AU backstory and intro
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>Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon 9th Generation "Thyreos": Data File
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...damn file. My name's Kanji, okay?
The Anti Shadow Weapon project might have gone quiet after Aigis' creation, but it wasn't retired entirely. After all, if one functioning robot was good, why not have a second as backup? The incident in Iwatodai disrupted the program, true, but those who had pushed for bringing the Fall took what data they could and set up a smaller project separated from the first to start work on their backup unit. One that could be more directly and easily controlled - at least, that was their hope.
Still, time and resources were not on their side, nor was the pressure of having to fly beneath the Kirijo Corporation as a whole's radar. Their progress was slowed compared to what had been.
By 2009, they had caught back up, despite a certain number of false starts. The one thing that they couldn't seem to recreate was an active, stable personality...
Out of desperation, they turned to techniques inspired by the fifth generation. The faulty AI, an imperfect copy of Aigis' mind pattern, would be augmented by a personality lifted wholesale from a donor, a young boy brought to the Tatsumi Memorial Hospital from his tiny hometown - and in an attempt to speed up that personality's development, the donor's memories would be implanted and the body reconfigured to closer resemble the donor himself (from its originally feminine design).
With word of the project's coordinator's death, things fell somewhat into disarray - but they pushed on, regardless. Perhaps their efforts would not be in vain?
Their mechanical youth was activated successfully, eventually. He showed a personality from the very first second, and was quickly given a name to match his sisters'.
Unfortunately, the personality they would get? Overwhelmed by what he was experiencing, refusing to believe he was a machine, more than a little unwilling to cooperate - and most of all, loud. Not entirely hostile, but not the loyal and controllable unit they had hoped for. Past that, completely unwilling to accept the name they placed on him...
Thyreos? No. He was Kanji Tatsumi, dammit.
During Mitsuru's takeover of the corporation and the establishment of the Shadow Ops, what had happened was discovered: he was offered the chance to go home. Desperate to return to what he saw as his old life, he took it, arriving on his mother's doorstep to her shock and surprise: and with a lot of explanations accompanying him.
But was it his life he was returning to? It'd take him a long time to work that out - and a little trip into the world of his own psyche to bring it home.
>...
>Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon 9th Generation "Thyreos": Data File
>...
...damn file. My name's Kanji, okay?
The Anti Shadow Weapon project might have gone quiet after Aigis' creation, but it wasn't retired entirely. After all, if one functioning robot was good, why not have a second as backup? The incident in Iwatodai disrupted the program, true, but those who had pushed for bringing the Fall took what data they could and set up a smaller project separated from the first to start work on their backup unit. One that could be more directly and easily controlled - at least, that was their hope.
Still, time and resources were not on their side, nor was the pressure of having to fly beneath the Kirijo Corporation as a whole's radar. Their progress was slowed compared to what had been.
By 2009, they had caught back up, despite a certain number of false starts. The one thing that they couldn't seem to recreate was an active, stable personality...
Out of desperation, they turned to techniques inspired by the fifth generation. The faulty AI, an imperfect copy of Aigis' mind pattern, would be augmented by a personality lifted wholesale from a donor, a young boy brought to the Tatsumi Memorial Hospital from his tiny hometown - and in an attempt to speed up that personality's development, the donor's memories would be implanted and the body reconfigured to closer resemble the donor himself (from its originally feminine design).
With word of the project's coordinator's death, things fell somewhat into disarray - but they pushed on, regardless. Perhaps their efforts would not be in vain?
Their mechanical youth was activated successfully, eventually. He showed a personality from the very first second, and was quickly given a name to match his sisters'.
Unfortunately, the personality they would get? Overwhelmed by what he was experiencing, refusing to believe he was a machine, more than a little unwilling to cooperate - and most of all, loud. Not entirely hostile, but not the loyal and controllable unit they had hoped for. Past that, completely unwilling to accept the name they placed on him...
Thyreos? No. He was Kanji Tatsumi, dammit.
During Mitsuru's takeover of the corporation and the establishment of the Shadow Ops, what had happened was discovered: he was offered the chance to go home. Desperate to return to what he saw as his old life, he took it, arriving on his mother's doorstep to her shock and surprise: and with a lot of explanations accompanying him.
But was it his life he was returning to? It'd take him a long time to work that out - and a little trip into the world of his own psyche to bring it home.
