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Medjed
Mao
Persona: Momus
One of Code-R's test subjects who was experimented on to try and make him awaken to his Persona. Predictable, it goes horribly right. Mao uses his powers as a Persona User to escape and then exact vengeance on Code-R personnel for treating him like a guinea pig for six years, one mental shutdown at a time. However, what started as an at least understandable need for retribution soon undergoes Motive Decay due to his already poor mental health. Mao Jumps Off The Slippery Slope and begins to believe himself "the smiter of the wicked", fancying himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner who punishes "evil people" by dragging them into the Metaverse to confront their Shadows. This predictable ends with the person rejecting it and then getting killed by their own berserk Shadow, which Mao sees as just trial getting carried out. Rinse, repeat.
Now calling himself "Medjed" after the smiter from Egyptian Mythology, Mao sets his attention on the Black Knights after figuring out they must have powers similar to his, and deeming them "false messiahs", he begins to plot their downfall.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the anime, Mao was an orphan who was adopted by C.C. and granted a Geass by her before eventually being abandoned once she came to the conclusion that he couldn't fulfill her wish. In this story, while Mao's still an orphan, he was instead kidnapped by the Conspiracy and used as a guinea pig for Code-R. After six years of suffering experimentation to make him awake to his Persona, he managed to escape — but only after developing into Knight Templar bent on exacting his own demented sense of justice.
- Adaptational Heroism: Zig Zagged. Mao is still an Ax-Crazy Jerkass who has no issues manipulating and/or murdering others to get his way. However, unlike canon, he doesn't suffer from his Geass nor has he ever met C.C., so he's not a Psychopathic Manchild who's obsessed with kidnapping her. Instead, he's a vigilante who dishes out his own twisted brand of justice against anyone he thinks deserves it.
- Ax-Crazy: Exploited. The Irregulars counted on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge drawing most of their pursers' attention.
- Chainsaw Good: Naturally his weapon in his second appearance.
- Combat Pragmatist: He deserves some kudos for this. He manipulates Shadow Shirley to get rid of the Black Knights for him, and if that failed, the team would be easy pickings for him after such a difficult fight. His plan ends up blowing up in his face only because he never expected that Shirley would manage to awaken to her Persona. In his rematch battle, Mao makes sure he only has to fight Lelouch by kidnapping Nunnally and forces him to tire himself out first. He also brings a chainsaw and a shotgun to the battlefield, and catches Lelouch off-guard with Megidola, a powerful if costly mid-tier Non-Elemental spell. Mao is again thwarted by something he has no way to know beforehand: the fact Nunnally is secretly a Persona User who allied herself with the Irregulars.
- Composite Character: His backstory of being lab rat for Code-R who went rogue and his shared past with the Irregulars harkens back to his Nightmare of Nunnally counterpart, Mao the Refrain.
- Didn't See That Coming: He gets screwed over by things he couldn't have foreseen twice over.
- He didn't know that Joseph Fenette discovered that his daughter Shirley has a lot of potential as a Persona User. Therefore he had no way to predict that making her confront her Shadow would give her the chance to accept it and make it into her Persona, thus turning the tables hard on him.
- When he kidnaps Nunnally to get to Lelouch, he is completely blindsided by the fact that she already has her own Persona and Persona-wielding allies outside Lelouch, and he gets his ass handed to him again.
- Disney Death: Just like in canon, which is why he gets Double Tap'd after his second defeat just to be sure.
- Escaped from the Lab: Mao was one of the experimental subjects in Code-R, where the scientists attempted to have him awaken to his Persona. Needless to say, they succeeded. It's only thanks to his breakout that the other four subjects that would later become known as the Irregulars managed to escape as well.
- Glass Cannon: His Persona is geared to dish a lot of magical damage, especially thanks to the costly but powerful Megidola spell, but can't take nearly as much. To offset the latter a little, Momus has the Endure passive skill.
