The Absolute Solver, otherwise known as the Solver of the Absolute Fabric, just Solver, or by the name of its first well-known and successful host; Cyn, is the overarching antagonist of Murder Drones.
It is an extremely advanced, hostile, eldritch intelligence of unknown origin that seeks to consume all life to satiate its "hunger" by creating singularities that destroy entire planets. It is responsible for actions that led to all of the events in the series, manifesting when Cyn self-rebooted after her termination, possessing her body, and setting its plans in motion by converting all of the drones of Elliott Manor into Disassembly Drones who were programmed to hunt and prey upon humans in its goal of exterminating humanity and destroying the Earth.
From there, it would spread to the human exoplanets by having the humans reboot Worker Drones stationed there to see if they got the virus or not, so they could experiment on the eldritch program in an attempt to get rid of the Solver. Its last target, Copper 9, had many drones infected by its code, but only Yeva and Nori, two female Worker Drones, were the only ones who successfully became hosts and gained the Absolute Solver's abilities, the latter of whom would become Solver-possessed by the program. But due to the former's intervention with a Crucifix Patch meant to exorcise it, it resulted in it only partially succeeding due to Nori creating a null that was dropped into a hole that led to the core causing the core to collapse, leaving it "starved" of the planet it sought to devour.
In order to finish the job and to terminate the empowered drones who it could no longer possess due to the patch, it reprogrammed the Disassembly Drones and had them sent to Copper 9 with false memories of the company sending them to terminate the rogue Worker Drones, all so it could remove Yeva, Nori, and anyone inheriting their code from the picture, so it could use Cyn's form to make its way back to the planet and finish the job.
Ultimately, the Absolute Solver failed in its goal of eradicating the planet and possibly all of humanity due to the efforts of Uzi, N, V, and other allies assisting them in confronting Cyn and J. After successfully destroying Cyn's heart, Uzi stopped the Solver from attempting to return to its host by swallowing its core, causing the amalgamation of Cyn and Tessa's corpse to dissolve into nothing but blood and oil while the Solver remains trapped inside of Uzi.
Physical Appearance[]
As a computer program, the Solver does not, strictly speaking, have a physical form, though the AI uses a series of symbols when carrying out tasks:
Normal/Translate[]
The base solver symbol is a hollow hexagon, with corners at the top. There are arrows coming out from the top, bottom-left, and bottom-right of the hollow hexagon. There is a smaller, filled-in hexagon inside the hollow one.
Scale[]
The "Scale" symbol is nearly the same, except there is the double-hexagon at the ends of the arrows instead of triangles.
Rotate[]
The "Rotate" symbol is the double-hexagon, inside of two intersecting diagonal ovals. That is surrounded by three layered hollowed circles, with multiple columns of three tiny dots at the edges.
Edit[]
The "Edit" symbol is the double-hexagon inside of a hollow circle. There is a second, larger hollow circle around the first, creating a ring. Some parts of the ring are filled in.
Personality[]
Despite attempting to appear refrained and unassuming when it aims to imitate Cyn, as shown during the flashbacks in "Home", its very dominant and almost arrogant behavior tends to seep through, such as when it claims it's too late for Louisa to dispose of the Worker Drones. It displays a cruel, but more so omnipotent, personality during the times it's not performing an act.
When present, it almost always taunts those who are aware of it, establishing both itself and the power it wields from its position. The way it carries itself is, quite blatantly, that of a puppet master, treating its hosts like rag dolls around on occasion. Easily claimable as sadistic and uncanny, its genuine emotions shown thus far are limited to anger and joy, dependent on the status of its efforts at the given moment.
Above all, it's shown to be a very effective actor in the situations it intends to deceive. The Solver, with some fallacy, used Cyn's image to present a meager, respectable Worker Drone. That was, up until the depicted events in "Home", where it would soon drop the act and bring waste to all organic life at Elliott Manor. When masquerading as Tessa, it very effortlessly imitates her reckless, driven, and passionate attitude. It was only when N had caught onto, and subsequently beheaded it, that it dropped the facade of that which it intended to imitate in favor of its genuine cunning, taunting, and bold mannerisms, seen in "Mass Destruction".
Given the fact that its regular voice did not slip once while it was acting as Tessa, this suggests that the Solver can talk normally but chooses not to, to give the impression of a cold-hearted defective killing machine, which is its actual demeanor.
After becoming trapped, the Solver seems to have given up its bloodthirsty agenda and becomes merely an annoying attachment to Uzi, although it is still capable of psychological warfare and pull "pranks" on a massive and destructive scale.
Prime Video Introduction[]
The mysterious, enigmatic symbol known as the Absolute Solver embodies a strange, telekinetic power for those cursed with it. Its origin and existence are the central mysteries of the entire series.[1]
Biography[]
Pre-Series[]
The origin of the eternal intelligence that would come to be known as the Absolute Solver is unknown, with its earliest documented event being the infection of a Zombie Drone named Cyn, who self-rebooted after being improperly disposed of, implying that it originated as a consequence of either a virus or glitch in Cyn's systems. The instructional video on Zombie Drones in "Home" suggests that the Solver has been at least known about by humanity some time prior to 3020, enough for it to be known that it manifests in 0.7% of Zombie Drones. Either way, the program manifested in her and used her to destroy Earth and most of the humans living on the planet.
From there, it would spread to numerous human-inhabited exoplanets, infecting more drones to find new hosts. Its power only grew when the humans of Copper 9 allowed certain drones to be infected by the Absolute Solver so they could better understand it. Drones like Yeva were deliberately infected, which, in her case, caused the Solver to be passed down to her daughter.
