For Mytyl's iX counterpart, see Butterfly Effect.
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“Hi Copen. :) I'm all right.”
—Mytyl, Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
Mytyl Kamizono is the younger twin sister of Copen and one of the supporting protagonists of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2. Mytyl acts as the primary partner for most base conversations, and increasing Copen's bond with her increases the chance Lola can activate Anthem.
Unlike her twin brother, she was secretly born an Adept and is the original wielder of the Septima The Muse. Due to the power being too much for an infant's body to handle, her father Dr. Kamizono performed an operation to extract The Muse's septimosome from her. However, this left her mute and physically frail, until she eventually fused with Joule and regained The Muse.
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Mytyl is Copen’s twin (younger) sister, who like her twin brother, does not possess any septimal powers. Due to her weak constitution, she spends her days living in a long-term medical care facility. She has been extremely frail since birth, and due to a surgery she had at a very young age, she lost her voice and now communicates with people via a tablet.
Likely due to her frail constitution and being in long-term medical care, she is quite small in stature, which gives many people the impression that she and Copen were born many years apart, but they are in fact the same age. Copen does not speak to her at all about his battles.
個人療養所で暮らすアキュラの双子の妹。
第七波動を持たないごく普通の少女。
生まれつき体が弱く、幼いころの手術が
原因で声を失っており、
会話はタブレットを使って行う。
長い療養生活のせいか発育が良くなく、
アキュラとは歳が離れている印象を受けるが、
同い年である。
アキュラは自分の戦いに関して、
彼女には何も話していない。
Appearance
Mytyl is a young teenage girl with gold eyes and long white hair. Due to her small and frail stature, she comes across as much younger than she really is. She wears a pink dress with white frills and a blue bow on her chest. She has a spherical silver bell tied into her hair with a red ribbon.
As Lola acquires the Mirror Shards containing Joule's power, Mytyl begins growing in height much faster than before. Upon fusing with Joule's spirit in its entirety, Mytyl gains Joule's red eyes, lavender hair, and even her ahoge and hair "antennae". Several weeks later, the fused girl is seen in a school uniform and with shorter hair.
Gallery
Main article: Mytyl Kamizono/Gallery
History
Background
Mytyl was born alongside her older twin brother Copen to their unnamed mother and their father, Dr. Kamizono.
Mytyl was born with the Septima The Muse, but her body was not strong enough to contain it, causing the power to overwhelm her and waste away her health.
Dr. Kamizono performed an operation to extract her septimosome, saving her life but taking away her voice. Both Copen and Mytyl were too young to remember the exact details of this, and Dr. Kamizono died during a classified experiment. Unbeknownst to the Kamizono family, Sumeragi took Mytyl's extracted septimosome and implanted it into the unborn child who would become Joule.
Mytyl would then spend her childhood in a sanatorium built by the Kamizono family, under watchful care by servants and doctors.
Mytyl was also Lola's conversational partner during the latter's AI development period. This led to Lola referring to Copen as "Boss", apparently.
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
Shortly before the events of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, Mytyl is kidnapped by Eden and tucked away on the Sumeragi airship Seraph.
She is kept in the hands of a strange robot before being saved by Gunvolt. Later on, Copen would arrive and whisk her back to their home. Mytyl has no memory of this, as she was unconscious the whole time.
GV's Route
After Gunvolt defeats four of The Seven, Eden once again kidnaps Mytyl. Asroc runs off with her to Eden's headquarters "Garden". Copen runs in pursuit, leaving GV to fight Ghauri. Again, Mytyl was unconscious the whole time and retains no memory of this.
After GV makes it to the center of the Garden, Zonda uses Mytyl to steal and absorb GV's Mirror Shards and Joule's consciousness along with them. Upon Zonda's defeat, GV finds Mytyl dead, and the just-arrived Copen attacks GV in grief and rage. When Copen falls, Mytyl suddenly rises into the air, materializing Lola and Joule's Muse forms next to her. The duo's voices sing an Anthem that revives Copen and empowers him until GV defeats him again.
