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**Note 1: This profile contains *MASSIVE* spoilers for the game *Cave Story*. Proceed with caution.**

> "I don't need a quote. I AM the quote."
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> -Quote's Quote.

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## History

### After the events of the original game.

**Quote** is the main protagonist of the Cave Story Fanfiction, The Eternal Rise, which acts as a direct follow up to the original game.

After Balrog saved Quote and Curly Brace from certain death at the hands of Ballos and flew off into the distance, away from the floating island, Quote asked if they could return back to the island so they could meet up with there Friends, such as Kazuma, Professor Booster, and Sue. He wanted to introduce Curly Brace to them since he realized they never actually met. Balrog obliged and flew back, seeing a helicopter of people and asked if that was them. Quote happily nodded his head and asked Curly Brace if she could tell them that Balrog was no longer evil, to which she happily nodded to and told them everything. All three of them then boarded the Helicopter and they made their way home, sharing all of their introductions along the way. When they returned, Quote and Curly decided to stay at the Doctor’s place for a while, as sort of roommates to him, all the while Sue and Itoh were run under many tests which would soon hopefully transform them back from Mimiga to regular humans. Quote felt like he was finally done with his journey, and began to lead a normal life with Curly, or as normally as he possibly could at least, being a robot and all.

However, only a single year had passed when something odd had happened. The floating island that the Mimiga resided on had risen all the way up to outer space. Now, the team wanted to investigate this incident, with Quote and Curly Brace actually eagerly wanting to go. Curly Brace, being as spunky as she is, was always up for an adventure and Quote, wanting to show his loyalty and courage to others, complied to come along as well. They asked the space team if they could all go on the mission. With previous history to back them up, the space team agreed and would soon calculate at which time they would launch them on the ship. It took the course of around 2 months to get everything set up, but after a long while, they were able to finish it, and soon they were sent to outer space. What awaited them? Well, they would have to find out and see.

Quote and Curly brace, expectedly, didn’t wear space suits, being robots and all, unlike the rest of the crew, so they were easily the most mobile and, because of their weapons, had the most firepower. They brought all the equipment from their previous adventure, preparing for anything that could happen. The part of the island their ship landed on was known as the balcony, a familiar area to all of them...only this time gravity was scarce. Everyone on the exploration used specialized boosters designed by the Professor to get around quickly in the low gravity and to make sure they wouldn't float off. The Balcony completely lacked any signs of life. Quote, Curly, and Balrog first decided to check the throne room for any suspicious activity. When they came to it, they noticed that it was completely closed shut. Balrog, being the brute he was, rammed straight through the wall and destroyed it. Within the room, they saw a familiar face, Misery. She thanked them for releasing her, as she was trapped in that room for a whole month by some being she wasn’t able to get a look at. The way she stayed alive was through the fact that witches could live without food or water for long periods of times. Some even never need it. Then, she began to explain what was happening. The island rising was not by its own doing, but rather, it was clearly the doing of magic, and it was heading straight for the moon. She came to this conclusion since it was clearly something she recognized as mystical in nature.

Quote, Curly, and Balrog were surprised by this information, and Curly asked where it was coming from. Misery sadly didn't know. Whoever was doing this was clearly aware a magical user such as herself could easily track them through her senses, so they created a seal around the island that sealed off her magical abilities inside and outside of the barrier of the seal itself. They would have to find magical sigils located around the island and destroy them to break the seal. She's seen magic like this before, so it was her best conclusion. All three understood (Well, Balrog did the best he could anyway…) and decided to help with this. After explaining everything, Misery joined their quest since she wanted to find out the mystery as much as they did. The four of them returned to the group quickly (thanks to Balrog’s classic “OH YEAAAH” ability), gathering them together and explaining what happened.

Once they told them about everything. They discussed and made plans, soon figuring out what they were going to do. Quote and Curly were going to go through the sacred grounds, as that was the most dangerous area while the rest would traverse all the underground that they knew of. When Quote used the Tow Rope to link up with Curly, going into the sacred grounds, he got a bit of nostalgia. When they went down, Quote realized that the gravity was somehow normal in there. It still had many spikes he had to carefully traverse through with his booster, and he almost slipped up a few times because he hadn't done this in a while, but he could still make it through. There was no enemies or crumbling blocks this time so that was a relief, but it still kept its menacing vibes with all the colors and, of course, the spikes. They were able to soon fully traverse this treacherous area, making it to the original chamber they fought Ballos in. The walls of skulls that almost crushed them mysteriously vanished. There, they saw a magical seal like how Misery described it. They would get closer until they felt the ground rumbling below them. Soon emerged a massive beast, unlike anything they saw before. It was large and orange and looked like some sort spider like creature, but with the ability to roll into a ball. It shouted about how it was looking for a destroyer.

