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1An index of characters that appear in ''Goddess of Victory: NIKKE''.
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3!!![[center:''VideoGame/GoddessOfVictoryNikke'' '''Characters'''\
4'''Manufacturers:''' [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEElysion Elysion]] | [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEMissilis Missilis Industry]] | [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKETetra Tetra Line]] | [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEPilgrims The Pilgrims]] | [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEAbnormal Abnormal]]\
5'''Enemies:''' [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKERaptures Raptures]] ]]
6
7Characters will be grouped by their respective manufacturer/affiliation.
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9[[index]]
10* [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEElysion Elysion]]
11* [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEMissilis Missilis Industry]]
12* [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKETetra Tetra Line]]
13* [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEPilgrims The Pilgrims]]
14* [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEAbnormal Abnormal]]
15* [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKERaptures Raptures]]
16[[/index]]
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18[[foldercontrol]]
19
20! Protagonists/Team Counters
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22->''A ragtag squad led by a rookie Commander who just graduated from the military academy. Stationed in the Outpost, they take on all manner of assignments.''
23
24[[folder:Counters in general]]
25* BadassCrew: As the story progresses, the Counters become a formidable squad of battle-hardened Nikkes (one of whom is one of, and, if her [[spoiler:[[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Secret Body mode]]]] is taken into account, might as well be the most powerful Nikke in the entire Ark) who complement each other very well both in and out of combat, bound by [[FireForgedFriends combat-tested loyalty]] under a unique and [[TheAce proficient]] commander, backed up by an exceptionally good MissionControl and, if one is willing to count Andersen and Ingrid in, a badass BigGood duumvirate.
26* ChromaticArrangement: Rapi, Marian and Anis wear clothing accentuated with red, blue and yellow colors respectively. Neon, who also wears blue, substitutes for Marian [[spoiler:after the latter's death]].
27* HelloInsertNameHere: A strange example. There's no way to change your squad's name, despite indications you could, such as the Commander being asked early on, and the voice acting usually stopping short of saying the squad's name. Seems to be an unintended case of TheArtifact.
28* MsExposition: As the first three Nikkes you meet, Marian eases the player into most of the story's immediate situation during the prologue with Rapi, Anis and Shifty chipping in a bit. Afterwards, Rapi's Attraction episodes elaborate on the life of Commanders and Nikkes, while Anis's has her take the Commander on a tour of the Ark.
29* OutOfFocus: The Nikkes of Counters rarely appear in event stories outside of sporadic cameos as well as the ''No Caller ID'' event. This allows other squads to take the reins and become the main focus of their events without the main characters overshadowing them.
30* RankUp: [[spoiler:In Chapter 7, after having contact with Chatterbox and Snow White the Pilgrim so often, the Central Government has the team promoted to being Special Commandos, which Andersen explicitly states also keeps them out of the control of the Big Three, especially Syuen.]]
31* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Having known each other for a while before joining Counters, Rapi and Anis tend to take these roles respectively, the former keeping her head on straight while the latter being plucky even when cynical.
32[[/folder]]
33
34[[folder:The Commander]]
35[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/commander_0.png]]
36[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:The Commander's "Official" Plush Doll]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/commander2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
37A young man who comes into the role of leading the Nikke squad "Counters" shortly after the death of his superior. While starting out as a rookie commander with little field experience, the Commander is defined by his outstanding sense of justice and protectiveness of Nikkes.
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39* TheAce: By the time of Rapi's first Affection Story, set at least not long after the prologue, he's [[FamedInStory acquired quite the reputation]] for succeeding on multiple missions in contrast to the other incompetent Commanders, so far being the only one to stand out like that. It also helps a lot that he doesn't treat Nikkes as expendable, making them fight for the Commander all the more harder when the chips are down. [[spoiler:This goes further once Counters are made [[RankUp Special Commandos]] in light of their recognitions so far, clearly marking them as a significant military asset by the Ark.]]
40** [[spoiler:In Chapter 20's 4th and 5th episodes, Johan tests the Commander in a series of combat scenarios against Nihilister where Dorothy notes that, despite the Commander getting 91 failures, 6 draws and 3 wins, the last three wins happened in a row according to Johan's nigh impassable standards, even if they were just scenarios. Despite Johan still acting dismissive of the Commander, it's clear he develops a grudging respect for his determination and commanding ability, a former "rising star" of the Ark to the present one.]]
41* AintTooProudToBeg: Not for his life, but for Rapi's, in Chapter 30. [[spoiler:She ultimately didn't need it, but it's the thought that counts. Rapi proceeded to activate [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Secret Body]] despite Red Hood no longer being part of her and give Grave a thorough pummeling, forcing her to flee just as Anis and Neon burst onto the scene.]]
42* AllJustADream: Near the end of the ''Kill the Lord'' event, [[spoiler:the Commander is exposed to a hallucination-causing mist. As he enters a door, he suddenly finds himself on a flowery meadow, falsely remembering Humanity has successfully reclaimed the surface, and that he now lives in peace together with Marian and Counters. A slap from D brings him back to his senses.]]
43* AloneWithThePsycho: Happens to him in [[{{Yandere}} Isabel's]] final Bond Episode after he'd previously [[BerserkButton pissed her off]] while trying to calm her down out of her jealousy-fuelled murderous rage, with the Commander being handcuffed by her to stop him trying to leave again.
44* AmbiguousGender: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]] later. The earliest parts of the main and event stories, as well as Attraction Episodes never explicitly mention the Commander's gender, but a specific scene in the prologue depicts the Commander as a man. Then his gender is confirmed in Rosanna's Episode, which has her eying a naked Commander and wondering aloud about her knowledge of the male body, and in Noir's, where she wants to learn about affection and says the Commander is the only male she knows.
45* AmnesiacHero: Through the main campaign and Anis's first attraction story, it's revealed later on that the Commander has no memory of his life before graduating military school, other than the fact that he lived in the Ark their whole life and was in a hospital at one point. This in turn causes him to act like an AudienceSurrogate since it justifies people expositing for them. [[spoiler: Every now and then, however, he seems to have a flashback of talking to a unknown girl with a teddy bear.]]
46* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: It is implied that part of why he is so nice to Nikkes is because his amnesia caused him to forget most of the indoctrination the military academy puts commanders through, which is what causes most commanders to treat Nikkes as disposable.
47* AndroidsArePeopleToo: He stands out as one of the few people in the Ark that treats Nikkes more as humans than {{Human Weapon}}s, earning him a lot of loyalty and even affection from them as time goes on. Saying otherwise, as Syuen finds out the hard way, is enough to set off his BerserkButton. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this gets him targeted and even shot by the traitorous Exotic team in Chapter 16, as they deem the Commander's compassion for Nikkes a threat to their plan of stirring up trouble in the Ark, since it relies on exploiting the existing JustAMachine attitudes of most humans and existing friction between them and Nikkes.]]
48* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Af if Chapter 2 hasn't already made that obvious, Commander is not afraid to speak up to, and thusly shut up, figures of [[DrillSergeantNasty Ingrid]]'s [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure caliber]]:
49--> '''Ingrid''': Information, you say? I'm sorry to say this, but the information we have is more in-depth than you might think. If we put our minds to it, we'd be able to turn up plenty of information on this [[spoiler:vapaus]] that's giving you so much trouble. \
50'''Commander''': Then how come you haven't already looked into it? \
51'''Ingrid''': ...
52* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In Yan's bond story, he works part-time at her mall and manages to sell items to Vesti and even Frima that they didn't initially intend to buy despite having no known experience as a salesman. All he relied on was replicating Yan's sales tactics that he observed in days prior. In the fifth episode of said Bond story, he gets Rupee to max out her credit card in Yan's mall!
53* TheCharmer: On top of being universally kind to Nikkes, the Commander is shown to be notoriously flirty and intimate towards them.
54* ChickMagnet: Several Nikkes are infatuated with the Commander due to their aforementioned kindness and implied handsomeness on the Commander's part . For the April Fool's 2024 event, no less than 7 Nikkes show up when he implies that he wants to have sex in a message to the Outpost group chat.
55* ChronicHeroSyndrome: The Commander accepts quite a number of dubious tasks at the behest of rather dubious figures who capitalize on their goodwill and sense of justice.
56* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Let's just say that there are no lengths too great for him in order to understand and help his Nikkes better, which include making people hit him to understand how Yuni "talks" through inflicting pain, or ''really'' getting into an idol producer persona by watching a mockumentary for Noise, who is a songwriter.
57* TheConfidant: He eventually becomes this in a way for N102, since he is able to keep track of the memories she made with him even if her own memories are erased. This way he is able to help reconstruct her personality by reminding her of what she likes and how she acts regardless of how often her memories are destroyed.
58* CovertPervert: An odd case. Because of the training most run-of-the-mill Commanders go through, they fail to even see Nikkes as women, nevermind arouse any sexual desire. Our Commander however is well aware that Nikkes are incredibly gorgeous so they still get plenty of reactions from him. In Isabel's bond story for one, [[spoiler:when she goes to take a shower, she tells the Commander to leave the door unlocked, the implication being so the two can enjoy their 'wedding night'. The Commander, despite being somewhat suspicious, ''LEAVES THE DOOR SLIGHTLY OPENED''. Were the situation any more pleasant, it's likely he wouldn't have hesitated to take the offer.]]
59** In a [=BlaBla=] chat with Soda, she says that she found a manila folder with magazines "full of good-looking people" while cleaning Commander's room, which Commander promptly asks be put where they were found. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Soda insists to leave them somewhere where more people can see those beautiful people]] and ends up leaving them on his desk because she has already thrown away the folder.
60* CryingWolf: For AprilFoolsDay 2024, having learned his lesson from last year's escapades, the Commander decides to go on the offensive with the pranks, culminating in convincing ''Syuen'' to go to the Surface with him. Once he realizes she believes him, and that it would be dangerous if the two were to go alone, he tries to get at least one of the other squads to go with them. However, due to his previous pranks souring the other Nikkes' mood, the two end up going alone. To make matters worse, the elevator breaks down once on the surface, and because Syuen's gun has a biometric lock, she is the only one who can use it, leaving the Commander no other choice than to send her to the front lines until Matis can bail them out.
61* DependingOnTheWriter: This trope applies to his "relations" with the various Nikkes. The Commander is normally always flustered and self-conscious when he gets intimate with the girls, but while sometimes he's characterized as being quite eager to jump into bed with them, the other half of the time he's shown to be hesitant. Ludmilla offers him an open invitation to join her in the hot springs naked during the ''Nevermore'' event but he stoutly refuses. By contrast, in the earlier ''Bunny x 777'' event featuring [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Blanc and Noir]], the hard mode extra scene ends with the strong implication he's landed himself in a fivesome; an arrangement he's evidently quite happy with.
62* {{Determinator}}: The Commander is possibly the single most stubborn man on the planet. If he sets his mind on something, absolutely nothing will stop him from getting what he wants, no matter what Nikke, human, or Rapture stands in his way.
63* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: The Commander is willing to try and look for the good in people that no one else will trust, ranging from Real Kindness to Dororthy and even ''Nihilister'', and this largely works out for them. The one person they ''don't'' have faith in, though, is Crow, who is an unrepentant terrorist who [[spoiler:exploits the Commander's kindness to get close enough to kill them and is incredibly nihilistic to the point of wanting to destroy the Ark over its treatment of the outer rim]]. Crow is notably the ''only'' Nikke that the Commander has seriously considered killing.
64* FamedInStory: The Commander, despite starting out as a no-name just like every other Commander, gradually becomes the talk of the Ark as his heroic exploits with his Nikkes becomes known to the public. A Chapter 13 sidequest has a rookie commander named Teddy mentioning that the Commander has been voted the [[TheAce #1 role model]] of the military academy.
65* AFatherToHisMen: The way he deeply cares about his subordinates and his protectiveness of them in the face of [[FantasticRacism the nasty treatment]] of them dished out by some characters quickly turns him into this once he gets out of his rookie phase. In the universe where most commanders are indoctrinated into seeing Nikkes as nothing more than [[HumanWeapon disposable humanlike weapons]], his compassion for his troops and insistence on treating them [[AndroidsArePeopleToo the same as he would treat human soldiers]] earns him a lot of trust and loyalty from them, respect from some of the higher-ups and hostility from certain other parties.
66* FeaturelessProtagonist: Played with. The Commander has almost no physical appearances and virtually every cutscene occurs in the first-person; scenes where he does appear simply show him as a tall, fair-skinned man with light brown hair and average build. However, compared to similar games where the protagonist is given the bare minimum amount of personality to serve as a stand-in for the player, the Commander is quite chatty and comes into his own character rather quickly. Additionally, while the game sometimes tries to use gender-neutral writing in some cases, it is fairly clear he is male, with Sakura specifically calling him her husband[[note]]Plus her plan to fake a marriage placate her underlings who wanted her to have a child not making sense if she married a woman[[/note]], several of his nicknames only making sense for a man[[note]]Rosanna calling him "Mister", Moran calling him "Otouto" (Younger Brother) in the Japanese dub[[/note]], and [[spoiler:several Bond and Encounter scenes implying he has an erection due to what happens in said scenes]].
67* FirstDayFromHell: The Commander just took up his post yesterday by the time of the prologue, and yet they're woken up by Marian after surviving their transport ship crashing for their first mission on the surface, have to fight Raptures in the next blink of an eye, down the Lord-class Rapture "Blacksmith" with just their few Nikkes on hand [[spoiler:and has to execute their own first subordinate, Marian, who had already fallen to Rapture corruption.]] Andersen lampshades the absurdity of a rookie accomplishing all this on their first day.
68* GuileHero: Demonstrates first tendencies of this in Chapter 6 when [[spoiler:he's kidnapped by Chatterbox and, realising that the intelligent Rapture needs him alive for whatever reason, threatens to blow himself up and thus buys time for Snow White and the Counters to catch up to them, as well as extracts some crucial information from him.]] In Chapter 23, [[spoiler:he demonstrates knowledge of sign language he picked up from Johan and figures out a way to cut power to the jamming device preventing him from pointing Anis and Neon to their location when he and Rapi are pulled into Exotic's hideout by Viper]], which earns him overt praise from the otherwise reserved Rapi.
69-->'''Rapi:''' [[spoiler:If we didn't have to keep silent]], I'd be clapping right now.
70* HelloInsertNameHere: There is no canon name, so you're free to name him whatever you want.
71* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Decides, against the protests of Rapi and Anis, to put his faith in the Exotic Team in Chapter 16, despite their obvious hostility they'd displayed towards him and Counters right from the word 'go', plus the implications that they're involved with the Heavenly Ascension group in the Outer Rim. It ends badly, with Exotic betraying Counters and outright shooting the Commander at the end of the chapter, deeming him a threat to their plans.]]
72* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:He's taken hostage by K and D of the Perilous Siege team in Chapter 14, threatening to shoot him unless [[McGuffinSuperPerson Marian]] hands herself over. Since they're stated to have no inhibitors like other Nikkes, they're fully capable of following through on the threat.]]
73* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Suffers this at Modernia's hands after he shoots her to try and get her off of Rapi in Chapter 13. The sheer blood loss is such that, even with on-site triage, he needs to be operated on at a hospital back at the Ark to properly heal.]]
74* InSeriesNickname: Besides "Commander" and his [[HelloInsertNameHere nickname]], many Nikkes have their own names for him: "Believer" (Rapunzel), "Birdie" (Laplace), "Boss" (Centi), "Burly Bear" (Neve), "Cadet" (''Otouto'' in JP dub) (Moran), "Captain" (Mast and Anchor), "Client" (Dolla), "Coach" (Folkwang, Epinel, Bay and Clay), "Conductor" (Julia), "Counselor" (Real Kindness), "Cutie" (Maxwell), "Darling" (Isabel), "Greenhorn" (Liter), "Gym Rat" (Rumani), "Handsome" (Red Hood), "Highroller" (Rouge), "Honey" (Papillon), "Honey/Honeybuns" ("Darling" in JP dub) (Viper), "Human" (Nihilister), "Imposter" (Noah), "[Nickname]-kun" (Sakura), "Maestro" (Aria), "Master" (Neon and Maid For You), "Mister" (Rosanna), "Moron" (Drake), "My Lord" (Scarlet), "Newbie" (Yulha), "Noob" (Exia), "No. 7" (Ether), "Old-Timer" (The Carronades), "Pal" (Milk), "Partner" (Guillotine and Sugar), "Pit Boss" (Blanc and Noir), "Producer" (Noise), "Rabbity" (Alice), "Rookie" (Yan), "Scoops" (Nero), "Servant" (Ludmilla and Harran), "Subordinate" (Helm), "Survivalist" (Tove), "Sweetie" (Rupee), "Teacher" (Anne and Rei), "Trainer" (Biscuit), "Watson" (Novel), "Weakling" (Eunhwa), "Your Grace" (Dorothy) and "Zoo Keeper" (Leona).
75* MadeOfIron: Downplayed given that he's only human, but damn if his resilience isn't impressive. So far he's survived his transport ship crashing (though he had to be resuscitated by Marian when she found him), took the sensory-transferred pain of several bullets when confronting Syuen and an avalanche nearly burying him. [[spoiler:As of Chapter 13, he's also survived getting gutted by one of Modernia's tentacles, albeit needing surgery after the mission was over.]]
76* MysteriousPast: He remembers little about his past besides having spent some time in the hospital as a kid, and [[PlayfulHacker Exia]] can't find ''anything'' about his past on any database she's hacked.
77* NotLikeOtherGirls: Crow recognizes the Commander's purity of heart, acknowledging that his views of Nikkes as his equals is sincere and borne of compassion that sets him apart from other humans. [[spoiler:It's also why Exotic views him as their greatest threat: they recognize the Commander's strengths as a born leader and fear the possibility that he can bridge the cultural gap between humans and Nikkes, as Heavenly Ascension and Exotic's entire plan hinges on inflaming tensions between the two.]]
78* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Snowfield Oasis'', the Commander becomes inexplicably shy towards the suggestion of explicit action or sex despite this otherwise not being the case in most of the story. This usually involves him trying to dodge most physical intimacy in the most awkward and contrived ways possible.
79* PatrickStewartSpeech: The Commander ends up giving a version of this to Laplace in her Attraction Story, where he makes a case for humans being less weak than Laplace thinks they are. Laplace eventually concedes at the end of her story that humans aren't weak, but that they still need intervention from time to time.
80* ThePollyanna: Although some particular Nikkes like Exotic and Dorothy put him through absolute hell, the Commander never stops believing in the goodness in the hearts of Nikkes and believes that Nikkes can stand as equals with the rest of humanity.
81* RankUp: [[spoiler:Subverted. At the end of Chapter 24, the Commander partakes in a judgment session by Enikk. Humorously, he is bestowed a promotion of 3 ranks for helping save the Ark during the Rapture invasion and protecting the Outer Rim by apprehending Crow, but due to Syuen's EngineeredHeroics stunt in Chapter 18 and his refusal to disclose the existence of Vapaus, said promotion is immediately revoked.]]
82* ReallyGetsAround: Many stories and events imply[=/=]state the Commander has had sex with multiple Nikkes.
83* RenaissanceMan: Once [[spoiler:Johan]] takes mentorship over him, he aims to teach Commander various skills to become a more well-rounded individual on the field, such as maintaining ordnance. Commander proves to be a fast learner.
84%%* RoboSexual: ''Very much so.''
85* SecurityCling: Holds onto Rapi for dear life during the descent into the elevator shaft in Chapter 29. At first, however, Anis asserts that it was [[InvertedTrope Rapi who clung onto him to protect him]], which Commander straight up denies, and Rapi notes (with a blush) that it was indeed Commander who clung onto her rather tightly.
86* SocialClimber: In Chapter 27, Andersen remarks to the Commander that the latter seems unusually driven to climbing the Ark military's ladder as quickly and efficiently as possible, using both his serendipity and skill to weave a web of accomplishments to boost him up the ranks. When inquired about the reason, the Commander claims thus: [[spoiler:he wants to bring Marian back to the Ark by any means necessary, and if he needs to gain influence to do so, so be it. He later expands his definition to state that if the time comes where he and his team will be forced to make a decision that turns the whole Ark against them, he wants them to be able to stand side by side with each other and not have to answer to anyone]].
87* ThatCameOutWrong: In Chapter 29, when asked by Rapi why he's looking at Fragile, the Commander mentions that he noticed a hole in her pants. He fumbles his explanation due to his choice of words, however, causing Rapi to remind him that Nikke are, in fact, "[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots anatomically accurate]]".
88-->'''Commander''': There's a hole in Fragile's butt.
89-->'''Rapi:''' ...All humans have a hole in their butts. Nikkes were created to resemble humans in every form, and that anatomical detail is no exception.
90* TranquilFury: When the Commander discovers that N102 is [[spoiler:being brainwashed every single day]], he makes it ''very'' clear to the researcher controlling her that he'll do whatever it takes to screw up her plans in the most ice-cold and determined manner possible.
91* UniqueProtagonistAsset: [[spoiler:As revealed in Chapter 13, it's his blood. According to Deputy Chief Andersen, [[DownplayedTrope who shares the same blood type]], it's highly sought after, though he refuses to elaborate further. Later chapters explain that this blood allows for the creation of more Vapaus, but everyone in the know has to keep it secret lest people like the Central Government lock him up to be a living Vapaus factory.]]
92* TheVoiceless: Played with; the Commander does not have voiced dialogue, but they speak plenty during cutscenes via a DialogueTree.
93* YourHeartsDesire: In ''Kill the Lord'', [[spoiler:the Commander inhales a large dosage of a hallucinogenic drug while infiltrating the target's mansion and imagines himself on the reclaimed surface with Marian and the rest of Counters, living together in peace now that the services of a Commander are no longer required]].
94[[/folder]]
95
96[[folder:Marian '''(Unmarked Spoilers Up to ''Last Kingdom''!)''']]
97-> '''Voiced by:''' Kim Ha-ru (KR), Creator/KanaHanazawa (JP), Creator/RyanBartley (EN)
98
99The first Nikke that the Commander meets on the battlefield, who resuscitates him after he nearly dies from cardiac arrest. Marian is a kind young woman who dedicates her life to protecting the Commander and recognizes the power of his compassion towards Nikkes. Tragically however, her service is short-lived as she had been under Rapture corruption before the mission began, leading to the Commander being forced to execute her.
100----
101!!! Pre-Chapter 13
102
103[[quoteright:800:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marian_6.jpg]]
104
105-> '''Element:''' Water\
106'''Weapon:''' First Affection (Submachine Gun)\
107'''Class:''' Attacker\
108'''Rarity:''' SR\
109
110* AdvertisedExtra: Is prominently featured in several pieces of promotional material and is in the front and center of the friendship recruitment banner, on top of acting as a devoted {{Deuteragonist}} towards the Commander in the game proper like one would see in other games like, say, [[Characters/ArknightsCastersAToM Amiya of]] ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'', [[DecoyProtagonist yet is only playable for most of the tutorial before she is revealed to have been corrupted, and is killed off soon after.]] [[SubvertedTrope Then she reenters the story]] during Chapter 7 ReforgedIntoAMinion as Modernia, before being freed entirely and re-joining the team in Chapter 13.
111* BrokenRecord: After Shifty and Rapi reveal via black box analysis that Marian shot down the transport, she starts repeating "over here" with her eyes [[RedEyesTakeWarning turning red]] to reveal both her own corruption and the team's position to nearby Raptures.
112* DecoyProtagonist: Marian is set up as the game's {{Deuteragonist}} during the events of the prologue and Chapter 1, only to be killed off at the end of the first chapter. While she does eventually come BackFromTheDead, it's Rapi who takes the reins as deuteragonist.
113* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Undergoes this after revealing her corruption, with her "over here" call for reinforcements degenerating and degrading the longer it goes on.
114* {{Foreshadowing}}:
115** During her reload animation, her eyes briefly glow red... and at the end of the tutorial, she's revealed to have been corrupted by the Raptures.
116** She also volunteers to guide the team to their mission destination, despite Rapi and Anis' assurances that only the dead former Commander of Counters knew where that was, claiming that the coordinates were uploaded into her system as she was sent up. In hindsight, it's obvious that she got the information as part of her role as TheMole to trap Team Counters.
117* MercyKill: The Commander is forced to put her down after her corruption, since Nikkes by programming cannot kill their own and corrupted Nikkes can't end their own lives.
118* TheMole: Not [[TheCorruption by choice]], but Marian turns out to be a Rapture mole trying to get the team killed, starting with detonating the explosives meant for the mission while they were still on the transport, crashing it and nearly killing the Commander.
