Soma Awtomewryrdd

"N-no! No! This can't be happening! It can't be happening!"

- Soma Soma Awtomewryrdd is the protagonist of the upcoming fanfiction story, SOMA. He is the son of Lych Awtomewryrdd, the CEO of Awtomata Cybernetics, a cybernetics corporation that designed artificial limbs and program software. He also has a younger brother named Neir.

For unknown reasons, Soma's body is completely artificial. Despite his body having the same functions as a human being, it is essentially a synthetic body. Furthermore, according to research done by James Ironwood, Soma supposedly died one year ago after the Kyber City Bombing, despite Soma remembering that it was Neir who died, not him.

Appearance
Soma is a teenager with light green hair that covers his left eye, and has light pink eyes. He also wears purple glasses, though his vision is not impaired in any way. He also has a light blue star mark beneath his eye. His attire consists of a black leather choker, a white shirt, and a light brown jacket with blue jeans and black boots.

Personality
Soma is hightly intellectual, far more so than most people his age. He graduated from Atlas Public Academy, a civilian education center, when he was thirteen, and has since then been studying at the Altesian University. He is honest and hard-working, doing whatever he can to help his father. He has a slight fear towards Faunus, due a traumatic experience during his childhood. Despite this, he tries to overcome it, as is study must have him work with other people, Faunus included. He is generally a pacifistic person, as he prefers not to engage in fights, and if forced into such a situation, he would rather talk his way out of it. He is also very nervous around girls, throwing him into a fluster and fumbles with his words.

Soma suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Due to the Kyber City Incident, whenever he sees flames, his body freezes up, his heart rate increases, and begins to hyperventilate. He can calm down from this, but he takes medication in order to cope with it, and is slightly dependent on them. As a result, if left without them for too long, he suffers from a narcoleptic shock.

After learning that his body is synthetic, and that his memories do not align with what transpired in the real world, Soma grows frightened of his own body, and begins to doubt whether or not he was actually Soma Awtomewryrdd, though he receives comfort from Penny shortly after learning the truth. He has grown some form of distrust towards Awtomata Cybernetics, though this disappears when he learns why his body was not organic, nor why his memories are different. His interactions with Penny have also helped him to cope with his phobia with Faunus. He has also developed some affection for the girl, likely due to her social ineptitude, and is rather unknowing of how the outside world works due to her limited interactions in the Altesian Military.

History
Soma was born as the eldest of two children, and from an early age, he was already heavily interested in machinery. At the age of five, he had created a car engine from scrapped materials in his parents' garage, and was academically advanced, so much so that he skipped several grades.

When he was seven years old, his mother died of illness. Around that same time, his father founded Awtomata Cybernetics, which became extremely successful.

At the age of nine, Soma protected his brother from an attack by a radical White Fang member, though the change of leadership had not occurred at that time. As a result of the attack, Soma developed a phobia of Faunus.

At the age of thirteen, Soma graduated from the Altesian Public Academy, a civilian education center, and later went on to college, where he took an advanced machine course. He eventually joined his father's corporation, where his contribution vastly improved many of their projects, such as artificial limbs and more powerful software programs.

At the age of fifteen, Soma and his younger brother Neir were caught in the Kyber City Bombing; a massive terrorist attack where 73% of the city was devastated, though it is unclear who was behind the attack. It was regardless the worst attack since the Faunus Rights Conflict years ago, and had more tha 300,000 casualties. Among those casualties was Soma, who was crushed beneath debris, which would have killed Neir, had he not pushed the boy away. Lych, however, had found a way to preserve his son by transferring his consciousness and soul into a synthetic body, though according to Richard Lapiz, he was slightly hesitant in his decision, as he was unsure of this would be what his son would want. The decision had also slightly affected Neir, who believed that his father was trying to cling to a ghost, and disappeared.

Soma's life from thereon had changed radically. His memories were altered and changed; he had never died in the Kyber City Incident. Rather, Neir had died in the bombing, having been killed in an explosion. His father had also become slightly controlling over his life, and was transferred to a new division with workers who were privvy to the truth behind Soma's condition. For the next three years, Soma had begun to grow concerned behind his father's increasingly distant relationship with him, believing that it was because the loss of his youngest son, and tried to comfort him by doing the best he could, pushing himself in his designs of software programs.

Prior to the event of SOMA, Soma had created a prototype system called the Zynchro Recognition Oblige System, or the ZRO Protocol program. The purpose behind the program was to establish a secure firewall that was constantly adapting to foreign viruses, eventually becoming the ultimate defense when enough data was gathered. Because he worked on it in secret, no one was aware of the project, not even his father.

Trivia

 * Soma's last name, Awtomewryrdd, is an anygram for "awtomeiddio gwyrdd," which in Welsh means "green automation."
 * This acts as both a foreshadowing and reference to Soma's current existence as a synthetic living android.
 * His nickname, Awto, can also been as an alternate spelling for "auto," or "automation" which also references his existence. It can also be in reference to his skill in machinery.
 * "Gwyrdd" is the Welsh name for the color green, which is the color he is named after.
 * "Soma" is the name of parts of an organism other than the reproductive cells. It can also refer to the body as distinct from the soul, mind, or psyche.
 * In Hindu, Soma is also an intoxicating drink prepared from a plant and used in Vedic ritual, believed to be the drink of the gods.
 * In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, Soma was a narcotic drug which produces euphoria and hallucination, distributed by the state in order to promote content and social harmony.
 * Soma shares obvious similarities with Penny Polendina.
 * Both are not human. They are androids that possess Aura.
 * However, in Soma's case, his circumstances are different, in that he was a human who's consciousness was transferred to a machine.
 * Both are socially awkward, though in Soma's case, his is due to his sudden limitation of interaction, due to his devotion to his work with the ZRO Protocol program.
 * Soma's semblance, Tuning, has a similar function to the Trans-Am System from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, in which Soma can increase a machine's maximum efficiency output to new levels, though afterwards, the machine is damaged.