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The Antitype.
The Antitype (Counter-existence in the Japanese version) is the name of incarnations assigned to Elly. In the same way, Fei Fong Wong's incarnations are labeled as The Contact.
The original form of the Antitype was derived from True Elehayym, a being who was created as a response to Abel making contact with the Wave Existence. The Antitype was created as a means for the Wave Existence to communicate with the Contact.[citation needed]
History[]
On Miktam04β in T.C. 4767, during a series of top secret tests between the Zohar and the superweapon Deus, a young boy named Abel made 'contact' with the Wave Existence, a hyper dimensional being that had become trapped within the Zohar.[1]
Through the Zohar, the energy of the Wave Existence flowed into Abel, who became the Contact.[2] Responding to the young boy, the biological computer Kadomony created the original version of Elehayym.[3] As the core protocol of Persona, Elehayym was the necessary component Kadomony needed to imbue any humans it created with 'human character'.[4]
At some point afterwards. Deus awoke and decimated the population of Miktam04β. When Deus and its cores were sealed, the Eldridge was used for the transport of it and the planet's survivors, which included Abel.[5]
While nearing an uninhabited planet, Deus took over the Eldridge, leading to the ship captain being forced to destroy the ship in a last resort to destroy it. The remnants of the starship fell to the planet, along with Deus and the Zohar Modifier. Deus was heavily damaged and activated its regenerative program, which used the original Elehayym, now transformed into Myyah[6], as the mother of humanity. She set out to begin the process to create enough biological tissue to repair Deus, creating the first humans.
In order to manage these new humans, the Mother of Humanity created two duplicates of herself: Myyah, the Complement, and Elehayym, the first Antitype. Elehayym was programmed to awaken as the last incarnation of Myyah and merge with Deus on the Day of Resurrection.[7]
The first Elehayym inherited many of the characteristics Abel wished for in a mother, as well as the Original Myyah's special nature as the mother and protector of humanity.
The first Myyah, meanwhile, was meant as a manager, bearing the powers of a Deus System weapon and tasked to strengthen and gather all the genetic parts the Deus System Mode needed to repair and reactivate its new body.[8]
Both Abel and Elly were continuously reincarnated through the Zohar Modifier by the will and power of the Wave Existence. At first, their relationship was of a mother and her child, but due to later reincarnations of Abel and Elly being reincarnated around the same time, they would usually instead become lovers. However, in every instance, due to Elly's sacrificial nature, she would die for Abel's sake, resulting in a tendency for Abel to in turn continually torture himself emotionally.[9]