Cocoa/Story

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## Behind the Scenes

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Lee Ji-hyeon

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Amber Connor

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Misaki Kuno

## Profile

The leader of Maid For You, a squad focused around improving citizens' quality-of-life with their complement of specialized on-call maids. Cocoa is...quite the colorful character, between being the youngest of Maid For You, carrying a bottle of ketchup wherever she goes, and confidently applying said ketchup to every culinary problem (and maybe even things that have nothing to do with food). All things considered, Cocoa is eager to carry out her tasks as a maid...although sometimes whatever she sets out to do gets accomplished in a fashion no one expected.

### Nikke Backstory

The pampered youngest member and the Maid Leader of Maid For You. She works so hard to complete her own duties professionally.

## Personality

Cocoa is the dutiful maid of the Maid For You squad and being the youngest among them, she is always bearing a stoic face towards everyone. Cocoa primarily has the habits of pouring ketchup to every food regardless of which culinary cuisine it is. She often end up clumsily pouring ketchup all over the food. However, Cocoa primarily excels at combat more than her maid duties.

## Story

### Event Story

#### Maid in Valentine

Everyone in Maid For You is eager to show their stuff for their big Valentine's Day event, and they're just as devastated when Mustang deems their chocolate "lacking sincerity" and cancels their festivities. In an attempt to decipher the secret to "real Valentine's chocolate", Cocoa and Maid For You take the protagonist with them on a journey to a chocolate factory on the surface.

### Character Story

#### Episode 1 - Professional Maid Quality

Counters makes a visit to the Outpost Maid Café to congratulate Maid For You on their new location. Cocoa excitedly rushes over to the protagonist, crowing about her new, unopened ketchup bottle that she plans to squeeze all over the omurice. Ade reminds Cocoa to first take the customers' orders, which the latter maid promptly gets to. Neon and the protagonist have no problems ordering, but Anis finds the names on the menu...difficult...to say out loud, from "hurly-burly banana omurice" to "coochie woochie heart-shaped fried rice". Rapi tries the old "Nikkes don't actually need to eat" to weasel out of ordering, but Cocoa's expectant gaze makes her fold to the tune of "coochie woochie heart-shaped fried rice." Cocoa rejoices, as the dish is apparently her specialty, and she promises to put extra ketchup on it. Anis snarks about the maid's fixation on ketchup, while Neon commends the maid's work ethic.

As Neon says this, Cocoa is squirting a gratuitous amount of ketchup on another customer's order (supposedly) in the shape of a beetle. Witnessing this, Anis ponders if they should ask Cocoa to draw something on their food as well. Neon is about to suggest a 120mm cannon, but the protagonist shoots the idea down.

As Counters chats, a voice mutters all manners of denial. Neon initially misinterprets the voice as the protagonist's before Anis points out the table next to theirs, where a lone man seems to be in a panic over someone following him. At that moment, a thuggish man in a suit enters the café and shushes the customer, whom he calls Doctor Mason. The thug threatens Mason with a poison pin and "escorts" him out the door. Counters has little idea what just transpired, but Anis and Neon think it was a streamer doing a prank. The protagonist takes the development a little more seriously, and flags down an employee.

The employee ends up being Cocoa, who upon hearing of a customer being kidnapped proceeds to...offer today's specials to the squad? Anis immediately gets the conversation back on track, to which Cocoa notes the café has recently seen a number of shady figures for clientele, taking pictures while dressed as soldiers or spies.

Cocoa declares her intent to get to the bottom of this and save the customer, waving off the protagonist's concerns and suggestions to contact the police. For a maid with the right skills and tools, handling a customer kidnapping is all in a day's work. Or so she says.

#### Episode 2 - Landing the Big Fish

Cocoa has tracked the suspect to an alleyway, and is notifying the protagonist of such, even though the protagonist followed her the whole time by her conspicuous umbrella. The maid notes the suspect had entered a suspicious building, which the protagonist guesses may be a bar. Cocoa goes into a tangent about TV scripts and how the heroes seem to get lucky in a bar. Deciding not to follow this tangent, the protagonist suggests they step inside the bar.

Inside, Cocoa notes the establishment's incredibly seedy clientele. The protagonist wonders where the customer and kidnapper might be, to which Cocoa responds with a push of a button on Cocorella. The feedback of an infrared scan displays inside the umbrella, showing 12 people in the hall, 2 in the bathroom, and 1 unusually-positioned presence near the wall. Just as the two are about to move, they're stopped by the same shady man from before. The man insists on an ID check, having noticed his tails and the fact that one of them (the protagonist) is a Central Government soldier. Cocoa explains the circumstances of the customer kidnapping, leading the man to try and silence the two who witnessed his deed, though he's reluctant to shoot a child like Cocoa.

A nearby Outlaw identifies the man as Satou, and notes Cocoa's status as a Nikke, which immediately quells Satou's qualms about killing her and selling the protagonist as spare parts to the Collectors. Needless to say, Cocoa is miffed at this idea, and moves to lock the door. Except she's too short to reach the latch, and asks the protagonist to help.

To the tempo of "Manners. Maketh. Maids.", Cocoa locks the latches on the door, and offers to demonstrate to the thugs what she means by that.

#### Episode 3 - A Lesson in Etiquette

Cocoa throws something from her umbrella that makes the Outlaw bleed. What are thought to be daggers are actually paper airplanes, folded so professionally that (in Cocoa's words), the wings are "straighter than a ruler" and the head is "pointier than a compass." The paper airplane assault frustrates the thugs to the point they whip out their guns, but Cocoa throws something right at the Outlaw and it stabs into his face. The object itself turns out to be a plastic straw...containing a needle filled with enough tranquilizer to instantly down a man.

