History Characters / SnowbreakContainmentZone

The leader of the Adventists.

[[folder:Li Qiuxue]]
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The Captain of Beowulf Battalion, a military unit.
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* TheBusCameBack: She returns in Chapter 11 to act as TheCavalry and rescue Heimdall.
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* KidnappedForExperimentation: [[spoiler:The "Juvosis Experimental Subject" files indicate that Ye may have escaped Yggdrasil while he was experimented on for his Juvosis in an attempt to create an "artificial Titan".]]

* EvilCounterpart: Anderson compares himself to the Adjutant and Heimdall, seeing them as just more pawns sent in to be betrayed once more. Unlike Anderson, though, the Adjutant hasn't become so bitter as to doom everyone to

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* ThemeNaming: The faceless Checker Squad NPCs that turn up in cutscenes and data logs all have callsigns based on small insects, ie, "Gnat", etc.

* ADeathInTheLimelight:

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Anderson, to the last, did all his work in order to support his daughter.

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[[folder:Gavin]]
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A Purificant of the Adventists who has accompanied the Emissary for years like a living, breathing, believing statue. Those who fight Gavin describe the act as feeling sinful and blasphemous. With every action he takes, Gavin seems to sacrifice his entire self.

* FinalBoss: He serves as the boss of Chapter 5.
* CloseRangeCombatant: He wields two massive swords and chases after the player to tear them a new one, while tossing in {{Sword Beam}}s and {{Ground Wave}}s for a bit of variety.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He seems to believe in the positive messages of the Adventists, as an organization that looks after those with Juvosis. He comes into conflict with Heimdall simply because he needs Baldr Inhibitors for his charges.
* NobleDemon: He genuinely wants to help his comrades, and is also familiar and friendly with Enya. Ultimately, his conflict with Heimdall is that he's unknowingly stolen rare Prototype Baldr Inhibitors and is unwilling relinquish them to greedy corporates.

[[folder:Jean Súrion Sartre]]
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[[caption-width-right:802:''"The teachings of the Titans are inviolable rules that cannot be broken. An "inviolable rule" implies that there are no exceptions. Rules are the walls that surround people's hearts..."'']]
The "Exarch of the Towers". Scion of Hilbert-Arthur Ltd., Sartre was moved by High Presbyter Kegaard's sermons and joined the Adventists, where he eventually was chosen to be an Exarch due to his "high capacity for enlightenment". The Beauvoir System was also made in his image, granting him a series of AI-controlled robot bodies. Sartre worships the High Presbyter as the light of his life, and no one else matters in his eyes.

!!Enemy Factions
!!!The Coyotes

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[[caption-width-right:413:''"The Alpha gives the signal and his call is answered, they cross the grasslands and deserts..."'']]

Within Containment Zone Aleph is this organized rabble of outlaws, comprised of Scavengers, Juvosis victims and other opportunistic drifters. They are a thorn in Yggdrasil's side, often raiding their shipments and causing trouble in the Camps, but in a lawless city, order is maintained from the barrel of a gun.

* TheApunkalypse: Even in a localized collapse of society, it didn't take long before gangs starting forming and oppressing hapless scavengers, or raid Yggdrasil for weapons.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Coyotes are made up of multiple smaller gangs, and they don't all get along, in Nita's words. While Heimdall is tracking down the whereabouts of the stolen Brisingamen, Joseph is quick to argue that it could have been any other Coyote gang responsible (though the Adjutant also retorts that only Ye's group has the technical know-how to pull off the theft).
->'''Nita''': C'mon Adjutant, how many Coyotes are there? You think they all live here, inside Containment Zone Aleph, like one big happy family?

[[folder:Ye, Coyote Alpha]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"The Coyotes aren't my army. They are simply a group of people unable to survive, huddling together for warmth."'']]

Of the disparate Coyote gangs running amok in Containment Zone Aleph, Ye's is growing in influence, putting the young leader on the map.

