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    Ayin 
The owner of L Corp. Also known simply as A. While he doesn't physically appear, Angela's description of him sheds new lights onto his brutality.
  • All for Nothing:
    • His final Seed of Light output not only failed to reform the city to its original state as expected, but Angela stopping it inversely made things worse considering the appearance of Distortions and Angela herself organizing blackhole killings with the library has managed to throw the city into further chaos.
    • In the hypothetical scenario that Zena describes, if the Seed of Light had gone off without a hitch then, while it would be an inconvenience to The Head for a while, it's effects would ultimately have been integrated into the City's cycle, ultimately changing nothing (or even causing mass, unbridled chaos instead of anything he envisioned).
  • Bad Boss:
    • It was revealed that aside from the sheer mistreatment of his executives and employees back in Lobotomy, he was also this to Angela before. Having seen that she was not willing to inherit Carmen's tasks after her death, he hardly treated her like a person and basically left her with severe trauma that lingers on to this day. Small wonder why Angela was trying to stop him from unleashing the Seed of Light at all costs; the abuse really made her want to see him suffer.
    • Save for Angela, it turns out he's also this to the Sephirot in order to trigger their Meltdowns — back in L corp, he ordered Angela to act as cruel to them as possible just to make sure they relieve their traumas after Carmen's death so they could rampage around the facility to make sure he suppresses their hidden destructive desires.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To both Argalia and Roland in regards to the despair and insanity they sank into following the loss of someone they both cared deeply for and defined their existence by.
  • Foil: The Keter Realization shows that he's this to Carmen, as he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who acts cruel and has a tendency to Kick the Dog... but does this because he truly wants to make a brighter future for the people of the City. By contrast, Carmen is Loved by All but is actually the game's Greater-Scope Villain who claims that her goal of allowing everyone in the City to be their truest selves is good, but who doesn't give the slightest care to if those people's truest selves would bring thousands or millions of deaths like the Pianist. This is especially seen in Abnormalities who symbolize them, as Ayin's One Sin And Hundreds Of Good Deeds is a Mirror Character to Carmen's White Night.
  • From Bad to Worse:
    • One might expect his Seed of Light really shone hope unto people, even by the slightest bit once his 10 year project ends. Wrong. Because the seed was interrupted midway, whatever was left of his former Wing would then become the in-game Library, indirectly allowing Angela to lure and kill civilians and Fixers from the outside world in exchange for her freedom, bringing the distortions into being and basically becoming a force of terror towards the entire City.
    • Even worse, if Carmen's words in the Keter Realization were to be taken at face value, then the Seed of Light just turns every other person into Distortions or E.G.O.ists, which if at anything, causes mass unbridled chaos to wreck and destroy the City.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: An Outskirts researcher unleashed an omnipresent threat against the City itself thanks to a Disaster Dominoes scenario unleashed by an unholy combination of sheer luck, borderline malice and access to a highly dangerous Singularity.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Carmen was this to him. The way Binah interprets it, the reason Ayin grew into such a brutal Well-Intentioned Extremist later on is that he was lost without her, and he had nothing left but her wish to save the City.
  • Out of Focus: Aside from some characters mentioning him and some flashbacks, is completely absent in Library of Ruina. That is until the end of the Keter Realization, in which a voice that his heavily implied to be his finally delivers his long-overdue apology to Angela.
  • Pet the Dog: A voice that is most likely Ayin congratulates and apologizes to Angela after the battle within the light against Carmen.
???: ...I'm sorry. And good job.
  • Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: It's explicitly stated that the Heads had a law where nobody can make an AI that resembles a human, having been established shortly after a conflict with non-human machines in the past. This indicates that by creating Angela out of a dire situation where Carmen sacrificed herself for unfortunate circumstances, Ayin basically trampled over a law so severe that L. Corp would've very likely gotten swarmed by Claws and Arbiters.
