List of all characters in Scarlet Nexus.
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Shared Tropes
- Ax-Crazy: While under the effect of Brain Field, Yuito and Kasane become absolutely unhinged, laughing like maniacs while declaring they'll destroy everything. Thankfully, they're back to normal as soon as Brain Field ends.
- Dueling Player Characters: Both are fought as bosses in each other's campaigns.
- Fiction 500: They're both from obscenely rich families.
- Yuito is the 2nd biological son of Joe Sumeragi and part of the prestigious Sumeragi Clan, a long, proud line of politicians and military officers dating back to New Himuka's founder, Yakumo Sumeragi. The Sumeragis effectively own many Mega-Corps and the OSF as they are based in the city-state of Suoh, thanks to generous endowments and privileges granted by the family.
- Kasane is the adopted daughter of the Randall Family of Randall Heavy Industries, a MegaCorp that provides much of the technology and equipment used by the world. Kasane frequently mentions how obscenely wealthy the Randalls are, with them having more luxury emergency shelters than they know what to do with, treating them more like vacation homes.
- Gravity Master: Quickly revealed to be their true power. This is also the basic foundation of their ability to travel through time, as space is intrinsically linked to time itself. From a functional gameplay perspective, the power of gravikinesis is virtually indistinguishable from psychokinesis, as Kasane and Yuito still limit the extent of their power to throwing around objects and occasionally, briefly flying for the sake of a finishing move.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Yuito primarily uses a sword for powerful close-ranged attacks, while Kasane's flying blades make her adept at mid-range area attacks.
- Magic Knight: For a given degree of 'magic' in the setting, both fit the archetype as far as playstyles go, though each protagonist leans more heavily on one side than the other. Kasane has unmatched damage with her psychokinesis and develops skills to empower her psychokinesis faster, giving her the edge as a 'mage,' but her slower offensive combos means that her physical power, though comparable to Yuito's, is weaker overall. Yuito, meanwhile, is fast and can stack combo damage quickly, meaning he defaults more towards being a 'knight,' especially considering that his psychokinesis doesn't hit as hard and takes longer to develop. This is explained in-story by the fact Kasane has a much stronger background in using her power to its fullest extent, having the most control over the Red Strings, whereas Yuito's power is artificial and prone to failures, limiting the full extent of his power to his ability to wield his sword efficiently.
- One Degree of Separation: Wakana Sumeragi, Yuito's biological mother, was Kasane's adoptive mother back in Togetsu, which makes her the foster older sister to both Kaito and Yuito. Also, thanks to Kasane and Wakana being Design Children of the same template, this by proxy means that Kasane would be genetically considered to be Yuito's mother, although not much comes out of this.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Yuito and Kasane start off with a rocky relationship but form a strong bond as the story progresses. However, it never really becomes anything more than friendship; it helps that Yuito seems entirely oblivious to why anyone would be romantically attracted to him, while Kasane is implied to have some buried feelings for Seto (though this may be left to interpretation) and is otherwise pretty uninterested in pursuing a relationship. Yuito's mother also having been Kasane's adoptive mother at some point probably reinforced this, with even Yuito mentioning that she's technically his elder sister.
- This accurately describes their relationships with all of their team members. Barring Hanabi (who does have feelings for Yuito, but chooses not to act on them), Yuito and Kasane learn to rely on their comrades as close friends, but nothing ever reaches romantic territory for either.
- Power Copying: They can use the Struggle Arms System, or SAS, to borrow the abilities of their teammates temporarily and augment their Psychokinesis. Connecting to Hanabi, for example, imbues their attacks and thrown objects with fire, letting them cause a DoT on enemies or causing massive damage as part of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors. As they both have Psychokinesis, connecting to each other amplifies this power, letting them throw faster at less cost and gathering several objects at once for a massive barrage.
- Purple Is Powerful: Whenever they use their powers, the object they telekinetically control glow purple.
- Time Travel: They both have the ability to use what is called the Red Strings, which allow them to travel through time. However, it isn't perfect; to activate its use, the bearer in question must experience strong emotions such as shock and using it in the presence of another bearer is risky since it can make a pseudo-black hole capable of slowly destroying the entire planet if not careful.
Yuito Sumeragi
"I should be able to handle any kind of Other with my psychokinesis power!"
Voiced by: Jun'ya Enoki [Youth], Hisako Kanemoto [Child], Kenyū Horiuchi [Adult] (JP), Chris Hackney (EN)
Power: Psychokinesis (actually Gravikinesis)
OSF Service Record: New Recruit
Power: Psychokinesis (actually Gravikinesis)
OSF Service Record: New Recruit
A bright and positive-minded young recruit with a kind heart, Yuito is the second son of the prestigious Sumeragi family — his ancestor was the founding father of New Himuka. The Sumeragi family has a long political lineage; his father leads the current government, and his brother serves as part of the OSF's command. When Yuito was younger, he was almost killed by an Other, but a member of the OSF rescued him. Later, he himself enlisted in the OSF and endured intensive training to one day be able to help the citizens of his city. He still cherishes the ear cuff he received when he was saved.
- All-Loving Hero: One of Yuito’s greatest traits is his altruistic and outgoing personality. See Nice Guy below for more on Yuito’s moral standing in the story.
- Berserk Button: Insulting Baki. During a bond episode with Shiden, the latter hurled quite a bit of verbal abuse and insults Yuito's way which he took with a Stiff Upper Lip, but the moment he insulted Baki Yuito immediately fired back at him then decided Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- Blue Blood: Yuito’s clan—The Sumeragis came from a long political lineage tracing back from over 2000 years, where his ancestor was the founding father of The New Himuka. His Father, Joe is the current council chairman, and his older brother, Kaito is the current commander and overseer of The OSF. Yuito volunteering to join the OSF by his own will became the biggest headline of his nation; though he shrugs it off pretty easily.
- Broken Pedestal: He's left shocked and confused upon finding out that his brother and father were involved in experiments that were turning humans into Others.
- Chaste Hero: He doesn't seem to understand why Hanabi keeping his comatose body warm with her own would be considered embarrassing for one thing.
- Chick Magnet: Hanabi and Naomi both fall for him and there's some evidence that Tsugumi is rather smitten as well.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: He's a tad too willing to put his life on the line if it means being able to save at least one person.
- Fallen Hero: Instead of trying to make the world a better place, Future Yuito ended up continuing New Himuka's cruel experiments for the sake of trying to close the Kunad Gate without resorting to suicide.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: How Future Yuito sees himself. In the Bad Future, he ended up perpetuating the Sumeragi's awful research and chickened out of performing a Heroic Suicide until it was way, way too late.
- Gentlemen Rankers: Despite being descended from the nation's founder and effectively being a prince in all but name, he joins the OSF as an enlisted Private.
- Handicapped Badass: At some point in the future, Yuito became blind, but he was able to hold his own against waves of Others.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: His primary weapon is a long, one-edged sword, which he can propel with his psychokinesis.
- Humble Hero: With all the cameras chasing him since he started training in the OSF, Yuito laid extremely low-key, mainly because he understood his powers are weaker than the average OSF trainees of his year, and he sees himself as no more than an average boy trying his best to pursue his dream of joining the OSF.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To his partners. Yuito is always the one to do 'hard stuff'.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: Future Yuito admits that he eventually found out that the only way to close the Kunad Gate was to kill himself. However, his own fear of dying and insistence from his friends convinced him to stay alive no matter what.
- I Am Not My Father: Not only is he horrified by his father's actions, his ending reveals that he plans on becoming a politician, but one that will fix his father's misdeeds and change New Himuka's government for the better.
- Lineage Comes from the Father: Inverted. Yuito's ability to manipulate the Red Strings comes from his mother.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Poor Yuito is left in the dark as to why so many of his allies are turning on him for much of the game.
- Master of the Levitating Blades: Swings his sword with his psychokinesis in several of his attacks and finishers.
- Meaningful Name: While written in katakana here, when Sumeragi is depicted in kanji as a surname (皇), it means "emperor" which is fitting for Yuito, whose family has run New Himuka for two thousand years.
- Missing Mom: His mother was killed by an Other when he was 5. Or so he was told.
- Muggle Born of Mages: Yuito was born a "dud" without any psionic ability, although his powers were gained after his meeting with a time-traveling Kasane in the past.
- Nice Guy: Despite his faults, Yuito is one of the nicest people throughout the story.
- Oblivious to Love: He fails to pick up on Naomi's obvious attraction towards him as well as Hanabi's poor attempts to hide her own attraction.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's a major fan of Baki, a pink mascot based on Japanese Dogu figurines. While playing as Kasane, you can give him several Baki gifts and his section of the hideout will easily appear the most feminine.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted as despite his naturally red eyes he's a mostly decent Nice Guy. It's more to indicate his biological relation to Kasane and the other Design Children by extension.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the red to Kasane's blue, being openly compassionate and friendly to others with a bit of a reckless streak.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Subverted with both Kasane, who he initially believes killed his father, and Kagero, who actually killed his father. Though he fights both of them, it's just to find answers as to why his father was killed. In the case with Kagero, though he can't forgive him for killing a member of his family, he's still willing to work alongside him to take Togetsu down.
- Spoiled Sweet: His family is loaded, but he's just a Humble Hero who wants to help people.
- Supreme Chef: Is said to be a really good cook and prepares the lunches for when the team has to go on a mission for an extended period of time.
- Unorthodox Sheathing: He uses telekinesis to sheathe his sword when not in use.
- White Sheep: Pretty much the only member of the Sumeragi family shown (excluding his mother) who isn't willing to stoop to sacrificing the populace for some centuries-old grudge. Doesn't apply so much to his alternate future self, though, as he continued the family business, though he's guilt-ridden about it.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Downplayed, but Brain Field notably causes Yuito to suffer a temporary euphoric high.
- You Are in Command Now: Fubuki promotes him to platoon commander following the Suoh Incident.
Kasane Randall
"Who else is going to save them? This isn't a question about if we can do it. We have to."
Voiced by: Asami Seto (JP), Erica Mendez (EN)
Power: Psychokinesis (actually Gravikinesis)
OSF Service Record: New Recruit
Power: Psychokinesis (actually Gravikinesis)
OSF Service Record: New Recruit
Kasane is an orphan who lost her parents in a raid from the Others when she was a child. Adopted by the powerful Randall Family, she became one of the most promising elements of the OSF after being scouted at 12 years old. Now an elite soldier with superb fighting skills, Kasane is cool, rational, and indifferent to others. While her relationship with her parents is complicated, her adoptive sister Naomi is the only one who shows her affection, leading to a close bond between the two. The handmade hair ornament Naomi made her is Kasane's most prized possession.
Despite looking like any other member of the organization, she somehow reminds Yuito of the person who saved his life as a child. She herself often dreams of a red thread but she does not know what it means, leaving her confused.
- Ambiguous Disorder: She isn't so much duty-bound to the OSF so much as she seems particularly fixated on her role as a soldier. It's to the extent that she has to define even casual meet-ups with her teammates as missions. She also generally is pretty flat-toned except during moments where she experiences particularly extreme emotions, and she frequently struggles to pick up on social cues. She's also incredibly blunt - while aware that this can be hurtful, she'd rather be efficient with the truth. Notably, she isn't confused by or unaware of social norms, she just has little patience for them; she's also comfortable with outright lying if need be. It's later revealed that she's one of the Design Children, who don't naturally possess emotions but can develop them through interactions with others, as seen with Kyoka.
- Artificial Human: She's one of the Design Children, an artificial psionic created by Togetsu.
- Big Sister Instinct: Inverted. She's considered the younger sister despite her and Naomi being the same age (albeit physically rather than chronologically), and harming Naomi is a huge Berserk Button for her and one of the few things that can break her composure. She actually can be considered as this to Yuito given their closer bonds later in the story; by his admission, since she was raised by Wakana first before he was born, this would make Kasane his older sister, although she herself doesn't like being referred to as his "big sister" because it reminds her of Naomi.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Downplayed in that it's only in how she interprets and judges others, but the qualities she looks for in a person to determine how good they are are explicitly stated in miscellaneous chatter with Yuito to be qualities Naomi has. Yuito, who enjoys Baki and cooking, is judged favorably by Kasane because that's what Naomi enjoys.
- Brutal Honesty: She's incredibly blunt, particularly in her assessments of others. She doesn't do it to be rude - she just hates small talk and believes being straightforward is the most fair and efficient way.
- But Now I Must Go: After removing the Extinction Belt and closing the Kunai Gate, stopping the end of the world and the creation of new Others, Kasane decides to join the Lunar Survey Project to go and see how the Moon Colony is faring against the Others these past 2,000 years. She explicitly says it's to honor Naomi's sacrifice, by Kasane choosing not to ignore the plight of suffering people as Naomi did in life.
- Character Development: At the start she's emotionally distant from anyone other than her sister and varies between neutral to acerbic when interacting with anyone. She also tends to just charge ahead with no concern for how she affects people, singularly focused on handling everything herself. She gradually learns to open to people who aren't Naomi and start genuinely trusting and working with others. Largely as a result of Naomi's transformation into an Other.
