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Curly Brace
Articles About Curly Brace
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Versions | Curly Brace - Blade Stranger Data |
“ | Quote!! Now I remember! Your name's Quote! You and I are... Well... Before, a great number of us robots were sent to this island... We were sent by the countries of the surface. The purpose of the mission... it was the incredible slumbering power found on this floating island... And it was about the Demon Crown. But you and I were different. We were sent on a mission to destroy that power. The island, it was in a mess when we landed. Ravaged by the robots... They murdered scores of poor little Mimiga... It was horrible... And finally, one man seized the Demon Crown. The robots' mission was complete and the island fell totally silent. But that was simply the beginning of the tragedy. The man who was able to capture the crown turned the Mimiga into beasts, and they began attacking the surface. I faced him and tried my best to defeat him. You were with me then. .... That's all I can remember. The crown bearer was surely injured by both our attacks that time. How about you? Can you recall something? Anything? | „ | |
~ Curly to Quote after regaining her memories |
“ | I'm fine now. Don't worry about me! Oh, here. Please keep this... | „ | |
~ Curly giving Quote the Iron Bond, a symbol of their bond |
Background
Curly Brace is the deuteragonist of Cave Story, who was also the game's third boss. She, like Quote, is a soldier robot who was sent to the Island to destroy the dark power hidden there. Like Quote, she can wield a wide variety of weapons without any special training, and can withstand incredible amounts of damage. Unlike Quote, Curly has an energy shield that raises automatically to defend her from missile weapons, essentially making her immune to them.
This dropdown contains the synopsis of Curly Brace's story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise! |
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General Information
Name: Curly Brace
Origin: Cave Story
First Appearance: Cave Story
Latest Appearance: Umihara Kawase Fresh! (The latest non-canon physical appearance, shows up as a playable character[1])
Company: Studio Pixel, Nicalis (Publishers for the Wii, DSI, and Cave Story+ versions), NIS America (Publishers for Cave Story 3D)
Creator: Daisuke Amaya (The initial creator)
Actor: Chihiro Yamamoto
Gender: Female
Sex: None
Sexuality: Heterosexual (Has an iron bond with Quote)
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: Unknown
Homeworld: The Surface
Residence: Unknown (Curly tells Balrog where to go with no real indiciation after the game of where they went)
Story Role: Supporting Character, Main Character (In her mode)
Classification: Robot
Species: Armed Recon Robot
State of Being: Regular
Physiology: Humanoid Physiology
In-Universe Creator: Unknown
Occupation: Soldier
Affiliations: Quote, Sue, Kazuma, Momorin, Professor Booster, King, Toroko, Balrog (In the best ending, Balrog lives with Quote and Curly Brace), Misery (Due to Quote and Curly Brace defeating Ballos, the curse was lifted and Misery and Balrog no longer had to obey orders from anyone)
Enemies: The Doctor, Misery (Formerly in the best ending), Balrog (Formerly in the best ending), Ballos
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Status: Alive, Deceased in bad routes (If Quote speaks to Professor Booster when he falls in the Labriynth, this will cause the Tow Rope to not spawn, making Quote unable to save Curly while she's drowning in the core. Along with this, if Quote leaves Curly on the bed in the Waterway Cabin, she will never have the water drained from her, and Quote will have no way to reach her after leaving the waterway cabin)
Date of Death: During the Core Room or through leaving her in the Waterway Cabin/Never draining her of water in the Waterway Cabin
Alignment: Neutral Good (When Curly mistook Quote from one of the robots mind controlled, she fought against him to protect the Mimiga children. Upon seeing Quote's gun damaged, she offers to swap it for her machine gun. Sacrificed herself to give Quote her water shield and letting herself potentially drown in the process. Quote and Curly are among the robots that possess heart and souls)
Protection Level: Global Protector (Curly is apart of a group trying to stop The Doctor who seeks to rule the surface using the island as a flying fortress, along with the enraged Mimiga army to attack the surface)
Codex Statistics
Key: Main Mode | Curly Mode
Key Information
- Main Mode: This key covers the main story of Cave Story where Curly is a supporting character.
- Curly Mode: This key covers the alternate mode where Curly Brace is instead the main character and Quote is a supporting character.
