History Characters / LimbusCompanySinnersSevenToThirteen

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: Ðuring the fight with Mirror Heathcliff, whenever our Heathcliff should be saying anything (i.e when checking on him, when he uses skills/EGO, on a stagger, etc.), he doesn't say a word at all until the scripted use of Bodysack at the end, and he has a lot to say during that.]]

* SituationalSword: Due to the above. Similarly to N Corp Sinclair, his sanity needs to be ticked down manually but instead of having skills that directly do so on use like Sinclair does, his applies Sinking to himself (and to others) with his skills and passive to encourage him to be hit so that the Sinking can do its work and gain a Blunt damage buff. While this is usually quite difficult to pull off due to the innate drive of sanity to go up, especially in short fights like in the Mirror Dungeon where sanity carries over, it really allows him to shine in his own chapter, Canto VI, where [[spoiler: the bulk of the stages give him a 'Bereavement' effect which causes him to continuously lose SP in exchange for an offensive buff]]. This particular Identity is also a good choice in [[spoiler: the fight against Heathcliff's mirror version, where, in addition to having said effect, he is also resistant to Blunt and can more easily go toe-to-toe with the boss once his sanity is at a good point due to it being a more drawn-out fight]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: His uptie story states that Öufi Association Fixers are shown to have halberds as standard weaponry. In Canto VI, the Öufi Director and related Fixers instead have paintbrushes, [[spoiler:tipping off to the fact that they are actually researchers of the Ring. This extends to their lenience as well, as Heathcliff only gave one warning.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Öufi Heathcliff's Uptie 3 story, Öufi Association Fixers are shown to have halberds as standard weaponry. In Canto VI, the Öufi Director and related Fixers instead have paintbrushes, [[spoiler:tipping off to the fact that they are actually researchers of the Ring. This extends to their lenience as well, as Heathcliff only gave one warning.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Öufi Heathcliff's Uptie 3 story, Öufi Association Fixers are shown to have halberds as standard weaponry. In Canto VI, the Director and Association of Fixers instead have paintbrushes, [[spoiler:tipping off to the fact that they are impostors of the Ring. This extends to their lenience as well, as Heathcliff only gave one warning.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler:Underneath the violent antagonism, Heathcliff has an extremely low opinion of himself thanks to his little he had to offer to the world, and on the brink of his DespairEventHorizon, he can barely consider himself human anymore.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: Ðuring the fight with Mirror Heathcliff, whenever our Heathcliff should be saying anything (i.e when checking on him, when he uses skills, on a stagger, etc.), he doesn't say a word at all until the scripted use of it at the end, and he has a lot to say during that.]]

* ParentalFavoritism: As was the case in the original story, Heathcliff wound earning Mr. Earnshaw's favor over his own biological son, Hindley, to the point he told Hindley as much and considered Heathcliff more of a son to him than he ever could. It was the only thing he could really use to make himself have any sense of worth in the manor and shield himself from Hindley's bullying, though this would only fuel Hindley's hatred towards him and results in his abuse intensifying massively after Mr. Earnshaw passes away.

* RichesToRags: He used to live in District 20's Nest, but fled to pursue his own fortune after Cathy chose to marry Edgar instead of him.
* TheRunaway: Holds this status from Wuthering Heights, as after a childhood rife with abuse and bullying, he reaches his last straw where [[spoiler:Cathy calls him unmarriable and thinks she doesn't love him.]]

* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Around the latter midpoint of Canto 6, Heathcliff's emotional breakdown is cemented by an appearance of Carmen's voice. Who tries to lead him down the final path to darkness by whispering to him to lure him into Distorting. And she succeeds.]]

** This comes in in Canto VI where [[spoiler: the entire Wuthering Heights manor from the outside is entirely in dark and dreary colors, yet the heather outside the manor is vibrantly purple. While no one in the cast admits to knowing what they are named, Heathcliff himself gets unusually somber when commenting on them]].
* {{Foundling}}: Just like in his source book, Heathcliff started life as nothing but an abandoned Backstreets child who was brought to Wuthering Heights, seemingly on nothing but a whim and a sense of charity by Mr Earnshaw.

