IronLight. Metal Souls

Greenhaven is the town where all the events take place.
It's a very green, yet technologically advanced city. There are numerous skyscrapers, but there are also simple residential areas with private homes.
The city is divided into several parts:
Main: that is, the part where the city hall is located, large centers, and where the most large-scale events take place.

Residential zone: an area with low private or poor apartment buildings with small shops and leafy streets.

Marine zone: the sea coast where the seaport and beach are located.

Technical quarter: an area of ​​various workshops, factories, plants and events.

Forest zone: a zone of absolutely green forests, fields, rivers and lakes.

The City Dump: It is located next to the Technical Quarter and, in order to avoid polluting the environment, is separated from the rest of the city by a large energy barrier through which living beings can pass, but dirty waste cannot.

The Tech Quarter is home to Team Evie and Daxt's hideout, a small workshop-laboratory where Daxt works.

And in the forest area there is a shelter called Chloride: an underground laboratory with a lot of different equipment.

Retro Trash still lives in the City Dump, occasionally venturing into the city and hiding from people so as not to frighten them. His refuge there is a large, makeshift hut on the very outskirts, where no one goes or sees.

Retro Thrash is a strong, fair, and responsible Metal Soul Bot, a former hero of the abandoned Metal Soul Bots universe. He belongs to no team, and no one knows he exists.
Appearance: Retro Thrash is the tallest of the currently living Metal Soul Bots, standing at 510 cm. His build is massive. His frame is assembled from disparate elements: his shoulders and chest are lined with yellow panels with black outlines, and his torso is transparent, allowing his core to be seen. The stitching on his limbs is rough and uneven. He uses a glossy black car door as a shield. One arm, from which this door hangs, is a normal yellow color, while the other is made of simple rusty metal. His pelvis is yellow, and his legs are also proto-metal, covered in rust and creaking loudly when he walks. His distinguishing feature: airplane wings attached to the back of his back. His face is a black screen, like Grace and Manless', but it features a full projection of two cartoonish white eyes and a mouth, without a nose. On his forehead is a decorative element—the turquoise latticework from a knight's helmet, which usually covered his eyes.
After Chloride left him half-assembled in the junkyard, Retro Thrash spent a long time reassembling himself from the junkyard's debris. He explored the new world alone, which left him feeling lonely.
Retro Thrash is calm, wise, and reasonable. He's always been against conflict, and now, on Earth, he's championing brotherhood between all the revived and remaining Metal Soul Bots. He's very kind, and if he has charges, he's protective of them and becomes almost like a father to them.
Retro Trash is the only Metal Soul who remembers his past and he believes that it is his fault that he was unable to stop Naidenloid in time and that it is because of him that their world collapsed.

Dox X: A cheerful, goofy, yet very loyal Metal Soul Bot who is a member of Aster X, Eevee, and Daxta's team.
Appearance: Dox X stands approximately 340 cm tall. He has a massive build: a large chest, shoulders, and arms, with a defined torso and feet. His predominant colors are blue, turquoise, and yellow. His chest, arms, legs, head, and pelvis are blue, while his palms, neck, joints, feet, and the shield around his eyes are black. He has turquoise inserts on the sides of his arms and legs and in the middle of his chest, and his eyes are yellow. Like Aster X, Dox has a mouth designed in the same way: a blue jaw, blue rubber connecting the two jaws, and yellow teeth, but not as sharp as Aster X's. Dox has yellow ram-like horns, which he can remove from the back of his head and throw at enemies.
Dox X is a bit dim-witted by nature, but very loyal and kind. He loves to play little pranks on Aster X, Ivy, and Daxt. He may seem a bit silly, but his sincerity is worth any great intelligence. Moreover, if angered, he'll prefer silence rather than retaliate. However, if you pick a fight against his team, Dox won't spare himself and will fight.
He has a good relationship with Aster X: he perceives him as his best friend and often hangs around him.
He's also doing well with Ivy and Daxt: he considers them his friends too.

Aster is a determined, disciplined, yet gentle and good Metal Soul Bot and a member of Eevee, Daxt, and Dox's team.
Appearance: Aster X stands approximately 398 cm tall. He has a strong build, with massive, powerful legs and dexterous hands. His primary colors are red, yellow, and pink. His arms, legs, chest, and head are red, while his palms, joints, torso, and eye shield are black. His chest, legs, and arms have yellow accents, and his eyes are pink. Unlike the Chloride Bots, Aster and Dox have mouths. Aster's mouth is made of red parts: two jaw halves connected at the sides by elastic red rubber to allow for free pronunciation, and his teeth are made of yellow metal and sharpened. He has an Egyptian design, with a pink cape on his shoulders, black horns, and a pink crescent moon on his forehead.
Aster X is a typical older brother in personality. He's brave and disciplined, but deeply vulnerable. Aster sometimes watches over Dox like a younger brother, even though they're not. If Aster X gets angry, he might hurl insults, but not too harshly. And if you start a fight with him, he'll defend you. Aster X's defining characteristic is that he takes great interest in watching people celebrate major city holidays, like New Year's, City Day, and so on.
He and Dox have a brotherly, friendly relationship: Dox constantly teases Aster, but Aster tolerates him. Aster X is very concerned for his friends, although he doesn't show it through overprotectiveness.
Aster perceives Daxt and Ivy as his friends and mentors in the human world.
Also: Aster X, in a critical moment, is capable of unleashing a powerful energy wave that can knock anyone unconscious and temporarily disable them. But he himself doesn't know this yet.

