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"I'll fix you a snack when you get back, okay?"
—Quinn, Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
Quinn is one of the supporting protagonists of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2. She is an illegitimate child of the wealthy Sakurazaki family who lives apart from them in a house they provide her. A kind and gentle though somewhat ditzy girl, she takes Gunvolt in after he saves her life and becomes one of his closest companions.
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Quinn is an ordinary girl with no septimal powers. Recently, she was on the wrong end of a nasty encounter with a murderous adept, and only made it out alive thanks to Gunvolt. Since that day, she has been taking shelter at Gunvolt's home.*
Quinn was born into a family that runs a massive financial conglomerate, and lived by herself, hidden away from society in a large estate until the day that she crossed paths with Gunvolt.
She can be a bit of an airhead sometimes, but she has a kind and gentle demeanour, and is a tremendous moral support for Gunvolt.[3]
以前に不良能力者に絡まれていたところを
ガンヴォルトに助けてもらって以来、
ガンヴォルトたちを自分の家に匿うようになる。
実はどこかの財閥に連なる血筋らしいが、
世間からは隠されているようで
ガンヴォルトたちが来るまでは
広い屋敷でひとり暮らしていた。
天然で抜けたところがあるが、
彼女の優しく穏やかな人柄はガンヴォルトに
とって大きな心の支えとなっている。[4]
*This is a mistranslation. Gunvolt moves into Quinn's house instead.
Appearance
Quinn is a teenager with dark green hair with two short pigtails bordering her face, and has light brown eyes. She wears a white shirt with a black bow tie, white shorts, maroon tights and black boots. She also wears a pink sleeveless jacket with black highlights, golden accessories and a waist cape.
Gallery
Main aricle: Quinn Sakurazaki/Gallery
Personality
Quinn is highly sensitive to the well-being of others. She offered indefinite hospitality to Gunvolt and Joule after learning that they had nowhere to stay, despite their dangerous lifestyle and Gunvolt's reputation as a terrorist. She treats Joule with kindness and expresses concern for her mental health, even during the time when Joule was frequently hostile to her. She has so far declined to seek out her father from the Sakurazaki family and ask him more about her origins, because she believes that doing so would cause trouble to a lot of people. She even once risked her own life to save the life of an old woman stuck on railroad tracks; she comments that Gunvolt's influence may have made her "more heroic".
Quinn is somewhat lacking in common sense. She once neglected to buy groceries until her fridge was completely empty, and chose to go shopping for more food late in the evening, which led to her getting attacked by drugged-up Adepts. She spent some time believing that she needed to feed Gunvolt more than usual in order to nourish Joule as well, despite Joule being incorporeal. Also, after Eden took most of Joule's power, Quinn tried to search for a way to help her online, despite the very low likelihood of information about Joule's Septima being publicly available.
Quinn has little interest in maintaining physical boundaries with Gunvolt - for instance, snuggling up to him while watching the moon with him outside, offering him a spot in the bath with her, or pressing herself against him after he wakes up from a nightmare so he can hear her heartbeat, which she thinks will help calm him down. Joule initially interprets this as romantic interest in Gunvolt and sees Quinn as a rival, but Quinn claims that she simply wants to work together with Joule to support Gunvolt, suggesting that Quinn doesn't want anything exclusive with him. It's possible that Quinn's pursuit of physical intimacy, along with the fear of loneliness that she admits to having, stem from having grown up without a real family and the affection that one would normally provide.
History
Background
Quinn was born into a very wealthy Japanese family, the Sakurazaki family. However, since she was an illegitimate child, she was forbidden from using the family surname, and her father gave her a mansion to hide her away from society. As she was taken away from her parents at a very young age, she can't remember their faces. In the Japanese version, her name Ouka is a reference to the family; ouka is another word for cherry (sakura) blossoms. While she speculates this name was given so she could feel her roots despite being forbidden from using the family name, and it would be possible to ask her father, she had given up on the idea as only causing problems.
