Line #76 Characters/TheSilverCase


1	For an outline of the characters and their factions, it may also be helpful to view the [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/476650/manuals/ManualEN.pdf?t=1478591587 manual]].
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3	It should probably go without saying, but due to the heavy focus on a mystery storyline, there will naturally be some unavoidable spoilers in these profiles, especially in the "major antagonists" section.
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
6	! Transmitter thread
7	!! Heinous Crimes Unit (HCU)
8	One of the units in Ward 24's Administrative Inspection Office, it's in charge of investigating serious cases.
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10	[[folder:Sumio Kodai]]
11	!!Sumio Kodai
12	One of the younger members of the HCU. Graduated from Central. A serious man when it comes to work, he doesn't get involved in division drama.
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14	* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:He and his friends were disabled, and their other friend killed, in a tragic event when they were children; all his actions since have gone towards getting revenge]].
15	* DecoyProtagonist: He's always listed first in character introductions (like in the opening or on the website), and looks the most like a cool 'hero' character. But you play as someone else. [[spoiler:Then Sumio gets arrested midway through the game, after his involvement in #3: parade]].
16	* HiddenDepths: He comes across as the most level-headed and normal member of the team, [[spoiler:but he's actually deeply troubled and biding his time to enact revenge on the man whose actions lead to his disability and the death of his friend]].
17	* HidingTheHandicap: [[spoiler:Learned lipreading and bribed and cheated his way past the police tests in order to hide the fact that he's deaf]].
18	* ThePlan: [[spoiler:As the mastermind of the Mikumo Boys, he created the plan to take down the Yukimura Group]].
19	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue (good cop) to Kusabi's Red (bad cop). [[spoiler:His calmer demeanor hides the colder side he acts on as the leader of the Mikumo Boys.]]
20	* WasItReallyWorthIt: His long spiel on the importance of [[spoiler:killing the past]] is immediately followed by a genuinely happy memory: [[spoiler:meeting Kusabi for the first time]]. This hints that Sumio isn't entirely happy with throwing away their friendship for the sake of his plans.
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23	[[folder:Tetsugoro Kusabi]]
24	!!Tetsugoro Kusabi
25	Sumio's partner. A veteran agent who arrested Kamui during the incident known as "The Silver Case". Impolite, but very skilled.
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27	* AmbiguouslyBi: He has a daughter and has been married, but his interactions with Sumio and the fact that they're on a FirstNameBasis (when he isn't even on these terms with even his oldest colleagues) suggest that he might have feelings for him. It's conspicuous enough that in ''VideoGame/FlowerSunAndRain'', [[spoiler:Tokio expresses his belief that Tetsu is in love with Sumio]].
28	* AMFMCharacterization: PlayedWith. In Lunatics, Kusabi's listening to a mellow piano piece on his car radio. He doesn't like it. So he changes the radio station and complains that the radio plays "nothing but shit".
29	* CoolOldGuy: He acts abrasive, but he's really this at heart. Not to mention, he's still incredibly deadly even though he's getting on in his years.
30	* JerkAss: Especially comes off as this early on, such as in Decoyman where he berates Chizuru over very little.
31	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: By the end of the game, though, it becomes clear that he's a good person who cares for his friends deep down.
32	* PerpetualFrowner: Appears to be in a perpetually bad mood which has the side effect of [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/suda51/images/a/a8/Kusabi_art.png/revision/latest?cb=20180323104316 making him look older and craggier]] than he [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/suda51/images/4/42/TetsuguroKusabi.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090812212557 actually is]].
33	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Reflecting both his abrasiveness and old-fashioned values, he isn't all too shy about throwing out homophobic and ableist slurs.
34	* RedOniBlueOni: The Red (bad cop) to Sumio's Blue (good cop).
35	[[/folder]]
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37	[[folder:Chizuru Hachisuka]]
38	!!Chizuru Hachisuka
39	The mayor's daughter. A traditional detective who understands forensic profiling and data collection.
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41	* AllPeriodsArePMS: This is what ''she'' blames her irritability on at the end of Spectrum, but given her turnaround in personality afterwards, this may be a bluff.
