Serial Designation J

Serial Designation J-10X111001.

Appearance

Serial Designation J has the distinctive features of a female Disassembly Drone, with wide hips and shins tapered to a point. She has silver hair styled in high-sleek twin silver-colored ponytails, tied with black ribbons. Like other Disassembly Drones, she has neon yellow eyes and a black headband adorned with five additional eyes that contain Nanite Acid and match the color displayed on her visor, as well as a long, thin black tail ending in a large syringe also filled with Nanite Acid. She is 7ft tall in height.

Her attire consists of a short-sleeved black shirt with side pockets under it, a black leather belt giving it as a skirt, a dark yellow shirt beneath her blazer, and a tie, giving her the appearance of professionalism, especially in comparison to the other two members of her squadron.

As for her legs, it appears as though she is wearing knee-high stockings with visible suspenders, but this is in actuality just the coloration of her chassis. On her left bicep, she wears a yellow armband marked with a skull emblem, signifying her role and identity as a Disassembly Drone.

Personality

J is best described as a "lethal workaholic," as she is incredibly dedicated to her job - even using corporate jargon like "synergistic liability" and "fourth-quarter profits" in place of insults or vulgarism. J had a penchant for obeying authority and following orders as far back as her days as a Worker Drone, where she refused to intervene in Tessa's abuse from her parents, as "corporate" (her parents) had spoken.

Although J is not as sadistic as V, she is still a cold killer and looks down on others whom she perceives as being "lesser", hypocritically referring to Worker Drones as "barely sentient toasters" despite her former role as a Worker Drone herself. J was stated to "take pleasure in domineering this beneath under the guise of following orders". This is best shown in J's relationship with N, as she despises him and frequently abuses him both physically and emotionally, angrily stating while crushing his throat that she would personally kill him if she was allowed, something she eventually does without hesitation by installing a virus in his OS when N questions attacking the Worker Drones. Notably, she also drew out the act and took great satisfaction in it, mocking N while he lay on the ground. In flashbacks of the Elliott Manor, J was shown to be abusive to N, unnecessarily hitting and insulting him in front of V.

J is also arrogant, domineering, and prideful, as she finds satisfaction in belittling others. This habit often tends to get the better of her, as seen in almost all of her appearances. In the PILOT after incapacitating Uzi via an EMP, J took her time with a monologue (which she patted herself on the back for by calling it the "BestMonologueEver"), giving Uzi the chance to subdue J with her own nanite acid. In Absolute End, J takes the time to correct V's insult of referring to her a "narc", instead referring to herself as a "senior informant", allowing V to hurl her into a meteorite. Even as a Worker Drone in Home, J is seen with a cocky smirk standing next to Tessa when the two of them infiltrate the gala, allowing Tessa to quip before immediately being possessed by Cyn, flunking their attempt to stop the massacre.

Despite her arrogance and frequent belittlement of others, however, J praises her comrades if she believes they deserve it, as she gladly swallows her pride and even congratulates N despite her hatred of him, referring to him as a "stud" and patting him on the back before rewarding him with a branded pen (something she herself considers a major accomplishment) for getting past Outpost 3's doors.

J used to be more emotionally open as seen in N's memories of the Elliott Manor, where being in the presence of Louisa scares her and causes her to awkwardly fidget with her hands, with Louisa's mention of having V (among other drones experiencing the 606 error in the library) disposed visibly upsetting her. J also does not object to Cyn standing up to Louisa, and visibly becomes nervous for N's safety when he attempts to cover for her, although, it quickly turns to exasperation when he does a poor job of it. She also acted to defend N from a possessed V despite her surliness towards him so he could check out the basement.

