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Character Name: AE-3803 (or simply "Red Blood Cell")
Character Age: Presumably between 28 to 30 days (she is an erythrocyte). Appears to be early 20s.
Canon: Cells at Work!
Canon Point: Post Chapter 10.
History:
Here is a wiki link, but it's very sparse. Here's a little bit more background:
Cells at Work is a manga/anime based on the human body that anthropomorphizes various cells. Needless to say, it takes liberty with its visual metaphors to showcase the various processes that make the body alive: a sneeze is depicted as a rocket blasting off, an abrasion is shown to be a catastrophic explosion to the metropolis of the epidermis, and bacteria are drawn as grotesque, monster-of-the-week type villains. Nevertheless the canon does try to be informative towards its audience, and for the most part the anthropomorphized cells behave like their actual counterparts.
Red blood cells are formed in the red bone marrow of the skeleton. Vascular, nutrient-hungry, and quite active, these nurseries house the process of hematopoiesis, or the generation of blood. The hematopoietic stem cells continuously divide to create and replace more blood cells. These cells, called progenitor cells, can then further differentiate into more specific cells, and those cells do the same until they finally become a unique type of blood cell. In Cells at Work, the aforementioned nursery is a literal nursery in the red bone marrow. Red blood cells-- the people, this time-- are literally created by the progenitor stem cells. From there each one is sorted and selected to become a type of cell through the process of differentiation. It should be noted that each cell is referred to by what they are; for instance, all macrophages can be called "Macrophage" (or Ms. Macrophage, etc), even when they are different people. The distinction between two individuals of the same type of cell is found as a reference number. For Red Blood Cell, this distinction is AE-3803, and she will answer to both that number and simply "Red Blood Cell". This means that for her time back in this nursery, Red Blood Cell is an erythroblast, and she is referred to as "Erythroblast" or "AE-3803".
The young Erythroblast-- that is, Red Blood Cell-- trains with the other erythroblasts in the nursery as directed by the macrophages. They are given carts to push along practice version of the veins and arteries and told to beware of the evil bacteria and viruses that might eat them. AE-3803 isn't the best at her training, as she often becomes lost and passes out in her attempts to find her way. Still, she continues to have a lot of heart and perseverance, and she views mature red blood cells as inspiring. She wants to grow up and become a great red blood cell just like them! Always delivering oxygen and nutrients, ensuring that the cells are well fed and supplied, knowing every which way of the capillaries and vasculature-- that's her dream, and she is nothing if not a hard working. Additionally, AE-3803 actually first meets the second main character, White Blood Cell (back then known as Myleocyte), of the series during her time in the nursery, although she won't remember him later on. Their first meeting is hectic and involving bacteria, which basically becomes the norm for any interaction with Red Blood Cell.
AE-3803 's luck and her penchant for becoming lost doesn't change even as she matures into a proper erythrocyte, and many of the events she witnesses become the basis for the course of the story. If she happens to be near the epidermis, you can count on something bad happening at the epidermis. If she's taking a leisurely stroll down by the stomach, there's going to be an incident there. If she's lost along the strata of the muscles, there are going to be problems. It's not that she causes these ailments to happen, she simply has that bad of luck. From the canon point she's taken from, Red Blood Cell has with pathogens such as pneumococcus, pseudomonas aeruginosa, influenza, vibrio parahaemolyticus, and anisakis. She's witnessed many of her kin fall to both infection and injury, and she herself has come close to hemolysis numerous times. Fortunately, the immune system is there to help her out.
AE-3803 encounters White Blood Cell during one attack from a streptococcus pneumoniae on the body, and from there the series begins. The whole cycle of A3-3803-finding-trouble-and-White-Blood-Cell-getting-her-out-of-it becomes a sort of basis for multiple plots for the series. As it turns out, however, her exposure to these incidents makes her one of the cells who are actually more knowledgeable and experienced in the human body. Little by little AE-3803 is introduced to other immune cells, pathogens, and the various processes that combat the pathogens, both internally and externally. As she begins to learn more of the complex and mysterious intricacies of how the immune system works, and she also learns how she plays a role in it all.