Curly and Quote knew what they had to do, going around fighting it. Both robots took quite a lot of damage during the battle, they they were able to defeat it and put it down. However, in a last ditch effort it attempted to take Curly and Quote with it. It’s arm grabbed onto Curly and started to pull her in. Quote and Curly used all of their effort to get her out of it’s grasp, shooting it and pulling as hard as they could. In the end, Curly was unable to be freed, and the tow rope that bound them together was torn in half. It took her and it was seemingly fully teleported away. Quote was furious now. He already lost a close companion, failing to save her when he wanted to show his loyalty and bravery. Quote was determined to save her and find out what was happening. He quickly destroyed the sigil on the wall, then headed to the nearby Plantation.

From this point onward, it was truly a race for Quote and the other members to destroy the sigils, save their allies, find out the mystery of all this, and hopefully put a stop to it by the end.

### Gone Without a Trace

Trace from Axiom Verge glitched into the Cave Story Reality after The Final Stand and they started to fight, as he believed Quote was just another evil robot created by the main villain of his story.

## Appearance

Quote is the same as his Canon counterpart, and what he wears on the adventure is the same as what he wore on his previous adventure, which is shown on his pictures.

Besides this, when he was living a normal life with his wife, Curly Brace, for a whole year, he was able to develop his own fashion sense and preferences. He doesn’t always wear the black and red military uniform he was equipped with so many years ago, but one thing he absolutely loves to wear is his hat. He’s rarely seen without it, even in times where it’s completely unnecessary like when he’s sleeping. Since he’s mostly internal about his likes, thoughts, opinions, and feelings, the reason why he loves it so much is rather unclear, though it is has been proposed within the story itself that it held some special significance to him before he lost his memory that his brain, which is totally possible. However, what this significance was remains a mystery.

Other than him seemingly obsessing over his hat, he has a rather...casual fashion sense. He prefers short sleeved shirts, and most of them are rather basic colors like Orange, Dark Blue, or just Plain black. In general, he prefers colors that are either hot or dark, which directly correlates to the military robot clothes he’s always had, meaning while he rarely ever wears them, his color choice is still reflective of them. But in general, Quote doesn’t want to stand out in a crowd. He’s quiet and thinking, so he doesn’t want people to look at him too long because of what he’s wearing. He’ll even take his hat off if he knows it’ll be too jarring in certain situations.

In general, Quote practically never wears anything overly flashy or even a slight bit glaring because of this. There has been only a single occasion where he wore something “out of the norm”, and even then, it’s hard to say that because it was a Halloween event. Even *then*, he wasn’t really wearing any new clothes. He wore what looked like his classic military outfit but shaded a very dark blue, had red contacts, had fake plastic fangs on his teeth, and even had his robotic skin painted a blueish grey color. This costume was supposed to be that of a vampire. He pulled it off quite well thanks to the help of Curly.

Quote will wear anything formal when he needs to, but never goes over the top with it. For special occasions, he does wear things like suits and whatnot, and tries to look really good, but, expectedly, he doesn’t want to look his “very possible best” and overdo it because of his whole “not wanting to stand out” thing. He just wants to look like the average attendant under these circumstances. The suits he buys aren’t anything too special and he does want to conserve money anyway, since Professor Booster would get quite mad at him (Just like he does with the other person living there who spends way too much…).

The color of Quote’s skin is white, just like all other combat robots. He does try to appear like he has normal skin by wearing a specially designed suit by the Professor himself which makes it look that way. Though this skin suit is somewhat fragile, and if Quote isn’t careful, can be torn through rather easily. It’s not flesh, no, of course not; the Professor would never do something like that, even if it was technically humane, but rather, it’s made out of a special type of stretchy plastic material that’s designed to fit Quote perfectly. It wasn’t cheap because the materials the professor had to use are rather rare, so Quote tries his best to be careful and not let any damage to it come to be.

