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Tower of God Main Character Index
Main Characters (Twenty-Fifth Bam) | Organizations (FUG (Canines), Wolhaiksong) | Regulars (First Batch, Second Batch, Third Batch, Fourth Batch, Fifth Batch, Sixth Batch) | Rankers | Irregulars | Jahad Empire (Great Warriors, Princesses of Jahad, 13 Month Series) | Floor Guardians | Others

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The primary characters of Tower of God.

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Main

Team Bam

Twenty-Fifth Bam / Jue Viole Grace

See Twenty-Fifth Bam.

Khun Aguero Agnes

Khun Aguero Agnes

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese), Chris Hackney (English)

Tower Position: Light Bearer

I will not be ruled. I make my own rules. That is the mindset of a ruler.

The genius son of Khun Edahn, a noble Great Family leader who first climbed the Tower alongside King Jahad. Khun Aguero Agnes (Khun for short) is a member of the Great Khun Family's exiled Agnes branch, who had been tossed out due to their side not coming out with a potential Jahad Princess. In actuality, Khun had bent the events to his own desire by making sure that his kind half-sister, Khun Maria, got picked as the Jahad Princess over his actual Agnes sister. Despite being exiled, Khun's overall goal is to one day replace Khun Edahn as the new Great Family leader. Some time after, Khun gets summoned into the Tower.

In Season 1, Khun meets Bam during the 2nd Floor's first test, and deems him interesting enough to accompany and aid him while they climb the Tower. Rak also takes an interest, which eventually results in the three of them becoming true companions.

Season 2 has Khun form his own team away from the rest of the 2nd Floor graduation group in order to continue Bam's desire by helping the injured Rachel climb the Tower. After the team falls apart, he joins with Sweet and Sour to win the Workshop Battle and help Bam break away from FUG. Following the Workshop Battle, Khun reunites with Bam and Rak as the three of them work to board and traverse the Hell Train.

Season 3 has Khun newly awakened from his coma, and intent on supporting Bam on his goal of saving Jinsung Ha.

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• Abusive Parents: Khun's mother drove him to excel and be as ruthless and manipulative as she was. Until he'd had enough and used everything he'd learned to run away from home and 'borrow' a lot of expensive items from his father on his way out.
• Adventurer Outfit: After the Time Skip, Khun sports one of these, reminiscent of a boy scout. It also comes with a Fedora of Asskicking.
• Anti-Hero: He is extremely ruthless at times and could almost be considered a villain were it not for his strong loyalty to his teammates, especially Bam and Rak.
• Bag of Holding: Manbarondenna, his bag he stole from his father. It can hold large amounts of items like his knives and swords and even suck up enemies. It can even make copies of objects placed inside, with the exception of materials from the 2nd Floor.
• Badass Bookworm: Don't let his small frame and Light Bearer status deceive you, this guy knows how to fight.
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards Bam. Rachel asks him to lie to Bam about her identity, and he does so, but to keep him away from her and protect him from the possibility of her betraying him. He spends years trying to get revenge on Rachel, believing her to have killed Bam.
• Blade Enthusiast: His weapon, storing countless knives inside his suitcase. He later gains the White Heavenly Mirror, a magical knife that can seal targets inside of it.
• Break the Haughty: Khun has a very big ego, his cockiness and overconfidence brimming from his first appearances. He picks fights with the very rules of the tower and looks down on those who conform to it, going as far as to toy with them. However, he later learns that both the tower and the people in it are not to be underestimated. And he learns this lesson harshly.
  • In the anime, the 3rd test of the Tower, the Door test, caused him to have a full-on meltdown. The Door test had decievingly simple instructions, requiring participants to open the “correct” door within 5 minutes with little to no hints. Hansung Yu, the test administrator, also directly meddled with Khun. In the anime, he sent someone out to provoke Khun and bring up his Dark and Troubled Past to put more pressure on the boy. Upon being reminded of how he was betrayed, Khun couldn’t bring himself to trust the simple instructions and opted to overthink them to the point of mental distress.
    • In the manhwa, Hansung Yu sent someone out to simply give hints to all the regulars. Khun’s meltdown wasn’t a meltdown at all, and while the text bubbles for his thoughts became more scattered and chaotic, his expression stayed relatively stable the entire time.
  • When Rachel was on the cusp of being disqualified for the tests due to her injuries, he thought of a way to give her a chance. He brings up the Administrator’s test, and manages to build a way for Bam to bring Rachel with him as they go up the Tower. Unfortunately, this very test would later become Bam’s seeming demise, leaving Khun with a heavy sense of guilt and helplessness.
• Catchphrase: In the early series, it was "Trust trustworthy people." He never means himself.
• Combat Pragmatist: Just because he is a Light Bearer, don't assume he is useless in close combat. He proves this with his knife-play against other Regulars during the Crown Game. He defeated Chang Blarode at some point in the past, and easily disposed of Sia Sia's assassin, in close combat. He also fights sword-master Hatz to a draw.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: He chooses Bam in his second test because he "ended up caring again". Good for him, their friendship is something to behold.
• Cruel to Be Kind: His response when Akraptor accuses him of being suddenly mean, seeing that unlike Bam, he wants Rachel dead.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Why he decided to follow, and later stay with, Bam.
  "If something comes up where I have to put my life on the line to go with it, what meaning would the rest of my life have if I were to miss that? Right now I feel like...the end of the world will come if Bam isn't here."
• Deuteragonist: The story focuses heavily on Bam, however when it isn't the perspective usually shifts to Khun's.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: His recruitment of Edin plays with this. He first tells him he shouldn't have believed what he told him when he said everybody present was hired by him and it was just a lie to make him act in a certain way. After that, Edin gets away from Khun and ambushed by the barkeeper. Khun shows up again and says that Edin trusted him too easily again.
• Fight Unscene: He had a fight with Blarode at some point during the timeskip, which resulted in the latter losing his eye.
• Flash Step: Shown using it during The Crown Game using shinsu enhancement of his limbs.
• Flechette Storm: Khun can send countless knives flying at enemies out from his Manbarondenna.
• Fragile Speedster: Subverted: he is much stronger than he appears on account of being descended from one of the Ten Families, and can hold his own in close combat against other Regulars of a similar rank.
• Guile Hero: He is extremely skilled at manipulating others. He even manages to outsmart a Ranker during Act 1, while still on the lowest floor of the Tower. He continues to hone this skill as he climbs the Tower, and his best-performing plans tend to be ones that involve using an enemy's expectations against them.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Bam. Khun describes Bam as his most precious friend, and has gone through immense lengths to support Bam multiple times in the manhwa. They’ve stuck by each other’s side for years now, and Khun even states he felt as if the world would end without Bam around.
• An Ice Person: He has an affinity for manipulating Shinsu into ice, though he never bothered to train it due to his resentment towards his father. He learns to form an ice spear and use it to unleash waves of ice.
• Impoverished Patrician: Though his family is still one of the most influential ones in the Tower, his side branch got exiled and ended up impoverished after Khun Maria became a Princess of Jahad. Considering he wanted her to be that all along and made it happen, it was his own fault.
• Improbable Weapon User: He uses his suitcase Manbarondenna as a shield and blunt weapon at times.
• Indy Ploy: He's not a fan of these. At all. He'll go to great lengths to have stacked contingency gambits to avoid having to wing it totally blind. But, when your back's to the wall, you pull a Ship while not quite admitting to it.
• In-Series Nickname: Other members of the Khun family, as well as various teammates, refer to him as AA.
• Insufferable Genius: Subverted. He has quite a big ego, but is a surprisingly decent guy the vast majority of the time. He can be quite deliberately insufferable to those he takes a dislike to, however, simply as a means of throwing them off their game. Or because Rachel — he goes out of his way to get under her skin because he just can't stand her.
• Journey to Find Oneself: Why he started his journey up the Tower in the first place, and why he was drawn to Bam. After successfully making his sister a princess but still feeling dissatisfied, he decided to climb the Tower to search for what he really desired.
• Just Toying with Them: In the Dallar Show, Khun and Rachel face off in a test where the winner is the one who catches a fish. Khun does a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, as part of which he suggests that Rachel can try to catch the fish first since it's obvious he's going to win anyway. He's right, too, since the fish is not as harmless as it looks.
• Knight, Knave, and Squire: The ruthless, pragmatic Knave to Rak's shrewdly idealistic Knight and Bam's inexperienced, naive Squire.
• Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: Despite his sudden exit from the Khun Family, he has managed to maintain a good relationship with an unknown member of said family who holds a lot of power. This family member appeared at the 37th Floor's Wooden Horse train station in order to stun the express long enough for Bam's group to board the Hell Train in time.
• Last-Name Basis: Everyone just pretty much calls him by his family name, Khun. Even his teammates and Bam, his closest friend, just use his last name. The few times his first name is uttered are when someone calls him by his full name. Though Khun is estranged from his family, he still seems proud of his heritage and has never objected to just being called Khun. However, as mentioned under In-Series Nickname above and based on how he appears when messaging over Pockets, he seems to use the nickname "AA" for himself.
• Loophole Abuse: Aguero spends most of his time trying to subvert the Tower's rules, with mixed results.
• Manipulative Bastard: He is extremely skilled at manipulating others. Not even High Rankers are safe from this guy's ability to outwit others.
• Mission Control: He is a Light Bearer.
• My Greatest Failure: He may not act like it, but he does feel bad about what happened between him and his sisters. His older sister was set up to be a candidate for Princess of Jahad, but because he helped a distant half-sister Maria win the title, his older sister was so broken up that she killed herself in shame. His younger adoptive sister Kiseia hated his guts for the incident, and it's for this reason his Sworn Enemy on the Hidden Floor is her.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Sergio "Kun" Agüero, Argentinian football player. Word of God says that the color scheme of the Khun family was inspired by the Argentinian flag after naming Aguero after Agüero.
• The Proud Elite: Despite his immediate family's disgraced status, so much so. Khun is as cocky as they get, and Hatz calls him out for this.
• Pragmatic Hero: Khun doesn’t hesitate to make sacrifices for his goals, such as helping White regain his full power, and coming up with especially devious plans. His more cruel side definitely comes out when it comes to Rachel, being fond of giving The Reason You Suck Speeches to her. However, at his core, Khun isn’t a bad person. A lot of his actions are led by morally good intentions, or the goal of supporting Bam.
• Psycho Sidekick: Bam is a decent, idealistic fellow who aptly describes his Best Friend Khun as a devil.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Khun is the Blue Oni to Bam’s Red Oni. Whereas Bam is an enthusiastic, passionate and emotional hero, Khun is a cool-headed, introverted and pragmatic strategist. The color red is ever-present in Bam’s appearances in regards to his powers and fashion, while Khun’s forefront color always stays blue due to his hair and outfits.
• The Smart Guy: Most likely to form (working) plans out of most teams he's in. Is able to perform a targeting calculation an ally estimates would take five minutes, in a few seconds.
• Smug Snake: Prior to his Character Development before truly befriending Bam and Rak he had shades of this. Still there in later seasons, but less obvious, and only tends to come out when he is assured of his victory or otherwise enjoying his manipulations of the battlefield.
  Khun: "With all these strong pawns on the battlefield... it's fun to move them around."
• Squishy Wizard: Subverted. He has said the only reason he's a Light Bearer is because he likes to give orders. He's demonstrated several times that he's more than capable in close combat.
• Technician Versus Performer: The technician to Bam’s performer. Khun is an extremely perceptive and analytical strategist, opting to outwit his enemies from the sidelines rather than fight them head-on. And while he enjoys his role as lighthouse, he strives to improve himself not entirely because of his enjoyment, but because he wants to catch up to Bam.
• The Lancer: Khun is The Lancer to The Hero, Bam. He acts as a foil, whereas Bam would rush into situations and prioritize everyone's safety above all else, Khun stays cool-headed and cruelly pragmatic. He doesn't hesitate to sacrifice people or use questionable tactics, such as helping White reach his final form, to further his own goals. But, in spite of their differences, they are undoubtedly each other’s best friend and most trusted confidant.
• The Strategist: Khun is undoubtedly the brains of the main cast. In every arc he’s featured in, he brings down his adversaries through tricks and clever gambits. His position is even that of a light bearer, a role that stays on the sidelines and guides their teammates.
  Hwaryun: So, what do you think? You’re Bam’s strategist, right?
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Thanks to his training with Evan Edroch aboard the Hell Train, Khun manages to combine his efforts with Beta to upgrade his Lighthouses using an Enna Core upgrade-kit.
  • The Hidden Floor arc makes it quite clear that Khun's been holding off on the power within himself that was passed down from his father, Khun Edahn. His training within said arc is Khun needing to accept that his father's power is part of him, which allows Khun to use his father's ice powers, as well as utilizing ice spears in a similar manner as a Spear Bearer.
• Undying Loyalty: To Bam.
  • Khun initially befriended Bam since he seemed useful, but after spending more time with him, Khun found himself drawn to the boy. He saw himself in him, and enjoyed his company greatly, causing Khun to go out of his way to support Bam in season 1.
  • This would later extend past Bam’s “supposed” demise, where Khun spends 6 years plotting revenge against Rachel for her role in Bam’s death. After it’s revealed Bam was still alive, Khun returns to his role as Bam’s strategist.
  • It becomes more and more evident that Khun worries about whether or not he can catch up to Bam considering his insane power developments. Khun trains in the Data arc and even learns how to act as Spear Bearer to improve himself.
  • Upon waking up from his coma, Khun immediately asks where Bam is. He later sulks over being asleep while Bam was going through hardships for the past two years.
  Michael: Khun Aguero Agnes… you were always like that even when you were with us.
  Michael: All you ever cared about… was Bam.
• Weapons That Suck: His bag Manbarondenna can suck up Shinsu attacks in mid-air. It even proves itself surprisingly effective against shapeshifters by sucking them up mid-transformation.
• Why Am I Ticking?: While pretending to heal him, Rachel plants a bomb in his heart. She detonates it at the worst possible moment for him.
• The Worf Effect:
  • He gets hit with this often throughout Season 2 when it comes to playing Xanatos Speed Chess with FUG and Rachel. Yet, still comes back swinging... Justified: he's found himself playing on their terms with little to no knowledge about how they've set up the board. A Regular playing against Rankers is at a natural disadvantage, Great Family or not. It's actually a great achievement not to get all his contingencies and tricks utterly wrecked in under ten minutes, given the scale of the divide.
  • After he's made his comeback in Season 3 as one of the main strategical forces in the Battle of the Nest, he gets his ass handed by Lo Po Bia Traumerei in a chess match thoroughly, to where his best efforts doesn't even allow him to last for 2 minutes. Not only that, he doesn't just fail to trick Traumerei into playing along with his game, but gets tricked into dancing straight towards Traumerei's plans, as Traumerei knew from the beginning about the escape plan and the traitor and even managed to leave behind a hint for Khun while Khun was completely oblivious to it. Considering that Traumerei is the greatest chess player amongst the 10 Great Family Heads, who are all eons more experienced than Khun, it only shows to demonstrate how even a prominent genius amongst the Khun Family is nothing compared to one of the 10 Great Family Heads not just in battle, but even trying to fight one with wits is also nigh impossible.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: He kind of has to. Any chessmastering he does tend to hit unforeseen snags to work around or within. A lot. This is not usually due to a lack of forward planning, but often because he's playing well outside the normal Regular leagues. Expect him to break out the odd Batman Gambit and Indy Ploy on top of any other contingencies in play.

