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Full name Persicaria
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Persicaria (帕斯卡莉亚, meaning "knotweeds", she has no surname), shortened Persica, is a Tactical Doll scientist, 16Lab's founder and director and a former 90wish member. As a genius mind, she has developed most of the advanced technology used by modern T-Dolls. She also created the T-Dolls in AR Team and is deeply involved in the conspiracy involving Lunasia.

This is the article for the human character. For her Autonomous Doll double, see Persicaria.

Background

90wish

Persica with Lycoris.

In 2040, Persica was an automation postgraduate at the Leipzig University of Karl Marx and was working[1] as part of the Bundeswehr Special Technology Development Group[2] on a project given by the government to develop an advanced automation framework that would enable multiple robots to make complex decisions and work autonomously as a unit, an ambitious project meant to distance Germany from the industry-oriented designs favored by other countries in the race for automation. The same year, she recruited into the project the newly arrived undergraduate AI student Lycoris after he transferred from the Lomonosov State University of Moscow,[1] having noticed his genius for neural control and data reduction despite being younger than her.[3] The project was presented in August 2043 after Lyco leveraged the experimental data gathered at the Urkunde-1 relic site by the 90Wunsch research team of the Stasi during the Cold War.[1] During their time on the project, Persica and Lyco often met with Lunasia von Oberstein, daughter of the institute's director Rudolf von Oberstein, before her family went into hiding, where Lunasia would die shortly after the end of World War Three.[3]

Lyco wished to share the newfound potential of confidential relics research with the international scientific community at a time where political instability made research more difficult, and envisioned a secret support network for scientists.[4] Noticing that Persica and himself were assigned to the Automation Department Research Laboratory #90, and to honor the secret efforts of 90Wunsch, Lyco named the group 90wish.[1] With her now personal friend and professional rival,[5] Persica started by creating the Inverted Forest, a layered space for simulating Neural Clouds that served as the framework for the development of the IAs of Second Generation T-Dolls.[6]

Persica and Lyco were later contacted by William, the most secretive member of 90wish, who asked them to create a Neural Cloud from the data of a digitized brain, where they found memories of Lunasia. Lyco refused the project on ethics grounds, while Persica could not undertake the project without him, so they rejected William's request.[3] Persica eventually made an enemy of 90wish by leaving the group after she found it had been conducting illegal experiments in exchange for large amounts of funding.[7][8] Both escaped assassination attempts after being noticed by IOP's president Havier Witkin, who hired a PMC to escort them to IOP's headquarters.[9] Persicaria's rescue mission received tactical supervision by Ministry of Internal Affairs agent Berezovich Kryuger,[10] and both have remained close friends.[5]

IOP

Persicaria and Lycoris agreed to work for IOP under false names in the shell company named Hermit. They were instrumental in solving the long-standing problems that made the CSD series Tactical Dolls unusable as frontline fighters and helped designing the CSD-08 series, IAD series and ACD series Tactical Dolls for IOP during the war,[9] and the SST series and Service Dolls series dedicated to civilian markets after the war.[10] By 2054, Persicaria had completed her Etching Theory and laid the groundwork for adapting 90wish's Zener Protocol to T-Dolls.[11] Her constant improvement of T-Dolls models was highly profitable for IOP, but did not match with Lycoris' interests in pure AI and he eventually left Hermit to join Sangvis Ferri.

Lycoris' defection led Witkin to invest even more fund into Persicaria's work. This influx of finances[10] and Persicaria's own feelings of constraints at IOP[11] led to her negotiating the founding of 16Lab, her own company, in 2057. Persicaria had conceptualized a new way to implement software and networking in regards to T-Dolls, which she called Second Generation T-Dolls. Since 90wish was no longer a threat, Persicaria wished to fund her own company dedicated to T-Dolls and received investment from IOP to create and staff 16Lab as one of IOP's first-party manufacturers. From there, Persicaria improved the Zener Protocol and implemented the Imprint Technology, the Dummy Network and the Fire Control Core.[10]

