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CPU Candidates

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2

The little sisters of the CPUs (except Vert). They passionately learn from their older sisters to someday lead the nations in their place.

General Tropes

• The Ageless: They're biologically immortal like their sisters.
• Badass Adorable: Emphasis on the "adorable", as they're physically younger than the CPUs, but still competent fighters.
• Colorful Theme Naming: Their HDD forms use the same colors as their sisters, but it's followed by "_ Sister" instead of "_ Heart".
• Combination Attack: Superior Angels, which requires all the Candidates to be deployed in the battle.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • Uni, Rom and Ram were originally the main characters of their debut game alongside Nepgear, but were sidelined in the following game once the CPUs became the main protagonists again, while Nepgear, the one who did return, was made into a punching bag. Thankfully, VII makes them relevant to the story again.
  • They have no narrative role whatsoever in Re;Birth1, and it's optional for them to show up in the game at all. However, this is a remake of the first game, before they were introduced to the series.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Their eyes turn into power symbols while in HDD.
• Eye Color Change: Like their sisters, the color of their eyes change. Nepgear goes from purple to blue, Uni goes from red to light green, and Rom and Ram go from blue (both of them) to pink and light blue respectively.
• Leotard of Power: They wear futuristic leotards in HDD.
• Moe Anthropomorphism: Of handheld consoles. Since the Xbox never had any, Vert is left with no little sister.
• Physical God: They are the same as their sisters. The major differences are their status as not being the reigning CPUs and their strength.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: The HDD changes their hair color.
• Power Gives You Wings: The HDD adds them wings if you have equipped them as Processor Units parts. Their wings are smaller than their sisters' though.
• Pure Magic Being: They're born from the Share Energy that powers them. This is particularly notable in Re;Birth1, the remake of the original game where they didn't exist yet, as their Superdimension sisters have a completely different origin story.
• Put on the Bus: Out of all of the spin-off games, Hyperdevotion Noire, Super Neptunia RPG, Virtual Stars and Ninja Wars are the only games not to feature them, barring Nepgear's cameo in the latter, albeit as a gampic. They finally came back in Sisters vs Sisters.
• Secret Character: Re;Birth1 only. Once you reached chapter 8 of your first playthrough, you can get plans to unlock them. There are three plans for the four of them. To unlock the plans, the Shares of Planeptune, Lastation or Lowee, respectively, must be at least 35%. Then you have to get the needed materials for the plans and the respective Shares must be at least 50%. Each plan needs 1024MB to be activated.
• Sixth Ranger: In Re;Birth1, like the DLC CPUs, they have no relevance for the story and only appear in specific cutscenes that does not effect the main story. They are basically ghost characters in your party. Oddly enough, if you unlocked any of them, they will be in your party from the beginning in New Game Plus. However, unlocking the Candidates is required to achieve the True Ending.
• Super Mode: Like their sisters, they have a transformation called Hard Drive Divinity.
• Stripperiffic: Nepgear and Uni's alternate HDD outfits in mk2 and VII are about as revealing as Green Heart.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: The same rules with their sisters and the DLC CPUs in Re;Birth1.
• Walking Spoiler: Their presence in Re;Birth1 makes it impossible not to talk about them without not spoiling anyone.

Nepgear/Purple Sister

Nepgear/Purple Sister

^{Purple Sister}

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Christine Marie Cabanos (English)

The CPU Candidate of Planeptune, and Neptune's little sister. She served as the protagonist of mk2. She transforms into Purple Sister.

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General Tropes:

