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Team Xen
In General
In General
A mysterious terrorist organisation operating in Aevium. Having been relatively docile for a long time, they have finally decided to enact their nefarious plan.- Battle Theme Music: Battle - Team Xen
. The Analysts and Death Wings get this variation - Jack the Ripoff: The original Team Xen was a criminal organisation operating in the Miera Region. After the nuclear meltdown killed their leader, Lord Xenadin, and destroyed the region, they stopped operating. Around 50 years later, this Team Xen appeared, now in the control of Madame X.
- Meaningful Rename: All of the executives use pseudonyms, ranging from combining two names meaningful to the person to just removing the first letter of their name.
- Mysterious Past: Most of the executives, and especially Madame X.
- Nom de Guerre: The aliases the executives use.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: As far as most of Aevium knew for a while, they were mostly harmless. This was not the case. Just ask the residents of the Badlands.
- So Last Season: The Shadow Pokémon. They were actually a genuine threat on the first 2 Chapters, particulary Shadow Mewtwo, but they became rarer after the destruction of their factory. Since Madelis disable your snag Machine, when facing Geara's grunts in Chapter 4 you just have to KO them instead of catching them (wich is much easier). Then in the Terajuma Arc, you only face the (now under-levelled) Shadow Pokemon of Chapter 4. Other than SEC Shadow Slakoth in Chapter 8, no Shadow Pokemon appear anymore in the game.
- However, Shadow Pokemon reappear in Chapter 15, since Cassandra has at least one - a Shadow Bisharp - on her team.
- Trapped in Villainy: Most of the lower-level members are this. See Madame X's profile for why.
- You Have Failed Me: The Death Wings operate on this trope- if they fail a mission, the penalty is death. All of them are fully aware of this.
Jenner
Professor Jennerson “Jenner” Geller
Click here to see his appearance in Terajuma
Melia's foster father and the regional professor, who has been working with Team Xen and the Storm Chasers.
- Anti-Villain: Sure, he's part of Team Xen, but he sincerely cares for Melia and even sent the player to Goldenwood Forest to try and prevent Melia from being kidnapped. And like a lot of the other Team Xen members, thanks to Madame X he was Trapped in Villainy.
- Beard of Sorrow: He grows stubble on his chin while hiding out from Team Xen in the Aquamarine Depths.
- Becoming the Mask: Team Xen gave Melia to him with the intention of him simply raising her until she was old enough and then giving her to them. Instead, Jenner came to genuinely love and care for Melia, and wound up wanting her to have her own life away from Team Xen and the Storm Chasers.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: He flies his Klinklang up to the summit of Valor Mountain and uses it to take out all the Grunts Geara had posted there as backup in case the player and Melia beat him. Geara then uses his Giratina to knock Jenner and Klinklang into the lava.
- Good Parents: Until everything went south, he was a good and kind father to Melia, and genuinely cared for and supported her.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: He's thrown into the lava by Geara just after he helps you and Melia at Valor Mountain by taking out a large number of Team Xen Grunts.
- Hidden Depths: Was apparently in a death metal band when he was young, and he helps Amber create a distraction for Melia and the player character from Team Xen by screaming into a microphone while she plays guitar. Later, after his death, his spirit rematch takes place on the Concert Venue field for similar reasons.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: He gave Melia a code for the briefcase that opened a compartment with a Snag Machine in it, and told her to only use it if something bad happened. Once Melia and the player escaped Team Xen's attack, Melia quickly realized that since the Snag Machine only works on Shadow Pokemon, the only way he'd know to give her one is if he knew Team Xen A, had Shadow Pokemon, and B, would come after her, and thus he's part of Team Xen. In turn, Team Xen realizes that he's the only person who could have given Melia and the player a Snag Machine, and so he was going against his orders. In short, everyone's mad at him.
- The Mole: He worked for the Storm Chasers as their spy in Team Xen.
- Offstage Villainy: While he was setting Melia up seemingly to be kidnapped and used by Team Xen, there's never been any indication he was abusive towards her besides that. Also, how and why he joined Team Xen has never been revealed. It's later revealed that he was never really villainous, at least by the time the story starts, and intended (at least, as Erin interprets it) for Melia to follow her own path.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: After his death, his spirit, in the form of an ethereal butterfly when spoken to on the overworld, can be challenged once a day for valuable items.
- Pet the Dog: He knew that both the Storm Chasers and Team Xen were intending to recruit Melia, and both were using him to do it, but instead of going with either team, he encouraged her to apply to join the Pokemon League with the intention of helping her forge her own path in life, though it didn't work.
- Put on a Bus: After the start of the game, just before you get the first badge, he's kidnapped by Crescent.
- Seriously Scruffy: His hair grows out and becomes disheveled and grows stubble on his chin While hiding out in Terajuma from Team Xen.
- Signature Mon: His Klinklang. It gets thrown into the lava with him by Giratina and Geara.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He went from being an eccentric non-conformist, who used to know Tesla and Kenneth, to a professor and member of Team Xen.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Storm Chasers planned to dispose of him after delivering Melia to Spacea and Tiempa.
- You're Not My Father: Melia initially thinks this about him after discovering he was supposed to hand her over to Team Xen. She only gets to take it back just before he dies.
Eli and Sharon
Eli and Sharon
- Driven to Suicide: Sharon, almost. She contemplates jumping off a cliff, only for Crescent to push her off. Saki saves her though.
- Enemy Mine: Alongside Nastasia, they help the heroes in the endeavour to restore the Spring Of Rejuvenation.
- Funny Foreigner: Eli, whose grasp of English isn't the strongest, as seen every time he calls Sharon 'Shardon'. When he shows up in Chapter 14, his English has gotten a lot better, and he starts using big words all the time.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: They're not remotely threatening and don't seem to be that invested in Team Xen's goals. They Take a Level in Badass later, though.
- Noodle Incident: Eli somehow gets trapped in one of the tubes that appear to be used in the process for making Shadow Pokemon (or just keeping Pokemon in stasis) while still being aware of his surrounding. Sharon gets him out, but we never get an explanation for how or why this happened.
- Put on a Bus: After Amber's party, they don't appear for a long stretch of time.
- Running Gag: Nobody ever gets Sharon's name right.
- Signature Mon: Honchkrow and Mismagius.
- The Bus Came Back: They return after the Grand Dream Ball explosion to help with getting Melia, Alice and Allen to the Spring of Rejuvenation.
Zetta
Zetta
- The Bus Came Back: He- or at least a version of him- returns in Nightmare City as a minion of the Puppet Master. He later turns up in Chapter 15 as one of the guides in the School of Nightmares. Crescent gives him back to Melia at the end of .Karma Files.
- Cessation of Existence: The original Zetta "dies" as a result of losing his humanity, and is narratively replaced with his dream self, a more heroic version of him who assists the Puppet Master. After the latter's defeat and the dissolution of the dream world that the Puppet Master sustains, Dream Zetta, Dream Risa, and Dream Sec all cease to exist along with the Puppet Master.
- Good All Along: Indirectly implied by virtue of his dream self's personality. He's heavily based on the real Zetta and those around him's memories of him, a person who was shown to harbor doubts about Team Xen moments before his humanity was stripped away from him. While he wasn't free to indulge in his more playful side as a Team Xen admin very much, he fully embraces it as a dream construct, suggesting he'd of been a much more easy going person were circumstances different.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: His dialogue during the fight against him on Valor Mountain implies that he's getting cold feet about being part of Team Xen. Sadly, Crescent turns him back into a Solosis and captures him before he can do anything. His dream self encountered in the various Nightmare realms is a lot more civil and sympathetic.
- Loss of Identity: He effectively dies when Crescent returns him to his Solosis self, losing his sapience and identity in the process.
- Luke, You Are My Father: He was originally a Solosis before being injected with Melia's DNA, making him technically her brother - or son, depending on how you look at it.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Normally he's something of a Large Ham, but when you find him in Amethyst Cave, he's got nothing but pure hatred towards you for causing Melia's apparent death. Since he's a clone of Melia, it makes sense that he'd be pretty shook up by the death of his "sister".
- Posthumous Character: The Puppet Master employs a sort of dream clone of him that's comprised of the memories of people who knew him, including the protagonist. His dream self seems to be self aware and capable of recalling things from the real Zetta, but makes a point of distinguishing himself from the real thing.
- Reality Warper: It's stated that he's the only member of Team Xen that can create Dimensional Rifts.
- Signature Mon: Zepto, his shiny Type: Null, later a Silvally. After the events of Valor Mountain, Ren adopts Zepto into his own party.
- Starter Villain: Is the first Xen Executive you fight.
- Uplifted Animal: Turns out he's a Solosis that was injected with Melia's DNA, giving him the power to take a human form and control Dimensional Rifts. Crescent undoes this at the end of Chapter 8.
Madelis
Madelis
- Bad Liar: When Isha asks her how she sustained a bad wound, she lies that she fell on a knife. He doesn't buy it.
