| “ | I'm investigating those so-called "Go-Home Club" members... But you wouldn't happen to know anything about that now, would you? | ” |
| — Naruko Morita | ||
Naruko Morita is a second-year student at Kishimai High School who has been trapped in Mobius for a year. After she discovers vital information about the truth of Mobius, she joins the Go-Home Club.
Appearance[]
Naruko is the shortest of the Club, with black hair arranged in medium-length pigtails and brown eyes. She also wears red semi-rimless glasses and silver headphones with a red flower icon on their top. Out of all the Go-Home Club members, she wears the most modified school outfit; she only keeps the jacket and emblem. She wears a white hoodie with a black cat face on the right, a red and white plaid skirt, blue stockings with another red flower design above the ankles, and white platform shoes with black laces and soles/heels. She also wears a black backpack.
On her hoodie, there are numerous buttons; three below the cat icon and two on the pouches. Below the cat is a purple button with a white 3 on it, a lime green button with similar flowers as her Catharsis Effect, and a darker green badge with an unknown icon. On her hoodie pocket is a cream badge with a blue border and an orange star, and a black button with a series of colored dots.
Her Catharsis Effect weapons take the form of two rounded white drones with black knife blades. There is a black flower symbol printed on their tops. Depending on the attack used, these drones fire variously-colored beams from the blade area.
Her Catharsis Effect item takes the form of a large white box, half-hidden by her backpack, and a port just below her neck surrounded by a metal ring. The same black flower symbol, surrounded by a black circle, is printed onto its center, and its bottom half is hidden by her backpack as well. The Catharsis Effect also shreds the back of her jacket, hoodie, and her backpack as well.
Personality[]
History[]
Before being led to Mobius, Naruko was a high-schooler of the same age she appears as within it. Her father was a journalist, someone she admired greatly and wanted to achieve the heights of. Unfortunately, her life became significantly worse when a classmate of hers decried one of her father's (supposedly nationalism-critical) articles as "unpatriotic" and "anti-Japanese", leading the others to follow suit and subject her to constant bullying. She found refuge in online chatrooms and grew close to one person she'd come across in particular, confiding her anger in them. This person, however, was in actuality one of her classmates, and on attending one morning she found they had told the others of everything she'd said, the class mocking her for her actions. This caused Naruko to finally lose faith in any real form of communication at all: She developed an outlook of cynical wariness, refusing to trust absolutely anyone, and devoted her time to trolling comment sections and social media, channeling her anger through hurting other people. One night, she attempted to troll one of μ's videos while surfing, and woke up in the Mobius simulation.
Naruko is first seen in the game's opening scene of the Protagonist running from the school auditorium, shocked but interested in his actions. She later decides to accompany the Go-Home Club upon learning of their identity. This initially works outside of their favor: Naruko uploads images of them on her Gossiper account, tipping off their identity to the musicians. She eventually joins it as a full blown member.
Through her character episodes, Naruko starts out obsessed with her followers on the Internet. She eventually takes up writing after Kotaro Tomoe challenged her to get famous on her own merits. Eventually, she finds joy in writing after the protagonist teaches her to write for herself instead of for everyone else, and gives up her quest to become famous and realizes that friends are more important than any amount of online followers.
Catharsis Effect[]
Naruko is a very unusual character to use and definitely the most frail member of the Go-Home Club, but that doesn't stop her thanks to her excellent Accuracy, Evasion, and Critical stats. If anything, she the most support-like character the Go-Home Club has in terms of inflicting a poison-like status to the enemy, granting buffs, and able to apply pressure to the enemy to keep the Risk level from depleting with most of her skills doing a multitude of hits. As long as she dodges the enemy's attacks with ease, she'll be alright. Here are her Catharsis Effect Skills and Support Skills.
Catharsis Effect[]
- Playtime is Over! (チート万歳(*ﾟ∀ﾟ人))
- Must fill the Stress Meter
- Uses 0 SP
- Power 1600
- Attack Skill Level 3 / Defense Skill Level 3
- Hit 1
- [Overdose Skill] Summon an arsenal of knives and unleash them at the enemy from all angles.
