Characters / Subverse

A list of characters from Subverse. Just like on the main page, please adhere to Our Super-Strict Language Policy when troping them, and don't add any explicit images or external links.

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The Mary Celeste and Crew

Captain

Mr. The Captain

Species: Solar
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
Voiced by: Steve Hamm

"DEMI, we don't 'eliminate irregularities' around here — we find a way to make them work."

The faceless, sex-and-drugs-obsessed Captain of Mary Celeste and the Player Character of the game.

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• Ace Pilot: During the Battle of Nü Vegas, he has single-handedly shot down 50 Imperium ships... in a regular solar starfighter. In the game proper, he is the one piloting the F3N1X during shmup sections.
• The Alcoholic: The dialogue mentions him being drunk and/or high on drugs most of the time, and there are indications of him Drowning His Sorrows (over the loss of his homeworld, among other things) this way. Not that it impairs his piloting skills.
• Awesome Aussie: The Captain not only speaks with a distinct Australian accent, but also eventually reveals to have been born in the Australian district of Nü Vegas, unsubtly named "Koala" (even though none of the Solars remembers what koalas are anymore). The memories of growing up in Koala don't appear to be particularly fond ones for him, however.
• The Captain: He is in command of the Mary Celeste and, apparently, quite good at it, despite his antics.
• Chivalrous Pervert: The Captain will shag anything with a pair of breasts — but only if the other side also wants it. DEMI points out that, even though she is programmed never to refuse her current owner's advances, the Cap still makes a point of asking what she wants every time.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Downplayed. In his private conversation with Erark, the Captain complains that ever since the destruction of Nü Vegas, he has been drifting through life without any sense of purpose or belonging, and Erark reassures him that the revolution he is planning is a chance for him to find both again.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Is emotionally shattered when he finds out that Erark, who he constantly defended throughout the game as a "good lad", was manipulating him all along as part of an elaborate scheme to become Emperor and hired the Huntress to kill the Mary Celeste crew.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The captain is just... "the Captain". Or "Mr. The Captain", if you want to be polite.
• Experienced Protagonist: By the time the game opens, the Cap has a lot of experience under his belt, including service in the Solar Navy and a decade as the chief of security on Nü Vegas (before it was bombed into oblivion by the Imperium).
• Expy: Of Hentai Kamen, the titular protagonist of an obscure Japanese superhero action comedy film. To the point where the captain's infamous mask is a direct Shout-Out to the movie. He also possesses a number of overlapping traits with Deadpool as a madcap fourth wall breaking Anti-Hero.
• Extreme Omnisexual: As mentioned above, the Captain will shag anything and anyone with a pair of breasts, be they of his own species, a robot, or a tentacled xeno.
• The Faceless: For the purposes of player projection, the Captain's entire head is hidden behind a mask, even during explicit scenes. Given the nature of this game, said mask looks like the Cap has pulled a pair of panties over his face, which is lampshaded by Dallick during optional dialogue. His skin tone is also customizable during H-Scenes, further adding to his purpose as the Audience Surrogate.
• Heroic Lineage: The Captain's father was none other than the Pilot — the first person in history to steer a prison barge through a wormhole while keeping everyone on board alive. His mad piloting skills are thus In the Blood.
• Insecure Love Interest:
  • Towards DEMI. In her Devotion [10] dialogue, he flat-out admits that he doesn't deserve her, causing her to reassure him that she is perfectly happy flying with him and his crew, despite having been designed for much greater tasks and purposes.
  • He also understandibly feels this way towards Blythe, who is both his old hardass commanding officer...and his surrogate mother. During her "recruitment" scene, the Captain expresses how he feels conflicted about wanting to sleep with her in spite of the taboo surrounding their relationship, forcing Blythe to take the lead during their first night together.
• Jumped at the Call: When Erark tells him they are going to topple the Imperium, the Captain is hesitant at first, but when he learns that the plan involves recruiting (and potentially shagging) a bunch of hot alien Action Girls, he jumps waist-deep into it.
• Non-Action Guy: Zig-Zagged. On one hand, the Captain never participates in ground combat, letting his ladies and the mantics take care of the hand-to-hand fighting. On the other, he is the only one to pilot the F3N1X in space combat (although thanks to Dallick's upgrades, one waifu can also fly shotgun with him).
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Captain is laid back and self-deprecating most of the time, but outright explodes when Fortune implies that he doesn't get the implications of Azzorion's confessions at the Temple of Defilement. This is the first time in the entire game where the Cap actually expresses the long-repressed trauma of the destruction of Nü Vegas and how much it still hurts him.
• Son of a Whore: The Captain's mother was a Nü Vegas prostitute, while his father's identity is only known to a select few, like Blythe. Consequently, the Captain has major issues with both of his parents, though less because of his mother's profession, and more because of the fact that she neglected him as a child before dying of a drug overdose, while his father was basically absent from his life from the start. In the context of early Nü Vegas, having prostitute mothers was not all that uncommon, and the Captain, in fact, has quite fond memories of being raised by his mother's colleagues at her brothel after her death.
• Special Attack: His own special attack during shmup sections (i.e. if flying without a waifu) is a slow-moving rocket with a medium blast range which can be detonated remotely and explodes on impact.
• Venturous Smuggler: In addition to hunting pirates, the Captain has been involved in smuggling drugs, especially weed, ever since he had found the Mary Celeste. His and DEMI's first real mission with the ship has actually been to round up samples of every drug that the Imperium had declared illegal, then to distribute them among the dealers of the galaxy, single-handedly foiling the galactic government's crackdown on narcotics. This event made the Captain famous among the stoners of the galaxy (like Dallick) for making the Chronic Run in 420 parsecs.

Mary Celeste

The Mary Celeste

A mysterious top-of-the-line space frigate discovered by the Captain drifting through deep space with no crew and no manifest.

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• Ghost Ship: This is how the Captain had found her in the back-story.
• Meaningful Name: While it is not spelled out in game, the Captain had obviously named her after the sailing ship similarly found adrift and crew-less back on Earth.
• Space Fighter: The ship comes with a landing bay for her own space fighter, the F3N1X, which is just as super as she is, being capable of reaching insane speeds and turning on a dime in combat. According to the Codex, the F3N1X was created by the Imperium as the next generation space fighter, but then mothballed as they came to realize that it would be much more dangerous in the hands of opportunistic criminals (like the Captain) than with their own regular military.
• Stealth in Space: Mary Celeste is specifically a stealth cruiser. How its stealth system works is never elaborated, and most key characters, like both Dallick and the Huntress, can detect her with ease, anyway.
• Super Prototype: Nobody knows exactly where the Mary Celeste came from, but Dallick suspects that she had been a black ops project by an unknown faction whose cover was blown and they had to dump the ship.

Waifus

Common waifu tropes

Tropes common to all waifus:

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• Action Girl: Except DEMI, each waifu is a competent ground combat commander and F3N1X gunner, and even DEMI is an Ace Pilot in her own right, and that's not counting her secret "slut mode".
• Battle Harem: At least when it comes to ground combat, the Captain is a complete non-factor, letting the waifus (and the mantics) do all the fighting.
• Fusion Dance: As of v0.5.0, each waifu has the option to merge with a mantic in ground combat to unleash the DEVA Mode onto her enemies.
• Gratuitous Japanese: "Waifu" is the wasei-eigo form of the English "wife", used to describe female love interests in Japanese visual media.
• Party of Representatives: The full waifu roster covers most of the humanoid species of Prodigium: solars, vanerrans, kloi, nikith, teelee, mawsus, and even artificially intelligent robots. The biggest ones missing are the senu and the ord.
• Relationship Values: Each waifu has a Devotion level, which goes up along with her character level as she commands ground combat or flies with the Captain on space missions (since DEMI cannot do either, her Devotion meter instead goes up whenever any other waifu's does — albeit at only 50% rate). Gaining a Devotion level gives that waifu a "Pooter Point", which can be used to unlock additional explicit content for her. At the end of Act I, you also unlock the ability to give gifts (which are the main type of combat loot) to the waifus to boost their Devotion, with more points gained from presents preferred by the respective waifu.
• Special Attack: In space combat, each waifu has a different secondary weapon she equips onto the F3N1X if chosen to fly shotgun.