- Character Development: After being forced to work for Cassandra, Madelis realises that Team Xen's actions are both morally wrong and incredibly dangerous, and tries to talk Cassandra out of going through with her plans.
- The Chew Toy: After she's demoted and made Cassandra's slave, Cassandra continually puts her through hell for no reason besides For the Evulz.
- Egopolis: Downplayed, but the last part of the base in Carotos Mountain is referred to as "Madelis's Palace", and is filled with statues of her. So the downplaying might just be that it's not a whole city, just a base...
- Enemy Mine: Helps Melia fight Amanda at Ignis Ironworks, during which you play as the former.
- For the Evulz: Tries to destroy Sheridan Village just because it's the home of the traitor Keta, and does so in a way guaranteed to cause as much harm to those involved as possible. Later subverted - it's revealed that Team Xen's plans require people dying, for some yet-unrevealed reason.
- Girlish Pigtails : Which emphasize her childish behavior.
- Heel–Face Turn: She pulled one in between Chapters 14 and 15, after visiting Franchesca and realizing that while she and Neved both joined Team Xen to help a loved one, they wound up doing horrible things that are not what those loved ones would want.
- Hidden Depths: Is a huge fan of Tesla, so much that this completely derails her operation in Terajuma. She also has a sister, Lisbeth, who is associated with painful memories- later chapters imply that Lisbeth was ill and died some time ago. Lisbeth's name is one of the two she combined to create her own assumed name.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Is demoted by Madame X for the Amber fuckup and made Cassandra's bitch.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Realizes she was one of these as part of her Heel–Face Turn - she did horrible things, and told herself it was for the sake of the people she loved - but realized, in the end, that this isn't what her loved ones would want and everything she did has done nothing to save them.
- Signature Mon: Appears to be her Houndoom.
- Too Dumb to Live: She's given one simple task during the Terajuma Arc: join Zetta and Geara and help them with their plan. Instead she goes with her own plan to abduct Amber so she can get to talk to Tesla (and she could have easily captured Melia, but chose not to). After being released from Kyogre she just vanishes, letting Zetta and Geara deal with the plan alone. Madame X is not pleased, especially since Madelis' fuckup directly leads to Team Xen losing Zetta and the Dimensional Rifts.
- Also she goes to her meeting with Cassandra, (who call her on this) in her Xen outfit, out in the open. How she wasn't arrested is anyone's guess. Granted, considering her relationship with Cassandra, for all we know, she wanted this to happen...
- Uncertain Doom: She was last seen in the Den of Souls when the angry ghosts attacked, but they didn't throw her off the bridge, Nim didn't save her and no trace of her was found afterwards. She doesn't appear in .Karma Files, and what happened to her is anyone's guess.
- Worthy Opponent: She compliments your efforts if you manage to defeat Shadow Mewtwo.
SEC
SEC
- Body Backup Drive: SEC states outright the first time you meet it that it has multiple bodies with SEC downloaded onto each of them.
- The Bus Came Back: Turns up in Chapter 15 as the guide for Group 1 in the School of Nightmares.
- Deadpan Snarker: Rather hilariously.
- Helpful Mook: Uses Shadow Pokemon in most of his fights, which you can catch, purify and then add to your team.
- Recurring Boss: While "boss" is a stretch, SEC has shown up multiple times throughout the game, and probably will do so in the future as well.
- Self-Serving Memory: More "You-Deprecating" than "Self-Serving", but SEC tends to mock you with Blatant Lies whenever you beat it.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Blows itself up whenever you beat it.
CLARA
CLARA
An "upgraded" SEC machine without the snark, CLARA serves as a custodian of sorts for Madelis's base.- Heel–Face Turn: Helps you and Aelita destroy the generator/Rift Volcanion. CLARA's reasoning?"I have come to the conclusion that I hate this place and everyone in it."
- Noodle Incident: Makes it extremely clear that NO PARTIES WILL BE TOLERATED while you are in Madelis's base, before saying "not again..."
Geara
Geara/Gregory
- And I Must Scream: You see Literally Shattered Lives below? He's pretty clearly aware of what is happening to him, and he's not enjoying it one bit.
- Big "WHAT?!": When Crescent turns Zetta back into a Solosis, he was pretty damn surprised. So was everyone else, though.
- The Bus Came Back: He's fully healed as of Chapter 15.
- Creepy Child: According to Narcissa, his step-mother, he always had a dark aura around him.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": He throws an absolute shit-fit when Narcissa calls him Gregory.
- Demonic Possession: He was possessed by a fragment of Indriad’s spirit. Upon its departure, he realises that much of the hatred he felt for the player has disappeared.
- Evil Orphan: You meet his father in one of Sashila Village's sidequests. He and his family were lost in the void after the Calamity that befell Aevium in the past. He was separated from them soon after birth only to be found by Vitus. Guess where most of his characteristics come from.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: He set up the confrontation on Valor Mountain so that there was no way that the protagonists could get anything more than a Pyrrhic Victory: he had a bunch of Grunts posted as backup so that even if the player and Melia beat him, they couldn't get away, and he set up the structure holding Nim over the lava so that any attempt to get her down would result in the cable breaking and her falling into the lava.
- Hidden Depths: He used to be Narcissa’s step-son and Sirius’ adoptive son and co-conspirator.
- Hypocrite: He refused to tolerate or listen to Narcissa because she wasn't biologically related to him. However, he willingly worked with Sirius/Vitus, who isn't related to him either.
- Irrational Hatred: After being defeated in Axis Factory he mentions he lost all his rage and hatred after being pieced back together. This could explain why he was that much of a jerk before.
- Jerkass: Never passes up an opportunity to be an arrogant, hateful prick. Even his fellow Xen Admins have little tolerance for him.
- Literally Shattered Lives: What happened to him after Valor Mountain. The teleporter he built wasn't stable in the first place, and Crescent freeing the Abra that powered it didn't help. When Geara went through it, his body was corrupted and shattered into a thousand still-living pieces, which Nastasia has been painstakingly trying to gather and put back together.
- The Napoleon: He's the shortest of the Xen Executives◊ as well the biggest Jerkass in their group.
- Olympus Mons: Owns a Giratina, at least until Crescent frees it.
- Signature Mon: 2, actually. His Gengar and Clefable, both of which are shiny.
- Soul Power: Uses mainly Ghost-type Pokémon.
- You're Not My Father: In the Narcissa sidequest, it's revealed that his adoptive father, Sirius/Vitus, married Narcissa, who tried to be a mother to him, but Gregory hated her and refused to listen to her because she wasn't biologically related to him.
Neved
Neved
- Affably Evil: Unjustifiable Evil Is Petty tendencies aside, Neved is relatively cordial and polite to other people, moreso than any of the other Xen Admins. The between-chapters scenes at the Xen Headquarters show him interacting very humbly and amicably with them.
- The Bartender: In the lounge all the executives hang out in, he operates the bar and mostly keeps out of the antics of his fellow executives unless his input is called for.
- Evil Is Petty: Neved remorselessly tortured Aelita to get back at her father for some kind of wrongdoing in the past. Much later into the game, the player learns that said wrongdoing was *being rude to him one time.* While Keta directly disparaged Neved's very personal reasons for working with Team Xen, Neved's actions towards Aelita go well beyond the point of Disproportionate Retribution.
- Hidden Depths: Before joining Team Xen, he was a poor ferryman unable to pay for his daughter’s expensive medical bills.
- Love Makes You Evil: Whatever's the reason for his evildoings is, it's implied to be related to his daughter. It's later revealed she's the child in the Hospital of Hope that Isha is taking care of.
- Morality Pet: He makes one out of Emma, noting that she reminds him of his daughter, and tries to keep her safe, even offering her a job as part of Team Xen.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Keta says to his face he's this, saying that what he's doing is for his sake - the sake of keeping his daughter alive - not necessarily what said daughter would want. This particular accusation is what started Neved's grudge against Keta (especially since he came to try offering Keta a friendly welcome).
- Put on a Bus: After the heroes escape Blacksteeple Neved doesn't appear for a long while, at least in versions of the game before 13.5. From 13.5 on he's a constant presence through Terajuma.
- The Resenter: The extent to which this man will cling to a grudge is truly unbelievable— he happily tortured a teenage girl for days on end to get back at her dead father, who wronged him in the past. After being betrayed by "Emma", he spends the entire Terajuma arc bitterly taking shots at Melia for it.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Invokes this on Aelita, saying he wanted to torture Keta, but Keta's dead, so Aelita has to take the torture instead.
- Technicolor Eyes: He has heterochromia, making one of his eyes blue and the other red.
- Wardens Are Evil: Being Blacksteeple Castle's warden and one of the bad guys, this is a given.
- Would Hurt a Child: Is cruel enough to electrocute Aelita. He even states that he's got nothing against her - but since her father Keta is dead, and he hated him, she will have to do.
