Ava

Ace Variant Assistant, more commonly referred to by her acronym, Ava, is a robotic girl who is the main assistant of Zane. Being Zane’s earliest invention and the first in what would become a line of Ava robot models, she’s a jaded and rather aloof assistant, having villainous intentions similar to her creator but does not like following his rules, also easily seeing negatives in his ideas. She’s powered by a life chip, a chip powered by a human soul that takes the form of the robot, giving her a personality. After finding this out, her mental state has become endangered and she hides her true feelings under a caricature of her former self. Although she isn’t quite as powerful as future Ava models such as Ava 2.0 and Ava 3.0, she has some impressive techniques up her sleeve, especially for being Zane’s first invention, such as being able to blast in the air using her hands and gaining abilities from objects by absorbing their light energy.

Backstory
When Zane was a young child, he decided that he wanted to become an inventor when he grew up. His father, an insane murderer and hacker who would trap the souls of his victims inside of computer chips known as “life chips,” a chip that would cause the robot/machine it powered to be haunted by the soul that it resides in, and also a manipulative father figure who was a bad influence on his son and taught him that evil was the way of life, responded by gifting Zane with some of these chips, as well as pieces of metal, wires, nuts, bolts, and screws. As a result, Zane would spend about two years working on what would become his first ever invention—Ava. However, what Zane didn’t realize is that Ava having a mind of her own, even if it was on reset and she had no memories of her past before taking possession of her robot body, didn’t necessarily mean she would automatically follow his every move. Though she had villainous intentions, becoming used to Zane’s environment, she still objected to most of his ideas, often easily seeing the cons in them. Even as Zane got older, Ava was noticeably more intelligent than him all the way through. Even though Ava’s ideas would usually work out better than Zane’s, they’d still more often than not be foiled by their new enemy, Antcruz. In response to this, Zane would turn Ava into a brand new line of robots and start creating newer models such Ava 2.0 and later Ava 3.0, which infuriated the original Ava. However, this wasn’t even the worst revelation that she would come across; After a while, she would finally abandon Zane after he admitted that he saw her as obsolete, but also not before finding out about the soul inside of her originally belonging to a young girl that was murdered, finding pictures of her old self and her family inside of a folder with her name written on it in one of Zane’s secret file cabinets. It was at this point where Ava’s mental stability started to take a drastic turn. After about a week of Ava planning her own evil deeds while trying to regain her old memories, she was captured by Zane, who realized that he could be easily exposed if Ava started rebelling against him, and was forced into assisting him again. Now, things are still the way they used to be, but Ava’s quirkiness and sarcasm are now just a mere caricature to hide the actual thoughts surrounding her mind, her misery, deteriorating mental state and desperation to know the full truth about her former life.

Personality
Ava has always been rather jaded and aloof, albeit showing a very cool and sarcastic attitude, and loving doing villainous acts despite her disliking towards her creator. However, after Ava gained some of her memory back, despite how it seems on the outside, she’s never emotionally been the same again. Although her showcase of sarcasm and jadedness still holds true to this day, most of it is really just shown to hide her real inner thoughts of depression and homesickness, desperately wishing to see her supposed family again. Ava’s mental state has been slowly deteriorating, but there’s nothing she can do about it except mask it with how she used to feel since there’s nobody she can open up to about it. Despite this, Ava still frequently finds pleasure in doing evil acts, with her feeling like she has no choice but to accept that this is what her life has come to. Ava is never reluctant to put up a fight, with her only pure showcase of confidence being when she’s able to use her abilities. Despite the situations regarding her past and her emotional response to it, Ava still tries doing her absolute best at stopping Antcruz and his friends.

Appearance
Ava has metallic, light grey skin with dark blue hair that features an oversized ponytail held by a tiny black hair tie with a large bow clipped onto it. Her hair is made entirely of fine metal strands, allowing it to be much more flexible than the rest of her solid, metallic body. She has black eyes with glowing cyan pupils and one eyelash on each eye. Her torso is also painted a fine, rich purple with a swirly rainbow symbol plastered onto it. The rest of her attire includes a pink collar surrounding the bottom of her neck, a black metallic skirt, white socks and red marble shoes with white bottoms. She also sports grey gloves, although these are taken off whenever she must do her “Red Beam” or “Hover Burner” abilities. Ava appears to have a dark grey endoskeleton. Though it’s mostly protected by Ava’s outer shell/“skin,” it can be seen in a few areas, particularly her arm/leg joints. This makes her the only Ava model with a visible endoskeleton. The entirety of Ava’s body is also fireproof since she could easily self-destruct doing her “Hover Burner” ability if she was made otherwise.

Red Beam
An offensive attack. Her most standard attack, Ava can fire a red beam from one of her hands that has a burning effect on whatever it touches. If it done forcefully enough, it might even end in an explosion (although the explosions are nothing that serious and are usually as big as the explosions that Natalie’s bombs end in.)

Flashing Beam
An offensive attack. This beam, in contrast to the Red Beam, which was fire-based, is electric-based. This beam is able to shock and stun whoever it touches; The amount of time the shock lasts depends on the amount of force built up before the attack is fired. Due to its electric nature, it makes for a good rival attack against Antcruz’s lightning abilities, but can only be used if Ava’s battery level is high enough.

Cluster Bullet
An offensive attack. This attack is a variation of the Red Beam, as it looks very similar and has the same fiery effect, but the force of the hit is very similar to a bullet from a gun, which gives an even more painful effect to whoever it hits. However, unlike the Red Beam, there is no changing effect depending on the force and there will be no explosion even if the attack is done forcefully enough.

Hover Burner
A beneficiary attack. During this move, a massive burst of flames erupts from Ava’s hands blasts her into the sky for about 10 seconds. This allows her to reach incredibly high areas or use attacks from upward while opponents aren’t able to reach her. The aftermath of this move causes her hands to gain an extremely high temperature that burns anything they touch, although Ava herself doesn’t feel any pain from it due to being fireproof.

Chromatic Light
A beneficiary attack. Ava is able to emit a special flash for a brief moment with her eyes. The light scans the color of any object that it faces. After scanning is completed, Ava is able to gain a new ability associated with the color that was scanned. If multiple colors are scanned at once, the result will be an ability associated with the mix of every color. Due to the advancements of technology that this ability requires, Ava can only use it if her battery power is high enough.

Phantom Heart
A healing attack. For this ability, Ava utilizes an invisible, vacuum-type beam to suck the light energy out of an object. The energy that is sucked up with this beam is returned and used to restore Ava’s battery power. Like the Chromatic Light, this ability can be used on any object.

Ultraviolet Heart
A healing attack. This ability is quite similar to the Phantom Heart ability. However, instead of the light energy being absorbed for battery power, this time a different vacuum-type beam is used that sucks the light energy in order for it to be used to make Ava’s attacks stronger. The aura it brings and common usage for the Flashing Beam attack is where it gets its name.

Trivia
- When Ava was first revealed in July 2019, she had a different design. While her attire and features were the same, she was anatomically a lot smaller, with her limbs being much shorter. I later changed her to look more human-like so she would look more like a serious robot rather than a toy.

- Ava was also originally created as a more comedic villain in comparison to the more serious Sieren, in a similar vein to Zane. Though this still holds true with her sarcasm, this would mostly change when I eventually came up with her backstory.

- The idea for the life chips stemmed from when I tried coming up with a reason why Ava would act so judgemental and rebellious towards Zane despite it being highly unlikely that he would've programmed her to act this way.

- Ava is a fan of hyperpop.