Because of his liking and preference for leading a simple, normal life, Quote will always try to wear clothes that match the season, so he doesn’t stand out. Example include T-shirts and shorts in the summer and full on sweaters, jeans, and long boots in the winter. These clothes are, unsurprisingly all of the same color of what he usually wears. Because he’s a robot, Quote technically doesn't need to where these things, being made of metal and all. He is capable of detecting and sensing the temperature around him, but it just never negatively affects him. He just wants to fit in as usual and look comfy in that time of year.

## Personality

Quote is, first and foremost, known for being extremely quiet and barely expressive at all, being extremely repressive of his emotions in general. Quote tries to always seem calm and not show that he is either angered or sad, and he definitely succeeds in this aspect. When talking to most people, he generally tells them simple things or answer any question they move have for him as straightforwardly as possible. For example, Yes and No questions almost always get the simple, “Yes”, “No”, or “I don’t know.” response, not really elaborating any further unless he is asked to do so. It’s only really when Quote starts acting impulsively or too quickly when they notice his somewhat careless nature. Once he finds a task to do, he goes head first in and stops at nothing until a task is done or he is nearly dead trying and this has, over time, become fairly apparent to his wife and friends. Quote isn’t trying to kill himself or anything like that. Of course not. He may put other lives before him a lot of the time, but he still values his own and tries his best to take care of himself. The reason for acting like this is simply because of his previous adventure. Quote always seemed to have a heart to protect the weak with all of his might since day one of when he woke up. He seems to care for those around them that are clearly innocent and wouldn’t sacrifice them for anything, even jumping back if that idea is presented to him like when Misery was interrogating him by having Sue in her grasp. It is quite interesting that Quote would act like this in the first place, considering the fact that his original design was one where he was programmed to kill and destroy practically anything that got in his way. What led to this change of heart in the robot boy is still but a mystery.

Because of the previously stated reasons, Quote will constantly get into danger and be on the absolute offensive, only wanting to take out whatever is trying to kill him. He doesn’t really think before making a decision but usually just goes with the flow and lets things happen. This seemed to be his idea from the moment he woke up with amnesia. Instead of freaking out about where he was or pondering endlessly about who he was, he was adaptive to his surroundings and calm about the situation he was in, exploring curiously around the large cave system that was presented to him. His life when he had amnesia seemed to only be about wanting to protect and help others in need when he met them. He seems to enjoy meeting new people and helping their problems if they have them, even setting his main duty aside to do so. A very notable example of this is when he met a family of tiny people living in the outer wall and the tiny wife was missing her husband deeply, and Quote decided to help by finding him and bring him back to her. He even got a weapon in return for it was extra worth it. Quote can come off as perhaps a bit too kind and helping to others. Curly even joke’s about how “He wouldn’t just help an old lady across the street, he would help ANYONE across the street.”. While this is clearly exaggerating, it does hold some merit to it. She even thinks Quote’s addiction to helping others could be a bit unhealthy and wouldn’t work in some situations. She tells him that not literally everyone who has problems needs his help, though he usually quietly retorts with a simple, “I always have, always will.” One thing that’s very important to note is Quote is fairly bad at emotional help, since he’s so quiet and untalkative in general, and has lived only helping others through actions, and not words.

If there is one thing that Quote hates, it’s failure. Quote did quite well on his last journey across the island but still ran into many horrific moments like when he had to kill Toroko or how he wasn’t fast enough to save King and a lot of other Mimiga that were on the island. These moments slowly built up in his head and after a long while, he swore to not make the same mistakes again. This all ties into him wanting to help people. He desires to better himself more and more to try and be the best person he can be, and not to make the same mistakes twice. Whenever he fails at anything, especially things that he’s failed at before, he feels completely disappointed in himself and becomes both angered and sad, since he doesn’t want previous events to repeat themselves. Failing to save someone or helping someone in general leaves a pretty heavy mark on Quote as a person. Quote enjoys to help everyone, including the ones close to him, and in fact, if he’s put into a situation where he needs to save a person or needs to save his wife, he is in a complete mess since he wants to help everyone he possibly can. His time with Curly would definitely make him lean towards saving her though, but he would feel absolutely miserable that he couldn’t save the other person. To him, all human lives are equal, and he’ll only kill if someone threatens to kill him first. Because of this, Quote can feel down if he’s reminded of the fact that he actually *can’t* help or save everyone. Sacrifices will be made and he will be tested, but in the end it just makes him feel more conflicted if he really made the right choice. Moments like these is where Quote truly questions his own morality.

