Roll Over and Die Main Character Index
Flum's Mansion | The Hero's Party | Capital Residents | Church of Origin | Demons
Flum's Mansion | The Hero's Party | Capital Residents | Church of Origin | Demons
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Church of Origin:
Tina
One of Sara's fellow paladins that wonders and worries upon hearing of Sara's absence and eventual "excommunication."
- Childhood Friends: With Sara. The two grew up together in a church orphanage and are close friends.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Until she met Flum, she was unaware of what Sara was going through and was horrified regarding the announcement of Sara's supposed betrayal. Even after being informed by Flum, the information was intentionally vague, to keep her out of the church's cross-hairs.
Spiral Children
Common to all:
- Ambiguous Innocence: Since they lived their entire lives subjected to Mother's "education" and being inundated by Origin's voice since infancy, it can be argued that they simply don't know how evil their actions are, and Flum suspects it may already be too late to redeem them, which makes Flum believe their caretaker has given up the right to live.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Once Mother has thrown them away, and the rest of the church starts hunting them to cover up their human experiments, when the citizens catch word and rightly object, the Spiral Children take to murdering as many capital citizens as they can, bragging that they want their villainy to be remembered.
- Child Soldier: They are all from age 8-10 and are used by Mother as the church's enforcers and black-ops operatives.
- Deadly Upgrade: Using a second Origin core gives them a tremendous boost in power, but turns them into human abominations that can't possibly survive long term and have to be killed, by being separated from their core or having said core destroyed, to end their suffering and mindless rampage.
- Despair Event Horizon: With Mother throwing them away, the rest of the church hunting them, to cover up their inhumane research, and the fact that they were raised into psychos to begin with, they see no prospect for a peaceful life, so just seek to be remembered by murdering as many random citizens as they can.
- Enfante Terrible: Ranging from ages 8-10 and they all suffer various levels of psychosis, thanks to Mother's treatment of them since infancy.
- Facial Horror: As with all those empowered by Origin, their faces twist into a vortex when using their Origin based powers.
- One-Winged Angel: Mute, Luke, and Fwiss all end up using a black crystal to power themselves up in their battles against Linus, Flum, and Gadhio resepctively. The crystals give them a major power boost while turning them into monstrous abominations with little to no sanity in the process.
Nekt:
- Big Brother Bully: He used to brutalize Ink as "trash" and recommended throwing her away as "trash" every chance he got.
- I Shall Taunt You: He loves to provoke and harass Flum every time they meet.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: One wouldn't think an ability known as Connection would be that serious, until he "connects" two sides of the same alley to use the walls to crush you to death.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: He wants bloody vengeance against Gadhio, swearing to kill him the next time they meet, because Gadhio gave him a bruised cheek in defending himself from Nekt, who attacked with lethal force in the first place.
- Mobile Menace: He can forge a Connection to you and just suddenly appear wherever you are, and bring an entire army with him if he wants to.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: He "rescues" Dain from Retribution, at the price of making Dain completely subservient to the church's black-ops groups.
- Samus Is a Girl: While Flum and the others initially believe Nekt is a boy, they eventually realize she's actually a girl when they see her naked.
- Underestimating Badassery: He thought trapping Gadhio in an alley and crushing him with the alley walls would be a cakewalk. Turns out Gadhio is a Magic Knight with Supernatural Martial Arts and can also manipulate earth and stone. Nekt has to flee with his tail between his legs and a bruised cheek.
- Villain Teleportation: One of the aspects of his Connection affinity allows him to warp space so two distant points are connected, allowing for instant transportation.
Mute:
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Her Affinity allows her to take control of other people's bodies by touching them and saying "sympathy." She displays the full horror of that by dragging Cyrill to a public park, running around like a carefree child, and then causing countless people to commit suicide in graphic manners, like banging their heads into the ground until their skull breaks, or shoving their arms down their throats until they choke to death.
Luke Fuloop:
- An Arm and a Leg: While fighting him, Flum manages to sever one of his arms, and would have finished him off while he was off balance if she didn't have to let him escape to deal with a more pressing threat.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Despite having stats rivaling an S-rank adventurer, he's only trained with using his Affinity to spin things in interesting and deadly ways. As such, Flum is able to overcome him by using her Reversal spell to turn his tricks back on him.
- Spectacular Spinning: He uses his affinity to fly with cyclones, have carriages hurl through the streets out of control, etc.
- Unskilled, but Strong: He has stats that match an S-rank adventurer, but he doesn't really know how to use them effectively. Flum would have killed him if she wasn't distracted by an unarmed civilian crying out for aid from another threat.
