Characters / Can Cry

Executors

Cardia Beckford

Magnum Opus

Burdened by the sin of Lust.

• All-Loving Hero: Mona can't bring herself to hate anyone, even enemies who want her erased from existence.
• Artificial Human: She is a homunculus created by the father she has never met.
• Curious as a Monkey: Explores modern technology with a wide-eyed spirit of trial and error.
• Emotionless Girl: Upon first awakening as an Eidolon, she lacks the full scope of her capacity for emotion and has to gradually recover it with her memories.
• Hates Being Touched: Mona flinches away from touch, an instinct she's not sure she even understands. As time goes on, she starts to become comfortable with people close to her touching her, like Chiron's habit of ruffling her hair.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Her frilly steampunk Executor outfit isn't practical by any means, with a long Showgirl Skirt and straps and bows everywhere, but it sure looks nice.
• The Ingenue: Mona seems to have had a very sheltered past, leaving her confused and innocent even compared to the other amnesiac Executors.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Her father created her as an Artificial Human, and she's confused as to his motives for not ever living with her or being around her. Chiron suspects he didn't have good reasons for any of the above.
• Meaningful Rename: She's nicknamed 'Mona Lisa' or 'Mona' for short and referred to as such instead of her title.
• Reluctant Warrior: Mona really doesn't want to fight actual people, even bad people, but sometimes she and the other Executors have no choice.
• When She Smiles: Mona's smile is compared to the sun when she starts to regain her emotions.

Rei

The main mod NPC of the game and designated leader of the Executors. She remembers nothing of her life, but has an instinctive understanding of the functions of Purgatory and uses her knowledge to guide the other Executors.

• Anger Born of Worry: Whenever another Executor does something reckless to hurt themselves and/or others, Rei usually reacts by yelling about how worried she's been and they'd better not do it again.
• Beleaguered Boss: A small and shy girl who's trying to be an effective leader, but the others really try her patience at times.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Rei is associated with blue and black butterflies, fittingly as she's the first of the group of Executors. Occasionally, similar butterflies will appear and share Rei's missing memory fragments.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a pale-skinned Psychopomp dressed entirely in black and white, Rei is a genuinely well-meaning girl who just wants to get Purgatory back on the right track.
• Deadpan Snarker: Surprisingly, she has her moments. It's noted to be a sign that she's become particularly comfortable with someone when she lets it slip.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her casual clothes and her Executor apparel both fall into this.
• Extreme Doormat: Rei is easily pressured into things she clearly isn't comfortable with, which Ariel sometimes uses for harmless trolling before it inevitably blows up in her own face.
• Failure Knight: Rei is the last Executor before the player characters awaken and initially set out to singlehandedly fix Purgatory because she "wasn't strong enough." She's initially reluctant to allow the others to join her as Executors due to this, but their conviction turns her around.
• Guilt Complex: Over whatever happened to the other Executors she fought with, how she could have possibly lost her important memories (not just ones from life, which everyone loses, but some from her time in Purgatory), and the psychological effect their quest might have on Authorities, even knowing most of the Authorities deserve it.
• An Ice Person: Her default powers as an Executor.
• Performance Anxiety: Has a bad case of stage fright, which made the decision to pull her into Idol-ON during the Invidia arc awkward for all involved.
• Power Gives You Wings: Rei's wings only appear when she's transformed.
• Super-Empowering: As the most experienced Executor, she has the ability to make other Eidolons into Executors.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Potatoes. It appears to be the only thing she actually eats.
• Vague Age: Her age on her profile is listed as "???", though for OOC purposes, she is stated to be "about thirteen".
• Winged Humanoid: Her Executor form has a pair of wings at her hips.
• Wings Do Nothing: As an Executor, Rei has wings that she calls "useless" because they won't work. Chiron finds a memory where Rei's wings did work once, meaning she may be able to regain her flight ability again.
• Would Not Shoot a Good Guy: The one time she does have to attack an ally in an emergency, doing so sends her into a Heroic BSoD. She's absolutely against the group breaking up or hurting each other, perhaps for reasons even she doesn't understand.
• Young and in Charge: Despite her Vague Age, she's a teenager, and being short and petite underlines it. Yet she commands the Executors' respect, even the ones who generally won't follow anyone else.

Arianna Caledonia

Royal Veil

Burdened by the sin of Gluttony.