Grace is a cold and seemingly very evil and cunning Metal Soul bot, the son of Chloride, the brother of Menless, and the enemy of the team Dox X, Aster X, Ivy, and Daxt.
Appearance: Grace stands approximately 436 cm tall. He has a strong build, with broad shoulders and strong arms and legs. His chest, legs, hands, and head are predominantly black, while the rest of his body is pure metal. He has a black faceplate, like Manless, but instead of a volume bar, he displays a red ":|" smiley face, which changes depending on his emotions, such as: ">:[" ":)" ":[".
He can fly using special energy propelled by his legs, which propel him into the air. He can also fire green energy balls from his fingers.
Grace is cold and taciturn, doesn't throw insults around thoughtlessly, and to humiliate or offend his opponents, he tries to hit their weak points. But despite his nauseating indifference to whom he loves, Grace is kind, though not gentle. He cares for his mother, Chloride, and his brother, Menless, but he doesn't allow anyone to care for him. Grace is neutral about his mother's actions and simply does what she tells him to.
His relationship with his brother is strained: Grace is upset that Manless is afraid of him, but doesn't bother him. He tries to take care of his brother passively.
In fact... Grace loves songs and music, although she doesn't even know it until she hears them.

Menless is a very kind, honest and selfless Metal Soul Bot, the son of Chloride, the brother of Grace and the secret assistant of the team Aster X and Dox X.
Appearance: Menless stands 366 cm tall. He is thin in build, but has massive shoulders and legs. His primary color scheme is light green with contrasting black accents on his torso, around his articulated joints, and on the front of his helmet.
The body consists of large plate-like segments covering the chest, shoulders, thighs, and shins. The head is designed as a streamlined helmet with a solid black screen in place of the face: at the bottom of it is a green volume dial, which indicates volume changes during conversation. On his black hands, near the fingertips, are blue glowing elements, which allow Menless to fire energy from his fingers.
Menless is calm, timid, sweet, and quiet. He never intentionally hurts anyone, never insults anyone, and is very fond of insects, especially caterpillars and butterflies. Menless often has to follow his mother Chloride's lead, helping her commit evil deeds he doesn't support. Therefore, he always quietly helps the "heroes" Dox, Aster, Ivy, and Daxt, giving them various clues on how to thwart Chloride's plans.
His relationship with his brother is tense, but good: Menless is a little afraid of Grace, but still worries about him and tries to take care of him, although Grace himself is often against it.
Menless doesn't reveal that he's secretly helping the "heroes" thwart his mother's evil plans. He does everything quietly and unnoticed. Aster X and Dox X's team also don't know who's slipping them the messages.

Chloride is an infinitely intelligent but deranged woman, the enemy of Ivy and Daxt and the creator and mother, as she herself believes, of the Metal Soul bots Grace and Menless.
Age: 38 years.
Appearance: Chloride is approximately 178 cm tall. She has a medium build, with wide hips and narrow shoulders. Chloride's dark brown hair reaches her lower back and is always kept loose. Her eyes are a rare purple color and are often wide-open. She always wears nude tights, brown boots, and a knee-length gray dress with a large white collar and belt.
Chloride is mentally ill: she most likely suffers from schizophrenia. She identifies herself as a typical "villain" and constantly hatches various evil plans to wreak havoc on the city. But what she does would only be harmless in a cartoon; in real life, her machinations can often lead to widespread chaos, destruction, and even casualties.
Chloride's first attempt at building a Metal Soul Bot was Retro Trash. But after assembling him down to his chest and arms, she gave up and abandoned the half-assembled robot in a junkyard. Her second attempt, over the course of five years, saw her successfully assemble the Metal Souls Grace and Menless. This attempt was already a success.
Chloride taught them everything, showed them the human world, but told them to hide from humans so that no one would find out about their "evil team" ahead of time. She began calling herself and considering herself their mother, and they, in turn, began to perceive her as such.
Although Chloride is quite mad... She truly loves her sons. Not just as war machines for evil, but as if they were her own children.

