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1WARNING: Note this page contains unmarked spoilers for events from VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory.
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5!!Artificial Intelligences
6[[folder:*Hyun-ae]]
7!!*Hyun-ae/The Pale Bride/Kim Hyun-ae
8[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2253473-hyunae_8147.png]]
9An AI retrieved from the ''Mugunghwa'' based on the uploaded mind of Kim Hyun-ae, one of its residents. When she was alive, she witnessed both the more libertarian early days of the ship and, post cryogenic-freezing, the oppressive new regime that reigned before its fall. She now seeks to discover what disaster occurred in the year zero to propel the Neo-Confucian regime into power.
10----
11* CosplayOtakuGirl: Her outfits from the previous game return, plus a new hanbok to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
12* CovertPervert: A dialogue option reveals that *Hyun-ae, when she was alone on the ''Mugunghwa'', got lonely and decided to make a new block of "logs," called Block [[{{Rule34}} 34]].
13* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:She's shocked to discover it was a woman who spearheaded the sexist, oppressive new regime, and truly hates Oh Eun-a when she finds out. Understandable as she's directly responsible for Neo-Joseon, the year of horror Hyun-ae endured and which led her to kill everyone inside.]]
14* ImageSong: "It's Not Ero!", which details her relationship with the protagonist (assuming the player has her as a lover) and [[TakeThat talks smack]] about the {{Eroge}} genre. Interestingly, *Hyun-ae and the singer share the same family name (''Kim'' Hyun-ae, Senah ''Kim'').
15** Perhaps not so interestingly, as ''Kim'' is the most common Korean family name (similar to how "Smith" would be the most common American/British family name).
16* {{Meido}}: Can still be dressed up in her maid costume from the first game. *Mute will also teases her over her apparent maid obsession.
17* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
18** In her ending, [[spoiler:you only see a still image of her testifying about her experiences on the ''Mugunghwa'' as a human, and her [[LeaveNoSurvivors murder of the ship's entire population]]. The specifics are left out (not even a word of dialogue), but it's implied that things go well and she's let off the hook, as the final scene during the credits is of her holding hands with the [[PlayerCharacter investigator]].]]
19** In the Harem route, she [[spoiler:stops *Mute from committing suicide]].
20* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: In her ending, the investigator grants her a realistic robot body, which they ordered at the beginning of her route.
21* SoleSurvivor: In a way, she's the only survivor of the ''Mugunghwa'''s population.
22* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:After reading more about Oh Eun-a, *Hyun-ae does acknowledge that she was trying to do the right thing.]]
23* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In the [[ScrappyMechanic infamous]] cake baking sequence, she mentions that cake is her favorite food from back when she was human.
24* YuriFan: Somewhat in contrast to *Mute.
25[[/folder]]
26
27[[folder:*Mute]]
28!!*Mute
29The ''Mugunghwa's'' AI in charge of security, who woke up without any memories in the year 10. She allowed herself to be "kidnapped" at the end of the previous game, since she no longer had a ship to protect. She now seeks to learn about her former self, and the society that existed prior to the year zero.
30----
31* AggressiveCategorism: *Mute thinks a proper woman should be focused only on the household and family, and considers a female scientist who focuses on work to the detriment of the household (even though the work is of vital importance) to be a bad wife and woman. She's also confused by Heo Ae-jong's relationship with another woman, and thinks one of them must be "playing the part of the man."
32** InternalizedCategorism: *Mute considers herself a woman, too, and therefore thinks of herself as emotional rather than rational, and refuses to consider relationships with other women.
33* BrokenPedestal: She's shocked to see her past self being so domineering and condescending towards men since she was raised to believe in male superiority. [[spoiler:This gets worse when she learns she betrayed her subordinate and surrendered rather than dying.]]
34** [[spoiler:She's mortified to see her superior and friend, Ryu and Eun-a respectively, acting as scheming manipulators, and shocked to learn that Eun-a was powerful, manipulative, and promiscuous with other women, completely in contrast to the ideals of the new regime. While she still thinks the new regime was necessary, she's deeply uncomfortable that it started with a lie.]]