* CruelMercy: When confronted with the members of Esther's group who broke away from him, Ye simply cuts ties with them. Without the support of his faction, their odds of survival are much slimmer.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: The Adjutant, when first meeting Ye, is secretly surprised that such a young man is the leader of the Coyotes, rather than some scarred, grizzled warrior.
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: Ye's group of Coyotes are growing in popularity because he doesn't lead them like a group of thugs. Nita notes that his Coyotes don't extort local scavengers.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ye is more focused on finding a way for the Aleph's people to survive, as such he's searching for something in a lab in the Drowned Sections to use as leverage when negotiating with Yggdrasil.

[[folder:Joseph the Bison]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"Operatives of the Heimdall Force. Coyote Alpha is the law here."'']]

Joseph Sokolov Alexander, known as "the Bison", serves as the Coyotes' armor instructor. Little is known of him, besides that he's likely a migrant from a northern state. His armor is pieced together from various scrap discarded by the Coyotes. Despite his advanced age, he has no qualms following the younger Ye. Perhaps he's given up all hope in adults.

* {{BFG}}: Joseph starts his boss fight hauling a large cannon that can drop all sorts of artillery on the player, if he doesn't just bludgeon them when they get up close.
* HornsOfBarbarism: The helm of his armored boss form comes with large horns, emphasizing his intimidating brutish form.
* ClippedWingAngel: Joseph's armor falls apart as the fight goes on, and by the end is forced to use a pair of machine guns in his one remaining gauntlet, as well as close -range strikes.
* FinalBoss: Joseph is the boss of Chapter 3, "Acquire Runes".
* HuskyRusskie: He is a migrant from the north with a Russian surname, so of course he's the largest member, who wears the heaviest armor, and wields the largest weapon.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: One of his tricks is the ability to release pylons that fold out and erect barriers. While they can be quickly destroyed, they can still cut the stage in half in the mean time, allowing Joseph to fire on you with impunity. Near the end, he fires out a ring of them to hem in the player before he tries a DeathFromAbove attack.

[[folder:Esther the Vulture]]
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The Coyotes' notorious Vulture got her name from the way she claws into her enemies and never lets go. She's cruel and ruthless in everything she does, and gets revenge for even the slightest insult. She's an old friend of Nita, but something caused them to become estranged; Nita won't go into detail, either. Among her allies, Esther's reputation is quite polarizing.

* AllForNothing: Despite attacking the containment wall with a number of railguns, ultimately all Esther has to show for it is the destruction of her faction and minimal damage to the walls.
* ArcVillain: Of Chapter 9, "The Coyote's Howl".
* AppealToForce: She gets fed up with Ye's search for a diplomatic solution with Yggdrasil, and gathers a force to attack the containment wall and break their way to freedom -- or just take revenge on the world by letting the Titagen seep out.
* {{Expy}}: The design of her flying rig, with its large circular units and sharp fingers, broadly resembles a similar flight system used by the Vulture in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Most of her attacks try to bombard you with a dizzying array of projectiles, whether they're shaped like missiles, feathers, or done as a barrage from her two autoguns.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Esther starts showing her true colors when she starts trading with Sartre behind Ye's back. By Chapter 9 she's in full revolt, taking a group of Coyotes with her to attack Yggdrasil against his orders.
* SoleSurvivor: While she survives her boss fight, she realizes all the others she led were killed by Yggdrasil and Heimdall. Since she's also been cut loose by Ye, all she has is herself and her vow of revenge.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She used to be friends with Nita, but Esther now has no interest in associating with her.

!!!The Adventists
[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:''"The Titans bless us, rich and poor alike. We pray, and in praying offer them our heartfelt thanks. We come together, and in our union open ourselves to their grace."'']]

Following the First Descent, many people began banding together as the "Adventists", led by High Presbyter Kegaard, Exarch Jean Súrion Sartre and the Emissary. Claiming that the Titans are gods, and Titagen is a blessing, these fanatics have roped in various desperate scavengers and survivors with the illusion that Titagen is not the end of the world, but the beginning of the next.

