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Name: Siz
Personal LJ: rinnington
Contact Info: You got it.
Other Characters Played: America, redscareandblue
Preferred Housing: TBD
Character Name: Goes by Nono, no last name to speak of.
Character Series: Diebuster / Aim for the Top 2
Character Age: Over 10,000, but her memory doesn't go back more a few years. Physically looks like a young woman, I'll say 17.
Background: Spoilers in both links
Diebuster Wikipedia Entry
More Detailed Background
Diebuster is a sequel to Gunbuster set thousands of years in humanity's future, where humanity has colonized the planets and moons of the solar system and possesses powerful space travel technology, but attacks from strange artificial beings known as Space Monsters keep humanity from traveling beyond the boundaries of the solar system. The most effective force fighting the space monsters are the Fraternity, a group of psychic teens called the Topless whose powers allow them to pilot Buster Machines. Just like the space monsters, no one knows where the Topless came from, but they are believed to be an advanced form of humanity's evolution. Topless powers disappear at some point upon leaving adolescence.
Nono is an android with mysterious origins who appears determined to become a heroic space pilot, which she calls a Nonoriri. Although her efforts are seen as laughable to the Fraternity's members, she appears to have a strange effect on space monsters and Buster Machines. The series will explore what Nono is and her abilities, but is primarily about how Nono affects those around her and what it means to be a Nonoriri.
I'll be taking her from after episode 3.
Personality: Contains spoilers. Nono is a very strange girl, but her particular brand of strangeness tends to touch those around her. Her most obvious personality trait is her drive to become like Nonoriri. Nonoriri is based on Noriko, a space pilot from long ago whose story Nono only recalls in fragments. This has translated to Nono treating Nonoriri as some sort of ideal example of heroism. Nono believes that a Nonoriri is a person who, despite only being ordinary herself, is able to use hard work and guts to transform herself into whatever she wishes to be. But a Nonoriri strives to be a hero, and works not only to protect humanity but also simply to make people happy.
Even though Nono's quest to become like Nonoriri is laughable to almost everyone around her, she takes it completely seriously, and truly believes that effort, guts, and noble intentions are all that a person needs to achieve their dreams and accomplish great things. Nono is unwilling to let anything stop her from following her dream, to the point of ignoring when she's told that some things are impossible for her. She leaves her home in the country, despite being very happy there, because she's not willing to give up. She continues to insist that she'll become a space pilot even after being told by every person at her work that it takes many years and is nearly impossible to accomplish, especially for a clumsy girl who can't even make money at her job. When Lal'C tells her that she'll never fight alongside her because she is not a Topless and therefore cannot power a Buster Machine, Nono determinedly continues to follow Lal'C, trying to join her organization, become a Topless, and get a Buster Machine of her own. Eventually, she makes a weeks long journey out to Pluto simply to find a Buster Machine she believes against all the facts that she'll be able to awaken. Although most people find Nono amusing or stupid because of this drive, in the end, she's proven to be correct when willpower and determination is enough for her to awaken a Buster Machine: herself.
Her Nonoriri sensibilities do not merely extend to herself. When she meets a person whom she considers to be like Nonoriri in some way, she develops expectations that they will behave like she believes Nonoriri would. When Lal'C helps rescue her and proves to be a space pilot, Nono is immediately devoted to her and believes her to be a heroic Nonoriri in the truest sense. She can't believe it when Lal'C refuses to save a crashing spaceship for her own reasons, and insists Lal'C do what a heroic Nonoriri would do. The only time Nono is seen to be truly angry is when another space pilot, Tycho, fails to live up to Nono's impossible standards. When children ask Tycho to make it snow on Jupiter, Tycho says it's impossible and claims it's not a Topless's job to make people happy. Nono is furious with her and insists that a person like Tycho does not deserve a Buster Machine and will not be able to awaken one. However, once Tycho does awaken a Buster Machine, she a Nono begin to understand one another better, and Nono's anger disappears entirely.
