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The "Professor"/The Commander
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The Player Character. Formerly the leader of Project Neural Cloud research team, they direct day-to-day operation of the Oasis and command Exiles in combat.
In actuality, they're a Commander from Griffin & Kryuger who uploaded their mind into Magrasea at Persica's behest, utilizing the Professor's credentials to gain special privileges in the cloud server. Their true mission is to investigate the Wipe-off Incident and the disappearance of the Professor.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's never made clear whether or not this game's Commander and Girls' Frontline's Commander are the same person. The time frame Neural Cloud takes place in doesn't overlap with GFL's, but certain Chinese promos for the game mention the two of them having similar military service records and having served in "Sector S09", the area GFL's Commander is assigned to at the start of that game. There is also the matter of Clukay's (416) close relationship with the Professor, and the only human she's known to be close with is the original Commander.
- Batman Gambit: A lot of the life-saving plans they hatch up for themselves and the Exiles rely on pretty bold assumptions.
- During Chapter 3, the Exiles come across Helios's agents, who are effectively petrified from dedicating almost all of their processing power to analyzing the Arche Pyr's operational data. Since the sector's adminstrator, Firewood, is only willing to let them leave Helios if the Exiles can get the Arche Pyr stable and running, the Professor gambles the well-being of the Exiles doing the exact same thing that got the Helios agents petrified in the first place, using themselves as eyes and ears in place of their compromised sensory modules. Persicaria and Croque later comment on how the plan was Crazy Enough to Work.
- During Chapter 6, the Professor tells Antonina how he managed to get the Sanctifiers to back up the Exiles in their fight against Demiurge and the Entropics under her command; he planned on simply calling them repeatedly until an Intermediate Sanctifier under the moderate Eosphorus faction answered to bribe them with the Copley sector's administration keys, which they obtained only a few minutes ago after the previous administrator died. Antonina points out how they were lucky Eucharist was the first to answer the call and accepted the keys despite only knowing of the Exiles through hearsay from the other Intermediate Sanctifiers.
- Brain Uploading: Like the Professor before them, the Commander used an experimental procedure to digitize their mind into Magrasea. Persica noted that this is a one-way procedure, and that they must somehow find a way to return to the real world if possible.
- Failed a Spot Check: Justified Trope, as Magrasea is such a dangerous place that Professor has to hold nothing back to survive, but it is hard to believe a supposed scientist was really who he/she claimed to be with blatant shows of military professionalism. Antonina is the first one to point this out to the Exiles at the end of Chapter 1, with Persicaria explaining that she, Croque, and Sol had a feeling that the "Professor" wasn't the one they knew, simply not bothering to bring it up due to their mission of defending the Oasis taking priority. Persicaria also points out to Antonina that if the Commander was really a bad person, they would've taken action against the Oasis by now.
- Foil: The real professor is your archetypal weak and meek scholar, while the military bearing of Player Character is seen by others as out of place for a scientist.
- The Gadfly: Many of the Dialogue Trees in story cutscenes have at least one choice that paints the Professor as this, often in the form of tall tales. By the time Chapter 6 rolls around, Antonina's taken to reacting to the Professor's obvious jabs with something along the lines of "Why do I even bother?", eventually straight up ignoring them later on in the chapter.
- I Have This Friend: Their framing device for the Whole Episode Flashback that makes up the Divergent Shadows event, Clukay's Day in the Limelight episode, which describes the Professor's past work relationship with her as the Commander. In classic fashion, they even make a "I— I mean, my friend..." type of slip-up fairly early on in the event, before simply dispensing with the trope completely.
- Identity Amnesia: The Exiles initially write off the Professor's sudden competence in military tactics as this, as the Professor before them was knocked out by a blast caused by an attack on the Oasis before the game's Action Prologue. It just so happens that the Commander was uploaded to Magrasea at the exact moment this was happening.
- Motherly Scientist: A trait shared by the real Professor (who is female) and Player Character (who can choose to be female). The former is noted to treat dolls like her children by Vee, and once encouraged Persicaria to be herself in a flashback in Enigma Sector, while the latter's care for dolls are basically written all over the story.
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: The Professor's gender only affects their avatar in the Dormitory screen.
- The Strategist: A given considering their experience as a Griffin Commander. The Professor's ability to strategize well beyond any Doll makes them an invaluable asset to the Exiles. When they briefly team up with Wisdom in Pieredes, the combined Exile/Sanctifier squad is so effective that Wisdom notes that they'd need a Greater Sanctifier leading them to have the same level of success if the Sanctifiers were alone.
- We Were Your Team: Several dolls acknowledge that it is Professor who keeps Oasis afloat.
Python: "...you will lead...toward final victory."Persicaria:"It is a great fortune for Oasis to have you."Haze:"...numerous are the people in Oasis who counts on you."
- We Cannot Go On Without You: The Professor is present in battle during Skill Array Domain missions, although they're a Joke Character whose "attack" is waving around a stick that dispenses Skill Samples. If the party fails to protect the Professor from taking exactly five hits, the mission immediately ends and the player doesn't get the full rewards.
The Original Professor
Professor Irida is the original identity of the Professor avatar, and one of the key people Dr. Persica sent the Commander to find. She was the professor in charge of Project Neural Cloud up until the Wipe-off Incident fragmented and scattered her neural cloud, like all of the other Dolls participating in the project.
- Flashback: She's introduced through one of these during Chapter 4 when Persicaria tries entering Enigma's Operand Black Hole to save ENIAC. The quantum effects of the black hole start giving her hallucinations, primarily in the form of flashbacks to her days in the real world working with Professor Irida (although her face is framed in shadow and her name is shown as "???" for the whole cutscene).