• Big Little Sister: She's often assumed to be Neptune's older sister because she's not only taller, but more mature. However, this goes out the window once they transform; Neptune physically and mentally matures into a Lady of War, while Nepgear's changes are fairly superficial.
• Character Catchphrase: Her oddly-constructed "What the goodness?!"
• Cleavage Window: Sports one as Purple Sister.
• Gadgeteer Genius: She loves machines to the point that she dreads having to destroy them, even if they're being used by villains for nefarious deeds. In Sisters, she manages to reconstruct one of ASIC's mechanical soldiers into an ally capable of time travel in the Bad Future.
• Laser Blade: Her weapon in human form is a sword that is made out of light.
• Mad Scientist: Nepgear has a fondness for creating useful, if extremely dangerous, mechanical contraptions. The producer from Producing Perfection outright calls her a mad scientist.
• Nice Girl: She is a relatively friendly and kind-hearted girl at heart, and willing to help others in need.
• Purple Is Powerful: Just like her sister, she is associated with purple.
• Token Wholesome: Inverted; she is the only CPU Candidate to have a Cleavage Window rather than wearing a one piece leotard. Grey Sister would also follow suit, though she isn't a main character.
• Younger Than They Look: She happens to be the younger sister of Neptune, yet she appears older than Neptune.

