History Characters / PathToNowhereSloth

* AffablyEvil: Cabernet is unfailingly polite and nice to people even to those rude to her, [[spoiler: but she only aims to feed on your soul.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:She was the one who controlled and planned the whole party from the start to securing ingredients and recovering Greg and Carley who are her stolen ingredients for herself. The trope comes in when she does manage to absorb the Chief's soul who she wanted to "taste" so badly but not the point of killing them as she leaves knowing the Chief will look for her. It's implied in the end she was captured pretty quickly after the Chief recovered.]]
** [[spoiler:During her interrogation, she succeeds in making Chief's soul shine so it can be tastier by manipulating his possessions. However, what she did not expect was finding Chief to be the one who understood her intentions and motives, which she at least finally abides to Chief's wish to not consume other souls than theirs.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: It's major spoilers to reveal that the party she wanted the Chief, Macchiato, and Kelvin infiltrates are all Cabernet's doing to not only secure her stolen ingredients who are Carly and Greg, but to see which people were the tastiest souls in the party. While she wasn't part of [=McGarth=]'s plot, she took advantage of the chef's wanting to please her to see which souls would end up being the best ingredient, that ended up being the Chief.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: While Cabernet is not actually a devil, the deal that the chief has to make in return for her being shackled is quite demonic. [[spoiler:This is because she promised to never feed on any souls other than Chief's soul]].
* DisappointedInYou: [[spoiler: When [=McGarth=] says she did everything to please Cabernet and give her the best ingredients for her review, Cabernet disagrees and points out [=McGarth=] wouldn't even know what incredible ingredients would be. She remembers how she praised [=McGarth=]'s cooking but she sees how the chef's heart is and bluntly tells her she's incredibly disgusting.]]
* EntitledToHaveYou: [[spoiler:She has a room of people that she wanted to cultivate albeit restricting their freedom. However, she immediately doesn't keep the Chief for herself as she wants to continue to savor the Chief's soul and not let them die or become a soulless husk.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted. Cabernet says during her interrogation that as much as she enjoys tasting, she is not into tasting human bodies. She is rather into tasting good foods and [[spoiler:human souls]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:In her interrogation, Chief finds out Cabernet lured Greg with the promise she would give up Carley but never did because she wanted to see the couple's souls to shine out. Then, she decides to extract Greg's soul to give to Carley so Chief can witness it and let their emotions come out so that their soul gets tastier for her, possibly not caring if one or both would die in the process. Chief is angered by this as she led to Carley and Greg's miserable states which she wanted to see their soul shine]].
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Shows this with how she treated her "personal possessions" Greg and Carley. She shows no remorse or guilt for what she did to them as what only interested her from them was how tasty and special their souls were. Even as Chief lectures her on what she did and witnesses the event in which Greg gives his soul to Carley, she listens like a bored bystander. Chief, understandably, is truly disgusted by Cabernet's callous behavior in contrast to how she was first shown]].
* MeaningfulName: Her name ''Cabernet'' is related to Cabernet Sauvignon, a variety of red grape used in wine-making. This makes sense as her favorite food is grape. Her last name ''Franc'' relates to a former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, that were replaced by euro. Her family is OldMoney and are very rich.
* NonIdleRich: She is a food critic who clearly doesn't need money but she enjoys eating amazing food and critiquing them. [[spoiler:Of course this is a front to hide her activities as SoulEater to find the humans with the best souls]].

* PetTheDog: She showed an unusual interest in Chief the first time they meet and during the events of the party and most people remark that it's rare for Cabernet to show an extreme amount of fondness for someone although some of the people who said that were jealous of Cabernet focusing on the Chief. [[spoiler: It turns out because she saw the Chief had the most delicious soul of everyone at the party and Cabernet wanted to taste them so badly which she accomplishes at the [[TheBadGuyWins end.]]]]
** That said, she does oblige the Chief's deal [[spoiler:that she will not eat anyone's soul but theirs]]. And she genuinely likes [[MoralityPet them]] to a somewhat creepy degree.
* PickyEater: She was raised in a rich family and had the best food served to her, resulting in her being extremely picky with her food.[[spoiler: Her being picky with one chef resulted her in becoming a Sinner because of the realization the best food comes from the soul.]]
* RichBoredom: This is how she was even before turning into a Sinner, being born in the famous Franc family. Nothing could truly sate her, as she was bored, even the best stuff given to her because it was extremely easy to do so. [[spoiler:[[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Tasting souls]] was the only thing that made feel something significant.]] The only person who really stirs her heart is Chief, the only person who can understand her which makes her very doting on them.
* [[spoiler:SoulEating]]: While Cabernet has a public image as a food critic who tastes food to evaluate, [[spoiler:she is actually a SoulEater who prefers to taste souls that have tasty emotions like a couple's love for each other. She especially likes the Chief's soul due to their sharp, perceptive, intelligent, honest, and kind natures tasting quite divine.]]

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: There are three discrepancies in how Shalom works in the game and story.
** It is noted in the story that Shalom is capable of putting someone under her control if they get healing from her, but Shalom is not able to heal anyone in the game, let alone gain control over someone. Also, she "attacks" by using a laser beam that shoots straight from Schorl, but an attack from Shalom's Schorl hits up to 3 enemies with refraction in the game.
** It is noted during Shalom's Interrogation that enhancement materials designed for Sinners don't really work on her, but they work fine in the game. Shalom does, however, mention that if she shares enhancement materials with Schorl, it can optimize its combat efficiency through analysis, thereby better safeguarding everyone. So it could be that enhancement materials get "consumed" by Schorl rather than Shalom the Sinner herself.

* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: The seventh individual to hold the position of Hush, as well as the longest to do so.]]