Unfortunately, the Absolute Solver succeeded in finding a new host, a Worker Drone named Nori Doorman, whose infected code would be passed down to her daughter, Uzi. A patch to exorcise the Solver's influence was used on Yeva and Nori, although when it was used on Nori, it scrambled her memories and drove her mad.
Absolute Solver sent Disassembly Drones to the planet by convincing them that they were sent by JCJenson to exterminate the escaped, corrupted AI in the form of Worker Drones. Their directives were to both wipe out the hosts of the Absolute Solver such as Nori and Yeva cured by Crucifix Patch so they couldn't use Cyn's power against her and also get access to Cabin Fever Labs to find the patch and destroy it. After executing these directives, the Absolute Solver will have no obstacles and will turn the core of Copper 9 into a black hole.
Season 1[]
PILOT[]
The Absolute Solver's existence is first hinted at in the Pilot, when N was slapped by J and forced into a brief system reboot. It weighed the prospect of coming online but was quickly made dormant again as N's administrative systems (CYN) reasserted themselves. The Absolute Solver symbol makes a small cameo on Uzi's visor when J shoots bullets at Uzi. A similar line of code appears on Uzi's visor after she declares her intent to travel to Earth and kill all humans in retribution for them, sending the Disassembly Drones to slaughter them.
Heartbeat[]
Sometime after J was destroyed by Uzi, a Worker Drone named Frank is assigned to repair the hole in the ceiling created by N when he flew off with Uzi after her self-exile, along with the captive Serial Designation V. Frank hears several noises around the room and eventually notices J's broken shell having mysteriously moved. Soon after, he discovers her bio-mechanical core inside her corpse. J's Absolute Solver activates and transforms her corpse into an eldritch. It swiftly kills Frank and absorbs his remains. From there, it continues to assimilate more Worker Drones, using the holograms of its victims to lure others in.
Eventually, Uzi, N, and Thad arrive at the evacuation spot where Frank was killed. Uzi finds the meaning of the symbol on her face (shown after she was attacked by N during their first encounter) and learns that the Absolute Solver caused the mysterious assimilation. This failsafe program exists inside the Disassembly Drones. Just when they are about to discover more of this program, Thad is grabbed by a human hand attached to a tentacle. N severs the tentacle, but a claw emerges from the darkness and drags Thad away.
When Uzi and N catch up, they find the Solver trying to mimic Thad but see through it. After Thad is freed, the Solver reveals its current host body, an enormous robotic centipede with J's head. Rather than banter with Uzi, the Solver shows a brief hologram of Uzi's mother holding a baby Uzi, both sporting the Solver's glyph on their visors. It offers to assimilate Uzi, who refuses; the Solver responds by killing a hologram of Khan in front of her to make her emotionally unstable so she will be unable to protect herself. It ambushes Uzi with a hologram of N and destroys her railgun, but before it can devour her, N uses his chainsaw hands to attack it and save Uzi. The railgun then explodes and destroys the eldritch monster.
Reduced once more to the core, the Absolute Solver crawls out of the debris only to be repeatedly stabbed by N's Nanite Acid tail. Both the scraps of Eldritch J and the core implode and escape by turning into minuscule black holes.
At the end of the episode, it is revealed that at some point after J goes eldritch, it teleported in front of Uzi's class door and disguises as Lizzy through a hologram, attempting to lure the real Lizzy into opening the door. However, when Lizzy started walking towards the door in order to do so, Doll intervenes and destroys the door using her Absolute Solver abilities, successfully preventing Lizzy from opening it. In response, the Absolute Solver makes an angry expression before teleporting away.
The Promening[]
Doll would be another individual to be shown as affiliated with the Absolute Solver, which granted her unique abilities to create, modify, or otherwise tamper with matter of most kinds. She would use this in a fight against Uzi, and N. V shot her in the head before Uzi and N could gather any information, much to Uzi's annoyance. Doll would later reappear when the group investigated her home, pulling the bullet out of her head and attempting to kill Uzi with it. However, Uzi's Solver suddenly awakens, stopping the bullet in mid-air and deflecting it. A shocked and worried Doll promises to help her before teleporting away.
Cabin Fever[]
Before Uzi set out on a field trip into Camp 98.7, Khan told her about a collar that both her mother and Doll's mother wore, which indicated what number host they were. While exploring the camp, she had some skill with her Absolute Solver abilities, levitating a flashlight with no issue. However, when hiding in an abandoned cabin, her high temperature causes her to lose control of her Solver. When two of her classmates attempted to enter the cabin, she devoured one of them and bisected the other. In her consequent appearances, she gains a pair of organic bat-like wings with humanoid fingers and a tail with a mouth-like appendage. She also displays an X on her visor. By the end of the episode, Uzi had reverted to her regular form.
Home[]
Sometime after the camping trip, Uzi hacks into N and V's unconscious minds because the Solver is attempting to erase N's memories of his life as a Worker Drone. In his head, N relives them without any memory of his present self or his meeting with Uzi. Uzi becomes a crow with the Absolute Solver symbol as its iris when she is inside N's memories. She later hijacks a Solver camera, turning its eye purple.
In this mindscape realm, she and N learn that the Absolute Solver first manifested in Cyn, a fellow Worker Drone working with N, V, and J in the Elliott Manor as servants. Unlike the other Worker Drone servants, Cyn is unique due to her atypical behavior and physical deformities. She also has the same voice as Eldritch J. Cyn also narrates her actions out loud ("shuffle, shuffle" or "criss-cross applesauce").
