Library of Ruina Main Character Index
The Library (Roland) | The Wings | Syndicates (The Five Fingers | Subsidiaries | Other Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble) | Fixers (Associations | Offices) | Other Guests | Distortions | Abnormalities | Others
The Library (Roland) | The Wings | Syndicates (The Five Fingers | Subsidiaries | Other Syndicates | The Reverb Ensemble) | Fixers (Associations | Offices) | Other Guests | Distortions | Abnormalities | Others
Offices
Small organizations made up of Fixers and their managers, common throughout the City. Serving as the beginning of Fixers' careers, smaller Offices often lack manpower or resources, and are often drowned in debt by the Wings. An operator is responsible for managing the Office, hiring new recruits and such. Some Offices are handled by only one Fixer because of their poor-state and financial woes. This is not saying all Offices are worn down, some of those people would simply don't like the additional responsibilities that come with being affiliated with an Association. It all comes down to the financial state of the Office and its location. They serve as common organizations that are groups of guests in the game. open/close all folders
In General
- Band of Brothers: Discussed, played straight, and subverted on a case-by-case basis. The Stray Dogs point out that Fixer Offices are liable to backstab their own for personal gain, and Roland mentions that making friends isn't wise given it'll get in the way of the profession. In practice, some Offices are relatively tight-knit groups of friendly co-workers who are devastated to see their friends killed in the Library, others are as impartial to each other as the Stray Dogs warned.
- Corporate Warfare: Fixer Offices can get involved in the conflicts and conspiracies of the Wings, or try to intercept them themselves. For example, the mystery behind the WARP Trains of T Corp. drives the storyline between Gaze Office, Cane Office, and Molar Office as the situation unfolds between them.
- Gang of Hats: Most Offices have a theme going for them, and their members represent it. The Gaze Office is mainly composed of heavily augmented cyborgs and specialize in spying, the Hook Office is composed of street thugs in menacing masks and are normally hired for their sheer brutality, the Full-Stop Office mainly train themselves with firearms, etc. It is common for them to be named after their modus operandi, i.e the Hook Office takes its name from them hanging victims on hooks.
- Private Military Contractors: Where other Fixers can (rarely) operate solo, Offices are formed when multiple Fixers hire and unite as one group to offer their services to clients.
- Power Levels: Offices are generally ranked the same way as Fixers through a scale of 9-1, and are expected to take on requests of their ranking. Yun's Office is so low that they mostly take on menial tasks and petty quarrels, while Cane Office is renowned for handling multiple Star of the City tiered threats by themselves.
Yun's Office
In General
- "Fixers aren't any better than Syndicates when it comes to greed."- Roland
- Noob Cave: They are one of the first few guests you fight and are also pitifully weak like the Rats.
Yun
Voiced by: Hwang Changyeong (Korean), Kazuki Kyan (Japanese)
The operator of his eponymous office. He's hungry for profit and would easily dispose of his weaker members.- Everyone Has Standards: Downplayed, Yun admits that he wasn't particularly happy about purposefully sending Finn off to his death but he does so anyways and it's been implied Yun has done similar actions before.
- Greed: Yun cares only about money due to his Office being broke, and is so desperate that he sends his entire office to die in the Library in the hopes that the reward will be worth it.
- Never My Fault: Yun rationalizes sending Finn to his death as this, saying that since Finn is such an enthusiastic young man, he'll get killed and abused regardless of who takes him in.
Finn
Voiced by: Kim In Hyung (Korean), Souhei Horikane (Japanese)
A young man who is the newest recruit to Yun's Office. Yun thrown him into the Library as a recon agent, and he ends up being one of the first causalities of the snowballing threat that is the Library.- Duel Boss: Heavily downplayed in that Finn is not a particular threat but while it is theoretically possible to bring multiple Librarians to fight Finn, the first time Finn is fought, the only available Librarian is Roland, turning Finn's reception into a very watered-down version of this. That Roland later uses Memory - Yun's Office, an upgraded version of Finn's Struggle, implies that the battle was carried out by Roland and that it left an impression on the man.
- Naïve Newcomer: Finn is one of the first units that you fight who belongs to a proper Fixer Office, as well as the latest recruit of Yun's Office. He's also pretty naive, considering he believes that he can really work the way to the top from his run-down office as a new recruit, and he does believe that he can go to the top without bodily modifications.note Eventually Yun sends Finn into the Library to death, and he (alongside a big chunk of the office) becomes the first in a very long list of people who were killed by the Library.
- Older Than They Look: Despite looking like he's in his teen, he's actually 20 years old.
- Weak-Willed: Finn has one of the lowest stagger of anything in the game, being of a whopping 4. This means that a single good attack will stagger him and will probably leave him open to being swiftly killed in the next scene.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Finn would make an excellent anime protagonist anywhere else because of his optimism and his rejection of amoral body transplants. Just not here.
Hook Office
In General
- "Even rascals like those can join Offices these days, huh."- Roland
- Army of Thieves and Whores: Syndicates usually consist of thieves, thugs, and murderers. The Hook Office becoming Fixers hasn't changed that, and it was in fact the reason they were hired.
- Artificial Limbs: Taein’s weapons are two bionic scythes attached to his back and lets them do the work while he keeps his hands inside his pockets.
- Dead Guy on Display: They hang their mangled victims on hooks.
- Malevolent Masked Men: All members have a mask of some kind and they retain their brutality even when registered to an Office.
- The Remnant: One of the Urban Myth General Invitations involves dealing with the remnants of their Office, while another Urban Legend General Invitation similarly involves them, this time in partnership with members of the Stray Dogs as well.