* AmnesiaLoop: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Adela]] is unintentionally causing this when she makes people forget about their worries by "giving haircuts" to their memories. This is because without solving the fundamental problem of their worries, her victims end up doing what caused their worries in the first place because they don't remember. This is worsened by the fact that victims look increasingly mentally unsound because they keep forgetting and end up indulging themselves again.
* AmnesiacHero: Not only does Adela cause amnesia to her victims including the Chief during ''The Phantom of the Mist'' event, but also to herself in order to forget her painful past.
* AmnesiacResonance: This is what undoes Adela in ''The Phantom of the Mist'' event. While Adela may be able to cause partial amnesia to her victims, she is not able to completely get rid of every aspect of their memories.
* ChattyHairdresser: Despite how Adela looks eerie, she is able to get her customers to talk about their worries. She then proceeds to "cut" away their worries when she cuts their hair.
* DejaVu: Despite how Adela's power as a Sinner makes people lose their memories by getting a haircut from her, it is possible for her victims to feel DejaVu.
* EasyAmnesia: The fact that Adela can give EasyAmnesia just by "cutting" your hair is this.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Adela is able to briefly make the Chief forget about their Shackles and Potetas before they are able to remember who they are and what their powers are by the end of ''The Phantom of the Mist'' event.
* ForgotTheCall: Adela is able to briefly cause this to the Chief before they are able to remember who they are and what their duties are by the end of ''The Phantom of the Mist'' event.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: This is invoked given how Adela's power as a Sinner makes people forget their first meeting by getting a haircut from her.
* {{Hammerspace}}: One of the supervision events has the Chief investigating a rumor about how Adela can seemingly produce anything from her counter. The Chief asked for a bottle of peach juice and a vinyl of the band Spaceship record as a test. Adela is able to give what the Chief asks for without delay. It turns out that all of these items are trimmed memories that her clients left behind after the haircut and Adela is able to physically manifest them in real life.
* IdentityAmnesia: Thanks to Adela's Sinner power to cause amnesia, her victims often suffer an identity crisis.
* IWorkAlone: Not storywise but rather gameplaywise. This is because Adela gains a 15 percent CRIT Rate increase when there are no other Sinners present within the cross-area range.
* ShearMenace: Adela is the ShearMenace behind the Mad Shear myth. And while exact numbers aren't certain given how the amnesia-causing nature of her ability severely hinders the investigation, incomplete research shows that she has victimized close to a hundred people.
* TragicKeepsake: While Adela does not remember why she still has some of the items like the old key to the house where she and her mother once lived, she still keeps them around during her travels. One of the supervision events even explores how Adela wonders why she has this gem pendant that serves as a locket with a photo of a young woman hidden inside. The Chief recognizes that it is Adela's mother and they can either choose to say the woman in question is just an ordinary woman or implies that maybe the woman in question is someone important to Adela.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Adela is a WellIntentionedExtremist who makes people forget about their worries by "giving haircuts" to their memories because she thinks that people are better off without those burdens.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler: Despite it being her mission to eradicate the Garden, Shalom keeps the members of the group alive in order to goad Coquelic into confronting her, with this exact same goal in mind: using her for her own purposes despite the kill order in effect.]]
** [[spoiler: This is also the position she orchestrates for herself at the conclusion of the Flora Unfurl event. Despite being slated for decommissioning, and her "defective" nature having been revealed to the higher-ups, none of them feel confident in disposing of her until they can figure out what allowed her to go rogue in the first place and make sure it can never happen again. To that end, her decommissioning is postponed indefinitely, and she is returned to Paradeisos to be healed.]]

* TheChessmaster: A chessmaster who stands out even in an organization of chessmasters. [[spoiler:She manages to manipulate every factor present in the Rain Burst event: Rahu, the Garden, and even Paradeisos themselves, setting up everything exactly how she wanted, and leaving her in the most advantageous position. Her performance in the very next event, ''Flora Unfurl'', is even more impressive, where Paradeisos, the Garden and the Underground all play into her hand, again, all the while she remains Paradeisos's best agent. Even after they start suspecting her and re-evaluate her records, Paradeisos still found it to be near spotless, and even their suspicion serves her agenda perfectly.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Is known as "The Hush of Paradeisos."

* PowerAtAPrice: It eventually is revealed that the reason the Hush is able to predict, plan for, and oversee so many events and operations is because [[spoiler:they are tasked with reading the movement and thoughts of Mania itself, as well as combing it for anything that Paradeisos can use to its advantage. Of course, interacting directly with the will of Mania exposes one to massive amounts of corruption and mental pollution, meaning that every person who takes the mantle of Hush is immediately signing their own death warrant]].
* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Despite her spotless records, when she is finally unobserved by Paradeisos, she reveals she has planted a seed that would hurt her own organization, with her goal being seemingly to break free from the struggle between Paradeisos and the Underground, banking it on [[WildCard the Chief]] instead.]]

* UnstoppableRage: When she was a child, [[spoiler:she always hurt the researchers who tried to go near her to the point they thought about taking her out instead of becoming the next Hush; the surgery she received removed her emotions and led to her being the woman we know now. It's implied that the main emotion of Rebel, the monstrous manifestation of Shalom's emotions that explores Mania itself in ''Flora Unfurl'', is rage since every time we see it, it never calms down.]]

