History Characters / HonkaiStarRailPenacony

* WrittenByTheWinners: Most of Penacony's true history has turned to myth. While a passing History Fictionologist played a minor role, the vast majority of the damage was caused by the Dreammaster himself. As he consolidated power, he didn't just kill his rivals, but {{Unperson}}ed them to the best of his ability. This is referenced in Clockie cartoons, by how Clockie gradually disagrees with Old Man Wood's views and actions. Towards the end of the Penacony arc, the Express manages to uncover ''some'' of the lost history, and the Dreammaster's reveal as a treacherous MoleInCharge makes it more palatable for the Family to allow some of it to reach the public, though enough of it is still sufficiently controversial to stay hidden for now.

* AntiArmor: Gallagher's Sixth Eidolon Upgrade, "Blood and Sand", boosts his Break Effect and Weakness Break Efficiency by 20%.

* DreamWeaver: [[spoiler:Thanks to the Path of Enigmata, he can forge Dreamscapes. He was Penacony's original means of creating them before the Family started abusing the powers of a stellaron to cheat.]]

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The Clockie cartoon character, Scammer Cup, is based on him.

[[spoiler:His form as the Great Septimus can be refought in the Penacony Grand Theater as an Echo of War.]]

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Sunday claims that becoming a god isn't his goal, but it almost happens to him anyway. The final phase of his boss fight has him transform into something called the "Embryo of Philosophy" with a description explaining that it's the beginning stages of a brand new Aeon. Fortunately, the Nameless and Robin are able to stop the transformation before the ascension could be completed.]]

* CartoonConductor: [[spoiler: As [[OneWingedAngel The Great Septimus]], he attacks by "conducting" both his minions and magical notes into striking you in various manners.]]
* {{Cephalothorax}}: [[spoiler:Behind The Great Septimus' back, there's a big face that is revealed in full in his third phase of the battle.]]
* ClippedWingAngel: {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the third phase of his boss fight. [[spoiler:The first two phases can be rather difficult to fight, but the third phase involves damaging as many as his toughness bars as possible to put up a shield against his AOE attack which ignores defense. The attack itself comes after 7 of your party's turns, so you have plenty of time to prepare against it, as he does nothing else during the attack's charging. Said toughness bars are weak to all elements, and can be pretty easy to break. And if the shield is strong enough, then the party will not take any damage from the attack. If he becomes Weakness Broken, his next turn is delayed significantly more than normal.]]

* CombinationAttack: [[spoiler:In the first 2 phases of his boss battle, he has an attack (single target in the 1st, AOE in the 2nd) where he'll command all his flunkies to attack his target simultaneously, somewhat like True Sting's own attack. Like most "strong boss attack", he charges for 1 turn before the attack comes out; depending on how many of his flunkies are Weakness Broken before said attack, the attack's damage will be reduced up to 0, where [[EpicFail he'll look at his flunkies in confusion]].]]

* CompanyCrossReferences: One will find that Sunday actually has a lot in common with [[spoiler: the Herrscher of Dominance from sister game VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd]]:
** Both are motivated by helpless despair at the inherent unfairness of the world, and wish to change this seemingly hopeless fate [[ControlFreak by taking control of it all]].
** [[spoiler:Sunday's use of puppets parallels how the Herrscher of Dominance itself takes the form of a legion of puppets. Likewise, his battle taking place in Penacony's theater invokes similar imagery to the Herrscher of Dominance's own personal PocketDimension, the Theater of Domination]].
** In both cases one of the biggest factors in their ultimate defeats is the unexpected interference by an unwanted third party who invited themselves nonetheless. Amusingly, in both cases this takes the form of [[spoiler:[[AlternateSelf each series' own "Raiden Mei"]], whom prove able to destabilize their respective adversaries' powers with their own and force them into the open for a final confrontation]].

* CooldownManipulation: [[spoiler:In his boss battle, the attack performed by his flunkies will delay the turn of your character that takes the hit.]]
* DeflectorShield: [[spoiler:In his boss battle's 2nd phase, he gains a move that apply a shield to himself, like Gepard (Complete) before him. While the shield is active, his Toughness Gauge cannot be broken, he deals more damage, and he gains DamageReduction.]]
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:Or rather in the process of becoming one before it's stopped by the Nameless. During Sunday's boss fight, it's implied he is currently in the embyro stage of becoming an Aeon, either being reborn as Ena or an entirely new one.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:As the Great Septimus, he is all about enforcing the will of Order, where all are as one. Yet his battle theme for the first two phases is an ear-grating and discordant cacophony of different musical styles.]]

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: [[spoiler:He is the first boss in the game with multi-layered Toughness Gauge. Depleting one gauge will make him take Break DMG, but he's only considered Weakness Broken after you deplete all of his gauges. As a bonus, he takes longer than usual to recover from Weakness Break, and each time you break his gauge, your party will gain a party-wide shield. Also in the first 2 phases, he and his flunkies [[SharedLifeMeter share a health bar]], so AOE attacks will quickly damage him. In the first 2 phases, he has 3 toughness gauges, while in the 3rd phase he has 9.]]

