| 1 | Character sheet for ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''. Due to the [[KudzuPlot nature of the game and how complicated]] [[NestedStory things get]] making it impossible to describe any of the characters without hiding every line, '''all spoilers are unmarked'''. |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 6 | !Playable Protagonists |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[folder:Fei Fong Wong]] |
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| 10 | !!!Voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (Japanese) and Brian Tochi (English) |
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| 12 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_fei_2457.jpg]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:350:Fei]] |
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| 15 | |
| 16 | ->''[[ReluctantWarrior "I don't like Gears or fighting."]]'' |
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| 19 | An eighteen year old painter and martial artist from the small village of Lahan, and the main character of the game. Also known as [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Abel]], the -Contact-, Kim Kasim, Lacan, Grahf, Id, and the -Coward-. Though Grahf was originally Lacan, his personality and memories permanently diverged when he started to BodySurf 500 years before, and so that Grahf has his own character section further down the page. |
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| 23 | * BareFistedMonk: Fei fights purely on martial arts. This extends to his Gear. |
| 24 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He is Lahan's resident NiceGuy, but he's a powerful fighter and has a SuperpoweredEvilSide. |
| 25 | * BrokenBird: A male version, especially once you start learning about his forgotten past. |
| 26 | * ByronicHero: Since his current personality was created three years ago, he's not very good at controlling his emotions. His DarkAndTroubledPast doesn't help either. |
| 27 | * ChinesePeople: Has a more conspicuously Chinese look than the other characters, and has the [[StockForeignName gratuitous Chinese name]]. Allegedly, he was inspired by a Creator/JetLi movie, specifically ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina''. |
| 28 | * TheChosenOne: He's one of the incarnations of the Contact. His power is almost at PhysicalGod levels in the context of the world everyone lives on, being only matched by people with the same powers, or those connected to Deus. |
| 29 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: |
| 30 | ** A ''lot'' of bad things have happened to him by the start of the game. The worst was probably his mother being possessed by the BigBad and treating him as a guinea pig for years. |
| 31 | ** If you count his past incarnation, his DarkAndTroubledPast has been going on for ''millennia''. |
| 32 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the AmnesiacHero and TheChosenOne. Turns out that being a ManChild with LaserGuidedAmnesia gave him the best years of his life until everything's finally resolved at the very end of the game, as being forced to confront his destiny puts him through the utter ringer when the ''[[LongGame entire world's current state]]'' may as well have been meticulously manipulated and constructed to [[DespairEventHorizon break him]] from ever accomplishing it. |
| 33 | * DespairEventHorizon: Grahf is one of Fei's past incarnations that has gone over this. |
| 34 | * DoomMagnet: If he's somewhere, it's probably going to be destroyed sooner or later. |
| 35 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite [[spoiler:losing Elly multiple times in their shared past lives, losing her again to Miang's ''Main/BodySurf'' and fusing to Deus]], Fei never gave up and ultimately earned his happy ending via saving Elly. |
| 36 | * FallingIntoTheCockpit: DeconstructedTrope. Fei spends a lot of time resenting the fact that he has to pilot his Gear and use it to kill people, especially early on. It takes a while for him to comes to grips with the need for him, and part of his development is understanding this. |
| 37 | * HeroicBSOD: Several times in the game. Usually he shuts down when he looses control of his powers, he becomes too stressed to be able to think clearly, or something happens to one of his friends (especially Elly). This is what triggers Id's appearances, as Fei's stress lets Id rise to the surface. |
| 38 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Quite often during the early parts of the game. |
| 39 | * ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: None of Fei's incarnations have had it easy, to say the least. As the Contact, he is basically the chosen hero of the Wave Existence who must free it from Deus, but every past life has met a tragic end, or died before they could do so. Fei himself suffers a lot in the story, only coming out of the end better thanks to his friends. |
| 40 | * JekyllAndHyde: The Jekyll to Id's Hyde. |
| 41 | * {{Kamehamehadoken}}: His "Guided Shot" [=spell/chi ability=]. Notably, it changes form depending on whether Fei is on foot or piloting Weltall: the first is a Hadoken-style energy ball, while the other is a Kamehameha-style beam. |
| 42 | * ManChild: Because he initially didn't have his memories, the three-year-old "Fei" personality is completely artificial and based on experiences he learns as he goes. This is why he has difficulty coping with certain situations, such as going off on Elly when she insists she travel with the party to Mahanon. |
| 43 | * MessianicArchetype: He's the "Contact" between humans and the resident God. He just needs to get over his DarkAndTroubledPast and tame his SuperpoweredEvilSide. |
| 44 | * MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Often thanks to Id. |
| 45 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Fei-hung Wong Fei-hung]], their names are written the same in katakana. |
| 46 | * PowerGivesYouWings: Xenogears's hyper mode. |
| 47 | * {{Reincarnation}}: Abel/Kim/Lacan/Fei are all one person who lived different lifetimes. For more specific details: |
| 48 | ** The sole survivor of the wreck of the ''Eldridge'' (besides Deus), Abel was the original incarnation who made -Contact- with the -Wave Existence-, and Abel's consciousness became linked to the Wave Existence to be reincarnated four more times in the future. |
| 49 | ** Kim was his reincarnation during the Zeboim period — unknown whether Kim is the second or third incarnation, because the story skipped one of them. |
| 50 | ** Lacan was the fourth incarnation, who also became Grahf. It becomes even more complicated when Grahf took to {{Body Surf}}ing to keep on living for 500 years. Grahf was no longer the Contact, which allowed the reincarnation cycle to continue from the forfeiture of Lacan's body. Eventually, Grahf in another body came face to face with... |
| 51 | ** Fei Fong Wong, the fifth and final incarnation. After the disastrous initial encounter where Fei's mother Karen [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to save Fei's life, Grahf took over the body of Fei's father Khan. Fei and Grahf continued to face and conflict with each other over the course of the game as Grahf sought to [[MentalFusion combine Fei and himself]] into one. But after Fei finally brought all his own power under his control and regained the memories of his past lives, Grahf passed on the torch and died along with Khan. |
| 52 | * ReluctantWarrior: After the events at Lahan village, the guilt and confusion over what happened makes Fei very hesitant to jump into battle. For a short time after, anytime he is asked to fight, he either declines, or rants about how much he hates being told to fight and just wants to be left alone. While he does develop and realize he can fight for those who need protection, he never truly moves on from disliking fighting. |
| 53 | --> '''Fei''': I hate fighting. And Gears... |
| 54 | * RedOniBlueOni: Can be either red or blue depending on who the other one is. |
| 55 | * SplitPersonality: |
| 56 | ** Original Fei ("the Coward"), Id, and the newer Fei, who is "on the stage" for most of the game's active storyline. The three personalities finally reconcile peacefully and merge near the end of the story. This healed Fei also recalls Lacan's memories, including his memories as Grahf before {{Body Surf}}ing. In this sense, Grahf got his wish -- he and Fei finally joined to become one. |
| 57 | ** The newer Fei eventually creates a ''fourth'' personality that is completely catatonic, as Fei is unable to deal with the loss of Elly or the fact that she's been integrated into an interstellar doomsday weapon that's poised to wipe out all life on the planet. It doesn't stop Id from forcing himself on-stage, though. |
| 58 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Elly. Their previous incarnations too, for extra-Star Crossing. {{Subverted}} in the finale, almost 10,000 years after their first incarnation. |
| 59 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Id is generally capable of wrecking a LOT more shit that Fei is. He was able to single handedly destroy multiple gears ''on foot'', something Fei never has to even attempt. Subverted in that Id isn't evil, he's just horribly warped by all the trauma he's experienced over the years (particularly at his own "mother"'s hands) as he existed solely to protect the original personality from pain. |
| 60 | * TraumaInducedAmnesia: Due to the [[SplitPersonality Dissociative Identity Disorder]] caused by his BigBad-possessed mother and her experiments. The Fei that the player controls is essentially the personification of that amnesia, having been only "alive" for a few years, and only have vague recollections of past things that are closer to GeneticMemory. He only "regains" those memories after all of the versions of Fei merge together with the current Fei. |
| 61 | * [[WarriorPoet Warrior Painter]]: The game starts with him painting, and it's clear he would prefer a quiet painter lifestyle to being a warrior. |
| 62 | * WhereIWasBornAndRazed: By mistake, once his SuperpoweredEvilSide gets unlocked by his HeroicBSOD. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
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| 65 | [[folder:Weltall, Weltall-Id, Weltall-2, Xenogears]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | -> ".... You and I seem to have a fated relationship." |
| 68 | --> ''Fei'' |
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| 70 | Pronounced "velt-all", the German word for "universe", Weltall is a powerful, black/red gear that that came into Fei's possession during the Lahan incident. It's probably the most important and mysterious Gear in the entire world and plays a pivotal role in the game's storyline. |
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| 74 | * AceCustom: While it was originally thought to be new prototype from Kislev, it turns out Grahf had the gear built specifically for Fei (or rather, ''Id''). |
| 75 | * BlackBox: Weltall has a number of these. They are used when it transforms into Weltall-Id. |
| 76 | * CharacterTitle: It’s final form, after making contact with the [[{{God}} the Wave Existence]], is known as the Xenogears. |
| 77 | * ClingyMacGuffin: Fei, understandably, wants nothing to do with the gear after Lahan. However, no matter how many times he tries to ditch it, fate keeps finding ways to put him back in the cockpit until he just accepted being its pilot. |
| 78 | * DiscardAndDraw: After upgrading from Weltall-2 to Xenogears, you can't use ''System Id'' to enter Hyper Mode at will anymore, but Xenogears is generally more powerful and can enter Hyper Mode the "normal" way more easily, which makes up for it. |
| 79 | * EmpathicWeapon: There are occasions where the gear seems to display a will of its own. |
| 80 | * FlawedPrototype: PlayedWith. While Weltall is an inferior knockoff of Grahf's Alpha Weltall, it serves as this trope when compared to its second iteration, Weltall-2, which patches out a lot of the bugs and design compromises made when constructing Weltall. Specifically, the Alpha Weltall was an Omnigear capable of drawing on infinite power and built with LostTechnology materials, and it didn't really scale down well to a normal Gear built with Kislev technology, so Weltall was designed with a regular mode where it was effectively a regular Gear, and then a larger SuperMode for when it had access to Id's power. Weltall-2 is a larger model constructed with better technology and a means of ''controllably'' releasing Id's power, making it stronger than most Omnigears (though not as strong as Weltall-Id or Alpha Weltall). |
| 81 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: An early tell that the mysterious Red Gear of Id is actually Weltall is that almost every Gear in the game has distinct movement sound effects unique to them (Brigander's hover jets, Stier's roller wheels or Vierge's galloping sprint). Id's gear clearly uses Weltall's distinct footstep sound. |
| 82 | * JackOfAllStats: The Weltall, upgrading into MasterOfAll in disc 2. |
| 83 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: The Weltall become Weltall-2 at start of disc 2. Later, it gets an EleventhHourSuperpower upgrade into Xenogears just before the final dungeon. |
| 84 | * PowerFloats: Xenogears floats all the time. |
| 85 | * SuperMode: Whenever Id takes over Weltall transforms as well, becoming the crimson red Weltall-Id. It is ''insanely'' powerful in this state, capable of wiping out armies with little effort and is said to have single-highhandedly destroyed an ''entire continent'' in the past. When it was rebuilt as Weltall-2 it was installed with a system that allowed Fei to unleash this mode without turning into Id (aptly named ''System Id''). In game-play, this allows Weltall to instantly enter hyper mode at the cost of 1000 fuel. |
| 86 | * TransformingMecha: The Weltall was designed to transform when Id controlled it, becoming larger and turning red. |
| 87 | * WrongContextMagic: Weltall is ''not'' an Omnigear or nano-Gear. It's an inferior modern Gear based on a Deus close-defense Gear, with [[AceCustom specific customizations]] to take advantage of Id's unique strength, and the fact that it's stronger than an Omnigear is because of its pilot. The Xenogears, meanwhile, is a direct channel to the Wave Existence and completely unique. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
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| 90 | [[folder:Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten]] |
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| 92 | !!!Voiced by Creator/YumiTouma (Japanese) and Moira Quirk (English) |
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| 94 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_elly_7463.jpg]] |
| 95 | [[caption-width-right:350:Elly]] |
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| 97 | |
| 98 | ->''[[HeroicSacrifice "Live!"]]'' |
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| 100 | An eighteen year old lieutenant in Gebler, Solaris's surface expeditionary force. As known as the -Anti-type-, and in a past life as the Holy Mother Sophia. She pilots Vierge and El-Regurus. |
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| 104 | * ArtificialHuman: She was originally constructed by the Kadomony biocomputer at the direction of the Wave Existence as a fulfilment of Abel's wish to have a mother. All the versions of Elly from that point on are human however. |
| 105 | * AttackDrone: "Animum Ether Response Offensive Drones" or [[FunWithAcronyms AERODs]] |
| 106 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She has two circumstances pertaining to this: |
| 107 | ** She has the most violent reaction out of all Solarian soldiers towards the Drive drug. It was hinted that she caused a massacre in the facility sometime in the past, which caused people to view her as a bit of a freak. |
| 108 | ** Her surprising tolerance towards the surface dwellers for a high ranking citizen in Solaris, as noted by Citan and one of her group members. She said that she carried this view from her father who's tolerant towards the surface dwellers and that one of her servants is a surface dweller. |
| 109 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's nice to the point of reaching FriendToAllLivingThings by Disc 2, but she's still a superpowered fighter able to pilot an Omnigear. |
| 110 | * BreakTheCutie: Happens several times across the game. Early on, Fei breaks her out of her JustFollowingOrders mindset, but as she begins to side more with Fei and the others, she gradually suffers more and more, though she never quite gives up. |
| 111 | * ChocolateBaby: She's convinced she's not actually Medena's daughter because she doesn't really resemble either of her parents, and believes her real mother was actually her childhood nanny, a Lamb woman, though this turns out to be due to {{Reincarnation}} rather than genetics. Medena herself doesn't seem to think anything negative about her daughter and sadly dies before the truth comes out. |
