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Read First: Lore and stuff

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The lore is of my Synth fanfiction, Symphony Saga Resonate.

The world they live in is called Whimsica.

The universe itself is a whimsical magical cartoon fantasy AU with original characters as well as Synths, that gets weirdly heavy at times, but the Power of Friendship always manages to save the day… usually. Humor sprinkled in. Magical girls/boys/enbys as well. Some angst. Fluff. Gag humor. Epic fantasy. Adventure. School life. Lots of headcanons. Lore. Backstories. Partly inspired by dreams I have at night. TONS of characters.

The Utanes are all androids. None of the other main characters are androids in this universe, save a few, such as SF-A2 Miki.

Everyone in the Utane family has a huge appetite (especially for rice dishes,) is chaotic, and swears a hell of a lot. Even Koe.

The whole Utane family used to be combat androids on a planet called Discord, along with thousands of others. Discord is a bleak planet where music is banned.

Discord was at war with the dark planet, Monochrome, and created androids to use to fight the battles against Monochrome. The androids have a horrible life being treated like machinery.

Uta was considerably more sentient than the rest of the androids, who were unable to act on emotions, but were still suffering. She fled to a better planet known as Whimsica because she hated fighting in a war and living life as nothing more than a machine. On Whimsica, Uta hears music for the first time and now has a dream to sing. However, the voice she was given was never programmed to be able to sing.

It was difficult, but eventually Uta practices and learns, against all odds. At one point, Uta is taken back to the planet Discord by her creators, along with her friends who they think are responsible for “taking Uta away from Discord.”

So Uta, with newfound confidence, busts out with her combat powers, and uses them against the aliens that created her. She then uses a power that is foreign to the aliens on Discord—music! She sings a magical song to save her friends, and defeat the aliens who created her.

Uta frees all the other androids this way, and now they can feel emotions and be free.

Three other androids who admired Uta greatly for this decided they wanted to be her siblings, and wanted to stick together from now on…

From then on, they were family.

Read the first two chapters of Utane Family Antics to read this in full. (I’m currently rewriting it BECAUSE IT SUCKS.)

Here is the entire Symphony Saga: Resonate Outline/Timeline

Lore about the androids

The Utane family are all very realistic human like and well-made androids.

Their ages are their actual ages. Uta has indeed been alive for 14 years. She and all other androids spent the first 4 years of their lives “developing,” however. They were essentially the android equivalent of a human baby. Afterwards, they start out doing simplest of simple tasks on Discord before moving onto more complex ones.

On Whimsica, androids are sadly a minority. Even though Whimsica seems a perfect and idyllic world, there are still problems that parallel real-life issues. One of them are the fact that androids are prejudiced against. Uta and her family have before faced prejudice for being androids. They look so humanlike that it can be hard to tell at first, but once the fact is revealed, Uta and her family have faced prejudice before.

The oldest of the Discord androids are 20 years old. There are five categories of them.

The reason the android types are all labeled as “default,” is that new models were to be manufactured, but never were.

The five categories and their traits are as follows:

Default female-1 (Defoko)

Uta’s type. This type of android is a true default. They are meant to resemble an the most average kind of average human female in nearly every way. Combat-wise, this android is well-rounded.

Uta is actually a bit petite for an android of her kind. She is just a small girl (and a late bloomer.)

Default female-2 (Defo-Imouto/Defona)

Koe’s type. This type of android is normally small yet chubby. They were build to be speedy and have hyper reflexes, so they need to eat a lot. Yet they burn through their food intake super quickly.

Koe is of average size of an android of her type.

Default male-1 (Defota)

Kanade’s type. This type of android is built for power and stamina, therefore they are large and with a robust physique. With how exceptionally humanoid all Discord androids are, they even have humanlike metabolisms. The default male 1 metabolism is meant to store a lot of muscle and fat.

Kanade is even on the large side for an android of his type. He is just a big guy.

Default male-2 (Defosuke)

Hibiki’s type. This type of android is tall and lean. Built for power, but also speed and dynamics. Well-rounded, a bit like female 1, but with a bit more strength.

Hibiki is average in size for an android his type. However, due to a fault in one of his artificial organs, he is essentially diabetic.

