Nanome

Nanome, call sign O-7420356S1IDEX0 (just "O-7" for short), is a Hunter rank, deserted space soldier from the Intergalactic Defense Squadron. She has been a part of MM since June 22, 2021.

Appearance
Nanome is a frail, thin girl. Her skin is chalk-like in color thanks to a life without sunshine. Her slanted eyes are pale green, and become eerily wide whenever she is frightened or upset. Most notable of all is her hair; Her birth hair color is unknown, even to herself, because the IDS dyed it the same silver as all other field soldiers. The haircut is short in the front, resembling a bobcut, but is still long enough in the back to be done up into ponytails with rubber scrunchies.

Her day-to-day attire is her IDS rookie’s suit, a turquoise jumpsuit with dark blue stripes along the sides of the upper half. The lower half is completely dark blue, divided by her tool belt. Her belt, upper sleeves, and kneecaps all have the same shade of periwinkle, while her hair scrunchies match the bottom half of the jumpsuit. Her gloves have the same shade of turquoise as the upper half. She wears dark blue military-grade boots with gray toes.

Personality
Nanome is weak-minded and timid. Though she might look and feel stronger in a group, she’s a nervous wreck on her own. She is heavily dependent on the other soldiers and rarely forms opinions on her own. With virtually no self esteem, the slightest insult can have her cowering and tearful. She will gladly throw herself into danger over and over again to please anyone, especially her commanding officer. With her so determined to please, she comes down hard upon herself whenever she fails, often expecting to be beaten or punished.

Due to her sheltered military past, she barely knows life outside of combat and is constantly ready to attack. Everyone and everything is a threat to her, bringing her to shriek and cower in the presence of others. She doesn't know as much as she thinks she does, most things she doesn't know at all. Her naivety and curiosity leads her to trouble whenever her lack of self-preservation doesn't. She isn't even aware of how horrific her living situation was, constantly making excuses for her commander.

It's no surprise that Nanome has developed PTSD from her days in service. It's so deep rooted that placing her in just about any battle will take her back to the old days and trick her into thinking that everyone around her is an enemy soldier. In this state, she becomes cold and apathetic, completely unwilling to respond to others' commands as she attacks. When she does snap out of it, she feels deep remorse for the people she shot.

Nanome is starved for affection without even knowing it. She's come to appreciate being petted by someone she trusts, and is capable of pressing against one's hand or leaning against them for hours at a time. When she feels at her safest, she will even curl up in the other person's lap like a dog and allow them to pet her as she falls asleep.

There's more to her than cowardice and naivety. When she's opened up, she's a persistent girl who is willing to fight even when she's terrified. Her loyalty is boundless.

Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses
Nanome has no special magic, and her abilities are all physical. She is a skilled mechanic, sharpshooter, and field soldier. Her experience in piloting has given her the knowledge to be able to get just about anything off the ground with enough patience and persistence. Her accuracy is good enough to hit targets from up to twenty feet away.

Making up for her lack of self-preservation is a terrific pain tolerance. Nanome can withstand terrible injuries and still be able to walk.

Weaknesses
Again, since Nanome has no special magic, she’s very susceptible to magic and special attacks. Outside of those, she’s most vulnerable to fire and metal bullets. Her lightweight stature could get her thrown around by a stronger person like a ragdoll. She can easily be ambushed, knocked unconscious, or otherwise incapacitated.

Her plasma blaster has limited shots from a little tank of liquid, and its ammunition can’t get through tough materials, such as stone, concrete, and thick metals.

History Outside MM
Naomi Kempto had the misfortune of being born right on the cusp of an intergalactic war. She had a happy enough childhood, blissfully unaware of the conflict that quickly ignited when the Biva tried to hide on Earth and brought the Yuxorg’s anger with them. All she knew was that the Biva were placing her and her family in a new home with new friends while they fixed up the rest of the planet. Unfortunately, one selfish human betrayed the human race; This human was tricked by the Yuxorg king into returning his stolen source of power. That was when the conflict became a true war with Earth caught in the crossfire, and when Naomi’s life would go unapologetically bad.

In an attempt to destroy the Biva, Earthlings, and their affiliates, the Yuxorgs united with the budding Intergalactic Defense Squadron, and the equally evil organization had a twisted idea for getting an advantage: abduct the enemies’ young and train them against their home armies. At age seven, Nanome became one of these child soldiers. Her memories of her old world were wiped with electroshock, and her training began immediately after. She was now Nanome, fighter O-7420356S1IDEX0-Just O-7 for short.

For some reason, she just...wasn’t as powerful as the others in her squad. She became infamous as the unlucky soldier who couldn’t do anything right, and it wore down on her self confidence. Yet she still grew eager and desperate to prove herself. It frustrated her commander, who often punished her severely.

The last punishment Nanome experienced was being sent to the mothership’s basement, helping the non-soldiers dump useless mementos and broken machinery into the incinerator. One of the things Nanome picked up was a diary held by one of the kids before they were abducted and made into a soldier. From this book, Nanome learned that Earth kids have families instead of commanders. And she became curious. So curious that she decided to climb into her fighter ship and launch into space to see if she had her own.

Instead, she became hopelessly lost in space, her already beaten up fighter falling apart as she struggled to get her bearings. At this point, she didn't know if she wanted to return to her squadron or keep looking for her family. She welcomed either.