• Cuteness Proximity: Cute things (or cute people) send her into excitable fangirl mode.
• Does Not Drive: Due to coming from a civilization without motor vehicles, she not only can't drive but views anyone who can with deep awe and reverence.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Thinks highly of Esme to the point that when Medic reveals that everyone who ate the food Esme gave them has been badly poisoned, Veil worries that Esme might be sick as well, rather than conclude that Esme tried to kill them. And this is after she heard Esme say point blank that she wants the Executors out of the way.
• The Ingenue: Sheltered and naive, she approaches everything with a friendly smile.
• Oblivious to Hatred: Ties into being a Horrible Judge of Character. Everything from insults to actual murder attempts fly over her head on the regular.
• Older Than They Look: Veil has a baby face and always gets confused for being around 15. Because she can't remember her age (listed as 18) and everyone else lowballs it to put her with the kids, Veil ends up convinced early on that she actually is younger than she is.
• One of the Kids: Despite being 18, she's often lumped in with the younger characters due to her cheerfulness and naivete.
• Plucky Girl: She's energetic, hopeful, and cheerful despite being dead and going through a number of hardships.
• The Pollyanna: An eternal optimist who thinks the best of people, even people who have tried to re-kill her.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Her civilian wardrobe is stuffed with pink.
• Purple Is Powerful: A purple-haired princess, whose Executor form is also primarily purple.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: Her royal status is in her name, and seems to be the reason she's so naive despite her age.
• Status Buff: Her default power as an Executor is to grant these to others.
• Super Gullible: On its way to becoming Veil's defining character trait. She isn't stupid, but she doesn't see any reason to disbelieve what anybody says.
• Wingding Eyes: One of her most common expressions.

Ardyn Izunia

Your Majesty

Burdened by the sin of Wrath.

• Amnesiac Dissonance: His baseline personality in Purgatory is that of Ardyn Lucis Caelum, so it's quite the shock for him when he remembers ten entire years of being Ardyn Izunia.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: As mentioned above, it causes a good deal of Amnesiac Dissonance when he remembers having gone from a pure and kind person to a spite-fuelled monster.
• BFS: In this case, the "S" stands for "scythe," as his is at least twice his size yet he still manages to use it effectively.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Whenever he teases his allies (which is often) or his enemies (also often, and not nearly as good-naturedly), he has a smarmy smirk on his face.
• Cool Old Guy: He's very well-liked in the group and occasionally makes age-related cracks at his own expense despite not knowing just how old he is.
  "Honestly, I was anticipating some kind of jab along the lines of 'you're so old I can't believe you can still stand upright without all of your joints popping'."
• The Corruption: Traces of something like this happening to him still echo in his mind, and on occasion, his usual good-natured approach will be cut off, replaced by the persona of a sadistic observer projecting something else onto the situation around him. His memories have started to uncover this side of him, but only leave him with more questions.
• Curious Qualms of Conscience: The result of his Amnesiac Dissonance. One minute, he'll be acting like The White Prince, but have a moment of his later Fallen Hero self, or vice versa, leading him to do things that are ostensibly for the greater good but that he was having a little too much fun with, then be hit with guilt over the side effects.
• Deadpan Snarker: Even when he's being cordial, he comes off like he feels he's Surrounded by Idiots and will gladly snap a sarcastic quip at anyone who says something stupid.
• Dissonant Serenity: He takes terrifyingly well to threatening to behead enemies with a smile, memories or no.
• Healing Hands: Chiron gains the ability to heal others.
• Flash Step: One of his abilities lets him do this, leaving a magenta afterimage.
• Meaningful Rename: Is dubbed 'Chiron' by Cardia after it's suggested he go by a more personal name, and is referred to that instead of his title from then on.
• Playful Hacker: Chiron certainly had fun countering Esme's electronic cheating and exposing her crimes at the idol competition in Invidia.
• Pet the Dog: Prone to literally petting both people and animals when he's closer to the kind personality.
• The Red Mage: Has both offensive and healing spells as well as a very large melee weapon.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Tends to wear layers of horribly mismatched clothing and seems to make it a game to make himself look somehow put together. When they hit the rainy Avaritia, the first thing he brings out is a pink umbrella with ugly neon multicoloured shapes on the underside and a crystal-encrusted pink skull on the end.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Starts to remember that he did this in life, and on some level, he appears to be afraid he's doing it again.

Ignis Scientia

Phoenix

Burdened by the sin of Lust.

• Cool Shades: Because he's blind, he wears these all the time.
• Chef of Iron: An incredible cook and also a stone-cold badass.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His Executor outfit is entirely black.
• Deadpan Snarker: If a situation calls for a pun out of left field, he will gladly speak up with one.
• Dull Surprise: When Phoenix instinctively jump-slashes his first Revenant and lands flawlessly on his feet.
  "...Hm. Wonder where I learned to do that."
• Flaming Sword: His Sword Cane is able to be set alight, which Phoenix notes makes it "more efficient in combat."
• Handicapped Badass: He's completely blind, and this doesn't slow him down for a second when it comes to fighting Revenants.
• In a Single Bound: Most of his fighting is done with acrobatic leaps and flips.
• Spell Blade: His default power as an Executor is being able to imbue his weapons with elemental energy.
• Sword Cane: His summoned weapon. Suitably, it's designed with a skull motif.
• Tattoo as Character Type: His Power Tattoo goes around his ring finger, symbolizing his commitment as well as the Ring of Power that blinded him.
• Workaholic: Phoenix doesn't seem to know how to relax, and spends all his time working, brushing off any attempts to make him take a break once in a while as annoying and patronizing.

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd

Lion

Burdened by the sin of Wrath.

