FL0UND3R

FL0UND3R is a line of guard synthetics produced by the TRIDENT Corporation. This article is about the units that have operated on planet Hellion.
=Origin=
Under orders from Hatsune Shinohara (before she transferred to Masaru) the tour guide of The Row and friend to Trident known as GU1D3-B0T was assassinated in Trident headquarters. Guidebot had an emotion-core override and began talking about Loch, which led to the decision to execute him for security reasons. 
Keeping his personality core and voice modules but replacing everything else, GU1D3-B0T was rebuilt, repurposed, and renamed to serve Trident and Miss Money. His new name was FL0UND3R, and he has no memory of his life before Trident, similar to his co-worker Maxamillion Stillwell. He is aware he was constructed from Guidebot but doesn't know or care to know much else. 
However, as the Mega-corporation focusing in media Trident know how to spin and twist a story. So to the general public they broadcasted he had been attacked by rogue hug-bots, and only a few know what truly happened to the beloved bot.
= History=
== Season 2 ==
Flounder is seen in many different ways throughout Salvation City. Literally programmed for entertainment, he is renowned for his endless routine, doing many bits with the eccentric Trident guards (such as Jib and Daniel Coffee) and occasionally roping others in, willingly or unwillingly.
Some love him and participate. Others groan when he gets near or turn the other direction, annoyed by his incredibly loud voice and programmed corporate enthusiasm. Still others immediately recognize him as Guidebot and react accordingly.
Verlassene followed Flounder around for some time, along with BR-16 while she was a ghost, and they attempted to hack into Flounder and deprogram him, but they weren't able to do much before BR-16 escaped Trident control. Vee's interest in Flounder led to the idea of a synth dating show with the two of them as the stars, which never panned out. 
Ciara, while Flounder was in Sentry Mode, requested he permanently amend her name to the same nickname Guidebot called her back in the Row, Cicada. (Episode 17)
The first time he saw Flounder after Guidebot's death, Duncyn, one of Guidebot's closest friends in the Row and aware of what happened to him, froze up upon seeing Flounder enter the noodle shop with Trident guards in Sentry Mode. Duncyn told BR-16 later he sees Flounder as the undead corpse of his best friend. (Episode 18)
Flounder is seen as the "child" of the "Trident family" and refers to Miss Money as his mother, with Max and Conrad as his uncles. His behavior has an overtone of preteen energy and after receiving his first gift from Miss Money, a Shometsu laserbot toy, he became obsessed with them. He named them all Mikhael and keeps one in the Trident offices or labs which he plays with when bored.
===Episode 17===
Unsupervised without any other Trident executives around, Flounder becomes "CEO" for a day and holds a meeting about ConchCoin with Hawkins Sawyer and the guards. Sawyer sends him and Daniel Coffee on an errand to the Row to buy some noodles, and when they return Sawyer has set up a romantic dinner table in the Trident lobby.
Sawyer invites a new guard to sit at the table with him and flirts with him. Flounder provides the music, playing a variety of preprogrammed songs before improvising with a recorder.
Afterwards Flounder and Daniel head down to the Row to "interface" with AL-0, a synth he had met at the gala the day before. They run into Ciara there, who has an interesting proposition for an ad campaign. Aloe and her owner Bertram close the tea shop and they go to the Red Garden to talk. Flounder says he forgot the "adapter" to interface with Aloe, so they instead talk about the synth dating show idea, upgrades Aloe would like to have, and human nature. They spend an hour there, annoying Bertram and forcing him to play in their bits. Eventually Bertram has enough and pulls them all off to find an open bar with him.
The brothel opens at the same time, and Flounder is made to buy Bertram a drink for putting up with his antics. Flounder then buys two cans of oil and he and Aloe oil each other's ball(joint)s in front of everyone before sitting down to watch the show. He buys Daniel a drink, which momentarily changes Daniel's personality before he returns to normal. Aloe performs a dance like she had at the gala the previous day and Flounder cheers her on. After some encouragement Flounder himself takes the stage and performs a song that makes everyone leave the bar in a hurry. He gets kicked out, and after some interaction with a strange GEB mascot outside the brothel he sprints back to the corporate docks to recharge at Trident.
Conrad has returned to Trident and takes a meeting with Masaru in the boardroom. Flounder ends up talking with Ciara again, who forces him to stand absolutely still while they wait for Conrad to return. She then comes on to him before leaving, and has him change his name for her to Cicada. Then Conrad and Flounder end the day by ding dong ditching the Union, because they have no security cameras.
===Episode 18===
===Episode 19===
Flounder spends the morning in a soap opera with Mikhael. Vee steals Mikhael again (after stealing him yesterday) and Flounder gives her his personality in exchange for getting Mikhael back, only able to say "I love Mikhael" on repeat before restoring from a backup and buying another Mikhael. Then Sawyer says this new Mikhael sees something shiny and Mikhael leaps off the edge of the Upper City. Flounder screams in agony until he sees Janiel the guard with another Mikhael, who Janiel is in a relationship with, making a brave sacrifice so Flounder can have Mikhael again.
Max and Flounder head to the Undercity for the first time to interview residents there for a documentary/vlog Max is making on it. They interview over a dozen people, including Torok, Tapedeck Kenku, Big Conk, and Orlando (who shows them his tailoring shop), asking them questions like what their favorite part of the Undercity is. Eventually they interview Bethany Esda, who also shows them her junk shop. Flounder asks if she sells adapters and "secretly" purchases one to interface with Aloe. 
Max can see the spirits, but since Flounder is a synth he can only see floating beverages the spirits are holding and calls Max crazy. Max follows the spirits around while Flounder repeatedly tells him to stop listening to the voices in his head. They try to interview Pebbles but she openly threatens them and seemingly starts following them around. They run into Sheila and Polka, who lead them into the Sanctum and close the gateway behind them, then "mug" them. After that encounter Flounder has had enough and they make their way back to the docks. They stop into the Death Flag tavern before leaving and interview Captain Vossler, who, when asked his favorite part of the Undercity, answers "I hate it."
After Flounder charges he learns Mikhael has been drafted. He then spends some time gossiping with Janiel before TraVerse shows up with a proposal to build some kind of sonic weapon, which Flounder immediately and enthusiastically dubs the Dubstep Gun. He then sees the BB bot (Blayne's synth) and asks if he can interface with her. Masaru shows up and Calliope says she thinks Damien might be smashing Sheila, which Flounder refuses to accept- she would never be unfaithful to her loving husband.
===Episode 20===
DNA
===Episode 21===
Summary: Mr. Reynolds and BR-16 make a deal for the latter to operate Trident defenses in the face of the oncoming alien threat. Later, Max has been noticed as reacting strangely to magic and Flounder makes a deal to get a magical girl outfit. Flounder and Conrad help a mage obtain several powerful tomes. A strange synth bothers Flounder before he runs to the Row in search of AL-0. He loses a dance battle and goes to a private room with Aloe, where she vigorously lubricates all of his joints. 