42	* LackOfEmpathy: She tends to come off as blunt and insensitive. [[spoiler:This aspect becoming more pronounced in later cases foreshadows her becoming the next Ayame.]]
43	* OfficeRomance: She has this going on with Morikawa, which also counts as an AgeGapRomance considering his seniority.
44	* OnlySaneWoman: Her methods are the most realistic, yet the other detectives get praised for their intuition, much to her exasperation. [[spoiler:Ultimately goes out the window after she takes the mantle of Ayame.]]
45	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Much to her annoyance. It no longer is the case after Sakura joins late in the game.
46	* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:She's the next [[LegacyCharacter iteration]] of Ayame ''after'' the Ayame who appeared in #1: decoyman]].
47	[[/folder]]
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49	[[folder:Kiyoshi Morikawa]]
50	!!Kiyoshi Morikawa
51	Chizuru's partner. An old friend of Kusabi's. Skilled, yet often comes across as lazy or temperamental.
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53	* BrilliantButLazy: Very respected in the department, but it can seem like he's not doing much of anything useful.
54	* OfficeRomance: With Chizuru, which also counts as an AgeGapRomance considering he's in his 40's at the very least, while she's in her 20's.
55	[[/folder]]
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57	[[folder:Morichika Nakategawa]]
58	!!Morichika Nakategawa
59	A loner who works from the office.
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61	* TheAloner: He might carry a gun, but he's rarely assigned to work outside the HCU building.
62	* BigBadFriend: He's not disloyal to the HCU and his co-workers, and honestly seems to be the most cool-headed member of the HCU, but [[spoiler:he also happens to be a high-ranking member of the FSO, and near the end attempts to steer Akira away from investigating the conspiracy]].
63	* [[LoliconAndShotacon Lolicon]]: He implies as much on a few occasions, which just makes him all the more creepy.
64	* OnlySaneMan: Him along Chizuru are the most level-headed members of the HCU, with him seeming to nearly always keep his cool unlike the rest of the HCU. [[spoiler: He's just as ruthless as the rest of them and is a powerful member of the conspiracy.]]
65	* RankUp: Is promoted to the chief of the HCU in the climactic chapter.
66	[[/folder]]
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68	[[folder:The Player Character]]
69	!!Akira/Big Dick/???
70	You. A former member of the Republic task force, you are recruited into the HCU following the former's near-destruction.
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72	* TheBigGuy: Kusabi and Sumio comments that he is built like a criminal and in the few illustrations where he is side by side with the crime unit he is clearly the most imposing.
73	* EmbarrassingNickname: Subverted; although Kusabi's nicknames for Akira (first Chinchilla and later Big Dick (yes, seriously)) seem... questionable, Sumio actually thinks they're cool.
74	* FaceOfAThug: Whenever his face is actually shown, we see that he is pale, his eyes are hidden and has a scar.
75	* HelloInsertNameHere: When starting a new file, the game will ask "Who Are You?", at which point you type in what becomes your codename.
76	* HeroicMime: Deconstructed. He can't talk due to suffering from psychosis following his failed mission, and rather than heroic, people find it intimidating and creepy. [[spoiler:In Whiteout prologue, this is actually a problem as he's unable to answer Shiroyabu, who shoots him because of it...or so we're led to believe until #06: white out in ''The 25th Ward'' proper]].
77	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It seems that he doesn't actually ''have'' a real name.
78	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:In a sense; the 2016 remaster's new "Whiteout" prologue chapter ends with him [[UncertainDoom seemingly being shot to death by]] [[VideoGame/TheTwentyFifthWard Shiroyabu]]. Come ''The 25th Ward'' and #06: white out, and it turns out to be {{subverted}}; Officer Shiroyabu never gets to shoot Big Dick, because Kusabi shows up just in time to shoot Shiroyabu in the ear instead.]]
79	* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:You are the next [[LegacyCharacter iteration]] of Kamui]].
