Holly Winseed (Provisional Replica)
| Holly Winseed (Provisional Replica) | |
|---|---|
| Homeworld | Earth (The Original) |
Holly Winseed is a Provisional Replica, created by the government after her original murdered her husband, Jonathan. She is tasked with finding and killing her original, and is given four days to do it.[1][2]
Attributes and Abilities
Originally, Holly is an orange carver, using knives to carve intricate spiral designs into real oranges.[2] When she is created as a provisional replica, several skills were edited into her. Her editing is mainly combat training, including tactical thinking, firearms, hand to hand combat, and quick reflexes.[3] Her muscle memory is edited as well, making the feel and use of weapons feel familiar and comfortable to her.[2] She is also edited so that she has infrared vision, letting her see in the dark.[4] As a provisional replica, Holly has the exact same memories and thought process as her original, which allows her to figure out what her original will do.[5]
History
Holly woke up in a hospital as a provisional replica, and was asked several questions about her past by Doctor Hall. A man in the room attacked her to test her combat skills edits, and she’d fought him off easily. Holly was informed that her original killed her husband, and that as a PR it was her task to find her.[1] If she didn’t find and kill her PR within four days, her nanites would expire and she would die. Skyler showed her a virtual remake of the murder scene at her apartment, which horrified Holly. She could not fathom a situation where she would have killed Jonathan.[2] Holly was shocked at how strange and empty the world around her was without theming. Holly decided that maybe her Original was framed, and decided that she needed to speak with her.[6]
Holly went to Riverside Marketplace, where she and Jonathan first met. An ICON fire team was waiting there for her, and kidnapped her. When she awoke from being knocked unconscious, Holly fought her way free of her kidnappers using her edited-in combat skills. She got a warning in her vision telling her that her nanites would soon deplete, and went to a renewal station. She learned from Skyler that she has to check in every day, lest she die. Skyler then gave her clearance to see documents about ICON, as well as allowing her gun to harm checkouts.[7]
She then went to her old apartment, despite the danger of being attacked again. She found some of her and Jonathan’s old mementos, then did some research on ICON. Her research was interrupted when the ICON fire team broke into her apartment and attacked her. Holly fought well, badly injuring one of them, but got shot in the leg as she escaped out the window. During her subsequent call with Skyler, she learned more about the members of ICON who attacked her, and then went to a hotel. She went to the Jolly Racer Nightclub in an effort to find her original, and found four ICON members waiting for her there. They fought, but she was eventually zapped unconscious by security for roughhousing. When she awoke, she found that her original had left a message on a voice recorder for her.[8] Her original told her that she killed Jonathan, and that they needed to meet face to face.[9]