Nanno

**Nanno** (แนนโน๊ะ), also known as the mysterious Girl From Nowhere, is the titular main character in the Thai television anthology series of the same name, *Girl from Nowhere.* She is portrayed by Kitty Chicha Amatayakul.

## Biography

Nanno is an established immortal being, disguised as a young female student who transfers to different school establishments to expose hypocrisy, pedophilia, and other problems kept secret within the buildings. Although the source of Nanno's abilities or her herself, including her whereabouts before the series remain a mystery, she is not human, and is of supernatural origins, likely.

## Physical appearance

Nanno has choppy dark hair done in a bob-esque hairstyle, with dark brown eyes. She displays the same button-up plain white shirt and black skirt that reaches under her knees, with a dark tie throughout seasons one and two.

She is physically a teenage girl of Thai descent, light-tanned skin with a slim figure standing at 5′ 7″, with large brown eyes and a round nose. She sports low-heeled black uniform shoes, with white socks.

## Personality and traits

Nanno is condescendingly intelligent, and strives and succeeds in manipulating all of her victims, by gas-lighting, guilt-tripping, or antagonizing them relentlessly, until they eventually commit a crime. She can appear bubbly and open, however she is complex and somewhat malicious. She can easily assume any persona with her smooth words and believable expressions.

Nanno is shown to be passionate and competent when it comes to her mostly unbiased purpose, which is pushing justice at any cost. She has displayed minimal emotion despite her usual apathetic demeanor: she showed possible authentic romantic interest to TK, and cried in the course of their departure, and during meeting Yuri's mother, she cried genuinely for a healthy mother-daugnter relationship similar to theirs. Nanno has never shown genuine emotions to any character besides herself. In her interactions with Yuri, she is shown to be a patient and tactical teacher, as well as an efficient teacher, dependant on only herself, and confident in her capabilities.

During an exploit, Nanno usually strives to appear innocent, dumb, unaware, and sexually desirable, in some cases. She acts carefree and friendly, in contrast to her soulless and chaotic true self. She performs obediently and not boorishly, often striving to seem perfect on the outside. She is a master at victimizing herself in any situation, and fooling the weak minded. It is especially difficult to tell if Nanno is being genuine or not when displaying human-like emotions, like her feelings for TK, or implied longing for a mother-figure in "*The Judgement"*. She is strategic, analytical, precise, and lethal at her core.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Medium Awareness/Breaks the 4th wall**: In the episode, "*BFF Part 2"*, Nanno made her audience aware of her impending karmic rampage against students in school, while looking directly at the camera. She is somewhat knowledgeable about her existence in a show.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Shown throughout the show, Nanno can regenerate wounds in a very fast rate. And in the start of almost every episode, she appears to be perfectly fine, as if the wounds she had prior to that episode never happened. In "*JennyX"*, this ability is also one of the powers that started to fade when she was deemed a 'mortal'. As a wound on her neck didn't healed sooner than it should've been, and is still shown on the next episode, "*The Judgement"*. She can also never get sick, however, she can still be drugged or put in a vegetative state. She can't also be rendered drunk, even when already taking numerous shots of vodka or alcoholic beverages.
* **Age Preserverance**: Nanno can live for years yet her appearance and youth will never change, and she will still look like a high school student. This is evident on *BFF Pt. 1 & 2 ,* where she's been around in a class since the '90s yet she still look the same in the present while her classmates looked older. This is technically evident on the entire series as well since Nanno spends a lot of time on different schools, from months and even years, yet she never ages.
* Pain Immunity: She has the ability to not feel any pain at all as she can even talk, laugh or smile as the people she's punishing kills her.
* **Mental Manipulation**: Nanno can influence the minds of others, which is commonly paired on how clever and manipulative she is. She can make anyone around her do their desires, and can even 'trigger' and invoke them to do actions they never meant to do. Most of the time, she does it in a way that it is not obvious she's influencing them to do what she wants them to do, which is why she's good at turning the situation on her side and why she always has the upper hand, even though they thought they outsmarted Nanno. She can also control mobs of people, that acts like someone who was brainwashed. With her skill on manipulation and deception, anyone can fall on Nanno's hands.
* **Presence Concealment**: Nanno can make her actions oblivious to people around her. This is shown when she talk with the people she's punishing where she can laugh loudly all she wants or do something noticing yet people mostly never noticed it, yet when the people she's talking to do something that can be considered loud or noticing, they will be noticed by the crowds around them. There are also scenes where Nanno smiles or stares at people in a very weird and different way, yet they are oblivious to it. She can also make someone be familiar with her presence but everyone else will not notice her. She can even make herself unnoticeable and will only be noticed once she speaks.