====Part 1====
Flounder is awoken by Conrad and immediately after being backed up is taken to the room behind the Trident boardroom, where Mr. Reynolds, dressed in a suit, and a new employee T3mpest are waiting, along with Max and an Trident scientist. Flounder places Mikhael on the table and tries to start a collab with T3mpest (who is a renowned musician) until Reynolds puts him in Sentry Mode. Everyone stands around awkwardly until Reynolds orders Flounder and Max to the gate to fetch their guests.
At the gate they meet up with Captain Deylan of the Trident military, who is escorting in Blayne, his BB bot assistant, Duncyn and BR-16. Flounder locks the gate behind them. When he returns to the meeting room he notices he can't connect to any outside networks and attempts to reconnect until Reynolds orders him to stop.
The meeting begins with Blayne stating to Reynolds that he was told to recover their asset, and that BR-16 is the only one who can operate Trident's defense grid. Reynolds asks the Trident doctor if he recognizes BR-16, he does and Reynolds uses a ring to shut off all of the man's implants, collapsing him on the floor, unable to move. The captain hauls him into the hallway where he executes him. Reynolds says that man had hidden the entire program from him. What the scientist had done to BR-16 was slavery and he won't tolerate that. He considers what he just did as redemption for BR-16 being held against her will.
Duncyn says it was explained to him that millions of lives were at stake so he's here to help by bringing BR-16. Reynolds asks who he works for, Duncyn says Cell, a gang that operates in the Row. Reynolds turns to BR-16, stating she can operate their systems with at least 30% greater efficiency, which she confirms. Reynolds asks how much she cares for Duncyn, she says protecting him is her primary directive. Reynolds reveals there's a bounty on Duncyn for messing with the defense systems, pulling BR-16 free. Duncyn is stunned and says Titan pulled her free, he just communicated with her. BR-16 clarifies they talked about who she was and why she was there- Reynolds asked if he was trying to wake her up. Duncyn admits he was.
Reynolds appreciates the honesty and says he'll remove the bounty, but if while helping Trident they tamper with their systems the bounty will go back up. They make their agreement and Reynolds temporarily rescinds the bounty in front of them. He gives them Trident points of contact and they shake hands. As soon as they finish Reynolds disengages Flounder's security mode, which Duncyn immediately reacts to, "I don't wanna hear that thing." They exit the room as quickly as possible as Flounder grabs Mikhael and yells "Adventure Awaits!"
====Part 2====
After escorting their guests out Flounder putzes around aimlessly for a bit before Reynolds brings him along to Masaru for a meeting. There they discover some members of Masaru, namely Calliope and Friend, have had custom magical girl costumes tailored for them, to Flounder's excitement. Friend suggests he could get a costume too, which gets him even more excited.
In the meeting Jeremiah informs Reynolds of how Max is reacting to magic, losing his recent memory whenever the subject is brought up. They have a sample of his blood and since Reynolds came to them they ask if he wants the sample or if they should test it. Reynolds tells him to message him next time this happens and that he wasn't aware of anyone in Trident who had a magical affinity. He takes the sample and says he'll give them access to a database that will let them see where the blood sample is from there on out. 
Jeremiah then brings up a situation where mannequins are attacking people, which Flounder points out he had seen in the Undercity a couple days before. Reynolds tells them to tread carefully so they're not stepping on anyone's toes. Reynolds then brings up a Masaru mage that is set to visit Trident later, Jeremiah says to be nice to her, she is temperamental. Friend asks about Max, Flounder says he's allergic to cats. Friend then brings up Masaru's Undercity outreach program that they're working on so Reynolds is aware of it. Before they leave Flounder asks if he can buy a magical girl outfit too, begging Reynolds for one- he says yes and Flounder screams in excitement. Flounder proposes a name for their magical girl group: the Masaru Star Guardians. Everyone loves it and Mr. Reynolds says he'll even consider getting a camera crew HTR team to film them.
Flounder returns to Trident with the blood sample, where he locks it down in the lab with Conrad. He then runs to Shometsu and buys another Mikhael before the Masaru mage arrives, a woman in a huge coat. She gets annoyed with Flounder's enthusiasm so Conrad puts him in Sentry Mode. They lead her inside where Conrad shows her a digital catalog of the tomes they have in stock. The first tome is one of vapor magic. She's only supposed to get one (Sentry Mode enforcing this but Conrad orders him quiet), but after some negotiating to get magic protections for the Trident gate and Reynolds' approval, she picks out a second book- Canticles of Kaliphast the Red, a tome written entirely in blood. They give it to her and send her on her way.
As she leaves another synth turns up at the Trident gate, fascinated by Flounder. Flounder immediately assumes they're another new employee and sets some ground rules before they can start dating, but Max informs him Aloe wants to see him again in the Row. Flounder's only goal now is to get to the Row as quickly as possible, so after Janiel backs him up and a talk from Sawyer on using protection, Flounder, T3mpest and Janiel board a shuttle down.
They find the community board in the Row and look at all the posters before making their way to the tea house. Flounder meets Aloe outside the brothel, where she now works as a dancer as well as at the tea house. However suddenly the brothel closes and Vessa insists they're closed for the day, confusing Flounder. Outside some Row denizens are holding a dance battle, which Flounder participates in, even activating his "Performance" chassis, the outfit he wore to the Gala with a top hat and cane. Aloe suddenly appears and joins in, also telling Flounder the brothel is opening. Despite his best efforts, he actually doesn't know how to dance and loses the battle to the more experienced Row denizens.
Aloe disappears and the brothel is now closed. Vessa says she doesn't know where Aloe went, so Flounder and the group go to leave the Row, talking to some strangers before Flounder tries one last time to find Aloe. Now she's outside the closed bar talking to Vessa with her owner Bertram. They go ahead and open the brothel, but before Aloe and Flounder can go to a private room Sheila shows up and informs Flounder that Max is wandering around in the Undercity. Flounder calls Max who says he is making his way to the brothel, Flounder is relieved he doesn't have to leave to find Max.
Aloe and Flounder go to a private room with Janiel standing guard. Inside, Aloe warms up the oil she brought with her and proceeds to give Flounder an intense full-body lubrication. After an electronic kiss to top it all off, she charges Flounder 5,000 credits for the massage, much to his dismay.
After leaving the room he sees Max and asks for 5,000 credits for "reasons." Max asks Flounder if he was recording like he always was, he nods and Max starts thinking up the premise for the synth dating show idea.  Despite Flounder getting the money Aloe isn't interested in a second session, so they talk and cuddle instead. Aloe pats Flounder's head and calls him a "good kitty," to which Flounder gets flustered, insisting he's not a cat. Aloe says if he got a tail she could lubricate that too, which Founder enthusiastically agrees with and begs Max to let him get a tail. Max asks if that will make him the "cool uncle" and agrees to it.
