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* TheOneGuy: '''THE FIRST EVER MALE OPERATOR OF THE SUPPORTER CLASS IN OVER TWO YEARS!!!'''
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* TheOneGuy: '''THE FIRST EVER MALE OPERATOR OF THE SUPPORTER CLASS IN OVER TWO YEARS!!!'''He has the distinction of being the first ever male operator of the Supporter class released in over two years.
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->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No.
->'''Subclass:''' Debuff Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Debuff
->'''Skills:'''
->'''Talents:'''
->'''Affiliation:''' Kjerag
->'''Race:''' Liberi
->'''Birthday:'''
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* AnIcePerson: Shoots ice shots at enemies as his default attack, and can freeze enemies in their tracks.
* CoatCape: Wears one in his Elite 2 artwork.
* NiceHat: Like Phantom before him, he wears a neat looking fedora in his Elite 2 artwork, though his chibi sprite does not.
* TheOneGuy: '''THE FIRST EVER MALE OPERATOR OF THE SUPPORTER CLASS IN OVER TWO YEARS!!!'''
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->'''ID:''' No.
->'''Subclass:''' Debuff Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Debuff
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->'''Affiliation:''' Kjerag
->'''Race:''' Liberi
->'''Birthday:'''
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* AnIcePerson: Shoots ice shots at enemies as his default attack, and can freeze enemies in their tracks.
* CoatCape: Wears one in his Elite 2 artwork.
* NiceHat: Like Phantom before him, he wears a neat looking fedora in his Elite 2 artwork, though his chibi sprite does not.
* TheOneGuy: '''THE FIRST EVER MALE OPERATOR OF THE SUPPORTER CLASS IN OVER TWO YEARS!!!'''
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* ForgetsToEat: She's been known to skip meals in order to get more work done, something which worries Magallan. In Mayer's Operator Record, Magallan brings her some lunch from the cafeteria while she's cooped up in her workshop and asks her Meeboos to make sure she eats it she gets back to work.
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* ForgetsToEat: She's been known to skip meals in order to get more work done, something which worries Magallan. In Mayer's Operator Record, Magallan brings her some lunch from the cafeteria while she's cooped up in her workshop and asks her Meeboos to make sure she eats it before she gets back to work.
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'''Supporter''' operators are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Being somewhat lackluster on their own, when complemented with a strong team, they truly live up to their name as force multipliers, by providing fire support, healing, buffs, or by directly hamstringing their enemies for their allies to eliminate. Supporters are categorized based on the type of support they provide.
!!'''Ranged Units'''
!!'''Aura'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Skadi the Corrupting Heart, Sora
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'''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second.
!!'''Buff[=/=]Debuff'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Buff):''' Tsukinogi
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Debuff):''' Pramanix, Shamare
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'''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate.
!!'''Slow'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Angelina, Suzuran, Istina, Glaucus, Podenco, Earthspirit, Orchid
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'''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them. They are also deployed with enemies that deal a lot of damage to operators to keep stalling them in order to take them out before they reach the defenses.
!!'''Summon'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Magallan, Mayer, Scene, [=DeepColor=]
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'''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome. This archetype consists of .
* DifficultButAwesome: Using Summoner Supporters properly takes some very big brains to pull off, in order to play to the strengths and weaknesses of their minions. Usually, you'd have to be deploying nothing ''but'' these operators in order to make room for their summons, as these will count against your deployment limit, and then time your skill usage carefully to make the most out of their obscene powers, as in most cases all minions will be retrieved once the abilities are fired, leaving you vulnerable should the enemy survives. If that's not enough headache for you, if a summon is killed before it can be retrieved, it's gone for good, leaving you with less to make do with; barring certain skills, the only way to replenish an operator's summons is to redeploy the operator themselves. Managing to master their use, however, and you'll be finding yourself clearing many difficult maps with one lone operator.
!!'''Ground Units'''
!!'''Artificer'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Roberta
'''Artificer''' Supporters, in a drastic departure of typical Supporter operators, are a melee class capable of dealing physical damage, and have the ability to deploy summons to augment allies with various buffs. These summons, unlike those of Summoner Supporters, do not take up a deployment slot but will disappear after a short while on the field.
'''Supporter''' operators are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Being somewhat lackluster on their own, when complemented with a strong team, they truly live up to their name as force multipliers, by providing fire support, healing, buffs, or by directly hamstringing their enemies for their allies to eliminate. Supporters are categorized based on the type of support they provide.
!!'''Ranged Units'''
!!'''Aura'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Skadi the Corrupting Heart, Sora
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'''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second.
!!'''Buff[=/=]Debuff'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Buff):''' Tsukinogi
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Debuff):''' Pramanix, Shamare
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'''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate.
!!'''Slow'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Angelina, Suzuran, Istina, Glaucus, Podenco, Earthspirit, Orchid
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'''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them. They are also deployed with enemies that deal a lot of damage to operators to keep stalling them in order to take them out before they reach the defenses.
!!'''Summon'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Magallan, Mayer, Scene, [=DeepColor=]
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'''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome. This archetype consists of .
* DifficultButAwesome: Using Summoner Supporters properly takes some very big brains to pull off, in order to play to the strengths and weaknesses of their minions. Usually, you'd have to be deploying nothing ''but'' these operators in order to make room for their summons, as these will count against your deployment limit, and then time your skill usage carefully to make the most out of their obscene powers, as in most cases all minions will be retrieved once the abilities are fired, leaving you vulnerable should the enemy survives. If that's not enough headache for you, if a summon is killed before it can be retrieved, it's gone for good, leaving you with less to make do with; barring certain skills, the only way to replenish an operator's summons is to redeploy the operator themselves. Managing to master their use, however, and you'll be finding yourself clearing many difficult maps with one lone operator.
!!'''Ground Units'''
!!'''Artificer'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Roberta
'''Artificer''' Supporters, in a drastic departure of typical Supporter operators, are a melee class capable of dealing physical damage, and have the ability to deploy summons to augment allies with various buffs. These summons, unlike those of Summoner Supporters, do not take up a deployment slot but will disappear after a short while on the field.
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'''Factions:''' [[Characters/ArknightsRhodesIsland Rhodes Island]] | [[Characters/ArknightsReunionMovement The Reunion Movement]] | [[Characters/ArknightsOthers Miscellaneous factions & characters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsEnemyIndex Enemy Units Index]]]]-]]]
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'''Factions:''' [[Characters/ArknightsRhodesIsland Rhodes Island]] | [[Characters/ArknightsReunionMovement The Reunion Movement]] | [[Characters/ArknightsOthers Miscellaneous factions & characters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsNations Nation States]] | [[Characters/ArknightsEnemyIndex Enemy Units Index]]]]-]]]
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Her name is derived from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert_Mayer Maria Goeppert Mayer]], the second woman to win the Nobel prize for her work on nuclear science.
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* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Angelina is introduced as a newbie with great potential. This is especially true in gameplay, where she doesn't seem anything special and just an ordinary Slow Supporter. However, if you level her further and train her, she gets a completely unique ability with a decent uptime.
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!!'''Ranged Units'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Skadi the Corrupting Heart, Sora
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'''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second. This archetype consists of Skadi the Corrupting Heart and Sora.
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'''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second. This archetype consists of Skadi the Corrupting Heart and Sora.
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Buff):''' Tsukinogi
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Debuff):''' Pramanix, Shamare
!!!'''Operators of this archetype (Debuff):''' Pramanix, Shamare
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'''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate. The Buff archetype consists of only Tsukinogi, and the Debuff archetype consists of Pramanix and Shamare.
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'''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate. The Buff archetype consists of only Tsukinogi, and the Debuff archetype consists of Pramanix and Shamare.
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'''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them. They are also deployed with enemies that deal a lot of damage to operators to keep stalling them in order to take them out before they reach the defenses. This archetype consists of Angelina, Suzuran, Glaucus, Istina, Podenco, Earthspirit and Orchid.
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'''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them. They are also deployed with enemies that deal a lot of damage to operators to keep stalling them in order to take them out before they reach the defenses. This archetype consists of Angelina, Suzuran, Glaucus, Istina, Podenco, Earthspirit and Orchid.
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Magallan, Mayer, Scene, [=DeepColor=]
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'''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome. This archetype consists of Magallan, Mayer, Scene and [=DeepColor=].
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'''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome. This archetype consists of Magallan, Mayer, Scene and [=DeepColor=].of .
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!!'''Ground Units'''
!!'''Artificer'''
!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Roberta
'''Artificer''' Supporters, in a drastic departure of typical Supporter operators, are a melee class capable of dealing physical damage, and have the ability to deploy summons to augment allies with various buffs. These summons, unlike those of Summoner Supporters, do not take up a deployment slot but will disappear after a short while on the field.
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!!!'''Operators of this archetype:''' Roberta
'''Artificer''' Supporters, in a drastic departure of typical Supporter operators, are a melee class capable of dealing physical damage, and have the ability to deploy summons to augment allies with various buffs. These summons, unlike those of Summoner Supporters, do not take up a deployment slot but will disappear after a short while on the field.
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* BerserkButton: Do not interrupt her work, or she will [[ManBitesMan bite]] you out of reflex. And for the love of everything, do ''not'', under any circumstances, hack into her devices, or she will sic her Meeboos on you.
-->'''Mayer:''' [[TranquilFury ...Meeboos. Get her ass.]]
-->'''Mayer:''' [[TranquilFury ...Meeboos. Get her ass.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: According to Deepcolor's file, she was born in Columbia and grew up a normal life before joining Rhodes Island. However, a secret investigation discovers the background she gave to Rhodes Island is a lie as they found no evidence she was born in Columbia and are now suspicious on where Deepcolor is really from.
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** Funnily, she is known for this both by the playerbase and the files, which say that she could be amazing if she was trained to bring out her full potential.
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* '''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second.
* '''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate.
* '''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them.
* '''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome.
* '''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate.
* '''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them.
* '''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome.
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'''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome. This archetype consists of Magallan, Mayer, Scene and [=DeepColor=].
* DifficultButAwesome: Using Summoner Supporters properly takes some very big brains to pull off, in order to play to the strengths and weaknesses of their minions. Usually, you'd have to be deploying nothing ''but'' these operators in order to make room for their summons, as these will count against your deployment limit, and then time your skill usage carefully to make the most out of their obscene powers, as in most cases all minions will be retrieved once the abilities are fired, leaving you vulnerable should the enemy survives. If that's not enough headache for you, if a summon is killed before it can be retrieved, it's gone for good, leaving you with less to make do with; barring certain skills, the only way to replenish an operator's summons is to redeploy the operator themselves. Managing to master their use, however, and you'll be finding yourself clearing many difficult maps with one lone operator.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Angelina is known for being able to heal everyone passively when her skills are not active. This includes operators that cannot be healed normally and summons, and even the ''imprisonment devices in Mansfield Break''.
