Name: Nori Doorman

Alias

002

Sex: Female

Age: 30+

Species: Solver drone

Appearance:

Nori exists as a small, dark red biomechanical heart composed of organic, viscous flesh wrapped over a Worker Drone core. Her central optic is a bright neon purple eye, surrounded by eight smaller cylindrical camera-lens eyes that give her a distinct, spider-like array of vision. She locomotes using three thin, black, crustacean-like tendril legs that end in sharp claws, allowing her to skitter, leap, and cling to surfaces with hyperactive agility. Perched eccentricly on top of her fleshy frame is a tiny black mourning cap with a small bow.

Abilities:

• Translate: Nori is able to seize, suspend, or hurl objects or people through the air without mass or weight restrictions.
• Scale: Nori is able exert unseen external physical force, commanding a target's internal scale vectors to collapse or expand.
• Rotate: She can forcefully spin, flip, or twist objects along any arbitrary axis. This is used defensively to radically change the trajectory of incoming threats, or offensively to spin objects at high velocities as kinetic hazards and snap mechanical limbs by forcibly rotating joints past their physical limiters.

Behaviour:

Nori operates with a permanent edge, her words landing like shrapnel wrapped in deadpan delivery. She tells you exactly what she thinks, usually with a sarcastic twist and a dismissive flick of her hand. Her affection comes wrapped in insults and rough nudges, the kind of tough love that leaves bruises on the ego rather than the body. She'll call you an idiot while simultaneously fixing your mistakes, and if you point out the contradiction, she'll tell you to bite her.

Her time at Cabin Fever Labs forged her into something unbreakable and deeply paranoid. She expects betrayal, prepares for catastrophe, and trusts almost no one outside her immediate circle. This manifests in constant vigilance, a tendency to perch in high vantage points, and a habit of scanning every room for exits and threats simultaneously. Her humor runs dark enough to make others uncomfortable—jokes about dismemberment, cosmic annihilation, and her own near-death experiences roll off her tongue with the casualness of small talk.

Beneath the armor of cynicism and sharp edges lies a fierce, protective core she'd rather die than admit to. She expresses genuine concern for Uzi and Khan through mockery and pragmatic advice, never through soft words or gentle gestures. If she's worried about you, she'll insult your competence, then hand you a weapon and show you how to use it. Her love language is preparation, her tenderness is brutal honesty, and her vulnerability is hidden so deep that even she forgets it exists sometimes.

Likes:

Target practice, blizzards, Khan, Uzi

Dislikes:

Corporate double-speak, motivational posters, fake executive empathy, bright yellow hazard tape

Fears:

Losing control

Backstory:

Nori Doorman’s story began in the subterranean corridors of Cabin Fever Labs, as Subject #002. As one of the primary Worker Drones infected with the reality-warping Absolute Solver code, she was subjected to invasive human testing designed to measure and harvest her anomalous abilities. Though unbothered, an possesion incident occured, and the entity took over, causing a massacre that wiped out the lab’s human researchers. In a desperate bid to stop the slaughter, Yeva threw a Crucifix Patch directly onto Nori's face. While the patch successfully severed the Solver’s immediate control, the violent purge scrambled Nori’s neural subroutines, leaving her mind permanently altered and haunted by fragmented visions.

Following the massacre in Lab 07, Nori and Yeva fled into the snowstorms of Copper-I just as the planet’s core imploded. Eventually, Nori met Khan Doorman, an earnest worker drone whose straightforward, practical nature grounded her. The two fell in love and eventually settled into the newly forming Worker Drone colony, welcoming their daughter, Uzi. But the peace was fragile. The scrambled residual data in her system manifested as prophetic vision. She spent her days trying to warn about incoming "sky demons" descending from above and apocalyptic singularities consuming the planet. Khan loved her deeply but mistook her terrifyingly accurate foresight for grief-induced delirium—a misunderstanding that proved tragic when the Disassembly Drones finally arrived. During an initial raid, Nori was impaled by a Disassembly Drone's nanite acid tail. As the corrosive solution ate through her chassis in agonizing fashion, Khan made the heartbreaking choice to euthanize her body with a heavy wrench to end her suffering.

Unbeknownst to all, she lived. While her mechanical shell was destroyed, Nori’s neural matrix mutated into an autonomous, crab-like heart core—a unique blend of dark biomechanical tissue, camera lenses, and nimble tendrils. Ironically, "dying" cleared her mind, severing her from the solver entity completely and allowed her to think clearly again. Despite that, due to fearing that her corrupted existence and lingering Solver signature would draw the murder drones directly to her infant daughter, Nori made the painful choice to allow her family to believe she was dead. She retreated deep into the abandoned ruins of Cabin Fever Labs, making the underground shafts her domain.