* TheCharmer: She rather effortlessly charms people who are not otherwise feeling disinclined to trust her (and even many people who do). During her brief stay in the MBCC, Shalom manages to become rather popular with the staff and the sinners there, to the point where it seems like many favour her over their own boss.
** Wynn was skeptical of her at first because she came from Paradeisos but she instantly came to like Shalom for her caring side and teaching her flower arrangement. It also did not take her long enough to make Hella like her as she praises her contributions to [=DisCity=], even though it took a long while for Chief to make Hella open up to them.
* TheChessmaster: A chessmaster who stands out even in an organization of chessmasters. [[spoiler: She manages to manipulate every factor present in the Rain Burst event: Rahu, the Garden, and even Paradeisos themselves, setting up everything exactly how she wanted, and leaving her in the most advantageous position. Her performance in the very next event, Floral Unfurl, is even more impressive. Paradeisos, the Garden and the Underground all play into her hand, again, all the while she remains Paradeisos's best agent. Even after they start suspecting her and re-evaluate her records, Paradeisos still found it to be near spotless, and even their suspicion serves her agenda perfectly.]]

* ColdEquation: More or less her job. When Coquelic sends a car with a mania bomb inside accompanied by multiple hostages and Shalom's own subordinate, even when told the bomb is disarmed, Shalom elects to blow up the car entirely (knowing the two people she want alive would not be killed in the explosion) before the car reaches a populated area rather than risk there being [[ILied other, unknown threats]] inside. [[spoiler:Interestingly, she quietly feels contempt for Paradeisos itself, believing they used this very trope to mask their own [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], and their own "cold calculation" really [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist does not hold up to scrutiny]].]]
* TheCorruptor: Not just through giving out a BreakingSpeech or three, [[spoiler: this is also how her Sinner ability works: she is able to enter the mind of someone infected with Mania, manipulating and shaping said force to her whims. This also connects the targets brain to her own, giving her a loyal follower in the process.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: She is capable of putting someone under her control if they accept healing from her. The more she heals them, the stronger her control. [[spoiler:She makes the offer to Rahu and Coquelic, the former accepted, the latter did not, though Coquelic received some minor healing anyway and had a more minor mark imposed on her as a result.]]

** [[spoiler: Even as TheVoice she displays this. What is the first thing she says after trapping Taran in a cell, giving him AnOfferYouCantRefuse, and forcing him to listen to his comrades being slaughtered? "What a nice young man."]]
** [[spoiler:Revealed why at the end of Floral Unfurl. Her Emotions and Rationality have been separated. What remains of Shalom is only the rational side, allowing her to calculate the most optimal plans for Paradeisos without sentiments or morals getting in the way, all the while having not a shred of malice toward anyone who happens to be in her way.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: She appears in Chapters 11 and 12 as "X," the Paradeisos agent who makes contact with Taran and overseas the attempt on the Chief's life.]]

** [[spoiler: Their powers are fundamentally similar (with Shalom's Mark being an artificial copy of the Shackles), allowing them to connect to individuals with Mania, but while the Chief uses it to calm and monitor their Sinners, only taking control when necessary but otherwise allowing them to live how they see fit, Shalom uses her ability to exert her will fully onto those she touches, turning them into subservient "tools" for her own benefit.]]

** It is noted in the story that Shalom is capable of putting someone under her control if they get healing from her, but Shalom is not able to heal anyone in the game; let alone gain control over someone.
** It is noted in the story that Shalom "attacks" by using a laser beam that shoots straight from Schorl, but an attack from Shalom's Schorl hits up to 3 enemies with refracting in the game.
** It is noted during Shalom's interrogation that enhancement materials designed for Sinners don't really work on her, but they work fine in the game. Shalom does, however, mention that if she shares enhancement materials with Schorl, it can optimize its combat efficiency through analysis, thereby better safeguarding everyone. So it could be that enhancement materials get "consumed" by Schorl rather than Shalom the Sinner herself.

* PerpetualSmiler: Always. See DissonantSerenity.

** During her interrogation, Shalom sustains a serious injury to protect Hecate for as yet undisclosed reason.
* PowerAtAPrice: It eventually is revealed that the reason the Hush is able to predict, plan for, and oversee so many events and operations is because [[spoiler: they are tasked with reading the movement and thoughts of Mania itself, as well as combing it for anything that Paradeisos can use to its advantage. Of course, interacting directly with the will of Mania exposes one to massive amounts of corruption and mental pollution, meaning that every person who takes the mantle of Hush is immediately signing their own death warrant.]]
* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Despite her spotless records, when she is finally unobserved by Paradeisos, she reveals to have planted the seed that would hurt her own organization, with her goal seemingly to break free from the struggle between Paradeisos and the underground, banking it on [[WildCard the Chief]] instead.]]

* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Before she was subjected to the surgery that took away her emotions and led to the woman we know now]] she used to be this as a child. [[spoiler:In fact she always hurt the researchers who tried to go near her to the point they thought about taking her out instead of becoming the next Hush.]] [[spoiler:Rebel's main emotion is implied to be rage since every time we see it, it never calms down.]]

* WhatIsThisFeeling: [[spoiler:Meeting the previous Chief elicited emotion in her for the first time, which eventually cascades into Shalom regaining more and more of the emotions Paradeisos separated from her. This culminates in Shalom's newfound contempt for Paradeisos, resulting in her carrying out a labyrinthine scheme to subvert Paradeisos's wishes and return the current [[PlayerCharacter Chief's]] freedom and power to them.]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Due to the true nature of the Hush's work, she will eventually succumb to complete corruption and become unstable. It is noted that she would be executed before that becomes a possibility, and her replacement is apparently already determined by the time of the Rain Burst event.]]

* ADealWithTheDevil: In stage 10-12, [[spoiler:towards the end of the right against the Corpseborne, the Chief finds themselves on death's door, with Oak waiting to see if they wish to pass on or escape from death. [[TakeAThirdOption Instead, the Chief makes a deal with her]]: bring them back to life so that they can die a more meaningful death for Oak to enjoy hearing rather than the usual boredom of hearing out pain and regrets, effectively giving Oak the right to the Chief's life and death. The offer entices Oak greatly to comply with the deal]].