Cassandra
Cassandra
- Author Avatar: In a sense. While far from the same person, Cassandra shares her name with one of the developers and uses many of their favorite Pokemon on her team.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be a caring, motherly guide for Grand Dream City, but in reality, she's part of Team Xen, and loves forcing Madelis to do everything she says. In the backstory, it turns out that one of the defining moments that led to Team Bladestar forming was her leading the Team Xen invasion of the "City of Happiness" in the Badlands. Many of Bladestar's members apparently had family in said city. "Had".
- Deep Cover Agent: Ren, despite being told she was part of Team Xen by Nastasia, initally wasn't sure she was - apparently, her membership is so secret she's not even in the database of Team Xen members at their Headquarters.
- Evil Chancellor: Controls Grand Dream City utterly, and has been putting a lot of her own measures into place.
- Evil Is Petty: She pushes Madelis over while the latter is playing waiter to humiliate her in front of a room full of Grand Dream City's rich and powerful. She also had the room decorated in Madelis' sister Lisbeth's favourite colours, just to hurt Madelis.
- Hate Sink: She has no redeeming features so far in the story, from what we've seen.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Accidentally slips up when the player meets her, pre-version 13.5 - she says that Florin and Flora found corruption in Darchlight Woods, when they never said exactly where they found the corruption.
- Insistent Terminology: She's an Admin, not an Executive.
- Jerkass: Aside from the whole 'part of Team Xen' thing, she's happy to let the areas outside of Grand Dream City succumb to the corruption because Grand Dream City won't suffer for it, and everyone living outside the city doesn't matter to her.
- Revenge Before Reason: Madelis correctly deducts that Cassandra will do anything to get revenge. Specifically, she wants to kill Tesla and Amber (it's not currently known why).
- Sadist: She really enjoys Madelis' demotion and being her new boss, especially the bit where Madelis is essentially under a death sentence if she does something Cassandra doesn't like, and shows it by forcing Madelis to smile for her. According to Madelis, they had a petty rivalry in the past, which may explain why Cassandra likes hurting her so much.
- Signature Mon: Her Mega Mawile.
- Unexplained Recovery: She somehow survives the explosion at the Grand Dream Ball without as much as a scratch, despite the explosion being meant for her specifically.
Nastasia
Nastasia/Anastasia Bellarosa
Click here to see Anastasia.
The highest ranking Team Xen Executive and the one responsible for the attack on the S.S. Oceana.
- Deadpan Snarker: Her first appearance displays this when Geara is screaming over all their lost assets."There's no need to shout, Geara. We can all hear you."
- Didn't See That Coming: She was not expecting to find the Spring of Rejuvenation dry as a bone when she arrived in Eclysia. It's the only time in the story we see her losing her composure.
- Enemy Mine: She, Eli, Sharon and some of her other grunts aid the heroes in restoring the Spring of Rejuvenation and in fighting Bladestar.
- Enigmatic Minion: Her reasons for joining Team Xen are unknown, and Madelis wonders why she trusts Madame X so much, as she appears to have nothing on the line.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: Some of her missions like the S.S. Oceana and the Eclysia Pyramid are not authorized.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Downplayed. While Madame X is far from incompentent, Nastasia's easily the most dangerous of the four Xen Executives we see - the attack on the S.S. Oceana only didn't end with the player kidnapped because of Tesla, and when she gets involved on Terajuma Island, only Crescent pulling a Big Damn Heroes kept Team Xen from kidnapping them, Melia, and Crawli. Also, the Eclysia Pyramid mission ended with a success for Team Xen, even if Delpha and Adam kept them from getting a clean sweep by keeping the Jewel of Life away from them for the time being - Alice, Allen, and Erin were all kept alive, and the Spring of Rejuvenation, which is right by their Headquarters, was made active again, and Nastasia - to her own surprise - learned the three in question might also have part of the Archetype in them. In short, when she does get involved, things tend to go well for Team Xen.
- I Will Find You: In the past, she did her best to find Maria after Gardevoir kidnapped her.
- Mysterious Past: Little is known about her past and motives, even by the other Xen admins. She is eventually revealed to be Anastasia Bellarosa, Marianette’s best friend in the past. However, what caused her to change almost completely is still unknown.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Her Xen admin pseudonym is just her real name with the first letter removed. That sure will fool them, Nastasia. To be fair, nearly everyone who ever knew her by that name, by the events of the main game, has likely not seen her in years due to her being The Runaway. Or possibly died in Storm-9.
- Pet the Dog: Her relationship with Ren (who she met as Anastasia) is a genuinely friendly one, to the point that she's apparently the person who made the artificial bodies he uses on missions. Even if, in true (hilarious) Tsundere fashion, she refuses to admit she cares about him at all.
- She took Venam from the Hospital of Hope and brought her to the Spring of Rejuvenation to see if the Spring could cure her and the other victims of being turned to stone. The thing is, nobody asked her to and nobody from Team Xen was turned to stone, so it seems that Nastasia was just being nice.
- The Runaway: From her Education Mama when she was younger.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: When Adrest hijacks the player to tell her, Aelita, and Ren about how the Spring of Rejuvenation you need to save Melia (actually Erin), Alice, and Allen can be reactivated via the Jewel of Life, Ren is initially uncertain whether or not to believe him, but he's overruled by Nastasia, who says flat-out they have no other ideas for how to reactivate the Spring, so they're going to find the Jewel of Life.
- The Unfought: So far, she is the only Team Xen executive who hasn't fought the player.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While she was shy and introverted, young Anastasia was kind natured. As an adult, she is cruel, cold and unfeeling, only losing control of her emotions when her past (especially Maria) is mentioned. Or when she's interacting with Ren, who arguably counts as her Only Friend.
Madame X
Xen Dictator Madame X
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She's the leader of Team Xen, and for a good reason. She also says that she's stronger than all her Pokémon, if somehow you beat her Yveltal at Blacksteeple Castle.
- Big Bad: She is the leader of Team Xen, and the main driving force behind the story's conflict.
- Cool Sword
- Enemy Mine: She helps you save Kugearen City from what technically is a bomb, because apparently you're important to everything. She's also forced to help you and Melia in the doomed timeline, because it's the only chance you all have of getting back to your own timeline.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She shows up during the Prologue and is disgusted with how Marianette is treated.
- The Faceless: She's got a mask on her face, and there's no clue who she might be under it. We don't even know for sure if she's human. If Sakitron defeats Amanda, she shows up on the Pyramid and breaks half of Madame X's mask revealing her black hair and red eyes.
- Hero Killer: She murders Nancy when she's trying to pull a Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? on the player, and given the appearances of Yveltal in Where Love Lies, it's very possible that she murdered Kenneth mother, was trying to threaten him into murdering Taelia, and may have been behind the deaths of Taelia and Nora. She also tried to kill Celine twice; the first time she maimed her, and the second nearly killed her.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: There's no clear clue as to just what she's after. It apparently has something to do with stealing Melia's powers, but so far that's the only knowledge we have.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: When you fight her she uses a Lv. 75 Yveltal with a Armor-Piercing Attack, when your Badge cap is 40. Subverted somewhat, as on most difficulty modes it's not only possible, but fairly straightforward to win. Still, anyone who doesn't know about and prepare for the battle ahead of time is going to lose.
- I Control My Minions Through...: A combination of power, authority and fear. Madame X is extremely powerful, supposedly even more so than all of her Pokemon combined, (one of them is a Yveltal) and her subordinates are terrified of her. But what truly solidifies her position is her termination of those who fail her.
- Invincible Villain: If the Hopeless Boss Fight mentioned above wasn't enough of a clue, she's got Time Master powers thanks to the Time Diamond, has a lot of knowledge that you don't about what is going on, and judging by a side quest where you help a Team Xen grunt find his mother's grave, and how he starts to fade from existence shortly after you do that, it's implied she has some sort of long-range You Have Failed Me power. The closest anyone has ever come to getting the better of her is Melanie teleporting her faraway with her Porygon.
- Zigzagged later on - at the top of the Pyramid, she can be hit and hurt by Sakitron if she won the fight with Amanda. And while she doesn't fight you directly there, she comes close to taking the Jewel of Life (and possibly can), only for Adam and Delphi to potentially stop her partner, the red-haired woman, after she leaves.
- Knight of Cerebus: Things get serious whenever she is around.
- Lack of Empathy: The only time that we see her show positive emotion towards others is in the Prologue. After that, pretty much all of her appearances are about having her Kick the Dog.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: If you somehow beat her, she talks about failing her father.
- Pet the Dog: In the prologue she tells Marianette to never give up hope and seems sympathetic to what’s happening to her.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes on her mask. Her real eyes are red too.
- Time Master: She carries a stone known as the Time Diamond, which grants its wielder this. This explains why she has shown up out of nowhere at several points, including when you travel to the past.
