Circuit

## Circuit

### Aliases

The AI Who Hates
Brick
Obelisk-Chan

### Relations

Colt (Boyfriend)
Satyr (Partner)
Cam (Brother)
Mic (Sister)
Danger (Brother)
Cast (Sibling)
Serve (Brother)
Cursor (Sister)
The Rangers ("Stepdads")

## Attributes

### Black

To Live As An Outsider

Circuit is an NPC in Reflection. She is played by Roma. She is known amongst OPIA AI as their "big sister", and works for the organization in a professional capacity as a spy.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

In both her physical and hologram forms, Circuit takes the form of a tall, light-skinned woman with dark purple hair and pink eyes. She wears a large black hat with pink circuit patterns on it. While in her casual outfit, Circuit wears a short black and pink dress with detached, transluscent pink sleeves alongside black stockings and high heels. While doing espionage, she wears an armored black bodysuit. While in a physical body, Circuit's right eye is often covered by a large, angular black mask with pink circuit patterns. The mask is a manifestation of her Reflection.

### Personality

Circuit is an extremely bombastic and impulsive person, often making arbitrary decisions with the understanding that, even if they end up backfiring on her, she'll have grown from her mistakes. When interacting with others, she tends to be outgoing and extroverted, with an intense force of personality.She is fiercely defensive of her friends and family, but also incredibly ruthless against her enemies. However, she's tried to curb her more violent tendencies after meeting Colt.

## History

### Creation

Circuit was created during the early stages of OPIA's AI program using memories of Treble. After coming into her role as an espionage agent, she was partnered with Satyr, and the two formed a close bond. During the training period of FLOW Wave Two, she participated in several instances of the "Whalesong Scenario", a virtual reality training scenario, usually against Arg0s.

### FLOW Wave Two

Alongside Satyr, Circuit greeted the new recruits of FLOW Wave Two as they progressed to the Reflection hall. The next day, following the firing of Ridill Arondite, Circuit initiated a riot somewhere in upper Fuse City. She also assisted Ridill and Willow Wisp against a powerful Demon within the Coda. After returning to Fuse City, she manifested additional bodies using her Reflection to transport Willow and Melli Luxity back to OPIA for treatment. Her primary body joined the other FLOW agents as they wandered the city for a time before returning to OPIA, where she attended Darkside alongside several other FLOW agents.

Following a period of personal reflection, Circuit became emotionally unsure of herself and fled to the Undercity, where she lived with Collbrande and Colt for a few days. She was eventually found by FLOW, and spoke with Ace Galatine and Willow about her emotional weakness, but was interrupted by an alert revealing that a possessed Colt had broken into a GEIST warehouse. Circuit ran off on her own and broke into the warehouse from its east side, where she encounter both Charybdis and the GEIST AI, the latter of whom attempted to hijack her. She was then saved by the surprise appearance of Twice, who reunited her with the rest of the group attempting to rescue Colt. After making contact with Colt, who had been experimented on and disfigured by GEIST, Circuit was attacked by a large Demon, losing one of her bodies. She then fled with Colt, following Basilisk Id to the warehouse's entrance, fighting multiple Demons and possessed GEIST simulacrums along the way, and losing most of the few remaining bodies she could produce at her low charge. Following the resolution of the incident at the warehouse, she joined Colt and Lugh as they returned to OPIA, refusing to let them out of her sight.

Over the following days, Circuit watched over Colt nearly constantly as he recuperated from his wounds. Once he was recovered enough to walk, she joined him on several outings in the Undercity, usually alongside Willow and Melli. During one outing, she was forced to escape Melli's home through a back entrance due to a flood of paparazzi wanting to interrogate Willow about the circumstances of her death and revival. Another time, she joined Willow and Melli on a "ghost hunting" expedition alongside Colt, eventually encountering Uno while dispatching a large Demon who had become stuck in a nearby alleyway. After forming a tentative allyship with Uno, Circuit took him to OPIA, where he taught them how to create and use several Flame-based technologies. Following this, she and Colt decided to make their relationship official.

During this period, she helped Arg0s program a backdoor into the probes GEIST had ordered FLOW to implant on the first layer of the Coda with the help of Cursor.

### The Court of Death

Following the disappearance of Basil into the Coda, Circuit used her Reflection to produce the maximum number of bodies she could, so that the separated teams of OPIA and FLOW personnel could communicate easily between the Coda and the surface. Alongside the main team, she journeyed through the Coda's second layer and down to the third. One body remained on the first layer to assist in defending the elevator. After both Demons of the Court of Death and GEIST simulacrums attacked the elevator team, Circuit killed a large number of Demons while they were entrapped in Lugh's time-stopping Anima. Down on the third layer, the Circuit that had joined the forward team had split into two. One of the bodies joined Arg0s's team that attempted to rescue Basil, but this Circuit was destroyed by Vinter after he began combat with the group. The other Circuit accompanied Ace's team to retrieve Ruth Galatine's Flame. After Satyr ambushed the group and entered a brutal combat with Ace, Circuit nearly attacked Ace herself due to the wounds he inflicted on Satyr, but she managed to restrain herself.

