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Fixers
Mercenaries hired by contracts for a variety of different jobs who are often affiliated with Offices or Associations. open/close all folders
In General
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Quite literally to the trope, being a Fixer means being willing to take up all sorts of jobs. Spying, assassination, detective work, armed escort, rescuing pets, pseudo-policing, so as long as it pays and depending on the Fixers reputation, there're plenty of jobs to be taken.
- Ascended Extra: Elite Fixers only appear as White Ordeals encountered in the final days of Lobotomy Corp. In this game, there are all sorts of Fixers, handling errands such as picking up cats, acting as bodyguards, hitmen, or even detectives. They are also unique and colorful characters of their own regard with varying personalities instead of the flat enemy characters in the previous game.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Encouraged by most Fixer organizations, the dress code usually involves a suit and occasionally a coat for both office work and combat. Special technologies and groups of people such as the Tailors/Carnival allows these suits to function as viable protection against most weaponry, just as good as a suit of armor depending on the weave.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Dedicating oneself to firearms over melee combat is typically looked down on by Fixers. With the overly restrictive gun laws present in the City, the overwhelmingly expensive cost of acquiring said gun and its ammunition, and the fact that any sufficiently skilled target can easily dodge and parry all the flying bullets (see the Blue Reverberation vs. the Full-Stop Office), it's generally agreed that fighting solely with bullets isn't worth it compared to a trusty melee weapon.
- Hitman with a Heart: A great deal of Fixers are relatively normal people trying to make ends meet in the City, and hold pretty normal attitudes and relationships. It also happens that most experienced Fixers are also trained combatants with plenty of experience in fighting and killing.
- Power Levels: Fixers are ranked between grades 9 to 1, with Grade 9 being the weakest and Grade 1 being the toughest. Fixers who go above and beyond even this scale become Color Fixers, and are assigned their own unique callsign themed around their color.
Offices
Small organizations made up of Fixers and their managers, common throughout the City. Serving as the beginning of Fixers' careers, smaller Offices often lack manpower or resources, and are often drowned in debt by the Wings. An operator is responsible for managing the Office, hiring new recruits and such. Some Offices are handled by only one Fixer because of their poor-state and financial woes. This is not saying all Offices are worn down, some of those people would simply don't like the additional responsibilities that come with being affiliated with an Association. It all comes down to the financial state of the Office and its location. They serve as common organizations that are groups of guests in the game. In General
- Band of Brothers: Discussed, played straight, and subverted on a case-by-case basis. The Stray Dogs point out that Fixer Offices are liable to backstab their own for personal gain, and Roland mentions that making friends isn't wise given it'll get in the way of the profession. In practice, some Offices are relatively tight-knit groups of friendly co-workers who are devastated to see their friends killed in the Library, others are as impartial to each other as the Stray Dogs warned.
- Corporate Warfare: Fixer Offices can get involved in the conflicts and conspiracies of the Wings, or try to intercept them themselves. For example, the mystery behind the WARP Trains of T Corp. drives the storyline between Gaze Office, Cane Office, and Molar Office as the situation unfolds between them.
- Gang of Hats: Most Offices have a theme going for them, and their members represent it. The Gaze Office is mainly composed of heavily augmented cyborgs and specialize in spying, the Hook Office is composed of street thugs in menacing masks and are normally hired for their sheer brutality, the Full-Stop Office mainly train themselves with firearms, etc. It is common for them to be named after their modus operandi, i.e the Hook Office takes its name from them hanging victims on hooks.
- Private Military Contractors: Where other Fixers can (rarely) operate solo, Offices are formed when multiple Fixers hire and unite as one group to offer their services to clients.
- Power Levels: Offices are generally ranked the same way as Fixers through a scale of 9-1, and are expected to take on requests of their ranking. Yun's Office is so low that they mostly take on menial tasks and petty quarrels, while Cane Office is renowned for handling multiple Star of the City tiered threats by themselves.
Yun's Office
In General
- "Fixers aren't any better than Syndicates when it comes to greed."- Roland
- Noob Cave: They are one of the first few guests you fight and are also pitifully weak like the Rats.
Yun
Voiced by: Hwang Changyeong (Korean), Kazuki Kyan (Japanese)
The operator of his eponymous office. He's hungry for profit and would easily dispose of his weaker members.- Everyone Has Standards: Downplayed, Yun admits that he wasn't particularly happy about purposefully sending Finn off to his death but he does so anyways and it's been implied Yun has done similar actions before.
- Greed: Yun cares only about money due to his Office being broke, and is so desperate that he sends his entire office to die in the Library in the hopes that the reward will be worth it.
- Never My Fault: Yun rationalizes sending Finn to his death as this, saying that since Finn is such an enthusiastic young man, he'll get killed and abused regardless of who takes him in.
Finn
Voiced by: Kim In Hyung (Korean), Souhei Horikane (Japanese)
A young man who is the newest recruit to Yun's Office. Yun thrown him into the Library as a recon agent, and he ends up being one of the first causalities of the snowballing threat that is the Library.- Duel Boss: Heavily downplayed in that Finn is not a particular threat but while it is theoretically possible to bring multiple Librarians to fight Finn, the first time Finn is fought, the only available Librarian is Roland, turning Finn's reception into a very watered-down version of this. That Roland later uses Memory - Yun's Office, an upgraded version of Finn's Struggle, implies that the battle was carried out by Roland and that it left an impression on the man.
- Naïve Newcomer: Finn is one of the first units that you fight who belongs to a proper Fixer Office, as well as the latest recruit of Yun's Office. He's also pretty naive, considering he believes that he can really work the way to the top from his run-down office as a new recruit, and he does believe that he can go to the top without bodily modifications.note Eventually Yun sends Finn into the Library to death, and he (alongside a big chunk of the office) becomes the first in a very long list of people who were killed by the Library.
- Older Than They Look: Despite looking like he's in his teen, he's actually 20 years old.
- Weak-Willed: Finn has one of the lowest stagger of anything in the game, being of a whopping 4. This means that a single good attack will stagger him and will probably leave him open to being swiftly killed in the next scene.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Finn would make an excellent anime protagonist anywhere else because of his optimism and his rejection of amoral body transplants. Just not here.
Hook Office
In General
- "Even rascals like those can join Offices these days, huh."- Roland
- Army of Thieves and Whores: Syndicates usually consist of thieves, thugs, and murderers. The Hook Office becoming Fixers hasn't changed that, and it was in fact the reason they were hired.
- Artificial Limbs: Taein’s weapons are two bionic scythes attached to his back and lets them do the work while he keeps his hands inside his pockets.
- Dead Guy on Display: They hang their mangled victims on hooks.
- Malevolent Masked Men: All members have a mask of some kind and they retain their brutality even when registered to an Office.
- The Remnant: One of the Urban Myth General Invitations involves dealing with the remnants of their Office, while another Urban Legend General Invitation similarly involves them, this time in partnership with members of the Stray Dogs as well.
Streetlight Office
In General
- "They're still rookies. It's not a good idea for Fixers to form such tight bonds with each other."- Roland
- Anguished Declaration of Love: When killed during the first Streetlight reception, Mars's death line will have him lament how he never got the chance to tell "her" (Lulu) how he really felt about her.
- Batter Up!: Lulu's weapon of choice is a black and yellow stripped bat, which can heat itself up to ignite foes upon being hit.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The second part of their Chapter involves Lulu, a member of the Streetlight Office, gathering a group of her friends and going to the Library by herself to reclaim the Book of a fallen ally. Unfortunately, it backfired and they fail, cementing the whole office as one of a collapsing list of offices that got decimated by the Library.
- Tsundere: While Mars and Lulu have a relationship full of Beligerent Sexual Tension, Lulu is the more openly hot and cold about her feelings towards Mars.
Molar Office
In General
- "A malfunction with WARP? This could be a huge blow to W Corp's reputation if it ever gets out to the public."- Roland
- Brother–Sister Team: Olga and Rain are siblings, and their relationship is somewhat strained. Rain, in their in the Library, outright says that he can depend on Mika but he's not so sure about his own sister.
- The Bus Came Back: They show up again in Limbus Company as Molar Boatworks, having been stranded in a U Corp beach scrapyard following their revival. They've been running a repair and salvage yard in order to fund a trip back to their home Nest, having learned from their previous incident that taking the Warp Trains is not a good idea.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Comparatively, their cards don't do nearly as much damage as some of the other threats found near their spot in the questline, but they specialize in multi-hit attacks that are dirt cheap to use with their low-light costs, and their pages grant them a damage boost for using these cards up quickly or heal them for every card discarded. With nearly every card at their disposal having the effect of discarding itself, they're able to take full advantage of their passive abilities.
- Morton's Fork: They either A) stay on the train for eternity as far as they know and go crazy, or B) take the invitation and die in the Library. They take option B.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: Following their revival on one of U Corp's beaches, the trio change from their previous office worker-esque Fixer uniforms into more appropriate beach-side workshop attire. Rain and Mika wear more casual mechanic outfits, while Olga wears a diving suit when on the job.
Known Operatives
Olga
"It's me friend's request, so I'll chin up and get this done."
A well-built young woman who was a childhood friend with Myo. She partied the whole night a day before she was tasked to investigate the Library for her, and was still heavily drunk during her operation. Unfortunately, the Warp Train seemingly malfunctioned, so she takes the invitation to go to the Library.- Birds of a Feather: She gets along swimmingly with fellow Hard-Drinking Party Girl Rodion while working with the Sinners.
- Brother–Sister Team: The sister of Rain.
- Childish Older Sibling: She's a hard drinker and too much of a party-girl for her own good, something that leaves her relationship with Rain strained.
- Desperation Attack: Hold up!, a 0-cost attack that has a miserably low roll and damage, but regenerates 1 light. Handy to have in early battles as a follow-up move if a librarian has two speed die, or if they’re completely out of lights to work with.
- Handicapped Badass: Implied, as she's one of the few characters with a gold key page up to the Urban Plague tier and comes with two speed die, but she's hungover enough that she laments she's in no fighting condition during the fight for their lives in the Library.
- Limbus Company shows that, when she's not hungover, she's actually a scarily competent Grade 5 fixer, easily dealing with massive crab mutants. According to Ishmael's Molar Boat Work Fixer identity (Which has her take Olga's place) she even took down one of said crabs with her bare hands immediately after her revival.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Her pastime is going to the bar to get wasted, and in the night before the WARP Train incident, she had one of her biggest nights yet and has to spend the entire situation on the train and fighting in the Library hungover and close to puking.
- Statuesque Stunner: Olga towers over her entire team and a good portion of the characters seen at this point.
Mika
"What a mess we've gotten into..."
A young woman who wears glasses. Her father fell victim to fraud a long time ago, causing him to accidentally create a weapon out of a patented singularity and procuring the Head's wrath. After sending three cease-and-desist orders, they deployed a Claw into his Workshop and killed him instantly.- Disappeared Dad: According to Mika's book, her father fell for a fraud where one of his clients requested a weapon for his office created out of a stolen singularity. When he created the weapon and was about to have his client test it, the Head sent three cease-and-desist orders for unpatented tech. It's implied a Claw invaded his workshop and killed him right on the spot afterwards.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: When she appears in Limbus Company, her glasses are perpetually on her forehead, suggesting she does not actually need them.
- Wrench Wench: She's the main mechanic of the group following their restructuring into a boat workshop, and is good enough to successfully remodel Mephistopheles with a bit of help from Outis.
Rain
Olga's younger brother, although their relationship is a bit strained.
- BFS: His weapon is a big and heavy chainsaw in the shape of a greatsword.
