History Characters / AITheSomniumFilesNirvanaInitiative

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: So many problems and tragic fates can be traced back to his AlcoholInducedIdiocy-driven decision to [[spoiler:steal the left half of Jin Furue]]. If he hadn't done that, then [[spoiler:Amame]] wouldn't have felt the need to cover for him (looping in [[spoiler:Gen]] in the process), which leads to [[spoiler:their arrest and death, respectively,]] in one timeline. [[spoiler:Tearer]] also would've had no reason to seek revenge, which not only resulted in [[spoiler:Komeji's death]], but also [[spoiler:Tearer's]] fateful encounter with [[spoiler:Amame]], which led to almost everything that happened in the present turning out the way it did. Granted, some of those events in the present were magnificently positive, such as [[spoiler:stopping the Nirvana Initiative]] as detailed under SpannerInTheWorks above, but [[spoiler:his death traumatized both of his children and left them without a father, and Amame is arrested for murdering Tearer out of revenge and for deceiving the police after the fact]].

** [[spoiler:He is eventually forced to accept Kizuna and Lien's relationship in the end, since the media labeled them a cute power couple after they helped foil Naixatloz's terrorist plot; Riichi doesn't want the press portraying him as the villainous father who destroyed such a famous couple. In the Divergence Route, the couple is also formed but it is unknown if it is with or without Riichi's approval]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Ultimately the Nirvana Initiative likely would not have been prevented had he not stolen the left half of Jin's body on the rooftop of Misetan Department Store. Tearer gets so pissed off by this that he decides to target Komeji, then places both halves of his body at the exact same places as Jin's. This makes the main cast realize the reason why Tearer split his victims' bodies in half and was so particular about where to place them: to indicate where the TC-PERGE-loaded missile will be launched from.]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Jin's actual personally and thoughts never come from himself, as about everything we know is from words of others, but a couple things can be implied.

* FaceOfAThug: Exaggerated; an X-ray of his skull later reveals it's outright deformed, meaning he looks like a horror movie monster. He's a perfectly NiceGuy.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Gen can't be legally punished for helping Amame hide a dead body in his freezer since the crime was performed six years ago and the statute of limitations for abandoning a body is only three. Mizuki tries to use this to persuade Gen to allow her to interrogate Amame, to little avail. Amame would have ''also'' walked free after her Psync, if ABIS hadn't discovered that she committed an even worse crime only a few days before.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite members of ABIS regularly going to his restaurant, he nor his restaurant was never brought up in the first game. Justified however seeing as how it would’ve not been important to the events of the first game, but apparently Date constantly eats there, something that isn't mentioned in the first game.

* StockholmSyndrome: Even though Chikara and Tokiko kidnapped him, he only came to despise Chikara for using him as an unwilling organ donor, while desperately craved affection from Tokiko, whom he saw as his "mother". Justified, in that Tokiko was the only one of the two who showed him any degree of kindness.