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===Monsters=== | ===Monsters=== | ||
If one searches | The game's writer, Hardy, wrote a post on our forum (linked to in the "Real origin" section above) about incorporating the meaning of the game's name into the story. It appears that he leaned towards the translation of "oni" as "monster". If one searches [[Quotes/Speech|Oni's dialogue]] for "monster", a theme develops from the five occurrences of the term. First, Barabas is described as a monster (see "Barabas" section below to see how Hardy applied myths about the oni to Barabas). Then Konoko describes Muro and his men as monsters, fearful that the Chrysalis will do the same to her. During her attack on the TCTF HQ, Konoko tells an unnamed NPC that she was made into a monster when she was implanted with the Chrysalis. But Konoko has not fully decided whether she is any better than Muro and his men until the point at which the player has to decide whether to kill Griffin. Each scenario, sparing him and killing him, contains separate "outro" lines which use the word "monster". If she spares Griffin, Konoko says that she won't be "the monster you thought I would be". If she kills Griffin, Konoko puts the blame on him for her actions, calling ''him'' a monster for what he did to her. | ||
Finally, though the game refers to him as Mutant Muro, Muro's transformation in the killed-Griffin scenario is certainly monstrous, and no doubt intended to reflect Konoko's own choice | Finally, though the game refers to him as "Mutant" Muro, Muro's transformation in the killed-Griffin scenario is certainly monstrous, and no doubt intended to reflect Konoko's own choice to take Griffin's life and what that might portend for her development as a symbiote. | ||
===Red oni & blue oni=== | ===Red oni & blue oni=== | ||
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===Miscellany=== | ===Miscellany=== | ||
* | *[http://www.darkhorse.com/Search/oni Dark Horse's comics series] works in the original understood meaning of "oni", "ghosts". Thus, in [http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=00-238 issue 1], "Syndicate thieves have been spreading rumors of a ghost-like entity that attacks them after successful jobs and steals their loot". In issues [http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=00-244 2] and [http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=00-252 3], "mysterious 'ghosts' are plaguing Syndicate operations, and Agent Konoko, while investigating the Syndicate, finds out what these 'ghosts' are." | ||
*[ | *The [[Iron Demon]] is an oni (demon), at least in name. The "Iron" may be a reference to the kanabo, discussed in the "Barabas" section above. The Dark Horse comic runs the risk of being ''too'' on the nose by also equipping the Iron Demon with a [[:File:Oni_Comic_Issue_1_p22.jpg|literal iron club]]. | ||
==Alternate universe titles for Oni== | ==Alternate universe titles for Oni== | ||