Fwiss Tours:
- Make an Example of Them: Flum and a few of her party find this child nailed to the ceiling of a hidden Church lab after an obvious major battle, and Milkit, of all people, theorizes that the church wanted the corpse found.
Mich Smithee A.K.A. "Mother"
Top researcher of the Spiral Children program.
- Abusive Parents: He put the children he stole and experimented on through all kinds of emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, not the least of which involves surgically installing an Origin Core after removing their hearts. Despite this, he honestly believes he’s a good parent.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: He, along with Luke and Mute, makes his debut during Chapter 13 which is loosely adapting the end of Episode 02 of the Light Novel while he doesn’t make his debut until Episode 03.
- Ambiguous Gender: Although Mother claims to be the Mother of the Spiral Children, Flum is has no idea what Mother’s gender really is during their first meeting at the end of Episode 03 due to the burly body yet effeminate appearance. Subverted in subsequent Episodes when Mother’s real name is revealed, and he is recognized as being a man.
- Arc Villain: He is the main Villain on Episodes 03 & 05. He shares this role with Dein in Episode 03.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Raising children to be total psychos is "showering them with love." Children who grow up with genuine empathy are "ungrateful trash that needs to be disposed of." He doesn’t hesitate to hit Ink merely for wanting to live a normal life rather than being a weapon.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Born to a prostitute as an "accident," constantly berated for being born a boy and therefore nothing but a burden, beaten for getting caught cross-dressing, seeing his mother die in a fire, and when he tried to kiss his mother goodbye, his starvation kicked in and he went cannibal, then he's snatched up by the church which didn't just neglect to treat his psychosis, but actually groomed and encouraged it.
- Establishing Character Moment: The Light Novel and manga have their separate methods of doing this.
- In the Light Novel, he acts nice toward Ink until she tells him she wishes to live with Flum and doesn’t want to be a weapon, and he not only hits her but considers her disposable trash.
- The manga has Mother acting like a parent for Mute while smashing one of Dein’s men’s head in.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He honestly can't understand why anyone would dislike having a Lovecraftian Superpower in their bodies, especially without being able to control that power in any way.
- Freudian Excuse: Born to a prostitute who saw him as nothing but a burden, and made a point of telling him so, beating him when she caught him cross-dressing to try and make her happy by being a "girl," and then having the prostitue die in a fire caused by a suicidal neighbor who set her own house on fire, Mother developed a psychotic "mother" complex that followed her into the Origin research program, and left untreated drover her completely insane.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Flum genuinely pities Mother for what he went through, but states that it doesn't absolve her of the abuse he put the Children through and the horrors she inflicted upon the city and that, in Flum's opinion, Mother is irredeemable.
- Godhood Seeker: Mother has an obsession with being "the mother of God." The Spiral Children are just successive "generations" in attempting to bypass the seal on Origin by "giving birth."
- I Am a Humanitarian: When his mother died in a fire, and he had no other food available, he turned to eating her corpse, and found it tasty.
- I Shall Taunt You: Implied. During the fifth Episode, Flum keeps getting anonymous messages magically deposited in her mailbox telling her and her allies how many days she's got left...
- Kick the Dog: As Mother is departing, taking the Spiral Children in tow, a bunch of insults are leveled at Ink, with the fervent declaration that Ink can not be saved in any form, and that Ink must die as Ink has no value as a tool in the first place.
- Mad Scientist: Completely and totally insane. After stealing five children from their birth mothers, she surgically removed the hearts of those children and replaced them with Origin Cores. He then calls that a "ritual of rebirth" and looks at them as if she gestated them in his own ‘womb’ and they are legally his birth children, thus it's perfectly okay to do whatever he wants with them. To make things worse, she calls Ink a "mother" because of the [Retribution] eyes Ink spawn in her sleep.
- The Sociopath: Mother can only see people as tools or as trash. There is no other option. Flum was allowed to live only because Mother couldn't figure out which category to put her in.
- Son of a Whore: Played for drama and horror. His own mother was a prostitute who "had an accident" and gave birth to a boy. She never failed to berate and beat him for it, every chance she got, wailing that she wouldn't be so cruel if he was born a girl, so she could help make ends meet by also being a prostitute.
- Troubled Abuser: His own mother never missed an opportunity to remind her how she's an unwanted child and inflicted gender dysphoria on her by bemoaning her for being born male, as if she was born female, she could have been used in the prostitution business to earn more money.