- Consummate Professional: Despite her relatively young age, she's cool-headed and objective-driven when out in the field. It's to the extent that she seems to genuinely struggle with interacting with others in a more casual environment.
- Cutting the Knot: Kasane defaults to this. Best exemplified in her solution to a CTF training exercise: just wait for the winning team, beat them and steal the flag. Played for Drama in regards to killing Yuito - she believes this is the most efficient route and as such is reluctant to pursue other options. It's also why she doesn't want to explain this to him, since it might complicate things with feelings and countermeasures.
- Defrosting the Ice Queen: Over the course of the story, she becomes progressively more emotionally open to her teammates outside of her sister.
- Harmful to Minors: As part of Togetsu's plans to take advantage of her time-traveling Red Strings power, they gave her a puppy explicitly for her to love it, bond with it, then have it murdered before her eyes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She does genuinely care about her teammates and is motivated to fight to protect humanity, but her bluntness and her rather icy personality rub some people the wrong way at first.
- Master of the Levitating Blades: Kasane's weapons are a set of blades she manipulates with her own psychokinesis to hurl them at her enemies as a Flechette Storm.
- Mundane Utility: As a teammate on Yuito's route, she can be seen in the Hideout using her psychokinesis to either water plants with a levitating ball of water, or work on a wood carving with one of her floating knives.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: A variation. She becomes incredibly scrutinizing of Yuito after Naomi expresses interest in him and constantly hounds him with questions and secret tests to make sure he wouldn't mistreat her sister. She lets up on it after determining that he would be a good match for her and switches to being a Shipper on Deck.
- Not So Stoic: Most of her moments pertain to Naomi, such as when she becomes uncharacteristically reckless after seeing her get harmed and breaking down sobbing after Naomi passes away after her Heroic Sacrifice. Her stoicism in general also begins to diminish as part of her Defrosting the Ice Queen arc.
- Oblivious to Love: Inverted. Both Shiden and Naomi imply that Kasane actually has feelings for Seto, but she's completely caught off guard when this is pointed out to her.
- Older Than She Looks: She is older than Kaito, who is Yuito's older brother. For reference, back before the two were born, she was first raised and taken care of by her caretaker and surrogate mother; Wakana back in Togetsu before they fled to Suoh. However, it is mentioned that after Wakana left, she was put into cold sleep until her adoption by the Randall family, making her around the same age as Yuito biologically speaking.
- One True Sequence: Kasane exploits this during a Capture the Flag competition which pits her against Yuito. She decides to let Yuito do the hard work of capturing said flag, then waits near the finish line and ambushes him when he gets close.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the blue to Yuito's red, being the cool-headed and rational mind between the two.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: She ticks a lot of the boxes, being an emotionally-reserved and blunt girl with unnaturally light hair and red eyes who is a Child Soldier for a military branch with dubious secrets and is an Artifical Human.
- Shipper on Deck: While at first she keeps a close eye on Yuito and runs a background check on him to see if he would be a good match for Naomi after she expresses an interest in him once she determines he's a good man she gives her support to the two getting together. So much so she's initially reluctant to try and kill Yuito because of Naomi's feelings for him.
- She's in full support of Hanabi confessing her feelings to Yuito and is actually perplexed as to why Hanabi keeps putting it off. It's implied that she's like this because it reminds her of Naomi and her crush on Yuito.
- The Stoic: She's stiff and formal almost to a fault and she almost always approaches situations with a cool and rational outlook.
- Time Travel: Her actual power of Gravikinesis allows her to manipulate Red Strings and travel through time.
- The Unfavorite: Kasane makes absolutely no secret of the fact that the elder Randalls had no love for her and she has no love for them, in turn, Naomi was about the only person in the whole family who ever showed her any care and affection. Tellingly, Kasane's only communication with Mrs. Randall is her expressing shock and dismay that she didn't tell them Naomi had (allegedly) been KIA, blaming her for Naomi's death and failing to protect her, before saying she never wants Kasane to contact them ever again—not that Kasane had ever been doing that in the first place.
- Trauma Conga Line: Her beloved sister is turned into an Other, has to struggle with the idea of killing her sister's crush for the sake of saving the world, has to stay separated from Naomi even after the latter regains her mind while staying as an Other, is emotionally blackmailed into serving the agenda of one of the villains for fear of Naomi coming to harm, discovers that she's an Artificial Human who was created for the sake of performing a Ret-Gone on the entire world, was emotionally tortured as a child to awaken the power to do so, thought she saw her adoptive mother killed as part of said torture, sees her sister be killed as a result of trying to protect her from the ones who created her and then is able to use her powers to reunite with her adoptive mother but then has to essentially send her to her death to save the world.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Fond of giving these kinds of talks. Fitting with her Ambiguous Disorder, she's often not intending them as motivational and is instead quite literal about them: she tells Shiden that he's very strong and while she's better, it's by a largely irrelevant amount; she thinks Tsugumi's Clairvoyance is an amazing power from a completely practical standpoint and doesn't really get why its more awkward uses would ever outweigh that.
Septentrions
Seto Narukami
Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (JP), Phillip Reich (EN)
Power: Electrokinesis
OSF Service Record: 25 years
Power: Electrokinesis
OSF Service Record: 25 years
One of the Septentrions, who serves as a platoon leader in the OSF. He is a refreshing young man who lends a helping hand to anyone in need, and shows a certain humility despite his high level of power. Many people admire him and subsequently ask to be assigned under his command.
- Cool Mask: He wears a black custom half-mask, modeled after a Japanese menpo. After his death, he passes it down to Shiden; whether or not he ends up wearing it is dependent on the player character advancing Shiden's Bonding Episodes.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He dies saving Kasane and Yuito from a Brainwashed and Crazy Nagi during the Suoh Incident, taking the brunt of Nagi's attacks.
- The Leader: His position as a platoon CO aside, Seto is well-known in the OSF for his charisma, his likable personality, and how deeply and honestly he cares about his subordinates.
- Meaningful Name: One of the ways to interpret "Narukami" in Japanese is "thunder", referencing his power over electricity.
- Sacrificial Lion: While Naomi's transformation is jarring, it's Seto's death that truly marks a turning point in the story.
- Tragic Keepsake: He leaves behind two post-mortem: his custom half-mask, passed down to Shiden, and his platinum-plated fountain pen, retrieved by Shiden and possibly passed down to the player character.
Fubuki Spring
"Now go. You'll only get in my way."
OSF team commander Fubuki is one of the "Septentrions", who are considered the most powerful members of the organization with their exceptionally outstanding abilities. His kind and gentle personality makes him extremely trusted by the OSF, though sometimes he is considered too indulgent and easygoing to some members of his platoon.
- Big Little Brother: He looks closer to his implied age than his older sister Arashi, who still looks like a teenager. As he joined the OSF at an older age then she did he'd have been older physically when he started taking the age stopping drugs, explaining the difference between them.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Karen's character episodes reveal that he pulled one in the original timeline by shock freezing himself and Alice in her Other form so she and Karen wouldn't have to fight each other.
- Fiction 500: As an heir of Spring Pharmaceuticals, a MegaCorp that produces everything from protein powders to mysterious, Other-controlling ampoules made from human brains, he and his sister Arashi certainly do not lack for money.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Is a dutiful commander in contrast to his sister, who is a slacker when not in the public eye.
- Friend on the Force: He remains a steadfast ally of Yuito and Kasane's teams even after they go AWOL, doing the best that he can to cover their tracks.
- An Ice Person: His Cryokinesis gives him control over ice, using it to freeze opponents in place, blast them with icicles, or create an eruption of spikes over a large area. Notably, it is one of the only powers that cannot be used by the player at any point.
- Meaningful Name: "Fubuki", when translated to Japanese, means "blizzard", and naturally Fubuki has ice powers.
- Protectorate: Keeping Fubuki alive and safe ranks just as high on the priority list as saving Alice
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The incident under Heroic Sacrifice above was ultimately what catapulted Karen into despair and thus over the edge.
- Workaholic: In contrast to his sister, he doesn't seem to know how to relax. There are multiple instances where he collapses from exhaustion from overexerting himself for too long.
Karen Travers
"Don't waste my time."
The commander of the 2nd Regiment of the OSF Army, and the order of the 1st class of Septentrions. Even among the OSF's most remarkable, his abilities are particularly outstanding. Since he is untalkative, self-confident, and does not mince words, he is sometimes described as arrogant. However, his overwhelming charisma and strength are irresistible assets that many members of the OSF admire.
As Luka's older brother, they have lived together as siblings without other relatives. He is also childhood friends with Fubuki, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the OSF Army, with whom he graduated in the same class. Together, the two are known as the matchless duo of the OSF.
- The Ace: He's the OSF's top soldier due to not only being able to copy other psionics, but able to use them effectively.
- Abusive Parents: Episode Karen: Unknown History reveals that he and his brother Luka were sold off to the government by their father for experimentation, due to their rare status as duds, people with no psionic abilities.
- A Day in the Limelight: The 3rd DLC Episode Karen: Unknown History delve into his past and his Start of Darkness after Alice is turned into an Other.
- All Your Powers Combined: Karen Travers has the ability to copy the powers of other psionics, making him the most powerful OSF soldier alive. It also allows him to counter attacks from other psionics; if someone hides from him using Invisibility, Karen will use Clairvoyance to spot them.
- Aloof Big Brother: Throughout his stint as a major antagonist, he acts this way towards his younger brother, Luka. In fact, they barely share any words with one another. His very last scene only has him stoically looking at Luka before departing for the past for the final time.
- This changes, however, with the DLC Episode Karen: Unknown History which gives him more background info, scenes with Luke, and shows that he deeply cares for his brother.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's never really gone into how long he had taken the original Yakumo Sumeragi's place before being put into cryostasis and how much of Yakumo's will, which future Sumeragi generations would end up following, he ended up shaping. Furthermore, Karen's final act of fixing the timeline likely saving Yakumo but erasing himself from it also makes it even more ambiguous if he even replaced the real Yakumo at all. The possibility of whether or not he's also Yuito's ancestor is also never clarified as the game doesn't mention if Yakumo already had children before being killed and replaced by Karen, in which case Karen wouldn't be Yuito's ancestor.
- The anime in Episode 22 removes the possibility of Karen being Yuito's ancestor by having Kagero confirm that Yakumo had fathered a child before he was killed and his identity stolen by Karen, but that Karen-as-Yakumo never is recorded as having any children.
- Apologetic Attacker: In order to further convince some of Suoh's OSF soldiers to rebel against New Himuka, he lied to them by saying that even the respected Septentrion Seto Narukami was involved in the depraved human experiments and personality rehabilitation. This caused even Gemma Garrison to side against Seto at first. And then Karen attacked them all by blowing Seto and his platoon away.Karen Travers: Seto, Forgive me.
- Big Brother Instinct: His brother Luka Travers mentions in a brain message to Yuito that when they were children, Karen would always defend him. And in the 18th episode of the anime adaptation, Karen shields Luka from abusive OSF soldiers who are experimenting on them.
- Bishōnen Line: He somehow manages to retain his human form during the second phase of his fight where he turns into an Other, instead just creating four giants that act as additional attackers and defense. And after his Other form is defeated, he continues the fight as a human during the last phase.
- Childhood Friends: With Alice and Fubuki. He adores them both so much that their deaths in the original timeline send him over the edge real quick.
- Declaration of Protection: In his character episodes he makes a point to remind himself that his goals are saving Alice and protecting Fubuki
- Determinator: Deconstructed. He will stop at nothing to save Alice and at the same time protect Fubuki, even when his repeated attempts only serve to make the situation in the present worse.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Seiran threatens Naomi to force Kasane and her allies compliance to their orders, it's made very clear that this isn't on Karen's hands and is the result of others in Seiran making the threat.
- He also greatly disapproves of the corruption in New Himuka's government.
- Extremity Extremist: He only uses kicks for physical attacks. Justified since he needed his hands to utilize Brain Eater.
- Final Boss: He isn't the main antagonist of the story nor the source of every ill that has been plaguing the heroes, but he is the last opponent to be fought in order to resolve the Entanglement that is threatening to destroy existence.
- Four-Star Badass: He is the most powerful member of the OSF and holds the rank of major general.
- Gender-Blender Name: In both Japanese and English, Karen is typically a female name. Both dubs have decided to go with the Japanese pronunciation of "KAHR-en" instead of the English "KAYR-en".
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the end, he does actually succeed in going back in time, saving Alice, and making the world a better place. It just costs him his own life. Those who didn't travel back in time along with him, such as Alice herself, also don't know he even existed.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Until the final battle, you're expected to lose every encounter with him. Said battles are less about winning and more about surviving.
- Hopeless Suitor: It's very heavily implied that he was in love with Alice, who was engaged to Fubuki.
- I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He does not care about being with Alice (especially considering she's already engaged to Fubuki, arranged though it may be) so much as he cares about saving her, to the extent that he's willing to sacrifice his own existence in order to do so.
- His character episodes reveal this devotion extended to Fubuki as well and keeping him alive was right up there with saving Alice, no matter what it meant for him.
- It Only Works Once: Due to him being originally a dud, he can only use the Red Strings once before needing to use his Brain Eater on either Yuito or Kasane to regain another charge.