119* NiceGirl: Very kind to the Commander, even defending him when Rapi insults him for being a greenhorn. It makes her corruption and death all the more tragic, especially since her last words are to thank the Commander for the bandage he gave her.
120* SacrificialLion: Her corruption by the Rapture and MercyKill at the Commander's hands sets the stakes of the story, since it's established that the corrupting freshly produced Nikkes from within the Ark itself has never happened before.
121* WalkingSpoiler: Saying anything about her role in the story is incredibly difficult without spoilers.
122* WeHardlyKnewYe: Marian is introduced in the tutorial--and is killed off by the end of it. Subverted later on when she's cured of her Rapture corruption via mind-wipe in Chapter 13 and re-joins Counters, albeit as a complete amnesiac (thanks to her NIMPH having been destroyed before the mind-wipe) who can't even speak properly when she first gets to the Outpost.
123
124!!! Post-Chapter 13
125[[quoteright:675:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/modernia.jpg]]
126[[caption-width-right:350:Modernia]]
127[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:First Affection]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/modernia_nikke_first_affection.png[[/labelnote]]]]
128[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Second Affection]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/modernia_nikke_second_affection.png[[/labelnote]]]]
129
130
131-> '''Element:''' Fire\
132'''Weapon:''' New Dawn (EN) (Machine Gun)[[labelnote:JP name]]New Age[[/labelnote]]\
133'''Class:''' Attacker\
134'''Rarity:''' SSR\
135
136* ADayInTheLimelight: The first Side Story, ''Second Affection'', takes place after Chapter 14 and shows Marian's interactions with the Pioneer Squad, learning from them about the world around her while they travel to the castle of the White Knights Squad to leave her in their care. While she initially protests and wants to return to the Commander, to the point of feeling useless and abandoned after being given to the White Knights, she eventually realizes the risks the Commander has taken to get her out of the Ark, and the danger she would bring about upon her return, and (literally) transforms into a more mature person by the end of it.
137* AmnesiacResonance: Despite undergoing a complete neural wipe that essentially reset her brain back to the state of a newly-born infant, she somehow manages to retain the ability to say the word "Commander" even before she relearns how to talk. It's also mentioned in a later story scene that she has a curious obsession with bandages, and in her Bond Story she reveals that she recalls the moment she died (but none of the details).
138* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Very much so after being freed from TheCorruption, as she needed to have ALL of her memories erased to do it, so she's effectively a blank sheet post memory wipe.
139* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During the ''Second Affection'' Side Story, Marian demands to leave Crown's castle and return to the Ark. Crown not only allows it, but offers to escort her to it. However, as they're about to arrive, Marian starts realizing the danger her return will bring not only the White Knights, but also the Commander, and tearfully asks to go back to their castle.
140--> '''Marian''': ...I'm sorry. I guess there was no other way. Everyone knew except me. To be honest... I knew too. It's just that... it was all so sad. It felt like I was abandoned and all alone...
141--> '''Crown''': YouAreNotAlone. You have me.
142* BlackBox: Marian is essentially a living one and the main reason she becomes a MacGuffinSuperPerson. Being the very first allied Nikke who was formerly a Heretic, Marian possesses Rapture tech whose function and workings are completely unknown to humanity and essentially give her superpowers exceeding those of normal Nikkes. Admi states that Marian has four black boxes within her and that if she is turned over to the Central Government, they will likely tear her apart. During her Bond Story, Ingrid is given permission to run some basic analysis on her body, but is incredibly reluctant to discuss her findings and insists on keeping the results top secret from both Counters and the Central Government after learning some disturbing truths from the data she was able to collect from the samples she could take from Marian.
143* ComboPlatterPowers: Let's see, EnergyAbsorption, being able to turn NighInvulnerable at will, along with SuperSpeed.
144* CorruptTheCutie:
145** She's unfortunately managed to pick up ALL of Pioneer Squad's [[TheAlcoholic various]] [[CovertPervert personality]] [[ObsessedWithFood quirks]] during her time with them.
146** [[spoiler:Chatterbox attempts to reawaken her Heretic nature in ''Last Kingdom'', which causes Marian to suffer from a splitting headache and a crisis of identity. Thankfully, Crown and Pioneer are able to intervene in time before anything bad happens, and after explaining her past she decides to remain on the heroes' side.]]
147* CurbStompBattle: Delivers this to Perilous Siege in chapter 14. D and K don't even last a ''second'' against her.
148* DeathOfPersonality: Suffers this in Chapter 13, since a mind wipe is the only way to cleanse her of the Rapture infection Chatterbox injected directly into her brain and she'd already lost her NIMPH nanites prior to that. While she's still alive and able to relearn everything she forgot, the old Marian is gone for good. Though it is revealed that she does have a few memories, and an affinity for certain things like bandages and the word "Commander".
149* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Sports these after living a few days with the White Knights, feeling abandoned not only by the Commander, but also the Pioneer Squad.
150* DumbMuscle: Reduced to this after she re-joins Counters. She's naive, innocent and (initially) can barely even ''speak'' properly thanks to losing all her memories but is far and away the strongest member of the team by virtue of being a Nikke-Rapture Heretic hybrid of technology.
151* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[spoiler:When her authority as Queen manifests, she gains star-shaped pupils, identical to the ones that Liliweiss had.]]
152* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a few hints towards [[spoiler:her status as an infantile Rapture Queen]].
153** The final part of Chatterbox's pleading to Snow White, to buy time, is "Forgive me...my Queen." [[spoiler:Who shows up to relieve him immediately afterwards?]]
154** The lore establishes that Heretics are all somewhat linked together and aware of one another on some level, yet Indivilia completely fails to sense Marian's presence in ''Last Kingdom'' and is shocked to see her when they do come face-to-face. [[spoiler:Because she's something ''more'' than a Heretic instead]].
155** Nikkes' weapon names have a tendency to reflect some aspect of their personality or occupation (IE: Eunhwa's ''Perfectionist'' nodding towards her DrillSergeantNasty approach and intolerance of screwups, Vesti's ''Pure Monster'' pointing at her SuppressedRage and murderous idle thoughts). In the Japanese variant of the game, Marian's weapon is called ''New Age'', [[spoiler:which she could potentially usher in with her budding Rapture Queen authority should she take leadership after beating the old Queen: a new age of Rapture/Human ''peace''.]] It's title in the English version, "New Dawn", [[spoiler:specifies that ''she'' would be the one to bring about said age of piece, as she is the first one to be able to bridge the gap between Raptures and Humans - the ''dawn of a new age'']].
156* GameChanger: Twofold.
157** Her existence as a Nikke/Rapture hybrid Heretic opens up enormous possibilities regarding technological advancements, but this is cut off by the Commander because they would require [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissecting Marian]].
158** [[spoiler:''Last Kingdom'' heavily implies that Marian is turning into a new Rapture Queen. Given that her authority as one causes Chatterbox and Indivilia to bow to her after receiving an order ''without either of them realizing what happened at first'', this means that Marian could potentially end the war with a speech or order if the current Rapture Queen is defeated. ''Especially'' important given the improbability of humanity defeating the Raptures through brute force, what with the numerical and technological advantage the latter hold over the former]].
159* TheGift: Outright stated to be a prodigy in terms of learning combat by Anis, which is even more amazing considering that this is a Marian who's lost ''all'' of her memories in the process of being freed, including her combat programming, and is essentially rebuilding her knowledge from scratch.
160* HeroicResolve: In ''Second Affection'', Marian learns what it means to protect someone you care about from Chime and Crown after she nearly exhausts herself trying to protect Chime from a nearby Tyrant-class Rapture. This causes her to [[spoiler:shed her current form, causing her to transform into a new outfit and equipment, to indicate her newfound courage and determination]].
161* HybridPower: Thanks to being a fusion of Nikke and Rapture Heretic in the wake of her HeelFaceTurn and coming back to Counters, Marian is stated to be FAR stronger than just about any other Nikke, as proven in Chapter 14 when she manages to knock out K and D in seconds, despite one of them having their gun directly to the Commander's head and Marian herself being across the room from them.
162* InsaneTrollLogic: After getting drunk while travelling with Pioneer, she picked up her habit of wearing her underwear over her clothes again. Snow White tries to correct her, but can't argue against Marian's reasoning.
163--> '''Snow White''': You're supposed to wear your underwear under your clothing.
164--> '''Marian''': It doesn't affect my movement, so what does it matter?
165--> '''Snow White''': ...
166--> '''Snow White''': Come to think of it, you're right. I can't refute that.
167* LethalChef: In ''Lost Kingdom'', Crown and Chime are noticeably worried when mention of Marian cooking comes up. Given the ExtremeOmnivore habit she obtained from Snow White, it's not hard to see why. Her first encounter with Kilo has her attempting to serve tarantulas. Not even cooked or processed in any fashion. Kilo attempts to eat one and faints on the spot.
168* MacGuffinSuperPerson: Becomes this once she's cleansed of TheCorruption and returned to Counters, with almost anyone and everyone wanting to get their hands on Marian thanks to her being a Nikke-Rapture hybrid that's far stronger than almost any other Nikke that exists, hoping to use her for their own benefit.
169* MoreDakka: Her Burst Skill gives her temporary infinite ammo on top of an auto-aim reticle that allows her to fire upon every enemy within her sights simultaneously, giving her the power to raze waves of mobs single-handedly.
170* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Begs the team not to let her go with the Pilgrims when they meet up with them, insisting that she'll be good and pleading that she wants to stay with Counters.
171* PutOnABus: Counters sends her off to live with the Pilgrims on the surface in Chapter 14 to protect Marian from the various parties in the Ark that want to take her for themselves.
172* TheReveal: The ''Last Kingdom'' Hard Mode ending unveils the truth of her existence: [[spoiler:She possesses an authority over Raptures equal to the Rapture Queen and is heavily implied to be her intended replacement as opposed to a simple Heretic serving her.]]
173* RunningGag: When running into enemies in the overworld, Marian will humorously mangle the "Encounter" catchphrase in various ways.
174* ShesBack: Officially re-joins Counters in Chapter 13, though she's a complete amnesiac and has to re-learn almost everything from scratch courtesy of MindReformatDeath she received to free her from Rapture corruption.
175* ShoulderCannon: Her main weapon as a Nikke is a pair of shoulder-mounted machine guns.
176* {{Stripperific}}: Not that her standard outfit doesn't already leave much to the imagination, but [[spoiler:her second form is somehow even skimpier, giving her a black minidress that leaves the entirety of her sides, hips and upper thighs exposed, has sparkle-shaped cutouts across her midriff, and shows off her cleavage]].
177* StrongButUnskilled: The HybridPower inherent in her combined Rapture-Nikke body gives her more power than just about any other Nikke, but thanks to the MindReformatDeath she underwent to purge the remaining Rapture code she's essentially a child mentally, having to completely re-learn even the most basic of combat actions. Thankfully, she's a [[TheGift fast learner]].
178* SuperStrength: In the ''First Affection'' mini-event, Marian is locked in a jail cell by Poli and Miranda after she jumps into waste water and starts tracking it all over the Outpost. When the Commander shows up and tells her that she can leave, she happily obliges by casually bending open the jail's metal bars with her bare hands before stepping outside.
179* SuperToughness: M.M.R. discovers through testing that Marian's skin has become a fusion of Nikke and Rapture components, giving her the ability to control its hardness and make herself NighInvulnerable. Ingrid realizes the danger of this knowledge and promptly demands the findings be destroyed.
180* SympathyForTheDevil: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} post-mind wipe. Her complete lack of memories means that she has no reason to hate the Raptures, and early in Chapter 14 she even soothes one that's dying in the aftermath of a fight, wondering why humanity needs to fight them. However, this act of sympathy quickly reaches the Ark's higher echelons and makes them ''very'' nervous that she could go rogue, with some using it as a pretext to try and take her in for questioning later on in the chapter. This is later expanded upon in ''Last Kingdom'', where it is shown that although she is willing to destroy Raptures to protect her friends and loved ones, she has clear moral reservations about her actions and is unsure of whether killing Raptures is the correct thing. [[spoiler:This may be due to how she is wired as one who possesses the power of the Rapture Queen and thus inherent dominion over Raptures.]]
181* TheyWouldCutYouUp: What portions of the Central Government want to do to her. The ''four'' Black Boxes and wealth of Rapture tech she's been refitted with during her time as a Heretic are far beyond anything humanity has at their disposal. Commander Burningum especially cites closing the tech gap as his reason for getting his hands on and dissecting Marian in Chapter 14, insisting that doing so could potentially jump the Ark's tech forward a whole ''century''.
182* {{Tritagonist}}: While the Commander is the protagonist and Rapi is the deutagonist of the story, Marian is the third most developed character in the story, with several side events focusing on her growth away from Counters as she tries to find her own place in the world. [[spoiler:The reveal in ''Last Kingdom'' that she is an infantile Rapture Queen implies she'll have a much larger role to play in future chapters, especially since victory against the Raptures via strength of arms alone seems impossible]].
183* YouShallNotPass: Said word for word before the final Tyrant Rapture battle, against a Blacksmith, in ''Second Affection''.
184--> '''Marian''': "You...shall not... pass!"
185* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry:
186** When Marian overhears T.A.L.O.S. and Kilo confirming her identity as Modernia and discusses relaying the information to the Ark, Marian steps in and obliquely warns Kilo that choosing to do so will come with extremely dire consequences for anyone who dares to harm the people she loves. Given who she's dealing with, Kilo takes the threat to heart and backs down.
187** In the Hard Mode ending of ''Last Kingdom'', [[spoiler:Marian suddenly leaves Crown's castle in the dead of night, and meets a revived Indivilia and Chatterbox amassing another Rapture army to continue their attack on the Crown Kingdom. As the two of them wonder how she managed to get past their army, Marian simply tells them to ''leave, and never dare attack the Crown Kingdom ever again''. Her presence alone is enough to make the two ''bow before her without realizing what they are doing.'']]
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190[[folder:Rapi]]
191[[quoteright:800:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rapi1.jpg]]
192[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Original Design]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rapi_v2.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
193[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:White Promise]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rapi4.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
194[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Classic Vacation]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rapi3.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
195-> '''Element:''' Fire\
196'''Weapon:''' Militaria (Assault Rifle)\
197'''Class:''' Attacker\
198'''Rarity:''' SR\
199'''Voiced by:''' Kim Bo-na (KR), Creator/YuiIshikawa (JP), Creator/KayliMills (EN)
200
201One of the main members of Counters and a former member of Absolute. Rapi is the type of girl who seems cold and distant, putting her orders first and her personal feelings second. Despite this, her loyalty to the Commander is unwavering, orders or not. She tends to act as the mediator between Anis and Neon whenever the two argue.
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203* ActorAllusion: Rapi has a +28% rate bonus in the ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' {{Crossover}} event, referencing how she shares her Japanese voice actress with ''Automata'' protagonist [=2B=]. This also gets referenced in the event story, where Neon and Anis remark that they sound similar.
204* AmnesiacResonance: [[spoiler:This is how Exia discovers that Rapi is faking LaserGuidedAmnesia, by telling her to open a box. Rapi opens the box and discovers nothing. Exia then reveals (via closed communication) that the box has a manufacturing defect that causes it to explode if opened the wrong way; Rapi, despite not remembering the box, opened it at the exact angle needed to prevent it from detonating since she opened an identical box three years ago and was injured by the blast.]]
205* BadassBoast: Indulges in a couple of those after Chapter 26, to the [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness understandable surprise]] of her squadmates. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as of Chapter 30; the "new body" she was outfitted with at the end of Chapter 26 apparently comes with '''much''' higher specs than what Rapi used to have.
206* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: How Ingrid describes the process behind Rapi's ''Secret Body'' technique: By activating it, Rapi's and Red Hood's cores fight for control over their shared body. The resulting energy spike boosts Rapi's power to the point she can easily overpower multiple Heretics at the same time. However, the longer she remains in this state, the more control will shift over to Red Hood. By prematurely ending it before Red Hood can take over completely, Rapi's body releases a toxin to remove any remnants of Red Hood's consciousness, the side effects being an extreme increase in body temperature, which can be fatal unless her body is sufficiently cooled.]]
207* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Rapi becomes aggressive when she discovers Anachiro's body inside Grave's coffin, so much so that she is able to manifest Red Hood's power despite Red Hood seemingly disappearing after Chapter 26.]]
208* BewareTheQuietOnes: Chapter 30 demonstrates that, while [[TheStoic serious, calm and unemotive]] normally, she's downright scary if someone (or something) does somehow manage to [[NotSoStoic piss]] [[UnstoppableRage her]] off, which is a possible manifestation of [[spoiler:the remnants of Red Hood's memories and personality]].
209* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs; When Liveryn asks the Commander during their surface expedition if he's currently seeing someone, Rapi immediately shoots her down, claiming that ''he's married and has two kids.''
210* BrokenBird: Overlaps with BrokenAce. Rapi can be rather withdrawn and cold, which lands her in hot water with her former squad, Absolute, but this is mostly due to having difficulty with expressing her vulnerable side. [[spoiler:Prior to the start of the story, she accidentally killed a human and was aghast not only at her carelessness, but at her immediate reaction being irritated over having to file a report for the incident. She chose to resign from Absolute without a word to her then squadmates do some soul searching. This eventually led to her being placed under the supervision of the player Commander, and their adventures together began from there.]]
211* CharacterCatchphrase: "Engaging!" ("Encounter!" in JP dubbing) whenever she initiates combat.
212* ClingyJealousGirl: To some degree, she has interrupted some of the other Nikke before they could try to express their affection for the Commander, on one occassion telling the Commander that if he wanted to hold anyone's hand ''that hers was always available'', and [[spoiler:by Chapter 25, even Red Hood, who possessed her body, finds that Rapi is zealous enough to seize back control of her hands so she could cling to the Commander and refuse to let go. This extends to the point that in Bond Conversations with Red Hood, who is still borrowing Rapi's body, she will refuse to try and "get frisky" with the Commander because Rapi would never let her hear the end of it]]. In later chapters, demonstrates this to increasing degrees, which is sometimes PlayedForLaughs.
213* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:In the climactic ending of Chapter 24, Rapi fully engages [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Secret Body "Red Hood"]] and battles Chatterbox, Nihilister, and Indivilia. We are shown, in rather short order: Rapi deflecting a punch from Chatterbox with her bare fists, walloping him and [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing him into Nihilister]] to neutralize them both, then grabbing Indivilia's bladed tail, snapping it in half then impaling her with it to take her out. This continues into a sequence where Rapi pummels all three incapacitated Raptures into the Ark elevator, with even Dorothy appalled that she, as a Pilgrim and former Goddess Squad leader, is being outmatched in raw power.]]
214* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
215** [[spoiler:"Red Riding Hood" causes Rapi's physical power to far exceed superhuman levels but is extremely deadly to keep active for more than moments as it will rapidly destroy her body. Anis and Neon are later seen struggling to keep Rapi's body temperature below critical heat as she staves off the aftereffects of using it. Chapter 24 reveals an [[FateWorseThanDeath arguably]] worse danger than that: "Red Riding Hood" has a built-in [[HourOfPower time limit]] that marks how long Rapi can have it safely activated. Exceeding the time limit will strain her body so much that the ''actual'' [[NotQuiteDead Red Hood]] will be granted control of Rapi's body ...and left free to pursue her possibly-[[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] goals. With Red Hood gone for good at the end of Chapter 26, [[DePower Rapi no longer has access to the former's powers]].]]
216** [[spoiler:Even after Red Hood is revealed to not be a threat to the Ark in Chapter 26, her taking control of Rapi's body is still dangerous, for Rapi specifically. Ingrid reveals that, the longer Red Hood remains in control, the more of Rapi's consciousness is fading away. So far, Red Hood only took over once prior to the events of the main story, and by the time Rapi was brought back, she lost several months worth of her memory.]]
217** [[spoiler:Averted as of Chapter 30, as she is able to manifest the power despite the "death" of Red Hood, but unlike before it is more stable and does not cause Rapi's body to excessively overheat, preventing immediate risk of death.]]
218* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Well, she's not dead ''yet'', but TheReveal of Chapter 9 puts Rapi square in danger of falling prey to this. Thanks to her NIMPH nanites having been destroyed via prior exposure to Vapaus, Rapi can't be transferred over to another body if her brain is ever destroyed in combat. Once she's gone, she's gone for good.]]
219* DeadpanSnarker: While Rapi is [[TheStoic nowhere near]] [[TheCynic Anis]] when it comes to the amount of snark she dishes out, she has her moments. Unlike Anis, who's openly sarcastic with her remarks, Rapi delivers hers in a much more reserved manner. One notable example is found in Chapter 11:
220-->''Laplace'': Let's go! We're gonna find the Heretic fragment! And we'll share this accomplishment with Absolute right down the middle. Now that is justice in the truest sense!
221-->''Rapi:'' (with her usual emotionless expression) How 'honorable' of you to give us half the glory.
222* DeathSeeker: Used to be one in the past, presumably between the points in time when [[spoiler:Red Hood died]] and when she became a part of Absolute.
223--> '''Rapi''' (to [[spoiler:Red Hood]]): [[spoiler:At first, I wanted to leave everything to you. Because I thought you were more valuable than me. [[WorthLivingFor But then I met other people, and we grew close. We created some wonderful memories together, and I met someone very precious to me]]. I went from being an {{empty shell}} to being completely fulfilled.]]\
224[[spoiler:'''Red Hood''']]: It feels nice to live, doesn't it?\
225'''Rapi:''' Yes, it does.\
226[[spoiler:'''Red Hood''']]: Then it's settled. You go and live your own life. Don't cling to what's gone.\
227'''Rapi:''' I will.
228* DePower: At the end of Chapter 26, [[spoiler:Red Hood parts ways with Rapi after fulfilling her last wish to visit her hometown and completely disappears from her body, thus preventing her from having access to [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Secret Body]].]] [[spoiler:Subverted to the point of inversion when Rapi manages to channel this power without Red Hood and use it against Grave to make her flee, noting afterwards that the power feels more stable in usage and while it still exhausts Rapi, it doesn't cause her to overheat,]] in Chapter 30.
229* {{Deuteragonist}}: Is the SeriesMascot for a reason. She serves as the Commander's de facto NumberTwo, and ensuing plot twists reveal there is more to her backstory than is apparent at first that ties into the larger story.
230* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:During their final talk in Chapter 26, Rapi admits she felt this way when comparing herself to Red Hood, and even considered letting her have full control of their body. But after meeting Absolute, Counters, and the Commander, Rapi has found a new purpose in her life.]]
231* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Used semi-humorously in Chapter 26, where it is maintained that Rapi has a limited amount of control over Red Hood's body even when Red Hood is the dominant body. This results in some amusing interactions such as Rapi stopping Red Hood from talking when the latter suggests that she and the Commander of them are in love, or Rapi forcing Red Hood to shake her head furiously when the latter thinks that Rapi wants to go to her own hometown.]]
232* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapter 5 has Alice asking if Counters have legendary weapons. Anis makes up one for Rapi, saying her "legendary weapon was sealed because it is too powerful", only the Rabbity (Commander) can break the seal (by taking off Rapi's buttons), and Rapi says it must be used sparingly. [[spoiler:Then in Chapter 13, Rapi activates [[SuperMode Secret Body]] when the Commander is impaled by Modernia's tentacle, letting her tear off the tentacle stabbing into her and throw it at Modernia at the speed of sound within seconds. Afterwards, she overheats to fatal levels and had to be cooled down for a long while.]]
233* FromZeroToHero: [[spoiler: The Hard Mode ending of ''Red Ash'' reveals that Rapi started as a mere mass-produced Nikke when she first met Red Hood 30 years after the event's story. Roughly 70 years later, she's been a member of Elysion's top squad, and is currently working for the Commander who probably has the best odds of actually being able to reclaim the surface.]]
234* GhostMemory: In Chapter 30, while looking into [[spoiler:Grave's coffin and seeing the body of Anachiro, she immediately knows who she is, and recognizes her as a Heretic. After their fight, when asked by Neon how she knew she saw a Heretic, Rapi seems confused as to ''how exactly'' she knew Anachiro's name, her only explanation being that she must have inherited Red Hood's memories regarding her.]]
235* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Thanks to her using ''Secret Body'' one time too many, Red Hood's lingering consciousness forcibly resurfaces and steals Rapi's body at the end of Chapter 24.]]