In short, Cells at Work depicts the human body both a machine and a sprawling metropolis. Cells are specialized to the point that they only have one job. But together all the cells have the goal of keeping the body they inhabit alive to the best of their ability. They may not know what sort of outside stimulus causes the frequent terrible, mass-destruction, and death of their brethren through bleeding or disease, but they will all continue to fight for life. AE-3803 may be only one of 37 trillion cells, but she believes that her duty is just as significant as any other's. If the body has a chance of life, she will fight for it no matter what.
Personality:
A3-3803 is a bit of a ditz. Okay, a lot of a ditz. When she is first introduced to the audience, she's depicted as clumsy, disorganized, and someone who has trouble finding her way about the veins and arteries of the body. Yes, that's right-- she's a red blood cell that will mistakenly try to enter a vein instead of an artery or turn the corner looking for the lungs only to end up in the kidneys. She's short sighted in the sense that when she has a job to do, she will try to focus on that and only that. To be sure AE-3803 tries to make up for her shortcomings. She studies! She writes notes! She brings a map with her to be resourceful! So she's not completely a lost cause. But with her face buried in a map she won't see that some capillaries are "under construction" and become lost due to a detour, and that note she so painstakingly wrote before? It's going to be gone the moment she enters an area of high pressures and congestion such as the great vessels. Unfortunately AE-3803 makes an attempt to become more efficient at her job, her poor luck tends to work against her. Even so, AE-3803 would continue to perform her duty of circulation until she herself succumbs to a malady.
That's not to say that she only focuses on, say, delivering oxygen to other cells. When there is something amiss, she listens to her intuition while the other red blood cells call her nosy. When she encounters an issue, she keeps her friends in mind. She does this not because those friends in particular are in danger, but she knows that any potential danger in one part of the body could eventually effect them as well. And while she's proactive when it comes to assisting others or wanting to rectify a situation, but she's not reckless. Red Blood Cell knows that she's not part of the immune system-- that is, she's not a fighter. Her best chance at surviving an attack is to run away, and she knows it. She will go and seek help when she knows she isn't capable of fighting off an infection. At the same time AE-3803 will put herself in danger if it means protecting others, and she does this without a second thought even if she is completely terrified.
Red Blood Cell is appreciative of other's hard work and dedication. She first saw these qualities from mature red blood cells back when she was a toddler in the red bone marrow nursery, and she continues to see them portrayed by many other cells around her. Those that have a strong work ethic, those who protect others with their innate talent, and those that use their strength to help others inspire her. She wants to be like those cells, but of course she knows that she won't ever be an actual white blood cell. She's not as strong as the white blood cells, she's not a tank like the macrophages, she's definitely not as vicious and deadly like the natural killer cells. But she is a red blood cell-- a hard working, extremely efficient, incredibly dedicated, and intensely fast red blood cell, and she wants to be the best she can be within her limits simply as a red blood cell. She's satisfied with her place within the body, and she takes great pride in her job and doing her job well (even if she's not the best at it... yet). Red Blood Cell is simple in the sense that she's easily contended; she doesn't ask for much and neither does she expect much. All she wishes to do is to be helpful to others, and in turn, be helpful towards the body as a whole.
It follows that one of her greatest fears is causing inadvertent harm to others. As an erythrocyte, AE-3803's function isn't so sophisticated as to detect that the processes designed to regulate homeostatsis can actually harm the body. Take, for instance, heat stroke: the body will vasodilate its vessels to allow the red blood cells to circulate along the periphery, thereby emitting more heat from the rest of the body. This also causes the blood pressure to drop a bit. When the body cannot cool itself further and the blood continues to pool away from, say, the brain, the body's blood pressure continues to fall. When the brain receives too little blood, the body causes itself to faint. Red Blood Cell understands that she was part of the problem that caused the body harm (in this case syncope), and that her contribution to the problem can't actually be helped. As a cell, she goes where she is directed, and that's that. That doesn't mean she can't feel guilty about it, though.