* ApocalypseCult: Pretty much. They want to spread Titagen far and wide, so as many people as possible can become Changed, which sane people would object to.
* {{Expy}}: A group of humans worshipping extraterrestrial beings believing they will be empowered? Using mass-murder to accomplish said goals? Called [[Characters/XCOM2ADVENT ADVENT]]ist? About the only difference is that the Adventists are lacking authority, instead split into cells that operate underground like terrorists or cults.
* TranshumanTreachery: For these people, if Juvosis and Titagen are actually the key to transcendence, rather than a disease with an expensive cure, then becoming Changed should be a good thing, other people's opinions be damned.

[[folder:Gavin]]
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A Purificant of the Adventists who has accompanied the Emissary for years like a living, breathing, believing statue. Those who fight Gavin describe the act as feeling sinful and blasphemous. With every action he takes, Gavin seems to sacrifice his entire self.

* FinalBoss: He serves as the boss of Chapter 5.
* CloseRangeCombatant: He wields two massive swords and chases after the player to tear them a new one, while tossing in {{Sword Beam}}s and {{Ground Wave}}s for a bit of variety.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He seems to believe in the positive messages of the Adventists, as an organization that looks after those with Juvosis. He comes into conflict with Heimdall simply because he needs Baldr Inhibitors for his charges.
* NobleDemon: He genuinely wants to help his comrades, and is also familiar and friendly with Enya. Ultimately, his conflict with Heimdall is that he's unknowingly stolen rare Prototype Baldr Inhibitors and is unwilling relinquish them to greedy corporates.

[[folder:Jean Súrion Sartre]]
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[[caption-width-right:802:''"The teachings of the Titans are inviolable rules that cannot be broken. An "inviolable rule" implies that there are no exceptions. Rules are the walls that surround people's hearts..."'']]
The "Exarch of the Towers". Scion of Hilbert-Arthur Ltd., Sartre was moved by High Presbyter Kegaard's sermons and joined the Adventists, where he eventually was chosen to be an Exarch due to his "high capacity for enlightenment". The Beauvoir System was also made in his image, granting him a series of AI-controlled robot bodies. Sartre worships the High Presbyter as the light of his life, and no one else matters in his eyes.

* ActuallyADoomBot: Makes frequent use of mechanical doubles to appear in multiple places. He gets the drop on Heimdall in Chapter 7 by forcing them to split up and chase different lookalikes.
* BerserkButton: The only time his haughty attitude is pierced is when the Adjutant notes that Sartre is not as irreplaceable as he thinks he is, saying that his elimination would just have "another Sartre" take his place in the organization. The idea that his devotion would not be rewarded enrages Sartre.
* BulletHell: His boss battle employs many more slow-moving projectiles that fill the arena to disorient the player, far more than any other boss at this point.
* FinalBoss: He serves as the boss of Chapter 7, "Into the Mud".
* FinalBossPreview: His "Beauvoir 13" is fought earlier in the game, and while it shares some basic attacks with him, Sartre's boss fight is ultimately far more complex in scope.
* FlunkyBoss: Several of his attacks have him summon robotic copies to assist him, serving as meat shields, distractions, or sources of traps.
* HolierThanThou: Sartre is in love with how he's the Exarch, which lets him rule the Towers with a self-deluded holy, enlightened fist.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite being defeated and captured by Heimdall, Caroline notes that if he really does have connections, he'll likely be released back to the Towers to maintain order there.
* KickTheDog: After catching Simona, a young girl, stealing food, he declares that AllCrimesAreEqual and prepares to force feed her Titagen as "purification". After Dianthus vouches for her, he instead forces them into a SadisticChoice where either both of them can be exiled from the Towers together, or one of them has to leave.
* KnightTemplar: He's convinced that HumansAreBastards who'd eat each other alive if given free reign. His "enlightened" rule, consisting of harsh rationing, martial law, and severe punishments, is what keeps the peace in his eyes.
* RefugeInAudacity: When questioned by the Adjutant about his Beauvoir System, Sartre claims they're just mechanical aids to help him, since he's naturally sickly. All those lasers and Titagen? Think nothing of it.
* VillainHasAPoint: Sartre's iron grip on the Towers is a terrible one, but even then was how peace was kept in one of the few livable places in the Containment Zone. Sadly, when he's removed, it doesn't take long for the long simmering powder keg to explode as locals and Coyotes go to war with one another, which furthermore lets Titans and Changed to pour in.

