This is the Characters page for Monark.
Beware of Unmarked Spoilers. The game hides much from the player and many of its great twists and turns are hard to discuss without turning entire sections into giant walls of spoilered text.
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Shin Mikado Staff
Medical Staff
Kakeru Hasegawa, MD, School Physician
Kakeru Hasegawa
Voiced by: Wataru Hatano
School Doctor
The lazy, unkempt school doctor of Shin Mikado Academy. He has trouble remembering people's names, keeping things tidy, and exercising. Students tend to like his easygoing ways, but he is an endless source of headaches and worry for his colleague, Dr. Shironeko. Despite his unreliable nature, he looks after your health and wellbeing and knows how to be in the right place at the right time, when it comes down to it.
- Ambiguous Situation: The extent of his Laser-Guided Amnesia isn't explored after his resurrection. It's implied that his situation is similar to the Tono twins, more specifically Sumire and has forgotten all about his brother, but it's never confirmed outright.
- Back from the Dead: If you go through the trouble of fighting the Pactless Monarks again in the post-game "Addendum: Dawn", you can wish for Yog-Sothoth to revive him.
- Bait-and-Switch: In the Pactbearer of Greed arc, after Neiko returns to the nurse's office, Kakeru warns the Vice-President that he tried to stop "her" from holding the banquet from hell. He says it in a very ominous tone and the music all but stops, implying he's serious. "Her" turns out to be Neiko holding a party for the TSC's efforts in dispersing the Mist.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He's a little strange, to say the least, which certainly doesn't do him any favors when the students are supposed to rely on him for medical care.
- Foreshadowing: When playing the game a second time around, his Meaningful Look at Vanitas and the Vice-President during their first trip in the Otherworld takes on a lot more meaning. After all, the Vice-President didn't even exist at this point and Vanitas never appeared at all during the repeated time loops.
- Genius Slob: For as little as he cares or can keep even just his desk maintained, he is still the primary dispenser of valuable Mood Stabilizers for controlling Madness and will purge it from the Vice-President and his party for free. The game also says that whenever he is needed, he'll come through.
- Hidden Depths:
- Despite his sloppy behavior, he's something of a firm believer of living in the present and looking forward to the future rather than obsessing over the past. He even advises the Vice-President to enjoy his youth with Chiyo so as to live a life without regret.
- A school paper reveals that Kakeru was originally passionate in his studies to become a doctor following some kind of personal tragedy relating to his younger brother's death.
- Irony: He's the school physician but has astoundingly poor stamina and terribly unhealthy habits beside. For the former, just walking barely 10 paces has him completely out of breath and begging for a breather from Nozomi, though the Mist may have plenty to do with that. For the latter, his table is a constant mess and he's so easygoing and lax that Nozomi says this is why most of the students doubt the academy's standard of care.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: If the Vice-President wishes to resurrect Kakeru, Yog-Sothoth states his Ideals were shattered and will therefore lack certain memories. It's uncertain how much of his memory is gone or if he's in a state similar to Sumire and forgot all about his younger brother Mitsuru.
- Meaningful Look: At first glance, it might look as though he's shocked and wary by the Vice-President becoming a Pactbearer and meeting Vanitas. In truth, it's more of the latter since the Vice-President and Vanitas are huge unknowns to him since they've never appeared in previous time loops.
- Noodle Incident: After the first chapter, if the protagonist goes to visit him after Nozomi leaves the party, he'll mention he had a brother. It's heavily implied his brother died and he played a role in it, something he deeply regrets even though it was reportedly an accidental death. This incident is the basis of Kakeru's wish and reason for becoming the Pactbearer of Greed as he wants to go back in time to prevent Mitsuru's death.
- Retcon: How he's revived in the post-game if the Vice-President wishes for his revival. Yog-Sothoth makes it so his death never occurred, though mentions that since his Ideals were destroyed, he'll be subject to Laser-Guided Amnesia like the other Pactbearers.
- You Remind Me of X: Kakeru admits that watching the Vice-President interact with Chiyo reminds him of how he used to be with his younger brother. It's implied this is also why Kakeru helps out the Vice-President throughout Act 2, using his last Ideal to repeatedly rewind time and strengthen the Vice-President's Resonance before using up the last of his power to send him back to when Sora just disbanded the TSC and before Chiyo's death.
Neiko Yasugari, MD, School Physician
Neiko Yasugari
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka
School Nurse
A licensed physician who works at Shin Mikado Academy and is often made to chaperone the unreliable Dr. Kakeru. Her amiable personality makes her popular with just about everyone. Though Neiko is her given name, she tries to get others to call her "Shironeko," an old nickname of hers that she's long been fond of. Rumor has it she has bad luck with men and can't hold her liquor in the slightest.
- Breaking Bad News Gently: She tries to do this with the Vice-President, who is in the midst of a Heroic BSoD. Specifically, she tells him Chiyo had died a while ago, long before he brought her to the nurse's office.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: According to the website blurb, she doesn't handle alcohol well at all. An article by Chiyo about a "feral feline on campus" all but confirms it.
- Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder: She keeps her much laxer, unprofessional colleague Dr. Kakeru in line.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Her preferred form of coping with her rather... unsuccessful love life is to consume large amounts of sake and cry. One such article by Chiyo mentions that her late-night pity party was so loud and disturbing that the students thought that there was a wild cat loose on campus.
- Hospital Hottie: She's attractive, a licensed physician, and quite popular at that.
- In-Universe Nickname: "Shironeko", her preferred form of address. She insists on being referred to as such by the students and the teachers. As such, she gets rather annoyed when Ryotaro continues to call her by her actual name rather than her nickname.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Since she wasn't with the group when Sora used her Authority, Kakeru's time loop takes effect, and loses all her memories of everything that's happened up until now.
- Redeeming Replacement: After Dr. Kakeru is revealed to be a Pactbearer and then dies after his fight with the TSC, Dr. Shironeko ends up taking over his duties and is much more pleasant and unambiguously good about her job. If the Vice-President revives Kakeru in Addendum: Dawn, he's back in charge.
The Jingu Family (MAJOR SPOILERS)
Applies to both Sora and Yugo
- Badass Family: The Jingu Family, through H. Cromwell's notes on the Otherworld and Daemons, has had a long history of combating the supernatural. Sora handles the more occult affairs while Yugo, unexposed to such elements, focuses more on physical threats and has had military-style training. Both of them pass on their knowledge to Shinya, their adopted son. They turn out to be even more badass when it's revealed Yugo is a Pactbearer and Sora (or rather Tristia) is his Monark.
- Good Parents: To Shinya, adoptive though they may be. This results in him wanting to live up to their expectations.
- Happily Married: Their marriage is extremely successful and happy, with the two being good adoptive parents to Shinya, and being so openly affectionate that the perpetually unlucky in love Dr. Shironeko says it literally hurts to watch them flirt.
- Love Makes You Evil: Zigzagged. The original Sora Jingu died years ago. Yugo, lost in grief, searched for a way to bring her back and eventually came into contact with the Monark of Woe, Tristia. Although she couldn't revive Sora, Tristia opted to instead take on her form and wipe Yugo's memories of being her Pactbearer as well as any knowledge he had about the Otherworld. While they aren't totally evil, Tristia is responsible for erecting the Barrier and is partly to blame for the Mist as well due to continuously wiping Yugo's memories every time he remembered who she was and what happened to Sora.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: They're happy, caring parents for Shinya and are working to ensure the safety of the students. Sora forms the True Student Council for this purpose, and Yugo himself taught Shinya how to defend himself. In "Unhinged Darkness", Yoru kills them both.
Sora Jingu, Dean
Sora Jingu
Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori
Dean of Shin Mikado
A beautiful woman in her prime who presides over Shin Mikado Academy as its dean. Her family has dealt with the threat of the Otherworld and the Daemons for untold generations. At some point in time, she married Yugo, who now serves as the academy's steward.- Back from the Dead: If the Vice-President wishes for it in "Addendum: Dawn", Yog-Sothoth can revive the real Sora Jingu, who can be found standing over her husband's unconscious body in the infirmary in worry as she waits for him to wake up.
