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Prologue: Selva Oscura

Lion, Wolf and Panther

Lion, Wolf, Panther

Lion

Wolf

Panther

Voice Actor: Kim Da-woon (Lion), Gabin (Wolf), Chae Jung-woo (Panther)

A trio of individuals affiliated with somebody called "the Serpent". They attack and nearly kill Dante at the start of the game before being stopped by the Sinners (unsuccessfully) and Vergilius.

In General

An Arm and a Leg: The instant Vergilius appears, he cuts off Lion's arm and Wolf's leg, leaving only Panther unharmed, so the latter could carry them out.
Animal Theme Naming: All three of them are named after predatory animals.
Anthropomorphic Personification: Sort of. They represent the three animals Dante encounters in the dark forest at the start of The Divine Comedy; whereas they were simply animals there, they're human here. At the same time, the animals in The Divine Comedy were actually representations of three particular sins, so they were animalistic personifications of a sin and now they are the anthropomorphic personifications of three animals who were personifications of sin.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Deliver this to the Sinners in the Prologue. Ironically, they turn out to be on the receiving end of this trope not shortly after.
Didn't See That Coming: First, they were caught off guard by the arrival of Mephistopheles and the Sinners, and later clearly did not expect them to be working alongside a Color Fixer.
Emotional Powers: They can be seen materializing glowing rings around their weapons when attacking, seemingly making their attacks more powerful. Leviathan reveals that those rings are a visual effect of manifesting the power called "Sin" that, much like E.G.O., can be summoned by harnessing one's own emotions.
- Furthermore, it also mentions that Purple Tear was the one who discovered Sin in the first place, further implying the trio's connection to her.
Fur and Loathing: All of the trio has prominent fur on their clothing and are not only the first encountered enemies but are also implied to work for the Purple Tear.
Hero Killer: They systematically kill off all the Sinners as they fight in the woods. While not all of them are shown dying on screen, Lion kills Rodion, Wolf kills Ishmael and Yi Sang, and Panther kills Gregor and Faust.
Interface Screw: When fighting them in the Prologue, you can't see any of their attacks, leaving you in the dark about what they can actually do except that they do a lot of damage.
Interface Spoiler: However, if one pays close attention to their damage numbers, it can be seen that their actual rolls are in fact much lower than they appear to be.
Purple Is Powerful: They all wear purple accents on their clothes and are implied to be working for the Purple Tear, and deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle against the Sinners.
Shout-Out: They're a combined reference to the three beasts that accost Dante Alighieri at the beginning of Dante's Inferno — a lion representing violence, a wolf representing incontinence, and a leopard representing fraud. In other interpretations, the lion represents pride, the wolf represents greed, and the leopard represents lust.
Too Many Belts: All three of them have several unnecessary belts on their outfits. This ranges from an extra belt around the waist, to belts around the wrists, heels, and chests.
The Worf Effect: They utterly decimate the Sinners to show both how powerful they are and how middling in strength the Sinners are at the start of the game... And they are promptly dealt with by Vergilius, who shows them the true strength of a Color Fixer.

Lion

"Haa, this is the moment of a lifetime. We're not gonna get a second chance to kill someone of this caliber..."

Dark Action Girl: A skilled female killer who can deftly take out the much more numerous Sinners with far less support. She also has a sadistic streak and is willing to do amoral things for the unknown group she works on the behest of.
Kick the Dog: Before the Sinners identify themselves as allies of Dante, she assumes they are a simple band of innocent nomads who took a wrong turn in the woods. She makes it clear she plans to slaughter them all anyway.
The Leader: Acts as the leader of the trio hunting Dante through the woods. While Wolf and Panther balk at her sadism, they still defer to her final judgment.
Made of Iron: She is hit by Mephistopheles (a giant, train-like bus) and walks it off in time to fight the Sinners and decisively win.
Power Fist: Her weapon is a pair of large gauntlets with clawed fingers, which she uses to both punch the Sinners into the dirt and cut them to pieces.
Rugged Scar: Across her left cheek, she has a set of three small straight scars, similar to the scarring left from an animal claw.
Sadist: Expresses a desire to draw out Dante's death for her own pleasure, and fully intends to kill the occupants of a bus that to her, were still a bunch of innocent civilians.
Statuesque Stunner: Quite attractive, and also very tall, towering over both her associates, and roughly matching the 6'2" Verigilius in height when he confronts her.
White Hair, Black Heart: She has incredibly pale blonde hair which looks white in most of her scenes, and is the most openly villainous of the animal trio tracking Dante in the opening scene.

Wolf

"Do you see now? You can't run from us."

Dark Action Girl: A skilled female killer who can deftly handle the far more numerous Sinners with far less backup. While she is more professional about it then Lion, she is willing to do amoral things for the unknown organization she works on the behest of.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The smallest of the trio, being a full head shorter then the Panther and even smaller compared to Lion, but is just as deadly in battle.
Pragmatic Villainy: Wolf balks at Lion's desire to slowly kill a defenseless Dante. She has no moral concerns with it, only with any time she wastes making the trio's discover by their enemies more likely.
Prematurely Grey-Haired: Her hair has noticeable silver in it despite the fact she appears to be the youngest of the trio. Making matters more confusing on what her natural color is supposed to be, it is the ends that have gone grey while the roots are light blue.

Panther

"What is this, some kind of suicidal performance? Not the funnest lives to end."

Consummate Professional: Displays no desire for unnecessary violence or sadism unlike his two associates, and quietly carves through the Sinners to get to Dante.
Know When to Fold 'Em: His reaction when Vergilius easily dispatches both Wolf and Lion in only a few seconds and makes it clear Panther was uninjured only so he could drag them away. The Panther quickly and quietly departs from the scene without any further attempts to take Dante's head.
The One Guy: Of the trio of assassins hunting Dante in the prologue, he is the only male.
Tattooed Crook: A dangerous, amoral killer of unknown employer with a purple snake tattoo on the right side of his neck.

Canto I: The Outcast

Yuri

Voice Actor: Kang Sae-bom

"I'm Yuri, a former employee of the previous L Corp. I look forward to working with you."

A Grade 8 Fixer hired to guide the Sinners through the ruins of Lobotomy Corporation. A former employee of Lobotomy Corporation, she has since fallen on hard times.

Bait-and-Switch: The game spends some time developing her, and her Tragic Keepsake may make some players believe that she's at the very least going to survive. She dies by the end.
Bait the Dog: Cut dialogue has Vergilius requesting Faust to install a GPS using Yuri's voice, since Charon would actually take directions from her. Gregor nearly has a nervous breakdown over hearing the voice of a dead friend of his. Presumably this was cut due to either Vergil's uncharacteristic cruelty or Gregor already suffering enough, but it does give some possible Gameplay And Story Intergration as to why Yuri is available as an Announcer long after she's dead.
Commonality Connection: Bonds with Gregor throughout Canto I over both of them being the leftover soldiers of a defunct Corp. He is the only one who sympathizes with her survivor's guilt and the in-between status she has been dealing with from the Offices ever since.
Death by Irony: After struggling with Survivor's Guilt throughout the chapter, the False Apple makes sure that she dies inside of her old workplace after all. For added irony, Yuri considered herself a coward for saving herself at the expense of her coworkers, but when she finally decides to show some courage, it kills her.
Eaten Alive: As she approaches the seemingly defeated False Apple to claim the Golden Bough within, it springs back to life and devours her in a single movement, too fast for even a Sinner who passes the subsequent skill check to be able to save her and themselves.
Eye Scream: Her right eye is covered up by a bandage, indicating she lost its use sometime during or after her escape from the Lobotomy Corporation facility.
If We Get Through This…: After Yuri grows close with the Sinners during the dungeon, Rodion brings up the possibility of her joining the crew, mentioning that her bright pink hair could make her their mascot, and Yuri asks that if she does join, she be allowed to teach Charon how to read a map. Unfortunately, she's devoured by the Abnormality at the end of the dungeon before this can happen.
Nervous Wreck: Described by Dante as perpetually hunched over and twitchy, like she's carrying the guilt of her entire life with her all at once. The fact she is upright and serene is treated as proof for Dante that the False Apple is simply making use of her voice and body, and the real Yuri is truly dead.
Not So Above It All: In her first appearance she is quiet and reserved in the face of the insanity of the Sinners. She soon opens up and displays comical indignation in the face of Charon's ridiculously poor driving skills.
Puppeteer Parasite: Contending with Parasite Zombie, this is her fate at the end of the Canto. The False Apple, who swiftly killed and absorbed her, uses her head on its stalk to speak to the Sinners; it's left ambiguous whether she's dead and it's a trick by the Abnormality, or if her head is still alive and conscious while the Apple is using her as bait, but the Sinners decide it must be the former.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: Her hair is a strange reddish-pink color, matching her innocent disposition and sweet personality when she opens up.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: After spending the entire Canto having her character developed and forming bonds with the more personable Sinners, she manages to last all the way to the final battle with the False Apple. After the climax of the fight, she is anticlimactically eaten by the Abnormality in the middle of a skill check before anyone can react.
Survivor Guilt: She's immensely guilty over having abandoned some of her colleagues back when she part of Lobotomy Corporation, even though, as a mere employee, there was nothing she could have done to stop its collapse.
Tragic Keepsake: A gas mask belonging to the Fixer Aya — who was nice to her — who was killed during Canto I. Sadly, it also becomes a keepsake for the Sinners to remember Yuri by when she dies at the end of the same Canto.

Aya

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"Aw, gee~ I s'pose that's for the better. Imagine you're dragged right back to life with a gaping hole in your stomach. Wouldn't that suck?"

A Grade 8 Fixer, and part of the office hired by Limbus Company to guide them through the first dungeon.

Dissonant Serenity: Even as she dies, she keeps on smiling and keeps her cheery tone of voice.
Eyes Always Shut: She never opens her eyes.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Winds up impaled through her gut by the Ebony Queen's Apple. She's not all too troubled by it.
Playful Cat Smile: Her perpetual facial expression.
The Pollyanna: She's in a constantly carefree attitude despite living in the City, and never lets the negative attitudes of others get her down. Her only response to being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Ebony Queen's Apple is to cheerily comment that she's lucky since she'll die quickly and without a lot of pain.
Sacrificial Lamb: Her sudden, violent demise is the first major death of the entire game, which establishes the Anyone Can Die mentality of the dungeons which will be kept to throughout the game.
Tempting Fate: Upon learning the Sinners can revive anywhere except the dungeons, she starts to go on about how she wouldn't want to die over and over, and would prefer to die quickly. The instant she finishes saying this, she is skewered through the gut and quickly bleeds out before she can properly react.
Tragic Keepsake: Her gas mask, which Gregor took off her body so Yuri could keep it as a reminder of her. It later becomes this for the Sinners as a way to remember Yuri.

Hopkins

"The Red Gaze! It's—it's such an honor to meet you...! I've heard so many stories of your deeds, and to see you in person..."

A Grade 8 Fixer, and part of the office hired by Limbus Company to guide them through the first dungeon.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's introduced as a massive Fanboy of the Red Gaze, and assures that he'll do his best to aid the search for the Golden Bough. As the Sinners go through the dungeon, however, he's shown insulting Yuri for the slightest mistake and stuffing his pockets with Enkephalin when he thinks nobody's looking. Halfway through the second floor, he reveals that he knew of a pocket of poison gas that was there and only brought a gas mask for himself, leaving Yuri and the Sinners to die with a few scathing parting remarks, running off with the Enkephalin.
Dirty Coward: Talks down to everyone he can, but quickly folds whenever the more violently minded Sinners decide to make him shut up. His attempt to kill the Sinners relies entirely on waiting for the Sinners to be tricked into walking into a poison cloud and then running off with all the loot he can carry.
Fanboy: Goes starry-eyed when he meets Vergilius, having been enamored by his status in the city as a Color Fixer. This is one of the few genuine traits he has, as he admits even if he thought the Sinners were idiots from the beginning, he was interested in the people Vergilius would choose to employ.
Greed: His key defining trait for the short time he's in the game. He pockets Enkephalin for himself and is obviously wants to take Dante's head, thinking that its valuable.
Hate Sink: Hopkins is quickly shown to be an egotisitcal Jerkass who dresses down Yuri for the slightest mistake, and then tries to murder her and the rest of the Sinners after pocketing as much Enkephalin as he could. Most infuriatingly of all, he never suffers any on-screen karma for all of this. Unlike later antagonists such as Kromer or Ahab, Hopkins doesn't even have any coolness points in his favor, being a Dirty Coward who has to lure the Sinners into a gas trap to kill them and abandons his mission once he believes he has them dead-to-rights. To wit — In an unofficial fan-poll that covers all Project Moon properties, Hopkins was voted the single-most hated character in the entire franchise.
Karma Houdini: He's never found and punished for killing most of the sinners via poison gas and attempting to murder Yuri too, instead managing to escape with the Enkephalin he pocketed.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Though he suffers no on-screen karma for betraying the Sinners, he was most likely forced to abandon his Office and go on the lamb once word reached his superiors about why Aya and Yuri are dead, effectively destroying his Fixer career in the name of short-term profit.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: From what we see, he is completely worthless as a guide and offers nothing of value to the group while they explore the Lobotomy Corp facility. This makes it even more infuriating when he insists Yuri is the worthless one and decides to actively try to get his wards killed off for his own benefit.
Small Name, Big Ego: Sees himself as far more important than the Sinners and Yuri, but is just another Grade 8 Fixer, which Vergilius notes is pretty low on the totem pole of the City in a private conversation with Dante.

Old G Corp. Head Manager

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A Head Manager from Old G Corp. and Gregor's old superior who now leads the veterans squatting in District 4's LC Branch. He's unable to let go of the Smoke War and holds a grudge against Gregor for deserting them.

King Mook: For the Old G Corp Veterans.
Minor Major Character: He has a unique sprite and boss battle attached to him and is connected to Gregor's past, but is quickly killed and not even given a name.
No Name Given: He was never given a name, not even from Gregor despite working under him back in the day.
Non-Human Head: Because of the singularity he used on himself, his head is now those of a stag beetle with small, jagged teeth.
Not Quite Dead: Lives past his fight with the Sinners just long enough to laugh at Gregor, seeing himself and his former comrade as both "just insects" in his final moments.
Still Wearing the Old Colors: Like several of his comrades he still wears his old uniform from during the Smoke War.

Canto II: The Unloving

Tingtang Boss

The leader of the first faction the Sinners encounter in their pursuit of the Golden Bough underneath the casino. When Effie and Saude's original plan to infiltrate the casino goes bust, the Sinners decide to siphon the gang's wishpower for themselves and directly impersonate as the Syndicate. To that end, they track down the Tingtang Gang's leader.

Asshole Victim: The Sinners attack him, kill his men, and steal from him all unprompted on his part just because they needed a quick Plan B. That said, he is still a violent small-time thug who let his men terrorize the locals of his district.
Devious Daggers: Wields a karambit and is the leader of a small-time gang in possession of luck-altering tattoos.
A Father to His Men: Despite everything, he does have a strong bond with the men under his command and is motivated to fight the Sinners when he hears of their antics fighting them through the street. This even reflects in gameplay, where each of his goons defeated will lower his SP rate as he despairs.
King Mook: Effectively is a stronger variant of the Tingtangers the Sinners have been fighting up until that point. His version of the Luck Manipulation Mechanic ensures that all of coins on his Skills lands on heads for that turn.
Mugged for Disguise: The Sinners attack him and his gang so they can steal their clothes and pretend to be members of the Tingtang themselves.
Tattooed Crook: Has Wish Stickers on his body much like his underlings which stretch from his neck all the way to his arms.
Uncertain Doom: Last described as falling unconscious after the battle with the Sinners, but given he never reappears and is left naked and defenseless on the street, what became of him if he survived his wounds is unlikely to be good.
Winds of Destiny, Change!: Utilizes the Wish Stickers on his body to boost his luck in combat to a degree far greater than the rest of his gang.

Sonya

Voice Actor: Jung Joo-won

Rodion's old friend and leader of the Yurodivy, a revolutionary group seeking the redistribution of wealth and power in the City.

Ambiguously Evil: The post-Canto II cutscene reveals that the role of getting the Golden Bough was given to him by Hermann — but considering he intentionally let the Sinners get the Bough and his desire for a better world seems genuine, how antagonistic he truly is is yet to be seen.
Armor-Piercing Question: Is the recipient of one from Rodya, who calls him out on tearing her down for killing the corrupt pawnbroker from their past and getting their neighbors killed in retribution, when he was more than perceptive enough to be aware of her intentions from the beginning and could've at least tried to stop her if he had such a problem with it. It's one of the few times he's actually silenced, unable to give her a response, and it's a fairly good question in and of itself.
Chummy Commies: He's a Communist in all but name, desiring a revolution that uproots the oppression of the proletariat, and while he also seeks the Golden Bough to advance that dream, he doesn't antagonize the Sinners when they encounter him in the dungeon. In fact, he even allows them to get away with the Golden Bough, directly disobeying Hermann's orders.
Contemplation Location: Describes the snowy fields of the Lobotomy Branch's bottom floor as this, as the cold helps him think. His frequenting of the location meant he caught on to the environment being changed by Rodya's presence immediately.
Dissonant Serenity: Pays no attention to the Tieqiu Crew Boss getting squashed flat by a trash compactor unlike Rodion or Aida, who were left shocked and disgusted by the aftermath. Instead, he coldly reminisces its thr same compactor from back in his and Rodion's hometown.
Graceful Loser: He takes his loss at the Casino poker game with grace, and doesn't try to force Rodion to go with him after she refuses his offer.
Lack of Empathy: A major flaw in his work stems from his ability to write off those he deems unimportant. While the Yurodivy talk big about their desire for a perfect world, they equate desire for perfection with dismissal of things they deem too little to change the world. This means he happily justifies letting innocent people he should strive to help starve to death until the perfect way to help everyone at once presents itself.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: This was Rodion's main reason of leaving the Yurodivy. While raising the banner of revolutionaries, they preferred debating amongst themselves about policy and the perfect way to do a revolution instead of actually getting their hands dirty. Though granted, his hesitance to do anything serious was justified when Rodion's drastic action of murdering a pawnbroker resulted in the Middle slaughtering their whole neighborhood, and that's not even getting into starting a true rebellion against entire Wings. Even in the modern day, the most redistribution they're shown to do is shaking down insignificant backstreet shops like any other Syndicate.
Shout-Out: Is based on Sonya, a.k.a Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladova, Rodion Raskolnikov's confidant from Crime and Punishment.
Took a Shortcut: After he and Rodya's card game, he departs from the casino after losing the final card game, leaving the exclusive elevator to the basement all to the Sinners. Despite this, he is waiting for them at the end of the final floor, where he reveals his agents literally did find a shortcut which bypasses the mine entirely.
The Unfought: Steps aside and washes his hands of confrontation every time a fight with him seems inevitable, leaving the main threat to the Sinners Baba Yaga itself, which he even helps fight off by the end of its pursuit of Rodya and Dante.
Visionary Villain: Sees a world unrestrained by leaders being made reality by the power of the Golden Bough, and tempts Rodya with a perfect, peaceful world where everyone can expand their mind through study and leisure.
We Can Rule Together: Slightly out of necessity, as Rodya's attunement to the Golden Bough makes her a key component to his plan, but he genuinely offers his Old Friend a place of importance in the perfect world he wishes to reshape the world into.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He desires a (likely violent) revolution to uproot oppression and help the proletariat, and is willing to use the Golden Boughs to accelerate this process. Considering how widespread and intentional oppression in the city is, he's definitely not unjustified.

Aida

The leader of the Los Mariachis Syndicate, and one of the contestants in the game to secure an entrance to the basement where the Golden Bough is kept in Canto II.

Affably Evil: Like the rest of her gang, she's awfully friendly for an underhanded Syndicate leader.
Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being a goofy, overly friendly, Mariachi-themed gang, her and her gang are actually extremely skilled fighters, and the highest level enemies fought in Canto II.
Dance Battler: Like the rest of her Syndicate, a dance with maracas makes up a good portion of Aida's battle tactics. She can dodge with a dance step as easily as she can bash in a head with a maraca.
Déjà Vu: Has this feeling when the Tieqiu Crew Boss accuses Rodion of cheating during their game, right down to the former betting everything he has on it and subsequently losing.
King Mook: Serves as the leader of the Mariachis, and acts as a more skillful, stronger version of one when she is fought at the end of the final floor.
Musical Assassin: Wields a pair of maracas in battle, both to raise her spirits and turn the Sinners into bloody smears.
No Honor Among Thieves: Reveals before she fights the Sinners she fully intended to force her way into the underground of the casino even if she lost. Her plan to have her men rush their way in is only foiled by the intervention of the Sinners when the card game to decide who can access the elevator is ended without proper conclusion.
Oral Fixation: Holds a piece of wheat in her mouth.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: While her Mooks in her boss fight actually die and leave corpses behind, unlike the other battles in the Casino where they'll flee, she herself flees upon being defeated. If she's encountered anywhere else, like the Refraction Railway or Mirror Dungeon, she'll die nomaracas.
Sombrero Equals Mexican: Aida wears a wide-brimmed sombrero as a part of her gear.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Aida is far more difficult and complex than any other normal fight in the first two Cantos, possessing extremely high stats, as well as an exhaustive list of skills which often have powerful abilities. On top of this, she comes in at Wave 3 of a battle with some already dangerous enemies involved. She's the first non-Abnormality battle in the game to require properly leveled-characters and a strategy, and she sets the pace for subsequent encounters to have powerful abilities of their own. (She was considerably nerfed post-release, but pre-nerf had already obtained a reputation as a large Difficulty Spike.)