- Chainsaw Good: He fights with a strange combination of a sword and a chainsaw, which he still hangs onto in Limbus Company to kill Trash Crabs.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible one between him and Olga, he's got a cool head and no-nonsense disposition.
- The Leader: Olga's the toughest fighter, but when it comes to keeping everyone in line, Rain's the guy with authority.
- Mature Younger Sibling: To the point where he almost looks down on his sister.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: His outfit in Limbus Company, ditching his sharp suit for a large blue jacket and a bare chest beneath to deal with the coastal environment of U Corp.
Full-Stop Office
In General
- "That's why guns aren't used too often. They're not very effective against actually competent opponents."- Roland
- Curb-Stomp Battle: After wasting limited resources trying to even hit the Church of Gears leader Elieen, they finally made it... only for Argalia to suddenly pop out to block the killshot and running all over the place trying to kill the operatives. Unable to stand a chance in hell of killing the Blue Reverberation himself, they hastily send themselves to the Library to die there instead.
- Guns Are Useless: They are one of the few paramilitary entities with access to firearms, but theirs were noticeably of shoddy quality because of the Head's Gun Control laws that prevent Guns from being made to be actually effective and impossible to obtain and maintain without exorbitant sums of money, in addition to most opponents being well trained to evade and counter gunshots. Therefore, Full-Stop office is not suited for extended combat, and they are only used for swift execution.
- Magikarp Power: Inverted - their passives make them start powerful for an Urban Plague fight, getting a power buff on the first turns to seriously harm unprepared librarians. After that, their passive is used up and they're of middling power. Being in combat for too long will cause them to use up all of their ammo, preventing them from fighting at all.
- Victory by Endurance: The likely way players will beat them early-on is by out-clashing and enduring their gunfire until they either run dry of attacks or use their best moves too early, leaving them open to revenge attacks.
Dawn Office
In General
- Noodle Incident: Whatever the Midnight Pancreas Burgers request involved, it was enough of a Nausea Fuel for Dawn Office to the point that Philip simply bringing up the request's name is sufficient enough to elicit disgust from both Yuna and Salvador.
- Playing with Fire: Most of their combat pages inflict burn, and their members use Stigma Workshop's weapons, which are famed for its capacity to burn through flesh and metal.
- Small Role, Big Impact: In the grand scheme of things, the Dawn Office was just supposed to be another victim to be ground up in the Library. Salvador's and Yuna's last words to Philip and Philip's survival and escape, however, kicked off a very, very long journey for Philip and led to unprecedented destruction in the near future.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the long run, they were just another set of opponents to be slain and assimilated by the Library. Their apprentice and sole survivor, Philip, would go on to become a massive threat to the City that would also lead the Liu Association to their demise.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: While Urban Plague's receptions are a step up compared to Urban Legend, it's this trio of Fixers that will give new players a flat out headache due to their spamming of burn-inflicting attacks, their passives that will lead to a Total Party Wipe if handled incorrectly, as well as Salvador's potential to use Crack of Dawn, an attack with a high roll enough to steamroll most Librarians in a single hit in this stage of the game.
- The Worf Effect: Despite being a high standard office with decades of war experience, they were one of the many early combatants who were lured into and decimated by the Library and by extension, the player themselves.
Salvador
- BFS: Wields a zweihander alongside two shortswords. Fitting, as he was once part of the Zwei Association before founding an office of his own.
- Cool Old Guy: Salvador really got around the City in his heyday, with his name being known by multiple big name characters and his reputation as a reliable and experienced Fixer well established. His relationship with Philip is mentor, even parental-like, which makes his death all the more tougher for Philip to take.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Despite being the one who first took a young Roland under his wing, he doesn’t recognize his possible opponent being the same man who fought by his side years ago. Given that Roland at that point in his life almost never took his perception altering mask off, it’s likely that Salvador never even got to see his face, or possibly even remember much of the man.
- Stone Wall: Salvador focuses primarily on defense, protecting himself and his team with defensive buffs and making himself hard to dent through normal attack.
- The Worf Effect: While at no means an easy foe during that phase of the game, Salvador is a veteran Fixer with decades of combat experience who ends up being one of the earlier victims of the Library.
Philip
Salvador's newest apprentice, a quiet and deferential Fixer said to have significant potential. Unfortunately, he is also an emotionally insecure coward.
For tropes regarding Philip, go to this page.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Philip, upon taking heavy damage, decides to flee the battle and escape the Library to get backup rather than die with his Office.
Yuna
- Implied Love Interest: Deconstructed. Despite Philip genuinely liking to her, she doesn't share the same feelings because Philip's tendencies to run away in a pinch makes him too cowardly to be any sort of formidable fighter. This leads to Philip actually manifesting an uncouth delusion about her and Salvador that cannot be resolved because his senior and mentor are killed before he gets answers, which in return leads to him becoming the Crying Children, a Distortion capable of mass havoc.
- One-Woman Army: Downplayed; while not on the level of some other high-grade Fixers, Yuna is sufficiently skilled enough to handle a high-end Urban Legend request all by herself. This is also encouraged by her Lone Fixer passive which gives Yuna +3 Strength if she is the only combatant on the field/remaining.
- Senseless Violins: Wields a cello case that ejects bladed arms to slice up her opponents.
Wedge Office
In General
- "That Philip guy seems hurt, but I agree with Oscar here. Few things are as dangerous and nasty as selfishness in the guise of 'for the sake of someone else'"- Roland
- Bait-and-Switch: You are going in believing that this is one of your run of the mill Fixer battles when you first fight them. It isn't, and the Wedge Office itself is just the warmup phase, and the real confrontation is against the E.G.O. Philip that remains after the Office is annihilated.
- Body Backup Drive: Pameli was gravely injured in a raid against the 8 O'clock Circus and got her whole body replaced with Pamela's thanks to insurance. She doesn't really like her cloned body, unfortunately.
- Glacier Waif: Pamela and Pameli are among the shortest of combatants faced, and wield huge lances as their weapon of choice.
- Half-Identical Twins: Pamela and Pameli, due to Pameli suffering grievous injuries on an earlier mission, look almost identical save for a difference in hair color.
- Jousting Lance: Their weapon of choice, as well as symbol for their Office.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Oscar gives Philip a pep-talk about his Cowardly Lion personality, while the maids tell him to be better. This helps Philip to partially manifest E.G.O. after nearly dying.
Oscar
- Determinator: Implied with his Unrelenting passive, which allows him to survive a lethal blow once during a reception and reduces any other incoming damage by 20 for the rest of that scene.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acts fairly gruff towards Philip, even criticizing Philip's mindset very harshly, yet at the end of the day, Oscar ends up sneaking a teleportation device on Philip which ensures Philip's survival. Lampshaded by Roland afterwards.Roland: I didn't know that coot would put that kinda device on him... Old Man Oscar's still not honest with himself.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Heavily implied to be Invoked. Turns out that Oscar placed an escape port on Philip to escape. Unfortunately, it's to the last place the Office raided; the 8 O'clock circus, and it's heavily implied that the Library deliberately alters his escape route for the purpose of baiting out a much stronger target later on. This leads poor Philip to become The Crying Children and later join the Reverb Ensemble.
Cane Office
In General
- "Patent wars are waged over those technologies, but in truth, neither side really benefits from them. It ends in a Pyrrhic victory at best."- Roland
- Beware the Silly Ones: The trio might seem goofy with their banter at first glance, and being bullied by Pluto and Argalia doesn't help their first impression, but they're a Star of the City-classed reception for a reason. Their heavy defenses and hard hitting attacks after gaining momentum with charge means they can run over a librarian very quickly while being able to keep themselves alive long enough to win through sheer stagger-power and attrition. Plus, by Nemo's own words, they've already handled almost a dozen Star of the City tiered requests before walking into the Library, the highest threat level that troublemakers can obtain in the City before the Head itself takes over to get involved.
- Cyborg: Nemo is the most obvious one, with his head replaced with an I-pad-like screen that expresses various emotions. Bada and Martina are more subtle examples, as Bada has a cybernetics enhanced heart and presumable other augmentations to his innards, while Martina seems to have tendril-like weapons installed up her sleeve/briefcase, which she uses to whip stab and shock opponents in combat.
- Energy Shield: All three of them utilize them when blocking. Nemo himself is featured in the artwork for the aptly titled Energy Shield combat page.
- Deal with the Devil: Effectively, this is how they got into the whole mess with the Library in the first place. Nemo made a shortsighted deal with Pluto to try and gain W Corp's singularity in exchange for books they need from the Library. What Nemo didn't account for was very small and hidden text that states they'll the Cane Office will be going alone into the Library, while Pluto and Argalia aren't obligated to so much as lift a finger to help.
- Secret Art: All three have a card exclusive to only their key pages.
- Stone Wall: The trio uses a deck of cards that focuses on building their charge through heavy defenses before retaliating with a charge-fueled attack.
Nemo
"We were led by monsters out of the pan and into the flame; a den of monsters known as the Library. This has to be comedy gold, the joke of the century."
The president of Cane Office, Nemo is selfish and greedy to a fault, jumping at the opportunity to acquire W-Corps singularity to sell later by taking up Yesterday's Promise contractual agreement. Unfortunately for him, the conditions of the contract require him and his fixers to enter the Library for books - by themselves.- Asshole Victim: One of the rare justifiable cases in this game, Nemo is one of the very few overtly corrupt entities in the City, who made a contract with Pluto just to start a patent war and get W Corp's singularity for their own use. Of course, Pluto isn't letting him do this, and it turns out that they also need to get the W Corp employee's books for him and Argalia themselves. Of course, in this case, it's either death or death, so they can't really do anything save for going to the Library and dying in combat.
- Benevolent Boss: Despite how much he likes to rave about profit and business opportunities, he admits he'd never cheat his own subordinates out of their share of the deal, and he's nothing but polite and jovial to his companions. Not so much if they die trying to protect him, though.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Nemo spends the yearly expense of a Backstreet citizen in a single day and can't even go one second without raving how profitable something is for him.... even if it means a situation that equates to absolute death. His two subordinates are very uncomfortable with this.
- Energy Weapon: Nemo is able to fire a beam of energy from his face.
- Expressive Accessory: Nemo's face, an LED-like screen, shows off his emotions through various colors and emoticon-like expressions.
- Lack of Empathy: Nemo's combat dialogue is comically selfish, if either Bada or Martina die he'll either shout that everything's still okay because he isn't hurt, or matter-of-factly state that avoiding getting hurt and killed was their responsibility alone. By contrast, Bada and Martina have nothing but melancholy things to say as their dying words, or if someone else died.
- Laughably Evil: He may be one of the more corrupt and immoral Fixers in the City, but coupled his Large Ham tendencies and his shameless greed, Nemo ends up as one of the most entertaining guests to enter the Library.
- Large Ham: Nemo begins to enter outrage and insult-filled shouting and anger when he realizes he's been duped by Pluto, with his best moments being when his monitor begins glowing red with rage and the emoticon has a set of angry eyes and sharp teeth.
- Hurricane of Puns: Argalia really can't help himself from spewing a torrent of box and square-based puns and insults to Nemo while he has him at his mercy. Among the names and insults he's given are Six Sided Skull, Nemonitor, Cube Boy, Ol' Oblong, among others.
- Loophole Abuse: The City tends to have some pretty strict gun laws that makes any sort of ranged firepower a real pain in the ass to acquire, and tends to leave you disadvantaged anyways. Nemo got around this with a ranged laser cannon on his face, which is technically not a gun and doubles as his most dangerous attack whenever it's ready.