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** Angelina is currently the only operator in which their regular attacks can be disabled while equipped with certain skills - in Angelina's case, it's her second and third skill.[[note]][[Characters/ArknightsCasters Beeswax and Mint]] have a similar mechanic except they don't have any regular attacks at all, only attacking when either of their skills are active.[[/note]]
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** Angelina is currently the only operator in which their regular attacks can be disabled while equipped with certain skills - in Angelina's case, it's her second and third skill.[[note]][[Characters/ArknightsCasters Beeswax Idle Casters]] like Beeswax, Carnelian and Mint]] Mint have a similar mechanic except they don't have any regular attacks at all, only attacking when either of their skills are active.[[/note]]
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* LittleBitBeastly: It's actually not immediately obvious, but she herself is an otter-person (and not just an otter-building person); she's got the tail of a particularly long-furred eurasian otter, and may even be an (extinct-in-reality) Japanese otter. She is, notably, one of only two "Anaty" seen in the entire game so far (the other being [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Shirayuki]]). Also, the name of her workshop, Lutra, is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutra a genus of otters]].
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* LittleBitBeastly: It's actually not immediately obvious, but she herself is an otter-person (and not just an otter-building person); she's got the tail of a particularly long-furred eurasian otter, and may even be an (extinct-in-reality) Japanese otter. She is, notably, one of only two "Anaty" seen to be in the entire game so far at launch (the other being [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers [[Characters/ArknightsSnipersNToZ Shirayuki]]). Also, the name of her workshop, Lutra, is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutra a genus of otters]].
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* ForgetsToEat: She's been known to skip meals in order to get more work done, something which worries Magallan. In Mayer's Operator Record, Magallan brings her some lunch from the cafeteria while she's cooped up in her workshop and asks her Meeboos to make sure she eats it she gets back to work.
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* AnimalMotifs: Her Caprinae race represents either goats, ram, or sheep. To be specific, Earthspirit's animal motif is the goat, a skeleton of one even appears in her Elite 2 artwork.
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A mysterious, gifted artist with an decadent past, unique Arts, and a group of strange pets that cater to her needs. However, it quickly becomes painfully clear that a lot about Deepcolor is not as it seems...
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** In the Mansfield Prison Break event, Silence didn't originally tell her why she broke Mountain out of jail, either. And it's implied the Rhine Lab Director of the Energy Department was making Mayor work for his nefarious projects as well without telling Mayor why. Mayor doesn't mind the secrecy though. She left Rhine Labs for Rhodes Island not because of being locked out of the loop, but because the loop kept her from having enough time for her own projects.
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** In the Mansfield Prison Break event, Silence didn't originally tell her why she broke Mountain out of jail, either. And it's implied the Rhine Lab Director of the Energy Department was making Mayor Mayer work for his nefarious projects as well without telling Mayor Mayer why. Mayor Mayer doesn't mind the secrecy though. She left Rhine Labs for Rhodes Island not because of being locked out of the loop, but because the loop kept her from having enough time for her own projects.
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** In the Mansfield Prison Break event, Silence didn't originally tell her why she broke Mountain out of jail, either. And it's implied the Rhine Lab Director of the Energy Department was making Mayor work for his nefarious projects as well without telling Mayor why. Mayor doesn't mind the secrecy though. She left Rhine Labs for Rhodes Island not because of being locked out of the loop, but because the loop kept her from having enough time for her own projects.
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->'''Talents:''' Accelerator Field, Part-time Job
->'''Talents:''' Tentacle Summoner
->'''Talents:''' Geological Survey
->'''Talents:''' Countermeasure Device
->'''Talents:''' Explorer
->'''Talents:''' Support Drone - Soaring Dragon, Optical Refraction Accessories
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* ConsummateProfessional: She's the most serious of the Catastrophe Messengers, especially compared to the more whimsical Provence. Her introduction line has her laying down the terms of her contract, and her RIIC skill post-"Walk in the Dust" update has one of the highest HR contract speed with a morale malus that prevents her from working overtime from said contract terms. Her Operator Record reveals that she becomes this serious with her work because [[spoiler:her teacher was burnt on the stake because their Catastrophe calculation caused the city they were stationed in to starve from crop failure]].
* MinoredInAsskicking: She's better as a bureaucrat working in Rhodes Island's HR office than as a combat operator, but it doesn't mean she doesn't have her use in the battlefield.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Every time she reminisces about her experience in Peterheim Middle School, her sprite portrait has her eyes losing their shine.
* SquishyWizard: Owing to her abysmal DEF, Istina has the second worst effective HP among all Supporters, with only Glaucus being slightly squishier. Worse yet, her Elite 2 talent '''Explorer''' slaps her with a -35% DEF penalty whether you like it or not, which cannot be alleviated in any way. This makes placing her a very precarious proposition considering the game's aggro system, so unless you're willing to immediately place down someone else to act as her MeatShield, Istina wouldn't last very long on the field if the enemy is packing ranged attacks, even with Medic support.
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* SquishyWizard: Owing to her abysmal DEF, Istina has the second worst effective HP among all Supporters, with only Glaucus being slightly squishier. Worse yet, her Elite 2 talent '''Explorer''' slaps her with a -35% DEF penalty whether you like it or not, which cannot be alleviated in any way. This makes placing her a very precarious proposition considering the game's aggro system, so unless you're willing to immediately place down someone else to act as her MeatShield, Istina wouldn't last very long on the field if the enemy is packing ranged attacks, even with Medic support.
* TragicKeepsake: The teddy bear that appears in her E2 art [[spoiler: belonged to her best friend Vika before the Chernobog Incident where she witnessed her death from the argument of attempting to betray Zima. She kept it afterwards and named it after her friend.]]
* TragicKeepsake: The teddy bear that appears in her E2 art [[spoiler: belonged to her best friend Vika before the Chernobog Incident where she witnessed her death from the argument of attempting to betray Zima. She kept it afterwards and named it after her friend.]]
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* SquishyWizard: Owing SurvivorGuilt: Her particular trauma from Chernobog incident was from her experience witnessing her best friend Vika falling to her abysmal DEF, Istina has death. While everyone keeps telling her that Vika's death isn't her fault and there was nothing she could do to prevent it, the second worst effective HP among all Supporters, with only Glaucus being slightly squishier. Worse yet, way the flashback shown implies that [[spoiler:Istina let Vika died when she could have saved her Elite 2 talent '''Explorer''' slaps from falling, thus her with a -35% DEF penalty whether you like it or not, which cannot be alleviated in any way. This makes placing her a very precarious proposition considering the game's aggro system, so unless you're willing to immediately place down someone else to act as her MeatShield, Istina wouldn't last very long on the field if the enemy is packing ranged attacks, even with Medic support.
death was definitely Istina's fault]].
* TragicKeepsake: The teddy bear that appears in her E2 art[[spoiler: belonged [[spoiler:belonged to her best friend Vika before the Chernobog Incident where she witnessed her death from the argument of attempting to betray Zima. She kept it afterwards and named it after her friend.]]
* TragicKeepsake: The teddy bear that appears in her E2 art
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: It's implied that her assignment to the northern tundra, facing hostile nature and unknown eldritch horrors that live in it, is not only because she loves to explore the unknown frontier. She's increasingly vocal of her theories about a civilization in the north forgotten by history, which often get dismissed by other scholars as mere fairytales. And so, her superior gets rid of her by sending her to the place she wants to explore anyway.
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* {{Bookworm}}: An absolutely voracious reader who spends pretty much all of her non-combat time reading whatever she can get her hands on from cooking magazines to political treatises to mystery novels.
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* {{Bookworm}}: An absolutely voracious reader who spends pretty much all of her non-combat time reading whatever she can get her hands on from cooking magazines to political treatises to mystery novels. This manifests in both her skills:
** Her S1 '''Concentration''' starts off with a small attack interval reduction at Level 1, which becomes even faster when it's maxed out and specialized.
** Her S2 '''Literature Storm''' increases her ATK by 20% at Level 1 and allows her to attack one extra target for the duration, this on top of her increased range, which allows her to hit more targets around her; at Level 7, and at full specialization, her ATK will increase by 75% and she can attack two extra targets.
** Her S1 '''Concentration''' starts off with a small attack interval reduction at Level 1, which becomes even faster when it's maxed out and specialized.
** Her S2 '''Literature Storm''' increases her ATK by 20% at Level 1 and allows her to attack one extra target for the duration, this on top of her increased range, which allows her to hit more targets around her; at Level 7, and at full specialization, her ATK will increase by 75% and she can attack two extra targets.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Besides the fact that she can act as a cheaper alternative to an [=AoE=] Caster with better range with '''Literature Storm''', Istina's really nothing special compared to the likes of other Slow-type Supporters like Angelina or a proper [=AoE=] Caster, especially in terms of survivability and damage.
* TheStrategist: Implied with her Elite 2 '''Strategist''' RIIC skill, which increases the chances of getting "Ursus Self-Governing Group" clues (Clue 4) when she's put in the Reception Room.
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* SquishyWizard: Owing to her abysmal DEF, Istina has the second worst effective HP among all Supporters, with only Glaucus being slightly squishier. Worse yet, her Elite 2 talent slaps her with a -35% DEF penalty whether you like it or not, which cannot be alleviated in any way. This makes placing her a very precarious proposition considering the game's aggro system, so unless you're willing to immediately place down someone else to act as her MeatShield, Istina wouldn't last very long on the field if the enemy is packing ranged attacks, even with Medic support.
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'''Operatives:''' [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Vanguards]] ([[Characters/ArknightsVanguardsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsVanguardsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Snipers]] ([[Characters/ArknightsSnipersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Guards]] ([[Characters/ArknightsGuardsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsGuardsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Defenders]] ([[Characters/ArknightsDefendersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsDefendersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Casters]] ([[Characters/ArknightsCastersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsCastersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Medics]] ([[Characters/ArknightsMedicsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsMedicsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSupporters Supporters]] ('''A-M''' | [[Characters/ArknightsSupportersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]] ([[Characters/ArknightsSpecialistsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialistsNToZ N-Z]]) \\
'''Factions:''' [[Characters/ArknightsRhodesIsland Rhodes Island]] | [[Characters/ArknightsReunionMovement The Reunion Movement]] | [[Characters/ArknightsOthers Miscellaneous factions & characters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsEnemyIndex Enemy Units Index]]]]-]]]
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'''Supporter''' operators are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Being somewhat lackluster on their own, when complemented with a strong team, they truly live up to their name as force multipliers, by providing fire support, healing, buffs, or by directly hamstringing their enemies for their allies to eliminate. Supporters are categorized based on the type of support they provide.
