History Characters / XenobladeChronicles3Aionios

* NeutralNoLonger: Originally Ontos was simply the core processor of Origin, overseeing it and Aionios while Z took control of the system. Eventually Z's editing and warping of Origin's systems and to suffering it brought on disgusted Ontos so much that, without Logos or Pneuma to provide counsel, it took actions into its own hands and manifested Alpha to terminate Aionios.

** Either the Pneuma core or a replica of it is revealed to have been embedded in the metal that made up both Matthew's Fists of the End and Noah's Veiled Sword, though the nature of whether it's the real deal or not isn't given official confirmation. Or the one in Matthew's gauntlet is a manifestation of the real core, like how Core Crystals appeared on Blade weapons in ''2.'' WoedOfGod confirms that the origin metal in Matthew's gauntlets are Pyra and Mythra themselves.

** Either the Pneuma core or a replica of it is revealed to have been embedded in the metal that made up both Matthew's Fists of the End and Noah's Veiled Sword, though the nature of whether it's the real deal or not isn't given official confirmation. Or the one in Matthew's gauntlet is a manifestation of the real core, like how Core Crystals appeared on Blade weapons in ''2.''
** Both Pyra and Mythra's Aegis Swords don't appear as Rex's weapons, with him only using replicas of the two...but they do appear holographically as weapons for or assisting Nia. The connection with Nia is even further strengthened with how Pneuma's core and power is used to create the first Ouroboros Interlink against Alpha, while the Ouroboros Stone itself is said to be a gift from Nia to the people of the City. Considering that the Pneuma core had to arrive somehow in the possession of the City in order for it to end up in Matthew's gauntlets, it could be very well possible that it was Nia who gave the core to the City for safekeeping - and that the holographic swords that appear alongside her are either an extension of the core itself and/or are the consciousnesses of Pyra and Mythra overseeing and protecting Nia while she was in hiding from Moebius.

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* PerpetualFrowner: Accompanying his newfound lack of emotion is a face that is almost always stuck in a serious and unwelcoming frown, as opposed to how Alvis would usually have a smirk or a CatSmile during the events of the first game.

** While it isn't explicitly confirmed, it's also heavily implied that either the Logos core or a replica of it is embedded within the metal that makes up N's Sword of the End, both within the ending of ''Future Redeemed'' and by N's sword emitting purple energy like the kind Malos did.

* CycleOfRevenge: He despises Agnians and makes it clear to Mio and Sena when they meet at the cantine. The only reason he doesn't take up Mio's offer to kill her is that he notices she's already on her tenth Term and months away from dying anyway.

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* {{Expy}}: Appearance wise, he's a dead ringer for Adenine from ''2'', and shares her name in Japanese (''Shiki''). Later in a quest he even gains an appreciation for books and intellectual interests, and given that Blades are established as now being capable of having children, [[AmbiguouslyRelated it's possible that he is her descendant]].

* AmbiguousGender: Referred to [[https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1650926404677017611 in an official English tweet]] by the singular "they", but is referred to with masculine pronouns in-game, and has the appearance of a character previously described as male (albeit one who was also subject to AmbiguousGender in [[AllThereInTheManual background materials]]). The game reveals that Alpha and A are cast-off parts of Alvis, with Alpha assuming Alvis' original masculine form and A assuming a more feminine form. Rex states that just as Logos is male and Pneuma is female, Ontos (and by extension Alvis, A, and Alpha) was made to be somewhere in between, which strongly implies that Alpha's gender identity is something other than strictly binary male.

* UndeathlyPallor: In the first game Alvis was [[SignificantWhiteHairDarkSkin visibly dark-skinned]], but this version of him is depicted as being the same shade of pale as Z, who refers to them as his God.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: This is how Alpha reacts when seeing the sheer carnage present within Aionios. He cares not for the thousands of Kevesi and Agnian soldiers who trapped within a ForeverWar fueled by a constantly-repeating cycle of life and death, but for the decidedly smaller population of the City, viewing them as untainted by Aionios and being the only ones worthy of his mercy, while the rest are left to die in Alpha's planned destruction of Aionios. It's a trait that Alpha himself shares with Na'el, the latter of whom has a much harsher reaction to the City being threatened than she does to the world around her and the thousands of people who die and are reborn each day, making her the perfect vessel for Alpha.

** "Alpha" is also used in the symbolism of "Alpha and Omega"; as mentioned above, "Alpha" is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and here it's paired up with the last letter, "Omega", which is generally used to describe two things that contrast each other. In the case of Alpha, he contrasts Z - whose name represents "the end" due to it being the last letter of the Latin alphabet, by representing the destruction of the past and present at all costs to make for the future, while Z represents the eternity of the present and the inability to let go of the past. Basically, Z is the "Omega" to Alpha.