History Characters / DestinyOthers

* ActualPacifist: RS was fiercely pacifistic, never advocating for the use of violence even when considering intervening in an alien conflict. It is also the main reason they left their homeworld, as they abhorred the [[InferredHolocaust violent measures it would take]] for the Witness to eventually be formed.

* HeelFaceTurn: They are initially part of the Penitent and its extremist teachings, but leave the Witness's homeworld on their own long before the full collapse of its populace could occur.

Pre-release material for ''Beyond Light'' heavily expands on his backstory and personality, along with his relations with his family and the truly ugly steps he had to take to create some of his most ambitious projects...

* FourEyesZeroSoul: The images accompanying Rasputin's dialogue show that in life, Clovis wore a pair of round spectacles. Fittingly, the black-and-white imagery depict them as ScaryShinyGlasses.

* InsufferableGenius: At the root of his evil is a man who is dangerously out of touch with reality and recent events despite his intellect. Even ''Osiris'', no slouch an Insufferable Genius himself, can barely stand him. [[spoiler:The copy of him in the Creation wing of Bray Exoscience takes this trope even further to the point of GrumpyOldMan territory when he starts verbally flailing around upon finding out that his research isn't being used to stroke his own ego in the present day like his company used to]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A letter Clovis includes in a package containing the Lament sent to his Exo copy (actually Banshee-44) sometime in the relative past indicates that after [[spoiler:the torment he underwent trying to sustain the Exo project and his eventual BrainUploading]], he did come to genuinely regret his decisions, realizing that there is neither [[TheNothingAfterDeath an afterlife]] nor the answer to his [[ImmortalitySeeker desires]] that benefits humanity as a whole and he's thus wasted countless opportunities to make amends with the people he wronged. Strangely, [[AesopAmnesia he doesn't seem to express these feelings in more recent communications from him]] for reasons unknown. [[spoiler:Later information reveals that this might be because the version of him on Europa (who makes the communications) was uploaded before he had his epiphany, explaining the issue]].

* NotBrainwashed: One of the most disturbing aspects of his character: the visions he received throughout the Europa project, attributed to "Clarity", and therefore suggestive of corruption by the Darkness, [[spoiler:actually came from the Traveler trying to warn him off of his course, which Clovis's egotism led him to [[DiggingYourselfDeeper completely misinterpret]]. Clovis I wasn't an amoral, selfish narcissist because he was warped by the Darkness, he was an amoral, selfish narcissist because that's ''normal'' for him.]]

* SanitySlippage: By all accounts, Clovis already had a few screws loose long before he ever set foot on Europa. Talking to the Darkness tends to have negative effects on people's mental health, as Toland can attest. But as the Exo project wore on, his grip on sanity loosens significantly, spoiler:eventually completely losing his mind when Elsie tried to shut down the Exo project and killing her to prevent that from happening.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The corporation wasn't exactly a ''villain'', but the shady behavior was virtually unknown to anyone outside of Clovis, his family, and a small group of scientists, leaving the corporation's image squeaky-clean. A lot of the Clovis Bray history is redacted post-Collapse by parties unknown, but Ikora confirms that she knows many of their secrets. Even this very wiki described him as "[[AffablyEvil a genuinely nice man for all his faults]]" until the release of the Beyond Light collector's edition.

* AbstractEater: They feed on wishes. To be more specific, they feed on granting wishes and then deceiving the wisher, growing stronger and tougher with every wish granted.

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* BizarreAlienBiology:

* ExactWords: You have to be extremely precise in your wishes for an Ahamkara to not screw you over, like with the Wall of Wishes. Failure to do so and the wish may often backfire in a very harmful fashion.