Beryl

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Beryl
BerylBitterbot
Hometown	Edelstein
Current Residence	Scrapyard
Gender	Female
Race	Human → Cyborg (Xenoroid)
Family	Gelimer (creator)
Affiliations	Gelimer (formerly) Xenon One-Eye Three-Hands Dummie
Enemies	Xenon (formerly) Resistance (formerly)
Status	Alive
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	Normal: 베릴 (belil) Disguised: 떨떠름이 (tteoltteoleum-i)
JapanMS	Normal: ベリル (Beriru) Disguised: シブ子 (Shibu-ko)
ChinaMS	Normal: 维丽尔 (Wéi lì ěr) Disguised: 不高兴 (Unhappy; Bù gāoxìng)
TaiwanMS	Normal: 裴黎爾 (Péi lí ěr) Disguised: 抖抖機器人 (Shakingbot; Dǒu dǒu jīqìrén)
MapleSEA	Normal: Beryl Disguised: Bitterbot

Beryl is a cybernetic Xenoroid created by Gelimer alongside Xenon. After being discarded by Gelimer for failing to recover Xenon, Beryl was sent to the Scrapyard to be dismantled until she was rescued by the defective androids One-Eye and Three-Hands, who adopted Beryl as their child. In Edelstein's Scrapyard, Beryl shed her old identity and now lives as an android named Bitterbot.

Story

The Xenoroid Project

Many years ago, a young girl was kidnapped by Gelimer, who subjected her to brutal experimentation as he transformed her into a Xenoroid, an augmented type of cyborg, and gave her the name Beryl. Over the course of many years, he and another Xenoroid named Xenon had nearly all their memories overwritten by Gelimer's soldier programming. They were then put through extreme training and examinations in order to become the most powerful weapons in the world. Soon after he began his Xenoroid project, Gelimer met Orchid and joined the Black Wings in order to revive Lotus. However, Gelimer coveted Lotus's perfect body and planned to transform him into a Xenoroid. Though he publicly conducted experiments in the Verne Mine as a front, Gelimer secretly funneled Black Wings funding towards his secret Xenoroid research. Gelimer conducted his android experiments in a hidden laboratory, thus ensuring that neither Orchid nor the Black Wings would discover that he was using Xenon and Beryl as prototypes for Lotus.

Xenon's Betrayal

One day, Gelimer administered his final test for Xenon, which was to defeat a holographic replica of Von Leon. Gelimer was pleased to see that Xenon had easily been able to defeat Von Leon, but before he could celebrate his victory in creating the perfect cyborg, an intruder was detected in the facility. Fearing that Orchid had discovered his secret base, Gelimer checked the monitor and saw that Claudine, Belle, and Brighton had infiltrated the facility. Though Gelimer was relieved that Orchid hadn't discovered the facility, he was still irritated that the Resistance had found it. However, he decided to use the situation as an opportunity to conduct a field test for Xenon. He dropped down a cage to capture the Resistance and sent Xenon to eliminate them. However, Claudine managed to push Brighton and Belle away before the cage dropped down on her. Xenon then arrived to eliminate the Resistance, but the sight of his old friends began triggering his latent memories, causing his head to throb in pain. Just as Gelimer and Beryl arrived, Brighton and Belle retreated in order to formulate a rescue plan. Gelimer then ordered Xenon to guard Claudine while he and Beryl chased down the others.

Perplexed by the strange memories in his head, Xenon decided to visit Claudine in her prison. There, he encountered his friend, Roo-D, a rabbit-fox hybrid Xenoroid, who asked him whether he had remembered anything from his past. In order to jog his memories, she gave him Claudine's dagger, believing that it held the key to his memories. While she kept a watch for Gelimer's return, Xenon asked Claudine about the dagger, explaining that it almost felt familiar to him. As Claudine wondered whether Xenon could be her old childhood friend, Roo-D returned and warned them that Gelimer was coming back. She told Xenon that the only way for him to regain his memories was to escape with Claudine before Gelimer erased the last vestiges of his memories. She explained that long ago, she had made a promise to keep him safe during a time before Gelimer had taken away his memories. In order to protect him, Roo-D had hidden her true nature from Gelimer by acting like one of his loyal underlings. Choosing to betray Gelimer, Xenon broke Claudine out of her cell and began to escape. Just then, Beryl appeared and turned on Xenon after witnessing his betrayal. Though Xenon managed to defeat her, Gelimer arrived and activated his control circuit in order to freeze him in place. However, Xenon's strong will to recover his memories helped him override the circuit, allowing him to resist his programming and slowly walk away. Just as Gelimer ordered Beryl to destroy Xenon, the Resistance rescue party arrived and helped them escape.