Streetlight Office
In General
- "They're still rookies. It's not a good idea for Fixers to form such tight bonds with each other."- Roland
- Anguished Declaration of Love: When killed during the first Streetlight reception, Mars's death line will have him lament how he never got the chance to tell "her" (Lulu) how he really felt about her.
- Batter Up!: Lulu's weapon of choice is a black and yellow stripped bat, which can heat itself up to ignite foes upon being hit.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The second part of their Chapter involves Lulu, a member of the Streetlight Office, gathering a group of her friends and going to the Library by herself to reclaim the Book of a fallen ally. Unfortunately, it backfired and they fail, cementing the whole office as one of a collapsing list of offices that got decimated by the Library.
- Tsundere: While Mars and Lulu have a relationship full of Beligerent Sexual Tension, Lulu is the more openly hot and cold about her feelings towards Mars.
Molar Office
In General
- "A malfunction with WARP? This could be a huge blow to W Corp's reputation if it ever gets out to the public."- Roland
- Brother–Sister Team: Olga and Rain are siblings, and their relationship is somewhat strained. Rain, in their in the Library, outright says that he can depend on Mika but he's not so sure about his own sister.
- The Bus Came Back: They show up again in Limbus Company as Molar Boatworks, having been stranded in a U Corp beach scrapyard following their revival. They've been running a repair and salvage yard in order to fund a trip back to their home Nest, having learned from their previous incident that taking the Warp Trains is not a good idea.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Comparatively, their cards don't do nearly as much damage as some of the other threats found near their spot in the questline, but they specialize in multi-hit attacks that are dirt cheap to use with their low-light costs, and their pages grant them a damage boost for using these cards up quickly or heal them for every card discarded. With nearly every card at their disposal having the effect of discarding itself, they're able to take full advantage of their passive abilities.
- Morton's Fork: They either A) stay on the train for eternity as far as they know and go crazy, or B) take the invitation and die in the Library. They take option B.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: Following their revival on one of U Corp's beaches, the trio change from their previous office worker-esque Fixer uniforms into more appropriate beach-side workshop attire. Rain and Mika wear more casual mechanic outfits, while Olga wears a diving suit when on the job.
Known Operatives
Olga
"It's me friend's request, so I'll chin up and get this done."
A well-built young woman who was a childhood friend with Myo. She partied the whole night a day before she was tasked to investigate the Library for her, and was still heavily drunk during her operation. Unfortunately, the Warp Train seemingly malfunctioned, so she takes the invitation to go to the Library.- Birds of a Feather: She gets along swimmingly with fellow Hard-Drinking Party Girl Rodion while working with the Sinners.
- Brother–Sister Team: The sister of Rain.
- Childish Older Sibling: She's a hard drinker and too much of a party-girl for her own good, something that leaves her relationship with Rain strained.
- Desperation Attack: Hold up!, a 0-cost attack that has a miserably low roll and damage, but regenerates 1 light. Handy to have in early battles as a follow-up move if a librarian has two speed die, or if they’re completely out of lights to work with.
- Handicapped Badass: Implied, as she's one of the few characters with a gold key page up to the Urban Plague tier and comes with two speed die, but she's hungover enough that she laments she's in no fighting condition during the fight for their lives in the Library.
- Limbus Company shows that, when she's not hungover, she's actually a scarily competent Grade 5 fixer, easily dealing with massive crab mutants. According to Ishmael's Molar Boat Work Fixer identity (Which has her take Olga's place) she even took down one of said crabs with her bare hands immediately after her revival.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Her pastime is going to the bar to get wasted, and in the night before the WARP Train incident, she had one of her biggest nights yet and has to spend the entire situation on the train and fighting in the Library hungover and close to puking.
- Statuesque Stunner: Olga towers over her entire team and a good portion of the characters seen at this point.
Mika
"What a mess we've gotten into..."
A young woman who wears glasses. Her father fell victim to fraud a long time ago, causing him to accidentally create a weapon out of a patented singularity and procuring the Head's wrath. After sending three cease-and-desist orders, they deployed a Claw into his Workshop and killed him instantly.- Disappeared Dad: According to Mika's book, her father fell for a fraud where one of his clients requested a weapon for his office created out of a stolen singularity. When he created the weapon and was about to have his client test it, the Head sent three cease-and-desist orders for unpatented tech. It's implied a Claw invaded his workshop and killed him right on the spot afterwards.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: When she appears in Limbus Company, her glasses are perpetually on her forehead, suggesting she does not actually need them.
- Wrench Wench: She's the main mechanic of the group following their restructuring into a boat workshop, and is good enough to successfully remodel Mephistopheles with a bit of help from Outis.
Rain
Olga's younger brother, although their relationship is a bit strained.
- BFS: His weapon is a big and heavy chainsaw in the shape of a greatsword.
- Chainsaw Good: He fights with a strange combination of a sword and a chainsaw, which he still hangs onto in Limbus Company to kill Trash Crabs.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible one between him and Olga, he's got a cool head and no-nonsense disposition.
- The Leader: Olga's the toughest fighter, but when it comes to keeping everyone in line, Rain's the guy with authority.
- Mature Younger Sibling: To the point where he almost looks down on his sister.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: His outfit in Limbus Company, ditching his sharp suit for a large blue jacket and a bare chest beneath to deal with the coastal environment of U Corp.