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:His true ideal/view of Order is similar to Aponia's "Discipline" in ''Honkai Impact 3rd''. She believes that, for the weak, freedom will only bring danger and suffering, and [[CompellingVoice her power of Discipline]] is intended to prevent the weak from bringing harm to themselves or others and keep them safe, just like how Sunday intends to care for the weak by reliving them of their freedom, though with the method of LotusEaterMachine.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Transforms into his TrueFinalBoss form for the final fight of 2.2, Harmonious Choir: The Great Septimus. As part of the Charmony Festival, one of the Harmonious Choir (i.e Emanators of Harmony) would descend and perform, but Sunday uses the power of Order to [[HijackingCthulhu hijack and control it]] for the purpose of activating Ena's Dream.]]

* SistineSteal: [[spoiler:As a boss, his most powerful attack in the third phase is to summon a hand from the sky, reach out to it with his fingertip, and touch it, which causes an explosion that does a massive DEF-ignoring damage.]]

* StatusInflictionAttack: [[spoiler:In his boss fight, one of his attacks inflict the unique "Alien Dream" status on one of your characters. The affected character will be put to sleep and regenerate a few HP each turn they passed, but the next attack that hits them will be amplified, which will then "wake" the character up.]]

* ThemeNaming: [[spoiler:In his boss battle's 1st and 2nd phase, all of his attacks are named with Italian musical terms.]]

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[[folder:Mr. [=McCoy=]]]
The Oak Family's head butler.

* CainAndAbel: He [[spoiler:forcibly turned his own siblings into memes as punishment for betraying the Family]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He stresses that [[spoiler:betraying his own siblings]] was necessary since it was a task personally assigned to him by the Dreammaster, and was basically a loyalty test.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He deeply regrets the fact that he [[spoiler:turned both of his siblings into memes as punishment for their supposed betrayal of the Family]], to the point where he tries to have all memory of it erased in an attempt to escape the guilt. [[AllForNothing It doesn't work]].
* RankUp: He has ambitions to be promoted to be a Family head.

[[folder:The Dreammaster / Gopher Wood]]
[[quoteright:480:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/item_penacony_readable_planet_of_festivities_gopher_wood.png]]

The cult-like leader of the Penaconian Family, Penacony's current ruler, and the man who raised Sunday and Robin.

* CallForward: In the "Clockie: Dreamjoy Memoir" event, in the "classic ending" of the final movie "Dreamjoy Secrecy", Clockie is worried that Old Man Wood had taken too much power and authority in Dreamville, but all of his efforts to do something about it aren't fruitful. Then he remembers that he still has The Compass (the vessel which he used to belong to) and its crew, and hopes that by sending a message to them, they can help him resolve Dreamville's issues. This is a reference to [[spoiler:the Watchmaker's plan of calling upon the current Astral Express crew to aid him in saving Penacony as he was on his last legs; the event occurs after the Trailblaze Mission is over, where the Astral Express inherited his legacy and eventually saved Penacony]].

* NonIndicativeName: He is obviously named Clockie because he's a clock, [[spoiler:except that The Watchmaker based him off of a compass that he only assumed was a pocketwatch. That's why the true Clockie's power's are based on guiding people, whereas only the derivative versions based on the original mistake sometimes have time powers]]. As his creator notes, he should have been called [[spoiler:Compassie]]. Later, after the main story of Penacony ends, you get one last mission with him, [[spoiler:where says that he will keep protecting the "Dreamville" (Penacony) for now, but whenever they (the Trailblazer) need him, they can always call "Compassie" to help them]].

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: With his slovenly appearance and agreeable demeanour, [[spoiler:he successfully kept his true agenda under wraps until his confrontation with Sunday reveals that he's the one behind the killings. This is later {{Subverted|trope}} as it turns out [[ASheepInSheepsClothing that he's actually on the Watchmaker's side]]]].

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In-universe, he is the inspiration for the Clockie cartoon character "Old Man Wood", a supposedly benevolent leader who helps Clockie build up Dreamville following its liberation from Boss Stone. However, as relations between them soured, the Watchmaker portrayed this via a CynicismCatalyst that turned Old Man Wood into a KnightTemplar. Recognizing the symbolism, the Family had Old Man Wood banned from all future episodes of the Clockie cartoon show and forbade any future artwork based on Old Man Wood.

* YouRemindMeOfX: If the Trailblazer threatens to mistell the true story of the Nightingale Family that the Dreammaster erased from history, he says that the Trailblazer reminds him of the Watchmaker.

* CompanyCrossReference: One will find that Sunday actually has a lot in common with [[spoiler: the Herrscher of Dominance from sister game VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd]]:

* DreamWeaver: [[spoiler:Thanks to the Path of Enigmata, he can forge Dreamscapes.]]

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In-universe, he is the inspiration for the Clockie cartoon character "Old Man Wood", a supposedly benevolent leader who helps Clockie build up Dreamville following its liberation from Boss Stone.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: An InUniverse, the cartoon Hanu is based on Hanunue, leader of Penacony's revolt against the IPC. The Watchmaker created the cartoon to immortalize him. He ended up HoistByHisOwnPetard when the Family managed to use it to confuse and redirect all memory of him instead.

* NoSell: While the Concerto state is active, Robin gains complete immunity from all crowd-control debuffs.[[note]] Keyword : [[ExactWords debuffs]]. She can still be interrupted by Svarog's abduction ability and Something Unto Death's instant-kill attacks since said ability doesn't count as debuffs.[[/note]]

* NoSell: While the Concerto state is active, Robin gains complete immunity from nearly all crowd-control debuffs.[[note]]She can still be interrupted by Svarog's abduction ability and Something Unto Death's instant-kill attacks.[[/note]]