I-No

I-No
Guilty Gear series character
File:I-No2.jpg OfficialI Guilty Gear XX Accent Core artwork for I-No.
First game	Guilty Gear XX
Created by	Daisuke Ishiwatari

I-No (イノ, Ino) is a character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, making her first appearance as a boss of the third game, Guilty Gear XX; unlike bosses in previous games, she is freely playable from the start. Very little is known about her; in fact, her profile in Guilty Gear XX consists entirely of "UNKNOWN!!" repeated several times over. Information given thus far is also somewhat unclear as to the nature and origin of her hat. The hat resembles a witch's hat and seems to be animate. She also seems to derive pleasure from tormenting Dizzy.

Story

I-No is actually a servant of "That Man", dedicated — or so the viewer is led to believe — to his goals and ideals, to the point where she altered reality at least once to make his objectives possible, though it is never entirely made clear what the former are. She spends most of her Story Mode in Guilty Gear XX manipulating the various cast members against each other, including giving fake bounty lists that consist entirely of other cast members to Jam Kuradoberi and Bridget. I-No is somewhat crude in how she speaks to others as she is always either cursing, insulting her opponents, or making sexually charged comments (usually using musical references as double entendres).

In the ending where she fights Sol Badguy — as well as various other characters' endings — she is captured by That Man and Raven, who evidently intend to punish her. I-No protests that she only wanted to remove those who stood in her boss' way, but That Man proclaims that they're actually beneficial to what he has in mind for the world. In her other, less likely endings, she fights and defeats Dizzy and May, either subsequently becoming overwhelmed by Dizzy's power, or kidnapping May with the apparent intentions of bringing her to That Man.

Music References

Her name is pronounced (Japanese) [ˈino], (English) [ˈi:nəʊ], and it is very likely a reference to Brian Eno. Her character is modelled after Shiina Ringo, a Japanese singer who shares both her characteristic mole and Duesenberg Starplayer TV model guitar. They also have the same birthday of November 25. Her attacks "Chemical Love" and "Last Will and Testament" share the names of a Stevie Wonder song and an album by The Lurkers, respectively, and her special Boss Version move "Megalomania" is named after an album by Russian band Aria called Mania Velichia. Her boss theme Midnight Carnival contains clear musical references to the song "Kurenai" by the J-Rock band, X Japan.

Her regular GGXX stage shows a placard on the far right side bearing the word "Innuendo," the name of the fourteenth studio album by Queen, this may not actually be a reference to the band however, but perhaps her crude nature and frequent double entendres.

Time Travel

• According to the Side Black Drama CD, I-no has the ability to time travel. Yet, she seldom does as, according to herself, it is hard to do. She traveled back in time in order to fulfill the ideals of the Man and saved Ky Kiske's life- Thus changing the future into one where the humans won the war, since Ky's death would have meant the defeat of the Holy Order. In I-No's timeline, the humans were on the verge of defeat from the Gears led by Dizzy.

This ability is referenced in Guilty Gear Slash and Accent Core, whereas after being defeated, I-No opens up a time portal to escape, and depending on the player's actions, their character might be sucked into the portal as well, taking them to the past timeline and fight Holy Order Sol.

External links

• Guilty Gear X2 #Reload character profile for I-No