History Characters / RefractionsExoGenesis

* [[spoiler:MaddenIntoMisanthropy: It's heavily implied he hates humanity, but unlike other versions of this trope, he plans to create a new race of living beings, so they cannot make the same mistakes of their creators, rather than using his creations against humanity]]. At the large scale of the things, he failed, '''BIG TIME'''.

* [[spoiler:YouAreInCommandNow: She becomes technically into Komatsu's succesor against her will by The Net on the grounds she was Komatsu's personal secretary, despise Project Prometheus is already finished and the role of project director is now obsolete after Komatsu's "demise"]].

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:He stole some genetic machinery so he can clone himself with his [[BrainUploading memories uploaded to a newer clone]] as many times he wants until the time comes to reveal himself to his creations. Since cloning is illegal in this story, Bettings and his crew try to stop him, but Komatsu anticipated that someone would come after him and Bettings' forces wind up OutGambitted.]] Also, judging by his name alone, [[spoiler:it's also implied he already was doing that since possibly generations ago]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sort of. Komatsu is not exactly a hero, but he's not a villain either. His true intentions with the Project Prometheus are [[spoiler:creating a new race of living beings able to success when the humans failed for centuries, especially with regard to war, violence, and social and racial prejudices. Although he was successful in creating new living beings, on the other hand, if we take into account what happened in both ''Albedo'' and ''Birthright'', not only his creations turned out being not very different from humanity, they also becoming even more '''[[UpToEleven warlike]]''' than humans, if you take into account animals having more wild natural instincts than humans or even primates. Even both The Net and Wendy later on heavily implies violence and war are natural attributes of sentient beings and those [[InherentInTheSystem cannot be suppressed even with genetics]]]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sort of. Komatsu is not exactly a hero, but he's not a villain either. His true intentions with the Project Prometheus are [[spoiler:creating a new race of living beings able to success when the humans failed for centuries, especially with regard to war, violence, and social and racial prejudices. Although he was successful in creating new living beings, on the other hand, if we take into account what happened in both ''Albedo'' and ''Birthright'', not only his creations turned out being NotSoDifferent compared with humanity, they also becoming even more '''[[UpToEleven warlike]]''' than humans, if you take into account animals having more wild natural instincts than humans or even primates. Even both The Net and Wendy later on heavily implies violence and war are natural attributes of sentient beings and those [[InherentInTheSystem cannot be suppressed even with genetics]]]].

* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: He stole some genetic machinery so he can clone himself with his [[BrainUploading memories uploaded to a newer clone]] as many times he wants until the time comes to reveal himself to his creations. Since cloning is illegal in this story, Bettings and his crew try to stop him, but Komatsu anticipated that someone would come after him and Bettings' forces wind up OutGambitted.]] Also, judging by his name alone, [[spoiler:it's also implied he already was doing that since possibly generations ago]].

* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: He fakes his own death just to be able to stay in Arras Chanka. By the time the rest of the cast finds out his plan, it's too late to stop him, as it's implied he rigged their ships just to kill them on their way home]].
* AGodAmI: Very downplayed, but still applicable here. [[spoiler:It turns out his whole plan was staying in Arras Chanka to supervise the whole project in a secret underground base, by cloning himself to be able to live forever until he could reveal the truth to his creations]].
* [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater Scope Anti Villain]]: For someone whose biggest dream is creating new life-forms and a new civilization, Komatsu doesn't mind at all having to wait ''centuries'' to fulfill his plans, and [[spoiler:thankfully for him, he has cloning technology at hand for that]].

* ScaleOfScientificSins: Komatsu commits the first, the third for ''very obvious reasons'', since it's the whole premise of the comic in first place, the fifth (for the same reasons) and [[spoiler:the sixth]]. Oddly enough, he avoids the [[AGodIAm seventh]], as far we know about him, since he doesn't seem interested in attaining godhood, albeit it's later explained he plans to reveal himself to his creations at the right time. What could happen ''next'' is still unknown.

* AGodIAm: Discussed in the second episode of the story when [[spoiler:he gets into an argument both Captain Puckett, the captain of one of the ill-fated spaceships, and Commander Fiello about if they should make their existance public for the Aybees and both officers, especially Fiello invoke this trope on Bettings and Bettings ''himself'' decides to use it in a attempt to impose his authority on the rest of the crew after Fiello challenged his leadership]]:

* YellowPeril: Downplayed a lot: The fact he is of Japanese ancestry is completely incidental to his actions. Still, some aspects of the trope apply. He even has a MadScientistsBeautifulDaughterequivalent in the form of Wendy Merrit, his personal secretary. [[spoiler:Despite this, he's willing to sacrifice her if she threatens his plans.]]