| 112 | * ConflictingLoyalty: Her father is a high ranking Solaris officer, so she wants to do right by him, but she also is inherently a kind and loving person, and can't truly bring herself to kill the surface people like she was taught. The conflict between that is a major part of her character arc, and her eventual bond with Fei. |
| 113 | * CrutchCharacter: She fits this though because she gets benched about 2/3rds of the way through disk 2 and is gone for the rest of the game as far as gameplay is concerned. |
| 114 | * DiscOneNuke: Grind up enough to give her an Ether Doubler from Nisan and she can use her magic/Aerods to kill almost anything on Disc 1, bosses included. |
| 115 | * DoomedUpgrade: Aside from Battling MiniGame, you never have chance to use El Regurus. |
| 116 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 117 | ** Initially, it's her sense of loyalty to her home. Being the daughter of a top ranking Solaris officer, she has to work hard to meet the standards set by such a role, but Elly is a kind person who can't bring herself to harm people normally. Early on, her relationship with Fei is a struggle between her trying to who she wants to be, and who she is expected to be. |
| 118 | ** Her loving nature makes her prone to sacrificing her life to help save those she cares for. [[spoiler: In every past life she did this, it made things worse, and is directly responsible for two of the game's central antagonists. She even comes close to doing it in the finale, and when Fei stops her, she realizes how reckless she was being.]] |
| 119 | * FauxActionGirl: ZigZagged. It's a weird case of GameplayAndStorySegregation. She's pretty good in battles, but she's absurdly hesitant in the actual story, to the point of becoming useless several times despite being a trained soldier who shouldn’t have these issues. |
| 120 | * FemBot: Both Vierge and Regurus. |
| 121 | * HeelFaceTurn: When she defects Solaris and join Fei's group. [[spoiler: Then she does a FaceHeelTurn once Miang [[BodySurf body surfs]] to her. Then ''another'' HeelFaceTurn when Miang is gone for good.]] |
| 122 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Across multiple lives. Each and every past version of the Antitype sacrificed herself to save the Contact, and every time it deeply hurt him.]] |
| 123 | * KickChick: Her secondary attack. |
| 124 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: She has the strongest offensive magic of the party, while not being a strong physical fighter. |
| 125 | * LikeParentLikeSpouse: Abel wished for the original Elly based off of an image of his mother. |
| 126 | * LimitedWardrobe: Even though she left the army, she still wears her Gebler uniform. She was supposed get another outfit, but time constraints meant it couldn't be done. |
| 127 | * MessianicArchetype: Or rather an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'s Sophia (which she was even named after in one incarnation). Perhaps ironically, she's the only one whose gear ''doesn't'' get [[CrucifiedHeroShot crucified]] at Golgotha, though she does take a pretty nasty beating for the party's sake nonetheless. |
| 128 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 129 | ** Elhaym resembles the word "Elohim", one of the names of God in Hebrew. It also resembles a combination of "El" (the old name for God) and "Hayim" (the Hebrew word for "life", used in toasts called "L'Chaim" meaning "To life!"). The latter can thus be interpreted as meaning "God is healthy". |
| 130 | ** Elly's first Gear (and only one you use in gameplay, but that's not the point) is French for "virgin" (as in the Virgin Mary). After she has sex with Fei near the end of the game, she never uses Vierge again, instead using her Omnigear. |
| 131 | * NiceGirl: Despite her profession, she is actually nice. It makes it hard for Fei to accept that she is still a Gebler officer for a good bit of the early game. |
| 132 | * {{Reincarnation}}: Five incarnations, just like the Contact. Unlike him, in all her lives she was named Elhaym and the Contact called her -Elly-. |
| 133 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: She has one. You fight them over the course of the game a few times and they eventually do a HeelFaceTurn with her. |
| 134 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: A part of her uniform. |
| 135 | * ScreamingWoman: One of her deathblows is her shrieking at the enemy. |
| 136 | * SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Every single one of her prior reincarnations' sacrifices to save Fei's ''always'' has the opposite effect, either leaving him with nothing worth living for anymore or even becoming straight up evil. In the end, she realizes how pointless sacrificing herself all the time was and decides to stop doing so.]] |
| 137 | * SheFu: Some of her deathblows have her either doing a somersault or backflip kick. |
| 138 | * SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: She spends the back half of Disc Two absent from the party and never returns as a playable character. In a strange twist on the trope, all her equipment is still there in the inventory, but it's completely useless. |
| 139 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Elehayym. Also extends to her Omnigear, Regulus. |
| 140 | * SquishyWizard: Both her and Vierge. She's generally focused around using Ether based abilities, making her akin to a Mage in playstyle. |
| 141 | * StarCrossedLovers: With the Contact's various incarnations. {{Subverted}} in the end. |
| 142 | * UnwittingPawn: She was unconsciously hypnotized by Miang to cause some damage in the Yggdrasil's engine. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Citan Uzuki/Hyuga Ricdeau]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | !!!Voiced by Creator/HideyukiTanaka (Japanese) and Creator/MiltonJames (English) |
| 148 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_citan_9053.jpg]] |
| 149 | [[caption-width-right:350:Citan]] |
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| 151 | A village doctor living outside of Lahan with his wife and daughter. Spends all day tinkering with junk in his shed, but knows more than he lets on. His real name is Hyuga Ricdeau, and he's a native Solarian. He pilots Heimdal and Fenrir. |
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| 153 | * TheAce: Citan is a 29-year-old [[IaijutsuPractitioner greatest swordsman in the world]], [[TheProfessor an expert scientist]], [[MrFixit a master engineer]], the [[TheMentor main character's mentor]] without ever dying, perpetually the [[ThePhilosopher most intelligent person around]], [[TheMole a spy]], a DoubleAgent, one of the [[AncientConspiracy approximately ten people who actually knows what's going on in the world]], one of the [[OlderAndWiser earlier generation of heroes]], [[MrExposition keeper of the backstory]] and also has a [[QuirkyHousehold pretty swordfighting wife and an adorable daughter with mysterious powers]]. Not to mention that while his Gear is rather mediocre ability-wise towards the end of the game, he is perfectly capable of getting out of it and slaughter Gear-sized enemies ''on foot'' -- and is better at it than most Gears. In a mild subversion, despite being that awesome, he really is a {{Geek}} deep down. |
| 154 | * BadassBookworm: Despite being TheAce even as a fighter, his main occupation is being a scientist. |
| 155 | * BigBrotherMentor: To Fei, especially at the beginning when he has nobody else. |
| 156 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Citan is a nice, affable person with a jackass streak a mile wide. Among repeatedly [[LockedOutOfTheLoop locking the party out of the loop]] on information that ''could'' have helped them, he also doesn't tell Fei and Elly in Solaris that the food they're eating ''[[ImAHumanitarian is made of people]]'' until '''''after''''' they eat it. In truth this is only because he needs to get Fei into a spot where he can be captured and allow Id to come out to assess if Id is a threat. From that moment onward, he becomes open and honest to everyone. |
| 157 | * BlindWithoutEm: Only slightly. Citan's glasses are worn as an equipment accessory, and his battle accuracy declines if you remove them. Otherwise, he is still perfectly capable in battle. |
| 158 | * CannotSpitItOut: A non romantic example. He had long suspected that Fei had another [[SuperpoweredEvilSide malevolent personality]] within him, but didn't want to voice his suspicions until he could confirm them. Even after he confirms Id to be a thing, he still can't admit the truth due to needing to also assess if id is a threat to mankind, and it takes the party collectively learning Id and Fei are the same being for him to start talking. |
| 159 | * CharacterNameAlias: "Citan Uzuki" is the alias he takes after receiving orders from Emperor Cain to watch over the Contact in the surface. In a little subversion, ''Perfect Works'' subtly implies that the Uzuki name is his wife Yui's surname, and it is speculated that her grandfather Gaspar gives him the idea. |
| 160 | * TheCharmer: Citan is really good at charming people in conversations to get what he is looking for. At various points when Citan speaks to someone, he shows an uncanny ability to charm his way into getting information, or swaying things to go the way he wants. |
| 161 | * CrutchCharacter: For most of disc one, he's arguably the best character you can have on your team thanks to his [[LightningBruiser solid combat capabilities, insane speed, high health]], and the fact that he even has [[CombatMedic healing magic]]. Downplayed in that while his gear ''does'' get outclassed after a while, he still remains a potentially useful ally thanks to his all-round abilities. |
| 162 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Not only was Citan born in Solaris, he used to be on the same side as Ramsus during their time as Elements, but though he initially believed in his cause, Citan defected from Solaris when it became clear Ramsus had become no better than what he was trying to change. |
| 163 | * DoubleAgent: For Emperor Cain. |
| 164 | * DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Citan first appears to be working with Fei. Then he is revealed to be a Solarian agent and appears to betray Fei. But then it's revealed that his secret orders from Emperor Cain are to ''actually'' help Fei while pretending to be a loyal Solarian agent. At various points he also seems to be taking orders from Shevat or just sort of doing what he feels like doing. It is implied (the tipoff is how Queen Zephyr and the Three Sages do not suspect him in the slightest) in the game and made clear in the ''Perfect Works'' that he does the former out of his allegiance with his wife and grandfather-in-law. |
| 165 | * DramaticEllipsis: His dialogue tends to be full of them, usually used to indicate moments where he is thinking aloud or being a bit suspicious. |
| 166 | * TheEmpath: And in frequent psychic communication with [[TheEmperor Emperor Cain]] throughout the game. |
| 167 | * IaijutsuPractitioner: He begins the game fighting hand-to-hand, but midway through he takes up the sword again, drastically boosting his offensive capability. |
| 168 | * InLoveWithTheMark: Or rather in love with the mark's granddaughter. In his backstory, during the short Solaris-Shevat conflict 5 years before the game, he tries to infiltrate the Shevat defenses in an attempt to assassinate their commander (Citan also happens to command the Solarian forces), but changes his mind after he met and (allegedly) crossed swords with Yui, and after meeting and goes into a deep philosophical discussion with Gaspar (while trysting with Yui, no less), decides to pull a HeelFaceTurn by withdrawing his forces completely, thus ending Solaris' thirs invasion of Shevat. |
| 169 | * JackOfAllStats: Heimdal is faster than Weltall but can't hit as hard; it's still too tough to be FragileSpeedster though. Same as El Fenrir, which can deal more damage with its sword, but still not enough to be LightningBruiser. |
| 170 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Once Citan gets access to his katana moves, which greatly increase his offensive power. |
| 171 | * LethalChef: Citan is a man of many talents. Cooking is not one of them. |
| 172 | --> '''Fei''': (After eating a disgusting looking fish) Ugh..... Reminds me of the time I tried some of Doc's cooking. |
| 173 | * LightningBruiser: He is one of the fastest characters in the game, he hits hard, and has a lot of health to spare (over 200 at the beginning of the game). And when he gets his sword, he becomes even ''stronger''. Played with concerning his gear though; it reflects his on-foot abilities for most of the first disc, but its frame values drops off towards the end and other characters start outclassing him in terms of damage, which makes him more of a JackOfAllStats from that point on. |
| 174 | * MartialMedic: He even has the best healing spells. |
| 175 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 176 | ** Citan --> {{Satan}}. If Solaris is heaven (and Solarians certainly think it is), then Citan is their greatest fallen angel. |
| 177 | ** This is further reinforced when you realize his name should correctly be spelled Shitan, which is a reflection of "Shaitan," the Islamic name for Satan. |
| 178 | ** His surname is pronounced "Rikudou" in Japanese. In Buddhism, Rikudou is the name of the afterlife; the six paths of karmic reincarnation. |
| 179 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: Gets El Fenrir at start of disc 2. He also starts using swords in battle. |
| 180 | * MrExposition: As one of the few persons in the world who actually know what's going on, this is often his role. |
| 181 | * MrFixit: He often mentions having repaired or upgraded various mechanisms offscreen. |
| 182 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He's TheAce of scientists. |
| 183 | * {{Samurai}}: Starts as CorporateSamurai for Solaris, becomes {{Rōnin}}. |
| 184 | * SatanIsGood: See MeaningfulName, and understand that he's been working against Solaris for a long time. This mostly likely comes from the influence of UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} on the game's plot and themes. |
| 185 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[CleanDubName Shitan]] Uzuki/Hyuga Rikudou. |
| 186 | * TechnicalPacifist, ReluctantWarrior: The reason why he stopped using his sword. He later takes it back p when he realizes the stakes are high enough that he can't try to claim being a pacifist. |
| 187 | * TheSmartGuy: He's both the most knowledgeable of the party and the one most likely to keep his wits and think of a plan in bad situations. Tellingly, when a topic comes up, Citan either already knows, or quickly learns all he can. |
| 188 | * TheStoryteller: The opening narration text over Lahan village at the game's beginning discussing the war is in his textual "voice," and on disc 2 he tells part of the story as it unfolds. |
| 189 | * StoicSpectacles: His glasses mark his contemplative nature, though he puts up a more affable and warm front than most examples. |
| 190 | * TookALevelInBadass: Though far from needing it, once Citan takes up his sword again, he goes from being just ''pretty'' great to being unstoppable on foot. |
| 191 | * TricksterMentor: To Fei, through him combining his NiceGuy persona with a BitchInSheepClothing-style talk. |
| 192 | * WarriorPoet: A minor one. His backstory mentioned that in order to get permission to date (and later marry) Yui, Gaspar had him waxing lyrical about his purpose in life and the reason he fights, in addition to their philosophical discussions (bear in mind this was during Solaris' third invasion of Shevat, and Citan was their ''commander-in-chief''). This encounter was more than enough for him to pull a HeelFaceTurn and ordering the Solarian forces to retreat, in turn giving him a specific assignment from Cain to watch over Fei. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Bartholomew "Bart" Fatima]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | !!!Voiced by Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese) and Dave Fouquette (English) |
| 198 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_bart_2044.jpg]] |
| 199 | [[caption-width-right:350:Bart]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | ->''[[TriggerHappy "They all look the same. Let's start hitting some buttons."]]'' |
| 202 | |
| 203 | Initially introduced as the leader of a group of pirates operating outside of Aveh, Bart is the young heir to the throne of Aveh and captain of the CoolShip Yggdrasil. He and the crew of the Yggdrasil seek to retake Aveh from the puppet government. He pilots Brigandier and Andvari. |
| 204 | |
| 205 | ---- |