On 11 January 2057, Persica formally pledged to 42LAB the help of her Doll double assistant (whom 42LAB had created in the first place) for their Project Neural Cloud, believing the project to be of great importance.[12] However, Project Neural Cloud would abruptly end with the loss of all its data in 2060, and the Professor in charge would go missing shortly after.[13]

William's plan

In 2057, Griffin and Kryuger, Kryuger's PMC, suffered several attacks from child soldiers. Scans of their brains revealed they were clones of Lunasia, and that the attacks were staged by William.[3] Hiding her ambition under the guise of pity, Persica did as William wanted and used the scanned brains in her search for the ultimate Neural Cloud model.[14][15][3] During this project, Lyco asked Persica for a copy of her Neural Cloud bases to use for his own project at SF,[16] and the two regularly shared data, Lyco's goal to create an empathic AI informing Persica's own project.[17] Still, Persica strove to prove her superiority to Lyco.[18][19] In 2058, Persica agreed to assist 42LAB in their Neural Cloud experiments in the Magrasea superserver by authorizing the company to create a Doll replica of herself to serve as a research assistant to the lead scientist of the project.[20]

Eventually, Persicaria created her own experimental T-Dolls team named AR Team in 2061,[11] considering their personality flaws as necessary steps toward her ultimate goal.[21] She is also credited for creating the portable particle cannon outfitted to AR M16A1M16A1M16A1.[3] At some later point, Persica created a new AR Team member, SMG RO635RO635RO635, the first Third Generation T-Doll, which she outfitted with a Neural Cloud with no personality presets, able to grow in non-deterministic ways and form genuine emotions.[22][23]

Also in 2061, Lycoris was killed during the Butterfly Incident. Persica had sent M16A1 as insurance during the operation, but she failed to protect him. Lyco recognized M16 as the accomplishment of Persica's project and entrusted her with a warning to Persica: to not let William manipulate her into creating the perfect Neural Cloud he wanted. This warning did not reach Persica, as William encrypted M16's memories,[24] keeping Persica in the dark about the specifics of the events.[25][21] Angelia's involvement in the incident were wiped from all possible records by Witkin on Persica's plead, though she did not explain the reasons for her request at the time.[2] Every report qualified the event as an accident, but Persica believed Lyco's death had been set up and searched for the truth on the incident,[25] while also seeking to recover Lyco's research data.[18]

Character Info

She is a woman with a very lazy personality. She's slightly neurotic and has spent years indoors while at 16Lab. However, she's friendly for the most part[5] and can get really excited when she is involved in interesting events regarding Dolls.[26] Due to her key role at IOP and in developing core aspects of modern Doll technology she is sometimes perceived as the creator of all IOP Dolls, but as she points out herself nobody would have the time to personally create so many kinds of Dolls.[27] She is close friends with Griffin's leader Berezovich Kryuger, and cares for AR Team like her children, in particular AR M4A1M4A1M4A1. She frequently uses them to carry out data retrieval operations[5] but objected to the team being deployed in dangerous operations by Griffin & Kryuger,[28] and sometimes acted like a mother unwilling to see her children leave her.[29]

She also felt guilty for realizing only after creating M4 that her very nature placed a heavy burden on M4.[7] Conversely, M4 rejected Persica's willingness to have others sacrifice themselves to protect her.[30] Persica regularly worries that AR Team will reject her and sometimes avoids them completely, but she is proved wrong every time after they talk. M4 had enough trust in Persica that she was uneasy about anyone else but her creator modifying her Neural Cloud.[31] Shows of affection in this relationship are still rare and AR Team refers to her as “Miss Persica”.

Persica and Angelia share a sort of vitriolic friendship, but ultimately support each other in their objectives.[32][33] When she first anonymously contacted the Commander, Angelia asked them to trust her as they would Persica.[34] As for the Commander, Persica talked highly of them in private while keeping a professional relationship face-to-face.[35]

She drinks inhuman amounts of coffee[36] with large amounts of sugar,[2][37] her lab is both cold[38] and messy[18] and most of her working hours are during the dead of night.[37] Despite being a scientist, she's had a lot of experience with life-threatening situations.[25] According to her adjutant lines, the black and white feline ears on her head are part of a custom headset.