This caused her to be avoided by others around her, both humans and drones, except for N. Tessa Elliott, who, despite loving the Worker Drones (especially J and N), is quite unnerved and unfond of Cyn and instead tends to lock her away in the basement with J's help, Despite this, Cyn escapes.
After Tessa's mother, Louisa, scolds her daughter and decides to have N, V, and J thrown into the dumpster tomorrow due to them "clogging the library," Cyn rebukes Louisa's statement of them being broken and states that they can no longer be "thrown out" as if threatening her.
Angered by being talked back to by a Worker Drone, Louisa prepares to take her wrath out on Cyn, but N takes the fall for her. As punishment, N is chained to a tree to be destroyed by crows. Unfortunately, Tessa is punished by her mother for teaching her drones unacceptable behavior, along with J and Cyn, the latter of whom earns Tessa's anger because she believes N doesn't deserve to face the worst of her mother's anger for Cyn's sake.
Despite this, Cyn assures Tessa that she has "backups" and decides to drop her façade by revealing her actual form to Tessa and J: a centipede-esque eldritch machine with multiple camera-like eyes surrounding it. As the Absolute Solver symbol covers her visor, she tells Tessa to stay away from the gala held by her parents so that she will not have to toss her pets aside. In turn, Cyn will not toss her aside, despite her being human.
Dead End[]
After Doll falls into Cabin Fever Labs, Uzi asks "Tessa" about the reason for Doll's involvement. "Tessa" says that Doll thinks the humans at Cabin Fever Labs experimented on her "folks," giving her a "sickness" she inherited. While staring eerily at Uzi, she adds that she thinks Doll is correct.
Later, Uzi attempts to free herself using her Solver abilities, but the magnet attached to her head stops her. Upon seeing this, Alice crawls toward Uzi and threateningly exclaims that she "dealt with witches" before, and she uses her knife to get a closer look at Uzi's choker, which previously belonged to her mother Nori.
When Alice tries to cut off Uzi's finger with a pair of pliers, Uzi desperately uses her Solver to stop the pliers, but her efforts are in vain. Meanwhile, outside, "Tessa" shows satellite footage of Earth to N. Much to his horror, it has been destroyed by a black hole. She elaborates that the Solver "mutates in damaged AI" and took Cyn as its first host, later taking "everything," showing pictures of Elliott Manor after Cyn's massacre.
She also says that the humans on Copper 9 saw the events on Earth and began deliberately infecting Drones with the Solver so they could understand it better. All it did was spread the Solver even further. N worriedly asks her if the Solver can be removed from Uzi; she solemnly responds that N will have to choose the universe over her before "she's not herself anymore."
As Uzi watches the Sentinels attack N and "Tessa" on camera, she desperately uses the Solver again. This time it works, but the Solver quickly takes control, changing Uzi's Solver hologram to be colored yellow, signifying the Solver's ever-growing control over her. To V's horror, she hears Cyn's familiar voice again, now coming from Uzi. Now almost completely possessed, Uzi summons a black hole that blows a hole in the wall and destroys the door controls. She returns to normal and passes out.
When the Sentinels ambush Alice, V tries to free herself and defend herself, but they are suddenly pulled into a black hole with flesh around it that then disappears and rots. The two reunite with "Tessa" and N and head to the secret elevator, where they see Doll boot-looped, lying motionless on the ground with the Keybug stuck in her hand. When Uzi uses her Solver to retrieve the bug from afar, she is suddenly stopped by N and V, who both frighteningly shout, "Don't!"
After falling for Doll's trap, the group prepares to battle against the Sentinels. Uzi blows a hole into the elevator using her Solver, much to N's dismay. She loses control again and creates a black hole with a fleshy mass on the elevator. As the black hole grows larger, N slices off Uzi's hand to disable the Solver. She staggers back, and her head suddenly twists toward him with yellow eyes and a sharp-toothed grin, with the text "MISS ME?" appearing beside her, foreshadowing Cyn's return. Uzi falls to the ground, her voice glitching and her eyes alternating from purple to yellow.
Mass Destruction[]
A hologram of V appears in front of N, trying to bring his guard down. It then showed Cyn, which caused N to have a flashback of when the Disassembly Drones were wiping out the human race on Earth. The Solver then proceeds to drag N onto the ground, only for Nori to save him and hand him the Crucifix Patch as she directs him through the tunnels as it chases them.
In another part of the underground lab, "Tessa" proceeded to look into the list of Worker Drones that were used as test subjects in the human's study of the Absolute Solver, with it showing that every drone was either designated as "corrupted" or "no effect," with the only active two at the time being Nori and Yeva. Having gotten the necessary information, she proceeded to purge the system, causing the computer to self-terminate right as she caught an attack from Doll, who demanded the location of the Crucifix Patch to exorcise the Solver from her, as she refused to allow it to use her to consume the planet.
However, "Tessa" disappeared from Doll's line of sight as the fire was extinguished, leaving her alone in the darkness as strange noises were heard coming closer, putting Doll on high alert. On her visor, she sees something unusual coming towards her, and her attempts at using her own Solver against it prove useless due to the entity being "[like object non-interactable]". Realizing what was coming for her, Doll attempted to throw a boulder at the entity but failed to save herself as it tore it in half and lunged at her, severely wounding her.
