Library of Ruina Main Character Index
The Library (Roland) | The Wings | Syndicates (The Five Fingers | Subsidiaries | Other Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble) | Fixers (Associations | Offices) | Other Guests | Distortions | Abnormalities | Others
The Library (Roland) | The Wings | Syndicates (The Five Fingers | Subsidiaries | Other Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble) | Fixers (Associations | Offices) | Other Guests | Distortions | Abnormalities | Others
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The Brotherhood of Iron
In General
- "These guys are using whole-body replacements. And low-quality ones from shoddy workshops at that..."- Roland
- Blessed with Suck: While their mechanical bodies do give them slightly greater endurance, as well as the inability to feel pain, they still suffer the psychological effects of human physiology such as hunger. Unfortunately, due to the low quality of their bodies, they can't eat food nor they can enjoy otherwise simple human comforts such as a soft bed.
- Chainsaw Good: All three known members wield chainsaw-swords as weapons.
- Cyber Cyclops: Arnold and Mo only have one optic under their hoods.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Especially cheaply made cybernetics. They're suffering the problems of human impulses and desires stuck in cold metal bodies, Consta especially is always craving the taste of food but lost every way to taste or even eat. All three members also have a hard stuttering problem to their speech.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Arnold shows up twice in the game's intro cinematic, first playing a game of cards with other guests on a table in the Library, twice later being swiftly killed and split in half by Roland.
- Man in the Machine: They were previously humans who replaced their bodies with robotics.
- Shock and Awe: They focus on inflicting paralysis.
- Terrible Trio: Three cyborgs who sold their organic bodies to fight and kill for money more easily. Although 'terrible' is stretching it, since they're still pretty low in the City's hierarchy.
The Stray Dogs
In General
- "Syndicates have a tendency to kill more than they need to, unlike Fixers. They cause trouble just because they feel like it."- Roland
- Band of Brothers: Though the claims of their subordinate's page story, the Stray Dogs have a tight bond and loyalty between members, unlike Offices who'd be far more likely to backstab or abandon their own despite their professionalism.
- Black Market: Where the Stray Dogs tend to do business.
- Dumb Muscle: While far from an idiot, Gyeong-mi is too hot headed for his own good and flies into unreasonable rage easily, killing a bunch of Zwei Section 6 members against the advice of his friends, who are now cautious of retribution they can't hope to fight against once Zwei Section 1 hears about what happened.
- Genius Bruiser: By contrast, Dino and Zulu are calmer and more reasonable than Gyeong-mi, they plan their objectives out, recognize the incoming threats if they don't act fast in their goal and can deliver just as harsh of a beating as they can receive it.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: They excel in fighting with their bare fists, thanks to their strength-enhancing augmentations and nano-tattoos.
- Lightning Bruiser: This trio moves fast and goes for hits that can easily drop unprepared librarians to half health in a single blow, offset by the fact that they don't have many cards that hit multiple times, and the ones that they do have aren't as strong as their single hit attacks. Even Gyeong-mi, whose signature cards deal intense amounts of damage with multiple strikes, can't afford to use his best attacks for long without exhausting himself to no-lights and needing to idly recharge for a turn.
- Loophole Abuse: Exploited by Gyeong-mi's signature card, Brawl. Brawl randomly copies the dice from another page in his hand on use. Brawl does not, however, copy any on use effects from the page it copies, meaning Brawl is best used in conjunction with pages that have negative on use effects, such as Gyeong-mi's other signature card, Scratch That!, which normally has a -2 power modifier on use.
- My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Normally, each character deck can only have 3 copies of the same card. Gyeong-mi has 4 copies of Brawl and Scratch That! - and the latter is an "Objet d'Art" rarity page, which normally are limited to just one per deck.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gyeong-mi is introduced beating up some Section 6 goons in rage due to Walter failing to deliver them L. Corp's floorplans.
- Power Tattoo: Those tattoos are more than just intimidation. They actually can enhance physical strength.
