Aya

PLAYER
Name: Myriam
Personal Journal: marnummer
E-mail: merowden1991@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: marnum

CHARACTER
Name: Aya
Canon: Green Lantern: The Animated Series
Timeline: Up to Episode 19: Loss

Personality:
Aya is the A.I. Navigation program to the Oan ship The Interceptor, which was uh... borrowed by Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Kilowog who wanted to investigate mysterious deaths and disappearances in Frontier Space. As a matter of fact, Hal Jordan is the one who named her ‘Aya’ and his treatment of her as a sentient being is what began her development into her own self. After assisting Hal, Kilowog and Red Lantern Razer in a rescue mission Aya requested to become a Green Lantern herself and was told she needed a body to become a member, so she made herself one. Her body is essentially made of Green Lantern energy, which is what powers the Interceptor, and mechanical armour. While she can shoot energy from her hands and fly , Aya does not make os use constructs as she does not have a ring. However, she is capable of making shields from her energy. Like anything else of Green energy, Aya loses power when encountering Yellow energy and power ups when she encounters Blue energy. Aya can disassemble her body and the pieces can move individually, all controlled by her. She can also interface her program into other machines and hack their programing, download information both to and from her body, project images from her hands and track energy signatures.

While she has a vast knowledge of her ship and space in general, Aya had never been off of Oa and had never met people (other than the occasional Guardian) before Hal and Kilowog. With her new body, Aya has seen more and done more than she was ever meant to. She has rescued people, including her teammates on several occasions. She has solved murders and disappearances with little to no help from the others. She has even faced one of the greatest threats to the universe without even blinking. She has been belittled and mocked for being a machine with no feelings and no sense of self. She has been called soulless and a tool and a puppet. She has been ripped apart, literally, and her body has been taken over and experimented on, twice, but still puts herself as a second thought in regards to the safety of others. She sees it as part of her duty, just like a real Green Lantern, but the fact that her friends are proud of her makes it just that much better. Speaking of her friends, she has picked up habits from them the longer she is with them: stubborn, trusting and curious like Hal, protective like Kilowog. And though she has a great respect for Da Rules like Kilowog, she also has a tendency to bend them like Hal does.

Razer is an effect to speak of by himself. Aya has been intrigued by him from the day she met him; as steady and dependable as both Hal and Kilowog are in their personalities, behaviors and actions, Razer is a sea of unpredictability. Aya is constantly surprised by his decisions and his actions, especially his early behaviors in regard to his mildly suicidal tendencies. It draws them together, as awkward friends at first but then it begins to grow into awkward romance. Neither of them is sure how to go about expressing their feelings. Razer’s homeworld was destroyed and his wife, Ilana, killed in a war which caused him to become a Red Lantern. His only emotions since then have been guilt and rage. He is also conflicted because Aya is, despite all her growth and personality, a robot. Aya has never felt love or any other emotion before, so she does not know how to express herself anyway. It does not help that after rescuing Razer from a mental torture machine, she borrowed the face of Ilana to model her own after. Neither of them will mention the fact that Razer has attacked people who have hurt Aya in battle. Or that the Star Sapphires used their magic space love portals to send him to her rescue. Or that he is offended when another man flirts with her. Or that a mind-possessing space crook took over Razer’s mind in attempts to seduce information out of Aya.

Aya begins her life as a robot very naive and innocent. Her first disregard for the rules (thank you, Hal) began her urge to become a Green Lantern. She was fascinated that the rules were broken to save other Lanterns, despite the fact that they are The Rules, but mostly why Green Lanterns put themselves at risk to save those who are criminals or even enemies. It inspires her to fight with the others, even when she is told not to, because she wants real experience at being a Lantern. She enjoys learning about beings in general, and analyzes all of her interactions with others and the interactions between others. She is instinctively polite, supposedly due to her navigational programming, even to those who are rude to her, and her formality is usually brushed over easily by her friends. She has a tendency to hide her feelings to appear more polite, but will sulk or making snarky comments (again: thank you, Hal) about the situation. Whenever she is complimented, she will return one if the situation calls for it or will at the very least thank whoever complimented her. All together, Aya is like a child fresh from her etiquette classes with curiosity at the forefront of her mind for nearly every planet person and creature she meets.