* '''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second.
* '''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate.
* '''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them.
* '''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome.
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[[folder: Angelina]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Green, but full of potential.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Bloodline of Combat: Distinguished Visitor skin.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/artangelinaskinbloodlineofcombat_0.png]][[/labelnote]]
-> ''Angelina, Supporter Operator and Messenger of Rhodes Island, would like to provide help with her amazing Originium Arts.''
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 291
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, DPS, Support
->'''Affiliation:''' Siracusa
->'''Real name:''' Angelina Ajimu
->'''Race:''' Vulpo
->'''Birthday:''' May 14
->'''Height:''' 162cm
->'''Artist:''' [=LM7=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakaOhashi
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* AerithAndBob: She is one of notable "Bobs" in a setting filled with "Aeriths"
* AlliterativeName: Her real name is '''A'''ngelina '''A'''jimu.
* AnimalMotifs: Foxes, due to her Vulpo race. One is also in the left side of her Elite 2 artwork.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: There are typos or broken English in Angelina's Archive File 3. The second sentence begins with "After she suffering her infection". Meanwhile, the last sentence calls her as "Angela".
* BoringButPractical: Her first skill simply gives her an attack buff and is automatically activated (which means less control), but is also the only way to keep her on the field while not letting her be a sitting duck when not activating a skill, and can let her fill in for Orchid and Istina, serving the typical Slower Supporter role.
* CombatMedic: Her second talent '''Part-time Job''' lets her restore the HP of all allies at once, so long as her skills aren't activated. Notably, this also heals things/Operators that can't normally be healed, such as summons or enmity guards like Hellagur.
* DifficultButAwesome: Her second and third skills both confer a substantial increase to damage output, but they also render her a sitting duck when not active, as her normal attacks are disabled while they're charging. Careful timing is needed to get maximum mileage out of her when Angelina's specced to use either of them, and in most cases she's typically put there to be a buffer and passive healer instead of a damage main.
* DiscardAndDraw: Her second and third skills, '''Arcane Staff - Particle Mode''' and '''Arcane Staff - Anti-Gravity Mode''' respectively, are this trope - in exchange for being unable to use normal attacks, they give the following benefits:
** Particle Mode increases her attack speed immensely, though each hit becomes considerably weaker. That said, the attack speed increase more than makes up for the reduced damage per hit, with the additional benefit of keeping an enemy permanently slowed as long as they stay within Angelina's range.
** Anti-Gravity Mode increases Angelina's attack, gives her much more range, lets her attack 5 enemies at once, and reduces the weight of all enemies within her expanded range. The last benefit lets her synergize well with Push/Pull [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]].
* GirlishPigtails: She has thick twintails.
* GravityMaster: Her Arts abilities let her manipulate objects' weights. This comes into effect with her '''Arcane Staff Anti-Gravity Mode''' skill, making all enemies within her range more vulnerable to Shift Specialists.
* HiddenDepths:
** She likes jewelry, young adult novels, and old music.
** She has a weird hobby of jumping or gliding between building during nighttime. When Rhodes Island sought her out, she was gliding between two skyscrapers. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a part of her [[LivingADoubleLife courier duties]].]]
* LivingADoubleLife: She's initially seen as a normal high school girl. But during nighttime, [[spoiler:she works as a courier, smuggling goods from one place to another]].
* MagicMissileStorm: Her S2 and S3 are capable of this, in that as soon as they're activated, she unleashes [[BeamSpam beams of energy rapid-fire]] for the entire duration. Her S3 also increases her range, making her able to hit enemies from what's normally outside of her range. Combined with the heightened arts damage that slows targets on hit, this makes her a good operator if one needs to deal with fast-moving enemies and/or wraith-type enemies that would pass through operators. This skill is the source of her nickname "CC Goddess" as she was a [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome mainstay]] in almost all high-risk clear strategies of CC Pyrite's permanent map (which involved a ZergRush of wraith leaders, breakers, and had Crownslayer as boss whose teleporting could not be disabled).
* MagikarpPower: As it stands, Angelina is somewhat of a ho-hum operator in an already niche class. While she does many things, she does none of them very well until you promote her to Elite 2... at which point she gains a ''completely'' unique ability and becomes the enabler of entire new categories of strategy. Getting there, though, takes a lot of time, materials, and money, all of which you will not be swimming in until you've been playing for a while. As such, she makes for a very powerful late game unit, but is generally seen as quite mediocre and replaceable early on.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter:
** Angelina is currently the only operator in which their regular attacks can be disabled while equipped with certain skills - in Angelina's case, it's her second and third skill.[[note]][[Characters/ArknightsCasters Beeswax and Mint]] have a similar mechanic except they don't have any regular attacks at all, only attacking when either of their skills are active.[[/note]]
** A minor cosmetic one: she's the one of the two operators (along with Sora) that does not have a "back-facing" sprite during operations.
* TheNonDescript: Because she is a smuggler, she is fairly nondescript compared to the more quirky operators of Rhodes Island like Ifrit and Gummy. This is reflected in her codename just being her first. Her in-game files are also pretty short, and don't describe much about her past except for her smuggling job.
* OnlineAlias: Her Obsgram username is "[=AngelAngelina=]".
* PowerFloats: Her Quality Visitors skin has her floating for both her combat and base animations, even riding around on her staff like a broom in the latter.
* ShipTease: Her higher-trust voice lines are ''incredibly'' shippy. She develops a very obvious crush on the Doctor and wishes they would reciprocate.
* SituationalSword: Her Anti-Gravity Mode's weight reduction effect is only really useful if you're looking to make use of Shift Specialists, such as Shaw or Cliffheart. Otherwise, it doesn't confer much tactical advantage.
* SuckingInLines: While her second and third skills do not allow Angelina to attack on cooldown, she instead makes a stance wherein energy lines converge on her staff until the skill is activated.
* TooManyBelts: Not normally, but in her Bloodline of Combat skin.
* UnskilledButStrong: Her Arts ability is the manipulation of an object's weight, but as her Archive File states, Angelina could be amazing if she's properly trained.
* VenturousSmuggler: She is this after school, being a smuggler and courier.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After becoming Infected, she left behind her family, friends, and home without saying goodbye.
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[[folder: Deepcolor]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:You don't want to know how she draws.]]
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->''Deepcolor, Supporter Operator of Rhodes Island, is ready for combat with her "[[CombatTentacles assistants]]".''
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 110
->'''Subclass:''' Summon Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Summon
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhodes Island
->'''Race:''' Unknown
->'''Birthday:''' Jun 12
->'''Height:''' 163cm
->'''Tags:''' Summon
->'''Artist:''' [=REALMBW=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoTaichi
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* AnimalMotifs: She has one with cephalopods. Due to the design of her hat and her Elite 2 art however, she seems to be based more specifically on either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimpoteuthis dumbo octopuses]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid vampire squid]].
* ArtAttacker: Her general Arts ability is this; she's able to bring at least certain kinds of drawings to life, and uses her notebook and brush as Arts catalysts to attack. This is wildly different from anything Rhodes has ever encountered and makes a lot of the Rhodes higher-ups very curious about her.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Her photographic memory also allows her to understand a person through their lifestyle choices or daily habits.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:It's... much harder to tell how true this is with Deepcolor, compared to Skadi or Specter. She does seem ultimately dedicated to her potential mission even at high trust levels (though it takes on the form of her being eager to show you the artistry of the Deep), but throughout her voice lines, she makes a number of comments that seem to point to her really, genuinely loving Rhodes Island and the world of light and color she now inhabits, and suggests that her life in the Deep... was sadder, much lonelier, and never gave her the sense of purpose or self-confidence she feels among the Doctor and her friends at Rhodes.]]
-->[[spoiler:''"Um, could you just... stop caring about me? If you keep treating me like this... like I matter... I-I don't know what will become of me..."'']]
* CombatTentacles: She can summon tentacles to attack enemies.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As a first-generation Summon-type Specialist, Deepcolor's kit [[MechanicallyUnusualFighter is very strange compared to her later classmates]]. Unlike Magallan and Mayer, Deepcolor doesn't have any kind of ability that would allow her to retrieve her summons, instead relying on her S1 to keep them alive and healthy. Her tentacles also don't offer much in the way of battlefield control unlike Magallan's drones and Mayer's Meeboos, being more akin to low-rent Guards instead. Finally, she's the only Summon Specialist that can directly buff her teammates, unlike Magallan and Mayer's self-centered kits.
* {{Expy}}: She is quite obvious one of Katsushika Hokusai from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. Bordering on downright ripoff in her Elite 2 art.
* MagikarpPower: If you ''fully'' invest into her second skill, it becomes unbelievably powerful; it grants every operator within basically a three-tile cone in front of her, including her tentacles, 50% physical evasion for a full minute while also expanding her attack range to that cone. And she can do this 20 seconds after the battle starts. You do have to take it all the way to full mastery to get this effect, however; even at just level 7, it loses 15% evasion, eight seconds of initial charge, and twelve seconds of duration. And just to get the skill, you need to at least Elite 1 her, and getting the most out of the increased range means you probably want to at least max out her E1 level.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:The most obvious answer to the questions around her is that she's some kind of spy or agent for the Abyssals who was sent to do a general survey of the surface and ended up fascinated by Rhodes Island and the Doctor. Precisely how far or deep it goes is the big question.]]
* MookMaker: This is basically what she is - she can drop between two and four tentacles on the ground, depending on rarity, that block enemies and attack independently.
* PhotographicMemory: Deepcolor has this talent, which is a benefit of being well-versed in different forms of art and painting.
* ShipTease: If you get her trust up high, it becomes pretty obvious that she has a thing for the Doctor and is very eager to show them the full extent of her knowledge of art. [[spoiler:Which specifically involves her knowledge of the "colors" of the capital-D Deep and what lies there. It also seems pretty likely that you're more or less the main thing keeping her at Rhodes and preventing her from returning to the Abyssals and reporting everything she's seen.]]
-->''"Haha... so this is your color? Look into my eyes, then... paint me in your colors."''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Her introduction line is this:
-->''"I'm Deepcolor, a painter. That's right, just a "painter", nothing more."''