When Copen loses a second time, GV attempts to walk closer, when Mytyl - now looking more like Joule and speaking in Joule's voice - suddenly gets in his way, telling him not to get close to her precious person. When she is called by the names "Mytyl" and "Joule", she becomes confused, as she doesn't recognize those names or the two people nearby her. Copen then takes Mytyl to a hospital as GV leaves.
Copen's Route
After her rescue, Mytyl is moved to a new sanatorium, since the old one was wrecked by Eden.
Lola takes her Muse form for the first time in Mytyl's presence when the Mirror Shard installed in her reacts to Mytyl, and Mytyl mentions that Copen and Lola coming to visit her has made her feel physically better. Copen has no idea why these phenomena occur, but he sets out to collect more Mirror Shards in hopes of using them to cure Mytyl's illness for good.
After Copen defeats four of The Seven, Eden breaks into Mytyl's sanatorium (again) and kidnaps Mytyl (again). She is then taken by Teseo and whisked away to the Garden. Again, Mytyl was unconscious the whole time and has no memory of this.
Once Copen makes it inside the Garden, Zonda gives an expository on Mytyl's past as an Adept, hidden in some of Sumeragi's files. Denying this, Copen charges into the heart of the Garden, only for Zonda to use Mytyl to steal and absorb Lola's Mirror Shards. After Copen ends Zonda's ambitions, he finds Mytyl dead on the ground. He takes out his grief and rage on the nearest available target, which just so happens to be Gunvolt.
When Gunvolt falls, Mytyl suddenly rises into the air, hijacking Lola and forcing her to materialize her Muse form alongside Joule's. Joule and Lola's voices sing an Anthem that revives GV and empowers him until Copen defeats him again.
As Copen tries to finish Gunvolt off, GV is protected by a barrier. Then, Mytyl - now looking more like Joule and speaking in Joule's voice - gets in Copen's way, asking him not to kill her precious person. When called by "Joule" and "Mytyl", she becomes confused, not recognizing those names nor the two people before her. Copen rushes her off to a hospital, allowing GV to leave for now.
Epilogue
Mytyl is found to be physically healthier than she ever was before, able to walk and speak now. However, she remembers nothing about her past or her family. Unable to give up his crusade despite now knowing his sister is an Adept, Copen renounces his name as a "Kamizono" in order to avoid dragging her into his battles again, and he leaves without her ever knowing.
A few weeks later, Mytyl is wandering the city with Nori in tow, when suddenly, she sees somebody who seems familiar and another standing next to him. She asks him, "are...are you an angel?" He seems confused at first, then she explains her amnesia and asks if she's met the two somewhere. The boy asks for her name, but afterwards tells her she is mistaken, that they've never met before. The two then part ways, unlikely to ever meet again.
In the secret ending it is revealed that Xiao Wu was responsible for rousing Mytyl in the depths of the Garden, merged Joule with her, and extracted her septimosome - this time without harming her, though Xiao can only guess as to why she was harmed the first time around. Nori was able to seal the septimosome in a pendant-shaped Glaive, in theory suppressing Mytyl's Septima and allowing her to live as a normal person. However, Xiao has plans for the Glaive...
Azure Striker Gunvolt 3
Mytyl makes no physical appearances in the game or its story, largely relegated to being an Image Pulse that can be acquired in stages. Notably, the scene from ASG2's true ending where GV and Mytyl meet by coincidence is one of the scenes that flashes through GV's memories as they're turned into Image Pulses.
Secret Ending
As a reward for achieving the game's true ending after 150 Image Pulses have been collected, a secret ending will play. Described as occurring "long, long ago" and styled like the "next-episode preview" of magical girl shows, it is narrated by Mytyl herself, describing how a "stranger named Xiao" gave her a pendant that turned her into a magical girl, and wondering what she's supposed to do in a world already full of Adepts.