• Animal Motifs: Take a guess.
• Commonality Connection: Even when Ruin doesn't have any (or many) memories to speak of, Lion correctly deduces that he also hates himself because of what little he knows about his life, and he assures Ruin that he doesn't have to be the same person he was in life.
• Dumb Muscle: Seems to consider himself this, with all his self-deprecation and lack of tech savvy as well as being very strong.
• Handicapped Badass: He has one eye, which makes his memories from before his Eyepatch After Timeskip throw him off, and he's one of the overall strongest Executors, at least physically.
• Hates Baths: Ruin had to drag him to the baths before The Makeover, and at that point, it was noted that he was starting to smell.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Lion views himself as "a feral beast who couldn't be controlled" and often mentions that he doesn't think he deserved to be a leader in life or was suited for the job.
• I Hate Past Me: Lion always seems very upset at memory regains, and as time goes on, he admits that he's begun to resent the person he was in life.
• Improbable Age: He's in his early twenties at best, and he led a country when he was alive.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Early in the game, he's defined by being good-hearted but not always thinking through what he does. For instance, trying to make the Idol-ON girls endearing to a crowd... by asking them in a Q&A what their romantic preferences were, making him look like a creeper and flustering half the group.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Tries to be this, but it's been hinted that the anger bubbling up beneath his surface will win out instead after he regains more memories.
• Magically Inept Fighter: He doesn't have any magical powers, just higher strength than others. He's still not quite a Badass Normal, as he can still transform and his physical ability edges on Super-Strength, but he's not a good mage.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Lion admits that he has dark fantasies about doing this, even if he feels guilty as he knows it's "not proper" to be obsessed with revenge. He also has sympathy for anyone else who feels the same.
• The Pigpen: Before The Makeover he got dragged into, anyway.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: While he'll usually get dirty jokes or innuendo (even if his only indication of that is to blush and try to change the subject), his repressed background and not being from a modern Earth mean a lot of it does fly over the poor man's head.
• Sense Loss Sadness: He loses his sense of taste very early in the game, but tries to eat anyway because he liked it before.
• Sex Is Violence: As repressed as he might be, he has this in spades, being clearly turned on while fighting, and more so the more personal it gets for him.
  "You can't handle everything I have, Ruin. Or... is that what you want? What you can't handle?"
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Gender Flip. He starts out looking shabby and dirty, even before he starts to veer closer to feral when he regains his memories, but Ruin gives him a glamourous makeover.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: Tends to play the Straight Man to Ruin once the latter joins up.
• Stupid Sexy Friend: Prone to this when he runs into other Executors in the public baths.
• Undying Loyalty: Lion gets very attached to the team as time goes on and becomes fanatically loyal to them, especially to Ruin once they start dating.
• Wrong Line of Work: He was a leader in the past due to his noble birth, but laments that he was ill-suited for the position and is grateful that he can just follow orders from Rei.

Anna Fugo

Wolfsbane

Burdened by the sin of Envy.

• An Ice Person: Has her canon powers of fire and ice. Though she preferred fire in life, without memories, she uses both equally.
• Being Evil Sucks: Wolfsbane has been slowly discovering how much of a mess she was in life, and while she's still a mess, the guilt is beginning to get to her.
• The Berserker: While she usually fights as The Strategist, if you get her angry enough, she'll rush in with a single-minded goal to destroy you.
• Cain and Abel: One of her earliest memories is turning against Shingetsu, the orphaned mage her mother planned to adopt as an heir to replace Anna, though she can't remember why.
• Dislikes the New Guy: To Sword, though in fairness, Sword's first words to her were calling her a reckless powder keg with little evidence. She ends up telling Chiron that she fears he's trying to replace her.
• Fiery Redhead: Even without the source of her usual murderous rage around, she's intense and angry enough to scare the other Executors off.
• Foul Flower: Though she has her nice moments, largely due to being away from The Corruption and without her memories, she's still a selfish snob with a truly frightening berserker side and echoes of something inside her encouraging a sadistic obsession. Fittingly, she's named after a poisonous flower.
• Playing with Fire: Has her canon powers of fire and ice. Though she preferred fire in life, without memories, she uses both equally.
• Psychotic Smirk: She's prone to rather... unsettling facial expressions.
• Rich Bitch: She might not have money at the moment, but she still holds herself (and everyone else) to high standards and acts like she's still a noble heiress.
• The Strategist: Wolfsbane never wants to go in without a plan, and her trademark approach is to set some manner of lure or trap to set off later. Usually. It goes out the window when she's angry enough, at which point all she does is Attack! Attack! Attack! instead.
• Trap Master: She constructs an array of backstage traps to trip up Esme's employees and as insurance against the group's fear that Esme might release Revenants onto the stage (which doesn't happen). This calls back to her canon habit of setting up complicated spells and luring her opponents into the right spot to set them off.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Asks out of nowhere after a memory regain if the party would do this to someone who lost their powers but didn't revert to a Spectre. While she's assured they wouldn't, she doesn't seem happy about it, and implies that she remembers throwing people out who stopped being useful herself.

Orthrus

Beast

Burdened by the sin of Sloth.