Chasing Xenon

Furious over the loss of his ultimate weapon, Gelimer ordered Beryl to recover Xenon and bring him back to the laboratory. By tracing Xenon's Pulse - an heartbeat-like energy signature given off by all Xenoroids - Beryl discovered Xenon at Edelstein Park. As Beryl's inner circuitry had been damaged during their earlier fight in the lab, Xenon was able to easily defeat her, even in his own weakened state. He asked Beryl how she had been able to follow him, to which she responded that she had followed his Pulse. Though she was forced to retreat, Beryl warned him that there was nowhere he could hide from her. Soon after, Beryl traced Xenon's Pulse to Henesys, where Xenon had fled in order to keep Beryl from learning the location of the Secret Plaza. However, Xenon - detecting Beryl's Pulse - left Henesys and traveled through the Interdimensional Portal to Grandis. Beryl soon followed Xenon to Pantheon, where Xenon drew her to the outskirts of the city in order to prevent the town from being damaged. Once again, however, Beryl was defeated by Xenon and forced to retreat, though Xenon noted that Beryl showed unusual hostility towards him, going beyond just impassively following Gelimer's orders.

Soon after, Xenon worked with Veritas to install Pulse Disruptors across Maple World, thereby making it impossible for Beryl to track Xenon's Pulse. Some time later, Beryl was tasked by Gelimer with obtaining the Black Mage's research notes on Life Alchemy in Magatia. There, Beryl ran into Xenon, who was surprised to find that he hadn't attempted to run away. She then asked if he was ready to fight, to which Xenon told her that he had a question that he wanted her to answer. Beryl agreed to hear him out if he surrendered, though she made no promise of answering. Xenon told her that he would never get caught by her, and with negotiations having failed, they engaged in a battle that Xenon ultimately won. Beryl was frustrated that she kept losing to Xenon and wondered if it was because he was the perfect specimen, whereas she was not. Xenon asked Beryl why Gelimer had sent her to Magatia, but Beryl snapped at him not to call their father by his name, claiming that Xenon had no right as a traitor.

Xenon was surprised to hear Beryl refer to Gelimer as her father, to which she explained that since he had created her, it meant that he was her father. Xenon told her that Gelimer wasn't any sort of father, especially not to him, as Gelimer had kidnapped him and had turned him into a weapon, adding that he was sure that the same thing had happened to her. Beryl replied that who she once was didn't matter, as she was now a Xenoroid. Xenon was shocked to hear that Beryl didn't care about who she once was, to which Beryl explained that it was because she wasn't a failure like Xenon. He asked her what she meant, to which she explained that he was a failure because he had betrayed their father due to emotions and memory. However, she added that she couldn't understand why their father wanted him back, and that Gelimer believed that Xenon was special, despite his betrayal. Because of this, he kept sending Beryl to find him and to return him intact. She told Xenon that she could never forgive him for being a failure and a traitor, even though he was still being treated as Gelimer's favorite. Xenon asked if that was the reason why she hated him, which surprised Beryl. He explained that he knew that she disliked him, even though Roo-D had told him that Xenoroids had no emotions. However, if she still felt such hate for him, it meant that she still possessed emotion. Beryl snapped at him to be quiet and told him that though she was leaving, the next time they met, she would fight with her full power, even if it meant destroying him against Gelimer's wishes.