- In Spite of a Nail:
- Despite the wildly different backstory and motivation, he still comes into conflict with Lelouch, and kidnaps Nunnally in his second rematch where he's immediately killed off after being defeated.
- Despite being a Persona user instead of a mind reader via Geass, he still gives Shirley an impossibly accurate Breaking Speech, only this time his info's based on what he learned about her in her Palace.
- Mundane Utility:
- Medjed kidnapped people for ransom money and used the Metaverse as an untraceable hideout.
- He also uses areas of the Metaverse outside the Palace to bypass doors and other security in the real world. Think of it as a non-video game example of Dual-World Gameplay.
- No One Could Survive That!: Mao manages to pull off a Disney Death as in the series. This time thanks to his Persona possessing the Endure passive skill, an implant that automatically released epinephrine into his bloodstream (originally intended to help him survive the brutal experiments he suffered in Code-R) that allowed him to keep swimming until the collapse of Shirley's Palace dropped him into the real world, and of course literally insane determination to live in order to dispense his demented idea of justice and exact bloody vengeance on the Black Knights. Although, his body was left a mess and it took him blackmailing the best medical care Britannia could offer for an entire week to be in barely good enough shape to kidnap Nunnally and fight Lelouch.
- Phlebotinum Rebel: Mao/Medjed was the result of six years of human experimentation on a pre-teen orphan in order to produce a Persona User. It's no wonder he escaped the first chance he got, and that he would want to exact retribution on the Code-R personnel that treated him like a guinea pig. However, he went too far and begun to believe himself the "smiter of the wicked", dragging people he considered evil to the Metaverse in order to get them killed by their own Shadows.
- Public Secret Message: Medjed's challenge to the Black Knights contains subtle references to the Metaverse and Shirley's Palace that nobody but them are able to catch, which completely rules out in their minds that the threat isn't genuine.
- Revenge by Proxy: The real reason why he targeted Shirley. Mao actually wanted to exact bloody vengeance on Joseph Fenette for treating him as a guinea pig in Code-R, but the Black Mask got to Shirley's father first and killed him by mental shutdown. Unsatisfied, Mao checked Joseph's family for possible proxy targets and discovered that his daughter had a Palace. In there, he hit the jackpot when it turned out that Shirley knew the real identity of the Black Knights. Feeling like a kid on Christmas morning, Mao took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, both exacting revenge on Joseph's beloved daughter while arranging things for her Shadow to kill the Black Knights, whom he considered "false messiahs" under his twisted sense of justice.
- Serial Killer: Medjed's M.O. turns out to be dragging people to the Metaverse so they would be murdered by their own Shadows, with the occasional kidnapping for ransom where they use the Metaverse as an untraceable hideout.
- Uncertain Doom: Mao is dragged by a Shadow to the stormy waters of the fourth Palace, making it uncertain if they really died or not. Chapter 41 confirms he survived to go another round with Lelouch, but at the end of said chapter Alice makes sure that this time his doom is very, very certain.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Mao specialized in dragging people to the Metaverse and forcing them to confront their own Shadows, following some demented notion of dispensing justice. This means that he never really had to get good at fighting to fulfill his goals, unlike the Black Knights. Played With in that Mao knew this himself and confronted the Black Knights indirectly by riling Shadow Shirley up to battle them in his place — and if they somehow managed to defeat her, they would be easy pickings for his own Persona right after such a difficult fight. Mao couldn't have predicted that Shirley would awaken to her Persona and turn the tables on him, nor that he would get attacked by a Pisaca Shadow who was immune to Curse-type skills — his Persona's main form of attack. Partially Subverted later on when it's revealed they can compensate for this with Glass Cannon tactics.
Lyra
Eurydice
Persona: Orpheus
Another escapee of Britannia's Cognitive Psience research, first seen hunting through the desert base.- Resemblance Reveal: After taking off their mask, it's revealed she greatly resembles Marrybell's supposedly-dead younger sister.
