Lamia Loveless
| Lamia Loveless - ラミア・ラヴレス | |
|---|---|
| Other Names | W17 Boing-chan |
| Series Info | |
| Featured In | Super Robot Wars: Original Generations -The Inspector- |
| Personal Info | |
| Voice Actor | Kaori Shimizu |
| Age | ? |
| Gender | Female |
| Species | Android |
| Nationality | ? |
| Relationships | Lemon Browning (Creator) |
| Professional Info | |
| Profession | Pilot |
| Rank/Position | Lieutenant Junior Grade - 少尉 |
| Affiliation | Earth Federation Army ATX Team Agressors Shadow Mirror |
Lamia Loveless (ラミア・ラヴレス) is a fictional character in the Super Robot Wars series. In canon, she pilots the Angelg. Her name originates from a Greek mythological creature with the same name.
History
Advance Timeline
In the Advance universe, Lamia was sent by the Shadow-Mirror to spy on the Londo Bell. Her call sign is W17, referring that she's the 17th android of the W-Numbers.
If the player chooses the real robot route, the story begins as she just finishes battling minor aliens after her jump. She soon spots a battle between the Giganos forces and three stolen Dragonar mechas, controlled by Ken Wakaba, Tapp Oceano, and Light Newman with the first force pursuing the latter. W17 is caught in the conflict and ends up helping the Dragonar pilots, using the guise of Lamia Loveless. Aid comes in form of the Argama and Lamia joins the Londo Bell along with the Dragonar pilots.
If the player chooses the super robot route, Lamia ended up on Earth after battling minor aliens. She is quickly attacked by the Hyakki Empire forces from the Getter Robo series, but is rescued by the original Getter Team. After driving out the Hyakki Empire, Lamia is adopted into the Getter Team under the reason that she wanted her machine to be repaired. However, Hayato was suspicious that she may have a different agenda.
Halfway through the events of Advance, Lemon Browning, her creator, and Vindel Mauser, the leader of the Shadow Mirror, ask her to return, but she refuses, saying that her interactions with 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 also 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 the asteroid Axis from falling to the Earth. The epilogue of Advance concludes with Lamia, now alone in space, deciding to destroy herself for the second time, believing with her gone, all elements of the Shadow Mirror will have been destroyed. However, her comrades stop her and convince her to keep fighting by their side. She accepts, persuaded that she will continue to live on free, the way her creator intended her to.
If the player chooses Axel Almar as the main protagonist, Lamia stays in the Shadow Mirror until the very end. As she doesn't interact much with Londo Bell, she ends up believing fully in the methods of the Shadow Mirror, making little to no attempts to live freely as Lemon intended her to. She's rarely referred to as Lamia and is mostly addressed as W17. Despite this, Lemon occasionally slips up and called her Lamia at times. In the end, she is destroyed by Axel, who comments that she, as Lemon's masterpiece, didn't turn out as her creator intended.
Original Generation 2/Original Generations Timeline
The events in the Original Generation universe are practically the same, following the scenario if she is chosen as the main protagonist in Advance, though she joins the ATX Team instead. After Vindel is defeated, she and Gilliam Yeager 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 Schweizer.
Exclusively in Original Generations, Lemon did not repair her speech device completely. Instead she only updates it, as she stated that completely repairing it would cause Lamia to lose all her memories. However, as time passed, the speech device became worse than before, which becomes source of comic relief. After her speech device was repaired, attacking will sometimes cause her voice to totally change without her consent, reflecting the other roles of her voice actress Kaori Shimizu, which can range from an enthusiastic girl or a very cute voice.
Original Generation Gaiden
Lamia was briefly involved in helping the Cry Wolves with Kai and helping Fighter Roar during his initial encounter with the Shura Army. Along with the other Aggressors and Kusuha Mizuha of the ATX Team, Lamia visited an exhibition for a new series of units called the Bartoll, in which she had to face several berserk Mironga units beforehand where she utilized a strategy to disable them. However, things went bleak after Lamia visited the actual exhibition of the Bartoll units.
