Application to Siren's Pull
Player Information
Name: Kal
Age: 21
AIM SN: walkthedawn
email: otherpromise@gmail.com
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Ergo Proxy
Canon Format: Anime
Character's Name: Re-l Mayer // Re-l124c41
Character's Age: 19
What form will your character's NV take? Re-l Mayer's communicator will be her notepad that she uses to compile her notes and flip through various pages of work. She can send pages to other books with the flick of a finger and can edit notes with a touch, or with her tablet pen. There will be an earpiece device that comes along with it for audio reasons.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: None that have been confirmed. Re-l Mayer is speculated to possess an infusion of Amrita Cells from the Proxy called Monad, which means that she can survive most near-death experiences by slowly healing, and that most illnesses will just be destroyed as she encounters them in her body. She may get sick, but her Amrita cells will slowly break the sickness down.
It is also heavily speculated that Re-l has a womb of her own since she is considered to be the "Eve" of Earth's new regime, now that everyone except her and Vincent have died. Several allusions are made throughout the series, but nothing is fully stated.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Because she has no real "canon" abilities, she's going to grow like the other Monad clone created in Ergo Proxy's universe, the one that resembles her.
Monad clone went from being a normal clone with solely Amrita cells to a Proxy reincarnation. Amrita cells are the cells within a Proxy's body and are supposedly "immortal". However, that's far from true. Proxies can kill each other, and sunlight totally destroys Amrita cells. Monad's clone, after exposure to Vincent, fully evolved into her Proxy form, which was a girl with white hair and white wings. While she's never shown in combat, she probably regained her strength, speed, and perpetual healing.
Re-l will be growing in a very similar manner, but not nearly as powerful. She will gain Monad's strength and speed as a Proxy as well as her regenerative powers.. While Re-l won't gain a monster form (instead producing wings), she'll be capable of breaking glass with ease and can put quite a large dent in something like stone or concrete. The speed of a Proxy depends on which one it is, but most are capable of spanning short distances in seconds. Monad's true Proxy form is capable of running through a mall's main area and kill several people in a matter of seconds. Re-l will be of a similar speed.
C+P from thereforeproxy's application, for better explanation:
☇Inhuman speed: Proxies can apparently move faster than the human eyes can see, and apparently for sustained periods of time.
☇Inhuman strength: It be hard to say exactly what their limit is, but proxies have been shown to leave dents in cement with their bare hands alone. They can also bend steel at least also with bare hands.
☇And together these mean inhuman agility. Proxies are ridiculously coordinated even at high speeds, able to dodge and flip in mid air.
☇Force field: They seem to be able to throw out a burst of energy from themselves that can at least shatter glass. This seems to flow like a shockwave from their body in one direction. It’s like a blast and not refined.
☇Limb regeneration.
→Proxies are also given two forms: that of the god and that of a human. The change between the two forms seems to be intrinsically tied to the proxy's mental state.
→Proxies also seem possess an ability to sense one another, even if they are in human form.
∟ Though Amrita cells are the source of a proxy's god-like physiology they are also it's Achilles heel. As mentioned sunlight destroys the cells, or to be more exact it's likely the UV radiation is what kills the cells given that's what seems to be in the FP bullets. Monad's second clone literally burns up when exposed to unfiltered sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere.
Since Re-l has been coming into her Amrita cells, prolonged exposure to sunlight will make her feel weak and dizzy. However, no amount of sunlight will expressly kill her unless in the form of the FP shells.
Weapons: A shotgun, loaded, and a small handgun. She also possesses one, single FP Ray bullet, capable of killing a Proxy.
Items: Short telescope, book-communicator, make-up, flashlight, and heavy coat.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Re-l's beginnings are up for speculation. While she possesses the body and mind of a nineteen-year-old woman, it's clear by the end of the series that she is a human clone of Monad, the Proxy of Mosque. When attempting to make a clone of a Proxy, they only came up with a human girl with little resemblance to her "mother", and so they hurried to cover up their tracks. Believing she would be of use, they put her in the hands of a young physician named Daedalus Yumeno. She was told that she was the Regent's granddaughter to cover up all traces of her true identity and past, and she lived a cultured, healthy, and happy young childhood. She believed Daedalus to be her best friend, that her grandfather truly cared for her, and that she was allowed anything she wanted.
She grew to be nineteen quickly; her life changed so fast that she went from being the happy and carefree young girl to being a mature, spoiled, and proactive young woman. The Regent and his Entourages gave her Iggy, another Entourage specifically designed to supervise her and keep her company, so that she would be monitored by them at all times. Of course, this only made her more rebellious. Her grandfather had begun to tighten his leash on what she could and could not do - meetings with him always ended in her being criticized by his Entourages - and she reacted as any teenager would. She detested any control he attempted to have over her and instead insisted that she be treated like a true citizen and someone in control of her own destiny.
