Arya Brighton

## Other Info

### Family & Friends

From her past: Claire (mother); Aaron (father); Fiona (Roommate); Meghan (friend); Ursula (Study buddy); Joy (Study buddy)

Present times:Voppi (Best friend); Meep Team (allies)

### Likes

Science and experiments, writing Logs, helping others

### Dislikes

Anyone who interferes with her work or threatens her teammates

## Splatoon-Related Stuff

### Shoes

Alternan high-boots

> *“Have a nice day!”* —Arya
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**Arya Brighton** is a member of the Meep Team, and one of the only humans left in the world of Splatoon. She lives in Alterna, humanity’s last resort, and she is mentally connected to its artificial caretaker O.R.C.A. via an experiment. She is the daughter of two very talented scientists who used to work in Site 6 of Alterna, the Happiness Research Lab (HRL). She often wants to help out wherever she is needed, mostly in terms of information, as her connection stores humanity's entire knowledge and livings.

## Appearance

Arya looks like a 14-year-old girl, despite being more than 12,000 years old, because of some side effects to the experiment. She has long, black hair, with neon green streaks in the front. She also has an ahoge curled upwards, resembling the swirl on Alterna's logo. Her eyes are the same color as her highlights, and her pupils are pixelated. She wears a tight black bodysuit designed to fit her physical needs, with a white lab coat signed with the Alterna logo on top, paired with also white gloves. She is also often seen wearing green headphones with a smart-glass attached to it.

## Personality

Due to the fragile state of her connection, Arya isn't very expressive, and always talks in formal speech, rarely shortening words. Despite that, the Meep Team still knows she has good intentions, and always tries to be helpful in hard situations. When expressing her opinions towards something, she always uses an assertive tone, giving fair reasoning for what she says. However, she is very protective of O.R.C.A.'s archives and Alterna Logs, and rarely ever shares them unless she knows for certain that the receiver is trustworthy. Whenever someone mentions information from the logs, she always intervenes. She usually doesn't want to talk about her past because of how hard it was realizing there was no one left but her, but finds herself coming back to it due to the Meep Team (and herself) having one of their many meeting locations in the HRL.

### Terralyted

In Season 3, Arya is kidnapped by Angelyta and brainwashed with a computer bug, forced to be part of the Terralyte. While in this state, she is hostile towards her fellow Meep Team Members, not listening to anyone except Angelyta, waiting for her orders.

### Reprogrammed

Between Seasons 3 and 4, Arya forced herself out of the SubClub by reprogramming part of O.R.C.A.'s code to block out the Terralyted parts. However, this affected her memory, not being able to remember certain moments of her life, or certain people, and also her personality, being more cocky, arrogant, and sarcastic than before.

## History

#### ***Alterna - Arya’s early life***

When humanity was still alive, Arya had a completely different personality compared to the present time. She was very energetic, friendly, and very curious about her surroundings. In her early years, she was incredibly passionate about science and everything related to it. She looked up to her parents, Claire Brighton and Aaron Robertson, and wished to make as big of a contribution as they had done to the society of Alterna, with the founding of the HRL, and the discovery of the psychoreactive liquid crystals that would later on be used to create the “Sky of Alterna”. She skipped multiple grades in school because of her intelligence level (an IQ of 133), and got accepted into an advanced scientific research program at the age of 14, moving abroad and sharing dorms with her friend Fiona Laurenton.

#### ***The Crystal Neuralink Experiment***

One day, Arya’s parents made yet another discovery related to the liquid crystals. They found that, if they made some slight modifications to them, they could implant them inside a person’s brain. Due to these crystals being able to receive the faint waves created by neural synapses, this could give the subject the ability to read others’ minds, and even mentally connect themselves to another intelligent being for life. Seeing this as her opportunity to make her very first big contribution to Alterna, Arya was the first one to volunteer to this experiment. However, during the resting process of the experiment, which required her to be placed inside one of Site 3’s ultra-resistant cryogenic capsules for a few hours to let the crystals stabilize, Alterna unexpectedly collapsed, bringing humanity’s era to an end…except for Arya.

#### ***The Shock - Arya’s connection***

When Arya woke up after the fall of Alterna, everything that she loved, everything that she devoted herself to, everything that she lived for…it was all gone. But, despite the enormous loss she had to deal with, there was still something she had to find: answers. She wanted to know why this happened, and how she ended up as the only survivor of the human race. She knew for a fact that the Omniscient Recording Computer of Alterna, O.R.C.A., was designed to record every single detail of humanity’s knowledge and livings, so if she could get her hands on a still-intact device which had access to O.R.C.A., she could check the logs for what happened. Arya eventually found a command pad in the Alterna Space Center that worked, but she got electrocuted while she was typing. And since O.R.C.A. was technically an intelligent being of its own, the energy from the shock triggered Arya’s crystals, connecting her to the AI for life.

#### ***Voppi enters Alterna***

After Arya spent 12,000 years trying to restore Alterna and writing logs, someone new entered the dome. Arya got taken aback by this, but immediately attended her. Because there had been a sudden outburst of Fuzzy Ooze recently, she helped the Inkling out, albeit only communicating with her via her connection, never in person, and made sure she was prepared to confront the threat. She registered the Inkling as "Agent 3" at first, as O.R.C.A. heard Marie call her that way. As Agent 3 progressed, Arya gradually trusted her more and more, eventually giving her access to some of her logs. It wasn't until a few days later, however, that, after Agent 3 defeated Mr. Grizz and cleansed the Fuzzy Ooze, Arya revealed herself to Agent 3 in person.