Full-Stop Office
In General
- "That's why guns aren't used too often. They're not very effective against actually competent opponents."- Roland
- Curb-Stomp Battle: After wasting limited resources trying to even hit the Church of Gears leader Elieen, they finally made it... only for Argalia to suddenly pop out to block the killshot and running all over the place trying to kill the operatives. Unable to stand a chance in hell of killing the Blue Reverberation himself, they hastily send themselves to the Library to die there instead.
- Guns Are Useless: They are one of the few paramilitary entities with access to firearms, but theirs were noticeably of shoddy quality because of the Head's Gun Control laws that prevent Guns from being made to be actually effective and impossible to obtain and maintain without exorbitant sums of money, in addition to most opponents being well trained to evade and counter gunshots. Therefore, Full-Stop office is not suited for extended combat, and they are only used for swift execution.
- Magikarp Power: Inverted - their passives make them start powerful for an Urban Plague fight, getting a power buff on the first turns to seriously harm unprepared librarians. After that, their passive is used up and they're of middling power. Being in combat for too long will cause them to use up all of their ammo, preventing them from fighting at all.
- Victory by Endurance: The likely way players will beat them early-on is by out-clashing and enduring their gunfire until they either run dry of attacks or use their best moves too early, leaving them open to revenge attacks.
Dawn Office
In General
- Noodle Incident: Whatever the Midnight Pancreas Burgers request involved, it was enough of a Nausea Fuel for Dawn Office to the point that Philip simply bringing up the request's name is sufficient enough to elicit disgust from both Yuna and Salvador.
- Playing with Fire: Most of their combat pages inflict burn, and their members use Stigma Workshop's weapons, which are famed for its capacity to burn through flesh and metal.
- Small Role, Big Impact: In the grand scheme of things, the Dawn Office was just supposed to be another victim to be ground up in the Library. Salvador's and Yuna's last words to Philip and Philip's survival and escape, however, kicked off a very, very long journey for Philip and led to unprecedented destruction in the near future.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the long run, they were just another set of opponents to be slain and assimilated by the Library. Their apprentice and sole survivor, Philip, would go on to become a massive threat to the City that would also lead the Liu Association to their demise.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: While Urban Plague's receptions are a step up compared to Urban Legend, it's this trio of Fixers that will give new players a flat out headache due to their spamming of burn-inflicting attacks, their passives that will lead to a Total Party Wipe if handled incorrectly, as well as Salvador's potential to use Crack of Dawn, an attack with a high roll enough to steamroll most Librarians in a single hit in this stage of the game.
- The Worf Effect: Despite being a high standard office with decades of war experience, they were one of the many early combatants who were lured into and decimated by the Library and by extension, the player themselves.
Salvador
- BFS: Wields a zweihander alongside two shortswords. Fitting, as he was once part of the Zwei Association before founding an office of his own.
- Cool Old Guy: Salvador really got around the City in his heyday, with his name being known by multiple big name characters and his reputation as a reliable and experienced Fixer well established. His relationship with Philip is mentor, even parental-like, which makes his death all the more tougher for Philip to take.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Despite being the one who first took a young Roland under his wing, he doesn’t recognize his possible opponent being the same man who fought by his side years ago. Given that Roland at that point in his life almost never took his perception altering mask off, it’s likely that Salvador never even got to see his face, or possibly even remember much of the man.
- Stone Wall: Salvador focuses primarily on defense, protecting himself and his team with defensive buffs and making himself hard to dent through normal attack.
- The Worf Effect: While at no means an easy foe during that phase of the game, Salvador is a veteran Fixer with decades of combat experience who ends up being one of the earlier victims of the Library.
Philip
Salvador's newest apprentice, a quiet and deferential Fixer said to have significant potential. Unfortunately, he is also an emotionally insecure coward.
For tropes regarding Philip, go to this page.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Philip, upon taking heavy damage, decides to flee the battle and escape the Library to get backup rather than die with his Office.
Yuna
- Implied Love Interest: Deconstructed. Despite Philip genuinely liking to her, she doesn't share the same feelings because Philip's tendencies to run away in a pinch makes him too cowardly to be any sort of formidable fighter. This leads to Philip actually manifesting an uncouth delusion about her and Salvador that cannot be resolved because his senior and mentor are killed before he gets answers, which in return leads to him becoming the Crying Children, a Distortion capable of mass havoc.
- One-Woman Army: Downplayed; while not on the level of some other high-grade Fixers, Yuna is sufficiently skilled enough to handle a high-end Urban Legend request all by herself. This is also encouraged by her Lone Fixer passive which gives Yuna +3 Strength if she is the only combatant on the field/remaining.
- Senseless Violins: Wields a cello case that ejects bladed arms to slice up her opponents.
Wedge Office
In General
- "That Philip guy seems hurt, but I agree with Oscar here. Few things are as dangerous and nasty as selfishness in the guise of 'for the sake of someone else'"- Roland
- Bait-and-Switch: You are going in believing that this is one of your run of the mill Fixer battles when you first fight them. It isn't, and the Wedge Office itself is just the warmup phase, and the real confrontation is against the E.G.O. Philip that remains after the Office is annihilated.
- Body Backup Drive: Pameli was gravely injured in a raid against the 8 O'clock Circus and got her whole body replaced with Pamela's thanks to insurance. She doesn't really like her cloned body, unfortunately.
- Glacier Waif: Pamela and Pameli are among the shortest of combatants faced, and wield huge lances as their weapon of choice.
- Half-Identical Twins: Pamela and Pameli, due to Pameli suffering grievous injuries on an earlier mission, look almost identical save for a difference in hair color.
