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* VoicesAreMental: PlayedWith. Apart from their identical wailing roars, all three heads have an individual mental voice, heard by those who can communicate with Titans.
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* RedBaron: It’s also called the Devil, the Enemy, the Destroyer of Worlds, the One Who Is Many, That Which Came From The Stars, the Snake Father and the World Eater.
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* RedBaron: It’s also called the Devil, the Enemy, the Dragon, the Destroyer of Worlds, the One Who Is Many, That Which Came From The Stars, the Snake Father and the World Eater.
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* BodyHorror: In its first form, where it's in a constant state of pain, has ingrown extra fangs along the jaws; and a horrifically extreme case of ''Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva'' which is exacerbated by their {{Healing Factor}}'s defect, making it very difficult for the duo to move certain joints without risking breaking their bones.
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* BodyHorror: In its first form, where it's in a constant state of pain, has ingrown extra fangs along the jaws; and a horrifically extreme case of ''Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva'' which is exacerbated by due to their {{Healing Factor}}'s defect, making it very difficult for the duo to move certain joints without risking breaking their bones.
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* AffablyEvil: She draws the line at places, but she did get her co-workers killed by releasing Behemoth. The author herself seems to consider Mariko this.
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* AffablyEvil: She draws the line at places, but she did get her co-workers killed by releasing Behemoth. [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/252742880 The author herself seems to consider Mariko this.this]].
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[[folder: Mark Russell]]
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[[folder: Dr. Mark Russell]]
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A prominent Monarch scientist who had a close relationship with Serizawa. She was EatenAlive by Ghidorah (Ichi/Eldest Brother) in Antarctica, before being stored inside San's head to be revived and transformed; forming San's new sister as part of Monster X. She functions as the main head.
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A prominent Monarch scientist who had a close relationship with Dr. Serizawa. She was EatenAlive by Ghidorah (Ichi/Eldest Brother) in Antarctica, before being stored inside San's head to be revived and transformed; forming San's new sister as part of Monster X. She functions as the main head.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: According to the author, Kratos from ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 God of War (2018)]]'' is her headcanon voice for Godzilla when he communicates with Monster X.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 According to the author, author]], Kratos from ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 God of War (2018)]]'' is her headcanon voice for Godzilla when he communicates with Monster X.
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!Other Humans
[[folder: Madison Russell]]
The teenaged daughter of Mark Russell and the late Monarch operative-turned-eco terrorist Emma Russell. She had a close mother-daughter relationship with Vivienne before the events in Antarctica.
[[folder: Madison Russell]]
The teenaged daughter of Mark Russell and the late Monarch operative-turned-eco terrorist Emma Russell. She had a close mother-daughter relationship with Vivienne before the events in Antarctica.
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The teenaged daughter of Mark Russell and the late Monarch operative-turned-eco terrorist Emma Russell. She had a close mother-daughter relationship with Vivienne before the events in Antarctica.
A guard assigned to monitor Monster X while it's caged, who is notably cruel towards Vivienne.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She has no problem angrily accusing San to his face in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]]. {{Justified}} as Madison was quite emotional at the time, San is attached to the same Titan body as Vivienne (who would never let any harm befall Madison), and Madison could quickly run indoors if need be; to say nothing of Maddie’s DefiantToTheEnd close call in the movie.
* MisplacedRetribution: In Chapter 8, she angrily brings up Ghidorah chasing her in Boston, unaware that San only has the decapitated head's memories and genuinely doesn't remember what his AlternateSelf did. She also says that San killed Vivienne, though it was technically Ichi who did that while San just did the resurrecting and transforming parts.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not nearly as bad as Vivienne's PTSD, it's hinted her previous encounters with Ghidorah have left her with some.
* MisplacedRetribution: In Chapter 8, she angrily brings up Ghidorah chasing her in Boston, unaware that San only has the decapitated head's memories and genuinely doesn't remember what his AlternateSelf did. She also says that San killed Vivienne, though it was technically Ichi who did that while San just did the resurrecting and transforming parts.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not nearly as bad as Vivienne's PTSD, it's hinted her previous encounters with Ghidorah have left her with some.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She has no problem angrily accusing San to AssholeVictim: For anyone who reads attentively and notices his face in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]]. {{Justified}} as Madison was quite emotional death, there's nothing but satisfaction at the time, San is attached Monster X killing him brutally.
* BullyingADragon: Goes out of his way tothe same Titan body as make utterly cruel taunts at Vivienne (who would never let any harm befall Madison), for no other reason than shits and Madison could quickly run indoors if need be; to say nothing giggles, and even ''Jonah'' gets peeved at him stepping out of Maddie’s DefiantToTheEnd close call in the movie.
line. [[AssholeVictim He pays for it]].
*MisplacedRetribution: In Chapter 8, she angrily brings up Ghidorah chasing her in Boston, unaware DirtyCoward: It's made fairly clear that San he only has the decapitated head's memories and genuinely doesn't remember what his AlternateSelf did. She also says that San killed Vivienne, though it was technically Ichi who did that dares cruelly taunt Vivienne while she and San just did are behind a containment field or being watched by numerous armed guards so the resurrecting and transforming parts.
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Madison's father, who suffers SurvivorGuilt after Vivienne Graham's apparent death in Antarctica which occurred partly due to her saving his life.
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!Other Humans
[[folder:Mark Madison Russell]]
Madison's father, who suffers SurvivorGuilt after The teenaged daughter of Mark Russell and the late Monarch operative-turned-eco terrorist Emma Russell. She had a close mother-daughter relationship with Vivienne Graham's apparent death before the events in Antarctica which occurred partly due to her saving his life.
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* MisplacedRetribution: In Chapter 8, she angrily brings up Ghidorah chasing her in Boston, unaware that San only has the decapitated head's memories and genuinely doesn't remember what his AlternateSelf did. She also says that San killed Vivienne, though it was technically Ichi who did that while San just did the resurrecting and transforming parts.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not nearly as bad as Vivienne's PTSD, it's hinted her previous encounters with Ghidorah have left her with some.
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Madison's father, who suffers SurvivorGuilt after Vivienne Graham's apparent death in Antarctica which occurred partly due to her saving his life.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not nearly as bad as Vivienne's PTSD, it's hinted her previous encounters with Ghidorah have left her with some.
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* PsychoactivePowers: Its powers are fuelled by negative emotions such as hate or (a more easily-controllable one) anger, just as Ghidorah’s powers were.
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* HowlOfSorrow: Gives a particularly horrific one after learning of Serizawa’s death. It was literally heard across quite a far range…
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The world at large still believes she’s dead, and it isn’t until several chapters in that Monarch discover that Ghidorah eating her was not the end.
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* TraumaCongaLine: My, oh, my. She gets EatenAlive and rendered OnlyMostlyDead (and is left with PTSD from this); she spends several months locked up underground in a space too small for her, with no track of time, transformed into a horrific part-Ghidorah monstrosity that’s in a state of chronic agony, and is inhumanely experimented on with various ammunitions to test her new HealingFactor; she finds out her surrogate father is dead (she takes this particularly hard)... [[spoiler:and when she finally escapes and gets somewhat better, she finds out Ghidorah is both BackFromTheDead and can use MindRape tactics on her via PsychicLink, attempting to stress her and drive her down a StartOfDarkness. And then there’s how awry her attempt at a reunion with her living mother goes]].
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* TraumaCongaLine: My, oh, my. She gets EatenAlive and rendered OnlyMostlyDead (and is left with PTSD from this); she spends several months locked up underground in a space too small for her, with no track of time, transformed into a horrific part-Ghidorah monstrosity that’s in a state of chronic agony, and is inhumanely experimented on with various ammunitions to test her new HealingFactor; she finds out her surrogate father is dead (she takes this particularly hard)... [[spoiler:and when she finally escapes and gets somewhat better, she finds out Ghidorah is both BackFromTheDead and can use MindRape tactics on her via PsychicLink, attempting to stress her and drive her down a StartOfDarkness. And then there’s how awry her attempt at a reunion with her living mother goes]].
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* LikeADaughterToMe: To Serizawa, like in canon. Learning of his death sends her into a ''severe'' [=BSoD=], and she goes as far as calling him "father" in both Japanese and [[AnimalTalk Kaiju Talk]] afterward.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets one from Mariko about his ItsAllAboutMe tendencies:
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'''Mariko''': Oh, shut up for once and get in line, Russell! You talk like you're the only one who's suffered! What about everyone else who lost someone, or everyone? Do they not count? Just faceless statistics? What's so special about you that makes your problems so much more important? You talk on and on about how much you hate the Titans and how we should have killed them and blah blah blah!blah! Spouting bullshit is all you're good for! And Graham — would you say she spent her life saving yours? Because it sounds to me like she wasted it on you!
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Its physical voice in its first form is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185815052284/ described by the author]] as sounding like the Gravemind in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
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* GenderBender: A TwoBeingsOneBody Titan consisting of a “male” alien and a formerly-human female, with both male and female chromosomes. Characters primarily refer to Monster X generally as female, likely due to Vivienne being the “main” head. When asked about Monster X’s physical gender, the author [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comments referred to certain real-life species’ ability to change sex]].
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* GenderBender: A TwoBeingsOneBody Titan consisting of a “male” "male" alien and a formerly-human female, with both male and female chromosomes. Characters primarily refer to Monster X generally as female, likely due to Vivienne being the “main” "main" head. When asked about Monster X’s physical gender, the author [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comments referred to certain real-life species’ ability to change sex]].
* VoicesAreMental: Very much [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]. Both San and Vivienne's respective physical voices emitted from their respective mouths in their first forms are [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185815052284/ described by the author]] as sounding like the Gravemind in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. After the EmergencyTransformation, San and Vivienne communicate with humans via radio waves; San's radio voice is indicated to be the same as his mental voice, while Vivienne is able to produce words in her original human voice this way.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She’s afraid both of hurting humans if she so much as touches them due to her {{Kaiju}} size, and she’s also wary of getting blood-drunk and losing herself when using her and San’s “storm”.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She’s afraid both of hurting humans if she so much as touches them due to her {{Kaiju}} size, and she’s also wary of getting blood-drunk and losing herself when using her and San’s “storm”."storm".
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* MeaningfulName: Her name is noted in Chapter 1 to mean “alive”, quite fitting in the context of what happens to her in this story.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting / GutturalGrowler: His mental voice is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/618237379941105664/ described by the author]] as being based on a Rake creepypasta.
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* EasilyForgiven: Mothra has no reservations towards him over his brothers and AlternateSelf killing her when she effectively adopts him and Vivienne. Godzilla, being TheStoic, doesn't hold onto old hard feelings. But with everyone else human and Titan who remembers Ghidorah and interacts with San, it takes time before they lower their reservations and animosities towards him.
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* EasilyForgiven: Mothra has no reservations towards him over his brothers and AlternateSelf killing her when she effectively adopts him and Vivienne.first encounters Monster X. Godzilla, being TheStoic, doesn't hold onto old hard feelings. But with everyone else human and Titan who remembers Ghidorah and interacts with San, it takes time before they lower their reservations and animosities towards toward him.
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* InSeriesNickname: He was given his name by Vivienne while she was monitoring Ghidorah in Antarctica -- he acknowledges it isn’t his real name. He’s also nicknamed Eddie the Head by Tejada. [[spoiler:Ghidorah and the gestalt driving the {{Artificial Zombie}}s refer to San as a “shed skin” after he’s merged with Vivienne]]. Though never stated, it can be inferred from how San refers to his brothers that Ichi and Ni would have probably called him "Youngest Brother" when he was still attached to them.
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* InSeriesNickname: He was given his name by Vivienne while she was monitoring Ghidorah in Antarctica -- he acknowledges it isn’t his real name. He’s also nicknamed Eddie the Head by Tejada. [[spoiler:Ghidorah and the gestalt driving the {{Artificial Zombie}}s refer to San as a “shed skin” "shed skin" after he’s merged with Vivienne]]. Though never stated, it can be inferred from how San refers to his brothers that Ichi and Ni would have probably called him "Youngest Brother" when he was still attached to them.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The details are mysterious, but it’s believed he influenced the [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Dyatlov Pass Incident]] during his hibernating exile.
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* BerserkButton: Ichi/Eldest Brother specifically was ticked off by humans (namely Vivienne) building a “cage” around Ghidorah while it was frozen.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: San’s EvilDoppelganger of course has the same mental voice as him (see San’s folder), and the author has described what the other two heads’ mental voices sound like [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 here]].
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: San’s EvilDoppelganger of course has the same mental voice as him (see San’s folder), and the The author has described what the other two heads’ Ni and Ichi's mental voices sound like [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 here]].
