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    DOWNFALL Player Characters 

DOWNFALL

  • Cape Busters: Both for their modus operandi, which features a lot of fighting other supervillains, and for their skillset, with a lot of Trumps (most powerful against other capes) on the team. Nune, Amu, Neidan, Baesim, and eventually Daia count for this.
  • Classical Anti-Hero
  • Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: It's not a fun job the majority of the time, and nearly everyone is involved for reasons more serious than money, but the accumulation of power is fun sometimes. Pulling off a heist with the House of Cards is one of the more harmlessly fun aspects of DOWNFALL.
  • Famed In-Story: Originally a small-time mercenary group made up of nobodies and new capes, DOWNFALL eventually becomes one of the most powerful cape presences in the city and subsumes other gangs.
  • Five-Man Band: The original five members of DOWNFALL: Daia as the leader, Chosin as the smart guy (due to her tinkering specialty), Geobu as the lancer, Jogabi as the big guy (tanky and aggressive), and Neidan as the chick. At one point Chosin was also nominally considered the leader, making Daia the smart guy (as the social thinker of the group, overwhelmingly does the talking).
  • Friendly Neighborhood Gangster: They 'sugar daddy the city' after the Maenglyeolhan attack, distributing water and supplies to civilians.
  • A Lighter Shade of Gray: Going after killers, they're one of the better gangs in Tongju despite their methods.
  • Murder, Inc.: Known as an assassination group.
  • Serial-Killer Killer: Mostly go up against capes with kill orders on their heads, but their first job (the one where the original three meet Jogabi) involves a literal serial killer, the Keunsan Stalker.
  • Three Plus Two: What they become later in the story, with Daia, Jogabi, and Neidan being the original mainstays and Nune and Amu, part of a group trigger and good friends already, appearing after the Maenglyeolhan arc.

Daiamondeu

Sim Han-bin

  • Abusive Parents: Both for his longtime lack of powers and standard homophobia.
  • Bodyguard Crush: On Samjogo.
  • Cassandra Truth: Daia trying to explain the power cables he sees is like this.
  • The Empath: In a way; can read people's opinions and connections to others, rather than just their feelings.
  • Heart Is A Terrifying Power: Daia comes off surprisingly intimidating despite his relatively limited social-based power, especially when he starts to be able to see and alter 'cables' that connect capes to Passengers.
  • Hiding the Handicap: Daiamondeu is paranoid about his extreme case of prosopagnosia being taken advantage of or suffering reputation if it were known, even if his Thinker power helps work around it.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Didn’t want to trigger after growing to despise heroes and parahumans as a whole, especially seeing his siblings change for the worse after their triggers. Even after his trigger event refused the call for years until his passenger drove him mad for it. Eventually, after losing his ability to easily recognize anyone that isn’t another parahuman, he’s given up his life outside the costume and it has taken a noticeable mental toll on him.
  • In Touch with His Feminine Side: Interested in makeup, fashion, and drag shows.
  • Magic Misfire: When fighting the Yangban, his ability to shuffle around their already shared power cables leads to several instances of combatants using the wrong (useless in that situation) power.
  • Parental Favoritism: The oldest Sim kid Chunggyeok is this. This leads to massively dysfunctional family life, as all the other kids' triggers are related to each other.
  • Practical Taunt: His power enables him to find the right thing to say to enrage somebody, which grants combat bonuses rather than just making someone want to kill him.
  • Psychic Nosebleed: A few times in the Maenglyeolhan arc when he starts manipulating large groups of Mastered civilians at once. At one point had a Power-Strain Blackout too.
  • Squishy Wizard: As a social thinker, is in pretty serious danger in a straight firefight, though this doesn't stop him from killing a few scary capes with a sword. Gets even worse for him thanks to the Draw Aggro aspect of his power.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Daia's parents and siblings all have powers. He triggered late, after spending the majority of his life being the odd man out.
  • Start of Darkness: Besides obviously becoming a villain, he thought he would feel a lot worse about ending a life before Cheonsa and then realized he didn’t mind as much as he should. As long as it was someone like Cheonsa.
  • The Un-Favorite
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As a child, Han-bin was the softy of the four siblings and being a hero was all he dreamed of. And it very well might have been the path he took if he didn’t have such a messy relationship with the job by the time his trigger event came around. He still likes getting rid of the real monsters in a way heroes can’t, hates the drugs/weapon trade, and overall wants to make DOWNFALL into something that serves a higher purpose for Tongju despite all the villainy. But, he grows increasingly ruthless about it and as Second Thought will point out– more like his manipulative parents.
  • Who's Laughing Now?: What happened with Yuseongu. And the rest of them eventually, if Daiamondeu gets his way.

