Meme

### First Song

Just Because You Become Woke in a Dank and Poorly Lit Place is No Reason Not to Say Good Morning

## Portrayal

### Voiced By

Kerttu Aarnipuu

The Little Meme is the main character in The Forgotten Meme and continues to play an important role in The Broken Cyborg and The Lost Fairy. She is voiced by Kerttu Aarnipuu.

## Biography

For a short time, the Meme was shared and people smiled when they saw her, and she knew something like love and affection. But then she was discarded and forgotten, and woke up in The Room Beneath New Albion.

The forgotten Meme came to consciousness in a scrap of what had once been a great metallic spider. Though movement was difficult, she attached disregarded pieces of junk to herself piece by piece until she had built herself a deformed little body.

There were other creatures and cyber schistocerca living in the tunnels, but the Meme was unique in the fact that she longed to be loved. Seeking another person's company, she ventured up to the city above. She was lost in the great city of New Albion until a strange man dressed in purple picked her up and guided her to a safe location.

The Meme climbed up the tall high rise until she found an apartment where a girl was sitting lifelessly, wearing a helmet on her head and with wires and tubes running in and out of her arms. The girl was Rebecca, and she was the most beautiful thing The Meme had ever seen. The Meme sat watching the girl for days, eventually climbing onto the girls lap.

Rebecca spent most of her time playing an Arabian Nights virtual realty video game, unplugging less and less for each day and slowly wasting away. The Meme noticed that the girl's lifestyle would be the death of her, and entered the net to follow Rebecca and try to lure her out.

The Meme made an avatar named Vadvi, and entered the game and befriended Rebecca's avatar, Thess. They became very close as they traversed the mythical gameworld together, and one day professed romantic love for each other. The Meme was unspeakably happy, but feared that if Rebecca saw what she truly looked like, her ugliness would destroy their love.

The Meme was aware of the game's sinister undercurrent. The game world functioned as a subtle psychic vacuum, drawing people in until there was no return. The Meme tried to warn Rebecca of the danger, but she laughed and passed a gate too far. The Meme cried out, but her voice was fragile and small, so she leapt past the gateway to follow. They fell into a cage where hungry cyber creatures waited to devour them.

The cyber schistocerca who were feeding on the trapped people recognized the Meme as one of their own. The creatures urged the Meme to step aside so they could get to Rebecca, but she refused. The Meme called out to every other meme that could hear her cry, and from across the great expanse of cyberspace they responded. With the collective massive swirl of psychic residue, the Meme declared that they could not have Rebecca, as she is all the Meme loved. The psychic typhoon formed a great tunnel. As Rebecca clung to the Meme, they were pulled back through the vortex, past the game into the waking world.

In The Broken Cyborg, the now married Meme and Rebecca go to The Shanty Town to ask Xander Cale to create a child for them, made out of the Meme's bioessence and Rebecca's DNA. They move into the park while Xander works on a way to create a child, and Jane the Cyborg is born.

When the Blood Red Dogs attacked the park, the Meme was able to escape damage because of her small size. However, Rebecca was badly wounded, and the Meme urged Xander to take Jane and escape while she desperately tried to keep Rebecca alive.

In The Lost Fairy, Rebecca had died from her wounds, and in a great sadness for the loss of her love, the Meme crawled into a tree and sat there unmoving for days. When Jane returned, she would join the Meme, bringing flowers, until the Meme came out to join her daughter.

The Meme then became one of the leaders of Xandoria, and held a great dislike for The Mayor, blaming her for the attack on the park and the death of her wife. When the Mayor came to the park to request an alliance against the incoming Cascadian Hellhounds, the Meme agreed to fight together with the city of New Albion.

## Trivia

* Before waking up in the Room Beneath New Albion, The Meme was keyboard cat