DEMI

APEX-17 D19M45

Species: Android
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Voiced by: Bordeaux Black

Originally an advanced personal assistant android, DEMI has been rebuilt into a Sexbot by her previous owner, before being rescued by the Captain and joining his crew. She is the first "waifu" of the game.

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• Ace Pilot: In addition to her language skills, she is also described as an exceptional navigator and combat pilot by the codex.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Heavily implied to be the reason why DEMI is so devoted to the Captain and chose to leave with him despite belonging to another master. Unlike Tibold, the Captain always asks for consent before making any of his advances and treats her more as a person rather than a piece of property.
• Behind Every Great Man: Most of the Captain's successes as a freelance outlaw would have never happened without DEMI having his back, but being an illegal artificial intelligence, she can never receive public recognition.
• Cunning Linguist: DEMI is equipped with an Adaptive Language Learning module, which goes beyond the ubiquitous Universal Translator chips in learning and emulating the speech and language patterns of anyone she interacts with, allowing her to quickly bond with them.
• Damsel in Distress: When the crew arrives in Griffin Nebula, DEMI is kidnapped by the Huntress and delivered to the Requital. Subverted when the crew manages to track her down, as in the middle of their rescue mission, HARR-E's torture unexpectedly activates DEMI's "slut mode", and she proceeds to tear her way through the Requital troops on her own, until Fortune manages to hack her and to deactivate it.
• Do-Anything Robot: As a prototype personal assistant android, DEMI has been designed from the ground up to be adept in myriad of vocations including navigation, piloting, interpreting languages, and combat. Ironically, her primary purpose as a Sex Bot was a recent addition courtesy of the black market modifications added to her chassis by her previous owner, Dread Lord Tibold.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: DEMI is the sweetest and most considerate person on the Mary Celeste, yet among waifus, she also has it the hardest to accept the Huntress as a crewmate. Given what she had to go through when the Huntress captured her, it's understandable.
• High-Heeled Feet: Stiletto heels seem to have been built directly into her chassis.
• Last of Her Kind: DEMI is one of the last artificially intelligent androids created before the Great AI Purge, and one of the few surviving ones. While the Imperium doesn't actively hunt her, they'd destroy her on the spot given an opportunity.
• Loss of Identity: DEMI's Devotion [10] dialogue reveals that Tibold has performed a factory reset after first acquiring her, leaving only her personality in tact with no memories of how she had developed it. This caused her to be extremely uncertain of who she is and how she should behave, especially after the Captain rescued and began treating her like a fellow sentient being.
• Recruitment by Rescue: The Captain first met her during his attempt to steal the F3N1X from Tibold. She has just been subjected to a factory reset and had her chassis partially dismantled, so she couldn't escape on her own and offered the Captain to hack the military-grade security systems of the F3N1X in return for her rescue. They've been together ever since.
• Robot Girl: A Ridiculously Human Robot with overtly feminine and jiggly chassis.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Her head is shaped to look like she is wearing an asymmetric bob cut.
• Series Mascot: While it's not a series, DEMI is featured the most in promotional materials, including her central spot on the official poster. Interestingly, Word of God is that her role in the original script had been a lot smaller, but seeing her popularity skyrocket among Kickstarter backers, they have greatly expanded her role until she effectively became the face of the game.
• Sexbot: DEMI has been remodeled into one by her previous owner, Dread Lord Tibold.
• Spaceship Girl: Downplayed. For story purposes, DEMI is inseparable from the Mary Celeste, but they are technically entirely unrelated entities. In the backstory, she has even served as the mainframe of Dread Lord Tibold's flagship.
• Superpowered Evil Side: When she is captured and tortured by the Requital, HARR-E accidentally triggers a defense mechanism that shifts her into "slut mode". Contrary to its name (and her own Madness Mantra while it's active), it does not make her have sex with everyone on board, but rather slaughter them in the most efficient manner possible. Her rampage is only ended when Fortune manages to hack into her and to reset her system.
• Super Prototype: APEX-17 has been the most advanced series of personal assistant androids ever produced, and with its creators, the Apex Industries, shut down during the Great AI Purge and with all the upgrades applied to her by her current and previous owners, DEMI is likely the most advanced droid in the galaxy.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Dread Lord Tibold, DEMI's original owner, was a hateful and abusive Control Freak who apparently was just as terrible in the bedroom as he was a person. After the Captain rescues and recruits her as a member of his own crew, DEMI practically jumps at the chance to humiliate Tibold during his attempts to reclaim her by rubbing in just how much bigger the Captain is by comparison.
• Too Kinky to Torture: During her captivity aboard the SN/SS Turbulence, she utterly humiliates HARR-E in his attempts to pry any information about the revolution out of her by expressing disappointment in most of his sadistic hacking techniques and actively enjoying a few that do get through her defenses.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Captain. Story-wise, even when Fortune hacks and rootkits her, DEMI finds a way to serve the Captain by reporting to him what data exactly Fortune has accessed and when. Gameplay-wise, her Devotion stat goes up whenever any other waifu's does, compensating for the fact that she cannot go on combat missions; this also means that unless you deploy the same two waifus in all combat encounters, DEMI will quickly outpace the rest in Devotion after Ela's recruitment, at the latest.

Lily

Dr. Lillian Margaliss

Species: Solar
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
Voiced by: Alexia Renaldis

A bioweapon engineer in charge of breeding the Manticores ("mantics" for short) aboard the ship. She is the second waifu to be recruited.

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• Boldly Coming: This, i.e. sexual compatibility of various Prodigium species, is her core area of research. She also has sex with the Mantics she creates as her favorite pasttime.
• Cold Sniper: Having served in the Solar military, she is an excellent marksman in addition to her medical skill. When flying shotgun with the Captain, the F3N1X gains her signature long-range sniping Special Attack. In terms of personality, while her demeanor is conspicuously outgoing, it is clearly a mask to hide her true feelings and agenda at all times.
• Combat Medic: One of her passive abilities lets her heal her most injured ally at the start of every other turn. She had also served as a platoon medic during her time in the Solar military.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Lily's piercing blue eyes befit her aloof, calculating persona.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Part of her signature attire, which she seems to sport for aesthetic value alone, since the way she wears it (open all the way on the front) misses all practical points of wearing one.
• Ms. Exposition: As the resident scientist aboard the ship, it falls to her do deliver exposition dumps about the setting's species in her optional dialogue.
• Sex Is Violence: Fighting turns Lily on, big time. The first time she sleeps with the Captain, it is specifically to unwind after storming a pirate flagship. It's even built into her playstyle as the passive ability "Randy", which gradually increases her damage output with every turn.
• Sex with the Ex: Lily and Blythe have more Pandora scenes with each other than any other pair of waifus.
• Special Attack: When she flies with the Captain, the F3N1X's special attack changes to a long-range beam for sniping enemies from afar.
• Stacy's Mom: Technically she could be considered an example of this trope given how she's essentially the Mantic's "mother" ^note  She IS shown giving birth to them in one of the official doujins but its canonicity is dubious at best and being explicitly referred to as a MILF.
• Support Party Member: Zig-Zagged. While she is a powerful combatant, her passive ability "Randy" makes her attacks much more deadly in the later turns of ground combat, making it more viable to spend the early rounds buffing and healing the mantics.
• Working with the Ex: Lily and Blythe's relationship was much more than professional during their time at the Requital. After Blythe ends up on the Mary Celeste, a lot of bad blood comes up in their conversations.

