Ovan
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Ovan is a fictional character from .hack//G.U., a branch of the .hack franchise that encompasses several video games, anime and manga.
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Ovan is rather a mysterious character that no one really knows about. During the .hack//Roots series, he appears to have a close relationship with Shino. Shino indicates that she knows him in real life, outside The World, as well. He usually never shares any personal things to anyone except her, an example being in episode 7 of Roots he tell Shino that he needs to go back to work and that he usually goes on The World quite far into his working hours, which worries Shino.
Phyllo,an elderly male acquintance of Shino's who plays a racoon-like character in The World, says that he should've never introduced Shino to Ovan.
The thing every character knows about Ovan is that he is the guild master of the Twilight Brigade, which is dedicated to finding a legendary item, the Key of Twilight. The members of the guild are Ovan, Shino, Haseo, Tabby, and Sakisaka. Former members who quit were Gord and B-Set.
As the series progress, Virus Cores (first introduced in the .hack//Games series) appear in different sets of colors and are the stepping stones to finding the Key of Twilight. Ovan depended on Haseo in finding the last Virus Core they needed, as he said Haseo has a special trait that would make it possible. Ovan is probably referring to Haseo being an Epitaph User.
Another famous characteristic of Ovan's is that his arm is encased in a lock. It certainly is not a legal character model and people say that Ovan hacked his PC to get it the way it is. The arm is the clue that leads to the true chaos occurring in the world. The three scar signs, known as Sign, is not truly made by Azure Kite but Ovan himself. However, in the first game, Azure Kite can travel using the signs.
Near the end of the second game, Ovan finally reveals his arm to Haseo. Inside the lock is a black hatchet-like weapon in his hand, long black blade coming out of his shoulders. Using these two weapons as well as his own Bayonet, Ovan slashes in a form that creates the Sign. At the time, he attacked Pi, Atoli, and Haseo. Earlier on in the second series, Ovan is confronted by Azure Kite, Azure Balmung, and Azure Orca. The three attacked Ovan and, supposedly, Ovan had defeated them using the arm. Interesting enough, Corbenik's Avatar is modeled more in a humaniod figure than its original form in the Project .hack franchise. It was actually Ovan (or Corbenik since it seemed Ovan looked out of control at the time) who killed Shino and caused her to be a Lost One.
In the last volume of .hack//G.U. is revealed that Ovan's motivation is to save his sister Aina who was the first victim of his arm, which was infected by AIDA.
| Video games: | Infection | Mutation | Outbreak | Quarantine | frägment | G.U. |
|---|---|
| Anime: | Liminality | Sign | Legend of the Twilight | Gift | Roots |
| Books: | AI buster | AI buster 2 | Zero | Another Birth | Legend of the Twilight | .hack//XXXX | 4 Koma | G.U.: The World |
| Characters: | Albireo | Alkaid | Aura | Azure Kite | Balmung | Bear | BlackRose | BT | Crim | Cubia | Elk | Emma Wielant | Harald Hoerwick | Haseo | Helba | Kite | Kuhn | Lycoris | Mia | Mimiru | Morganna | Orca | Ovan | Rena | Shugo | Skeith | Sora | Subaru | Tri-Edge | Tsukasa | Zefie .hack//Sign characters |
| Other: | Altimit Corporation | Altimit OS | CC Corporation | Cubia | Data Drain | Eight Phases | GU Phases (.hack) | .hack//Enemy | Epitaph of Twilight | Twilight Incident | Net Slum | Pluto's Kiss | The World | .hack character classes |