In response, they allowed her to have a job in the Investigation Bureau and she was sent to look into any small troubles around the city. Her main job was to investigate the new immigrants from other cities who came to Romdeau searching for a job and a new life. She would fully investigate their histories, their motives, and would try to integrate them best into society. It was here that she met Vincent Law, a man she described as a man who could be a true citizen. He had an honest face and was too wrapped up in being a fellow citizen that he didn't know what he wanted. He got a job as an AutoReiv Disposal Unit, taking care of infected AutoReivs. Re-l was looking into the same thing, investigating the Cogito Virus and why the Chief of Security kept being replaced with new people all the time.
One day, investigating an infected AutoReiv, Re-l came across the Monad Proxy that had escaped from its prison. Attacked, but unharmed, she began looking into the creature. The Regent had Iggy's records stripped of the event and that night, she was cornered by another Proxy... Proxy One, Ergo Proxy. He cornered her in her bathroom, and was then attacked by Monad Proxy. Left alone and shaken, Re-l was taken to get a physical and psychiatric evaluation. The Regent and his Entourages encouraged her to take time off, telling her that she saw no monsters and denying any claim otherwise. Angered, she was taken to see Daedalus for her evaluation, and she uncovered the word "Proxy". As she further tried to look into Vincent Law and the circumstances involving another Proxy attack, she tried to corner him for questioning. Instead, he left Romdeau with another infected AutoReiv, Pino, and left her to suffer the consequences of her emotional outbursts involving Vincent. In Romdeau, showing emotion is considered detrimental, and Re-l only succeeded in angering them further.
Re-l took her leave of Romdeau, with Daedalus' help, to look for Vincent. She found him, as well as several others, outside and thriving despite the utter chaos of the wasteland. Re-l's breathing suit, which kept her from being infected by the poisonous atmosphere, was broken when several armed patrols attacked the people. She began to suffer the effects of the atmosphere, succumbing to it. Hoodie, a man who lived in the small town and the one who helped Vincent, took her back to the city for Daedalus to help. He injected her with an infusion of human and Amrita Cells, giving her a new advantage to the outside and to any other injuries she'd encounter. But as she began to recover, there was an attempt on her life from several Cogito-infected AutoReivs, and while she was nearly mortally wounded, she was revived both by Daedalus and her own new Amrita Cells. He gave her the FP bullets and sent her out with Iggy to retrieve the Proxy. It didn't take them long to find them, and Vincent openly admitted that he was a Proxy. Disbelieving, Re-l wanted to follow him, and they only succeeded in encountering another Proxy and an infected AutoReiv. She used one of her bullets to kill the Proxy, and she sent Iggy back to Romdeau with the body. She would follow Vincent instead.
But Iggy didn't go. Instead, he stayed and told her he'd never leave her behind; Re-l realized he was infected with the Cogito Virus. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her on the ship they used, but the infected AutoReiv attempted to kill her. Iggy sacrificed himself in her stead, despite all of his cruel words to her. She destroyed the rest of him so he wouldn't have to suffer from his feelings any longer. She joined Vincent and Pino on The Rabbit, the airship, and they took off elsewhere. They found another city, and yet another Proxy, and quickly escaped with some supplies and food. They encountered another Proxy, MCQ, who caught them in a game show, challenging Vincent on his knowledge of the world and other Proxies. Successful, Vincent walked away unscathed while the other Proxy was killed... Unfortunately, all of Romdeau was capable of seeing that show. Raul realized Pino was there and alive, and Daedalus saw that Re-l was okay.
They moved on in their search for Mosque, but were delayed by several days because The Rabbit ran on wind power and there was no breeze that whole time. But when the wind caught up, they found a set of caves that was inhabited by survivors of the original corrosive attack on the environment. Unfortunately, they're bent-over creatures who could only live in toxic caves. Exposure to the outside, fresh air, was harmful to them. Disenchanted, they left, only to watch as a missile came down and destroyed something in the distance: the Mosque Dome. Exploring what was left of the dome, Re-l found the room which the Monad Proxy had once inhabited, and Ergo Proxy took steps to keep Vincent unaware of his true form and past. They made quick time back to Romdeau, but Vincent decided to leave them just before they entered the city, forcing Re-l to follow right after him.
Romdeau, while they were gone, had practically collapsed. AutoReivs were all infected by the Cogito Virus and had been going crazy. The society had completely fallen through; without AutoReivs, no one knew how to act or how to go on with their lives. Raul had tried to recreate people without the need for Proxies, and in doing so had completely destroyed their carefully placed society. Re-l searched everywhere for Vincent, seeing only his shadow on the walls as though he was watching for her as well. Daedalus found her, but he too had begun to crack. Without her, he had created another Re-l called "Re-l 2" or "Real". She was a true clone of Monad who had been able to take the soul of the Proxy inside of her. Daedalus latched onto her as though he would to Re-l and treated her like his new Re-l, regarding the real one as a "traitor". He revealed that it was the Regent who tried to have her killed, not Raul, and she went to confront her grandfather on the matter.
