NiCO

Character name: NiCO

• Also known as: The Lightning Technomancer/Azure Flash Cybertechnician
• Martial art: Pencak Silat
• Place of birth: Finland
• Nationality: Finnish
• Date of birth: November 9
• Age: 18
• Species: Human
• Gender: Female
• Height: 149cm (4' 11")
• Weight: 41kg (90 lbs.)
• Measurements: B83 W57 H83 cm (B32" W22" H32")
• Eye color: Green
• Hair color: Light blue
• Current occupation: MIST Scientist
• Hobbies: Experiments
• Favorite foods and drinks: Joulutorttu
• Tropical zodiac sign: Scorpio (23 October – 21 November)
• Birthstone: Topaz
• Birthflower: Camillia
• Birthfruit: Apple
• About: As A master of tech and weaponry, NiCO is an intelligent and somewhat immodest scientist who fights with electro-shock gloves. She was recruited by Victor Donovan to helm the latest project for M.I.S.T., and had enough fighting prowess to be a threat to the ninjas, although she had her own personal reasons for undergoing the project.
• History: In her youth, NiCO wanted to follow in her father's footsteps to become a scientist. She wrote an essay on him for school, detailing how his profession as a researcher inspired her.

Unfortunately, her father died when NiCO was still young, and her mother unexpectedly abandoned her, leaving her an orphan.

NiCO would still follow in her father's footsteps and enrolls at MIST to become a scientist. During that time, she visited South East Asia as part of an intercollegiate research program, where she had the opportunity to watch a Pencak Silat match. Finding herself attracted by its unique history and the fundamental philosophy of "ilmu padi," NiCO devoted herself to learning Silat while continuing her studies. Her genius caught the attention of Victor Donovan, who hired her to replace Lisa Hamilton as the head researcher for Project MIST. She was tasked with overseeing the resurrection of the fallen shinobi Raidou and given the codename "NiCO".

In order to resurrect Raidou, NiCO researched Honoka, who displayed similar powers. She realized that Honoka was likely Raidou's daughter, and devised a plan to have her kidnapped in order to further the project.

Having developed a robotic version of Raidou, NiCO, accompanied by Christie, tested the prototype's battle program at the Lost Paradise. NiCO defeated it easily enough that she insisted they strengthen it to truly make it worthy of being called a prototype, also informing Christie when the latter questioned her motives of reviving Raidou.

Returning to the Zero Laboratory, NiCO informs Christie that the purpose of the project is the revival of life. When Christie asks why NiCO would want to help with something like that, NiCO refuses to explain herself, piquing Christie's curiosity further. The pair fight with Christie emerging victorious. However, even in defeat NiCO refuses to reveal her true intentions.

Later at the DOA Colosseum, NiCO meets with Kokoro. She seemed to have sought out Kokoro to repay Miyako for getting her a job with M.I.S.T. NiCO believes Miyako was a good mother to Kokoro, but this seems to anger Kokoro and the two fight. Kokoro bests her, but NiCO gives her a photo of Kokoro & Helena as children with Fame Douglas.

NiCO later meets Lisa Hamilton at the Hot Zone section of the Memorial Museum. NiCO infroms Lisa that she is her "replacement" - alarming Lisa as this means NiCO is working for Donovan and MIST. The two fight, with Lisa defeating NiCO. She warns NiCO to rethink working under Donovan, but NiCO is confident that she will surpass Lisa as a scientist.

At the Lab, NiCO watches some of the preliminary matches of Bass, and thinks his behavior is foolish. Christie wonders if NiCO is in fact remembering her father, which irritates NiCO. She fights Christie and defeats her. Christie however has worked out NiCO's plan to use the project to revive NiCO's father, which NiCO confirms.

Under Donovan's orders, NiCO works with Christie to activate Rig's "Donovan Jr" persona, in order to move MIST's plans forward.

At the Zero laboratory, NiCO watches in disgust as Donovan fawns over a capsule containing a female individual. Later, when Christie retrieves Honoka in order to help revive Raidou, NiCO understands that Honoka alone will not be enough to revive him. Christie tells her that there is another who shares Raidou's blood. NiCO scolds her for not retrieving that person at the same time as Honoka. Christie tells her to be patient, and makes plans to retrieve the other person too - she uses Honoka's phone to contact Marie Rose, but hangs up before she can speak. This allows Marie Rose and Ayane to trace Honoka.