This is one of Nono's best qualities-- her impossible standards and utmost belief that the people she admires will live up to them actually does inspire those around her to try. Lal'C, who began the series a good person but also selfish and egotistical, becomes a person who is truly good-natured and happy with herself through friendship with Nono. Tycho, a cynical and callous girl, comes to terms with the pain driving her actions and begins to agree with Nono's vision of what she should be. Not everyone is positively affected by Nono, but she seems to bring out better qualities in many people she comes to know.
Although she's often seen talking in an over-inflated manner and takes herself very seriously, Nono is also a goofy and cheerful girl. When she's not making an overdramatic speech about Nonoriri, she's usually very happy and excitable. She finds joy in very simple things like playing in the snow, looking at pictures of birds, or getting invited to a friend's house. When she feels loyalty and friendship to someone, she loves them absolutely, even if she's disappointed in them. She is almost never truly angry, and although she frequently feels discouraged or overwhelmed by her inability to achieve her goals, she never remains that way for long. Instead she'll rally and come up with a new plan to get there.
Despite always aiming for the top, Nono also, deep down, wants to be ordinary. This isn't in the sense of a person who never accomplishes anything, but rather a person who isn't special and is free to enjoy simply things in life and choose her own destiny. She is drawn to Lal'C so much not just because of her heroism but also because Lal'C is an ordinary girl. Although her Buster Machine 7 memories are gone, Nono knows deep down that she's not quite the same as Lal'C. She wants to have simple things and a simple life and share friendship with people. The only time Nono is truly sad before becoming Buster Machine 7 is when she feels left out of the group and not liked or respected by Lal'C. After becoming Buster Machine 7, Nono is actually frequently sad, because she realizes just how far away she is from being like Lal'C and also like Nonoriri-- unlike Nono, Nonoriri was not special or built as a powerful machine-- and feels that she has lost her connection with her former friends. Her deepest wish, in the end, was not to save the universe, but rather to go to earth with Lal'C and stay over at her house like an ordinary girl would have been able to do.
But Nono, even with her simple desires and her goofiness, is a very brave, strong, and good-hearted person on her own terms, even without Nonoriri. She would rather run from battle and be despised than allow Lal'C to die, but she is also perfectly willing to accept her own death in order to protect the universe. Her perseverance against the odds means that even as simply Nono, she's willing to risk her life and try to fight a space monster to protect someone, and although she fears for her friends and for others, she never seems to be afraid for herself.
Abilities: She is a robot! However, she acts mainly human-- she eats, sleeps, eats and drinks, and feels pain-- and also physically appears to be human down to having a beating heart. Being a robot means that she doesn't have to do things like eat or breathe, and she can apparently survive quite a bit, including traveling through a planet's atmosphere and going into space.
Physically, Nono seems ordinary but is probably quite strong. This only really manifests itself through clumsiness. Nono is clumsy to superhuman levels; she has a tendency to 'split' things, which is exactly what it sounds like. Completely by accident, she is prone to splitting things in half, including plates, frying pans, and an industrial grade refrigeration.
In fact, Nono is not merely a robot with an advanced AI. She was created in order to defend the solar system from space monsters. Her powers as this defense system, Buster Machine 7, are off the charts and are probably not regainable in Mayfield without considerable nerfing. During the canonpoint I'm taking her from, these powers are dormant, so shouldn't be an issue, but I'll describe them here anyway.
She has a singularity built inside her that allows her to warp and to create black holes. She has laser canons on her legs and the ability to absorb energy blasts. She can use attacks like other Buster Machines, such as Buster Beam and Inazuma Kick (a depowered version of which Nono is able to use before being awakened as a Buster Machine).
She commands a fleet of intelligent component parts, which without Nono had been considered a vast hive of space monsters capable of threatening humanity and enclosing humanity within the solar system for thousands of years. They obey Nono's commands, and this power isn't actually dormant, Nono is simply not aware of it. For example, in the first episode, the 'space monster,' actually one of these units, takes Nono into space after she shouts that she intends to go into space.
These component parts can also be brought together to form larger creatures and Diebuster, a very powerful Nono shaped robot larger than earth.
Sample Entry: Here. Entries on the journal being used aren't by me, however.