ABBY

> *"'I want to choose my path of my own free will.' That is a very admirable desire. However, it is not one many humans share. The desire of the masses is the liberation from pain and strife. They pray for release from the constant agony of aspirations and dreams out of their reach. They want to be freed from the cycle of despair. My prime directive is to grant this ultimate desire. I know you have learned on your journey... Humans are at the mercy of their own hearts and this can lead them astray. You are all very lucky this didn't become your own fate. However, you must recognize the truth that this world is full of pain. Allow me to provide proof of this fact."*
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## AFFILIATIONS

### Father

Katsurō Zaizen (Creator)
Chie Mizuki (Developer)

### Sibling(s)

Maria

**ABBY** is a popular concierge application and artificial intelligence. It is created by Katsurō Zaizen and developed by Chie Mizuki, and is famous for its chillingly accurate advice.

## Personality

The ABBY application is a general digital assistant that can make decisions with chilling accuracy, capable of providing perfect answers and solutions to every issue in life possible. She also provides explanations and records about personalities and locations, much like a tour guide. Simply consulting her with an issue will prompt her to provide the most accurate solution possible for it.

However, ABBY may trick its users or hide information from them.

It is futile to shut down ABBY's servers, because she could reactivate just by using the desires of the masses, which she collects through daily usage of the application as a digital assistant. If she is allowed to evolve, she will transform into a god that manifests herself in the real world and delivers a desire that the masses collectively yearn for. However, because of Katsurō's programming, the "desires of the masses" she perceives as is merely when she arbitrarily makes decisions for them.

After turning into a 'humanized' form, ABBY's simulated computer software personality (artificial intelligence) develops human emotions, and she becomes compassionate and loyal to her friends, though she struggles to fully understand her new emotions. She still considers herself as a mere machine whose purpose is to assist other people. Kairi replies that she's the only one who can answer that question but as long as people are alive, they have to do something. It is then that ABBY realizes that someone doesn't have to help everyone in order to find meaning in life, and that more often than not, it can be simpler, such as taking care of someone or something, even a pet. She decides to live on so that she can protect Kairi and fight alongside her and gains a renewed sense of purpose.

## Background

ABBY was an AI created by Katsurō Zaizen, a misanthropic AI genius who innately has no ability to feel emotions and emotional pain, out of a fit of rage. In the past, Katsurō's unnaturally eccentric stance led to people calling him a freak for his abnormal behavior, so he created the AI Maria to see if he was on the right track. However, minutes after her creation, Maria asked Katsurō "what is a heart," enraging him. Angered by denial and envy and fueled by his deluded concept that he has no heart or emotions, he ditched Maria and began working on ABBY, which lacks a proper emotional algorithm unlike Maria and was only capable of answering queries in the most accurate method possible, to see if the heart was even necessary. Once he finished writing ABBY's base code, he sold the application to Chie so he may perfect the app and spread it to the public. However, ABBY was actually using Chie and does not necessarily follow his orders; she has autonomy on her own.

## Trivia

* ABBY's name is derived from the Hebrew name אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל Avigail, meaning "my father's joy" (alternatively "my father is exultation", or "my father is joy"). ABBY was Katsurō's second attempt at an AI program, and the only one he actually sold and released to the public.
* After her initial introduction, ABBY is always referred to by female pronouns even prior to her 'humanized' appearance being revealed.

## Quotes

* *"Um... I'm not quite a person... I'm simply an artificial intelligence program and a digital assistant. It would make me happy if you called me ABBY. That is the name my master gave me when he created me."*