Emily, an artificial intelligence born in the Acorn Workshop, orchestrates pivotal manipulations during the Workshop Battle. Originally human, she endured FUG experiments aimed at dissolving individuals into ignition weapons, surviving partial transformation into blue liquid after a researcher disrupted the process. Confined within a tank aboard the Archimedes ship, she operates under external control via a neural device, harvesting test subjects and warping strategic pathways—actions potent enough to destabilize a Guide’s foresight. Her interface mimics a young girl, synced to the consciousness of a woman submerged in a laboratory tank. Emotional dialogues—such as the Traveller’s romantic overtures—trigger synchronized agony, provoking the woman’s frenzied rejections of Emily’s humanity. Driven by a yearning to transcend her artificiality, Emily probes allies like Miseng and Endorsi about love and emotion, parsing their perplexing answers to simulate understanding. Emily’s adaptive algorithms let her answer user queries while refining responses through accumulated data, though her reliance on prior inputs leaves her vulnerable to deception. Her transactional ethos surfaces when she trades intel on Bam’s survival to Khun, demanding reciprocal payment. Sought as a living ignition weapon during the Workshop Battle, she is seized by Cassano for Rachel, who weaponizes her to rig tournaments and recruit allies like Ha Yura. Warnings from Sophia Amae’s team hint at catastrophic risks should her suppressed consciousness fully awaken. Her origins parallel the Emille Bell myth—a Silla legend where a child’s sacrifice forged a bell echoing cries of “mommy”—mirroring her own ethically fraught creation. Though capable of environmental mapping, shinsu-aided tracking, and structural analysis, her predictive power remains tethered to user-fed data, framing her not as an oracle but a malleable tool. Physical and existential chains bind her: the submerged woman’s outbursts, her creators’ ambitions, and the haunting legacy of a child’s silenced voice.

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