| “ | You probably don't know, but... There was a great war some time ago. When I was young. Some time ago, I say, but I remember it like it was yesterday. The terror. The violence. They fought with clanks. Machines stronger and swifter than any man. Smarter, even. Driven by AI. Bloodless beasts with hands of chrome that tore my friends apart. We made them... and they, in turn, unmade us. We created the instruments of our own destruction. It was... suicide. This ship's AI was another attempt. Have we grown so tired of ourselves...? You're lucky to have been born here, on this ship. Better here than one of our factories where we make weapons of war. Huey encouraged you to learn, didn't he? To "expand your horizons." I think... I think that's a fine idea. Learn, grow and understand. Be better than your brothers... and your makers... |
„ |
| ~ Colonel Darthe |
Summary
Cube is one of the eight main protagonists of LIVE A LIVE and the main protagonist of the Distant Future chapter, "The Mechanical Heart". A small robot created on a civilian transport cruiser, Cube finds themselves involved in a downward spiral of the crewmates becoming more and more neurotic as murders begin happening among them. Eventually, the culprit is found to be Dominus, the ship's AI turned murderous after realizing the inherent discord that humans cause: Cube hacks Dominus and manages to overpower it, shutting it down and saving the few survivors.
After this, they are taken from their time alongside six others by the Lord of Dark, Odio, and are among the ones who contribute to his defeat.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 10-B, 9-B with Powered Prybar | At least 7-C
Key: In "The Mechanical Heart" | In "The Dominion of Hate"
Name: Player-chosen, default is Cube
Origin: LIVE A LIVE
Gender: None, referred to with they/them pronouns by Kato, their creator.
Age: A few hours
Classification: Support Robot
Powers and Abilities:
Inorganic Physiology (Type 2), Vibration Manipulation (Cube's Powered Prybar emits ultrasonic vibrations to cut through doors and hatches), Hacking (Disabled OD-10, the AI running the Cogito Ergo Sum spaceship, after a digital battle), Small Size (Type 0. Shown to be roughly 1/3 of a man's height in artwork), Damage Reduction (Naturally resistant to Projectile and Thrusting), Resistance to Life Absorption, Sense Manipulation, Mind Manipulation (Naturally Spirit elemental attacks which includes health-draining attacks such as Bloodlust, telepathic attacks such as many of Akira's, their own Packet Loss which attacks the target's sense of hearing and other status effect moves. Note that this only reduces damage suffered from these attacks and doesn't lessen the odds of being afflicted by the statuses themselves), Petrification, Paralysis Inducement, Status Effect Inducement and Poison Manipulation (Immune to Petrification, Intoxication, Paralysis, Poison, Restraint and Snare, though the last of which is likely due to their lack of limbs)
All previous abilities, Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Nanotechnology (Cube's ultimate weapon is a 17nm Diode), Energy Projection, Healing (With Data Recovery and Repair and Restore), Purification (Data Recovery removes certain status effects), Statistics Amplification (Repair and Restore increases the target's statistics), Mind Manipulation and Sleep Manipulation (Force Shutdown attacks the user's higher mental functions to put them to sleep), Sense Manipulation (Can disrupt foes' aural receptors [ears] to disorient them with Packet Loss), Information Analysis and Statistics Reduction (HP Lookup analyzes and reduces a foe's statistics), Acrobatics (Can accurately hit foes midway through a rapidly spinning leap with Spool Up), Forcefield Creation (With Firewall), Supernatural Willpower and Awakened Power (Gained a sudden boost of power and all lost health back upon attempting to deal the final blow to Sin of Odio: not only that, but during the fight they are incapable of being permanently downed unlike any other previous fight in the game. All Live A Live protagonists' final weapons are said to awaken their full potential), Weapon Mastery (Capable of utilizing throwing knives, bola and shuriken accurately), Non-Physical Interaction (Can hurt and defeat ghost enemies), Enhanced Senses (Capable of fighting in the increasingly dark Trial of Time, fighting the Jaggedy Jack boss in complete darkness), Light Manipulation (Brion cleared away an aura of darkness when Hasshe first picked it up). Sealing Negation (Brion can be used to open sealed passages, with both Hasshe in the Middle Ages chapter and the protagonist of The Dominion of Hate using it to unseal the entrance to Archon's Roost)
Electricity Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (Can attack with a variety of electric moves with up to 5 million volts of power, paralyzing foes as well. Goldfish Shot immobilizes foes' limbs), Plasma Manipulation (With Plasma Spark), Earth Manipulation and Statistics Reduction (Savage Shot lowers enemy stats as well as hurting them with a volley of large rocks), Status Effect Inducement (Can render enemies woozy with Lacquer Mist), Animal Manipulation (With Goldfish Shot and Chick Shot), Explosion Manipulation, Petrification and Status Effect Inducement (Chick Shot shoots explosive chicks that can petrify foes or afflict them with vertigo), Temperature Manipulation (With 100 Volt Laser), Bodily Weaponry and Elasticity (Bounce Punch is an upgraded version of Taroimo's normal attacks which see him extending his arms to attack foes with the bowling balls at their end)
