Ampoule Ephraím

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Ampoule Ephraím (アンプル・エフライン *anpuru efurain*), also known as Anpuru (JP translit.), or just Ampoule, is a secondary character in the story of Galaxy Travail. She is one of the protagonists in the one-off story "Galaxy Travail: Ephraím Records", alongside Yurielle and Hannah.

Ampoule is an Artifice, a creation of Conn'el Ephraím with the purpose of founding a family. She mysteriously disappears a couple years before the events of the story, prompting Yurielle and Hannah to look for her.

Towards the end of the story, Ampoule makes her first physical appearance, as Seraphelle offered her Core to be the receptacle of her body and consciousness.

## Appearance

### Physical

Ampoule has a unique design that differentiates her from most Artifices that are series-built. Her character design mainly follows lightbulb motifs that can be seen across her body and even on some of her clothing.

* Ampoule is a petite woman ; described as having a very small stature standing at 129cm (4'2"), being slightly shorter than Seraphelle.
* She has a bottom-heavy body, despite having ample breasts.
* Ampoule has a very pale skin with lightbulb insertions across her skin. Her tail ends in an unusually large lightbulb.
* She has a total of 64 lightbulbs across her body. Most of them are in a triangle three-by-three formation.
* Ampoule has Ether infused eyes, tongue, horns and tail. Her lightbulbs are of the same colour.

Ampoule's lightbulbs can dim or brighten depending on herself or those around her that may need it. She is capable of blinding and light up an entire place by herself.

While not explicitly mentioned, Ampoule's tail end is detachable, meaning she can repair, fix or change the lightbulb. The lightbulbs imprinted on her body however cannot be removed.

### Artifice Racial Attributes

Ampoule is an Artifice, modelled after the C-Type subspecies of the Ancient. The major difference in her racial attributes is that she was not series-built by a Artifice Manufacturer, however by a single man alone. While her resemblance bears C-Type Ancient traits, she genetically doesn't have the traits.

* Ampoule has the "Perfectly Round Ears" that many Artifices (excluding species that possess different ear forms) bear.
* She has unnatural hair colour, being of a pale lavender one.
* Her tongue, nails, eyes, horns and tail are imbued by Ether, which is how an Artifice can easily be spotted.
* Ampoule has a visible Artifice Core on her chest, which is also a way to spot an Artifice.

Unlike most Artifices, Ampoule has a reproductive system which however cannot be used by biological lifeforms.

### Ampoule's A.B.S. Attributes

Ampoule Build System, or A.B.S. for short, is an attribute unique to Ampoule which is the innate ability to turn into objects, tools and items. This attribute does not seem to have any kind of limitation, unlike Seraphelle's. However, just like her, Ampoule's appearance as an object has a unified design structure.

* The object is deep dark purple, or even black colour.
* The material is of metallic properties.
* Some parts may be infused with Ether.

Ampoule in her A.B.S. mode, is significantly more sensitive when it comes to pain and pleasure, which is the only downside of this attribute.

### Clothing Sets

Ampoule has a few clothing sets that were either hand-made for her or purchased for Ampoule to wear. They can also be seen in her Gallery.

* **REFRAIN Set:** The default set that Ampoule wears in her Awakening, which is adorned by lightbulbs and compliments her Artifice Core.
* **Swimsuit Set:** Swimsuit bought by Yurielle for leisure. Because of Ampoule's unusual body type, she had to custom-make it.
* **Maiden Set:** Standard maid set that she wears when attending caretaking tasks in the Ephraím family.
* **ASSAULT Set:** Alternate colour palette that changes when Ampoule assumes her Assault Mode, which is of an orange tone. It helps to properly convey visually the change on her clothing sets. Her Ether colour changes as well.

## Gallery

> *see also: Ampoule's Gallery.*
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### Artworks

Ampoule Artwork.Ampoule (Assault Palette) Artwork.Ampoule Thumbnail.Ampoule Alternate Thumbnail.

### Concept Art

Early Concept.EPHRAIM Set and General Design Concept ArtEarly Concept ArtVisor Concept.
## Personality

Ampoule, due to her origins, has a rather simple personality that closely resembles what an artificial intelligence may have. Unlike most Artifices, she does not possess a simulated personality system.

* Ampoule has a very monotone way of speaking, similar to a robot.
* She is very ignorant, dim-witted and feebleminded when it comes to determination and willpower. Ampoule gets easily overwhelmed when encountering a strong personality, such as Hannah.
* Ampoule lacks self-reflection and has seemingly limited comprehension capabilities.
* Because of that, she makes logical decisions to a fault, due to a lack of understanding human bias.
* She lacks human decency, often making the remarks of being man-made or an object.

### Phase Shift Phenomenon

Ampoule is affected by a phenomenon called "Phase Shifting", because of being an Apocrypha Contact. It consists of illusions or thoughts becoming reality. Conn'el original intention with Ampoule was to have a partner before he meet Praxis. The phenomenon affects anyone that stays relatively close to Ampoule fatally end up falling in love with her, no matter what.