- Get On with It! (とりあえずやっちゃえ！)
- Requires 8 Skill Points to upgrade
- Shooting Skill
- Uses 30 SP in first phase, 24 SP in second phase, 15 SP in third phase
- Level 1: Power 50 > Level 2: Power 57 > Level 3: Power 65
- Attack Skill Level 1 / Defense Skill Level 1
- Hit 6
- Your Astral Clusters fire off a line of lasers.
- ε=(o*° -°)o Wham!! (ε=(o*ﾟ-ﾟ)o ズザー！)
- Requires 8 Skill Points to upgrade
- Neutral Skill
- Uses 50 SP in first phase, 40 SP in second phase, 25 SP in third phase
- Level 1: Power 250 > Level 2: Power 287 > Level 3: Power 325
- Attack Skill Level 2 / Defense Skill Level 3
- Hit 1
- Use your head! Wait-Oh, okay. Raises Risk by 1.
- Pew Pew!! (レーザー攻撃！)
- Requires 16 Skill Points
- Shooting Skill
- Uses 45 SP in first phase, 36 SP in second phase, 22 SP in third phase
- Level 1: Power 45 > Level 2: Power 51 > Level 3: Power 58
- Attack Skill Level 1 / Defense Skill Level 3
- Hit 18
- Launches your enemies with a laser array.
- Get In There! (みんなつっこめーー！)
- Requires 8 Skill Points
- Shooting Skill
- Uses 50 SP in first phase, 40 SP in second phase, 25 SP in third phase
- Level 1: Power 70 > Level 2: Power 80 > Level 3: Power 91
- Attack Skill Level 1 / Defense Skill Level 1
- Hit 6
- [Melee Counter] Blast your Astral Clusters into the fray.
- Just Break It! (そんなの壊しちゃえばいいじゃん)
- Requires 12 Skill Points and reach Level 35 to unlock and upgrade
- Shooting Skill
- Uses 30 SP in first phase, 24 SP in second phase, 15 SP in third phase
- Level 1: Power 150 > Level 2: Power 172 > Level 3: Power 195
- Attack Skill Level 2 / Defense Skill Level 2
- Hit 2
- Leap into the air and break shields with an aerial bombardment.
- Here I Go, I Guess! (いろいろいっくよー！)
- Requires 48 Skills Points and complete Naruko's Character Episode to unlock and upgrade
- Shooting Skill
- Uses 150 SP in first phase, 120 SP in second phase, 75 SP in third phase
- Level 1: Power 40 > Level 2: Power 46 > Level 3: Power 52
- Attack Skill Level 1 / Defense Skill Level 2
- Hit 35
- Use Bai Ze and Arctic Fox to summon an orbital bombardment.
Support (Exclusive Skills)[]
- Kindred Spirits (リンケージライフ)
- Requires 16 Skill Points to unlock
- Uses 85 SP in first phase, 68 SP second phase, 42 SP third phase
- Grants massive HP regeneration to allies in an area for a time.
- Crimson Tears (レッドティアーズ)
- Requires 16 Skill Points to unlock
- Uses 20 SP in first phase, 16 SP in second phase, 10 SP in third phase
- Cause an enemy to rapidly lose HP over a period of time.
- Rift Splicer (ディメンションカッター)
- Requires 4 Skill Points to unlock
- Uses 45 SP in first phase, 36 SP in second phase, 22 SP in third phase
- Grants an ally drastically increased Evasion and moderate Attack for a time.
Flower language (Hanakotoba)[]
Amaryllis[]
This flower is associated to traits like talkative, shy, timid, prideful and vanity.
Amaryllis is considered to symbolize "Talkative", because of being oriented sideways, as if they're talking to other flowers nearby.
Snapdragon[]
Snapdragon is considered to be "talkative" as well, because of its petals looking like an opening mouth. It also represents being busy or messy.
Etymology[]
- The name Naruko means "ringing" (鳴) (naru) and "child" (子) (ko).
- Naruko's surname Morita means "guard, protect, defend, obey" (守) (mori) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta).
Trivia[]
- In the original Caligula Effect, each drone could be controlled separately; however, in Overdose, the player cannot control them separately and their attacks are linked to Naruko's.
Gallery[]
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