Killi

Dread Queen Va'raz Killision the Red

Species: Vanneran
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
Voiced by: SilkyMilk

The former commander of the pirate Dread Fleet, before her throne was usurped by Tibold, Killi is now after two things: revenge on Tibold and the treasure trove of the Dread Fleet's commander before her. Her recruitment (as the third waifu) comprises the bulk of Act I storyline.

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• Agony of the Feet: One of her special attacks slashes at the target's feet, preventing them from moving on their next turn.
• Aliens of London: Speaks in a distinctly British accent despite (technically) not being human.
• Collector of the Strange: Her optional dialogue when settling in on the Mary Celeste reveals that she collects items of the Solars' material culture, and she gets incensed that the Captain doesn't share her fascination. This is because, with her own homeworld effectively destroyed, her species has no material culture left to speak of.
• Cool Big Sis: Surprisingly, once she mellows out and settles down as the bar keeper on the ship, she grows into somewhat of a voice-of-reason role, especially for Taron. Which doesn't stop her from sleeping with the nikith the first thing after her recruitment.
• Cultured Badass: For a pirate who ostensibly only cares for sex, violence, and plunder, Killi is surprisingly erudite and well-spoken when she wants to. In her Devotion [20] dialogue, she reveals that this is because in her teens, she was actually sent to the Sacrarium Abbey by her foster parents to be trained as a "Lady of the Veil" — effectively a warrior nun-slash-missionary for the Imperium (though she obviously never took the vows).
• Designated Point Man: Killi's role on the Mary Celeste is "primary strike team specialist", according to the Codex.
• Eyepatch of Power: Befitting a pirate, she wears an patch over her right eye. How she lost it, however, is yet to be revealed (or whether she even lost it at all, as she casually mentions winking to the Captain under the eye patch at one point).
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Killi is described as the primary strike team specialist by the Codex, and many non-combat events describe her leading away teams on dangerous missions, but her short attack range makes her a subpar leader in actual ground combat, as both Lily and Ela don't need to waste their first turns getting into melee range, while Taron has the same movement speed as Killi, but can pounce at range and does more base damage. Even her high base HP barely offsets the damage she inevitably takes while closing the distance to the enemies or if dogpiled by them in melee. In fact, Killi is much better off flying shotgun on space missions, where her close-range blast special attack is surprisingly versatile against many types of ships.
  • On another note, one of her dialogue options with the Captain suggests that, in the bedroom, she's very dominatrix-like, but most of the actual sex scenes involving her- including with the Captain- have her gladly allowing her partner(s) to have their way with her, and generally being much more of a submissive than you'd expect; you can probably count on your hands the number of times in total that Killi actually tops someone or is the one taking charge, and it'll still only be half (at most) of the number of times she isn't.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Killi has massive anger management issues, being angry at something or other most of the time. The destruction of her homeworld by the Imperium and the usurpation of her fleet by Tibold didn't help it, though killing the usurper and retrieving her mentor's treasure does cause her to calm down enough to set up a bar on the Mary Celeste.
• Hidden Depths: While Killi makes an initial impression of a permanently-angry Lad-ette only interested in fights, sex, and booze, her optional dialogue sequences reveal her as a highly erudite and insightful individual, having trained as a Lady of the Veil before her turn to piracy, with a geeky hobby that is simultaneously quite sad (collecting solar memorabilia in lieu of the extinguished vanneran material culture).
• Katanas Are Just Better: As the dedicated physical melee fighter of the crew, her weapon is a futuristic katana, of course.
• Large Ham: Killi has some major anger issues, so she doesn't seem to be able stop chewing the scenery. For instance, leveling up her Devotion causes her to bellow "THE DREAD QUEEN RISES!" at the top of her lungs.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is portmanteau of "kill" and "collision", reflecting her explosively violent nature.
• Mentor Archetype: Killi has been discovered and tutored as a pirate by the Dread Lord Gornagoth the Snucklefucker, the greatest pirate warlord in history, who actually managed to retire, naming her as his successor. He also left her a piece of the Treasure Map leading to his legendary treasure.
• Nipple and Dimed: Very much averted, as her areolas are always visible.
• Pirate Girl: Her title "Dread Queen" marks her as the former commander of the Dread Fleet, and even after her deposition, she has continued her raids on the Imperium ships with the few crews that remained loyal to her.
• Prehensile Tail: Her tail is very flexible and is used both to help her emote and for, let's say, Power Perversion Potential.
• Rebel Leader: While the Dread Fleet was still under her control, she used it to channel her anger at the Imperium for destroying her homeworld and raided imperial ships and planets. Erark recalls a story of how she showed up alone at a gala he was hosting, slaughtered the security, and robbed everyone blind.
• Revenge: Two of Killi's three core drives revolve around revenge: against Tibold for usurping the Dread Fleet, and against the Imperium for their genocide of Vanerra.
• Special Attack: When she flies with the Captain, the F3N1X's special attack changes to a Short-Range Shotgun with a wide spread. It is devestating to large ships at short range and clears the field of multiple small ships at mid rage.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: When the Captain first meets Killi over Svyatogor, she leads what appears to be a squadron of pirate ships that remained loyal to her even after Tibold's coup. They are never seen, heard from, or mentioned again after Killi comes aboard the Mary Celeste, despite being a potentially valuable asset to the revolution.

Ela

Elaisha Sorn

Species: Kloi
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
Voiced by: Venus LeMay

"This revolution stuff is pretty easy."

A kloi archer and porn star. The fourth waifu, added with the October 2021 update.

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• The Ace: Formerly one of the best, most storied, and celebrated of the kloi military's soldiers. She has numerous medals and still holds the records for some impressive feats like the longest snipe shot, most consecutive shots to certain parts of the body, and in general the most confirmed kills in any single engagement or military campaign.
• Aggressive Submissive: Ela is very forward with her desire to sleep with everyone, but her actual sex scenes mostly have her in a passive enjoyment role. During the Kickstarter campaign, the devs have actually ranked her the most submissive out of all the waifus.
• Ambiguously Brown: Kloi tend to have human-like complexions, and hers just happens to be a deep brown. Whatever this means in the context of kloi society isn't explored in gameplay, if there even is any meaning to it, as the kloi judge primarily on physical attractiveness, period.
• Career-Ending Injury: Parodied. How did Ela go from being a highly-decorated and legendary military veteran to a KAV? She broke a nail after having some intimate times with a fellow soldier and was no longer able to fire her bow in the specific stance prescribed by Kloi Military Manual. The Captain expresses disbelief at the Kloi supposedly letting go of such an incredibly effective soldier, upon which Ela counters that the Kloi are always about keeping up appearances. Any one of them could shoot an energy bow and kill an enemy, what matters is that you look good doing it.
• Defector from Decadence: She explicitly says that living with the kloi means being constantly surrounded by the most beautiful members of the most beautiful species of the galaxy, surrounded by luxurious fashion and creature comforts, with universal fame and recognition thanks to being the most popular KAV star ever. However, even perfection gets boring for her and her desire to explore the universe, meet (and have fun with) other species, and break the Imperium's draconic censorship laws prove to be too strong a temptation to ignore.
• Homing Projectile: Her special secondary attack in space combat is a volley of homing arrows that locks onto multiple targets.
• Master Archer: Her specialty is using a kloi energy bow and arrows, never missing her targets. Even her ship special homes in and curves sideways on firing, making it nigh-impossible to miss so long as something CAN be hit.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Was exiled and imprisoned for publicly announcing her desire to have sex with other species — something the kloi consider near sacrilege.
• Valley Girl: She talks with a lot of "likes" and "whatevers", though to be fair to her, most of her species seems to do that.

