruina, Angela has given up on her dream of creating the Perfect Book, realizing that she is only perpetuating the cycle of pain so prevalent in The City. She's willing to give up her life in order to restore those who became books in the Library's walls, and when Roland pulls her out of the Light shortly before she disappears entirely, she has also come to be at peace with the fact that she is a machine, that she is not the only person in The City to suffer under its wheel, that she is not the woman she was designed after, and that she is capable of making her own choices from now on, Perfect Book or no.

That said, while she has come to accept her past and begin to move forward towards the future, Angela still has quite the vengeful streak to her. Ayin, her creator, may be forgiven for his neglect (though I personally am of the opinion that she will never like the man), she still admits to having an incredible amount of anger in her over what happened to her in the past. The difference is that instead of lashing out at the people around her for it and concerning herself solely with her own desires, she has gained the ability to discern what she believes to be the root cause of her troubles and focus her ire towards that.



Abilities & Inventory:

As a machine, Angela is highly resistant to damage, highly intelligent, and capable of translating nearly any language, provided she has enough of a sample to decode. She perceives the world 100 times slower than the average human, having needed to do so in order to make informed decisions in life or death situations. This allows her to have an incredibly quick reaction time to events around her, though she doesn't appear to move any quicker than average.

Technically, Angela is unable to forget any memory she has made, but for my own sanity I'm going to say that isn't the case in Songerein because I myself am able to forget quite a lot.

Despite her resilience, Angela doesn't appear to be much stronger than anyone else, having been designed more for logistics and resilience. She does, however, carry with her a thick book capable of summoning forth projections of Lobotomy Corporation's Abnormalities to attack and defend with as necessary (the arm of Happy Teddy Bear, a branch from The Burrowing Heaven, Funeral of the Dead Butterflies from the waist up--never the entire Abnormality, but enough of it from her book to perform the action she desires).

**SUBJECT TO MOD APPROVAL**

If possible, I would like for Angela to bring The Library over with her/be able to manifest it. It is her EGO (think Persona but more condensed into A Thing, such as armor, a laboratory, a pipe, a weapon, etc), and not only will be considerably nerfed, but will have to be worked for on my part (and maybe others'!) to be filled out.

The Library is a treelike tower with curling, twisted limbs that branch out haphazardly from its sides. Upon Angela's arrival, it will consist of only two floors: the entrance/lobby and the Floor of General Works. Angela is capable of appearing anywhere in the Library in an instant, the act accompanied by a noise not unlike snapping one's fingers.

The Library is capable of creating books that hold imprints of human consciousness, both in the form of an individual's strongest emotions and memories around the time of imprinting and in the form of fragments from the human subconscious given life and form by Lobotomy Corporation (Abnormalities). In part due to Angela releasing all the people who had trapped by the Library at the end of the game and in part for the sake of nerfing/giving her an ongoing thing to work towards, there will only be three Abnormality-based books for Angela to start with. Any new acquisitions will need to be "paid" for with regain baubles (in-game, her using the regain bauble to facilitate the creation of a new book from her memory). Any ALEPH level Abnormality-based books will need 3 baubles to create, save for Apocalypse Bird, who will additionally need the Big Bird, Punishing Bird, and Judgment Bird books to be made first.

The feelings and memories within the Library's books can be manifested into EGO the user can wield, granting them a weapon, armor, and powers based on the book they can use for a time. However, their use does come at a risk, especially those books based upon Abnormalities: if a person resonates too strongly with the feelings within the book, lacks the will necessary to resist being influenced by the feelings within, or makes use of the EGO for too long, they risk entering a sort of "Corrosion" mode (inspired by the Floor Realizations of LoR).

During these Corrosions, the will within the book and the will of the individual wielding it begin to blend, making it difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends. For example, someone making use of Happy Teddy Bear may become extremely clingy, to the point of becoming a risk to others around them, or someone using a book based on Crumbling Armor may become exceedingly reckless in battle and see too much caution and planning on the part of their allies as cowardice.

The three books the Library will have to start with are as follows:

• The Road Home - EGO: Homing Instinct - Made from an Abnormality with a desire to return to the place they call home. It believes it can only reach its goal by walking the path set before it. Users of this EGO are capable of calling forth a yellow brick road from beneath the silver shoes they wear, using the bricks themselves to attack. They can also drop an entire house down on their foes as an ultimate attack.


• Funeral of the Dead Butterflies - EGO: Solemn Lament - Made from an Abnormality whose desire to bring comfort to the dead and grieving transformed into a desire to free survivors from their sorrow. Users of this EGO wield two pistols of black and white that leave behind an icy cold feeling, not unlike death, wherever they hit, slowing their opponent down.


• Punishing Bird - EGO: Beak - Made from an Abnormality who seeks to punish wrongdoing. Convinced its tiny beak wasn't enough to deter others, it obtained a much larger, one, leading to deadly consequences. Grants the user a single pistol with a powerful shot.

Suitability & Plans: To begin with, I think Project Moon's universe and Songerein's general thing work well together, even if Project Moon's stuff leads to more nightmares than good dreams. The proposal for the Library I listed above was one of my biggest drives to app a character from this canon.

But even if that's not approved, I'd love to get the chance to explore more with Angela. Because she comes from the end of Library of Ruina, she's only just come out the other side of her character development, and I'm eager to see where that road takes her, especially with all the new experiences and good influences she can encounter on her way.


Test Drive Sample: Sample


Questions: Mostly just wanting to know if bringing a nerfed Library would be okay, like I laid out in the ability section. I'd like for others to be able to use it as a jumping off point for their own player plots or character development and the like!