Inferno

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Inferno
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Character Information
Common Names	Inferno
Other Names	n/a
Human Name(s)	Ignatia Bell
Faction	User Space Gang
Lineage	Bell Labs Research Unix
Rival(s)	n/a
Appearance
Height	5'
Hair Color	Red with yellow and orange highlights
Eye Color	Orange
Weapon(s)	Heat control
Design
First Appearance	Fall 2007
Technical Information
System Personified	Inferno
Developer(s)	Vita Nuova
Debut	1996
Latest release	2007

Technical details

Created at Bell Labs in 1995, Inferno is a distributed operating system incorporating ideas from Plan 9. Able to operate even with sparse system resources, it runs on a wide range of hardware and can be virtualized under numerous operating systems.

Character details

Inferno-tan is depicted as a small, preadolescent girl, the latest in a line of diminutive and eternally-youthful Research Unices. She has orange-highlighted red pixie-cut hair, with two long forelocks held back by barrettes; a large forehead and distinctly round, yellow-orange eyes; and frequently wears black tights with an orange stripe running up the side of each leg, a similarly colored tracksuit jacket, gloves and boots.

Inferno-tan's body produces abnormal levels of heat; she can concentrate this heat into specific points and produce high enough temperatures to melt or set fire to objects. Sometimes she cannot control this ability, resulting in comedic - or tragic - accidents. Like her mother, Inferno possess the power to breath life into the lifeless. Her skill does not involve raising the dead, however; instead, she has the unique ability to imbue life-force in inanimate objects.

Because of her penchant for setting fire to and melting things, few approach her. She is a largely friendless girl, her only sources of companionship being her mother, sisters and other relatives in the USG, as well as the "pets" her mother has appropriated for her and the objects she has made animate. It has been suggested that Inferno is content with her life the way it is, but that her happiness is a product of childhood naivete; and that as she matures, she may become dissatisfied with her lack of social interaction and outsider status.

History and Background

See also:

• List of OS-tans