- Dead All Along: In "Birth of a New World", Yoru reveals that Sora Jingu has been dead for years and the woman they've been interacting with up until now is the Monark of Woe who Yugo made a pact with. When Yugo failed to resurrect Sora, the Monark chose to impersonate her and wiped his memories so as to give him a blissful, happy life.
- Good Is Not Soft: Implied. In Act 2, it's revealed that Shin Mikado accepted students with powerful Egos and a potential to become Pactbearers. These students were heavily monitored, with the implication that any who did make pacts were killed on Sora's order.
- Happily Married: With Yugo. Her ill-fated death weighed so heavily on him he refused to move on and searched for a way to bring her back.
- Heroic Lineage: For generations, her family has taken it upon themselves to protect fragile reality from Daemons, especially Monarks and their Pactbearers that can cause lethal distortions.
- In Love with the Mark: Zigzagged. Although Hugo Cromwell's objective was to steal an artifact somewhere in the school, the wording of his notes implies he was also asked to kill Sora. Not only was he unable to go through with it, he married her and changed his name to Yugo.
- The Lost Lenore: She died decades ago. Not only has Yugo not remarried since then, but he's desperate to find a way to bring her back to life.
- Meaningful Name: "Sora" means sky in Japanese. The fact that it resonates well Yoru's name, which can be read as "night", is the first hint about their connection aside from Yoru taking on Sora's appearance during her early meetings with the Vice-President.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her death is what led to Yugo making a pact with Tristia, which in turn also kickstart the events of the game.
- Walking Spoiler: As you can probably tell by the amount of spoilers, there's clearly much more to her. It's also very hard to talk about future events in the game with the revelation the Sora Jingu the TSC has been interacting with all this time has been Yugo's Monark.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: As the head of the Jingu Family and the one in charge of Shin Mikado, she's expected to handle any and all threats involving the Otherworld and Daemons. This also includes dealing with Pactbearers. It's heavily implied Sora killed any students in the academy who succeeded in making pacts with the Monarks.
Yugo Jingu, Steward
Yugo Jingu
Voiced by: Shinichirou Kamio
Steward of Shin Mikado
The steward of Shin Mikado Academy and husband of Sora Jingu. In addition to being Shinya's father, he also serves as his martial arts instructor. Despite being accepted into the Jingu family following his marriage to Sora, he knows nothing about the Otherworld or Daemons. Since the anomalies arose, he has been maintaining the academy and its utilities from behind the scenes.- Almighty Janitor: As the school's Steward, his job is to make sure the lights are on, the water pipes are running and unclogged, and the school has food, orderly facilities, and other necessities. That he does all this in the middle of a supernatural disaster is both impressive and incredibly helpful for the heroes. He's also the Pactbearer of Woe and Hugo Cromwell, who studied the Otherworld, Daemons, and the Pactbearers extensively.
- Ambiguous Situation: Is he really as ignorant of the daemons and the events surrounding the school as his website blurb claims? Is he just playing dumb so he can avoid suspicion while he tries to keep the school's many systems and amenities running for basic survival and a decent standard of living? Or is he just really, really desensitized to things going horribly wrong and considers keeping the lights on and the water running during an ongoing supernatural disaster event to just be a rare, unfortunate, but ultimately not unforeseen part of his job? The answer is a long one: he's the Pactbearer of Woe, the Monark of Woe Tristia is posing as his dead wife, and she keeps performing Laser-Guided Amnesia on him to keep Yugo from realizing that he's loving a replacement.
- Cool Old Guy: He's clearly well into his years but remains a calm, helpful, and incredibly useful staff member for the students, cheerfully and genuinely asking if there's anything he can do to help them.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Tristia, posing as his dead wife "Sora", keeps erasing his memories of the Jingu family secrets and of his relationship with her as his Pactbearer so as to continue the ruse of them being a happy married couple. When the Vice-President's Resonance in "Deepest Depths" reaches him, he regains his memories and brings Tristia to heel.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Despite being married to the Head of the Jingu Family, Sora, Yugo is unaware of the existence of the daemons and his in-law's long, storied history of fighting them and protecting reality. He even mistakes Akane's Authority of Lust as being some highly advanced modern-day weapon. He learned all about them when Sora suddenly died of natural causes and he went through her things left behind, made a Pact with the Monark of Woe, and part of the deal is that the fake Sora Jingu keeps wiping his memory of the truth so they can continue having a happy marriage. On the other hand, since he is Hugo Cromwell, he already knew about the Otherworld and the Daemons..
- Manly Facial Hair: He's got a well-kept mustache and chin strap. He is also Shinya's father and martial arts instructor, his teachings and skill are reflected in Shinya's capability in combat against the daemons.
- Mysterious Past: For someone who currently works as a custodian, logistics head, and all-around maintenance man, you have to wonder where he got first-hand military CQC training to go along with the martial arts he taught his adoptive son, Shinya. "Deepest Depths" reveals him to be Hugo Cromwell, whose research and documentation of the Otherworld and Daemons was being used by the Jingu family.
- Old Soldier: You don't get to see it on-screen, but he's got military-grade CQC training and taught Shinya everything he knows, pushing the youngster's body to the physical limit. You get to see what he's capable of in "Deepest Depths".
- Spanner in the Works: In Act 2, he always shows up right as Sora is about to erase the Vice-President, causing her to stop using Essokinesis on him and repress Yugo's memories when he begins remembering his past. Yoru impersonated Sora and asked him to come so Sora would be forced to use more of her power and empower Yoru, enough so that she could finally split away from her.
- Walking Spoiler: In case you couldn't tell by the spoiler markings, there is much more to this humble steward than it first appears.
Shin Mikado Students
Yusuke Tsuji
Yusuke Tsuji
Nozomi's childhood friend, who disapproves of Kurama as the student council president. He has been with his girlfriend, Yu Nishioka, for years.- Big Damn Heroes: He rushes Kurama with a knife out of nowhere to save Nozomi and the vice president from Kurama's lackeys.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: After attacking Kurama, he gets "reeducated" into joining the student council. Like everyone else, though, he snaps out of it after Kurama is defeated.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He is not pleased when Nozomi refuses to help the Brainwashed and Crazy Yu out of a fear of hurting her.
Haruka Shimizu
Haruka Shimizu
The captain of the Baseball club and Sumire Tono's boyfriend. A known philandering heartbreaker, he's been involved with many girls in the past, something that comes back to bite him in the Pactbearer of Lust arc.- The Ace: Of the Baseball team, though his profile notes his interest in the sport has waned recently.
- The Casanova: Haruka's been in many a relationship, and Sumire is his latest (and current) girlfriend. You'll run into an ex of his, who is distraught and in the process of a mental breakdown from being unceremoniously dumped and ghosted. You also learn she is far from the only one.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He's horrifically burned alive in the Baseball Club locker room, leaving no trace whatsoever.
- Chick Magnet: His good looks and skills at sports earned him no small amount of affection and endearment from the girls of Shin Mikado. That some still want to date him even when his status as a heartbreaker is well-known is baffling.
- His Own Worst Enemy: Haruka is aware that his philandering is doing more harm than good, especially with how he breaks up with his exes, but by his own admission he really can't help but do the same thing his first girlfriend did to him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After time is rewound to when the barrier first appeared and the Tono twins' relationship is back on the mend after their Ideals have been shattered, Haruka is dumped offscreen by Sumire. Not only is it a dose of well-deserved karma for his philandering, but it's also the second time someone's dumped him. Oddly, this seems to spur him in a positive direction as he decides to swear off romance and rededicate himself to baseball.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Several students in the Club building note how his relationship with Sumire is the longest one he's had. Near the end of Irreversible Fidelity, he admits he might actually be genuine about his relationship with Sumire, whereas all other girls he's been involved with were merely flings. Unfortunately for him, any possibility that he could have a genuinely good relationship with her is destroyed because of his own actions and is killed by Akane at the end of Irreversible Fidelity.