• A Dog Named "Dog": His title turns out to be an example of this.
• Animal Motifs: Birds (specifically crows), for the obvious reason.
• Delicious Distraction: He loves food, to the point that he goes out of his way to avoid food stalls when on an errand in Invidia to keep himself from getting off-track.
• Doting Parent: Was this when alive. His first memoria was even of his love for his adopted son.
• Gentle Giant: At just short of 7 feet tall he's currently the tallest Executor but raising an anxiety-prone child has given him a gentle disposition, especially with the younger Executors.
• Horned Humanoid: Remembering how he came to adopt his son caused this change in his perception of himself, as it was the form he used primarily before becoming a father.
• Hell Hound: His true form, though he doesn't remember it yet.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Due to his height, he has this dynamic with most of the teens, but most prominently with Rei, as there is a full two feet of difference between them.
• Humanity Ensues: Beast learns that he originally had a more monstrous form and he became a humanoid to stay with someone he'd fallen in love with (and based this form on the contents of said boyfriend's Porn Stash).
• Immortality Pansexuality: The immortal part didn't last though.
• Magical Land: Comes from one of these. Isn't surprised that he's the only one from it though, since most people in his world are already aware of The Multiverse. (And he's not even from that world originally himself.)
• Mayfly–December Friendship: Confirmed in a few of his memoria to have been the fate of all his relationships when he was still alive.
• Musical Assassin: His harp is capable of magically slashing the enemy when he does quick strums across it.
• Obsessed with Food: He doesn't *need* to eat (and didn't have to even when he was alive) but loves to anyway.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: An OOC example. Originally his real name was hidden from the playerbase with the pseudonym "Bartholomew de Corvidaea" being listed on the taken page for convenience. Because of this he was referred to exclusively as Beast both IC and OOC, until April when his true name was correctly guessed as Orthrus, two headed brother of Cerberus.
  • IC Example: he now prefers to be called Achilles instead of Beast.
• Physical God: Well, he was; though it seems to at least partially be the people's reaction to magic from another world, said magic permanently altered an entire population, and he became a local deity.
• Pretty in Mink: He considers getting a coat with a fluffy fur collar, but has to put it back because his wings get in the way.
• Shapeshifting Lover: Was this to his first lover Patroclus, who also rescued and nursed him back to health when he was still in his original beast form.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Along with having black hair and dressing mostly in dark colours, he's 6'10".
• Team Dad: As his first Memoria regain was the love he felt for his son in life, he instinctively treats the younger characters in a kind, paternal way.
• The Bard: All his Executor powers revolve around playing a harp.
• Theme Naming: His son was a Swan "Feathered" named Odile, and the "Bart" in Bartholomew is supposed to be a reference to Rothbart.
  • His true name and the names of his sisters are also this: Orthrus, Cerberus, Chimera and Hydra are usually siblings in Classical Mythology.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: His second memoria hinted (and his fourth memoria confirmed) that he might have once had some sort of immortality, and during the discussions with Esme he starts muttering to himself how existing forever is a terrible fate in its own right, one that leaves you becoming cold and hollow.
• Winged Humanoid: As he initially believed himself to be what's known as a "Feathered" back in his own world, he's this, sporting a pair of large black wings. Until he remembered they were fake, anyway.
• Wings Do Nothing: Somewhat. He can move them just fine like any other limb but he can't fly with them, due to not having the other necessary traits for flight like hollow bones.

Mercy Moritz

Medic

Burdened by the sin of Greed.

• Animal Motifs: Cats.
• Animal Testing: A memory of hers shows her sister impressing upon a young Mercy that she shouldn't treat animals like test subjects just because her idea of playing includes switching her body parts with theirs to see if she can get their improved senses. It may have registered more as "don't operate on anything that hasn't signed a form telling you you can," but she seems to have learned the lesson nonetheless.
• Child Prodigy: Medic was performing surgeries by the time she hit kindergarten.
• Combat Medic: She may be a healer, but she's also more than happy to use her medical skills in battle, up to and including attempting to vivisect Revenants.
• Creepy Good: Not actually a villain in her original "canon", despite the warning signs.
• Cuckoo Snarker: She seems to live on another planet, but she can make some pretty cutting remarks even as she's smiling away.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and eyes are both yellow, though her eyes are a brighter shade.
• Does Not Like Spam: Medic describes coffee as the worst thing she's ever tasted.
• For Science!: The driving motivation behind pretty much everything she does.
• Healing Factor: Her preferred battle tactic is just using her healing powers on herself to tank damage she really shouldn't be able to.
• Healing Hands: Her main power.
• Improbable Weapon User: Fights using a giant pair of surgical scissors.
• Intrigued by Humanity: Medic may not be able to relate to other people, but she states that they're "complicated and amazing" and she's impressed and awed by the unlimited worth and potential of any given person beyond her medical fascination with the body.
• Laughing Mad: It's not uncommon to see her laughing maniacally when things are going her way during a fight.
• Mad Doctor: An unusually well-meaning one.
• Morality Chain: Medic is becoming this to Wolfsbane, oddly enough; her lack of social skills lead her to shrug off Wolfsbane's Rich Bitch attitude, and she always seems to have useful input and the right thing to say to hit on her teammate's existing worries about the kind of person she was in life.
• No Social Skills: What do you mean, "asking if you can dissect people upsets them"?
• Perky Goth: Absolutely thrilled to bits by blood, gore, and the chance to get a good look at anyone's internal organs, and will tell you all about it with visible delight.
• Plague Doctor: Her Executor form is based on one, with optional mask.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Medic has no qualms whatsoever with testing things out on herself, such as at one point noticing that she's been poisoned and proceeding to eat the last thing she ate again just to make sure that was what did it.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Usually wears the uniform of a fancy private school as a civilian.
• Science Hero: Even though she's a Mad Doctor, she's still firmly on the side of good and will use her discoveries for the sake of protecting the team and advancing their objective to save the people of Purgatory.
• Shear Menace: Fights with a large pair of scissors; unlike Autumn's, hers are medical scissors.
• Shorter Means Smarter: She's a four-foot-ten Teen Genius.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Medic is always wearing glasses (canonically small red ones, though sometimes she's depicted with large round frames instead) and she's a Teen Genius.
• Teen Genius: All of sixteen and a fully qualified medical doctor — albeit not a legally qualified one, due to the ethical review board having some... concerns. It's heavily implied that she performed her first successful surgery at age five.
• The Dead Have Names: Medic remembers and notes down everything she can about the Executors they've lost (to drops and idles), in hopes of finding them again someday and/or preventing what happened to them from happening to others. She considered all of them her friends.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Absolutely loves bubble tea.