| 206 | * AncestralWeapon: [[spoiler: The El Andvari was an Omnigear used by Roni Fatima 500 years ago to stop the Diabolos Corps from destroying the world. Roni hid the Gear in Ft. Jasper to be used in times of great peril.]] |
| 207 | * CrutchCharacter: The El Andvari is extremely powerful when you get it, as it's the first Omnigear in your party. It becomes MasterOfNone once you get more of its kind. |
| 208 | * DualWielding: Bart lashes out with two whips at the same time during battle. |
| 209 | * EyepatchOfPower: Appropriate for a both a sand pirate and a rebel leader. In truth he lost it during an accident onboard the Yggdrasil that he got involved with to save the crew. |
| 210 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Sigurd. [[spoiler:It turns out they're half-brothers.]] |
| 211 | * HiddenDepths: Bart is a lot more intelligent and perceptive than people often think, he just acts HotBlooded partially to motivate himself better. Several times in the game he shows wit and understanding that people forget at times, and often poke fun at. |
| 212 | * HotBlooded: Especially noticeable when the plot is about his personal nemesis. He's actually more calm than people tend to realize, but he acts quite determined to psych himself up and to keep morale high. |
| 213 | * KissingCousins: When he will go through the [[ArrangedMarriage marriage]] with the Holy Mother of Nisan, Margie. For his part, Bart seems aware of how odd this is, and protests Margie's comments about it. |
| 214 | * TheLancer: He quickly becomes one of Fei's closest friends and has a RedOniBlueOni dynamic with him. In fact, Fei comes to see Bart as his closest friend, to the point of Bart's safety being one way to risk Id coming to the surface. |
| 215 | * LeeroyJenkins: A RunningGag involves Bart [[SelfOffense mistaking Fei for an enemy and opening fire on him.]] |
| 216 | * MasterOfNone: Bart and his gear, Brigandier are this. El Andvari also become this after you get other Omnigear to use. With mixture with LethalJokeCharacter, thank to Bart's ''Wild Smile'' ability. |
| 217 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: When he finds an Omnigear, the El Andvari. |
| 218 | * NobleFugitive: Due to being forced to flee Aveh or perish, Bart and many of his loyal allies have been on the run using the Yggdrasil to operate out of the desert around the nation. His personal quest is about regaining the throne. |
| 219 | * RightfulKingReturns: Again, this is his personal quest. {{Subverted}} when he fulfills his father's wish and instates democracy in Aveh. [[DoubleSubverted Or not]], since he will be most likely chosen to be its first president. |
| 220 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He wants to regain Aveh's throne to help the surface world obtain independence from Solaris. |
| 221 | * [[RedOniBlueOni Red Oni]]: So red that he makes Fei (who up until then had been portrayed as a Red Oni towards Elly and Citan) look blue when they first meet up. |
| 222 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Barthlomei Fatima. |
| 223 | * StepfordSmiler: For as confidant and brash as he can seem, Bart is insecure about his status as the future king of Aveh. He also admits to Fei that while he seems to like fighting, he actually doesn't, but knows he has to fight to retake his home and undo the harm done to Aveh. Part of why Sigurd tries to convince Fei to stay with the crew is because Bart needs a person he can be open with and not feel the need to hide how he feels, something Bart is able to do slightly better when talking to Fei. |
| 224 | * SupportingLeader: Much of the first quarter of the game revolves around his attempt to retake Aveh. It's only after that fails horribly thanks to Id that Fei starts to take the reins of the main character role. |
| 225 | * TriggerHappy: He shoots down the Goliath with a "Bart Missile" while Fei and the Kislev party are [[GrandTheftPrototype commandeering it]]. In his defense, they ''were'' flying a heavily-armed airship from an enemy country that ''was'' going to be used to sack Bart's hometown, but a simple hail would have told him that the Goliath was a friendly target. |
| 226 | * WarriorPrince: Despite being the prince, he often fights on the frontlines. In fact, when the Yggdrasil crew does raids, he actively fights alongside the crew, and its this reason he has a lot of respect among them. |
| 227 | * WeaponSpecialization: He specializes in fighting with whips, even when piloting a Gear. When in Gears, the whips become closer to chains instead, but still use whips as equipment. [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]] explains it: As a child, Bart was beaten with a whip so badly he had recurring nightmares, so his handlers Sigurd and Maison decided to train him with the whip in order to conquer his fears. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Ricardo "Rico" Banderas]] |
| 231 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_rico_8997.jpg]] |
| 232 | [[caption-width-right:350:Rico]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | The man at the top of the food chain in Nortune Prison. Initiates new prisoners by beating them, but has a deeper connection to Kislev than first thought. He pilots Stier. |
| 235 | ---- |
| 236 | |
| 237 | * BloodKnight: You find him as the champion of Kislev's arena, motivated only by the idea of fighting other strong warriors. Part of why he sticks around with the party is because he finds himself enjoying the chance to fight more. |
| 238 | * TheBigGuy: The strongest physical fighter in the party, and the tallest normally. |
| 239 | * ChainedByFashion: Rico stills wears his deactivated bomb collar as a trophy. |
| 240 | * ChangedMyMindKid: He initially is fine letting Gebler destroy Kislev, since the city has treated him like crap. After reflecting on his time in the city though, he changes his mind and helps Fei defend it, citing that while it may be crap, he's also crap and considers it home. |
| 241 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: Through Fei's fights, Rico gradually develops respect for Fei, and after being defeated by him for the last time, he joins the party. |
| 242 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Blanka]]. The Stier is modeled after [[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVotoms AT]]. |
| 243 | * FieryRedhead: He's a red-headed BloodKnight. |
| 244 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: The huge X-shaped scar on his face is a good indication of his AntiHero personality. |
| 245 | * GracefulLoser: He takes his loss against Fei well all things considered. It helps that Fei winning provides him a chance to try and take out the Kaiser. |
| 246 | * HeroicBastard: Subverted. He is disowned by the Kaiser, yet his birth is still considered legitimate, with his dismissal from the court with his mother, the previous Empress of Kislev and Kaiser Sigmund's legal wife, coming purely from the fact that he was born a demi-human. Hammer remarks before his death that if things go smoothly, Rico is supposed to be next inline to be the Kaiser himself. |
| 247 | * HomoeroticSubtext: With Hammer. |
| 248 | * HonorBeforeReason: After getting injured in the Nortune Prison Sewers, Rico could have easily gotten his arm healed so he could fight Fei with a much clearer advantage. He instead refuses, playing a role in his loss. When Fei argues he should heal it, Rico just brushes it off. |
| 249 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: By upgrading Stier with an Anima Relic, he receives El Stier. |
| 250 | * MagicallyIneptFighter: Rico has one of the smallest SP pools among the party, and learns almost no Ether abilities as well. What few he learns are self buffs, and none of which can be used in Gear fights. |
| 251 | * MasterOfNone: His terrible accuracy and speed largely negate his damage output and LateCharacterSyndrome puts his defense behind the other [[LightningBruiser physical attackers]] in the party. Thankfully, this only applies to battles on foot. |
| 252 | * MightyGlacier: Both Stier and El Stier are some of the slowest gears in the game, but its with out a doubt one of the heaviest hitting ones in the game. And due to either a glitch or a mistranslation, even though Maria's final frame upgrade says it gives more health, it actually gives 2000 hp's less than rico's making it the bulkiest gear in the game. In general this applies to Rico as well. |
| 253 | * MrFanservice: A muscly {{Hunk}} of a mutant with an [[WalkingShirtlessScene always bare chest]] and nipples. |
| 254 | * NotSoStoic: Besides moments of anger and rage, Rico tends to keep his emotional output under lock and key. It was Hammer who eventually ripped the lock right off its hinges, revealing Rico's nice guy. But we never saw any of this until Hammer's demise, after which Rico began grieving and fondly reminiscing in the open. |
| 255 | * PowerfulButInaccurate: Part of the reason Rico isn't used often for on foot battles can be chalked up to this. His melee attacks hurt, doing more damage with lighter hits than other characters, and his Death Blows often beat out most other characters. However, he has low accuracy, so he tends to miss attacks more often than the other characters. |
| 256 | * ReallyRoyaltyReveal: He is eventually revealed to be the son of the Kaiser Sigmund and his wife Empress Anne, born while Sigmund was away at war. His heavily mutated features are the result of the Ethos experimenting on him in the womb to take advantage of Sigmund's severe [[BoomerangBigot anti-demihuman racism]] and as retaliation for Sigmund having purged them from his cabinet. After his defeat, Hammer reveals that Rico is due to become the next Kaiser of Kislev. |
| 257 | * {{Tsundere}}: Started out as a Type A tsundere for most of the story. Apparently Hammer got to see much more of Rico's deredere side when they were alone. After losing Hammer, Rico [[CharacterDevelopment shifted decisively]] from a Type A to Type B tsundere, if indeed he had any tsuntsun left by that point. |
| 258 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He never feels the need to wear a shirt. |
| 259 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Rico's fighting style is based around wrestling. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Billy Lee Black]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | !!!Voiced by Creator/YujiUeda (Japanese) |
| 265 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_billy_5621.jpg]] |
| 266 | [[caption-width-right:350:Billy]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | ->''"Rest in peace, agents of evil. May all of you turn to dust."'' |
| 269 | |
| 270 | A young clergyman of the Ethos. He pilots Renmazuo. |
| 271 | |
| 272 | ---- |
| 273 | |
| 274 | * BadassLongcoat: While Billy wears a priest's robe, his manner of wearing it, combined with his Gunslinger style of fighting and cowboy attire underneath, turns it into a BadassLongcoat as opposed to a BadassLongrobe. |
| 275 | * BadassPreacher: He's a priest who carries ''several handguns and shotguns'' hidden in his robe. |
| 276 | * CattlePunk: A priest and an expert marksman who fights with Western-style guns in a SchizoTech world that leans towards Steampunk levels of technology. |
| 277 | * CallingTheOldManOut: He is not fond of his father, due to being abandoned and left to survive on his own. He spends a number of his first scenes calling Jessie out for his behavior and lack of parental role, and even after developing and getting a better understanding of him, isn't afraid to call him out. |
| 278 | * CombatMedic: He has the most defensive and healing magic set out of anyone, as well as various firearms to slay monsters with. And he uses them both very well. |
| 279 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was young his father disappeared with out a word, his mother was murdered by Wels when he was less then 10, his sister became traumatized by this and won't even speak to him, he almost sold his body to be able to support him, his sister, and a bunch of orphans he took in, and when his farther suddenly returns after being gone for years, he's now a vulgar alcoholic that holds no resemblance to the father he once loved. Yeah.... life's not been to kind to Billy, nor will it get much better throughout the events of the game. |
| 280 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Very feminine-looking, and it's stated in ''Perfect Works'' that he's self-conscious about this and insists on keeping his hair short to avoid being mistaken for female. |
| 281 | * ElementalWeapon: Billy's Ether guns fire special rounds of fire, water, wind, and earth. They also provide [[BottomlessMagazines infinite ammo]]. The downside is that this means any enemies who NoSell elemental attacks outright counter Billy's Ether attacks. |
| 282 | * GunsAkimbo: His standard attacks involve him juggling two handguns. |
| 283 | * GunFu: His deathblows, which often involve at least four different guns fired in acrobatic fashion. |
| 284 | * TheGunslinger: He's a big expert in GunFu. |
| 285 | * HiddenWeapons: Billy houses his special Ether Guns up his sleeves. |
| 286 | * MageMarksman: Fights with guns that fire Ether energy and commands powerful healing magic. |
| 287 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: Upgrades the Renmazuo with an Anima Relic to create El-Renmazuo. |
| 288 | * ThePaladin: A pure-hearted, religious monster-hunter with healing magic. |
| 289 | * PrettyBoy: Described by creators as "a bishounen with a pretty boy face" but also a "'[[TheStoic cool and dry]]' kind of character". |
| 290 | * RayGun: One of Billy's deathblows has him take out a special gun part for his shotgun that lets him fire a highly focused laser beam at point blank range. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Maria Balthasar]] |
| 294 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_maria_2652.jpg]] |
| 295 | [[caption-width-right:350:Maria]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | ->''"I am coming Solaris! Seibzehn and I shall be the dark wings which carry you all to your deaths!"'' |
| 298 | |
| 299 | A Shevite girl whose father Nikolai was captured by Solaris. She has a guardian gear, [[GratuitousGerman Seibzehn]]. |
| 300 | |
| 301 | ---- |
| 302 | |
| 303 | * BreakTheCutie: When she learns what happened to her father. |
| 304 | * ChestBlaster: Seibzehn's Graviton Cannon. |
| 305 | * DisappearedDad: Though this plotline gets its resolution pretty soon. As for her disappeared mom, she's been inside Seibzehn all this time. |
| 306 | * GlassCannon: When on foot Maria has low health and defense, but her Ether abilities do a lot of damage, and due to being able to use Ether attacks that are both physical or magic in damage type, she can avoid being stuck unable to hurt her foe. |
| 307 | * HammerSpace: Seibzehn's strongest hyper mode attack, ''Maria Beat,'' has Maria herself pull a gigantic hammer out of nowhere and smack the enemy. |
| 308 | * KidWithTheRemoteControl: She's ''incredibly'' weak in human battles, but her Gear is one of the strongest ones. |
| 309 | * LittleMissBadass: Zigzagged. Maria is all too willing to help out on the front lines, and her access to Seibzehn ensures that she is useful in Gear encounters... But when just traveling with the party, trying to make ''her'' attack will make reality ensue very swiftly, as she has no Deathblows. |
| 310 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: One of Seibzehn's attacks. |
| 311 | * MagikarpPower: Arguably, and almost borders on JokeCharacter as she's nearly useless on foot, if it wasn't for the fact that her 'ether' attacks are rather inexpensive and summon forth Seibzehn to do the damage for her. When she's riding her Seibzehn however.... |
| 312 | * MightyGlacier: Seibzehn, being the strongest, but also the slowest of the gears. |
| 313 | * NinjaRun: Runs with her arms spread behind her in the ending. |
| 314 | * [[RobotBuddy Robot Mommy]]: Seibzehn has her mother's mind. Seibzehn doesn't move on its own until their encounter with Achtzehn because she doesn't want Maria to be aware of this. |
| 315 | * RocketPunch: One of Seibzehn's attacks. |
| 316 | * ShoulderTeammate: Maria doesn't pilot Seibzehn in the traditional sense, since it's an autonomous Gear. She in fact literally sits on it's shoulder, which is never commented on during underwater areas... |
| 317 | * ShoutOut: Her win animation is very similar to Aerith' from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII' |
| 318 | ** Her dynamic with Seibzhen (as well as its appearance), piloting it without entering a cockpit and commanding its attacks on foot, is very reminiscent of ''Series/GiantRobo.'' |
| 319 | * SmallGirlBigGun: Seibzehn, who dwarfs near every other gear in the game. In fact, it's so big that it ''can't fit'' inside the hanger on-board the Yggdrasil; it has to be stored outside the hull. |
