- This article is about the female One. For the male One, see One (Brother).
| “ | A fellow Intoner and Zero's younger sister. She is intelligent, serious, and has a strong sense of justice—Zero's polar opposite. It is out of her intelligence that she comes to question how the Intoners came into existence and why they possess such godly powers. She decided to overthrow the despotic rulers of the world who had oppressed the people and created a new peaceful world. She reigns over all the Intoners.
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One, is the younger sister of Zero and also an Intoner, one who can use the Power of Song, as well as the main antagonist of Drakengard 3. One is also the main protagonist of Utahime Five. She is the final boss of branches A and C. She is an intellectual and serious by nature with a strong sense of justice, which is the complete opposite of Zero. Due to the difference in their nature, One has a hard time getting along with her elder sister.
Although she is the second oldest sister, she is young in appearance and also the smallest in stature. One has sharp senses, the intensity of which grows stronger every day, which she copes with. After Zero ran away, she became the head of the Church and leads the effort to defeat Zero. Her personality and appearance seem to be based on one of the rebels Zero met before her death.
Story
Drag-On Dragoon Utahime Five
After being born and fleeing Zero, One and her sisters took to traveling the lands. During their travels, they stop by a castle to dispose of the Lord of the Sands, Bass, who has been kidnapping kids and turning them into dolls and other decorations, all the while stringing up parents and others who have a problem with him on the side of his castle. After seeing some guards push away a mother looking for her child, One promises to get to the bottom of this mess. This results in the girls storming the castle and dealing with the guards, all until Bass arrives in a Golem. One however easily dispels him while saving her sisters, and even as Bass asks for mercy, she blows his head off with a single punch and smile. After the fight, a mage named Partition makes his presence known, claiming he was forced to serve Bass and offers what aid he can, including a ship. One however doesn't fully trust him, despite her sisters fawning over him.
Just as they are on a ship, and when One is about to scold Three for taking one of the dolls, a sea monster manages to pull her into the sea. One eventually makes it to shore, and is eventually aided by a black dragon called Gabriella, who finds One interesting, but is also not afraid to trade barbs and yell at her. While being questioned and Zero is brought up, One tries her best to act tough, not backing down when being accused of pretending to be. However, they are soon interrupted by some trained monsters that are quickly slain, by a man named Baltus who was hunting One after the death of Bass. Since Gabriella was caught in the ambush, she tries to help One, but both are soundly beaten, with Baltus having mechanical parts and able to regenerate from any wound. One is able to turn the tide however, using the Power of Song and a fang knocked out of Gabriella's mouth as a weapon to dissect and seemingly kill Baltus, though can't recall much. One eventually ends up fainting, leaving Gabriella to watch over her for an entire month and take her somewhere safe.
Horrified it's been that long, One sets out with Gabriella to quickly find her sisters, though the two end up talking about what happened back there, including Baltus regenerating into a younger body, and was about to level the area with his power in the form of an explosion. One is also incredibly thankful for Gabriella, who got herself hurt for her sake. Despite the chance of Baltus returning, One does wish to find her sisters and fulfill her mission in getting to the Mercurius Gate. Coincidentally, Gabriella also knows the location, and offers to take One there if she's really looking to get stronger. On the way, One is able to tearfully reunite with her sisters after Gabriella falls from the sky from her injuries and fatigue. They decide to take a break, with One carefully watching her sisters, with Two reaffirming how they need One to keep everything together, given how everyone else tends to act up, like Three's constant need for sleep.
Eventually, they arrive at the Gate while atop Gabriella, including Partition, though he is knocked away from the group when Gabriella charges at the ground against the guards. One is about to open it, until a sudden vision stops her, a mass of darkness with many hands reaching for her. This causes her to have second doubts, and that moment of doubt is capitalized when the remaining three Lords arrive, managing to dispose of Three with an ambush, her blood staining One's face. The three Lords would then begin brutally killing the rest of One's sisters, Two being the only one spared, just losing her arm and left helpless. Upon seeing this, One's song resonates loud enough to reach outside the city, and the door finally opens to her power. Unfortunately, her vision had been correct, as an oozy, black mass comes out, and begins picking up her fallen sisters, piecing them back together, but under it's direct control. One is powerless to watch in horror, left wallowing in despair and hopelessness as the mysterious being uses her sisters like puppets, summoning the Angels they use in the game to cause havoc. One of the Lords perishes, while the other two escape, though they end up dying through much backstabbing, ending once Partition is the last one left standing, revealing he wanted to usurp the remaining lords. It takes a lot of effort, with Gabriella reminding One why she was fighting in the first place. After a long time and nearly being absorbed herself, One breaks free, just in time for the dark monster to use her sisters' powers against her, raining down magical spikes. In order to protect herself and Gabriella, One pushes her body beyond its limitations, forcing her body to age up into her adult form for more power. And despite the same happening to her controlled-sisters, she's able to finally push back the assault. But despite One boldly stepping forward to fight and save her sister, Gabriella keeps trying to hold her back due to the significant power difference. Yet One remains adamant in the face of this evil, vowing to save her sisters, however hopeless the situation seems.