Battle of the Xenoroids

Some time later, Beryl sent out a message asking Xenon to settle their feud once and for all, threatening to destroy all of Edelstein if he refused. Xenon traced Beryl's message to Gelimer's secret laboratory, where Beryl told him that the laboratory was where they had both been born, and where they would have their final battle. She then told Xenon to come at her with his full power so that she could demonstrate her superiority over him. After a fierce battle, Xenon managed to defeat her. Beryl begrudgingly acknowledged that she had been defeated and suddenly asked Xenon if he remembered how happy Gelimer had been when Xenon had been completed. She realized that he likely didn't remember and explained that Gelimer had told her how every bit of research and every machine that he had ever built had been leading up to Xenon. She also admitted that Gelimer had never once paid that kind of attention to her, which was when she had realized that the day would come when she and Xenon would end up fighting to the end. However, she told him that she never would have thought that he would betray them, and so she had continued to pursue him across the world. She had been furious that he had been stronger every time that they had met, for she had been sure that his emotions and memories would make him weaker. In the end, however, she admitted that both she and their father had been wrong.

Xenon was shaken by Beryl's candid speech, but Beryl added that their encounter was likely the last time that they would ever face each other, explaining that because she had failed her mission, she would be marked as a defective unit and dismantled. Xenon was shocked, but Beryl told him that even now, he continued to taunt her with his emotions, as he ought to be happy that she would no longer pursue him. Xenon replied that if he had known that she would be dismantled, he never would have come to fight her. He then pleaded with her to come back to Veritas with him so that he could show her that there was more to life than being the strongest. However, Beryl merely told him that she couldn't betray Gelimer, adding that, having failed the mission for which she had been created, she had to pay the price. Xenon told her that it didn't mean that she had to die, but Beryl responded that a Xenoroid never truly died. Xenon told her to stop blaming herself, but Beryl replied that his human logic was confusing. She explained that she was a Xenoroid, which meant that she must obey her command protocols until the end, and nothing that Xenon said could change that. Xenon told her that her actions were senseless, but Beryl replied that if that was true, then her whole life had been senseless, adding that she had been born to complete her mission, and that it was what she planned to do. Xenon pleaded with her one last time for her not to go, to which she told him that they had fought since the day that they had first been created. Though she wondered if it would have been different if they had been normal humans, she suspected that it likely wouldn't have changed, as it was what siblings did best. Xenon continued to plead with Beryl to stay, even as she turned her back to him, a sad smile on her face and a single tear falling from her eye.

Black Heaven

Angered by her failure to capture Xenon, Gelimer deemed Beryl to be a defective android and sent her away to be dismantled as punishment. However, Beryl was rescued by two other defective androids named One-Eye and Three-Hands, who brought her to their secret hideout in Edelstein's Scrapyard. Beryl then disguised herself in a cloak and a broken android head, choosing to call herself Bitterbot, with One-Eye and Three-Hands adopting her as their daughter. During the Alliance's operation to destroy Black Heaven, the Ace of the Alliance traveled to the Scrapyard in order to find a way to infiltrate Black Heaven. There, they met with One-Eye and Three-Hands, who agreed to help them reach the teleporter that would beam them to the airship. However, One-Eye explained that the teleporter scanned for a special computer chip that only androids possessed. One-Eye agreed to make an android helmet for the Alliance member, just as Bitterbot came to tell them that their efforts were futile, though she reluctantly agreed to help them nevertheless. The Alliance member collected the necessary parts for the helmet, just as the enemy androids discovered them, forcing the group to abandon the refuge. One-Eye finished constructing the helmet, allowing the Alliance member to scale up to the teleporter. As One-Eye and his family watched them, Bitterbot claimed that they still had no hope of defeating her father and took off her helmet, revealing her true face.

Aftermath

Soon after the battle of Tenebris, Xenon traveled to the Scrapyard and encountered Bitterbot, recognizing her from their meeting during the Black Heaven crisis. Bitterbot asked Xenon what he was doing at the Scrapyard, to which he replied that he wanted to ask her something. He explained that there were many lost robots at the Scrapyard, and that he had come in search of one whom he had known a long time ago. Bitterbot asked Xenon why he was looking for them, noting that it was hardly fitting for a hero who had saved the world to be looking for a scrapped robot. When Xenon explained that there was more that he wanted to say to the person he was looking for, Bitterbot paused before agreeing to help him look as well, adding that he might be able to find them once he was really finished with everything. Xenon thanked Bitterbot and promised that he would return someday once he had fulfilled his promise.

Gallery

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  NPC Portrait of Beryl (Black Heaven)
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  NPC Portrait of Beryl as Bitterbot
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  Promotional Artwork of Beryl
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  Artwork of Beryl (Spot the Difference)