Nova

Nova is a side character throughout the Story of Sages that appears to be a Protogen with RGB lighting. He was built by Mary and seems to be fully sentient despite being a robot, as he's able to process emotions such as love and sadness, feel pain, and express moral reasoning. Throughout Valhalla's Extras, he exhibits superior intelligence and humanity to modern artificial intelligence models (such as ChatGPT), as he is capable of strategizing, storing/recalling both short and long-term memory in great detail, developing personal preferences, etc. Since before Valhalla, he has been in a relationship with Al-0, and has learned basic Alchemy as a result.
Not much is known about Nova's past, although Mary states that he's designed to be resilient, lifelike, and proficient with firearms to help him stay alive in armed conflict, although it's unclear why he would need to be lifelike in the first place. 
==My Normal Obsession==
In My Normal Obsession, Nova is a Gunner/Melee character with a preference for shotguns and heavy/automatic weapons. He has better defensive stats than Sawyer, but he's slower and has worse damage per attack. Nova also can't wear most pieces of headgear and takes more damage from explosions and Headshots, but he has a broader array of immunities, starts with more health, and is more precise with firearms. In essence, Nova is essentially a rapid-firing tank as a Gunner, but is slow yet hits hard as a Melee character (with the added benefit of being able to use sharp blades and two-handed weapons).
Nova's first gift from Exon, the Covenant Militia, is a high-capacity assault rifle with high stopping power and long-range damage, even if it isn't the most accurate thing in the world. The Covenant Militia auto-aims towards any enemies within a few pixels of where the last bullet traveled, reducing the amount of bullets wasted at the cost of being unable to land Headshots. However, this can be converted to the Screen of Death, a holographic claymore that inflicts both Thunder and Bleeding. The Screen of Death cannot be used to block enemy blades, but it's able to deflect projectiles just fine.
==Trivia== 
*Nova was originally going to have solid cyan coloration.
*Him and Al-0 represent Noelle and Cactus' relationship, except Nova is a cisgender male.
*Nova is one of currently 4 protogens, with the others being SATA, Cent, and an unnamed protogen that will be saved by Frim in Valhalla.
Category:My Normal Obsession
Category:Playable Characters
Category:Gunner
Category:Melee
Category:V:TSotFS (Extras)