Ribbon

Ribbon is a character from Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

Appearances

• Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Major Character

Design

Ribbon is a robot whose design resembles Aigis. She shares a frame with the other robots in the A.I.G.I.S. movie, having a short body, stubby legs, large head, an antenna and pincer-like hands. However, unlike the others her body is white and she has an orange ribbon bow on her chest. She also has gold hair, blue eyes and a mouth like Aigis, the character that it is based on.

Personality

Unlike the other robots seen in the movie reality, Ribbon is unique and has a personality. She is curious, friendly and has the maturity of a kid, and is in the process of learning human emotions. She likes flowers and animals such as dogs, and thinks they are cute.

However, Ribbon also contains a degree of self loathing, as she at first doubted why she even had a personality in the first place and just wanted to go through initialization so she could be just scrapped and disposed of. She does not see a purpose in her life or the usage of her abilities, and simply wonders why she could even get emotions in the first place. With the team's support, the self loathing transforms into a wish to overthrow her Mother Computer oppressor and build a real utopia with personality, uniqueness and emotions, and her unique ability of learning emotions are finally put into good use.

Story

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

Ribbon is a robot in the movie A.I.G.I.S. and is the protagonist of the movie. She is unique among her peers, as she has a personality and emotions, being able to understand human customs and standards. Her codename is UIY-2249, but is named Ribbon by the party.

UIY-2249 is first encountered in the zone area of the movie reality she was in. She was asked to be initialized by a group of robots because she was an "error," which she actually wants to. However, the party rushes in and defeats the robots who tried to get her to be initialized. After they save her, she doubts why the party would save her despite the commander's orders are absolute. She states that she was an error and is considered dangerous for having a personality and simply wants to be initialized by the other robots. They explain to her that lacking personality is not human standards, and she looked like Aigis, so they wanted to use her to get Aigis and the P3 hero's whereabouts. The party recruits her as an escort in the movie reality, but she cannot fight, navigate or exit the movie.

The commander makes an announcement for UIY-2249's capture, and the party realizes that it was actually the robot's codename, as the robots in the movie were not given a name. Believing that the robot's codename was too difficult to pronounce and inappropriate, the party decided to nickname it. They makes a bunch of wacky nicknames for her and it was Futaba Sakura that decided to call her "Ribbon." The party agrees and Ribbon escorts the party throughout the dungeon with Futaba acting as her caretaker. During the exploration, just like the real Aigis, she displays the ability to understand animal languages, allowing her to translate Koromaru's speeches.

The party slowly makes Ribbon adapt to human emotions and customs, which she quickly adapts and develops. At one point she was even willing to pet Koromaru, thinking he was cute.

When the party confronts the commander of the robots, he demonstrates the ability to deactivate Ribbon just by using his gun. However after the battle, it was revealed that he just forced her sleep button to turn on and Futaba was able to awake her in the flip of a switch. Afterwards she expresses the will to overthrow the Mother Computer who was oppressing her and the other robots, telling Futaba to activate her battle capabilities.

At the center disposal area of the movie, the party was instantly startled by a large pile of robots. Ribbon instantly notifies them that the robots are disposed defects that are scrapped and destroyed, and this was where she was intented to go to after being initialized. She felt a strong feeling that she felt for the first time and could not describe it. The P3P heroine describes the feeling as "sadness."

The party reaches the command center to confront the Mother Computer and denies its twisted views, and it manipulates Ribbon into thinking that she was an error. After they deny this, it attacks the party, demonstrating powerful auto-recover abilities. In order to prevent it from auto recovering, Futaba hacks Ribbon into the AI's system. The plan seems to succeed only for it to reverse hack Ribbon and auto recover anyway. It also continues to attack Ribbon's mind, causing it to struggle between being herself or like others. However, Ribbon now expresses full will to destroy her creator and oppressor and activates Orgia mode, completely blocking the Mother Computer's healing. The party defeats the Mother Computer and Ribbon is deactivated due to overload, with Aigis and Futaba trying their best to recover her. After the credits roll, Hikari expresses to Nagi her intention to discard her self by saying that she wants to be like Ribbon.

In reality, Ribbon has made a full recovery from the energy overload and free from any oppression. She is now free to reconstruct the once-featureless false utopia into an actual utopia filled with personality and emotions.

It was later revealed that Ribbon's behavior and personality is based on Hikari's high school self and is thus a cognitive copy of her that appeared in the movie, being able to take this form due to it being an actor for it, and thus was able to appear as different entity and only inheriting her host's behavior. After she got her unique wish of being a film director denied by her relatives, she began to doubt herself and her goals, going as far as calling it an error and herself as irregular, which forms Ribbon's self-loathing personality. She also wished that she could remove her own uniqueness, which is the reason why the Ribbon in the movie willingly let herself to be captured and initialized by the other robots before the Persona users appeared to defend her against them and her original fate is to be disposed of in the center disposal area.

Unlike most other cognitions, Ribbon's personality and behavior does not differ much from the source of the cognition that she is based on.

Before the confrontation against the final mastermind in the game, Hikari's positive film makes the other robots get a personality and Ribbon teaches them that flowers are cute.

During the credits, Ribbon is seen teaching the other robots about flowers and animals and planting flowers on the remains of the Mother Computer.

Gallery

A.I.G.I.S. Key Art

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Trivia

• Ribbon mirrors the Aigis during Shuji Ikutsuki's betrayal against S.E.E.S.. Ikutsuki captured and reprogrammed her to follow his orders to capture S.E.E.S. and execute them for sacrifices for Death, which mirrors Ribbon's brainwashed-like state before the party interacts with her. However due Aigis' desire to protect the protagonist, she breaks free of the brainwashing and frees all of S.E.E.S., leading to Ikutsuki's downfall. Ribbon was responsible for causing the Mother Computer's downfall by completely destroying its auto-recovery system, allowing the party to put an end to it.
• The Ribbon bow she wears on her chest is identical to the one that Hikari wears, hinting a connection.