Machina

*"I'm sorry. I haven't created anything past this point yet."*This article or section is a stub.

## Character Information

* Redo
* Reality

### Relatives

Unnamed Mother
Unnamed Father
Unmaned Grandmother (Deceased)

### Relatives

Unnamed Mother
Unnamed Father
Unmaned Grandmother (Deceased)

## Media

### Voice Actor

Shunichi Toki

**Machina** is a member of the Obbligato Musicians. He is an android who wished for an mechanical body from Regret. He's highly loyal to her and follows her orders with absolute devotion. He never fails to go on patrol to maintain public order in Redo.

His flower according to the art booklet is the pink sea-lavender. In Japanese flower language, this flower represents "an unchanging heart" (変わらぬ心) or "eternally unchanging" (永遠に変わらない).

## History

*"Also... the Hidden? Couldn't that be something even you don't want to know?"***The following content contains spoilers.** Please proceed at your own risk.
Machina, save for his well-to-do upbringing, was once an ordinary child like any other.

In his first year of middle school, his grandmother passed, profoundly impacting his views on mortality.

Machina was not particularly close with his grandmother. Though she spoiled him as a child, he began talking to her less and less as he grew into an adolescent. She passed soon thereafter, marking the first time an immediate relative had died.

Naturally, he was aware of death as a biological process, but had only ever seen it as a far-off concept. Now, however, it had affected his life directly.

From that day forward, Machina was gripped by a fear of dying. Unable to escape death, his perspective on daily life changed irrevocably.

His parents, teachers, friends, the girl he liked--each and every life he knew would one day cease to be, taken by death without warning. There one moment, gone the next.

And someday, his turn too, would come...

Machina knew full well that the people around him had come to accept death as a natural part of life. But for him, it would torment him with the fear that every day could be his last.

He began to research death in an attempt to allay his unrest. How had humanity overcome the fear of its own mortality? His faith lay in the hopes that he might find a clue.

As he continued to study death, he learned about a structure in human cells known as "telomeres."

Telomeres are shortened every time a cell divides. Once they fall below a critical limit, new cells can no longer form, spelling death.

In other words, even just the mere act of existence marches one toward an inexorable end.

It's a simple fact, really. No matter how meaningfully one lives, how happy they are, or how carefully they avoid harm and injury, as long as their cells continue to divide, they too will die. Upon realizing that human life was but a one-way ticket with a final destination, Machina fell into the depths of despair.

Though he knew it was a fool's errand, he would hold his breath and try to stay in bed, living life with as little activity as possible in hopes it would keep death at bay, if even slightly. He stopped going to school, and was beset by panic attacks each night.

Eventually, a die-cast toy robot bought for him as a child would bring him back from the brink.

Such gifts were one of many for a child born to wealth. But to him, the robot was an invincible symbol of immortality. He became enamored with the lifeless toy, seeing it as his sole escape from mortality, or perhaps even reality.

His parents noticed that these inanimate objects caused him to stop shaking. Taking it as a sign of his recovery, they continued to buy him whatever he wanted.

Though he'd regained the ability to breathe normally, thanks to his newfound magnetic admiration to machinery, he soon began to wonder why he had been born a human being.

Seeking an outlet to vent these thoughts, he turned toward the virtuadoll software his parents had bought for him when he was younger.

He had begged his parents to buy it for him at the height of *μ*'s fame for no other reason than because it "seemed cool." At the time, he had little to express, losing interest without ever using it. Upon dusting it off later on, however, he found the melodies and verses practically flowed out from within him.

Ironically enough, machinery and death became the inspirations that gave life to his musical identity.

Right as he began to emerge as a promising composer of the new age, Machina received an invite from a mysterious man named Bluffman.

Upon learning about Regret and her new world of Redo, he found himself drawn to her and her ideals.

She was a virtuadoll with a will of her own. Eternally beautiful, ageless, a perfect existence, independent of death.

Machina accepted the invitation to join the Obbligato Musicians with no hesitation. In return, he was permitted to shape his avatar however he pleased. While rules were normally set to preserve the integrity of Redo, Musicians, he was told, were allowed to break them in order to procure their desired environment.

Thus, he wished to have the body of a machine.

When not composing songs, he is known as the ultimate robot that patrols Redo in the name of his venerable savior, Regret.

Obtaining a mechanical body had at last freed him of his fear of death. That night, for the first time since his grandmother had passed, Machina slept soundly.

## Gallery

Compilation of all of Machina's sprites.Official Steam card for *The Caligula Effect 2*, featuring Machina and Sasaea.Official Twitter icon featuring Machina.Official cafe collaboration for *The Caligula Effect 2*, featuring a drink inspired by Machina.Official artwork published by Historia counting 8 days until the Steam release of *The Caligula Effect 2*.
## Trivia

* Rather than being revealed in a profile, Machina’s trauma is unique. His trauma is revealed in the MV for his song, Eternal Silver, which plays on the sides of the battle arena.