Rak Wraithraiser

Rak Wraithraiser

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Matthew David Rudd (English)

Tower Position: Spear Bearer

^{Click here to see Miniature Rak}

Hunters charge into their enemies' lair knowing they might lose their head.... Prey thinks strength means staying alive. But a true hunter challenges those who are stronger than them without fear of death.

A giant battle-hungry anthropomorphic alligator who loves to fight, compete, and hunt the powerful. Rak is generally a strong and pretty straightforward guy with a lot of street wisdom. He also tends to label his prey, and friends, as "turtles," and has a strange liking for bananas. Overall, Rak's a great source of the series' awesome-sauce and comedic hijinks.

In Season 1, Rak is introduced during the 2nd Floor's first test searching for worthy prey, and decides that Bam and Khun will make for good opponents. However, he ends up unwillingly becoming a team with said prey during the fight. As he goes about completing the rest of the 2nd Floor tests, Rak begins to enjoy his time spent with his new teammates, and eventually comes to see Bam and Khun as his true companions.

During Season 2, Rak continues to climb the Tower, but ends up splitting away from the rest of the 2nd Floor graduation group with Paracule being his only other notable company. He then reunites with Khun at the Workshop Battle to help Bam break away from FUG. Rak ends up disappearing from the group after falling off the Name Hunt Station bridge, but mysteriously reappears within the hidden Tower Floor. There, he learns that he has the power to control stone, and is a possible descendant of Tower's Native Ones.

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• Arc Villain: He fought against Bam and Khun during the first 2nd Floor test believing them to be worthy prey. However, he became part of their group after the second test forced them into making a 3-man-team.
• Badass Boast: "A game without me... Is a game not worth winning!"
• Badass Cape: Not that a 4-meter bipedal alligator with a 5-meter spear would need an imposing red cape.
• The Big Guy: Second biggest of the season 1 cast (after Ghost) with physical strength to match. He's still one of the biggest of any season 2 crew he's in, even when he's kicking back in travel-size, later.
• Blood Knight: His sole reason for entering the Tower is to find interesting people to fight.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He is Badass and wants you to know it.
• Book Dumb: He has no idea of the basics of the Tower or weapons, but has intuition and empathic intelligence that is incredibly accurate.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Although he comes off as a Blood Knight at first, he's actually one of the more compassionate people in the cast. Despite what he is, he still cares deeply for Khun in season 2. And that's nothing compared to finding (and confirming the existence of) the Black Turtle.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's easy to underestimate him, given his hijinks and personality, but he was one of the best Spear Bearers of the E-rank Regulars, and considerably more perceptive than he looks.
  • Despite hamming it up and complaining during his Spear Bearer training, Rak managed to match Ghost in the next-to-impossible feat of hitting an extremely distant target, earning an instant pass to the final test.
• Determinator: Doesn't care about what is in the way or if he says he can't come back yet, Rak will bring Bam back.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He has an affinity for manipulating shinsu into earth.
• Egomaniac Hunter: Claims he doesn't care about climbing the Tower in the first season, he only wants to hunt the strong. He expands his horizons to keeping and caring for a number of his hunts. Even if Paracule doesn't really count as proper prey.
• The Fettered: His principles and integrity are pure.
• Fight Unscene: The remainder of Rak's fight with Arie Inieta after the alligator finally returns to his normal size ended up happening off-screen. One can only assume that the Arie member was able to defeat Rak thanks to obtaining Danhwa's ignition sword, Krishna.
• The Heart: Yeah, despite being a hunter and pretty abrasive, he is one of the most decent and inspiring characters next to Bam, living a life of absolute honesty.
• Hidden Depths:
  • For someone considered a dumb muscle, he is surprisingly perceptive at times. For instance, he was one of the only people to realize that Aguero was faking his sudden rejection of Bam in order to manipulate everyone else into supporting him. Also, early on, he seems to have noticed how suspicious it was that Bam didn't know how the artificial "sky" for each Floor worked, which even Khun didn't catch.
  • Although he complained vociferously about being chibified at first, it didn't take him long to start noticing the upsides in having two modes to choose from. Fitting himself to common furniture easily is only one of the uses he's found...
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: His goal in the beginning.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Anytime Rak decides to get out of his chibi form, asskicking ensues.
• In-Series Nickname: Gator.
• Knight, Knave, and Squire: The shrewdly idealistic Knight to Bam's inexperienced, naive Squire and Khun's ruthless, pragmatic Knave.
• Large Ham: All over the place, but special mention goes to the Crown game.
  "OF COURSE! A GAME WITHOUT ME IS A GAME NOT WORTH WINNING!"
• Lizard Folk: The large, bruising kind.
• Manchild: Rak is clearly at the age where he is old enough to climb the tower but he frequently behaves like a toddler. He throws a tantrum in the door test, frequently eats childish food, and has a childish appetite for chocolate bars.
  • Note that these instances are from the anime (In the webcomic he doesn't start climbing on the walls in the door test- only impulsively opens a door (...and does an Atomic Breath and a Spirit Bomb), and also his favorite food is bananas not chocolate bars), which played up his role as comic relief while omitting some of his more serious interactions for the sake of pacing. Not that he's very mature in the source material either, he's just not Manchild level.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Wraithraiser.
• The Nicknamer: Tends to call people "turtles". The Jahad princesses are exceptions: Anaak is "pesky lizard" and Endorsi is "ghostly eyeballs".
• Noble Savage: A giant bipedal alligator who may be a hammy Blood Knight, but nobody is as fair, honest, straight to the point and in tune with himself as he is.
• Only One Name: Rak is the only part of his name given, Wraithraiser is actually the name of his entire race.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: During the Workshop Battle, he stays in chibi form, wears a cloak and a bird mask, and takes an alias. Bam isn't fooled.
• Put on a Bus: Falling off the Name Hunt Station bridge left Rak unable to continue with Bam and Khun to the 43rd Floor of Death. However, he mysteriously reappears in the Hidden Floor that comes after the Floor of Death.
• Sizeshifter: He eventually gains space compression permits that let him reduce his scale to avoid causing problems in the Tower.
• Sleep-Mode Size: A giant 15-foot tall alligator man who towers over just about every single cast member. Because he is so tall, the organization controlling the tower gives him the special ability to make himself extremely short to get around in areas he otherwise wouldn't fit. When he enters combat, he can instantly change back to his true height.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it Wraithraiser or Wreckraiser or Lekreisher? Apparently, it is actually Lacration. A lot of people pointed out that this sounds like Lactation.
• Super-Deformed: When chibified by Yu Hansung. Despite what started out as a curse, Rak eventually learns to do the size-changing trick himself by Season 2 where he had obtained a Compression Permit from the Tower's Guardians. All the better to stalk sneaky turtles.
• Temporary Bulk Change: He gets shrunken to half a man's height because he accidentally bumps into Yu Hansung and didn't apologize, instead making comments about how small and unnoticeable he was. So Yu Hansung kept bumping into the chibified Rak over and over, saying how he was so small he didn't notice him. Justified in that Compression is an often used supernatural technique in this series.
• Tender Tears: Cries when he meets up with Bam again in Season 2, having thought up until then that his favorite turtle was dead.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • He obtains a better spear when he purchases the "Mad Shocker" spear during the Workshop Battle.
  • The Hidden Floor arc has Rak eating rocks in an attempt to try to find some way to power up. Constantly eating rocks ends up teaching him how to turn his body into solid rock, which increases his strength and defense. So far, Rak's primarily been able to transform his arms.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Loves bananas, for some reason. Apparently likes them a lot but has a lot of difficulty peeling them.
• Tsundere: Oh, so deliciously so for his prey.
  "Without this weapon, you have no purpose! Of course I didn't get this because I cared about you or anything!"
• Undying Loyalty: He becomes this to Bam and Khun after becoming true companions. He was heartbroken when he found out that Bam was dead and years later after finding out that the possibility of Bam being alive might exist, Rak has been doing everything in his power to find him. When he does find him, he sheds tears of happiness and affectionately embraces him.
• Verbal Tic: You damn Turtles! Turtles, I say!
• Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Aguero. Stick them in a room for ten minutes. Insert earplugs. Watch antics. However, try undermining their relationship... we dare you.

Endorsi Jahad

Endorsi Jahad

Voiced by: Rie Suegara (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

Tower Position: Fisherman

You shouldn't hesitate to hurt people. But you can't... No, it's better if you don't. You're better off leaving that to bad girls like me.

A haughty, cynical, self-centered woman who was chosen as a Jahad Princess due to defeating all the adopted recruits in her Great Family to eventually being at the top of the food chain. She was considered one of the top-5 E-Rank Regulars alongside Anaak, Ran, Blarode, and Baragav.

In season 1, Endorsi quickly establishes herself as one of the strongest Regulars during Bam's appearance on the Floor of Tests given her Jahad Princess status. However, throughout the 2nd Floor, she develops a caring, yet vitriolic relationship, with Anaak due to actually wanting to help the Fake Princess climb the Tower and realizing Endorsi is technically her aunt. Her interactions with Bam also result in her becoming friendlier with the rest of the core group, as well as gaining a romantic interest in him to the point of wanting Bam to be hers at any chance she gets.

In season 2, Endorsi climbs the Tower with Shibisu's 2nd Floor graduation team. She supported the team at Workshop helping Bam break away from FUG, but ended up losing her name to Kaiser of the Hell Train's Name Hunt Station in an attempt to protect Anaak from being hunted by the Lo Po Bia Family. The result of Endorsi's name being stolen is Shibisu's team being at war with the people of the station. After Bam made a deal with Kaiser to have Endorsi's name given back to her, Endorsi joined up with Bam's Hell Train group in order to meet with Garam Jahad on the Floor of Death.

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• Action Girl: Endorsi proves herself to be one of the more powerful Regulars of the Floor of Tests saga. She retains this status in season 2, going toe-to-toe with the strongest E-Rank Regular, Mad Dog, in the Workshop Battle.
• Big Damn Heroes: Almost every moment when she uses the shinsu technique "Chiffon Sword" counts as one.
• Broken Bird: Her experiences trying to earn the right to become a Princess left her quite bitter.
• The Big Guy: Small frame, but stronger than Rak.
• Character Development: Her interactions with Bam and Anaak have really had an effect on her self-caring persona although after Bam's alleged death it reverted back to a larger degree. In Bam's case, she ends up developing feelings for him.
• Combat Stilettos: Subverted. Twice, they are successfully attacked to throw her off-balance, causing her to abandon wearing them altogether.
• Cool Big Sis: She gradually grows a soft spot for Anaak and Bam. She also gains a rather aloof one in the form of Yuri Jahad. But, neither will ever admit it, and will constantly appear to be at very loud loggerheads to most outside observers.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: She and Ghost vs. 2nd Floor Regulars.
  • Then she ends up on the receiving end of this, courtesy of Ren.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She isn't a real Ice Queen, since she is rather outgoing, but she keeps her feelings to herself, views others as tools and steps over bodies to reach her goals. And then she meets Bam.
• Drives Like Crazy: Everyone she teleports reacts like they're lucky to survive.
• Dude Magnet: She was voted as "the #1 girl I'd like to date before I die".
• Femme Fatale: Noted to be alluring and deadly at the same time by people who observe her fighting.
• The Fighting Narcissist: Thinks herself to be highly beautiful so if you kick her in the face, make sure it finishes her off. Problem is, thanks to how strong she is it isn't easy.
• Go-Getter Girl: Going through training that boiled down to 'achieve or starve' led her to become this.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Rachel has thoroughly earned everyone's hatred, but Endorsi's hatred for her is at a personal level due to being jealous of how obsessed Bam is with her, even if his obsession isn't romantic.
• Horned Humanoid: She has a small skin-colored horn on the right side of her head.
• Immortal Immaturity: She didn't become a Regular until she was around 300 years old, but she acts like a mildly sociopathic, hyperactive teenager, refusing to take responsibility, freaking out whenever someone accidentally implies she's not the prettiest girl around, and kicking people in the head when she's displeased.
• Large Ham: On occasion, especially when people aim attacks at her face.
  "Your crime of attempting to kick the almighty Endorsi's face is appalling! For that, I shall punish you!"
• Lightning Bruiser: Tends to go for very fast and very hard hitting strikes when fighting; since most people can't handle a Jahad Princess at that level it's all she needs most of the time.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: She possesses a set of flying shields that protect her very well, until she faces off against Hong Chunhwa's Narumada, which breaks them. Having lost her defence, she quickly beats him up and borrows his sword.
• Mutual Envy: She is jealous of how devoted Bam is to Rachel and would gladly give up her princess privileges, which were pretty much forced on her, to be with him. On the opposite side, Rachel wants to be special and is jealous of Endorsi for being a beautiful princess like a fairy tale heroine, while her feelings towards Bam are mixed at best and consist mostly of envy.
• Older Than They Look: About 300 at the start of season 1.
• One-Woman Army: Able to massacre 197 other Regulars on the Second Floor, along with Ghost.
• Out of Focus: She ended up as this during the Hidden Floor arc due to the Snake Charmer being her "sworn enemy." The Snake Charmer kept her locked down from being able to perform any role for the Story Arc, which basically left Endorsi sitting around while things were going on all around her on the Hidden Floor.
• Rebellious Princess: She is actively considering the possibility of deserting the princesses of Jahad, since King Jahad strictly prohibits them from forming relationships with men on penalty of death and she has a crush on Bam, who poses a big threat to King Jahad's rule.
• Ship Tease: She loves Bam and it's not a secret to anyone (except for Bam). She even declared herself Bam's girlfriend.
• Smarter Than You Look: Appears to be an arrogant and vain woman at first glance, however she is really intelligent and is a quick thinker in the middle of combat.
• Super-Toughness: When fighting Viole and Traveller, she takes a large number of anti-tank explosives directly to the face and comes out with nothing more than frazzled hair and mild annoyance.
• Teleport Spam: Uses teleportation in battle by using Bong Bong to teleport herself and Baragav hundreds of meters into the air, then kicking him into the ground, causing some damage even to the Made of Iron Mad Dog of Yama.
• Teleportation: Her teleporter tool, Bong Bong.
• Tsundere: Very much so towards Bam.
• Twinkle Smile: When Bam asks a difficult favor of her in Season 3, she hesitates for a moment before confidently giving him a thumbs-up and toothy grin, claiming she likes this kind of challenge.
• Weaponized Teleportation: She pulls this off spectacularly be using her Bong Bong to kick her opponent into the dirt from hundreds of meters into the air.

Hwaryun

Hwaryun

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Laura Post (English)

Tower Position: Guide

^{CLICK for Hwaryun's masked appearance up to the end of the Crown Game}

Who will fill the Tower with the blood of the King? Bam, the Irregular. When he reaches the top, everything in the Tower will change.