- Trapped in Villainy: While she herself is not this, she's the enforcer of this for Team Xen - see You Have Failed Me below.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Neved mentions another "hero" would just pop up should this append. She does try to do this to you after the Blacksteeple rebellion, and murders a lot of Pirate Valarie's crew in the Bad Future alternate timeline.
- You Have Failed Me: There's a side quest where you help a Team Xen grunt find his mother's grave, and he "vanishes" shortly after you find it. So she's apparently got the ability to do this at long range.
Bladestar
In General
In General
- Battle Theme Music: Their grunts fight to a repurposed track from Rejuvenation co-developer Zumi's own fan game, originally named Team Splicer Battle.
- Beware the Silly Ones: You'd be forgiven for assuming they're another set of gag villains, as their grunts and at least one of their executives are largely goofballs compared to Xen's somewhat more professional front, (heck even Team Anti-Assist grunts are more serious), but their crimes include attempting to bomb and/or vaporize much of Grand Dream City, establishing them as just as much a threat as their rival.
- The '80s: Their visual style, team name, and base aesthetic looks and sound like something out of an 80s sci-fi or cyberpunk film. Their bases even use a very 80s-esque synthwave remix of the Regi's battle theme.
- Evil vs. Evil: Team Xen and Team Bladestar are opposed to one another, to the point that a Bladestar affliated town has training dummies dressed up in Xen uniforms for its trainers to practice on. Alamissa Urben - or rather, what's left of it - are the main reason why.
- Villainous Legacy: Flora's and Florin's father, William Grevillea, was the original founder of Team Bladestar. Though it seems the team is far more extreme in the present day under Flora than it was under him, at least.
- Visual Pun: During the blockus in the Pyramid you can see knives-wielding Corsola among the others pokémon. A Knife is a blade and Corsola look like a star, get it?
Bladestar's Leader
Flora Grevillea
- All for Nothing: She blows up a building filled with innocent people as well as her own grunts, losing the support of most of her followers in the process, just to kill Cassandra and the Grand Dream City elite. In the end it turns out those sacrifices were for nothing as Cassandra survived the blast without as much as a scratch, her grunts were arrested and Florin escaped her custody and had her arrested too.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Zigzagged. While her niceness is a total facade, she has good intentions in getting rid of the corrupt parts of Grand Dream City's government, (and the current mayor, Cassandra, is a member of Team Xen and plays this trope totally straight).
- Break the Haughty: Chapter 14 is just one long instance of this trope after another for her.
- Do Not Adjust Your Set: Does this after the player's fight with Adam, pulling a mass declaration to Grand Dream City - and Cassandra - that she is going to be ripping the corrupt government apart, and declaring herself as the head of Bladestar.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Can be seen in two places at the start of the game; leaving Gearen Lab with Dr. Jenkel and in his lab for a few seconds when you first arrive there. In the second case, she is dressed in her Bladestar uniform.
- Failed a Spot Check: She completely fails to see the player hiding in Darchlight Woods when she reveals herself as a Bladestar admin.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: She started out as a shy, meek graduate of Axis High University. That didn't last...
- Green Thumb: As the Grass-type Leader.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Flora had genuinely good intentions in taking over Bladestar and trying to rid Grand Dream City of corruption, but blowing up a ton of people shows how low she's sunk.
- Meaningful Name: Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers. Furthermore, Grevillea is a genus of flowering plants.
- The Mole: She's the current leader of Bladestar. However, she claims that her only goal is to get rid of Grand Dream City's corrupt government.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She snuck into Team Xen's HQ in order to steal Rift Matter.
- Only Friend: To Rune. Until she revealed she was the leader of Bladestar to Rune, and had to blackmail her so that she wouldn't tell the truth after Rune didn't want to join. Though even then, it doesn't seem like she was the one who made Rune disappear...
- Pet the Dog: According to her journal, she went out of her way to make a PULSE machine that wouldn't hurt her Ferrothorn, and intended to come back for it when it was needed to fight Cassandra (also, unlike all the other Rift or PULSE pokemon, it didn't die after it was beaten).
- People Puppets: Made a contraption that allows her to possess Ryland.
- She Who Fights Monsters: She cut the train tracks to Grand Dream City even though a train crash could have killed dozens of people if it hadn't been for Alexandra, blew up the Grand Dream Ball in an attempt to kill Cassandra, and threatens to poison Ryland remotely if you don't give her the Jewel of Life. She may have started out with good intentions, but she's sunk to the same depths as Madame X and Cassandra in her attempts to stop them.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Florin and Flora are very different people.
- Signature Mon: Her shiny Mega Venusaur.
- Signature Move: Uproot, a move that can lower special defense which she shares with Florin.
- The Snark Knight: Later versions downgraded her acerbicness so that while she's still a grumpy bitch, she's shown being a lot nicer than before, and does try to help out people.
- Stone Wall: In contrast to her brother, her team is very defense-oriented.
- Surrounded by Idiots: She's not that impressed by the average IQ of her Bladestar grunts.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: While she's not wrong that Grand Dream City's government has many corrupt officials, her methods for fixing it are extremely questionable at best. Among other things, Bladestar has tried to kidnap the android Ana, and as the team's leader, she was probably the one who ordered the train lines cut and bridges destroyed, so nobody else could go to Grand Dream City (the former of which would have made the train you were on crash and likely have killed a lot of people if it wasn't for Alexandra stopping it in time). And then there's the bit where she blows up the Grand Dream Ball, with Cassandra and the rest of Grand Dream City's rich and powerful inside (and a number of her grunts she willingly sacrificed to plant the explosives). And then there's what she did to poor Ryland after he left Bladestar...
- Wrench Wench: She built a replica PULSE machine that wasn't quite as pain-inducing and "parasitic" as the originals, and stole Rift Matter so she could power up her Ferrothorn.
Doctor Jenkel
Doctor Jenkel
A Mad Scientist who lives in Gearen City, and also one of the top members of Bladestar, as well as Flora and Florin's uncle.- Always Someone Better: To ZEL in Pokemon Reborn (specifically EVE). The PULSE+ machine that he made is completely harmless when used on a Pokemon, in contrast to the PULSE machines of Pokemon Reborn. After you fight him, the Musharna he was using it on is not only unharmed, but is genuinely upset with you! Though it's later revealed that Musharna is having issues, every other case of a PULSE machine being used before this led to the death of the Pokemon it was used on.
- Axe-Crazy: He is a very, very strange man. However, he's mostly harmless, excepting one case of attempted identity theft.
- Jekyll & Hyde: He has a Split Personality called Mr. Hynde, who is more in-line morally with what Flora wants.
- Mad Scientist: It's even in his battle name! Oddly, though, he's a fairly moral version of this trope. Hynde, however - not so much.
V
V/Valencia
- Aloof Ally: They fund the Underground, but aren't actually part of Bladestar, just an affiliate. Why they won't join the team is unknown.
- Ambiguous Gender: A bit of an odd case - they were assumed to be female prior to 13.5, and most characters use gender neutral pronouns to refer to them after it. When an old fortune teller calls them a little lady they object and say they're no lady, and during the introduction to the Colosseum tournament, they say that they're neither a man nor a woman, so it can be assumed that they're AFAB non-binary.
- Anti-Villain: They want the Nano Drive to help their homeland, never actually hurt the children they abducted and set up the Colosseum fight to blackmail the kind of sick fucks who'd watch children battle to the death.
- The Ghost: Doesn't really do much of anything, they only appear in a side quest involving Ana. Averted hard in 13.5, where they're given a much more prominent role in the quest.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Peppers their dialogue with Spanish phrases and words. Sometimes entire sentences will pass without a bit of English out their mouth.
- Malevolent Masked Man: They wear an elaborate mask to hide their face, and while it's not known just why they want Ana so badly, whatever it is almost certainly can't be good given their affliation with Team Bladestar. This, however, turns out to be a bit of a misdirection - their intentions ultimately are good, even if their methods are unscrupulous.
- Mysterious Past: According to a scientist in the Underground's main building, they suddenly appeared one day and nobody knows where they came from. The Missing Children quest reveals that they come from a homeland that's suffering from some kind of peril and they need the Nano Drive to save it. Their grandmother warned them about the player specifically, as well. They also reveal that they're an Interceptor as well, but they never made a contract with Variya, and they're fully aware that the player consists of multiple souls in one body.
- Optional Boss: If you avoid harming any of the children while in the Underground Colossesum and demand that they give Ana back, you'll battle them and their Ruthless Iron Moth, the only Generation IX Pokémon presently in the game. This is a particularly rough battle given it comes after two rounds with Ana overwhelmed by the Nano Drive and no opportunity to heal in between, and winning does nothing but earn some cash and Valencia's respect. They escape with the Nano Drive regardless.
- Poor Communication Kills: A whole lot of the Missing Children quest could have been averted if they'd just explained their plans to Dylan instead of thinking that he would and should just trust them blindly despite how bad their actions looked.