- Jousting Lance: Their weapon of choice, as well as symbol for their Office.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Oscar gives Philip a pep-talk about his Cowardly Lion personality, while the maids tell him to be better. This helps Philip to partially manifest E.G.O. after nearly dying.
Oscar
- Determinator: Implied with his Unrelenting passive, which allows him to survive a lethal blow once during a reception and reduces any other incoming damage by 20 for the rest of that scene.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acts fairly gruff towards Philip, even criticizing Philip's mindset very harshly, yet at the end of the day, Oscar ends up sneaking a teleportation device on Philip which ensures Philip's survival. Lampshaded by Roland afterwards.Roland: I didn't know that coot would put that kinda device on him... Old Man Oscar's still not honest with himself.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Heavily implied to be Invoked. Turns out that Oscar placed an escape port on Philip to escape. Unfortunately, it's to the last place the Office raided; the 8 O'clock circus, and it's heavily implied that the Library deliberately alters his escape route for the purpose of baiting out a much stronger target later on. This leads poor Philip to become The Crying Children and later join the Reverb Ensemble.
Cane Office
In General
- "Patent wars are waged over those technologies, but in truth, neither side really benefits from them. It ends in a Pyrrhic victory at best."- Roland
- Beware the Silly Ones: The trio might seem goofy with their banter at first glance, and being bullied by Pluto and Argalia doesn't help their first impression, but they're a Star of the City-classed reception for a reason. Their heavy defenses and hard hitting attacks after gaining momentum with charge means they can run over a librarian very quickly while being able to keep themselves alive long enough to win through sheer stagger-power and attrition. Plus, by Nemo's own words, they've already handled almost a dozen Star of the City tiered requests before walking into the Library, the highest threat level that troublemakers can obtain in the City before the Head itself takes over to get involved.
- Cyborg: Nemo is the most obvious one, with his head replaced with an I-pad-like screen that expresses various emotions. Bada and Martina are more subtle examples, as Bada has a cybernetics enhanced heart and presumable other augmentations to his innards, while Martina seems to have tendril-like weapons installed up her sleeve/briefcase, which she uses to whip stab and shock opponents in combat.
- Energy Shield: All three of them utilize them when blocking. Nemo himself is featured in the artwork for the aptly titled Energy Shield combat page.
- Deal with the Devil: Effectively, this is how they got into the whole mess with the Library in the first place. Nemo made a shortsighted deal with Pluto to try and gain W Corp's singularity in exchange for books they need from the Library. What Nemo didn't account for was very small and hidden text that states they'll the Cane Office will be going alone into the Library, while Pluto and Argalia aren't obligated to so much as lift a finger to help.
- Secret Art: All three have a card exclusive to only their key pages.
- Stone Wall: The trio uses a deck of cards that focuses on building their charge through heavy defenses before retaliating with a charge-fueled attack.
Nemo
"We were led by monsters out of the pan and into the flame; a den of monsters known as the Library. This has to be comedy gold, the joke of the century."
The president of Cane Office, Nemo is selfish and greedy to a fault, jumping at the opportunity to acquire W-Corps singularity to sell later by taking up Yesterday's Promise contractual agreement. Unfortunately for him, the conditions of the contract require him and his fixers to enter the Library for books - by themselves.- Asshole Victim: One of the rare justifiable cases in this game, Nemo is one of the very few overtly corrupt entities in the City, who made a contract with Pluto just to start a patent war and get W Corp's singularity for their own use. Of course, Pluto isn't letting him do this, and it turns out that they also need to get the W Corp employee's books for him and Argalia themselves. Of course, in this case, it's either death or death, so they can't really do anything save for going to the Library and dying in combat.
- Benevolent Boss: Despite how much he likes to rave about profit and business opportunities, he admits he'd never cheat his own subordinates out of their share of the deal, and he's nothing but polite and jovial to his companions. Not so much if they die trying to protect him, though.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Nemo spends the yearly expense of a Backstreet citizen in a single day and can't even go one second without raving how profitable something is for him.... even if it means a situation that equates to absolute death. His two subordinates are very uncomfortable with this.
- Energy Weapon: Nemo is able to fire a beam of energy from his face.
- Expressive Accessory: Nemo's face, an LED-like screen, shows off his emotions through various colors and emoticon-like expressions.
- Lack of Empathy: Nemo's combat dialogue is comically selfish, if either Bada or Martina die he'll either shout that everything's still okay because he isn't hurt, or matter-of-factly state that avoiding getting hurt and killed was their responsibility alone. By contrast, Bada and Martina have nothing but melancholy things to say as their dying words, or if someone else died.
- Laughably Evil: He may be one of the more corrupt and immoral Fixers in the City, but coupled his Large Ham tendencies and his shameless greed, Nemo ends up as one of the most entertaining guests to enter the Library.
- Large Ham: Nemo begins to enter outrage and insult-filled shouting and anger when he realizes he's been duped by Pluto, with his best moments being when his monitor begins glowing red with rage and the emoticon has a set of angry eyes and sharp teeth.
- Hurricane of Puns: Argalia really can't help himself from spewing a torrent of box and square-based puns and insults to Nemo while he has him at his mercy. Among the names and insults he's given are Six Sided Skull, Nemonitor, Cube Boy, Ol' Oblong, among others.
- Loophole Abuse: The City tends to have some pretty strict gun laws that makes any sort of ranged firepower a real pain in the ass to acquire, and tends to leave you disadvantaged anyways. Nemo got around this with a ranged laser cannon on his face, which is technically not a gun and doubles as his most dangerous attack whenever it's ready.