A Red Witch Guide that helps certain people climb the Tower Floors. Viewing Bam as her "god," Hwaryun has remained a major support for his development and climb up the Tower.

In season 1, Hwaryun is introduced as a mysterious character wearing a mask and tight neoprene suit during the Crown Game, and dominated the last round until Bam slashed her face with shinsu. Since then, Hwaryun's wears an eyepatch, let her hair down, and pretends to take part in the wave controller class alongside Bam. In the epilogue, it's revealed that upon Rachel's arrival into the Tower, Yu Hansung had tasked Hwaryun to serve as Rachel's Guide to help the latter safely climb the Tower. She also turns out to be a member of FUG, and recruited Bam into the organization after Rachel betrayed him.

In season 2, Hwaryun continues to watch over Bam as he climbs the Tower as FUG's leader, Jue Viole Grace. By the time of the Workshop Battle, it turned out that she's been working for the FUG faction that supports Viole rather than Karaka's side that's trying to kill him, and helps Bam break away from the terrorist organization with the powerful Thorn at hand. After Workshop, she continues to guide Bam by helping him board the Hell Train express to chase after Rachel, and supports Bam's companions on the Floor of Death in order to have them fight against Hell Joe, who Hwaryun holds a major grudge against. Though this ends up being a ploy of hers, and in reality her main goal was obtaining the soul-stirring ladle in order to trade it for another Thorn fragment for Bam. She uncharacteristically does not accompany them into the Hidden Floor, but plays a vital role in helping everyone escape when Jahad's forces come to kill everyone on the Hell Train.

In season 3, she has gone her separate ways from Bam's group, for reasons even Khun has no idea about. She comes back from her "personal trip" after the events at The Wall of Peaceful Coexistence and is willing to help Bam save his Master.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Calls Bam "My God" despite knowing how much it irks him. She uses informal language when saying it in contrast to other characters who use respectful wording, so it comes across more like a nickname than a sign of devotion. Has also referred to him as "My Stupid God" on occasion.
• Almighty Janitor: While being a Guide is a very special position, it doesn't really say anything about her authority or place in FUG, with Reflejo- one of Karaka's minions, calling himself her superior near the end of the Workshop Battle. Despite this, she's casually held a call with Grace Mirchea Luslec, the head of FUG himself, in broad daylight.
• Ambiguous Gender: In her first appearance a lot of readers couldn't tell whether or not she was a girl due to the leotard and because her chest size wasn't very obvious at the time. Also occurred during the period when she was dressed as Yuto.
• Art Evolution: Had much brighter hair and less detailed eyes during the first season, as well as relatively plain clothing. As of season 2 her hair is much darker, her eye is one of the most striking parts of her appearance, and she is given progressively fancier clothing to wear as time goes on.
• The Bartender: Had this look for the beginning of season 2 while under her cover in a karaoke bar.
• Berserk Button: Not very obvious at first glance, but it looks like doubting her skills as a Guide is a quick way to piss her off. A more passive aggressive example than most due to her more subdued nature.
• Blasé Boast: Is fond of doing this from time to time. She likes to treat her Guide abilities as nothing special after doing something absurd with them. Like when on the Name Hunt station when she talks about how there are no rooms in the Tower that can't be found.
• Brutal Honesty: Tends to be very frank when speaking with others.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She first appears as a mysterious, strong Regular who gets injured in the crown game. She is actually an extremely experienced FUG member and a Guide like Evan; in fact acting as Rachel's, and then Bam's Guide.
• The Chessmaster: She knew about the Elder's plan to turn Viole into a weapon for the other Slayers to use well-beforehand, and used it as a means of reuniting Bam with his friends. With almost the entirety of the Workshop Battle arc working out because of her plans.
• Combat Pragmatist: When she's forced to help Team Rachel, she has no qualms about ordering them to perform a Groin Attack on some of the tougher enemies, much to their chagrin.
• Compressed Hair: How exactly Hwaryun managed to seamlessly fit her below waist-length hair in a helmet while going as Yuto, let alone underneath a skintight latex hood, is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries about her.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In the Crown Game, she sweeps the floor with everybody except Endorsi.
• Damsel in Distress: Is used as a hostage to prevent Bam during a battle to limit his ability to fight back. And she gets captured by Rachel's group to help them in the Hell Train. Although since she can see the future, it's hard to tell how much of this is Just as Planned; certainly her getting captured in the workshop battle ultimately ended up putting her just where she wanted to be after the arc was over.
• Deadpan Snarker: Always speaks in a neutral tone even when dishing out the snark.
• Disabled Snarker: Losing an eye does little to impede her usual attitude.
• Dub Name Change: Her name in the Japanese translation changes to "Karen".
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: A lot of her outfits give off this feel.
• Enigmatic Minion: She's an FUG member, and yet she occasionally goes out of her way to help other Regulars for no reason. No wonder some of her colleagues are wary of her.
  • Noticeably, when Bam asks her why she's siding with FUG, she ducks the question by giving a general answer about why other people would do so instead.
• Eyepatch of Power: After her eye got cut by Bam. Side materials claim that she is actually really fond of it, and likes herself better with the eyepatch on.
• Eye Scream: There's one fairly graphic panel of Bam's power slashing across her eye; if you're reading quickly, it's easy to miss that the slash is shown cutting deeply into the eyeball.^note Specifically; the cut starts well below the eye, travels through her eyesocket and the lip of her eyelid, continues upward through her forehead ridge and cutting through the eyebrow, and then keeps going off-panel. Judging by the size of her eyepatch, if she does have a scar then it's roughly half the length of her face.
• Fan Disservice: While in most cases seeing a character with her looks have their shirt wide open would be a nice dish of Fanservice, having it open due to her being beaten bloody by Reflejo as a "lesson" and propped up in a Crucified Hero Shot made it more disturbing than anything else.
• Fiery Redhead: Subverted. She is more a Cute Mute or The Stoic than fiery.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Pretty much everyone distrusts her for one reason or another, and tend to actively avoid her unless they are forced to use her help. The only exception being Bam because, well, he's Bam.
• The Gadfly: Subtle, but it's there. Has a habit of messing with people by showing off how much she knows without actually giving any real information, and from the looks of it she mostly does it just because it was funny. Even when she goes out of her way to motivate people, she can't help but add in a few jabs here and there. Like when she motivates Yeon after the flower incident only to finish by saying that you can't expect much from a girl who can't even cook.
• Guile Heroine: Whether or not her intentions are on the good side of things has yet to be seen, her manipulative tendencies have shown up from time to time. Usually pushing a character in a personal dilemma into a direction that will lead to them to continue helping Bam.
• Informed Attractiveness: In one of his blogposts, SIU stated that the most beautiful woman introduced in season one was Hwaryun and that this was actually a plot point; which at the time was something that could be debated. But as of her first appearance in Season two, it's hard to argue on the contrary.
• It's Personal: Claims to have a grudge against Hell Joe for killing a fellow Guide when it wasn't yet their destined time to die. Wanting Yuri and the others to take him out for her. Subverted later on when its revealed that, while she did have a grudge, she mainly just wanted a distraction so she could get the ladle which would help Bam later on.
• Jerkass: She has her share of sarcasm, and tends to not get along with anyone not named Bam/Viole.
• Luminescent Blush: Sports one brielfy when Viole tears off some of her clothing when she's disguised as Yuto.
• Mage Species: She is from the Red Witch clan, who are known for their bright red hair and being Guides.
• Magic Staff: Her weapon, also counts as a Flying Weapon.
• The Mole: Was this during both in the first season, and during the Workshop Battle acting as Yuto.
• Mysterious Woman: While she's eventually revealed to come from a clan of Guides, and seems to be fond of Viole/Bam, her background and motivations are largely unknown.
• Nominal Hero: Or she could be this, since her motivations are not clear, and the group has to rely on her due to her position as a Guide.
• Not So Omniscient After All: While her knowledge about the Tower is overall good, she lacks information about Irregulars. Among other things, she has been blindsided by Rachel due to this. In addition, Rachel's team has Emily, whose omniscient-like abilities really screws up Hwaryun's own knowledge base.
• Oracular Urchin: Has shades of this, especially since she tends to be extremely cryptic with her advice as a Guide and never lets anybody else in on her plans.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Khun becomes instantly suspicious when Hwaryun claims she wants them to take out Hell Joe because of a personal grudge against him. Since he doesn't believe she would do anything if it wasn't helping Bam in some way. He's right, while she did have a grudge against Joe, she didn't think it was as important as getting the ladle to trade for another Thorn fragment for Bam.
  • Another example is when she chooses not to go to the Hidden Floor with everyone else. Khun instantly becomes wary of it, noting how she would normally be willing to follow Bam into Hell every other time.
• Out-Gambitted: While she manages to outgambit Reflejo and especially his minions, she doesn't expect Cassano of planting a spying device on her tools, turning her into a Damsel in Distress later.
• Precision F-Strike: Hwaryun is the first character to outright refer to Rachel as a bitch.
• Power of Trust: It's been pointed out that Bam has complete faith in her as his Guide, best seen in their encounter with Mirotic guardian.
  • She later comments on this when forced to help Rachel's group, and how their doubt in her lessened their effectiveness, with her noting how Bam is much easier to control than them.
• The Quiet One: For most of season one, she just sits around in the class room or the background. In season one she just has three conversations, with Aguero, Bam and Rachel. Quite possibly, she was just silent because FUG didn't see the need for her to socialize with the other Regulars.
  • Averted in season two; she's on the quiet side, but she talks far more.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Bam during the Hell Train arc because his recklessness when confronting Rachel made everyone else vulnerable.
• Samus Is a Girl: She somehow manages to do this TWICE.
• Sarcastic Devotee: Snarks every once and a while, mostly to Bam when the two share a conversation. Always willing to aid him, but never divulging the reasons for why.
• Screw Destiny: Seems a bit odd at first, but when she is being interrogated by Evan on what Path she is trying to have Bam follow she denies the accusation. Instead claiming that she isn't trying to have him follow anyone's else path, but have him create an entirely new one for himself.
• Seers: An odd example of this since it appears to be a somewhat limited example. Rather than predicting the future (though it is mentioned that Guides are capable of this occasionally) she is able to see the best method for a person to complete something, and the "path" they must take to get what they want.
• Ship Tease: Less obvious than the other examples in the series, but it has been noted that when she was talking about him becoming worthy of being her God as well as a man, the wording was a bit ambiguous as to whether or not she was commenting on his growth, or hitting on him by calling him her man.
  • Adding on to this, as Affectionate Nickname points out she tends to treat him more endearing than every other character she interacts with, and despite how harshly she talks to him at times it always seems to be in his best interests. It's also a bit odd how much the two seem to trust each other despite the many reasons why people would act otherwise. Though it could just be chalked up to Bam's naivety.
  • A subtle example, but she tends to dislike socializing with anyone else outside of giving them guidance. But there's a Running Gag where she gets a bit upset whenever Bam ignores or is oblivious to her presence in the room.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Silent, but kind of adorable.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Rachel's group after being held hostage by them in the Hell Train.
• Undying Loyalty: Not so obvious in the beginning, but as time has gone on its become clear that she could give Khun a run for his money with how devoted she is to helping Bam.
• Walking Spoiler: A lot about Hwaryun is revealed once readers see her true role in the season 1 epilogue.
• The Worf Effect: Though she doesn't have many combat appearances, it was still surprising to see someone who dominated a team of Regulars in a matter of seconds be beaten soundly, along with Horyang and Nobic, in order to show how strong Reflejo and Cassano were. Though somewhat justified by the fact that Word of God claims Guides have relatively low battle skills.
  • Also done in a non-combat based sense with her abilities as a Guide, her foresight was pretty much the main reason why the Workshop Battle worked out as well as it did for the heroes. During the Hell Train arc, she is largely useless since her powers aren't able to predict Rachel's movements due to Rachel's status as an Irregular and because of Emily's unique abilities. Makes up for it later on when her Guide abilities return when Bam leaves the Hidden Floor, with her being one of the main reasons they survived the encounter with Jahad's Royal Army.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Word of God says she is the prettiest of the Part 1 Regulars, and that it is a plot point.

Team Bam - Currently Separated

Beta

Beta

^{CLICK FOR BETA'S APPEARANCE AFTER WORKSHOP}

We can't just sit and watch you live a happy life. So, I'm going to kill your friends one by one. I will teach you how much it hurts when you can't keep what means everything to you.

A being similar to Horyang, and Cassano, who had been turned into an experimental Living Ignition Weapon. Beta has lived on the Archimedes airship that houses the Workshop Battle almost his whole life as one who was experimented on by researcher Sophia within the ship's Acorn Workshop.

Out for revenge believing that Workshop made him suffer to push along the Living Ignition Weapon experiments for Viole's sake, Beta joins forces with FUG to lead said Slayer Candidate into Reflejo's trap so that Viole would get melted into the Thorn ignition weapon. However, the plan fails after Viole escapes the trap with the Thorn at hand, and then pushes Beta to his limits utilizing the Thorn's power. Beta falls unconscious due to the fight, but it's soon revealed that Workshop has already decided to dispose of Beta permanently for being a failed experiment. In order for Beta to live free from Workshop, Sophia is able to convince Lero-Ro to help the former escape the Workshop Battle.

After the Workshop Battle, and having learned that Cassano had baited him into fighting against Viole, Beta is hit with a Heel–Face Turn, and sides with Bam's group to ascend the Tower as a part of Nobic's team by joining their attempt to board the Hell Train in order to get revenge on Cassano for tricking him. Since he's not considered a true Regular, Team Nobic stores Beta as an item within Sia's lighthouse as the team climbs up the Tower.

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• Arc Villain: Fought against Viole and his companions during the Workshop Battle.
• Character Development: He loses a lot of his villainous aspects after being hit with a Heel–Face Turn.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Not only he is a Living Ignition Weapon experiment, he was forced to kill his friends during said experiments.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Workshop Battle tournament was basically an entire introduction arc for Beta's character.
• Green-Eyed Monster: The reason he joins FUG to destroy Bam is because he's jealous that his target, Bam, has friends and is trying to reunite with them, while he had to kill his own friends in the past as part of being a living weapon, claiming that his target should suffer the same pain as he did. And in Vol.2 Chapter 95, he finally gets a Shut Up, Hannibal! on his face.
  Bam: The reason you hated me wasn't for revenge...You just needed someone to hate.
• Heel–Face Turn: Decides to join with Bam in the end. He is currently part of Khun's spare team along with Ran, Nobic, Sia Sia and Dan.
• Loophole Abuse: Despite not being a true Regular, Beta climbs the Tower anyways, by remaining hidden inside the Heavenly Mirror or a Lighthouse.
• Meaningful Name: He's essentially the only surviving member of the beta test group. Worse, his abilities are buggy, with Sophia needing to supply patches as needed. The upside? By comparison, the Wings of the Devils are better-balanced, but overall... nerfed.
• Out of Focus: After Train City, the poor guy has remained stuck within Sia and Khun's lighthouses as the group makes their way up to the 43rd Floor of Death.
• Playing with Syringes: He's the very messed-up result of this. And, without the continued long-distance support of Sophia's expertise, he'd quickly run into problems maintaining his physical and mental well-being.
• Took a Level in Badass: Beta really stepped up his game when the Hell Train chapters came along. Not only was he able to solo a couple of Ha Yura's followers, he was able to cause damage to the Mirotic guardian despite previous characters have been shown to fail.
• Tyke Bomb: Like the other experiments. They were all raised specifically to be weapons from a very young age.
• Unwitting Pawn: Relying on Emily for information isn't a good idea...
• Wetware CPU: After leaving Team Nobic, Beta joins Bam's group. By remaining inside Khun's Lighthouse, Beta can provide the processing power needed to perform ranker-tier Lighthouse techniques.

