Klonoa (Character)

"'...But we can see each other soon, right? 'We can play together, just like before!' ""-Door to Phantomile, 1997"  Klonoa (クロノア, Kuronoa) is an anthropomorphic mammal character created by Namco in 1997, and was designed by Yoshihiko Arai.

Canon Description
Klonoa is a young, pure, gentle and kind boy who speaks in an unique language. In Door to Phantomile he was more child-like and pretty optimistic. But at the time of Lunatea's Veil he turned more laid back and pensive. He would do anything possible to protect his friends and help others in need.

Although he is pretty brave, he can't swim, which makes water a bit of a fear for the hero. But he will never give up on the challenges facing against him.

His appearance in Door to Phantomile has large black with white-ended ears, some noticable fangs, yellow sclera with black eyes and always wears a blue cap with a Pac-Man accessory attached to it. He wore red shorts, yellow gloves, brown shoes and a large red collar around his chest.

In Lunatea's Veil his appearance changed a bit. Most of the features remained the same, but his eyes were now changed to yellow and his sclera to normal white. His clothes now contain of a blue shirt with a zipper pin, dark blue shorts, yellow gloves and red sneakers.

Canon Biography
WARNING: This section contains heavy spoilers for Door to Phantomile and Lunatea's Veil.

Klonoa first debutted in Door to Phantomile for the Playstation. Huepow called Klonoa from another world to Phantomile in order to receive aid from him. In doing so, he had to tamper with his mind in order to make him believe that he had always lived there and discovered Huepow by himself.

When a mysterious aircraft crashes into Bell Hill at Breezegale close by, Klonoa and Huepow set out to discover what happened in Bell Hill and stumble upon Ghadius and Joka who captured Lephise and try to retrieve the pendant in order to open the door to Cress, the Moon Kingdom. However, with the pendant being on Klonoa's side, they're unable to do so. But they begin chasing after them through Phantomile, leaving the pendant behind at Grandpa's house.

After a journey throughout Jugpot and Forlock though, Joka eavesdrops at Klonoa informing the location of the Moon Pendant to Granny, the Chieftess of Forlock while they were discussing about the Moon Kingdom and the pendant. Joka immediately heads back to Breezegale while Klonoa and Huepow try to beat him to it.

However, they were a tad too late. Joka comes up with his aircraft and charges a giant energy beam from the bottom of the vehicle, blowing up Grandpa's house and killing Grandpa with it. Immediately after, he retrieves the pendant and escapes to Coronia, the Temple of the Sun. When they arrive at the top of the temple, they were already too late and see that Ghadius' plan is set in motion. Ghadius ditches Joka for still not having managed to cut them off from preventing their plan entirely, and disappears. Joka turns menacing, prideful and distorted while trying to kill the Dream Traveler as an attempt to redeem himself one more time. In the end, Klonoa triumphed over him and killed Joka instead.

As the two then immediately travel up to Cress as soon as it has arisen in the darkness, Klonoa learns that Huepow is actually the Prince of Cress. But he's still happy to help Prince Huepow with all his heart. As the two arrive at the top of Cress, they defeat Ghadius once and for all.

But just as they thought it was over, Ghadius explains his plan about the perfect beast named Nahatomb, whose ultimate goal was to destroy the entirety of Phantomile. And so he gets unleashed as Ghadius speaks his final words. But before Nahatomb goes to destroy the world, the fact that Klonoa comes from another world makes him target the Dream Traveler first. The two head up even higher in the sky and battle Nahatomb along with all their friends they met along this adventure.

At the end of the fight, Huepow insists Klonoa to shoot an explosive all-out Wind Bullet inside Nahatomb's mouth. Klonoa hesitates, but Huepow claims "Don't worry, we'll always be together!" to which Klonoa gives it his all, shoots the Wind Bullet inside Nahatomb and both their presence disappears. Lephise is rescued, but Klonoa screams out towards Huepow with his previous words, worried that he died... But then it's revealed that Huepow survived the attack. Huepow slowly flies towards Klonoa, but nearly dropped down. Klonoa caught him with his hands.

