In a room that was meant for checking the condition on a certain project for combating creatures known as Shadows. A girl with piercing red eyes and robotic body that mostly black and silver. Her shoulders and hips were a little more covered than her previous generation Sisters making her look a little less robotic. She sat in a large chair with cables hooked up to her. The girl happens to be from a program that created human-like robots with artificial personality in hopes to induce a Persona, the artificial humans are called Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons. The girl is the eighth generation along with her other previous generation Sisters and only just recently finished so she was the first of her generation. A female scientist with short brown hair from a group known as the Kirijo Group was assigned to help this particular Anti-Shadow Weapon. "...You see, Unit-46, people tend to wear masks for either festivities or professional reasons. Or to hide their identity."
"Hide their identity?" Unit-46 curiously stared at the mask in her hand.
"Yes, they wear masks to either hide from someone or they are thieves of some sort."
"I see."
"Masks also have another meaning."
"They do? What do you mean?"
"Well, what I'm talking about is-"
"Doctor Ota, we're ready to begin." One of the other scientists said. The other two of her co-workers are male and one had a rather untidy appearance with his loose tie and mostly buttoned up shirt, the other one has a more tidy appearance than the other one.
"Yes, of course." Doctor Ota turned her attention from one of her coworkers towards Unit-46. "We'll continue where we left off later."
"Understood," Unit-46 said as Doctor Ota took the mask and went over to her workstation. "Thank you, Doctor." Doctor Ota glanced at the Anti-Shadow Weapon and noticed the small smile on her face which too made her happy.
"You're welcome. Alright, Unit-46, I'm going to need you to power down, for now, so we can download your data."
"Understood." Just like what the Doctor told, Unit-46 powered down while she began her work.
"I was worried when we decided to give this one a slightly larger Plume of Dusk in hopes to get induces its Persona faster. I was hoping it didn't end up like that 5th Gen." The untidy scientist said.
"You treated that one like it was just a tool. Of course, it was going to act like that after what you said. They have feelings just like you or me."
"They are just tools, weapons to be used. Whatever emotions they 'feel' is all artificial. All of it is generated by the Plume of Dusk."
"You do know that a Persona is something that only is acquired via a soul? Even if the soul is artificially created by a strange crystal, just having one makes them a living being." The untidy scientist decided to keep quiet after what Ota said and it was quiet for a while she worked on the data until the other one chimed in.
"I personally find all the Anti-Shadow Weapons fascinating. Depending on their interactions it drastically changes what their personalities are going to be like. Like there's this one 7th Gen that rather speaks with a monotone voice and acts more like a machine and there's this one, for instance, it's very curious about the outside world. You have to wonder what brought about such a thing." He said just as Unit-46 began to power up since Ota finished up her data collecting and she looked around the room curiously.
"Listen, Unit-46," Ota said to get Unit-46's attention which worked immediately. "We finished all of the major tests, we just need to finish up a few more things and than tomorrow we'll be leaving to the research lab in Port Island."
"Understood."
"Yes, you are the completed model of your generation. You will no longer be referred to as Unit-46 and will now be known as The 8th Generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Xiphos."
"Understood."
"It's great! You have your own name now!" Doctor Ota said with a smile.
Two Days Later
"I have to get her! Before this...!" Doctor Ota ran down the hallway in panic from the recent incident involving a fellow scientist releasing all of the subjects too soon. After turning the corner she ran into one of the subjects, it was a black blob with arms and it noticed her when she tried to back away. "N-No!" The creature was about to attack, but it stopped as several bullets killed it. The scientist gasped as she was able to found Xiphos before the lab exploded and took everything with it. The Anti-Shadow Weapon felt her sensors go off as she looked back down the hallway.
"Shadows detected." She said in a rather calm voice. "Doctor. I suggest you leave the facility immediately while I go suppress the threat."
"No! Look Xiphos... Follow me. We need to go!" The girl stared at the scientist for a few seconds before responding.
"...Understood." The doctor grabbed Xiphos' hand and led her down the hallway. Occasionally, a Shadow would pop up outta nowhere to attack them, but they were usually taken down by a few bullets. Not long after the hallway started to fill up with smoke from all the fire.
"Doctor? Where are we going?"
"We're getting out of here!"
"Doctor... taking equipment, research data, or anything that belongs to the Kirijo Group is a grave violation."
