This is a small glossary of recurring VIPRPG terminology
which might help you to better understand and appreciate
certain slang/memes/etc seen in Enchant Farm.

This is by NO MEANS comprehensive and attempts (poorly) to
fit only within the scope of points of interest for
Enchant Farm.

Note that due to the ever-changing and memetic nature
of VIPRPG characters, memes, slang, etc, these are not
to be taken as an absolute, but as a general reference.
Even VIPPERs themselves don't always hold strictly to
any of these things, and like with any memes/tropes they
are subject to subversion, inversion, and other manner of
usage.


--- TERMINOLOGY SPECIFIC TO THIS GAME ---

--- ENCHANT FARM (Title) ---

While it isn't 100% agreed upon, it is possible
that the title for this game was taken partially from
a game called "Enchanted Arms" which, in Japan, was
simply called "Enchant Arm."
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--- THE ISLET OF KOTOH (Setting) ---

A location referred to at the end of WIND I CREATOR
which was possibly intended as the final location
for that game, but ultimately was cut and made into
this entire game, ENCHANT FARM.

孤島 (Kotou) - Traditionally defined as a remote,
isolated island. Stylized as "Kotoh" to hopefully
make the pronunciation less ambiguous.

While the location is never actually given a name,
it is consistently referred to as "ＫＯＴＯＵ" in
full-width Japanese characters (KOTOU if you cannot
see them in this document for some reason), and I
made a judgment call to have "Kotoh" be, in effect,
its name.

I also elected to call it an "islet" rather than an
"island" as, while the exact definition of an islet
is disputed with regards to its size and contents,
stylistically I felt that the diminutive "islet" served
to better capture the sense of isolation that would
have been clunkier/longer to write out each time with
more literal renderings of 孤島. Furthermore, the islet
itself is not that large in-game, all things considered.
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--- MOUJA (Characters) ---

亡者 (Mouja) - Refers to the deceased and ghosts.
Also refers to the avaricious, and those who lust
for something, such as money; お金の亡者 is perhaps
one of the most common usages of this form.

Mouja in-game refers to the dual meaning of this word,
as Mouja have all perished at least once, and they will
fight anyone and everyone in a bid to steal their Souls.

In the original Japanese script, Mouja is almost always
written in English letters with no real consistency between
whether it is rendered in full-width (ＭＯＵＪＡ) or half-width.
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--- SHINJA (Characters) ---

信者 (Shinja) - Refers to believers, followers, and adherents.
Also refers to fans of someone or something in the same sense
that English speakers use "fan," "fanatic," "fanboy," "fangirl"
and other similar words.

Shinja in-game refers to the dual meaning of this word,
as Shinja of both the more reverent types and fanboy types can
be observed in the game's various locales, devoting themselves
to deities or music idols.

Much like "Mouja," the Japanese script almost always features
this word written in English letters with no consistency for
full-width (ＳＨＩＮＪＡ) or half-width.
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--- MIKADO (Title) ---

帝 (Mikado) - Emperor sovereign of Japan.

In the original JP script, it is referred to exclusively
in all-caps full-width (ＭＩＫＡＤＯ).

While it is difficult to believe that these characters
who speak Japanese in the JP script would not know what
a Mikado is, it all works out nicely for the EN rendering
where not all players might know what it is.
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--- HIKARI & YAMI ---

光 (Hikari) - Light
闇 (Yami) - Darkness

The locations HIKARI Dominion/HIKARI Palace/HIKARI Villa,
the character titles HIKARI Queen and HIKARI King all have
their HIKARI component rendered in full-width, all-caps
(ＨＩＫＡＲＩ) in the original JP text.

The locations YAMI Dominion/YAMI Palace and character title
YAMI Queen do not share this full-width rendering in the
Japanese. However, I elected to use the all-caps anyway
for some consistency between the two as the duality of
Light & Dark seemed to lend itself to it. In addition, the
YAMI Queen's counterpart, the Yami QUEEN (which, in JP, is
indeed rendered as 闇のＱＵＥＥＮ), seemed more effective with
the capitalization to provide contrast.
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--- "The Long and short of things" ---

A common, recurring phrase seen countless times throughout
Enchant Farm whenever a new character is encountered and
recruited to your side. Appears in several forms that I felt
reflected each characters' way they might give someone a
summary of the situation so far such as:

"The long and short of things"
"The quick and dirty version of the story"
"A quick rundown"
and more.

かくかくしかじか (Kakukaku shikajika) is the phrase used for all
instances of this in the original Japanese, which is approximately
a "so-and-so-and-such-and-such" manner in which the characters
tell the story of Kotoh/the adventure to far to prospective
allies.

There are times when this seems to be awkwardly jammed into
the script even in the original JP. I have done my damndest to
allay some of these issues in the EN, as the JP repeats one
of a handful of dialogues that don't necessarily chain
between dialogues in EN cleanly; thank you, context.
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--- Elementals / Materialized / Personified Characters ---

An extremely common and recurring VIPRPG trope is
personified, materialized versions of items, spells,
and other things which are normally less concrete.