- What Is Evil?: Mother tries to rebuke Flum when Flum calls her out on abusing the Spiral Children by retorting that Flum can't be certain if the "parenting" method is right or wrong. The only reason Flum lets that pass is that even at her best, Flum wouldn't stand a chance against Mother and the Spiral Children if they turned hostile.
- Unusual Eyebrows: That would be one way to describe his eyebrows in the manga adaptation.
- You Have Failed Me: Throws Ink away as "trash" because Ink isn't a complete psychopath who celebrates Body Horror.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mother has no issue throwing away people who are of no further use, not even the "beloved" Spiral Children.
Echidna
One of the top church acolytes who is shown handing Cores to the Hero party.
- Et Tu, Brute?: She pretended to support Maria's omnicidal goals until the time was right and then turned on her, turning her own "disgusting" rhetoric back on her and locking her up as a Humanoid Abomination when the provided Origin core went out of control as she expected. All as part of a plan to completely disgrace her and have her rampage as a "monster" to use as a pretext for both war on the demons and a purge of the rival Origin core research branches.
- Faux Affably Evil: Her words are polite but her criminal intent is glaringly obvious, and she views just about everyone else with open contempt.
- Interservice Rivalry: Despite being in the same parent organization, she and Mother are in bitter rival branches, trying to one-up each other, her [Chimerae] branch versus her Children branch.
- Shame If Something Happened: Though Cyrill doesn't hear it, she tells Maria it would be a "shame" if Cyrill doesn't accept the "fruits of the church's research, fumumu."
- Stupid Evil: She passes up the opportunity to decisively kill Gadio for a bit of Evil Gloating and ripping out his heart. Now with nothing to lose, Gadio retaliates with one Deadly Upgrade after another until Echidna's the one losing.
- Smug Snake: As a rightly pissed off Gadhio is promising to deliver her a brutal death in revenge for her little scheme with the "mutant dragon" and the aftermath, her response is laughing in his face!
- Villainous Breakdown: Echidna always justiifed her unethical experiments by proclaiming the power of Origin is always bigger than what humans are capable of. So when Gadio begins to overpower her after she's turned herself into an abomination wielding an Origin core, she loses what little bit of her precious mind she has left.
Cardinal Satuki. Caution: Spoilers for Episode 5 and beyond.
Echidna's direct superior in the [Chimera] branch.
- Ambition Is Evil: There is no crime he'd overlook to put himself in charge.
- Bread and Circuses: He tries to win the public's approval in the wake of Mother's rampage by lowering taxes, legalizing the use of medicinal herbs, albeit by offering licenses to select merchants, and having his pet [Chimera] clean up the wreckage, with the hostage bound heroes forced to cooperate in his PR campaign. This unravels in a hurry when the hostages and the heroes escape, and the press makes his dirty laundry public.
- The Coup: He used the aftermath of Episode 5 to seize the Pope seat, have the king executed, and put his own Puppet King on the throne.
- Despotism Justifies the Means: He wants to Take Over the World for no reason than to simply have the power that goes with it, as he believes it's his by birthright, a dream he inherited from his father.
- Did Not See That Coming: When Maria confronts him at the top of the chapel he usurped from the previous pope he had publicly executed, he ordered his pet Chimera to attack her, but they ignored him. Turns out that the improper Origin core he had Echidna feed her has a higher authority over them than Echidna's control device. Oh, Crap!
- Fantastic Racism: Subverted. He does spout human-supremacist propaganda, but he actually has no grudge with the demons. He just wants them out of the way.
- I Have Your Wife: He takes quite a few of Flum's friends hostage to ensure her cooperation and that of Gadhio and the rest with his Chimera plan to wage the third Great War on the demons.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: On the receiving end when Maria shoves him over a balcony railing, causing him to fall a good 20 meters and land on a stone floor, head first.
- Never My Fault: When Maria catches up with him and condemns him for the church's Engineered Heroics that killed her entire home village, just so Maria herself would be the church's pawn, he tries to claim that it was all the work of the people he deposed, the former pope and king, and she should have no grudge with him, personally. Maria retorts that even if that were true, it was his orders that had Echinda give her a wrongly attuned Origin core, literally twisting her into a monster, irreversibly, and locking her up in a cage to go mad and die. Then she pushes him off a balcony to his death.
- Properly Paranoid: He knows his Chimera beast war-tools are powered by Origin cores and Origin has faked obedience before to get peoples' guard down and then run riot over them, so he's constantly second-guessing himself as to why his Chimera army hasn't gone on a rampage yet.