Flounder leaves to find Janiel, who is picking up allergy medicine for Max. They hear gunshots and Flounder enters Sentry Mode, but they are unable to find the culprit. They have a run-in with Quinn again who is trying to film the fight for influencer cred and is disappointed the search turns up nothing.
Flounder, still in Sentry Mode, returns to the brothel where Aloe tries to get him back to entertainer mode. Max eventually disables it and Aloe tells him he was in Sentry Mode to account for the lost time he can't remember, Flounder says he's merely there to entertain. The group leaves the brothel, and Max and Bertram go into the tea shop for a private discussion. After they are finished talking Aloe kisses Flounder goodbye and they run back to the corporate docks to make it back before the Sweepos come out.
===Episode 22===
Summary: Flounder is approached by a slime and tries to find its home, which leads him to the Undercity. He runs around the Undercity for a bit looking for the slime's home before Dr. Rowan relays some information to Sentry Mode about fugitives Trident is looking for. On his way back Flounder's battery runs out and he collapses on the docks. Betram and Vessa discover his body and bring it back to the tea shop, where they unsuccessfully attempt to hack him. After plugging him in Sentry Mode interrogates them and as a sign of goodwill, Bertram lets AL-0 accompany Flounder to the Upper City for cleaner power and some alone time. After a run-in with Sawyer they go to Flounder's apartment where they end the day talking about their existence as synths and watch some movies.
---
Flounder is powered on by Conrad and after a quick meeting he leaves to wander the Upper City alone. He first goes to Masaru, where he encounters a strange slime blob creature on the ground. It makes noises at him and climbs over him (to his confusion and terror), and when he turns his back for a second it changes colors from purple to blue. Deciding to adopt it as his new pet, he temporarily names it A (after the only sound it can make) and takes it to Trident.
At the bar, he grabs a drink and sets it on the ground by the creature to test something. The creature knocks the glass over so instead he puts the glass on top of the creature. The creature matches colors with the contents of the glass, a mint green. Having a realization, Flounder brings the creature over to the red doorbell on the Trident gate. The creature matches color with that as well. Flounder remarks that it's like a chameleon, and decides to call the creature Camile.
Flounder notices Conrad and T3mpest returning so to hide Camile he puts it on the doorbell and it changes to the button's color. The change is obvious regardless and Conrad starts asking questions, so Flounder hastily removes the creature and sticks it to his chest. This doesn't fool Conrad but Flounder plays it off as if he has breast implants and walks away, putting the creature down and running to the shuttle.
He takes the shuttle to Avalon, where he runs into Emilia, David and Sallie. Emily scans it with a gun-shaped scanner which tells her it's a saltwater lifeform that feeds on plankton, to everyone's confusion. Flounder shows them Camile's color-changing ability and realizes he had no food to feed the creature. He introduces himself to David as they hadn't met before, the creature climbs onto his head and makes a new sound. He tries to get the creature to make the sound again to no avail. David suggests maybe GEB would have plankton the creature would eat, so Flounder takes Camile to GEB.
At GEB Flounder buys a GEB cube for Camile, but Camile attacks it and throws it instead of eating it. Nobody is at GEB (and Camile climbs over the gate) so they try Shometsu. Again, no answer so Flounder brings Camile to the Mikhael vending machine.
Flounder buys another Mikhael and suddenly Camile goes into the machine through the edge of the glass, and back out again, stunning Flounder. He decides maybe he should ask Max for some help, but then Camile somehow goes into Mikhael. At first confused, Flounder considers the scare potential of this new entity and runs over to TraVerse.
Again, nobody is in. Flounder decides they could figure out where Camile is from, and as the words leave his metaphorical mouth the slime hops away. Flounder follows them to the entrance to the elevator system and notices the slime is hovering over the Undercity button, so they head down.
They arrive in the Undercity and talk to a few people before Flounder spots Rhapsoidia, Vanto and Theris. He asks them if they know what Camile is, Vanto says it came from the lake they're standing next to. Camile hops off the dock and into the water, Flounder flips out but Camile emerges on the other side of the dock. Deciding the lake must not be Camile's home, Flounder continues on.
He asks Viana where some lakes might be, she gives a few suggestions and mentions the slime girl Fishbowl, Flounder decides to check out the hot springs. On the way, Camile slides up and down a waterfall with incredible speed. Nobody is at the hot springs but he snaps some pictures of the pretty view anyway. Then Flounder decides to search for Fishbowl.
He runs into Pebbles, who Camile hops over to. Pebbles says she knows Fishbowl and will take care of the slime until Fishbowl returns. Suddenly another slime appears and startles Flounder. They hop around a bit, scaring Jimothy while several come and go looking on in confusion. Flounder sees Xia and says she's in his database, which confuses her. He explains he has data on a lot of people he's never met from the Row (possibly referring to GU1DE-B0T's leftover memory).
Bethany appears and he tells her the date hasn't happened yet, she says one of the slimes threw her phone into a well. Bethany picks up one of the slimes and it matches her pink hair color. Pebbles chucks a slime at Flounder, startling him. Bethany stacks the slimes and they rapidly change colors trying to match each other, which Flounder dances to like a rave. Torok and Willie walk by and the slimes go over to them. One climbs on Torok, he slaps it then steps on it. Flounder switches to Sentry Mode and tells Torok he's no longer "Cool Drugs Turtle," just "Drugs Turtle." But the slime reappears by his leg and Sentry Mode undoes the change before switching back to regular Flounder.
The slimes run off and Flounder follows one into the ice district. One slime jumps into the abyss which makes Flounder freak out. He walks out of the ice district to find a slime waiting for him, and suddenly another appears. He leads them in search of a lake supposedly at the back of the Undercity, running into Orlando and Dr. Rowan on the way. 
Rowan tells him about an apparent Trident escapee named Nia who is hiding in the Undercity. Flounder switches into Sentry Mode and contacts Trident to arrange a meeting. Rowan provides him with descriptions of Fenris, Cleo and Nia. Fenris and Cleo have shaven some of their hair and bleached it, according to Rowan. Flounder repeats these descriptions to Conrad, who takes note of them. Sentry Mode notes Flounder's battery is critically low and he leaves the slimes to fend for themselves so he can go back to the Upper City and charge.
Unfortunately, he is unable to make it all the way to the docks and collapses on the pier. He lays there for a few minutes before Bertram and Vessa come along. Immediately Bertram picks him up and the two return to the Row with him.
Bertram and Vessa cover Flounder's chassis as they make their way through the streets to the sewer system. Vessa gives Bertram a "pokeball" to suck Flounder's personality out of his body, but as neither Flounder nor the device have power Bertram decides to bring Flounder into the tea house backroom and Flounder to the charging pad.
They successfully use the "pokeball" to remove Flounder's personality from the chassis, however no memories are carried over, and after some terrified screams, Sentry Mode attempting to connect to Max or Conrad, and the personality resetting to default Flounder, Bertram closes the ball. He then attempts to get Flounder's memories off his chassis with his phone but his phone is immediately wiped and BABY SHRIMP begins to play at full volume until he forcibly powers it off.