Power Ranger Nanome
Along her way, Nanome was shot down by an enemy patrol. She was spared by the Morphin Grid, who teleported her to a mountain headquarters in Ireland. There, she learned that she was to become a Power Ranger alongside four others: Orion, Sera Meril, Centurion, and Kapi. Nanome was granted the blue belt, and created a new pistol for her first weapon. When Corruptovs invaded, Nanome would suffer a PTSD attack for the first time, almost shooting the other Rangers alongside the Corruptovs.

After she snapped out of her trance, Nanome gave insight on her upbringing and hatred for Earth, and was confused when Orion didn't punish her. She had her first case of someone disagreeing with her views on the planet, and she allowed Orion to see into her past.

She repaired her ship and flew off, still unsatisfied.

The Combine Invasion
Nanome got to see the Combine scout fleet landing in New York. She tried to fight them off with a few others, but the makeshift team was defeated, glassed, and cast into the Shadow Realm by Tricky, who had turned on them for fun. Being cast into the Shadow Realm scarred her mentally, and her regular human body almost fell apart due to the sudden transport between dimensions.

Even though the attempt went miseably, Nanome did make a friend in Adam, a godlike being who had all the answers she sought. He revealed that her parents had been looking for her the entire time, which partially satisfied her curiosity, as well as showing her some of the memories that had been wiped away. Once Tricky set everyone free, he teleported her back to the mothership she called home. As she recovered from the dimensional transport, Adam slipped a special gem into her IV that gave her Demon-level resilience. Unfortunately, he wasn't keen on how the commanding officers treated Nanome, and he retaliated by destroying the mothership. Nanome was brought back to Earth along with the rest of O-Row, minus their Commander, who was decapitated. Adam planted them all in Japan.

Sometime later, Nanome was given a second chance to fight the Combine. At first, scarred by her previous experience, she fled in terror. Remembering what her deceased Commander gave her the strength to fight back. The Earth had won in the second round, but instead of celebrating, she simply took off in her ship and gunned it for home. Nanome also indirectly played a part in the Shacklebearer's capture of Giffany; Wanting to help Leek destroy the Combines' Power Inhibitor, Giffany decided to hijack Nanome's ship and fly it into space and back down, which the steadily-corrupted Shaw was impressed with.

Unfortunately, for helping to save the Earth, Nanome was branded as a traitor by the IDS, who had her blasted into smithereens. Adam's modifications to her body helped her survive the blast, but she was adrift in space without a ship and only eight hours of oxygen.

Life On The Moon
Certain that she'd met her end, Nanome sent a message on Accord bidding Earth adeu, which attracted the attention of a nigh-omnpotent being named Mister Mxyzptlk. With the IDS writing her off for dead and her unwilling to live on Earth, Nanome decided to have him settle her on Earth's moon. He summoned a modest farmland paradise for her, then gave her a duplicate of his hat in order to summon him at any time she needed something. Being omnipotent, Mxy was also able to severely confuse her by talking about "staff permissions", a dark god (Knull), and a pair of mysterious, possibly benevolent gods known as "Snail" and "Punky". He also warned her of Empress, an evil robot who sought the DNA of others for cloning purposes. Since she'd left her pistol behind in New York, he gave her a new pistol with intensity comparable to a lightsaber.

She was far from happy, though. The only life she'd ever known had been given up for the planet she always hated, and with the mystery of her birth parents mostly solved, she was now without her purpose. She would live alone with her new pet cat, looking out for the threats she was warned of and wondering if anyone would visit her.

Meanwhile, an IDS scrapping party was dispatched to pick up the pieces of Nanome's ship and take them back to the mothership to use as scrap. They were instructed to retrieve Nanome's body for disposal as well, only to discover that Nanome had been rescued. They are NOT happy...

There's a God Controlling Me?
Mxy's words continued to haunt her, and Nanome was left unsure of whether or not her actions and thoughts were really her own. She felt that she could sense Punky's orders, but was left frustrated by their vagueness.

She started to practice working with Myx's hat, learning to summon objects and people as easily as pulling a rabbit from a standard magician's hat. Her weakness against dimensional travel was being worked through.

Dark Nanome
Due to the barrier between the normal multiverse and the dark multiverse being broken, Dark Nanome was able to escape her known world. Unlike Dark Giffany, she found her counterpart almost immediately. She was in disbelief at meeting an alternate version of her, but quickly found that it wasn't a dream or a drifter's joke.

Like Nanome herself, Dark Nanome had deserted from the IDS, but their paths split from that event. She was captured by bandits and dragged to a black market as a valuable prize. The young girl was forced to survive in the underground of space for two years, while normal Nanome had been drifting across the aboveground, before being found and reclaimed by the IDS. Though she was home, what she'd been through had snuffed her timid, optimistic nature, making her ruthless and harsh.

Because of this, Dark Nanome was appalled by Nanome's newfound lifestyle, and was driven to hit her when she let it slip that she'd protected Earth against the Combine. She quickly forced Nanome to start calling her Alpha, which the timid girl didn't exactly fight against.

The Corruption
Nanome noticed corrupted asteroids falling into the Earth and panicked, remembering that her squadron was likely still on Earth. She took Alpha and herself to Japan to search for the other soldiers, but Alpha was intercepted by May and led away with mild mind control. Due to not exactly being close friends with her dark counterpart, Nanome left the situation alone and kept searching.

Tidbits
-Nanome likes hot food.

-She is likely of Asian descent.

-Thanks to Tricky, she is afraid of clowns.

-She loves berries.

-Nanome has a low tolerance for cold, and loves warmth. As such, weighted blankets are one of her favorite things in the whole wide world.

-She's afraid of darkness, deep water, and any insects larger than the nail on her pinky finger.