236* GunsAreWorthless: As of Chapter 30, as far as offensive capabilities are concerned, Rapi, who is not the type to overestimate herself, considers herself more powerful than her own firearm: when [[spoiler:Grave]]'s defenses proved impervious to Militaria's fire, Rapi decided that "her fists will have to do". The only other Nikke who can boast the ability to overpower her own weapon is '''Dorothy''', the second most powerful member of the Goddess Squad after [[SuperPrototype Liliweiss]].
237* HeelRealization: Chapter 10 reveals that she had one prior to the story, which caused her to leave Team Absolute. [[spoiler:She [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] a human on a mission to destroy 5 Tyrant-class Raptures venturing too close to the Ark, and was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified with herself]] when her first reaction was irritation at needing to write a report about the casualty even as she was watching them die, to the point of declaring herself "damaged" in the head and heart and deciding that she needed to figure out who she was.]]
238* IdentityBreakdown: [[spoiler:Happened to her before the events of the game]], as revealed in Chapter 10. [[spoiler:Rapi refuses to see herself as a human, but her failure to protect her commander back when she was a part of Absolute, as well as her reaction to the sight of him dying caused her to stop seeing herself as a Nikke either. This is also the reason she has left Absolute.]]
239-->''Rapi'': [[spoiler:I killed a human on that mission. It was a grenade.]]
240-->''Emma'': [[spoiler:Accidents happen all the time during missions. No one holds you accountable, you know that.]]
241-->''Rapi'': [[spoiler:I know. But... as I watched them bleed out with half their body missing, you know what I was thinking? '''I was irritated that I'd have to write a report'''. I was damaged. My head. My heart. I was made to protect the humans, and yet I was treating one of their deaths as an annoyance. I... was disturbed by that. That's why I decided to quit. I didn't know who I was. I wasn't a human, nor could I say I was a Nikke. I didn't know who or what I was.]]
242* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Rapi implies this in order to justify not firing back at the Triangle squad despite them firing at the Counters first to [[spoiler:Marian]].
243* IncorruptiblePurePureness: A rare example characterized by stoicism rather than innocence. Still qualifies for unquestionable loyalty to her cause, her squad and her Commander, [[MoralityChain protecting]] the '''[[AllLovingHero player Commander]]''' from breaking his [[ThouShaltNotKill one rule]] in relation to Nikkes in Chapter 24 by [[spoiler:shooting Crow with a suppression bullet before Commander could kill her with a live round, even though she arguably had more of a reason to want her head]] and being, as seen in Chapter 12, [[spoiler:quite literally incorruptible, though it has to do with her NIMPH having been destroyed in the past rather than her character qualities]].
244* {{Irony}}:
245** Irritation at having to do paperwork [[spoiler:regarding her commander's death on a mission some time ago]] was the trigger to her [[spoiler:IdentityBreakdown that caused her to leave Absolute]], as revealed in Chapter 10. In the present day, Rapi acts as a [[SexySecretary secretary]] to Commander since at first, he's clueless about all the relevant paperwork, and later due to other commander's duties he has to attend to. She also filled out paperwork for her multiple previous commanders, but that was because they were lazy rather than clueless. In one of her advise sessions, you have the option to offer her a helping hand with the papers, which she refuses, if with gratitude for your intention.
246** In Chapter 26, Anis and Neon bemoan being weaker and, by extension, more disposable than the likes of [[spoiler:Red Hood]] and Dorothy. They state their intentions to approach their respective bosses and request upgrades. The only Counters member who does end up getting an upgrade by the end of said chapter is Rapi, who never expressed overt dissatisfaction with her capabilities, which ended up only widening the gap between her and her two squadmates.
247* IWillFindYou: Inverted; [[spoiler:Rapi pleads with the Commander to "find her" right before Enikk ejects her, Dorothy, and the incapacitated Heretics out of the Ark. Ingrid not-so-subtly hints to the Commander afterwards that he will need to "find" Rapi in more ways than physical]].
248* KickChick: [[LegFocus She's got legs, and she knows how to use 'em]]. Roundhouse kicks seem to be Rapi's preferred mode of melee assault, as Syuen, [[spoiler:Indivilia and Grave]] have found out the hard way.
249* TheLancer: A stoic, composed young woman who is NumberTwo to the Commander and implied to be one of the best Nikkes in the entire Ark, despite being ranked as [[GameplayAndStorySegregation SR]]. She's a constant companion for the Commander and her high combat proficiency keeps her in an indisputable position of second-in-command in their unique squad.
250** Also implied to have been this to Eunhwa during her time in Absolute.
251* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Played with. [[spoiler:She is subject to MindReformatDeath as a result of her involvement with the Chatterbox operation, but she seemingly avoided the procedure by faking her memory loss. However, Exia later discovers and reveals to the team that Rapi ''has'' had her memories wiped before; the most recent instance didn't work because she developed immunity.]] It is revealed at the end of Chapter 9 that [[spoiler:Rapi had the NIMPH in her brain destroyed at some point, which would negate any memory alteration procedures that would have been attempted on her]].
252* LightningBruiser: not '''explicitly stated''' to be one after getting upgraded post-Chapter 26, but [[ShowDontTell shown]] as such in Chapter 30. She survived getting crushed by Grave's weapon, unharmed despite how its sheer weight caused Rapi's body to contort and deform, dodged the hail of Grave's gunfire (something not even a '''Heretic''' was shown to be able to do)[[labelnote:Chapter 13 spoiler]]Modernia caught a bullet with her teeth, but failed to dodge another supersonic projectile[[/labelnote]] and was confident enough in her strength that when [[GunsAreWorthless her own firearm proved useless against Grave]], she decided to get in close and personal for some GoodOldFisticuffs, something only Dorothy, one of the most powerful Pilgrims, was able to pull off effectively. While Rapi was unable to definitively show her raw strength on Grave, she later beheaded [[spoiler:Hammering]] with a punch, something that never happened in Nikke hand-to-hand combat before. All of this '''before/without''' [[spoiler:activating Secret Body]].
253* LosingYourHead:
254** Gets her head shot off her by an electron beam in Chapter 2. The then-rookie Commander is understandably shocked by the sight and required a slap from Anis to get back in action.
255** [[InvokedTrope Invokes this]] by punching [[spoiler:Hammering]]'s head off in Chapter 30 [[spoiler:when the parasitic crystals get dangerously close to her brain]].
256* MsExposition: As one of the three characters you start the game with, her Bond Story partially serves as a deliberation on the basics of how Nikkes physically function and how they interact with human society.
257* MysteriousPast: As the game's story progresses, it becomes clear that there's a lot more to Rapi than initially appears, even more than she herself knows. Revealing the secrets of her past slowly becomes a major subplot over the course of the story.
258* NotSoAboveItAll:
259** Despite her reserved and professional demeanor, she was somehow convinced to pull a prank on the Commander by sleeping with him without his knowledge during the April Fools' event.
260** She is terrified of ghosts and ghost stories, a fact that her teammates tease her about on several occasions.
261* NotSoStoic:
262** A side quest in Chapter 20 has Anis and Neon assert that at least on one occasion when Commander accepted yet another dubious and possibly dangerous commission, Rapi [[spoiler:'''cried''' out of worry for him]]. She denies it at first, but when Anis and Neon bring up the details, Rapi does admit that she was worried for him without denying the way said worry manifested.
263** Chapter 30 treats the player to an extremely rare case of Rapi being furious, which, contrasted with her usual distant and unfazed demeanor, creates quite an impact.
264* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Is at least 85-90 years old, as she would have been a teenager at her youngest when converted into a Nikke. Red Hood wakes up 30 years after the events of Red Ash where she finally meets her, with a remaining 70 years until reaching the present remaining.]]
265* OnlySaneWoman: Between Anis's pluckiness, Neon's naïveté and obsessions with firepower, and the Commander's own quirks, she tends to be the only one who stays focused.
266* PaletteSwap: Her first alternate outfit, "White Promise", is a white and blue color swap of her default outfit.
267* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:A CG image in Chapter 24 shows that Rapi's eyes glow with a red light when Red Hood is active.]]
268* RedIsHeroic:
269** Rapi wears black and red Absolute garb and fights to protect humanity. [[spoiler:Also, her Red Riding Hood form literally turns her hair scarlet red.]]
270** [[spoiler:Her mass-produced body, first seen in ''Red Ash'', is distinguished from standard mass-produced Nikkes with a bright red suit and visor.]]
271* ScarfOfAsskicking: [[spoiler:The ending of Chapter 24 reveals that when Rapi fully invokes Red Hood, she not only gets scarlet hair but even manifests Red Hood's blazing red scarf out of pure energy.]]
272* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Her last two Attraction episodes has her explain the dangers of being a Nikke since the average inexperienced Commander and Nikke get too in over their heads believing they're invincible, letting her gauge the Commander's attitude towards his job to ensure he isn't like that. She finds him worthy of her protection by the end.]]
273* SexySecretary: She's a beauty who wears a uniform that hugs her curves and [[ShowSomeLeg exposes the entirety of her stocking-covered legs up to her hips]] and often acts as the Commander's second-in-command. The "secretary" part of her is better shown during her first affection episode, where she drafts combat reports for the Commander, who is still new to his job and ''didn't even know he had to submit them for money'', and reveals that it came from being ordered to by previous lazy Commanders she worked under.
274* SharingABody: [[spoiler:Rapi is playing host to the mind and powers of the deceased Pilgrim and Goddess Squad member Red Hood, which is the source of her ''Secret Body/Red Riding Hood'' SuperMode, a secret that only she and Ingrid are privy to.]] [[spoiler:After meeting Red Hood in person, Ingrid explains Rapi's condition in further detail: While Rapi and Red Hood do share a body, it's described as "two bodies compressed into one", with Rapi having full control. This gives her body some unique characteristics, like having twice the weight of a regular Nikke, and possessing ''two'' cores. Elysion has tried multiple times to separate Rapi and Red Hood, but even when Rapi's body is reassembled, Red Hood's core will always reappear within her new body, as well.]] [[spoiler:No longer the case]] as of the end of Chapter 26.
275* ShesBack: [[spoiler:After Red Hood injects herself with a toxin created to kill her consciousness, Rapi regains control of her body.]]
276* SoleSurvivor: In the Hard Mode ending of ''RED ASH'', [[spoiler:she's revealed to be the only mass-produced Nikke who survived the battle with a group of Raptures that attracted Red Hood's attention, which is how the two met.]]
277* StillWearingTheOldColors: Rapi keeps the red-and-black aesthetic of her previous squad, Absolute, as well as the squad's beret.
278* TheStoic: She's very disciplined and follows orders to the letter like any soldier should, though she has her moments where [[SugarAndIcePersonality she lets this up in favor of acting soft.]] But there's a couple of other moments where she's NotSoStoic, like suddenly bolting out of the room when she hears about ghosts in one Advise event, or buying more rations than needed in Yan's second Attraction Episode.
279* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Her DangerousForbiddenTechnique is the ability to invoke the powers of the fallen Pilgrim Red Hood, former member of the Goddess Squad. When engaged, Rapi's hair turns scarlet red and she gains an utterly monstrous power boost, attaining SuperStrength and SuperSpeed capabilities well exceeding those of even Heretics, as demonstrated by her being able to CurbStompBattle Nihilister, Indivilia, and Chatterbox simultaneously with Dorothy's assistance. However, the mode has a hard time limit, as exceeding it will strain Rapi's body too much and cause control of her body to be shifted to Red Hood. After Red Hood disappears following the events of Chapter 26, Rapi believes that she has lost access to Red Hood's powers, but Chapter 30 reveals that not only can she still tap into it, it is much safer than before since it no longer relies on Red Hood's physical presence.]]
280* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Whatever the "Red Hood" truly is, it is heavily implied to be this, given how Rapi and Ingrid refer to it more like a beast that lives within Rapi's mind. Chapter 24 reveals this is because Red Hood apparently has ambitions of destroying The Ark...while also being capable of [[GrandTheftMe forcibly hijacking]] Rapi's body if she taps into the latter's powers for too long.]]
281* TeamMom:
282** Is the level headed and reasonable OnlySaneMan in Counters' eclectic array of personalities. While initially a little cold and distant, she evolves into a very caring and dependable figure vital to the safety and mental well-being of the team. Notably, she is usually the one to calm Anis and Neon down whenever the two argue.
283** A classic example of this is when [[spoiler:the childlike Marian keeps wearing her underwear ''on'' her clothes, rather than trying to use reason, Rapi instead makes up a disease that she'd catch "underwarts" if she keeps it up. Marian believes it... but decides she's fine with getting them anyway.]]
284* ThousandYardStare: In one of Delta's chats, Delta hands Rapi a box of "vitamins" (actually condoms, but Delta doesn't know that) and tells her to give it to the Commander, also suggesting that he'll use them later. Delta notes that Rapi said nothing but looked at her with a rather vacant stare, one that she has never seen even on the battlefield.
285* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rapi claims that she does not have one. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in this case, since not having a personal attachment or need for food reminds her that she is an android and protects her from the risk of a Mind Switch.
286* TransformationOfThePossessed: [[spoiler:Red Hood's taking control of Rapi when she exceeds the safety window of her HourOfPower is marked by her ''physically transforming'' into Red Hood. Clothes, weapon and all. This inches towards a full on CloneByConversion due to the circumstances of their fusion, risking the possibility of [[DeaderThanDead overriding her completely]] the longer Red Hood has Rapi's body and mind shapeshifted into a copy of her original self—fortunately, Red Hood isn't thrilled about replacing Rapi either and [[HeroicSacrifice once the opportunity for Red Hood to purge herself safely]] presents itself, Rapi's sense of self and appearance returns back to normal.]]
287* UniformityException:
288** [[spoiler:Her mass-produced body is visually distinct from the standard mass-produced Nikke sprite, having a [[RedIsHeroic red suit body]] with orange lights and magenta-colored hair.]]
289** Gameplay-wise, she's the only member of Counters to not have an SSR variant, either normal of seasonal, as both Neon and Anis get an SSR swimsuit alternate while Marian [[spoiler:returns as an SSR Pilgrim]].
290* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of ghosts, despite trying to downplay it. Despite that, in the ACPU Halloween event, she's shown t be able to get over it if told the Commander [[ShipTease is in danger]].
291* YouAreNumberSix: [[spoiler:Her original serial number, "RR-15436".]]
292[[/folder]]
293
294[[folder:Anis]]
295[[quoteright:800:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anis.jpg]]
296[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Sparkling Summer]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anis2.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
297
298-> '''Element:''' Iron (Normal); Electric (Sparkling Summer)\
299'''Weapon:''' Liberty's Tail (Rocket Launcher) [Normal]; Libertine Aqua (Shotgun) [Sparkling Summer]\
300'''Class:''' Defender (Normal); Supporter (Sparkling Summer)\
301'''Rarity:''' SR (Normal); SSR (Sparkling Summer)\
302'''Voiced by:''' Kim Seoung-hui (KR), Creator/MihoOkasaki (JP), Creator/MichelleMarie (EN)
303
304One of the main members of Counters. Compared to the stoic Rapi, Anis appears to be the talkative, playful type, although this mostly serves to make her cynicism and distrust of humans more apparent.
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306* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Though taken aback at first, she admits she's grateful for the Commander being nice to her and other Nikkes, especially when he stood up for the squad when Syuen insulted them, all being a likely welcome surprise for a [[TheCynic cynic]] like her. It's to the point Anis blurts out (and quickly cuts herself off) that she "adores" them in a later story segment.
307* BigBeautifulWoman: Despite her worries about her weight and figure in her Summer version's [=BlaBla=] conversations and being noticeably wider and pudgier than other Nikkes (something the Commander himself will talk about in their conversation), Anis is no less attractive than any other Nikke, with thick thighs, a great ass, and a [[BigBreastPride terrific bust that she's understandably quite proud of]].
308* BigBreastPride: She has tremendous confidence in her looks, and is especially pleased by the Commander's attraction to her curves whether he expresses it directly or indirectly. In one of her advise sessions, the favorable response to her having stiff shoulders is to say Anis' shoulder is heavy, which leads to her evident pleasure at how large and attractive her chest is.
309* ButtMonkey: She tends to be the first casualty in any humorous situation or dealing with {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s.
310** In Chapter 2, while crawling through a sewer, the Commander accidentally rams his face into her butt when the squad has to stop. She's not pleased by it.
311** When the squad goes to Yan's shop in her 2nd Bond Episode, [[TemptingFate Anis swears that they won't fall for her sales tactics like the Commander did.]] She and everyone else are InstantlyProvenWrong.
312** In Yuni's last story episode, she is the first to get hit by the Commander and ''somehow'' understands what he wants to say. She runs away out of fear of more "communication".
313* CleavageWindow: Her shirt has a very low collar that exposes her bust, given more attention by her rocket launcher's strap over it. This is usually covered up whenever she shows up in game advertisements.
314* ClingyJealousGirl: Anis not-so-subtly expresses her disapproval of the Commander's frequent philandering with other girls, whether it's getting kisses from Noir and Blanc or leering at other Nikkes in their swimsuits. During the first anniversary livestream, she voices her dismay more directly and makes it clear she wants the Commander all to herself.
315--> '''Anis:''' I've noticed this before, but it seems like you really have an intense interest in other Nikkes, ''Commander''. I would think I'd be ''more'' [[ProudBeauty than enough to hold your interest...]]
316-->'''Shifty:''' What was that?
317-->'''Anis:''' Er, nothing! Let's keep it moving.
318* CoolBigSis: Anis wins the Vesti's admiration by being the first person to ever mouth off to Eunhwa.
319* TheCynic: During and after your first meeting with her, whatever cheery personality she displays is marred by her morbid remarks about living as a Nikke, particularly about how expendable they are to other Commanders or how impossible the mission gets. Moments like these often highlight the contrast between herself and the Commander's optimism and care for Nikkes.
320* DeadpanSnarker: She is not afraid to speak her mind, and will happily call out a person's faults regardless of their status or rank. It can often lead to a degree that Rapi has to reel her in to prevent potential backlash.
321* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: She usually gives her signature squint of disapproval when hearing or witnessing something outrageous.
322* {{Fangirl}}: To Commander. The First Affection mini-event reveals that Anis was one of the backers who crowdfunded the production of Commander dolls, one of which is given to [[spoiler:post-comeback Marian]].
323* FireForgedFriends: Despite their contrasting personalities, she and Rapi became this over the course of their longtime partnership that carries over in Counters.
324* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being caustic and grumpy at the best of times, Anis still loves her squadmates dearly. Her bitter attitude as TheCynic stems more from all the injustices Nikkes have endured on top of the constant danger they face in their CrapsackWorld, where failure means either death or LaserGuidedAmnesia. As the saying goes, inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist, and Anis is the most outwardly passionate of Counters about keeping her friends safe. Also, during ''Sea, You, Again'', she's immediately able to tell why Helm isn't able to enjoy herself on their mission at Bluewater Island, and tries to get her to have fun and then take better care of herself when the situation starts to go south.
325* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:She stomps on an immobile and mostly destroyed Chatterbox in a rage after it interferes and essentially lobotomises Modernia [[YankTheDogsChain right as Marian resurfaced within her]], forcing the Ark to completely mind-wipe her to purge TheCorruption.]]
326* LockedInARoom: Her Summer version's Bond Episodes feature herself and the Commander getting trapped in a cave while trying to hunt for treasure, and two grow closer to each other as they try to escape and learn about the cave's history.
327* MsExposition: Compared to Rapi, who helps world-build on the Nikkes, Anis's Bond Episodes have her taking the Commander on a tour of the Ark and explaining how the place runs as a society of humans and Nikkes living underground with limited access to natural resources and maintains its seemingly pristine appearance.
328* MsFanservice: While most of the Nikkes are this to a degree, Anis stands out particularly among Counters with her thick thighs, enormous breasts, and wide-open CleavageWindow, with her rocket launcher's strap drawing even more attention to her massive knockers. Given she's one of the first Nikkes you meet, she sets the bar for subsequent characters. Her Summer version has her showing off even more of her aforementioned tits and thighs in a bikini, with her top having a CleavageWindow ''between'' her breasts and her bikini's straps visibly digging into her skin.
329* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:Near the end of Chapter 26, when Dorothy tries to destroy the injection gun needed to turn Red Hood back into Rapi (which would lead to Rapi's death), a fight between her and Counters breaks out. After Red Hood shoots Dorothy through the abdomen, Anis grabs her by the neck and points a self-termination gun at Dorothy's head, ready to kill her for trying to kill Rapi. Anis only calms down after Neon points out Dorothy is no longer a threat due to being too injured to move properly.]]
330* RedOniBlueOni: The hot-tempered and fun-loving Red to Rapi's cool and stoic Blue.
331* RightForTheWrongReasons: She can be quite paranoid about people outside of Counters, especially non-Nikkes, and refuses to trust Shifty during Chapter 9, despite others repeatedly calling her out on it. [[spoiler:She's right to be suspicious, not because they can't trust Shifty, but because the person they are talking to is actually Syuen disguised as Shifty]].
332* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Compared to the [[TheStoic straightlaced Rapi]] and the [[TheDitz goofy Neon]], Anis is a lot more forthcoming when it comes to flirting with the Commander, especially so in her Summer version when she's flaunting her assets in her bikini. Of particular note is a Brief Encounter at the Outpost when the Commander joins her and Mast in a paper boat race - she unzips her jacket to give him an eyeful of her breasts when he seems to be winning, distracting him well enough that he stops paying attention to his off-course boat and loses to her (along with making him quickly leave with a RagingStiffie afterwards).
333* StepfordSmiler: While she's far more easygoing and fun-loving compared to Rapi, her carefree demeanor hides a far more cynical and distrustful side to her as a result of the [[CrapsackWorld bleak nature of the world around her]] and her life as an expendable Nikke.
334* StraightMan: She's usually first to retort to whatever a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} does, or be the [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine Tsukkomi to Neon's Boke]].
335* TalkToTheFist: [[spoiler:Vents her anger at Snow White for failing to hold back Chatterbox during the facility assault by first punching her in the face.]]
336* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Soda, her to-go drink after a particularly stressful mission. Having a high enough Bond Level with her will lead to her suggesting she and The Commander share one together in her interaction lines. Her Summer version also has her with a can of soda in her hand, which she'll take a drink out of during its animation.
337* UniformityException: Unlike the rest of Counters, who were built by Elysion, Anis is from Tetra Line.
338* VillainHasAPoint: She doesn't like Crow and her squad but admits that, during the brief time they travelled together, Crow had a point when stating that the average person doesn't care about the plight of Nikkes as long as they aren't affected by it with her having that exact mindset back when she was a human.
339* WeightWoe: She bemoans her figure in her Summer version's [=BlaBla=] chats with the Commander after she was unable to find clothes in her size while shopping earlier and the store employee practically called her a "land whale" to her face. She wonders if she needs to go on a diet, and then questions if a diet would even work on her since she's a Nikke.
340* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:She rages at Snow White in Chapter 13 for being unable to defeat Chatterbox quickly or keep it away from Counters and Modernia despite her assurances, leading to itl shutting Modernia into a feedback loop [[KickTheDog right as Marian's personality had resurfaced]].]]
341[[/folder]]
342
343[[folder:Neon]]
344[[quoteright:800:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neon_8.jpg]]
345[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Bling Bullet]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neon2.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
346[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Blue Ocean]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neon3_8.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
347-> '''Element:''' Fire (Normal); Water (Blue Ocean)\
348'''Weapon:''' Annihilation (Shotgun)[[labelnote:JP name]]All-Break[[/labelnote]]; Big Big Wave (Machine Gun)\
349'''Class:''' Supporter (Normal); Attacker (Blue Ocean)\
350'''Rarity:''' SR; SSR (Blue Ocean)\
351'''Voiced by:''' Jang Mi (KR), Creator/RinaHidaka (JP), Creator/XantheHuynh (EN, uncredited)
352
353A Nikke who is introduced into Counters as a spy working for Ingrid, one of the [=CEOs=] of the Big Three, though her actual qualifications as a "spy" seem rather dubious due to her airheadedness and overactive imagination. Her claim to fame is her obsession with "firepower" and the idea that all problems can be solved with more firearms.
354----
355* ACupAngst: In ''First Affection'', Counters needs to give [[spoiler:Marian]] a new set of clothes after giving her a shower. They first attempt to give her Neon's clothes, but she complains about them being too tight around the chest, which leaves Neon inaudibly but clearly upset. When she is given Anis' clothes instead, she complains that they are too loose, which Neon responds to with an equal amount of inaudible concern.