Tieqiu Crew Boss

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The cybernetic leader of the Tieqiu Crew, a Syndicate of highly uncouth bruisers, and a participant in the game for the Golden Bough underneath the casino.

Call-Back: His boxy prosthetic body is a callback to the Sephirot's bodies. Fittingly, his abrupt death by a trash compactor is similar to how Tiphereth B/Enoch is disposed of.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets abruptly killed by being thrown into a trash compactor after falling for Rodion's bluff and losing, with the otherwise confident Rodion being shocked at the sight.
Full-Conversion Cyborg: A given, as the Tieqiu Boss has a full body prosthetic replacement.
Good Old Robot: In a sense. The boss's prosthetic body is noted to be a very old model which hardly anyone uses anymore, which makes him stand out more even in The City where such procedures aren't unheard of.
No Name Given: The Syndicate's leader is never given a proper name, unlike fellow leaders Aida and Sonya, and is only referred to in his short appearance as the Tieqiu Crew's boss.
Out-Gambitted: Rodya noticed how paranoid he seems early on in the competition and uses it to her advantage. She acts deliberately suspicious in the final round, enough for grow agitated and claim she is cheating with wishpower. When she reveals she is innocent, he is promptly — messily — ejected from the game for ruining the final round.
Squashed Flat: For the crime of accusing Rodya of cheating without proof found, he is summarily executed by way of a giant hydraulic press slamming down and turning him into a heap of junk on the ground.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Little time is dedicated to his character and motivations before his sudden death halfway through the dungeon.
Wetware CPU: His vital organic pieces were taken out of his human body and put into the robot to operate it. The table is treated to blood, spinal fluid and bone chunks spraying everywhere in the aftermath of him being crushed.

Canto III: The Unconfronting

Siegfried

"Mwahahahahaha! In the height of chaos, I have arrived at last!"

K Corp's star Fixer, who has a past with Virgilius. He appears in Canto III after Don Quixote violates one of K Corp's taboos and incites the wrath of the Wing.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He spends more time talking about how awesome he is and giving people permission to take pictures of him than he does fighting in his first scene. This is because he's both that egotistical and that strong.
Artificial Limbs: Both of his arms are replaced with robotic augmentations at the shoulder, with visible detailing on the metal and exposed joints at the elbows.
Casual Danger Dialogue: He has time before attacking the Sinners to have a reunion with Vergilius, including inviting him to a party of Nest-dwelling Fixers (which Vergilius declines) as well as to take a challenge from Vergilius to defeat the Sinners in less than a minute.
Chekhov's Gun: He's shown to be friendly with Vergilius at the start of the Canto, and is later implied to be the person that Vergilius asks a favor of to get some doses of K Corp's healing singularity in order to heal Dante at the end of the Canto.
Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: He works directly for K Corp as a Fixer, and this trope is absolutely the desired impression given that he looks like a superhero from the Golden Age of comic books with heavy Goth overtones and prosthetic limbs.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Before his arrival, the Sinners were already losing, albeit slowly, thanks to K Corp's healing Singularity nullifying all their attacks. Once he enters the fray, the battle is over in exactly 46.5 seconds.
In a Single Bound: Described as leaving the security checkpoint with a massive leap into the sky.
Locked Out of the Loop: Doesn't appear in Canto IV at all despite that chapter being heavily focused on K Corp — it's implied that the upper management at K Corp intentionally left him out of the loop to avoid involving him.
Mr. Fanservice: As much as can be expected from Project Moon's typically unsexualized character designs, at any rate. The man is wearing a skin-tight bodysuit that shows off his sculpted physique in all its glory, and the positioning of his talksprite allows for the noticeable bulge in his suit to be fully visible above the textbox. Just ignore the stitches along his abdomen. Given his status as a celebrity directly backed by the Wings, it may very well be an Invoked Trope.
Nice Guy: He is constantly cheerful and accommodating to his fans, and aside from some arrogance, seems fairly down to earth in spite of his larger than life occupation and lifestyle. He offers Don an autograph despite suggesting they must be approved by K. Corp, and tries to be polite in talking with Vergilius, even when the Red Gaze doesn't bother to return the favor.
Power Fist: One of his hands is significantly larger than the other. Given both hands are mechanical, his right hand is bigger as a purposeful "design" choice by his handler to empathize his raw power and style of fighting.
Punch-Clock Villain: He's only opposing the Sinners briefly because Don broke one of K Corp's taboos and they were fighting K Corp's security; as soon as he enacts their punishment (by killing them), he's perfectly fine to talk with them and Vergilius as soon as Dante brings them back to life. He even signs an autograph for Don Quixote before he has to head out.
Selfie Fiend: The man livestreams himself slaughtering the Sinners to his fans.
Sell-Out: He is this in the eyes of his old acquaintance Vergil, who comments that he’s become a "wagie" ever since K Corp. started sponsoring him.
Shout-Out: To Siegfried (alternatively spelled 'Sigurd'), an immortal knight from Germanic legend.

Kromer

"I am the One Who Grips."

^{(SPOILERS) The Dreamer of Human Wholeness}

^{Click here to see her past self}

Voice Actor: Yoon Eun-seo

"I'm a humanitarian who loves purity, and the one who grips the hammer."

The leader of Nagel und Hammer, a military organization working for (or is) N Corp. She has a history with Sinclair, having murdered his family and later enforced an order from N Corp to massacre his entire town for being in the prosthetics business.

Abhorrent Admirer: Toward Sinclair, whom she very openly obsesses over and desires to have him join her. Much to his utter horror and dismay.
Adaptational Villainy: In Demian, Franz Kromer is quite brutish, but at the end of the day is nothing more than a simple bully to the young Sinclair. His equivalent in Limbus Company, is the sadistic, frontline leader of a horde of murderous fanatics who delighted in slaughtering an entire town, and before that, Sinclair's entire family.
Admiring the Abomination: In the past, after convincing Sinclair to let her visit the basement of his house, the two discovered a great evil hidden away beneath it. While Sinclair was horrified and immediately ran in terror and disgust, Kromer is delighted and entranced by the being, even reaching out to it through the grating.
Alternate Timeline: Kromer, who apparently has an ability similar to Dante's where she can see into alternate timelines to their own, is particularly obsessed with another version of their world where Sinclair had joined Nagel und Hammer and acted as her right-hand man.
Ambiguous Situation:
- It's unclear if she was a former test subject for N Corp's Singularity experiments or was in full control of her actions and is the one perpetrating the brainwashing. In one hand, she seems to possess slightly more free will than the other obviously brainwashed, stoic employees, possessing enough sadism to personally threaten and spite Sinclair. On the other hand, she seems to be not only indoctrinated into prosthetic hatred as a student, but also seemingly joined the Wing's cult as one, despite attaining executive status of a Wing is nearly impossible other than very rich children (who had to go out of their way to work for it), people who are recruited out of a favor or offer (like Dongrang), or those who are test subjects since birth.
- It's not explicitly explained why she transforms into a Peccatulum-like abomination — she's not an Abnormality in technical terms, it's not an E.G.O, and while monstrous, it doesn't follow the usual rules of Distortions, which needs the victim of Distortion to be at their lowest point emotionally — meanwhile, Kromer doesn't even drop her psychotic grin once. It's potentially just an effect of resonating with the Golden Bough.
Animal Motifs: She becomes associated with butterflies during her boss battle. Her boss music makes reference to a creature being born anew from a cocoon, and her mutated form's arms become like large, fleshy wings, in reference to her transformation into something "beyond" humanity.
Arch-Enemy: To Sinclair, for killing his family and later burning down their hometown and killing everyone within on N Corp's orders. This is one-sided, and Kromer definitely doesn't think the same way.
Arc Villain: Of Canto III, serving as Sinclair's Arch-Enemy during his Day in the Limelight. And unlike her fellow N Corp employees Hermann, or even Sonya, she actually ends up being killed by Demian at the end of it after serving as a proper boss fight.
Ax-Crazy: She cackles and cheers as she and her followers burn down Sinclair's village and crucify all of the inhabitants within, taunting the Sinners and wishing them a merry Christmas even when trying to kill them.
Battle Theme Music: "Between Two Worlds" by Mili, divided in two parts: the first — "Realm of Light" — is a soft, calm song that sounds like it could be a religious hymn, representing what she and her organization thinks she is. The second — "Realm of Darkness" — is a more frantic, violent theme, representing what she actually is.
Birds of a Feather: Her psychotic obsession with Sinclair by the present was initially born out of them sharing a disdain for mechanical prosthetics in a town that was renowned for manufacturing them.
Boss Battle: Serves as the final boss of Canto III's dungeon. As a first, and appropriately, she's treated as an Abnormality for the sake of her battle.
Brown Note: Her whistle has this effect on Sinclair, which manifests during gameplay as a deep SP hit whenever he's brought into a fight where it's active.
Chain Lethality Enabler: She has a stronger version of her Inquisitor minions' passive, which gives her significant offensive buffs if she defeats a Sinner.
Cool Sword: She wields a black longsword with a cross-shaped pommel that makes it look like a huge nail.
Combat Sadomasochist: Kromer openly takes pleasure in both causing others pain and receiving pain in combat, with her sprite when she's hit even showing her smiling. But even outside of combat, she openly encourages Sinclair to attack her, taking apparent joy in the idea of him brutalizing her. This also translates in the boss fight against her; if she's afflicted with Bleed or Burn, she'll actually be healed and gain a significant offensive buff... unless you've collected enough copies of "A Sign".
Kromer: Come, Sinclair. Rip me up and chew me down.
Corporate Warfare: The assault against her and Sinclair's hometown was ordered by N Corp because of the prosthetic body part plant next to it, on top of it being right above the Lobotomy Corporation branch they were targeting for Golden Boughs. Accordingly, they send her along with her cult of Ax-Crazy Sadist goons to get the job done.
Corrupt the Cutie: Attempted to do this with Sinclair during their teen years, egging on his discomfort with his family's robotic prosthetic bodies to try and push him to even further extremes of hatred with the expectation it'll lead him to joining her. It ends up failing, of course. Though given the vision she sees of an alternate timeline where he did join her, it seems it did work in at least one alternate universe.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Is seemingly giving one to the Sinners during their battle, but is later on the receiving end of one from Demian.
Dark Action Girl: She unrepentantly leads a slaughter of innocents for the "crime" of having artificial body parts, and is by far the most talented fighter among Nagel und Hammer. Even before she manifests the power of the Golden Bough and turns into the Dreamer of Human Wholeness, she is able to match all of the Sinners at once without any augmentations or backup.
Dark Messiah: The members of Nagel und Hammer serve and worship The One Who Grips as a saintly or even divine figure — even though they're obviously brainwashed to do so and the entire Nagel and Hammer front are a bunch of Ax-Crazy corporate soldiers committing mass murder for what's implied to be a business deal between two Wings.
Desecrating the Dead: She has the bodies of Sinclair's parents and sister dug up and crucified on nails.
Didn't Think This Through: For all of her knowledge concerning Sinclair's "destiny" of him joining her as her Right Hand Man in Nagel und Hammer, she never bothers to learn the how or why of this possible future, thoroughly failing to foster his hatred towards prosthetics by slaughtering his family in front of her, resulting in the boy marking her as his Arch-Enemy and eventually leading to her downfall when they clash in Canto III.
Dissonant Serenity: She treats her massacre of Calw as a jolly Christmas celebration (despite not even being the right month), complete with "caroling"^note and "ornaments"^note. She is also perpetually smiling and laughing to herself, throughout her appearances, even as she threatens the Sinners during their final battle.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: The way Kromer talks about Sinclair makes her come off as a dangerously obsessive and controlling stalker with delusions of a destined union. She even at one point states that Sinclair belongs to her, and that him joining her faction is only a matter of time. Driven further with the lower half of her boss form being a gigantic version of the Lust Peccatulum, and her urging Sinclair to become one with her flesh. Yikes.
Dragon with an Agenda: Stated by Demian she wanted to become like one of those god of old. Which if she suceeded might not sit well with N Corp management in general who might see as a liability and a massive threat for the city as a whole.
Easter Egg: If you bring Sinclair's The One Who Shall Grip identity to Kromer's story fight, she instantly staggers on turn one, commenting in disbelief on how the person she saw in her vision is right in front of her.
Kromer: Aah... Could it... You're... My Sinclair...?!
Embodiment of Vice:
- Pride: Her pride of being a "pure human" defines her role as the leader of the Inquisition, her obsession with purity going so far as to aspire to actual divinity — which is about as prideful as you can possibly get. Fittingly, when fought in battle, all her attacks have the Pride affinity.
- Lust: Not only does she become a giant version of the Lust Pecculatum, with all her attacks having a Lust affinity in this form, her fanaticism reflects lust — not in a sexual way (despite there being many innuendos with her being "The One Who Grips"), but desiring a perfect humanity so bad that it's actively hurting. Irony also comes into play here, as she's treated like a saint by her followers; i.e. someone who is not supposed to be swayed by desires of wanting something more. Her lust is a lust for power and humanity, and that's not even going into the way she treats Sinclair.
Entitled to Have You: No matter how you read the exact nature of her obsessiveness over Sinclair, Kromer functions under the belief that no matter what she does to him, he's destined to join her side one way or another. She claims that because she was able to see a glimpse into another existence where a Sinclair similar to The One Who Shall Grip joined her group and aided in their murderous fervor, the Sinclair she knows must eventually follow suit.
Evil Makes You Monstrous: She's an Ax-Crazy Knight Templar, and is the first person in Limbus Company to be shown Distorting (or at least assuming a Distortion-like form).
Exact Words: Sinclair really should have dug a bit more into how Kromer planned to follow through on her promise to solve the issues he had with his family.
False Friend: Subverted. While her end goal when befriending Sinclair was likely getting a straight shot at the Golden Boughs in the Lobotomy Corporation branch beneath his home all along, she nonetheless takes a special interest in Sinclair due to his distaste for prosthetics despite his family and the rest of their hometown being renowned for creating such prosthetics. The two would form a kinship over this shared feeling — though it would come crashing down when Kromer murders his family, becoming obsessed with him and becoming his Arch-Enemy.
Fantastic Racism: Her organization, Nagel und Hammer, is dedicated to hunting down and murdering anyone who uses prosthetic limbs. Noticably, it seems to be something N Corp is infamous for.
Five-Second Foreshadowing: During the first phase of her boss fight, she's oddly treated as an abnormality by the game despite being visually human. As soon as you get to her second phase, she turns into a Distortion proper.
Gameplay and Story Integration: During any fight where her whistle sounds, Sinclair will suffer Sanity damage when it plays, much like how earlier in the Canto, he has a mental breakdown when it plays over the bus's radio. In addition, when she's fought properly, Sinclair will suffer a debilitating debuff unless he's collected at least three copies of "A Sign" from the dungeon prior; upon which he'll gain the courage to face Kromer and gain a buff instead.
Gender Flip: The character in Demian she's based on was male.
Glass Cannon: Combined with Turns Red; once she's brought below half health in her first form, she'll gain a buff that makes her both deal and take +100% damage. The Dreamer of Human Wholeness has a similar passive, where if her HP drops below half, all of her body parts will gain a significant damage buff — but they'll also become slower, and take Fatal damage from all damage types.
A God Am I: Demian states that Kromer wanted to become a god like "the ones worshipped in the past" — and considering she fully accepted her horrific transformation as a blessing and a rebirth, it was something beyond just being worshipped as a cult leader.
Half the Man He Used to Be: How she's killed off, courtesy of Demian upon his arrival to her fight with the Sinners.
Hate Sink: Characters who commit mass slaughter on a Nest or Backstreet-wide caliber are usually tragic figures, or at the very least very Affably Evil. On the other hand, Kromer is a heartless corporate soldier with no tragic story to speak of, and her disturbing obsession with Sinclair and her rather needlessly cruel way of enforcing for her superiors just to get on Sinclair's nerves doesn't give her any sympathy points.
Insane Troll Logic: She and her group hate prosthetics and anything that "defiles" the human form — except for horribly disfiguring and dehumanizing self-caused transformations like some of her Inquisitiors' EGO Corrosions and her own transformation since, as long as they're made of flesh, they count as human to her.
Irony:
- The Distortion Phenomenon has caused a recent upswing in fear and hatred towards people with prosthetics, who her followers hunt down and murder. She winds up becoming a Distortion-like entity herself.
- Despite her group's fanatic hatred against prosthetics, she's probably augmented to even be qualified to take that job.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Due to being sanctioned by N. Corp, she and her inquisition are not punished in the least for their murdering of innocent people, and she fully got away with slaughtering Sinclair's family and making his life hell. However, her raid on Calw to get to the Golden Bough resulted in the deaths of a lot of her Inquisitors by the hand of the Sinners, including her right-hand man Guido, and she herself gets killed by Demian at the end, putting an end to her ambitions, with the final scene of Canto III showing Sinclair moving on and finally smiling.
Kick the Dog: Granted the massacre was ordered by N Corp and all these people would be killed anyways because they're living near a targeted prosthetic plant, but she does arrange said massacre in Sinclair's hometown with a Christmas theme, just to remind him of when she killed his family and get on his nerves. She then goes even further and digs up their corpses to put on display in front of his burning house.
Knight Templar: She and her followers have this aesthetic, calling themselves Inquisitors while dressed in all-white plate mail and murdering anyone they consider a "heretic".
Knight of Cerebus: While it's well-established that the Project Moon verse is a Cyberpunk dystopian setting where nearly every evil act imaginable runs rampant, Kromer is the game's first reminder that the Wings are still the insane and horrific institutions they are established as. Her orchestrated massacre against Nest K horrify and disgust most of the Sinners and results in the once-peaceful Nest town being transformed into a hellscape of torture and madness. On top of that, she and her group of Inquisitors aren't just a Syndicate with a bizarre dress code, but actual Wing employees deployed inside another Wing (and heavily implied to be legitimately too considering K Corp. itself doesn't do much to stop them). And if it weren't for Demian's aid during the final battle against her, all of the Sinners and Dante would've died for good, showing how weak Limbus Company's current roster of combatants really is.
Large Ham: Kromer speaks loudly and theatrically, fitting her cult leader theme.
Legalized Evil: Implied. Her bloody rampage in Nest K oddly doesn't meet much resistance from K Corp, which would otherwise be stopped cold if she were leading a Syndicate or a hostile Wing, and Sinclair tells Don that her squad "suddenly showed up" one day. It's suggested that this happens because K Corp. had a business deal with N Corp., so the Nagel und Hammer "goons" are actually N Corp. employees legally deployed inside Nest K and were free to do whatever they wanted to.
Light Is Not Good: Her squad resemble Middle-Age crusaders clad with shining white armor and believe they are valiant inquisitors killing everyone with prosthetics, but they're just corporate soldiers committing mass slaughter and snagging the Golden Bough for their N Corp higher-ups. Nest N is also known for its beautiful white buildings, prestigious universities, and Taboo Hunters who will slaughter entire groups of Fixers over bizarre Taboos.
Made of Iron: She is unusually tough to an almost inhuman level — she takes on all of the Sinners solo at the end of the Canto, after they've cut through more than a dozen of her Inquisitors, and even after you defeat her gameplay-wise, she's none the worse for wear afterwards and is merely a bit bloodied... while the rest of the Sinners are severely wounded, and some (story-wise) are already dead. And this is before she transforms, which makes her even tougher and apparently allows her to regrow limbs.
Near-Villain Victory: With only Dante and Sinclair barely hanging onto their lives while all the other Sinners were dead by then, had Demian not intervened, Kromer very well could've been just short of winning the confrontation.
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She and the rest of her organization are corporate employees and cultists donning Middle Age era knights armor. However archaic their body armor and fighting style may be, they’re just as deadly as the rest of the corporate armies.
Nightmare Fetishist: When she first discovers the secret passageway in Sinclair's basement together with him (implied to be holding an Abnormality or some other Eldritch Abomination), the latter can't stand it whereas Kromer keeps looking in utter admiration, and continues to do so when Sinclair forgets to ask for the basement key. This already sets her past self up as more than an ordinary teen.
No Body Left Behind: Played With: her upper, humanoid half fades into blue light when Demian bisects her, with only the monstrous lower half remaining.
Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Ever since she was a teenager, Kromer has had a fairly consistent dye job; white with yellow bangs and other streaks of yellow randomly distributed throughout her hair. And she certainly is a rebel against her birthplace's norm of robotic prosthetics. To a dangerous extreme.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Despite how horrendously powerful she is in her transformed form and how close she comes at wiping out the Sinners, the in-game classifies her only as an HE-tier threat, below WAW and two tiers below ALEPH-tier Abnormalities, which shows that the Sinners still have a ways to go before they can face threats of that level. For comparison's sake, the first Abnormality fought in the game, Ebony Queen's Apple, is a WAW-tier Abnormality severely weakened due to the Golden Boughs.
No Sense of Personal Space: The first time Kromer ever interacts with Sinclair in a significant way during their school days, she leans clear over his desk where he's sitting to look directly at him, hovering mere inches from his face. And then apparently leans in even closer so she can whisper right in his ear.
One-Winged Angel: The Dreamer of Human Wholeness is this, which she transforms into after her original human form was defeated by the Sinners.
Psycho for Hire: Very so. Unlike other known N Corp employees like Vespa Crabro, she and her entire gang enjoys torturing and brutalizing heretics, with a personal touch to the atrocities towards Sinclair.
Red Baron: Among her followers, she's called "The One Who Grips".
Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: She's Sinclair's former friend-turned-Arch-Enemy, and is now a Wing enforcer blowing up his town for bizzare reasons largely unrelated to Sinclair's past. Though because of their personal connection, she still decides to have some fun with him.
Shout-Out: Is based off of Kromer, Emil Sinclair's schoolyard bully and blackmailer from Demian.
Sinister Whistling: Her Signature Sound Effect, which both serves as a calling card for her presence as well as a rallying cry for her followers, giving them a slew of buffs whenever it sounds in a fight.
Slasher Smile: She has a constant eerie smile on her face that make it clear she is absolutely nuts. And by 'constant', it means she never once drops it, even after she transforms in a horrendous flesh-beast. It actually makes her smile even wider, and she keeps smiling even after Demian shows up and bisects her.
Stance System: Her second form follows a similar system to the Crawling Inquisitors, where she'll alternate between several turns playing passively and several going on a reckless offensive at the cost of her defenses taking a significant hit.
Teens Are Monsters: Even as a school-aged teenager, Kromer already displayed an unsettling fascination with whatever horror she and Sinclair found in the passageway under his basement, as well as a deep prejudice against people with prosthetics. Not to mention her commanding the unusually brutal slaughter of Sinclair's whole family for the crime of having prosthetic bodies.
Teen Genius: She joined Nagel und Hammer seemingly when she was still a student. Considering Nagel und Hammer is a legitimate Wing and not a Syndicate and the employees are implied to be there because they had a business agreement with K Corp, this means she joined a Wing and became one of its executives as a student, while most people struggle to even be recruited at all by one.
Toxic Friend Influence: While Sinclair did consider her a friend of sorts before their horrid falling-out, she was far from a good one, encouraging his disdain for prosthetics and eventually roping him into disobeying his family by exploring his basement with her, which is how the two discover the horrors in the hidden Lobotomy Corporation branch beneath his home.
Transhuman: In her final rants to Sinclair, she starts to come off as this on top of her fanatical hatred of "altered" humans. Even though she has morphed into a distinctly inhuman form, she declares herself the next step toward true, evolved humanity and offers for Sinclair to join her in this state.
Vagina Dentata: Her Distorted form evokes this imagery, with an oblong orifice lined at the top and bottom with teeth located on the front-facing lower half of her slug-like body, compounded with a set of two inward-spiked doors like something off of an iron maiden opened vertically outward from the middle. Made even more unsettling by the six arms grasping out from inside the hole.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Coming off the heels of Aida in the previous Canto, who taught the player to properly strategize against bosses and level their units, Kromer teaches the player to engage with a dungeon's exploration and have multiple teams ready for different situations. Finding "A Sign" EGO gifts in Canto III's dungeon will either weaken or flat-out disable her passive of restoring 15% of her HP and gaining a large damage buff if she ends the turn while affected with Bleed or Burn, significantly easing the difficulty of her fight and allowing for more team comps to be used against her. Furthermore, she actually has a resistance to Blunt damage despite many other Nagel und Hammer enemies faced earlier in the dungeon being weak to it, meaning the player has to bring different characters with different damage types to deal with both them — and then her — effectively.
Where I Was Born and Razed: Slaughtered her own (and by extension, Sinclair's) hometown because N Corp. ordered her to retrieve the Golden Bough in the L Corp facility under it. Given that Nagel und Hammer seemingly suffers from no repercussions save for the loss of their leaders over the onslaught, her superiors are likely okay with this.
White Hair, Black Heart: Kromer's hair is white with streaks of gold, and she slaughters innocents for the "crime" of not having the kind of bodies she and her ilk consider properly human.
Yandere: She has a truly disturbing obsession with Sinclair as a result of their shared history and her vision of his "destiny" to join her, acting extremely possessive of him even as she tries to kill him and the other Sinners.
You Will Be Spared: After gleefully slaughtering his family in front of him, she nonetheless chooses to spare Sinclair's life due to their relationship.

