Hybrids

**The Hybrids** are unnamed plant-human hybrid clones appearing in the sound novel Kirigiriso. They live in an abandoned mansion off in the forest. They were made with Human and Plant DNA by a mad scientist, and are taken care of by Kyōka.

## Appearance

The Hybrids have a plant-human appearance with cactus like appendages. The top half looks like a carnivorous plant with uneven level facial features. The bottom half is buried in the dirt. The bottom half looks like a cactus and the bottom half of a human, although it more closely resembles a corpse growing out of the ground instead of a human. As shown when one Hybrid got stabbed, they have red blood.

## Personality

The Hybrids have no individual personality. Collectively, their main desire to get nutrition and will eat humans to obtain it. However, they are shown to be able to care for others as they brought Kyōka out of the burning mansion in the Plant Girl True End.

## History

### Prior Life

In a body of water a few years ago, a life form that had the characteristics of both plant and animal was found. Those odd single celled life forms moved around like a flagellum. Using whip-like appendages to move in the ocean waters, feeding on algae and photosynthesizing. This became the basis of study for a mad scientist.

The Hybrids were created by them in his mansion, made using plant and human DNA. More specifically, the human DNA used were from students of Hope's Peak as using DNA from Ultimate Students increased their survivability. They were being taken care of by Kyōka, who would feed them the bodies of detectives lured in the mansion because they needed nutrition to grow.

### Kirigiriso

#### **Plant Girl Ending**

On the first floor in the mansion, the Hybrids lived in a sterilized room. Inside the room, they lived in a smaller room and grew in a flower bed covered by glass.

There are two events that can happen involving the Hybrids depending on if Kōhei chooses to trust Kyoko Kirigiri or Kyōka.

If Kōhei Matsudaira chose to trust Kyoko, they both discovered the Hybrids. Kyoko entered the glass room and noted that they were still being taken care of. She touched one Hybrid and it grabbed her arm tightly. Kōhei jumped into the room and stabbed the Hybrid's arm without hesitation because it was a plant. But when it got stabbed, the Hybrid shock slightly, let out an ear piercing scream, and bled from the knife wound. Kōhei was shocked because it reacted like a human getting stabbed. The Hybrid then swung it's wounded arm to choke Kyoko. As the hybrid choked Kyoko, Kyōka entered the room and told Kōhei that the Hybrds are alive and she can't do anything to save Kyoko. She also said she and the Hybrids want to live peacefully and Kyoko came to the mansion of her own free will. She offered him to leave the mansion as long as he doesn't tell anyone what happened.

In this end, Kōhei decided to save Kyoko. He swung his knife and cut the Hybrid's arm off. It screamed and bled more. He continued to stab it until he cut it up. Kōhei then offered Kyōka that he and Kyoko will leave the mansion without telling anyone. Kyōka would allow it as long as Kyoko also agreed. But Kyoko refused and revealed that Kyōka was lying to them about the mansion. Kyōka was actually leading detectives into the mansion to kill them. When Kōhei asked Kyōka why she would do that, Kyōka said it's to feed the Hybrids as they need nutrition to grow into humans.

If Kōhei chose to trust Kyōka, he discovered the Hybrids. He asked Kyōka if they're plants, which she responded with saying they people and her friends. He also asked if they were made with combining human and plant DNA, which she confirmed. She also said that they were made with "exceptional DNA samples" as more exceptional DNA had greater suitability. She gave him a file, which has DNA samples from Hope's Peak students, including Kyoko. Realizing that her DNA might have been used, Kōhei saw how Kyōka looked just like Kyoko. He then bring up Kyōka's note, were she asked for help. She led him inside the glass room in front of a Hybrid. She told them that she has diner, and they wrapped their arms around Kōhei. He is unable to get their arms off. Kyōka tells Kōhei that she wanted him to become their nutrition so she doesn't have to kill him. Kōhei pieced together the meaning of the 'man eating mansion' and that Kyōka lured people to get eaten. The Hybrids tighten their arms around Kōhei and his consciousness began to fad away. However, he is saved by Kyoko and the Hybrids let go of him.