* GivenNameReveal: In her interrogations, [[spoiler: her real name is Nona as she was adopted by the priest on the ninth day of that month.]]

* ISeeDeadPeople: Specifically, she can hear Maniacs (not normal humans who don't have mania) since this is her Sinner ability. According to her mutation assessment on her ability, the bureau writes that she can: "capture and decode the information that is carried in the electric field and magnetic field created by a newly-dead Maniac's brain and body. How much information she can attain is inversely proportionate to how long the person has been dead." This is how she already knows who the Chief is and how Dudu and the Drifter's Camp got the information on them.

* ADayInTheLimelight: She's the main "featured" Sinner in the Chapter 9 and 10 of the Main Story. Her gacha feature came alongside the chapter's release.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Born in one of the most chaotic periods in Syndicate, she was taken in to a rescue center [[spoiler:being given the name Nona because she came there on the ninth of that month]]. She awakened as a Sinner in a mass grave in Syndicate when she was just a teenager. To add, she was badly injured [[spoiler:which led to her benefactors to abandon her because they thought she was going to die]], but miraculously survived as she reawakened as a Sinner. Hearing the dead, she also has the ability to heal her body to a certain degree without any external help which probably helped her survive. Upon being diagnosed with information input disruption syndrome, it does imply she has had to survive in Syndicate for a long time all by herself.
* DeadpanSnarker: She sometimes quips these, occassionally relating to the dead and living.
** When she states she uses vetiver fragarance not just for the smell but to hide a certain smell ([[spoiler:decay]]), and when the Chief quickly realizes it, she quips on how she sees they are the MBCC Chief for a reason.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Not like a typical ice queen but she sounds and acts more mournful coming into the bureau, she is cold and indifferent in contrast to how we see her in Drifter's Camp. A doctor diagnoses her with a disorder called "information input disruption syndrome" (implied to be a sensory disorder) which is one of the negative manifestations of being unable to adapt to normal conditions after leaving the abnormal state of long-term survival. It takes towards 100% compliance for Oak to return to her normal state that we saw her as, but showing more care, trust, and having a less obsession in the dead with the Chief.

* HandyMan: Surprisingly, for a hall manager of a funeral home, she is skilled in crafting caskets instead of buying them. In one of her emotion checks, she makes a small box for a deceased parrot while detailing what wood to use.
** In a video with the [=DeadLover=] Radio hosts, she is shown to be proud of her creations when showcasing them to the hosts.
* {{Irony}}: For a person belonging to the SLOTH libram, she surprisingly has an impressive fighting spirit to satisfy her need of extracting information from the newly dead.

* MeaningfulName: Her name as Oak Casket is this. This is because the type of wood that is typically used for funeral caskets is oak. So as a hall manager of a funeral home who prepares an oak casket for the deceased, Oak Casket is quite a fitting name. [[spoiler:Her biological name, Nona, also signifies how she came to the rescue center who took her in on the ninth of that month.]]

* NunTooHoly: She's an S-sinner for several reasons. [[spoiler:She's an underground broker using Romanesque Hall as a front to hide her secret activities. She sells classified information to violent gangs using her Sinner ability. You also wouldn't expect the serene Oak to commit brutal murders and do some illegal trafficking too.]]

* TookALevelInCynic: Back in her past, it was implied she was a somewhat idealistic person but after [[spoiler:the rescue center she lived at was attacked and she was severely injured to the point her benefactors reluctantly left her behind since they thought she was going to die and there was no point in saving her. That moment and becoming a Sinner cemented her cynical views on the living world.]]

A young widowed tailor who had been accused of poisoning her husband, Mr. Braun, for an inheritance dispute.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: What she believes are the best lies, alongside mixing some truth in it that even the liar themselves believe it. [[spoiler:As a result of her flawless lies, the Chief's Shackles were unable to pick up her true intentions to eliminate Chief and they can't tell if she's telling the truth or not after they find out she's been deceiving them this whole time. Even then, Garofano admits what she said to them were maybe true showing even she can't tell if she was telling the truth or not.]]
* BeneathTheMask: Behind her caring, kind side, [[spoiler: she has a merciless side as an assassin from the Garden. Plus, she is able to play with her emotions well by injecting her true experiences to make the lie feel more believable. She also has unhinged, obsessive side with people she considers her possession that she hides, leading her to be very overprotective of them.]] As the Chief states, she's a "master of disguise".

* BlackWidow: [[spoiler: If her answer to Rahu's question on her ''dead husbands'' goes by, she had likely [[FemmeFatale seduced]] and married some of her targets many times to kill them and Braun was her 'latest' husband to target.]]

** [[spoiler: Best shown in Rain Burst where she uses the power given to her by Parma and being able to mentally control herself to an extent and not turning into a Corruptor.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She decided to not kill the Chief after seeing what kind of person they really are and began to see them like her own family and possession]].

* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler: She does not have any hesitations to attack innocent people to get to her goals but she doesn't go out of her way to kill anyone for evil reasons. She does it so she can protect the people she loves, example being the Garden and Chief. Speaking of the latter, she wanted to kill them but luckily did not, seeing their selfless, caring character. Although she can be somewhat sadistic as seen with Braun's gang and Rahu, taking her sweet time jabbing her with poisoned needles in the latter instead of outright killing her. Plus, she has a soft side with children and never targets children]].

* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:She knows she's dirtied her hands by killing innocent people in Paradeisos, but in her words, it's a necessary sacrifice so she can get to her goal. Not to mention, she doesn't find Paradeisos people innocent in the first place.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Behind her maternal persona, she hides a lot of trauma, pain, and a lot of anger. [[spoiler: She joined The Garden because she lost everything and wanted to find out why exactly her father became a Corruptor, leading her to murder the people responsible for her family's demise which she achieved.]]
** She also wanted to [[spoiler:eliminate Chief not because of personal reasons, but because she despised how Sinners were treated in the MBCC till she had a look of how it really functioned and who Chief was actually like changing her mind.]]

