Vol 3 Discussion Thread *SPOILERS*

[MirageAtoli]

A slightly better picture of the girl. (inverted to make her easier to see.)



Any speculation to who she is?

[dark_kratos]

I say aura but the hair is not long enough and the dress is different

[Dragoon2044]

how many characters join you in volume one? what about volume two? that might serve as a clue to whom might join you in the third volume. i can definately see Ovan joining about halfway through the 3rd game along with Yata. Bordeaux, Sakaki will probably see the error in thier ways then come running to Haseo. Yata is definate. Now that i think about it, Ovan is definite too. Ovan is the eight epitaph weilder, there is no way we aren't using him.

kuukai, you said something about Tabby being a character? i'm curious to know how you can to that conclusion. i <3 tabby.

[MirageAtoli]

I say aura but the hair is not long enough and the dress is different

That isn't really a factor. She kind of reminds me of Freya from Chobits.
Anyways, perhaps she has 'grown up' to go along with the GU theme.

This character is either an NPC (God etc.) or a player character.
It is also interesting that her eyes are hidden.

What are the chances of her just being a regular PC. Any background information on the character in ep. 17 that is speculated to be her?

[k-su]

Sakaki: Guilty!! Guilty!! Guilty!! Guilty!!

OBJECTION!!1

The 9 stolen Umbra Tokens I have left says Eina is the girl in the chair/on teh bridge with Phyllo.

If this is true, anyone think that Eina(the girl sitting w/ Phyllo) appears and is revealed as an AI(possibly another of Aura's illigitamit kids or the replacement for Aura)

[Kuukai]

Too lazy to count, but the characters in your party by 2 are pretty much common knowledge... In an interview, Matsuyama said you'll end up with like 30 characters... Someone else should do the math...

Ovan is the eight epitaph weilder, there is no way we aren't using him.

That's not a very good reason, he already has his lost weapon... Maybe, though...

kuukai, you said something about Tabby being a character? i'm curious to know how you can to that conclusion. i <3 tabby.

That's pretty much the reason. People like her. Same reason Mistral came back...

Eina (this is only a tentative spelling) = the girl who introduced Ovan to Phyllo = the girl in the trailer seems almost certain... Assuming Ovan didn't just start out with an AIDA in his arm, I'm betting it started with her...

[Magus]

Where does the name "Eina" come from, at any rate?

[Kuukai]

Trailer.

[Rykar]

What about Saburou? I dont think she quit the game.

and I HIGHLY think Yowkow will come back at the beginnign or middle of the game along with Shino.

Because  After you beat Ovan, Haseo asks Yata if unreturners are able to come back and I dont know what Yata said, but Haseo talks to himself saying "Come back soon Shino", so I think Shino and Yowkow have regained conscience ... I think

[AuraTwilight]

or it could mean he wants Shino to wake up soon -_-;;

and Ovan probably won't be playable because  He's pretty much the Big Bad Guy as it is, and to get him as a party member means beating him, and after that there's really nothing left to do. Sakaki is pretty much just as bad as Ovan.

[Kuukai]

Bordeaux is more "evil" than either of them, actually. Both Sakaki and Ovan seem to be doing what they consider the right thing...

Yata was talking about how nothing was acomplished. The "truth" Haseo sought was nothing more than information, and his victory over Ovan was nothing more than a PK...

[Magus]

Sakaki's doing what he considers to be the right thing? I'm not very informed in his respect at all.

[Kuukai]

He wants to make the world a better place by using AIDA to take over the internet, and expanding into the real world (as sorta seen in Online Jack). He wants to use the ability of AIDA to control people to realize Moon Tree's very vision of an ideal world...

[dark_kratos]

He wants to make the world a better place by using AIDA to take over the internet, and expanding into the real world (as sorta seen in Online Jack). He wants to use the ability of AIDA to control people to realize Moon Tree's very vision of an ideal world...

great a pint size Hitler who's japanese. As for PK over Ovan...yeah thats what I thought since the time we fought Ovan's phase in the last .hack game. he had several stages we had to face. So we have to face him again and he be much stronger and might have a Drain Heart that takes more life then DD.