Jogabi

Seo In-hye

  • Abusive Parents: Formerly closer to her father than anyone, he reacted badly to her amnesia and she triggered as a result of him saying he wished that she had never survived.
  • The Alleged Car: Various other characters make fun of it, and she even has a point of 'gross' repuation because of it.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: One of few monstrous capes in Tongju that are just trying their best. 'Good' might be giving her too much credit.
  • Blood Knight: Generally anxious and paranoid, which results in outbursts, she's most confident and centered when she's actively beating someone to death and isn't thinking too much.
  • Bulletproof Human Shield: With her grapple-based style, uses this tactic a lot.
  • Car Fu: In a Yuhaehanpa confrontation during the Maenglyeolhan arc, Jogabi runs over an enemy cape who was chasing them. Yikes.
  • Chameleon Camouflage
  • Close-Range Combatant: Has some reach with her tentacles, but has to grapple someone to chomp on them.
  • Death of Personality: Jogabi thinks of 'In-hye Seo,' her pre-amnesia personality, as being killed by her.
  • Declaration of Protection: To Neidan, whose life she's saved a few times by now.
  • Disinherited Child: Formerly heir of the Mirae Group. Her post-amnesia self...did not inspire the same confidence.
  • Failure-to-Save Murder: Blamed herself for Jiral's death.
  • Freakiness Shame: Not a fan of her body (shelled or unshelled), and thinks of herself as not a real person, due to her amnesia as much as her physiology. Neidan doesn't mind.
  • Glamour Failure: Jogabi can impersonate pretty much anyone or anything, but isn't much of an infiltrator due to her voice (which remains unchanged) and her social score (bad).
  • Identity Amnesia: After a near-death experience which left her in a coma for months, she woke up not remembering her previous life and with a completely changed personality, which all contributed to her trigger event.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Obviously dislikes her power and life situation and apparently only joined DOWNFALL because she didn't think she had another choice. Wouldn't be a supervillain if not for her amnesia, her family, and Neidan, who she's grown to deeply care about.
  • Immune to Mind Control: Her 'bent in the head' perk turns her into a berserker in response to master powers.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: Both her shelled and unshelled forms can make use of Combat Tentacles, which is especially offputting when they're sprouting through an otherwise normal human body.
  • Mundane Utility: Spends a lot of her time shapeshifting into different people or furniture. At one point she becomes a dress-up doll for Neidan's hypothetical costume, or shows Short Circuit what she'd look like with pink hair.
  • No Social Skills: Will say the worst thing in any situation and has the stats to prove it. Doubly upsetting because her pre-amnesia identity In-hye Seo was best known for her charm.
  • Power Perversion Potential: Came up in character, hilariously.
    Overkill: Doooooo not fucking tentacle me! Not into it!
    Jogabi: I'm not even legal, creep!
  • Revenge Before Reason: Her personality in general, but her 'bent in the head' perk especially, where an attempt to use Master powers on her will start a rampage that only their death will stop (as in the case of Paima Feima).
  • Sex Shifter: Isn't particularly attached to any one appearance in the day-to-day, and regularly donning 'male bodies,' because she spent her whole short life before triggering unable to identify with her appearance.
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: Defied in the beginning, and with her unshelled form, which also varies over time. Later creates a consistent body for doing civilian things which she calls Jojo.
  • Shed Armor, Gain Speed: Movement speed improves from shelled to unshelled; her Stone Wall form especially can't move at all.
  • Super-Toughness: Grows her own armor and at one point survives being shot into a building by Overkill, which would have pulverized a regular human. You don't need Unbreakable Bones when you don't even have bones!
  • Trash of the Titans: Goes through shells constantly, leaving a detritus of mannequins and shell-furniture around her living spaces (which annoys roommates and teammates). It ends up being symbolic: her trauma involved trying to fit into a mold, and the specters of her past 'identities' hangs over her all the time, but as time goes on and she's more secure in her new identity, she becomes more diligent about clearing them out.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: She grows shells on top of her body which can look like anything, but she's always a formless and constantly changing blob underneath, which she isn't happy about. The shells are also explicitly temporary, no matter how much she might otherwise desire not to use her power.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: One of her main life goals is killing Waidan. (She asks him if he thinks this was all worth it before snapping his neck.)
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Despite her and her dad's treatment of each other (he caused her trigger event, she lost it and tried to kill him), she still desperately wants his approval. Especially terrible since the one she's competing with for his affection is her pre-amnesia self that's never coming back.
  • Younger Than They Look: Tends to pick adult bodies when doing serious business with other gangs. Sometimes Older Than They Look when she adopts child bodies (generally only around headquarters), but less so.