She doesn't get to fight the dark being, now transforming into a giant Black Flower. Zero and her dragon, Mikhail, storm the battlefield, destroy the Black Flower, and then with strange magic that would later create the Disciples (guardians for the Intoners) to extract her sisters safely, leaving them alive. Despite saving them, Zero still wants to kill them all herself, starting with One. The two fight, and their dragons also do battle with each other, with One on the backfoot, even after stealing one of the fallen Lords' weapons for herself. The battle doesn't last too long, as Baltus arrives, wishing to do battle with One yet again. And due to his strong love for fighting, he's willing to fight One and Zero at the same time. The two sisters put aside their grudge to take care of a clearly stronger foe, yet even that's not enough, with Zero beaten and kicked away from the fight eventually, and One left impaled against the side of a building by the spear she stole. Mikhail and Gabriella also try to fight, with the two also soundly losing, Gabriella even losing her wing in the process. One keeps trying to break free, crying out for Gabriella desperately and wanting to help, but unable to, even when she finally breaks free. Gabriella soon reveals that a dragon has one wish in their lifetime, and while it could be used to reincarnate after death, Gabriella uses it to become a Daemon Dragon, losing her sanity. As it slowly slips away, One begs her friend to stay with her, to not give into the madness. With one final tear in her eye though, Gabriella loses all sanity, kills Baltus, before turning her attention to One and Mikhail.
Mikhail, despite being here to help Zero kill her sisters, keeps telling One that this isn't the same dragon she knew before. Her friend is gone, replaced only by a monster that wants her dead. The point is further hammered in when Gabriella slams her claw right into One, cutting her body and pinning her to the ground. Yet despite it all, One tearfully remarks that Gabriella isn't a monster, and that she'll do anything to save her. To that end, she uses forbidden magic: The Pact, taking her soul out from her chest and pushing it towards Gabriella. At first, it doesn't work, with One healed up but also sporting horns and spikes, eyes blackened, succumbing to the same darkness that overtook Gabriella. All she could do was repeat Gabriella's name, until she began screaming, and sucking up the magic within the area. This included magic belonging to Partition, who was watching everything, ruining his future plans and aging him up, revealing he stole the life force from others to keep himself young. Through the use of this newfound power, One is able to recover and save the dragon she declares as “her one true friend.” The price of her pact transformed her body to that of a fourteen year old.
With the lords dead, and together with the other Intoners, with the exception of Zero, One sought to bring peace to the land. Having succeeded, she divided the land among her sisters. She became the overseer of the realm's capital, Cathedral City itself.
One's Prologue
| “ | Once upon a time, many moons ago... there were five beautiful Intoner sisters. Four of the Intoners owned a personal servant called a disciple. But one of them, had no disciple at all.
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Despite the hesitant cries of a young man, a steadfast One engages him in battle within the crypts of Cathedral city on November 4th, 998. She cites the young man, who resembles her in form, as being unable to kill Zero in his current state, with the young man stating his reluctance to fight with his sister. An impatient One decides to initiate the training while berating the young man for his qualms, reminding him of his purpose in life. If One were to be killed by Zero during their battle, he should be the one to take Zero's life. In the midst of their battle, the young man wonders why One is willing to go to the extent of fighting her own "sibling." One angrily snaps at him, citing Zero as nothing more than a monster; and that the current state of their training session is merely to see how he would up hold against Zero, an Intoner who rivals One in power. One frequently persists in telling the young man how Zero would have been more ruthless against him, curiously reflecting on how he hasn't gotten any stronger. The young man states that he had been pushing himself for the past three months to improve, musing about whether or not he would be useful to his own sister.
