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Shaw
Shaw
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Full name Shaw
Affiliation Neo-Soviet Union
Voice actor -TBA-
Artist Unknown
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Doctor Samantha Shaw (萨曼莎·肖博士)[1] is a weapons designer who created the members of Task Force DEFY for Statesec. She is first mentioned in Mirror Stage and first appeared in AR AN-94AN-94AN-94 and AR AK-15AK-15AK-15's Neural Upgrade stories.

Background

Shaw was born in 2009 in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Krai, Russian Federation, as Yekaterina Vasilievna Petrovskaya, nicknamed “Katya”. She had an older sister, Sofya Vasilievna Petrovskaya, born in 2001. Their father, Vasily Petrovsky, was a priest. Yekaterina had a passion for flying machines as early as 4th grade, and built her own hang glider in middle-school.[2] In 2028, Yekaterina graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation and joined the Air Force, where she was assigned to the helicopter rescue squadron Golden Jackal. She participated in rescues in the Far East during the Beilan Island Incident in 2030 and received commendations in 2032.[3] In 2031, Sofya disappeared to join the Pandora Anti-Relic Organization.

In 2034, she was admitted to the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy,[4] where she met Persica. Despite their widely different opinions regarding technology and science, they remained friends for decades.[5] Three years later, Yekaterina received a Master of Science degree in Automation and Advanced Mechanical Engineering, and joined the Neo-Soviet Military. The same year, Sofya was arrested after kidnapping Relics Agency members. When Yekaterina visited her sister in prison, she told her that Pandora's actions were useless, and that she would steer mankind away from the Relics by creating feats of engineering that would replace Relic Technology.[4] In 2045, she joined Statesec and took the alias Samantha Shaw. The initials, SS, stood for “Special Standard”.[6]

Wolf Pack

In 2048, Shaw was one of the Statesec scientists who rejected “Project 3M86”. She however suggested an alternative project to replace it.[6] In 2054, the Wolf Pack Project started under Shaw's lead[7] in Statesec's Moscow labs. The aim of the project was to produce a pair of extremely high-specs Tactical Dolls, a combat specialist paired with a tactical command unit. Angelia, a personal friend of Shaw, would take command of the unit, named Wolf Pack.[8][9] This was the first Doll project Shaw had ever participated in.[1] Shaw would integrate her own piece of optical equipment, the Wolf Eye System, into the Wolf Pack units.[10]

Shaw's opposition to the use of Relic Technology was her motivation for Wolf Pack. She wanted to create "pure" Dolls that didn't rely on the Relic technology introduced by Arthur Hume, and prove that mankind could create military technology that could rival those created by Relic technology, without its inherent dangers.[11] Shaw began by creating a prototype unit, dubbed AR AN-94AN-94AN-94. AN-94 was meant to remain in the labs to gather data through test combat and to never fight under real conditions, but Shaw never explained this to AN-94, who believed she was the first member of the Wolf Pack. A few months later, Shaw built what she considered her ultimate creation, the combat expert AR AK-15AK-15AK-15, Wolf Pack Unit 1.

Only two days after being rolled out, AK-15 was deployed in a counter-terrorist operation with a group of Griffin & Kryuger Dolls and single-handedly crushed all enemy resistance. When AN-94 learned through the Griffin Dolls that her successor had already been deployed, she confronted Shaw, who was convinced by Angelia to properly explain her role to AN-94.[12] Unwilling to remain a prototype and never fight in real operations, AN-94 asked AK-15 for a duel in order to prove her worth, but she was squarely beaten due to AK-15's overwhelming specs advantage. Shaw scolded AN-94 for provoking the fight and regretted making her too human. Shaw's rejection and her inability to best AK-15 drove AN-94 into the Doll equivalent of depression.

After the incident between AN-94 and AK-15, Ange attempted to talk with Shaw about the human side of Dolls and the negative impact of her rejection on AN-94, but Shaw refused any conversation on the topic. While Shaw surmised that AK-15's brute strength was sufficient to handle any mission, Ange put forward that a Doll capable of leadership and tactical flexibility would be able to surpass her. Ange successfully provoked Shaw into putting serious efforts into Unit 2 to prove AK-15's superiority. Ange also suggested Shaw listens to an upcoming lecture from Persica. At the time, Shaw also put out improvement proposals for Assault Artillery platforms and disputed a game of correspondence chess with her financial backer and friend.[8]

DEFY

Despite her initial reluctance, Shaw took part in Persica's lecture but found her vision for third-generation Dolls naive. Shaw believed that trying to give freedom to Dolls was hypocritical because humans themselves are not free. Instead, Shaw argued that Dolls would become more human if they were granted “defiance”.[10]

Ignoring AN-94's case, Shaw worked on Wolf Pack Unit 2, the tactical command Doll AR AK-12AK-12AK-12.[10] On 12 February 2062,[8] soon after AK-12 was rolled out, she was put in command of AK-15 and the Wolf Pack was deployed to Kemerovo to deal with an hostage situation. However, a clash of characters between 12 and 15 led to mixed results and the operation became known as Incident Zero.[10] After the incident, 12 provoked 15 to a duel and managed to overcome her brute strength with her tactical acumen, proving Angelia right. Shaw watched over the duel and did not scold 12 for provoking it.[13]

