Line #66 Characters/MassFoundations


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4	!![=Ethan Sunderland (aka the Courier)=]
5	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Redemption in the Stars'' \| ''Little Star'' \| ''All the World's a Stage''[[note]]via flashback[[/note]] \| ''Molten Lead''
6	He started out as a courier, making a living by delivering packages until one day, Benny stole his package, a Platinum Chip, and left him for dead. He survived the double tap and recovered. After taking care of Benny, he assisted the NCR against Caesar's Legion, ensuring their victory and control of Hoover Dam. Years later, after having a near-death experience, he tried to improve his Transportalponder. Instead, it transported him to the Mass Effect universe. If you want to see more tropes of his canonical counterpart, go [[Characters/FalloutNewVegasCourierAndCompanions here]].
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8	* AmbiguouslyBrown: He was described having an olive skin tone. Artwork depicting him [[DependingOnTheArtist varies on the artstyle involved]].
9	* AntiHero: Mostly a PragmaticHero. To start, he killed a batarian thug, stopping him from mugging him and looted the corpse for anything of value to use. He agreed to work with Cerberus on a project to repair his [[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Transportalponder]], [[spoiler: abandoned Liara and Feron at the mercy of Tazzik when things turned for the worse in their pursuit of Shepard (though he was willing to rescue them at any cost)]], and took a Blue Suns centurion hostage to extract information on Liara's and Feron's coordinates from her comrades. On the other hand, he assisted the [[TheFederation NCR]] during his travels in the Mojave. He was also squeamish working with Cerberus but didn't see much of a choice but to go along.
10	* CassandraTruth: He told Liara and Feron he came from another universe. While Liara was open-minded to the possibility, Feron was very skeptical of his claim. It took a melding from Liara to convince Feron.
11	* ChangedMyMindKid: An example for the protagonist. [[spoiler:He left Liara and Feron at the mercy of Tazzik when things didn't go as planed in their pursuit of Shepard. Later on in the fic, he made it up by distracting the Harbinger-possessed Collector so Liara could bring Shepard's body somewhere safe.]]
12	* DeadpanSnarker: Most of his dialogue consists of him making snarky comments on just about everything.
13	* DefectorFromDecadence: According to this [[https://www.deviantart.com/nordronnoc/art/Mass-Foundations-Design-The-Courier-July-19-806071758 design sheet (post-Redemption)]], the Courier has defected from Cerberus after finding out they had compromised his work on the Transportalponder as well as Christina becoming a test subject (implied to be unwitting, knowing Cerberus).
14	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: It's shown and stated that he has [[{{Cyborg}} several cybernetic implants]], including the Monocyte Breeder, allowing him to [[HealingFactor heal more quickly than a normal human]]. It helps him in most fights, but not against the Harbinger-possessed Collector's biotic powers. Nevertheless, he does manage to hold on his own.
15	* GadgeteerGenius / MrFixit: With him modifying his Transportalponder and field stripping one of the weapons from Mass Effect, he comes off as this. He also thought about jury-rigging a skycar while fleeing from Tazzik. However, his Transportalponder going haywire on him can have him come across as a BunglingInventor.
16	* GuileHero: Whenever he finds himself outmatched, he resorts to guerrilla tactics and dirty tricks suitable for a CombatPragmatist, like sliding a grenade underneath the Harbinger-possessed Collector's feet in a surprise attack. He is shown to be pretty persuasive, like convincing Aria to give him and his friends the location of Shepard's body.
17	* NeverFoundTheBody: Judging by Jocelyn's TragicKeepsake turning out to be his Holorifle and her remarks about him, it's implied she and possibly other people believed that he died some time ago, though she wasn't so sure about it.
18	* NotInThisForYourRevolution: His primary motivation was to fix his Transportalponder and find a way home. But when he and Lynch's team infiltrated the base on Alingon, he was willing to rescue Liara from captivity and chose to distract the Harbinger-possessed Collector while she took Shepard's stasis pod to Lynch's ship.
19	* TallDarkAndSnarky: Fitting, as he also has dark brown hair and eyes. For the snarky part, see DeadpanSnarker.
20	* WeirdnessMagnet: Thanks to his Wild Wasteland trait, though only in earlier drafts.
21	* WildCard: Aria described him as an anomaly that could disrupt the balance of power at Omega during their meeting with her.