- The Neidermeyer: He's so blatant about his obsession with profit that even his very own subordinates, Martina and Bada, have second thoughts about him. He also doesn't treat his sister Office on a high regard.
- Secret Art: Energy Beam, a very powerful attack that fires a laser at the enemy once and consumes charge to erase all offensive dice on the target's hand. It's pretty expensive and can't be used often, but is practically guaranteed to win most clashes it's pitted against thanks to its high damage and high dice roll.
- Stepford Smiler: Seems to be the case for Nemo. Despite his monitor only rarely showing off his angry and disgruntled face, which he saves for when he's yelling, he admits wholeheartedly that he's very scared over what he's gotten himself into. That said, his swagger doesn't waver a bit even when standing in the lobby of the Library itself.(Argalia): You bragged about taking care of eleven Star of the City-class requests mere moments ago, no? What's wrong... Don't tell me, are you scared...?
(Nemo, whilst his monitor displays a jovial emoticon): Well, YES! I'm scared piss and shitless, thanks for asking! - Support Party Member: Ironically, for a man so proudly selfish, he's the more support oriented of the trio, with Martina on hard defense and Bada on offense. Ready Up! grants allies protection lasting for two turns, while Energy Beam, while powerful, has the more detrimental effect of destroying offensive die and effectively ruining a librarian's offense for that die.
Martina
"...Should've read the contract more carefully..."
The absurdly tall, lanky and ominous fixer who directly works for Nemo, Martina is a quiet and subdued woman who helps carry out Office contracts. She gets caught up in Nemo's blunder of being contractually forced to enter the Library to collect books Pluto and Argalia seek, or die trying.- Creepy Loner Girl: Martina fits the appearance, being ridiculously tall and skinny with most of her face hidden behind her overgrown black hair. She stands with a slight hunch and her office uniform gives her an all-black attire. In actual personality though, she's more sociable, if strangely calm, than the trope entails.
- Creepy Monotone: All of her dialogue is spoken in a very quiet, calm and monotone even when her Office is in dire trouble.
- Lean and Mean: Martina is a very skinny woman whose height towers over most in-game characters, being significantly taller than most other completely human characters at 191 cm. This can be considered a Statuesque Stunner if you are really into that stuff however. The artbook reveals that most of this height is from her cybernetics.
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: Her briefcase isn't her only weapon. Hidden underneath her long sleeves are giant claws that can tear up her enemies.
- Secret Art: Uncanny Strike can only be used on her key page. It only hits once but hits pretty hard with high a high dice roll, and consumes charge to deal an extra amount of stagger damage. Combined with her innate passive that inflicts bonus stagger damage, she and anyone using her key page/deck can turn into a staggering-machine that may not outright kill their targets, but definitely leave them reeling and open for someone else to finish off.
- Slasher Smile: The artwork for the attack Uncanny Strike gives Martina a large black smile on her otherwise stoic face. She sports similar expressions when attacking.
Bada
- Beat Still, My Heart: After discussing the terms of the contract between Pluto and the Cane Office, the trio suggests that they just deny heading to the Library to defy the contract rather than face certain death. To show that he means business, Pluto uses his abilities to remove Bada's heart, displays it to Nemo while Martina tries to help Bada and then sends it back to end his threat.
- The Generic Guy: Compared the ominous Martina and the comically greedy Nemo, Bada stands out as a relatively normal guy by City standards who has to endure the strange situation his Office found themselves in.
- Power Fist: Bada's weapon, helping him with his role as the main attacking player of the trio.
- Secret Art: Devastating Thrash, a 3-hit move that consumes charge to weaken the opponent's die for a better chance at clashing. It also has a unique animation where the user will use the power fist to uppercut the enemy and slam them down to shatter the ground beneath. It's also Bada's main attack, and if anyone in the trio is going to be dealing consistent damage, it'll be him.
Gaze Office
In General
- "There really are people trying to investigate Singularities."- Angela
- Awesomeness by Analysis: The name of their Office and attack names give this impression, with the trio putting their cybernetics to good use by studying and tracking their foes for a perfect opening before moving in for the kill.
- Combination Attack: Besides their more straightforward attacks, the trio used Paralysis to set themselves up, namely Alloc, for bigger hits. Alloc's more reliable attack is Opportunity Spotted, which is pretty weak by itself but gains enough power when attacking a paralyzed target to chunk their target's HP if caught unguarded. Better yet, Alloc will often set himself up with a +3 strength buff by using Observe while either Dalloc or Bono move in for the paralysis, making Alloc hit even harder.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Completely averted to the point of being a counterexample to the Brotherhood of Iron's cybernetics. Their augments are so good and well made that they’re an well established and professional Office and don’t suffer any consequences from filling themselves up with wires and metal. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Iron are practically suffering at all times from getting their new bodies cheap.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Most of their attacks deal negligible damage, but their passives make use of their love for applying the paralysis effect by granting them extra damage and more frequent paralysis applications, which by extension makes winning clashes against them less likely.
- Man in the Machine: Like the Brotherhood of Iron, they were humans who replaced their bodies with robotics. However, as their bodies are of higher-quality, they don't seem to have the same problems that come with it.
- Shock and Awe: This Office specializes in electricity-based weaponry to stun their foes.
- The Stake Out: The trio were covertly planting a tracking device onto the warp train and waiting to see what'll happen when it 'mysteriously' vanishes without a trace. Fearing having to go back empty handed and fail their jobs, they use their conveniently acquired Library invitation to gain the knowledge they need about the W-Corps singularity instead.
Alloc
"If the Library and its books are just as mysterious as the Singularities, then hopefully they're worth just as much."
One of three fixers of the Gaze Office, Alloc's augmented himself with three traffic-light-like optics and sports a bandaged-up face.- Bandaged Face: Under those bright optics is a face wrapped in gray bandages, presumably hiding the number the operation he took to get those attached took.
- Extra Eyes: He has three eyes/optics that look like traffic lights grafted onto his face, which turn on and off as he studies his foes.
- The Leader: He seems to be the one managing the operation, and keeps the other two in line.
- Musical Assassin: Strangely enough, his weapon is an oboe. The game's art book says that it was meant to be a stick resembling an oboe, but it was accidentally drawn as an actual one and the rest of the development team took it in stride. The SA Forums goons following TeeQueue's LP of this game call it a "combat oboe".
- Parting-Words Regret: When he dies, he sadly calls himself a careless fool who led everyone to their deaths in pursuit of money.
Dalloc
"Look straight ahead if you got time to complain."
The second of three fixers of Gaze Office, Dalloc's replaced her head with a retractable bundle of camera optics facing in multiple directions, on top of seeming to have mechanical and electric claws up her sleeves.- Extra Eyes: She's opted to cleave her entire head off in favor of 4 camera optics in place instead.
- Expressive Accessory: She has a small monitor jumbled into her mess of optics with a simple face emoticon that smiles and frowns depending on the context.
- Tiny Tyrannical Girl: Downplayed, however it’s noted in the artbook that she's pretty selfish and bossy while also happening to be one of the smallest characters in the game, on top of telling Bono to quit complaining and fight in the game proper.
- Vocal Dissonance: She's very short, wears bright neon clothing and has an overall cuter appearance compared to her more imposing cyborg colleagues to the point of seeming like a Genki Girl from a visual impression. Yet, she has a voice much deeper than would be expected and is totally calm and professional in her attitude.
Bono
"We really gotta re-think if this job is worth it..."
The third of three fixers of Gaze Office, Bono's replaced his head with a black and armored replacement, but more importantly has installed four Combat Tentacles to his back, functioning as his main means of attack.- Combat Tentacles: Four strong and durable robotic tentacles tough enough to impale themselves right through people and lift them up effortlessly.
- Cyber Cyclops: In contrast to his multi-eyed companions, Bono only has one optic to his head.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Bono has four metallic tentacles protruding from his back, and unlike Alloc or Dalloc he's not necessarily reliant on paralysis to inflict pain on librarians, being the heavy hitter of the trio.
- Nervous Wreck: Downplayed, but from what limited screen time Bono has he's hardly a calm and trust-giving guy, and he spends the entire stakeout worried that W Corp. is onto their spying, that the Cane Office gave them a faulty tracker (and no info on the job), and how the entire job is just a scam that'll get them killed. When the Library's invitation arrives, he tries to warn the others how they'll probably die in there and not even get close to getting the books they need (which is exactly what happens). Sure enough, he's Properly Paranoid for the wrong reasons, at least in regard to the WARP trains.
Moses' Office
In General
A Fixer Office affiliated with the Seven Association, owned by Moses. They are responsible for tracking incomplete Distortions and (at least temporarily) reverting them, and even capturing full Distortions.
- Hero of Another Story: While certain characters and events are referenced in Library Of Ruina, Moses' Office has no real relevance unless one reads The Distortion Detective, where they are the main characters.
Known Fixers
Moses
The eponymous Operator of Moses' Office, she is a short middle-aged woman who can sense Distortions and (partially) reverse and cure them, working as "the Distortion Detective." She has a modified smoking pipe with the ability to cleanse Distorted people and has the innate ability to see Distortions and how far along they are. Secretly, this pipe is actually her Psychoment (E.G.O.), making her one of the few people known to have successfully manifested E.G.O. As a result, she cannot Distort.
For tropes about Moses, see here.
Jeong's Office
In General
A Fixer Office that operates primarily in J Corp's Nest. They are affiliated with the Öufi Association.
- Death Dealer: Played with. While the Jeong's Office Fixers themselves don't use cards as a weapon, the names of their combat pages and passives, such as Shuffle Hands, invoke this sort of aesthetic. This is unsurprising given that they are based in Nest J, a Nest known for its gambling.
- Discard and Draw: The main gimmick behind both their key pages and their passives revolve around discarding combat pages from their hand.
- Meaningful Name:
- The Korean character "Jeong" (定) approximately translates as "to settle/suppress/determine/resolve". Jeong's Office works to ensure the stability of gambling deals and trades in Nest J and resolve any incidents that arise.
- Hanafuda, their unique member, is named after hanafuda (flower cards), a type of Japanese playing cards.
The Udjat
In General
Ostensibly a Grade 1 Fixer Office, they are, in practice, a private army that serves the interest of the enigmatic Dias.
For tropes about their leader, Dias, see here.
- Malevolent Masked Men/Women: Their uniform consists of a black mask with a gold Eye of Horus engraved on it which conceals their entire face. They all also are loyal only to their leader Dias who, among other things, was one of the main actors responsible for the Smoke War.
- Stone Wall: Their passives and combat pages focus on building Endurance or stacking Protection on themselves and their allies, making them some of the tankiest guests in the entire game.
- Villain of Another Story: Though they have minimal impact on the plot of Library of Ruina, they are a much more influential force in the novel tie-in, The Distortion Detective due to the larger presence of their leader, Dias.
- The Voiceless: Though they can presumably speak, they are completely silent in their reception.
Bayard's Office
In General
A Fixer Office that is run by Bayard who, among other things, is a close friend with multiple Fixers from the famous Charles' Office.
- Glass Cannon: Every single one of them has the Offensive Position passive, which inflicts 3 Fragile on themselves in return for 1 Strength every turn.
Known Fixers
Bayard
The eponymous Operator of Bayard's Office. He is good friends with Maugris, Renaud, Bradamante, and Astolfo, all of whom were Fixers of the near-legendary Charles' Office.