35* ADayInTheLimelight: While the first game focused on *Hyun-ae and her experiences, the sequel explores *Mute's history prior to the year zero, and her reaction to it. Emphasized by the covers, which feature *Hyun-ae and *Mute respectively.
36* DeliberateValuesDissonance: She completely subscribes to the oppressive values of the Confucian regime, including male dominance and the importance of marriage and childbirth above all else.
37* DoubleStandard: She's entertained by details of same-sex male relationships, but considers female-female ones to be disturbing and unnatural.
38** She also constantly accuses women of being emotional and irrational, but never calls men out on this -- particularly blatant with Heo Seung-bok, whose emotions tends to be all over the place, and Kim So-yi, who is unfailingly logical and precise. Seung-bok's emotional nature goes utterly without comment, yet when So-yi shows even the slightest hint of entirely justified emotion[[note]](having her pay docked unfairly, being fired, having her life's work dismissed, and being left adrift and without purpose)[[/note]], *Mute immediately declares that So-yi is reacting that way because she's female, and therefore is unsuitable for the working world, regardless of her brilliance.
39* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After learning of her past self's failures to protect the ship, and the events of the year zero, she considers herself a failure and a burden, so she follows her society's convention of the widow suicide and deletes her memories, unless *Hyun-ae intervenes.]]
40* MeaningfulName: [[SubvertedTrope Nope.]] She's an endless tide of gossip. [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion hits when it turns out she was memory-wiped to solidify Emperor Ryu's coup.]]
41* MotorMouth: She can't shut up, that's how she was programmed.
42* TheMourningAfter: *Mute considers herself the ''Mugunghwa's'' widow (her new black outfit may be mourning garb), and has trouble moving on.
43* MyGreatestFailure: She blames herself for allowing the Pale Bride to kill the population of the ''Mugunghwa'', thinking that the person responsible for security should have been able to stop a disturbed, frail girl. Understandable, since protecting the ship's security was her primary purpose in life.
44** [[spoiler:When she learns about her past self's failures, too, including allowing the navigation AI to be killed, she considers herself a total failure and commits suicide.]]
45[[/folder]]
46
47[[folder:Old *Mute]]
48!!Old *Mute
49[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_mo6ywta3rc1qzw06jo1_500_3839.jpg]]
50The ship's AI and Councillor of Security. Has been protecting the ''Mugunghwa'' for over ''1600'' years.
51----
52* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: It's unclear if Old *Mute ever returned Seo-Yeong's feelings, but despite [[spoiler:Old *Mute's betrayal]], one of the files she chooses to preserve [[spoiler:just before having her memories wiped]] was "Seo-Yeong's Smile."
53* BadassBoast: Done so often, Old *Mute can no longer tell if it's bullshit or not.
54* CoolOldLady: Is the oldest person on the ship by a millennium. She takes advantage of that by calling others she dislikes "young man" or "boy." Even if they are fellow Councillors well into their senior years.
55** She chooses to look like one too, sporting grey hair and an EyepatchOfPower despite being able to look as young as she wishes.
56** Used in a funny moment in the Harem route, where *Mute makes a disgusted comment about Old *Mute not respecting her elders, but *Hyun-ae pointing out that Old *Mute is everyone's elder by far.
57* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:*Mute calls her as much when reading about how Old *Mute chose to betray Heo rather than risk dying. However, it is possible that Old *Mute's programming didn't ''allow'' her to choose to die. She was programmed to put the ship's security above all else, full stop, no exceptions, and as the ship's security AI, her survival is meant to be paramount to that]].
58* EyepatchOfPower: It's unknown why she wears one, being an incorporeal AI, but ''damn'' does it makes her look badass.
59** Considering she can change her appearance at will, that is likely ''why'' she wears one.
60* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler:She buries a cache of information in her code about the conspirators and the people and culture of the ship before the computers are reset. Unfortunately, her successor wouldn't read it until it's already too late.]]
61* HeroicBSOD: Has one just before she 'dies.' [[spoiler:She calls herself old, useless, and cowardly for betraying her lieutenant just to save her own life, but ending up dying anyway. Her last recorded words are an apology to Seo-Yeong.]]
62* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Let's just say her assessment of [[spoiler:Councillor Ryu Hyen-so]] was off the mark. Actually justified in that he only became dangerous as a result of his contact with [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a and her influences]], something she was not aware of.
63* LegacyCharacter: She's *Mute, but at the same time, she's a completely different person. It's complicated.
64* ManipulativeBastard: Old *Mute herself is quite the manipulator, with a blend of societal, intellectual, and political strength. [[spoiler:Used tragically in the Death of *Mute when she manipulates Seo-Yeong's feelings for her to convince her to surrender.]]
65* MyGreatestFailure: In the backstory, a rebellion occurred, and the ship's navigation AI was killed. Old *Mute blames herself for not protecting the ship, and is still obsessed with preventing popular uprising. Indeed [[spoiler:her schemes to undermine the peasantry and democracy movements are the catalyst for the entire plot, and her peasantry obsession blinds her to the real threat Ryu poses.]]
66* NotSoDifferentRemark: *Hyun-ae spells this out to *Mute in the Harem route. Despite having completely different political beliefs, they both are fiercely protective of their loved ones, dedicate their lives to protecting the ship, are never afraid to speak their minds and be blunt, and [[spoiler:both die in the same way.]]
67* OnlySaneMan: She considers herself this, as she has taken the long view, and worries about stability hundreds of years from now, not just the short-term advantage and self-interest of the other Councillors. She's also the only one who opposes the draconian measures of the new regime.
68* PermanentElectedOfficial: As an AI, she has virtually no finite lifespan, allowing her to serve as the permanent Councillor of Security. As she is programmed to be in charge of the ship's security, she can't resign.
69* PragmaticVillainy: Old *Mute doesn't care about democracy, regarding activists as a threat to security, and something to be undermined. She does, however, oppose anti-peasantry measures, in the interests of avoiding disorder and rioting.
70* SmokingIsCool: Often renders a cigarette in her hand.
71* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Old *Mute's primary objective is preserving stability, something she places above all else, and which makes things difficult when the ruling regime becomes increasingly totalitarian. In the end, [[spoiler:when her life is threatened, she agrees to assist the regime rather than dying and leaving the ship without a security AI. Not that she gets the chance.]]
72* VerbalTic: "Loud statement, Okay?!" A trait she shares with *Mute.
73* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Towards the end of her life]], she points out that defending the ''Mugunghwa'' for over a millenium and a half has made her ''very'' tired.
74** To illustrate, Old *Mute explains that for every decision she makes, she has to cross-reference it with every other bit of knowledge and experience she has. Being an AI with a perfect memory, as well as over 1600 years of experience, she has to deliberately ignore or disregard some of her processing power to function normally. She explains that an AI like her was only designed to live for a thousand years, at most.
75[[/folder]]
76
77[[folder:*Star]]
78!!*Star
79The ''Mugunghwa's'' Navigational AI, who was 'killed' by a democratic rebellion centuries before the story starts.
80----
81* PosthumousCharacter: Well, they're ''all'' posthumous (except ''maybe'' Hyun-ae), since the logs were written hundreds of years ago, but *Star died even before the logs began. He seemed pretty nice, from what little we hear.
82[[/folder]]
83
84!!The Heo family
85[[folder:Heo Seo-Yeong]]
86!!Heo Seo-Yeong
87[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_mpn20sdryq1qzw06jo1_500_3549.jpg]]
88The Chief Security Officer of the ''Mugunghwa'' and Old *Mute's trusted lieutenant.
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90* AntiMutiny: Despite technically going against the Captain's orders, she tried her best to destroy Ryu's totalitarian regime.
91* CoolOldLady: Uh, not exactly 'cool', having a few anger issues, but is probably the sanest member of the ''Mugungwa'' besides *Mute.
92* DistractedByTheSexy: Sort of. On a day with nothing happening, and therefore nothing to write on the required Daily Report, she ends up writing several paragraphs about Old *Mute, and how her new look suits her beautifully, and how badass she looks when she smokes. Old *Mute is appropriately embarrassed.
93* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Her eventual fate after Year Zero, ten years after the failed coup.]]
