History Characters / LibraryOfRuinaTheWings

* BerserkButton: U Corp has a major Taboo on writing down any of the laws of the Great Lake anywhere, for unspecified reasons. Just going as far as scribbling down the Laws on a notebook is liable for them to send a Taboo Hunter on you - even though knowing the Laws is vital for navigating the Great Lake itself.

A Wing that produces a Singularity known as a Moonlight Stone which has the primary utility of protecting the wielder's minds from psychic attacks, though it apparently can also serve as a decryption key for certain records according to the Liu Association.

A Wing with the Singularity to control time. They are business partners for L Corp, R Corp, and W Corp, supplying them with the means to function by allowing them to control the flow of time in their base of operations.\\

* EvilIsPetty: Among their many atrocities ranging from what's practically slavery, child labor and abuse and a particularly wicked form of physical and mental torture (see Love Town for a typical example), they also drained the color out of all but the most privileged sections and people of their Wing, under the logic that colour itself is a luxury that the working class must earn.

* MonochromePast: Enforced by the Wing: the entire District lacks colour - not just the buildings, but the people and everything in it too, giving everything the look of a yellowed, monochrome photograph. It's deliberately caused by the wing through unknown means to deprive people of their identities and privileges.

One of the most infamous Wings in the City, it specializes in teleportation and uses its Singularity for WARP Trains, a type of train that can instantly teleport people from one location to another. Or at least that is what we were told about. In reality, their singularity is ''not'' fast teleportation but [[ResetButton quick material restoration]], which they demonstrate by trapping people in a 2,000 year timespace constructed by [=TT2=] protocol (where the passengers would be driven insane) before they wipe out their memories of the horror inside the train after 10 real life seconds where the Train arrives. It is also behind the infamous WretchedHive that is the Backstreets of District 23.

* DropTheHammer: Their signature weapon, along with nails of various sizes, are war hammers ranging from realistic to absurdly heavy, and they're fittingly used as a follow-up attack once their target has been struck by nails to further hammer and impale whoever they're fighting.

** The Rhino Team is the [[MightyGlacier Fighter]]. Their members have incredible physical strength and endurance and wield [[DropTheHammer massive hammers]] in battle.

* DropTheHammer: He and the rest of his team use enormous hammers in combat.

** In any other situation, they go between this and FauxAffablyEvil -- On one hand these people are perfect displays that just because that they are unambiguously the most dangerous fighters of the City doesn't mean they need to be rude and aggressive for it and they seldomly attack unless specific taboos are trespassed, but in other hand they are still AxCrazy and won't hesitate to kill or obliterate whole groups if they get the oppurtunity to intervene.

* AllegoricalCharacter: The Head is essentially an allegory of systemic oppression in and of itself, specifically its toxic maintenance of the status quo and the inability for the common person to rebel against it. Unlike a simple authoritarian regime, the Head doesn't NEED to wave its stick around and minutely control everything in the City - they simply uphold their personal laws and mantain the system, because that's all they need to do to keep the cycle of hurting going.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: In Gregors flashback in Chapter 1 of Limbus, one of the insectoid beasts is a lanky and towering insect that nominally looks humanoid overlooking a skyscraper. How accurate this actually is is up for debate, especially since the sheer destructive scale of the thing would likely raise some eyebrows from the Heads weapon and property damage laws, but the implication that G Corp. had freakishly large units in their ground armies is still present.

** Averted in case of the sub-branches that are merely used for energy production purposes and cover-up, as seen in ''Webcomic/Wonderlab''. While they still contain dangerous creatures, they aren't locked unlike the original facility, and employees can freely enter and exit.

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: Seeing old L Corp's Singularity is the first time Roland sees how ugly the City can be, and starts his long spiral into cynicism and belief that HumansAreBastards.]] The effect on him is so pronounced that it's implied to be [[spoiler: the first form his unstable Distortion takes.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Its' left ambiguous if Nagel und Hammer is simply a subsidiary paramilitary force for N Corp. or if Nagel und Hammer is the full name of the corporation itself and the group Kromer leads is the 'Inquisition' branch. Mersault goes for the latter interpretation, but they have multiple employees that aren't Inquisitors.

* {{Irony}}: They are targeting entire towns associated with prostethic plants, and they even have an anti-prosthetic cult group within them to dole out massacres against them. Too bad, you really have to be biologically augmented to even qualify lifting a sword. In fact, despite being so against prosthetics, one of their high-ranking members is Hermann, who oversaw bio-enhancement surgeries to replace human limbs with monstrous insectoid ones in the old G Corp.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: They are famous for their prestigious universities and colleges, and prestiges itself over the academic success of its students.

* BadassArmy: R Corp's mercenaries are so amazingly powerful and can be mass produced and deployed in extreme numbers, that they had cemented their name as the strongest mercenary groups in the City. Most notably, they are the only ones other than the Head who are explicitly permitted the abadonless use of firearms without the rules, making sure that they are the most deadly force second to the Head itself.