Story Involvement

Area S09

In 2062, Persica deployed AR Team in Area S09 to the location codenamed Safe House 3[39] but they were soon cut off when their comm safety was activated after they were found by SF, preventing all contact with 16LAB.[40] Persica first talked with the Commander of Area S90 as AR Team was escaping capture after the Safe House 3 raid. Kalina introduced her since she didn't bother to do so herself and immediately tasked the new commander with investigating a database in SF territory in order to locate AR Team.[41] After they completed the mission, Persica promised to offer the Commander coffee when they would meet in person, though Helian warned that her coffee was bad and Persica's lab cold.[38] After the Commander successfully recovered AR M4A1M4A1M4A1, Persica tasked them with recovering the rest of the team[42] in her quality as AR's owner.[43] Persica later had the Commander collect Dolls parts from Area S09 to compare IOP and SF Dolls.[44] Feeling awkward about the danger AR had run into while investigating Safe House 3, Persica tried to avoid talking to M4 but the Commander tricked her by having M4 take part in one of their reports, where M4 put Persica's mind at ease.[45][46]

From the data collected during the missions, Persica revealed SF's next move, called Plan Parapluie. However, the plan went in action just as G&K commanders were convening about countermeasures for Plan Parapluie.[47] After combats died down, Persica and 16LAB were put to work to analyze and develop countermeasures to the virus.[48] When the detention center used for virus screening was attacked by Dreamer, Persica covertly deployed SMG RO635RO635RO635 without G&K's approval in order to protect M4. Despite this, M4 went catatonic after her second contact with Elisa, so Persica named RO as AR Team's temporary leader.[49] RO demonstrated more of Persica's work during the search for Dreamer, using one of her SF hacking tools based on the newly deciphered SF authorization module they had acquired in Safe House 3 to reduce the firing power of Jupiter Cannons. At the time, Persica also claimed she was searching for ways to revive AR ST AR-15ST AR-15ST AR-15 after her apparent destruction during Plan Parapluie,[50] but Persica had probably been informed by Angelia that she had already recovered and repaired AR-15 for Task Force DEFY.

Saving M4

Persica embraces AR M4A1M4A1M4A1 after she awakens from her coma.

After her second encounter with Elisa in Area S05, M4's Neural Cloud and Imprint were severely damaged.[51] In order to gather data for repairs and to continue her comparisons with SF Dolls designs, Persica ran M4's mind through dozens of battle simulations against SF, but they all ended in M4 sacrificing herself to protect other Dolls, rejecting her own worth and special status. She also blamed G&K for sending AR Team to increasingly dangerous missions, causing M4, which she considered her own child, to be exposed to Elisa.[28]

While repairing M4, Persica worked on several other projects. She was put to work on finding countermeasures to the Jupiter cannons,[52][53][54] used data from analysis on Architect to design the Heavy Ordnance Corps clustered T-Dolls,[33] and revived an abandoned 90wish drone project[28] to create the Tactical Fairies, which were field-tested by Squad 404,[55] and outfitting them with basic personalities on a whim.[56]

Kryuger also gave her back authority on AR Team, as well as over the Commander, in order to obtain results to present to the Neo-Soviet Military. Persica tasked them to recover File No. 7 at Sangvis Ferri Base 0, discovered after the Safe House 3 raid to be a critical piece in restoring Lycoris' research data.[57] While the mission was successful, Persica ordered M16A1 to secure the rest of AR's evacuation, leaving her behind.[58] This was a secret plan by Persica, who had scanned the SF servers during the mission and found files pertaining to Lyco's death she wanted M16A1 to access covertly.[25] The mission required M16A1 to gain SF authorizations by exposing herself to the Parapluie virus until she was converted into an SF unit, but Persica believed her sacrifice could also shock M4's Neural Cloud back to consciousness.[59] Having also disabled M4's personality limiters, Persica sought to make her more dependable.[3]

Project Neural Cloud

In 2063, three years after Project Neural Cloud's failure, Persica came in possession of an external backup of the project that had been spared by the data loss. Persica enlisted the help of the person who helped locate the backup and digitized their consciousness to enter the backup and open it to the external world, and reveal the reasons behind the project's failure.[13]

