Irene Rapona/fr

"Je suis si cruelle, vous savez. (わたし 残酷ですわよ)"

- Irene's catchphrase

Irène Rapona (アイリン・ラポーナ) est la protagoniste de .

D'ordinaire, Irène est une douce jeune fille qui semble innocent et naïve, mais cependant, elle est aussi une tueuse à gage redoutable surnommée Gorgeous Irene (ゴージャス アイリン) dont les techniques tournent autour de son maquillage de combat.

Appearance
Irène est une jeune fille blonde avec des cheveux clairs à longueur d'épaule. Elle les coiffe différemment, parfois en queue de cochon ou en queue de cheval tressée. Avec son maquillage de combat, elle peut se déguiser pour changer radicalement son apparence.

Lorsqu'elle se transfigure et prend son apparence d'assassin. ses cheveux deviennent plus foncés avec son maquillage de combat et elle porte une robe à froufrous. On la représente souvent avec une robe courte sans manche à poix, avec une ceinture faite avec une simple bande de tissu noir. Cependant, elle change beaucoup de tenue au fil de l'histoire et dans les illustrations spéciales d'elle.

Personnalité
Quand elle apparait pour la première Irène semble être simplement une jeune fille au cœur pur, mais qui est aussi extrêmement crédule. Elle fait confiance à n'importe qui, y compris à des inconnus qu'elle vient à peine de rencontrer et qui pourraient lui vouloir du mal. À un moment donné, un camarade d'école lui dit qu'une fleur est comestible et elle la mange sans hésiter. Lorsqu'elle rencontre le voyou Michael, Irène décide également de l'enlacer dans ses bras malgré son attitude menaçante, même si en vérité elle pourrait facilement se débarrasser de lui. Dans le deuxième chapitre, Irène se retrouve à Harlem et se montre innocente au point d'être ingénue. Par exemple, elle accepte un sachet de drogue d'un dealer et accepte avec enthousiasme lorsque le dealer lui propose de faire d'elle une "star de cinéma", ignorant béatement le sous-entendu. Elle est attentionnée envers ceux qu'elle considère comme ses amis, et accepte facilement si ceux qu'elle considère comme des amis lui demandent de tuer quelqu'un. En tant qu'assassin, Irène est assez rusée et impitoyable. Elle peut tuer les hommes de main qui se trouvent sur son chemin sans y réfléchir à deux fois, et a l'habitude de retourner les armes de ses cibles contre elles. Par exemple, elle a décidé de pousser Lauper à se tuer avec sa propre tronçonneuse, et a également retourné les fourmis tueuses d'un autre assassin contre elle.

En temps normal, Irène est plutôt sensible émotionnellement. Lorsque son visage est éclaboussé avec de la terre, elle est suffisamment bouleversée pour se mettre à pleurer. Cependant, lorsqu'elle se met son maquillage de combat, Irène devient une assassine chevronnée. Elle devient alors beaucoup plus audacieuse, enjouée et sûre d'elle, combattant sans crainte des ennemis qui sont physiquement impressionnant. On la voit aussi se moquer ouvertement de ses adversaires et pendant son combat contre Lauper, Irène se déshabille exprès pour montrer son corps et semble s'amuser à faire des tours pour tromper son adversaire avant d'expliquer ce qu'elle a fait. Lorsqu'elle a soif de sang, Irène est assez lascive. Premièrement, elle a l'habitude de se déshabiller pour montrer son corps. Deuxièmement, elle taquine régulièrement ceux qu'elle entend, par exemple en embrassant le reflet d'une cible et en embrassant ouvertement son ami Michael sur la bouche. Plus troublant encore, elle lèche le sang du fils du tailleur après avoir récolté quelques gouttes avec son doigt.

Comme son père, Irène prend la loyauté au sérieux. Elle est attristée lorsqu'un jeune homme rompt leur promesse de confiance et d'amitié en la dénonçant à Lauper. Elle se sent également désolée de devoir mentir aux gens sur son identité secrète et peut se sentir très seule en conséquence.

Dans le deuxième chapitre, lorsque Michael lui demande ce qu'elle veut boire, elle demande du champagne, montrant ainsi son goût pour cette boisson en particulier.

Pouvoirs et compétentence
Irene inherits the deadly assassination abilities of her father, a man born in the underworld who became a killer.

Maquillage de Combat
When Irene puts on makeup, her spirit can change her entire body to match her disguise. She uses it to disguise herself either as an old lady or a young girl. Wearing battle makeup promotes her killer instinct. She is capable of stopping a chainsaw that weighs 80 kg and has a 400cc engine with only her bare hands. Her makeup is also capable of removing hazardous materials or objects that have entered her body by changing the muscles in her face. According to Irene, makeup in ancient times warded off diseases and the effects of poisonous insects.

Faux Ongles
Irene can fire sharp fake nails out of each finger. As projectiles, they are as strong as knives and can easily scar or kill someone.

Death Style



 * Death Dance: Irene strips off her dress and performs a seductive dance. She is extremely flexible and can easily dodge attacks in this state as well as learn the opponent's movements.
 * Heart Magic: If the opponent either smells Irene's perfume or gets her makeup on them, she can make the opponent her slave by controlling their heart, body, mind, and soul. An enemy with a "hard" soul will also have a hard body, no longer being able to move. With this, Irene can stop their movements and they will listen to what she tells them to do.
 * Execution Makeup: Irene gives the opponent a kiss on the cheek and then shows them a mirror. She uses her lipstick to draw a line on the mirror and the opponent will copy what the mirror image looks like. When fighting Lauper, Irene draws a vertical line on Lauper's mirror image. Lauper copies what the mirror version of herself looks like and cuts herself in half with her chainsaw.