  • Shoot the Dog:
    • Angela. Repeatedly. Some cases can be chalked down to him being a Well-Intentioned Extremist, but there are also points at which he was just needlessly cruel. In the first place, he detests her for her resemblence to Carmen and the fact that she acts like a human despite being a machine, after he specifically BUILT her to resemble Carmen and to feel emotion. Yet, he also built her to experience time one hundred times slower than anyone else, meaning that every single second of real-time would equal a minute and forty seconds for her, which would be torturous for anyone even at the best of times. While this was meant to let her react to situations in which speedy decision making would be necessary, he could have at least given her an off switch for this ability when it wasn't needed, and he also put her in charge of his scenario in Lobotomy Corp, where any attempt she made to connect with or make the workplace better for those around her was met with her having to start again from day one, forcing her to be deliberately cruel to the Sephirot and the employees in order to advance his scenario to completion over the course of ten thousand years (which felt like one million years to her due to the aforementioned slowed perception of time). Furthermore, he designed her to not just have a perfect memory, but to be completely unable to forget anything she ever experienced, meaning that unlike the rest of Lobotomy Corp she wouldn't even receive the small mercy of forgetting the experiences of each previous loop. Last but not least: he didn't bother to give her any proper conclusion at the end of it all, unlike all the Sephirot who at least received some emotional catharsis after their meltdowns, expecting her to just shut down without a word. After all that, is it really any surprise that Angela decided to betray him right at the finish line?
    • Putting aside his mistreatment of Angela, he's still a generally unsettling person who repeatedly does this over and over to his inner circle, from being on board with Carmen killing Enoch (aka Tiphereth B's human ego)note  for a failed Cogito extraction attempt, to offing Carmen after her unsuccessful suicide attempt out of guilt by extracting her brain stem and using her brain mapping to create Angela, to barely even batting an eye as Elijahnote  doses on Cogito and lays on the floor dying, and to overdosing Giovanninote  to death with Cogito while lying to him that the Cogito could revive Carmen. If Abel's warnings were to be taken for granted, then he was also responsible for indirectly murdering his best friend Benjamin (using Angela) so he could be put in charge of the Record Team.
    • Before Chesed's floor realization, Angela also tells Chesed that the Welfare Team Massacre was caused by the "Script", indicating that Ayin instructed Angela to let that Abnormality out for more Enkephalin.
  • Uncertain Doom: It's not really clear what happened to Ayin after he dissolved into light; whether he died or managed to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence isn't confirmed.
  • The Unfettered: Unlike most Wings or even entities within the city, Ayin isn't exactly big on abiding most conducts or regulations followed by the city's entities. He's quite good at outright ignoring them and inversely running more measures to spite the authorities, however.
  • Unreliable Expositor:
    • Was shown to be this back in Lobotomy Corporation, especially regarding Carmen and the Head raid, the former that he views as some sort of saintly paragon (despite the Distorting Voice/Carmen's actions in game point to her being an Ambiguously Evil Dark Messiah who "evolves" humanity into Distortion monsters), and the latter which he got their real reasoning wrong. Within the facility, he also purposefully creates situations to goad his fellow Sefirot into breaking down by attacking their worst psychological wounds and orders Angela to enable (or sometimes participate into) his operations for the sake of purifying them, indicating many such events like Hod being an Extreme Doormat or Angela causing a fatal breach in the Welfare Team are pre-determined and non-organic.
    • He's also responsible for building up the player into thinking that Angela was a cold and calculating AI who wants him/them dead, although most of these were "fake", prescribed events that he forced Angela to do for him, leading Angela to actually become the cold and sociopathic AI the player was led to believe she was.
    • Subverted about his descriptions about the past of his fellow Sephirot and Carmen, since dialogue from fellow Sephirot or other characters who knew them and exposition in the Book of the Red Mist match his testimonies in the prequel.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While in the prequel it seems like as if Angela did actually screw him in the finish line, late game revelations in here implies him as precisely this. Had the Seed of Light gone through without Angela disrupting it, the sheer number of Distortions wrecking through the City would've reached high enough numbers to cause mass destruction, not helping that every other person in the City can easily Distort by the slightest push of a button.


    Carmen 
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"I doubt there's anyone in this world who can sincerely decide to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others. Humans can only love themselves, after all."

The former founder of L Corp who attempted suicide by slitting her wrist in a bathtub after a bout of depression caused by the guilt of the horror she personally enabled. She would later be lobotomized by Ayin for the sake of creating the Seed of Light. Her brain stem was then stored in a tub at the deepest area of the former L Corp facility, and her brain mapping was used to construct Angela.

Later on, it's revealed by Hokma that Carmen has become the Library's will thanks to the Seed of Light, and has been the one choosing the Guests and instigating the Realizations, as well as becoming the voice that leads people to Distorting.