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23	!![=Eric Grimes=]
24	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
25	Born and raised in Boston to an Irish immigrant father and a Puerto Rican mother, Eric Grimes had just graduated from high school and was on his way to attending at MIT not long before turning 19. However, while he was on a vacation at Angkor Wat with his family, a strange orb transported him to the Franchise/MassEffect universe, a year prior to the events of the first game. Feeling powerless to change anything and unable to find a way back, he'll have to adapt to his new universe.
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27	* AfraidOfNeedles: Downplayed. He was hesitant in receiving gene therapy on his first day at an Alliance facility, remarking his arm would be sore, but he went through with it.
28	* AntiHero: Seems to be setting up to be of the ClassicalAntiHero variety, considering the number of flaws he has and the circumstances surrounding him. Midway through ''A New Day'', he has gone through CharacterDevelopment after his second visit at Angkor Wat, becoming more proactive and assertive.
29	* CannotSpitItOut: He was tempted to say the ''Mass Effect'' universe existed as a fictional universe to anyone willing to listen. He found out he can't, as he couldn't bring himself to and [[CassandraTruth no would really believe him]].
30	* CulturallyReligious: He and his family used to attend a Catholic church, but the narration states they had a falling out once his peers found out he's gay. He is still somewhat religious, though.
31	* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Somewhat averted. While Eric had a decent grasp of the Franchise/MassEffect universe, he was still surprised by a fair number of things there. It was told that he hasn't played any of the games for several months prior to his arrival, meaning he doesn't have complete knowledge of the setting.
32	* FreakOut: Suffers from this when he couldn't find the Franchise/MassEffect counterpart of his family.
33	* GenreSavvy: Eric displayed this trope a few times so far. In one instance when he woke up at the hospital in the second chapter, he quickly figured out that he was in the Franchise/MassEffect universe by noticing a few things that felt off to him. Subverted in the first chapter when he found himself in an inescapable room with the orb. He was tempted to touch it but thought better of it. But that didn't help him much in the end.
34	* GratuitousSpanish: Occasionally splices up his sentences with a Spanish word. Somewhat justified his mother was Hispanic. In the WholeEpisodeFlashback, he says to his brother that he wanted to impress his family with his grasp of the language.
35	* NiceGuy: At least to a degree. He was pretty reserved save for doing a few rude things here and there.
36	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: He had just graduated from high school and well on his way to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (no easy feat) before winding up in the Mass Effect universe.
37	* ParentalNeglect: Implied by the narration to be a victim of this by his father, though it wasn't always like this according to a flashback.
38	* ShrinkingViolet: Male example. He's shy, awkward, and stutters a lot. His behavior has gotten a lot worse in the Mass Effect, justified that being separated from his family was a traumatic experience. It really showed during his blind date with Garrett.
39	* TinySchoolboy: He's small for his age, as well as being rather skinny.
40	* TwoferTokenMinority: Not only is he half-white and half-Hispanic, he is also gay.
41	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Of crowds, it turns out. At worst, it was so far shown him being reluctant.
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43	!![=Commander Madison Shepard=]
44	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Redemption in the Stars''[[note]]Non-directly as a corpse[[/note]] \| ''Little Star''
45	Born to military parents, Madison spent her life being transferred from posting to posting. Following in her parents' footsteps, she enlisted to the Alliance navy at age 18, becoming an N7 years later. During an expedition to Akuze, her patrol was attacked by thresher maws, leaving her as the sole survivor. By the time of [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 ME1]], she was assigned to the SSV Normandy and sent on a mission to Eden Prime for a Prothean beacon. After finding that Saren, a turian Spectre, was responsible for the attack on the planet, the Citadel Council made her a Spectre and sent her on a mission to hunt him down. She eventually did, stopping him and the Reaper Sovereign from bringing back the Reapers and saving the Council. A month later, the Collectors attacked the Normandy and she perished in the attack. If you want to see her canonical counterpart, go [[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard here]].
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47	* AntiHero: [[KnightInSourArmor Type II]]. See GoodIsNotNice below for more. In short, she can be described as a Paragade, meaning she took Paragon actions while taking Renegade dialogue options and/or the occasional Renegade option.
48	* ActionGirl: Natch.
49	* DeadpanSnarker: Not to the extent as the Courier, but she has her moments, especially when she has learned of Dr. Harland's intentions.
50	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Implied, though more of an InformedAttribute. Still, doesn't stop her squadmates from dreading the worst when they were in the Mako on Acabar.
51	* TheGhost: We don't see her until ''Little Star'', but plenty of characters talk about her in ''Redemption in the Stars''. It's justified because her body was beyond recognition since the Courier had trouble identifying her, being burnt to hell like that.
