Lucinia Porter

**Character**Gallery

Lucinia Porter

* Season 3
* Season 2
* Season 1

Background information

**First episode**
Wrong Warp

**Latest episode**
The End

**Voice**
Amber Lee Connors

Character information

**Full name**
Lucinia Porter

**Other names**
Luce (Belle and Masa)Old Dog (herself)Sensei (Belle)

**Age**
26 - 29

**Occupation**
TASCorp. Meta Runner (formerly)SHERCorp. Meta Runner (formerly; unwillingly)

**Affiliations**
TASCorp. (formerly)Project Blue (formerly)SHERCorp. (formerly; unwillingly)

**Home**
Silica City

**Relatives**
Sofia Porter (Younger sister)

**Allies**
Belle Fontiere (Girlfriend)Lamar WilliamsMasa ShimamotoTariTheo

**Enemies**
Evelyn ClaythorneJames Sheridan

**Likes**
Masa's encouragment.Teaching Belle new tricks.Ultra Jump ManiaBeing useful to Lucks

**Dislikes**
Being unappreciated by Lucks

**Powers and abilities**
Above-average gaming skills. Power of suggestion (Season 2) Warping (Season 3) Meta Runner Vision (Season 3)

**Fate**
Consciousness fully restored after Tari gave up her life in the real world; joined with MD-5 along with Belle

**Quote**
"And besides, you're one of the most talented speedrunners I know... Hell, you're a lot better than me, that's for sure!""Evelyn, you are a vile, spoiled little brat that is finally going to face some consequences for her actions!"

**Lucinia Porter** is the overarching protagonist of *Meta Runner*. She first appeared in Wrong Warp as one of the meta runners of TAS Corp. alongside her lover Belle Fontiere.
In Game Plan and Heart to Heart, flashbacks revealed that she was involved in an accident during Project Blue's development and was recovered by Lucks, who kept her disappearance a secret and led everyone to believe she had gone missing or was dead.
In Fatal Error, Lucks revealed that she survived the explosion. Tari confirmed this and explained that Dr. Sheridan tried uploading an advanced A.I. iteration into her Meta Runner arm, but accidentally pushed the neural uplink that caused the upload to end in catastrophic failure as the explosion physically scarred Sheridan and Lucinia, with the latter having her consciousness shattered.
Some of her fragments were lost in the server while the others went into Sheridan's A.I., the **Turbo Assisted Rapid Intelligence** Program, otherwise known as **T.A.R.I.**, meaning that Tari herself *is* the A.I. program that Sheridan created to help Lucinia until some of her consciousness became attached to Tari, allowing her to exist in the real world through an artificial body.

**Appearance**
Lucinia is a woman with bright, long purple hair, pale skin, and a slender build. She wears a black tank top, black shorts with a navy hoodie tied around her waist, including black tube socks and black leather boots, and a necklace with a sky-blue pendant. Her meta runner arm is on her left.
In the second season, she does not have the jacket and her shorts have two white stripes on the sides; most of the time she is seen in the TAS Corp. server, appearing as a purple glitter.
In the final season, Lucinia's Meta Runner arm is gone and she has third degree burns on her left arm and shoulder, with lesser burn scars on her neck and left cheek.

**Personality**
In a flashback shown in "Soft Lock", she lacks self-esteem and calls herself an "old dog" teaching new tricks to Belle by showing her a new glitch, saying that if she can't achieve the Ultra Jump Mania record, Belle can. She also mentions how she hasn't had a press conference in a while unlike Belle and Masa.

