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(L—>R) Liv, Lucia, Lee

The squad led by the Commandant and main focus of the story. As part of the Babylonia Task Force, Gray Raven specializes in battle operations on Earth. Deployed to countless operations, the trio has developed a reputation for being one of the best squads under Babylonia. They are led by veteran Construct Lucia.

Those with their names in bold are playable.

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Warning: Punishing's Chinese servers were active before others, and thus have released more story and gameplay elements compared to international regions. As such, there will be spoilers aplenty, marked and unmarked. New players are advised to read at their own discretion, or avoid these pages entirely.

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The Commandant

Wearing powered armor in Wintry Shackles.

As depicted in Chaos Unsnarled

The player avatar. As Commandant, you tag along with the Gray Raven squad, provide them instructions, and rescue them when in the event their minds become tainted with the virus.

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• And Now for Someone Completely Different: In Wintry Shackles, the Commandant temporarily becomes playable in a rail shooter-esque sequence where they don AI-assisted power armor (pictured right) to help repel the Corrupted.
• Ambiguous Clone Ending: At the end of Cradle Parade the Commandant continues to wonder if they are a clone or not even though Hippocrates assures them that tesrs reveal no sign of drug-induced age-acceleration. The Commandant going through their medical file puts ambiguity on Hippocrates words.
• Ambiguous Gender: The Commandant's CN pronouns are usually gender-neutral. The only other hints to their gender is the size of their hands, general build, and short hair, but even those elements (which are still considered neutral) sometimes differ between illustrations. However, it's all but confirmed that their gender is Commandant, as they are intended to be a self-insert for the player.
• Big Good: This is what they become in the future according to one of Gestalt's simulations in Her Last Bow. It should, however, be noted that this timeline's situation is bad for humanity, something not in any way the Commandant's fault, but the odds were so stacked against them that they couldn't stop so much of the main cast from dying. See Bad Future in the main tropes page for more details, but to sum it up, humanity is doomed in it.
• Chick Magnet: And Dude Magnet for the male Constructs; nearly every Construct the Commandant meets and gets to know express their affection in return to varying degrees. Also crosses into Battle Harem since Constructs fight, especially if it's to protect the Commandant.
• The Chosen Many: You are not the only commandant leading Constructs. You and your squad just happen to be the star of the story.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: There is no choice too great for them if it means saving others or sparing the future of further suffering.
  • When Alpha subdues all of their Constructs in the story Prologue, they rush to attack her. They got stabbed for it, but it kept Alpha's attention off their subordinates.
  • In Ayla: Kaleidoscope's Bond Story, they use their own body to shield her from falling books. Lampshaded by Ayla herself who notes that she's a construct.
• Depending on the Writer: Generally speaking (and depending on dialogue choices), when they're not showing their absolute determination to save everyone they can once the chips are down or simply being the Nice Guy/Girl, they tend to act as a Foil to the Constructs they spend time with. This can cause them to act as the Cloudcuckoolander to a Cloudcuckoolander's Minder (like the Commandant casually showing up unannounced for Watanabe) or the other way around (humoring Kamui and Nanami, clearing up the misunderstandings Wanshi causes, etc.).
• Distressed Dude: Originally just an above-average commandant, their decision to link to Luna in Fake Ascension starts a domino effect that puts them in a precarious position politically, with factions scrutinizing them for linking with an Ascendant. In Imprisoned Sight, it gets so bad they're unlawfully detained for "medical observation" by Kurono operatives until Vonnegut's actions finally create the loopholes that can free them.
• A Father to His Men: Despite their high position, the Commandant refuses to treat Gray Raven or any other Construct as expendable, sometimes even fighting for them in person despite being weak in comparison since the Commandant is only human. Even in AI simulations, like in the story of Virtual Horizon, where despite being told time and again that the Constructs are just simple recreations that are reset, they refuse to change their stance. It is because of this that Constructs develop Undying Loyalty towards the Commandant and each other, making the Constructs under the Commandant's leadership strong.
  • This raises two point of concern from Babylonia's leadership though. The first is from Nikola as he fears that the Constructs' loyalty towards the Commandant is greater than their loyalty towards Babylonia, so if the Commandant eve rrebels against Babylonia, said Constructs are likely to follow them. While Hassen doesn't believe that the Commandant would ever rebel considering their personality, he does acknowledge Nikola's concern since it's possible, no matter how unlikely. The second is from Hassen, concerned over how the close bonds between the members of Gray Raven can create a situation like what happened to Tifa, who was a former Construct of Suzaku squad and went mad when her own Commandant died, turning into the enemy we know now.