Main continuity (mk2/Re;Birth2, Victory/Re;Birth3, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• The Ace: She is more mature and responsible, a wild contrast to Neptune lazy and sometimes uncaring behaviour.
• Badass Armfold: This is how Keiji Inafune appears to Nepgear.
• Beehive Barrier: Her Panzer Blade attack causes her enemies to generate one for every swing, just so she can shatter them all in the process of beating them to death.
• Big Word Shout: During her Slash Wave attack.
  Nepgear: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
• Brick Joke:
  • In Victory, Rock, Paper, Strippers shows up in the credits.
  • Dragon Ball Syndrome from Victory subtly and darkly makes it way back in Sisters after having been unmentioned in VII. Once again playing Gohan, she has the misfortune of being in a game recreating the plot of Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks and dies in an alternate timeline.
• Butt-Monkey: She really suffers in the Ultra Dimension; she gets tortured by Iris Heart for briefly switching sides, nobody takes her seriously, she is "rewarded" with an Affinity System that doesn't do anything or derides her for being useless, and Neptune is often strangely apathetic to her well-being, to the point that the Good Ending has Nepgear left behind in the Ultra Dimension for years while Neptune values napping over making any attempt to rescue her. This gets immediately lampshaded by Neptune in the Basilicom after Nepgear arrives, saying she has the feeling that her sister will be getting the shaft this game.
• Character Development:
  • Mostly Played for Laughs, but in Victory, Nepgear becomes a lot more forward and ill-tempered due to her new Butt-Monkey status. Best seen in the Good Ending where she is displaying her dissatisfaction quite clearly, even outright insulting Neptune, which is something she refrained to do previously.
  Histoire: You have grown strong, Nepgear.
  Nepgear: Not by choice...
  • This dialogue however is from the True Ending which fortunately for her, this is the point where the game almost stops treating her from being a butt monkey.
• Character Narrator: She occasionally narrates events, like during the beginning of Hyper Dimension Neptunia G and the bad end of Heart Dimension Neptunia H, as well the Nirvana Ending of the same story.
• Characterization Marches On: Her love of technology and robots was only mentioned a couple of times in passing in mk2, and was more of an Informed Attribute than anything given that she wasn't hesitant on destroying CFW Brave, Trick, and Judge, despite the three of them being giant mechas and pinnacles of technology (though given what the latter two are, it's not like she didn't have a reason to do so). She starts to show glimpses of her tech-loving personality in Victory, where she gets all gooey-eyed when meeting Anonydeath due to initially thinking of him as a robot, to the point of very briefly considering helping him when offered access to his unique technology, eventually leading her to build an actual Humongous Mecha; however even with that, she takes a little longer to warm up to Copypaste once he underwent a Heel–Face Turn. By VII, she became a full on Gadgeteer Genius who can build any robot big or small, and sees the best in even the most iniquitous of robots to the point that she's unwilling to demolish them.
• Chick Magnet: Largely in gameplay rather than story; most likely in a call back to the game she starred in. One of her passive abilities allows her to gain Lily Ranks with the other girls much more quickly than normal.
• Combination Attack: The only one who is a required party member for a majority of the combination attacks, the total number (including the DLC power up) being at 10.
• Cosmetic Award: Played for Laughs in Victory with her own exclusive Affinity System that doesn't really do anything.
• Crutch Character: Unlike Neptune, she starts at level 10 instead of 1. She also has the highest STR stat of the entire main cast, easily beating out her sister and Noire by more than 300+ points. This eventually backfires on the player though, as she and Vert have to be fought concurrently as bosses in Chapter 4. And it's not an easy boss fight.
• Defiled Forever: Played for Laughs in Victory, where after Iris Heart is done punishing her for joining Vert's side, she laments that she can no longer get married and nobody would want her anymore.
• Demoted to Comic Relief: She was socially anxious in her debut game but was still competent enough to defeat the main Big Bad alongside the other Candidates. Victory portrays her as a petulant and incompetent Loser Protagonist with severe self-esteem issues that the other characters give her crap for. The following games, most notably Victory II and Sisters, would revert her to the shy but competent leader she was previously.
• Distracted by the Sexy: In Victory, she's so aroused by Vert's figure that she seriously considers letting Vert be her new sister because her breasts were soft and comfortable (and she still was bitter over the abandonment situation).
• Driven to Suicide: In one timeline in Sisters, she uses the Gehaburn to slay Arfoire, but kills herself afterward because every other CPU was either killed by the Deity of Sin or sacrificed themselves to power up the sword. However, Grey Sister ultimately realizes that she was powering up Gehaburn for the possibility that Arfoire wasn't truly defeated yet.
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Downplayed. When Uzume calls her 'Giacchi/Gearsy', Nepgear claims that it's the first time anyone has ever given her a nickname. However, while true in the original Japanese, the English dub has already featured multiple characters giving her nicknames, such as Neptune ('Nep Jr.'), Compa ('Ge-Ge'), IF ('Gear'), and Plutia ('Neppy Jr.'). However, the dub also explicitly has her mention this to be her first "cute" nickname, implying that she likes 'Gearsy' the most.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She's not too happy about having to fight Big Nep in Vert's portion of the Hyper Dimension G arc, but she at least wasn't very antagonistic and lets them go on a whim. What really hits her is "Uzume" summoning Dark Purple and kidnapping the CPUs early in the H Arc, to the point that she's not sure how to face her when they return to the Zero Dimension. Fortunately, the Uzume she befriended and the "Uzume" responsible weren't the same person.
• Face–Heel Turn: Played for Laughs in Victory when she betrays her sister and the other Goddesses to join up with Vert and fight against them. As put by Neptune, she easily believes almost anything anyone says ^ExplanationVert convinced her that Nepgear is now Ultra Dimension Vert's little sister because Vert gave her a CPU Memory that came from Leanbox.
• Fatal Flaw: In Victory, she has Envy, to which her affinity system even confirms it in front of everyone to her dismay. Most of her problems stem from resenting that Neptune has taken the role of the main character from her. This also comes up once Vert starts to neglect her as well in favor of Peashy. It's otherwise been declared as "Dragon Ball Syndrome" by Blanc.
• Gameplay Story Segregation: When you get the lilac mk2 processor unit, Nepgear gets a cutscene where says she's become stronger but if you look at the stats for the lilac and lilac mk2 processor units, the lilac processor unit has higher stats than the lilac mk2. This is fixed in the remake - the lilac mk2 set has higher total stats than the lilac set in every category except HP, SP and elemental resistance, which both sets have none of.