Derived from "具体化" (gutaika) and "具現化" (gugenka) -
embodiment, materialization, actualization, realization,
taking form, taking shape

Closely related to and, for the purposes of this document,
more or less interchangeable with "擬人化" (gijikna)/personified/
anthropomorphized characters.

I have elected to disambiguate this on a character-type
basis. Thus, Elemental magic characters will simply be
referred to as "Elementals" while other types of characters
based on other things may be referred to differently.
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--- Elemental Character Names/Nicknames ---

Elemental Magic characters are "officially" named after
whatever spell they are based on. However, they are often
called by abbreviated forms as well.

Examples:
Water I -> Watri/Wateri
Wind I -> Windi
Starlight I -> Lighti
Burst I -> Bursti

...and so forth.
Yes, the -i is intentional and based on the Roman Numeral I.

This is accurate to the Japanese nicknaming arrangement where
Wind I -> ウィンディ (Windi) in terms of phonetics.

...and so forth.

Yes, this means some pretty unfortunate things for
Darkness I's short name, but if you can't handle that,
I don't know what to tell you.

You could reasonably drop the -i and replace it with a 'y'
but since this was clearly a deliberate choice by VIPPERs,
it is difficult for me to argue y over i.

Mileage varies on this, however, and the -y ending gets used
fairly often. Unless explicitly written out -y in English and
a core component of something, I'll tend to opt for the -i ending.

Though this does not necessarily apply to Wind I Creator,
the III-level spells have a similar naming wordplay theme.

Wind III = ウィンドＩＩＩ = Wind San
Wind III = ウィンドさん = Wind San
Since 3 and the "san" honorific are both pronounced "san"
there may be times when these characters are referred to
interchangeably as one of several things:
Mr/Ms/etc (Name)
(Name) III
(Name) Three
All down to context and the exact usage in a given dialogue.

More specific character nicknames/shorthand exist as well,
depending on which series of magic is referred to. The best
example is the Starlight series of Elementals.

Starlight I -> Lighti (ライチ)
Starlight II -> Two-Star (ニボシ, which is multi-level wordplay in and of
itself. 煮干し->二星)
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--- Burst I / Bursti ---

An artist with a penchant for blowing things up.
The tip of her beret serves as her literal fuse.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Flame I ---

A Flame series elemental who fashions herself a
Heian-era noble. In the Japanese, refers to herself
as 麻呂 = Maro = I/me. This is not only a very old
style way to refer to oneself, but pretty much gives
away the fact that a character is an aristocrat.
And, even more specifically, aristocracy from
Japan's Heian era.

The rendering of her English speech is meant to capture
that same aristocratic sense without going too hard into
"screw you, look it up yourself" direction.

This is also reflected in her usage of the royal "We"
in the English script at certain points. In the original
JP text, she uses a form of self address 朕 (Chin) which is
used by the Emperor in very much the same way.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Electro Barrier / Elekky ---

JP Name: エレキバリア - Eleki Baria -> Eleki Barrier -> Electro Barrier
Nicknames: エレキン (Elekin) エバリ (Ebari) キバリ (Kibari) and more.
Went with a single unified nickname "Elekky"

A lightning-Elemental who represents the physical
embodiment of anti-lightning barrier magic.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Spark III ---

The highest-level all-targeting lightning magic's
embodied form.

There is some debate as to Spark III's sex/gender
even among Japanese VIPRPG fans, and even within
individual games. Refers to themselves in a traditionally
male fashion 僕 (Boku) which is also common for certain
girls (ボクっ娘/Bokukko/Boku Gal) who run a gamut
from "just uses boku because they can" all the way up to
"hardcore tomboy."

For the purposes of Enchant Farm, Spark III is treated
by the game's code as female since they are clearly
able to gain entry to certain gender-restricted locales.
Thus, Spark III is referred to as a female for the very
few lines where they are referred to in this fashion in
Enchant Farm.
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--- Water I ---

The youngest and most popular of the Water sisters.
Was not originally that popular, but people seem to have
become endeared to her more and more with each passing
VIPRPG festival, which helped her ascend from throwaway
character to one who appears regularly in many games.

By technicality, her sisters do appear in this game
via her form change skills despite that Water I is
only referred to as Water I regardless of her form.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Wind I / Windi ---

One of the heroines of Enchant Farm.
Normally a sickly character who spends many a day
in the hospital, and particularly in this game.
She could be said to be the physical manifestation
of both Wind and the Common Cold. Thanks, Japanese.

風 = Kaze = Wind
風邪 = Kaze = Cold

To deal with this wordplay, I occasionally render her description
as the "physical manifestation of the Ill Wind." 

Certain other VIPRPGs play up her illness more or less than others.

Everybody loves Wind I.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Darkness I ---

JP Name: ダークネスI (Darkness I)
Commonly referred to as やみいち (Yami Ichi) and やみっち (Yamicchi).
闇 = Yami = Darkness
一 = Ichi = One
市 = Ichi = Market
There is wordplay in her nicknames which unfortunately is not
easy to find an equivalent to in English, since Yamiichi is
effectively both Dark 1 and Black Market.

