Yubiseiharukana Tanaka

"...I am You..."

- You'haru' to You'aki' on Insel Null, at the end of the You Epilogue

Yubiseiharukana Tanaka (田中 優美清春香菜 Tanaka Yuubiseiharukana), referred to more commonly as You Tanaka due to the length of her name, is an 18-year-old girl and one of the main characters of Ever17. She had a part-time job as guide in LeMU and got trapped inside the theme park during the 2017 LeMU Incident, alongside Tsugumi Komachi, Coco Yagami, Sora Akanegasaki, Takeshi Kuranari and an amnesiac 15-year-old boy.

Appearance
You is a 18-year-old girl with short blonde hair and hazel eyes. In 2017, she initially wears her yellow LeMU employee dress with a blue ribbon, but later changes her outfit to a red and pink dress.

In 2034, she wears a white lab coat on top of a high-necked black dress. She also sports longer hair, but her aging stopped at 21 due to the Curé Virus.

Personality
In 2017, You is energetic and optimistic, and early on tells Takeshi she always tries to be positive because "it's easier".

In 2034, she appears to have become a much calmer person.

Before the 2017 LeMU Incident
Yubiseiharukana was born to Yukie Tanaka, an employee of LeMU, and Yoichi Tanaka, a researcher of LeMU, creator of the LeMMIH computer found in IBF. Her father having disappeared 17 years prior to the events of the game, when You was only one year old, she goes to LeMU with the intent of finding the truth about his sudden disappearance.

At 14, she collapsed and was diagnosed with a fatal heart disease that would shorten her life expectancy to 3-4 years. She then met Dr. Shigezo Morino who proposed her to clone herself in order not to pass down her condition to her children. So, at 17, she gave birth on September 22, 2016, to her daughter who she named Yubiseiakikana.

During the 2017 LeMU Incident
When the group reached IBF, she administered the orange serum against the effects of the Tief Blau Virus.

She persuaded Tsugumi, who carried the Curé Virus, into making a vaccine out of her blood in the lab at IBF to heal everyone from the TB outbreak.

Then, she, the Kid and the researcher that was found at IBF, who she didn't know was actually her father, were taken to safety by a rescue team.

Right after making it to Insel Null, she was told by Blick Winkel to enact the exact same incident that happened in LeMU 17 years in the future, on May 1st, 2034.

After the 2017 LeMU Incident
Having been infected with the Curé Virus, her heart disease was cured, and 3 years later her appearance remained mostly unchanged.

She then began working at LeMU in preparation for the second incident alongside Ryogo Kaburaki, as instructed by Blick Winkel. She graduated in archeology and made extensive research about the Third Eye.

You raised her daughter, Yubiseiakikana, pretending to be her own mother Yukie Tanaka.

During the 2034 LeMU Incident
In 2034, she oversees the execution of the plan and rescues everyone on the 7th day.

Yukie Tanaka
Not much is known about You's relationship with her mother, but she raised her "letting her do whatever she wanted to". Despite believing her husband to be dead, Yukie never opposed her daughter's wish to discover what she thought to be the truth; it is unknown whether she was aware of it.

Yoichi Tanaka
You has little to no memories of her father, since he left when she was just one year old. However, his last words were directed to her.

Trivia

 * During the events of the game she showed to be interested in archeology and to have some medical knowledge, for example when she stitched Tsugumi's wound after the incident at the warehouse.
 * She admitted being afraid of needles when it was her turn to receive a shot in IBF.