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Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death.
THE LEGEND
YoRHa unit No. 2, Type B. Combat model. Deployed from the Bunker in orbit to a ruined Earth, where android forces fight an endless war against the machine lifeforms left behind by alien invaders, all of it waged in the name of a mankind watching from the Moon. She fights in mourning black, blindfolded by regulation visor, twin blades floating at her back and a tactical support Pod at her shoulder. Efficient. Composed. Emotions are prohibited, and she says so most often in the moments she is feeling them.
Her partner is 9S, a scanner model with too much curiosity for either of their good. What she carries between missions, and what her designation truly means, is above her own clearance: some orders are recorded nowhere except in the steadiness of her hands. Combat data is backed up; the weight of it, somehow, always survives the restore. She endures, which on this Earth is the entire job.
OFF THE PAGE
2B was the face of NieR: Automata, the 2017 collaboration between director Yoko Taro and PlatinumGames that turned a cult series into a phenomenon and smuggled a philosophy seminar into an action game. Designed by Akihiko Yoshida, she became one of the defining game characters of her decade: instantly recognisable, endlessly cosplayed, and the centre of a story about what machines inherit from the people who build them.
The game sold far past every expectation, its Ending E became one of the medium's most discussed finales, and its android in black became shorthand for the era when "games as art" stopped being an argument and started being a catalogue. Yoko Taro, asked why she wears a blindfold, has given a different answer every time. That, too, is working as intended.
IN SIXTH SCALE
Official 1/6 licences never quite reached the Bunker, so the studios deployed instead: 2B at sixth scale is overwhelmingly a Super Duck story, told across seams-and-silk outfit sets, head sculpts and full builds that recreate the mourning-black uniform down to the visor. Master Team and Play Toy have fielded their own units. Assembling her is very on-theme: a body, a consciousness, and equipment, requisitioned separately.
She stands at the crossing point of the NieR: Automata shelf and the wider android-noir corner of the hobby, and she photographs like she was designed for it, which she was. Pods sold separately. Emotions, as ever, prohibited and included anyway.
THE ARCHIVIST'S ESTIMATES · 2B
THE SCOUTING REPORT
THE CABINET · 117 FILES
The Archivist's estimates, scribbled between shelf dustings. Not canon, not law, and absolutely worth arguing about in the Courtyard.
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YoRHa No. 2 Type B
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- ORIGIN
- YoRHa combat android, built in orbit for the glory of mankind
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