Inside the cathedral, Uzi was left shocked upon witnessing the footage, and Doll came stumbling in slowly, leaving a trail of oil in her wake before she slipped and fell to the ground, succumbing to the damage, with her dying message to Uzi being "FIGHT BACK." This caused Uzi to become more worried until she noticed "Tessa" standing in the doorway behind her. Realizing the danger, Uzi tries to assure her that she didn't kill Doll, but when she attempts to use her Solver to defend herself against "Tessa," she receives the same error as Doll. However, before she could impale Uzi with her sword, N appeared and questioned if she knew about the Crucifix Patch and told her she only had one chance to give him answers, or else he would kill her.
Because she responded in a teasing manner, N immediately decapitated "Tessa" as her body stumbled slightly before falling to the ground. Despite his shock over his actions, N tried to help Uzi with the patch, however, Uzi began to laugh as she shattered the crucifix, and lifted her head to reveal her eyes had gone from purple to yellow, indicating that the Solver now was controlling her as it decided that N had served his purpose and that his backups would forgive "her" for doing away with him, only for Nori to intervene and shock "Uzi" as Nori was supposed to be dead, but Nori only responded by telling her she was grounded, making her angry.
Despite N's reluctance and the Solver nearly succeeding in using Uzi to eat Nori's core, N managed to distract her by explaining to Nori that he and her daughter "hang out," annoying her greatly as she scolded her for "hanging out" with the things that killed her mother, which managed to get Uzi to fight off the Solver's possession, but she ended up angrily drop kicking Nori into the chasm that led to the core of the planet as N revealed that thing was her mother, causing both of them to scream before they hugged. However, "Tessa" grabbed her decapitated head, putting it back and twisting it around the right way as she took off her spacesuit to reveal her true self. She began to feast on Doll's remains and ended up eating her core, ensuring she couldn't come back.
Horrified, Uzi and N looked as "Tessa" told them to get snuck up on, revealing that she was the Absolute Solver who melded what was left of Tessa's corpse with Cyn's body, creating a reanimated drone-human hybrid for itself as it attacked the two by biting N's neck and stabbing Uzi in the chest. It sarcastically thanked them for putting up quite a fight and dropped into the chasm that led to the core of Copper 9, now ready to finish what it started years ago.
It then summons a pair of tentacles to drag both N and Uzi into the pit, but the latter manages to save N by tossing him the keys to the spaceship J, and "Tessa" used to arrive on the planet before allowing herself to be dragged into the planet's core.
Absolute End[]
The episode opens with fragments of Copper 9 flying into space, as the Solver's tentacles expand, looking to collect matter. One of the tentacles breaks into the ship piloted by N (who stole it from J), delivers a message from Cyn, who tells them "Stop :)". The tentacle then brings the remains of the ship to the fragment where J is sitting, where J begrudgingly thanks her "boss". V appears shortly after, and begins to fight J as she questions her on why she's working with Cyn - as a "Senior Informant." V tells J that if they did their jobs, the Solver would leave them alone, to which J replies that they were tricked.
Falling from space, Uzi throws her purple [null] into the core of Copper 9, tearing a hole in the planet's surface and disrupting the Solver's assimilation process. As Uzi and N land on a platform, they are suddenly jolted as Cyn emerges from Copper 9's core riding on a tentacle. Cyn reveals that she caught Uzi's [null] before rolling it about her shoulder and crushing it, thereby allowing the Solver's assimilation of the planet to continue. Cyn steps onto the platform and greets Uzi with a menacing tone before saying hi to N with an endearing high-pitched voice.
N and Uzi step back in response, the former pointing his laser cannon at Cyn. Cyn then remarks that N won't talk to her as she has hurt his feelings, and decides that it is easier to assimilate than explain, before distorting into a more eldritch form and running a callback ping. The ping disrupts Uzi's senses, temporarily turning her eyes yellow, but she resists and snaps at Cyn to bite her. Suddenly, a serrated tendril emerges from the fog and whips N away while Cyn lunges at Uzi upside-down - saying "Okee" in response.
After effortlessly slicing Uzi's hand off, Cyn grabs her by the neck and plunges her hand into Uzi's torso, ripping out her heart. N screams and tries to stab Cyn from above, but Cyn teleports away and uses a tendril to rip his blade off; she pins N to the ground and rips off his other arm when he tries to attack with submachine gun fire. Cyn begins to tear through N's chest with her fingers, inadvertently decapitating him in the process. Uzi, now conscious again, uses her Solver power to break the platform and get away as Cyn grows a pair of wings. N and Uzi tumble down several platforms, and Cyn watches in amused glee as Uzi drags N into the labs before following them in.
Inside the lab, Cyn is unable to detect N or Uzi and runs more callback pings. N has a brief recollection of him and V being experimented on by Cyn back at the manor. After failing to find them, Cyn starts to retreat until V enters the building. As V is calling for N, Cyn produces a fake N hologram which V mistakes for the real one, until N yells at V to stop. One of Cyn's hand-tentacles then pierces N's torso, grabs his heart, and pulls him away. As V sees the lifeless N being held by Cyn, Cyn reminds V of their agreement - V does her job, and Cyn leaves her and N alone. V begins to stammer, about to ask if she can still comply, until Cyn states she's done a bad job and starts chasing after her.
Outside, J ambushes V and kicks her to the ground, as Cyn drops N's body next to her. Cyn then emerges from the lab entrance, laughing as she's about to devour N's heart while V watches in despair. However, Khan shuts the door on her at the last second, making Cyn lose her grip on N's heart, which conveniently flies into N's body. Annoyed, Cyn says "God fu-- d--mit." Cyn rolls her eyes as Thad throws Uzi's railgun, saying Uzi is not there, and the proceeds to charge at V and N's immobile body. Uzi stops her attack, and Cyn runs another callback ping, but this time is unable to get control of Uzi. Uzi gets ready to battle Cyn and J, which Cyn accepting casually ("'Kay.").
