History Characters / DescensusAverno

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Lumine forcefully siphons his powers after he tells her everything he knows, but before than she threatened him with siphoning citing that forcefully taking someone's powers was even worse than outright killing someone.]]

* MistakenForSuicidal: [[spoilers: Kristina thinks he is this when she spots him standing on the roof of his house, looking down at the city. She then proceeds to tackle him off the roof.]]

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: She has one upon learning that Xingqiu attempted to commit suicide and that she was the last one to see him hours before]].

* BrutalHonesty: Does not try and sugarcoat how someone should be punished for a petty crime such as vandalism or how someone should be taken apart. The way he says it is akin to reporting what the weather is like.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What his suggestion of what to do to the people who vandalized the meeting room, much to the discomfort of other people.

** Suggests making a hard example of the vandals who vandalized the original Committee Meeting room in Liyue. Doesn't seem to realize that his suggestion is likely to cause more problems than it would solve.
** In another meeting, he suggests that they [[spoiler: dismantle Scaramouche]] to figure out how he works as well as try and find out what Aether's plans are using the former Harbinger much to the anger of Sucrose.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Because Scaramouche is not human, he does not seem to see the problem with dismantling the former Harbinger right to his face.

* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Jules never usually speaks during the Committee Meetings, but as Sucrose, Albedo, and Kris start calling others out and people argue with them, he finally breaks his silence and calls for everyone to calm down.
* OnlySaneMan: Comes off as this during the Committee meeting in Chapter 44 as when the room was descending into what big [[WhatTheHellHero call out session]], he told the entire room that they needed to calm down and discuss things like adults.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Seems to see Scaramouche in this light because the former Harbinger is an artificial being created by the Shogun Raiden.

* FieryRed: Ariel is described as having red hair and she's not at all shy about snapping at people if they say something that rubs her wrong.

--> “Girl, hold your tongue,” Ariel ordered, rising her braided red hair swishing like flames at her eyes, her amber eyes lit with a similar determination to Sucrose’s. “I understand you’re angry, but you don’t understand. This is war. This is what it is. It’s cruel and dirty. There are going to be mistakes made and lives lost.”

[[folder: Jules]]
!!Jules- Committee Member
Jules is one of the high ranked Committee members.

* TheCameo: His name was mentioned in the earlier chapters when the Committee was being introduced to Lumine, but he didn't have a speaking line until Chapter 44.
* OnlySaneMan: Comes off as this during the Committee meeting in Chapter 44 as when the room was descending into what big [[WhatTheHellHero call out session]], he told the entire room that they needed to calm down and discuss things like adults.
* RememberTheNewGuy: His name was mentioned at the beginning, but it wasn't until nearly forty chapters later that he actually has a speaking line.

[[folder: Albedo]]
!!Albedo - The Chief Alchemist
Albedo was the former Chief Alchemist of the Knights of Favonius.

[[folder: Albedo]]
!!Albedo - The Chief Alchemist
Albedo was the former Chief Alchemist of the Knights of Favonius.