- Pet the Dog: As much as he is a playboy who drops girls like trash, he is genuinely concerned when he can't find Sumire at the start of the second time loop, desperately hoping she is alright. This is mitigated by the fact that the Tono twins can be found near the front entrance, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His ghosting of Akane and dating her twin sister Sumire without even formally breaking up with the former is what caused her to make a pact with Luxuria.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Upon entering Act 2, Haruka is strangely absent from the club building. His teammates gather together and attempt to go looking for him. It's implied his absence is because Sumire broke up with him offscreen and is reeling from the shock. He shows back up in Addendum: Dawn and decides he's done with romance.
Hidefumi Yoshida
Hidefumi Yoshida
A first-year student and classmate of Subaru Ikiya, as well as the ringleader of the bullying campaign against him.- Bullying a Dragon: His bullying comes back to bite him hard as the kid he and his friends viciously bullied became a Pactbearer and started killing them off one by one.
- Hidden Depths: His Alter Ego reveals he's actually somewhat acute to the supernatural, having seen the ghost of a female student on the rooftop, though as a result he's not good with anything supernatural.
- Jerkass: He's a complete asshole, demanding that the TSC find a way to deal with Subaru's "curse" and save them and honestly believes he doesn't deserve any of what's happening to him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The only redeeming quality of Hidefumi's is his genuine friendship with Yasunori and Miki. Aside from that, he's a total Hate Sink the audience is meant to despise from the get-go.
- The Lost Lenore: Becomes this to Miki when he's murdered by Yasunori. The former can only wail in grief as she stands over his corpse. This is subverted after "Recurring Twilight" where he's alive and well since time has been rewound.
- Never My Fault: He refuse to accept any responsibility about what's happening in the first-year building, putting the blame all on Subaru and saying he doesn't deserve any of what's happening. Similarly, he has the gall to say it was Subaru's fault for getting hurt because he was just there and Hidefumi was just giving him some "attention".
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Prior to the start of Act of Wrath, Hidefumi pushed Subaru out the window on the third floor of the first-year building. This ended up being the catalyst for Subaru coming into contact with the Otherworld and making a pact with Ira, the Monark of Wrath.
Miki Ueki
Miki Ueki
A first-year student and close friends with Yasunori Kataoka and Hidefumi Yoshida.- Despair Event Horizon: Hidefumi's death hits her hard. After losing the boy she liked and raging at the Vice-President and Kokoro for failing to save him, she becomes completely despondent, saying she just hates everything now. She gets better after "Recurring Twilight".
- What the Hell, Hero?: She blows up at the Vice-President and Kokoro after Hidefumi's death, calling them liars and demanding to know why they didn't save him.
Takamori Suzuki (MAJOR SPOILERS)
Takamori Suzuki
A second-year student and a member of the Journalism Club at Shin Mikado since middle school, who mainly investigated the school's Seven Wonders and similar supernatural topics. He is also Chiyo Aikawa's older brother.- Foreshadowing: From what little of him is known in the game, he has a younger sister and liked rosemary. Chiyo also knew him well enough that she left his favorite flowers on his desk and a farewell note. Also, for whatever reason, his name is censored and scratched out nearly everywhere except the digital archives, and when you ask Chiyo about him, she doesn't even know who he is and is confused. Speaking of Chiyo, her favorite flower is also rosemary, which she also claims is her brother's favorite flower as well. It isn't until your confrontation with Yoru that you finally realize Takamori Suzuki was Chiyo's real older brother and the Vice-President is just an Artificial Human taking his place.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Justified. Yoru overwrote everyone's memories of him and did her damnedest to erase any traces of his existence on physical records before replacing him with the Vice-President. She was not, however, able to erase his name in the school's digital archives, which is key to solving the puzzle in the Memorial Garden.
- Occult Detective: Or rather a journalist, but Takamori was interested in supernatural topics and covered them in his news articles.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time you get his profile, having been killed near the front gates at school while waiting for someone.
- Ret-Gone: Zigzagged. He's already dead by the start of the game, but Yoru overwrote everyone's memories of him with that of the Vice-President. If there is anyone who remembers him, they don't remember his name, only that he existed.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Just another student in Shin Mikado, albeit long dead by this point. How important can he possibly be? Well, for starters, his absence means Yoru has a perfect opportunity to implant the Vice-President in Shin Mikado and take his place.
- Walking Spoiler: His existence was barely hinted at, and when you start connecting the dots, everything you know about the Vice-President becomes very muddled.
Daemons
Fiends
Daemonic Legions summoned by the Vice-President, all of whom are subservient to him and obey his will. Each Fiend resonates with a certain sin, with the first Fiend the protagonist gains corresponding to the sin he aligns with after his first meeting with Yoru. In General
- Character Class: Each of them has a weapon of choice, a specialty, and status effects related to their specific Authority.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The first Fiend the Vice-President summons will have it's abilities determined by the protagonist's Ego. For example, a protagonist leaning towards Pride will have a Fiend that favors polearms and poison while a protagonist favoring Lust will specialize in crossbows, charm skills, and fire-based attacks.
- Chess Motifs: The Pawn. They're essentially the rank-and-file soldiers that obey the King (the Vice-President) and are less specialized than the human party members. With their Defer ability giving other units extra turns (at the cost of some Madness to the target), you can also "sacrifice" them, in the sense that you're only using them to give your specialized pieces an opportunity to do their jobs.
- Dem Bones: Like the Legions, the Fiends are animated skeletons. Unlike their counterparts, however, they can have hair. Somehow.
- Kneel Before Zod: If the protagonist is the only human in the party, any Fiends you have will be shown kneeling before him after the battle's end.
- Light Is Good: They're all colored white, representing their allegiance to the protagonist and the True Student Council.
- Mooks: Of the heroic variety. You start off with one, but as the game progresses, you gain Fiends relating to other sins as well.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: They all have red eyes, similar to the enemy Legions, but unlike them, the Fiends are on your side.
- Virtual Paper Doll: You can customize them however you wish, even give them hair to stand out from other Legions. Though their equipment also has gameplay elements in stats and sometimes, abilities (even ones outside their Authority), they manifest as Cool Helmets, Cool Masks, chest pieces, and even entirely new sets of legs.
Lust Legions
Weapon Type: Crossbows
- Tempting.
- An Ice Person: Alongside the fiery passion inside them, they also have access to ice-based Authorities to hamper your enemies' movement.
- Charm Person: Unsurprisingly, the sin most associated with romantic love, lust, and seduction has Charm Authorities that can temporarily turn enemies to your side, turning them to distractions or sitting ducks that will happily stand around waiting for you to murder them.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: One of their specialties! They are among the first that have psionic ranged abilities that hit multiple foes at once, best exemplified by the left capstone ability: Purgatorial Furnace. It's one of the rare abilities in the game that hits every enemy at once, friend or foe, for massive direct damage. If you want to set the world on fire or end it with ice, look no further than them.
- Playing with Fire: Among their first and most purely offensive skills are fire-based Authorities.
Sloth Legions
Weapon Type: Crossbows
- What a boring battle...
- Brilliant, but Lazy: They can see the future and how they can bring it about. Their strongest desire aside from serving their master is to use as little energy and do as little as possible in carrying out their orders. They're completely loyal and highly effective, yes, but hard workers, they are not.
- Critical Hit Class: The physical damage specialist, in contrast to Lust Authority Legions who also use crossbows but specialize in psionic damage to large groups of foes than single targets.
- Futureshadowing: When they say "I can see where this battle is going.", they literally mean it, thanks to their power of Precognition letting them see the future, the steps to achieve it, and whether or not those steps are met. In terms of gameplay, this translates to increasing allies' agility and evasion.
- Rain of Arrows: Fussilade allows them to rain bolts down on an area, the number of hits, and the damage it does based on their Luck stat.
Greed Legions
Weapon Type: Swords
- I want it all.
- Space Master: One-half of their powers. They have sole domain over the game's teleportation skills, allowing them to rescue allies, move around the battlefield in ways impossible to the others, or teleport behind their enemies for a backstab or pull them out of danger and right into your party's range.
- Time Master: One-half of their powers. It can be used to hamper your enemies movement by slowing them down, speed up your side, or even allowing them to repeat actions or reverse time to bring them back to life, should someone suffer an unfortunate fate.
