Dr. Kamizono

Dr. Kamizono is a Sumeragi Group scientist who worked at their Futures Institute, and was their top researcher of Adepts prior to his untimely death. He is the father of the twins Copen and Mytyl.
While he died before the events of the first Azure Striker Gunvolt, his legacy has led to mentions in every main series game. He also appears in person in the prologue of Azure Striker Gunvolt: Fleeting Memories.
== Appearance ==
In the Fleeting Memories prologue, Kamizono is in his early thirties and is tall, has a chiseled face, pale skin, and full blonde-white hair, like Copen's.
Due to his looks, a common misconception towards Dr. Kamizono is that he is a foreigner, but he was born in Japan. This is due to him being born to a mixed-race couple. Because of his lineage, he is called a "half" by some people.
== History ==
=== Background ===
Some time before Fleeting Memories, as part of a political marriage Dr. Kamizono married into the Kamizono Family, which has strong political power, as well as having strong ties to Sumeragi, although they do not have any official ties. He chose to take his wife's family name. However, Dr. Kamizono and his unnamed wife did not inherit the family estate, so Kamizono chose to distance himself from his status in the Kamizono family.
14 years prior to the first game, Dr. Kamizono fathered Copen and Mytyl. While Copen was born a normal human, Mytyl was an Adept possessing The Muse, a Septima far too strong for her infant body to handle. He was able to save her life by performing an operation to remove her Septimosome, as is done with other Adepts to control their powers, but for unknown reasons this resulted in Mytyl being rendered mute and her physical growth being stunted as she grew older. Unbeknownst to him, the Sumeragi top brass had the extracted Septimosome implanted into a designer child.Dengeki Nintendo Magazine and Official Complete Works, Joule's second profile
While Dr. Kamizono worked at the Sumeragi Futures Institute of Technology, or "S-FIT" for short, he performed experiments on Adepts, including creating artificial Adepts, as part of the conglomerate's Project Gunvolt energy research, and laid the foundation for their Adept controlling technology. He developed strong friction with Sumeragi's top brass over their desire to profit of Adepts, which he saw as monsters, and his research concluded would eventually destroy humanity.
=== Fleeting Memories Prologue ===
Dr. Kamizono appears with his unnamed assistant walking in an S-FIT hallway towards their lab. There they enter a room where Asimov, known then as "Takefutsu", is restrained using a spiritual stone.
Kamizono goes on talking about his mistrust of Adepts and of the research they are conducting since they rely on supposedly magical artifacts and spiritualism rather than science.
He makes note that he's tried to convince the Sumeragi top brass to stop this research but they've paid no heed to him: he fears for the survival of humans if Adepts are let loose and is worried about his children, too.
He and his assistant then proceed to carry out an experiment on a restrained Asimov. However, Asimov's power, already unstable, goes wildly out of control and burns down the entire complex; everyone but Asimov dies in the accident.
===Legacy===
The details of the incident were heavily covered up by Sumeragi's top brass, and in the end Dr. Kamizono's research conclusions were never made public as they pressed onward with attempting to exploit Adepts. His loss was sorely felt, as years later Project Gunvolt scientists lamented how much his death was a setback. Nova would later claim Dr. Kamizono made Sumeragi what it is thanks to his research progress.
Dr. Kamizono's son Copen inherited his revolver, Border, and his research data on Adepts. Due to the cover up, Copen wrongly concluded the Sumeragi top brass had him assassinated, and it is unlikely the matter will ever be clarified.Dengeki Nintendo Magazine and the Official Complete Works, Copen's second profile. Eventually Copen decided to take matters into his own hands, and began training and developing equipment to fight Adepts himself, using Border as his main weapon.
With the emergence of Primal Dragons several decades later, Kirin brings up Dr. Kamizono's research and speculates that he might have known something about Adepts turning into them.
== Etymology ==
* The surname Kamizono means "god, deity" (神) (kami) and "garden, park, plantation" (園) (sono/zono).
==References==
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Category:Azure Striker Gunvolt: Fleeting Memories
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