Filio Presty

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Filio Presty is a fictional character in the Super Robot Wars series. He has appeared as a non-playable character in Super Robot Wars Alpha 2, Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 and Super Robot Wars Original Generations.

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• Name: Filio Presty
• AKA: Filio
• Voice Actor: Unknown
• Status: Human; deceased (Alpha timeline only)
• Rank: Unknown
• Affiliations: Divine Crusaders (OG 1/OGs), Project Terrestrial Dream (Alpha 2, OG 2/OGs)
• Relatives and Personal Affiliations: Tsugumi Takakura (Fiance), Sleigh Presty (Sister), Ibis Douglas (Close friend), Elzam V. Branstein (Close friend)
• Mecha: N/A

A brilliant scientist and engineer, Filio Presty worked at the Tesla Leicht Institute and was involved in the creation of the Tesla Drive. Prior to the events of Alpha 2 and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation, he was recruited by Bian Zoldark to help design the Lion series of mecha for mass-production, although the decision would be one he would regret, as these machines would be used during the Divine Crusaders War. However, once the L5 Campaign was over, Filio subsequently formed Project Terrestrial Dream, his original project, dedicated to deep space exploration. Working alongside his fiancee, Tsugumi Takakura, he began to design and test the new Series-77 prototype machines. His younger sister, Sleigh Presty, was one of the test pilots, as was Ibis Douglas.

Filio's fate would be branched off differently: in the Alpha timeline, during a test flight of the new Altairion machine, Ibis would attempt the Maneuver GRaMXs, but would lose control and crash the mech into the testing zone, where Filio was. He would succumb to his injuries and die; this point served as the beginning of Ibis and Sleigh's internal rivalry with one another. Although Filio would not live to see Project Terrestrial Dream completed, his legacy remained in the completion of the Vegalion, and eventually, the Hyperion. In memoriam of her fiancee, Tsugumi would hold onto Filio's eyeglasses as a keepsake, wearing them even in combat.

In the Original Generation timeline, Filio continues Project Terrestrial Dream after the Divine Crusaders War and L5 Campaign, by relocating to Isurugi Industries, and subsequently returning to the Tesla Leicht Institute, after Divine Crusader Remnants attacked their testing area and attempted to steal the prototype Calion machines. At TLI, he works alongside Jonathan Kazahara to produce the Fairlion units, using his knowledge as an idol singer otaku to produce their motion pattern data. After the institute is captured by the Inspectors, Filio helps out with the emergency roll-out of the Dygenguard and Aussenseiter, when Major Sanger Zonvolt and Rätsel Feinschmecker proceeded to liberate the institute and retrieve their new machines.

His style and supportiveness to Ibis as a mentor makes him similar to Koichiro "Coach" Ohta from Gunbuster. Interestingly enough, at the end of Original Generation 2, Filio mentions that he might not see Project Terrestrial Dream come to fruitition. It is possible that Filio foresees his demise, like his Alpha counterpart.