Characters / Lobotomy Corporation Sephirot

aka: Lobotomy Corporation Sephirah

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The Sephirot

The executives assigned to specific departments, who oversee the operations performed by their respective wings of the Corporation. For information on their roles in the sequel, see here.

Tropes applying to all Sephirot

• AI Is A Crap Shoot: Almost all of them sport questionable, if not outright malicious personalities. Justified, because four of these are actually people who were either forsaken or outright murdered by your player character a decade ago, two were murdered in a rather unpleasant visit from the City's ruling entity, two were respectively the perpetrator and the chief commander of said authority's raid that you captured and turned into a part of your inner circle out of virtually impossible odds, and the last is your colleague whom you captured in a seemingly infinite loop of life and death; of course they will be turning against you out of the terrible things you had done to them. And then there’s the Meltdowns they’ll experience, causing them to actively hinder you during their fits of malfunction and Despair Event Horizon. Completing the Meltdowns makes them reconcile with you, and is the only way to end the vicious loop by completing the goal you started.
• Background Music Override: Just their presence during a Meltdown causes the day's theme to begin at the Second Warning. Some Sephirot have their own themes that play starting from the first Qliphoth Meltdown.
• Biblical Motifs: Each of the Sephirot are named after a part of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, though, in a case of irony, their trauma and initial personalities are based off the Qliphoth, the Tree of Death - which fits with the fact that the Tree is upside down.
• Brain Uploading: They were all originally humans who died and were turned into A.I.s.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Sephirah represents their department with their own colors, with the majority representing that color with their hair and/or uniform. These colors also match up with their colors in the actual Kabbalistic tradition:
  • Yellow/Gold - Malkuth
  • Purple - Yesod
  • Green - Netzach
  • Orange - Hod
  • Bright Yellow - Tiphereth
  • Red - Gebura
  • Blue - Chesed
  • Gray - Hokma
  • Black - Binah
• Despair Event Horizon: Their Sephirah Meltdowns are triggered after they fully recollect their deaths or other horrible events from when they were humans.
• Eating Machine: Considering Netzach actively advocates for readily-available alcohol in his branch and Chesed is never seen without coffee, it make you wonder how their robotic bodies didn't break down with the liquids they so readily consume.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Sephirot are not human, or even humanoid; the Manager only perceives them that way because of the perception filter. After a Sephirah's Core Suppression is completed, the perception filter turns off for that Sephirah, allowing the Manager to see them as the robotic boxes they truly are.
• Interface Screw: Many of them mess with the game's visuals when a Sephirah Meltdown is in effect.
• Irony: Each of the Sephirot's traumas are the opposite of the part of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life they are named after. On a lore-wise standpoint, this symbolizes the Qliphoth, the Tree of Death, and the shadow of the Sephirot likely because the tree is inverted.
  • Malkuth: Malkuth represents the Kingdom, or the positive communication to the other Sephirot, but Elijah acted brashly under A's company, performing an unauthorized Cogito experiment on herself and died as a result, without any communication to the other executives. (Qimranut - Materialism)
  • Yesod: Yesod represents emotional stability and rationality, yet Gabriel was too rational, to the point that he became completely insane and clawed himself to death. (Aiyatsbus - Instability)
  • Netzach: Netzach represents victory (or the ability to overcome one's hardships). However, Giovanni chose to be medicated to death while A lies to him that his sacrifice would be worth it, knowing fully that he was only trying to kill him for no avail. (Shakah - Lust for power)
  • Hod: Hod is the Sephirah representing glory (or the ability to accept one's flaws), but Michelle as Hod refuses to acknowledge the horror she unleashed against the former L Corp and keeps trying to atone to no avail. (Chemdah - Greed)
  • Tiphereth: Tiphereth means Beauty (or the ability to see hope in the future). While Enoch is a rather optimistic child, Lisa is cynical and snarky, and believes that expectations will lead to more dissapointment. After Enoch's sacrifice in Carmen's hands, Lisa fell into a funk because of the loss of her best friend. She cursed Carmen, telling her she should die. Carmen took that to heart and she quickly fell into deep, suicidal depression from all the guilt, attempting her infamous Bath Suicide days later. (Kaitul - Ugliness)
  • Gebura: Gebura represents Justice, but Kali was so drowned in senseless guilt and rage that she treats her job as getting the Abnormalities repeatedly killed instead of protecting/stopping them from breaching in the first place. (Akzeriyyuth - Cruelty)
  • Chesed: Chesed represents kindness, but for the sake of his own survival, Daniel let the Head's chief agent make all the Abnormalities breach. This caused all of the employees who adored him and himself to be killed, while the former L Corp was virtually decimated, and he himself drowned with shame over his failed self-preservation. (Adyeschach - Insensitivity)
  • Hokma: Hokma represents Wisdom; Benjamin was the person who treated Angela well (unlike A who would often drive her to despair instead) and was A's greatest confidant, not knowing that his master would be cruel enough to sacrifice him and revive him over and over for the sake of his "script" that he would infinitely loop until he completes the goal Carmen left for him. (Iweleth - Ignorance)
  • Binah: Binah represents Understanding. However, Garion was in fact an elite agent from the Head/A Corp who was sent to mercilessly decimate all of the former L Corp, one that nobody is supposed to survive an assault from. (Sheriruth - Intolerance)
  • Keter: While not a real Sephirah, A's personalities were split into four parts because of the madness-inducing time loops he set and buried himself in for a decade (Thaumiel - Duality). A is also one of the very few entities of the City who doesn't fear breaking its most extreme offenses and laws to reach Carmen's goal. (Bacikal - Heresy)
• Meaningful Name: Each of them have a name tying into the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Angela ties into the religious motif in more of a Punny Name way (Angel-a), although the remains of the woman she was based on, Carmen, fill the position of the Sephirah Da'at.
• One-Winged Angel: Their Sephirah Meltdown boss forms.
• Posthumous Character: Almost all of them were already dead before the events of the game begin, but resurrected as AIs by you. The noticable subversion is Hokma, who instead exists as a perfectly fine human being until Day 20.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The personalities of the Sephirot counteract the ones across the hallways from each other, which is rather expectable since the spheres they are based on are supposed to complement eachother;
  • Netzach and Hod: Netzach is a complete slacker, frequently disappearing to get drunk and/or high while despairing at his position in the Corporation. Hod, meanwhile is a hard worker - she's focused on helping as many people as possible at all times, and loves her position of leadership.
  • Chesed and Gebura: Chesed is always sleepy, cautious of the Abnormalities, and he cares for the lives of his employees with defensive upgrades that heal them both physically and mentally. Gebura, meanwhile, is full of wrath and violence, constantly in a state of anger towards the Abnormalities, encourages you to deliberately release and beat them into submission repeatedly, and gives out upgrades that either risk or are even designed to kill employees on purpose. They're even actually red (Gebura) and blue (Chesed)!
  • Hokma and Binah: Hokma has become stoic from a lifetime of despairing over the cycle of life and death in the Corporation, mourning for the fallen while also keeping in mind that it’s inevitable. Binah has also become stoic, but it stems from a lifetime of sadistic satisfaction over death, which means she’ll barely bat an eye whenever another death occurs.
• Walking Spoiler: Not the Sephirot themselves, no, but rather their previous forms as humans and the trial for completing their Meltdowns reveal a whole lot about the facility, A, Carmen, and the Seed of Light.
• Your Size May Vary: Their human selves generally have the same height as their current forms, with some noticeable exceptions, such as Daniel being quite shorter than Chesed, or Benjamin seeming to have been quite tall in some cutscenes or around the same height as he is now as Hokma.