  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: When Angela performs her Heroic Sacrifice in the revived Tree of Light, it appears to be a standard A Chat with Satan scenario as Angela from her L Corp days appears before her, echoing her million years of grief and desires back at her and engaging her in a brutal Boss Fight to stop her sacrifice. Defeating her however reveals that it was Carmen in disguise, marking her first and only appearance in the present day.
  • All Your Powers Combined: As part of Keter's Floor Realization, Carmen under the guise of L Corp Angela takes on characteristics of Keter's Abnormalities, many of which played a big role in Carmen's backstory — Bloodbathnote , Heart of Aspirationnote , Pinocchionote , the Snow Queennote , and the Silent Girlnote .
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Although she is The Voice, her methods for causing people to distort is to simply ask them a few questions regarding their own desires and flaws, and let that person answer for themselves. Heathcliff's Distortion during Limbus Company is a direct result of her asking what he believes himself to be, and not influencing his mind either way.
  • A Mother to Her Men: Even right after L Corp falls and becomes an Eldritch Location, its denizens still adore her as much as they did in the past, and Chesed and Gebura speak frankly on their past with her.
  • Ambiguously Evil: We don't really know what caused Carmen to become what she is now, but unlike in Lobotomy Corporation, she's an invisible and destructive force terrorizing the City on a completely unprecedented scale, and there are implications that the chaos she induces is mostly intended and is supposed to go on a grander scale than now.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: That's how she ended up after the Golden Ending of Lobotomy Corporation, turning from a fairly normal Backstreets preacher, into a disembodied brain stem, and then into an omnipresent force of mass corruption.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed. At the end of the day, the Seed of Light is still partially incomplete from Roland’s decision to save Angela, thus leaving Carmen with more leverage to influence individuals across the City. However, most of the stolen Light was returned along with almost all of the Library’s victims. As for Angela, she resolves to oppose Carmen’s goals in any way she can.
  • Big Bad: Carmen is now the Voice, the City-Distorting omnipresent existence that tries to make other turn into the Distortions of the game, having created the Pianist, which in turn caused Roland to rampage and create the Reverb Ensemble from the victims, guided Argalia to become a threat equal to the Library, and in Angela's bad ending, takes over half the City while releasing Abnormalities. She is only faced in the Keter Realization, where her motivations are revealed (indicating that the Distortions were intentional if she were anything to go by), and is seemingly foiled.
  • Big Good: Subverted. She's set up as the source of the Library's resident Sephirot and Ayin's idealism, and potentially Angela's growing conscience and humanity... only for it to turn out she's completely Jumped Off the Slippery Slope and is now a City-Distorting omnipresent cosmic horror that actively wants to turn everyone into monsters, tries to stop Angela's Heel–Face Turn, and ends up being completely opposed by the now actual Big Good Angela.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Carmen just wants people to be their true, unadultered selves - in a City full of cannibals, mass murderers, psychopaths, suffering, and clowns. Due to the Seed of Light spreading over the city and the Light taking root in people's hearts, coming close to such a realisation also causes people to Distort (an outcome Carmen herself encourages as The Voice), or rarely, face their own flaws and manifest E.G.O.
  • Break Them by Talking: Naturally. It's the Voice of the Distortions, after all.
  • Climax Boss: There are still two fights following her before the game ends, but she serves as the final battle for Angela's personal arc, and fittingly enough, has the ALEPH Abnormality Silent Girl as her last form.
  • The Corruptor: Implied, and later confirmed by Hokma, to be the voice that whispers to people who begin to Distort, but those who resist her gain an E.G.O. to use. Both Xiao and Argalia note the voice as "charming and otherworldly", fitting her description.
  • Common Mary Sue Traits:
    • The previous game consistently pushed her into the narrative as perhaps being the most infallible thing to ever exist in the lore, and while this game still portrays her similarly, it further implies that the mere existence of this trope on her makes her highly uncanny. Conventionally attractive? Check. Absolute badass both in-lore and game that rivals some of the strongest beings lore wise, yet without lifting a finger? Check. Unique powers not seen in any other characters? Check. So incredibly charismatic that this is a large part of her character? Check. Relevantly connected to the most important characters and events in the story and has manipulated them to some degree? Check. Genius and frighteningly competent in everything she does? Check. Mysterious and vast background? Check. Unusual eyes? Check. Powerful when fought to the point that Angela needs a Suicide Attack to defeat her in gameplay? Check.
