Cosim

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Cosim
CurrentSavage Terminal
Gender	Male
Race	Unknown (formerly) Cyborg (current)
Family	Angler Father (father) Senya Angler (sister) Nicky Angler (brother) Laha Angler (sister)
Affiliations	The Adversary Angler Company (formerly)
Enemies	Angler Father Nicky Angler Laha Angler Senya Angler (formerly)
Status	Unknown (disabled)
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	레푸스 (Lepus)
JapanMS	レプス (Lepus)
ChinaMS	雷普斯 (Lepus)
TaiwanMS	雷夫斯 (Lepus)
MapleSEA	Lefus

Cosim is a former member of the Angler family and a cyborg created by their father, the founder of the Angler Company.

Story

Early Life

Cosim was a originally a boy who was adopted by the founder of the Angler Company and turned into a cyborg. Programmed to show the utmost devotion towards his creator, Cosim regarded his maker as his father and experienced a hardwired desire to earn his father's approval. Unbeknownst to Cosim, however, the Angler Father had incorporated his failed attempt at a Godsphere inside him, which served as Cosim's heart and power source. Soon after Cosim's creation, several rabbit Anima tracked down Company headquarters, hoping to find their friend whom the Angler Father had kidnapped long ago. Upon Cosim reporting the rabbit Anima's arrival, the Angler Father asked him what he believed was the right action to do, noting that Cosim had been programmed to have impeccable judgement. Though Cosim admitted that the intruders had no malicious intent, he nevertheless recognized that anyone who had discovered Company headquarters needed to be eliminated at once. Because of this, Cosim successfully carried out his first mission to eliminate the intruders, much to his father's satisfaction. Some time after Cosim's creation, the Angler Father would also create three other cyborg children to carry out his will: Senya, Nicky, and Laha Angler, who took on the surname 'Angler' to denote themselves as part of the Angler family.

Buried Memories

With an army of advanced machines, the Angler Company developed a fearsome reputation for its brutality, striking terror in the hearts of those who heard its name. Despite this, the Angler Father remained obsessed with fulfilling his purpose to become an Adversary, eventually succeeding in creating a perfected imitation Godsphere, which would serve as his heart. However, the Angler Father also realized that in order to be made whole, he needed to fill the heart with a large amount of power. He then summoned Cosim and informed him that he was leaving the Company's affairs in his hands, as it would be too risky for himself to leave headquarters with the heart. He explained to Cosim that if someone were to come after him, it would be to take the heart, but more specifically, the power contained inside the heart.

Cosim expressed his confusion, as he had been programmed to believe that his father's memory chip was the most important thing, though his father impatiently dismissed Cosim's words and emphasized that the memory chip was nowhere near as important as his father. He then declared that there had been many failures along the way, though he added that even those failures had been useful, which he could see just by looking at Cosim. Reveling in his success, he laughed as he wondered aloud what the elders up above would say if they could see him now. After placing the Godsphere heart inside him, he ordered Cosim to begin harvesting more power, to which Cosim obediently agreed. Cosim and his siblings then began undertaking missions to harvest more energy, no matter how risky, as they had been programmed to obey their father no matter what.

During one such operation, Cosim traveled to the Arcus desert for an energy-gathering mission, just as he was shot in the back of his head by an unknown sniper. After waking up, Cosim realized that the sniper must have been part of the Primacy, recognizing the Grandis resistance militia as formidable enemies. Just as he began turning back to report his failure to his father, the damage to his memory chip caused him to see a memory of his father capturing a rabbit Anima as several other rabbit Anima hid and watched in fear. He then witnessed more memories of the rabbit Anima being torturously experimented upon by her father, with his limbs and organs being torn apart and replaced by machine equivalents. From witnessing the memories. Cosim mistakenly came to believe that he was the rabbit Anima who had been kidnapped by their father, and that he had brutally killed his rabbit Anima friends who had come to headquarters long ago looking for him, leaving him unable to forgive himself or his father.

