Here are a list of information for Zone of the Enders characters in alphabetical order.
Characters
A.D.A
A.D.A is a metatron-based artificial intelligence installed on orbital frame Jehuty. When the young Leo Stenbuck accidentally boards Jehuty during Bahram's raid on Antillia Colony, he is appalled at A.D.A.'s callus use of reason to justify any necessary means (including calmly killing living opposition) to complete the mission that Jehuty has been assigned to. Conversely, A.D.A. frequently comments that Leo behaves illogically, making decisions based more on confused sentiment than on more practical considerations. However, A.D.A.'s design requires that she obey the runner who pilots the frame so the most she can do to object to Leo is make commentary. She eventually is crippled by an information warfare attack launched by Bahram. In order to restore her functionality, Leo manually pilots Jehuty to the factory where A.D.A. was assembled. Interfacing with the factory network via a computer node, A.D.A. was able to initiate a system restore function, effectively "rebooting" her. This clears her cache of pilot-specific adjustments and she begins to adapt to Leo's combat style. It is at this point that she inherits Leo's respect for human life. After successfully escaping Antillia Colony and boarding the freighter Atlantis, A.D.A. reveals the next stage of her mission: to to go Mars where she will penetrate the military fortress Aumaan and initiate a self-destruct of Jehuty's anti-photon reactor to destroy the fortress from within. A.D.A. justifies this saying that "this is the meaning of living for those who have no life." Leo, who had developed concern for A.D.A., was distraught and arranged to have Jehuty hidden from both Bahram and the United Nations Space Force in order to stop A.D.A. from completing her mission.[1]
A.D.A., along with Jehuty, is hidden in a cargo container on Callisto where the metatron in the moon would mask the signature of Jehuty's metatron.[2] While there, A.D.A. is effectively "asleep" until Dingo Egret's discovery of Jehuty reactivates her. Despite Dingo's attempts, Jehuty and A.D.A. are quickly recaptured by Bahram. A.D.A. is effectively offline during the two month trip back from the Jovian system to Mars. She is again brought back on Deimos Station with Dingo as the frame runner, but now she is in charge of regulating his life-support that replaces his lungs and heart. Shortly after landing on the Martian surface, Jehuty is engaged by a V2 combat unit known as Vic Viper. A.D.A. brings the battle to an end when she points out that the pilot of Vic Viper must be Leo Stenbuck, her previous runner. Leo reveals to Dingo A.D.A.'s directive to self-destruct Jehuty inside of Aumaan, much to Dingo's dismay. Dingo argues that if he destroys Aumaan then A.D.A. will have no more reason to self-destruct, perserving her existence. This convinces Leo to trust Dingo with Jehuty, and he does not seek to reclaim it. Shortly before entering Aumaan, Elena Weinberg informs Dingo that A.D.A.'s self-destruct program was inserted by the UNSF into the nucleus of A.D.A.'s core as a last resort in case Bahram recaptured Jehuty and took it back to Aumaan. Inside Aumaan, A.D.A. activates the self-destruct mechanism on a timer to counter-act Aumaan's radiating energy. However, Dingo manages to stop Aumaan by using the remains of Orbital Frame Anubis, detonating its reactor (which is identical to Jehuty's) instead and destroying Aumaan. With Aumaan destroyed, A.D.A.'s self-destruction programming no longer applies and she deactivates the sequence. Aboard a severely damaged Jehuty, A.D.A. is finally reunited with Leo.[3]
Ares Enduwa
Ares Enduwa is one of the main antagonist in Fist of Mars. He pilots the Iblis orbital frame. He started out as a best friend with cage. His real name is Vale and was a former experiment performed by Zephyr, he stole the testament and the Iblis O.F. and escape. He is actually Myona's brother. He stand by his sister's side when they were in the lab, during this time he grows hatred for Zephyrs and Earth. After he escape he station himself in a port where he found Cage and took care of him. Later on when Cage discovered the truth, Cage did not believed it and could not bear to fight him.
