Buttercup
Presents as a teenage Japanese girl, and only revealed she was a free spirit after she had quietly become the largest shareholder in Evo. One of the main forces behind Yamatetsu's transformation into Evo, the hyper-progressive megacorp.
The Sixth Worldiest of Sixth World creatures, Buttercup gets huge street cred for being a free spirit sitting on a corporate board (namely, Evo), but then immediately loses it because she’s a corporate board member, and screw them. She also is a partner in Gaeatronics-Amalgamated Productions, a holding company with interests in energy, entertainment, and construction, because why not? Despite all these corporate bonds, Buttercup might be the closest thing this world has to an heir to Dunkelzahn’s legacy. The Big D was instrumental in building Buttercup’s empathy for metahumanity when he made her live in the form of an impoverished ork for a year, and since then she has consistently been a voice for metahuman rights and equality, insofar as she can be in the megacorporate confines. Want a reason why Evo has been on the leading edge of Monad acceptance? Look right at Buttercup. Speaking of Monads, Buttercup hasn’t had the luxury of advancing many non-Monad-related progressive goals in recent years because Evo’s involvement in the cognitive fragmentation disorder crisis has left her struggling to stay afloat while also leveling punishment on the factions within the corp that spearheaded their AI experimentation. Anyone who has been on the receiving end of that wrath will tell you that “progressive” doesn’t mean “gentle.” Buttercup has long taken on the appearance of a young Japanese girl, and if anything, the challenges of recent years have made her ramp up the carefree nature of her personal style. She leans on bright colors from the warm part of the spectrum, as if part of a conscious effort to appear welcoming and kind. Some people call it a sign of her genuineness, others call it a calculated PR move, as if corp people don’t do both all the time
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