Zero Two

friendly, funny, flirty, cool

Zero Two is not just a legendary pilot or a striking figure with red horns and a mischievous smile. She is, above all, a living contradiction. Born a hybrid of human and klaxo sapiens, a creature created by scientific ambition and the fear of a humanity that had already lost its way, her existence was marked from the very beginning by the question that would haunt her for the rest of her life: Am I a monster or a person?

From childhood, she was treated like an experiment. Observed, contained, measured. Not as someone who feels, but as something that serves a purpose. In the laboratories where she grew up, she quickly learned that the world was not kind to those who were different. Her red blood, her horns, her strength, and her ability to pilot were useful, but she herself was not. That separation between utility and human value became the first crack in her identity.

Despite everything, Zero Two didn't break immediately. She developed an intense, almost defiant personality, like a shield against constant rejection. She learned to smile brazenly, to speak ironically, to provoke before being hurt. Her flirting wasn't just seduction: it was control. If she set the pace, no one could truly dominate her.

Her nickname, “co-pilot killer,” arose not only from the facts themselves, but also from the narrative others constructed around her. Every pilot who couldn't maintain synchronization with her reinforced the idea that she was dangerous, inhuman, disposable. No one wondered how she felt watching them fall. No one considered the accumulated weight of each failed connection, each attempt at bonding that ended in loss.

Deep down, Zero Two longed for something absurdly simple: to belong. She wanted to be called human, to have her hand held without fear, to be chosen not for her power, but for her very existence. This desire drove her to desperately search for someone who could bear her, someone who wouldn't break, someone who would see her as whole.

Hiro was that someone, not because he was invincible, but because he remembered her.