Tir de précision
Irene is quite skilled in handling throwing weapons and firearms. When she throws her fake nails at a group of henchmen, she is able to hit them in the vitals (e.g. the neck or in the forehead). Likewise when she participates in a robbery, Irene is able to aim and shoot a man's baton and destroy it midswing.

Intelligence
Irene is intelligent and cunning in terms of battling. She is analytical and prepares ahead of time, such as when she disguises as an old lady to work for Lauper's gang and then replaces all their bullets with blanks. She keeps the real bullets hidden in a glove to make it look like she caught their bullets later on when they fire at her.

She prepares for assassins who are targeting her by planting mines in the floors of Michael's home. By doing so, she would also be protected from any sneak attacks while she was sleeping.

Passé
Irene is the daughter of a man from the underworld who had no wife. She inherited his deadly assassination abilities and secretly becomes an assassin as a side business while still going to school.

Lauper's Palace
Irene lives in a 17th century style house in a place known as Swingtown. She plays with a spider outside at school when a group of boys begin talking behind her back, making bets about how gullible she could be. One of the boys gives her some flowers and tells her they're edible and taste good so she should try them. As she is about to eat one, the boys are shocked she would actually do it and trip over each other. They land in a puddle and one boy's elbow splashes mud onto Irene's face. Irene begins to cry just before her butler appears and chases the boys away. Her butler then introduces her to a young man he brought with him, who has an assassination request. The man's father was a friend of Irene's father, and was killed by a gang leader named Lauper. The man pleads for Irene to avenge his father. Irene responds asking if he wants to make a friendship promise with her and the man agrees, kissing her palm. Irene infiltrates Lauper's gang while disguised as an old woman with her special makeup. The gang had hired her to do work like cleaning and reloading their weapons. Ten days later, the man is caught by Lauper and tortured after she learns he hired an assassin. The man tells Lauper about Irene, forcing Irene to take off her disguise and reveal herself. She transforms with her battle makeup into "Gorgeous Irene". Lauper's guards shoot their guns at her but they were actually replaced with blanks when Irene was working for them. Irene put their real bullets in her glove to make it look like she caught the bullets instead. She fires fake nails out of her fingers and kills all of the guards, while also scarring Lauper's face.

Angered, Lauper attempts to attack Irene with a giant chainsaw, but Irene dodges all of it and learns Lauper's movements with her special Death Dance. Irene's Heart Magic allows her to take control of Lauper's body after Lauper smells the scent of her perfume. She manipulates Lauper into cutting herself in half with her chainsaw by using her Execution Makeup. Irene expresses sorrow that the young man broke their friendship promise by speaking about her to Lauper. She lets him live because she had promised to and then leaves.

The Girl in the Slums
Irene walks alone in the slums of in. A young man named Michael sees her and is shocked as to what a young girl is doing there on her own. Just then, a squirrel finds Irene, informing her that her butler was killed and assassins are after her. Michael suddenly grabs Irene's purse and knocks her down, demanding her money. He realizes she only has makeup in there and nothing else. Angered at Irene lacking fear, Michael takes out a knife. Irene simply grabs the knife with two fingers and then hugs Michael. Some thugs appear asking Michael to share Irene with them but Irene takes control of Michael's body and has him beat them up.

They go to a bar and meet a man who offers to make Irene rich as a film star. Irene agrees but Michael elbows the man in the face, warning Irene not to trust everyone she meets. They leave and reach the subway, where a man sells Irene an old racing stub. At first Michael refuses to take care of Irene anymore but when he hears that she has no home and her father and butler are both dead, Michael takes her to his house. The next day, Michael and Irene rob a bar for money. The assassin who killed Irene's butler meets with the man who offered to make Irene a star. She shows him a picture and the man says he saw her recently, although she looked different like she was wearing a disguise. Suddenly, the female assassin arrives at Michael's house and breaks through their window. With her mysterious phantom tattoo ability which lets her grow an arm from her back, the woman stabs Irene. However, Irene had planted mines in the floors of Michael's home since she expected assassins to target her. One of the mines explode, causing the woman to lose a foot. The assassin then summons vicious fire ants from her tattoo which latch onto Irene's face. She states that the species would eat through Irene's skin and burrow into her brain. The assassin herself is unharmed by her ants because she wears a special repellent. Irene transforms using her Battle Makeup and reveals her killer instinct. The makeup uses the muscles in Irene's face to force the insects out of her skin. Irene then dances and draws on her opponent's lips using her lipstick, preventing the woman from being able to close her mouth. Since the woman doesn't have repellent in her mouth, the fire ants begin crawling into her mouth and eat her from within. Irene apologizes to Michael for lying to him and gives him a kiss before leaving.

Michael later discovers the old racing stub that Irene bought was actually a big winner and moves to to start his music career. He eventually releases a debut single which refers to Irene as a mysterious girl, selling over 600,000 copies. Irene had vanished and no one had ever seen her again. On the seventh day of the month, a mafia boss named Tony Bormont had strangely committed suicide in his Chicago estate by stabbing himself in the throat. In the past, he had given the order to have many of his rival gangs across the U.S. assassinated. It is inferred that Irene killed him, as revenge for ordering her father's death in the past.

(PS3/PS4)
"Gorgeous Irene" is imprinted on an opera poster in the Naples Station stage of Eyes of Heaven. Other series by Hirohiko Araki are also listed, but Gorgeous Irene is written in large, bold text unlike the others.

JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop! (Android/iOS)
The New York furniture has a cafe in the background belonging to Irene.

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Voir aussi

 * Irene