During the exhibition, the Bartoll units went berserk, and before Lamia could retaliate, she and the Aggressors were drugged and abducted by the machines to the Hellgate Facility. As she was the currently most capable pilot of the captives, the ODE system running the Bartoll chose Lamia as its core, stripped her naked and bound her into the core of the system. This results the rest of the Bartolls gaining her skills, turning them into formidable opponents for the Earth Federation Army. Lamia lost her will temporarily, overridden by the ODE System. Fortunately, she resisted long enough in order to manipulate the system into giving the rest of the captives several Bartoll units that just puts them under mind control, not draining their life force, thus enabling them to escape and be saved later.
When the Earth Federation reached the interior of the Hellgate Facility, rescuing the rest of the captives except her, Lamia was sent out and faced her allies. She temporarily rejected the ODE's dominance, thus weakening the Bartolls thanks to Kyosuke Nanbu's promise in the past. Although she attacked and damaged Kyosuke's Alteisen Riese beforehand, Kyosuke did not falter and bailed her out of the Bartoll. They talked a bit, where Lamia showed her gratitude. However, that proved to be her downfall. Wilhelm von Juergen, creator of the ODE whose body was already absorbed by the system, suddenly arrived and shot down the Alteisen Riese's arm where Lamia laid down, citing that her betrayal messed up the system and she has to be removed. As she vanished from the sight, and her signals couldn't be detected anymore, the Earth Federation Army, especially Kyosuke, was demoralized. After they defeated Juergen, Duminuss arrived with fresh reinforcements and quickly took over Hellgate, forcing the team to retreat and declare Lamia killed in action.
The truth was after the retreat, Lamia was hauled off by Duminuss and her children. She reprogrammed Lamia to be her servant and manipulated her into thinking that her friends did nothing to resolve the chaos and even had the gall to abandon her and put her into the core of ODE again, this time inside Juergen's Valsion Custom CF. Lamia started referring herself as W17 once more and Duminuss stated that her purpose was to demoralize the EFA even more as if she was killed in battle against the EFA. That would have meant they failed to save her a second time and kill the morale of EFA completely. Even so, one of her children, Despoiniz, discovered that Lamia is still harboring some old memories though it wasn't as dominant as before.
During the second encounter with the EFA, Lamia was reunited with Axel Almar, who somehow managed to survive the Battle of White Star and was currently fighting alongside the EFA. After her defeat, per Duminuss' orders, Lamia attempted to blow herself up using the self-destruction Code: ATA, but Axel instead chastised her about the purpose of her creation, even mentioning Lemon's name. This rigged even more memories inside Lamia and Axel activated the Code: DTD, which reset her emotional memories into the state before Duminuss reprogrammed her and destroyed the Valsion Custom CF, completely rescuing her.
When Lamia awoke with her former memories, Axel was already gone, but she was quickly reunited again when the EFA met him facing of the new Einsts and Jetzts, where she finally could show her gratitude to him for saving her. She later joined the assault on Swordian, also facing more Bartolls and Duminuss herself, and later Dark Brain and Shu Shirakawa. In the end of the battle, she advised Axel to wander to find his own paradise now that he felt that there's nothing else he could do. Axel agreed and promised to let her know first, if he ever finds one.
Personality And Traits
When she first appears, Lamia Loveless is known for having a somewhat stilted speech pattern, causing her to have trouble speaking in with proper grammar or stutter. She is later revealed to be an android, created by Lemon Browning as the 17th series of the W-Numbers, code named W17. 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. Additionally, she was created with very large breasts, possibly the biggest between all other Original Generation characters, which later garnered her the nickname Boing-chan by Tasuku Shinguji.
In Original Generation 2, she is very close to fellow ATX Team member, Excellen Browning, addressing her as Ms. Excell and Ex-Oneesama (literally Dear Sister Ex in Japanese) after her suggestion. She sometimes has trouble understanding human behavior, and it does not help that her fellow pilots have personalities that make them irrational and unpredictable.