Malkuth

I am, umm, not exactly the best at everything, I used to be a problem Sephirah, you know. I would sew buttons onto a shirt in the wrong direction, or add salt instead of sugar to food... But still, you can do it! Just like I managed to, I'm sure you will succeed, manager!

^{Click to see True form}  We'll take in all these horrible moments. But I want you to be the one to bear the suffering, manager. ...Like we are now.

The head of the Control Team Department (the first team you get to control), who is always chipper and jolly to be at work, though she tends to be rather forgetful and clumsy.

Her real identity is Elijah, a former worker in the Corporation during the Cogito experiments. She had attempted to get A to participate in extractions or the experiments rather than staying an observer, and eventually decided to take matters into her own hands. Due to the Cogito experiments not being ready for humans yet, Elijah died, but not before begging A for a less painful death, to which he ignored.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: As pointed out by both Angela and Malkuth herself, she tends to get distracted very easily, leading to her holding onto an old and worn out notebook she claims to help her focus much easier.
• Battle Theme Music: Violation of Black Colors, followed by Red Dots.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Doubly Subverted. She freely lets it all out after her Meltdown that she doesn't believe in you in the slightest and doesn't expect you to change the facility for the better in any way, but then follows up that she is intrigued enough by your work to want to see how you'll progress forward.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Technically, she's associated with four colors that all return in her character design: citrine, olive, russet and black. In practice, the department only takes over the citrine tone.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Elijah's body was overloaded by Cogito, causing her to lose all her nails and half her teeth. She was then left to die a horrible, painful death by A.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Admits to it herself, along with being easily distracted. Angela considers her to be the most irredeemably corrupt for these traits, but at the same time it makes her the easiest to control, so it hasn’t been a problem yet.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Elijah" is a name more associated with boys than women.
• Genki Girl: She's the closest to one, as she's almost always in an upbeat mood with a smile on her face.
• Iconic Item: A worn clipboard and pen, which she had been using ever since she was a part of the Corporation and denotes the forgetful aspect of her Cute Clumsy Girl personality.
• Meaningful Name: In the context of Kabbalah, the archangel assigned to Malkuth is Sandalphon —- who is said by some to have once been the prophet Elijah before becoming an archangel.
• One-Steve Limit: There is another "Elijah" in the game —- the sister of Dream of a Black Swan.
• Red Armband of Leadership: Wears one to indicate her position.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Kabbalah, 'Malkuth' is the lowest Sephirah on the tree and represents the root of the tree. It encompasses the physical world around us and acts as the starting point of the journey, as well as the communication between the Sephirot. Despite being the lowest, it is connected to the highest Sephirah, Kether, symbolized as 'Kether is in Malkuth and Malkuth is in Kether'. It is Color-Coded for Your Convenience with citrine, olive, russet and black (all of these colors return in her character design).

Yesod

"Every sliver of the information that you read contains the despair and desperation of our employees. Please do not think lightly of that information."

^{Click to see True Form}  It seems that you're also on the way to embracing your painful past. It's always the beginning that's difficult.

The head of the Information Team Department. He is a somewhat cold, arrogant and overly-rational person who does not take lightly to failure.

His real identity is Gabriel, a worker alongside Elijah. After hearing of her death, he began to compulsively start attempts to make the Corporation more safe. Compulsion turned to obsession, and Gabriel began to scratch at any of his own skin that wasn't covered by his clothes. Despite reassurances that any chemicals in the Corporation didn't infect him, he kept scratching at himself until it killed him.

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• Battle Theme Music: untitled9877645623413123325, followed by Faded.
• Brick Joke: Upon first meeting the manager, he complains about their dress code and brings up a penalty point system, but acknowledges he can't impose it on the player. Right after his speech after his Sephirah Meltdown is completed, he seriously reconsiders that idea, though it may have just been something to lighten the mood. It's also referenced again when you first meet the Tiphereths while they are talking with Netzach.
• Clawing at Own Throat: He began to scratch and claw at himself endlessly in a fit of obsessive guilt over Elijah's death.
• Dork in a Sweater: He's an intelligent but arrogant man in a turtleneck. This is Played for Drama, as his conservative clothing was one of the first clues about his deteriorating mental state when he was Gabriel.
• In-Series Nickname: On a small scale, but amongst the employees who dislike him, Yesod is known as ‘Yesod the Viper’. He came to accept that with pride, though others include "Yesod the Cold-blooded Machine" (which Hod notably calls him by), and "Yesod the Cruel and Emotionless".
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He felt guilty for Elijah's death as Gabriel and eventually became obsessed with security.
• Interface Screw: Present in many of the Sephirah Meltdowns, but it’s Yesod's specialty in particular. During his battle the screen will gradually worsen in video quality, rendering the game into a mess of almost unrecognizable pixels. Memorizing what your Abnormalities require, employee stats and the locations of them all beforehand is almost necessary to win. It only gets worse as it goes on as well, with the heavily increased saturation being the minimum of issues faced.
• Labcoat of Science: He wore one as Gabriel.
• Lack of Empathy: He has no problem bringing up the time he had to put down James. He justifies it for himself as he expresses regret over having known him personally due to being exploited by him and bending the rules a little for the employee. He mentions later he envies Angela and her inability to feel the sympathy that clouds his judgement.
  Yesod: "Sometimes, you will feel the urge to share the distress and anxiety with someone else; to have a friend. But manager, whenever you feel lonely, please remember what happened to me. And try not to make the same mistake as I did. You will be able to get over the meaningless deaths that way."
  • Gabriel's initial reaction to the news of Elijah's death seemed to be a case of this, but it becomes clear that he was deeply affected by it, which took a toll on his psyche.
• Meaningful Name: In the context of Kabbalah, the archangel assigned to Yesod is Gabriel.
• Neat Freak: Played for drama. Gabriel had become so obsessed with the idea of keeping himself clean that he began clawing at whatever skin was exposed on his body.
• Non-Indicative Name: He brings this up by taking note of the real purpose of the Information Team; they manipulate the information they receive by the request of the other Departments, such as the erasure of employee records, without even knowing things like what the criteria for stripping the records are.
  Yesod: "We've degenerated into a department that destroys and manipulates information as ordered, yet somehow we're still called the "Information Team.""
• Not So Stoic: Beneath his cold exterior, he's overwhelmed by both rage and despair for a multitude of reasons, which A takes note of.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Kabbalah, Yesod represents the Dream Land that is directly connected to Malkuth. It is the world of illusion, the subconscious, dreams, the astral plane and memories. It is also the 'Moon' to Malkuth's 'Earth' and is Color-Coded for Your Convenience with purple.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's the shortest of all the male Sephirot besides Tiphereth B, but he is the head of the Information Team.
• Smug Smiler: The few times he does smile, he's either looking and/or acting pretty full of himself.
• The Spock: He's the best fitted for this, as he's analytical and quite stoic. He himself would tell you he's actually quite far from that, though.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Unlike some of the other Sephirot, he tends to express disappointment if you allow your employees to go mad, die or allow Abnormalities to breach containment.

Netzach

"That's right, I'll be level with you. I don't like my job. I really want to quit if I could."

^{Click to see True Form}  I think we're both in a similiar situation. We were both caught up in the karma of the past.

The head of the Safety Team Department. He is the depressed leader of the Safety Team that's absolutely miserable in his line of work at the Lobotomy Corporation, wishing be finally be free from it. For now he just settles on quietly celebrating each day he and his department members survive, though.

Netzach's true identity is Giovanni, an old friend of Carmen who followed her into the Corporation to protect and save her. Carmen died one day, driving Giovanni to volunteer himself to 'A's Cogito experiments with the hopes of bringing her back to life. Giovanni died in the infirmary during the failed and still very early experiments, and was brought back as Netzach to continue his duties.