Guido

The Persistent

"I shall bind thee to a nail, and lay thee down furthest from soil. For he who shan't repent... is not granted rest beneath the earth."

One of the top Inquisitors of Nagel und Hammer and Kromer's right-hand man.

The Dragon: Serves as one to Kromer, actively leading the forces of Nagel Und Hammer on her behalf in their slaughter of Calw.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: It doesn't matter that you beat him in the boss fight beforehand, he still kills all the Sinners but Sinclair before going after Dante next.
Healing Factor: Heavily implied with Meursault's identity as him, who has tubes of K Corp's healing liquid behind his mask. It would sure do a good job explaining his Implacable Man status and why a direct headshot killed him (it likely pierced the tubes).
Hypocrite: Despite hating prosthetic-users, Mersault's N Corp. Identity reveals what's beneath the helmet of Guido: a K Corp mask and tubes attached to their flesh that pumps so much of K Corp's healing liquid into their body that it causes the veins to bulge out, making them in no way more human from the 'heretics' they hunt down. K Corp is also the turf N Corp is targeting despite all of their K Corp equipment and that the N Corp employees are all deployed there implies that the Wings had a business deal going on at the moment, directly shown in Canto V.
Implacable Man: He has absurd durability, likely in part due to his K Corp mask, and in part due to his sheer fanatical resolve. He takes a severe beating from the Sinners in their first meeting, only to return to fight by Kromer's side a few stages later no worse for wear. He's then presumably killed and put on the receiving end of an enraged Sinclair who cuts him down and continues stabbing his body repeatedly until Don Quixote snaps him out of it. And even after that, he pursues the Sinners into the L Corp branch beneath Sinclair's mansion, ambushing them and nearly killing Dante after mopping up the few remaining Sinners present. It takes a another full-force attack from Sinclair and a parting shot from a dying Saude until he finally kicks the bucket, and even then is he still able to get some delayed last words in before toppling over.
Karmic Death: When he is finally killed, it is at the hands of Saude, the woman he and his forces attacked unprompted, and who he tried to trick into betraying her own allies.
Kneel Before Zod: He orders the Sinners to kneel before him in repentance for being led astray by a "heretic" (read: Dante) so that they can be spared. None of the Sinners take him up on the offer and Heathcliff in particular tells him to quit yapping.
Malevolent Masked Man: Though all of Nagel und Hammer's Inquisitors have their whole heads obscured by their helmets, Guido wears a unique one resembling a face of sorts.
Rasputinian Death: Over the course of the Canto, he goes through two separate, extended battles with the Sinners, and gets a nail clean through the back courtesy of Sinclair. [[spoiler:Only a shot to the back of the head after all that is enough to finally put him down for good.
Recurring Boss: He is fought as a mini-boss encounter twice throughout Canto III, both times being the final challenge at the head of a three wave gauntlet. He ambushes them again early in the dungeon, but the encounter plays out in the story, and he falls relatively quickly at hands of Sinclair and Saude.
The Stoic: He is quiet and reserved in demeanor, making his tone as he threatens the Sinner's lives chilly. Even after the second fight he is on the losing end of at the hands of the Sinners only a slight stagger betrays he is anything but serene under his armor.
Turns Red: In his second battle, once he's below half health, he'll activate a passive that instantly purges all debuffs while granting him significant power and damage buffs for the rest of the battle.

Sinclair's Family

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^{Click here to see them after their prosthetic surgeries}

Emil Sinclair's father, mother, and older sister who all underwent a prosthetic body replacement surgery when he was younger. They were killed by Kromer and Guido before the story began.

The Faceless: Even when they're glimpsed as humans, half of their faces are shadowed or blank, and after they have prosthetic replacements their original faces are gone entirely due to the City's laws on robotic bodies not being allowed to look too human.
Full-Conversion Cyborg: All three of Sinclair's human family members underwent a procedure to remove their brains from their human bodies and have them transplanted into robotic replacements.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: When Kromer and Guido break into the Sinclair household, they brutally slaughter all three of them by driving giant nails through their bodies.
Mum Looks Like a Sister: The game never clarifies which of the women at the table is Sinclair's older sister and which is his mother. And both look like youthful adult women with brown hair. So it's really anyone's guess as to which is which.
No Name Given: None of Sinclair's family members are named in the game, only referred to in flashback dialogue as "Father" and "Sister".
Non-Human Head: A given with their prosthetic replacements, as artificial bodies that look too human are disallowed by The Head. So each of their heads looks like a circle, a cone, and a cube.
Nuclear Family: A fairly typical family unit consisting of a father, mother, and two children (plus a dog).
Robot Dog: Sinclair references the family having a robotic dog as a pet. Though it's unclear if this dog was originally a flesh and blood animal given a robotic body, or if it was simply a robot made to look and act like a pet.
Strong Family Resemblance: Each of the Sinclair children strongly take after one of their parents appearance-wise: Sinclair looking like his father and his older sister looking like their mother. At least until the other three Sinclair family members do away with their human bodies altogether.
Unwilling Roboticisation: While all the other members of Sinclair's family presumably took the surgery to place their human brains into robotic replacements, they (or at least his father) were all pushing for Sinclair to do the same once he graduated high school. Not knowing just how adamantly he was against the idea.

Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken

Papa Bongy

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O'-01-11-28

The owner of Eunbong's Chicken, who has Distorted due to the loss of his famous recipe driving his restaurant destitute.

Bait-and-Switch: The flashback that occurs when his Distortion is being resolved sets up that the tragic reason his mother would never eat chicken was that they couldn't afford enough food for both of them and she always gave him her share... and then he remembers that she just preferred pizza.
Chef of Iron: He fights the Sinners with a Grilling Fork and Ladle respectively. Event cutscenes also reveal that while the mouths on them are new, his arms were just as huge and muscular back when he was a human.
Earn Your Happy Ending: After suffering for weeks as a result of being driven out of business, culminating in his Distortion, the Sinners manage to pull him back to reality with his passion for cooking reignited. He is confident as the Sinners leave he can turn his business around, and is a rare civilian they positively affect the lives of.
Eldritch Transformation: Like all those who Distort, he was just a regular human who reached the depths of despair and (presumably after an encounter with The Voice) turned into a Humanoid Abomination with supernatural powers based on its personality and trauma. At the end of the Event, the Distortion is reversed and he turns back into a human.
It Can Think: Even though he initially comes across as unintelligible and feral as a Distortion, he still retains his faculties enough to serve as a competent (and at times, flowery) judge of the Sinner's cooking attempts.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: His famous recipe was thrown into a Concept Incinerator by his business rival, causing everyone to forget what the recipe was, resulting in him Distorting.
The Minion Master: Is accompanied by and commands various Headchickens, and can spawn more of them as long as his chicken basket isn't broken.
No Name Given: Whatever his real name is, it is never spoken in dialogue. Even his "Papa Bongy" identity is never spoken aloud, only being his Distorted form's name in his boss fights and dialogue. Dialogue from his non-Distorted self simply identifies him as "Eunbong's Chicken Manager".
Recurring Boss: He is fought twice throughout the Intervallo. The first comes after both starting attempts by the Sinners to cook for him fail to come out edible and send him into a rage. The second is at the climax of his mental dungeon, formed as he recalls his lost memories.
Too Many Mouths: He has mouths splitting both his forearms in the middle.
Worf Had the Flu: The first fight against him gives him a debuff that removes 40% of his health at the start of the fight. According to the name of the debuff, Ryōshū and Gregor's cooking is to blame.

Bodhisattva Chicken's Manager

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The Manager of the local Bodhisattva Chicken branch across from Eunbong's Chicken, whose quotas are being threatened by the Distorted chef's attacks on his restaurant.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He initially appears to be a stressed, mild-mannered chef targeted by bad luck and circumstance. Bongy's memories quickly reveal him to be a deeply unsavory character, conducting corporate espionage to cut out his competition and taking sadistic delight in deleting the memory of his rival's secret recipe right in front of him.
Laser-Guided Karma: After his attempts to quell Eunbong result in a Distortion that threatens his business shuttering compelely, his attempts to get the Sinner's help only helps Papa Bongy regain his humanity. As he notes, with Eunbong's back up and running, his Bodhisattva branch likely has no chance to succeed.
Lean and Mean: He is fairly thin, especially when compared to the burly manager of Eunbong's, and far less moral than his rival.
No Name Given: Just like Bongy, he is never properly identified by name, only by his title in relation to his job.

Canto IV: The Unchanging

Dongrang (Unmarked Spoilers)

Dongrang

^{Dongrang, Who Denies All}

^{Effloresced E.G.O:: Farmwatch}

"Betrayal, division, connivance. It happens in any group of people... I guess it's an inescapable cycle."

A former member of the Nine Litterateurs and an acquaintance of Yi Sang who is now the Chief of Food Resources at K Corp. He contracted Limbus Company to retake his old lab that has been occupied by the Technology Liberation Alliance. The lab in question is also a defunct Lobotomy Corp branch with a Golden Bough, which he offers the Sinners as payment.

Alas, Poor Villain: Unlike Kromer or Ahab's satisfying downfall, Dongrang's death is treated as being more somber than cathartic by the narrative, and he's ultimately a broken man who dug himself past the point of no return searching for validation, unable to get over the horrific things he has done for the sake of covering up his past mistakes. Instead of eagerly wanting him gone, Yi Sang was forced to get rid of him, and his death continues to weigh on him in future chapters.
Arc Villain: Of Canto IV, being the mind behind most of the inhumane projects the TLA are trying to stop, a manipulator of the Sinners to do his dirty work, and eventually the final physical threat the Sinners have to take down to complete their mission and retrieve the Golden Bough.
Arch-Enemy: He becomes this to Yi Sang following the reveal he was behind the complete collapse of the League of Nine years ago. He becomes personally dedicated to taking down his former colleague, and as he Distorts and manifests his E.G.O, it becomes apparent he is the physical manifestation of the amoral creative stagnation Yi Sang's character arc has him learn to grow beyond and reject.
Bishōnen Line: After he's fought in his monstrous, quadrupedal Distorted form, it reverses to a much more humanoid version as he awakens an E.G.O, and thus begins the second phase of the fight.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, he seems like one of the more agreeable NPCs you come across, but halfway the chapter it becomes increasingly clear that Dongrang doesn't care about anything that doesn't benefit the City's progress as a whole, not even mourning when people close to him die (for example, he doesn't even care to tell Samjo about the tears he dived in just seconds ago being more dangerous due to being unrefined).
Casual Danger Dialogue: He's constantly making casual small talk, even while being attacked by terrorists or sneaking into said terrorists' hideout. If Shrenne is to be believed, he's totally incapable of combat, which makes this behavior even more unusual.
Character Development: The friendly scientist who mourns his colleagues and is concerned about the animals he uses in his tests ends up no longer caring about the suffering he's caused after reversing his Distortion.
Despair Event Horizon: He crossed one in his past upon returning to his hometown, only to find that the young calf that he saved back then and usually followed him around - basically the last link to what remained of his humanity - to be no longer recognizing him. This marked the end of any semblance of empathy towards living beings within him, started by killing said calf soon after before eventually joining K Corp.
Embodiment of Vice: On a similar note to Kromer and Lust, he effectively represents the sin of Gluttony. Even on the surface, he's the chief of K Corp's Food Resources (where food is most commonly associated with gluttony when it's used to convey a character's sin), and specializes in a method of creating limitless food. His Distortion is constantly hungry yet never full, no matter how much he consumes, while his E.G.O is patterned after a farmer. Dongrang himself is constantly hungry for more fame, recognition, and progress, never stopping no matter how much he loses and how far he goes, yet is never satisfied with what he has. Several times he comes close to having a Heel Realization, only to immediately throw it away to continue his own advancement out of a hunger for more. Fittingly, almost all his attacks in both Distortion and E.G.O. are Gluttony element, and his Distortion even looks partially similar to a Gluttony Peccatulum.
Final Boss: Of Canto IV's dungeon, and thus the Canto as a whole.
Fisher King: When he Distorts, the fathoms of Yi Sang's ego transforms into a dreary wheat field under a dark cloudy sky and acrid smoke. Upon manifesting E.G.O, the background is now illuminated by the sun... which also reveals the piles of cow corpses.
Foil: To Yi Sang. Both are Nest researchers, but whereas Yi Sang's work focused on other worlds and other versions of the human self, Dongrang's work focuses on the current world and animals. Both were from the Guinhoe, but whereas Yi Sang wanted to keep the group's activities to themselves and follow their wishes, Dongrang wanted to profit off their inventions, and sold them out. Yi Sang also has a wings and sky motif, while Dongrang's two battles are of an earthly creature and a farmer who works the ground. Both lost their path after the Guinhoe, are tempted off their path, and stay the course. It's just that Yi Sang's depression kept him off for years, and eventually he regained his original path by finding a new home and new hope. Dongrang during his Distortion had a few minutes to do the same, but rejected it and dug down into his gluttinous path. It's especially telling that when Yi Sang deals the final blow, his glass shards form into a working wing with images from the photograph of the Guinhoe, while Dongrang's is blank and broken.
For Science!: It's revealed that Dongrang has utterly no qualms with the horrific true nature of K Corp.'s healing technology and the tears behind it because of the great benefits it did bring for the City, and is critical of Dongbaek's desires to get in the way of technological progress no matter how depraved it truly is.
Green-Eyed Monster: Although he doesn't outright admit it until he's mortally wounded by Yi Sang, Dongrang felt inferior to the League of Nine and was bitter that his talents were only recognized because of his connections to them. His endless hunger for achievements and recognition is all but stated to be his attempt to escape their shadow and prove that he has his own value outside of his history.
Ignored Epiphany: After realizing what a monster he had become and Distorts, the Sinners proceed to fight him in the hope of reversing the Distortion...Instead, Dongrang embraces his sociopathy and ambition, awakens his own personal E.G.O, and attempts to kill Yi Sang.
Irony: Dongrang as a character defines himself as someone chasing progress no matter the cost. So it's especially funny when his distorted form - and, by extension, his E.G.O - make him look like a farmer, a type of person the real life Yi Sang saw as emblematic for Korea's stagnation.
Meaningful Name:
- Is named after the pen name of Yoo Chijin, a member of the 20th century Korean literary society Guinhoe, the Group of Nine, whose works initially criticized Imperial Japan's occupation of Korea but began publishing pro-Japanese pieces as censorship became harsher. Fittingly, he's one of the former members of Yi Sang's Group who sold himself to the Wings when they started hunting for their inventions.
- His E.G.O. name has similar connotations that are difficult for non-Korean audiences to have context for. Farmwatches were not actually farmers, nor did they own the land the farm was on. They were middlemen, effectively property managers, who would both exploit the farmers as much as they could get away with to seem "worth" their pay and employment, while simultaneously having no land of their own if the landowners decided to cut them out, and thus having to kowtow to them in order to stay employed while looking for an escape strategy to get some stability in life. Being stuck underneath the actually successful and/or wealthy but above the poor, while struggling to find any accomplishment to call their own without the asterisk of someone else's involvement tarnishing it, fits Dongrang to a tee.
Mr. Exposition: As a high-level Wing executive, he grants information to the Sinners (and the player) about the inner workings of Wing K.
Red Herring: Given that the last two major Wing executives we run into are nothing short of vicious madmen, he can't act any less suspicious especially when he's seemingly friendly enough to give Limbus Company an extensive tour across his Wing, an offer that no other Wing will bother with. While he does have ulterior motives for the facility tour and he does end up getting fought at the end, he turns out to be yet another victim of the Wing's insanity who chooses to deal with it through sinking himself into the same depravity as they do, and ultimately is treated with more sympathy than Kromer or Hermann.
The Scapegoat: Alfonso, and K Corp by extension, covers up the incident in his department's laboratory to be his fault alone post-mortem.
Sinister Scythe: In his Distorted form, one of his arms turns into a huge, vine-covered scythe, while his E.G.O weapon is a similar but less "corrupted" farmer's scythe.
Smug Snake: Perpetually acts like he is unflappably all-knowing and in control of the situation, to the point of coming across as unbearably arrogant under the thinnest layer of polite pretense, even before the reveal he is all this and more.
The Sociopath: A more high-functioning version than most examples, but Dongrang still seems to lack any sort of empathy towards anything that isn't beneficial to the scientific progress of the City, and hides that uncaring nature with a façade of friendliness. He didn't always used to be like this, as before the league of nine was hunted down by Wings and he joined K Corp to escape their wrath, he used his medical skills to heal injured animals just because it was the right thing to do. The realization of how low he stooped and how empty and hollow his life is causes him to Distort.
Spotting the Thread: Even disregarding his background checks on Shrenne, one thing that clues him in on her true allegiance is noticing that Shrenne stated her department suffered three casualties in the previous terrorist attack... the same number of casualties the terrorists suffered, while K Corp actually lost five.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His work relationship with Shrenne is littered with passive-aggressive snipes from both ends and squabbling over who should be credited for what works within the company. It is later revealed this treatment (which is apparently how Dongrang treats everyone but his loyal subordinates) is one of the main motivations for her to defect.
Took a Level in Badass: Gaining an E.G.O turns him from a mundane, unaugmented and untrained civilian scientist to a powerhouse capable of inhuman feats of agility, controls of plants, and enough strength to shatter the ground when striking it with his weapon.
The Unfettered: He's willing to do anything in the name of science and technological advancement, with his only real concern being unable to reach his goals before Gubo eventually kills him.
Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to speak about him without revealing that he's not a standard NPC and the full extent of K Corp's inner workings.
Wham Line: While it comes at no surprise to people who played the older games, he is the first character in Limbus Company to name-drop "Miss Carmen" after he Distorts.

