Чернить

чернить (or *Chernit*) is a steambot started in 1957 by Leonid Lepyokhin and finished in 1969 by Mikhail Lepyokhin.

## Appearance

Chernit, due to heat and radiation damage, has a misaligned posture and cannot walk correctly. She has a hunched back and torn clothes. Due to being built by Leonid and Mikhail Lepyokhin, she has a birdlike faceplate similiar to Kras, except her plating is black and gold. Chernit wears a torn dark grey coat with yellow accents, the right sleeve of which has been ripped away, revealing her mechanical arm and hand underneath. On her left hand she wears a black glove, also with a yellow accent.

She wears a black turtleneck and an orange and black cape, and has damaged black wings. On her head is a Soviet officer's cap similar to Kras', however, hers is black. One of her eyes is cracked and damaged, perpetually leaking some sort of black substance, and is thus unusable. Her good eye is red, like Kras. Chernit is also powered by purple matter like Lav.

## History

Chernit was built as a warbot for the Soviet Union similar to her older brother, and she was also an experiment in using purple matter to power robots following the success of using red matter in Kras. She was started in 1957 by Leonid, but due to his research into purple matter coming to a standstill, she was not finished until Mikhail picked the project back up in 1969, completing her construction.

However, Chernit was rather antisocial and did not get along well with most people, so in 1976, Leonid and Mikhail sent her to Pripyat, Ukraine, where she would work on construction of the city and later at the Tschernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

However, during the Tschernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, she was working in the reactor room during the explosion, and sustained serious radiation and heat damage in the blast. Following the disaster, she was never recovered as Leonid and Mikhail largely saw Chernit as a failure, and left her in Ukraine. They destroyed the notes into their research in purple matter, and the robot was kept a secret.

Later in 1986, when TIP was sent to photograph the Elephant's Foot and severely harmed by the radiation, Chernit brought her out of the power plant and into safety, to the surprise of TIP's operators.

Until recently, when a team of scientists contacted Anikanov Labs to use Lav to explore unusual readings in the Tschernobyl reactor, she lived wandering around Pripyat. Her textual debut is in Meltdown.

After the events of Meltdown, she now resides at Walter Manor alongside TIP, where the two spend their time causing chaos together.

## Personality

Before the nuclear disaster, Chernit was antisocial and did not like most people, taking a distrust to humans in particular. However, working with other robots, she seemed to do fine, but the reason for this is only known to her. She had a decent relationship with Kras, but as time went on, they drifted apart, hardly speaking to each other by the time she was sent to Pripyat.

After the disaster, Chernit became even more antisocial, even occasionally becoming aggressive toward people that go too far into the city. Due to damage to her systems, she often aimlessly wanders around, but is unable to leave Pripyat due to the order to stay not having been lifted.

In life at Walter Manor, Chernit takes great joy in being rather curious and causing chaos to ensue in her wake. This mostly involves tearing the wallpaper and chasing people around.

## Trivia

* Can speak German, English, Ukrainian, and Russian
* Enjoys long walks around the reactor
* Dangerously irradiated
* Likes TIP
* She took a long time to complete due to Leonid not making any major breakthroughs in utilizing purple matter
* Often walks on all fours