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Parallel Time Layer Counterparts
The Parallel Time Layer characters are introduced with the release of "The Apex of Logic and Cardinal Scales" Mythos, comprising the Alternate Self of existing playable characters with different history than their original counterparts. Although they may bear the same name, they are considered separate character and occupy different party slots. They also have their own character quests, a few of which are available to play without requiring the player to have said characters due to their intertwined nature with the Mythos. Parallel time layer characters can be encountered through Gallery of Dreams like others, or they can also be encountered by using three Opus documents of their classes and five Chant Scripts if the player has their original Normal Style counterpartsnote .Do note that this page is intended for playable parallel time layer versions of existing units. For playable characters those hail from different time layer but their native time layer self are non-playable and vice versa (e.g. Zeviro and Radias), see their entries in the pages pertaining era they belong to instead. In addition, the characters' names may or may not be obfuscated depending on how they are introduced in their respective debuts — for example, identities of characters central to "The Apex of Logic and Cardinal Scales" Mythos are officially treated as spoilers, whereas some others those introduced later are not.
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General Tropes
- Alternate Self: All of them hail from different time layer than their original counterparts, and treated as different characters with their own elemental affinity, weapons, and even different light/shadow type. To drive the point home, all of them are also voiced by different voice actors - at least in the Japanese version.
- Super Mode: All parallel time layer characters can activate "Another Zone", which doubles the effect of any active Zone and cannot be overwritten until it expires. Furthermore, each of them have unique "Another Sense" passive that grants bonus while Another Zone is active.
- Walking Spoiler: For the characters introduced in "The Apex of Logic and Cardinal Scales" Mythos, in particular, it's difficult to talk about any of them without revealing who their original counterpart is.
Twilight and Midnight Time Layers
Black Clad Swordsman
Black Clad Swordsman (Isuka)
- Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa (Japanese), Jane Jackson (English)
She is a ruthless swordswoman clad in black. She was the planner of a terrible international incident that has shaken the world and is now being hunted as a wanted criminal. She is one of the perfect designer babies that was created in a research facility that exists in a branching time layer. She has the power to control others. Due to her perfection, she fights alone along with memories of her past deep in her heart.
- Aloof Ally: She makes it clear to Aldo that she has no interest in following him during her introduction scene if the player encounters her, and even threatens to kill him if he is ever proven to be liability.
- Aloof Big Sister: To Curio, given her coldness to him in the first chapter of the Mythos. That said, her first character quest hints that she does care for him, and her aim to save their time layer is ultimately driven by her wish to protect him. To extreme measures, at that, given an undetailed incident in the Twilight Time Layer's IDA School apparently involved her killing several faculty members in order to protect him from an unspecified organization.
- Casting a Shadow: Her primary element is Shade, of the "Sacrifice" subtype.
- Compelling Voice: Like Curio, she has the capability to control others thanks to being the subject of Lab 1.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her secondary element is Earth.
- Flying Weapon: She can launch floating blades, which are normally sheathed in the floating scabbard-like mechanism behind her back.
- Ice Queen: She is very cold and ruthless, in addition to having rather acerbic tongue.
- Pet the Dog: She saves Mayu from a falling lamp in "The Apex of Logic and Cardinal Scales" Chapter 2 after hearing how Mayu wished to be brave like Isuka was back then, even though she has no reason to.
- Spam Attack: Averted with her mainline skills, which decreases in damage when used successively.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Although she doesn't say it word by word, it's clear that this is basically her reaction throughout Chapter 3 of the Mythos, given her complaints of how her supposed allies ends up slowing her down.
- Tsundere: In a way, she is an extremely tsun familial example for Curio. Despite her constant denial, she is not fooling anyone that everything she does is for Curio's sake. Dawn Isuka actually called her out on this in the final chapter.
- The Unfettered: In her own words, she will do anything to achieve her goal, regardless of who will become her pawns during the process, and who will benefit from her actions regardless good or bad.
- Weak-Willed: Ironically, despite wielding the power to control others, she herself is not immune to its effects. Dawn Curio actually managed to influence her to some degree without herself questioning it, as shown in the final chapter of the Mythos when the party tries to open the entrance to Iscariot.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The reason why she launches attack on KMS of the Dawn Time Layer (i.e. the time layer Aldo and co. belongs to) is to save her and playable Curio's time layer from being "pruned". Because KMS was already destroyed in her time layer, too much divergence will eventually lead her time layer into its demise, and one such way to prevent it is by making the situation in the Dawn Time Layer similar to how it is now in her own.