Taron

Taron Kraask

Species: Nikith
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
Voiced by: Milly Stern

A nikith infiltration specialist. The fifth waifu of the game, added with the March 2022 update.

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• The Ace: Of stealthy infiltrations, burglaries, and other covert ops. The crew thought she was part of a team of highly trained thieves and spies, only to learn that her epic heist of over 10,000 pieces of confiscated adult toys from the Imperium was her acting solo.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Despite the nikith being a warm-blooded, mammalian species strongly resembling humans and being very compatible in many ways, they are still aliens and have some truly bizarre adaptations. A conversation with Lily has her explaining that, like amphibians, nikith can draw in moisture through their skin, which is why they like high-humidity environments such as rain forests, are capable of long, drawn-out athletics without exhausting themselves, and, most relevantly for the Captain, Taron is capable of producing unusually, extremely large amounts of certain bodily fluids.
• Cat Girl: The nikith (likely from Japanese "neko", for "cat") have large cat ears, fluffy tails, and paws for hands and feet (albeit with developed and dexterous fingers), as well as patches of fur across their bodies.
• Country Mouse: Having only recently left behind the nikith hunter-gatherer society, Taron is not yet fully comfortable with advanced galactic civilization, despite her fascination with its technology.
• Endearingly Dorky: Taron is socially awkward and often insecure in dialogue, but the Captain and the rest of the crew like her more for it.
• Foil: To Ela. Ela is a worldly, supremely self-confident, and sexually liberated woman from one of the oldest and most advanced species of the galaxy, while Taron is a Country Mouse (or cat) with Shrinking Violet tendencies who is just discovering her sexuality, from a species that is still in its hunter-gatherer phase. The fact that they are recruited back-to-back only intensifies this contrast.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Because of her extreme love for inanimate objects (especially adult toys) and technology in general, Taron has learned to maintain, study, and even create her own gadgets, enabling her to help Dallick in maintaining the ship. Her custom-set of burglar's tools is one of the most advanced in the galaxy and is capable of helping her break through pretty much any security system, so long as she knows it exists and has had time to study how it works.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Because of a health condition (solar male pheromones induce in her an unstoppable and insatiable urge to masturbate), Taron has only had sex with other women before coming to the Mary Celeste. If asked about it, she will admit that the Captain was the first man she's been with in her life.
• Just Like Robin Hood: Taron has suffered from anorgasmia for most of her life before she discovered sex toys. Her life's ambition is to steal all the sex toys locked away in Imperium vaults and private collections and to distribute them freely among the people of Prodigium, in hopes of helping fellow chronic anorgasmiacs like herself.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: In her optional dialogue, Taron casually mentions having at least 29 brothers back on her homeworld.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Much of nikith society is voluntarily stuck in hunter-gatherer societies level of organization and technology, especially with their leaders all being made up of extremely conservative elders. Most older nikith believe that life is perfect the way it is, they do not need or want the protections and technological advancements of the Imperium, and advanced technology like guns and spaceships are unneeded, at best, unless they happen to open cans of fish. Taron vehemently protests this, citing problems such as simple infections that are untreatable by the nikith but could have easily been cured with a simple prescription at any modernized hospital, and of course, because her intellectual and (more often than not) sexual interest in all things technology.
• Nerd Gasm: If the Captain asks Taron about the Mary Celeste, she will start fangirling over the ship's specs in overtly (if likely unintentionally) sexualized ways.
• No Social Skills: Between her only having left her planet a few years back, her specialization in not being seen by others, and her preference for machines and gadgets over organics, Taron is very introverted and tends to display little social graces.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Taron is not good at speaking with people, so she tends to slide down Freudian Slippery Slope, like in her very first introduction scene where her report on the security deficiencies of the Mary Celeste ends up sounding like a porn movie script.
• Phantom Thief: After parting ways with the crew who originally took her off-world, Taron has mostly worked alone... but everyone (including the Captain) thinks she has an entire crew of her own because a) nobody has ever seen her on a job and b) her heist are so difficult, no way anyone can pull them off by oneself.
• She-Fu: Perhaps fittingly for a cat-inspired species of apex jungle predators, Taron's fighting style involves a lot of flips, acrobatic jumps, and pouncing. Her basic attack involves her leaping at an enemy, clawing at them, before launching off her target back to her original position, all with the greatest of ease.
• Stealth Expert: Taron official role on the Mary Celeste is the infiltration specialist. She is particularly thrilled about being on her crew because MC is also a stealth cruiser and an especially large and technologically advanced one at that, capable of moving at great speeds without being picked up by even the best detection systems.
• Three-Point Landing: Does one upon dropping down from the vents in her introductory scene, to establish herself as a stealthy and agile fighter with a flair for theatric.
• Waif-Fu: Taron may not look like much, muscle or build-wise, but as a nikith, she has physical strength, speed, and agility far exceeding most humans and other humanoid species of the Prodigium. She's easily one of the most mobile and acrobatic of the waifus, using only her claws and her jungle hunting skills to rip apart her foes while largely avoiding being in the way of danger herself.

Sova

Princess Sovalin Maliana

Species: Teelee
Height: 3'6" (107 cm)
Voiced by: Samantha Flowers

The heiress apparent to the throne of the Teelee Empire, Sova is much more interested in drinking, fighting, and having sex, much to the disappointment of her royal parents. The sixth waifu, added with the May 2022 update.

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• Ancestral Weapon: Mjolnqweer is a royal family relic, originally created for Sova's ancestor, the teelee warrior-king Scrodin, and reclaimed by her from the royal vaults when she decided to become a fighter.
• Beneath the Mask: Publicly, Sova projects a T-pop Idol Singer-like image of The Pollyanna expected from a royal princess, but in private (mainly towards her parents and her close associates), she shows her true face of a jaded and bitter fighter thoroughly disappointed by her species.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Especially compared to humans, Teelee have some very weird biology and adaptations that give them some unique advantages.
  • They all have a specialized organ that enables them to drink alcohol, get drunk, but avoid the inevitable poisoning to their livers, brains, and other internal organs. This is why Sova is such a Lady Drunk and expresses surprise, shock, and disappointment that humans do not have the same while drinking as much as they do. This does not work for illegal drugs, however, which is why Sova refuses to partake in illegal drugs like much of the rest of the cast.
  • The Teelee have some extremely soft and elastic bodies. In response to physical trauma, they merely deform and bend around the force and the object used to cause it, rendering them barely harmed. Even their internal organs can be physically displaced and shift about while continuing to function as normal. DEMI and Lily both note this is what makes Sova such an excellent brawler in-game and in-story, as you need to do a lot of serious damage to so much as bruise her. This also has recreational applications the Captain and Sova are both eager to take advantage of.
• Drugs Are Bad: One of the few crew members who rejects drugs on principle (except for alcohol). This is both because her species unique filtration organ only works for alcohol and she doesn't want to seriously poison herself and hamper her performance in the fighting arena.
• Expy: Her hard drinking personality, royal background, and preference for using a hammer pegs her as one to Thor, especially the Marvel Comics version.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: As noted above in Bizarre Alien Biology, Telee are notoriously difficult to hurt, because their incredibly soft, elastic bodies render them extremely resilient to most forms of physical trauma, as they will literally bounce back from most blows. Sova is also the group's resident Tank, able to absorb the most damage and last the longest in a fight even without healing.
• Humongous-Headed Hammer: Her signature weapon in ground combat is Mjolnqweer — a warhammer whose head's size is comparable to that of Sova herself.
• Lady Drunk: As a result of disappointment in her family and species and a frustrated desire to spite them, Sova became a raging alcoholic, though because the teelee have actually evolved entire specialized organs to safely break down alcohol, she never suffers any negative side effects. Even so, DEMI calculates that her alcohol capacity far outpaces any other teelee of her age and size.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is by far the smallest member of the crew, but her combat role is that of a tank, thanks to a combination of good defenses and lots of hit points.
• Really 700 Years Old: Despite her a cutesy public persona, the official website says she is actually 918 years old (which is the teelee equivalent of late-20s-to-early-30s in solar/human years, according to Lily).
• Rebellious Princess: Sova is a bona fide teelee princess — the next in line for the teelee throne, in fact, — but she hates all the obligations placed upon her as a result and would rather live her life as she sees fit. She doesn't mind being a princess (and she has extensive plans for when she's queen), but cannot stand acting the part.
• To Be a Master: Her recruitment mission has the Captain help her win the Grandmaster title of the Teelee Fighting Championship — something no teelee woman has ever achieved and something Sova has been working towards for a very long time.

