Lia

"I've named Maya based on emotions and feelings when she was born. You have neither of those because you're just an android. You're not my daughter." - Martín to **Lia** in Beyond Worlds: Azul

## Biographical Information

### Name

Laetificating Intelligent Android "LIA" AX-099

### Age

~a few months, at least, programmed to be 17

## Relationships

### Enemies

Léa Navarro, Hiro Hamada, Red Ordonia, Cameron Mendes

## Production Information

### Actor

Kath Aguinaldo

The **Laetificating Intelligent Android AX-099**, locally known as **LIA** and nicknamed as **Lia**, is the antagonist of Beyond Worlds: Azul. She is an android engineered by Martín Buenavista as Léa Navarro's replacement to keep Martín company. She referred to herself as a "deviant", which Léa correctly explained that Lia broke through and deviated from her programmed behavior in order to eliminate Léa. Lia's being powered by the same substance that Copper has, which is the Xenorium.

Like Léa, Lia is based on **Kath Aguinaldo**.

## **BACKGROUND**

Because Martín was emotionally hurt that his daughter was taken from him for the second time, he decides to invent a revolutionary android powered by the Xenorium in hopes to replace the absence of Léa. According to Lia, he worked hard to find biocomponents like central processing unit to act as Lia's brain, optic units for Lia's eyes, audio processors for ears, and Xenorium for blood. Martín also added Léa's DNA in order for Lia to function exactly as Léa does, picking up her memories and way of thinking.

Eventually, Martín realizes that no matter what he does, he could never replace his own daughter with anything, even a robot that looks, talks, and acts the way she does. This resulted in Martín driving Lia away, making Lia a deviant and plans to eliminate his creator's actual daughter so she could be his.

## **TECHNOLOGY SPECIFICS**

As her android self, she has synthetic skin, and was given biocomponents instead of bodily organs and parts- Lia has a Xenorium pump regulator as her heart, a central processing unit (CPU) to act as her brain, optic units that lights up for eyes, audio processors for ears, and her "veins" are thin tubes so the Xenorium could flow freely through her body to power the biocomponents.

When Lia's synthetic skin is removed, her exterior is made out of white plastic, with some parts being colored in light gray. Whenever she takes hits, the area where she was hit or damaged loses the synthetic skin and regenerates just seconds after. A turquoise colored-LED on the shape of a circle could be found on her chest, where a human's heart should be, which displays the condition of the Xenorium- her "blood"- to check if it's running out (similar to a battery percentage of a gadget). In times of an extreme damage or error, Lia would have a more robotic-like voice as opposed to her humanistic one when she malfunctions. She could easily ingest or drink Xenorium whenever she needs to.

## **PHYSICAL APPEARANCE**

Lia looks exactly like Léa; she has her brown hair about the same length as hers, and the only physical difference is that Lia has brighter blue (turquoise) eyes than Léa because of Lia being powered by the Xenorium. She's also 5'2" in height.

She wears Léa's clothes, one of which is a purple glittered-jacket with a Cancer constellation on the left side, and a number 9 is around her left sleeve. Its "collars" are magenta in color, and it has a star-shaped snap button. Underneath her jacket is a light gray tube top with a black lining on the top. She's also described to be wearing black jeans and black boots.

## **ABILITIES**

* **Strength-** Léa mentioned that Copper could drag Julian around whenever he walks him, so it's safe to assume that Lia could also carry things much more heavier than her own body mass without any of her limbs breaking.
* **Frigid Temperature Tolerance-** Being an android, Lia couldn't feel the cold and therefore could handle even the most freezing weathers.
* **High Intelligence**- It's a given that Martín would give access chips to Lia in order for her to be more human, being intelligent in different various in different fields.
* **Luminescence-** Since the Xenorium is very bright, she could make her eyes glow in the dark, making them as built-in flashlights.
* **Vocal Imitation-** Lia has the ability to imitate voices whenever she wants or needs to. This is commonly used by Lia herself whenever she uses Léa's voice in order to copy hers.

## **TRIVIAS**

* Lia's name came from the running gag in the story that people keep mispronouncing Léa's name as "Lia".
	+ It was **Kath Aguinaldo** who named Lia as *Laetificating Intelligent Android*.
		- "Laetificating" means making someone happy or to cheer up, which is Lia's exact purpose story-wise; to make Martín think Léa is still with him to prevent depression.
* Like Léa, her name was originally planned to have an acute accented letter I, which means the spelling of her name is technically "Lía". This is cancelled though, since whenever Léa's name is needed to be typed out into the PC or laptop keyboard, writers needed to copy and paste Léa's name somewhere else.
* As mentioned by Léa in Beyond Worlds: Azul's *X: Technology*, Lia is based on the androids of Detroit: Become Human, sharing their model names and technology.
	+ She's also heavily based on Astro Boy from the franchise of the same name:
		- Both are androids that are copies of their human counterparts (Léa Navarro for Lia, and Toby Tenma for Astro).
		- Both need unique elements to power them; with Lia needing the lithium-ion and Astro has the Blue Core.
			* Also, both of their "fuels" are blue in color.
		- Both of their creators (Martín for Lia and Dr. Tenma for Astro) turn against them, realizing no one could replace their human counterparts.
		- There's only one difference between them and their human counterparts (Lia's brighter blue colored eyes due to the lithium as opposed to Léa's natural cerulean, and Astro's metallic spike hair as opposed to Toby's natural cowlick).

* Being an android, Lia doesn't have any fingerprints and therefore couldn't set biometrics in places. Although this is the case, she would be able to open Léa's phone even if it's biometric-recognition protected.