After either choice, Kyōka fell to the floor and looked down. The Hybrids start shaking and crying out for nutrients. They used their roots as hands and feet and crawled towards Kōhei and Kyoko. They both ran out the room. It's possible the Hybrids used the Knights armor to give chase to them as well, or whether it was purely Kyōka using it with her plant-based abilities.

In this end, Kōhei threw herbicide at Kyōka, causing her pain and freeing both him and Kyoko. After Kōhei and Kyoko exit the mansion, it disappeared and is replaced by a great tree. The Hybrids either also disappeared or are part of the plants that surround the tree.

#### **Plant Girl True End**

In this end, Kōhei discovered Kyōka's diary entries and brings them up instead of throwing herbicide at Kyōka. Up until this point, the same events happen as in the Plant Girl End. After this point, Kyōka locked herself in a room and set the mansion on fire. Kōhei and Kyoko are unable to get Kyōka out of the mansion. However, the Hybrids rescued her by carrying her body outside. They had burnt parts and some couldn't move anymore. After they bring Kyōka's body out the mansion and set her down, they cried and died one after another. It's unknown if the fire or the air killed them. Kōhei and Kyoko made a grave for Kyōka and the Hybrids.

Half a year later, white flowers were blooming around in a circle were Kyōka was burred. As the hybrids were burred alongside with Kyōka, it's possible that the flowers sprouted from them.

## Alternate Fates

These appearances are of other non-canon/joke routes.

#### **Bad Ending 1**

In this end, Kōhei decided to leave Kyoko and the mansion. He exited the mansion as the hybrid continued to choke Kyoko.

Kōhei went back to living his normal life until a figure that looked like Kyoko knocked on his dorm door. He freaked out and questioned if Kyoko could instead be Kyōka. When the figure entered his dorm, he asked if she's Kyoko or Kyōka. Her answer is cut off as the route ends. Since the figure's identity is ambiguous, It's unknown if the Hybrids continued to choke Kyoko and made her faint or if she managed to stop it from choking her.

#### **Bad Ending 2**

In this end, Kōhei decides to not pick up Kyoko off the road. He drove off and almost hit Kyōka, who gets inside his car. As he drove, she grabbed his steering wheel and turned towards a tree. The car crashed and Kōhei became unconscious. Kyōka used the suit of armor to carry Kōhei to the Hybrids and fed him to them.

#### **Extraterrestrials vs Earth Plants Against Invaders Defense Force End**

Inside Santa's secret laboratory, there is a strange plant that might be a Hybrid as the CG used an image of a Hybrid. Kōhei noticed it, but the plant is not brought up by anyone. If it is a hybrid, it's unknown if it was created as part of the Earth Plants Against Invaders Defense Force.

In this end, the mansion is set on fire as a result of the Absolute Bomb Cones. Presumably the Hybrid also died in the fire.

#### **Bad Ending 3**

The same events happened as Extraterrestrials vs Earth Plants Against Invaders Defense Force End. However, if Kōhei decided to volunteer to hand the little Rhinogradentia to the group of Rhinogradentia, he will get stomped by them and die. The route ends prematurely. The Hybrid's fate is unknown as it's unknown if the team still decided to go with the ABC mission and burn the mansion down.

#### **Extra Scenario Ending**

The Hybrids make no appearance in this route.

#### **Plant Girl Another End**

The fate of the Hybrids in this end are the same as the Plant Girl True End.

## Trivia

* In the Extraterrestrials vs Earth Plants Against Invaders Defense Force route, there is an unusual cactus growing in a glass room on the first floor. This is the same area that the Hybrids in the Plant Girl route also grow in. However, there is no Hybrid CG used for the cactus like with the strange plant Kōhei noticed, so it's unknown if it's meant to be a Hybrid or a cactus.
* The Hybrids seem to be able to understand spoken language as they tried to eat Kōhei when Kyōka said he was their diner.
* The original single celled organism's form with a flagella is quite similar to the Nasobeme Rhinogradentia's nose, in which they both use tentacles for movement. This is likely an intentional coincidence/parallel between the different routes, as the non canon routes featuring the Rhinogradentia are either Dreams or Unreality.