Pinocchio (Lies of P)

Pinocchio is the main protagonist of the Soulslike video game Lies of P. He is automated puppet created by Geppetto that is sent to save the city of Krat from destruction. Unlike Krat's other puppets, Pinocchio is the only one capable of lying. 
==Biography==
The game begins in Krat; a city once made prosperous by the automated puppets that served it, until one day they suddenly went berserk and began slaughtering citizens. Unable to stop the Puppet Frenzy, many people sought to take refuge while others donned animal masks and became Stalkers; mercenaries who fought to destroy all puppets in Krat. The chaos was made worst when a dangerous plague called the Petrification Disease spread across the city which either took the lives of those infected by turning them into stone or mutated them into a monster called a Carcass.
Eventually, a unique puppet called Pinocchio is awaken on an abandoned train by a voice telling him to save Krat. Pinocchio makes his way to Hotel Krat where he is told a few survivors have taken refuge and is taught about an energy called Ergo which he can use to make himself stronger. Upon arriving at the hotel, Pinocchio meets the owner of the voice guiding him, a women named Sophia who possesses the power to manipulate Ergo. She tells Pinocchio that he must find his creator Geppetto somewhere around Elysian Boulevard as he is apparently the only one who knows how to stop the Puppet Frenzy. Pinocchio explores the neighbourhood until he finds a Stalker called Mad Donkey who was harassing Geppetto in a carriage on Alchemist Bridge. Mad Donkey is fought and defeated by Pinocchio which allowed Geppetto to step out of the carriage and express how glad he is to see his creation, referring to Pinocchio as his son. The puppet maker tells Pinocchio to clear out the frenzied puppets at City Hall and later stop a factory from producing more of them. Once Pinocchio achieves these tasks, it is revealed that a Puppet King has been controlling the city's puppets through the Ergo used to make them functional.
Pinocchio defeats the King of Puppets inside the Estella Opera House which causes the frenzied puppets to become less active without a leader to guide them. Geppetto tells Pinocchio that he must next focus on finding a group called the Alchemists who have been developing a cure for the Petrification Disease. Pinocchio battles his way through monstrous Carcass mutants to the Grand Exhibition where he is confronted by a giant augmented one named Victor, who he was forced to fight. Afterwards, the leader of the Alchemists, Simon Manus, meets with Pinocchio to congratulate his victory against Victor and reveals that the Alchemists have been using the Petrification Disease to achieve their own goals rather than make a cure for those infected. Simon expresses to Pinocchio his belief that humans infected by the disease are the next step in human evolution through mutation, and is determined to make all of humanity go through the same transformation. He also tells him that Ergo is actually the memories and life essences of people.
Pinocchio returns to Hotel Krat and finds it has been attacked by the Black Rabbit Brotherhood; a group of Stalkers hired by Simon Manus to kidnap Geppetto. It is also revealed that Sophia, the young woman who first called upon Pinocchio on an abandoned train, was actually a illusion projected by real Sophia held captive on the Isle of Alchemists, where Geppetto was taken. Pinocchio commandeers a submarine to travel to the island and makes his way into Simon's lair where he discovers the real Sophia heavily mutated by Ergo. She asks for Pinocchio to put her out of her misery which gives him the option to do so or spare her life before going further up the tower to save Geppetto and confront Simon Manus, who plans to gain god-like power using a massive amount of Ergo.
By the time Pinocchio reaches Simon, he had already mutated himself using the Ergo he gathered and challenges the puppet to a showdown. However, even with all the power Simon obtained, Pinocchio still manages to defeat him and reunites with Geppetto who praises the puppet for his success. Geppetto tells Pinocchio that with all the Ergo he possessed, he can turn into real boy if he surrenders his heart to the puppet maker, revealing it contains the memories and essence of Geppetto's son Carlos.
*If Pinocchio chooses to give away his heart, he will stop functioning as Geppetto uses it to revive Carlos, who proceeds to slaughter all the survivors in Hotel Krat under his father's orders so they can be turned into obedient puppets. Afterwards, Geppetto leaves a note for Carlos to find stating he plans to do the same to the rest of Krat in order to stabilise and save the city as a gift to his son.
*If Pinocchio refuses to give away his heart, Geppetto will express his disappointment in him for his defiance and uses a powerful Nameless Puppet under his control to take the heart by force. A battle between them ensued but Geppetto loses control of the Nameless Puppet and sacrifices himself to protect the heart in Pinocchio's chest. Pinocchio quickly finishes the fight by tearing out the Nameless Puppet's heart and crushing it with his hand before going to Geppetto's side. Geppetto curses Pinocchio, telling him that he was just a puppet before succumbing to his injury.
*If Pinocchio has only told lies as a response, did not spare Sophia and refuses to give away his heart, he will still fight the Nameless Puppet but Geppetto will apologise to Pinocchio afterwards instead of cursing him. Later, Pinocchio will use the Ergo he acquired to revive Sophia as a puppet, who states she is happy to see him again.
==Trivia==
*Pinocchio is never actually referred to as Pinocchio in-game, only P.
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