Cori

'*I wish I had no feeling... all it brings me is pain!'*

- Cori

Cori, formerly Coron ~~or Corona~~, is a neutral character ~~leaning toward the antagonists' side~~ in the Universe of Malicious. She is originally from a parallel universe until her country was invaded.

## Appearance

￼Cori has short orange hair, pale face without blush, and pupil-less white eyes with extremely poor eyesight.

She wears orange shirt and jacket, a yellowish-green scarf, purple skirt and long brown boots. A yellow flower symbolising the sun is pinned on her head.

When she is happy, which is not very often, golden dust and yellow crystal wings flash out around her body.

## History

Cori used to have a normal life in her universe, living in communist China, until Russian troops came in and invaded China due to Russia's newest constitution that transforms the country from an Authoritarian regime to a flawed democracy. Cori later teleported to UOM before her province ~~(Spoiler: Sichuan)~~ got occupied by Russia. She was shocked after hearing that the current China is dominated by Kuomintang, but comforts herself with the fact that it's at least better being an ethnically Chinese citizen rather than a subjugated slave of Russia.

Cori's Chinese passport was replaced with the Chinese passport used in the UOM by Ally, so that she can retain her Chinese citizenship.

## Personality

￼Cori is neurotic and depressed and generally flawful.

Cori is literally from another world, so she is generally neurotic and depressed.

She has a low self-esteem, always worried that she may offend someone (for she always does), and often confuses facts in this world with facts in the world from which she had come.

Her view of the world is cynical and pessimistic. She shows a contempt for optimists in every way, claiming that they are just fooling themselves and others. She herself is a defeatist believing that the essence of world is ultimately chaos and darkness, full of controversy and conflicts.

Because nobody else agrees with her, she claims herself as the only one 'awake' in the community, and thus sinks even deeper into despair.

Cori is extremely passionate about things and people she is truly fond of. When she is really 'into' something, it means she would live and die for it. e.g. Dancing Line. And the death of DL has almost been a fatal strike on her.

Cori is also quite blunt and naive. Sophistication is the last thing she'd have in this lifetime. Despite being sixteen, she has a mind of a twelve-year-old.

## Abilities

* **Transformation**: Despite basically being a nihilist, she could transform into a communist if triggered - ~~often by Alvin, unfortunately xixixixixxi.~~ **JOIN HANDS AND FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE, AND INTERNATIONALE WILL ULTIMATELY BE REALISED!** (offstage voice: hey, this parallel universe is a world dominated by capitalism already...) so as Alvin might put it, she isn't all innocent and is very authoritarian. (How could a diehard supporter of a former tyrant be pure, anyway? )
* **Singing**: Cori's singing voice is strikingly different from her speaking voice! She uses her singing and lyrics to approach Mike.
* **Teleportation**: Despite being a loyal fan of Mike for two years, it was not until recently that Cori obtained the ability to teleport from her world to this world to come into direct contact with Mike and everyone else. Her power is limited, though - she could only jump back and forth once between the two worlds. **(But does it really matter? Who'd wanna stay in that world where she'd be a slave of the Slavs?)**

## Relations

There is no clear boundaries between friends, neutral acquaintances or enemies of Cori.

* Mike: ...how can it be explained? **— ALL HAIL ROYAL MIKE! LONG LIVE CRINGE LORD! THREE CHEERS FOR ROYAL COOKIE! DIE, THOSE WHO DARE TO BOO AT MY LORD'S SINGINGS!!!** ... although he doesn't particularly like me... cuz of my disgusting personality... Oh bother!
* Adem: (*get rid of those courtesies and start right away!*) **NG ADEM IS THE BEST! NO ONE CAN BEAT NG ADEM'S VIDS AND SINGINGS AND RAPS! I LOVE HIM! DIE, THOSE WHO DARE TO BOO AT HIS MARVELOUS SINGINGS AND RAPS!** — and he had once crossed the border and come to Bilibili for me, 只为我！ (immense proudness) XIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXI （In one sentence: A小神赛高！）
* Alvin: Adem's brother and he is a musician. Also is suicidal and got symptoms of depression just like me, but he's constantly bullied a LOT.
* Malicious: ... wha? He's the ~~dictator~~ president of this world set? No wonder he has been so strict about the colour set of my OC! Sorry for irrelevance, truly!
* Icy: I heard that he'll befriend anyone who's a communist? ... *(naively)* Noice! Gotta check it out some day! *(completely unaware of the upcoming danger)*
* cjhay: Got symptoms of depression just like me. :(
* Cassandra: **WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO CONTROL MY BODY??? YOU DON'T EVEN BELONG HERE SO SHUT UP!!!!!!!!**

## Trivia

* Many people (excluding Adem and Alvin) actually get annoyed at Cori's gloomy attitude and choose to shun her.
* One of the reasons of Cori not choosing to die immediately as DL collapsed is a person of equal importance with DL to her: Mike, of whom she is a diehard fan. She idolises him and defends him whenever she can - fortunately she knows nothing about Mike's dark confidential identity.
* On her universe, Cori started playing Cookie Run, a game she had **never** heard of before, for Mike's sake - another sign of how true a fan of Mike she is - but ends up loving it! (Still, nothing can replace her precious Dancing Line. )
* ￼Cori was formerly called Coron before Mike's advice (to Coron it was a command) for her to change it, because this potentially controversial name (reminding people of the coronavirus) is affecting his ad revenue...