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• Battle Theme Music: Abandoned, followed by Blue Dots.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He's a complete slacker, but he was put in charge of the Safety Team Department for a reason. To be fair, he didn't even want to work for the Corporation in the first place.
• Childhood Friends: With Carmen. Trying to save her was why Giovanni joined the Corporation in the first place.
• Drowning My Sorrows: How he copes with the job he's unable to leave.
• Forced into Evil: He says he was brought into the facility against his will. He genuinely doesn't want to be here, and hates how many people have to die on duty.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's one of the few well-meaning Sephirot. He also hates your guts because you killed him with your own hands.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: His Meltdown is triggered after he attempts to overdose on Enkephalin and kill himself. However, he was called back, considering that AI in the Corporation need "permission to die" in the first place.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: He's taken to drinking alcohol often to calm his mind, and one of the first things Netzach asks you is for you to approve of a beer vending machine to ease the atmosphere just a little.
• Interrupted Suicide: You stopping his Meltdown calls him back to the facility and prevents him from killing himself through Enkephalin overdose. It's due to this that Netzach starts holding onto a shred of hope for the future and gets over his resentment of X for saving him.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His long hair compared to the other male Sephirot invokes this. It was somewhat shorter when he was Giovanni, though it visibly grew out later anyways.
• Meaningful Name: Keeping up with the Religious and Mythological Theme Naming, the name "Giovanni" can be traced back to "John" which means "God is Gracious".
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • He recommended Enkephalin to Hod, which caused her to undergo her Meltdown not too long after.
  • Also, this was one of the Sephirot you did personally kill in their past life. To be exact, you used him in an experiment and led him to his death, while outright lying to him about your lost lenore.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He only agreed to come to the facility and act as a lab rat for the Cogito experiments so he could find a way to bring Carmen back to life, not knowing that there was no way to save her in the first place. 'A' says he regrets having him live a lie.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Kabbalah, Netzach is the emotional counterpart to Hod. It is associated with victory, feelings and overcoming weaknesses. It's also Color-Coded for Your Convenience with green (the color of 'rusted' copper).
• What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: His reaction to employee deaths.

Hod

"I want to be as helpful a person I can be here. Because, the harder I try, the more lives I can save..."

^{Click to see True Form}  So, manager... let's keep trying together, in this interminable hell."

Head of the Training Team Department, which works to prepare and train workers for the dangers the work place presents. She’s a friendly, if somewhat awkward worker that does her best to help as many people as possible.

...In reality, there's actually something more sinister around her. Hod's true name is Michelle, and was responsible for ratting the former L Corp out to the City's de facto authorities^note later retconned as a Wing known as "A Corp", known as The Heads of the World. Although Michelle gained the friendship and trust of many people in the Corporation, she eventually had to report her discoveries to The Head, leading to an attack that killed nearly everyone targeted. Overwhelmed with guilt, Michelle hung herself before later being found by ‘A’ for conversion into a Sephirah. Michelle, now as Hod, continues to function with one goal in mind; atonement for her betrayal.

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• The Atoner: That overbearing and awkwardly nice attitude is Hod trying to atone for the disaster she caused many years ago.
• Age Lift: As Michelle, she seemed to be around her teenage years, or possibly even a child. After her death and Brain Uploading, she has been aged up a few years.
• Battle Theme Music: Theme - Retro Time.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Subverted. It’s revealed later on that Hod's kind demeanor is less than genuine and more like her trying to atone, but she was genuinely a nice girl deep down and didn't even expect the Head to actually go full metal against Lobotomy Corporation. After suppressing her Meltdown, Hod finally stops denying it and vows to be more genuine in her kindness.
• Broken Bird: She's polite, friendly and wants the best for her fellow Sephirot and employees, which is mostly a way for her to repent for her prior actions as Michelle.
• Driven to Suicide: How Michelle died, hanging herself out of guilt for what she has done.
• Drugs Are Bad: She gladly gave Netzach and a worker named Tiffany a generous supply of Enkephalin, not realizing that they’re just using it to get high, leading to Tiffany and Netzach coming under fire from Angela. She herself also becomes hooked to Enkephalin following a conversation with Netzach, leading to her hallucinating both her dead employees and copies of herself berating her for how useless and two-faced she is, causing her to begin a Meltdown.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: She won’t admit it openly, but she’s incredibly frustrated over the fact that nobody, not Angela or the Sephirot and not even her own workers, give a shit about all the work she has done for them. This takes a much darker twist, considering that the ego who made her was a traitor who rat L Corp out to authorities and caused the whole company to be virtually decimated by the Arbiter Garion and the Claws.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Deconstructed. Michelle was well trusted among the facility, but sold them out to the Head anyway. Her betrayal against the facility led to the whole facility being ripped apart by Garion the Arbiter, causing Daniel, Kali and eventually Garion herself to be killed, and Hod hung herself out of guilt. Even when Michelle, Daniel and Kali were eventually resurrected as Sephirot, Chesed (Daniel) spends his second life ridden with shame for enabling Garion, Gebura (Kali) drowned herself in senseless wrath trying to kill Abnormalities and Hod (Michelle) wastes her second life meaninglessly trying to atone for the catastrophe she unleashed.
• Extreme Doormat: Everyone walks over her, from her employees to her fellow Sephirot.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: None of the Sephirot (with the possible exceptions of Chesed and maybe Gebura) seem to care about her efforts to help and find her caring personality an annoyance. Their hatred is later given an explanation, considering that she did something which she herself regrets doing: reporting them to the strongest and most corrupt organization in the City for annihilation.
• Idiot Hair: Of the naïve variety. Amusingly enough, the idiot hair is present on her robot body as well.
• Just Trying to Help: Her sole goal that she sticks to with zeal, whether her depressed and jaded workers like it or not.
• Meaningful Name: "Michelle" is the feminine form of the name "Michael", which comes from the archangel of the same name.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Kabbalah, Hod is the rational, intelligence-based counterpart to Netzach. It is associated with work, knowledge and learning and is Color-Coded for Your Convenience with orange.
• The Stool Pigeon: Morbidly deconstructed. Michelle ratted out A's old facility out to the Head, causing a catastrophe so large that all of the facilities' employees died. This let to her committing suicide out of guilt, the commanding Arbiter getting mortally wounded (and later, captured) out of sheer luck, A kickstarting the Smoke War just to get himself a cover-up front, and the events don't even end from here.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Even if Hod was genuinely a kind and amiable girl and that wasn't an act, it doesn't meant that after she got reincarnated as a Sephirah and promised to atone for her mistakes, she would be forgiven so easily by her fellow Sephirot and employees, especially because she was the very person who kick-started the series of catastrophes surrounding L Corp triggered by the Head's invasion, caused Daniel and Kali to be killed, got the commanding Arbiter Garion killed, converted and tortured by A, A going all out of the way to evade the Head's wrath and creating Angela...the list goes on and on.

Tiphereth A and B

"The manager will do fine, like he always does."
"And he could fail too, like he always does."

^{Click to see True Form}  I want to believe that there was a reason for every sacrifice that was made, and to know that eventually, everything will be okay.

Due to the size of the Central Command Team Department, two Sephirot were needed to manage the whole department. Tiphereth A is the negative and stubborn little blonde girl, while Tiphereth B is the optimistic and thoughtful little blonde boy. The two manage Central Command, but are not very well received due to A's complaining nature and B's frequent tendency to malfunction at work.