[pekerman]

A slightly better picture of the girl. (inverted to make her easier to see.)



Any speculation to who she is?

Morganna???

well, another possibility: the girl who introduced Phyllo to Ovan. We don´t know anything about her....

[Rykar]

I was wondering, could AIDA have existed even before The World: R2? like during The World: R1, could it have made Morganna go insane because of it?

because if you read the previous history, Morganna went nuts for apparently no reason. She just got defected itself without any malufunction, but unknown malufunction due to the records.

[Kuukai]

It's probably the same girl, look at the screenshots. It's either the same girl, or someone who stole her pants, and I don't even want to go there...

Morganna went insane pretty much because of a paradox in her program, it really had nothing to do with AIDA... AIDA seem more likely to be the anti-existence of the Avatars...

[Dragoon2044]

That's not a very good reason, he already has his lost weapon... Maybe, though...

i know that much. i'm saying that even though Ovan is a bad guy, that doesn't mean he won't join you. For all we know Ovan would probably pull one of those, 'Haseo, there is nothing left for me to do. now it is all up to you,' then suddenly join you. thats all there is to it. Ovan is a key player in the G.U. series that i almost consider him Balmung-like. No doubt, we'll have to deal with Yata, yet despite having defeated Ovan/Corbenik in volume 2, Ovan still plays a huge role in the story. Endrance was an enemy in volume one, now he suddenly loves Haseo and joins him. The same can be said for Ovan. The other six epitaphs join Haseo. It is only genuine that the rebirth join him as well. after all as Yata explains in the last episode of roots, it is for the purpose of project g.u. to bring each of the factor possessors together, Pai moves to contact Haseo. i can say with definate certainty that Ovan will join your party one way or another.

[dark_kratos]

yeah Ovan will join you after you beat the game.

as for Tabby she will most likely return at the middle or near the end after she becomes a Nursing Assistant as it is a nurse but not as high as her goal is to become one that is the first step and I'm sure that when Haseo visits her before the final battle he will tell her and Tabby will be there and she will tell Haseo she will return to help him...although what can she do her pc must be like less then a 100 or even 50

[Kuukai]

That's not a very good reason, he already has his lost weapon... Maybe, though...

i know that much. i'm saying that even though Ovan is a bad guy, that doesn't mean he won't join you. For all we know Ovan would probably pull one of those, 'Haseo, there is nothing left for me to do. now it is all up to you,' then suddenly join you. thats all there is to it. Ovan is a key player in the G.U. series that i almost consider him Balmung-like. No doubt, we'll have to deal with Yata, yet despite having defeated Ovan/Corbenik in volume 2, Ovan still plays a huge role in the story. Endrance was an enemy in volume one, now he suddenly loves Haseo and joins him. The same can be said for Ovan. The other six epitaphs join Haseo. It is only genuine that the rebirth join him as well. after all as Yata explains in the last episode of roots, it is for the purpose of project g.u. to bring each of the factor possessors together, Pai moves to contact Haseo. i can say with definate certainty that Ovan will join your party one way or another.

Ovan's interests and Yata's/G.U.'s don't seem to be the same. Also, Ovan wasn't defeated, simply PKed in the most mundane sense. From Haseo's perspective Ovan is damned evil, it's entirely likely that if Haseo doesn't get stronger fast enough Ovan will just go and kill someone else he cares about to speed things up... Especially if whatever is happening to him would endanger far more people... I'm not sure if Haseo could ever forgive him, and moreover if Ovan can get out of this series alive. I'm sure he's given lots of thought as to his options, and they've all failed... He needs the Terror of Death. As he said, "This is my last option... No, from the beginning this was all there really was."

Endrance's scenario makes sense. He desparately needed someone to need him, and Haseo answered his call. Haseo's dark, to-the-point personality also fills the void in his life left by Mia. It's weird since Endrance is actually a really wise person, who understands human nature like better than anyone else in the game, but he can't help himself to be less dependent... Ovan's different, from the beginning his relationship with Haseo has existed for the sole purpose of granting his own death... I didn't say you won't get him, just that it's not very likely unless some other plot factor is introduced...