  • The player's Commandant is also the only one outside of Cerberus' dedicated one who is able to link with and calm down No. 21. In 21's story, they are also the only one willing to track down and link with her when she goes berserk, and in Inscription of Labyrinth, the Commandant's concern for 21 is what allows her to overcome the corruption caused by Voodoo's hacking.
• Featureless Protagonist: Any interactions with other characters is through the Commandant's perspective, hence his or her body stays unseen and off-screen throughout the game. The game finally gives a slight glimpse of their appearance in Fake Ascension when they hold Luna's hand, revealing that they wear a gray skin-concealing suit while out in the field. In Wintry Shackles, the Commandant even gets profile art, albeit of them temporarily wearing AI-assisted power armor, and in their portrait in Chaos Unsnarled we don't see any defining features.
• Frontline General: Commandants, including the player, need to be in the same area of operation as their Constructs for various reasons both psychological and tactical. The weapon they use at the frontline is a pistol, which is underwhelming compared to the more advanced kinds Constructs can use, but it makes sense once you consider that Commandants are basically officers who need to focus on leading rather than fighting, keeping the pistol more for self-defense.
• Handguns: This weapon is their standard-issue weapon. While the Commandant is expected to rely on their Constructs to do most of the heavy lifting, they turn out to be a crack shot and a frequent active combatant on their own. In Wintry Shackles they use a special one in their unique gameplay sequence, which comes with various Depleted Phlebotinum Shells that have different effects.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The player's username is treated in-story as the Commandant's name, and multiples characters will refer to them as such.
• Hidden Depths:
  • They were Selena's penpal before the latter went missing.
  • In Ayla: Kaleidoscope's Bond Story reveals that they had an interest in drawing as a youth.
• Made of Iron: The Commandant is constantly endangered, and constantly receiving injuries of varying degrees.
• Large and in Charge: Rosetta's Birthday Video has her crane her neck up to look at the Commandant.
• Living Legend: Watanabe: Ephitet's greeting line has him ask for an autograph, since the kids in the Forsaken campt see the Commandant like a comic book hero.
• Magnetic Hero: How this takes form varies from character to character; they care for Constructs with little to no discrimination, gaining total loyalty from their Constructs in Gray Raven, as well as friendship with others like Strike Hawk, Bianca despite her work as an executioner of the infected, and, eventually, Cerberus. In Babylonia, they're generally known as The Reliable One of the commandants, having been The Ace during their time in commandant school and has fellow graduates like Simon calling them "Boss". Even some of their enemies like Qu and Luna come to see them in a good light.
• The Paragon: Invoked by Babylonia in fact. In order to put them out of reach of Kurono, Hassen makes a big ceremony of the Commandant's recovery of the Omega File after The Last Spark, turning them and Gray Raven squad into war heroes the public can rally behind. For a while, the Commandant chafes at the attention, since it means keeping them away from the frontline for PR purposes, but by Wintry Shackles it's shown their status isn't just for show, as many refugees are willing to move to the Purified Zone on their say-so alone.
• Shrouded in Myth:
  • Played for Laughs in Wanshi's Bond Story, where an Accidental Innuedo has several people murmuring that the Commandant is as promiscuous as the rumours say.
  • In Ayla: Kaleidoscope's Bond Story, she draws a portrait of the Commandant according to rumours, which has them be over 7 feet tall, hold a fusion cannon with one hand, have an exoskeleton as strong as a construct, and several other features that are not drawn like wings and clairvoyance.
• Soldiers at the Rear: Lucia's Treasure interlude shows that in the past the Commandant was accused of being one, as it seemed like they used their reputation as the highest scorer in the military academy to attach themselves to Gray Raven squad, which only consisted of Lucia at the time, and thus avoid heading to the frontline via a loophole. Though as the rest of the story shows, this is the furthest thing from the truth.
• The Woobie: The Commandant is infamous for getting the short end of the stick, enough so that one has to wonder why it's not called Punishing: Commandant of Gray Raven. And while they may be Made of Iron and have Heroic Willpower, they are ultimately human.
  • In the Prologue, they get Impaled With Extreme Predujice by Alpha.
  • Chapter 6 to 12 is just one nonstop Trauma Conga Line, with the Commandant facing gradually worse situations. It's no wonder that they show signs of PTSD at the start of Grand Blue.
  • Speaking of Grand Blue, it was supposed to be a long-overdue vacation for the Gray Ravens that ends up extended because the Commandant suffers grievous injuries. The whole thing was orchestrated by Hassan and Nikola, in fact.
  • Subsequent story events aren't much better either, as in most of them where the Commandant is the main protagonist, they end up suffering grievous injuries for one reason or another. It's so bad that most of the Commadant's time spent on Babylonia is in the hospital getting checkups.