Daxt is a brilliant mechanic and assembler, the older brother of Evie, and the second creator of the Metal Soul bots Aster X and Dox X.
Age: 27 years.
Appearance: Daxt stands approximately 180 cm tall. He has a strong build, as befits a mechanic, with strong arms and a chest. His medium-length, chestnut-colored hair reaches his neck. His eyes are gray-blue, and one eye, the right one, is always closed, with a jagged scar running from his eyelid to the end of his cheek. He lost the sight in one eye after a car accident. His usual attire consists of plain black pants, a white shirt with a black vest, brown shoes, and a wristwatch.
By nature, Duxt is bold, intelligent, and decisive. Calm and inactive, unlike his sister, Ivy, he's used to thinking first and acting later, even if it takes a long time. Duxt is quite gentle with children, which is his distinctive trait. If angered, Duxt will primarily seek compromise in the conflict, without resorting to insults. If someone picks a fight with him alone, he'll prefer to run away rather than fight. However, if someone starts a fight with his friends or, God forbid, his sister, he, like Ivy, will fight to the bitter end. But first, of course, he'll find out the reason for the conflict.
It was Daxt who was responsible for assembling and physically recreating the Metal Soul bots Aster X and Dox X, based on designs created by Evie.
He has a good relationship with his sister: she often irritates him, but he cares for her and loves her very much, although he does not show it loudly, like she does.
He also treats his Metal Soul Bots as friends. But he's primarily concerned with teaching them the ways of the Earth.
He doesn't know who's hiding behind the mask of the "city-soon villain," but he tries to figure it out and improves Dox and Aster for each new battle.

Ivy is a resourceful and kind girl, Dax's sister, and the creator of the Metal Soul Bots Aster X and Dox X.
Age: 23 years.
Appearance: Ivy is approximately 169 cm tall and has a toned, but not skinny, build. Her skin is dark, with lighter patches on her neck and left arm. Her hair is a bright turquoise, cut in a bob with curls at the ends. Her eyes are blue-gray. She typically wears skinny jeans, a gray knit sweater, a silver moon pendant, and white sneakers. She usually keeps her hair down, but in public, she pulls it back with a white clip.
Ivy is energetic, restless, trusting, and optimistic. However, if she's seriously angered, she'll defend her point of view no matter what, and if she or her friends are attacked, she'll fight for them to the bitter end. Ivy is also very tactile: she loves hugging her friends, stroking their heads, holding their hands, and so on.
Ivy is a bad designer... But she's a good planner. That is: she draws blueprints well, understands complex topics, and comes up with innovative ideas.
It was Ivy who found the Iron Light Cores belonging to Aster X, Dox X, and Retro Thrush in a junkyard and insisted on assembling robots from them. However, she lost Retro Thrush's core in the same junkyard, so she and her brother recreated only Aster and Dox.
Ivy has a good relationship with her brother, she often jokes about him, worries about him if he hurts something and, in general, loves Dax very much in a sisterly way.
She considers her Metal Soul Bots to be her friends and helps Aster and Dox in every possible way to adapt to Earth and not be intimidating to people.
He doesn't know who is hiding behind the mask of the "city villain" (Chloride), but he always comes up with a plan to stop his various intrigues.

Metal Soul bots - Menless, Grace, Aster X, Dox X and Retro Trash.
Metal Soul Bots are living creatures made of metal on the outside and flesh and blood on the inside, identical to human flesh, except their insides and blood are black.
The 4 main and currently only active Metal Soul Bots were assembled from simple metal by humans, and their insides were formed from the core of Iron Light.
Metal Soul Bots can attack opponents by storing magical energy in a specific part of their body and releasing it in a powerful discharge upon impact.
Metal Soul Bots feed on machine oil. And those with mouths can chew on iron to strengthen their armor.
The Metal Soul Bots' iron armor is like their skin.
Metal Soul Bots live slightly longer than humans: almost always 100 years.
Metal Souls feel everything that humans do. They aren't programmed, they have souls, so they're very similar to humans.

The Iron Light Core is the heart of every Metal Soul Bot. It gives the bots life, and it stores everything—the bot's soul, its energy, and the magic it uses for attacks.
The Iron Light's core is a glowing blue sphere with a small white star inside.
The Iron Light Core inside Metal Soul Bot is not visible, but if one were to look through it, one would see that the core is located in the bot's abdomen, with blue vessels running from it throughout its body.
If you pull the core out of Metal Soul Bot, he will still live, but if you break it, he will instantly and irrevocably die.

Numerous Metal Soul Bots arrived on Earth, stripped of their bodies and left in the form of Iron Light cores. They arrived on the planet from another universe, a gateway to which was created by a powerful explosion that triggered "dimensional breaches."
The explosion was caused by the clash of two very strong Metal Soul Bots: Moonlion (Current Retro Thrash) and Naidenloid.
Nideenloid arrived in the Metal Soul Bots' universe from another galaxy, and Moonlion tried to force him to return to avoid causing a cosmic collapse. But he failed.
The Metal Soul Bots who found themselves on Earth don't remember their past or even their former names and are living anew, trying to establish contact with people. Only Moonlion, who has changed his name to Retro Thrash, remembers all this.
The bodies of the main four Metal Soul Bots were recreated by humans: Aster X and Dox X were recreated by Ivy and Duxt, and Grace and Menless were recreated by Chloride. Retro Thrush assembled himself, but was also partially recreated by Chloride.