* SuperPowerLottery: Their time-defying Singularity is among the most versatile and coveted services in the series, right next to the energy output of L Corp, its domestic, industrial and offensive uses being well worth their price. W Corp struck a business deal between themselves to both use and harvest time in a mutually beneficial partnership, R Corp uses it to train entire squads of their elite mercenaries in mere minutes, L Corp (specifically Ayin) uses it to enact their grand plan in secrecy, and on a domestic level it’s pretty handy at cooking something in a fraction of the usual time. A T Corp. device is also one of the few things capable of harming Angela in the final chapter of Library of Ruina, with her being an AI who is impervious to damage but would become uselessly catatonic once hit with a weapon that would make her experience eons of isolation in a few seconds of real time.

* EldritchLocation: The Great Lake. It's a bunch of inexplicably distinct and strictly separated water bodies with no reason as to how they occured, the entire Lake is teeming with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and each individual section has its own set of arbitrary "Laws" which change on a dime and are forbidden to be written down by the Wing. Failure to adhere to any Laws of the Lake will result in anyone within the zone being beset upon by a "Wave", usually in the form of cataclysmic localized weather, an attack from an effectively invincible SeaMonster, or ''both.'' To make matters worse, it encroaches on the Outskirts, which also qualifies as this.

A Wing which little is known about. It's the home District of the League of Nine in ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: All of the known characters that come from S Corp's district are Korean, and it's described as a place in a tumultuous social and economic situation due to rampant corruption of higher-ups and officials, pulling a rather obvious parallel to real-life South Korea.

A Wing that specializes in paramilitary units. They unwittingly assisted Ayin's Seed of Light plan by providing L Corp. with extra muscle against Abnormalities and helping to overthrow the former L Corp. in the Smoke War for Ayin, Benjamin, and Dias. Their Singularity is actually cloning, meaning that as long as they have a steady supply of energy, they can infinitely replicate their troops from scratch and create thousands of copies of the same person for them to fight to death, with the surviving clone being chosen as a combatant. However, they also have to burrow T Corp's time controlling Singularity to clone effectively, because the Head has a cloning law that prevents clones from existing in the City for 7 days in a row, measured using "their time".

* BerserkButton:
** Many of them. Some of these are justified, others are nonsense. Patent violations, human-like robots or androids, making lethal guns, reporting crimes that happened in the Night of the Backstreets, letting out clones into the real world, tax evasion...are all grounds for them to send an Executioner, Arbiter or whatever juggernaut they have in their disposal against the offender, and needless to say the chances of surviving them are next to nil.
** The 'human-like robots and androids' bit, in the form of an eccentric regulation titled the 'A.I. Ethics Law' which forbids the creation of all sentient machines, [[spoiler:is what made them send Garion to L Corp [[VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation in the previous game]] and why they raided The Library to begin with - they see Angela's existence as a problem that cannot be ignored. They don't actually go after Angela in her bad ending because in that ending, she became fully human.]] Presumably for the same reason, [[spoiler:they were also completely silent about the Reverberation Ensemble wrecking chaos in L Corp's Nest despite they probably knew that this was a planned rebellion and could exterminate them any time if they want to.]]
** What makes all of the various berserk buttons particularly weird is that, for some reason attempts at rebellion are outright ''ignored'' by the Head (the Reverberation Ensemble's attacks are seemingly brushed off despite the damage it might potentially cause), but as soon as you don't pay your tax or even have the potential of creating an android, you're instantly dead on the spot, no questions asked. There's no such thing as guilty by negligence either, so people can be executed even if they're victims of fraud or just don't know anything about it.

* FantasticRacism: Zig-zagged. The Head hates clones and machines that act like humans, but in both cases it's shown as less any sort of prejudice and more of an oddly specific BerserkButton.

A Wing that borders the Great Lake, a massive body of water in the south end of the City. It houses unscrupulous maritime markets that make most of their income by selling products from the Great Lake or [[WretchedHive outright piracy and kidnapping]], while the Lake itself is a dangerous expanse where unfathomable creatures and phenomena constantly lurk in search of victims.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Suffered by [[spoiler: one of its executive board members, who was a first-class passenger aboard the WARP Train hijacked by the Puppeteer, and turned into a [[PeoplePuppets Puppet]]]].
* MergingMachine: While U Corp is best known for selling statis preservation packaging that can keep things in its exact state (fresh and hot) until opened, it's revealed that it is simply a creative application of their actual Singularity, the "Resonance Tuning Fork", which is able to combine things at a molecular level. Ishmael also implies that "that man" used this technology to fuse himself with things and [[BodyHorror become a monster]]
* TimeStandsStill: The story for Liu Ishmael reveals that they sell “stasis preservation packaging” that can be used to preserve food.

** K Corp healing drones are programmed to shoot anyone that tries to desert an engagement with decay ampules, swiftly killing them for the sake of "maintaining morale" and discouraging deserters.

* MergingMachine: While U Corp is best known for selling statis preservation packaging that can keep things in its exact state (fresh and hot) until opened, it's revealed that it is simply a creative application of their actual Singularity, the "Resonance Tuning Fork", which is able to combine things at a molecular level. Ishmael also implies that "that man" used this technology to fuse himself with things and [[BodyHorror become a monster]

* AnimalMotifs: The entire system is symbolically compared to a multi-winged birds, with the Head, Eye and Claw forming the basic, most important and fundamental functions of the body and the Wings existing to support that body, and each individual person living in a Nest is compared to one of many feather on the Wings.