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Yonah App
Character Name: Yonah
Character Series: Nier
Character Age: 7
Background: Nier Wiki has not much info, so. Summary time!
Yonah is the replicant, or clone, of a girl many many years ago who touched a magic book and became a gestalt, or bodiless soul. This original Yonah quickly began to lose her sense of self, though, and so her father Nier agreed to join the Gestalt Project in order to save her. This 'saving' process consisted of putting what was left of Yonah in cryogenic stasis in order to keep her from relapsing further, and creating a soulless Replicant for her to live in someday in the far future. There are three problems with this plan though: First, after centuries of replicants like Yonah dying and being 'reborn,' they eventually grew to possess souls of their own, thus creating conflicts with the gestalts they were supposed to be vessels for. Second, having been frozen in a half-relapsed state, Yonah's replicant will always be infected with the Black Scrawl, a terminal 'disease' caused by corrupted data from relapsed gestalts. Third, after such a long time away from their bodies many of the gestalts start to relapse, meaning they become mindless killer monsters which the replicants begin to call Shades.
In this new life, then, Replicant Yonah is a cheerful young girl living with her (replicant) father in a tiny little countryside village. She's sick and so is often confined at home while daddy Nier goes out doing odd jobs for money. This is all well and good until one day she hears a fairy tale about how the incredibly rare Lunar Tear flower can grant her wish if she finds it; when asked if it can cure her illness, her father foolishly says yes. This is all the reason Yonah needs to ask around about where they might grow and subsequently leave town on a journey to find one. Her adventure into a Shade-infested abandoned building miles away from home ends badly, as she somehow gets herself trapped in a magical barrier, and Nier is forced to come save her. It is around this point that her illness really begins to show itself, and Nier realizes he needs to hurry if he wants her to ever recover. This and the magical book he found while saving her are enough to convince him to embark on a dangerous journey of his own: that of finding the cure to Yonah's disease. Nier's adventure is ended rather abruptly when a giant Shade attacks the village and the Shadowlord (original Nier) takes advantage of the chaos to kidnap Yonah.
During the five years that follow, while replicant Nier embarks on a second quest to save his daughter, gestalt Yonah is given replicant Yonah's body and reunited with her own father once again. She is saddened by replicant Yonah's mental cries for her father though, and when the two Niers finally face off against each other in dramatic battle, it is gestalt Yonah who tells her father to stop and vacates her new body, giving up her life in the process. Replicant Nier then kills the mentally defeated father and wakes up his daughter by recalling memories of their time together. The two then live happily ever after...though Yonah will eventually die of the Black Scrawl, which ultimately was never cured.
Personality: Yonah is a sickly little girl who is incredibly cheerful and energetic despite being always confined indoors. Because of this, her pent-up energy gets spent on a wide variety of activities such as diary/letter-writing and occasional attempts at cooking. (Note: children learning to cook without parental supervision ≠ good.) Her diary entries are full of cheerful comments about flowers and her dad and occasional visits, rarely ever hinting at anything negative, and she's pro-active enough about her illness to head out to the library against Dad's orders and research it herself...or travel alone to the "shrine" a few miles out of town.
She's a child, and acts like one. She's stubborn and selfish as kids her age will be, and will never hesitate to say what she thinks - unless she thinks it will make her father sad. Thus her diary includes comments like "I know Dad's busy, so writing me every other day is okay," as if writing her letters when he's traveling through monster-infested lands is a perfectly easy thing for him to do. She's one of those naive, wide-eyed kids who believes everything you say, and has that wonderful habit of exaggerating everything she says with things like "crazy!" and "HUGE!" and "pleeeeeeaaassseee?"
Being stuck home alone all the time has given her more than enough time to cultivate a wild imagination, and Yonah often has crazy dreams to show for it. One of her first lines in the game (as a replicant) is about her and her father riding a pink cloud, and later on when she and Nier share a strangely informative vision she is entirely unphased by the experience, saying only "I have weird dreams all the time!" She decides at one point that running around the house singing as loud as she can is a good way to combat loneliness, and only succeeds in scaring herself - though anything scary about the situation is all in her own mind.
Yonah loves her dad more than anyone else in the world. She writes him letters daily, whether or not she gets replies, and she mentions multiple times in her diary how much she wishes she could do something besides wait for him - a wish that is partially granted when she gets to try making him dinner. The few letters you get to see are full of smiles and cheerful thoughts and "I'm perfectly happy, so you can come back now right?" She tries her best not to make him worry; the one times she ever noticeably worries over her illness are in a single diary entry and a trashed letter, the latter of which still manages to state "I don't need my medicine anymore, I just need you by my side." Really, despite all her cheerful bravado and loving notes, Yonah is a very lonely girl who knows more than she lets on how serious things are for her.
Abilities: N/A
Sample Entry: Hey everybody, tomorrow's my dad's birthday! I mean my real dad, not the stupid fake one I've got here. I don't even know if he has a birthday. Anyway, so, I'm going to throw him a party! I did it all the time back home, but it'd definitely be way more fun if it wasn't just me. So does anybody wanna help? We could make the cake together and everything!
Oh, but if it's more than just me then maybe we can have an even bigger party, with cake and cookies and all sorts of snacks and stuff! We could even put decorations, like flowers and, and we could make pretty shapes out of that colored paper I found a little while ago, and we could even have balloons! Balloons are super awesome, they're all different colors and they float in the air like giant bubbles! I saw them yesterday, it was great.
...But yeah, we should all throw a birthday party for Dad! Maybe if it's good enough, he'll even show up in time for the cake...though of course, whenever he shows up would always be on time. I'll save a piece for him anyway, just in case.
