some miscelanious thoughts for now.
orianna’s ability to mimic / express emotions is a little inhibited by her general mechanical existence. most of her gestures are relearned by observation and repeating the motion by herself over and over until she can somewhat perform it. she cannot cry. though, the light of her eyes flickering can be understood as her crying. it is a response her mechanical body makes in response to sadness / memories of crying.
i don’t know how old or young orianna is. reasonably she could be somewhat older in terms of existence and she became entirely mechanical long before. however, the stories and plays she grew up watching also featured taric who’s ascension as an aspect is somewhat recent. also going by her general youthful curiosity, her sense of wonder, and dreams of exploration, i am leaning towards her generally being younger mentally and emotionally ( somewhere in her 20′s ).
orianna doesn’t need to sleep or eat. she’s a little cryptic, and almost cryptid-like without intending to be. she became a machine with a soul before she even matured as a human so she’s very... lost in understanding them or interacting with anyone. she spends a lot of time purely observing people which can be almost uncanny or creepy given the blue light of her eyes never really wavers.
she seems to move throughout both zaun and piltover, though likely in back alleyways or in the darker hours when there are less people. she dreams of seeing the rest of the world, too. ionia would likely be the one to enthrall her most, and given her necessity for magic, she’d be able to sustain herself there. mount targon would, too, though i don’t know if she could ever really see it much. she can’t survive in demacia. noxus is as interesting as any other but it’s likely her naivety could be taken advantage of at least briefly.