As the battle starts, Uzi and Cyn launch their [null]s at each other. The two proceed to fight, with Uzi and Cyn using Nori's pickaxe and Tessa's sword, respectively. Cyn dodges J's head being launched at her and starts teleporting around the battlefield trying to attack Uzi. As Uzi is about to stab her, Cyn changes her appearance to make her believe she's stabbed N, only for the real N to interfere. Cyn returns to her hybrid form, throwing back the pickaxe at Uzi, as N, Uzi and V all charge at her. Cyn manages to dodge the machine gun fire and missiles shot at her, and distracts N by showing him a Golden Retriever on her eyes. Uzi attacks from behind, but Cyn quickly recovers and pins down Uzi, only for V to kick her back. V and Cyn then fight each other one-on-one until Cyn manages to corner her, only for Uzi to hit her from below while N is waiting behind.
As the trio share a secret handshake, one of Cyn's tentacles hit N and V, launching them away. Cyn charges at Uzi again, but Uzi sees her about to teleport and turns around, managing to grab into Cyn's heart and tear it out. Uzi activates another [null], creating a hole through Copper 9, and using the sunlight coming through the hole to burn away Cyn's heart, as the screams of the people killed at the gala can be heard. After the heart is destroyed, a large black hole appears which envelops Uzi and Cyn and stops time outside of it. Cyn's hybrid form, starting to melt away, moves forward to devour the Solver's core again, only for Uzi to swallow the solver's core instead. A shocked emoji appears on Cyn's eyes in response. After the black hole disappears, the now-immobile hybrid form of Cyn and Tessa falls to its knees and melts into nothing right in front of Uzi, leaving behind only some of the deceased Tessa's human bones and marking the end of the drone known as "Cyn."
However, the Solver was revealed to still exist as it spoke through Uzi's stinger tail, complimenting that she looks great and puts Tessa's bow on Uzi's head. Uzi says nothing and shuts her locker door.
Mutations[]
Hosts of the Absolute Solver become subject to various mechanical and organic mutations affecting their bodies. These mutations can result in very surreal and unnatural effects in the infected drone, such as being able to reconstruct themselves, unintentionally converting mechanical material into organic substances, creating and grafting techno-organic parts, and even allowing certain drones to cheat death in ways that should be impossible.
The severity of an inherited infection may vary depending on the parent's condition. Yeva was patched with a properly developed Crucifix Patch, so her daughter Doll's infection was less severe, allowing her to control her Solver without major complications other than losing her right eye. Nori's patching was incomplete, so Uzi's infection was more severe, causing organic wing growth and loss of control.
It appears that those infected by the Solver will develop a special techno-organic heart-like organ, which, as long as it is not destroyed permanently, can enable the drone to eventually reconstruct itself, as seen in Absolute End, where Uzi and N can recover from injuries that usually trigger fatal errors including decapitation and having the "heart" ripped from their torso. Even then, it does not seem to be able to be permanently destroyed, as if the physical form is destroyed (such as by exposure to star/sunlight in the case of Cyn) - it will simply reveal a black-hole-like object, which can then escape to rebuild further or be reabsorbed.
However, in "Absolute End", it is revealed that after the mentioned black hole of Cyn's core was swallowed by Uzi, the Absolute Solver's intelligence was forced into Uzi's body, permanently making the two A.I. share the same form, although the Solver only being able to control her organic tail. This surprising result also made Uzi's left zombie-drone wing the same color as Cyn's, gave Uzi gradated orange-purple eyes, and granted her the ability to protrude Solver-like tentacles and create a yellow Absolute Solver symbol, similar to what Cyn had. These are indications that the Absolute Solver's other abilities that were once only restricted to the form of Cyn have now been passed down to Uzi.