Lucia (BPL-01)

Voiced by: Xiao N ^* 小N (Chinese) Yui Ishikawa (Japanese), Sura Siu (English)

Gray Raven squad Attack-type construct

^{Click here to see Dawn} 

^{Click here to see Plume} 

Profile

• Psychological Age: 18
• Vital Fluid Type: A
• Activation Date: June 15
• Service Time: 6 Years
• Weight: 48kg
• Height: 165cm

"Commandant, I am the Lucia you gave life to. That day when I touched your hand and felt your warmth — that was the moment I truly came alive. Alive to everything in the world."

The stern captain of the Gray Raven squad. As a modified military-type construct, she has developed great strength and a firm will in the long war. Nowadays, her tacit understanding with the Commandant is widely considered a model on the battlefield. However, her unusual memories show crucial aspects of her past have been buried.

Lucia's frame variations are Lotus, Dawn, Plume, Crimson Abyss, and Crimson Weave.^note the last two belonging to her double "Alpha"

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• The Ace: She's a great asset to Babylonia for the purpose of fighting the virus, just like the original.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes: Two of Lotus's coatings are these.
  • "Daybreak" is given as a reward of the 500.000 pre-registration milestone.
  • "Rain Walking" is given as a reward of first time top-up.
• Badass Biker: Whenever a driving sequence occurs in the game, she's the one who is put behind the bars.
• Big Brother Instinct: Protecting her sister was basically the only thing keeping her going in the past, until her death. Time with Gray Raven squad has made her a bit better.
• Blow You Away: A rare blizzard variant. Plume frame 's cannon can shoot out a whirlwind of blizzard.
• Cool Shades: Upgraded Lotus coating gave her this beneath her Inver Device. The final upgrade version has a red tint.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Lucia admits that cooking is a weakness for her. Despite learning from other constructs in her spare time, her creations still tend to be "special". In her White Day side story, Lucia tries making popcorn for the Commandant, which somehow involves chocolate, sugar, curry powder, coffee powder, dried tomatoes and more. The Commandant manages to swallow the concoction, and offers to help Lucia with her cooking in the future. The Panini: Gray Raven gag anime ups this to Lethal Chef, as one of her dishes outright kills those who eat it during the end credits.
• Cuteness Proximity: One of her favorite gifts player can give to her is a stuffed frog keyring. In the past, she used to give her sister a huggable sized stuffed frog to calm her whenever she went to find foods.
  • In the Panini anime, she's shown to be in a warm delight receiving one from the commandant. She's also shown to kept hordes of them in her locker.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Always on the receiving end of this whenever fighting with Alpha is concerned. This is, however, slowly getting averted as time goes on.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was an orphan who looked after her younger sister, who had to fight Corrupted and scavenge for food. She just about gave up when her sister died in a failed conversion into a Construct, only half-heartedly continuing because Nikola told her fighting the Corrupted would be a better use of her life. This is complicated by the fact that this Lucia is not the one who experienced these events.
• Death of Personality: At the end of Kowloong Metropolis, Lucia dons the Plume frame to defeat Qu, but the initialization process requires her to lose her memories. The Lucia that follows after will only be able to read them as data, but not be emotionally connected to them. Ironically, however, she began to be more emotional after the initialization.
• Dual Wielding: Lotus and Dawn frames have the abilities that give her additional blades to allow her to do this.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Dawn has a coating named "Gothic", which recolors her default palette into monochrome.
• Elemental Powers: Three of her frame variants have different elemental abilities, besides physical damage:
  • Playing with Fire: Lotus deals 20% fire damage.
  • Shock and Awe: Dawn deals 60% lightning damage.
  • An Ice Person: Plume deals 80% ice damage.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Each of three of her four frames has one of per element.
• Foreshadowing: Her visual receiver gave Alpha's face in shadow on their first encounter.
  • At some points on the story, Kamui noted that Lucia never cared about him before and that now she's a nicer person. Lucia is visibly confused by these statements.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: During a mission, she and Liv together secured two stuffed animals in a nearby mall where the mission took place.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her frames sports different variants of pigtails.
  • Lotus has her pigtails done on the front side of her hair.
  • Dawn has the standard style.
  • Plume has her pigtails positioned more on the back of her head.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of Kowloong Metropolis, Lucia sacrifices her memories in order to fully activate her Plume frame, allowing her to defeat Qu and save the Commandant. She does this, believing the Commandant's memories of the old her is proof enough of her existence.
• Hot Blade: Lotus's Blue Orb "Lotus - Wave Slash" skill flares up her blade for extra fire damage.
• Iconic Outfit: Of all her frames, Dawn is used most for Punishing's marketing.
• Identical Stranger: Her Lotus look is actually how Alpha looked like before she gets infected.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Her past memories are intact, save for some previously unknown holes in her memories.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Her color signifies her role in the Gray Raven team.
• Limit Break:
  • Lotus has her do Criss-Cross Attack and ended by Storm of Blades.
  • Plume has her do a leap and deal massive ice damage from midair.
• Limited Wardrobe: Subverted by her actual variation of coatings. Lotus's first secret file stated that she keeps many similar red scarfs.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is latin for Light.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: While she receives two, switching to her Dawn frame for Consumed by Darkness and Plume during Kowloong Metropolis, it's also inverted; she ditches the Dawn frame after Consumed by Darkness and reverts to Lotus until she upgrades to Plume. No reason is given for this.
• Privileged Rival: Towards Alpha, who has to survive the world on her own. Lucia on the other hand, enjoys maintenances, new upgraded bodies and has a reliable Commandant courtesy of Babylonia.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Lotus's default coating sports these.
• Protectorate: Constantly affirmig her desire to protect the Commandant.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her default eye color, which points her to be the strongest in the Gray Raven team.
• Replacement Goldfish: She is this to Babylonia, replacing Alpha.
• The Stoic: She generally has a calm personality that signifies being a professional.
• Super Mode:
  • Lotus gives her an ability in which, pinging 3 Red Orbs within 4 seconds will allow her to use "Dual Blade" skill.
  • Dawn gives her four floating swords for her Ultimate to boost her attack.
  • Plume makes it integral to her attack style: activating Ice Mode grants her a whole new set of powerful ice-based attacks for a limited time, and it is only then that she can use her Limit Break.
• Spy Catsuit: Lotus's coating "Daybreak" gives her this with combination of fingerless gloves, a Underboob Window and an upper bottom window.
• Starter Mon: You start the game with her B-Ranked Lotus variation as your Attacker to make initial headway into the game with.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality:
• Sword and Gun: Plume gives her a freezer cannon that is carried on her back and can be attached on her left arm.
• Synchronization: Due to their connection, in Wintry Shackles, Lucia and Alpha begin sharing sensations. Unfortunately, this also means Alpha also becomes a vector through which the Ascension Network begins infecting Lucia, slowing turning her into an Ascendant.
• Winter Royal Lady: Subverted within the aesthetic department. When Plume is compared to Alpha, she's certainly the more privileged Construct with ice powers.