- Pummeling the Corpse: Gyeong-mi loves doing this while explaining how all this carnage meant to send a message to Section 6, with each word followed by a bloody punch to an already dead corpse of the goon he beat to death earlier.
- Revenge Before Reason: Gyeong-mi decides that going on a killing spree against Zwei Section 6 and potentially invoking the wrath of one of the higher graded Sections in the name of "sending a message" is an appropriate reaction to Walter failing to deliver on the L-Corp floor plans. Part of why the Stray Dogs accept the invitation to the Library is fear of being hunted by Section 1 if they don't grab the plans and skedaddle.
The Musicians of Bremen
In General
- "Looks like the Pianist left a whole bunch of nutjobs in its wake."- Roland
- Animal Motifs: Each of them are named after the sound that an animal makes. The founders of the Musicians of Bremen are each based off of one of the animals from The Bremen Town Musicians.
- Animal-Motif Team: They're all wearing animal masks, and they're named after the various sounds their respective animals make. Meow after a cat, Oink after a pig, and MuMu after a rabbit supposedly.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Their masks give them black sclera and white beady pupils.
- Brain Washed And Crazy: A side effect of being caught in the Pianist's song but not close enough to be absorbed into his instruments made them obsessed with replicating the music they heard the day he attacked.
- Dramatic Irony: They spend their part of the chapter constantly planning and hoping for the day they create the perfect music with their next victim. Their dying words when killed in the Library, more often than not, is melancholily lamenting that their death is making the perfect music they've been training to achieve.
- Foreshadowing: They make mention of Heehaw, Doodle-doo and Woof in passing, who'd show up much later in the storyline as a member of the Reverberation Ensemble.
- Human Resources: In order to accomplish their goals, they butcher people and use their flesh and bones to make "instruments" for them to play with.
- Mad Artist: They're homicidal musicians who seek to recreate the Pianist's music by making instruments out of others.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: As soon as the trio of Musicians left behind by the founders enter the Library, they strike Angela in the head and threaten her to her face before she has to begrudgingly let them all in.
- Shout-Out: They're based on The Bremen Town Musicians.
- Skewed Priorities: While standing around the lobby of the Library, they're more concerned with talking about what kind of noise a rabbit makes (MuMu's mask) than actually acknowledging Angela trying to greet them in.
- Support Party Member: Their key and combat pages focus on inflicting strength buffs on their allies and various debuffs on their enemies.
- Theme Naming: Each member of the syndicate is named after a sound an animal makes. Or at least, everyone's but MuMu's is.
- Wham Shot: They reveal that Angela is becoming human over time when they smash her over the head, making her bleed and feel pain for the first time. In every other instance of a guest attacking Angela before, the weapon just got deflected harmlessly with a loud metal impact sound.
Meow
Meow
Alright~ I'll show you how sharp a cat's claws are!
The fourth founding member of the Musicians of Bremen and the first of the trio fought, Meow wear's a mask based off a cat and is looking after the newest members of her Syndicate.- Authority Equals Asskicking: The standing leader of the Syndicate while Heehaw, Doodle-loo and Woof are away, and the toughest member of the trio during the gang's battle at the Library.
- Cute Little Fangs: True to her animal of choice, she's got long canines on display when she's smiling.
- Nightmare Fetishist: As consequence of being driven Brainwashed and Crazy by the Pianist's music and being right at the epicenter of his attack, Meow goes into very loving detail describing all the people who were transformed and were assimilated right into his instrument and how close she was to joining him too, getting way more excited and carried away about recalling it than Mumu and Oink.
- Older Than They Look: She looks and sounds fairly young, but she's actually 41 years old.
- White Mask of Doom: Her cat mask is white and stained with blood around its eyes, and as with the others gives her Black Eyes of Evil.
Mu Mu
MuMu
Fly like a rabbit, sting like a bee~
The second of the trio, MuMu is a man wearing a bunnys mask who joined up to replicate what he heard the Pianist play on the day of his attack.- Odd Name Out: Among all of the current and former members of the band, Mumu stands out in that his name doesn't directly reference the sound that his respective animal makes. Lampshaded by the Oink and Meow who struggle to come up with an appropriate sound for Mumu's animal.
