Frima/Story

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## Behind the Scenes

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Yoon Eun-seo

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Jeannie Tirado

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Kaori Ishihara

## Profile

The leader of Cafe Sweety, Tetra's most powerful combat Nikkes who largely work as fixers. Her favorite drink is coffee with cream, and no matter how much she drinks, as long as she has a couch and eyemask, she can fall asleep 3 seconds flat.

### Nikke Backstory

The leader of Cafe Sweety, who sells cream coffee. Her inherent laziness actually leads her to discover the most efficient ways to get things done.

## Personality

Frima is incredibly lazy, her dialogue rendered in a few laconic word statements. If there's no job lined up for the day, she'll spend nearly the entire day snoozing on her sofa. Even on the job, she's on the brink of falling asleep, though she does have moments of seriousness (mostly when Milk and Sugar threaten to take her cut).

## Story

### Main Story

#### Chapter 13

Cafe Sweety is one of several squads deployed to subjugate the Heretic Modernia and destroy the Raptures' underground base. During a firefight in the operation, Sugar suddenly blazes off by herself to assist Counters squad, much to the chagrin of Milk and Frima, who are left to fend for themselves as far as traversal and escape go.

### Event Story

#### Miracle Snow

Frima and the rest of Cafe Sweety pay a visit to the Outpost Amusement Park for the Christmas celebration...only for Frima to fall asleep on the carousel.

#### Brand New Year

Cafe Sweety received an invitation to the Admire's New Year party...only for Sugar to sneak out with the invite while Frima and Milk were arguing over who would go.

#### Blue Water Island and Sea, You, Again

Main articles: Blue Water Island and Sea, You, Again

#### Golden Ship

After learning about Captain Alligator's treasure, Frima joins Mast, Anchor, and the protagonist on their quest to uncover it.

### Character Story

#### Episode 1 - Daily Life.

Cafe Sweety is (in)famous as the most powerful combat Nikkes of Tetra Line, and for their work as "problem solvers" in circles of varying levels of legality. For its leader Frima, life couldn't be any simpler, her daily routine summed up in four steps;

1. Wake up, or rather, get bothered by Milk over and over until Frima is forced to get out of bed.
2. Do a job. Despite Frima being so sleepy she'll doze off in the middle of job, she can still get it done, especially if it looks like Milk and Sugar are trying to steal her portion of the pay.
3. Drink cream coffee. It's Frima's favorite beverage and also the only thing she will ever drink. Despite some reservations from the protagonist, she'll insist on drinking more.
4. Go to sleep. With her ever-so-comfy couch and eyeshade, catching some shuteye is as simple as counting to three.

This unchanging routine as all Frima ever needs. Until one day, after the first 3 steps are done, something strange happens. Try as she might, Frima is just unable to fall asleep...

#### Episode 2 - Insomnia. Fine?

The protagonist gets a message from Milk, asking for assistance in sorting out Frima. Since becoming unable to sleep, Frima has taken to endless complaining and refusing to leave her room. Milk frankly doesn't care what methods are used so long as Frima is ready to handle Cafe Sweety's job tomorrow.

Outside Frima's room, Milk and Sugar greet the protagonist, having stepped out of their leader's dorm after hearing enough of her whining. Milk sees it as Frima's usual brand of laziness taken to an extreme while Sugar thinks there's a more underlying issue. The protagonist steps into the room to see for himself.

Inside, Frima is trying all manner of positions on her sofa to fall asleep, but to no avail. Parsing through her laconic answers, the protagonist finds out that Frima has been unable to sleep for 3 days now, and it's really getting her down. He suggests that she step outside or find a new sleeping place, but 3 whole days without sleep has left Frima with even less energy than usual, and she can't even slink out of bed. She also denies the floor for being too hard, demonstrating the softness of her sofa with a single poke. The protagonist considers using some incentive to tempt Frima outside, and settles on cream coffee, despite the Outpost cafe being quite a ways away from the dorms. Seeing Frima toss and turn over and over, the protagonist bids her to wait while he steps out.

Some time later, the protagonist brings a coffee with cream to Frima's dorm. She's more than happy to see her favorite beverage, but her enthusiasm immediately cools when she hears she has to get up to drink it. The protagonist offers his hand to help her up, but try as she might, Frima can't even work up the strength to raise her arm that high. Seeing this as a serious issue, the protagonist suggests going to the hospital, calling an ambulance as Frima is in no state to get up and go.

#### Episode 3 - Mind Switch.

A knock on Frima's door reveals Mary and Pepper of Seraphim, who've answered the protagonist's call. Sugar notes that it really is becoming serious, whilst Milk still thinks they're making a mountain out of a molehill. Mary performs a diagnostic questioning, which seemingly turns up no issues. Thus, Mary asks the protagonist to step outside so she can perform a more thorough examination of Frima.

A while later, the protagonist steps back in. Physically speaking, Frima is perfectly fine, aside from the fatigue of being unable to sleep. Despite this, it seems as though Frima genuinely has a problem, admittedly more of a psychological one. While a Nikke may have no *physical* problems working 72 hours without sleep, the same can't be said of a Nikke's brain, which is still human. Ergo, the body is signaling the brain that it cannot function without sleep, and the brain is suffering for it. It's not really an issue of willpower or effort as Sugar or Milk posit. Mary insists that she's still speculating, but if this issue really is rooted in instinct, then the problems will only exacerbate the longer Frima goes without sleep. Worst case scenario? She'll suffer a Mind Switch.