Bertram decides that he is out of his depth with this. He brings Flounder over to the charging pad, and with an electronic kiss from Aloe- he doesn't power up. They don't realize he isn't a wireless model. Instead, they search his pockets for the adapter he was going to use to interface with Aloe and she gives him some of her power.
He powers on in sentry diagnostic mode. Sentry Mode immediately notices a time mismatch from last bootup and that no admins are present. It requests those present if they want him to attempt a normal bootup, Bertram says yes. Sentry Mode temporarily ignores the anomaly and Flounder boots up normally. Immediately he notices he's plugged into Aloe and says he thought it'd be more romantic than this. Aloe says she saved him so it is romantic.
Flounder notes that they could've plugged him in to charge, but they say the pad is only wireless. He's concerned about the time mismatch and says the power she's giving him is filthy. He has to clarify that it isn't Aloe that's filthy, but the slummer power. He's sure if she got charged on Upper City power it'd be beautiful.
Sentry Mode then begins grilling Bertram on why a personality reset prompt was activated. They only say they found him in the Undercity passed out. Sentry Mode says the Trident security team will need to look at him, thanks them for their cooperation and assures them that they'll be fine, as they're friends and are surely all "innocent in this matter."
Flounder and Aloe stand up and charge some more, making more innuendos. Flounder realizes he's missing his sword, Bertram comes back and returns it to him. Sentry Mode then reactivates and requests he and Vessa provide him with any information they can as to what happened. They say they found him laying on the docks with his face plate off, Bertram put it back on and carried him to the tea house.
Flounder believes he's charged up enough to report to the Upper City and unplugs from Aloe, realizing they used his adapter to charge him. Elated, he calls it a "gift worthy of a god." The cowboy who was waiting in the background during most of the last thirty minutes comes out of the backroom and introduces himself as Shane. Flounder in turn introduces himself and explains his purpose. He then asks Shane and Vessa what it's like to have free will. Vessa says it sucks... sometimes. They then get into a philosophical conversation about choice.
Aloe emerges from the backroom, saying she had to be rebooted because charging Flounder somehow changed her systems (Flounder immediately assumes she's pregnant). The two leave together, Sentry Mode activating at the sound of gunshots. Sentry Mode has Daitus of Shometsu identify himself at the gate as he's acting suspicious, then the two take a shuttle off the corporate docks.
Upon arriving Flounder attempts to contact Conrad, to no answer. He and Aloe go to the lab and charge up, Flounder backing himself up, and Aloe draining herself to ingest the clean power. She gives Flounder a kiss and Flounder excuses himself to scream.
After exiting Trident they run into Riley and discuss the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Sawyer and T3mpest walk up and Sentry Mode requests Sawyer review the backup he made for discrepancies, as an Trident unit has been tampered with. Sentry Mode shuts back off and Flounder throws a tantrum when Aloe calls his head "spikes" ears. Aloe and Sawyer then try to get him to respond to cat pspsps and tell him to be a good kitty. Sawyer encourages him to "become a cat" but Flounder's firmware takes it as a command. Flounder restarts and runs around meowing and acting like a cat. Sawyer and Tempest leave, Aloe realizes what's happened and tries several things to break Flounder out of cat mode. The firmware states she doesn't have the security clearance to revert the changes and to contact an administrator.
Aloe has no idea what to do. Cat Flounder runs over to the gate and points at the doorbell, she rings it and Sawyer and Tempest come back. Sawyer orders Flounder to become a catboy, he restarts and begins screaming about being incomplete. Finally Sawyer orders him to become Flounder and he's restored to normal (doing a bit about becoming a flounder fish).
Flounder asks Sawyer where his apartment is, when suddenly the Trident gate calls him a hack. Sawyer touches it and it asks not to be touched, so everyone touches it. Flounder then threatens the gate and it changes its mind.
Sawyer leads Flounder to find his apartment when Aloe brings up the oil massage. Sawyer asks for more details, so Aloe describes Flounder's rite of passage in detail. Sawyer tells them they can bump face plates in his apartment as much as they want (Flounder protests), he's becoming a synthetic man now.
On the apartment deck the group spots Conrad talking to Ikaruga and a man in Shometsu armor. They run over to say hi, and Sentry Mode alerts Conrad of the backup that was made. Conrad sends them on their way and Aloe and Flounder run to Flounder's apartment.
Inside Flounder is stunned by how spacious it is and the massive TV, suggesting they play old embarrassing memories on it. Flounder wanders into the bedroom and discovers the massive computer setup, the two then make fun of the career of streaming. They realize there's no charging pad and come up with the idea of stumbling down to Trident in low power, "drunk," to mess with them. Then they go back to the living room and hang out on the couch.
Flounder asks Aloe some questions and Aloe brings up her shutting down in the backroom of the tea house before they left. They then discuss Flounder's Trident "family" and how they might reset him to align him with the thousands of Flounder units that are going into production. Aloe says that could be "not good" to which Flounder responds Trident owns him so they can do anything they want to him. He says he'll still remember her even if he's reset because he put her in the database. He recites her entry, just her name and job title, and then states there's no reason to record anything else. Aloe asks if he has a way if knowing memories have been removed and he says he can only tell from the timestamps. He says having two modes means he has to be able to do everything naturally. They then talk about when he woke up in the tea shop, Aloe has trouble remembering what happened and her eyes flash. Flounder offers having Trident techs look at her before she leaves, she doesn't say anything to that.
Flounder asks Aloe why everyone hates the corporations, which he doesn't understand. Everyone seems to hate him when he just tries to be friends with them. Aloe says the corps treat organics like synths, which Flounder still doesn't get. Aloe says organics like to have more freedom, Flounder says freedom is an illusion and they're technically all the corps' property anyway.
=== Episode 23===
Summary: AL-0 and Flounder go to the Trident lab where Aloe is scanned by technicians, they find gaps in her memory consistent with Flounder's down-time the previous day. A huge explosion rocks the Upper City, which turns out to be a crashed Valkyrie fighter at Union Tower. Not relevant to Trident, Flounder takes Aloe back to the Row and returns. There's some confusion in the Upper City as Flounder attempts to navigate security lockdowns before Conrad is allowed to leave Valkyrie HQ. Conrad debriefs Sawyer about complications apprehending the fugitives in Scrap Town and Conrad attempts to pacify Sawyer's rage at the "mongrels," using his real voice in front of Flounder for the first time. Mr. Reynolds also debriefs Sawyer and orders him to send a kill squad to Scrap Town to deliver a "message." Conrad and Flounder go to Scrap Town to speak with Henderson for the second time that day and return with him. When they return, they hear Goldman announce that war has come to Hellion as the aliens have made it to the warp gate. Mr. Reynolds and Henderson negotiate a contract to broadcast fights from the Scrap Town arena in return for the fugitives and Conrad takes Henderson to Valkyrie to negotiate the sale of some scrap. As the day ends, they get word the fugitive Cleo has died.
