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Dr. Connal
Dr. Sigmund Connal
"Now just hold still. ...You might feel a little shock..."
A psychologist known for his controversial use of shock therapy. Also runs his own Orphanage of Fear.
- Alas, Poor Villain: His Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands of either Lin or the PULSE Mr. Mime, while well-deserved, still comes off as There Is No Kill Like Overkill .Anna (during her postgame route): Sigmund may have been Evil, but that doesn’t mean he deserves what you did!
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: He runs an orphanage, and uses electroshock therapy to treat mental illnesses. But to be blunt, he's probably the most mentally ill person in the Orphanage, and possibly in the entire story. It's also deconstructed, because he does a lot of things in the name of "helping" the children he watches over that any sane person could tell are not helping at all. Anna even spells it out to him when she's running away that he can't tell the difference between helping the kids and hurting them, and he ignores her.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: It's not known whether Lin or the PULSE Mr Mime killed him, but when you find him in the Labradorra-Calcenon Control Centre, he's slumped in the PULSE machine and his face is covered in blood. Worse, when you fight him, you get a better look at his body- it's hanging from the PULSE Mr Mime's strings, it's covered in blood and his right leg has been reduced to a bloody lump of flesh that doesn't even have a foot attached. Worse, since his Alakazam Mega Evolves during the battle, something that shouldn't be possible if he's dead, there's a theory that he was actually still alive at that point, and the PULSE Mr Mime was keeping him alive until after it was defeated.
- Dirty Old Man: Heather calls him this in the void, though he clearly isn't one at first glance; when defeated at her own gym Saphira explained that her animosity largely stems from him having sexually assaulted her in a drunken state of grief over his sister. Though Connal himself claims that said accusation is merely a delusion and there is little evidence for either side, the tone and theme of abuse in the game imply that Saphira is telling the truth.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: While normally this isn't, it's justified in this case, since it's both a) seemingly his go-to method for everything, and b) he doesn't put his patients under anesthesia before he does it.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Says he doesn't approve of Team Meteor's methods despite joining up with them. Oddly enough, this goes both ways, since some members of Team Meteor seem to think the same of him.
- Freudian Excuse: He grew up with strict, cold parents and an older sister, Lizzy, whom he adored. Lizzy suffered from clinical depression, and none of the treatments worked. After reading about ECT, Sigmund tried it with his Pichu; it actually seemed to work, but when his mother found out, she took his Pichu away and banned him from talking to Lizzy. Lizzy, meanwhile, was suffering from withdrawal from going off antidepressants, and having lost the one thing that was actually helping, she found her mother's stash of the antidepressants and accidentally killed herself by taking the whole bottle. It left significant scars on Sigmund.
- Hate Sink: Tragic as his backstory is, it doesn’t make his actions any less horrific or make him any less of a horrible person… especially when you learn that he considers disabilities like Noel’s autism to be something that requires electric shocks, or when he denied Shade’s request for gender transitioning. While there are more despicable antagonists than him he is still a genuinely horrible person.
- Knight Templar: He is absolutely convinced that he's the only one who knows how to look after the children in his "care", and won't listen otherwise, even when the children themselves tell him he's hurting them.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: While his doctorate seems to have come through legitimate means, his morality is... up in the air. At best.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: It’s implied that Connal is both ableist and transphobic, as he considers Noel’s autism to be something that requires electric shock therapy, and he denies Shade access to gender transition care even though it would improve his mental health, which is his job to do.
- Psycho Electro: What Electivire's canon Pokedex entries claim it to be. Like master, like Pokemon.
- Psycho Psychologist: Who conducts literal shock therapy on his charges.
- Start of Darkness: He studied psychology because his sister committed suicide after being refused electric shock therapy. It became his go-to procedure, even in patients that are, at worst, a little defiant.
- Villain Has a Point: After Cal shoves Shelly onto the couch (granted, after Sigmund was provoking and psychoanalyzing him...), Shelly responds that she's fine and that he 'didn't mean it'.
- Villain Team-Up: He teams up with Team Meteor after the orphanage is liberated by you, Cain, and Shelly.
- Would Hurt a Child: The worst thing is, he is absolutely certain he's doing it for the child's own good.
Ms. Craudburry
Ignosia Craudburry
An old woman in the Lapis Ward, who is a target of both the Magma and Aqua gangs.- Asshole Victim: Her Jerkass attitude will probably keep you from feeling bad about robbing her Pokémon, especially after you learn she’s known to buy stolen Pokémon so they likely weren’t even hers to begin with.
