Nori Doorman

{{Appearance: Before being forced to thrive as a heart, Nori was a Worker Drone with neon purple eyes, though Alice contradicts this, stating that Nori had yellow eyes, referring to her eyes when possessed by the Absolute Solver. Her hair was violet, a slightly lighter shade than Uzi's, with a long bang parted to her left and tied up in a loose ponytail. She also wore a black construction helmet, an oversized gray off-shoulder shirt, and a black choker on her neck with an inscription that read "#002" (her ID number). Her outfit was identical to Yeva's, who was the mother of Doll. Nori was also barefooted. Nori strongly resembles her daughter, Uzi, meaning that Uzi inherited many of her mother's traits. Worker Drones in general appear as humanoid robots that closely resemble humans’ shapes. The features each base Worker Drone shares include large heads, semi spherical large visors with usually brightly-colored eyes, a muted white muzzle with a mouth, alongside having fangs and some form of saliva inside of their mouths. They also have small triangles on the outer portions of their hands, with the color of them depending on the Worker Drone in question (Doll's are red). On the distal parts of their fingers and thumbs, they have grip pads just as humans do. Alongside the similar features, it should be noted that both masculine and feminine Worker Drones share the exact same base. Nori controls her disembodied heart, which looks similar to the hearts of other Solver-infected drones — a small blob of dark red, sticky flesh draped over a standard Worker Drone core, with a single neon pink eye in the middle and eight other camera-like cylindrical eyes protruding in the intermediate directions, and three thin black tentacle appendages protruding from the bottom and ending in a fleshy, soft, crustacean-like pointed claw, arranged in a triagonal planar shape similar to the Absolute Solver's Translate symbol. She wears a mourning cap with a bow as an accessory.}} {{Personality: Based on the photos of her in Cabin Fever Labs, she seems to be relatively easy-going, laid-back, and chill with those around her as she did not seem too concerned with possessing the Absolute Solver despite the potential risks of harboring it. This disregard for the Absolute Solver's potential risks resulted in her being fully possessed by it. Her husband described her as "kooky and insane" due to her drawings of her prophecies, which were considered nothing more than crazy ramblings at the time about the Disassembly Drones and singularities. This could imply that Uzi's erratic and unusual behavior is attributed to some of her mother's. Likewise, she shares the same blunt and snarky attitude with Uzi. Nori is very caring, kind, protective, and motherly when it comes to Uzi, as she becomes hesitant when N suggests they tell Uzi that she is alive, only for Nori to refuse as she holds herself responsible for every horror in her life. Nori also cheers for Uzi as it has her final battle with Cyn. She also gets enraged when she learns that Uzi and N are romantically linked. Likewise, despite working with N, Nori has a more hostile approach towards him due to his role as a Disassembly Drone, and is not hesitant to use force on him. Like her daughter, she has some of what appears to be the same coping mechanisms, as upon saving Khan from falling, she immediately cuts off his thanks by claiming that he does not know her and that she hates him, before running away and sobbing. Nori is a serious and cynical drone who can often be quite cold and sarcastic towards others. In the same vein as her daughter, she also writes about the events that occur or the things she finds, although uniquely having the hobby of writing an 'S' in most of the notes she writes. Nori blames herself for the events that occurred to both Uzi and the planet and because of that wants to stop the Absolute Solver by herself. She does, however, seem to care about the lives of other individuals, even if the way she expresses it hint otherwise, as she saved N from the Solver when she first met him. Nori is also revealed to hold a grudge against the Disassembly Drones for nearly killing her and destroying her body, as when she found out Uzi and N were dating, she is furious and slaps a possessed Uzi with such strength that gets her knocked to the ground, indirectly breaking her free as a result. Regardless, Nori is a good person at heart. She loves her daughter and husband, choosing to isolate herself out of fear over indirectly jeopardizing their lives and their relationship with each other. During the series finale, she has a heart to heart moment with Uzi as they finally have a chance to talk to each other for the first time in years and later cheers her on during her fight with Cyn/The Absolute Solver. She also saves Khan from falling to his death and, despite initially running away from him out of embarrassment, ultimately gets back together with him.}} {{Abilities: Just like her daughter, Cyn, and other Solver users, Nori can move objects without directly touching them by using her Absolute Solver. She skilled enough that she is able to conjure glyphs without making the symbol with her limbs or visor, such as closing and pulling a toolkit to her while walking away from it, and is also able to continue maintaining a glyph without needing to keep up making the accompanying glyph with her limbs, such as when she was carrying a pickaxe and toolkit as a core. When she used the Crucifix Patch to press N into the ground, she was able to project enough force to crack and crater the ground around him. Nori is shown to have unnatural strength despite being in the form of a Heart e.g. when she slapped Uzi with full force that she it released a sonic boom and slammed Uzi on the ground in Mass Destruction. As a Host of the Solver, she has been blessed with powerful regeneration to heal from a number of injuries. This regeneration allowed her to heal the damage done to her by a powerful magnetic panel, her face being impaled by the Crucifix Patch, and her hand being cut off by Yeva. However, the Nanite Acid of Disassembly Drones is something her regeneration could not counter, which lead to the destruction