One begins to recount a life prior to saving the world, one in which Intoners were a cursed existence amidst a land mired in desolation. While ascending the steps of the Cathedral, One explains the essentials of a disciple and why an Intoner would ever have use for one. A disciple is to aid an Intoner in battle by increasing their ability of Song while also quelling desires that have been driven towards inhuman levels: a passion for romance, obsession with hobbies, a thirst for recognition and a fiery sex drive. One is conflicted by the notion that she possesses none of those desires, citing only the realization that she's always alone. It was then that on August 1, 998, that One created a disciple to quench her loneliness. The disciple created in her image was also named One. She explains to the newborn One that they are essentially one and the same. While in the midst of battle with Cathedral City soldiers, One tells her disciple about her disgust of using another person as a weapon. Hence, she decided to create One in her image because she knows regardless of what she does, at least she'll be able to forgive herself. She plans on using the Crypts to host her disciple, stating that he won't possess the powers that the other disciples have, although he will have enough power to defeat the Lords that plague the lands with their tyranny. She mentions that One is the perfect replica, a means of sorts to forgive herself.
One wonders aloud what to call his creator, stating that he should refer to her as mother. One retorts back, insisting she isn't that old and he should call her sister instead. He asks her what he's supposed to do, with One suggesting that he stick to her side as having him mobile would create unnecessary trouble, with him swearing to never leave her side. Following his declaration, One wonders about his sister's inclinations. One states that she intends to defeat the tyrants ruling the land and saving the people from their clutches. Following the completion of that effort, they are to discover why they exist. One decides to ask his sister once more, what she intends to do after she saves the people from the corrupt Lords of the land, wondering if she plans on becoming a princess of the country. One snaps at him, mentioning she won't do anything of the sort, stating only that she has to uphold the responsibility of killing Zero. One asks her about Zero, with One cryptically stating how he will find out by being around her soon enough. She asks of him to become her shadow, with One eagerly accepting her offer while she ruminates about her future circumstances.
The newborn One, still feeling apprehensive about killing people, asks his sister about whether or not more people will die. One confirms his apprehension and questions his reluctance. He merely states that all will be fine as long as he is with his sister.[1]
| “ | If murder is a sin... What about killing to save the life of someone else?
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| “ | Lacking a disciple to call her own, the Intoner used one of her own ribs to fashion herself a brother. The two of them made up for what each other lacked and they grew up together within the Cathedral. And beneath the light of the moon, the dragon quietly watched over them.
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| “ | After the battle, the exhausted siblings fell fast asleep. Feeling their weight upon her, the dragon reflected: "This human is clever. She'll soon uncover the mistake this world made." Though the dragon considered the pair to be a right royal pain, she didn't attempt to disturb their slumber.
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One - Visitors
During January to March of the year 999 AD, various Intoners and their Disciples come to the Cathedral City to report their duties to One, who is baffled and frustrated by each of their quirks and personality traits. Loved by her people, One confidently waves to them while holding her suffering from her heightened senses induced by her Power of Song. Due to her intelligence, One begins to question the nature and purpose of the Intoners' powers, spending time in the archives of the Cathedral City, researching various records and texts. Despite all of its gathered literature from across time and regions, there were no records whatsoever about the Intoners, leaving One with deep suspicion and disappointment. Unable to find a reason for her existence or for fighting, she prepares to fight Zero and Michael.
Chapter 0: Prologue
| “ | Now... Let us sing of the world's end. | ” |
Drakengard 3
Branch A
| “ | You're...not...the only one...who's ready to sacrifice...everything... | ” |
Branch B: The Price
One was lured to the forest by Three who had the intention of killing her. However, something had gone amiss and had resulted in the death of One by the hands of Two. Zero gazes at One's impaled corpse while a deranged Two dances in front of her.
Branch C: Emesis
Zero encounters One in the Cathedral City's Underground Lair, where One summons Abdiel to battle them. At the end of the fight, Abdiel fuses their cores to summon Gabriel to attack Zero. Mikhail attacks and destroys Gabriel, but was killed in the exchange. An enraged One battles with Zero one last time, but is ultimately killed. Before she dies, she tells Zero that she is the final Intoner without a powerful dragon to kill her.