356* BloodKnight: She loves talking about firepower and whatever lets her get more of it. It's also for this reason that she respects [[TheStrategist the Commander]]; in Chapter 2 of the main story, the Commander has Neon blow up the wreckage blocking a sewer drain that would let them sneak into the power station rather than risking their life confronting the Raptures head-on. Neon is impressed by this creative use of firepower, thus she has addressed the Commander as "Master" since.
357* {{Chuunibyou}}:
358** Her views and workship of firearms (her "firepower") brushes up on this trope. She starts calling the player "Master" after they suggests an alternative way to use her firepower to get around an obstacle in their first mission together, often suggests impossible uses of weapons as if sheer belief can make her outlandish scenarios reality, and during the summer event she is dedicated to somehow turn her "firepower" into "waterpower" and become a more formidable fighter by combining two element natures with her firearms proficiency.
359** Then there's her role as a spy. Whenever the subject of secrets or covert works comes up she will mention being a master spy. It's so bad thst practically every individual Counters has met knows about it. Jury is still out on if she was ever actually meant to do any spywork for Ingrid, or if Neon's role as a spy is just make belief and exaggeration on Neon's part of Ingrid's simple orders to join Counters and inform her of their combat performance.
360* CoolShades: In Chapter 27, Neon mentions that her glasses double as a visual interface for her. After tinkering with them one night, Elegg discovers that they aren't mere ordinary augmented reality glasses; they have a surprisingly lightweight and durable design far superior to your average glasses, and whatever is running on them has extremely large storage space that is almost completely full to the point that Elegg had difficulty squeezing ''BOOM'', a game that is only 28 megabytes big, onto them. This actually winds up raising some alarm bells to the Commander, Rapi, and Anis, as they deduce that it's highly unusual that Neon would possess tech that is way above her pay grade that even she doesn't know about.
361* TheDitz: Neon isn't especially bright and will occasionally say some very oddball things and/or perform some extraordinarily impressive leaps of logic. That said, she's a very competent fighter, and Chapter 21 onwards shows that she's not for want of tactical prowess either.
362* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:At the start of Chapter 25, the Commander reunites with Neon and has her recount her experience during the end of Chapter 24. Neon recollects most of it but also neglects to mention being bisected and instead tells him that she was fighting Nihilister and Chatterbox instead. Anis informs the Commander that it's likely that the NIMPH in her brain falsified her recollection of the events to protect her from the trauma of a near-death experience, which is more likely to occur if the same Nikke is disabled multiple times.]]
363* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [=SR=] Neon's talk about firepower reflects her shotgun having a [[ElementalRockPaperScissors fire element affinity]]. When Blue Ocean Neon (her [=SSR=] variant) released, her weapon switched to a water affinity machine gun, and her in-game lines refer to her taking advantage of the team's sea side vacation to learn to master waterpower instead.
364* GunNut: Neon loves her some firepower. She takes about any opportunity presented to discuss weapons, ammunition and their uses in combat.
365* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Neon doesn't remember being bisected by Indivilia at the end of Chapter 24. Instead, she believes she fought the entire time alongside Rapi and Dorothy against the Heretics and Chatterbox. Anis theorizes that Neon's NIMPH fabricated those memories to protect her from the trauma.]]
366* MysteriousPast: In Chapter 28, Rapi realizes that none of Counters ever actually questioned who Neon actually is or where she came from, as they had deemed it not important enough to find out. This, in combination with the discovery of Neon's CoolShades, leads the other protagonists to conclude that something is fishy about Neon even if she herself isn't aware of it.
367* NaiveNewcomer: She has never been out of the Ark prior to her joining Counters, making for a contrast between her newbie personality to the more experienced Rapi and Anis. She eventually gets over this as time goes on, particularly shown by how much of a DeadpanSnarker she becomes towards Anis.
368* OpenSecret: She outright tells the team she's a spy for Andersen and Ingrid. A Blablabla text reveals she's told nearly everybody the team has met.
369* OvertOperative: One of the first things she says to you is that she's Ingrid's spy.
370* ScaryShinyGlasses: Whenever she gets serious, whether it's about the threat before the team or about firepower, her glasses turn opaque.
371[[/folder]]
372
373! The Ark
374
375[[folder:The Ark in general]]
376* CityInABottle: The Ark, as an UndergroundCity, is surrounded by a massive screen that only shows an image of the sky, just to remind people of what they've lost AfterTheEnd. Even if the populace experience some level of rain or snow here, it's all artificial and the surviving elderly that did live on the surface long ago all know it to be fake. In one of Anis' character stories, she tells a tale of when, in the past, the Big Three decided to run a one-minute ad on these very screens, giving rise to mass hysteria from the people and skyrocketed suicide rates due to the people's realities being shattered, thus prompting them to only use the screens to show the sky.
377* CoolBoat: The Admire is the pride and joy of the Ark's naval branch, a technologically advanced amphibious battleship captured from the Raptures and outfitted with the best technology in the world, making it the most powerful craft to ever grace the seven seas. There's just one problem: It's never been deployed. There's no real reason to use it since most of the war is on land, so it typically just sits in place and functions as a glorified dining hall, and even when there is an actual reason, like the Blue Water island event, it's just not possible due them not only not wanting to risk their only ship, but the costs would be too high to do so. [[spoiler:The advent of the Kraken near Blue Water Island finally forces the Ark to deploy the Admire during the climax of ''Sea, You, Again'', with the ship showing up at the heroes' most desperate time of need to help them repel the Tyrant-class Rapture and take it down for good.]]
378* CrapsackWorld: Humanity lost the Earth's surface to the Rapture and are forced underground to keep on living and fighting against them. Almost everyone here are living shitty lives, from the fact that almost no one living in the Ark has ever seen the actual sky or experienced actual rain and snow, the mistreatment of Nikkes due to their HumanWeapon status, commanders essentially having cases of "ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne" due to how little they end up learning about the fight they're supposed to lead before being thrust to the surface, to the unfavorable living conditions of those who were banished to the Outer Rim, the Ark's own badlands.
379* FantasticCasteSystem: According to Anis, rich humans tried to install one based on the value of the identification chips installed in their bodies, splitting themselves into Sovereigns (the rich) and Quotidians (everyone else). However, the masses vehemently protested against such a fictitious system and the Ark Central Government attempted to pacify the rich by creating Royal Road, a luxurious shopping district exclusive to Sovereigns. The Sovereigns eventually got bored of Royal Road when they realized that they couldn't lord their superiority over the common folk and spread out across the Ark, and with the Ark Central Government banning any special privileges to Sovereigns the class system that they had attempted to create effectively imploded on itself and faded into obscurity. Despite this, there are still some rich folk who retain the Sovereign title just to fulfill their superiority complex.
380* FutureFoodIsArtificial: All food in the Ark is made of a mysterious product called "Splendamin", which looks like konjac and is totally flavorless in its base form. Food is made by combining Splendamin with other artificial additives to make it look and taste like real food. There are some places in the Ark where "genuine" artificial food is produced, which are considered an extreme luxury but do not taste that much different from Splendamin products.
381* HumansAreBastards: Many, many story beats make it evidently clear that there are astonishingly few genuinely good humans in the Ark. A vast majority of people are horrifically bigoted against Nikkes and will treat and abuse them like shit before they ever consider them to be on the same level as other humans. In addition, the existence of the Outer Rim and the whole Commander program reveals that there's a massive classism issue with Ark society and that the people living good lives in the Ark are (unknowingly or otherwise) throwing other humans under the bus for the sake of the status quo. These elements added up are a big part of why Team Inherit refuses to associate with the Ark and prefers to take the war on their own terms: they just don't trust humans enough to not ruin everyone else's lives. That said, some Nikkes aren't exactly saints themselves and some humans do want to improve the lot of both Nikkes and humans. [[spoiler: Crow in particular was once, and still is, a terrorist that had bombed a train full of people and during story events, she and her squad shot the Commander who is one of the aforementioned humans that are genuinely good. As another example, Dorothy is a Nikke who has a very compelling reason to hate humans for how the Ark abandoned her when she had done nothing but protect them from Raptures. However, that does not really excuse how she then attempts to use Counters as nothing more than meat shields to weaken Nihilister. Ether also deserves a mention as during the School Of Lock event, it's revealed that she takes part in and, to a certain extent, controls the school system of MMR vocational school which is more of a huge experiment that exposes its students to danger and uses students that fail too many times in exams as guinea pigs for inhumane experiments.]]
382* LastBastion: The Ark, as far as anyone could tell, is the sole major refuge of humanity that survived the threat of the Raptures over the past 50-something years... [[spoiler:or so would the Central Government have everyone believe, as they pointedly suppress all knowledge of the existence of [[HiddenElfVillage Eden]].]]
383* MartyrdomCulture: Most of the Commanders and Nikkes that fight and die against the Raptures do so believing they're committing a HeroicSacrifice for the Ark. Nikkes are mass produced off the assembly line while Commanders are given just the barest education about the war with human armaments unable to hurt the Raptures.
384* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Despite supposedly being a crime syndicate, Underworld Queen is more effectively a peacekeeping force in the Ark employed to resolve tensions between the Ark and criminals from the Outer Rim. It's later revealed that Underworld Queen's formation was headed by [[spoiler:none other than Mustang, who convinced the three clans to swear an oath to bring harmony to the Ark and the Outer Rim and stop its residents from breaking out into civil war]].
385* TheSyndicate: The Ark hosts an underground crime syndicate known as Underworld Queen, itself a conglomerate of three criminal groups: The [[{{Yakuza}} Yakuza-style Seimeikai]], the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad-like Peony Organization]], and the [[TheMafia Mafia-esque Hedonia]].
386* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Even with humanity decimated, chased from the surface and reduced to living in a single CityInABottle while trying to reclaim the planet, not everyone is on the same page:
387** The "Big Three [=CEOs=]" do NOT get on with each other, [[ItsAllAboutMe Syuen]] being the most decidedly antagonistic of the trio towards Counters and the Commander, repeatedly blackmailing and threatening them into going on Black Ops missions for her, then callously throwing the team under the bus to save herself when things get hairy. When Syuen inserts her elite Matis team into an expedition to retrieve Heretic Fragments in Chapter 11 and then jeopardises the mission by having Laplace separate them, the Commander and Rapi from Counters and Absolute, in an attempt to secure the fragments for herself, Ingrid doesn't hesitate to ream her out for it and promises to file an official complaint.
388** Once [[spoiler:a mind-wiped Marian re-joins Counters in Chapter 13, the Central Government quickly begins squabbling over trying to secure her for themselves, despite the team's status as Special Commandoes and having the backing of Andersen and Ingrid. The start of Chapter 14 alone has Counters having to flee to the surface when Deputy Commander-in-Chief Burningum sends the Triangle and Perilous Siege teams after them.]]
389[[/folder]]
390
391[[folder:Enikk]]
392[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/enikk_nikke.png]]
393Supervisory AI who maintains order and stability from her courtroom, passing judgment on all matters concerning the Ark. This gives her a position that is equivalent, if not greater than the Central Government and the Big Three.
394----
395* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Similar to Aria, Enikk is depicted with an unnatural gray skin tone.
396* ComputerizedJudicialSystem: As the supervisory AI of Ark's judiciary, Enikk essentially acts as judge and jury simultaneous, both passing verdicts of guilt or innocence and determining sentences, or even form new cases if she deems necessary.
397* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:She made a deal with Chatterbox that allows him to corrupt random Nikkes in exchange for the safety of the Ark.]]
398* ILied: [[spoiler:Chapter 25 reveals that, though she told Syuen she was to be stripped of her position as CEO of Missilis and turned into a Nikke, she cannot actually administer such a punishment to her without fatally compromising both Missilis and, by extension, the Ark. However, she still needed to punish Syuen somehow, so she lied about it and told Syuen she could avert the "punishment" by serving the Commander until he is satisfied.]]
399* MissionControl: During [[spoiler:the Rapture invasion of the Ark in Chapters 22 through 24]], Enikk takes over the role of operator for Counters by patching into their comms directly and getting them up to speed on how a series of seemingly unrelated background events caused the current predicament.
400* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:As of Chapter 25, Enikk comes to the conclusion that she can no longer follow the rules created for her by the Ark Central Government if she wants to follow her prime directive of protecting humanity. When the Commander points out the danger that this conclusion poses, she facilitates a backup plan by giving the Commander the ability to shut her down if she ever goes astray, trusting in his conscience to do the right thing if she fails to do so.]]
401* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Enikk is indirectly responsible for the corruption of an untold number of Nikkes, along with the creation of an incredibly powerful Heretic]] but considering the fact the [[spoiler:Raptures ''always'' knew how to find the Ark,]] it's very hard to blame her.
402----
403[[/folder]]
404
405[[folder:Einkk]]
406[[quoteright:607:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/einkk_fb.png]]
407-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ManamiNumakura (JP)
408An AI who runs the Simulation Room in the Ark. She is considered to be Enikk's "sister".
409----
410* CheerfulAI: She's often has a smile on her face while the Commander is in the Simulation Room.
411* HatesBeingAlone: One of her lines shows that she's somewhat afraid of what would happen to her if humanity were to achieve their goal of retaking the surface since they would not need to use the simulation room anymore.
412* TheReveal: The "Memory of Goddess" minigame from the ''Red Hood'' event reveals that [[spoiler:Einkk's existence significantly predates that of the Ark itself, with an early version of her managing to find her way into Snow White's "Memory of Goddess" game. It is also strongly implied that the Simulation Room level in the game inspired her to create the Simulation Room in the Ark proper]].
413%%* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Of [[BrutalBonusLevel Challenge Mode]] in the ''Memory of Goddess'' minigame.]]
414* UnusualHalo: Has a halo-like structure around her and on her head.
415[[/folder]]
416
417!! Ark Military
418
419[[folder:Andersen]]
420->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP)
421
422[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andersen_fb.png]]
423
424A Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Central Government Command, in essence being a superior of all Commanders, including the protagonist. Though a busy man who acts secretive about his plans to deal with the Raptures, he nevertheless works for the good of humanity.
425----
426* ArmourPiercingQuestion: He shuts [[BadBoss Doban]] up with one when the latter starts questioning the Counters Commander's character.
427--> '''Doban''': Whenever humans gain a modicum of power, it changes them.
428--> '''Andersen''': Including you?
429--> '''Doban''': ....
430* TheAtoner: Downplayed. He hasn't done anything wrong per se but he has at one point expressed a desire to apologize to Nikkes as a whole for what humanity has put them through.
431* BaritoneOfStrength: Andersen's got quite the deep voice, and he's got enough brass on him to [[spoiler:square off against, threaten and even ''physically assault'' a fellow Deputy Commander-in-Chief for threatening Counters and Marian.]]
432* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Burningum]] questioning his dedication to fighting for humanity is about the only thing that gets Andersen openly angry with him, sharply insisting that he drop that line of thinking.]] [[spoiler:If the implications that he's actually the Goddess Squad Commander are correct, then it's very understandable why he's so angry since he's been fighting for humanity for over ''100 years'' by this point.]]
433* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Shows up via comms just in time to stop Triangle team from coming to blows with Counters in Chapter 14, forcing Burningum, the Deputy Chief who ordered them to apprehend Marian, to rescind the order and have the team withdraw.]]
434* BigGood: He is the Commander's most stalwart ally throughout the story's events and while he has to look out for humanity's well-being first and foremost, he has nonetheless shown a desire for Nikkes to be treated better and for them to live as equals to humans.
435* CerebusRetcon: Andersen's frequent meetings he conveniently refers to when the conversation is about to end are not exactly PlayedForLaughs, but can still veer into funny due to the fact that you can expect one to be mentioned in pretty much every scene with him and the Commander. However, after the reveal in Chapter 25 [[spoiler:that Andersen is [[LivingOnBorrowedTime on life support]], and after the blood transfusion at the end of Chapter 13, can only go for half an hour without being connected to Ark's primary power grid before his body starts disintegrating]], the resulting implication [[spoiler:that his "meetings" are in fact with the power cable for his life support device]] makes the frequent meetings a rather [[FridgeHorror scary]] detail, and minute things like Andersen checking out the exact time he has left to spare to answer Commander's questions begin to stand out more, in a much more serious fashion.
436* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: [[spoiler:Does this in Chapter 13 after admitting that his and the Commander's blood is very valuable, shifting over to describing the outcome of the mission despite the Commander's protests.]]
437* CruelToBeKind: He exiles Counters to the abandoned Outpost when the power station in Chapter 2--a valuable resource in the isolated Ark's eyes--gets destroyed. In reality, this is a means to keep the Commander out of the hands of the Central Government, and besides, it doesn't take long to make the Outpost livable, becoming a popular hangout spot for Nikkes as seen in Brief Encounters, including even Pilgrims who have to stay away from the Ark.
438* {{Cyborg}}: It's not commented on, but his shirtless appearance in the April Fools event shows that he has some sort of cybernetic implant in his midsection. [[spoiler:As it turns out, it's a connecter plug for his [[LivingOnBorrowedTime life-support]] implants.]]
439* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: [[spoiler:Threatens Burningum with this should the latter push the issue with Marian any further.]]
440--> '''Andersen''': [[spoiler:Do you really want me as your enemy?]]
441* FamedInStory: According to Diesel's Bond Episodes, her younger brother admired Andersen as a reputed model commander and wanted to be like him when he grew up, also wanting his autograph.
442* TheIdealist: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: Andersen is a [[FourStarBadass seasoned war veteran]] who had his fair share of hardship and [[spoiler:[[LivingOnBorrowedTime depends on external power to survive]]]]. Still, there is a place in his heart for somewhat naive sentiments.
443--> '''Andersen''': I like my stories to have happy endings.
444* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Andersen turns out to have life-support technology implanted into him which connects to The Ark's primary power grid and can sustain him for up to 2 hours when disconnected....until the blood transfusion, which has knocked him down to just 30 minutes.]]
445* MrFanservice: Despite the lion's share of the focus going to the women, Andersen gives them a run for their money with some [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] shots of him in the Main Story that show his impressively ripped body.
446* NotSoAboveItAll: Usually serious, sensible, and dilligent, but he is quite happy to give the Commander his autograph, to the point that he doesn't give the Commander time to explain why he's asking for it[[labelnote:Spoiler]]It is due to Diesel's brother having admired him, and having wanted his autograph, and the Commander is helping Diesel come to terms with his death by doing all the things she and her brother had planned to do on the day he died[[/labelnote]].
447* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Chapter 13 has him personally offering his own blood for the transfusion the Commander needed in the aftermath of the assault on the Rapture facility, despite the inherent risks involved given how valuable he admits his and the Commander's blood are.]] This becomes especially meaningful once it's revealed that [[spoiler:the transfusion has significantly weakened Andersen himself, to the point that he can only last a mere half hour when disconnected from [[LivingOnBorrowedTime his life-support]] instead of his prior 2 hours. And yet he still went through with it to save his subordinate.]]
448* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Compared to the Central Government and [[RichBitch Syuen]], he's always polite and makes sure to reward Counters for their accomplishments; even the exile to the Outpost for blowing up the power station in Chapter 2 is really a blessing in disguise that ensures Counters will be out of the Government's reach. That said, although he reveals key information at times, he's not open about the entirety of his plans, which keeps Counters from relying on him for help.
449* WalkingShirtlessScene:
450** In the April Fool's 2023 event, the Commander goes back to the Command Center at the end of the day only to walk in on Andersen coming out of his shower wearing nothing but a towel and jeans. He promptly dips for yet another meeting before he explains anything to the Commander, leaving the latter absolutely speechless.
451** Played far more seriously in Chapter 25, when the Commander walks in to Andersen's office to find him sitting on a bed shirtless. [[spoiler:It is revealed that Andersen is hooked up to a life support device supplied by the Ark, which he must use constantly to survive for any meaningful period of time. He can be disconnected from it if required, but can only go for at most 30 minutes without it before he begins to suffer severe health complications.]]
452* WhatTheHellHero:
453** [[spoiler:Reams out Burningum in Chapter 14 for trying to overstep his authority and abduct Marian from Counters to experiment on and [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissect her]] in hopes of advancing the Ark's technology.]]
454---> '''Andersen''': [[spoiler:I respect your instincts, but this time, you're wrong. Marian is a Nikke serving under a Commando unit. You might be a Deputy Commander-In-Chief, but your reach only extends so far.]]
455** [[spoiler:He also doesn't hesitate to dress down both Syuen and the Commander for their [[EnemyMine joint]] EngineeredHeroics scheme in Chapter 18, even asking the Commander if he's letting his [[AndroidsArePeopleToo concern for Nikkes]] override his duty to protect humanity.]]
456[[/folder]]
457
458[[folder:Shifty]]
459-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiOgura (JP), Creator/LizzieFreeman (EN)
460
461[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shifty_fb.png]]
462
463An Operator from the Ark Intelligence Department with a chipper but accommodating personality. She serves as Counters' radio operator for most of their missions.
464----
465* AnimalMotifs: The more you look at her, the more cutesy cat ears and cat face shapes you will notice.
466* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Shifty makes her comeback in Chapter 27, being assigned as the designated Operator for Counters.]]
467* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: During the April Fool's event, Andersen pranks Shifty into heading up to the surface to defeat Raptures. She handles a Nikke weapon despite being human and absolutely ''decimates'' the enemy forces with ''NO'' [[OneManArmy support whatsoever.]] For comparison, when the Commander tries to fire just one shot with her weapon, he nearly dislocates his shoulder. Shifty assumes Counters are helping her in the background to blow the Raptures up and that the gun is a normal human weapon, but the Commander is unable to explain to her that she is actually destroying the enemy forces with a Nikke gun and suffering no real recoil.
468* GamerChick: According to Exia in Chapter 8, she's a fellow max-leveled player of ''Final Quest''.
469* MissionControl: She serves as the Commander and Counters' Operator when they're out on the field.
470* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: She starts acting suspiciously clumsy, flighty and incompetent at times throughout Chapters 8 and 9, at one point running the team ''right'' into a horde of Raptures, which gets Anis to yell at her and accusing her of trying to get them killed. [[spoiler:Turns out it's because it isn't Shifty, it's [[HateSink Syuen]] disguised as her as part of a petty revenge plan.]] Anis teases Shifty about this ever since the incident.
471* MoreDakka: In the AprilFoolsDay events, her Burst skill has her whip out a [[GatlingGood minigun]] that she can barely hold or control.
472* OneWomanArmy: Hilariously, despite being the [[MusclesAreMeaningless stick thin]] MissionControl, during the April Fool's event Shifty is able to take on hordes of Raptures all by her lonesome. [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength She assumes Counters have to be helping her as part of an exercise even though they aren't.]]
473* PromotedToPlayable: She is playable in the AprilFoolsDay 2023 event for five event battles. She is equipped with a submachine gun and has low damage and reload speed, but has a passive +400% Burst Gauge accumulation rate. Her Burst Skill parodies Modernia's Burst by giving her [[BottomlessMagazines infinite ammo]] and a targeting reticle for 30 seconds that bestows [[PowerfulButInaccurate -9547% Hit Rate but deploys a massive explosion whenever she kills an enemy with it.]] She also assists the Commander and Syuen halfway through 2024's AprilFoolsDay event, having been pranked ''again'' by Andersen to defeat Raptures on the surface.
474* PutOnABus: Shifty no longer appears in any capacity after Chapter 16. This is partially justified by plot occurrences, such as Counters being granted freedom to execute their own missions without support from the Ark, as well as other characters serving as operators in her place during circumstances where she cannot be of assistance. She later returns in Chapter 27 when she is given the role of Counters' personal operator.
475[[/folder]]
476
477[[folder:Oswald '''(Unmarked Spoilers for ''OVER ZONE'' and ''Red Ash'')''']]
478
479[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oswald_nikke.png]]
480
481A young military man who served as a member of the United Forces of Humanity and its successor, the Ark Central Government. Despite his otherwise mundane position, he has served a key role in the stories of the Goddess Squad throughout the 1st Rapture Invasion.
482----
483* AffablyEvil: A more charitable interpretation of his character. Even when he was telling the Goddess Squad that they would be trapped on the surface, never allowed into the Ark, he states it in a matter-of-fact manner. Even when threatened by Dorothy, he only expresses dull surprise.
484* AmbiguouslyEvil: He is the one who ultimately delivers the news to the Goddess Squad that the Ark Central Government intended to lock them out of the Ark from the beginning, sending Dorothy into unbridled rage at him for deceiving them and completing her StartOfDarkness. However, his delivery of the news is very matter-of-fact and without loath or fanfare, calling into question if Oswald really wanted the Goddess Squad to end this way and if it's simply a case of shooting the messenger. His appearance in ''Red Ash'' further cements this ambiguity, as it is revealed that he sincerely loved the Goddess Squad and did everything in his power to help Red Hood.