52	* GoodIsNotNice: Shepard is willing to help out anyone in need. At the same time, she is also willing to tear anyone TooDumbToLive a new one. Dr. Harland was no exception. She even stated that if not for the fact she and her team were in danger, she would've walked in and kicked her ass.
53	* FieryRedhead: Downplayed. Shepard kept her cool most of the time, though she lost it when she heard Harland's intentions to profit from the orb that had killed most of her team.
54	* HeroOfAnotherStory: She was this in ''Redemption in the Stars''. Finally gets her own appearance in ''Little Star''.
55	* MagicKnight: Being a vanguard does that.
56	* ShellShockedVeteran: Implied to be this, since Lynch told Ethan that leaving Liara behind would trigger survivor's guilt.
57	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: She's often seen using a shotgun to great effect.
58	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead
59	* {{Transhuman}}: Alongside being a SuperSoldier (by our standards) from gene therapy, she also has biotics, befitting for a vanguard.
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61	!![=Jocelyn Song (aka the Lone Wanderer)=]
62	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Redemption in the Stars'' [[note]]Mentioned by title[[/note]] \| ''All the World's a Stage''
63	Raised in Vault 101 by her father James after her mother died, she was forced to leave when he left the vault to restart Project Purity. She eventually found him but the reunion was short; the [[VideoGame/Fallout2 Enclave]] arrived in the Capital Wasteland, intending to control the project for themselves. Her father sacrificed himself, allowing Jocelyn to flee. She joined up with the Brotherhood of Steel and took back the Jefferson Memorial. Some years later, she seemed to be still be wandering the wastes but her personality became jaded from everything she had encountered. If you want to see more tropes of her canonical counterpart, go [[Characters/Fallout3LoneWandererAndCompanions here]].
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65	* ActionGirl: She's female and she kicks ass. What else is there? It's surprising that she and the Doctor get along so well.
66	%%* AmazonianBeauty / StatuesqueStunner: She was described as being built like a powerhouse, a massive woman who stands almost as tall as the Doctor (Creator/PeterCapaldi at the time). According to WordOfGod on {{Website/Spacebattles}}, he says it's a literal interpretation of the [[IncrediblyLamePun "strong female protagonist"]] trope, it being his idea of a joke.
67	* BrokenHero: Despite being kicked out of Vault 101 and with her father dead and either most of her friends killed or missing, it was a miracle she managed to hold it together. See HeartbrokenBadass below for more.
68	* GeniusBruiser: Intelligent and able to grasp some of the things the Doctor says to her, Jocelyn logs around a Super Sledge and able to hold off hordes of enemies.
69	* HeartbrokenBadass: As if losing her dad during the events of VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} wasn't enough, both Sarah and Owen Lyons died not long afterward. She also believed the Courier, who turned out to be a friend of hers, to be dead. It's no wonder she's so burnt out.
70	* TheMusketeer: Not with a sword, mind you, but with a super sledge.
71	* PowerArmor: She wears a set of [[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} T-60 power armor]] before it got destroyed by the Ania.
72	* TookALevelInCynic: The events of VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} and the seemingly death of the Courier took a toll on her. What turned her from someone who expressed concerned toward Amata hardened and somewhat bitter, given her initial interactions with the Doctor and Missy.
73	* TragicKeepsake: The Lone Wanderer had the Courier's [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Holorifle]]. Judging by her comments, she thought he died some time ago.
74	* TwoferTokenMinority: The Lone Wanderer is this, being female and Afro-Asian (half-Asian and half-black if you're wondering what that means).
75	* WalkingArmory: She's described carrying a number of weapons and pouches in and out of her power armor. To be specific, a super sledge, a [[HardLight Holorifle]], the [[PlasmaCannon MPLX Novasurge plasma pistol]] from the ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC, and a [[EnergyWeapon Laser RCW]].
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79	!![=David Stark (aka Lynch)=]
80	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Redemption in the Stars''
81	* CombatMedic: He personally treated Alan's injuries after he got hit by the shrapnel from the guard’s grenade. Ethan was surprised at the previously emotionless operative revealed to be a medic.
82	* TheLancer: To the Courier around midway in the plot.
83	* {{Privateer}}: He was a former member of the Corsairs, a black ops unit that the Alliance could disavow knowledge of if they were caught.
84	* TheStoic: Not a lot of things had fazed him, though he [[NotSoStoic cracked up]] when [[spoiler:Christina was badly injured]].