Character Series: Nier
Character Age: 7
Background: Nier Wiki has not much info, so. Summary time!
Yonah is the replicant, or clone, of a girl many many years ago who touched a magic book and became a gestalt, or bodiless soul. This original Yonah quickly began to lose her sense of self, though, and so her father Nier agreed to join the Gestalt Project in order to save her. This 'saving' process consisted of putting what was left of Yonah in cryogenic stasis in order to keep her from relapsing further, and creating a soulless Replicant for her to live in someday in the far future. There are three problems with this plan though: First, after centuries of replicants like Yonah dying and being 'reborn,' they eventually grew to possess souls of their own, thus creating conflicts with the gestalts they were supposed to be vessels for. Second, having been frozen in a half-relapsed state, Yonah's replicant will always be infected with the Black Scrawl, a terminal 'disease' caused by corrupted data from relapsed gestalts. Third, after such a long time away from their bodies many of the gestalts start to relapse, meaning they become mindless killer monsters which the replicants begin to call Shades.
In this new life, then, Replicant Yonah is a cheerful young girl living with her (replicant) father in a tiny little countryside village. She's sick and so is often confined at home while daddy Nier goes out doing odd jobs for money. This is all well and good until one day she hears a fairy tale about how the incredibly rare Lunar Tear flower can grant her wish if she finds it; when asked if it can cure her illness, her father foolishly says yes. This is all the reason Yonah needs to ask around about where they might grow and subsequently leave town on a journey to find one. Her adventure into a Shade-infested abandoned building miles away from home ends badly, as she somehow gets herself trapped in a magical barrier, and Nier is forced to come save her. It is around this point that her illness really begins to show itself, and Nier realizes he needs to hurry if he wants her to ever recover. This and the magical book he found while saving her are enough to convince him to embark on a dangerous journey of his own: that of finding the cure to Yonah's disease. Nier's adventure is ended rather abruptly when a giant Shade attacks the village and the Shadowlord (original Nier) takes advantage of the chaos to kidnap Yonah.
During the five years that follow, while replicant Nier embarks on a second quest to save his daughter, gestalt Yonah is given replicant Yonah's body and reunited with her own father once again. She is saddened by replicant Yonah's mental cries for her father though, and when the two Niers finally face off against each other in dramatic battle, it is gestalt Yonah who tells her father to stop and vacates her new body, giving up her life in the process. Replicant Nier then kills the mentally defeated father and wakes up his daughter by recalling memories of their time together. The two then live happily ever after...though Yonah will eventually die of the Black Scrawl, which ultimately was never cured.
Personality: Yonah is a sickly little girl who is incredibly cheerful and energetic despite being always confined indoors. Because of this, her pent-up energy gets spent on a wide variety of activities such as diary/letter-writing and occasional attempts at cooking. (Note: children learning to cook without parental supervision ≠ good.) Her diary entries are full of cheerful comments about flowers and her dad and occasional visits, rarely ever hinting at anything negative, and she's pro-active enough about her illness to head out to the library against Dad's orders and research it herself...or travel alone to the "shrine" a few miles out of town.
She's a child, and acts like one. She's stubborn and selfish as kids her age will be, and will never hesitate to say what she thinks - unless she thinks it will make her father sad. Thus her diary includes comments like "I know Dad's busy, so writing me every other day is okay," as if writing her letters when he's traveling through monster-infested lands is a perfectly easy thing for him to do. She's one of those naive, wide-eyed kids who believes everything you say, and has that wonderful habit of exaggerating everything she says with things like "crazy!" and "HUGE!" and "pleeeeeeaaassseee?"
Being stuck home alone all the time has given her more than enough time to cultivate a wild imagination, and Yonah often has crazy dreams to show for it. One of her first lines in the game (as a replicant) is about her and her father riding a pink cloud, and later on when she and Nier share a strangely informative vision she is entirely unphased by the experience, saying only "I have weird dreams all the time!" She decides at one point that running around the house singing as loud as she can is a good way to combat loneliness, and only succeeds in scaring herself - though anything scary about the situation is all in her own mind.
Yonah loves her dad more than anyone else in the world. She writes him letters daily, whether or not she gets replies, and she mentions multiple times in her diary how much she wishes she could do something besides wait for him - a wish that is partially granted when she gets to try making him dinner. The few letters you get to see are full of smiles and cheerful thoughts and "I'm perfectly happy, so you can come back now right?" She tries her best not to make him worry; the one times she ever noticeably worries over her illness are in a single diary entry and a trashed letter, the latter of which still manages to state "I don't need my medicine anymore, I just need you by my side." Really, despite all her cheerful bravado and loving notes, Yonah is a very lonely girl who knows more than she lets on how serious things are for her.
Abilities: N/A
Sample Entry: Hey everybody, tomorrow's my dad's birthday! I mean my real dad, not the stupid fake one I've got here. I don't even know if he has a birthday. Anyway, so, I'm going to throw him a party! I did it all the time back home, but it'd definitely be way more fun if it wasn't just me. So does anybody wanna help? We could make the cake together and everything!
Oh, but if it's more than just me then maybe we can have an even bigger party, with cake and cookies and all sorts of snacks and stuff! We could even put decorations, like flowers and, and we could make pretty shapes out of that colored paper I found a little while ago, and we could even have balloons! Balloons are super awesome, they're all different colors and they float in the air like giant bubbles! I saw them yesterday, it was great.
...But yeah, we should all throw a birthday party for Dad! Maybe if it's good enough, he'll even show up in time for the cake...though of course, whenever he shows up would always be on time. I'll save a piece for him anyway, just in case.