Ampoule Ephraím

Ampoule Ephraím (アンプル・エフライン Anpuru Efurain), also known as Amp, is the original persona of Seraphelle. She is a secondary character of the GALAXYFANTASY story project, and one of the main protagonists of the spinoff GALAXYFANTASY: Ephraím Records.

Physical
Ampoule is a very petite and busty woman, with a bottom-heavy body type. She has a pale skin and ether-infused eyes and lips. She has a big ahoge and a messy-looking hair style, being held together by a visor. She has horns that protrude out of a part of the visor, broken off in a pair, which is trying to mimic the Type-C Ancient racial feature of horns. She has a long, bright tail that ends in a massive lightbulb, and she has many lightbulbs imprinted within her body, notably seen on her legs. Some of her Ether lines can be seen as well.

Because of her mineral-like structure inside, she has the second heaviest height to weight ratio among all characters in GALAXYFANTASY after Charlotte, being close to 100 kilos for barely being above a metre.

Conn'el, his Meister and creator, built Ampoule with the idea in mind that she would be his caretaker, affection giver and kind of a maid. Deep down, he also wished for some kind of sex-doll, which end up resulting in Ampoule's initial appearance. Conn'el then tweaked several physical features such as light to be as bright as possible, as he explicitly explains that it was to save up on energy spending in his room, by letting Ampoule brighten it up.

Artifice Racial Attributes
Ampoule is an Artifice. However the major difference between her and most if not all Artifices is that she was not series-built nor a custom order from the notable companies that produces Artifices. As such, a lot of her features do not align with the Artifice Code of Laws that have been put into place for Artifice regulation. When that occurs, an Artifice is considered as "illegitimate" or "illegal construction", which can lead into the dismantling of the Artifice and jailing of the creator/contributors. Conn'el circumvented it by creating her offsite and mostly building code by himself.

The major clue of this is how she was not modelled exactly after an organic lifeform, like the Ancient race and its subspecies. Although her appearance is greatly inspired from Type-C Ancients, she does not bear the genetical imprint from the organic subspecies counterpart.

Some Artifice features that can definitely be noticed are:


 * "Perfectly Round Ears", or PRE, that can be immediately noticed, this is due to people having a deep preconceived idea that Artifices have round ears ;
 * Her unnatural hair colour ;
 * Ampoule's very short feet can also be attributed to Artifice traits ;
 * She also has her eyes, tongue and tail imbued by ether, which is another clue of her belonging to that race ;
 * Lastly, she has a Jewel Core, although not standard, it is definitely used for some forms of Artifice manufacturing.

Ampoule is a very special case of a unique Artifice. Because Artifices are believed to be the closest artificial beings from organic ones, Ampoule differs a lot by having more traditional robotic instructions and a mineralogy-like composition from nanomachines that is rarely found nowadays due to Artifice Laws setting the bar fairly high in terms of personality simulation, feature sets and nanomachine compositions.

Ampoule Build System Change Attributes
Mostly referred as the A.B.S. Change ability, Ampoule can directly turn into items, tools and objects. It can be anything that can be handled. The objects, items and tools have all a common design theme which follows Ampoule's Artifice appearance, with purple ether implementations, mostly purple or black coloured items.

REFRAIN Clothing Set
The original attire Ampoule always wear, most of the time. Conn'el called it "REFRAIN", which is a homophone of the Ephraím name he establishes as his indie company and family name. The major pattern is the presence of a triangular lightbulb formation almost everywhere, because it follows how her Jewel Core was designed. The Ether lights are cranked to the maximum so she can brighten up and entire room as designed. There are a lot of lightbulbs present within the set, 64 total accounting the ones imprinted within her body and the ones attached to the clothing set, excluding the tail and the actuators which are actually ether radiations.

The clothing is rather risqué, but Conn'el didn't really create it himself, since the code did not have any say for the final result and appearance. The result only occurs when Conn'el awakens Ampoule, and his deepest desires are reflected in her appearance. Some types of Artifice manufacture can prevent and circumvent this, but it is not the case for Ampoule.

Swimsuit Set
At some point, Yurielle buys Ampoule a swimsuit. Because of her very unusual body type, she had to take the swimsuit piece in the kids' section of the shopping malls. Yurielle wanted to buy her a sexy swimsuit, but she ended up settling on a cute one-piece set that compliments her purple ether.

Maid Set
Cute set that she wears whenever she ends up caretaking the Ephraim family, or when she attends maid/server work. It is a standard-looking set, and it covers most of Ampoule's imprinted lightbulb designs.