Quote's love life has been pretty nice so far. He’s only had one love, and that being Curly Brace, though they’ve shared many experiences together in the year they got to really know each other and develop. The literal Iron Bond that they have essentially means that they will never be apart, so it’s likely Quote won’t ever leave her side and likewise for her. They get along quite nicely, despite Curly being extremely external and talkative and Quote being essentially the Polar opposite. In the end, they had the same goal as the other in their first adventure, and that was to stop the Doctor and save the Mimiga from complete destruction, which shifted more when they learned about Ballos, and decided to defeat him as well for both his own sake and the island’s. In general, they love and care for the other, and always are supportive. Quote will expectedly do all he can to protect Curly and Curly would never want to see Quote harmed in return. They always seem to have the other’s back like a true husband and wife. Curly’s constant “free-spirit” way of acting can somewhat irritate Quote if she gets carried away with it since he likes things to be more calm than anything, and she does sometimes tease Quote for certain things like his hat and “boring” fashion choice, Quote has learned to accept this as not an offense to him, but just playful jokes. Quote is actually shown smiling and expressing some emotion in general while talking with Curly since he admires her charms and spunky nature and came to really enjoy her for it. He wants the best for both and will always try to come to the most rational solution if they’re ever in an argument, which does happen at times. Though things generally cool off pretty quickly.

His relationship with his friends in general have really changed him throughout the course of his life. He really discovered his kind and caring nature towards others and developed an unending drive and ambition because of them more. They gave him more reason and purpose to living. Meeting a person like Sue and telling her that he was the one who saved her only for her to get angered at him for it was one of the first moments he experienced someone scolding him for his help. He didn't care though since he still knew he still did the right thing in that scenario. He still went on to help her find her brother and even the professor. Quote is a very reliable robot because of his nature. He rarely ever lies and even if he does, its to save another person's life. This can put quite a lot of pressure on him, with everyone counting on him to do many different things, and increases his desire not to fail even more. He takes it though, facing any challenge presented to him head on and trying to find a way to succeed in it. He feels like he has a duty, even somewhat similar to that of a robot, to help anyone close to him. Its as if his original robot design for a specific purpose still stayed, but that purpose shifted.

When Quote first learned about how he was an armed recon robot from the surface, he was honestly somewhat shocked at first, because he, like everyone else, simply concluded that he was a human with extremely white colored skin for some unknown reason, and as such, made him feel much less human. He had to think about this for a little while and wished he were an actual human at the time. Even to this day, he still wants to be seen as a human by the general public so he can feel like he fits in better and is more normal to them, since he wants to be accepted by them. He still tries to accept himself more and not care what they think of him, but he's never gone all the way yet. He wants to be like them and blend in while still being the great person he wants to be. These two things really conflict with each other and can hinder Quote in the long run, considering the fact that he wants to help others and be accepted at the same time. He doesn't care what others think of his actions, as he'll always assist first and foremost, but he still doesn't want to be discriminated against as he believes that's simply an unjust reason to hate him. He doesn't have to worry about this with his friends since they know who he is of course, giving him some extra comfort around them, but it can still bug him.

## Standard Equipment

All equipment of his Canon Counterpart Including the following:

* **Starbreaker:** A special modified gun that Quote obtained after he found the means to combining the Spur and Fireball together. This gun looks similar to the Spur, however with an orange color scheme and being slightly longer than the original design. This gun, when fired normally, acts like a much faster version of the level 3 Snake, however, like the Spur, Quote can Charge the Starbreaker to cause a lot more damage. A single leveled charge releases a stream of fire balls that act like the level 1 Snake and stack up damage, a level 2 shot is pretty much same as the first level only using the level 2 Snake as it’s projectile, and last but not least, a level 3 charge shot unleashes a stream of pure, concentrated Plasma that goes in a helix motion at the speed of light, and pierces anything that gets hit by it extremely potently.

* **Lunar Crater:** A strange, alien gun that shoots extremely deadly laser beams that are capable of atomizing other beings. At level one, the laser beams bounce of the wall very fast and far, but deal a somewhat pitiful amount of damage to enemies. At level 2, this weapon can shoot two lasers at a time before needing to recharge, and these lasers stay around for a much longer period of time. Level 3 is when the laser gun is capable of having three whole lasers at a time that is also quick on the recharge. All three lasers it can shoot deal a ton of damage to enemies, slightly more powerful than the Polar Star

* **Nova Bomb:** A strange gun that was forged using the core of a star right before it exploded, this gun shoots the aftermath of said core when it's done exploding, which is that of pure, concentrated black hole energy. This gun has a unique mechanic where it actually takes energy gained to level up as energy spent to fire it, due to its immense power. The level 1 of this weapon creates simple shots of pure dark energy that deal slightly more damage than a level 3 Polar Star. The second level makes it shoot miniature black holes which sucks in smaller enemies in their way or deal massive damage to bigger ones. The level 3 variant shoots one massive black hole that sucks in regular enemy in the area forcefully and deals massive damage to bosses.

