Pino (Ergo Proxy)

Pino is one of the main characters from the Ergo Proxy series.
== Charactah Account ==
Pino is a "companion-type Auto Reive" designed to act as a surrogate daughter to residents of Romdeau who are prohibited from rearing children, in her case Raul Creed and his wife. During the course of the show Pino becomes infected with the Cogito Virus which gives her a consciousness and full range of emotions, as such Pino often behaves like a normal (if not hyperactive) young girl.
Appearing no older than a five- or six-year-old child, Pino is characterized by her insatiable curiosity, innocence and occasionally stubborn temperament. Pino's endearing personality allows her to win the sympathy and friendship of several characters, both human and AutoReiv; in the case of the former, her display of qualities under the influence of the Cogito Virus leads some to assume she is a human child.
Within moments of meeting Vincent Law, she quickly befriends him and accompanies him on his travels. Arguably, her willingness to so easily trust him may stem from his kindly and seemingly benevolent nature reminding her of her father figure, Raul. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Ergo Proxy
=== Manga ===
* Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker
== Trivia ==
* The scene in the mall with the baby stroller is taken directly from the 1925 Russian propaganda film The Battleship Potemkin - in which a mother is killed by Imperial Czarist soldiers in a town square and her baby stroller rolls down steps in the middle of the fighting. This metaphor is likely paralleling the Proxies as being the power of the domes but not caring/being emotionally connected with their people (who then die as a result of that apathy).
* Before she was infected by the Cogito virus, her hair was a brown-ocher color and she wore a long dark dress. After the infection her hair turns a purple-blue color and she wears a green jumper suit and pink bunny suit.
* In Japanese, Pino often refers to herself in the third person and refers to Re-l as "Re-l Re-l."
* Throughout the series Pino develops human artistic talents from music to drawing, and she learns to create rather than imitate. That is her journey from machine to human - her Pinocchio journey. Also, her name, Pino, is an abbreviated version of Pinocchio.
* Re-L notes in Dead Calm (Busy Doing Nothing) that, while AutoReivs are ambidextrous, Pino has developed a tendency for being left-handed(probably from copying Vincent's actions for so long).
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Pino at Ergo Proxy Wiki
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