- I Work Alone: Despite having other subordinates, he tends to fight entirely by himself, with his powers making up for any issues. This puts him into direct contrast against the protagonists, who actively use SAS to achieve similar ends by working with others. However, flashbacks show he used to fight quite comfortably as a duo with Fubuki. The loss of Alice potentially caused him to fear losing any other loved ones, which led him to become averse to partnering with anyone else.
- Kick the Dog: In the first timeline, he kills Wakana in front of Kasane in order to trigger Kasane's Red Strings.
- Kill and Replace: At some point, he went into the past and ended up killing the original Yakumo Sumeragi, taking his original identity and getting put into cryostasis under that name. His decision to go back in time in the end and prevent the original Yakumo from dying at his hands is what ultimately solves the Entanglement he started.
- Kneel Before Zod: His battle quotes in his boss fights against the OSF include some that qualify.Karen Travers: Squirm! (あがいて見せろ！, Agaite misero!)Karen Travers: I'll make you submit! (大人しくしてろ！, Otonashiku shitero!)
- Logical Weakness: He can only have at most two absorbed powers active at a time. Yuito and Kasane ultimately get the edge over him in the final battle because of this, as their bonds have strengthened by that point to the extent that they can bombard him with multiple powers at once.
- Love Makes You Evil: He's willing to threaten existence if it means he can go back in time and save Alice from being turned into an Other. He'd also rather there not be a world at all if it meant he couldn't be with Alice and Fubuki.
- Made of Iron: In the final battle he takes multiple beatdowns from Yuito, Kasane and their entire ten person team but keeps dragging himself back up to try again.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: His desperation to save Alice and protect Fubuki caused him to Time Travel to the past to Kill and Replace Yakumo Sumeragi. However, it's implied that his final act to save the timeline undid all this.
- Meaningful Name: Like Luka, Travers is one letter off from being spelled as "traverse". In addition to teleporting, Karen copies the power of the Red Strings from Yuito and Kasane and travels back in time to Kill and Replace Yakumo Sumeragi.
- Muggle Born of Mages: He was born a "dud", one of the rare people without psychic abilities in a world where almost everyone has psionics, but gained psionic powers via experimentation.
- My Future Self and Me: As it turns out, the Yakumo that's been frozen in Arahabaki is actually a version of Karen that travelled into the past. He and his self from the present end up meeting at the end of the game. And Yakumo ends up dissolving at Karen's touch, leaving only his memories behind to be absorbed.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: This happens at the start of the final boss fight with him, as he turns Sumeragi Tomb into his battlefield. It occurs again at the cutscene after he is defeated in his Third Phase, when the heroes throw a giant pyramid at him that crushes him and results in Sumeragi Tomb being reverted to normal.
- One-Winged Angel: He turns into a particularly unique Other during the second phase of his boss battle, retaining his human body but also spawning four stone giants that protect him.
- Pet the Dog: After he's forced to capture Naomi when she's been turned into an Other, he swears to do all he can to help change her back and gives advice to Kasane on how to avoid jeopardizing her sister's life even further, if in a very gruff manner. Given he went through the same thing with Alice, this isn't surprising.
- Power Copying: In a more straightforward way compared to Yuito and Kasane's SAS. His "Brain Eater" ability allows him to absorb the powers of others by grasping their heads.
- The Power of Love: His countless time travel to save Alice and keep Fubuki safe took a toll on his sanity. He would've gone insane had it not for his love for his best friends and younger brother that kept him going.
- Punch Catch: Does this to Kasane when the latter tried to punch him for attempting to stop her from going after a transport on route to Seiran contaning a transformed Naomi.
- Redemption Equals Death: He sacrifices himself for one last jump into the past to undo both the damage he has caused and to finish the repairs to the world that Yuito and Kasane began.
- Retgone: His fate after his Heroic Sacrifice. He saves the world and Alice, but anyone who wasn't connected with him through SAS while he did so instantly forgets he even existed, including Alice herself.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: His final act of saving the timeline had him undo his previous act of going into the past to Kill and Replace Yakumo Sumeragi.Karen: This time, I won't claim Yakumo's life.
- Shadow Archetype: To Kasane. Both of them had a loved one who turned into an Other that later died, but whereas Kasane learns to live on with Naomi's memory, Karen refuses to accept what happened to Alice and tries repeatedly to go back in time to save her, even when his repeated trips not only fail but cause an Entanglement that threatens existence. This is lampshaded by Luka in his first Bond Episode with Kasane, saying that they're both very candid and stubborn.
- To a lesser extent, he's also this to Yuito. In addition to drawing others to them with their honesty, they both were born duds and experimented upon, which was how they got their powers. They are also completely devoted to those they care about and, as a result over their disgust towards New Himuka's corruption, try to make an effort in making the world a better place, with Karen trying to overthrow the government and Yuito deciding to go into politics in the epilogue as a means of fighting the corruption from within. And finally, they both have a close connection with an Ichijo, though Yuito hasn't really picked up on Hanabi's attraction towards him while Karen has a massive amount of Ship Tease with Alice.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: Gets one in against Yuito and Kasane during the final confrontation.Yuito: Just listen, please! I know you have your reasons. And I know there's a whole lot going on between New Himuka and the Moon. But we can't fix anything if the world ends! We need to make things right. We need to create a new future that won't bring about our destruction!
Karen: This timeline isn't worth saving. I will change the past. And I will make it work this time.
Kasane: I understand that you want to save Alice. But that...
Karen: I don't need you to understand! You will help me, even if I must break your will to obtain your aid! - Tsundere: He was this to Alice. Try as he might to put up a tough front, he cared about her a great deal more than he was willing to admit. In the present, he pretty much doesn't bother to hide how important she is to him.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Besides his continued attempts to alter the past threatening all of existence, he's also possibly inadvertently responsible for New Himuka's unreasonable drive for revenge against the Moon Colony thousands of years later and all of the atrocities that resulted from it, being that a version of him that went into the past ended up getting put into cryostasis under the name Yakumo Sumeragi, leading future Sumeragi generations to believe that their ancestor's will lived on and needed to be fulfilled in time for his reawakening. That said, his act of time traveling to replace the real Yakumo Sumeragi caused an Entanglement and thus the Kunad Gate's continued existence, with Karen's final act of fixing the timeline saving the real Yakumo but removing himself from existence, so it's still ambiguous if he really was responsible.
- Villainous Breakdown: His stoicism finally breaks after the first phase of his defeat in Sumeragi Tomb.Karen: Shut up! You're all so endlessly annoying!
- Villain Has a Point: While an antagonist who is frequently brusque if not hostile towards the protagonists, he's right about how the corruption in New Himuka needs to be dealt with.
- Walking Spoiler: Goes hand-in-hand with the lead-up to his role as the game's final boss.
- Wild Card: While he works for New Himuka and later rebels with Seiran, it's clear that Karen's allegiances are mostly out of desperation for trying to save Alice rather than out of any loyalty. As a result, what side he's on seems to vary from scene-to-scene as he uncovers new info or new events occur to make him take more drastic actions, culminating in him becoming the Final Boss despite barely being the source of any of the issues in the story, for nobody else's reasons but his own.
Luka Travers
"I may not look like it, but I have been on many OSF missions."
This youthful-looking member is a high-ranking soldier who can analyze every situation calmly and make the right decision. He has plenty of experience, and his ability counts him among the elite Septentrions. His older brother is also a praised member of the force. Due to different reactions to the OSF's mandatory growth suppression, Luka's age stopped early on, leaving him with a fragile body. He trains his muscles every day and gets protein intakes to make his body tougher and stronger.
- Ability Required to Proceed: Copying Luka's Teleportation powers can allow players to enter blocked areas, which are denoted by chain-link fences that flash green when approached.
- Badass Adorable: He appears to look like a young boy, but his combat capabilities make him one of the elite Septentrions.
- Big Eater: As part of his Muscle Angst, he consumes large amounts of rations and proteins to have the necessary nutrients and energy for building muscles. The only other member that comes close to this is Arashi, who is implied to burn calories at a far, far faster rate than everyone else because of her powers.
- Cain and Abel: By siding with Yuito he ends up opposing his brother Karen.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was born a "dud", one of the rare humans without any psychic ability whatsoever. After much experimentation, he managed to develop powers but he's fixated with thinking that the effects were only temporary and he'd be left with nothing but his frail, tiny body. To be fair, duds do eventually lose all their powers unfortunately.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: As a Septentrion he's supposed to be one of the most elite members of the OSF and other team members often act in awe of his abilities. In gameplay he's no more effective than any of the other party members. This is most noticeable in his EX Bond Episode with Yuito and Shiden, where we are told that the tracking program following their fight with Others has placed his contribution far in advance of the other two while inevitably the player will have done most of the work via Yuito.
- Humongous-Headed Hammer: His weapon of choice. When Kasane questions him on the wisdom of using such a heavy, unwieldy, and large weapon VS something that would fit Luka's smaller, child-like frame, he explains that he can use his teleportation to start a swing from safety or just travel above an opponent's head and let gravity do the rest.
- Logical Weakness: Based on a random field conversation, his Teleportation power involves nuclear fission. This means that he has to make sure he's teleporting into space with nothing but air, as teleporting into a solid object like a tree may cause its molecules and atoms to separate so violently it'll cause a nuclear explosion. He works especially well with Tsugumi as her Clairvoyance lets him know exactly where he can and can't teleport safely.
- Meaningful Name: Travers is just one letter short of "traverse", or "to move or travel", as Luka can easily do with his teleportation power.
- Muggle Born of Mages: He was born a "dud", one of the rare people without psychic abilities in a world where almost everyone has psionics, but gained psionic powers via experimentation. This actually causes him insecurity, as he's afraid that the effects are only temporary.
- Muscle Angst: He's desperate to develop muscle and be able to fight Others without relying heavily on his Teleportation power. To that end, he's constantly doing muscle training, eating rations and drinking protein shakes, and even his weapon is basically half of a barbell reinforced for combat. A good number of his personal gifts also involve muscle training and if you give him the triple-effective protein powder, the boxes stack nearly up to the ceiling and he has an idle animation of him sitting on the second highest-row drinking from his protein shake bottle. If he wasn't able to Teleport, you'd wonder how he got there.
- Mundane Utility: After stacking triple-effective protein powder boxes almost to the ceiling of the hideout, he uses his Teleportation to sit on the second-highest row while drinking from his protein shake bottle.
- Never Gets Fat: Despite all the protein and nutrients he eats on a daily basis, he never seems to get any taller, fatter, or more muscular than his child-like form. You can attribute this to his extremely regular muscle training routine and the experiments that gave him psychic powers but stunted his growth as a consequence.
- Older Than They Look: He looks like a child but has apparently been in the OSF for 22 years. It's revealed to be a side effect of the experiments that allowed him to develop his powers. Though the age stopping drugs the OSF take probably did most of the work.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Has the body of a child but is surprisingly strong with a hammer, thanks to using his Teleportation power and gravity to help him hit hard.
- Spock Speak: Though he is friendly, his manner of speaking is also typically incredibly structured and formal.
- The Sixth Ranger: Luka joins Yuito’s team following the Suoh incident, making him the fifth and final member.
- Tele-Frag: While this thankfully never happens in the story, he does discuss about this trope in a random field conversation. Luka mentions that teleporting into a solid object can cause its molecules and atoms to separate so violently that a nuclear explosion occurs.
Seto Platoon
Nagi Karman
"We're OSF, so we fight Others. Let's do our best at the job we've been given for now."
An energetic and positive young man who is always nice to have around, he became Yuito's friend in the OSF training school when they bonded over the school's hardships. Currently his closest friend, Nagi never cared about the Sumeragi family's reputation, making Yuito feel more at ease. He wants to help people as an OSF member, but he's also eager to gain some recognition out of it.
- Adaptational Badass: In the anime episode "The Rebel Yuito", Nagi easily gets near Yuito and pounces on him with close quarters combat before taking him as a human shield.
- Ax-Crazy: Through his personality rehabilitation, he gets a progressively worse case of this. By his final battle with Yuito, he is ranting and raving about wanting to cut off his friend's head.
- Blow You Away: Aerokinesis allows him to summon air currents in battle.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The New Himuka government rewires his brain, forcing him to be loyal to their cause. The pain that comes from attempting to resist the brainwashing causes him to become particularly maddened by the time he encounters Yuito and company again.
- Dying as Yourself: Right before he's about to strike Yuito down, he manages to snap out of his brainwashing. Unfortunately, his brain was specifically rewired to kill him if he defied his orders, causing him to pass away shortly afterwards.
- Fighting Your Friend: After the New Himuka government brainwashes him, he's sent after Yuito and his friends, forcing them to fight him in a boss battle.
- Fighting from the Inside: He attempts to resist the brainwashing instilled on him by New Himuka, but everytime he does so, they simply brainwash him even further, which takes a toll on his sanity. He even warns Yuito to leave him since he can snap at anytime and kill him. Even during the second fight, he attempts to tell himself to stop, but unfortunately, when he does successfully revert back to his old self, the kill switch in his brain is activated, resulting in his death.