All previous abilities plus Healing, Purification and Statistics Amplification (Can restore health with various consumables and reusable items, as well as remove all status effects and/or increase all stats. Saint's Bell keeps evil spirits away), Curse Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, Air Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (Fuxi Feathers can be utilized to curse foes with misfortune and afflict them with poison and paralysis), Damage Transferal (Someone using Magicked Wood can heal an ally by transferring their own HP), Weapon Creation and Danmaku (Bird-of-Paradise Tailfeather summons showers of bladed shards), Sound Manipulation (Thump Drum can harm enemies with a painful noise), Information Analysis (Rock of Rocks allows one to scan enemies), Animal Manipulation (The Cola Bottle shoots out lizards that deal incredible damage), Absorption (Bottle Gourd drains the health of enemies to heal the wielder), Adhesive Manipulation, Statistics Reduction and Poison Manipulation (Shinobi Birdlime ensnares the feet of foes, poisons them and weakens their attributes), Blessed, Fire Manipulation and Fear Manipulation (Can summon a fiery inferno that inflicts the Fear status through the blessing of an Enma Charm), minor Curse Manipulation and Absorption (The Muramasa is said to be a cursed blade that feeds on the life of those who wield it), Water Manipulation (Sujin Scale can call upon a tidal water at will), Fire Manipulation (With Bottled Fire and Napalm Grenades), Explosion Manipulation (With Dynamite, Napalm Grenades and Fragmentation Grenades), Smoke Manipulation and Poison Manipulation (Poison Spray unleashes a cloud of toxic gas), Blessed (Divine Armor is said to bear the blessing of an ancient divinity), Empathic Manipulation (Apple of Eden can be used to Charm foes), Unholy Manipulation, Smoke Manipulation, Statistics Reduction and Status Effect Inducement (The Shroud of Demons is a blasphemous relic capable of summoning demonic mists that weaken and confuse enemies), Fire Manipulation (Blood of Amon will set the ground ablaze when spilt), Poison Manipulation (Blood of Bael will poison the ground when spilt), Summoning and Necromancy (Solomon's Thighbone summons forth a mage that commands the dead), Dream Manipulation (Those who wear the Helm of Nightmares are haunted by nightmares so terrible they will never be able to sleep), Holy Manipulation (With various items such as Holy Water), Petrification (Eye of Argos can be used to petrify foes)
All previous resistances plus Water, Fire, Electricity and Poison Absorption (Capable of absorbing damage from Water, Fire, Electricity or Poison tiles with the right equipment), Damage Reduction (Through equipment, can obtain a resistant to Martial, Agile, Slashing, Blunt or Grappling-type damage), Resistance to Sleep Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation (Through various pieces of equipment, can obtain resistance to Sleep, Stun, Charm, Vertigo, Terror, Confusion and Fury), Fire Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, Temperature Manipulation (Through equipment, can resist Fire elemental attacks, which as well as fire include other heat-based attacks such as lasers and lava-based attacks), Water Manipulation, Ice Manipulation (Through equipment, can resist Water elemental attacks, which also include attacks based on ice or other types of liquids, such as Lacquer Mist), Air Manipulation, Fragrance Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Plasma Manipulation (Through equipment, can resist Wind elemental attacks, which also include farting attacks as well as various electric ones and Plasma Spark), Earth Manipulation, Vibration Manipulation (Through equipment, can resist Earth elemental attacks, which also include shockwave-based attacks such as Worldbreaker's Wrath and Manchu-Han's Imperial Feast), Holy Manipulation, Sound Manipulation (Through equipment, can resist Divine elemental attacks which also includes sound-based ones such as Pogo's Big Shout or Beru's Sing Hurt), Unholy Manipulation and Darkness Manipulation (Through equipment, can resist Demonic elemental attacks which includes attacks related to Odio, such as Archon's Mark, as well as general darkness attacks such as Akira's fear-based attacks and Streibough's Black Abyss)
Attack Potency: Human level (Was overpowered by Kirk fairly easily, but could fight with another Cube body that seriously injured Kato), Wall level with Powered Prybar (Can cut open metallic doors and hatches) | At least Town level (Contributed in the defeat of Sin of Odio, who wields the combined strength of every other incarnation of Odio)
Speed: Athletic Human (Can outrun the Behemoth, a large quadrupedal beast) | Relativistic (Comparable to Sin of Odio who should at least be on par with Odeo's speed. Can fight foes who can dodge their particle beams), Relativistic+ attack speed with Maser Cannon
Lifting Strength: Below Average Human (Couldn't resist a pull into the vacuum of space that humans occupied with a brawl could) | Class M (Can withstand grappling or pushing attempts from the likes of Pogo or Masaru Takahara)
Striking Strength: Human level | At least Town level
Durability: Athlete level (Withstood a kick that sent him rolling away on two different occasions with no lasting damage) | At least Town level
Stamina: Average | Peak Human. Took part in the fight against Odio, which, after a long climb through the danger-ridden Archon's Roost, saw two long phases of combat against him, then forced Cube to fight OD-10 again and finally ended with an even harder fight against Sin of Odio
Range: Below Standard Melee Range | Below Standard Melee Range, up to Tens of Meters with abilities and items.
