Gamma

Gamma (ガンマ) (Γάμμα) is the third member of Shadow Garden, being one of the original "Seven Shadows". Publicly, she is known as Luna, the director of the Mitsugoshi Company which sells products reverse-engineered using the Shadow's descriptions of Earth.

Appearance
Gamma is a mature-looking young woman with a slender figure, large bosom, and dark blue hair with several strands braided that extends nearly to her feet. Furthermore, she also possesses a mole under the left corner of her lips.

Her Shadow Garden uniform consists of a standard slime bodysuit with golden patterns decorated around her chest and arms. Outside of Shadow Garden, Gamma normally wears a long dark dress attached to a checker that exposes her chest and back.

Personality
Gamma is seen as a dignified person with elegance and grace, but in actuality, she is very clumsy, affecting her performance in battle. Although not a competent fighter, she makes up for it by being a very intelligent and cunning individual making her the one responsible for most of Shadow Garden's operations.

Background
After being left for dead by society, she was discovered by Cid Kagenō. He revitalized the girl causing Gamma to develop a deep admiration for the power he possesses which she regards as life itself.

Being one of the original seven members of Shadow Garden, Gamma has spent time training with Cid and the other girls, particularly Delta. Gamma was dismayed that she is not a competent fighter like them. That is until Cid showed her another path through intelligence. Gamma listened to Cid's "Shadow Wisdom" from economics to engineering and decided to pour her dedication into learning them.

First Assault on the Cult
Gamma took part in rescuing Claire alongside the "Seven Shadows". She and her team took care most of the guards, while Shadow killed Viscount Olba.

Renowned Entrepreneur Founding President "Luna" of the famous Mitsugoshi Company
To be able to build a financial and political power that can influence the world for Shadow Garden, Gamma was assigned to go to the Midgar Kingdom's capital to visit the old company which was at its limits called "Luna, Ltd." that deals in clothing supplies of menswear and want to acquire shares of a company owned by Mrs. Luna (an employee who inherited the real Luna name and company before she died) which currently inactive due to her age.

Gamma was able to transfer of company management with the condition of paying the penalty fee to the business partners and tradespeople on the company if she were to acquire the shares and Gamma would took on the name "Luna" in her stead. Even Mrs. Luna had to convinced the business partners and tradespeople that if Gamma could fully procure the penalty fee, they should cooperate with her by her newly restructured Luna, Ltd. because even the company was dead, there are tradespeople who did business with the company and Gamma' policy is to investigate first where something is made rather that sold as a mean to protecting the Shadow Garden's confidentiality.

But, she hasn't bought the all-important shares because Eta was overusing the Garden's reserves for her research, so Gamma need to find the alternative way to solving the reserve fund problem. In order to find the way to generate Garden's revenue systematically, Gamma and Eta come with Zeta to a beach near the royal capital to go fishing. After getting enough catches, Zeta tries to make a Tuna Sandwich with Tartar Sauce with a frying pan made by Eta. Then Gamma wanted to try it and said that the sandwich was delicious, and he thought that this sandwich could be a big business opportunity for Shadow Garden.

After that, Gamma and Zeta tried to find another different sea menu. With this innovative food, Gamma decide to set up a tuna sandwich stall in the capital and eventually open a permanent store with the different food menu item other than tuna like sea bream, squid rings, beef, and onion rings with the sauce addition like mayonnaise sauce, tartar sauce and malt vinegar. Then in the end the name of the sandwich shop was named Mcronald / Tuna King by Cid.

When Gamma acquire shares of an existing business in Midgar with the distribution of fashion for nobles, in addition opening a new venture of McRonald / Tuna King stalls across the capital, the Shadow Garden's income rate has continue to grow increase with the net profit of 25 million Zeni per month, compared to the 4 million Zeni on the fashion. Gamma also plans to gain name recognition by reinforcing the fashion business and targeting deep-pocketed nobles as future customers.

Few days later, Gamma's "Luna, Ltd." fashion division has reached a critical stage in the development of menswear for mass marketing because the production of a new clothing line for nobles is in its final stages and the company plans to deliver "menswear" to some more fashionable noble at the start of the next season. Then, the company started selecting vendors for production and distribution, also conducting background checks on all potential retail vendors to selecting these vendors without the Church backing. After producing the prototypes, the company are ready to begin structuring for mass production.

Also, McRonald / Tuna King stalls division has already gain popularity amongst the middle class and planned to target potential upper class customers as well by promoting tea produced in the Alexandria fields in a drink menu. The Shadow Garden business is gradually increasing also has gain recognition amongst the best of the best in society, such as the aristocrats and some wealthy investor have offered to sponsor the opening of new stores, which Shadow Garden also conducting background checks on all potential sponsors. Also, on McRonald / Tuna King marketing initiatives, Beta (posing as "Natsume Kafka") to prepare several hand-sized novel leaflets themed around Tuna King as novelty items, and serialize these on the ad page of the Midgar Times as a way to reach a wider audience of informed readers.