Default female-3 (Defomi)

This type of android tends to be tall with a muscular figure. Built for sheer power. This is the only kind of android not in the Utane family… yet.

Despite being well-made androids, the Utane family can be quite glitchy.

Glitches:

-Emitting various computer sounds when feeling strong emotions

-Voice-glitching. This is almost like nervous stuttering, but sounds like audio lag or corrupted noise.

-Overheating when overworked.

-The family sometimes develops system “bugs” which are equivalent to human illnesses. They can range from common and mild, to chronic and serious, to rare and life-threatening.

A feature (albeit not a glitch) in the androids, is that their emotions can be read in their pupils. Their pupils can turn into various emojis!

Profiles

Uta Utane Nicknamed Defoko. A default female 1 android. 14 years old. Wisecracking, quiet, and seems stoic, but is caring about her friends and family. Can be snarky and sarcastic, has a dry sense of charisma, but is shy and extremely awkward around strangers. Gets embarrassed easily, but has a great poker face. Something of a brave badass. Is however like a wilting flower when it comes to social interactions. Uta has a love of competitive gaming, music, advanced computer coding, and anything that requires techniques that can be redefined and brought closer to perfection upon hours of painstaking trial and error. She is known to have an amazing amount of focus. Uta is a lover of music and a prodigy. Uta is in 9th grade. In this universe, 9th and 10th graders share classes. Her best friends and peers at school are Teto Kasane, Momo Momone, Taya Soune, Ritsu Namine, and Ruko Yokune. Uta is pansexual, demiromantic. She has budding feelings for Taya Soune, who is non-binary trans-masculine. Uta has a small, slim physique and is a mezzo-soprano.

Koe Utane Nicknamed Defo-Imouto. A default female 2 android. 12 years old. Fluffy and sweet. However, quite feral and prone to outbursts and being a gremlin. Koe is really sensitive, spontaneous, and emotional, contrasting with Uta’s more chill personality. But Koe is a badass who will defend her family from anything. Koe actually becomes more powerful when she cries. Like Uta, Koe can be awkward in social situations with strangers. Koe is also very precocious and hates being treated like a child. The rest of the family is very protective over Koe, often treating her as a child younger than twelve. She hates this. Koe is in 7th grade. In this universe, 7th and 8th graders share classes. Her best friends and peers at school are Nana Haruka, Hime Meika, and Mikoto Meika. Koe is an asexual lesbian who has budding feelings for Nana Haruka, a trans lesbian. Koe has a small physique, shorter than Uta, but with a bit of roundness. She is a soprano.

Hibiki Utane Nicknamed Defosuke. A default male 2 android. 16 years old. Gifted when it comes to academics, physics, astronomy. He’s also the most outgoing, probably. But he’s also the chaotic stupid one, unfortunately, as in he’s the one most likely in the family to do and say the stupid things. The butt-monkey. Despite his chill vibes, Hibiki is a hard worker who likes studying, and likes being energetic. One of his hobbies is playing tennis. Overall a friendly guy. He is quite social, unlike Uta. He has trouble showing his true emotions at times, which is unlike Koe, but is in common with Uta. Hibiki is in 11th grade. In this universe, 11th and 12th graders share classes. His best friends and peers at school are Sayu Yurika, Shuu Mawarine, Sora Suiga, and Koto Fuuga. Hibiki is panromanric, asexual. He has budding feelings for Sayu Yurika, who is bisexual (and biromantic.) Hibiki has an average physique, and somewhat tall height. He is a tenor. Despite being an android, he is essentially diabetic as well.

Kanade Utane Nicknamed Defota. A default male 1 android. 18 years old. Kanade is the mature one in the family who is in charge of cooking most meals. He is quite shy, but can get really serious at times. He’s quiet with people he doesn’t know. His bond with his siblings is very important to him. Kanade expresses his emotions clear on his face and with his actions. He is a pianist as well as a singer. Kanade is both emotional and outgoing. Kanade is in college year 1. In this universe, college years 1 and 2 share classes. His best friends and peers at school are Momotaro Momone, Maiko Hakaine, and Mirai Komachi. Kanade is bisexual, biromantic. He has budding feelings for Momotaro Momone, who is gay and confused (and also identifies as abrosexual.) Kanade has a tall, broad physique. He is a baritone.