- Death or Glory Attack: His exclusive combat page, Pinpoint Breakthrough, deals stagger damage equal to Bayard's current stagger resist. This comes at a cost of expending all of Bayard's stagger resist as well, however, which will leave Bayard incredibly vulnerable afterwards.
- Graceful Loser: Admits in his key page story that he envied Renaud for managing to get his Office under control, but that he could tell just how much more skilled Renaud was than him and was willing to let go of his pride.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He has one with Renaud, whom he describes as a "spring chicken".
- Meaningful Name: Bayard shares his name with Bayard, the horse used by Renaud de Montauban; Renaud is one of Charlemagne's 12 paladins (which serves as the source for the names of each of the 12 Fixers of Charles' Office).
- One Degree of Separation: He is good friends with multiple Fixers from Charles' Office. One of them (Renaud), had even helped Bayard organize his Office from an undisciplined mess into the effective force it is now. Charles' Office was also the former Office that Roland worked at, though it is implied from Bayard and his Fixers' key page stories that they never met him.
Ame Office
In General
A small Office familiar to Moses' Office. Appears only in The Distortion Detective.
Dou Gui Combat Office
In General
A Grade 1 Combat Office in District 14. Appears only in The Distortion Detective.
Charles' Office
In General (Unmarked Spoilers)
A highly professional Grade 1 Office originally consisting of 12 Fixers (13 including Angelica) under its Operator, Charles. They were responsible for taking down the Star of the City-class threat known as the Blood-red Night, a.k.a. Elena.
- The Fellowship Has Ended: By the events of Library Of Ruina, Charles' Office has since disbanded, with each Fixer going their own way.
- Meaningful Name: Charles as in medieval ruler Charlemagne and the 12 Fixers as in the 12 Paladins, fictional knights of legend in Charlemagne's court. All known members of the Office take their names from medieval European works which incorporate the Paladins.
- Roland, Olivier, and their partnership come from The Song of Roland.
- Astolfo, Renaud, Ogier, and Maugris all are members of the Paladins in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. Naimon is not, but is also included as part of them elsewhere.
- Bradamante and Angelica (as well as her brother Argalia) also take their names from the Orlando works. Neither of them are members of the Paladins in their originating stories, but Bradamante is one of the 12 here.
- One Extra Member: Not counting their Operator, their members were collectively regarded as the 12 Fixers... plus Angelica.
Known Agents (Unmarked Spoilers)
Charles
Charles
The Operator of Charles' Office, also referred to as the Captain.- The Alleged Boss: According to the Library Of Ruina artbook, while Charles may have been the Operator, Roland was such a Hyper-Competent Sidekick that he managed to earn Charles' trust and became the one who actually led the 12 Fixers.
- Unknown Character: Apart from being the namesake of his Office, almost nothing else is known about him, and not even Roland nor any of the other known Fixers from his Office ever mention him. The only confirmation of his existence comes from a developer comment in Vol. II of the Library Of Ruina artbook.
Black-Masked Fixer
Roland
During the Floor Realization of the Floor of Philosophy, it was revealed that Roland used to work at Charles' Office after the Smoke War, where he later met Angelica. The two slew Elena, the Blood-red Night, a terrifying Star of the City threat known to actively stalk people in the Backstreets and Nests, kill them and use their bodies as puppets. After the defeat of the Blood-red Night, where Angelica was injured and Roland showed her his face in concern, the two started an intimate relationship with each other.For more about Roland, see here.
Angelica
Angelica
Voiced by: Zhang Ye-na
A Grade 1 Fixer from Charles' Office who was Argalia's sister and later Roland's wife. She was a kind woman who would often display affection to Roland, and provided emotional support for him during particularly stressful times which were frequent during their Fixer days. Unfortunately, she was killed along with her and Roland's unborn child when the Pianist manifested in the Backstreet District they lived in. Angelica's death drove Roland insane, causing him to commit a mass murder spree that got him demoted to Grade 9, with Iori eventually sending him to the Library for an unknown plan, kick-starting the game's events.According to the Library Of Ruina artbook, Angelica was the original Black Silence.
At an unknown point in the game, Argalia ordered Jae-heon to search the Pianist's remains for her corpse. He managed to excavate it and turned it into one of his puppets.
- The Ace: During her time as a Fixer, Angelica was also known as the real Black Silence; the black mask Roland wore made people believe that he was Angelica.
- And I Must Scream: By Argalias and the Puppeteers own admission, she was quite talkative during their 'encounter', despite the fact that she's been long dead inside the Pianists piano. Being forced to fight on as a silent and shambling patchwork of flesh as the the Ensembles goon likely didn't do anything to her consciousness.
- Came Back Wrong: When Argalia shows off her reanimated corpse taken from the Pianist's piano, she is essentially turned into a barely recognizable monstrosity, full of Eyes Do Not Belong There and Fan Disservice. Argalia referring to her now as being "perfected" only rubs salt in the wounds for Roland.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: In reality, Roland's gloves and all but one of the weapons inside it are hers.
- Identical Stranger: Argalia comments that she almost looks like Angela (and by extension, Carmen) during the Church of Gears reception. In the Floor of Philosophy realization, she noticeably resembles Angela or Carmen, but with white hair, and in the Star of the City voice update, her voice is the same as Angela's.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Was this to Roland, and essentially the only person he would open up to. This is why when she died to The Pianist, Roland basically lost it and went around indiscriminately killing people in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Meaningful Name: Named after Angelica, princess of Cathay, from Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso, and her loss similarly inspires Roland's rampage and drive for revenge. Her brother Argalia, and her habit of calling him Uberto, also comes from the former. However, contrasting the original work, Argalia outlives her, and Roland went to a rampage because Angelica fell in love with another man instead of being killed outright from nowhere.
- Multi-Melee Master: Her entire arsenal was extremely diverse and according to supplementary material, top of the line as well. While she is most certainly capable of effectively wielding each and every weapon in her arsenal, she is predominantly shown wielding the axe and mace made by Zelkova Workshop, along with the lance from Allas Workshop, making them her signature weapons in a sense.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her death at the hands of the Pianist is ultimately what leads Roland to the Library for revenge and Argalia to try and seize the Library's Light to turn every Cityfolk into Distortions.
- Posthumous Character: She's dead before the events of the game.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Morbidly Deconstructed and played for Drama. Angelica was a kind woman who wanted the best for Roland, just like Carmen towards L Corp. before, although unlike Carmen whose motives would be legitimate at best or dubious at worst, her affection with Roland is unconditionally genuine. She didn't last, and becomes one of the many victims of The Pianist's rampage, and her death drove Argalia to insanity and Roland into committing his murderous rampage, kicking off the Library's actions against The City.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loved the pajeon in a neighboring district, and she asked Roland to bring some home for her before the Pianist disaster. According to this article posted by Project Moon
, she first had that with Roland on their first date. - Rags to Riches: Angelica didn't come from any influential background; she actually came from the Outskirts and was captured and experimented upon by a Wing only to survive. Now she has an influential standing as a Grade 1 Fixer working for Charles' Office. Her standing improved even more when she was promoted to a Color and given the Black Silence title.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: It's shown that she and Roland had a habit of hitting each other in the early days of their relationship before they officially got together.
- Undignified Death: She's the Black Silence and one of the City's top Fixers. Unfortunately, she meets her end when the Pianist manifested in District 9 and made her one of the casualities, then her corpse was picked up by Jae-Heon to be defiled and turned into a puppet for spiting Roland. To say it's downright insulting is an understatement.
- Walking Spoiler: It's not possible to discuss her without revealing her death marks the actual Start of Darkness for Roland, Argalia and indirectly through Roland, several members of the Reverberation Ensemble.
Olivier
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. He was often paired with Roland on Fixer assignments as the two got along well with each other. After the disbandment of Charles' Office, he would go on to join the Hana Association's Southern Branch Section 3.
For more about Olivier, see the Associations section.
Astolfo
Astolfo
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. After Roland's mass murder of the Rumanos Cartel, Astolfo attempted to placate him, though he fails to do so. His whereabouts are currently unknown, though Olivier speculates that he is either working in a Wing or exploring the Ruins.- Badass Cape: Wears a purple, gold-accented shoulder cape that matches his hair.
- I Warned You: In the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, after Roland's death is shown, he is heard sadly saying as much about the destructive Cycle of Revenge.Astolfo: What did I tell you, Roland... You've killed too many... I warned you that if you relish murdering so much, you'll lose yourself...
- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, he is named after Astolfo, one of the 12 Paladins. His attempt at placating Roland also comes straight from his namesake's actions in Orlando Furioso.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: To a degree that, evidently, stood out even in Charles' Office, which was notorious for its extravagant style. According to the Library Of Ruina artbook, Roland loved to ridicule him for his fashion sense.
Ogier
Ogier
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. His whereabouts are currently unknown, though Olivier speculates that he is either working in a Wing or exploring the Ruins. In the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, he is seen meeting in a pub with Naimon and Renaud, discussing the return of Roland and all the trouble he has caused.- Bearer of Bad News: He is seen in this role during his bad ending appearance with Naimon and Renaud, as the three of them are not too happy with all the destruction Roland caused and his subsequent spiral into drugs and alcoholism.
- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, Ogier is named after Ogier the Dane, one of the 12 Paladins as they appear in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso.
Naimon
Naimon
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. Naimon's whereabouts are currently unknown, but in the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, Naimon is seen meeting in a pub with Ogier and Renaud, discussing the return of Roland and all the trouble he has caused.- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, Naimon is named after Namo, Duke of Bavaria, who is included as one of the 12 Paladins in some works of the Geste du roi.
- Samus Is a Girl: Naimon's voice is decidedly female despite her appearance.
Renaud
Renaud
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. His whereabouts are currently unknown, but in the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, he is seen meeting in a pub with Ogier and Naimon, discussing the return of Roland and all the trouble he has caused.- The Big Guy: His silhouette noticeably towers over Ogier and Naimon.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He has one with Bayard, the self-described "stubborn old man" who leads Bayard's Office.
- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, he is named after Renaud de Montauban, one of the 12 Paladins as they appear in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. His friend Bayard is named after Renaud's horse.
- Spiky Hair: Has sharp, back-styled hair, as seen in his silhouette.
Associations
Large professional organizations comprised of Fixers and their managers specialized in more dangerous lines of mercenary work, taking jobs no one else wants to. This does not mean they don't take up non-combat jobs, however. They help manage the majority of the Offices under their contracts and allow much greater pay and more advanced equipment than a basic Office. Because of their larger structure, Associations are able to cover more ground with their Fixers and can take requests from any district. Most of their headquarters are most likely based in the Nests, where directors and Fixers manage requests from either the City's denizens or affiliate Offices. In an Association, the president is the head, and is split into several branches based on the directions of a compass, and are run by a branch manager. These branches are further divided into sections, which are run by directors. Sections are ranked from 1-6, 1 being the highest. There are 12 Associations, of which 11 are managed by the Hana Association, and they all have their own uniforms, rules, and specialties in their line of work. In General
- Badass in a Nice Suit: The Associations are much larger and more professional than Fixer Offices and thus, favor a stricter dress code. The Zwei, Hana, Seven, and Liu Association Fixers all wear suits and ties as part of their uniform. The Shi Association instead takes the Badass Longcoat approach, since they focus on covert operations.
- The Heavy: Since the Head does not deal with entities that don't directly anger him or harm them (including City-wrecking Distortions), the Associations and their Fixers act as the frontlines who do most of the work against the city's more generic disorderly entities.
- Hufflepuff House: There are twelve Associations in total, but only the Zwei, Seven, Shi, Liu, and Hana Associations have any real relevance to the game, and four of the other Associations are not even mentioned (the ones corresponding to the numbers 8, 9, 10 and 12). Some of these have since appeared in the following game, Limbus Company, as mentions and corresponding Identities.