Shrenne

A K Corp researcher with a seeming rivalry against Dongrang for the position of best employee.

Ambiguously Gay: Her password, plus the frequent and overtly-affectionate emails imply she had a more-than-friends relationship with her own mentor Ran, but it's never outright confirmed.
Embarrassing Password: The password to her PC is Missyouran, Ran as in the Technology Liberation Alliance member. That's one of the things that got her cover blown early on by Dongrang.
Half the Man He Used to Be: She's assassinated by a high-ranking member of the Shi Association shortly after her betrayal is revealed, being completely bisected lengthwise through a wall and falling apart in front of the Sinners.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: When she's so often paired with Dongrang in her scenes, his already impressive height only serves to emphasize her diminutive stature.
The Mole: In reality, she is siding with the Technology Liberation Alliance, something that Dongrang knew all along because she's just not good at covering up her tracks.
Mythology Gag: Someone familiar with Lobotomy Corporation can find some physical similarities between her, Hod and Malkuth. And just like Hod, she ends up being a traitor to the Wing she works for.
The Napoleon: Shrenne is the smallest person who appears in Canto IV. While she's not strictly an angry person, she can be easily made extremely irritable when she feels looked-down upon. Especially if Dongrang is involved.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Ultimately, even if she was a traitor, she was ultimately an empathetic woman who deemed that if technological advancement demanded such egregious suffering, then it didn't deserve to exist. For having such beliefs, she was brutally assassinated.

Niko

A representative from Rosespanner Workshop that Shrenne hired to help take back the L Corp branch in K Corp's wing.

Affably Evil: Even when up against the Sinners and his treachery revealed, he is unfailingly polite and soft-spoken in his demeanor.
Agent Peacock: From his little time on-screen and his design, it's pretty obvious that he definitely likes to flaunts both his Workshop's designs, uniform, and money.
Dissonant Serenity: Shows no real reaction to one of his own people being dissolved by one of the reverse-engineered HP Ampules.
King Mook: To the Rosespanner Fixers.
Mix-and-Match Weapon: Uses what can only be described as a mix between a giant wrench and a chainsaw.
The Mole: Along with his employer Shrenne, he and the Rosespanner agents he is with are secretly in league with the TLA and are secretly leading the Sinners into traps and trying to get them killed.
Recurring Boss: He flees the scene deeper into the K Corp building following his first battle with the Sinners, meaning they fight for a second and final time several battles later.
Spear Counterpart: Fitting, considering his position is taken by Rodion in one of the Mirror Worlds, but he's effectively a male, white-haired version of her in terms of demeanor.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets maybe ten lines of dialogue before his death.

Ran

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One of the members of the Technology Liberation Alliance that threatens K Corp. She was formerly a researcher at K Corp before going missing for unknown reasons.

Anti-Villain: One of the more brutal members of the TLA seen, but she still has a noble end goal and is fighting against a MegaCorp with an equally evil treatment of lives.
Defector from Decadence: She was once one of the senior most researchers of K Corp's food department and even a coworker of Dongrang. She abandoned her life of luxury and safety when she grew disgruntled after realizing the Dark Secret behind the HP Ampules and the massive cruelty fueling the Corp's business.
Goggles Do Nothing: Wears orange tinted goggles above her head.
Ludicrous Gibs: Following her trying to bomb the Sinners, the only mention of a body is bloodstains across the walls amidst the wreckage of the detonation.
Non-Action Guy: Said as such by a T.L.A. long after she had blown herself up in the old L Corp facility. Her true talents lied in machinery and she put it to use in hacking the K Corp Drones into threatening to inject decay ampules on the Staff if they fail to turn on the Sinners.
Still Wearing the Old Colors: She has long since quit her job at K Corp in favor of directly collaborating with the T.L.A. but she still loosely wears her lab coat from her previous occupation.
Suicide Attack: She tries to bait the Sinners to approach her robots by using insults and taunts before blowing them up — and tries this multiple times. When the group actually confronts her, she ends up doing the same thing — killing herself in the process so that K Corp wouldn't be able to torture any information out of her.
Villainous Friendship: Seems to have this relationship with Shrenne on top of being acquaintances. Not only is Shrenne's password named after her, she seems to be more keen on talking to Ran than Dongrang during office hours.

Marile

A quiet member of the Technology Liberation Alliance that comes into conflict with the Sinners.

Back from the Dead: Gets reanimated without much fanfare by the Golden Bough's power within Canto IV's dungeon. He dies again permanently just as quickly.
Came Back Wrong: His revival by the Golden Bough is incomplete due to his lack of connection to the League of Nine. Instead of returning in full, he is simply an empty husk puppeted to attack and try to ruin the scene within the Reminisced League of Nine.
Jerkass Repeatedly tells his own ally Ran to shut up while they work for even the slightest unnecessary comment, and equally rude to the Sinners prior to battle, in contrast to most of the more Affably Evil TLA members.
King Mook: To the regular Red Sheet TLA members, boasting considerably higher stats and slightly altered fight mechanics.
Paper Talisman: He possesses the Red Sheet E.G.O. like some of the other TLA members and as such his fighting style revolves around them. Unlike his peers, he utilizes both Entangled Curse Talismans and Reattached Curse Talisman.
Terse Talker: While working with Ran, he keeps his own idle chatter at a minimum while also bluntly shutting down any comments his associate tries to make with a quick admonishment.

Dongbaek

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"You can have this back. A photograph is nothing more than a taxidermized moment."

A mysterious, decrepit woman found in the depths of the Lobotomy Corp facility in K Corp's wing. She seems to know Yi Sang from the past, and has unfinished business with him to boot.

Alas, Poor Villain: During their battle, the Sinners are all horrified at her physical transformation and her distress as Dongrang continually prods at her weakened mental state. In the end, most of them acknowledge her along with Yi Sang, as a victim of the far most monstrous and treacherous Dongrang's self-serving whims.
Anti-Villain: She may be the leader of a terrorist organization, but her intentions are well-meaning and her target is one of the malicious Wings that upkeep the cycle of suffering in the City — she has nothing against Limbus Company personally, even Yi Sang — but the Sinners must oppose her due to her possessing the Golden Bough.
Call-Back: Dante's internal monologue notes that when she is about to awaken her E.G.O she's staring off into space and seemingly talking to someone who isn't there — alluding to the Voice, AKA Carmen, tempting her to Distort.
Climax Boss: Serving as the boss of the last two levels of Canto IV Part 2, Dongbaek stands right at the center of some major plot points and reveals of Canto IV. She's the leader of the Technology Liberation Alliance that's been making their moves in K Corp's Nest, her levels coincide with the reveal of the Dark Secret of K Corp's Singularity, and her bossfights mark the debut of Sanity in Focused Encounters, and set the trend of Part 2 of every season's Canto onward having a powerful Boss Battle at or near the end.
Disease Bleach: An old photo shows her with darker hair, implying that whatever went down between then and the present turned her hair grey prematurely.
Duel Boss: Toward the end of her second fight she'll use the skill Must Cover With Dirt which inflicts Dueling upon the Sinner. The turn after that everyone except the recipient of the attack will be instantly trapped in spicebushes for a couple turns. If Yi Sang is one who receives dueling she gains 1 Attack Power but should he win every Sinner gains 3 Damage Up.
Eye Scream: She has an eyepatch, implying she might have lost an eye at some point. The dungeon's flashbacks implies she lost it when using fireworks to create a distraction so that the remaining League of Nine members could escape the T Corp collectors hounding them - which ended up misfiring and blowing up in her face, and causing the League's hideout to go down in flames on top of that.
Evil Luddite: An Anti-Villain type: she detests the horrible uses of technology that K Corp uses and plans to destroy it all and put the Singularity in a concept incinerator — and that's before she finds out the truth about the Singularity itself.
Fisher King: Past the beginning of her second fight, she transforms the K Corp Screening Room into a breathtaking rocky mountainside blooming with spicebushes with a clear blue and sunny sky.
Fling a Light into the Future: She reveals right before her final fight this was her true ambition in a backwards way. The days she spent inventing marvels and wonders with her friends were her only bastions of happiness, and being able to reset humanity's progress is a way for the happiness to be found by the next generation. She believes if things continue as they are within the City, no one will ever be able to find their own happiness again.
Flower Motifs:
- Spicebushes, a type of plant that represents soil fertility, which connects to her desire to bury away the technologies of the world in the hopes they could be rediscovered by future generations and not be corrupted by malicious intent.
- Camellias. Her name is not only the Korean word for it, but it also references the short story "The Camellia" by Gim Yujeong which describes camellias that are tinted yellow, and red ones sprout on her body as she dies. Fittingly, camellias are associated with Seppuku, due to the way they fall off when they die, and thus also carry the symbolism of eternal loyalty and a short life ending in a blaze of glory. Gim Yujeong was also a member of the Guinhoe, the real-life Group of Nine. Fittingly, a line in Dongrang's theme song for his final battle reads "kill the camellias in me", symbolic of both his loss of idealism, and how he literally kills Dongbaek by stabbing her.
Foil: To Dongrang in a situation that changes over the course of their history. They're both members of the League of Nine, but in the past, Dongrang wanted to help people out of goodwill, while Dongbaek was the first one to shoot him down because of how impractical it was to help everyone simultaneously. However, Dongrang fell into despair at the futility of his actions, and became obsessed with pragmatism to the point where he betrayed the League for safety, while Dongbaek fiercely protected the League's honor no matter the terrible consequences. In the present, while Dongbaek's goal is to essentially sacrifice the future for a chance to remake the happiness of the past, Dongrang instead resolves to burn away his past for the sake of a successful future. Fittingly, while Dongbaek's personal E.G.O. is a spicebush, a plant representing fertile land, Dongrang's is a farmer, someone who consumes it to produce harvests.
Herd-Hitting Attack: Her Spicebush E.G.O abilities specialize hitting lots of opponents at once, as well as trapping them within the flowers so that they're even more vulnerable to her attacks.
Heroic Sacrifice: When the T Corp agents came after the League of Nine for their illegal creations, she lit an explosion to cause chaos and allow the other members in the building time to flee in the confusion. Her actions allowed at least three of her fellows to escape at the cost of her eye.
Hidden Disdain Reveal: Mentions she never liked Dongrang and his haughty, egotistical attitude, even before she knew he was the traitor among the League of Nine.
It's Personal: Has specific mechanics in her fight if Yi Sang is present owing to their shared past.
Instant-Win Condition: For her: in her Spicebush E.G.O form, if she manages to trap every living Sinner within her flowers and nobody is able to act, it's an automatic game over.
Invisibility Cloak: She keeps herself out of the way of the conflict within the K Corp building with a cloaking veil of her own design, which warps light around her to perfectly hide her presence when it is wrapped around her.
Lightning Bruiser: She sports a package of high HP, high rolls and can inflict a powerful and nasty debuff in her second fight.
Motive Decay: She supports the Technology Liberation Alliance and harps on about creating a world free from technology and liberating the Tearful Thing, but Dongrang is quick to point out that she doesn't really believe in the T.L.A. as much as they believe. In truth, Dongbaek simply yearns for the Glory Days of the League of Nine, and sees the T.L.A.'s goals as a way to "reset" the world so that others can experience the same joy of uncorrupted scientific discovery as they once did.
Multi-Melee Master: When using her personal E.G.O. she utilizes a floral fan and a large spicebush branch which she uses as a polearm.
Not So Stoic: She's so broken inside that her voice barely raises above a whisper, even when gravely wounded...Until Dongrang admits he was the one who sold out the League of Nine to T Corp as she lays dying, causing her to let out a shriek of pure anguish and fury.
Dongbaek: I knew it...It had to be...!!! You...You...YOU FUCKING TRAITOR!!!!
One-Winged Angel: After being beaten while wearing the Sunshower E.G.O, she awakens her own personal E.G.O: Spicebush, initiating a much tougher second fight.
Plant Person: Chunks of her body, including the wrapped part of her face, her limbs, and several parts of her torso, are completely enveloped by plant life and flowers as she manifests her personal E.G.O.
Precision F-Strike: Her final words have her drop the game's first f-bomb when Dongrang reveals that he sold out the League of Nine.
Stone Wall: Goes for both times she's fought. In her first fight, she has a shield of 1200 HP, and in her second, she naturally has over 1600 without any shield. In the latter she will also use a Guarding move that gives her 20 Protection, giving her 200% damage reduction, much like Distorted Yan's high Evade rolls.

Alfonso (Unmarked Spoilers)

Alfonso

The current CEO of K Corp.

The Bad Guy Wins: She gets exactly what she wants out of Canto IV: the Technology Liberation Alliance is destroyed, the traitors and troublesome employees of her Wing are dead and the secrets of the Singularity are kept safe by wiping the memory of the Sinners (read: doing whatever a Wing Executive would do in the situation where someone finds out about their Singularity). However, she isn't aware that Dante is immune to their mind-wiping techniques and thus retained all knowledge of the Singularity, which Dante keeps in their back pocket as they feel it will be useful in the long run.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Mixed with The Caligula given the Wings are also rulers of their Districts. Fittingly for a Wing CEO, Alfonso is a cruel woman who would do anything to upkeep the production of K Corp's Singularity — anything.
Good Prosthetic, Evil Prosthetic: Being a Wing Executive with effectively infinite money, she's evidently augmented to hell and back, indicated by her odd eyes, synthetic lines on the sides of her face and a bar code underneath one eye, that all add up to a much more unsettling appearance than if they weren't there.
Gender-Blender Name: In good old Project Moon tradition, 'Alfonso' is a masculine name given to a woman.
Hellish Pupils: She has green, slitted eyes like a snake's, and is the vicious, sociopathic manager of Wing K.
Kick the Dog: After stroking Dongrang’s ego by citing his League of Nine membership as a sign of high expectations, it’s only when she finishes orchestrating his demise that she spitefully dismisses the League’s pedigree in front of Yi-Sang as unworthy of a higher position in K Corp.
The Ludovico Technique: After witnessing an executive brutally assault another while arguing who should become the next CEO, Alfonso came to the realization that something other than "Heartfelt and gutwrenching stories" could be used to make the singularity cry, and promptly advanced to forcing it to witness video feeds of human suffering that they buy from other wings, in addition to torturing employees strapped to a chair in front of it. And as nightmarish as it might sound, these actions are exactly the thing that propelled K Corp to become one of the most prosperous and beneficial Wings of the City.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Befitting the CEO of a Wing, Alfonso refuses to leave anything up to chance when it comes to herself or her company, having been the one to hire the Shi Association to execute Shrenne and refusing to let the Sinners go without a memory wipe on what K Corp.'s Singularity is, since she's well aware that a contract like the one between them and Dongrang earlier could easily become meaningless. The only mistake she makes at all is that she's unaware that Dante didn't actually lose their memories.
Non-Standard Character Design: Most augments leave the user looking either superficially human or obviously robotic, but Alfonso is somewhere in between: her face is humanoid but blatantly artificial, making her resemble some kind of android.
Repressive, but Efficient: A complete lack of scientific morals aside, if whatever we heard about K Corp prior were to go by, her industrialization of the teardrop singularity has turned her Wing into one of the most prominent corporate superpowers in the City.
Tyrant Takes the Helm: Stephanette, the previous K Corp CEO, was a comparatively humane and kind human being who used and harvested the K Corp Singularity with humane means - after she died, Alfonso took the lead and immediately claimed that noble and humane methods were too inefficient, leading to more effective healing production and her Wing turning into one of the City's greatest corporate superpowers under the cost of the complete and utter breakdown of scientific ethics.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: During the Smoke War, K Corp. promised Nest residency for any veterans who fought against the old L Corp., only to go back on their word once the war was over. Among the many Fixers attracted to this deal was a man named Roland...
Walking Spoiler: Her current screentime is inseparable from the truth of the K Corp Singularity

Stephanette (unmarked spoilers)

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A woman who ventured beyond the Outskirts and brought back the "Tearful Thing" that now serves as K Corp's Singularity, serving as K Corp's CEO and caring for it until her eventual death.

Bold Explorer: She found the Tearful Thing on one of her expeditions beyond the City early in her life, and her massive amount of equipment and casualness suggest she was well-ventured and competent at the role.
Greater Need Than Mine: In her old age, she refuses to take any of the life-saving augmentations available to her as the head of K Corp, instead insisting it goes to the civilians of the Nest with less fortune.
Life Will Kill You: An incredibly rare case of a person having a long, comfortable, and enjoyable life in the City before dying of natural causes as an old woman.
Mythology Gag: Her situation with Alfonso is reminiscent of Carmen and Ayin's situation, where the leader of a scientific group with more-or-less noble intentions ventured into the Outskirts and died, and was replaced with a much, more amoral lead who will do anything to industrialize their Singularity even when it comes to the total breakdown of morals and ethics.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Stephanette was one of the kindest named characters in the story, who was willing to show compassion to what was implied to be an Eldritch Abomination and harvest its tears by touching its heart with moving stories. Although her peaceful death from old age could be considered a mercy in the dystopian City, her death is what leads to Alfonso taking the reins and using human suffering to generate the tears instead.

The Tearful Thing (Unmarked Spoilers)

K Corp's Singularity, an unknown entity whose tears can revert things back to their original state.

Actually a Doombot: The massive eyeball creature in Dongrang's lab is revealed by Alfonso to only be a child entity split off from the original, leaving its true appearance and nature unknown.
Powered by a Forsaken Child: Its tears are what drive K Corp's miraculous healing technology. Stephanette originally obtained them through ethical means by reading the Thing touching stories, but after her death, K Corp started endlessly showing it human agony to make it cry more and yield more tears.
Was Once a Man: It's heavily implied that the boy that accompanied Stephanette beyond the Outskirts was somehow transformed into the Tearful Thing as a means of fulfilling his ultimate wish.

Man in the Mirror (Unmarked Spoilers)

Sang Yi

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The idealized version of Yi Sang, reflected in his invention, "Yeonsim".

Mirror Self: He is the idealised reflection of Yi Sang that he sees when using Yeonsim. Near the end of Canto 4, Sang Yi reminds Yi Sang that he is a reflection of him, wings included.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He is the one who persuades Yi Sang to leave the confines of the white room Gubo put him in. This ultimately comes down to him encouraging them to deliver the final blow to Dongrang.

Intervallo II: The Magic Hellbus

Molar Boatworks

Molar Office has returned in the form of Molar Boatworks, with Olga, Mika, and Rain now dealing in repairs and hunting Trash Crabs in the Backstreets of District 21. For more information about them, see the Office's folder here.

Canto V: The Evil Defining

Smee

Voice Actor: Kang Sae-bom

The First Mate of the Twinhook Pirates, who manages things in place of her boss, Captain Hook.

Adaptational Jerkass: The Smee she was based off of from the books was indeed working for Captain Hook, but he was more or less a Minion with an F in Evil. This Smee, however, is a lot more cruel and vicious.
Gender Flip: The character she was based on was a male in the original story.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: According to herself. While Hook gets drunk off of Mermaid Wine, she keeps the Twinhook Pirates running on schedule.
It's All About Me: Smee is very self confident and assured of her power over any situation, because she's effectively the leader of the Twinhooks Pirates while Hook is off getting drunk all the time, and her connection to a Big Brother of the Middle makes her basically untouchable, lest anyone who tries to kill her face the pain of retribution by a Finger. Ironically, said Big Brother apparently doesn't even recall who she is until reminded, and her humiliating beat down isn't even a factor when he chases down the Sinners later in the Canto.
Karma Houdini: While the Sinners beat her up pretty badly, the only thing that prevents them from outright killing her is that she's under the protection of a Big Brother from the Middle (who values kinship to the level of insanity), and killing her would only result in the entire syndicate going out of their way trying to annihilate them.
Shout-Out: She's based off of Smee, Captain Hook's first mate from Peter Pan.
Sword and Gun: Or hook and gun, rather.
White Hair, Black Heart: Her hair is stark white, and she's one of the leaders of a Syndicate dedicated to kidnapping people and extorting every last penny out of hostages before inevitably killing them to start the cycle again.

