Lola (iX)

For Lola's main series counterpart, see Lola.
Lola, also known as "The Muse of Hope", is a self-aware battle support robot developed and built by Copen and the deuteragonist of Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX and Luminous Avenger iX 2. Bright and energetic in contrast to her serious, gloomy partner, she provides Copen with his EX Weapons and acts as his field support and only constant ally. She can replicate the Septima known as The Muse, which allows her to revive and buff Copen when he's defeated.
Lola is also the protagonist of the drama CD Prologue: The Muse of Hope, one of the singers in the rhythm game GUNVOLT RECORDS Cychronicle, and the star of the puzzle game PuzzMiX. An alternate-universe version of her is one of the protagonists of the drama CD Mirage Party.
==Website Description==
===LAiX 1===
===LAiX 2===
== Appearance ==
Usually, Lola's form is that of a floating white and red sphere with blank yellow eyes.
With the power of the Muse, Lola gains the ability to shift into what is known as her "Idol Mode". In this form, her appearance shifts to that of a young girl with short, mint green hair, and blue eyes. She wears a red and white leotard with bits of gold, and white knee-highs with black and red shoes, as well as black gloves with red fingers. She also has two white and red disc-like objects known as "Speaker Pods" that broadcast songs hovering behind her, joined together by a large orange ring. She also sprouts red wing-like holograms, which vaguely resemble phoenix wings.
Lola also has access to another mode: Awakened. In her Awakened Mode, her costume turns white with gold and black highlights, and is slightly more revealing than her previous one, exposing her back and cleavage. She also has a white headset similar to Copen's with four golden petals acting similarly to a crown, and her Phoenix wings are now replaced with hovering robotic extensions bearing a resemblance to a lotus flower.
After obtaining the EX Weapon "Darkness Trigger", Lola gains another form: "Darkness Mode". In this form, Lola's costume becomes even more revealing, changing from a mostly latex-esque material to sharp, angular armor, shifting to a predominantly black color scheme with heavy purple highlights. Her gloves are replaced with gauntlets with spiked fingers, she gains thigh-high, armored leggings, her hips are accentuated by two spiked pieces of metal, and she has two horn-like appendages attached to her head. In addition to this, her wings have now been replaced by two large metal attachments around the back of her legs that sprout purple flames. Her eyes also turn purple and her skin becomes paler.
===Gallery===
Main article: Lola (iX)/Gallery
Lola (Awakened Mode).jpg|Awakened Mode
Lola (Darkness Mode).jpg|Darkness Mode
IX2 Lola Healing acryllic.jpg|Healing Mode
Lolaconcept2.jpeg|Idol Mode concept art
EEuL9CCWwAABIfF.jpg|iX1 Pod forms concept art
LolaAwakeConcept1.jpeg|Awakening Mode concept art
LolaDarknessConcept.jpeg|Darkness Mode concept art
Lola Nurse concept.jpg|Healing Mode concept art
IX2 Lola Awakening acryllic.jpg|Awakened Mode (iX2)
==Personality==
Lola's personality isn't overly different from the main series. She still acts as the expressive half to Copen's stoicism, and sees herself as a sort of guardian for him. If anything, she's a bit more peppy now, given her propensity to shout encouragement and overall being Copen's hype-bot in the field.
Not to say Lola doesn't have her negativity as well, especially when she's confronted with the truth to the Butterfly Effect, or invokes Darkness Trigger, which drives her berserk to the point of harming Copen if there isn't something else to target.
==History==
=== Background ===
Even before the start of the game, Lola has made a name for herself as the "Muse of Hope" who guides "iX". The music videos she uploads to the Undernet act as inspiration and encouragement for Minos, and she even holds a fanbase among Adepts. Compared to the main series, Lola's Anthem seems to have come from an unspecified incident where she and Copen were studying the Muse Septima.
===Prologue: The Muse of Hope===
=== Luminous Avenger iX ===
==== Mission Control ====
Aside from several conversations in the hideout, most of Lola's plot relevance comes from being Copen's field support and his main method of gathering and analyzing data to locate the Butterfly Effect.
==== City Slums 2====
Once Lola pins down the location of the Butterfly Effect and the supervisory AI Demerzel, Sumeragi deploys Giant Lola tanks across the world to purge the last of the Minos. Lola herself is incensed at the mockery of her visage on each tank, even so far as tackling one head-on when it tries to kill Copen.
==== Sumeragi Secret Bunker 2====
Breaking into the underground facility beneath Building 13, Copen and Lola find the Butterfly Effect; it's the brain of Copen's sister Mytyl, still alive and hooked up to a machine so it can use the Muse Septima to control Adepts. Lola's Septima-analysis systems can perceive Mytyl's cries, made tangible by the wall panels forming the message "P L E A S E K I L L M E".