- White Mask of Doom: His white bunny mask, helped by the fact it's got some faint blood on it and gives him Black Eyes of Evil.
Oink
Oink
Mumu and Meow cheered me up... I can do this!
The third of the trio. Originally a Fixer from the Seven Association's South Section 3 before hearing the Pianist's performance, Oink is an anxious man who's been practicing hard to impress the others with a great performance to match the Pianist himself, or at the very least the Syndicate's leaders, but hasn't been able to find much success.- Pig Man: His mask is themed after a pig, and despite his nervousness he's just as violent as his companions.
- Riches to Rags: He laments that he's given up basically everything he had joining the band just for a shot at recreating what he heard the Pianist play. And the Syndicate, as dangerous as they are, is something of a backstreet dump considering he left an Association for it.
Little Piggy's
In General
Axe Gang
In General
A Syndicate that consists of many members that were well-acquainted with the Fixers of Hook Office before they actually joined Hook Office.
Smiling Faces
In General
- "But, there's a whole lot of fields of Fixer activity, and the situations can differ for each case, so it's hard to make a fair one-on-one comparison. For example, the Red Mist liked to work alone, but the Blue Reverb is leading a Urban Nightmare-class Syndicate as you can see there."- Roland
- Anti-Debuff: Their passive, Smokey Brume, inverts the negative effects of the Smoke debuff they inflict on themselves and others. Instead of taking more damage, they inflict more damage instead.
- Deadly Gas: The first reception to introduce the Smoke debuff, making heavy use of it to strengthen themselves and weaken their opponents. One of the side-effects it has on other people is the numbing of senses, which is how they prolong Thelma's suffering as noted below.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: They're introduced torturing the Shi Association's Southern branch manager Thelma, having already made 1347 cuts from his body, with the Blue Reverberation requesting them to make a total of 10,000 cuts from Thelma's body before killing him.
- Faux Affably Evil: They act friendly and warm towards everyone, including their victims even as the Smiling Faces torture them.
- I Am a Humanitarian: They prefer chopping people into meat flakes and eating them.
- Laughably Evil: They talk in a cockney accent and are mutant abominations whose attire can't be taken seriously, but they are extremely dangerous and gruesome cannibals.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Their members wear Haehoetal masks
and are one of many cannibals that operate within the City. - Vocal Dissonance: The middle, tall Syndicate member, Mi has a voice that resembles a young woman despite her appearance being nearly identical to the other Syndicate members.
- You No Take Candle: All members speak in extremely garbled sentences.
Rusted Chains
In General
A Syndicate that clashes often with the Kurokumo Clan. They wield rusted, spiky chains in combat.
- Cast from Hit Points: A good portion of their cards inflict bleed to themselves in return for boosting their dice rolls.
- Chain Pain: As mentioned earlier, they utilize rusted, spiky chains in combat. These chains can easily damage themselves, however.
Blade Lineage
In General
Another Syndicate that clashes often with the Kurokumo Clan. They are filled with generally low-class people who have murderous inclinations.
- Critical Hit Class: Their hat in Limbus Company, specialising in piling upon Poise to net as much damage as they can crit with on their third Skill.
- Difficult, but Awesome: The exclusive combat page for Bamboo-Hatted Kim, To Claim Their Bones, is a 14-23 single counter dice combat page that inflicts 5 paralysis and 3 bleed for every hit. It can only be obtained, however, by losing a clash using Bamboo-Hatted Kim's other exclusive combat page, To Yield My Flesh, which contains a single 5-10 slash die but is boosted to 7-12 by Bamboo-Hatted Kim's passive. Due to this, even obtaining To Claim Their Bones is a difficult feat. Additionally, To Claim Their Bones exhausts on use, meaning Kim needs to lose another clash with To Yield My Flesh if he wishes to use To Claim Their Bones again.