- The Neidermeyer: He's so blatant about his obsession with profit that even his very own subordinates, Martina and Bada, have second thoughts about him. He also doesn't treat his sister Office on a high regard.
- Secret Art: Energy Beam, a very powerful attack that fires a laser at the enemy once and consumes charge to erase all offensive dice on the target's hand. It's pretty expensive and can't be used often, but is practically guaranteed to win most clashes it's pitted against thanks to its high damage and high dice roll.
- Stepford Smiler: Seems to be the case for Nemo. Despite his monitor only rarely showing off his angry and disgruntled face, which he saves for when he's yelling, he admits wholeheartedly that he's very scared over what he's gotten himself into. That said, his swagger doesn't waver a bit even when standing in the lobby of the Library itself.(Argalia): You bragged about taking care of eleven Star of the City-class requests mere moments ago, no? What's wrong... Don't tell me, are you scared...?
(Nemo, whilst his monitor displays a jovial emoticon): Well, YES! I'm scared piss and shitless, thanks for asking! - Support Party Member: Ironically, for a man so proudly selfish, he's the more support oriented of the trio, with Martina on hard defense and Bada on offense. Ready Up! grants allies protection lasting for two turns, while Energy Beam, while powerful, has the more detrimental effect of destroying offensive die and effectively ruining a librarian's offense for that die.
Martina
"...Should've read the contract more carefully..."
The absurdly tall, lanky and ominous fixer who directly works for Nemo, Martina is a quiet and subdued woman who helps carry out Office contracts. She gets caught up in Nemo's blunder of being contractually forced to enter the Library to collect books Pluto and Argalia seek, or die trying.- Creepy Loner Girl: Martina fits the appearance, being ridiculously tall and skinny with most of her face hidden behind her overgrown black hair. She stands with a slight hunch and her office uniform gives her an all-black attire. In actual personality though, she's more sociable, if strangely calm, than the trope entails.
- Creepy Monotone: All of her dialogue is spoken in a very quiet, calm and monotone even when her Office is in dire trouble.
- Lean and Mean: Martina is a very skinny woman whose height towers over most in-game characters, being significantly taller than most other completely human characters at 191 cm. This can be considered a Statuesque Stunner if you are really into that stuff however. The artbook reveals that most of this height is from her cybernetics.
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: Her briefcase isn't her only weapon. Hidden underneath her long sleeves are giant claws that can tear up her enemies.
- Secret Art: Uncanny Strike can only be used on her key page. It only hits once but hits pretty hard with high a high dice roll, and consumes charge to deal an extra amount of stagger damage. Combined with her innate passive that inflicts bonus stagger damage, she and anyone using her key page/deck can turn into a staggering-machine that may not outright kill their targets, but definitely leave them reeling and open for someone else to finish off.
- Slasher Smile: The artwork for the attack Uncanny Strike gives Martina a large black smile on her otherwise stoic face. She sports similar expressions when attacking.
Bada
- Beat Still, My Heart: After discussing the terms of the contract between Pluto and the Cane Office, the trio suggests that they just deny heading to the Library to defy the contract rather than face certain death. To show that he means business, Pluto uses his abilities to remove Bada's heart, displays it to Nemo while Martina tries to help Bada and then sends it back to end his threat.
- The Generic Guy: Compared the ominous Martina and the comically greedy Nemo, Bada stands out as a relatively normal guy by City standards who has to endure the strange situation his Office found themselves in.
- Power Fist: Bada's weapon, helping him with his role as the main attacking player of the trio.
- Secret Art: Devastating Thrash, a 3-hit move that consumes charge to weaken the opponent's die for a better chance at clashing. It also has a unique animation where the user will use the power fist to uppercut the enemy and slam them down to shatter the ground beneath. It's also Bada's main attack, and if anyone in the trio is going to be dealing consistent damage, it'll be him.
Gaze Office
In General
- "There really are people trying to investigate Singularities."- Angela
- Awesomeness by Analysis: The name of their Office and attack names give this impression, with the trio putting their cybernetics to good use by studying and tracking their foes for a perfect opening before moving in for the kill.
- Combination Attack: Besides their more straightforward attacks, the trio used Paralysis to set themselves up, namely Alloc, for bigger hits. Alloc's more reliable attack is Opportunity Spotted, which is pretty weak by itself but gains enough power when attacking a paralyzed target to chunk their target's HP if caught unguarded. Better yet, Alloc will often set himself up with a +3 strength buff by using Observe while either Dalloc or Bono move in for the paralysis, making Alloc hit even harder.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Completely averted to the point of being a counterexample to the Brotherhood of Iron's cybernetics. Their augments are so good and well made that they’re an well established and professional Office and don’t suffer any consequences from filling themselves up with wires and metal. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Iron are practically suffering at all times from getting their new bodies cheap.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Most of their attacks deal negligible damage, but their passives make use of their love for applying the paralysis effect by granting them extra damage and more frequent paralysis applications, which by extension makes winning clashes against them less likely.
- Man in the Machine: Like the Brotherhood of Iron, they were humans who replaced their bodies with robotics. However, as their bodies are of higher-quality, they don't seem to have the same problems that come with it.
- Shock and Awe: This Office specializes in electricity-based weaponry to stun their foes.
- The Stake Out: The trio were covertly planting a tracking device onto the warp train and waiting to see what'll happen when it 'mysteriously' vanishes without a trace. Fearing having to go back empty handed and fail their jobs, they use their conveniently acquired Library invitation to gain the knowledge they need about the W-Corps singularity instead.