#### ***Present Times***

After Arya got to know Agent 3 a bit more, including her real name, "Voppi", they agreed to help each other. Eventually, Voppi took Arya to the surface, where she introduced her to three of her friends: CaleBoi, Artsy and Shadow, forming the initial 5-member Meep Team. Since then, the Team has grown in size, each one of its new members willing to help Arya with whatever she needs. After all, when you're going down a path you don't like, it can't hurt to think of an *Alterna-tive*, right?

## Trivia

* A part of O.R.C.A.'s code is programmed to detect anyone who tries to divulge Alterna's secrets and stop them. Because of that, Arya often has trust issues with some Meep Team members, and eventually splats them for allegedly "breaking the rules".
	+ This process involves a special type of light that affects one's responsive/motor neurons, freezing them in place, and often making them fall to the floor. After shining the light on someone, she then drops a stream of fuzzy ink (dubbed "*The Inkshower*" by Voppi) on them, splatting them in the act.
	+ Some of the Meep Team members don't comprehend the reason why Arya does this, and often mistake the effort of trying to keep Alterna secret with a bias against them.
	+ Excluding Voppi, the first member to have been splatted this way is CaleBoi.
* Arya's connection to O.R.C.A. is extremely fragile. She can overload herself easily if she shows and expresses strong emotions, which can give her severe headaches, muscular failure, and, in extreme cases, even passing out.
	+ Her own body alarms her of an emotion overload before it actually happens. Some visible changes are her neon green eyes and streaks of hair flashing and changing to a red color, and her skin becoming pale.
		- When Arya's status is stable, yet somehow modified, her highlights also change to other colors:
			* When she was cattified by Lil' Judd, they adopted the dominant color of the Fuzzy Ooze, a fuchsia pink tone.
			* When she got affected by Natasha's virus, they turned to a dark purple.
			* When she got hacked by Cephly, they turned completely white.
			* When she got brainwashed by Lyta, they turned to the same light blue as the latter's eyes.
	+ After an overload, O.R.C.A. can reboot itself as long as Arya is in the HRL. This basically keeps her alive indefinitely, and that's how she was able to survive for 12,000 years since the fall of Alterna. However, this process cannot get rid of some effects from the overload, such as blurry vision and lightheadedness, until at least six hours have passed.
* Arya's left hand has a circuit-like pattern on it, which she gained from the Shock. It has also become extremely sensitive, as its outer skin layer has not been able to regenerate.
* Some of the clothing that Arya wears, like her lab coat and gloves, were inherited from her mother.
* Arya's smart-glass serves as her way of scanning the environment. It can give her the location and complete information of places, objects, and people.
	+ Arya states that she also uses it to communicate with O.R.C.A. when she is outside Alterna.
	+ It was actually the precursor for the Neuralink Experiment, as seen in this description page.
* Arya dedicated a whole mission in Site 4, the Landfill Dreamland, to herself, namely *"Amusing a Bemused Muse"*. It involves the subject sculpting with boxes and a Zipcaster special weapon to copy the figure shown. Said figure is O.R.C.A.'s symbol.
* Despite O.R.C.A.'s system being very secure, it is not impenetrable. In Thread #6, Han's assistant R.O.S.A. managed to link himself to Alterna's main servers, which O.R.C.A. has access to. Arya stated that, when this happened, she could hear R.O.S.A. talking to her inside her head.
	+ Additionally, in Thread #2 of Season 2, Han did this again by downloading a virus onto O.R.C.A.'s source code to stop Lil' Judd from using it to his advantage. It cancelled all of Arya's abilities (except breathing) in a matter of seconds, and rendered her practically useless.
* Arya is a very fast learner and has a near-perfect photographic memory. She mastered the use of the Inkling and Octoling languages within a day of meeting Voppi.
* Arya's clothing is meant to reference and match the color palette of an actual orca: black for her bodysuit, white for her lab coat and gloves.
* Arya doesn't have a favorite song, but due to O.R.C.A.'s initial boot-up theme being what would later become *Bomb Rush Blush*, she sometimes hums it when walking around.
* Arya will soon make an appearance in Project: Aura Boralious' single player mode, Modification Central, accompanied by Voppi, acting in a similar fashion to O.R.C.A.
* Arya's appearance before the shock is based on the actual appearance of Carla, this Alterna-tive Extension's creator.
* When they speak at the same time, Arya and O.R.C.A. sound similar to the voice effect in this video.

## Gallery

### Official Art

#### Digital Art

First ever Arya art, made in Gacha by @Voppi Meep (also doubles as her PFP)Arya before the ShockArya as an Inkling (made in Picrew)Terralyted Arya picrewArt drawn by @Voppi Meep (with a template)Arya in her studio, drawn by @Voppi MeepGroup photo of Arya and O.R.C.A.'s hologram

### Fanart

#### Digital Art

Art drawn by @Furgolick10Art drawn by @Artsy RoseArt drawn by @LogxiiArt drawn by @LogxiiArt drawn by @-bubblegumcookieArt drawn by @Micerainy2118Art drawn by @CandycornfrogA group photo of Arya and O.R.C.A.'s Hologram, drawn by @WaferSpaceOverloaded Arya Art by @DigitaldustyArt drawn by @ThePersonKnownAsNuggetArt drawn by @DamnitspongebobbyArt drawn by @Spoopy InklingArt drawn by @RealDudezArt drawn by Chipflake on YouTubeArt drawn by LiceeBrum on YouTubeAn AI-generated sprite of Arya, requested by @CaleBoi25Comic strip featuring Arya and Hal, drawn by @WaferSpace
#### Hand-Drawn Art

Art drawn by @DewdropDrawsStuffArt drawn by @AAACandy-draws-o-oArt drawn by @-bubblegumcookie\*\*Art drawn by @Jesus75aArt drawn by @SynthiaTheNotoriousArt drawn by @IcedTeaCharizardArt drawn by @CLALTArt drawn by @Jelena\_JP on Instagram