The Tiphereths were not employees of Lobotomy Corporation, but instead were orphaned children named Enoch and Lisa living in a place known as the Outskirts, a desolate and wartorn land caused by battles between rivaling Wings. With their parents dead and Sweepers in the area always keen for a fresh catch, Kali discovered the children and reluctantly brought them to Lobotomy Corporation by the request of Carmen. While living in the facility Enoch took an interest in the experiments 'A' was conducting. Since Enoch doesn't really care if he died anyway, he volunteered himself for an experiment when Carmen was unwilling to give away her own life. The experiment was approved, but everything ended up in failure as Enoch died. Lisa muttered hateful things against Carmen, a last straw that destroyed whatever little sanity she had and attempted to commit suicide afterwards, only for A to actually off her. The tragedy led to a gigantic Disaster Domino that would later guide the City into complete and utter chaos. In an F.A.Q from Project Moon, it was revealed that Lisa was killed in the Head attack against Carmen's laboratory.

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• Battle Theme Music: Eternal, followed by Dark Fantasy Scene.
• Body of Bodies: Tiphereth A's Meltdown form, instead of the protruding mass of black tentacles and chassis fragments of her predecessors, is Tiphereth A sitting atop a mountain of decommissioned Tiphereth B bodies she’s destroyed over the years.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Downplayed for Tiphereth A. While Tiphereth A is cynical and abrasive, constantly berating her coworkers (mainly Netzach and X) for any perceived sloppiness in their work. That being said, it is also made clear early on that Tiphereth A cares very strongly for her counterpart and she is far more amicable after her suppression.
• Break the Cutie: Tiphereth B is fated for this with each iteration of him, which will inevitably lead to him being decommissioned and replaced over and over.
• Cheerful Child: Tiphereth B is easily the most positive force in the entire facility, contrasting from his more cynical co-Sephirah. It's subverted, since it will soon be clear that he wanted to die in his first life and he wasn't being given a peaceful rest.
• Conveyor Belt of Doom: Where the copy of Tiphereth B you’ve acquainted yourself with meets his end, crushed into scrap metal and bleeding organs at the command of Tiphereth A.
• Cross Dresser: Tiphereth B, a little boy, is wearing the exact same dress assigned to Tiphereth A, done to signify that the duo exert control over the same department. Curiously enough, this wasn't the case in the very first Beta of the game, where the two did wear different (but still similar) oufits.
• Cross-Popping Veins: Tiphereth A, though weirdly enough, only in her true, mechanical form, though likely to get across her frustration with Malkuth at the time.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: Tiphereth A is the cynic, believing that X will screw up and cause more employee deaths while Tiphereth B is the idealist, believing that X will be successful and save the employees. This is best demonstrated by the bet they always made whenever a problem occurs, with Tiphereth B betting that the situation will result in a good outcome while Tiphereth A would bet that the situation will result in a bad outcome.
• Disaster Dominoes: Enoch's death kickstarted a disaster so big and ugly, that the damage it causes spread like wildfire, even leading to the City itself being compromised in Library of Ruina.
• The Dividual: They're collectively the Sephirot of the Central Command team which is why they're both named Tiphereth. According to Tiphereth A, Angela would always say that the Tiphereth twins are "two yet one".
• Empty Eyes: Tiphereth B displays these once he starts becoming aware of his situation and the meaning behind it, and is usually the tell that this copy has ran its course.
• Fire-Forged Friends: They are not siblings, but instead friends from their former lives as Lisa and Enoch, who survived in the cannibal-ridden wastelands known as The Outskirts. When “A” discovered them, he remarks that they have a bond deeper than even true siblings can hope to have.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: A few: Tiphereth A has longer hair, a bow on her headband, and a more olive shade of green for her eyes.
• I Die Free: Tiphereth A, after years of seeing Tiphereth B get repeatedly decommissioned, memory wiped, and brought back to life for his questioning nature, requests you to permanently kill him so that he may finally be free and at rest.
• Killed Off for Real: Unlike the other Sephirot, Tiphereth B was permanently killed after the Meltdown and stayed dead in Library of Ruina.
• Kill the Cutie: Tiphereth B, as per Tiphereth A's request, is completely decommissioned by the time their Meltdown is over.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Enoch is such to Lisa, despite not being siblings. Lisa didn't have any trust to Carmen unlike most other people inside the facility, and only trusted Enoch — without him, she's a suicidal child who couldn't hold herself together. After Carmen used Enoch in an experiment to extract Cogito but failed, Lisa told Carmen that she should had been died and wouldn't do anything but weep alongside a corner after Carmen's "death", before she was killed in Garion's raid.
• Marathon Level: Their Core Suppression not only removes the Qliphoth Meltdown immunity other Departments might've gotten, but it also greatly increases the amount of amount of work you must do before you can complete the day, to the point where even reaching a Midnight Ordeal won't be enough to end it. It's a battle of attrition as there is no cap on how many Abnormalities can undergo a meltdown, so hiring enough Agents to survive the entire day, or biting the bullet and allowing some Abnormalities to escape are the only options to pass.
• Meaningful Echo: "Please don't be sad. I know something good will happen next time."
• Meaningful Name: "Enoch" is the name of a prophet in The Bible, while "Lisa" is a shortened form of "Elizabeth" —- itself derived from Elisheba, which means "oath of God".
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Kabbalah, Tiphereth is the middle sphere that holds the tree together, and serves to make the others their best selves. As such, it embodies both femininity and masculinity and is Color-Coded for Your Convenience as yellow.
• The Reveal: Typically around the point of unlocking Central Command is when you’ll learn about the true nature of the Sephirot, including their true forms, their creation process and what happens when they need to be replaced.
• Parental Abandonment: Their exact situations are ambiguous, but it’s certain that their parents died in The Outskirts early in their childhoods, leaving them to survive for themselves.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Enoch's death is basically the kickstarter of all events that lead up to Lobotomy Corporation and its sequels, including: Carmen's suicide, Giovanni's death, the Smoke War, the creation of Angela, the White Nights, Dark Days, the Library...the list doesn't even end here.
• Stepford Smiler: Tiphereth B was one of the more outgoing Sephirot, but even in his first life as Enoch, he already had the full intent to die no matter what, wishing that he could be "reincarnated to a better world". He eventually died under one of L Corp's experiments under his, Ayin, Carmen and L Corp's consent, a tragedy that resulted in the series of unpleasant events that led up to the present time. Aside that his desire was not granted, for Ayin continued to keep him alive as a Sephirah despite his desires not to. Once the Tiphereths's Meltdowns were complete, X grants Enoch his one final wish to ease his burdens.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Tiphereth A has a bow on her robotic body to distinguish herself from Tiphereth B.
• What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Tiphereth B will lament on the tragedy of a worker's death.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Tiphereth A will not hesitate to call you a terrible manager if you allow agents to die or Abnormalities to breach.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Tiphereth B seems to be one of the more idealistic Sephirot and often ensures Tiphereth A that the Manager could deal with severe incidents such as an employee that has their sanity corrupted by 95% and believes that the facility will sooner or later no longer be filled with bad news or deaths. While he's mostly right as long as the Manager goes through what he's supposed to do in this game, it's actually Subverted for him; Enoch is actually a suicidally depressed boy even way before his death who refuses to even live in the hell on earth that is the City, and his idealism is a coping belief that things will go better for him if he actually died for real.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Both of them are very intelligent and astute for what they are. Even back when they were human, Enoch was quite philosophical and always curious about A's research and experiments, which confused Lisa for most of the time she had known Enoch. Justified, because the City, especially that part where they came from is literally hell on earth.

Gebura

"Abnormalities can be damaged, but never destroyed. At the very least, they seem to feel pain. Let's make their unending lives as painful as possible."