Incident Zero negatively impacted the reputation of the Wolf Pack Project[14] and 12 refused to work with 15 any longer, instead claiming AN-94 as her partner.[9] Angelia was put in charge of this modified Wolf Pack and went on many successful operations, repairing the reputational damage caused by Incident Zero. 94 was retroactively designated as Unit 1, 15 as Unit 2 and 12 as Unit 3.[14]

With the originally planned members of Wolf Pack refusing to work together, Shaw decided to create a fourth Doll, who would partner with AK-15 and enable her preferred approach to combat, but would also embody her idea of a Doll meant to “defy”.[14] Shaw repurposed her AI assistant Nadia to create this new Doll[11] and called Wolf Pack Unit 4 “Pandora”, formally named MG RPK-16RPK-16RPK-16.[14] Not only did RPK-16 inherit Nadia's authority over DEFY (though she never made use of it),[11] Shaw purposely omitted the programming preventing her to attack humans,[15] thus offering her the choice of “defiance”.[16] Accordingly, Shaw changed the name of the squad to Task Force DEFY.[14]

At that point, the Prometheans, who had been relying on Relic technology for mankind's advancement, started to regard Shaw's project as a potential threat to their plans.[11] In 2062, StateSec officially shelved the Wolf Pack Project,[7] and Shaw was assassinated shortly before finalizing RPK-16. In her dying words, she ordered Nadia to ask Persica to complete RPK-16.[17] Her death was disguised as a mysterious disappearance. Nadia witnessed the murder but chose not to inform the rest of DEFY until she could identify the culprit.[11] Shaw's body, verified authentic by DNA analysis, was only discovered in the morgue of the Khovrinskaya Hospital of Moscow in the last months of 2064.[5]

Shaw left behind some tentative enhancement blueprints that were used to provide an upgrade to AN-94 and AK-15 after they were destroyed by Paradeus in Berlin in 2064.[18] As part of her adoption of human traits, Embla took Shaw's original family name for herself.[19]

Character Info

“ Can that woman even die? She's a Cossack AND a Slav! Someone who plays bowling with Goliaths! ”

Shaw is noted to be quite tall. Her research assistant at the Statesec labs was an R&D IA named Nadia.[1] In a similar manner to Persica with coffee and sugar, Shaw was a chain-smoker of low-grade tobacco cigarettes and kept her lab in a constant mess.[1]

Unlike Persica, Shaw was a weapons scientist and not an IA or Dolls scientist. As such, she considered Dolls to be mere robots who should be absolutely obedient to humans.[10][12] Shaw's opinion was that Dolls should never be confused with humans, or they would become real-life Frankenstein monsters.[7] For this reason, Persica called her “more an artisan than a scientist”.[5] Nevertheless, Shaw felt compelled to make her creations more human due to scientific curiosity and the need to prove her vision of the future of Doll technology. Shaw's high expectations and harsh attitude caused many complicated feelings among DEFY members. Shaw herself was unsettled by AK-12's peculiar behavior at times.[13]

Shaw was a friend of Angelia, calling her “Anna” and provided her with her mechanical arm. Ange found the design too clunky but Shaw would not be bothered to change it, calling it Slav aesthetics. Like Persica, Ange disagreed on Shaw's perception of Dolls, insisting that they were more than weapons.[14] Ange considered Shaw one of the rare persons even more hard-headed than her.[8] Persica called both Shaw and Ange “aggravating, but not detestable”.[5] Shaw was also allied with Griffin Lyons and thus likely part of the Promethean Rossartrists at some point.[20]

Gallery

  • Shaw in 2037.
    Shaw in 2037.
  • Shaw in 2018.
    Shaw in 2018.

Trivia

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Girls' Frontline, AR AN-94AN-94AN-94 Neural Upgrade Story 1
  2. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Death of an Airman I
  3. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Death of an Airman II
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Death of an Airman III
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Knulp
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Death of an Airman IV
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Death of an Airman V
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Girls' Frontline, AR AN-94AN-94AN-94 Neural Upgrade Story 3
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Girls' Frontline, AR AN-94AN-94AN-94 Neural Upgrade Story 4
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Girls' Frontline, AR AK-15AK-15AK-15 Neural Upgrade Story 1
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, The Fog Horn
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Girls' Frontline, AR AN-94AN-94AN-94 Neural Upgrade Story 2
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Girls' Frontline, AR AK-15AK-15AK-15 Neural Upgrade Story 3
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Girls' Frontline, AR AK-15AK-15AK-15 Neural Upgrade Story 4
  15. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Mirror Stage, Möbius Strip
  16. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Fixed Point, E4-10
  17. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Death of an Airman V
  18. ↑ Girls' Frontline, AR AK-15AK-15AK-15 Neural Upgrade Story 2
  19. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Zero Charge, Oppressive Tango
  20. ↑ Girls' Frontline, Mirror Stage, Balls and Vase
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