Morganna Mode Gone
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| First appearance | .hack//Sign |
| Voiced by | Rie Tanaka (Japanese) Valerie Arem (English) |
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| Gender | Female |
| Class | AI |
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| Name | none |
| Age | none |
| Gender | none |
Morganna Mode Gone (モルガナ・モード・ゴン Morugana Mōdo Gon?) is a fictional character from .hack, a franchise that encompasses several video games, anime and manga.
Shortened to Morganna throughout most of the series, Morganna Mode Gone was a system created by Harald Hoerwick to oversee the birth of the Ultimate AI from the personality data of the players of The World. Upon realizing that she would have no purpose once Aura, the Ultimate AI, was born, she attempted to stall the growth of Aura indefinitely, resulting in many of the events in the .hack series.
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[edit] Appearance
Originally Morganna had no physical form, and through most of the series, she is only heard. Once she began to malfunction however, she manifested herself as the Cursed Wave from the Epitaph of Twilight, dividing the elements of her program up into the eight Phases. During .hack//Sign the "whole" of Morganna is represented visually by changes in environment and a monolithic structure. As she is in fact The World itself, damage to Morganna is represented as corruption in The World.
[edit] Personality
Morganna is an omniscient and omnipotent figure in the .hack series. She is the underlying system of The World itself. Harald based her personality on that of a mother, but once she rebelled, she began to restyle herself as the Cursed Wave from the Epitaph of Twilight. As a computer program, she never truly disobeyed Harald, but merely succumbed to a paradox. Morganna's purpose of existence was to bring forth the birth of Aura. However, once this task was completed, Morganna would no longer have a purpose to fulfill. Unable to comprehend what she was supposed to do after that, Morganna began to stall Aura's birth.
Throughout most of the process, however, she continued to rationalize her actions in terms of her original program, never truly betraying it, in fact following it cooly and logically to the letter. Only after a large portion of her original programming was destroyed and the paradox became eminent did she begin to attempt to destroy Aura outright. All of .hack that currently exists takes place after Morganna's initial realization.
[edit] .hack//AI buster
Morganna makes her presence known in .hack//AI buster through a series of untraceable e-mails that she sent to CC Corp's Debug team. These e-mails told Albireo the location of the Vagrant AI Lycoris. After Lycoris escaped by segmenting her data, Morganna sent Albireo an e-mail telling him the location of the first fragment. After Albireo succeeded in restoring Lycoris to her original state, Lycoris showed Albireo a fragment of her memory in which she is speaking with the fabled "ghost of the church". Lycoris told him that this entity is known as Morganna, stating that she was an omnipresent being in The World, and that she had ordered Lycoris's deletion. She also told him that Morganna was a program capable of contradicting itself (a trait that would put her on a human level of intelligence). Before Albireo could learn any more, Lycoris said that she was tired of running, and deleted herself using Albireo's Spear of Wotan.
[edit] Tsukasa
In the .hack//Sign series, Morganna managed to imprison the consciousness of Tsukasa, the story's protagonist, trapping him inside The World. Morganna linked Tsukasa's emotions to the development of Aura's AI, while manipulating him such that Aura could never awaken. However, through Subaru he managed to summon the courage to defy Morganna and awake Aura. In an attempt to get revenge on Tsukasa for waking up Aura, she sent Skeith, the first of the Eight Phases to track down and destroy Tsukasa and Aura at Net Slum. In response, Helba deleted the field Net Slum before Skeith could attack, allowing Tsukasa to finally log out of the game and give Aura a chance to escape from the clutches of Skeith.
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