* ArtificialHuman: As pointed out by Lumine, he does not bleed. [[spoiler: That is because he is a homunculus who was made by Gold after the fall of Khaenri'ah]].
* TheAtoner: He is this towards Lumine due to [[spoiler: nearly killing her twice]]. He especially feels horrible about the second attempt.
* BadassBookworm: Alchemy is a difficult science to grasp, and he was the leading figure of the scientific art before Aether executed most of the knights.
** [[spoiler: He has also nearly killed Lumine. Twice. Though the first time she was already injured in her right with Ajax, there was no such handicap with their second fight. Had Xiao not gotten there in time with Sucrose, Lumine would have either died from blood loss or a fatal blow from Albedo himself]].
** [[spoiler: He sent Apollo flying through a wall. Though Apollo may not have been a warrior, the people of the City of Stars are said to be stronger than humans. Not to mention Apollo's specific power that cancels out Visions]].
* BrutalHonesty: Has absolutely no problem calling the [[LaResistance Insurgency]] incompetent when asked about it. And he's a member of the group whose sole purpose is to overthrow the Chāoyuè Xīngchén.
* EveryoneHasStandards: After escaping from the Insurgency the first time he was subdued, he followed Ajax and Lumine to Snezchnaya with the intention of assassinating the latter. However, he chose not to after witnessing her having a breakdown while she was with Ajax's family.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: [[spoiler: Albedo finds himself dealing with this when Sucrose starts taking care of [[BrokenBird Scaramouche]] in Zhongli's house. Lumine has to spell it out loud to him right to his face that he is jealous of the fact that Sucrose is looking after a near catatonic Scaramouche]].
* PetTheDog: Albedo initially considers Lumine an invasive being on Teyvat after Aether's dictatorship and tries to kill her during the Fall of Mondstadt. After escaping the Insurgency, he spots Lumine and Ajax traveling to Snezhnaya and follows them with the intention to kill her. However, after watching Lumine have an emotional breakdown, he chooses not to go through with his attempt to assassinate her.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: One of few people who knows that Scaramouche, Venti's unintentional killer, is being kept hidden in Zhongli's house]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Days after Sucrose's capture, he immediately starts attacking Mondstadt. But before that during the beginning of Aether's reign, Klee is murdered, brutally executed along the other Knights of Favonius]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Albedo has outright tried to kill Lumine twice. He nearly succeeds the second time.

[[folder: Sucrose]]
!!Sucrose - Alchemist Assistant
Sucrose is the an alchemist and assistant to Albedo. She was captured by the Constillion Guards off-screen during the story [[spoiler: but managed to escape from her captivity and make it all the way back to Liyue where she collapsed and was then taken back to the Insurgency Headquarters]].

* KickTheDog: Gets a large dose of this. Not even a day after [[spoiler: escaping from captivity is she brought to an Insurgency meeting when she's still injured, but from Mavey's point of view it is witnessed that Veer blames Sucrose for being the cause of Mondstad's destruction]].
* MoralityPet: Is this for Albedo. When she was initially captured by the Chāoyuè Xīngchén's forces, he [[spoiler: went on a rampage that destroyed Mondstadt. The second time he rampages, it was because he heard that Sucrose was being subjected to a brutal interrogation]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: This is essentially how she feels about Scaramouche. While she acknowledges he did bad things, she still has compassion for him as he was the one who kept her grounded during captivity.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Sucrose shoving Veer when he calls Albedo a murderer in Descensus Averno: Interrogation.
** When she heard that Albedo was in the [[KangarooCourt middle of a meeting to decide his fate]], she had to be held back by two different healers. This is especially noteable considering that she herself had been but in a highly stressful situation where she was interrogated by three different people, one of them Veer who was using her as TheScapeGoat after a vicious fight with Mavey. She was going back to a situation that had been highly stressful for her because she knew that the treatment her boss was going to be subjected to would be anything but kind.
** [[spoiler: Was firm in her decision to be part of the group who rescues Lumine from Apollo, Annabelle, and Malcolm]].
** In Chapter 31, [[spoiler: she stands up to Lumine when the former tries to kill Scaramouche.]] Considering that seeing Lumine had given her a flashback of Aether the first time? Standing up to someone who unintentionally caused her trauma is a big thing. Especially if said person [[spoiler: was pissed because Scaramouche had been the one to kill Venti]].
** Sucrose volunteering to rescue Lumine despite what had just happened to her. Especially when she volunteers to rescue her from Aether's stronghold, voluntarily going back to the very place that she was imprisoned in.
** [[spoiler: Sucrose calls out the entirety of the Committee for what they subjected her to shortly after her escape, stating that they are no different from the very man that they claim to be fighting against for the people and the greater good. She tells them that they retraumatized her and that the way they treated Lumine was wrong.]]
** [[spoiler: Sucrose defending Scaramouche from Lumine]].
* TraumaButton: Lumine was unintentionally this as a result of her time being coerced and threatened by Aether.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Sucrose being captured by the Constillion Guards is this. [[spoiler: Had she not been captured, Albedo would not have rampaged in Mondstadt which would then attract Aether's attention. Albedo's rampage ended with casualties on many sides; Constillion Guards, Insurgency Soldiers, and Mondstadt's civilians who still lived in Mondstadt]].