- Surrounded by Idiots: They're really not impressed with Bladestar's constant failures, not that you can blame them.
- Would Harm a Child: Ultimately subverted. They're revealed to be the one behind the missing children, and were using them in the hopes of activating the Nano Drive. While they put on a show for a seemingly anonymous audience in which said children are forced to battle to the death, in truth, the erased kids were just projections being displayed and the real children are perfectly fine, and in fact all sent home, given they were of no use to V any more. They reveal that whoever tuned in to watch children fight to the death would all be blackmailed into paying for V's silence concerning the audience members' part of the faux depravity for years to come, and that they'd forward the money to the families of the the children they abducted as a form of apology.
Ryland
Ryland Leon
Click here to see him possessed by Flora.
Alamissa Urben's Ground-type Leader and Adam's brother.
- Dishing Out Dirt: As the Ground-type Leader.
- Friendly Enemy: He's a high-ranking member of Bladestar, who initially opposes the player but is reasoned with.
- Glory Days: A variant; they're not his glory days, they're the days when Alamissa Urben was a thriving, beautiful city, not a wreck. Ryland lives in the ruins, refuses to leave and rigged up stones similar to Timesplitter Stones so that anyone who enters the ruins gets visions of Alamissa Urben before it was destroyed.
- I Have No Brother: He told Flora that he's an only child.
- People Puppets: Flora possesses his body with some kind of device in Chapter 14. It's removed after you defeat her (she's using Ryland's team).
- Royal Blood: He is a descendant of King Ieisel.
- Signature Mon: His (Crest-using) Torterra.
Theolia Church
Indriad's group
Indriad
Indriad/Vitus/Sirius Theolia
- Abusive Parents: He was not a good father to Marianette, and he doesn't seem to have treated Gregory/Geara much better in comparison. He was also pretty bad to Eriena, Allen and Alice,and he was the one responsible for Kanon's trauma which caused him to repress his personality and only do what was ordered of him. Basically, if he's any kind of father figure in someone's life, he's generally not treating them well. However, he was kind to Maria and tried to intervene with Katsu on behalf of Anastasia - before Anathea was killed, at least.
- Ambiguously Human: .Karma Files reveals that he's an executable file that gained a corporeal form, like Nymiera and an unknown third. Specifically, he's merged with Yveltal.
- Ambiguous Situation: He and Sirius (Narcissa’s deceased husband) were actually the same person, but since he is known to have survived apparent deaths before, it is unknown if he truly died in the Wispy Tower fire. And if he didn't die, what he's up to in the present game has yet to be revealed- though a hidden scene shows that he fused with Anju to become Angie.
- Archenemy: Was this to the Protectors of Aevium, and especially Nymiera.
- Bizarre Alien Reproduction: In Chapter 15, it is mentioned he had to use the Archetype's power to have children with Anathea, as he can't have children naturally, being a computer program and all.
- Exact Words: He promises Marianette that if she and the player can pass his trials, he'll let the five of them (the player, Marianette, Venam, Luca and Lenny) leave. However, he never said he meant "leave the estate", what he meant was "leave this plane of existence"- that is, he intended to sacrifice them all.
- Face–Heel Turn: After finally renouncing his evil ways and having a family, Anathea’s death makes him return to the cult.
- Hated by All: The only person he's ever shown any real mutual affection towards was his wife Anathea and after she died, even she has given up on him. Also, it turned out that the only reason he was kind to her was because he was under a spell at the time. Besides the maids who work for him, not a single person in the game has spared a nice word for him.
- I Have Many Names: Alternates between being called Indriad and Vitus, the former being his name while in the cult and the latter being his name before that. He actually has a third alias, Sirius, which he used while being married to Narcissa and running the Radio Tower in Goldenleaf Town, and after fusing with Anju, he's using the name Angie.
- Love Makes You Evil: He didn't take the death of his wife Anathea lightly. Turns out there's a good reason for that, namely that he was under a spell that made him kind and loving... until she died.
- Morality Chain: Anathea made him promise to leave the cult and settle down with her. Vitus made the promise and kept to it, but after Anathea was killed, he returned to the cult about ten minutes later.
- Noble Demon: Gives you a fair fighting chance to escape from Chrysalis Manor with Venam and her friends due to being in a "forgiving mood". He also planned on sacrificing the four of you, and his own daughter as well, when you win the Gym battle with Maria.
- Parental Substitute: Was this to Gregory/Geara, but their relationship was far from affectionate.
- Villain Has a Point: Yes, intending to sacrifice a bunch of children was both overkill and a dick move, but he was right when he pointed out that the player, Venam, Luca and Lenny broke into his home and refused to leave.
- We Used to Be Friends: He and Nymiera were on good terms once, but no longer.
Gardevoir
Gardevoir
A differently-colored Gardevoir who lives with Maria, Vitus/Indriad, and Anathea Theolia. She orchestrates Anathea's death to get Vitus to return to the cult.- An Arm and a Leg: Over the course of her fight in Chapter 13, she's reduced to first a torso, then to just a head.
- Curse: She's cursed by the shiny Mimikyu when she tries to kill Vivian, Cella, Anju, you, Aelita, and Melia.
- Disney Villain Death: Dies by her head falling into a pit of spikes, on purpose.
- Driven to Suicide: Indriad dumping her was the last straw, and she already realized her wrongs and that it's too late for her to be redeemed. Instead of coming out as The Atoner, she decides to put an end to herself by teleporting herself above the sanctuary's spikes to impale herself.
- Evil Counterpart: To Gossip Gardevoir from Pokémon Reborn, as they are both Gardevoir that can communicate with humans through telepathy, live with humans, are exceedingly powerful battlers, and practically worship the men they fight for; however, while Gossip Gardevoir is flirty and lively but generally harmless, Rejuvenation's Gardevoir is cold, cruel, malicious, and manipulative. The parallels only increase as the game continues; while Gossip Gardevoir can mega evolve with Randomus’ help, Indriad’s Gardevoir can become a dimensional rift.
- Greater-Scope Villain: She is responsible for Vitus/Indriad returning to the cult.
- Hero Killer: Oneshots Kanon's Salamence, and then seemingly kills him (he's revived, but Salamance is not), and also ruins the effects of Vivian's ritual, meaning that while she prevented the Bad Future from taking place, Storm-9 still happened.
- Hidden Depths: Before being found by Indriad, she worked in a circus in the Miera Region.
- Jerkass: Even before she tricks the corrupt cops into killing Anathea, she's shown to be very controlling of Maria's family.
- Manipulative Bitch: She bribes corrupt cops to destroy Vitus' house, killing Anathea and forcing him back into the cult, just because she believed she was holding him back.
- Talking Animal: Downplayed, as she talks through telepathy.
- Redemption Equals Death: Dies just after realising Indriad never loved her and succumbing to her Rift, reverting back to normal and considering herself a terrible being.
- Skippable Boss: On a New Game Plus run, if you answered Dream Zetta's questions properly and received the Puppet Dubloon, you can have Ren look at it before confronting Gardevoir in Chapter 13, which will make something - the game is intentionally vague on what - resembling the Puppet Master at their strongest appear, defeat Gardevoir, and engage the player character and Ren instead.
- Start of Darkness: In the middle of the final battle, she reveals her backstory. She used to be Fun Personified for her town's people, until it became a thing of the past and she needed to go. She was abandoned as a result and grew even lonelier and more hurt, and Indriad promised to take care of her, persuading her with the promise of making her never lonely again.
- Tragic Monster: Used to be a normal Ralts who was abandoned by her trainer and found by Vitus, who extolled her great potential and corrupted her with dark magic, turning her into what she is now. After fighting to the brink of death as a Dimensional Rift, she tries to avenge him as her last act. However, before she can do so, he reveals he never loved her.
- Undying Loyalty: Played with very darkly, as she serves Vitus/Indriad, and arranged for his wife to die because she believed Anathea was holding him back.
- Walking Spoiler: Is the only major character in Maria's family who doesn't appear in the intro, and she has a major role in one of the villain's Start of Darkness.
Indriad's Servants
Servants made by Indriad/Sirius/Vitus Theolia, to aid him in his goals.
- Servant Race: A downplayed example of the trope - the Servants made by Indriad tend to not show as much individuality as Angie's do, but they still develop individuality if they survive long enough. Unless, as Kanon discovered in the past at Indriad's hands, they're subjected to regular torment to enforce the Servant Race mentality.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averted. Servants start as a Servant Race, but they as a rule tend to develop individuality - if they survive long enough.
- You Have Failed Me: Lia - the Servant you fight in Kugearen City who was sent by Gardevoir to blow it up - was initially going to report back to Gardevoir and Indriad/Vitus about what happened. Up until Venam pointed out this would likely happen if she did, which led to her... reconsidering her plans, and deciding to move far away and become a baker instead. It works out quite well for her, as we see in Version 13.5 - she's alive and well post Storm-9, got married, and had two kids.