- Stealing the Credit: He steps forward and claims the credit for the heroic efforts of Flum and crew in the aftermath of Mother's rampage. It sticks because he uses Gadhio and the others to give him the credit by holding their loved ones hostage.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He's an especially odious individual, but he's a great politician and knows exactly what buttons to push with the public to paint his deeds in a good light.
Gods
Origin
The titular deity of the Church of Origin. Has the three affinities, assimilation, multiplication, and spinning.
- Anticlimax Boss: Once Flum's facing him directly, he's a total chump who doesn't even know how to throw a punch, and his initial "advantage" is rendered moot when he learns Flum absorbed his Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum and boosted all her stats to over a million each, while he's between 200,000 and 300,000 in all stats.
- The Assimilator: One of the three affinities it possesses is to assimilate whatever it comes into contact with.
- Berserk Button: Flum is one. Whenever she shows up anywhere near one of its ongoing schemes, the local incarnation drops whatever it's doing to focus all its rage on trying to kill her, even if that completely subverts its long-term goals.
- Big Bad: Supposedly the source of all the trouble in the story.
- Body Horror: The inevitable fate of becoming one of its victims.
- Brainwashing: According to both Neigass and Echidna, explaining in separate locations, it/they send "Divine Message" brainwaves at the most faithful followers and twist the followers' mindset to a more Origin-friendly agenda at a slow and steady pace that neither the victims, nor their close aides, notice until they go full-tilt fanatic and can't be swayed back any more.
- Create Your Own Hero: Neigass reveals that Origin's first invasion led to the original human species to split into the humans and demons of the present, granted the populace Affinities and is directly responsible for the creation of the Hero affinity Cyrill now sports, and this particular trait appears once every hundred years. Origin's gestalt held a heated debate among itself to deal with Flum's Reversal affinity and ultimately decided to exploit her in a "hero" party rather than run the risk it winds up being inherited once every 100 years too, with people getting more and more proficient in its use. Thanks to Jean it didn't work as intended and Flum became a true hero anyway.
- Cruel Mercy: On the wrong end. After Flum inverts all his stats to zero, she removes his ability to die, his ability to faint, and his ability to go insane. Then she starts to torment, torture and disfigure him, leaving him able to do nothing but suffer, for all eternity.
- Curbstomp Battle: On the wrong end when he attacked Flum in his private dimension and she fought back.
- Deity of Human Origin: Episode 7 has Flum experience Origin's brainwaves. Flum learns that he used to be a magical researcher that was studying brainwaves to somehow create infinite energy. When he succeeded, and rather than creating a war-free utopia as he invisioned, but the warring became even more intense, he turned himelf into a god and started slaughtering people en masse until the warring stopped.
- Identical Stranger: When Flum breaks his gestalt and reaches his actual soul, she finds him to look, act and think almost exactly like Jean, only worse, because he's also a coward.
- It's All About Me: He's an unrivaled "genius." Everyone who disagrees is just too stupid to understand it and doesn't deserve to live.
- Leaking Can of Evil: The Demon Lord has it sealed away, but by some unknown means, the upper echelons of its church are able to draw out its power for their Godhood Seeker experiments and to empower the "hero" party in their quest to defeat the Demon Lord and break the seal in its entirety.
- Literal Split Personality: While the Demon Lord suspects there might be more than one instance of Origin, Mother outright confirms that there's multiple instances, and they're not all in agreement. Some want to kill Flum, some want to use/exploit her, and some, like Mother's group, are indifferent.
- Mad God: Going by what little bits of conversation can be heard from its "empowered" followers, it's clearly less than sane.
- Never My Fault: It's not his fault that his actions killed countless people, it's their fault for being too stupid to understand his "genius."
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: His goal of "world peace" is a self-delusion. He just wanted people to worship him and obey him without hesitation. He created a system of "infinite energy" to implement his control. When people rose up against him, he called them "stupid" and tried to wipe them all out to recreate the world in his image.
- Pretext for War: His so-called "perfect peace" was really just an excuse to go mass-murdering the "stupid trash who just don't understand his genius."
- Rejected Apology: When Flum punches him in the face, he apologizes, but not because he believes he's done something wrong, but to try escaping punishment, so Flum rejects his apology and whips out the Cold-Blooded Torture and Cruel Mercy.
- Spectacular Spinning: One of its affinities allows it to spin anything and everything in its control, in any way it wants. Abnormal Limb Rotation Range is among its list of tricks.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: What he promises his "faithful" with the Divine Message brainwaves is a world with no pain, no suffering, no conflict, as a result of all life being assimilated. Flum responds to that assertion by saying that with everyone as one being and all emotion squashed, there's also no joy, no friendship, no discovery or growth...