Red Clad Flamemancer
Red Clad Flamemancer (Dewey)
- Voiced by: Ryōta Suzuki (Japanese), Joe Jameson (English)
A boy with gloomy eyes from a Parallel Time Layer. He has a cold personality and is prone to making enemies with his sharp tongue and chilling actions. Despite that, he's well-liked by children. He calls himself a soldier, and he's often on the vanguard in battle. In particular, the "Blast Gun" that releases a powerful scorching heat from his fingertips has the power to annihilate enemies in an instant.
- Attack Its Weak Point: He is the third Crystal Lunatic unit of "Mind's Eye" subtype after AS Clarte and ES Nagi, which allows him to deal increased damage when he hits enemies' weak points.
- Child Soldiers: By his own account, he was implanted with nanomachine shortly after he was diagnosed with illness six years prior, and turned into war weapon afterwards.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He delivers one to Nonold in chapter 3 of the Mythos, setting him on fire and dragging him around to the point Nonold is all beaten up when the party finds him. This being Nonold, though, the whole thing borders on Black Comedy.
- Death Seeker: In an unusual take of this trope, he actively defies this, believing that it is exactly because he had killed so many people during the war between KMS and Cardinal Vestige that he believes that has no right to choose death and must carry his sins for the rest of his life.
- Despair Event Horizon: He has been permanently in this state due to accidentally killing Saki of the Twilight Time Layer when she attempted to shield Jade - who was going on a rampage and attacked their fellow test subjects in the Sapient Complex- from his most powerful attack, even though his steam-based attacks were normally non-lethal. Him also being forced to kill Jade afterwards when the latter went through Unstoppable Rage, despite his own Thou Shalt Not Kill principle was what finally broke him and changed his nanomachine power from steam to the silver flame it is now.
- Friend to All Children: His profile noted that he is good with children despite his gloomy demeanor, as his second and third character quest shows despite his own attempts at feigning indifference.
- Infinity +1 Element: He has Crystal affinity, which can normally hit most enemies un-resisted and gains resistance over all elements. However, his skills can also adapt to any active elemental Zone, making him versatile.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: His favorite method to get info he wants is to threaten to burn the people who have it. When he joins up with Aldo's party, they tell him this sort of behavior won't stand with them.
- Not So Stoic: He generally acts calm and calculated, but as the chapter 3 of the Mythos shows, he can get worked up and loses his cool when his buttons are pushed, specifically regarding his past.
- Other Me Annoys Me: In his third character quest, he doesn't get along with the normal Dewey and considers him a simple-minded buffoon, and makes no attempts to warm up to him despite the latter's attempts to befriend him. That said, even if he refuses to admit it openly, he is also glad that the normal Dewey doesn't turn out like he did.
- Playing with Fire: He is aptly coded as Flamemancer for a reason, and it is also one of his affinities in battle. However, it turns out that he used to have steam-based power like the normal Dewey was, but changed into fire after the traumatic incident detailed above.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: He is suffering constant nightmares from the war between KMS and Cardinal Vestige in his time layer.
- War Is Hell: While the Black Clad Swordsman's cold demeanor gives hint of how messy the war between KMS and Cardinal Vestige in their time layer was, the Flamemancer is the living embodiment of it, given the horrified expression of the NPC in his first character quest is upon seeing a glance of his nightmares.
Cyan Scyther
Cyan Scyther (Suzette)
- Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Skye Bennett (English)
A girl raised as an experiment test subject in a laboratory in a Parallel Time Layer. Her genes have been artificially modified, giving her superhuman abilities. As an augmentation success story, she has been made to fight on many battlefields, and has survived only through her superior performance. She is calm and collected, and shows no mercy to those who get in her way.
- Bait-and-Switch: In the Mythos, the player is initially led to believe that the Violet Lancer is Suzette's counterpart, but as Chapter 4 reveals the Cyan Scyther is Suzette's actual counterpart.
- Blow You Away: Has Wind affinity.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": A variant. In her introduction, she insists that she has no name, presumably as an act of defiance and disgust towards Professor Karin, who insists on giving her test subjects names and disregarding the names they already had. She also threatens to kill the Black Clad Swordsman several times if the latter tries to call her with her name to get a rise from her. However, this is also zigzagged since she seems to be fine with Aldo calling her with her name in her character quests, so presumably, it also depends on whom she is in amicable terms with.