Sayaka Miki

Ariel

Burdened by the sin of Pride.

• Badass Cape: Has a short cape on her Executor outfit.
• Big Eater: Apparently thinks eating seven whole cakes isn't a big deal.
• Blue Is Heroic: Her hair, eyes and Executor outfit are all a royal, heroic blue, befitting her heroic nature.
• Boyish Short Hair: Ariel is described as a tomboy and usually dresses the part, and she has short hair.
• The Cape: In canon, she was supposed to be a cruel deconstruction of this; here, her heroic ideals aren't treated as pointless or destructive, and she works hard to protect people.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her eyes and hair are the same shade of blue.
• Didn't Think This Through: Commonly teases and trolls her friends, but it almost always blows up in her face and she ends up subjected to the same things (such as being dragged into Idol-ON and when she and Rei got forced into Impossibly Tacky Clothes).
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She has a lopsided bob cut.
• The Gadfly: Ariel likes to tease the other Executors, generally in a good-natured sense, such as flattering Rei when the latter's nervousness threatens to make her run off and hide.
• Healing Factor: Has healing magic that can work even automatically, which she discovered when she slept off deadly poison.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Ariel's heroic ideals are her defining character trait, and she uses a sword as a weapon, resorting to it enough that, for a while, she didn't actually know if she had any magic.
• Hypocrite: She loves to tease the other Executors, but she can't take it herself.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Ariel is one of the younger Executors and is noted for her ideals.
• Meaningful Name: "Ariel" is a nod to her Little Mermaid allusions from canon.
• Plain Jane: Type 1, as she tries to insist she's this when she gets drafted into Idol-ON, but no one buys it.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Ariel woke up in Purgatory in her school uniform and wears it often.
• The Bus Came Back: After being dropped from the game, she returns many layers later just in time to rescue her fellow Executors.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Either dresses in neutral clothes or in her girly uniforms, has an outgoing and sometimes rash personality, and gets really embarrassed about romance.

Sylvain Jose Gautier

Ruin

Burdened by the sin of Envy.

• Afraid of Doctors: Less doctors and more Medic, but he does try to chicken out of seeing Chiron as well when he makes a snarky comment to him about his broken arm.
• All Men Are Perverts: Hits on and/or leers at anyone, and when Esme accuses him of following her back to her dressing room to create a distraction, he replies that no, he was doing it to creep on her.
• Aloof Ally: Ruin tries to distance himself from the team at first and only agrees to work with them to defeat Esme, whom he despises as soon as he wakes up in Invidia. He makes no secret of the fact that he doesn't intend to truly join the team... but he ends up following along with them anyway, past the point where he was supposed to leave.
• Beneath the Mask: Lion and Chiron discuss that they believe he's hiding something deeper beyond the "smarmy charmer" persona he always has up.
• Casanova Wannabe: Will flirt with just about anyone as easily as breathing. It just about never works.
• Commonality Connection: Even when Ruin doesn't have any (or many) memories to speak of, Lion correctly deduces that he also hates himself because of what little he knows about his life, and he assures Ruin that he doesn't have to be the same person he was in life.
• Cool Horse: One of his abilities is that he's got a magic horse, able to be summoned and de-summoned like a weapon, that he uses to fight on horseback.
• Guile Hero: Ruin would like to think he's this, though trying to trick people into giving him answers (or throwing others under the bus to make himself look better, as he did to Lion) hasn't always worked the way he wants.
• Guyliner: Appears to be wearing some in his icons; while it could just be the art style, his canonmates don't have the same effect on their eyes, and Ruin is mentioned as having a lot of care for his appearance.
• I Just Want to Be Free: Feels burdened by his past life even when he doesn't remember a thing about it, and wants to break free of it.
• In Love with Your Carnage: He gets inappropriately turned on when Lion is in berserker mode... even when it's directed at him.
• Intimate Open Shirt: Combination of this and Walking Shirtless Scene. Whenever he's not in his Executor armour, he walks around with his shirts half-buttoned up. At one point, he mentions that he thinks if he didn't do this, he might look like a girl.
• Living Weapon: His lance is made of bone and metal, and it actually moves around, freaking others out.
• Professional Gambler: Ruin jumps right into this path in Avaritia, getting a winning streak of card games on their first day there while (of course) flirting with every Spectre in town.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: He's the Wise Guy to Lion's Straight Man, but half the team will sub in if the situation requires.
• Tattoo as Character Type: His Power Tattoo is the mark of his crest around his neck. Ruin immediately recognizes the symbolism of a burden around him threatening to choke him.

