History Characters / VirtuesLastReward

* HeroicSacrifice: On one route, where an unconscious Quark gets 9 BP, he carries Quark out through the number 9 door despite not having 9 BP himself, knowing full well that he'll die for doing so.

* TookALevelInJerkass: He's much more abrasive, bitter and cynical than the hero of the last game. However...
* TookALevelInKindness: ...In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', which takes place between the two games, he's even ''worse'' than he is now. So while he's a jerk compared to ''999'' Junpei, he's downright pleasant compared to the emo edgelord we got in ''ZTD''. Presumably adopting Quark mellowed him out a bit.

* NiceGirl: Her benevolent demeanor unfortunately serves as a RedHerring, leading many players to believe that she is putting on an act and will "betray" anyone at the right moment. In fact, throughout the game, she betrays her AB game opponents all of ''0'' times.

* EasilyForgiven: In his path, he promises Sigma he's going to vote ally against him in the AB game, and also that even if he did betray to get 9 points he wouldn't escape without the other players. If Sigma votes ally, K betrays and escapes, admitting that he flat out lied to get out of the game. If Sigma votes betray, both player calmly acknowledge the other's attempt to trick them, admit that neither has any right to be upset given they voted betray as well, and they go on working together immediately with no hard feelings.

* ExactWords: Combined with a bit of TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction. She pulls it off on Sigma in one route. She promises to "listen to whatever he says" if he chooses Betray. If he does, she gets 9 (he doesn't) and leaves, all while ''listening'' to whatever he says, but not ''doing'' any of it.

* HateSink: Asshole, backstabber who will vote "betray" at every chance and murderer, ready to kill an old lady and blow up everyone in the facility to accomplish his goals. The game gives you exacly zero reasons to like him.

* BoobsOfSteel: Of the female characters, she's the most combat-oriented and also the most stacked by a landslide.

* {{Keigo}}: A lot of her speech patterns in the Japanese version fall into this. Justified somewhat given her [[NiceGirl nature.]]

* LovingAShadow: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Essentially why he chased Akane for so long. This devotion destroys his life, and when he jumps at the chance to meet her again, he puts both his grandson's and his own life at stake. In the "End & Beginning" epilogue, he finally acknowledges (to his deep sadness) that the innocent Akane he once knew no longer exists.

%%* ShipSinking: Akane's actions have caused Junpei's feelings for her after all of these time to sour like milk, instead of age like wine. At least in that bad future.

* ShipSinking: Akane's actions have caused Junpei's feelings for her after all of these time to sour like milk, instead of age like wine. At least in that bad future.

* {{Determinator}}: All that Tenmyouji cares about is saving Quark, everything else takes a back seat. Goes so far as to betray you and strand everyone in his ending. Junpei hasn't changed at all - whether it's Akane or Quark, the people he cares about take priority over all else. This is also how he feels about the state of post-apocalyptic humanity. He is against Akane and Dr. Klim's actions in reversing the past, beacause he as well as many others still living on earth have made lives for themselves in the midst of the apocalypse. He does not want to lose his current life, because even though survival has been difficult, he has accomplished something worthwhile: finding and raising Quark.

* DrinkBasedCharacterization: According to Quark, he really likes his whiskey, and the lounge has his favourite brand (which is clearly Jack Daniels judging by the label). A fitting drink for a hard-assed GrumpyOldMan living in a post-apocalypse.

* ExactWords: Combined with a bit of TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction. She pulls it off on Sigma in one route. She promises to "listen to whatever he says" if he chooses Betray. If he does, she gets 9 (he doesn't) and leaves, all while listening to whatever he says, but not ''doing'' any of it.

* ExactWords: In his ending, he promises Sigma just before the AB Game that even if he gets 9 BP, he won't open the number 9 door... because he knows that ''Clover'' is going to get 9 BP and will most likely open the door herself. He never said anything about not escaping.

** To Clover, to a lesser extent, as he claims she's the only other participant in the game he trusts. Which makes perfect sense considering he's Junpei. That said, he's perfectly willing to betray Clover for his own (and Quark's) benefit. Perhaps he's still a bit sore about the axe incident, assuming he can remember that timeline.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Everyone has a secret. Dio's secret is that he is a much bigger jerk than anyone could anticipate, as he is a murderous terrorist who leads an organization responsible for unleashing a deadly plague upon mankind.

