Library of Ruina Main Character Index
The Library | Fixers | Guests (The Wings | Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble | Associations | Offices | Other Guests) | Distortions | Abnormalities | The City | Others
The Library | Fixers | Guests (The Wings | Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble | Associations | Offices | Other Guests) | Distortions | Abnormalities | The City | Others
- "I will carefully determine what guests to invite and write an invitation accordingly, and you will entertain the guests once they accept the invitation and arrive at the Library. "
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Guests
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Red Invitation Guests of Scene 1
Canard
Red Invitation Guests of Scene 2
Urban Myth
Red Invitation Guests of Scene 3
Urban Legend
Red Invitation Guests of Scene 4
Urban Plague
Red Invitation Guests of Scene 5
Urban Nightmare
The Crying Children
- "The surge of emotions crossed the line of E.G.O, which caused [Philip] to undergo the so-called Distortion phenomenon... Thus turning him into an Abnormality."- Angela
- Angelic Abomination: The three 'children' resemble cherubs, while the angel statue they warp into resembles a more traditional depiction.
- Beef Gate: The Crying Children consists of a whopping seven phases consisting of multiple enemies with extremely disrupting passives and area-of-effect long range attacks. If you haven't completed a Floor Realization battle yet to get an extra employee and E.G.O. pages to burst down the Children, you are going to have a hard time.
- Boss Banter: Similar to the lines 'spoken' in the Abnormality battles.
- Empathic Environment: The background for them is a completely collapsed version of E.G.O. Philip's background. It turns red and filled with blood when the angels fuse.
- Fisher King: As to represent Phillip's collapsed mind, the background is a ruined version of E.G.O. Philip's, with Children floating around it, and becomes filled with blood when the big Child shows up.
- Fusion Dance: The Children can merge together to become a single, massive one.
- Image Song: And Then is Heard No More
. - Interface Screw: The three Children specialize in this, with the Unseeing Child preventing the player from seeing the effects of the Children's dice and the Unhearing Child preventing the player from seeing and redirecting the Children's targets.
- Monkey Morality Pose: The three smaller angels invoke this. The large angel they turn into, as insinuated by their page story, is implied to represent the lesser-known fourth monkey, Do No Evil.
- Not Quite Dead: An angel managed to escape while the big one was converted into a book. Even as an Abnormality, Philip's still as stubborn as a cockroach. Angela suggests that the Library itself spared him. It would later grow into a distortion and joins the Reverb Ensemble.
- Sad Battle Music: "And Then Was Heard No More", a melancholic vocal track depicting Phillip's delusional paranoia on the people he so admired, believing that they hated him for his incompetence so firmly that its driven him into a breakdown.
Warp Cleanup Crew
- "So it really wasn't a malfunction. Those crooks at W Corp... They knew everything."
- - Roland
- Dark Secret: Their true mission is to clean these up, erasing the memories of everyone onboard the Warp Trains after they return as to prevent the truth that everyone onboard are just guinea pigs. The Cleanup Crew go so far as to follow the Puppets into the Library due to the fact that they have info that could ruin W Corp.
- Death or Glory Attack: Downplayed with the Rip Space combat page. It uses up all of the charges that the crewmate has accumulated for a chance to deal two incredibly devastating attacks, but it also has a chance to deal a massive 20 recoil damage to the user on failure. What makes this downplayed, however, is that each charge spent increases the chances of success by 9.9%, with the max charge amount being 10, the combat page can potentially have a 99% success rate on use.
- Genki Girl: Lesti is a more or less optimistic, tomboy-ish newcomer within the trio. Unfortunately, she also breaks down upon having to enter the Library to investigate or be fired, knowing fully that everyone who goes in are going to die.
- The One Guy: Sen is the sole man within the on-screen trio.
- Meaningful Name: While "Cleanup Crew" just means janitors, it also means that they "clean up" any Dark Secrets that exposes that the Warps Trains have always driven people insane over a nigh-eternal trip of torment, and then restores everything to normal once it reaches it destination, where the Cleanup Crew will then erase the memories of to keep the truth from getting out.
