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Nori Doorman

"Uzi Doorman, those things killed your frickin' MOTHER!"

―Nori's furious reaction to finding out her daughter and Serial Designation N "kinda hang out."

Nori Doorman is a major protagonist in Murder Drones who was responsible for the core implosion event on Copper 9.

She is a former test subject for Cabin Fever Labs, is the wife of Khan Doorman, the mother of Uzi, and the second known host of the Absolute Solver.

Physical Appearance

Worker Drone Before being forced to thrive as a heart, she 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 is 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 wears a black construction helmet, an oversized gray off-shoulder shirt, and a black choker on her neck with an inscription that reads "#002" (her ID number). Her outfit is identical to Yeva's, who is the mother of Doll. Nori is also barefooted.

Nori strongly resembles her daughter, Uzi, meaning that Uzi inherited many of her mother's traits.

Hologram The Absolute Solver's hologram shows Nori holding a baby Uzi, most likely indicating that Uzi was only an infant when her mother died. In the hologram, Nori and the infant Uzi sport the Solver's three-pronged glyph that briefly appeared in their visors, revealing that Uzi has been infected her entire life because she inherited her mother's code.

Heart In "Mass Destruction" and "Absolute End", Nori controls her disembodied heart. Nori's heart looks similar to the hearts of other Solver-infected drones, as shown in "Dead End" as well as the heart of Eldritch J shown in "Heartbeat" — 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.

Full Appearance

Nori Doorman is an adult female Worker Drone whose appearance balances warmth and friendliness with an unsettling air that hints at her long history with the Absolute Solver. Even before the destruction of her original body, she carried a casual, laid-back style that contrasted sharply with the catastrophic events surrounding her life. Her overall design strongly resembles her daughter, Uzi, making the family resemblance immediately apparent.

Her head features the standard smooth Worker Drone construction, consisting of a rounded white lower faceplate beneath a glossy black digital visor. Displayed upon the visor are bright neon-purple eyes that naturally glow with a soft violet hue. Her expressions are highly animated, shifting effortlessly between cheerful grins, sarcastic smirks, protective anger, and moments of genuine sadness. During periods of Absolute Solver influence, however, her eyes can briefly change into glowing yellow or display the Solver's signature three-pronged glyph, giving her an unnerving appearance.

Nori's hair is a rich violet-purple, only slightly lighter than Uzi's. A long side-swept fringe falls across the left side of her visor while the rest of her hair is gathered into a loose low ponytail draped over one shoulder. Several shorter strands curl outward around the sides of her head, giving her hairstyle a relaxed, slightly messy appearance that suits her carefree personality.

Resting atop her head is a simple black construction helmet worn throughout her time at Cabin Fever Labs. The helmet is practical rather than decorative, showing signs of regular use from years spent working within the research facility.

Around her neck sits a black choker collar engraved with the identification number "#002," marking her as one of Cabin Fever Labs' experimental Solver hosts. This collar remains one of the defining pieces of her design and later becomes symbolically important during the series.

Her clothing consists of an oversized gray off-the-shoulder shirt that hangs loosely across her slim mechanical frame. The shirt drapes asymmetrically, exposing one shoulder while extending unevenly over her hips, giving her a casual, almost improvised appearance. Attached around her neck hangs her old Cabin Fever Labs identification badge bearing her name and experiment number, a lingering reminder of her past.

Like every Worker Drone, Nori possesses segmented metallic arms and legs connected by flexible silver joints. Her white robotic hands have five articulated fingers capable of both delicate precision and surprising strength. She remains barefoot, exposing her simple metallic feet instead of wearing any footwear.

When using the Absolute Solver, violet glyphs appear around her body, bathing her in an eerie purple glow while objects float effortlessly around her through telekinetic manipulation.

Heart Form

After her original Worker Drone body was destroyed by Nanite Acid, Nori survived by transferring her consciousness into her Solver core, which became her permanent physical form for many years.

In this state, she resembles a grotesque biomechanical heart composed of dark red organic tissue wrapped tightly around a standard Worker Drone core. At its center sits a single glowing neon-pink eye, while eight smaller camera-like eyes protrude around the main eye in every direction, constantly scanning her surroundings.

Extending beneath the heart are three long black fleshy tendrils ending in pointed claw-like pincers, allowing her to crawl across floors, walls, ceilings, and even leap between floating debris with incredible speed and agility.

Despite its disturbing appearance, Nori humorously decorates the heart by wearing a small black mourning cap tied with a bow, maintaining a touch of personality even in her monstrous form.

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.

As a result, 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 enraged 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 as shown in the ending and during the credits.

Biography Pre-series While Nori's past is generally shrouded in mystery, she 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.

Season 1 Mass Destruction 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 furiously stated "Uzi Doorman, those things killed your frickin' MOTHER!" and slapped her. This caused Uzi to snap out of the Solver's control and violently kicks Nori into the pit, not knowing that the heart was her mother at first.

Absolute End 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. In the meantime, 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.

Abilities Ability Function Absolute Solver Telekinesis 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. Super Strength 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. Regeneration As a Host of the Solver, she has been blessed with powerful regeneration to heal from a number of injuries. "Mass Destruction" revealed 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, according to "Pilot", 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. Anti-Gravity Generation When possessed by the Solver in "Mass Destruction", 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. Tentacle Manifestation Nori sprouts tentacles after being possessed by the Absolute Solver in "Mass Destruction", allowing her to crawl down walls without moving her body. Invisibility 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. Hologram-Projecting Cameras 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. Eldritch Transformation 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 in "Mass Destruction". NULL Creation 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. Visions 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 in "Mass Destruction" 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 Tessa mentions in "Dead End" - as Nori's note in has her speculate that the Solver purged some files from her memories. High Speed 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. Core True Body 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 in "Mass Destruction". 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.