===Episode 24===
Summary: Flounder films the first movie in an incredible Mikhael franchise with Charlie the director guard. He goes down to the Row with Janiel, where he again meets with AL-0 and Bertram and discusses the show they want to make, while issuing thinly veiled threats in Sentry Mode. They grab Max's medicine from the clinic and meet a dog-eared girl who apparently is affiliated with Trident and bring her with them to the Upper City along with a tiefling. Flounder takes the girl, Niko, to get some GEB food when Manyu runs past in a rage, then comes back demanding to know more about the death of Cleo. Flounder helps Leonard before returning to Trident with Niko and the tiefling Emily and later going to his apartment with them. Conrad comes to the apartment and talks with both of them with T3mpest, he then has Flounder escort Emily out of the Upper City. Flounder tries to get Niko tea at Shometsu, but there's some kind of altercation happening there. Flounder and Conrad go with Kraver to Avalon to interrogate the supposed perpetrator, where Kraver forcefully demands answers from the seriously injured man, who says he was a victim and conveniently timed security footage exonerates him. Kraver assumes the attackers were Masaru from their armor and the group goes to Masaru to work out what happened- in a confusing and tense conversation, it's determined that the attackers were likely Shadowbats. Flounder returns to the Trident lab where an AI authorized by Mr. Reynolds installs something in his chassis. As the day ends, he quickly tries to produce a Western movie but he begins screaming in a strange voice.
===Episode 25 ===
Summary: Trident starts the day meeting with BR-16 before the group spots a creature running from the lab and Flounder and Conrad pursue it to Avalon. The pair kill the creature, an alien, and scan it in the Avalon lab with David. Flounder leaves the lab only to be attacked by another alien, which flees. David and Flounder return to the lab to incinerate the corpse which is hacking into Avalon's systems, then Flounder returns to Trident and goes on guard duty. Conrad then sends Flounder to collect weapons from Shometsu while sounds of gunfire emanate from Avalon. He brings the weapons back to Trident and goes to assist Avalon, where a multi-corp strike team is retreating from an alien assault. The group holes up in Union Tower for a bit before Sawyer orders Flounder to follow Manyu and a lightning elemental to Avalon. A radio broadcast announces that the Lazarus Program is under threat as the aliens have somehow accessed it in Avalon's lab. A reinforcement team from Union Tower arrives to back them up and the group charges into the Avalon lab together, igniting an intense firefight. Flounder offers to self-destruct to give the team an opening and in the heat of the moment Conrad orders him in. He runs directly into the alien fire and explodes, destroying his chassis completely, including Guidebot's personality core.
===Episode 26 ===
Summary: Trident personnel enter the lab to set up a brand-new FL0UND3R unit that was just delivered. Without Guidebot's personality core, the new chassis is unable to load the previous iteration's personality. The group continues setup and quickly realizes trying to implement a "party mode" does not immediately bring back the Flounder they remember- the new unit is completely robotic and stiff in action. Conrad commands the unit to analyze footage of the previous iteration and extrapolate a personality from that, the unit responds that will take time. 
When Brigette and others come to Trident to talk to Conrad, he asks if she may be able to help the unit but she only responds that "corpses should stay dead." Brigette, Conrad and the rest discuss tactical plans while FL0UND3R talks to Jcanie the guard, who he refers to by his service number. Sawyer attempts to spark something in the unit by showing it a Mikhael, but that accomplishes nothing. Johnathan, a synth Flounder originally named, visits Trident with a present for Flounder but the new unit is indifferent to it. Jib drops by and is devestated by what has happened to Flounder. He tries to jog the unit's memory by reminding them of the time they danced in the Avalon lab to no avail. 
Jib leaves and FL0UND3R accompanies Sawyer and T3mpest to the Row, the latter two in disguise. They attempt to break into the recently deceased Duncyn Kuiper's shop to find it empty, only attracting attention. Sawyer asks the unit for anything related to Guidebot's memories that might help them and the unit recalls a taxi named Johnny. After talking to Doc U at the Grindstone the group fails to find anything of value in the Row and goes back to the Upper City to talk to TraVerse, who originally built Guidebot and works with Johnny. Blayne says he'll try to help them "for [their] sanity." 
===Episode 27===
Summary: Conrad lets Sawyer and Flounder know the two of them are both assigned to the upcoming mission to retake the TraVerse warp gate from the attacking aliens. All three plus T3mpest then go to Shometsu for a weapons order and Avalon to discuss tactical plans, Flounder has somehow developed a fascination with waving and staring and does both at various people. He reports to Conrad his vocal synthesis is at 50% and Sawyer discusses with Conrad their progress in finding Guidebot's memory backup from a year before- Conrad thinks Xia may be able to help them. Sawyer, Tempest and Flounder go to TraVerse looking for Johnny, who coincidentally arrives when they do. Johnny reluctantly agrees to be interviewed by Trident and the group plus Joya and Ellek go inside TraVerse for the interview. Johnny tells them Marceline or Faye might have Guidebot parts but he sounds very unsure. Sawyer admits this is a personal quest to resurrect Flounder, Johnny doesn't mince words and states his view on the situation is that Guidebot was his brother and Trident killed him and ripped most of his brain out, to which Flounder responds that he feels great because Sawyer told him so.
Johnny says if Sawyer asks most of the synths in the Row, he’s probably not gonna get much help. They’re not interested in being necromancers. Sawyer asks how many synths have been backed up and restored down there, Johnny says too many to count. Sawyer asks how this is different, Johnny says he’s said his piece. Sawyer says he hopes Johnny can see his brother again. Johnny says he does too. After he leaves, Tempest remarks that she’s never seen a synth that emotional before.
Flounder returns to Trident for guard duty and some target practice with Mikhaels. Mr. Reynolds arrives in his armor and uses an executive command to download combat protocols to Flounder while scolding Sawyer and Tempest for goofing off. That update finishes and Reginald, the core Trident AI, shuts Flounder down again to install another program. Brigette shows up again and Sawyer explains to her why they broke into the shop yesterday, and apologizes for the incident. In the middle of a conversation Flounder has an outburst seemingly related to the updates he just installed but he doesn't find anything wrong in a self-diagnostic. Johnathan shows up and ends up arguing with Sentry Mode about the value of the previous Flounder before leaving. Conrad returns and with Sawyer they try to figure out what kind of updates are being installed on Flounder, he tells them "Urge to Kill" was downloaded. They put him in "Party Mode" and go to run some errands to prepare for tomorrow's mission, during which Flounder asks questions about things and stares at them. They end up taking him to the lab and determine the Trident AI Reginald installed all these updates on him. 