Therefore, "Luna, Ltd." is starting to take off and quickly growing to become one of the major division in the Garden's operations and Shadow Garden can use MNA not only as a source for top-secret intel about the Cult, but also as a source of business. In order to best utilize the "Luna, Ltd." strength that have developed overs the years, Gamma will decide to established a commercial complex that will include a clothing department, a food and tea department, and the first permanent McRonald / Tuna King restaurant. Also, "Luna, Ltd." will be reborn as the commercial center's managing body to integrate and coordinate these various element until become unparalleled throughout in the entire world.

Afterward, Gamma prepare to set up a new commercial facility in the center of the Midgar capital under a new business model and name because it was the result of the examining process first stages to which shares that Gamma would buy up from the capital. Without the shares issued by the capital, Gamma wouldn't be able to run a business for the aristocrats and couldn't start a new company since there's a cap on the number of issued shares with all that left of the former "Luna, Ltd." was that land and a clothing business on the verge of collapse. Even before Gamma visit the company, Mrs. Luna has been maintained "Luna, Ltd." as Luna's double for ten years, despite having any blood relation or personal stake in the company.

Gamma picked the store location site in the city center which is a perfect place for about 90 percent because its located at the heart of the city where they have access to the commoner and the wealthy, as Gamma has already developed a vast aristocrat client base through parties and salons, a supply network linking province and capital well verse in fashion and tea trade, and an understanding of the middle class via McRonald / Tuna King.

Because of these unprecedented growing expansion business of "Luna, Ltd." and its tremendous growth also gained popularity after Gamma selling her "Luna" name into public, other company's competitors are clearly growing hostile to Luna, Ltd. which proves that Gamma company influence has grown to the point where the rival company couldn't longer ignore. Therefore, Gamma has made a lot of enemies, apart from the Cult which has limited her movement and some of them are wants to destroy the company by trying to get rid of Gamma out of the picture.

The next day, Gamma meets with Zeta to tell her that Mrs. Luna has nothing to do with the cult, and reveals a secret that Mrs. Luna is actually just an employee who has taken the name from the real Luna after she died with her family because she didn't want to cover up the fact that her granddaughter had an possessed that made other companies attack and overthrow her until she died and has carried out the mandate to run the company for 10 years as Luna's successor, without blood relations and personal debt to the company. Gamma knows why the real Luna didn't cover it up so that her granddaughter's existence would not be erased and dreams that her granddaughter will build then manage a business and take over the company in her name, so Gamma decides to keep this secret out of respect for the wishes of Mrs. Luna and the real Luna.

At night, Gamma was carrying goods to be transported until he was blocked by bandits and then killed by mercenaries who he thought were assassins from the cult, but Gamma was able to overcome them and reported this incident to Alpha until he found out that the mastermind was from a rival company.

As "Luna, Ltd." new commercial complex will be finished in two months with Eta's help, Shadow Garden has suspected that after Gamma assassination attempt ended in failure, they will used another way to ruin their company's credibility which make them impossible to do business in the capital, which is interfering with their own supply product. After hearing the confirmation of Beta and Zeta's reports, the Seven Shadows decide to hold a strategy meeting to commence an operation to eliminated their company rivals by sending a cargo of useless items along with a tenth of their produce as bait, so that the Numbers will find a place where the mercenaries would need to hide their fake carriage. And then carry out raids to all their secret places simultaneously and their genuine products will be delivered mainly by private distributors from the provinces.

While Alpha and Delta are working with the Numbers to exterminate all the mercenaries including the rival company president, Gamma will attend the celebration of opening ceremony for the company's new store and express her gratitude to the suppliers and merchants from various regions who have sold their products which will later be traded through the store, as a result of a strong ties that has been developed with for over a years.

Their new company store will serve as a major retail center in the capital and intent to expand with related facilities in the near future, since it began as a small business when Gamma restructured the company and will continue to handle small business transactions as the suppliers will continue to rely on "Luna, Ltd." not only sell their product, but also as a relay facility of small-lot mail order and connecting the distribution of goods between remote locations. The store will become a commercial complex with a fashion department dedicated to their principal merchandise, which is a fine menswear. Also, food and daily commodities department which will include tea and a permanent indoor McRonald / Tuna King restaurant.

Gamma takes great pride in informing the attendees of this event that the business model they are managing will offer a completely new shopping experience that has never existed before in Midgar Kingdom, as the new company store will leap from the present to the future with their business partners and customers when Gamma declare an establishment of the company by changing "Luna, Ltd." name into the Mitsugoshi Company.

Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
Gamma reintroduces herself to Shadow when he entered one of Mitsugoshi's stores, as she welcomed him before tripping down the steps. Gamma told him of her business success and the great fortune that she has procured from it, leaving him in amazement. Gamma is then rewarded by her leader on this venture with him showing off his power. Believing he came to inquire about the attacks done by killers pretending to be Shadow Garden, she told him what they know. After Shadow informs them that he has a lead, Gamma sends in Nu to assist him.

