Lemon Browning

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Lemon Browning
Super Robot Wars character

Lemon Browning, as she appears in Super Robot Wars Original Generations.
Voiced by Yuko Mizutani (Japanese)
Profile
Gender Female
Species Human
Nationality American
Known relatives Lamia Loveless (Creation),
Excellen Browning (Original self/Parallel existence in the Shadow-Mirror dimension)
Military History
Affiliation Shadow-Mirror
Rank Head Scientist
Units Piloted Ash Saver (Advance, OG 2),
Weiss Saver (OGs)

Lemon Browning is a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series. In canon, she pilots the Ash Saver, and is joined by fellow Shadow-Mirror characters, Axel Almer and Vindel Mauser.

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[edit] Appearances

Lemon has appeared in the following games:

[edit] Personality And Traits

As the senior scientist and researcher for the Shadow-Mirror faction, Lemon Browning enacts experimentations on artificial, free-thinking life, developing the W-Series, culminating in the creation of the W-Numbers. She cares deeply for her masterpieces, the human-looking W-Numbers, having been given emotions, in order to function flawlessly like humans. Lemon partakes in Vindel Mauser's quest for eternal war because she sees war as a fine testing ground for her theories and creations. Vindel, in turn, allows her much leeway with her experiments, so long as they have applications that further his war effort.

In battle, Lemon is a crack shot, as her Ash Saver was built for long-range combat. In this respect, she closely resembles Excellen Browning, both being snipers, thereby making them difficult for their opponents to land a hit.

[edit] History

[edit] Super Robot Wars Advance

Lemon Browning joined with the Shadow-Mirror, becoming the faction's head scientist of weapons research and development. At the same time, she met new Shadow-Mirror recruit, Axel Almer and began an informal relationship with him, while rolling out the W-Series bioroids and the W-Numbers, integrating them into the Shadow-Mirror ranks. Lemon would send one particular android of the W-Numbers, W17, ahead into the next dimension the Shadow-Mirror were planning to enter, in order to infiltrate the ranks of the military, leaving them defenseless at the faction's mercy when they finally invade. The story deviates from this point on, depending on which protagonist the player chooses in Advance.

If the player chooses the amnesia-strickened Axel Almer, Lemon would retrieve him, after Axel self-detonates his unit, refusing to return to the Shadow-Mirror, after allying himself with the Londo Bell. At an undisclosed location, Axel awakes, fully healed from his injuries, with Lemon by his side, attempting to sway him back to the faction by asking if he's willing to disregard "what they had briefly shared". Although Axel is determined to fight against Vindel and his maniacal schemes, Lemon releases him, informing that the self-destruct mechanism on his replacement unit is gone and the next time they meet, it will be as enemies.

If the player chooses W17, codenamed Lamia Loveless, Lemon would retrieve her, after she self-detonates her unit, refusing to return to the Shadow-Mirror, after allying himself with the Londo Bell. At an undisclosed location, Lamia is repaired and reactivated, with her mistress by her side. The creator and its creation begin discussing on the topic of free will, and the value of being able to make one's own decisions, based on their belief of right and wrong. Lemon sees Lamia's allegiance to the Londo Bell as evidence of self-actualization, as if to say that Lamia is no longer a mere doll -- living proof that Lemon's experimentations with artificial intelligence was a success. She allows Lamia to escape, with her unit repaired, and when Vindel castigates her for it, she simply puts that she was overpowered, something that he didn't believe, but let slip past.

In either scenario of Axel or Lamia, Lemon would meet him or her in the final battle between the Londo Bell and the Shadow-Mirror in space, just as the Axis asteroid is about to collide with the Earth, eventually losing her life to the protagonists.

[edit] Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2

Lemon Browning appears in the prologue, conversing with Axel Almer as to how the transposition is proceeding, with her replying that everything is proceeding as best as possible under the circumstances. It seemes the Shadow-Mirror are on the move, yet a last ditch effort by an Earth Federation Army elite Gespenst squad could throw things off. Without hesitating, Axel orders all remaining soldiers, including Lemon, to enter the portal, while he distracts the Gespenst squad. Having entered the Original Generation universe with the rest of the faction, the Shadow-Mirror ally themselves with the Divine Crusader Remnants, providing them with supplies and new machines from their dimension. In the meantime, she sends W17, Lamia Loveless, to infiltrate the Earth Federation Army and search for one Helios Olympus. When Axel rejoins the Shadow-Mirror and after briefly engaging the ATX Team, he returns to Lemon, asking if she knows of an Excellen Browning back in their home dimension, as such a person exists in this universe. Upon hearing the name, Lemon appears quite shocked, but shrugs it off momentarily, now fully interested in this Excellen.

When Lamia refuses to return to the Shadow-Mirror on Vindel's order, the events from Advance involving her and Lemon unfold: she is rescued, repaired and released by Lemon back to her comrades, having been convinced the android can make her own decisions. Lemon would meet up with Excellen during Operation Plantagenet, questioning on how she had survived that incident, but her moment would be cut short, as the Einst mysteriously appeared, forcing both sides to retreat. Lemon would relocate to the White Star, and make her last stand, after the last of the Inspectors are defeated. Seeing that she would not make it out of this battle alive, she gives Excellen a treat: defeat her in combat, and she'll unveil her true identity. Excellen does so, and Lemon's origins are finally revealed: she is Excellen Browning, but the Excellen in the Shadow-Mirror universe who was killed in a shuttle crash during her youth. Her parents would retrieve their daughter's body and successfully resuscitate her, only that she was revived as Lemon Browning. In her dying words, Lemon laments that if she had met him in her dimension, perhaps things would have been better for her.

[edit] Super Robot Wars Original Generations

In the prologue portion of the Original Generation 2, in the Shadow-Mirrow dimension, Lemon Browning becomes interested in the Excellence Team's Time Flow Engine and its properties. She requests Axel Almer to retrieve one of their Excellence units and return it to the Shadow-Mirror. However, he would be unsuccessful, due to an untimely appearance of Duminuss. While Lemon is disappointed at not being able to study the engine, she has greater things to deal with, namely the Earth Federation Army catching wind of the faction's scheme, with them ultimately sending their elite Gespenst squad to eliminate the threat. The rest of the story for Original Generation 2 in Original Generations follows the original.

[edit] Notes

In Original Generation 2, if Excellen lands the final blow on Lemon in the last battle against the Shadow-Mirror inside the White Star, she revises her comment about having children, during the ending dialogue. She tells Kyosuke that she'd like to have twin girls instead, which Kyosuke correctly guessed that the youngest of the two would be named Lemon.

Lemon briefly appears during the Drama CD of Mugen no Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga, letting Lamia meet her predecessor Aschen Brodel, before sending her to the first, most unstable batch of portal, which eventually led her to end up in the Mugen no Frontier universe.