- Cassandra Truth: When she tells the police officer in her house that you were responsible for stealing her Pokemon, he doesn’t believe her, since the department has the profiles of all the other members of both gangs (you’re not one of them at the moment), and there’s no actual evidence you did it otherwise beyond her word. However, saying she was going to get the officer fired and then insulting the entire police department, and then the entire city of Reborn, probably wasn’t the best way to try and get what she wanted.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She is a corrupt ambassador with ties to illegal trading, and is known to buy stolen Pokémon from 7th Street.
- Jerkass: As if everything else on this page wasn't a dead giveaway, in the postgame during the Shaymin quest, she goes into the area after you've turned it into a flower garden - and decides to destroy it, more or less just to spite you, Eve, and Mr. Seacrest (who she has a "history" with) and prevent your "devil summoning".
- Rich Bitch: Very much so.Police Officer: "…Oi. No wonder the others insisted on drawing straws to see who had to take this case…"
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: She thinks she has this. Pretty much everyone who knows her disagrees.
- Smug Snake: Believes that she has the right to do whatever she wants due to her wealth. You and Archer/Maxwell take great pleasure in correcting that belief.
- Uncertain Doom: After you defeat her in the Idyll of Panaceance and get the Flower Garden Field to Level 5, she gets angrier and angrier — and then vanishes. Eve isn't sure what happened, and if you're on her route, Lin openly questions if you made her explode.
Alistasia
Ringmaster Alistasia
The head honcho of the Agate Circus, who inherited the position from her father.
- Everyone Has Standards: She's a bit of a cheapskate, and isn't too happy about all the shit she has to deal with as a result of her job, but after Samson's Umbral Battle, she openly suggests he see a professional.Ringmaster: Have you considered therapy? I know a guy covered by your insurance.
Samson: I have insurance? - Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: During the Meloetta quest in postgame, she briefly rambles about the Anomaly field surrounding the Melody Pokemon... and realizes that she may have been hit by More than Mind Control. She's very insistent after that you catch it and take it away.
- Family Business: She’s new to her job, as her father, the previous Ringmaster, passed away recently. Deconstructed later - as it turns out, while she loves the circus, she isn't very good at taking care of all the economical needs and personal affairs.
- Hold Your Hippogriffs: In the postgame, after it seems that you've finished up with everything in one of the sidequests..."I'm gonna turn around, and there's gonna be more nonsense behind me."
Turns around.
"Great galloping Galvantula, whaddyaknow." - Large Ham: When introducing herself, you and your opponent to the audience for your gym matches at the Agate Circus. Justified, since she's a circus ringmaster.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She was willing to let all the people displaced by the sleeping attack on Agate City stay at the Agate Circus. Also, she was willing to overlook Ciel giving you a Battle Pass directly, something that is normally not allowed.
- Spoonerism: She has this when she’s introducing herself to you.Ringmaster: "Guaranteed to make your draw jop! I mean, jaw drop! Dammit!"
Maxwell
Maxwell
The leader of the Magma Gang, archrivals of the Aqua Gang.- Emotions vs. Stoicism: Whereas Archer seems to be more on the logical side of things, Maxwell falls more under the emotional category.
- That Man Is Dead: If you side with the Aqua Gang, the second time you defeat him, he decides to “kill himself” – that is, who he once was, by getting a normal job and a normal life, deciding that “glory was a cage.”
Archer
Archer
The leader of the Aqua Gang, and opponent of the Magma Gang.- Emotions vs. Stoicism: He's mostly used to logic, as opposed to Maxwell’s emotional approach.
- That Man Is Dead: If you side with the Magma Gang and defeat him twice, once at his hideout and the second time at 7th St, he decides to just depart the Aqua Gang and dissolve it.
DJ Arclight
DJ Arclight
"Yo, Reborn City, what's good! DJ Arclight, coming to you live!"
The DJ and spokesperson of the Reborn Nightclub, a very exclusive area where the best way to get in (not only) is to defeat the Elite Four.
- Anime Hair: He has a large yellow Mohawk that only looks like it could exist in a place with lots of hairstyling tech.
- Electric Black Guy: Downplayed overall, but 2/3 of his team members are Electric type.
- Eye Scream: Lin has one of his eyes ripped out for his “penalty” in Episode 16.
- Good News, Bad News: How Adrienn delivers the news about his eye; he’s still alive, thankfully, but said eye is gone.