Rim

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Voice Actor: Jung Seung Hwa

A former League of Nine member who has since become a Distortion.

Ambiguously Evil: Given that almost all of the Distortions seen in previous Project Moon works exhibit hostility to humanity one way or another, it's remarkable Rim chooses to aid the human Sinners by telling them where U Corp's Golden Bough had gone missing, despite him exhibiting signs of hiding ulterior motives.
Ambiguously Related: Dante and Sinclair notice a Mark Of Cain inside Rim's head, implying associations with Demian that're unknown as of Canto V.
Animorphism: Can shape-shift into a blue butterfly.
Biblical Motifs: He is inscribed with the same mark of Cain that Demian was. Their relation to each other is unknown.
Non-Human Head: Distorting replaced his head with a floating sphere filled with glass containing an hourglass, a butterfly, and a brain.
Remember the New Guy?: Despite the League of Nine's prominence in the preceding Canto, he is never mentioned until Canto V when he first appears (Though it is implied that he was the League of Nine member that Faust played during the Canto IV dungeon).
Shout-Out: Rim is the Distorted form of Kim Kirim, and like the rest of the League of Nine, are based on Korean Writers. Rim's Distortion is also based on one of his poems, The Sea and the Butterfly.
We Used to Be Friends: He admits that he was once a member of the League of Nine, making him one of Yi Sang's former comrades.

Ricardo

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A Big Brother of the Middle that comes after Limbus Company due to the infractions they committed against him and the Middle.

An Arm and a Leg: Loses his arm from the shoulder down after the Indigo Elder harpoons him.
Beware the Silly Ones: He's a dramatic, hair-obsessed Large Ham who dresses in garish attire, covers his belongings in cute stickers, and gets almost comically upset by small slights. He's still by far the most hopelessly dangerous enemy the Sinners have fought up to that point, and a high-ranking member of a Syndicate where "small slights" lead to the slaughter of everyone affiliated with the offender. To illustrate this perfectly, he manages to crush our Sinners flat to the point that Faust gets desperate, while having his abs out.
Character Select Forcing: When fought in 5-30, players will have to bring Ishmael on the team, as she needs to be present in the end cutscene where Ricardo crushes her and annihilates the Sinners. To help with this, Ishmael is given a hidden buff for the fight that renders her unable to die until she's the last Sinner standing.
Curb Stomp Cushion: While the Sinners are hopelessly outmatched against Ricardo himself, they do manage to kill several waves of his men before he joins in.
Disproportionate Retribution: Despite Smee's claims that he'd show up to wipe them out if they killed her, Ricardo didn't actually remember she existed until reminded about it by his lackey. He wants to enact vengeance on Limbus Company because Heathcliff stole coupons for a luxury hair salon from his safe while they were at the club.
Flunky Boss: Sends waves of Little Brothers against the Sinners and is flanked by some during the last wave. He also has several ways to support his Middle lackeys, gets stronger when they're killed, and a specific skill that can summon two more soon after.
Hopeless Boss Fight: Subverted. He shows up at the end of the already tough fight with the Middle near the end of Canto V, and is way stronger than anything else before him, with the ability to stack huge amounts of power and offense combined with base stats so high that his pages can roll 10 or more higher than their (suspiciously low) base values, along with having a health bar that barely budges to assaults that would have killed most enemies twice over. On top of that, all of his stats and his HP are displayed as ???. However, he still has a highly exploitable attack pattern and can still take damage, with the fight instantly ending once you deal 50% of his health, upon which he slaughters all the Sinners in a brief cutscene and leads to a scripted "loss" and subsequent stage clear. In fact, prior to a patch, optimized strategies (such as massive Blunt damage or Sinking Deluges) were actually able to completely deplete his HP, not that it changed the outcome of the fight at all. Fittingly, not only does he re-introduce the "Proelium Fatale" Boss Warning Siren that had been last seen with Canto I's Abnormality bosses,^note the EX condition isn't to win the fight under a certain turn count like most encounters, but to not lose.
Invincible Villain: Ricardo shows just how badly Limbus Company is outclassed by even the moderately powerful entities of the city, as he single-handedly massacres the entire team multiple times over without getting hurt at all in return, and only doesn't kill Dante right away because he's having too much fun slaughtering endlessly resurrecting opponents. Notably, Faust seems terrified for the first time in the story, saying that they should have never gotten involved with the Middle and that they're doomed as a result, practically begging Dante to self-destruct just so the Middle doesn't get their hands on the Golden Boughs. Limbus Company only escapes total annihilation because of the Indigo Elder's timely arrival to drive him off.
- This is also reflected in his attack animations, where even if a Sinner manages to beat one of his coins in a clash, it's the Sinner that gets sent reeling while Ricardo doesn't lose any momentum, immediately winding up for the next one without the delay usually present in clashes.
Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: He exclusively deals Blunt damage and is weak to Blunt himself. Ergo, your best options against him are IDs that specialize in Blunt themselves while also resisting it, such as the Liu Association or even other members of the Middle.
Oh, Crap!: Despite killing off the Sinners repeatedly with gusto just moments prior, he has a big one upon seeing the Indigo Elder appear on the scene, wondering just what the hell a Color was there for before he gets harpooned.
Power Tattoo: As customary of the Middle, the elaborate tattoo design we can see rather well due to him uncovering his abs, can glow and serves to empower him physically (as well as the glow intimidating enemies).
Readings Are Off the Scale: Like Lion, Wolf and Panther before him, he's so beyond what the Sinners can handle that you're not even able to see his precise HP or level. ^note
Real Men Wear Pink: Ricardo's salon coupons were kept in his locker back at the club that the Sinners first visited, which Heathcliff points out was covered with cute kitty stickers. When Heathcliff defends his pilfering of the safe by saying that he didn't expect a large imposing man such as a Big Brother of the Middle to own something like that, Ricardo admonishes him for his stereotyping and adds the offense to his Book of Vengeance.
Wake-Up Call Boss: After five Cantos and multiple events of most problems being solvable by outclashing them, Ricardo (and to a lesser extent his men) reminds players that they sometimes don't want to try and beat every clash the enemy is throwing out, along with being a reminder on defensive skills and type matchups. His absurd Offense and Defense Level of 60+ make it so that most clashes are overwhelmingly skewed in his favor, while his Counter and Block/Evade will really ruin your day if you don't soak up the former and offset the latter. Instead, players will usually have to take advantage of his slow speed to launch one-sided Blunt attacks (or Tremor, which he has a specific weakness to) to stagger him before he can use his most dangerous moves, while using resistant units to tank the unavoidable damage from his Counter or any of his attacks that slip through.
Willfully Weak: Despite showing up to punish the Sinners for crossing the Middle he still holds back to toy with the Sinners, though they barely hold on against his onslaught regardless. This is reflected in his boss mechanics: — at a certain point in the battle, Ricardo inflicts himself with a debuff called Test of the Big Brother, which makes him more vulnerable to damage and Tremor Burst so that he can be Staggered. Fail to capitalize on it and he'll gain a massive boost in damage instead which he'll use to nuke them in turn. Upon being brought down to half health or surviving long enough, Ricardo decides to stop playing around and obliterates the Sinners in one fell swoop.

The Indigo Elder

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A mysterious Color Fixer who travels the Great Lake to hunt Whales. He has a fixation on hunting the Pallid Whale, and apparently wishes to venture beyond the limits of the City and confront what lies outside.

Big Damn Heroes: Shows up in time to save the Sinners from Ricardo.
Call-Back: In an old Library of Ruina interview, Roland and Gebura are discussing high-grade Fixers, and Roland mentions the "Fixer of the Great Lake" who apparently traveled said lake hunting monsters. Come Limbus Company, and said Fixer appears in the flesh, now promoted to a Color.
Cool Old Guy: Despite being an old man, he's a skilled Color Fixer dedicated to hunting the Whales of the Great Lake, who in a similar way to how Vergilius effortlessly dispatched Lion, Wolf and Panther in Selva Oscura, quickly hands Ricardo his ass on a plate and even takes off one of his arms.
Deus ex Machina: His arrival is pretty much the only reason the Sinners' journey as a whole doesn't stop right then and there at the hands of the Middle's Big Brother, given how Faust was so uncharacteristically desperate that she requests Dante to self-destruct themself to keep the Golden Boughs out of reach, and she also claims that Vergilius would not be able to arrive in time to stop the Middle's slaughter despite the instigating conditions already being met.
Foil: As a fellow hunter of the Pallid Whale, he contrasts Ishmael and Captain Ahab's manic attitude towards hunting the Pallid Whale, being very calm even when he's at spitting distance of the Pallid Whale, and even gives it some respect.
Good Counterpart: To Ahab. While Ahab effectively spent her entire life obsessively hunting the Pallid Whale, gathering a whole crew to help hunt it down only to sacrifice them one by one in her mad quest to slay the object of her hatred, the Indigo Elder goes after the Whale and other Calamities out of respect for their longevity and power, and does so alone despite knowing that any hunt could be his last. Ironically, he's far more successful than her, having killed one Calamity before the story even starts and helping finish off the Palid Whale itself once and for all.
Hunter of Monsters: He specializes in hunting Whales, creatures that even seasoned mariners want to steer well away from, and even managed to end the life of one of the Five Calamities, Whales that are considered essentially incarnations of disaster. By the end of Canto V, he's helped slay the Pallid Whale, putting a second Calamity under his belt, and intends to hunt the remaining three in short order.
I Choose to Stay: Despite voicing desires to travel to the Outskirts to test his limits, the Indigo Elder tells Vergilius that he plans to stay in the Great Lake to hunt the remaining three Calamities.
Shout-Out: Is likely a reference to Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea, another old skiff-riding fisherman who hunts a massive marlin after a lengthy struggle. And just like Santiago, the Indigo Elder gives his respect to the Pallid Whale he hunts.
Smoking Is Cool: A Cool Old Guy who's a Whale-hunting Color Fixer, and is almost always seen with a small blue-glowing cigarette in his mouth.
The Worf Effect: Delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Ricardo, who was previously mopping the floor with the Sinners, and was mentioned to have slain one of the Five Calamities.
Worthy Opponent: His speech towards the Pallid Whale after him and the Sinners reach it indicates that he sees the Pallid Whale this way, honoring its sheer power and longevity.

Whales of the Great Lake

Massive aquatic things that inhabit the Great Lake and will generally appear along with its Waves. Little is known about them besides their calamitous power and penchant for devouring people and turning them into Mermaids.

In General

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A commonality among Whales is their sheer size, to the point where even the moderately sized ones can be mistaken for entire landmasses.
Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": A 'whale' in this setting is anything in the Great Lake that can parasitize humans. Only some of them look like actual real-life whales.
Eldritch Abomination: Each and every Whale that inhabits every Wave is a unique variant of giant, apocalyptically powerful Sea Monster, only kept under control(?) by the Laws of the Great Lake.
Killed Off for Real: Dante is concerned that since Whales technically don't kill their victims when they are converted into Mermaids, their ability to revive the Sinners will be ineffective in reversing the Mermaid transformation.
Mind Rape: In addition to physically mutating them, the oil of a Whale degrades the ego of organisms on contact, eroding at their sense of self until it's replaced by that of the Whale itself, which is the principle through which Mermaids are made. Even a dead Whale's oil can do this, but due to there no longer being a "template" to work off of, it completely dissolves the ego instead of overriding it. This is why the Golden Boughs or even sufficient mental fortitude is enough to resist the effects, since Golden Boughs are implied to be effectively a crystallization of ego born from L Corp's technology.
Non-Malicious Monster: They're horrifically dangerous and sometimes completely illogical in their behavior, but none of the Whales have demonstrated any actual sentience or malice outside of animalistic urges, even the Calamities. At one point, Ishmael even speculates that their ability to turn others into more of themselves stems from loneliness and a corruption of the human desire to fit in with others.
Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Ahab's diagram of the Pallid Whale (which shares a visual design with generic whales) shows they generally resemble real-world whales, but have what appears to be a giant arm and hand sticking out of their underside. These same limbs can be seen protruding from the sleeping whale pod. What purpose this serves is not known.

Whale of the Porous Hand

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Giant Hands of Doom: The Whale Of The Porous Hand is a giant, porous hand that holds Mermaids within its pores. Defeating all of its Mermaids causes the Whale to retreat.

Whale of the Thousand Strands

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Botanical Abomination: Its true appearance is an enormous twisted mass of tentacles resembling a skyscraper-sized tree, with the strands connecting to its Mermaids like puppet strings.
Brown Note: Its Mermaids can seemingly induce extreme fear with their attacks and presence, translating to them dealing large amounts of SP damage and gaining bonuses against low SP Sinners.
Expy: Both the Whale's name and the appearance of its Mermaids in cutscenes are reminiscent of the BTs encountered in Death Stranding.
Hanging Around: The position of the Whale's threads connecting to its Mermaids and Sinclair encountering some of the Mermaids floating above him inside the cruise ship's storage give the imagery of hanging.

The Five Calamities

Five exceptionally notable Whales revered as legends and omens of ruination.

In General

The Dreaded: They're considered terrifying even for members of an entire "species" of Eldritch Abominations. Even the potential of encountering one of the Calamities is enough to make a Ricardo, a Big Brother of the Middle, immediately bail out while mentioning staying with it is a death wish.
My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Unlike the other Whales, these ones are unbound by the Laws of the Lake and can go wherever they want, making them impossible to escape and even harder to predict.

The All-Consuming Pallid Whale

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A particularly notorious Calamity known for its all-consuming hunger and ability to devour anything, regurgitating them as pale, flesh-covered mockeries. Ishmael has history with this Whale and a vendetta against it. It has also devoured the Golden Bough previously held in the Lobotomy Corporation branch in U Corp along with the facility itself, forcing Limbus Company to pursue it.

Ambiguous Situation:
- Pilot's flashback where the Middle and the Twinhook Pirates come down on his team has the Pallid Whale's presence announced not just by the sudden appearance of a massive shape, but a sound reminiscent of U Corp's merging technology. This never gets mentioned again during the Canto, so what relevance it has to the Pallid Whale is unknown, although it may have something to do with how U Corp's Singularity is implied to come from (or at least be based off of) Whale oil and its ability to subsume things.
- Whilst the Golden Bough has been shown to be able to reverse the Pallidification the Whale inflicts on its prey, the fact that the Pallidification still happens to an extent (evident by the U Corp. Lobotomy Corp. branch and Pallidified victims encountered inside the Whale) gives question as to why the Pallid Whale went after the Golden Bough in the first place.
And I Must Scream: Unlike other Whales which turn their prey into unrecognizable abominations, creatures devoured by the Pallid Whale are recognizable outside of being wrapped in fleshy membranes, and seem to retain a vague sense of self despite no longer being in control of their actions, especially since proximity to a Golden Bough is somehow able to suppress or reverse the "Pallidification". The existence of bestial Pallid Mermaids suggests either these victims eventually turn into fully fledged monsters, or those are created in a different manner.
Bizarre Alien Biology: Surprisingly averted for the most part. Although it does have its own share of alien weirdness, such as its Mermaids and having a second heart within its heart, most of the Pallid Whale's internals are fairly similar to a normal whale outside of its sheer size.
Black Eyes of Evil: The Pallid Whale's eyes are distinctly pitch black, and it's one of the Five Calamities, Whales of downright exceptional notoriety and destruction.
Came Back Wrong: How Ishmael describes the fate of anything devoured by the Pallid Whale, where after they've been spat out, they remain as flesh-covered mockeries that can only attack everything in sight if they were alive.
Death by Adaptation: Unlike the relatively more mundane whale it's based on, the Pallid Whale is finally slain by the combined efforts of the Indigo Elder and Ishmael.
Hungry Menace: The Indigo Elder notes that biting and devouring is all it's known, and as such it has seemingly no greater motives than swallowing everything in sight. Ishmael bitterly notes the pointlessness of this since the Whale can't even eat properly, as anything it devours is promptly regurgitated back in a horrifically warped state.
Meat Moss: Anything that it devours is wrapped in a pale, fleshy membrane with visible blood vessels and organs.
Shout-Out: To the eponymous White Whale from Moby-Dick, taking the Eldritch Abomination elements already present in Moby to the extreme.
Womb Level: The entire dungeon of Canto V is the Sinners venturing into its body to look for the Golden Bough it swallowed. This ends with the Sinners traversing its body and making it to its heart, where Ishmael tears it out with Snagharpoon to kill it and retrieve the Golden Bough.
Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: It already ate the Golden Bough inside the Lobotomy Corp. branch when the Sinners arrived, forcing the Sinners to go inside the Whale to retrieve it.

The All-Impaling Marlin Whale

Posthumous Character: Was slain by the Indigo Elder not long before Limbus Company encountered him, foreshadowed by Vergilius mentioning that there are now only four Calamities before the Sinners head to the Lobotomy Corp branch on their skiff.

The All-Withering Crimson Whale

Giant Squid: What few recounts of it describe it as a massive tentacled beast not unlike an octopus or squid.
Unseen Evil: Like the other Calamities, it's an Eldritch Abomination. Unlike them, it isn't even mentioned in the story and only gets referenced by Pequod Ishmael's identity. It's not even certain whether it exists in the "main" world or if it's exclusive to Pequod Ishmael's Mirror World.

The Crew of the Pequod (Unmarked Spoilers)

Captain Ahab's crew, who went along with her mad quest to slay the Pallid Whale and subsequently got devoured by the Whale in question. Turns out, they actually survived being swallowed by the whale...

Shout-Out: Fitting the theme of Ahab and her crew, the crew of the Pequod are all named after members of Captain Ahab's crew in Moby Dick.
Undying Loyalty: Played for Horror in that the crew have been essentially brainwashed to be completely loyal to Ahab even though she is clearly willing to sacrifice them for her own gain. This is so deeply rooted that Ahab's presence gives them enough drive to actually resist being consumed by the Pallid Whale. Even after Ahab's declaration that they are all expendable in the hunt for the Pallid Whale, they look 'relieved' rather than upset or betrayed.

Queequeg

Backup from Otherworld: When Ishmael pulls on the harpoon piercing the Pallid Whale's heart, Queequeg's soul seems to briefly appear and help her pull, while expressing her one wish was that Ishmael could choose her own path.
The Big Guy: She's the physically largest and strongest out of the crew.
Climax Boss: She may be the first boss battle of Canto V's dungeon, but she's also the most directly plot-relevant outside of the two final battles, given she's sandwiched between the big reveal that the crew of the Pequod did survive, and her own identity's reveal after the battle.
Defector from Decadence: She was once a member of the Middle, and was a candidate for promotion to a Big Sister before she deserted.
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Queequeg in particular often suffers from this, and during the original voyage, Ishamel witnesses her resorting to cutting herself. Inside the Pallid Whale, Queequeg even expresses envy for the Abnormalities since they represent a person's pure wishes and desires, qualities that Queequeg herself feels she lacks.
Gender Flip: Queequeg is female, unlike her male counterpart in the book.
I've Come Too Far: Despite voicing her concerns for Ishmael and wanting her to find her own purpose, she still sides with Ahab when the latter turns against the Sinners. She's simply gone too far and is too deep under Ahab's thrall, something Queequeg herself acknowledges in her dying moments.
Hulk Speak: Seemingly on purpose, if her comment on slashing her own speech is to be trusted. She reveals to Ishmael that she both mutilated her tongue and had some form of brain surgery that affected her ability to speak, as part of the punishment she accepted that allowed her to defect from The Middle. Either way, her grammar is concise and omits unnecessary words.
Mighty Glacier: Out of all Pequod members that are fought, Queequeg is bar none the most bulky, sporting well over 800 HP. She is also very strong when it comes to dishing out damage, equal in level to both Starbuck and Ahab, and the only weakness she really has is her lower speed.
The Penance: In the past, Ishmael caught Queequeg carving into her own Middle tattoos with a knife, in her own attempt to remove them from her skin. When Ishmael tries to stop her, and ask if she could just get them removed by a doctor, Queequeg tells her that they're a special kind that can't be removed by normal means, so removing them herself is the best way. And besides this, the painful removal process to her is a part of her own penance for once having been part of the Syndicate, as well as the price she's paying so that she was able to leave it.