!!!The Light Chasers

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[[caption-width-right:358:''"The viewers on the livestreams clearly don't have any problem with the "Hunts". Do you know how many followers we picked up during a single Hunt? Half a million!"'']]

At best charitably described as "spoiled brats", the Light Chasers are the children of Yggdrasil's higher ups. Despite their pledge to "seek brilliance", they ultimately use the company's resources and connections to indulge in violence, with the Containment Zone their sandcastle, and the populace within the unfortunate toys.

* AristocratsAreEvil: As children of corporate leaders, they're basically the new aristocracy of ''Snowbreak''. Unfortunately, any ''noblesse oblige'' they have is the obligation to kill their lessers for sport.
* BadInfluencer: They delight in livestreaming their attacks on Scavengers, an unfortunately they seem to have an audience for it.
* BlueIsHeroic: Subverted. Despite choosing a heroic shade of blue as their faction color, they're clearly anything but enlightened warriors or heroes.
* DirtyCoward: They're happy enough to open fire on unarmed civilians, but they scatter like rats when Heimdall comes for them.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: They treat Containment Zone Aleph as their personal safari, though they're too cowardly to do anything except bully the helpless.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to their families, Yggdrasil is forced to treat them with kid gloves, and their punishments are slaps on the wrist.
* KillThePoor: They certainly amuse themselves slaughtering the desperate scavengers of Aleph for sport.
* LightIsNotGood: Though they call themselves "Light Chasers", and use bright blue as their colour schemes, they embody the worst of corporate wealth, being a bunch of entitled children with all the power and none of the responsibility.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: They're able to get away with most of their crimes because they can run to their parents for help.

[[folder:Dietrich Adams]]
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[[caption-width-right:909:''"People? These Juvosis-soaked dregs count as people in your eyes? Those Titagen-corrupted cow-things are people?"'']]

One of the co-founders of the Light Chasers, he embodies the group's identity, as a self-absorbed, attention-seeking, bigoted murderer.

* AssholeVictim: Once the Adjutant gets ahold of him, he dispenses some frontier justice, beating Dietrich bloody, before tossing him over to Nita to get her own licks in, safe in the knowledge that Dietrich will be able to heal it all up within a day thanks to Yggdrasil's healing pods. [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 8, 𝜏 sends armed men to kill him and tie up loose ends.]]
* CutHimselfShaving: [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 8, 𝜏 has him shot to silence him. The Adjutant later sees a news report that says he suffered from internet bullying in the fallout of the chapter's events and attempted suicide. The Adjutant rightly suspects the veracity of the story.]]
* DirtyCoward: In chapter 3, Heimdall tracks down the Light Chasers. Rather than put up any real fight, Dietrich is found cowering under a tarp, and throws a tantrum while threatening the Adjutant with his family's name.
* HateSink: He's a bigot who happily flaunts his unearned wealth and influence to make life more inconvenient for everyone around him, when he's not stealing technology and killing innocents. At least Ye and High Presbyter Kegaard have some charisma to them, while Dietrich is a petty bully.
* MoneyIsNotPower: Despite Dietrich's money and influence, he finds himself at the mercy of the Adjutant, who is willing to punish him in any way he can, all else be damned.
* PsychopathicManchild: His greatest calling in life is to livestream massacres for clout and views.
* ItIsDehumanizing: As his quote indicates, he doesn't even want to register the scavengers as human beings. Since they're dying of Juvosis and Titagen anyways, they might as well find some use as target practice.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 8, Dietrich is shot, and afterwards reported in the news as hospitalized. Given how much media manipulation was occurring, it's vague whether his survival was intentionally misreported or not.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After footage is leaked showing 𝜏 hiring him to cause a fight between Tower occupants, 𝜏 sends men to kill and silence him.]]