Instead of gaining an answer, Vincent had arrived before her in his Ergo Proxy form, killing her grandfather in front of her, despite her pleas. Raul stepped in and shot Vincent with an FP bullet, but he survived by ripping off his arm where the bullet had gone in. Raul and Vincent both left Re-l there, where Kristeva, Raul's AutoReiv, came to help her. She left soon after; Real showed up, along with Daedalus, and it was then she realized that her true purpose was to be the bait for Ergo Proxy to return. She was his Monad. Surely he would come back if she was there. And so he did, as Vincent Law. But, as the Regent's Entourages revealed, Re-l still had to find another great truth...and so she did.
When Vincent returned, still as Ergo Proxy, she revealed that there was another, the real Ergo Proxy, who was orchestrating the entire downfall of the domes and humans. When he had realized his true purpose was to wipe out the rest of the Proxies and then himself in order for the Creators to return and reinhabit the earth, he struck out and attempted to defy his fate, wiping out all of the humans instead. Vincent fought him and attempted to stop him, to defy his own fate; Re-l went to stop the manual destruction of the dome that Daedalus was causing on his own. She confronted him, and he admitted that it was all because he knew they were doomed to fail and die, and that Re-l and the Regent were too focused on Ergo Proxy to care for anyone else. All he wanted was someone to really care for him. Real, Monad's clone, flew by overhead and Daedalus made to chase after her; he was crushed by falling debris in the process. Re-l comforted him and apologized for her cruelty, leaving him when he instructed her to. She made her way outside and was saved by Pino, Kristeva, and The Rabbit.
Vincent had changed his own pulse, his own fate, and was now Ergo Proxy...the agent of death to the Creators. And they were ready to face the world together.
Point in Canon: Post-canon.
Character Personality:
One might think that Re-l Mayer should be more than just an ordinary girl, but the truth is that she isn't; being a clone of a Proxy does not make her any less of a human. While her youth was extremely short, there is no evidence to say that she did not go through the standard emotional and physical stages of life, allowing her to be shaped into a perfectly functional person with no outstanding flaws to speak of. As a child, she is happy and privileged, curious of the world around her, kind, and caring. Because life changes so quickly for her even before the series begins, it's easy to see how she becomes someone selfish and arrogant, even almost cruel, at the beginning of the series.
On the surface, Re-l is a cool and collected young woman, selfish but no less curious than she was as a child. Her outward kindness from her youth has practically disappeared as per Romdeau's ordinance that emotions are signs of weakness. Spurned from her grandfather's love and denied of a true family, she has tried to grow up to fit the standards of Romdeau and to become a perfect citizen. While she is not necessarily a black sheep by those standards (more of an oddball, at best), she is still regarded as someone inherently different from the rest of the citizens. This, too, reflects upon her personality; she is shown to be both dismissive of others and skeptical of their ability to help at all.
Because of this, she has internalized the idea that no one is like her and that no one else will understand or be as perfect as her. This is an idea fueled by Daedalus and Iggy (the former who calls her perfect, the latter who calls her a "Princess") and ultimately leads to her calloused behavior and cruelty to those around her. She rejects their notion of normalcy and embraces her own. While she can easily mask her emotions around others, she also does not take great pains to hide her displeasure or her disgust, acting out like a spoiled child. The citizens of Romdeau treat her with respect when she is in control and in charge but most of them are more than happy to speak to her as though she's no more than a little girl when she's ultimately down and out. The exceptions to this are the immigrants who call her "Your Excellency" and treat her like royalty. She is a figure for the Regent and is no less in their eyes despite how cruelly she treats them. Her reputation always precedes her.
When she leaves the dome, she becomes disillusioned to its effectiveness as a controlled society and sees it only as a people who are hiding from the light and from the truth. Iggy's revelation that he finds her selfish and useless without him becomes the catalyst for her change, alerting her as to how people feel about her. He may have been infected with the Cogito Virus, but it was a part of how he truly felt. She takes his words to heart and begins to try and reshape herself, casting off the mask of a selfish and perfect individual.