[[folder: Kris]]
!!Kristina - The Commander of the Civilian Forces
Kristina, her name shortened to Kris at times, is the Commander of the Civilian Troops. Was initially a member of the Committee until she was kicked out and demoted in rank.

* ActionGirl:
** Formerly a member of the Committee and Apex Division before she was kicked out. Despite being demoted, she was made the Commander of the Civilian Forces. [[spoiler: She shows off her skills during the battle for Watatsumi Island]].
** Though she may no longer be a member of the Committee or the Apex Division and was very close to being kicked out altogether, Kris proves that she is not just a strong and trained warrior, but a smart thinker in battle as seen when she [[spoiler: completely and utterly incapacitates Malcolm by taking advantage of his and Annabelle's exhausted states. Though she is wounded in the fight she comes out as the victor of the battle by observing that he and Annabelle make up for each other's flaws and by observing the timing of how long it takes Annabelle to teleport him, she is eventually able to take him completely off guard by stabbing him in the stomach just before he is whisked away. Even more impressive is during the fight Apollo nullifies her Vision, cutting her off from her powerful wind abilities and forcing her to rely only on her natural skills as a fighter]]
** In that same fight, [[spoiler: when Apollo starts crushing her with his PowerNullifier abilities, Kris isn't phased for very long. She stops resisting and uses Apollo's surprise at her sudden lack of resistance to grab her sword from where it is embedded in Malcolm's stomach and throw it at his head. The result is a completely caught off Apollo freaking out and grabbing Annabelle who then teleports them out of the area, leaving Malcolm behind at the mercy of Kris and Dainsleif]].
* AFatherToHisMen: A female variant of this. She [[WhatTheHellHero angrily calls out Eula]] on the loss of her soldiers in the middle of a meeting. When she talks to Zhongli in a later chapter, she laments that same loss, implying that Liyue will suffer the same fate.
* BrutalHonesty:
** Kris is unafraid of calling the Insurgency incompetent right to the faces of both Eula and the Insurgency as well as questioning their decisions. Nor does she hesitate to get into fights over it either. [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype Deconstructed]] in that it gets her kicked out of the Committee and Apex Division the first time and demoted to Commander of the Civilian Forces. When she does it again in 'Interrogation', Eula states out right that for all her skill in power, Kris' BrutalHonesty is proving to be more trouble than it's worth from getting into fights with superiors, physical and verbal, to undermining and causing division in the group. In Chapter 26 she would have been kicked out of the group entirely had Lumine not intervened.
** Despite working at a desk to recruit more soldiers for the Insurgency as well as being the Commander of the Civilian Forces in charge of those recruits, Kris outright tells Zhongli during the Recruitment Ball in Liyue that being a part of the Insurgency is overrated and that she has no issue with being disrespectful to them.
---> '''Kris''': It’s not demotion. It’s the just the good honest truth. People should know what they’re getting themselves into.
** And when she is pressed further about what she means, she elaborates on it.
---> '''Kris''': They expect you to behave accordingly. They want you to parrot their beliefs. You have no say if you’re deemed not qualified, and they have no issues with using people to get what they desire. They got what they wanted, alright. Mondstadt and Liyue’s is theirs. But at my soldiers’ expense. And soon, Liyue’s expense as well.
** Kris does not hold back her thoughts at all in Chapter 45 and criticizes the Committee during a meeting that she was summoned to. She questions Eula on whether they really are making the good decisions they think they are, brutally tears apart Eula's leadership skills so far, and then accuses Navya that the Committee could care less about the people they claim to be protecting.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: She has one upon learning that Xingqiu attempted to commit suicide and that she was the last one to see him hours before]].
* OnlySaneMan: Can be considered this in regards to the Insurgency. Compared to the more emotionally fueled members of the group, she and the others often come to verbal clashes over their views.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Subjects Veer to this after his [[spoiler: interrogation of Sucrose]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Like Mavey and Jean, she has shown [[SinsOfOurFathers none of the typical bias]] towards Lumine for being the twin sister of the Chāoyuè Xīngchén. Her first meeting with Lumine was when the latter woke up in the infirmary, greeting her in a friendly matter rather than displaying any of the typical hostility a lot of members of the Insurgency have shown her.
** Was arguing with Eula during the meeting regarding Albedo's fate. Lumine notes that Kris was fighting Eula over the treatment of Albedo.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Kris was formerly a member of the Committee, but was demoted for going against the highest ranked members of the Insurgency. The last straw was when she subjected Veer to a brutal beatdown. She would have been kicked out of the organization entirely had Lumine not intervened.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Really lets Eula have it over how she and the rest of the Committee handled the Mondstadt Massacre, which resulted in the loss of Mondstadt citizens as well as the Civilian Forces. The latter which Kris was responsible for.
** Follows after Sucrose and Albedo and in calling out the entirety of the Committee during the emergency meeting in Chapter 44. She questions whether they really care for the people they claim to be fighting for in the name of the Greater Good, criticizes Eula's leadership skills by pointing out how much of a waste of time the meetings of endless squabblings are and that she just essentially caves to the most opinionated individual, and then throwing back into Navya's face that for all their claims to be trying to calm down the people of Liyue, that they don't care for the people.