• The Generic Girl: Nepgear laments in Victory that the audience derided her as bland when she was mk2's protagonist, and spends much of the game developing meaningless affinities out of a desire to have some defining trait. She seems to settle on a love of machines.
• Giver of Lame Names: In Sisters, she captures and reprograms an ASIC robot, using her N-Gear as a core component. She dubs it the N-Gear Ver-16 Re: AdditionalEdition. She gives it the much more simple name Ziri in her final moments.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When you summon Keiji Inafune, his eyes glow before Nepgear delivers the final blow.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: One of Nepgear's Skills in mk2 has her use Keiji Inafune like a blade.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Early in mk2, she's so traumatized by her overwhelming defeat from ASIC that she can't even transform. It takes some encouragement from IF to get her back in shape. The Conquest Ending also takes its toll on her, especially after Arfoire convinces her that all her sacrifices were meaningless.
  • Early in VII's Heart Dimension H arc, she sneaks off with Uni just in time to see her supposed friend Uzume kidnapping the CPUs with Dark Purple. She's initially so distraught that Uni has to smack her to get her to listen, and later frets over how she's supposed to react to Uzume the next time they meet. Fortunately, the culprit wasn't the same Uzume she knew.
  • Early in Sisters vs Sisters, Nepgear wakes up from her two-year cryostasis to learn that Gamindustri ravaged by the Trendi Phenomenon, her nation has fallen, and her sister never returned from the destroyed PC Continent. After spending considerable time locked up in her room crying, she goes out in a daze despite the potential danger, only snapping out of it when she meets Maho.
• Humongous Mecha: When using her "Nepgeardam" SP Skill, she summons a mech resembling Plutia's Retro Robo plushie (the same one that Plutia gives to Nepgear during an outtake to one of the episodes in the anime).
• Intimate Healing: IF decides to go this route to snap her out of it and get her to go HDD. Compa voices disappointment that she wasn't the one who got to get "Lovey-Dovey" with Nepgear.
• Jack of All Stats: In Victory, her skills and stats in battle are very balanced, making her a good fit for any battle role. However, she'll always be outclassed by other, specialized characters filling the same role.
• Kill the Ones You Love: The Conquest Ending in mk2 has her sacrificing all the other CPUs, including her sister Neptune, to power up Gehaburn. While all of them ultimately consented to it for the greater good, she's devastated by the end, especially when Arfoire warns her that she's doomed the world to stagnation.
• Lightning Bruiser: In her debut game alongside Nisa. If you play her right, she's a good tank, dishes out damage harder than the rest, and is a required character to all of the Combination Attacks. However, she's also a Game-Breaker; if you place her as a support role, she can easily get rid of the Damage Cap, allowing other characters to damage enemies beyond 9999.
• Lonely at the Top: In the Conquest Ending. By the end, she has killed all the other goddesses and united the world under her rule, and those of her friends who are still alive leave her after Arfoire is defeated.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: In HDD, her weapon becomes a Multiple Beam Launcher (M.P.B.L.), a beam cannon with a blade underneath.
• Ms. Exposition: Does this in the beginning of Victory.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In mk2's Conquest Ending, she ends up killing all the other CPUs to empower Gehaburn and slay Arfoire, only to be told by the Deity of Sin that she's doomed the world to stagnation by wiping out all competition.
• Oh, Crap!: In Victory, between her and Neptune, she's the only one who recognizes Arfoire's strongest form as the same Deity of Sin they killed a few years back.
• Playful Hacker: Has developed some cracking skills to go along with being a gearhead.
• Precision F-Strike: In Victory, she drops her "goodness" to a "What... the... HELL!" in the Good Ending where Plutia trips on Neptune and both disappear from the portal.
• Running Gag: Victory has "Nepgear has mastered the X ability!" "X" in this case is a random useless trait, usually something that makes her look bad.
• Sailor Fuku: Her standard outfit is one with the color scheme of Neptune's parka.
• Shout-Out: Most of her skills in mk2 are based on Temjin's weapons.
• Shrinking Violet: While not to extent of Rom, Nepgear comes off as being shy and insecure, often doubting herself for not being as good as her sister. She grows out of it, though.
• Sibling Rivalry: She has this with Neptune in Victory, but it isn't limited to her. Like her sister and Vert taking this dynamic over her, she starts taking this sort of behavior as well toward Peashy over Vert, becoming noticeably irritated when Peashy is the one getting her attention.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Gives on during one Walletcrusher Nep, after Neptune has been dragged off the stage for mentioning that the medicine gives you the runs and implying that it was an addicting drug.
  Nepgear: "A-And with that, we are happy to present the side-effect-free and safe-for-use medicine, Nep Bull EX II! It is a must-have item that is totally okay to use, it will heal you instantly!"
• Took a Level in Badass: Starts off as meek, shy, and timid, unlike her older sister. By the end of mk2, she becomes the next goddess of Planeptune.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Her Beam Rifle as Nepgear and the Inafune Beam.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gets called out by other people on her actions in the Conquest End.
• You Are in Command Now: In Sisters, Histoire tasks her with saving the world as "Planeptune's final CPU" after Neptune's disappearance.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Black Mage: In Cyberdimension she's purely offense-oriented, with every skill she learns being an elemental spell (of the fire, ice, lightning, and wind varieties).
• Yandere: In Game Maker, after being exposed to a cursed game disc, she attempts to keep Uni locked up all to herself.
  • She keeps the Older Neptune's group going on a wild goose chase that leads them to fight with Ram and Rom in the Planepgear route in order to get an opportunity to take the "cute and completely useless" Uni captive. They manage to figure out that Uni is in danger, though wrongly assuming it's due to Nepgear being the distributor of the cursed discs, and stop her before she can kidnap her.
  • In a moment of clarity during the Dual Small route she allows Uni to escape from her and urges Older Neptune's group to go help her while she stays behind to avoid lapsing back into that behavior.
  • During the Lastnita route she gets irritated that Uni is traveling around with anyone other than her, and tries to convince Uni that she's the only person she needs. Reedio flat out calls her a "complete binding type yandere" over her rant. Between that and Uni refusing to submit to her whims, Nepgear comes to the conclusion that Victory has corrupted her and attempts to kill them. Additionally, choosing to visit Planepgear before Dual Small has Uni panic at the mere thought of getting anywhere near Nepgear forcing you off to Dual Small first anyway, tipping you off that something's wrong with Nepgear before the end of the route reveals her insanity.