Kaiser

Kaiser / Lo Po Bia Elaine

Tower Position: Fisherman, Anima

^{CLICK FOR UNMASKED APPEARANCE AS ELAINE}

There is no such thing as unconditional love in this world. If someone doesn't pay the price for the love that they have received, how can you call them human?

A D-Rank veteran warlord of the Lo Po Bia Family's Grey Wolf branch that ruled the 39th Floor's Name Hunt Station for over a thousand years. Kaiser is one of the top-3 D-ranks alongside Sachi and the Bia Princess twins.

In the past, Kaiser was meant to be a Jahad Princess for the Lo Po Bia Family, but a trap laid out by the Jahad and Bia families led her to become stuck at the Name Hunt Station; forever trying to pay off a massive debt that had been placed on her and the Grey Wolf faction. In the present, Kaiser serves as the primary antagonist of the Name Hunt station arc since Yuri has tasked Bam to steal away Kaiser's name so that he can prove to her that he can take on the 43rd Floor of Death. The station warlord is notorious for stealing the names of Regulars who arrive at the station.

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• Arc Villainess: Fought against Bam and his companions during the 39th Floor's Name Hunt Station arc alongside the Lo Po Bia twins.
• The Beastmaster: Controls "Fenryl" a special wolf spirit Shinheuh that is only controllable by a very low number of people from her family.
• Dark Action Girl: Is one of the 3 top D-rank Regulars, but on a completely different level to Sachi Faker, one of the other 3. More impressively, she has never had her name stolen in over a thousand years.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Hundreds of years ago, Kaiser of the Lo Po Bia Family's Grey Wolf faction was showing potential to be picked as a Jahad Princess, but she would end up falling into a trap laid out by the Bia and Jahad families to see if she would fall in love with a boy they staged before her, which she did. As a result, Kaiser was not chosen as a Jahad Princess, and was punished to climb the Tower as a normal Regular until she reached the 39th Floor. Here, she would have to take part in a "Special Labor Punishment" as the head of Name Hunt Station to pay off the punishment fee that was placed on her and the Grey Wolf faction. It gets even worse when it's discovered that the Grey Wolf faction had been wasting all the money that Kaiser's been providing them for the debt; resulting in none of the debt ever decreasing, and has basically left Kaiser stuck at the Name Hunt Station.
• The Dreaded: Like Sachi, people fear Kaiser, because she's considered to be one of the top-3 D-rank Regulars.
• Goal in Life: Kaiser works at Name Hunt Station in order to finally be forgiven by her Grey Wolf Family for her failure to become a Jahad Princess. In the end, she lets go of that goal after Bam helps her leave the station by paying off the family's debt.
• Heel–Face Turn: She quits the name-stealing business after Bam gets FUG to pay off her debt.
• Karma Houdini: According to the author blog post, Kaiser/Elaine is this. She was stated to definitely be the villain of the Name Hunt Station Story Arc for what she was doing and had no sin absolving reason to do it and her later monologue was one meant to declare the character independence and new future, but not regret or show repentance for her crimes. SIU even stated if Bam were being truly just, he wouldn't have saved her.
• The Leader: Of the Name Hunt Station and its Ten Bosses.
• My Greatest Failure: Kaiser regrets failing the love test that led to her Grey Wolf faction getting punished with a massive debt being placed upon them. It's because of this regret that Kaiser doesn't appear to have any problem with knowing that the Grey Wolves are wasting the money away that she's been providing them to pay off the debt.
• Out of Focus: Despite appearing as a member of Bam's Season 3 team, Elaine's remained in the background. Even weirder is that Bam ended up coming across her father, yet she wasn't involved in this encounter in any way.
• Put on a Bus: Elaine leaves Name Hunt Station on Jinsung's ship after he purchased her name at the festival auction. Thus, she doesn't follow Bam's group for the rest of the Hell Train journey. She finally turns up again in Season 3 as part of Bam's team when they go after Baylord Yama and his dogs.
• White Mask of Doom: Wears a white mask.

David Hockney

David Hockney

Tower Position: Scout

I realized something after leaving this place. As long as I have this hole in my heart, no life will ever feel happy to me. I'm definitely being punished. Punished for forgetting something important.

A painter Regular with an odd set of eyes who's considered to be the top scout amongst the D-rankers, and originally used to live on the 43rd Floor of Death before managing to escape the place. Despite his strong reputation, Hockney made a home for himself within the 40th Hell Train station known as the Mushroom Farm, and has stayed put until the last piece of his Red Light painting he's been waiting for finally appears.

However, he's finally forced to enter the Hell Train due to Yura having obtained the Red Light piece, which Hockney considers to be a part of his soul. Yura then baits Hockney to return to the Floor of Death by informing him through Emily that he will find his Red Light painting there. For his return to the Floor of Death, Hockney joins up with Bam's expedition team.

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• Curb-Stomp Battle: In order to enter the Hell Train, Hockney easily immobilizes two Regulars living on the Mushroom Farm who attempt to convince Hockney to stay on the 40th Floor Station in order for Hockney to continue protecting them.
• Curtains Match the Window: Gray hair with gray eyes.
• The Dreaded: Hockney's made a name for himself as the best scout amongst the D-rank Regulars.
• Establishing Character Moment: His Curb-Stomp Battle introduction.
• Goal in Life: Hockney climbs the Tower in order to find the pieces of his painting known as the Red Light that was stolen from him before he was chosen as a Regular.
• The Hermit: For a long time, he's basically a Reclusive Artist that's been living on the 40th Floor away from everything else.
• Hostage Situation: He's being built up as a new member for Team Rachel, but Yura having a piece of his soul makes it seem like he's being forced to join them against his will.
• Improbable Weapon User: A fishing pole with a lantern attached to the end of it.
• Nice Guy: According to Sachi. Hockney is even glad to hear that Sachi has found a new goal after finally getting closure regarding Roen.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Based on a real-life English painter.
• Out of Focus: Despite appearing as a member of Bam's Season 3 team, David's remained in the background.
• Ship Tease: With Bero as he appears to like women who are around her size.

Yeon Ehwa

Yeon Ehwa

Voiced by: Sayumi Watabe (Japanese)

Tower Position: Fisherman, Flame User

You don't have to worry just because I'm a member of the Ten Families. Because I think that facing the truth head-on is the right thing to do.

A Regular that's introduced in season 2, and first appears in a scene where she fries Ja Wangnan during an attempt to complete the 20th Floor test. She is next forced to go along with Prince's loan shark team for another attempt at the 20th Floor test because of the debt she gained failing the test that she fried Wangnan in. Control over Ehwa ends up getting transferred to Viole after he defeats Prince's high-score on the punching machine for the 20th Floor test. She's also a user of the rare Flame User Position, which is basically converting shinsu into fire.

Following her freedom from Lurker Cash, Ehwa joins up with Viole and Wangnan's Sweet and Sour group that was formed as a result of completing the 20th Floor test. However, she learns of her Great Yeon Family having a dark side to them due to discovering the family's mistreatment of the Zigenas during the 21st Floor test. As a result, she decides to climb the Tower with Viole to witness the darkness of the other Great Families, and return to the Yeon Family after becoming a Ranker to set the family straight.

Afterwards, Ehwa climbs the Tower with the Sweet and Sour team all the way to the Hell Train, but unlike the rest of Wangnan's group, who continue the chase for Cassano, Yeon is asked to rejoin with Bam starting from the 39th Floor's Name Hunt Station.

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• A Day in the Limelight: During the FUG arc.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: A little downplayed but Yeon basically asked this when she found out that Viole was a male and was staying in the same room. Suffice to say, Viole calmly expresses no interest in her body (and phrases it as such) which pisses off Yeon because... well... she's a woman with pride in her figure.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite Word of God saying she is second in power only to Viole out of Sweet and Sour she server mostly as Plucky Comic Relief.
• Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: She claims she hates Viole, however she knows that she can only control her flames when he is around.
• Character Development: Ehwa loses respect for her Great Yeon Family after learning of their mistreatment towards the Zigena during the 21st Floor test.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Feels a little threatened when Hwaryun makes an appearance.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She fumbles constantly, and yet it makes her quite endearing.
• Defence Mechanism Superpower: Her Yeon flame briefly activates at full strength to protect herself from getting killed in the crossfire of Yuri's attack, resulting in a Power-Strain Blackout since it went beyond her current ability.
• Embarrassing Nickname: She became known as the "Flamethrower" after her last test for the 20th Floor during which she burned everyone, including her own teammates, and failed.
• Heroic BSoD: Learning about what her Great Yeon Family was doing to the Zigena of the 21st Floor sent her into a depression. Thankfully, Hwaryun got her out of it.
• Irony: At least in the beginning. She is a clumsy pyromancer who also cannot cook, but is a good swimmer.
• Flight: After finally awakening her powers as a member of the Yeon Family, she spends the entirety of her first battle flying.
• The Klutz: She fumbles constantly. Not just with her fire abilities, either. Tech savvy she isn't.
• Lethal Chef: Miseng starts crying when Ehwa decided to take over Viole's cooking. Worse, the hustle to find alternatives.
• The Ojou: Feels like she has a duty as an "elite" of the Yeon Family to uphold their standards.
• People Puppets: On the receiving end, courtesy of Lurker and Tin.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Non-malevolent one. She's just clumsy.
  • Subverted once she awakens in her battle against Angel. She really is that powerful.
• Playing with Fire: She uses shinsu to produce flames.
• Power Floats: When being controlled.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: At least when Bam isn't stealing her tights.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She is certainly dangerous, though less malevolent than most examples.
• Stalker with a Crush: Might as well be since she has no reason/obligation to follow Viole and does so out of excuses. This is brought to full circle during Viole and Endorsi's date where she spies on them with an annoyed look on her face.
• Team Killer: Was reputed to be this.
• Technicolor Eyes: Pink
• Technicolor Fire: Pink and lilac.
• Took a Level in Badass: During the Workshop Battle, she precisely blew up the worm held in Beta's hands, disqualifying him from the competition. By the next arc she's coolly backing up Wangnan against Cassano. And after that, in her fight against Angel
• Tsundere: With Viole, mostly because she is conflicted on whether or not it is right for her to be friends with a member of FUG when she is part of the Yeon Family.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Her flames are claimed to be strong enough that not even Rankers could control them. Consequently, Ehwa can't control them. Hence, she became quite a Team Killer. She is slowly discarding the 'Unskilled' part.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: How Viole gets rid of a Puppeteer Parasite controlling her. It's messy.

Hong Danhwa

Hong Danhwa

Protecting women is the knight's duty that I took up alongside this sword.

A D-rank Regular that joined Ha Yura’s Hell Train team. Yura finds him to have the most potential of her teammates, and is the only one she reveals her true intentions to. Following his split-up from Yura, Danhwa joins up with Bam's group on the Hell Train in an attempt to chase after Yura to convince her to leave Rachel's side. He's usually seen fighting alongside Ehwa.

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• Beam Spam: Can spam beams of shinsu.
• The Chosen Many: Along with six others, he acquired his sword from his ancestors who previously slew a monster attacking their village, and had its power split amongst seven swords.
• Cool Sword: Runs in the Hong family, his being named Krishna
• Cooperation Gambit: Despite initial hostilities, he joins up with Boro and Hanool Kang in order to reunite with Yura on the Hell Train.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Ended up on the losing end of one against Boro.
  • His team-up fight with Rak and Ehwa against Arie Inieta didn't go any better. He even had his Krishna sword used against him.
• In-Universe Nickname: "Mr. Swordsman", and "Ha Yura fanboy", courtesy of Boro.
• Number Two: Becomes this to Ha Yura after she reveals her true goal of stealing the Hell Train with Rachel’s team to him.
• Shared Family Quirks: Shares a lot of similarities to Chunhwa, the Hong member introduced in the first season.
• Undying Loyalty: To Ha Yura.

Supporting

Team Shibisu

Shibisu

Shibisu

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Scott Whyte (English)

Tower Position: Scout

While you may kill me, I'll never run. A lame man can be persistent.

A seemingly average-looking guy who provides the series a ton of comedic moments. Shibisu starts off looking like someone who doesn't have anything special about him, and gets easily pushed around by those stronger than him. However, it soon turns out that he is actually much smarter than he looks, which results in people willing to stand behind his command.

In season 1, Shibisu is somehow able to get himself paired up with two monster Regulars, Hatz and Anaak, that made up for his lack of strength in the initial 2nd Floor tests. He's eventually able to pass the Floor of Tests with the rest of the group.

In season 2, Shibisu acts as the leader of his team due to his proven intellect as they go about climbing the Tower. Their main goal is to protect Anaak from the Tower given her Fake Princess status. Like Khun, Shibisu was there when he learned of Rachel's betrayal; meaning that the rest of his team also knows. Shibisu also leads his team at the Workshop Battle and Name Hunt Station. The former of which turns into a mission to help Bam break away from FUG while the latter has the team take on Kaiser's faction in order to get Endorsi's stolen name back.