J seemed close with Tessa in particular, attached to her at the hip in every scene of every episode they share together. This also persists with Tessa in the modern day, with her even seen riding on J's back during the chase against Doll in Dead End. The two of them had a very natural dynamic, Tessa being shown sharing her fears about the gala toward J, causing the latter to attempt comforting her by performing an exaggerated bow. They also shared similar thought processes, both of them thinking to grab weapons to use against Cyn in the same place, at the same time, indicating their close dynamic. Despite this however, J still prioritized "corporate" above all else, complying with Tessa's abuse and refusing to help her free herself from her chains, guiltily averting her gaze and stating that "corporate's spoken" when Tessa asked for her help.

While J has become incredibly hardened in the modern day, she is not incapable of showing emotion like her former self. She shows hesitation before leaving V and N in a disguised Cyn's presence, expresses guilt and unhappiness during her fight with V and even offers to let her join "the winning team". She also shows fear when presented with Lizzy, Thad, Khan, and the railgun that killed her once before, and is also spooked by the prospect of having her head cut off during Absolute End's final battle.

J's true character is revealed in Absolute End, where it's shown she's aware of Tessa's assimilation and, despite this, is assisting her killer in the attempted destruction of Copper 9, focusing on being on the "winning team" in hopes that Cyn wouldn't hurt her by complying. She angrily states to V that there is no escape from the Solver, even in death (due to the Solver possessing backups of them). J later distances herself from her former allies following V's rejection of her offer to join them, coldly stating that she never needed V or N before trying to aid the Solver in killing them both.

According to Liam Vickers via a message on Discord, J sees herself as the thankless leader of N and V, someone who stepped up to keep the three of them together when the Solver first appeared and caused everyone else to "sorta mentally implode".

He additionally stated that from J's perspective when the Solver showed up and killed the "current leading figure", she personally felt it came down to her as the de facto "bossiest" of the three to decide whether or not to lead the fight or bend the knee in the hopes of survival. She consistently chooses to side with whatever dominant oppressive system is in place, knowingly exploiting others in order to secure better conditions for herself and, to some small extent, her companions N and V. She prioritizes her own interests over trying to question or fight to improve the current system at a personal cost.

This is rightfully treated as a villainous move - especially since V switches sides from a similar position to face unknown odds against the Solver while J doubles down. The Solver wearing Tessa's skin while also provoking immense fear in J along with being seemingly undefeatable results in her choosing the logical route for the best chance at staying alive and staying together with N and V, whom she views as "thankless little traitors" that abandoned her.

Abilities

Flight: Like other Disassembly Drones, J possesses a pair of large retractable wings with several long blades for feathers. They allow for high-speed flight and can be used to cut and impale targets. Corrosive

Nanite Acid: The end of J's tail has a syringe of Nanite Acid.

Extreme Agility and Strength: J is agile and possesses more strength than the average Worker Drone due to having Disassembly Drone physiology.

Interchangeable Hands: Similar to other Disassembly Drones, J can switch out her hands for various tools and weaponry as she is to have:

Three claws that she uses to impale and slice through her victims.

A missile launcher, which she uses when chasing Doll.

A relay hand she uses to project holograms like projecting Cyn's plan as shown in "Dead End".

A submachine gun, which she was shown using against Uzi during the Pilot.

An EMP Generator, which she was shown using against Uzi during the Pilot.

EMP Immunity: J is immune to electromagnetic pulses.

Biography

J is an incredibly loyal Disassembly Drone who was once a Worker Drone in her past. She was repurposed and befriended by Tessa to serve at Elliott Manor as a maid, where she met N, V, and the Absolute Solver disguised as Cyn. J assisted Tessa in attempting to prevent the Solver from instigating a massacre at the mansion. Their efforts were in vain, as J was among all the Worker servants who had been corrupted by the malevolent AI. J was later rebuilt by the Solver to be a Disassembly Drone, and together with N and V, she was sent to Copper 9 to eliminate all Workers found there.

