Copen

* Present
* Past

**Copen** is a Mino who has been searching for the mysterious Butterfly Effect alongside Lola. During his search, he met Kohaku and has been helping her stop the Sumeragi Institute from seemingly killing all Minos.

## Appearance

Copen, despite his age, looks like a young boy with short, white hair. He wears a black bodysuit that's covered by his White Tiger.

## Personality

Copen strongly dislikes all Adepts. Even back when he was a teenager, he believed Adepts would one day subjugate Minos, and thus believed they needed to be killed to preserve Minos. When Demerzel took over Sumeragi and began seemingly killing all Adepts, this only furthered his beliefs. Once Gunvolt befriended Kohaku, he preferred to distance himself from both of them, although he did attempt to get to know Gunvolt better after talking to Lola.

However, once Gunvolt accidentally attacked Copen, the latter saw this as evidence that he should've never trusted the former. Upon being confronted about it, Copen explained that Adepts have an inherent desire to overthrow Minos, but they aren't aware of it.

## History

### Background

Copen was born as a member of the Kamizono family alongside his twin sister, Mytyl. His father was a scientist working for Sumeragi and was known for researching Adepts, most notably publishing a lot of evidence regarding the dangers of Adepts. However, his father was one day experimenting on an Adept named Asimov as part of Sumeragi's Porject Gunvolt, which was meant to create an Azure Striker Adept to generate electricity. Asimov had been found compatible with Azure Striker. However, while Copen's father was experimenting on Asimov, Asimov lashed out, destroying the facility and killing everybody inside. Sumeragi covered up the incident by saying it was an accident, which led to Copen falsely believing that in reality, his father was killed by Sumeragi. Copen sought to honor his late father by wiping out all Adepts to prevent them from having a chance as subjugating non-Adepts, killing many of them as he possibly could while being assisted by his family's maid, Nori.

While doing so, he also followed Gunvolt, a freelancer who had been killing Sumeragi's Adepts in exchange for money. Copen waited until Gunvolt was done fighting so that he could analyze the dead Adepts' Septimas for data to help him, most notably using Carerra's Magnetic Arts to create the Greed Snatcher. One night, Copen was out trying to kill a Sumergai Adept known as Zonda. It attracted the attention of Gunvolt, who was tracking down Zonda. Copen and Gunvolt fought each other, with Copen retreating.

Copen was later informed of Sumeragi's latest plan, Project Muse, which would use a young girl named Joule and her Septima to brainwash all Adepts. He infiltrates Sumeragi's orbital station, Firmament. While doing so, he ran into Gunvolt and tried to kill him, only to be defeated.

When he tried to leave Firmament, he ran into Asimov, who was the leader of the organization that was taking Gunvolt's help, QUILL. To prevent Asimov from disabling his escape vehicle, Copen fought him, only to be defeated. Copen was rescued by Nori, but lost a memento of his father, a gun known as the Border.

Once Project Muse had been stopped by Gunvolt, Copen returned to Firmament and retrieved the Border, which was stained with Asimov's blood and septimosome.

Copen later created Lola.

### Searching for the Butterfly Effect

After Demerzel took over Sumeragi, he one day began seemingly trying to wipe out all Adepts. Ever since then, Copen had been searching for something known as the Butterfly Effect, and one day came across a Sumeragi Adept, Blade. The two fought, but Copen was rescued by Kohaku. Following that, Copen began living with Kohaku during his quest to search of the Butterfly Effect.

One day, Copen and Lola were on their way back to Kohaku's house and noticed a train headed for one of Sumeragi's buildings, Sumeragi Building 13, and intercepted it, discovering a device known as the Razor Wheel. Knowing it wasn't going to be used for good, Copen stole the Razor Wheel and some of the operating files, before returning home. He and Kohaku discovered the Razor Wheel could open wormholes to a different timeline. However, they couldn't get it working.

Some unknown time later, Copen and Lola were returning home from shopping, only to notice someone running toward him from Kohaku's house, an Azure Striker Adept. After mistaking the Adept for Blade, Copen realized it was Gunvolt and attacked him, demanding to know what Gunvolt had done to Kohaku. The two fought each other, with Copen disabling Gunvolt's Septima using the Greed Snatcher. Copen asked Gunvolt where Kohaku was, but still didn't believe him when he said Kohaku was safe. However, Kohaku soon arrived, asking Copen to not hurt Gunvolt, claiming that he's a good Adept. Lola quickly joined in on the idea, mentioning she tried to tell Copen that before.

Copen spared Gunvolt and brought him to Kohaku's hideout. After that, Kohaku and Gunvolt explained to Copen and Lola that Kohaku had managed to get the Razor Wheel working and accidentally opened a portal to an alternate timeline, pulling Gunvolt into this timeline. Following that conversation, Copen began distancing himself from both Gunvolt and Kohaku, something Lola believes is due to Copen's dislike for Adepts.