- Numerological Motif: Their names are all based on a different sequential number, each in a different language. Not only that, but the Association's aesthetic is informed by what language their number is in: For example, "Hana" is 1 in Korean, and have a focus on Korean spiritual practices in their fighting styles, while "Dieci" is Italian for 10 and have uniforms similar to that of Catholic clergy.
- Punch-Clock Villain: You might be expecting corrupt elites who don't give a rat's ass on who dies and who lives when you hear these organizations, but it probably only applies to the hidden higher-ups. In fact, most people you encounter personally that come from one are well-meaning, aspiring, and friendly folk who are forced to take on combatant jobs and die in the Library for occupational purposes, considering everything in the City is expensive and the only real way to live is to take up arms.
- Token Good Teammate: Limbus Company reveals that the Associations are actually Syndicates in their own right, but they all clearly operate with the blessings of The Head rather than The Fingers' defiance through strength, and the services they provide to The City are shown to trend towards the morally grey at worst.
- Theme Naming: "Coincidentally", each association's associated language lines up with the perceived "Nationality" (re: Language of origin for the book they are based on) of the matching numbered Sinner in Limbus Company (ie: Yi Sang, Sinner No 1, is Korean; Dante, Sinner No 10, is Italian, etc), with the exception of Gregor, as there is no 12th Association that is yet known.
- This leads both the 7th and 8th association to be named in English (Seven and Eight), as Wuthering Heights is of British origin, and Moby Dick is of American origin.
- You Are Number 6: Each of the Associations are named after a number in a different language:
- The Hana Association is named after the number, "one" in Korean.
- The Zwei Association is named after the number, "two" in German.
- The Tres Association is named after the number, "three" in Spanish
- The Shi Association is named after the number, "four" in Japanese.
- The Cinq Association is named after the number, "five" in French.
- The Liu Association is named after the number, "six" in Chinese.
- The Seven and Eight Associations are named after the number, "seven" and "eight" in English respectively.
- The Dieci Association is named after the number, "ten" in Italian.
- The Öufi Association is named after the number, "eleven" in Swiss German
Hana Association
In General
- "Like I said some time ago, the Hana Association is the institution that grants permits to Offices and grades Fixers. They also adjust threats real-time and let everyone know. And the Hana Association sometimes takes matters into its own hands to strike down Stars of the City. Just like now."- Roland
After defeating most of South's Section 3, the last operative, Olivier, returns and tries to assassinate Angela by using a gadget on her to experience a thousand years. Roland steps in to save her, and then challenges Oliver to a one-on-one match, while claiming his Black Silence's gloves from Oliver. Because of Olivier's former friendship with Roland, he accepts his challenge, causing Olivier to be booked as well. They cover Impuritas Civitatis Chapter 1.
- Consummate Professional: The Hana Association characterizes itself with a heavy emphasis on professionalism and a collected approach in their operations, a sharp contrast to most organizations seen in the game.
- Duel Boss: Episode 2 has you forced into a one-on-one match with Roland using the Black Silence pages against Oliver.
- Elite Mooks: Hana Association isn't number one for nothing. Their basic Fixers are far more dangerous than the vast majority of generic enemies in the game, possessing a strong set of stats and powerful combat pages, including the first 5-dice combat page the game throws at you.
- Morph Weapon: Their trigram weapons take the form of black crystals that they can shape into whatever they please. True Trigram Formation, the exclusive combat page of Harold, Mirinae, and Olivier, make use of this as they jab their opponent with their weapons before more blades form that also impale them.
- Pure Energy: Their favorite attacking method is Ba Gua magic.
- The Worf Effect: The Hana Association is stated to be the strongest and most elite Association of them all, and they're shown to have a very professional attitude. Despite this, at the start of the Impurity chapter, Sections 1 and 3 of the Southern Branch are devastated by the Reverberation Ensemble and the Library respectively, showing off just how dangerous both threats have become.
Known Operatives
Olivier (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Affably Evil: Well, to be clear, he's an antagonist to the Library, but he's not evil per se. While his first act before his reception was to nearly succeed in killing Angela (per Iori's advice), when he's facing Roland he suddenly changes attitude to a friendlier one, and has some time for banter before the two duel to make ends meet.
- Assassination Attempt: Attempts to assassinate Angela with a device created by T Corp as a planned move beforehand. It's implied that Iori taught him to use the device to neutralize Angela.
- Blade Lock: Depicted doing this with Roland in the art for Double-edged Rencounter.
- Duel Boss: You must defeat him with Roland, and Roland alone.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni to Roland's red. One of the reasons why Olivier worked well with Roland was because their personalities complemented each other's flaws well. Olivier would prevent Roland from acting too rashly while Roland would ensure that Olivier wouldn't prevent the pair from accomplishing their assignments due to acting too cautiously.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By calling Roland out to Y Corp's nest to do errands for him, Olivier indirectly set up the tragedy that follows after by leaving Angelica alone without Roland to protect her. She then gets killed out of nowhere by the Pianist, and by the time Roland killed it, it was already too late and she was dead.
- We Used to Be Friends: Used to be old friends with Roland, with his Roaring Rampage of Revenge followed by his disappearance greatly worrying him.
Mirinae
- Badass Adorable: She might not look like it unlike Yujin or Xiao, but she's dead serious in taking the Library down just like the other section directors.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She's shorter than Angela and the co-operatives next to her.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite being an association leader and one of the last (and strongest) regular enemies of the game, Mirinae is only a bit taller than Tiphereth.
- Status Buff: Her page's Hana For All passive encourages her to utilize cards that give these by giving a random ally an equivalent buff whenever she gains Strength or Endurance.
- Support Party Member: She is geared towards support due to her aforementioned passive, which copies most types of buffs.
Harold
- Gender-Blender Name: 'Harold' is a masculine name.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Harold might look masculine, but her voice is decidedly feminine.
- Power Fist: Their preferred weapon - formed with trigram crystals, like the rest of the Hana Association's weapons - is a giant gauntlet and sleeve formed around the arm.
Zwei Association
In General
We're the Zwei, 'Your Shield'.
- "A case recognized by the Associations is guaranteed to be rewarding. And money attracts an awful lot of attention."- Roland
- BFS: Their signature weapon is the Zweihänder, a two-handed sword from which they are named.
- Blue Is Heroic: Downplayed due to the setting's Grey-and-Grey Morality, but they do specialize in normally heroic activities such as protection services and warding off dangerous Syndicates. Many of the people working for them were also generally easy-going, professional folk.
- Law Enforcement, Inc.: While Associations as a whole are more akin to Private Military Contractors than law organizations, only taking jobs based on profit, the Zwei is the closest thing to a police force in the City. They even have major crimes units and investigators on top of public protectors.
- Life Saving Misfortune: In the long run, getting booked in the Library saved the Zwei members involved from facing the wrath of the Stray Dogs.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: South Section 6 receives one from the Stray Dogs after their director Walter fails to pull through on a deal due to falling in the Library. The Stray Dogs massacre the section and beat their members to a pulp.
- Stone Wall: Quite fitting, given that they most often take protection jobs, the Zwei Association's cards comprise primarily of defensive dice and focus on limiting their opponents' offensive options by inflicting paralysis and bleed.
Southern Branch
Section 1
Edgar
A highly-skilled Grade 1 Fixer in the major crimes unit of Zwei S. Section 1, appearing in The Distortion Detective.
For tropes about Edgar, see here.
For tropes about Edgar, see here.
Section 6
Walter
- Pointy-Haired Boss: According to Salvador, Walter is pretty much a completely untalented hack whose saving grace is knowing how to suck up to his superiors. The Stray Dogs also note that Walter almost always sends his subordinates to do the hard jobs for him, which surprises them when they hear that he personally went to the Library.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Despite being a Section director for one of the biggest Fixer Assotiations in the city, he (and Zwei in general) is gone in the same story section he's brought up in and is only mentioned after the fact in a disparaging manner. The other Associations, like Shi and Liu, receive the lion's share of focus from then on.
Isadora
- Badass Adorable: This cute Tsundere is one of the best in her Section.
- Beleaguered Assistant: After struggling to convince Walter about the significance of the Library, when he suddenly changes his tune and joins her there because the Library has the L-Corp floor plans he desperately needs, she's then forced to remind him that provoking Angela might not be a good idea.
- Childhood Friends: Reading her book reveals that she and San grew up together, and maintain a personal relationship despite San's departure from the Zwei.
- Consummate Professional: Regretfully informs San that while she's sympathetic to his plight, her hands are tied until the Hana Association deems the Library worth an Association's attention... which happens just a few seconds later.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She's far more subdued about it compared to Lulu, but even Walter can tell Isadora has more personal reasons to be paying the Library a visit.
- Supporting Protagonist: While Walter is toughest opponent out of the Zwei and his behind-the-scenes actions are what drive the overarching plot forward, the Zwei chapter mostly follows Isadora and her investigation of the Library.
- Tranquil Fury: The only time she raises her voice during her fight is when she's killed."...You must be one of the clique that took San and Julia."
- Tsundere: Are you surprised with that hairstyle? Isadora puts up a front of being a Consummate Professional to disguise the kinship with her associates that is typically discouraged among Fixers. She even drops a variation of a classic tsundere line."I-I said I'm just doing my job. It's not like I'm doing you a favor or anything."
Julia
One of the Fixers in Zwei South Branch Section 6 with a cheerful disposition.
- Eyes Always Shut: Even in combat.
Tres Association
In General
An Association that specializes in Workshop products and weapons. They regulate what types of weaponry workshops are allowed to produce.
Shi Association
In General
Treat every person equally, as the weight of death is equal for everyone
- "It's unfortunate to see 'em struggle, yeah. Here's the thing, though; we only saw things from their perspective. You think they're free from the blame of killing some other people who struggled for life and fought for change?"- Roland
- All Are Equal in Death: This is the reason that the Shi Association doesn't discriminate against who they get their requests from, and treat everyone equally.
- Blackmail: Was hit by this during Urban Nightmare because Yujin threatened to rat Argalia out to the Head. Argalia then used his trust with Thelma to bombard Yujin with a series of dangerous Urban Nightmare quests to tire them out, and throw them onto the Library to get them killed. After he indirectly decimated a huge chunk of Thelma's fleet through treachery, he ordered the Smiling Faces to execute him, who flaked the meat on his body into ten thousand meat flakes while gagged as Argalia watches alongside Eileen and throws sarcastic remarks against him.
- Critical Hit Class: A sub-theme they gain in Limbus Company, where each Shi Identity gets to gather Poise to deal critical hits.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Though they specialize in assassination and have a terrifying namesake, they have a Code of Honour to treat every person fairly and are more of a Noble Demon.
- Four Is Death: Their symbol is styled after the kanji "shi" (死, lit. "death"), with a red "4" being highlighted.
- Handicapped Badass: Due to being forced to work on multiple Urban Nightmare-level requests prior to arriving to the Library, all of the Section 2 Shi Association fixers are inflicted with the passive Extreme Fatigue, which causes them to begin the battle with only 25% of their base HP remaining. This is abused by their decks, as nearly all of their cards gain additional effects when used by a character with 25% or less HP remaining. In addition, due to their base HP being absolutely massive (their weakest fixers have a base HP of 288), this causes their effective HP to be about the same as the other guests around their tier.
- Katanas Are Just Better: The Shi Association's weapon is a red katana.