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• Action Survivor: Despite his relatively low combat skills, he's done well in surviving against some really tough opponents.
• Art Evolution: In Season 2, he's drawn in a more realistic and gritty style to signify he's Taken A Level In Badass.
• Badass Normal: He's basically a normal human with high intellect, but is able to survive through the Floor of Tests due to his evasive abilities as a scout, and is now climbing the Tower.
  • After hearing a Ranker give a brutal Breaking Speech to another Regular about how his not being able to make it through the Shinsu barrier means he was chosen to fail, Shibisu says Screw Destiny and pushes his way through the barrier through pure willpower.
• Badass Bookworm: Shibisu is much more perceptive than he looks but among his team he's still Overshadowed by Awesome. But he can fight two people at once, proving that his knowledge of the Killer Martial Arts is not just for show.
• Butt-Monkey: Even though he is the leader of his team he gets pushed around a lot by them.
• Character Development: He starts to take his leadership role for the team a lot more seriously by season 2.
• Chick Magnet: Not as much as Bam, but if one looks closely, there is at least two women who like him, Serena and Anaak.
• Curtains Match the Window: Brown.
• Dogged Nice Guy: A non-romantic example, but Anaak and Hatz have physically dragged him around when he doesn't do what they want.
• Dragged by the Collar: How Anaak dragged a protesting Shibisu off the stage after agreeing to take part in the test.
• The Drag-Along: After Anaak agrees to take part in the special examination with Bam, she walks cooly offstage, silently dragging a kicking and screaming Shibisu behind her.
• Establishing Character Moment: A sequence of them in the first few chapters after his introduction — showing his Butt-Monkey status by having him blustering ineffectually while Anaak and Hatz show off their skills, then revealing his Determinator nature by having him push through Lero-Ro's Shinsu barrier test with sheer willpower, and finally having him demonstrate his intelligence by being the only person to perfectly solve Yu Hansung's door puzzle.
• Failure Is the Only Option: The Ranker says anyone unable to make it through the barrier was chosen to fail and nothing they do can change that. Shibisu decided to screw that and pushed his way through the barrier through pure willpower.
• Guile Hero: His stat sheet lists him as nearly dead last in every single category... except intelligence, where he's one of the highest of the first season's Regulars.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Tries to pull a non-lethal one on Quant.
• The Leader: Takes on this role for the team in season 2.
• The Load: Starts off seeming like he will be one to Hatz and Anaak, almost causing them all to fail the second test, then shows he's one of the smartest characters in the series the next test and is even the team leader in the second volume.
• Older Than He Looks: Not nearly as extreme as many other characters, but he's 26 in the first volume, despite looking and acting like a teen.
• Nice Guy: Among other things, he uses his own body to cling on to Quant, getting horribly beaten up solely to slow him down a tiny bit and increase his team's chances of victory even though, as Quant points out, he himself was already certain to pass.
• Ship Tease: With Serena in the first season.
• The Smart Guy: Along with Aguero, forms the strategical team.
• Spell My Name With An S: The official translation of his name is Shibisu, while earlier translations read as Ship Leesoo.
• The Strategist: After the time-skip, he serves this role for his team.
• Team Mom: A gender-flipped example.
• Took a Level in Badass: He goes from Butt-Monkey in the 1st season, to the team leader in the 2nd season.
• The Unchosen One: His inability to walk through the Shinsu barrier made him doomed to fail in the eyes of the Ranker in charge of the test, so he "chose himself" and pushed his way through.

Anaak Jahad

Anaak Jahad

Voiced by: Akira Sekine (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)

Tower Position: Fisherman

I'm here to kill every trace of Jahad in this Tower to complete my revenge. That's my only dream. Because I'm Anaak Jahad.

A solitary lizard girl who spent a great time of her life on the outer 43rd Floor with Garam Jahad before being chosen to enter the inner Tower. Anaak is out to get revenge for her parents' murder by killing the entire Jahad family, and the hook weapon she wields turns out to be her mother's 13-Month Weapon, the Green April. She was also considered one of the top-5 E-Rank Regulars alongside Endorsi, Ran, Blarode and Baragav.

In season 1, Anaak first appears on the 2nd Floor in the initial survival test where she meets Hatz and immediately battles him. Though she is one of the strongest on the 2nd Floor, she keeps to herself despite forming a team with Hatz and Shibisu. She's also the reason that Bam would end up losing the 13-Month Series, Black March.

In truth, Anaak is the daughter of the real Anaak Jahad; a defected Princess who broke the law of Jahad's rule by giving birth to a child, which resulted in Jahad's borrowed power getting passed down to the infant. This makes the daughter Anaak a Fake Jahad Princess; an existence that is seen as an insult to the Jahad Rulers, and makes her an enemy to the entire Tower. Princess Yuri manages to protect Anaak from a Ranker assassin, Ren, that was sent to kill Anaak during her journey through the Floor of Tests. However, Yuri in return takes away the two 13-Month Weapons that Anaak had hold of.

In season 2, Anaak is currently climbing the Tower as part of Shibisu’s team and supports them on whatever mission they come across.

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• Always Someone Better: She is extremely powerful in her own right, but time and time again when she faces a Jahad Princess or anyone of high standing, is proven to still be lacking in the power required to even start her quest for revenge right.
  • Also suffered this with Khun Ran in the Workshop Battle, though it's hard to tell how it would have ended since Paracule interrupted the match.
• Arc Villainess: Towards Bam for the 2nd Floor's Crown Game. She threatened to kill him if he didn't hand over the Black March. The two of them made a bet over each other's 13-Month weapons (Black March and Green April) depending on if Bam could win the Crown Game, which resulted in Bam losing in the final round.
• Berserk Button: Anything related to the Jahads makes her blood boil. And then Ren reveals he killed her mother.
• BFS: Her new weapon after Yuri takes the Green April is an enormous spear, which is at least 15 feet long. Justified because Anaak is used to the Green April's Ignition, which is even larger.
• Character Development: She's calmed down a lot since the early season 1 chapters now that she's got a team of friends willing to protect her from an entire Tower that wants her dead.
• Curtains Match the Window: The colour is brown.
• Death Glare: When Ren taunts her with her mother's amulet.
• Disappeared Dad: A driving force of her quest is getting revenge for 'The death of that Chicken-Pie cook', her unnamed father.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. Time and again, it proves her Achilles heel.
• Improbable Weapon User: Green April, before Yuri takes it from her. It is a hook that can decompress to an unimaginable size.
• Legacy Character: She's actually the daughter of the original Anaak Jahad.
• Lightning Bruiser: Agile enough to fight evenly with Ran and strong enough to disable Nobic in one shot.
• Little Miss Badass: Despite looking like a 10-year-old, she was one of the top 5 E-rank Regulars (before she became a D-rank).
• Lizard Folk: Appears to be from her mother's side, though this is an assumption since her father was never shown.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Pretends to be a spoilt brat during the crown game, and then reveals she is placed exactly where she wanted to be - in the best position for her skills to be fully utilized. She proceeds to swat everybody like flies.
• Odd Friendship: With Endorsi.
• Older Than They Look: About 300 when season 1 starts.
• Out of Focus: Despite season 1 going to great lengths to develop her Fake Jahad Princess status, Anaak has remained mostly as support for Shibisu’s team in season 2. The lone exception being her developing rivalry with Khun Ran.
• Pride: Her Fatal Flaw. Which is mercilessly exploited by Ran.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: According to the wiki, 154cm. Able to throw a spear with enough force to punch a hole in a building.
• The Rival: To Ran.
• Tsundere: There are times when she'll get pissed whenever Shibisu looks at another woman.
• Walking Spoiler: Knowing about Anaak's past gives away a major plot-point that is revealed throughout the Floor of Tests saga.

Hatz

Hatz

Voiced by: Toshinari Fukamachi (Japanese), Nicolas Roye (English)

Tower Position: Scout

From the moment I was born, my hands have trained to hold the sword. Once they grab on, they never let go.

The son of a swordsmith that claims to follow the spirit of swordsmanship. Hatz has been training in the way of the sword for many years, and is extremely loyal to those that he deems to be his companions.

In season 1, Hatz manages to use his swordsmanship skills to go toe to toe with Anaak during his 2nd Floor introduction. Throughout the Floor of Tests, Hatz continued to prove himself to be one of tougher Regulars as a user of the sword, and even manages to take on a Ranker, Quant, by himself for a brief time.

In season 2, Hatz is currently climbing the Tower with Shibisu's 2nd Floor graduation team. He's become so famous at this point that the mere rumor that someone managed to beat 'that Hatz guy' in battle is their main selling point as a mercenary. Due to Cassano breaking his sentimental sword, Hatz spends most of the Workshop Battle off doing his own thing in search of a new weapon. He eventually shows off a new weapon during the war at Name Hunt Station, an ignition sword known as Donghae.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: He uses Shinsu manipulation to turn his swords into these.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: The anime adapts out a scene that depicts Hatz as far more of an Unscrupulous Hero. Specifically, after disarming Serena during the Crown Game, he attempts to kill a sleeping Lauroe out of disgust that he would fall asleep while his comrades were fighting for their lives.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Team Nobic before they lost their names to a No-name Regular at Name Hunt Station.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Although he has magic swords at the beginning, he's the only "powerhouse" character with no native advantages; all other high-ranking Regulars benefit from Superpowerful Genetics or some other special advantage, but Hatz's power comes entirely from ridiculous training, to the point where even at the start, he can go toe-to-toe with a Princess of Jahad and (briefly) stand his ground against a Ranker.
• Curtains Match the Window: His colour is black.
• A Day in the Limelight: During the Workshop Battle saga, Hatz is off doing his own thing within the Archimedes Acorn Workshop away from the rest of Shibisu's Team, who are taking part in the main Workshop Battle tournament. The main purpose of this side-journey was to find a replacement sword for the one he lost in a fight against Cassano, but ended up stumbling upon the forbidden Acorn Workshop that has been working on developing the Emily weapon.
• Dual Wielding: The Sword That Flies Higher Than Any. The Sword That Flies Lower Than Any.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: His clothing, his name, his physical characteristics, his weapons and his mentality are very Japanese.
• Flying Weapon: He uses a flying sword as one of his weapons on the Second Floor, although he seems to have lost it later on.
• Fragile Speedster: His sword techniques strike very quickly, but both his sword and him can't handle too much of a beating.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts a non-lethal one during the Second Floor test to stop Quant from pursuing the rest of the team.
• Improbable Weapon User: It doesn't matter if it's a sword or a random pipe he picked up. If it is in his hands it WILL cut you.
• Master Swordsman: He's established as one of the best Regulars introduced on the Floor of Tests as an exceptional sword user, and continues to be one as he climbs up the Tower.
• Rōnin: Though probably a Korean version of a masterless Samurai.
• Samurai: More of a Rōnin, but still.
• Pragmatic Hero: His sense of fairness is very flexible in certain situations.
• The Quiet One: Does not speak much.
• Shrouded in Myth: Mild one. Five years after his debut in The Tower, beating "that Hatz guy" seems to be a major accomplishment.
• Weak, but Skilled: Compared to powerhouses like the Jahad Princesses and Viole.
• The Worf Effect: Beaten off-screen by the Devil of the Right Arm just to show how tough this devil really is.
• Wrecked Weapon: He loses his weapon during the fight with Cassano.

Phonsekal Lauroe

Phonsekal Lauroe

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Nicolas Roye (English)

Tower Position: Wave Controller

I know. Being woken up is infuriating.

A branch member of the Great Eurasia Family, who runs around with a blanket and pillow to sleep wherever he can.

In season 1, Lauroe establishes himself as one of the more powerful Floor of Test Regulars due to his incredible Shinsu control as a wave controller. The only problem is that he requires a lot of rest.

In season 2, Lauroe continues to climb the Tower as part of Shibisu's 2nd Floor graduation team, and supports them on whatever mission they come across.

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• Brilliant, but Lazy: He's one of the most powerful of the Regulars in the first and second season, but usually prefers to just curl up in his blanket and fall asleep.
• Brutal Honesty: During Wave Controller training on the Second Floor Lauroe bluntly agrees with Hoh's assessment that he may not be talented enough to become a successful Wave Controller. When Bam calls him out for his rudeness, Lauroe gives Bam brief words of guidance that, in just seconds, allows the boy to produce a ball of shinsu on his own. Lauroe then walks away saying that's what real talent looks like.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Kicks ass when he stops sleeping on the battlefield.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As seen in the Crown Game special test.
• Demoted to Comic Relief: While most of the Part 1 regulars get reduced focus in Part 2, Lauroe gets this the worst. Specifically, Part 1 showed him having hints of an Arrogant Wave Controller personality, surprising tenacity in his fight against Anak, and some of the more humorous Snark Knight moments. Meanwhile, Part 2 depicts him as a literal drag along that is constantly carried around by his team, rarely interacts with anyone, and has no personality traits besides sleepiness (which, incidentally, every single member of the Phonsekal family also has).
• Flight: Is able to levitate.
• Hidden Depths: Being one of the older members of the cast in the first season, and being from one of the 10 great families means he's way savvier than he lets on.
• It Runs in the Family: From a branch member of the Eurasia family, which is notorious for their laziness.
• Mentor Archetype: He helps Bam develop his shinsu abilities during the wave controller class.
• Older Than They Look: Word of God says he is in his 130s.
• Out of Focus: Compared to his other teammates on Team Shibisu, he hasn't had much to do in Season 2. His primary day-in-the-limelight was when he forced the Medina parasite out of Beta during the Workshop Battle.
• Punch-Clock Hero: Works for his team only when forced to. Or, if he just steps in randomly, it's simply the quickest way to get back to sleep in peace and quiet.
• Pure Energy: Is able to create blasts of Shinsu that out-power most.
• Sleepyhead: Carries a pillow and a blanket around everywhere, and will throw them down and fall asleep at the slightest opportunity.

Aleksai Amigochaz

Aleksai Amigochaz

Tower Position: Spear Bearer

Are you pretending to be a Scout? Remember this: the guys who are too confident in their strength die first. Sorry, but a spear belongs in your hands.

—Quant

A silent, and large devil-winged muscle man who's viewed as the dreaded by those around him.

In season 1, Aleksai was said to have attacked anybody he could in the 2nd Floor's starting survival test, which gave him a reputation as someone who was probably an incredibly dangerous fellow. However, he becomes part of the core group making it through the Floor of Tests, and proves to have spear-throwing skills on par with Rak's.

In season 2, Aleksai continues to climb the Tower as part of Shibisu's 2nd Floor graduation team, and supports them on whatever mission they come across.

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• Ambiguously Brown: He shows up in Season 2 with a much lighter skin tone, indicating he possibly was tanned or there was a coloring error.
• The Berserker: According to other Regulars, during the first test he furiously attacked anyone that came close.
• The Dreaded: He made a name for himself as a dangerous Regular that mercilessly attacked anyone he came across in the first test to the point that people were amazed Aleksai was able to find two people crazy enough to make a 3-person-team with him.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Although a spear bearer, he's very proficient in this as well.
• Out of Focus: Compared to his other teammates on Team Shibisu, he hasn't had much to do in Season 2. His primary day-in-the-limelight moment was sadly getting worfed by Viole in close-combat duel.
• The Quiet One: Rarely speaks, even with friends around.
• The Rival: To Rak as a fellow spear bearer. They get into a hit-the-target duel as training for the final 2nd Floor test.
• Super-Strength: Able to punch huge holes in the ground.
• Winged Humanoid: His devil wings. Word of God says they're removable.
• The Worf Effect:
  • In Season 1, he's built up to be The Dreaded due to his efforts in the initial survival test. However, he gets disposed of by Quant quite easily during the Hide-And-Seek test. In his defense though, Quant was mostly acting as a Stealth Mentor here to teach Aleksai that relying on strength alone isn't going to get him far in the Tower.
  • In Season 2, he gets knocked out in one hit during One Shot, One Opportunity in order to show off the power of Viole's thorn. As a result, he's out cold throughout the rest of the Workshop Battle.
• Wrong Line of Work: Despite being chosen as a Spear Bearer on the 2nd Floor, Amigochaz has a tendency to rush forward and attack up close with brute strength. Quant attempts to stress the idea that relying on strength alone will soon fail him but, even in Season 2, Team Shibisu tends to use him as a tertiary Fisherman (when Endorsi/Anak aren't around) rather than a Spear Bearer.