* ShipTease: Garofano has shown a doting albeit somewhat possessive personality to the Chief. [[spoiler: While she had planned to kill them in the beginning, the Chief changed her mind when she saw how selfless and caring they were to Sinners.]]

** [[spoiler: When she talks about her deceased FAC soldier husband to Rahu, it's heavily implied to be Chief she is talking about and not Braun. It's more ambiguous to when she states she would have truly fallen in love with them is true or not, the tone in her voice implies this to be perhaps true. In her 100% compliance, she crafted the shirt she promised Chief in Interro. 3 before escaping the MBCC, and left a carnation in the shirt, implying her symbolized love for Chief.]]

* TheLostLenore: Her family was this to her. While not only becoming a Sinner in the process, she basically lost the family members she was closest too.

* MirrorCharacter: With her [[spoiler: fellow Garden member, Sumire.]]
** Both come from the same organization. [[spoiler: Both had the mission to kill the Chief, the director of the MBCC. However, in Sumire's case she decided from the beginning to not kill the Chief after seeing how they acted and how being around them led some of her symptoms to disappear, while it's implied Garofano went on her own accord to assassinate Chief when she came to the MBCC. However, just like Sumire, seeing Chief's personality and how the MBCC was like changed her mind.]]
** Both end up loving the Chief and wanting to protect them from harm. [[spoiler: Sumire is shown to be in love with the Chief with deep and sincere romantic love, while Garofano is more of the doting, seducing and possessive type for the Chief. Sumire stops assassins from the Garden and anyone else for the matter from killing the Chief and Garofano has no hesitation to kill almost anyone who try to take Chief away from her.]] [[spoiler:When Chief goes into coma during the Rustfire events, both go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for them as they go back to the Garden. While Sumire is overlooking the targets with patience and waiting for the right moment to strike, Garofano ends up being used by Segal and Parma due to her impatience and anger.]]
** The way Chief interacts with them. [[spoiler: They were cautious against Sumire due to knowing she was an assassin but not to Garofano because she played the innocent woman who didn't kill her husband stereotype. Only towards the end of their interrogation, their view towards them is reversed: Chief ends up trusting Sumire after seeing her sincerity and how self-sacrificing she is for them, while they hesitate to trust Garofano again because of her deceptions and being unable to tell if she's telling the truth or not anymore.]]

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Her brother-in-law, Braun's younger brother who is a gambling addict and dislikes Garofano for taking his brother's heart, or rather his attention and giving him money to spend on gambling. [[spoiler:He comes to attack her in her tailor shop for revenge on how he was supposed to inherit his brother's money. Unforunately for him, Garofano easily kills him for trying to harm Chief and the fact he and her brother were her targets anyway while she used him by leaking out the splitting assets and subtly giving him the poison to kill his older brother]].

* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: She's the Polite Villain to Rahu's Rude Hero during the [[spoiler:fight in the Erica Villa.]] She still maintains a polite albeit sadistic personality while Rahu is impatient and rude to [[spoiler: asking how she knows so much about the Eclipse Operation and why is she trying to kill Shalom.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: She drops this during the [[spoiler: Rain Burst event, calling the Paradeisos' people "fucks" for being so secretive.]]
* ProfessionalKiller: As expected from [[spoiler: an senior operative from the Garden]].
* PromotionToParent: Heavily implied as she claims her siblings wanted her to baby them. While she had her father who loved his children, she doesn't mention her mother caring for them presumably showing she might be dead.

* {{Expy}}: To [[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Tanjiro Kamado]]. Both are the oldest child in their family, cared and babied their siblings a lot, and are great with children. Both had their peaceful lives that they were content with but was shattered when a monster attacked their home and were survivors, [[spoiler:Muzan killing all his family except his sister Nezuko who turned into a demon and Garofano's father who turned into Corruptor killing his children except her.]] Unforunately for Garofano she lost all her family members while Tanjiro was fortunate enough to have his younger sister Nezuko.

* AffablyEvil: Cabernet is unfailingly polite to people even to those rude to her, [[spoiler: but she only aims to feed on your soul.]]

** [[spoiler:During her interrogation, she succeeds in making Chief's soul shine so it can be tastier. However, what she did not expect was finding Chief to be the one who understood her intentions and motives, which she at least abides to Chief's wish to not consume other souls than theirs.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:In her interrogation, Chief finds out Cabernet lured Greg with the promise she would give up Carley but never did because she wanted to see the couple's souls to shine out. Chief is angered by this as she led to Carley and Greg's miserable states which she wanted to see their soul shine.]]

* NonIdleRich: She is a food critic who clearly doesn't need money but she enjoys eating amazing food and critiquing them.

** [[spoiler: During her interrogation, she succeeds in making Chief's soul shine so it can be tastier. However, what she did not expect was finding Chief to be the one who understood her intentions and motives, which she at least abides to Chief's wish to not consume other souls than theirs.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: While Cabernet is not actually a devil, the deal that the chief has to make in return for her being shackled is quite demonic. This is because she promised to never feed on any souls other than Chief's soul.

* EntitledToHaveYou: [[spoiler: She has a room of people that she wanted to cultivate albeit restricting their freedom. However, she immediately doesn't keep the Chief for herself as she wants to continue to savor the Chief's soul and not let them die or become a soulless husk.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted. Cabernet says during her interrogation that as much as she enjoys tasting, she is not into tasting human bodies. She is rather into tasting good foods and human souls.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: In her interrogation, Chief finds out Cabernet lured Greg with the promise she would give up Carley but never did because she wanted to see the couple's souls to shine out. Chief is angered by this as she led to Carley and Greg's miserable states which she wanted to see their soul shine.]]