!Liyue

[[folder: Zhongli]]
!!Zhongli - The Geo Archon/Rex Lapis/Morax

Zhongli is the Geo Archon, the God who used to rule over the nation of Liyue. He allied himself with the Chāoyuè Xīngchén at the beginning of the story to bargain for Liyue's freedom.

* DealWithTheDevil: Made this with the Chāoyuè Xīngchén to protect his people and lands from his tyranny.
* NotSoStoic:
** He turns pale when Sucrose tells him, Lumine, and Albedo that Aether has both the [[spoiler: Raiden Shogun and the Tsaritsa captive for the sole purpose of draining their powers]].
** Is surprised to hear Kris demoting the Insurgency at the recruitment table, considering that she is part of the Insurgency and the one responsible for the recently recruited Civilian Forces.
** [[spoiler: After Venti's death, Zhongli's appearance is no longer as neat as it was in the past. The attack on Liyue and the loss of Venti hit hard. Though he attended Venti's funeral for a short time, he was unable to stay due to how painful it was to be reminded of the death of his oldest friend]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Does not judge Lumine for her relation to the Chāoyuè Xīngchén.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Zhongli is now the only surviving Archon from the Original Seven after Venti's death]].

!City of Stars

[[folder: Apollo]]

Apollo is a member of the council from the City of Stars. He was sent to Teyvat to find Lumine and Aether specifically. [[spoiler: He and Lumine were friends in the past, but whether Apollo reciprocated that is completely debateable]].

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Basically he saw his betrayal of Lumine in the past. When she brings it up during her captivity, he instantly dismisses the incident as something minor. Lumine is devastated by the dismissal considering how it impacts her life until now.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: If the way he grabs Annabelle and has her teleport them away during the fight between them and Kris and Dainsleif is any indication after the former grabs her sword that is embedded in Malcolm and chucks it at his head]].
* TheDreaded: Lumine and Dainsleif see him as this. [[spoiler: Lumine because of their shared past and Dainsleif because of his abilities to shut down Visions and any other powers relating to the metaphysical]].
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Apollo panics when Kris chucks a sword at his head and he immediately grabs Annabelle and has them teleport them out of the area]].
* PowerNullifier: This is his main ability that makes him so dangerous. He can shut down other people's abilities, such as abilities that are granted by Visions as well as anything metaphysical.
* SquishyWizard: He may not be much of a fighter, but his ability makes him very dangerous. In fact, he may be the most dangerous of his companions.
* SmugSnake: Oh so much.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Lumine saw him as this in the past until he left her for dead and to be siphoned]].

[[folder: Annabelle]]

One of the two people who accompany Apollo to Teyvat to capture Lumine and Aether. She specializes in space time magic.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Defied. After Lumine grabs a hold of her when the others break into Dragonspine to rescue her, she finds herself being burned by Lumine's newly granted fire abilities. Lumine notes with twisted satisfaction that the burns will likely permanently leave their mark.
* KickTheDog: Does this to Lumine, completely disdainful of the girl due to seeing her as an usurper of the true chosen one. Also seems to show satisfaction at anything that causes Lumine distress.