Pip

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Creepy Child: Once he undergoes his Sanity Slippage and completely falls under Ahab's thrall.
Improbable Infant Survival: He's the youngest of the Pequod's crew and manages to be one of the last four left after everything, although his partial Pallidification and trauma even before that basically reduced him to a giggling Empty Shell. He's even left out of the boss fight against Ahab and the other remaining crew members... and then this is promptly brutally Subverted when Ahab absorbs him with her E.G.O. and burns through him during the first phase of her fight.
Sanity Slippage: Between Stubb's death, getting partially pallidified, and falling under the thrall of Ahab, Pip's gone completely insane by the time Ishmael meets him again.
Third-Person Person: Pip never uses personal pronouns, instead using his own name to refer to himself.
The Unfought: He's subject to Hide Your Children in gameplay terms, as while he's one of the few remaining original crew by the time Ahab gets to the Pallid Whale's heart he's conspicuously absent from the Wolfpack Boss fight against her, Queequeg, and Starbuck. That being said, he is used by Ahab's E.G.O. and his Ego is used for the first phase of the final fight against her, which gives an idea of how he might've fought.

Starbuck

Glass Cannon: During the Wolfpack Boss fight against him, Ahab, and Queequeg, he's got by far the highest damage output of the trio, but also the lowest health.
Ignored Epiphany: Much like his book counterpart, he realizes Ahab's grudge is almost certainly going to get everyone killed or worse. Unfortunately, also like his book counterpart, he ultimately can't bring himself to rebel against her before their failed attempt to hunt the Pallid Whale, and by the time the Sinners meet him in Pequod Town he's completely in thrall to her.
Number Two: He is Ahab's first mate.

Stubb

And I Must Scream: After getting whale oil on himself from an accident with Pip, Ahab subjects him to being trapped so that when he turns into a Mermaid, he'll start to seek out the whale.
Jerkass: From little is shown of him, he has a bad temper and a nasty mouth on himself.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Stubb was apparently bitten by a whale in the process of trying to save Pip, and was then hit/doused by a barrel full of whale oil. In spite of being a Jerkass normally, he did still make a move to try and save their youngest member.
Posthumous Character: Stubb died before the crew even encountered the Pallid Whale, having been corroded by the Whale and turned into a Mermaid.

Captain Ahab (Unmarked Spoilers)

After the Sinners defeated Ahab and left her to drown inside of the Pallid Whale's collapsing body, they thought that was the last they'd seen of Ishmael's former captain. However, Ahab is soon revealed to have survived the ordeal and was recruited by Hermann into her organization. Ahab's full character folder can be found here.

Intervallo III - 1: Miracle in District 20

Crayon

A little girl from the Outskirts who was kidnapped by the gnomes.

Cute Oversized Sleeves: Crayon's entire outfit is drawn in a way that makes it look ill-fittingly large on her body, with baggy sleeves and pants which are loose even with suspenders. Though this is likely because castoffs from older humans were more readily available than clothes for someone of her size, rather than a deliberate fashion choice. But the baggy ensemble still serves to make her look adorable if only by emphasizing her small stature.
Grass is Greener: She desires to live in the City to escape the danger of the Outskirts, unaware that the City is not exactly the paradise she dreams of. Funnily enough, one of the reasons she thinks this is because she heard crayon sets in the City have 48 colors.
Improbable Infant Survival: The only survivor of a whole village of humans being raided by monsters, and she's a very young girl.
Meaningful Name: Her name is Crayon, and mentions in her dialogue she likes to draw using crayons. The gnomes also intended to make her into a crayon set before the Sinners arrived to save her.
Sole Survivor: The only civilian in her village who survived the mass kidnapping.
Slept Through the Apocalypse: Crayon fainted from the horror of the gnomes raid on her home village while Domino and the other Hunters were away. This actually ended up being to her benefit, as being unconscious meant that the gnomes assumed she was already dead, and didn't go any further to ensure it when they took her back to their workshop. Which allowed her to stay alive for later rescue by Domino.

Domino

A Hunter from the Outskirts who came to save Crayon from the gnomes.

Badass and Child Duo: Dialogue between the two implies that Crayon and Domino were close even before the rest of their village was wiped out, and he made the journey after discovering its destruction for the chance that he could find and save her. Thankfully for the both of them, the Sinners timely arrival due to their mission to save Heathcliff and Don Quixote ensured she was alive for Domino to ultimately rescue.
Big Damn Heroes: He shows up and stakes Santata before he can explode and rain acid on everyone present.
Blood-Splattered Warrior: Domino's whole outfit, patchwork as it already is, is caked in what appears to be dried blood, presumably from prior hunts.
Grass is Greener: Like Crayon, he romanticizes the City and wishes to live there, not knowing it's not the paradise he thinks it is. Unlike Crayon, though, he's at least willing to entertain the idea that the City isn't all sunshine and rainbows - all that matters to him is that it can only be better than the Outskirts.
Improvised Armour: Unlike the freakishly durable and stylishly sleek suits of the City, Domino as an Outskirts dweller appears to have cobbled together his outfit with anything he could find that might lend him further protection while fighting monsters. This includes attaching metal plates to his clothes, and even wrapping some parts of himself in barbed wire.

Santata

A Northern Giant in charge of the Gnomes' Workshop, fashioning himself after Santa. He's the boss battle of Canto 5.5.

Bad Santa: Considering the "gifts" his gnomes are creating are created from Human Resources, he very much is this. His motivations are to give gifts to all the good people of the northern Outskirts who harbor a hatred for humans.
Badass Santa: He looks the part and acts much like the real deal, although with murderous intent and serves as the Intervallo's boss fight.
Defeat Equals Explosion: Apparently a trademark of his race; Northern Giants have a tendency to explode in a deluge of corrosive rain unless pressure is released from the corpse's stomach to let out a pungent but nonlethal gas.
Hero Killer: Don Quixote notes that the rags he wears were seemingly picked off the corpses of the Christmas-themed Color fixer Red Sack and his sidekick Reindeer Man.
Stone Wall: Downplayed. His block skill "Time to Get Boxed" will always be used on the second turn and has a meaty shield roll of 80-100, which is nothing to scoff at. Failing to break it will result in Santata powering up on the next turn, while cracking through it will instantly stagger him.

Intervallo III - 2: Yield My Flesh To Claim Their Bones

Aeng-du

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A young woman of the Blade Lineage Syndicate. She's a target whom Limbus Company makes contact with during their assignment to resolve a Distortion in District 20's Backstreets.

Antiquated Linguistics: She speaks in the same flowery, old-fashioned way as Yi Sang. They both quickly find out that they'd both come from S Corp., meaning such a manner of speech should be common there.
"Call me Aeng-du. I am a Salsu from the Lineage that deals in Blades."
Despair Event Horizon: Nearly crosses it after her mentor is subdued, with the knowledge that her mentor had slain their own comrades crushing her so badly she attempts to kill him and nearly Distorts. Fortunately, Dante commands Meursault to knock her unconscious before she can Distort completely.
Mythology Gag: Her character design was originally one that went un-used for Library of Ruina, along with a story involving the Blade Lineage, who were reduced to being a General Reception (her design only being visible in the art book). Aeng-Du does however state that she and the rest of the Blade Lineage were invited to the Library and promptly turned into books before only recently being released.
Heroic Willpower: Despite being near-fatally wounded when the Sinners first meet her, she's able to cut her way through scores of Kurokumo Clan members not hours later after Yi Sang administers first aid. Outis chalks up her strength to this, as she's dead set on rejoining her mentor and other allies.
This Is Unforgivable!: After the party defeats her mentor, she attempts to kill him due to him having killed their fellow Blade Lineage members as a Distortion, deriding him for doing such a thing as well as being the one responsible for leading them all to the Library, nearly Distorting herself as a result of her despair.

Jun

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A captain of the Kurokumo clan, whom Limbus Company encounters on their way to resolve a Distortion in District 20's Backstreets.

A Father to His Men: Volunteered himself to guard the door to where the Distortion was while ordering his men to only guard the building's entrance, citing his responsibility for their lives as their commander.
Clocks of Control: He's an enforcer of the Thumb-backed Kurokumo clan obsessed with clocks, to the point he asks the Sinners if they have a spare stopwatch right before fighting them because his broke. He's especially annoyed when he's informed Dante's clock head prosthetic doesn't actually function as a working timepiece.
Counter-Attack: Has a nasty one in the form of Rules of the Backstreets. It gains an additional coin for each living ally capping off at 3, and if it kills a Sinner all of his allies gain 20 SP.
Katanas Are Just Better: Wields a massive one, and could even be argued that it's an odachi. Going further, it's decorated in a black and gold cloud pattern, signifying his rank in the Kurokumo clan.
Go Through Me: He bars the Sinners' way as they fight their way up the building to deal with the Distortion on the top floor.
Pragmatic Villainy: While he ultimately does end up clashing with the sinners, he initially doesn't fight them and even goes so far as to warn them why he can't let them through the door he's guarding.
Punch-Clock Villain:
- Of a sort. While he's still an immoral member of the Kurokumo clan, the only reason he opposes the Sinners specifically is because he can't risk the Distortion escaping the room he's guarding.
- He also specifies that while the Kurokumo Clan does have a hit out on the members of the Blade Lineage, he and his ilk are focused on their own jobs and had no connection to the group hunting them down. They probably would've never even bothered the Blade Lineage had they not been released from the Library and teleported right in the middle of their office.
Single-Stroke Battle: Defeats Aeng-du when the two have one, though he doesn't kill her.
Wrecked Weapon: His defeated sprite sports this, holding his broken katana in his right hand and using the scabbard to prop himself up with his left.
Yubitsume: He makes reference to this practice while talking to the Sinners, mentioning that with everything going so wrong for him and his men that if he took responsibility for it all it wouldn't be enough if he were to just lose a few fingers.

The Mentor

Bamboo-hatted Kim

The mentor and leader of the Blade Lineage Syndicate, which had been warped to District 20's Backstreets following their release from the Library and quickly found themselves warring with the resident Kurokumo Clan.

For more information, see Kim's folder here.

Canto VI: The Heartbreaking

Nelly

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Voice Actor: Do Young-Kim

The Chief Butler of Wuthering Heights and the Earnshaw's main servant, who looked after Catherine and Heathcliff during their youth. She greets Heathcliff and the other Sinners upon the former's return to the estate and helps them investigate when strange things begin happening at the manor.

Adaptational Nice Girl: In the source material, Nelly was a complacent classist and Unreliable Narrator who hated both Heathcliff and Cathy but kept it bottled up to keep her job, letting her bias against them affect her telling of the story. Here, she seems to be genuinely supportive towards both of them, professing her loyalty to Catherine and Catherine alone and treating Heathcliff with nothing but kindness and warmth when they meet again. This is later averted when it is revealed that Nelly was Evil All Along.
Adaptational Villainy: The original Nelly kept serving the Earnshaws and Lintons to the very end no matter how critical her opinion of them became. Here, Nelly is not so complacent, and discovering that she would always be caught between Heathcliff and Catherine's destructive romance drives her to indirectly cause the deaths of everyone around her to break free from her life of servitude.
The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of Canto VI, Nelly steals back the Golden Bough Hermann loaned to Catherine and makes her escape, no doubt to join Hermann's team. This leaves Dante and Sinners coming out with only a burnt Golden Bough sapped of its power.
Beleaguered Assistant: Just as it was in the original book, Nelly is driven to her wit's end by her mistress Catherine's obsessive love for Heathcliff. Unlike in the original book, Nelly decides to do something about it.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While Nelly did take care of Heathcliff and Cathy as children and does genuinely care about them to some degree, she still has no problems with deliberately setting every horrible thing at Wuthering Heights into motion through Hermann's manipulations after Heathcliff had left, ultimately resulting in the deaths of everyone tied to the manner besides herself and Heathcliff and causing Cathy to no longer exist.
The Butler Did It: It is revealed that Nelly is the true culprit behind pushing Catherine past the Despair Event Horizon, the human experimentation in the manor's basement, and the summoning of Mirror Heathcliff.
Chain Pain: The case she carries with her turns out to be some kind of weapon that can launch many chains to bind her opponent. In her boss fight, this is represented by a unique debuff known as "Chains of Binding", and allowing it to hit max stacks on a Sinner will cause them to be Staggered for the rest of the encounter permanently.
Evil All Along: She was working with Hermann long before Heathcliff returned to Wuthering Heights, and was key to pushing Catherine into despair by exposing her to the existence of the Mirror Worlds and her alternate selves. This was due to her discovering that all of her alternate selves were doomed to live miserable lives due to Heathcliff and Catherine's influence.
Freudian Excuse: While Heathcliff's and Catherine's doomed relationship had always worn her down, she was nonetheless still loyal to the two of them up until she caught a glimpse of her other selves in the Mirror Worlds, who were all made miserable by her charges, and decided she couldn't suffer such a thing to happen to her. Despite how much her betrayal hurts him, Heathcliff himself is apologetic once he hears of how bad she has it, and tries to release her from servitude after he technically becomes the owner of Wuthering Heights.
The Gadfly: While introducing herself to the Sinners, she says that she was Heathcliff's nanny, causing them to excitedly ask about what he was like as a child before a flustered Heathcliff says their relationship wasn't like that, which Nelly admits to.
Go Mad from the Revelation: While not "mad" per se, seeing the Mirror Worlds, and specifically seeing that every version of herself was doomed to suffer because of Heathcliff and Cathy's relationship, causes her to have a breakdown and side with Hermann.
I Never Said It Was Poison: The Sinners realize she was the one who gave Catherine the mirror because of two things — one, she somehow knew the Sinners were looking for the Golden Bough even though all that should've been known to her at the time was that Heathcliff inherited it from Catherine, and two, she knew the Dead Rabbits had red eyes even though color is normally drained from District 20, so she couldn't have known that unless she'd seen them outside of it.
Kick Them While They Are Down: Nelly's M.O. during her boss fight, as she will seek to first inflict numerous serious debuffs on your Sinners while powering herself up, and then go in for the kill with massive conditional bonuses depending on how debilitated your Sinners are. The key to beating her is to pay attention to which Sinners have been debuffed particularly badly or are marked with her unique debuffs of "Butler's Mark" and "Binding Technique", and giving them the chance to recover while making sure she can't target them with her deadliest attacks. Failing to do so can result in the enjoyable outcomes of Nelly running you over with nigh-impossible-to-Clash attacks, multi-target attacks, damage increases, reused coins, almost-certain-One Hit Kills, instantaneous Staggers, and permanent and unremovable Staggers.
Locked Out of the Loop: As she'd accompanied Catherine to Linton's residence after she married him, she's just as confused as the Sinners when Wuthering Heights begins shifting and changing right below her feet due to her mistress's modifications to the manor, and similarly has no idea what Catherine's motives are in doing so. Or at least it seems so at first.
Nice Girl: She's a sweetheart to everyone she talks to, warmly welcoming Heathcliff (and the Sinners) into Wuthering Heights and supporting him after he learns of Cathy's death and subsequently tries to find her. It says a lot when Heathcliff, who's made it clear that he utterly despises the manor and the people in it save for Cathy, treats Nelly with nothing but genuine respect. However, she turns out to be Affably Evil all along, as even once her treachery comes to light and she stands in opposition to the Sinners, she's still every bit as polite and respectful as she used to be.
Ninja Maid: Butlers in the City are actually Fixers who are bound to either their master or the estate they serve, and Nelly is no exception, rising to the position of Chief Butler, to boot. She's also the the last boss players will encounter in Canto VI before the Final Boss, and will challenge all of the Sinners by herself using her skills as a Fixer.
Older Than They Look: She was an older sister figure to Heathcliff and Cathy when they were still children, but the way she looks and sounds in the present, you'd think they were the same age.
Tap on the Head: She's capable of instantly knocking someone unconscious by striking a nerve on their heads, which she employs on Heathcliff during his mental breakdown upon learning Cathy had died. She's apparently been using it for a long time too, with Heathcliff being aware she must have used it upon coming to and Nelly claiming she'd typically use it to subdue the Earnshaw children as kids if they threw a tantrum, even naming it the "sleepy smack." It also, unsurprisingly, can be used in combat, as Nelly's boss features attacks that can immediately Stagger your Sinners if they manage to go through.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After the Sinners defeat her, she tears into Heathcliff (and Cathy) for never trying to communicate with each other despite how much pain they were causing to both themselves and the people around them through their shared obsessions with thinking that they were to blame for the other's suffering, and even though she had deliberately intercepted Heathcliff's letters to her and decieved them both, she still derides them for not bothering to even try seeing through her lies. On top of Erlking Heathcliff successfully escaping to the rooftop, the weight of her words causes Heathcliff to briefly blip out of existence until he's able to return with a newfound conviction to Set Right What Once Went Wrong between him and Cathy.
"This is the better ending, isn't it? You two couldn't even summon the smallest courage to talk to one another... You two always believed everything I told you, without even one iota of doubt. Every little twist, every little nudge I made in my tales... taken as truth... You two have mired more people than you could imagine into your business. Yet you do not even talk to one another, nor do you ask questions. Do you really believe that you even deserve to move on? With such slothfulness?
The Unfettered: Ironically for someone who is bound to servitude and was for a time very much the opposite, the revelation that she suffers in every world because of Heathcliff's and Catherine's romance quickly causes her to shift course to do whatever it takes to live a life free of that torment, no matter the cost.
Ungrateful Bastard: Even after Heathcliff spares Nelly's life and releases her from servitude to the Earnshaw family, Nelly still decides to betray him and side with Hermann.
Unwitting Pawn: It's implied Hermann showed her the Mirror Worlds specifically so she'd be turned against Catherine and allow her group to use Wuthering Heights as a lab for further Mirror World experiments.
Villain Respect: While she doesn't change her mind about making off with the Golden Bough and joining Hermann, she still regards Heathcliff kindly, expressing pride in him for growing out of his violent ways and hoping that he can manage to make his wish to bring back Catherine come true, even if she can't remember her.
Walking Spoiler: See Wham Episode below, as said episode pretty much flips everything known about her throughout Canto VI so far upside down.
Wham Episode: Stage 6-45, which is where she reveals that she had a hand in everything that had transpired from the moment Heathcliff left Wuthering Heights, from giving Catherine the mirror to getting N Corp. involved to even summoning Erlking Heathcliff, complete with explaining her motives for doing so before acting as the stage's boss fight.
Would Hurt a Child: While it's played for laughs and an adult Heathcliff comes out of unconsciousness apparently no worse for wear, the fact stands that Nelly clearly had no issue with physically striking the children under her care and knocking them out cold in order to get them to be quiet and sleep.

Catherine Earnshaw

Catherine "Cathy" Earnshaw

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Voice Actor: Kim Hyunji

Heathcliff's childhood friend and old flame. Prior to the events of Canto VI, she sends Heathcliff a letter calling him back to Wuthering Heights, but upon his return, it's revealed that the event she called him for was her own funeral.

