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Don't you dare speak about her. Evelyn, you are a vile, spoilt little brat that is finally going to face some consequences for her actions! - Lucinia to Evelyn Claythorne after she badmouthed Tari. |
” | —Lucinia to Evelyn, META RUNNER - The End // Final Season: Ep 8 (GRAND FINALE) | ||
Lucinia Porter is the overarching protagonist of the 2019 Glitch Productions science fiction-animated webseries Meta Runner. She is the sister of Sofia Porter and the best friend-turned-girlfriend of Belle Fontiere.
She first appeared in the episode Wrong Warp. In Game Plan and Heart to Heart, flashbacks revealed that she was involved in an accident during Project Blue's development and was recovered by Lucks, who kept her disappearance a secret and led everyone to believe she had gone missing or was dead.
In Fatal Error, Lucks revealed that she survived the explosion. Tari confirmed this and explained that Dr. Sheridan tried uploading an advanced A.I. iteration into her Meta Runner Arm, but Sheridan pushed the neural uplink too high, and it caused the A.I. to surge and resulted in an explosion, with the backlash shattering Lucinia's consciousness (with the fragments being lost in the TAS. Corp server, while the others were fused into the A.I.), leaving her alive yet an empty shell. By extension, it was revealed before this that Tari is the A.I. that was being uploaded into Lucinia, revealing further that Lucinia has been a part of Tari this entire time, and Tari's role in bringing her back (in exchange for her life).
She became one of the secondary antagonist of the final season after some of her fragments were given back by Sheridan, she was practically mindless, only following Sheridan's orders.
At the end of the series, Tari sacrifices herself to revive Lucinia and return her to reality, while also freeing her from Sheridan's influence.
She is voiced by Amber Lee Connors.
Appearance[]
Lucinia is a woman with bright, long purple hair, pale skin, and a slender build. She wears a black tank top, black shorts with a navy hoodie tied around her waist, including black tube socks and black leather boots, and a necklace with a sky-blue pendant. Her left arm is replaced by a bionic Meta Runner arm to enhance her gaming prowess, of similar make to Belle's, with metallic blue chassis and white plating along the forearm and fingers, albeit with violet circuitry along it and a node on the back of the hand.
In season 2, she does not have the jacket and her shorts have two white stripes on the sides.
Most of the time she is seen in the TAS Corp. server, appearing as a purple glitter.
After the explosion, her Meta Runner Arm was ripped off while the rest of her body was scathed, third-degree burns covering her left arm with lighter burns on her upper body and left cheek.
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Personality[]
Not much was known about her. She seemed rather shy and unassuming, and was shown to have a very strong friendship with Belle Fontiere.
In a flashback shown in "Soft Lock", she lacks self-esteem and calls herself an "old dog" teaching new tricks to Belle by showing her a new glitch, saying that if she can't achieve the Ultra Jump Mania record, Belle can. She also mentions how she hasn't had a press conference in a while unlike Belle and Masa.
Even as a memory fragment, she seems to retain her personality. As for her actual body, with only a fraction of her mind in her head, she is almost entirely devoid of emotion and retains no memory of her old friends as seen in Skybreakers. However, bits of her old self seem to slowly reemerge every now and then (shown when Sofia told her to stop attacking Tari, causing Lucinia to briefly snap out of Sheridan's control).
Lucinia has proven to have no tolerance for disrespect for any of her friends as she is quick to confront and admonish Evelyn for her torment and badmouthing Tari (who unbeknownst to Evelyn, had just sacrificed her life to return Lucinia to her body), remarking her for being a brat.
History[]
Lucinia was one of TAS Corp.'s notable meta runners. She was so notable she appeared in company advertisements. She became acquainted with Belle Fontiere and the two became close with Belle seeing her as her best friend. She was the older sister of Sofia Porter as revealed in "Shutdown".
However, as time went on, she became less relevant compared to Belle and Masa. This led to her going around the science labs of TAS Corp. looking for ways to improve her lacking skills despite Masa's reassurance.
Eventually, she became affiliated with James Sheridan and Project Blue. She aided him in his research until the fateful accident that destroyed his lab, resulting in her consciousness being split into the company's server and Sheridan's A.I. program. Later, her body was found by Derek Lucks and the TAS Corp. scientists, so he ordered a medical team to treat her while keeping the incident a secret. They were able to physically heal her, but she couldn't wake up because part of her consciousness was missing.
Season 1[]
In One Shot, she appeared when Tari mysteriously passed out upon warping into Tempest, which was being run on TAS Corp's server. Tari ended up having a strange vision of a mysterious purple-haired girl. As Tari tried calling out and reaching for her, she suddenly dropped away, and Tari started to wake up. In The Run while Belle and Masa argued, Masa mentioned Lucinia, causing Tari to remember the purple-haired girl she saw in the strange vision.
When Tari managed to escape Belle and crash the game, she subsequently received another vision of Lucinia. This time, Lucinia turned around to face Tari, but when she did, her appearance suddenly changed, revealing burn marks and scarring, including missing her meta runner arm.
Season 2[]
In Transfer Student, Belle asked Theo to look for anything related to Project Blue to find evidence of Lucinia's fate. Theo couldn't find anything at first, but then suddenly, a purple glitter moved around Theo and found the Project Blue file, giving it to him. When Belle viewed the file later, it revealed that Lucks always knew about Lucinia's fate, causing her to turn against him.
In Friendly Fire, the purple glitter helped Theo navigate a difficult part of the corrupted version of Ultra Jump Mania.
