Ortho’s Gear

Ortho’s various capabilities change according to his “gear,” which have been mostly (but not all) been designed and crafted by Idia.

(Some descriptions below may have overlap with multiple gears; they are categorized by what gear he was occupying when an ability was described.)

Archetype Gear
・access to the school’s surveillance feeds
・a manual that includes information on “classic date spots”
・vital signs scanning
・weather calculation
・the ability to detect and describe unseen campus intruders 

Athletic Gear (developed by Idia)
・a directional mic that can pick up human whispering fifty meters away (better than the hearing of fae and beastpeople, according to Lilia) 
・alloy fibers (“modeled after Jack Howl’s legs”)

Birthday Gear (developed by Idia)
・scanner
・oral intake

Cerberus Gear (developed by Chief Engineer)
・Defends against system contamination caused by Malleus’s spell

College Gear
・time keeping functionality
・voice simulator

Cooking Gear (developed by Idia and Ortho)
・cooking features (trimming, peeling, cutting, measuring, tasting)
・nutrition management
・calorie counting

Fairy Gala Gear (designed by Crewel, developed by Ortho)
・projection mapping
・color-changing and scent of spring

Halloween Gear
・a vocal synthesizer 
・LED beams
・projection mapping 
・a 4D mode (for olfactory immersion)

Ignihyde Gear
・the ability to scan and identify the composition of objects like skincare products
・ability to confirm operational status of the Island of Woe shield
・ability to manage drone feeds at STYX
・the ability to open the Oceanus Gate to STYX 
・climatic projection analysis
・IR scanning

New Year’s Gear (attachments developed by Sam)
・store occupancy analysis
・simulation projection
・vital signs scanning
・inventory confirmation sensor

Platinum Gear
・Museum map access

Playful Gear (designed by playfulland)
・same functionality as school uniform gear
・body scanning
・magic scanning
・high-speed flutter kick mode

Precision Gear (developed by Idia)
・a fiberscope
・mini-arms
・a 3D printer
・a first-aid kit
・Ability to estimate the likelihood of Silver falling asleep

Rabbit Gear v.1 (developed by Ortho)
・anti-gravity omitted in favor of basic walking protocols and running capabilities
・vital signs scanning
・photography
・laser function removed
・time-keeping functionality
・map generation (GPS removed)
・floor scanning
・rabbit-like leaping ability
・nutritional balance scanning?

Rabbit Gear v.2 (developed by Ortho)
・anti-gravity
・high-speed movement
・flight
・laser
・rabbit mimic mode (running, hopping)
・heat signal detection

Stargazer Gear (developed by Idia)
・weather calculation
・the ability to fly into space

Ortho seems to have a “sleep mode,” a “low illumination mode” and an “auto mode.”

It seems that Ortho may not usually be waterproof: he says that “It must be nice being able to just take a quick bath or do laundry whenever. Washing my parts takes ages…” and “I’m good at diving! Oh, I mean deep-diving online, not literal swimming,” but his Cooking and Playfulland Gear are specified as being waterproof.

In Book 7 Ortho observes that, as something that exists outside of the natural world, his will cannot be overwritten by Malleus’ magic as long as the technomantic reactor that acts as his heart remains operational.

None of his gear works within Malleus’ domain, leading to his mother designing “anti-magical disaster gear” that specializes in “combat within areas affected by magic, and it can defend against system contamination caused by Malleus’s spell,” which she names the Cerberus Gear.

Based on a copy of Ortho’s schematics that Idia had saved to his lab computer, the gear was created in 48 hours by STYX’s tech development division. Ortho says that it has “exceptionally good energy circulation.”

The Cerberus gear is accompanied by two support droids on its first mission for use in exploration and combat, but the Chief Engineer warns that it can only operate within Malleus’ domain for 20 minutes.

Ortho is unable to wear any of the White Rabbit costumes provided by Deuce’s mother, saying that he would need proper machinery with a 3D printer.

Deuce takes him to a nearby blastcycle workshop and Ortho both designs and crafts his Rabbit Gear on his own, prioritizing “being as similar to the White Rabbit” as possible.

He still retains his vital signs scanning but replacing his antigravity component with the ability to walk, run and jump. He is also still capable of taking photos, but having removed his laser he breaks apart a sausage for the time into different pieces with his fingers, to their surprise.

After telling Epel that it is important to remain calm in emergencies Ortho becomes enraged at an insult to his Rabbit Gear, and making the bully regret his insult becomes his driving motivation for the Rabbit Run race during the White Rabbit Fes event. 

Having removed his the gear’s flight capability he jumps out of a trap that he gets knocked into by another bully, resulting in a crack to the gear’s exterior casing: “I didn’t have time to let it properly set after casting the mold, so the polymer isn’t as strong as it could be…”

The internals also suffer damage, throwing off his equilibrium and causing him to stumble for what is maybe the first time in his robot-life: “So this is what it’s like to lose your sense of balance…”

He gathers data during the race regarding what features his design is lacking and reworks it after returning to NRC, installing an antigravity unit, high-speed movement, flight, a laser and Rabbit Mimic mode based on rabbits that Silver introduces him to.