As a person, AE-3803 is friendly and good-natured, determined, cheerful, and courageous. She's easy to get along with, and her friendships tend to develop quickly, if a little one-sided on her part. And yes, she will even gladly be friends with someone even if they are a bit of a jerk. Even though some other cells can have a bit of an abrasive personality, she knows for certain that they are all well-intentioned, and she believes in the best in others. How can she not? They all are on the same side-- they all live in the same body, and they all work to keep that body functioning and alive. She adores the body she inhabits, and although it's constantly being assaulted by illness or injury, she knows that at the end of the day every single cells lives in it, both the mean and the kind ones.
Inventory:
She'll have a few pens and a paper pad, her clothes, a cart, and some oxygen tanks.
Abilities:
• • • Endurance. She's very, very good at running. And running long-distances at that, all while carrying supplies. The vessels in the body total up to somewhere of 100,000 kilometers. Even if she only travels 500 kilometers of that network, as someone who is only ~7 micrometers tall, that's magnitudes above what should be possible for a normal human.
• • • Athleticism. Red Blood Cell can squeeze into the narrowest of capillaries, and she's quite flexible to boot. She rarely tires, and is rarely seen sitting still.
• • • Speed. She's quick. She has to be, to deliver oxygen to hungry tissues... but also quick to run away form bacteria, so there's that.
• • • Intuitive. She has good instincts to when something is strange or odd. In canon, she is the one cell that alerted the rest of the immune system to a malignant cancer cell.
• • • Coagulation. This is more canon-specific. With the aide of platelets and fibrin, she is able to become a part of a clot. Canon also touches on surface cell proteins for the white blood cells as having extra abilities, so it can be inferred that the red blood cells' surface proteins act in similar ways.
• • • Strength. AE-3803 is shown to swiftly transport materials in the blood stream, including structures that are three times her size.
Flaws:
• • • A terrible sense of direction. And sometimes it's not just in some "cute" manner. As a red blood cell, she ought to already know where she's going and how to get there, but she doesn't. So she's slower at getting her oxygen to others who may need it. It's a flaw that she knows she has and attempts to make up for, but in the end she's actually not really good at her job.
• • • Fearful. She's easily spooked and fearful of many, many things, mostly things that she doesn't know or understand.
• • • Gullible/naive. The girl can be tricked and hoodwinked easily. She carried a streptococcus bacteria all the way up to the lungs unsuspectingly.
• • • Not confident. She feels rather inept compared to many of the immune cells, and when she sees them being hurt while she can only watch from the sidelines, she feels rather guilty for not being stronger.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
[ Once, a gaping hole had appeared in the epidermis, destroying streets, buildings, sewers, and bridges. It had taken many lives, many cells, and all in a flash. Once, those cells had been there-- flowing into that void, a black, gaping hole that sucked them from of the human body, pouring and pouring more and more of them out. Once, they had been there. And then they had gone.
It seems that's always the case for her kind. To be there, and then suddenly be not. Tiny, fleeting, insignificant lives, all thirty seven trillion of them, all working together in a bustling world they called their home, their utopia, their land that provided all materials for them. Perhaps some would find that troubling, perhaps others would find that dizzying. But not her. Every day she finds herself proud of her work and even prouder to be a part of that world, a part of the human she resides in. Her work is difficult-- involving running and couriering and bustling through the great vessels non-stop, potential danger at every turn-- but it satisfies her in a way that nothing else could, as if she had been programmed to do just that.
How lucky she is to be a part of that world, to be able to deliver oxygen and keep the human body alive. How blessed she is to be a part of it. A tiny part, but an essential one nonetheless. It's what keeps her smiling, chipper and hopeful. It's what presses her to sprint past abrasions or nefarious bacteria to deliver those nutrients to the hungry stationary cells, nested like bricks in their apartment-like tissues. She may not be a part of that body any longer, but now she feels just as grateful to be able to live among them. Humans. Multi-cellular organisms. Who would have thought she would ever get to speak to people like them?