Amugeosdo

Kasemchai "Cheol-Su" Srisuwan

  • Blow You Away: Amu's main power is being an aerokinetic, which also ties into his Healing Factor due to his terrible lungs. Multitriggers are weird. Something of a Power Stereotype Flip, as he's reserved, cautious, and a good planner.
  • Cold Flames: Another aspect of his power, his version of Taewo's. Can use it to Kill It with Ice.
  • Combo Platter Powers: Has several different powers that don't necessarily go together due to his four-way multitrigger.
  • Disability-Negating Superpower: Downplayed; required a respirator before his trigger, which involved him slowly asphyxiating. Now his aerokinetic/healing powers keep this in check, unless he overuses it.
  • Magic Misfire: Can shake up capes' control of their powers, resulting in copies turning on the original or pyrokinetics blowing themselves up.
  • Power Nullifier: Used to terrifying effect against Chongxu, who promptly freezes and drowns when forced out of breaker state underwater.
  • Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Not actually part of his power itself, but part of the multitrigger package, allowing them to see other people's memories as dreams.
  • The Stoic: One of the more straight-laced, serious, and calculating people in the gang both in and out of combat.
  • Super-Hearing: A minor power accessed by a breaker state, his version of Siegebreaker's power.
  • Terror Hero: The first player character in Downfall to max out his Feared stat, even considering his late arrival.
  • Warrior Therapist: His high level of scrutinize allows him to easily discover (and utilize) others' flaws. Also pretty good at Emotion Suppression, which makes it hard for even social thinkers like Daia to get a bead on him.

Nun-esgasi

Mun Seo-jun

  • A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: His 'wastrel' flaw leads him to constantly spend or waste money; it's joked that this is due to personality bleed from Taewo, whose trigger event was based on this.
  • Ascended Fanboy: Formerly a mod on a cape forum, now a cape himself.
  • Broken Pedestal: Triggers due to some heroes, former idols, refusing to help him during the Maenglyeolhan arc. One of those unhelpful people was Daia's brother, Yuseongu.
  • Combo Platter Powers: Has several different powers that don't necessarily go together due to his four-way multitrigger.
  • Dating Catwoman: The ideal of his life flaw, which leads him to flirt with heroes. He ends up asking Byeolbit on a date during the CUI arc and everything. Later he gets an actual Relationship Upgrade with Taewo, an independent hero later recruited by Paladin Nova.
  • Flirting Under Fire: Considering it's usually targeted at heroes, it's very one-sided.
    Nune: "Wow, you really swept me off my feet there, but this is where I'm gonna have to make my exit. Though if you're up for more, you can always chase me down, get to know me a little better~"
    Byeolbit: "...what,"
  • His Boyfriend's Jacket: With Taewo's notable motorcycle jacket and his collection of themed pins.
  • Love Across Battlelines: Nune has a thing for heroes, notably his clustermate Taewo.
  • Petal Power: As well as using the flowers in a combat scenario, also grows them from his body.
  • Power Copying: Can use his flowers to sap and copy powers, and grow those flowers in the long term.
  • Queer Flowers: See Petal Power, but he's also fascinated by flower language and is one of the gayest characters in Downfall, which is saying something. More pertinently, advises Daia on a flower arrangement for Samjogo (which naturally includes red roses).
  • Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Not actually part of his power itself, but part of the multitrigger package, allowing them to see other people's memories as dreams.
  • Textile Work Is Feminine: Has a skill at crafting costumes, and is pretty embarrassed about it.

Chosinseong

Kurokawa Chizuru

  • Brainwash Residue: Chosin is literally killed by Cheonsa's power and only saved by Jisei's; due to Cheonsa's emotional aspect of his power, the memory of burning to death is a pleasant one.
  • Elevator Action Sequence: Gets into one alone while infiltrating Drone's lair.
  • Humongous Mecha: Her human-sized powersuits were meant to be prototypes for this final product, but she disappeared from the narrative before she could make one...until the Devourer fight.
  • Laser Blade: Her most iconic weapon.
  • Power Fist: Another of her weapons.
  • Put on a Bus: Departs after the Maenglyeolhan arc to help the newly de-Droned capes get back to their homes. Triumphantly returns in her completed mech for the Devourer fight, though!
  • Robot Buddy: More of an AI buddy, but the 'error messages' from her powersuit had a very cute appearance.

Geobukseon

Hui Zan

  • Addiction-Powered: Overdosing or underdosing can mechanically change the effects of his power, sometimes vastly increasing the range and radius of his blasts. PCP didn't give him the powers in the first place, though.
  • Addled Addict: Got saddled with a PCP addiction at character creation.
  • Angsty Surviving Twin: Triggered when his brother was killed in a shootout; worse, his blaster minion resembles the dead brother.
  • Put on a Bus: Sent to rehab after he killed an unpowered Fangshi gangster.