Alloc
"If the Library and its books are just as mysterious as the Singularities, then hopefully they're worth just as much."
One of three fixers of the Gaze Office, Alloc's augmented himself with three traffic-light-like optics and sports a bandaged-up face.- Bandaged Face: Under those bright optics is a face wrapped in gray bandages, presumably hiding the number the operation he took to get those attached took.
- Extra Eyes: He has three eyes/optics that look like traffic lights grafted onto his face, which turn on and off as he studies his foes.
- The Leader: He seems to be the one managing the operation, and keeps the other two in line.
- Musical Assassin: Strangely enough, his weapon is an oboe. The game's art book says that it was meant to be a stick resembling an oboe, but it was accidentally drawn as an actual one and the rest of the development team took it in stride. The SA Forums goons following TeeQueue's LP of this game call it a "combat oboe".
- Parting-Words Regret: When he dies, he sadly calls himself a careless fool who led everyone to their deaths in pursuit of money.
Dalloc
"Look straight ahead if you got time to complain."
The second of three fixers of Gaze Office, Dalloc's replaced her head with a retractable bundle of camera optics facing in multiple directions, on top of seeming to have mechanical and electric claws up her sleeves.- Extra Eyes: She's opted to cleave her entire head off in favor of 4 camera optics in place instead.
- Expressive Accessory: She has a small monitor jumbled into her mess of optics with a simple face emoticon that smiles and frowns depending on the context.
- Tiny Tyrannical Girl: Downplayed, however it’s noted in the artbook that she's pretty selfish and bossy while also happening to be one of the smallest characters in the game, on top of telling Bono to quit complaining and fight in the game proper.
- Vocal Dissonance: She's very short, wears bright neon clothing and has an overall cuter appearance compared to her more imposing cyborg colleagues to the point of seeming like a Genki Girl from a visual impression. Yet, she has a voice much deeper than would be expected and is totally calm and professional in her attitude.
Bono
"We really gotta re-think if this job is worth it..."
The third of three fixers of Gaze Office, Bono's replaced his head with a black and armored replacement, but more importantly has installed four Combat Tentacles to his back, functioning as his main means of attack.- Combat Tentacles: Four strong and durable robotic tentacles tough enough to impale themselves right through people and lift them up effortlessly.
- Cyber Cyclops: In contrast to his multi-eyed companions, Bono only has one optic to his head.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Bono has four metallic tentacles protruding from his back, and unlike Alloc or Dalloc he's not necessarily reliant on paralysis to inflict pain on librarians, being the heavy hitter of the trio.
- Nervous Wreck: Downplayed, but from what limited screen time Bono has he's hardly a calm and trust-giving guy, and he spends the entire stakeout worried that W Corp. is onto their spying, that the Cane Office gave them a faulty tracker (and no info on the job), and how the entire job is just a scam that'll get them killed. When the Library's invitation arrives, he tries to warn the others how they'll probably die in there and not even get close to getting the books they need (which is exactly what happens). Sure enough, he's Properly Paranoid for the wrong reasons, at least in regard to the WARP trains.
Clam Office
In General
Moses' Office
In General
A Fixer Office affiliated with the Seven Association, owned by Moses. They are responsible for tracking incomplete Distortions and (at least temporarily) reverting them, and even capturing full Distortions.
- Hero of Another Story: While certain characters and events are referenced in Library Of Ruina, Moses' Office has no real relevance unless one reads The Distortion Detective, where they are the main characters.
Known Fixers
Moses
The eponymous Operator of Moses' Office, she is a short middle-aged woman who can sense Distortions and (partially) reverse and cure them, working as "the Distortion Detective." She has a modified smoking pipe with the ability to cleanse Distorted people and has the innate ability to see Distortions and how far along they are. Secretly, this pipe is actually her Psychoment (E.G.O.), making her one of the few people known to have successfully manifested E.G.O. As a result, she cannot Distort.
For tropes about Moses, see here.
Jeong's Office
In General
A Fixer Office that operates primarily in J Corp's Nest. They are affiliated with the Öufi Association.
- Death Dealer: Played with. While the Jeong's Office Fixers themselves don't use cards as a weapon, the names of their combat pages and passives, such as Shuffle Hands, invoke this sort of aesthetic. This is unsurprising given that they are based in Nest J, a Nest known for its gambling.
- Discard and Draw: The main gimmick behind both their key pages and their passives revolve around discarding combat pages from their hand.
- Meaningful Name:
- The Korean character "Jeong" (定) approximately translates as "to settle/suppress/determine/resolve". Jeong's Office works to ensure the stability of gambling deals and trades in Nest J and resolve any incidents that arise.
- Hanafuda, their unique member, is named after hanafuda (flower cards), a type of Japanese playing cards.
The Udjat
In General
Ostensibly a Grade 1 Fixer Office, they are, in practice, a private army that serves the interest of the enigmatic Dias.
For tropes about their leader, Dias, see here.
- Malevolent Masked Men/Women: Their uniform consists of a black mask with a gold Eye of Horus engraved on it which conceals their entire face. They all also are loyal only to their leader Dias who, among other things, was one of the main actors responsible for the Smoke War.
- Stone Wall: Their passives and combat pages focus on building Endurance or stacking Protection on themselves and their allies, making them some of the tankiest guests in the entire game.
- Villain of Another Story: Though they have minimal impact on the plot of Library of Ruina, they are a much more influential force in the novel tie-in, The Distortion Detective due to the larger presence of their leader, Dias.