* UniformityException: [[spoiler:By the time you get Deepy up to Elite 2 and high trust, it becomes ''painfully'' obvious that she's an Abyssal similar to [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Skadi, Specter]] and [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Blue Poison]]. However, her abilities are nothing like the other three (who are all physical attackers), she uses a much different, more elaborate cover story compared to them, never acknowledges where she's from (unlike Skadi) and she ''doesn't'' count as an Abyssal Hunter for the purposes of Skadi's passive or assembling the Abyssal "team". Also, interestingly, unlike the other Abyssals, she is ''not'' available from Recruitment and can only be obtained from the Headhunting gacha. (This also makes her unique among the launch 4*s, as while [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Courier]] and [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Gavial]] are also not in the Recruitment pool, they're instead available up to Potential 6 in the Friend Credit shop -- Deepcolor is the ''only'' gacha-exclusive 4* among the initial crew.) So precisely what is going on with her remains a [[PlotThread tantalizing mystery]], but she's much different from other Abyssals, for... some reason.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Yes, she's just a painter. There is absolutely nothing in her later profile and voice lines that raise tons of questions about her and provide intriguing {{Plot Thread}}s, don't be ridiculous.
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[[folder: Earthspirit]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Is she hearing things again?]]
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->''Earthspirit, Supporter Operator of Rhodes Island, will provide reliable support on the battlefield when she's on duty''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 183
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow
->'''Affiliation:''' Leithanien
->'''Race:''' Caprinae
->'''Birthday:''' April 5
->'''Height:''' 161cm
->'''Artist:''' [=HUG=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki
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* AnimalMotifs: Her Caprinae race represents either goats, ram, or sheep. To be specific, Earthspirit's animal motif is the goat, a skeleton of one even appears in her Elite 2 artwork.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Evident in her Elite 2 artwork, where the red thigh bands on her legs aren't parallel to each other.
* HerdHittingAttack: Her second skill '''Quicksand Conversion''' will slow all enemies within range of her temporarily. The trouble is that she will stop attacking for the duration of the skill.
* HornedHumanoid: She has goat-like horns.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Without listening to her voice or reading her bio, one could easily mistake her for a young man, given her clothing, somewhat {{Bishonen}}-esque features, and, well, ''flat'' chest.
* TalkingWeapon: {{Downplayed}}. She claims that the hunk of Originium on her staff can speak, but it started off as unintelligible mess. When Earthspirit is starting to understand what it says, only she can hear the staff's "voice", even if there are other Operators around.
* WeakButSkilled: Earthspirit has very disappointing stats, even for a 4-star. However, her second skill and talent make her extremely good at slowing and stalling large groups of enemies within a sizable radius. This means that all Earthspirit needs to be viable are her Elite 1 promotion to unlock '''Quicksand Conversion''' and its upgrades, and nothing else. Promoting her to Elite 2 simply improves her slow duration with '''Geological Survey''' on top of [[StatStick giving her mildly better stats]], which can be overlooked if one so chooses.
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[[folder: Glaucus]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Please keep the receipt for that portable communication device.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_326_glacus_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Dreambind Castle: Plaza Sweeper skin.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_326_glacus_ghost1_min.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Glaucus, weapon reviewer of Raythean, is ready to take down enemy machines with the latest technology''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 326
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, Crowd-Control
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhodes Island
->'''Race:''' Unknown
->'''Birthday:''' July 27
->'''Height:''' 159cm
->'''Artist:''' Xiàyě Hóng Míng
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiNonaka
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* AnimalMotifs: Sea slugs, particularly from the genus [[ShapedLikeItself Glaucus]]. One appears in her Elite 2 art.
* AntiAir: Glaucus's talent gives her the trait "Attacks aerial units first" like snipers. Unlike snipers, her trait also makes her deal extra damage to aerial units. If Glaucus uses her second skills, aerial units will be disabled and take massive damage.
* DestructiveSaviour: Well, not her so much as her weapon. While very powerful against enemy drones, it's also noted to cause considerable damage to surrounding facilities and other operators' equipment.
* {{EMP}}: Her gun, Raythean Franker, basically fires this. It's a justification why she deals extra damage to drones.
* GadgeteerGenius: She's a highly skilled weapon designer and good with techologies related to electricity and electromagnetism. Her current weapon is her modification of a failed Raythean communications jamming device into a highly destructive {{EMP}} gun.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: While her trust files note that her gun tends to damage other operators' equipment, [[FriendlyFireproof in game she can use it just fine around allied drones]].
* IllGirl: She suffers from a hereditary degenerative nerve disease that is slowly paralyzing her lower body. She has to use a powered exoskeleton in order to walk normally.
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:She is highly implied to be connected in some way with the Abyssal Hunters, with her Trust 4 file describing her and her family as possibly being "involved in a secret heretical organization in the [=Ægir=] Region." Also, other than the other techheads like Closure and Vulcan, she's shown to be quite friendly to the operators connected to the Abyssal Hunters.]]
* NoSell: While it doesn't affect her gameplay at all, one of her trust files note that her body produces antibodies capable of rendering nerve paralyzers and hallucinogens ineffective, though conventional poisons still work. This is probably why she's noted as one of the few operators willing to try Blue Poison's desserts. This trait is likely a reference to real-life Glaucus sea slugs' diet of venomous sea creatures like the Portuguese man o' war.
* PoweredArmor: Glaucus's lower extremity muscle strength is only one-half of the adult average and is still shrinking due to a hereditary disease passed down in her family. Her exoskeleton equipment is naturally to compensate for her mobility problems.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Sea slug-based characters are not often seen, not even in settings where all characters are a LittleBitBeastly like here.
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[[folder: Istina (Истина)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Education is the key to life's riches.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_195_glassb_2.png]][[/labelnote]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Rhodes Kitchen: Bibliosmia skin'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_195_glassb_kitchen1.png]][[/labelnote]]
->''Istina, member of Ursus Student Self-government Group, will beat the enemy with Originium Arts chosen from one of her books''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 195
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, DPS
->'''Affiliation:''' U.S.S.G - Empire of Ursus
->'''Real name:''' [[spoiler: Anna Morozova (Aннa Морозов)]]
->'''Race:''' Ursus
->'''Birthday:''' September 22
->'''Height:''' 156cm
->'''Artist:''' Skade
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki
A well-read Ursin student who was caught up in the fall of Chernobog and helped with the subsequent formation of the Ursus Student Self-Governing Group.
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* AnimalMotifs: Appropriately enough, spectacled bears. Both her asset file names and the fine print on her coat textures reference this.
* BadassBookworm: Istina is much better-educated and well-read than her fellow Ursin operators. Upon closer inspection, the book she's holding in her character CG is on [[UsefulNotes/{{Marxism}} Marxism-Leninism]], which hilariously implies either our world is fictional in-setting, or that the UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn actually existed in-universe, at least up until the time of UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, who coined the term in the first place.
* {{Bookworm}}: An absolutely voracious reader who spends pretty much all of her non-combat time reading whatever she can get her hands on from cooking magazines to political treatises to mystery novels.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Zima. They used to be neighbors, until Istina moved away.
* EdibleAmmunition: Her alternate skin has her trade her spell book for a stack of pancakes, which she chucks at baddies to slow them down. With her second skill, she pours honey into her pancakes, which will fire energy shots towards enemies. [[TakeOurWordForIt Don't ask, it just works]].
* {{Fangirl}}: Of detective novels in particular, as she gushes enthusiastically about it to anyone who asks and refuses to let other people spoil the twist to anyone who hasn't read them. It's never actually stated what books she's been reading, but dialogue heavily implies it's Agatha Christie novels because she references two iconic twists from Christie's bibliography[[note]]Her idle line as assistant has her note that [[spoiler:all the passengers on the train are murderers, the key revelation from ''Murder on the Orient Express'']] and dialogue in ''Children of Ursus'' references a story where [[spoiler:the protagonist is the murderer, the major plot twist of ''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'']][[/note]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: In her initial artwork, there is a black band on her right leg.
* FragileSpeedster: The talent '''Explorer''', which she receives upon being promoted to Elite 2, seems to have this in mind for her, gaining a little bit more attack speed... at the expense of becoming even [[SquishyWizard squishier]] than she already is.
* GratuitousRussian: Her Cyrillic name, Истина, means "truth" in Russian.
* HighClassGlass: Istina wears a monocle on her left eye, and she's the [[{{Bookworm}} avid book-reader]] among the Ursus operators.
* {{Motifs}}: Aside from her AnimalMotifs, Istina's second motif revolves around Books, fitting her {{bookworm}} characterization. Istina's artworks always show her carrying a book, especially in her Elite 2 promotion art, which shows her standing on top of stacked books while pages are scattered around her, and a ''library'' is seen on the background. Her "Rhodes Kitchen: Savour Book" skin is even named with that motif, while also showing Istina reading a book and having plenty of Creator/AgathaChristie [[ShoutOut references]] in the background as detailed on the game's [[ShoutOut/{{Arknights}} Shout-Out tab]].
* NiceHat: Wears a beret; for unknown reasons, it is replaced with a fedora in her Elite 2 artwork.
* OddFriendship: With May, due to their shared interest in literature, particularly detective novels. Even though Istina finds May mildly irritating for inexplicably latching onto her as a self-appointed apprentice as seen in ''Children of Ursus'', she admits that she likes having May around in some part.
* PowerFloats: When using Literature Storm, Istina will hover slightly above ground.
* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The nice sidekick to Zima's rude hero, Istina is ''far'' more polite and open to communication, and is openly aware of Zima's rudeness being a liability at times but asserts that Zima is far more competent and self-aware than some would give her credit for.
* TheSmartGuy: Of Zima's group. Despite Zima being TheLeader, it is Istina's wise, educated advice that keeps the group together, so in a sense she's also TheHeart, though to a lesser extent than Gummy.
* SpellBook: Istina attacks by firing magic missiles from her book. The power of Marxism-Leninism is tremendously damaging, it seems.
* SpoilingShoutOut: One of her lines as assistant discusses her surprise at the ending to ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' (Yes, this also implies that Creator/AgathaChristie's bibliography is to some extent in circulation in-universe).
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite her frail bookworm appearance, Istina still possesses the physical strength her race is known for. Zima's account in ''Children of Ursus'' states that Istina can fight really well, but she just doesn't like to apply herself.
* SquishyWizard: Owing to her abysmal DEF, Istina has the second worst effective HP among all Supporters, with only Glaucus being slightly squishier. Worse yet, her Elite 2 talent slaps her with a -35% DEF penalty whether you like it or not, which cannot be alleviated in any way. This makes placing her a very precarious proposition considering the game's aggro system, so unless you're willing to immediately place down someone else to act as her MeatShield, Istina wouldn't last very long on the field if the enemy is packing ranged attacks, even with Medic support.