**History**
Lucinia was one of TAS Corp.'s notable Meta Runners. She was so notable she appeared in company advertisements, becomigng acquainted with team captain Masa Shimamoto and Belle Fontiere, the former epsecially becoming close with Lucinia which eventually lead to romance. It was also revealed in Shutdown that she is Sofia's older sister and that she raised her all by herself, with Sofia taking after her sister's habit of being humorously melodramatic.
However, as time went on, she became less relevant compared to Belle and Masa which lead to her not being featured in press conferences anymore and noticed less by her boss, Derek Lucks which upset her and hurt her self-esteem as she believed she was mediocore compared to her friends. Despite this, Masa reassured her that she was one of the best runners he knew and that she belonged on the team despite what others thought of her.
Regardless, Lucinia began wandering the science labs of TASCorp in the hopes of finding something to improve her skill which eventually led to her learning of James Sheridan's research project that was in desperate need for a test subject.
Desperate herself for Lucks' attention, Lucinia approached Sheridan and volunteered to be the host for his experimental A.I. program, delighting the desperate scientist. There, she met with Sheridan's sentient A.I. program dubbed the **Turbo Assisted Rapid Intelligence** or just **T.A.R.I.**, who was uploaded into Lucinia's Meta Runner arm and allowed her to guide Lucinia's movements through numerous games and her skills skyrocketed as a result.
Believing the time was right to take the experiment to the next level, Sheridan uploaded a more advancted iteration of T.A.R.I. into Lucinia which allowed Tari to connect directly to Lucinia's brain where the two met face-to-face. Despite instantly hitting it off, the server began to collapse due to Sheridan accidentally pushing the neural uplink too hard which would result in Lucinia either dying or, at best, leave her with permanent brain damage.
Tari managed to rescue Lucinia before taking her into the TASCorp server where her mind would be safe but Tari confessed that her hard drive would be fried and her memory data would be erased, leaving her a blank slate. Realizing this, Lucinia removed her digital arm, representing part of her consciousness, and gave it to Tari so the two would remain connected and find each other again one day.
In the real world, the explosion resulted in Sheridan being physically scarred as he escaped the lab, leaving Lucinia behind with burn scars while her consciousness was shattered, leaving her in the ruins of the lab.
Eventually, when Lucinia didn't show up to work, Lucks announced her as missing and went to check Sheridan's lab with his security team to find out what happened, only for him to stumble upon the broken Lucinia which enraged him due to believing that Sheridan did this to her. He ordered his men to recover whatever they could before he called a medical team to recover Lucinia but chose to keep his discovery of her whereabouts a secret.
After placing her in cryostasis, Lucks realized that Lucinia should have recovered from her physical injuries yet wouldn't wake up. This led to him theorizing that Sheridan's A.I. had fragmented her mind, leaving her an empty shell which meant until the A.I. with Lucinia's fragment could be recovered, she wouldn't be able to awaken.
Lucinia's disappearance heavily affected both Belle and Masa with the latter correctly assuming that Lucks knew something about her disappearance and, despite Belle's warning not to, tried hacking into Lucks' private server only to be discovered and decomissioned from TASCorp with Lucks having his Meta Runner arm confiscated in the process.
This only strengthed Masa's belief that Lucks was responsible for what happened to Lucinia and eventually came to the conclusion that Lucinia was dead. Enraged by her "death", Masa chose to go against his former boss by exposing TASCorp to the public, despite knowing what Lucks would do to him if he caught him again, and decided to recruit Sofia Porter as she missed her sister and wanted justice as well, along with another, Lamar Williams who became a Meta Runner himself after joining the two of them to form MD-5.
For the next year, MD-5 would try numerous times to take down TASCorp to get justice for Lucinia's "death", only to fail repeatedly due to Lucks' high level of cybersecurity and powerful influence within Silica City.

**Season 1**
In One Shot, she appeared when Tari mysteriously passed out upon warping into Tempest, which was being run on TAS Corp's server. Tari ended up having a strange vision of a mysterious purple-haired girl. As Tari tried calling out and reaching for her, she suddenly dropped away, and Tari started to wake up. In The Run while Belle and Masa argued, Masa mentioned Lucinia, causing Tari to remember the purple-haired girl she saw in the strange vision.
When Tari managed to escape Belle and crash the game, she subsequently received another vision of Lucinia. This time, Lucinia turned around to face Tari, but when she did, her appearance suddenly changed, revealing burn marks and scarring, including missing her meta runner arm.

