History Characters / SomaSpirits

* BoringButPractical: As a BonusBoss in ''VideoGame/BraveHeroYuusha EX'', his Justice Shield and Justice Power have weaker effects, but none of their previous drawbacks.

* RecurringBoss: He is fought twice in the main story [[spoiler:and then carries himself over to the NewGamePlus dungeon to challenge the party one last time]]. He also makes BonusBoss appearances in Torch's other games, such as ''VideoGame/BraveHeroYuusha EX'' and ''VideoGame/SomaUnion''.

* BladeOnAStick: He wields a spear as a temporary party member. In a CG, his spear resembles triangular sunrays.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: They didn't realize [[spoiler:Form, Dissonance, or both are taking over the citadel]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: Reveals himself to be the true creator of Soul and Spirit in the hopes of maintaining true balance. ''VideoGame/SomaUnion'' reveals that he created them from the souls of Rozen and Silvio.

* OverarchingVillain: Of the entire duology. During the era of the Sun King, it manipulates Bright into uniting all of civilization as part of its plan to slaughter the people of Soma. In ''Soma Spirits'', Form and Dissonance seek to reassemble it and use it to destroy parts of Soma, and in three routes it regains consciousness, resuming it's agenda. Later, in ''Soma Union'', it teams up with Zeta and plays along with the latter's delusion of godhood in order to continue its omnicidal goals, resulting in Soma being fractured. After betraying and killing Zeta, it tries to tempt Zero, Reca, and Lumen into using its power to restore Soma, once again planning to twist their wishes for its own ends. While there are other villains with their own agendas, this thing is the biggest threat of all.

* FlatCharacter: Combined with StaticCharacter. They aren't characterized much beyond having fanatical views about Joy and Sorrow and they experience no character development on any of the routes. Their evil plans essentially boil down to turning everyone on Soma into flat and static characters too, since they want everyone to feel only one kind of emotion. ''VideoGame/SomaUnion'' gives them more characterization through the journals they wrote in their human lives, revealing that they were aristocratic siblings with different life experiences.

* MoralSociopathy: Form believes joyful emotions are the only things that are needed to live a fulfilling life while Dissonance believes that sorrowful emotions are needed to live an orderly life. Each believes the opposite emotions will lead to tragedy and conflict and that the two sets of emotions cannot coexist. However, they care more about the concepts of these emotions than the people of the world who experience these emotions. Their obsession with their moral codes are taken so far that they [[LackOfEmpathy dehumanize anyone]] who has undesirable emotions, which is why Form and Dissonance seek to wipe out the populations of Worlds of Sorrow and Joy respectively for representing the emotions they don't like, and they shamelessly deceive and manipulate Heart and Soul to achieve these goals. When the two worlds are fused, Form and Dissonance deem everyone deserving of death for failing their standards, showing that for all their self-righteousness, they way they interpret their morals ultimately prevents them from [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist having any goodwill towards others]].

* MoralSociopathy: Form believes joyful emotions are the only things that are needed to live a fulfilling life while Dissonance believes that sorrowful emotions are needed to live an orderly life. Each believes the opposite emotions will lead to tragedy and conflict and that the two sets of emotions cannot coexist. However, they care more about the concepts of these emotions than the people of the world who experience these emotions, which is why they have no problem with committing genocide on people from the opposite world. They are also very manipulative and self-centered, since they shamelessly trick the protagonists into supporting their plans to rule the world as gods.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In the past, Form and Dissonance split the planet Soma into two worlds of pure Joy and Sorrow after overthrowing the Sun King, who started wars for his amusement. Dissonance, who is trying to steal all the happiness in the world and create a world without happiness, claims he only wants to prevent another war and create a society where no one will sacrifice others for their own personal gain. In turn, his sister Form also wants to prevent another war, but by [[HappinessIsMandatory forcing happiness on everyone]]. In reality, both of them desire to eradicate all emotions they hate along with anyone who has these undesirable emotions, all to create their "perfect" world. When this goal becomes impossible in the true ending due to the two worlds merging, they opt to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy Soma in its entirety]], supposedly to stop the inevitable war that will happen in a populace with conflicting emotions- but as the sequel reveals, ''they were the ones who started the wars'' that they blamed on the Sun King in the first place, and Form wants to make everyone dependent on her to spite Dissonance, who in turn wants to force everyone to share his inability to be happy. Ultimately, both are selfish {{Control Freak}}s who would rather destroy the world than allow any perceived imperfections to exist.