80	[[/folder]]
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82	[[folder:Sakura Natsume]]
83	!!Sakura Natsume
84	An ex-Republic operator who got transferred to the HCU, and the daughter of Republic's former chief Daigo Natsume.
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86	* TheChiefsDaughter: To Republic.
87	* FauxActionGirl: She barely gets deployed during her time with Republic. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that she is an Ayame vessel. She guns down Hachisuka, an "activated" Ayame vessel, with ease]].
88	* LogicalLatecomer: She is unfamiliar with how the HCU operates, which has her taken aback. [[spoiler:This is completely subverted by the climax of Lifecut, though, as she learns about the truth behind the Silver Case.]]
89	* NewMeat: A recent transfer from Republic.
90	* SixthRanger: The most important and prominent of the new additions to the Unit.
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93	[[folder:Other HCU Members]]
94	!!Kenta Mikoshiba
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96	!!Riley Kawabata
97	The medical examiner in charge of conducting autopsies.
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99	!!Shinji Kotobuki
100	The boss of the HCU.
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102	* DaChief
103	* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler:He all-but-outright asks Kusabi to off him near the end of the story, feeling like his fate has been sealed now that the higher-ups have no reason left to keep him alive. Kusabi agrees and kills him.]]
104	* SmokingIsCool: Is usually seen smoking a cigarette.
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107	!! Republic
108	[[folder:Republic Personnel]]
109	An [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous elite anti-crime/terrorism unit]] under the AIO's Public Security Department, its job is to handle criminal/terrorist matters when regular police officers are not deemed suitable for the job. At the start of the story, it was almost wiped out during the mission to retrieve Kamui. It's known as the Special Security Unit. They stand out [[WeaponSpecialization as they're seen in public with SG 552 carbines]].
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111	Ultimately a RedShirtArmy with the exception of the player character.
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113	!!Daigo Natsume
114	The head of Republic. As of shortly into the game, he's confined to the IMM Hospital due to serious injuries sustained in the case.
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116	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Averted. Despite being in the field, Kamui ([[spoiler:Ayame]]) was able to severely injure him so that he ends up in an apparently permanent coma.
117	* DaChief: Head of Republic.
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119	!!Kenichi Sakamoto
120	The second in command of Republic. Responsible for leading a Republic element to arrest Kamui in "Operation Secure Kamui".
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122	* NumberTwo: Second in command of Republic.
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124	!!Haruhiko Inomata
125	A Republic operator. He's very skeptical that arresting Kamui is easy to do.
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127	* TemptingFate: During the debriefing, Inomata keeps insisting that arresting Kamui may be very hard to do since he kills anyone standing in his way. [[spoiler:He's one of the first to die in the line of duty.]]
128	[[/folder]]
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130	! Placebo thread
131	[[folder:Tokio Morishima]]
132	!!Tokio Morishima
133	The protagonist of the Placebo side of the story, Tokio is an introspective freelance reporter who lives in a small apartment with his pet turtle. Although Tokio is only a private citizen, his investigations into the events of the Transmitter side embroil him further and further into the main story.
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135	* ClassicalAntiHero: Starts out as a BrilliantButLazy washed-up ex-journalist who sleeps until noon, does the bare minimum of investigative work before shuffling off to buy cigarettes or alcohol, and shamelessly asks other people to do his research for him. However, he gradually develops into a more involved and passionate seeker of truth as Placebo proceeds.
136	* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Upon discovering that his real client was hiring him to prevent the awakening of a new Kamui and that they were forcing him into a situation where he has to kill Akira to prevent Kamui's awakening, Tokio himself seemingly awakes to his own inner Kamui for a moment and kills his client, revealed to be mayor Uminosuke Hachisuka, and steals his silver eye for good measure.]]
137	* HearingVoices: [[spoiler: Here and there this happens. In the 25th Ward it's revealed that he's been picking up a few "lingering consciousnesses" of dead characters in his mind, in a manner not unlike Harman's Remnant Psyches in VideoGame/Killer7.]]
138	* HeroicBSOD: After the attempt on his life in "AI", he lends away his turtle Red and becomes completely detached from everything to the point that he doesn't answer his e-mails for a ''whole month''.