Standard Equipment: Powered Prybar | Cube's ultimate weapon is the 17nm Diode, "a mechanical component more advanced than anything mankind is known to have ever produced."
- Optional Equipment: None notable | A great variety of equipment and consumable items, as well as add-on weaponry.
Intelligence: At least Genius. Cube is capable of developing new skills after processing data. A tiny fraction of their knowledge is still perfectly capable of communication and intelligent enough to serve as a guide through a puzzle dungeon, and Cube is the only one capable of clearing the Trial of Wisdom, proving them to be the most intelligent among the seven protagonists. AI has already greatly surpassed human intelligence even decades before Cube's time.
Weaknesses: The powered prybar has a limited energy reserve and will run out after a couple uses. | Cube can't "level up" and increase their strength through battles unlike other party members, relying on mechanical parts to become stronger with time.
Notable Attacks/Techniques
- Cube's default moves: Available in hacking battles in The Mechanical Heart, otherwise only in The Dominion of Hate
- Data Recovery: (Wind) "Protocol H. Execute high-speed operation targeting allies to restore minor quantity of HP / remove paralysis, petrification and martial and agile restrictions."
- Repair and Restore: (Wind) "Protocol U. Restore very minor quantity of HP / upgrade offensive and defensive abilities."
- Force Shutdown: (Demonic) "Protocol M. Target aggressor's higher faculties and attempt to induce sleep."
- Firewall: (Wind) "Protocol A. Arm offensive countermeasures to be triggered in response to perceived aggression."
- Packet Loss: (Spirit) "Protocol N. Activate aural disruptors to damage and reduce effectiveness of all aggressors."
- HP Lookup: (Slashing) "Protocol I. Analyze aggressor capabilities and reduce effectiveness."
- Spool Up: (Martial) "Protocol S. Achieve high rate of spin via rapid engagement of motors before advancing towards aggressor."
- Maser Cannon: (Fire) "Protocol M. Engage accelerated particle cannon to fire highly damaging penetrative beam at aggressors. Extended charge time required."
- Cube's add-on moves: Up to five can be equipped upon obtaining them from Akira Tadokoro in The Dominion of Hate
- 100 Volt Laser: (Fire) "Fire a focused burst of electricity diagonally that penetrates enemies." Can temporarily lower enemy defenses.
- Punch Shot: (Martial) "Surprise distant enemies with a punch to the face."
- 5 Million Volt Shock: (Wind) "Stun an enemy with a massive electrical discharge." Can temporarily inflict paralysis.
- Plasma Spark: (Wind) "Unleash a concentrated ball of energy that devastates and staggers enemies." Can temporarily inflict paralysis.
- Savage Shot: (Earth) "Fire a volley of shots at an enemy." Can temporarily lower enemy defenses, accuracy and evasion.
- Lacquer Mist: (Water) "Spray an intoxicating mist to confuse enemies." Can temporarily inflict Intoxicated.
- Goldfish Shot: (Projectile) "Fire a barrage of goldfish to nibble on an enemy's arms and legs." Can temporarily disable arm and leg techniques.
- Chick Shot: (Spirit) "Bombard an enemy with exploding baby chickens to deal massive damage." Can petrify foes or temporarily afflict them with Vertigo, though it can also increase their defense.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
Discussions
| Discussion threads involving Cube (LIVE A LIVE) |