    • Of the Patron Librarians, there are only three who don't espouse love for Carmen: Binah, who didn't enter the story until after Carmen had already attempted suicide, and thus was more interested in the still-active Ayin; Hokma, who as Benjamin was far more loyal to Ayin than he ever was to Carmen; and Roland, who wasn't a part of L. Corp at all and finds the nearly universal love and adoration for Carmen extremely creepy and wrong. Essentially, this game marks the first instance of an outside look at her, at which these traits and latter become much more visible.
  • Compelling Voice: Noted to have a certain charismatic quality to her words even while she was alive, her current state of existence takes that up a notch.
  • Cult / Cult of Personality: It's pretty evident that the Sephirot (or rather, their human selves) built one for Carmen, even if they don't actually explicitly refer to it as a religion. It's implied that Carmen influenced them through her speeches based on how everyone tells Roland that they can't seem to simply shrug her words off, unlike usual Backstreet preachers who usually won't be taken seriously in any form or way.
  • Dark Messiah: A tragic example. She still most likely had her initial noble intent, but presumably after slitting her wrists over killing Enoch and being extracted by her colleague, Carmen decided that the best way to save the City was by making every other person "love their true selves". Unfortunately, when the true selves of a whole chunk of the Cityfolk are textbook sociopaths or just Ax-Crazy, this becomes an invitation for disaster. Even if said person is still remotely sane or determined at heart and manifests an E.G.O. instead, the destructive power of many E.G.O. (the Library being an example itself) will result in unparalleled destruction. Fittingly, she shares a lot with the known Dark Messiah WhiteNight, down to having no documented negative side.
  • Empty Shell: According to the Red Mist's book and matching Lobotomy Corporation's story, Carmen was so distraught in enabling Enoch's death that she almost became another person. Her eyes were described as nothing short of an impressive set of Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, her voice became extremely cold and lifeless, and it's even said that she could die at any moment. A few days later, she killed herself out of guilt.
  • Eye-Dentity Giveaway: An eagle-eyed player might notice that "Angela's" eyes are red during the Keter Realization. Angela's eyes almost never change color during her Realizations, foreshadowing that it's actually Carmen they're up against.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: A backstreets preacher that isn't supposed to be taken seriously amongst the City turns into an omnipresent, omniscient disaster.
  • The Ghost: Despite her relevance to the plot as the one who gave Angela the idea for the Invitation system and the implication that she's the Voice of the Distortion, Carmen never actually shows up in any direct fashion up until after one of the penultimate conflicts of the game.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Carmen, at a flashback during Day 30 of Lobotomy Corporation, told Ayin that she wanted to become "a beautiful voice" in her next life. She's now the infamous "Voice of the Distortions" wrecking havoc in the City on an unprecedented scale.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Well, if she were even a "villain" is highly questionable, but what cannot be doubted is that she single-handedly set up the conditions for most events in Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina.
    • Even way before the Library's manifestation, through sacrificing Enoch and failing the experiment and attempting a suicide afterwards she basically kickstarted the first of the many events that led to the Library manifesting.
    • Currently, as the Voice of the Distortions and the guiding will behind the Library, Carmen is responsible for both The Reverb Ensemble and most of the Library's villainous actions.
    • While not directly involved with (currently) most events in Limbus Company, the various Distortions and E.G.O users that appear in that game are directly the fault of Carmen's temptations, and is even mentioned by name in Canto IV by Dongrang after he distorts. It could also be said she is responsible for later parts in Canto VI, having led to Heathcliff distorting.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite being the main orchestrator of the events of the game and the cause of much mayheam and death through the Distortions, Carmen is for now completely beyond repercussions - even being fought as "Angela" in the Keter Realization doesn't really do anything to her. The Voice of the Distortion is still out there, tempting people to fall into despair.
  • Light Is Not Good: Carmen has now ascended into becoming one with the Light, but she sponsors the Reverberation Ensemble and the Library's attacks against the City, and is working to evolve humanity into Distortions.