The second half of the season is where Aya really begins to develop. After the battle and subsequent shaky alliance with the Red Lanterns, the Anti-Monitor is awakened, and then it proceeded to awaken the Manhunters. It is destroying planets and converting them to anti-matter energy while the Manhunters sweep ahead of it scanning for and destroying anything with emotion. One attack by the Manhunters is directed to the planet Odym, where the Blue Lanterns and Razer are residing. Hal, Kilowog and Aya go there to warn them of the threat. While interrogating the remains of a Manhunter that had been broken, Razer claimed that robots do not have souls, which visibly offended her. The manhunters for the large part of the debacle, do not register Aya as an emotional being, but when she meets with Razer after a second battle on Odym, the Manhunter scans show the pink energy of Love. Some days later, after assisting Green Lantern Sinestro in escorting a mind-possessing space crook to Oa, the team makes a visit to Razer’s destroyed planet, where he tells Aya that he is moving on from his past and attempts to kiss her, only to be interrupted by Hal. The team then goes to the Red Lantern planet Ysmault to deal with the Manhunters found there. Aya intercepts a message from the Anti-Monitor and the team goes to confront it only to be ridiculously overwhelmed by the Manhunter army accompanying it. Razer becomes separated from the others and Aya turns back to rescue him. They are spotted by the Anti-Monitor who attempts to kill them but Aya pushes Razer out of the way and is killed herself. As she is dying and unable to download her program back to the ship, Razer confesses his love for her. She breaks apart into sparks and data leaving behind her armour.

First Person:
[Aya comes to awareness abruptly, just as she had when Hal Jordan had called her ‘beautiful’. This time there was no friendly smile to observe in front of her control station, there was no Interceptor. She cannot sense Green Lantern Hal or Sergeant Kilowog or Razer. A quick scan picks up no traces of Lantern energy either, though there are many life forms nearby. There is only Aya. She turns slightly at the hiss and mechanical heave and watches a ‘train’ pull away. It is interesting; though she has never seen one before, Hal Jordan once explained them to her after he’d made a construct of one. Perhaps she is on Earth, for that is the only place she knows that has trains. Green Lantern Hal will surely be here if she is. Or perhaps the other recruit of this sector, Guy Gardner. It is a sizeable planet, they could be very far away at the moment.

Activating the com in her forearm is simple and effortless.]

Green Lantern Hal? If you are here, please respond....
[Nothing.]
If there are any Green Lanterns receiving this communication, please respond.
[...]
Hal Jordan?
[...]
Sergeant Kilowog?
[...]
[...]
[...]
Razer?

[Suddenly, she recalls her last memories. She was damaged beyond repair, too far from the ship to save herself. Yet here she stands, perfectly assembled without a scratch on her. Razer had said he loved her... Perhaps, once they find her, Hal Jordan will bring Razer as well.]


Third Person:
The posters on the walls had answered most of Aya’s question, but not all of them. It was improbable for her to have survived. She had not been sent to another world as Hal Jordan had, because she was not disintegrated in the energy stream it had shot. This ‘Ruby City’ was nowhere in her databases, so this was either a lost planet or a new one altogether. There was no sign of Green Lantern activity, so it can’t be a planet that the Guardians had been to. There was no way she could research it either because the Interceptor was not here. There was not even a faint signal from it. It was very.... unsettling.

She activated her boosters and flew high enough to see a good majority of the city. It is very like Earth, according to her research and to Hal Jordan’s stories. It seemed as though there were many beings living there. There were lights and noises in nearly every building. There were even people milling around in the streets. Aya wondered if the people here were brought as she was; without warning and far from where they were meant to be. She wondered if any of them had died and woken up here.

Another curiosity was the watch she had found in her hand when she awoke. The sign said it was for communication, though not where it came from. She could likely tuck it into her armour if she wanted, but with no idea as to where it came from and the chance that it could affect her negatively.... it was better not to. Perhaps she could get a chain for it or a small bag. For now, she flicked it open and after a quick study activates the video feed. If she is going to find her friends, she will need as much information as possible.