* TragicKeepsake: The teddy bear that appears in her E2 art [[spoiler: belonged to her best friend Vika before the Chernobog Incident where she witnessed her death from the argument of attempting to betray Zima. She kept it afterwards and named it after her friend.]]
* TraumaButton: [[spoiler:Witnessing people teeter on the edge of a notable height triggers her traumatic memories regarding Vika's death, as seen when May hurts herself trying to catch Silence's drone outside Istina's room.]]
* UtilityPartyMember: Due to her slightly awkward kit that falls under SituationalSword at best, Istina (or most Supporters for that matter) isn't used all that often. However, many players still take the time to raise her to Elite 2 for her [=RIIC=] skill, '''Strategist''', which increases the chances of Clue 4 dropping in a search. Apart from Istina, ''no one else'' had this skill until the release of Absinthe, making her invaluable when searching for this specific clue, which in itself is already memetic due to its abysmal drop chance.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: With her home city of Chernobog destroyed and her family presumably dead, it was only natural for Istina to join Rhodes Island with Zima and Gummy.
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: She refuses to talk about what happened during the fall of Chernobog, asserting that there are some situations where the truth shouldn't be disclosed. It is for good as ''Children of Ursus'' event revealed it was ''really'' nasty and PTSD-inducing.
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[[folder: Magallan]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: Many things can happen when she presses that button, but she [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial swears that explosions aren't one of them]].]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote: ''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_248_mgllan_2_1.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote: ''Click to see her Rhodes Kitchen: Aftertaste of Frost and Snow skin'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_248_mgllan_kitchen1.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Magallan, the Commissioner of Rhine Labs, is glad to welcome new adventures''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 248
->'''Subclass:''' Summon Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, DPS, Support
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhine Labs
->'''Race:''' Liberi
->'''Birthday:''' October 17
->'''Height:''' 160cm
->'''Artist:''' [=NoriZC=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariyaIse
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* AnimalMotifs: Penguins. Magellanic penguins, to be specific, if her codename and the {{Skunk Stripe}}s in her hair are any indication. Her character design also bears subtle penguin hints, such as a generally stout, bell-shaped body, owing to the form of her armor. Her suit is also predominantly white on the front, which visually emulates the penguin's countershading, her mask resembles a penguin's beak, and her arms act as the "flippers".
* BoldExplorer: Her dream is to research and explore new lands, particularly the Polar North.
* ChekhovsGun: Magallan mentions that Ifrit left a book behind, about a gardener taking care of a flower no one would take care of, growing under a tile. She says she left this book behind. This book is Ifrit's token.
* DroneDeployer: Magallan is also a Summon-type Specialist like her Rhine Lab colleague Mayer. Unlike Mayer, though, her drones are more like portable turrets than animal-shaped explosive charges.
* EdibleAmmunition: For once, this ammunition being "edible" or not depends a lot on your personal palate. Her alternate skin trades live ammunition for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming Surströmming]]. And if you've had the misfortune of eating [[ForeignQueasine Surströmming]] before, you'd probably feel bad for her enemies too.
* FashionableAsymmetry: She wears a single crescent moon-shaped earring on her right ear (more clearly seen in her E2 art); in her ''Rhodes Kitchen: Shaved-Ice Memories'' skin she wears a snowflake-shaped earring instead.
* GlassCannon: Despite her strong DPS output, Magallan is ''extremely'' fragile, especially against physical damage. Without proper healing and aggro management, she won't last long.
* AnIcePerson: Fittingly, considering her penguin AnimalMotifs[[note]]Though it's worth mentioning that Magellanic penguins ''don't'' live in Antarctica, so this isn't as fitting compared to some other penguin species that do live there.[[/note]] Her first skill, ''High-Efficiency Freezing Module'', has a passive effect of slowing all enemies within her and her drones' range, and an active effect of freezing enemies in place (called bind in-game).
* MacrossMissileMassacre: With her third skill equipped, all of Magallan's drones will fire barrages of micro-missiles that deal [=AoE=] damage. Activate the skill to cause even more damage, but be sure to redeploy them afterwards.
* MagicalCamera: No, not one that shoots pictures, but one that shoots energy shots as her standard attack.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Just like the Magellanic penguins she is based on, Magallan's name is derived from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan Ferdinand Magellan]], an explorer famous for being the first known person to circumnavigate the Earth.
* OddFriendship:
** Her second Trust file reveals that she developed a good relationship with the Emperor of Penguin Logistics that some operators (including those from the aforementioned logistic firm) express envy toward her. The fact that she owns a keychain themed around him on both her character [=CGs=] also helps.
** She tends to befriend people with disagreeable personalities. Not only the aforementioned Emperor, she's also in good relation with the hotblooded pyromaniac Ifrit that they're on nicknames basis and Asbestos, the self-professed jackass loner, decides to go to Rhodes Island on her recommendation.
* SixthRanger: Magallan is typically excluded from the Rhine Lab group wherever fanart and discussion are involved, due to her being introduced much later than them, and the fact that she barely interacts with them at all in the story because of her work environment. Interestingly, she literally ''is'' the sixth Rhine Lab member in the game in release order.
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[[folder: Mayer]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_242_otter_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A genius at multitasking in all aspects.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_242_otter_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Dreambind Castle: Courtyard Dreamseeker Vanguard skin.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_242_otter_ghost1.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Mayer, researcher of Rhine Lab, is ready for combat with her Meeboos''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 242
->'''Subclass:''' Summon Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Summon, Crowd-Control
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhine Labs
->'''Race:''' Anaty
->'''Birthday:''' November 20
->'''Height:''' 159cm
->'''Artist:''' Huànxiàng Hēi Tù
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaitou
An employee and one-woman workshop of Rhine Lab, Mayer is blissfully unaware of the gritty details of what precisely happened during the [[NoodleIncident Flame Demon Incident]] involving [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Olivia Silence]], [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Ifrit]] and [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Saria]]. She is, however, a longtime friend and admirer of Silence, and made her way to Rhodes Island when she heard Silence had taken up residence there. She currently works with Rhodes as part of its engineering department, a whole workshop unto herself... for better, worse, and Meeboo.
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* ActionBomb: The '''Detonate and Recycle''' skill she gets upon reaching Elite 1 allows you to use her Robotters this way, and allows you to recycle any Robotters that have been blown up rather than destroyed in battle.
* AnimalMotifs: Because the Anaty race represents mustelids like ferrets or weasels, Mayer's specific animal motif is the otter, and her robots (as seen in her artworks), also resemble otters.
* AnimalStereotypes: She's an otter, so she's joyous, laid-back and optimistic, rather clever, and likeable.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Robot otters. Robotters.
* CloudCuckoolander: She... definitely marches to the beat of her own drum. She is [[BunnyEarsLawyer tremendously capable]], but she is a near-perfect example of the idea of "high intelligence score, low wisdom score":
-->"At night I'm always full of inspiration... and the urgency to sleep! No... I can't bear it... Where's the pillow... I need to rest..."
-->"Hm? Why are these cuties called Meeboos? That's because they go 'meeee-boooo' when they boot up. So I named them after that. Fitting, don't you think? Just listen and you'll get it. You press this switch to... WHUAH?! Wrong one! That's the self-destruct button! Oh shoot, run awaaaaaay!"
* DifficultButAwesome: Making the most out of Mayer and her Robotters basically requires you to build your team around supporting ''her'' instead of the other way around. Conventional strategies basically go flying out the window as you'll be placing much less operators than you normally would, in order to make room for her summons. Placement of these and proper timing of their detonation are key to victory, and it's practically a given that Mayer be promoted to Elite 2 and her second skill Mastered, which will cost you a pretty penny. Once you've gotten her upgrades and mechanics down hat, however, Mayer can easily solo certain high-difficulty maps and make complete mockery out of the later story chapters.
* GenkiGirl: Creator/ChiwaSaitou voices her with a Genki Power™ you can feel in your ''bones''.
* HerdHittingAttack: Using '''Detonate and Recycle''' will detonate all the summoned Robotters, and anyone caught in the blast is stunned. It is for this reason that she's got the "Crowd Control" tag attached to her.
* LittleBitBeastly: It's actually not immediately obvious, but she herself is an otter-person (and not just an otter-building person); she's got the tail of a particularly long-furred eurasian otter, and may even be an (extinct-in-reality) Japanese otter. She is, notably, one of only two "Anaty" seen in the entire game so far (the other being [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Shirayuki]]). Also, the name of her workshop, Lutra, is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutra a genus of otters]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Barring Magallan, she's the only one who's actually still working for Rhine Labs, as she's unaware of the NoodleIncident that made Saria, Ifrit, Ptilopsis and Silence leave. She basically knows as much about the incident as Rhodes Island does.
* MundaneUtility: She uses one of her Meeboos as a mobile workbench.
* MookMaker: As a Summon-type Supporter, this is her playstyle in general, and much of it revolves around her use of the Robotters. Her special talent is even called '''Robotter''', and allows her to summon more of them as she is promoted.
* PokemonSpeak: {{Inverted}}. She named her robotic pets as "Meeboos" after the "meeeee-booooo" sound effect that they emit upon booting up.
* SmartPeopleBuildRobots: Otter robots. Dozens of otter robots. So many that they practically spill out of her workshop room on Rhodes Island.
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'''Operatives:''' [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Vanguards]] ([[Characters/ArknightsVanguardsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsVanguardsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Snipers]] ([[Characters/ArknightsSnipersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Guards]] ([[Characters/ArknightsGuardsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsGuardsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Defenders]] ([[Characters/ArknightsDefendersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsDefendersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Casters]] ([[Characters/ArknightsCastersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsCastersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Medics]] ([[Characters/ArknightsMedicsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsMedicsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSupporters Supporters]] ('''A-M''' | [[Characters/ArknightsSupportersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]] ([[Characters/ArknightsSpecialistsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialistsNToZ N-Z]]) \\
'''Factions:''' [[Characters/ArknightsRhodesIsland Rhodes Island]] | [[Characters/ArknightsReunionMovement The Reunion Movement]] | [[Characters/ArknightsOthers Miscellaneous factions & characters]] | [[Characters/ArknightsEnemyIndex Enemy Units Index]]]]-]]]
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'''Supporter''' operators are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Being somewhat lackluster on their own, when complemented with a strong team, they truly live up to their name as force multipliers, by providing fire support, healing, buffs, or by directly hamstringing their enemies for their allies to eliminate. Supporters are categorized based on the type of support they provide.