- Secret Art: The Rip Space combat page can only be used by Rose, Lesti, and Sen.
- Tears of Fear: Lesti sobs when she learns that she had to enter the Library or be fired.
- Wham Episode: Around here you will find out that events such as Love Town weren't simple accidents or malfunctions.
Red Invitation Guests of Scene 6 (Unmarked Spoilers)
Star of the City
The Blue Reverberation
- "When someone as powerful as him goes completely wacko and starts pillaging everywhere, there's literally no way to stop him."- Roland
Argalia, Pluto and the Church of Gears later reached an abandoned laboratory in the Outskirts (Most likely the remains of the defunct L. Corp) and interrogated a group of Outskirt residents about the Library. The failure to obtain any info from the residents, as well as the robotic creatures that were approaching the area, led to Argalia brutally executing them before entering the Library himself to scout the area. They cover Star of the City Chapter 1.2
The fight consists of 9 Church of Gears members and Argalia himself. Unlike most other Guests, Argalia flees at half HP.
Liu Association
An Association that specializes in all-out warfare, they commonly accept dangerous requests from the Wings involving combat, in this case being both the Library and The Crying Children. In their second episode, they learn of the danger The Crying Children poses as it wipes out most of V Corp's Nest, but while trying to eliminate it, the Blue Reverberation shows up to save the Distortion, along with the Oswald, who took the Ensemble's invitation. They cover Star of the City Chapter 1.3.- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Their specialty is all out warfare and combat. Their decks focus on building high emotion levels. with higher emotion levels comes cheaper costs for their attacks and damage boosts to special attacks, and thus they can charge into the fray much more often.
- Secret Art: The Raging Storm: Harm, combat page can only be used by Lowell, while the Tieshankao combat page can only be used by Mei and Cecil.
- Playing with Fire: They like to inflict burn, a lot.
The Red Mist
Liu Association Section 1
- "Who could've seen that Xiao of all people would be blinded by love..."- Roland
- Ambiguous Situation: After the battle, Xiao has scales on the sides of her face and neck, as well as a prominent horn on her head. Angela isn't sure if she's Distorting, or has unlocked her own E.G.O., noting that this is similar to what happened to Philip. Later reveled she was succumbing, but managed to gain an E.G.O. in the next chapter.
- Boss in Mook's Clothing: Unlike previous guest fights, the attacks of the combatants this round are extremely powerful and can easily defeat teams that were being whittled down on the previous round, especially Xiao's pages. Their passives also synergize with their attacks very well, allowing them to burn and decimate through whole parties quickly.
- Despair Event Horizon: Having lost the love of her life, she seems to succumbing the Distortion phenomenon, openly airing her views of the City and emotions.
- Out of Character Is Serious Business: When Xiao was about to raid the Library, she was noticeably acting very differently from before. She resigns herself from being the Liu Branch 1 leader, starts talking about how corrupt the City was, and was more open to acting emotionally. Her subordinates were very uncomfortable about this considering that wasn't how she's usually supposed to act.
- Playing with Fire: Just like in the previous chapter, they like to inflict burn. Especially prominent with Xiao, who's passives allow even more stacks of burn to be applied.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: One of Xiao's companions, Miris, realizes that the battle is a lost cause and escapes, dragging Xiao with him despite her desire to fight to the end.
R Corp Ⅰ
- "It's good to see a familiar face."- Angela
- Category Traitor: The reason why Myo and other 4th Pack team leaders are forced to go into the Library; due to having unwittingly helped Ayin with his Seed of Light, which then created the Library, R Corp forces them to go to make sure they're not traitors, as stated by Nikolai. Maxim even notes the awkward situation that they were left in after the L Corp became the Library.
- Horned Humanoid: Rudolph and the Reindeer Team have reindeer horns growing out of their heads.
- Mind Rape: The Reindeer Team's specialty is to damage the mind, so hard that they weren't used as private security units for L Corp because they might make the Manager (and probably even themselves) insane. In this game, this translates to the Reindeers being able to stagger your librarians easily, and their pages often cause recoil to their own stagger gauge.