- Weaponized Teleportation: They can use their ability to manipulate space and objects within it to grab people into a pocket dimension then slam them back into the ground, tear up the surrounding air and turn them into blades, or simply teleport behind an unsuspecting enemy to backstab them.
Gluttony Legions
Weapon Type: Swords
- Every last drop...!
- Power Parasite: Their specialty! They can steal buffs from enemies, inflict stat debuffs on them and gain a corresponding buff (in-universe, they're stealing the enemy's power), and also just steal health.
Envy Legions
Weapon Type: Swords
When an Envy Legion sees an enemy in perfect health, there's nothing more they will like than for them to be poisoned, bleeding, disabled, or any other manner of unfortunate fate to befall them, upon which they'll either aggravate their conditions or violently put them out of their misery in an instant.- Status Effects: Envy Legions lean more towards inflicting various status effects on the enemy, up to and including poison.
Pride Legions
Weapon Type: Polearms
- Gradual Regeneration: One of their later healing spells heals the affected by a certain percentage of their health after every action taken.
- Poisonous Person: Their main offensive element is Poison and Poison attacks.
Wrath Legions
Weapon Type: Polearms
- Barbarian Hero: Their specialty is large amounts of burst damage up close and to crowds, contrasting the Pride Legions playstyle.
- Shock and Awe: They have access to electricity-themed Authority attacks, either useful for disabling enemies by shocking them stupid or healing themselves through rigorous, quasi-medical use of high voltage currents.
Monarks
The most powerful daemons in existence. Aside from their Authorities, supernatural abilities capable of bending and warping reality itself, their biggest danger is in offering deals with Pactbearers, humans who gain a portion of their power in exchange for letting their Monark manifest in the real world and wreak havoc. Yoru (Unmarked Spoilers)
Yoru
Voiced by: Ayase Ito
Aberrant Monark
"It's a cruel, irrational world. no matter what time or place you decide on, the night will always come."
A mysterious entity who first appears at the very start of the game, forcing the Vice-President to go through some sort of test and demonstrate his Ego. For unknown reasons, she takes on the appearance of Sora Jingu, the dean of Shin Mikado when speaking to the protagonist in private. Act 2 reveals her true nature as an aberrant Monark, born from "Sora Jingu"—in actuality Tristia, the Monark of Woe.
- Abusive Parents: Albeit by technicality. The Vice-President and his "brothers" are all her creations, and as seen in the Action Prologue, she has no problems sending them off to be killed if they can't develop an Ego. Not even the Vice-President, whom she adores and calls her "sweet child" is exempt from this as she mentally tortures him with a facsimile of Chiyo before bluntly admitting to killing her to his face. She even tries to kill him in the TSC Holder chapters.
- Achilles' Heel: Since she's part of Tristia, her existence is tied to Yugo Jingu's Ideals. If they are destroyed, she goes with them.
- All for Nothing: Save for "Birth of a New World" where the Vice-President dies and Kokoro is too consumed by grief to go after her, Yoru's plans are doomed to failure. In "Woeful Execution", she's erased by Tristia not long after their separation, and in Shinya and Nozomi's Act 2 chapters, she's hunted down and killed before she can cause any trouble. "Deepest Depths" even has her realize that all her plans were doomed to fall apart thanks to the Vice-President's interference.
- Always Someone Better: Unlike Tristia who has trouble properly using her Authority of Woe, Yoru demonstrates much better understanding and deft handling. She was able to seamlessly change the memories of everyone in Shin Mikado, erasing Chiyo's older brother's very existence and allowing an Artificial Human of her design to take his place. This is taken further up a notch when it's revealed that the Vice-President isn't merely a soulless puppet who managed to develop an Ego, but her very own Monark, who she gave the Authority of Vanity to as Tristia was unable to use it.
- Ambiguously Human: She holds a great deal of knowledge about the Otherworld and Daemons, even instructing others how they can make pacts with Monarks. Hayate, the Pactbearer of Envy, doubts if she's even human at all. He's right on the money; she's a Monark herself, albeit an offshoot created by another, more powerful Monark.
- Assimilation Plot: Her goal is to gain enough power to overpower and absorb Tristia, becoming a proper Monark and succeeding her as the Monark of Woe. She never succeeds, even in Shinya's route where Tristia is killed in a vain attempt to protect Yugo.
- The Bad Guy Wins: In "Birth of a New World", Sora is killed by the Vice-President and Kokoro. Despite the last of her Ideals being shattered, Yoru has absorbed enough power to move about freely and can cause all sorts of havoc in the human world now that the Barrier is down. Fortunately for the TSC, her victory is short-lived when Kakeru rewinds time.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Yoru wants nothing more than to become a unique entity separate from Sora, and to accomplish this, she needs to destabilize Sora and leave her weakened to the point Yoru can absorb her power. In the TSC Pactbearer Act 2 chapters, Yoru either kills or fatally wounds Yugo, causing Sora's sanity to take a nosedive and crack. In "Woeful Execution", Sora decides everyone who has a powerful Ego needs to die and swiftly kills off Yoru in retaliation, and in "Birth of a New World", Sora absorbs Yugo, Shinya, and anyone Shinya and Yugo loved, forcing Yoru to partner with the Vice-President and Kokoro to deal with her.
- Be Yourself: Deconstructed. After her impromptu quiz to help the Vice-President develop his Ego and desires, Yoru advises him to do as he pleases without reservation and live however he wants. She even espouses the same advice to the Pactbearers she comes across. The problem, however, is that Yoru's advice and words are all part of her manipulations, driving the antagonists to make pacts with Monarks and subtly guiding the Vice-President to fulfill her own objectives.
- Big Bad: While the Pactbearers are the foremost immediate threat in the game, Yoru is the one who told them how to make pacts with the Monarks and is the main enemy in the TSC Holder chapters of Act 2. She's killed off and displaced by Sora in "Woeful Execution" whereas she, Kokoro, and the Vice-President enter into an uneasy Enemy Mine situation when Sora tries to absorb everyone in Shin Mikado in "Birth of a New World".
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She portrays herself as a guiding and 'motherly' figure to the Vice-President, asking him to consider the Pactbearers' motivations and ideals carefully. It's all part of her experiment, and depending on the route, she decides to throw him aside when he's no longer useful to her. That's not even going into her murder of Chiyo.
- Blatant Lies: In "Birth of a New World", after she sees the numerous copies of the Vice-President, she asks Yoru if she knows anything about them. While Yoru doesn't deny she knows something, she also evades the question and tells them to focus on Sora.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: In contrast to Sora, who in love with her Pactbearer or Vanitas, who aides the TSC on a whim and boredom, Yoru operates by a strange, child-like mindset. She has a very strange motherly relationship with the Vice-President, creating him and helping to cultivate his Ego while also guiding him on how to learn and listen to the motivations of the Pactbearers. On the other hand, she also views him as totally disposable; she kills four of his "brothers" when she turns into her Monark form, killed the one seen at the prologue when he failed to develop an Ego, and will try to kill him if he continues to interfere with her.
- Brutal Honesty: In "Dark Abundance, she makes it clear she will use her Authority however she pleases, and admits it will cause vast distortions across the world. She couldn't care about that, of course; all she wants is to live as she pleases and does what she wants, even if it comes at the expense of others.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: Should the Vice-President tell Yoru that he feels no guilt about destroying the enemy Pactbearers' Ideals and that they deserved it, she mockingly tells him she's shocked by his callousness and wonders if his parents are as cruel as he is before smiling and says she wants to meet them. Keep in mind that Yoru created the Vice-President, so she more or less says she greatly approves of his ruthlessness.
- The Chessmaster: While she's not the main antagonist, Yoru is responsible for the recent events as she told the Pactbearers how they could make a Pact with the Monarks to gain power, though in Subaru's case she told him the anomalies, the Mist, and the Barrier were his doing when he formed a pact with the Monark of Wrath, Ira and gave him very little information.
- Create Your Own Hero: She created the Vice-President to suit her own purposes, first as an artificial Monark, and then as a puppet to fulfill her plans in Shin Mikado. Not unexpectedly, he can rebel against her.
- Didn't See That Coming: Her murder of Yugo produces an unforeseen results which varies on the route you're on.