Verdi

Verdi

Tower Position: Anima

^{Click for Verdi's pet Octopus}

These guys suit my tastes so I collected them. Now they can be my dolls.

An Anima Regular who controls a large pet octopus, and one of two recruits of Shibisu's new team. Verdi has a peculiar fetish where she likes to turn people she fancies into "dolls."

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• Badass Adorable: If her actions during One Shot, One Opportunity speak anything, she was able to solo an entire group of Regulars on her own.
• The Beastmaster: As an Anima Regular. Her primary pet being an octopus.
• Bodyguard Crush: Verdi starts crushing on Prince after seeing how far he will go to bring Miseng back to normal in the Workshop's Battle x Gamble round.
• Creepy Child: There's definitely something not right with this one... especially regarding her "doll" fetish.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Yeo Miseng and Prince never stood a chance.
• Fight Unscene: She captures Miseng and Prince off-screen during the One Shot, One Opportunity game.
• Girlish Pigtails: Self-explanatory.
• Living Doll Collector: Wishes to turn anyone she has interest in into a doll.
• Power Parasite: Her octopus has the ability to temporarily seal another person's special abilities.
• Satellite Character: Apart from being a creepy Anima kid that wants to turn people into dolls, the reader never learns anything about Verdi. Most just know her as the octopus girl in Shibisu's season 2 team.
• Shipper on Deck: She's a major supporter of Miseng x Prince to the point of wanting to force a marriage on them.
• Sizeshifter: Her octopus can change its size.
• Token Mini-Moe: Can be seen as such for Shibisu's Season 2 team.

Vespa

Vespa

Tower Position: Scout

Don't you dare take your eyes off me, human.

A Regular Scout, and one of two recruits of Shibisu's new team. Vespa is a bee-themed humanoid who excels at close-range combat. Vespa also served as Shibisu's starting Vanguard for the Workshop tournament.

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• Ambiguous Gender: It's not confirmed yet if Vespa is a male or female.
• Beam Spam: Can fire gold beams of shinsu.
• Bee People: A bee-themed humanoid.
• Carrying the Antidote: The antidote to his needles' poison is the honey in the pot Vespa carries around.
• Close-Range Combatant: Fights up close with her bee-stinger-shaped spear.
• Fight Unscene: Vespa defeating Bundawan during the Workshop Battle was never seen.
• Flight: Able to fly.
• Master Poisoner: Vespa's needles are coated in a poison that can kill within 5 minutes.
• Satellite Character: Similar to Verdi, Vespa doesn't have any character depth apart from being that new bee-person in Shibisu's season 2 team.
• Smug Super: Vespa’s shown to be very arrogant about how fast they can fly, claiming that no Regular can surpass their speed.
• The Swarm: Going along with the bee theme, Vespa also has miniature needles that fly around; some for firing beams of shinsu, and some for poisoning.

Team Sweet and Sour

As a Whole

• Family of Choice: Combined with Fire-Forged Friends. The challenges they face while treading up the Tower strengthened their bonds and gave them all a close-knit group to rely on. This especially with Viole, as his interactions with Sweet and Sour help him regain his humanity and trust in others.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They all come from different walks of life, with very different skillsets, and they didn't properly meet each other until they decided to take the 20th Floor test. Regardless, they're eventually forced to team up to proceed with the test, but come into their own.

Ja Wangnan

Ja Wangnan

Voiced by: Yūma Uchida (Japanese)

I know that the only difference between the ones who went up and me lies in whether I give up or not.

The point-of-view character for the first plot arc of season 2. While by no means weak, his dreams of being King of the Tower are far beyond his current capabilities. He's also running away from loan sharks and is a bit of a coward with a good heart. Wangnan manages to trick Viole into forming a team with him and just like long ago with Bam and Rak, it stuck.

The two lived together with Yeon, Kang Horyang, Goseng, Miseng, Prince and Akraptor during the early portions of season 2 until a trap laid out by FUG at the 28th Floor's Hand of Arlen forced Viole and Horyang to depart from the group. In order to get Viole back, Wangnan joins forces with Khun to participate in the Workshop Battle. While Khun was the overall gambler leader, Wangnan served as the starting Vanguard for the tournament.

Following Bam's departure to make a new Hell Train team, the remainder of Wangnan's Sweet and Sour team chases after Beniamino Cassano on the Hell Train in order to retrieve the comatose Horyang's stolen ignition weapon in the hopes that returning it will reawaken Horyang. Sweet and Sour eventually reunites with Bam's group, and take part in the Dallar Show against Rachel and Hoaqin's team, but separate once more so that Wangnan's team can continue the chase after Cassano while Bam's group completes the Name Hunt Station mission in order to reach the forbidden 43rd Floor.

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• Action Survivor: At first glance, he does not seem to possess any special powers to help explain why he's still upright and breathing while struggling to climb the Tower... Unlike 90% of the cast. However, from his introduction onwards, there are subtle hints that he has a Healing Factor well beyond what he should have to help him out, relatively dismal attack or defence abilities notwithstanding.
• Big Eater: Kind of: he loves buying in bulk for group celebrations and will propose them at the drop of a hat. However, he also does eat a fair amount for his size.
• Butt-Monkey: Starts as this. As we get a better idea of his determination and bounce-back-ability, he turns into a high-functioning Iron Butt Monkey who can guile his way out of some of the pain the Tower seems to enjoy throwing his way.
• Character Development: Wangnan becomes much more determined to help those he cares about after seeing how far Viole will go to protect his Floor of Test friends from FUG. Losing Nia also contributed to this.
• Curtains Match the Window: Gold, just like his father Jahad and brother Karaka.
• Cute Little Fangs: How pronounced they are varies from panel to panel.
• Determinator: The one thing Wangnan can pride himself on is his inability to quit. Even Khun acknowledges that this is Wangnan's greatest strength:
  "The difference between those up there and me is the question of whether you have given up or not."
• Dub Name Change: In the Japanese translation, Wangnan's name is changed to "Ouji Naru" (eastern order), in order to preserve the pun in his original name.
• First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Starts as this for Viole. Later develops into a Supporting Protagonist.
• Freak Out: When Nia dies. He goes hysterical after waking up from a nightmare due to the deaths of Akraptor and Prince.
• Guile Hero: Uses some really dirty tactics to win, most notably switching his connector with Viole's in order for the team to pass the exam.
• Healing Factor: In his backstory, he bounced back relatively quickly (and with no visible scarring) from being burned to a crisp by Ms "Total Party Kill" Yeon. And, this was no fluke. Time and again, he heals up from major physical exertion or fairly painful injury almost overnight without anything more involved than big meals and self-applied first aid. Yet, he never draws attention to this. When he gets his arm sliced to the bone badly enough to make it very clear major damage has been done... he's still got the hand a month later. Heavily bandaged, sure, but he's neither lost it, nor seems to have lost the use of it — he holds it up and swivels it. Not bad.
• The Heart: Considered the glue that keeps Sweet and Sour together. While the team didn't rely on him before, the moments where he shows how much he cares about each member endeared him to them.
• Heroic Bastard: His title of "The Prince of the Red-light District" is so named for the fact that he's Jahad's blood son, born to a prostitute. His ring is proof of this.
• Heroic Safe Mode: Immediately following his Freak Out.
• Hidden Depths: He is both resourceful and determined. And, can tank major injury, even though it hurts like hell and does cause damage.
  • More notable is the fact that he knows a lot about the Jahad Family and their contracts with the Guardians, information usually only known by members of the 10 Families.
  • He also knows things about Irregulars even Family members like Yeon and Khun don't. And, he beats Floor Admins, too. This is very rare stuff, but he knows it.
  • According to Hwaryun, he is Jahad and the 10 Family Heads' biggest mistake.
• Horned Humanoid: Has two small horns on the back of his neck.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: His reason for not killing Lurker was to avoid becoming a hypocrite. Since on his climb of the Tower, he will have to kill countless people, killing Lurker for Nia's death is pure hypocrisy and makes him no better than Lurker.
• Indy Ploy: In general. And that's his explicitly confirmed modus operandi for bringing Viole into his team.
• Long-Lost Relative: Is heavily implied to be Karaka's brother.
• Love at First Sight: He had a bit of a crush on Nia when he first met him on a delivery run. This carries over into their later interactions, with even him listing Nia as "My beloved Nia~♥♥" on his contacts. Granted, this was because he wasn't aware that Nia was a guy at the time.
• Magnetic Hero: He has an uncanny ability to befriend people, even those who would otherwise kill him, such as Ha Jinsung. Even Khun notes he has natural leadership qualities and the ability to bring together a group of unlikely regulars into a functional team.
• Manly Tears: After Nia dies. Even more so after Akraptor dies right before his very eyes.
• Made of Iron: He complains like crazy over every little bump and bruise (yet goes remarkably quiet over major injury he's chosen to throw himself at), visibly (if not ostentatiously) avoids getting hurt as much as possible and bleeds like an absolute champion when he does get hit. However, he's always ready to take up Butt-Monkey duty again the next day (and after a big meal) as if nothing happened...
  • Played for Drama in his backstory. Since he's the only one that had a chance of surviving powerful attacks and obstacles, it only made him more guilty for having his old teammates due on him and wishing he'd been the unlucky one instead.
• Meaningful Name: Ja Wangnan, in Korean, is backwards for nan wang ja, or "I am a prince", hinting at his heritage. His Japanese name Ouji Naru is much the same, as it means "to become a prince".
• Nice Guy: Seems to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at first, but quickly becomes this instead.
• Older Than They Look: SiU is on record for saying Wangnan is actually quite old. Old enough to be Karaka's brother at least.
• Revenge: He considers it King Jahad's fault his foster mother died, and is one of the many people that wants King Jahad dead.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Embarked on one after finding Nia dead. Ultimately subverted. Even though he wanted to kill Lurker, he couldn't bring himself to do it.
• Shout-Out: Wangnan's style of fighting is very similar to that of a Pokémon trainer, at least in the sense that he's not very powerful himself, sets strategies for his more capable teammates, and uses capsules that look a lot like Pokeballs.
• The Social Expert: He may be a bit of a dork, but he is truly good around people. Wangnan is really only happy when he's in a group, so he puts work into being The Heart in a Class Clown kind of way. His most miserable time on-screen was when we first met him abandoned and alone on Floor 20.
• Spanner in the Works: In the finale of Part 2, he manages not only to thwart Lurker's plans but also conclude a duel between Viole and Love.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: According to SIU, Wangnan subverts this archetype: He is legitimately a Magnetic Hero capable of gathering a large number of close comrades with his genuine personality; a top-tier Determinator who can take a beating like a champ; an energetic young man with lofty goals that he seems ill-equipped to accomplish; and someone Connected All Along to the main antagonist. However, Wangnan's an Action Survivor at best and has yet to unlock any hidden potential In the Blood outside of a slight Healing Factor.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He looks remarkably like Jahad, especially in the latter's youth.
• Survivor's Guilt: Thanks to his Healing Factor, he's survived things that have killed previous companions. He's lost a lot of people climbing the Tower. His nightmares after Akraptor and Prince die show a massive crowd of people he used to know, and he blames himself for their deaths.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Uses shinsu bombs as his weapon.
• Took a Level in Badass: After reaching Train City, Wangnan is confident and skilled enough to take on Cassano with his special bomb.
• Unstoppable Rage: Nia's death caused his.

Yeo Miseng

Yeo Miseng

Voiced by: Saki Miyashita (Japanese)

Tower Position: Scout

Mom and Dad said I could become a great person if I climbed the Tower. So, they told me I had to go...

Miseng is a Regular Wangnan and Bam met during the first part of the 20th Floor test. Wangnan's resolve to attack the next person was crushed by her being utterly adorable (and wearing a school girl's uniform). Following the formation of Sweet and Sour, Miseng climbs the Tower with the team, and helps chase after Cassano on the Hell Train.

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• Character Development: Miseng goes through the She's All Grown Up route as the series goes along. By the time of the Hell Train, she starts acting like more of a grown adult now being able to do things on her own.
• Child Prodigy: Smart enough to dominate a card game played with adults.
• Damsel in Distress: She has a tendency to be kidnapped or taken as a hostage.
• Dub Name Change: She's called Mana in the Japanese translation.
• Killer Rabbit: In Shinsu Strengthening Test she came just below Wangnan, and above Goseng and Yoghurt Lady. She must be quite capable for reaching the 20th Floor in the first place, but her abilities remain unknown.
• The Load: Sweet and Sour still loves her, but Miseng is one of the weakest links of the team. She actually mentions this during the Workshop saga, where she agrees to be the guinea pig for the Doll Maker's power granting accessory because she's tired of only being protected.
• She's All Grown Up: She's still got some growing to do of course, but Miseng has noticeably matured by the time she reappears during the Hell Train chapters.
• Shipper on Deck: Alongside Prince, the two of them are major supporters of Goseng x Horyang.
• Token Mini-Moe: Combined with Tagalong Kid. Of all the character designs SIU has thought up, after 82 chapters and more than fifty characters, he has an adorable little girl. Since reappearing during the Hell Train chapters, though, She's All Grown Up. That said, she still wears outfits reminiscent of her Token Mini-Moe roots.
• Took a Level in Badass: Her much-improved Scout skills allowed her to quickly determine Mirotic guardian's Achilles' Heel, allowing for its swift defeat.

Yeo Goseng

Yeo Goseng

Voiced by: Yu Shimamura (Japanese)

Tower Position: Light Bearer

It's fun to hang out like this. Wouldn't it be good to get out of the Tower and live like this all together? And completely forget about the Tower.

Miseng's relative. An apparently reasonable woman with a mousy look. Following the formation of Sweet and Sour, Goseng climbs the Tower with the team.

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• Brainy Brunette: See below.
• Exposition Fairy: Was the only one to identify the marks that Viole wear as those worn by slayers of FUG.
• Dub Name Change: She still matches Miseng, but she is called Kana in the Japanese translation.
• Meaningful Name: Her name literally means "female high school student".
• Put on a Bus: Unlike the other members of the Sweet and Sour team, she did not make a reappearance on the Hell Train. It's pretty much assumed that she's staying behind to look after the comatose Horyang.
• Opaque Lenses: We have yet to see her eyes because of them.
• Team Mom: Clearly is one for Sweet and Sour. Mothers Miseng and prevents Viole from indulging in his newly gained Sweet Tooth too much.
• Tomboyish Ponytail
• Twice Shy: With Horyang.

Hon Akraptor

Hon Akraptor

Voiced by: Kento Shiraishi (Japanese)

I wanted to be someone with the power to protect his child.

The last addition to the survival game. Akraptor acts like a very smart and very ruthless person and thinks more about instantaneous advantages than long-time pay-offs. However, it turns out that Akraptor also has a kindness to him, and looks after Miseng as if she was his own daughter after failing to protect his own child at some point in the past. He's got short silver hair and fights with an umbrella capable of shooting Shinsu beams.

Following the formation of Sweet and Sour, Akraptor climbs the Tower with the team, and helps chase after Cassano on the Hell Train.