Uni/Black Sister

Uni/Black Sister

^{Black Sister}

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English)

The CPU Candidate of Lastation, and Noire's little sister. She loves guns, but is insecure about measuring up to her sister's standards. She transforms into Black Sister.

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General Tropes:

• A-Cup Angst: While not as bad as Blanc, she doesn't like the fact that she's the only CPU to shrink in bust size. She also gets embarrassed when Nepgear suggests that Uni pads outside of HDD in mk2.
• BFG: She wields fairly mundane guns in human form, but her HDD is equipped with a rifle about as large as her body.
• Breast Expansion: Inverted. Turning into Black Sister causes her chest to flatten, and this actually gets brought up by Nepgear at one point ^note This is actually a reference to the PSP getting smaller with each new model (specifically the PSP Go). This is Lampshaded in the anime's Once an Episode Hilarious Outtakes.
  Nepgear: Uni! Your boobs!
  Ram: Now they're as small as ours, Uni!
  Rom: We're flat buddies!
  Uni: I'm not too happy about being in that category.
• Girlish Pigtails: Like her sister, but hers are sidetails that leave much of her hair untied. She also gains twin drills when in HDD.
• The Gunslinger: She uses guns as her weapons.
• Gun Nut: She not only uses guns in battle, but spends much of her allowance collecting more. In VII, she actually bonds with K-Sha over it.
• Mystical White Hair: Like Noire, her hair turns white in her Goddess form.
• Nice Girl: Despite her Tsundere appearance, she's a laid-back, polite and level-headed girl who will help out her friends when they're having problems. This is especially notable in VII, where she matures into this later on in the game, especially towards Nepgear. She's also this during Noire's route when she comforts K-Sha for feeling bad about being horrible to her.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Unlike the other Candidates, Uni's voice becomes significantly deeper and more mature as Black Sister, which is heavily contrasted by her youthful appearance. This only applies to the original Japanese version though; Sarah Anne Williams retains her Uni voice as Black Sister, albeit slightly raspier.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: While the rifles she carries around in her normal form are sized appropriately for her, while in HDD form, her gun towers over her.
• Tsundere: Type A toward Nepgear, though they don't tend to butt heads as often as their sisters.