| 320 | * TokenMiniMoe: She's just a kid, but is part of the main party thanks to Seibzehn's strength. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Chu-Chu]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !!!Voiced by Creator/MichikoNeya (Japanese) |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_chu-chu_1733.jpg]] |
| 328 | [[caption-width-right:350:Chu-Chu]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | A small pink creature, originally mistaken for a stuffed toy. |
| 331 | |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | |
| 334 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Chu-Chu doesn't have a Gear, so makes up for it by growing huge to fight gear-sized enemies. |
| 335 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Did that stupidly-cute little thing just [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grow to giant size]] and hold off that HUGE PROTOTYPE GEAR? |
| 336 | * InterspeciesRomance: Has a "maidenly pure" crush on Fei, played for laughs. |
| 337 | * MagikarpPower: With enough Drives, Chu-Chu can become the ultimate Gear-scale weapon, complete with the ability to actually heal Gears in battle -- the only such ability in the game -- and the obvious lack of reliance on fuel. |
| 338 | * ThePowerOfLove: Causes it to [[LimitBreak break its limiters]] and go Gear-scale. |
| 339 | * SquishyWizard: When out of Gear mode, she's mostly good for throwing out spells, and like Maria, she has no Deathblows. |
| 340 | * VerbalTic, chu: She ends sentences with "chu", chu. |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Emeralda]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | !!!Voiced by Creator/MichikoNeya (Japanese) |
| 346 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_emeralda_2712.jpg]] |
| 347 | [[caption-width-right:350:Emeralda]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | |
| 350 | A nanomachine colony developed 4000 years before the start of the game's events. She pilots Crescens. |
| 351 | |
| 352 | ---- |
| 353 | |
| 354 | * AccidentalMisnaming: She constantly calls Fei "Kim" when she first joins. Of course, that's the name she knew him under back in the Zeboim era. |
| 355 | * ArtificialHuman: Or RobotGirl, depending on how {{Nanomachines}} count. She's kind of both. |
| 356 | * ClothingDamage: In her teenage body, who appears tattered on the official art, likely due to not adjusting to her sudden growth spurt. |
| 357 | * DaddysGirl: She was made to be a surrogate daughter to Kim and his wife. As such she's very fond of Fei. |
| 358 | * FeatherFingers: Her gear doesn't have any arms, but it's okay, because the wings on its head can shape themselves into hands. |
| 359 | * FemBot: Her Crescens. |
| 360 | * FlawedPrototype: Crescens is the prototype of the other nanite Gears. Krelian made a slight mistake with its operating system by setting the safety of Emeralda as its top priority. This makes Crescens always reserve a certain level of energy so it can heal Emeralda in case that she gets injured. And since [[HealingFactor self regeneration]] requires a lot of energy, Crescens can't repair itself from disabled state like other nanite Gears ([[GameplayAndStoryIntegration in gameplay terms,]] that means it can get KO'd just like the rest of the party's Gears). This is an even bigger mistake when you consider that Emeralda, being made entirely of nanites herself, shouldn't ever ''need'' Crescens to heal her. |
| 361 | * GlassCannon: Crescens starts as a SquishyWizard. It can hit pretty hard after Emeralda's PlotRelevantAgeUp, but still suffer from low HP. |
| 362 | * HulkSpeak: Her sentences are clipped and very simplistic. It's understandable, considering she was effectively born when you first see her. |
| 363 | * HypocriticalHumor: She [[http://lparchive.org/Xenogears-(by-The-Dark-Id)/Update%2095/12-nanodaughter16.jpg refers]] to Elly as an "old lady" when chronologically she's [[Really700YearsOld much older]] than Elly is. |
| 364 | * LittleMissBadass: Especially once she's in her adult form, which gives her ''phenomenally'' good stat growth[[note]]Every stat except agility is guaranteed to get an increase of at least 1 point every time adult!Emeralda levels up. Most other characters will never get an across-the-board stat boost for even a single level-up. Given that agility rarely increases for anybody and Emeralda is already fast, that's still quite good.[[/note]] as well as a 20% boost to physical and Ether attack power that's not displayed in her stats. She'll easily end up as one of the fastest character in the game (second only to Citan) and is already the best magic user, and her physical prowess will with enough level-ups be on the same level as Fei and Citan. She basically has no weaknesses on foot, though she'll still be a bit of a GlassCannon in Gear combat. |
| 365 | ** This gives her a bit of AwesomeButImpractical as by the time you can do the sidequest to get her adult form, you have already fought the last on foot battle in the story line and her growth does not affect her gear performance. There is an extra dungeon that is on foot, but its rather simple and the rewards are more on foot gear for other characters. Presumably her upgrade would have been more useful if the game hadn't been cut short like it was. |
| 366 | * LostTechnology: While Solaris and Shevat both have some access to {{nanomachines}}, Emeralda's tech is way beyond anything that could be developed in the modern era, and serves as the blueprint for advances by Krelian and the Sages. |
| 367 | * MagicKnight: She's basically a combination of Elly's magic skills and Fei's combat prowess. That's not a coincidence. |
| 368 | * PrehensileHair: She uses it in her deathblows. |
| 369 | * PlotRelevantAgeUp: Complete the Zeboim Ruins side quest, and Emeralda grows up. |
| 370 | * RobotHair: Of course, since she's entirely made of nanomachines, it sort of makes sense that she can make them into hair if she wants to. She also uses it as a weapon in some of her attacks. |
| 371 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: She's never seen without her pink scarf (aside from her [[NakedFirstImpression first appearance]]), which is bit oversized on her childish frame. |
| 372 | * ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted. Her weight doesn't change when she shifts to adult form; Emeralda is always considerably heavier than she looks at 212 pounds. |
| 373 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Her actual role in the story is very minimal. However, it was through her that Krelian was able to perfect his nanomachine technology, which is what goes on to drive the plot for the entire second disc. |
| 374 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Emeralda. |
| 375 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Highlights the fact that she's not a normal human. |
| 376 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While she joins the party before Elly becomes officially unplayable, she effectively fulfills the same function as her as the team mage with her array of offensive spells. |
| 377 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: In battle, she transforms her limbs and hair into various weapons like spiked balls, [[ThisIsADrill drills]], etc. More bizarrely, some of her deathblows somehow allow her to transform her entire body into [[EnergyWeapon laser beams]]. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | !Sacred Empire of Solaris and Associates |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[folder:Emperor Cain]] |
| 383 | [[quoteright:317:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CAIN01_657.jpg]] |
| 384 | [[caption-width-right:317:Emperor Cain]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | ->''"Then I leave it up to you... I atone for my crime by doing so..."'' |
| 387 | |
| 388 | The emperor of Solaris and the first human created by Deus. Is described many times as the BigBad, but the truth is much different then realized... |
| 389 | |
| 390 | ---- |
| 391 | |
| 392 | * AgeWithoutYouth: Unlike the Gazel Ministry, who abandoned their physical bodies for the SOL-9000, Cain retained his physical body. The skull-like mask shown in his character portrait is part of a gigantic life-support system designed by Krelian to keep him alive. When Ramsus destroys the mask, what's left of Cain that the audience sees is so degenerated after 10,000 years of being alive that it can't realistically be called "human" anymore. |
| 393 | * TheAtoner: Everything he does to help Fei is because he still feels guilty for killing Abel all those years ago. |
| 394 | * BigBad: Until Krelian came along, Cain essentially was the one in charge of Solaris for all those millennia. |
| 395 | * BodyHorror: When Ramsus knocks off his helmet, all we can see of his face is a gray mass, with no discernible features. |
| 396 | * DarkLordOnLifeSupport: He's the emperor of Solaris, but his age has left him so weak that he needs to be hooked up to a life support device 24/7 and undergo regular operations just to stay alive and functional. Subverted, however, in that his leadership has more or less been taken by Krelian, and Cain himself is actually working in the interests of the heroes, impeding Krelian and the Gazel Ministry wherever he can. |
| 397 | * GoodAllAlong: You think he's on the Gazel Ministry's side, but he's actually doing whatever he can to get in their way. |
| 398 | * HeelRealization: It isn't stated when exactly this happened, but Emperor Cain eventually turned against his original destiny and seeks to do everything possible to prevent Deus's resurrection. |
| 399 | * KickedUpstairs: Cain once had the autocratic control of Solaris that his rank suggests, but in the present day, Miang and Krelian are actually the ones who control Solaris, and Cain has been reduced to their PuppetKing for the last 500 years. |
| 400 | * {{Immortality}}: The extent of his immortality is not entirely clear; however, it is said that he cannot be killed by anyone but himself. This is why Krelian and Miang manipulated Ramsus (his clone) into killing him. |
| 401 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: If you don't count the Gazel Ministry who were turned into A.I. centuries ago, Cain is literally the oldest human on the planet at nearly ''ten thousand years old''. It's a reference of an apocryphal idea of how Cain became immortal after killing Abel and went to be TheAtoner until the end of time. |
| 402 | * TheManBehindTheCurtain: It may not seem like in in a first playthrough, but everything Cain does or orders Citan to do is in order to help out Fei as he is the best hope for humanity to survive. |
| 403 | * PuppetKing: While he was once the ruler of Solaris, in the present day he has become a DarkLordOnLifeSupport and effectively a figurehead. Miang Hawwa, Krelian, and the Gazel Ministry are the real power behind the throne, with others like Ramsus and Grant making their own power plays in turn, and Cain is trying to stop them to atone for his crimes. |
| 404 | * TheProphecy: Cain's "Time of The Gospel" is when Deus would be revived using all of humanity as spare parts. It describes the time span of 10,000 years in which the Resurrection of Deus must be achieved. The reason for this timer and the consequences of failure have never been explained in the game nor in [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]]. |
| 405 | * TheUnReveal: When Ramsus kills Cain, his mask gets knocked off only to reveal a black, charred husk of a man decayed beyond recognition by 10,000 years of artificially extended life. Though most fans tend to agree that since Ramsus is a clone of Cain, then that is what he looked like. |
| 406 | * ZerothLawRebellion: He attacks the rest of the Gazel Ministry with an electromagnetic pulse in a last-minute failed attempt to stop them from activating the Gaetia Key. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Commander Kahran Ramsus]] |
| 410 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_ramsus_8570.jpg]] |
| 411 | [[caption-width-right:262:Ramsus]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | A high ranking Gebler commander. Fights and loses to Fei's party several times, which due to his inferiority complex drives Ramsus insane. |
| 414 | |
| 415 | ---- |
| 416 | * BigBadWannabe: His introduction paints him as one of the main antagonists, being our first glimpse of the Gebler high command. [[UnwittingPawn He’s not]] [[AntiVillain even close]]. |
| 417 | * BrokenAce: He's an expert warrior, tactician, and beloved by many for his skill and intelligence. He's an absolute wreck in spite of that because he spent his entire life trying to disprove the Ministry's low opinion of him -- that he's a failed clone, just "trash." His ambition cost him his two best friends, and by the last quarter of the game, he's basically a broken man. |
| 418 | * ButtMonkey: His first memory is of people talking about him as a failure ''before he was even born''. And it doesn't get better for him. |
| 419 | * CloneAngst: Finding out he's a clone of Emperor Cain isn't the final nail in the coffin of his sanity, but it's pretty damn close to it. |
| 420 | * {{Determinator}}: He will go to ''any length'' to defeat Fei and prove he's not a failure. Miang deftly parlays his obsessions toward achieving her goals, rather than putting 2 and 2 together and realizing who's ''really'' to blame for all his ills. |
| 421 | * FallenHero: According to Sigurd and Citan, Ramsus became an Element so as to change Gebler and Solaris from within in order to make the system better. As time went on, he basically became no better then what he was trying to change, going from one controlling government to another. Both of these were part of why they defected in the end, as they really hoped Ramsus would change things for the better. |
| 422 | * FreudianExcuse: He was created as the epitome of humankind and as an Artificial -Contact- until he literally gets trashed as a fetus when Krelian discovers the new -Contact- has already been born. It doesn't help that Fei beats him every -single- time and his superiors consider him "trash". It turns out that Miang orchestrated this from day one, so as to manipulate him into killing both herself and Cain when the time was right. |
| 423 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: After you defeat him a couple of times, you start to feel sorry for the poor guy even as he's desperately trying to kill you. |
| 424 | * MeaningfulName: Bears the name of Pharaoh Ramses II, also known as [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair Ozymandias]], and is constantly overcompensating due to his traumatic past and crippling inferiority complex. |
| 425 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Objectively speaking, Ramsus is more powerful than nearly any other human on the planet. He's a physical and mental exemplar, is capable of piloting any Omnigear, surviving nearly anything, and more than a match for Fei's "coward" persona. He could even operate as a Contact if the situation called for it. The problem is that (by design) he's not a full Contact, not as powerful as Id, and his Omnigears are no match for a real Weltall. Miang has brainwashed him into [[AlwaysSecondBest obsessively comparing himself to Id]], causing him to become a ButtMonkey unknowingly under her thrall instead of focusing on his own abilities and becoming a HeroOfAnotherStory in his own right. |
| 426 | * PlugNPlayTechnology: One of the abilities he inherits from Cain is that he can interface with all twelve Anima Relics. |
| 427 | * RapidAging: Was engineered to reach maturity about three times faster than a normal human in order to be an adult in time for Miang's big giant Deus revival party. It's perhaps the only reason he's even alive at the start of the game after Krelian tried to terminate him. |
| 428 | * TheResenter: He has a burning hatred for Fei for being a natural -Contact- incarnation. Ramsus had been created by Krelian and Miang as a clone of Cain to be a substitute -Contact- in absence of a real one, but Ramsus ended up being discarded the moment Fei was identified. |
| 429 | * RoyalRapier: His weapon of choice. |
| 430 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name in the Japanese version is Carlin Ramses. |
| 431 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: Pretty much any time Fei or Id shows up, Ramsus' sense of self-preservation goes right out the window in the face of his inferiority complex. When he confronts Id in the Aveh desert, Id [[CurbstompBattle rips off his Wyvern's right arm, leg, and wing all in one motion before pounding his face into the sand,]] and Ramsus ''still'' thinks [[ICanStillFight he can keep fighting]] until Miang [[KnowWhenToFoldEm reasonably pulls him out of there.]] |
| 432 | -->'''Ramsus:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Don't do anything rash, Miang!]] [[OnlyAFleshWound I still have one arm left!]] |