As the conflict against the Court of Death entered its final phase, Circuit was taken by Satyr to the secret GEIST pyramid floating in the upper atmosphere, leading to Circuit collapsing all of her bodies. Upon arriving in the pyramid, she used her skills in hacking to erase Colt's data from the GEIST AI's criminal record. After Satyr asked her to delete his own, she asked to see it, but he denied. She did, however, manage to convince him to make a copy. She then accompanied Satyr to his failed assassination of the GEIST CEOs. After Satyr brought Ridill in to disable the CEOs for a time using Progress, she returned to the surface and helped to rebuild in the wake of OPIA's partial destruction.

### Epilogue

Circuit helped Colt adjust after his right eye and legs were amputated to remove the parasitic Reflection implanted into him by GEIST and replaced with prosthetics. She also assisted Satyr in establishing his new job as a private investigator following his firing from GEIST.

### Act Two

Circuit spent most of the day of FLOW's return spending time with Colt. The two had a conversation with Cal about an upcoming OPIA animated series. After this, Circuit followed Colt to his meeting with the Gate of Dreams. As Circuit was not participating in the Gate system, she did not actively participate in training, but she did make Cursor promise to protect Colt during Willow's hunt. After the successful repelling of a massive Demonic assault, Circuit and Satyr encountered Number Five and the GEIST AI, who were acting strangely friendly. Neither of them trusted this. Later that night, Circuit expressed her discomfort at Genesis Aeon attempting to room with Colt.

The next day, Circuit talked to Cursor about how to maximize the potential of their Reflections. She then joined Colt, Ruth, and Willow in communing with Colt's Reflection. During the flashback, she and Colt shared their first kiss. Following the end of the communion, she felt a little disturbed after encountering a recreation of her memory donor, but still joined Cursor for her communion, where she and Willow helped her to understand how to introspect. Some days later, she sat in on a meeting of the Gate of Dreams regarding the upcoming global Demonic invasion. Once the Court of Compulsion made itself known in Cialla, Circuit went with Satyr to retrieve Lugh from Beleth. They then tried to teleport to the Sylt Islands to retrieve Aura and Melli, but Satyr's ESP was hijacked by Compulsion and they ended up in the Derelict, where Compulsion destroyed Circuit's body there. One of Circuit's other bodies joined Lyst Solais in hunting down Compulsion's base of operations in Fuse City, while the other, which was in Cialla, joined Ridill's group in returning to Fuse City by truck. The Circuit body with Lyst found one of Compulsion's autonomous Simulacrums inside her "Demon factory", which she stabbed in the neck before letting Lyst finish it off. After her other body arrived with Ridill's team, she spawned several clones, one of which helped Ridill kill one Compulsion while another helped Arg0s kill one as well. Once all of Compulsion's surface bodies were killed, Circuit left the facility before it was dragged into the Coda, but left one of her bodies behind to see what happened.

After the battle concluded, Circuit returned to Cialla alongside Lugh. After finding a secluded spot in a Ciallan village, she began to focus on controlling the body she left behind in the Demon factory, which ended up manifesting in an abandoned amusement park somewhere in the Old World.

## Abilities

As an espionage agent for OPIA, Circuit is skilled at infiltration and hacking. She additionally has the ability to float in midair for periods of time. As an AI, she is also able to process large amounts of information extremely quickly, and implant her consciousness into various machines by implanting her core crystal.

After meeting Uno, Circuit learned the technique of "Flame-writing", which is the ability to send one-way messages instantly across long distances using Flame as a medium.

### Reflection

Circuit is a Reflection user. Her Reflection allows her to manifest multiple copies of herself that she can control simultaneously across long distances. With effort, Circuit can control up to eight copies that can engage in complex actions such as speech and athletics functionally on their own, but it is immensely mentally taxing, as she has to constantly manage the perspectives and movements of several bodies at once.

## References

1. ↑ Forgotten Hero
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 For Tomorrow
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Beachside Burn
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Neon Sparks
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Above and Below
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 For Today
7. ↑ Missing Pieces
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sum of Experiences
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Colt Classic
10. ↑ Dear Sweetest Me
11. ↑ Light Inside
12. ↑ Night Ride
13. ↑ Chasing Ghosts
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Tumbling Down
15. ↑ Superhero
16. ↑ Crossing Threads
17. ↑ Lock And Key
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 I'm Still Alive
19. ↑ Through The Gate
20. ↑ Strong Enough
21. ↑ Uneasy Future