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* GutturalGrowler: The voice of Ni/Elder Brother, and San’s EvilDoppelganger (see ComicBookFantasyCasting).
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* BreakThemByTalking: He tries this on Monster X in Chapter 5. They later turn the tables on him with a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech “Reason You Suck” Speech]].
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* BreakThemByTalking: He tries this on Monster X in Chapter 5. They later turn the tables on him with a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech “Reason "Reason You Suck” Suck" Speech]].
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* PowerGlows / VolcanicVeins: When its powers are being used, or when they flare due to Vivienne experiencing sudden or strong emotions, producing an autumn-orange glow.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: According to the author, Kratos from ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 God of War (2018)]]'' is her headcanon voice for Godzilla when he communicates with Monster X.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom/RedEyesTakeWarning: In Chapter 4, when San takes control and brutally slaughters Jonah’s mercenaries.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom/RedEyesTakeWarning: GlowingEyesOfDoom / RedEyesTakeWarning: In Chapter 4, when San takes control and brutally slaughters Jonah’s mercenaries.
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* GentleGiant: A monstrous Titan feared by humans not least for its resemblance/relation to Ghidorah, who is actually a case of BewareTheNiceOnes and is very friendly towards Vivienne’s human friends.
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* MeaningfulName: It was named Monster X in reference to Ghidorah’s Monster Zero designation, due to the two-headed Titan’s resemblance. [[spoiler:Its CharacterTitle name in Chapter 10 is based on the Gnostic figure]].
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* EasilyForgiven: Mothra has no reservations towards him over his brothers and AlternateSelf killing her, before effectively adopting him and Vivienne. Godzilla, being TheStoic, holds no hard feelings. But with everyone else human and Titan who interacts with San, it takes time before they lower their reservations and animosities towards him.
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* EasilyForgiven: Mothra has no reservations towards him over his brothers and AlternateSelf killing her, before her when she effectively adopting adopts him and Vivienne. Godzilla, being TheStoic, holds no doesn't hold onto old hard feelings. But with everyone else human and Titan who remembers Ghidorah and interacts with San, it takes time before they lower their reservations and animosities towards him.
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* TwinTelepathy: San and Vivienne are able to communicate with each-other this way due to their shared nervous system below the necks, in addition to vocal communication. They’re even able to [[TalkingInYourDeams share dreams]] and let the other view their memories.
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* TwinTelepathy: San and Vivienne are able to communicate with each-other this way due to their shared nervous system below the necks, in addition to vocal communication. They’re even able to [[TalkingInYourDeams [[TalkingInYourDreams share dreams]] and let the other view their memories.
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* BackFromTheDead: San, and possibly his brothers, have apparently died and regenerated before via Ghidorah's HealingFactor. [[spoiler:They’re currently regenerating this way again.]]
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[[folder: Tejada]]
A mercenary in Jonah's organization at the hidden outpost.
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* AffablyEvil: Mariko comments that Tejada is an okay person despite her allegiance. Though she’s not the sensitive type, she proves to be this.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's disgusted by Jonah's lack of regard for his soldiers when he refuses to get them away from the Ghidorah head, in Chapter 6.
* HeelFaceTurn: After pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and being apprehended, she has no problems with spilling everything she knows about Jonah's operations and aiding the military torch-and-bury operation.
* OCStandIn: The author confirmed [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/628652716177096704/ here]] that she’s the shave-headed female {{Mook}} who is visible in the film in Antarctica.
* OnlyOneName: Her first name is unknown but it begins with a V.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It was somewhat forced by a pressing situation but also influenced by the revelation about Asher's death. Nevertheless, she joins Mariko [[spoiler: in trying to get word out to Monarch]], and after being apprehended, she seems to have given up on Jonah's madness entirely.
* VillainousFriendship: With her unnamed friend whom she’s rarely seen without before Chapter 7, and with Kauffman.
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[[folder: Sergeant Travis]]
One of Jonah's henchmen, who experiences a SanitySlippage due to Ghidorah's lingering influence.
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* AffablyEvil: Mariko comments he’s alright for a [[WesternTerrorists Western Terrorist]], and he does seem like a pretty normal guy before the crazy.
* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being a bad guy, it’s hard to not feel sorry about what happens to him.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:After blowing his brains out, his corpse is turned by Jonah’s Basement Club into one of the {{Artificial Zombie}}s – it’s unclear how much, if any, of Travis’ mind is still in there except that the zombie can speak some English]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Possibly; depending on whether or not any of his consciousness is still in the zombie]].
* OCStandIn: He’s based on a minor named character from the movie {{novelization}}, and the author confirmed [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/628652716177096704/ here]] that he’s intended to be the unnamed speaking {{Mook}} from the movie scene where Emma awakens Rodan.
* ReluctantPsycho: ZigZagged. He doesn’t turn AxCrazy, but it becomes clear something’s wrong inside his noggin, and he’s torturously aware of it, pleading that he just wants to feel like himself again.
* SanitySlippage: Due to exposure to the Ghidorah-head; making him think he can constantly hear Ghidorah communicating with him, rendering him insomniac, eventually driving him to self-harm with his ''fingernails'', and generally increasingly turning his mind to mush [[spoiler:until he commits suicide]].
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!Other Humans
[[folder: Madison Russell]]
The teenaged daughter of Mark Russell and the late Monarch operative-turned-eco terrorist Emma Russell. She had a close mother-daughter relationship with Vivienne before the events in Antarctica.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She has no problem angrily accusing San to his face in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]]. {{Justified}} as Madison was quite emotional at the time, San is attached to the same Titan body as Vivienne (who would never let any harm befall Madison), and Madison could quickly run indoors if need be; to say nothing of Maddie’s DefiantToTheEnd close call in the movie.
* MisplacedRetribution: In Chapter 8, she angrily brings up Ghidorah chasing her in Boston, unaware that San only has the decapitated head's memories and genuinely doesn't remember what his AlternateSelf did. She also says that San killed Vivienne, though it was technically Ichi who did that while San just did the resurrecting and transforming parts.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not nearly as bad as Vivienne's PTSD, it's hinted her previous encounters with Ghidorah have left her with some.
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[[folder: Mark Russell]]
Madison's father, who suffers SurvivorGuilt after Vivienne Graham's apparent death in Antarctica which occurred partly due to her saving his life.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: In Chapter 8, he doesn't believe that Vivienne is BackFromTheDead as a BalefulPolymorph {{Kaiju}}, prompting Mariko to remind him of Ghidorah's other borderline-[[EldritchAbomination Eldritch]] super-abilities which Mark himself witnessed.
* DirtyCoward: ZigZagged and, depending on your point of view, subverted. He initially refuses to see Monster X despite his obvious wish to because he’s scared to confront Vivienne, then shortly afterward, he sees her in person and he lets out everything he wants to say to her.
* OverprotectiveDad: Initially, his first impulse is to shield Madison from further trauma physical or psychological, despite her having already proved her metal in Boston.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets one from Mariko about his ItsAllAboutMe tendencies:
--->'''Mark Russell''': Do you realize how it feels to relive losing a child to monsters turning your home into a war zone?! How close I probably was to losing my daughter the same way I lost my son?!\\
'''Mariko''': Oh, shut up for once and get in line, Russell! You talk like you're the only one who's suffered! What about everyone else who lost someone, or everyone? Do they not count? Just faceless statistics? What's so special about you that makes your problems so much more important? You talk on and on about how much you hate the Titans and how we should have killed them and blah blah blah!
* SurvivorGuilt: He's been suffering this because of Vivienne's death in Antarctica, and Monarch personnel’s hushed YouShouldHaveDiedInstead feelings have served as a fuel source. It doesn't get better when Vivienne returns transformed into part of Monster X, until she sets him straight in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/9 Chapter 9]].
[[folder: Tejada]]
A mercenary in Jonah's organization at the hidden outpost.
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* AffablyEvil: Mariko comments that Tejada is an okay person despite her allegiance. Though she’s not the sensitive type, she proves to be this.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's disgusted by Jonah's lack of regard for his soldiers when he refuses to get them away from the Ghidorah head, in Chapter 6.
* HeelFaceTurn: After pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and being apprehended, she has no problems with spilling everything she knows about Jonah's operations and aiding the military torch-and-bury operation.
* OCStandIn: The author confirmed [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/628652716177096704/ here]] that she’s the shave-headed female {{Mook}} who is visible in the film in Antarctica.
* OnlyOneName: Her first name is unknown but it begins with a V.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It was somewhat forced by a pressing situation but also influenced by the revelation about Asher's death. Nevertheless, she joins Mariko [[spoiler: in trying to get word out to Monarch]], and after being apprehended, she seems to have given up on Jonah's madness entirely.
* VillainousFriendship: With her unnamed friend whom she’s rarely seen without before Chapter 7, and with Kauffman.
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[[folder: Sergeant Travis]]
One of Jonah's henchmen, who experiences a SanitySlippage due to Ghidorah's lingering influence.
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* AffablyEvil: Mariko comments he’s alright for a [[WesternTerrorists Western Terrorist]], and he does seem like a pretty normal guy before the crazy.
* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being a bad guy, it’s hard to not feel sorry about what happens to him.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:After blowing his brains out, his corpse is turned by Jonah’s Basement Club into one of the {{Artificial Zombie}}s – it’s unclear how much, if any, of Travis’ mind is still in there except that the zombie can speak some English]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Possibly; depending on whether or not any of his consciousness is still in the zombie]].
* OCStandIn: He’s based on a minor named character from the movie {{novelization}}, and the author confirmed [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/628652716177096704/ here]] that he’s intended to be the unnamed speaking {{Mook}} from the movie scene where Emma awakens Rodan.
* ReluctantPsycho: ZigZagged. He doesn’t turn AxCrazy, but it becomes clear something’s wrong inside his noggin, and he’s torturously aware of it, pleading that he just wants to feel like himself again.
* SanitySlippage: Due to exposure to the Ghidorah-head; making him think he can constantly hear Ghidorah communicating with him, rendering him insomniac, eventually driving him to self-harm with his ''fingernails'', and generally increasingly turning his mind to mush [[spoiler:until he commits suicide]].
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!Other Humans
[[folder: Madison Russell]]
The teenaged daughter of Mark Russell and the late Monarch operative-turned-eco terrorist Emma Russell. She had a close mother-daughter relationship with Vivienne before the events in Antarctica.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She has no problem angrily accusing San to his face in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]]. {{Justified}} as Madison was quite emotional at the time, San is attached to the same Titan body as Vivienne (who would never let any harm befall Madison), and Madison could quickly run indoors if need be; to say nothing of Maddie’s DefiantToTheEnd close call in the movie.
* MisplacedRetribution: In Chapter 8, she angrily brings up Ghidorah chasing her in Boston, unaware that San only has the decapitated head's memories and genuinely doesn't remember what his AlternateSelf did. She also says that San killed Vivienne, though it was technically Ichi who did that while San just did the resurrecting and transforming parts.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not nearly as bad as Vivienne's PTSD, it's hinted her previous encounters with Ghidorah have left her with some.
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[[folder: Mark Russell]]
Madison's father, who suffers SurvivorGuilt after Vivienne Graham's apparent death in Antarctica which occurred partly due to her saving his life.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: In Chapter 8, he doesn't believe that Vivienne is BackFromTheDead as a BalefulPolymorph {{Kaiju}}, prompting Mariko to remind him of Ghidorah's other borderline-[[EldritchAbomination Eldritch]] super-abilities which Mark himself witnessed.
* DirtyCoward: ZigZagged and, depending on your point of view, subverted. He initially refuses to see Monster X despite his obvious wish to because he’s scared to confront Vivienne, then shortly afterward, he sees her in person and he lets out everything he wants to say to her.
* OverprotectiveDad: Initially, his first impulse is to shield Madison from further trauma physical or psychological, despite her having already proved her metal in Boston.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets one from Mariko about his ItsAllAboutMe tendencies:
--->'''Mark Russell''': Do you realize how it feels to relive losing a child to monsters turning your home into a war zone?! How close I probably was to losing my daughter the same way I lost my son?!\\
'''Mariko''': Oh, shut up for once and get in line, Russell! You talk like you're the only one who's suffered! What about everyone else who lost someone, or everyone? Do they not count? Just faceless statistics? What's so special about you that makes your problems so much more important? You talk on and on about how much you hate the Titans and how we should have killed them and blah blah blah!