Angie's Group
Angie
Angie Theolia/Anju Carnelian
Click here to see Anju.
Kristiline Town's Ice-type Gym Leader. Technically.
- An Ice Person: As well as wielding Ice-types, she can also generate Nevermeltice to freeze people, or fight.
- Arch-Enemy: Anju considered Indriad/Vitus the personification of evil.
- Awful Truth: Apparently, getting hit by Cold Truth does this to you - you're shown a truth you've been repressing, or curious about, whether you want to see it or not. At some point, she taught Cera how to use it.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: While she was a fervent believer in Arceus as Anju, she made sure to never impose her beliefs on anyone. As Angie, not so much...
- Brainwashed: Does this to Venam and tries to do it to Melia as well. And given how Anju was found in the back of Indriad's mansion before you fight Marianette for her badge, it's possible she was subjected to this herself.
- Climax Boss: After being set up as a major threat for the entirety of the Terajuma Arc, Angie serves as the last major obstacle before the confrontation with Team Xen on Valor Mountain, guarding the final relic needed to access the mountain, and is easily the most powerful enemy the main characters have faced up until that point.
- Corrupt Church: She's so far the only Gym Leader that is clearly evil until Flora jumps past the
Moral Event Horizon, and is quite clearly religious, so she's in charge of one. - Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, she froze her parents in ice in a fit of rage after hearing that they intended to divorce. She wound up freezing her Lillipup as well because she didn't want the things that made her happy to leave her.
- Demonic Possession: Chapter 15 reveals that Indriad is somehow corrupting her, after she's defeated by Erin.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She wanted to freeze the local Help Center because she thinks that everyone should help themselves first before helping each other.
- Enfant Terrible: 10 year old Anju may have frozen her parents by accident, but she very quickly decided that it was actually a good thing because that way she could stop them from leaving her. It's implied that freezing her Lillipup was not an accident. In addition, Nymiera reveals that Anju gained the ability to melt her ice quite quickly, but never defrosted her parents.
- Face–Heel Turn: Went from the kindhearted, helpful Anju to the evil Angie, and so far it's not known why, but the implication is that she's currently Brainwashed and Crazy by Vitus.
- Good Shepherd: Used to be this while she was Anju, viewing it as not her responsibility to try and force people to "see the light", and serving as one of the Protectors of Aevium.
- Harmless Freezing: Getting frozen in her Never-Melt Ice seems to have no long-term effects on the people or pokemon it turns to Human Popsicle status, no matter how long they're frozen. Getting stabbed by it, however... is a different story.
- It's revealed in Chapter 15 that she plans to do this to the entire planet.
- Hidden Depths: She has some involvement with Indriad (and might be related to him), and is Anju, transformed. As Anju, she was one of the Protectors of Aevium. Also, she apparently had a son while she was Anju. In Chapter 15 it is revealed her son is Kreiss, though neither of them currently seem to know.
- Human Popsicle: She has the power to freeze people solid, as Crawli's Pokémon Rangers found out the hard way... She gets frozen in Nevermeltice herself by Kreiss after the protagonist defeats her. Unfortunately for us, she's freed by Cera later on. She also once created a magic sphere that could do this and gave it to Cella so that she could protect herself and Taelia when Storm-9 hit, while she was still Anju.
- Mons as Characterization: Angie is an elegant-looking woman who uses Ice-type Pokemon, so one would likely associate her with graceful Ice-types like Froslass or Glaceon. Instead, however, Angie's team consists almost entirely of bulky, "crude" bruisers like Arctovish, Crabominable, and Walrein. But this is arguably more fitting for her character, since Angie actually isn't ladylike at all— she's a violent brute who uses her ice magic to freeze anyone who gets in her way, and flies into a murderous rampage whenever she loses.
- Reality Warper: Apparently, her mere presence turned Kristiline Town from a summer paradise into a town infested with ice.
- Sanity Slippage: She starts out as merely off-balance, and then rapidly goes completely nuts afterwards.
- Signature Mon: Her Walrein and Regice, if her resurrection scene and her time as Anju is anything to go by.
- Slasher Smile: Practically every sprite and piece of art Angie has shows her giving one. As Anju, her smile and overall personality were much warmer.
- Villainous Breakdown: Loses it big time when Melia resists her attempt to mind-control her.
- You Have Failed Me: Does this to both pairs of maids that she sends against you once you defeat them, proving her evil beyond all reasonable doubt (as if her treatment of Venam and Melia, not to mention Crawli's Pokemon Rangers, didn't do this already). It's later revealed that said maids are likely Garufan spells, but still...
- She cuts Cera off after Erin and Kanon defeat them off the coast of Terajuma.
Cera
Cera
Angie’s right hand woman.- The Cameo: Makes one in Grand Dream City, saying that she will see the player again soon.
- The Dragon: Is this to Angie, remaining loyal to her even after she is frozen. Angie, at some point, even taught her how to use Cold Truth.
- Olympus Mons: Manages to capture the Groudon in the Garufan chamber.
- Sanity Slippage: Goes through this in her efforts to resurrect her master.
- Undying Loyalty: To Angie, who she refers to as ‘Lady’ and ‘Master’. After Angie is defeated, she leads the effort to revive her. .Karma Files reveals that this is because Cera is a Servant- she was literally created to serve Angie.
- Villainous Breakdown: She has one in .Karma Files when Kanon bluntly tells her that Angie has cut her off.
Angie's Servants
Servants who - well, serve, Angie.
- Obliviously Evil: Angie's Servants, on average, aren't really cruel - they just don't seem to realize that what Angie's doing is evil. More than a few of them, though, are malevolent, albeit not as much as Angie.
- Perky Female Minion: More than a few of them are this, especially Patty.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Many of Angie's servants aren't particularly evil - they just work for Angie. It's later revealed they're all literally made to serve her, and that - well, it's hard for them to consider betraying her, as a result. Several of the Servants stayed in Kristiline Town after Angie was frozen solid, and got along quite well with the locals.
- Servant Race: Played with. While Kanon says they are this, and Angie did in fact create them to serve her, it's made very clear that the Servants are all their own people, despite what Angie - and Kanon - both say.
- Turned Against Their Masters: A group of them in Anju's ship have become 'Aberrations', Servants that have changed from what their creators intended them to be. Bonita and the others in Anju's ship intend to kill Angie with poison, but Kanon stops them.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Angie is after - whatever happened to her... a Knight of Cerebus, and tends to kill the humor in scenes she's in, and a Fisher King capable of altering the weather on an island-wide level. Her Servants (save Cera) are mostly Obliviously Evil or a Punch-Clock Villain at worst, and will happily chat away with the player, take time off to listen to music, take up making pipe bombs as a hobby, or pile on top of each other's shoulders to get at a slice of cake placed on top of a bookshelf.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averted. Servants start as a Servant Race, but they as a rule tend to develop individuality if they survive long enough.
Other Antagonists
Unaffiliated
Team Anti-Assist
Team Anti-Assist
A group who wants to shut down the Help Centers, to get people to stop helping other people. Never a serious threat, but they can be very annoying and persistent.- Goldfish Poop Gang: Downplayed, as of 13.5. Team Xen and Bladestar are both major threats to the stability of Aevium, maybe the world itself in Xen's case. These guys? They're - well, somewhat dangerous, but nowhere near as much as the other two.
- Hypocrite: When they reappear at Castle Zygara, the reason they're there... is because they're helping somebody to get paid a lot of money. Familiar? Yeah, they don't seem to be aware of the comparisons.
- The Social Darwinist: They want to force everyone to fend for themselves, so that those who can't make it alone will perish.
- Theme Naming: After the Gems from Steven Universe, pretty commonly.
Isha
Isha/Isiah Halvard
- The Ace: He's a legitimately amazing doctor.
- Axe-Crazy: He's revealed to be a total lunatic in Chapter 14.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's not part of Team Xen, but he's in a partnership with Cassandra, who is. He's also hiding a child in the depths of the Hospital of Hope, and may be keeping her prisoner, along with a lab where horrible experiments are carried out. He states that all he really cares about is his research.
- Body Surf: He wants to take over Lavender's body, and bring both of his identities with him.
- Fallen Hero: He started out as a genuinely amazing doctor who wanted to help everyone he could. But as time went on, his job became more and more difficult, and he soon became so obsessed with his incredibly high success rate that it became his sole motivation, and he turned to shady acts to make sure it never fell. Things only went downhill from there.
- Gone Horribly Right: When Isiah turned 45, he became ill with a terminal disease for which there was no known cure. He wound up taking over his son's body to buy more time to find a cure. But when his son turned 45, the exact same disease that killed him the first time struck again.
- Jerkass: He is a dick. See Maman's backstory, where she and her daughter fell ill with the same disease, but Maman's case was much worse. Isha cut her a deal: he'd find a cure and give it to her daughter for free, but in exchange, Maman had to cut ties with everyone she knew and abandon society... because Isha wouldn't be able to cure her as well, and then he wouldn't have a 100% success rate anymore. And Maman couldn't afford to say no, because she couldn't afford the hospital payments.
