Editing Kleene Cognara

[[Category:The Asura Incident]]

{{Character
|name=Kleene Cognara
|species=Beaver
|gender=Male
|affiliation=[[Volunteers]]
|color=Sangria
|birthdate=1972 WBC
|image=Kleene-Cognara.png}}

'''Kleene Cognara''' is one of the main playable characters of [[The Asura Incident]]. He's an inventive, yet practically-oriented beaver engineer who can use his self-built jet-boosted clothing to fly for short periods of time.

== Description ==
Kleene is a red beaver with an interest in engineering and a mostly utilitarian mindset. He wears mostly functional clothing, including scrappy self-built machinery with which he can fly around for short periods of time.

Although curious and open about experimenting with technology, he prefers to remain practical. He is easily annoyed by bad design and will quickly throw together scrappy prototypes to test out whatever ideas he can come up with as soon as possible. Occasionally he may ramble or scribble onto his PDA to create more ideas he can't build yet.

== History ==
From a young age Kleene was curious about mechanics and would frequently destroy or disassemble toys to figure out how they work. This fascination led him to pursue mechanical engineering, driven by a dream of one day understanding the unconventional mechanics behind toys built and designed by [[Patsy Toyfeller]]. His studies led him to befriend [[Babel Memto]].

Sexually frustrated at the age of 16, Kleene built [[Elise Cantor]] during a night of black-out-drunk garage hacking. Ever since building Elise, Kleene claims to be unable to replicate her, since he cannot recall how he built her the first time. After Elise helped recover Kleene's mental state and developed her own autonomy, he let her go out of a growing sense of responsibility, although both still keep each other company.

During the Asura Incident, as he was testing an ancient flight machine design on [[Stella Mountain]] alongside Elise and Babel as the three of them were struck down by [[Dr. Roy Asura|Dr. Asura]], whom had just escaped the destruction of [[Delfid]].

== Gallery ==
[[File:Kleene refsheet.png|thumb|Model sheet for Kleene Cognara]]
[[File:Kleene Cognara with cube.png.png|thumb|Four-Panel concept comic showcasing Kleene's character]]
[[File:Elise and Kleene.png|thumb|Elise and Kleene flying together. Used by the character selection option for Elise & Kleene]]

== Trivia ==
Alongside [[Elise Cantor]] and [[Babel Memto]], Kleene was inspired by [[wikipedia:Muses|the three (original) muses from greek mythology]], with Kleene representing the scientific aspect.

Kleene's first name is a reference to [[wikipedia:Stephen_Cole_Kleene|Stephen Cole Kleene]], an american mathematician known for inventing [[wikipedia:Regular_expression|regular expressions]].

Kleene's character was mainly inspired by maker and hacker culture, in particular the [https://medium.com/@bre/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-724ca1c2ff13 Cult of Done manifesto]