Cosim then awakened in the desert, where he looked up to find that a toad floating in a hover suit was standing over him. The toad, realizing that neither of them could reveal their real names, decided to instead introduce himself by his nickname, the Hand of God, claiming that such a title was no exaggeration after he had managed to single-handedly repair a machine as curious as Cosim. Cosim asked the Hand of God whether he was part of the Primacy, to which the toad replied that he had forged an alliance with them. Cosim noted that he and the Primacy were enemies, to which the Hand of God explained that he already knew, and that he had merely been curious about Cosim's internal structure, which was why he had fixed him. At Cosim's confusion, the Hand of God clarified that Cosim's base structure was robotic, yet with mechanical replacements for organic parts, as though they had once been human parts which had been modified into cybernetic equivalents. He explained that though he had come across people who had replaced certain parts with machinery, he had never seen anyone who had been replaced fully into a cyborg, as it didn't make sense to do so just for the end result to essentially be a robot.

The Hand of God also added that what was more unusual was the fact that Cosim had a tracking chip placed inside of him, much to Cosim's surprise. Noting that Cosim was from the Angler Company, the Hand of God wondered whether this was how the Company founder treated his creations. However, Cosim angrily refused to believe the Hand of God, claiming that his father had no need to place such a device on him when he trusted him completely. Just as he spoke, however, Cosim suddenly had a recollection of something that his father had said to him long ago after perfecting his heart – that the many failures along the way had still been useful, and that he could see it just by looking at Cosim. As he thought about it, he began wondering whether his father had meant the words literally, and whether it was possible that he had been implanted with his father's failed creations, including a failed attempt at the Godsphere heart. Confused and overwhelmed, Cosim began wondering whether he was really the rabbit Anima whom his father had turned into a cyborg, and whether he was originally a human, an Anima, or perhaps just a robot all along. Nevertheless, Cosim began feeling overwhelming anger at his father for what he had done to him, for which he immediately returned back to headquarters and hacked into the system, causing the Angler Company robots to turn on each other and destroy the building.

He then confronted his father, who noted that he seemed to have made a mistake, as Cosim still appeared to have some memories of his old life left. Cosim immediately demanded to know whether the memories that he had seen belonged to him, and whether his father had forced him to kill his friends with his own hands. Cosim's father laughed as he claimed that Cosim was merely a robot that he had created, adding that it wasn't in Cosim's programming to feel anger towards him either. A furious Cosim demanded to know how his father could feel no guilt over his actions, to which his bemused father pointed out that Cosim was the one who had killed his friends himself. At Cosim's shocked expression, his father noted that it wasn't because he had been programmed to follow his orders, but because he had made the choice to do so himself after being asked what he believed to be the right judgement call. He noted that only one rabbit Anima's sacrifice was needed to complete the Company's research, and that it was Cosim who had created the needless deaths of all the others, as it had all been his own mechanical decisions. Furious, Cosim unleashed energy attacks at his father, who easily dodged them and noted that he seemed to be behaving irrationally, just like a human. He then reminded Cosim that it didn't matter if his main body sustained a small amount of damage, after which he offered to forgive Cosim for damaging the Company if he fixed his actions immediately. Cosim noted that it would be the rational thing to do by begging for forgiveness and fixing his actions, noting that doing so and continuing on with his usual life would be the mechanical thing to do, as only humans would risk their lives in a fight that they knew they couldn't win. However, he declared that he could no longer live like a machine anymore, as his human heart was starting to come back to life.