"Never mind that! Come on! We have to leave!" She tried to leave the facility but they were caught in an explosion from one of the rooms they were passing exploded. Xiphos slowly picked herself off the ground and looked at the door that exploded which the room was completely engulfed in flame. She looked around for the Doctor Ota and noticed she was lying motionless on the ground.
"Doctor...?" Xiphos reached out to her and flipped the doctor on her back, her scans told her what she needed to know. The Doctor was dead and once she found out, she couldn't quite explain the strange feeling in her chest. She reached up and grabbed the blue scarf around her neck. All input slowly started to shut down, first, the motor functions next were, the auditory and visual functions shut down, but despite that, some strange noise seemed to activate everything. She looked to the side once she noticed a blue glowing light in the corner of her eye. The blue light came from a blue butterfly that she never seen before or recorded in any book. She held up her hand as the butterfly flew closer to her. Once the butterfly landed on her hand, a strange and warm sensation washed over her. The butterfly faded away and the next thing she knew was a loud bang and nothing but darkness.
It was dark and quiet like she was in some unknown void and the quiet darkness went on for some time until the sound of someone talking could be heard. Suddenly, words appeared to her that said "Visual systems: Initiated." She suddenly heard a strange sound that seemed to come from something close-by. The darkness vanished as everything brightened up. At first, everything was pixelated and digital for a few seconds until everything became crystal clear. Xiphos stared at a wall which had a shelf against it and that shelf held boxes among other things. She looked around the somewhat dirty room to see a work table in the corner and a bed in the other corner and behind her was another shelf that held several souvenirs on it. The sound of footsteps came from downstairs and she curiously looked towards its direction. She watched as a black cat and a male student with messy black hair come from downstairs. Both the cat and the student stared in shock at the mysterious girl they found sitting in the middle of their room.
Xiphos heard the cat meow while the student walked closer to her and Xiphos stared at the cat for a second before speaking up. "I am an Eighth Generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Xiphos," Xiphos answered. The cat let out another meow that sounded like it was surprised. "Yes, I do," Xiphos answered again.
This time the student spoke up. "You understand him? How?"
"What do you mean?"
"You understood what he said when you should only be hearing meows."
"I do not know what you mean. Speech isn't the only means of communication."
The cat lets out another meow to which the student replied. "You're right. We should get everyone here." He said as he pulled out his phone.
After a while of waiting new faces showed up in the room, one was a blonde student with the same uniform as the one who she found out was named Akira. The other one was another blonde student with pigtails, she wore a student uniform like the last two and the other woman with short brown hair stood next to her. The last one to show up was a man with dark hair and he didn't wear the uniform like the other ones, he wore a white dress shirt with black pants and loafers.
"You just found her here?" The blonde girl, Ann, said from her spot on the couch.
"Yes," Akira answered.
"And you said that she could understand Morgana despite claiming only hearing meows?"
"Yes," Akira answered again.
"Are you sure?" Ann asked. "Why don't we test it out? I want to see if this is true or not."
"Yeah! I kinda want to see too," The blonde boy, Ryuji, said.
"Yes, I want to see too. I'm interested in how she's able to understand Morgana." The tall dark-haired boy, Yusuke, said.
"Alright, Morgana! Say something!" The cat, Morgana, let out another meow while the short haired girl, Makato, nodded.
"I'd like to know that too."
"He says, "Anti-Shadow Weapon? Does that mean you have a Persona?" and yes, I am capable of operating the Persona, "Theseus"."
"Wow! I can't believe you can use a Persona!" Ryuji said. "Uh, you said your name is Xiphos, right?"
"Correct."
"Oh, yeah, we should introduce ourselves. I'm Ann Takamaki." Ann said.
"Yeah, you're right! The name's Ryuji Sakamoto."
"My name is Makoto Niijima."
"I'm Yusuke Kitagawa."
"It is very nice to meet you all," Xiphos said.
AN: I wanted my OC to be an Anti-Shadow Weapon, but in a different time than just being in Persona 3. As I was thinking about how I could do that, I thought of Tartarus. I mean, if an explosion from the Shadows was strong enough to bend space and time to create the tower, and also leave a large hole in space and time which is strong enough change the past. It shouldn't be that impossible to be launched forward into time, right? Also, it works her being an Anti-Shadow Weapon because you know how the others are screwed over by adults and her being an Anti-Shadow Weapon is the worst out of all of them, I mean owing your entire existence to helping bring out the end of humanity. I think that's pretty bad compared to the others and I think it fits in with the theme of the group.