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86	!![=Christina Rosaline=]
87	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Redemption in the Stars''
88	* TheEngineer
89	* LastBreathBullet: [[spoiler:She gets shot as the frigate's door is about to close by the Shadow Broker's guards who hid out on a catwalk. She doesn’t die, but ends up badly injured.]]
90	* {{Privateer}}: Like Lynch, she was a former member of the Corsairs before joining up with Cerberus.
91	* MauveShirt: [[spoiler: Subverted. Like Alan, she served a minor role. While it appeared she had died as the frigate took off, it heavily implied that Christina will survive her injuries.]]
92	* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler: Becomes one in various experiments conducted by Cerberus, which is one of the reasons why the Courier defected.]]
93	* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Gal]]: She's an engineer, so that's to be expected.
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95	!![=Alan Cain=]
96	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Redemption in the Stars''
97	* TheBigGuy: Lampshaded. He has been described as a walking tank and his armament has supported the assumption.
98	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He died off-screen when the Courier and Christina rescued Liara from captivity.
99	* MauveShirt: He serves a minor role at the end of the fourth chapter and part of the next before biting the dust off-screen.
100	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Aside from him serving in an Alliance squad called Team Bravo and had a racist and ruthless streak, we don't know much about him before he died.
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102	!![=Dr. Layla Harland=]
103	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Little Star''
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105	!![=Arthur Newton=]
106	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Little Star''
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108	!![=Natalie Clay=]
109	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
110	A C-Sec officer who saved Eric from drowning when he arrived in the Mass Effect universe.
111	* BollywoodNerd: Not only was she a RareFemaleExample but a downplayed one as well. She was described as having Indian features, but the only sign of her being a nerd was her playing a video game.
112	* DeadpanSnarker: She had her moments, all of them friendly japes.
113	* HappilyMarried: With Luke.
114	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She was surprisingly opened-minded and helpful towards Eric, even willing to allow him to live at her place.
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116	!![=Luke Clay=]
117	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
118	Married to Natalie, he first met her in San Francisco when he was on shore leave.
119	* HappilyMarried: With Natalie.
120	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. While he was his dismissiveness towards Eric's initial attempts at finding a way back home alongside his casual attitude, he does look out for Eric and is concerned for his well-being.
121	* RealMenCook: It was stated he opened up a restaurant after serving in the Alliance Navy.
122	* SupremeChef: See RealMenCook above. However, he states he's been having some financial problems.
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124	!![=Garrett Pitt=]
125	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
126	A young man whom Eric was introduced to on a blind date. He was the son of an Alliance Marine, hoping to follow in her footsteps someday. While he came off as irreverent and somewhat impulsive, he nevertheless was a caring and passionate man.
127	* DeadpanSnarker: He has a tendency to make quips, sometimes as jokes, other times at the expense of others. The quote below is him commenting on Eric's... attempt at flirting.
128	-->'''Eric''': “Um, by the way, that’s an excellent grip you got there. Strong, firm. Oh, and your eyes are gorgeous. Blue like the sea. Or the sky, I suppose…”
129	-->'''Garrett''': “You said that before.”
130	-->'''Eric''': “I did?”
131	-->'''Garrett''': “Yeah. Several times. And your rhyming’s atrocious, by the way. Really terrible, in fact.”
132	* DeclarationOfProtection: Makes that promise to Eric. Suffice to say, he made good on that promise when Arthur was harassing Eric at the Alliance academy.
133	-->'''Garrett:''' “No matter what happens, I’ll be with you, yeah?”
134	* TheBigGuy: He's described as being half a foot taller than Eric, standing at around 6 feet tall.
135	* TheGadfly: He's very quick to make a joke during his first date with Eric. Later on, he dares Eric to poke a keeper despite the danger, though he quickly claims he isn't serious about it.
136	* MyParentsAreDead: At least his dad, who died in an eezo mining facility when he was three.
137	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly to Eric's Sensitive.
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139	!![=Roy Brandon=]
140	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
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142	!![=Talia Bert=]
143	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
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145	!![=Zoey Lugo=]
146	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
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148	!![=Zachary Turner=]
149	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Molten Lead''
150	A Cerberus operative from Shanxi, he was assigned to report and assess potential candidates for [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Shepard's suicide mission]] sometime after [[spoiler:the Courier betrayed Cerberus and took [[Comicbook/MassEffectFoundation Rasa]] out of the picture]]. He wasn't exactly thrilled about his new job, to say the least.