At Cosim's words, his father merely laughed and replied that he was nothing more than a robot with a modified heart, though Cosim retorted that he was different from him. His father admitted that he didn't want to kill Cosim, claiming that hunting rabbits wasn't easy, and that he had also poured valuable resources into creating him. As he moved to attack, Cosim noted that he knew that destroying his father's main body wouldn't achieve anything, as the Angler Triton failsafe would activate the moment that he tried to take the perfected heart, and that his father's memory chip and heart would simply be moved into a new body. Cosim's father was surprised to learn that Cosim knew about the failsafe protocol, for which he regretted giving Cosim so much oversight on the Company. Just then, Cosim teleported behind his father and used a laser beam to push him away before taking the power source within his perfected heart and escaping. As Cosim fled the exploding Company headquarters, he concluded that he must have once had a human heart, as he would never have been programmed to have the capacity to feel guilt or anger or betrayal if he had only been a machine, making him certain that he must have been the rabbit Anima whom his father had kidnapped.

In the aftermath of Cosim's betrayal, the Angler Company robots turning on each other caused a large explosion that destroyed Company headquarters, severely wounding both the Angler Father and Cosim. As a result of his severe injuries, Cosim was freed from his father's programming, after which he continued to operate in his broken state in order to prevent himself from falling back under his father's control. Cosim's injuries were severe enough that they impaired his ability to speak properly, causing him to occasionally trail off in whispers. His injuries were later described by Checky to be the equivalent of having broken lungs. Because of his injuries, Cosim's appearance would oscillate between gray hair and normal pupils to his original blue hair and diamond pupils that all the Angler children had. Cosim would occasionally wear a spacesuit that masked his appearance in order to hide his injuries and cover his mouth with a mask when he took the suit off. After betraying his family, Cosim eventually came in contact with the elders from the realm of the sages and would occasionally run into Master Tai Yu.

Detective Rave's Case Notes

Cosim first appeared before the Adversary and Detective Rave in the sewers of Savage Terminal while the pair were looking for a device that belonged to Senya. Cosim explained to the pair that the device was actually a weapon containing a gas, which would react to the polluted seawater and turn it acidic, effectively boiling everyone on the moon to death and creating a large source of energy. While Rave and the Adversary stopped Senya, Cosim disabled to weapon, though it soon turned explosive when the Gloogers shook it while carrying it back to the Adversary. Rave was able to teleport the weapon to Senya's ship, causing it explode. Meanwhile, on the city skyline, Cosim ominously noted that the Angler Company had finally resurfaced.

Expedition to Hotel Arcus

Several months after the expedition to Cernium, Cosim infiltrated Ereve and told Neinheart that some of the Alliance's questions about the Ancient Gods could be answered in the deserts of Grandis. Based on Cosim's tip, the Alliance sent an expedition to Hotel Arcus, which led them to stop Senya's plot to seize the superweapons buried under the hotel.

Completion of Karote

As Karote began crumbling in the aftermath of the Adversary's battle with Kalos, Cosim arrived to rescue the Adversary and the Glory Guard before leading them to Odium. Cosim then revealed that he was the brother of Senya and Nicky.

Mission to Odium

Following the battle at Karote, the Adversary brought Cosim to the Resistance in order to treat his injuries. At the Secret Plaza, Adversary went to the medical room, where the Resistance leaders greeted them. There, Checky asked Wendelline whether he was right in his assessment about Cosim. Wendelline confirmed that he was right, adding that Cosim needed a doctor, not a mechanic. She told the group that she had never seen anything like Cosim before, as his internal organs looked as though they had been created out of machinery and assembled together to function like human organs. However, she added that no human could possibly have survived the damage that he had sustained. Upon taking a closer look at Cosim, the Adversary was surprised to see that his grey hair and round pupils were oscillating between their current state and the blue hair and diamond pupils that Senya and Nicky had. Checky admitted that Resistance technology wasn't always top-of-the-line, adding that his repairs hadn't been effective. He explained that it was a miracle that Cosim was functioning at all, likening his injuries to a busted heart or crushed lungs in humans. Belle added that it also seemed that most of Cosim's injuries had been sustained in an explosion. She explained that though Cosim was supposedly a child of the Angler Company founder, she found it strange that the Company founder wouldn't take better care of his children. She noted that Cosim's damage was old, meaning that he should have had plenty of time to have gotten repaired. Elex then suggested that it was possible that the explosion had made that impossible. Brighton agreed, adding that Cosim could have been damaged in the same explosion that had destroyed Company headquarters. The Adversary asked Brighton whether he thought that Cosim might have been involved in the explosion, to which Brighton noted that Cosim seemed to have a habit of getting involved in things. Suddenly, the Adversary recalled how T-Boy had said the same thing about Cosim, and how he had been sure that Cosim would help them. They then wondered what that said about Cosim and the Angler Company.