- Mad Doctor: Held Lavender prisoner in the Hospital of Hope, and lied to everyone that she was sick when she wasn't. Lavender said he experimented on her, which turns out to be true.
- Manchild The actual Isha is heavily implied to be this, with speech patterns and an almost shy manner not unlike a small child in the rare instances he's allowed to speak and emote without his father pulling his strings, with the implication being that Isiah possessed his body so early he never really had a chance to properly grow up himself.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The disease that afflicted him originally is also afflicting him now. And even he isn't sure if it's because he "reconstructed his brain too well", because his son caught the same disease he did thanks to bad luck genetically, or a combination of both.
- Meaningful Name : Isha (医者) literally means "Doctor" in Japanese.
- The Medic: A superb one. He reportedly has a 100% success rate.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Aside from working with Team Xen, he has also done committed other shady acts, some of which just to maintain his success rate. These include holding Lavender and Franchesca prisoner and forcing Maman to leave her family and life behind in exchange for treating her daughter. As Isiah he was disgraced due to malpractice against his son, who unbeknownst to everyone was forced to share his body with his father.
- Two Beings, One Body: In order to prevent his death, Isiah transferred his consciousness to his son’s body. As a result of a mishap, the two now share the latter’s body.
The Princess
Melanie
- Alas, Poor Villain: Her demise in the "Try to Escape" and "Do Nothing" versions of the Bad Future arc's ending feature this. In the "Try to Escape" ending, she starts panicking when she realizes that her consciousness is fading, and her last words are apologizing to her father for failing. In the "Do Nothing" ending, she instead realizes as she's being obliterated that perhaps things would have gone better had she acted more benevolently, and quietly admits defeat.
- Arc Villain: Of the Bad Future arc.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The only actual villain in the game to actually succeed with their plans, if only in the "Hand It Over" ending.
- The Bus Came Back: Chapter 14 reveals that she is still alive in Melia's subconscious, influencing Melia's emotions.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Cheerfully admits this.Kenneth: ...you are nothing short of evil.Melanie: Um, actually I am short, and evil. Stupid dullard.
- Despotism Justifies the Means: Orchestrated the destruction of the already badly damaged world just so she could rule over the survivors and use them as her playthings.
- Enfant Terrible: She's only a child, but she's got what little remains of the world under her thumb.
- Evil Brit: Implied, since she only uses Galarian Pokémon.
Jan confirmed she was a...chav ?note (The serious answer is in the tags of the post). - Evil Me Scares Me: She's an evil version of Melia.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Most of her Pokemon have the sorts of nicknames you'd expect a small girl to give her pets, despite them being scary and monsterous as often as they are cute.
- The Man Behind the Man: Discussed by Kenneth and Melia - they notice that the idea of a girl as young as Melanie being able to come up with all of her plans by herself is very unlikely, and wonder if there's something else going on as well.
- Signature Mon: Her Mega Alcremie.
- Villainous Breakdown: In the "Do Nothing" ending, after Melia exposes and foils her grand scheme, she throws a temper tantrum, summons Yveltal, and tries to murder Melia with her Yveltal.
- Walking Spoiler: Seeing as how she's the main antagonist of the Bad Future arc, not to mention she triggers Melia's Traumatic Superpower Awakening, this is a given.
Mysterious Figures
In General
- Battle Theme Music: Battle - Mysterious Figures
- Co-Dragons: They are working with Madame X to some degree. Why they are hasn't been revealed yet.
- Create Your Own Hero: Two separate examples, no less. The black boxes they created were just what Crescent needed to revive the rest of her class, and unintentionally create the Interceptor. And later, they killed Xara and Jean and uploaded all of their data to the Ligosomnia Engine - unaware that Rune had been forcibly subjected to Brain Uploading, and that they were giving her access to everything they knew. They literally created the two biggest threats to their plans.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: His and his partner's goals and motives are completely unknown, even more so than the other antagonists’. When cornered in late Chapter 15, they admit they are seeking to ensure their own immortality - but even that seems to be merely a part of the plan/a stepping stone to their final goal.
- Mysterious Past: We don't learn anything about their pasts until late Chapter 15. They're apparently androids from another world, based on the Xara and Jean of this world.
- My Name Is ???: Taken to its Logical Extreme since both their names and title are masked with ???note .
- Time Master: They're capable of traveling through time, seemingly at will.
Kieran
Kieran
- The Battle Didn't Count: Played Straight. Defeating him with Ren will grant you 4 relationship points, but his dialogue post battle will remain completly unchanged (and is one of the rare battle in the entire game doing so).
- Characterization Marches On: As of this edit, it's unknown if it's this or Pet the Dog, but his first mandatory appearances have him assisting you in Mount Valor. While he does bring up the possiblity of abandoning Amber to Team Xen, he also actively helps you save her, as if that's the outcome he'd prefer, despite this seemingly running counter to his goals. From that point on, all of his appearances are strictly antagonistic unless you become a Renegade, and he enlists you to kill Amber and Venam on the Renegade route to prove your loyalty.
- Combat Pragmatist: Pokemon Battle is not the first thing you would think when talking about Kieran. His battle with Ren was just to humor him. Using his surfboard to slam people from above is much faster.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He gives you the emotion powder in Valor Mountain, long before he truly becomes involved in the story.
- Faux Affably Evil: Underneath his smooth-talking persona, Kieran is extremely callous and condescending, and seems to have a strong sadistic side to him. He takes disturbing glee in his chaotic and destructive actions during the Puppet Master's game, and on the Renegade Route, he casually baits you into admitting your true intentions to an eavesdropping Amber and Venam, so that you'll be forced to kill them to prove your loyalty. Really, he seems to have no respect for anything or anyone.
- I Know Your True Name: You can pull this on Kieran when controlling Ren in Hiyoshi Pass. After that, his name will be correctly displayed for the remainder of the game, including in battle.???: What's that? You're gonna have to speak louder than that!(the player enter "Kieran" in the prompt)Kieran: ...Now how'd you know that...? Care to tell me?Ren: I...I don't know...I'm not even sure what I even said...What am I talking about again?Kieran: Hah... You love playing games, Interceptor. Let's keep playing games then.
- Mysterious Stranger: Little is known about him.
- Optional Boss : He's the Mini-Boss of the final quest of Terajuma Island "Infinite Potential" where he railroads the player on the quest.
- The Nicknamer: He has a habit of devising cute nicknames for the heroes he tangles with repeatedly.
- Red Oni: Impish and wise cracking, Kieran is much more personable than his partner. Evidently, choosing a name for himself is somewhat unusual, and his partner attributes to him being... him.
- Route Boss : In Chapter 13 you will fight his Xurkitree in a boss fight, but only if you choose to not expose Flora.
- Signature Mon: His Xurkitree.
- Sky Surfing: He use a special surfboard to fly in the air. He also uses Alolan Raichu.
- Starfish Aliens: He uses an Ultra Beast, Xurkitree.
- You Can't Fight Fate: He tells Ren that everything is on a predetermined path, or at least, should be.
The Red-Haired Woman
???/Clear
- Battle Theme Music: In "Where Love Lies" she use the Battle - Unknown theme, because Battle - Mysterious Figures wasn't created at this point.
- Blue Oni: Cold, impartial, and markedly more professional in mannerisms, she's the dour blue to Kieran's red.
- The Chessmaster: In Where Love Lies, Clear engineers Kenneth’s life so that he falls in love with Taelia and awakens Amethyst Grotto with her. Once that is done, she cuts all ties with him.
- Degraded Boss: Not her, but the fake Xen Mage she create in Aquamarine Chamber is the very first fought in the whole game. After this, other mages are encountered during the Terajuma Island Arc.
- Lack of Empathy: She doesn’t care about ruining Kenneth’s life, claiming it was necessary in the grand scheme of things. In the present, she repeatedly tells Aelita that nothing she does is personal, it's just business.
- Master of Illusion: Using her Beheeyem, she can create illusions to mess with those around her. In Where Love Lies, said illusions completely ruin Kenneth’s life. She later uses it to trick you into fighting alongside her against Melia and Aelita (though you can still attack her pokemon instead of theirs).
- Mysterious Stranger: Little is known about her until Chapter 15.
- Nothing Personal: How she feels about what she does. Kenneth and Aelita both beg to differ.
- Signature Mon: Her Crested Beheeyem and Naganadel.
- Starfish Aliens: She has an Ultra Beast, Naganadel.
Dimensional Rifts
In General
In General
- Battle Theme Music: Battle - Dimensional Rift
- Eldritch Abomination: Dear god, yes.