Liv (BPN-08)

Voiced by: Duo Duo(Chinese) Ai Kayano (2019-2021) Miku Itō (2021-Current) (Japanese), Brianna Knickerbocker (English)

Gray Raven squad Support-type construct

^{Click here to see Lux} 

^{Click here to see Luminance} 

^{Click here to see Empyrea} 

Profile

• Psychological Age: 16
• Vital Fluid Type: O
• Activation Date: August 10
• Service Time: 2 Years
• Weight: 43kg
• Height: 155cm

A member of Gray Raven recruited from Star of Life Medical. Liv is polite and understanding. Despite her weak appearance, she can withstand extraordinary amounts of pressure. As the latest Support-type construct, she provides the team with critical backup. Even in this age of war, Liv's heart continues to hold an innocent dream.

Liv's frame variations are Eclipse, Lux, Luminance and Empyrea.

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• All-Loving Hero: She never showed anything but kindness to others, whether it was her spoiled step-family, or soldiers on the battlefield telling her to save herself. In fact, this trait was so admirable she was asked to keep living as a construct and helping others, rather than die. It reaches its logical conclusion in The Surviving Lucem when she agrees to don the Empyrea frame, which would have her purifying the Punishing Virus in the area at the cost of herself, had Lucia and the Commandant not saved her M.I.N.D.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Her Empyrea frame uses powers derived from the Punishing Virus. Rather than using it to infect and destroy, Liv uses it to purify others of the infection, though it comes at the cost of drawing the virus and its malice into herself. In game, Empyrea is the first of the Amplifier class, which can certainly dish out damage, but has higher value in its unique buffing and healing utility.
• Beam Spam: How her offensive skills work.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Her willingness to heal any Constructs in the battlefield doesn't stop her to be the sole survivor in her first outing against the Punishing virus. This is also when she was a human.
• Cinderella Plot: Her past is analogous to the original tale, step-family and all. But instead of marrying a prince, Liv becomes a celebrated war hero, and is transformed into a Construct.
• Combat Medic: She's no slouch in attacking, but their delays feel uncomfortably long compared to the non-stop onslaught other constructs are capable of. However, she's one of the few characters capable of healing herself or other teammates with her skills.
• Controllable Helplessness: At the end of Evernight Beat, Liv defiantly continues fighting the Unidentified Twins, even after they defeat Lee and Lucia. During this sequence, Liv can only stagger around weakly, and attack slowly, while the Twins effortlessly dodge each time and slowly whittle her down.
• A Day in the Limelight: Liv takes centerstage in The Survival Lucem, as she desperately does her best to keep survivors alive amid dwindling supplies and food during the game's Darkest Hour.
• Death from Above: Luminance has a Limit Break where she does Beam Spam rained down on her enemies.
• Defiant Captive: In Forgotten Sand she gets kidnapped by Watanabe. While she's being transported, she calmly tells Watanabe to stop the car and let her off, or have all of Babylonia out for his blood.
• Dub Name Change: Her Empyrea frame was originally titled "Solaeter" when it was first released in CN servers.
• Eye Colour Change: Her Empyrea frame unusually changes her normally pink irises to gray ones, giving away that her powers come from being infected by the Punishing Virus.
• Flawed Prototype: The Empyrea frame is a band-aid solution Babylonia rushes to the frontline in order to deploy their prototype Omega Weaponry on the Hetero-Creatures running rampant on Earth. It is combined with Ascendant data so that it can pull in the Virus to have it be drained away by the Omega Weapon, but there's no safe way to protect the Construct from the virus as it filters through their M.I.N.D. It can only operate for a limited period of time before the frame turns into another Corrupted, and by that point the only thing Babylonia can do is hit an EMP to fry the Construct. Liv volunteers anyways.