She had many maids and caretakers that took care of her along her life and she attended girls-only schools: she's currently a high school student.
Three months before her encounter with Gunvolt, the most recent of the maids, a woman named Kudou who'd taken care of her as if she was her own daughter, died due to heart complications. Not wanting a replacement that the family would send, Quinn requested to be allowed to live on her own. Surprisingly enough, that request (her first ever) was respected and she was only given two conditions: to finish her high school studies and to report to the main family once per month.
By the time she met Gunvolt, though, she was starting to regret to some extent her decision but was resolved in making it through.
GV and Quinn's Story, and before Gunvolt 2
One night she'd gone out to buy some groceries, she happened to stumble upon a couple of Adepts who'd intoxicated themselves with a drug named "Boost Drug" which was said to boost the user's Septima but it would wreck their mind: one of them attacked her with a Septima which could control tree roots.
That was when Gunvolt, who happened to be wandering lost in thoughts around the area, came to her rescue. Afterwards, she allowed him and Joule to live in her house in secrecy without asking too many questions about where they came from.
After Gunvolt formed an alliance with Xiao Wu, a rogue Chinese QUILL agent, Quinn began welcoming Xiao into her house to support Gunvolt on occasion.
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
Quinn has very little impact on the game's main events. However, she can be talked to in between missions in a similar fashion to Joule in Azure Striker Gunvolt. Conversations with Quinn may also involve Joule or (rarely) Xiao.
Prologue
Quinn briefly appears in the prologue, interrupting Xiao and Gunvolt's conversation to express her concern for the latter, promising to make him a snack when he gets back, before Xiao, slightly uncomfortable with the interruption, reminds her that they have a mission to do, and she leaves.
Conflict with Eden
Days later at Quinn's home, after the Seraph incident and Eden's invasion. Quinn along with Joule admire GV's new combat attire for his battle with Eden that Xiao made. Between missions she will interact with Gunvolt and Joule.
During Eden's invasion people have been mysteriously disappearing and one of them being Quinn's friend. Worried she asks Gunvolt for help.
Gunvolt along with Xiao accepts her request and track down the source of the disappearances to an old mansion and discover that Eden and one of the G7 Gibril is behind everything. Gunvolt already realized that everyone is dead including Quinn's friend kills Gibril to avenge them.
It's never shown how Quinn reacted to this but based on her future interactions with Gunvolt she doesn't blame him.
Final Battle with Eden
After three of the Seven have fallen, GV returns from his mission to find Quinn and Xiao in a panic. Eden has attacked a local highway, causing it to become filled with crystals. Quinn is worried. Gunvolt assures her that he is alright and heads out to the highway.
When GV returns to Quinn's home, Joule is being unusually nice to Quinn for some reason. This shocks both Quinn and Gunvolt. Xiao informs everyone one of his contacts has gotten the info on where Eden's headquarters is. It's called The Garden, and it's located in the city of Tashkent. According to reports, Eden hijacked the highways and traffic control systems to recall most of Eden's manpower. As a result, it's also the location of the last few shards.
GV is unsure of how he can attack a place all the way in Central Asia, but Xiao says he's planning a way to get him in. Quinn shares one last moment of camaraderie with the team before they leave.
After everyone has left and alone at home, all she can do is pray which Joule somehow senses.
Epilogue
Some time after the fall of Eden and the loss of Joule, Quinn and Gunvolt are out shopping when they bump into Mytyl Kamizono, the girl Joule merged with, and her maid Nori. Mytyl recognizes the pair of them, though she doesn't have the slightest idea who they are. Instead of reminding her, Gunvolt says he doesn't know her and leaves, followed by a concerned Quinn.
Azure Striker Gunvolt 3
Quinn makes no direct appearances in GV3, aside from appearing as both a Skill and Passive Image Pulse.
Base dialogue mentions that she had worked alongside Gunvolt for many years, and implies that when Gunvolt first awoke to his Primal Dragon powers, he caused an incident that injured Quinn. This spurred him to surrender himself to Sumeragi, in order to prevent him from hurting anyone else he might cherish.