* **Borealis:** A gun that fires concentrated frost and ice so powerful it can easily freeze nearly anything around it, with it's level 3 even freezing at the lowest temperature possible, Absolute Zero. At level one, this gun shoots icicles that have less range than even a level 1 Polar star, however, they make up for it by being able to freeze enemies fairly quickly in only about 7 shots. The level 2 variety shoots much quicker bullets but still keeps the pitiful range as level 1. Level 3 is where it gets interesting. As mentioned before, this gun freezes at absolute zero temperatures however instead of firing ice bullets to be able to do so, it, instead, shoots a concentrated beam of frost that freezes an enemy down much more quickly, allowing for Quote to finish them off afterwards with his other tools.

* **Power Missiles:** The even more powerful upgrade to the already powerful super missiles, Power missiles are a lot more deadly and dangerous than it's predecessors. The missiles from the gun itself, at first, seem exactly the same as the super missiles, and, this applies for each level, only now they're colored completely black instead of red. It's what happens once they hit an enemy where their true power is shown. Each and every missile that explodes leaves a massive after-explosion affect that continuously damages enemies. Quote can stack these explosions up on all three levels to create an insane amount of damage combining that can destroy even the toughest of foes in a short amount of time.

* **Booster Pack 3.0:** An even more enhanced version of Booster Pack 2.0. This acts in a very similar manner to it, however, it’s mobility is increased even more as it allows quote to move in every possible direction in the air, and lasts for 3 whole seconds. This makes it very good and safe for space travel since one has so much control over their movement.

## Abilities

**Radar:** After completing his first adventure, Quote had a special radar scanning system built into him by Professor booster to help him detect for all kinds things around him by passively scanning any heat signatures in the area. This allows him to examine life forms or heated energy signatures like heated plasma or pure energy around him at any time. Though, he can turn this ability at any time he desires.

**Energy Deflection:** A built in forcefield that Quote found in the depths of the island that uses energy to generate that is capable of reversing energy of all kinds. This let's him reflect all kinds of attacks ranging from simple hand to hand melee attacks to the projectiles of all kinds. Though depending on the power of the attack, it will drain his energy a lot faster so he must use it wisely

**Soul Manipulation Resistance:** Far into his adventure, Quote found out the shocking truth and the true reason why he woke up acting so heroic. He didn't simply wake up somehow attaining this nature, but his body was actually possessed by a spirit. A spirit of a great Mimiga warrior by the name of Arthur. His soul could not rest after being killed, so he found a vessel in the body of Quote. Since the body did not retain the memories that he did, Quote had no way of knowing about this for the longest time. This soul, having an unbreakable desire to be an amazing hero that he wants to be, is practically unable to be affected and even resisted being forcefully pulled out.

**Original Program:** A mode that usually activates under intense rage, Quote revokes all emotion and morality to revert back to the original funtion he was designed for, and that was to completely destroy the Demon Crown. However, in this instance, replace Demon Crown with whatever he wants to destroy. In this form, his power rises immensely and he can only be truly put down if he is dismantled, as his body will keep on fighting until it either runs out of energy or his enemy is eliminated. Quote has little to no control over this form, meaning once he enters it, he cannot get out until it's finished.

* **Infinite Reaction:** This form moves Quote's body for him, detecting all heat signatures around them to be able to immediately shoot at them when they are within his range. It can also instantly react and Dodge enemy attack around him with ease.

## Trivia

-This version of Quote is my own personal view of Quote and his experiences based on how I played through Cave Story, basically creating my own idea for his entire personality and came up with his backstory. His height is also fairly inconsistent with his proposed actual height, because I personally imagined him this tall.

-His personality itself is based off of Shirou Emiya from the Nasuverse, wanting to protect others as best as he can while also learning to accept himself.

-This was made out of sheer love and passion for Cave Story, as I really adore the game in general and wanted to make a fan sequel in the form of a story with how I viewed Quote's original personally.