- Man Behind the Man: Turns out that Myo was the one who sent Molar Office on the WARP train that would become Love Town, having asked them to locate the Library due to it having not being a major threat then.
- More Dakka: The Rabbit Team's signature ability. Notably, they are also the only entities of the city that are permitted access to lethal, high quality firearms.
- Never Mess with Granny: Nikolai is the leader of the entire 4th Pack, and can kick your ass with her sword. Myo even calls her "granny".
- Powered Armor: Maxim and the Rhino Team in general wears massive and heavily built armor.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their eyes glow blood red when serious or berserk.
- Super-Strength: The Rhino Team's specialty is to charge head first using their extreme durability and strength, to the point that they themselves can go out of control. As a result, they weren't hired as mercenaries within L Corp in fear of them destroying the facility with their collateral damage.
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- "Color me speechless... So that's what the Prescripts really were."- Roland
- Battle Theme Music: Children of the City, a jazzy vaporwave piece that consist of the citing of random prescripts, and represents Yan's Despair Event Horizon over how his attempts to be an individual were for naught due to the true nature of the prescripts being written by the City's will.
- Bilingual Bonus: His name requires typing it in a different language's keyboard (Korean for English and vice versa) to get its proper name.
- Boss Banter: Throughout the fight, the song and Yan recites random prescripts, in a manner similar to the Abnormalities and Philip due to distorting.
- Boss Battle: Serve as one of bosses as the climax of Star of the City, and serves as the finale of the Syndicate arc.
- Call-Back: One set of the lyrics; "By the time you realize, you'll be restrained to a desk. And with your dreams on the floor you comply, eyes chained to the test", refers to the Graduation Exam distortion from the Distortion Detective novels.
- Chain Pain: Just like all other Index members, his boss fight consists of using chains to attack.
- Fisher King: His background is covered in ink dripping from the ceiling, and seismograph lines within the background, while a blue light shines at the very center, representing in order, Yan's despair, what the Prescripts really are and their omnipresence, and the City's omnipotent will.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At the final verse of the song, the singer is given their own prescript, "don't go home until you finish reciting the value of e", the singer gives up and the song loops again, reflecting Yan's predicament.
- Giant Hands of Doom: Yan is assisted by two mechanical hands dripping with ink and connected by chains called the Right and Left Hands, serving as separate targets.
- Mechanical Abomination: enlxmfflsdis resembles a ghostly version of Yan with the entire middle part of his head replaced with a lock and his ponytail on a ring. His arms have been replaced with Giant Hands of Doom dripping with ink, connected by chains. His legs meanwhile have type-writer keys growing out of his legs and oozing with ink as well.
- Shielded Core Boss: While he is targetable, unless you can find a way around it, his dodge rolls are too high to realistically attack the main body. Only by defeating the Giant Hands of Doom will he be hittable, and even then, you need to overcome his Endure cards to do realistic damage. If he's still standing, then the hands while revive at 100 hp each.
- Tragic Monster: Realizing that his efforts to rebel meant jack-all to what can be best described as "the City's will created by it's inhabitants' cruelty" and realizing he can't escape or defy it, he becomes a Distortion that blindly heads into the Library to die.
- Word Purée Title: The actual name in English is seemingly a bunch of random Korean letters, while the opposite is true if you're using the Korean language setting, and it's even more incomprehensible within other languages (in Japanese, it's a combination of English letters, numbers, and symbols). That said, if you enter said letters on the proper keyboard, it translates into 'Distorted Yan'.
The Purple Tear
- "If you can't best this old woman... I'll ruin the Library in my own way."- Iori
The Purple Tear has the ability to jump between dimensions, guaranteeing that she can score a kill against at least one floor with her absurdly powerful attacks. She uses this ability to sent Roland into the Library at the start of the game and it's implied that she had entered the Library when it was still a Canard, where it wasn't strong enough to actually block her abilities.
- Animal Motifs: Snakes.