- Graceful Loser: Arclight accepts his defeat in the Meteor base rather calmly, despite knowing he’ll likely be subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture as punishment (this loss is what costs him his eye).Arclight: “At least this way, winner and loser alike, we can both take pride in knowing that we did everything we could. Go get em’, hero.”
- Make Me Wanna Shout: His other specialty; he has a Noivern and Exploud, both of which know Boomburst.
- Mission Control: He serves as this in the Postgame at the Nightclub.
- Mr. Exposition: On the TV Interviews channel, he gives descriptions of the Gym Leaders and their teams and tactics.
Zina Vanhanen
Zina Vanhanen
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Radomus says that she's a lot like Anna is - right down to the dreamsickness that apparently killed Zina and nearly killed Anna in her route.
- Posthumous Character: You fight what appears to be her ghost in a late postgame quest.
- The Sacred Darkness: When you fight her, half of her teammates are Dark-types - ironically, though, her ace is a Lunala.
- Sympathy for the Devil: She refers to Lin, in her route, as a "scared girl".
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Mordant Urchin Lin/Lindsey Paraeah
A mysterious voice, who appears offscreen when you leave the Citae Astrae after the encounter with Elias, and later at the end of Episode 18. She is eventually revealed to be Lin's true, child self, trapped in the New World.
- Abusive Parents: Lin's father would sexually abuse her and urge her to keep it secret from her mother, praising her as a "good girl" and "little angel" who would one day be a "perfect wife" to some "very lucky man". When her mother discovered this, she attempted to kill herself and Lin so that they could escape the abuse. She was unable to go ahead with killing Lin.
- all lowercase letters: Her way of speaking.
- Ambiguous Situation: The cutscene triggered by taking the Ebony Stonepiece (obtained by completing the Pokédex) has additional dialogue if the player doesn't save her from falling in the New World Asylum or is in the Anna Route, in which there is no way to save her. Both variations have her say the same line she did before falling, implying that she survived. If she is alive, the scene instead seems to be a flashback showing the day she fell into the Citae.
- Bad Boss: To Team Meteor — she admits in the postgame that she was deliberately running them into the ground and had no real intention of helping them win.
- Big Bad: She's the main bad guy of the game after usurping Team Meteor from Solaris.
- Cessation of Existence: If the player releases Arceus, she disappears from the game.Lin: "...wait. ...you... you didn't... KILL him, right? puppy was... all i had... you're a bastard. i'm going. don't try and stop me."
- Dark and Troubled Past: At the ripe age of 12, Lin has already been exposed to incestuous sexual abuse, suicide and attempted murder, Sigmund's Orphanage of Fear, and living on the streets.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: If you choose to save her from falling before catching Arceus at the end of her route, she's absolutely blindsided as to why you'd do something like that. And in her credits scene, she's hesitant to go into the Nightclub because she's convinced the other characters would kill her for her actions, even questioning why she hasn't been arrested yet.
- Evil Counterpart: To you, the player. The avatar she uses in the main game is highly similar to how you control the player character, and she makes it very clear she sees all this as a game... which, to be fair, it is.
- Fighting a Shadow: The actual Lin was actually trapped in the New World long before you arrived in Reborn, and the Lin you see before the postgame is just an avatar/projection the real Lin made to free herself.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: She says "You’re like me... why else would you keep playing?", and later calls the player character by the player's username on their computer.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: When you talk to her at the end of the Deoxys quest, and say "yes" when she asks if you'd like to play another game with more Deoxys, she opens the Pokémon Rejuvenation website on your browser.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: She started out as an abused and powerless child who fell into the New World... and found an Arceus. Both worlds were her oyster after that.
- The Ghost: For all of the main game in the Lin Route, and until the main game's very end in Anna's Route.
- Happily Adopted: By you, if you catch Arceus in the final post-game quest in her own route and accept her request to let her tag along.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: There aren't too many differences between her route and Anna's route in the postgame, in terms of both Character Development and how things turn out for people. Considering Anna's the top member of the Elite Four and Lin was previously the Dragon Ascendant to Solaris, that's... surprising.
- Jekyll & Hyde: She acts like this when talking to the other voice in E19's teaser. Both are keen on the game, saying they want to keep playing. Both say that they've been helping out the player. The playful voice who speaks with proper grammar acts like they're a friend of the player, saying they're the player's ally, while Lin says the player is ungrateful and points out that she has done more for the player than the player ever did for her. She even threatens to keep the player stuck in the black space between episodes.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: When she kills Connal/abandons him to the PULSE Mr. Mime, it's horrifying, but it's pretty hard to say he didn't have it coming.