As the series progresses, Re-l's outward iciness melts enough to show that she has meaningful feelings that she simply hides away because it's expected of her. While this does not make her a particularly kind and gentle person to strangers, it does allow her to show some modicum of care and concern, even benevolence, to the people she has grown to be fond of. She struggles to see emotion as a strength and not a weakness; she tries to accept that life is more about the journey and less about how comfortable you are through that journey; she wants to understand everything. She demonstrates a great resourcefulness and rationality that counteracts Vincent's idealistic and pessimistic dual natures. Re-l approaches situations with logic and sees things as opportunity; Vincent encounters trouble and tries not to let it drag him down. His idealism and optimistic behavior under fortunate circumstances has helped to ground her and has allowed her to have better faith in herself and the people around her.
Because the truth is her raison d'être, it rules her life first and foremost. Spiritual and emotional awakening can kill lesser individuals, and that's exactly what happens in Romdeau. Only a select few, Re-l included, are capable of embracing the change without losing themselves. She understands that everyone's truth is different and that it must be discovered, not told. She becomes more aware of her world's truth, the secret behind Vincent, and her own origin with a great deal of suffering, but time and again she has proven that she can handle it and can grow from what she seen.
Her connection to the Monad Proxy is not entirely without consequence upon who she is. Monad has been called in some translations the "Harbinger of Rebirth" to counteract against Ergo Proxy's "Agent of Death". Her kindness, acceptance, and wish to alleviate the pain and suffering of others is something not entirely seen in Re-l Mayer, but the human woman does show other similarities. Re-l accepts the pain and burden of others onto herself and when Romdeau is destroyed, she is the only one who can carry on as their voice and as their vessel. She stands beside Vincent as a comrade, a friend, and as something that even she cannot describe in words. She has unconsciously taken Monad's place as his alleviator and his confidant. She may not be as wholly generous as Monad is but she is still someone who wants to see Vincent rise to the occasion, who wants to see him be his own person. She wants to see the real person that he is, not the shadow of what he's supposed to be. To that end, she will do whatever possible to set him free from the shackles that bind him to fate and to obligation.
Re-l Mayer still has inherent flaws in her personality, of course. She has grown too used to Romdeau's extravagances to fully accept the conditions around her. She grows used to the change, of course, but it is with a begrudging attitude. She also does not readily accept people despite all that's happened. Iggy, Daedalus, her grandfather, and Vincent have all betrayed her; how can she extend herself again to a stranger's kindness if she cannot trust the people once closest to her? It is this sort of attitude that she still clings to, something she puts forth with her controlled mask when she speaks to people she's never met before.
Character Plans: Re-l has become disillusioned to Romdeau, to the domes, and to all authority that doesn't first understand the meaning of life. She will attempt to reconstruct her life again, taking a job as a bounty hunter and collecting intelligence in order to fully assess the world. She will attempt to create either a neutral Intelligence Bureau, or act on her own to gather what she needs. She will protect Daedalus, and perhaps end up joining SERO, but probably only to spy on them.
Appearance/PB: Here
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
And so this is to be our new home, a dark and unsanitary city in the middle of nowhere. It's a not a dome, at the very least. I can be grateful for that. But still...it's lacking. What sort of world made by the Creators can be so devoid of technology. Even Romdeau was better than this.
[A sigh.]
Oh well. Beggars can't be choosers, right? This world is a start, and that's all that matters.
[A soft groan is heard in the background, and then the loud blast of a gun.]
I could do without the monsters, though.
Third Person Sample
The world had changed.
That much was obvious the moment Re-l Mayer had taken one step into Romdeau after weeks, months, of being away. The dome's flood vents were open - broken, actually - and free to the open air. People were being poisoned even then, but no one had done a thing about it. Why? Why hadn't anyone even tried to help? What was going on?
And Vincent... That bastard left her. Became Ergo Proxy and darted away like hell was on his heels. What had gotten into him?
She had to hurry. She moved over the large pieces of broken metal and pulled her jacket around her, moving down the hall into Romdeau's alley corridors. The air was thick with smoke and fire as she made her way out of the vent up the stairs, out into the city. Night had fallen upon the dome, a synthetic night, but all she could see was orange. Orange and red fire cast into the street, burning up the remains of a broken AutoReiv. Re-l sidestepped the scene, only to nearly trip on another. And another. The girl looked up, casting her gaze over the rest of the alley, its ground littered with the remains of robotic arms, legs, and heads from AutoReivs.
Lifting her head slowly, she drew out the shotgun from her person and looked around at the carnage around her. It was depressing, degrading... How far had the city fallen as to litter their very streets with the bodies of those that had once protected and served them?
For a moment, she imagined Iggy lying on the ground before her, calling to her. Don't hate me, Re-l. Please.
Gritting her teeth and tightening her hold on the shotgun, she stepped around the pieces of AutoReivs reverently and made her way up the next set of stairs. There was going to be hell to pay for this. She wanted answers, and she wanted them immediately.
"Raul Creed, what have you done," she muttered, ascending the stairs and entering the heart of the city and into the turmoil that awaited her.