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152	%% * CrazyJealousGuy: Implied towards Katherine Blanchett. When he finds her chatting with someone on her omni-tool, he gets suspicious before calming himself down.
153	* HearingVoices: He seems to have a voice in his head that acts as the rational part of his mind... and his enabler, if we're going by his AttemptedSuicide and other reprehensible acts that he committed.
154	* FantasticRacism: He really despise anything that's not human, ''especially'' turians, due to the loss of his family on Shanxi and other undisclosed reasons.
155	* FreudianExcuse: His family, consisting of his brother and parents, died during the turian invasion on Shanxi, which gave him a large resentment against turians and other nonhuman species.
156	* StreetUrchin: Before enlisting in the Alliance, he had been with the Ten Street Reds, giving him some skills in sabotage.
157	* VillainProtagonist: Of ''Molten Lead''. He's a human supremacist/speciesist, willing to sacrifice innocents to get what he wants, which was backed by a [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered attitude]], and revels in violence. Yeah, he isn't exactly a saint.
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159	!![=Katherine Blanchett=]
160	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Molten Lead''
161	A close friend of Zachary since childhood.
162	* StreetUrchin: She and Zachary had been with the Ten Street Reds before she joined up with Cerberus.
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165	[[folder:Characters from other universes]]
166	!![=Eric's family=]
167	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''A New Day''
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169	!![=Icarus Station crew=]
170	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''All the World's a Stage''
171	* ContinuityNod: The crew is a part of UGIT (short for United Galactic Intelligence Taskforce), which is one of UNIT's successor organisations referenced in the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episode ''The Council of War''.
172	* FunWithAcronyms: OMI, the resident robot, is short for Omni Mutual Intelligence
173	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Alexander Rand, the administrator of the station, is one. While he was insistent on the experimentations of the [[spoiler:shards of Soul Edge and Soul Calibur]], he was extremely helpful to the Lone Wanderer and the Doctor, doing whatever he can to protect the people on the station.
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175	!![=The Ania=]
176	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''All the World's a Stage''
177	* {{Expy}}: The Ania, being glass creatures, bears a strong resemblance to the Broken Glass Creature from [[https://trollpasta.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Touch_of_Glass a Touch of Glass]], a CreepyPasta.
178	* HiveMind: The Ania functions that way, and in the Doctor's universe, the queen seemed to be affected negatively by [[spoiler:shards of Soul Edge and Soul Calibur]], which the Doctor and some of the station's crew opted to investigate.
179	* HiveQueen: The Ania queen, natch.
180	* NonMaliciousMonster: What the Ania queen turned out to be, despite taking out the shuttle the Doctor and the others were in, and the Ania explicitly being dangerous predators. Two shards of unknown property had been stuck somewhere on the Ania queen's body, disrupting the hive mind with the Ania and causing immense pain in the giant creature. It even telepathically called out to the Doctor, saying it never intended to hurt anybody.
181	* SiliconBasedLife: Well, since they're described as made of glass. Alexander Rand says they're microorganisms taking form upon contact with any solids, both crystalline and amorphous. He also describes then as dangerous predators, able to rip apart anyone in mere seconds.
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183	!![=Nightmare (Graf Dumas)=]
184	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''All the World's a Stage''
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186	!![=Azwel=]
187	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''All the World's a Stage''
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189	!![=The Intruder=]
190	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Molten Lead''
191	Not much is known about this being, other than arriving from another universe bearing ''Franchise/MassEffect'' elements and taking out another entity in a classified location.
192	* AdaptiveAbility: The narration stated he was able to adapt and evolve to anything. Him mimicking voices would back that claim.
193	* BecomeARealBoy: True to the character he's based on, the presence has a fixation with Pinocchio. First, he asked what happened to his body. Later on, he made an account on a chatting application using [[{{WesternAnimation/Pinocchio}} Pinocchio's face]] as an avatar. Needless to say, it creeps Zachary out.
194	* {{Expy}}: From singing about having no strings on him to his demeanor, the being the story refers to as an invader so far has a lot in common with the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron version of]] [[Characters/MCUUltron Ultron]].
195	* InsistentTerminology: Calls himself "adaptable, able to evolve to meet any challenge." In computer terms, that's what a virus is, to put it one way.
196	* MeaningfulName: The moniker he took up on, Deus Machina, which means "God Machine" in Latin. Lampshaded by both him and Zachary in an extranet chat, pointing out that DeusExMachina might be a bit too on the nose.
197	* VoiceChangeling: Able to change his voice at a whim, especially the other AI he assimilated to blend in at the classified location.

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