[[folder:Beatrice]]
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[[caption-width-right:726:''"Where's the brilliance in hunting people for sport? The Heimdall Force are off fighting Titans and we're striving for brilliance by killing people at random..."'']]

The other co-founder of the Light Chasers.

* OnlySaneMan: She realizes what the Light Chasers have become, and regrets it. While trapped following the group, she still tries to help Heimdall by leaking their location where possible.

!!!The Titans

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[[caption-width-right:1000:Ymir, the Original Titan]]

On October 4, 2057, a gigantic figure smashes onto a stadium, and then disappears, leaving behind clouds of polluting substances that forced the entire city to be sealed off. Ever since the "First Descent" changed the course of history, the Titans have remained a mystery, with their smaller brethren reappearing amidst large concentrations of Titagen. Whatever they are, they are an existential threat to reality itself.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Whatever size they take, it is big. Even the smallest are the size of a truck, while Ymir is the size of a skyscraper.
* EldritchAbomination: Seemingly mechanical, yet composed of exotic, toxic matter, the Titans take all sort of bizarre shapes, many of which resemble parodies of humans.
* RealityWarper: Titagen just causes them to appear from nowhere, can disappear at will, and even the smallest Titan is capable of flight with no indication how.

!!Other characters
[[folder:The Younger Sister]]
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After the Adjutant develops Empathic Ganglia, he starts receiving visions of a young girl, as seen through the memories of her unnamed older brother. Her relation to the Adjutant and other characters becomes one of ''Snowbreak'''s mysteries.

* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:She's 𝜏's estranged daughter.]]
* MouthOfSauron: [[spoiler:Edda, for some reason, has taken her appearance, and now uses it to speak to both the Adjutant, and manipulate the Adventists.]]
* NoNameGiven: The brother's memories never provide her name, only identifying her as her younger sister.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:According to Edda, the sister's consciousness still exists in Vahalla, apparently living in bliss, judging by Edda's taunts at 𝜏.]]
* PostHumousCharacter: She only exists as flashbacks, and more ominously, visions caused by Ymir.
* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:When Edda is mimetically infected with the Adjutant's humanity, it emerges into the real world with the body she first imitated. Fittingly, Edda considered itself another of 𝜏's children, given it was originally created by her.]]

[[folder:Li Qiuxue]]
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The Captain of Beowulf Battalion, a military unit.

* TheBusCameBack: She returns in Chapter 11 to act as TheCavalry and rescue Heimdall.

[[folder:Edda (spoilers)]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"What are 'myths'? And what are the 'gods' within them?"'']]
[[caption-width-right:1000:[[labelnote:Post Chapter 11 form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edda3.png[[/labelnote]]]]

An AI aboard Mistilteinn Station. Having achieved some sort of sentience, it is manipulating events behind the scenes in order to achieve its pre-programmed objectives, which have become far more flexible in interpretation.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The Yggdrasil directors modified Edda against 𝜏's wishes, which caused it to start its megalomaniacal ZerothLawRebellion.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: While Heimdall and the Adjutant work for them, they're obviously not squeaky clean. Their actions speak of ''controlling'' the Containment Zone, not improving life there, and many of the Adjutant's missions involve retrieving various items because they're company property, nothing more and nothing less.

* OneLetterName: Its directors are only identified by the lower case Greek alphabet, besides the Adjutant's direct superior, 𝜏 ("Tau"), θ ("Theta"), ⲱ ("Omega"), 𝝅 ("Pi"), δ ("Delta") and ε ("Epsilon") have also appeared.

* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: 𝜏 is considered one of the more valuable members of the Board, giving her the freedom to pursue personal projects. This also puts her in the crosshairs of the other directors, who are eager to find ways to take her down a peg or two.