The last of the game's normal base conversations, which has the Bureau of Dragon Saviors all working on a jigsaw puzzle, ends with Gunvolt forlornly remembering he once put together one with Quinn.
Abilities
In spite of being a completely average human, Quinn is somehow able to perceive and interact with Joule. As a result of that, she appears in several conversation segments with Joule. Most segments involve her more or less "stealing" Joule's role as GV's out-of-combat support.
Some conversations with Quinn lead to the result of "Joule feels nervous." instead of the usual "You feel closer to Joule." Contrary to what it may seem, this still boosts Anthem's activation rate, likely due to Joule wishing to prove herself in some fashion.
Designer Comments
Source: Armed Blue: Gunvolt Complete Works
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English fan translation
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Japanese
She was the first normal civilian to appear in-game so both I and Hatakeyama-san twisted our heads about what kind of clothes would be fitting for her. Tai-san (scenario draft) gave us orders: “a goddess”, “a flawless pretty Japanese girl” but they were very abstract. She was a character whom we struggled (to design). I heard that she’d be the place where GV can calm down. So even if not everyone did, I wanted them to think that “we can entrust GV to her”. I tried to make her into a girl that anyone would like, with no bad habits. Hatakeyama-san and I disagreed on (the type) of skirt (she’d wear) but I did think it’d look bad if a girl in mini-skirt greeted GV back whenever he came back from a mission and so I asked for her to wear a trousers skirt.
-- Munehiro Araki
ゲーム内では初めて登場する一般人なので、どのあたりの服装がちょうどいいのか畠山さんと頭を捻じりました。
田井さん（シナリオ原案）からのオーダーも「女神」「完全無欠の大和撫子」とかでかなり抽象的だったので、だいぶ苦労した人物です。
彼女がGVの落ち着ける場所になることは聞いていたので、全員とはいかないまでも「この人ならGVを預けてもいい」と思える人物になってほしくて、なるべく癖のない誰からも好かれそうな女の子にしたつもりです。
スカートは畠山さんと意見が分かれましたが、ミッションから帰ってきたGVをミニスカートの女の子が出迎えるのは嫌だなと思ってパンツスカートにしてもらいました。
--荒木宗弘
Musical Themes
| Title | Context | Composer | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Warriors' Home 戦士たちの寄辺 |
GV2 Gunvolt mission select. Remix of "Warrior's Everyday" from GV1. Has three sub-melodies to reflect GV having three allies.[1] | Ippo Yamada |
Trivia
- Given her ability to perceive and hear Joule, it is speculated that Quinn may possess abilities descended from the Tetrad, Quinary, or Senary stage of the Lifewave.
- Quinn's English name may be a pun on "queen", referencing her high-status family background. Considering the above theory that Quinn is high on the Lifewave, "Quinn" may also reference the Lifewave's Quinary stage.
- Quinn's design has some minor moon motifs, including rabbit hairclips.
- Quinn being a Sakurazaki is one of the Gunvolt series' many connections to Gal*Gun; the Sakurazaki Family debuted in that series, with the games taking place in the Sakurazaki Academy and legitimate heiress Kaoruko Sakurazaki being a potential love interest in the first game. Gunvolt 1 also referenced the family in a base conversation, with the Sakurazaki Motors commercial jingle being included as a bonus track in the Armed Blue Official Soundtrack, and the song Sakura Efflorescence being related to it.
- Quinn also shares her ability to see spirits with Kaname Nonomiya from Gal*Gun (though not with Kaoruko Sakurazaki).
- Quinn was designed to serve as a justification for Gunvolt 2 starring Gunvolt, who had been left an emotional wreck in the wake of the first game's conclusion. Scenario writer Toshiaki Tai could not imagine Gunvolt continuing as a hero, and was hesitant on how to proceed after the plans for Gunvolt to be the game's villain were scrapped. Ultimately Quinn was conceived.[6]