** That said, she does oblige the Chief's deal that she will not eat anyone's soul but theirs. And she genuinely likes [[MoralityPet them]] to a somewhat creepy degree.

* RichBoredom: This is how she was even before turning into a Sinner. Nothing could truly sate her, even the best stuff given to her because it was extremely easy to do so. The only person who really stirs her heart is Chief, the only person who can understand her.
* SoulEating: While Cabernet has a public image as a food critic who tastes food to evaluate, [[spoiler: she is actually a SoulEater who prefers to taste souls that have tasty emotions like a couple's love for each other. She especially likes the Chief's soul due to their sharp, perceptive, intelligent, honest, and kind natures tasting quite divine.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cabernet likes grapes enough that other chefs, who couldn't get high scores for their food, try to exploit this. [[spoiler: It turns out that grape is not just Cabernet's TraditionallyFavoriteFood just for taste, however, as her Sinner power as a SoulEater crystalized the soul as grapes.]]

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* FakeRelationship: It turns out she never had a real marriage with Mr. Braun, instead being an orphan he helped after her family's death and even accepted her as a Sinner. She states they were more like brother and sister. Garofano also states he had a wife who died earlier and she promised her she would take care of her elderly sick husband. As his new wife, she went to social events voluntarily in his place. [[spoiler:How much of this is true is ambiguous considering she wanted to kill him and his brother.]]
* FamilyOfChoice: She still loves her [[spoiler:deceased]] biological family but she begins seeing the MBCC and Chief as this. [[spoiler: She also sees the Garden as this after losing her whole biological family. She is violently protective of them as they helped her with avenging her family and some of the younger members sees her as a big sister figure.]]

* GoodParents: While it's unknown to how she thinks of her mother, she saw her father to be a good parent as she claims he loved and cherished her and his children. [[spoiler:It makes sense to why she hesitated to kill him when he became a Corruptor but this led to her siblings being slained by him and that she never hesitates to use extreme methods now.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She decided to not kill the Chief after seeing what kind of person they really are and began to see them like her own family and possession.]]
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her motherly figure side, she has a unhinged, somewhat possessive personality but only towards people she really cherishes like Chief. This is probably left by her DarkAndTroubledPast, where she lost her entire family and being the only survivor [[spoiler:she became extremely overprotective of people she loves and only calmed down due to Chief and being in the calm environment of the MBCC.]] Considering she's a Sinner, this is not surprising.
* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler: She does not have any hesitations to attack innocent people to get to her goals but she doesn't go out of her way to kill anyone for evil reasons. She does it so she can protect the people she loves, example being the Garden and Chief. Speaking of the latter, she wanted to kill them but luckily did not, seeing their selfless, caring character. Although she can be somewhat sadistic as seen with Braun's gang and Rahu, taking her sweet time jabbing her with poisoned needles in the latter instead of outright killing her. Plus, she has a soft side with children and never targets children.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler: To the Garden. It was thanks to the assassination group who saved and helped her with her revenge that Garofano gives her life for the Garden.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: A significant reason to [[spoiler:why she became a Garden assassin for her dead family. Her immediate killing of Braun's brother to protect Chief can count as this, as she sees them to be someone she cherishes, her possession to be exact.]] [[spoiler:Another is her killing Paradeisos people to protect the Garden from being destroyed.]]

The owner of Fortuna.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: Just like Sumire, she was planning to kill the Chief because of their position, the director of the MBCC, but seeing how they were genuinely nice and kind to Sinners, including herself, she changed her mind.]]
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: What she believes are the best lies, alongside mixing some truth in it that even the liar themselves believe it. [[spoiler: As a result of her flawless lies, the Chief's Shackles were unable to pick up her true intentions to eliminate Chief and they can't tell if she's telling the truth or not after they find out she's been deceiving them this whole time. Even then, Garofano admits what she said to them were maybe true showing even she can't tell if she was telling the truth or not.]]
* BeneathTheMask: Behind her caring, kind side, [[spoiler: she has a merciless side as an assassin from the Garden. Plus, she is able to play with her emotions well by injecting her true experiences to make the lie feel more believable. She also has unhinged, obsessive side with people she considers her possession leading her to be very overprotective of them.]] As the Chief states, she's a "master of disguise".

* ShipTease: Garofano has shown a doting albeit somewhat possessive personality to the Chief. [[spoiler: While she had planned to kill them in the beginning, the Chief changed her mind when she saw how selfless and caring they were to Sinners and that the MBCC was actually a soothing environment too.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: Not like a typical ice queen but she sounds and acts more mournful; when she comes into the bureau, she is cold and indifferent in contrast to how we see her in Drifter's Camp. A doctor diagnoses her with a disorder called "information input disruption syndrome" (implied to be a sensory disorder) which is one of the negative manifestations of being unable to adapt to normal conditions after leaving the abnormal state of long-term survival. It takes towards 100% compliance for Oak to return to her normal state that we saw her as, but showing more care, trust, and having a less obsession in the dead with the Chief.

* HandyMan: Surprisingly, for a hall manager of a funeral home, she is skilled in crafting caskets instead of buying them. In one of her emotion checks, she makes a small box with a tool for a deceased parrot while detailing what wood to use.
** In a video with the [=DeadLover=] Radio hosts, she is shown to be proud of her creations.

* MeaningfulName: Her name as Oak Casket is this. This is because the type of wood that is typically used for funeral caskets is oak. So as a hall manager of a funeral home who prepares an oak casket for the deceased, Oak Casket is quite a fitting name.