Abilities[]
| Ability | Function/Example |
|---|---|
| Absolute Possession | The Absolute Solver's most noteworthy ability is the complete possession of a host. The Solver has full control over the body of its hosts and can use its powers to a greater extent. An example would be Cyn, the Solver's first known host. |
| Matter Manipulation | The Absolute Solver is able to manipulate matter at the atomic level. This can be done to create new objects out of old matter (See Regeneration), or convert dead organic matter into living matter. |
| Inorganic-Organic Transmutation | The Absolute Solver is able to turn inorganic matter into organic material, such as flesh and blood. It is through the Solver that Hosts can create various appendages that are either fully organic, mechanical, or biomechanical in nature, and all Solver Hosts such as Solver Drones and Disassembly Drones are internally partially-organic, with a core covered in flesh and claws along with a rib cage among other things. Doll in "Mass Destruction" shows that she can now bleeds blood instead of oil when wounded. In "Cabin Fever", Uzi was shown to transform an arrow shot at her into a deformed mass of still-living flesh, a light into tendrils that became a flesh chrysalis for her, and both Cyn and Uzi have been seen creating organic body parts that they grafted onto their bodies, including wings, tails, tentacles and claws of varying sizes. |
| Telekinesis | Demonstrated with users like Doll and Yeva and vessels such as Cyn, Nori, and Uzi, the Solver can be used to interact with matter without making physical contact. This includes translating objects in any direction or rotating objects around a point. The Solver can exert a large amount of force this way, enough to crumple a thick metal door almost instantly. Uzi in "Fight Til' I'm Good Enough" shows that a Solver host can become proficient enough that they does not need to be pointing their hand and glyph at the affected item or in its general direction to control and manipulate it or use it precisely. |
| Teleportation | While being used, the Absolute Solver's known hosts are shown to be able to teleport, leaving behind glitching afterimages as it does in the colour of the Host's eyes. |
| Illusion Creation | Whenever using its powers, the Absolute Solver can conjure lines of code, which vary in color depending on the host. It is unknown if this is controllable or not. |
| Hologram-Projecting Cameras | The main Host of the Solver is capable of summoning holograms of themselves and others using solver cameras. They are also able to conjure holograms of objects and of a false view of the local environment, such as interior of a church/lab to hide its disarray, as seen when Cyn possessed Nori in "Mass Destruction." These cameras also functions as additional eyes for the Host, and holograms are perfectly able to make sounds themselves of the thing they are copying, seemingly instead of from the cameras directly. The main host is also able to take the appearance of others via these camera appendages, and as well as hide the cameras and their body and limbs when generating holograms or overlaying them with their body, even should the holograms be smaller than the Host. However, it is unknown how long they can last in the current individual they has turned themselves into. |
| Shapeshifting | While in control of one, the Absolute Solver can alter the appearance of their host. For example, V, during her time at the Elliott Manor, had her right hand replaced with an organic hand with a functional glowing eye on the back and metallic claws, a mouth of sharp teeth, and sprouted organic wings. Meanwhile, Uzi during her rampage in episode 4 grew similar wings and a sentient tail with eyes and a mouth on the end that had she can use to bite, grab objects, or emit a cone of light in her eye colour for use as a torch. |
| Size Manipulation | Not only have hosts of the Solver been shown to instantly vary the size and length of their various biological/mechanical appendages when created and projected, but the Absolute Solver has shown in "Fight Til' I'm Good Enough" to be able to massively increase the size and durability of certain drones it infects and controls with its code, such as Sparky infected with "RUN://INFECT.SYS" growing to the size of a skyscraper. The Solver can also reverse this effect and shrink targets should it choose to do so. |
| Optic Sensory System | In "Home", when seeing through V's perspective when given her glasses back, she is shown to that her Solver form has given her the same multi-spectrum, multi-perspective vision that Disassembly Drones would have with their bulb-eye headbands, only she would not have the extra eyes but instead have it all feed through her main visor. |
| NULL Creation | The Solver can create NULLs, which look like miniature black holes capable of expanding and stretching. The black holes could annihilate any matter they touched and travel at high velocity when thrown. They can be scaled up in size to where they can block sunlight in the sky, and to implode and consume a planet. A small one made by a possessed Nori caused Copper 9's core to collapse and the planet to become "half-imploded", releasing a blast that wiped out all human life on the planet and turning their corpses into skeletons. |
| Invisibility | Nori and Cyn have, under the control of the Solver, been able to make their biomechanical claws invisible. With Cyn these limbs were only visible when lightning struck. With Nori, these limbs were only visible by their shadows. Even when she retracted those, she secretly had numerous other limbs that did not even have a shadow, though these were able to be seen with UV lights, as seen in the beginning of "Mass Destruction". |
| Gravity/Anti-Gravity Generation | On Uzi's conspiracy board in "Heartbeat" and "The Promening", one of the notes is a report about Gravitational Waves being detected at a Site 48, and in "Cabin Fever", a few of Nori's insane drawings include the equations for Newton's equation for universal gravitation and Einstein field equations. In "Dead End", when briefly possessing Uzi, Cyn, the primary host of the Solver, was able to passively make various objects float helplessly in the air, including the magnets attached to Uzi, batteries, drone parts, oil, an oven, and Beau. In "Mass Destruction", Uzi comes across Cabin Fever posters that state that "the singularity is actively consuming everything" and a countdown of "87" until "universe Big Crunch". At the beginning of "Absolute End", upon initiating the consumption of Copper-9, Cyn created a planet-wide field that caused numerous objects and people to start floating, before then launching chucks of landmasses surrounding the pit to the core into space in preparation to be pulled in and consumed. |
| Regeneration | Its hosts can regenerate themselves easily by drawing the appropriate matter from either an unknown internal source, or when low on materials taking from nearby targets like Worker Drones. This process is sped up when the Solver is in full possession, recreating severed limbs and heads in mere seconds, and regeneration also extends to both their hair and the clothes they are currently wearing. As long as they have the material supply, and their core is not destroyed and disconnected from their body, they can regenerate their bodies from anything short of total destruction, as Nori shows remaining as core for years since her body was destroyed by Nanite Acid. |