Main continuity (mk2/Re;Birth2, Victory/Re;Birth3, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The sheer amount of yuri subtext between her and Nepgear throughout VII is mind-bogglingly unbelievable.
  • Despite being easily annoyed with Steammax's perverted tendencies, especially once she realizes that he has a crush on her, Uni really does seem to enjoy his company and gives him pep talks, even after she realizes he's in cahoots with Affimojas. She also (begrudgingly) admits that she's rather touched by the revelation he likes her, since apparently no one's ever said something like that to her before.
  • Uni tolerates Steammax's presence in her bedroom after he stealthily invited himself in to assist with her never-ending pile of administrative work. To put this into context, there has been only one other non-Lastation character with the same access privilege.
• Beam Spam: Her Barrett Ring Combo Skill in Sisters creates several magic circles floating in the air that proceed to repeatedly blast the enemies for several seconds, even while she moves on to other things such as using items or simply moving into a better position.
• Big "WHAT?!": Her reaction upon K-Sha pulling a gun on her in VII.
• Boring, but Practical: Charley Horse! does no damage nor does it help guard break, but it will lower even a boss's avoidance so someone else can actually start doing damage. In Re;Birth2, where due to using Victory's combat mechanics and thus has AGI determine both turn order and evasion (instead of having evasion being its own stat, AVI), Charley Horse not only screws with the target's evasion, it also pushes them down the initiative queue.
• Broken Pedestal: In Sisters, Noire's apathetic response to her returning after 2 years and refusal to assist in recovering Planeptune leads to Uni declaring that she hates her sister and locking herself in her room. However, she sticks up for Noire on Mintsubu when several of her citizens start coming down on her even while she's running herself ragged for their sakes.
• Camera Abuse: One of her skills kicks the camera and shuts it off. It's used to lower the accuracy of enemies.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Nepgear panics over "Uzume" (actually Kurome) kidnapping their older sisters and insists on trying to resolve the issue, Uni impatiently smacks her and yells at to get a grip, as the two of them don't stand a chance against Dark Purple, and it's better to return and get help.
• Good Is Not Soft:
  • She's normally very polite and kind towards others, with certain exceptions. She's also typically among the first to suggest using violence to solve the group's problems whenever a more peaceful method isn't readily available. Noire's arc in VII also shows this to be a significant difference between Noire and Uni, as Noire has to specifically tell Uni not to attack the citizens, and Uni later admits to herself that she likely wouldn't have gone out of her way to save the citizens as Noire did. At least one of her combo moves notes that firing high explosive shells at people would normally be looked down upon, but in the same description notes that since it's Uni, that doesn't apply.
  • Also in VII, Uzume speculates that Uni was more than willing to gun her down on the spot since neither of them could imagine Nepgear being able to bring herself to attack her even if she did turn out to have kidnapped the CPUs.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In VII, she shoves her sister out of range for a gas containing a Synthetic Plague, while inhaling it herself and almost dying. Fortunately, K-Sha suppresses her Yandere obsession long enough to save Uni rather than let her die to have Noire for herself.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Early on, she put herself on a pedestal over Nepgear, but this hides her anxieties over matching up to Noire.
• Kill Sat: Her Assault Laser Combo Skill calls down a massive pink laser from the sky, allowing her to hit targets that may be too obstructed by larger enemies for her more direct attacks.
• Love Confession: In her character info quotes in mk2, and surprisingly short and simple.
  "I love you Nepgear."
• Named Weapons: After you kill CFW Brave for the final time (that is, in the True Ending), Brave powers up her Black Sister weapon and gives her the Brave Cannon.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Considering Nepgear past ordeals, plus her newfound friendship with Uzume, one could expect to Uni to be more understanding about her friend situation, instead, she chews her out and tells her to just get over with, granted, the situation demands it, but still, her attitude was quite insensitive.
• Too Kinky to Torture: In Re;Birth3, her training with Tekken ends up awakening her masochistic side when Nepgear manages to counter her attack in a friendly duel.
• Vocal Evolution: Like her sister, her HDD got a deeper voice after Victory.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Her rifle seems to switch between regular bullets and large beams of energy.

Spin-offs:

• Goggles Do Nothing: In Cyberdimension, Uni dons goggles. However, she doesn't wear them over her eyes in the game, as her goggles are on her head all the time.
• Guns Akimbo: In Cyberdimension, her pair of pistols has a quick rate of fire and the longest reaching range for a standard attack.
• Gun Fu: Some of her skills in Cyberdimension has her perform melee attacks before feeding her target with several bullets.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Exposure to the cursed game disc in Game Maker feeds into her inferiority complex to the point of violently lashing out at anyone trying to interact with her.
• Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The reason why Uni chose to be a Thief in Cyberdimension because it was the only class that uses guns as weapons. She never tries to use stealth or thieving skills, except the only time she shows off a skill that is related to her class is a hiding skill that is only used once in a cutscene for taking pictures in the game.

