Aura (.hack)
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Aura (アウラ?) is a fictional character from .hack, a franchise that encompasses several video games, anime and manga. She is an advanced AI. Her virtual avatar is the form of a young girl whose white hair, skin and garments give her a ghostly appearance.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Conception and birth
Before the creation of The World a German programmer named Harald Hoerwick fell in love with Emma Wielant, who wrote an epic poem entitled the Epitaph of Twilight. After Emma died in a car accident, Harald became distraught and created frägment (the prototype to The World) inspired by the Epitaph. But this program was actually intended to create the ultimate AI, Aura. Harald worked on Aura as a symbol of his love for Emma as the daughter that could have been.
[edit] At the care of Morganna
At the beginning of .hack//SIGN Aura is asleep as her mentor program, the AI Morganna has yet to gather enough data from the players to awaken her. But Morganna is intentionally trying to keep Aura asleep since she realizes that she would die when her job—raising Aura—is completed. Morganna manages to imprison the consciousness of Tsukasa (the protagonist in .hack//SIGN), trapping him inside The World, and linking his emotions to Aura's development, while she manipulates him in order to stop's awakening Aura . At the end of the series, Aura fortunately finally awakens, allowing Tsukasa to log out of the game. However, Aura's awakening threw Morganna into a rage, who then sends the Phases, AI programs originally engineered to gather data for Aura's development,to chase Aura down and delete her.
[edit] Awakening and persecution
A few months after SIGN, The World has succumbed to some severe problems, including invincible monsters and hacked graphics. All of this as part of the intent of Morganna to capture Aura, and preventing her from developing Data Drain, the ability to edit game data, which is necessary for her to become complete.
However Aura is able to cultivate this power into an installation book, and attempts to give it to the legendary player Orca but Skeith, one of the phases, attacks them, Data Draining Orca causing the player in the real world to fall into a coma. When his best friend Kite (main protagonist in the playstation games) logs into The World searching for Orca, Aura gives the Installation Book to Kite. Upon opening the file, his player code is rewritten, and he receives the Twilight Bracelet, which allows him to use Data Drain, the only power capable of defeating the corrupted monsters as well as the Eight Phases of The Cursed Wave.
When Kite encounters the first Phase, Skeith, it is already in the process of Data Draining Aura, scattering her data throughout The World in fragments. Kite defeats Skeith, creating Cubia in return. Fortunately, Aura's consciousness is still partially functional, so she is able to send corrupted e-mail messages to him, which are possible to read but with great difficulty. With the help of other players who later become known as the .hackers, Kite is able to face and defeat six more of the eight Phases which include Innis, Magus, Fidchell, Gorre, Macha, and Tarvos. After Aura becomes complete, there is only Cubia and the final phase, Corbenik, left to deal with. Aura tells Kite not to confront Cubia because Cubia is connected to the bracelet. However, Kite still confronts Cubia and has to destroy his braclet to defeat Cubia.
This makes it impossible for the final Phase, Corbenik, to be defeated, and over twenty million people would imminently die. Kite fights the final Phase anyway, but when he is about to deliver the final blow to it Aura gets in the way and is killed.
When this happens Aura, who has collected data on positive emotions, merges with Morganna, who has data on negative emotions, completing Aura's final incarnation as the Ultimate AI. From then on, Aura becomes an omnipresent yet mostly silent force within The World, analogous to a god.
[edit] Shugo and The Twilight Bracelet
In .hack//Legend of the Twilight, Aura is constantly being hunted down by the CC Corp (the game producers) without much success.
She holds a fake contest and posing as an administrator, bestows upon Shugo and Rena, chibi versions of the avatars of the legendary .hackers players Kite and BlackRose. Aura gives Shugo the Twilight Bracelet, to help him fulfill his dream to become a hero, which he told her about a few months after SIGN, mistaking her for another player.
She also has a supposed daughter named Zefie, an AI that was as powerful as she is, but with an extremely wild and uncontrollable personality, even going as far as to give players pink afros for the fun of it. Zefie was created for two reasons: One was to complete Aura by allowing her to experience child birth, and the other was to help Shugo with his goal.
[edit] The Loss of Aura
At the end of the year 2014, Aura was lost. It is unknown how or why she vanished, but with her disappearance, CPU processing needs increased in The World. The loss of Aura meant the networks were returning to their original specs.
The suits of CC Corp began to understand. With no god to run their world, what would happen? With the World losing its glory and credibility, there was only one choice left to the management of CC Corp: the rebirth of Aura. And with this grand plan, Project GU was born.
[edit] External links
| Video games: | INFECTION | MUTATION | OUTBREAK | QUARANTINE | frägment | G.U. |
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| Anime: | Liminality | SIGN | Legend of the Twilight | GIFT | Roots |
| Books: | AI buster | AI buster 2 | ZERO | Another Birth | Legend of the Twilight | .hack//XXXX | 4 Koma | G.U.: The World |
| Characters: | Albireo | Alkaid | Aura | Azure Kite | Balmung | BlackRose | Cubia | Elk | Emma Wielant | Harald Hoerwick | Haseo | Helba | Kite | Kuhn| Lycoris | Mia | Mimiru | Morganna | Orca | Ovan | Rena | Shugo | Skeith | Tri-Edge | Tsukasa | Zefie .hack//SIGN characters |
| Other: | Altimit Corporation | ALTIMIT OS | CC Corporation | Cubia | Data Drain | Eight Phases | GU Phases (.hack) | .hack//ENEMY | Epitaph of Twilight | Net Slum | Pluto's Kiss The World | .hack character classes |
Epitaph of the Twilight
Yet to return, the shadowed one. Who quests for the Twilight Dragon Rumbles the Dark Hearth, And Helba, Queen of the Dark, has finally raised her army. Apeiron, King of Light beckons. At the base of the rainbow they meet Against the abominable Wave, together they fight. Alba's lake boils. Light's great tree doth fall. Power- now all to droplets turned in the temple of Arche Koeln. Returns to nothing, this world of shadowless ones. Never to return, the shadowless one, Who quests for the Twilight Dragon.
"Welle" Riding the Wave is Skeith, the Shadow of Death, to drown all that stands. Mirage of Deceit, Innis, Betray all with the flawed image, and did aid the Wave. And by the Power of Magus, a drop from the Wave doth reach the heavens, and creates a new Wave. With the Wave, Fidchell, the power to tell the dark future, hope darkens, sadness and despair rule. Gorre schemes when swallowed by the Cursed Wave. Macha seduces with the sweet trap. Wave reaches the Pinnacle, and escape none can. Tarvos still remains with more cruelty to punish and destroy. And with the turbulent destruction after the Wave. Only a void remains. From deep within the void arrives Corbenik.
Fragment 0 Shunning the field broken by Wave. The shadowed girl whispers, "Surely, I will return." Alas, the truth unbeknownst. Awaiting her at journey's end; Eternal mourning for her land.
Fragment 1 When the finger points to the yonder moon, The fool will not look at the fingertip.
Fragment 2 The whole cannot be changed. We have already lost that chance. Because the time left to us was short, We were mistaken in our path. But now do we realize, We should change not the whole, But the parts.
Fragment 3 Wave soars and shrouds the eyes. No means to fight an omnipresent force, The shadowless ones just grieve. Why must it be a Wave? Divide, if it would just... Then retaliate, we may.
Fragment 4 Over the Keel Mountains, Meets an ape with human speech. The ape asks, "What clings to you? Bear it - you cannot. Accept it - you cannot. But hidden - it is from you. Recite its name."
- Note: The answer is "your shadow--your own darkside." But since the riddle is to "recite its name", you are supposed to say your own name.