Other Attires

 *  Assault Set:  It is actually the exact same as the REFRAIN set, but the lighting and the palette is different. Because Ampoule was not initially designed as a weapon, the implementation of warfare functions meant that whenever she activated them, she needs to give visual indication of so. Thus, Ampoule has a more orange/yellow tone when Assault Mode is assumed, the clothes automatically change colours too.

Gallery
"see also: Ampoule's Gallery."Coming soon.

Personality
The main traits of her personalities are the following:


 * robotic behaviour (lack of human patterns of behaviour) ;
 * emotional immaturity (lack of perspective, self reflection and life experience) ;
 * ignorance, being dim-witted (mentally inferior to humans, limited comprehension capability) ;
 * the lack of feeling a self, conscious or proper humanity (affirmation of being an object) ;
 * logical indecency (Artifice features must be in place for a reason) ;
 * being affectionate, tactile and intimate regardless of the person encountered (lack of characterisation and importance) ;
 * making logical decisions to a fault (lack of understanding human bias) ;

Phase Shift Phenomenon
Seraphelle/Amp, is known to have what is called a "Phase Phenomenon Shift", which as a brief explanation means that no matter what happens, anyone that stays relatively close to her for a moderate amount of time, will end up falling in love with her. Some may not be aware, and the acknowledgment of this phenomenon puts those concerned into questioning whether their love towards Seraphelle/Amp was genuine or coming from the phenomenon. This phenomenon was born out of the contact with the Apocrypha Relic, which can give that type of power, originating within the desires of Conn'el to have a caretaker and someone that would give affection, love and intimacy to him.

This phenomenon seems to not affect other Artifices as Hannah does not develop feelings for her. It is also worth mentioning that, whenever Ampoule confess their feelings to the person in question, it seemingly cancels the phenomenon, as it was the case for Conn'el and Praxis, who are the ones that discovered the phenomenon and managed to mitigate their feelings towards her. Yurielle and Lymée on the other hand, seem to still be in love with her despite the confession which may point to genuine love, however Yurielle is still unsure. The phenomenon can cycle multiple times if the person is still close to Ampoule's presence, where people can fall in love again, despite knowing that it isn't true feelings and creates discomfort until Ampoule confesses.

Ampoule is not aware of the phenomenon, as nobody wants to talk about it to her, because she is expected to not understand. Here is a list of people who have been affected by her phenomenon:


 * Conn'el ; Praxis ; Dessert ; Bellion ; Hal have fallen in love with Seraphelle/Amp, however after the confession they no longer have feelings toward her, unless they are still close to her which creates a continuous cycle, which happens once for Conn'el in Season 3.
 * Lymée and Yurielle have fallen in love with Seraphelle/Amp as well, but they still have feelings towards her despite the confession, which may point towards a genuine love for her. She does state that she still very much loves Lymée even after departing the school.

Background
"In order to keep this page brief, you can check the background tab to have a complete and detailed storytelling on Ampoule's backstory."Conn'el created Ampoule around 20 years ago or so, there is no precise date on exactly which year it occurred, however it is clear from Conn'el that the awakening and Ampoule first ever opening her eyes was on a November 29th, when he was between 19 to 21 years old. He built her as his own Artifice, a passion project he always wanted to pursue as a child. As nobody wanted to follow his project, he was not capable for getting DNA sampling to generate Ampoule's genetical data. He constructed and coded everything by hand with instruction books he'd bought from his childhood, shutting himself in his room for several years without contacting anybody, focusing on his creation.

Upon the creation of Ampoule, several notable mentions occurred; Conn'el lacked the skills to import or create from scratch a simulated personality operating system on his own, so he created a unique, hand-made operating system just for Ampoule, Refrain OS. Another thing is that the Jewel Core is a more traditional type of Core, which its systems and feature sets was coded from scratch, instead of relying on a standard library all companies use. As Conn'el lacked the DNA data to model his Artifice to an organic counterpart, he built that from scratch as well; She ended up looking close to a Type-C, but does not have any genetic data close to that species.

As Conn'el awakened Ampoule, she appeared before him, in his salvaged Nanoreactor and opened her eyes to see her Meister. The overall operation was a success, costing several years worth of time for Conn'el, however working alone and without any public library, doing everything from scratch means that a major downside is that Ampoule is emotionally immature and very robotic, but it didn't make Conn'el any less proud. They spend time together for several months until one of Conn'el childhood friends, Praxis comes to his room to check up on him after not giving any sign of life for several years.