94** [[spoiler:Although, it's unclear if she killed herself, or if Ryu had her executed for political purposes. Not that it makes it better.]]
95* HappilyMarried
96* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Heavily implied to be offed by the new government in what is officially recorded as a suicide.]]
97* {{Robosexual}}: She was in love with Old *Mute.
98[[/folder]]
99
100[[folder:Heo Seung-Bok]]
101!!Heo Seung-Bok
102A security guard, who had a passionate affair with Mimi.
103----
104* BookDumb: Despite being, by all appearances, a perfectly competent security officer, he is mocked several times for not knowing the classics, as well as having issues with learning Chinese characters. Comes to bite him in the ass when his boyfriend pulls a prank on him.
105* SirSwearsALot: Both AIs will comment about how much he swears.
106* StraightGay: Perfectly masculine, and perfectly in love with Mimi.
107[[/folder]]
108
109%%[[folder:Heo Ae-jong]]
110%%[[/folder]]
111
112!!Councillors and Other Officials
113[[folder:Ryu]]
114!!Councillor Ryu Hyen-so[[spoiler:/Emperor-Captain Taejo]]
115A fresh face brought in to make it appear like the peasantry had a voice on the Council. Was given the position of Councillor of the Captaincy.
116----
117* BehindEveryGreatMan: [[spoiler:It's his affair with Oh Eun-a that pushes him to seize power.]]
118* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Basically sets the agenda of the entire Council post-meritocracy, after installing sympathetic pawns in every position. Even after that, he still maintains the appearance that the proposals aren't coming from him, maintaining the illusion, until it's too late.]]
119* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a's influence turned him into the subtle totalitarian schemer who would eventually overthrow the entire ship and crown himself Emperor.]]
120** [[spoiler:He also reminds Old *Mute that she was the one who thrust power upon him in the first place.]]
121* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He overthrows the entire ship and crown himself as a despotic Emperor with absolute power on the ship, wipes Old *Mute's memory, effectively "killing" her to groom her blank new version into a loyal puppet, put the blame of a "failed rebellion" on Heo Seo-Yeong before imprisoning her for life, where she committed suicide a decade later (or maybe he made her killed), imposed a retrograde, misogynistic, and homophobic society where women are not considered as persons but as objects, unknowingly doomed all the population of the ship when his wiping of the ship database also erased all the data of Kim So-Yi's investigation on the abnormal levels of radiation affecting the birthrate, and dies of old age as the first Emperor-Captain, without ever facing retribution for everything he did, except maybe having to live with his wife Oh Eun-a's guilt-induced madness.]]
122* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Though he didn't live to see it, his actions and the rise of Neo-Joseon led to the death of all human life in the ''Mugunghwa'', when a nobleman cut a pre-regime girl's tongue and she shut down the ship's life support in retribution for the horrors his empire and its misogynistic culture put her through.]]
123* PuppetKing: Was invited onto the Council to give the appearance that the populist movement had a sympathetic ear on the council. In reality, his role was to give the appearance of process, while actually watering down proposals to the point of meaninglessness. [[spoiler:[[ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster Boy did that ever go wrong]].]]
124[[/folder]]
125
126[[folder:Oh Eun-a]]
127!!Oh Eun-a, President of Mugunghwa University
128----
129* BigBrotherMentor: She's the first person *Mute met after "waking up," and becomes her friend, and teaches her about the norms of society.
130* ConsummateLiar: [[spoiler:She convinces *Mute that she was a friend, despite hating her previous incarnation, and pins the blame for the damage she caused to the central computer on the rebels opposing her.]]
131* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Far from being friends in a past life as she claims, she actually hated Old *Mute, and becomes friends with *Mute to indoctrinate her with her Confucian ideology, and make her servant to the regime her past self opposed.]]
132* {{Gayngst}}: [[spoiler:While she appears to love her lesbian lover Mi-seun, she's still convinced that only marriage with a man and bearing his children can bring a woman happiness.]]
133* HeteronormativeCrusader: The university she runs has a big emphasis on the classics and Confucian values, which consider marrying a man and bearing his children the most important relationship a woman can have. [[spoiler:She even goes as far as to overthrow the current regime to promote this agenda, and ultimately seeks to force people to marry, and plans to ban divorce.]]