    DOWNFALL Cape NPCs 

Neidan

Jian Lizhen/Gyeon Yi-jin

  • Acid Attack: Though her powers generally tend towards more of a gas that can take on themes of surrounding powers, she can also create a powerful acid capable of melting objects.
  • The Alcoholic: Her all-purpose response to stress is reaching for the bottle, a habit left over from her years with Waidan. Gets to the point of Staging an Intervention with players and other NPCs, and now seems to be managing it better.
  • Bodyguard Crush: On Jogabi.
  • Daddy's Little Villain: Waidan tortured her for years trying to get her to trigger, in hopes of this.
  • Damsel in Distress: In the beginning, before she triggers during the fight with Cheonsa. Still shows shades of this, sometimes, like when strangled by Gyosalja or held hostage by Baegilmong, though can turn into a Wounded Gazelle Gambit when she takes the first opportunity to shank Baegilmong with his own knife.
  • Deadly Gas: Depending on which power she's borrowing, so far notable with Dragonfire's fire powers.
  • Foil: To Daia and Jogabi. She and Daia both had parents that explicitly tried to get them to trigger. She and Jogabi both have dads who are antagonistic forces in-story but blame themselves for it.
  • Liquid Courage: She only makes it to the Waidan fight by getting completely smashed first, due to her justified fear of him.
  • Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Yes this is on here and it's not leaving.
  • Past Experience Nightmare
  • Step into the Blinding Fight: What battles are like inside an area of her power. Her allies can at least offset this from being directed in their movements by Neidan, who can see through it.
    Overkill: "Holy fuck— nobody's gonna warn me something's in this mist trying to fucking eat me? Yuhaehanpa assholes ever fucking heard of communication?"
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Shards can't be forced, but when she's actually escaped from Waidan and then Cheonsa comes after her...

Overkill (formerly Singijeon)

Park Jang-mi

  • The Atoner: She became a murderer soon after she triggered, thanks to her mom's Axe-Crazy ex-boyfriend, who was using her mom as a human shield. Now it takes convincing to fire on absurdly dangerous people directly, even Cordyceps.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: She's so offensively powerful that it's usually only safe to use her against infrastructure. Finally utilized to her fullest potential at the Devourer fight, with a matter-annihilator gun that erased him and a city block.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: A tinker that builds massively powerful guns, generally too powerful to be used directly on people without vaporizing them. She has a tough attitude but is legitimately scared of the damage she could do if she wasn't careful.
  • Charged Attack: Her guns commonly take a few turns or minutes to unleash a devastating blast. The Devourer fight especially involved a lot of stalling and whittling down his defences while she charged up.
  • Disintegrator Ray: Also comes in flavors of Plasma Cannon and Lightning Gun.
    Overkill: "Yeah! Some of 'em explode a whole ton of shit, some of 'em disintegrate a whole ton of shit, some of 'em incinerate a whole ton of shit..."
    Chosin: "Nice, sounds like ya got a pretty versatile line up."
    Jogabi: "That's not even versatile that's just a bunch of ways of super-murdering stuff!"
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Stereotypically unintelligent in other areas of her life, but her power to build guns bypasses this completely. She even gets adorably excited about her inventions to the point of Gibbering Genius.
    Overkill: "I'm gonna fuck some bitches up! I've got so much cool shit I've wanted to build but I need a workshop like the plasma gun an' the gravity gun an' the sonic gun an'..."
    She'll just keep listing guns until interrupted.
    "...the UV gun an' the prism gun an' the tectonic gun an'..."
  • The Gunslinger
  • Heel–Face Turn: Formerly an enemy combatant on the SYKD side and even shoots Jogabi, though she's clearly making an effort not to kill anyone and lets Geobu safely escape with the injured Misogi. Later quits the SYKD of her own accord and is picked up by DOWNFALL, who saw her...unique want ad.
  • One-Hit Polykill: When she fires on Cordyceps' mushroom minions, she turns a whole group and part of the neighboring building into ash.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill
  • Xtreme Kool Letterz: Seems to be typing this way in her want ad, but she's actually pretty much illiterate.