As they live along all 3 together, both Conn'el and Praxis end up inexplicably falling in love with Ampoule, to the point of the disillusioned thoughts of Praxis being attracted to girls. As Conn'el distances himself from Ampoule, he notices her Phase Phenomenon Shift capability, which turns illusions and thoughts into real outcomes. Ampoule makes a displaced remark asking if the two would be okay sleeping together, which breaks Praxis' illusion on Ampoule and goes back to normal. She confesses to Ampoule that she always had a crush for Conn'el, being so kind and intelligent. Conn'el and Praxis end up dating.

Years after, Conn'el and Praxis, long married now have a child. Named Yurielle she bears the same traits as both her parents, lively, intelligent, brown haired, yellow eyed, and has the same forehead gem as her mother. She grows up despising Ampoule despite taking care of her, because of her difference, and how she was told that she is her sister despite having absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to neither her, Conn'el or Praxis, and showing no emotions to her. Going to a highschool dorm, Amp is seen obligated to follow Yurielle, and the two spend time together for a year or so. Yurielle resents the hate she grew towards Ampoule and asks to be forgiven because she feels like she has a unique sister. It is also around the time that rivalry between Yurielle and Hannah, one of Yurielle's Artifice classmates begins, however it's friendly rivalry as they enjoy spending time together.

Yurielle falls in love with Ampoule, similarly to her parents, but she feels like it's genuine. After graduating, Hannah, Yurielle and Ampoule establish a small trio, to investigate the galaxy. As they depart from their home planet NANUETTA-HF, their ship is seen taken down by the Federation Fleet, crashing down on Miktam-04B, the headquarters of the Federation. It was a set up for the Federation to get a hold of Ampoule, so she could spy on the Shevat Protocol and their doings. As Ampoule is separated from her friend and sister, she is put under confinement, while the other two were unconscious got transported back to their home planet, figuring out how to find Ampoule after they woke up.

Wilhelm, tampers with Ampoule with ease, due to being an Artifice and despite the many measures put into place by Conn'el, he manages to override certain functions of hers, such as a brand new personality layer, her entire appearance which is now modelled after Type-C Ancient DNA, brand new names and fake memories. He was not able to delete her past memories because of the insanely encrypted method Conn'el used on the memory bay of her Jewel Core. Ampoule, now Seraphelle joins the Kepler Star Academy that is being run by the Shevat Protocol, soon after she receives powers from the Apocrypha, which is in the possession of Wilhelm at the time.

As such, Ampoule was no more, until Seraphelle would decide to reset her Core.

Abilities
Ampoule has a fairly diverse palette of abilities despite being an Artifice. She notably gets a brand new set of weaponry systems after her comeback in Season 3.

Ampoule seems to have a natural talent towards gymnastics and ice skating. According to Conn'el it was one of his childhood hobbies, and Ampoule had the opportunity to practise these sports during her initial months of operations. She uses this experience on the field whenever she needs to get offensive in melee combat. Her shoes are already suited for her to skate on any surface.

A.B.S. Change
A.B.S. Change  (Ampoule Build System Change)  is a native feature of Ampoule, within her Jewel Core code, she can turn into any object, item or tool possible. The limit is set to objects that are handy, but the range of objects within that limit is seemingly infinite. The A.B.S Change feature can be explained by the fact that the outer body of Ampoule is a nanomachine crystal structure that shapes itself depending on the code within the Jewel Core, so when the structure is pointed towards the A.B.S. code library, it will let Ampoule turn into any object possible she desires or is asked to. The only thing that does not change regardless of forms is the Jewel Core.

It is important to note that when Ampoule takes the form of an object, the object is still her body, which is subject to senses, such as pain and pleasure, which are amplified by 3 compared to her Artifice appearance. This is explained due to the condensed structure making the contact points much stronger and closer. She can talk through her Jewel Core via Ether Waves, but rarely does so.

Blade Summon
A feature common to Artifices, which is to summon a weapon unique to them. However Ampoule has the unique feature of being able to summon more than one weapon at a time, while also have a diverse amount of weapons to summon, thanks to the A.B.S Change library.