A giggle escapes her as she pushes her cart. She can't help it. Even if this world is filled with dangers, she is truly lucky to be here. ]
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CHARACTER
Character Name: AE-3803 (or simply "Red Blood Cell")
Character Age: Presumably between 28 to 30 days (she is an erythrocyte). Appears to be early 20s.
Canon: Cells at Work!
Canon Point: Post Chapter 10.
History:
Here is a wiki link, but it's very sparse. Here's a little bit more background:
Cells at Work is a manga/anime based on the human body that anthropomorphizes various cells. Needless to say, it takes liberty with its visual metaphors to showcase the various processes that make the body alive: a sneeze is depicted as a rocket blasting off, an abrasion is shown to be a catastrophic explosion to the metropolis of the epidermis, and bacteria are drawn as grotesque, monster-of-the-week type villains. Nevertheless the canon does try to be informative towards its audience, and for the most part the anthropomorphized cells behave like their actual counterparts.
Red blood cells are formed in the red bone marrow of the skeleton. Vascular, nutrient-hungry, and quite active, these nurseries house the process of hematopoiesis, or the generation of blood. The hematopoietic stem cells continuously divide to create and replace more blood cells. These cells, called progenitor cells, can then further differentiate into more specific cells, and those cells do the same until they finally become a unique type of blood cell. In Cells at Work, the aforementioned nursery is a literal nursery in the red bone marrow. Red blood cells-- the people, this time-- are literally created by the progenitor stem cells. From there each one is sorted and selected to become a type of cell through the process of differentiation. It should be noted that each cell is referred to by what they are; for instance, all macrophages can be called "Macrophage" (or Ms. Macrophage, etc), even when they are different people. The distinction between two individuals of the same type of cell is found as a reference number. For Red Blood Cell, this distinction is AE-3803, and she will answer to both that number and simply "Red Blood Cell". This means that for her time back in this nursery, Red Blood Cell is an erythroblast, and she is referred to as "Erythroblast" or "AE-3803".
The young Erythroblast-- that is, Red Blood Cell-- trains with the other erythroblasts in the nursery as directed by the macrophages. They are given carts to push along practice version of the veins and arteries and told to beware of the evil bacteria and viruses that might eat them. AE-3803 isn't the best at her training, as she often becomes lost and passes out in her attempts to find her way. Still, she continues to have a lot of heart and perseverance, and she views mature red blood cells as inspiring. She wants to grow up and become a great red blood cell just like them! Always delivering oxygen and nutrients, ensuring that the cells are well fed and supplied, knowing every which way of the capillaries and vasculature-- that's her dream, and she is nothing if not a hard working. Additionally, AE-3803 actually first meets the second main character, White Blood Cell (back then known as Myleocyte), of the series during her time in the nursery, although she won't remember him later on. Their first meeting is hectic and involving bacteria, which basically becomes the norm for any interaction with Red Blood Cell.
AE-3803 's luck and her penchant for becoming lost doesn't change even as she matures into a proper erythrocyte, and many of the events she witnesses become the basis for the course of the story. If she happens to be near the epidermis, you can count on something bad happening at the epidermis. If she's taking a leisurely stroll down by the stomach, there's going to be an incident there. If she's lost along the strata of the muscles, there are going to be problems. It's not that she causes these ailments to happen, she simply has that bad of luck. From the canon point she's taken from, Red Blood Cell has with pathogens such as pneumococcus, pseudomonas aeruginosa, influenza, vibrio parahaemolyticus, and anisakis. She's witnessed many of her kin fall to both infection and injury, and she herself has come close to hemolysis numerous times. Fortunately, the immune system is there to help her out.
AE-3803 encounters White Blood Cell during one attack from a streptococcus pneumoniae on the body, and from there the series begins. The whole cycle of A3-3803-finding-trouble-and-White-Blood-Cell-getting-her-out-of-it becomes a sort of basis for multiple plots for the series. As it turns out, however, her exposure to these incidents makes her one of the cells who are actually more knowledgeable and experienced in the human body. Little by little AE-3803 is introduced to other immune cells, pathogens, and the various processes that combat the pathogens, both internally and externally. As she begins to learn more of the complex and mysterious intricacies of how the immune system works, and she also learns how she plays a role in it all.