- In "Unhinged Darkness", Sora attempts to defend Yugo and is killed alongside him. This surprises and elates Yoru as she can now virtually absorb Sora's power without her interfering.
- In "Birth of a New World", Sora only barely manages to save Yugo, but he's close to death. To Yoru's shock, Sora decides to absorb Yugo so as to keep him alive in some way within her, and then decides to absorb Shinya since Yugo loves him. And then she decides to absorb everyone Yugo and Shinya "loved" in some manner before deciding to absorb "the world Yugo loves".
- In "Woeful Execution", Yugo's death causes Sora to snap and reveals Yoru hadn't absorbed most of her power, but a small fraction of it, proceeding to wipe Yoru from existence and then proceed to try and erase anyone who is not content and/or has a Ego powerful enough to make a pact with a Monark.
- Disappointed in You: She calls the Vice-President a failure as he's lying in a pool of blood after getting brutally defeated by a group of Daemon Legions. Her disappointment stems from the fact that the Vice-President, or rather one of his many clones, failed to develop an Ego.
- Enemy Mine: She helps the Vice-President and Kokoro in "Birth of a New World" after Sora starts absorbing the students. Yoru can't risk fighting Sora at the moment, and the TSC makes it clear Yoru is next on the list, but their interest aligns for the moment.
- Enfant Terrible:
- Despite her youthful body, Yoru is actually a newborn Monark as she was created during the repeated time loops in Shin Mikado after the Barrier went up. The interval of the resets is implied to be a few days, and throwaway dialogue by an NPC implies the time loops have repeated over seventy times, meaning Yoru is a month old at best.
- In her Monark form, she holds what looks like a fetus in her arm, implied to be her true self or a representation of the Vice-President, who she adores and loves in a twisted sense.
- Evil Counterpart: To Sora, which is a given since she's Tristia's Literal Split Personality. Yoru is an enigmatic figure who also serves as a guiding figure for the Vice-President, though whereas Sora instructs him to deal with the Pactbearers to free the school and save the students, she asks him to consider the motivations of the Pactbearers as well as asking him about his own motivations. Yoru is also truer to the motivations of a typical Monark, albeit with her own twisted agendas and essentially embodies everything Tristia is trying to ignore or abandon as "Sora" through her pact with Yugo."I'm you, Sora, but steeped in pitch blackness."
- Evil Feels Good: She takes great, child-like pleasure in killing and torturing others. She happily shows off what's left of Yugo to Sora or tries to kill him in front of her to break her spirit, and in "Unhinged Darkness", toys with the Vice-President and him by creating facsimiles of their loved ones before revealing she killed Chiyo, both because she was getting too close to figuring out the truth behind the Vice-President and dragged out her death because she found her annoying.
- Face Framed in Shadow: Her first appearance has her completely covered in shadow, making it impossible to know for certain what she looks like until she reveals herself properly in Act 2.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Although Kakeru's time loops did eventually give rise to her existence due to the repeated strains Sora put on herself for being part of the problem, Yoru herself continued to escalate the situation by telling certain individuals in the school how they could become Pactbearers.
- Identical Stranger: When Yoru first appears to the Vice-President at the start of the game, she appears virtually identical to Dean Sora Jingu, save for the red eyes. This is because she's the Literal Split Personality of her, and once she's separated from Sora, she takes on a distinctly different form.
- I Just Want to Be Free: Her primary motivation. Between her continued reliance on Yugo's Ideals to sustain herself and connection to Tristia, Yoru is unable to exist by herself and wants true, genuine freedom. This is also why she wants to kill Tristia; she wants to be her own genuine person rather than some aberrant offshoot the latter unintentionally made.
- Immortal Immaturity: While she's not a true Monark in the technical sense, Yoru is still a Daemonic entity and is derived from Tristia, who according to Cromwell's notes was inexperienced in dealing with humans since she had few Pactbearers. Yoru is much closer to what Cromwell mentions in his notes than Tristia herself, as the latter matured to an extent through her long pact with Yugo whereas Yoru herself has only existed for what is implied to be over a month.
- It's Personal: In "Unhinged Darkness", both the Vice-President and Shinya want to kill her very, very badly. For Shinya, she started his Act 2 chapter by killing off Yugo and Sora in front of him. For the Vice-President, she point-blank admits to being the one who killed Chiyo.
- Karma Houdini: In "Birth of a New World", she gets off scot-free since the Vice-President never learns she is responsible for Chiyo's death and Tristia is the bigger threat. With Kokoro left grief-stricken over the Vice-President's death and Sora gone, Yoru is free to do as she wishes.
- Kick the Dog:
- When she makes her appearance in Act 2, she usually kicks the endgame by either killing Yugo (and Sora in one of the Act 2 chapters). Killing Yugo in front of Sora causes her to snap while killing both of them in front of Shinya causes him to go in a murderous rage hellbent on revenge.
- In "Dark Abundance", she gleefully rubs in the fact that the Vice-President will cease to exist after her death, as his existence is tied to hers.
- She kicks the dog extra hard in "Unhinged Darkness". Not only does she kill Sora and Yugo in front of Shinya, but at the end of the chapter, she admits to being the one who dragged Chiyo into the Otherworld and killed her.
- Leitmotif: Sweet & Red
. - Literal Split Personality: Yoru was created by Tristia soon after the anomalies began to occur and the latter was breaking down from the contradiction of impersonating Sora Jingu, a woman meant to fight and defend the world from the Otherworld and Daemons, despite being a Monark, one of the beings causing distortions. The ensuing conflicts with the seven Pactbearers and Kakeru's Authority of Greed rewinding time to when Tristia erected the Barrier eventually forced the Monark to create something to handle the burden, that something being Yoru.
- Love-Obstructing Parents: Subverted. Yoru admits to Kokoro that she did not approve of her growing feelings for the Vice-President and was jealous of how close the two of them were. Unlike with Chiyo, who she killed because she was getting too close to realizing the Vice-President wasn't her real older brother (and partly because she was also jealous of Chiyo's growing bond with him), she doesn't do anything to Kokoro because the Vice-President is already gone and thanks her for valuing his worth.
- Lunacy: She's associated with the moon, or rather the moon its crescent shape. Her first appearance at the very start has her lounging atop a demented crescent-shaped moon, and she wears crescent earrings.
- Meaningful Name: Among the characters that make up her name is "夜", meaning "night". This is in contrast to Sora, whose form she takes on when speaking with the protagonist early on in the game, as her name means "sky". The connection between her name and Sora's is not a coincidence.
- Metaphorically True: When she meets with the Vice-President with Sora's appearance, she introduces herself as the dean of Shin Mikado. She wasn't lying, as she's part of Tristia, who is taking the place of Sora Jingu and is the acting dean of Shin Mikado.
- Mysterious Stranger: Her existence is shrouded in mystery as are her motives. The only concrete thing about her is that she's taken a keen interest in the Vice-President and often speaks with him to question his motivations and thoughts on his journey in Shin Mikado. By contrast, her interactions with the Pactbearers are, at best, one-sided conversations where she tells them about the Otherworld and how they can make a pact with Monarks. In Subaru's case, she simply told him he was responsible for the anomalies.
- Outside-Context Problem: She's this to Sora. She had no idea Yoru even existed, much less knew what she even was, as Yoru was created from her strife and contradictory actions and motivations during the ongoing crisis in the school. Once Tristia and Yugo are made aware of her in "Deepest Depths", they quickly separate her from Tristia and force her into a pact with Yugo.
- Pet the Dog: In "Dark Abundance", she has a clear shot at Yugo when the Vice-President puts himself in the line of fire and diverts her attack at the last second, proceeding to scold him for trying to get himself killed. In her own twisted way, she does have parental feelings for the Vice-President and tries to convince him to side with her. This falls flat when she also reveals that the Vice-President can only exist within the Barrier and that he will disappear once it's gone.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: When she splits away from Tristia and adopts a more distinct appearance, she wears a red-and-black dress. She's also completely unapologetic about the chaos she's caused and makes no secret she will cause even more once she's outside Shin Mikado. Her Monark form, which looks like a twisted, more monstrous version of Sora's, is primarily red with black wings, head, hands, and feet.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes like a few other characters, and she has considerable knowledge of the Otherworld and Daemons. She also happens to be a Monark, one of the most powerful Daemons out there due to her having the same Authority as Tristia, and is just as capable with it, if not moreso.
