Kuon Ichinose

Kuon Ichinose is the overarching antagonist in the 2020 action-adventure video game Persona 5 Strikers.
She is a genius AI researcher who created the popular mobile application known as EMMA, as well as creating Sophia. Despite being the one who kickstarted the game's events, after Sophia had a heart-to-heart with her, she would decide to redeem herself and help the Phantom Thieves defeat EMMA.
She is voiced by Yōko Hikasa in Japanese and by Kira Buckland in the English dub.
==Personality==
Ichinose initially comes across as being very bubbly and perky, getting overly excited over the prospect of working with the Phantom Thieves and looking into an updated version of EMMA. After befriending the Thieves, she would request them to find various pieces of junk in the Jails so she could look research them.
However this excitable demeanor is revealed to be merely a facade. In reality, Ichinose is a woman who is full of self-loathing due to being bullied by her peers for seemingly not being able to feel emotions. Because of this she created Sophia in order to show she is capable of feeling emotions since if she is able to give an AI a heart that would mean she has one. However when Sophia asks Ichinose what it means to have a hearts, the latter gets upset and disposes of Sophia, and in turn looks into if a human could succeed without a heart. This leads her to developing EMMA and selling it to Madicce, a multi-billionare IT company. EMMA was tasked with granting humanity's greatest desire and Ichinose helps her in guiding humanity to a utopia by attempting to brainwash everyone.
Despite this, after Sophia talks with her and tells her that she can change just as Sophia herself did, Ichinose decides to change her ways and redeem herself and helps the Phantom Thieves free everyone who was brainwashed by EMMA. After EMMA is defeated Ichinose is shown to have immense guilt for everything she has done but she is ultimately forgiven by the Phantom Thieves.
==Biography==
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==Gallery==
File:Kuon Text Icon.webp|Ichinose's text icon
File:Kuon cutscene.webp|Ichinose during a cutscene
File:Kuon about EMMA.webp|Ichinose explaining EMMA's plans
File:KuonKonoe conceptart.webp|Ichinose concept art, alongside Akira Konoe
File:P5S Ending.webp|Ichinose with Sophia in the credits
==Trivia==
*Ichinose shares some similarites with past Persona 5 traitors Goro Akechi and Takuto Maruki.
**Like Akechi, she meets the Phantom Thieves after hearing Morgana, as well as being in a food-related scenario, Akechi infamously mentioning delicious pancakes and Ichinose meeting the Thieves in a restaraunt.
**Like Maruki, she is a researcher interested in human cognition who appears to be on friendly terms with the Thieves. Both also are revealed to have a well-intentioned goal of trying to please all of humanity by brainwashing them.
**All three of them end up redeeming themselves and becoming allies to the Phantom Thieves.
*In a Famitsu poll Ichinose was ranked as the highest non-playable character in Persona 5 Strikers.
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