Lav



MRM-19 "Lavender" Anikanov is an Anikanov/Walter Robotics former rescue bot built in 1996.

Appearance
Lav has a metal chassis with pale purple skin. The skin is covered in fluorescent purple details. The center of the diamond shape in his chest glows from his core being underneath. He has digitigrade legs and replaceable limbs, much like his brother Hiram. His eyes glow blue, the natural purple glow covered by a blue film. His ears are made of silicone with a wire frame and can squish and bend when he gets knocked around.

History
He was the first robot created in collaboration with Anikanov Labs and Walter Robotics by Pavel Anikanov and Walter Worker Hiram Sprint. When he came online he had a strict moral code but his purple core led to instability in its leaning and when he saw the horrors of the world around him he decided it would be better to join the chaos rather than try and prevent it, a fruitless endeavor in his opinion. He went rogue, leading to the creation of Hiram and the dismantling of the prior MRM models.

Lav now works of his own accord. He tries to spread chaos in any way he can, especially to those who were meant to be close to him.

During the events of Meltdown, he travels to Ukraine to investigate strange readings from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. He meets Чернить and the two get along well, with her giving him a piece of corium from the Elephant's Foot in the basement. The proximity to this eventually makes Pavel ill from radiation poisoning but he does not take the blame for it. After Pavel's recovery at the hands of Hiram, Lav goes off on his own again.

Personality
Lav believes firmly that the world is beyond redemption at this point. He is quick to judge the character of others around him and if their worldviews don't match his he considers them an enemy. He still sees himself as a paragon of virtue because his rescue-bot moral programming is still all there, just tilted in a different direction. Despite this, a lot of his personality is a front because he really just strives to cause chaos. He is very immature and likes to be petty with people.

Trivia

 * His core is made from a mixture of blue and red matter
 * He uses nicknames for everyone
 * He still occasionally visits the members of his family to mock them
 * He doesn't consider himself an Anikanov anymore
 * Lav knows about the history of Anikanov Labs and tries to use it to manipulate other Anikanov-bots who don't know any better
 * Because of the events of Meltdown, he still sets off a Geiger counter