Rom and Ram/White Sister(s)

Rom and Ram/White Sister(s)

Rom is voiced by: Yui Ogura (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English)

Ram is voiced by: Kaori Ishihara (Japanese), Shelby Lindley (English)

The CPU Candidates of Lowee, and Blanc's twin little sisters. Their personalities are diametrically opposed, but they're rarely apart. They even share the same title when transformed as the White Sisters.

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Tropes applying to both (Main series and Spin-offs):

• Black Magician Girl: They possess magic of every element, with a focus on ice, wind, fire and lightning, as well light and darkness. Ram in particular is more offensive than Rom and has in fact more INT than Rom. Her MEN on the other hand is lower than Rom's.
• Child Mage: They both have the appearances of children and are staff-wielding magicians who can possess every form of magic as well as having the ability to heal their teammates.
• Color-Coded Characters: To distinguish them better, Rom wears blue while Ram wears pink. This is reflected by their hair colors after they transform.
• Divergent Character Evolution: From an animation standpoint. Previous games had Ram and Rom sharing the same casting animations for certain shared SP Skills. In VII, they each get unique animations to distinguish themselves.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Rom is shown to be the quiet and shy one who's usually responsible, but she'll be foolish when she really needs to when she and Ram are playing together and wandering off. Ram is shown to be energetic, lively and peppy when she and Rom are playing together to the point of annoying Blanc.
• Fighting Your Friend. The two are brainwashed into fighting Nepgear, after the Sharcite that was supposed to bring back Rom to her senses ends up brainwashing Ram instead.
• Hesitant Sacrifice: After losing to the Nep Sisters in the Conquest Ending, they resign themselves to being sacrificed to Gehaburn. However, Rom soon breaks down at the fear of her impending death, which also breaks Ram's will. After crying for a while, they regain their composure and urge Nepgear to hurry up before they lose it again.
• An Ice Person: Though they both possess magic of every element, their offensive SP Skills and EXE Drive attacks tend to default to the Ice element.
• Law of Disproportionate Response: In Game Maker, the exposure to a cursed game disc leave the twins flying into a rage over the smallest of annoyances, including immediately turning hostile toward Older Neptune's group during a discussion on how to deal with the rampant plagiarism problem due to Ram accidentally getting more than one tissue out of a box. Reedio ends up needing to subject the twins to constant Cooldown Hugs until the curse is lifted, and aside from Reedio the group expresses some concern over letting them try to calm Uni down fearing that her current violent self loathing will just drive the twins to try to harm her instead of help her. They were worried about her, not annoyed with her, so they remain level headed long enough to talk her down just as Reedio expected.
• Magic Staff: Their weapons in both human form and HDD.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Ram is energetic and loves playing pranks, while Rom is introverted and soft-spoken.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ram is the loud and fun-loving Red Oni to Rom's withdrawn and quiet Blue Oni. Coincidentally, Rom's outfit is blue and Ram's outfit is pink.
• Sibling Team: They are twins who work together.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Rom is a Shrinking Violet while Ram is a Genki Girl. Rom's quietness and Ram's loudness reflect both extreme aspects of Blanc's personality.
• Single-Minded Twins: Played with. They do have different personalities, but their have the same interests, wear twin-themed clothes, have almost the exact same movesets and you unlock both of them at once, as if their basically one character. However, their same SP Skills have different strengths, different effects and different costs.
• Squishy Wizard: They have strong INT and MEN, but they are weak physically.
• Tag Team Twins: How they are meant to be used. But you can decide if you want to have both of them in your battle party or not.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: The cursed game disc in Game Maker causes the two of them to become even more easily angered and aggressive than their older sister.
  • In the Dual Small route, the two begin acting unreasonably belligerent to Older Neptune and co. just because Ram accidentally got more than one tissue out of the box. Neptune's group had absolutely nothing to with the box of tissues in the first place.
  • In the Planepgear route the two come to the conclusion that F-Sha is evil for merely being suspicious and that Older Neptune's group are also evil because they spoke to her once. Their idea of punishment for being so "evil"? Death.
• Trickster Twins: They would often tease Blanc by drawing on her books, angering the latter in the process.
• Vague Age: Whereas most of the CPUs and sisters are immortal goddesses, it's unclear how old the twins are. They can go to Lowee's streets unsupervised and have basic reading ability their age (making them 10-12), yet they draw on Blanc's books, which is something little kids do.