Baesim

Park Gwang-jin

  • Bad Powers, Good People: Goes into a Body Horror breaker state where he's surrounded by eyes that cry power-nulling blood, and is apparently drawn towards aggressing and drowning people based on the level of their wrongs, to the point of going against his regular judgment. Outside of that, seems like a shy and mild-mannered guy (with a real problem with Suppressed Rage).
  • The Berserker: When in breaker state, he implacably goes for the most evil person in the room despite damage to himself. This is a contributing factor to his death.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: One of the clearest examples of this trope in a game full of them. Recruited right out of Baegilmong's riot when Daia gained the ability to identify capes from their cables, and still notable for being one of the creepiest guys on the team thanks to his power.
  • Judge, Jury, and Executioner: His theme (Baesim literally means Jury).
  • The Power of Blood

Bulldozer

Kim Ji-yeong

  • Effortless Amazonian Lift: Probably the most physically powerful person in DOWNFALL, thanks to her four arms and ability to meld into and tear up roads and structures.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Terrifyingly specialized towards direct combat; the drawback in-universe is her monstrous appearance, which makes it impossible for her to have a secret identity.
  • Pummeling the Corpse: After she was done with Drone he mostly resembled "meat jam." He deserved it.
  • Team Mom: As the oldest and likely most reasonable character on the team, not afraid to defend the teens or tell them when they're being ridiculous, especially after she moves in with Neidan and Jogabi.

Daltokki

Song Se-yeon

Samjogo

Kim Ki-tae

Munsin

Go Nari

  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Even when she's the subject of a rescue mission, most of the people involved don't like her personally, and the main thing is stopping the CUI from using her power. Samjogo is the exception, obviously.
  • Mythical Motifs: Like the rest of the Gwisin-pa. Her name refers to a Korean door god.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During the fight on the ferry, the normally quiet and mean Munsin responds to a plea for reinforcements with a chipper agreement and a reminder that she cares about everyone. All players immediately realize something is wrong even before Munsin fails to show up (and they're right; she's been kidnapped).
  • Thinking Up Portals

Babo

Hyeon Il-sung

  • Abusive Parents: His trigger is due to his controlling mom, whose edicts he kept following on autopilot even after she died.
  • Playing with Puppets: His power is body control, puppeting others while his body remains on autopilot. The first time he demonstrates this to the team he makes Geobu do a little dance.
  • Those Two Guys: Practically a double act with his eventual boyfriend Moonshine, it seems weird to see one without the other.

Jinx (formerly Malttuk)

Amy Chu

  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Gagwan, her ex-girlfriend and clustermate. Later the object of her affections switches to Munsin.

Moonshine (formerly Seongbae)

Lee Kyung-chul

  • Perception Filter: Produces a liquid that makes whatever it's doused in less noticeable and less corporeal, without actually involving any invisibility.
  • Those Two Guys: Practically a double act with his eventual boyfriend Babo, it seems weird to see one without the other.

Dragonfire

  • Breath Weapon: Downplayed considering he's already made of fire in breaker state, but come on, what would a dragon be without a breath weapon?
  • Chuunibyou: Of the Cloud Cuckoo Lander type, due to his 'delusional' flaw. Of course, this is kind of downplayed since he really does turn into a dragon, but this may have been a coping mechanism even before his trigger.
  • Cyborg: A self-modification tinker.
  • Dragon Hoard: Naturally has his own version of this, though when he's recruited it's mainly filled with "assorted garbage" which he lounges over in a normal lawn chair.
  • Magic-Powered Pseudoscience: Many Tinkers generally, but especially this guy considering his chuuni sensibilities and using technology to induce a breaker state.
  • Mythical Motifs: Obviously.
  • Playing with Fire

Cat's Claw

Kim So-won

    King-Wangjjang 

LCD

"AJ"

  • Despair Event Horizon: After she's brain-damaged by Paima Feima, she finds herself unable to communicate with anyone except for Jiral, who helps her create an entirely new language. Then Jiral dies.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: After everything she's been through this campaign, she finally dies in the Devourer fight, saving a member of Dark Star with her last action.

Jiral

  • Anyone Can Die: Formerly coming across as an untouchable stragetist, he quickly succumbs to Strychnine's power during the ferry fight. The Sacrificial Lion of Tongju, as he was completely tied up in the plot and is the most important friendly NPC to go thus far.
  • Black Comedy: His death bingo.
  • The Chessmaster: Had plans on plans on plans, even referring to the state of the city with chess metaphors and leaving a long manifesto of all of his findings after his death.
  • Crazy-Prepared: After his death, Jeul receives his manifesto filled with all the information he's collected over the course of Tongju.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • The Gadfly: His modus operandi, which allows him to get more information via his thinker power. His death bingo free space was "died of being a cocky asshole" (and adjacent is "killed by someone I've personally insulted at least once").
  • Living Lie Detector: His power, which is surprisingly strong due to his vagueness about it and his synergy with his shard.
  • Mysterious Backer
  • Not So Stoic: Jogabi manages to crack his calm demeanor only once, when she bitterly criticizes his chessmaster approach after the rest of his team is severely injured in the Maenglyeolhan arc.
    "It's not about credit— If I could swap myself for Ae-jung right fucking now I'd do it!"