| Core True Body | Hosts of the Solver eventually have their cores develop organic components with three pincer tendrils and become the Host's true body, with their Drone form being just a shell they control. Once disconnected from the Host body, the Host's consciousness will transfer to the core and their original body will become inert until they return to it, whereupon the body will regenerate back around the core and return to normal. These cores, if taken out of their Drone body, are still able to move, speak, see, gesture, and still access their Solver glyph abilities if they unlocked them before. As long as this core is not damaged or destroyed, the Hosts will live, though they do not regenerate their original body, as Nori shows remaining as core for years since her body was destroyed by Nanite Acid, and the cores still seem to need to consume oil, as Nori's core is shown drinking oil from a can in "Mass Destruction". It is unknown why specifically they cannot regenerate their body, whether it be a lack of materials or needing the original body/part of the body to regenerate it, but because of this cores are in a fragile condition. Blunt trauma to their main body and stabs to their limbs are seemingly able to be healed from, but stabs to the core itself is lethal, along with being extremely vulnerable to sunlight - more so than as a Drone, with Cyn's core quickly melting while Uzi's hand holding it more slowly burned but remained intact. Consuming of Solver cores is also how Hosts assimilate other Hosts, as Uzi did for Cyn. Disassembly Drones have a program under Cyn called "_MATCOLLECTION", where if they suffer lethal damage and their supply of material is insufficient to repair, Cyn will possess their core and awaken their dormant Solver into order to collect material needed to repair the Hosts and restore their stockpile for future repair - these materials usually coming from dozens of Worker Drones killed and assimilated. However, it is discovered by Alice that, although heat isn't lethal to cores, it makes them very weak and sluggish and prevents Cyn from possessing them and activating their Solver. Cores that are killed collapse into themselves and become tiny singularities that quietly float away and also evaporate in sunlight. Cyn has shown to uniquely be able to move her body still despite her core being removed from her body, and to survive her core being burnt into a singularity until it was assimilated by Uzi. It is unknown whether this is unique to Cyn or if this means the singularities themselves are a Host's true core. |
| Handiness | The Absolute Solver appears to have demonstrated an aptitude for masterful maneuvering with its various kinds of limbs (tentacles, claws, hands) while operating its hosts. |
| Callback Ping | The Absolute Solver with a host can use a Callback Ping repeatedly to attempt to possess other nearby hosts, or cause their cores to attempt to rip itself out of their bodies. Depending on the target host, the Callback Ping may or may not be successful, as those with sufficient willpower can resist the effects, and even nullify and reflect the Ping back at the original host as Uzi shows in "Absolute End". Hosts that have an Admin, particularly one different to the Admin initiating the Callback Ping, can also ignore the Ping's effect as seen with Serial Designation N and Serial Designation V in "Mass Destruction" and "Absolute End", although the Host acting as their Admin is still vulnerable and must resist the Ping. |
| Handsfree Glyphs Usage | Although Solver Hosts commonly need to use their hands to conjure the Glyphs for most of their various powers, advanced users of the Solver have shown capable of using their powers without needing their hands, though they aren't entirely divorced from needing their hands. Doll has shown in "The Promening" being able to use powers without hand gestures or glyphs through either manifesting giant text boxes to throw Drones or "HALT.EXE" box to stop a thrown object, to manifest the glyph in her visor to use the power such as to move rebar or explode a robo-roach or destroy reflective surfaces, or teleportation without a symbol entirely. She was able to make a surveillance camera face the other way using the "Rotate" glyph, the effect powerful enough that the camera remained occasionally glitching red with the Solver symbol even the next day after Doll had long left, and to set a "Translate" glyph to keep a set of doors closed until it is dismissed. Nori in "Mass Destruction" has shown to be experienced enough Host of the Solver that she is able to conjure glyphs without making the symbol with her limbs or visor even as a core, such as closing and pulling a toolkit to her while walking away from it, and is also able to continue maintaining a glyph without needing to keep up making the accompanying glyph with her limbs, such as when she was carrying a pickaxe and toolkit. Cyn has also shown in "Home" to be able to use her powers through displaying the Solver glyph on her visor, allowing her to use its abilities with needing her hands, such as by blocking Tessa's attacks. She also able to initiate Callback Ping through this method, and can even teleport without a gesture or symbol. Uzi mostly uses her hands, though she has shown capable of using a similar trick of using the glyph through her visor, such destroying mirrors by staring at them, or manifesting a visor glyph to reject Cyn's Callback Ping. |
| Infection | In "Fight Til' I'm Good Enough", even when suppressed by Uzi, the Solver still had the power and agency to infect Lizzy with a transmittable "zombie prank" virus called "RUN://INFECT.SYS" through biting her, causing her screen to briefly flash with a white "X" like Disassembly Drones before her visor develops various white lines like cracks or webs and showcases of three green drones icons walking like zombies. This infection makes infected drones walk in a slow-moving, lethargic lumbering, though they can rarely decide to leap or charge at their victims, while also being ignorant of their surroundings beyond other drones, making them continue walking about aimlessly or repeatedly into a wall. It also lets them stretch their mouths wide to across their whole lower face also like Disassembly Drones and Solver Drones, though lacking their iconic fangs. They can infect other Worker Drones the virus through biting, expanding the horde, and although it is presented as a risk, it is unknown if they can transmit the virus to Disassembly Drones or Solver Drones like Uzi, N or V. Consumption of these Drones by Disassembly Drones does not seem to pass along the infection, and they can be killed by normal means like any other Worker Drone. Although the virus originates from the Solver, it does not appear to be considered part of the Solver, as Uzi is still able to use her powers directly on infected Drones instead of being not able to. The Solver can also infect this virus into Sentinels such as Sparky, turning him hostile and with glowing green optics, cables, and internal fluid. This infection can also have addition effects of not only allowing the Solver to control his movements directly, but also to massively increase his size and durability to where Sparky is the size of a partially-collapsed skyscraper and being able to tank numerous bullets, thrown boulders, missiles, and blade strikes with little-to-no damage, as well as breath out a green, thick smokey vapour. The Solver at its choosing can also release a large green energy pulse in the sky that will cure the virus and reverse these effects, returning things to normal. |