Weaknesses Weakness Function Absolute Solver Magnets When possessed, the scientists of Cabin Fever Labs were able to temporarily restrained her with a magnetic platform, causing her body to collapse and twist against the floor. However, this was only a temporary measure, as by the time Mitchell had returned she had already escaped and slaughtered the whole room. UV Light When possessed, the scientists of Cabin Fever Labs were able to reveal and burn her invisible limbs using UV spotlights, causing them to retract into her body. However, this was only a temporary measure, as by the time Mitchell had returned she had already escaped and slaughtered the whole room. Nanite Acid When the Disassembly Drones invaded Copper 9, Nori's Drone body was destroyed by their Nanite Acid, which countered her natural Solver Drone regeneration and forced her husband to put her out of her misery. However, although her Drone body was destroyed, she was able to survive by having her Core escape her corpse before it was affected by the acid. Relationships Family Khan Doorman - Husband and euthanizer Uzi Doorman - Daughter Allies Yeva † - Close friend N - Helper and rescuee Worker Defense Force Members Enemies Absolute Solver - User, attempted victim, temporary possessor, and attempted killer

Trivia It is never confirmed which Disassembly Drone destroyed Nori's body with Nanite Acid and "killed" her. However, through set backgrounds and minor details, it can be inferred that Nori's assailant was N. Nori makes a brief comment in "Mass Destruction" on how she recognizes N, to which he smiles nervously and doesn't get the chance to reply. Nori's desk in The Cathedral contains one of N's ninja stars, a weapon used exclusively by him during the events of Heartbeat. Nanite Acid, the supposed murder weapon, is used in the show exclusively by N. However, it is worth noting that all Disassembly Drones are equipped with Nanite Acid, and just don't typically use it. When Doll turns around to face Khan in "The Promening", a brief red-colored image of Nori's ID potrait pops up.[1] Her name was first revealed by Liam Vickers at the early screening of "Heartbeat" in Berkeley, California.[2] Liam Vickers likes Nori's hairstyle.[3] A family photograph of the Doorman family is seen during the "PILOT"; Nori's face has been burned by what seems to be Nanite Acid. A closet labeled "NORI'S KOOKY INSANE STUFF" is seen in "The Promening" and "Cabin Fever", where Khan stores her and Uzi's crazed ramblings. The closet contains drawings of Disassembly Drones, black holes, and variations of the Absolute Solver symbol. It was revealed that Nori was exorcised of the Solver's influence long before the show's events, but her mind was subsequently scrambled. The English subtitles of "Mass Destruction" (as well as the episode's end credits) and "Absolute End" only ever refer to her in her heart form as "Heart," even after she was revealed to be Nori. Nori is one of three characters, the other two being Uzi and Serial Designation V, to say the line "Bite me!". Although clarified to be headcanon due to their short screentime, creator Liam Vickers reveals that Nori and Yeva were close friends and the "ultimate gamer team" who looked out for and balanced each other; Yeva's trauma and horror at the Solver/cabin fever experiments was lightened by Nori's friendship and glee at it all being "rad and emo as hell" and Nori's disregard for caution and self preservation was offset by Yeva being rational/pragmatic and "having a brain that worked". The intention was to show a "What could've been" between Doll and Uzi if the Absolute Solver didn't mess up the present day.[4]

Nori Doorman/Quotes

Season 1 Mass Destruction "Why is Cyn after her own murder-pet? You stupid or something?"

―Nori after cutting the tentacle N was being dragged with.

"Cool by me, then. Drive."

―Nori after N says yes to her question, telling him to run.

"Hey, you look familiar."

―Nori to N as they're running.

"Watch the road. You got wings?"

―Ditto.

"Focus! Left!"

―Nori telling N where to go as they're chased by the Solver.

"Think you can get this cross to the surface? I'm lookin' for a hunk named Khan."

―Nori asking N and why.

"How do you know my daughter?"

―Nori to N after asking about Khan, which the latter refers to as "Uzi's dad."

"Then, the planet kinda half-imploded anyway."

―Nori explaining to N about what happened.

"Humans all..."

―Nori before mimicking slicing noises.

"Woke up on the surface, brain scrambled enough to have a kid, and the rest is dumb, stupid history."

―Nori continuing her explanation to N.

"Stop that."

―Nori, noticing N clapping and throwing a paper at him.

"Now, the Solver's found its way back to finish the job."

―Nori telling N what's happening next.

"Who's its host?"

―Nori asking N about the Solver's host.

"Yeva's kid. I know, dummy."

―Nori after N tries to describe Doll.

"Which one was just trying to eat us?"

―Nori asking which host was chasing them.

"Tell her I'm alive, you die."

―Nori to N, telling him that she'll kill him if he reveals to Uzi that she's alive.

"Nuance alert, ma'am, I caused every horror in her life. Destroyed the planet, got you things sicced here..."

―Nori telling N why he can't reveal she is alive to Uzi.

"No time. Promise."

―Nori threatening N.

"Ugh. Bite me."

―Nori after N tells her to reveal to Uzi that she's alive herself.

"You're frickin' grounded."

―Nori to Uzi as she's possessed by the Solver.

"Uzi Doorman. Those things killed your frickin' mother!"

―Nori to possessed Uzi after N tells her that they hang out.

Absolute End "Kick her butt, babe! Woo!"

―Nori cheering on Uzi.

"You don't know me and I hate you!"

―Nori before Khan can thank her.

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