The human population of the planet Copper 9 is wiped out by a planetary core collapse, leaving behind their robotic workforce, the Worker Drones. The workers are massacred by a trio of Disassembly Drones from Earth—designated N, V, and J—ostensibly sent by the interstellar corporation JC Jenson in response to the workers' newfound independence; the survivors retreat into a bunker fortified by worker Khan Doorman. Uzi, Khan's rebellious daughter, leaves the bunker to salvage parts for a railgun to use against the Disassembly Drones. She tests her weapon on N, who regenerates with short-term amnesia and malfunctioning optic sensors. Mistaking Uzi for a new teammate, N tries to befriend her until J restores his memory and vision. N infiltrates the bunker, kills the guards and attacks Uzi, but falters after Khan refuses to help his daughter and shuts them out to protect the other survivors. J installs a corrupting virus on N for questioning their directive. Uzi repairs N, and together they prevent the others from wiping out the colony, destroying J and capturing V. Heartbroken by Khan's betrayal, Uzi banishes herself with N and V and declares vengeance against the humans of Earth.

J's mutated heart emerges from her remains and produces an eldritch worm monster that kills several Worker Drones. Uzi and N are informed of the incident by Uzi's classmate Thad while trying to repair the Disassembly Drones' space pod. Returning to the bunker to investigate, they learn about a supposed reboot program called the Absolute Solver, symbolised by an insignia that has begun appearing in place of Uzi's right eye; Uzi concludes that J is using the Solver to repair herself with the drones' assimilated matter. They are soon attacked by the worm-like Solver, which proclaims J and the other drones to be its puppets. The Solver unnerves Uzi with disturbing, lifelike holograms, including one of itself killing Khan. N rescues Uzi as her damaged railgun explodes, causing the Solver to vanish. Frightened and confused by the Disassembly Drones' true nature, Uzi shuns N and returns to Khan.

A guilt-ridden Uzi is approached by Doll and her friend Lizzy to receive a makeover for the upcoming school prom at Khan's insistence. However, Uzi escapes upon discovering that Doll is targeting her in a recent incident of prom queen candidates disappearing, while Lizzy, who befriended V, is conspiring to let her into the bunker. Meanwhile, N refuses to participate in V's plan to slaughter the prom-goers for their own sustenance, leading V to go alone. Uzi and N reconcile and head to the prom to stop V. Against the trio's expectations, V is crowned prom queen as part of a trap devised by Doll, who seeks revenge against V for killing her parents. Uzi and N rescue V, overcoming Doll's reality-bending Solver powers before V shoots Doll. Doll later regenerates and attacks the group again, but flees when Uzi manifests her own Solver powers against her. Meanwhile, the human JC Jenson technician in a spacesuit Tessa Elliott and a living J arrive on Copper 9 to perform "maintenance work".

Uzi travels to the abandoned Camp 98.7 to investigate a set of collars with significance to her mother, Nori. Uzi's class is forced to come along as part of a field trip, with N and V acting as supervisors as a pretence of finding Doll. Uzi eventually finds the "keybug", a golden robot cockroach designed to activate an elevator in the Cabin Fever Labs. When she returns to the campsite, a startled classmate fires at Uzi with an arrow, which her Solver powers turn into a living organic mass. Uzi flees into one of the cabins, where she grows fleshy wings and a tail similar to those of the Disassembly Drones. Against V's wishes, N searches for Uzi and finds an instructional video cassette titled "Zombie Drones", which triggers his repressed memories. Overcome with a craving for the drones' oil, Uzi kills several of her classmates and battles a hostile V before N intervenes, returning Uzi to normal. Uzi, N, and V leave with the other survivors, bringing the keybug and video cassette with them.

