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    Junpei

    Character » appears in 4 games

    The young protagonist desperately seeking escape, with eight other captives in the twisted Nonary Game of 999.

    Short summary describing this character.

    Junpei last edited by GenericBrotagonist on 05/19/18 01:28PM View full history

    Participation in the Second Nonary Game

    Junpei's bracelet number is 5; he has no alias due to his childhood friend June blurting out his name before code names were decided. Her nickname for him is "Jumpy". He quickly becomes the defacto leader of the group and (as the player) is typically the problem solver for all situations he is present for. He has a profound desire to protect June from harm, and can occasionally be clueless about her affection for him.

    Other than his connection with June, Junpei has no prior association or awareness of the Nonary Game or Cradle Pharma. He was abducted from his home by Zero, and awakens in a ship cabin which immediately begins flooding. As the protagonist, his ignorance serves to represent the player as context and clues are steadily revealed.

    Junpei shares a psychic connection through morphic fields with June, an ability he is not aware of. He has flashes of inspiration and knowledge which he should not be aware of from playthrough to playthrough. The game uses its New Game+ trope to justify this awareness within the context of the storyline.

    Participation in the Decision Game

    After escaping from the Nevada facility where the second Nonary Game had taken place, Junpei spent the following year searching for June, who had vanished after the events of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. He discovered that she had joined the Mars Mission Test project in the Nevada Desert, and joined himself in order to reunite with her. However, soon after the test began the nine participants were kidnapped by a new Zero and brought to a bunker where they began the Decision game.

    Throughout the Decision Game many different timeline are created. In most Junpei is killed, however there are two in which he escapes. In one, the group masters the ability to "jump" and escape to a timeline where Zero released them before the game had even begun. In this timeline Zero reveals that he had done everything to prepare the group for an even greater coming threat, the extent of which has yet to be revealed. In another, Junpei and some of the other participants are able to escape by brute force. However, in this timeline the deadly virus Radical-6 was released in the bunker. When they escaped the virus came with them and created a pandemic that swept the world, killing two billion people by 2074. Because of a bracelet which injected him with a memory wiping drug, after the escape Junpei forgot his reunion with June and spent the subsequent decades continuing to search for her.

    Participation in the Third Nonary Game

    Many years after the release and spread of Radical-6 and the subsequent destruction of several "annhihilation reactors" that severely damaged the whole planet, Junpei finds a newborn orphan who he names Quark. Junpei adopts Quark as his step-grandson and becomes a scrapper to get by.

    He is eventually approached by Zero Sr., who offers him the chance to reunite with June in exchange for his participation in the third Nonary Game, to which he accepts. He enters the game under the alias of Tenmyouji, bringing Quark with him and playing a pivotal role in the events of Virtue's Last Reward.

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