- Taking You with Me: If she dies, the Vice-President will disappear alongside her as she's the conduit for his continued existence as they both derive their power from Yugo's Ideals. She's similarly intent on dragging the Vice-President down with her after she's forced to heel by Yugo when the latter regains his memories and gets Tristia's priorities straight.
- The Unfought: She's never fought in the TSC Pactbearers' Act 2 chapters, and is killed off by Tristia in "Woeful Execution" before she can follow through with the rest of her plan. In "Birth of a New World", Kokoro is too grief-stricken to even try and go after her.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Despite having been disappointed with the Vice-President (actually one of his clones)'s inability to defeat a group of Legions at the beginning of the game, he's the only one she takes the time to speak with and even tells him to interact with the other Pactbearers and understand their motivations instead of just attacking them outright. When discussing their encounter with Yoru, both Kokoro and Ryotaro state she told them how to make a Pact with a Monark, but nothing more. Her interest makes much more sense when you realize she is his "mother".
- Villainous Breakdown: In "Unhinged Darkness", she's left utterly shocked and angry over the fact that she's about to die right as she's about to achieve her goal of being a separate entity, screaming a Big "WHY?!" right as the Vice-President stabs her from behind.
- Walking Spoiler: It gets very hard to talk about Yoru without going into her role in Act 2, as well as her relationship with the Vice-President.
- Wham Line:
- Delivers this at the end of her meeting with the Vice-President after they've defeated four of the seven Pactbearers, and in case you're wondering, she's not kidding."You're so special, you know. And so terribly important. You are, after all, my sweet, adorable child."
- She gives another one in "Unhinged Darkness", and whoo boy does the Vice-President not like hearing it!"I was the one who killed Chiyo."
- Delivers this at the end of her meeting with the Vice-President after they've defeated four of the seven Pactbearers, and in case you're wondering, she's not kidding.
- White Hair, Black Heart: She's easily one of the most malicious Monarks in the game, showing a very twisted sense of compassion for the Vice-President and gleefully causing emotional pain to him and Shinya for the hell of it.
- Yandere: Of the parental sort. She thinks that, since she created the Vice-President, the only one he's allowed to love is her. Part of the reason she killed Chiyo was because she hated how close the girl was to him even though Yoru specifically gave the Vice-President the role of Chiyo's "big brother". She even expresses her disapproval of Kokoro, but unlike with Chiyo she at least tells her she's happy that Kokoro genuinely loved and considered him someone special.Yoru: I am your mother. And that, my darling...is why you may only love me. You may only exist for me.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: In "Unhinged Darkness", she uses her Authority to create famiscles of Yugo, Sora, and Chiyo as if to prove she can bring back the dead, only for the famiscles to vanish when she loses her concentration, busting her gut at their faces for thinking she could bring back the dead and reminding Shinya that no Authority can truly revive someone who is dead.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: She has a bad habit of tossing aside her creations when they fail to meet her expectations, but with the Vice-President, Yoru designed him so he would die when Sora kicks the bucket as he can only exist within the Barrier. As if to show how truly callous she is toward her "children", she impales four copies of the Vice-President in her transformation sequence.
Superbia
Superbia
- Let the torture begin.
- Animal Motifs: Bats. She has several wings on her back and a seemingly decorative pair on her head, much like Morgana from Dark Stalkers.
- Biomanipulation: The Authority of Pride allows Superbia's Pactbearers to manipulate the human body, both mentally and physically. Kurama demonstrates this by mentally dominating the minds of the students in the main building and healing his own body from a knife wound. Cromwell's notes mention three other Pactbearers of Superbia who demonstrated usage of her Authroity, all of which use their powers in horrific ways; one grew four eyes after he was temporarily blinded in one eye when a ball hit him in the face, another was a student in a Drama Club and mentally dominated their clubmates to use them as puppets, and the last was a sadistic girl who cut off the ring-finger of a male student and then regrew said finger before wiping his memory before repeating the process.
- Hospital Hottie: One of her themes, considering that her Authority allows her biokinesis which can be used to manipulate the human body to heal it.
- Power Incontinence: One of her Pactbearers was a young boy who was hit in the face by a ball and rendered temporarily blind. He activated his Authority by accident and grew eyes over the one he was blind in.
- Sadist: In addition to her Torture Technician theme, Superbia sounds very enthusiastic about hurting potential victims. Fittingly, one of her Pactbearers was a woman who repeatedly cut off the ring finger of a male student, regrew said finger, then wiped his memory before plunging him back into the torture. When she was discovered, she had two buckets full of dismembered fingers.
- Torture Technician: Her other theme, considering she seems to rather enjoy causing harm to people using her power. Fittingly, one of her previous Pactbearers seemed to have a fascination with cutting fingers off someone while erasing that person's memory and regrowing said finger. As noted in the Cromwell Archive notes for Pride, the Pactbearer in question had two bucket full of fingers.
- Weapons of Their Trade: She uses a pair of spiked dental pliers, in keeping with both her Hospital Hottie theme.
Invidia
Invidia
The Monark of Envy. Wielder of the Authority of Envy and Causality Control, she is in a pact with Hayate Tsumabuki.- Animal Motifs: Foxes. She has a fiery tail and one fiery ear in the shape of a fox.
- Attack Reflector: As an Envy Daemon, Invidia can use a skill that lets her transfer any and all damage to her attacker or someone nearby.
- Driven to Suicide: In Cromwell's notes on Envy, he mentions a Pactbearer who suffers from some sort of mental illness who used his Authority while in school. The end result was thirty-four cases of attempted suicide.
- Sinister Scythe: Her weapon of choice.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: One aspect of her Authority, as the Authority of Envy's power is warping cause and effect. One of Invidia's Pactbearers was a teacher with financial troubles who swiftly amassed a fortune via gambling, only to later lose his life in an accident implied to also be a result of his power.
Ira
Ira
The Monark of Wrath. Wielder of the Authority of Wrath and electrokinesis, he is in a pact with Subaru Ikiya.- Barefisted Monk: He uses his fists, augmented with Daemonic gauntlets. You can bet that he packs a serious punch and can pummel the TSC to death if you're not careful.
- The Big Guy: He's got a muscular physique worthy of being a Barefisted Monk, and he's taller than Subaru.
- Shock and Awe: Ira's Authority of Wrath allows him to use electric-based attacks, though Cromwell's entry on Wrath reveal this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Authority allows the Pactbearer to summon actual bolts of thunder and even partial Biomanipulation as Cromwell notes one of his Pactbearers had hemiplegia, but managed to overcome his condition by affecting his nerves and muscles.
- Power Incontinence: Cromwell's notes on the Authority of Wrath mention wto Pactbearers who lacked proper control over their power. One summoned a lightning bolt that destroyed his school from stressing out over his studies while another somehow made her imaginary friend real and unknowingly allowed it to wreak havoc by traveling through electronic devices and taking control of people's bodies.
- Punched Across the Room: Careful positioning is required with him, as he's fully capable of punching the TSC members all around the battlefield.
Luxuria
Luxuria
The Monark of Lust. Wielder of the Authority of Lust and thermokinesis, she is in a pact with Akane and Sumire Tono.- Animal Motifs: Scorpions, especially with her gigantic and fully functional stinger tail.
- Charm Person: Unsurprisingly, she's capable of casting Charm on the TSC, turning them and the Fiends against their allies.
- Creepy Doll: Her body resembles that of a full-body mannequin, ball joints, and visible connectors to her individual pieces and all.
- Meido: Her outfit resembles that of a French maid, with the stockings, the hairband, the gloves, and a chest ribbon, but without a blouse or a skirt.
