Resonance of Fate/Characters

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Playable Characters

Vashyron

"A man should never let a woman wear too much makeup or too many clothes."

= Voiced by Ken Narita (Japanese) and Nolan North (English). =

A man with self-professed "mad skills," Vashyron makes a living doing odd jobs with his gun. He acts as something of a big brother figure to Zephyr and Leanne.

  • Anti-Hero: Really, he's a mercenary who kills people and monsters for a living, and sometimes just (armed) people who get in his way. While not as scary as Zephyr, he's not a white hat, either.
  • Big Brother Mentor: He shows flashes of this when he's not being a...
  • Chosen One: Rebecca describes him as a Knight of Zenith. What this means in practical terms is that Zenith intervened when he was about to die and saved his life.
  • Hitman with a Heart: He may be a killer for hire (or, in his words, a merchant of death), but he doesn't kill innocents and genuinely cares about the two kids under his care.
  • Papa Wolf: Don't threaten Vashyron's employees when he's around. Just don't.

Zephyr

"Will He still judge me as a child of God?"

= Voiced by Hiro Shimono (Japanese) and Scott Menville (English). =

A reserved young man with a dark outlook on life. Vashyron took him under his wing and he's been making a living with his machinegun every since.

  • Ax Crazy: Zephyr in the game's opening cutscene.
  • Bishonen: Oh, so very much. In his type B costume he could probably audition as a Gackt look alike.
  • Chosen One: See Vashyron.
  • Death Seeker: His recklessness is due to this.
  • Gangsta Style: He seems to like holding guns this way.
  • Heroic BSOD: When he realized his life was miraculously saved despite killing 30 school children and his own sister. He feels a huge amount of Survivor Guilt.
  • Mood Swinger: He can either be jovial or brooding, and frequently switches from one to the other.
  • Phlebotinum Rebel: He was part of a second set of experiments by Sullivan, which gave him increased speed and strength, but also unhinged him to the point of causing mass murder.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his sociopathic tendencies, Zephyr leapt without thinking to save Leanne at the risk of his own life, offers her his jacket when she looks cold, and risks his life to retrieve her cold medicine when she gets sick.

Zephyr: I want Leanne to be happy.

Leanne (Reanbell in the Japanese release)

"If I have to die, I'll die on my own terms."

= Voiced by Aya Endo (Japanese) and Jessica Di Cicco (English). =

An upbeat and delicate looking girl who seems a little out of place doing mercenary work. Zephyr saved her from a suicide attempt and she "followed him home."

  • A-Cup Angst: Not really an issue for her unless Vashyron is teasing her about this.

Vashyron: "Too small for a good look, huh?"
Leanne: "What's too small?!"
Vashyron: "Your rack."
(SLAP)

Leanne: Aah, this skirt's too short!
Zephyr: Now all we need is a trampoline.
Leanne: What did you say?
Zephyr: I said "the hem looks really keen."

  • Small Girl, Big Gun: Depending on what you choose equip her with, she can wield one or two of the largest weapons in the game.
  • Stepford Smiler: She seems very upbeat and happy, but the mask starts to crack at the end of Chapter 5.
  • Tsundere: She's normally nice, but she's not above dealing out physical abuse to Vashyron for being a pervert. She also smacks Zephyr more than once when she feels he's being particularly wangsty
  • Zettai Ryouiki

Non-Playable Characters

Rowen

"I'll set my doubts aside. I'll set them aside to build a world of order. For the sake of the people."

= Voiced by Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese) and Jim Ward (English). =

One of the Cardinals, although he will not step forward to take up the mantle of Prelate. He is tormented by his past, especially the death of his beloved Frida.

  • The Alcoholic: Drinks frequently, and loves blended scotch and malt whiskey.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: It's quite stylish, his suit. And he's badass.
  • Badass Preacher: He's the highest ranking Cardinal of the Zenith religion, and a damn good marksman. Final boss of the game, too.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: This guy is hard if you're underleveled or your guns aren't fully customized.
  • Crisis of Faith: Practically his personality. Guy worshipped Zenith as God, but then found he could control it, and thus, became God.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: His justification for dooming 20 newborn children to an early death (one every year for 20 years) is that he's doing it to fulfill Frida's dream of a free people.

Rebecca

"Look what they've wrought! They would use machines to spread the plague of their clockwork world. But the wastes beyond are our Eden. Now you die along with Zenith!"

= Voiced by Yukana (Japanese) and Cat Taber (English). =

Although Rebecca appears to be an adolescent girl, the horns on her head hint at a far more esoteric origin.

Sullivan

"Let me be perfectly clear this once: we're evil men who revel in our vainglory."

= Voiced by Takehito Koyasu (Japanese) and Chris Edgerly (English). =

A researcher who appears to be helping Rowen. He is almost always accompanied by Rebecca. His past has ties to both Leanne and Zephyr's.


Gelsey

"I'm alive! You all saw it, each and every one of you! I've been chosen by God!"

= Voiced by Shigeru Chiba (Japanese) and Dwight Schultz (English). =

A man who is completely off-his-rocker nuts. He attacked Mine 24 to get at the Quartz vein, believing that if he found his star he'd be "chosen by God."

Gelsey: Love the threads!
Zephyr: Thanks. You're not too badly dressed yourself.

Pater

"You've nothing to fear! Though it cost me my life, I, Cardinal Pater, bearer of the Celestial Jewel, will save you!"

= Voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese) and Jason Marsden (English). =

A cardinal with an almost child-like personality. He has a crush on Leanne, but can't work up the courage to talk coherently around her. He seems to have a friendly relationship with Zephyr. Friendly for Zephyr, anyway.

  • Chekhov's Gun: In his first scene, he is given his quartz stone, which he fashions into a ring. Later, he punches out a monster threatening Leanne while wearing it, causing the ring to shatter. Pater dies.
  • Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: He appears as a Bonus Boss in Neverland after his death, and no one remarks on this before or after the fight.
  • Gonk
  • Hollywood Nerd: Type 1, so very much.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Seems like a real nerd at first, completely and totally awkward. But one soon learns that he deeply cares for the common people and is devoted to clearing out areas so they can have places to live.

Cardinal Theresa

A close contact of Vashyron, Cardinal Theresa often gives missions to him and his team.

Prelate Frida

"I want to see that world. A world where people live life as they want to."'

= Voiced by Yuki Sakura (Japanese) and Julie Nathanson (English). =

The former leader of the Church who died twenty years before the events of the game. She was extremely well-respected by the other Cardinals and was Rowen's wife.