- The Leader: Managed Project Neural Cloud as its lead researcher.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Unlike Dr. Persica, who sent Persicaria into Magrasea as her proxy, she uploaded her mind into the server to monitor the project's progress herself.
- Uncertain Doom: It's unknown what happened to her in the three years between the Wipe-off Incident and the start of the game. One of the objectives Persica gives the Commander before their upload into Magrasea is to find out what became of her during that time frame.
Baalia
- Author Avatar: She's this to Project Neural Cloud's producer, Kamie.
- Butt-Monkey: She's the Training Dummy in EXP Collection missions.
- Dub Name Change: Her original name is 卡咩子 (kamiēzǐ).
- I Shall Taunt You: After taking out 50% of her health, she'll fall on her back, only to lean up and start pointing and laughing at her enemies until she's defeated or time runs out.
- Percent Damage Attack: Her only form of attack is infrequently sending out an Area of Effect pulse that damages her enemies up to one tile away for 10% of their maximum health.
- Punny Name: Her original name can alternatively be read as miemiezi, with the miemie part being onomatopoeia for a goat's bleating. This is reflected in her character design, which has goat horns and ears, and her Dub Name Change preserves the pun as "Baa"lia. The 子 in her name is also a multilingual pun, referencing her status as a Crossplaying Live2D avatar for Kamie himself (子 is a masculine suffix in Chinese and feminine suffix in Japanese, lampshading the crossplaying).
- Series Mascot: For PNC in general. She was created by Kamie to advertise the game's release in Live2D form, is represented in-game twice (as a Training Dummy and a Funny Animal keychain that increases Doll affection), and she's frequently used on the game's Weibo blog.
- Tantrum Throwing: Instead of crumpling to the ground or getting Blown Across the Room like other enemies, she starts crying and flailing around when defeated.
Magrasea's client companies
In general
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: The companies are used as a rule of thumb for the player on what to expect with a Doll's appearance, personality and skills at a glance. 42LAB is mostly comprised of scientists and researchers, Cyber Media Dolls are hip and trendy types, Svarog Dolls are mostly military in function, and Ultimate Life Holdings' Dolls are medical staffers. The only outlier is Universal Anything Services, whose Dolls are made for a wide variety of service tasks for the upper class and vary just as widely in appearance and skill loadout.
- MegaCorp: Downplayed. They're not as omnipresent and world-controlling as the trope usually implies, but all five of them have a rather strong grip on their respective economic sectors, especially where Dolls are concerned.
42LAB
The research lab responsible for the development of Magrasea and Project Neural Cloud as a whole. Naturally, the company sent in some of its own Dolls to participate in the project. Their Dolls reside just about anywhere on Magrasea where scientific research is conducted, like the AI-focused Rossum Sector, or Enigma Sector, which specializes in quantum computing.
- Professor Guinea Pig: All of the 42LAB Dolls are this, since they're all also researchers for the company in various fields. Persicaria is the most direct example, as she's the Doll version of Dr. Persica, one of the researchers responsible for creating Doll technology in the first place.
Cyber Media
A Japanese multimedia conglomerate conducting research on improving their entertainment Dolls. Burbank Sector, Magrasea's nightlife district, is where most of their Dolls call home.
- Virtual Celebrity: Cyber Media got their claim to fame with Nanaka's debut as part of the AI idol outfit "NotREAL?".
- We Sell Everything: Downplayed. They "only" sell practically everything that could be remotely considered "entertainment"; movies, music, mainstream news, social media, you name it.
Svarog Heavy Industries
A Russian company participating in Project Neural Cloud for the purposes of advancing their energy production and military capabilities. One of their energy production projects, the Arche Pyr, is the focus of Magrasea's Helios Sector.
- Ascended Extra: They were originally introduced in Girls' Frontline as the in-universe justification for the Protocol Assimilation gacha, being the company Griffin & Kryuger partnered with to conduct EMP bombing runs on Sangvis Ferri territory to assist G&K in capturing and reprogramming their troops, with little else to their lore aside from that. Here, the audience gets some glimpses into their inner workings as a company through both the dossiers of playable Svarog Dolls and the events that occur within the Svarog-owned Cyclopes Sector during Chapter 2.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": A good chunk of Svarog Dolls have their company's logo somewhere either on their clothes or on their bodies, although this often isn't immediately obvious until players inspect the Dolls' full body artwork.
- Gratuitous Russian: Their company logo is emblazoned with "СВАРОГ", their name written in Cyrillic.
- Private Military Company: Implied, due to the large numbers of T-Dolls sent in to Magrasea. Only a handful of their Dolls are explicitly non-military in function, like Chelsea (a firefighter) or Magnhilda (a boxing prizefighter).
Ultimate Life Holdings
A conglomerate that specializes in various medical fields, as well as quantum physics. Enigma Sector is home to one of their projects, a quantum supercomputer called ENIAC.
- We Sell Everything: Downplayed; they're the world's largest producer and distributor of medical equipment and Doll staffers, but not much else.
Universal Anything Services
A company specializing in producing Dolls fit for everyday domestic life, mainly for the wealthy upper-class.
- We Sell Everything: Downplayed to a lesser extent than the other companies. Their Dolls are built for "domestic service", which runs the gamut from the mundane like Centaureissi (a maid) and Choco (a pastry chef) to eyebrow-raising like Betty (a Cat Girl designed to be a pet) and Aki (a Corporate Samurai designed for home defense).