In short, Cells at Work depicts the human body both a machine and a sprawling metropolis. Cells are specialized to the point that they only have one job. But together all the cells have the goal of keeping the body they inhabit alive to the best of their ability. They may not know what sort of outside stimulus causes the frequent terrible, mass-destruction, and death of their brethren through bleeding or disease, but they will all continue to fight for life. AE-3803 may be only one of 37 trillion cells, but she believes that her duty is just as significant as any other's. If the body has a chance of life, she will fight for it no matter what.
Personality:
A3-3803 is a bit of a ditz. Okay, a lot of a ditz. When she is first introduced to the audience, she's depicted as clumsy, disorganized, and someone who has trouble finding her way about the veins and arteries of the body. Yes, that's right-- she's a red blood cell that will mistakenly try to enter a vein instead of an artery or turn the corner looking for the lungs only to end up in the kidneys. She's short sighted in the sense that when she has a job to do, she will try to focus on that and only that. To be sure AE-3803 tries to make up for her shortcomings. She studies! She writes notes! She brings a map with her to be resourceful! So she's not completely a lost cause. But with her face buried in a map she won't see that some capillaries are "under construction" and become lost due to a detour, and that note she so painstakingly wrote before? It's going to be gone the moment she enters an area of high pressures and congestion such as the great vessels. Unfortunately AE-3803 makes an attempt to become more efficient at her job, her poor luck tends to work against her. Even so, AE-3803 would continue to perform her duty of circulation until she herself succumbs to a malady.
That's not to say that she only focuses on, say, delivering oxygen to other cells. When there is something amiss, she listens to her intuition while the other red blood cells call her nosy. When she encounters an issue, she keeps her friends in mind. She does this not because those friends in particular are in danger, but she knows that any potential danger in one part of the body could eventually effect them as well. And while she's proactive when it comes to assisting others or wanting to rectify a situation, but she's not reckless. Red Blood Cell knows that she's not part of the immune system-- that is, she's not a fighter. Her best chance at surviving an attack is to run away, and she knows it. She will go and seek help when she knows she isn't capable of fighting off an infection. At the same time AE-3803 will put herself in danger if it means protecting others, and she does this without a second thought even if she is completely terrified.
Red Blood Cell is appreciative of other's hard work and dedication. She first saw these qualities from mature red blood cells back when she was a toddler in the red bone marrow nursery, and she continues to see them portrayed by many other cells around her. Those that have a strong work ethic, those who protect others with their innate talent, and those that use their strength to help others inspire her. She wants to be like those cells, but of course she knows that she won't ever be an actual white blood cell. She's not as strong as the white blood cells, she's not a tank like the macrophages, she's definitely not as vicious and deadly like the natural killer cells. But she is a red blood cell-- a hard working, extremely efficient, incredibly dedicated, and intensely fast red blood cell, and she wants to be the best she can be within her limits simply as a red blood cell. She's satisfied with her place within the body, and she takes great pride in her job and doing her job well (even if she's not the best at it... yet). Red Blood Cell is simple in the sense that she's easily contended; she doesn't ask for much and neither does she expect much. All she wishes to do is to be helpful to others, and in turn, be helpful towards the body as a whole.
It follows that one of her greatest fears is causing inadvertent harm to others. As an erythrocyte, AE-3803's function isn't so sophisticated as to detect that the processes designed to regulate homeostatsis can actually harm the body. Take, for instance, heat stroke: the body will vasodilate its vessels to allow the red blood cells to circulate along the periphery, thereby emitting more heat from the rest of the body. This also causes the blood pressure to drop a bit. When the body cannot cool itself further and the blood continues to pool away from, say, the brain, the body's blood pressure continues to fall. When the brain receives too little blood, the body causes itself to faint. Red Blood Cell understands that she was part of the problem that caused the body harm (in this case syncope), and that her contribution to the problem can't actually be helped. As a cell, she goes where she is directed, and that's that. That doesn't mean she can't feel guilty about it, though.
