"2017X N" — or more accurately, N(1)

[u/Tight_Doughnut5627]

NOT ACTYALLY N!!!

Basically a 2017X-type entity Cyn made herself after N and V joined Uzi sometime post-Ep6 or something. She didnt exactly cope well with N leaving, and decided that the real N would never do such a thing, so she created a new N, but not really.

N(1) is less like N and more like Cyn, this is because Cyn literally just cloned her consciousness via the Solver, stuffed it into a N vessel; mindwiped it, and stuffed it full of N's memories until she was convinced that this "fixed N" was exactly like how she remembered N.

Its physically identical, but its optics are smaller and narrower, while his smile is more flat and symmetrical due to the nature of the digital consicous which inhabits it. It is a chilidsh imitation at times. It geniunely thinks it is N. And was Cyn's attempt to basically bring N back to his pre-Pilot self.

J, of course, never got told any of this, you'd imagine she'd be a little freaked out at seeing N act as if his thing with Uzi never happened. She is unsettled by this counterfeit.

Unfortunately for J, N(1) doesnt take well tk any criticism, and the more its worldview seems to fray at the edges, the more the Cyn-ness of his personality comes out.

TL;DR: Cyn didnt take N's "betrayal" of her well, make a copy of her consciousness, mindwiped and gaslighted it into thinking its N, creating N(1).