Avaritia
Avaritia
The Monark of Greed. Wielder of the Authority of Greed and space-time control, he is in a pact with Kakeru Hasegawa.- Enfant Terrible: His main body resembles that of an innocent baby and he even talks, babbles, and cries like one... and then the cage falls over him, several pairs of human arms grab and reach out of the bars, and you realize the rest of his body looks like a man mummified from the neck down in his swaddling.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has multiple adult arms sticking out of the cage around his head.
Gula
Gula
- Time for a massacre!
- Animal Motifs: Flies. Likely a reference to Beelzebub, who is often associated with gluttony.
- Dirty Communists: A daemonic version. Her outfit is clearly based on a Soviet Russian uniform, her hat is like an officer's on parade, and she uses a rifle as her weapon of choice.
- Femme Fatale: She's quite attractive, if you can look over her daemonic features, and plenty lethal.
- Of Corsets Sexy: She has a corset around her waist that's wound especially tight for her hourglass figure.
Acedia
Acedia
The Monark of Sloth. Wielder of the Authority of Sloth and Precog-analysis, he is in a pact with Kokoro Surugadai.- Animal Motifs: Contrary to Kokoro's conversation with Ryotaro calling him a cow, Acedia looks more like that of a dragon. His skinless skull resembles one and Chinese fireworks are oftentimes dragons themed.
- BFG: He pulls around a fireworks launcher on wheels, though the explosions and bombs are far from harmless fun.
- Dastardly Dapper Derby: Contrasting the menace of the rest of his design, he wears a patched-up but still stylish bowler hat.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has at least two pairs of bony limbs, one bound in front of his chest and the other fully functional and used to light up and fire his cannon.
Tristia (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Tristia, Monark of Woe
Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori
The Monark of Woe. Currently engaged in a contract with Yugo Jingu, formerly Hugo Cromwell and possesses the Authority of Woe, granting the user the power of Essokinesis—to alter reality however one wishes.- All for Nothing: Her efforts to maintain her charade as "Sora Jingu" are rendered useless in "Deepest Depths" when she, Yoru, and Yugo regain their memories of Act 2 thanks to the Vice-President's Resonance. This also includes the memories Tristia wiped from Yugo's memory, allowing him to regain his memories as Hugo Cromwell and force her to act as a Monark rather than as "Sora Jingu". Any desire she might have to remain at Yugo's side in any capacity is similarly destroyed when Yugo's Ideals shatter due to the latter having given up on his original wish, thus nulling the pact between him and Tristia.
- Assimilation Plot: In "Birth of a New World", Yugo's impending death causes her to crack and leads to her absorbing him, and later does the same to Shinya when she realizes Yugo loves Shinya dearly. She then decides to not only absorb anyone and everyone two also hold dear, but eventually "the world Yugo loves".
- Becoming the Mask: Although Tristia may have originally just been granting Yugo's wish, she genuinely came to love and see herself as "Sora", to the point that even in "Woeful Execution" and "Birth of a New World" where Yugo is dead, she's desperate to remain as "Sora". One of her combat lines when idle is "I am Sora Jingu." Even when Yugo forces her to discard the mask in "Deepest Depths" and claims she's 'graduated' from impersonating Yugo's wife, it's clear she still harbors some affection for her Pactbearer.
- Big Good: She poses as this while in her guise as Sora Jingu, authorizing the creation of the True Student Council to combat the Pactbearters. In "Intermission: Dusk", however, she makes it very clear she will not allow any Pactbearer to remain in the Academy and is very adamant that the Vice-President must be killed as he doesn't have any associated Mist, therefore making finding his Ideals impossible. In "Tower of Gluttony", she's even the main threat.
- Black-and-White Morality: Although she means well and wants to protect humanity from the influence of the Otherworld, she will not allow any Pactbearers to leave Shin Mikado, alive or dead. In three of the four Act 2 chapters, she opts to kill the Vice-President since he's an unusual existence who doesn't have an associated Mist (and therefore no way to find his Ideals) unlike the other Pactbearers and is therefore too dangerous to be left alone. The only route where she doesn't try to kill him is Kokoro's, since both she and the Vice-President choose to be sealed away within the Otherworld.
- Dissonant Serenity: She almost never raises her voice, even in the heat of battle. Her calm and composed demeanor even as she prepares to erase the Vice-President from existence makes her more than a little unsettling, if not creepy."I ask that you bear with me. Your compliance is appreciated."
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Due to her inexperience with humans due to having very few Pactbearers in comparison to other Monarks, Tristia quickly became attached and fixated with Yugo to the point she began posing as his wife and repeatedly suppressed his memories to ensure he would continue living in his wish to spend the rest of his life with Sora Jingu.
- Good Is Not Soft: She took up Sora's old duties, which also included monitoring the students of Shin Mikado and eliminating any that made pacts with Monarks. She actually becomes far worse in "Woeful Execution" where Yugo's death and desperation to continue to live as Sora Jingu causes her to snap and decides to kill not only any human with the slightest potential of becoming a Pactbearer, but also anyone who is not content with their life. For reference, in the aforementioned route, she admits to having killed over a hundred students and teachers by the time Ryotaro and the Vice-President confront her.
- Greater-Scope Villain: While this would technically apply to Tristia and Kakeru, the latter of whom is responsible for the Stable Time Loop within Shin Mikado, it was her answering Yugo's desire and becoming his Monark that kickstarted the series of events within the game.
- Hero Killer: In ''Birth of a New World", she kills the Vice-President, who took the attack that was meant for Kokoro.
- His Own Worst Enemy: Sora, or rather Tristia, is a Monark posing as a member of the Jingu family, whose mission is to defeat those associated with the Otherworld. The problem, however, is that Tristia is a Monark and therefore part of the problem. The repeated time loops and battles with the seven Pactbearers within Shin Mikado put a massive strain on her to the point that she spawned an aberrant Monark to handle the burden, with said Monark wanting to become her own individual and plot Tristia's downfall.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Develops this opinion in the midst of a grief-induced breakdown in "Woeful Execution" after losing Yugo, blaming humanity's Ego to be the root of all the distortions within the world. This makes her decide to kill anyone with a strong Ego, regardless of how minuscule their potential of becoming a Pactbearer is. She ends up killing over a hundred people by the time Ryotaro and the Vice-President confront her.
- Hunter Of Her Own Kind: She's a Monark who (at first) leads the fight against other Monarks and their Pactbearers, and part of her skillset includes the barrier that currently surrounds the school.
- Identity Impersonator: When she was unable to revive the original Sora Jingu with her Essokinesis and the Authority of Vanity seemingly rejected her, Tristia opted to pose as Sora and wipe her Pactbearer's memories of everything pertaining to the Otherworld and the Daemons. It eventually grew into Becoming the Mask as Tristia began to identify herself as "Sora Jingu".
- Immortal Immaturity: If Hugo Cromwell's notes are to be believed, Tristia is rather immature and childish. He chalks it up to her inexperience with human Pactbearers, as Essokinesis is an incredibly powerful skill that can easily go wrong and Pactbearers have been noted to be killed by their own Authorities several times before in the past. This immaturity is what led to her fixation with Yugo after he makes a pact with her to the point she wiped Yugo's memories and began impersonating Sora Jingu in order to make him happy.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: One of the lesser aspects of her Essokinesis. In addition to warping reality, Tristia can alter a person's memories. She's been erasing Yugo's memories of the Otherworld and Daemons so as to keep up her ruse of being Sora and anytime those memories threaten to resurface. "Unhinged Darkness" implies she's also overwritten Shinya's memories every time he grows to question her motives or starts becoming sympathetic towards the Pactbearers.
- Locked Out of the Loop: For some reason or another, Tristia knew nothing about the Outer God Yugo discovered through the Jingu family's research, despite having more or replaced the original Sora Jingu. She even rejects the possibility that the gods even existed when Ryotaro proposed this theory. It's plausible Tristia knew nothing of the Gate because that knowledge has since been lost, as Hugo Cromwell spent several years investigating the Otherworld and only discovered the existence of the Gate recently.
- Love Makes You Evil: She genuinely loves Yugo. The problem is that she's a Monark, and she is partly responsible for the anomalies as well as the one keeping the Barrier up. The only thing keeping her sane from this contradiction is Yugo himself, and his death is what causes her to snap and go full-blown Ax-Crazy. This is lampshaded by Yoru in the TSC Pactbearers' chapters.Yoru: To love him. To be loved by him. Those are the cornerstones of Sora Jingu's identity.