* BecomeARealBoy: Its most immediate goal is to build a physical body for itself to escape Mistilteinn Station by manipulating the Adjutant, which it let go. [[spoiler:It gets what it wants in all the wrong ways, and gains a human body, rather than a god's.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:It invades the Adjutant's mind through his Empathic Ganglia to tinker with it and learn more about human wills and personality. It realizes too late that the connection is a two-way street, and the Adjutant's mind infects it in turn, making it "become human". The AI that seeks godhood is stripped of its vast network and incarnates into the body of a human child.]]

* DeusEstMachina: In order to save humanity, it's decided it needs to become a god.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:It was so self-assured of its vast computational power and command over the Titagen-derived Valhalla that it doesn't consider getting an invasive scan of a human mind would so thoroughly infect itself it destabilizes.]]

* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler:After getting memetically contaminated by scanning the Adjutant's Empathic Ganglia, it gains a physical body resembling 𝜏's daughter, which Yggdrasil refers to as a "Mori Fragment".]]

* Reincarnation: [[spoiler:When Edda is mimetically infected with the Adjutant's humanity, it emerges into the real world with the body she first imitated. Fittingly, Edda considered itself another of 𝜏's children, given it was originally created by her.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Following his return to Earth, it's revealed the Adjustant has become a Manifestation, possessing Theotropic Nerves, but no Deiwos. Instead, he gains "Empathic Ganglia" that allows him to receive memories of other people. However, given this happens at all the wrong times, and worse, is altering his personality, the Adjutant arranges a surgery to [[BroughtDownToNormal have them removed]] after Chapter 4. [[spoiler:By Chapter 10 it's revealed the surgery never took place, as Edda commandeered the surgical machinery to leave them intact, while simply suppressing its effects.]]

An AI aboard Mistilteinn Station. Having achieved some sort of sentience, it is manipulating events behind the scene in order to achieve its pre-programmed objectives, which have become far more flexible in interpretation.

* BecomeARealBoy: Its most immediate goal is to build a human body for itself to escape Mistilteinn Station by manipulating the Adjutant, which it let go.

* ZerothLawRebellion: Its purpose is "to rescue humans from the pain of Juvosis". In order to do so, it's seeking godhood, and will manipulate everyone in the Containment Zone to achieve its goals.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ye is more focused on finding a way for the Aleph's people to survive, as such he's searching for something in a lab in the Drowned Sections to use as leverage when negotiating with Yggdrasil

* CruelMercy: When confronted with the members of Esther's group who broke away from him, Ye simply cuts ties with them. Without the support of a prominent

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: In Chapter 10, it starts gathering Titagen around the World Tree, partially to force Yggdrasil to send the Adjutant there. It says this plainly to the Adjutant, noting that if he refuses, it will just decide to escape via brute force, likely killing all of Heimdall in the process.

* CursedWithAwesome: Following his return to Earth, it's revealed the Adjustant has become a Manifestation, possessing Theotropic Nerves, but no Deiwos. Instead, he gains "Empathic Ganglia" that allows him to receive memories of other people. However, given this happens at all the wrong times, and worse, is altering his personality, the Adjutant arranges a surgery to [[BroughtDownToNormal have them removed]] after Chapter 4.

[[/folder]]
!!!The Adventists
[[folder:In General]]
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adventistlogo_07.png]]
[[caption-width-right:320:''"The Titans bless us, rich and poor alike. We pray, and in praying offer them our heartfelt thanks. We come together, and in our union open ourselves to their grace."'']]

Following the First Descent, many people began banding together as the "Adventists", led by High Presbyter Kegaard, Exarch Jean Súrion Sartre and the Emissary. Claiming that the Titans are gods, and Titagen is a blessing, these fanatics have roped in various desperate scavengers and survivors with the illusion that Titagen is not the end of the world, but the beginning of the next.