Cage Midwell
The main character in the the Fist of Mars. A kind-hearted gentle youth. Began working on the Bonaparte III along with Ares, whom he met a year earlier. Born 17 years ago to an unknown mother on the cargo deck of the Midwell, which was smuggling illegal immigrants, Cage was raised on the ship by the Captain, who took the boy under his wing. Though he was treated well by fellow Midwell staff, Cage always harbored a feeling of loneliness and isolation in his heart, which translated into low self-esteem and overly passive behavior. When the Captain died and the Midwell was deemed unfit for flight, Cage boarded Bonaparte III, where he met Ares. His new friendship with this boy, who was the same age as him and yet seemed so mature, had a profound effect on Cage, and helped him recover from his psychological wounds. However, the knowledge that he owes his rebirth to Ares has proven problematic in itself, as Cage depends on Ares entirely, and suspects that he will never be able to exist independently of him. [4]
Dezeele Zephyrs
Dezeele Zephyrs is scientist working under earth. He is known to be cruel as he expertements on martian people. Ares/Vale and Myona were his subjects and be use as genue pigs for his experiments when they were young. He create the mindflow system on the orbital frames he created. Most of the people in his labatory died with the exception of Myona and Vale/Ares. He pilots the a large LEV called HarutMarut. He created the LEV HarutMarut base on his reserch of the Tempest.
Dingo Egret
Dingo Egret is the main character in Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. Dingo was once an LEV pilot for Bahram. Dingo later admits that he became part of Bahram when "some slogan tricked [him] into joining." He was part of a unit that included both Viola and Nohman, and was considered to be very popular with his comrades, who regarded him with great loyalty. He was eventually ordered by Nohman to escort a delivery of Metatron to Jupiter, along with the rest of his unit, except Viola. The mission turned out to be a trap, as Nohman had leaked the position of Dingo's unit to the United Nations Space Force. They were completely outnumbered and outclassed by the Space Force's then-new orbital frames (although it is debatable whether this statement is canon, due to the fact the UNSF has never had Orbital Frame technology. In addition, Dingo's "last stand" and abandonment of BAHRAM occurred circa 2167 AD, which predates Idolo's construction in 2168 AD). Dingo's request for reinforcements was met my Nohman's smiling face over the communication frequency telling Dingo to just give up. Realizing that he was betrayed, Dingo cut off the comm and threw himself into the battle enthusiastically, trying to encourage his unit and lying to them that reinforcements were on the way. At the end of the battle, only Dingo was left alive. He was presumed dead to Bahram, and eked out a living as a Metatron miner on Callisto for six years.
Dingo, following the readings of a strange Metatron reaction, eventually discovered Jehuty deactivated in a storage crate. Unfortunately, this coincidently coincided with a raid by a large Bahram carrier ship who had come looking for the very frame that Dingo had stumbled across. Dingo managed to climb into Jehuty and with the aid of Juhuty's battle A.I. A.D.A., managed to counter-attack the Bahram battle group in an effort to allow his fellow miners to escape the battlefield. Aboard the Bahram warship, Dingo is confronted by the Viola A.I. and learns of her death two years prior. Jehuty is defeated by Anubis piloted by Nohman, who realizes that Dingo is Jehuty's pilot during the battle. Outside of the frames, Nohman offers Dingo the chance to come back under his command. Dingo angrily refuses and Nohman shoots him six times through the torso. His life is saved by Ken Marinaris, who whispers to him "Come with me if you want to live." Dingo's body is then placed on life-support for the next two month's as the warship travels back to Mars.
Dingo is painfully reawakened on Deimos Station, as his conventional life-support is replaced by a Metaton-powered variation that draws power from Jehuty. Ken informs him that she is a spy for the Space Force, and he must follow her commands or risk having his life-support cut off. Dingo reluctantly goes along with her will, and takes Jehuty to the Martian surface. Almost immediately upon landing Jehuty is attacked by the V2 unit Vic Viper, who turns out to be piloted by Leo Stenbuck, Jehuty's previous runner. After some argument, Leo agrees to leave Jehuty in Dingo's care. It is at this point that Dingo finds out about A.D.A.'s self-destruct programming, which if carried out would also take him with her since he is dependent on her to keep his life-support functioning.