485* BaitAndSwitch: After a long battle and many sacrifices, his communications give the Goddess Squad hope that their time fighting will finally be over and throughout their talk with the squad, he seems friendly enough. They even share a moment of bonding when they try to direct the squad in cooking a meal. This all makes the final reveal that the squad is being abandoned all the more gut-retching.
486* EvilCounterpart: Is shown to have not been too different from the player Commander, once upon a time. He seems to genuinely admire Nikkes and is rather open about being a huge fan of the Goddess Squad. That being said, he still carries out the Central Government's orders and keeps the remaining squad members on the surface, barring entry to the Ark and triggering Dorothy's StartOfDarkness.
487* {{Fanboy}}: In ''Red Ash'', Oswald reveals to Red Hood that he's a super big fan of the Goddess Squad and their heroism for humanity. Red Hood winds up falling asleep while he excitedly recounts several of the Squad's past operations.
488* KarmaHoudini: Seeing as how the ''Over Zone'' event takes place decades before the current story, it's entirely possible he died soundly in his sleep, never facing repercussions for his actions.
489* MilitarySalute: Although at first confused at Red Hood's decision not to join the human refugees on the road to the Ark, he ultimately respects her selflessness and sends her off with a farewell salute while congratulating her for everything she's done for humanity.
490* MustMakeAmends: With the reveal that he was a massive fan of the Goddess Squad in Red Ash, it's just as likely that he spent every day trying to make up for shutting them out. The Goddess of Victory and Wings of Victory are the closest thing to proof of his effort to keep their tales alive.
491* UnseenNoMore: Oswald was originally introduced as a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection receiving the remnants of the Goddess Squad at the end of the 1st Invasion. He is officially introduced proper in ''Red Ash'', where he winds up picking up a hitchhiking Red Hood off the road while the latter is wandering the surface.
492[[/folder]]
493
494[[folder:Burningum '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
495[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nikke_burningum.jpg]]
496
497Another Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Central Government, introduced as an antagonist in Chapter 14.
498----
499* BenevolentBoss: It says a lot about the military that he qualifies compared to other Commanders like [[BadBoss Doban]], at least when he isn't going to extremes for the Ark's sake.
500** Though he hasn't given a reason for it, he sponsors the Admire, being one of the important few who supports it despite it being a money-hungry project with next to no hope for seafaring. This ultimately pays off, as during SEA YOU AGAIN, upon receiving confirmation of the survival of a seaborne Tyrant-class Kraken Rapture, he immediately gives Anchor and Mast the order to sortie the Admire to meet Helm on the surface and do battle with it, and they end up proving themselves by defeating the Kraken.
501** During Chapter 24, after hearing a report from Miranda and Poli, he asks if the two of them are all right after the big battles that happened during the chapter and to rest up.
502* {{Determinator}}: Credit where it's due, he's committed to his goal of (in his mind) bettering the Ark's tech and humanity's fighting chance against the Raptures. Even after Andersen forces him to back off in Chapter 14 (and given Burningum's appearance, he likely ''beat him up'' to do so), Burningum insists that he'll keep trying even if Andersen puts a gun in his face, with his subordinates willing to take up the cause if he can't.
503* DisappointedInYou: Says as such to Andersen in their confrontation, insisting that he of all people should understand what Burningum is trying to do.
504* JerkassHasAPoint:[[spoiler: With the reveal that the Raptures may have always known the location of the Ark, his desire to advance mankind's technology even at the cost of [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissecting]] Marian is very much understandable]].
505* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one who directed Perilous Siege and Triangle teams to abduct Marian.
506* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:He doesn't actually have that SpeechImpediment he puts on, as he's perfectly able to talk normally in Chapter 26.]]
507* PetTheDog:
508** Asks Miranda and Poli if they're okay when they report in to him during [[spoiler:the Rapture attack on The Ark in Chapters 22-24.]]
509** He sticks up for the Counters Commander when Doban starts questioning his character during the Deputy Chief meeting.
510---> '''Burningum''': I-In my opinion, that commander might be impulsive, b-but he is not a threat. So there won't be any problems.
511* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Burningum is one of the better people of power in the Ark and has the wherewithal to make proper decisions to the best of his knowledge a decent amount of the time. That doesn't stop him from being trouble for the Commander and his crew, but this tends to be out of circumstance and a desire to aim for a greater good than actual malice.
512* SinisterSurveillance: The final part of Chapter 18 has him ordering Papillion to follow Counters in their new expedition to the surface, wanting to see if they have any contact with Marian. [[spoiler:This winds up backfiring on him as Papillion winds up in Eden's "care" for the better part of the story, leading to Dorothy discovering the Ark's location and proposing a "deal" with the Ark Central Government to her benefit.]]
513* SpeechImpediment: Burningum stutters often when talking. [[spoiler:Revealed to be just an act as of Chapter 26.]]
514* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As the main benefactor of the Admire, his presence hosting fundraiser parties elevates the status of said events. No matter how Andersen and the Commander feel about him, he's well-respected for his work.
515* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's willing to do whatever it takes to advance humanity's fight against the Raptures, even if it means killing off an entire Commando unit just to get his hands on [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Marian]] and advance the Ark's technology.
516[[/folder]]
517
518[[folder:Doban]]
519[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doban_nikke.png]]
520
521A Deputy Commander-in-Chief who has great disdain for all Nikkes, appearing first as a minor antagonist in Chapter 22.
522----
523* DistaffCounterpart: He's a male Syuen, having several of her negative traits, in particular her dislike of Nikke's and being a HateSink. Borders on SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, as he first appears just two chapters before [[spoiler:Syuen is removed as a threat due to Enikk's sentencing]].
524* FantasticRacism: He doesn't think much of Nikkes and hates the Outer Rim residents a LOT more, to the point of [[spoiler:trying to wipe them out.]]
525* GenocideFromTheInside: [[spoiler:As if him trying to liquidate the Outer Rim wasn't bad enough, a throwaway line when he's talking to Anderson implies that Doban is from the Outer Rim, making his hatred of its people profoundly hypocritical]].
526* HateSink: Between his extreme FantasticRacism against Nikkes and Outer Rim residents to the point of planning what's essentially [[spoiler:''ethnic cleansing'']] against the latter, his Jerkass personality towards his own nominal allies and BadBoss tendencies, it's clear that Doban is ''not'' meant to be a endearing character for the player and is meant to represent the worst amongst the Ark military.
527* KillHimAlready: Following the aftermath of [[spoiler:the Rapture invasion, Doban proposes to kill Dorothy, thinking she's too much of a threat to the Ark. While they have to admit there have been many suspicious coincidences surrounding Dorothy's appearance during the invasion, Andersen and Burningum reject his proposal, pointing out that she has shown no malicious intent towards the Ark (as far as they know). They also point out how dumb his proposal is, because harming Dorothy now would not only hinder the pact the Ark is currently making with Eden, but, worst case, cause Eden to go to war against the Ark, which they consider to be another battle they cannot win.]]
528* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: [[spoiler:He tries using the Rapture invasion as a cover for sending specially-armed Nikkes to exterminate the residents of the Outer Rim.]]
529[[/folder]]
530
531!! The Big Three [=CEOs=]
532
533[[folder:Ingrid]]
534[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ingrid_54.png]]
535->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieTanaka (JP), Becky Boxer (EN)
536
537Although she has the personality of a drill instructor, this is befitting of her as the CEO of Elysion, a corporation that focuses on military application.
538----
539* DrillSergeantNasty: Her attitude comes off as one what might expect of a military general, being to the point and domineering with everything in general. She's also taught Nikkes from her company, one of them being Rapi.
540* HeroesLoveDogs: Ingrid used to own a dog named Poli who died a year prior. [[spoiler:It is revealed that Poli was kidnapped by a discontented former Elysion researcher and turned into an ActionBomb with the intent of killing Ingrid in a terrorist attack. Ingrid was rescued by Poli (the human), who shielded Ingrid from the blast and wound up dying before being turned into a Nikke.]]
541* LazyAlias: [[spoiler:When the Commander informs Ingrid about Red Hood's return, Ingrid sets up a dummy account named "Tacticaltitac" over [=BlaBla=] to communicate classified details about Elysion's experiments with Rapi and Red Hood to the Commander. The Commander points out that the name seems too on-the-nose (with her profile description even being how Ingrid pronounces the word "tactical"), but Ingrid tells him not to worry about it.]]
542* MaliciousMisnaming: [[spoiler:Vents her anger against Syuen for interfering in and potentially screwing up the expedition for the Heretic Fragments by intentionally calling her company "Missiles", which she knows is Syuen's BerserkButton.]]
543* NotSoAboveItAll: Beneath her strict facade, she also humours the antics of her more eccentric Nikkes, and would even role play with Guillotine in public.
544* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While she initially comes off as high-strung and demanding early on, it's later demonstrated that Ingrid is one of the more level-headed people in the Ark and treats all of her Nikkes with respect and compassion not found in most humans. [[spoiler:It's because of this that Counters takes a risky gamble recruiting her as an ally, whereupon she becomes one of their most trusted confidants.]]
545* WhatTheHellHero:
546** [[spoiler:Wastes absolutely no time tearing into Syuen for inserting her Matis team into the mission for the Heretic Fragments and then telling them to blow up the connecting bridge to strand Counters and Absolute away from the Fragments, allowing Matis to get them for Syuen first.]]
547** [[spoiler:She reams Syuen out ''again'' in Chapter 18 for her EngineeredHeroics gambit, calling her out for endangering the Ark without any forethought. Syuen simply blows her off.]]
548[[/folder]]
549
550[[folder:Syuen]]
551[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/syuen.png]]
552->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiArai (JP), Creator/RisaMei (EN)
553
554The snippy CEO of Missilis. Her childish looks belie her capacity for cruelty and sadism to get her way, leaving few people to empathize with her.
555----
556* AintTooProudToBeg:
557** [[spoiler:When trying to convince the Commander to accept her proposal to disperse the Anti-Nikke protesters and restore Matis' reputation by performing some EngineeredHeroics, Syuen actually gets her knees and begs after he refuses her first two pleas.]]
558** Later on, [[spoiler:after Enikk orders that she be turned into a Nikke, Syuen desperately begs for the Commander to help her escape such a fate, which involves doing whatever the Commander wants until he's satisfied.]]
559* BadBoss: Syuen treats her Nikkes poorly. Even Matis, her favourite elite squad, is regularly worked to the bone and given insufficient rest between missions.
560** At the end of Chapter 16, she is seen hitting Yuni and Mihara. Why? To vent her anger at the protests against the usage of "technology" she, to put it charitably, appropriated in order to improve Missilis' stock prices; something neither member of the Wardress has a ''single'' thing to do with.
561* BerserkButton: Calling her company "Missiles" (pronounced "Mis-si-les") instead of "Missilis" is a good way to get under her skin even more than usual.
562* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:Becomes this post-Chapter 24, being stripped of her CEO position, turned into a Nikke and assigned to Team Counters as punishment for her past misdeeds. Or so she thinks.]]
563* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Even as she's hauled in front of Enikk and tried with numerous grave offenses, like threatening The Ark with her EngineeredHeroics plan or several of her Nikkes going rogue and sabotaging The Ark, leading to a full-on ''Rapture invasion'' and plenty of civilian casualties, Syuen is ''still'' smug and self-assured, assuming she's simply going be fined and that'll be that...until Enikk tells her that she's [[FalseReassurance not getting a fine]], her punishment is [[UnwillingRoboticisation much]] [[BoxedCrook worse]] than that.]]
564** Her playable appearance in the 2024 April Fool's event shows just how broken she'd be if ever forced to serve on the front lines. No matter what she's doing in battle, be it reloading, bursting, firing, or taking cover, Syuen's panicking, trembling in fear, and looks like she's about to die of a heart attack. This is a stark contrast to her health bar portrait, which is her usual default haughty pose.
565* BullyingADragon: She thinks it's a good idea to [[spoiler:mouth off to and even try to coerce '''Enikk''' during her trial in Chapter 24, 'reminding' her of everything Missilis has done for The Ark and how vital she is to it, and that Enikk had best keep that in mind when making her ruling. She learns the hard way that Enikk won't be swayed so easily, since the trial ends with her being declared guilty and sentenced to Nikke conversion.]]
566* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: A variation. [[spoiler:In Chapter 25, Enikk reveals to the Commander that her sentencing for Syuen is a lie, as turning her into a Nikke and stripping her of her CEO status would fatally compromise the Ark.]]
567* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Her mind wipe of Mihara in Chapter 4 royally pisses off Yuni and breaks her heart, which only gets worse when she sees Syuen managing to cure Matis safely later on, prompting her to throw rage fits and curse Syuen behind her back. In Chapter 18, [[TheCorruptor Crow]] takes advantage of her compromised state to get Yuni on board with a plan to pay Syuen back... which involves Yuni abducting and imprisoning her.]]
568* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:After Rapi kicked her ribs in in Chapter 5, Syuen started plotting revenge on her for it. The key problem is that her idea of revenge is to get ''all of Team Counters killed'' in an ambush she ran them into while posting as Shifty, their Operator, despite Counters having proven themselves reliable and skilled enough to be promoted to Special Commandoes and The Ark being in ''dire'' need of skilled teams like them, given the otherwise horrifyingly high failure rate among Commanders.]]
569* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:Her plan in Chapter 18 to calm down the Vapaus-related protests Exotic have whipped up, involving luring Raptures close to The Ark to have Matis take them out for some good PR for them and Missilis, even roping the Commander & Counters into helping her with it.]] While the plan does initially work, it later bites her ''hard'' when [[spoiler:Enikk brings this up as part of the charges against Syuen in Chapter 24, in a trial that leads to her being forced out as Missilis CEO and sentenced to [[UnwillingRobotisation Nikke conversion]]...''without'' a memory wipe first.]]
570* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's greedy, selfish, seemingly has no morals, antagonistic to everyone, and practically another villain separate from the Raptures. She sees all Nikkes as expendable, including her own. [[spoiler: She had her Nikke Mihara's memory wiped without a second thought, which was the equivalent of killing her, and her own elite squad Matis is aware that the only reason she stepped in to make excuses for them when they screwed up was to defend her company's reputation.]] Despite this, [[spoiler: when Matis gets corrupted, she goes against standard procedure and does everything within her power to stop them from getting their memories wiped and proceeds to beg the Commander for help, offering anything for the material that might be able to save them before breaking down and demanding that he save "her children."]]
571* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:In ''Miracle Snow'', she's rightfully outraged when she discovers that her own employees had extorted N102's mother out of a vast sum of money for the costs of repeatedly wiping her memory, when Missilis never, ever takes payment from civilians. She's so pissed that after her initial punishment to fire and heavily sue the offenders is called too harsh on the other end of the phone, she asks to put in a request to borrow Elysion's ''assassin team'' to murder them.]]
572* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Chapter 18, the other two [=CEOs=] and Andersen read her the riot act for potentially endangering the Ark with her engineered publicity stunt to restore Matis' reputation, since it involved luring Raptures to the Ark for them to fight. Syuen simply accuses them of being jealous at Matis and Missilis' newfound success, failing to understand that they might all have more a problem with endangering the citizens with her recklessness.]]
573* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:She tries getting all of Team Counters killed off in Chapter 9 by posing as Shifty, while also ratting out Exia to the Central Government to get ''her'' killed (though in her case it [[BackFromTheDead doesn't stick]]) as well. Why? Because Rapi broke one or two of Syuen's ribs and she thinks that [[DisproportionateRetribution getting her whole team killed is a great method of payback]].]]
574* FlatWhat: [[spoiler:This is Syuen's reaction to Enikk not only revoking her status as Missilis' CEO, but as well as ordering her conversion to a Nikke without a memory wipe and serving the Counters squad.]]
575* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:Pretty much all of her involvement in Chapter 9. Posing as Shifty, hijacking sensitive data from Counters, getting Exia killed, banning a whole keyword from the entire internet, even EvilGloating straight to Team Counters' faces when Raptures swarm on their position, all of it for the sake of getting payback on Rapi for sending her to the hospital. Counters manages to be even ''more'' disgusted with her than usual. Luckily, she was too short-sighted to realize that despite her efforts the heroes managed to stay one step ahead of her.]]
576* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Outright hated by pretty much everyone and for good reason. Despite ostensibly being on the same side as everyone else, she's an antagonist the majority of the time she shows up in the early story, constantly blackmailing the Commander and being an outright threat at times that Counters can't just shoot away due to her status. Even her own company's Nikkes dislike her, probably because they're just as expendable to her as everyone else. This includes Missilis' own elite squad, Matis, [[spoiler: although it appears they're mistaken about her seeing them as expendable.]]
577* HateSink: Syuen is an absolutely despicable, vain, selfish, and greedy character with absolutely no redeeming qualities who spends most of her time screwing the heroes over more than the Raptures do.
578* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: An early conversation between the members of Counters reveals that Missilis has started to lag behind Elysion and Tetra Line under Syuen's leadership, and she is determined to flip things around. The implication is that her haughtiness is a cover for insecurity over how she CantCatchUp with Mustang and Ingrid, though some of it ''is'' genuine narcissim.
579* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Her playable AprilFoolsDay appearance has dreadful accuracy.
580* IronicHell: [[spoiler:As punishment for her crimes against the Ark, Syuen is forced to become a Nikke, the very thing she hates the most in her life, stripped of her title as CEO of Missilis, the company that she performed so many misdeeds to try and protect, and join Counters, the team she dedicated so much time and effort trying to destroy. Even with TheReveal that Enikk lied about the Nikke transformation, she's still stuck serving Counters and doing whatever the Commander wants under the belief that doing so is what's stopping the conversion.]]
581* ItsAllAboutMe: It becomes ''very'' clear that Syuen operates entirely on this mindset by Chapter 9, [[spoiler:where she tries getting Counters killed off solely to avenge a personal slight against her by one of their members (Rapi kicking her in the ribs while faking LaserGuidedAmnesia), despite the fact that humanity is in dire need of even half-decent Commanders and Nikke squads in their war against the Raptures and Counters has proven themselves skilled and reliable enough in past missions to be promoted to Special Commandoes.]]
582* KarmaHoudini:
583** [[spoiler:Receives no punishment for the EngineeredHeroics gambit she pulls in Chapter 18 and completely blows off any attempt by Ingrid, Mustang and Andersen to try point out how catastrophic her actions could have been for the Ark, accusing them of simple jealousy at Matis' success.]] That said...
584** [[spoiler:Comes back in full force in Chapter 25 with TheReveal that Enikk [[ILied lied]] about the sentence, which she cannot actually administer without fatally compromising Missilis and The Ark, so she's essentially being let off the hook ''again'' even if she doesn't know it. [[DownplayedTrope Of course]], she IS still forced to serve Counters, thinking that doing so is what's averting the Nikke conversion, so she's not ''entirely'' off the hook.]]
585* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:In Chapter 24, Enikk judges Syuen for her many crimes that threatened the safety of the Ark, revoking her position as CEO of Missilis and ordering that she be converted into a Nikke to serve in Counters, while ''not'' giving her a memory wipe. Syuen is NOT happy about this. This is {{Subverted}}, however, as Syuen doesn't realize that Enikk lied about her sentencing, as Enikk cannot actually administer such a punishment to Syuen without fatally compromising both Missilis and the Ark. That being said, Syuen is LockedOutOfTheLoop on this, so she still has to serve Counters in fear of a fate that can't happen.]]
586* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Averted. During her trial, Enikk mentions that her good deeds for The Ark have earned Syuen some clemency...and as such, she ''won't'' be getting the memory wipe that new Nikkes usually get after conversion, so she's going to remember ''everything'' about her former life while never being able to go back to it.]]
587* LaserGuidedKarma: After treating Nikkes like trash and being a semi-constant thorn in Team Counters' side almost from the word go, along with all the trouble her [[TokenEvilTeammate team]] of [[BoxedCrook coerced terrorists]] end up causing, it's only fitting that Syuen winds up [[spoiler:being sentenced to ''become'' a Nikke by Enikk while being assigned to Team Counters as a BoxedCrook herself. However, Enikk reveals to the Commander that she can't actually punish Syuen with a forced Nikke conversion without fatally compromising Missilis and the Ark, but Syuen [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't know this]] and thinks that being an ExtremeDoormat to the Commander will spare her from such a fate, so the trope still applies.]]
588* LesserOfTwoEvils: [[spoiler:Even if the Commander has ample reason to hate Syuen, they still save her from Exotic because the latter is a threat ot the Ark as a whole, something Syuen never manages to be]].
589* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:By Chapter 25, Syuen is led to believe that unless she does whatever the Commander wants, she will be converted into a Nikke and stripped of her position as CEO of Missilis. However, she doesn't know that Enikk was bluffing since doing that to her would be a deathblow to the Ark.]]
590* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[spoiler:Crow sicking Yuni on Syuen is the point where Exotic succeeds Missilis as the main antagonist of the Ark focused storylines]].
591* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While "hero" is a bit of a stretch, pulling all the stops to [[spoiler:save Matis]] does have some heroic rings to it even if she jumps through some rather unscrupulous hoops to do so. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, in the process of doing so Syuen makes a massive mistake in publicly announcing the presence of Vapaus and its effects to the whole Ark in hopes of winning back some brownie points with investors, which gives Heavenly Ascension an exploitable weakness that they quickly use to spread anti-Nikke propaganda to sour already fragile tensions between humans and Nikkes. This turns into a PR nightmare for Missilis and an even bigger headache for Counters by the time they get back to the Ark at the end of Chapter 17.]]
592* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her blackmailing of Team Counters to capture Chatterbox in an illegal black ops mission in Chapter 4 comes back to bite her in the ass later on when the team receives their RankUp to Special Commandos, with Deputy Chief Andersen explicitly mentioning that he added in a privilege to the position stating that none of the 'Big Three' [=CEOs=] could order the team around from that point on, precisely because of Syuen's earlier interference.
593* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Syuen goes above and beyond to try and save Matis from corruption, even reverse engineering the Vapaus substance and using it to purge their NIMPH to get them back in action with no need for a mindwipe...which is then ''immediately'' used against her and the Ark in Chapter 16, with the Outer Rim group Heavenly Ascension using a proxy "John Doe" identity to whip up fear among the Ark residents by pointing out some FridgeHorror: Nikkes without NIMPH are essentially outside human control, so who's to say they won't turn on humanity after [[JustAMachine all]] [[WeHaveReserves the]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman mistreatment]] they've suffered at the hands of their creators?]]
594* NotMeThisTime: In ''Miracle Snow'', [[spoiler:after finding out that Anne's mother had been being forced to pay a large sum of money for the memory wipe procedure Anne needs to survive, the Commander and Rupee storm into Syuen's office, furious at what she's done, especially since the procedure costs next to nothing and is incredibly simple. Turns out, she had nothing to do with it, even noting that she couldn't care less about the near non-existent cost of giving some relatively unimportant Nikke a memory wipe. They find out that a group of her employees had secretly been extorting Anne's mother, which causes Syuen to go berserk]].
595* NotSoAboveItAll: In ''Eternal Memory'', Rupee gives Syuen a Christmas cake as thanks for helping with Anne. Syuen as usual tells Rupee to piss off, but Rupee leaves the cake behind for her anyway. When the Commander and Rupee barge in later to confront her regarding Anne's situation, they catch her eating the cake and hastily cleaning up after herself.
596* OhCrap:
597** Completely loses her nerve once [[spoiler:Enikk dishes out her punishment for all of Syuen's screwups: forceful Nikke conversion.]]
598** Her default expression as a playable unit during AprilFoolsDay 2024, trembling with fear while behind cover or reloading, and too afraid to look where she's aiming at when firing her gun in a spray-and-pray manner.
599* PetTheDog:
600** As scummy a person as she is in general, [[spoiler:when Matis get corrupted in Chapter 12 she fights tooth and nail to try and get them cured, as opposed to simply mindwiping or terminating them, which is probably the nicest thing she's ''ever'' done to date.]]
601** In ''Eternal Memory'', the Commander and Rupee manage to get Syuen to pull a favor for them despite the holidays, and although she remains abrasive as ever she somehow manages to remain helpful.
602* PromotedToPlayable: Like Shifty before her, she is playable for the AprilFoolsDay 2024 event. She uses an SMG with low damage, slow reload speed, horrible Burst Gauge generation (unless she gets hit) and a huge spread. Her Burst skill has her calling Matis for help (with them being portrayed in art styles resembling the likes of Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure or Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar), who then rush to the scene in [[AscendedMeme "Doro-fied"]] forms dealing damage to every enemy after a few seconds in a BigBallOfViolence.