• Frills of Justice: Some of her coatings give her these.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Despite the massive danger involved in using the Empyrea frame in the story, none of this is reflected in its gameplay form, which Liv can use freely without any indication of encroaching infection.
• Girlish Pigtails: Several of her coatings sports her hair this way in different ways.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: During a mission, she and Lucia together secured two stuffed animals in a nearby mall where the mission took place.
• Heroic RRoD: Liv dons the Empyrea frame, which is only expected to function for three hours before she succumbs from absorbing all the Punishing Virus from other victims. Even when the Commandant and Lucia rescue her, her mind is in such a mess they fear she'll never recover.
• High-Class Gloves: Luminance has bridal style fashion complete with these.
• Important Haircut: Her Lux and Luminance frames sport shorter haircuts, canonically after Liv cut her own hair to cut ties with her old commandant, Vanessa, who gave Liv her Lux frame.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Her step-family pushed her away to bring attention to themselves, then refused to fight in the war because they wanted to enjoy their wealth and fame. Liv, meanwhile, enlists in the army, and inadvertently gets the last laugh when she is lauded for her heroism and becomes the member of the family the people celebrate.
• Light Is Not Good: Her Empyrea frame gives her the appearance of an angelic savior come to purge the Punishing Virus from victims, but its power is derived from Liv's own willing exposure to the Virus. In The Surviving Lucem, Liv's M.I.N.D. during this chapter takes the form of a nightmarish hellscape, and it also appears when she use her frame's Limit Break, showing the dark secret hidden under her new divine look.
• Meido: Eclipse has a maid-style coating named "Maid of Time".
• Pink Means Feminine: She has pink for almost every coating and she's the more feminine compared to Lucia.
• Playing with Fire: Her Empyrea frame gives her 90% fire damage
• Power Floats: Her Luminance frame makes her permanently airborne, emphasizing her almost fragile grace, and the fact she's a flying fortress armed with two massive laser guns.
• Reassignment Backfire: Her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing step-family convince her to join the army to get rid of her, seemingly expecting her to either die on the battlefield or become just another anonymous medic. Instead, she saves 35 wounded soldiers nearly at the cost of her own life, and earns both a First-Class Merit and conversion into a Construct, leaving the step-siblings that once looked down on her now envious of her achievements they can never replicate.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Luminance has her back completely exposed.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Despite her non-threatening appearance and demeanor, her mind is made of steel. Watanabe is surprised when he found her to be very calm when he kidnapped her.
• Simultaneous Arcs: The end of Echo Aria depicts a scene in Liv's past, which coincides with another in Lucia's "Treasure" interlude where she fought with some Constructs over the Commandant. Coincedentally, not long after she would be transferred to the undermanned Gray Raven squad.
• Shock and Awe: Lux deals 80% lightning damage.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: She's a tiny girl with two floating guns as her weapons.
• Sole Survivor: She survived her first outing as a human soldier. In the gag anime, she's the only one to not die to Lucia's cooking in the outro, apparently because she doesn't eat said food.
• Starter Mon: Liv's B-Ranked Eclipse variation is given to the player as their first Support-class Construct.
• Technicolor Fire: Her Empyrea frame grants her fire-damage attacks that is presented as white energy.
• You Can't Go Home Again: After her transformation into a construct, Liv sends a letter citing this as her reason she won't ever return to her family.