139	* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}; he's this to the Hachisuka family, but by the time he learns this Chizuru is already dead and they never actually met]].
140	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He's actually the son of Mayor Hachisuka, but he doesn't know it as he was adopted by another family]].
141	* PerceptionFilter: His character portrait in Placebo presents him as a hardboiled reporter, but when he shows up in Transmitter, he's actually rather baby-faced despite his age.
142	* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:He steals Uminosuke Hachisuka's silver eye and places it into his own eye socket at the end of Placebo, effectively granting him immortality. He gives up on it by the end of ''The 25th Ward'' however.]]
143	* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:His father, mayor Uminosuke Hachisuka, tries to convince him during the finale of Placebo that killing Akira is something he has to do in order to prevent the awakening of a new and uncontrollable Kamui, and in order to free himself of the lingering consciousnesses of the dead. Tokio responds by killing Uminosuke and stealing his silver eye; still haunted by the consciousnesses, he curtly tells them to "fuck off".]]
144	* SmokingIsCool: He seems to think so, at least. [[TitleDrop Placebo cigarettes]] in particular seem to be his favored brand.
145	* UnPerson: [[spoiler:He intends to invoke this by the end of "Hikari".]]
146	[[/folder]]
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148	[[folder:Red]]
149	!!Red
150	Tokio's pet turtle and his closest companion.
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152	* MoralityPet: Quite literally. He's one of the few individuals that don't mind Tokio in the present.
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155	! Antagonists
156	[[folder:Kamui Uehara]]
157	!!Kamui Uehara
158	A legendary serial killer/assassin from twenty years ago, he was notable for killing individuals who had done some evil in the past, always in the middle of winter. His crimes came to an end when he was caught and arrested in the incident known as "The Silver Case". Following his arrest, he has been in and out of the hospital for the past several years. However, at the onset of the game, multiple signs are pointing to his reawakening.
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160	* AttackItsWeakpoint: [[spoiler:Silver Eyes]] make their owners virtually [[spoiler:immortal]] and maintain their bodies to the peak of health and youth. However, this [[spoiler:longevity]] can be taken away if said [[spoiler:eye]] is [[spoiler:removed or destroyed.]]
161	* BigBad: Set up as this. [[spoiler:Subverted, though; in his current state he's unable to do anything, and by the time he does become active (much later in the game) you've become well aware that something bigger is going on]].
162	* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Kamui being unable to kill, let alone do anything, is first disclosed by IMM Hospital staff Tachibana. Kusabi vocalizes his dismissal of this claim, given that Kamui's counselor has turned up dead, ostensibly by Kamui's hand. Then when he's brought into the HCU headquarters, he find that Kamui really ''can't'' do anything.]]
163	* CopKiller: Supposedly killed law enforcment personnel when he does his kills.
164	* DarkMessiah: This is how people see him, regardless of his unclear intentions.
165	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The original Format Kamui was killed years ago.]]
166	* TheDreaded: Responsible for killing several people, including various government and corporate officials. He's known as the ''Angel of Absolute Zero'' for a reason.
167	* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:When Kodai and Akira discover Kamui, they find a silent man who lacks any potential to kill anyone]].
168	* FakeUltimateHero: The impossible murders he commits that inspire a multitude of criminals and revolutionaries in a dystopic, authoritarian Japan [[spoiler:are just that. Impossible. As the original Kamui was a civilian who was killed by the Mayor of the 24 Wards for his Silver Eye, and every other Kamui after him was a government assassin harvested from its Shelter Kids program to take out key targets under the auspice of underworld terrorism.]]
169	* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:It turns out that there have actually been several Kamui's, created through transmitting the original's personality to people who are primed to receive it. All this time, the public is told that there is only one.]]
170	* SexSlave: His councilor at the hospital takes advantage of his semi vegetative state for an untold amount of time.
171	* VigilanteMan: Some of the profiles seen in the game describe him as only killing other criminals who had avoided proper procedure under the legal system.
172	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Some parts of the public paint him as an anti-hero who goes after the corrupt and the abusive.