==== Sumeragi Secret Bunker 3 ====
Upon reaching the depths of the facility, Copen and Lola come face-to-face with Demerzel and defeat it twice over. But the AI manages to strike Copen with a bolt of lightning, downing him. Lola tries to invoke the Anthem, but it fails to revive Copen. She too is struck by lightning and tumbles to the ground, barely functional. As Demerzel goes into stasis, Lola calls out begging for someone to help Copen. On the surface, Kohaku hears her. In the end, both Copen and Lola are rescued by Kohaku and Blade.
=== Luminous Avenger iX 2 ===
After being pulled into the desolate desert world populated by Workers along with Copen and Kohaku, Lola diligently builds a new idol reputation by uploading music videos to the worlds net, wishing to make the Workers who've helped them happy, and gains fans among them in the process. She expresses the desire to visit all kinds of worlds and become a "Super-Dimensional Muse."
Following the defeat of Mother, Lola recognizes the form of the damaged pod that emerges from Mother's mainframe and suspects the implications, but says no more. In the Hard Mode ending, the sight of what appears to be The Creator and Mother's spirits causes her to wonder if robots have souls.
==Other Appearances==
===Blaster Master Zero 2===
Lola appears with Copen in his playable character DLC in Blaster Master Zero 2, gaining and using EX Weapons like in iX 1. Her Idol Mode is activated using the new weapon Idol Trigger, and she briefly enters Awakening Mode for the Twin Shredder skill.
Gallery:
BMZ2 Copen - Anthem dungeon.jpg
BMZ2 Copen - Anthem overworld.jpg
BMZ2 Copen - Twin Shredder.png
===Card-en-Ciel===
"Darkness Mode!"
Lola appears in the crossover roguelite card-battling RPG Card-en-Ciel as two of the game's Muses with special cards that cause her to appear and sing when conditions are met, activating special abilities. The iX1 and iX2 versions of her are treated as separate characters.
Card 	Character 	Effect
Beyond Probability	Lola Darkness Mode (iX1) 	Cond: Activate a Memory Leak 3 times.Effect: Grant Attack Amp x3 to a card Forged with Memory Leak
Purification 	Lola Awakening Mode (iX2)	
Although Lola's Idol Mode is depicted with the game's main heroine Ancie on the amiami store bonus image, that version of iX Lola doesn't seem to appear in the game. (Instead, Lola's default form seems to have been represented by the main series Lola and original Igniter from GV2 instead)
===COGEN: Sword of Rewind===
Lola appears as a supporting character with Copen in his playable DLC in the game, but does not serve any gameplay role.
===Dusk Diver 2===
Lola appears as a boss in the DLC sub-quest "Visitors from Other World" in Dusk Diver 2. Completion of the quest grants Yumo a Lola outfit and summonable copy of Lola's pod form, which performs a Razor Wheel attack.
Gallery:
DD2 Lola battle 1.jpg
Lola DD2 4.jpg
==Powers and Abilities==
Lola's basic abilities are more or less the same as they were in the main series, being able to manipulate Copen's P-Bits, manage his EX Weapon system, and activate Anthem, though the last one is upgraded to give Copen infinite Bullits now. She also actively coordinates with Copen when unleashing the Twin Shredder EX Skill.
Since Nori is not present in LAiX, Lola is Copen's sole support out in the field, pointing out particular features and stage hazards, as well as analyzing whether or not an EX Weapon is effective against a particular boss. When she's not acting as Copen's hype bot, anyways.
LAiX's Anthem is different in that it's linked to Copen's emotional and mental state, rather than basing it on closeness to a particular individual. Observing and participating in social interactions improves his mental health and increases the likelihood of Anthem triggering.
When Demerzel struck down Copen with a lightning bolt, Lola successfully transformed into Awakened Mode and invoked Anthem in an attempt to revive him, but the power she lent him did not have its usual reviving effect. The reason for this is unknown.
Additionally, Copen states that Lola has a "Capture Field" that she could hypothetically use to make Kohaku "float around a bit". This may be the same telekinetic lifting ability that Lola once used to carry an unconscious Mytyl in ASG2.
==Trivia==
*Unlike her mainline counterpart, the Lola of LAiX has blue eyes instead of purple eyes. This may be due to her A.S. Drive's origins; in the main series it was created by analyzing Asimov, whose eyes are purple. In LAiX Copen presumably created it by analyzing Gunvolt (whose eyes are blue) at some point, as he never retrieved his gun and a sample of Asimov's blood.
*The reason Lola's original VA Yurika Endo was replaced with Mayu Mineda is because Endo chose to retire from the entertainment industry due to stress-induced health problems.
*Both Lola and Copen make a cameo in the New Year's postcard illustration for COGEN: Sword of Rewind, where Copen appears as a DLC playable character.
* iX Lola having multiple different humanoid forms corresponding to different abilities resembles certain scrapped concepts from Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, such as Lola's humanoid form changing based on the equipped EX Weapon, or Copen having a trio of Muses with different appearances (pictured).
== References ==
== Navigation ==
===Luminous Avenger iX 1 Navigation===
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