^{Click to see True Form}  But her will and promise will always remain the same, even after an eternity has passed. It will be a place where she can live on, even after death. If you happen to remember it, please tell me. Tell me the gift she left behind for us.

The stern head of the Disciplinary Team Department, who is adamant on the extreme use of violence against Abnormalities. The only other thing that can match her hatred over Abnormalities are cowards.

Gebura's real identity is Kali, a woman hailing from a part of the city known as The Backstreets, which are violent slums overcome with poverty and fighting. In particular, she was from the notorious Backstreet of District 23. Kali was the strongest and most heroic fighter of the Backstreets, and has been promoted by the Hana Association as a Color Fixer known as 'The Red Mist'. Carmen took note of these traits and contacted Kali for an employment opportunity; to protect the people of Lobotomy Corp, and help her fulfill her grand vision for the world. Kali accepted the offer, but after some time the Heads of the World begun their attack on the facility, unleashing a full scale containment breach and sending their best agent, named Garion, to destroy the company. Wielding a massive sword taken from the armory, Kali went into battle and killed many Abnormalities, saving 'A' and Benjamin in the process. However, she was intercepted by Garion, who had severed her arm and left her crippled. In a final act of rage, Kali impaled Garion and passed away shortly afterward. In the aftermath of the attack, 'A' found her mangled corpse and converted her into a Sephirah. Now plagued with fragmented memories of the slaughter the Abnormalities caused against her friends, Gebura's aimless wrath is dedicated to punishing the Abnormalities over and over again, willing to sacrifice as much manpower as needed to make them bleed for what they've done.

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• An Arm and a Leg: During her Heroic Sacrifice, her arm was severed by Garion.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She applies for this and Rank Scales with Asskicking. She's the head of the Disciplinary Team Department, which would already denote the latter, but was apparently always capable of this even before she got her position. Her fight to the death with Garion is a clear indicator of this, and even her Meltdown is more a direct and brutal battle than the others.
• Badass Longcoat: Always seen in one during her time as Kali.
• Barrier Change Boss: The Red Mist's damage resistances change up during each phase of its Meltdown.
• Battle Theme Music: Distorted Night, followed by Insignia Decay.
• The Big Girl: Arguably the biggest powerhouse among the Sephirot, and is notably one of the two whose Meltdown manifests as a single suppressable entity who's a powerhouse all around. Her name ^note  גבֿורה can even be translated to 'strength', 'courage', or 'severity'.
• Blood Knight:
  • Rather than warning you of an escaped monster or an employee's death, she will encourage you to get ready to start a fight or take revenge.
  • Her missions and rewards also reflect this mindset; almost all of her missions involve successfully beating down several escaping Abnormalities in a single day that escalate in danger, culminating in having to defeat three ALEPH-classed Abnormalities in a day. The rewards for completing these missions include the Execution Bullet, an ammo type that can instantly kill any employee targeted, and the Rabbit Team, special forces who are under orders to mercilessly gun down every living being in a department with no questions asked.
• Book Dumb: She admits to not being capable of typing a coherent document. Which isn't too surprising, considering her life was spent in poverty and violence with absolutely no education.
• Brutal Honesty: She says right from the get-go to the manager that she will tell things as they are.
• Confusion Fu: Each phase of The Red Mist has her using various weapons at the same time in conjunction with one another. The first phase starts with her wielding Penitence and Red Eye, then using Gold Rush after a third of her health is gone. She swaps them out for Da Capo and Mimicry in her second phase, sometimes using a much larger version of Heaven that acts like one of Der Freischutz's bullets. In her third phase, she throws them to the side for Smile and Justitia, occasionally using Gold Rush again. On the final phase, she keeps Gold Rush, but also uses Twilight. This is all on top of her changing up her tactics and damage resistances with each phase.
• Cleavage Window: Her uniform sports one, albeit a very small and understated example of the trope, likely owing to the more chibi artstyle.
• Death Seeker: One of her greatest desires, which she looks for through constant combat. By the time her Meltdown occurs, she’s decided that she’s going to destroy the entire Corporation to bring it all down, and by extension herself.
• Defiant to the End: Even in her last moments she wouldn't let Garion leave unharmed, getting one last hit in by impaling her before falling.
• Dual Wielding: The Red Mist does this for each phase of its Meltdown, the only exception technically being its final phase.
• Eye Scream: One of her eyes was lost in her life as Kali, during the The Heads' attack on the Corporation.
• Fallen Hero: Was once a slightly kinder and protective figure back in her home at the Back Alley, and later within the Corporation, before her resurrection from the dead as an AI after her Heroic Sacrifice corrupted her love for fighting into something more malicious and dangerous. You can help her get that old spark back later, though.
• Fiery Redhead: Blood red hair and uniform with the bloodlust and attitude to match.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Almost every conversation about her involves her getting mocked by anyone else in the conversation, including Chesed, Myo and Binah. She's generally feared by the employees, and Hod is incredibly intimidated by her. At the very least, the Tiphereths hold her in higher regards than the rest of the Sephirot.
• Friend to All Children: Surprisingly, yes. She's noticeably less rude and more levelheaded when talking with Hod and has a fine enough formal relationship with the Tiphereths (if at least Tiphereth A). It's heavily implied she was the Fixer who brought Enoch and Lisa back to the Corporation. Additionally, Tiphereth A came to Gebura's aid while the employee experiments were in progress, fearing the latter would be reset for intruding in Angela's plans. One of the two is also expressing worry for Gebura's condition moments before she undergoes a Sephirah Meltdown.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Her face is scarred with various lashes and cuts.
• Hero of Another Story: Kali was widely recognized as a protector of those in the Back Alley, earning recognition from massive corporations and the respect from the likes of Myo and Carmen. She was already brawling with Abnormalities long before she actually got hired by the Corporation, and was officially nicknamed The Red Mist out of recognition for her work as a Fixer.
• Heroic Sacrifice: As Kali, she died protecting 'A' and the people of the Corporation from a massive containment breach, singlehandedly slaughtering many monsters and battling against Garion, who had caused the mass breach. In the aftermath, 'A' found her mangled corpse amidst the carnage, mentioning that it was almost unrecognizable with the amount of injuries she had sustained.
• Large and in Charge: The tallest Sephirah and the head of the Disciplinary Team Department.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Red Mist, her Meltdown form, is a high HP menace that attacks your workers with some of the most lethal E.G.O weapons (as in, nearly every ALEPH tier weapon) the game has to offer while teleporting around the facility to switch targets.
• Living Weapon: Her favored weapon seems to be Mimicry, a massive flesh and eye covered sword that’s earned from the ALEPH classed Abnormality called Nothing There.
• Meaningful Name: The primary Hindu goddess that destroys evil forces is named Kali.
• A Mother to Her Men: Kali was famous for being protective over the people in the Back Alley from other threats, including Abnormalities, even before she was hired by the Corporation. Her anger primarily stems from her failure to protect the people that were put into her responsibility. Post-Meltdown, she's much more cautious of the lives of the employees and refusing to let the effort of dead employees be in vain.
• My Greatest Failure: Much of her wrath and despair as Gebura comes from her inability to save more people when The Head raided Lobotomy Corp with a group of elite agents led by one of their chief agents, their Arbiter Garion. in her old life as Kali.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Not her AI form, but her Meltdown form. Instead of fighting against her true robotic body self, your workers will be hunted down by The Red Mist, who is Gebura in a metal combat suit.
• Red Armband of Leadership: It's a lighter shade that borders on pink, but it still applies for the head of the Disciplinary Team Department.
• Red Baron: The Red Mist.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to both Chesed and Binah's blue.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Kabbalah, Gebura is the sphere of divine punishment and strictness and the counterpart to Chesed. It is the enforcement of rules and facing the consequences of your actions. It's Color-Coded for Your Convenience with red.
• Respected by the Respected: Kali was this. Her Color Fixer name, The Red Mist is a universally recognized name at the time by several associations for her strength, and even in the Distortion Detective side novel she's still mentioned as a well-respected legendary figure.
• Smoking Is Cool: Introduced smoking a cigarette, and is the toughest Sephirah around. Her real form has a hole below her eye where she can insert a cigarette, which she's always seen holding from then on.
• Statuesque Stunner: If one believes that the in-game portraits reflect the Sephirot's actual height, then Gebura towers over everyone else, with the only other Sephirah close to her height being Chesed who is around the same height.
• Spy Catsuit: Wears one beneath a red jacket.
• Suddenly Shouting: During a face to face conversation with Hod, Gebura suddenly shouts as Hod is about to leave, startling her. She forgot her papers.