- Murder, Inc.: Though as fixers, they theoretically can fulfill multiple jobs, their specialty is assassination jobs.
- Noble Demon: Despite their haunting namesake, the Shi Association is surprisingly well-coordinated and maintained, and its members are professional, job focused folk.Excerpt from A Shi Fixer's Page: Treat every person equally, as the weight of death is equal for everyone
- Professional Killer: The Shi Association's specialty lies in discreet killing.
Southern Branch
Thelma
Thelma
The branch manager of the Shi Association's Southern Branch. He was saved from losing his position by Argalia in return for having the Southern Branch finish a list of requests in a short time period. Secretly, this is out of spite that his subordinate Yujin was going to rat out Argalia to the Head, and he manipulates Thelma into tiring Yujin out with an endless barrage of dangerous quests that leads to the operatives of Sections 2 and 3 and their affiliate Offices being killed. After Yujin and her own subordinates die in the Library, Argalia hires the Smiling Faces to brutally murder him in a Night of the Backstreets (to make sure his crime couldn't be held accountable), citing the fact that he has failed his own promise with Argalia.- 0% Approval Rating: The Shi Southern Branch's Fixers are well aware of his corruption, and Yujin is even planning to find a way to overthrow him. Unfortunately, they all have to respect his authority as branch manager and fulfill whatever orders he gives them. It's stated that he nearly lost his job in the past, too, and only kept it thanks to Argalia, causing him to owe Argalia a favor.
- Asshole Victim: Is a live demonstration that the Nights in the Backstreets have no exceptions, being chipped and fileted by cannibals at the request of a former friend. Unfortunately for him, he's already been established as a massively corrupt cyst on the back of the Shi Association, making any sympathy he'd earn moot as he experiences one hell of a Karmic Death.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Actually one of the few times this is subverted in the game. Despite being the manager of Shi Association's Souhtrrn Branch, Thelma is a Dirty Coward who's easily blackmailed and manipulated by Argalia and obviously far less competent than his own subordinates.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Blatantly abuses his power as a Branch Manager for his own benefit, defying the Association's belief that everyone is equal under death.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: While not displayed on screen, Argalia executed Thelma by having the Smiling Faces chop him into 10,000 meat flakes while gagged, as the cannibal killers eat him alive.
- Deal with the Devil: His promise with Argalia. Argalia saved him from being removed from his job, but in return Thelma had to use the Shi to complete the seemingly Impossible Task of finishing a large list of requests given by Argalia in a certain amount of time. Argalia manipulates him into only using Section 2 and wiping them out, and then kills him afterwards because Section 2 dies and the other sections cannot finish the tasks in time.
- Karmic Death: He destroys Section 2 by piling requests on them to have them suffer a figurative Death by a Thousand Cuts through attrition. In return, Argalia gives him a literal death by ten thousand cuts from the Smiling Faces.
- Villains Want Mercy: Even partway into his execution, he is still Defiant to the End against Argalia, threatening that his murder would cause severe retaliation from the Associations. However, after he realizes it's the Night in the Backstreets and thus no one will bother helping him or even investigate his death, he immediately breaks down in tears and begs for his life. Argalia simply rebukes him.
- The Voice: He appears in two chapter stories, and is only heard in both.
Section 2
Yujin
Yujin
- Benevolent Boss: Cares very much for her subordinates' well-being. Many of her current scars and injuries are said to have come from her taking hits for her subordinates.
- Death or Glory Attack: Her Secret Art Boundary of Death, a 4-light cost card that uses a single pierce dice with an unimpressive roll range of 1-4. If it rolls the max value, however, the dice gains an additional 45 power, all but guaranteeing a massive blow on the target, if not outright killing them.
- Fighting Your Friend: Potentially, as Roland knew her while he still worked as a Fixer in the City.
- Four Is Death: As mentioned above, the name and icon for the Shi Association already references this trope, but several of Yujin's abilities in particular are themed after it - her Eye of Death gives +4 to all her rolls, while her Boundary of Death technique does massive damage (often guaranteeing a kill) if she rolls a natural four.
- Glowing Eyes: Whenever Yujin attacks, her eyes momentarily flash red.
- Handicapped Badass: By the time she enters the Library, Yujin is exhausted to the point that in-game she only has 25% of her health remaining. This doesn't stop Yujin from still being one of the strongest enemies by this point in the game.
- The Informant: Defied. Yujin wanted to report Argalia to the Head so they could take him down for severe misconduct, but Argalia knew this and manipulated Thelma (which he was a close friend with) to barrage her with a series of heavily exhausting tasks before sending her and her fellow workers to the Library so they might be killed.
- Numerological Motif: Four, and it's not just in the name of the Association she leads. Her keypage is number 24001, her fight lets you bring four Librarians, her playable page has 44 stagger resist, her Secret Art Boundary of Death has a cost of 4 Light, she starts at 1/4th of her max HP, and her story is coded as number 400001 in the game data.
- Worf Had the Flu: At their peak, Yujin alone would be comparable to an endgame boss fight. However, due to being in such bad shape after Argalia's manipulations, they're not even a Star of the City level threat, making them quite manageable for the part of the game they appear in.
Tenma
Tenma
- Badass Adorable: Tenma might be one of the more childish looking entities working for an association, but she's a dangerous assassin.
- Dual Wielding: In combat, Tenma fights with two katanas - one in each hand. One of them is on her back in her dialogue sprite and is shorter (possibly a tantou).
- Gender-Blender Name: 'Tenma', when written as 天馬, is a masculine name.
- Older Than They Look: She's a short woman who could almost pass off as a young girl like Hod, but she's actually 29.
Valentin
Valentin
Cinq Association
In General
A duelist Association, Cinq specializes in one-on-one combat and are usually hired as proxies to solve personal disputes between two parties. They also hold a secondary duty of organising meetings between Associations, since duel requests don't show up as frequently as other kinds of requests each Association specialises in.
- Lightning Bruiser: Gameplay-wise, their specialty in Limbus Company is to pile up stacks of Haste, increasing their own speed compared to the enemy. Since they gain more power the greater the speed difference between them and the enemy, a Cinq ID with a ton of Haste is going to completely annihilate anyone that clashes with them.
Liu Association
In General
We're the Liu, the Association that solely exists for war.
- "[The Liu is] a combat-oriented Association specializing in all-out war. Basically the polar opposite of the Shi we received the other day."- Roland
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Subverted, though the Liu Association's specialty lies in large scale battles, their strategies in approaching these battles are much more nuanced than recklessly charging forwards.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Section 1 of the Liu Association's Southern Branch Actually manages to take down The Crying Children. Unfortunately for them, Argalia and Oswald don't allow them to get the finishing blow.
- Katanas Are Just Better: A variation. Whereas the Shi use Japanese katanas, the unnamed Liu members use Chinese blades known as dao. Meanwhile, Lowell and Xiao prefer using the guandao.
- Playing with Fire: The Liu Association channels fire in their attacks as they apparently have hidden gear in their equipment that allows them to set things on fire. They are stated to do this because of their focus on fighting groups, as fire can easily spread. This is also represented some of their passives that apply Burn to your entire team after hitting just one already Burned librarian.
- Red Is Heroic: While they are still an Association under the whims of the Wings and the Head, they are noticeably more prone to displaying emotional bursts than the Zwei and the Shi, and its director Xiao became open to expressing her true self, something that is noticeably unusual for high ranking Fixers.
Southern Branch
Section 1
Xiao (Unmarked Spoilers)
Click here to see her with E.G.O. manifested
- "Dreams, hopes, ideals, all the words to describe what motivates humans to get up and live... Those words encompass meaning too grand for description. But it's so simple at the same time."
- Achilles' Heel: Stagger. While she starts off with a massive pool of stagger resist, it only regenerates half when she gets back up from stagger unlike every other character. If the player focuses on dealing stagger, then she can be taken down much more easily. At the point you fight her, the Floor of Technological Sciences in particular will have a way to delete 70% of any stagger bar, no matter how full it is, and it is regarded as a solid way to deal with her.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A darker example than most: After Lowell dies, she freely admits her love for him and goes to the Library to get his book back, even though she always struggled to admit her feelings when he was alive.
- Battle Theme Music: Iron Lotus, a Chinese-style boss theme reflecting Xiao's determination to see her fight through to the end with her newly gained E.G.O. despite her regrets of losing everything and everyone she held dear.
- Boss Battle: Serve as one of bosses as the climax of Star of the City, and serves as the finale of the Phillip arc.
- Chekhov's Gun: A throw-away line during Liu Association Section 2 has one member call her the "Maiden of Iron". Her E.G.O. has exactly that design in mind.Come on, Lowell. Everyone in Section 2’s gossiping about how you’re spending your newlywed life with Director Xiao, the Maiden of Iron.
- Damage Over Time: During her boss fight, Xiao constantly inflicts stacks of burn on your librarians, quickly snowballing to burn them away to nothing if you're not careful.
- Do Not Go Gentle: It's made clear by the fact that they're still trapped in the Library that's there's no way out, and after gaining a full E.G.O., Xiao makes it clear she'll bring down the Library, or die trying.
- Empowered Badass Normal: While it's always questionable how "normal" a high-grade Fixer is, because of how many augmentations they have to get to stay alive, Xiao was basically just a strong, well-equipped Fixer at first. Even in her first two boss fights, though, she has much higher stats than the vast majority of enemies in the game. But then she gets E.G.O. and unique powers of her own, at which point her boss fight is placed alongside a Color Fixer, a powerful Distortion, and the top mercenaries of one of the strongest Wings in terms of difficulty in-universe and out.
- Fisher King: Her background is a battle-torn and blazing Great Wall of China with the sun shining between the hills.
- Foil: Xiao is one to Philip. Both are Fixers who lose their loved ones in the Library. They both then attempt to retrieve the books of their loved ones, causing the deaths of several of their other allies who join their venture to return to the Library. Both of them become overwhelmed with grief and guilt for inadvertently causing the deaths of others in their obsession to reclaim the books of their loved ones, leading to them to partially manifest their E.G.O (Which happens to focus heavily on Burn) mid-battle. Philip, however, was ultimately too much of a Cowardly Lion to overcome his regret and was broken by the words of Oswald and Pluto, ultimately becoming a Distortion in the end. In contrast, Xiao, due to her more resilient personality was able to overcome her grief, partially thanks to Miris' counsel before his death, and was able to fully manifest her E.G.O like the Red Mist before she meets her end in the Library.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Miris tells Xiao to get it together, due to her being better than that. It helps her, along with her own determinator personality, to manifest an E.G.O. rather than a Distortion.
- Hidden Depths: According to Lowell, Xiao actually prefers cute things when decorating her house.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Every other turn, Xiao turns off Power buffs to all dice. While tricky, if played carefully this can be turned against her, since it also turns off her buffs. One can effectively reap the benefits of chopping down her stagger from winning against Reverse Scale while nullifying the Strength and Endurence boosts she gets from losing.
- Last Stand: For her last boss fight, she has no way out and is up against insurmountable odds against the Librarians, and all of her allies and friends are already dead. But that doesn't mean she won't take the opportunity to show just how powerful E.G.O. can be.
- Love Hurts: The White Nights and Dark Days has been manifesting greater emotional reactions in people all over the City, and Xiao is no exception, but her position requires some restraint in maintaining professional relationships. When Lowell dies, Xiao is so overcome with rage and despair that she hastily forgoes her position as the Liu Association head and dives into the Library to get her husband's book back. She even acknowledges the fruitlessness of the endeavor (since getting her husband's book back won't bring Lowell back to life) as well as the incredible risk posed by choosing to go into the Library, but still goes through with it anyways.
