Operator trivia: Platinum
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- Her real name derives from cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), a flower that is sometimes associated with romance and beauty. Alternatively, it might also refer to Centaurus, the constellation that is based on the centaur in Greek mythology.
- Platinum is likely inspired by the white knight piece in chess. Several black chess pieces alongside a black winged horse (which confirms that Platinum is a Pegasus) are present in her Elite 2 artwork.
- Platinum is known for the following distinctions:
- She is among the few characters who display what can be interpreted as attraction (romantic or otherwise) towards the Doctor, as seen in their dialogues and even Operator Records; Platinum proposes a date to the Doctor. The others include Skadi the Corrupting Heart, Angelina, and Gravel. This is likely because Platinum saw the Doctor as her savior while she was trying to run away from the Armorless Union despite being her previous assassination target.
- Along with Kal'tsit and W, she is among characters and operators who expressed an intention to harm the Doctor at some point, in her case, as part of her mission in the Armorless Union. Obviously, this is no longer the case as she has left the Union.
- Platinum has been a subject of several memes within the Arknights community:
- Ever since Platinum's background was revealed in the Pinus Sylvestris event, the CN community often jokes that Platinum is more of a poor salarywoman (the Japanese community uses the term shachiku, a "corporate slave" or "wageslave") who holds grudges against her seniors for not having an off-day and for being given unreasonable responsibility in accomplishing high-risk missions (such as dealing with the Silverlance Pegasi) very few are willing to take.
- She shares this distinction with Młynar, who is also often joked to be a wageslave due to his displayed subservience towards his corporate employers despite claiming to not want to play the game of capitalists.
- In September 2022 during a Japanese variety show, Hitomi Honda, a member of the idol group AKB48, cosplayed Platinum and failed to accomplish the ab roller mission. Since then, Platinum lying flat with her ab roller has been a popular topic of various jokes and fanarts in the JP and EN communities, especially since it coincidentally fits Platinum's unwillingness and her desire to "lie flat".
- Ever since Platinum's background was revealed in the Pinus Sylvestris event, the CN community often jokes that Platinum is more of a poor salarywoman (the Japanese community uses the term shachiku, a "corporate slave" or "wageslave") who holds grudges against her seniors for not having an off-day and for being given unreasonable responsibility in accomplishing high-risk missions (such as dealing with the Silverlance Pegasi) very few are willing to take.
- During the beta of Arknights, Platinum was not affiliated to Kazimierz as a primary faction (although her birthplace was unchanged) but was originally a member of S.W.E.E.P..
Controversy
In the CN server of Arknights, from the rerun of Twilight of Wolumonde until a flash update in October 24, 2021, Platinum's dialogues were removed from the game, causing her to be silent in-game, with Ai Kayano no longer credited as her CV.[1] This is likely due to a pressure from part of the CN community after the controversy over Kayano's visit to the very politically sensitive Yasukuni Shrine on February 2021[2] that resurfaced in the Chinese ACGN community.[3] The aforementioned update added a new voiceover by Mizuki Kitajima for Platinum, who as a result, is now credited as her CV.[4]
- Due to a request by Hypergryph,[5] Yostar replaced Kayano's dialogues in the Global server with Kitajima's and changed Platinum's CV from Kayano to Kitajima in October 24, 2021 – the same date as the CN update.[6] This makes Platinum the first Operator who has her CV changed before Leonhardt's Chinese CV controversy.