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!!Paul Serene
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The former best friend of Jack Joyce, a botched time travel experiment grants him similar powers to Jack as well as precognition but also gives him a vision of a future in which time has collapsed. Traveling back to 1999 he founds Monarch Solutions in an attempt to find a way to save the human race after it happens.

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!!Paul Serene
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The former best friend of Jack Joyce, a botched time travel experiment grants him similar powers to Jack as well as precognition but also gives him a vision of a future in which time has collapsed. Traveling back to 1999 he founds Monarch Solutions in an attempt to find a way to save final frontier"'']]

A tech organization at
the human race after it happens.head of research regarding Chronon energy, its applications and its relation to the End of Time.


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* ButterflyOfDoom: Its icon evokes that of a Monarch butterfly. Since its founder survived a TimeCrash that Monarch Solution's technology set-off, this might have been deliberate.
* MegaCorp: They're a private institution with seemingly endless funding and manpower and behaves as though it's above the law.
* NonGovernmentalOrganization: Its subsidiary -- Monarch Security -- acts more like an occupying army, marching into any situation with extreme hostility, even willing to capture and kill witnesses to any of Monarch's shady dealings (should the player choose to, anyway).
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!!Paul Serene
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AidanGillen
The former best friend of Jack Joyce, a botched time travel experiment grants him similar powers to Jack as well as precognition but also gives him a vision of a future in which time has collapsed. Traveling back to 1999 he founds Monarch Solutions in an attempt to find a way to save the human race after it happens.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''ack '''J'''oyce.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: If the player chooses the "Trust Hatch" junction and/or the "Surrender" junction, she ends up getting either strangled or bludgeoned with a paperweight to death courtesy of an unhinged paranoid Paul]].

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* KilledOffForReal: CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: If the player chooses the "Trust Hatch" junction and/or the "Surrender" junction, she ends up getting either strangled or bludgeoned with a paperweight to death courtesy of an unhinged paranoid Paul]].
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* HotScientist: Enough to get Paul interested in her.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:In the Hardline timeline.]]



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: If the PR timeline is chose, Amy is spared to broadcast a fake confession. Despite this, Monarch soldiers still plan to dispose of her.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: If the PR timeline is chose, chosen, Amy is spared to broadcast a fake confession. Despite this, Monarch soldiers still plan to dispose of her.



* SilverFox: pre-Fracture Paul doesn't have a gray hair in sight. Future!Paul, however, has a full head of it, and age has been kind to him.

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* SilverFox: pre-Fracture Pre-Fracture Paul doesn't have a gray hair in sight. Future!Paul, however, has a full head of it, and age has been kind to him.


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* StealthHiBye: At the very start of the game, turn around to find him standing under a streetlight. After a brief conversation, he will disappear once you move the camera off him and back.
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* SilverFox: pre-Fracture Paul doesn't have a gray hair in sight. Future!Paul, however, has a full head of it, and age has been kind to him.

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* BlatantLies: At the end of Act 4, Ogawa asks him during the interview if [[spoiler:Beth's death really had nothing to do with his attitude during the assault on Monarch that followed. Over the scene of him utterly [[HeartbrokenBadass breaking down]], he says he "barely knew her" and it definitely had no affect on him.]] Even Ogawa doesn't seem convinced.



* ShipTease: [[spoiler:Jack's strong reaction to Beth's death and his assertion that he ''will'' [[ScrewDestiny save her]] from that fate at the end of the game leaves this up in the air.]] Pointed out as possible motivation more than once by Ogawa, which Jack brushes aside, though he pointedly leaves out the bit about [[spoiler:telling Beth he'll save her]] during the ending.

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* ShipTease: [[spoiler:Jack's His behavior when [[spoiler:encountering Beth in 2010 after her [[BrokenBird breakdown]], strong reaction to Beth's her death shortly after, and his assertion that telling her he ''will'' [[ScrewDestiny save her]] from that fate at will "come back" for her after finding her during a stutter in Act 5]] all point to this being the end of the game case. Notably, he leaves this up in the air.]] Pointed last one out as possible motivation more than once by Ogawa, which Jack brushes aside, though he pointedly leaves out the bit about [[spoiler:telling Beth he'll save her]] during the ending.his interview with Ogawa.
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* BigLittleBrother: Jack is at least one feet taller than Will despite being the younger brother.

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* BigLittleBrother: Jack is at least one feet foot taller than Will despite being the younger brother.

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* BigLittleBrother: Jack is at least one feet taller than Will despite being the younger brother.



* YouCantFightFate: Gains this attitude over time as a result of her experiences, especially after [[spoiler:travelling to the future and personally witnessing the End of Time, then going back and having to relive the past without being able to change it]].

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* YouCantFightFate: Gains this attitude over time as a result of her experiences, especially after [[spoiler:travelling [[spoiler:traveling to the future and personally witnessing the End of Time, then going back and having to relive the past without being able to change it]].



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: If the PR timeline is chose, Amy is spared to broadcast a fake confession. Despite this, Monarch soldiers still plan to dispose of her.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:His fate after Dr. Amaral alerts Monarch to the swimming pool time machine is unknown, though his final dialogue with Jack indicates he managed to escape before their arrival]].

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:His WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
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fate after Dr. Amaral alerts Monarch to the swimming pool time machine is unknown, though his final dialogue with Jack indicates he managed to escape before their arrival]].
** If Amy is spared, Nick never appears at all in the game after the first act and his whereabouts is unknown.
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* PersonalityPowers / SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Jack Joyce says ScrewDestiny because he's a TimeMaster. This bring him into conflict with Paul Serene, who believes that "[[YouCantFightFate time is a closed loop]]" because he can [[{{Seers}} see the future]].

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* PersonalityPowers / SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: PersonalityPowers: Jack Joyce says ScrewDestiny because he's a TimeMaster. This bring him into conflict with Paul Serene, who believes that "[[YouCantFightFate time is a closed loop]]" because he can [[{{Seers}} see the future]].
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* FairCop: She's a security agent and is very attractive.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Invoked in the final act. While the rules of YouCantFightFate are established firmly in the story, William himself points out that nobody actually ''saw'' him die which left the door wide open for Jack's future self to step in and save him upon returning to the time of the Fracture.]]
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* HeroicBSOD: After Charlie doublecrosses her and Liam to get back in Hatch's good graces, Fiona attempts to contact Beth to tell her mission failed, only to get no response [[spoiler: because Beth is dead]]. She gets better when Jack tells her about the countermeasure.

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* HeroicBSOD: After Charlie doublecrosses her and Liam to get back in Hatch's good graces, Fiona attempts to contact Beth to tell her the mission failed, only to get no response [[spoiler: because Beth is dead]]. She gets better when Jack tells her about the countermeasure.

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