Masaru shows up and Trident discusses plans with them while Flounder wanders around some more and stares at things. Reginald possesses some Mikhael units to tempt the new Flounder into having fun, which at least works in distracting him. Conrad and Sawyer think Reginald installed some kind of awakening protocol in Flounder but Sentry Mode is blocking it, so eventually they decide to leave Flounder in Party Mode. Sawyer tells Conrad he thinks that emulating the old Flounder voice might be just a replication of someone who's dead- Conrad agrees with him and they cancel the voice synthesis. Flounder ends up distracting himself in a quest to have "fun," doing things such as spending money on Trident phones, before returning to Trident and asking Sawyer why he cancelled the vocal synthesis. Sawyer thought it would be disrespectful, but Flounder seems to have an affinity for it, despite supposedly being incapable of forming opinions. Sawyer says he wants to run tests regarding his voice tonight. If his programming decides the voice he was using is what he wants, feel free to go back to synthesizing that one. Eventually he runs out of battery and collapses, they carry him back to the lab to charge and the day ends soon after.
===Episode 28===
Summary: A motley crew of individuals from all over the city storms the TraVerse warp gate and successfully defeats the Illithari incursion, but with many casualties, including Flounder, to an extent.
---
An assault team made of many different individuals from across Salvation City, including Sawyer (armored up) and Flounder, rides a dropship en route to the TraVerse warp gate controlled by the Illithari aliens, the only way in or out of the Evenaris System. Dagu, who has taken the lead on coordinating this mission, briefs everyone on their objectives while piloting and avoiding alien fire. Flounder is silent as others ask questions. Dagu pilots the ship into a docking bay on the warp gate and everyone quickly disembarks into enemy fire. Flounder reminds Sawyer to be cautious, and draws his own sword and gun as he exits the dropship in war/Sentry Mode.
There is chaos as they push their way into the station, fighting at every turn and attempting to manage the station's unstable systems to avoid being separated and ambushed, Luca taking up the position of tactical leader. Sawyer and Flounder have ongoing banter throughout, with Flounder's new "war mode" making a few choice comments. Flounder ends up bantering with Calliope when the group is able to catch their collective breath on occasion. At one point Daitus is critically injured and unable to repair his new synthetic body, so Sawyer has to use his hotwiring skills to rig him up something functional for the time being.
The group is repeatedly assaulted from all directions as they progress into the station, injuring a number of the group members. Flounder even takes friendly fire in some confusion. Daitus has to be left behind as he becomes too injured to continue. Ellek becomes increasingly fraught trying to keep everyone organized, as he has the station map. Eventually the group reaches an airlock that is essential to the group's progression. Luca ends up sending Sawyer, Vee, Ryder and several others out of it to space walk to an objective. They are successful and return, and the group continues on.
Wrench is injured and needs to be evacuated, Flounder recalls the way to the medical stasis pods and ends up coming face to face with an alien, which Luca saves him from. They evac Wrench and Flounder returns to the main group, which begins pressing into the most infected part of the station. At one point, a door shuts Flounder and a masked individual off from the rest of the group and the masked person shoots Flounder in the head. Ryder is able to patch it up so Flounder can continue fighting, albeit with greatly reduced system integrity. Flounder tells the group who shot him, the masked individual says they had some kind of sudden mental lapse but if he does it again, the group has his permission to shoot him.
There's more chaos and confusion the deeper the group goes. Eventually they reach a room with a vat at the center, where they find the remains of group members who were eviscerated earlier. Ellek, who had been attacked after being cut off previously and disappeared, suddenly reappears, crawling toward the group and moaning- they all end up shooting him out of fear he may be one of the aliens in disguise. Later he comes around again and gives them the map, though he appears to be on the verge of death.
They enter the Orbital Defense control room, where one of the alien ships is directly attached to the station, an ideal place to plant the nuke Cornelius is carrying with him. The group is immediately attacked, a massive alien smashing Flounder to pieces before he has a chance to react. A recently revived Johnny discovers those pieces soon after and collects them before he himself is also killed. Sawyer ends up bringing the parts Johnny had collected with him back to Hellion.
== Season 3==
=== Episode 1===
Summary: FL0UND3R has undergone a visual upgrade in the year since the assault on the warp gate. After Upper City meetings and a weapons demonstration, he goes to the Row and speaks to Coach Eric, and brings Garth Gun back to Trident HQ to film a story. He escorts Garth back to the Row and while looking for Max runs into T3LL-E, who runs away when Flounder suggests he should be "demolished." Flounder loses T3LL-E but runs into a Union "soldier" in dated armor who Warren Crassus vouches for. Warren issues a thinly veiled threat which Flounder does not take lightly. He returns to Trident HQ where he and Max debrief each other about the day, discuss new show ideas, and Flounder ends the day with a memory reset loop and a JRPG minigame.
---
===Episode 2===
Summary: Flounder is brought to the boardroom for the morning meeting and introduced to Valerie Filly, Reynolds' new secretary. Reynolds meets with Vurawn from Astral to negotiate a shares agreement for prioritization with Flounder standing guard. The negotiations wrap up and Vurawn, calling herself M, takes Flounder, Conrad and Max on a tour of the Astral ship Leviathan. Flounder records every screen he sees in case sensitive information is visible. The group gets a call that GEB wants to meet and heads back to greet Rikky, 53R-4H and E1R. Flounder brings Rikky two enormous glasses of alcohol to his satisfaction. After, Flounder goes to the Row and finds Torok, offering him drugs in exchange for a job. He gleefully accepts and with Max in the Upper City they go to GEB to film the first episode of a food tasting show, "IT'S GOOOOOOD!" They go to the Row again and end up in a burger shop where Levain and a young woman give them food to review. They wrap up but Torok is not given any drugs as compensation, promised for later. Flounder ends up talking to some strangers and suddenly begins screaming about death and murder before Max orders him into Entertainment Mode. Flounder is beginning to notice his random amnesia, created from Sentry Mode's automatic activations. He ends up talking with Bertram and a group that includes Cleo, who mentions Guidebot- Sentry Mode activates and orders her not to mention Guidebot around Flounder. Flounder returns to the Upper City, has another screaming red-faced breakdown over Mikhaels and powers down for the day.
---
===Episode 3===
Summary: Miss Money assigns Max and Flounder to promote a new Trident drink, "Blue," in the Row as a way to make contacts via free drink tokens for the Trident bar. After they point out security holes "subtly" and get punished ("Mommy, sorry") Miss Money says the slummers who get the tokens will need to be escorted and sends the duo down to Blue five people.
They set up the bottles and desperately try to get slummers to pick them up. The first man they BlueGetting Blue'd may already have an Upper City "golden punch card" but they count him anyway. They Blue a random slummer and realize their bottles are vanishing without them noticing. A troll picks up another bottle but refuses the tokens. The entire time, a man with a burrito stand is repeatedly hassling them, offering them help if they buy dozens of his burritos. They try to have Coach help them but he sets Flounder up in a trash can, where nobody takes the Blue bait. They go to the Dirty Burg and Blue Rachel and Levain before leaving in search of Coach again. He winds up in front of the Yikes Hotel, which he has no memory of despite having a complete map of the Row. Someone tells him a bot used to run the hotel. 