In Soft Lock, the purple glitter returned to boost Tari's precision in Hidden Heroes to defeat Evelyn. Additionally, a flashback revealed that Lucinia struggled with self-esteem issues and was neglected by Lucks while Belle and Masa were in the spotlight.
In Fatal Error after Tari saves Theo, the purple glitter appears once again, finally revealing itself to be Lucinia, although she couldn't remember her name until Tari said it, but she managed to guess who Tari was. When Tari asked Lucinia who or what she was, Lucinia told her everything she knew off-screen. Tari later revealed what Lucinia told her: Lucinia's consciousness was blown apart, with parts of it going into the TAS Corp. server and other parts going into Tari, who was Sheridan's A.I. program.
Season 3[]
In Power Down, Tari was abducted by Evelyn while trying to warp into Turbo Crash 9 and brought into Dr. Sheridan's private server and chained down while Sheridan explained that she fulfilled her purpose of taking down Lucks and no longer needed the "extra" brain functions. He then revealed Lucinia was in the private server, too, just before he drilled into Tari to remove Lucinia's consciousness.
In Testing Room, the process is interrupted by Theo who warped in after Tari, attacking Evelyn and destroying the machine, allowing Tari to break free. The transference is left incomplete, with Lucinia only regaining a part of her consciousness while the rest is still left inside of Tari while Evelyn is tasked with retrieving more data fragments.
In Skybreakers, Belle and Masa are forced to play Battle Blaze against an unknown player who Masa discovered was Lucinia. They demanded Sheridan explain what was going on, but he electrocuted Belle before returning them to his private server. Sheridan reveals that their opponent is Lucinia but with partial consciousness. She can only perform basic motor functions such as following Evelyn and Sheridan's orders and playing video games.
Belle is brought to tears upon seeing Lucinia while Masa sarcastically congratulates Sheridan on finally outdoing Lucks on something: being an even bigger monster than he was. Sheridan decides he's wasted enough of their time and sends them back into Battle Blaze, but this time they are forced to warp in and fight Lucinia directly.
In Dead On Arrival, Evelyn and Lucinia track down Tari and her friends in the safe zone. After taking out Theo and Lamar in-game, Evelyn orders Lucinia to attack Tari and reclaim her missing fragments. However, Sofia sees Lucinia through Tari's perspective and calls out to her, momentarily awakening Lucinia as she says her sister's name and drops the knife, allowing Tari to defend herself by attacking Lucinia with it and cause some of the fragments to return to her and somewhat restores her meta runner vision and fight back. When the crew seeks refuge on a new ship after Evelyn's bot-boy captain blew it up, Lucinia tried attacking Marco by shooting at him with her guns but failed.
In Death Warp, Lucinia is seen on the ground crying in one of Masa's visions, but she quickly turns around and attacks him while degrading him. She is also seen in Skybreakers with Evelyn attacking players and warping them into Sheridan's virtual world. As they get closer to Tari and the others, Lamar goes to slow them down and tries to stop the two, causing Lucinia to shoot at Lamar with her weapons. Lamar tries attacking Lucinia with an ability, but she successfully shoots and explodes the objects. When Lamar disrupts the steering of the ship, Lucinia and Evelyn hold him down before Evelyn forcibly warps him into the virtual world.
In Global Testfire, Lucinia is seen briefly in a SHERCorp. commercial alongside Sheridan. She is also seen briefly in a cryogenic pod in the real world. When Evelyn attacks MD-5's ship before they enter the backdoor, Lucinia is seen on Evelyn's ship alongside Belle and Masa. Evelyn begins talking and Lucinia shoots Tari in the leg. Just before Evelyn and her crew attack, a projectile is fired at their ship, and all are knocked down. At the end of the episode, MD-5 and SHERCorp. prepare to attack each other.
In The End, Tari and Lucinia, battle to the death, with Sofia and Sheridan fighting for control of the server. At one point, Sheridan gets the upper hand and gives Lucinia god like powers which halts Tari. Sofia gains control for a short amount of time and Tari and Lucinia crash into the lab. After Sheridan loses control and a conversation between the AI version of Lucks and Tari, Lucinia is revived. When Lucinia hears Evelyn badmouthing Tari, she immediately slaps her across the face and puts her down as she ties Evelyn down to a chair. Belle and Lucinia reunite and share a warm kiss. After Marco drives them back to his base. Everyone sees an unresponsive Tari lying down. Lucinia says that even though the two barely met, it felt that Tari was always a part of her, and now that she's gone, a part of herself is missing too, and tearfully thanks Tari for her sacrifice. When they go back to their hideout, Sofia is the one to show her around. After saying their thank you's to Tari and Theo for their sacrifices, Sofia drags Belle and Lucinia over for their initiation.
In the credits, she is seen playing video games with Belle and Sofia.
Trivia[]
- It's said by Luke and Kevin and Jasmine Yang that Lucinia's character design was modeled after her voice actress Amber Lee Connors.
- Her memory fragment appears as a trail of pink glitter, floating around the TASCorp server, where she helped Theo to find the file about her disappearance as well as help him in his corrupted game by showing him the glitch she discovered in Friendly Fire.
- She taught Belle everything she knows about speedrunning.
- She seems to have lost some of her memory as a fragment of her consciousness, as she at first couldn't remember her name until Tari mentioned it to her. Regardless, she was able to remember exactly what happened to her at the lab.
- The End is Lucinia's only fully conscious and non-flashback appearance in the series.
- This doesn't apply to her Meta Runner arm.
- Along with Belle Fontiere, Lucinia is part of the LGBTQ+ community after the two share a romantic heartfelt kiss together in The End.
- This would make the two the first characters in the GLITCH Productions brand to be part of the LGBTQ+ community.
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