Poppet

***Bomb Duelist***

## Appearance

Poppet is a young girl clad in a dress and a large bomb-type apparatus on her back, she’s a little steam-punk looking. A pair of blast goggles keep her hair out of her eyes. Poppet's color scheme is blue and bronze, matching her robot. Though her height is boosted by her boots, she is quite small in stature.

## Background

*See: Stellar Ascent: Interlude*

Poppet is the former duchess of a small, independent country within the Empyreal Realm. Raised by servants in place of her absent parents, she never developed strong personal skills or an understanding of limited resources. Whenever anything in Poppet's life broke, it was replaced by something better, be it toys, pets or playmates. Her caretakers would continue this negative reinforcement loop through her whole childhood. Eventually, when Poppet wished for her own AEGIS robot, she destroyed all of her belongings - and a robot she got.

On her first outing, however, she encountered a sky battle between Etwal and the Sector Authority. During that battle, Etwal's robot was hit and crashed into Poppet's family's castle, destroying it. Upon returning, she found that everything she knew was destroyed, and because of how she was "taught", waited patiently for something better to replace it all. After a time, her country dissolved and the people scattered to other parts of the world, leaving Poppet alone. It was then when she set out, optimistic that if she destroyed more, she would get a new castle and a new life.

After a short time, she became infamous as a rogue, destructive force across the Empyreal lowlands, encountering and skirmishing with the likes of Diane and Ryos.

She would later be adopted by Ryos, who uses her strength and powerful robot to aid in his mercenary assignments. Ryos tries his best to teach her the arts of fighting and tactical warfare, and also teach her how to read. Near the end of the war, the duo come to fight Gamound and Stell at the Great States' Western border and ultimately lose. At the last moments before their capture, though, Poppet inadvertently awakens the ELL-GEL-ION, summoning it from the destroyed remnants of her and Ryos' robot teams. The two escaped while the robot went berserk and have been laying low since.

## Robots and Abilities

Poppet is the pilot of the ELL-000, ELL-2000 (Duchess Mode) and the ELL-GEL-ION (Berserker Mode).

Poppet's ELL-000 is covered in gold filigree and cracks and dents from many battles. It’s an agile bomber created for the royal air force of her country, but it never saw battle while that nation was still around.

Her Commander Ability is "**Lone Crusade**", which allows her commander robot, ELL-000, to take 1 less damage from enemy attacks if there are no allied robots within 3 hexes of her. This is very useful for Poppet players who want to get into enemy lines and start bombing away. This ability is unique in that it even reduces the damage from Aimed attacks, unlike standard defense boosts.

## Team Building with Poppet

Poppet is one of eight Commanders who came with a pre-built team in the AEGIS Core Box.

The main team is optimized around creating Poppet's three main combines, and all of the team's main robots have various mechanics that let them move or attack twice, making her very versatile. The team also specialized in area-of-affect attacks, capable of damaging many robots at once. Her ARLY-300 has an accuracy boost that allows for these attacks to become more accurate.

## Trivia

* When combined, Poppet's name and the name of her robot, ELL-000, spell out "Ellooo Poppet."
* Poppet was created during AEGIS's Greenbrier Games era along with Ryos as 7th and 8th Commanders so that the game's two boxes could have four characters each.
* Poppet is featured in the flavor texts for ABB-200, GET-400, ESHA-3000 and SALV-5000, showcasing a very punny, joke-y personality.
* Poppet's original character concept was an older woman sky pirate. The game's character illustrator, Daniel Olsen, re-envisioned the character to a more rambunctious, younger girl.
* Poppet is the only neutral commander to be featured in Pocket Paragons: AEGIS, narrowly beating out Diane for the slot.