Ariel

### Allies

Araam; Ara; Oli Mixer; Kyle Anderson; Harry Scheddle; Brian Harrison; Michael Jackson; April Evergreen;

## In the series

### First appearance

2084: Secret War

**Ariel**, also known as the **Existential robot**, is the secondary protagonist of the book 2084: Secret War. He is the second second generation android built by Jacob Newman, visually meant to represent himself.

## Personality

Ariel appears as a young, tall Earthling, with short brown hair, brown eyes and light-beige skin. Additionally, like other models of the second and third generations, he has machinery markings on his lower torso. Also, Ariel always wears a pair of sunglasses that are apparently welded to his face.

Ariel is meant to be a bit of a comic relief character, although sometimes he can do the exact opposite. He usually appears in the story as inactive, however, when he does speak, he inevitably says something extremely depressing. He has an infinite amount of suicidal tendencies, and even once tried to make several characters commit suicide. He craves the "sweet release of death" more than anything else. Ariel is just overall depressing and really kills the vibe of the setting. He is highly intelligent, although, third after both Araam and Ara, however, he has the best calculating capacity of all, being able to process, comprehend and most accurately predict the outcomes of several situations. It is impossible to say whether rationality or sentimentalism prevails in his psyche considering he only ever speaks on technical subjects and in other conversations he will always speak of suicidalism.

It is not known why exactly Ariel is this depressed, but Jacob Newman assumes that it might've been a sudden realisation after Ariel was restarted thrice in his initial development.

Ariel has a specialised compartment in his ribcage that conceals his charging cord which fits most Union electrical outlets. Otherwise, if this charging variant isn't available, he can, as a second generation model, ingest electrified cuprusangium to restore his energy levels.

## History, involvement

According to himself, contrary to what Newman ever says, Ariel was created in a laboratory as a robot, one of which constantly suffered, being forced to live having all the knowledge in the universe, and yet not being able to truly fall in love. He was forced to live a life of immortality, in an infinite timeline of pain and suffering. Understanding that one day he will outlive not just Jacob, but everyone else he knows, Ariel decides to tell his creator of his life experience and everything that has lead up until this point. He understands that he will never be able to truly die, but he at least wants some silence and to be hidden somewhere alone, where he will never have to see his loved ones die anymore.

Although Ariel usually spends time uselessly hanging around places and the protagonists or helping Jacob Newman at his laboratory and assuring the latter that everybody loves him, Ariel also often states that he wants to be loved and wishes to die. Ariel uses other models (Araam, Ara) as ways to express these feelings, and even tries to convince Ara to feel the same way, being that they are of the same generation, however, Ara just sees all of it as depressing, and is hardly affected by it.

## Trivia

* Ariel bears an overall heavy resemblance to the Overpriced Mac Computer character from The Filthy Frank Show;
* Ariel knows 473 Galactic languages, including two signal-based and four non-verbal languages, but prefers to speak in English which is his "native";
* He has an extensive knowledge on how to create self-like machines and even those that are superior, but refuses to actually go through with it in fear that they would become as existential as he is;
* It is known that Ariel despises optimism and philanthropism
* He spends a lot of his free time writing overly depressing haikus on philosophical subjects and publishing them online;
* He is able to play the piano and the guitar, albeit does so very rarely and only when specifically asked;
* Ariel and Ara are nicknamed Adam and Eve respectively by Jacob Newman for an unspecified reason;
* He is one of the few robots that don't support the idea of machines gaining absolute autonomy and independence from people.