D.S.S.S Sensor
The visor on Ampoule's head is the D.S.S.S visor that the D.S.S.S sensor chip uses along with other sensory detectors. It's an incredibly powerful chip, that allows for a complete, data rich collection of any observation made with it, across all realms connected to the Real Domain, down to the quantum fields. Nothing can hide from it. The visor also helps Ampoule target a significant amount of subjects at once to retrieve all their data or to use her weaponry system on them. Conn'el spent most of his time Research and Developing the D.S.S.S chip in his Artifice Project.

EF-Effect
EF-effect  (Ether Field Effect)  allows objects or people that are on another plane of reality to be brought on the Real Domain. It acts like a shockwave that makes intangible things tangible, and invisible things visible. The shockwave can be powerful enough to knock people out as well.

Phenomenon Shifter
After noticing the Phenomenon affecting him and Praxis, Conn'el replicates the function for it to be useful. When Ampoule activates the Shifter, the thought or illusion of the person that is asking for Ampoule to input see their illusion or thought become reality, via a chain of purposefully chained reactions that lead into the desired result, via quantum field manipulation. According to Conn'el, this might be the closest form of omnipotence that mortals may be able to reach, since it copies the functions of the Apocrypha, which is a divine and omnipotent relic.

Assault Weaponry
After her comeback, Conn'el upgrades Ampoule's Jewel Core and structure, allowing her to have brand new technology that her has been working on for the past decade, notably:

Photon Buster
Arrays of extremely powerful light beams that targets one to many subjects with an unpredictable path ;

Hadron Barrier
Simple, yet robust trion barrier that can suppress and nullify any type of incoming attack within a certain range ;

Phase Transition Weaponry
Extremely powerful atomic technology that sets up a phase transition which turns matter from one physical state to another, implying that the energy beam can perform a direct conversion of matter to energy, similar to a matter-antimatter collision ;

R.M.D.-Pülse
Powerful pulsations of disturbance waves that disturbs the strong force field, all atomic compositions of the selected targets breaks down to elementary particles, obliterating any molecular or atomic structure ;

Transfer System
Gate-jumping technology that summons goods to remote locations, Ampoule uses it to teleport heavy weaponry.

Miscellaneous Features
Ampoule has more features that are rather trivial and miscellaneous in nature:


 * Intake Processing: Ampoule's internals are capable of processing anything into ether energy ;
 * S-Drive: Allows Ampoule to have intercourse as part of her initial features, and amplify its senses ;
 * Stardust Drink: Ampoule can produce highly nutritious and extremely sweetened drink ;
 * E.M.-Discharge: Ampoule's lightbulbs are powerful enough to emit strong electromagnetism radiations.

Conn'el Ephraím
Relation: Spiritual Father (non-blood related) ; Former Meister ; Creator

The original creator and first Meister of Ampoule. He roughly took 5 years or so to create the first working version of Ampoule. At first, he cherishes Ampoule and enters in a sort of date with her, which ends up in him falling in love with her inexplicably, despite him considering that Ampoule isn't a real person yet. He takes distances from Ampoule and doesn't even let her to sleep in his bed anymore. When Praxis joins, his love for Ampoule stops and his opinions of her finally return to what they used to be, and cherishes Ampoule, but more so like a daughter now.

After giving birth to Yurielle with Praxis, he tasks Ampoule to take care of her "sister", which makes Ampoule consider Yurielle as her sister and Conn'el continues to think of Ampoule of his first daughter, while Yurielle is his second, but biologically.

Conn'el continuously improves on Ampoule, even remotely until he loses track of her upon turning into Seraphelle. His research has surpassed any Artifice Manufacturer or engineer at this point, and even if her knows how to implement a personality into Ampoule, he categorically refuses as this would no longer make Ampoule, Ampoule as everyone knows her.

Praxis Ephraím
Relation: Spiritual Mother (non-blood related) ; Former Meister ; Friend

Praxis, because co-Meister of Ampoule along with Conn'el. She helps Conn'el to improve and work on the technology he established for Ampoule. She falls right in the trap of the Phenomenon Shifter, as she once fantasized to have a night with Ampoule, and the Shifter made it happen. Praxis, deep in the illusion to the point that she thought she was into same-sex relationships and end up having nights together. Praxis actually was into Conn'el before the Shift happened, and Ampoule did notice.

Ampoule tells Praxis to sleep with Conn'el and that action snowballs into the two dating together and getting married. They eventually decide to have a biological daughter for Ampoule to not be alone. After the family is established, Praxis considers Ampoule like a daughter at this point since she took so much care of her, and seeing Ampoule and Yurielle together assured her that both of them would have a safe future.