- Rugged Scar: They only allow individuals with scars on their bodies to join their Syndicate under the premise that people with scarless bodies are Dirty Cowards.
Bamboo-Hatted Kim
A high-ranking member of the Blade Lineage that assisted in founding the group after deserting S-Corp. While no reason is given in Library of Ruina as to why he and his group entered the Library, it's revealed in Limbus Company that they were on the run from the Kurukumo Clan and accepted the Library's invitation to seek respite.
- Achilles' Heel: In Limbus Company, Bleed. His Distorted form only has one part and all of his attacks have at least two coins, so stacking enough Bleed on him can chip away at his health incredibly quickly. Damage sustained through Bleed also depletes the shield he creates when uses To Claim Their Bones, making the move easier to clash against. Fitting, considering the Kurukumo IDs specialize in Bleed.
- A Father to His Men: He cares greatly for his subordinates, enough that their deaths are enough for him to distort.
- Anti-Villain: Despite Blade Lineage being classified as a syndicate and therefore a criminal organization, all he wants is for him and the people under his guidance to find a better place in life than what S-Corp gave them.
- Ascended Extra: Went from an optional encounter in Library of Ruina to the star of his own event in Limbus Company, which also expanded on his backstory and his motives for entering the Library.
- Ax-Crazy: Becomes this after distorting, leading him to brutually slaughter everyone in the room with him, including his own men.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Normally the subject of a Distortion has to willingly submit to it, but the monolith that was within Kim's proximity when he hit his Heroic BSoD was able force the process without Kim fully giving into it.
- Brought Down to Badass: The Sinners are successfully able to reverse his distortion.
- A Day in the Limelight: Intervallo IV in Limbus Company revolves around him, where the Blade Lineage's arrival at the Library is given an explanation, and his distorted form serves as the Final Boss of the chapter.
- Defector from Decadence: He and several of his subordinates abandoned S-Corp after getting fed up with the dystopian state District 19 was in.
- The Faceless: His signature bamboo hat has never once revealed what the man has looked like, even expanding to covering his face with literal shadow when he distorts, a single glowing eye visible from the darkness.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: The Sinners are able to reverse his distortion, only for Aeng-du to stab him in retribution for killing his own men while rampaging. Subverted in that he ultimately survives Aeng-du's attempt on his life, and he wasn't in control of his actions when he was distorted to begin with.
- Heroic BSoD: Escaping the Library with his Salsus only for them to be immediately set upon and massacred by the Kurukumo Clan caused Bamboo-Hatted Kim to regard himself as a total failure of a leader and mentor. This normally wouldn't have been enough to make him vulnerable to distorting, but the monolith in the room made him easier to corrupt.
- Master Swordsman: Referred to this by Aeng-du, even stating that Kim might be the best swordsman in the entire Lineage. This turns out to be true, as in a flashback sequence we see Kim and a few other salsus fending off Kurokumo clan members. Kim is effortlessly cleaving through foes, while his comrades unfortunately fall one by one.
- My Greatest Failure: Kim declares this as he watches the remaining lineage members around him get cut down, believing he has utterly failed in securing a home for his brethren and failed them as a mentor, leading him to distort shortly after.
- Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: After distorting in the Yong-jin building due to the monolith, Kim gains this as he rampages, with a flame-like trail accompanying his glowing eye as well.
- Signature Headgear: Never seen without his massive straw hat. It's in the name; Bamboo-Hatted Kim.
- Took a Level in Badass: If you thought Bamboo-Hatted Kim was bad enough as is, wait until you play Limbus Company and meet Distorted Bamboo-Hatted Kim.
- Walking Spoiler: Most of the spoilers in this folder pertain to his appearance in Limbus Company.
- You Are Already Dead: If he hits the Area of Effect version of To Claim Their Bones when fighting his Distortion, you might as well hit the "Give Up" button then and there, as he will probably TPK the Sinners within the next two turns.