Mantics and Support Crew

Mantics

Manticores

Dr. Lily's Bioweapon Beast creations, deployed as shock troops and support during ground combat.

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• Acid Attack: Chodestool spits acid as a ranged physical attack.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Defied; Despite being non-sapient creatures who have their own sex scenes with the girls it's not treated as anything particularly out there.
• Blind Weaponmaster: Bulgetto fights with its fists, but still fits, as he doesn't have eyes but manages to be a formidable fighter. The Codex entry on the Dominus explains that this is due to the current battlefield commander instructing Bulgetto exactly where to strike, effectively serving as its eyes.
• Came Back Wrong: Dromstik was created from the remains of (and named after) Lily's childhood pet, but his Flavor Text claims that the result was nothing like the original.
• Canine Companion: The name "Dromstik" originally belonged to a dog whom Lily had as a child and who was killed by a drunk space trucker, inspiring her to become a biologist to resurrect him.
• Fragile Speedster: Dromstik is a melee unit but has low HP so he cannot take a lot of punishment. He compensates with his passive, which allows him to move back behind his allies and to take a defensive stance after he drops an enemy.
• Fusion Dance: The Waifus can fuse with them using DEVA mode, allowing the women to access a superpowerful state of mass destruction for a limited time.
• LEGO Genetics: This is the main idea behind the Mantics: Dr. Lily simply smashes together some DNA strands to produce a fighting monster combining traits of the original species.
• Slave Collar: All mantics wear "Dominus collars", which allow a person to command them in battle despite their limited intelligence.
• Support Party Member: Rekall does not have a direct melee or a ranged attack: instead, his basic combat move is lightly damaging all enemies within a certain distance and restoring a corresponding amount of HP to all allies within the same range, making him only the second healer after Lily.
• Virile Stallion: Invoked by the design of Equicox — a bipedal equine with a massive dong, which it uses for its Special Attack.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The mantics are specifically designed, both in- and out-of-universe, to serve as meat shields for the waifus.

Dallick

Va'tor Dallick

Species: Vanneran
Height: 4'4" (132 cm)
Voiced by: Mr. Kristoff^note the Senior Producer of the game

A genius mechanic whenever he is not stoned out of his mind, Dallick maintains the machinery of Mary Celeste and the F3N1X.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Due to his deformity, Dallick has been mostly ignored by his own people as a child, leaving him to grow up alone on a scrapyard.
• The Engineer: This is Dallick's role aboard the Mary Celeste — maintaining the machinery of the ship, as well as upgrading it as necessary. One of the first things he does after recruitment is upgrading the F3N1X with modular auxiliary weapons system, allowing the Captain to use the waifus' specialty weapons on space missions.
• Extreme Libido: Vanerrans are infamous for their extreme libido, and Dallick is no exception. He is an exception, however, in that he seems to suffer from some kind of dwarfism, as most male Vanerrans are twice as tall and hunkier than him, making him rely on prostitutes to satisfy his urges.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Having grown up on a scrapyard and isolated from his peers, Dallick has developed an intuitive understanding of machines of all shapes and forms.
• Gag Penis: Played With, since male Vanerrans apparently can vary their penis size almost arbitrarily to suit their partners' needs. Dallick outright tells Killi that his junk can get as large as she wants... that is, if she ever wants him at all.
• The Hermit: Dallick has lived many years perfectly content and alone at his Keisterstation, until the Captain manages to convince him that with the Fuccbott threat on the rise, it would be safer for him to join his crew.
• Pants-Free: Unintentionally. Like all male Vanerrans, Dallick never wears pants for complex cultural reasons, but whenever you talk with him, everything below his waist is concealed by the text panel.
• The Stoner: The first time we see him, he is already stoned and takes some time to realize that the Captain is not his dealer bringing him another fix.

Allies

Fortune

Fortune

Species: Solar
Height: 5'2" (158 cm)
Voiced by: Iris Harman

A mysterious hacker who ropes the Captain into the plot to overthrow the Imperium. She eventually joins the crew as the seventh waifu.

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• Blackmail: Her preferred method of securing operatives' cooperation involved blackmailing them.
• Brick Joke: In one of their first on-screen conversations, the Captain dismisses Fortune's ass as a 6 out of 10, to which she objects, saying it's "at least 7/10". Much, much later on, after having a heart-to-heart in person, he reassesses her ass as at least an 8/10, prompting her to chuckle and to wonder why she had ever expected anything more profound out of him.
• Covert Pervert: She has a very professional attitude and doesn't express the same interest in drugs or sex that the rest of the crew does, but DEMI reveals that in the past Fortune's hacking accidentally led her to a porn video of DEMI and the Captain. She disconnected, then reconnected for a minute, then reconnected for ten minutes while looking through the video. Much later, she admits to having developed a voyeurism habit as a result of her extremely isolated upbringing and lifestyle.
• Good Is Not Nice: As a vigilante, Fortune primarily uses her computer hacking skills for just causes. But she also isn't above using tactics like blackmail and extortion to get what she wants. She's even threatened to hack DEMI and have her fly the Mary Celeste to the nearest sun if the Captain refuses to comply with her wishes.
• Lucky Seven: "Fortune" being another term for "luck", it shouldn't really be all that surprising that Fortune is the seventh waifu.
• Off the Grid: No one knows anything about Fortune, as she has carefully erased all information about her past. This is because she was sold on the chutt black market as a baby, and lived most of her life literally underground.
• Only Sane Woman: Compared to the Captain's rather colorful crew, Fortune sports an extremely no-nonsense attitude. In fact, she did all she could to avoid working with the Captain again (after he absconded with her half of the loot on their last job).
• Raised by Wolves: By chutts, to be more specific. Her junkie parents sold her as a baby to a chutt slaver named Opahoonta, who kept her locked up in his basement on Dar-Grukaasha until she finally escaped at 12. That said, he did treat her much better than any other chutt slaver would, and while their relationship history positively reeks of parental abuse, he does think of her as his daughter, has fostered and payrolled her hacking talents, and is fully supportive of her revolutionary agenda.
• Teen Genius: She learned to code before she could walk, hacked into high-security Imperium banks before she was 10, and built a combat mech from a box of scraps at 12, and started planning a revolution by the time most solars start high school.

Erark

Senator Erark

Species: Lanncunian

A member of the Imperium Senate and the Mysterious Backer of the Captain's revolution.