Yurielle Ephraím
Relation: Spiritual Sisters (non-blood related)

Yurielle is the spiritual sister of Ampoule. She was taken care by Ampoule when growing up. Yurielle grew to resent and hate Ampoule through a slight racial bias, because her parents and herself were all Type-A Ancients, and Ampoule clearly was not. She found it absurd that she has to consider Ampoule as her sister even though they look nothing alike. This didn't stop Ampoule from taking care of her, Yurielle just made it harder for Ampoule, who didn't really notice.

After her home-schooling, she goes to a public high-school that has dorms and Ampoule is tasked to stay with her. Yurielle already started to regret hating on Ampoule for no real reason and she's always been there for her. The dorms are the tipping point for Yurielle, who starts having feelings towards Ampoule, seemingly being unaffected by the Phenomenon Shift by then. The two of them also meet Hannah, friend rival of Yurielle, and they start a trio. Yurielle confesses that she loves her sister and is uncomfortable about it.

When establishing the REFRAIN Records investigative group, their adventure is abruptly stopped by the Galactic Federation, that separates Yurielle from Ampoule. The Federation abducts Ampoule, turning her into Seraphelle. Yurielle enters into a deep psychological distress and depression because of the loss of her beloved sister. Thankfully Hannah helps her going through the 3 long years without Ampoule ever in her life.

In Season 3, at the conclusion of Seraphelle's character arc, she has reset and only her Jewel Core remain. Lymée and Leïla find out that Yurielle and Hannah are investigating on Tauri-CF, and brings the Jewel Core to Yurielle for her to awaken it, feeling that she doesn't deserve to awaken it herself after Lady Melia explained Seraphelle's backstory to the students concerned. Yurielle immediately recognised the Jewel Core having the same aura as Ampoule, and collapses in tears. By holding the Core firmly and close to her chest, she unintentionally awakens the Core. Ampoule, her true form takes shape, but with the memories of both Ampoule and Seraphelle. Yurielle is so happy to see Ampoule again that she isn't letting out of her grip. Ampoule expresses her desire to stay with her sister and the REFRAIN Records Group, and Lymée makes her final goodbye in front of them.

The activities of the group, finally back on full activity, they go back to NANUETTA-HF to see their parents they haven't seen for a while, meanwhile Yurielle hides her affection towards Ampoule in front of them. Yurielle is in conflict in herself, being hesitant whether her love towards her sister is genuine or part of the Phenomenon Shifter. She later starts accepting the love thanks to Hannah who supports her. Ampoule loves her back even though she is not capable of showing it.

Hannah Abigaïl
Relation: Best Friend

Hannah is one of only Ampoule's friends she spends a good amount of time with. Starting out by being bullyish at high-school, because of Ampoule's relationship towards Yurielle she ended up becoming her friend. The two are part of the trio, along with Yurielle that establish the REFRAIN Records investigative group, kickstarted by Hannah herself. Hannah believes in the trio as long as the three are together, and Ampoule has no objection to it.

Hannah witnessing Ampoule's existence puts herself into question a lot of times, thinking that she may not deserve this amount of intelligence compared to Ampoule, or the amount of psychological freedom she has. Ampoule always argue that Hannah is lovely because of the way she is, and it is due to how the environment and her past shaped her. Hannah bears a bit of jealousy towards Ampoule because she is Yurielle's "kind of sister", and the two are openly having intimate interaction in front of her. Hannah likes to unapologetically disturb the two and their moments by just inserting herself at random moments. She wants to be close to the two even more, but she knows that it will take time.

Affinities
Ampoule's Affinity chart is quite unique, because not being present in either Season 1 and Season 2, she does not have many affinities. The chart mostly revolves around people that had a strong bond towards Seraphelle that still cling to Ampoule by considering that both are the same, and her family.

Trivia

 * "Ampoule" means Lightbulb in French.
 * the RE: appendix in her name creates the homophone of "refrain" when combined to her Ephraím surname, which was added after her awakening with Yurielle. Refrain means chorus in French.
 * Ephraím is a Hebrew name. All Ancient characters bear Jewish, Judaism and ancient Greek names, similar to Hannah and Yurielle.
 * A total of 64 lightbulbs are on her body and clothing.
 * Ampoule can emit light powerful enough to blind people.
 * The existence of Ampoule puts in question the place of Artifices in Ancient Society. At the current moment they are considered almost as equals as Ancients, however they still lack liberties. Ampoule does not desire for freedom and accepts her designs and functions, which is nothing like a regular Artifice.