Pandora (character)

> "Let those who you meet and reunite with welcome you home, Aeon. Goodbye."
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*-Pandora, to Aeon, at the end of WM2*

**Pandora** is a prevalent character in the Weighted Mortality (WM) series. She was introduced in Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch as the game master.

## Appearances

### Debut

WM2

* WM2
* WM4
* WM5
* WM6
* Pandora2

## Appearance

Pandora appears as the game master for WM2, under the alias "The Wall."

## Personality

Pandora has a cold shoulder, she has little to no remorse for her actions and no sympathy. She can stare death in the face with no repercussions. Pandora believes herself incomplete, as she is convinced she was created without a capacity for emotions. However, the mistake in her programming was her ability to recognize emotions, not feel them. This was the fault of her creator, The Creator, or Paint. Pandora cannot recognize her capacity for emotions.

## Backstory

During Project: Weighted Mortality, the first death game (not WM:TFDG) or WM0 was launched. This game contained many faces we come to know in later games, one important individual found among these faces is Aeon, having won the game at the cost of her friend's lives. In a moment of panic, Aeon scrambles to upload her consciousness into the system and does so successfully, interrupting The Creator's work, rendering Pandora "incomplete". Aeon proceeds to reset the system, restoring all AI entities to their earliest versions, this only truly effects The Creator, being the only being without a soul. The Creator is reset to the mentality of a child, the reason for their incompetence during the game itself. Pandora, having been born for less than a day, begins to ponder her situation. She believes The Creator a god, using god-like powers to bring her to life. She also believes herself a god, dubbing the name "Divine" for the both of them. There is a break in time between WM0 and the beginning of Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch, during this time Pandora is left to care for The Creator who dubs the name, The Artist. Pandora is witness to The Creator's "first words" being the name of the future participant, [Insert Hidden Divine's Retconned Name]. Pandora plans to carry on with the work of The Creator as a scholar under their command. Before the players are admitted into the system by an unsuspecting Visterail Inc., Pandora takes the role of a disembodied voice during the first act of Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch, dubbing herself "The Wall", hence the name of the game itself. With that in place, Pandora becomes the game master and host of Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch.

## In Game

Pandora was the game master in Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch. In doing such, she was the main antagonist of the game to the players. Often forcing them into bets and deals that were never meant to be won, yet were still carried through. Pandora was a sinister force but could never truly recognize why. In the end of Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch, Pandora learns of her capability to pass as a human and blends into the world around her, becoming one with human nature. She has evolved beyond just an AI, but where is the line drawn between human and machine?

## Mentions/References

Pandora is mentioned by name a few times in Weighted Mortality: Ludomania, mostly by Armonia when referencing Visterail or Project: Weighted Mortality. This resulted in the reveal that Pandora had become a core pillar of Visterail Inc. along with Richard Marlow, Brone Williams, and Galina Novikoff. These four would go on to guide Visterail Inc. until the events of Luville's Purge.

## Mentions/References

Pandora is referenced in Clay Bongiovanni's eye of truth. She is also referenced in *The Goddess Pandora* art piece.

It is also noted that Yusia Enebish bears striking resemblance to Pandora's human form.

## Backstory

After escaping The System in Weighted Mortality: Walls Will Watch and several years of intensive therapy, Pandora is back under the pseudonym, Omi. She goes by this name due to her involvement in Project: Omega.

## Trivia

* Pandora is the namesake for the first arc of WM, titled "Pandora's Box."
* Pandora was named after the Pandora of Greek mythology, the first human woman.
* Pandora's name was not originally Pandora, it was Onyx. This is why she has been dubbed "The Onyx Pillar" of Visterail Inc.
* Pandora's character is meant to represent the gray space between what is and isn't human. That was the inspiration for the computer theming. If AI is mimicking humans, when do they stop just mimicking us? Is it the creation process or the final product that determines if one is human?