User:Rex700/A.I.G.I.S. (Draft)

A.I.G.I.S. is the third labyrinth in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

Details
A reality in the movie world that is based on Aigis and sci-fi robot movies. In the reality of the movie, people begin to start ugly wars based on their own beliefs and destroyed the very world they live in. An AI has managed to take over the ruins of the world and rebuilt it into an utopia built from identical-looking black robots devoid of emotions or personality. Having uniqueness and personality is considered a crime in this new world and utopia can only be reached by making every robot identical, emotionless beings. However, a robot had somehow managed to obtain personality, and it could potentially disrupt the order of the AI's utopia.

The movie Labyrinth takes the form of a futuristic city inhabited by identical looking black robots. A research laboratory acts as its depths and at the deepest floor is the commanding center that houses the Mother Computer, an omnipotent AI that detests any uniqueness and personality.

The party enters this labyrinth after Doe creates the key to its theater. Upon entering, they encounter the Persona 3 cast fighting one of the featureless robots, and they do not recognize the P3P Heroine due to not originating from her reality, which she responses with sadness. After defeating the robot, the P3 cast joins the party inside the cinema lobby.

At one point, they also encountered a robot that resembles Aigis which is named UIY-2249. but is given the name Ribbon by the party. Ribbon is an unique entity that should be deactivated, but somehow came to life, and unlike other robots seen in the area, can develop emotions and converse like a human, and was friendly towards the party. She states that she is a unique entity that should be exterminated but somehow came to life. Initially, she wants to be initizalized so she could like like any other robot.

When the party enters the research laboratory, they encounter the P3 hero and the real Aigis, who were defending themselves from a swarm of drone F.O.Es. Despite Aigis used her orgia mode to fight the drones, her attacks seemingly had no effect in front of the powerful F.O.Es and the duo finds themselves in a clutch before the party appears to save them, and the P3 Hero and the P3P Heroine develop a crush on each other.

They explore further within the lab and begin to build Ribbon's personality, and Futaba Sakura acts as her operator using her knowledge of computers, allowing her to revive the robot at will. They finally confront the commander of the robots, a cybernetic entity resembling Shuji Ikutsuki, but has a different personality from the original entity save for his savior complex, and is cold and mechanical unlike the person that he is based on. The entity is shown to be able of deactivating Ribbon just by using his raygun, and challenges the party to a fight along with a drone F.O.E. However, he was no match for the party and Futaba uses her hacking skills to reactivate Ribbon, who has been put on forced sleep.

The further creation of Ribbon's emotions comes to an apex at the final confrontation against the Mother Computer, a god-like AI that appears as a green hologram head of Shuji Ikitsuki, having dominion over all other robots in the reality, but is incapable of controlling anything with uniqueness and personality. Therefore, he deems anyone that had a personality and uniqueness are irregulars and errors that must be purged, and anyone who does not act the same as others do not have a reason to live. When the party further denies him, he claims that it is the standards of the world and insults Ribbon as a defect. Ribbon initially believes herself to be a defect, but is encouraged by Futaba not to believe in the same way. Leaving with no options, the computer attacks the party and demonstrates his infinite regeneration abilities by fully recovering his HP twice, before Futaba hacks Ribbon into his system and prevents him from auto recovering. However as his HP drops to 0 he automatically recovers again and reverse hacks ribbon to cause a fatal error in her system. By the power of her teammates, she overcomes from the reverse hacking and generates a large amount of energy to completely block the Mother Computer's auto recovery, expressing the will to completely rebel against the Mother Computer that created her. The party, with Ribbon's help, defeats the Mother Computer but she deactivates due to the energy overflow, forcing Futaba and Aigis to repair her, and the staff credits roll.

In reality, Ribbon recovers from the overflow at full status after the credits as noticed by Rise Kujikawa, and the new free robot was allowed to rebuild the once-featureless utopia into an actual utopia.

Symbolism
A.I.G.I.S. represents one of the problems in modern society, fitting to the Persona 5 theme of the labyrinths in the game. It represents a lack of uniqueness and personality, as in order to succeed in modern society, many people cannot afford to become "unique"; As uniqueness will not grant them a future there. The same steps of tedious work and school need to be repeated ad infinitum in today's society, just like how the robots of the movie are identical to each other. Unique personalities such as Ribbon are detested as outcasts and have their wishes of being different denied, and by repeatedly denying their wishes from standing out from others, they believed that it would be better back to the chains of work and school.

The Mother Computer also appears as Shuji Ikutsuki and Ribbon appeared as Aigis. This references how Shuji Ikitsuki in Persona 3 controlled Aigis in an attempt to turn S.E.E.S into sacrifices for Death but Aigis rebelled against his control and freed the team instead.

It was later revealed that the movie is consisted of one of Hikari's traumas. During her high school period, her dream was to become a film director, a wish that is unusual among people of her age. The only people who supported her ideal was her father, which wasn't at home very often. Her relatives asked her about this wish and they believed that the job was hopeless and detested it. Instead, they wanted her to study and work like a normal person, and they believe that Hikari was an irregular girl. Her uncle attempted to snatch her father's camera from her, but was forced to lay his hands off it. Hikari began to believe that her dream of being a film director is an error and an irregular and this fuels her depression to the point that she wished to commit suicide, which she expresses to Nagi, wishing that she could die like Ribbon (Which in reality, was successfully repaired thanks to the efforts of Aigis and Futaba).

She views her relatives as the Mother Computer that detested any form of uniqueness among her and Ribbon as herself, effectively making them cognitive existences of their real life counterparts. The high school copy of Hikari also repeatedly called herself an error until the real person denied her to persuade her into rebelling against her past trauma, further proving that the denial of her uniqueness acts as the basis for this movie.