History Characters / AstralChain

* LawmansBaton: Their main weapon is a baton.

* MinionMaster: During his confrontation with the siblings he does not engage them directly, he instead summons several legions to do the fighting for him as he smugly sits back delivering exposition while they fight for their lives.

* MultiethnicName: Potentially, if the player [[HelloInsertNameHere names]] them something of non-Caucasian origin (their last name is Howard). It's worth pointing out that the pre-made names are all Japanese, like Akira's.

* MultiEthnicName: "Akira" is Japanese and "Howard" is Norse.

* MultiethnicName: One of the more standout examples.

* ShoutOut: His first name is a clear nod to another dorky hacker-turned-mission control guru, [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Hal "Otacon" Emmerich]].

* CloningBlues: Finding out that [[spoiler:the Ravens are all clones of them sends them into an existential crisis]]. Then in the postgame, [[spoiler:PC logs reveal that "Akira" is one of the surviving clones [[TransferrableMemory with the original's memories, retrieved from their Legion]]]].

* HavingABlast: It can plant spectal duplicates of it's weapon that explode after a short time, this can also be used to break barriers in certain levels.

* BiblicalMotifs: Well, let's see. He consults with "prophets", he's arguably the savior of humanity and he was convinced to build TheArk to save humanity. Yeah, he's got these in spades.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Jena dies, he pretty much falls into this trope. Anyone he couldn't demote or move to other fields, he would try and murder them using the Raven Corps. Starting with the player character but eventually moves on to characters that were shown to be close to him like Olive, Brenda and even his new NumberTwo, Akira, whenever they did something to displease him.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: His voice, size, and mannerisms give off the impression of a grizzled and cynical hacker overlord, but he's actually just about two years older than the 19-year old protagonists.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Packs a deep voice to go with her status as one of the game's major villains.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Joe J. Thomas (English)

* MetalSlime: One of the varieties is a golden slime. They appear once per File, don't attack, and will disappear if they aren't defeated quickly enough. Defeating them grants a stronger chance for better ability codes.

* OptionalBoss: She only appears in the post-game File 12, and only after clearing every other available case Olive has (besides the Lappy case).

* BonusBoss: She only appears in the post-game File 12, and only after clearing every other available case Olive has (besides the Lappy case).

[[folder:Player Character and Akira Howard]]
--> '''Male MC/Akira Howard voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese), Creator/AleksLe (English)
--> '''Female MC/Akira Howard voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaAnzai (Japanese), Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker (English)

The main protagonists of the game. Consisting of the player character and their younger sibling, Akira Howard. Because of their excellent results, they were chosen to be the next candidates in using a Legion. After they survive their first encounter with the Chimeras, they are promoted into Neuron to protect humanity from the impending threat.

Who is the player character and who is Akira depends on the gender you choose at the beginning of the game, with the gender you didn't choose taking the place of Akira.

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[[AC:Tropes associated with Akira Howard]]

[[folder:Player Character]]
--> '''Male MC voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese), Creator/AleksLe (English)
--> '''Female MC voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaAnzai (Japanese), Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker (English)

The [[CaptainObvious player character]] of the game. They, along with Akira, were recently promoted out of Criminal Affairs and into Neuron.

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[[folder:Akira Howard]]
--> '''Male Akira voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese), Creator/AleksLe (English)
--> '''Female Akira voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaAnzai (Japanese), Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker (English)

The younger sibling of the PlayerCharacter. Because of their excellent results, Akira (and the PlayerCharacter) were chosen to be the next candidates in using a Legion. After they survive their first encounter with the Chimeras, they are promoted into Neuron to protect humanity from the impending threat.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Has a crush on Marie and often watches her as she performs her janitorial duties for [[{{Gainaxing}} less than savoury reasons.]]

* HotScientist: As realistic and practical as her outfit is, she has a very beautiful face and her tights accentuate her shapely legs.

* UnkemptBeauty: There's a HotScientist somewhere underneath all that dirt and crazy.

* AnAxeToGrind: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin See the name.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: His [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Axe Legion]]

* DarkSkinnedBlonde

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[[folder:Maxmillian Howard]]

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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaMiyake (Japanese), Owen Thomas (English)

The captain of the Neuron Task Force and also the most experienced member, functioning as a mentor for several of the characters on it. He is also the one who adopted the PlayerCharacter and Akira.

