Tari

**Lucinia Porter**, or by her alternate name **Tari** is one of the main characters of *The Heart Commandos*. She is a pro-gamer cyborg girl who is Melony's close friend and one of the most prominent members of the speedrunning community alongside her rival, Belle.

## Story

Born somewhere in Melbourne, Australia, Tari was originally a human named Lucinia Porter, who had a normal life with a happy family and her older sister Sofia, until she was taken away by NESTS agents for their Anti-K' project when she was very young. One of these scientists involved with the project was Dr. James Sheridan, who was doing many tests on her so she can manipulate these ice powers to combat against the agent turned traitor. Unfortunately for him and the others though due to a system error, Lucinia created a huge explosion that greatly damaged the lab and burned Dr. Sheridan's face in half, as some of Lucinia's organs where crushed by high amount of pressure after accidentally experience a new power that NESTS didn't see: The ability to enter into virtual reality and data manipulation. The explosion also turned Lucinia's purple hair into blue. Somehow survived, she had her body parts replaced with mechanized ones by Dr. Sheridan, most notably her arm, so they can resume with the project afterward, but it was too little too late, she was now marked as a defective experiment by the syndicate and was thrown away shortly there after.

After waking up, Lucinia has no memory of her past, family or even her own name, wandering around in a unknown area of Texas trying to found a shelter to survive, until she was discovered by a woman named Angie and bring her to her house to stay there. A few years later, she starts studying in high school, where she meets a green haired girl named Melony and became her close friend since. She got the name "Tari" from a different project she briefly sees while being held captive by NESTS: Turbo Artificial Rapid Intelligence, in which she shortened it to be much simpler.

At the university, Talia wants to hire Tari because of her mysterious abilities, but she refused it at first, as she is not an experienced fighter and a little bit shy when it comes to greeting new people, but later joins in to rediscover her past after experiencing her first traumatic flashback, making her the second person to join the group. She is currently dating John Di Micco's younger brother, Vittorio.

## Personality

Tari is an innocent, insecure girl with a pacifistic nature, as she will rather resolve problems with words than beating people with violence. She is also prone to hyperactivity whenever she sees a rubber duck or video games. She can be naive sometimes, as she believes on what Ruina said to her at first, before finding out about her lies.

## Abilities

Being a cyborg, Tari can enter inside the digital world and find information using her mechanical arm. She can hit very hard with it, though very rarely due to her pacifism. By inputting a specific code from her arm, she will undergo a form named "Expert Mode", making her as fast as the superhero Flash for a limited amount of time, but she can't use it again until the cooldown is stopped after 3 hours.

## Trivia

* Her backstory and design are basically a fusion between her SMG4 and Meta Runner counterparts.
* Because of her affinity with rubber ducks, she owned one in her home, who she named it Quackington.
* She got her blue hoodie after Angie personally designed one to blend in more with the crowd.
* Her mechanical arm can be removed, though she prefers it not to.