- Due to the Dead: At the end of her first character quest, at first it seemed that she ordered so many desserts in La Vie En Rose due to apparent Sweet Tooth tendency like the normal Suzette does, only for the game to reveal that she ordered the specific sweets as something of a tribute to her fallen comrades and fellow test subjects, all of whom were named after sweets during their time in Sapient Complex.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In a sense, her second and third character quests are this. In her whole life, battlefield is the only life she had ever known, and dispatched to the Dawn Time Layer initially annoyed her because everyone seems to be so idyllic and laid-back. She does eventually learn to appreciate living in the Dawn Time Layer (if still mostly about the food), and after facing the threat of having her personality overwritten in her second character quest, she is finally able to decide for herself on how she wishes to live her life outside the battlefield with a little pep talk from Aldo.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: She had one sometime before the game to sever the ties with her past. Before that, she used to have Girlish Pigtails.
- The Lost Lenore: Not her exactly, but rather, her dead counterpart in the Midnight Time Layer is this for the Violet Lancer, to whom she made a promise to read the rest of the story of "The Princess of the Netherworld". She herself has one in the form of the Twilight Time Layer version of Violet Lancer, who was long turned into an Empty Shell after the constant experiments on her.
- Other Me Annoys Me: She finds Dawn Suzette's chuunibyou antics childish, even though she used to have the same tendencies. The loss and trauma she experienced really made her cynical. That said, she does eventually learn to tolerate Dawn Suzette in her third character quest due to actually finding herself envying and admiring the fact that Dawn Suzette still got to choose to lead her own life to the fullest.
- Sinister Scythe: Her weapon. The game's class limitations makes her fall under Ax wielder instead.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: As her first character quest shows, her eyes can turn gold when she uses her full power. This is also an indicator when her control module that takes form in a Split Personality is active.
- Sweet Tooth: Has this trait, and one case where it is Played for Drama. See Due to the Dead above.
Violet Lancer
Violet Lancer (Toova)
A woman who was transformed in a research facility in a Parallel Time Layer, and given overwhelming physical abilities. She seems to have no memory of her past, and is now just a soldier, coldly carrying out her missions. She usually shows little emotion, but her cold expression can sometimes be seen to waver.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: She's one of the few characters whose skills have bonus perks specifically for Luring Shadow characters.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: To an even greater degree than her Dawn counterpart - she's lost so many people that she isolates herself to avoid the pain.
Silver Striker
Silver Striker (Premaya)
- Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese)
A cyborg girl who was experimented on in a laboratory in a Parallel Time Layer. She can deliver powerful electric attacks or interfere with electronic equipment with her mind. In contrast to her appearance, she is very immature, and often speaks and acts like a young child. She can't control her powers well and sometimes endangers others, but she does her best to keep the promise she once made to "be a good girl."
- Power Incontinence: She can't quite control her powers well especially when experiencing emotional outbursts, which can cause power outage whenever it happens.
- Womanchild: Compared to her Dawn counterpart and Midnight counterpart, she is very excitable, initially has a very naive outlook on the world, and is easily distracted by sweets (even virtual ones).
Moonlight Flower Hismena
- Voiced by: Reina Kondo (Japanese), Riona O'Connor (English)
- Sheltered Aristocrat: Aristocracy may no longer exist in Future era, but she still fits this trope regardless due to being heiress of a wealthy and influential family who is ignorant of the world.
- Something about a Rose: Associated with white rose, in contrast to the normal Hismena who is associated with blue rose instead.
Other/Unspecified Time Layers
Jet Tactician Shion
- Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese)
A tactician dressed in Eastern-Style battle gear. His gentle demeanor and polite speech belie his ruthless tactics on the battlefield, and he keeps his inner thoughts carefully guarded. He only opens up to his beloved cats, who do not love him back; none of his plans to attract their attention have ever succeeded.
- Animals Hate Him: Parallel or not, poor Shion still doesn't have much luck with cats despite completely adoring them.
- Attack Its Weak Point: His kit is designed around this playstyle — he has the unique "Paper Tiger" command that can reverse an enemy's resistance and vice versanote , and his skill also gives buff to the entire party to increase damage against enemy weak points.
- Big Brother Instinct: Even more so than his Dawn Time Layer counterpart, and he is also very doting and tends to spoil Akane. This likely stems from the Bad Future he stumbled upon as a child, which also motivated him to become a strategist instead.