N relives his repressed memories as a Worker Drone servant at Tessa's mansion alongside V, J, and a malfunctioning "zombie" drone named Cyn. After ignoring several cryptic messages instructing him to enter the mansion's basement, N establishes contact with Uzi, who has hacked into the comatose N and V's minds to keep their memories from being erased by Cyn, the Solver's host and the Disassembly Drones' administrator. With the past Tessa and J's help, Uzi and N evade a monstrously mutated V and unlock the basement, where they discover evidence of Cyn experimenting on N and the other servants by killing them and remodeling them back to life as Disassembly Drones. Uzi's hacking is interrupted when Doll intrudes to take the keybug, which Uzi begrudgingly gives her to save N and V. While the past Cyn takes control of the other drones and massacres the humans in the mansion, the present Cyn attempts to use V to lobotomise N in Uzi's absence, but N returns V to her senses before Uzi overrides Cyn's administration. Doll brings the keybug to Tessa and J at the frozen Camp 98.7 lake, where Uzi, N, and V find them.

Tessa and J ally with Uzi's group, revealing Cyn as the one who sent the Disassembly Drones to Copper 9. Doll immediately takes the keybug back and enters the nearby Cabin Fever Labs alone, leading the group to give chase while J stays behind to guard Tessa's ship. The group is quickly captured by Alice and Beau, two cannibalistic Worker Drone lab subjects who have used the facility's Velociraptor-like Sentinels to kill the other subjects and intruding Disassembly Drones. During their escape, Tessa privately reveals to N that Cyn has already destroyed Earth, and urges him to save the universe over Uzi, who risks being possessed by Cyn the more she uses her Solver. After the Sentinels kill Alice and Beau, Doll traps the group in the elevator hallway with more Sentinels and descends further down, damaging the elevator in the process. When the others are cornered inside the elevator, V remains outside and severs its cables to save them while the Sentinels surround her.

Uzi, N, and Tessa are separated underground when a scared Uzi's Solver triggers a cave-in. N encounters Nori's sentient heart, who keeps a patch on a crucifix-shaped USB drive used for "exorcising" the Solver from its hosts. Doll is assaulted and fatally wounded by Cyn while demanding the patch from Tessa to cure herself. Tessa follows the dying Doll to a cathedral lab where she finds Uzi, who she blames and nearly kills before N stops Tessa and decapitates her when he fails to interrogate her about the patch. He gives the drive to Uzi, but Cyn possesses Uzi and destroys it. Uzi regains control when N provokes her and Nori into bickering by confessing that he and Uzi "hang out", although Uzi accidentally kicks Nori down a pit into Copper 9's core in the process. An undead Tessa reattaches her head and reveals herself as Cyn, having skin-grafted the real Tessa's corpse onto herself and been disguised with it underneath her spacesuit since her arrival on Copper 9. Cyn eats Doll's heart and drags Uzi and N into the pit with her. Aboveground, J is confronted by Khan, Thad, and Lizzy after destroying the Disassembly Drones' landing pods under Cyn's orders, dropping her spaceship key into the pit. Before falling, Uzi throws N to safety with the key. Uzi later awakens in outer space, where she sees the blown-up planet's exposed core.

Having merged with Copper 9, Cyn begins consuming the broken pieces of the planet. Uzi reunites with Nori, who explains the Solver can be stopped if Cyn's heart is destroyed. N rescues Uzi in Cyn's spaceship, which Cyn destroys; Uzi and N affirm their relationship as they fall back towards the planet. J reveals her allegiance to Cyn and attacks Khan, Thad, and Lizzy, but V intervenes, riding a Sentinel she managed to tame. Uzi and N reunite with V while battling Cyn, who repeatedly attempts to possess Uzi again via callback. N and V eventually knock J into a chasm, while Uzi learns to resist Cyn's hacking attempts and rips the latter's heart out, causing Cyn's body to melt; when Uzi's Solver fails to destroy the heart, she resorts to swallowing it, imparting her with the Solver's abilities while allowing her to retain her sense of self. The drones resume their normal lives, with N and V now living in the bunker, and hold a funeral for Doll; meanwhile, J begins repairing her spaceship, and the Solver, whose consciousness now inhabits Uzi's tail, harmlessly pesters her. J is no longer allowed near the bunker and kills any wandering Drones in order to survive.