Claudine told the Adversary that according to rumors, the Company had been facing a run of bad luck. She then asked whether Neinheart had told them anything about it, to which the Adversary replied that Neinheart had mentioned that the Cygnus Knights were also looking into it. Claudine explained that when they had attempted to interrogate Cosim, he hadn't provided any clear answers, especially about the Company. However, she believed that he might talk to them and allowed them to speak with him privately. The Adversary greeted Cosim and thanked him for helping them at Karote. When they asked whether he was feeling better, Cosim replied that everything was fine, and that the rest of his damage needed to stay unrepaired. Cosim explained that his body had been designed by “that man”, adding that he would function as designed if he were to return to peak condition, and so it would be best for him to remain in his damaged state. He then explained that he was not the only one who had been damaged, adding that the same explosion had critically damaged the same man. When the Adversary asked whom he was referring to, Cosim told them that it was the man whom Nicky had spoken of, causing them to realize that Cosim was talking about his father. The Adversary then asked to clarify that he was referring to the explosion at the Angler Company headquarters, which was the same explosion that had driven the Company underground. However, when they asked him whether he had anything to do with the explosion, Cosim remained silent on the matter. He then explained that his father had lost his power source in the explosion, and that he needed a vast quantity of energy in order to recover.

Cosim added that his father would do absolutely anything to restore himself to full functionality, even sending his broken children into harm's way, knowing full well that they would be targeted if any of them were spotted and caused rumors to spread that the Angler family was still alive. He explained that just as he had feared, the God-King of the High Flora, Gerand Darmoor, had personally sought out the Company after hearing the rumors. Darmoor had then told the Angler family about the existence of a new Adversary in possession of a Seal Stone. Cosim then paused and told the Adversary that they had a visitor. Just then, Brighton entered the room and explained that someone from the Cygnus Knights had just arrived who wanted to speak to them urgently. The Adversary stepped out and was surprised to find that Oz had arrived at the Secret Plaza. Oz greeted the Adversary and explained that the Cygnus Knights' reconnaissance team had just returned back from surveying the wreckage of Karote, and that they had reported that the tower had rebuilt itself. Claudine suggested that Brighton, a fellow mage, accompany Oz and told them that they ought to hurry, as even with the dimensional boundaries between their worlds broken, the deserts of Grandis would still take a while to get to. Cosim then appeared and told them that he could help them with that, as he could teleport four people to Odium right away, including himself. The Adversary asked if he would be alright, as he was still recovering. Cosim replied that though he wouldn't be able to stay for long, he would still be functional enough for the journey.

Cosim then teleported them to the top of Karote, where Oz marveled at being able to see such a large artifact. Brighton agreed, adding that any magician would be excited to see something like Karote. He noted that Guardian Kalos had to have been quite formidable to knock the tower down over and over again. The Adversary then noticed a series of steps that led to the entrance of Odium. Cosim told the Adversary that he wouldn't be able to go any further, to which the Adversary asked if he was worried about running into his family. Cosim confirmed their suspicions, though he told them not to worry, as he had called someone stronger to help them, adding that they would find him inside the door. Before he left, Cosim also warned the group about the mechanical dolls that the researchers had created to filter out intruders. When Oz asked him what he meant by ‘filter out', Cosim explained that the researchers hadn't simply abandoned the laboratory, but rather, they had converted all of Odium into a machine that could continue running without them, with the dolls being placed to eternally watch over the laboratory. Oz realized that if the researchers' guards were still in Odium, then their research might still be there too, as she couldn't think of any other reason why they would still maintain the laboratory. She then asked Cosim whether by ‘dolls', he meant to say golems, to which Brighton added that he had been thinking of androids, as well as the implications of their operation. He noted that it took a considerable amount of energy to power just one mechanical doll, let alone an army of them, and wondered what could possibly be powering them all. He then added that it reminded him of what Gelimer had wanted from the Verne Mine.