Jeul

Park Jin-joo

  • Hammerspace Hideaway: Can 'vanish' objects and people and bring them back with no perception of time passing.
    jeul: if i don't want to talk to people i do this
    jeul: (>_<)/
    jeul: and tell them to fuck off
  • Lipstick Lesbian: Loves stereotypically cute things like pink, stuffed animals, and Sailor Moon, and reportedly gets a crush on every other teen girl she knows. Eventually the player characters nudge her towards a relationship with Overkill.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Short Circuit.
  • You Are in Command Now: Ends up with Jiral's thinker manifesto after he doesn't survive the fight on the ferry, and thus ends up as leader of the KWJ, since former leader LCD is no longer up to it after meeting Paima Feima.

Short Circuit

Kim Yoon-ji

Jjeonda

Chae Ha-joon

  • Bling-Bling-BANG!: A gun tinker whose screen name is ggoldengun, we only see these in action during the final Devourer arc. Symbolically makes sense with his Gilded Cage (see below).
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Has the rest of the KWJ, but his parents clearly leave him to his own devices in their ridiculously fancy house.
  • Morality Pet: Seems like the most normal of the KWJ, and the rest of the team are very protective of their lad despite making poor or self-sacrificing choices themselves.
    Short Circuit: "Mmmmost of the time when people say it's different it's a way to say shitty or do shitty things about themselves that they'd never say about other people 'cause they knowww they're shitty! Like if some twenty whatever dude wanted to have sex with Jjeonda I'd smash his creepy face in!"

Crash

Lee Min-ki

    Xinya's Crew 

Qin Xinya

  • A Father to His Men: Originally the Cool Big Sis figure to Geobu, this gets more apparent when she takes the young Fangshi defectors under her wing.
  • Badass Normal: The only non-cape to show up to the villain meeting that eventually turned into the fight on the ferry. Her performance there proves she deserves her position as a new gang leader.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Executes Strychnine with a shotgun blast during the fight on the ferry.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Has to be, as generally the only non-cape in a room—see above.
  • Insult of Endearment: She rarely has a nice word to say about any of her family or employees, but everyone knows she'd commit a murder for them.
    Xinya: "Okay, enough about this dickhead," she says, letting go of Wu and giving him a punch in the shoulder, "I'll chop him up and use him for truck fuel when you all leave."
    Wu is just like... : ). She liked my cake.
  • Wrench Wench: Can usually be found in the middle of fixing a car.

Bianhua

  • Blob Monster: Is a changer capable of melting into a puddle of water, which is much scarier than it sounds. Jogabi feels some kinship with him for that and theorizes that their trigger events might be similar, considering what we know of Waidan.
  • Making a Splash: Is a hydrokinetic in the sense that he can control his own water-physiology. Can Kill It with Water by forcing himself into people's lungs.
  • Hero Killer: A pretty fucking big deal in this universe even when supervillains are killing other supervillains en masse, he accidentally drowned one of the Nova Academy capes during the Maenglyeolhan arc.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Presumably, as another of Waidan's kids.

Huoheian

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Yubu

Yi Ri Qian Qiu

  • Make Them Rot: Can speed up time in an area around her, which can age and destroy objects or people, as Yubu finds out. Kind of a scary power for a baby teen.

Wu

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    Fangshi 

Waidan

  • Alchemy Is Magic: Can create powerful acids, power-granting elixirs, and even healing potions.
  • Archnemesis Dad
  • Disc-One Final Boss: So far orchestrating the SYKD attacks, the Maenglyeolhan, and the CUI invasion. Of course, there are other interests in Tongju also playing the long game, and with him now out of the picture, who knows what's coming next?
  • The Pawns Go First: Has a habit of sending in low-ranking gangsters as suicide bombers for a long time before Downfall actually get to fight him.
  • Super-Empowering: As a tinker, his main power is granting powers to others.

Zhenren

  • Adaptive Ability: Creates copies of himself that counter the powers around him.
  • Clones Are People, Too: After Zhenren's death, the remaining clones, who also had second thoughts about being cannon fodder for the original, just harmlessly leave. They cluster together in their own separate gang, the Shuzhi (branches), though at least one of the copies is later eaten by Devourer.
  • Fake Memories: All of them have memories with different spins on Zhenren's life, with some featuring things that never happened.
  • Fusion Dance: Normally makes copies and then absorbs their good traits back into the original body.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Literally killed by one of his own copies after Amu sped up the process of them becoming their own people.
  • Meditation Power Up: Adopts a meditation pose before he splits into a new copy.
  • Phlebotinum Rebel: Or his clones, anyway.
    The sphere Zhenren looks around at what's happening, seeming extremely distressed, then yells, "What the fuck is wrong with you, man," and slams one of his spheres into the armoured version. "You— did you create me just to take hits for you, what the fuck!"
  • The Pawns Go First: Naturally his clones are sent into the fray before his original self, both to provide cover and because of their useful adaptations.