Lee (BPN-06)

Voiced by: Xia Hou Luo Feng (Chinese) Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese), Chris Hackney (English)

Gray Raven squad Attack-type construct

^{Click here to see Entropy} 

^{Click here to see Hyperreal} 

Profile

• Psychological Age: 18
• Vital Fluid Type: AB
• Activation Date: July 23
• Service Time: 2 Years
• Weight: 63kg
• Height: 175cm

A member of Gray Raven originally from Kurono Ops. Lee comes with a wealth of engineering knowledge and experience with firearms. While he puts up an indifferent and outspoken appearance, in battle he will actively protect those close to him. A younger brother waits for him.

Lee's frame variations are Palefire, Entropy, and Hyperreal.

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• Big Brother Instinct: He did everything he could to look after his younger brother, Murray. When the latter's heart condition worsened, he volunteered to become a construct in exchange for Murray's heart transplant, even donating his own heart.
• A Day in the Limelight: Lee becomes the central figure of Spiral of Chronos, as he dons the Hyperreal frame and climbs the mysterious tower that is broadcasting a Hate Plague.
• Diving Save: "Hyperreal"'s victory animation consists of him diving towards the camera and using himself as a shield.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Lee's Hyperreal frame can stock Red and Yellow 3-Pings, which then activate along with his "Hyperdimensional Space" passive, which causes duplicates of him to attack at the same time as him.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Lee showed talent for hardware and computer science — he built robots in his spare time and it's implied he anonymously submitted articles to science magazines. Whatever future he had there was cut short by his transformation into a construct, though he still serves as The Engineer for Gray Raven squad.
• The Gunslinger: A true blue Woo, full of Gun Fu. His attack animations involve him spinning, charging, and flipping around while firing his two handguns.

• Icy Blue Eyes: In contrast to Palefire and Entropy, Hyperreal's eyes are a stark ice blue.
• Meaningful Rename: His birth name was Morian; when he did mercenary work to support himself and Murray, he used "Lee" as his alias. As a construct, Lee is now the only name he uses.^note The Chinese spelling for Morian uses the character for "Li".
• Mental Time Travel: His Hyperreal frame has enormous computing power. When Lee enters the tower in Spiral of Chronos, he becomes capable of perceiving alternate timelines, communicating with alternate selves, and eventually altering events earlier in his past to provide himself the tools to proceed further. In terms of gameplay, this is why Hyperreal is built around the Doppelgänger Attack: he's actually summoning Lees from alternate timelines to fight with him.
• No Sense of Direction: Tends to get lost when on his own- according to one of Eclipse's secrets, Liv once watched him wander around on radar for two hours before finally finding the right path.
• The One Guy: In the Gray Raven squad.
• Playing with Fire: His Palefire variation appropriately gives him some fire-damage attacks, including a grenade that leaves a persisting Area of Effect that burns enemies and converts any attacks made on them into the same element.
• Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Entropy's victory animation has him point one of his guns at the camera, before quickly pulling it back next to his head.
• Sour Supporter: He's the snarkiest, grumpiest, and most cynical member of the team, but he still displays unwavering loyalty and trust in the Commandant.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: The weapon class for Hyperreal is the tellingly named "Composite Arms". While initially resembling a handgun and a suitcase, it also serves as a convenient bludgeon, sniper rifle and BFG.