For Lola's main series counterpart, see Lola.
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"Woo-hoo! Way to go, Boss!"
—Lola, Luminous Avenger iX
Lola, also known as "The Muse of Hope", is a self-aware battle support robot developed and built by Copen and the deuteragonist of Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX and Luminous Avenger iX 2. Bright and energetic in contrast to her serious, gloomy partner, she provides Copen with his EX Weapons and acts as his field support and only constant ally. She can replicate the Septima known as The Muse, which allows her to revive and buff Copen when he's defeated.
Lola is also the protagonist of the drama CD Prologue: The Muse of Hope, one of the singers in the rhythm game GUNVOLT RECORDS Cychronicle, and the star of the puzzle game PuzzMiX. An alternate-universe version of her is one of the protagonists of the drama CD Mirage Party.
Website Description
LAiX 1
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Combat Pod:
A combat support robot created by Copen. She is equipped with a scanning system capable of analyzing enemies' Septimas. She can then replicate mock versions of those Septimas as "EX Weapons", which Copen can use at his disposal. She is Copen's reliable partner.
Idol Mode:
While normally taking on a spheroid shape, ever since she analysed the "Muse" Septima, she is capable of transforming into "Idol Mode" to support Copen in battle through the power of song. In this form, Lola also uploads music videos to the net to give hope to the Minos, among whom she is known as the "Muse of Hope".[3]
Battle Pot:
アキュラの開発した
戦闘支援用メカ“バトルポット”。
敵セプティマホルダーの
セプティマ（超能力）を解析する
セプティマスキャニングシステムを搭載。
ビットを操り、“
あらゆるセプティマを疑似再現する
アキュラの頼れる相棒。
Mode Diva:
ふだんは球状ボディのRoRoだが、
かつて解析した“
セプティマを再現することで、
人のような姿“モードディーヴァ”に変身し、
歌の力でアキュラをパワーアップさせることが可能。
RoRoはヴァーチャルアイドルとして、
この姿で歌動画をネット配信し続けており、
マイナーズからは“希望の歌姫”と呼ばれている。[4]
LAiX 2
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She's an autonomous, self-aware robot created by Copen to assist him in battle. Lola is equipped with a weapon copy system capable of replicating enemy weapons using data she gathers in combat. She uses these weapons as she flies alongside Copen in battle. While she normally exists as a spherical robot, she can transform into a humanoid form known as "Idol Mode." In this form, she performs songs that have the power to enhance Copen's abilities. She has continued her career as an underground pop star in the parallel world, which brings lots of joy to the Workers.[5]
アキュラが開発した”バトルポット”と呼ばれる自立思考型ロボット
戦闘データから敵の武装を解析·再現するウエポンキャプチアリングシステムにより、敵の武装を再現。
アキュラの戦闘をサポートする頼れるパートナーメカ。
普段は球状の姿だが、”モードーデイーヴァー”に変身すれば、特殊な歌の力でアキュラを強化することができる。
異世界のネット上でも歌姫として活動を続けており、ワーカー（異世界のロボット）たちの間でも密かなブームーらしい。[6]
Appearance
Usually, Lola's form is that of a floating white and red sphere with blank yellow eyes.
With the power of the Muse, Lola gains the ability to shift into what is known as her "Idol Mode". In this form, her appearance shifts to that of a young girl with short, mint green hair, and blue eyes. She wears a red and white leotard with bits of gold, and white knee-highs with black and red shoes, as well as black gloves with red fingers. She also has two white and red disc-like objects known as "Speaker Pods" that broadcast songs hovering behind her, joined together by a large orange ring. She also sprouts red wing-like holograms, which vaguely resemble phoenix wings.
Lola also has access to another mode: Awakened. In her Awakened Mode, her costume turns white with gold and black highlights, and is slightly more revealing than her previous one, exposing her back and cleavage. She also has a white headset similar to Copen's with four golden petals acting similarly to a crown, and her Phoenix wings are now replaced with hovering robotic extensions bearing a resemblance to a lotus flower.
