BLAME! characters and structures

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The universe of the manga (and OVA) BLAME! created by Tsutomu Nihei is a home to the following fictional characters & locations.

Contents 1 Main characters 2 Other characters 2.1 Safeguard 2.2 Silicon Life (Cyborgs) 2.3 Humans 2.4 Minor characters 3 Factions or groups of note 4 Structures

Main characters

• Killy - the main character of the series. His task of finding a human with the Net Terminal Gene is the basis of the manga's plot.
• Cibo - The head scientist of the corporation in the Capitol, Cibo joins Killy on his quest for the Net Terminal Gene.

Other characters

Safeguard

• Sanakan - A high level agent of the Safeguard who first appears as a short, young girl with black hair and finds Killy and Cibo in a tunnel after they pierce the impenetrable Megastructure layer with the Gravitational Beam Emitter.

• Dhomochevsky: Mensab's appereance is prior to Domochevsky's. Domochevsky is a Special Safeguard; the type that is not hostile to humans. Alongside with Iko, they appear to be attempting to destroy the group of Silicon Life nearby; various proofs of this is Pcell and Schiff's recognition of Dhomochevsky, and in return, Dhomochevsky and Iko's recognition of Davinel. However, their real intentions are unknown.
• Iko: Iko appears as the thin, white whisp of a facial image. However, in the manga, it is suggested that he had a corporeal shape once, but how he lost it, was never explained. He acts as a guardian for Dhomochevsky, predicts the behaviour of his opponents, healing him if possible.

Silicon Life (Cyborgs)

• Ivy - Ivy is the leader of the contingent of Cyborgs attacking Toha Heavy Industries. He/she/it carries a massive weapon, which is essentially four swords, with two of them spring-loaded to swing out from the middle to bludgeon enemies. He is eventually defeated in a swordfight between him and Seu.
• Maeve - Maeve is Ivy's sidekick. More obviously female. She gets the lower half of her body sliced off by Seu in a fight. Later on, Ivy and some of his contingent discover the 'advanced' cyborg fused to a wall. They cut it out, wrench the cyborg's original head out and implant Maeve into the body. Maeve is killed by Killy with the GBE before the teleportation of Toha Heavy Industries.
• Blon - One of Davine Lu Linvega's henchmen. Blon is capable of creating wormlike creatures, possibly with the same way the Safeguard use to 'download' common safeguards to any location. He can also release leechlike creatures, about a foot and a half long, which attach to a target's spine and renders them unconscious. Blon is the first of Davine Lu Linvega's group to be killed by Killy, and his death allows Pcell to detect the 70-kilometer long holes left by Killy's GBE.
• Schiff - Schiff is another of Davine Lu Linvega's lieutenants. He seems to be a more humanoid version of the 'armored cyborgs', as he is clad in full armor. He wields two rectangular black blades Wolverine-style on his arms. Schiff is the first cyborg to attack Killy after Killy loses his GBE (and is forced to use GA-issued weaponry, which did not serve much purpose). After a short hand-to-hand fight, Killy gains the upper hand and lands several punches which essentially mangle Schiff's armored face. While Schiff is clawing at his broken face, Killy uses a smaller GA-issued version of the GBE to administer the coup-de-grace.
• Davine lu Linvega - Leader of a contingent of cyborgs who Killy encounters late in the series. The level on which he's present allows provisional access to the Net Sphere to any person having normal human DNA. Davinel wants to access the Net Sphere and tries to obtain the DNA sample which is in Cibo's possession.
• Pcell - Davinel's subordinate who's body is female in appearance. She is very skilled in combat. Pcell uses a 'Safeguard Sword', the weapon that features as Musubi's new weapon in NOiSE, as being the main weapon of the 'armored cyborgs'. There seems to be a very short-lived 'love affair' between Pcell and Dhomochevsky. However, Pcell is killed by Killy(once again) after Cibo transforms into the Level-9 Safeguard.

Humans

• The Fishermen - People descended from the Planters, people who used to live inside Toha Heavy Industries. They have been locked out for many generations, and have forgotten everything about why they are there and what Toha is. They fight the Safeguard using powerful bolt-shooting rifles. They wear armor similar to that of Seu, and the armor suits of the Planters that Cibo and Killy find shortly after they follow the Fishermen into Toha Heavy Industries. They aren't really fishermen, and the methods they use to survive is unknown. The Fishermen are a short-heighted race of humans, unlike Cibo who comes from a race with tall heights.

Minor characters

• Mensab - Mensab is the AI Controller for Cave 8 inside Toha Heavy Industries.

• Seu - A human, who wears armor similar to that of the Fishermen. He is a powerful swordsman, and is the protector of Mensab. He fights for her. Whenever he is injured severely, Mensab takes him to be restored by equipment which can heal any damage and also synthesize any substance. But he loses memory each time he is healed in this way. Seu could possibly be the last Planter alive in Toha Heavy Industries, and might have had his life extended by Mensab using unknown methods.

• Mori - a person whose mind was downloaded into an emergency preservation pack. His corpse sat undisturbed for a long time before Killy stumbled on him. Interestingly, Mori is not his name; we never learn this character's real name. Mori was the name of the manufaturer of the emergency preservation pack, and was printed on the device itself. Killy, acting as a Good Samaritan, takes him along his quest.

Factions or groups of note

• Safeguard - It is the completely independent defense system of the Net Sphere. The Safeguards original purpose was to prevent unauthorized access to the Netsphere by those without Net Terminal Genes. However due to inactivity by humans for so long, the Safeguard have taken to destroying all humans without the Net Terminal Gene. It can also transform humans into its soldiers by shooting them with needles that inject nanomachines. And it has more powerful agents, like Sanakan, and the monster which attacks the Fishermen. They are similar to "The Agents" in "The Matrix."

• Governing Agency or Authority - The ruling level of the Net Sphere. It tries at times to assist Killy and Cibo, against the Cyborgs, and against the Safeguard. It has powers identical to the Safeguard, but cannot itself control the Safeguard. It wants a human with the Net Terminal Gene to be found to stop the Builders which are the cause of the runaway growth of the City.

• Builders - Robots which construct the City. They are not connected directly to The Net Sphere or Safeguard. They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Killy remembers their language in the village of the Fishermen, and Cibo uses his knowledge about them to learn to control them completely. It's possible that only a human with the Net Terminal Gene would be able to override their programming at the source.

Structures

• The Megastructure - A large plate that lies between levels of The City.

• The Netsphere - A possible future incarnation of the internet available only to those with the Net Terminal Gene and guarded by the Safeguard. It is posited in Noise that it was in fact a New Social Order designed to exclude the infected.

• The City - A structure maintained and continuously expanded by Builders. The actual size is debateable but it is said to have encompassed the moon long ago.

• Toha Heavy Industries

• Structure conversion towers