* NunTooHoly: She's an S-sinner for several reasons.[[spoiler:She's an underground broker using Romanesque Hall as a front to hide her secret activities. She sells classified information to violent gangs using her Sinner ability. You also wouldn't expect the serene Oak to commit brutal murders and do some illegal trafficking too.]]

* OnlyFriend: Dudu. Julien states how Oak is actually quite taciturn with the Drifter's Camp, and it's possible the only way they get outside information from her is from Dudu.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: What she believes are the best lies, alongside mixing some truth in it that even the liar themselves believe it. [[spoiler: As a result of her flawless lies, the Chief's Shackles were unable to pick up her true intentions to eliminate Chief and they can't tell if she's telling the truth or not after they find out she's been deceiving them this whole time. Even then, Garofano admits what she said to them were maybe true.]]

* BlackWidow: [[spoiler: If her answer to Rahu's question on if her ''dead husbands'' goes by, she had married some of her targets many times to kill them and Braun was her 'latest' husband to target.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She lost her entire family to a Mania attack leading to Mr. Braun, a rich philanthropist, to give her help to get her life back on track. [[spoiler: Despite her lies to the Chief, her story of losing her biological family to her Corruptor turned father is true.]] There is one mention of her mother who is presumed deceased, and the only guardian she and her younger siblings had was her [[GoodParents father]] [[spoiler:before his transformation as a Corruptor.]]
* CoolBigSis: She is considered this by many of the younger Sinners because of her motherly, dependent nature. [[spoiler: Younger Garden members like Sumire and Gekkabijin see her as a big sister figure, helped that she's a senior member of The Garden.]]

* FakeRelationship: It turns out she never had a real marriage with Mr. Braun, instead being an orphan he helped after her family's death and accepted her as a Sinner. She states they were more like brother and sister. Garofano also states he had a wife who died earlier and she promised her she would take care of her elderly sick husband. As his new wife, she went to social events voluntarily in his place.[[spoiler: How much of this is true is ambiguous considering she wanted to kill him and his brother.]]

* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler:Her last interrogation has her referred to as having the air of a femme fatale when she kills Younger Mr. Braun and his gang, with her long hair down, exposing a bit of cleavage, and having a cold smile. This could be also applied to her Phase 3 art. She was playing innocence to gain Chief's sympathy and deceive them so she could assassinate them. Her method is after all, gaining the target's trust and love before killing them at their weakest moment.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: Just like Anne, do not underestimate Garofano because of her gentle, kind nature. [[spoiler: Considering she was this close to killing the Chief when she immobilized them with a poison but choose not to because she saw their caring, noble character. She was also able to deceive their Shackles with well-done lies to the point Chief becomes hesitant to trust her again since they can't tell now if she's lying or telling the truth anymore.]]
** [[spoiler: As an assassin from the Garden, she has killed people and it's implied like Sumire she's been doing this for a long time as she tells Chief her long hunting habit.]]
* GoodParents: While it's unknown to how she thinks of her mother, but she saw her father to be a good parent as she claims he loved and cherished her and her siblings when they were young. [[spoiler:It makes sense to why she hesitated to kill him when he became a Corruptor but this led to her siblings being slained by him and that she never hesitates to use extreme methods now.]]

* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler: She does not have hesitations to attack innocent people to get to her goals but she doesn't go out of her way to kill anyone for evil reasons. She does it so she can protect the people she loves, example being the Garden and Chief. Speaking of the latter, she wanted to kill them but luckily did not, seeing their selfless, caring character. Although she can be somewhat sadistic as seen with Braun's gang and Rahu, taking her sweet time jabbing her poisoned needles in the latter instead of outright killing her. Plus, she has a soft side with children and never targets children.]]

** A minor one to the Chief [[spoiler: after they try to protect her from Braun and his goons. Although at this point, Garofano had already given up on assassinating the Chief, this is probably one of the scenes where it cements to her desire to protect the Chief.]]
* LiarRevealed: [[spoiler: Turns out in her final interrogation Garofano has been deceiving Chief of who she was, especially being revealed as a member of the Garden. This leads to Chief being wary of her and unable to tell if she's telling a truth or a lie.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: A significant reason to [[spoiler:why she became a Garden assassin for her dead family. Her immediate killing of Braun's brother to protect Chief can count as this, as she sees them to be someone she cherishes, her possession to be exact.]] [[spoiler: Another is her killing Paradeisos people to protect the Garden from being destroyed.]]

** Both come from the same organization. [[spoiler: Both had the mission to kill the Chief, the director of the MBCC. However, in Sumire's case she decided from the beginning to not kill the Chief after seeing how they acted and how being around them led some of her symptoms to disappear, while it's implied Garofano went on her own accord to assassinate Chief when she came to the MBCC. However, just like Sumire, seeing Chief's personality and how the MBCC was really like changed her mind.]]
** Both end up loving the Chief and wanting to protect them from harm. [[spoiler: Sumire is shown to be in love with the Chief with deep and sincere romantic love, while Garofano is more of the doting, seducing and possessive type for the Chief. Sumire stops assassins from the Garden and anyone else for the matter from killing the Chief and Garofano has no hesitation to kill almost anyone who try to take Chief away from her.]] [[spoiler: When Chief goes into coma during the Rustfire events, both go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for them as they go back to the Garden. While Sumire is overlooking the targets with patience and waiting for the right moment to strike, Garofano ends up being used by Segal and Parma due to her impatience and anger.]]

* MultipleIdentityIDs: [[spoiler: Braun is one of her latest cover names, coming from a supervision event with Chief, she had build up multiple identities that've become bulletproof.]]
* {{Murder Inc}}: [[spoiler: Garofano is part of the Sinner assassin organization called the Garden.]]
* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler: She knows she's dirtied her hands by killing innocent people in Paradeisos, but in her words, it's a necessary sacrifice so she can get to her goal. Not to mention, she doesn't find Paradeisos people innocent in the first place.]]