- Given Name Reveal: Subverted. Unlike the Parallel Time Layer characters involved in "The Apex of Logic and Cardinal Scales", his identity isn't a secret, and he easily introduces himself by his real name when he first meets Aldo.
- Hero of Another Story: The ending of "Seven-Color Coalition" chapter of "Wanderer in the Vortex" reveals that he secretly had an agent planted among the sorcerers of the Land of Ro - namely, the 'boss' who reined in other sorcerers' more hostile tendencies - to help steer Noble Tsukiha away from the path of war since it concerns the peace in the Land of Mi as well.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Adores cats just like the Dawn version of Shion. It's also a hint that he's not all that bad despite being more unscrupulous in his attempts to prevent bloodshed.
- Screw Destiny: What motivated him to abandon the way of the sword in the past. As a child, he accidentally entered a spacetime tear to the future and stumbled upon countless dead bodies from what seemed to be a war, with the grown-up Akane included among said dead bodies. Determined to prevent such future from coming to pass, Shion decided to become a strategist instead to "kill the future".
- The Strategist: The key difference between him and the other Shion. Rather than take up the sword, Jet Shion decided to become a tactician instead, believing he could achieve peace better that way.
- To Win Without Fighting: His second character quest in a nutshell - with certain manipulations, he's able to conquer Lord Genshin's castle without violence.
- Tranquil Fury: Despite his appearance, he is more emotional than the Dawn Time Layer's Shion, who is more on The Stoic side. In his character quest, he blew his cover in front of Lord Genshin because unlike the original Shion, he cannot hide the anger in his tone upon learning of Lord Genshin's plan to start a war with the central continent.
- Unscrupulous Hero: Doubles as Well-Intentioned Extremist to some degree. This version of Shion means well in taking path of strategist since he can manipulate things at grander scale in order to prevent bloodshed. That said, he is also not above manipulating others to achieve it.
Noble Blossom Tsukiha
- Voiced by: Kaede Hondo (Japanese), Stephanie McKeon (English)
The princess of a certain country in the East. She loves her country and her people. Despite her upbringing, she can be shockingly impulsive. Her horns are small due to her age, but when she's excited or happy they can grow larger. It seems she's been harboring an ambition of sorts while locked away in the castle...
- All-Loving Hero: She loves her citizens, and in her own words, anybody can be her citizen and she will go through great lengths for their sake. She even spares Ancestor Gaishin at the end of her chapter because even though he is directly responsible for her parents' death and she can't forgive him for that, he is still her subject.
- Take Over the World: Her ambition. Unlike most examples though, due to her nature, she seems to be unaware about the implications of what it means to go on conquest, and Dawn Tsukiha has to slap some sense into her so she can understand what it means to wage war with others — well-intentioned as they may be.
- Playing with Fire: She is a Fire zone setter, and in addition, can permanently replace a party member's elemental affinity to Fire using her Morale skill.
Vermillion Whip Hozuki
A general from one of the three great countries of the East, the Land of Shin. A skilled commander, instructor, scout, and bodyguard. Due to an incident in their youth, her loyalty to the Empress of Shin is absolute. She will also try to recruit promising warriors to the Empress's cause. Though she seems cold, she is very passionate.
Beautiful Stranger Shannon
A brilliant and accomplished woman working at KMS. Her good looks and understanding nature make her rightly popular. She never talks about her personal life at work, so speculation abounds about her home circumstances. She has little sense for fashion and lets the KMS fashion app decide how she dresses day-to-day.
- Becoming the Mask: She's not truly Shannon, but a different person who's been given the memories of Shannon in a now-lost history. This "Shannon" has to balance between her impersonation and who she really is.
- Double Agent: Her second character quest starts with her pretending to be on the side of rogues who want to change history, so that she can sniff them out for her organization to track.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: By hailing from a different time layer, she and her organization are able to notice and detect changes in history.
- Time Police: She hails from a time where technology is so advanced that Time Travel for Fun and Profit is outlawed, and her organization tracks down and arrests people attempting that.
Crimson Reaper Ilulu
Crimson Reaper Ilulu (formerly Lavie)
A scythe-wielder of Purgatory who leads the dead to reincarnation. Always cheery, she acts like everyone's big sister. More than just a reaper, she puts in effort to help unfulfilled souls make their peace. She loves doting on souls and is fond of bright and energetic ones, even when they're still inside living beings.- Action Initiative: Her "Phasma Beata" skill grants an inversion of this, making the entire party's actions to become delayed next turn along with bonus damage when they act after the enemies. This primarily synergizes with her EOT attack.