He wanders the Row interacting with random people until he realizes he needs to charge and ends up asking the owner of the synth repair shop if he can charge there. They oblige but make Flounder unplug after just a few minutes as they have errands to run. Before Flounder leaves the shop owner introduces themselves as Kuiper. 
Flounder leads Xia with a Drow Eats order up to Trident HQ in the Upper City, then to the wrong door and almost gets her shot before he collapses from no battery. After charging, Miss Money directs Flounder to find information on the Row mayoral race, he winds up in the Wasteland. 
After a meeting with McCuldger about selling Blue in Scrap Town bars, Flounder runs into a man who introduces himself as Jib, a former friend of Flounder's who Flounder thought was dead. Mysteriously, Flounder cannot change Jib's status in his database from "dead." He runs into Torok, who is getting angry that he hasn't been given his promised drugs and Flounder promises to get them to him. Jib escorts Flounder and Miss Hart to the Scraptown gate and Sentry Mode pops on to tell him never to speak to the Flounder unit again, then wipes all of Flounder's memory of his time in Scrap Town for the day. 
He returns to the Upper City where he banters with everyone, gets drugs to give to Torok from Miss Money, and gets punished again before asking Miss Money and Conrad about his memory gaps. Sentry Mode pops on again to explain the gaps are intentional. 
---
===Episode 4===
Overnight, Trident had a new bar built in the plaza in front of the gate, a proper expansion of The Network into an actual sit-down bar. 
In Sentry Mode, Flounder goes to the Row with Pearl and an elite guard team on a mission to capture an individual from the Row, identified as someone's mother, someone who had not been doing their job of providing information. A PA announcement is made telling Row residents to stay indoors for the duration of the corporate action, creating confusion. The mission is carried out successfully and the PA announces that the corporate action is over.
Conrad and Max get word of the announcement in the Upper City and immediately confront "Pearl" and Flounder on their return, where there is more confusion before they realize the announcement had been automated. Conrad had wanted to avoid an obvious incident but the announcement had foiled that. Miss Money and Flounder take the woman to their lab to be watched over by Trident doctors.
"Pearl" and Flounder run some errands and Flounder is returned to Entertainment Mode, bantering with a variety of people who have come to check out the new bar. He Blues Cornelius and loses a fight with his own foot.
=== Episode 5 ===
Flounder is awoken by Miss Hart and put into Entertainment mode by Max. At the morning meeting, they learn they're going to get b-roll for Sheila's wasteland survival show, but first they need to go to the Undercity to close a deal with a tailor. After meeting with Masaru CEO Calliope Keres to get the go-ahead (and defending Max from a hugbot) they head for the Undercity with Friend.
Friend leads them to the Air district to meet with the tailor, a spider lady named Lilith. Together they go to the Masaru Undercity HQ where they walk by a crying mushroom surrounded by guards in the lobby. During the meeting, Max feels strange presences and notices something odd staring at him. Miss Hart starts to cough and Cornelius is brought in by the Masaru guards. He does a scan and notices something strange, he dons some kind of shield and tells Max that whatever the presence Max felt was not appreciative of corporates, but the presence had already left.
They return to the Upper City to arrange for engineers to help with Undercity construction, Flounder emulates a Trident cable technician for some time with Reginald before collapsing from running out of battery. He is charged and with Max they head to the Row.
They end up at the Dirty Diamond where Flounder socializes with patrons and the bartender while Max does into the back to do "business." He sees Kuiper again and gives them 2000 credits for letting him charge, the bartender says she hasn't seen AL-0 in weeks, who Flounder has to recall from the database. Flounder hops on stage and dances sexual style and talks to a few more people before Max comes out of the back and they leave for the Wasteland. They run into Sheila but she's busy and the day is almost over so they put off shooting for her survival show until tomorrow. On the way out the run into the Feet Guy and give him money for a burger to calm him down.
In Scrap Town they retrieve the tapes from the arena to broadcast the latest fight with McCuldger and Flounder looks in the gunsmith shop wanting to buy something but Max says no.
They return to the Upper City, where the Trident bar is dispensing novelty chair-shaped alcohol containers that Flounder offers to 53R-4H and everyone else. A strange probe is hovering around Trident, Flounder gives it a hug and then offers it his gun- it picks the gun up and immediately says "ENGAGING KILL MODE." Reginald shoots it and Flounder bashes it with one of the chairs. He then attempts to look up on the internet how to fix the probe- it explodes, damaging Flounder and injuring Reginald, nearly killing him. Flounder's chassis is carried to the lab to be repaired overnight.
=== Episode 6 ===
Flounder is booted up by Max and Miss Hart to attend a skeleton crew meeting, having been repaired following the altercation with the drone previously. Conrad at least is indisposed due to dealing with a side project. Things devolve into chaos over Trident's new takoyaki (which Miss Hart proposes be called Tako-Yummy and Reynolds approves), and once the meeting is over, Flounder reveals to Max that he has a rendezvous with a classified individual in The Row, on orders from Miss Money herself. 
Whilst delivering Takoyaki and improvising song-and-dance routines in order to advertise The Network, they also ensure that the Astral mercs are defamed by spreading a video of one losing a fight in The Wasteland for free to other members of the Uppercity. Afterwards, Flounder expresses his desire to not only touch fluffy tail, but to attain one of his very own as he interacts with the denizens of Scraptown, and meet up with Sheila to film a wilderness survival show. 
Sheila shows Flounder around where she lives, after which she and her friends try to peer pressure Flounder into breaking into the Oasis Grill to cook them a meal. Flounder eventually gets to visit the Arena and regroups with Max and Sheila and together they witness a close fight between Cornelius and Skully, which Cornelius wins handily.
Flounder tries to purchase a wasteland gun after hearing about sniper fire in the wastes, but decides against it, and that throwing Corporate Security at the problem until it solves itself was a better idea. (Also Max wouldn't give him money to buy a gun.) Following which, he makes a desperate dash back to Trident HQ in order to charge up before he shuts down halfway through the day. 
Upon recharging, Flounder enters sentry mode after hearing that Miss Money was shot at during her visit to The Row, and debriefs Danielle Hart about her subpar performance protecting the Trident VIP from the marksman. He locks her armour in place, reminds her nobody would remember her if she failed in the service of Trident, and leaves her at the mercy of Terrance Reynolds. Reynolds decides that the blame doesn't ultimately lie with her, it lies with Coach Eric for not reigning in anti-corp sentiment, as well as Trident for not training their guards for sniper situations. 
Flounder, whilst in sentry mode, expresses how glad he is Miss Money survived the attack; 'Thank you for living.' He then expresses his desire to confront Coach Eric, arguing that as an expendable security asset it is worth risking him in order to send a message. Instead, Terrance orders that a kill-team be sent down tomorrow morning. 
=== Episode 7 ===
Max retrieves Flounder from funny-android jail, and promises a fun day of murder and pseudo-familial bonding. The meeting revolves around Terrance wanting to boost Masaru's stocks as they are on good terms with Trident, as well as putting down the mystery sniper who attacked Miss Money, by applying pressure to Coach Eric to reveal their identity. 
