Ara

### Allies

Ariel; Araam; Oli Mixer; Carl Televisor; Kyle Anderson; Harry Scheddle; Jack Michaels; Brian Harrison; Michael Jackson; April Evergreen; Calin Netev; Alma Netev

### Foes

Alexander Galaktianakis; Garry Huston; Kiara Anakreon

## In the series

### Role

Main protagonist (Hew); secondary protagonist

### First appearance

2084: Hew

**Ara**, nicknamed **Redfoo** by Oli Mixer, is the main protagonist of the book "*2084: Hew"*. She is the first second generation android built by Jacob Newman on White December, visually meant to represent Kira Miller.

## Personality

Ara appears as a young Arcturian female of medium height, with long black hair, blue eyes and red skin with white patterns. Additionally, like other models of the second and third generations, she has machinery markings on her lower torso.

She is portrayed in the story as ambitious, witty and ingenious, as well as amiable, however, also credulous and a bit naive, which has in turn lead to several conflicts. Though she has well-developed abstract thinking, she can not plan for future events well, mostly focused on the present. Ara is highly intelligent, right up with Araam, able to process, remember and employ new information on the fly, but (according to herself) has a calculating capacity lower than that of Ariel, not being able to comprehend nor predict outcomes of certain situations in their entirety. Ara's self-recognised issue is her disproportionate sentimentalism that apparently prevails over rationality in the pursuit of personal development, which often renders all her superior-to-human qualities useless.

One unique thing inherent only to her model is the fact that Ara's race-specific tail is essentially an insulated charging cable that is able to connect to most Union electrical outlets. Otherwise, if this charging variant isn't available, she can, as a second generation model, ingest electrified cuprusangium to restore her energy levels.

According to herself, Ara has very little practical skills, although she is able to immediately find instructions necessary for any task's completion, provided she has connection to the Internet, which turns to be a major inconvenience in the plot.

## Involvement

*2084: Hew* is Ara's autobiographic story which starts on planet X-421 on the White December vessel. After Alexander Galaktianakis visits the ship and threatens Jacob Newman with an arrest related to a topic unrecognised by Ara and leaves, Newman tells Ara that she must transfer a crucial capsule SSD to a certain Garry Huston in the city of Hew. Considering the scientist has no option other than to stay behind and destroy traces of his laboratory, she has to complete the route on foot through the various types of terrain.

After passing the abandoned subway system built by an unknown civilisation, Ara happens upon an equally abandoned and overgrown research centre, where she meets Oli Mixer along with his Boxman friends in their hideout. Oli Mixer tells Ara she can not directly enter Hew from the equatorial forests ahead because, according to him, the patrol shoots and/or arrests every unauthorised individual they see beyond the city's border. Instead, Carl Televisor, one of the Boxmen, offers her and Oli a way through the underground catacombs that connect to the research station's basement.

The catacombs leave Oli and Ara hopeless because of the complex labyrinth systems, but they eventually exit on the North-Eastern shore of the continent, which means they now have to merely walk West in order to reach the city.

In Hew Oli Mixer nearly immediately abandons Ara to find some resources to bring back to the hideout, so she ends up navigating the city alone, which takes her some time before she finally finds the address of Garry Huston. Upon her visiting Huston and giving him the SSD, the latter decides to play it safe and switches Ara off just in case she might be a rogue machine. Ara's early-life memories end here, and so does the story's plot.

## Trivia

* Ara knows 304 Galactic languages, including one signal-based and three non-verbal languages, but prefers to speak in English which is her "native";
* Her favourite animal is the puffy;
* Ariel and Ara are nicknamed Adam and Eve respectively by Jacob Newman for an unspecified reason;
* She is most fascinated by such emotions as optimism and love, which are both unavailable to her;
* She is one of the few robots that don't support the idea of machines gaining absolute autonomy and independence from people.