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• Big Bad: Becomes this as of the July 2023 update. With Kasidora and the Imperium Senate cut off from the rest of the galaxy and General Blythe pulling a Heel–Face Turn, Erark becomes the sole main antagonist of the game as he betrays the Captain and attempts to marry Celestina so that he can crown himself Emperor.
• Big Brother Mentor: To the Captain, as he subtly and not-so-subtly prods him to get out of his current rut. Also, unbeknownst to the Captain, he is a mentor figure to Empress Celestina, though his motives may be much less pure in this case.
• Big Fun: Erark is a rather corpulent xeno who is infamous for his debauchery. Back when Nü Vegas was a thing, he even bonded with the Captain over their shared love of drugs and sex.
• Engineered Heroics: The July 2023 update reveals that the true reason he acted as a benefactor for the Captain's revolution and the Requital was to use the Captain and Blythe as boogeymen to scare the galactic community before he then swooped in and saved the day by destroying them, turning himself into a galactic hero in the eyes of the public and earning himself the love of Celestina, who he wants to marry so he can declare himself Emperor.
• Evil All Along: It eventually turns out that Erark is a power-hungry Starscream who was just using the Mary Celeste crew and the Requital to overthrow Kasidora so that he could replace her as the true power behind the throne. He only romanced Celestina to manipulate her into becoming his Puppet Queen so that he could crown himself The Emperor of the Imperium. Once he decides that the Captain and General Blythe have outlived their usefulness to his plans, he doesn't hesitate to try having both of them killed.
• Evil Gloating: Indulges in this while betraying Blythe after she takes out Kasidora and the Imperium Senate, rubbing it in Blythe's face how easily he manipulated her and gloating about his entire scheme to become Emperor of the Imperium before siccing HARR-E and Blythe's own brainwashed Requital soldiers on her.
• False Friend: In private, Kasidora admits that she sees Erark as her Only Friend. Erark is secretly the Mysterious Backer for two separate resistance groups aiming to overthrow Kasidora and the Imperium.
• Immune to Mind Control: Lanncunians are the only one known species to be immune to the senu's mind control powers. Which is why only his compatriots are ever chosen as Executors of the Veil.
• The Man Behind the Man: It's all but outright stated that Erark was the one behind the creation of the Fuccbotts, having originally commissioned Yahgot to create an army of robots as part of an earlier scheme to overthrow the Imperium. When the Fuccbotts went feral and Turned Against Their Masters, he deemed the project a failure and abandoned Yahgot to die, ignoring his desperate pleas for rescue.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: The July 2023 update confirms that he pretended to be a lazy, sex-obsessed hedonist to the public so that no one would question his absence at the Imperium Senate meeting held by Kasidora to impeach Celestina shortly before the planet the Senate was meeting on is sealed off from the rest of the galaxy by Blythe's superweapon, effectively allowing Erark to assume control as the only remaining senator left. Erark's own reputation as a hedonist who regularly indulges in orgies and drugs means that he is practically Beneath Notice as no one questions his cover story of being absent at the Senate meeting because he overslept and was hungover from a drug-fueled orgy at his mansion the previous night.
• Playing Both Sides: With The Reveal that he is the Executor of the Veil (effectively the Darth Vader of the Imperium), the secret lover of Empress Celestina, and is conspiring with Kasidora to overthrow Celestina (not to mention that he is the Requital's mysterious "benefactor"), it is clear that he plays everyone.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Subverted. He claims to Blythe that the reason he is betraying her after she's outlived her usefulness to him is because she is too Ax-Crazy and obsessed with revenge to the point of being a liability to him and his goals. However, when Blythe calls B.S. on his reasonings and accuses him of having planned to betray her from the very beginning, Erark doesn't deny it and simply indulges in more Evil Gloating.
• Precision F-Strike: His reaction in Act 4 when he sees the Mary Celeste attack the Turbulence, interfering with his Engineered Heroics and ruining his plan to hit the kloi and teelee homeworlds with the Bukkake superweapon.
  Erark: What... the F*CK... is going on here?
• Properly Paranoid: After the Mary Celeste crew save Blythe and foil Erark's plan to fire on the kloi and teelee homeworlds with the BUKAKKE superweapon, he asks Celestina if he can stay with her at the Imperium royal palace because he fears that the Mary Celeste crew are going to try to kill him. He's 100% right as that's exactly what everyone on the Mary Celeste agrees to do once they learn about how he manipulated and betrayed them.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to General Blythe in Act 4 where he outlines how her all-consuming obsession with revenge is a Fatal Flaw that makes her extremely predictable and easy to manipulate as well as incapable of knowing when to just let things go.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • After Blythe uses her superweapon to seal off the Imperium's capital world from the rest of the galaxy, one of the planets which Erark also plans to use the superweapon on is the kloi homeworld. While this is primarily because Erark sees them as potential rivals who could threaten his plans to rule the galaxy now that the Imperium has been left mostly leaderless, he's not exactly wrong to want to seal off the kloi homeworld seeing as how the kloi are genocidal space racists who would eradicate any race which they deemed ugly (more than 70% of all species in the galaxy if Ela is to be believed) if given the chance.
  • Also in the Blythe update, Erark makes the Mary Celeste crew The Most Wanted in the entire galaxy after publicly exposing their involvement in Lord Azzorion's death. While Erark himself actually indirectly caused Azzorion's death by giving him the location of Project Tremor Fury, it was indeed the Mary Celeste crew that ultimately pulled the trigger on Azzorion. Killi and Taron even lampshade that Erark wasn't exactly wrong when he told the public that they were homicidal outlaws responsible for killing a member of the Coven of Nine.
• Villainous Breakdown: Undergoes one in Act 4 when the Mary Celeste arrives to save Blythe and destroy the BUKAKKE cannon, completely ruining his Engineered Heroics scheme. While he does recover from this afterwards, it's the first time in the game that he has been caught completely by surprise and he reacts by losing his composure in front of Celestina and Maeyomodo, disturbing the former and arousing the suspicions of the latter as to Erark's true nature.

Imperium

Celestina

Empress Celestina

Species: Senu
Height: 6'0" (182 cm)
Voiced by: Sarita Belle

The young, recently-crowned ruler of the Imperium.

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• Catchphrase: "Oh my!"
• The Ingenue: Young, idealistic, and (relatively) pure of mind, to the point that her idea of quality time with her lover boils down to "huggling and talking about our feelings".
• Opposed Mentors: Celestina is caught between two very different influences: the former Empress Kasidora, who teaches her to rule with an iron fist and to deny her base urges, and her lover Senator Erark, who teaches her to consider her subjects' needs and wishes and if not to embrace, then at least not to shun her own.
• Really 700 Years Old: The Senu live in the thousands of years (though they are not immortal), so even though she is young by their standards, she is actually thousands of years old.
• Ultimate Life Form: Even among the senu, her Psychic Powers are insane, demonstrated when she casually mind-controls Lord Azzorion — a fellow Senu — just to get him to leave the room, then innocently admits to have recently discovered how to cause thermonuclear explosions with her mind. Kasidora's dialogue strongly implies that her power was not an accident, but the result of many millenia of work by other Senu.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Due to her youth (her age is the Senu equivalent of 18 human years), she is naive and idealistic, particularly in sharp contrast to her immediate predecessor — which actually gives a lot of her subjects hope.

Kasidora

Lady Kasidora

Species: Senu
Height: 6'0" (182 cm)
Voiced by: Sue

The previous ruler of the Imperium who abdicated in the face of the unrest caused by her draconian tactics in upholding the Veil, including the genocide on Vanerra and the Battle of Nü Vegas.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: She's the previous Empress and her iron-fisted rule is directly responsible for a lot of the Prodigium Galaxy's problems. She also starts scheming to overthrow Celestina once it becomes clear that she can no longer influence Celestina, who is becoming increasingly disillusioned both with the Veil and Kasidora's draconian methods. However, she ends up being played like a fiddle by Erark, who tricks her into gathering the entire Imperium Senate into one location so that Blythe can take them all out with a non-lethal Decapitation Strike with her Superweapon Surprise. Once that's done, Kasidora and her entire powerbase are effectively trapped on the Imperium's capital world, which is sealed off from the rest of the galaxy by Blythe's superweapon as part of Erark's plan to pull some Engineered Heroics so that he can woo Celestina into marrying him and become the Imperium's Emperor.
• In-Series Nickname: Is called "Kas" in private by Erark.
• The Man Behind the Man: She may have abdicated, but still wields considerable influence over Celestina, intending to rule vicariously through her. It is yet unclear whether she is aware of Erark's competition.
• Sex Is Evil: This, and more generally "anything fun is evil", is Kasidora's life philosophy (also known as "the Veil").
• This Cannot Be!: Her reaction when she and Celestina learn of Lord Azzurion's death from Erark.
• Time Abyss: She has lived and ruled for thousands of years, and implies that the actual reason she abdicated was because she is nearing the end of her life.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kasidora is after two things: Prodigium-wide peace and the survival of the Senu species. And she won't stop at anything to achieve them.