* AnAxeToGrind: His [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Axe Legion]]
* DualWielding: During his HeroicSacrifice, he takes Jin's police-issued baton.
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: The climax of the game implies that his personality may have merged with his Axe Legion, as it holds the Player Character's hand in a way that reminds them of Max (while shielding them from the final boss' attacks) , and if the player chooses to go through with a MercyKill on Akira during their HeroicSacrifice, the Axe Legion ends up being the one to do it.]]
* HappilyAdopted: On the giving end. The game doesn't spend much time on the relationship between him and his kids but it's clear that all three love each other very much and wouldn't have it any other way. [[spoiler: His HeroicSacrifice early on, hits both of the characters (but especially Akira) hard.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Of the YouShallNotPass variant. [[spoiler: After the team has lost most of their Legions, Max chooses to stay in the Astral Plane to buy the rest of the team time to escape. He doesn't die on-screen, but seeing as prolonged exposure in the Astral Plane can Redshift a person faster than normal, he would have turned if the corrupted Legions didn't end up killing him.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: So much so that he essentially set up a shelter for cats to protect them from the Chimeras. The residents of Maison Forest even refer to him as the mysterious "Cat Man."
* KnightInSourArmor: Twenty years prior to the start of the game, he lost faith in both the police and the government during the Pandemic when he was forced to abandon both Zone 09 and the civilians and lawmen who were still stuck there. He's only stayed on as a cop for the sake of the twins, trying to keep them safe and make the world around them a better place in his own small way. He is also notably opposed to the player and Akira being recruited by Neuron.
* MentorArchetype: He serves this role both to his kids and to Jin.
* ObliviousToLove: As seen in one flashback, Alicia had a pretty big crush on him which went unnoticed.
* PapaWolf: The only person outwardly opposed to the twins joining Neuron and [[JustifiedTrope for good reason]]. When they disobeyed his orders not to engage the Chimera of a certain case, they nearly got themselves killed.
* TeamDad: And that's disregarding the fact that his kids recently moved into his division.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In one of the [[AllThereInTheManual database files]] it's revealed that upon first acquiring his Legion, he had trouble getting it to do what he wanted it to, saying that he would have an easier time getting his kids to do what he wanted them to and ends the file saying that he's just going to treat it like one of his children from now on.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: After his HeroicSacrifice, the members of Neuron, especially Akira, attempt to hold out hope that he might turn up alive, but gradually start to refer to him as dead as time goes on with no sign of him. The last sign of him is when Akira and the Player find his Axe Legion, wild and trailing his Legatus around. By the end of the story, he's never found by Neuron, leaving it unclear if he died, succumbed to redshift, or is possibly still wandering the Astral Plane. The climax also adds a fourth option, implying his personality may have merged with his Axe Legion.]]
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[[folder:Yoseph Calvert]]

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--> '''Voiced by:''' Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Joe J. Thomas (English)
The director of Neuron and the mastermind behind integrated Chimeras into human technology to create the Legions. He's the one who "promoted" the twins into Neuron, for their skill with the Legions.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Calls [[spoiler: [[AngelicAbomination Jena's final form]] beautiful and expresses similar interest in the Legion Fusion]].
* BigGood: He's set up as this. He's the one who created the Ark to protect humanity from the corruption and he's played as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure somewhat harsh but ultimately fair boss]] to the rest of Neuron. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's a subverted example and he's actually part of the BigBadEnsemble, obsessed with transcending humanity to the state of gods]].

