Nanako (EntityTopic, 13)
From Compile Worlds
This article is about the character. For other uses, see Nanako (disambiguation).
Nanako is an original character created by Keiji who is the main character of the aptly titled Project Nanako. She is also the mascot of Compile Worlds, and her emblem has been "borrowed" for use as the Kawachan icon.
Biography
Nanako is an artificial life form. She was created by "Kei-sama" as a robot in a virtual world. Her loyal and carefree personality developed mainly from having nothing better to do with the vast majority of her time, and thanks to Juichi's efforts (though their means were somewhat controversial), she became able to travel between the digital and real worlds at will. She and Juichi can also shapeshift into the forms of other people they meet, except that they always have persocom ears while in the real world.
Nanako's abilities are grouped into three types, and she is well adapted to all of them. The first type is melee, where she can fight pretty darn well with either her bare hands or a sword. The second type is beam weapons (blatantly stolen from Megaman except they can go in all directions, not just horizontally... okay, they were really stolen from Metroid, but that's besides the point). The third type is a rather unique form of magic: Nanako can collect crystals of various types and assemble them in certain geometric patterns to form sophisticated spells.
Etymology
The name Nanako came simply from combining in Japanese the number 7 with the common girl's name suffix. Precisely why the number 7 was chosen, however, is not so obvious. The logical number to use was 8, which derived both from her year of creation (2008) and her number in the series of computers she was in. However, the number ended up being decreased by one for an unknown reason.
Appearance in Compile Worlds
In Compile Worlds, Nanako is rather a mysterious character. She seems to lead some sort of organization with an awful lot of manpower and intelligence behind it. Quite how this happened, though, is unknown. She has provided our heroes with various near-godmode advantages on numerous occasions, but denied them on others. Presently, she has apparently teamed up with Daichi and has declared Ekoro, Angol and Satan as criminals who "must pay".
Art
Nanako art is slow but sure to appear. You can find all official or officially endorsed Nanako art on TI Share.