* SurvivorGuilt: He's been suffering this because of Vivienne's death in Antarctica, and Monarch personnel’s hushed YouShouldHaveDiedInstead feelings have served as a fuel source. It doesn't get better when Vivienne returns transformed into part of Monster X, until she sets him straight in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/9 Chapter 9]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts like a mild {{jerkass}} towards San and Vivienne, but inwardly feels remorse for initially attacking them due to them being newborn once he’s cooled down. He’s also initially aghast at tutoring San and Vivienne, before being reminded he’s [[NoodleIncident tutored Titans outside of his species before]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts like a mild {{jerkass}} He's the most unpleasant towards San and Vivienne, but inwardly feels remorse for initially attacking them due to them being newborn once he’s cooled down. He’s also initially aghast at tutoring San and Vivienne, before being reminded he’s [[NoodleIncident tutored Vivienne out of the Titans outside of they've interacted with so far, but he also stays true to his species before]].duty to mentor them in his own snarky way.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Aside from making a snark about how beautiful Monster X looks, during his SanitySlippage he seemingly starts to really view Monster X as a superior lifeform (though it’s not enough to stop him trying to break them).
* AxCrazy: Has an uncharacteristic bout of this in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/5 Chapter 5]] involving a napalm experiment, signifying his SanitySlippage.
* AxCrazy: Has an uncharacteristic bout of this in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/5 Chapter 5]] involving a napalm experiment, signifying his SanitySlippage.
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! Monarch
[[folder: Drs. Ilene and Ling Chen]]
Monarch scientists and identical twin sisters, whose family have worshipped Mothra for generations. They’re the mother and aunt respectively of Ziyi and Yong.
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* FlashbackNightmare: Ilene admits in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/7 Chapter 7]] that she still has nightmares of Vivienne's death in Antarctica nearly a year on, [[spoiler:before the twins find out Vivienne is alive]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Dr. Houston Brooks]]
An older Monarch scientist, responsible for monitoring Mothra at Outpost 61.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: His response to the analysis of Monster X’s DNA in Chapter 7 establishes him to be this.
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!Alan Jonah's organization
[[folder: Alan Jonah]]
A former British Army colonel, who leads an underground paramilitary organization of mercenaries and eco-terrorists. He’s responsible for retrieving the severed Ghidorah head that Monster X is growing inside, and keeping Viv and San caged after their rebirth to further his misanthropic goals.
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* BigBad: He serves as the main human antagonist.
* BreakThemByTalking: He tries this on Monster X in Chapter 5. They later turn the tables on him with a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech “Reason You Suck” Speech]].
* EvilutionaryBiologist: This appears to be his justification for PlayingWithSyringes, expressing a belief in his SanitySlippage in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]] that humans and Titans need to be fused like what Ghidorah has done to Vivienne, in order to remake the world anew.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He doesn't think about his soldiers' welfare for a moment when ignoring Vivienne's warning that the [[ArtifactOfDoom severed Ghidorah head]] is still dangerous. He's also in the same scene called out by Vivienne and San for using his surrogate son as a meat-shield but being unwilling to risk his own life when Emma Russell held him at gunpoint.
* LackOfEmpathy: Has zero compunctions against ruthlessly breaking down Monster X to further his own goals, [[spoiler:or against using his paramilitary’s manual labour as unwilling human guinea-pigs for PlayingWithSyringes]].
* LikeASonToMe: Asher (a.k.a. Ash) was this to him. It wasn’t enough to make Jonah consider putting him in a non-risky position to increase Asher’s chances of staying alive, though.
* MoreThanMindControl: He’s on the receiving end – it’s implied the decapitated Ghidorah head’s psychic influence is doing this to him [[spoiler:to aid the three-headed monster’s regeneration]].
* PlayingWithSyringes: It's revealed that he's been dabbling in this, [[spoiler:using the {{Disposable Vagrant}}s as unwilling test subjects; fusing Ghidorah's DNA to humans and creating {{Artificial Zombie}}s]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets one from San and Vivienne in Chapter 6 for using someone who was [[LikeASonToMe like a son to him]] as a meat-shield but being unwilling to risk his own skin when Emma pulled a gun on him:
--->'''Vivienne''': Did you stop and think, maybe have someone else take point? Someone who isn't like your own family? A real father would trust his son's abilities, but still do what he can to help him. I would have risked my life to save someone. I ''died'' saving someone.\\
'''Jonah''': Congratulations, you’re a hero.\\
'''San''': And you. Are a cow-ard.\\
'''Vivienne''': You said Madison escaped with the ORCA. Remember that? So how did Emma get out? Did she help Madison, or…\\
[…]\\
'''Jonah:''' […] Since my men refused to cooperate, she held me at gunpoint.\\
'''Vivienne''': And?\\
'''Jonah''': …I let her go.\\
'''Vivienne''': Imagine that. Hardened mercenaries against one scientist. Tell us, ''Colonel'', did you think your men wouldn’t fire fast enough before she took the shot?\\
'''San''': Would you. Have sacri-ficed one of your own. To keep your-self. A-live?
* SanitySlippage: Due to the severed Ghidorah-head’s borderline-MindRape [[MoreThanMindControl influence]]. First he has an AxCrazy episode, then he becomes more unkempt and acts eerily like he’s been spending too much time around [[MassEffect/MassEffectRaceTropes Reaper tech]].
* SmugSnake: He thinks he can psychologically break down Monster X as he did Emma Russell, and there’s him holding the VillainBall. He’s also too arrogant to realize he’s experiencing an induced SanitySlippage courtesy of the Ghidorah head, instead [[MoreThanMindControl thinking he’s been enlightened]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: He tries to [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this by bringing up what happened to his daughter in Chapter 6. Vivienne doesn’t fall for it, noting it doesn't in any way justify putting so many others through the same pain he experienced and worse. Vivienne suspects Jonah previously used this trick successfully on Emma Russell to turn her to the dark side.
* VillainBall: It doesn’t occur to him that caging and abusing a pissed human-Ghidorah kaiju in such a way as he does might bite him in the ass once it inevitably can’t be contained any longer -- particularly prominent considering what previously happened when Jonah tried making Ghidorah do what he wanted it to.
* VillainousBreakdown: He has a minor one when Monster X is escaping and he’s on the wrong side of the chamber doors.
* VirtueIsWeakness: This seems to be his attitude, based on his thoughts about humanity overall and Vivienne's sacrifice in Antarctica.
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[[folder: Mariko]]
A former Monarch operative who set Behemoth loose during the Mass Awakening, causing the deaths of her co-workers, and went into hiding.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Like most of Monarch, she reveres the Titans. Though she is horrified by Monster X’s BodyHorror when she first encounters it in Chapter 3.
* AffablyEvil: She draws the line at places, but she did get her co-workers killed by releasing Behemoth. The author herself seems to consider Mariko this.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite admiring the Titans to the point of committing [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremism]], she’s revolted from the get-go at Monster X’s initial state of painful BodyHorror, and finds it appalling how the creature (specifically Vivienne, formerly a human being) is treated by Jonah’s paramilitary.
* FakingTheDead: She faked her death during Behemoth’s escape and went off the grid.
* HeelFaceTurn: ZigZagged. It hits a nerve when Vivienne brings up the deaths of her co-workers. After she's taken into custody by Monarch, she doesn't seem resistant to whatever penalty she'll face for her criminal actions.
* ScarsAreForever: She's somewhat disfigured from the destruction of Outpost 58, with noticeable skin grafts on her face.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alongside Tejada when it becomes clear that everyone in the mercenaries' base is in danger.
! Monarch
[[folder: Drs. Ilene and Ling Chen]]
Monarch scientists and identical twin sisters, whose family have worshipped Mothra for generations. They’re the mother and aunt respectively of Ziyi and Yong.
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* FlashbackNightmare: Ilene admits in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/7 Chapter 7]] that she still has nightmares of Vivienne's death in Antarctica nearly a year on, [[spoiler:before the twins find out Vivienne is alive]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Dr. Houston Brooks]]
An older Monarch scientist, responsible for monitoring Mothra at Outpost 61.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: His response to the analysis of Monster X’s DNA in Chapter 7 establishes him to be this.
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!Alan Jonah's organization
[[folder: Alan Jonah]]
A former British Army colonel, who leads an underground paramilitary organization of mercenaries and eco-terrorists. He’s responsible for retrieving the severed Ghidorah head that Monster X is growing inside, and keeping Viv and San caged after their rebirth to further his misanthropic goals.
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* BigBad: He serves as the main human antagonist.
* BreakThemByTalking: He tries this on Monster X in Chapter 5. They later turn the tables on him with a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech “Reason You Suck” Speech]].
* EvilutionaryBiologist: This appears to be his justification for PlayingWithSyringes, expressing a belief in his SanitySlippage in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]] that humans and Titans need to be fused like what Ghidorah has done to Vivienne, in order to remake the world anew.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He doesn't think about his soldiers' welfare for a moment when ignoring Vivienne's warning that the [[ArtifactOfDoom severed Ghidorah head]] is still dangerous. He's also in the same scene called out by Vivienne and San for using his surrogate son as a meat-shield but being unwilling to risk his own life when Emma Russell held him at gunpoint.
* LackOfEmpathy: Has zero compunctions against ruthlessly breaking down Monster X to further his own goals, [[spoiler:or against using his paramilitary’s manual labour as unwilling human guinea-pigs for PlayingWithSyringes]].
* LikeASonToMe: Asher (a.k.a. Ash) was this to him. It wasn’t enough to make Jonah consider putting him in a non-risky position to increase Asher’s chances of staying alive, though.
* MoreThanMindControl: He’s on the receiving end – it’s implied the decapitated Ghidorah head’s psychic influence is doing this to him [[spoiler:to aid the three-headed monster’s regeneration]].
* PlayingWithSyringes: It's revealed that he's been dabbling in this, [[spoiler:using the {{Disposable Vagrant}}s as unwilling test subjects; fusing Ghidorah's DNA to humans and creating {{Artificial Zombie}}s]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gets one from San and Vivienne in Chapter 6 for using someone who was [[LikeASonToMe like a son to him]] as a meat-shield but being unwilling to risk his own skin when Emma pulled a gun on him:
--->'''Vivienne''': Did you stop and think, maybe have someone else take point? Someone who isn't like your own family? A real father would trust his son's abilities, but still do what he can to help him. I would have risked my life to save someone. I ''died'' saving someone.\\
'''Jonah''': Congratulations, you’re a hero.\\
'''San''': And you. Are a cow-ard.\\
'''Vivienne''': You said Madison escaped with the ORCA. Remember that? So how did Emma get out? Did she help Madison, or…\\
[…]\\
'''Jonah:''' […] Since my men refused to cooperate, she held me at gunpoint.\\
'''Vivienne''': And?\\
'''Jonah''': …I let her go.\\
'''Vivienne''': Imagine that. Hardened mercenaries against one scientist. Tell us, ''Colonel'', did you think your men wouldn’t fire fast enough before she took the shot?\\
'''San''': Would you. Have sacri-ficed one of your own. To keep your-self. A-live?
* SanitySlippage: Due to the severed Ghidorah-head’s borderline-MindRape [[MoreThanMindControl influence]]. First he has an AxCrazy episode, then he becomes more unkempt and acts eerily like he’s been spending too much time around [[MassEffect/MassEffectRaceTropes Reaper tech]].
* SmugSnake: He thinks he can psychologically break down Monster X as he did Emma Russell, and there’s him holding the VillainBall. He’s also too arrogant to realize he’s experiencing an induced SanitySlippage courtesy of the Ghidorah head, instead [[MoreThanMindControl thinking he’s been enlightened]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: He tries to [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this by bringing up what happened to his daughter in Chapter 6. Vivienne doesn’t fall for it, noting it doesn't in any way justify putting so many others through the same pain he experienced and worse. Vivienne suspects Jonah previously used this trick successfully on Emma Russell to turn her to the dark side.
* VillainBall: It doesn’t occur to him that caging and abusing a pissed human-Ghidorah kaiju in such a way as he does might bite him in the ass once it inevitably can’t be contained any longer -- particularly prominent considering what previously happened when Jonah tried making Ghidorah do what he wanted it to.
* VillainousBreakdown: He has a minor one when Monster X is escaping and he’s on the wrong side of the chamber doors.
* VirtueIsWeakness: This seems to be his attitude, based on his thoughts about humanity overall and Vivienne's sacrifice in Antarctica.
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[[folder: Mariko]]
A former Monarch operative who set Behemoth loose during the Mass Awakening, causing the deaths of her co-workers, and went into hiding.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Like most of Monarch, she reveres the Titans. Though she is horrified by Monster X’s BodyHorror when she first encounters it in Chapter 3.
* AffablyEvil: She draws the line at places, but she did get her co-workers killed by releasing Behemoth. The author herself seems to consider Mariko this.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite admiring the Titans to the point of committing [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremism]], she’s revolted from the get-go at Monster X’s initial state of painful BodyHorror, and finds it appalling how the creature (specifically Vivienne, formerly a human being) is treated by Jonah’s paramilitary.