** When Lumine tackles and grabs hold of her, she starts panicking. And once Lumine starts fighting her with Apollo no longer there to restrain Lumine's natural fighting abilities, she shows genuine fear at the fact that the girl she had taunted was now coming at her with a vengeance.
** Annabelle outright screams and throws herself at Dainsleif like a feral animal when Malcolm is impaled by Kris after the latter makes note of their strengths and weaknesses during the right.
* SmugSnake: Just like Apollo and Malcolm, she is this.
* SquishyWizard: Annabelle specializes in space time magic, but she is no fighter. Lumine overwhelms her for a time despite being malnourished from the short time she is imprisoned.

[[folder: Malcolm]]

One of the two accompanying Apollo to capture Lumine on Teyvat. He wields twin knife blades and is the warrior of the three City of Stars people.

* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Lampshaded in the story. Many members of the Insurgency, particularly the Committee, are acknowledged in-universe to have very colourful hair such as purple.

** [[spoiler: Sucrose calls out the entirety of the Committee for what they subjected her to shortly after her escape, stating that they are no different from the very man that they claim to be fighting against for the people and the greater good. She tells them that they retraumatized her and that the way they treated Lumine was wrong.

* SinsOfOurFather: Many members had this view towards Lumine due to the fact that she is the [[BigBad Chāoyuè Xīngchén]]'s twin sister.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: What they the entire group is down to the core. The Shogun's Insurgency is made up of people from all over Teyvat who have suffered under Aether's reign- which is the only thing holding them together. Otherwise, the group is pretty much divided. Kaeya, Kris, Ajax, Albedo, Sucrose, and Lumine absolutely have no faith in the group's chances of defeating Aether as splintered as they are with the former two having long lost any hope in them.

** He and Mavey have a falling out because of his poor treatment of Lumine, whose only 'crime' was to be related to Aether. Mavey slaps him and to put salt in the wound, 'sides with Lumine'.

[[folder: Mavey]]
!!Mavey- Insurgency Committee Member
Mavey is introduced during Lumine's initiation to the Insurgency. Was one of two traveling companions to Lumine who is also meant to watch over her. Dendro Vision user and a native of Natlan.

* WhatTheHellHero: Really lets Eula have it over how she and the rest of the Committee handled the Mondstadt Massacre, which resulted in the loss of Mondstadt citizens as well as the Civilian Forces. The latter which Kris was responsible for.

* AdultFear:
** Jean has had to deal with a lot of this prior to Lumine's awakening. After losing her title of Acting Grandmaster of Favonius during Aether's takeover, she had to deal with the remaining knights who were unable to escape in time being marched to the front of the Mondstadt cathedral and beheaded. [[spoiler: In Klee's case, it plays out more literal because Klee was just a child when she was murdered]].
** Jean just wanted to protect Mondstadt. It was what she was constantly overworking herself for. So the fact that Mondstadt is gone in every sense of the word from the architecture being torn down and rebuilt in the image of what Aether wants to the violent and cruel executions of the knights is pretty much her worst nightmare and then some. The Mondstadt that she vowed to protect is long gone and will likely never return.
** [[spoiler: Kaeya's uncertain fate after he is brought back badly injured to Xiao sends her to tears as the fear of losing another friend is close to coming true]].

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Albedo's fear has already come to pass and continues to haunt him. His adoptive sister, Klee, was executed alongside the rest of the Knights of Favonius]].