That night, Copen and Lola talked about Gunvolt, and how Copen had been avoiding Gunvolt. Copen explained to Lola that Gunvolt was dangerous due to being an Adept, but didn't expect her to understand. Lola eventually managed to convince Copen to try to get to know Gunvolt better.

The next day, the energy pack in Kohaku's house failed, causing a shortage of power. Kohaku suggested getting more energy packs from an auto-fabrication plant that was abandoned by Sumeragi, and Gunvolt offered to go. Lola told Gunvolt to take Copen with him. After quietly arguing about it with Lola, Copen reluctantly agreed to go.

As the two entered the auto-fabrication plant, Copen decided to try to ask Gunvolt some questions, but in order to prevent the discussion from turning into an argument about Adepts, he tried focusing on seemingly random questions, such as what kind of coffee Gunvolt liked. Gunvolt was unsure of why Copen was asking these questions, so Copen explained that he told Lola he'd get to know Gunvolt better.

The two eventually found numerous boxes of energy packs and grabbed some of them. However, before they could leave, Copen heard something and realized there was someone else nearby. Upon alerting Gunvolt, Copen prepared to handle whatever threat was there. Copen and Gunvolt were soon attacked by Crimm. As Crimm attacked, Gunvolt realized that Crimm was the one who destroyed Kohaku's neighborhood.

As Copen and Gunvolt continued fighting, the two were eventually pushed back. In an attempt to protect both of them, Gunvolt set up his Flashfield to block some of Crimm's blasts. However, he accidentally electrocuted Copen while doing so. Gunvolt immediately attempted to apologize, but Copen interrupted him, seeing it as proof that Gunvolt was indeed dangerous, before hitting the Adept. Copen explained to Gunvolt that the latter was merely acting on an inherent desire to overthrow Minos. Gunvolt thought about himself, unsure about how to feel, before asking Copen why he hated Adepts so much. Copen didn't know how to respond.

Crimm attempted to kill both Gunvolt and Copen, but was interrupted when Blade arrived. Because Crimm had been expecting Blade, he decided to reveal a trap he had set up, using Detonation to destroy the roof of the auto-fabrication plant and causing the building to crumble as he escaped.

Copen and Gunvolt attempted to leave the building, grabbing boxes of energy packs as they did so. However, Copen was attacked by Blade. Thinking quickly, Copen attempted to Bullit Dash away, only to fly into a large chunk of concrete and hit his head, knocking him onto the ground. As Blade was about to kill Copen, Gunvolt interfered, fighting Blade and holding her off so that Copen could escape. Gunvolt and Copen left the crumbling auto-fabrication plant, bringing a box of energy packs with them.

Once the two return to Kohaku's house, they began arguing, with Copen eventually giving up and leaving to bring back a file detailing his father's research, which he handed to Gunvolt. After reading the file, Gunvolt went to Copen's bedroom before talking to Copen. The two discuss Copen's views, before Copen decides to continue working with Gunvolt.

## Skills

### Border II

The **Border II** is Copen's main weapon. It is a white pistol with three red spikes underneath it, as well as a cylinder, akin to that of a revolver.

It comes with two types of ammo. The first one is the **Photon Laser**, a beam of red energy that can puncture roads and leave behind small explosions on impact. The second type of ammo is the **Greed Snatcher**, which was developed using Carerra's Septima, Magnetic Arts. It temporarily nullifies an Adept's Septima.

### White Tiger

The **White Tiger** is Copen's armor. It is white armor with red gloves and boots. The armor also has a red "X" on its chestplate, along with a white jetpack.

This jetpack can be used to **Bullit Dashes**, which propels Copen in different directions, as if allowing him to temporarily fly.

Copen also managed to recreate Prevasion in the form of **Fake Prevasion**, which lets him **Prevade**, nullifying attacks and causing his body to glow red. However, just like regular Prevasion, it doesn't work against electricity or being grabbed.

Copen has a limited amount of Bullits, and without any, he can't Bullit Dash or Prevade. However, he regains them over time.

The White Tiger protects Copen from many attacks. He could withstand the electricity from Gunvolt's Flashfield. He also survived an explosion created by a combination of Gunvolt's Azure Striker and Crimm's Detonation.

### Misc.

Copen shows at least some degree of intelligence, having created the Greed Snatcher and, more notably, Lola.

Copen is also fairly fast, being able to keep up with Adepts like Gunvolt in battle.

Even without the White Tiger, Copen is still fairly durable, as he was able to survive a chunk of concrete falling on his head, although it did considerably injure him.

## References

1. ↑ Canon alias.
2. ↑ The timeline he originates from is said to be 100 years ahead of the timeline Gunvolt originates from.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Bonding
4. ↑ Copen's Story (Canon)
5. ↑ Armed Blue Gunvolt Official Soundtrack Booklet - GV1 Epilogue (Canon)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Judgement