* '''Aura''' Supporters [[NonActionGuy don't attack]], but are focused solely on either providing buffs for their team or debuffs for the enemy within their huge range with their skills. Aura Supporters additionally passively heal teammates that are within their range for a fraction of their ATK every second.
* '''Buff[=/=]Debuff''' Supporters operate by either buffing their team with evasion or offensive stats, or marking enemies within range with a DamageIncreasingDebuff once their health drops past a certain threshold, thus softening them up for your other operators to eliminate.
* '''Slow''' Supporters reduce the movement and ASPD of enemies that they strike, giving your defense lines more time to wipe out priority targets like Wraiths or Ergates before they slip past them.
* '''Summon''' Supporters don't buff anything directly, settling for bringing drones and the like to the field instead. Of all types of Supporters, Summoners have the weakest team synergy and often require entire lineups being built around supporting ''them'' to be truly effective, due to their summons taking up deployment slots. Their summons are also perishable, and if killed will be lost permanently unless retrieved with skills beforehand, or the operators themselves being redeployed. With the right team and strategy, however, they can win battles by their lonesome.
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[[folder: Angelina]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291_aglina_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Green, but full of potential.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291_aglina_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Bloodline of Combat: Distinguished Visitor skin.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/artangelinaskinbloodlineofcombat_0.png]][[/labelnote]]
-> ''Angelina, Supporter Operator and Messenger of Rhodes Island, would like to provide help with her amazing Originium Arts.''
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 291
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, DPS, Support
->'''Affiliation:''' Siracusa
->'''Real name:''' Angelina Ajimu
->'''Race:''' Vulpo
->'''Birthday:''' May 14
->'''Height:''' 162cm
->'''Artist:''' [=LM7=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakaOhashi
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* AerithAndBob: She is one of notable "Bobs" in a setting filled with "Aeriths"
* AlliterativeName: Her real name is '''A'''ngelina '''A'''jimu.
* AnimalMotifs: Foxes, due to her Vulpo race. One is also in the left side of her Elite 2 artwork.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: There are typos or broken English in Angelina's Archive File 3. The second sentence begins with "After she suffering her infection". Meanwhile, the last sentence calls her as "Angela".
* BoringButPractical: Her first skill simply gives her an attack buff and is automatically activated (which means less control), but is also the only way to keep her on the field while not letting her be a sitting duck when not activating a skill, and can let her fill in for Orchid and Istina, serving the typical Slower Supporter role.
* CombatMedic: Her second talent '''Part-time Job''' lets her restore the HP of all allies at once, so long as her skills aren't activated. Notably, this also heals things/Operators that can't normally be healed, such as summons or enmity guards like Hellagur.
* DifficultButAwesome: Her second and third skills both confer a substantial increase to damage output, but they also render her a sitting duck when not active, as her normal attacks are disabled while they're charging. Careful timing is needed to get maximum mileage out of her when Angelina's specced to use either of them, and in most cases she's typically put there to be a buffer and passive healer instead of a damage main.
* DiscardAndDraw: Her second and third skills, '''Arcane Staff - Particle Mode''' and '''Arcane Staff - Anti-Gravity Mode''' respectively, are this trope - in exchange for being unable to use normal attacks, they give the following benefits:
** Particle Mode increases her attack speed immensely, though each hit becomes considerably weaker. That said, the attack speed increase more than makes up for the reduced damage per hit, with the additional benefit of keeping an enemy permanently slowed as long as they stay within Angelina's range.
** Anti-Gravity Mode increases Angelina's attack, gives her much more range, lets her attack 5 enemies at once, and reduces the weight of all enemies within her expanded range. The last benefit lets her synergize well with Push/Pull [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]].
* GirlishPigtails: She has thick twintails.
* GravityMaster: Her Arts abilities let her manipulate objects' weights. This comes into effect with her '''Arcane Staff Anti-Gravity Mode''' skill, making all enemies within her range more vulnerable to Shift Specialists.
* HiddenDepths:
** She likes jewelry, young adult novels, and old music.
** She has a weird hobby of jumping or gliding between building during nighttime. When Rhodes Island sought her out, she was gliding between two skyscrapers. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a part of her [[LivingADoubleLife courier duties]].]]
* LivingADoubleLife: She's initially seen as a normal high school girl. But during nighttime, [[spoiler:she works as a courier, smuggling goods from one place to another]].
* MagicMissileStorm: Her S2 and S3 are capable of this, in that as soon as they're activated, she unleashes [[BeamSpam beams of energy rapid-fire]] for the entire duration. Her S3 also increases her range, making her able to hit enemies from what's normally outside of her range. Combined with the heightened arts damage that slows targets on hit, this makes her a good operator if one needs to deal with fast-moving enemies and/or wraith-type enemies that would pass through operators. This skill is the source of her nickname "CC Goddess" as she was a [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome mainstay]] in almost all high-risk clear strategies of CC Pyrite's permanent map (which involved a ZergRush of wraith leaders, breakers, and had Crownslayer as boss whose teleporting could not be disabled).
* MagikarpPower: As it stands, Angelina is somewhat of a ho-hum operator in an already niche class. While she does many things, she does none of them very well until you promote her to Elite 2... at which point she gains a ''completely'' unique ability and becomes the enabler of entire new categories of strategy. Getting there, though, takes a lot of time, materials, and money, all of which you will not be swimming in until you've been playing for a while. As such, she makes for a very powerful late game unit, but is generally seen as quite mediocre and replaceable early on.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter:
** Angelina is currently the only operator in which their regular attacks can be disabled while equipped with certain skills - in Angelina's case, it's her second and third skill.[[note]][[Characters/ArknightsCasters Beeswax and Mint]] have a similar mechanic except they don't have any regular attacks at all, only attacking when either of their skills are active.[[/note]]
** A minor cosmetic one: she's the one of the two operators (along with Sora) that does not have a "back-facing" sprite during operations.
* TheNonDescript: Because she is a smuggler, she is fairly nondescript compared to the more quirky operators of Rhodes Island like Ifrit and Gummy. This is reflected in her codename just being her first. Her in-game files are also pretty short, and don't describe much about her past except for her smuggling job.
* OnlineAlias: Her Obsgram username is "[=AngelAngelina=]".
* PowerFloats: Her Quality Visitors skin has her floating for both her combat and base animations, even riding around on her staff like a broom in the latter.
* ShipTease: Her higher-trust voice lines are ''incredibly'' shippy. She develops a very obvious crush on the Doctor and wishes they would reciprocate.
* SituationalSword: Her Anti-Gravity Mode's weight reduction effect is only really useful if you're looking to make use of Shift Specialists, such as Shaw or Cliffheart. Otherwise, it doesn't confer much tactical advantage.
* SuckingInLines: While her second and third skills do not allow Angelina to attack on cooldown, she instead makes a stance wherein energy lines converge on her staff until the skill is activated.
* TooManyBelts: Not normally, but in her Bloodline of Combat skin.
* UnskilledButStrong: Her Arts ability is the manipulation of an object's weight, but as her Archive File states, Angelina could be amazing if she's properly trained.
* VenturousSmuggler: She is this after school, being a smuggler and courier.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After becoming Infected, she left behind her family, friends, and home without saying goodbye.
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[[folder: Deepcolor]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_110_deepcl_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:You don't want to know how she draws.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_110_deepcl_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Deepcolor, Supporter Operator of Rhodes Island, is ready for combat with her "[[CombatTentacles assistants]]".''
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 110
->'''Subclass:''' Summon Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Summon
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhodes Island
->'''Race:''' Unknown
->'''Birthday:''' Jun 12
->'''Height:''' 163cm
->'''Tags:''' Summon
->'''Artist:''' [=REALMBW=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoTaichi
----
* AnimalMotifs: She has one with cephalopods. Due to the design of her hat and her Elite 2 art however, she seems to be based more specifically on either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimpoteuthis dumbo octopuses]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid vampire squid]].
* ArtAttacker: Her general Arts ability is this; she's able to bring at least certain kinds of drawings to life, and uses her notebook and brush as Arts catalysts to attack. This is wildly different from anything Rhodes has ever encountered and makes a lot of the Rhodes higher-ups very curious about her.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Her photographic memory also allows her to understand a person through their lifestyle choices or daily habits.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:It's... much harder to tell how true this is with Deepcolor, compared to Skadi or Specter. She does seem ultimately dedicated to her potential mission even at high trust levels (though it takes on the form of her being eager to show you the artistry of the Deep), but throughout her voice lines, she makes a number of comments that seem to point to her really, genuinely loving Rhodes Island and the world of light and color she now inhabits, and suggests that her life in the Deep... was sadder, much lonelier, and never gave her the sense of purpose or self-confidence she feels among the Doctor and her friends at Rhodes.]]
-->[[spoiler:''"Um, could you just... stop caring about me? If you keep treating me like this... like I matter... I-I don't know what will become of me..."'']]
* CombatTentacles: She can summon tentacles to attack enemies.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As a first-generation Summon-type Specialist, Deepcolor's kit [[MechanicallyUnusualFighter is very strange compared to her later classmates]]. Unlike Magallan and Mayer, Deepcolor doesn't have any kind of ability that would allow her to retrieve her summons, instead relying on her S1 to keep them alive and healthy. Her tentacles also don't offer much in the way of battlefield control unlike Magallan's drones and Mayer's Meeboos, being more akin to low-rent Guards instead. Finally, she's the only Summon Specialist that can directly buff her teammates, unlike Magallan and Mayer's self-centered kits.
* {{Expy}}: She is quite obvious one of Katsushika Hokusai from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. Bordering on downright ripoff in her Elite 2 art.
* MagikarpPower: If you ''fully'' invest into her second skill, it becomes unbelievably powerful; it grants every operator within basically a three-tile cone in front of her, including her tentacles, 50% physical evasion for a full minute while also expanding her attack range to that cone. And she can do this 20 seconds after the battle starts. You do have to take it all the way to full mastery to get this effect, however; even at just level 7, it loses 15% evasion, eight seconds of initial charge, and twelve seconds of duration. And just to get the skill, you need to at least Elite 1 her, and getting the most out of the increased range means you probably want to at least max out her E1 level.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:The most obvious answer to the questions around her is that she's some kind of spy or agent for the Abyssals who was sent to do a general survey of the surface and ended up fascinated by Rhodes Island and the Doctor. Precisely how far or deep it goes is the big question.]]
* MookMaker: This is basically what she is - she can drop between two and four tentacles on the ground, depending on rarity, that block enemies and attack independently.
