Puru Two

"To one such as I, you're no more than playthings!"

Puru Two is an artificial Newtype, a clone of the young girl Elpeo Puru, created and brainwashed to be the perfect Newtype soldier as part of a secret Zeon project. While this makes her a force to be reckoned with in a mobile suit, where she is aggressive and confident to the point of arrogance, she can be more than a little awkward when needing to deal with anything beyond duty. This is not aided by a volatile personality, most commonly manifesting in sudden explosive anger. Seeking to prove her worth as an individual, she will show no mercy to anyone who opposes Zeon and the DC.

Background Information
Puru Two is the result of a Zeon experiment to create an artificial uber-Newtype. Cloned rather than born, her DNA was patterned after Elpeo Puru: a girl who, although a powerful Newtype at a very young age, didn't really have the mentality of a soldier, to put it mildly. Although attempts to artificially infuse 'regular' human beings with Newtype abilities weren't new, the Puru Project marked the first attempt to artificially create a Newtype entirely from scratch. This allowed for further tailoring of the original's DNA, plus additional manipulation to ensure that the end result would be completely under Zeon's control. Puru Two was the first prototype: if proven successful, the next step would be to create a small army of Newtype clones, to be unleashed as a secret weapon. These experiments were conducted in secret by Glemy Toto, a charismatic Zeon officer with dreams of grandeur, with full intentions to one day use this Newtype army to seize power for himself.

The initial results were very promising indeed. Puru Two was created with all the knowledge thought to be necessary for effective operation as a Zeon soldier, and was able to converse intelligently and pilot mobile suits from the moment she first opened her eyes. Various tests and combat simulations quickly proved that Puru Two's Newtype abilities were off the charts.

After the conclusion of the tests, Puru Two was told they were going to put her into cryo-stasis until her services were required. Although not exactly happy about the arrangement, she didn't make a fuss about it, mainly because of the insistence of one person: Glemy Toto himself, who spared no effort to make certain that Puru Two would never be able to disobey him, by spending a great deal of time by her side (and a little bit of brainwashing as a precaution). As the only person who seemed to care about her beyond using her as a test subject, Puru Two became very attached to him.

Then, one day, something unexpected happened. Her stasis pod malfunctioned and lost power, causing her to awaken before the intended time. Learning that while she had been sleeping, Zeon had joined the DC and gone to open war, she refused to return to cold sleep, and insisted that she be allowed to assist the effort. Glemy agreed: this could well be a good time to conduct the field testing of his secret weapon.

And the rest... is MUSH history.

Personality Traits
Puru Two may look like a child, but she sure doesn't behave like one. Unlike her original, she isn't at all interested in playing games (that don't involve death and destruction), she's all business. Like any good soldier, she knows her role, and performing that role is the closest thing she knows to enjoyment. She literally lives for combat, and relishes battle more than anything. The greater the challenge, the better.

Extremely intelligent and 'aware' as only a Newtype can be, she realizes that she is different from most people. This shows itself in a sense of superiority: her general behavior doesn't tend to be very respectful, not even towards a good deal of the high-ranking officers. They, like everyone else, would have to actually earn respect in her eyes first, or at the very least also be Newtypes or have other freaky mind powers of some kind to get the time of day. To everyone else, she makes certain to clearly assert herself as someone who can't be messed with, nor ordered around. She values the freedom to do what she wants, and being outside of the official rank structure allows her that freedom most of the time, as she doesn't mind reminding people. She absolutely hates it when people treat her like a child just because she looks like one, so it's best to let people know right off what they can expect.

Although many aren't aware of the Newtype cloning project to begin with, and she doesn't bother correcting Elpeo's perception of the two being twin sisters, she would hate to end up being treated as "just one of the clones". Being aware that there are more just like her out there gives her a strong need to assert her own identity, wanting - no, /needing/ people to acknowledge her as an individual, and will do her best to make her performance stand out for that reason. This is why she's extremely insistent on people calling her Puru Two instead of just Puru, it's all she has to stand apart by name.

As a result of being created with nothing but warfare in mind, and having spent most of her time in simulators and having tests performed on her, she can be more than a little socially awkward. She has little sense of humor, doesn't see the point in many things others enjoy doing, and isn't really interested in making smalltalk. Her first impulse to deal with any problem is "shoot it until it goes away", and she gets frustrated when that isn't an option. It can make talking to her a bit of a chore, especially when the subject matter is one of the many things she doesn't see any merit in.

Her general worldview is simple enough: it's a world where the strong survive and the weak die. She generally shows little regard for other people's lives one way or the other. But she is certainly capable of developing attachments to people, and once formed, those attachments tend to be very strong. Those she grows fond of can count on her support whenever they need it. Those who tick her off can count on a grudge being held against them for a long, long time. She rarely forgives, and never forgets.

The extremeness in the attachments she forms is just one example of the many extremes in her personality. Being an artificial Newtype isn't all fun and games: Cyber-Newtypes have a history of emotional instability, and while she ended up one of the more stable ones, Puru Two's personality is still volatile. In her case, this mostly comes out as violent explosions of anger when provoked, or the thrill of battle causing her to become slightly unhinged. Anger is just about the only emotion she does well; she's perfectly capable of experiencing the full range, but doesn't really know how to deal with any of them other than the aforementioned "shoot whatever is causing it so it will go away". Extreme emotions sensed from others can be similarly problematic.

Finally, it should be noted that, while Puru Two does emphasize the original Puru's aggressive and violent side, the "true" Puru Two never had a chance to develop. In truth, she shares much more in common with her original than she'd be willing to admit to herself. Failure to completely suppress this side of her, the side that can be genuinely caring when circumstances are right, shows that her mental conditioning was not absolutely perfect, but she is likely to put up a lot of resistance if any attempts are made to get her to question what she was conditioned to believe.

Talents & Abilities
Puru Two's Newtype abilities border on 'frightening'. They lack any kind of finesse, and the empathy part is a little hard when you don't really understand emotions, but she can make good practical use of them all the same. Such as the classics: predicting attacks and enemy movements before they happen, as well as mentally operating psycommu-guided remote weaponry. With a suitable interface, she is even capable of operating entire mobile suits while not even being in the cockpit. She can sense other psychics over very long distances, and once she's sensed another Newtype or someone with a different kind of psychic ability, she'll be able to positively identify their presense without fail.

Combined with her (un)natural piloting skill and adaptability, this makes her a tiny terror in just about any mobile suit. Just don't ask her to do anything except fight. It'd be a waste of her talents, anyway.

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