IF (EntityTopic, 7)
From Compile Worlds
IF is an adventurer who meets Neptune and Compa in the second dungeon in Neptunia and hangs out with them for pretty much the entire rest of the game.
Since she travels the world (and apparently more than "just" the world) she knows all sorts of people from all sorts of places, and has many information sources as well. Sadly, some of these seem to have been tainted by the lies of Arfoire, leading the protagonists into trouble more than once from her (mis)information...
She was a huge fan of Lady Green Heart for a long time, and regularly reads her blog, imagining her as a very proper lady. Somehow, she never notices the hidden page on said blog until Neptune points it out within seconds of snatching her smartphone. In Chapter 3, she meets Vert for real, completely by accident... by stumbling into her bedroom, thinking it is the exit. This results in her finding out Vert is actually a massive gamer, though her description of "proper" also holds true; Vert also finds herself smitten with her, leading to what is probably the most concrete mutual canonical Compile pairing ever.
She attacks with claws and fire/dark aspects, and her EXE drive is one of the most useful in the entire game - second only to Noire's - for dealing with regular enemies, as it can do lethal damage to multiple targets, and is insanely fast and precise to boot. Sadly, however, she doesn't see all that much in the way of upgrades, and becomes very difficult to use against anything but regular enemies in the second half of the game.
For some reason, she and Compa are the only characters to not get any alternate outfits whatsoever (except possibly in Chapter 8 or postgame, which Keiji hasn't gotten to yet).
Etymology
Her esoteric name has led to many different nicknames, including Ai-chan (ai being Japanese for love) and Iffy. Keiji has no idea where it came from. Perhaps from the if statement in almost all programming languages - but definitely not the initials of a certain real-world near-defunct bank.
- After far too long, it's so obvious... IF stands for Idea Factory, one of the developers of the game!