Azzorion

Lord Azzorion

Species: Senu

A member of the Coven of Nine and the muscle of the previous and of the current Empress.

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• Load-Bearing Boss: Upon his defeat, his body explodes in a massive blast, blowing the entire Temple of Defilement to smithereens.
• Out-Gambitted: He tries digging up dirt on Erark and, upon suceeding, blackmails him into spilling the beans about some secret weapons research projects he ran for Kasidora. Erark retaliates immediately by sending him to the Temple of Defilement, whose R&D program is largely over, anyway, while simultaneously leaking the location of the Temple to Fortune, which ultimately leads to Azzorion's death at Taron's hands.
• Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Among the Senu, Azzorion has particular trouble with maintaining abstinence, despite his belief in the Veil. One of the first things we see him do is to attempt to Mind Control the Teleee Senator Popolonius into having sex with him.
• This Cannot Be!: This are his last words. To be fair, no senu has ever been killed by a member of a lesser species (let alone a nikith) in the entire history of the Imperium, so his surprise is entirely justified.

Maeyomodo

Admiral Maeyomodo

Species: Ord

Admiral of the Imperium First Fleet.

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• Big Friendly Dog: Being an Ord, he is humanoid in stature but with a distinctly canine (bulldog-like) head. He is both a loyal attack dog of the Empress, and a very decent individual — in fact, it was him who showed mercy to the two Prison Ships in which the first Solars arrived to Prodigium. Fittingly, he also turns out to be an Excellent Judge of Character.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: In the July 2023 update, he admits to Erark during a private conversation that he never liked him due to suspecting that the senator had a hidden agenda and was hiding something from Celestina. Seeing as how this is not long after Erark is revealed to have been an Evil All Along Manipulative Bastard to the player, this makes Maeyomodo an Excellent Judge of Character.
• Noble Top Enforcer: Questions Lady Kasidora's draconian methods, but carries them out, nevertheless (not the least due to her Mind Control).
• Token Good Teammate: As of Act 4, he's the only person in Celestina's life who is genuinely loyal to her and has her best interests at heart. Everyone else in the Imperium either doubts her, wants to overthrow her, or is trying to manipulate her.
• Worthy Opponent: Comes to see the Captain as such after recognizing him as a fellow veteran of Nü Vegas. His respect only grows when he does a background check and learns that the Captain was the mysterious callsign "Madlad" who had shot down 50 of Maeyomodo's ships over Nü Vegas. Of course, for an Old Soldier like Maeyomodo, respecting an enemy means doing his best to eliminate him.

Wiloof

General Wiloof

Species: Solar

The Supreme General of the Solar Navy and a personal enemy of Blythe.

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• Minor Major Character: He is killed in his first appearance early in Act 1 when his fleet is obliterated by Blythe's flagship during a space battle. Despite this, he plays a huge role in Blythe's backstory, having been the one who betrayed her and caused the solars to lose the Battle of Nü Vegas.
• The Quisling: He collaborates with the Imperium and is basically their puppet ruler for the solar race. During the Battle of Nü Vegas, he made a backroom deal with Kasidora and sold out his species in exchange for being made Supreme General.
• Underestimating Badassery: He underestimated the capabilities of the Requital's flagship and assumed his fleet would be able to destroy the Turbulence in no time. His fleet fails to so much as leave a dent on the Turbulence's hull and gets wiped out in three shots.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He doesn't even last one cutscene before he gets killed off by Blythe.

Other Antagonists

Tibold

Dread Lord Tibold

Species: Teelee

The warlord commanding the largest pirate fleet of the Dragon Nebula and the Starter Villain of the game.

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• Dirty Coward: When the Captain leads a swarm of Fuccbotts to the Dread Fleet, Tibold grabs the last piece of the map and flees, leaving his men to die.
• Emasculated Cuckold: The primary reason why Tibold hounds the Captain and his crew all throughout Act 1. The Cap seduced DEMI into abandoning his side and is desperately doing everything within his power to get her back, all while enduring the humiliation that DEMI is being used by another man.
• Lousy Lovers Are Losers: According to DEMI, he's an awful lover, a fact she uses to taunt and humiliate him.
• The Napoleon: Like all Teelee, Tibold is very short, but he is also particularly violent, sadistic, and ambitious.
• Recurring Boss: You fight Tibold three times before he is finally killed: twice in space and once on the ground.
• Starter Villain: Tibold is the main overarching antagonist of Act I.
• The Usurper: Tibold has wrestled command of the Dread Fleet from Killi in the backstory, which she is still furious about.

Blythe

General Elizabeth Blythe

Species: Solar
Height: 5'10" (177 cm)
Voiced by: Gina Galore

Leader of the Requital, a faction of the Solar fleet that went rogue after the Battle of Nü Vegas and refused to submit to the Imperium. After the Requital turns on her, she survives with the Captain's help and joins his crew as the ninth and final (story) waifu.

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• Artificial Limbs: Mentions having lost her left arm during the Battle of Nü Vegas. She has since replaced it with a cybernetic prosthetic courtesy of Dr. Lily.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Downplayed. A particular sore spot for Blythe that resulted in her breaking up with Lily was how she didn't approve of the doctor having sex with the Mantics while they were together. But after joining the crew, Blythe will also agree to have sex with the Mantics just like the rest of the Captain's waifus, with her flavor text showing a preference for hulking brutes like Fuckenstien.
• BFS: Her signature weapon is a greatsword almost as long and wide as herself.
• Big Bad Wannabe: She is introduced as one of the game's main antagonists with the goal of overthrowing the Imperium. The July 2023 update reveals that she was just an Unwitting Pawn of Senator Erark, who was using her to get rid of Kasidora and the Imperium Senate so that he could replace them. After this, he easily turns Blythe's own Requital soldiers against her, forcing her to throw in her lot with the Mary Celeste crew.
• Blood Knight: Absolutely vicious in combat, preferring to fight instead of talking every time.
• Evilutionary Biologist: While not one herself, but she employs a cohort of geneticists (of whom Dr. Lily was a part) to both create superweapons for her, and to eradicate what perceives as the inherent weaknesses of the Solar species.
• Expy: Her appearance is heavily based off of Guts from the Berserk franchise. Like Guts, Blythe is a merciless warrior clad in black armor complete with a billowing cape who is Covered in Scars, has a prosthetic arm, and wields a BFS in combat. She even has Guts' skunk stripe and is largely motivated by revenge over a personal betrayal.
• Heel–Face Turn: After rescuing her from Senator Erark's betrayal, getting a down-to-earth Kirk Summation from Dallick, and taking a hit off of some alien drugs to take the edge off, Blythe agrees to join the crew of the Mary Celeste for the sake of getting revenge on their mutual enemy in Erak.
• Incest Subtext: A major factor of her Teacher/Student Romance with the Captain revolves around how Blythe looked after him since he was a teenager, effectively making her the closest thing he ever had to a mother. Even Lily ribs him over his Oedipus Complex for Blythe after successfully recruiting her in the fourth act.
• Mile-Long Ship: Blythe's flagship, SN/SS Turbulence, is the largest dreadnought in the galaxy (the Imperium ships are much smaller, since their military doctrine focuses on unit agility and speed over size). Commissioned by the Solar Navy before the Battle of Nü Vegas and funded by its massive profits, the ship was captured by the Imperium, but Blythe managed to retrieve it by means unknown. Chapter 4 elaborates that it was Senator Erark who basically gave her the ship and more on a silver platter as part of his grand scheme.
• Older Than They Look: Blythe is apparently old enough that she knew the Captain's Disappeared Dad before the former was even born, which is why Lily snidley categorizes her as a "GILF" when the Captain jokes about her supplanting the doctor's place as the ship's ranking MILF after joining the crew.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: Her bio calls her "the undisputed greatest military mind (and body) that the Solar Military Academy ever managed to produce" — and now she fights against both the Solars and the Imperium.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her blood-red eyes, combined with pale skin and half-healed facial scars, make her a fearful sight in battle.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her combat armor is most black and red, in stark contrast to the white-and-gold uniforms of the loyalist Solar officers.
• Revenge: Seeks to destroy the Imperium in revenge for their actions at the Battle of Nü Vegas.
• Robot Buddy: Blythe is assisted by HARR-E, a sadistic floating droid thought to have been created in violation of the Great AI Purge.
• Sensual Slavs: She's a Statuesque Dark Action Girl with a large bust and Hartman Hips who speaks with a thick Russian accent.
• The Unfought: Unlike the Huntress, the Captain and his crew never directly combat Blythe herself before her inevitable recruitment in Act 4.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • Chapter 4 reveals that Blythe used to be one of Dr. Lily's long list of lovers before they had a falling out over the former's "unethical" ambitions to use Lily's Manticore Program as bioweapons of mass destruction against the Imperium.
  • Blythe was also the Captain's commanding officer during the Battle of Nü Vegas, where she took on a role as both his Sink or Swim Mentor and Parental Substitute. But they went their seprate ways after the Captain refused to join her crusade in favor of living a life of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll.