- Foil: To the PULSE Pokemon from Pokémon Reborn. They both act as Evil Conterparts to Mega Evolution that the main antagonists are using, but while the PULSE Pokemon were created by technology and usually have a purpose beyond "sentient weapon of mass destruction" (for example, stimulating plant growth or polluting a lake), the Dimensional Rift Pokemon were made through supernatural means and their primary function is to be sentient weapons.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: They're incredibly powerful, but all that power has warped their bodies and minds.
- Tragic Monster: It's made clear that the Pokemon turned into Dimensional Rifts are suffering horribly in their new state, but the only way to stop them (at least normally) is to kill them. Notably averted with the Dimensional Rift Carnivine, as it actually enjoys its new form. Rift Ferrothorn also seems more annoyed at being defeated than anything, and manages to survive the ordeal just fine.
- It's implied that the creation of Rift Matter and Dimensional Rifts is linked in some way to the Garufa. How it happens isn't clear, though.
Code: Evo
Dimensional Rift Gyarados
- Mind Hive: As a school of Magikarp fused into one being, this is a given.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: It’s field effect boosts the strength of Dark Type moves, while it does help it as one of its moves is Bite… it’s also weak to Dark Type moves meaning that a Dark Type Pokémon can take it out in around two hits.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Yes...
- Paper Tiger: It's still above the opponents you fought, but it's relatively weak for a Dimensional Rift.
- Warm-Up Boss: It’s purpose gameplay wise is essentially to serve as a tutorial on how Rift Pokémon battles work.
Code: Materna
Dimensional Rift Galvantula
- Mama Bear: Even in this state, all it wants is to protect its children, which were scattered throughout the cave alongside it.
- Multiple Head Case: Three, to be specific.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Its current design is some sort of spider-scorpion-cerberus thing.
- Poisonous Person: Drops its secondary Bug-typing for a Poison-typing.
- The Scapegoat: Was placed in Amethyst Cave by Crescent to cover up Melia's disappearance, and ultimately gets blamed, transformed, and killed as a result.
Code: Statia
Dimensional Rift Volcanion
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: Despite being an infant, it's still incredibly powerful.
- Load-Bearing Boss: Killing it causes a catastrophic meltdown that ends up destroying Team Xen's Base in Carotos Mountain.
- Mercy Kill: Defeating it counts as one. It even thanks you afterwards.
- Missing Mom: It misses its mother and asks the player to take it to them. Unfortunately, that's not possible.
Code: Sarpa
Dimensional Rift Carnivine
- Adaptational Heroism: As of Version 13.5, it's the guardian of the cursed root in the Tyluric Temple, and seeks to protect the pokemon there - in previous versions, it was sent by Angie to wreak havoc on Terajuma, and didn't seem to mind being infused with Rift Matter.
- Cursed with Awesome: It doesn't seem to mind using its Rift form - it can let it defend the Temple, and that's all it needs to know.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Gains the Dragon-type after it's transformation.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Takes on a more serpentine appearance after its transformation.
Code: Feris
Dimensional Rift Chandelure
- Barrier Change Boss: Gains Protean as an ability, allowing it to change types. In 13.5, due to the new boss mechanics, it now changes to set types passively, and has Trace instead, allowing it to copy the Ability of your current Pokemon.
- Mercy Kill: Its death is framed as this - Nancy asks you to kill it because it is suffering, its last words before battle in earlier versions is to beg for death and its final words afterward are to thank you for its death.
Code: Corroso
Dimensional Rift Garbodor
- Casting a Shadow: Gains the Dark-typing.
- Healing Factor: Has Poison Heal as an ability, allowing it to heal from the Corrupted Cave Field it is fought on.
- Mighty Glacier: It has very high defenses, but a miserable speed stat of 10.
- Tragic Monster: It's not even that malicious, only wanting to make sure that Melia survived and even allowing a sample of its body to be taken. Luckily, depending on the player's actions, it is possible to save it.
- Villainous Glutton: Well, not exactly villainous, but it eats several people in the West Gearen Sewers but spits them out in its lair, and over the course of the battle against it, it eats different objects around the area to change its type.
Code: Drifio
Dimensional Rift/Pulse Ferrothorn
- Lightning Bruiser: In its secondary form, it loses hp, but gets an enormous boost in speed and attack.
- Mighty Glacier: In its first form, it's absurdly bulky, but also very slow.
- Playing with Fire: Its Grass typing is replaced by a Fire typing, to go with the Volcanic field it is fought on.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Downplayed, since at first it has enough hp that even ground attacks aren't guaranteed to cause a One-Hit Kill, and its secondary form is fast and strong enough that it can outpace most ground types.
Code: Bella
Dimensional Rift Regirock/Aelita)
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Created by Cella fully unlocking the chains around Aelita's heart that held back the Garufa Curse known as Vivian's Madness, Aelita has been corrupted by the darkness of her own life, Vivian's, and Taelia's combined.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Has a Rock/Fighting typing, and summons several mutated Golems as backup.
- Fragile Speedster: In utter contrast to Regirock's usual approach, Code: Bella has absurdly high Special Attack and Speed (and her attack stats are boosted by Savagery), but at best mediocre defenses and hp.
- "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: The purpose of unlocking the "chains" was so that the curse could be drawn out by you and Erin and so that Melia could then use her powers to destroy it for good.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Aelita, previously subject to Puny Earthlings, gets a power boost sufficient to put her "level" in the 70s-80 from this.
- You Will Not Evade Me: Her ability, True Shot, is this, providing an automatic Laser Focus at the end of each turn.
Code: Angelus
Dimensional Rift Gardevoir
- Boss Subtitles: Angel Of Death
- Casting a Shadow: Has a primary Dark type.
- Determinator: She keeps fighting even after being defeated and betrayed by Indriad.
- Fallen Angel: She has the appearance of one, and is a corrupted form of Gardevoir, which takes cues from guardian angels.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Indriad directly betrays her and then insults her - and she still tries to fight for him.
- Undying Loyalty: To Indriad - even after he betrays her, she refuses to stop fighting for him until the very end. She even mentions it as she dies.I am a Gardevoir. Be it a curse, or a blessing, we stick by our masters no matter what. Even now in this moment, I can't bring myself to hate him. If he took me back now, I know I would return to him.
- Villain Teleportation: She can teleport herself, and other people, around as she pleases via large black rifts that act similarly to portals.
- Villain's Dying Grace: She teleports you, Huey, Reina, and Ren out of the base as it starts caving in, even though she could easily have just left you to die - or teleported you into a pit of spikes.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Her typing is Dark/Fairy.
Code: Garna
Dimensional Rift Hippowdon/Gloria
- Chekhov's Gunman: First seen as a Hippopotas in the past in Chapter 13, she is fought one version later as a Hippowdon.
- Dual Boss: In the initial v12 battle against it, it somehow splits into two separate Hippowdon, (the other is called Manuel).
- Mighty Glacier: Has absurdly high health, Attack, and Defense. And their starting ability, Accumulation, has Gloria and Manuel both possessing three stacks of Stockpile at all times (and with Spit Up and Swallow, the moveset to use it effectively), meaning that you're going to be fighting a battle of endurance. They're absurdly slow, however.
- Poisonous Person: She's part Poison-type due to the Rift Matter.
- Tragic Monster: Like Garbodor, Gloria's not really that malicious. And like Garbodor, you can save her by showing Ren, Melia, and Audino the journal.
Code: Rembrence
Dufaux/Celesia Altair and Light the Rotom
- Ambiguous Gender: Prior to the reveal, Dufaux is always referred to as male. 'Dufaux' is actually the combined souls of Celesia Altair, a young girl, and Light the Rotom, which is a genderless species.
- Came Back Wrong: What happened to both Celesia and Light. During Loria’s attempt to resurrect her granddaughter, her soul was fused with Light the Rotom’s, which was also in the well where she died, creating the vengeful Dufaux.
- Fate Worse than Death: Dufaux invokes this trope, saying that he considers his family's sealing him away and intentionally trying to forget his existence to be a worse fate than death.
- Killed Off for Real: Narcissa's Chandelure burns Celesia's soul out of existence.
- Meaningful Name: Dufaux means ‘of/from the fake’, a hint that he is not what he seems.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Twice. First, after realising that she'd screwed up, Loria Altair sealed Dufaux in the well they'd died in. However, the Calamity broke the seal, releasing them. Later, Narcissa sealed them in the Odd Tower, but the player freed them.
- Tragic Villain: At their core, Dufaux is a little girl who died horribly for stupid reasons who just doesn't want to be forgotten, and an innocent Pokemon who never wanted to hurt her. At the end of the quest, Celesia asks if her family never loved her and only thought of her as an embarrassment, though Narcissa assures her otherwise.
- Vengeful Ghost: Of Celesia and Light, who were denied the peace of death and now wish to destroy the Altair family name.
The Xenpurgis
A Dimensional Rift that Cassandra has been personally working on. It's actually a Rift Stakataka.
- Invincible Villain: It's been designed to be unbeatable.
- Meaningful Name: Its name is spelt similarly to Xen Purges. As in Xen Purges GDC.