134* {{Hypocrite}}:
135** [[spoiler:She laments the promiscuity of her society, but has a history of one-night stands, and a regular lesbian lover on the side.]]
136** [[spoiler:She also feels betrayed when she learns that her father was aware of a planned rebellion against her fiancee and did nothing, even though she already betrayed him by taking his Councillorship and giving it to one of Ryu's pawns.]]
137* InternalizedCategorism: [[spoiler:She wants to give her "sister" a better life, but doesn't feel able to do so, likely because of her Confucian views on gender, which say women can only be happy when protected by men, and by being married with children.]]
138* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:The architect of the ''Mugunghwa'''s descent into a NoWomansLand was a highly educated lesbian]].
139* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:A tragic example. Her Confucian beliefs make her think she can't give her lesbian lover Mi-seun a proper life, so she works tirelessly to reform society so it can protect her instead. Unfortunately, she neglects Mi-seun as a result, and gives her the impression that their love is less valuable, and in the end Mi-seun kills herself thinking that she is only a burden and potential embarrassment.]]
140* LadyMacbeth: [[spoiler:Her influence propels Ryu into power, and she encourages in him the Confucian values that would dominate his regime. She provides and facilitates the plans of her despotic lover and, true to form, she's even rendered emotionally vacant (and thus, a non-agent) by the end of the plot.]]
141* MadonnaWhoreComplex: [[spoiler:Believes all men subscribe to this and that Ryu will lose interest in her soon after they sleep together. To that end, she plays the part of ShrinkingViolet to hold his interest, despite really being anything but.]]
142* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:She thinks her "sister" deserves a better life, but blames society, which she thinks should protect weak women, rather than herself.]]
143* ParentalNeglect: Possibly the case for her daughter, as it's implied that *Mute was the one to give her daughter relationship advice and support while she was growing up. [[spoiler:Likely due to the VillainousBSOD that left her spending hours a day staring at the wall.]]
144* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:She achieves the new order that she so desired, but the suicide of her "sister" leaves her a shell of her former self.]]
145* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:Takes this tone during *Mute's rebellion. Her complete composure after police barge into her house and arrest her is Old *Mute's first clue that something is very wrong.]]
146* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Has a long one after her "sister" is DrivenToSuicide.]]
147%%* WalkingSpoiler
148* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:She genuinely believes that society is corrupt, and that people will be better off in her new regime.]]
149[[/folder]]
150
151!!Other Individuals
152[[folder:Mimi]]
153!! Mimi
154
155A card hustler, brazen flirt, and menace to maids. Had an affair with Heo Seung-Bok.
156----
157* HiddenHeartOfGold: He freely breaks the law, and potentially tried to seduce a police officer, but after [[spoiler:the effects of the Motherhood Credit Act and the tax dump from Ryu's new regime, he marries a woman he doesn't love and promises to have children with her, to save both their lives, despite being mutually unattractive to each other.]] He sends a letter to Seung-Bok, begging for forgiveness, and confessing that he really does love him.
158* UnsettlingGenderReveal: How Seung-Bok is introduced to him.
159[[/folder]]
160
161[[folder:Kim So-yi]]
162!!Kim So-yi
163A researcher working on the Engineering area of the ''Mugunghwa''.
164----
165* BlueBlood: A member of Kim Family, who had been Engineers and even her grandfather was a Councillor at one point.
166* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:The logs reveal to the AI(s) and the investigator that, had the entire council actually bothered to focus at her research linking the radiation problem to the birth crisis, they would have both ended their StayInTheKitchen policies that led Councillor Ryu's Neo-Joseon regime and saved the ship]].
167* HappilyMarried: She and her husband were close and supportive despite her business.
168* OnlySaneMan: In general, she is the most well-adjusted and rational character in the entire VisualNovel/HatePlus storyline as she had been staying away from political intrigue in order to resolve the issues of birthrate decline resulting from [[spoiler:ship's radiation]].
169* ScienceHero: A scientist trying to take a deeper look into the problem for ''Mugunghwa''.
170[[/folder]]

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