* ParentalFavoritism: As was the case in the book, Heathcliff quickly took the position of Mr Earnshaw's favorite son of the house, even over his own blood son, Hindley. To the point that Mr Earnshaw would verbally ream Hindley while comparing him to Heathcliff. And Heathcliff would use this to threaten Hindley if Hindley ever dared try to hurt him. Though this only served to fuel Hindley's hatred toward him, especially once Mr Earnshaw was no longer in the picture to protect him.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Aside from being the second identity with coin tosses that favor hitting Tails, his playstyle revolves around lowering his sanity by applying Sinking to himself and either using his counter (which is the first one to have more than one coin) to force hits on himself while still dealing damage or letting his sanity tick down manually through his passive.
* SituationalSword: Due to the above. Similarly to Sinclair, his sanity needs to be ticked down manually but instead of having skills that directly do so on use like Sinclair does, his applies Sinking to himself (and to others) to encourage him to be hit so that the Sinking can do its work. While this is usually quite difficult to pull off due to the innate drive of sanity to go up, especially in short fights like in the Mirror Dungeon where sanity carries over, it really allows him to shine in his own chapter, Canto VI, where [[spoiler: the bulk of the stages give him a 'Bereavement' effect which causes him to continuously lose SP in exchange for an offensive buff]]. This particular Identity is also a good choice in [[spoiler: the fight against Heathcliff's mirror version, where, in addition to having said effect, he is also resistant to Blunt and can more easily go toe-to-toe with the boss once his sanity is at a good point due to it being a more drawn-out fight]].

** He also has a theme of wolves and canines. He has an [=ID=] wearing the Sunshower [=EGO=], he has access to Telepole (which he was the first to gain and also the first E.G.O available to him other than his base one), and the Wuthering Heights [=ID=]s compare him to a wolf and consider their battle against him a "hunt". [[spoiler: At the end of Canto [=VI=]'s Part 2, Carmen takes advantage of his distraught mental state after hearing of Cathy's death and being told by his AlternateSelf that he's the cause of Cathy's misery in every world to Distort him into a bestial, presumably wolf-like form.]]

** He also has a theme of wolves and canines. He has an [=ID=] wearing the Sunshower [=EGO=], he has access to Telepole, and the Wuthering Heights [=ID=]s compare him to a wolf and consider their battle against him a "hunt". [[spoiler: At the end of Canto [=VI=]'s Part 2, Carmen takes advantage of his distraught mental state after hearing of Cathy's death and being told by his AlternateSelf that he's the cause of Cathy's misery in every world to Distort him into a bestial, presumably wolf-like form.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: Ðuring the fight with Mirror Heathcliff, whenever our Heathcliff uses Bodysack, he doesn't say a word at all until the scripted use of it at the end, and he has a lot to say during that.]]

* 11th-HourSuperpower: Canto VI gives Heathcliff a passive that will drain 10 SP on him until he reaches -20 SP; additionally, when below 0 SP, Heathcliff will gain 3 power each turn. While this applies to all Heathcliff identities, this is ''monumental'' for Sunshower Heathcliff, genuinely making him not only viable but almost downright overpowered in Canto VI.

* 11-thHourSuperpower: Canto VI gives Heathcliff a passive that will drain 10 SP on him until he reaches -20 SP; additionally, when below 0 SP, Heathcliff will gain 3 power each turn. While this applies to all Heathcliff identities, this is ''monumental'' for Sunshower Heathcliff, genuinely making him not only viable but almost downright overpowered in Canto VI.

* 11thHourSuperpower: Canto VI gives Heathcliff a passive that will drain 10 SP on him until he reaches -20 SP; additionally, when below 0 SP, Heathcliff will gain 3 power each turn. While this applies to all Heathcliff identities, this is ''monumental'' for Sunshower Heathcliff, genuinely making him not only viable but almost downright overpowered in Canto VI.