Oz also wondered why the researchers had even left in the first place, as it would have been far simpler for them to have stayed if they had wanted to keep Odium operational, rather than building and powering so many dolls. She noted that the researchers must have had a good enough reason to leave. Cosim then explained that, in a sense, the dolls were merely components of the larger machine, and that Odium's backbone was somewhere deep inside the laboratory, with only the researchers knowing where or what it was. The Adversary realized that Cosim was talking about Odium's power source. They then recalled how he had mentioned that the Company founder had lost his power source, and that his children were searching for a replacement. Brighton realized that the Angler Company was likely attempting to steal the power source for the Company founder. Oz noted that the Company founder also wanted the power of the Adversary, as Odium was where Adversaries had been made, meaning that the founder's goals could be related to that too. Cosim then told the Adversary that he had shared everything that he knew and wished them luck, adding that he hoped to see them next time.

Infiltrating Company Headquarters

Shortly after the Angler Company's invasion of Odium, Cosim returned back to Company headquarters in order to destroy his father's body and the power source which he had stolen long ago. However, Cosim was captured by the Angler Company army stationed at the abandoned building, where the Angler Father ordered for Cosim's power source to be completed and extracted. After realizing that their father would sacrifice anyone to get what he wanted, Senya betrayed the Angler Father and planned a mission to rescue Cosim after learning that he had been captured there. Senya then hacked into the mainframe and confirmed that Cosim was indeed at headquarters, after which she used the communication system to make contact with him. Cosim was surprised to see her and asked whether she had come to extract his heart, adding that their father could not have it under any circumstances. Senya assured him that she hadn't come on her father's orders, pointing out that she wouldn't have had to hack into the system if she were still loyal to the Angler Company. She then asked Cosim why he had come back to headquarters, and whether being captured was part of his plan.

However, Cosim ignored her question and instead asked Senya why she had come if it hadn't been on their father's orders. Senya joked that perhaps she had gotten to the age that one would start rebelling before admitting that even if they had been programmed to think so, they were still family in the end. She noted that it would be strange if one were to keep losing one family member after another and still not feel anything, as that would mean that they were either a sociopath, or that they had never thought of the others as family in the first place. Her words caused Cosim to realize that Senya had decided to rebel against their father because of her feelings for her fallen siblings, noting that despite their loyalty being programmed, her emotions had won in the end.

Cosim then admitted to Senya that even if they had been turned into machines, they had still been human to begin with, which was why they needed to do whatever they could to stop things. After a pause, Senya asked Cosim why he had turned on their father, to which Cosim asked her whether she remembered anything about her past. He revealed that before they had all become cyborgs, their father had implanted them with memory chips which had overwritten their memories. Though Senya refused to believe that such a thing was possible, Cosim explained that he had a fragment of his old memories from before he had become a machine.

In order to prove his words, he asked Senya to hack into him and see for herself. Curious about why Cosim had betrayed their father, Senya agreed and hacked into his memory chip, allowing her to see Cosim's earliest memories as a cyborg, in which he had killed the rabbit Anima who had come looking for their missing friend, as well as Cosim witnessing his father's perfected imitation Godsphere heart, and Cosim's memories of the rabbit Anima after being shot by a sniper of the Primacy. Upon reaching the room where Cosim had been captured, she discovered her brother restrained in a large machine. Senya immediately began hacking into the machine to free him, though she noted that it would take some time. As she began wondering whether it would be simpler to just destroy the machine entirely, Cosim told her that he didn't matter, as his heart was nearly restored anyway, warning her that their father's body was somewhere nearby. He added that if the heart were to enter their father's body, everything would be over.