**

** Though she may no longer be a member of the Committee or the Apex Division and was very close to being kicked out altogether, Kris proves that she is not just a strong and trained warrior, but a smart thinker in battle as seen when she [[spoiler: completely and utterly incapacitates Malcolm by taking advantage of his and Annabelle's exhausted states. Though she is wounded in the side she comes out as the victor of the battle by observing that he and Annabelle make up for each other's flaws in a fight and by observing the timing of how long it takes Annabelle to teleport him, she is eventually able to take him completely off guard by stabbing him in the stomach just before he is whisked away. Even more impressive is that Apollo nullifies her Vision, cutting her off from her powerful wind abilities and forcing her to rely only on her natural skills as a fighter]]
** In that same fight, [[spoiler: when Apollo starts crushing her with his [[PowerNullifier]] abilities, Kris isn't phased for very long. She stops resisting and uses Apollo's surprise at her sudden lack of surprise to take the opportunity of grabbing her sword from where it is embedded in Malcolm's stomach and throwing it at his head. The result is a completely caught off Apollo freaking out and grabbing Annabelle who then teleports them out of the area, leaving Malcolm behind at the mercy of Kris and Dainsleif]].

* SmugSnake: Oh so much

* AdultFear: Jean has had to deal with a lot of this prior to Lumine's awakening. After losing her title of Acting Grandmaster of Favonius during Aether's takeover, she had to deal with the remaining knights who were unable to escape in time being marched to the front of the Mondstadt cathedral and beheaded. [[spoiler: In Klee's case, it plays out more literal because Klee was just a child when she was murdered]].

* SmugSnaker: Just like Apollo and Malcolm, she is this.
* SquishyWizard: Annabelle specializes in space time magic, but she is no fighter. Lumine overwhelms her for a time despite being malnourished from the short time she is imprisoned.

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* BadassBookworm: Alchemy is a difficult science to grasp, and he was the leading figure of the scientific art. [[spoiler: He has also nearly killed Lumine. Twice. Though the first time she was already injured in her right with Ajax, there was no such handicap with their second fight. Had Xiao not gotten there in time with Sucrose, Lumine would have either died from blood loss or a fatal blow from Albedo himself]].

* TookALevelInBadass: When she heard that Albedo was in the [[KangarooCourt middle of a meeting to decide his fate]], she had to be held back by two different healers. This is especially noteable considering that she herself had been but in a highly stressful situation where she was interrogated by three different people, one of them Veer who was using her as TheScapeGoat after a vicious fight with Mavey. She was going back to a situation that had been highly stressful for her because she knew that the treatment her boss was going to be subjected to would be anything but kind.

* ActionGirl: Formerly a member of the Committee and Apex Division before she was kicked out. Despite being demoted, she was made the Commander of the Civilian Forces. [[spoiler: She shows off her skills during the battle for Watatsumi Island]].

* BadassInDistress: [[Lumine is rendered powerless by Apollo and his allies before she is forcefully teleported out of Liyue to be held prisoner by them]].

* ActionGirl: Oh so much. In the first chapter alone, she proceeds to kill three Constillion Guards while she is scoping out Mondstadt.

* GreenEyedJealousy: [[spoiler: Albedo finds himself dealing with this when Sucrose starts taking care of [[BrokenBird Scaramouche]] in Zhongli's house]].

* JerkassToOne: What he is to Lumine. Veer is described as being abrasive, but he is particularly nasty to Lumine because her brother killed his entire family and so he extends his hate towards her as well because she is Aether's twin.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Is on the receiving end of this from another member of the Insurgency, Kris, when he takes out his anger on [[spoiler: Sucrose]] after a fight with Mavey. The next time he's seen, he's resting in the infirmary.

** [[Deconstruction Deconstructed]] in that Veer's brutal honesty makes him a very unpopular person within the Insurgency. Mavey tells him during their fight that he gets a lot of flak for being in a relationship with him and that people look at him like he's crazy when he tries to defend Veer.

** Kris is unafraid of calling the Insurgency incompetent right to the faces of both Eula and the Insurgency as well as questioning their decisions. Nor does she hesitate to get into fights over it either. [[Deconstruction Deconstructed]] in that it gets her kicked out of the Committee and Apex Division the first time and demoted to Commander of the Civilian Forces. When she does it again in 'Interrogation', Eula states out right that for all her skill in power, Kris' BrutalHonesty is proving to be more trouble than it's worth from getting into fights with superiors, physical and verbal, to undermining and causing division in the group. In Chapter 26 she would have been kicked out had Lumine not intervened.