- Hopeless Suitor: He has a crush on Naomi. Unfortunately for him, she actually likes Yuito and unfortunately he ends up getting brainwashed and later dies due to the way they rewired his brain, and Naomi get turned into an Other and dies as well afterwards, so he never had a chance.
- He Knows Too Much: One of the reasons why he is rehabilitated by New Himuka is because he's one of the OSF's who witnessed Naomi's transformation into an Other (through a specialized bullet). Even though he's under Fubuki's protection, New Himuka got to him first before Fubuki did.
- Interface Spoiler: As shown in Nagi's profile pic to the left, unlike many of the other party members who have their own powers that Yuito can borrow through SAS, with a corresponding symbol to match when utilising that power, Nagi lacks that, and is separated from joining Yuito's party after he gets the system, foreshadowing that he'll become an enemy to Yuito in the future, otherwise the player would lose out on his powerset going forward. It's also worth noting that as with Naomi down below, he doesn't show up in the animated intro.
- Meaningful Name: In Japanese, the character "nagi" consists of the strokes for "wind" and "stop", connecting to Nagi's air-based powers.
- Orbiting Particle Shield: During the boss battles against him, he will create orbiting shields of air blades that make closing the distance risky, but can be bypassed by Teleportation.
- Personality Powers: An energetic, carefree and outgoing person who has the power of Aerokinesis. That is, before his mind gets rewired.
- Rings of Death: He wields chakrams in battle, propelled by his Aerokinesis.
- Sanity Slippage: With each rehabilitation, his sanity gradually degrades. When he is first rehabilitated, he is mostly his normal self but is quite blasé about the situation around him and remembers Naomi as being K.I.A. (as opposed to being turned into an Other). When Yuito and co. later find him in an old OSF Hospital, he becomes noticeably unhinged when he attempts to extract Yuito's brain data, with Gemma noting it as a sign that Nagi was further rehabilitated. By their 2nd fight, his sanity has dropped sharply to the point that he screams for Yuito's head while shouting and pleading at himself to stop.
Hanabi Ichijo
"Fire! Do what I say!"
Voiced by: Tomomi Mineuchi (JP), Megan Taylor Harvey (EN)
Power: Pyrokinesis
OSF Service Record: New Recruit
Power: Pyrokinesis
OSF Service Record: New Recruit
A childhood friend of Yuito's, who has a cheerful and energetic personality. She despises injustice, making her quite impulsive when she witnesses any. Hardworking and caring, Hanabi studied in the same school as Yuito, but then got scouted for the OSF. But scouted recruits and enlistees, like Yuito, don't share training facilities. After a long period apart, they finally meet again as members of the OSF.
- Cannot Spit It Out: She really finds it difficult to let Yuito know how she feels about him and he's not likely to notice on his own. Ultimately she decides she will do so (having seen enough from Yuito to suggest a positive response is possible) but not until she's established herself on her own.
- Childhood Friends: She and Yuito grew up together. She's overjoyed when they meet up again as members of the OSF. She actually would like it to be upgraded to a Childhood Friend Romance, but she puts off confessing until she feels she can stand independently of him.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets slightly miffed when Naomi manages to get Yuito a bit flustered, and when Kodama refers to him as "Master Yuito".
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Unlike Yuito, who volunteered to be part of the OSF, she was specifically scouted. Though it doesn't hinder her work outside of one off-screen instance of Power Incontinence, she voices in her Bonding Events that she's not quite sure why she fights outside of protecting people and being close to Yuito again. It's also why she doesn't confess her feelings to Yuito, as she wants to be able to grow and stand on her own as a person.
- Everyone Can See It: As revealed in her and Kagero's EX Bond Episode, everyone except Yuito is aware that she's in love with him.
- Good Is Not Soft: Hanabi is a very sweet, kind person and this in no way prevents her from frying her enemies alive.
- Matchstick Weapon: Her weapon of choice is a staff, which she tips with flames using her pyrokinesis. In the hideout, she has a number of spares propped up behind her desk, presumably for when the material starts to wear and melt from being ignited and exposed to such extreme temperatures constantly.
- Meaningful Name: A common reading of "hanabi" in Japanese is "fireworks", befitting one who can manipulate fire and explosions.
- Mundane Utility: She uses her Pyrokinesis to light her scented candles and make fires for cooking.
- Nice Girl: Of the party members she's arguably the most straightforwardly nice person, lacking really any of the edge or hidden agendas of the others.
- Personality Powers: An energetic and cheerful girl who wields the power of pyrokinesis.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's a full head shorter than Yuito and is a capable melee combatant, perhaps moreso than Yuito at the start considering she was specifically scouted.
- Playing with Fire: She can summon pillars of fire with her pyrokinesis. She also uses flames to augment her staff strikes.
- Power Incontinence: Not in the main story, but in one of the Bonding Events, she reveals that she lost control of her powers during a mission and burned a building, earning her a scolding from Gemma. It causes her notable distress as it was the result of her being distracted by her inability to figure out what motivates her to fight for the OSF.
- Satellite Character: Actually discussed in-universe during her Bonding Events. Hanabi feels that she ultimately doesn't have much of a direction in life outside of being close to Yuito again and wants to be able to stand on her own. It's also why she puts off on confessing her feelings for him.
- Tender Tears: She sheds a lot of tears after Yuito falls into a coma after Karen invades his mind with Arahabaki. Then she sheds some more after Yuito finally wakes up.
Tsugumi Nazar
"My clairvoyance can see you..."
A shy girl who is bashful in front of strangers. She gets extremely nervous and tenses up when having a conversation with someone, and gets upset about it later. However, she always says what needs to be said, strictly and clearly. She is unexpectedly competitive and does not lose composure during battle, so she is highly capable as a soldier. She likes gardening and due to the nature of her powers, often succeeds in growing very difficult plant species. Although she likes spending time alone in nature, she cherishes and cares about the people in her life that she trusts.
- Ambiguous Disorder: She's incredibly shy, has great difficulty in social interactions especially with strangers, has great trouble with picking up cues and common sense like how she shouldn't be saying out loud what she sees under clothes and through walls with Clairvoyance, and once she's on the subject of plants and gardening, she can suddenly talk your ear off for hours. It's telling that when she tries "normal" conversations like the weather or fashion, she struggles to do much past broach the subject (though choosing Kasane as a partner certainly didn't help).
- But Now I Must Go: In the ending she's considering signing onto the lunar expedition with Kasane and a few others, and that she plans to make sure Kagero joins them after he gets out of prison for murdering Chairman Sumeragi.
- Caring Gardener: Her Bonding Events center on her love of gardening.
- Defog of War: Her SAS allows Yuito or Kasane to clearly see though the Fog of War that Missin Pounds generate.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her left eye is typically covered by her hair, further conveying her shy nature.
- Innocently Insensitive: She suffered a lot in childhood when she constantly pointed out information she shouldn't know thanks to X-Ray Vision: injuries underneath clothes, scenes and events behind closed doors, possibly even the state of their internal organs due to the unconscious, reactive nature of her Clairvoyance. She ended up ostracized and lonely due to people being paranoid about their privacy being breached.
- Meaningful Name: "Nazar" is an Arabic word, meaning "sight" or "surveillance", befitting Tsugumi's extra-perceptive abilities.
- Mundane Utility: She uses her Clairvoyance to peer into the soil to assess plant roots, past bark to see the interiors of trees, and otherwise improve her gardening and ability to examine plants.
- Odd Friendship: Tsugumi and Kagero have a close friendship despite the former being a shy introvert who can only ever talk about plants and the latter being an outgoing extrovert who's well-known for being a lecherous creep towards young (or young-looking) women.
- Replacement Goldfish: In her EX Bond Episode with Kagero, she reveals that, with the revelation of what happened to Kagero's family, she fears that she's this for Kagero's daughter. Kagero admits that he might have initially been drawn to her because of this, but he's since then come to appreciate her as her own person.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Her weapon of choice.
- See the Invisible: Her clairvoyance allows her to see invisible enemies, and using her SAS allows Yuito or Kasane to do the same.
- Semper Fi: She serves as a First Lieutenant.
- Sensor Character: Thanks to her Clairvoyance, Tsugumi is capable of seeing and detecting people and places far beyond the reach of others and through obstacles.
- Shrinking Violet: She's very soft-spoken and shy around new people.
- True Sight: Her Clairvoyance power allows her to See the Invisible, improves her sight range, gives her X-Ray Vision, and allows her to distinguish real targets from clones.
- Understatement: In one of her bonding events with Kasane, she casually mentions that accidentally peering into people's internal organs with her power can be disturbing if you're not used to it.
- X-Ray Vision: Her power allows her to see through people and objects. This caused her to point out things that breached the privacy of others when she was younger.
Kagero Donne
"Man, my invisibility power really saved the day!"
An OSF member who was recruited late into his adulthood, Kagero is sociable, but frivolous. With his looks and silver tongue, he can befriend anyone and get himself out of any situation. He never accepts defeat, even in the direst situation, and always jokes around to reassure his friends. As an immigrant from Togetsu, he used to be a priest; however, he seems to have no interest in those teachings anymore. His past is the one thing he prefers to keep a secret.
- Back Stab: The best way to leverage Invisibility when copying it. Invisibility even comes with a unique Charged Attack that deals high amounts of Crush damage that can potentially open up an enemy to a Finishing Move.
- But Now I Must Go: During the finale, he recognizes that while he will have to face prison time for his murder of Chairman Sumeragi, he'll still be out soon enough to join Kasane and a few others on the lunar expedition to survey the situation on the Moon Colony. He also plans to ask Tsumugu to join him.
- Crusading Widower: While Togetsu wasn't directly responsible for the death of his wife and children by old age, they were the ones who put Kagero in and out of crysostasis on earth for over 2,000 years as they tried and failed to reestablish contact with the Moon Colony. To that end, he works hard to undermine their efforts in order to protect the life his daughter lived, even if he'll never know what it was.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was a colonist from the moon who had to leave his wife and beloved daughter behind to try and recolonize the earth—or so his cover story went, as he was supposed to sabotage the earth recolonization project by sending all the Others onto earth and spare the Moon Colony. When that failed, the Moon Colony formed the Extinction Belt over earth and thanks to Togetsu, Kagero been stuck on Earth for over 2,000 years thanks to cryogenic sleep, all but ensuring that his family has died of old age long, long ago.
- Devious Daggers: He uses throwing knives, and is the stealthiest member of the OSF with his power of Invisibility.
- Dirty Old Man: Downplayed in that he's really only old enough to be a father, but he is known for being somewhat lecherous towards young-looking women. Ultimately subverted because, in reality, it's just an act he puts on to hide his trauma, namely concerning the loss of his wife and daughter.
- Foreshadowing: Give him the picture frame, he says he doesn't want you to be mean and ask him who he's going to put in it. Look closely in the hideout, it's a picture of the moon. This is because his wife and daughter lived and died on the Moon Colony while he was sent down to earth and trapped there by Togetsu.
- Hidden Depths: Used to be a priest in the Togetsu Faith, which is known in the game to be classified as a cult. However, Kagero takes any criticism with stride since he says that it's in the past now because of his parents. However, it's later revealed Kagero was less of a priest and more of a spy.
- Logical Weakness: His invisibility is countered by Tsugumi's clairvoyance, which allows her to See the Invisible.
- Meaningful Name: In Japanese, "kagero" means "heat haze" — ie, a mirage — "to shimmer", or "ephemeral", etc, like how Kagero has illusory abilities. It gets even more thematically appropriate when you learn it's also a false name, his real identity is "Shin Daniel", and in the English dub Kagero unambiguously refers to his identity as just a "haze".
- The Mole: He's a spy for Togetsu sent in to infiltrate the New Himuka government. However, in reality, he's been plotting to take Togetsu down to keep them from changing history and erasing his daughter from existence. Unfortunately, he still had to assassinate Joe Sumeragi on their orders in order to maintain his cover.
- Odd Friendship: Tsugumi and Kagero have a close friendship despite the former being a shy introvert who can only ever talk about plants and the latter being an outgoing extrovert who's well-known for being a lecherous creep towards young (or young-looking) women. The friendship got started because she shares a name with his daughter but he quickly started valuing her as herself, though still with a faintly parental attitude.
- Personality Powers: A person who hides lots of secrets that wields the power of invisibility.
- Platonic Life-Partners: When Yuito voices his suspicions of Kagero coming onto Tsugumi, Kagero immediately objects, telling Yuito that the bond the two of them share goes beyond romance.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's actually over 2,000 years old thanks to being in cryogenic sleep.
- Replacement Goldfish: He treats both Tsugumi and Kasane as analogues for his long-deceased daughter, Tsugumi because they share a first name (if nothing else) and Kasane because her hair is similar.
- Sad Clown: He acts like a friendly goofball, but that's to deal with the knowledge that he has no way to reunite with his wife and daughter, long dead, stuck on the Moon Colony for the Extinction Belt, and with New Himuka dying for a chance to go to war with them and destroy whatever may still be left of them. In Kasane's bonding events with him, she frequently points out how his cheerful attitude drops from time to time.