- Made of Iron: Gets beaten down by the Librarians not once, but twice, only to manifest E.G.O. and go right back in for another round.
- Multi-Melee Master: Wields a guandao, a type of Chinse polearm, alongside a jian, a Chinese double-edged sword. By the time she fully manifests E.G.O. she wields a much more ornate guandao.
- My Greatest Failure: If the lyrics to "Iron Lotus" are any indication, all throughout her boss fight she's regretting not telling Lowell she loves him before his death.
- Mythical Motifs: Specifically dragons in regards to her E.G.O. The Theme Naming behind her combat pages and passives upon completely manifesting E.G.O. is directly named after the Nine Sons of the Dragon in Chinese Mythology.
- Not So Stoic: Xiao's entire character arc in the game is having her iron-hard stoic facade slowly crumble to reveal herself as a very emotional, open person.
- One-Winged Angel: Just like Philip before her, she manifests E.G.O. to fight the Library once more in a much stronger form.
- Power of Love: Implied to be what fuels her E.G.O. and caused it to fully manifest. Her love for Lowell and everyone else who fell to the Library for her sake caused her to fully manifest it and fight to the bitter end.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Angela prior to the first reception against Liu Section 1, calling her out for her failure to understand love and humanity and explaining her motives for entering the Library.
- Shout-Out: Her E.G.O. greatly resembles Lü Bu, especially the feathers on her head resembling the long feathers that is associated with the warlord.
- Schmuck Bait: Winning a clash against her relatively weak Reverse Scale page will inflict a ton of stagger damage to her... but also gives her a huge buff next turn. This is negated if you stagger her or if she gets hit by her own "Pú Láo" ability, which negates all power buffs (including her own).
- Wreathed in Flames: Her E.G.O. has fires surrounding her like a shawl.
Miris
- And Then What?: During the Liu Section 1 encounter he poses this question to Xiao, asking what she'll do after throwing away her status as an accomplished Fixer just to retrieve Lowell's book. Xiao doesn't answer and just states she's already resolute in her decision to enter the Library.
- Fiery Redhead: Subverted. He has dark red hair but he's pretty levelheaded, especially compared to Xiao who's deadset on overcoming the Library's ordeals. Thanks to this temper that he manages to talk some sense into Xiao and consequently help her manifest E.G.O.
- Mauve Shirt: In the grand scheme of things, Miris is just another Fixer who meets his end in the Library. But the cutscenes for Liu Section 1 give him some more characterization than most, and ultimately it's his speech to Xiao that lets her avoid distorting and fully manifest her E.G.O.
- Punched Across the Room: Can use the exclusive "Flaming Dragon Fist" combat page, a flame-wreathed punch that sends the target reeling and inflicts heavy Burn.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the first reception of Liu Section 1, he drags Xiao with him and flees. Not that the Library lets them get far...
- Undying Loyalty: To his director. His key page story even states that he truly believes Xiao will snap out of her emotional outburst and return to normal.
Chun
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Mostly due to his rather feminine long hair, it's rather easy to mistake Chun for a woman.
- Punched Across the Room: Just like Miris, he can use the powerful exclusive Page "Flaming Dragon Fist".
- Undying Loyalty: Perfectly willing to follow Xiao into a death trap like The Library, even when she orders them not to.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Unlike fellow Section 1 Fixers Miris and Xiao, who both survive the initial reception against Liu Section 1, Chun is killed off with little fanfare.
Section 2
Lowell
- Benevolent Boss: Lowell is quite friendly and open with his subordinates. If one of them dies in combat, he will promise to finish the fight for them.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Holds a calm, polite conversation with his subordinates about his marriage with Xiao while waiting in the lobby of The Library.
- Charged Attack: Can use the "Forming Storm" Combat Page, leaving himself open, in order to use his powerful Mass Attack the next scene.
- Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. Lowell's hair is a wine red and while he's tender compared to most Fixers he doesn't let it compromise his professionalism. And compared to Xiao, he ultimately turns out to be the calmer of the two following his death.
- Happily Married: While they may have a hard time expressing their feelings for one another, since they're both high-ranking professionals in a world that frowns upon emotional expression in general, he and Xiao love each other deeply. Of course, given his current opponent was an undefeatable and omniscient walking disaster, it doesn't end well.
- Nerves of Steel: So much so that he has a passive, "A Fighter That Never Retreats", that gives him Strength and Endurance buffs whenever the Emotion Level rises.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He might just be another high-ranking Association Fixer fought by the Library, but Lowell's death triggers Xiao's emotional outburst, entry to the Library, and eventual E.G.O. manifestation.
Mei
- Badass Adorable: Mei might be pretty small and cute, but she's a very competent and dangerous Fixer.
- Ms. Exposition: Spends her screentime prior to the reception explaining the situation the Liu Association is in and why they're headed for the Library.
- Secret Art: Mei and Cecil are the only ones who can use the exclusive page "Tieshankao".
Cecil
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: Shown doing this in the artwork for the "Iron Wall" Combat Page.
- Secret Art: Mei and Cecil are the only ones who can use the exclusive page "Tieshankao".
- Shipper on Deck: Has great fun teasing Lowell about his marriage to Xiao, especially given their upcoming anniversary; it's the bulk of the comedy in her pre-reception Liu scenes.
Seven Association
In General
An Association that specializes in investigation and intelligence. Oink was apparently a member of the Seven Association's South Section 3 before he joined the Musicians of Bremen. The Seven Association's Section 3 can also later be invited as an Urban Nightmare-tier General Invitation guest. Their Associate Offices include Moses' Office.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: The Seven Association Identities in Limbus Company all inflict the fixed damage-based Rupture debuff, and can even get extra bonuses if the enemy has certain amounts of that debuff on them.
- Attack Its Weakpoint:
- The passives used by and obtained by the Seven Association Fixers encourage using damage types that their opponents are weak to, as their passives grant additional damage for dealing damage with a damage type their target is weak to.
- This is further encouraged by Dante's passive, Seeing Through Weakness which permanently changes an enemy's resistance from weak to fatal if the user manages to damage that enemy with a damage type they're weak to and if that enemy has at least 5 stacks of Fragile by the end of the scene.
- Boring Yet Practical: According to Oink, the Seven Association Fixers use nothing but a simple bladed weapon in combat. Despite the simplicity of their weapons, however, the Seven Association can still effectively protect the intel that they have gathered.
- Knowledge Broker: While they don't have intel on top-secret information such as the secrets behind the Singularities or the Head, the Seven Association has information on almost everything else that occurs within the City.
Eight Association
In General
An Association of unknown purpose. Current theories state that it is devoted to exploration.
Devyat' Association
In General
An Association that seems to work as couriers and handles business transactions
Dieci Association
In General
An Association that deals with the collection of knowledge, running what are essentially libraries.
- Cast from Experience Points: Dieci Association perceives knowledge as power in a literal sense by using equipment that draws physical strength from knowledge: The harder to obtain and more precious the knowledge, the greater the strength it grants in return. However, this knowledge is personally lost when they use it.
- Improbable Weapon User: Dieci Association is further split into two large divisions: The Keys and the Fists. The former apparently fights with weaponized size-shifting keys.
- Nun Too Holy: They dress like nuns and priests while bludgeoning foes with their fists or keys.
Öufi Association
In General
An Association that specializes in dealings and transactions. They oversee contracts and enforce them, as well as serving as witnesses of the signings.
Color Fixers
The most elite of Fixers. They are chosen from highly regarded Grade 1 Fixers who have shown exceedingly high performance in their career by the Hana Association. In General
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The whole concept is that they are assigned a specific color, and of those seen they all tend to prefer outfits that feature their color predominantly.
- The Dreaded: Just one of these going after you means that it's not gonna be an easy confrontation.
- Meaningful Name: Each of their titles refers to some unique attribute about them.
- Purposefully Overpowered: If you get the page of a Color Fixer, expect it to be quite a bit stronger than almost any other page gotten to that point. Given that they're supposed to be the best of the beat in The City (at least for normal humans) and all have an infamous reputation, anything less would be disappointing.
- Red Baron: These fighters are so experienced, that the Hana Association grants them a title, and many of them are well known and influential enough amongst the City's entities. Compared to the rest of the City and especially other lower-ranked Fixers, they also have some level of agency over themselves.
- Spell My Name with a "The": The Red Mist, The Blue Reverberation, etc.
Kali, The Red Mist (Spoilers)
Kali, the Red Mist
Click here to see her.
- "The Red Mist of the past... Who knew that we'd be facing her in person."- Roland
A legendary protector of the Backstreets who joined Carmen's project, becoming her personal bodyguard. She was a well-known figure to the point that she was known and admired by almost everyone in the City, but shortly after joining Carmen's project, she supposedly vanished. In reality, she sacrificed herself to protect the research team from the Head's commanding Arbiter Garion, mortally wounding her in the process. She is now known as the former Sephirah Gebura who worked for the now-collapsed L Corp. as the head of the Disciplinary Team, and is now one of the Patron Librarians working for Angela.
Later on, after witnessing the power a Color Fixer has, Angela decides to use the power of the Library to recreates Kali in her prime, to create books to lure the Blue Reverberation back as well as strengthen Gebura. She covers Chapter 2.2.
For tropes regarding to her time in L Corp, see here. For tropes regarding to her status as a Librarian, see here.
- Achilles' Heel: Your usual attacks will usually fail to even scrape the Red Mist. Her E.G.O form, however, requires Kali to constantly deal out damage otherwise she gets staggered. This makes Kali particularly vulnerable to Binah's Combat Pages, which focus on preventing enemies from attacking and punishing them when they do attack with the Fairy status effect.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Defeating her using Gebura unlocks a unique, exclusive Battle Symbol for Gebura in the form of the Red Mist's E.G.O. helmet.
- Badass Longcoat: In her heydays, Kali used to wear a black trenchcoat.
- Barrier Change Boss: Kali in her E.G.O. form is heavily resistant to two out of three damage types, while taking normal damage from the third, and which damage type she's vulnerable to is randomized every turn. This also extends to Gebura with her Key Page, making this a rare playable version.
- Death Glare: Sports a rather impressive one when Angela starts saying bad things about Carmen in front of her.
- Exposition Dump: Her core page story is a lengthy info dump of the events that led to Lobotomy Corporation, including how she discovered the first E.G.O. of the City as a result of Carmen's experiments with Abnormalities, Enoch's death in the hands of Carmen and Carmen's subsequent fall into depression which led to her "death". The events depicted also match Ayin's descriptions in that game.
- Famed In-Story: Even ten years after her disappearance from the public eye, people still speak of the Red Mist with awe and respect.
- Fighting Your Friend: Averted. Angela is kind enough to not force her to fight her friends. Roland, Gebura, and Binah are the only Patron Librarians that's allowed to fight her.
- Lightning Bruiser: Not only does she have amazingly high HP, her Combat Pages hit very hard and if she gets to her E.G.O. form, she will use a Mass Attack page that will at least take out 40% of your Librarian's HP and nearly deplete their stagger gauge, in addition to inflicting 5 Bleed if it hits. If this was not enough, she will also follow up those attacks with a flurry of combat pages with abnormally high dice rolls, all but guaranteed to stagger and decimate anything but Binah, and even she could barely survive the assault for a few turns. It's very difficult to clear this reception within a single floor, and if the Floor of Philosophy has been decimated beforehand, all of the upcoming floors may very likely fall like a house of cards.
