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| “ | Yes! That’s it! It hurts, doesn’t it? You're filled with rage, aren’t you? Accept it all! Welcome it with open arms! And watch me! Watch my glorious body, closer to the purest form of humanity than ever before! This flesh here! The sheer, unmatched strength of purity! | „ |
| ~ Kromer speaking to Sinclair after her boss fight. |
Kromer, also known as The One Who Grips, is a major antagonist of the 2023 korean gacha video game Limbus Company, developed by Project Moon. She serves as the main antagonist of Canto III: The Unconfronting.
She is Sinclair's friend turned archenemy, and the leader of the N. Corp Inquisition. Obsessed with human purity, she leads the inquisition to slaughter all prosthetic users, deeming them heretics.
She was voiced by Yoon Eun-seo.
History[]
While it is unknown what Kromer's early life was like, at some point, during middle-school, she met Sinclair and takes a fascination in him due to his aversion towards prosthetic users, something that she shares in common with him. Kromer and Sinclair would soon become friends because of this understanding, however, Kromer's obsession to rid the world of prosthetic users led her to cross the line and went too far in the aftermath of uncovering what's beneath the basement of Sinclair's mansion, leading her to ruthlessly and mercilessly murdering Sinclair's parents in pure sadism and discrimination, which this very own action destroyed the friendship she built with Sinclair.
After becoming an adult, Kromer becomes the leader of The N. Corp Inquisition, it is not confirmed how she climbed to this position, but she would take this as an opportunity to brainwash the recruits in her squad. Turning them into her loyal followers that'll help her purge this world of all prosthetic users, secretly using her own authorities to locate places with prosthetic population to kill as a way to enforce her own ideals and examples.
Limbus Company: Chapter 3[]
During the Limbus Company's visit back to Sinclair's hometown, he is confronted with a gruesome scene of Kromer massacring his entire hometown, burning, nailing, torturing, and crucifying everyone in his own hometown. She would soon go on to greet an angry and vengeful Sinclair through an announcer, before re-confronting him face to face after digging up and nailing his family's dead robotic bodies in places where everyone can see, while walking out of the burning mansion.
Kromer last time of being seen and also her downfall was when she eventually transcended and becomes a Distortion, where was soon killed off by Demian.
Personality[]
Kromer is a religious fanatical humanitarian who advocates for anything related to humanity, though, despises, and discriminates those who she views to have given up on being human.
She displays traits of being highly sadistic, psychotic, crazy, and misanthropic, willing to even keep the prosthetic users or those who opposes her alive so she could either have them to die a slow and painful death or allowing her own loyal cultists to torture them to death.
Kromer also appears to have no issues in even allowing some of her men to suffer from E.G.O corrosion (a side-effect in which those who overused their own E.G.O have their sanity deteriorate and is instead replaced with a much more animalistic and hostile personality.) if it benefits to her cause, showing her lack of empathy and disregard for human life.
While she in truth really wants Sinclair to be by her side to exterminate all prosthetic users out of existence and does indeed see him as important and special to her, she has no problems in hurting, or torturing him both physically and mentally, as shown when she murdered his parents and is very much aware that he's in shock, horror, and distraught but is still overjoyed and even encouraged Sinclair to remember this horrendous experience of his.
It is also heavily imply that Kromer appears to secretly lust for Sinclair, even states that Sinclair belongs to her, and that him joining her faction is only a matter of time. Driven further with the lower half of her boss form being a gigantic version of the Lust Peccatulum, and her urging Sinclair to become one with her flesh.
Relationships[]
Sinclair[]
Sinclair became acquainted with Kromer back during his school days. He states that while they were in the same class, he hardly knew her due to never really speaking to one another. They become relatively good friends following Kromer's realization that Sinclair shared her hatred for prosthetics.
After Kromer insists on Sinclair lending her his basement key and her taking him down to peak into a Lobotomy Corporation Abnormality containment cell, Sinclair grows very scared of her and actively tries to avoid her from there on out. Kromer seems to recognize this apprehension and does not particularly care. She goes on to murder his family on Christmas Eve, a fateful day in which she would excitedly call Sinclair her hero and relish in the fact that he would live in absolute terror going forward.
Unsurprisingly, Sinclair would develop a very intense loathing and fear of Kromer. He absolutely despised her for what she did to him and his beloved family, yet did not feel as if he could ever confront or fight her given the chance, and even experienced severe panic attacks at the thought of revisiting his hometown and seeing her again. Kromer's feelings towards Sinclair are more complex; there is room to interpret her obsession as an unhealthy romantic infatuation, but more than anything she seems to delight in his suffering and distress. It's also possible that Kromer killed Sinclair's family as a legitimate act of gratitude. She forms a one-sided twisted affection with Sinclair, where she actively encourages his victim-blaming.
The N. Corp Inquisition[]
The N. Corp Inquisition is Kromer's group of loyal inquisitors who share the same fanatical viewpoint as she does, while it is unknown why they are so loyal and advocates for her cost of ridding the world of prosthetic users, it is hinted that there is a big possibility that the Inquisitors may have been brainwashed by Kromer. The evidence can be found in one of Heathcliff's alternate identities where he's apart of The N. Corp Inquisition, it is revealed in that identity's story that he doesn't understand Kromer's viewpoint of people with prosthetics, but slowly, after eating N. Corps canned experiences, Heathcliff begins to show signs of being brainwashed after chanting out the oath of The N. Corp Inquisition perfectly much to his confusion.
Theme[]
Realm of Darkness[]
| “ | Maybe that was when I chose to stay fallen Lights A star A voice A twisted thought A touch A kiss A distorted dream Ripples A well A stone A multiplying desire A fruit A sin A holy mothеr I'm infected, I'm infectеd You have invaded and re-created me Stepped over my body Found a sunny spot Curled into a ball Spinning out the silk From my head to toe Inside the warm cocoon, I dreamt to be like you Though I know there's no undo What do I have left to lose? Split A sky An earth I fell into a crack A birth An egg A freshly opened membrane A cell A rot A face returned to ashes An art A wound A sentient canvas Breaking breaking breaking the shell Breaking out, oh break it now Show me how, show me how Listen up, my broken child Let's lament (Let's lament) Let's lament (Let's lament) The life, the death, the good, the bad The never ending curse we cast Control, control, control, release Control, betray, control, let go Conceal, reveal, unreal, surreal Invoke, evoke, decode, reload Let's lament (Let's lament) Let's lament (Let's lament) The past that only got to live in the incomplete holy land Celestial (Ayiah) We're astral (Ayiou) I'm reborn (Le rheaiah) Total liberation (Katre o lamenta) My tender skin A vagitus song (Essential) I breathed (Eventual) And screamed (Eternal) From my new lungs (Inevitable freeing of the soul) |
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| ~ Realm of Darkness Lyrics. |
Trivia[]
- Her overall motif is Franz Kromer, the antagonist from Hermann Hesse's novel, Demian. But unlike the original, which ended up with little screen time and never went beyond being a simple Bully, she got more screen time and was portrayed as much more evil and much more dangerous.
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