- That Man Is Dead: In the Kasane route, pursuing his Bond Events has him reveal his true name was "Shin Daniel", "Kagero Donne" was always meant to be an alias. After dealing completely with Togetsu and laying his past to rest, he intends to keep on living as Kagero.
- The Sixth Ranger: He joins Kasane’s team right after the Suoh incident.
Kyoka Platoon
Kyoka Eden
"We can't just abandon people who need our help. Let's do what we can."
Kyoka is widely known as the perfect combination of brains and beauty. She excels in looking after her units and frequently oversees platoons as a result. She treats her team as family and is usually a kind and loving person, albeit one who transforms when trouble comes knocking. She loves things like jinxes, good-luck charms, and fortune-telling, and cannot help but try out each new one she discovers. She and Arashi joined the OSF the same year and have remained good friends ever since.
- Artificial Human: She was created in a lab and meant to be a spy in the OSF. Once she started making connections with the OSF and developing human emotions, she quickly began to stray from her original directive.
- Automatic Crossbows: Kyoka uses her power to let loose a barrage of shots due to the fact that about 6 of her are shooting at once.
- Becoming the Mask: She was supposed to be a spy for Togetsu, thinking of nothing but the success of her mission, but eventually grew to love and care for her fellow OSF members along with "Kyoka Eden" overriding her original personality as a Design Child.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In Kasane's route, Togetsu try to override her memories as "Kyoka Eden" with Dr. Pope's, forcing her to fight Kasane and co. They manage to break her out of it after a prolonged battle to weaken her.
- But Now I Must Go: In the ending, she decides to apply for the lunar expedition to the Moon along with Kasane and a few others, but she notes that there's a chance she won't be accepted due to being a former Togetsu spy.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She has several shades of this, from her obsession with fortune-telling, good luck and protection charms (one of which is a quarter of the size of the protagonist's torso), and strange rituals like putting a picture of a treasure chest underneath her pillow every night. One would have to imagine being born as an unthinking, cloned spy that was never meant to develop human emotions has plenty to do with this.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She was one of the Design Children, more specifically a clone of Togetsu's founder, Dr. Hitoyo Pope. She was made to be a spy for the OSF, keeping watch and protecting Kasane for Togetsu's plans but eventually ended up developing human feelings and a fondness for her fellow OSF members.
- First-Name Basis: Even though she's the CO of a platoon, she insists everyone call each other by first names (her included) to make it feel more like a family than a military group. This is common practice in the OSF, but she takes it on for that reason.
- Guns Akimbo: She uses two of her automatic crossbows at once.
- Hidden Depths: She's incredibly interested in neuroscience, as one of her favorite gifts is a medical journal about the field's latest breakthroughs. This is a remnant of the original Dr. Hitoyo Pope, a neuroscientist who Kyoka was originally a clone of.
- Lethal Chef: Though Kyoka is passionate about cooking and learning how to do it, she has disturbingly many instances of showing off her complete and utter lack of aptitude for it.
- One of her Bond Episodes in Kasane's route has Shiden going completely numb before ultimately passing out from one bite of Kyoka's cooking. When Kyoka attempts to make cookies, the result gets censored on-screen with the same image used to censor decapitated corpses.
- In Yuito's Bond Episodes with her, Kyoka does actually manage to make something palatable with a lot of help from Yuito: rice balls, with Yuito making the rice. They are edible and taste fine but the results are still so visually-hideous that they still end up censored.
- On Yuito's route, gifting her a heavy-duty, beginner-proof set of cookware will have it show up in the hideout's kitchen. Should Yuito have received a pot and ladle set as a gift already, you can see the two side by side: Yuito's is what looks like a perfectly normal and delicious looking cream stew, Kyoka's is a horrific black sludge with unidentified masses floating in it. It gets even worse when you see her idle animation has her stirring and actively smelling it to no ill-effect, which makes one wonder if Design Children have to actively develop a sense of good taste like Kasane had with Naomi's cooking.
- Men Can't Keep House: Inverted. She wants to clean and cook for the platoon, but when she tries both, the whole hideout ends up trashed, Arashi is exhausted from trying to stop her, and Shiden ends up going completely numb after a bite of Kyoka's cooking before ultimately passing out. It's quite telling that when Kyoka shows off her "cookies" to Kasane, they're censored with the same image used for decapitated corpses.
- Mole in Charge: She's a Togetsu Spy who managed to become a Platoon's CO, expressly to watch over Kasane when she joins the OSF.
- Morally Superior Copy: As a clone of Dr. Hitoyo Pope, she's almost certainly a far friendlier and moral person than Togetsu's founder ever was.
- More Dakka: Her special moves oftentimes involve her blasting foes with short but dense barrages of bolts with her crossbows, either directly in front of them in a shotgun spray (Combo Vision) or raining down several from above (Assault Vision).
- Ms. Fanservice: Her uniform covers her whole body, but it does little to hide her very generous bust and hugs the rest of her curves fairly well.
- Mundane Utility: If one sees Kyoka in the safehouse during free roam, you can sometimes see one of her clones giving her a back massage, and in one Bond Episode, she also uses one of her clones to help her carry her shopping bags.
- Older Than They Look: To a much less extreme extent than Arashi, but her service record still puts her in her 40's even though she looks a decade younger. The OSF's age stopping drugs and her being grown in a lab might have something to do with it.
- Quickly-Demoted Woman: Is the leader of the platoon Kasane and Naomi are assigned to at the start of the game, but after Seiran's rebellion and the defection of most of Kyoka Platoon plus Kagero and Arashi, Kyoka is demoted in favour of Kasane taking her spot as platoon head due to the erroneous belief Kasane killed Chairman Sumeragi, which makes her more valuable as a symbol. Kyoka isn't especially bothered by it.
- Required Secondary Powers: Her capability to create clones of herself with clothes, weapons and all also means that she has to be capable of duplicating objects and items. This indeed is part of her powerset as shown when she duplicates Kagero's thrown knives to attack Yuito's team with a Flechette Storm, and when Kasane or Yuito uses her powers through SAS they will create extra copies of psychokinetically thrown objects.
- Self-Duplication: Her power, Duplication, allows her to make copies of herself that can greatly multiply the amount and force of her attacks. This doesn't just extend to herself, and she can clone objects as well. When Kasane uses it through SAS, Kyoka will initially create an extra copy of whatever object Kasane has thrown then create clones of Kasane to multiply her attacks, as well.
- Split-Personality Merge: Kyoka likes to believe that the Design Child based on Hitoyo Pope and her current identity as "Kyoka Eden" are not two separate personas, but have fused together, the former coming out in combat and the latter everywhere else.
- Team Mom: She certainly wants to be this. She insists that her subordinates treat their platoon as a family, she prefers a First-Name Basis for everyone, and is always eager to hear the other's problems and say she's there to talk about absolutely anything besides.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Is the very maternal girly girl to Arashi's incredibly lazy tomboy.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: According to Arashi (who was in the same batch of cadets as her), Kyoka was initially cold, distant, and serious, but gradually warmed up into the affectionate and sentimental Team Mom she is today. This was because she was originally a lab-grown human and wasn't created with human emotions or sentimentality, she somehow developed them through her interactions with the others.
Naomi Randall
"Kasane is the type of person who is easily misunderstood, so I would worry if I'm not by her side."
Kasane's kind and somewhat reserved adoptive older sister. As the eldest daughter of the wealthy Randall family, she grew up comfortably doted on by her parents like a princess. However, she is selfless, treats everyone equally, and possesses the integrity and strength to side with the weak and crush the strong. Although she is the same age as Kasane, she treats the adopted Kasane like a younger sister. She loves Kasane like a real sister and shows her affection from the bottom of her heart. She supports Kasane often, who tends to clash with others.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: OSF soldiers revealed later to have been working for the New Himuka government turn her into an Other. While it is implied that there is a way to reverse the transformation, she dies before anything happens on that front, and it is further implied that she's still dead in the new reset timeline.
- Body Horror: Her form as an Other is absolutely grotesque, looking like a gigantic humanoid-like creature with a two-headed house where her face would normally be at - basically, a far cry from her regular self's appearance.
- Cute Monster Girl: Horribly averted with her Other form, which is just as much of a jumbled mess as every other Other in the game.
- Death Seeker: Admits to Kasane that she felt like wanting to die when she realized that the only way she could retain her identity was through drugs made from human brains, but also states how glad she was to stay alive long enough to protect her sister one more time.
- Dying as Yourself: In her dying moments, she's able to hold a lucid, heartwarming conversation with Kasane, happy to have been turned into an Other if only because it meant she could save Kasane's life.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blond hair and is a Spoiled Sweet girl.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When Togetsu sics an army of disposable Design Children to slaughter Kasane and company, Naomi and the rest of the humans-turned-Other-Weapons attack them and let Kasane and co. escape. Unfortunately, it costs all of their lives, though Naomi is able to have one last conversation with Kasane before she passes away.
- Hopeless Suitor: She quickly develops a crush on Yuito, but he remains oblivious to it. Then she gets turned into an Other and later dies, which pretty much crushes all chances of her being together with him.
- Interface Spoiler: In a similar manner to Nagi's example above, unlike many of the other party members who have their own powers that Kasane can borrow through SAS, with a corresponding symbol to match when utilising that power, Naomi lacks that, and isn't able to join up in a party with Kasane once she gets the system, foreshadowing her absence from the team as the story progresses, otherwise the player would lose out on her powers going forward. As with Nagi, Naomi is also entirely absent from the animated intro... except for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it early look at her Other self. It is however downplayed due to the fact her power would easily surpass Kagero's in terms of game breaking potential as you would be able to see the future at your discretion, something that even Xenoblade Chronicles 1 had to make random to avoid making things too easy on the player.
- Living Emotional Crutch: It's not that obvious at first but it does become clear that Naomi is the main reason Kasane has any capacity for warm behavior towards anyone. The mere thought of Naomi being injured serves as a Berserk Button for Kasane. Kasane breaks hard after Naomi transforms into an Other and suffers even worse after she dies.
- No Body Left Behind: Passes away like most Others, evaporating into orange light.
- Seers: She possesses the ability to see the future, though she's capable of altering events once she's made aware of them.
- Spoiled Sweet: She grew up in a privileged household but is a kind person who talks to everyone as equals. This is especially prominent towards her adoptive sister Kasane, who they both all but state was The Unfavorite that their parents only ever seemed to tolerate having around.
- The Shadow Knows: In her final moments as an Other, her human form's shadow can be seen interacting with Kasane's.
- Taking the Bullet: Twice. First, she intercepts a metamorphosis bullet meant for Kasane, turning her into an Other. Then, much later, she intercepts the Togetsu Design Children, getting blasted by fireballs and saving Kasane and co. from getting crushed by heavy construction equipment. The latter is also what finally kills her.
Gemma Garrison
"Don't worry. My power is specialized for defense."
Voiced by: Ryota Takeuchi (JP), Aaron Hendricks (EN)
Power: Sclerokinesis
OSF Service Record: 38 years
Power: Sclerokinesis
OSF Service Record: 38 years
Despite the OSF's methods of suppressing growth to ensure young brains can retain their psionic strength, Gemma, a quiet and calm combat veteran, is starting to age again, indicating the end of his OSF career is coming. While he is thinking about retirement, he is proud of what he has accomplished, and keeps improving his powers through intense training to always be of use and able to protect those around him. Serious and earnest to the point he is often clumsy, Gemma's focus has been fighting the Others; as such, he often feels lost among young recruits and their relationships.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Gemma relies on his power to fight and as such, attacks primarily with his body.
- Defector from Decadence: Gemma becomes this twofold. First, he joins Karen’s rebellion out of opposition to the totalitarian measures New Himuka’s government is planning to implement. Then, when he becomes suspicious of Karen’s intentions, he joins Yuito’s group.
- Gender-Blender Name: Gemma is typically a female name for English speakers.
- Meaningful Name: A "garrison" is a military encampment at a location with the intent to defend it, alluding to Gemma's protective abilities.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: His Sclerokinesis allows him to No-Sell enemy attacks, with a "No Damage" text popping up if he's hit while it's active. The player can also gain similar invincibility via the SAS system.
- No-Sell: Copying the Sclerokinesis power can let players temporarily negate damage from attacks. Its best use is to push through Area of Effect moves that would otherwise force players to lose momentum while retreating.
- Personality Powers: A stoic and protective man who wields the power of Sclerokinesis.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: One of many Gemma's hang ups is his being out of touch with modern trends. Yuito drags him around to try some current fads, and he eventually finds an interest in visiting restaurants.
- Older Than They Look: He's one of the oldest members of the cast, but you wouldn't know it - justified because he's on an anti-aging serum. This actually weighs on him a bit. That said, it's said that the serum is beginning to wear off on him, which does reflect on him noticably looking a lot older than other OSF veterans like Arashi and Kyoka. In the anime, he confirms that he's 54 years old mentally.
- Real Men Cook: Thanks to Naomi's influence, Gemma is both learning how to cook healthy meals for himself and an appreciation for the art. He says it's stressing him out and he keeps burning everything but at least it's a hobby to keep his mind off things and try to keep himself healthy, physically and psychologically. If you finish all of his Bond Events with Kasane, he mentions learning it as a new livelihood once he's forced to retire and can't fight Others anymore.