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• Anti-Hero: Most likely type III.
• Cassandra Truth: When everyone was trying to suck up to Bam so he would choose them as his teammate, he started talking about his daughter, whom no one believed he had.
• Character Death: Rachel kills Akraptor with a shinsu blast from his own umbrella. Akraptor chose to sacrifice himself since Rachel's team only required one hostage for their mission on the forbidden 43rd Floor. As a result, it was a choice for either him or Wangnan to get killed off.
• Combat Pragmatist: Despite the clear threat of Viole he still takes the chance to "accidentally" aim at Horyang while the two are fighting.
• Dare to Be Badass:
  • Shortly after his introduction he enters Mêlée à Trois with Viole and Horyang. He manages to keep pace with them, for a while at least.
  • What's more, he doesn't crumple facing Urek, even though he knew exactly how out of his league he was going in. (Well, not quite: he knew he was toast, just not who was grilling.)
• Face of a Thug: A milder case than most, but still.
• Forbidden Love: He had one with the daughter of one of the ten great families. They ran away to avoid the prying eyes of her relatives, got married and had a child together. In the end, her family found them and took his wife and daughter away. He hasn't completely given up on seeing them again but knows how difficult it'll be and doubts he'll be able to do much if he ever does find them again.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He forces Rachel to kill him so that Wangnan would be the one who lives. It's hinted that he very much had worked something important out about Wangnan he deemed way too important for that arm of FUG to learn about right then should Rachel both try and fail to kill the guy.
• Hidden Depths: His attitude towards Miseng.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Votes to drop Miseng out of the team. As it turns out, he wanted her to be safe.
• Magic Knight: Bonus points for using a lance.
• The Nicknamer: Responsible for Horyang becoming "Teddy".
• Papa Wolf: Acts like this towards Miseng, and will extend it to include others in the group when they feel immature and fragile.
• Team Dad: Along with his fondness for Miseng, he also serves as Prince's role model as they go up floors, and gives out advice and encouragement to Wangnan when needed. Justified as he was a father at one point.
• Token Evil Teammate: Subverted, despite his Face of a Thug and apparent callousness at first.
• Took a Level in Badass: One year after season 2 has seen Akraptor's power increases to the point that the beams he used to shoot from his spear/parasol have become large lasers worthy of Kamehamehadoken: Meets Mary Poppins.
• Tragic Keepsake: His earring is actually his engagement ring. Although it's implied that his wife and child are still alive, it serves as his only reminder of them after they were forcibly taken away from him and serves as his only clue to finding them again.
• You Remind Me of X: Miseng reminds him of his daughter, which is why he wanted to get her safely out of the game.

Kang Horyang

Kang Horyang / Beniamino Ilmar

Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda (Japanese)

^{Click here to see his Ignited State}

People forsaken by god will make a deal with the devil.

A gargantuan Regular who entered the survival match, but took up Ja Wangnan's peace offer. He crushes hard on Goseng so that it is virtually impossible for Wangnan to beat anybody up. Horyang fights using an odd-colored iconographic wing that appears floating above his right shoulder, focusing his abilities in specific areas — a blue shield enhancing his defense, a winged boot to enhance his speed, a giant red fist to enhance his strength, and so on. Said powers are because Horyang is actually a normal kid that had been turned into a Living Ignition Weapon; having half of a devil combined with his body through experiments that were done to him by Workshop when he was a child.

Like the other Regulars in the group, Horyang became a part of the Sweet and Sour team after its formation, and traveled with them up to the Workshop Battle. However, Horyang entered the Tower to search for Cassano, the true Devil of the Right Arm.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: He is nicknamed "Teddy", and it fits. However, you don't want to get on his bad side, as he is both an extremely ferocious and skilled combatant.
• The Big Guy: For season 2's Sweet and Sour Team.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: He is usually calm and collected, but when he is forced to fight he shows just how capable he is. Shortly after his introduction he enters Mêlée à Trois with Viole and Akraptor. He manages to keep pace with them.
• Brought Down to Normal: Cassano steals his demon half after the Workshop Battle, leaving him depowered and in a coma.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Huge, dark and intimidating. Possibly the most good-natured person of his team after Bam.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: He cannot lie, deceive, withhold the truth (mostly due to his floating wing) and doesn't need or want to.
• Dub Name Change: The Japanese translation of the comic changes his name to "Kousuke".
• Everyone Can See It: Has an enormous crush on Goseng. Which his wing advertises spectacularly (and rather helpfully) with hearts.
• Gentle Giant: Though his gentleness has its limits.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When going One-Winged Angel. Seems he has these bangs for a reason.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: When he decides to unleash his 'devil' mode.
• In-Series Nickname: Teddy.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Mainly uses shinsu enhancement to boost his fighting ability.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Nya's death and Wangnan's subsequent breakdown was too much for him.
• Lightning Bruiser: Switches to this when using his winged-shoe mode.
• The Medic: He also has a first aid mode to his abilities. Advertised with a green cross. He's definitely a CoDzilla in the Druidic mold, particularly if you consider his wing a bonded summon.
• Mighty Glacier: Switches to this using his shield mode.
• One-Winged Angel: When he ignites his arm, which he rarely does in combat, it massively increases his power. He also literally has one wing.
• Phlebotinum Rebel: How he got the devil.
• Playing with Syringes: His origin story. He was raised in a Workshop lab where they experimented on him to make him a living ignition weapon.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "Friend. Have you seen the Devil?"
• Power Limiter: His bandages seem to be this. Technically, his wing can be seen as both a booster and a limiter. Almost all the Weapons are convinced they cannot grow beyond a certain point, no matter how high they climb: they believe themselves restricted by more than the usual Laws of the Tower, thanks to the Law of Diminishing Returns.
• Put on a Bus: Due to Cassano taking his half of his Living Ignition Weapon devil, Horyang ends up in a coma in the closing portions of the Workshop Battle.
• The Quiet One: Does not waste words.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: The mark on his back can be used for defence (Strong Shield), attack (Red Fist, Flaming Fist), speed (Boot) and healing (Cross) among other uses, as well as his "Devil of the Right Arm," which seems to be his strongest power.
• The Stoic: Usually, extremely calm and collected.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Has one in the form of The Devil - a living ignition weapon inside him.
• Twice Shy: With Goseng. And, it's so blatantly obvious.

Prince

Prince

Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese)

Tower Position: Light Bearer

Climb the Tower by borrowing the strength of others? No, that's not it. They're borrowing my power to climb.

The son of the Lurker Cash's boss who leads a team climbing the Tower.

Despite starting off as a part of Kim Lurker's group as a complete jerk, Prince would end up joining Viole's team after getting hit with a Heel–Face Turn at the end of the 20th Floor test. Following the formation of Sweet and Sour, Prince climbs the Tower with the team, and helps chase after Cassano on the Hell Train.

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• Arc Villain: For the Trustworthy Room game. Subverted, as he gets quickly ousted by Lurker and subsequently joins Team Sweet and Sour.
• Character Death: Prince asked for Hoaqin to eat him in order to allow Miseng to live on as Team Rachel's hostage for their forbidden 43rd Floor mission.
• Character Development: He loses a lot of his Spoiled Brat and Smug Snake characteristics after becoming a part of Sweet and Sour.
• Evil Is Petty: During his short period as a Jerkass he antagonized Viole just because he was stronger than him.
• Fanboy: He becomes a major one towards Horyang to the point of calling him Mr. Devil.
• Glass Cannon: His raw power is quite huge compared to his fellow Regulars. But one solid punch is enough to incapacitate him.
• Heel–Face Turn: Following the events of the Trustworthy Room game, after being rescued by the people he initially despised, hearing how much his father cares about him and after eating his Humble Pie, he joins Viole's team and develops a close friendship with Miseng.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He asks for Hoaqin to eat him so that Miseng can continue living.
• Hidden Depths: No, really. Blinding Rapdevil with his Lighthouse was both resourceful and brave. Also, his choosing to go like a boss rather than allow Miseng to die through inaction showed balls...
  • The numbers the Shinsu test gave were actually his, unmodified. So the kid may actually be stronger than he looks despite his boastful attitude showing otherwise.
• Humble Pie: Gets served a load of this after Lurker betrays him and Viole gives him repeated demonstrations of both sheer power and gentleness.
• Kick the Dog: Using Yeon to test if a drink was spiked. This bit him on the ass very quickly; see immediately below.
• Out-Gambitted: Lurker assumed that he would Kick the Dog and factored it into his plan.
• Pet the Dog: A minor one. He was absolutely furious when Rapdevil "died”, and seemed to take it personally.
• Shipper on Deck: Alongside Miseng, the two of them are major supporters of Goseng x Horyang.
• Small Name, Big Ego: At the beginning of Part 2 he thinks he can take on anyone. He is wrong.
• Smug Snake: Really smug, but with nothing much to back it up with — at first.
• Spoiled Brat: His dad's a mob boss who cares for his son a whole lot too much.
• Take Me Instead: When he and Miseng are trapped with Hoaquin, Hoaquin states that he will eat one, and take the other as his subordinate. Hoaquin originally was going to spare Prince, but Prince offered himself in Miseng's place.
• Took a Level in Badass: After one year of training, he's gained a much better melee game.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He genuinely places 2nd in the World's Strongest Regular test. Rapdevil shows him that raw power isn't everything.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Lurker during the Untrustworthy Room arc.

Antagonists

Team Rachel (Spoilers!)

Rachel

Rachel

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Valerie Rose Lohman (English)

Tower Position: Light Bearer

You said you would teach me the way to be a heroine when you were guiding me. But it was a lie. The hero you choose was Bam. And I was just bait to make him go up the Tower. But I have found a way to become a heroine myself. It's nothing special. If I wasn't born to become a heroine from the beginning, all I need is people who would send me to the top of the Tower in this awful darkness.... All I need to do is find them.

Bam's first and best friend who freed him from a dark prison, but then decides to leave him to search for a starry sky to overcome her fear of the night. Due to her injuries, she's forced to get by through the words she speaks, whether it be using the truth or through lies. Rachel is also an Irregular but was not chosen by the Tower, sneaking in due to Bam forcing the door open right below her.

In Season 1, Rachel goes by the moniker of Michelle Light to evade Bam after realizing that the two of them are in the same test group. However, they're eventually forced to reunite after her legs had become crippled. To continue being with Rachel, Bam decides to become her legs to help her climb the Tower. In the end, Rachel betrays Bam by showing that her legs are fine and pushes him into the dark abyss as she goes on to complete the final 2nd Floor test with everyone else.

Season 2 has Rachel continues to climb the Tower, and manages to escape Khun's watch. She then forms a new team of her own and boards the Hell Train in order to gain a powerful ally in White. Rachel then journeys to the 43rd Floor of Death in order and convinces Wangnan to join her group after his Sweet and Sour team failed in taking away one of her teammates.

On the Floor of Death, Rachel manages to get away from Karaka in order to reach Bam, but is unable to convince him to run away after Bam tells her that he needs to continue going forward. Despite that, Bam allows Rachel to take part in the test that will provide the location of the Thorn, but she is poisoned and knocked out. However, Bam makes a deal with Poe Bidau Gustang to have her healed.

