Chris Wellington

**Chris Wellington**, officially **Wellington Robotics Android #9**, is a member of the Port City Eight and a main protagonist in *The Demon's Light*. As the first sentient creation of Andrew Wellington, he is unique and was hunted down by Alchemilia Corporation in Season One as a result.

## Appearance

Chris resembles a human boy in his mid-teens with apricot-colored skin, unkempt red hair, and green eyes. He stands five feet, seven inches tall. He tends to wear very loose-fitting and casual clothing.

Chris' outfit originally provided to him by Andrew consisted of a yellow sweatshirt with tan corduroy pants. He was given a similar outfit in "Bare Trees" by Alchemilia Corporation, as his previous one had worn away over time.

He has an alternate attire consisting of a purple hoodie and black, baggy sweatpants, which he stole from a civilian on the streets of Silivia while on the run from Alchemilia.

## Personality

Chris'personality extends beyond that of a typical android and he longs to be treated like a human being, and is happy to finally get his wish. He often doesn't understand concepts and makes strange comments as a result.

After being left alone for three hundred years, Chris is quite curious about what has changed, being especially interested in the fate of his father. Chris' main weakness is his frequent lapses in judgment, which causes tension between him and the other group members.

## Biography

### Background

Chris was created on Centenus 20th, 5993 AT, as a replacement for an earlier model named Chris who was destroyed by the other original androids, all eight of whom his creator Andrew Wellington had made after he stole blueprints from Alchemilia Corporation and was fired from his job, before setting off to establish a company of his own, Wellington Robotics.

Because the original Chris was incapacitated by his mechanical sibling Charles, who was subsequently banished and reprogrammed to do maintenance work at the factory headquarters, Andrew decided to rebuild him using an unused blueprint his company had drafted. Aside from some hard drive data allowing him to know things such as who Charles was and some body panels, Chris was an entirely new machine. Once completed, Chris was capable of something no other android was: he could feel emotions and think for himself. Andrew continued to build more androids off this blueprint and enjoyed newfound success. Andrew hoped to reconcile with his ex-wife, who left him and took their children after Andrew lost his Alchemilia job. However, during the start of the Great War, Wellington Robotics suffered from an attack and the factory was destroyed. Losing almost all of his models, Andrew was forced to close his company.

After hearing about the brutal murder of his ex-wife by feral demons and realizing his children were most likely gone too, Andrew moved back to his old farm in Gladea and brought with him the only thing he had left: his original nine androids. Feeling renewed anger and hatred at his former boss and believing him to be at fault for the mess that ruined his life, Andrew attempted to reprogram all of his androids to take down Arsene himself, rather than the company as a whole, as was their initial purpose. He did not reprogram Chris, however, because Chris personally requested that he did not feel comfortable with being reprogrammed.

Upon learning that his daughter, Hailey, died in an angel attack, Andrew finally broke down. Repairing Chris and remembering to increase his positive emotions, he took him to a barn down the road and shut him off, covering Chris in hay. Andrew had spared Chris simply because he was the last vestige of the emotive androids he had made to become successful in the first place.

When he returned home, Andrew lit his farmhouse ablaze, destroying his remaining androids and killing himself. Chris remained in the barn for over three hundred years, until his system rebooted upon the presence of Atticus Anoethite, Melissa Devlin, and Savannah Whitesmith.

## Abilities

Chris has enhanced intelligence and enhanced strength, though limited. Most importantly, he can display human-like emotions, including compassion for his allies and an eagerness to help them, as well as human-like senses, although he can not taste food. He was equipped with a blue plasma sword until it was confiscated by Alchemilia while imprisoned at Remnant Rock.

After Chris' initial encounter with John Fontaine, Piciotto repaired him in "Reunion."

In "Primo Victoria," John Fontaine installs a special gun into Chris' other hand.

In "House of the Rising Sun," Tetsu Iwanaga made substantial updates to Chris, such as installing a new titanium sword and rewriting his code — including removing a strength-rage correlation Andrew had originally programmed.

All of his weapons can extend and retract as needed, for convenience and ease of use.

## Trivia

* Andrew nicknamed him Chris after his late father, Christopher Wellington.
* With the absence of Steven and Melissa, Chris was the only non-human member of the Port City Eight for much of Season Two.