Senya asked Cosim what exactly he meant, noting that if the heart's restoration was nearly complete, it was imperative that they escape even faster, as their father was coming in-person once the heart was complete. As she began hacking into the machine controls, however, Senya's memory chip began to glitch, causing her mind to be flooded with memories that did not belong to her. Senya began wondering whether her memory chip had been damaged in the battle, and whether it would allow her to see someone else's memories, or whether somebody had tampered with her memory chip. However, she then began to consider the possibility that those memories were hers from before she had become a cyborg, and that they had been suppressed by the memory chip until it had begun glitching. Senya then saw the memory of Cosim seeing more memories of the rabbit Anima and his conclusion that he and the rabbit Anima were the same person.

Back in the present, Senya awoke from seeing Cosim's memories as Cosim declared that restoration of the heart was complete. Senya then turned to Cosim and told him that there was one thing that she still didn't understand, as she was confused why their father wanted his failed heart when he already had his perfected heart. Cosim revealed that the reason why their father wanted him was because he had stolen the power source inside the perfected heart and placed it in the failed heart. Senya then asked him why he had chosen to return back to Company headquarters knowing that their father was after him, just as a large rumbling began shaking the room. Senya asked Cosim whether their father had arrived, to which Cosim shook his head and explained that the Angler Triton failsafe had gone active. He then revealed that the reason why he had returned was to both destroy the power source and their father's body simultaneously. However, he revealed that he had ultimately failed because he had been unable to separate the power source from his heart, for which he asked Senya to help him by destroying his heart. A shocked Senya refused to do so, lamenting that she couldn't leave without him. However, Cosim assured her that she had the power to stop their father, as she possessed a human heart. He then made one last request of Senya, which was to ask their father about where he had truly come from, as he wished to know who he had been before their father had experimented upon him.

Cosim then extracted his heart, causing him to switch offline, as Senya ordered her Lab Tech bot to teleport her and Cosim to safety. With the Lab Tech unresponsive, however, Senya lowered her head in resignment as she accepted the heart and promised Cosim that she would learn the truth about his origins. As she placed it inside herself, the enormous anglerfish-shaped Angler Triton robot appeared to destroy her. After a fierce battle, Senya managed to defeat the Angler Triton before escaping the building with the heart. As she sailed across the stormy sea, memories of Cosim flooded into her, just as memories of the rabbit Anima had once flooded into Cosim. In the memory, Senya witnessed Cosim confronting their father and stealing his power source before fleeing, causing her to ultimately realize that Cosim's memories had entered her upon taking in the heart, just as the rabbit Anima's memories had entered Cosim after he had taken the power source into his failed heart. Because of this, Senya concluded that since the memories flooding into her had belonged to someone else, rather than them being her own repressed memories from when she had been human, it meant that the memories of the rabbit Anima didn't actually belong to Cosim at all. Though she regretted that Cosim, until his very end, hadn't been able to learn his true roots, Senya realized that what mattered more wasn't Cosim learning his roots, but him having the desire to live as a human, whether he was a machine or not.

NPC

Savage Terminal

Cosim
Quests involved	[Detective Rave's Case Notes] Tea with Miss Raven [Detective Rave's Case Notes] Not Helping [Detective Rave's Case Notes] In a Hazmat Suit
Location	Glooger Habitat

Edelstein

Hospital Room

Cosim
Location	Hospital Room

Secret Plaza

Cosim
Location	Secret Plaza

Karote

Cosim
Location	Summit

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Trivia

• Cosim's non-GMS name "Lepus" means "hare" in Latin.