After obtaining the EX Weapon "Darkness Trigger", Lola gains another form: "Darkness Mode". In this form, Lola's costume becomes even more revealing, changing from a mostly latex-esque material to sharp, angular armor, shifting to a predominantly black color scheme with heavy purple highlights. Her gloves are replaced with gauntlets with spiked fingers, she gains thigh-high, armored leggings, her hips are accentuated by two spiked pieces of metal, and she has two horn-like appendages attached to her head. In addition to this, her wings have now been replaced by two large metal attachments around the back of her legs that sprout purple flames. Her eyes also turn purple and her skin becomes paler.
Gallery
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Personality
Lola's personality isn't overly different from the main series. She still acts as the expressive half to Copen's stoicism, and sees herself as a sort of guardian for him. If anything, she's a bit more peppy now, given her propensity to shout encouragement and overall being Copen's hype-bot in the field.
Not to say Lola doesn't have her negativity as well, especially when she's confronted with the truth to the Butterfly Effect, or invokes Darkness Trigger, which drives her berserk to the point of harming Copen if there isn't something else to target.
History
Background
Even before the start of the game, Lola has made a name for herself as the "Muse of Hope" who guides "iX". The music videos she uploads to the Undernet act as inspiration and encouragement for Minos, and she even holds a fanbase among Adepts. Compared to the main series, Lola's Anthem seems to have come from an unspecified incident where she and Copen were studying the Muse Septima.
Prologue: The Muse of Hope
Luminous Avenger iX
Mission Control
Aside from several conversations in the hideout, most of Lola's plot relevance comes from being Copen's field support and his main method of gathering and analyzing data to locate the Butterfly Effect.
City Slums 2
Once Lola pins down the location of the Butterfly Effect and the supervisory AI Demerzel, Sumeragi deploys Giant Lola tanks across the world to purge the last of the Minos. Lola herself is incensed at the mockery of her visage on each tank, even so far as tackling one head-on when it tries to kill Copen.
Sumeragi Secret Bunker 2
Breaking into the underground facility beneath Building 13, Copen and Lola find the Butterfly Effect; it's the brain of Copen's sister Mytyl, still alive and hooked up to a machine so it can use the Muse Septima to control Adepts. Lola's Septima-analysis systems can perceive Mytyl's cries, made tangible by the wall panels forming the message "P L E A S E K I L L M E".
Sumeragi Secret Bunker 3
Upon reaching the depths of the facility, Copen and Lola come face-to-face with Demerzel and defeat it twice over. But the AI manages to strike Copen with a bolt of lightning, downing him. Lola tries to invoke the Anthem, but it fails to revive Copen. She too is struck by lightning and tumbles to the ground, barely functional. As Demerzel goes into stasis, Lola calls out begging for someone to help Copen. On the surface, Kohaku hears her. In the end, both Copen and Lola are rescued by Kohaku and Blade.
Luminous Avenger iX 2
After being pulled into the desolate desert world populated by Workers along with Copen and Kohaku, Lola diligently builds a new idol reputation by uploading music videos to the worlds net, wishing to make the Workers who've helped them happy, and gains fans among them in the process. She expresses the desire to visit all kinds of worlds and become a "Super-Dimensional Muse."
Following the defeat of Mother, Lola recognizes the form of the damaged pod that emerges from Mother's mainframe and suspects the implications, but says no more. In the Hard Mode ending, the sight of what appears to be The Creator and Mother's spirits causes her to wonder if robots have souls.
Other Appearances
Blaster Master Zero 2
BMZ2 DLC ending screen
Lola appears with Copen in his playable character DLC in Blaster Master Zero 2, gaining and using EX Weapons like in iX 1. Her Idol Mode is activated using the new weapon Idol Trigger, and she briefly enters Awakening Mode for the Twin Shredder skill.
Gallery:
Card-en-Ciel
"Darkness Mode!"
"Mode change complete!"
Lola appears in the crossover roguelite card-battling RPG Card-en-Ciel as two of the game's Muses with special cards that cause her to appear and sing when conditions are met, activating special abilities. The iX1 and iX2 versions of her are treated as separate characters.
| Card | Character | Effect |
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| Beyond Probability | Lola Darkness Mode (iX1) | Cond: Activate a Memory Leak 3 times. Effect: Grant Attack Amp x3 to a card Forged with Memory Leak. |
| Purification | Lola Awakening Mode (iX2) | Cond: Activate an Amp Effect 2 times in one turn. Effect: Gain 3 [Damage+] whenever an Amp effect is activated. |
Although Lola's Idol Mode is depicted with the game's main heroine Ancie on the amiami store bonus image, that version of iX Lola doesn't appear in the game. (Instead, Lola's default form is represented by the main series Lola and original Igniter from GV2 instead)
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COGEN: Sword of Rewind
Lola appears as a supporting character with Copen in his playable DLC in the game, but does not serve any gameplay role.