- Survivor Guilt: Years upon years of losing comrades and rookies while he managed to survive and live to see retirement has not been good for his mental health. It's gotten to the point where he fears the dismal prospects of civilian life post-OSF service, considering he's likely out-aged his family and civilian friends due to the age-suppressing drugs and he knows little more than fighting Others, which becomes impossible as his powers and skills will drastically degrade over time. He wishes to die in battle though Naomi notices that he's already exhibiting other expressions of it, like his poor dietary habits.
Shiden Ritter
"I don't plan on being your friend."
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (JP), Mark Whitten (game), Phil Song (anime) (EN)
Power: Electrokinesis
OSF Service Record: 14 years
Power: Electrokinesis
OSF Service Record: 14 years
Shiden's transfer to Kasane's platoon was a result of his sharp tongue and attitude, which complicated the relationship with his old commander. His pride and strict nature can make him a troublesome teammate to have, at least until you prove your strength to him. On the other hand, he doesn't shy away from complimenting those with strong powers, like the Septentrions.
- Always Someone Better: He has one hell of an inferiority complex. In Kasane's route, he constantly compares his combat data and hers and it grates on him to no end that despite all his hard work and training, he constantly (if very, very slightly) lags behind Kasane. Most of his other hang-ups tend to involve his feeling unworthy of the attention of and fighting with his idols, such as Captain Seto.
- Character Development: He starts off as arrogant and rude, with very little regard for his teammates. He grows out of this after seeing the Bad Future and Kasane's professional kindness towards him - he mellows out considerably while still being a bit of a dick. Afterwards, he's notably the first to call out Kasane's refusal to elaborate about her feelings regarding the killing of Yuito, pointing out that they need everyone on the same page.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He absolutely abhors praise and compliments when he himself feels that he hasn't given his all, taking even his family's wholehearted encouragement as misguided attempts to soothe his ego.
- Everyone Has Standards: While he's not above denigrating volunteer OSF soldiers he makes it very clear that he doesn't agree with discrimination, like what "duds" (those without any psychic powers) are subjected to.
- Despite wanting to desert with Karen, he's appalled by the state of the world left by the rebellion.
- This is why he is currently at Kyoka's Platoon; he was once assigned to his previous commander Kodama, but is downright disgusted by her psychopathic tendencies and requested a transfer to get away from her.
- He also offers genuine sympathies towards Kasane when Naomi is turned into an Other, even regarding the latter as someone with a great amount of potential as an OSF member.
- Friendly Rival: Shiden ultimately settles on him and Kasane being "rivals" rather than friends, one-sided as the "competition" always was.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Especially noticeable in Kasane's route, Shiden is frustrated that despite doing his best in the OSF for 14 years, Kasane is promoted to platoon commander despite being a rookie who just got out of cadet training, which Shiden believes is due to the fact she seems to have natural talent.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his open preoccupation with the Septentrions, his favorite gifts shows he has a love of nature and photography. In one of Yuito's Bond Episodes, he even invites the latter to see a thunderstorm.
- Jerkass: He starts out very arrogant and abrasive towards others, which makes it hard to get along with him. He does take some levels in kindness as part of his Character Development.
- Lawman Baton: His weapons of choice are twin batons, modified to conduct electricity through his hands.
- Logical Weakness: His Electrokinesis powers do not react well to electronics and anything that can hold a charge or conduct a current. In Kasane's route, this ends up shocking a mechanized container with a human head inside, causing it to open and revealing the terrible secret of Seiran's research facility to the group. This is also why both his gloves and his entire uniform are lined with non-conductive rubber material.
- Meaningful Name: "Shiden" has multiple readings in Japanese, but the "den" is often interpreted as "lightning" or "electricity", referencing Shiden's power. "Ritter" is German for "knight".
- My Beloved Smother: How he feels about his parents' constant attention and positive reinforcement. While he can always count on their support, his parents unwittingly feed his inferiority complex: he considers their constant praise both condescending and pressuring, as he can't count on an honest assessment and yet he feels they've setup an unattainable ideal for him. In contrast, he had no problem accepting praise from Captain Seto, since he's an objective third party; it's also why he respects Kasane's opinions of him - while being upstaged by her infuriates him, Shiden knows she won't coddle him.
- Tsundere: He struggles to be honest with his feelings. Arashi chews him out as "An Idealist pretending to be a Pragmatist".
- Unknown Rival: To Kasane and, to a lesser extent, Yuito. Kasane in particular barely registers him trying to be a rival, while Yuito just thinks he is being a jerk.
Kodama Platoon
Kodama Melone
This OSF platoon leader is a high-spirited show-off. Despite her devilish and extreme words and actions, she serves as Fubuki's assistant. Even though she acts arbitrarily, she nonetheless steadfastly carries out any orders she receives.
- Adapted Out: She and by extension Yuta is completely absent from the anime adaptation.
- Always Identical Twins: She and Yuta looks completely alike, right down to their wardrobe, with the only way to tell them apart being their voices and personalities.
- Ax-Crazy: She is unhinged and cruel, with Shiden even wondering if she came here to look for wounded (as in to kill them in brutal ways). She reassures him that she doesn't do menial jobs like that.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's childish, she's playful, she doesn't seem to take anything seriously if she isn't personally interested, but she's still a platoon leader and one of Fubuki's trusted assistants.
- The Cameo: In Yuito's route, she only makes a single appearance where she gave him the prescription (that he forgot to retrieve) from the OSF Hospital back when he was suffering from a headache from using his Brain Drive.
- Dual Boss: With her older twin sister, Yuta.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Kodama is very put off by Yuta's sexual inuendos towards Kasane, even commenting that she hates how they're related.
- Evil All Along: She was somewhat off-putting from the moment she was introduced, but she was also established as Fubuki's trusted assistant. Unfortunately, it's revealed that she's been plotting behind his back to seize Seiran's Other Weapons.
- Foreshadowing: When she runs into Shiden again after his transfer to Kyoka Platoon, she refers to him as the Traitor, because she knows of his plans to join the Seiran-based OSF rebellion.
- Karma Houdini: By virtue of them disappearing from the story after failing to steal Seiran's Other Weapons, they seemingly face no repurcussions to taking part in New Himuka's conspiracy nor repeatedly trying to kill Kasane's team.
- Leave No Witnesses: Attempts to kill Kasane, Gemma (who were present when Naomi transformed), and Shiden to cover-up New Himuka's experiments under the pretense that the three were killed by an Other. Thankfully Fubuki shows up and orders her to stop from going all out and convinces her to let him handle the situation instead.
- Meaningful Name: In Japanese folklore, kodama were tree spirits that were attributed as the cause of delayed echoes in valleys and mountains, to the point the word interchangeably refers to the delayed echo itself. Fittingly, Kodama has the power to control sounds.
- Ms. Fanservice: She wears extremely revealing clothing and behaves like The Tease around Yuito. Yuta is potentially even more extreme despite sharing her twin's looks, as she loves peppering her dialogue with sexual innuendos.
- Musical Assassin: Her powers mostly consist of soundwaves, either blasting enemies with the sheer force of the air or confusing them from the discord.
- Pipe Pain: Her weapon of choice is a steel pipe with spikes on one end. It also acts as an amplifier for her Sonokinesis.
- Psychopathic Manchild: She's immature, childish, and her outfit looks like a punk teenager's wardrobe. She will also gladly murder people if given half a reason to and she'll happily transform humans into Others and sic them on their former companions if it means she'll have an easier (and more entertaining) time.
- Stripperiffic: In a game where female characters are generally dressed modestly, her OSF outfit exposes a lot of skin compared to everyone else's, included a see-through, ripped-up shirt and shorts that if they were any shorter, would be a straight line. The same goes for her twin sister.
- The Resenter: Towards Shiden for leaving her platoon, and holds a grudge towards him as a result.
- Super-Scream: One of her most devastating moves especially with her twin sister Yuta joining in is to scream, blasting a huge, unavoidable soundwave that incapatitaes Kasane and co. for several seconds. Yuta says the blast should be enough to cause severe brain damage or literally blow their minds into jelly.
- Twin Switch: She and her older sister, Yuta, frequently abuse the latter's Transformation power to catch their opponents off-guard and to trick their enemies into giving out information to who they think are officers and trusted people on their side.
- The Unfought: Surprisingly, she doesn't fight Yuito and his platoon in his route despite her reputation for being a psycho who has no problems attacking even her own allies who are not part of her platoon if given a reason. Justified as a) She has a crush on Yuito. And b) The three were not on New Himuka's wanted list yet, thus she saw no reason in going after them.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her and Yuta's attempt to control the humans-turned Others gets intercepted by Togetsu's Design Children in the process, causing all of the humans-turned Others to be killed off, including Alice. Alice's death caused Karen to resort to much more drastic measures to save her.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She and her sister disappear from the story after their plan to steal Seiran's Other Weapons fails.
Arashi Spring
"Being able to selfishly slack off whenever I want is something a grownup gets to do."
The charismatic face of the OSF, whose passion and sunny personality have earned her fans of all ages, is merely a persona Arashi uses in public. When not on camera, she loosens up and slacks off on work, earning her the moniker "Lazy Ara" from her teammates. If she feels like it, her calm and brilliant mind makes her dependable in any situation. It is even rumored the abilities of this genius can equal the Septentrions. Perhaps harder to believe because of the OSF age suppression is that she is Fubuki Spring's older sister.
- An Arm and a Leg: She casually talks about a serious accident in the past involving her powers, when she ran full-speed into a wall and ended up completely dismembering herself but thankfully, the OSF managed to reattach them so perfectly that there isn't even a scar and she has full use of her body and her powers today.
- Animal Motifs: Rabbits. She's extremely speedy, her noise-canceling headphones look like floppy rabbit ears, and her corner in the hideout is decorated with rabbit-themed decorations.
- Big Eater: She's a huge fan of cola and eats plenty of OSF rations, which must amount to an impressive amount of calories and carbohydrates. It is somewhat implied that her powers constantly burn calories, which explains why the amount of food she consumes never impacts her weight.
- Big Sister Instinct: As much as she'd like to pretend she doesn't have one Fubuki eventually reveals that she attempted to stop the OSF from scouting him by actually physically fighting them and had to be restrained for her to stop. She's also livid when Karen brings her Fubuki's dead body while she and Kyoka Platoon are in the Bad Future.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: She could be one of the OSF's best engineers, if she actually wanted the job. As she wants nothing to do with the position, admin is content to leverage her cute looks and acting abilities for PR. In general, she's also very, very, very lazy, sleeping most of the time, subsisting entirely on rations and cola because actual food is too much work to get, and trying to get her teammates to do minor chores for her under the guise of her "conserving energy" for her power.
- Broken Ace: She has it all; a brilliant mind that frequently outdoes any mechanism she comes across from even the most advanced corporations, a massive following and the charisma to match, more money than she can do with as a result of her charisma, and she is even frequently implied to be second only to Karen in terms of talent and power with her abilities if she'd only cut loose. The problem is that her own jaded philosophy on the world, brought on by her brother joining the OSF and her slovenly, lazy habits frequently get in the way of her becoming the engineer or Septentrion she could easily become. Whenever she's present in the story proper and actually puts effort into something, a seemingly impassable obstacle will almost certainly be undone, and the implication is that during the second rematch with Yuito's team, where Kasane's group is fighting 3-to-5, Kasane and Arashi alone are able to balance the scales - and maybe even tip them in the latter group's favor. She'll almost invariably write her contribution off and try to laze about afterwards.
- Cast from Calories: Her Hypervelocity requires her to burn a massive amount of calories. This is why she's a Big Eater that Never Gets Fat, while also being very lazy as she feels that she needs to conserve her energy.
- Chainsaw Good: Her weapon of choice, which she leverages with her extreme speed.
- The Cynic: As revealed in one of her Bonding Events, she's long since given up on the notion of being able to save everyone and admits she'd probably sacrifice her own brother if she thought she had to. However, that just might be all talk. See Big Sister Instinct above for how much she actually cares.
- Dismotivation: She doesn't see the point for doing much of anything because she believes most things one does are wasted efforts, so she's very selective about what she actually puts her mind towards - it's to the point she eats a lot but mostly rations and soda because of pure efficiency. This largely stems from the time she got almost lethally worked up about her brother getting scouted by the OSF in an attempt to protest it, only for Fubuki to volunteer anyway.
- Fiction 500: Like her brother Fubuki, she's also heir to the Spring Pharmaceuticals fortune, though it's quite likely that she's independently rich from how much lucrative advertising deals she's gone into as the face of the OSF PR Department.
- Flash Step: Her Assault Vision has her doing several hit-and-run strikes from several angles, so fast you only barely catch her pink silhouette.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Is a slacker in contrast to her brother Fubuki. The kicker is that she's the older sibling.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She is the resident tech expert for Kyoka Platoon. She can hack enemy systems like it's nothing, intercept transmissions and acquire classified information, and she's constantly tinkering with her headphones and other gadgets to provide ample comfort and noise-cancellation to deal with the side-effects of her powers.