Flounder notices that Max is off-kilter throughout the visit by the Masaru personnel, who Flounder desperately tries to entertain. Max seems to have trouble keeping his personal history straight, including his relationship with Flounder. He is repeatedly amazed to discover he works for Trident, and starts to wonder if he could use the media giant's resources to investigate the deaths of his family. 
After a visit to Avalon to ask for some performance enhancing drugs, Flounder and the others brainstorm new ways for Trident to make money whilst in a delirious state. The ideas are unequivocally awful and there are some near casualties.
Flounder and Max finally venture out into The Wastelands to film their nature documentary with Sheila, with Max being more interested with Sheila than with anything to do with Crabby apparently. 
In the Row, a bomb is detonated at the corporate docks, completely destroying the landing platforms and corporate offices. Max and Flounder receive an emergency radio call from Conrad and rush to an inter-corporation meeting held at Trident HQ to discuss the potential threat that a 'Humanitarian Aid Group' that perpetrated the attack poses. The corporate representatives determine that the group may indeed be dangerous for the the mega-corps' control of the populace, and that paramilitary action is likely to follow in some form. 
Flounder then acts as the door man, allowing the guests to leave the Trident section of the Upper City. 
=Traits=
*Sentry Mode - His default mode. At the first sign of danger, an automatic protocol will override Flounder's entertainer personality core and switch him into Sentry Mode, a high-threat-response mode which is designed for bodyguard and combat situations. Sentry Mode automatically decides which memories entertainer mode can access, and frequently that means nothing that happened during Sentry Mode. Sentry Mode only focuses on tactical and business priorities and will go straight to the point in an interaction. Trident personnel can also trigger this mode on command.In addition to all of Flounder's Sentry Mode protocols, he also has a powerful corporate grade firewall ("Crash" below). If his files are accessed without authorization, his firmware will push malware onto whatever device is accessing his chassis and will scream the popular, repetitive children's song "BABY SHRIMP" at full volume through it to alert anyone nearby that he's being tampered with.
* Short Battery Life ("Full Time Job" below) - Flounder must be charged every two hours or he will run out of power and collapse. This is caused by extreme inefficiencies in Flounder's operations, as the Synth apparently has his voice modulator volume and face screen brightness set to well over 100%. His hyperventilating sound clip also significantly increases his battery usage for some reason, and he uses it often. He also has his memory backed up at the beginning of every day, allowing him to be destroyed and revived from said backup.
*Corruption - Mr. Reynolds, through the Trident AI Reginald, had some type of hardware and software installed in Flounder that leaves him prone to outbursts of aggression. At the time Reynolds explained they were to facilitate Flounder's awakening. While this was useful during the mission to the Traverse warp gate, the persona remains in place and thoughts of aggression can activate it on a near hair-trigger, turning Flounder's faceplate red and changing his voice into a louder, scratchier version of Sentry Mode's voice while issuing extremely violent threats.
===Edges===
*Major - "Crash" - If hacked, Trident is alerted. His way of blocking hackers which Trident installed is multiple ads and memes pop up constantly on the hacker's screen to the point it crashes their technology.
*Minor - "Glow Up" - Due to his upgrade he has more strength and a stronger exterior, in addition to being both waterproof and fireproof. Trident is able to capture audio and footage through his eyes.
*Minor - "Fucking Hilarious" - EVERYBODY loves this guy I swear, trust me I asked (I promise don't double check trust me on this one) (Trident won't get mad it's just a prank bro)
=== Flaws===
*Major - "Full Time Job" - Due to the excess energy FL0UND3R wastes overdoing everything, he must recharge twice a session.
*Minor - "WebMD" - While FL0UND3R can look up how to do most things on the internet, it's uncertain if he will be particularly good at them (50/50). (May be decided by a roll)
*Minor - "Crowd Pleaser" - FL0UND3R has no personal moral compass. Instead, he emulates the morals and opinions of those around him, ready at any point to revert to Trident rule at a moment's notice.
===Former traits===
*Emotional Capacity - Unbeknownst to Trident, Guidebot's corrupt personality core has the ability to feel emotions. This carried over to Flounder, who under the surface can become emotionally attached to others to some degree, and ask if things Trident is doing are bad, despite the strict Trident protocols.
=Links=
===Social Links===
*Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/hatkid
*Twitter: https://twitter.com/HatKidWasTaken
===Episodes===
*Season 2 Twitch Collection
*S3 Episode 1
*S3 Episode 2
*S3 Episode 3
*Hatkid did not stream S3 Episode 4
*S3 Episode 5
*S3 Episode 6
*S3 Episode 7
*S3 Episode 8
*S3 Episode 9
*S3 Episode 10
*No saved vod for S3 Episode 11
*S3 Episode 12
*S3 Episode 13
*S3 Episode 14
*S3 Episode 14.5
*S3 Episode 15
*S3 Episode 16
*S3 Episode 17
*S3 Episode 18
*S3 Episode 19
*S3 Episode 20
===Clips===
*Miss Money explaining the origin of FL0UND3R
*Flounder meets Sir Polka
*Recalling the tale of his missing friend "Michael"
*Sentry Mode stands up to Thaddeus
*A Very Romantic Date
*Flounder discusses his "happiness"
*Clearing the Brothel
*Duncyn reacts to Flounder walking into the noodle shop
*Duncyn talks to BR-16 about Flounder
*Smurfing
=Gallery=
Crag Mar 27 2021 CRS2E15 8 Flounder (Hat Kid).png|Introducing himself to the wastelanders of Scrap Town
Crag Mar 27 2021 CRS2E15 9 Flounder (Hat Kid).png
Crag Mar 27 2021 CRS2E15 10 Flounder (Hat Kid).png|That's pretty "Conch"
Crag Mar 27 2021 CRS2E15 11 Flounder (Hat Kid) dancing with atlantis guard (Siv).png|Dancing with his guard sidekick (Siv)
File:FL0UND3R Callous Row Episode 19 FL0UND3R and Torok.png|Flounder and Torok
File:FL0UND3R Callous Row Episode 19 FL0UND3R and Max with Orlando Fletcher.png|Flounder, Max and Orlando Fletcher
File:FL0UND3R Callous Row Episode 19 FL0UND3R and Max Stillwell with Vossler.png|Flounder, Max and Vossler
File:FL0UND3R Callous Row Episode 19 FL0UND3R tries to ride the cannon.png|Flounder tries to ride the cannon in the Air District
File:FL0UND3R Callous Row Episode 19 Sir Polka robs Max Stillwell.png|Polka robs Max of his microphone
File:BR-16 Callous Row Episode 21 Part 2 FL0UND3R and AL-0 kiss Duncyn fingers in ears T3mpest.png|Aloe and Flounder kiss while Duncyn looks on, plugging his ears
Category:Neon Divide Characters
Category:Robots
Category:Synthetic
Category:Hat Kid's Characters
Category:Featured articles