- The Voiceless: Though they can presumably speak, they are completely silent in their reception.
Bayard's Office
In General
A Fixer Office that is run by Bayard who, among other things, is a close friend with multiple Fixers from the famous Charles' Office.
- Glass Cannon: Every single one of them has the Offensive Position passive, which inflicts 3 Fragile on themselves in return for 1 Strength every turn.
Known Fixers
Bayard
The eponymous Operator of Bayard's Office. He is good friends with Maugris, Renaud, Bradamante, and Astolfo, all of whom were Fixers of the near-legendary Charles' Office.
- Death or Glory Attack: His exclusive combat page, Pinpoint Breakthrough, deals stagger damage equal to Bayard's current stagger resist. This comes at a cost of expending all of Bayard's stagger resist as well, however, which will leave Bayard incredibly vulnerable afterwards.
- Graceful Loser: Admits in his key page story that he envied Renaud for managing to get his Office under control, but that he could tell just how much more skilled Renaud was than him and was willing to let go of his pride.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He has one with Renaud, whom he describes as a "spring chicken".
- Meaningful Name: Bayard shares his name with Bayard, the horse used by Renaud de Montauban; Renaud is one of Charlemagne's 12 paladins (which serves as the source for the names of each of the 12 Fixers of Charles' Office).
- One Degree of Separation: He is good friends with multiple Fixers from Charles' Office. One of them (Renaud), had even helped Bayard organize his Office from an undisciplined mess into the effective force it is now. Charles' Office was also the former Office that Roland worked at, though it is implied from Bayard and his Fixers' key page stories that they never met him.
Ame Office
In General
A small Office familiar to Moses' Office. Appears only in The Distortion Detective.
Dou Gui Combat Office
In General
A Grade 1 Combat Office in District 14. Appears only in The Distortion Detective.
Charles' Office
In General (Unmarked Spoilers)
A highly professional Grade 1 Office originally consisting of 12 Fixers (13 including Angelica) under its Operator, Charles. They were responsible for taking down the Star of the City-class threat known as the Blood-red Night, a.k.a. Elena.
- The Fellowship Has Ended: By the events of Library Of Ruina, Charles' Office has since disbanded, with each Fixer going their own way.
- Meaningful Name: Charles as in medieval ruler Charlemagne and the 12 Fixers as in the 12 Paladins, fictional knights of legend in Charlemagne's court. All known members of the Office take their names from medieval European works which incorporate the Paladins.
- Roland, Olivier, and their partnership come from The Song of Roland.
- Astolfo, Renaud, Ogier, and Maugris all are members of the Paladins in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. Naimon is not, but is also included as part of them elsewhere.
- Bradamante and Angelica (as well as her brother Argalia) also take their names from the Orlando works. Neither of them are members of the Paladins in their originating stories, but Bradamante is one of the 12 here.
- One Extra Member: Not counting their Operator, their members were collectively regarded as the 12 Fixers... plus Angelica.
Known Agents (Unmarked Spoilers)
Charles
Charles
The Operator of Charles' Office, also referred to as the Captain.- The Alleged Boss: According to the Library Of Ruina artbook, while Charles may have been the Operator, Roland was such a Hyper-Competent Sidekick that he managed to earn Charles' trust and became the one who actually led the 12 Fixers.
- Unknown Character: Apart from being the namesake of his Office, almost nothing else is known about him, and not even Roland nor any of the other known Fixers from his Office ever mention him. The only confirmation of his existence comes from a developer comment in Vol. II of the Library Of Ruina artbook.
Black-Masked Fixer
Roland
During the Floor Realization of the Floor of Philosophy, it was revealed that Roland used to work at Charles' Office after the Smoke War, where he later met Angelica. The two slew Elena, the Blood-red Night, a terrifying Star of the City threat known to actively stalk people in the Backstreets and Nests, kill them and use their bodies as puppets. After the defeat of the Blood-red Night, where Angelica was injured and Roland showed her his face in concern, the two started an intimate relationship with each other.For more about Roland, see here.
Angelica
Angelica
Voiced by: Zhang Ye-na
A Grade 1 Fixer from Charles' Office who was Argalia's sister and later Roland's wife. She was a kind woman who would often display affection to Roland, and provided emotional support for him during particularly stressful times which were frequent during their Fixer days. Unfortunately, she was killed along with her and Roland's unborn child when the Pianist manifested in the Backstreet District they lived in. Angelica's death drove Roland insane, causing him to commit a mass murder spree that got him demoted to Grade 9, with Iori eventually sending him to the Library for an unknown plan, kick-starting the game's events.According to the Library Of Ruina artbook, Angelica was the original Black Silence.
At an unknown point in the game, Argalia ordered Jae-heon to search the Pianist's remains for her corpse. He managed to excavate it and turned it into one of his puppets.
- The Ace: During her time as a Fixer, Angelica was also known as the real Black Silence; the black mask Roland wore made people believe that he was Angelica.
- And I Must Scream: By Argalias and the Puppeteers own admission, she was quite talkative during their 'encounter', despite the fact that she's been long dead inside the Pianists piano. Being forced to fight on as a silent and shambling patchwork of flesh as the the Ensembles goon likely didn't do anything to her consciousness.
- Came Back Wrong: When Argalia shows off her reanimated corpse taken from the Pianist's piano, she is essentially turned into a barely recognizable monstrosity, full of Eyes Do Not Belong There and Fan Disservice. Argalia referring to her now as being "perfected" only rubs salt in the wounds for Roland.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: In reality, Roland's gloves and all but one of the weapons inside it are hers.