Grade: S
Tier: High 10-B physically, 9-A with Weapons | High 10-B physically, 9-A with Weapons, Higher with Level Ups, Lower with Level ups for Nemesis
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Above Average Human level physically (Should be comparable to Quote), Room level (Potency) with weapons (Her weapons can harm Quote, where he can take an explosion that covered an entire room. Uses her machine gun at level 3 if Quote refused the machine gun or the Polar Star at level 3 if Quote traded the Machine Gun) | Above Average Human level physically (Curly possesses athletic jumping prowess), Room level (Potency) with weapons (Can harm those who can harm him with his weapons, where he can take an explosion that covered an entire room. Even at the lowest level with the weakest gun, can easily destroy blocks. Can harm Balrog who causes the screen to shake), Higher with Level Ups (The higher level the weapons, the more damage it deals), Lower with Level ups for Nemesis (The Nemesis gets weaker as it levels up)
Durability: Room level (Can take hits from Quote's weapons, where they can harm those who can harm him, , where he can take an explosion that covered an entire room), Higher with Forcefield (Her shield completely blocks against missiles) | Room level
Striking Strength: Above Average Human Class | Above Average Human Class
Lifting Strength: At least Superhuman (Shouldn't be any weaker than her Curly mode self) | At least Superhuman ((Able to lift Quote on her back while traveling through the Labyrinth, with it not hampering her movement at all)
Travel Speed: Average Human Speed | Average Human Speed
Attack Speed: Transonic (Can tag Quote, who can hit missiles/rockets before they can tag him, which move around 300 m/s) | Transonic (Can hit missiles before they tag her, which move around 300 m/s)
Reaction Speed: Transonic | Transonic
Stamina: Limitless (Due to being a robot, Curly can never tire)
Range: Standard Melee, Several Meters with Level 1 Weapons (Level 1 weapons reach around this far), Higher with Level 2 Weapons (Level Two Weapons shoots out this far), Tens of Meters with Level 3 Weapons (Level 3 Weapons reach this far)
Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence
Knowledge: Master level (Quote and Curly went through the entirety of Labriynth M where many enemies, spikes, obstacles, and large bodies of water were around to impede their progress)
Powers and Techniques
Equipment
Photo | Name | Ammo | Description (NICALiS) | Description (Aeon Genesis) | Location | How to Get | ||||||
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Polar Star | Unlimited |
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Hermit Gunsmith's abode | Pick up in chest | |||||||
Missile Launcher | 10 at mininimum, 54 at maximum |
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Egg Observation Room | Pickup in chest | |||||||
Fireball | Unlimited |
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Santa's House | Speak to Santa | |||||||
Bubbline | 100 (Though it automatically replenishes) |
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Assembly Hall | Using Jellyfish Juice on Assembly Hall fireplace | |||||||
Machine Gun | 100 (Though it automatically replenishes) |
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Sand Zone Residence | Trading the Polar Star with Curly Brace for the Machine Gun | |||||||
Blade | Unlimited |
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Warehouse | After defeating Rabid Toroko and talking to King | |||||||
Snake | Unlimited |
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Labyrinth Shop | Talking to the shop keeper and giving them both the Polar Star and Fireball | |||||||
Spur | Unlimited |
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First Cave | Talking to the Hermit Gunsmith and having them upgrade the Polar Star | |||||||
Nemesis | Unlimited |
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Little House | Trade the Blade weapon |
Other
Standard Tactics: Curly will either utilize the machine gun, polar star, or Nemesis in combat. For Curly Brace Mode, Curly is a wildcard controlled by the player, thus he'll use whatever weapon best fits the situation.
Weaknesses:
- Unique Weaknesses: Curly cannot fight without weapons.
- Weapon Weaknesses: The Nemesis gets weaker as it levels up.
- Robot Weaknesses: Robots manufactured on the surface have limited aquatic mobility, in the case of flooding, the system will automatically initiate a shutdown to prevent from short circuiting.
Note
- Curly Mode is the entire original Cave Story but playing as Curly instead, thus anything from the regular mode of Cave Story applies to her.
- Curly in Blade Stranger has her data summoned, due to this it holds no contradictions with Cave Story and can be used[3].
- Quote and Curly were not murderous robots, they were robots sent after the previous ones trying to destroy the incredible power.
Trivia
- Curly displays the ability to create an energy shield (which is more then likely the Air Tank's bubble, since it uses the same sprite) to specifically deflect Missiles during her battle with Quote.
- In the beta-version of Cave Story, Curly Brace was the name of the female android protagonist, but had Quote's sprites with a different color-scheme.
- Curly, like Quote, is named after a punctuation mark often used in programming.
- In the original Story Mode, Curly Brace's antenna are green, but in Curly Story, they are purple.
- With the seasonal graphics enabled on Halloween, Curly appears to wear armor identical to Samus' Chozo Power Suit from the Metroid video game series.
- Even though she's a robot, Curly Brace has a belly button.
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