Chesed

"These employees will be goners soon enough, so what's the point in investing so much effort, scolding and lambasting them over tiny little mishaps?"

^{Click to see True Form}  I'm still unsure that I can truly fight back against the fear I may face in the future. But I've decided to not run away, at the very least. So, what are my orders, manager?

The calm and collected leader of the Welfare Team Department, Chesed is a rational and understanding authority figure who aims to protect as many workers as possible while also meeting the corporations energy quota within the fastest time possible.

His past ego was an elite member of society known as Daniel, a man who was charming and wealthy to the point of standing out in the Corporation from his clothing alone. Carmen contacted Daniel with a job opportunity, convincing him to come aboard to help fulfill her grand vision by helping her lead the Corporation. Daniel obliged, but after Michelle sold out the facility to the Heads of the World, they begun their attack. Their commanding agent, Garion, broke into Daniel's office with a polite offer; unleash all Abnormalities from their containment unit, or force her to do it herself with or without his compliance. Daniel, believing that cooperating with her demands could grant some time for the others to escape, let the Abnormalities loose. He would flee downstairs to save the others but would find that he was too late, his coworkers had been slaughtered, the Head agents were closing in on his position, and that he was responsible for the deaths of everyone involved. Delivering one final message to 'A', Daniel died filled with regret and guilt over his decision. Daniel now lives on as Chesed, Sephirah of the Welfare Team, cooperating with Angela's ever growing heartless experiments and demands while trying to make the workers under his command as comfortable as possible before their inevitable demise.

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• The Ace: Daniel was a charismatic, influential and well-loved elite who showed more finesse than anyone else in the research lab, and "A" noted that he would have been able to get into any of the Wings easily with his skills and personality.
• Awful Truth: As she was fed up with Chesed’s attempts to keep his employees alive, Angela told him the truth that having the employees killed to produce more energy was the point of the corp all along. The revelation indeed broke him and turned him into the Jaded Professional we have now.
• Barrier Change Boss: During his meltdown, he will randomly select one of the four damage types and multiply the amount damage it’ll deal by four times, increasing the amount of buffed damage types every few Qliphoth Meltdown until 3/4ths of them are selected near the end.
• Battle Theme Music: Battle - Urgent Encounter.
• Benevolent Boss: He wishes for the wellbeing of his workers, in the sense that he considers them more than expendable resources. In fact, the rewards for completed Welfare missions are healing bullets that restore HP/Sanity, and an upgrade that makes both more potent in their effects.
• Blue Is Calm: Chesed maintains his calmness all the time, even before and after his Qliphoth Meltdown.
• Blue Is Heroic: Blue is his theme color, and he’s one of the rare Sephirot who genuinely cares for the employees under him and used to actively fight for their survival, though the Awful Truth discouraged him.
• Classy Cravat: The only one of the male Sephirot who wears a cravat, complimenting his high-class background and his suit which is styled after the late 19th or early 20th century.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Guess that's what all the coffee is for. He didn't have these as Daniel, though, and early into his life as Chesed they still weren't present.
• The Gadfly: His general tone is very teasing, especially in regards to the likes of someone like Gebura.
• Gentle Giant: He's the second tallest of the Sephirot, but he's easily one of the most approachable of them all.
• Iconic Item: He is never seen without his Lobotomy Corp. branded coffee mug. He’s even still holding it when he reveals his robotic form and even when he’s experiencing a Qliphoth Meltdown.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: He mentions he used to be a lot more enthusiastic about his job until actually seeing what it entails.
• Jaded Professional: Chesed was originally passionate about making Lobotomy Corporation a better place and tried to reduce as many casualties as possible despite Angela’s turndowns, until Angela revealed to him the Awful Truth about why his attempts would end up futile, which broke him. Since then, he is content with being seen as Angela’s accomplice and turns a blind eye to all the atrocities in the corporation.
• Let Them Die Happy: His easygoing nature and lax relationships with his employees stem from wanting to make their lives as comfortable as possible before their inevitable deaths at the hands of the Abnormalities.
• Meaningful Name: A twofer. "Daniel" is derived from the Hebrew word Daniyyel, which means "God is my judge", and the hero of Book of Daniel.
• Must Have Caffeine: Is always seen with a mug of coffee, and won't fail to bring the beverage up when he can.
• My God, What Have I Done?: As Daniel, he allowed himself to be intimidated by Garion into releasing all of the Abnormalites to slaughter the facility, under the belief that doing it willingly would give the others some time to escape than if Garion did it forcefully. The subsequent slaughter and screams of his employees left him a regretful and huddled mess that led to his eventual death by the approaching Head agents.
• My Greatest Failure: Chesed considers his cowardice as Daniel during The Heads' attack to be this. Rather than standing up to Garion, he allowed himself to be convinced that some people might be able to escape if he did as she asked. He was completely wrong, and he lives on as Chesed believing that the whole tragedy and all the lives lost were his fault alone.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Gebura's red, of course.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Chesed is the kind and caring counterpart to Gebura. It is associated with generosity and equanimity and it's Color-Coded for Your Convenience with blue.
• See You in Hell: Daniel's last words to "A".
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Daniel showed up to the interview with "A" and Carmen in a fancy dark beige old-fashioned suit "that didn’t fit here at all", revealing his high status just from what he wears.
• Survivor Guilt: Though not for long, Daniel did describe himself to "A" as the Sole Survivor from the breach, and after hanging up the intercom "A" started to go in depth about Daniel's actions and how he died filled with regret due to his choices, haunted by the dead bodies of his coworkers and perceiving himself as the cowardly traitor who sealed everyone's fate.
• Timed Mission: All of the mission Chesed gives require you to complete days within a time limit.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Coffee, in fact the first thing he ever did when he came to work for the Corporation was request a coffee machine to be installed somewhere.
• Verbal Tic: Starts responses with "aye, aye" every so often.

Hokma

"Time is like a scythe; it relentlessly attempts to trim, divide, and cleave in twain the clasped-together hands of those you love. Everyone I had loved is now gone, leaving me, a tired old man behind."

^{Click to see True Form}  I have always blindly followed behind you and stayed by your side, remember? May we embrace glory together, for back then we could not. Grant the proper end to those locked up here, and to yourself.

The mysterious head of the Record Team Department, who seems to know more about the Corporation than the other Sephirot. He is the oldest of the AI in the facility, and as such he is the most weary and rational of the group.

