Shion Uzuki
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Shion Uzuki is the main character of the Xenosaga trilogy along with KOS-MOS. In Episode I and Episode II, she is a Vector Industries employee, in charge of the KOS-MOS Project. She will leave the company during the events of A Missing Year and will cooperate with Scienta from this moment. Her past is shrouded in mystery and her relationship with KOS-MOS is at the center of the plot.
She has a brother, Jin Uzuki, with who she has complex and difficult relationship, mainly due to the death of her parents on Old Miltia when she was just a kid.
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[edit] Background
[edit] Childhood
Shion is born on the planet Miltia from the union of Suou and Aoi Uzuki, 13 years after the birth of their first child, Jin. Shion will grow up pretty well, having an happy life. She will grow friend with Febronia and her sisters, Cecily and Kate. Shion will leave alone with her father after her mother is kept at Labyrinthos's hospital wing due to her disease linked to U-DO, and will regularly go see her, this is from this room she'll see the base of the Song of Nephilim.
She will participate to help saving the life of Virgil, even though he was a Federation soldier, and so technically enemy of the U-Tic where her parents work, non knowing they were in fact spy. She will meet Kevin Winnicot for the first time in front of Labyrinthos. Kevin tried to approach her on Wilhelm's order, not being really kind to her, but apparently quickly fell in love with her.
[edit] Miltian Conflict
Aged of 8, Shion is in the church when the Miltian Conflict start. She will see both Virgil and Febronia sacrifice themselves and will finally run away, scared. She decides to go see her mother in Labyrinthos in going through an hidden way. How she could go through all this way without being killed, considering she was a little girl, and the war between Federation Force, U-Tic force, crazy Realian and contaminated URTV is unknown, but it can be assumed that Wilhelm made sure nothing would harm her. She, miraculously, arrives to her mother's room, but see her father died. She goes to her mother's bed, but is forced to hide under the bed when crazy Realian enter the room, and assassinate her mother in her bed.
Once the Realian are gone, Shion sees what happened to her mother, fall in despair and enter some kind of Trance. Due to being an Animus resonant, she resonated with the Zohar located under Labyrinthos, which provoked the arrival in mass of Gnosis in the Real Number Domain. Nevertheless, contrarily to Wilhelm's plan, she was unable to "summon" the Abel's Ark. Jin will arrive few after in her room, too late for saving his parents because of his fight against Margulis, but will hide his sadness and take Shion away from the planet before it be too late.
[edit] Before Xenosaga
Shion will apparently forget events from the Miltia Accident like her kind of summoning the Gnosis, being too hard for her to bear. She will grow distant from Jin with time, considering him responsible for her parents' death and being an irresponsible person, while Jin hide to her that she's the one who called the Gnosis through her despair and try to get closer of her.
Shion was assigned to Vector Industries' First R&D Division at the age of 18 in T.C. 4763. Her youth, keen intellect and good looks make her a popular person in the company. She has a bright, cheerful personality and is ever the optimist, perhaps to hide the scars of losing both her parents as a child. She will remeet Kevin here, and will also know Allen. They will together on the KOS-MOS Archetype, and she will fall in love in Kevin and start a relationship with him. Still, this relationship will be stopped by his death, killed by the Archetype when activated by U-Tic, even though it was planned by Kevin for Shion becomes Chief Engineer of the KOS-MOS Project General Operation System Research Center in the Vector Industries First R&D Division, and for he himself becomes a Testament.
Shion will be devastated by his death, and KOS-MOS, who was already a very important part of her life, will now become the person the most important at her eyes, and will world endlessly to complete her, what Kevin expected for that Shion resonates with Mary Magdalene's consciousness inside of Shion, since Shion is the previous incarnation of the Maiden of Mary.
[edit] Xenosaga I
Shion is placed on the Woglinde space ship where she is finishing to build KOS-MOS. She will feel attracted by the Zohar Emulator of the ship and will many time be observed by Nephilim. She will meet Virgil, even though neither of them show signs of recognizing each other after so many years. She will also meet Cherenkov. Few after, the ship and its fleet are attacked by a Gnosis fleet, Shion will try to go near KOS-MOS, but will be stopped in course by Gnosis. Virgil and his team will protect her, but a Gnosis will ctach her. She won't die or transform into a Gnosis, what is technically impossible, and will be saved by KOS-MOS who activated.
