Kokonoe Mercury

Kokonoe is a scientist at Sector Seven. In Continuum Shift, Kokonoe hosts her own omake series alongside Litchi's called Help Me, Professor Kokonoe!.

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Tager's and Lambda's superior at Sector Seven, and also formerly Litchi's. She is half beast-man and the daughter of Jubei and Nine, two of the six heroes, though she shows unexplained disdain for this fact, supposedly "staying angry for weeks" when Jubei is mentioned. Kokonoe is a rather serious and cynical woman with no regard for emotions, and always strives for Tager to complete his missions without fail; however, she can on rare occasions be quite personable, mostly around her creations.

She's displayed and perceived as cranky most of the time. She has a deep hatred for Terumi, because he killed her mother, Nine, and her aunt. She and Taokaka possess a few similar personality traits, something that most note as 'more in common than they realize', due to their impatient nature and short attention span. She also has a strong dislike of Hakumen, but cooperates with him because she needs the Susanoo Unit to defeat Terumi and can't figure out how to seperate him from it. During the events of Continuum Shift, it is revealed that Kokonoe has created and stockpiled hundreds of nuclear warheads in her lab. Hakumen mentions that it was weapons like those that decimated the world a hundred years prior. In the end, after Ragna successfully turned Noel Vermillion back into her normal state, his Armagus and left arm were destroyed. Kokonoe was able to make Ragna a new mechanical arm.

In the past, she worked along side Relius Clover under a group known as the "Sin Architects".

Material Collection Information

 * Hobbies: Collecting candy from around the world
 * Likes: Ferrero Rocher chocolates
 * Dislikes: Stereotypes

Appearance
Kokonoe appears as a fairly young adult catgirl with a slim build. Her eyes are a golden-amber with visible bags under them, due to working overtime in her lab. She has pink hair which she keeps tied in a specialized style consisting of a long ponytail backing up longer tufts resembling large cat ears which tend to overshadow her actual animal-like ears, which fade into white at the tip. Her attire consists of an altered, scientist version of the usual Kaka jacket with a white coloration. A hole at the lower base provides room for her twin, cat-like tails. She also wears a pair of small spectacles, and is never without her trademark lollipop.

The over-sized sleeves are cut at the sides to make it easier for her arms to slide in and out of them. She wears a pair of red short-sleeved pants with a black belt adorned by a large cat bell. The attire is completed with a pair of white shoes with no vamp, allowing her to take them off almost reflexively as her render shows her barefoot.

Abilities
Despite being active on the battlefield as much as any character, Kokonoe does not display any combat prowess. Her forte comes in the form of her grand knowledge of magic and science and being the the daughter of Nine supplements this. While she has not shown any of her own creations, her prowess as a scientist is frightening, her alterations to organic and non-organic matter being second to none, even causing the normally ruthless and intimidating Hakumen to shudder at the promise of an 'upgrade' from her. Her prominent works thus far have been the revival of Tager through cybernetics and the activation of Lambda by bonding Nu's soul to the empty homunculus.

Gallery
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Trivia

 * Kokonoe seems to show some hatred towards ninjas as seen in Tager's Alternate story path. Here she tells Bang after dodging a energy of plasma "That was a dirty move but I'd expect that from a ninja". Whether this means she has some type of history with ninjas in general or her just saying that to mess with Bang's head has not been shown yet.
 * Kokonoe's birthday, April 18th, is Invention Day.
 * Kokonoe's Guilty Gear counterpart may be a reference to Crow both of being great minded scincetist with Kokonoe reviving Tager and Crow producing the Robo-Ky series. They also have humorous moments with their creation (I.E. Golden Tager with Kokonoe and while Crow and Robo-Ky constantly argue with each other). There is however more emotion between Kokonoe and Tager while there is more strife between Crow and the Robo-Ky series.
 * There's also a bit of Baiken from Guilty Gear in Kokonoe's portrayal. She has the same bad temper, the same short attention span and the same rough speech as Baiken. She's also on a similar mission to get revenge on the person that killed her mother, much like Baiken's quest to kill "That Man" in revenge for her parent's murders. Hakumen even goes so far as to say that Kokonoe is the incarnation of vengeance itself. On the physical side, she has the same sort of high ponytail as Baiken, including her pink haircolor being similar. She hasn't inherited Baiken's chest size however, though she does seem to have an oral fixation, much like Baiken's constant pipe smoking.


 * It's also amusing to note that she's apparently inherited Anji Mito's small glasses.