Name: Kal
Age: 21
AIM SN: walkthedawn
email: otherpromise@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Y
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? dear_mun
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Ergo Proxy
Canon Format: Anime
Character's Name: Re-l Mayer // Re-l124c41
Character's Age: 19
What form will your character's NV take? Re-l Mayer's communicator will be her notepad that she uses to compile her notes and flip through various pages of work. She can send pages to other books with the flick of a finger and can edit notes with a touch, or with her tablet pen. There will be an earpiece device that comes along with it for audio reasons.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: None that have been confirmed. Re-l Mayer is speculated to possess an infusion of Amrita Cells from the Proxy called Monad, which means that she can survive most near-death experiences by slowly healing, and that most illnesses will just be destroyed as she encounters them in her body. She may get sick, but her Amrita cells will slowly break the sickness down.
It is also heavily speculated that Re-l has a womb of her own since she is considered to be the "Eve" of Earth's new regime, now that everyone except her and Vincent have died. Several allusions are made throughout the series, but nothing is fully stated.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Because she has no real "canon" abilities, she's going to grow like the other Monad clone created in Ergo Proxy's universe, the one that resembles her.
Monad clone went from being a normal clone with solely Amrita cells to a Proxy reincarnation. Amrita cells are the cells within a Proxy's body and are supposedly "immortal". However, that's far from true. Proxies can kill each other, and sunlight totally destroys Amrita cells. Monad's clone, after exposure to Vincent, fully evolved into her Proxy form, which was a girl with white hair and white wings. While she's never shown in combat, she probably regained her strength, speed, and perpetual healing.
Re-l will be growing in a very similar manner, but not nearly as powerful. She will gain Monad's strength and speed as a Proxy as well as her regenerative powers.. While Re-l won't gain a monster form (instead producing wings), she'll be capable of breaking glass with ease and can put quite a large dent in something like stone or concrete. The speed of a Proxy depends on which one it is, but most are capable of spanning short distances in seconds. Monad's true Proxy form is capable of running through a mall's main area and kill several people in a matter of seconds. Re-l will be of a similar speed.
C+P from thereforeproxy's application, for better explanation:
☇Inhuman speed: Proxies can apparently move faster than the human eyes can see, and apparently for sustained periods of time.
☇Inhuman strength: It be hard to say exactly what their limit is, but proxies have been shown to leave dents in cement with their bare hands alone. They can also bend steel at least also with bare hands.
☇And together these mean inhuman agility. Proxies are ridiculously coordinated even at high speeds, able to dodge and flip in mid air.
☇Force field: They seem to be able to throw out a burst of energy from themselves that can at least shatter glass. This seems to flow like a shockwave from their body in one direction. It’s like a blast and not refined.
☇Limb regeneration.
→Proxies are also given two forms: that of the god and that of a human. The change between the two forms seems to be intrinsically tied to the proxy's mental state.
→Proxies also seem possess an ability to sense one another, even if they are in human form.
∟ Though Amrita cells are the source of a proxy's god-like physiology they are also it's Achilles heel. As mentioned sunlight destroys the cells, or to be more exact it's likely the UV radiation is what kills the cells given that's what seems to be in the FP bullets. Monad's second clone literally burns up when exposed to unfiltered sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere.
Since Re-l has been coming into her Amrita cells, prolonged exposure to sunlight will make her feel weak and dizzy. However, no amount of sunlight will expressly kill her unless in the form of the FP shells.
Weapons: A shotgun, loaded, and a small handgun. She also possesses one, single FP Ray bullet, capable of killing a Proxy.
Items: Short telescope, book-communicator, make-up, flashlight, and heavy coat.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Re-l's beginnings are up for speculation. While she possesses the body and mind of a nineteen-year-old woman, it's clear by the end of the series that she is a human clone of Monad, the Proxy of Mosque. When attempting to make a clone of a Proxy, they only came up with a human girl with little resemblance to her "mother", and so they hurried to cover up their tracks. Believing she would be of use, they put her in the hands of a young physician named Daedalus Yumeno. She was told that she was the Regent's granddaughter to cover up all traces of her true identity and past, and she lived a cultured, healthy, and happy young childhood. She believed Daedalus to be her best friend, that her grandfather truly cared for her, and that she was allowed anything she wanted.
She grew to be nineteen quickly; her life changed so fast that she went from being the happy and carefree young girl to being a mature, spoiled, and proactive young woman. The Regent and his Entourages gave her Iggy, another Entourage specifically designed to supervise her and keep her company, so that she would be monitored by them at all times. Of course, this only made her more rebellious. Her grandfather had begun to tighten his leash on what she could and could not do - meetings with him always ended in her being criticized by his Entourages - and she reacted as any teenager would. She detested any control he attempted to have over her and instead insisted that she be treated like a true citizen and someone in control of her own destiny.