173	* WalkingSpoiler: Suffice to say that Kamui is not at all what the game says he is.
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176	[[folder:Ayame Shimohira]]
177	!!Ayame Shimohira
178	Kamui's digital artist partner during a time when he was out of the hospital. The HC Unit takes an interest in her due to all signs pointing to her being the potential next victim of Kamui's reawakening.
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180	* CopKiller: [[spoiler:Takes out the Republic task force in Operation Secure Kamui.]]
181	* DarkMessiah: Although not as well-known as Kamui, those that are aware of her seem to revere her even more.
182	* DistaffCounterpart: [[spoiler:"Ayame" is actually just the designation for females with the Kamui personality]].
183	* JackTheRipoff: [[spoiler:Imitates Kamui in Decoyman, to the point that even the narration presents Kamui as the culprit]].
184	* KilledOffscreen: It's implied that she dies between Parade and [=Kamuidrome=].
185	* LegacyCharacter: See above.
186	* MeaningfulName: The verb "ayameru" means [[spoiler:"to kill"]].
187	* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: [[spoiler:Deliberately invoked by the government experiment she was a part of.]]
188	* WalkingSpoiler: Much like Kamui, except in her case [[spoiler:even the fact that she's a killer is a spoiler]].
189	[[/folder]]
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191	[[folder:The Bat]]
192	!!The Bat ([[spoiler:Kaiji Enzawa]])
193	A mysterious hacker who sends the protagonists threatening e-mails.
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195	* AnimalMotifs: That's "the bat" as in the animal, not as in the sports tool/weapon.
196	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:That random Ayame fanatic Tokio met early in Placebo turned out to be a lot more important than he looked.]]
197	* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Enzawa appears early in the game as the Ayame fanatic that Tokio meets with in YUME]].
198	* HeKnowsTooMuch: He warns the protagonists not to get involved any more than they already are.
199	* SmallRoleBigImpact: He seems to be a relatively minor threat in the grand scheme of things. [[spoiler:However, in the Triangle Towers you eventually find out from the notes you find that he's the chief supervisor for the Shelter Kids experiments.]]
200	* StalkerWithoutACrush: To both protagonists.
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203	[[folder:'''SPOILER CHARACTER''']]
204	!!Mayor Uminosuke Hachisuka/Kaoru Hachisuka
205	Uminosuke Hachisuka was the mayor of the 24th Ward at the time of the original Silver Case. Since then, he has been succeeded by his son Kaoru. [[spoiler:In reality, Uminosuke killed Kaoru and took his place, thanks to the immortality granted by Kamui's silver eye back in 1979.]]
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207	* AlreadyDoneForYou: While Kusabi and the HCU remnants plan for a mission to take down Uminosuke in the game's epilogue, the post-credits [[TheStinger stinger]] reveals that Uminosuke is already dead. The final cases of Placebo imply that he was killed roughly a week after Kusabi and Akira's assassination of Nezu, and that his killer was Tokio, who had potentially awoken to his inner Kamui as he was compelled to steal Uminosuke's silver eye.
208	* DeadAllAlong: Downplayed, the game mentions him in passing as a central figure of the backstory, but by the time Kusabi identifies him as the GreaterScopeVillain, he's already implied to have been killed by Tokio during the events of the Placebo scenario.
209	* GreaterScopeVillain: Uminosuke caused a lot of the plot by killing Kamui and stealing his silver eye. He's still around, but not directly confronted on-camera; instead, the direct BigBad is his associate Nezu.
210	* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Uminosuke isn't clearly shown onscreen at all, except at the very end of Hikari.
211	* KarmaHoudini: While he appears to play this straight, the cliffhanger at the end strongly implies that he [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty wound up being killed]] by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the latest Kamui]]. To add insult to injury, Tokio has seemingly stolen his left eye.
212	* KillAndReplace: Uminosuke killed Kaoru and took his place as Mayor.
213	* LukeIAmYourFather: To Tokio. Subverted in that he only reveals this indirectly, but Tokio still realizes it.
214	* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about them without revealing that for the most part, they're one and the same.
215	[[/folder]]

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