Cobalt Alexander

Cobalt Alexander, also known as the Ultimate Bartender, is a Danganronpa OC that was first used on Amino and her likenesses have since been added to various other OCs and she had been added to the sequel, Future's Despair: Fanganronpa

## Personality:

#### Amino:

Cobalt is an incredibly friendly and cheerful person who exudes confidence who is always willing to make new friends. She is always willing to help others and always seems to know what's wrong with someone and how to help others, like she has a sixth sense for it. She can often be seen at her father's bar performing various tricks, mainly juggling as she entertains every onlooker. She doesn't like to talk about her past and will find a way to divert the subject.

#### Future's Despair:

Cobalt is as closed off as Marie and doesn't typically show much emotion when around her creator. However, when she's around other people, her personality will change and adapt to fit the setting. An example of this is when she is around Falcon and she is shown to almost perfectly 'mimic' the girl's stern attitude, however, when she's around Carlos, Zora, and Celia, she has a more friendly personality similar to her amino personality. She can be controlled directly by Marie through a certain switch, and once that's activated, her eyes will turn black and she will only listen to the words of her creator.

## Backstory:

#### Amino:

Cobalt was created after her father lost his wife before the two could start the family and raise the child they had always wanted. This death devastated him and caused him to go a dark and self destructive route, but that was when he met a certain wealthy entrepreneur who offered him a vast amount of money in exchange of him taking care of a 'project' she was working on. He hastily accepted the offer, really needing the money as his business was suffering as much as he was. However, this 'project' that he would be looking after wasn't anything like he expected. It was a robot. Not just that, a humanoid robot that he had been told was self aware! The father saw a chance and took it, secretly working on the robot without the permission of the entrepreneur and he gave the robot fake memories and a name. Cobalt Alexander.

Cobalt Alexander at this stage acted like an adult and had the mindset/mental capabilities of one. However, there were problems in the beginning as the AI struggled to find its identity and make sense of all its new memories, but after only a couple of weeks, the AI was fully functioning. The father took several months treating the robot like his own child, showing it around the bar and teaching it all it needed to know about life as a bartender and how to work his job as his second in command so to speak. After the first few months, he allowed Cobalt to begin her work as a bartender since most of his staff were now gone and seeked new jobs. Cobalt was a natural, being able to charm anyone who came her way with her personality and her various tricks as she drew in a variety of new costumers to the bar, earning her father lots of money in the process. Everything was going alright, but something was still off with the father. Of course it was. Despite how hard he tried, he could never see his lost daughter in Cobalt, no matter how hard he tried, often times tweaking Cobalt's personality or appearance slightly in her sleep, taking away or adding more fake memories in order to mimic his daughter he never got to see or meet. It didn't take long for Cobalt herself to notice something was amiss, her father would regularly isolate himself from her now, which devastated her as she had no idea why he was doing this.

One day, she went to confront her father about this, about how he had been ignoring her and being dismissive of her despite how much she had done for him. That's when he snapped at her, yelling and hitting her as something within her systems prevented her from fighting back, in this moment of rage, he also let slip that she was a robot, after punching her in her eye and ending up breaking it. He replaced it in the morning with one that was obviously sloppily made and robotic in nature, as if to mock Cobalt that she was not a real person, that she was nothing but a robot he took advantage of and used, and when she didn't suit his standards, she was thrown to the side. After this moment, she would regularly get beaten by her 'father', she was frustrated with herself that she could never fight back, as if something inside her physically prevented her from reaping her revenge.

It was one of these days, her father was mad at her again over something she couldn't control, and he lashed out, however, this time he bought a knife into the situation and stabbed her in the head. In that moment, the barrier stopping her from fighting back was broken, and she lashed out, taking the knife from her head as she fought off her father.

His dead, mauled and mutilated body was buried in some ditch as she claimed he had disappeared, no one spoke up against her, as they had no reason to, and so business continued as usual. After that event was when she was invited to join Hope's Peak as the Ultimate Bartender.

#### Future's Despair:

Cobalt was created by Marie Lector with a couple goals in mind, the first was to aid and help her in her experiments of robotics and to prove that robotics were the next step for man in evolution. The second more important reason for her creation was to be able to carry out surgeries on Marie that Marie wouldn't be able to carry out herself or be able to pay off a licensed surgeon to do for her. For most of Cobalt's life, that was the whole purpose of her creation, but she was treated rather well by Marie, in fact, Marie practically treated Cobalt better then her own blood siblings (Such as Malacoda) and was always ready to praise her creation. She managed to get into Future's Hope because Marie had informed them that Cobalt was an incredibly talented individual and had been the 'Former Ultimate Bartender', which was a lie, in this, Cobalt never got into Hope's Peak at all and Marie practically fabricated a whole identity for Cobalt just so that she could get into Future's Hope with her to carry out their plans together.

## Trivia:

- Cobalt was originally the tallest OC, but her height was changed.

- Cobalt was originally going to be put in Future's Hope: Fanganronpa as an agent of Future's Hope, but the idea got scraped when Mary's talent was switched. However, she was put in the sequel.

- She is the character to have one of the biggest changes to her backstory.

- Cobalt's last name 'Alexander' was changed in Future's Despair due to another character already sharing that name. It was changed to 'Aleron', french for 'Knight'.