Satou is flabbergasted as this development and wonders who just barged in. Cocoa and the protagonist introduce themselves and clock Satou in the back of the head, knocking him out. With a lesson in etiquette thoroughly dispensed, the two move to save the customer.

In a secret area behind the wall, Doctor Mason recognizes Cocoa and thanks her for saving him. While Cocoa takes the praise in stride, the protagonist asks what's going on. Doctor Mason seemingly remembers something and flies into a panic, flailing about how Elysion HQ needs to be contacted. Turns out MAson used to be an Elysion researcher, and Satou stole some information about control codes, which could allow the wielder to make every Elysion Nikke explode. The protagonist is suitably appalled at this idea while Cocoa learns that it's...worse than when a customer eats so much food they act pained and say they're going to explode. With a new goal set, the trio move to Elysion HQ.

#### Episode 4 - Maids: Protectors of the Universe

The trio explain the situation to Ingrid, Elysion's CEO. In response to the situation, she sends D of Perilous Siege to the bar where Doctor Mason was kept.

A moment later, D finds and reports that the thugs are a part of Seimeikai, a yakuza group in the Outer Rim. A transmission is patched through, which turns out to be Seimeikai's leader, Sakura. While Ingrid isn't too happy with the yakuza acting up like this, turns out Sakura's not pleased either. Satou used to be one of Seimeikai's executives, but got demoted after he roughed up another gang's leader behind Sakura's back. It seems he thinks turning the other gangs' Nikkes into bombs would get him back in the good graces of Seimeikai, but if anything, Sakura is more willing to simply dispose of him. As an apology for failing to keep her men in check, Sakura has a bit of information to give. Satou has sent a warning to the other gang members that he will take action at 8:00. The current time is 3:00, meaning there's only 5 hours to stop Satou from sending the codes. Sakura closes the transmission to attend to her bonsais, leaving Cocoa to remark how much of a nuisance Satou is becoming. Unfortunately, there's little information to track Satou's whereabouts, but Ingrid knows someone who can get them that info...

A moment later, and Ingrid is on the line with Exia, hacker and intel agent extraordinaire. The protagonist explains the situation, as Exia bemoans being caught up in yet another crisis where the Ark's peace and stability are at stake. Cocoa's eye light up at Exia being a hacker, seeing it like one of those TV shows where a hacker hits a bunch of keys and buttons and boom, world saved. Whilst Exia is concerned Cocoa has some misconceptions about how hackers work, the maid's compliments work to fire her up, and she promises to have something ready in 5 minutes.

5 minutes later, Exia has finished analyzing the self-destruct codes. Bad news, there's no way to stop Satou from transmitting them. Good news, accessing the PC sending out the orders *should* allow for someone to rewrite the data in the codes. Unfortunately, Exia can't do it remotely because the PC in question is restricted, but she does know where it's located. Cocoa piles compliment after compliment on Exia, and the hacker bids everyone good luck before signing off.

#### Episode 5 - A Tale of Maids and Heroism

Cocoa and the protagonist have reached the location of the PC, where the door is guarded by a number of thugs. One of them recognizes the two as the ones who blew open Satou's plan, and move to intercept. The protagonist locks the door as Cocoa proclaims "Manners. Maketh. Maids." and institutes another lesson in etiquette.

One etiquette lesson later, and all thugs are incapacitated. The duo locates the PC sending the self-destruct codes, but the only way to access and rewrite the codes is to hook the PC up to a Nikke. Cocoa isn't too confident she can pull this off, but the protagonist's encouragement (and the idea she'll look cool doing it) serve as motivation.

Later, Ingrid asks the protagonist for an update on the codes. She's done everything she can to quarantine all Elysion Nikkes on her end, but there's still some that can't make it, so if they blow up, the Ark will undoubtedly become chaotic. The PC rings out with a confirmation of the codes being sent to begin detonation, and Cocoa apologizes. She got confused on which parts she needed to rewrite, and couldn't stop the explosion. Over the line, Satou butts in and gloats over his triumph, but the protagonist notes that it's not over yet. He asks Cocoa what information she changed exactly, which turned out to be how the code defined "explosion". Cocoa found the definition odd, so she changed it to the "real meaning", in her words. Meaning the Elysion Nikkes are going to swarm the maid café and gorge on food until they feel like they're about to explode.

Back at the maid café, Soda and Ade are taken aback by a veritable mob of Nikkes, all demanding exceedingly large quantities of food. The door rings again to signal Cocoa's return, wherein she preens over the saving the world while also apologizing for creating more work for the café, which is going to see a surge of Nikke customers for some time. Soda and Ade take it all in stride, proclaiming that not anyone can simultaneously save the world *and* send business skyrocketing for their establishment at the same time. In fact, the maids call this a moment for a celebration with the protagonist accompanying them, a prospect that fills Cocoa with elation and the man in question with apprehension. He wants to catch up on the backlog of work built from this whole debacle, but Cocoa's expectant gaze and chanting for a party make him acquiesce.

As Ade goes to get a cake from the kitchen, Cocoa remembers she still has to make some food for the protagonist with a ketchup drawing on it, and proposes she draw whatever he wants on the cake. His answer is to start with a 120mm cannon.

## References

Notes
1. ↑ Credited as "Amber Conner."

References
1. ↑ Resume | amberconnor.