In response, they allowed her to have a job in the Investigation Bureau and she was sent to look into any small troubles around the city. Her main job was to investigate the new immigrants from other cities who came to Romdeau searching for a job and a new life. She would fully investigate their histories, their motives, and would try to integrate them best into society. It was here that she met Vincent Law, a man she described as a man who could be a true citizen. He had an honest face and was too wrapped up in being a fellow citizen that he didn't know what he wanted. He got a job as an AutoReiv Disposal Unit, taking care of infected AutoReivs. Re-l was looking into the same thing, investigating the Cogito Virus and why the Chief of Security kept being replaced with new people all the time.
One day, investigating an infected AutoReiv, Re-l came across the Monad Proxy that had escaped from its prison. Attacked, but unharmed, she began looking into the creature. The Regent had Iggy's records stripped of the event and that night, she was cornered by another Proxy... Proxy One, Ergo Proxy. He cornered her in her bathroom, and was then attacked by Monad Proxy. Left alone and shaken, Re-l was taken to get a physical and psychiatric evaluation. The Regent and his Entourages encouraged her to take time off, telling her that she saw no monsters and denying any claim otherwise. Angered, she was taken to see Daedalus for her evaluation, and she uncovered the word "Proxy". As she further tried to look into Vincent Law and the circumstances involving another Proxy attack, she tried to corner him for questioning. Instead, he left Romdeau with another infected AutoReiv, Pino, and left her to suffer the consequences of her emotional outbursts involving Vincent. In Romdeau, showing emotion is considered detrimental, and Re-l only succeeded in angering them further.
Re-l took her leave of Romdeau, with Daedalus' help, to look for Vincent. She found him, as well as several others, outside and thriving despite the utter chaos of the wasteland. Re-l's breathing suit, which kept her from being infected by the poisonous atmosphere, was broken when several armed patrols attacked the people. She began to suffer the effects of the atmosphere, succumbing to it. Hoodie, a man who lived in the small town and the one who helped Vincent, took her back to the city for Daedalus to help. He injected her with an infusion of human and Amrita Cells, giving her a new advantage to the outside and to any other injuries she'd encounter. But as she began to recover, there was an attempt on her life from several Cogito-infected AutoReivs, and while she was nearly mortally wounded, she was revived both by Daedalus and her own new Amrita Cells. He gave her the FP bullets and sent her out with Iggy to retrieve the Proxy. It didn't take them long to find them, and Vincent openly admitted that he was a Proxy. Disbelieving, Re-l wanted to follow him, and they only succeeded in encountering another Proxy and an infected AutoReiv. She used one of her bullets to kill the Proxy, and she sent Iggy back to Romdeau with the body. She would follow Vincent instead.
But Iggy didn't go. Instead, he stayed and told her he'd never leave her behind; Re-l realized he was infected with the Cogito Virus. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her on the ship they used, but the infected AutoReiv attempted to kill her. Iggy sacrificed himself in her stead, despite all of his cruel words to her. She destroyed the rest of him so he wouldn't have to suffer from his feelings any longer. She joined Vincent and Pino on The Rabbit, the airship, and they took off elsewhere. They found another city, and yet another Proxy, and quickly escaped with some supplies and food. They encountered another Proxy, MCQ, who caught them in a game show, challenging Vincent on his knowledge of the world and other Proxies. Successful, Vincent walked away unscathed while the other Proxy was killed... Unfortunately, all of Romdeau was capable of seeing that show. Raul realized Pino was there and alive, and Daedalus saw that Re-l was okay.
They moved on in their search for Mosque, but were delayed by several days because The Rabbit ran on wind power and there was no breeze that whole time. But when the wind caught up, they found a set of caves that was inhabited by survivors of the original corrosive attack on the environment. Unfortunately, they're bent-over creatures who could only live in toxic caves. Exposure to the outside, fresh air, was harmful to them. Disenchanted, they left, only to watch as a missile came down and destroyed something in the distance: the Mosque Dome. Exploring what was left of the dome, Re-l found the room which the Monad Proxy had once inhabited, and Ergo Proxy took steps to keep Vincent unaware of his true form and past. They made quick time back to Romdeau, but Vincent decided to leave them just before they entered the city, forcing Re-l to follow right after him.
Romdeau, while they were gone, had practically collapsed. AutoReivs were all infected by the Cogito Virus and had been going crazy. The society had completely fallen through; without AutoReivs, no one knew how to act or how to go on with their lives. Raul had tried to recreate people without the need for Proxies, and in doing so had completely destroyed their carefully placed society. Re-l searched everywhere for Vincent, seeing only his shadow on the walls as though he was watching for her as well. Daedalus found her, but he too had begun to crack. Without her, he had created another Re-l called "Re-l 2" or "Real". She was a true clone of Monad who had been able to take the soul of the Proxy inside of her. Daedalus latched onto her as though he would to Re-l and treated her like his new Re-l, regarding the real one as a "traitor". He revealed that it was the Regent who tried to have her killed, not Raul, and she went to confront her grandfather on the matter.