She will be disgusted when KOS-MOS will kill Virgil, even though she did it to be sure to protect Shion. Shion and Allen will be put in an Escape Pod by KOS-MOS, with Cherenkov following them in Space Suit. The Elsa will take KOS-MOS on board, who could normally stay in space, after the destruction of the fleet and departure of Gnosis, but KOS-MOS will refuse to take Shion's pod on the Elsa, considering she'll be saved soon by a Federation ship. She will put KOS-MOS's logic to extreme in threatening that she will suicide if KOS-MOS doesn't take her with her, and this failing in her mission to protect her. They'll finally all end up on the Elsa, in part thanks to chaos who appeared on the Elsa bridge, things illogical who ended to confuse KOS-MOS and put her logic down for a time.
Shion will cook for the Elsa crew, and keep an eye on KOS-MOS while this time. In the Gnosis Cathedral Ship, Shion will be surprised by some information possessed by KOS-MOS and won't understand her behavior. In KOS-MOS's encephalon, Shion will revive difficult moment, such as seeing her father alive or again seeing her parents dead one more time. Shion will be seen in the Y-Data as being connected to KOS-MOS by Albedo, who claim that all makes sense now in looking at Shion and KOS-MOS. Shion will stay on the Elsa's entrance to wait KOS-MOS when she enters the destruction program of Proto Merkabah, and will save her with the help of Ziggy. She will beg KOS-MOS to stop when she will sacrifice herself to save the Elsa, but will be happy in seeing KOS-MOS, once more, survived.
[edit] Xenosaga Freaks
In this game Shion will try to deal with KOS-MOS's hallucination and communication issue. She will, by consequence, slap both Allen and Jr. due to their behavior.
[edit] Xenosaga II
Shion first appear saying a little recap of the event of the first Episode before the Elsa lands on Miltia. She will next be seen handing to KOS-MOS to Vector's second Division for they create her battle frame Version 2 and install the Tertiary Weapon System. She will there have flash back of discussion on KOS-MOS with Kevin.
KOS-MOS will meet Boss at the Cafe, as well as Junior and chaos. What she feared the most finally happened : she meets her brother, Jin, and it can immediately be seen she's not that much happy of this. She will spend the night at the family's house, even though it's clear it's not what she expected. She will participate at the Encephalon Dive in order to save MOMO, then will be placed on the Dammerung. There, she'll have vision of Nephilim and a request from Febronia to go on Miltia saving her sisters.
Shion, with Allen's help, will steal Dinah's main frame, and use to it to join the Elsa. Voyager in the ES Dan will attack her, but she will be saved by KOS-MOS who comes on her bike and shows Dinah's true power in passing blue eyed. On Miltia, Shion will see what happened to Cecily and Kate, now part of the Zohar's control system, and will attempt to stop KOS-MOS to kill them for stopping U-DO, but will finally let KOS-MOS doing it on, Febronia's request. She will latter speak with Junior of his relationship with Albedo. She is last seen in the game saying good bye to Jin who leaves to investigate on Ormus, then looking at Miyuki and Allen, and finally saying to KOS-MOS it's time to go home.
[edit] Xenosaga : A Missing Year
Shion will learn many things, such as Vector and her Father's involvement in the Gnosis's phenomenon, which will lead her to leave Vector and join Scienta with Doctus. Vector will leave her Dinah as a present of departure.
[edit] Xenosaga III
Shion will be first seen investigating on what the UMN exactly is. She'll latter go on the Fifth Jerusalem to see Allen and KOS-MOS. She will be surprised at the view of the Omega and of T-elos, and also desperated when she'll learn about the cancellation of the KOS-MOS Project. She won't hesitate a second to go rescue KOS-MOS from the kind of Trash Bin where Vector had put her, and will reactivate her. When T-elos will attempts to destroy KOS-MOS, she will yell and create the events leading to everyone diving in her subconscious, this way saving KOS-MOS from T-elos.
In her subconscious, on Old Miltia, that she thinks to be the past, she will discover the first blueprint of KOS-MOS and will use them to fix KOS-MOS. Voyager will try to kidnap KOS-MOS when they don't succeed to activate her, and will try to take Shion's necklace. It's at this moment that KOS-MOS finally activate. Shion will have visions of U-DO in the form of Abel. After a serie of events, Shion will see the death of her mother at the same time than her young self, and will discover the truth, her summoning the Gnosis. Unable to bear this, she will also enter in trance, this way summoning Abel's Ark, it's when the team understand that everything around them is her subconscious. Kevin, who reveals himself as Testament to her, try to convince her to join him, but fail thanks to Jin, Allen and KOS-MOS, she will take Shion away from him and T-elos in the Elsa.