  • Love Hurts:
    • The single worst offender of this trope in the game's setting. After she sacrificed Enoch for Cogito but failed and Lisa told her that she should die instead, her original cheerful and peppy stance changed completely into a depressed tone that even Kali knew she would off herself at any moment. This led to her attempting suicide by slitting her wrists in a bathtub only to remain partially alive. When Ayin, her love interest, saw her half-alive body, he was so traumatized that he basically lost it and placed her whole brain stem into a tub for Cogito as the research team desired. This caused a series of tragedies in and out of the research facility that led to the single worst catastrophe that has ever graced the City.
    • As the Will of the Library she was also implied to invoke this to attract new guests. If the Library lets anyone escape, it's because they can lure out more victims in its stead. It's best seen in the E.G.O. user arc where Phillip's Cowardly Lion tendencies and his unrequited love interest relationship with Yuna was talking advantage of by the Library to redirect him to Oswald's lair so he can break him. The Will of the Library then purposefully re-released him so Argalia could find him and Lowell can be booked to break down Xiao as well. While Xiao didn't break down as intended, she still got booked anyway, allowing the Reverberation Ensemble to steal the light with all opposition put out.
  • Loved by All:
    • Anyone who met and interacted with her personally seemingly ignores all common sense (as far as standards in the City go) and would solely view her as nothing short of a saint without an exception.
    • In the Red Mist reception, when Angela was talking bad about Carmen in front of the fake Red Mist, she acts way more aggressively than usual, threatening Angela that she shouldn't mock her sincerity or the research laboratory's efforts.
  • Madden Into Misanthropy: The Sephirah remember Carmen as a believer in the inherent goodness of humanity, who came up with the Seed of Light plan to heal the City's 'Disease of the Mind'. But Carmen present in Library of Ruina loves Distortions - people falling victims to their darkest thoughts and base impulses. Unless this was her Evil Plan all along, her experiences in Lobotomy Corporation changed her - or she, herself, has Distorted.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Her name is shortened as "C" and is the true "conductor" of the Reverberation Ensemble who manipulates Argalia for her own ends of spreading the light and turning everyone into Abnormalities.
    • Probably the best-known 'Carmen' is the eponymous character from the opera, and the Trope Codifier of the Femme Fatale, fitting for the many times where something horrible happens because she broke apart a couple as the Distorting voice.
  • Nerves of Steel: While Backstreets are generally considered no-go zones for Nest dwellers rife with all sorts of dangers such as thugs, cannibals or other maniacs, they are actually places Carmen frequent even way before Kali became a Color. And it's heavily implied that she used to venture there alone and armless, something that could get most people killed quick.
  • Not Quite the Right Thing: Letting/forcing people be their best, truest selves without restraint sounds like a good idea on paper, but when someone's "best, truest self" is a sociopathic lunatic or a torn bloke that could lose it at any moment (of which there are many in a Crapsack World), the holes in this propaganda start to show. The Reverb Ensemble is a perfect example, especially after they Distort completely: they remain fully lucid but still want to wreak havoc of their own volition.
  • Not So Above It All:
    • According to the Red Mist's Book, Carmen extracted Nothing There from a person, indicating that she's actually on board with the commonplace practice of human experiments just like other laboratories or Wings. This adds a layer of mystery about why her tone suddenly just shifts into a Despair Event Horizon after she killed Enoch in a failed experiment (that he consented to participate out of a death wish).
    • Even back in Lobotomy Corporation, the flavor text of Forsaken Murderer's E.G.O. Weapon explicitly refers to Carmen by name and she condoned the inhumane experimentations on the Abnormality. Based on Abnormality logs being Unreliable Exposition, this might be a cover-up story.
  • Magnetic Hero: Carmen—when she still had a physical form—could convince almost anyone to join her cause just by interacting with them. Notably, even after her former co-workers are converted into Sephirot and Librarian AIs, they are still very loyal to her cause and view her as a saintly existence and a paragon.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Carmen can obviously perform some potentially dangerous or illogical feats (as far as people in the City considers as) without breaking a sweat and possesses some borderline dubious persuasion skills when she was still physically alive, but so far there is no concrete evidence that she was anything short of an ordinary Nest-dweller who somehow ascended into an omnipotent Cosmic Horror.
  • The Man Behind the Man: The one responsible for giving Angela the idea to start turning people into books in the first place, in addition to being the voice urging people to transform into distortions. It's implied that she was also the voice who advises Argalia so the Seed of Light could emanate unopposed.