Though not displayed in Super Robot Wars Original Generation yet, Lamia possesses a super human level of toughness as she was created as an android. In Super Robot Wars Advance, she withstood two simultaneous punches from both G Gundam's Domon Kasshu and Daimos' Kazuya Ryuuzaki, and still came out just minimally wounded despite both men being skilled martial artists and the two claiming that they hit her vitals. Despite being an android, Lamia was also vulnerable to passing out by other means and sensations such as being drugged or passing out due to bad-tasting meals by Yurika Misumaru of Nadesico's horrible cooking in Advance, and Kusuha Mizuha's dangerous health drink in Original Generations.
Mecha: Angelg, Laz Angriff (Advance only), Ash Saver, Vaisaga, Bartoll, Valsion Custom CF
Appearances
Lamia has appeared in the following games:
- Super Robot Wars Advance - Protagonist, with own selectable storyline or non-playable enemy character, depending on player selection
- Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 - Playable character
- Super Robot Wars Original Generations - Playable Character & Non-playable enemy character
- Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden - Playable Character & Non-playable enemy character
Trivia
- The title of Lamia's theme song in both the English localization and the original Japanese version of Original Generation 2 is a reference to Code ATA -- short for Ash To Ash -- the self-destruct code used by the Shadow-Mirror.
- Up until now, there has been two characters that seems to be based on Lamia. Both of them are also, not ironically, voiced by Lamia's voice actress Kaori Shimizu with similar voice level:
- Signum from the animated Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series.
- Many of the Angelg's attacks are similar to Signum's spells, and her fighting style is similar to Vaisaga.
- They also share similar backgrounds and personalities, in that Signum was once a cold artificial intelligence of the Book of Darkness, until she began to warm up into a better person, upon meeting Hayate Yagami, similar to how Lamia was an android created to fulfill orders, but once she arrived to the EFA/Londo Bell, she developed her own personality and defies her superiors.
- They were involved with events where they were thought to be slain, but they later turned out to be surviving. Just as Lamia was shot down and thought to be killed by Juergen, only to later come back reprogrammed by Duminuss; Signum was abruptly deleted by Alia and Lotte Liese under Gil Graham, but a few episodes later, Hayate summoned her back.
- They were connected with people who were supposed to be dead in the first place. Signum fought against and becomes rivals with Zest Grangeitz, former member of Capital City Defense Forces, formerly presumed to be dead. In the meantime, one of Lamia's predecessors, Wodan Ymir, is based on Shadow Mirror universe's dead Sanger Zonvolt. Original Generation Gaiden also adds Axel Almer, who was thought to be dead after the Battle of White Star, but turns out surviving for real, and saved Lamia from destroying herself and her personality.
- Also note that Signum shares the color scheme with Angelg, pink and white.
- Aschen Brodel in Mugen no Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga. Like Lamia, Aschen is a battle android with green hair, and her color scheme exactly mirrored Lamia. Her known story was that she fell under the care of Haken Browning, who shared the same surname with Excellen Browning, whom Lamia was close with in the OG timeline. At one time, she is also shown having a split personality from a stern into a cheerful woman, in similarity with Lamia's messed up speech system. Lastly, Aschen shares the same theme song as Lamia: Ash to Ash. It's also speculated that she may be W07, as she mentioned Code DTD, and Axel mentioned that the code was built only on W07 and W17.
- Signum from the animated Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series.
- Her role in Original Generation Gaiden mirrors Master Asia of G Gundam in the Super Robot Wars R storyline. After the ODE incident, Lamia was thought to be dead, until it's revealed that she's alive, under the control of Duminuss. And when the protagonists confronted her after the ODE Incident, it was not known who was piloting the Valsion Custom CF, until it's brought down to 50% HP and it became obvious that it was Lamia. Similarly, in Super Robot Wars R, it was not known who was piloting the resurrected Devil Gundam, until the player attacked it once, revealing a resurrected Master Asia as a pilot. One can also say that the Code: DTD that Axel introduced to restore Lamia's emotional memories was the answer to the Getter Ray used to wash away all the Devil Gundam Cells from Master Asia.