Branch D: The Flower
Zero encounters One in the outskirts of Cathedral City, engaging her in close combat. During battle, One regales Zero with a familiar concept: The world doesn't need Intoners. Both acknowledge a similar goal in destroying their sisters, ultimately destroying themselves and thus saving the world. However, One fails to convince Zero of her convictions despite the latter having previously acknowledged the former's ability at maintaining her awareness independent of the flower's intentions. One tells Zero that she'll never forgive her for murdering her sisters and she and Zero are forced into a dead-lock after One produces a magic barrier. Octa summons Armisael to constrain One but is transformed back into his original form too soon, rendering his assistance obsolete.
As Zero and One continue their stalemate with One bolstering her defenses with the power of Song, Accord suddenly appears with her luggage and knocks away One's magic barrier. She pushes One into the ground and strangles her, effectively delaying her song's effects. Accord aids Zero in permanently eliminating One by sacrificing her own body so Zero's sword would hit. After piercing One in the head with her sword, One lets out a blood-curdling scream as the flower's magic begins to fade away from her deceased body.
Following the flower's final transformation, One is seen as a giant white statue along with her sisters during The Final Song. She crumbles into pieces and is sealed into another world by Mikhail who rids the world of the flower's influence.
Drag-On Dragoon 3 Story Side
One visits the Land of Forests with her brother, investigating the poison mist that's been plaguing the land, suspecting Three, before having to leave with the mist even affecting them. She thinks about how she may have to deliver judgement on her own sisters and kill them, and wonders how she's any different from Zero and fearfully dismisses in denial of Zero having any noble intentions behind her actions.
She later tells her brother the plan to deal with Zero before she goes off to fight her in the Cathedral City. In that time, she has learned the truth about the Intoners and that the world didn't need them, but doesn't trust Zero. She uses Raphael to fill the Cathedral with poison to kill Zero and Mikhail. Before she dies, she tells Zero she can't accept randomly being created and then being arbitrarily killed, in which Zero finally learns One represents her fury at the irrationality of their own fate.
One fuses with her brother as a Nightmare (monster) for the SINoALICE collaboration event. Unlike her sisters, One appears to be more coherent. She abducts Mikhail to hasten the Flower's demise, presumably dying again when Zero slaughters the Nightmares opposing her rescue attempt.
One can be used as a character by players. Their Nightmare form can be rewarded to players through the event and guild gacha; if it is equipped, the twins can be summoned to boost the effects of Wind weapons.Personality
| “ | You comprehend nothing! You destroy the peace we created! You kill your own flesh and blood! And then... you think... You think you can save the world!?
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One has sharp intelligence and a strong sense of justice. Unlike her sisters, she feels a severe responsibility towards the well-being of others, even creating a disciple in her own image because she refuses to use another individual as her weapon, though the guidebook characterizes this action as a sense of narcissism in which she is unable to trust anyone other than “herself”.[2] Even though she created him both for this purpose and as her back-up in case Zero killed her, she grew very attached to him (though she ultimately wanted him to kill himself in the event of her and Zero's death, showing her resolve to protect the world over her brother's life). She also forms a strong attachment to Gabriella, even when she is forced to remake the dragon as Gabriel. As the leader of the Intoners, she strives to set a new world of order and peace. She also commands vast respect from her army and intense loyalty from her sisters, with each of them doing as she commands whatever they might feel about the details of their missions.
In Drakengard 3 Story Side, it is revealed that her strong sense of justice is not because she personally believes in it but because the world doesn't make sense to her otherwise. She needed an answer to justify her unfair existence, having been born arbitrarily from Zero's rage over unjust circumstances, only for Zero to immediately try to kill her and her own sisters the moment she was born without her being able to understand why. Throughout the novel and her novella, she experiences self-doubt in her actions, fearing that she is no different from Zero and over the possibility that Zero was acting out of some noble cause than for power.
Unlike the other Intoners, One's intoner powers do not manifest in any specific cravings, or at least anything she can define. She also appears to be mentally sound, unlike many of her sisters, which prevents the Flower from easily controlling her. She is the only one of the Intoners to understand their true nature, and thus can understand Zero's drive to kill them. However, despite this, she opposes Zero and sees her as a traitor to the Intoners, unable to trust her in actually being able to save the world and hating her for senselessly killing her own blood without ever trying to find another way. This hatred is so great that in Branch C, she even takes solace in and laughs at Zero's misery in losing Mikhail and inevitable fate of being controlled by the Flower, even though it would destroy the world she swore to protect.