Ken Ichijouji

Monarch

Burdened by the sin of Pride.

• The Atoner: Before he even remembers doing anything, he feels crushed by guilt over being dead and whatever he did to end up in Purgatory (even once he's told that lots of people are trapped in there who should have progressed to reincarnation).
• Berserk Button: Selfish acts that knowingly hurt innocent people.
• Broken Hero: After he has to kill Esme and snaps on her, then sees her memories, he becomes depressed and doesn't know what to do.
• Death of a Child: As he's clearly a middle-schooler, his appearance in Purgatory disturbs the other Executors, even more so than the older adults' worry over having so many teenagers and young adults in their ranks.
• Guilt Complex: If anything bad happens, Monarch will say "It's All My Fault" whether or not it actually was. When he sees others in danger, his first thought is that it will be his fault if he doesn't act to save them.
• Rage Breaking Point: He tries to keep calm enough to play an innocent civilian in the crowd during the contest in Invidia, but Esme's cavalier covering up of the things she's done to get to the top and stay there push him to lose his cool and scream at her that This Is Unforgivable!.
• Spiky Hair: His Executor form, in contrast to his hair being down normally.
• Trauma Button: Sibling issues and mistreating innocent people, even before he remembers his own relation to either.
• Wistful Amnesia: While he doesn't remember his life, he takes certain things very personally, such as Esme's motives, as if some part of him remembers the harm he caused that he spent a long time trying to repair.
• Young Face, Old Eyes: Chiron describes Monarch as looking several years older than he seems at times because of all the guilt and serious thought weighing on his mind.

Felix Hugo Fraldarius

Sword

• Jerkass: He's rarely nice to anyone, and even when he does Pet the Dog, he usually does it by insulting someone else.
• Meaningful Name: Sword uses, well, a sword.

Authorities

Esme

Beelzebub of Envy

• Alien Blood: Aberrant Esme/Beelzebub bleeds something sickly green instead of blood or pneuma.
• Always Someone Better: First there was Lapis, then Kotori, and finally the Executors she tried to kill. No wonder she's got envy issues.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She always has a smile for the camera and a handshake for her fans, but she views everyone as either peons to be used or obstacles to be disposed of.
• Bullying the Disabled: One of the first hints that she's bad news is her snide remarks at Phoenix for being blind.
• Cain and Abel: Esme resented her younger sibling, Lapis, in life. When Invidia's Underside opens up, every screen that had shown Esme in the main layer instead displays Lapis, which reflects and compounds Esme's Sanity Slippage; she even starts to project Lapis onto the Executors.
• Evil Diva: Invidia's top idol, and her friendly veneer doesn't last for long before she turns out to be a total jerk on the inside. And more than happy to try to re-murder anyone who crosses her.
• Famous for Being Famous: While she's an Idol Singer too, most of her fame is just from constantly being on TV showing off how popular she is. It serves a purpose besides stroking her ego: the Authority of Invidia must be the object of everyone's envy, and if anyone gets more popular (and thus more desirable to be) she loses her spot.

"People love me because they love me. There's no real rhyme or reason to it."

• Green-Eyed Monster: While she's introduced as the object of envy for other people, and that's where her powers come from, Esme has her own envy issues, which led to her Removing the Rival in the past.
• Hypocrite: The narration calls her out on this when she accuses Ruin of just liking to hear himself talk.
• Idol Singer: The top (and in fact only) idol in Invidia, and she'll do anything to keep it that way.
• Immortals Fear Death: She's determined to keep the Cogs of Renewal clogged because she's afraid of facing oblivion or being reincarnated as a new person.
• Master of Illusion: Her Aberrant form can turn invisible or project herself as someone from her opponent's memory.
• Poison Is Evil: She not only attempts to poison all the Executors when they reveal themselves, but achieved her position in Invidia via poisoning her rival.
• Proud Peacock: Esme has a pet peacock strutting around her Big Fancy House, though it only seems to be there as a symbol of her status as opposed to a pet she feels genuine affection for.
• Say It with Hearts: Esme's speech on TV is peppered with heart symbols (sometimes in green) to make her sound cutesy and fake.
• Say My Name: "Lapis! LAPIS! LAAAAAAPIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!!!!!!!!!"
• Shifting Voice of Madness: When she's about to transform into Beelzebub, her voice begins to distort, formatted with constantly changing fonts and font sizes.
• Sore Loser: When her cheating is foiled, her crimes exposed, and the contest she set up as a trap turns around on her, Esme struggles to keep her composure, and when Alice politely taunts her about it, she snaps and tries to attack her. It's at that point that she disappears and Invidia suffers an earthquake that opens up the next level of Purgatory.
• Vague Age: She's somewhere around her early-to-mid-twenties, but won't pin down an age.