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• Anti-Hero: The author's blog says that she's one of these. She is certainly one of the most ruthless characters.
• Arch-Enemy: To Khun and Endorsi, who both hate her for her manipulative nature and past relationship with Bam.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Attempts to kill Bam by pushing him into dark waters to be eaten, and has continued keeping up the act of being a helpless damsel in front of Aguero for five years afterward. And he knew, and she knew he knew; she was only keeping up the act so he wouldn't know she knew he knew and so when the time came she could stab him in the back first.
• Call to Adventure: Once upon a time, a girl somehow found a cave, opened it and made friends with the boy she found inside it. Plot ensues.
• Can't Catch Up: Her manipulation skills are top-notch, but her over-reliance on having strong allies to do the dirty work means many of her own skills don't grow as fast as they could, leading to Aguero outperforming her as a Light Bearer when they face each other in the Hell Train arc.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Her real introduction at the end of the first volume is devoted specifically to showing her lack of classical heroic qualities, and she turned out to be a Classic Villain.
• Cool Teacher: For all her faults, she's actually pretty good at teaching when she puts her mind to it. Just ask Bam, who still thinks what she did for him was pretty cool, ulterior motives or not.
• Curtains Match the Window: Yellow hair, yellow eyes.
• Damsel in Distress: After getting stabbed by Hoh. However, she’s faking it.
• Deuteragonist: This story is as much about Rachel as it is about Bam, despite how much she wants sole focus.
• Dirty Coward: Too scared to face her opponents or even kill them (except for Akraptor) as she will have other people do it for her so she can proceed.
• The Dulcinea Effect: She's Bam's Dulcinea, and the trope starts out playing as straight as they come. What started out simple gets deconstructed like you wouldn't believe. Rachel is very good at playing Dulcinea, but she's a lot more toxic than she is innocent, and uses her resulting Wounded Gazelle Gambits for her own reasons on just about everybody. Bam was never entirely fooled by her, but his relationship was too important for him to make a fuss about the details for a very long time. And, it is justified in that she was the first person he can remember having any relationship with. This ain't healthy on many, many counts. Including for her world view and mental health, let alone his. Or, anybody else's.
• Entitled Bastard: When Jahad's forces take Rachel and some of Bam's companions as hostages, Endorsi rescues Bam's companions while leaving Rachel's behind. Despite everything she herself has done, including escaping traps intended to kill Bam's companions and leaving them to die, Rachel feels outrage that Endorsi didn't rescue her too.
• Evil Counterpart: To Aguero. Both are lighthouse users who are skilled at manipulating others, and both are/were friends with Bam. However, Aguero learns to respect his allies enough to get his hands dirty to work alongside them and even grows to care for them enough to let them strike out more-or-less on their own in a widespread network of interconnections he can call on; while Rachel mostly sees her allies as tools to get her up the Tower, so she can easily completely dump them the minute they become less effective.
• Evil Cripple: Rachel seems like this, betraying and manipulating everyone to help herself, but as it turns out she's just faking being a cripple to gain this sympathy and help herself more.
• Face–Heel Turn: While there's evidence suggesting she was a Manipulative Bitch even when she met Bam, she did sincerely care for him. The combination of Bam being The Chosen One and her being manipulated by Headon turned her away from that. However, while this was her Face–Heel Turn chronologically, in story, she's presented as taking this when she pushes Bam into the lake.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: After her true colors are revealed, Rachel is featured in many teams that don't think highly of her as a person or are close to her at all. The only carryover from any of those lineups that cared for her was Yura.
• Guardian Entity: Poe Bidau Gustang leaves her with a gift, a ferocious invisible beast who protected her until he obtained the items he wanted from the Hell Train.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Is extremely jealous of Bam's status as The Chosen One, and it was that jealousy that made her want to climb the Tower herself instead of letting Bam have all the glory.
  • Anybody she deems more good-looking, luckier, better loved, undeservingly skilled, or enjoying more popularity than her will be despised. Especially if a Princess. Doubly especially if Endorsi. The only way to be pretty, female and not on Rachel's list of contempt is... to both have a hard-luck story that involves a thirst for revenge and to prove you'll do anything for Rachel to get it.
• Hero Antagonist: Another possible angle. Sure, she could be somewhat delusional in her goals and her behavior is far from nice, but they directly connect in many ways with those the Zarhard batch of Irregulars seem to have had when they were climbing. And, they are considered heros, however much the reader may agree or disagree with the outcome. Bam and company are the really odd ducks, by current Tower standards. So, the friction between Rachel and Bam could be seen as more clashing cultural interpretations of appropriate forms of heroism than a simple case of hero vs villain. But, of the two sides, Rachel is definitely down in the darker shades of morally grey by readers' standards.
• Hero of Another Story: She certainly sees herself as the heroine of, at the very least, her own tale. She wants to make it the main one, however. But, as we mainly get to see things from Bam and company's side, we've pretty much only got her word on that. See below.
• Hero Killer: In Season 2 Ep 227, she kills Akraptor while Wangnan is held hostage by Yura.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: It's implied she knows a lot more about Bam's past than anyone else, and about Arlen Grace as well, but aside her ambitions to reach the top it's unknown what's on her mind.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Her main motive. She wants to be the heroine of the story, and will attempt to jam herself into that position by any means necessary. She even tries to get rid of her original body and replace it with a completely different one generated from her idealized self.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: At first, she envied Bam for being a Magnetic Hero, though she later settles for forming friendless alliances as the next best thing.
• I Know You Know I Know: Was caught in a loop of this with Aguero for a while; he knows she's faking her illness and spies on her with his Lighthouse, but she knows his team is a fence to trap her because she spies on him with her Lighthouse. And, so on and so forth. As of this writing, everyone seems to know what everyone else knows about what they know, so this trope may no longer be in place. But, that could change.
• Incompletely Trained: As an Irregular, she has an astronomical growth potential and other perks that come from not being bound by Tower's rules. When Androssi saw her for the first time, she got immediatelly intimitaded into an alliance. Yet, she relies solely on her unnatural charisma and luck, and her Shinsu skills severely lag behind the Regulars.
• Immune to Fate: Part of the Irregular package. Which plays a major part in completely messing with Hwa's ability to guide Bam through the Hell Train arc, although there are a few hints that misleading her goes back much further than that. There are unknowns about how much Rachel knows about her own "skill", and how much various people within FUG do.
• Irony: Given her and Bams' interlocking skill-sets, they'd be a pretty unstoppable, hard-to-manipulate, Wave Controller-Lighthouse Keeper and Irregular core to any Tower-shaking team. Shame she can't see that, due to wanting to be the I in Team. She practically hands the awesome over to Aguero, and ensures that everybody dances on others' strings.
• It Gets Easier: Invoked. She's shaken after killing Akraptor with her own hands, but she tells herself that she'll have to get used to it.
• It's All About Me: Unsatisifed with Bam being The Chosen One, she decides to focribily steal his role and friends to herself, unsuccessfully. Throughout the story she complains about not getting things she desrves, despite not putting effort to earn them, and is outraged when people don't want to help her.
• Light Is Not Good: Has light skin, light blonde hair, uses a pseudonym of Michelle Light, and is a Light Bearer. Although her role as a villain isn't clear, she's still considered an antagonist to Bam is willing to use whatever (and whoever) she can to climb the Tower.
• Manipulative Bitch: She is; particularly where Bam is concerned. However, Khun has generally seen through her ruses. Unfortunately, he hasn’t spotted all of them.
• Meaningful Name: According to the author's blog, her name was chosen because "In Sherlock Holmes, there is a reference to the word Rache(Rah-he) that means revenge in German."
• Mutual Envy: Princess Endorsi Jahad is jealous of Rachel over how dedicated Bam is towards her and would gladly give up her princess privileges to be with him. On the opposite side, Rachel is jealous of Endorsi for being a beautiful princess like a fairytale heroine, while her feelings towards Bam are mixed at best and consist largely of envy.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed and possibly subverted. She's shaken by how she killed Akraptor and got blood on her hands, but it's implied that she's merely too scared or nervous to do the deed herself easily, since she has no issue with her comrades killing others — however, she still battles with the realisation that not all on Bam's team may be as easily or lightly throw-away as she thought before rationalizing it within her "Tower Tale" framework.
• Narcissist: She believes that everything belongs to her, as she tosses everyone who is no longer useful to her aside, especially Bam. And complains when nothing goes her way, as she believes that she can do nothing wrong.
• Never My Fault: Every time something goes wrong especially if she causes it, she blames Bam or anyone else as she can't understand that she doesn't work for anything that she wants and relies on others to do her dirty work.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Invoked and played with (what her ultimate role as an antagonist actually is far from clear). While she does have very solid Lighthouse abilities from the start of her climb, she admits that she'd rather just rely on stronger teammates to rise to the top.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: For a character who's hardly ever on-screen, she provides a lot of fuel for the story, as well as prodding a great deal of the main cast into moving in various important directions. Both deliberately and accidentally; positive and negative.
• Psychotic Smirk: Shows one after she detonates a bomb in Khun's heart, gloating about how she wanted to kill him with her own hands at the worst possible moment for him.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: Comes across as this. Except for her being able to use and endure Shinsu… like, well... everybody else. She's a quick study, however, to get as good with lightboxes as fast as she does. Like Bam, she starts knowing very little about basic aspects of the Tower, and it puts her at a disadvantage.
• Sadist: Laughs at betraying Bam and lying to the others on what happened to him.
• Secret Identity: Goes under the name of Michelle Light for a while.
• Sexier Alter Ego: Invoked during the Hidden Floor arc. Her Hidden Floor avatar, Icarus, was deliberately crafted to be more powerful and beautiful than her current drab appearance.
• Smug Snake: Gleefully prances about her room when she thinks no one’s looking, and has given “there’s no way you could understand my motivation” rants before.
• The Rival: From Season 2 she and Bam have been ascending the Tower nearly in parallel and have confronted each other many times.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Rachel is the Tomboy, as described by Bam to Black March, to Girly Girl idol-singer Yura, who also happens to be the closest thing Rachel has to a friend.
• The Unchosen One: Rareish anti-villainous (or whatever) example; kicking herself into a, if not the, protagonist role via Screw Destiny seems to be what motivates her entire plot arc. Headon basically seemed to promise her a way to become Unchosen, but... it remains to be seen if she can manage that. For now, she's a Wannabe with a very good shot. However, please note: if she hadn't tried to hijack Bam's Chosen One status in the first place, he'd still be stuck in that cave, bored out of his gourd and left not knowing enough to know that getting out was even possible. Additionally, she knows about Bam's role as Arlene Grace's child who will gain Enryu's Thorn and change the tower, but she still wants to take that role for herself.
• Walking Spoiler: In fact, even the fact that she can walk is a spoiler!
• We Can Rule Together: Once she discovers Wangnan has the same ring as Karaka and that he's the Prince of the Red-Light District, she asks him to team up with her in exchange for sparing Miseng and getting Cassano to return Horyang's half of their devil, which he reluctantly and grudgingly accepts — not just for Horyang's sake, but Miseng and Cassano's, too. Oh, and for a chance at Rachel: she's cool with it.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Pretends that her injury makes her unable to walk to manipulate others into helping her.
• Youthful Freckles: Sports them along her nose. It's implied that the freckles are supposed to make her look ugly, as she rids herself of them for her "Icarus" avatar.

Ghost

Ghost

Tower Position: Spear Bearer

Michelle Light, aren't you exhausted from the first test? Hmm, maybe not since this new friend from Headon is at your side. Ghost, right? The name suits him.

—Yu Hansung

A huge, mysterious hulking monster of unknown origin; he kept Rak in check during the Crown Game, immediately passed the Spear Bearer's exam, and slaughtered everybody except Rachel and Endorsi in the preliminaries.

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• Black Knight: A giant with black armor.
• Blood Knight: Kills for the sake of killing. In actuality, it was assisting Rachel to make it through the first tests.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In the first test on the Second Floor, he and Endorsi killed 297 other Regulars within 30 minutes.
• He Who Must Not Be Heard: It's originally unclear if he can speak at all, though he does have an incredibly creepy laugh. It takes until Season 3 for Ghost to finally speak.
  Ghost: You've gotten... much... stronger... but... not... strong... enough... to fight... Jahad.
• Meaningful Name: His Korean name "Ahkryeong" means "evil/malicious spirit".
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: See above.
• One-Man Army: Nothing could stand up to it in the initial survival round.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Ghost disappears after the Floor of Tests saga. He finally reappears in volume three.

Ha Yura

Ha Yura

Tower Position: Light Bearer

You know, I've been a fake for all those years. I was satisfied by the looks in other eyes watching me sing and dance for them. Rachel promised me...that if I get up the Tower with her... she'll let me see the real stars. I don't want to live a life where I'm swayed by a bunch of stupid morons anymore.

A popular D-Rank Regular of the Ha family who performs concerts as an idol singer. She's actually a part of Rachel's group, and boards the Hell Train to keep Bam from running into her. Yura's team faces off against Bam's team during the Train City tournament.

Following the Hell Train's Dallar Show, Yura is one of the remaining Regulars still a part of Rachel's group as they make their way to the forbidden 43rd Floor.

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• Arc Villainess: For Bam's team during the Train City tournament where she basically works to stall him. Yura goes to maximum effort to make sure that Bam doesn't make it to the Hell Train in order to catch up to Rachel.
• Black Sheep: A lesser variant. Word of God has noted her to be a "weirdo" of the Ha Family, having skills outside her family's muscle power and, although her spec is good, it isn't like the original Ha Family style, like Yuri's for example. Her mother's backstory also shows that Yura is visually distinct from other Ha members, as she lacks their brown hair and eyes (the blue is inherited from her father).
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Bam angrily chastises her for nearly killing her fan, she basically mentions that her fans are expendable.
• Cool Shades: Black sunglasses.
• Dark Action Girl: Shows off her superiority in shinsu usage in a one-on-one bet against Bam. Then we find out that her shinsu mastery is only because she's carrying a support item that boosts her Shinsu resistance. Her true combat capability is thus still unknown.
• The Dreaded: Her family name puts a lot of people on edge, which is part of the reason she was able to create a team so easily.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Heck, even her eyes sparkle. This turns out to be a genetic trait of the cursed clan she half-descends from.
• Idol Singer: Her former profession. Though she appears to have quit the job in order to board the Hell Train.
• Improbable Weapon User: She occasionally uses her suitcase as a weapon.
• Jerkass: Not only does she not care about her current teammates (even killing one outright), she injures the person, Hana Yu, that she knows is a devoted fan of hers.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Calls out Bam for being too clingy to Rachel. A lot of readers will agree that Bam chasing after Rachel does feel uncomfortable at times, even to the point where it comes off like Bam is stalking her. It doesn't help that immediately after this, Bam meets Rachel for the first time and completely flips out, telling her she's not allowed to leave him behind.
• Lured into a Trap: Turns out that the "Crazy Ball" match was a trap set up by her in order to distract everyone away from Rachel's group taking over the Hell Train. She teleports away using her suitcase after Rachel makes her move.
• Nom de Mom: Justified due to the culture of the Tower, which places importance on the parent with the more powerful family connection. Yura's mother was a Ha, one of the Ten Great Families, while her father was from a cursed clan.
• Only Friend: Baam's tormented relationship with Rachel aside (since it hardly be called friendship after season 1), she's the only character who actually cares about Rachel as a person.
• Out of Focus: Her time in the spotlight is currently non-existent after joining up with Rachel's group on the Hell Train. However, she starts to get more screen-time following the Name Hunt Station arc.
• Plot Device: Her teleportation suitcase.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Walks up to an ongoing all-out brawl to ask everyone remaining to become her Hell Train team...which they do.
• Revenge: Her mother was murdered by their own family, so she's joined FUG to get revenge against them and the rest of the ten families.
• Separated at Birth: In a very weird way. She was originally supposed to have a twin brother, but the curse put on her father's side of the family made it so that males born will have a higher risk of death in the womb. On the Hell Train's Hidden Floor, her mother made a deal with Big Breeder Hwang in order to have both children born—meaning that her brother was born as a data being while Yura's own data copy died in the womb. She eventually meets her "brother" later on in the arc.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Kills one of her Hell Train teammates for gloating about their team's first victory.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Yura is the idol-singer Girly Girl to Tomboy Rachel, and she also happens to be the closest thing Rachel has to a friend (even if it's a little one-sided).
• Tracking Device: Has one for Rachel located in her hair. When it was put in, or whether or not Rachel was even aware of this is unknown. Pretty funny for someone who calls Bam out on being to clingy to Rachel.
• Villainous Friendship: With Rachel oddly enough, even though Yura is a beautiful and beloved Idol Singer, while Rachel tends to be The Resenter to anyone she considers more blessed than her. Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that neither holds issue with sacrificing those who have outlived their usefulness, the two are extremely close, with Yura arguably being Rachel’s Only Friend.

Apple

Apple

Tower Position: Scout, Light Bearer

Since you know our secret, you're probably going to die here.

Scout and information gatherer of Khun's season 2 team. Apple's later revealed to be a mole for FUG that was planted into the team to help Rachel break away and do her own thing. Since then, Apple's remained a member of Team Rachel in supporting her climb up the Tower.

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• Edible Theme Naming: Her name is the same as a fruit. She's even been seen eating an apple at one point.
• Mission Control: Owns a Lighthouse and doubles as a Light Bearer for Aguero's Team.
• The Mole: FUG planted her and Michael within Khun's season 2 team that was watching over Rachel in order to destroy the team from within, which allows Rachel to break away from Khun's watchful eyes.
• Uncanny Valley Makeup: Not as bad as some of the page's example, but Apple is notable to wear the most makeup of all the characters introduced so far.
• Walking Spoiler: Knowing that Apple's a member of Team Rachel gives away that she screws over Khun's team early on.

Michael

Michael

Tower Position: Wave Controller

Swallow the medicine, Gyetang. If you don't, you won't get better.

Medic and Wave Controller of Khun's season 2 team. Michael's later revealed to be a mole for FUG that was planted into the team to help Rachel break away and do her own thing. Since then, Michael's remained a member of Team Rachel in supporting her climb up the Tower.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Brown skin.
• Eyes Always Shut: A classic example. He keeps them shut when he puts up his facade, but opens them when he reveals his true persona as a member of FUG.
• The Medic: With some Deadly Doctor thrown in on the side to complete the package.
• The Mole: FUG planted him and Apple within Khun's season 2 team that was watching over Rachel in order to destroy the team from within, which allows Rachel to break away from Khun's watchful eyes.
• Nice Guy: Seems to be the most friendly of the team.
• Nonindicative Name: Medic, not Missionary. And, a dangerous one, too: unless he suddenly whips out FUG pamphlets to post through the door, don't buy his shtick.
• Perpetual Smiler: Always shown to be smiling
• Stepford Smiler: He even smiles while poisoning Gyetang.
• Troll: He joins a mission intended to sabotage Bam, partially because he was ordered, but he also states that he enjoys getting the chance to screw Khun over a second time.
• Walking Spoiler: Knowing that Michael's a member of Team Rachel gives away that he screws over Khun's team early on.

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