The brevity and particular style of this ending, especially given the unlock conditions, imply that it may be a non-canon joke ending using the plot threads left over from ASG2's secret ending.
Other Appearances
Mighty Gunvolt Burst
Mytyl appears as a collectible pixel sticker that is obtained by completing the "Credit Where Credit's Due" challenge.
In Copen's scenario, her playing a video game with an Adept protagonist is mentioned as the motivation for Copen to develop a new, better game for her to play.
Japanese version
"Welcome, Acura-kun. Today I feel fine."
—Mytyl, Japanese Official Site
Designer Comments
Source: Armed Blue: Gunvolt Complete Works
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English fan translation
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Japanese
She’s a character whom I tried to draw as a negligee and got the OK almost at the first try. Her main image is that of weakness, and fleetingness, as if she’d disappear at any time. The bell hair ornament was added because Tai-san, in charge of the scenario, asked me to do so. I normally can’t draw characters differently but Mytyl’s face is totally identical to Cyan’s face in the prequel. If you wonder why I did that, I think you’ll realize if you play the game until the end so… Go ahead and check it out.
--Yoshitaka Hatakeyama
ネグリジェ姿で描いてみたら、ほぼ一発OKが出たキャラです、今にも消え入りそうな弱々しさ、儚さが主なイメージです。
鈴の髪飾りは、シナリオ担当の田井さんからの要望で付けています。
僕はもともとキャラの描き分けができているほうでもないですが、ミチルの顔は前作のシアンとまったく同じにしてあります。
なぜそんなことをしたかというのは、ゲームを最後まで遊んでみるとおわかりになると思うので、ぜひ確かめてみたください。
--畠山義崇
Musical Themes
(C) = Composer
(A) = Arranger
| Title | Context | Musicians | Audio |
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| Brother and Sister by the Window 窓辺の兄妹 |
Gunvolt 2 home conversations theme. | Ippo Yamada (C) Ryo Kawakami (C) Keishi Yonao (A) |
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| One Conclusion ひとつの結末 |
Copen route normal ending credits in GV2. | Ryo Kawakami (C) | |
| Silence Comes 静けさが満ちて |
Mytyl is revived (Copen's perspective) | Ryo Kawakami (C) | |
| The Blue Bird by the Window 窓辺の青鳥 |
Mytyl's epilogue. Also has Joule's leitmotif in the background. | Ryo Kawakami (C) | |
| Mytyl in the Moonlit Night 月夜にミチル |
Gunvolt 3 secret joke ending | Ryo Kawakami (C) Hiroaki Sano (A) |
Trivia
- Mytyl's name is taken from one of the protagonists of the 1908 play The Blue Bird.[3]
- Mytyl was first alluded to in Fleeting Memories, where Dr. Kamizono speaks of having both a son and a daughter.
- The bell in Mytyl's hair, a feature specifically requested by the scenario writer, resembles the hair bells worn by Shinobu Kamizono from Gal*Gun, another Inti Creates series. Takuya Aizu has made comments suggesting that Shinobu is Copen and Mytyl's mother.[4]
- Clockwork Daydream reveals that Lumen was Mytyl's favorite singer, and Prologue: The Muse of Hope reveals that Mytyl especially loved Lumen's song "Stratosphere".
- In the Netherlands, "Mytyl schools" are schools for children with physical disabilities.
- Mytyl's story in Gunvolt 2 bears several similarities to Joule's in Gunvolt 1: both are rescued at the end of the intro stage, captured again for the final stages, and killed after the final boss fight before returning in a different form, all because of their relationship to The Muse. However, unlike Joule, Mytyl's relationship to The Muse is not made explicit until near the end of the game.
References
- ↑ She and Copen are twins, and Copen is 14
- ↑ 3DS Striker Pack limited edition height chart
- ↑ Gunvolt Official Complete Works staff interview
- ↑ https://twitter.com/t_aizu/status/1291217241048899584