Afterwards, the two head back to Breezegale together. Huepow informs Klonoa about what he did to him and that he came from another world, and also informing him about the Song of Rebirth's purpose. If the world is to be reborn, the Dream Traveler is to be removed from Phantomile. Klonoa is in denial and sorrow at first. But as he turns furious, Lephise already has begun singing the Song of Rebirth. A giant black hole (or a portal) appears behind Klonoa's back. Huepow tears up a bit, and claims it's "Time for you to go back to your phantomile." Klonoa tries to resist however, yelling he doesn't want to go back. Huepow tries to ignore it at first, but eventually couldn't anymore. He then immediately runs up to Klonoa just as he is about to be launched in, grabbing on to his arm. Klonoa struggles to hold on to him, and eventually lets go of him, screaming out towards Huepow as Huepow is towards him. The portal closes and Phantomile is reborn anew, with Huepow wiping away his tears and looking up to the distance.

An unknown set of time passed since. Klonoa is floating through the endless darkness, until he hears and sees the silhouette of an unknown person repeatedly telling "Help me..." from a distance. Klonoa reawakens and then falls upon a mysterious sea and back into the light, ending up in the Sea of Tears of Lunatea. Here, Klonoa is introduced to Lolo and Popka. A priestess and her pet dog. The three set out across the land of Lunatea in order to protect Lunatea from the fifth bell that's going to appear in the world after Baguji, a prophet who predicted the Dream Traveler's arrival, told him about this future fate.

During their travels, Klonoa helps Lolo to become a priestess, they run into Leorina and Tat, two sky pirates who have the same goal in mind and attempt to protect Lunatea themselves, even if it means that they have to create their own artificial ring based off of Klonoa's Wind Ring. And lastly, Lolo also speaks about Klonoa in a bit of a romantic way with her citing "It doesn't matter if he's pesky, i like him just fine!" which Klonoa is a bit confused on. Despite that, he seems to care about Lolo, really worried when she was breaking down from her pasts' memories. But never knows what to really do to comfort her. Klonoa still could not figure out whose voice called out to him before reaching Lunatea though...

But eventually after gathering all the elements, Leorina steals them using Baguji's appearance as a digsuise, and attempts to summon forth the fifth bell to directly head for it and stop the bell once and for all, emptying the entire ocean with her new power, and awakening the Ishra's Ark's true purpose to guide them to the fifth kingdom. Klonoa and the rest rush right for the airborne Ishra's Ark while on the surface of the completely empty ocean top stop Leorina... when they get to her, she eventually gets corrupted and consumed by the power that was reawakened from the fifth kingdom, but Klonoa saves her... To which she gives in and decides to help Klonoa and the rest to stop whatever will consume them... and what just consumed her.

They blow up Ishra's Ark and then end up in the Kingdom of Sorrow, Hyuponia. Klonoa discovers that just at the end of the top, that the same voice that called out for him arises... Still saying "Help me..." Klonoa and the others head over there as soon as possible, and discover it was the King of Sorrow, the ruler of this submerged fifth kingdom that called out to Klonoa, and him being the one who disguised as Baguji... and at last, the one who summoned him to Lunatea in the first place. He goes on about how it does not matter anymore since the emotion of sorrow was veiled by everyone in their world, and tries to make Klonoa "atone for his sins"... Klonoa eventually beats him though using all the other elements from Leorina, and claims that he'll "help him" before ringing the final bell... Sorrow's slowly turning back into an element, to which Klonoa tries to comfort him before Sorrow's final moment... telling him that nobody will ever forget sorrow and run away anymore... and with that, he slowly disappears up into the sky, and retrieves the final element... Sorrow. Popka comments on how Klonoa seems to resemble Goddess Claire in some way... to which Lolo agrees on.

A bit of time then passes, as Klonoa and Lolo watch over the arisen ruins from Hyuponia, over the cliff near the ocean. With Leorina going hard at work to restore the kingdom. Klonoa notices how Lolo's given up her title as a full priestess to which she claims that she'll try to rightfully make it on her own this time. Klonoa tells her that he believes in her and can pull it off, before trying to walk off in the distance. Lolo seems bothered by this, asking if this is truly going to be their farewell... Klonoa stopped walking. He finds it hard to even respond to that, to which he just slightly nods while his back is still turned. Lolo tries to get on terms with this fact, as Klonoa turns back around and seemed kind of sad himself... Lolo reassures that it'll be fine though because she's going to do her best, but eventually cannot bear it anymore, starting to tightly hug Klonoa as she starts to cry. Klonoa tries to hold himself in, feeling bad about all of this. But tries to comfort her using the previous words that he heard from his last friend before passing on... "I may leave this world, but if you will never forget this feeling, we'll always be together." Lolo eventually lets him go, and seems a bit more relieved. Klonoa then smiles up a bit, trying to hide the tear that drops his face, indicating he doesn't want to really leave either... and just turns around, walking on forward and disappearing from Lunatea as everything turns into nothingness behind him.