** More warlike is debatable. The ILR has killed in orders of magnitude more people than any human regime yet but UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/JosefStalin never had the opportunity to kill a planet or even play around with nukes. And the timeline in the RPG suggests that unless you count fights between bandits and militia groups on the frontier the Aybees didn't have any wars for the first 200 years of their existence, hence the ILR's early lead when they made the first organized military.

* ScaleOfScientificSins: Komatsu commits the first, the third for ''very obvious reasons'', since it's the whole premise of the comic in first place, the fifth (for the same reasons) and [[spoiler:the sixth]]. Oddly enough, he avoids the [[AGodIAm seventh]], as far we know about him, since he doesn't seem interested in attaining godhood, albeit it's later explained he will plan to show himself towards his own creations at the right time. What could happen ''next'' is still unknown.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Even if his intentions weren't evil, at the large scale of the things he's responsable of '''every single event,''' good or bad, that happens in both ''Albedo'' and ''Birthright'' by the simple fact that [[spoiler:violence is a natural part of all living beings]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Not exactly an ''extremist'' or ''evil'' per se, but he fits in this, as it's heavily implied [[spoiler:he was the one the rigged both the spaceship ''Zeus'' and the aerodyne ''Athena'' as a way to kill everyone except him just to prevent Bettings or the UHSC to ruin his plans]].
* YellowPeril: Downplayed a lot: The fact he is of Japanese ancestry is completely incidental to his actions, despite he fits somewhat with the trope, including the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter's trope, in this case, Wendy Merrit fits, even if she is not his daughter, but his personal secretary, and even she [[spoiler:is not safe from Komatsu's plans about killing everyone who attempts to disturb his plans]].

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:The only reason why everyone seems to be against him later on is because he broke the law on both staying on Arras Chanka and using cloning devices for using them on himself, something illegal on the setting, not to mention the fact it's heavily implied he sabotaged Bettings and his crew's spaceship, so they can't return home to ruin his plans, but his intentions are good]].

* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: He stoled some genetic machinery for himself, so he can be able to clone himself with his [[BrainUploading memories uploaded to a newer clone]] as many times he want it until the time come to reveal himself towards his creations. According with the story, cloning is illegal, so Bettings and his crew tries to stop him, but Komatsu already anticipated that]]. Also, judging by his name alone, [[spoiler:it's also implied he already was doing that since possibly generations ago]].
* {{Expy}}: Taking into account how he's described in-story, he's possibly inspired in [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Dr. Moreau]], or also accounting many of the developments of both the comic and this story, of [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Dr. Victor Frankenstein]]]].
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: He fakes his own death just to be able to stay in Arras Chanka. By the time the rest of the cast finds out his plan, it was too late to stop him, as it's implied he rigged their ships just to kill them on their way home]].
* AGodAmI: Very downplayed, but still applicable here. [[spoiler:it turns out his whole plan was staying in Arras Chanka to supervise the whole project in a secret underground base, by cloning himself to be able to live forever until he could reveal the truth to his creations]].
* [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater Scope Anti Villain]]: For someone whose biggest dream is creating new life-forms and a new civilization, Komatsu doesn's mind at all having to wait ''centuries'' to fulfill his plans, and [[spoiler:thankfully for him, he has cloning technology at hand for that]].

* KimonoIsTraditional: The story describes him as always dressed in a hakama, possibly to emphatize his Japanese backgrounds.

** More warlike is debatable. The ILR has killed in orders of magnitude more people than any human regime yet but Hitler and Stalin never had the opportunity to kill a planet or even play around with nukes. And the timeline in the RPG suggests that unless you count fights between bandits and militia groups on the frontier the Aybees didn't have any wars for the first 200 years of their existence, hence the ILR's early lead when they made the first organized military.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:After destroying the human base in Arras Chanka by the members of the UHSC as a part of the protocol for seeding the planet with the Aybees (aka the Species), everyone though he's already dead after he decided to stay in the base. It turns out it was part of his plan]].
* TheBadGuyWins: More accurately described as "The ''AntiVillain'' Wins": Even if the Bettings and his crew could survive the ILR's onslaught, there's no way for them from being rescued and Komatsu will possibly continue executing his nebulous plans until the time is come, while the rest of the human cast will die unintentionally at the hands of the ILR, of old age, or when the food and water runs out for them.

* SuperPrototype: of The Net in Aladdin's case.