Greta

Mammon of Greed

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While she seems genuinely helpful at first, she ends up just as much of a threat as Esme was.
• Dragons Are Demonic: Her Aberrant form, Mammon, is a red dragon.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She has a pair of large, round spectacles and the narrative occasionally invokes Scary Shiny Glasses with them.
• The Gambling Addict: In life, winning the lottery sent her down a path of chasing the high of gambling, first winning clean and quickly turning to cheating to keep her luck.
• Greed: The Sinner of Greed and the Authority of Avaritia.
• Hypocrite: It's perfectly fine for her to usurp the previous Authority, but the second the Executors beat her, she flies into a rage.
• Karmic Death: How she ended up in Purgatory. She made a living out of cheating others out of their fortunes, only to be murdered by one of her marks.
• Nothing Personal: How she brushes off the Executors who approach her for help, saying that it's not in her best interests.
• Not So Stoic: She maintains a cool, calm demeanor right up until the moment she realizes her Authority has been stolen, at which point she snaps and attempts to attack Ruin and the other Executors.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Greta admits that she knows she's being manipulated by the Big Bad, but she doesn't care as long as she's getting what she wants in the meantime.
• Sore Loser: Played with. She doesn't feel particularly strongly about winning or losing at cards, as she has effectively infinite money with which to keep raising the bet until she eventually wins. But when she realizes that she's been duped and her Authority has been stolen, she snaps and tries to attack Ruin.

NPCs

Alice

• The Host: In the concert at the climax of the Invidia arc. She volunteered for the position specifically to get under Esme's skin.
• Redheads Are Uncool: She was the least popular of the idol trio during their competition, despite her talent, due to being a bit of a Shrinking Violet. While she still has her fans, she was unpopular enough that Esme didn't consider her a rival, which ultimately saved her from being poisoned.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: She turns out to still be around, but the trauma of Kotori's demise made Alice regress to a normal Spectre. With the help of Beast, Chiron and Phoenix, plus Alice's biggest fan, she regains her memories.
• We Used to Be Friends: She truly did see Esme as a friend, and as firmly as she might stand as her enemy now, she still has one request to the Executors: that when they confront Esme in the Underside, they find out how and why she became a power-hungry traitor instead.

Miss Phantom

• Death by Materialism: Her fixation on Vault #0 and her refusal to believe it could be empty leads her to stay inside the slowly compressing corridor which eventually crushes her to death.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: The former Authority of Avaritia until Greta took her power and fortune. While she isn't sure what exactly she's missing, she knows Greta stole it and she'll do anything to get it back.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Despite being a former Authority herself, she has no awareness of the true nature of Purgatory and, like many other Specters, lacks the ability to retain that information even if told point blank.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Both "Miss Phantom" and "Lady Luck" are nicknames the people around her have given her.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Meets her end by accidentally setting off the bank's security system, threatening to kill the Executors (who quickly become the only people who could have saved her), and in the end, letting greed win over self-preservation: she doesn't even try to escape, but dives into the vault she's after, not believing that it could be empty.

??? (Birdie/The Mystery Girl)

• Animal Motifs: Esme refers to her with bird metaphors, calling her a 'little birdie' who came to 'twitter' to her. This catches on, with other characters starting to use the same comparison.
• Big Bad: The one who's been telling Authorities or would-be Authorities the truth about the afterlife and preparing them to fight the Executors and keep them away from the Cogs of Renewal.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Claims that her intent to strip other Executors of their memories, powers, and duties is "a kindness" because, to hear her tell it, they'll never be able to make it through the Cogs, much less repair them.
• Evil Counterpart: To Rei. Both are small, mysterious girls who fight alone; while Rei was persuaded to start a team, Birdie not only still fights alone, but is determined to be the only Executor in all of Purgatory and reduce any others to base-level Spectres, by force if necessary. When we meet Birdie, she even looks like an evil Palette Swap of Rei.
• Evil Former Friend: Implied to be this to Rei... maybe.
• Evil Weapon: The black sword she wields gives an immediate aura of wrongness that makes everyone instinctively avert their eyes. It's described as "an unsettling, unfathomably deep black that seems to suck in all the surrounding light and makes something in your soul flutter with some primal sense of alarm."
• Mysterious Waif: A small girl (much like Rei) who's told no one about herself or her aims.

Dropped Characters

Kazuya Takeda

Hope

Burdened by the sin of Envy.

• Canon Name: Sort of. While he isn't given a canon name in the game, 'Kazuya' is taken from the official game guide.

Isabel Guerra

Jock

Burdened by the sin of Sloth.

• Blood Knight: Loves fighting, and thinks the duty of Executors to battle against Revenants sounds awesome.

Lapis De Fiore

La Luna

Burdened by the sin of Pride.

• Spirit Advisor: Her original powerset in life, ironically enough.

Faith Fallon

Fury

Burdened by the sin of Wrath.

• Ironic Nickname: Or rather, Ironic Title; her Executor title is Fury and her sin is Wrath.