* FakingTheDead: She faked her death during Behemoth’s escape and went off the grid.
* HeelFaceTurn: ZigZagged. It hits a nerve when Vivienne brings up the deaths of her co-workers. After she's taken into custody by Monarch, she doesn't seem resistant to whatever penalty she'll face for her criminal actions.
* ScarsAreForever: She's somewhat disfigured from the destruction of Outpost 58, with noticeable skin grafts on her face.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alongside Tejada when it becomes clear that everyone in the mercenaries' base is in danger.
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!Other Titans
[[folder: Thor]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus þunraz''
A bio-electrical Titan with primate and caprina (goat/sheep) characteristics who rejected King Ghidorah's summons during the Mass Awakening, and aids Viv and San. He is loyal to Godzilla and Mothra. His kind are known among the Titans as the Thunderers.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The details are mysterious, but it’s believed he influenced the [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Dyatlov Pass Incident]] during his hibernating exile.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Like the other Titans, he’s been asleep for millennia, and is surprised in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/7 Chapter 7]] at the world’s modern state. He’s also dismayed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/12 Chapter 12]] that humans’ knowledge of him and of the Bone Singer/Grave Chanters’ ways have largely died out.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the only known survivor of his kind, the rest having been wiped out by Ghidorah in ancient times.
* PapaWolf: It's hinted that he feels quite paternal towards Vivienne from the moment he's awoken by her call.
* ShockAndAwe: Has bio-electrical powers, which he can use offensively by releasing electrical arcs or as a form of communication with other bio-electrical Titans.
* SurvivorGuilt: Has a small amount concerning the genocide of the rest of his species, because he knows he went into hibernation as much to preserve his own life as to prevent Ghidorah from using his powers for its own ends.
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[[folder: Mothra]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Mosura''
The Queen of the Monsters, who is responsible for transforming San and Vivienne into their second form.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's angelic and benevolent, but you do ''not'' want to cause a harmful ruckus involving those she considers her children. It reflects her personality that her imago form is beautiful, elegant and has a powerful stinger.
* BornAgainImmortality: How she’s BackFromTheDead in the fic’s main time frame.
* HealingHands: How Mothra influenced Monster X’s EmergencyTransformation, according to WordOfGod [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?page=3&show_comments=true&view_adult=true&view_full_work=true#comments here]].
* MamaBear: She counts San and Vivienne among her children after Monster X comes into her care, and she's pretty scary when someone's driven Vivienne into a PTSD episode.
* RedBaron: She’s also known as the All-Mother, Life Bringer or Giver of Life.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Godzilla]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Gojira''
The King of the Monsters and Ghidorah’s ArchEnemy, whom Earth's Titans answer to alongside Mothra.
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* BloodKnight: Subverted. In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/9 Chapter 9]], Vivienne blurts to Godzilla's face that he seems to enjoy a fight, prompting him to draw the line between TranquilFury and TheBerserker for her.
* LastOfHisKind: Like Thor.
* PapaWolf: He’s shown hints of this towards Monster X, such as comforting them and even letting them near his vulnerable gills.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He keeps his reservations in check and doesn’t jump to any conclusions in Chapter 9 when encountering Monster X.
* RedBaron: He’s known among Titans as the Deep One and Great King Gojira.
* TheStoic: It’s implied this is why he’s accepting of San’s atonement and doesn’t hold any ill will towards him.
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[[folder: Rodan]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Rodan''
A bio-volcanic avian Titan, who hates Ghidorah for taking his volcano and taking control of him during the Mass Awakening.
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* BerserkButton: Getting a whiff of Ghidorah's scent makes him forget about everything else in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]], and he seems to have a bit of a grudge towards San over Ghidorah's fight with him at Isla de Mara.
* HotBlooded: Unsurprising, given his characterization in the movie. Mothra comments in Chapter 9 that he’s a fine teacher but lacks restraint.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts like a mild {{jerkass}} towards San and Vivienne, but inwardly feels remorse for initially attacking them due to them being newborn once he’s cooled down. He’s also initially aghast at tutoring San and Vivienne, before being reminded he’s [[NoodleIncident tutored Titans outside of his species before]].
* RedBaron: He’s also known as the Fire Demon, the One Born From Fire and the King Of The Sky.
* ScarsAreForever: It’s mentioned in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/10/ Chapter 10]] that he has a scar in his rocky skin where Mothra impaled him during the film.
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[[folder: Ghidorah]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Ghidorah''
A malevolent extraterrestrial Titan which was responsible for instigating the Titan Mass Awakening before being defeated by Godzilla. It consists of three draconic brothers with a single body, who each have control of one of the three heads: San (later San's AlternateSelf, nicknamed San-2 by a reviewer) and his "Eldest Brother" (the central head, Ichi) and "Elder Brother" (the right head, Ni).
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* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Alongside Ni and Ichi, Ghidorah has regenerated another version of San who has the same pre-BrainUploading memories and is still evil. Vivienne is able to tell the two San's apart when the evil one speaks to her in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11 Chapter 11]], as San-2's voice sounds the same as when San first fused to her. San-2 scorns the San who's fused to Vivienne as being nothing more than a "shadow" or "shed skin"]].
* ArtifactOfDoom: The severed Ghidorah head inside the abandoned Monarch outpost, which is implied to still have some of Ghidorah in it after San's consciousness has left.
* AtmosphereAbuse: Ghidorah blankets the surface of every world it conquers in perpetual catastrophic tempests, which would [[PlanetKiller presumably render them uninhabitable to other lifeforms]], before it moves on to do the same elsewhere.
* BackFromTheDead: San, and possibly his brothers, have apparently died and regenerated before via Ghidorah's HealingFactor. [[spoiler:They’re currently regenerating this way again.]]
* BadassBoast: Has this for a Bone Singer who communicated with it, in the past in Chapter 5:[[note]]The below capitalization, font and lack of grammar is how each of the trio’s dialogue is respectively written in the fic[[/note]]
--->'''Ichi''': '''WE ARE DEATHLESS'''\\
'''Ni''': WE ARE ETERNAL\\
'''Ichi''': '''WE ARE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS'''\\
'''Ni''': CONSUMED EMPIRES OF FLESH AND BONE AND METAL\\
'''San''': we live forever cut off our heads and they will grow back\\
'''Ichi''': '''THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL'''\\
'''Ni''': THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL\\
'''San''': the head is the seat of the soul
* BerserkButton: Ichi/Eldest Brother specifically was ticked off by humans (namely Vivienne) building a “cage” around Ghidorah while it was frozen.
* BigBad: It casts a lingering influence on San and Vivienne, [[spoiler:and once it starts coming BackFromTheDead, it serves as the main Kaiju antagonist]].
* BigBrotherBully: Ichi and Ni towards San. They didn’t show him a shred of affection nor allow him to indulge in anything that didn't involve eating and killing; roaring in his ears and biting at his horns when they disapproved of his curious tendencies.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Is attempting to drive Monster X down a StartOfDarkness, using techniques varying from tempting to belittling, to striking when Vivienne is mentally vulnerable.]]
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: San’s EvilDoppelganger of course has the same mental voice as him (see San’s folder), and the author has described what the other two heads’ mental voices sound like [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 here]].
* TheCorruption / MoreThanMindControl: Members of Jonah’s organization who are touched by the Ghidorah-head’s influence either kill themselves or display signs of this, with Jonah believing himself enlightened during his SanitySlippage.
* TheDreaded: Despite briefly controlling them, Ghidorah is despised by Earth’s Titans as the hostile alien entity it is. Humans who encountered Ghidorah during its rampage tend to be left with some psychological trauma to varying degrees.
* EldritchAbomination: Whereas Ghidorah was portrayed in the film as a relatively mild example, in the fic, its psychic influence makes it even more Lovecraftian.
* EvilDoppelganger: The San which Ghidorah regrew after the original’s head was ripped off; San-2. [[spoiler:He has no apparent compunctions against using BreakThemByTalking and MindRape on San and Vivienne]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: Ichi/Eldest Brother’s mental voice in particular (see ComicBookFantasyCasting).
* FromASingleCell: San states that Ghidorah can regenerate and return from death this way so long as any trace of its DNA remains. [[spoiler:It eventually comes true.]]
* GutturalGrowler: The voice of Ni/Elder Brother, and San’s EvilDoppelganger (see ComicBookFantasyCasting).
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: In the film, Ghidorah’s name was merely what ancient humans called it, whereas it’s explicitly shown in the fic that it’s also the name by which Ghidorah’s heads identify themselves. Special ancient humans who were capable of [[AnimalTalk Kaiju Talk]] probably picked up and recorded the name.
* InSeriesNickname: In {{canon}}, Ghidorah’s heads were only named Ichi, Ni and San as a ProductionNickname and were never called this InUniverse. In this fic, it’s revealed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/2 Chapter 2]] that Vivienne gave the heads their names while she was monitoring Outpost 32. Ichi and Ni seemingly don’t answer to these names, and are referred to by San as Eldest Brother and Elder Brother respectively.
* MindRape: Its intrusiveness and BreakThemByTalking via the PsychicLink crosses into this territory. And then there’s also the decapitated Ghidorah-head’s effects on Jonah’s paramilitary.
* OmnicidalManiac: The story expands on this. As San and San-2 explain, Ghidorah is ceaselessly killing all life besides itself that it can find in every corner of the universe it conquers, [[spoiler:repeating its {{revenge}} on the ones who turned Ichi, Ni and San into the three-headed monster in a vicious cycle,]] and it views life as temporary and finite insects who exist solely for the purpose of dying.
* PosthumousCharacter: It’s dead following the battle in Boston before the fic’s main time frame [[spoiler:(at first)]], but its actions have caused San and Vivienne’s transformation into Monster X, and it’s hinted the severed head still has some of Ghidorah’s minds in it. [[spoiler:Then Ichi, Ni and San-2 start regenerating FromASingleCell]].
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:Has one with Monster X, which it uses to try and BreakThemByTalking]].
* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed in Chapter 9 that Ni and Ichi's voices breaking San down when he was viewing Vivienne's memories really were them, and weren't just in San's brain]].
* RedBaron: It’s also called the Devil, the Enemy, the Destroyer of Worlds, the One Who Is Many, That Which Came From The Stars, the Snake Father and the World Eater.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Monarch and the Russells are disturbed in Chapter 9 when informed by San and Vivienne that Ghidorah is coming BackFromTheDead.]]
* SatanicArchetype: Like in the movie. Vivienne always called it the Devil or the Dragon in her notes, it’s often compared by human characters’ narration to a devil, and [[spoiler:it serves as the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Trigon to Monster X’s Raven]]]].
* SpaceNomads: Before arriving on Earth, it's been moving from world to world, conquering each one and then moving on.
* StrawNihilist: Seems to have shades of this, viewing all other life as temporary and worthless.
--->'''San-2:''' ''we tried at first tried to find meaning in their screams tried to find meaning in yours there was nothing to find [...] that is the meaning we found it is nothing there is no meaning we conquered we hunted we killed every world was mindless the [[spoiler:ones who made us]] screamed when we killed them nothing left all gone lives wasted honors meaningless''
* TimeAbyss: Based on its {{backstory}}, Ghidorah is most likely this old.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:It’s heavily implied Ghidorah’s alien creators deliberately drove it to anger and psychosis to make it a more effective living weapon. Ghidorah destroyed what its masters wanted it to, then it destroyed them as revenge for the trauma they caused it]].
* [[TwoBeingsOneBody Three Beings, One Body]]: It consists of three brothers, each acting as an individual mind for one of its three heads, and it can regenerate back-up duplicates of them if Ghidorah or one of its heads is destroyed or is severed intact. [[spoiler:It’s heavily implied in Chapter 10 that Ichi, Ni and San were originally single-headed creatures born from the same clutch of eggs, and the brothers were turned into the three-headed destroyer by alien experiments]].
* VoicesAreMental: All three heads have a different mental voice.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Its {{backstory}} before coming to Earth is revealed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/10 Chapter 10]]. [[spoiler:Ichi, Ni and San were born parentless in a harsh alien ecosystem where predators preyed on the infants of their kind, and Ichi had to teach his two brothers himself – but that’s not where the tragedy comes in. The trio were captured and caged by a mysterious alien civilization, who forcibly transformed them into Ghidorah via torturous procedures -- the trauma drove Ichi to utter hatred of their creators, and Ni to perpetual anger. Eventually, they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters (see above), and now they’re repeating their revenge again and again wherever they find life in the universe that even reminds them of Ghidorah’s creators, in a vicious cycle]].
