Rusu

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"*I will surpass the limits of the machine.*"—**Rusu**, *Core Awaken ~Rusu~*

**Rusu** *(ルース)* is the titular protagonist of the Core Awaken ~Rusu~ game. She later becomes a rival to her sister unit in Core Awaken ~Yuka~, but can be recruited as a playable character afterwards.

## Appearance

Rusu has blue hair and similarly-colored eyes.

The prototype android's initial Barrier setup was based on a uniform from a public junior high school in Urat, similar to what Dr. Wellie and the lab assistants were wearing. Rusu attends the school as well, since this was one way that Dr. Wellie thought of to make Rusu become more human; by blending in and getting used to civilian life. Another possible reason for the setup is due to the fact that making the barrier too thick will cause problems with the radiator system. The only textile-based materials on Rusu's body are her pink hat with a wing motif plus a plaid accent that matches the uniform design, black leggings and sneakers.

After fully awakening, Rusu sheds the school uniform and changes into a bodysuit Barrier. She adds a small jacket to it years later during the events of the Core Rebellion Incident. She cannot use an E-Coat and other technologies applied to latter-generation robots because of her older overall build.

## Personality & Character

Rusu did not have much of a personality to start with. Her motions and speech were no different from that of a typical robot, limited to verbatim status reports delivered in monotone.

Following her abduction, Rusu discovers how to want and gradually comes to understand the meaning behind her emerging emotions and desires as she wanders the Strange Laboratory to find out the truth. These experiences will mold Rusu into becoming a serious and determined individual who prioritizes her wants over everything else. She ultimately decides to abandon Dr. Wellie and seek out her original creator. This is another aftereffect of the awakening, as Rusu believes that becoming a complete human will make her guardian happy *(which is Rusu's main desire)* and understands that only her creator can help with accomplishing this.

When the Core Rebellion Incident broke out years later, Rusu has become somewhat of a loner-type vigilante fighting for robotic rights, but isn't beyond making scrap heap out of her own kind if they get in the way. Though long estranged from Dr. Wellie, Rusu still cares for her former guardian, issuing a stern warning to the rebellion leader Finn to leave the Autonomous Android Project Team and their lab alone.

Rusu also made it a personal crusade to eradicate the Virgin Circuit and the individuals responsible for their proliferation, presumably because it reminds her of the horrors she had to endure back when she was abducted.

## Skills & Abilities

Rusu's main combat capabilities center around her usage of a beam sword. Though limited to basic motions at first, Dr. Wellie will give the android new skills based on real-time combat data. She will also pick up program chips which were left behind by her creator.

Rusu is programmed with advanced skill codes called Burning Attacks. Though no energy is consumed, these moves require holistic utilization of her motor functions, which in turn generates a significant amount of heat. To counteract this, her radiator system expends a limited stock of liquid coolant for the heat dissipation process. Burning Attacks will be "locked" if she doesn't have enough coolant to deal with the high frame temperature as a precautionary measure. Rusu can eventually learn a program that disables the limiter, allowing unlimited use of Burning Attacks at the expense of her Barrier.

In the years that followed, Rusu started wielding two beam swords, removed the safety limiters in her program pattern codes and customized many of them to become dual combination skills, which are now called *"Ultimate Burning Techniques"*. This makes her severely prone to overheating, especially since her old coolant radiator has been replaced with a more advanced, albeit less efficient conduction-based unit. Despite this, Rusu has learned how to manage her frame temperature from longtime combat experience, making the overheating risk not much of a factor. She even has an emergency mechanism that forcibly ejects all excess heat from her internal systems, damaging enemies in the process.

## Gallery

**NSFW WARNING**

Rusu's 3D model (Standard)Rusu's 3D model (50% Barrier)Rusu's 3D model (No Barrier).A fully-awakened Rusu declaring independence from Dr. Wellie.