* AGodAmI: More downplayed than most examples but he's the one who suggests that humanity avoids extinction by becoming "as gods". [[spoiler: It stops being downplayed after he shows off his true colors.]]
* HumansAreInsects: This is the crux of moral differences with Jena. They both want to save humanity but whereas Jena believes that humans have the power to save themselves from extinction, Yoseph believes that extinction can only be avoided if humanity "become as gods". [[spoiler: Of course, when he says that he means the humanity becomes merged with the Astral Plane, while he's at the controls]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: He doesn't care at all about individual human lives or for humanity as a whole; he just wants to fulfill his incredibly massive ego by being its "savior" and merge all of humanity into one being in whihc he's the only one in control.]]
* ItIsDehumanizing: [[spoiler: When the player character first transforms with their Legion, Yoseph doesn't acknowledge them as a human, instead calling them "the Legion".]]
* KarmicDeath: In file 10 [[spoiler: he uses his Raven Corps to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale the original Akira]]. In file 11, they returns the favor, takes over the Raven Corps and is instrumental defeating Noah, his method of attaining godhood]].
* LightIsNotGood: Legion cores are typically dense, black, inwardly shifting blocks of extra dimensional power. The [[spoiler:Noah Core]] is aesthetically the exact opposite of them in every way while [[spoiler:being a doomsday weapon in all but name.]]
* MinionMaster: [[spoiler: During his confrontation with the siblings he does not engage them directly, he instead summons several legions to do the fighting for him as he smugly sits back delivering exposition while they fight for their lives]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Noah, his creation, eventually mutates into the embodiment of the Astral Plane itself]], allowing the protagonist the chance to [[spoiler:beat the once incomprehensibly vast dimensional void into submission so badly that the Gates and the Chimera begin to decline in appearance]].
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: [[spoiler:Throughly adverted, the moment he finds out Akira is a Legionis, he promptly sets out to make several perfect clones of them, founding the Raven Corps.]] Not only that but when [[spoiler:the siblings manage to fuse with their legions to archive an even greater level of power he sets out to study how it works so he can have the Raven Corps do it too, thus ensuring a perfect fusion with Noah's core and the success of his plan.]]Even when faced with unexpected factors, Yoseph takes any and every opportunity to further his goals.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In a world of anime-styled humans, there's Yoseph looking like a photo-realistic human in every sense of the word. [[spoiler: It just reveals how evil he truly is.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He seeks to save humanity from the chimeras, and believes the only way to do so is for mankind to become gods. [[spoiler:Eventually, however, he turns out to be EvilAllAlong, and openly admits in File 10 that his main concern is more about how history will judge him as the savior of humanity rather than actually saving them.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: For all that he's set up as the BigGood, his attempts at acting like it always seems off. [[spoiler: It's not exactly a good sign, when the very ''first'' scene in the game has him essentially torture and enslave a Chimera with a PsychoticSmirk on his face. ForTheGreaterGood, sure but it's still incredibly jarring. After his failures, specifically losing four Legions, "Siege" has him proclaim that humanity needs to "become as gods".]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Has no less than three of these during his boss battle, first starting as an EldritchAbomination that absorbs you into its EldritchLocation insides, then crossing the BishonenLine, before becoming a [[BigRedDevil red, demonic figure]]. That's more forms than the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII trope namer himself!]].]]
* PoliceState: A weird example: As Commander of Neuron, he has a ''very'' heavy hand - but given that Chimera are legitimately ''such'' a big threat, all the power he gives to the police seems justified - especially when Jena starts commiting large-scale terrorism. [[spoiler: But the second Jena is defeated, he reveals he has the Ravens, his black ops group of Legion users, orders them to shoot down the now-fused-with-their-Legion and berserk protagonist, and basically dismantles Neuron with his major control-freak tendencies - in that he labels people who go against him and his vision for the Ark as terrorists at almost the first sign of defiance.]]
* WhamLine: He delivers one at the end of file 9, [[spoiler: revealing his [[EvilAllAlong true allegiances]] and decides to try and murder the player character while they've merged with their Legion]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After [[spoiler: Jena dies, he pretty much falls into this trope. Anyone he couldn't demote or move to other fields, he would try and murder them using the Raven Corps. Starting with the player character but eventually moves on to characters that were shown to be close to him like Olive, Brenda and even his new NumberTwo, Akira, whenever they did something to displease him.]]

[[folder:Jin Wong]]
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShunsukeTakeuchi (Japanese), Jordan Reynolds (English)
A veteran member of Neuron and the original user of the Arm Legion. He's a family friend of the Howards, and has taken care of the twins when Max couldn't.

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* ThemeTwinNaming: This can be the case with the female protagonist, as one of her default names is "Akane", which begins with ''Ak'' like her twin sibling, Akira.

* NiceHat: Wears a standard issue police cap. It even manages to stay on while he's being dangled upside-down by killer tentacles.

* TheAce: Considering they were promoted into Neuron, a special task force dedicated to handling supernatural problems that are too much for the regular police to handle, this is to be expected, but they take it UpToEleven. As soon as they gain their Legion, they are already shown to be extremely proficient in using it despite only just learning their existence minutes earlier. In fact, they [[spoiler: are the only one to maintain control of their Legion after going into the Astral Plane. They are also the only one to be able to use more than one type of Legion]]. Somewhat deconstructed when it's shown that their excellence accentuate the negative emotions of their teammates (like jealousy or worthlessness).

* BrokenAce: They got promoted into an elite task force because of their skills. However, after [[spoiler: losing their dad to the Astral Plane, they begin showing feelings of helplessness at their situation and jealousy towards their older sibling because of how unscathed they seemed after the fact.]]