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[[folder: Mandazawa (SPOILER CHARACTER)]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''[[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185769385301 Titanus Manda]]''
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!Other Titans
[[folder: Thor]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus þunraz''
A bio-electrical Titan with primate and caprina (goat/sheep) characteristics who rejected King Ghidorah's summons during the Mass Awakening, and aids Viv and San. He is loyal to Godzilla and Mothra. His kind are known among the Titans as the Thunderers.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The details are mysterious, but it’s believed he influenced the [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Dyatlov Pass Incident]] during his hibernating exile.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Like the other Titans, he’s been asleep for millennia, and is surprised in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/7 Chapter 7]] at the world’s modern state. He’s also dismayed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/12 Chapter 12]] that humans’ knowledge of him and of the Bone Singer/Grave Chanters’ ways have largely died out.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the only known survivor of his kind, the rest having been wiped out by Ghidorah in ancient times.
* PapaWolf: It's hinted that he feels quite paternal towards Vivienne from the moment he's awoken by her call.
* ShockAndAwe: Has bio-electrical powers, which he can use offensively by releasing electrical arcs or as a form of communication with other bio-electrical Titans.
* SurvivorGuilt: Has a small amount concerning the genocide of the rest of his species, because he knows he went into hibernation as much to preserve his own life as to prevent Ghidorah from using his powers for its own ends.
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[[folder: Mothra]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Mosura''
The Queen of the Monsters, who is responsible for transforming San and Vivienne into their second form.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's angelic and benevolent, but you do ''not'' want to cause a harmful ruckus involving those she considers her children. It reflects her personality that her imago form is beautiful, elegant and has a powerful stinger.
* BornAgainImmortality: How she’s BackFromTheDead in the fic’s main time frame.
* HealingHands: How Mothra influenced Monster X’s EmergencyTransformation, according to WordOfGod [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?page=3&show_comments=true&view_adult=true&view_full_work=true#comments here]].
* MamaBear: She counts San and Vivienne among her children after Monster X comes into her care, and she's pretty scary when someone's driven Vivienne into a PTSD episode.
* RedBaron: She’s also known as the All-Mother, Life Bringer or Giver of Life.
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[[folder: Godzilla]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Gojira''
The King of the Monsters and Ghidorah’s ArchEnemy, whom Earth's Titans answer to alongside Mothra.
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* BloodKnight: Subverted. In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/9 Chapter 9]], Vivienne blurts to Godzilla's face that he seems to enjoy a fight, prompting him to draw the line between TranquilFury and TheBerserker for her.
* LastOfHisKind: Like Thor.
* PapaWolf: He’s shown hints of this towards Monster X, such as comforting them and even letting them near his vulnerable gills.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He keeps his reservations in check and doesn’t jump to any conclusions in Chapter 9 when encountering Monster X.
* RedBaron: He’s known among Titans as the Deep One and Great King Gojira.
* TheStoic: It’s implied this is why he’s accepting of San’s atonement and doesn’t hold any ill will towards him.
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[[folder: Rodan]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Rodan''
A bio-volcanic avian Titan, who hates Ghidorah for taking his volcano and taking control of him during the Mass Awakening.
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* BerserkButton: Getting a whiff of Ghidorah's scent makes him forget about everything else in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]], and he seems to have a bit of a grudge towards San over Ghidorah's fight with him at Isla de Mara.
* HotBlooded: Unsurprising, given his characterization in the movie. Mothra comments in Chapter 9 that he’s a fine teacher but lacks restraint.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts like a mild {{jerkass}} towards San and Vivienne, but inwardly feels remorse for initially attacking them due to them being newborn once he’s cooled down. He’s also initially aghast at tutoring San and Vivienne, before being reminded he’s [[NoodleIncident tutored Titans outside of his species before]].
* RedBaron: He’s also known as the Fire Demon, the One Born From Fire and the King Of The Sky.
* ScarsAreForever: It’s mentioned in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/10/ Chapter 10]] that he has a scar in his rocky skin where Mothra impaled him during the film.
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[[folder: Ghidorah]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus Ghidorah''
A malevolent extraterrestrial Titan which was responsible for instigating the Titan Mass Awakening before being defeated by Godzilla. It consists of three draconic brothers with a single body, who each have control of one of the three heads: San (later San's AlternateSelf, nicknamed San-2 by a reviewer) and his "Eldest Brother" (the central head, Ichi) and "Elder Brother" (the right head, Ni).
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* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Alongside Ni and Ichi, Ghidorah has regenerated another version of San who has the same pre-BrainUploading memories and is still evil. Vivienne is able to tell the two San's apart when the evil one speaks to her in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11 Chapter 11]], as San-2's voice sounds the same as when San first fused to her. San-2 scorns the San who's fused to Vivienne as being nothing more than a "shadow" or "shed skin"]].
* ArtifactOfDoom: The severed Ghidorah head inside the abandoned Monarch outpost, which is implied to still have some of Ghidorah in it after San's consciousness has left.
* AtmosphereAbuse: Ghidorah blankets the surface of every world it conquers in perpetual catastrophic tempests, which would [[PlanetKiller presumably render them uninhabitable to other lifeforms]], before it moves on to do the same elsewhere.
* BackFromTheDead: San, and possibly his brothers, have apparently died and regenerated before via Ghidorah's HealingFactor. [[spoiler:They’re currently regenerating this way again.]]
* BadassBoast: Has this for a Bone Singer who communicated with it, in the past in Chapter 5:[[note]]The below capitalization, font and lack of grammar is how each of the trio’s dialogue is respectively written in the fic[[/note]]
--->'''Ichi''': '''WE ARE DEATHLESS'''\\
'''Ni''': WE ARE ETERNAL\\
'''Ichi''': '''WE ARE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS'''\\
'''Ni''': CONSUMED EMPIRES OF FLESH AND BONE AND METAL\\
'''San''': we live forever cut off our heads and they will grow back\\
'''Ichi''': '''THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL'''\\
'''Ni''': THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL\\
'''San''': the head is the seat of the soul
* BerserkButton: Ichi/Eldest Brother specifically was ticked off by humans (namely Vivienne) building a “cage” around Ghidorah while it was frozen.
* BigBad: It casts a lingering influence on San and Vivienne, [[spoiler:and once it starts coming BackFromTheDead, it serves as the main Kaiju antagonist]].
* BigBrotherBully: Ichi and Ni towards San. They didn’t show him a shred of affection nor allow him to indulge in anything that didn't involve eating and killing; roaring in his ears and biting at his horns when they disapproved of his curious tendencies.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Is attempting to drive Monster X down a StartOfDarkness, using techniques varying from tempting to belittling, to striking when Vivienne is mentally vulnerable.]]
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: San’s EvilDoppelganger of course has the same mental voice as him (see San’s folder), and the author has described what the other two heads’ mental voices sound like [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 here]].
* TheCorruption / MoreThanMindControl: Members of Jonah’s organization who are touched by the Ghidorah-head’s influence either kill themselves or display signs of this, with Jonah believing himself enlightened during his SanitySlippage.
* TheDreaded: Despite briefly controlling them, Ghidorah is despised by Earth’s Titans as the hostile alien entity it is. Humans who encountered Ghidorah during its rampage tend to be left with some psychological trauma to varying degrees.
* EldritchAbomination: Whereas Ghidorah was portrayed in the film as a relatively mild example, in the fic, its psychic influence makes it even more Lovecraftian.
* EvilDoppelganger: The San which Ghidorah regrew after the original’s head was ripped off; San-2. [[spoiler:He has no apparent compunctions against using BreakThemByTalking and MindRape on San and Vivienne]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: Ichi/Eldest Brother’s mental voice in particular (see ComicBookFantasyCasting).
* FromASingleCell: San states that Ghidorah can regenerate and return from death this way so long as any trace of its DNA remains. [[spoiler:It eventually comes true.]]
* GutturalGrowler: The voice of Ni/Elder Brother, and San’s EvilDoppelganger (see ComicBookFantasyCasting).
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: In the film, Ghidorah’s name was merely what ancient humans called it, whereas it’s explicitly shown in the fic that it’s also the name by which Ghidorah’s heads identify themselves. Special ancient humans who were capable of [[AnimalTalk Kaiju Talk]] probably picked up and recorded the name.
* InSeriesNickname: In {{canon}}, Ghidorah’s heads were only named Ichi, Ni and San as a ProductionNickname and were never called this InUniverse. In this fic, it’s revealed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/2 Chapter 2]] that Vivienne gave the heads their names while she was monitoring Outpost 32. Ichi and Ni seemingly don’t answer to these names, and are referred to by San as Eldest Brother and Elder Brother respectively.
* MindRape: Its intrusiveness and BreakThemByTalking via the PsychicLink crosses into this territory. And then there’s also the decapitated Ghidorah-head’s effects on Jonah’s paramilitary.
* OmnicidalManiac: The story expands on this. As San and San-2 explain, Ghidorah is ceaselessly killing all life besides itself that it can find in every corner of the universe it conquers, [[spoiler:repeating its {{revenge}} on the ones who turned Ichi, Ni and San into the three-headed monster in a vicious cycle,]] and it views life as temporary and finite insects who exist solely for the purpose of dying.
* PosthumousCharacter: It’s dead following the battle in Boston before the fic’s main time frame [[spoiler:(at first)]], but its actions have caused San and Vivienne’s transformation into Monster X, and it’s hinted the severed head still has some of Ghidorah’s minds in it. [[spoiler:Then Ichi, Ni and San-2 start regenerating FromASingleCell]].
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:Has one with Monster X, which it uses to try and BreakThemByTalking]].
* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed in Chapter 9 that Ni and Ichi's voices breaking San down when he was viewing Vivienne's memories really were them, and weren't just in San's brain]].
* RedBaron: It’s also called the Devil, the Enemy, the Destroyer of Worlds, the One Who Is Many, That Which Came From The Stars, the Snake Father and the World Eater.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Monarch and the Russells are disturbed in Chapter 9 when informed by San and Vivienne that Ghidorah is coming BackFromTheDead.]]
* SatanicArchetype: Like in the movie. Vivienne always called it the Devil or the Dragon in her notes, it’s often compared by human characters’ narration to a devil, and [[spoiler:it serves as the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Trigon to Monster X’s Raven]]]].
* SpaceNomads: Before arriving on Earth, it's been moving from world to world, conquering each one and then moving on.
* StrawNihilist: Seems to have shades of this, viewing all other life as temporary and worthless.
--->'''San-2:''' ''we tried at first tried to find meaning in their screams tried to find meaning in yours there was nothing to find [...] that is the meaning we found it is nothing there is no meaning we conquered we hunted we killed every world was mindless the [[spoiler:ones who made us]] screamed when we killed them nothing left all gone lives wasted honors meaningless''
* TimeAbyss: Based on its {{backstory}}, Ghidorah is most likely this old.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:It’s heavily implied Ghidorah’s alien creators deliberately drove it to anger and psychosis to make it a more effective living weapon. Ghidorah destroyed what its masters wanted it to, then it destroyed them as revenge for the trauma they caused it]].
* [[TwoBeingsOneBody Three Beings, One Body]]: It consists of three brothers, each acting as an individual mind for one of its three heads, and it can regenerate back-up duplicates of them if Ghidorah or one of its heads is destroyed or is severed intact. [[spoiler:It’s heavily implied in Chapter 10 that Ichi, Ni and San were originally single-headed creatures born from the same clutch of eggs, and the brothers were turned into the three-headed destroyer by alien experiments]].
* VoicesAreMental: All three heads have a different mental voice.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Its {{backstory}} before coming to Earth is revealed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/10 Chapter 10]]. [[spoiler:Ichi, Ni and San were born parentless in a harsh alien ecosystem where predators preyed on the infants of their kind, and Ichi had to teach his two brothers himself – but that’s not where the tragedy comes in. The trio were captured and caged by a mysterious alien civilization, who forcibly transformed them into Ghidorah via torturous procedures -- the trauma drove Ichi to utter hatred of their creators, and Ni to perpetual anger. Eventually, they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters (see above), and now they’re repeating their revenge again and again wherever they find life in the universe that even reminds them of Ghidorah’s creators, in a vicious cycle]].
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[[folder: Mandazawa (SPOILER CHARACTER)]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''[[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185769385301 Titanus Manda]]''
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! Monster X / [[spoiler:Abraxas]]
[[folder:General]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus [[spoiler:Abraxas]]''
A two-headed, half-human and half-Ghidorah "chimera" Titan, created by Ghidorah's severed head regenerating and transforming Vivienne Graham's body inside itself and transferring the head's own consciousness to her body’s new second brain. It possesses bio-electrical abilities which differ somewhat from Ghidorah's, and is (so far) incapable of flight.
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* AlienBlood: The same as Ghidorah’s.
* AntiAntichrist: [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] appears to be trying to push San and Vivienne down a StartOfDarkness via PsychicLink, something that neither of them want. Adding to this trope, Monster X is sort of an offspring of a SatanicArchetype.