As a person, AE-3803 is friendly and good-natured, determined, cheerful, and courageous. She's easy to get along with, and her friendships tend to develop quickly, if a little one-sided on her part. And yes, she will even gladly be friends with someone even if they are a bit of a jerk. Even though some other cells can have a bit of an abrasive personality, she knows for certain that they are all well-intentioned, and she believes in the best in others. How can she not? They all are on the same side-- they all live in the same body, and they all work to keep that body functioning and alive. She adores the body she inhabits, and although it's constantly being assaulted by illness or injury, she knows that at the end of the day every single cells lives in it, both the mean and the kind ones.
Inventory:
She'll have a few pens and a paper pad, her clothes, a cart, and some oxygen tanks.
Abilities:
• • • Endurance. She's very, very good at running. And running long-distances at that, all while carrying supplies. The vessels in the body total up to somewhere of 100,000 kilometers. Even if she only travels 500 kilometers of that network, as someone who is only ~7 micrometers tall, that's magnitudes above what should be possible for a normal human.
• • • Athleticism. Red Blood Cell can squeeze into the narrowest of capillaries, and she's quite flexible to boot. She rarely tires, and is rarely seen sitting still.
• • • Speed. She's quick. She has to be, to deliver oxygen to hungry tissues... but also quick to run away form bacteria, so there's that.
• • • Intuitive. She has good instincts to when something is strange or odd. In canon, she is the one cell that alerted the rest of the immune system to a malignant cancer cell.
• • • Coagulation. This is more canon-specific. With the aide of platelets and fibrin, she is able to become a part of a clot. Canon also touches on surface cell proteins for the white blood cells as having extra abilities, so it can be inferred that the red blood cells' surface proteins act in similar ways.
• • • Strength. AE-3803 is shown to swiftly transport materials in the blood stream, including structures that are three times her size.
Flaws:
• • • A terrible sense of direction. And sometimes it's not just in some "cute" manner. As a red blood cell, she ought to already know where she's going and how to get there, but she doesn't. So she's slower at getting her oxygen to others who may need it. It's a flaw that she knows she has and attempts to make up for, but in the end she's actually not really good at her job.
• • • Fearful. She's easily spooked and fearful of many, many things, mostly things that she doesn't know or understand.
• • • Gullible/naive. The girl can be tricked and hoodwinked easily. She carried a streptococcus bacteria all the way up to the lungs unsuspectingly.
• • • Not confident. She feels rather inept compared to many of the immune cells, and when she sees them being hurt while she can only watch from the sidelines, she feels rather guilty for not being stronger.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
[ Once, a gaping hole had appeared in the epidermis, destroying streets, buildings, sewers, and bridges. It had taken many lives, many cells, and all in a flash. Once, those cells had been there-- flowing into that void, a black, gaping hole that sucked them from of the human body, pouring and pouring more and more of them out. Once, they had been there. And then they had gone.
It seems that's always the case for her kind. To be there, and then suddenly be not. Tiny, fleeting, insignificant lives, all thirty seven trillion of them, all working together in a bustling world they called their home, their utopia, their land that provided all materials for them. Perhaps some would find that troubling, perhaps others would find that dizzying. But not her. Every day she finds herself proud of her work and even prouder to be a part of that world, a part of the human she resides in. Her work is difficult-- involving running and couriering and bustling through the great vessels non-stop, potential danger at every turn-- but it satisfies her in a way that nothing else could, as if she had been programmed to do just that.
How lucky she is to be a part of that world, to be able to deliver oxygen and keep the human body alive. How blessed she is to be a part of it. A tiny part, but an essential one nonetheless. It's what keeps her smiling, chipper and hopeful. It's what presses her to sprint past abrasions or nefarious bacteria to deliver those nutrients to the hungry stationary cells, nested like bricks in their apartment-like tissues. She may not be a part of that body any longer, but now she feels just as grateful to be able to live among them. Humans. Multi-cellular organisms. Who would have thought she would ever get to speak to people like them?
A giggle escapes her as she pushes her cart. She can't help it. Even if this world is filled with dangers, she is truly lucky to be here. ]