Endrance
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| Endrance | |
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| First appearance | .hack//G.U. |
| Voiced by | Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese) Liam O'Brien (English) |
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| Gender | Male |
| Class | Blade Brandier |
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| Name | Kaoru Ichinose |
| Age | 20 |
| Gender | Male |
Endrance (エンデュランス), also known as "The Temptress," is a character within the .hack universe. The character is a Blade Brandier, and is acknowledged as a powerful player, even by other powerful players of The World R:2. He is also as an AIDA-PC (Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly playable character), or a character infected by a virus that has several effects on the player's computer and may take over the character itself. Endrance is cold and shows little interest in other players. The only ones he shows any emotion to in the game are Mia and Haseo, Mia being a small cat who can usually be found perched on his shoulder in the first volume.
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[edit] Online
[edit] Appearance
Endrance is a somewhat androgynous male character with long, light blue hair. He wears tight-fitting purple armor, as well as a cap lavishly decorated with roses. In combat, he wields a thin, black sword.
[edit] Personality
Endrance is obsessed with beauty and appears effeminate. He sees the other players as nothing more than "ugly dolls" and treats them coldly. Though he is online almost constantly, he never meets with other players, instead traveling through fields by himself. The only times he makes public appearances is when he's called into a place called the "Demon Palace Arena" to defend his title. He is fiercely devoted to Mia, and when fighting he constantly refers to somebody he calls "she," who, while not stated directly in-game, is most likely Mia/Macha because of Endrance being the same person as the R:1 player, Elk. By the second volume with the loss of Mia, Endrance drives into a depression only to come out devoted to Haseo in a similar format, devoting his life to what he believes he owes.
[edit] Offline
In the real world, Endrance is a 20-year-old net addict named Kaoru Ichinose (一ノ瀬薫). He lives with his parents in Kanagawa Prefecture. According to Yata, he plays almost 24/7, logging out just enough to sleep. He was also the player behind Elk seven years before.
[edit] History
[edit] .hack//Alcor
With the power of Macha behind him, Endrance easily climbs up the Arena rankings, eventually reaching the point where he can challenge Emperor Alkaid.
[edit] .hack//G.U.+
In .hack//G.U.+, Endrance rules as the undisputed champion of the Arena. Watching from the sidelines, Haseo and Kuhn notice both his avatar, as well as the small cat-like AIDA that has attached itself to Endrance. Wanting to show his true power, Haseo decides to challenge him to a fight in the arena. Endrance begins to attack him with Avatar Macha, but Haseo activates Avatar Skeith who manages to defeat Macha after a short fight. During the battle, Haseo is able to temporarily glimpse into Endrance's mind, and realizes that the AIDA attached to him was draining his emotions by taking the form of his old cat. He uses Skeith to destroy Mia, dealing great psychological damage to Endrance.
[edit] .hack//G.U. games
Endrance is the reigning Emperor of the Demon Palace arena circuit, but cheats. He uses Avatar Macha to defeat his opponents, since such avatars are invisible to all but Epitaph Users. Everyone else just believes he is unbelievably fast and strong. Saku of the "twins" Sakubo is one of his rabid fangirls, calling him "Master-En" out of respect, and believes they are "bound together by a red string of fate."
When facing Haseo in the duel arena, they both call forth their avatars. Haseo wins, and Mia is revealed to be an AIDA. After losing Mia again, Endrance encases himself in a block of ice at the bottom of the lake at Indieglut Lugh, too depressed to do anything. Sakubo finds him and protects him, at some point becoming infected with AIDA. Haseo eventually seeks out Endrance for help, as was the last wish of Alkaid, and gives Endrance a speech, saying that he needs him. Moved by this, Endrance later appears and saves Haseo when an AIDA infected Bordeaux has him cornered in the Arena. It quickly becomes apparent that Haseo's words have caused him to completely replace Mia in Endrance's life, with Haseo as the object of Endrance's affection.
During a player killer tournament, Endrance betrays Haseo and joins forces with Sakaki. However, in the end, Endrance's true colours are shown when he stabs Sakaki in the back with his sword, combining his power with Haseo's in order to allow him to use Skeith against Sakaki, but was still too weak, but thanks to Atoli and Kuhn they also gave him their powers, and gave him the power to call upon Skeith to attack and defeat Sakaki's Aida form.
[edit] References
[edit] Trivia
When Endrance use a Skill, the blade drops some rose petals in the air. If this is a feature only to his player, or is a hacked program, or a special item, it is never stated, but it is heavily implied that it is something to do with his Avatar, Macha.
[edit] External links
- Endrance at .hack//Wiki.
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