**Season 2**
In Transfer Student, Belle asked Theo to look for anything related to Project Blue to find evidence of Lucinia's fate. Theo couldn't find anything at first, but then suddenly, a purple glitter moved around Theo and found the Project Blue file, giving it to him. When Belle viewed the file later, it revealed that Lucks always knew about Lucinia's fate, causing her to turn against him.
In Friendly Fire, the purple glitter helped Theo navigate a difficult part of the corrupted version of Ultra Jump Mania.
In Soft Lock, the purple glitter returned to boost Tari's precision in Hidden Heroes to defeat Evelyn. Additionally, a flashback revealed that Lucinia struggled with self-esteem issues and was neglected by Lucks while Belle and Masa were in the spotlight.
In Fatal Error after Tari saves Theo, the purple glitter appears once again, finally revealing itself to be Lucinia, although she couldn't remember her name until Tari said it, but she managed to guess who Tari was. When Tari asked Lucinia who or what she was, Lucinia told her everything she knew off-screen. Tari later revealed what Lucinia told her: Lucinia's consciousness was blown apart, with parts of it going into the TAS Corp. server and other parts going into Tari, who was Sheridan's A.I. program.

**Season 3**
In Power Down, Tari was abducted by Evelyn while trying to warp into Turbo Crash 9 and brought into Dr. Sheridan's private server and chained down while Sheridan explained that she fulfilled her purpose of taking down Lucks and no longer needed the "extra" brain functions. He then revealed Lucinia was in the private server, too, just before he drilled into Tari to remove Lucinia's consciousness.
In Testing Room, the process is interrupted by Theo who warped in after Tari, attacking Evelyn and destroying the machine, allowing Tari to break free. The transference is left incomplete, with Lucinia only regaining a part of her consciousness while the rest is still left inside of Tari while Evelyn is tasked with retrieving more data fragments.
In Skybreakers (Episode), Belle and Masa are forced to play Battle Blaze against an unknown player who Masa discovered was Lucinia. They demanded Sheridan explain what was going on, but he electrocuted Belle before returning them to his private server. Sheridan reveals that their opponent *is* Lucinia but with partial consciousness. She can only perform basic motor functions such as following Evelyn and Sheridan's orders and playing video games.
Belle is brought to tears upon seeing Lucinia while Masa sarcastically congratulates Sheridan on finally outdoing Lucks on something: being an even bigger monster than he was. Sheridan decides he's wasted enough of their time and sends them back into Battle Blaze, but this time they are forced to warp in and fight Lucinia directly.
In Dead On Arrival, Evelyn and Lucinia track down Tari and her friends in the safe zone. After taking out Theo and Lamar in-game, Evelyn orders Lucinia to attack Tari and reclaim her missing fragments. However, Sofia sees Lucinia through Tari's perspective and calls out to her, momentarily awakening Lucinia as she says her sister's name and drops the knife, allowing Tari to defend herself by attacking Lucinia with it and cause some of the fragments to return to her and somewhat restores her meta runner vision and fight back. When the crew seeks refuge on a new ship after Evelyn's bot-boy captain blew it up, Lucinia tried attacking Marco by shooting at him with her guns but failed.
In Death Warp, Lucinia is seen on the ground crying in one of Masa's visions, but she quickly turns around and attacks him while degrading him. She is also seen in Skybreakers with Evelyn attacking players and warping them into Sheridan's virtual world. As they get closer to Tari and the others, Lamar goes to slow them down and tries to stop the two, causing Lucinia to shoot at Lamar with her weapons. Lamar tries attacking Lucinia with an ability, but she successfully shoots and explodes the objects. When Lamar disrupts the steering of the ship, Lucinia and Evelyn hold him down before Evelyn forcibly warps him into the virtual world.
In Global Testfire, Lucinia is seen briefly in a SHERCorp. commercial alongside Sheridan. She is also seen briefly in a cryogenic pod in the real world. When Evelyn attacks MD-5's ship before they enter the backdoor, Lucinia is seen on Evelyn's ship alongside Belle and Masa. Evelyn begins talking and Lucinia shoots Tari in the leg. Just before Evelyn and her crew attack, a projectile is fired at their ship, and all are knocked down. At the end of the episode, MD-5 and SHERCorp. prepare to attack each other.
In Overload, Lucinia fights Lamar while Marco fights Masa in Skybreakers. After Masa kills Lamar, Lucinia kills Marco's assistant bot before taking him down. Just as Tari is about to defeat Belle, Lucinia shoots Tari's rifle out of her hands and regroups with the remaining SHERCorp. members as Evelyn restrains Tari. When Masa regains control and pushes Evelyn down into the ship, she aims her gun at him, but he defends himself and knocks them both away. After Belle regains control when her control bug short circuits, she throws her sword at Lucinia to stop her from getting the knife, then plunges the knife into Lucinia's stomach as they harm each other. Lucinia removes the knife from her stomach and the remaining data fragments return to Tari, restoring her power. When Evelyn is defeated, Lucinia removes the impaled sword as Sofia encourages Tari and her to use his virtual lab to restore them both, so Tari threatens to destroy Sheridan's server and she follows Tari off the shop into the backdoor.
In The End, Lucinia and Tari warp into the virtual world, where she fights Tari in the virtual world, in Tempest, and in Pocket Gakusei against Tari and Satsuki-Chan before returning to the virtual world. Sheridan eventually makes Lucinia invincible and begins controlling her. After Sofia disrupts the server and Lucinia's invincibility, Tari throws Lucinia onto a Turbo Crash 9 car and Sofia drives Tari and Lucinia into the operating room, where Tari restrains her on the table. After a brief conversation with Derek Lucks (A.I.), Lucinia is revived. In the real world, Evelyn gets mad at Marco and the others, but Lucinia walks over and slaps her across the face before telling her off. She locks Evelyn in a chair and kisses Belle, confirming their relationship. Belle, Lucinia, Marco, and Masa returned to his hideout and Sofia and her reunite. Lucinia tells them what Tari told her just before she died, and says that without Tari, she feels like a piece is missing from her before thanking Tari. Lucinia and the other members of MD-5 lament over Tari and Theo before Sofia conducts Belle and Lucinia's initiation into their group. In the credits, Lucinia can be seen alongside Belle and Sofia playing video games.