* {{Foundling}}: Just like in his source book, Heathcliff started life as nothing but an abandoned Backstreets child who was brought to Wuthering Heights, seemingly on nothing but a whim and a sense of charity by Mr Earnshaw.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Because this Heathcliff is lifted from before he returns to Wuthering Heights, he's yet to commit any of his book counterpart's more reprehensible acts, such as [[spoiler:abusing Isabella, digging up Cathy's grave, trapping Catherine in his custody, and possibly murdering Hindley.]] Moreover, the flashbacks to his childhood omit much of his WildChild habits from the book and [[AdaptationalJerkass vilified Linton]] to make him the instigator of their feud rather than Heathcliff, both of which make Heathcliff more sympathetic even before his original descent into villainy. Furthermore, while he utterly loathes everyone in Wuthering Heights (besides Cathy and Nelly), he doesn't actually want to ruin their lives the way his original self did, and the extent of his revenge was to just make Cathy regret choosing Linton over him. [[spoiler:The mirror version of him, however, is more in line with his original portrayal, specifically after the novel's TimeSkip.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Because this Heathcliff is lifted from before he returns to Wuthering Heights, he's yet to commit any of his book counterpart's more reprehensible acts, such as [[spoiler:abusing Isabella, digging up Cathy's grave, trapping Catherine in his custody, and possibly murdering Hindley.]] Moreover, the flashbacks to his childhood omit much of his WildChild habits from the book and [[AdaptationalJerkass vilified Linton]] to make him the instigator of their feud rather than Heathcliff, both of which make Heathcliff more sympathetic even before his original descent into villainy. [[spoiler:The mirror version of him, however, is more in line with his original portrayal.]]

* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:If Mirror Heathcliff plays the role of the Heathcliff of the original novel, then the Heathcliff we know, ironically enough, plays the role of Hareton, Hindley's son whom Heathcliff attempted to mold into a carbon copy of himself to prove that anyone would turn out the same as him if they experienced the same things he did.]]

-->'''Known E.G.O:''' Lantern (TETH), Legerdemain (ZAYIN) [[note]] The original Abnormality is a HE [[/note]], AEDD (HE), Garden of Thorns (WAW), Bygone Days ()

* InSpiteOfANail: While all Sinners have constants that they share between Mirror Worlds (such as Ishmael's ribbon or Don Quixote's shoes) Gregor is hit with it the most - no matter what, his right arm will ''ALWAYS'' be prosthetic or non-human in some form, be it his bug arm (regular Identity, G Corp Identity), prosthetic arms (Liu, Sous Chef) or a weapon prosthetic (Rosespanner, Twinhook Pirate).

* {{Malaproper}}: Has shades of this, such as calling Seigfried "Zack Friture" or Aida from the mariachis as "Ayeda from the merry archils".

* OddFriendship: He's one of the few Sinners who's actually friendly with Dante, to the point they actually sit next to each other on the bus. Out of all the Sinners Gregor is one Dante seems to feel the most comfortable actively joking around and bantering with, while Gregor doesn't hold any of their failings as a manager against them, likely due to his backstory making him far more sympathetic to Dante's situation than the others.

* {{Expy}}: of Linton Edgar, not only adopting his likeness but his piercing gaze and desolate attitude to boot.

** [[spoiler:During Canto III, he declares that while he may like calling Dante "clockface", he doesn't actually look down on them for it, and is furious that Nagel und Hammer is trying to kill them over having a prosthetic head.]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: Averted. Despite how miserable his childhood was at the otherwise luxurious Wuthering Heights estate due to all the abuse he endured from nearly everyone around him, he ultimately didn't leave out of his disgust for their horrible behavior and treatment of him. Instead, the true cause was that, much like in the original story, [[spoiler:[[OutOfContextEavesdropping he'd overheard her]] calling him unmarriable and assumed the worst]], and it overwhelmed him to the point it was unbearable to stay any longer.

