Kou

* Default
* Awakened

**Kou** is a Partner in Arcaea. **Mobile:** She is unlocked by purchasing the Crimson Solace Side Story pack. **Switch:** She and her Side Story pack Crimson Solace are unlocked via World Mode after unlocking the Vicious Labyrinth Main Story pack.

## Character

### Name

Kou's name means "crimson" in Japanese, and is written 紅 in the Japanese version.

### Appearance

Like her namesake and the name of her pack, Kou is primarily dressed in shades of red.

She has long, straight, light pink hair and green eyes. In her hair, she wears a burgundy headband that is shaped like a pair of rabbit ears and has gold ornaments at its tips.

Kou wears a long, faded crimson garment with a strapless sweetheart neckline over top of a short burgundy pleated skirt with a white stripe. The center of her top is white with white buttons to the sides; its lower half also has white buttons and stripes and splits below her waist, revealing her skirt. A brighter crimson ribbon is fastened loosely around her waist and decorated with gold ornaments. Kou's sleeves, separate from the rest of her clothing, are crimson with pale pink and white ruffles that extend long enough to cover her hands. She also wears a white collar with a ruffled bib and a burgundy bow, to which more gold ornaments are attached.

Her boots are off-black, have laces, and extend to her thighs; underneath she wears a pair of tights slightly lighter in color.

Kou is always depicted holding a white stuffed bear with light pink ears, hands, and soles. Its eyes are represented by gold ornaments, it has a crimson bow around its neck, and its headband is identical to Kou's. When awakened, the teddy bear is shown holding a cake on a plate.

### Personality

Kou has been officially described as "a cheery girl with a long history in the world of Arcaea".

**Mobile:**
### Variants

Kou has one variant: Kou (Winter).**Switch:**

## Story

Kou is the main character of the Crimson Solace Side Story.

She also appears in Shirahime's Side Story Divided Heart,
and briefly in Ilith's Short Story Dark Ambition.

## Gameplay

### Stats by level

**Mobile:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

**Switch:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

### Skill

Kou has no skill prior to Awakening.

Her Awakened skill grants a Fragment bonus of 10-20% at the end of a song play.
This bonus is given before the FRAG multiplier is applied.

* For scores of 9,000,000 and below, the bonus is 10%.
* For scores of 10,000,000 and above, the bonus is 20%.
* For scores from 9,000,000 to 10,000,000, the bonus increases linearly from 10% to 20%.
* The fragment bonus is rounded down to the nearest integer.

The exact multiplier is given by:

# Bonus Multiplier

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{\displaystyle \text{Bonus Multiplier}=\begin{cases}0.1&\text{Score}<9,000,000\\\Bigl(1+\dfrac{\text{Score}-9,000,000}{1,000,000}\Bigr)\times0.1&9,000,000\le\text{Score}<10,000,000\\0.2&\text{Score}\ge10,000,000\end{cases}}

### Notes

Kou is one of the most useful partners for farming Fragments due to her high FRAG stat. Once Awakened, her skill can boost Fragments further on charts where the player can consistently achieve high scores.

## Trivia

* The maximum amount of Fragments theoretically obtainable with Kou at Level 30 in any song is 115 (by clearing Testify BYD for the first time and obtaining a Pure Memory). She therefore beats Pandora Nemesis (MTA-XXX) in this regard and is only beat out by Ayu and Kou (Winter).
* Kou was the first side story Partner to receive an Awakening, on October 8th, 2019.

## Artwork

* Story Entry 4-1
* Story Entry 4-7
* Story Entry S-6
* Image by シエラ (cierra) for lowiro's participation in Comiket 92
* Image by 純粋 (Junsui) for the game's Nintendo Switch release
* Promotional image for Kou's awakened form
* Image by シエラ (cierra) for the game's 1st anniversary
* Paradise jacket art
* Nirv lucE jacket art
* GLORY : ROAD jacket art
* Diode jacket art
* blue comet jacket art
* Promotional reveal image
* Full body artwork
* Awakened full body artwork
* Icon in the partner select screen
* Awakened icon in the partner select screen
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## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/arcaea\_en/status/861007607615684609