Needless to say, the protagonist and Cafe Sweety are not happy with this idea, least of all Frima herself. Milk prods Frima to get up, but the latter simply can't work up the strength. Mary elaborates that sleep is an important need for humans, and if a Nikke can't get sleep, that can cause cognitive dissonance between her body and brain. Sugar boils it down to simply needing to put Frima to sleep, and readies a cartridge of bullets loaded with tranquilizers. Pepper considers this a little extreme, but Milk and Frima are onboard with this idea, finding it a better alternative to Mind Switch.

After the protagonist adds his two cents to the conversation, Mary deescalates and assures that rather than tranquilizers, a simple anesthetic injection should be sufficient to put Frima under. The protagonist is concerned that constantly dosing Frima with drugs would strain her body on top of the fatigue buildup, to which Mary agrees that the idea is more of a stalling tactic. Worst case scenario, Frima would have to be sent to the repair center and kept under anesthesia until a solution is found, which the Nikke in question is very unwilling to do. Mary tells the group her diagnostics read one more day before the Mind Switch happens, giving them that day to figure out a solution or whether Frima needs to be put in stasis. Mary herself is confident in what she calls the bond between the members of Cafe Sweety, much to the embarrassment of the squad.

#### Episode 4 - Please. Some Sleep.

The protagonist and Cafe Sweety put their heads together trying to find a way to lull Frima to sleep. No one is able or willing to put an idea out there, so Milk decides to start with the basics. First off is playing a lullaby to soothe Frima to sleep. Milk's idea of a lullaby involves simply telling her to go to sleep...to the tune of death metal beats and screaming. The protagonist thinks to himself that a baby would more likely wake up and headbang to this song while Sugar doesn't miss a chance to diss Milk. Frima herself is no closer to sleeping than she was before, so this plan is a bust.

Sugar's idea is to stuff Frima with food and drink till she feels a food coma coming on, to which the Nikke in question asks for cream coffee, disregarding the others' warnings about the caffeine keeping her awake. Since Frima is so adamant about drinking coffee, the others decide to play rock-paper-scissors to decide who has to make a run to the cafe. Milk ends up losing.

Some time later, the protagonist is giving Frima a cream coffee. She slurps it down in almost no time at all, and is quick to ask for another. What follows for the next several hours is Frima making the others run back to the cafe to keep bringing her coffee. It's enough to make Milk and Sugar seriously consider just dosing her with tranquilizers. The protagonist decides this situation requires a...gentler touch.

He interviews Frima on her status, and she tells him she's still hungry, and has no particular idea of how many more cups she'd need to feel full. The protagonist suggests they take Frima over to the cafe so she can order there rather than make everyone else keep playing delivery service for who knows how long. Nobody in Cafe Sweety is happy with the idea of carting Frima around, not even Frima herself. In response, the protagonist proposes instlling wheels on the sofa so Frima can simply be wheeled around, and everyone is onboard with this, so he calls Mighty Tools to handle the job.

Later, Centi is ironing out the details on putting Frima's sofa on wheels. As she plans out the removal of the legs, however, she notices something off about the sofa and makes an adjustment. It turns out one of this sofa's legs is too short, causing it to tilt by 0.003mm. She whips out a thin plank from her toolbox and slips it under the misaligned leg. The newly-acquired balance causes Frima to shout in surprise, or at least vocalize with as much exuberance as Frima can muster.

While the protagonist and the others have no idea what's going on. Frima dons her eyeshade and lays down on the sofa. In 3 seconds flat, Frima is completely asleep. After getting over their initial surprise, Milk and Sugar realize this entire ordeal, including the Mind Switch scare, happened because the sofa wasn't completely level, and just laying Frima on the floor would've solved the problem as well. Needless to say, they are *not* happy with this, and brandish their guns to give Frima a ~~permanent~~ deeper sleep. Despite Centi and the protagonist frantically trying to hold the two back from shooting their leader, the night ends on a surprisingly tranquil note.

#### Episode 5 - Happy Dream. Want.

A few days after the insomnia was handled, the protagonist is back at the cafe to see Frima again. The rest of Cafe Sweety greets him, but the leader is nowhere to be found, having since gone into a quasi-hibernation to "make up for lost sleep," as she puts it. While the three are exasperated about Frima's behavior, the conversation turns to the job they were assigned before this whole mess happened. Sugar is pleased to report it went perfectly, and she and Milk thank the protagonist for helping Frima so the squad could handle the mission. The protagonist is still intent on seeing Frima, and asks for her location. Milk reports that the Cafe Sweety leader is still on her couch, newly-modified for the perfect balance.

The protagonist knocks on the door to Frima's room, and surprisingly enough, she answers. The leader is still laying on the couch, but she's yet to fall asleep. The two hold a laconic conversation that mostly amounts to "Yo"s, but then strangely enough, Frima asks the protagonist if he has anything to say.

The Nikke elaborates that shortly after her insomnia was settled, Milk and Sugar had more than a few complaints to level her way, and she heard them all out as an apology for all the trouble. She continues by asking the protagonist if he himself has any complaints, as she's willing to hear them out. She accepts his chiding to just try the floor next time she has sleeping problems, but gets annoyed when he tells her to order all her coffees at once next time. It would seem the others also made this same complaint, having gotten sick of running back and forth for her coffee orders...

With his piece said, Frima looks at the protagonist and murmurs about something being interesting, though she refuses to elaborate.. As the protagonist stands up and heads to the door, Frima calls out and tells him "thank you." The man whips around in shock, but Frima has already fallen asleep. He simply bids her sweet dreams, and quietly closes the door on his way out.

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