Abilities
Among the Intoners, One easily possesses the most magical power among the sisters (barring perhaps Zero), to the point she doesn't even need a Disciple or even to sing to summon daemons. In Branch D, One was able to destroy Armisael with pure magical power through song. In Drakengard 3 Story Side, One was capable of summoning three daemons (Abdiel, Raphael, and Gabriel) whereas her younger sisters need help from a Disciple just to summon one. She also has the strongest Intoner Mode, even stronger than Zero's.
One uses a chakram as her primary weapon in combat. Although not to Zero's level, in the Utahime Five manga she is capable of fighting with swords, spears, and even unarmed.
Lineage
 The Flower |  Zero |  Mikhail |  Michael | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Gabriella |  One |  Two |  Three |  Four |  Five | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 One |  Rosa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unknown |  Gruen | Grenat | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Verde | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luis |  Fey |  Ramia | Husband | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Chloe |  Golem |  Seere |  Manah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gallery
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Trivia
- Besides Zero, One is the only Intoner that is presented in all branches of the main game.
- The symbol of the Cult of the Watchers from the first two games actually represents One and her twin brother, making it a sort of early cameo before their debut in the third game.
- Her face, and that of her twin brother as well, bears a great resemblance to Manah and Seere, who follow Brother One's lineage through a woman named Rosa following Ending A or D of Drakengard 3.
- Her red eyes can be seen as an early sign to her brother's eventual Red Eye Disease.
- She shares the same color palette of clothing with Zero.
- Out of all the sisters, One is the best cook.
- One is the only sister to not let The Flower take over her body due to her strong willpower and magic.
- In Drakengard 3 Story Side, One is revealed to have been born of Zero's anger at being dealt an unfair and senseless fate, seeking an acceptable answer that would allow her to accept herself and her circumstances, which Zero misconstrued as a sense of justice.
- It is also revealed that amongst the women Zero had encountered in her human life, the Flower based One off of the ringleader of the failed resistance who had her eyes mutilated and was the last one to die.
- In Utahime Five, One forms a Pact with Gabriella before the events of Drakengard 3. However, Accord erroneously refers Zero's formation of a Pact in Branch B as the first instance of a Pact made.
- Out of all the sisters, One is the shortest and the smartest.
- Her youthful 14-year old appearance is the price of her pact, with One in the Utahime Five volume 3 omake commenting that her younger sisters may look down upon her now despite being the eldest.
- If left idle long enough in base camps during her DLC missions, One will sit in seiza style, a polite way of sitting in Japan.
- In Dengeki Online's Drakengard 3 character popularity poll, One was voted in eighth place with some fans mentioning her fashion sense, flat-chest and harboring a guilty secret as part of their reasoning.[3] She placed seventh in the final results, which were published in Drag-on Dragoon 3 Complete Guide. Her rank was seven votes lower than Three's in sixth place.
- In Dengeki Online's Intoner panties poll, a majority of fans voted white panties for One.[4]
- Though One was against having sex with her brother, it is revealed in a flashback in Shi ni Itaru Aka and referenced in One's Novella that they did have intercourse.
- One and her brother share similarities with NieR:Automata's characters, Adam and Eve.
- Both take inspiration from the biblical story of Adam and Eve, with her brother and Eve being born from hers and Adam's ribs respectively.
- Both One and Adam mentor and educate their younger siblings, and share a desire for knowledge as well.
- After One and Adam's deaths, both of their siblings create the image of the Three-Eyed Gemini as their soldiers go insane, exhibiting red eyes.
- In NieR Reincarnation, Fio's "Intoner Girl" costume is One's.
References
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxojZGjQMv0&feature=share&list=UUGrZZEnlL-Ei-CoOv04prrQ&index=7
- ↑ Drag-On Dragoon 3 Official Guidebook Complete Edition/Character Profiles#One: Psychological Analysis: Narcissism - In order for an Intoner to suppress the power of the “Flower,” the presence of an Apostle is essential. However, One rejected the use of an Apostle and instead created her twin brother, who was essentially a duplicate of herself, to serve in that role. This suggests that she places the greatest trust in, and love for, herself rather than relying on others. At the same time, it reflects her strong determination to fight Zero even if she must do so entirely on her own.
- ↑ http://drakengard-3.com/blog/2014/01/16/dod3-popularity-poll/
- ↑ http://rologeass.tumblr.com/post/73414288584/dengeki-online-drag-on-dragoon-3-drakengard-3-fans
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