When first making contact with the Entropics outside Sector Pierides, the Professor had hallucinations of Persica. She mumbled “I put ten cubes in... Should I not have added so many?” and “You WILL overcome all the difficulties in your way, won't you, Commander?”[60]

SF HQ assault

Right after waking up, M4 wanted to join the final assault against SF's HQ without taking the time for performance test. Persica let her go, lending her her private helicopter to join the fight. She then contacted Angelia and hired Squad 404 to recover the drone containing the Base 0 data,[61][32] which had been shot down by Dreamer.[59] Additionally, Persica hired Angelia herself to protect M4 during the battle[32] and gave her the data necessary for further neural enhancement, which was field-performed by AR AK-12AK-12AK-12. During the mission, Angelia and Persica shared intel to decipher the intents of KCCO regarding Elisa during the operation.[16] The Base 0 data recovered by Squad 404 only showed camera footage of Lyco's dead body, but also a feasibility assessment of the reactivation of OGAS. Witkin called Persica to stop her from getting involved further in the matter,[62] considering Persica to be too critical for 16LAB and IOP's profitability, but Persica press him for information on OGAS and the Butterfly Incident. Putting together their intel, Persica and Angelia started suspecting the involvement of William in the operation.[63]

Since Persica would not give in, Witkin visited her in person to share with her new critical intel about the connections between OGAS and Lyco, and KCCO's plan to provoke a new World War.[18] After the battle, Persica took care of RO and AR M4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD II, gauging their growth after narrowly surviving the battle and upgrading SOP-II's Neural Cloud and body.[64] She also upgraded the Dinergate SOP-II had customized to host RO's Neural Cloud, who was eventually named Banana.[65] Persica also offered RO to upgrade her Neural Cloud and body, but RO chose to belay the process since she hesitated to access her own core logic sector to perform the maintenance necessary for the upgrade, fearing to find she possessed a core order and not the complete self-determination promised by Persica.[66]

Conspiracy revealed

The Commander did not contact Persica for help during the Belgrade Paradeus attacks due to the heavy surveillance put on them by Statesec,[67] but both the Commander and Persica hired Squad 404 directly during the Tallinn events, and not through Angelia as par usual since she was infiltrating the Paldiski submarine base at the time. The Commander's mission consisted in electronic warfare support, while Persica wanted them to monitor M4.[68] After months without communication, Persica contacted the Commander in Tallinn, intending to hire them to return AR Team to 16LAB, but the Commander had been warned by Witkin that Persica would eventually come to them with unreasonable demands. While Persica expected a PMC would do anything for money, the Commander was both in a strategic impossibility to return the team and unwilling to pull them from the battlefield where they strove to be. They however offered Persica observer access to their battlenet.[29]

This enabled Persica to provide new intel about the situation in the city when she found 90wish frequency algorithms in use by the Isomer gestalt mind in the city, revealing William's connection with the Paradeus faction and encouraging M4 to connect to the Isomer network in order to gather more intel. In the city, she recognized William's plans to use Epiphyllum flowers as a way to interface humans with Relic Technology,[7] then later the Inverted Forest in the Isomer network. While Persica worried that M4 might be resenting her, she was relieved to talk with her as normal when giving her her new mission.[69] However, M4's ability to survive in the Isomer's network drew William's attention, as he previously didn't think Persica's project could lead to any interesting result, discounting them as “toys” or “tin cans”.[70][71][24]

During the later stages of the Paldiski base battle, Persica was reluctantly taken out of her lab to a more secure place in an armored limousine by Witkin after he countered six attempts on her life by snipers, explosives and poisoning in the past month, all taken care of without her knowledge. Having secured a photograph of the Bundeswehr Special Technology Development Group staff in 90wish's datavaults, Witkin took the opportunity to ask Persica more information about her past at 90wish to better understand William's motives, warning Persica that should she keep more secrets from him, he would not be able to act and key people on their side could die unnecessarily. Persica then revealed Lunasia's role in the conspiracy.[2][3]

