Lamia Loveless
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Lamia Loveless (ラミア・ラヴレス) is a fictional character in the Super Robot Wars series. She has appeared as a playable character in Super Robot Wars Advance and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 In canon, she pilots the Angelg.
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[edit] Personal Data
Name: Lamia Loveless
AKA: W17
Voice Actor: Kaori Shimizu
Status: Artificial Human
Affiliations: Shadow-Mirror (Advance, OG 2), ATX Team (OG 2), Londo Bell (Advance), New Aggressors Team (OG 2)
Personal Relatives And Affiliations: Lemon Browning (Creator)
Mecha: Angelg (Advance, OG 2), Vysaga (Advance, OG 2), Ash Saver (Advance, OG 2), Laz Angriff (Advance)
[edit] Personality and Traits
When she first appears, Lamia Loveless is known for having a somewhat stilted speech pattern or a stutter. She tends to be very calm and relaxed, but also a bit awkward socially. Her skills as a pilot are exceptional and efficient, and can operate complicated technology with ease. Lamia is also quite intelligent, and her gentle beauty creates an atmosphere that makes it hard for other people to approach her.
In Original Generation 2, she is very close to fellow ATX Team member, Excellen Browning, addressing her as "Ms. Excell" often (although it was really Excellen who suggested that Lamia call her that). She sometimes has trouble understanding human behavior, such as when Excellen gets Buddhas and hot cakes confused in the saying "Like a Buddha in Hell."
[edit] History
In the Advance universe, Lamia Loveless is an artificial human, built by Lemon Browning, and sent by the Shadow-Mirror to spy on the Londo Bell. She is the 17th android of the W-Series that Lemon built, which is why the Shadow-Mirror forces refer to her as W17. Halfway through the events of Advance, Lemon and Vindel Mauser, the leader of the Shadow-Mirror, asks her to return, but she refuses, saying that her interactions with the Londo Bell has made her realize that what the Shadow-Mirror does is wrong and then self-destructs her machine, driving the two away.
Afterwards, it is revealed that Lemon actually rescued and repaired Lamia after she self-destructed her machine, while correcting her stuttering speech pattern. Following this, Lemon reveals to Lamia in a conversation that since she is the only one to discover free will, she is the most successful out of the W-Series. She is then secretly given her unit back and is allowed by Lemon to rejoin her forces. In the final showdown between Londo Bell and the Shadow-Mirror, Lamia activates the dimension transposition bomb in Vindel's Zweizergain, in an attempt to stop Axis from falling onto the Earth. The epilogue of Advance concludes with Lamia, now alone in space, decides to destroy her for the second time, believing with her gone, all of the Shadow-Mirror will have been destroyed. However, her comrades stops her and convices her to keep fighting by her side. She accepts, persuaded that she will continue to live on free, the way her creator intended her to.
The events in the Original Generation 2 universe are practically the same as in the Advance universe, though she joins the ATX Team instead. After Vindel is defeated, she and Gilliam Yeager attempt to transport Vindel to a faraway dimension, where he will never be able to return from. Afterwards, Kai Kitamura invites her to join the newly-reformed Aggressors unit, alongside Latooni Subota, Arado Balanga and Seolla Schweitzer.
[edit] Super Robot Wars Original Generation : The Animation
In this non-canonical three-episode OVA depicting events after Original Generation 2, Lamia is abducted (along with the Latooni, Arado, Seolla, and Kusuha) by the Bartolls, the next-generation machine that will replace the mass-produced Huckebein MK II. She is placed in a Bartoll, which, thanks to the ODE system equipped in the Bartolls, gives all of them piloting skills equal to her own. This makes them a formidable opponent for the ATX Team and the SRX Team. She is later rejected by the ODE system after she refuses to submit to it, and is instead put into one of the manned Bartolls. Afterwards, she is rescued by ATX Team commander Kyosuke Nanbu and taken back to the Hagane for repairs.
[edit] Trivia
The title of Lamia's theme song in both the English translation and the original Japanese version of Original Generation 2 is a reference to Code ATA--short for Ashes to Ashes--the self-destruct code used by the Shadow-Mirror's W-Series of bioroids.