Chongxu

  • Power of the Void: His breaker state involved becoming a living black hole that deleted whatever intersected with him. Poor Pungsan.

Qimen Dunjia

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Paima Feima

  • Interface Screw: When the PCs are exposed to Paima Feima's power, text turns into a blur of indecipherable Wingdinglish aside from randomly being asked to roll.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Permanently breaks parts of people's brains, even after she's dead.
  • Temporary Blindness: In a way; Paima Feima doesn't blind anyone, but breaks their brain in a way that means they can't parse anything they're seeing or hearing.

    Heroes 

Byeolbit

  • Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Despite joining in on the fight against the Maenglyeolhan and seeming more principled than most heroes despite his cluster animosity towards Daltokki, he is unceremoniously eaten offscreen at the beginning of the final arc.
  • The Stoic
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: It's revealed that he actually has some good reasons to dislike Daltokki. Their group trigger also shuffled their personalities around; apparently he was once the more peaceful and subordinate one in the friendship.

Yuseongu

Second Thought

Sim Hyo-jin

  • Abusive Parents
  • Break Them by Talking: Her power involves coming up with something that can convince anyone out of a course of action, though she doesn't control what comes out of her mouth or the additional knock-on effects.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible sibling out of the four, both compared to the hero brothers (see Middle Child Syndrome) and Daia (whose 'foolishness' involved disconnecting from the family completely after his trigger event, and later turning villain).
  • Middle Child Syndrome: According to her trigger, spent most of her childhood trying to stop her brothers from doing something stupid and getting her in trouble.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Though she doesn't use the reveal of his identity against him, she and Daia spend most of the time after her introduction sniping at each other. By the end, they've grown to understand each other and are more like a Sibling Team.
  • Superpowerful Genetics

Taewo

Won Jin-woo

  • A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: The cause of his trigger event; eventually he had borrowed so much money from dangerous people that he decided the only way out of it was to fake his own death by burning down his building.
  • Anime Catholicism: Is nominally Catholic but his beliefs are notably distorted in hilarious ways.
    Taewo: "Jesus is like, you know, he's just this chill bro in the sky and you get to ask him for stuff. And he's a busy guy, so he can't do everything, obviously, but I'm gonna tell him you're really important and to keep an eye out for you if he can, and he'll do it. He's a bro like that!"
  • Combo Platter Powers: Has several different powers that don't necessarily go together due to his four-way multitrigger.
  • Malaproper: His dialogue is filled with mixed metaphors and mangled idioms, like 'we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.' He cannot be convinced of the right ones.
  • Petal Power: His version of Nune's power, florakinesis that only works on existing plants and with no trump aspects.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Not actually part of his power itself, but part of the multitrigger package, allowing them to see other people's memories as dreams.

    SYKD and Yuhaehanpa 

Shriek

  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Is run through with a sword by Daia.
  • Make Me Wanna Shout
  • Only Flesh Is Safe: Notable aversion; using his voice, he can make things resonate and explode, including human bodies, which Daia finds out the hard way.
  • Psycho for Hire: The whole SYKD but especially its leader, willing to take the most morally bankrupt jobs, like going after and potentially killing an unpowered teenager.

Cheonsa

  • Angelic Abomination
  • Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: His power involves a breaker state with pyrokinesis that leaves master events on people burned by it. You can resist the compulsions to attack your friends, but why would you want to?
    It's so relieving! So calming! It feels euphoric, actually. The fire doesn't even hurt anymore, it's like taking a nice warm bath, like smelling incense, like listening to her favourite song.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Preacher's Kid

Pungsan

  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: 'Pungsan' is a breed of hunting dog.
  • Butt-Monkey: Despite not even being a killer and thus not on their hit list, his life takes an escalating series of downturns after he meets DOWNFALL.
  • Chew Toy: Alluded to during the fight on the ferry, when (due to a dice roll) Chongxu picks him as a target to kill despite having been pretty ineffective so far.
    "and then the boat falls apart and you eat shit and you are still pungsan, and then a black hole goes for you and you're just like, i am still pungsan" -gabby
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain

Gungsul

  • Always Accurate Attack: A gun tinker with thinker-based aiming skills to back it up, still managing to hit the PCs with ricochets even when they 'dodge.'
  • Karma Houdini: Initially part of the SYKD, which merges with the Yuhaehanpa after both are gutted by DOWNFALL. At one point she's arrested, but her team breaks her out again (in a fight where several of their side die). Later, she jumps ship after the ferry fight, before all their capes can be hunted down, and finds sanctuary in the NSB.
  • Outlaw Couple: With Dogsuli. During their first skirmish Daia points out that she cares about him a lot more than he cares about her.