Instead of gaining an answer, Vincent had arrived before her in his Ergo Proxy form, killing her grandfather in front of her, despite her pleas. Raul stepped in and shot Vincent with an FP bullet, but he survived by ripping off his arm where the bullet had gone in. Raul and Vincent both left Re-l there, where Kristeva, Raul's AutoReiv, came to help her. She left soon after; Real showed up, along with Daedalus, and it was then she realized that her true purpose was to be the bait for Ergo Proxy to return. She was his Monad. Surely he would come back if she was there. And so he did, as Vincent Law. But, as the Regent's Entourages revealed, Re-l still had to find another great truth...and so she did.
When Vincent returned, still as Ergo Proxy, she revealed that there was another, the real Ergo Proxy, who was orchestrating the entire downfall of the domes and humans. When he had realized his true purpose was to wipe out the rest of the Proxies and then himself in order for the Creators to return and reinhabit the earth, he struck out and attempted to defy his fate, wiping out all of the humans instead. Vincent fought him and attempted to stop him, to defy his own fate; Re-l went to stop the manual destruction of the dome that Daedalus was causing on his own. She confronted him, and he admitted that it was all because he knew they were doomed to fail and die, and that Re-l and the Regent were too focused on Ergo Proxy to care for anyone else. All he wanted was someone to really care for him. Real, Monad's clone, flew by overhead and Daedalus made to chase after her; he was crushed by falling debris in the process. Re-l comforted him and apologized for her cruelty, leaving him when he instructed her to. She made her way outside and was saved by Pino, Kristeva, and The Rabbit.
Vincent had changed his own pulse, his own fate, and was now Ergo Proxy...the agent of death to the Creators. And they were ready to face the world together.
Point in Canon: Post-canon.
Character Personality:
One might think that Re-l Mayer should be more than just an ordinary girl, but the truth is that she isn't; being a clone of a Proxy does not make her any less of a human. While her youth was extremely short, there is no evidence to say that she did not go through the standard emotional and physical stages of life, allowing her to be shaped into a perfectly functional person with no outstanding flaws to speak of. As a child, she is happy and privileged, curious of the world around her, kind, and caring. Because life changes so quickly for her even before the series begins, it's easy to see how she becomes someone selfish and arrogant, even almost cruel, at the beginning of the series.
On the surface, Re-l is a cool and collected young woman, selfish but no less curious than she was as a child. Her outward kindness from her youth has practically disappeared as per Romdeau's ordinance that emotions are signs of weakness. Spurned from her grandfather's love and denied of a true family, she has tried to grow up to fit the standards of Romdeau and to become a perfect citizen. While she is not necessarily a black sheep by those standards (more of an oddball, at best), she is still regarded as someone inherently different from the rest of the citizens. This, too, reflects upon her personality; she is shown to be both dismissive of others and skeptical of their ability to help at all.
Because of this, she has internalized the idea that no one is like her and that no one else will understand or be as perfect as her. This is an idea fueled by Daedalus and Iggy (the former who calls her perfect, the latter who calls her a "Princess") and ultimately leads to her calloused behavior and cruelty to those around her. She rejects their notion of normalcy and embraces her own. While she can easily mask her emotions around others, she also does not take great pains to hide her displeasure or her disgust, acting out like a spoiled child. The citizens of Romdeau treat her with respect when she is in control and in charge but most of them are more than happy to speak to her as though she's no more than a little girl when she's ultimately down and out. The exceptions to this are the immigrants who call her "Your Excellency" and treat her like royalty. She is a figure for the Regent and is no less in their eyes despite how cruelly she treats them. Her reputation always precedes her.
When she leaves the dome, she becomes disillusioned to its effectiveness as a controlled society and sees it only as a people who are hiding from the light and from the truth. Iggy's revelation that he finds her selfish and useless without him becomes the catalyst for her change, alerting her as to how people feel about her. He may have been infected with the Cogito Virus, but it was a part of how he truly felt. She takes his words to heart and begins to try and reshape herself, casting off the mask of a selfish and perfect individual.
