Konoko: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Konoko_Multiple_Render.jpg|268px|right|thumb|The final in-game look for Konoko. See [[Konoko's armor]] and [[Konoko's gun]] for a closer examination of their variations over time.]]

Mai Hasegawa, code-named Konoko, is the protagonist controlled by the player in the 2001 third-person action game [[Oni]]. She has black hair with purple highlights, and stands about five and a half feet tall.<ref>[[:Image:Unit_Viewer_1.jpg|This biographical info]] gives her height as 5'5", though it comes from early in the story's development.</ref><ref>Konoko's height was estimated at 5'6" using world units [http://oni.bungie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=35562#p35562 here].</ref> Her age is not given in the game's material.<ref>However, [[:Image:Unit_Viewer_2.jpg|this biographical info]] from an earlier story draft gives her age as 23.</ref> She works as a [[TCTF]] agent, a police officer who fights technological crime. She is one of only two prime Daodan symbiotes, giving her inhuman strength and stamina.

{{C8}} is where Konoko first learns her real name. It is [[Quotes/Speech#Shinatama.27s_death|spoken by Shinatama]], but at that moment Konoko may not be able to absorb much of what Shinatama tells her.

{{C11}} is where Konoko learns most of the information about her parents, Jamie Kerr and Professor Hasegawa. She and her brother Muro are not referred to at all in Hasegawa's diary, except for the [[:Image:Dream_1_murder_or_mercy.jpg|newspaper article]] headlined '''GRAD STUDENT DIES / MURDER OR MERCY''': "Jamie Kerr Hasegawa, environmental activist, top grad student, mother of two".

After scanning Mai, [[Quotes/Speech#Scanner_room|Kerr discloses]] that Muro, Mai's enemy, is indeed her brother. He does not, however, make any statement as to Hasegawa's fate or whereabouts, nor does Muro in their final confrontation.

:Although we don't know who in the TCTF would have given her this code name, her father ''was'' Japanese. Also, the game seems to [[:Image:Dream_1_murder_or_mercy.jpg|take place in Japan]], and Shinatama also has a Japanese name.

*'''konoko_generic''' is Konoko's trademark TCTF outfit, featured in the [[:Image:Main_Title_Screen.png|Main Menu]] and most of the [[:Category:Promotional art|promotional art]]. A slightly different version is seen in the [[:Image:Intro_frame_0460.png|AIC intro]].

*The casual '''k4_K''' is also prominently featured in art: in [[:Image:Act_1_.MISSION_FAILED.png|THESE]] [[:Image:Act_2_.MISSION_FAILED.png|TWO]] "mission failed" screens, [[:Image:Chapter_08_.MISSION_COMPLETE.png|THESE]] [[:Image:Chapter_13_.MISSION_COMPLETE.png|TWO]] "mission complete" screens, as well as in the [[:Image:Outro_frame_129.png|AIC outro]].

*'''k4_F''' has a drawn version, too (known as [[:Image:Biker_Konoko.jpg|Biker Konoko]]). As for [[:Image:Chapter_10_.MISSION_COMPLETE.png|THESE]] [[:Image:Chapter_13_.MISSION_COMPLETE.png|TWO]] images, Konoko's appearance in them is somewhere between '''k4_F''' and '''k4_G'''.

|After Griffin agrees to let Konoko investigate the Musashi lead, we see her [[:Image:Chapter_01_.MISSION_COMPLETE.png|ride her Bungie bike]] to get there, along with two of the TCTF agents from the warehouse operation. Once at Musashi, the due procedure is to walk through the front door and "ask first", therefore Konoko changes into an officer's suit, which she may have kept from her time at HQ earlier that day. The ornate insignia suggest quite a career as a desk cop.   

|valign=top|Supposedly Konoko starts by locating the lab where her father used to work (somehow deserted and unguarded, maybe in an area that was lost to the BioCrisis a while ago?). Or perhaps she is hiding somewhere less exotic (such as in a sealed-off apartment [[:Image:Chapter_10_.MISSION_COMPLETE.png|behind police lines]]), and visits the lab in VR, using 3D scans that Hasegawa made? Either way, she conjures up some pizza (hence the "note to self" on Nov. 29).

Even though Oni was inspired by Ghost in the Shell, Konoko seems to have been envisioned from the beginning as an aggressive, "gun in your face" action hero, unlike the impassive Motoko. An [[Oni/Early Story|early story]] for the game explained Konoko's mindset this way: "Konoko vows to destroy the Syndicate that killed her parents." Over the course of the story, she feels more "betrayed", "guilty", angry and "paranoid" until she finally kills essentially everyone in the game. One hint at the earlier, unstable Konoko is found in [[:Image:Intro_frame_0700.png|her deranged look]] in the intro.

Konoko was also stated in [[:Image:Unit_Viewer_2_unmasked.jpg|this development data]] to have an IQ of 203. While a high IQ is not mentioned in the final game, her behavior at times indicates that she is still very intelligent (examples given in the more detailed discussion [[Talk:Oni/Early_Story#.22Unit_Viewer.22_picture_1|HERE]]).

|[[Image:Early_Konoko_2.jpg|x300px]]

|[[Image:Lost_Konoko_-_Jacket.jpg|x300px]]

|[[Image:Different_Konokos.jpg|300px]]

|[[Image:Okita_-_Konoko_1.jpg|x300px]]

|[[Image:Okita_-_Konoko_3.jpg|x300px]]

|[[Image:Early_Konoko_1.jpg|x300px]]

|Looking more familiar. The Konoko on the left has a similar face and hairstyle to the model in the [[:Image:1998 Konoko.jpg|1998 trailer]]. The one on the right is wearing the police uniform from [[Chapter 2]].

[[Image:Konoko_Variants.jpg|500px|right|thumb|"Shirow" is Ghost in the Shell's author, Masamune Shirow.]]