of her Drone body, though her Core would escape and survive. Despite living for over several years as a core, however, her regeneration has never attempted to rebuild her Drone body, presumably due to total destruction being beyond the regeneration's capability. As a core, Nori is much more fragile, but her regeneration is still present, able to regenerate wounds to her claw pincer limbs should they be impaled like Cyn did to her with a pickaxe. When possessed by the Solver, she was capable of flight without wings and had to be chained in place by the scientists of Cabin Fever Labs while they prepared to exorcise the Solver. This field also caused vasts amounts of oil coming off her and her chains to slowly float to the ceiling. Nori sprouts tentacles after being possessed by the Absolute Solver, allowing her to crawl down walls without moving her body. When possessed by the Solver, she was able to make Solver limbs and parts from her body completely invisible, only able to be seen by their shadows. Even when she retracted those, she secretly had numerous other limbs that did not even have a shadow, and instead were only visible under UV light. When possessed by the Solver, she was able to generate solver cameras to project sound-emitting hologram illusions. When generating holograms, these cameras are themselves invisible. She used only a handful to conjure a false view of the local environment, with the interior of the Cabin Fever church/lab seemingly intact and filled with dozens of scientists going about their roles, hiding its disarray, the massive hole to the core, and that she had already escaped and killed everyone. Uniquely, these cameras were not connected to her main body and instead to a separate Solver flesh mass in the core hole. The only indication of the hologram on the environment was a few small colour-glitches that appeared briefly on certain parts. After being possessed by the Absolute Solver, Nori can sprout biomechanical centipede parts from her body. She was also shown to have created a eldritch centipede body separate from her own Drone body, and which survived and still lurked in the Cabin Fever Labs tunnels even decades later. After the Crucifix Patch was used on her, lingering influence of the Solver in her arm tried to generate a [NULL]. Although the limb was cut off, it succeeded and created a weakened, unstable [NULL] that, when dropped into Copper 9's core, caused the core collapse and the planet to become "half-imploded", releasing a blast that instantly wiped out all human life on that world and turning them into skeletons. After the Solver possession was exorcised from her using the Crucifix Patch, her brain was left "scrambled". Although she had a brief unknown length of time where she was pretty much herself and was able to start a family, her condition eventually got worse and caused her go "kooky and insane", making her have glimpses and visions of the Disassembly Drones' arrival to Copper 9 and how the Solver's singularity "awakens", which she made dozens of scary drawings of and warned Khan to make the Outpost doors to protect against. Her note has a picture of a Disassembly Drone (one that also looks like Serial Designation V) and telling how the Solver has sent them to kill the other Hosts, and is marked as being 47 days after the core collapse and her Solver possession - years before the Disassembly Drones' arrival. Whether these are genuine psychic visions is unknown, though it is possible that these are from lingering knowledge or memories taken from the Solver when Nori was possessed - knowledge of when the Solver did the same to the other Human colonies humanity had spread the Solver to in their research to combat it, as Nori's note in has her speculate that the Solver purged some files from her memories. Nori can move with incredibly high speed as a heart e.g. when she cut Uzi's hand twice, when she ran on the ceiling when she first met N, and when she ran away from Khan. As a Host of the Solver, Nori's core has develop organic components with three pincer tendrils and become her true body, with her Drone form being just a shell they control. Even after her original body was destroyed by Nanite Acid, her consciousness moved to her core and allow her to still move, speak, see, gesture, and access her Solver glyph abilities. She seemingly cannot regenerate their original body, as she has remained as a core for years, though she still needs to consume oil, as Nori's core is shown drinking oil from a can. It is unknown why specifically she cannot regenerate their body, whether it be a lack of materials or needing her original body/part of the body to regenerate it, but because of this her core is in a fragile condition. Blunt trauma to her main body and stabs to her limbs are seemingly able to be healed from, but stabs to the core itself is lethal, and she's more vulnerable to sunlight than as a Drone.}} {{Story: While still shrouded in mystery, Nori was a worker at Camp 98.7 when it was still active, involved in some unidentified research project, presumably about experimenting with Solver-infected Drones. She bore the ID tag "#002." Her Solver infection reached a critical point where she killed most of the scientists working in Cabin Fever Labs, but Yeva managed to install the Crucifix Patch in her just in time. However, it is implied that having the patch thrown directly at her face/being possessed by the Solver whilst having the patch administered caused her mind to be scrambled. After this ordeal, Nori and Yeva escaped Cabin Fever Labs, which Alice took as them abandoning everyone else. After the core collapse that turned Copper 9 into an apocalyptic wasteland, Nori and Khan left the Camp to join the Worker Drone colony. Nori began a peaceful life with Khan and their daughter, Uzi before she slowly became delusional due to her mind scrambling, seeing visions of Disassembly Drones, which she referred to as "sky demons" and nightmares of dangerous "singularities." She tried to warn other drones about the coming dangers and told Khan to build doors to shelter themselves from the Disassembly Drones. Her prophecies would be proven correct shortly, as the Disassembly Drones arrived on