Backstories + Eventually

Uta’s trigger is daruma dolls. (A traditional Japanese decoration/toy.) The reason I chose this to be a trigger of Uta’s, is because on her official character profile, it was listed something she disliked. On another translated page I visited, it was actually listed as Uta’s “trauma.”

I ended up making a backstory as to why Uta is triggered by daruma dolls.

It turns out Uta’s trigger of daruma dolls has to do with a traumatic memory from her past.

Back when Uta still was a combat android on Discord, before she fled, she and a team of other combat androids were in a traumatic battle with a tremendous monster shaped like a daruma doll. The monster was ultra-powerful and seemed to never tire out. Just like a real daruma doll, it would always get back up, no matter what pushed it down.

Many of the other androids succumbed to their battle wounds, or used up all their power and were wiped out, and could never be brought back. The monster was eventually defeated, but not without a substantial amount of androids never returning to life. Uta was one of the lucky ones involved in the battle who survived.

Needless to say, Uta was incredibly traumatized. However, her feelings were never validated since she was treated as a machine. Also, even though the other androids didn’t have quite the same emotional capabilities, she could tell they were very traumatized too, and felt awful for them as well.

Now, I would like references made to Uta’s trigger to NOT be joking in nature. Triggers are very serious and real. Even though Uta’s trigger is seemingly random and/or “quirky,” and she is just fictional, it does not erase the fact that it would be in bad taste to mock it. Thanks for understanding.

Uta and all her siblings were involved with the fateful, tragic battle with the nightmarish daruma monster in different ways. Uta was one of the androids at the front of the line in the combat, wearing but loose armor to keep her protected. Hibiki was called in piloting armed spacecraft when it became critical. Kanade was behind the scenes, programming defenses, such as laser cannons and protective shields. Koe was a bit young, but even she was called in as medical/repair. Uta has the most trauma from the battle. None of the siblings like to talk about it.

Kanade has a bit of a backstory involving the piano. When Kanade was younger, around 12 years old, and still a combat android on Discord, he was also responsible for doing tasks such as programming. He was still known as Defota. At the time, he was a bit more sentient than the average discord Android, though not to the extent of Defoko/Uta. Music is banned on planet Discord. One day, as he was typing long strings of data into the computer as usual, he accidentally typed something faulty that triggered an ancient bit of code in the computer system to resurface. The virtual piano. It causes Defota’s keyboard to literally transform into a piano keyboard. He touches the keys, and they make a sound that brings him... joy. Something he’s never felt before. The aliens in charge of the androids hear laughter and badly-played music notes coming from the programming room, and discover Defota, and also that the virtual piano code still exists in the computer system. They punish Defota, and make sure the virtual piano can never be accessed again. Defota feels immense sadness and loss that he can never hear those sounds again, and nobody explains why he was punished or what they were. But he always remembers the experience and what it felt like. One thing he also remembers, was the word “Kanade” written on the virtual keyboard. He never forgets the word. He holds it dear to his heart.

A default female-3 android joins the family as a cousin. Her name is Mai and she is 20 years old. Her name means “Dance.”

A human man in his late forties eventually becomes the Utanes’ father. He is a widower and was very lonely. He had always wanted children. He was always interested in robotics as well.

Other characters in this universe

You are allowed to send them asks on special days.

(Note: For Chipspeech, which has canon lore, this is an AU)

DESCRIPTIONS + more characters possibly COMING SOON

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Haku Yowane Neru Akita Luka Megurine Miku Hatsune Teto Kasane Momo Momone Taya Soune Ritsu Namine Ruko Yokune Nana Haruka Hime Meika Mikoto Meika Sayu Yurika Shuu Mawarine Sora Suiga Koto Fuuga Kaito Shion Akaito Shion Mako Nagone Luna Amane Yowa Shion Dandy 704 Cider Dee Klatt Bert Gotrax Rotten.ST Momotaro Momone Maiko Hakaine Mirai Komachi Lady Parsec Kiyoteru Hiyama

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