Hokma's true name is Benjamin, 'A's best friend and right hand man, who stuck with him through the beginning and end of the first iteration of Lobotomy Corporation. He looks a lot more younger in his past life and unlike the other Sephirot, he is formed recently, at around day 20 of the game. Shortly after the attack waged by The Heads, Benjamin and 'A' surveyed the damage and retrieved the corpses deemed important enough to be turned into Sephirot. One of them was Carmen's body, and in a fit of despair 'A' ordered Benjamin to help him work on a way to bring her back to life somehow. After a long time of research, sacrifice and testing, Benjamin and 'A' managed to create Angela. But the cold, calculating and egotistical Angela was nothing like the inspirational and caring Carmen they knew, driving Benjamin to leave the company. As a part of 'A's playbook, he will come back on the 20th day and attempt to warn him, who planned on keeping Angela despite the tremendous amount of flaws in the AI, against trusting her, Angela had him killed as an event orchestrated by 'A' within the time loops, converted into a Sephirah and locked in the lowest levels of the Corporation to be forgotten.

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• Battle Theme Music: 090909090, followed by circle-rombed oxygen.
• Broken Bird: Rare Male Example. Benjamin was an optimistic, innovative young man who was devoted to his best friend 'A' above all else, working with him through thick and thin to make Lobotomy one of the strongest Wings; however, when their friend Carmen died and 'A' began working to resurrect her (something Benjamin encouraged), he found himself disgusted with what A has created and left the company. When he returned to warn his friend (as X), Angela killed him and locked him away in the Atziluth layer, and if Abel's warnings on Day 47 were to be true, 'A' ordered Angela to kill him for some unclear part-of-the-play he had in mind. Now aged and jaded, he believes death and 'sinking' is inevitable, that existence is a struggle with how the Corp. can just control life and death, and that they are doomed to repeat this process forever. However, what seems to be really fitting of this trope is that, while Benjamin will show up trying to warn you at Day 20 and in Library of Ruina, it's even shown that he's present as human on every 50-day loop, you have to seal his fate as dead and converted into a Sephirah to get the true ending.
• Camera Abuse: Pause during his Meltdown, and the screen will outright shatter.
• Clocks of Control: A benevolent example, he is the head of the Record Team and has a heavy clock motif. The clock motif represents how he can be reverted as Benjamin every time you start a new loop via a TT2 protocol, yet his revival is meaningless because his Sephirah Meltdown has to be completed to gain the final step of progress in the game.
• Cool Old Guy: The oldest Sephirah and the wisest, as well as one of the more caring authority figures.
• The Dragon: To Ayin, in his past life.
• Foil: Serves as one to the other Atziluth Sephirah, Binah. Both Sephirot spend the majority of their story explaining to X the origins of Lobotomy Corporation. Both Sephirot also serve as the only Sephirot (minus Angela) to retain memories of their past lives from the very beginning. While Hokma sees his situation as a heaven where he can stay with all of his past friends forever, Binah sees her situation as a hell where she is endlessly tortured as she is forced to extract Abnormalities. While Hokma looks almost nothing like his original self, Binah looks almost identical to her original self. While Hokma's original self, Benjamin, was A's closest friend, Binah's original self, Garion, was one of A's greatest enemies.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: If you pause at any point during his Meltdown, an employee in the facility will instantly die or panic. The number of affected employees increases with every pause. As his Meltdown goes on, the game will get faster and faster and attempting to slow it down will instantly kill or panic some of your employees.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: If the Manager really resets his 50 day loops over and over and he is capable of getting past Day 18 every time, he gets killed by Angela and is resurrected every single reset. The loop is only over once he's Killed Off for Real.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: He knew from the moment she activated that Angela was nothing like Carmen, and when he tried to warn 'A' Angela silenced him and locked him away. In reality, he was a friend of 'A' and was the most loyal to him, but the aforementioned event is actually orchestrated by 'A' himself.
• High-Class Glass: He's a civilized older man with a monocle.
• Iconic Item: His pocket watch. When he's noticeably irritated, he will slam it shut.
• Interface Screw: If you pause when his Meltdown effect is active, the screen itself will crack.
• Irony: Despite appearing to be the oldest Sephirah, Hokma was actually the last Sephirah to be created, and his human ego is actually those of a young man.
• Killed Off for Real: This happens to him if you do get the true ending of the game, and he becomes a Sephirah himself to continue living on.
• Marathon Level: Just like Tiphereth's, his Core Suppression requires you to reach to Meltdown level 10, in addition to taking away your ability to pause or modify the game speed and automatically increasing it on later phases. This means that you have to deal with a Midnight Ordeal without pausing, and if you happen to get Violet Midnight the Meltdown suddenly spikes in difficulty.
• Meaningful Name: The name "Benjamin" is derived from the Hebrew word Binyamin, which means "son of the right side".
• Opening a Can of Clones: Hokma is the one who manages the can in question. The purpose of the Records department is to quite literally "record" an employee at the time of hiring using the TimeTrack2 protocol and resurrect them as needed, giving Lobotomy Corporation a theoretically endless supply of disposable grunts. The caveat is that this also comes with to ability to kill a clone whenever Hokma wants, and he does exactly that if you pause during his suppression. It's implied that this has occurred with the Manager multiple times, and that tampering with his "record" is why each iteration of 'A' has had such a different personality than the last.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Hokma is the masculine counterpart to Binah that represents 'Yang' qualities. It's Color-Coded for Your Convenience as grey.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: His monocle more or less serves as this given his wisdom. Benjamin plays this straighter due to wearing a pair of glasses.
• Time Master: Is in charge of the TT2 loops inside the facility.
• Unperson: He was subjected to this when Angela kept him confined to the Atziluth layer.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: He shows back as Benjamin upon starting any 50-day loop, but only sealing his fate by getting him converted into a Sephirah for real gets you anywhere in the game.
• We Used to Be Friends: Treats you this way, thanks to you inheriting 'A's memories.
• What the Hell, Hero?: A mild version, but Hokma calls 'A' out for his actions through the player, asking him that if he has an imitation of Carmen, happy, loyal employees that worship the ground he walks on, and god-like control of life and death in the facility, why he is not content or happy, and why he continues pursuing the trails of brilliance he never even took seriously.
• You Are Worth Hell: Platonic version. He reassures 'A' that he will always be there for him and would be loyal to him to the end, but comes back to bite him when a part of A's playbook requires him to warn 'A' about Angela only for her to kill him. Even as this happens, he is still dedicated to 'A', swearing to follow him regardless of his decisions.
• You Did Everything You Could: Should any of his employees die while under your watch, he’ll try to comfort you and assure that you did everything you could to save them.

Binah

"Don't ask for my name. 'Binah' isn't the name of a person. It's a sad name of the place where one finds many graves. I'm the one who draws the water."

^{Click to see True Form}  If there are no more places to run to, hide in, or rest, then I will witness everything you have to do with my own eyes. I shall not close my eyes just because my eyelids are heavy, nor shall I turn away just because the sight is painful. Simply proceed like you always have. Then you may just triumph.

The head of the Extraction Team Department who oversees the disposal of the dead. The exposure to a countless amount of dead workers has left her with a stoic and morbid outlook on life in the Corporation.

Or so it seems at first. Unlike the other Sephirot, Binah isn't supposedly a part of this facility. Her real name is Garion, an arbiter^note Arbiters are singularity-fused assassins/enforcers of the Heads who are said to be able to lay waste to whole Wings on their own and can easily defeat Grade 1 Fixers of the Heads of the World who was sent to Lobotomy Corporation (which was just an Outskirts laboratory during that time) to wipe it out after a worker named Michelle reported her findings to the Head, who dispatched Garion to decimate the facility. After she had intimidated Daniel into releasing all of the Abnormalities as a distraction, she headed into the fray and found Kali a.k.a the Red Mist, who had destroyed most of the Abnormalities herself. The two did battle, with Garion ultimately winning after she had severed Kali's arm. But in her final moments, Kali impaled her sword through Garion, leaving her severely wounded and helpless as 'A' found her body. In an act of desperation, 'A' had Garion's mind scanned and surgically dug through for a way to avoid The Heads' wrath. Having gotten everything he needed, he had her brain extracted and forcibly put through the Sephirah creation process.