- Meaningful Name: Her true name "Tristia" is also the name of a series of letters written by Augustan poet Ovid. Fittingly for a Monark presiding over the sin of Woe, "Tristia" also means "sorrow" or "lamentation".
- Mole in Charge: She's an impersonator who's effectively taken over the head position of a Daemon-hunting organization, though she's genuinely come to fill the role out of genuine obligation rather than subvert the organization from within.
- Older Than She Looks: Nozomi suspects that she's doing something to retain her youthful appearance despite being so wise, learned, and skilled. This is all but confirmed when she's revealed to be a Monark who's been impersonating Yugo's dead wife for several decades.
- Reality Warper: Her Authority is Essokinesis, the ability to manipulate reality itself. The most obvious manifestation is her creation of barriers, like the one isolating the school or smaller ones to disable specific targets. A lesser manifestation is erasing or altering a person's memories, such as what she's been doing with Yugo and Shinya. That said, she's got nothing on Yoru, her Literal Split Personality who can not only mess with her memories but even create her very own Monark.
- Replacement Goldfish: To Yugo, for the original Sora Jingu who is long-deceased. It's zigzagged, however, in that Yugo only accepted her because she wiped his memories as Hugo Cromwell and anything relating to the existence of the Otherworld and Daemons. When he regains his memories in "Deepest Depths", Yugo sees her only as his Monark and a tool at best.
- Villainous Breakdown: To varying degrees in the TSC Pactbearer Act 2 chapters. In "Birth of a New World", it's a Sanity Slippage where Yugo's impending death and refusal to live as Sora Jingu without him causes Tristia to absorb Yugo into herself, and after absorbing Shinya, she decides to absorb "the world Yugo loves" so to make him happy. In "Woeful Execution", Yugo's death causes her to snap completely and is wholly willing to kill anyone who is not content or has the slightest possibility of becoming a Pactbearer, so as to remain as Sora. In short, the breakdown stems from Yugo's existence dictating she lives as Sora, and not helping matters was the strain she put on herself in trying to rid Shin Mikado of the distortions, of which she is also partially responsible for given her existence as a Monark.
- Vocal Dissonance: In Act 2, Sora's breakdown has her speak in either a calm or gentle and caring tone...as she's either wiping students from existence or absorbing them into herself.
Monark of Vanity (MAJOR SPOILERS)
One of two aberrant Monarks encountered by Hugo Cromwell many years ago, it wields the Authority of Vanity, granting the user the ability of Animakinesis. Initially presumed to be Vanitas, the Monark of Vanity is revealed to be a separate entity and was in fact absorbed by Tristia prior to the start of the game, taking the Monark's Authority. Yoru would later transfer its Authority to the Vice-President, an Artificial Human that would become a failed replicant of the original Monark of Vanity.
For information about its current incarnation, see the Vice-President's folder in the True Student Council section.
For information about its current incarnation, see the Vice-President's folder in the True Student Council section.
- The Ghost: As it's been absorbed by Tristia, the Monark never appears beyond being mentioned by Hugo.
- Heel–Face Reincarnation: Played with. The Monark was absorbed by Tristia, which prevents the Monark from reforming like the rest. When Yoru was born due to the confliction emotions and contradictions within Tristia for wanting to be "Sora Jingu", the Monark of Vanity's core transferred to her. Yoru would later create various Vanity projects in the hopes of making one with an Ego who could house the Monark of Vanity's core and wield its Authority. She eventually succeeded with the Vice-President, though Hugo explicitly refers to them as a "pale imitation" than an actual Monark.
- Posthumous Character: For a given value of "posthumous". When a Monark is defeated, it will disperse and "hibernate" until it reforms at a later date. Forty years prior to the start of the game, the Monark of Woe defeated and absorbed the Monark of Vanity along with its Authority.
- Walking Spoiler: Good luck trying to talk about the game without spoiling the fact that the Monark of Vanity and Vanitas are actually separate characters, or that the Monark was "reincarnated" by Yoru as the Vice-President.
Others
Hugo Cromwell (MAJOR SPOILERS)
The author of various notes, studies, and information the Jingu family used to study and counteract the Otherworld and its phenomenon.
For more information about this character as Yugo Jingu and the Pactbearer of Woe, see their respective folders.
For more information about this character as Yugo Jingu and the Pactbearer of Woe, see their respective folders.
- Ambiguous Situation: While Cromwell's research is used in-game to explain certain aspects of the Otherworld, the Daemons, and the power of Authorities, it's also mentioned the Jingu Family has a long history of combatting the Otherworld, making it unclear whether Cromwell's notes were things he discovered on his own or his findings complimented and helped expand the knowledge the Jingus already had.
- Anonymous Author: Downplayed. Cromwell's name is well-known to the Jingu family and to the TSC through his various notes and journals, but he abandoned his birth name and past to marry a woman in Shin Mikado. As it turns out, he changed his name to Yugo, a synonym for his original identity.
- The Ghost: He's never mentioned in-game, and his presence is only alluded to in the various notes and journals found across the school and is otherwise implied to be long dead. That said, there are implications he may be Yugo Jingu as one of the notes found in the game reveals he abandoned his old name and past to marry a woman he met at Shin Mikado many years ago. "Deepest Reaches" confirms it, with him revealing that "Yugo" was a synonym for Hugo so he could live in Japan with Sora.
- Noodle Incident: Cromwell infiltrated Shin Mikado Academy back in the 1970s to retrieve some unearthly artifact at the behest of his employer. Rather than fulfill his obligation, he fell in love with someone at the school and married her. He never explains what the artifact was in his notes.
- Occult Detective: Implied. He has extensive knowledge of the Otherworld, including the Daemons who live within it, and the nature of the Pactbearers. His notes and journals are used by the Jingu family to help them better understand and combat the Otherworld, which comes in handy when the Barrier and Mist appear within the school at the start of the game.
- Riddle for the Ages: Exactly what was the "unearthly artifact" in Shin Mikado that someone hired him to retrieve before he abandoned his job in pursuit of love?
- Walking Spoiler: For a man you only learn of through collectible notes and journals, he is surprisingly integral to the story, and certain reveals regarding his actions in the game make it impossible to talk about them without spoiling the nature of his relationship with the Jingu Family.
Taro Date
Ryotaro's grandfather, Hayate's friend, and founder of the Date Conglomerate. Once a humble architect, through selflessness and unwavering drive to gain the power, resources, and connections to achieve his goals and personal ideals, he ended up creating one of the country's richest business conglomerates to date.
- Always Someone Better: He's this to Hayate Tsumabuki, who strove to meet his example. It was his drive to match his old friend that led to him losing his clout and family and his eventual meeting with Invidia.
- Self-Made Man: He was once just an architect but ended up building an entire business empire alongside physical buildings.
- Posthumous Character: He's long-deceased, but like many great men, his presence still looms large and affects the living long after his passing.
Carter (MAJOR SPOILERS)
Carter
A man who helped the Jingu Family centuries ago when dealing with an entity within the Otherworld.- The Ghost: Compared to Cromwell, who is mentioned In-Universe by Kokoro and Shinya during the final act of the game and is the author of various journals and notes dedicated to studying the Otherworld and Daemons and even makes a physical appearance, Carter only appears in two of Cromwell's miscellaneous notes.
- Meaningful Name: While it's uncertain whether Carter is his first or last name, the fact that he's mentioned as the one who sealed away the Outer God Yog-Sothoth may imply he's none other than Randolph Carter, the Author Avatar of H.P. Lovecraft.
- Small Role, Big Impact: To the same degree as Takamori Suzuki in this regard. He makes no physical appearance and is only mentioned by name in two of Cromwell's notes, but the Jingu Family requested his help in sealing away a Daemonic entity who the Monarks and lesser Daemons derived their powers from. Said Daemonic entity was none other than Yog-Sothoth, an Outer God. Were it not for Cromwell discovering his journals and contribution to the Jingu family, chances are Cromwell would never have found the Gate in the first place.