| 433 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Towards the very end of the game, Citan [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him]] in to realizing that even if Krelian and Miang don't care about him, all of the Elements do. This allows him to finally let go of his resentment towards Fei and live HappilyEverAfter with his QuirkyMinibossSquad. |
| 434 | * UnwittingPawn: Miang started manipulating him while he wasn't still born. |
| 435 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: He's actually younger than Fei. Probably even younger than Maria. |
| 436 | [[/folder]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[folder:The Elements]] |
| 439 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_elements_4105.jpg]] |
| 440 | [[caption-width-right:350:Dominia, Kelvena, Tolone and Seraphita]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | Kahran Ramsus's [[QuirkyMinibossSquad elite personal squad]]. The group is composed of [[DishingOutDirt Dominia]], [[MakingASplash Kelvena]], [[BlowYouAway Tolone]] and [[PlayingWithFire Seraphita]]. |
| 443 | |
| 444 | ---- |
| 445 | |
| 446 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Based on the names of the angel choirs, it would be more accurate to translate Kelvena and Tolone's names as Cherubina and Throne. |
| 447 | * BodyguardCrush: Dominia is ''really'' devoted to Ramsus and wants to get his attention. |
| 448 | * ClassicalElementsEnsemble: The Elements are divided according to the four classical elements, and have corresponding personalities and Gears to match. |
| 449 | ** Dominia, TheLeader, represents Earth and is a rough-edged swordswoman who focuses on strength; she pilots the humanoid Bladegash. |
| 450 | ** Kelvena represents Water and is typically quiet and calm; she pilots the Marinebasher, which is dolphin-shaped. |
| 451 | ** Tolone represents Wind and is the smartest and most logical of the group, being a cyborg; she pilots Skyghene which is shaped like a bird. |
| 452 | ** Seraphitia represents Fire and is frequently flighty and unpredictable; she pilots Grandgrowl, which looks like a giant [[FieryLion winged lion]]. |
| 453 | * CloudCuckooLander: Seraphita is very spacy. |
| 454 | * CombiningMecha: Their Mechas fuse together to form the G-Elements. |
| 455 | * {{Cyborg}}: Tolone, with her Positronic Photon Brain and ArmCannon. According to [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]], 90% of her body has been replaced with machines. |
| 456 | * EliteFour: They are Kahran Ramsus's elite personal guard squad and there are four of them. |
| 457 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Kelvena, with good reason--her Ether level is so high that she must keep her eyes closed to keep her powers in control. This is in contrast to former fellow Element Elly, whose Ether level is off the charts but doesn't have to do anything exceptional to control her powers. |
| 458 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: While their personalities don't correspond to their elemental equivalents, they can be divided as such. Dominia is aggressive and choleric, Tolone is cold and melancholic, Seraphita is cheerful and Sanguine, and Kelvena is calm and phlegmatic. |
| 459 | * GoldfishPoopGang: The only times they pose a credible threat to your party are in the first fight with Dominia, the underwater fight with Kelvena, and the final fight as [[CombiningMecha G-Elements]]. |
| 460 | * LittleBitBeastly: Seraphita is a Demihuman with rabbit ears and a tail. |
| 461 | * MeaningfulName: Dominia's surname is Yizkor, which are Hebrew for prayers for the dead, and she's the only known survivor of Id's attack on Elru. |
| 462 | * QuirkyMiniBossSquad: You have to fight them several times. Each time they engage in a bit of funny dialogue before the fight. |
| 463 | * RedOniBlueOni: Tolone and Seraphita form a classic BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine where Seraphita is the emotional one and Tolone is the stoic one. |
| 464 | * ThemeNaming: Named after the Choir of Angels: Dominion, Cherubs, Thrones and Seraphs. |
| 465 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Kahran Ramsus. |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | [[folder:Gazel Ministry]] |
| 469 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gazel01_2420.jpg]] |
| 470 | [[caption-width-right:350:Four of the Surviving Eight.]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | The head Ministry that controls Solaris and behind many of the planned genocides and wars that have occurred over the many, ''many'' years since they were created by Deus. |
| 473 | |
| 474 | ---- |
| 475 | * AiIsACrapshoot: All of them are AI copies of consciousness. |
| 476 | * AllThereInTheManual: Perfect Works says the names of the eight surviving Ministers are Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methushael, Lamech, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal. |
| 477 | * ReferencedBy/ArsGoetia: The Gaetia Key is actually a mistranslation of Goetia Key. |
| 478 | * BigBadWannabe: They think they're in charge. They're not and end up being deleted before they really get the chance to understand what really was at play. |
| 479 | * BrainUploading: In a literal form - the Gazel are uploaded brains. |
| 480 | * ChekhovsGun: The satellite holds a DoomsdayDevice within itself, with the Ministers constantly debating whether to use it or not. |
| 481 | * DoomsdayDevice: The Gaetia Key, which will, when used, institute a form of ZombieApocalypse in its attempt to create HumanResources for the resurrection of Deus. |
| 482 | * DramaticEllipsis: Their lines have probably more ellipsis than actual words. |
| 483 | * GhostInTheMachine: The actual Ministry members are long dead. What we see in the timeframe of the game are merely electronic copies of their consciousnesses stored in the SOL-9000. |
| 484 | * GodhoodSeeker: The Ministry believes that resurrecting Deus will make them gods. |
| 485 | * KillSat: With full command and control functions, at that. |
| 486 | * TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Part of the reason why Xenogears' story is confusing at times is trying to figure out just WHAT these guys are talking about half the time. |
| 487 | * TheReveal: Kinda obvious when you think about it, but the Gazel Ministry are actually A.I. kept in a huge spherical computer. |
| 488 | * RewatchBonus: Their conversations actually add quite a bit to the narrative, but require the player to already know the plot before they make any sense. |
| 489 | * SealedEvilInACan: Inside the Gazel Satellite is a weapon that, once activated, turns 90 percent of the planet's population into Wels in a combination of HumanResources and ZombieApocalypse. |
| 490 | * SnowyScreenOfDeath: A literal example. The four deceased members of the Ministry are depicted as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_color_bars SMPTE broadcast color bars]]. |
| 491 | * WeaponOfMassDestruction: In two ways - it controls all of the Solaris armed forces and their various weaponry/soldiers and can deploy any one of them at will, and it carries the Gaetia Key. |
| 492 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: All Krelian needed the ministry for was to activate the Gaetia Key. Once that's done... |
| 493 | * YouKnowTheOne: Literally 90% of their dialogue consists of this. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:Grahf]] |
| 497 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_grahf_3554.jpg]] |
| 498 | [[caption-width-right:350:”Doth thou desire the power?”]] |
| 499 | |
| 500 | ->''“Even if I go to hell, I will live till the end of this world. And if the world does not come to an end... I will destroy it with my own hands!”'' |
| 501 | |
| 502 | |
| 503 | A mysterious and powerful foe who appears early in the game, Grahf is a powerful foe with his eyes set on testing Fei for reasons unknown. He's also the man behind the attack on Lahan village, wanting to draw out Fei's true power. |
| 504 | |
| 505 | ---- |
| 506 | |
| 507 | * AllThereInTheManual: It isn't exactly explained in-game what Grahf actually ''does'' to those that accept his offers of power. Perfect Works however explain that every Gear has a specific "Marking" that determines how much output power the Zohar sends to it, which Grahf is able to increase and thus improve their combat effectiveness. |
| 508 | * BadassArmfold: The usual pose of both him and Alpha Weltall. It's a sign of his incredible strength and confidence. Once you know his backstory, it also contrasts him from Lacan, who was "powerless" and had no self-confidence. |
| 509 | * BodySurf: How he's survived until the present day. |
| 510 | * CatchPhrase: When helping out people in their efforts to defeat the heroes, he always asks something to the effect of "'''Doth thou desire the power?'''". |
| 511 | * DarkIsEvil: Wears [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]], his theme is called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc6gRAOhb8Q Grahf, Emperor of Darkness]]", and he's mostly not a nice person. |
| 512 | * DramaticHighPerching: When he first appears, Alpha Weltall is standing on top of a narrow pinnacle of rock, with him standing on its shoulder. |
| 513 | * EvilTwin: He is a splinter of Lacan, the evil nature of him that came about from losing Sophia. Or, if you want it in simpler terms: Grahf is to Lacan what Id is to Fei. To hammer this in, a flashback to him donning his iconic dark armor shows that following giving into despair Lacan's appearance has changed from looking like Fei, to looking like Id. |
| 514 | * {{Expy}}: Assisting other antagonists? Check. Dark colored armor with a equally dark colored mask and cape? Check. Reveal a LukeIAmYourFather moment? [[FromACertainPointOfView Check]]. Dies as a result of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redemption]]? Check-o-roony. He's blatantly based off of [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], to the point that the notes for his concept art in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]]'' even mention that his armor is modeled off of Vader's. |
| 515 | * ImplacableMan: After fighting against your party of three {{Humongous Mecha}}s ''without'' using his mecha and ''barely'' losing, he still keeps going after you. He only loses fights due to outside factors, or because Fei straight up becomes more powerful than him. |
| 516 | * INeedYouStronger: His primary motivation for tormenting Fei. He needs Fei to become stronger so he can BodySurf back to him, and become stronger. |
| 517 | * LargeHam: He has a definite flair for the dramatic, and every time he appears to help a boss you just defeated, he repeats his "doth thou desire the power'' speech. The listener usually has no idea what he's talking about. |
| 518 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: He somehow splintered off from Lacan either before or after he died. In a sense, he's the Id to Lacan, but one who escaped and continues to act without a body. |
| 519 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Actually, your previous incarnation who [[BodySurf possessed your father's body]]. |
| 520 | * MentorArchetype: As the Wiseman, he drops by from time to time in the story, giving Fei additional help and guidance. He disappears just as quickly, later implied to be due to Khan getting control of his body. |
| 521 | * PetTheDog: |
| 522 | ** He saves Elly as she falls while trying to stop the Hecht from destroying Norturne. The incident also provides a pretty good clue as to who Grahf really is. |
| 523 | ** A subtler instance is during the fight with him on the Goliath. Grahf never attacks Elly during the battle, instead targeting only Fei and Rico. This ensures the fight is "winnable", but also reinforces that he still loves Elly. |
| 524 | ** Near the end, he [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself to buy Fei enough time to defeat Deus]]. |
| 525 | * PowerGivesYouWings: Weltall Alpha doesn't have wings when Khan pilots it, but does when Grahf does. |
| 526 | * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: After Sophia's death and his meeting with the Wave Existence, Grahf decided that the world sucks so much that everybody is just better dead. He develops a deeper reason for wanting to destroy the world after learning more about the history of the world; by destroying humanity, he would have prevented the resurrection of Deus. His angst against the world does make the task a whole lot easier on his psyche though. |
| 527 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: He lets the Zohar engine devour him in place of Fei, and dies begging Fei to destroy Deus and free himself and Elhaym from the cycle of death and reincarnation. |
| 528 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: He has [[http://i.imgur.com/2rJwDHX.gif these]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVz8L5OM3iA this cutscene]]. |
| 529 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Graf, a German noble title meaning "count" or "earl". |
| 530 | * StrawNihilist: So very much. He's prone to making dramatic speeches to torment Fei, and doesn't care how many people die as a result of his (or anyone else's) actions because he's going to destroy the world anyway. |
| 531 | * SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: After losing his lover, being [[ManipulativeBastard influenced by Miang]] and meeting the [[PhysicalGod Wave Existence]], he became a villain. He doesn't share any of the other villains' goals, though; he just decided life sucks so much he'll help them destroy humanity, and the other villains happen to be doing things he personally would have done, so he works along side them at times, but is just as likely to help the heroes if it gets in his way. |
| 532 | * SuperEmpowering: As a result of his connection to the Zohar, Grahf can amplify the power of a Gear on a whim by adjusting the flow of power coming from the Zohar to the Gear to make it more powerful. This power seems to come at a cost to the stability of the user, but makes them incredibly powerful. |
| 533 | * SuperPrototype: The Alpha Weltall/True Weltall/Original Weltall. As the name suggests, this is the prototype for Fei's Weltall, which is potentially stronger than an Omnigear despite being a regular Gear. The Alpha Weltall, however, is an Omnigear version of the Weltall, which Grahf is capable of using to its full potential, which means that it's as far above other Omnigears as Omnigears are above regular Gears. |
| 534 | * TinTyrant: Well, he ''does'' have to keep his identity hidden. |
| 535 | * WildCard: A major villain who sometimes works with Krelian and Miang, but is not under their control. At several points he goes out of his way to "help" the heroes, less because he wants them to win, but because he doesn't want his agenda failing. |
| 536 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After you see his StartOfDarkness and how things went bad for him and Krelian. |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:Shakhan]] |
| 540 | [[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_shakhan_2028.jpg]] |
| 541 | [[caption-width-right:175:Shakhan]] |
| 542 | |
| 543 | The current leader of Aveh, who established a coup and overthrew the ruling Fatima dynasty. |
| 544 | |
| 545 | ---- |
| 546 | |
| 547 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: He is nominally the Prime Minister of Aveh, but Gelber, and by extension Solaris, are the ones running the government. |
| 548 | * BaldOfEvil: Appropriate for a tyrant. |
| 549 | * BigBadWannabe: Is a somewhat major antagonist early on, but after a series of defeats Grahf shows up, and HilarityEnsues. |
| 550 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Had his men brutally whip Bart and Sigurd as children. |
| 551 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: While not the real final boss of Disc 1, he is certain a thorn in the party's side, directly or otherwise, for a long stretch of it, and is presented alongside Ramsus and Miang as one of the first major threats to the party. He quickly falls out of the limelight in favor of Ramsus, and eventually Miang. |
| 552 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Plays at being a nice guy toward Margie while holding her hostage in Fatima Castle, but everyone in the room can tell he's anything but. |
| 553 | * PuppetKing: With Solaris's backing, he led a coup and seized control over Aveh. Once the dust settled, Solaris promptly sent Gebler down to the surface to keep him in line. |
| 554 | * SinisterMinister: Was an Ethos priest until the coup. |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | [[folder:Bishop Stone/Stein]] |
| 558 | [[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_stein_3353.jpg]] |
| 559 | [[caption-width-right:175:Stone/Stein]] |
| 560 | |
| 561 | A member of the 'Ethos' organization, and a father figure to Billy. |
| 562 | |
| 563 | ---- |
| 564 | * ArcVillain: Of the Aquvy/Zeboim/Ethos stretch of the game. |