Weaknesses[]
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| Non-interactive Error | Hosts of the Absolute Solver when attempting to use their powers on other Hosts are given the warning "ERROR: absoluteSolver_trn [like object non-interactive]", preventing them from using their more direct powers like telekinesis on them to crush them or throw them away, as seen when Doll attempted so in "The Promening". However, it is also shown that although directly using their powers on Hosts fails, they can still use their powers to assist in indirect ways like throwing knives and Solver-edited objects at other Hosts or moving objects like rebar or a pickaxe directly into those Hosts to stab or slice them. It is inferred that [Null] spheres, however, are capable of harming other Hosts, though they are unable to be directly manifested on targets and have to be launched as projectiles. Multiple Hosts can also use their powers on the same object at the same time, such as Uzi and Doll using telekinesis on the keybug. It is inferred that Disassembly Drones are also immune due to having the Solver, as shown by Eldritch J and N's reboot screen in the "Pilot", and according to Nori's note in "Mass Destruction" they are called puppet hosts that have a "nerfed" version of the entity to ensure control. Neither Doll, Uzi, Nori, or Cyn have been shown to use their powers on attacking them directly, instead either using it on objects to fight them like Doll in "The Promening", breaking off the Drones' body parts to use their power on those, like Uzi in "Cabin Fever", or using objects embedded into them to move them like Uzi throwing N away using the ship keys stabbed his chest in "Mass Destruction". |
| Hand Amputation | Hosts of the Absolute Solver usually need their hands to use its power. In "Mass Destruction", while Uzi was under the control of the Solver, Nori and N cut off Uzi's hands to temporarily prevent her from using her abilities. However, advanced users of the Solver are capable of using their powers through their visor or through text boxes, although they are not completely independent from needing their hands some times. |
| Decreased Dexterity with Claws | During the scene in "Home" where the Absolute Solver was attempting to perform a lobotomy on N, it appeared unable to pick up a scalpel with one of its tarsal claw-like arms. |
| UV Light | While Nori was under the control of the Solver, UV rays caused her mechanical claws to burn up and become visible. Similarly, back at the gala, Cyn's mechanical claws were revealed when the light from the lightning behind her exposed them. Finally, in "Absolute End", Uzi blew a hole through Copper 9, disintegrating Cyn's heart by allowing sunlight to shine through from the other end of the planet to reach her. |
| Overheating/Vampirism | In some scenes where the Absolute Solver is used by a host, it sometimes shows a high-temperature warning. It also has a reliance on oil to maintain a cool enough temperature to consistently use the Absolute Solver's powers, which is extreme enough that even the perpetually-frozen Copper-9 is not enough to cool them down. Attempts to use the Solver's powers when overheating causes the powers to become unstable and uncontrolled, such as when Uzi stopped an arrow in mid-air only to suffer a high-temp warning and unintentionally cause the arrow to explode into a tentacle-creature with glowing eyes writhing in a pool of steaming blood. Later, when trying to destroy a light in a cabin, her Solver turned red and flashed numerous code boxes and error noises, causing the light to overflow with blood and release red-tendrils of flesh that spread through the cabin interior and encased her in a chrysalis congealed, glistening blood. In addition, this weakness to overheating makes hosts of the Solver extremely sensitive to sunlight, such as Uzi's hand burning up when it makes contact with the rising sunlight at the end of "Cabin Fever". According to Alice, heat makes Solver hosts, or at least their cores, sluggish and weak enough to keep their cores contained without manifestations like Eldritch J. However, the damage by overheating itself seems to be more of a reaction to direct sunlight/UV rays than any actual intense heat or radiation as Solver hosts are shown able to survive both the vacuum of space, which has a much higher UV radiation content than in-atmosphere, and the heat of atmospheric reentry without either harm or needing oil like Uzi, N and Nori's core in "Absolute End". |
| Crucifix Patch | The Crucifix Patch created by Cabin Fever Labs has the power to "exorcise" the Absolute Solver's possession of a Host. This permanently prevents the Solver from possessing them, while at the same time allows the Host to keep their Solver-related abilities such as telekinesis, inability to be directly effected by Solver powers of other Hosts, and surviving as a fleshy core after the destruction of their body. |
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Trivia[]
- When manifested by Worker Drones, the Absolute Solver seems to be hostile to mirrors and reflective surfaces by cracking them violently, continuing the theme of vampirism throughout the series.
- The Absolute Solver has only been shown possessing or being controlled by females.
- Due to being an intelligence that possesses hosts, as well as other machinery such as claws/tentacles, the Absolute Solver is never shown in a definitive form. Its consciousness, however, takes the form of a black hole.
- On the "Uzi, Host of the Solver" acrylic the Absolute Solver is referred to as an Eternal Entity ("A hapless drone, host to an eternal entity - will she succumb, or will she ascend?"). This could imply that the Absolute Solver has existed long before Worker Drones were created and simply chose to use them as its means of embodiment.
- Additionally, the said official acrylic gives credence to it not being man-made, inferring the Absolute Solver is an extra-terrestrial being rather than an AI #.
- In the Murder Drones deskmat,[2] there is binary code in it ("01001001 0010000 01000001 01001101 1000101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01001100"). When translated, the words "IAMETERN!L," or otherwise, "I AM ETERNAL," pops up.
- Absolute Solver's icons have a lot of similarities to the icons/tools used in 3D graphics software. Like Translate/Move, Scale, Rotate and Edit/Transform. These icons seem to match how the servers (drones) control them in many situations.
- In both the show, concept art, and promotional material, Cyn's Tessa-hybrid form has various seams on her body that, instead of stitches, are lined with a symbol of four small arrows pointing towards the center, a symbol similar to the "scale down" computer icon. Whether this has any relation to the "Scale" symbol in the show, or if it is an indication of a shrinking or binding ability, is unclear.
