Lotus is a character in the YoRHa Boys stage play and NieR:Automata - YoRHa Boys. He is an android and a member of the Resistance in a squad with Cactus and Phlox.
Personality
Lotus enjoys tinkering with machinery and is described as socially awkward.[2]
He is able to repurpose enemy machinery to create devices such as autoturrets.
Story
Lotus was a European android model apart of one of many Resistance groups. He, Phlox, and Cactus deserted the Resistance to look for treasure they could sell off for a high price and move to some remote area away from the battlefield where they could live in peace.
One day, he and his squad are looking in the Mountain Zone in which they get trapped when the area they thought was safe becomes riddled in countless machine lifeforms. They come across a YoRHa escape pod which they mistake as containing treasure and move it to a cavern nearby, where they're huddled up. Lotus in that time becomes enamored by the junk he collects around the area and sets up auto-turrets. They then meet the M Squadron who discloses to them the pod contains their comrade YoRHa Type D No.2, not treasure. He then informs the group of an explosion by machine lifeforms too late.
Rendered unconscious in the explosion, Lotus is dreaming about having a "harem" of machines for him to modify, with him loving everything about machine materials and wishing to create all sorts of innovations. Lotus then aggressively wakes Cactus up with a rock.
Later at their camp, Lotus, absorbed in his junk, asks No.9 and No.21 why they're even bothering with them when they're deserters, with No.21 parroting Instructor Black's words that they are duty bound to help all androids as YoRHa members, though he expresses his disgust at Lotus's group for being deserters. Lotus, not caring for his reaction, justifies himself with the "lazy ant theory" that suggests not every member of an organization needs to be active, unashamed.
Lotus later is in a strategy meeting with Black and No.21. Black assembles them all for a briefing in which he splits them into three teams in order for them to all escape the Mountain Zone. Cactus and his squad are part of Team A alongside No.4 and No.22 and would neutralize an enemy tower that commands aerial forces in the area. The team succeeds and they board the airship, but when some YoRHa members commit mutiny on the ship, the airship crashes.
He and his squad, alongside Black, find themselves surrounded near a cliff by machines. They are saved by an infected No.6, who ends up torturing them himself. Lotus attempts to hurt No.6 with some modified machine bullets but fails. Cactus pretends to get infected himself and pushes his comrades off the cliff while pretending to shoot himself and fall off as well. No.4 discovers Cactus and his squad survived, having pretended to have been infected and killed.
Some time after their escape from the Mountain Zone, Cactus, Lotus and Phlox are looking for treasure once again in the sea and across the lands, to no avail. They end up becoming lost, stranded, or put into numerous dangerous situations several times. They attempt to drink out of a river when they ran out of water, but are stopped by Anemone, the leader of a Resistance group, when she says the water has been contaminated by the remains of a Goliath class machine. They are led to her Resistance Camp that they settle in for some time as Cactus presses Anemone for any spots for treasure. Anemone realizes they’re deserters but is open minded enough to let them go. They later come across an extremely fast blue rectangular machine that's playing music and hope to catch it, especially Lotus. When they use a land-mine to stop it in its tracks, the being introduces himself as Emil and proclaims he's not a machine and that he sells bargained wares. At this, Cactus's group offers to be Emil's suppliers for some extra change. Some time afterwards, they encounter Jackass who recognizes them as European models and gets intrigued by Lotus's invention as well as Cactus's pseudo memories installed in his AI (a trait most androids have with variable memories that they often can't distinguish from their own real ones). Cactus unintentionally gets Jackass interested in mackerel and Jackass attempts to experiment on the group before Lotus knocks her out, saying that even he has standards not to modify androids, and they escape. They reflect on their experience with the YoRHa M Squadron, thinking that though they were scary, they ultimately weren't bad people, and then head off to find more treasure.
Gallery
References
- ↑ YoRHa Musical and YoRHa Boys – The Cast. Fire Sanctuary.
- ↑ NieR:Automata - YoRHa Boys p.132
Lotus was a lot to deal with, but that didn’t mean he was a bad guy. It was just all those little miscommunications and the fact that you always had to puzzle out the things he said—in other words, all the social awkwardness.