* UnreliableExpositor: They are the main source of information on Soma, the history of the Sun King, and what must be done to achieve balance. They are also lying about ''everything''. They claim that they created Soma and that the Sun King was a tyrant who put countries against each other in wars for his own amusement, so they fought and defeated him to stop his evil. In fact, they are a pair of formerly-human aristocrats, and it was ''they'' who started the wars and fought the Sun King to steal his god-like powers for their own gain. The Sun King was merely trying to protect his people. Meanwhile, both of them claim that balance to Soma can only be restored by creating a world of happiness/sorrow, respectively, and only collecting orbs of one single emotion, when it actually requires getting equal amounts of both orbs.

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!Sun King's Citadel '''(Unmarked spoilers for both games)'''

[[folder:The Sun King]]
!!Sun King Bright
The former ruler of Soma, once a benevolent ruler who went mad with power. He was deposed by Form and Dissonance for constantly stoking conflict, but there's more to him than what history claims.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In the past, Form and Dissonance split the planet Soma into two worlds of pure Joy and Sorrow after overthrowing the Sun King, who started wars for his amusement. Dissonance, who is trying to steal all the happiness in the world and create a world without happiness, claims he only wants to prevent another war and create a society where no one will sacrifice others for their own personal gain. In turn, his sister Form also wants to prevent another war, but by [[HappinessIsMandatory forcing happiness on everyone]]. In reality, both of them desire to eradicate all emotions they hate along with anyone who has these undesirable emotions, all to create their "perfect" world. When this goal becomes impossible in the true ending due to the two worlds merging, they opt to [[OmnicidalManaic destroy Soma in its entirety]], supposedly to stop the inevitable war that will happen in a populace with conflicting emotions- but as the sequel reveals, ''they were the ones who started the wars'' that they blamed on the Sun King in the first place, and Form wants to make everyone dependent on her to spite Dissonance, who in turn wants to force everyone to share his inability to be happy. Ultimately, both are selfish {{Control Freak}}s who would rather destroy the world than allow any perceived imperfections to exist.

* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: She took care of them while her brother left the estate to go travel the world, but her letter makes it clear she only did this thinking she would get the full inheritance, and is very upset at the thought of sharing it with her brother.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Form and Dissonance originally split the world's land and people into Joy and Sorrow versions, with Form taking control of the World of Joy and Dissonance taking control of the World of Sorrow. In the present, Form claims that collecting only Sorrow orbs will bring balance to Soma while Dissonance claims only Joy orbs will accomplish that. In reality, these outcomes will allow them to destroy their rival's world. They desire to eradicate all emotions they hate along with anyone who has these undesirable emotions, all to create their "perfect" world. When this goal becomes impossible in the true ending due to the two worlds merging, Form and Dissonance opt to destroy Soma in its entirety rather than allow any perceived imperfections to exist.

* ArcVillain: Of Maltose Mines for a given definition of "villain"- his single-minded search for his treasure/dead wife's ring is harming his company, and Heart and Soul must either find the ring for him or convince him to give up the hunt for the problem of the area to be solved.

* EvilIsNotAToy: Zeta puts it back together thinking he can control it and use it to create a new world InThierOwnImage. As soon as he fails to beat the heroes, Absolution kills him.

* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Downplayed. Behind their seemingly well-intentioned rhetoric, it's clear that Form and Dissonance want to rule their respective worlds as [[GodhoodSeeker gods]] and want to destroy the world they don't control. However, in endings 1 and 3, they consider themselves triumphant even as they die, since they know that their corrupted protege will rule the remaining world in the exact same manner as them and carry on their legacy.

* WrittenByTheWinners: [[spoiler:A flashback reveals that Form and Dissonance actually started the wars the Sun King was blamed for, all so they could claim Absolution. They then led everyone to believe that they were the heroes who stopped the war. That said, the Sun King unwittingly set up the conditions for the conflict by prioritizing order above freedom for his citizens, causing them to be miserable under his rule and making them vulnerable to Form and Dissonance's manipulation.]]
* XanatosGambit: In endings 1 and 3, they're at first upset about being betrayed by their protege, but take it in stride because they know that even if they lose, their protege can carry out the destruction of the opposite world for them.