* PhotographicMemory: Deepcolor has this talent, which is a benefit of being well-versed in different forms of art and painting.
* ShipTease: If you get her trust up high, it becomes pretty obvious that she has a thing for the Doctor and is very eager to show them the full extent of her knowledge of art. [[spoiler:Which specifically involves her knowledge of the "colors" of the capital-D Deep and what lies there. It also seems pretty likely that you're more or less the main thing keeping her at Rhodes and preventing her from returning to the Abyssals and reporting everything she's seen.]]
-->''"Haha... so this is your color? Look into my eyes, then... paint me in your colors."''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Her introduction line is this:
-->''"I'm Deepcolor, a painter. That's right, just a "painter", nothing more."''
* UniformityException: [[spoiler:By the time you get Deepy up to Elite 2 and high trust, it becomes ''painfully'' obvious that she's an Abyssal similar to [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Skadi, Specter]] and [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Blue Poison]]. However, her abilities are nothing like the other three (who are all physical attackers), she uses a much different, more elaborate cover story compared to them, never acknowledges where she's from (unlike Skadi) and she ''doesn't'' count as an Abyssal Hunter for the purposes of Skadi's passive or assembling the Abyssal "team". Also, interestingly, unlike the other Abyssals, she is ''not'' available from Recruitment and can only be obtained from the Headhunting gacha. (This also makes her unique among the launch 4*s, as while [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Courier]] and [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Gavial]] are also not in the Recruitment pool, they're instead available up to Potential 6 in the Friend Credit shop -- Deepcolor is the ''only'' gacha-exclusive 4* among the initial crew.) So precisely what is going on with her remains a [[PlotThread tantalizing mystery]], but she's much different from other Abyssals, for... some reason.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Yes, she's just a painter. There is absolutely nothing in her later profile and voice lines that raise tons of questions about her and provide intriguing {{Plot Thread}}s, don't be ridiculous.
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[[folder: Earthspirit]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_183_skgoat_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Is she hearing things again?]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_183_skgoat_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Earthspirit, Supporter Operator of Rhodes Island, will provide reliable support on the battlefield when she's on duty''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 183
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow
->'''Affiliation:''' Leithanien
->'''Race:''' Caprinae
->'''Birthday:''' April 5
->'''Height:''' 161cm
->'''Artist:''' [=HUG=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki
----
* AnimalMotifs: Her Caprinae race represents either goats, ram, or sheep. To be specific, Earthspirit's animal motif is the goat, a skeleton of one even appears in her Elite 2 artwork.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Evident in her Elite 2 artwork, where the red thigh bands on her legs aren't parallel to each other.
* HerdHittingAttack: Her second skill '''Quicksand Conversion''' will slow all enemies within range of her temporarily. The trouble is that she will stop attacking for the duration of the skill.
* HornedHumanoid: She has goat-like horns.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Without listening to her voice or reading her bio, one could easily mistake her for a young man, given her clothing, somewhat {{Bishonen}}-esque features, and, well, ''flat'' chest.
* TalkingWeapon: {{Downplayed}}. She claims that the hunk of Originium on her staff can speak, but it started off as unintelligible mess. When Earthspirit is starting to understand what it says, only she can hear the staff's "voice", even if there are other Operators around.
* WeakButSkilled: Earthspirit has very disappointing stats, even for a 4-star. However, her second skill and talent make her extremely good at slowing and stalling large groups of enemies within a sizable radius. This means that all Earthspirit needs to be viable are her Elite 1 promotion to unlock '''Quicksand Conversion''' and its upgrades, and nothing else. Promoting her to Elite 2 simply improves her slow duration with '''Geological Survey''' on top of [[StatStick giving her mildly better stats]], which can be overlooked if one so chooses.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Glaucus]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_326_glacus_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Please keep the receipt for that portable communication device.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_326_glacus_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Dreambind Castle: Plaza Sweeper skin.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_326_glacus_ghost1_min.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Glaucus, weapon reviewer of Raythean, is ready to take down enemy machines with the latest technology''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 326
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, Crowd-Control
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhodes Island
->'''Race:''' Unknown
->'''Birthday:''' July 27
->'''Height:''' 159cm
->'''Artist:''' Xiàyě Hóng Míng
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiNonaka
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* AnimalMotifs: Sea slugs, particularly from the genus [[ShapedLikeItself Glaucus]]. One appears in her Elite 2 art.
* AntiAir: Glaucus's talent gives her the trait "Attacks aerial units first" like snipers. Unlike snipers, her trait also makes her deal extra damage to aerial units. If Glaucus uses her second skills, aerial units will be disabled and take massive damage.
* DestructiveSaviour: Well, not her so much as her weapon. While very powerful against enemy drones, it's also noted to cause considerable damage to surrounding facilities and other operators' equipment.
* {{EMP}}: Her gun, Raythean Franker, basically fires this. It's a justification why she deals extra damage to drones.
* GadgeteerGenius: She's a highly skilled weapon designer and good with techologies related to electricity and electromagnetism. Her current weapon is her modification of a failed Raythean communications jamming device into a highly destructive {{EMP}} gun.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: While her trust files note that her gun tends to damage other operators' equipment, [[FriendlyFireproof in game she can use it just fine around allied drones]].
* IllGirl: She suffers from a hereditary degenerative nerve disease that is slowly paralyzing her lower body. She has to use a powered exoskeleton in order to walk normally.
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:She is highly implied to be connected in some way with the Abyssal Hunters, with her Trust 4 file describing her and her family as possibly being "involved in a secret heretical organization in the [=Ægir=] Region." Also, other than the other techheads like Closure and Vulcan, she's shown to be quite friendly to the operators connected to the Abyssal Hunters.]]
* NoSell: While it doesn't affect her gameplay at all, one of her trust files note that her body produces antibodies capable of rendering nerve paralyzers and hallucinogens ineffective, though conventional poisons still work. This is probably why she's noted as one of the few operators willing to try Blue Poison's desserts. This trait is likely a reference to real-life Glaucus sea slugs' diet of venomous sea creatures like the Portuguese man o' war.
* PoweredArmor: Glaucus's lower extremity muscle strength is only one-half of the adult average and is still shrinking due to a hereditary disease passed down in her family. Her exoskeleton equipment is naturally to compensate for her mobility problems.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Sea slug-based characters are not often seen, not even in settings where all characters are a LittleBitBeastly like here.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Istina (Истина)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_195_glassb_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Education is the key to life's riches.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_195_glassb_2.png]][[/labelnote]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Rhodes Kitchen: Bibliosmia skin'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_195_glassb_kitchen1.png]][[/labelnote]]
->''Istina, member of Ursus Student Self-government Group, will beat the enemy with Originium Arts chosen from one of her books''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 195
->'''Subclass:''' Slow Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, DPS
->'''Affiliation:''' U.S.S.G - Empire of Ursus
->'''Real name:''' [[spoiler: Anna Morozova (Aннa Морозов)]]
->'''Race:''' Ursus
->'''Birthday:''' September 22
->'''Height:''' 156cm
->'''Artist:''' Skade
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki
A well-read Ursin student who was caught up in the fall of Chernobog and helped with the subsequent formation of the Ursus Student Self-Governing Group.
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* AnimalMotifs: Appropriately enough, spectacled bears. Both her asset file names and the fine print on her coat textures reference this.
* BadassBookworm: Istina is much better-educated and well-read than her fellow Ursin operators. Upon closer inspection, the book she's holding in her character CG is on [[UsefulNotes/{{Marxism}} Marxism-Leninism]], which hilariously implies either our world is fictional in-setting, or that the UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn actually existed in-universe, at least up until the time of UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, who coined the term in the first place.
* {{Bookworm}}: An absolutely voracious reader who spends pretty much all of her non-combat time reading whatever she can get her hands on from cooking magazines to political treatises to mystery novels.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Zima. They used to be neighbors, until Istina moved away.
* EdibleAmmunition: Her alternate skin has her trade her spell book for a stack of pancakes, which she chucks at baddies to slow them down. With her second skill, she pours honey into her pancakes, which will fire energy shots towards enemies. [[TakeOurWordForIt Don't ask, it just works]].
* {{Fangirl}}: Of detective novels in particular, as she gushes enthusiastically about it to anyone who asks and refuses to let other people spoil the twist to anyone who hasn't read them. It's never actually stated what books she's been reading, but dialogue heavily implies it's Agatha Christie novels because she references two iconic twists from Christie's bibliography[[note]]Her idle line as assistant has her note that [[spoiler:all the passengers on the train are murderers, the key revelation from ''Murder on the Orient Express'']] and dialogue in ''Children of Ursus'' references a story where [[spoiler:the protagonist is the murderer, the major plot twist of ''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'']][[/note]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: In her initial artwork, there is a black band on her right leg.
* FragileSpeedster: The talent '''Explorer''', which she receives upon being promoted to Elite 2, seems to have this in mind for her, gaining a little bit more attack speed... at the expense of becoming even [[SquishyWizard squishier]] than she already is.
* GratuitousRussian: Her Cyrillic name, Истина, means "truth" in Russian.
* HighClassGlass: Istina wears a monocle on her left eye, and she's the [[{{Bookworm}} avid book-reader]] among the Ursus operators.
* {{Motifs}}: Aside from her AnimalMotifs, Istina's second motif revolves around Books, fitting her {{bookworm}} characterization. Istina's artworks always show her carrying a book, especially in her Elite 2 promotion art, which shows her standing on top of stacked books while pages are scattered around her, and a ''library'' is seen on the background. Her "Rhodes Kitchen: Savour Book" skin is even named with that motif, while also showing Istina reading a book and having plenty of Creator/AgathaChristie [[ShoutOut references]] in the background as detailed on the game's [[ShoutOut/{{Arknights}} Shout-Out tab]].
* NiceHat: Wears a beret; for unknown reasons, it is replaced with a fedora in her Elite 2 artwork.
* OddFriendship: With May, due to their shared interest in literature, particularly detective novels. Even though Istina finds May mildly irritating for inexplicably latching onto her as a self-appointed apprentice as seen in ''Children of Ursus'', she admits that she likes having May around in some part.
* PowerFloats: When using Literature Storm, Istina will hover slightly above ground.
* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The nice sidekick to Zima's rude hero, Istina is ''far'' more polite and open to communication, and is openly aware of Zima's rudeness being a liability at times but asserts that Zima is far more competent and self-aware than some would give her credit for.
* TheSmartGuy: Of Zima's group. Despite Zima being TheLeader, it is Istina's wise, educated advice that keeps the group together, so in a sense she's also TheHeart, though to a lesser extent than Gummy.
