History Characters / DiscoElysiumTheDetectives

* CreativeSterility: He notes himself that his imagination has a way of failing him. Conceptualization points out that the lieutenant's own conceptualization skills must be a bit weak. This is actually part of what impresses him about [[MrImagination your own skills]], regardless of what they are.

** Hand-Eye coordination is the fingers (even explicitly addressed as such), so is Interfacing[[note]]Though it can be the fingertips specifically[[/note]].

* GoingColdTurkey: By internalizing the "Waste Land of Reality" thought, you can put your alcoholism behind you through this method. It does however come with drawbacks; most prominently when you're internalizing the thought, where you get a whooping -2 penalty to the Physical Instrument skill, but upon completion, you get a whole extra point in Psyche, which is the only opportunity the game offers to permanently increase a stat. The drawbacks of completion are most notably that you won't get any more bonuses from consuming alcohol, which of course would defeat the purpose, and a -1 to Physical Instrument due to insomnia, while the penalties to Inland Empire and Suggestion are offset by your increased psyche. The thought does make it clear that this is just the beginning of getting truly sober:

* TransparentCloset: Your attraction to men is made much explicit in ''The Final Cut'', albeit to your own obliviousness.

* GoingColdTurkey: By internalizing the "Wasteland of Reality" thought, you can put your alcoholism behind you through this method. It does however come with drawbacks; most prominently when you're internalizing the thought, where you get a whooping -2 penalty to the Physical Instrument skill, but upon completion, you get a whole extra point in Psyche, which becomes the only opportunity the game offers you to permanently increase a stat. Completion does come with its own drawbacks, most notably that you won't get any more bonuses from consuming alcohol. And the thought makes it clear that this is just the beginning of getting truly sober:
-->''Full recovery will take years, though. [[BlatantLies It'll be depressing. And it'll be boring. Don't expect any further rewards or handclaps]]. This is how normal people are all the time.''

-->''Full recovery will take years, though. It'll be depressing. And it'll be boring. Don't expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.''

* JerkassHasAPoint: Even the meanest and most fixated skills are doing what they are doing because they want to protect you and ease your pain. Endurance will take a break from encouraging you to become a fascist by comparing you favourably to a seagull to make you feel better; Electrochemistry might be there to get you to chase your fixations but it's also there to help you get out of them; Authority will sometimes stop creating absurd moral standards for you in favour of encouraging you to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure whose self control allows him to respect himself and others; Pain Threshold stops the masochism routine in one instance to help you understand the pain others feel and keep from exacerbating it.

** Volition and Electrochemistry are this to each other. Both represents parts inside the Detective that want him to keep ploughing forward and finish the case, and their interactions with him both have a similar didactic, mentorly tone where they soothe him if he gets overwhelmed and warn him against doing things that are unwise. The difference is that Volition wants him to keep going ''because it is the right thing to do'', while Electrochemistry wants him to keep going while [[{{Escapism}} self-medicating with as much pleasure as possible]] because that makes it easier, and win for the sheer kick of it. And as you'd expect, Volition is a strong, benevolent HopeBringer while Electrochemistry encourages you to indulge the vices that [[LethallyStupid have already ruined your life]], but Electrochemistry takes over as the voice of reason at times when Volition is fixating on hairshirt self-discipline that won't lead to anyone having a good time. The connection and contrast between the two is emphasised in the bad ending. After realising you have no choice except to quit drinking, Electrochemistry tells you that you can replace the alcohol with another drug to 'buy you time' because 'all you need is time'. Volition then interrupts to say you can just stop, and 'it is possible because time is possible'.

[[caption-width-right:200:Everything on the god damn crime scene fits like a glove, you should get *SHITFACED* on this *GOD DAMN CRIME SCENE*!]]

* GoodWithNumbers: A high Visual Calculus turns you into, in its words, a 'human measuring instrument', capable of astonishing feats of mathematical precision without outside assistance.

* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Esprit de Corps and Shivers often give you a vague foreboding (or even outright visions with clearly audible dialogue) of far-off events that you have no real way of knowing about.

** Authority is this to the PSY skills. Volition is your moral compass and your willpower, and will only make you boring if it is too strong. Inland Empire governs your lateral thinking, which can cause you to become a bit too spacey and weird at higher levels. Empathy is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and can bog you down from identifying ''too much'' with the struggles and feelings of others. Esprit de Corps allows you to get glimpses into the lives of other cops, which can at worst be somewhat distracting. Suggestion is, essentially, the power of inception (i.e. using subtle flattery or criticisms to make people do as you want, while also making them believe that it was their own idea to begin with), and it can turn you into quite the slimy weasel, even if you're only one who notices. High Authority, however, will make you become [[DrunkWithPower a raging, power-mad asshole who likes to abuse the power his badge gives him in extremely petty ways for fun and profit]].

** Throughout the game, your skills will constantly bicker with you/each other in order to get what they want, which makes the times they actually work together and try to give you good advice all the more noteworthy. One particular instance of this is when you have to inform the [[spoiler:working-class woman of her husband's death]]. When you enter her apartment your skills noticeably become much more reserved, and they all try to give you helpful tips on how to handle the situation.
** In life-or-death situations, like interrogating the Hardie Boys and [[spoiler:the Tribunal]], the Skills drop the goofs and become hellbent on getting you out of trouble. Authority in particular drops the desire to flex on others for precise, terse sentences, while the usually overdramatic Empathy and Drama adopt a teacher-like tone to guide you through the situation.

* AmbiguouslyBi: In the original release. ''The Final Cut'', makes your attraction to men more explicit, making you a case of TransparentCloset.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JullianChampenois

* BanOnPolitics: Kim prefers to avoid talking about politics or the war on the job -- because he thinks it's unbecoming of an RCM officer, as well as to head off disagreements. He leans toward moralism personally, in its more moderate and realistic forms, but even then he's well aware of the Moralintern's failings and flaws. The status quo which the RCM is meant to uphold is only desirable in that the alternatives seem worse.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: There's how he can lay into you for compromising the investigation or insulting him one too many times, but Kim also has racked up [[spoiler:twice your bodycount]], and if you help him learn that [[spoiler:Iosef]] has information that could implicate the Claires in criminal activity, a high Esprit de Corps can sense that he's going to make sure that the RCM wrings a detailed testimony out of the old man one way or another.

* ConsummateProfessional: The Goodest of the Good Cops, as the game puts it. Kim does everything in his power to embody the authority and trust placed in the RCM. While he'll put up with a certain amount of your lack thereof, he'll come down hard if he thinks your "personal issues" are actively hampering the investigation. Meanwhile, the quickest way to get Kim to really trust you is to refuse to take bribes or indulge in anything that's blatantly illegal.

* FormerTeenRebel: Downplayed, and only if your Skills are to be trusted. Being a communist and passing semi-difficult Drama and Empathy checks whilst discussing Kim's childhood career dreams will reveal that a ten-year-old Kim had had a soft spot for the Revolutionaries.

** [[spoiler:Passing a fairly high Volition check when interrogating Klassje reveals that, given her proficiency with lying and liberally mixing her lies in with the truth, she has all of your Skills other than Volition convinced that she had nothing to do with the murder or the victim. Thankfully Volition can guide you through the encounter, but even Volition gets played since he is convinced that, given that Klassje is lying to you, she ''must'' be the culprit (since Volition is so extremely protective of you, his main motivation for putting the blame on Klassje can be summed up as mostly being a spiteful attempt at "getting back" at Klassje for trying to "harm" you -- i.e. undermine your professional pride -- by almost getting you to buy her cover story) even when the case ultimately proves that she isn't.]]

'''Half Life:''' What if he's grabbing a GUN?!\\

'''Half Life:''' He's trying to cut you with its sharp edge!\\