- Name
- Kato Meipuru
- Age
- Appears ~18. Consciousness is 5 chronologically.
- Gender
- Cis Female
- Species
- NEK0 / Bio-Engineered Cat-girl
- Occupation
- Serves in multiple roles at the Stray Cafe. Also an online scammer
- Appearance
- Blonde catgirl with a calico fur pattern on her tail and ears. Wears cutesy outfits with ribbons
- Personality
- Alternates between 'cute and innocent' and 'troublemaker' personas. Lies frequently.
- Abilities
- Computerized brain, superhuman physical ability and senses. Weak to electricity, malware, telepathy
- Situation
- Lives with the Tsubasa family in their house.
Appearance
- Height
- 5'6 (168cm)
- Body
- Waifish white girl
- Face
- Clear and unblemished with a button nose
- Eyes
- Green
- Hair
- Blonde, straight, and shorter than shoulder-length. Covers where her human ears would be if she had them.
- Clothes
- Cutesy outfits with frills and ribbons
- Other
- Has cat ears and tail with a calico fur pattern
Personality
Guilty - Maple is overwhelmed by her sense of guilt at what she did while working for the company. This drives a lot of self-loathing and some self-destructive urges, but also motivates her to want to be a positive force in her people's lives now that she has the freedom to do so
Cynical - Maple has been trying to work on this, but she often expects the worst in others. She finds it hard to believe that people would be nice to her or those she cares about without any ulterior motives. People being too nice to her or people she loves can put her on high alert.
Let's Not Be Too Serious - Maple favors humor as a coping mechanism. She is likely to joke her way around topics that are too uncomfortable for her to deal with or talk about, or at least use a few jokes to insulate herself from the seriousness of those things.
- Additional Information
- Her three bodies have personalities that diverge very slightly from each other, though these differences are often difficult for anyone to notice, including Maple herself
- Maple-3 is the oldest of the surviving bodies. This body's muscle memory for martial arts, shooting, lockpicking, and some similar skills is better because it 'actually goes all the way down into the muscles.' This is the body that actually received training in those skills. It is slightly more emotionally mature, and more likely to try to console her other bodies through their internal dialogues.
- Maple-5 is the body that is most likely to lie out of habit, and most likely to feel protective towards other nek0
- Maple-9 is the youngest surviving body, and it led the most sheltered existence. It was there for Kachi's death; related topics are more deeply emotionally affecting for it
Abilities
- Ability Format
- Standard Traits
- Advantages
- + Omnilingual
+ Rapid Learning
+ Sleepless
+ Enhanced Attributes (Strength, Durability)
+ Enhanced Attributes (Agility, Speed)
+ Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Smell)
- Disadvantages
- Core Advantage
- Maple has three cloned bodies, each with a computerized brain that allows her to synchronize her consciousness and memories between those three bodies. Thanks to this technology, the three Maple clones can effectively behave as a single person. Her computerized brains also allow her to interface with the internet and other computer networks. This gives Maple the following capabilities:
- Internet and phone network access similar to the "Walking Smartphone" advantage.
- Ability to circumvent most network security measures, given enough time and concentration
- Commit certain pieces of information to her shared long-term memory with perfect accuracy
- Synchronize memories and/or consciousness between the 3 Maple clones, wherever they may be in the world. She has control over when and how the synchronization happens.
- Core Disadvantage
- Maple and all of her clones contain a device that was once used to exert more control over her. This device tracks her, can induce pain, pleasure, or sleep, and can even vaporize her. A sufficiently advanced hacker could trigger these effects remotely. Maple has the ability to trigger the device to vaporize herself.
- Bonus
- Removed disadvantage
- Removed disadvantage
- Nerfs and Flavor
- Maple gets high when using catnip and some related plants. The high lasts for about 5 minutes, after which she can't be affected for about half an hour.
- Nobody else fully understands the contents of her consciousness database. It can't be audited.
- There have been 9 Maple clones, of which 3 survive. These are Maple 3, Maple 5, and Maple 9 - names they use internally for each other based on the order of their manufacture. All three have nearly identical capabilities, appearances, and personalities.
Current Situation
- Occupation
- Works at Stray Cafe / has an internet scammer side hustle
- Housing
- Lives with Nion Tsubasa and his family
- Wealth
- Has some personal wealth allowed to her by the company. She supplements this with some extra money she's stolen after the fall of the company.
History
- Date of Birth
- March 20, 2019 (Maple-1 created)
- Place of Birth
- Japan
Maple was made by the NEK0 company as part of an experiment to computerize human consciousness, making it possible to make a "back up" of someone's mind. Her brain and body were engineered to function alongside her implants, and she owes her life to that. Her original 'sisters' were not afforded that luxury. All of them have died or suffered greatly in the pursuit of her creators' immortality. Her later sisters were made as clones of her, sharing in her mind, allowing her to be in multiple places
Maple continued to live and serve as an asset to the company, and to a former NEK0 executive named Kachi in particular, whom she once loved. They taught her to obey and serve them, as well as to kill, intimidate, or kidnap for them - and she became very good at all of these things. She sometimes serves as a gentle hand in re-training and re-educating repossessed or misbehaving nek0. It was miserable. But she loved Kachi, and she trusted that one day, he would change the company, make it less cruel. Move it away from the catperson trafficking, into something less horrifying, like defense contracting, where the real money was.
The raid on the nek0 labs brought an end to all that.
Now, there are three Maples left. Two of them live in Polaris Pass with one of the raiders, her rescuer of a sort, Nion Tsubasa. In the wake of all she's lived through, she needs to find some new purpose for her lives, beyond what her masters used to demand of her.
Maple continued to live and serve as an asset to the company, and to a former NEK0 executive named Kachi in particular, whom she once loved. They taught her to obey and serve them, as well as to kill, intimidate, or kidnap for them - and she became very good at all of these things. She sometimes serves as a gentle hand in re-training and re-educating repossessed or misbehaving nek0. It was miserable. But she loved Kachi, and she trusted that one day, he would change the company, make it less cruel. Move it away from the catperson trafficking, into something less horrifying, like defense contracting, where the real money was.
The raid on the nek0 labs brought an end to all that.
Now, there are three Maples left. Two of them live in Polaris Pass with one of the raiders, her rescuer of a sort, Nion Tsubasa. In the wake of all she's lived through, she needs to find some new purpose for her lives, beyond what her masters used to demand of her.
Additional Information
- Art Credits
- - Original art adoptable by kimrinwoo
