History Characters / HOME2013

* BadassAdorable: Even moreso than in the last game. Hell, in the very first zone, he and his new cat buddy [[spoiler:take on a deranged Burnt butcher in the middle of a dark labyrinth who's already murdered countless other Elsen]]. By the later parts of the game as is, he's also not afraid to [[spoiler:go up against a literal army]].

* BlowYouAway: Ehh, sort of. The elements of his Ravage attacks is Smoke, which is ''OFF''[='=]s equivalent to air.

** At one point, he casually mentions he's a little tired of having to make do with gobbling up the enemies you defeat. No wonder you don't leave corpses...

* IWillFindYou: The owner Jozlyn is looking for is heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the BonusBoss Sugar from ''OFF''. Both enjoy dance or view dancing and fighting as the same, both use emotes when they speak, both have eaten sugar, and both have shockingly high health when you fight them, possibly due along with their questionable sanity to their sugar consumption. Jozlyn is first found expecting her owner to be somewhere in the sugar oven and monorail area of Zone 3 — as Sugar's name and condition would imply. She also says, during the break in Zone 0, that she came back there expecting to find her there too]].

* BonusBoss: If you find all of the [[spoiler:Zodiac Coins]].

* BonusBoss: She has the exact same role that she did in the original game. The only differences are that you don't require the Grand Finale and that she's found [[spoiler:in the purified Zone 3 instead of the Zone 0 basement]].

* BonusBoss

The traditional items merchant that's necessary in every video game, reprising his role from VideoGame/{{OFF}}. He also serves as your guide through the Zones this time around. The two of you have a “fun, mutual friendship”.

* BattleThemeMusic: [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2pUFWwYYU Lost Value]], though in the HOME files when you go play it on windows media player, it's called Blue Zircon. It was created by playing Euphoria backwards and touching it up, another small reference to Zacharie's strange relation to Sugar.]]

** [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnDDzsbaZnY Pandemie Inverse]], when he fights against you as the final boss as The Bad Executioner.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Given that he's purified the world in a previous timeline, he intends to do it again.]]

* OutOfFocus: Due to not being the puppet in this particular game. He's still around and having his own adventure through the Zones, but unlike VideoGame/{{OFF}}, we have no idea what he's doing on it.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: When you run into him in [[spoiler:The Courtroom]]. he says something to this effect. [[spoiler:He remembers how [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} the game]] was supposed to go, and is either pleased or deeply unhappy with the way things have turned out, depending on your actions.]]

* SuddenlyVoiced: As opposed to [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} OFF]], he has a verbal tic this time around!
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:As Bad Executioner. If you sided with the Judge in OFF, then you know that Bad Batter is a pretty easy boss. This time around, he has a ''lot'' more health, his attacks are ''very'' powerful (and can inflict status conditions), and he now has two add-ons.]]

--> '''Batter''': I lost? ''*splat*''

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Unbelievably, yes, he did. He's even more impatient than last time, and seriously injures an Elsen right in front of you. And then Subverted, once you beat him and he suddenly becomes the NiceGuy you met in the Room of the original game. [[spoiler:It's implied the spectres were driving him nuts.]]

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Yeah, you went mad and attacked your people last time, Japhet, but last time, you weren't such an evil bastard about it. [[spoiler:And he's the only Guardian ''not'' possessed by spectres. He's just a vain jerk.]] In the [[spoiler:Courtroom]], his previous curt attitude has been amplified to full-on rudeness.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Averted. Unlike OFF, where Enoch towered over The Batter, Enoch stays at his base height throughout the entire battle. Then again, he already towered over the Batter at his base height, and seeing that in this case the Batter towers over your characters...

* HopelessBossFight: Again, averted. As Enoch is no longer invincible in the first battle against him like he was in OFF, the fight with him this time is a straight-up battle confined to his office.

** Actually, that isn't his leg, that's his second Arm Cannon BEHIND his bent leg, making it double Arm Cannons, like the rest of his army. Although this Arm Cannon is still different from the rest of them, appearing to be more for precision rather than chain-gunfire.

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: She only tries explaining what's going on ''after'' losing her fight. Failing to try this route before berating you and the Judge and initiating that fight is exactly what kills her and plunges the situation into an even worse one.]]

* ThemeNaming: Takes the "Sclerosis" side of the competences he had last game. This doubles as MeaningfulName, a sclerosis being a hardening of a part of the brain and the Judge being a {{Determinator}}. His other competences are "purr", the healing line, and "ravage", his physical attack line.

* TheBerserker:

* JerkAss: A bit. He sure gets impatient, to the point where the Judge eventually just shuts him up for it.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Alain is not very useful in most field encounters since all of his competence attacks are physical, which is unable to do much damage to specters, which make up the majority of those encounters. He becomes invaluable in extended fights with bosses, however, due to his ability to pierce defense and drain health and later mana from the enemy.

** TheBerserker: Reckless Duress increases his attack power but lowers his defensive power, and causes him to attack on his own for a bit.