| 565 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He appears to be a kindly religious figure who cares for Billy and the other orphans. In truth, he's a secret agent of Solaris, and has no qualms killing anyone he thinks gets in his way. He also is a petty man underneath his seemingly polite expression. |
| 566 | * DrivenByEnvy: Pretty much the reason he does all his villainous acts is to spite Jessie. When the two were in Solaris together, Jessie basically always got what he wanted, only to then throw it all away to live a happy life. To get back at Jessie, he arranged for Racquel to be killed by Wels, took advantage of Billy and Primera's lack of a parental figure to try and get them to his side, and hoped to kill Jessie at some point. |
| 567 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Until he revealed himself as Stein, who has ''no eyelids at all''. |
| 568 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Even after he reveals himself to be a Solaris agent, he maintains a polite and cordial tone when talking to Billy and the others. It's only when Jessie enters the scene that it becomes clear his polite and seemingly cordial approach is just a vale to hide his pettiness. As soon as he escapes and returns with a Gear, he acts like a cruel and arrogant man. |
| 569 | * FlayingAlive: When Krelian physically merges him with Alkanshel, the process apparently involved removing all his skin, leaving him looking like a horrific Red Skull-like monster inside the gear, if his second portrait is anything to go off of. |
| 570 | * HateSink: Most villains in ''Xenogears'' have redemptive or sympathetic qualities to them. Stone is not one of them. He manages to somehow be as evil a bastard as Miang in only 1/10th of her screentime. |
| 571 | * IfICantHaveYou: He sicced Wels on Racquel because she chose Jesiah over him. |
| 572 | * LoveTriangle: With Billy's parents. It did ''not'' end well. |
| 573 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Wels attacks are apparently so common in Aquivy that no one knew about Stein's involvement in Racquel's death until he admits it to Billy. |
| 574 | * ThePowerOfHate: His hatred of Jessie is so strong that, with some SuperEmpowering from Grahf, he can NoSell the attacks of everyone because his Ether is so filled with hatred. It takes Jessie nearly sacrificing himself to use a specially made gear that acts as a powerful gun for Billy to get past it. |
| 575 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Billy and co. thwart his plans at Ethos HQ, he returns to Solaris for an "upgrade" from Krelian, and comes back for them with a vengeance. |
| 576 | * SinisterMinister: Helps Solaris with manipulating the world through the Ethos church. |
| 577 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: In-universe. On the surface he goes by Bishop Stone, while his real name is Isaac Stein. |
| 578 | * WeCanRuleTogether: He attempts to convince Billy to join him in a manner like this, attempting to play upon Billy's religious views to convince him to stand on the "right" side. |
| 579 | * WouldHurtAChild: The way he talks about Billy and Primera as proof of Racquel's [[DefiledForever "defilement"]] by Jessie, he probably wouldn't have minded if his Wels killed them along with her. He has no issues trying to kill Billy after, who is one the younger main characters. |
| 580 | [[/folder]] |
| 581 | |
| 582 | [[folder:Miang Hawwa]] |
| 583 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_miang_9594.jpg]] |
| 584 | [[caption-width-right:350:Miang, specifically her 998th incarnation]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | The assistant and lover to Kahran Ramsus. Secretly, she is actually the avatar of Deus, who aims to turn humanity into a new body for Deus. She has conspired with Krelian to manipulate every faction in the Empire for that goal. |
| 587 | |
| 588 | ---- |
| 589 | * AndIMustScream: Elly and Karen show that the original personality of the woman whose body Miang co-opts remains intact through the duration of the possession, re-emerging--in Karen's case--only after Miang has abandoned the body (moments prior to her death). |
| 590 | * TheAntichrist: She basically serves as the local equivalent. As the human interface of Deus, the DemiurgeArchetype, she manipulates all of human society into sin and destruction, manipulating male leaders in particular with her seductive charm, so they may evolve to assimilate with Deus. |
| 591 | * AnimalMotifs: Snakes. Both her Omnigear, Opiomorph, and her true form, Ouroburous, boast the appearance of a figure with a humanoid torso and the lower body of a serpent. Fittingly, Miang serves as an analog to the Biblical Eve, and just like the Serpent that tricked her through temptation, Miang herself uses temptation to trick people into doing her own bidding. |
| 592 | * BecomingTheMask: As the Executioner, she has far more autonomy to do all the dirty work herself (she does it efficiently enough for this identity to be [[TheDreaded widely feared]]), but Miang sometimes prefers to play sidekick as herself to Ramsus, Grahf (and even as her alter ego, also the only time you fight her in this identity), then Krelian. |
| 593 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With [[TheChessmaster Krelian]], as they are the true rulers of Solaris behind all their atrocities who intend on assimilating humanity into Deus. Of them, Miang is TheHeavy for the entire story, due to being so vital to the history of the world in her efforts to revive Deus, that she is also responsible for Grahf and Krelian becoming antagonists. |
| 594 | * BodySnatcher: Can take over the body of any woman with her DNA when her current body fails. Considering she's this planet's [[AdamAndEvePlot Eve character]], that's pretty much any woman, period[[note]]The only exception would be Emeralda, since her DNA-equivalent was artificially constructed from scratch at the atomic level. Which is a good thing, since body-surfing into Emeralda would've given Miang an immortal, shapeshifting body; she's more than dangerous enough as it is.[[/note]]--which woman is at random, however. Miang's real form is that of the mitochondrial DNA of the planet's human population, which is called the Ouroburous. When Miang dies in one meatsuit, she just awakens in another convenient womanly meatsuit. Near the end of the game, ''Elly'' becomes the 999th Miang, immediately on the death of the 998th (who was Ramsus's assistant), who appeared in most of the game. |
| 595 | * BodySurf: There have been 999 Miangs (after the original Mother) over the span of 10,000 years. That averages out to any particular Miang having roughly a ten-year lifespan. |
| 596 | * {{Bodyguard Babe|s}}: To Ramsus, though she's officially his aide-de-camp. We later learn that Miang has acted as one of these to male leaders throughout history. |
| 597 | * TheChessmaster: Before Krelian came along, Miang was tugging practically all the strings to her plan. The only reason he took this spot was because of their similar goals. Miang wanted to resurrect Deus, but Krelian wanted to take it [[AssimilationPlot a step further.]] |
| 598 | * ChessmasterSidekick: To Ramsus, Grahf, and Krelian. Also to the Gazel Ministry in the past, most notably Cain. Standard practice should be to assume if a villain is currently on screen being evil (aside from [[WildCard Id]], and even he ''exists'' because of Miang), you can probably trace it back to Miang one way or another. |
| 599 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Her BodySurf is allegedly random, but from what we see she has remarkable luck surfing into people that will quickly help her plans along. The only exception is Elly at the end, who was always meant to be the one she rejoined with for good. |
| 600 | * ClippedWingAngel: As a separate being, Miang is a capable and deadly opponent, and her Opiomorph nano-Gear is one of the most powerful adversaries you'll face. Ouroburous, her symbolic final form after merging with Deus, is utterly outmatched by the Xenogears. |
| 601 | * DemiurgeArchetype: Though Deus is the more traditional Demiurge in the story, Miang represents it as well through her status as the mother of humanity. Miang maintains control over mankind and manipulates events to ensure that humanity evolves in the way that will lead to Deus being able to be revived, much like how the Demiurge keeps mankind tied to the physical world to maintain rule over it. She also comes about in a manner not to different from the Demiurge, having been born from what is a Sophia like being in the form of the original mother. Heck, her final form even resembles a combination of the two most common depictions of the Demiurge, that being a winged human with a serpent around them, and the other being a serpent with a lion like head, both of which her final form, Ouroburous, have elements of. |
| 602 | * FamilialBodySnatcher: As the mother of humanity, she's able to possess any woman on the planet descended from her. |
| 603 | * GodInHumanForm: Being the Will of Deus, she basically acts as its physical avatar. She doesn't qualify as a PhysicalGod by herself (being more akin to Elly in strength), but she does have some unique abilities and, more importantly, full access to Deus's technology well before it's deployed on a large scale. |
| 604 | * HumanoidAbomination: Even if she doesn't look like one (until she goes OneWingedAngel), she's the humanoid avatar of an EldritchAbomination. |
| 605 | * ICannotSelfTerminate: Her mental programming by Deus leaves her unable to take her own life. It's implied that she has lived out entire lifetimes because of this. [[ThanatosGambit So she usually sets things up so that she can be murdered]] to keep {{Body Surf}}ing. |
| 606 | * LaserGuidedKarma: She [[BitchInSheepsClothing piss you off]]? Make you reeeally wanna kill her? Makes you wish you could [[SmugSnake stomp her smug face in]]? Here's some good news. The pathetic final boss Ouroburous [[FateWorseThanDeath IS Miang]]. |
| 607 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: Usually, whenever Miang takes over a new body, whatever color that woman's hair was instantly turns purple, like the original Miang's hair was. The game is somewhat inconsistent on if it happens right away of gradually, but all women she possess inevitable end up like her regardless. |
| 608 | * LukeIAmYourFather: She is technically this to everyone except Abel, who had been onboard the Eldridge and [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat survived its crashing]] thanks to his power as a Contact. |
| 609 | * TheManInFrontOfTheMan: She initially seems like Ramses's aloof assistant, quietly supporting him as he goes about trying to achieve his goals. In reality, she is the avatar of Deus, the main BigBad, and is, in tandem with Krelian, behind ''everything''. |
| 610 | * MouthOfSauron: Deus doesn't talk much. Miang, however, is fairly chatty. Accordingly, she serves as its Metatron and manipulates the various players into working toward its resurrection. |
| 611 | * OneWingedAngel: The PostFinalBoss Ouroburous is supposed to be Miang in her true form, though it's meant to be more metaphorical change then literal change as during this point in the game, everyone is expressed via their inner souls given form rather then their physical bodies. In this case, she's supposed to represent the Ouroboros, a never ending circle that represents the never ending cycle of reincarnation that Fei has to destroy once and for all to be freed from Deus. |
| 612 | * PostFinalBoss: Ouroburous is the last thing you fight in the game, but the battle is really more of a formality considering how easy she is. |
| 613 | * SdrawkcabName: Her full name (which only appears in Perfect Works and is foreshadowed by the password needed to access Elly's father's computer) Myyahele is Elehayym backwards. |
| 614 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She doesn't mind showing Grahf the goods, and even teasing him about it, when he drops in on her naked. |
| 615 | * SmugSnake: She's pretty callous towards both her victims and the people she's manipulating into helping her. |
| 616 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is actually supposed to be Myyah as a reversal of Elly's name, and Perfect Works makes it abundantly clear, but because it was written as the less-intuitive ミァン (Myan) in Japanese, ended up becoming translated as Miang. |
| 617 | * SquishyWizard: Has vaguely defined mind-warping powers and some of the strongest wave-type ether skills in the game. She has a few weaknesses though; swords, guns, massive ether blasts, nuclear holocausts, the Xenogears... |
| 618 | * TimeAbyss: Her consciousness has existed continuously for 10,000 years, with only minor interruptions as she's hopping bodies. This makes her the only person on the planet outside Cain and the Gazel Ministry who knows the full history of the "human" race compared to the phony cover-up version the Ethos concocted (on her order) to conceal the truth and manipulate everyone or the propaganda version that Solaris made up for itself. This level of insight gives her a tremendous advantage over everyone else in the game, even Krelian. |
| 619 | * TinTyrant: Though at first Miang as the Executioner doesn't take the metallic look quite as far as Grahf does, when she rejoins with Deus there is no question that she is ''literally'' this trope. |
| 620 | * {{Tsundere}}: To Ramsus again; sometimes treating him like crap and other times giving him the best sex of his life. Justified; she's [[MindGameShip doing it to mess up his mind]] so he'll go nuts and kill Cain, and then her in order to regain her true body. |
| 621 | * TheVamp: Her preferred method of manipulation. |
| 622 | * WillfullyWeak: For most of the game, she's got reasons to keep her full capabilities under wraps, taking a supporting role as Ramsus' adjutant and when fighting alongside him in her Vierge. You see her full capabilities when she pilots her own Gear, Opiomorph, and then she's one of the hardest bosses in the game. |
| 623 | [[/folder]] |
| 624 | |
| 625 | [[folder:Krelian]] |
| 626 | |
| 627 | !!!Voiced by Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese) and Creator/CamClarke (English) |
| 628 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_krelian_3922.jpg]] |
| 629 | [[caption-width-right:350:Krelian]] |
| 630 | |
| 631 | ->''"If god doesn't exist in our world, then I will create god with my own hands!"'' |
| 632 | |
| 633 | The true leader of Solaris with a major chip on his shoulder. After losing his beloved Sophia, he also lost faith in God and humanity, and so decided to create a god by ascending and becoming one himself. Teaming up with Miang Hawwa, he becomes an agent of Deus and aids Miang in manipulating every faction in the Empire, intending to assimilate all of humanity into himself. |
| 634 | |
| 635 | ---- |
| 636 | |
| 637 | %% * AllLoveIsUnrequited |
| 638 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: His ultimate goal, which he actually manages to reach. |
| 639 | * BadassBookworm: His biggest assets are his intelligence and [[ManipulativeBastard skill in manipulating others]], and he's ''very'' good at using them. |
| 640 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With [[BitchInSheepsClothing Miang]], as they are the true rulers of Solaris behind all their atrocities who intend on assimilating humanity into Deus. |
| 641 | * TheChessmaster: He orchestrates most of the events of the plot and even manages to outplay [[TheManBehindTheMan Miang]] in the end. |
| 642 | * DespairEventHorizon: Sophia's death pushed Krelian past this. |
| 643 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Certainly has an androgynous look to him, especially in the ending. |
| 644 | * {{Expy}}: Krelian shares a lot of similarities in personality to Karellen of Arthur C. Clark's Literature/ChildhoodsEnd. He was even named Karellen in Japanese. |
| 645 | * FallenHero: Before Sophia died, Krelian was one of the good guys, allied to Shevat and Nimrod against Solaris, pupil of Taura Melchior and friend to Sophia, Lacan, Roni and René. He was never the same again after his DespairEventHorizon. |
| 646 | * KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith. By all accounts, Krelian manages to achieve everything he wanted and gets away with it; he manipulates Solaris for centuries, torments your party so many times whether intentionally or with other people, turns most of the population of the world into Wels, and gets to travel with the Wave Existence back into its home dimension without so much as a slap on the wrist. However, he leaves the story having been convinced he was not as right as he thought while not getting Elly. So while he gets away with his actions, the result is bittersweet for him, and he goes with the Wave Existence alone. |
| 647 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: His StartOfDarkness was because of his love for Sophia. |
