Nonon Jakuzure

About Nonon Jakuzure

Nonon Jakuzure is one of Satsuki Kiryuin's Elite Four in Kill la Kill, in charge of the academy's culture clubs and its marching band army. Small, pink and permanently smug, she fights with music itself, conducting battles from inside uniforms that turn sound into a weapon. Nonon has stood beside Satsuki since kindergarten and considers herself, with some justice, the person who knows the president best.

Appearance

Nonon is a petite girl with long pink hair worn in waves and curls, and pink eyes usually half closed in amusement. She wears her three-star Goku Uniform as a marching band style outfit with a tall shako hat marked with a skull and heart motif, and carries a conductor's baton that doubles as her weapon. Her Symphony Regalia transforms into enormous speaker systems and, in its upgraded form, a flying machine bristling with instruments. Everything about her design is performance: she does not enter battles so much as take the stage, band behind her, smirk in place, ready to conduct somebody's defeat.

Personality

Nonon is smug, teasing and theatrical, with a sweet voice used almost entirely for insults. She needles the other Elite Four, mocks Ryuko as a monkey at every meeting, and treats combat as an art form she is performing for an audience. Underneath, she is the most loyal of Satsuki's lieutenants: the others serve a cause or a code, while Nonon serves Satsuki herself, having decided as a child that this was her person. She can be petty and brave within the same scene, and her pride takes the hardest knock in the Elite Four when Ryuko beats her in the air. Her recovery from that, rebuilding her uniform and returning without excuses, shows the steel under the sugar.

Background & Story

Nonon met Satsuki at kindergarten, the daughter of a wealthy family placed in the same world as the Kiryuin heir, and the two have been together ever since. When Satsuki began building her academy and her army, Nonon took command of the non-athletic side of school life: hundreds of culture clubs, from gardening to biology, organised into regiments under her baton. Her battlefield debut in the Naturals Election is the Elite Four's most theatrical, fighting Ryuko in the sky above the academy inside the Symphony Regalia, and losing when Ryuko learns to fly. Nonon rebuilds, returns with the Symphony Regalia Mk II for the Kansai raid, and follows Satsuki into open rebellion without a flicker of doubt when the coup is declared. In the final battle she fights in the merged Naked Sun fleet and survives to see graduation, still at Satsuki's side, still insulting everyone, exactly where she always intended to be.

Powers & Abilities

• Symphony Regalia: Nonon's three-star Goku Uniform transforms into a giant sound system that fires devastating sound waves shaped by her conducting. Its later forms can fly and bombard whole battlefields.
• Musical command: She leads Honnouji's culture clubs and marching band as an army, coordinating hundreds of students through music and drilled performance.
• Aerial combat: Nonon is the Elite Four's air specialist, the first of them Ryuko has to fight in the sky, and her upgraded Regalia is built around flight.

Key Relationships

• Satsuki Kiryuin: Her president, her cause and her friend since kindergarten. Nonon's loyalty is personal rather than ideological, and she is proud of knowing Satsuki longest and best.
• Ryuko Matoi: Nonon treats Ryuko as an uncultured intruder and enjoys needling her, but their aerial duel earns Ryuko a measure of her respect, delivered in the most backhanded way possible.
• The Elite Four: Nonon bickers constantly with Sanageyama and Inumuta and treats Gamagoori as an overgrown junior, but the four function as one unit when Satsuki calls.

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