- Gamer Chick: Her love for gaming forms the basis of the Bond Episode for both Yuito and Kasane's teams, where she proposes a gaming competition to fight over personal space in the hideout. It's mainly a front that she, along with Kyoka and Gemma, put up to give their younger comrades an opportunity to bond together after spending most of the game as adversaries.
- Gender-Blender Name: Arashi isn't a common Japanese name, but it's usually considered to be a boy's name.
- Never Gets Fat: It's implied that despite her massive consumption of both carbohydrate-rich cola and nutrient-dense OSF rations, she never gets fat and maintained her scrawny, petite teenager-like body for decades because her power consumes massive amounts of calories on use.
- Older Than They Look: She looks like a youthful teenager but has been in the OSF for 29 years, putting her in her early 40's at the very least. The age suppressing drugs the OSF mixes into the food are to thank for that.
- Pink Means Feminine: Averted; despite pink being her signature color (which does help contribute to her cutesy public persona), Arashi is arguably the most tomboyish of the female party members.
- Power Stereotype Flip: Despite having Super-Speed, Arashi is lethargic and unmotivated.
- Required Secondary Powers:
- Super-speed needs noise-cancellation and something to keep your inner ear stable for the sake of balance, both of which are provided by her headphones. This is a result of moving faster than soundwaves can travel to her and possibly running straight into them mid-run and her constantly shifting position and posture, which her body can struggle to keep up with without technological assistance.
- All that energy to run around and attack at lightning speed has to come from somewhere. Arashi is constantly eating, devouring large amounts of carbohydrates, and takes frequent, long naps, abhorring most everything she believes to be "wasted energy".
- Serious Business: She takes her slacking very seriously. In her and Kyoka EX Bond episode with Yuito, she sends Yuito and Kyoka into a wild goose chase when they tried to have her do her job for once.
- Shorter Means Smarter: She is the shortest female party member in the game and a certified Gadgeteer Genius.
- Spin Attack: A variation. Her Combo Vision has very poor range and is only ever capable of hitting a single target, due to how small her one-handed chainsaw is. It makes up for this by dealing a high amount of Crush damage, to set up an opponent for a Brain Crush Finishing Move.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cola, specifically the "Cohla Noki" brand of which she is the poster girl of. She's constantly drinking the stuff, one of her presents on Yuito's route is a set of it that she can be seen drinking straight from the 2-liter bottle it comes in, and in one of Fubuki's well-meaning messages to her, he specifically tries (and fails) to dissuade her from consuming so much soda. To a lesser extent as it's more for convenience than preference, she's also constantly eating OSF Type C rations: "Beef Curry with Cooked Rice".
- Time Stands Still: Not her actual power, but when Yuito or Kasane use the SAS to gain Hypervelocity, this is how it is represented — enemies slowing down to a crawl.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: When compared to Kyoka. In contrast to her being the very affectionate Team Mom and distinctly feminine, Arashi's overtly girly public persona is a front, being a lot more crass and lazy when off the clock.
- The Sixth Ranger: She shares this role with Kagero for Kyoka/Kasane's squad, more so even than him since she was originally part of Kodama Platoon and got involved with the main cast by pure chance.
- Vocal Dissonance: Despite looking like a child, her English voice sounds like a mature woman.
Spoiler Character
Yuta Melone
Kodama's older twin sister who has the ability to shapeshift. Unlike her sister, she tends to operate behind the scenes.- Adapted Out: She never appears in the anime version.
- Always Identical Twins: You'd think her and Kodama were clones considering that it's almost impossible to tell them apart.
- Ambiguously Gay: So far, we haven't seen Yuta making any passes towards male characters. She seems to only do so with Kasane. Said passes include sensual moaning mid-fight and screaming for 'more' from Kasane, making allusions to bondage involving Kasane post-boss fight, and actively wanting to see Kasane beat up her sister because it brings Yuta pleasure. She even calls Kasane her hero for that last bit, and spends her entire fight acting like a love-struck groupie.
- Big Sister Bully: What exactly sparked her interest in Kasane? The latter beating up her younger sister.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Just like her sister, she's nuts, but she's an even greater threat. As revealed in Episode Karen 3, she's actually a secret Septentrion, and her power fits the bill. She can transform into anyone and copy their power in the process. Karen is considered the strongest Septentrion for having what is essentially a quicker version of this very power, and Yuta demonstrates complete mastery with whatever power she copies and the body she transforms into the second she triggers the transformation. This makes her the biggest threat in her Dual Boss fight with her sister, who is already a massive threat.
- Didn't See That Coming: Her and her sister's plan to steal Seiran's formerly-human Other Weapons and kill Kasane's team with them is straight-up foiled when a small army of Design Children attacks all of them out of nowhere, which she and Kodama certainly didn't know about or plan for. This forces her and her sister to flee.
- Humanshifting: Yuta can turn herself into whoever she wants. This also includes copying another person's psionics, as seen when she was masquerading as Fubuki, and she also turns into playable characters during combat.
- Imposter Forgot One Detail: When Yuta impersonates Fubuki, she tells Kasane's group that she plans to use the human-born Other Weapons in the fight against Karen. Arashi immediately attacks her without hesitation because she knows that Fubuki would never do something like that.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Yuta comments in a suggestive voice that seeing Kasane beat Kodama "sent shivers down her spine". She mentions after the boss fight that's she's still throbbing from Kasane's attacks.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Kodama is much more childish while Yuta is very much perverted.
- We Will Meet Again: After the arrival of the Design Children forces her and her sister to retreat, she promises that she'll meet Kasane again so that they can continue their "fun".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She and her sister disappear from the story after their plan to steal Seiran's Other Weapons fails.
OSF Command Center
Kaito Sumeragi
Voiced by: Chikahiro Kobayashi (JP), Zeno Robinson (EN)
Yuito's older brother, and the eldest sibling of the Sumeragi family. He is an excellent politician, and has been part of OSF's command since his youth. He has always been kind to his younger brother. He has no psychic abilities.
- Aloof Big Brother: At least, leading up to the game. Like their father Joe, Kaito wasn't happy to hear Yuito joining the OSF, especially because there's the very, very real risk of them being accused of corruption in the ranks, what with Kaito running the OSF and the Sumeragi's being a long, storied line of rich, powerful politicians. In all his Brain Messages to Yuito post-OSF induction, he's very formal and makes it clear no reply is necessary. Near the end of the game, Yuito mentions that he and Kaito were never really that close despite the latter's kindness towards him.
- Ax-Crazy: Although he puts on a sophisticated and calm and collected veneer as the OSF Chief, it is a facade. The mask is broken when Kaito is confronted in his office by Yuito and his team. Kaito starts ranting and raving about how he must fulfill Yakumo Sumeragi's dream of revenge by destroying the Moon and all the people on it, and to do this Kaito plans to sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of New Himuka's citizens by harnessing their brains to create the ultimate psionic weapon against the Moon. All to avenge something done 2000 years ago by the Moon colonists, whose descendants are not responsible for their ancestors' crimes. To make matters worse, Kaito was the one who had Nagi brainwashed and sent him to kill Yuito, Kaito's own brother, so that Yuito's brain could be harvested and used as a weapon to kill the humans on the moon. When Kaito learns Nagi died as a result of all the brainwashing and trauma he endured, Kaito is utterly indifferent and said Nagi was a waste of resources.
- Big Bad Ensemble: After Joe Sumeragi's death, Kaito becomes the leader of the corrupt New Himuka government. He's just as bad as his father, if not worse.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: As it turns out, the kindness he displayed towards his younger brother in the past really only extended as far as Yuito was willing to agree with him. The moment Yuito turns against the family's wishes, he instantly goes frosty. There's also the fact that he is the one who subjected Nagi Karman, his brother's best friend, to personality rehabiliation and senthim to attack Yuito, and then sent him to kill Yuito and take his brain.
- Cain and Abel: Kaito sends a brainwashed Nagi Karman to murder Yuito and then harvest Yuito's brain from his corpse, so it can be used to create a weapon with which Kaito plans to use to commit genocide on all of the humans living on the Moon.
- Engineered Public Confession: Wataru actually secretly recorded his Motive Rant, which is then sent out to the public, exposing the Government Conspiracy.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Near the end of the game, it's revealed that he and his father desired to avenge Wakana's death by getting back at Togetsu. He thanks Yuito for sabotaging their plans.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In Yuito's ending, it's revealed that Kaito's Engineered Public Confession of erasing the minds of the populace got him kicked from the government shortly after. The anime adaptation includes that he is on trial for crimes against humanity.
- Like Father, Like Son: After Joe Sumeragi's death, Kaito succeeds him the new chairman of Himuka's government, and he's no better than his father when it comes to the Government Conspiracy.
- Motive Rant: He goes into a pretty manic one when he reveals what he believes to be Yakumo's will.
- Muggle Born of Mages: Has no psychic ability despite being the child of a person who does.
- The Unfettered: Even moreso than his father, who at least expressed some regret in his dying moments. He will fulfill Yakumo's will even if it means erasing the minds of countless innocent people. In fact, he actually considers their individuality to be a hindrance.
- Villainous Cheekbones: He actually has more pronounced cheekbones than even his father and is in on the Government Conspiracy.
Wataru & Haruka Frazer
Wataru
Haruka
Haruka Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa (JP), Salli Saffioti (credited as Celeste Henderson) (EN)
Power: Telepathy
OSF Service Record: Unknown
Power: Telepathy
OSF Service Record: Unknown
Twins and operators for the OSF, Wataru covers Seto Platoon and Yuito, Haruka covers Kyoka Platoon and Kasane. In game, they contact the party with useful information, keep track of their movements, and surveil areas.
- A Day in the Limelight: Yuito and Kasane's 2nd EX Bond Episode focuses on them (Kasane's on Wataru, and Yuito's on Haruka).
- But Now I Must Go: In the ending, Haruka intends to join the lunar expedition with Kasane and a few others while Wataru stays on Earth and helps with the Other exterminating efforts now that the Extinction Belt is gone.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: As seen in the pictures Haruka has a full sleeve on one arm and no sleeve and long glove on the other.
- Half-Identical Twins: They're fraternal twins but aside from hairstyle, their uniform designs, and minor differences in body type, they look almost exactly the same.
- Horned Humanoid: They're presumably just hair decorations but both twins sport a single horn on one side of their heads, with each having it on the opposite side.
- Mundane Utility: While their telepathy is mostly used for one-way communication with their respective platoons, the twins also use it to argue with each other as seen during one of the team episodes where the other characters only noticed they were doing it because they were glaring at each other without saying anything.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Wataru is generally quite by-the-book and a real homebody, Haruka is adventurous and loves the outdoors.
- Support Party Member: They don't directly engage in combat but are very useful in providing information, communications, and location tracking beside.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: A psychic variation, but they do stay away from the action and supply Yuito and Kasane with info about enemies, their party's current status, and the like. It's made even more apparent when you spend most of the game not even seeing them in person and it's only very, very late into the game that you see one or the both of them together in the hideout. You don't even have Bond Levels with them nor do they get a space of their own in the hideouts.
Satori
Power: Telepathy
An Archivist for the OSF, Satori uses his Telepathy to log Kasane and Yuito's activities as part of the OSF's records. He also provides a mobile shop for them to resupply from and exchange materials and information for presents, weapon upgrades, and accessories.
- The Faceless: Satori always has a full helmet that completely obscures his face and his uniform hides every feature of his body beside. Justified as Satori is an archivist and is supposed to be treated as interchangeable with any other agent from his division, and the relative anonymity helps him maintain the emotional distance his position demands.
- Hypocrite: In his words, OSF Archivists are supposed to maintain emotional distance from any and all other OSF members in order to have as an objective, unbiased record of their memories as possible. After the Suoh Incident, the OSF splinters it half, and the protagonists quickly go AWOL after uncovering government conspiracy after government conspiracy, he continues to shadow and service the protagonists, allegedly as a noble pursuit to preserve history and not because it's a hobby for him.
- Intrepid Merchant: It does not matter where you are, how much security or Others are in the area, or how difficult it would be to traverse: the protagonists will always find Satori and his bike full of goods just ahead of them, ready to read their minds and exchange either Kin or materials for useful items.
- Large Ham: For someone you'd expect to be as boring and professional as possible, Satori is ironically very flowery and poetic in his speech and Brain Messages, comparing himself to air and like a shadow constantly following the protagonists, unseen unless you choose to look.
- Meaningful Name: Satori is a Japanese word that refers to comprehension, understanding, or enlightenment, and it can also refer to a kind of telepathic simian Youkai. Fittingly enough, his power is telepathy.
- Sole Survivor: Rather implied by his presence in the Bad Future. Almost everyone in the ruined, overrun Suoh is dead but Satori is still there with his shop (and save point). Since only Kasane can travel in time and he was not among those she brought with her this suggests he is the Satori from that time and would likely be the last living Archivist.
The New Himuka Government
Joe Sumeragi
Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (JP), Kirk Thornton (credited as Buba Chow) (game), Charlie Campbell (anime) (EN)
The head of the Sumeragi family, and chairman of New Himuka's council, effectively making him the head of state. He is a skilled politician and the father of Yuito and Kaito. Because he cared for his son, he opposed Yuito's enlistment into the OSF.