Adaptational Nice Girl: In regards to the incident that lead to Heathcliff leaving Wuthering Heights, compared to the original book at least. Book!Cathy's reasons for marrying Edgar effectively boiled down to wanting to have her cake and eat it too, keeping her lifestyle through his wealth while also having Heathcliff on the side all to herself. Limbus!Cathy on the other hand, was also an aspiring inventor who would've needed the Edgar family's money to continue her work. Marrying Heathcliff would've not only left them both destitute, but also would've meant giving up her own dreams in the process, and as such her Gold Digger scheme, while still selfish, has a more sympathetic motive to it.
Adaptational Personality Change: Compared to the original story, where Catherine was infamous for hysterics that severely worsened her health, this Catherine is notably far more calm and measured. However, Nelly notes that this is a rather new and unusual development, as she had sunk into a deep depression following Heathcliff's departure but had suddenly regained her composure at some point, almost overnight. Even with that though, what we see of her in flashbacks presents her as infinitely more calm on a daily basis than the original Cathy was, and she also lacks her literary counterpart's Kick the Dog moments.
Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how dead she actually is, even after she uses up all the powers of her Golden Bough to Ret-Gone every version of herself in the Mirror Worlds. She's sealed within the coffin and has her consciousness effectively spread throughout both multiple Mirror Worlds and Wuthering Heights itself, but it's unclear if her body is physically dead or just in some kind of suspended animation without her mind/soul. Most characters write her off as dead after The Reveal, and for all extents and purposes she's gone, but it's implied by Heathcliff and Dante retaining their memories of her that whatever she did wasn't complete and it's possible she still exists somewhere. Heathcliff, for his part, does seem to be under the impression that he can bring her back with the power of the Golden Boughs, and promises that someday, even if he's the only one who remembers her, they'll be together again.
Cannot Spit It Out: Played for Drama and escalated to the point of Poor Communication Kills. Despite their misgivings, Cathy and Heathcliff were genuinely in love with each other, but neither were capable of being completely honest about their feelings, and never actually attempted to communicate them to each other. This blows up spectacularly in their faces as both of them believe the other didn't love them, and in fact suffered because of them: Heathcliff ends up running away from Wuthering Heights because he believed Cathy never loved him, while Cathy goes practically mad from the abandonment, leading to the entire debacle in the present. It's only at the very end with Cathy's erasure, where both of them realize this and open up to each other in their last moments together, that they finally manage to reconcile.
Clingy Jealous Girl: By all accounts, Catherine was attached at the hip to Heathcliff, and was the only one consistently nice to him throughout their childhood. Even implying she wanted to lay claim to him on day one when Hindley declared he wouldn't have him. Heathcliff later fleeing the estate due to something she said was apparently enough to throw her into a period of inconsolable hysterics.
Faking the Dead: Both Heathcliff and Nelly think this might be a possibility, mainly because of all the strange happenings at the mansion that are of her design and the fact that nobody has seen her corpse. They find her corpse later, but turns out she really is dead, and her body is being used as a vessel to summon Every Catherine.
Gadgeteer Genius: She was apparently interested in getting an X Corp. wrench as a child, and seemed to have made many of the mechanical changes to Wuthering Heights herself.
Happy Marriage Charade: Linton was vocally in love with Catherine and did his best to make her happy. However, it becomes increasingly clear with flashbacks to the past that while Catherine did love him back to some extent, her genuine affections were always reserved for Heathcliff, and she considered his gestures towards her to be something to make himself feel good rather than what she really wanted.
Heroic Sacrifice: She erases herself and all her alternate selves in order to break the endless cycle of suffering and misfortune between all Catherines and Heathcliffs.
I See Dead People: Catherine never liked living in Wuthering Heights due to the belief that the mansion was haunted, and she always claimed that she could see ghosts roaming the building.
It's All About Me: Played rather shockingly for tragedy. While Nelly remarks that Catherine was always quite self-centered, this same self-centeredness is a huge part of why she spirals into depression and ultimately concieves her plan to kill herself across every Mirror World, as both she and her other selves are so fixated on themselves that they believe they are the sole cause behind every Heathcliff's misery, and rather than try to meet Heathcliff halfway to try and reconcile, they self-servingly decide they all must die because of the pain they cause him without giving him any say in the matter. The original Catherine only manages to subvert this at the very end, interfering with the summoning of Every Catherine long enough to hear Heathcliff's true feelings and finally managing to repair their relationship.
The Lost Lenore: To Heathcliff after it's been revealed that she's dead. Her passing causes Heathcliff to fall into despair and become desperate that she's still alive somehow, and inflicts on him a unique status effect known as 'Bereavement' in battle, causing him to constantly lose any positive SP he gains in return for boosting his damage. Also serves as this to Linton, though his focus is elsewhere.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In a cruel twist on Erlking Heathcliff killing all his Mirror selves due to believing he's the reason for the suffering of all Catherines, Catherine herself believes that she is the cause for the suffering of all Heathcliffs, with her ultimate plan being to erase all Catherines in all worlds so that all Heathcliffs can finally be happy. She eventually pulls it off, but admits that she doesn't actually love all the Heathcliffs in all worlds - only hers.
Ret-Gone: After realizing that Heathcliff actually loved her all along, Catherine decides to use the power of the Golden Bough to erase all Catherines across the Mirror Worlds, including herself. This allows all Heathcliffs to live their own lives, no longer bound to her, while everybody forgets she ever existed. Even Catherine's name in the game is subsequently censored out, with the only proof that she ever existed being in Heathcliff's own memories and an anonymous corpse sealed inside a coffin.
Sore Loser: Whenever Heathcliff guessed one of her riddles too early, she'd change the answer to something more complex and nonsensical out of spite. Heathcliff notes that Cathy's unusual plan with Wuthering Heights resembles her altered answers.
Spirited Young Lady: She was very outspoken even as a child, expressing both shock at the newly-adopted Heathcliff's filthy appearance and subsequently enthusiasm to befriend him with no filter. Heathcliff and Nelly both note that she was always very stubborn and frequently did as she pleased as they grew up as well.
Thanatos Gambit: Once strange happenings start to occur in Wuthering Heights, it becomes increasingly clear that Catherine either arranged or faked her death as part of a plan to lure Heathcliff back to the mansion. However, the truth is a bit more sinister - she arranged to have herself killed and overriden by Every Catherine to kill every instance of herself in all Mirror Worlds to ensure every Heathcliff no longer suffered because of her.
Tragic Villain: She's ultimately the one directly behind the various Mirror World experiments, abductions, and deaths surrounding Wuthering Heights... but only because she hit the Despair Event Horizon after Heathcliff left and was then manipulated by Nelly showing her the Mirror Worlds, and Nelly herself was manipulated by Hermann doing the exact same thing to her. After seeing that her and Heathcliff's romance was doomed to always end in misery, she effectively sank into complete and utter self loathing to the point of wanting to exterminate every version of herself due to all of them blaming themselves for Heathcliff's suffering, to the point of effectively committing suicide in a bid to kill every version of herself in some desperate attempt to "atone".
Troll: In her will, she notes that Hindley has apparently spiralled into alcoholism and gambling, and leaves to him... an enforced stay at an M Corp. rehab center. Which he has one week to get to before they come after him themselves. She even reserved a Warp Train ticket for him on top of that, although it's unsure how much she knows about the truth behind the Warp Trains.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Heathcliff accidentally engaged in Out-of-Context Eavesdropping just as Catherine dropped the "marrying him would degrade me" spiel to Nelly just like in the original book, causing him to run off in tragedy thinking his heart had been tossed aside and betrayed. Catherine, upon realizing what she did, seemingly set up The Long Game for trying to bring him back, but ultimately set into motion the utter hell that would follow in Wuthering Heights with Heathcliff's absence, and the Canto's events that would occur.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Implied by the female-voiced lyrics in Through Patches of Violet, a duet which functions as her and Heathcliff's dual Image Song.
How much you must have suffered through
(How much you must have overlooked)
my anger.
(your wonder.)
Vulgar.
(Forward.)
awkward.
(sincere.)
composure.
(manners.)

Hindley Earnshaw

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^{Hindley, the Reaved Lamenter (SPOILERS)}

Voice Actor: Hyomin Ahn

Catherine's older brother and one of Heathcliff's bullies. In the present day, he's a washed-up alcoholic, blaming Linton and Catherine for his fall from grace. He hired the Dead Rabbits to help him claim the estate of Wuthering Heights, no matter what Catherine's will reads.

The Alcoholic: He's turned to drinking and gambling away his woes, and it's clearly had a negative impact on him.
Alas, Poor Villain: Despite being a massively entitled bully, his death is treated somberly as Heathcliff realizes that above that violin he never got, what he wanted most was Mr. Earnshaw's favor, and he himself had a hand in aggravating Hindley's insecurities. Even for how much Heathcliff despises him, Hindley's observation log notes that he can't help but feel the smallest amount of pity for how far he's fallen, and considers finishing him more a Mercy Kill than revenge.
Asshole Victim: He was betrayed by his sister and lost ownership of Wuthering Heights to her and her husband, and is now a drunken, impoverished mess. Given how much of a Jerkass he's been all his life however, he absolutely deserved it. Even after his Distortion and death reveals that all he wanted was for his father to love him, much of what happened to him in the present is still owed to how he refused to try and change for the better.
Big Bad Wannabe: Despite his attempts at retaking Wuthering Heights driving most of the conflict in the first two acts, he proves to be little more than a tool for "Matthew" to gain access to the basement Cathy is being held in, and his Distortion and subsequent death are promptly forgotten about in favor of his puppeteer.
Big Brother Bully: The eldest brother of the Earnshaw family, and made use of this position to relentlessly torment Heathcliff during their childhoods. His hatred of Heathcliff is so extreme that the Voice is able to Distort him over it.
Cassandra Truth: It turns out he was right about the card game being rigged.
Dramatically Missing the Point: It's implied that Mr. Earnshaw favored Heathcliff over Hindley due to the latter's inherently selfish and spoiled nature. When he tells Hindley as much, Hindley fails to consider that it's his own behavior that alienated him from his father, and instead lays the blame on Heathcliff for getting between them.
Foreshadowing: Shortly before his release and fight, one of the most recent Dante's Notes on prosthetics has Heathcliff criticize the use of augmentations without proper training, as even if kitted out with powerful augments, an untrained target is just a glorified punching bag. Flash-forward to later, and Hindley is revealed to be exactly that, a man with many expensive body augmentations but almost no experience in an actual fight. This also translates into his first fight, as while he has a titanic 869 HP surpassing every prior enemy in the chapter, that's about all he's good for, as his actual abilities are fairly weak and he'll be inevitably whittled down.
Hypocrite: He demeans Heathcliff for being born a peasant and never being able to change, but he's clearly fallen into alcohol and poverty, with his clothes being ratty and old, and Ishmael notes that he himself clearly isn't able to change, unable to accept his new status and still acting like a spoiled ten-year-old. Most of what happens to him in the present is also because he refuses to change and clings to the grudges of his troubled childhood, something that Cathy tried to help him grow out of, but was ultimately unable to.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: He acts entitled because he can't understand why Mr. Earnshaw favored Heathcliff over his own biological son, and began to overcompensate for the self-esteem issues he developed from being neglected. In his Distortion's boss fight, one of his main passives is called "Endless Insecurity", and if he fails to harm the target of his "Marked Prey" debuff, he'll instead gain a special "Inferiority Complex" debuff that causes him to take extra damage whenever he's hit.
Irony: After a lifetime of tormenting Heathcliff and treating him like a mangy stray dog, even calling him a "mutt" during an argument as children, Hindley's Distortion is ultimately a bestial Wolf Man which Heathcliff says is akin to an abandoned dog, shunned by the one whose love he wanted most and cast out of the home that was his birthright.
Jerkass: He treats everyone he deems inferior to himself, which is everyone, like garbage, especially Heathcliff.
Never My Fault: He blames the loss of Wuthering Heights on Catherine and Linton, claiming that the game he gambled the estate away on was rigged and that they had unfairly gotten the rights to it when it was auctioned off, although it turns out that it HAD been rigged by "Matthew". He also legitimately believes that Heathcliff is to blame for everything that went wrong in his life as a result of his Inferiority Superiority Complex, instead of looking inward and realizing that he has his own share of problems that caused his fall from grace.
Paper Tiger: Heathcliff muses that this is what his Distortion amounts to — it's a huge bipedal wolf that puffs itself up to look threatening and swings its claws with abandon, but Heathcliff instead views it as a miserable, abandoned animal drowned in insecurities and a desire to have a place of his own. Fittingly, unlike the previous Distortion fights, Hindley isn't even the last boss of that part of the chapter; there are still two bosses that outrank him.
Serious Business: Among all the things he agonizes over being "stolen" from him, among things such as his estate and his status, one of them is the violin he asked his father to get him on the day of Heathcliff's adoption. It seems almost unreasonably petty at first glance, but Mr. Earnshaw getting Heathcliff instead of that violin was the first step in the slippery slope of Hindley's insecurity and inferiority complex, and to him it represents the thing he wanted the most - his father's affection.
Smug Snake: He waltzes into Wuthering Heights with the Dead Rabbits backing him up, smug with the belief that with their help he will regain possession of the mansion. However, the Dead Rabbits don't even follow his orders and he's shown to be a complete pushover, having to be saved from Josephine by Heathcliff. Even as a Distortion, his fight isn't particularly difficult or memorable and in the end, it's shown that he wasn't in control of anything at all and was merely a puppet being manipulated by "Matthew".
Spoiled Brat: As a child, he was constantly demanding his father to buy him things, and is just as entitled as an adult.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While he clearly doesnt like the Dead Rabbits he brought into Wuthering Heights, he admits that the only reason they're working together is that the Dead Rabbits will help him seize the mansion in return for getting them access inside.
The Unfavorite: Views himself as this to his father, compared to Heathcliff. Even during his breakdown, one of the thing he states is a repetition of what Mr Earnshaw once told him. That he couldn't bring himself to consider Hindley his son, and that Heathcliff was more a son to him than Hindley ever was.
Ungrateful Bastard: Even after Heathcliff and the Sinners save him from Josephine, he still treats them like dirt.
Unstoppable Rage: Rather than crossing the Despair Event Horizon, Hindley's Distortion is triggered by his obsessive desire to kill Heathcliff, the person he blames for his life spiralling as badly as it did, leading him to try and kill Heathcliff and tear down Wuthering Heights entirely.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Hindley is deeply insecure over the way Mr. Earnshaw favored Heathcliff when they were children, and takes out his anger over his neglect on both Heathcliff and Cathy.
Wolf Man: His Distorted form.

Linton Edgar

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Voice Actor: Lim Huyk

Another of Heathcliff's bullies and family friend to the Earnshaws. He married Cathy after Heathcliff's departure from Wuthering Heights left her inconsolable.

Adaptational Jerkass: The original Edgar Linton was a decent enough fellow whose distaste for Heathcliff was justified due to the latter's open jealousy. Here, Linton is a pompous asshole who joined Hindley in bullying Heathcliff as a child, constantly rubs the fact that Cathy married him instead of Heathcliff in the latter's face, and went along with his wife's plan to screw Hindley out of ownership of Wuthering Heights. Though one trait he did retain was prioritizing Cathy's happiness over his own.
Adaptational Wimp: Edgar Linton was stronger than he seemed, and knocked the wind out of Heathcliff the one time their lifelong feud escalated to physical violence. In Limbus Company however, Linton's terminal illness caught up with him a lot sooner than it did in the book, such that while he probably was a better fighter than his original self was, he's far too frail to raise his rapier against the Sinners once they take down his Butlers.
- Notably, Gregor's Edgar Family Heir identity has him replace Linton in that universe, and shows he could actually be quite the fighter if he wasn't so sickly.
Adaptation Name Change: A mild, but still curiously noteworthy example. In Wuthering Heights, his name is Edgar Linton. However within Limbus Company, his name is Linton Edgar, Edgar instead being his family name.
Composite Character: While he is based on Edgar Linton, he also appears to carry traits from Linton Heathcliff, Heathcliff's son in Wuthering Heights, namely his frailty and sickliness.
Flowers of Romance: Linton did a greatly romantic gesture towards Catherine by leaving her a bouquet of fully-colored yellow flowers on her bed, since such things are very expensive in T Corp. But while Catherine did accept them, she considers them something he did more for his own benefit than hers, as he didn't get them in her favorite color, lavender.
Graceful Loser: After he realizes that Catherine had set up her diary so that only Heathcliff could read it and not him, he accepts that Heathcliff was the only one she truly loved and no longer tries to oppose him, and opens the way to the basement where she's guiding the party.
Greater-Scope Villain: It's revealed that he has been carrying out the human experiments under Catherine's orders.
Hidden Depths: It's implied that he knows Catherine likely only truly loved Heathcliff, and his constant jabs at him in the present over being her husband are either to air out his contempt and jealousy towards him, to try convincing himself their marriage wasn't a sham, or both. And despite her claims otherwise, his love for Catherine also seems to be genuine, as when he realizes that her diary was set up so that only Heathcliff could read it, he opens the door to the basement and gives up on antagonizing him.
Ill Boy: He's noticeably sickly and of weak constitution, with a lack of energy and constantly coughing.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Linton was deeply in love with Catherine, and would do just about anything to try and make her happy. Even if that means facilitating a reunion between his wife and the true love of her life, Heathcliff.
Kids Are Cruel: In a flashback to childhood, Linton is seen being scolded by Catherine because he would intentionally goad Heathcliff into striking him, knowing that doing so would get Heathcliff punished by Hindley.
Last Girl Wins: Gender-flipped and ultimately subverted. Linton was part of a childhood Love Triangle between himself, Catherine, and Heathcliff. And while Catherine loved Heathcliff first, Linton is the one to whom she ended up married and living with until her supposed death. Only, as he later is forced to accept, even though Catherine ended up as his wife, her heart likely only ever truly belonged to Heathcliff.
Love Makes You Crazy: As things come to a head in Canto VI, it's revealed that Linton is devoted to Catherine to a freakish degree, assisting Catherine and co. in building the lab beneath the manner, leading scores of innocent T Corp. citizens to their doom for the sake of her experiments, and being so desperate for any affection from her that he willingly kills himself to create the material used to bring Mirror Heathcliff back into the world, just for the sake of following her wishes. Ishmael, as someone who experienced an all-consuming obsession herself, is rightfully horrified.
Royal Rapier: While he himself isn't shown to fight with one given his poor health, Gregor's [Edgar Family Heir] Identity, which assumes his character, wields one in combat, implying he at least knows how to use one and probably would have if he was any healthier.
The Unfought: Even when he directly opposes the Sinners halfway through the Canto, he doesn't actually participate in the fight, with the only enemies being his family's Battle Butlers. However, this isn't due to being a Dirty Coward like Hindley; the aftermath of said fight shows his constitution is so poor he's exhausted just from setting said butlers on the Sinners. That being said, Gregor does have an ID where he takes his place and shows that Linton would've been quite capable if his constitution was stronger. Somewhat subverted when the Lintons of Erlking Heathcliff's Wild Hunt show they are very much capable of fighting.
Thanatos Gambit: He turns himself into "dough" that serves as the material needed to resummon Mirror Heathcliff at his full power.

Josephine

A Butler at Wuthering Heights with a clear disdain towards Heathcliff.

Battle Butler: As all Butlers of the City, she is a capable Fixer who puts up a decent fight against the Sinners.
Damage-Sponge Boss: She has a massive 681 HP when fought in the story, far more than any other mini-boss faced in a regular encounter.
Death by Adaptation: While Joseph was spared Heathcliff's revenge in the original novel and continued to serve Wuthering Heights to its end, here Josephine is not so fortunate, being butchered by Erlking Heathcliff the minute the two meet.
Gender-Blender Name: An unusual aversion. Rather than leaving the name as Joseph she uses the feminine variant.
Gender Flip: She is a gender-flipped version of Joseph from the original story.
Jerkass: She clearly despises Heathcliff, constantly calling him a "vagabond child" and accusing him of desecrating the name of Wuthering Heights. Her disdain also extends to just about anyone who disgraces the estate, as she tries to murder Hindley once everyone in the manor has gotten split up despite him being her former master.
King Mook: To the Wuthering Heights Butlers. Her moveset is not only Sinking based but also inflicts various other status effects both the Trained and Hostile Butlers use in their attacks.
Laser-Guided Karma: While likely not to the same extent as Hindley and Linton, Josephine was also one of Heathcliff's tormentors and effectively verbally abused him his whole life, with his Character Development being the only reason why he lets her go even after she tries to murder him. She dies when she runs into Mirror Heathcliff, a version of him with none of that development, and he promptly breaks her neck before turning her into another of his thralls.
Perpetual Frowner: Never seen without a contemptuous look on her face.
Praetorian Guard: Though Butlers are supposed to act as bodyguards, Josephine and her Butlers are contracted to protect Wuthering Heights itself and hold no particular loyalty to whoever owns it, leading to situations where they can easily turn on their supposed masters if their behavior will directly harm the mansion.
The Quisling: Unlike Nelly and the Edgar family Butlers, she and the Butlers she leads are loyal to the house itself rather than its particular owner. Thus, they readily turned on Hindley once Catherine and Linton took control.
The Worf Effect: She is easily killed by the resummoned Mirror Heathcliff.

Matthew

Matthew / "Matt"

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Voice Actor: Hong Seung-Hyo

Heathcliff's former boss in the Dead Rabbits. In the time since, he's moved up in the world and became the top boss of the whole Syndicate, with the Dead Rabbits becoming a Subsidiary of the Ring. However, there's more to him than meets the eye...

Ambiguous Situation: There's a good deal of mystery surrounding Matthew and the Dead Rabbits once Heathcliff meets them again. Hindley insists on calling Matthew by "Matt" despite Heathcliff only ever knowing him as the former while under his employ, the gang's members have taken to wearing rabbit masks in contrast to scarves with rabbit symbols, and unmasking dead members reveals them to look like simple civilians, which may or may not be connected to the recent disappearances in T Corp. As it turns out, it was never Matthew at all.
Animal Motifs: Fitting for a boss of a gang called the Dead Rabbits, he wears a rabbit mask.
Foreshadowing: In the boss fight against him, he has the same moves Heathcliff does and has similarities to the Meursault ID based on him through their shared ability to inflict Rupture and other debuffs. While this could initially just be indicative of how he and Heathcliff were in the same gang and fought in similar ways, the truth is far more sinister.
London Gangster: A gang leader from T Corp. who throws even more Stock British Phrases than Heathcliff. While it's been revealed that this Matthew isn't Matthew at all, his mannerisms were effectively identical to the real Matthew's nonetheless, to the point where Heathcliff was initially unable to tell he's a fake.
"Oi, lad! Ain't the first thing to do when crawlin' back into yer neighbourhood to give a quick "'ello!" to yer dear old boss? Where'd ya leave yer manners?"
Shout-Out: His white rabbit mask and habit of constantly holding his watch makes him a pretty clear allusion to the White Rabbit from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — and also symbolic of the rabbit hole Heathcliff is about to go down since his return to Wuthering Heights, or HAS been going down ever since Heathcliff left the manor and Catherine to join him.
Spotting the Thread: Matthew consistently refers to himself as "Matt" upon meeting Heathcliff again, which Heathcliff notes as strange since he only ever knew him as "Matthew". This is the main clue that tips off Heathcliff that "Matthew" is an impostor.
Uncertain Doom: The original Matthew did indeed exist, as evidenced by his impersonator bringing up adopting his mannerisms and messing up his name, as well as the existence of Meursault's [Dead Rabbits Boss] Identity assuming his character. However, said impersonator has been running the Dead Rabbits for some time after assuming his identity, and there's no indication of what happened to him after Heathcliff left the Syndicate.