- Laughably Evil: After meeting her it becomes absolutely impossible to take either Lin seriously.
- Meaningful Name: "Paraeah" alludes to pariah.
- Motive Rant: During the Genesect quest in her route, she gives one to justify her actions as a hatred of adults.Lin: "but like, every other adult is Like That they just yell and bark orders and make kids into their own personal dumping ground for their control issues or whatever. all because they feel some god-given sense of entitlement or superiority by supposed merit of being The Adult (tm) isn't it better to get rid of that entirely??? that's all i've ever been doing."
- No Name Given: Until revealing herself as Lin at the very end of the main game.
- Ominous Music Box Tune: Her Leitmotif.
- Pet the Dog: She apparently made the Idyll of Pestilence/Panaceance so that Eve would be able to find a way to heal Lumi's genetic illness.
- Also, on her route, she (eventually) thanks Terra during the Zygarde quest for being there for her.
- She told Euphie straight up that Dr Connal would never give him the letter he needed, but offered to forge him one instead. (Euphie didn't take the offer.)
- She says at one point that she set up the quest with the Lati twins to help Florinia with her emotions.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Several of her Pokémon have illegal moves, such as a Togekiss with Oblivion Wing.
- Villain Has a Point: In her route, while a lot of her dialogue is very cynical, blunt, and mean-spirited, she tends to be right when she makes observations about people.
- Walking Spoiler: Discussing even her name is enough to spoil much of the game's plot.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A variation. We first meet the Destroyer part in her avatar, she is the
Jerkass Woobie behind it. - You Bastard!: In E19's teaser, she calls out the player (not the player character, the player) for being ungrateful for everything she did for them, and later does the same in her postgame Route if they refuse to release the Pokémon trapped in their PC. She also calls the player this if they release Arceus and talk to her in the Nightclub.
Hardcore-Exclusive Characters
Techie Johnathan
Techie Johnathan
The current head of the Hardcore League, a harder version of the Reborn League for select trainers. He technically existed in the base game, but he was a one-off early-game trainer; he's pretty much a different character here.- Determinator: In a bit of side dialogue, he tells you that he's going to get an Arceus for a kid who requested one, just to see his reaction. Not too impressive, until you find out that he actually succeeded ...sort of. He got a Type: Null, an artificial recreation of Arceus, which he intends to pass off as the real deal. Still impressive, considering there are canonically only three in existence.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: When you finally fight him (around the time you get to Apophyll Academy), he has a relatively underwhelming team, consisting of early-game Com Mons like Watchog or Pokémon that aren't even fully evolved, like Pikachu or Klang. Then he sends out his final Pokémon: a goddamn Rayquaza, which is 28 levels higher than the level cap to boot! Even with a sub-par movepool, it's still likely to lead to a Total Party Kill. Then he tells you he wasn't even going all out which is true; he can Mega Evolve his Rayquaza!
- Smug Super: As head of the Hardcore League and owner of a Rayquaza, he's got a bit of a swelled head.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Even though he only had about three lines in the base game, he was still relatively nice; here, he's not afraid to rub his superiority in your face.
Jim/The Gym Guy
Jim/Gym Guy
The former Gym helper in the Reborn League, until Ame replaced him with the telecom system. He now works for the Hardcore league, letting you shift the leader's teams between Single Battles and Double Battles.- Butt-Monkey: Constantly gets hit by one misfortune after another, starting with him losing his job at the Reborn League.
- Making a Splash: When you get to fight him in an optional battle, four of his six Pokémon- Marshtomp, Lanturn, Floatzel, and Gyarados- are Water-type. Justified, since he became a fisherman after he was fired from the Reborn League.
- New Child Left Behind: According to his diary, he has a daughter he barely knows. Corey's suicide and the fact that Corey left behind a young daughter has made him want to connect with her.
- Unwitting Pawn: Implied to be one for Techie Johnathan, who only hired him because he apparently knew Commander.
Spoiler character
Commander
The original head of the Hardcore League.- Foil: To Ame. Both are based on the people who made the respective game/mod and founded a Pokémon League, but while Amethyst ran her league and actively worked to maintain it, Commander stepped down and left it to Techie Johnathan, becoming a recluse in Terra's computer world. They even have different forms of the Pokémon Ninetales on their team!
- Wholesome Crossdresser: After Ame dies, he decides to pose as her to make sure that nobody panics due to the fact that the League Champion is dead. The best part is: It's not the first time he's ever done that.