Understanding that Ayane is also Raidou's daughter, NiCO uses Honoka as bait in order to lure in Ayane. Ayane and Marie Rose both arrive at the facility and NiCO greets them, attempting to lock them in the Zero arena. Marie Rose manages to escape and Ayane faces NiCO, defeating her. However, NiCO informs Ayane that Honoka is her sister, and proceeds to shock her, knocking her unconscious.

NiCO is able to use the energies from both Ayane and Honoka to revive Raidou. However, Ayane was able to send a distress signal to Kasumi & Hayate, allowing them to find her at the Zero Laboratory. They arrive just in time to find NiCO about to dispose of Ayane and Honoka. Hayate attempts to stop NiCO, but she tries to active Project Epsilon to stop him. However, he is able to overcome it and NiCO deduces that Lisa must be responsible. NiCO then deploys several Phase 4 clones to attack the two ninja. Two are easily defeated while the third kidnaps Honoka, and is pursued by Hayate. NiCO then confronts Kasumi, but is bested by the ninja. Despite this, NiCO actives something within Ayane, causing her to attack Kasumi, allowing NiCO to escape.

Later, Helena arrives at the facility and meets NiCO, with NiCO greeting her sarcastically before proceeding to taunt her about the photo she gave to Kokoro, making Helena realize who she is. NiCO attempts to leave but Helena attacks her, and upon her defeat, NiCO decides to show Helena what she had been working on.

NiCO reveals to Helena that the project was successful in restoring life, and that Maria has benefited from this too. Helena is shocked, and smacks NiCO, telling her that even if science found a way to revive a body, overcoming grief is how one gets stronger. NiCO vehemently disagrees and Helena tries to stop her from leaving, but NiCO shoots her with her electricity, causing Helena to fall down and allowing NiCO to escape.

At some point, NiCO discovered an alternate dimension via a quantum computer she had developed and decided to try to open a portal to it. As a result of the experiment, she dragged over a shocked Kula Diamond from her home dimension. NiCO, evidently glad at the success of her project, then approached her and made clear she had been expecting her. Kula accused her of working for NESTS, although NiCO neither confirmed nor denied the accusation, saying it was irrelevant before deciding to fight her. Kula agreed to the fight, although not before warning NiCO that she shouldn't blame her for what would happen next. After the fight, NiCO supplied her with a lollipop as gratitude for granting her "interesting data", although she made it very clear that Kula was not to tell anyone about what had transpired.

• Appearance: NiCO is fairly short in stature, having pale type skin and having a pretty average body size with an average bust and more petite body measurements.
• Attire: her attire possesses a white and blue color scheme and consists of a white top with blue trim, as well as an ID card on her left breast. She also wears blue shorts and has a blue shirt underneath her white top, as well as white socks, arm braces and thigh high boots with blue trim on the heels. She also wears blue fingerless gloves and wears three rings on both hands, which seem to be the source of her electric-based powers. She has light blue hair cut into a bob with bangs on the left side held by her pink or yellow hair pins, green eyes, and wears blue-framed glasses
• Personality: Despite her young age, NiCO is a scientific genius, but is also shown to be asocial and somewhat arrogant, as evidenced by her stating to Christie that she has no reason to explain herself to the latter when she attempted to question her motives for doing MIST's experiment. She seems to show very little emotion, remaining composed and very calm in various situations seen thus far. The only instance where she demonstrated any emotion was when Helena called her out on trying to revive Maria, where she ends up stammering in shock, anger, and sadness and even attacked Helena with her lightning gloves when the latter tried to restrain her. She is also somewhat snarky and arrogant towards her foes. Despite generally being asocial, she is capable of gratitude, as she rewarded Kula Diamond with a lollipop for providing her with "interesting data", under the condition that the latter not mention anything that transpired.

Although working for MIST, she has absolutely no loyalty to the organization, and only saw them as a means to an end regarding her experiments. Her motive for working for them in reviving Raidou was because of her family history: she never knew her mother due to the latter abruptly abandoning her, and her father died while she was still young, which ultimately crushed her enough that she desired to find a way to revive the latter. She seemed to show a level of empathy for those who had suffered the same, pitying Kokoro for her sadness over her mother's abrupt departure, and also implying her efforts to revive Helena's mother were due to her empathizing with Helena's loss and thinking this would help her.