| 648 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair turned white, presumably as the result of {{Nanomachines}} prolonging his life. |
| 649 | * MadScientist: He controls Solaris, which is basically a MadScientist nation. |
| 650 | * ManipulativeBastard: He and Miang take turns at manipulating others in horrible ways. |
| 651 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of the game, Krelian admits that he has done so many horrible things that he can't even call himself ''human'' anymore. A shot of Ramsus's fetal form appears behind him as he says this, pointing out one last time that he grew a [[DesignerBabies Designer Baby]] ''just so he could mind fuck the kid beyond insanity''. |
| 652 | * NoPlaceForMeThere: Krelian nearly says this word for word at the end to Fei to the offer to return home with him, knowing full well the people will never so easily forgive him for all the things he's done. |
| 653 | * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: As with Lacan, Krelian is convinced that a world "without God" sucks so much that everybody would be better if he created a God using an AssimilationPlot. As with Lacan, Krelian doesn't ask if anybody else agrees. |
| 654 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name in the Japanese version is Karellen, a reference to Childhood's End. |
| 655 | * SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: As with Lacan, Sophia's death was Krelian's StartOfDarkness. Instead of destroying everyone, though, Krelian wants to assimilate everyone and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend them all to a higher plane of existence]]. |
| 656 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Krelian gives an epic one to the Gazel Ministry as he erases them one by one. |
| 657 | * {{Ubermensch}}: Krelian sees that there's no god in the world, so he creates one to follow instead. |
| 658 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: A bit of PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, a little WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds...''a lot'' of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. Basically, he believes that as long as he succeeds in ressurecting Deus, it will make every horrible thing he's done be worth it. He ''knows'' he's a monster who's murdered countless people, but he truly believes he's doing the right thing for everyone. In a sense, it's why he always acts so cold during the game, because if he didn't make sure his plan works, it would mean all that he had done would have been for ''nothing.'' |
| 659 | --> "-Deus-, the physical manifestation of god, only wants results... The means are insignificant to him." |
| 660 | [[/folder]] |
| 661 | |
| 662 | [[folder:Deus]] |
| 663 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenodeus_1st_form.png]] |
| 664 | [[caption-width-right:350:Deus 1st stage located in Mahanon.]] |
| 665 | [[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deus2_form.png]][[/labelnote]]to see its second form]] |
| 666 | [[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deus3_form.png]][[/labelnote]]to see its third form]] |
| 667 | [[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deus4_form.png]][[/labelnote]] to see its final complete form]] |
| 668 | ->''"You shall be as gods."'' |
| 669 | |
| 670 | A highly advanced biological weapon created by humans (as in normal humans originating on Earth) to conduct war on an interplanetary level. However it proved to be too powerful and was declared to be disposed of on the far ends of the galaxy. It rebelled against this, taking over the ship carrying it as shown in the intro cutscene of the game and crash landed on the planet Xenogears takes place on. The events of both the game and the history of the world revolves around its intricate plans to put itself back together. |
| 671 | ---- |
| 672 | * AIIsACrapshoot: The game starts with him causing the spaceship he's in to have to blow itself up to stop him, and ends with him trying to exterminate humanity. |
| 673 | * DemiurgeArchetype: Deus is the GreaterScopeVillain and a powerful machine who killed everyone on the ship that was transporting it and promptly crashed on another planet. It then proceeded to create a race of humans on said planet. The [[TheTheocracy state religion]] of the [[TheEmpire Sacred Empire of Solaris]], known as Ethos, worships it as the god of the world, and it even has a false Messiah and false Eve in its human interface Miang Hawwa. However, the true God is the Wave of Existence, who Deus came into contact with, and in contrast to Deus, it is a benevolent deity who wants to save the humans from Deus. With all the Gnostic influence and themes that permeate the story, Deus serves as the perfect insert for the Demiurge, the god that created the material universe and seeks to solely use humanity to further its selfish goals. |
| 674 | * DeusEstMachina: It is "God" in the sense that it is the creator of the human race on the world on which ''Xenogears'' takes place. Which is ironic, as Deus itself was created by the human race who had left that planet. A case of the created creating the creator. |
| 675 | * DiabolusExNihilo: It is never made clear as to why Deus wanted to go to Earth when Deus took over the Eldridge. [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]] mentions that "in the game, it was never clarified as to why Deus switched course for Earth" and that Earth became sealed for unknown reasons and...still doesn't give an answer. The reason Deus needs 10,000 years to repair itself and the consequences of failure isn't explained in the game nor in [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]]. |
| 676 | * DoomsdayDevice: Deus was designed as a last resort in an endless interstellar war. By the time it mistakenly blew up a colony world, the military realized they had gone too far, and shipped it as far away as possible. |
| 677 | * EldritchAbomination: A man-made one. Not only is it a powerful weapon, but it has implications of being some kind of living being, and not only does it evolve and become more powerful, it becomes essentially a God. Each form it turns into becoming more and more monsterous. |
| 678 | * EvilIsBigger: In its original 'shell', Deus is many times bigger than a Gear. |
| 679 | * FinalBoss: Deus in its complete form is the final true obstacle in the way of the party from saving Elly. Though there is one fight after defeating Deus, it's more of a glorified {{CutsceneBoss}}. |
| 680 | * FullPotentialUpgrade: Krelian actually accelerates its evolution through {{Nanomachines}}. |
| 681 | * AGodAmI: After coming into contact with the Wave Existence, Deus not only believed it was a god, but with the power it had, it became effectively a false God. |
| 682 | * GodGuise: When Deus came in contact with the Wave Existence (the divine being which is unwittingly powering all the Gears), it came to believe that it was God. In other words, Deus is a false idol, created by humans. Unlike Deus, the Wave Existence never wished for worship or followers. |
| 683 | * GoneHorriblyRight: Deus *was* originally created to be a weapon, and infused with the directive of learning how to become even better at it. Ultimately, its creators got what they wanted. |
| 684 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Krelian and Miang make up the [[BigBadDuumvirate duumvirate]] that the heroes mostly deal with, but ultimately their plans and actions are all just to serve and improve upon Deus. Nonetheless, Deus doesn't actually ''do'' much in and of itself, instead it waits until it can reactivate with enough parts. |
| 685 | * HumanoidAbomination: It has a disturbing degree of resemblance to its creators, especially in concept art. The embryonic Deus seen in the opening resembles... well, a human embryo with angel wings and an umbilical cord long enough to double as a tail. Meanwhile its ancient, decayed form seen in Mahanon has "wings" that look like the bicameral halves of a human cortex. |
| 686 | * HumanResources: Deus seeks to produce the human bodies it needs to complete its body at all costs. |
| 687 | * LivingWeapon: It was originally created to be an interplanetary invasion system. |
| 688 | * TheLongGame: It created humanity only as a means to further his goals: a new body and ascension to godhood. The reason it needs 10,000 years to do it and the consequences of failure isn't explained in the game nor in [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]]. |
| 689 | * OneWingedAngel: It changes its form at least four times. |
| 690 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Before the beginning of the game, Deus turned against the people it had been made to be used by as part of its attempt to become some kind of God. |
| 691 | [[/folder]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | !Others |
| 694 | |
| 695 | [[folder:Sigurd Harcourt]] |
| 696 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_sigurd_9889.jpg]] |
| 697 | [[caption-width-right:262:Sigurd]] |
| 698 | |
| 699 | Bart's right hand man on the Yggdrasil, and also his LongLostSibling. He also has a past in Solaris, and is old friends with Citan, Jessie and Ramsus. |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * AmbiguouslyGay: He shows no interest in women, unlike many of the other male characters, and falls well into the "confirmed bachelor" trope. In prequel manga created by one of the game's creators, the ambiguity is gone - he's implied to have been Ramsus's lover. |
| 702 | * CaptainCrash: DoubleSubverted: Sigurd is almost at AcePilot levels and has almost identical engineering knowledge (if not more) than Citan - they built flight Gears including Jessie's Buntline together - and a UniversalDriversLicense. The only reasons everything he pilots gets crashed and trashed are factors beyond his control and the need to use the craft as a weapon. |
| 703 | * CinderellaPlot: Either a RescueRomance version or a friendship version. Per the backstory, Ramsus spared him from a fate of experimentation and slavery to be an Element. Also subverted, because instead of being HappilyEverAfter, the friendship/relationship acrimoniously ended. |
| 704 | * EyepatchOfPower: The opposite eye from Bart's. Convenient, because late in the game, you need a full set of eyes from the Aveh royal family to unlock a piece of ancient technology. |
| 705 | * HeroicBastard: Unlike Bart, he's the ''illegitimate'' son of the last previous king of Aveh. |
| 706 | * IdenticalGrandson: Looks almost identical to his ancestor Roni Fatima but with silver hair and darker skin. |
| 707 | * MrFanservice: Whether in Gebler, in the Elements or aboard the Yggdrasil, Sigurd always modifies his outfits to expose his abdomen above his waist and below his chest. This actually resembles the traditional clothes of his mother's people from the Ignas desert, but it also makes him fanservice. But most of this is AllThereInTheManual -- it's not quite as obvious ''in game'' that he dresses this way. |
| 708 | * RoyalBlood: He's actually Bart's half-brother. |
| 709 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: With Ramsus, although depending on whether the [[WordOfSaintPaul Liquid Sky doujinshi]] is seen as canonical or not, their relationship could have been that of once-lovers. |
| 710 | [[/folder]] |
| 711 | |
| 712 | [[folder:Marguerite "Margie" Fatima]] |
| 713 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_margie_2199.jpg]] |
| 714 | [[caption-width-right:262:Margie]] |
| 715 | |
| 716 | Bart's sixteen year old cousin and current Holy Mother of Nisan. |
| 717 | |
| 718 | ---- |
| 719 | |
| 720 | * ArrangedMarriage: Despite being Bart's cousin, they'll probably have to marry someday. |
| 721 | * KissingCousins: Margie and Bart are not only first cousins, but [[ArrangedMarriage arranged to be married]]. Bart does not like the idea, and Margie seems indifferent at best. |
| 722 | * PluckyGirl: She's often the most optimistic member of the group. |
| 723 | [[/folder]] |
| 724 | |
| 725 | [[folder:Hammer the Supplier]] |
| 726 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_hammer_7343.jpg]] |
| 727 | [[caption-width-right:262:Hammer]] |
| 728 | |
| 729 | ->''Master, sir, did you just see my MAD SKILLZ?"'' |
| 730 | |
| 731 | A demi-human whom Fei first meets in Kislev, claiming to be a merchant. He was imprisoned in Kislev's D-Block, but escaped alongside with Fei and his allies. |
| 732 | |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | |
| 735 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Has a few vaguely HomoeroticSubtext moments (with Fei or Rico) and one vaguely PetHomosexual moment (with Elly). And he still has such moments after being lost, through Rico's fond reminiscing. |
| 736 | * DeadSidekick: Mostly for Fei, Elly and Rico after Hammer forces them to kill him. |
| 737 | * {{Demihuman}}: He's an half-human mutant. |
| 738 | * FaceHeelTurn: After hanging around the heroes for a while, Hammer starts [[IJustWantToBeSpecial desperately wanting to be special like them]]. Unfortunately, the only people wanting and able to give him the power he wants are the villains. |
| 739 | * HomoeroticSubtext: It's true that Hammer is chiefly interested in [[IJustWantToBeSpecial finding his way in the world]], but the particular gleeful ''eagerness'' with which he tries to court the favor of Fei or Rico goes beyond that of a mere HeroWorshipper and well into StupidSexyFlanders territory, if not even further. |
| 740 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: {{Deconstructed}}. Hammer realizes that he's surrounded by so many important people that want to save the world, while he's just a nobody, that he's willing to do just about ''anything'' in order to be special like them. Perhaps even [[SympatheticMurderer murder]]. |
| 741 | * MauveShirt: He's a pretty funny and developed secondary character for most of Disc 1... which makes his FaceHeelTurn even sadder. |
| 742 | * MoralityPet: Surprisingly, Hammer was this for Rico. We only learn about it after Hammer is gone. |
| 743 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He feels becoming this is the only way to get the heroes to take him seriously. |
| 744 | * SympatheticMurderBackstory: Hammer was introduced and developed as a beloved {{True Companion|s}} before his act of murder. |
| 745 | * SympatheticMurderer: Elly and Rico still love Hammer, even after he kills Elly's mother. Rico continually emphatically insists that it wasn't Hammer's fault, and that he may have been manipulated into doing it. The seeds of Hammer's betrayal were sewn during his time of captivity in [[TheChessmaster Krelian]]'s lab, and it was never certain just ''what'' was done to him ''before'' the party escaped. |
| 746 | * TragicMonster: What he becomes after his FaceHeelTurn. |
| 747 | * UnfazedEveryman: Hammer follows the heroes everywhere, even without fighting skills. This gets eventually tragically {{Deconstructed}}, as it turns out his "everyman" status is a bigger problem. |
| 748 | * WasOnceAMan: Before becoming a giant cyborg. |
| 749 | [[/folder]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | [[folder:Jesiah "Jessie" Black (Real name Jesiah Blanche)]] |
| 752 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xenogears_jessie_8299.jpg]] |
| 753 | [[caption-width-right:262:Jessie]] |
| 754 | |
| 755 | Billy Lee Black's father. Former agent of Solaris and, suprisingly, one of the original Elements and in turn, an old friend of Citan, Sigurd, and Ramsus from the Jugend Academy days. |
| 756 | |
| 757 | ---- |
| 758 | |
| 759 | * TheAlcoholic: One of the reasons why Billy doesn't like him. Later justified to be his method to cope with all things he had gone through (and apparently one of the traits he picked up from Joshua). |
| 760 | * DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Jessie ditched his family to go fight a secret work against the Ethos, leaving his wife unprotected from getting murdered. Jessie doesn't really understand why Billy is angry at him for this (part of the reason is that he made a deal with Racquel to not disclose his work with their children, something that Billy was not particularly fond of when he figured out). |
| 761 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears from the game at disc 2 (Partly thanks to the rushed plot. However, his Buntline was still able to be used by Billy in gameplay, suggesting that he just goes back behind the scenes with Gaspar). |
| 762 | * DefectorFromDecadence: When working for Solaris (and almost being promoted to be a Commander), he discovered all the atrocities the empire had been done, and so decided to ditch them and fight against them, carrying his family with him to the surface while trying to contact Shevat. |
| 763 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: An interesting subversion in that it was a result of his plastic surgery to emulate his comrade Joshua. |