The Hollow Knight

Seal

Burdened by the sin of Sloth.

• An Arm and a Leg: Missing an arm when they arrive in Purgatory.

Zoe Blecher

Iris

• Cowardly Lion: Initially runs away from Revenants, but later tries to gather the courage to fight them.

Mordred

Kingslayer

Burdened by the sin of Lust.

• Animated Armor: They initially appear as this in Purgatory, as a full set of armor with nothing animating it on the inside.
• Berserk Button: Not being recognized for their talent or hard work. When they remember the reason for it, they go on a rampage, even hallucinating Lion as King Arthur and trying to kill him.
• Dramatic Unmask: How the above is revealed — their helmet is knocked off to reveal nothing underneath, much to the shock and dismay of everyone.
• Hates Their Parent: Remembering this sent them into a violent rampage through Invidia, followed by a self-imposed exile.
• Shock and Awe: One of their earliest powers is their Mana Burst spell, which releases red lightning upon activation.

Cassidy

Pariah

Burdened by the sin of Envy.

• Fiery Redhead: Tends to pick fights with the other Executors, and got into a fight with Esme almost immediately and got her so angry that when she tried to poison them all, she made sure to give Autumn extra.
• Holier Than Thou: She takes pride in not being "like other girls." During the Idol Singer plot in Invidia, she extends this to the others, becoming their manager and wanting them to be uncontroversial as a part of being popular.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: When she duplicates herself with her powers, each copy is a Palette Swap and has accessories on different sides.
• Meaningful Rename: She names herself "Autumn," rejecting her insulting default name.
• Self-Duplication: Her default power as an Executor, and in life.
• Shear Menace: Fights with a large pair of scissors; unlike Medic's, hers are sewing shears.

Pascal

Brainiac

Burdened by the sin of Gluttony.

• Buffy Speak: Prone to describing things vaguely rather than use technical terms.
  Brainiac: Come over here and let's see if we can't get 'em to bunch up using some narrow something-or-other!
  Wolfsbane: I assume you mean herding them into an alley or some such thing to trap them. Use your words.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Brainiac may be smart (and she'll say so without a shred of modesty), but she's likely to come up with off-the-wall explanations for anything and is certain of things that are highly unlikely (like Esme setting a Booby Trap in her dresser to protect against people going through her underwear).
• Ditzy Genius: A flighty, head-in-the-clouds genius. She comes up with things like tactics and machines, but has a permanent smile on her face and problems connecting with anyone.
• Genki Girl: Brainiac is always smiling and energetic.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Picks up a tacky cowgirl outfit and decides it is the best thing to wear for public appearances.
• Light 'em Up: Her first ability is a light spell.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Brainiac is almost always jokey and silly, but can switch to dead serious on a dime when the situation calls for it.
• The Pigpen: Much like Lion, she has to be forced into the public baths because she simply doesn't consider personal hygiene a priority. It puts everyone else off.
• Shorter Means Smarter: She's only 5'1.

Dave Strider

Clocks

Burdened by the sin of Gluttony.

• Camera Fiend: Clocks finds a camera and decides to play with it and take tons of pictures.
• Cool Shades: He's never seen without them, even indoors.
• Just Here for the Free Snacks: When Lion sets up a training session, Clocks beelines for the free food and tells him that the best way to ensure that the most people will attend any event is to lure in the people who don't care with snacks or pizza.
• Morph Weapon: His time powers even extend to his sword, which changes from new to old, broken to repaired, etc. as if it's cycling through its own life.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: His Establishing Character Moment is a censored Cluster F-Bomb in the form of a casual answer to a marketing survey.
• Sunglasses at Night: Clocks wears his sunglasses everywhere, and unlike Phoenix, it doesn't seem to be because of vision issues.

Kel'Thuzad

Frost

Burdened by the sin of Sloth.

• An Ice Person: He gets his use-name from his ice powers, even before he's remembered them.
• Better with Non-Human Company: Frost generally prefers the company of animals.
• Card Sharp: Has absolutely no qualms of making all his money in Avaritia by cheating Spectres out of it at games.
• Chain Pain: His weapon is a chain he can control and use as a flail.
• Commonality Connection: Quickly seems to bond with Medic due to their passion for science and occasional lack of morals around it.
• Delighting in Riddles: He's clearly not just gambling with riddles for the money; he has a lot of games he cheats at, but riddles seem to be the most fun for him.
• Dem Bones: His Executor form is a skeleton.
• Evil Old Folks: He's on the Executors' side, but his profile information includes the warning that he "has definitely committed war crimes."
• For Science!: He's intent on studying what goes on in Purgatory, from surveying the local Spectres to an intrusive degree to casually volunteering to be Medic's test subject.
• Old Soldier: The only Executor who looks, if not like he could have died of old age, still past middle-aged. Still highly competent.
• Riddle Me This: Likes to challenge people to riddles, particularly when the party's short on money and he can turn it into a gamble.
• Token Evil Teammate: While he's not the only Executor who was a villain in canon or even the only morally ambiguous one, he's all in on doing the dirtier jobs like cheating and sabotage and shows signs of moral failings almost as soon as he lands.