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• And I Must Scream: She was still alive and conscious after her battle with Kali when she was converted to a Sephirah, bringing up how painful the experience was.
• Badass Longcoat: She wears an elegant feathered black coat.
• Battle Theme Music: Jukai, followed by Haunted Streets.
• Black Cloak: One with fur that she wears over her dress.
• Blood Knight: The villainous counterpart to Kali's heroic past. Kali was a backstreets hero, while Garion was one of the elite agents of a group of Shadow Dictator lunatics.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: She certainly seems to think that what 'A' put her through was this, as she was alive and fully conscious throughout the entire procedure.
• Dark Is Evil: She's dressed entirely in black and yellow, and she's the eeriest and cruelest of the Sephirot. Helped by her role as a former elite agent from the Head, something that people aren't supposed to even survive a hostile encounter with. This seems to be a warped version of what her sphere represents, which corresponds to the concept of Yin (as opposed to Hokma's Yang) and is black because it absorbs all light.
• Defeat Means Respect: While Binah certainly is still not A's friend after her meltdown, Binah finally shows respect towards 'A' and a willingness to allow him to complete his plan after being defeated.
  Binah (Upon suppression): "You've proven yourself. I shall witness you with my eyes."
• The Dreaded: Not surprising, considering that she was an elite agent from the Head; few ever saw one and lived to tell the tale.
• Everyone Has Standards: Binah notes that she doesn't gain any satisfaction from seeing Gebura's current Blood Knight tendencies and Fallen Hero status, despite Gebura's previous self being the cause of Garion's death.
• The Fatalist: Binah believes that A's quest is insane and hopeless, and she believes that by keeping himself and the rest of the sephirot here, he's basically torturing them all in a personal hell of his own design. Even if A does have the strength needed to complete his mission, the Head and it's armies of the outside will easily decimate his forces. Her suppression is based around proving to her that A does have the strength needed to carry out his goals, at which point she concedes and vows to watch his victory with her own eyes.
• Faux Affably Evil: Garion might act friendly and polite in front of her assigned targets, but don't be fooled. This was a very dangerous Head agent that most people don't survive an encounter against. She would calmly, carefully, and eerily explain to her victims that the only thing that can ever bring a smile to her face is the look on a person's face before she kills them and decimate their Wing. She also did a similar thing to Daniel, politely asking him to lower the Qliphoth Deterrence so she might start her assault.
• Foil: Serves as one to the other Atziluth Sephirah, Hokma. Both Sephirot spend the majority of their story explaining to X the origins of Lobotomy Corporation. Both Sephirot also serve as the only Sephirot (minus Angela) to retain memories of their past lives from the very beginning. While Hokma sees his situation as a heaven where he can stay with all of his past friends forever, Binah sees her situation as a hell where she is endlessly tortured as she is forced to extract Abnormalities. While Hokma looks almost nothing like his original self, Binah looks almost identical to her original self. While Hokma's original self, Benjamin, was A's closest friend, Binah's original self, Garion, was one of A's greatest enemies.
• Freudian Excuse: It's heavily implied that she enrolled to become one of the Head's Arbiters because she couldn't feel joy in anything but mass murder. If her words after clearing her Meltdown were to be taken at face value, she's basically joined the City's de facto law enforcement so she could actually take pleasure in killing.
• Hero Killer: Garion personally murdered Daniel during the raid on former L Corp and killed the Red Mist only to be severely injured and offed by A, though all three of them would be preserved as the Sephirot.
• High-Tech Hexagons: Her clothes have yellow lines that form into hexagon patterns.
• Item Farming: Essentially what her missions amount to, and what her upgrades can enhance. She will send you requests to collect E.G.O Gifts from Abnormalities of escalating threat levels, and in return she can hand you upgrades that increase their drop chances as well as an upgrade that has a chance to recover lost E.G.O Weapons and Armor that would normally be lost should their holder die, saving you the need to re-purchase them.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Was severely wounded when Kali, in her final moments, shoved her sword through Garion's chest, leaving her at the mercy of 'A' when she was discovered.
• Kubrick Stare: Her default expression, even if her head isn't quite directly facing the camera.
• Made of Iron: Kali was already dead by the end of their battle, but Garion certainly was alive, still conscious while she was skewered by Kali's blade.
• No-Sell: In her Meltdown suppression, Binah is virtually immune to everything; all attacks (including the Rabbit Team's) do 1 or 0 damage against it. The only way to remove this nigh-on immunity is to remove all the special meltdowns she casts periodically, it would only be possible to damage it for a while after this until she recasts the meltdowns again. On the 3rd phase, it even becomes completely invincible, unless you stop its pillar attack by clearing the Pillar Meltdowns. This is easier said than done, because there are very short lime limits before the meltdowns take their toll and abnormalities will constantly get released, none of them which will actually hurt Binah.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Like Gebura, her Meltdown form is a suppressible entity known as An Arbiter. Additionally, aside from gaining an earring when becoming a Sephirah, she looks no different now than what she looked like in her previous life.
• Odd Name Out: Her real name, Garion, being the only name among the Sephirot to not originate from Religious and Mythological Theme Naming or even resembling the names of a regular person is an indication that she's an outsider being brought onto L Corp, not from Carmen and A's circles.
• Psychotic Smirk: She's frequent to pulling unnerving grins on purpose.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Binah is the feminine counterpart to Hokma that represents 'Yin' qualities. It's Color-Coded for Your Convenience as black.
• Sinister Silhouettes: Garion is only ever portrayed as an ominous shadow in flashbacks.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: In her human form, she wears her Arbiter uniform. Her Sephirah form also bears those colors.
• Straw Nihilist: Pre-meltdown, Binah believes that Status Quo Is God for the City and thus, any change 'A' might bring will only be reverted by the Head.
• Strength Equals Worthiness: Unlike the other Sephirah meltdowns, Binah's meltdown is less about resolving any trauma she has experienced in the past and more about Binah testing 'A' to see if he truly has the strength to bring about meaningful change to the City as indicated by her meltdown quotes.
  Binah: "If you cannot defeat me, you shall be crushed by the Head and its ruthless Claws yet again."
• Talks Like a Simile: Conveys a lot of what she has to say in metaphors.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: Enjoys a cup of tea from time to time, and is seen sipping a cup of it in the Outskirts after decimating H Corp. She left the employee to be gored alive by Sweepers in the desert, after having the worker aid her in destroying their own Wing.
• Tron Lines: The yellow lines decorating her clothes, which are even more prominent in her Meltdown form.
• Villain of Another Story: Garion was not a part of former L Corp unlike the other Sephirot, but an Arbiter of the Heads of the World/A Corp. Michelle ratted former L Corp out to them, and they decided that L Corp was a threat, sending Garion and several Claws to decimate the facility. Garion and the Claws initially wrecked massive havoc, killing many employees in the facility (with Daniel being one of the casualties) and causing numerous Abnormalities to breach containment and kill more employees. Only Kali can stop the merciless assault and she eventually died to Garion's hands... but not before she gravely wounded her by mustering the last bit of her strength. A and B arrived to inspect the wreckage of their former facility, and the former offed her and converted her into one of his subordinates.
• Walking Spoiler: Talking about Binah risks outing many spoilers about the City's system thanks to her past. She's also so far, the only named and known combatant from the Head.