**Gallery**
Lucinia as shown in a flashback in Season 2.Lucinia suffering the explosion.Lucinia in Season 1.Lucinia as the purple mist.Lucinia in the pod.
**Trivia*** Her memory fragment appears as a trail of pink glitter, floating around the TASCorp server, where she helped Theo to find the file about her disappearance as well as help him in his corrupted game by showing him the glitch she discovered in Friendly Fire.
* She seems to have lost some of her memory as a fragment of her consciousness, as she at first couldn't remember her name until Tari mentioned it to her. Regardless, she was able to remember exactly what happened to her at the lab.
* She taught Belle everything she knows about speedrunning.
* Her age is assumed to be 29 according to Belle's conversation in Soft Lock, where she states Lucinia is six years older than Belle. However in Season 3, the screen shown in The End listing her stats states she's 26.

**References**
**Season 1*** Wrong Warp (on-screen)
* Out Of Bounds (on-screen)
* Game Plan (on-screen)
* No Clip (flashback)
* One Shot (Tari's vision.)
* Shutdown (Tari's vision.)

**Season 2*** Hard Reset (on-screen)
* Heart to Heart (on-screen)
* Soft Lock (flashback)
* Fatal Error (on-screen and flashback.)

**Season 3*** Power Down (on-screen)
* Testing Room (on-screen)
* Skybreakers (Episode) (on-screen)
* Dead On Arrival (on-screen)
* Death Warp (on-screen and Masa's vision.)
* Global Testfire (on-screen)
* Overload (on-screen)
* The End (on-screen)