YMMV / Gemini Rue

• Anticlimax Boss: The Director is quickly and unceremoniously shot dead by Azriel. If you're quick, he'll be dead before he even turns to face you. At least you get his pet psycho to face first.
• Complete Monster:
  • The Director is the man in charge of Center 7. A man obsessed with the relations between a man's identity and their memories, the Director conducted terrible tests to satisfy his curiosity. Kidnapping people and trapping them in Center 7, the Director made a system to painfully mind wipe his prisoners to turn them to empty slates and then conduct experiments while morphing them into proficient killers. Once he's done with his test subjects, he'd mind wipe them again and sell them off as living weapons for various criminal groups around the universe. If any prisoner showed disobedience or signs of regaining their former identity, the Director would subject them to more intense methods of mind wiping or even lethal force. When Delta-Six tried to escape the facility along with Giselle and Sayuri, the Director killed Giselle and subjected Delta-Six to a complete mind wipe to turn him into one of his best killers, and then sold him to the Boryokudan. Knowing Delta-Six, now called Azriel Odin would eventually be free of his brainwashing due to human nature, the Director planted memories to lead him back to him. After recapturing Delta-Six and his allies, Sayuri and Kane, he tried to brainwash Delta-Six into his control permanently. When Delta-Six and his companions escape and try to destroy Center 7, the Director callously had his men killed in order to try stopping them before shooting down Sayuri and attempting the same to Delta-Six.
  • Balder is a deranged and vengeful man dead set on destroying Delta-Six's life by whatever means necessary. A fellow prisoner in Center 7, Balder antagonizes Delta-Six for humiliating him in a past incident. When Delta-Six and his group tried to escape Center 7, Balder tries to stop them, attempts to kill Delta-Six during their set-up, and then kills Giselle and captures Delta-Six for the Director when they made their escape attempt. Now under the service of the Director in exchange for his freedom, Balder does numerous dirty jobs as his agent before taking on the identity of Matthius Howard in order to lure Delta-Six, now called Azriel, back to Center 7 once his brainwashing started to wear off. Once Balder managed to lure Delta-Six back to the facility, he places him and his allies in prison, and takes the former to have his identity erased in a painful operation. While he's trapped, Balder fully confesses to Delta-Six that he did everything just to see him suffer over and over and taunting him while the operation began. When Delta-Six manages to escape and sets Center 7 to self-destruct, Balder attempts to kill him one last time, exhilarated by the chance to kill him.
• Fridge Brilliance: All the skills learned as Delta Six, then get used by Azrael Odin to solve problems in the field.
• Fridge Horror: In the end, Azriel elopes together with Sayuri towards a brand new life, blowing up the prison in the process. So far, so good. Too bad he may have had his conscience erased (the Director did say that the work was not finished, but he does not say how much was done) not long before.
  • Azriel did go back for Sayrui even though he had absolutely no memory of her or any reason to go. That's not something someone without a conscience would do.
• Heartwarming Moments: "Sometimes our patients don't turn the way we want them to, you being an extreme case. Some of them just fail to function as their programmed roles, and you know why? I think it's because there's one section of the human psyche that we just have never deconstructed in our rehabilitation process. We call it the conscience."
• Paranoia Fuel: How do you know that everything you know and remember is real?

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