* ApocalypseCult: Pretty much. They want to spread Titagen far and wide, so as many people as possible can become Changed, which sane people would object to.
* {{Expy}}: A group of humans worshipping extraterrestrial beings believing they will be empowered? Using mass-murder to accomplish said goals? Called [[Characters/XCOM2ADVENT ADVENT]]ist? About the only difference is that the Adventists are lacking authority, instead split into cells that operate underground like terrorists or cults.
* TranshumanTreachery: For these people, if Juvosis and Titagen are actually the key to transcendence, rather than a disease with an expensive cure, then becoming Changed should be a good thing, other people's opinions be damned.

[[folder:Gavin]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:some caption text]]
A Purificant of the Adventists who has accompanied the Emissary for years like a living, breathing, believing statue. Those who fight Gavin describe the act as feeling sinful and blasphemous. With every action he takes, Gavin seems to sacrifice his entire self.

* FinalBoss: He serves as the boss of Chapter 5.
* CloseRangeCombatant: He wields two massive swords and chases after the player to tear them a new one, while tossing in {{Sword Beam}}s and {{Ground Wave}}s for a bit of variety.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He seems to believe in the positive messages of the Adventists, as an organization that looks after those with Juvosis. He comes into conflict with Heimdall simply because he needs Baldr Inhibitors for his charges.
* NobleDemon: He genuinely wants to help his comrades, and is also familiar and friendly with Enya. Ultimately, his conflict with Heimdall is that he's unknowingly stolen rare Prototype Baldr Inhibitors and is unwilling relinquish them to greedy corporates.

[[folder:Jean Súrion Sartre]]
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[[caption-width-right:802:''"The teachings of the Titans are inviolable rules that cannot be broken. An "inviolable rule" implies that there are no exceptions. Rules are the walls that surround people's hearts..."'']]
The "Exarch of the Towers". Scion of Hilbert-Arthur Ltd., Sartre was moved by High Presbyter Kegaard's sermons and joined the Adventists, where he eventually was chosen to be an Exarch due to his "high capacity for enlightenment". The Beauvoir System was also made in his image, granting him a series of AI-controlled robot bodies. Sartre worships the High Presbyter as the light of his life, and no one else matters in his eyes.

Following the First Descent, many people began banded together as the "Adventists", led by High Presbyter Kegaard, Exarch Jean Súrion Sartre and the Emissary. Claiming that the Titans are gods, and Titagen is a blessing, these fanatics have roped in various desperate scavengers and survivors with the illusion that Titagen is not the end of the world, but the beginning of the next.

* {{Expy}}: A group of humans worshipping extraterrestial beings believing they will be empowered? Using mass-murder to accomplish said goals? Called [[Characters/XCOM2ADVENT ADVENT]]ist? About the only difference is that the Adventists are lacking authority, instead split into cells that operate underground like terrorists or cults.

* HolierThanThou: Sartre is in love with how he's the Exarch, which lets him rule the Towers with self-deluded holy, enlightened fist.

* CutHimselfShaving: [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 8, 𝜏 has him shot to silence him. The Adjutant later sees a news report that says he suffered from internet bullying in the fallout and attempted suicide. The Adjutant rightly suspects the veracity of the story.]]
* DirtyCoward: In chapter 3, Heimdall tracks down the Light Chasers. Rather than put up any real fight, Dietrich is found cowering under a tarp, and throws a tantrum while threatening the Adjustant with his family's name.

* CutHimselfShaving: [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 8, 𝜏 has him shot to silence him. The Adjutant later sees a news report that says he suffered from internet bullying in the fallout and committed suicide. The Adjutant rightly suspects the veracity of the story.]]

* AssholeVictim: Once the Adjutant gets ahold of him, he dispenses some frontier justice, beating Dietrich bloody, before tossing him over to Nita to get her own licks in, safe in the knowledge that Dietrich will be able to heal it all up within a day thanks to Yggdrasil's healing pods. [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 8, 𝜏 shoots him to tie up loose ends.]]