- Ambiguous Situation: Following The Reveal of her identity in the second and third character quest, whether or not this version of Ilulu came from the same former self as the original Ilulu — and therefore can still be considered as Alternate Self of the same identitiy — becomes extremely murky. This version of Ilulu originally formed from a young girl named Lavie who died young in Nadara Volcano after she supposedly visited it in order to have her wish granted by something (namely, for her unborn sister to be born and survive) in exchange of her own life; meanwhile, the original Ilulu came from a young girl named Lully who died young for unknown cause. Furthermore, her flashback in third character quest showed her in her younger form with exact same appearance as the original Ilulu, and it is hinted that she helped the original Ilulu's "boss" when Lully had just died so she could be reincarnated as Purgatorian. As such, it is unclear whether their former selves were the essentially the same person but with different names (similar to Radias), or if they were different people who happened to reincarnate to the same Purgatorian identity, making them more of Identical Strangers.
- Cool Big Sis: She tries her best to be one, to the living and the dead alike. Her former self turns out to be this too, to the point of performing Heroic Sacrifice so her unborn sister could successfully born and survive.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Putting aside her habit of temporarily taking away living souls from their bodies to give them head-pats, she is otherwise a sweetheart who always dotes on others she wishes to help. Unfortunately, this does not translate well with her practical skills outside of soul-reaping, as seen in first and second character quests when she ends up thrashing kitchen when trying to cook something for Aldo.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Combined with Bait-and-Switch. She first made appearance as the adult form Ilulu supposedly temporarily turned into after borrowing other Purgatorians' powers to defeat Magnolia in the Purgatory Ensemble, only to turn out she is a parallel version altogether. Granted, she did have exact same appearance as the original Ilulu in her flashback...
Dream Weaver Dunarith
- Voiced by: Shun'ichi Toki (Japanese)
- The Alcoholic: He is a hard drinker, and part of his Perpetual Poverty stems from the fact that every time he had just got paid, he'll always spend it on drinks.
- Big Brother Instinct: Parallel or not, he deeply cares for his sister Reliath. So much, that he willingly made contract with Zeviro to save his sister's soul by turning her into Purgatorian Mazrika so she has chance in reincarnation, and continues to watch over her from afar despite Mazrika generally finding him unreliable due to his constant fooling around.
- Other Me Annoys Me: Inverted — he grows to like the regular Dunarith by the end of his third character quest. The latter does not quite reciprocate it.
- Sad Clown: Despite his constant fooling around, it's clear that aside from his generally difficult life due to being a Beast in a time layer where they are frequently targeted for lynching, his sister's death also weighed heavily on him.
- Stone Wall: He is the second staff-based character who defies Squishy Wizard trope after Starky — able to Draw Aggro enemies' attack using his skills, and his Singing skill is able to reduce damage taken.
Porcelain Pixie Myunfa
A mysterious "Teapot Pixie", with the power to grant her master three wishes. However, she doesn't want to grant others' wishes, and has gone a thousand years without taking a master. Though a teapot, she hates tea, much preferring coffee with a loads of milk and sugar. Despite all that caffeine, she often nods off.
Blooming Blade Akane
A reticent samurai on a martial journey. Blessed with talent and honed by effort, she is a fierce fighter who cuts down all in her way. Often mistaken for a man, which she doesn't mind much. She's extremely stubborn and jumps to conclusions with alarming regularity.
- Blood Knight: Although her reasons differ, what she very much shares in common with the other Akane is an obsession with fighting and getting stronger.
- Failed a Spot Check:
- Despite Akane being a samurai with the same name, similar appearance, and an elder brother, Aldo doesn't realize at first that she's the Parallel Time Layer version of the Dawn Akane he knows.
- Akane herself, unlike most of the Parallel Time Layer counterparts, doesn't realize she's not in her own time layer.
- Idiot Hero: Double subverted. Though she seems much more refined and mature than the Dawn version of Akane, it becomes clear she's not much brighter (and certainly not any less of a handful).
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Typically mistaken for a man by everyone around her. Even Aldo fails to realize her gender at first, and thus he doesn't even pinpoint her identity as a parallel Akane until her second quest.
- No Hero to His Valet: This Akane lacks the Big Brother Worship of her other counterpart, as while she respects Shion, witnessing his trauma over seeing her (future) death made her realize that he's a normal person with troubles and fears like anyone else.