** Heck, her 100% compliance line sounds almost like a marriage proposal from her to the Chief! In a creepy but passionate way by saying she wants to button Chief to her body and make them hers forever with the promise of cherishing and protecting them, and never letting them out of her sight. [[spoiler:Quite ironic for a woman who has potentially killed a lot of her spouses as targets.]]

* TilMurderDoUsPart: She was a suspect for her husband's death because of an inheritance issue, to which she states she wasn't married to Mr. Braun and she states she wouldn't inherit anything from him, his estate inheritance was going to be sent to her husband's younger brother. However, according to Garofano later, Mr. Braun wanted to split assets because he gave up on his brother due to his gambling habits. [[spoiler: However, while it's unknown to why she wanted Braun and his brother dead; she didn't kill Mr. Braun, but she was planning to and led his brother to do the killing so it made her job easier into killing both of them.]]
* TragicKeepsake: She wears her younger brother's button as a necklace since it reminds her of her [[spoiler:deceased]] family. Her mother told her buttons were very special and so it's implied to why she keeps several buttons on her shawl.

* VillainHasAPoint: She does have a point [[spoiler:when she counter-argues with Rahu on how the former didn't even think twice on sparing innocent people for her goals, she's completely well-aware of it but she points out how ordinary people like her and Rahu can obtain the truth they want so badly through normal methods. Seeing how it took Rahu '''10''' years to get even somewhat close with Paradeisos only because of the opportunity came from Drifter's Camp situation, Garofano does kind of have a point.]]

* BeautyMark: She has on the bottom right side of her mouth and another on her left breast.

* MultipleIdentityIDs: [[spoiler: Braun is one of her latest cover names, coming from a supervision event with Chief, she had build up multiple identities that've become bulletproof.]]

* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: She's the Polite Villain to Rahu's Rude Hero during the [[spoiler:fight in the Erica Villa.]] She still maintains a polite albeit sadistic personality while Rahu is impatient and rude to [[spoiler: asking how she knows so much about the Eclipse Operation.]]

* ProfessionalKiller: As expected from [[spoiler: an senior operative from the Garden.]]

* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Her last interrogation has her referred to as having the air of a femme fatale when she kills Younger Mr. Braun and his gang, with her long hair down, exposing a bit of cleavage, and having a cold smile. This could be also applied to her Phase 3 art. She was playing innocence to gain Chief's sympathy and deceive them so she could assassinate them. Her method is after all, gaining the target's trust and love before killing them at their weakest moment.]]
* FlowerMotifs: Her flower motif is a carnation. [[spoiler: Makes sense when you discover she's an operative from the Garden where most members are named after flowers.]]

* GoodParents: While it's unknown to how she thinks of her mother, but it's implied she saw her father to be a good parent as she claims he loved and cherished her and her siblings when they were young. [[spoiler:It makes sense to why she hesitated to kill him when he became a Corruptor but this led to her siblings being slained by him.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: She decided to not kill the Chief after seeing what kind of person they really are and began to see them like her own family and possession.]]

* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler: She does not have hesitations to attack innocent people to get to her goals but she doesn't go out of her way to kill anyone for evil reasons. She does it so she can protect the people she loves, example being the Garden and Chief. Speaking of the latter, she wanted to kill them but luckily did not, seeing their selfless, caring character. Although she can be somewhat sadistic as seen with Braun's gang and Rahu, taking her sweet time jabbing her poisoned needles in the latter. Plus, she has a soft side with children and never targets children.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: Not a {{Jerkass}} but she does have a point [[spoiler: when she counter-argues with Rahu on how she didn't even think twice on sparing innocent people for her goals, she's completely well-aware of it but she points out how ordinary people like her and Rahu can obtain the truth they want so badly through normal methods. Seeing how it took Rahu '''10''' years to get even somewhat close with Paradeisos, Garofano does kind of have a point.]]

* MotherlySidePlait: She has this as her default hairstyle and is a mother figure to young Sinners who look up to her. She was implied to be the mother figure to her younger siblings since she never mentions her mother aside one time. [[spoiler: This ends up zig-zagged, as while she is genuinely kind and motherly towards others; when she allows her ''very'' long hair to come undone to bandage Chief's wounds, this ends up showing her ruthless, sadistic side as an assassin from the Garden as she kills Braun and his thugs easily showing she's not a weak person.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: She thought Shalom was a weak, useless Paradeisos woman when she never realized Shalom was the Hush, a very powerful, calculating S-rank Sinner.

** Also, the reason she [[spoiler: escapes the MBCC and]] goes after [[spoiler: Shalom was because the latter was responsible for Chief's coma during the Rustfire events and being in charge of the operation of trying to exterminate The Garden.]]

** Heck, her 100% compliance line sounds almost like a marriage proposal from her to the Chief! In creepy but passionate way by saying she wants to button Chief to her body and make them hers forever with the promise of cherishing and protecting them, and never letting them out of her sight. [[spoiler: Quite ironic for a woman who has killed a lot of her spouses as targets.]]

* TragicKeepsake: She wears her younger brother's button as a necklace since it reminds her of her [[spoiler: deceased]] family. Her mother told her buttons were very special and so it's implied to why she keeps several buttons on her shawl.
* VagueAge: While she is very likely in her twenties (like with most Sinners whose ages are vague), she states she was helped by Mr. Braun as an orphan. [[spoiler: It's ambiguous as if her story of Mr. Braun was ever true or not, considering his younger brother called her a hag, either as an insult or she's in fact older than Braun's brother.]]