i present to you.

the sona lore infodump

this is kind of just like. assorted ideas basically. i had trouble thinking of how to organize this stuff... but oh well. c'est la vie

also if you ever have any questions about Sona Lore i am more than happy to answer. i love thinking about this shit. i will be putting this in my pinned post too. swag

LIL-E. The E stands for Estrogen. She's still trans, after all! "I haven't come up with an acronym for the other 3 letters yet, though."

The LIL-E project was created by a regular human Lillie after stumbling upon a method in which one could use arcane magics to bind a soul to some kind of object – a “new body” was specifically mentioned, and well, shit, robots are cool. She got to work on creating it almost immediately, with her wife, Riley, helping to program the system OS. (She was all for it after the pitch.)

There was no ‘backup’ idea if the process went haywire, and she didn’t exactly know what she was doing with it, since her knowledge of arcane magic was middling at best. “Fuck it, we ball” was her philosophy. If she died, she died trying to become a 9-foot robot girl. (Not the best mindset, but hey, it worked!)

This “soul tethering” also allows for her to transfer to new models/bodies in case of difficulties, or just if she wants to, really.

The inspiration was not just because 9-foot robot ladies are cool, but also to help combat rising difficulties in protecting nearby cities to protect and assist people in general. This is also why the body’s ability to grow to mecha-sized heights was proposed. It made it easier to do so, as after she defeated something like a kaiju-level threat, it would be easier to help repair and seek our injured folks with the power and size she had.

As for the body’s “skin”, this was a lovingly described ‘chemical compound fuckery’ that makes it look and feel similar to skin, softness and all, but without it actually being skin.

(And for the curves? “I know what I’m about. If I’m making a new body, I’m indulging a little.”)

This was also how the white hole generator was pitched. This essentially allows for infinite energy, as white holes create mass, and this energy can be utilized in different ways. It essentially makes it so she doesn’t need to sleep or recharge, but she still does, of course. Nothing gets in the way of sleeping with her wife. Not a damn thing.

This energy is what enables her to reach the heights she does, but she can push well beyond it if she chooses, with her internal system limiters being able to be pushed very far, and she’s never actually cracked the warning of her limiters. She can also channel it into more physical strength, getting a bulkier, muscular form compared to her regular “softer” appearance. The robot girl is ripped sometimes!

The white hole generator also allows for cleavage hammerspace! Very silly, but hey, now she can pull swords and other things out of her boobs. Kinda cool.

In this hammerspace, there’s a small “room” within her, so if someone goes inside and looks hard enough, they can find a small air-conditioned space with arcade cabinets and some other stuff to do. She jokingly calls it her cockpit.

The only real downside of this energy source is its tendency to become a little… tricky with other forms of energy. Something such as magic or large electrical sources will get “converted” by her body automatically into her traditional source, effectively “overcharging” the body and causing uncontrollable bursts of height.

She can’t control it at this rate, but restraints in her system and chassis help to mitigate this… if only a little. It’s a bug that seems to be permanent – removing it would require a drastic rewrite of the OS, and she’d rather be careful. (Plus, while she won’t really admit it much, she does find it kind of hot. Even if it worries her more whenever it happens.)

-Despite her strength, power source, and mecha armor, she is not a weapon or a tool for war. Any time she’s had military approach her, she kindly tells them to go fuck themselves. Her job isn’t just to fight whatever is deemed evil, but to help those in need in whatever way she can, and to stop those who wish to throw a wrench into the means of peace. She’s got a strong sense of justice, and just wants to be the hero she’s always dreamed of being – able to help people out no matter what, be it in big or small ways.

And despite her power, Lillie doesn’t really want to use it to just overpower everything and everyone in her way. She’d rather do things the old-fashioned way, and to make her regular self stronger through practice and honing her skills. She might be a hero, but she still wants to have fun doing what she does, to protect people with her natural strength and not simply overpower them. And nothing’s more fun than a good ol’ fight. Of course, she knows when she needs to get serious.

Lillie loves a good spar, and if she’s able to have a friendly bout with someone to test her own strength (and just because it’s fun to!), she absolutely will. She always has a ton of fun coming up with new strategies, and sees it as a way to further her own understanding of the body’s potential, as she still figures new things out and strategizes quite a bit. But also, she just thinks it’s really fucking cool. She’s a shonen girlie at heart.

She has the ability to feel pain and other physical things, both to still retain that feeling and not totally lose her humanity (despite wanting to become a robot), and because it helps her gauge an attack’s strength and feedback. Of course, her pain tolerance is quite high. Even if she got an arm torn off, she’d mostly just complain about it hurting as if she stubbed her toe.

The body has many aspects that can be tapped into for extra power, at the expense of extra stress on the systems and body. A sort of “hyper mode” can be activated, in which her hair will glow a light green, and the panel linings on her body will radiate a small green glow.
Activated in a pinch, this will severely push her system’s limits (even if they are field tested extensively) but allow for a drastic increase in speed and output. If she’s in her armored form, her hair will break free of its ponytail and flow freely.

There was a singular time she managed to push this even further, the glow of her body and her hair becoming a soft rainbow colour, but even she doesn’t understand this yet. It almost put her into a berserker state. Nobody got hurt, of course, but still.

-Lillie is a silly, upbeat, but friendly girl. She gets along well with just about anybody, and is full of energy, especially with a robotic body as tuned as it is. Despite this, she enjoys flaunting her strength and figure a little bit sometimes. She knows what she’s got, and she’s proud of it. Of course, she’s always going to consider the feelings of her friends and the people she knows and meets first and foremost, above all else. She loves her friends, and she loves the world around her to death.

Her body is equipped with a lot of sillier features, as well, such as her eyes being able to act as projectors (she boasts no input lag on fighting games), being able to run a lot of games in general, and a soundboard. She uses the soundboard a lot, either to make random Gundam sound effects as she’s fighting (or loudly play the God Finger theme), or just to mess with people in general.

Her eyes have the ability to zoom inwards, and they also act as LEDs, being able to display different eye colours or images in general. Whenever she's getting updates, you can watch her eyes to see her labbing fighting game combos in her internal systems.

And, despite not needing to, she’s got the ability to open up various panels on her body. She swears this is to do maintenance, but really, the only panel that does allow her to do that is the one on her left arm. The others are for her to stim with, either by opening and closing the panels with her hands and enjoying that, or by just sitting there and hearing the own whirring sound of her systems. She can also do that by just having her hands rotate around in ways that a normal human body wouldn’t allow for, which does feel quite nice. Robot stims, baby!

I MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN SOME STUFF BUT. oh well