** He also has a theme of wolves and canines. He has an [=ID=] wearing the Sunshower [=EGO=], he has access to Telepole, and the Wuthering Heights [=ID=]s compare him to a wolf and consider their battle against him a "hunt". [[spoiler: At the end of Canto [=VI=]'s Part 2, Carmen takes advantage of his distraught mental state after hearing of Cathy's death and being told by his AlternateSelf that he's the cause of Cathy's misery in every world to Distort him into a wolflike form.]]

* AnimalMotifs: A slight reoccuring theme regarding Heathcliff is that of rabbits. He has a R Corp. Rabbit Identity, and it is revealed later that his old Syndicate is known as the Dead Rabbits, whom he meets again in Canto VI. [[spoiler:It also turns out that his AlternateSelf is the one leading them.]]

* AnimalMotifs: A slight reoccuring theme regarding Heathcliff is that of rabbits; sporting a R Corp. Rabbits identity, and then later on revealing that [[spoiler:Heathcliff's old syndicate was called the Dead Rabbits. Though, the Dead Rabbits were noted to only have rabbit-embroidered scarves back in the day, not rabbit masks.]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: Averted. Despite how miserable his childhood was at the otherwise luxurious Wuthering Heights estate due to all the abuse he endured from nearly everyone around him, he ultimately didn't leave out of his disgust for their horrible behavior and treatment of him. Instead, the true cause was that Catherine had said something that made it unbearable for him to stay any longer.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:By the time Hindley and the Mirror Heathcliff are dead, he's come to realize that he and Cathy were never meant to be. This stacks on top of him blaming himself for Cathy's death until Carmen is able to distort him.]]
* DisappointedInYou: When he and Ishmael get into a physical altercation during Canto 4.5, she's gotten her mace raised and is apparently ready to bash his head in. How does he stop her? He tells her he thought she was better than himself, and is disappointed to know he was wrong. This revelation is so jarring it actually stops her in her tracks.

* GreenEyedMonster:
** All but directly stated to be one. He HatesRichPeople, especially [[ShelteredAristocrat Hong Lu]], and makes it clear he really doesn't like when people have power over him, and alludes to him working before as a member of a lower Syndicate. His third skill in his base identity and his base E.G.O Bodysack both being Envy -- the only one to be so, in fact -- are very telling.
** His particular hatred for Sinclair seems to come from the younger Sinner being raised to a loving and wealthy family and attending an established university, with his status as a NaiveNewcomer only serving to piss Heathcliff off further in the same way Hong Lu's cluelessness does. This eases up after Canto III, where [[EveryoneHasStandards even Sinners like him and Ryōshū]] feel bad for him.

* OutOfContextEavesdropping: [[spoiler:In a scene near-identical to the source material, Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights after overhearing Cathy tell Nelly that it would degrade her to marry him. But he leaves before Cathy can elaborate that neither of them would gain anything from it compared to [[GoldDigger if she were to marry Linton.]]]]

* {{Revenge}}: In a similar fashion to Ishmael, Heathcliff is primarily driven by a desire for revenge, if the large "REVENGE" written on his bat didn't clue you in. Unlike Ishmael, however, [[spoiler:his vengeance isn't as straightforward or wrathful as her vendetta against Ahab, whom she wanted desperately to kill -- instead, Heathcliff's vengeance is far more spiteful and envious in nature, as he primarily wants to get back at Cathy for not choosing him over another man and make her dearly regret doing so.]]

* TheRunaway: Holds this status from Wuthering Heights, after reaching his last straw where [[spoiler:Cathy said something that made him feel unable to stay any longer]], on top of a childhood rife with abuse.

* UniformityException: This is Gregor's first Identity where he lacks glasses, and the small roach that is in all of his other Identity art is completely missing.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Because this Heathcliff is lifted from before he returns to Wuthering Heights, he's yet to commit any of his book counterpart's more reprehensible acts, such as [[spoiler:abusing Isabella, digging up Cathy's grave, trapping Catherine in his custody, and possibly murdering Hindley.]] Moreover, the flashbacks to his childhood omit much of his WildChild habits from the book and [[AdaptationalJerkass vilified Linton]] to make him the instigator of their feud rather than Heathcliff, both of which make Heathcliff more sympathetic even before his original descent into villainy.