- Meaningful Name: Her Color title as the Red Mist refers to her raw strength when she manifests her E.G.O, reducing her enemies to nothing more than a red mist of blood as seen in Gebura's meltdown in Lobotomy Corporation.
- Simple, yet Awesome: The combat pages you get from winning the Red Mist's fight don't feature any complex mechanics like many of the other combat pages you can gain by this point of the game. What the Red Mist's combat pages do offer, however, are high damage rolls and the ability to keep up a consistent light regen and card draw to spam those same high damage rolls as long as you're able to consistently deal damage with those pages.
- Tranquil Fury: The pre-reception cutscene of the fake Kali has her being this in front of Angela. She doesn't raise her voice much, but she sounds absolutely livid especially when Angela starts talking bad about Carmen, complete with an imppressive Death Glare. At certain intervals, you can even hear clanging sounds which were heavily implied to be from Kali's sword, meaning that she's absolutely pissed off.
- Turns Red: Manifests her E.G.O form when she falls to 50% HP.
- Walking Spoiler: Not the fact Kali's Gebura. The fact you fight Kali in her prime is the main spoiler.
- World's Strongest Man: Downplayed, but from what we've seen and heard in the game, it's very likely that The Red Mist is the strongest Fixer in sheer strength at least, although this still only gives her a puncher's chance against the strongest of Abnormalities, Distortions, and things like Arbiters that are stronger than any normal human.. Mostly, this is because of the absurd strength granted by having a fully manifested E.G.O., which is a massive advantage none of the other Color Fixers are shown as having.
Argalia, The Blue Reverberation
Argalia, the Blue Reverberation
One of the legendary Fixers of the City, although he wasn't as well known as the Red Mist. He has a sister known as Angelica, a woman resembling Angela/Carmen who was married to Roland. Unfortunately, she was killed by the Pianist while still pregnant, and Roland went on a killing spree against anyone whom he would believe to be involved in the Distortion Phenomenon. It's implied Argalia recruited Roland's victims afterwards in hopes of using the Library to turn everyone into Distortions. By the time of the game's events unfold, Argalia has become completely insane and spends most of his time sabotaging Fixer Offices and authority figures amongst the City.For tropes regarding Argalia, go here
Iori, The Purple Tear
Iori, The Purple Tear
- "All right. Let's see how great this Library place is, shall we?"
- Alternate Timeline: Discussed in her key page story. Iori describes her Dimensional Traveler abilities as her being able to see multiple outcomes from events, which become their own separate worlds that she can travel to with her abilities.
- Ambiguously Evil: It's very unclear what the Purple Tear's plans and motives are. On the one hand, she's smug, manipulative, and secretive, and even Argalia turned against her due to her deceptions. And she was perfectly willing to help Roland with his destructive revenge plan. But on the other hand, she seemingly knew about the Golden Ending and possibly helped to bring it about, and it was her encouraging words to Roland that motivate him to ultimately save Angela. And it's also implied that all she really wants is to resurrect her long dead son.
- Animal Motifs: Snakes. It's in her symbol, in many of her combat card art and attack names, and she herself is shown to be a very Smug Snake. Her outfit also has a print on it resembling snake skin.
- Asshole Victim: It's revealed that she's been using the Blue Reverberation, Roland, and the Library to achieve an unknown goal in her hands. Argalia sends his whole Reverb Ensemble against her, forcing her to flee into the Library. She dies in combat afterwards. Subverted, because if you check out her book, it's implied that she lost her son 40 years ago to a very tragic case and was actually finding a way to change his fate by using the city's Colors. Also, she knew about the Golden Ending, and in fact took the chance at being booked and possibly be revived than die to the Ensemble due to being able to see multiple futures at once.
- Chekhov's Gunman: You hear about her from Roland at the first scene of the game.
- The Chessmaster: She seems to be planning something, although what it is isn't really clear. Whatever she's planning to do, it involves manipulating Argalia and Roland for her own purposes, and it seems Olivier also played a role in whatever she's doing. The fact she knew about the good ending, where Roland and Angela forgive each other and undo everything may have been her reason.
- Dimensional Traveler: Her power is to jump through dimensions. If you drop her HP to half, she will jump to a random floor and kill the Librarians there.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her naturally smug attitude in front of Argalia, Roland and the Library, it's implied that Iori was actually hatching a plan around other Color Fixers of the City for the sake of meeting her son, who died to an unknown incident 40 years ago.
- Face Death with Dignity: To an almost unnerving degree, Iori is completely composed when she dies in the Library. It's implied to be because she knew she would be brought back eventually.
- Foreshadowing:
- Before beginning her reception, Iori notes that she can think of multiple ways to defeat Angela despite her Nigh-Invulnerability due to being part-machine and part-human. Come the final chapter of the game, it is implied that Olivier's plan to disable Angela via a T-Corp device that forces her to experience thousands of years in a matter of seconds was a plan that was first proposed by the Purple Tear to him.
- After Iori's reception, Angela notes that Iori was particularly composed despite dying and that it was odd that she didn't choose to flee inside the Library despite her powers. While Roland initially speculates that Iori couldn't escape the Library due to the Library's powers, it is implied that Iori foresaw her potential revival by Angela's hands in the good ending, and thus took a gamble at being booked in the Library versus facing certain death against the Reverberation Ensemble.
- During her confrontation with The Reverb Ensemble, she claims to want to go to a specific place, and Zena, an Arbiter of the Head, off-handedly mentions that Angela's continued existence in the City would jeopardise some kind of 'door' being opened. With Iori's machinations setting the field for much of the game's events to happen, it's not farfetched to suggest a correlation.
- Gambit Roulette: Her whole plan of allowing herself to be booked in the Library, only to be revived in the end when Angela releases all of the booked guests was heavily contingent on both Angela and Roland forgiving each other. While it works out in the end for her in the Golden Ending, she gets unlucky in the two bad endings where either Angela never releases the light, rendering Iori booked forever or Roland kills Angela, destroying the Library and preventing Iori's revival in the process. Justified in that she can see multiple futures, allowing her to predict the outcome of her plan and that by the time she confronts the Reverb Ensemble, she has very little choice other than to head into the Library anyways.
- Good All Along: Well, "good" might be a bit of an exaggeration, but despite her smug attitude and numerous manipulations, the ending heavily implies her plans were actually working towards the Golden Ending and her advice was instrumental to helping Roland find redemption and save Angela in the end.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Incredibly relative to the setting itself, but there are implications that she's this despite her rather unpleasant personality and dubious actions. Her manipulations within the scope of the story actually ended up being beneficial to most of the cast. It's heavily implied that she knew Roland would be the only one who could get Angela to complete her Heel–Face Turn, which would lead her to reviving all of the people the Library had claimed, including Iori herself. She's also the reason Roland ended up saving Angela from what was going to be her Heroic Sacrifice, as a few words of encouragement she gave him before sending him to the Library ultimately pushed him to do it.
- Greater-Scope Villain: She's the reason Roland was able to get into the Library. It's possible she might have had benevolent reasons for this however, as she also apparently foresaw Angela's Heroic Sacrifice and imparted to Roland some words that would push him to save her.
- Meaningful Name: Her title as the Purple Tear is a twofold one. Tear can refer to her ability to tear through space to travel between dimensions. Tear can also refer to teardrop, as it is heavily implied that all of her actions are motivated by her losing her son tragically 40 years ago. The Japanese version renders it the latter (紫の涙).
- Psychotic Smirk: Sports an impressive one especially when being hit by an attack.
- Purple Is Powerful: Iori is the "Purple" of the Color Fixers, and one of the strongest Fixers seen in the game. Not only does she have incredible skill and strength, with her unique effects and bonuses being leagues stronger than almost any other in the game, she also has an extremely powerful Dimensional Traveler power, the like and scope of which isn't seen anywhere else in the setting.
- Red Baron: Just like the Blue Reverberation and the Red Mist, she is a color fixer capable of supernatural powers.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She doesn't even try to fight when Argalia brings his whole Reverberation Ensemble against her. She just takes her invitation and heads to the Library.
- Smug Snake: A literal case considering her motif, The Purple Tear is very smug even when engaging in normal conversation, and most of her dialogue consists of patronizing speeches and contempt. Unfortunately for her, she's outed by a traitor thanks to the Distortion Voice telling Argalia that she was scheming behind his back, and is forced to flee into the Library, where she falls in combat despite her boasts. However, she's brought back to life in the Golden Ending, something she seemingly anticipated as Roland reveals she gave him some encouraging words before sending him to the Library that ended up pushing him to save Angela. And in the end, she ends up banding with some of the Library's former victims like Tomerry for unknown reasons.
- Stance System: Iori is unique in that she has four different decks, one specializing in each of the three damage types and one specializing in defensive die that she can swap to occasionally, with each stance giving her a bonus in the dice type of that deck.
- Statuesque Stunner: If you are into that stuff. The Purple Tear is very tall, towering over most characters in the game.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Implied by her ability, Manipulator of Odds, which allows her to reroll each of her combat dice once if they roll the minimum value.
The Black Silence
The Black Silence
A relatively obscure and mysterious Color Fixer who's best known as the figure that eliminated The Pianist. Was also reported to have crushed the entirety of the Rumanos Cartel and a large chunk of the Middle Finger's southern operations. Later revealed to be Roland himself.According to the artbook however, the original Black Silence was actually Angelica, Roland's wife. Roland's mask modified the perceptions of other people into believing that he was Angelica instead. After her death, Roland inherited her signature gloves and became the second Black Silence.
For tropes regarding The Black Silence, go to this page.
for tropes regarding to the other Black Silence, go to this page.
The Vermilion Cross
A Color Fixer who was involved in a confrontation against the Reverb Ensemble, accompanied by the Hana Association's South Section 1 Fixers. He was heavily implied to be a friend of the Grade 1 Fixer Dong-hwan who was recruited by Hana to fight the Ensemble, only to be defeated by them alongside the Hana Section 1 Fixers accompanying him and turned into a puppet by Elena.
- Came Back Wrong: Seemingly made into a zombie by Elena, silent and shambling as he's forced to fight for the Ensemble.
- Dual Boss: Fought alongside Elena during the Reverb Ensemble reception.
- Meaningful Name: His title is derived from his Weapon Of Choice: a giant, metal cross that is super-heated to the point that it has a vermilion glow.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Thanks to Elena, he has more arms that protrude from his back which now swing around his cross for him.
- Playing with Fire: Attacks from his superheated cross afflict Burn.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed off-screen without a word of dialogue to his name, being introduced and then killed in the exact same sentence.
- The Worf Effect:
- Despite being a Color and thus, one of the strongest fixers in the whole city, he's killed offscreen along with Hana South Section 1 and then turned into a zombie minion to show how big of a threat the Reverb Ensemble has become.
- His notoriety (and thus the severity of the situation) is emphasized by the second Assistant Librarian's dialogue in the Floor of Philosophy, who recognizes the Vermilion Cross, implying that he was famous at least a decade before.
Assistant Librarian: "A vermilion...cross. That's gotta be him. The giant cross he has..."
Others
Other Fixers that do not belong to any Association or Office. Dong-hwan
A Grade 1 Fixer seemingly unaffiliated with any Office who is also a friend of the Vermilion Cross.
- Bloody Murder: Almost all of his cards inflict or synergize with bleed, and his Book is where you'll be getting most of the Star of the City-grade pages for bleed decks.
- Creator Cameo: His name and design are based on one of Project Moon's main artists, Kim Dong-hwan.
- Duel Boss: While not a boss, his fight will only allow one Librarian to fight him to compensate for his lesser endurance for a Star of the City reception.