  • Out-Gambitted: Despite Carmen, as the Voice of the Distortions and will of the Library, being capable of orchestrating complex Disaster Dominoes that lead to all sorts of authorities and top tier entities to be baited out and booked and the Reverb Ensemble attacking the City unopposed, Iori foiled that by sending Roland into the Library, who caused Angela to undergo a Heel Realization, separating Carmen from the Library and killing off the Ensemble for real.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Carmen is the only character who is consistently portrayed with red eyes who isn't stated to be either augmented (like Myo and her Rabbit Team) or a Bloodfiend, adding yet another layer of mystery over her nature.
  • Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: According to Gebura, Carmen came from a Nest, but she frequents the Backstreets where she would give out convincing and charismatic speeches.
  • Rousing Speech: Was revealed to have been constantly giving these from the Nests (where she came from) to the Backstreets. Gebura and Chesed notes that usually, nobody in the City would take stuff like this seriously considering that wack cults were almost everywhere, but hers are an exception; Carmen's speechcraft is very charismatic and conceivable, that she was capable of compelling even the elite members of society (such as the aforementioned Kali and Daniel) to join her.
  • Satanic Archetype: By the time of the events of the game, she has turned into an omnipresent being of pure light who tempts humans to give in to their base nature, turning them into inhuman monsters hell-bent on causing destruction and suffering. There's a reason why one of Abnormalities symbolically very close to her is WhiteNight, which is based on The Antichrist.
  • Sentient Cosmic Force: She has essentially ascended to something resembling one by the events of the game: a seemingly omnipresent, bodyless being who spreads chaos in the City and manipulates the Light for her own purposes. Even after the events of Ruina, she's still very much active and present as Distortion phenomenoms keep happening in Limbus Company, with us later seeing her talk with Heathcliff..
  • The Social Expert: Is very influential in speechcraft and can somehow even talk very sceptical entities such as Kali or elites like Daniel into joining her. However, this appears to be more of her influencing them with her speeches, since the Patron Librarians had told Roland that they were deeply alerted and couldn't seem to shrug away her words at all after hearing them.
  • They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: She literally used to be just a Backstreets Preacher that nobody takes seriously. Naturally, you would least expect a person like that to ascend into an apocalyptic abomination, but here we are.
  • Uncanny Valley Girl: She's charming, pretty, kind...and somehow that makes her able to travel through the Backstreets without any kind of weapon or body amplification, which are pretty much mandatory if we go off from Eri's page.
  • Undeathly Pallor: Notably, Carmen is one of the very few characters in the game who has natural, bleach white skin. Combined with her natural red eyes, this gives her a color scheme resembling WhiteNight.
  • Walking Spoiler: Talking about Carmen in Library of Ruina risks outing her as one of the de facto threats of the City after the White Nights, Dark Days and most likely not even the saint she was presented as in Lobotomy Corporation.
  • Xanatos Gambit: Carmen attempted to set up one throughout the game: after eliminating all other competition, only Angela and the Reverberation Ensemble remain to fight against each other during the last chapter of the game. Both sides want to use the Library's light in a way that will fulfill Carmen's vision, so no matter who'll win, Carmen will get what she wants. Unfortunately, after the Librarians win, Roland lets his emotion get the better of him (something that Carmen actively encouraged) and decides to interfere; only the bad endings result in Carmen's plan being ruined, while the true ending presumably has her go through to some extent.

    Tommy and Merry 
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Tommy
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A young couple consisting of a florist named Tommy and an office worker named Merry, who boarded a WARP Train for their first time. Unfortunately, they were one of the first causalities of the Reverberation Ensemble's coordinated lunacy, willingly giving themselves into Elena and Jae Hon and turned into a monstrosity named Tomerry.

For their other form, see here.


  • All There in the Manual: The artbook tells us that Tommy is a florist, while Merry is an ordinary office worker.
  • All for Nothing: Had they not been accepted the "help" of Elena and Jae-Hon (who were obviously in the train to screw up things), they would be eventually restored to normal by W Corp. Now, they were stuck forever as a monstrosity.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: They were seen inside the WARP Train as soon as Urban Legend, where Olga and her Office were trying to escape from it.
  • Older Than They Look: Tommy and Merry are in their 20s despite looking a bit younger than that at best.


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