Dusk Diver 2
Lola appears as a boss in the DLC sub-quest "Visitors from Other World" in Dusk Diver 2. Completion of the quest grants Yumo a Lola outfit and summonable copy of Lola's pod form, which performs a Razor Wheel attack.
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Powers and Abilities
It seems to activate more or less depending on how Copen is feeling. Like it's tied to his psyche or something.
—Lola, explaining to Kohaku how Anthem works
Lola's basic abilities are more or less the same as they were in the main series, being able to manipulate Copen's P-Bits, manage his EX Weapon system, and activate Anthem, though the last one is upgraded to give Copen infinite Bullits now. She also actively coordinates with Copen when unleashing the Twin Shredder EX Skill.
Since Nori is not present in LAiX, Lola is Copen's sole support out in the field, pointing out particular features and stage hazards, as well as analyzing whether or not an EX Weapon is effective against a particular boss. When she's not acting as Copen's hype bot, anyways.
LAiX's Anthem is different in that it's linked to Copen's emotional and mental state, rather than basing it on closeness to a particular individual. Observing and participating in social interactions improves his mental health and increases the likelihood of Anthem triggering.
When Demerzel struck down Copen with a lightning bolt, Lola successfully transformed into Awakened Mode and invoked Anthem in an attempt to revive him, but the power she lent him did not have its usual reviving effect. The reason for this is unknown.
Additionally, Copen states that Lola has a "Capture Field" that she could hypothetically use to make Kohaku "float around a bit". This may be the same telekinetic lifting ability that Lola once used to carry an unconscious Mytyl in ASG2.
Trivia
- Unlike her mainline counterpart, the Lola of LAiX has blue eyes instead of purple eyes. This may be due to her A.S. Drive's origins; in the main series it was created by analyzing Asimov, whose eyes are purple. In LAiX Copen presumably created it by analyzing Gunvolt (whose eyes are blue) at some point, as he never retrieved his gun and a sample of Asimov's blood.
- The reason Lola's original VA Yurika Endo was replaced with Mayu Mineda is because Endo chose to retire from the entertainment industry due to stress-induced health problems.
- Both Lola and Copen make a cameo in the New Year's postcard illustration for COGEN: Sword of Rewind, where Copen appears as a DLC playable character.
- iX Lola having multiple different humanoid forms corresponding to different abilities resembles certain scrapped concepts from Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, such as Lola's humanoid form changing based on the equipped EX Weapon, or Copen having a trio of Muses with different appearances (pictured).
References
- ↑ iX Lola's height has never been stated, but it is assumed here to be the same as GV2 Lola's height, as their sprites have the same height in pixels.
| Luminous Avenger iX 2 | |
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| Main Pages | Game Page • Gallery • Soundtrack (RoRo Robotics Vox) • Credits • Story Scripts |
| Team Copen | Copen • Lola • Kohaku • Null |
| Boss Characters | Ypsilon • Dacite • Vespa • Autochrome • Brigade • Hail • Ace • The Creator • Mother Computer |
| Other Characters | Blade • Jin • Maria • Kyota • Medium Bosses • Common Enemies |
| DLC Boss Characters | Kohaku Otori • Yang Yumo • Jason Frudnick • Kurona • Kirin |
| Missions | Pillar Outskirts • Volcano Block • Jungle Block • Passage to Upper Stratum • Laboratory Block • Industrial Block • Arctic Block • Space Block • Passage to Top Floor • Entrance to Top Floor • Hanging Gardens • Hanging Gardens 2 • Versus Missions and Boss Rush |
| Songs | Command Prompt • Purification • Love's Sanctuary • Ready to Go! • Curiosity = Possibility! • You're Not Alone • Wordplay Magic• The New World |
| Story Elements | Workers • Grave Pillar |
| Gameplay Mechanics | Score and Kudos • Copen's EX Weapons • Abilities • Skills |