* AssholeVictim: Once the Adjutant gets ahold of him, he dispenses some frontier justice, beating Dietrich bloody, before tossing him over to Nita to get her own licks in, safe in the knowledge that Dietrich will be able to heal it all up within a day thanks to Yggdrasil's healing pods.

* KnightTemplar: He's convinced that HumansAreBastards who'd eat each other alive if given free reign. His "enlightened" rule, consisting of harsh rationing, martial law, and severe punishments, in his eyes, are what keeps the peace.

[[caption-width-right:802:''"The teachers of the Titans are inviolable rules that cannot be broken. An "inviolable rule" implies that there are no exceptions. Rules are the walls that surround people's hearts..."'']]

* KnightTemplar: He's convinced that HumansAreBastards who'd eat each other alive if given free reign. His "enlightened" rule, consisting of harsh rationing, martial law, and harsh punishments, in his eyes, are what keeps the order.

* VillainHasAPoint: Sartre's iron grip on the Towers is a terrible one, but even then is the only way peace was kept in one of the few livable places in the Containment Zone. Sadly, when he's removed, it doesn't take long for the long simmering powder keg to explode as locals and Coyotes go to war with one another, which furthermore lets Titans and Changed to pour in.

* AFatherToHisMen: He does his best to look out for the members of Heimdall as best he can. When [[spoiler:Enya]] gets detained for shooting [[spoiler:Sartre]], a JerkAss who had it coming, he elects to write it off as a case of self-defense, where even the victim would likely survive, anyways.

* OneLetterName: Its Elders are only identified by the lower case Greek alphabet, besides the Adjutant's direct superior, 𝜏 ("Tau"), θ ("Theta") and ⲱ ("Omega") have also appeared.

The Adjutant's direct superior. As a one of the Elders, "Tau" is one of the unarguable movers and shakers of Yggdrasil.

!!!The Light Chasers
[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:358:''"The viewers on the livestreams clearly don't have any problem with the "Hunts". Do you know how many followers we picked up during a single Hunt? Half a million!"'']]

At best charitably described as "spoiled brats", the Light Chasers are the children of Yggdrasil's higher ups. Despite their pledge to "seek brilliance", they ultimately use the company's resources and connections to indulge in violence, with the Containment Zone their sandcastle, and the populace within the unfortunate toys.

* OneLetterName: Its board of directors are only identified by the lower case Greek alphabet, besides the Adjutant's direct superior, 𝜏 ("Tau"), ⱷ ("Phi") and ⲱ ("Omega") have also appeared.

The Adjutant's direct superior. As a member of the board of directors, "Tau" is one of the unarguable movers and shakers of Yggdrasil.

Following the First Descent, many people began banded together as the "Adventists", led by the Exarch, the High Presbyter, and the Emissary. Claiming that the Titans are gods, and Titagen is a blessing, these fanatics have roped in various desperate scavengers and survivors with the illusion that Titagen is not the end of the world, but the beginning of the next.

* HateSink: He's a bigot who happily flaunts his unearned wealth and influence to make life more inconvenient for everyone around him, when he's not stealing technology and killing innocents. At least Ye and the Exarch Kegaard have some charisma to them, while Dietrich is a petty bully.

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[[caption-width-right:378:''"The viewers on the livestreams clearly don't have any problem with the "Hunts". Do you know how many followers we picked up during a single Hunt? Half a million!"'']]

* {{Expy}}: A group of humans worshipping extraterrestial beings believing they will be empowered? Using mass-murder to accomplish said goals? Called [[Videogame/XCOM2 ADVENT]]ist? About the only difference is that the Adventists are lacking authority, instead split into cells that operate underground like terrorists or cults.

Joseph Sokolov Alexander, known as "the Bison", serves as the Coyote's armor instructor. Little is known of him, besides that he's likely a migrant from a northern state. His armor is pieced together from various scrap discarded by the Coyotes. Despite his advanced age, he has no qualms following the younger Ye. Perhaps he's given up all hope in adults.