Tropes applying to Rom

^{White Sister (Rom)}

The quiet, shyer twin to Ram.

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General Tropes and Main continuity (mk2/Re;Birth2, Victory/Re;Birth3, VII/VIIR, Sisters):

• Blue Is Heroic: She wears a light blue coat in her civilian form as well as being one of the protagonists of the games alongside her sister.
• Combat Medic: The majority of her spells are heals and buffs.
• Shrinking Violet: She's incredibly shy and cautious.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: As White Sister, she has light blue hair and retains her shy personality, though she's not as soft-spoken in this state.
• Terse Talker: Rom would usually speak in short sentences, often being to the point.
• White Mage: Attacks with magic spells, and lot of her skills heal or give buffs to her team members.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• All in the Manual: The Megami Tsushin manga, the "Grade Evaluations" chart in her bio marks her as a "secret sadist".
• Iaijutsu Practitioner: Her Awakening Special Attack in Cyberdimension, where she plays the Samurai class, has her sheathe her sword and then pull it out again, creating a massive Sword Beam.
• Magically Inept Fighter: In Cyberdimension, she is one of the two characters that has no elemental or magic skills.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: She does this occasionally, with words like "shiver", "sparkle", and "determination". It even gets lampshaded in a Cyberdimension cutscene.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In Game Maker, during the Dual Small route of chapter 3 she's taken to threatening people with "Interrogation. Questioning. Torture!", something the others note is more than a little unsettling coming from someone like her and wonder why she even knows those words. In the Planepgear route she instead talks about "burning and mowing down" whoever might be responsible for the rampant piracy. Even after F-Sha removes the curse driving the twins into a constant rage, she still makes it a point to threaten Copy the Art with interrogation, questioning, and torture.

Tropes applying to Ram

^{White Sister (Ram)}

The every-happy, spunky twin to Rom.

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General Tropes:

• Annoying Younger Sibling: Ram would often get on her older sister's nerves.
• Bratty Half-Pint: When Ram first appears in mk2, she takes quite some time to warm up with Nepgear after losing a fight that she started. She also enjoys messing with Blanc despite her older sister's short temper.
• Catchphrase Insult: Ram likes to use the word "dummy" (or "dummies") at people she doesn't like.
• Cheerful Child: Due to her energetic nature, she defaults to this.
• Cheery Pink: Ram wears a light pink coat and is very energetic. Her HDD form has pink hair as well.
• Genki Girl: Not as much as Neptune, but still energetic enough.
• The Pollyanna: She's much more energetic, upbeat and peppy than her twin sister.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Gains pink hair as White Sister, who, while still rambunctious, is less bratty and more good-natured than her human form.
• Throw the Book at Them: What Ram does to Blanc when they first meet in Re;Birth1, much to the latter's ire.

Main continuity (mk2/Re;Birth2, Victory/Re;Birth3, VII/VIIR, Sisters)

• Hold Your Hippogriffs: In one instance in mk2:
  "We exercised so much I could eat a horsebird. I'm starving!"
• Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed, but she becomes significantly less of a Bratty Half-Pint after befriending Nepgear, and has grown to love Blanc as a sister than she did previously. Though she still toys with her it's more out of affection than out of malice.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Fuuma Shuriken: Her weapon of choice in Cyberdimension is a big shuriken which she uses as melee weapon instead of a projectile.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Despite being a Ninja in Cyberdimension, her play style and skills have nothing to do with the stealth.
• Precision-Guided Boomerang: In Cyberdimension, the boomerang-like properties of her shurikens give her a slightly longer reach compared to the other close ranged units.

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