* ThemeNaming: His competences generally revolve around "palpate", the word for "to feel", "duress", another word for "pressure", and "honing" a word for "improvement".

* BlowYouAway / ExtraOreDinary: The elements of his attacks are Smoke and Metal.

* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Alain's ability to circumvent the usual rules of combat is what keeps him useful in later levels, not his damage output. Valerie, meanwhile, starts off a little weaker than the rest of the party but learns harder-hitting spells (and only spells) faster than the others.

* IWillFindYou: The owner Jozlyn is looking for is heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the BonusBoss Sugar from ''OFF''. Both enjoy dance or view dancing and fighting as the same, both use emotes when they speak, both have eaten sugar, and both have shockingly high health when you fight them, possibly due along with their questionable sanity to their sugar consumption. Jozlyn is first found expecting her owner to be somewhere in the sugar oven and monorail area of Zone 3 — as Sugar's name and condition would imply. She also says, during the break in Zone 0, that she came back there expecting to find her there too.]]

* TheAtoner: If HOME truly is a denotative sequel to OFF (as opposed to an AU), then that makes you this.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: It's stated by [[spoiler:Edna]] that the Player is the same Player from [[{{VideoGame/OFF}} OFF]], which means that to reach your happy ending, the Player went through [[spoiler:TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] once, maybe twice. And that's without getting into in-game events.

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* IllBoy: Indicated by his VerbalTic and a few lines in The Courtroom about him taking pills.

* StandardStatusEffects: Valerie's Grimace moveset has a chance to cause these, starting with poison. Open Grimace, which causes mute, is especially useful once he has it.

* StandardStatusEffects: Her moves can cause them, but they attack only one enemy and she learns them very slowly. She gains effects distinct from Valerie.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: She asks if the gang is going to eat her, commenting on the Judge's (or Alain's) rather large fangs. Guess what Alain did earlier. She even mentions how she herself eats sugar and meat. Guess what Alain ''also'' did earlier.

* ThemeNaming: Takes the "Sclerosis" side of the competences he had last game. This doubles as MeaningfulName, a sclerosis being a hardening of a part of the brain and the Judge being a {{Determinator}}.

* ThemeNaming: His competences generally revolve around "palpate", the word for "to feel".

* ThemeNaming: Takes the "Aneurysm" side of the Judge's competences from the last game. Doubles as MeaningfulName, with an aneurysm being a tumor in the brain and Valerie having undergone mind-control PeoplePuppets due to swallowing Japhet.

* CloudCuckoolander: Her first comment when meeting the Judge's gang is to ask if they brought her a present. Yes, she's serious. Alain even calls her a loony right in front of her.

* IWillFindYou: The owner Jozlyn is looking for is heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the BonusBoss Sugar from ''OFF''. Both enjoy dance or view dancing and fighting as the same, both use emotes when they speak, both have eaten sugar, and both have shockingly high health when you fight them, possibly due along with their questionable sanity to their sugar consumption. Jozlyn is first found expecting her owner to be somewhere in the sugar oven and monorail area of Zone 3 — as Sugar's name and condition would imply. She also says, during the break in Zone 0, that she came back there expecting to find her there too. Events in ''OFF'' show us that the Batter may have killed Sugar, but there is no evidence of Sugar's presence in the underground cellar.]]

* ThemeNaming: Her competences are centered around dance.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Yeah, you went mad and attacked your people last time, Japhet, but last time, you weren't such an evil bastard about it. [[spoiler:And he's the only Guardian ''not'' possessed by spectres. He's just a vain jerk.]]

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Just like Dedan.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Judge gives him one of these in an attempt to sway him.

* SuddenlyVoiced: As opposed to [[VideoGame/{{OFF}} OFF]], he has a verbal tic this time around!

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* TheBerserker: A late-game move increases his attack power but lowers his defensive power, and causes him to attack on his own for a bit.

** He's an alley cat, so of course he's going to be tough.

* StatusBuff: He specializes in them. For a hefty CP price, he can boost the entire team's attack, defense, magic, or agility. You even get a nice little health boost to go along with it.
* StoneWall: His Valorous Duress move turns him into this, doubling his defense but preventing him from using his attacks.
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* AntiArmor: The third set of skills Valerie learns are moves that null enemy resistances.

* ExtraOreDinary: The element of his attacks is Metal.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Partially thanks to his high level early on and partially thanks to a certain competence in particular, Valerie will generally be your hard-hitter in the team.

* StandardStatusEffects: Valerie's moves have a chance to cause these, starting with poison.
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* ThemeNaming: Takes the "Aneurysm" side of the Judge's competences from the last game. Doubles as MeaningfulName, with Valerie being the soft to the Judge's hard and an aneurysm being a softening tumor in the brain. May also reference Valerie's possession by Japhet.

* CombatMedic: She is the other party member to employ healing spells. Uniquely, she can also cure any status ailment.

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