![]() She is also featured as a character in a special event in the mobile game Nier Reincarnation (2021). Kainé is featured in the 2011 CD Drama NieR Replicant Drama CD The Lost Words and the Red Sky, which included both the in-game version and a non-canon version in a high school setting. She restores the protagonist's human form after a confrontation with the plant-like Sleeping Beauty computer system. As the world grows worse following the Shadowlord's death, Kainé has recurring dreams of the protagonist. She is the lead character in the Grimoire Nier short story The Lost World, and a playable character in the new ending section of the 2021 expanded remaster Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139. The final two endings are based around a choice after Kainé is overwhelmed by Tyrann and goes berserk following the Shadowlord's death the protagonist can either kill her to end her suffering, or sacrifice his and Tyrann's existence to restore her normal form, leaving her and Yonah with no memories of him.įurther details around Kainé's backstory are included in Grimoire Nier, a guidebook featuring plot and character summaries, short stories, concept art and developer commentary. Subsequent playthroughs, which begin following Kainé's release from the seal, show further backstory for characters including Kainé and the Gestalts. In the game's first two endings, Kainé helps the protagonist kill the Shadowlord and rescue Yonah before leaving them the Shadowlord's death will eventually lead to the extinction of both Replicants and Gestalts. During one fight with Shades, the Aerie and its people are destroyed. Five years later Emil releases her and she helps the group hunt down the Shadowlord. She briefly sacrifices herself by allowing Emil to petrify her to seal away a powerful Shade when the Gestalt leader Shadowlord kidnaps Yonah. She also interacts with his other companions, sharing a bickering relationship with the talking book Grimoire Weiss, and forming a sibling relationship with the young Emil who suffers isolation due to his petrification powers. She chooses to live as a loyal ally and "sword" to the protagonist. Kainé ultimately kills Hook with help from the protagonist, who encourages her to help him search for a cure to the Black Scrawl appearing among the Replicants and infecting the young girl Yonah. This causes further discrimination, and Kainé chooses to live only for revenge against Hook. When the two are attacked by the monstrous Shade Hook and Kali is killed, Kainé survives by being possessed by the disembodied Shade Tyrann. Suffering discrimination from her home village the Aerie, she is cared for by her grandmother Kali, who treats her as a woman, encourages her to use feminine clothing, and influences her tendency to swear. Kainé was intended to be born female, but a fault in the Replicant production system causes her to be born intersex. ![]() ![]() After the Replicants gained sentience and see the Gestalts as monsters dubbing them "Shades", the two sides come into conflict. Human souls exist as shadow-like beings called Gestalts intended to rejoin with their Replicant counterparts. She is a Replicant, one of the soulless artificial humans that populate the Earth following an apocalyptic magical pandemic. Kainé appears prominently in Nier as a companion character to the unnamed player protagonist. She is also a popular character with fans of the Nier series. The character was noted and generally praised by critics for her portrayal, though her outfit and swearing drew some mixed reactions. Across all spoken appearances, she is voiced by Laura Bailey in English and Atsuko Tanaka in Japanese. Her design was updated by Akihiko Yoshida for the 2021 remaster of Nier. Korean illustrator D.K created her design, and writers Sawako Natori and Jun Eishima contributed to her backstory. Kainé was created by Yoko Taro, director and story writer of Nier, as an unconventional female-identifying lead. Kainé's storyline focuses around her quest for revenge against a monstrous Shade called Hook, and her history of discrimination due to being possessed by a Shade and being born intersex. During Nier she accompanies the protagonist in his quest to help a young girl called Yonah, first to cure her disease and then to rescue her from a being called the Shadowlord in a post-apocalyptic world beset by creatures called Shades. ![]() She is a lead character and player companion in Nier, and prominent in related media and merchandise. Kainé is a fictional character from the 2010 video game Nier, a spin-off of the Drakengard series developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix.
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