Elena Weinberg
She helps Leo escape in the first game. She pilots a heavy ship called Atlantis. She makes a return in the sequel as a minor character. In The 2nd Runner Elena became cold and emotionless, she at first dislike Dingo and thought he was part of BAHRAM. Finally Leo convinced that Dingo was on their side and she ask her troops units to aid Dingo when they are being attack by BAHRAM's unmanned orbital frames.
Ken Marinaris
She appears in the 2nd Runner as an enemy near the beginning of the game. Ken pilots the Ardjet, an orbital frame that has the ability to launch massive amount of wisp missiles. She is also the one who saved Dingo after he got shot down by Nohmann. She put Dingo on life support to Jehuty. Unfortunately she cannot pilot an orbital frame without an A.I. Ken is also Dingo's love interest. Near the beginning of the game she claims to be a spy, and did not expect Dingo to trust her. She confesses she is a BAHRAM grunt trying to revolt. Also her father was one of the soldiers in Dingo's unit who died trying to transport the Aumaan project. At the end, she and Dingo became very close.
Leo Stenbuck
The main protagonist of the first Zone of the Enders game. He is Jehuty's first pilot. He made a second appearance in The 2nd Runner piloting the Vic Viper. Leo grew up in a space colony near Jupiter with no parents. He has a childhood friend named Celvice. There was a mini game in The 2nd Runner that shows a picture of Leo and Celvice being together that take place after the first Zone of the Enders. He has a unique relationship with Jehuty's A.I. A.D.A. During the story in the 2nd Runner he became tougher.
Lloyd
A scientist working for BAHRAM. While he may act cold at first, however he is really a father figure towards Dingo when he was very young. Lloyd challenge Dingo to a duel to see whether Dingo is worthy of piloting Jehuty. Dingo prove his worth and won, Upon his defeat Lloyd give Dingo his data to upgrade Jehuty. After Nohman discover his disloyalty towards BAHRAM and Nohman himself, Lloyd died when Nohman uses Anubis to pick up Inherts head and crushed it.
Myona Alderan
Myona Alderan is a character appearing in the Fist of Mars, she encounter Cage near the beginning of the games. She subconsciously wanted to save cage and activate testament, but in result she lost her memory. Later cage and Myona herself discovers that she was Ares/Vales sister. As she regains more of her memories she told cage that she was part of an experiment along with Ares. They both each told a orbital frame and escape. Because of her tough childhood she became violent and join her brother Aers/Vale for revenge both against Earth and Mars. Near the end She admit her love towards Cage. Myona pilots the Nerokerubina which is an orbital frame similar to Tyrant but has a Mindflow system.
Nohman
The leader of BAHRAM and the main villain of the series. In both the first Z.O.E and The Fist of Mars Nohman's face isn't revealed until Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. He was formerly the pilot of Selkis, and later piloted Anubis after it's discovery. He met his end at the hands of Dingo Egret, after Dingo discovers his ambition for power is to harvest destruction of all existence. It was hinted in Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner that he was attracted to Viola by creating the Viola A.I. He made a brief appearance in the ending of the Fist of Mars.
Raiah
The self-styled "#1 Broker on Mars." Rumor has it that he moved to Mars due to some trouble at home. Overly sensitive about the topic of his blond-haired, well-built, family man father for some reason.[5] First appeared in Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i but also makes a cameo appearance in Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars.
Taper
Taper is soldier for the space force. Taper is known for his cowardly personality. Taper does not trust Dingo at first but, slowly warm up to him after Leo convince that Dingo is not their enemy. He is a minor character that serves as a comic relief.
Viola
She is veteran runner serving under BAHRAM. She pilot's Neith. She fought against Leo in the first game. Viola challenged Leo and lost. She wanted to die but she did not have the bravery to kill herself, and threatened Leo that if he saves her she will kill his love ones. She dies after her frame is pulled by the gravity of Jupiter. In 2nd Runner, however, she is revived twice by Nohman as a battle A.I for Neith
Viola A.I.
An A.I. containing the memories, skills and personality of Viola. She piloted Nepthis, and later took control of Ardjet. She was created by Nohman. She took control of Ken's orbital frame Ardjet, but was eventually deleted by A.D.A.
References
- ^ See Zone of the Enders
- ^ See [1]
- ^ See Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
- ^ Character reference files, Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
- ^ Character reference files, Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars