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May I enjoy my life and practice my art,
respected by all men and in all times.

Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals, inc. is a pharmaceutical and scientific research firm focused on the treatment of originium infection, and is the primary industry (and essentially the controlling entity) of the nomadic city of the same name. Behind the scenes, they are also committed to creating a society where infected and non-infected people can co-exist peacefully, which brings them into conflict with certain other factions, particularly the new Reunion Movement. To this end, they operate a sizeable paramilitary task force, drawn from peoples and factions the world over who are willing to help.

As a group

• The Alleged Car: The Rhodes Island landship itself is a mess, requiring reconstruction and renovation from the moment the Doctor sets foot on it. "Darknights Memoir" shows this is nothing new, as several years prior it was still a barely functional mess of ancient technology recovered from mysterious ruins in Rim Billiton, intermixed with more modern machinery.
• Category Traitor: This is how the faction is viewed by Skullshatterer, pointing out the irony of how Rhodes Island, a group of infected, would be willing to ally themselves with Lungmen, whom Skullshatterer sees as slaughterers of the infected.
• Child Soldier: While specific ages for each operator usually aren't mentioned, it's very clear that Rhodes Island doesn't mind recruiting extremely young (and in some cases clearly underage) operators into their ranks. This is evident in the Reserve Ops team members, who are mostly teenagers barely out of high or even middle school, and Rosmontis, who is an esteemed elite operator at 14, as is Amiya, Rhodes Island's leader who fights on the frontlines. There's even a dormitory furniture set designed explicitly for Rhodes island's child operators, with the name-drops in the descriptions confirming that operators Popukar and Bubbles are children. The contrast of a bright happy playroom filled with toys before its residents go out to kill more people is presumably intentional.
• Combat Medic: One of Rhodes Island's roles is to intervene in battlefield situations to render medical aid, primarily to the Infected but also to non-Infected as well. Most Operators have at least some basic first aid training, while the dedicated Medics are far better equipped. In addition, more than a few of the dedicated Medics are trained and experienced in combat, though they focus on healing (with only Folinic and Incantation Medics being able to harm enemies directly). Some normally-pacifist Medics, such as Shining or Gavial, can become terrifyingly deadly fighters, if forced to be.
• Defends Against Their Own Kind: This is a part of Kal'tsit's position to convince Wei Yenwu of Lungmen to join Rhodes Island's cause. While it is true that Lungmen is successful in dealing with unarmed Infected, they haven't dealt with organized Infected riots before. She ends her statement with this, explaining why her faction, despite being infected, is more suited against the Reunion Movement:
  Kal'tsit: From our experience... Only the Infected are capable of countering the Infected.
• Faction Motto: "May I enjoy my life and practice my art / Respected by all men and in all times.", an excerpt from the Hippocratic Oath. Fitting for an organization that focuses on the care and treatment of the sick.
• Foil: To the Reunion Movement. Both organizations seek to improve the lives of infected people, but while Rhodes Island is trying to do it through medical and other means largely recognized as legal by the various nations of the world, the Reunion Movement seeks to tear down the establishment that ostracized them and replace it with something better... regardless of how much violence that takes. This is even lampshaded in Episode 2, where Exusiai and Franka discuss why some of the Infected had to choose between Reunion or Rhodes Island, wondering what makes one faction different from the other.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: They're the primary protagonist faction, but several other factions have joined their cause as well (usually by sending representatives) to help them in the fight against the Reunion Movement. This may count as The Alliance, and is also to justify and explain how the player is able to recruit operators from all sorts of allied factions as a gacha mechanic. The ones listed below are some incidents in the main story where Rhodes Island calls for help.
  • The negotiation with Lungmen happens in Episode 2. Under these terms, Wei Yenwu allows Rhodes Island to use the ports of their city, but with conditions applied. The first one is for Rhodes Island to find any Reunion threats and any unregistered infected who might have infiltrated Lungmen. R.I. members also had to operate under the orders of the L.G.D.
  • When it comes to additional security expertise, they rely on Blacksteel. For example, Franka and Liskarm assist them in the search-and-rescue operation for Misha in Episode 2.
  • With Penguin Logistics, it's mostly contractual, as Exusiai explains in the second and third Episodes. They could leave the scene when the objectives are completed, but they can still be called anytime as Rhodes Island wishes.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Deconstructed; It is an open-secret that Rhodes Island unfortunately presents itself as a paramilitary organization whether they wish to be or not, not helped at all by how many Living Legends they have under the employ which implies a fierce amount of strength that could level a small country rather easily if they ever fully mobilize their full might... but Kal'tsit explains to the Doctor as to why this cannot EVER happen—despite the resources they have at their disposal making this trivial to accomplish—because it would otherwise cause the entire world to see Rhodes Island as a threat that needs to be put down for upsetting the status quo by existing as a roving mercenary group stronger than some larger countries' entire military might, thus mandating the need for limited operator deployments as to downplay their strength and thus seem weaker than they really are to keep scrutiny off the power they actually have. In short, they are therefore forced to be left-handed for their own survival as an organization rather than because they choose to.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: A lot of Rhodes Island Operators have hidden talents and experience that they aren't willing to divulge or use unless the situation becomes extremely desperate. For example, Shining is an extremely deadly swordswoman but restricts herself to using her Arts for medical reasons. Saria can be a devastating brawler when pushed but normally restricts herself to using her shield and healing her allies. Skadi is a nascent Eldritch Abomination who could end the world if she surrenders to her Seaborn blood. The various "alter" versions of Operators often show these alternate aspects of their characters.
• Locked Out of the Loop: In Episode 2, Rhodes Island is tasked to find and escort Misha, but no one in the L.G.D. briefed them on the reason why. When it was found out that the Reunion members are also looking for Misha, the R.I. rescue team (consisting of the Doctor, Amiya, Franka and Liskarm) wonder why Lungmen is keeping some information from the agreement. It was only in Episode 3 that Ch'en briefed Rhodes Island on why Misha is important in one way or another.
• Lost Technology: The landship Rhodes Island itself. The current vessel known as "Rhodes Island" was apparently discovered in ancient ruins in Rim Billiton, and rebuilt by the Babel organization, led by Theresa, the Doctor, Closure, and Kal'tsit.
• Meaningful Name: Rhodes Island may have been named after the real-world Isle of Rhodes, which was occupied by The Knights Hospitallers at one point of its history. The Hospitallers were known to provide care for the sick and wounded pilgrims, and possessed some of the best medical knowledge of its time. As history went on, they were forced to adapt military measures and eventually acted as mercenaries.
• Neutral No Longer: Prior to the Reunion uprising, Rhodes Island simply played the role of a neutral pharmaceutical organization with no particular attachment or loyalty to anyone or anything. Then Talulah and her cronies appeared and Rhodes Island is once again dragged into the massive headache that is Terran politics.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything:
  • As far as gameplay is concerned, Rhodes Island Pharmaceutical does not provide any pharmaceutical services at all beyond the medicine carried by their medics. Case in point: the main source of income from RIIC is the manufacture and sale of precious metals. Averted in the lore, as they are explicitly stated and shown to provide medication and treatment for infected individuals in several operator profiles. Also, Dora in one of the event stories is a civilian patient being treated at Rhodes Island. The main plot however downplays this by focusing more on their conflict with Reunion and other factions. This is called out a few times in-universe as well, with multiple characters noting just how heavily-armed Rhodes Island is for a pharmaceutical company. Considering their origin as Babel and original association with the royal family of Kazdel, it makes sense that they are heavily militarized.
  • Operator Proviso has voice lines indicating that Rhodes Island does not receive compensation from the companies it works with and is far more generous with the malpractice liability terms in its medical contracts than it needs to be, causing its revenue stream to suffer as a result. Various side stories and supplemental materials also show that Rhodes Island makes a point of providing medical treatment (primarily, but not exclusively for Oripathy) to people who ordinarily wouldn't be able to afford it. Altogether, it paints a picture of a company that is actively avoiding making any profit off its pharmaceuticals — which makes one wonder if Rhodes Island can even be properly considered a pharmaceutical corporation, or if it's more of a medical non-profit funded by precious metal trading and PMC activities.
• Player Mooks: During the Integrated Strategies mode, the rank-and-files representing Rhodes Island will act as starter units, and, compared to the named members, can be recruited multiple times, and more than one of their classes can be deployed in combat.
• Private Military Contractors:
  • Rhodes isn't supposed to be one, but the problem is that, thanks in a sense to their Ragtag Bunch of Misfits nature, their Operation Teams and overall pool of "operators" who can assist them tend to be quite talented... and, thanks to rescuing the Doctor, are picking up a reputation for being able to fight groups like Reunion. This means that Rhodes Island, and thus you, keep finding yourselves in situations that sure make Rhodes look like a PMC, even if on paper, and at least in-lore still in practice, they aren't one. And then there's the "Operational Intelligence" event and the seeds that it plants concerning the pre-amnesia Doctor, and the somewhat different ideas they seem to have had about how to use Rhodes' human resources... This gets lampshaded by Aosta in his voice line when promoted to Elite 1.
    Aosta: Doctor, is Rhodes Island really a pharmaceutical company? I think, if the people here were deployed together, a city of Siracusa can even be taken down.
  • Per Weedy's profile, it's caused problems for Rhodes Island in-universe. Prospective recruits eventually realize that Rhodes Island is not a peaceful pharmaceutical company and decide to leave after discovering Rhodes Island's "true purpose".
  • Rather tellingly, in the various supply missions to get resources for Rhodes Island, none of them are described as rendering medical aid. Instead, RI personnel are being contracted out to do security and paramilitary work like escorting classified material, protecting facilities, or clearing routes of bandits.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Rhodes Island isn't particularly picky about who they induct into their ranks as long as they have valuable skills and are capable of following orders.
  • Some operators even find this odd enough that they lampshade it.
    Meteorite: To be frank, you're surrounded by people from all walks of life. That can be quite dangerous, don't you think?
    Swire: They say Rhodes Island is a criminal organization, full of infected people dirtying up the hallways. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Rhodes Island's Operators are giving their lives to make everything better for everyone, just like the Lungmen police!
    Bison: Doctor, perhaps you haven't realized this yourself, but the fact that you can unite so many people with very different personalities under one banner is no simple feat… It'd be great if I could become more like you one day.
  • In the "Knights' Treasure" event, Big Bob also wonders why Rhodes Island is willing to allow a "living Catastrophe" like Skadi in their ranks, in contrast to the more innocent and normal Grani.
  • In "Ceobe's Fungi Mist", the Cunning Merchant is somewhat astonished that Rhodes Island has all sorts of weirdos under their employment.
  • Among the Rhodes Island personnel there are former criminals and terrorists like W, Mudrock, La Pluma, and Tequila, mad scientists like Dorothy, Warfarin, and Aak, multiple experimental supersoldiers like Ifrit and Skadi, and even Feranmuts like Kjera, Dusk, Nian, and Ling.
  • Rhodes Island has even become a place that collects people from other worlds that were inexplicably transported to Terra, such as Team Rainbow, Xiohei and his friends, and a trio of Felynes. It's become so commonplace that Yato even casually mentions that Rhodes Island has picked up a lot of experience dealing with extradimensional travellers.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Being a pharmaceutical company willing to treat any and all Infected that come to their doors, Rhodes Island has effectively become a convenient dumping ground for companies or nations to send off Infected who are too valuable to just let die, but otherwise cannot stay in their former positions. In rarer cases, thanks to its political neutrality, Rhodes Island also receives operators exiled or on the run due to political or legal circumstances.
• The Remnant: "Darknights' Memoir" reveals that Rhodes Island is formed by the scattered personnels of Babel, the loyalist of the previous Sarkaz King Theresa, that was routed after Theresa was slain. Rhodes Island was formed not only to keep Theresa's ideal of peace alive, but also to protect her heir Amiya should they clash with Theresa's usurper brother again.
• Signed Up for the Dental: Many of their operators signed up because they get permanent medical care as long as they're under Rhodes Island employ, which is especially important for those who are already infected with Oripathy (with a few poor folks, like Mousse and Eyja, staring down the proverbial gun barrel without Rhodes Island's help). Even outsourced operators have expressed interest in getting medical check-ups from Rhodes, and SilverAsh's profile mentions that Kjerag nobility also use Rhodes Island for medical treatment.

Staff members

The Doctor

The Doctor / Oracle

Are you awake, Doctor?

Race: First Civilization Human
Artist: Lowlight Kirilenko
Voiced by: Yuki Kaida (Japanese, anime)

The Player Character. A mysterious figure rescued by Rhodes Island shortly before the destruction of Chernobog. Handles tactical command of Rhodes Island's forces.

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• The Ace: While in-game, The Doctor had always been seen as a master tactician by many characters in-universe without much context, the true depths of their capabilities are only explored later on. In Darknights' Memoir events, Ines called them the only player on a chessboard, one who is leagues above the others—the chess pieces. Even with amnesia, the Doctor still retains their muscle memory and frequently leads Rhodes Island towards victories despite the odds frequently stacked against them. This in spite of the fact that their occupation was supposed to be a neurologist.
• Ambiguous Gender: The Doctor is perpetually shown wearing a loose coat and hood, making it impossible to spot any gender features. This is to make it easier for the player to place themselves into the role of the Doctor. Even some of the operators get confused about the Doctor's gender as well.
  Cuora (after her Trust increases): Are you my big brother? Or big sister? Ah, whichever you are, it's fine!
• Ambiguously Human:
  • The Doctor's true appearance is deliberately left ambiguous, so it's next to impossible to tell what race they actually are. They lack a visible tail, for one, and their full-face hood and helmet combo doesn't leave much room for horns or long ears, making it very hard to surmise what they actually look like. However, we have seen Operator Sora use an apparent illusion to make it look like their race is different, meaning it's entirely possible for The Doctor to do this too, since we don't know the specifics of such illusion.
  • Casual dialogue during "Heart of Surging Flame" seems to imply that even though they do acknowledge high temperatures, it's not a very pressing issue for them to change into something more open, and that they can function perfectly fine within the searing hot volcano of Siesta hints that they have a much higher tolerance to heat than most normal Terrans. This is further emphasized when multiple characters mention how the Doctor eats instant food by pouring boiling water straight from the kettle directly into their mouth for more efficient consumption.
  • New discoveries made in Episode 8 seem to suggest that, whatever race the Doctor is, they seem to be unusual.
    • The sarcophagus the Doctor awoke from in the prologue seems to be some sort of "household medical device" that could restore their body to healthy shape when wounded, but theorized to work only for members of their race, as Mephisto went full One-Winged Angel after trying to use it.
    • Additionally, the Doctor's blood turns blue-green after Kal'tsit applies a chemical to it, and has healing properties on Amiya following her fight against Talulah.
  • Reveals in Episode 12 concerning the Sarkaz, their origins, and their true technological might when they were the original species on Terra present the possibility that the Doctor might actually be a pure-blooded Sarkaz who survived the fall of their civilization and was untouched by Originium unlike the descendants of their race.
  • "Lonetrail" reveals that the Doctor is indeed one of the last Precursors through Preserver and Kal'tsit's exposition on the Conservation Project.
  • "Babel" further reveals that the precursors are not native to Terra and came from outer space, heavily implying that they were true humans.
• Ambiguously Related: "Lonetrail" raises several questions about their relationship with Priestess, as Preserver says it was "intimate". Whether he meant a familial, strongly platonic, or romantic one is yet unknown.
  • Small emphasis on the term 'was', as it can go from Star-Crossed Lovers to We Used to Be Friends.
• Amnesiac Hero: They can barely remember anything about themselves prior to being rescued. "Lonetrail" implies that this might not even be the first time the Doctor has lost their memory given the revelations of their past.
  The Doctor's Intel File 1: You can't remember anything. At first, you can't feel anything. Things gradually start to feel familiar...But in the end, you can't remember anything important.
• Assassin Outclassin': Three times on-screen, the Doctor has been beset by people out to kill them directly. Three times on-screen, the Doctor manages to avoid getting killed one way or another.
  • During the Reunion Incident, Skullshatterer attempted unsuccessfully to kill the Doctor - Amiya intercepted him and stabbed him to death with an Arts blade.
  • During the Babel days in Vigilo, the Doctor once talked a Sarkaz assassin out of trying to kill them, correctly intuiting that the Sarkaz blamed them for his subconcious loss of faith in Theresa's cause. This revelation broke the Sarkaz assassin and led to him commiting suicide out of shame and despair.
  • During the events of Near Light, the elite assassins of the Armorless Union sent Platinum on a mission that was not sanctioned by the Kazimierz Grand Chamber of Commerce to kill the Doctor and the rest of Rhodes Island for being potential obstacles to their plotting. Due to some political horse-trading in the previous days, the Doctor had good relations with a portion of the K.G.C.C. and this resulted in the Spokesman calling Platinum over the Rhodes Island office phone to warn her to terminate the mission as it was not authorized.
• Awful Truth: "Babel" reveals that pre-amnesia Doctor knew that Originium was deliberately seeded on Terra by themselves and Priestess, who are not native to the planet, as an experiment to try and preserve their own race. This is a secret that not even Kal'tsit knew, and ran completely counter to Babel's stated goals of curing Oripathy, leaving the Doctor conflicted about whether to follow Theresa or stick to the original plan their fellow precursors set. This is what prompted the pre-amnesia Doctor to betray and sabotage Babel from within, which is why Kal'tsit, Amiya, and other former Babel members are so reluctant to reveal too much of the pre-amnesia Doctor's past to the current Doctor.
• Broken Ace: For all the skills and knowledge they possess, pre-amnesia Doctor is haunted by the fact that they are the Last of His Kind, and torn by the dilemma between continuing the precursors' plan and curing Oripathy, leading to the unfortunate tragedy that ended Babel Tower and their attempted suicide by guilt. Worse, it is hinted that pre-amnesia Doctor was betrayed and suffered a mild case of Mind Rape by their own kind to prevent them from disobedience. In fact, Doctor's amnesia actually saved them from the alleged manipulation, and the Oracle's personality is resurfaced
• Back-to-Back Badasses: They can be seen in the left side of the main menu interface (near the Account Level indicator) with their back turned to your featured operator, though some operators' Elite 2 artwork can result in The Doctor being obstructed from view, particularly with Shining and Pramanix's Elite 2 artwork.
• Became Their Own Antithesis:
  • Was a ruthless commander caring less if not nothing of their own subordinates' lives in the face of victory. After losing their memory, the Doctor has shown a great deal of care for their operators.
  Mountain (After Promotion 2): I used to think that Rhodes Island was just another Mansfield, a prison of "freedom." And you. You are me. You are a prisoner of freedom. You are the king. Yet now I know that's not the case. This is not a prison, and you are the friend of everyone here.
  • Borderline Played for Horror, and definitely Played for Drama with The Reveal that The Doctor and Priestess were originally working to assimilate all of Terra into a giant Originium mine for the sake of their civilisation, meaning that the scourge of Oripathy is their fault, uncaring that this would wipe out the native Terran species in doing so. Thanks to their amnesia, The Doctor has gone from working to destroy the world to fighting to protect it.
• Becoming the Mask: "Babel" reveals that although their purpose was initially to spread Originium across Terra at the expense of all other life on the planet, and initially having a low opinion on Terran life-forms, the Doctor at first begrudgingly worked with Theresa while pursuing their goals, but eventually grew to love the people of Terra and grew conflicted as to whether to help cure Oripathy (something they view as a fleeting hope) or continue the original Assimilation Plot. Even when they eventually choose the latter, Theresa realizes in her last moments that the Doctor was crying and about to kill themselves out of guilt, convincing her that they had developed genuine empathy for the people of Terra. As a result, she used her powers to wipe their memories, out of the hope that they could become a better person if only not shackled by the responsibility of their past.
• Batman Gambit: After Rhodes Island gets scammed by Mama John's and has some of its experimental Oripathy treatments stolen, the Doctor comes up with the idea of simply turning themselves in to the Columbian federal police. Since Oripathy medication is a controlled substance in Columbia, by law, the Columbian government seizes the stolen medicine and destroys it, thwarting Mama Johns' plan. And the only thing Rhodes Island had to suffer is the Doctor spending a couple days in jail being questioned by authorities, paying the fines to do with smuggling in untested Oripathy medication, and deal with a potentially angry Kal'tsit once the team gets back to Rhodes Island.
• Been There, Shaped History: Barring their involvement in Babel and their influence shaping the direction of Kazdel's history up to today, "Lonetrail" presents the question on the Doctor's past as presumably the progenitor of all culture on Terra after the collapse of the original Precursor civilization, being directly responsible for uplifting the Ancients to succeed them and occasionally appearing throughout the last ten-thousand years to help their development. "Babel, however, puts a much darker spin on this as it's revealed the pre-amnesia Doctor was actually manipulating the races of Terra in order to provoke conflicts, which would both further the spread of Originium and hamper any attempts to find a cure for Oripathy. The Doctor and their fellow Precursors' meddling in Terra's affairs is the actual reason it's such a Crapsack World in the first place.
• Break Him By Talking: During their time in Babel, the old Doctor gave one to a Sarkaz mercenary that tried to assassinate them, coldly pointing out how the mercenary was only using them as a scapegoat for his ultimate mistrust in Theresa's intentions, which the mercenary vehemently denies.
• Celibate Hero: Despite the Doctor literally having half of Rhodes Island's roster fawning over them regardless of gender, they don't (or rather, can't) seem to reciprocate any of the affection they're being given due to the much more limited range of interaction between the player and their operators. For that matter, the Relationship Values in Arknights are referred to as "Trust", instead of affection like similar gacha games.
• Chess Motifs: While the Doctor was part of Babel, Ines described all soldiers as being pieces on a chess board, while the Doctor was the player themself - describing them as being far above anyone else on the battlefield.
  Ines: "A chess player’s main focus is never on the pieces, or even the game. It’s always on the other player. You always want to beat an even match. After a win, the player goes home to a nice, hot meal. The pieces get popped back into the box and stashed away. The player gets to sleep, wake up, walk, and talk. The pieces just sit there in the cupboard. We’re all objects. Inanimate objects. There was only one person, one thing really alive on that battlefield. And it was that one. If we’re still gonna call ourselves people, then, well... the Doctor’s something else."
  • Exemplified in this promotional video for Operation Originium Dust, which shows the Doctor controlling a set of pieces shaped like Team Rainbow on a checkered gameboard, then sitting back and surveying the board with their hands clasped together.
  • Break The Ice continues showing off Chess motifs, with the Doctor's method of foiling Silverash's plot being reflected in the chess game they play together at the end of the event, with the result being that Silverash's board position is deadlocked in a potential stalemate.
  • Even as an operator, Silverash regularly plays chess with the Doctor, where he praises their tactical and strategic brilliance.
• Chick Magnet: Regardless of gender, several operators have explicit or implied romantic feelings for the Doctor. In fact, Skadi's feelings for the Doctor is a plot point in the alternate timeline of Caerula Arbor, as the Seaborn god Isharmla develops the same feelings for them as a result of inhabiting Skadi's body.
• Curtains Match the Window: In the anime, in the few glimpses of them unmasked, the Doctor is shown to have white hair and eyes.
• Defector from Decadence: The original Doctor (a.k.a Oracle) opposed to the Precursor's plan to transform Terra into Originium as a way to preserve their civilization, and instead wishing to pass down the Precursor technology to the potential Terran races so that they will have a better chance in fighting off the threat that ends their civilization. The strained their relationship with Priestess and that eventually led them to set Ama-10 free to explore Terra and guide them in resisting the doom.
• Diving Save: In 1-7, while the active Chernobog Catastrophe launches a cluster of meteorites that topple buildings, one flies towards the medic of the Rhodes Island rescue team. The Doctor pushes her out of the way and would've died in her place, but thankfully Nearl reaches the Doctor in time and intercepts it, protecting the three of them.
• The Dreaded: This seemingly unassuming researcher of neurology who isn't fit for front line fighting was frequently seen as a terrifying entity and an unparalleled tactician who only sees others as chess pieces during their time in Babel. Even hardened mercenaries like W and Ines felt a deep feeling of unease when looking at the Doctor. While W was also afraid of Kal'tsit, it was made evident that she feared the Doctor even more. In the late stage of the Kazdel civil war, Doctor was the main reason that Theresis and his faction are on the back foot. Even the news of Doctor's amnesiac return is regarded as a threat to his throne, three years after winning the war.
  Ines: "...Let’s put it like this: the soldiers are the pawns in the game. The commander is the player. When I saw the Doctor, I was struck with the feeling that I’m always gonna be a pawn."
  Hoederer: "That one’s not a battlefield commander. The Doctor runs the whole war."
  • Highmore's 4-star clear quote has her say that the Doctor's skills are so terrifying that even the Seaborn, a broadly emotionless aquatic Hive Mind focused entirely on evolution and survival, is afraid of them.
  • Babel would reveal this to be a Double Subversion. When the Doctor was awakened, they were actually highly empathetic towards Terra and its people and was well liked and respected by many, and in fact deeply regretted the deaths in their first experience as a tactician despite their superb leadership causing less casualties than there would have been otherwise, and it took Scout's encouragement to give them the confidence to continue until he developed his terrifying reputation for his efficient leadership. It was only after deciding to carry on with the precursors' plan over helping Babel that they decided to harden their heart and several within Babel such as Ascalon started noticing a drastic change in their behavior to the point that it deeply unnerved them.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Assuming the Doctor is female, other female operators still don't have a problem with pining for them. Same can be interpreted with male Doctor and male operators.
• Everyone Calls Them Barkeep: Everyone just calls them "Doctor".
• Extreme Omnivore: The Doctor is implied to crave really random stuff, after several passing comments made by Kal'tsit. Becomes sort of an Ascended Meme when Stories of Afternoon rolls over and Vanilla gets extremely antsy with the Doctor giving her pet Originium Slugs the funny eye. Enforcer's lines even mention that the Doctor actually enjoys the taste of his worktime coffee, which is deliberately brewed to taste as bitter and unappealing as possible.
• The Faceless: We don't get to see their actual face since it's covered with their mask. This is even lampshaded in the "Heart of Surging Flame" event when Cronin calls the Doctor a "faceless stranger". The anime subverts this by showing some glimpses of the Doctor's eyes and hair, but their full face is never seen fully behind their helmet.
• Famed In-Story: From the very moment the Doctor woke up, Dobermann hinted at their fame by saying that she already heard of their name several times from Kal'tsit. "Darknights' Memoir" and "Vigilo" reveal that they're so infamous in Kazdel that the Sarkaz know them as "Ghost/Evil Spirit of Babel" for their shadowy hands' maneuvering behind Theresa.
• First Day from Hell: The first thing the Doctor experiences when they awaken in the prologue after Amiya wakes them up is a bunch of Reunion's fighters attempting to ambush them, immediately followed by the chaotic escape from Chernobog while constantly being harassed by the Reunion fighters under Crownslayer's command.
• Foil: To Kal'tsit. Both are high-ranking researchers in Rhodes Island that are actually part of the organization's leadership. Both are technically non-combatants, but are far more capable than their appearances let on. And as events reveal, the pre-amnesia Doctor could be just as ruthless as Kal'tsit is. Their similarities end here, though - Kal'tsit is a ferocious fighter while the Doctor is The Strategist and, prior to some training by Sideroca, was a Non-Action Guy. Kal'tsit is jaded and combatitive while the Doctor post-amnesia is more openly friendly and kind. Most importantly, the Doctor is usually open with their issues and, in turn, has the support of Rhodes Island's staff, even including members who can't forget what the past Doctor did, and thus receives their aid when at their lowest. Kal'tsit, meanwhile, keeps everyone at a distance, with most of her allies being people who are just as Long-Lived as she is. Tellingly, when she breaks down in Chapter 11, she only has W to hear her out. All of this implies that Kal'tsit embodies what the Doctor could end up becoming if they were to lose their ideals in the conflicts to come and regress into who they were during their Babel days.
• Good Morning, Crono: The story starts with the Doctor regaining consciousness but with an unfortunate side-effect of amnesia.
• Guile Hero: Their proficiency, even after their amnesia though they were far more ruthless beforehand, is to play all possible angles to achieve the most desirable victory possible. It's to the point that, during "Near Light" and "Break The Ice", in spite of being in the countries for such a brief period and completely alien to the politics and power plays of Kazimierz and Kjerag, the Doctor not only figures out everything going on mostly on their own but is able to thrive in them very quickly with the latter event especially, as the Doctor had barely been there for a few hours, under the pretense of it being a vacation, had not only figured all of what SilverAsh was planning and the real deal situation, but turned what would have been a bloody decisive victory into a peaceful draw where all sides can be satisfied against a plan that SilverAsh had been contemplating about for years. It is for this reason they are considered a Worthy Opponent by people who are aware of their reputation well in advance.
• The Heart: Goes hand-in-hand with being a Magnetic Hero, but it’s heavily implied the Doctor is the only one keeping most of Rhodes Island’s operators working under the same banner. If they were to die, Rhodes Island would likely disintegrate due to its various members’ divergent ideologies and personalities.
  • It's later revealed that even the pre-amnesia Doctor served this role for Babel. Amiya's accounts of Babel's transition into Rhodes Island while the Doctor was sleeping paint the company as always constantly hanging by a thread due to pervasively low morale and loss of purpose. It's not until the Doctor is revived that things start turning around.
• Hidden Depths: For a supposed faceless character that allows people to insert their original character, unlike most examples, the Doctor has a great deal of depth to their character which can be sourced from the main story, events, and operator profiles/dialogues; as befitting a major figure in the Arknights storyline. Some stand-out examples include:
  • Aside from having a neurology degree, the Doctor also teaches on the side, regularly giving out homework to Ifrit and Projekt Red according to "After-class Homework" (Ifrit's side story in Operational Intelligence). Another nod to this is during the epilogue of "Gavial the Great Chief Returns", where Gavial mentioned the Doctor having to attend to Tomimi in general education class who had recently joined and had little understanding of the outside world. In fact, many Elite Operators lament that the Doctor stopped being a gentle teacher, as the desperation to protect Babel's ideal molded them into a ruthless and aloof tactician.
  • The Doctor apparently hates going to the gym, so much that they've sworn off ever going there. This attitude seems to change over the course of Sideroca's profile: initially the Doctor weasels their way out of their arranged training sessions with her, but they hit the gym the day after they tried her cooking (which she learned to strike up an agreement with them), eventually developing musculature in their arms. Evidence of their former non-exercising self is listed under Non-Action Guy below.
  • The Doctor was once a notorious battlefield tactician that would do anything to secure victory, even if it meant sacrificing operators' lives. This includes Theresa, for reasons still unknown. However, the circumstances surrounding Theresa's death are still rather vague.
  • A similar example can also be made for No Sense of Personal Space below in that apparently the Doctor likes poking whoever suits their fancy at the time.
  • The Doctor often struggles with the pain of not knowing anything about their past outside of vague second-hand recounts, and as of later stories will get noticably agitated when Kal'tsit seems to be trying to keep information from them. Lone Trail also shows that they often get lonely from being so out of place compared to everyone else, and that finding the "graveyard" of their kin along with witnessing Friston's revelations and suicide causes them great distress. However, despite their amnesia, the Doctor often asserts that whatever happened in their past will not define who they are now, and strive to carve out an identity beyond an extension of their past self.
• Honorary True Companion: Implied and invoked case with Chiave and his gang if you read his potential token. One of Chiave's home screen voice lines also has him offer the Doctor to join him and his gang if being a Doctor in Rhodes Island isn't working out.
  A badge that he made himself, representing the "Chiave Gang". Your name is also engraved upon it.
• Human Popsicle: Appears to have been cryogenically frozen prior to the events of the game.
• In-Series Nickname: Most characters refer to them as "Doctor" or some shorter variation of it, but there are exceptions:
  • Both Arene and Eyjafjalla call them "Professor", although in the Japanese dialogue Eyjafjalla refers to them as "Sempai".
  • Both Beehunter and Jaye call them "Boss". Croissant calls them "Baws", but taking her Funetik Aksent into consideration, it's just the same thing.
  • Cuora calls them "Sir Rhodes Island", only to realize afterward that it's just Accidental Misnaming on her part.
  • Exusiai calls them "Leader", but briefly calls them "Savior" when promoted to Elite 2.
  • Shaw calls them "Chief".
  • Aak calls them "My dude".
  • Cement calls them "Doccy" in the English dialogue, and "Doctor-chan" in the Japanese one.
• The Immune: "Babel" explains that the Doctor is totally immune to Oripathy, presumably due to their precursor origins and nature as one of it's creators, which also makes the Doctor's continued livelihood the best chance to curing Oripathy and stopping the spread of Originium in its tracks. Deconstructed in that it's indicated that their immunity is detrimental to researching said cure, as it means that they won't undergo Oripathy period, which provides nothing to study for actually treating the disease
• Inside Job: "Babel" reveals that the pre-amnesia Doctor was directly responsible for sabotaging Babel from within and killing Theresa because they realized Theresis' plans were more in line with the precursors' intentions with Originium, since it would further the spread of Oripathy all over Terra.
• The Insomniac: The Doctor is a workaholic who is always tired. When the Doctor falls asleep during idle lines, it's most likely because they pass out from sleep deprivation, and they have a regular order for lavender sleep aid aromatherapeutics.
• In the Hood: The Doctor wears a hood, and it serves as another thing concealing their face.
• I've Come Too Far: One of the reasons the Doctor ultimately chooses to fall back to their original Assimilation Plot is because of their Despair Event Horizon in realizing they simply cannot undo the damage they have already done by unleashing Originium on Terra in the first place, resulting in the only thing they believe they can do is to simply Mercy Kill the world in as swift and painless way as possible instead of prolonging the suffering trying to heal an incurable and ultimately fatal wound, akin to those they see ultimately dying to Oripathy despite any treatment.
• Jabba Table Manners: Apparently the Doctor likes to eat instant noodles by putting it in their mouth unhydrated, and pouring hot water from the kettle directly into their mouth. A possible profile picture is an image forbidding a person from pouring water from the kettle directly into their mouth. There's also some mentions that Rhodes operators getting worried that the Doctor would eat random animals such as the (very mucousy) originium slugs.
• Limited Wardrobe: When they arrive at Siesta, they muse they should probably wear something less bulky for the summer heat, but dialogue implies they never actually bothered changing clothes.
• Living MacGuffin: In the prologue Episode, a team from Rhodes Island is sent to rescue the Doctor in Chernobog. Even Mephisto implies that the Doctor is a valuable asset as he tried (but failed) to bargain with and recruit them for Reunion's interests. Episode 8 reveals that there is something special about the Doctor's race; their blood can be used to heal injured Terrans, and they were able to use the Sarcophagus without grievous side effects besides amnesia.
• Magnetic Hero: The Doctor is credited with being the only person who can actually keep a sprawling and diverse organization like Rhodes Island together, as their personal charisma and sheer force of will is enough for the various operators of differing backgrounds and skills to find common ground with each other.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's implied that the Doctor's incredible tactical acumen possibly involves supernatural means to observe the battlefield in a way no one else can. Many characters also openly comment how it seems like the Doctor is able to predict the future.
• Modern Major General: The Doctor is far more at home when it comes to commanding the forces of Rhodes Island against their enemies rather than acting as a neurologist. Subverted in later story content, when it's revealed that the Doctor was in fact an actual researcher before they became the field commander of Rhodes Island field operations. According to Scout in "The Anonymous Ones' War" (Guard's side story in Operational Intelligence), being in the fighting business turned the Doctor from a researcher to a war machine who cared far more about winning than the operators' lives.
• Morality Chain: Their interaction with Mizuki comes across as this, with Mizuki depending on the Doctor to keep him in line. His voice lines has him ask the Doctor about what makes someone a heroic person or a villain.
• Morality Pet: Pieces of what has been seen from the past as well as details revealed by other operators like Kal'tsit and Savage demonstrate that no matter how heartless the past Doctor may have seemed, the one thing that hasn't changed was their concern and affection for Amiya.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Babel would reveal that while the Doctor did willingly inflict Originium onto Terra, they had no idea of the kind of suffering and disaster it would ultimately cause. Seeing the half-finished results of their work with their own eyes after awakening shakes them to their core, to the extent that they become heavily reluctant to continue and consider turning away from their life's work to help Terra instead, despite knowing it's likely futile. Seeing the kind of pain Oripathy caused to innocents such as Amiya made them remorseful enough to start desperately researching a way to cure it, even attempting to infect themselves several times to no avail. They eventually choose to follow their original plan, but only because Originium has effectively doomed the land anyway and finishing the plan is the most merciful thing they can do.
• Mysterious Past: Very little has been revealed about the Doctor's past before their amnesia. At the very least, they used to have a doctorate in neurology and extensively researched Oripathy. The Doctor used to be one of the key figures of Babel, Rhodes Island's predecessor. They contributed heavily to Babel's research and technology in the past, and during the days of Kazdel Civil War they had the same role they have in the present, more of a tactician than a researcher, albeit far more ruthless. They also had a hand in being responsible for a number of individuals being the way they are at present, notably Amiya (whom Doctor personally saved from wilderness and raised in Babel) and Scout (who claimed he would not be the man he was if not for Doctor). Theresa once made a comment about how Kal'tsit knew Doctor for a long time from before Babel, and their scenes with the Priestess hint both Doctor and Rhodes Island Ark might be remnants of a forgotten past civilization.
  • "Lonetrail" reveals a lot of information about the Doctor: they are indeed one of the last Precursors and they've been alive for over 13,000 years, that they knew a Terrible Truth behind Originium that was deemed dangerous enough to make Kal'tsit swear to never inform them the truth unless they find out on their own, and that they might have maybe created all culture on Terra for the last ten thousand years through uplifting the Ancient races that succeeded their civilization. All of indicates that the Doctor is probably the single most important person alive.
  • "Babel" further reveals that the pre-amnesia Doctor knew that Originium was deliberately seeded on Terra by their fellow precursors in order to fulfil an ambiguous purpose, but one ultimately rooted in salvation of their own kind. The Doctor's purpose was to keep track of the experiment's progress and prevent any disruptions to it. This became a problem when they realized that Theresa and Babel's intentions to find a cure for Oripathy ran counter to the goals of the experiment. Despite their own misgivings, the Doctor ultimately prioritized the experiment and made a deal with Theresis to sabotage Babel from within to ensure Theresa's death and Babel's disbandment. As her last act, Theresa erased the Doctor's memories so that they could start over from a fresh slate and hopefully learn to appreciate and protect all life on Terra.
• Mystical White Hair: The anime depicts the few scenes where the Doctor shown unmasked to have very unkempt white hair and, while they are not someone proficient in Arts themselves, their unnatural aptitude at discerning things and ambiguous nature compared to everyone on Terra makes this fitting.
• Non-Action Guy:
  • Lines from certain operators imply that the Doctor isn't physically fit for combat and has a fragile constitution. With the introduction of Kal'tsit as a playable operator, the Doctor remains the only known high-ranking staff of Rhodes Island who doesn't join any battles directly and instead still oversees them.
    Sora (talk after Trust Increase 3): Doctor! Could you teach me to use weapons? My songs have no practical use except for support and encouragement. If I could fight with weapons... Huh? You're not good at fighting either?!
    Nian (promoted to Elite 2): ...I could forge you a good sword, but since you ain't gonna swing it, let alone fight in the first place, it'd just be a waste of metal.
  • In Episode 2, Texas jokes that the Doctor isn't the type who's used to climbing stairs.
  • It's stated in Vigilo that the present day Doctor was left extremely physically weak after their revival. Sideroca in her profile took to physically training the Doctor (who before that point refused to go to the gym, implying they despised physical exertion) after she was informed of the Doctor's "recent malady".
• Noodle Incident: As implied by the mysterious voice that speaks in the prologue, the date "December 23rd" means something to the Doctor. The voice encourages them to remember what happened back then even if it sends them into peril. Notably, this is Amiya's birthday.
• No Sense of Personal Space: According to the voice lines of several operators, namely Vigna and Asbestos, the Doctor is the touchy-feely type who makes physical contact with their staff, though many of these lines are tied to the act of tapping their Trust bubbles in the base.
• Parental Substitute:
  • They rescued Amiya from a wrecked Rim Billiton landship (where she lost her biological parents) and essentially adopted her.
  • "Babel" reveals that they created AMa-10 alongside Priestess, and the Doctor was the one who gave AMa-10 the name of "Kal'tsit".
• Player Character: The game is either Leaning on the Fourth Wall about it or possibly going as far as weaving it into the story itself.
  • The Doctor is a Heroic Mime; anytime the Doctor says anything, the player must confirm the Doctor saying it, even in moments where only one option is available. The Doctor never speaks outside the player's control. Worth mentioning is that they're able to speak like any other character in the flashbacks from their days in Babel.
  • After probing the pre-amnesia Doctor with her almost-mind-reading arts, Ines says it feels like the Doctor is the only player of the chessboard while everyone else are just the chess pieces that get shoved into the cupboard during the times when the Doctor isn't playing.
  • As mentioned in Ambiguously Human, the Doctor functions just fine in high temperatures at a sunny beach or inside an active volcano even with all those clothes on. Possibly because the real Doctor isn't actually there and is presumably comfortable in some nice air-conditioned place.
  • There's a moment in one of the official PVs where the screen turns black right when the Doctor pulls off their hood.
  • In a sense, the past Doctor was an independent NPC before the player starts the game, and thus the player has no control over the Doctor's actions in the past; once the Doctor woke up from slumber without their memories, their fate was changed because, as said by Operator Shamare, fate is connected to memories.
  • The Doctor's race has yet to be revealed, leaving it up to the player's imagination.
• Precursors: "Vigilo" implies that both the Doctor and Priestess were involved in the creation of PRTS and the Rhodes Island landship's original construction. Lonetrail outright confirms this to be the case.
• Protectorate: Amiya's primary concern and motivation in the main story is to protect the Doctor at all costs, and harming them is one surefire way to anger her.
• Rage Breaking Point: In spite of their Magnetic Hero nature, confronting Loken during "Lonetrail" after the scientist tries desperately to continue his experiment with Rosmontis ends with the Doctor laying hands on Loken and is only stopped from going further because Rosmontis stops them.
• Really 700 Years Old: In "Lonetrail", Preserver informs the Doctor that they predate Kal'tsit's creation, making the Doctor older than ten thousand years. That said, they haven't been physically active that entire period of time due to being in stasis on and off within their sarcophagus over the centuries.
• Renaissance Man:
  • While they are a Non-Action Guy, the Doctor's mental capabilities, experience, and pursuits are staggeringly wide and versatile. Not only do they personally handle tactical and strategic deployments, the Doctor also conducts training, teaches the younger Operators, manages the Rhodes Island business interests, and oversees mental and physical health treatments. In the Vigilo records, the Doctor also exhibits skill at thinking on he fly and knowledge of the legal systems of various countries. In another flashback, they also seem to know a great deal about wilderness survival and taught much of that to Amiya.
  • They also demonstrate an immense knowledge of Originum, meteorology, and geology, to the point that they are able to guide the Rhodes Island landship through a Catastrophe based purely on a mathematical formula that predicts how Originum spreads underground and how the heat interacts with the air to generate destructive cyclones. When they discuss this with Kal'tsit, she mentions that before they lost their memory, the Doctor was a brilliant Originum researcher and the formula they came up with was something they devised before their memory loss. This is only appropriate since Doctor was implied to have a close partnership with Priestess, who is at least partially responsible for Originium's creation in the first place.
  • In Dorothy's Vision, the Doctor has sufficient awareness that they are able to tell just from the way one of the Powered Armor units moves that it isn't empty and Muelsyse is trapped inside.
• Sadistic Choice: The Doctor goes through two in Babel.
  • Seeing the suffering that Originium has inflicted onto Terra greatly shakes the Doctor's resolve in following the precursors' plans to have Originium assimilate the planet for the goal of rebuilding their world, causing their Conflicting Loyalty between Babel and their people. They are forced to either choose to continue the precursors' plans and condemn the world to an Assimilation Plot in order to save them from something worse or help Babel in protecting what they see as a doomed world. They ultimately choose the former, despite their regret.
  • Later, Theresis puts them through one. To truly remove Babel from the picture as they stand in the way of the precursors' plan, Theresis tells them that either all the operatives of Babel or Theresa herself must be sacrificed. The Doctor regretfully chooses the latter, despite knowing that should their plan succeed everyone is doomed regardless, in order to give everyone else a chance to live their lives in peace for the remaining years.
• Schrödinger's Gun: In the "Heart of Surging Flame" event, whichever band the player chooses will also become the Doctor's favorite band.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!:
  • In "Heart of Surging Flame", the Doctor is willing to break a few rules if it means the safety of everyone in Siesta despite the possible legal repercussions, which results in them, Vigna, and Hellagur barging into the city hall to search for evidence of foul play.
  • In "Break the Ice", this is also why the Doctor got involved and try to stop SilverAsh as they do not want a civil war to break out and have people dying in the process.
• Sleepyhead: Judging from all of the operators' idle lines, the Doctor falling asleep at their desk is a very common occurrence.
• Smells Sexy: The Doctor has a nice scent, according to Perfumer.
• Suddenly Voiced: They're voiced in the Prelude to Dawn anime.
• Survivor's Guilt: The Doctor harbors regrets and guilt over being unable to help or save Patriot and Yelena after the events of the Reunion story arc, and this is shown to haunt them even during Episode 9.
• The Strategist: Despite their title, the Doctor's primary purpose within Rhodes Island is to oversee field operations. They do have a neurology degree, though.
• Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: Their blood is so alluring to vampires that the usually very disciplined vampire medic Warfarin had to have a restraining order placed on her after an unfortunate incident; another hint that there's something unusual about them.
• To Be Lawful or Good: The event Babel reveals that pre-amnesia Doctor faced this dilemma, as the Tower Of Babel's stated goal to cure Oripathy ran counter to The Doctor and Priestess' true orders from the rest of their civilisation: to accelerate the spread of Originium across Terra to see how the native Terrans interact with it. Ultimately, The Doctor chose to be Lawful and cut a deal with Theresis to disband Babel by killing Theresa, as Theresis' plans would ultimately spread Originium further across Terra and ran more in line with the Precursors' objectives than Babel's victory would.
• The Unfettered: The Doctor used to be incredibly focused on their goals and achieving victory during the Kazdel Civil War, and operators' lives were merely secondary to them. Deconstructed in "Vigilo", as the Doctor is shown to not take personal pleasure in having to achieve victory by any means necessary and while the Doctor has an aptitude for such ruthless strategy to push even Theresis—one of the most accomplished military leaders on Terra—on the back foot without much difficulty, it clearly weighs on the Doctor over time and would rather focus back on figuring out how to cure Oripathy than spend any more lives on both sides to needless war... something that might have contributed to the Doctor's motivations after losing their memories as their former self's guilt subconsciously steers them away from falling back into this so that they become a Guile Hero instead.
  Scout: And... yet... With the Doctor commanding us... looking into the Doctor's eyes, one sees nothing, but victory. Nothing, but victory. I see nothing, save victory. Nothing else in those eyes.
  • Later events and stories would also show for as ruthless as the Doctor's old self was in being ready to trade lives for results, they were still arguably The Fettered among the higher-ups within Babel (alongside Theresa) when compared to the company they kept and, much like they are in the present, was very tolerant and forgiving of others without a hint of insincerity, unlike Kal'tsit during the same time who was adamant about distributing punishment and combating any slight among their ranks while their organization battled Theresis. While the original Doctor was willing to do anything to achieve victory, they understood the value of each life they had spent to achieve victory and didn't extend that callousness they were infamous for on the battlefield towards them personally in private, which made those who worked with the old Doctor fiercely loyal despite the risks that came from working under them.
  • "Babel" would however confirm this was played horrifyingly straight on an unprecedented level as the original Doctor before their amnesia was revealed to be a far more ruthless person who was serving up all of Terra on a silver platter for the Precursor race's agenda all along, alongside Priestess, to engulf Terra in Originium as a means to save their species. In fact, they orchestrated the fall of Babel as an Inside Job with Theresis to prevent a cure for Oripathy, which would have sabotaged the plan the Precursors had for Terra and it's people. Albeit, the Doctor would develop a guilty conscience over the fact and Theresa, exploiting their newfound empathy, would purge their memory in her dying act to hopefully encourage the Doctor to right their wrong and actually save Terra from Originium.
• Unique Protagonist Asset: Other than tactical acumen, the Doctor's special asset seems to be their blood, given Lancet-2's comment on it and Warfarin's extreme attraction to it. In Episode 8, Kal'tsit uses the Doctor's blood to create a medicine for Amiya after she collapses. "Babel" reveals that the Doctor is outright immune to Oripathy, and used their blood to try to find a cure for the disease while they were with Theresa.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The pre-amnesia Doctor's true persona, as revealed in "Babel", is arguably this, as they are responsible for the problem of Oripathy alongside Priestess due to their design of seeding Terra with Originium in the first place; all out of desire that needed a power like Originium to be harvested to save their own home in the process. After seeing the consequences of Oripathy firsthand, especially to a younger Amiya, the Doctor tried everything to cure it up to trying to infect themselves with Oripathy only to learn their immunity prevents them from gaining any useful knowledge of its development until they ran out of options and gave into despair with what they knew was impossible at the time. All of which led to the Doctor slipping back to the original plan and accelerating the spread of Originium further across Terra until it snuffed out all life as a form of mercy killing of the entire world as the Doctor couldn't rationalize a way to solve it and at least help save their own homeworld in the process, but it still tore at them to wipe out an entire people just to facilitate their goals, and finally completely broke when they helped orchestrate Theresa's assassination with Theresis just to spare the rest of Babel, which included Amiya, from a cruel systemic extermination and the fastest way help move that plan forward.
• We Have Reserves: Scout's dialogue from "The Anonymous Ones' War" (Guard's side story in Operational Intelligence) implies that the Doctor was far more callous with Operators' lives prior to their amnesia. This is later confirmed in Darknights' Memoir.
• Wild Hair: Goldenglow makes a comment that the Doctor's hair is long and unkempt enough to risk bursting out of their hood, something further shown to be the case in some official artwork to be loose enough to reach past their shoulders when not wearing their mask.
• Wistful Amnesia: The Doctor is sometimes able to recall certain past events or important people when something significant happened in the present, such as claiming to have met Shining before during her recruitment and recalling the mysterious voice's urging about the significance of the date December 23rd during the day they woke up from slumber. This is also how they are able to recall Priestess despite their own amnesia.
• Worthy Opponent: Two cases occured.
  • SilverAsh saw the Doctor as one, especially in the end of the "Break the Ice" event as the event has the Doctor win SilverAsh's respect and motivates him to join as a Rhodes Island operator come SilverAsh's second Operator Records.
  • They are also this to Theresis—who outright considers the Doctor The Dreaded—to the point that he accelerates all of his plans once he learns that the Doctor is still alive three years after the Civil War in hopes of not facing off against them again.

Amiya

See her entry in the Casters subpage.

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Kal'tsit

See her entry in the Medics subpage.

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Closure

Ada "Closure" Church

Race: Sarkaz (Vampire)
Artists: 唯@W, m9nokuro
Voiced by: Unknown (Japanese, Closure's Secret Files)

The head engineering officer of the Rhodes Island Infrastructure Complex. She also handles the in-game shop.

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• Animal Motifs: Bats. She looks like a vampire with that red-black-white attire and those pointy ears, while her Companion Cube has bat wings on its sides. Her Operational Intelligence story confirms that she is in fact a vampire.
• Awkward Engineer-Boss Bonding Activity: Her Operational Intelligence story has her dragging Kal'tsit off to a random part of the base to help change a lightbulb of all things. She later explains that her real goal was to provide her close companion a moment to vent in private, figuring that the stress of keeping Rhodes Island running will keep building up if Kal'tsit never gets an opportunity to talk about it.
• Companion Cube: She has a literal winged cube that follows her around. If this character poster◊ is an indication, she named it "λ" or "Lambda".
• Connected All Along: Closure and D.D.D. are close friends, to the point that the former is one of the few trusted people who knows the real name of the latter.
• Cultural Rebel: Closure hailed from an ancient and traditional Sarkaz family. Despite this, she has no interest in their Blood Arts, which branded her as the heretic of her family and nearly got her kicked out. Her peculiar interest in engineering attracted Theresa's attention and got her recruited to Babel.
• Expy: Of Kalina from Girls' Frontline, the game which many of devs previously worked on at MICA Studios. Both are the resident shopkeepers of their respective games, are incredibly smart or resourceful engineers, and both are similarly looked upon with a mixture of disdain and love by the playerbase for being responsible for tempting them into spending vast quantities of premium currency on the gacha to little gain.
• Fantastic Racism: In Episode 10, she gets a lot of suspicious glares from Eartha rebels not only because she is a Sarkaz, but also a Vampire Sarkaz. As seen from the Episode, the king of the Vampire tribe is a sadist who hunts people for sport and regularly turns Eartha fighters into chunky salsa wherever he goes.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Her being a prankster asides, she's portrayed as this, unlike Warfarin's Mad Scientist tendency. While she lacks the emphasis on blood that Warfarin has, she still has several vampiric traits like the ability to see in the dark, and it's mentioned she dislikes garlic in "Rewinding Breeze".
  • In "Vigilo", she directly states that she's part of the Vampire Sarkaz lineage.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
  • She's responsible for the creation of Lancet-2 and Castle-3, who are sentient AI drones. (The 'bots themselves have various feelings about this, and about their creator being, well, who she is.)
  • She's also modified Nearl's armor with secret features.
• Innate Night Vision: As a vampire, she can see in the dark.
• Insistent Terminology: She programmed the two mascot robots, Castle-3 and Lancet-2 to always call her "Master Closure" and "Lovely Ms. Closure", respectively.
• Logo Joke:
  • The logo in her shirt is the logo of GitHub, but with spiky ears and a bat wing.
  • In the "Darknights' Memoir" event, the logo on her shirt is the dinosaur from Chrome's offline game stylized like a dragon.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Her real name derives from Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, and Alonzo Church, responsible for Lambda Calculus, the field of math responsible for the abstraction of functions, and a close associate of Alan Turing. "λ" or "Lambda" is also the name of the winged cube that accompanies her. Her codename, "Closure", is a common concept in computer programming.
• Online Alias: Her Obsgram username is "LeaderOne" as hinted by the "42 Authority Level" in the profile picture, which is also written beside Closure in her character poster.
• Pointy Ears: She has these, which help in her Vampire getup.
• The Prankster: Her Operation Intelligence story establishes that she likes to do this, even with envoys from other places. Kal'tsit has to stop her from doing this to post-amnesia Doctor since Doctor's impression of vampires is a bit soured by Warfarin going a bit too far.
• Smart People Build Robots: She created Castle and Lancet mostly as a side project and because she could.
• Suddenly Voiced: She's voiced in the Closure's Secret Files web skits, but her voice actor is curiously uncredited.
• Wrench Wench: Her character aesthetic is very much this, with seemingly unwashed hair, a distinctly dirty-looking oversized t-shirt that she uses more like a short dress along with a too-big jacket, multiple tool belts with all kinds of tools and doodads hanging from them, and an apparent lack of need for pants.

PRTS

Primitive Rhodes Island Terminal Service

Voiced by: Yuu Asakawa (Japanese, anime), Kailene Danae Falls (English, anime)

The base's AI assistant.

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• Black Box: Kal'tsit and Closure were able to configure PRTS to be able to run all of the Rhodes Island landship's daily functions. However, neither of them actually know how PRTS' programming actually works or how it was made.
• Brain/Computer Interface: Its ability to interface with the Doctor is the explanation for how Rhodes Island is being managed while they're away from the base for operations.
• Exposition Fairy: In many of Arknights game modes' introduction, PRTS is one of the game's guide that explain how the mode works. In the anime, PRTS shows the Doctor around the landship and explains its many functions. Interestingly, there's a limit on how much it can divulge; in "Vigilo", PRTS can't reveal anything about the mysterious woman the Doctor saw in their dream, allegedly for a "clearance issue".
• Gratuitous English: Any completed process in the RIIC Base is accompanied by PRTS notifying you in English. It's also the source of the "Mission Accomplished" and "Mission Failed" sound bite during a stage's run.
• Loophole Abuse: In "Vigilo", when the Doctor asks PRTS about Priestess, it replies that it cannot tell them anything about her due to the Doctor lacking the necessary clearances. However, PRTS is able to find and show a single picture of Priestess and the Doctor together when it was first activated, which wasn't permission locked but PRTS has to immediately delete it afterwards.
• Lost Technology: It's revealed in "Vigilo" that PRTS was found with the Rhodes Island landship. In 3rd Anniversary Retrospective, if you have an Operator as a secretary for 1000 days, PRTS will remark that 1000 days is equal to 1/1000 of how long it has been active. That means PRTS is 2740 years old, older than Terra's Alternative Calendar by more than one-half millennia.
• Shock Collar: One dialogue option in 7-2 reveals that PRTS can incapacitate the Doctor for a few hours at any time if they "take unreasonable action".
  PRTS: PRTS is equipped with a nonlethal pacification function. Should you take unreasonable action, you will lose consciousness for 3.55 working hours, ensuring you maintain a behavioral standard close to normal.

Branches

Elite Op

Affiliated Characters: Blaze, Logos, Pith, Rosmontis, Sharp, Stormeye, Touch

Known as Rhodes Island Elite Operators, or Elite Op for short. It is the elite division of Rhodes Island's paramilitary forces, consisting of their strongest and most highly-trained combatants.

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• Badass Crew: Their entire shtick. They are the most hard-working and dedicated of Rhodes Island operators in the face of greater threats the landship faces.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Pith, Sharp, Stormeye, and Touch are only playable in the roguelike Integrated Strategies mode.
• Image Song: Believing (Believed Believes)
• One-Man Army: They represent the most powerful individuals in Rhodes Island. Most if not all of them can take on entire squads of enemies by themselves, and in some rare cases entire armies or even mobile cities. It really says something when Guard warns Nine that if even three Elite Ops were present on the Rhodes Island landship, their plan to break Talulah out of confinement would've failed.

Ace

Race: Pythia
Artist: 唯@W
Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama (Japanese, anime)

A veteran Rhodes Island operator who took part in the Chernobog operation.

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• Animal Motifs: Initially unknown despite having an animal tail, but the official artbook reveals that he's based on a snake.
• An Arm and a Leg: He lost an arm in the aftermath of his fight against Talulah, but this doesn't stop him as he tries to go back and stall her again.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: He somehow manages to keep swinging at the Reunion soldiers lead by Talulah and stall them enough so that the Rhodes Island Operators escape. Keep in mind Talulah has the power to warp the area around her into fire. This is compounded later by the fact that this is a Talulah having since succumbed to the influence and power of Kashchey — an "Ageless" that's implied to be a breed of Feranmut — who was able to channel their power through her, which means Ace held his own against an actual godlike being's wrath long enough for everyone to escape.
• Killed Offscreen: The game never explicitly shows the fight between Ace and Talulah, only the aftermath from both sides' perspectives - Talulah is standing still unfazed while Mephisto and FrostNova watch. And when Amiya tries to scout the city again for any remaining survivors, we get treated to a flashback of Ace tending an injured soldier's wounds, while he himself had already lost an arm. Despite this, Ace still tries to go back to the fight. Amiya then returns to the rendezvous point, but there's no sign of Ace returning home to Rhodes Island.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He wields a shield. Sadly, that didn't keep him protected until the end.
• The Rest Shall Pass: When they're faced with Talulah, Ace volunteers to be left behind and hold off the Reunion leader and her goons while the rest of the team proceeds to the evacuation. Even when Amiya, Dobermann and Nearl try to help in the fight, he insists on staying alone for the sake of others, and to prevent Amiya from over-exerting herself.
• Retirony: Kal'tsit's second module reveals Ace was actually one of the many holdovers from Babel that were in the process of leaving during their transition into Rhodes Island after the collapse of the original organization, no longer personally comfortable with working for them without either the guidance or presence of Theresa or the Doctor — however, when the mission to Chernobog was made clear to be a rescue mission to retrieve the Doctor, Ace stayed with Rhodes Island ensure their rescue as a final favor before departing; one that he'd ultimately pay for with his life.
• Sacrificial Lion: He's one of the major operators in the operation for extraction and retreat from Chernobog, and ends up staying behind to fend Reunion off to give the Doctor and company a chance to escape and live. Unfortunately, this makes Ace one of the first characters who die in the main story.
• Suddenly Voiced: He's voiced in the Prelude to Dawn anime.

Scout

Race: Sarkaz
Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Japanese, anime)

An elite Sniper Operator from Rhodes Island who participated in the Chernobog operation.

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• Driven to Suicide: His Heroic Sacrifice is partly motivated by his trauma of witnessing the pre-amnesia Doctor's ruthlessness. He'd rather go out fighting than see the Doctor revived just to be pulled into fighting another war.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices himself to give one of his fellow operators the opportunity to escape from Reunion patrols.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: "Darknights' Memoir" doesn't show how he killed Garcin or how his squad gave their lives to help secure the escape route of the team extracting the Doctor. Ines only mentions the aftermath.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: As shown in "The Anonymous Ones' War" (Guard's side story in Operational Intelligence), Scout tries to distract the Reunion troops so the nameless Guard operator can escape the encirclement. Turns out, Guard decides to stay in Chernobog, even joining Reunion. On top of that, "Darknights' Memoir" reveals that Hoederer and Ines didn't want to kill him and would've just let him pass quietly, but his distraction was catching too much attention among the Reunion ranks and they had to kill him to keep up the appearance that they're still loyal to Reunion. His death practically does nothing but make Rosmontis burn with vengeance in Episode 7.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Given how the pre-amnesia Doctor is described as having a singleminded focus on victory and wasn't concerned about casualties, it's understandable that Scout wasn't particularly happy about Amiya trying to revive the Doctor.
• The Sneaky Guy: Rosmontis describes him as "having no shadow". Hoederer and Ines claim that his attempt at Heroic Sacrifice is out of character of his usual MO, thus immediately know that he's just a distraction for someone else. W also notes that Scout was one of the last of the Sarkaz stealth masters.
• Sole Survivor: When Ines corners Scout after the latter has killed Garcin, she tells him how most of his squad died in the interim, noting that Slanna was the only other survivor but is "probably looking for some way to kill herself".
• Suicide Mission: In DM-7, Ines reveals that Scout's deal with W was to kill Garcin so that W would be able to take command of Reunion's Sarkaz forces out of Theresis's control, after which she would secure Rhodes Island's extraction of the Doctor. His squad would then be annihilated to maintain her cover.
  Ines: You killed the leader that the Regent sent. She's not the only one who wants to take over, so she has her hands full. Like the agreement you had with W. As soon as you complete your mission, we'll annihilate you with all our strength, in "hindsight."
• We Used to Be Friends: Was actually fairly close to W, Ines, Hoederer, and Garcin when he was a part of Babel. However, he killed Garcin as part of a deal with W, and Ines and Hoederer were subsequently forced to kill him in order to maintain their cover to Reunion. There's ultimately no hard feelings between them; after all, war is just business for Sarkaz mercenaries.

Outcast

Race: Sankta
Artist: Cenm0

An Elite Operator who was assigned to a Rhodes Island branch office in County Hillock in Victoria.

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• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: She mentions that she's not allowed to use the sixth chamber in her revolver unless it's a last resort. Doing so is what results in her death.
• Death from Above: How she meets her end, via a bright, burning beam of light as punishment for breaking a Lateranian "covenant" by inserting the sixth bullet into her gun. The Dublinn soldiers nearby were killed on the spot as well.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She sacrifices herself by using all six bullets at once, casting Laterano's judgement upon her to eliminate a squad of elite Dublinn officers.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: It's said that Outcast is able to kill multiple people with just a single bullet. Outcast herself boasts that she's never entered a fight she couldn't resolve in five shots or less.
• The Last Dance: Due to her active and violent lifestyle and refusal to retire, Outcast has always lived with the knowledge that she's fated to die in battle one day. She invokes this as part of Heroic Sacrifice to take out as many Dublinn forces near her as possible by firing her sixth bullet.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Amiya reveals that Outcast likes to steal details from other people's backgrounds and present them as her own, making it difficult to figure out her actual past. Based on her reaction, Amiya most likely knows her real backstory, but decides not to reveal anything to respect Outcast's decision.
• Mythical Motifs: Angels, due to her Sankta race. Notably, she's the only known Sankta to wear a hat, which is normally impossible due to the halo getting in the way.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: She uses a revolver as her primary weapon.
• Sherlock Scan: She can determine a person's background and personality just by hearing them speak.

Misery

Race: Sarkaz

A pessimistic Elite Operator who specializes in assault missions.

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• Big Damn Heroes: Throughout Episode 10, he continually intervenes from the shadows to assist Rhodes Island, Eartha, and Horn.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He's mentioned in Operational Intelligence and Under Tides, but he doesn't make a proper appearance until Episode 9.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Seemingly wears them 24/7.
• My Greatest Failure: It's implied through remarks by Amiya and Outcast that Misery feels regret for failing to mediate a peace treaty between two warring cities, resulting in the complete destruction and massacre of one of them.
• Odd Friendship: With Episode 10 confirming his race being Sarkaz, his close friendship with Outcast, a Sankta, becomes this in retrospect considering the Fantastic Racism between the two races.
• One-Man Army: He easily takes out entire squads of Sarkaz troops and even gives Manfred a run for his money.
• Reality Warper: His Arts are described as "spatial" in nature, allowing him to manipulate other people's senses as well as seemingly teleporting wherever he wishes.
• Save the Villain: In 10-10, he came across a gravely wounded Mandragora, who had just been recently betrayed by Manfred and barely clinging onto life. Misery retrieved her body instead of leaving her for dead.
• Stealth Expert: Amiya describes him as being a master in infiltration, able to get into the most secure areas undetected. Basically, if there's any possible way for a living creature to access an area, Misery will find a way in.
• Straw Nihilist: As evident from his very codename, Misery is commonly described as a fairly pessimistic person.
• True Companions: With Outcast. He's significantly affected by her death, and even goes to County Hillock personally to collect her remains. He also goes out of his way to help Horn, since she's connected to Bagpipe, who befriended Outcast.

Radian

A motherly Elite Operator, leader of recon team who's one of Rhodes Island's communication specialists.

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• Non-Action Guy: Potentially downplayed. Despite her elite status, she doesn't excel in combat like most of her colleagues. Instead she makes it up with her invaluable skill at maintaining communication in warzones.
• Team Mom: Acts rather motherly towards everyone, which endears her to young operators. Adults and adolescents however may find her a tad too warm and friendly.

Mantra

Elysium's boss.

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• Animal Motifs: The Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake, going off the print on her tail. Furthermore, her large imposing figure and her jacket making her seem even bigger already clues in to her being based on a viper (especially the bigger ones).
• Mind Control: Her Arts messes with people's memories and perception.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She doesn't talk much, which scares people off, but she secretly enjoys people's company if Elysium is anything to go by.

Mechanist

Race: Elafia
Artist: Cenm0

An Elite Operator who excels in designing and repairing things. He designed Blaze's weapon.

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• Animal Motifs: Giraffes, based on the two small horns protruding from his head, his tail, and the yellow and black color scheme of his jacket.
• Badass Bookworm: As a member of Rhodes Island Elite Ops unit, he is capable of holding his own in a fight, as seen in "Dorothy's Vision" where he uses an Energy Weapon to take a shot at a Rhine Lab Power Armor in an attempt to disable it (unbeknownst to him that the suit he is attacking is unmanned).
• The Engineer: One of the Rhodes Island Workstation furniture items is Mechanist's workbench, and according to its flavor text it doubles as his bed.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His codename is "Mechanist", and he's one of Rhodes Island's engineers.
• The Ghost: Before "Dorothy's Vision", he was mentioned in the flavor text of Rhodes Island Workstation furniture items, the pre-battle scene of 6-2, and Blemishine's operator file.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He used to work for the Columbian MegaCorp Volvort Kochinski as an engineer, but grew disillusioned and disgruntled when he found out the company was stealing his work. He eventually quit his job and eventually found his way to Rhodes Island.
• The Voice: In Blaze's Operator Record, he's seen speaking but doesn't have NPC art.
• Unseen No More: His NPC art debuts in "Dorothy's Vision".

Op Team A4

Affiliated Characters: Durin, Noir Corne, Rangers, Yato

One of the four frontline battlegroups of Rhodes Island's paramilitary force.

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• Informed Attribute: Noir Corne, Rangers, and Yato are senior members and seasoned veterans of Rhodes Island; Noir and Yato have the longest service record of eight years (just slightly more than Blaze but far less than five of the Elite Ops members), and Rangers' dossier notes that he had participated in various battles prior to joining Rhodes Island. Despite this, they are one rank below the Reserve Op Teams (who have little to no combat experience) rarity-wise, and do not have any skills. Durin is exempt from this by virtue of being a narcoleptic, and Rangers himself is admittedly an elder.
• Starter Mon: All but Durin are part of the starting roster, and Durin herself is acquired after TR-5.

Reserve Op Team A1

Affiliated Characters: Beagle, Fang, Hibiscus, Kroos, Lava

The first of six known reserve battlegroups of Rhodes Island's paramilitary force.

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• A Day in the Limelight: The A1 Operations Preparation Detachment manhua is centered on Fang, Beagle, and Kroos's time as newly recruited police officers of Tkaronto (Hibiscus and Lava only appear in the cover page).

Reserve Op Team A4

Affiliated Characters: Adnachiel, Ansel, Cardigan, Melantha, Steward

The fourth of six known reserve battlegroups of Rhodes Island's paramilitary force.

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• Breaking the Fellowship: The description of Adnachiel's "Traceless Walker" skin mentions that the A4 team split up for some time. That said, the split is only temporary as they plan to reunite.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Gender-inverted; the two female members of the group (Cardigan and Melantha) are the frontline physical combatants, while the three male members are the long-range combatants (healer in Ansel's case).
• The Team Normal: Cardigan and Ansel are the only non-Infected Reserve Op members (a group normally composed of Infected individuals).

Reserve Op Team A6

Affiliated Characters: Catapult, Midnight, Orchid, Popukar, Spot

The sixth of six known reserve battlegroups of Rhodes Island's paramilitary force.

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• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The members of A6 are apparently always either fighting, goofing off, or otherwise causing trouble around the base. Popukar mentions that the team knows what it's doing while on the field, but they're all minor disasters when put together without supervision.
• Token Adult: Orchid and Midnight are the only adult members of A6, as the rest are underage (and a child in Popukar's case).

S.W.E.E.P.

Affiliated Characters: Ascalon, Ines, Projekt Red, Scavenger

A counterintelligence division of Rhodes Island, assigned to weed out and dispose of spies and traitors within Rhodes Island. Led by a female Sarkaz operator named Ascalon.

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• Covert Group: It was founded by Kal'tsit after the death of Theresa, to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.
• Secret Police: S.W.E.E.P. is Rhodes Island's spec-op division whose main functions are keeping a tab on problematic individuals that might endanger Rhodes' safety and, in case of said individuals had proven their treachery, assassinating them. It was founded so Theresa's death won't repeat with Amiya, and one part so Kal'tsit and Ascalon have a proper leash on the Doctor for being Theresa's murderer.

Other members

Guard

Guard

Affiliation: Ace Squad
Artists: 唯@W
Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi (Japanese, anime)

A guard who participated in the Chernobog operation. For tropes see his entry in the Reunion Movement.

Medic

Medic

Race: Feline
Artist: m9nokuro
Voiced by: Momo Asakura (Japanese, anime)

A medical officer who participated in the Chernobog operation.

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• Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": Much like Guard's case, her codename is simply "Medic" and she's a medic.
• Her Name Really Is "Barkeep": In 7-10, Guard's question to Rosmontis reveals that "Medic" wasn't just her temporary callsign during the mission to extract the Doctor; it's her actual codename.
  Rhodes Island Guard?: Medic didn't come with you?
  Rosmontis: Why bring her up?
  • SilverAsh's first Operator Record also has Amiya and SilverAsh address Medic by her codename in a business setting.
    Amiya: Medic, you were a witness to the signing of the contract with Mr. Silverash. What do you think?
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    Enciodes: Medic... Ma'am, your company seems to have a custom of calling each other by codenames, so I'd like to follow suit. Mind if I borrow you after this?
• Heroic BSoD: In Episode 1, Medic breaks into tears after it dawns on everyone that they are forced to leave behind Ace and his squad as they hold back Talulah. In the anime, she breaks earlier when the Catastrophe showers over Chernobog, curling into herself and screaming that she doesn't want to die.
• Not So Above It All: She's basically a Consummate Professional during the two-episode prologue and SilverAsh's Operator Record. Then you notice that the person who wrote the notes on Ayerscarpe's medical analysis isn't "a Medic operator" like many other Operators' analyses; it's Medic herself.
  "Abdominal area feels pretty good on palpation."
• Suddenly Voiced: She's voiced in the Prelude to Dawn anime.
• You All Look Familiar: At least two other named characters reuse her sprite: Mina (Meteor's roommate from Meteor's Operator Records) and Ari (a minor character from Kal'tsit's side story in Vigilo). Her sprite is also used for unnamed HR and Medic Operators.

Dora

Dora

Race: Feline

A Victorian child taken to Rhodes Island by her parents for treatment. She's also good friends with Blaze.

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• Animal Motifs: Cats, as per her Feline race.
• A Day in the Limelight: Her past is revealed in "Fairytale Everlasting" (Iris's side story in Beyond Here).
• Delicate and Sickly: She came to Rhodes Island to have her Oripathy treated, but she's contracted it at such a young age that there are doubts she'll even live long enough to see adulthood.
• You All Look Familiar: At least three other named characters reuse Dora's sprite: Gianna (from Meteor's Operator Records), Monica (from "A Light Spark in Darkness"), and Xiaoming (from "Guiding Ahead").

Luo Xiaobai

Luo Xiaobai

Race: Unknown (Human)
Artist: 九日九号

Xiaohei's friend and Ah Gen's cousin who was inadvertently transported from her world to Terra and eventually joined Rhodes Island. She stars in The Legend Of Luo Xiao Hei crossover event "It's Been a While".

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• Friend to All Living Things: She is very kindhearted and nice to practically everybody and everything she meets.
• Unfazed Everyman: Despite being just a regular human with no special powers, Xiaobai isn't really all that shocked with Terra since she's already used to the existence of magic and spirits in her own world.

Ah Gen

Ah Gen

Race: Unknown (Elfin)
Artist: 九日九号

Xiaohei's friend and Xiaobai's cousin who was inadvertently transported from his world to Terra and eventually joined Rhodes Island. He stars in The Legend Of Luo Xiao Hei crossover event "It's Been a While".

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• An Ice Person: He is able to create and manipulate ice, which most Terrans mistake as Arts.
• The Smart Guy: He's the most intelligent among the trio, and comes up with the plan to help recover Yangi.

Minor operators

Shared tropes

• You All Look Familiar: Unless otherwise noted, many of these operators share generic Rhodes Island employee art.

Andante

The medical operator in charge of Rhodes Island's Vyseheim branch office in Leithania.

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• Obsessively Organized: This is noted to be the main reason why Hibiscus notices the strange condition of Vyseheim Infected's health; Andante keeps a record of her examination on daily basis for years. Hibiscus notes that when nothing bad happens for that long, people tend to slack on the procedure out of complacent. However, because Andante keeps up her habit without err, Hibiscus can see the subtle changes of the city's Infected that are only obvious from top-down perspective of the entire charts, instead of getting caught off guard on the hindsight.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the conclusion of "Lingering Echoes", she decides to transfer out of Vyseheim since she has no wish to get caught up in the Leithanian politics and intrigue surrounding the Afterglow district.
• The Watson: She acts as this for Hibiscus during her visit to Vyseheim, being the only other medical professional she can talk to regarding the false Oripathy recoveries.

Atro

Race: Feline

A medical operator stationed in Wolumonde. Twilight of Wolumonde opens with her being one of the victims of a fire that destroyed her medical camp.

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• Animal Motifs: Implied to be cats, judging from how Folinic refers to her in TW-4.
  Folinic: You... You really gave me the runaround here... Stupid cat.
• Dub Name Change: From Anton to Atro.
• The Lost Lenore: A non-romantic example to both Folinic and Mudrock.
• Meaningful Name: Folinic's Promotion Record reveals that Atro chose her name the exact same way as Folinic did: it was the first word in the medical dictionary that she couldn't remember.
• One-Steve Limit: The viewpoint character of Warfarin's Operator Record is an Ursine boy named Anton.
• Posthumous Character: She's already dead by the start of the Twilight of Wolumonde event.
• The Voice: She speaks in TW-S-1 but isn't given NPC art.

Barty

An operator who was instructed by Kal'tsit to take care of Eyjafjalla. He appears in Eyjafjalla's Operator Records.

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• Recurring Extra:
  • In Noir Corne's Operator Record, he's one of Noir Corne's bar buddies.
  • In the Rhine Lab manhua spinoff, he's part of the mobile team protecting Silence when they're looking for Dalia and Ifrit.
• Secret-Keeper: In Eyjafjalla's Operator Record, he's one of the few people who among Leithanien operators that shared the suspicion that Eyja's parents did not die in an accident, but from a conspiracy.

Bitter Root

The head of Rhodes Island's branch office in Caladon City.

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• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's willing to sell the Green Sparks pub, which Rhodes Island owns, to Susie at a huge discount so she can get her own business started.

Bluishsilver

Affiliation: Rosmontis Team

Race: Feline

Real name: Mabel Grimm

A brown-haired Victorian operator with green eyes who was assigned to Rosmontis Team during the Chernobog operation. KIA when protecting the team from an ambush staged by Ursus soldiers.

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• Animal Motifs: Cats, according to how Iris describes her in Beyond Here.
  Iris: I... in all honesty, I've never met her. But I know she's called Mabel, she's a Feline, and she has brown hair and green eyes.
• The Ghost: She isn't given NPC art.
• Killed Offscreen: Rosmontis says she can't "feel [Bluishsilver] anymore" in M8-4, and her death is reported by her squadmate in M8-5.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Her real name seems to reference The Brothers Grimm for her connection with fairytale-themed Iris.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her history with the Castle of Dreams leads to Iris and Bena joining Rhodes Island.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Debuts and dies in Episode 8, but more is known about her in "Fairytale Everlasting" (Iris's side story in Beyond Here).
  Field Officer: If you have no other trails, then I actually know a girl called Mabel. I know she was originally Victorian, she's twenty-odd, brown-haired, green-eyed, and very nimble with her hands, though she's not a lover of manual work. She just likes fiddling with machine parts.
• Wrench Wench: A Rhodes Island field officer mentions that Mabel was very nimble with her hands and likes fiddling with machine parts, but she wasn't a lover of manual work.

Chard

An operator assigned to Kal'tsit Team during the Chernobog Operation.

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• Recurring Extra: He reappears in Noir Corne's Operator Record as one of his bar buddies.

Compass

A Guard Operator who was previously a refugee before finding employment in Rhodes Island. He appears in "Hypocrisy", Rosa's side story from "Children of Ursus".

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• Recurring Extra: He reappears in Warfarin's Operator Record.

Dario

The manager of the "Just One More Pint" bar in Rhodes Island. He appears in Dur-nar's second Operator Record, "A Glass with Old Stories".

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• By-the-Book Cop: Technically he just manages a bar, but he does exert his authority like a cop. He will not serve alcohol before 9:00 PM despite Dur-nar's protests, saying that "following rules is what gives our lives order" and telling her to file a complaint with the person who made them (heavily implied to be Kal'tsit).
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's also High Inquisitor Dario, Irene's mentor in the Iberian Inquisition.

Dylan

Pilot of the "Bad Guy" aircraft. He gets kidnapped by the Tiacauh tribe during the events of "Gavial the Great Chief Returns".

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• Butt-Monkey: Bad things tend to happen to him, while good things conveniently evades him.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Played for Laughs. In "Ideal City", Elysium mentions Dylan recommending him to go on a mission in Acahualla with a "wicked grin" on his face, implying he set him up deliberately to have a bad time. Instead, Elysium ends up going to the Durin city of Zeruertza and partying with the locals instead.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In "Gavial the Great Chief Returns", when he and Lancet stay behind to fix their aircraft after it got shot down, Dylan is a little disappointed that the two of them is stuck doing boring stuff, but takes some comfort that the Doctor's group won't just leave them behind to have fun in a beautiful waterfall. Smash Cut to the Doctor's group...
• Recurring Extra:
  • In "Spes", Cannot's side story in "Vigilo", he's part of the Rhodes Island team running away from an ambush arranged by Mama John's.
  • In Noir Corne's Operator Record, he's one of Noir Corne's bar buddies.

Filegas

The head of a Rhodes Island office located in Leithania.

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Grace

A Rhodes Island instructor. He first appears in "Moving Forward" (Dobermann's side story in Stories of Afternoon).

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• Recurring Extra: He reappears in "Business as Usual" (the U.S.S.G's side story in Children of Ursus) and the Operator Records of Dur-nar and Fang.

Hawke

Affiliation: Kal'tsit Team

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Occphen

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Piston

An operator who hails from Leithania.

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Qing

Affiliation: Rosmontis Team

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• The Ghost: Never seen on-screen.

Saren

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