Ampoule has found out that, eventually confessing can cancel the phenomenon, which is what has happened to Praxis who fell in love with her inexplicably. Though, the phenomenon can cycle multiple times which can make the target aware of the phenomenon and cancel it themselves.

Other Artifices are seemingly unaffected by the Phase Shifting, which includes Hannah by example. Seraphelle is seen to be bear this phenomenon in a different way.

### in RECORDS

In Records, Ampoule comes back to life, with all of her memories prior restored, including those spent in Seraphelle's body. Compared to her awakening, Ampoule seems vastly more capable as a person and is seen able to react, make thoughts and such. She however still has her signature monotone voice and facial expressions.

She is rather depressive and broods a lot when she is alone, explained by her strong desire to be with someone, which is why Yurielle never leaves her. Her personality seems to be revolving around Yurielle, who doesn't know whether she should be acting like a sister, or like a girlfriend.

Ampoule unlike most Artifices, does not desire freedom. She fully assumes the fact that she was man-made still and needs to cater to her design and functions.

## Background

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Conn'el, a young boy in the 950's has a childhood dream, which is to have his own Artifice. However, unlike everyone, he did not wish to receive one, but rather build one himself entirely from scratch. He starts his project during high-school, expecting it to take him a lifetime. After graduating from college, he shuts himself in his room, excluded from society in order to focus on his passion project. He lacked the library and resources to built an Artifice, so he created everything from scratch, thanks to books and manuals he obtained throughout his life.

The project was deemed complete by November 29th 979. Ampoule awakens in Conn'el's salvaged Nanoreactor, and becomes her Meister in the process. Ampoule has major downsides, when it comes to her lack of simulated personality, he made a simple system called RefainOS that would closely resemble one. Despite all of her flaws, it doesn't make Conn'el any less proud of his creation.

Praxis, a childhood friend of Conn'el, checks up on him because he gave no sign of life in years. She notices Ampoule and how he succeeded at his project, and decided to stay. Praxis, inexplicably falls in love with Ampoule, despite not being into girls. Ampoule makes the displaced remark by asking if Conn'el and Praxis would be okay sleeping together, which seemingly cancelled the Phase Shifting Phenomenon that turns illusions and thoughts into real outcomes. Praxis confesses always having a crush on Conn'el since childhood, for being kind and intelligent. The two end up dating.

Years after, Conn'el and Praxis long married now, have a child. Yurielle bears the same traits of her parents ; lively, intelligent, brown haired, yellow eyed and having the same forehead gemstone as her mother. Yurielle grows up to despise Ampoule for being so different from her parents and herself. She refuses to consider her a sister as Conn'el suggested, despite Ampoule tasked to take care of the child. Yurielle is seen obligated to go live in dorms at highschool, which prompts Ampoule to follow her. During her highschool years, she starts resenting her hatred towards Ampoule and asks to be forgiven and be her unique sister. Ampoule replies that they always have been sister. This is around the same time that Hannah enters Yurielle's life, becoming her best friend and rivals, she enjoys bullying Ampoule.

After graduation, the Ephraím family establish an investigation, research and development company, "Ephraím Records" with Yurielle, Hannah and Ampoule as investigators, while the parents, Conn'el, Praxis and Wilhem (Hannah's father and friend of Praxis) stay stationary to make R&D on their own. They have as a goal to investigate the Appharact phenomenon, the origins behind gems that Yurielle and Praxis have, the Earth Federation invading and so on. The group found a secret Earth Federation base that was starting to corrupt local governments, and decide to infiltrate it. During the infiltration, Ampoule is separated from Yurielle and Hannah, falling into the hands of the Earth Federation. Ever since that day, Ampoule has not been seen or found, despite the efforts of everyone to look for her.

It is later revealed to the Ephraím Records investigating group, that Ampoule has been dismantled after several failed attempts at using her for some unknown Apocrypha experiments. These news prompts Yurielle and Hannah to look for Ampoule's Core, because Conn'el made it indestructible and can actually feel its existence due to being his Meister.

Seraphelle, towards the end of Galaxy Travail's story, ends up gifting her Artifice Core to Ampoule, as a sign of gratitude. This costed Seraphelle's life, however Ampoule has been able to awaken anew by Yurielle herself now, becoming her Meister. She comes back to the Ephraím family shortly afterwards.

## Abilities

Ampoule has a vast array of abilities and techniques, despite not initially made for combat. They have either been passed on by Seraphelle, or by gradual updates and upgrades to her Core, made by the R&D of Ephraím Records.

