Than Saga: YoRHa No.2 Type P (Patreon)

Good morning everyone! It looks like I'm finally back to waking up at normal hours alas. I tried to stay awake and do some work last night since I had a good nap but ended up falling asleep, I can only assume I was just so exhausted that my brain shut off involuntarily. 

I'm sure everyone by now at least heard of Nier Automata and familiar with the combat android everyone loves to lewd by self detonating a certain skirt. Though I doubt unless you play FFXIV, you're probably in the dark about the character I'm drawing this time. 

Meet, YoRHa No.2 Type-P 

A mysterious YoRHa android whom you encounter in the new raid (Well it was new when me and Than were discussing about this project at the time), The Copied Factory. 

I'm still wondering what I should call this particular project. There's a few names floating around in my head but for the time being I'll go with the biggest mystery people are wandering about this character, her name. 

YoRHa's androids are divided into specific models for defined roles. In the current classification system, each unit is denoted by a number followed by a letter indicating their model type: this replaced the older long-form system used at the inception of YoRHa, where units were referred to by their full model type followed by "Number" and their number, shortened to just the latter (eg "Attacker Number 2," shortened to "Number 2" or "No 2").

Models from the older designation system have the reverse of the modern coding system (Attacker Number 2 is referred to as A2, while the modern designation for such a model would be 2A). Current-production units regard the shorthand version of their designation as their name. 

So there are quite a few different variant when it comes to YoRHa android names.

A - Attacker: specialized in close-ranged combat
B - Battler: all-purpose combat unit, a hybrid of the A and G prototype models.  (2B falls into this category) 

 C - Canceller: specific purpose unknown
D - Defender: focused on defensive tactics such as the use of barriers
E - Executioner: combat model specifically designed for anti-android operations.
G - Gunner: specialized in long-range combat.
H - Healer: specialized repair unit, with additional tools both for repairing physical damage and dealing with data corruption and electronic warfare.
O - Operator: logistical model, provides intel and missions for units in the field
S - Scanner: scout unit with additional sensor capabilities and a comprehensive hacking suite for gathering data.

So the mystery that surrounds her which most Nier Automata fans are speculating is...what is the designation P stands for? It seems to have been inspired from the Nier/SoulCalibur collab event where the 2P is a joke/meme title for Player 2 but according to Yosuke Saito, there seems to be more to it when we play further into the Dark Apocalypse raids...