At the end of the game, Shion will learn the truth about herself, being the reincarnation of the Maiden of Mary, and KOS-MOS being Mary Magdalene, even though we latter see it's only half true. After KOS-MOS awakes, they'll meet Kevin and Shion will decide to go to his side, fighting her friends. Allen will try to make her see what monster Kevin is, unsuccessfully though Shion looks worried by the torture Kevin does to him. KOS-MOS will save Allen's life, and Shion will finally see the truth and reject Kevin. Wilhelm latter torture her for she activates Zarathustra with her pendant, the Key. She will refuse and Wilhelm will order KOS-MOS to do it instead, for saving Shion. KOS-MOS will do so, but destroy the key at the last moment in saying she's not Mary, but KOS-MOS, and finally saves Shion.
Shion will say a last good by to Kevin, who tried to save her from torture, and dies. She will also hugs KOS-MOS and cries, since KOS-MOS has to stay behind. She will also cry when Jin decides to stay behind, and they will both express regret for how they behaved. She leaves with the Elsa at the end to find Lost Jerusalem, and apparently tries to enter in relationship with Allen.
[edit] The Maiden
Shion's previous incarnation is known as "The Maiden of Mary". This is why she could interact with U-DO and was necessary for Eternal Reccurence. She always followed Mary, and they were extremely close, but died early in front of a Mary unable to save her.
[edit] Relationship
[edit] KOS-MOS
The relationship she has with KOS-MOS has always been extremely complex. It is revealed that it can be in part due to the fact that KOS-MOS also has Mary inside of her, but it seems to be more deep than this. Shion can act like a mother by moment toward her, trying to explain what is good and bad, but also can look like being a sister or a best friend. There's also many things who could make thin to a romantic relationship, such as their final good bye, double attack and some quote and behavior in game.
KOS-MOS is the only person that Shion never rejected in Xenosaga III, even under Kevin's pressure. That their feeling be the one of lover, sisters, mother/daughter or best friend is left to interpretation.
[edit] Allen Ridgelley
Allen fell in love first time he saw Shion. Sadly, she never really considered him as something more than a co worker, until Episode III at least. When he'll reveal his feeling to stand against Kevin, she'll be more compassionate toward him.
At the end of the game, they enter in relationship apparently, though its issue is unknown.
[edit] Mary Magdalene
Few is known on what their relationship was. Nevertheless, it's fair to say it's relatively similar to the one with KOS-MOS if we consider KOS-MOS and Mary are two different people, or the exact same if we consider they're the same people.
[edit] Jin Uzuki
She does not get along with her brother, Jin Uzuki, who is 13 years older than her. They'll apologize mutually when the game ends.
[edit] Kevin Winnicot
He is the former lover of Shion. He attempted to manipulate her at first for Wilhelm's plan, but fell in love with her. He'll die in attempting to stop Zarathustra.
[edit] Others
[edit] Junior
She speaks a lot with Junior and understand his family's problem. This is sisterly/brother relationship, though some think it could be romantic.
[edit] Miyuki
Miyuki is one of Shion co worker and friend.
[edit] Wilhelm
Wilhelm manipulated most events in her life.
[edit] Elsa Crew
Shion is in good term with the Elsa Crew.
[edit] Personality
Shion is someone looking cheerful and happy, but throughout the serie she'll become more rude toward people she speaks with. She cries very easilly.
[edit] Battle Skills
In addition to her intellect (a key factor in her usage of nanotechnology) it is heavily hinted that she learned the same martial arts that Jin and Margulis are masters of as taught by her grandfather. This shows in her Double Tech attacks with her brother which include fast and skillful swordplay that no amateur can learn off the bat and on-screen, when you choose her as your character avatar, when you command her to destroy an object, most of her moves are kicks and punches, not just her M.W.S. attacks. Though unlike them she primarily focuses on hand-to-hand combat but uses her M.W.S. in conjunction with it.
Shion is also the one to inherit the ultimate Erde Kaiser spell in Episode I and II. It uses sixty ether points, but with the Angel Ring, it will use only 30. The player needs to do a mini-quest to get it, but it will do 9,999 points worth of damage. It can kill almost any boss, including the strongest optional boss.
[edit] Trivia
- Shion makes an appearance in Namco X Capcom, when she, MOMO, and KOS-MOS appear in the middle of Shibuya during a series of dimensional disturbances, in time to help the main characters against a Gnosis attack. In the game, Shion is paired with MOMO as a single unit.
- In Episode I, it was revealed that she suffers from astraphobia, result of what happened with the KOS-MOS archetype.
- Xenosaga co-creator Soraya Saga (née Kaori Tanaka) has revealed that most of the primary female characters in Xenosaga are named after flowers. "Shion" is the Japanese name of the Tatarian Aster, a type of daisy.