603* RichesToRags: [[spoiler:Undergoes this as part of her punishment in Chapter 24, sentenced to go from the well-connected, wealthy and powerful CEO of Missilis to a comparably poor Nikke serving under Counters. {{Averted}}, however, since Enikk can't administer that sentence to her without dooming the Ark, so the best she can do is trick Syuen into thinking she can avert said sentence by serving the Commander.]]
604* StarterVillain: Syuen is the very first antagonist the player faces, and is set up to be one of the bigger threats they'll have to deal with. As time goes on, though, it becomes apparent she isn't as big a fish as she thinks she is - while she's a threat within the Ark, her aims are mostly limited to just keeping and expanding her power within the Ark, whereas all the other antagonists Counters faces (the Raptures, the Heretics, [[spoiler:Exotic]], etc) want to ''destroy'' the Ark outright. Adding onto this is that while Syuen is a HateSink, she has a few PetTheDog moments to show that she does have a heart, while most of the other antagonists lack any redeeming traits.
605* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:Attempts to kill off Counters solely because one of them kicked her in the ribs and sent her to hospital, despite humanity being in DIRE need of teams as skilled as them to, y'know, fight the Rapture that want to kill everyone in the Ark, Syuen included.]]
606* TokenEvilTeammate: Among the [=CEOs=]. Ingrid is a stern and strict IronLady, yet she doesn't hesitate to throw her support behind Counters once it's clear they can produce good results in combat (plus Rapi allowing a brain scan to see how she resisted the memory wipe from Chapter 4), while Mustang is a BenevolentBoss concerned for his Nikkes' wellbeing and openly supportive of the Commander helping them better themselves. Syuen, meanwhile, considers all her Nikkes expendable [[spoiler:with the exception of Team Matis]], doesn't bat an eye in blackmailing the Commander to do her dirty work [[spoiler:and flat-out tries to ''kill'' Team Counters in Chapter 9 as revenge for Rapi kicking her in the ribs.]] [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] quite brutally in Chapter 24, since [[spoiler:all of Syuen's misdeeds come back to bite her when Enikk puts her on trial in the aftermath of [[BoxedCrook Exotic]] and [[FaceHeelTurn Yuni]] going rogue, leading to a Rapture invasion and large-scale civilian casualties, with Enikk judging that Syuen cannot remain as Missilis CEO any more and must instead become a Nikke. Unfortunately, Enikk can't even administer such a punishment on Syuen or it will doom the Ark.]]
607* UnwillingRoboticisation: [[spoiler:She's forced to become a Nikke by Enikk in Chapter 24 when all of her misdeeds and those of her now-rogue Nikkes (Exotic and Yuni) are revealed, with Syuen being VERY unhappy about that but powerless to reverse the ruling. {{Averted}}, however, since Enikk can't do that to her without fatally compromising Missilis and the Ark.]]
608* VagueAge: She looks pretty young for a major CEO, but it's unclear if she's actually YoungAndInCharge or OlderThanTheyLook ([[ManChild and act]]).
609* VillainDecay: Syuen is the first major antagonist that Counters faces, and almost gets them killed twice within the first ten chapters of the story. She starts losing ground against them after they get promoted beyond her ability to influence, while more dangerous foes in the form of intelligent Raptures, the Heretics, and [[spoiler:Exotic]] enter the story. [[spoiler:Her sentencing in Chapter 24 takes her out of the picture as a villain, though she's still present in the story]].
610* YouAreWhatYouHate: She doesn't have a high opinion of Nikkes and treats them like trash. [[spoiler:As of the end of Chapter 24, she's on the way to becoming one herself. Or she [[AvertedTrope would be]], if Enikk could actually punish her in that way.]]
611[[/folder]]
612
613[[folder:Mustang]]
614[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mustang_4.png]]
615->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (JP), Creator/CaseyMongillo (EN)
616
617Tetra Line's eccentric CEO, known for his focus on entertainment and impressively gaudy costume. It is difficult to know what goes on in his mind underneath his showmanship, but one can at least trust in his goal for "entertainment".
618----
619* BenevolentBoss: He's the most outwardly concerned for the Nikkes' well-beings of the three [=CEOs=] and genuinely wants what's best for them, and frequently relies on the Commander's help in solving their problems or helping them better themselves. During ''Lion Heart'', he allows the Happy Zoo squad, with the Commander tasked with helping them, to bring some of the animals from the shelter to the Surface during the shelter's downtime after the Commander explained the situation.
620* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may be eccentric, strangely dressed, and focused on entertainment, but he is not to be underestimated:
621** He is the only CEO to have been there since the founding of his company and the rise of the Big Three. Both Missilis and Elysion have gone through several [=CEOs=] throughout the years, but ''nobody'' has been able to replace him. And while Tetra is the smallest of the Big Three, it is still a member of the Big Three, making them one of the most powerful companies in the Ark.
622** He is responsible for the formation of Underworld Queen, who run the three largest crime syndicates in the Ark and the Outer Rim, and while they are his partners rather than true subordinates, it is made clear they ''will'' have to answer to him if they violate their oath.
623** Prima Donna, three of the most popular musicians in the Ark, work for him, with it being noted the three have so much influence on popular culture that they require direct oversight from the Central Government. Each of the three Nikkes in his Talentum squad all run their ''own'' corporations, even.
624** Even beyond Underworld Queen, several of his squads have a focus on more cloak-and-dagger work. While Elysion's top squad acts like an elite military unit, and Missilis' top squad are over-the-top, flashy superheroes idolized by the citizens of the Ark, his top squad is Café Sweety, who appear to be a group of barely competent baristas to the majority of the Ark, but are actually some of the top mercenaries and fixers in the Ark. He also created Protocol, an information gathering squad for the Central Office of Strategic Services, which includes Exia, one of the best hackers in the Ark.
625* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mustang is if nothing else eccentric, but he is also one of the most powerful people in the entire Ark short of the top dogs of the Ark Central Government itself and his sheer influence extends across virtually every nook and cranny that Elysion and Missilis haven't already gotten to.
626* TheCavalry: Non-combat variant, he shows up prior to Counters' expedition to the Research Base in the frozen north to offer the Commander the keycard they need to let the team into the base safely, when previously they'd not been given one despite Andersen ordering the team there in the first place.
627* CharacterCatchphrase: "ENTERTAINMENT!"
628* GratuitousEnglish: In the Korean and Japanese dubs, he peppers his speech with random English words.
629* GratuitousFrench: In the English dub, he speaks in a French accent and peppers his speech with French words.
630* HiddenDepths: He is mostly a hammy, strange, but nice man primarily concerned with entertainment. However, he displays a level of compassion and care for his company's Nikkes that isn't shown by Syuen or Ingrid, and [[spoiler:he personally turned Mary into a Nikke after Pepper killed her and kept all her memories intact, both as [[LaserGuidedKarma punishment]] for having turned others into Nikkes against their will, and so that [[TheAtoner she'd have a chance to atone]] for her human life's wrongdoings]].
631* LargeHam: Raises his voice a lot in just about any dub and has a lot of stage presence, as befitting an entertainer.
632[[/folder]]
633
634!! Outer Rim
635
636[[folder:Outer Rim in general]]
637* FantasticUnderclass: The inhabitants of the Outer Rim are all officially labelled as "Noncitizens" and "Outlaws" in the eyes of the Central Government, i.e. they are not entitled to any of the rights and protections that the Central Government provides. In fact, Outer Rim residents are met with lethal force should they try to get into the Ark.
638* UrbanSegregation: The Central Government gave up on policing the Outer Rim and walled off the entirety of it from the Ark proper; any Noncitizen that tries to sneak across the wall is indiscriminately shot dead.
639* WretchedHive: The Outer Rim is the most lawless, segregated portion of the Ark. Most of the people who live there are exiles and criminals who have no human rights. If someone from the Outer Rim even attempts to enter the Ark, they're shot dead on sight.
640[[/folder]]
641
642[[folder:Team Exotic]]
643A Nikke squad that operates in the Outer Rim, consisting of [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEMissilis Crow, Jackal]], and [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKETetra Viper]]. Because of their different manufacturers, tropes involving them as a group are listed here.
644----
645* AnimalThemeNaming: All members are named after wild animals and are also named after carrion scavengers.
646* ADayInTheLimelight: They are the focus squad in the ''D-Outsider'' event, where the Commander goes on a covert mission with them in the Outer Rim.
647* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:They--more specifically Crow--are responsible for Heavenly Ascension's terrorist activities, including the AZX train bombing and, more recently, the breach that let Raptures into the Ark in Chapter 22.]]
648* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:They're not simply malicious or morally dubious in comparison to other squads, their goals are outright ''villainous'' and they know it, being the ones behind Heavenly Ascension's activities.]]
649[[/folder]]
650
651[[folder:E.H. '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
652
653!!! Spoilers for Chapter 22!
654[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e_h_nikke.png]]
655
656Full name Elysion Harper, an apathetic woman who is the leader of Heavenly Ascension.\
657She is introduced in Chapter 22.
658----
659* TheAtoner: After realizing how much danger she put the Ark in with her actions, and bearing too many injuries from the bomb, she asks Ingrid to turn her into a Nikke to atone for her crimes.
660* BadassNormal: Given that all Nikkes are women and E.H. is geared up like a military one, it'd come as a surprise in Chapter 24, "Atonement", where it's made clear she isn't a Nikke but a ''[[UnroboticReveal human]]''. Makes it impressive that she could fend off Underworld Queen, survive the excavation bomb, and make Crow wary despite her grave injuries at the time.
661* IronicName: She's the leader of a major terrorist group opposing the Ark, but she shares a name with the corporation whose Nikkes are most closely associated with the Ark's military and law enforcement. Crosses into MeaningfulName when she asks Ingrid, the CEO of Elysion, to turn her into a Nikke as punishment for her crimes.
662* UncertainDoom: In "Gateway", Chapter 22, she's last seen standing around the excavation bomb when Crow remotely sets it off, with homemade bombs that could kill her strapped all over herself no less. Later, it turns out she survived in Chapter 24, having been treated by Viper beforehand but still suffering from burns.
663* UnwittingPawn: [[ManBehindTheMan Exotic]] took advantage of her suicidal apathy over the Outer Rim residents and Nikkes being treated as less than human, subtly guiding her into taking the bomb she thought would help the Outer Rim create their own elevator to the surface. Instead, Crow forces it to blow up early, blasting a hole into the Ark that let Raptures--and Nihilister at the end--in.
664* WellIntentionedExtremist: Everything she did as the head of Heavenly Ascension was for the sake of making the Outer Rim better. But however much this aligned her goals with Underworld Queen's and their many crimes Crow is actually responsible for, she and her group are still terrorists for a reason.
665[[/folder]]
666
667[[folder:Sixo]]
668
669A mysterious criminal who frames Moran for mass murder and drug running during the ''Dirty Backyard'' event story, toppling the careful balance Underworld Queen had established in the Outer Rim. She's also the former boss of Sugar, who was originally a hitwoman following her every whim until she couldn't stomach it anymore and pulled a HeelFaceTurn.
670----
671* ArchEnemy: Secures herself as Underworld Queen's, and specifically Moran's, after framing the latter for horrible crimes she didn't commit and throwing the entire Outer Rim into further disarray than it's already in.
672* ArcVillain: Unlike previous event story antagonists, Sixo is ''not'' another [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] and isn't defeated by the end of the event she's first mentioned in. She becomes mentioned again in passing during ''KILL THE LORD'' as a target Underworld Queen continue to hunt, and even [[spoiler:extends her influence to the main campaign, keenly interested in the crystal region Counters are assigned with exploring. This implies there is much more in store with her in the future, both in the main campaign and successive Underworld Queen focused events.]]
673* BadBoss: Thinks nothing of blowing up a lackey who fails to secure the Mist drug for her. Her callousness is implied to be part of the reason Sugar left her employ.
674* TheBadGuyWins: The Hard Mode ending of ''Dirty Backyard'' reveals [[spoiler:Moran's destruction of Fog Hollow not only tanked her own reputation to the point people smear her group's headquarters with hateful messages, but it did '''''absolutely nothing''''' to stop Sixo's plans to produce Mist, as TheStinger shows the production merely changed location.]]
675* TheChessmaster: ''Dirty Backyard'' ends [[spoiler:with Sixo successfully turning the Ark against Moran and leaving her name uncleared, allowing her to advance her designs against Underworld Queen at large as she attempts to gain a greater foothold in criminal enterprises.]]
676* TheDreaded: Sixo is a dangerous and cunning criminal mastermind orchestrating the destabilization of the Outer Rim. When Moran and the Commander go investigating, they face a fair amount of resistance before they hear she's behind everything.
677* TheGhost: She doesn't make an appearance during ''Dirty Backyard'' but is spoken of with great and terrible fear. [[spoiler:Even Liveryn, who has worked with Sixo in the past and has gained extensive knowledge of the Ark's underworld through her illegal deliveries, has virtually no clue who Sixo is aside from the power they command. Shifty even notes that any and all communications that Liveryn may have made in the past month are completely untraceable.]]
678* HiddenAgendaVillain: Chapter 28 reveals that [[spoiler:they have a currently unknown vested interest in whatever Counters finds in the crystal region and has deployed Liveryn as a liaison using Fragile as leverage.]]
679
680[[/folder]]
681
682!! Others
683
684[[folder:Angelina]]
685[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angelina_nikke.png]]
686Anne's mother, who had given her own wellbeing up for her daughter's. She is finally met during the ''Miracle Snow'' event.
687----
688* DespairEventHorizon: She crossed it in Anne's backstory [[spoiler:which is why she deliberately allows the scientists of Recall & Release to trick her into paying them money, forcing her into a {{Workaholic}} lifestyle. Having to remind Anne of who she was with every visit, knowing she'd just forget her again, wore Angelina down emotionally until she couldn't bear to keep seeing her.]]
689* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Hard Mode epilogue of ''Miracle Snow'' finally gives the poor woman a break. [[spoiler:Not only does she no longer have to pay the scientists thanks to Syuen [[EveryoneHasStandards firing them all]], but some of Anne's NIMPH have bonded to her brain and granted her permanent memories that won't be erased with future wipes...including of Angelina, allowing her to begin reconnecting with her daughter again.]]
690* MumLooksLikeASister: For someone who's 45 years old and working jobs nonstop every day, she still looks well enough to appear as Anne's older sister.
691* TrickedIntoSigning: She has to work herself to the bone every day in order to pay for Anne's expensive memory wipes, though when the Commander and Rupee confront Syuen over it, it's revealed that Missilis strictly does not take money from citizens and that the employees of Recall & Release were conning Angelina all along. The Commander however felt uneasy by how simple it was to solve the problem by just talking to the CEO. [[spoiler:His suspicion was later proven right when Angelina confesses that she already knew she was being tricked, yet accepted it because she'd rather support her daughter than to face the pain of being forgotten every day.]]
692* {{Workaholic}}: The episode "Her Day" in ''Eternal Memory'' shows her hopping from one job to another for the sake of paying Anne's memory wipes, the breaks in-between being spent on moving to the next place and eating mid-walk. The only time she ever stops any of this is when she's at home to rest... and then it all repeats the moment she wakes up. [[spoiler:In truth, this was all just a way to avoid seeing her daughter.]]
693[[/folder]]
694
695[[folder:Black Ark Ranger]]
696[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_ranger_nikke.png]]
697[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Unmasked]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_ranger_2_nikke.png[[/labelnote]]]]
698A Nikke who serves under the Ark Rangers, a {{Sentai}}-styled team that doubles as famous television and movie stars. She bears with her a strong sense of justice and duty, and enjoys helping others whenever she can. Trony looks up to her as her idol.
699----
700* ColorCodedCharacters: Wears black (with shades of blue), as in her name.
701* CoolMask: She dons a badass-looking helmet when conducting operations as the Black Ark Ranger.
702* {{Sentai}}: She is a {{Tokusatsu}} heroine who is part of a team of similar transforming heroines with color-coded codenames. Her dialogue with Trony mentions that her team is lead by someone known as "Red".
703* {{Stripperific}}: She's pretty high up there as far as skimpy Nikke designs are concerned. The black latex top she wears only covers her important parts and sides, and everything that isn't covered by latex is covered by a translucent black bodysuit, except her shoulders. This is hardly mitigated by her Ranger armor, which only adds a few extra armor parts to her base outfit.
704[[/folder]]
705
706[[folder:Chime]]
707[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chime_nikke_4.png]]
708-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokoKaneda (JP), Creator/{{Ratana}} (EN)
709A Pilgrim, and member of the White Knights. She, alongside Crown, travels the surface in search of valuable treasures.
710----
711* BerserkButton: Does not like comments on her small, childish appearance, and ''especially'' any disrespect towards Crown.
712* BestServedCold: [[spoiler:Gets her revenge on Indivilia at the climax of ''Last Kingdom'', decapitating her using her own tail blade.]]
713-->'''Chime''': Look at you now. You should have killed me when you had the chance. I knew that my king would make my wish come true. And you know what my wish is?
714-->[[spoiler:*Cue Chime decapitating Indivilia*]]
715-->'''Chime:''' Revenge.
716* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When captured by Chatterbox and Indivilia, she refuses to give them what they want in favour of telling them they're going to die for attacking the White Knights.]]
717--> '''Chime''': "I would never betray my King."
718--> '''Chime''': "She will have her revenge, and see to it that your corpses hang at the city gates for the next hundred years!"
719--> '''Chime''': "For my King will come here personally to take your heads as a trophy!"
720* EarAche: [[spoiler:Indivilia slices off Chime's ear with her tail while [[MutilationInterrogation questioning]] her.]]
721* EarlyBirdCameo: First mentioned by Snow White in Chapter 17, her first appearance is in the ''Golden Ship'' event, before being properly introduced in Chapter 25.
722* {{Greed}}: While Snow White describes both her and Crown as money-hungry, she knows they would never besmirch their good name, and trusts them with taking care of [[spoiler:Marian]].
723* MechanicalHorse: Chime can call the White Knight's personal steed, Trombe, with the bells attached to her helmet. During ''Last Kingdom'', Kilo recognizes it as a "T.A.V:A", or "Tactical Autonomous Vehicle: Animal Type", a precursor of her T.A.L.O.S. mech that was discontinued due to its unstable power source.
724* TheNavigator: Chime has extensive knowledge about notable landmarks on the surface, which helps her guide the Commander's group to [[spoiler:Red Hood's hometown]].
725* OffWithHisHead:
726** [[spoiler:Near the end of part 1 of the ''Last Kingdom'' event, she gets decapitated by Indivilia, and her head is sent to Crown as a "You're next" warning.]]
727** [[spoiler:Returns the favor in part 2 of ''Last Kingdom'', after Crown uses her "Naked King" form to immobilize Indivilia, allowing Chime to execute her ''using her own tail blade.'']]
728[[/folder]]
729
730[[folder:Clay]]
731[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clay_nikke.png]]
732The other member of Rewind, who joined shortly before the rest of the squad sans Bay broke up due to accusations of scandal. Although her cheerleading skills are underdeveloped, she makes up for it in her skills with a crowd, energizing bleachers with her boundless energy.
733----
734* AscendedFangirl: She is one to the old Rewind Squad, especially Bay. Her dream of joining them one day came true when she got accepted to join Rewind... due to being the only one that applied for the audition.
735* TheDeterminator: Deconstructed in ''One More Time''. Due to Rewind's lackluster results at the cheerleading competition, Clay puts in a ton of extra work into practicing her routine, practicing well into the night despite a strict schedule with Bay. However, her inability to do the steps properly causes her to injure herself repeatedly, and because she's so dead set on practicing she does not give her own body time to heal and stresses herself out due to oversleeping, causing her performance to rapidly decline and falter on even basic movements.
736* TheKlutz: She's clumsy and has a tendency to mess up her cheer routine, which starts to get on [[ThePerfectionist Bay's]] nerves.
737[[/folder]]
738
739[[folder:Drilley]]
740[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drilley_nikke.png]]
741->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakaOhashi (JP)
742Hammering's partner from the Hammer & Drill squad. She is deployed to Reclamation Site 01 as backup following an incident in the Crystal Region.
743----
744* TheFettered: Drilley makes a point that as her squad essentially makes a living off of valuable minerals and rare jewels, there are much more unscrupulous ways of doing business, but the duo insist on making a living the fair and honourable way without relying on underhanded tactics. When questioned by Anis about why she chooses to follow a code of honor in a world that is very unfair and unkind to them, Drilley proclaims that she believes in the power of listening to a conscience, and that doing otherwise would be a very difficult path to live.
745* {{Foil}}: To [[spoiler:Liveryn]]. Both are Nikkes who work in obsoleted fields and struggle to continue day by day operations due to a lack of meaningful work, but while Drilley believes in making an honest living, [[spoiler:Liveryn resorted to illegal courier work in the Ark's underground, putting herself and the people close to her at extreme risk for the sake of money]].
746* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's not the most approachable of people and tends to lash out throughout Chapter 29 and 30 whenever she thinks the others are giving up the search for the missing Nikkes. However, this is only out of sincere concern for Hammering and desire to save her, not wanting [[MoralityChain such a moral person]] to die down in the caves.
747* JigglePhysics: Drilley is equipped with a pair of drills strapped to her back that constantly run. The vibrations from said machine cause her breasts to noticeably vibrate even while standing still.
748* RedOniBlueOni: Compared to Hammering's more casual and laid-back approach, Drilley is brash and impulsive, often jumping to conclusions and acting before thinking.
749* WeakWilled: Revealed to be teetering on the brink of this during a chat with the rest of the search team, admitting that she'd have likely given in and cut corners to make a living had [[NiceGirl Hammering]] not been there to [[MoralityChain convince her otherwise]].
750[[/folder]]
751
752%%Needs tropes[[folder:Flora]]
753%%[[quoteright:540:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flora_nikke.png]]
754%%A Nikke from the Botanic Garden squad. She first appears in Chapter 27 as a contact that Counters intercepts regarding the crystal region.
755%%----
756%%[[/folder]]
757
758[[folder:Fragile]]
759[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fragile_nikke.png]]
760->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisatoFukuen (JP)
761A courier from Pathfinder. She is deployed to Reclamation Site 01 after misfortune befalls her teammate Liveryn.
762----
763* MeaningfulAppearance: In Chapter 29, the Commander finds it unusual that while Liveryn wears fashionable and expensive-looking clothes, Fragile's clothes are much more worn and tacky, to the point where there's a noticeable hole in the seat of her pants. [[spoiler:Turns out that Liveryn has been obtaining a large amount of funding from illegal jobs in the Outer Rim, a fact that Fragile is none too happy about.]]
764* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:It is revealed that after a previous job from Sixo resulted in the death of Fragile's sister, Fragile forced Liveryn to swear that if either of them ever took another job from Sixo, they would kill themselves. Needless to say, Fragile does not take it well when she finds out that Liveryn is on yet another job from Sixo, resulting in an attempted murder-suicide.]]
765* TranquilFury: She remains mostly soft spoken and calm even as [[spoiler:she's ripping into Liveryn for taking another job from [[ArcVillain Sixo]] despite swearing they wouldn't.]]
766* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She keeps a pen stashed in her cleavage.
767* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Fragile is absolutely livid that Liveryn chose to work with Sixo again despite promising to each other that they would die together if they ever contacted them again. She proceeds to pull her gun on Liveryn and nearly kills her, only for Fragile to be pinned down by Counters. She eventually calms down after Liveryn admits that she was blackmailed into taking the job, but Fragile vows to follow through on the suicide pact if she finds out that Liveryn is in it for personal gain.]]
768[[/folder]]
769
770[[folder:Hammering]]
771[[quoteright:473:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hammering_nikke.png]]
772A Nikke from Hammer & Drill, a squad that specializes in mining operations. She is assigned to Reclamation Site 01 in order to assist Counters with mineral recovery in the crystal region.
773----
774* CarryABigStick: Always seen with a giant hammer.
775%%* HumongousHeadedHammer: It's about the size of her torso.
776* IWillFindYou: Inverted; [[spoiler:when she realizes there's not enough time to break out Elegg and Liveryn from a crystal cluster, Hammering instead asks for a location tracker. Once received, she asks Counters to find the three as the ground around the cluster lowers them underground.]]
777* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:When Hammering's body starts transforming into a second Crystal Chamber, Rapi quickly decapitates her to save her brain from being destroyed. This manages to keep her alive, but her infection had already progressed to a point where there are still crystals embedded in what's left of her neck, preventing the heroes from being able to safely remove and preserve her brain and forcing M.M.R. and Drilley to transfer her head to a classified location for further research. Further complicating matters is Sixo "coercing" Liveryn to bring her head to them for their mysterious goals.]]
778* MeaningfulName: Wields a giant hammer, and belongs to a squad called "Hammer & Drill". When introducing herself to the Counters Squad, Anis points out how unoriginal her name is considering her squad's name, while Neon jokes if her squad mate's name is Drilley. Hammering's confirmation leaves Neon in StunnedSilence.
779* MoralityChain: To Drilley, being the one to remind her about the value of making an honest living, even in a dishonest world, and helping keep Drilley on track where she might have faltered on her own.
780* ParryingBullets: While she previously failed to deflect a broken Rapture part flying towards a crystal with her hammer, [[spoiler:she is successful in deflecting a shot from the masked woman's [[{{BFG}} coffin gun.]]]] [[spoiler:She later duels the Unknown to allow Elegg and Liveryn to evade capture and in the process deflected a bullet into the ceiling, causing part of the cave they were in to collapse and partially burying the Unknown.]]
781* StepfordSmiler: Hammering is the type who dislikes burdening others with her problems if possible and will pretend to be okay even in dire circumstances. [[spoiler:This nearly costs her her life, as her insistence on pushing forward and helping everyone despite being infected by the virulent crystals causes the infection to progress enough to completely immobilize her, which would have killed her had the main team not found her in time.]]
782[[/folder]]
783
784[[folder:Jin]]
785[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nikke_db_c922_fb_026.png]]
786A member of the Peony Association crime syndicate, and Moran's main source of information.
787----
788* BrainsAndBrawn: With Moran. Jin even describes himself as the brain of the Peony Association.
789* {{Foil}}: To Moran. He's a human and a NonActionGuy who serves as TheInformant for Peony, while Moran is a DumbMuscle IdiotHero Nikke who runs the association directly.
790* FriendInTheBlackMarket: His main source of intel for the circumstances that led to [[spoiler:the Rapture Invasion in Chapter 22]] is a friend of his that joined ''Heavenly Ascension''.
791%%* HypercompetentSidekick: To Moran.
792* TheInformant: His main job in the Peony Association, providing Moran with valuable intel.
793* MrExposition: In ''Dirty Backyard'', filling the Counters Commander and Moran in on what Mist is.
794* NonActionGuy: Whenever Moran asks him for some help in upcoming fights, he chickens out, telling her that he doesn't like fighting, and is much better at gathering intel.
795[[/folder]]
796
797[[folder:K]]
798[[quoteright:494:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/k_fb.png]]
799A Nikke from Perilous Siege.
800----
801* BloodKnight: Shows some shades of this. When out on a mission, she's a little too eager to [[PayEvilUntoEvil punish wrongdoers]] compared to her more reserved squad mate, D.
802* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: Her appearance and rather cavalier attitude may convince some people that she doesn't think too hard about her missions. During the ''License to Kill'' event however, she shows several times that she grasps the gray morality that her work often brushes up against and is capable of forming her own rational opinions on what should be done.]]
803* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler: Her conclusion at the end of the ''License to Kill'' event is basically that there is no real way to ever truly attain perfect equality and that on some level, someone is going to have to suffer for someone else to prosper. As such, she supports leaving the man they have been chasing throughout the event alive without punishment.]]
804* ShipperOnDeck: An Outpost event has her trick D into taking a load off for the night with the Commander. Funnily enough, the ''KILL THE LORD'' event implies she's perfectly happy with [[{{Polyamory}} sharing him as well]] when the Commander assumes she and D will ''both'' be assuming cover identities as his wives.
805[[/folder]]
806
807[[folder:Liveryn]]
808[[quoteright:413:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liveryn_nikke.png]]
809A Nikke from Pathfinder, an Ark squad dedicated to courier duties. She is assigned to Reclamation Site 01 to assist Counters with pathfinding and navigation on the surface.
810----
811* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Despite her blundering during a life and death situation, the Commander forgives her and shows his appreciation regardless, an act that shocks Liveryn since she has never been treated with kindness by a human before. She subsequently attempts to make affectionate gestures toward the Commander during the remainder of the trip, which are humorously deflected by [[ClingyJealousGirl Rapi]] of all people.
812* DamselInDistress: Chapter 28 ends with [[spoiler: Liveryn and Elegg trapped within a large crystal cluster. Before Hammering has a chance to break them out, the cluster sinks into the ground, taking all three of them underground.]]
813* FreakOut: After accidentally leading the party into several dead ends, a frustrated Elegg calls her useless for her apparent navigation skills. This causes her anxiety to spike rapidly to the point where she starts hyperventilating, causing the team to take a detour to coax her into calming down. She later explains that due to a past incident she gets anxiety attacks when she gets called useless under stress.
814* JobStealingRobot: Liveryn mentions that Pathfinder is desperate for work since courier duties have been largely relegated to simple machines that are more efficient and less falliable than Nikkes. These days the squad mostly gets by by taking jobs from the rich and bored who pay the Nikkes to put on grandiose displays whenever they deliver packages to add a little spice to their lives.
815* KneeCapping: [[spoiler:When Fragile discovers that Liveryn is smuggling a bottle of crystals to bring back to Sixo, she shoots Liveryn in the leg to disable her and prevent her from escaping while the main squad deals with Crystal Chamber. The Commander then orders all limiters back on to stop Fragile from inflicting any further damage.]]
816* MeaningfulName: (De)livering → Liveryn.
817* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:it is revealed that she, Elegg and Hammering encountered the Unknown after being stuck in the Crystal Region underground, who seemed fine with letting them flee. However, for reasons unrevealed Liveryn was compelled to take a picture of her for her mysterious client, causing the Unknown to turn against them and attack. This ultimately forced her, Elegg and Hammering to scatter to avoid getting barbequed, making Counters' job in locating all three of them much more difficult.]]
818* SuspiciousSpending: Her clothes are much fancier, newer, and better-maintained than her squadmate Fragile's dilapidated ones, [[spoiler:exposing that she's taking dodgy jobs for extra money.]]
819[[/folder]]
820
821[[folder:Lumi]]
822[[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lumi_mask_off.png]]
823A major recurring character in ''Snowfield Oasis'', the MiniGame for the ''NEVERLAND'' event. A strange mass-produced Nikke who was found wandering the area near the hot springs resort adjacent to the Northern Base. For unknown reasons, she has difficulty communicating, but seems to be connected to the seven legends surrounding the hot springs.
824----
825* ConnectedAllAlong: It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Lumi is the youngest daughter of the family that originally owned the Snowfield Hot Springs]].
826* {{Deuteragonist}}: Make no mistake, while you do technically play as the Commander and interact with the present day Nikkes to progress, Lumi is very much the exclusive central character of ''Snowfield Oasis''. Much of the minigame's events involve uncovering her and her family's past, each Hidden Ending for the Nikkes unlocks a flashback from her perspective integral to piecing together the overarching mystery, and HundredPercentCompletion is required for the resolution of her character arc.
827* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:When Lumi finally learns to let her past go, she decides to remove her goggles, revealing her bright brown eyes.]]
828* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Although Lumi and her once happy family experienced a tragic end that caused her insufferable pain even after being reborn as a Nikke, by sharing a new world of experiences with the Commander and the Nikkes in his employ Lumi learns that although the past cannot be undone, the lingering feelings from those memories can be overwritten with fresh experiences of happiness and wonder. Lumi resolves to bring happiness to those in the same way that the Commander and his friends brought happiness to her, and thus Lumi takes off her goggles and declares her intent to stay behind at Snowfield to care for her home. In doing so, Lumi rewrites her final legend to read "If you experience all the legends, then you will be happy".]]
829* ElectiveBrokenLanguage: Lumi typically only answers to binary queries, and only with "Yes". She does have the ability to speak up when the legends of the hot springs are directly involved, but only in difficult fragmented sentences. [[spoiler:She overcomes her speech impediment by the end, after she has discovered new warmth and passion among Snowfield and the ability to put her past behind her.]]
830* FlashbackCut: One each for each of the Hidden Endings in the minigame.
831** Mica: [[spoiler:Lumi, Lua and Lena visit the waterfall near the hot springs, where Lumi wishes for eternal happiness for her family.]]
832** Emma: [[spoiler:Lena blames Lua for hurting Lumi and abuses her. When Lumi is unable to find her sisters one night, she goes to the hot springs only to accidentally see Lena pushing Lua from the waterfall and forcing her to dangle from a rope. Lena denies knowing Lua's whereabouts, but in the cover of night Lumi visits the dying Lua to help her, feeding her soup to conceal her presence from Lena.]]
833** Ludmilla: [[spoiler:Lumi tearfully prays to the hot springs for Lua to save her while Lena tries to coerce her to return home. Under the moonlight, the red glow of a Rapture's core reflects across the hot spring's surface as it screams violently before Lumi.]]
834** Blanc & Noir: [[spoiler:Lumi, Lua and Lena spend time in the hot spring on their day off, where they playfully bicker amongst themselves. Lumi hopes that that happiness between them can last forever.]]
835* GoldenEnding: Lumi's ending is the final ending achievable for ''Snowfield Oasis'' and can only be obtained with HundredPercentCompletion.
836* HowWeGotHere: The Epilogue reveals the circumstances leading up to the first meeting with Lumi. [[spoiler:She was part of a Nikke squad deployed to the north on a mission, but she became terrified of the Raptures and fled alone, eventually winding up at her old home. As she tidied up the place, she began to recall her DarkAndTroubledPast, which was so traumatic for her that it resulted in a Mind Switch, causing her speech impediment.]]
837* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:After Lumi overcomes her trauma, she decides that she wants to stay at Snowfield and maintain it to continue bringing happiness to all who visit.]]
838* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: In Blanc and Noir's scenario, the twins suggest that the legend that says "luck will come when [redacted] enters the hot spring" might have to do with family. When they get Lumi in on their experimentation, Lumi's wording suggests that it must be "sisters", with Noir electing to be the "older sister" and Blanc being the "younger sister" so that all three of them can enter the hot spring together. This causes Lumi to react violently to Noir in particular, with it being heavily implied that [[spoiler:Lumi has imprinted the personas of her deceased sisters on the twins, with Blanc standing in for Lua and Noir standing in for Lena]]. [[spoiler:Noir manages to overwrite this perception in her second Bond event after Lumi nearly falls into the hot spring, with Noir becoming Lumi's "mother" and the Commander her "dad".]]
839* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler:The Epilogue plays through all of Lumi's flashback sequences in chronological order with complete details, explaining how she and her family met its bitter end.]]
840* SiblingRivalry: [[spoiler:It is later revealed that Lumi was unwittingly caught in the middle of one between her older sister Lena and second oldest sister Lua. Lena hated Lua for being the object of Lumi's attachment and sought to remove Lua from the picture by any means necessary if it meant having Lumi all to herself. Lena verbally abused Lua for anything remotely involving Lumi's safety, ultimately culminating in Lena pushing Lua from the waterfall and torturing her by keeping her tied to the cliff for days on end without food. The torture eventually became too much to bear for Lua and she committed suicide in her and Lumi's bedroom, whose spirit continues to haunt the depths of the dormitory to this day.]]
841* ThemeInitials: [[spoiler:Lumi's sisters also have names that start with the letter "L".]]
842* UrbanLegends: Lumi appears to possess knowledge of the seven legends that are spoken of in the texts of the hot springs and guides the other characters along to resolving them. [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that she is actually the source of the "legends", based on her past life at Snowfield which ended in the destruction of her family and her premature death.]]
843* WalkingSpoiler: Lumi is deeply integrated with the plot of ''Snowfield Oasis'' and is very difficult to talk about without spoiling the story.
844[[/folder]]
845
846[[folder:Mana]]
847[[quoteright:313:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mana_fb.png]]
848A Nikke from Missilis Military Research. She also oversees the Rehabilitation Center in some capacity, working with the Commander to rehabilitate some Nikkes as part of the Liberation system.
849----
850* BadassBookworm: She's a researcher along with Ether. Being a Nikke, this presumably does not stop her from being capable of fighting Raputres.
851* BeleagueredBureaucrat: A Brief Encounter in the Outpost shows her drinking with Brid and Yulha. They all collectively drink away the sorrows of their difficult day jobs.
852%%* OfficeLady: She dresses like one.
853[[/folder]]
854
855[[folder:Papillon]]
856[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/papillon_fb.png]]
857Flirtatious, forward, but secretly ambitious, this Nikke serves under Burningum for her own agendas.\
858She is currently unplayable, debuting in Chapter 18 of the main story.
859----
860* ButtMonkey: Her acting skills in kissing up to people might have worked on most, but Counters, let alone Anis and Neon? Throughout Chapter 19, while the Commander and Rapi stay stoic, the two jokesters constantly tease Papillon with the reveal of their goals and infuriate her to no end.
861* FemmeFataleSpy: She fits this trope, being a woman in a sexy dress that adds to her flirtatious personality, but only acting that way for her agendas. Counters though is well aware of her being a spy from Burningum, so they let her tag along while messing around with her by not making clear about their secrets.
862* MsFanservice: She wears a [[{{Stripperiffic}} strapped black dress]] that shows off her huge CleavageWindow and underarms, and bares her legs up to a near visible view of her posterior. This is on top of her flirting and sensuous voice. Still, the glitzy appearance is in keeping with her FemmeFatale personality.
863* ProfessionalButtKisser: Yulha describes her as a "conniving floozie" during her bond story, and sure enough, Papillon often acts overly affectionate towards figures of authority. Seeing as Chapter 20 makes it clear she's aiming for a high life, it's obvious she wants connections in likewise high places.
864** In Chapter 18, "Temptation", she emphasizes the fact that she's Burningum's "one and only Nikke" that suggests he's emotionally reliant on her.
865** In Chapter 19, she's usually sweet towards the Commander, calling him "Honey" and wanting to "kiss his boo-boos away" by the last part of the chapter. [[ButtMonkey This leads to Neon kissing her head]], who excuses herself by retorting Papillon's brain must be damaged for her to be acting that way.
866** In Chapter 20, when Johan dismisses the Commander's ability to lead, Papillon is quick to stand up for him by saying how his reputation is large enough to merit attention from the Ark military's top brass and the Big Three.
867* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Papillon disappears from the main story after Chapter 22 as she is being kept as a bargaining chip and informant by Dorothy in Eden.]]
868[[/folder]]
869
870[[folder:Raptilion]]
871[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raptilion_nikke.png]]
872A resident of the Ark who believes that it is possible to coexist with the Raptures. They don't get much respect from the Commander or Counters.
873----
874* AmbiguousGender: The english localization can't seem to settle on Raptilion's gender, as they are refered to by both male and female pronouns interchangeably at various ponts of their side-quest. [[spoiler:This is later taken care of in Chapter 27, where they are revealed to have a male voice.]]
875* AscendedExtra: Raptilion is first introduced in a set of side-quests where the Commander assists them in trying to establish communications with the Raptures in an attempt to prove that coexistence is possible, ending with [[spoiler:said Raptures rescuing them from the Central Government's assassination squad and accepting them as one of their own even after learning that Raptilion is human.]] After this, [[PutOnABus they disappear from the game...]] [[TheBusCameBack until Chapter 26,]] where they get their first main story appearance [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes saving Counters]] by [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments sicking a MOTHER WHALE on an offending group of Raptures.]]]]
876* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Saves the Counters from a horde of incoming Raptures by getting [[ActionPet his]] [[AttackAnimal pet]] [[PetMonstrosity Mother]] [[UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople Whale]] to devour them all. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by how Rapi was sure that the Counters would be able to defeat them on their own, but the appearance of the Mother Whale at first created the impression that the situation is hopeless; the Big Damn Heroes moment happens when the Counters realise that what they deemed the most formidable enemy is actually a friend.]]
877* DynamicEntry: And quite possibly the most epic one imaginable in the game's universe!
878* FluffyTamer: [[spoiler: He manages to tame a Mother Whale while in a [[PaperThinDisguise ramshackle]] costume.]]
879* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: They are never seen in person unless it is in their Rapture disguise.
880* InterspeciesFriendship: [[spoiler:During his prolonged absence, he befriended a Mother Whale, whom he affectionately refers to as "Whaley". Raptilion and Whaley go on sightseeing trips above the surface together, to the point where Raptilion was able to sketch a topographically accurate map of the surface outside of the immediate vicinity of the Ark. He also convinced her to go vegetarian, which he believes is how her color scheme changed to white.]]
881* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:He is not shown with his human appearance during his on-screen debut in Chapter 27, instead appearing in his makeshift Rapture costume.]]
882* WideEyedIdealist: The believe that the Raptures can coexist with humans despite the ''massive'' amount of evidence suggesting otherwise, which is only compounded by the introduction of intelligent and truly sadistic Raptures like Chatterbox. [[spoiler:However, as you progress down their questline, they gradually manage to find ways to communicate with some Raptures, which culminates in said Raptures rescuing them from the Central Government even after seeing that Raptilion is human. This comes to a head in Chapter 26 when Raptilion bails out Counters by unleashing a ''Mother Whale'' on an offending group of Raptures.]]
883* ZombieAdvocate: They believe it is possible to coexist with the Raptures and tries hard to establish communications with them. [[spoiler:It pays off ''big time'' in Chapter 26.]]
884[[/folder]]
885
886[[folder:Rumani]]
887[[quoteright:313:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rumani_fb.png]]
888The sportiest Nikke of Nepenthe, always pushing for people into exercising.
889----
890* TheCameo: She has so far appeared in Epinel and Folkwang's bond episodes and, of course, Brief Encounters involving the Fitness Club.
891* FitnessNut: Somewhat ironically, where Epinel usually slacks off or plays around with her skateboard, and Folkwang's always busy cooling herself, Rumani is the only one of her squad that fits the image of an exercise instructor pushing people to sweat hard--even if she all but manhandles you into doing it.
892* FormFittingWardrobe: It's justified since fitness clothing is generally tight for workouts, [[SexyWhateverOutfit although]] Rumani's top seems a size too short for her cleavage to be showing, and her PaintedOnPants are worryingly a couple centimetres past the waistline.
893[[/folder]]
894
895[[folder:Ruru]]
896[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruru_nikke.png]]
897A stray kitten found by Nero during the event Nya Nya Paradise. Abandoned by her owners, the event focuses on Nero's and the Commander's efforts to keep them safe and bring them into the shelter.
898----
899* CuteKitten: They are a recently abandoned kitten and is absolutely cute.
900* DeadPersonConversation: A one-sided example. [[spoiler: After beating the hard mode of ''Nya Nya Paradise'', the player will receive a message in the same group chat for the event that seems to come from Ruru judging by the broken grammar and spelling.]]
901* DelicateAndSickly: They are a young kitten and so are not suited to living without human support. As a result, they become malnourished after living as a stray. [[spoiler: They end up dying due to this.]]
902* {{Heaven}}: [[spoiler:Beating the hard mode of ''Nya Nya Paradise'' reveals that they end in some kind of OffscreenAfterlife with other younger kittens. They happily teach them what the Commander and Nero taught them and state that they are happy that they stayed with them until the end, and that they hope to meet them again someday.]]
903* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Even when they were dying from illness, Ruru wanted nothing more than for their owners to come back for them. They die having never seen them again.]]
904* SharedUnusualTrait: They have differently colored eyes like Nero which endears them to Nero even more.
905* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Ruru dies senselessly in the event, having become too ill to have any more hope for survival. Subverted somewhat as thanks to the efforts of Nero and the Commander, Ruru at least dies having been cared for and having spent their last days happy with them.]]
906* UndyingLoyalty: Played for drama. [[spoiler:It's implied that the main reason that Ruru doesn't want to go to the shelter is that they are holding onto the hope that their original owners will come back for them eventually. Sadly, this misplaced loyalty might have been the thing that killed Ruru as they grew ill from being too malnourished living as a stray when they could have been taken care of earlier had they simply gone to the shelter immediately. In the end, they die waiting for their owner to come back and take them.]]
907[[/folder]]
908
909[[folder:The Unknown ('''Spoilers for Chapter 28 onward!''')]]
910!!"Grave"
911[[quoteright:565:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grave_nikke.png]]
912A mysterious masked figure who appears to be guarding an entity at the center of the crystal phenomenon plaguing an abandoned city. She wields one of the Seven Dwarves, a component of the legendary arsenal crafted by Snow White.
913----
914* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Referring to Anachiro as a Heretic causes Grave to respond with extreme violence, firing several explosive shots at Rapi with little effect. Her mood sours further when she discovers that Rapi has inherited the power and memories of Red Hood, causing her to abandon the heroes and flee.]]
915* {{BFG}}: The coffin she's wielding isn't just for show, since it's contains a gun with firepower rivalling Snow White's anti-material rifle. Coincidentally, she also calls it ''Seven Dwarves''.
916* DarkAndTroubledPast: Although she isn't especially clear about her past given her speech patterns, it is revealed that she hates humans because they were cruel and tortured her, and even when she saved their lives they showed her no kindness, forcing her to kill her human masters for her own safety. She deems the Commander "not a human" because he does not hurt her nor is mean to her.
917* HeroWorshipper: Seeing Rapi tapping into the power of Red Hood only angers Grave, with her dialogue hinting that she holds the Goddess Squad in high regards.
918-->'''Grave:''' You've stolen the dead. Insulting my mission wasn't enough. You must also defile the heroes of the past.
919-->'''Grave:''' ...Die. Die and repent.
920* HumansAreBastards: Similar to Dorothy she has a beef with humans and does not trust them, calling them quick to turn when they get the chance. The Commander manages to gain her trust by having his Nikkes rescue her after she is pinned under a heap of crystals, which causes her to change her tune.
921* NameAmnesia: She has long since forgotten her name, if she ever had one. After the Commander unsuccessfully attempts to give her a name, she decides to call herself "Grave".
922[[/folder]]
923
924!!! Historical Characters
925
926[[folder:Freesia]]
927[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freesia_nikke.png]]
928A human girl that Red Hood saved from a Rapture attack on a refugee camp during the 1st Invasion.
929----
930* AmbiguouslyRelated: Though a child, she shares a few traits with Rapi such as having straight and long brown hair (albeit a shade darker), [[DeadpanSnarker a calm attitude that she can drop for a few snide remarks]], and the same voice actor. Her dream is to be a Nikke, though at that point, there's no telling whether or not she is Rapi's previous identity, [[spoiler:even with Rapi's appearance as a mass-produced Nikke in the Hard Mode ending]].
931* DeadpanSnarker: As steady-sounding as she had been talking about how her parents died, she's not impressed by Red Hood's sloppy handwriting when the latter autographs her gloves.
932* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Freesia mentions to Red Hood that her mother and father died of illness some time ago. However, she's not too upset about it because they were able to share cherished memories together up until their last breaths, giving her a form of closure.
933* {{Fangirl}}: Like many, she adores the Goddess Squad and asks Red Hood to sign her gloves, which makes it significant because it's a first for the bombastic sniper. She also tells Red Hood that they inspired her to pursue her dream of becoming a Nikke.
934* WiseBeyondTheirYears: For someone so little and without her parents, she's well-adjusted to the wartorn world.
935[[/folder]]
936
937[[folder:The Legendary Commander]]
938[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goddess_commander_nikke.png]]
939A dashing young man who lead the very first official Nikke team, the legendary Goddess Squad. Known to the world for his unmatched tactical prowess and leadership skills, he is the ultimate role model for all modern Commanders. However, during the 1st Invasion, he suddenly disappeared, his ultimate fate shrouded in mystery.
940----
941* AuthoritySoundsDeep: The Legendary Commander has an impressively deep voice and has the commanding skills to back it up. Curiously, it is nearly, if not totally identical, to how Andersen sounds in the present day.
942* BadassLongcoat: To distinguish his appearance from your standard run-of-the-mill commanders, he sports a large trenchcoat draped over his shoulders that constantly flows in the wind.
943* BrutalHonesty: Whenever he gets serious, he tends to cut the crap and lay it on without mincing words.
944** When Dorothy joins the squad and tells him that her dream is to make everything go back to the way they were, he simply informs her that they've long passed the point of no return. In exchange, he tells her that she can instead direct her rage at a stolen past towards the Raptures.
945** [[spoiler:Frustrated at Liliweiss wasting time to grieve at a proclaimed memorial site for the first Grimms model, the Legendary Commander tags along and threatens to burn the place to the ground. When Liliweiss is caught off guard, he tells her to get herself together and stop being attached to someone she barely knew and who died of causes completely out of her control.]]
946* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his... almost childish personality, he is known as the "Legendary Commander" for a good reason.
947* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's not-so-subtly implied that he's Andersen in his youth, and that the man we see in the game proper has had his life extended thanks to groundbreaking Ark technology. This has yet to be fully confirmed though, and his shades and hat obscure his full appearance.]]
948%%* CoatCape: How he wears his trenchcoat.
949* CoolShades: The Legendary Commander is never seen without his pair of super snazzy aviators.
950* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: During a Lost Relic cutscene in ''Red Ash'', he tells Liliweiss to stop blaming herself for the death of [[spoiler: the first Grimms model Nikke]], as it was something out of her control, even threatening to burn down the flower field she frequents to mourn, noting she's always in a funk upon her return. He relents after Liliweiss promises to never visit it again, on the condition that he doesn't repeat her behavior when the Goddess Squad members eventually die. Instead, he tells her he'll visit their graves every year to mourn, and she'll have to make sure not to die on him if she doesn't want that to happen, promising to do the same in return.
951* JokeCharacter: When asking Snow White why she didn't make the Legendary Commander playable in the ''Memory of Goddess'' minigame, Red Hood guesses it's because his pathetic fighting skills would turn him into this.
952* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Liliweiss and he seem to have this relationship instead of simply being subordinate and boss. There are many instance in the Red Ash event where we get to see how close they are, one such example is from one of the brief encounters named "First meeting". It shows the time when Dorothy was recruited into the Goddess Squad and for whatever reason, the Legendary Commander appears to hug or arm locked Liiweiss only for her to break out of the Legendary Commander's "Mecha Destructer" with no effort but enough for him to remark that it "feels like she tore his arm out of the socket" (Lilith is, by the way, WAY stronger than a modern Nikke and far more stronger than an average human). Dorothy even lampshade this by saying that this is not what she had imagined how they would be.
953* NonActionGuy: Like the Commanders that followed in his footsteps, he leaves the fighting to his Nikkes.
954* NotSoStoic: Being the Legendary Commander doesn't mean going without quirks.
955** At the start of the prologue's mission briefing in ''Red Ash'', he addresses Goddess Squad... then suddenly expresses his dissatisfaction over the title, feeling like no one saw [[TheOneGuy the only man]] in a squad full of "goddesses" when they made the name. Liliweiss then reminds him to continue the briefing.
956** When the Goddess Squad was assigned to take back the Lift, he wore a spacesuit but since he always wanted to wear one, he was so excited that he "couldn't sleep" the night before their mission.
957[[/folder]]
958
959[[folder:Liliweiss]]
960->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukariTamura (JP), Tamara Fritz (EN)
961[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liliweiss_nikke.png]]
962A Nikke prototype who served as a co-leader of the Goddess Squad alongside the 1st Commander. She is known for her sociable, yet captivatingly perceptive and intelligent personality, and as a prototype she additionally exceeds the rest of the Goddess Squad in raw power. She tragically perished during the 1st Invasion, leaving Dorothy to lead the remnants of the Goddess Squad in her wake.
963----
964* AffectionateNickname: "Lilith" for short.
965* {{Bookends}}: ''OVER ZONE'' begins with a pre-recorded message from Liliweiss to the remaining members of the Goddess Squad. The last Lost Relic found in ''Red Ash'' shows her recording it.
966* CurbStompBattle: Delivers two of those to the same person in amusing ways:
967** After being told by Scarlet that she would only join the Goddess Squad if they could beat her, Liliweiss steps up to the plate and wallops Scarlet in a single blow, [[OneHitKO instantly KO'ing her.]] The Legendary Commander sums it up thus:
968---> "Uhuh... Mecha Destructor is so scary..."
969** Liliweiss ''humors'' Scarlet with a rematch after the latter proves to be a SoreLoser, claiming she was not mentally prepared to fight during their initial meeting. Even with Scarlet ready to fight, the result remains the same: Liliweiss uppercuts Scarlet so hard she ''lodges the latter in the ceiling''.
970---> '''Dorothy''': Yikes, look at her legs dangling.
971* DesecratingTheDead: [[spoiler:At the end of "White Memory", Snow White discovers that Liliweiss's head has been forcibly ripped from her corpse by a Rapture attack, causing her to have a full-on mental breakdown.]]
972* DoomedByCanon: She is one of three members of the Goddess Squad not present in the current day besides the Legendary Commander and Red Hood. Considering that ''OVER ZONE'' makes a point of mentioning that she's dead, it's not hard to figure out what happens to her by the end of ''Red Ash''.
973* ExoticEyeDesigns: She has sparkly, star-shaped pupils.
974* GameBreaker: In-universe, this is Snow White's explanation as to why Liliweiss isn't playable in the ''Memory of Goddess'' minigame.
975* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler: The (currently unnamed) first Grimms model Nikke. A Brief Encounter in ''Red Ash'' reveals she was built based on Liliweiss, but due to missing adjustments during her creation, she died being unable to handle the physical strain. Liliweiss partly blames herself for her death, so she frequently visits the flower field where they last talked to each other.]]
976* MegatonPunch: She immediately delivers one to Scarlet after Scarlet agrees to join if Liliweiss can defeat her. It's strong enough to knock her out unconscious. When Scarlet later demands a rematch, Liliweiss delivers a single uppercut that's so strong, it ''embeds Scarlet in the ceiling''.
977* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:There's a heavy implication in ''OVER ZONE'' that she was converted into the Rapture Queen]].
978* SuperPrototype: The first Nikke and easily the strongest, easily outclassing the rest of Goddess Squad - who all fit this themselves in their own right. [[spoiler:This has a fatal drawback, however; as her design was not made with longevity in mind, unlike models built after her, Liliweiss's body begins to slowly degrade over the course of the 1st Invasion.]]
979* WorldsBestWarrior: It is repeatedly stated that Liliweiss is bar none the most powerful Nikke of the Goddess Squad. It is noted that she is never seen actually wielding any sort of weapon and her arsenal is so utterly advanced that not even a GadgeteerGenius like Snow White can comprehend it; additionally, according to Rapunzel, Scarlet has never beaten Liliweiss in a fight.
980* YouAreInCommandNow: After she and the Legendary Commander are being called into a meeting with the Central Government, she appoints Dorothy as leader of the Goddess Squad while they are absent.
981* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:In ''Red Ash'' Story 2, Liliweiss hints that this is the cost of her being a SuperPrototype meant to be effective in the short term. While the Legendary Commander says she has about two centuries left to live, she believes this isn't the case, and starts understanding how Red Hood must've felt about her impending death.]]
982[[/folder]]
983
984[[folder:Pinne]]
985[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pinne_nikke.png]]
986->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmiLo (EN)
987One of the mass-produced Nikkes who fought alongside the remnants of Goddess Squad in the final stages of Project: Ark Guardian. She features in the event ''OVER ZONE''.
988----
989* TheCorruption: [[spoiler:Falls prey to it after destroying a massive Rapture all by herself, holding on just long enough to beg Dorothy for a MercyKill.]]
990* DavidVersusGoliath: [[spoiler:The Rapture she took on was five times her size and vastly more powerful, but Pinne still managed to kill it. Shame she was corrupted in the process.]]
991* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:As she doesn't physically appear in the present day at all, either living in [[HiddenElfVillage Eden]] with Dorothy or [[WalkingTheEarth on the move]] with Pioneer, it's not hard to figure out from the moment Pinne turns up that she's not making it out of [[FlashBackEpisode OVER ZONE]] alive. Sure enough, she's dead before part 1's finished.]]
992* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:She didn't go gently, taking on a incredibly powerful Rapture as a mere mass-produced model and ''winning'' to help protect the Ark and Dorothy, only dying thanks to being corrupted in the process.]]
993* GenkiGirl: For someone who's only a mass-produced Nikke who understands she doesn't have the same life expectancy as that of Goddess, she's upbeat, smiles a lot, [[BlackComedy jokes]] sometimes about her impending doom and even isn't as fazed by the human corpses she sees as Dorothy was when scrounging for food.
994* HelpfulHallucination: [[spoiler: To cope with her death, Dorothy spends most of Story II hallucinating Pinne's presence, acting as if she was still among them while dodging any attempts to remind her otherwise. The rest of Goddess Squad are naturally concerned about her condition but ultimately decide to let it play out, fearing the potential consequences it may have for Dorothy's mind should they do or say anything that could make "Pinne" disappear. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Sure enough]], it's when the hallucination ends after Dorothy comes to terms with Pinne's passing that Dorothy [[StartOfDarkness begins her path to becoming the ruthless and manipulative Nikke she is in the present.]]]]
995* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:Clings to her sense of self and fights TheCorruption long enough to beg for and receive a MercyKill from Dorothy.]]
996* HeroWorshipper: She volunteered to participate in Project: Ark Guardian because it would give her a chance to fight alongside her heroes, the Goddess Squad.
997* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Pinne helps Dorothy find her path after the burden of leadership becomes apparent, helping guide her through daily life on the surface, serve as a voice of reason for her and the rest of the Goddess Squad, and ultimately remind them of why they still continue to fight. [[spoiler:So when she ultimately dies, Dorothy [[WentCrazyWhenTheyLeft doesn't take it well. At all.]]]]
998* MauveShirt: Of the many mass-produced Nikkes seen in present day, Pinne is the first of her kind to have a central role in any story, accompanied by a minorly changed Product 23 sprite with the visor removed. [[spoiler:She ultimately is given a [[MercyKill coup de grace]] by Dorothy before she fully falls to Rapture corruption.]]
999* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Single-handedly defeats a giant Rapture that had been attempting to flank Dorothy while she was fighting off another raid. When Rapunzel and Scarlet observe the aftermath of the fight they're both stunned that she accomplished such a feat. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, doing this exposes her to Rapture corruption.]]
1000* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:She dies at the end of the first part of ''OVER ZONE'', having fallen to Rapture corruption and pleaded Dorothy to kill her before she turned. Dorothy continues to hallucinate Pinne's presence throughout Story II, having undergone SanitySlippage and needing a way to cope with her death.]]
1001* SoleSurvivor: The only one of her fellow mass-produced Nikkes to survive the fateful Rapture attack that wiped out the outpost's food stores. [[spoiler:She doesn't last long by the end of the first part of the event.]]
1002* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Throughout ''OVER ZONE'', she's a kind, chipper, thoroughly helpful and inspiring presence for Dorothy, helping her come to grips with TheChainsOfCommanding, learn to rely on others to help fix unexpected problems and regain hope in the mission's success when she's in HeroicBSOD mode. [[spoiler:So, naturally, she dies at the end of part 1 to send Dorothy tumbling over the DespairEventHorizon all over again, as there was no way she'd become the [[BitchInSheepsClothing person]] [[ManipulativeBitch she]] [[JerkassWoobie is]] in the present day with Pinne there to mellow her out.]]
1003* UniformityException: Pinne looks like every other Product 23 Nikke... except she doesn't wear her visor, allowing her eyes to be visible, and she has a distinct pink gold crystalline necklace. [[spoiler:Said necklace eventually becomes a TragicKeepsake for Dorothy, worn as a hair accessory on her battle armor.]]
1004[[/folder]]
1005
1006[[folder:Rose]]
1007[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rose_nikke.png]]
1008Scarlet's older sister and a fellow specialized mass-produced unit from the Melee Squad. She tragically perished prior to Scarlet's recruitment into the Goddess Squad.
1009----
1010* TheAce: Considered the best Nikke of the Melee Squad, becoming it's leader and [[spoiler: most likely candidate to [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne survive until the end]] according to their commander.]]
1011* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Scarlet, winning over 900 duels with her and only drawing 10, with Scarlet never having one single victory over her to her name. [[spoiler:Until the end of ''New Year, New Sword'', where she finally surpasses Rose...while they're fighting to the death.]]
1012* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: When confronted by the truth behind the Melee Squad, learning that only one of them can survive, Rose decided to discard her ideals of protecting humanity in order to protect her sister Scarlet.]]
1013* BigSisterInstinct: Like any good sister, her first concern is protecting Scarlet. [[spoiler:Darkly deconstructed by the end of ''New Year, New Sword'' where this instinct drives her to turn against her squad and kill her commander once she learns that ThereCanBeOnlyOne, intending for it to be Scarlet.]]
1014* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:She becomes the Cain to Scarlet's Abel, but only to [[AntiVillain save her life]] once she finds out the [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne true purpose]] of the Melee Squad.]]
1015* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:After learning the truth of the Melee Squad was created (sending them on increasing more dangerous missions [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne until only one member remains]] to be turned into a Grimms model Nikke), Rose decided to kill her commander.]]
1016* {{Determinator}}: She manages to [[spoiler:overcome the built-in limiter that stops Nikkes from harming humans and kill her commander by putting a red blindfold on and ''forcing her mind to think he's a Rapture'']].
1017* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Rose shares her dying moments being embraced by Scarlet after impaling herself on Scarlet's blade.]]
1018* DieOrFly: [[spoiler:She forces Scarlet, who until then had been AlwaysSecondBest to her in combat, into a DuelToTheDeath so she can finally surpass Rose and survive in her place. It works.]]
1019* DoomedByCanon: As Scarlet is the only Nikke in the present to specialize in melee combat, it's easy to guess what Rose's ultimate fate is prior the the events of the main story. [[spoiler:''New Year, New Sword'' reveals Rose died by Scarlet's hand after the former killed their squad's commander in an act of rebellion.]]
1020* FairytaleMotifs: Mirroring her sister Scarlet, Rose is named after the character Janghwa from the Korean folktale ''Janghwa Hongryeon jeon''.
1021* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler: When confronted by Scarlet after killing their squad's commander, Rose declares herself a traitor to humanity, and challenges her sister to a DuelToTheDeath, threatening to kill even more Nikkes and humans if Scarlet doesn't stop her.]]
1022* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to her sister Scarlet's Red Oni. Contrasting her sister's serious attitude, Rose is carefree and outgoing, [[spoiler:characteristics Scarlet would adapt in the present.]]
1023* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:After killing her commander and resisting squadmates, Rose challenges Scarlet to a DuelToTheDeath to see which of them is worthy of living. In reality, Rose never intended to live after what she had done, and when Scarlet disarms her and puts her blade to Rose's torso, Rose finishes the job and pulls the blade into her core, fatally wounding her.]]
1024[[/folder]]
1025
1026! Eden
1027!!! Due to their introduction happening late in the main story, '''spoilers up to Chapter 21 are unmarked.''' Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
1028
1029[[folder:Eden in general]]
1030Eden is a futuristic, remote settlement where humans and Nikkes coexist as equals, in contrast to the master-slave dynamic that defines the Ark's human-Nikke interactions.
1031----
1032* DoesntTrustThoseGuys: The inhabitants of Eden despise Ark citizens for being "fools", "backstabbers", and "weaklings who can't make the cut in reclaiming the surface". Hard to blame them, considering how much of a shithole Ark society and government is under the surface.
1033* TheExile: Many of the residents are former Ark citizens who left the underground city for one reason or the other.
1034* HiddenElfVillage: Like its namesake, Eden is a paradise compared to the cramped Ark where humans and Nikkes live in harmony, and is located far from the reach of the Ark's network of elevators, and is furthermore concealed with optical camouflage technology.
1035* InvisibilityCloak: It has been shielded with an optical camouflage so that various pesky factions, particularly the Ark and the Raptures, don't come knocking on their door.
1036* OutcastRefuge: Eden is a haven for Nikkes from the discrimination that is endemic to Ark society, as well as for those of Ark's human citizens who have had enough of the Ark government's moral corruption.
1037* {{Tomorrowland}}: This place is well beyond anything that the Ark's brightest can make in scientific and technological advancement, many of which are [[GadgeteerGenius Cecil]]'s brainchildren.
1038[[/folder]]
1039
1040[[folder:Johan]]
1041[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johan_nikke.png]]
1042->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoFurukawa (JP)
1043A cold-hearted and efficient Commander who defected from the Ark and now works for Eden. He seeks to reclaim the surface from the Raptures, no matter the cost. He is met in Chapter 19 leading Team Inherit against Counters. Lost Relics found during the campaign reveal that his real name is Jonathan Cross, and that he was 28 when he earned the nickname New Hope.
1044----
1045* TheAce: Physical enhancements aside, Johan's tactical prowess far exceeds that of any typical commander, much less the Commander himself. Nihilister's Investigation Story has him reveal that he used to be a star commander back at the Ark a long time ago before he defected, and he now believes that he can teach the Commander a thing or two about leading Nikkes in battle. It is even revealed in Chapter 29 that his exploits were so illustrious that the Ark designed special communication equipment just for him.
1046* ArtificialLimbsAreStronger: Thanks to Eden's advanced technology, Johan has been imbued with cybernetic enhancements that give him Nikke-tier strength, allowing him to manhandle the Commander and destroy Raptures single-handedly.
1047* DarkAndTroubledPast: He has a massive chip on his shoulder regarding the Ark, or at least whatever occurred while he was still a part of it. Dorothy hints at it when she reveals her scheme to him, although she does not elaborate further. Chapter 21 reveals he was arrested after his last campaign, charged with treason and imprisoned by the Central Government.
1048* DefectorFromDecadence: His illustrious career abruptly ended when an unspecified mission left him with severe injuries '''and''' falsely accused of treason against the Ark; between that betrayal and the wretchedness of Ark society, it's no wonder that he ended up defecting to Eden after he somehow escaped.
1049* DefrostingIceQueen: Johan's introduction to the plot has him mercilessly disparaging the Commander's strength and goals before attempting to inflict DisneyVillainDeath on him. It's not until they team up for the Nihilister operation that he sees the Commander's strength of conviction come to the forefront and make up tenfold for his lack of tactical or physical ability, whereupon Johan reevaluates his opinion on him and concludes that he and his team are lives worth saving when Nihilister forces his hand.
1050* {{Foil}}: To the player Commander, having been a lauded and famous Commander himself in the Ark years prior to the story, and a tragic incident prompted him to flee to Eden where Nikkes and humans are treated as equals. Whatever happened left him jaded and cynical in comparison to the Commander's ever present optimism. While Johan is a {{Cyborg}} SuperSoldier and tactical genius, the Commander is, as far as we know, still a normal human and not particularly gifted; instead, he perseveres through sheer HeroicWillpower and empathy for Nikkes. Johan's interactions with the Commander eventually work out his good side and convince him to save Counters, perhaps seeing some of his old self in the young man.
1051* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Whenever Johan is visibly furious, his expression turns dark, causing the piercing glow of his blue eyes to become evident.
1052* GutturalGrowler: Johan's voice is low and rough.
1053* TheMentor: Being a former commander of the Ark who's got the years and skill, he ambivalently becomes one to the Commander once they join together for the hunt on Nihilister, then settles into the role in Chapter 21 by teaching him how to repair the cannons and foraging in the wild.
1054* MentorInSourArmor: Johan's not the nicest guy in the world and he's got a tiny bit of an attitude problem after what the Ark put him through to make him leave in the first place, which reflects in his initial attitudes towards the Commander. He eventually learns to soften up once he sees the Commander and his team in action, and gets around to teaching the Commander several tactical tricks and field skills to improve his effectiveness on the battlefield and help cover his team's weaknesses.
1055* NotSoStoic: He's a stone-faced guy with a chip in his shoulder, which makes the moments that break his composure all the more funny.
1056** When he turns off communications with Cecil for a private talk with the Commander in Chapter 20, he ends up going a lot longer than he expected. Once he reconnects, the scientist's rebukes are one pitch away from shouting at him for his mistake, repeatedly knifing the grimacing, speechless Johan with her words.
1057** His icy demeanor breaks once when the Commander asks for his autograph, causing him to hastily leave the scene in a noticeably flustered state.
1058* OlderThanTheyLook: Johan looks like he'd be at most a few years older than the Commander, so it comes as a surprise to learn that he's been around since the Second Surface Reclamation Campaign, and is now 88 years old as of the present day. While his hair has greyed, he has barely any wrinkles.
1059* OldSoldier: As New Hope, he took part in the Second Surface Reclamation Campaign... which was over ''sixty years ago''. Age hasn't slowed him down much, though it likely has a lot to do with his augmentations.
1060* RedBaron: He was called New Hope during his time at the Ark, with the Counters Commander, Anis and Rapi all revering him for his contributions to the war effort, primarily through suggesting and pioneering the use guerrilla war tactics against the Raptures.
1061* SelfDeprecation: When Neon, Anis and Rapi all fangirl over him after learning who he used to be, Johan shuts them all down and insists he's not worthy of their respect, because everything he accomplished has long since faded to nothing.
1062[[/folder]]
1063
1064[[folder:Cecil]]
1065[[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cecil_nikke.png]]
1066->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaAnzai (JP), Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker (EN)
1067The lead scientist of Eden's Central Research Facility, responsible for the advanced technologies it fields, including Nikke creation and the optical camouflage hiding Eden. She makes herself known in Chapter 19.
1068----
1069* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:A throwaway line by Dorothy in Chapter 24 when she visits the Missilis Military Research lab reveals Cecil was formerly a part of it.]]
1070* ForScience: In Chapter 21, she warns the Commander about the risks of revealing [[spoiler:his blood's unique quality to make Vapaus]] to people. When he pushes for her to help make it though, she admits that she's too interested not to try anyway, and eventually creates [[spoiler:a Vapaus bullet]].
1071* GadgeteerGenius: She's the one responsible for creating the large-scale optical camouflage hiding all of Eden, notably something that the Ark would have killed to have. [[spoiler:She also successfully replicated Vapaus after the Commander donated his blood despite the dearth of information there was on it.]]
1072* MissionControl: For Chapter 20 and onwards, she replaces Shifty as an Operator to Counters and Inherit.
1073* NonActionSnarker: She's rather serious most of the time in her capacity as a scientist and radio operator for the teams out on the field, though she's got a bit of a dry mouth. At one point in Chapter 20 when Johan turns communications off, only to take too long before reestablishing connection, [[TranquilFury Cecil]] hurls [[SarcasmMode one sarcastic insult after another]] that render Johan quiet and cringing.
1074--> '''Cecil:''' ''[frowning]'' You call that "a moment"? Seems you have a rather loose definition of what a moment means...
1075--> '''Johan:''' ...!!
1076--> '''Cecil:''' ''[grows angry]'' Has being out in the field warped your perception of time? Are you out there moving at light speed without me knowing? If not, then pray tell, what exactly possessed you to go dark for so long?
1077* SecretKeeper: As one of the only people who has had the opportunity to work with the Commander's blood, she is the only other person besides the Commander himself who is aware that [[spoiler:the Commander's blood can be used to create Vapaus]]. She warns the Commander several times about the danger of letting this information go public, whether on purpose or otherwise, as [[spoiler:his blood]] makes him an extraordinarily valuable asset and if anyone were to find out it would be likely that he'd be turned into the Ark's guinea pig for the rest of his life.
1078[[/folder]]
1079
1080[[folder:Team Inherit]]
1081A Pilgrim team of Nikkes affiliated with Eden and work under Johan's command. See their members--Dorothy, Harran, Isabel, and Noah--on this [[Characters/GoddessOfVictoryNIKKEPilgrims page]].
1082[[/folder]]
1083
1084!Other
1085[[folder:Crystal Chamber ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
1086!!Crystal Chamber
1087A crystalline entity encountered during a scouting mission on the surface. It's the boss of Chapter 28.
1088----
1089* BattleshipRaid: One of the very few bosses in the game who takes up the entire screen when fought.
1090* BattleThemeMusic: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcNZMW03318 We're Never Giving Up]]''.
1091* CrystallineCreature: It's best described as a living crystal mountain.
1092* EarlyBirdCameo: Its first alluded to in a Lost Relic in Chapter 26, where a Nikke finds one of its crystals and is gradually consumed by it.
1093* GemstoneAssault: The majority of its special attacks involve firing crystalline projectiles.
1094* OutsideContextProblem: From how it is described, the Crystal Chamber is some kind of living crystal that ''subsumes'' anything that touches its component crystals. Its description questions if it is actually a Rapture, and its design is unlike anything fought in the game before.
1095* ParasiteZombie: Any entity that comes into contact with its crystals is gradually weakened until it dies, after which the crystals grow inside of the corpse and possess it. The process is described on a Nikke in the Lost Relics for Chapter 26, while the Rapture shown at the beginning of its boss fight acts more like a puppet than a living creature.
1096* WakeUpCallBoss: Beyond having an absolutely bloated health pool, Crystal Chamber introduces a new mechanic where it deploys two skills simultaneously, with the player only being able to stop one during each skill activation.

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