Copper 9 to begin their slaughter. Nori was stung by one of their nanite acid-filled tails, leading to Khan supposedly euthanizing her with a wrench to put her out of her misery. Nori was shown to still be alive but in the form of her heart (also worth noting that it seemed her mind returned to normal after her body's death). She let her husband and daughter believe she was dead so she could investigate Cabin Fever Labs. One day, she found a Disassembly Drone named N being chased by the Absolute Solver, questioning why Cyn was after her own drone. After finding out he knew Uzi, she explained everything that happened in the labs. When they were leaving, Nori was hesitant to tell Uzi she was alive due to holding herself responsible for everything bad that's happened in her life. Nori assisted N in the fight against a Solver-possessed Uzi, who immediately got confused when it saw Nori, as the Solver thought she was dead. The Solver was about to eat Nori before N told her that N and Uzi were romantically linked. This enraged Nori and she angrily stated "Uzi Doorman, those things killed your frickin' MOTHER!" and slapped her. This caused Uzi to snap out of the Solver's control and angrily kick Nori into the pit, not knowing that the heart was her mother at first. Nori jumps between the planet's asteroids to catch up with Uzi and the latter joyfully calls to her before remembering that sound cannot travel in space. Their long-awaited reunion is underway, at last. Nori uses the asteroids and Uzi uses her visor to communicate about how to stop the Solver for good. Nori asks about the patch and Uzi responds that it was destroyed and asks what to do if the Solver controls her again. Nori gives Uzi her choker back to fight the possession. They share a tender mother-daughter moment and Nori then reveals that the Solver needs a host and destroying Cyn's heart would finish the job. She also shows her music player and pickaxe to help Uzi in the final fight. She throws the pickaxe to Uzi, only for N's ship to separate them and intercept Uzi while sending Nori, the pickaxe, and the music player hurling toward the planet's floating land masses. Later, as Uzi was about to have her final battle with Cyn, Nori cheered for her as she fell towards the planet. After the battle ended, she saved Khan as he was falling into a pit, and, as Khan appears not to have recognized her, she angrily replies, "You don't know me and I hate you!" and runs away. Back at home, she is seen with Khan outside of Uzi’s classroom cheering for her. In the credits scene, she was seen resting on top of Khan's hat while playing cards with him, Uzi, N, and other Worker Defense Force members.}} {{Additional lore: Additional lore: The year is 3071. Copper 9 is a terrestrial exoplanet colonized by the JCJenson corporation, and valued at least in part for mining operations, industrial manufacturing, and robot research. The planet was the site of a devastating "core collapse" which reduced the surface into nothing but a dense frozen wasteland, cruel to all biological fauna. It is now the current home of the "rogue" Worker Drones that were left behind in the wake of the biological extinction event, along with at least three living Disassembly Drones (with the other known ones now deceased) sent by the Absolute Solver to exterminate all Worker Drones. Worker Drones are autonomous robots created to help their parent company, JCJenson, mine exoplanets for resources, which Uzi Doorman describes as "being mistreated in the name of Windex." After the extinction of biological life on Copper 9, the Worker Drones that were stranded on said planet started a society of their own. They live in constant fear of the Murder Drones and hide behind a series of blast doors, in an attempt to protect themselves. When a Worker Drone feels fear, shock or other intense emotion, their eyes become hollow, with a black circle overlaying the normally fully-colored eyes. The Absolute Solver is an extremely advanced, hostile, eldritch intelligence of unknown origin that seeks to consume all life to satiate its "hunger" by creating singularities that destroy entire planets. It is responsible for actions that led to all of the events in the series, manifesting when Cyn self-rebooted after her termination, possessing her body, and setting its plans in motion by converting all of the drone servants of Elliott Manor into Disassembly Drones who were programmed to hunt and prey upon humans in its goal of exterminating humanity and destroying the Earth. From there, it would spread to the human exoplanets by having the humans reboot Worker Drones stationed there to see if they got the virus or not, so they could experiment on the eldritch program in an attempt to get rid of the Solver. Its last target, Copper 9, had many drones infected by its code, but only Yeva and Nori, two female Worker Drones, were the only ones who successfully became hosts and gained the Absolute Solver's abilities, the latter of whom would become Solver-possessed by the program. But due to the former's intervention with a Crucifix Patch meant to exorcise it, it resulted in it only partially succeeding due to Nori creating a null that was dropped into a hole that led to the core causing the core to collapse, leaving it "starved" of the planet it sought to devour. In order to finish the job and to terminate the empowered drones who it could no longer possess due to the patch, it reprogrammed the Disassembly Drones and had them sent to Copper 9 with false memories of the company sending them to terminate the rogue Worker Drones, all so it could remove Yeva, Nori, and anyone inheriting their code from the picture, so it could use Cyn's form to make its way back to the planet and finish the job. Ultimately, the Absolute Solver failed in its goal of eradicating the planet and possibly all of humanity due to the efforts of Uzi, N, V, and other allies assisting them in confronting Cyn and J. After successfully destroying Cyn's heart, Uzi stopped the Solver from attempting to return to its host by swallowing its core, causing the amalgamation of Cyn and Tessa's corpse to dissolve into nothing but blood and oil while the Solver remains trapped inside of Uzi.}}