* HeroicBuild: He has some muscle on him, that's for sure. With his body being 67 years old (minus the artificial arms) it is remarkable his 22-year old mind doesn't notice any significant bodily aches or weaknesses.

** In the K Path, Sigma uses the Neostigmine on Phi rather than himself.

* FacialHorror: The artificial skin of Luna's face degenerates as she dies in Sigma's arms in her character ending.

* TheReveal: Luna is actually GTF-DM-L-016, a semi-autonomous gynoid called a GAULEM used to support the functions of Rhizome 9. She was specifically tasked by Akane Kurashiki to observe and support the Nonary Game. Her pacifistic nature is due to her being encoded with the Three Laws of Robotics, which prevents her from causing harm to any of the human players. (Though unbeknownst to her, she has also been encoded with the Zeroth Law so that the necessary deaths in the AB Project would not cause her to shut down.)

* DisasterScavengers: As Quark's letter reveals, he is one.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: He admits pretty much right away that he's not the true mastermind, he just follows their orders. He also disappears completely after the first round of the AB Game, since he's run out of rules to explain and has no need to talk to the players anymore (other than in one bad ending, where he decides to appear one last time to mock Sigma for getting said ending).

* MoonRabbit: How appropriate that the AI controlling the facility on a moon base would be a rabbit.

* KilledMidSentence: Because HeKnowsTooMuch. Although, he wasn't killed, he just had his body turned off. His mind is still active in the main computer system.

* GagBoobs: Her breasts are so huge that Dio makes an offhand joke about them when the gang reunites in front of the elevator after you explore the Lounge:
-->'''Sigma''': What's going on here?\\
'''Alice''': We ran into them a little bit ago. Well, not literally, of course.\\
'''Dio''': I donno... With a prow like that, I imagine you run into a lot of things.

!!Clover

* BareYourMidriff: Clover's crop top and short shorts leave a lot of space to show her belly.

* BareYourMidriff: She wears so little clothing that this becomes [[ExaggeratedTrope Bare Your Entire Torso]]. Though the focus is usually not the midriff but [[GagBoobs two round huge things just above it]].

An unknown consciousness that inhabits K's body in the secret ending of the game. Akane suggests that this person will be the key to preventing the virus outbreak. Its true identity and nature are currently unknown, but WordOfGod suggests this consciousness is meant to represent the player. ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' reveals [[TheUnreveal absolutely nothing about this person]], with the secret ending being declared non-canon.

* IconicItem: Her necklace, [[WordOfGod which originally [[spoiler: belonged to Diana]]]], and which Sigma gave to her after [[spoiler: Diana's]] death. It's appropriately symbolic: close examination shows that the cage has no door.

* IconicItem: Her necklace, [[WordOfGod which originally belonged to Diana]], and which Sigma gave to her after Diana's death. It's appropriately symbolic: close examination shows that the cage has no door.

* CensoredChildDeath: Despite the several KillEmAll endings, Quark never has an onscreen death, with most endings simply implying he dies or goes missing. He is the one to get out most times along with Clover in the Bad Endings, since almost no one would be evil enough to put a child's life at risk. The only routes he explicitly dies in are the ones where the bunker blows up, which would understandably preclude anyone surviving.

* ButtMonkey: After everything she went through prior to and during ''999'', she's now been cryogenically frozen and sent 45 years into the future without her knowledge, made to accidentally "murder" someone in one timeline, and her "good ending" ends with a KillEmAll.

* ArtificialLimbs: Possesses a set of these due to the Mars mission test site incident. Unlike Snake's purely prosthetic arm from the first game, Sigma's limbs are fully functioning cybernetic replacements covered in synthetic tissue. Unfortunately, this tissue includes a circulatory system, meaning that his bracelet going off will kill him just like anyone else.

* FirstPersonGhost: Aside from flashbacks, we never see his face. Nor do we get to hear his voice. This is intentional, in order to hide from the player his actual appearance, since it is a massive reveal.

** Allows Dio to bring his BP to negative in exchange for the Axelavir needed to save Quark, though he survives the injection.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Hinted at. Her mind's not exactly on solving the puzzles in the lounge full of exotic liquor. Not to mention her disdain for spilling out said cocktails.

* EternalLove: Akane once told K that she regrets abandoning ordinary life and the love of an (unnamed) man in order to complete her [[LongGame great work]]. (Her choice of password implies that this man is Junpei Tenmyouji.) Her love is not reciprocated, because Junpei hates what that work has turned her into.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/AkioOhtsuka (JP), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN)