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: She and Griffin are the only ones we know of with the knowledge to work with Chrysalises. Well, the Syndicate might have Muro's data. Anyway, if we assume her views remain the same from the ending of Oni, Mai would be helping people get them, but not in a Florence Nightingale way; she's no doting nurse. She'd be wherever there's a fight over collecting Daodans from the Wilderness or quelling international issues one hotspot at a time. | : She and Griffin are the only ones we know of with the knowledge to work with Chrysalises. Well, the Syndicate might have Muro's data. Anyway, if we assume her views remain the same from the ending of Oni, Mai would be helping people get them, but not in a Florence Nightingale way; she's no doting nurse. She'd be wherever there's a fight over collecting Daodans from the Wilderness or quelling international issues one hotspot at a time. | ||
:: She might also have issues about her choices at the end of Oni. | :: She might also have issues about her choices at the end of Oni. | ||
:: She definitely won't go by the name "Konoko" anymore, I think everyone can agree on that. | |||
'''''Does Mai end up going Imago, at least by the time of Oni 2?'''''<br> | '''''Does Mai end up going Imago, at least by the time of Oni 2?'''''<br> | ||
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:: 1. Either she's hideous and she hides her visage like Mukade… | :: 1. Either she's hideous and she hides her visage like Mukade… | ||
:: 2. Or she's not that different-looking, and goes around like normal. If she transforms like my sketch indicates (need to upload), then she could mask that transformation with sunglasses and a facial mask, like synthetic skin, that makes it look normal-colored. | :: 2. Or she's not that different-looking, and goes around like normal. If she transforms like my sketch indicates (need to upload), then she could mask that transformation with sunglasses and a facial mask, like synthetic skin, that makes it look normal-colored. | ||
:::: This option, C2, sets us up for a traditional animé-style revelation. At first we're told that she never transformed, for some unknown reason. Then, somewhere (probably early) in the game, Mai meets an adversary who's too strong for her -- or so it seems. Maybe he smashes her in the face, hard, and she hits a wall, and slumps to the ground. Her sunglasses fall off, and clatter on the ground. Meanwhile, your health is getting critical. Then she slowly stands up, face lowered, and says, "That hurt." She reaches up to her face, which seems to have torn skin hanging from it, and pulls it all off, then looks up, and we see her true, transformed face, with its real skin and her altered eyes. Suddenly she starts to glow with a Daodan overpower aura, and her health is fully restored, and now the bad guy is no match for her. She then can use this form (perhaps sparingly) throughout the rest of the game, now that it's revealed that she transformed a while ago and normally holds back in a fight, to keep her secret. | |||
'''''Isn't a fully-developed Mai going to be too powerful to make the game challenging?'''''<br> | '''''Isn't a fully-developed Mai going to be too powerful to make the game challenging?'''''<br> | ||
: A. | : A. Play [[wikipedia:Zone_of_the_Enders:_The_2nd_Runner|ZOE 2]] before you ask that question. You're massively more powerful at the end than you were at the start of [[wikipedia:Zone_of_the_Enders|ZOE]], wasting dozens of enemies with each attack. But the game's still challenging. The key is just having tons of enemies or one very strong enemy. | ||
: B. She might not always be transformed or able to transform. | : B. She might not always be transformed or able to transform. | ||
: C. There's the amnesia option proposed elsewhere, but amnesia wouldn't remove her strength, only her skill. Still, having to re-learn fighting would make the game more challenging. But I am not a fan of a contrived "restart" that wants to drag a character back to where they were. | : C. There's the amnesia option proposed elsewhere, but amnesia wouldn't remove her strength, only her skill. Still, having to re-learn fighting would make the game more challenging. But I am not a fan of a contrived "restart" that wants to drag a character back to where they were. | ||
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::Certainly if she's looking for him, she has to find him. It would be a total tease not to reveal what he's been up to all this time. Maybe finding him is just the start of Act Two, as his work (assuming he's still doing any) sets a new plot in motion. | ::Certainly if she's looking for him, she has to find him. It would be a total tease not to reveal what he's been up to all this time. Maybe finding him is just the start of Act Two, as his work (assuming he's still doing any) sets a new plot in motion. | ||
: B. It could also be about a new development in the Wilderness…. | : B. It could also be about a new development in the Wilderness…. | ||
: C. Perhaps | : C. Perhaps Man is trying to burn away the mutated Wilderness to re-establish a normal ecosphere and Mai feels this is not the right path. | ||
: D. Maybe the Neo-Syndicate is selling Chrysalises, and Mai and company are trying to prevent it. | : D. Maybe the Neo-Syndicate is selling Chrysalises, and Mai and company are trying to prevent it. | ||
: E. Maybe someone has released a virus that can kill the Chrysalis. Particularly if the Chrysalises being sold are based on one set of genes to speed up production, this puts the entire implanted population at risk of death, or at least the removal of their protection from the Bio-Crisis. | : E. Maybe someone has released a virus that can kill the Chrysalis. Particularly if the Chrysalises being sold are based on one set of genes to speed up production, this puts the entire implanted population at risk of death, or at least the removal of their protection from the Bio-Crisis. | ||
::Maybe it makes those implantees ''change'' somehow…. | ::Maybe, instead of killing the Chrysalis, it makes those implantees ''change'' somehow…. | ||