* **Immortality**: Notably one of Nanno's most useful and key abilities is the innate ability of immortality. After being killed off, Nanno reappears soon after. As showcased in "*Apologies*", she can revive herself immediately after dying. She can also gift this ability to others of her choice.
	+ **Power Transferal**: It is shown in "*Yuri*", that when consuming an amount of Nanno's blood, they will get almost the same powers as Nanno's.
* **Precognition**: In "*The Judgement*", she dreamt of her own death.
* **Teleportation:** There are scenes in which Nanno can get in and out of a place that is locked or can just disappear and appear out of nowhere. Like in "*Liberation"*, where the faculty are confused on how she got out of the Repentance Room that was locked from the outside, or in *"Wonderwall Pt.2"*, where she walked past a post and seemingly vanished thereafter.
* **Clone Creation**: Nanno can cast clones of herself. This is seen on Apologies and Liberation where she cast clones of herself in order to help her out on situations where she seems to be outnumbered.Weaknesses
* **Reality Manipulation:** Also not shown explicitly but subliminally, Nanno can affect the world around her. Which is why she's aware about any event that happens while she roams the school, or why the world seems to be in her favor. She can be a bullied high school student on one school, and a rich one on another. Either way, with her actions, the world revolves sometimes around it. In the episode, *Wonderwall Part 2*, Nanno warped reality on such a level, that she made everyone on earth (supposedly) disappear. It's hypothesized she created a new timeline.
	+ **Wish Granting:** In "*Hi-So"*, Nanno can grant people's wishes in exchange for money. She can grant their wishes, no matter how ambitious it is. From getting a motorcycle, getting good grades, or even a new girlfriend.
* **Master Tactician**: Throughout the series, Nanno has managed to pull off grand schemes that leads for the person she's interested to be punished or get what they deserve. She tends to think of a plan that takes a lot of time to perform and is self-inflicting, meaning that she can't be really at fault when the person did the bad decision. She's also good at outsmarting people that puts them in a false sense of security before revealing that they are just outsmarted by Nanno. Her intelligence is also shown on how she talks, she talks in a very direct, curious way, where she can use what you said to her in her defense instead of yours.
* **Expert Spy**: Even without using her powers, she can be sneaky and get information without anyone noticing. Like in "*Yuri*"*,* where she sneaked in the faculty room and changed the answers of her classmate without anyone suspecting it. Or when she can escape in dire situations, oblivious to anyone.
* **Skilled Thief**: In the episode, *"Lost and Found"*, Nanno demonstrated her ability to rob, or pickpocket a person of their belongings with masterful ease.
* **Bilingualism**: She can speak native Thai and English without any restrain or difficulty.

### Weaknesses

* **Moral Confusion**: Though she is quite resistant to many known methods of harm, Nanno does have a single confirmed method for being able to kill or permenantly end her- If she regrets or questions her actions. We see this in Season 2 when Yuri begins to point out that Nanno has started to pity her kills, even regretting her decisions to involve the victim in punishment alongside their perpertrator (Such as in episode 7, "*JennyX")* where Yuri realizes that Nanno is becoming mortal.
* **Others like her**: Though not a primary weakness nessecarily, Nanno is only exposed to becoming mortal after she innoculates Yuri, seemingly - who then begins to challenge Nanno and her form of justice. This isn't the first time she is called out as having a self-centered or unfair form of justice but somehow Yuri is able to manipulate each situation enough to bring the potential for lasting harm to Nanno higher and higher.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "The Ugly Truth"
* "Apologies"
* "Trophy"
* "Hi-So"
* "Social Love"
* "Wonderwall Part 1"
* "Wonderwall Part 2"
* "Lost & Found"
* "Trap"
* "Thank You Teacher"

### Season 2

* "Pregnant"
* "True Love"
* "Minnie and the Four Bodies"
* "Yuri"
* "SOTUS"
* "Liberation
* "JennyX"
* "The Judgement"

## Gallery

Nanno's appearance in Season 1Nanno's first introduction onscreenNanno in "SOTUS"Nanno in "SOTUS"Nanno in "Hi-So"
## Trivia

* Notably, Nanno is often compared, in terms of traits and overall characteristics, to Junji Ito's recognizable Tomie Kawakami.
	+ In addition, they seemingly have very similar intentions, motives, and abilities. It would be possible that Nanno's character takes inspiration from Tomie.
* Her real name is or was Mara Amaratayakul, as shown in "*The Rank*". It could also just be a name she decided to don.
	+ "Mara" in Thai means "devil, antichrist, demon, satan" and "Amara" means "immortal" which fits into her character, and also gives us insight into what her true intentions might be.
* Though many have somewhat died on her behalf, Nanno has never actually murdered someone physically.
* In "*The Judgement*", Nanno "died" and was showered by pink petals, the very thing she hated being flowers.
* According to her actress, Kitty Chicha, Nanno does have actual kindness inside of her bleak heart.