Isabella Edgar

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Linton's sister.

Elopement: She had left the estate some time ago for the sake of pursuing her true love, letting Linton know through her letters. If only she knew the true love in question would result in her body being stolen and eventually her death.
Grand Theft Me: Her body was used as a conduit to summon Mirror Heathcliff as an Identity and overwrite her existence.
Posthumous Character: Her body was used to summon Mirror Heathcliff.
Revenge by Proxy: Tragically, much like in the original story, Isabella's ill-fated attempt to find love results in her perishing as a tool for Heathcliff to have his revenge, in the most literal sense at that given her existence was overwritten by Mirror Heathcliff's.

Mr. Earnshaw

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Catherine and Hindley's father, and the man who brought Heathcliff into Wuthering Heights.

Good Parents: To the estate's children, with it implied that he frequently buys Catherine and Hindley presents given their pestering him for gifts on the day he brought Heathcliff to his home.
Nice Guy: He takes Heathcliff in for no other reason than that he saw him shivering in the rain and couldn't let him die.
Parental Favoritism: As kind as he was, both Heathcliff and Hindley knew he favored the former, repeatedly shielding Heathcliff from Hindley's abuse, proclaiming Heathcliff would be more of a son to him than he ever could, and even shipping the latter out of his home to boarding school so that he could maybe make something of himself. This caused a deep-rooted Inferiority Superiority Complex within Hindley and is this is the root cause of him going from just a spoiled brat to a broken, alcoholic shell of a man who holds Heathcliff responsible for everything going wrong in his life.
Posthumous Character: He's already long dead by the events of Canto VI, with possession of Wuthering Heights already having passed on to Hindley and then Catherine.

The Erlking (Unmarked Spoilers)

Heathcliff

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Voice Actor: Hong Seung-Hyo

In truth, the "Matthew" under the rabbit mask is none other than Heathcliff himself, or rather, a Heathcliff from a Mirror World, who's been imposed onto Linton's sister Isabella as an Identity. This Heathcliff is one whose immense self-loathing over Catherine's death drove him to hunt down and kill every Heathcliff across the infinite possibilites of the Mirror Worlds, and however many of them he's slain by the time he's come to our world, our Heathcliff is his latest target.

After his first defeat, Mirror Heathcliff is resummoned in his most powerful form, Erlking Heathcliff, who, as a result of his dominion over Wuthering Heights in all worlds after the deaths of his tormentors, calls upon the enslaved possibilities of said tormentors to march on all Mirror Worlds as the Wild Hunt, all to further his goals of killing himself in every reality.

Alternate Self: He hails from a Mirror World where Catherine died outright rather than whatever it is that's happening to her in the current world, and had nobody to save him from his despair.
Ambiguous Situation: While this Heathcliff makes it clear that he travels between the Mirror Worlds to kill as many of his Alternate Selves as he can and says he's travelled to our world to shatter our Heathcliff's spirit, he hasn't actually "travelled" to ours in the traditional sense and is instead an Identity that is being imposed onto someone. Who was responsible for bringing him over, for what purpose, and whether he had planned this or is being used by someone else, is currently a mystery, especially when accounting for everything going on behind the scenes within the basement of Wuthering Heights.
Barbarian Long Hair: His hair is much longer than the Heathcliff we know, showcasing how he scarcely bothers to take care of himself anymore ever since he dedicated himself to vengeance.
The Bad Guy Wins: Despite our Heathcliff killing him with his own two hands the first go around, Mirror Heathcliff succeeds in completely breaking him and dragging him into the same despair he feels before expiring, causing him to Distort. A look at one of his passives in battle even states that he'll win when Heathcliff dies, and he'll get what he wants regardless of which Heathcliff goes down.
Barrier Change Boss:
- During his second fight he will periodically erect a shield that that amplifies one of his existing weaknesses (Wrath, Gloom, or Envy), but makes him resistant to every other Sin. While the shield persists, he uses attacks corresponding to the Sin, gains Offense Level when hit, and has a secondary effect when hit depending on its color: Wrath causes him to gain more Offense Level and lose Defense Level, Gloom drains his attacker's SP, and Envy causes his attacker to Bleed. The shield will lose power each time one of his skills fails to damage Heathcliff, and be almost totally depleted if he's staggered. Completely depleting the shield within 3 turns will cause him to become debuffed for the next turn, but failure to do so will instead cause him to get a huge offensive buff.
- In his first fight as the Erlking proper, he can also grant these shields to his summoned allies, but killing the ally with the same color one as himself will significantly weaken him: killing all his allies, granting Sinners the shield instead (thus rendering them nearly immune to his current moves), and debuffing him.
BFS: Erlking Heathcliff wields a greatsword nearly as long as he is tall, seemingly made out of broken mirrors and barbed wire.
Despair Event Horizon: Long since crossed it after the death of his world's Catherine, causing him to go mad and start hunting down his other selves.
Dying Curse: After Heathcliff deals him the fatal blow, he has a few moments to say that, just as he had done, Heathcliff would have slain as many of their Alternate Selves as he could if he'd known how they were responsible for Cathy dying in despair in every Mirror World, and manages to show Heathcliff just that before he dies, driving him to a Despair Event Horizon and giving the Voice the opportunity to turn him into a Distortion.
Escort Mission: A commonality between all of his fights after his cover is blown is that he will exclusively target Heathcliff with all of his skills (with some of them unable to be redirected), and it's an instant loss if Heathcliff dies. However, if Heathcliff wins clashes against him, he'll also lose SP and gain Bind.
Evil Counterpart:
- To Heathcliff, if that wasn't obvious enough. This version of him didn't have the Sinners by his side to keep his self-loathing under control, and his Cathy's death drove him past a Despair Event Horizon so extreme that he sought to commit suicide on a cosmic scale. He especially resents the Heathcliff of "our" world, expressing disgust with his idealistic belief that he and Cathy can still be reunited.
- Oddly enough, he could also be considered one to Yi Sang. Both of them are depressed individuals who looked into the Mirror Worlds and found a happier, more optimistic version of themselves. However, while Yi Sang was convinced by his Mirror counterpart to escape the confines of N Corp. and search for a reason to live again, this Heathcliff was so far gone that he decided to slaughter every version of himself he could find across all the Mirror Worlds.
  - He also functions as this to Yi Sang's own Mirror counterpart Sang Yi. While Sang Yi is a version of Yi Sang that has embraced his positive qualities, Mirror Heathcliff is a version of Heathcliff that embraced all of his negative qualities. Sang Yi acted as a Hope Bringer to his original counterpart, while this Heathcliff directly causes his original counterpart to cross the Despair Event Horizon. The two even mirror each other's lines; Sang Yi tells Yi Sang that all Yi Sangs have outstanding talent and ignorance, but none the less wish to fly and gain true happiness. Mirror Heathcliff, on the other hand, tells the original that all Catherines are destined to be miserable because of him.
Expy: When comparing both our Heathcliff and Mirror Heathcliff to their original literary counterpart, our Heathcliff is functionally the Heathcliff who'd only just returned to Wuthering Heights and is yet to commit all his atrocities for the sake of vengeance, whereas Mirror Heathcliff is effectively the Heathcliff following the original story's Time Skip, after everyone, his beloved Cathy included, has died and he has nothing left in his life but to continue exacting his revenge. While the original story had him tormenting everyone's children, this version is instead on an endless quest of killing every Mirror World's Heathcliff he comes across. He even looks older and wearier than our Heathcliff.
Extreme Mêlée Revenge: Heathcliff finishes him off in his first fight by subjecting him to an extended, Corroded version of Bodysack.
Flunky Boss: In all but his second battle, he comes with a squad of minions to fight with him, and in the last two can actively summon them.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Across both of his boss fights in Canto VI Part 2, whether he's fighting as Matthew or without his disguise, he shares ALL of base Heathcliff's moves since they are the same person (down to having flipped but near-identical skill icons and very similar poses in his sprites), with the exception of "Upheaval" being Gloom affinity instead of the original Lust, symbolizing this Heathcliff's utter despair rather than our Heathcliff's desire for vengeance. His "Antagonism" passive also functions very similary to base Heathcliff's own "Ressentiment" passive by buffing attacks against higher-HP targets, and his Panic type, known as "Revenge", is emblematic of our Heathcliff's vendetta against everyone who'd wronged him. Also, his "Long-Awaited Moment" passive, while not sharing similarities to our Heathcliff's moveset or character, is indicative of his hatred towards Heathcliff and desire to kill him, as he'll gain SP upon winning a clash against Heathcliff but will suffer debuffs if he loses a clash to him or fails to damage him by the turn's end. Unique to his second boss fight after dropping his Matthew act, he has the passive "Spite-Driven", which shares a name with base Heathcliff's support passive albeit working differently, and has another passive known as "Deep Bereavement", which functions similarly to Heathcliff's Canto-exclusive "Bereavement" status by both debuffing and buffing him simultaneously under certain conditions. Finally, in a more meta sense, his "Self-loathing" passive stipulates that if Heathcliff, who you have to bring to the fight, dies, he automatically wins the battle — but regardless of whether he kills our Heathcliff or ours kills him, there is still a Heathcliff dying and he wins in the end, no matter if he succeeds in slaying another of Cathy's murderers or perishes himself while plunging our Heathcliff into utter despair the way he wanted.
Greater-Scope Villain: He's had a hand in everything that's happened at Wuthering Heights since Heathcliff's departure from both the manor and then the Dead Rabbits. He's the one responsible for causing Hindley to gamble away the estate in a rigged game, which allows Catherine to take ownership of the manor and make her modifications, and also took over the Dead Rabbits and turned it into Subsidiary of the Ring to further their goals at the mansion.
Headless Horseman: Er, a rider on a headless horse. Just as menacing as the trope proper, though.
Heel Realization: As he disappears from existence due to Catherine erasing herself from every Mirror World, he soberly takes in the one Mirror World with a couple, heavily implied to be Hareton and Catherine II from the original story, being happy together despite him and Catherine having passed away, showing him that despite everything, his relationship with Catherine wasn't wholly doomed the way he believed and they truly could have reconciled. With this, Heathcliff proves to him that his notion that their very existences resulted in both Catherine's and their own misery was false, and that they had the ability to mend their relationships all along but couldn't due to their own fear and insecurity. Erlking Heathcliff makes a bittersweet remark that his conviction had blinded him to other possibilities before he fades away, saddened that he was unable to find happiness but glad that there was at least a chance for him to find it all along.
Jerkass to One: While he hates every Heathcliff, himself included, he seems to have a special degree of hatred for our Heathcliff, becoming so angered by his "puerile" plans of having a heartwarming reunion with Catherine that he manipulates the events surrounding Wuthering Heights behind the scenes for the express purpose of breaking his spirit.
Kick the Dog:
- In an aptly-named sense, he mocks Hindley while still in his Matthew guise as he spirals into madness and Distorts into a wolf-like beast, having been the one who rigged the card game which ruined him in the first place, and has a hearty laugh after the Sinners kill him and expresses satisfaction over getting to see him die like a dog. Fittingly serves as Five-Second Foreshadowing, since only a Heathcliff would have felt that much vitriol towards Hindley even after accounting for how much a bastard he is, although even "our" Heathcliff still feels a tiny bit of pity for him.
- Everything he's done since his arrival in his world up to their confrontation has been done just to shatter our Heathcliff's spirit and force him to experience the same despair he feels. He's disgusted with his idealistic dreams of reuniting and making up with Catherine and is convinced that he, like himself and all other Heathcliffs, are the sole responsible party for Catherine's misery and death, and is intent on making him see things the same way. He does.
Killing Your Alternate Self: He traveled to the Sinners' world hoping to inflict this on Heathcliff, only to be on the receiving end instead.
Made of Iron: Even putting aside his first appearance, having overwritten Isabella, once he returns as a 'perfected Identity' via the sacrifice of Linton, his durability and stamina skyrocket substantially, being fought multiple times in a short amount of time at 2267 HP with Endured damage taken from Slash, Blunt and Pierce attacks, for a combined total of over six thousand health without slowing down even the slightest, only being truly defeated when Cathy's Ret-Gone renders his existence paradoxical and causes him to promptly dissipate. Not including the Wild Hunt minions he continuously summons to soak up hits, this makes him possibly the toughest enemy fought up to the release of Canto VI that wasn't a scripted loss.
Meaningful Name: An 'Erlking' is an alternative title for the king of fairies, fitting with his role as the leader of The Wild Hunt, which in some versions is made up of The Fair Folk.
No Ontological Inertia: After our Heathcliff kills him, Mirror Heathcliff's Identity is no longer being imposed on Isabella, whose corpse is shown to have blonde hair compared to the Heathcliffs' brown and is revealed properly in the aftermath of the battle.
Not Quite Dead: When Mirror Heathcliff is first killed, he wasn't actually killed due to simply being a Identity overwriting Isabella's body. Linton sacrifices himself to resummon Mirror Heathcliff as Erlking Heathcliff.
Put Them All Out of My Misery: He developed such extreme self-loathing after the death of his Catherine that he vowed to use the Mirror Worlds to hunt down and slaughter every Heathcliff he possibly can as vengeance against "himself" for "his" role in Catherine's misery and eventual death.
Recurring Boss: He's technically fought four times over the Canto: once as "Matthew", once as "Heathcliff?", once when he properly assumes his position as the Erlking, and one last time as the final boss with Every Catherine.
Ret-Gone: His fate as a direct consequence of Catherine doing the same to herself across every Mirror World. Because his existence is defined by his despair and self-loathing in the wake of Catherine's death, and his ability to call upon the Wild Hunt is contingent on there being worlds where his relationship with Catherine ends in heartbreak, Catherine's Cessation of Existence takes away both the means by which the Wild Hunt functions due to there being no Catherines to break their Heathcliffs' hearts AND the root cause for Erlking Heathcliff's existence to begin with, resulting in him disappearing.
Shadow Archetype: He's, in the most literal sense, a dark reflection of how Heathcliff might have turned out if Limbus Company never existed to rein in his self-loathing.
Something Only They Would Say: After our Heathcliff confronts him on being an impostor and demanding he reveal himself, Mirror Heathcliff initially tries to insist that he's "Matt", before musing that this world's Matthew didn't actually call himself that before gearing up to fight the Sinners in his disguise.
Story-Breaker Power: His ability to call on the Wild Hunt effectively makes him almost impossible to deal with. Erlking Heathcliff can summon figures from every Mirror World where Heathcliff and Cathy's story ends in misery, which is effectively ALL of them. This not only means he has an infinite army at his beck and call that requires Vergilius to step in for the Sinners to even have a chance at stopping him, but it's also implied there's infinite versions of himself out there as well, meaning even killing him is only a temporary setback until he is summoned again. Ultimately the only way to stop him is for Cathy to completely Ret-Gone every version of herself, which in turn Ret Gones this version of Heathcliff due to the motivation for his crusade being erased as well.
Uncertain Doom: While he definitely dies at the end of his fight, the body left behind has very prominent long blonde hair unlike his own, and he's stated to be an Identity imposed onto someone rather than his presence being his actual original body, making it ambiguous as to weather his death was final, or if he's still alive in another Mirror World somewhere. This is crossed out entirely when it's revealed that the body belonged to Isabella Linton, followed by Linton using his own body as a conduit to impose Heathcliff's identity again, but at his full strength as the Erlking.
Walking Spoiler: So much as alluding to Mirror Heathcliff is a massive spoiler.
Xanatos Gambit: It doesn't matter to him if he lives or dies in his quest to kill the Heathcliffs of other worlds in his quest for revenge. If he lives, he's ended another one of Catherine's murderers. If he dies, another one of Catherine's murderers, himself, has died instead, and he has some measure of atonement regardless. For our Heathcliff in particular, he flat-out goads Heathcliff into fighting and possibly killing him, and once Heathcliff does the deed, Mirror Heathcliff shows him that every other world's Heathcliff is directly responsible for Catherine's death, condemning him to the same agony he felt.

The Reflections (Unmarked Spoilers)

Every Catherine

Voice Actor: Kim Hyunji

Through Catherine's fixation on her mirror to desperately try and find a world where her beloved Heathcliff was happy, she encountered all the other versions of herself, who tell her that they are the ones responsible for causing him so much suffering. As a result of this revalation, Catherine comes up with a plan to give up her body and grant every Catherine the means to kill themselves in all realities, much like what Erlking Heathcliff intends to do himself.

Alternate Self: Exaggerated. Not just one, Every Catherine is all of them.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Every Catherine's goal is to kill herself en masse across every Mirror World, seeing this as the only way she can atone for supposedly causing her beloved Heathcliff suffering in every one. They technically get what they want when the original Catherine writes them all out of existence at the end of Canto VI, granting every Heathcliff a chance at happiness due to no longer feeling bound to Wuthering Heights through them, but this still isn't their exact wish since they can't wallow in their own suffering the way they intended to.
Berserker Tears: A constant stream of tears flow from her eyes, lending to her horrifying appearance.
Cycle of Revenge: Every Catherine is effectively half of it. In essence, in every Mirror World, Catherine and Heathcliff break apart. In every Mirror World, they each blame themselves for the other's misery as a result, and ultimately meet their other selves and come to the conclusion the only way to atone for doing so is by killing every other version of themselves. The original Cathy is only able to break the cycle by removing every version of herself from existence, thus allowing every version of Heathcliff to also move on instead of blaming themselves and becoming another Erlking Heathcliff.
Dual Boss: While not fought simultaneously, the final battle of Canto VI will repeatedly swap between battles against Erlking Heathcliff and Every Catherine.
Expy: Much like how Erlking Heathcliff represents the Heathcliff of the original story following its Time Skip, Every Catherine too is evocative of her role in "haunting" him long after her death as a maddened ghost, which Catherine had seen herself both as shades around the manor and within her mirror in the leadup to orchestrating her plan. She fittingly looks the part as a sheet-white ghostly figure, and even calls out to Erlking Heathcliff during their boss battle together.
Flunky Boss: Every Catherine is accompanied by a pair of hands that will attack for her, and the only way to disable and then damage her to progress the fight is to take them out first.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Every Catherine wants to destroy all Catherines so Heathcliff can be free of torment. Despite still winning if Heathcliff is killed, this is reflected by her losing clash power when clashing with Heathcliff.
Irony: For how much she professes that she and Heathcliff have the same heart, even having the exact same plan to end herself in all Mirror Worlds the way Erlking Heathcliff wants to do for himself, the fact still stands that they were never able to profess their true feelings about each other, dooming their relationship permanently and becoming utterly miserable in the process. This is in direct contrast to our world's Catherine and Heathcliff, who, despite being guilty of making the same mistakes and how much they're tormented by their other selves in Canto VI, are the ones who ultimately become the exceptions, finally managing to be be honest with one another and reconciling.
It's All About Me: Much like her original counterpart, whom they actually influenced, Every Catherine solely holds themselves responsible for the misery of their Heathcliffs and they wish for themselves to all die as a consequence, all in a self-serving bid to wallow in their own misery and "atone" instead of trying to mend their relationships with their Heathcliffs.
Our Ghosts Are Different: Appears to have been affected by the botched summoning, leading to manifesting as a floating, grayscale banshee-like entity.
Ret-Gone: As a result of Catherine's efforts, they too are wiped out of existence.

Characters / Limbus Company - Canto Characters

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Prologue: Selva Oscura

Lion, Wolf, Panther

Canto I: The Outcast

Yuri

Aya

Hopkins

Old G Corp. Head Manager

Canto II: The Unloving

Tingtang Boss

Sonya

Aida

Tieqiu Crew Boss

Canto III: The Unconfronting

Siegfried

Kromer

Guido

Sinclair's Family

Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken

Papa Bongy

Bodhisattva Chicken's Manager

Canto IV: The Unchanging

Dongrang

Shrenne

Niko

Ran

Marile

Dongbaek

Alfonso

Sang Yi

Intervallo II: The Magic Hellbus

Molar Boatworks

Canto V: The Evil Defining

Smee

Rim

Ricardo

The Indigo Elder

In General

Whale of the Porous Hand

Whale of the Thousand Strands

In General

The All-Consuming Pallid Whale

The All-Impaling Marlin Whale

The All-Withering Crimson Whale

Queequeg

Pip

Starbuck

Stubb

Intervallo III - 1: Miracle in District 20

Crayon

Domino

Santata

Intervallo III - 2: Yield My Flesh To Claim Their Bones

Aeng-du

Jun

Bamboo-hatted Kim

Canto VI: The Heartbreaking

Nelly

Catherine "Cathy" Earnshaw

Hindley Earnshaw

Linton Edgar

Josephine

Matthew / "Matt"

Isabella Edgar

Mr. Earnshaw

Heathcliff

Every Catherine

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