- Identical Stranger: Argalia comments that she almost looks like Angela (and by extension, Carmen) during the Church of Gears reception. In the Floor of Philosophy realization, she noticeably resembles Angela or Carmen, but with white hair, and in the Star of the City voice update, her voice is the same as Angela's.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Was this to Roland, and essentially the only person he would open up to. This is why when she died to The Pianist, Roland basically lost it and went around indiscriminately killing people in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Meaningful Name: Named after Angelica, princess of Cathay, from Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso, and her loss similarly inspires Roland's rampage and drive for revenge. Her brother Argalia, and her habit of calling him Uberto, also comes from the former. However, contrasting the original work, Argalia outlives her, and Roland went to a rampage because Angelica fell in love with another man instead of being killed outright from nowhere.
- Multi-Melee Master: Her entire arsenal was extremely diverse and according to supplementary material, top of the line as well. While she is most certainly capable of effectively wielding each and every weapon in her arsenal, she is predominantly shown wielding the axe and mace made by Zelkova Workshop, along with the lance from Allas Workshop, making them her signature weapons in a sense.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her death at the hands of the Pianist is ultimately what leads Roland to the Library for revenge and Argalia to try and seize the Library's Light to turn every Cityfolk into Distortions.
- Posthumous Character: She's dead before the events of the game.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Morbidly Deconstructed and played for Drama. Angelica was a kind woman who wanted the best for Roland, just like Carmen towards L Corp. before, although unlike Carmen whose motives would be legitimate at best or dubious at worst, her affection with Roland is unconditionally genuine. She didn't last, and becomes one of the many victims of The Pianist's rampage, and her death drove Argalia to insanity and Roland into committing his murderous rampage, kicking off the Library's actions against The City.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loved the pajeon in a neighboring district, and she asked Roland to bring some home for her before the Pianist disaster. According to this article posted by Project Moon
, she first had that with Roland on their first date. - Rags to Riches: Angelica didn't come from any influential background; she actually came from the Outskirts and was captured and experimented upon by a Wing only to survive. Now she has an influential standing as a Grade 1 Fixer working for Charles' Office. Her standing improved even more when she was promoted to a Color and given the Black Silence title.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: It's shown that she and Roland had a habit of hitting each other in the early days of their relationship before they officially got together.
- Undignified Death: She's the Black Silence and one of the City's top Fixers. Unfortunately, she meets her end when the Pianist manifested in District 9 and made her one of the casualities, then her corpse was picked up by Jae-Heon to be defiled and turned into a puppet for spiting Roland. To say it's downright insulting is an understatement.
- Walking Spoiler: It's not possible to discuss her without revealing her death marks the actual Start of Darkness for Roland, Argalia and indirectly through Roland, several members of the Reverberation Ensemble.
Olivier
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. He was often paired with Roland on Fixer assignments as the two got along well with each other. After the disbandment of Charles' Office, he would go on to join the Hana Association's Southern Branch Section 3.
For more about Olivier, see here
Astolfo
Astolfo
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. After Roland's mass murder of the Rumanos Cartel, Astolfo attempted to placate him, though he fails to do so. His whereabouts are currently unknown, though Olivier speculates that he is either working in a Wing or exploring the Ruins.- Badass Cape: Wears a purple, gold-accented shoulder cape that matches his hair.
- I Warned You: In the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, after Roland's death is shown, he is heard sadly saying as much about the destructive Cycle of Revenge.Astolfo: What did I tell you, Roland... You've killed too many... I warned you that if you relish murdering so much, you'll lose yourself...
- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, he is named after Astolfo, one of the 12 Paladins. His attempt at placating Roland also comes straight from his namesake's actions in Orlando Furioso.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: To a degree that, evidently, stood out even in Charles' Office, which was notorious for its extravagant style. According to the Library Of Ruina artbook, Roland loved to ridicule him for his fashion sense.
Ogier
Ogier
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. His whereabouts are currently unknown, though Olivier speculates that he is either working in a Wing or exploring the Ruins. In the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, he is seen meeting in a pub with Naimon and Renaud, discussing the return of Roland and all the trouble he has caused.- Bearer of Bad News: He is seen in this role during his bad ending appearance with Naimon and Renaud, as the three of them are not too happy with all the destruction Roland caused and his subsequent spiral into drugs and alcoholism.
- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, Ogier is named after Ogier the Dane, one of the 12 Paladins as they appear in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso.
Naimon
Naimon
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. Naimon's whereabouts are currently unknown, but in the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, Naimon is seen meeting in a pub with Ogier and Renaud, discussing the return of Roland and all the trouble he has caused.- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, Naimon is named after Namo, Duke of Bavaria, who is included as one of the 12 Paladins in some works of the Geste du roi.
- Samus Is a Girl: Naimon's voice is decidedly female despite her appearance.
Renaud
Renaud
One of the original twelve Fixers from Charles' Office. His whereabouts are currently unknown, but in the Prière pour aimer la douleur ending, he is seen meeting in a pub with Ogier and Naimon, discussing the return of Roland and all the trouble he has caused.- The Big Guy: His silhouette noticeably towers over Ogier and Naimon.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He has one with Bayard, the self-described "stubborn old man" who leads Bayard's Office.
- Meaningful Name: Fitting with the rest of the Charles' Office Fixers, he is named after Renaud de Montauban, one of the 12 Paladins as they appear in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. His friend Bayard is named after Renaud's horse.
- Spiky Hair: Has sharp, back-styled hair, as seen in his silhouette.