* ArtificialHybrid: Monster X's body was formed by Ghidorah's severed head regenerating and altering Vivienne's body inside itself, before the first hybridised form was re-birthed from the severed head.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Mothra states in Chapter 9 that Monster X has inherited Ghidorah’s powers but that doesn’t make Vivienne accountable for Ghidorah’s atrocities.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Monster X overall embodies this trope like Ghidorah embodies the {{Sadist}}. Vivienne was already of the YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry variety when she was human, and her temper is certainly no less fierce after her transformation into part of Monster X; additionally, she now has more {{Berserk Button}}s due to her TraumaCongaLine and PTSD. San is a real sweetheart towards Vivienne, and is at least tolerant and curious towards humans if they haven’t pissed him off, but God help you if you hurt his sister.
---> '''Tejada''': “[…] ''for god’s sake, ''do not make her angry''. ''Do not fucking piss her off''. Understand? We made her a demon.''”
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Brother/Sister Mentor]]: Monster X is an interesting two-way example. Vivienne teaches San about humanity and mythology, while San in turn teaches her how to survive as a Titan, to say nothing of the emotional support they mutually provide each-other.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Possesses two hearts, a third lung (acting as an "oxygen bladder" when the main lungs are too damaged to work), a "pre-stomach" organ which is thought to filter out food toxins, numerous glands of indeterminate function. They also have traces of aurum (gold) in their defective first form's skin and bones, which turns into argentum (silver) after their second transformation, for the purpose of conducting their bio-electricity. Their second form has a mix of leathery skin and bony exoskeletal armor.
* BodyHorror: In its first form, where it's in a constant state of pain, has ingrown extra fangs along the jaws; and a horrifically extreme case of ''Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva'' which is exacerbated by their {{Healing Factor}}'s defect, making it very difficult for the duo to move certain joints without risking breaking their bones.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Its physical voice in its first form is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185815052284/ described by the author]] as sounding like the Gravemind in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
* EmergencyTransformation: A {{Metamorphosis}} instigated externally by Mothra in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/7 Chapter 7]], which fixes Monster X's PowerIncontinence and BodyHorror, granting them a more fully developed form.
* FlawedPrototype: The defective first form's downsides were completely unintended on San's part. According to WordOfGod [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?page=1&show_comments=true&view_adult=true&view_full_work=true#comments here]], the defects occurred due to San not understanding how human bodies biologically work nor how long a gestation period was really required for the hybrid.
* GenderBender: A TwoBeingsOneBody Titan consisting of a “male” alien and a formerly-human female, with both male and female chromosomes. Characters primarily refer to Monster X generally as female, likely due to Vivienne being the “main” head. When asked about Monster X’s physical gender, the author [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comments referred to certain real-life species’ ability to change sex]].
* HealingFactor: Just like Ghidorah. In their first form, a defect results in extra bone matter growing in place of lost flesh, which is gradually immobilizing their body parts and makes it extremely difficult for them to move without breaking their bones. The defect’s fixed during their EmergencyTransformation.
* HeroicNeutral: At first San and Vivienne are this, as their main objective is to escape their imprisonment to freedom.
* HeroicRROD: The duo suffer this in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]] when Vivienne overuses their powers in their first form, effectively microwaving their partly-human organs. Their HealingFactor keeps them alive, but it's still devastating and ''not pretty''.
* InSeriesNickname: Is designated Subject G by Jonah’s paramilitary – San’s head is distinguished from Vivienne as Subject G-1a once they become aware the creature is TwoBeingsOneBody.
* {{Kaiju}}: Monster X is officially classified as a Titan. In their first form, they’re roughly the size of a Skullcrawler, and after their second transformation, they're almost the same size that Kong was in ''[[Film/KongSkullIsland Skull Island]]'', as [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/620940544685834240 this official artwork by the author demonstrates]].
* MultipleHeadCase / TwoBeingsOneBody: Vivienne's mind occupies the main head (formerly her human form's head before the transformation), while San occupies the secondary head; analogous to how Ghidorah's three heads shared a body. They're also able to switch (or forcibly seize) control of limbs or their whole body from each other.
* PowerDegeneration: Never stated, but implied Monster X would've suffered this had the duo stayed in their first form, due to their {{Healing Factor}}'s serious design flaw.
* PowerIncontinence: In their first form, Monster X has too few traces of metal in its body to conduct electricity like Ghidorah did, and they struggle to awaken their electrical powers. They succeed by using emotions such as hatred or anger.
* ShockAndAwe: Has inherited Ghidorah's bio-electricity, referred to by San as "the storm", although Monster X’s abilities aren’t quite the same as Ghidorah’s. Instead of unleashing Gravity Beams or forming cyclones, Monster X gives off blasts of electrical energy through its body and limbs.
* SiblingTeam: Vivienne and San are considered brother and sister after their merger (analogous to Ghidorah’s heads being brothers), and they eventually become this kind of team; learning to work together and becoming each-other’s emotional crutches.
* SignatureRoar: The author has [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573/chapters/54974494?view_adult=true mentioned]] Monster X has the same vocalizations as the original Toho incarnation (at least Vivienne’s head does, as San’s head is implied to have the same roar as Ghidorah).
* TalkingInYourDreams: See below.
* TwinTelepathy: San and Vivienne are able to communicate with each-other this way due to their shared nervous system below the necks, in addition to vocal communication. They’re even able to [[TalkingInYourDeams share dreams]] and let the other view their memories.
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[[folder: Dr. Vivienne Graham]]
A prominent Monarch scientist who had a close relationship with Serizawa. She was EatenAlive by Ghidorah (Ichi/Eldest Brother) in Antarctica, before being stored inside San's head to be revived and transformed; forming San's new sister as part of Monster X. She functions as the main head.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She’s afraid both of hurting humans if she so much as touches them due to her {{Kaiju}} size, and she’s also wary of getting blood-drunk and losing herself when using her and San’s “storm”.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: She never believed that aliens might exist -- at least not ones vaguely resembling humans -- until San tells her in Chapter 10 of his and his brothers’ past encounter with such a species they exterminated.
* BackFromTheDead: See OnlyMostlyDead for more information. Rick Stanton even compares Vivienne's return to Jesus' resurrection in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]].
* BadassBoast: She has this for Jonah when she and San are about to escape containment in Chapter 6:
--->"''Did you think us defeated? Broken down to be your tool? Did you think yourself like Odin, all-seeing and all-knowing? Binding us like Fenrir, foretold to bring about great destruction at the time of Ragnarök? For all his wisdom and insight and knowledge, did it ever occur to Odin that by binding the wolf he was only creating a self-fulfilling prophecy? Fenrir's sons will devour the sun and moon, Gleipnir will break, and Fenrir will have his vengeance on Odin. This fetter will break...''"
* BalefulPolymorph: Born a human, transformed into a part-Ghidorah Titan by San. The Baleful part probably wasn't helped by her and San's initial FlawedPrototype form putting them in a chronic state of agony for months. After they've gotten better, Vivienne accepts she physically isn't human anymore but she still needs to hold on to her humanity.
* BeautyToBeast: She's acknowledged as having been a looker when she was human, whereas her and San's first form is a real case of BodyHorror (though her face is still recognizable upon close inspection). Later somewhat reversed; her and San's complete second form is even more bestial than their first form, but is acknowledged as being no less beautiful than any non-hybrid Titan.
* BerserkButton: Deriding her relationship with the late Serizawa and threatening her loved ones are ill-advised. It's also advisable that one avoid directly reminding her of Ghidorah and triggering her PTSD. For a less violent example, she’s outraged in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/3 Chapter 3]] when she correctly guesses Admiral Stenz must’ve been behind the Oxygen Destroyer’s creation and launch.
* TheBerserker: So far, this is the state she's often gone into in fighting. Because it's uncontrollable and she tends to lose herself, she and San agree that she needs to learn to control it.
* BreakTheCutie: She endures this over the course of the story’s first five chapters, leading to her [[TookALevelInBadass Taking A Level in Badass]] – and her TraumaCongaLine isn’t over yet.
* TheConscience: She seems to mainly serve this function among the duo, whereas San tends to be TrueNeutral when it comes to aiding others.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Averted in regards to San's AlternateSelf who Ghidorah regenerated:
--->''What a bizarre concept; two separate San's, but while one was decapitated and changing her to be more like him, the other was wreaking havoc on the world and ''her'' San has no memory of it. [...] The idea of Ghidorah -- that nightmare dragon that's haunted her dreams -- targeting Madison for sport makes her blood boil and plasma flare. She stops, tries to settle her nerves. Focus. That wasn't her San.''
* FateWorseThanDeath: This was partly Ichi/Eldest Brother's intention behind having San transform Vivienne. She agrees that it would've been more merciful if Ghidorah had just killed her outright.
* HeroicBSOD: She's thrown into a gut-wrenchingly severe one after she discovers Serizawa is dead in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/4 Chapter 4]], coming pretty damn close to the DespairEventHorizon. She only comes out of it right when San hits his own [=BSoD=]...
* HowlOfSorrow: Gives a particularly horrific one after learning of Serizawa’s death. It was literally heard across quite a far range…
* InhumanHuman: Particularly in her and San’s first hybridized form, where she’s essentially revived from being OnlyMostlyDead but is no longer human and their first form is a FlawedPrototype with BodyHorror.
* MamaBear: Her blood boils at the thought that Ghidorah hunted Madison from sport in Boston, and a deleted scene showed her making a mercenary who was stalking two DisposableVagrant children back off with a DeathGlare.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is noted in Chapter 1 to mean “alive”, quite fitting in the context of what happens to her in this story.
* MoralityPet: She's this to San, having a positive influence on his character growth since he fused with her, and it's because of her that San becomes determined to be better than Ghidorah.
* OnlyMostlyDead: She technically was temporarily dead after being EatenAlive by Ichi/Eldest Brother, before being ejected into San's neck where she was forcefully revived and kept alive in a comatose state -- apparently, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology her brain activity temporarily ceased before her faculties were restored intact]]. She furthermore has to endure a series of heart attacks during the transformation inside San's Ghidorah head.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** She was this towards Madison, who admits a few times (including to Vivienne herself) that she wished Vivienne would've become her mother if things had happened differently. Mark and others at Monarch are aware of it as well.
** She can also be seen as a form of this towards San, in contrast to his brothers -- showing him affection unlike his brothers ever did, and forming a strong brother-sister bond with him.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Initially, in Monster X’s first form which has granted her Ghidorah’s [[ShockAndAwe bio-electricity]] and HealingFactor along with San’s mind while causing BodyHorror. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] during Vivienne and San’s EmergencyTransformation.
* ProHumanTranshuman: She initially refuses to kill other humans (this fades after she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level in Badass]]), she still actively wants to stay in touch with her humanity despite her transformation, and she seeks as much interaction with her human loved ones as a Kong-sized chimera Titan can have.
* {{Protectorate}}: PlayedWith initially. San initially considers it his responsibility to protect and care for Vivienne. After she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level in Badass]], she and San become mutually skilled at defending themselves together.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The world at large still believes she’s dead, and it isn’t until several chapters in that Monarch discover that Ghidorah eating her was not the end.
* SanitySlippage: She’s teetered on this a few times due to her PTSD (see ShellShockedVeteran), seen most noticeably in Chapter 11 when she reacts to news of Admiral Stenz’ death.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Her experience of being EatenAlive has turned her into this, exhibiting definitive signs of PTSD. Her TraumaCongaLine hasn't done much to help either.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: She possesses a hereditary ability which would’ve enabled her to mutually communicate with Titans when she was human if the practices for learning to harness it were still around. After being transformed into part of Monster X, San teaches her to harness her ability more consciously, and she can fluently understand what other Titans are saying and vice versa.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: PlayedWith. She’s at first dismayed that her transformation into Monster X doesn’t turn out to be a nightmare. She eventually forgives and grows close to San, but she hates Ghidorah for psychically haunting her before her transformation, among its other evil acts. By [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11 Chapter 11]], she’s accepted that she physically isn’t human anymore and is now officially one of the Titans, but she still fears becoming too detached from her former humanity.
* SurvivorGuilt: Her nightmare in Chapter 3 reveals she has a level of this, concerning numerous Monarch personnel and civilians who were killed by the [=MUTOs=], Jonah’s mercenaries and Ghidorah.
* TookALevelInBadass: She at first rebukes San’s suggestions of deliberately killing other people, namely Jonah’s personnel (even when said people are [[BullyingADragon really asking]] [[AssholeVictim for it]]).Later, she flies into an UnstoppableRage, in which she shows Jonah’s people who are stupid enough to stand in her and San’s way no mercy; to say nothing how she verbally tore Jonah apart minutes earlier. Then there’s how her training from the other Titans is progressing.