Dogsuli

Yudok Han

Strychnine

Jeongmaek & Dongmaek

Gyosalja

  • Bad Powers, Bad People: You ever been stuck in the back of a car with a guy who's just fucking fingers?
  • Un Evil Laugh
    "Come and play with me, little bunny," Gyosalja rattles eerily as he climbs the wall, followed by a disconcertingly normal, almost comically ordinary chuckle, like he's an office worker who just saw a particularly relatable Dilbert comic.
  • Your Worst Memory: His power forces this on his victims as he's strangling them.

Hwangsan

  • Acid Attack: Creates blobs of bright yellow corrosive acid from the air that react violently with other powers.
  • Bus Crash: Survives the initial fight where Gungsul is sprung from containment, but is arrested by the heroes and the news states she's on the fast-track to execution. The cast never hears from her again.
  • Sexy Whatever Outfit: Mainly remembered for her costume, an absurdly sexualized hazmat suit.

Meltdown

  • Close-Range Combatant: As a Striker, favors touch-based attacks, which Jogabi finds out the hard way when she grabs him.
  • Ramming Always Works: Chases Jogabi in a car during the Maenglyeolhan arc, at which point she becomes desperate enough to run him over. Notable in that this is more viscerally horrific than most power-based violence in Tongju and ends up permanently paralyzing him.

    Maenglyeolhan 

Cordyceps

Drone

  • Chekhov's Gun: The real reason the Maenglyeolhan came to town: for his cape-controlling technology and Devourer, one of his collection.
  • Living Doll Collector: Behaves like a stereotypical nerd, lovingly talking about his controlled capes like they're action figures.

Baegilmong

    Additional Misc Capes 

Jisei

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Misogi

  • Making a Splash: A water-based Brute who has previously fought with huge augmented water fists and water armor.

Ultraviolent

  • Even the Girls Want Her: Notable for her huge array of online fans and admirers.
  • Perception Filter: With her power active, everything she does is seen as horrifically damaging, instead of the type of power that actually is horrifically damaging.
    With horrific brutality, she pushes someone out of the way. As they stumble, you suspect that she might have broken their bones, possibly pierced a lung. This fight might have a body count by the time it's over.

Lithobrake

  • Drop Pod: Two words: airdrop tinker. Utilized during the Maenglyeolhan arc to drop Daia into Cordyceps' area of effect to rejoin the strike team.

Jigol

  • The Dreaded: His PJS page lists a bunch of concerningly high numbers and a note that says 'do not engage if at all possible.' His performance at the ferry fight backs this up.

Siegebreaker

Choi Soo-jin

  • Bling of War: Her costume is reminiscent of a military officer, epaulettes and medals and all.
  • Combo Platter Powers: Has several different powers that don't necessarily go together due to her four-way multitrigger.
  • Hikikomori: Though most of the multitrigger were shut-ins before their trigger, she takes it to a new level, with Nune's leeched memories of her mostly relating to staring out her bedroom window, hoping something terrible would happen.
  • Make Me Wanna Shout: Her overwhelming ranged attacks come in the form of terrifying screams that do physical damage.
  • Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Not actually part of her power itself, but part of the multitrigger package, allowing them to see other people's memories as dreams.

Suisei

Takenaka Kenzo

  • Save This Person, Save the World: He's important to Downfall mainly because Devourer would become a disastrous threat if he ever captured Suisei's power.
  • Time Rewind Mechanic: His power enables his body and consciousness to rewind to a safe state when he is hurt or killed, while the rest of the world continues as normal. However, the damage to his alternate self remains in his golden trails, and touching the trails passes on the damage.

Kobeula Wangja

  • Deceased Parents Are the Best: One of the notable exceptions to a parade of abusive parents, Kobeula clearly loved his dad a lot. After months of hating Yudok Han, he finally gets his revenge in the ferry fight.
  • The Family That Slays Together: Is the son of the former Sambaempa leader Baemui Wang.
    "Listen, you guys," says Kobeula Wangja. "Smite, Chunggyeok. We ain't so different. We both think this is our city, we both want to look after it. Just coming at it from different angles, right?"
    "Never compare me to you ever again," says Smite flatly before disconnecting.
  • I Own This Town: Even though the Sambaempa are a big deal, they were a much bigger deal under his father and his repeated insistence of this can get grating.
  • Snakes Are Sinister

Gungjeon

Devourer

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