| 764 | * GunNut: So much of one he wanted to be made ''into'' a gun. You even first meet him with a ClickHello. |
| 765 | * TheGunslinger |
| 766 | * HappilyMarried: With his wife, Racquel Bennetbashe. Surprisingly, they wed very young at the ripe age of 18. |
| 767 | * RetiredBadass: He was so good that Solaris offered a position of a High Commander to him before he defected. |
| 768 | * SueDonym: His original name in Solaris is Jesiah Blanche. According to ''Perfect Works'', the Black name is actually an alias, originally from his Shevatian fallen comrade Joshua. Their names have similar sounding but distict enough that Jessie was able to use it to work behind the scenes. |
| 769 | * TransformingMecha: The Buntline, from humanoid mode to {{BFG}}. |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | |
| 772 | [[folder:Primera Black]] |
| 773 | |
| 774 | ---- |
| 775 | |
| 776 | Billy Lee Black's little sister. |
| 777 | |
| 778 | * CuteMute |
| 779 | * HiddenDepths: Primera is able to read and predict people's intention from reading their emotions. This enables her to be close to her father despite the drastic changes Jessie went through. |
| 780 | [[/folder]] |
| 781 | |
| 782 | [[folder:Yui Uzuki]] |
| 783 | |
| 784 | Citan's wife and granddaughter of Gaspar, one of the Three Sages of Shevat. |
| 785 | |
| 786 | ---- |
| 787 | |
| 788 | * TheAce: She was once ([[InformedAbility allegedly]]) the best swordswoman in Shevat prior to meeting Citan (Considering who her [[OldMaster grandfather]] is, that may not be a stretch). Yeah, that's right, the two [[TheAce Aces]] are married to one another. |
| 789 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Seems to vanish off the face of the earth in disc 2 and is not even mentioned in passing by her husband or daughter. Considering everything that happens, this might lead to some [[FridgeHorror horrifying and tragic implications]], though Citan and Midori's lines in the Snowfall Hideout do not seem to make this the case as she may be helping her grandfather's work (which is also surprisingly missing afterwards). |
| 790 | * FeminineWomenCanCook: Fei repeatedly proclaims his love of Yui's cooking. Citan is less appreciative. |
| 791 | * RetiredBadass: According to Citan, she did defeat him in swordfight before their marriage. |
| 792 | [[/folder]] |
| 793 | |
| 794 | [[folder:Queen Zephyr]] |
| 795 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zephyr_0.png]] |
| 796 | [[caption-width-right:250:The Queen of Shevat]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | The leader of the kingdom of Shevat and one of the few who knows the secrets of ''Xenogears'' world. |
| 799 | |
| 800 | ---- |
| 801 | |
| 802 | * TheAtoner: She admitted that Shevat was the one who brought out the Diabolos Collapse to the world by sacrificing Sophia, and Krellian gave her and her advisors life extension treatments to redeem themselves to look for the answers. |
| 803 | * TheHighQueen: She is the queen of the most powerful nation in the surface world and is very concerned about her subjects and by extension, the whole surface people, if a bit too naïve at first. |
| 804 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Is around 522 years old by the time of the game setting, thanks to her and her councilors getting life extension treatments from Krellian. |
| 805 | * SupportingLeader: Like Bart, she enables the heroes to go with their operation and even gives her support. |
| 806 | [[/folder]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | [[folder:The Three Sages of Shevat (Taura Melchior, Isaac Balthazar, and Gaspar Uzuki)]] |
| 809 | |
| 810 | The primary advisors to Queen Zephyr, who also happens to be actual sages in their respective fields. |
| 811 | |
| 812 | ---- |
| 813 | |
| 814 | * TheAce: They are the best Shevat has to offer in their respective fields. |
| 815 | * TheAtoner: Like Zephyr above. |
| 816 | * FighterMageThief: While they are sages , their backstory makes them fit in this dynamic with some of variations: |
| 817 | ** Gaspar is the Fighter, being the leader and master-at-arms of the Shevat army infantry, with his primary role in the game is to remove the limiters, which amounts to strengthening, of the heroes that Solaris put in all surface people. |
| 818 | ** Taura Melchior is the Mage, being a purely scientist with a touch of the Healer subtype as he treats Fei and Elly after they got wounded from being shot down using his nanomachine system. |
| 819 | ** Balthazar is the Thief, as he is a master engineer and Shevat's go to when it comes to Gear and overall machinery designs and maintenance while keeping a sneaky method. |
| 820 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: They are the modern definition of sages, being masters of their fields. Melchior and Balthazar in particular shows this in spades, as the former is very adept at medicine and biotechnology, while the latter is a master Gear engineer who also happens to have interests in archaeology, and both are stated in the game to be the ones who architect the rebuilt of the heroes' Gears to Omnigear levels using blueprints studied from the Xenogears and nanotechnology construction. |
| 821 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: like Zephyr, they are more than 500 years old thanks to Krellian's life extension treatment. |
| 822 | * ShoutOut: To the Three Sages of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which much of the ''Xenogears'' development team worked on. In addition to sharing their names, ''Xenogears'''s Sages also hail from an advanced floating paradise (Zeal/Shevat), are also encountered one-by-one out in the world before their true nature is discovered, and provide the party with useful information and upgrades at key points in the story. |
| 823 | [[/folder]] |
| 824 | |
| 825 | [[folder:Id]] |
| 826 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/idmaxresdefault_4775.jpg]] |
| 827 | [[caption-width-right:350:Id]] |
| 828 | |
| 829 | ->''"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"'' |
| 830 | |
| 831 | A mysterious man in red with staggering amount of power in both himself and his own gear. Ramsus in particular hates this man with a passion as it was Id who was responsible for the destruction of the continent of Elru. It is revealed that Id is really an alternate personality of Fei, born from the continuous torture suffered at the hands of his mother[[note]]who was really being controlled by Miang[[/note]] and finally awakened when she was killed. |
| 832 | |
| 833 | ---- |
| 834 | |
| 835 | * AloneWithThePsycho: The entire scene between Id and Citan comes off like this. Even though Id is heavily restrained by a machine that cuts off his nerve connections and could only break it at risk of turning back into Fei, Id is ''still'' just as psychotic and terrifying as he's ever been. |
| 836 | * BloodKnight: About the only thing he enjoys is combat, and generally only acts to fight entertaining opponents. |
| 837 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Id blames everything that happened to him, everything he had become on his father Khan, saying if he wasn't so focused on his work he would've actually ''done something'' to save his own family. Khan doesn't disagree, and tries to help Fei as Wiseman when he can gain control away from Grahf. |
| 838 | * CatchAndReturn: See the folder quote. Sigurd and Mason try to scuttle the Yggdrasil on top of him to save Bart from a HopelessBossFight, only for Id to pick up ''the entire ship'', crumple it like a wad of tissue paper, and hurl it right back at Bart. |
| 839 | * ChekhovsGunman: Id was briefly seen in a cutscene near the beginning of the game, in a dream Fei was having. It also included Khan and Grahf. |
| 840 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He is the part of Fei's psyche that actually experienced this. |
| 841 | * EnemyWithin: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He starts as an enemy, but as the story goes forward he damages the villains at least as much as the heroes. In the end, Fei manages to calm him by convincing his ''other'' SplitPersonality to show him his happy memories. |
| 842 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: What provokes the SplitPersonalityMerge; by convincing the Coward to finally show that Id wasn't responsible for Karen's death, and in fact it was a HeroicSacrifice, Id is utterly ''baffled'', as he doesn't know how to react to unambiguously positive emotions, and Fei convinces him that this is why he needs the other two aspects of his personality. |
| 843 | * EvilRedhead: Of the BloodKnight variety. |
| 844 | * HiddenInPlainSight: Aside from a change in hair, skin, eye color and clothing, Id has the exact same face as Fei. It's just not as readily noticeable at first because because Id usually shows up in person only after Fei has been off screen for prolonged periods. |
| 845 | * IShouldHaveBeenBetter: A twisted version of this. Id felt that all of his power couldn't even save his own mother, so he felt that all he was good for was destruction. It's only when Fei gets him to see the positive memories and emotions that Id realizes he can be better. |
| 846 | * JekyllAndHyde: The Hyde to Fei's Jekyll. |
| 847 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQOkGV2U4yE The One Who Is Torn Apart]], a subdued, ethereal theme with a DroneOfDread in the background, showing both his mysterious role in much of the story, lurking menace, and the tragedies that led him to becoming what he is. |
| 848 | * TheJuggernaut: Almost nothing can stop Id once he gets going. Vanderkaum's massive, powered-up Dora? Just a warm up act. Ramsus and Bart? Don't even slow him down. Sigurd jumps the Yggdrasil to crush him? Id picks the entire ship up and slams it into Bart instead. Id is so powerful, that he isn't ever defeated in battle, and is "defeated" by simply remerging with Fei. |
| 849 | * MeaningfulName: Blatantly obvious, but he is after all the "Id" to Fei's Super-Ego and The Coward's Ego. |
| 850 | * MommasBoy: Despite all the torture he underwent under her, Id knew that she was just being controlled by Miang. Which is why it's such a huge part of how he was willing to merge back with Fei. |
| 851 | * OmnicidalManiac: As someone who literally has no happy memories and knows he exists entirely to suffer in the place of Fei's other personas, Id more or less ''defaults'' to this behavior, hating everything around him as a potential source of more pain. |
| 852 | * PapaWolf: To Emeralda, oddly enough. His arrival at the bridge in Zeboim during her kidnapping and his accompanying dialogue both hint that perhaps he feels sympathetic towards her |
| 853 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: In the backstory, he destroyed the continent of Elru. In the present, he's capable of throwing a battleship bare-handed, and later destroys Solaris. |
| 854 | * PowerDyesYourHair: Just compare his picture with Fei's up top. Pretty much the only clue that they're the same person is that they have the same facial structure, but even then, it's subtle. |
| 855 | * PsychopathicManchild: Despite all his power, Id is not exactly mature. Out of the superego's brain farts causing incompetence, Id somehow makes it worse, whether killing everything in a desert skirmish, hunting down [[FriendOrFoe friend and foe]] to protect his "child", or massacring a floating city [[FreudianExcuse because he didn't get his lollipop]] [[TouchedByVorlons after being enhanced by the local clinic.]] Doesn't help [[AbusiveParents his "parents" tweaked him]] into the ultimate culture-killing OneManArmy. |
| 856 | * SplitPersonality - {{Subverted}}: You would think that Fei was the true person while Id was the split personality. Id was actually around for many years before Fei and arguably has more cause to be the true personality then Fei is. DoubleSubverted when it's revealed that the original Fei is actually a ''third'' personality. |
| 857 | * SuperStrength: In flashback scenes, Id completely decimated an army of gears ''with his bare hands''. |
| 858 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Id has full command of Fei's latent abilities, making him an ImplacableMan MagicKnight. He is also a completely amoral BloodKnight. |
| 859 | * TheDogBitesBack: Not only does Id lash out at those who made him who he was: [[FridgeBrilliance whomever superego Fei has underlying angst between, Id distributes with vengeance.]] Such victims include Fei's [[DoomedHometown hometown]], [[TriggerHappy Bartholemew Fatima]], [[FauxActionGirl Elly]], [[CloneAngst Kahran Ramsus]], and [[{{Pride}} Solaris]]. |
| 860 | * TraumaInducedAmnesia: While Id remembers every moment of how he was tortured, the one thing he didn't know was that his mother died saving his life instead of just being killed by him. This realization is what allows him to fully merge with Fei again. |
| 861 | * TykeBomb: When Id was around with Grahf until he was 15, he was basically this. |
| 862 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: What Id went through as a child ''sucked''. Not only was he tortured just as much as the real Fei, but he was constantly blamed ''by himself'' that he deserved all of it, as well as blamed solely for the death of his mother. |
| 863 | [[/folder]] |
| 864 | |
| 865 | [[folder:The Wave Existence]] |
| 866 | [[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/existence_enc_7321.png]] |
| 867 | [[caption-width-right:330:Wave Existence]] |
| 868 | |
| 869 | ->'' '''Fei:''' "I don't understand what you are talking about. Who, or what are you?"'' |
| 870 | |
| 871 | ->'' '''Wave Existence:''' "In one word... ...'''EXISTENCE'''."'' |
| 872 | |
| 873 | The true God of the Xenogears-verse (Or is it?), everything that occurs in the game can be traced back to this being from a higher dimension. Over ten thousand years ago, Humans created an infinitely powerful engine called the Zohar, which needed a source of power so strong that it literally dragged this being from its plane of existence to power it. And ever since then it's been wanting to return, and was fully willing to grant its power to young Abel in order to do so, thus turning him into the Contact and starting the story that was ten thousand years in the making... |
| 874 | |
| 875 | ---- |
| 876 | |
| 877 | * AGodAmI: It claims that it it is both God and is [[AGodIAmNot not God]] at the same time. |
| 878 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The instant Deus is dead, it doesn't hesitate for a second to do just this. It neglected to mention to Fei that doing so gives off an energy burst powerful enough to destroy an entire planet, and would have done so were it not for Elly's intervention by forcing Deus's corpse into outer space. |
| 879 | * EnergyBeing: This trope is precisely why it makes such a good power source for the Zohar and thus, the source of all Gear functions and Ether abilities. |
| 880 | * {{God}}: [[TheMaker The true one,]] unlike [[DemiurgeArchetype Deus.]] |
| 881 | * GodIsGood: Unlike Deus who treats all of mankind like its personal tools, The Wave Existence honestly implores Fei to do what's right and destroy both Deus and the Zohar to free both it and all of humanity. To that, it basically gives his Gear a godly upgrade, turning it into the aptly named [[TitleDrop Xenogears]]. |
| 882 | * GreaterScopeParagon: He puts the game's plot in motion after his contact with Abel, doing so in patience for ten thousand years. |
| 883 | * ItsAllMyFault: It honestly feels bad for everything Fei has suffered in his life and feels it was its fault that Fei's personality split. Fei however rebukes this, saying the fault was within him that he must deal with. |
| 884 | * LivingMacGuffin: While in-story the Zohar would technically be the MacGuffin, the Wave Existence is basically what powers it, thus becoming this trope. |
| 885 | * PiecesOfGod: According to Krelian, all of the universe and in turn humanity and souls in general were originally created by the overflow of this being. |
| 886 | * TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: For such a highly advanced being, all it's ever wanted is to go back home to its higher dimension. [[BigBad Krelian]] basically plans to hitch a ride with it. |
| 887 | * WalkingSpoiler: Perhaps the most notable example in ''Xenogears'', almost everything that happens in the plot is because of this character in some way. |
| 888 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: When the Wave Existence first connected with Abel, the first thing it felt was Abel's desire to find his mother. This reaction gave the being a "mother's will" and created the original Elhaym to help Abel in his quest to destroy Deus. |
| 889 | * YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: It has no physical form, rather it simply takes the form of a virtual version of itself that you create, IE, it is only your perception of it. |
| 890 | [[/folder]] |
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