Back in Area S09

After a Statesec investigation, Persica was returned to her lab at IOP.[72] Wanting to make amend for enabling William's plan, Persica requested to talk with Dandelion about the Reverse Collapse phenomenon that teleported M4, M16 and Elisa at Paldiski, but since Dandelion could not be ordered to meet her at IOP due to her status as a free agent, Persica announced she would install a temporary lab at the Commander's base in Area S09, enabling the Commander to finally claim the coffee she had promised them when they first met.[37]

As G&K cleaned up the remnants of SF in the region, Persica requested for Ouroboros' spare bodies to be captured for analysis, and so the Commander staged a recovery operation.[73] Persica also sent RO a new body and an upgrade assistant that would help her make her decision,[66] which turned out to be an avatar for Persica to discreetly continue analyzing RO's growth until she finally gained the confidence to access her core logic and confirm her self-determining abilities. RO's deep self-questioning confirmed to Persica that her Third Generation T-Dolls could develop their own personalities with no base programming.[23]

Gallery

Trivia

  • The name of Persica's first costume, “C12H22O11”, is the general molecular formula of disaccharide, the most well-known form of sugar, such as the one Persica drowns its coffee in.
  • SG MK3A1MK3A1MK3A1 is a fan of Persica according to her quotes.
  • Persica is credited as the creator of Rice and Nico the “techno cats”, the mascots of the IOP Special Goods Departments.[74]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 3
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-5
  4. ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Glossary
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, NPC
  6. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Fractured Cognition IV
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Fractured Cognition I
  8. ↑ The first Confidential Files claims Persica left 90wish after they tried to kill her for being part of the internal faction supporting the public reveal of the group.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Confidential Files, The First Generation of Tactical Dolls
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Confidential Files, The Second Generation of Tactical Dolls
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Timeline
  12. ↑ Persica's email
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Project Neural Cloud, 0-1
  14. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Infinite Connections
  15. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Confidential Information VII
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Splinter Point 2
  17. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Confidential Information IV
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Last Resort I
  19. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Polarized Light, Blackbody Radiation I
  20. ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Persica's Email
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-3E
  22. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Continuum Turbulence, Neural Fragment
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Girls' Frontline, SMG RO635RO635RO635 Neural Upgrade Story 4
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-4
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-2E
  26. ↑ Girls' Frontline, HG PPKPPKPPK Neural Upgrade Story 2
  27. ↑ Girls' Frontline, SMG SuomiSuomiSuomi Neural Upgrade Story 4
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Girls' Frontline, Operation Cube+, Reverse Sequence
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Reunion with Old Friends
  30. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Last Resort III
  31. ↑ Girls' Frontline, AR M4A1M4A1M4A1 Neural upgrade Story 3
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 Girls' Frontline, Episode 10-1
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Girls' Frontline, Continuum Turbulence, ELID-Infected
  34. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 10-4E
  35. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 9-3
  36. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-3
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 Girls' Frontline, Dual Randomness, Departure Time IV
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-5
  39. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 0-2
  40. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 0-3
  41. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-4
  42. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-6
  43. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-1E
  44. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-4E
  45. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-2E
  46. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 2-3E
  47. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 5-1
  48. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 7-3
  49. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 7-6
  50. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 7-4E
  51. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Arctic Warfare, The Wolves Gather I
  52. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Arctic Warfare, The Wolves Gather II
  53. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Arctic Warfare, Rabbit Hole
  54. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 5-1N
  55. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Deep Dive, 1-4
  56. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 11-6
  57. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-1
  58. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-6
  59. ↑ 59.0 59.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-4E
  60. ↑ Project Neural Cloud, 5-1
  61. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Deep Dive, 1-1
  62. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Queens Gambit I
  63. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Queens Gambit II
  64. ↑ Girls' Frontline, AR M4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD II Neural Upgrade Story 2
  65. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 11-1E
  66. ↑ 66.0 66.1 Girls' Frontline, SMG RO635RO635RO635 Neural Upgrade Story 1
  67. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Isomer, Illusory Peace I
  68. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Two Jobs
  69. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Fractured Cognition II
  70. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 10-3
  71. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Confidential Information XII
  72. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Dual Randomness, Departure Time III
  73. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Dual Randomness, Operation Snake Eater I
  74. ↑ Weibo - IOP Special Goods Department teaser
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