She then set up an operation to save Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy from a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Order of Diabolos. After the school was saved, she and Alpha discuss their master's triumph over the terrorist leader, which she gave smile with respect for him and notice that Shadow is labelled as enemy to the kingdom and is wanted for mass murder, kidnapping, arson, and robbery. Gamma tells Alpha that Shadow states he will gladly accept the guilt for all crimes, but that won't change anything and they will keep doing what they must. Alpha thought that they stood for righteousness, but Shadow doesn't seems to see it that way and they must live up to his resolve. Then, Alpha tells Gamma to assemble the available "Seven Shadows".

God of War Tournament
Cid visits Gamma once more and orders her to help him enter the God of War Tournament. She helps him by changing his appearance and identity to that of an ordinary looking man.

Great Trading Company Conflict
Gamma and Shadow Garden decided the time was now to place their company on top of the business world. Mitsugoshi Company currently has a strong standing, due to their innovative products and its creation of the popular banking notes. This led the Great Commerce Alliance to send their private army to sabotage the Mitsugoshi supply lines by attacking their carriages, but they were no match for Shadow Garden's well-trained forces and supplies kept running smoothly.

They also dispatched their best assassins, The "Clovers" with the objective to gathering all confidential documents, the money and manufacturing details, then engaging in sabotage, also pillaging as well as kidnapping important personnel without failure. But, Gamma with the help of Nu foiled the attempt.

She then received word of Delta's disappearance, greatly worrying her. This grew worse when she learned that Shadow seemingly abandoned which was undone when Beta told them the truth. Gamma expressed happiness that Shadow was still loyal to them and that Delta is alive. After Great Commerce Alliance collapsed, Mitsugoshi Co became the most successful business and their companies' position became more solid than ever in the capital, with the elimination of their competitors.

Powers & Abilities
Gamma is the weakest member among the original Seven Shadows, because of her clumsiness and lack of physical abilities. Although she felt very sad and disappointed by this, once believing she could be ejected from Shadow Garden, her mentor and Lord, Shadow, has showed her another way to which she can master, namely her intelligence. And while Gamma could not contribute as a fighter, she was educated to be a commander and entrepreneur, coordinating Shadow Garden's forces under the guise of her employees as well as on the scene authority.

Great Intellectual
Gamma's natural trait is her intelligence, making her excellent at multi-tasking, extracting knowledge from her opponents, and planning out strategies ahead of time. Apart from her military brilliance, she is adept in entrepreneurship with the establishment of her Mitsugoshi Company. She applies fundamental economics she learned from Cid to her business accumen, such as starting the banking system, which became popular among the populace with the note exchange for coins. As such, the Midgar Kingdom's economy boomed as people could use bills for the expenses of items worth hundreds or even thousands of coins.

Swordsmanship
Gamma is terrible in combat, but she learned swordsmanship as much as she could. Unless her enemy is in front of her and at very close range, Gamma will try to avoid moving due to her lack of coordination in footwork more than arm coordination.

Although she is the weakest of the seven shadows of Shadow Garden, due to her clumsiness, she can't coordinate her attacks well. However, she instead has a lot of magical strength, which even if her enemy knows that she is clumsy, it would be very risky to approach her, since she could severely cut or kill her opponent in range. When Gamma prepared to face one of the "Clovers" sent by Gettan of the Trade Alliance, Gamma's hand for holding her sword came loose due to her lacking dexterity and her sword suddenly flung forward and stabbed Clovers assassin unintentionally, cleaving his head in half.

In the game, she uses a large nodachi.

Magic
As she was cured by Shadow himself, Gamma has tremendous speed and an abundance of magical power, which is offset by her lack of prowess. Not helping this is her clumsiness, which concurrently makes her a bit more unpredictable, such as when she fell and threw her sword in such a way it bisected her assassin.

Cid Kagenō / Shadow
Gamma deeply admires her lord after the latter discovered her and rescued her when she was discarded by society. Being enveloped by Cid's power causes her to tear up immensely. Gamma viewed Cid as an intelligent man and is frustrated at herself for not being able to keep up with his prowess, though he is pleased when he praised her business savvy.

She is heartbroken upon learning Cid betrayed Shadow Garden but upon later discovering that he hadn't and had a secret plan to help them, Gamma cries in joy and her admiration had only increased.

Alpha
Gamma serves as Alpha's right hand when it comes to managing Shadow Garden, in that sense, she is responsible for the financial and administrative affairs of the organization, as well as the head of its operations in foreign countries. Gamma highly respects her superior and they are able to get along.

Delta
Both Gamma and Delta did not get along when they were younger, due to Delta picking on her for her lack of combat prowess. However, they eventually got over that and treated each other like siblings. When Gamma thought Delta had been killed, she was completely devastated and overjoyed when Delta returned alive.

Eta
Like most of Shadow Garden, Gamma disliked Eta's use of them in her experiments. However, she was also annoyed with the Elf for spending much of Shadow Garden's funds to carry out her experiments.

Nu
Nu is a high-ranking member of the Shadow Garden and carries double-digit number are also given Greek names, ranking just below the Seven Shadows. Nu serves as Gamma's assistant and personal bodyguard, as she is incapable of fighting.

Trivia

 * It's revealed in the anime short, Kage-Jitsu! that Gamma has low alcohol tolerance.