* TraumaCongaLine: My, oh, my. She gets EatenAlive and rendered OnlyMostlyDead (and is left with PTSD from this); she spends several months locked up underground in a space too small for her, with no track of time, transformed into a horrific part-Ghidorah monstrosity that’s in a state of chronic agony, and is inhumanely experimented on with various ammunitions to test her new HealingFactor; she finds out her surrogate father is dead (she takes this particularly hard)... [[spoiler:and when she finally escapes and gets somewhat better, she finds out Ghidorah is both BackFromTheDead and can use MindRape tactics on her via PsychicLink, attempting to stress her and drive her down a StartOfDarkness. And then there’s how awry her attempt at a reunion with her living mother goes]].
* UnstoppableRage: Fully flies into one during her escape in Chapter 6 [[spoiler:when she learns what Jonah has been doing with the missing {{Disposable Vagrant}}s]].
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[[folder: San]]
Formerly Ghidorah's left head, notable for possessing a curiosity which his two brothers lacked and being the least malicious of the three. His mind survives inside the head that's ripped off by Godzilla. He's responsible for storing, reviving and transforming Vivienne's body inside his decapitated head before transferring his consciousness to the resulting hybrid’s second brain, becoming Vivienne's brother as part of Monster X. He functions as the secondary head.
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* AlternateSelf: Having come from the severed Ghidorah-head, he only has memories of Ghidorah's actions up to the head's decapitation, and doesn't remember what his regrown doppelgänger did before Ghidorah's death -- kind of like an outdated backup file copy. (See Ghidorah’s folder for more info.)
* AppropriatedAppellation: As of Chapter 8, he’s rejecting Ghidorah’s name entirely, and has taken the nickname Vivienne knows him by as his new name.
* BerserkButton: Inflicting serious harm on his sister, be it physical or psychological.
* BloodKnight: Though he isn't an OmnicidalManiac like his brothers, San does genuinely enjoy a real fight.
* BrainUploading: He transfers his consciousness from the decapitated Ghidorah head into the secondary brain he grew on Monster X, becoming the hybrid’s second head.
* ByronicHero: He can actually be seen as this. He’s sensitive to the point of being endearing, but he’s the more HeroicNeutral of the duo, and he largely reserves humane caring and consideration for Vivienne (and perhaps also Mothra), while towards most others he’s more tolerant and benign than anything else. He also has a serious Freudian tendency to kick himself when he thinks Vivienne being hurt is his fault, and he’s strategically-competent at looking out for details during combat.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting / GutturalGrowler: His mental voice is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/618237379941105664/ described by the author]] as being based on a Rake creepypasta.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He used to be one of Ghidorah’s three minds, and was treated by the other two as the runt of the litter. Enough said.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection / WellDoneSonGuy: He never got approval and affection from his brothers, and so he seeks these things from his new sister who he recognizes is nothing like them.
* EasilyForgiven: Mothra has no reservations towards him over his brothers and AlternateSelf killing her, before effectively adopting him and Vivienne. Godzilla, being TheStoic, holds no hard feelings. But with everyone else human and Titan who interacts with San, it takes time before they lower their reservations and animosities towards him.
* HeelRealization: He has a brutal one in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/5 Chapter 5]], when he’s viewing Vivienne's memories and realizes why she's so miserable and doesn't trust him.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Technically overlaps with VillainousBSOD -- when viewing Vivienne's memories, he has a pretty heart-wrenching kick-in-the-teeth HeelRealization about why Vivienne's been so wary of him and about how much Ghidorah's actions -- including San's specifically -- have tarnished her. It's short-lived as Vivienne brings him out of it.
** He has a more minor one after he resorts to deliberately reminding Vivienne of Ichi/Eldest Brother attacking her to snap her out of a PTSD-induced UnstoppableRage.
* HumanityIsInfectious: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] almost word-for-word by Vivienne when addressing his HeelFaceTurn in Chapter 9. Indeed, Vivienne acts as San's MoralityPet and also sates his curious tendencies. San's voice is gradually picking up Vivienne's accent with his CharacterDevelopment.
* IAmNotAGun: Ghidorah’s {{backstory}} essentially makes San this following his HeelFaceTurn.
* IllKillYou: He angrily declares this after he and Vivienne (mainly Vivienne) is horrifically injured by a chlorine gas experiment.
* InSeriesNickname: He was given his name by Vivienne while she was monitoring Ghidorah in Antarctica -- he acknowledges it isn’t his real name. He’s also nicknamed Eddie the Head by Tejada. [[spoiler:Ghidorah and the gestalt driving the {{Artificial Zombie}}s refer to San as a “shed skin” after he’s merged with Vivienne]]. Though never stated, it can be inferred from how San refers to his brothers that Ichi and Ni would have probably called him "Youngest Brother" when he was still attached to them.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon his HeelRealization, he comes to deeply regret what he and his brothers have done to Vivienne. He apparently still carries remorse after Vivienne has forgiven him.
* NotQuiteDead: After his original head is ripped off of Ghidorah by Godzilla, it remains partially alive, retaining San's mind and pre-decapitation memories.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Naturally, being a Titan himself. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by his and Vivienne’s TwinTelepathy, which enables San to instantly pick up Vivienne’s vocabulary for communicating, and by Monster X’s ability to communicate in human vocalizations in its first form and via radio-waves in its second form.
* SuperEmpowering: He transforms Vivienne, a human, into part of a Ghidorah hybrid Titan; by regenerating her while deliberately feeding his own enzymes into her when she’s inside his severed head. Granting their shared body Ghidorah’s HealingFactor and bio-electricity, and {{Kaiju}} SuperToughness.
* TearsOfRemorse: Sheds these after his HeelRealization.
* VoicesAreMental: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. He has a mental voice heard by numerous humans through more than one mean which is described as sounding the same every time; but it’s slightly changing with his CharacterDevelopment to sound somewhat more human-like.
* WhiteSheep: He becomes this to his brothers and AlternateSelf, being determined to be better than Ghidorah.
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! Monster X / [[spoiler:Abraxas]]
[[folder:General]]
!!!'''Scientific name:''' ''Titanus [[spoiler:Abraxas]]''
A two-headed, half-human and half-Ghidorah "chimera" Titan, created by Ghidorah's severed head regenerating and transforming Vivienne Graham's body inside itself and transferring the head's own consciousness to her body’s new second brain. It possesses bio-electrical abilities which differ somewhat from Ghidorah's, and is (so far) incapable of flight.
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* AlienBlood: The same as Ghidorah’s.
* AntiAntichrist: [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] appears to be trying to push San and Vivienne down a StartOfDarkness via PsychicLink, something that neither of them want. Adding to this trope, Monster X is sort of an offspring of a SatanicArchetype.
* ArtificialHybrid: Monster X's body was formed by Ghidorah's severed head regenerating and altering Vivienne's body inside itself, before the first hybridised form was re-birthed from the severed head.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Mothra states in Chapter 9 that Monster X has inherited Ghidorah’s powers but that doesn’t make Vivienne accountable for Ghidorah’s atrocities.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Monster X overall embodies this trope like Ghidorah embodies the {{Sadist}}. Vivienne was already of the YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry variety when she was human, and her temper is certainly no less fierce after her transformation into part of Monster X; additionally, she now has more {{Berserk Button}}s due to her TraumaCongaLine and PTSD. San is a real sweetheart towards Vivienne, and is at least tolerant and curious towards humans if they haven’t pissed him off, but God help you if you hurt his sister.
---> '''Tejada''': “[…] ''for god’s sake, ''do not make her angry''. ''Do not fucking piss her off''. Understand? We made her a demon.''”
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Brother/Sister Mentor]]: Monster X is an interesting two-way example. Vivienne teaches San about humanity and mythology, while San in turn teaches her how to survive as a Titan, to say nothing of the emotional support they mutually provide each-other.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Possesses two hearts, a third lung (acting as an "oxygen bladder" when the main lungs are too damaged to work), a "pre-stomach" organ which is thought to filter out food toxins, numerous glands of indeterminate function. They also have traces of aurum (gold) in their defective first form's skin and bones, which turns into argentum (silver) after their second transformation, for the purpose of conducting their bio-electricity. Their second form has a mix of leathery skin and bony exoskeletal armor.
* BodyHorror: In its first form, where it's in a constant state of pain, has ingrown extra fangs along the jaws; and a horrifically extreme case of ''Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva'' which is exacerbated by their {{Healing Factor}}'s defect, making it very difficult for the duo to move certain joints without risking breaking their bones.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Its physical voice in its first form is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185815052284/ described by the author]] as sounding like the Gravemind in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
* EmergencyTransformation: A {{Metamorphosis}} instigated externally by Mothra in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/7 Chapter 7]], which fixes Monster X's PowerIncontinence and BodyHorror, granting them a more fully developed form.
* FlawedPrototype: The defective first form's downsides were completely unintended on San's part. According to WordOfGod [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?page=1&show_comments=true&view_adult=true&view_full_work=true#comments here]], the defects occurred due to San not understanding how human bodies biologically work nor how long a gestation period was really required for the hybrid.
* GenderBender: A TwoBeingsOneBody Titan consisting of a “male” alien and a formerly-human female, with both male and female chromosomes. Characters primarily refer to Monster X generally as female, likely due to Vivienne being the “main” head. When asked about Monster X’s physical gender, the author [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comments referred to certain real-life species’ ability to change sex]].
* HealingFactor: Just like Ghidorah. In their first form, a defect results in extra bone matter growing in place of lost flesh, which is gradually immobilizing their body parts and makes it extremely difficult for them to move without breaking their bones. The defect’s fixed during their EmergencyTransformation.
* HeroicNeutral: At first San and Vivienne are this, as their main objective is to escape their imprisonment to freedom.
* HeroicRROD: The duo suffer this in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]] when Vivienne overuses their powers in their first form, effectively microwaving their partly-human organs. Their HealingFactor keeps them alive, but it's still devastating and ''not pretty''.
* InSeriesNickname: Is designated Subject G by Jonah’s paramilitary – San’s head is distinguished from Vivienne as Subject G-1a once they become aware the creature is TwoBeingsOneBody.
* {{Kaiju}}: Monster X is officially classified as a Titan. In their first form, they’re roughly the size of a Skullcrawler, and after their second transformation, they're almost the same size that Kong was in ''[[Film/KongSkullIsland Skull Island]]'', as [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/620940544685834240 this official artwork by the author demonstrates]].
* MultipleHeadCase / TwoBeingsOneBody: Vivienne's mind occupies the main head (formerly her human form's head before the transformation), while San occupies the secondary head; analogous to how Ghidorah's three heads shared a body. They're also able to switch (or forcibly seize) control of limbs or their whole body from each other.
* PowerDegeneration: Never stated, but implied Monster X would've suffered this had the duo stayed in their first form, due to their {{Healing Factor}}'s serious design flaw.
* PowerIncontinence: In their first form, Monster X has too few traces of metal in its body to conduct electricity like Ghidorah did, and they struggle to awaken their electrical powers. They succeed by using emotions such as hatred or anger.
* ShockAndAwe: Has inherited Ghidorah's bio-electricity, referred to by San as "the storm", although Monster X’s abilities aren’t quite the same as Ghidorah’s. Instead of unleashing Gravity Beams or forming cyclones, Monster X gives off blasts of electrical energy through its body and limbs.
* SiblingTeam: Vivienne and San are considered brother and sister after their merger (analogous to Ghidorah’s heads being brothers), and they eventually become this kind of team; learning to work together and becoming each-other’s emotional crutches.
* SignatureRoar: The author has [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573/chapters/54974494?view_adult=true mentioned]] Monster X has the same vocalizations as the original Toho incarnation (at least Vivienne’s head does, as San’s head is implied to have the same roar as Ghidorah).
* TalkingInYourDreams: See below.
* TwinTelepathy: San and Vivienne are able to communicate with each-other this way due to their shared nervous system below the necks, in addition to vocal communication. They’re even able to [[TalkingInYourDeams share dreams]] and let the other view their memories.
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[[folder: Dr. Vivienne Graham]]
A prominent Monarch scientist who had a close relationship with Serizawa. She was EatenAlive by Ghidorah (Ichi/Eldest Brother) in Antarctica, before being stored inside San's head to be revived and transformed; forming San's new sister as part of Monster X. She functions as the main head.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She’s afraid both of hurting humans if she so much as touches them due to her {{Kaiju}} size, and she’s also wary of getting blood-drunk and losing herself when using her and San’s “storm”.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: She never believed that aliens might exist -- at least not ones vaguely resembling humans -- until San tells her in Chapter 10 of his and his brothers’ past encounter with such a species they exterminated.