- Asshole Victim: It's revealed that she's been using the Blue Reverb, Roland and the Library to achieve an unknown goal in her hands. Argalia sends his whole Reverb Ensemble against her, forcing her to flee into the Library. She dies in combat afterwards. Subverted, because if you check out her book, it's implied that she lost her son 40 years ago to a very tragic case and was actually finding a way to change his fate by using the city's Colors.
- Chekhov's Gunman: You hear about her from Roland at the first scene of the game.
- Dimensional Traveler: Her power is to jump through dimensions. If you drop her HP to half, she will jump to a random floor and kill the Librarians there.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her naturally smug attitude in front of Argalia, Roland and the Library, it's implied that Iori was actually hatching a plan around other color fixers of the City for the sake of meeting her son, who died to an unknown incident 40 years ago.
- Stance System: Iori is unique in that she has four different decks, one specializing in each of the three damage types and one specializing in defensive die that she can swap to occasionally, with each stance giving her a bonus in the dice type of that deck.
- Statuesque Stunner: If you are into that stuff. The Purple Tear is very tall, towering over most characters in the game.
- Psychotic Smirk: Sports an impressive one especially when being hit by an attack.
- Red Baron: Just like the Blue Reverberation and the Red Mist, she is a color fixer capable of supernatural powers.
- Smug Snake: A literal case considering her motif, The Purple Tear is very smug even when engaging in normal conversation, and most of her dialogue consists of patronizing speeches and contempt.
Xiao
- "She didn't break down like the other kid with the power did, at least. I was actually amazed by how unswerving her determination could be..."- Roland
For more about Xiao, see here.
R Corp Ⅱ
- "Still, I'm astounded by it alright. There really is a cloning technology for humans... Are they gonna be stronger than the versions we received last time?"- Roland
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if the original copies of Myo, Maxim and Rudolph still exist.
- Clone Army: Turns out that all of the R Corp troops are actually clones, and the original entity used to create their troops are probably gone.
- Continuity Nod: Maxim's book makes mention of a woman who enthusiastically wants R corp to start a war alongside them. That's actually the Udjat leader Dias, a member of Moses' party in The Distortion Detective who requested R Corp to start the Smoke War with her on behalf for Ayin and Benjamin.
- Handicapped Badass: Once being infinitely capable of resurrecting their whole army from scratch if they ever got their troops decimated thanks to L corp's stable and generous energy supply, they can no longer replicate elite troops as effectively as before since they are running out of energy without them, and the remaining copies of Myo, Maxim and Rudolph risk getting Killed Off for Real in the Library.
- I Am a Humanitarian: When R Corp is selecting Myo clones to raid the Library, one of the Myos can be seen eating the legs of another.
- Loophole Abuse: It was revealed that A Corp (The Head) has a weirdly arranged anti-cloning law that prevents two copies of the same person to exist within a single week, although this only applies to time within A Corp, not any timezone in a TT2 affected area. This allows R Corp to effectively subvert the law by hatching and selecting the clones in an enclosed space. However, without L Corp's energy, this is very difficult to perform; recreating and reselecting Myo before their second raid to the Library is the last stand for them, and any subsequent mass hatching will result in The Head actually intervening and decimating R Corp because of the aforementioned law.
- Might Makes Right: This is how they manage to select and train their troops and clones, by forcing thousands of clones of the same person to maim, kill and eat each other through thousands of years of enclosed time. The clone that survives is the chosen one and will be appointed as one of the team captains.
- Prematurely Grey-Haired: Nikolai's hair apparently became the greyish shade it is now after learning that the 4th Pack was going to be destroyed prior to the events of the Smoke War.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential:
- Having to fight one of your greatest benefactors back in the prequel isn't exactly a good sight to behold. Thankfully, Myo is just a clone, but considering that R Corp will run out of energy without L Corp's consistent supply, it's only a matter of time before she gets Killed Off for Real.
- It becomes worse when you fight her with Gebura, whose ego was from a person whom she actually looked up (and was acquainted) to, saved her from being killed by enemy syndicates and she ends up being killed by the person known to her as a savior and friend for so long.
Red Invitation Guests of Scene 7 (Unmarked Spoilers)