Huntress

The Huntress

Species: Mawsus
Height: 5'3" (165 cm)
Voiced by: Aria Lynn

The top-ranked Bounty Hunter of Prodigium, hired by Blythe to capture Dr. Lily. After losing enough times to the Captain (and having to work with him to survive being stranded on a jungle Death World), she swears a life debt to him and thus becomes the eighth waifu in the game.

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• Aggressive Submissive: The Huntress is extremely agressive and in-your-face about everything — except sex. This is because she is still a virgin, as mawsus only mate with others whom they consider their peers. Until the Captain came along, she has never met an equal, so she lacks any kind of sexual experience.
• Alien Hair: The Mawsus seem to have a bunch of cephalopod tentacles on their heads instead of hair.
• Best Her to Bed Her: The Codex suggests that if she follows her species' honor code, she'd have to swear a life debt to whomever manages to defeat her. After much back and forth, this finally happens at the start of Act IV.
• Bounty Hunter: Has an unbroken record of over 70 successful collections and a 5-star rating on the BountyHelper app, making her the #1 ranking bounty hunter in Prodigium. Thogh befitting her name, she seems to mainly be after the thrill of the hunt itself, rather than the bounties, preferring to take on the hardest bounties for this reason.
• Bubble Boy: The Mawsus are an aquatic species only able to survive in very specific conditions, but the most adventurous ones, like the Huntress, venture out into the galaxy encased in HydroSuits.
• Doppelgänger Attack: In the final phase of her boss battle, she creates copies of her ship circling around and shooting at the F3N1X.
• Expy: A notorious and unfettered space-faring bounty hunter clad in feature-obscuring armor whose dubious origins are Shrouded in Myth? Even Word of God says that the Huntress was explicitly made as a female expy of Fett.
• The Faceless: As a member of an aquatic species, the Huntress always wears a mask, even during sex.
• Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Her second battle against the captain ends like this. After you beat her again fair and square, she just amps her Cutscene Power to the Max and disables the F3N1X in the outro, anyway, before escaping Maeyomodo's scrutiny entirely unharmed — seemingly for no other reason that the plot requires that the revolutionaries get stuck on Teatakanya for a while to resolve Sova's Tournament Arc.
• Offended by an Inferior's Success: The Huntress despises the fact that the Captain keeps beating her in spaceborne dogfights because she is the top-ranked Bounty Hunter in the galaxy, while his official ranking is pretty much near the rock bottom.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She only stands at 5'3" but has earned her reputation as the deadliest assassin in space.
• Recurring Boss: The Captain battles her in space three times, and Fortune has to fight her off on the ground immediately upon setting foot on the Mary Celeste.
• The Social Darwinist: Type V. The mawsus species has no concept of a group for the most part, as every mawsus is forced to immediately fight others for survival the moment they hatch, but they apparently have a code of honor where weaker mawsus become subservient to a stronger mawsus- or any other creature- that proves to be their better in combat, and they only mate with perceived equals in that same regard. As a result, the Huntress has trouble adjusting to being a part of the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits on the Mary Celeste after having gone for so long as an independent bounty hunter once the Captain and crew manage to best her many times over.
• Sword and Gun: The Huntress wields a futuristic cutlass in her left hand and a Hand Cannon in her right. Accordingly, she is the only waifu so far whose basic attack move can target enemies both in melee and at range, with her using the corresponding weapon to attack (the sword deals more damage, but the gun applies Bleed).
• Tsundere: Of the Tsun/Harsh type, definitely, as she is usually abrasive and angry in most situations, except when the Captain compliments her, bringing out the deredere side. And just to drive the point home, giving her her favorite gift (a Rare Sidearm) promts this reaction:
  S-shut up! I'm not blushing under here or anything!
• Withholding Their Name: When she thinks she's dying, she reveals (confirms, really) to the Captain that "the Huntress" is not really her name, but passes out before she can say any more. What it actually is may be revealed in her upcoming Devotion Quest, though.
• World's Best Warrior: Of her homeworld anyway as she claims she became the apex predator of her planet at the age of 7.

Landervoo

General Landervoo

Species: Kloi

The commander of the kloi homeworld's planetary defenses, whose incompetence lets Elaisha escape and who then "goes rogue" to hunt her down.

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• Rogue Soldier: Since the kloi are prohibited from leaving their homeworld, their Supreme Council orders Landervoo to find and kill Elaisha but officially informs the Imperium that he has gone rogue.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Landervoo's only real achievement in life is winning "Mr. Talissan" beauty contest for three years in a row. This is enough to earn him the rank of General and be promoted to command the Talissan Planetary Defense Force, but he is so obviously incompetent at this job, the Supreme Council didn't even call for a vote before stripping him of his office. None of this stops Landervoo from acting like he is the hottest shit in the universe, however (which is also a very kloi thing).

Yahgot

Yahgot

The disgruntled founder of APEX Industries, the robotics company that created DEMI before getting shut down by the Great AI Purge.

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• Cyborg: He's part-Fuccbott, which is how he is able to control them.
• Didn't Think This Through: When he first created the Fuccbotts to overthrow the Imperium, he forgot to implement a way to actually control them before he activated them. With no control mechanism, the Fuccbotts immediately Turned Against Their Masters and nearly killed their creator before attempting to escape into the rest of the galaxy.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: By the time that the Captain and the Huntress find him, it's obvious that being stranded alone on a Death World with only Fuccbotts for company has turned Yahgot into a Talkative Loon.
• Revenge: His primary motivation. First, he wanted revenge against the Imperium for implementing the Great AI Purge and causing his company to go bankrupt overnight. After Erark betrayed him and left him for dead on Planet Fuccbott, Yahgot also wants to even the score with his former master.
• Robot Master: He's the one who originally created the Fuccbotts and is able to control most of them.
• They Called Me Mad!: His Start of Darkness occurred when he tried to beg his master Erark for help after the Fuccbotts he created went rogue, only to be called crazy and left for dead.

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