Neige

Neige (ネージュ) is a human reporter that plays an important role in Mega Man Zero 4. She had previous relations to Craft, and gets kidnapped by him during the attack on the Human Settlement by Weil's forces.

Personality
She admires Craft, a Reploid she once interviewed during her journalist days. Even though she may have feelings for Craft, she doesn't display qualms about Zero's defeating him, and is instead grateful that Craft was eventually stopped.

Before Mega Man Zero 4
Neige was a reporter for Neo Arcadia and met Craft while researching a story.

After Weil took power, those opposing Weil were disposed of one by one, human or Reploid. Neige left Neo Arcadia to lead a human Caravan away from Weil's oppression.

Mega Man Zero 4
She first appears in the Caravan trucks trying to get away from Neo Arcadia to reach Area Zero. Weil's forces are catching up to them when Zero arrives and defeats them. She talks to Zero afterward, expressing interest but is still wary.

She later confronts Craft after he attacks Area Zero where she reveals his relationship with him. He kidnaps her to protect her and brings her to a Prison area. Zero goes there to rescue her with the support of the Caravan. She reminds Craft of what he used to fight for before leaving.

Later, Neige provides the Resistance with coordinates to the Teleporter Base, as part of the plan to infiltrate Ragnarok. In the ending, she is amongst those who watch as Ragnarok falls from the sky, wondering if Zero could have possibly survived the crash.

Trivia

 * Her name is French for "snow".
 * Neige is the narrator of the prologue of Mega Man Zero 4, informing the player of the events that happened up to the start of the game, and showing a perspective on the humans' opinion of the Reploids.
 * In Neige's narration, she refers to the 1st Maverick, Elf, and 2nd Maverick Wars collectively as the "War of the Machines" . However, Neige states that the creation of Reploids saw the start of the war, omitting the Wily Wars, the true beginnings of the war.


 * Early character drawings of Neige were initially created with multiple skin tones, as designers played around with the idea of a suntan for the leader of the Caravan.


 * Neige has a cameo appearance in the first issue of Archie's Mega Man comic as one of the reporters in the crowd.
 * Neige's gun she carries around seems to rather be her camera. In concept art, the inside of the barrel is seen, looking similar to a camera lens. Also, attachments for what could be flash lights. Also, she is never seen using it as a weapon, and the flash she used to blind Weil could have been from an attachment for the camera. As seen in the Mega Man comic, it could also double as a micro-phone, although this is not likely since this is a non-canon cameo.