* BackFromTheDead: See OnlyMostlyDead for more information. Rick Stanton even compares Vivienne's return to Jesus' resurrection in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/8 Chapter 8]].
* BadassBoast: She has this for Jonah when she and San are about to escape containment in Chapter 6:
--->"''Did you think us defeated? Broken down to be your tool? Did you think yourself like Odin, all-seeing and all-knowing? Binding us like Fenrir, foretold to bring about great destruction at the time of Ragnarök? For all his wisdom and insight and knowledge, did it ever occur to Odin that by binding the wolf he was only creating a self-fulfilling prophecy? Fenrir's sons will devour the sun and moon, Gleipnir will break, and Fenrir will have his vengeance on Odin. This fetter will break...''"
* BalefulPolymorph: Born a human, transformed into a part-Ghidorah Titan by San. The Baleful part probably wasn't helped by her and San's initial FlawedPrototype form putting them in a chronic state of agony for months. After they've gotten better, Vivienne accepts she physically isn't human anymore but she still needs to hold on to her humanity.
* BeautyToBeast: She's acknowledged as having been a looker when she was human, whereas her and San's first form is a real case of BodyHorror (though her face is still recognizable upon close inspection). Later somewhat reversed; her and San's complete second form is even more bestial than their first form, but is acknowledged as being no less beautiful than any non-hybrid Titan.
* BerserkButton: Deriding her relationship with the late Serizawa and threatening her loved ones are ill-advised. It's also advisable that one avoid directly reminding her of Ghidorah and triggering her PTSD. For a less violent example, she’s outraged in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/3 Chapter 3]] when she correctly guesses Admiral Stenz must’ve been behind the Oxygen Destroyer’s creation and launch.
* TheBerserker: So far, this is the state she's often gone into in fighting. Because it's uncontrollable and she tends to lose herself, she and San agree that she needs to learn to control it.
* BreakTheCutie: She endures this over the course of the story’s first five chapters, leading to her [[TookALevelInBadass Taking A Level in Badass]] – and her TraumaCongaLine isn’t over yet.
* TheConscience: She seems to mainly serve this function among the duo, whereas San tends to be TrueNeutral when it comes to aiding others.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Averted in regards to San's AlternateSelf who Ghidorah regenerated:
--->''What a bizarre concept; two separate San's, but while one was decapitated and changing her to be more like him, the other was wreaking havoc on the world and ''her'' San has no memory of it. [...] The idea of Ghidorah -- that nightmare dragon that's haunted her dreams -- targeting Madison for sport makes her blood boil and plasma flare. She stops, tries to settle her nerves. Focus. That wasn't her San.''
* FateWorseThanDeath: This was partly Ichi/Eldest Brother's intention behind having San transform Vivienne. She agrees that it would've been more merciful if Ghidorah had just killed her outright.
* HeroicBSOD: She's thrown into a gut-wrenchingly severe one after she discovers Serizawa is dead in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/4 Chapter 4]], coming pretty damn close to the DespairEventHorizon. She only comes out of it right when San hits his own [=BSoD=]...
* HowlOfSorrow: Gives a particularly horrific one after learning of Serizawa’s death. It was literally heard across quite a far range…
* InhumanHuman: Particularly in her and San’s first hybridized form, where she’s essentially revived from being OnlyMostlyDead but is no longer human and their first form is a FlawedPrototype with BodyHorror.
* MamaBear: Her blood boils at the thought that Ghidorah hunted Madison from sport in Boston, and a deleted scene showed her making a mercenary who was stalking two DisposableVagrant children back off with a DeathGlare.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is noted in Chapter 1 to mean “alive”, quite fitting in the context of what happens to her in this story.
* MoralityPet: She's this to San, having a positive influence on his character growth since he fused with her, and it's because of her that San becomes determined to be better than Ghidorah.
* OnlyMostlyDead: She technically was temporarily dead after being EatenAlive by Ichi/Eldest Brother, before being ejected into San's neck where she was forcefully revived and kept alive in a comatose state -- apparently, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology her brain activity temporarily ceased before her faculties were restored intact]]. She furthermore has to endure a series of heart attacks during the transformation inside San's Ghidorah head.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** She was this towards Madison, who admits a few times (including to Vivienne herself) that she wished Vivienne would've become her mother if things had happened differently. Mark and others at Monarch are aware of it as well.
** She can also be seen as a form of this towards San, in contrast to his brothers -- showing him affection unlike his brothers ever did, and forming a strong brother-sister bond with him.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Initially, in Monster X’s first form which has granted her Ghidorah’s [[ShockAndAwe bio-electricity]] and HealingFactor along with San’s mind while causing BodyHorror. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] during Vivienne and San’s EmergencyTransformation.
* ProHumanTranshuman: She initially refuses to kill other humans (this fades after she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level in Badass]]), she still actively wants to stay in touch with her humanity despite her transformation, and she seeks as much interaction with her human loved ones as a Kong-sized chimera Titan can have.
* {{Protectorate}}: PlayedWith initially. San initially considers it his responsibility to protect and care for Vivienne. After she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level in Badass]], she and San become mutually skilled at defending themselves together.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The world at large still believes she’s dead, and it isn’t until several chapters in that Monarch discover that Ghidorah eating her was not the end.
* SanitySlippage: She’s teetered on this a few times due to her PTSD (see ShellShockedVeteran), seen most noticeably in Chapter 11 when she reacts to news of Admiral Stenz’ death.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Her experience of being EatenAlive has turned her into this, exhibiting definitive signs of PTSD. Her TraumaCongaLine hasn't done much to help either.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: She possesses a hereditary ability which would’ve enabled her to mutually communicate with Titans when she was human if the practices for learning to harness it were still around. After being transformed into part of Monster X, San teaches her to harness her ability more consciously, and she can fluently understand what other Titans are saying and vice versa.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: PlayedWith. She’s at first dismayed that her transformation into Monster X doesn’t turn out to be a nightmare. She eventually forgives and grows close to San, but she hates Ghidorah for psychically haunting her before her transformation, among its other evil acts. By [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11 Chapter 11]], she’s accepted that she physically isn’t human anymore and is now officially one of the Titans, but she still fears becoming too detached from her former humanity.
* SurvivorGuilt: Her nightmare in Chapter 3 reveals she has a level of this, concerning numerous Monarch personnel and civilians who were killed by the [=MUTOs=], Jonah’s mercenaries and Ghidorah.
* TookALevelInBadass: She at first rebukes San’s suggestions of deliberately killing other people, namely Jonah’s personnel (even when said people are [[BullyingADragon really asking]] [[AssholeVictim for it]]).Later, she flies into an UnstoppableRage, in which she shows Jonah’s people who are stupid enough to stand in her and San’s way no mercy; to say nothing how she verbally tore Jonah apart minutes earlier. Then there’s how her training from the other Titans is progressing.
* TraumaCongaLine: My, oh, my. She gets EatenAlive and rendered OnlyMostlyDead (and is left with PTSD from this); she spends several months locked up underground in a space too small for her, with no track of time, transformed into a horrific part-Ghidorah monstrosity that’s in a state of chronic agony, and is inhumanely experimented on with various ammunitions to test her new HealingFactor; she finds out her surrogate father is dead (she takes this particularly hard)... [[spoiler:and when she finally escapes and gets somewhat better, she finds out Ghidorah is both BackFromTheDead and can use MindRape tactics on her via PsychicLink, attempting to stress her and drive her down a StartOfDarkness. And then there’s how awry her attempt at a reunion with her living mother goes]].
* UnstoppableRage: Fully flies into one during her escape in Chapter 6 [[spoiler:when she learns what Jonah has been doing with the missing {{Disposable Vagrant}}s]].
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[[folder: San]]
Formerly Ghidorah's left head, notable for possessing a curiosity which his two brothers lacked and being the least malicious of the three. His mind survives inside the head that's ripped off by Godzilla. He's responsible for storing, reviving and transforming Vivienne's body inside his decapitated head before transferring his consciousness to the resulting hybrid’s second brain, becoming Vivienne's brother as part of Monster X. He functions as the secondary head.
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* AlternateSelf: Having come from the severed Ghidorah-head, he only has memories of Ghidorah's actions up to the head's decapitation, and doesn't remember what his regrown doppelgänger did before Ghidorah's death -- kind of like an outdated backup file copy. (See Ghidorah’s folder for more info.)
* AppropriatedAppellation: As of Chapter 8, he’s rejecting Ghidorah’s name entirely, and has taken the nickname Vivienne knows him by as his new name.
* BerserkButton: Inflicting serious harm on his sister, be it physical or psychological.
* BloodKnight: Though he isn't an OmnicidalManiac like his brothers, San does genuinely enjoy a real fight.
* BrainUploading: He transfers his consciousness from the decapitated Ghidorah head into the secondary brain he grew on Monster X, becoming the hybrid’s second head.
* ByronicHero: He can actually be seen as this. He’s sensitive to the point of being endearing, but he’s the more HeroicNeutral of the duo, and he largely reserves humane caring and consideration for Vivienne (and perhaps also Mothra), while towards most others he’s more tolerant and benign than anything else. He also has a serious Freudian tendency to kick himself when he thinks Vivienne being hurt is his fault, and he’s strategically-competent at looking out for details during combat.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting / GutturalGrowler: His mental voice is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/618237379941105664/ described by the author]] as being based on a Rake creepypasta.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He used to be one of Ghidorah’s three minds, and was treated by the other two as the runt of the litter. Enough said.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection / WellDoneSonGuy: He never got approval and affection from his brothers, and so he seeks these things from his new sister who he recognizes is nothing like them.
* EasilyForgiven: Mothra has no reservations towards him over his brothers and AlternateSelf killing her, before effectively adopting him and Vivienne. Godzilla, being TheStoic, holds no hard feelings. But with everyone else human and Titan who interacts with San, it takes time before they lower their reservations and animosities towards him.
* HeelRealization: He has a brutal one in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/5 Chapter 5]], when he’s viewing Vivienne's memories and realizes why she's so miserable and doesn't trust him.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Technically overlaps with VillainousBSOD -- when viewing Vivienne's memories, he has a pretty heart-wrenching kick-in-the-teeth HeelRealization about why Vivienne's been so wary of him and about how much Ghidorah's actions -- including San's specifically -- have tarnished her. It's short-lived as Vivienne brings him out of it.
** He has a more minor one after he resorts to deliberately reminding Vivienne of Ichi/Eldest Brother attacking her to snap her out of a PTSD-induced UnstoppableRage.
* HumanityIsInfectious: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] almost word-for-word by Vivienne when addressing his HeelFaceTurn in Chapter 9. Indeed, Vivienne acts as San's MoralityPet and also sates his curious tendencies. San's voice is gradually picking up Vivienne's accent with his CharacterDevelopment.
* IAmNotAGun: Ghidorah’s {{backstory}} essentially makes San this following his HeelFaceTurn.
* IllKillYou: He angrily declares this after he and Vivienne (mainly Vivienne) is horrifically injured by a chlorine gas experiment.
* InSeriesNickname: He was given his name by Vivienne while she was monitoring Ghidorah in Antarctica -- he acknowledges it isn’t his real name. He’s also nicknamed Eddie the Head by Tejada. [[spoiler:Ghidorah and the gestalt driving the {{Artificial Zombie}}s refer to San as a “shed skin” after he’s merged with Vivienne]]. Though never stated, it can be inferred from how San refers to his brothers that Ichi and Ni would have probably called him "Youngest Brother" when he was still attached to them.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon his HeelRealization, he comes to deeply regret what he and his brothers have done to Vivienne. He apparently still carries remorse after Vivienne has forgiven him.
* NotQuiteDead: After his original head is ripped off of Ghidorah by Godzilla, it remains partially alive, retaining San's mind and pre-decapitation memories.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Naturally, being a Titan himself. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by his and Vivienne’s TwinTelepathy, which enables San to instantly pick up Vivienne’s vocabulary for communicating, and by Monster X’s ability to communicate in human vocalizations in its first form and via radio-waves in its second form.
* SuperEmpowering: He transforms Vivienne, a human, into part of a Ghidorah hybrid Titan; by regenerating her while deliberately feeding his own enzymes into her when she’s inside his severed head. Granting their shared body Ghidorah’s HealingFactor and bio-electricity, and {{Kaiju}} SuperToughness.
* TearsOfRemorse: Sheds these after his HeelRealization.
* VoicesAreMental: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. He has a mental voice heard by numerous humans through more than one mean which is described as sounding the same every time; but it’s slightly changing with his CharacterDevelopment to sound somewhat more human-like.
* WhiteSheep: He becomes this to his brothers and AlternateSelf, being determined to be better than Ghidorah.
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