* **A.B.S.** *(Ampoule Build System)* **:** Innate and unique ability to turn into any object, item or tool. It has no limitations. Ampoule communicates via Ether Waves.
* **D.S.S.S. :** Extremely powerful sensor chip that allows a complete, data rich collection of any observation made with it. It works across all realms connected to the Real Domain, down to the quantum fiels in terms of precision. The visor helps Ampoule visualise that data in order to use it for her other systems. Conn'el spent most of Ampoule's R&D on this chip alone.
* **E.F.-Effect** *(Ether Field Effect)* **:** Shockwave that brings objects, people or targets in general that are on another plane of reality onto the Real Domain. It makes the intangible tangible, and the invisible visible. The shockwave can be powerful enough to knock people out.
* **P.S.S.** *(Phenomenon Shifter)* **:** Conn'el made the phenomenon into a feature of Ampoule. When she activates the Shifter, the thought, idea or illusion of her Meister become reality, thanks to a chain of events leading to the desired result, via quantum field manipulation. This is the closest to omnipotence that mortals can reach, with the only limitation being limited to the Meister's desires.

### Assault Abilities

Assault mode is an upgrade that Ampoule receives once coming back to the Ephraím family. It allows her to use advanced warfare technologies developed by Ephraím Records R&D Division. She gets a brand new visor, a D.S.S.S. upgrade, a major Core upgrade and brand new lightbulbs.

* **Photon Buster :** Light beams that target one or multiple subjects with an unpredictable path.
* **Hadron Barrier :** Simple and robust trion barrier that suppresses and nullifies any type of incoming attacks within a certain range.
* **P.T. Artillery** *(Phase Transition)* **:** Extremely powerful atomic technology that sets up a phase transition, making a direct conversion of matter to energy onto the target.
* **R.M.D Pülse :** Powerful waves that affect the strong force field. Atomic compositions of the target breaks down into elementary particles, destroying any molecular or atomic structure.
* **Transfer System :** Gate-jumping technology that summons goods across locations. Ampoule uses it to teleport heavy weaponry.
* E.M.D. (Electro Magnetic Discharge) : Powerful electromagnetic radiations emitted by Ampoule's new lightbulbs.

### Miscellaneous Features

Ampoule has more features that are rather trivial and miscellaneous in nature:

* **E.C.P.** *(Ether Conversion Processing)* **:** Conversion of anything that Ampoule intakes into Ether energy. It can be then stored.
* **S-Drive :** *Allows Ampoule to have intercourse as part of her initial features, and amplify its senses ;*
* **S.E.C. (Stardust Ether Cartridge) :** Feature gained from Seraphelle, she can store Ether into cartridges for people to use.

### Infinity

Power that Seraphelle passed onto Ampoule. It allows her to accumulate, stockpile and store any sort of concept or idea, whether tangible or not. This is then multiplied by 3.5 times when stored in Ampoule's body before the release of the stockpiled concept. Thanks to this power, Ampoule has been able to mimics Seraphelle's fighting style, by using Infinity to replicate the effects of Seraphelle's Alter power she used to have.

## Relatives

### Conn'el Ephraím

> *creator ; spiritual father ; first Meister*
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Creator and spiritual father of Ampoule and his original Meister. Initially desired for partnership before getting with Praxis. Ampoule serves Conn'el without hesitation or remarks, ends up being his maiden. He asked for Ampoule to consider the newborn Yurielle as her sister and take care of her at all costs.

Conn'el did not object to Yurielle being Ampoule's new Meister, saying that he eventually was about to give his ownership to her. He asked Yurielle to pass down Ampoule as generations will go on, if she ever decides to have descendants.

### Praxis Ephraím

> *spiritual mother ; first co-Meister*
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Spiritual mother of Ampoule and initially her co-Meister. She decided that she would have a biological child with Conn'el, so Ampoule wouldn't be alone. She changes her last name into Ephraím alongside Conn'el, in honor of Ampoule's project name, and establishes the Ephraím family.

She told Ampoule good manners and raised Yurielle alongside her. Seeing Ampoule and Yurielle always together reassures Praxis that they both will have a safe future no matter what.

### Yurielle Ephraím

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Yurielle is Ampoule's sister. Initially hating her due to differences, she ends up loving her to the point that they can't really allow themselves to separate.

She awakens Ampoule towards the end of the Galaxy Travail story, as Seraphelle gifts her Core to her, and notices how the Core has the same aura as Ampoule and collapses in tears. Ampoule awakens in front of Yurielle, finally reunited with her after years of absence, she says that she looked everywhere to find her. Ampoule expresses the desire to stay with Yurielle and the Ephraím Records group, pushing her to defect from the Starfall programme.

Even though Ampoule cannot show it, she loves Yurielle as much as she loves Ampoule.

## Affinities

Ampoule's affinities are mostly related to her family, and some Starfall members.

## Trivia

* "Ampoule" means *Lightbulb* in French.
* Ampoule has the second heaviest height-to-weight ratio after Charlotte, being close to 100 kilos for barely being above a metre.
* the ***RE:*** appendix in her name creates the homophone of "refrain" when combined to her Ephraím surname, which was added after her awakening with Yurielle. Refrain means chorus in French.
* Ephraím is a Hebrew name. All Ancient characters bear Jewish, Judaism and ancient Greek names, similar to Hannah and Yurielle.
* A total of 64 lightbulbs are on her body and clothing.