- Asshole Victim: Future Yuito says that he can't even blame Kasane for killing Joe, considering Joe was responsible for Naomi and many other innocent people getting turned into Others, though in reality, it was Kagero who was responsible for killing him.
- Beard of Evil: Unlike his children, he has a very prominent chinstrap. He is also part of New Himuka's corruption.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Being the leader of the corrupt New Himuka who was responsible for turning humans into Others as well as forced mental rehabilitation, he can be seen as one of the villains along with the Seiran government and Togetsu.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: An archetypal example, but still loving to his family.
- Crusading Widower: Given that Kaito reveals that he and Joe were aware of the true cause of Wakana's death, it is heavily implied that many atrocities Joe committed to wage war on the moon were just as much about avenging Wakana's death as they were about following (what they believe to be) the will of Yakumo Sumeragi.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Regardless of the many horrible things he's done, he was apparently a loving husband to Wakana and tried to be a good father to his children.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Possibly, considering he kept Yuito in the dark about what the New Himuka government has actually been doing. Unfortunately, Kaito ended up following in his footsteps.
- Heel Realization: As he's dying, he tells Yuito that he did horrible things with clear guilt in his tone. When Yuito later confronts Kaito on the matter, Yuito says that their father would actually understand why Yuito decided to reject his family's path.
- Heroic Lineage: He's descended from Yakumo Sumeragi, the founder of New Himuka and one of the first people to lead a stand against the Others. Unfortunately, following what he believed to have been Yakumo's will is exactly why he and Kaito ended up committing such atrocities in the first place. To make matters worse, Yakumo might have never established that will to begin with, and even in the new timeline without Karen's Kill and Replace on Yakumo, the will (and thus Joe's actions) stayed the same.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Kasane’s apparent murder of him may be pretty satisfying considering he was responsible for what happened to her sister. It still kind of is once it's revealed that Kagero was really responsible.
- Melting-Pot Nomenclature: Amongst the otherwise very Japanese naming of New Himuka we have the very Western sounding Joe.
- Walking Spoiler: In case it hasn't been made apparent, he's got quite a few skeletons in his closet.
Togetsu
A religious cult based in Mt. Hinoa. Their faith primarily deals with worshipping the moon.
Dr. Hitoyo Pope
The founder of the Togetsu faith, she was a brilliant neuroscientist who helped revolutionize the field with her research on the human brain and psionics.
- Big Bad Ensemble: As the founder of Togetsu, she's responsible for several of its atrocities which ultimately wind up involving the protagonists in the present day.
- Create Your Own Hero: Her actions end up post-humously creating Kasane and Yuito, two people who will eventually completely destroy her plans at erasing this timeline and saving the Moon from Others.
- The Ghost: She wasn't seen in the video game, but her face was seen in the anime version.
- Meaningful Name: The woman named "Pope" becomes the founder of a fanatical religious organization.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: For all her genius in helping revolutionize neuroscience and psionics as a consequence, she was still key to trying to wipe out all societies on the post-apocalyptic earth to save the Moon Colony, created the Design Children and their supercomputer BABE, allowing them to commit countless atrocities and horrors.
- Posthumous Character: She's long been dead by the time the game starts, having perished some 2,000 years ago.
Spoiler Characters
The Design Children
Clones of the Moon Colonists from Togetsu, designed by Dr. Hitoyo Pope to serve as an expendable army of clones and workers to continue her work past her lifespan. To the public, they merely pose as a reclusive cult of moon worshippers.- Clone Angst: Once a Design Child's emotionless, single-minded focus on their ultimate goal starts to break down in the face of human connection, they begin to have identity crises about who they really are if they're one of hundreds of thousands of clones, or were created to serve a very specific purpose that they no longer feel like accomplishing, as seen with Wakana, Kyoka, or Kasane.
- The Faceless: Almost all of them have their faces concealed by full helmets. When one of them reveals it, they look exactly like Kyoka which Foreshadows her being a clone just like them.
- Latex Space Suit: All Design Children seen from Togetsu have both a face-obscuring full helmet and skintight suits made of some latex-or-spandex-like material which emphasizes their generous proportions. This is justified as them using the same designs as the Moon Colonists, Togetsu probably hasn't seen the need to iterate or change things in over 2,000 years.
- Playing with Fire: Many of their more disposable Zerg Rush forces are pyrokinetic clones, as seen with the fireballs and explosions when they attack Kasane's group and the Other Weapons.
- See the Invisible: It's implied that they have clairvoyants among their ranks, as Kagero's plan to use invisibility to sneak Yuito's and Kasane's merged team into Togetsu is noticed and foiled by one of the Design Children.
- Spanner in the Works: To Kodama and Yuta. After the Melone twins are defeated, the two decide to sic Naomi and the humans-turned-Other Weapons stolen from Seiran on Kasane's team... right as the Design Children sent after Kasane attack the whole group, ruining the twins' attempt. The twins flee assuming that the Design Children would finish the job, but the aftermath ends with all the Other Weapons sacrificing themselves for the survival of Kasane's team, making the twins' efforts all for naught while also permanently denying New Himuka of the Other Weapons.Yuta: Who are those guys? They just straight-up ruined my plan! Well, I'm not getting caught in the middle of this.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Their attack on Kasane's team caused the humans-turned Others to sacrifice themselves and die in the process, including Alice. Alice's death caused Karen to resort to much more drastic measures to save her.
- Villain in a White Suit: Togetsu suits are overwhelmingly white in color and the organization itself is responsible for numerous lies, atrocities, and horrors all for their founder's selfish desires.
- We Have Reserves: Thanks to BABE and the highly advanced technology Togetsu has compared to the rest of the world, they have no problem creating an effectively infinite amount of Design Children for whatever purpose they require. They serve as maintenance staff, researchers to assist the supercomputer BABE, disposable soldiers on the battlefield, to convenient sources of human brains for their Other-based experiments.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Design Children are not conditioned nor developed with human emotions right off the bat, much less something as intense as emotional attachment. If they're encouraging one of their own to love and care for another living being, they're planning to kill them to cause the target severe emotional distress at the loss.
- Zerg Rush: As shown in Kasane's route, Togetsu fights by throwing as many Design Children as they can spare at an opponent, caring little for the death of any individual clone.
Spoiler Character
Wakana Sumeragi
Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP), Allegra Clark (EN)
One of the Design Children of the design Kasane is based off. She was supposed to just be a caretaker for Kasane, helping her form emotional attachments and bonds with living beings for the express purpose of killing them, causing Kasane intense emotional distress, and activating Kasane's time-traveling Red Strings power.
The "emotional attachments" worked too well for Togetsu's liking as she defected and fled Mt. Hinoa with Kasane in tow, being instrumental in her getting adopted by the Randalls, and coincidentally falling in love with Joe Sumeragi and fathering Kaito and Yuito.
- Artificial Human: She's a Design Child assigned to be Kasane's caretaker.
- Brain Uploading: This is what ultimately kills her, when the Design Children in 2009 attempt to use her to receive information from BABE in 2020. Fortunately, Wakana had already wiped her mind clean of anything useful by then.
- Neural Implanting: After her Red Strings power proved insufficiently powerful for undoing the earth colonization project and saving the Moon Colony from the threat of the Others, Togetsu's supercomputer BABE instead used her as a biological backup drive, sending information from 2020 to 2009. It doesn't work as Wakana had long gone against Togetsu by the time this happens and when Togetsu tries to do a Brain Uploading on her, Wakana has long destroyed the critical data.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: When Kasane travels back in time and saves her from getting assassinated by Togetsu back in 2009, Wakana is brought to the present day, shares information about how to close the Kunad Gate threatening to destroy reality, and has some much-appreciated bonding time with both of her now grown-up children. Then, because her being in that timeline is also causing a reality-threatening paradox, she willingly travels back to 2009 where she knows she's going to be assassinated.
- Spanner in the Works: When BABE is confronted by Yuito and Kasane's team, it sends all its information back to Wakana in 2009 and deactivates as a last-ditch attempt to protect its information from being stolen. Unfortunately for BABE, it didn't count on Wakana time-traveling to provide Yuito and Kasane with its information, while erasing the critical parts of its data prior to her Brain Uploading.
- Taking a Third Option: Wakana knew about the Kunad Gate and that Yuito had to die to close it before it destroyed the world. Instead of doing that, however, she managed to find a way to close the gate without sacrificing her son, namely just undoing all of the entanglements inside, including Karen's.
- Time Travel: She too can use the Red Strings and possesses an incredible understanding of them, but she wasn't strong enough to use the power for Togetsu's plan, hence the creation of Kasane.
- Trauma Conga Line: She was created to be used by Togetsu, when she failed at that she was set up in a mother-likr role only so she could be murdered to provoke an emotional reaction, managed to escape and start a family only to be hunted down and killed after all.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When killing Kasane's beloved puppy before her doesn't get a strong enough emotional response to activate the Red Strings, the Design Children try to murder Wakana next, seeing as she's no longer useful as a caretaker.
Miscellaneous Characters
Spoiler Character
Alice Ichijo
An OSF member, Hanabi's aunt and a childhood friend of Karen and Fubuki. At some point, Alice sacrificed herself to save Karen during a mission, and was turned into an Other in the process. This is the catalyst that drives Karen to effectively betray New Himuka and the OSF.
- Back from the Dead: Karen's sacrifice in the end manages to bring back Alice, alive and in her human form. However, she has no memory of Karen's existence.
- Cute Monster Girl: Like Naomi, very much averted with her Other form. It's only slightly less bizarre by virtue of her head being a triangular steel cage rather than a miniature house propped up by two stone heads.
- Genki Girl: She was very upbeat, not unlike her niece, Hanabi.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blond hair and by all accounts was a friendly and outgoing woman.
- Happily Married: Fubuki and Alice finally marry at the end of the anime adaptation.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When the Extinction Belt gets too close to the surface and threatens to engulf Karen, Alice pushes him out of the way and metamorphoses into an Other. Later on, she and the Other Weapons sacrifice themselves to save Kasane's team from the Design Children, dying shortly after Naomi.
- Lost Lenore: To Karen, which borders on ironic considering that she was actually engaged to Fubuki.
- Morality Chain: To Karen. Her transformation into an Other was a catalyst for Karen's betrayal, and her death caused Karen to resort to much more questionable methods in order to save her.
- No Body Left Behind: She disappears into orange particles upon her death, similar to most Others.
- Ship Tease: She had a bit of this with Karen. However, Alice was happily engaged to Fubuki and never really expressed romantic desires for Karen. She did blush when Karen saved her from an Other in a flashback, but only due to embarrassment as it was the umpteenth time Karen had to save her during a mission. In the Episode Karen DLC, she outright admits to loving Karen and wanting to stay in the OSF with him.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She's given little background info throughout much of the game but her turning into an Other is what sets off Karen's desire to try and alter the past in an attempt to find a timeline in which she's kept alive.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She greatly resembles Hanabi and even shares the same voice actresses as her.
The Others
The Others
An assortment of wildly bizarre monsters that continuously invade the city and inhabit abandoned parts of it and the wilds beyond. They eat peoples brains when not stopped by the OSF and are something to be feared in spite of their odd appearances...
General Tropes
- Ascended Meme: In universe; The names for types of Others started as nicknames OSF officers used for them, such as a type that moves with a staggering gait described as a "Rummy" and, lacking any real information to create taxonomies, the OSF scientists just decided to stick with those names.
- Attack Its Weak Point: The more powerful Others have weak points, usually lit up, that can be struck for both greater damage and a greater chance to stun them. These are often in hard to target parts of their body though.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Anything that looks man made on any one Other is considered an "organ," and despite the variety they have, they all share a lightbulb-like weak spot when their weaknesses are exploited.
- Brain Food: They eat human brains although given that the current efforts to keep them away from people are largely successful most of the time they don't seem to need to eat often.
- Eldritch Abomination: Of the "familiar parts arranged in bizarre ways" variety. They look like antique mish-mash sculptures or Victorian-style paper collages brought to life. The correctly proportioned mannequin parts they tend to have only adds to the uncanny clashing feel they got.
- No Body Left Behind: Dead Others dissolve into reddish orange particles which then disintegrate.
- Non-Malicious Monster: In stark contrast to the many human antagonists the Others seem to be running on pure instinct and hunger.
- Non-Standard Character Design: They have a much more different look than most of the rest of the game, detailed down below, and their various parts make them feel much more industrial and archaic compared to the sleek look the human heroes and villain have. Naturally this is also occasionally reflected in the environments they wander around in, which are also typically abandoned and derelict looking.
- Our Monsters Are Weird: In an anime-styled game about psychics in a futuristic setting, the Others are notable in just how out of place they look. They're cobbled together out of mannequins and archaic looking objects straight out of a Victorian-era illustration, said objects are considered to be organs and physiology (such as a glove holding a long knife) and they eat people's brains psychically. The boss monsters among their number tend to take it even further.
- Was Once a Man: Most if not all of them used to be humans or animals before they were exposed to "Other Particles" that came from space. The New Himuka government later started deliberately creating them using special bullets and other unethical experiments for both research purposes and to create an army for their war against the Moon Colony.