* SpellBook: Istina attacks by firing magic missiles from her book. The power of Marxism-Leninism is tremendously damaging, it seems.
* SpoilingShoutOut: One of her lines as assistant discusses her surprise at the ending to ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' (Yes, this also implies that Creator/AgathaChristie's bibliography is to some extent in circulation in-universe).
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite her frail bookworm appearance, Istina still possesses the physical strength her race is known for. Zima's account in ''Children of Ursus'' states that Istina can fight really well, but she just doesn't like to apply herself.
* SquishyWizard: Owing to her abysmal DEF, Istina has the second worst effective HP among all Supporters, with only Glaucus being slightly squishier. Worse yet, her Elite 2 talent slaps her with a -35% DEF penalty whether you like it or not, which cannot be alleviated in any way. This makes placing her a very precarious proposition considering the game's aggro system, so unless you're willing to immediately place down someone else to act as her MeatShield, Istina wouldn't last very long on the field if the enemy is packing ranged attacks, even with Medic support.
* TragicKeepsake: The teddy bear that appears in her E2 art [[spoiler: belonged to her best friend Vika before the Chernobog Incident where she witnessed her death from the argument of attempting to betray Zima. She kept it afterwards and named it after her friend.]]
* TraumaButton: [[spoiler:Witnessing people teeter on the edge of a notable height triggers her traumatic memories regarding Vika's death, as seen when May hurts herself trying to catch Silence's drone outside Istina's room.]]
* UtilityPartyMember: Due to her slightly awkward kit that falls under SituationalSword at best, Istina (or most Supporters for that matter) isn't used all that often. However, many players still take the time to raise her to Elite 2 for her [=RIIC=] skill, '''Strategist''', which increases the chances of Clue 4 dropping in a search. Apart from Istina, ''no one else'' had this skill until the release of Absinthe, making her invaluable when searching for this specific clue, which in itself is already memetic due to its abysmal drop chance.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: With her home city of Chernobog destroyed and her family presumably dead, it was only natural for Istina to join Rhodes Island with Zima and Gummy.
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: She refuses to talk about what happened during the fall of Chernobog, asserting that there are some situations where the truth shouldn't be disclosed. It is for good as ''Children of Ursus'' event revealed it was ''really'' nasty and PTSD-inducing.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Magallan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_248_mgllan_1_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: Many things can happen when she presses that button, but she [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial swears that explosions aren't one of them]].]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote: ''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_248_mgllan_2_1.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote: ''Click to see her Rhodes Kitchen: Aftertaste of Frost and Snow skin'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_248_mgllan_kitchen1.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Magallan, the Commissioner of Rhine Labs, is glad to welcome new adventures''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 248
->'''Subclass:''' Summon Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Slow, DPS, Support
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhine Labs
->'''Race:''' Liberi
->'''Birthday:''' October 17
->'''Height:''' 160cm
->'''Artist:''' [=NoriZC=]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariyaIse
----
* AnimalMotifs: Penguins. Magellanic penguins, to be specific, if her codename and the {{Skunk Stripe}}s in her hair are any indication. Her character design also bears subtle penguin hints, such as a generally stout, bell-shaped body, owing to the form of her armor. Her suit is also predominantly white on the front, which visually emulates the penguin's countershading, her mask resembles a penguin's beak, and her arms act as the "flippers".
* BoldExplorer: Her dream is to research and explore new lands, particularly the Polar North.
* ChekhovsGun: Magallan mentions that Ifrit left a book behind, about a gardener taking care of a flower no one would take care of, growing under a tile. She says she left this book behind. This book is Ifrit's token.
* DroneDeployer: Magallan is also a Summon-type Specialist like her Rhine Lab colleague Mayer. Unlike Mayer, though, her drones are more like portable turrets than animal-shaped explosive charges.
* EdibleAmmunition: For once, this ammunition being "edible" or not depends a lot on your personal palate. Her alternate skin trades live ammunition for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming Surströmming]]. And if you've had the misfortune of eating [[ForeignQueasine Surströmming]] before, you'd probably feel bad for her enemies too.
* FashionableAsymmetry: She wears a single crescent moon-shaped earring on her right ear (more clearly seen in her E2 art); in her ''Rhodes Kitchen: Shaved-Ice Memories'' skin she wears a snowflake-shaped earring instead.
* GlassCannon: Despite her strong DPS output, Magallan is ''extremely'' fragile, especially against physical damage. Without proper healing and aggro management, she won't last long.
* AnIcePerson: Fittingly, considering her penguin AnimalMotifs[[note]]Though it's worth mentioning that Magellanic penguins ''don't'' live in Antarctica, so this isn't as fitting compared to some other penguin species that do live there.[[/note]] Her first skill, ''High-Efficiency Freezing Module'', has a passive effect of slowing all enemies within her and her drones' range, and an active effect of freezing enemies in place (called bind in-game).
* MacrossMissileMassacre: With her third skill equipped, all of Magallan's drones will fire barrages of micro-missiles that deal [=AoE=] damage. Activate the skill to cause even more damage, but be sure to redeploy them afterwards.
* MagicalCamera: No, not one that shoots pictures, but one that shoots energy shots as her standard attack.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Just like the Magellanic penguins she is based on, Magallan's name is derived from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan Ferdinand Magellan]], an explorer famous for being the first known person to circumnavigate the Earth.
* OddFriendship:
** Her second Trust file reveals that she developed a good relationship with the Emperor of Penguin Logistics that some operators (including those from the aforementioned logistic firm) express envy toward her. The fact that she owns a keychain themed around him on both her character [=CGs=] also helps.
** She tends to befriend people with disagreeable personalities. Not only the aforementioned Emperor, she's also in good relation with the hotblooded pyromaniac Ifrit that they're on nicknames basis and Asbestos, the self-professed jackass loner, decides to go to Rhodes Island on her recommendation.
* SixthRanger: Magallan is typically excluded from the Rhine Lab group wherever fanart and discussion are involved, due to her being introduced much later than them, and the fact that she barely interacts with them at all in the story because of her work environment. Interestingly, she literally ''is'' the sixth Rhine Lab member in the game in release order.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Mayer]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_242_otter_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A genius at multitasking in all aspects.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see Elite 2 appearance.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_242_otter_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:''Click to see her Dreambind Castle: Courtyard Dreamseeker Vanguard skin.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_242_otter_ghost1.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Mayer, researcher of Rhine Lab, is ready for combat with her Meeboos''.
->'''Rarity:''' ★★★★★
->'''ID:''' No. 242
->'''Subclass:''' Summon Supporter
->'''Tags:''' Summon, Crowd-Control
->'''Affiliation:''' Rhine Labs
->'''Race:''' Anaty
->'''Birthday:''' November 20
->'''Height:''' 159cm
->'''Artist:''' Huànxiàng Hēi Tù
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaitou
An employee and one-woman workshop of Rhine Lab, Mayer is blissfully unaware of the gritty details of what precisely happened during the [[NoodleIncident Flame Demon Incident]] involving [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Olivia Silence]], [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Ifrit]] and [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Saria]]. She is, however, a longtime friend and admirer of Silence, and made her way to Rhodes Island when she heard Silence had taken up residence there. She currently works with Rhodes as part of its engineering department, a whole workshop unto herself... for better, worse, and Meeboo.
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* ActionBomb: The '''Detonate and Recycle''' skill she gets upon reaching Elite 1 allows you to use her Robotters this way, and allows you to recycle any Robotters that have been blown up rather than destroyed in battle.
* AnimalMotifs: Because the Anaty race represents mustelids like ferrets or weasels, Mayer's specific animal motif is the otter, and her robots (as seen in her artworks), also resemble otters.
* AnimalStereotypes: She's an otter, so she's joyous, laid-back and optimistic, rather clever, and likeable.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Robot otters. Robotters.
* CloudCuckoolander: She... definitely marches to the beat of her own drum. She is [[BunnyEarsLawyer tremendously capable]], but she is a near-perfect example of the idea of "high intelligence score, low wisdom score":
-->"At night I'm always full of inspiration... and the urgency to sleep! No... I can't bear it... Where's the pillow... I need to rest..."
-->"Hm? Why are these cuties called Meeboos? That's because they go 'meeee-boooo' when they boot up. So I named them after that. Fitting, don't you think? Just listen and you'll get it. You press this switch to... WHUAH?! Wrong one! That's the self-destruct button! Oh shoot, run awaaaaaay!"
* DifficultButAwesome: Making the most out of Mayer and her Robotters basically requires you to build your team around supporting ''her'' instead of the other way around. Conventional strategies basically go flying out the window as you'll be placing much less operators than you normally would, in order to make room for her summons. Placement of these and proper timing of their detonation are key to victory, and it's practically a given that Mayer be promoted to Elite 2 and her second skill Mastered, which will cost you a pretty penny. Once you've gotten her upgrades and mechanics down hat, however, Mayer can easily solo certain high-difficulty maps and make complete mockery out of the later story chapters.
* GenkiGirl: Creator/ChiwaSaitou voices her with a Genki Power™ you can feel in your ''bones''.
* HerdHittingAttack: Using '''Detonate and Recycle''' will detonate all the summoned Robotters, and anyone caught in the blast is stunned. It is for this reason that she's got the "Crowd Control" tag attached to her.
* LittleBitBeastly: It's actually not immediately obvious, but she herself is an otter-person (and not just an otter-building person); she's got the tail of a particularly long-furred eurasian otter, and may even be an (extinct-in-reality) Japanese otter. She is, notably, one of only two "Anaty" seen in the entire game so far (the other being [[Characters/ArknightsSnipers Shirayuki]]). Also, the name of her workshop, Lutra, is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutra a genus of otters]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Barring Magallan, she's the only one who's actually still working for Rhine Labs, as she's unaware of the NoodleIncident that made Saria, Ifrit, Ptilopsis and Silence leave. She basically knows as much about the incident as Rhodes Island does.
* MundaneUtility: She uses one of her Meeboos as a mobile workbench.
* MookMaker: As a Summon-type Supporter, this is her playstyle in general, and much of it revolves around her use of the Robotters. Her special talent is even called '''Robotter''', and allows her to summon more of them as she is promoted.
* PokemonSpeak: {{Inverted}}. She named her robotic pets as "Meeboos" after the "meeeee-booooo" sound effect that they emit upon booting up.
* SmartPeopleBuildRobots: Otter robots. Dozens of otter robots. So many that they practically spill out of her workshop room on Rhodes Island.
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