As the series progresses, Re-l's outward iciness melts enough to show that she has meaningful feelings that she simply hides away because it's expected of her. While this does not make her a particularly kind and gentle person to strangers, it does allow her to show some modicum of care and concern, even benevolence, to the people she has grown to be fond of. She struggles to see emotion as a strength and not a weakness; she tries to accept that life is more about the journey and less about how comfortable you are through that journey; she wants to understand everything. She demonstrates a great resourcefulness and rationality that counteracts Vincent's idealistic and pessimistic dual natures. Re-l approaches situations with logic and sees things as opportunity; Vincent encounters trouble and tries not to let it drag him down. His idealism and optimistic behavior under fortunate circumstances has helped to ground her and has allowed her to have better faith in herself and the people around her.
Because the truth is her raison d'être, it rules her life first and foremost. Spiritual and emotional awakening can kill lesser individuals, and that's exactly what happens in Romdeau. Only a select few, Re-l included, are capable of embracing the change without losing themselves. She understands that everyone's truth is different and that it must be discovered, not told. She becomes more aware of her world's truth, the secret behind Vincent, and her own origin with a great deal of suffering, but time and again she has proven that she can handle it and can grow from what she seen.
Her connection to the Monad Proxy is not entirely without consequence upon who she is. Monad has been called in some translations the "Harbinger of Rebirth" to counteract against Ergo Proxy's "Agent of Death". Her kindness, acceptance, and wish to alleviate the pain and suffering of others is something not entirely seen in Re-l Mayer, but the human woman does show other similarities. Re-l accepts the pain and burden of others onto herself and when Romdeau is destroyed, she is the only one who can carry on as their voice and as their vessel. She stands beside Vincent as a comrade, a friend, and as something that even she cannot describe in words. She has unconsciously taken Monad's place as his alleviator and his confidant. She may not be as wholly generous as Monad is but she is still someone who wants to see Vincent rise to the occasion, who wants to see him be his own person. She wants to see the real person that he is, not the shadow of what he's supposed to be. To that end, she will do whatever possible to set him free from the shackles that bind him to fate and to obligation.
Re-l Mayer still has inherent flaws in her personality, of course. She has grown too used to Romdeau's extravagances to fully accept the conditions around her. She grows used to the change, of course, but it is with a begrudging attitude. She also does not readily accept people despite all that's happened. Iggy, Daedalus, her grandfather, and Vincent have all betrayed her; how can she extend herself again to a stranger's kindness if she cannot trust the people once closest to her? It is this sort of attitude that she still clings to, something she puts forth with her controlled mask when she speaks to people she's never met before.
Character Plans: Re-l has become disillusioned to Romdeau, to the domes, and to all authority that doesn't first understand the meaning of life. She will attempt to reconstruct her life again, taking a job as a bounty hunter and collecting intelligence in order to fully assess the world. She will attempt to create either a neutral Intelligence Bureau, or act on her own to gather what she needs. She will protect Daedalus, and perhaps end up joining SERO, but probably only to spy on them.
Appearance/PB: Here
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
And so this is to be our new home, a dark and unsanitary city in the middle of nowhere. It's a not a dome, at the very least. I can be grateful for that. But still...it's lacking. What sort of world made by the Creators can be so devoid of technology. Even Romdeau was better than this.
[A sigh.]
Oh well. Beggars can't be choosers, right? This world is a start, and that's all that matters.
[A soft groan is heard in the background, and then the loud blast of a gun.]
I could do without the monsters, though.
Third Person Sample
The world had changed.
That much was obvious the moment Re-l Mayer had taken one step into Romdeau after weeks, months, of being away. The dome's flood vents were open - broken, actually - and free to the open air. People were being poisoned even then, but no one had done a thing about it. Why? Why hadn't anyone even tried to help? What was going on?
And Vincent... That bastard left her. Became Ergo Proxy and darted away like hell was on his heels. What had gotten into him?
She had to hurry. She moved over the large pieces of broken metal and pulled her jacket around her, moving down the hall into Romdeau's alley corridors. The air was thick with smoke and fire as she made her way out of the vent up the stairs, out into the city. Night had fallen upon the dome, a synthetic night, but all she could see was orange. Orange and red fire cast into the street, burning up the remains of a broken AutoReiv. Re-l sidestepped the scene, only to nearly trip on another. And another. The girl looked up, casting her gaze over the rest of the alley, its ground littered with the remains of robotic arms, legs, and heads from AutoReivs.
Lifting her head slowly, she drew out the shotgun from her person and looked around at the carnage around her. It was depressing, degrading... How far had the city fallen as to litter their very streets with the bodies of those that had once protected and served them?
For a moment, she imagined Iggy lying on the ground before her, calling to her. Don't hate me, Re-l. Please.
Gritting her teeth and tightening her hold on the shotgun, she stepped around the pieces of AutoReivs reverently and made her way up the next set of stairs. There was going to be hell to pay for this. She wanted answers, and she wanted them immediately.
"Raul Creed, what have you done," she muttered, ascending the stairs and entering the heart of the city and into the turmoil that awaited her.