This has the unfortunate side effect of her abbreviated
nickname being "Darki." (Dark I -> DarkI -> Darki).
Unfortunate, but I'm not changing it.

Yes, she engages in questionable avenues of commerce and is
often shown to be willing to do any number of dark deeds
for the sake of money.

See games such as "Darkness I's Black Market Dungeon"
(another EXCELLENT title by the creator of Enchant Farm)

Is the protagonist AND villain in the famous VIPRPG
Miruge "Stars and Lights."

Portrayed as something of a Yandere in certain works, but
a real hard worker who sometimes has trouble accepting
help from others... unless she's the one explicitly
demanding that they help her.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Leaf Barrier ---

JP Name: リーフバリア (Leaf Barrier)
Nicknames: リバリ (Libari/Ribari)
Went with "Leafy" for her nickname.

A barrier Elemental who was not originally part
of the RPG Maker 2k/3 RTP, and was made after the
fact to fill a void where such a barrier was
needed.

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Stone I ---

JP Name: ストーンI (Stone I)
Nickname "Stoni" in accordance with the traditional,
aforementioned nicknaming patterns.

The classic girl who hides her eyes behind her
bangs and says very little, except to those she
is comfortable speaking to.

At various points in the EN script of Enchant Farm,
she is seen using emotes such as smileys and even
a Facebook-style thumbs up. This is all adapted from
similar emotes used in the JP script including:
^^
><
#
b

One of the main heroines of Enchant Farm.
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--- Alex ---

Default Hero character of RPG Maker 2000.

Makes very few appearances in Enchant Farm,
and is basically only used as part of the
near-mandatory joke where Gomez is after him
in a sexual way.
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--- DL;OK ---
Short for "Dark Lord; OK"

DL;OK was chosen because of similar memetic shorthand
such as TL;DR (too lazy, didn't read) and the like.

Originally derived from "魔王把握" (Maou Haaku) which is the
barest basic interaction possible between a protagonist and
the King which kicks off a game. This is used as a noun as
well as a verb at various times.

If a game's main goal is not the Dark Lord, DL could be
just about anything. An example of this can be seen in the
very wonderful "Moshimon Quest Monsters" once the main quest
is cleared.

Long form:
King
"The Dark Lord has stolen our potato chips.
 Go take care of him."

Alex
"Understood."

Abbreviated form:
King
"Dark Lord."

Alex
"OK."

Does not occur in any way, shape, or form in Enchant Farm.
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--- Potato Chips ---

A recurring macguffin seen in countless VIPRPGs.
When these get stolen, it tends to kick off a DL;OK.

Derived from "ポテチ" (Potechi) which is indeed
POTAto CHIps abbreviated in a manner extremely common
in the Japanese language.

Barely, if at all, referred to in Enchant Farm.
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--- Gomez ---

Gay. Pirate. Enjoys buttfucking Alex.
Yup. Many DL;OKs in shitpost games end with this.
It's not always just Alex either.

Makes a minor appearance in Enchant Farm.
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--- Dark Lord Army / Team Dark Lord ---

Derived from "魔王軍" (Maou Gun).

Yes, I know it can be "Demon King" and other
permutations. I went with Dark Lord.

Army/Team are used interchangeably depending on the
mood/tone/character speaking and other factors.

Characters in this category include, but are not limited to:
	Bosses/Big-wigs
Dark Lord
Dark Lord's Daughter (Mebius)
Mrs. Dark Lord
Lady Dark Lord (Female version of the Dark Lord himself)

	Team Dark Lord Elite "Four" (Yes, there are 5)
The Fifth Reaper
Daero
Dragonath
Nin-Nin
Musha

	Lesser Characters
Dragon/Li'l Dragon/Girl Dragon (Draco)
Dragon Knight/Dragon Knightess
Death Sheep
Minotaur

Other lesser characters/recurring monsters/etc
appear as well.
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--- Knigh Army / Team Knigh ---

Derived from "ナイ軍" (Nai Gun).

Yes, it is really "Knigh." Scroll down to the Monsters Section
and view Undead Knigh further for proof.

Characters in this category include, but are not limited to:
	Bosses/Big-Wigs
Undead Knigh
Carbuncle
Cait-Sith

	Team Knigh Elite "Four" & Others
The Fake 5th Reaper
Fake Daero
Fake Dark Elf
2k3 Dark Elf
Aubergonath
Zan-Nin-Nin
Fake Musha
	
	"Dark" versions of hero characters:
Axel (Dark Alex)
Erolia (Dark Lilia)
Dark Daisy
Diona (Dark Fiona)
Dinux (Dark Linux)
Dark Lenux

Yeah, there's a LOT of characters.
The 偽/fake/false characters are often, despite the title,
fully-fledged characters in their own right and not just
impostors/pale imitators. But that varies from work to work.
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--- Undead Knigh ---

RPG Maker 2k3 introduced a foe called
アンデッドナイト "Undead Knight."

RPG Maker 2k3 also has a 7 Japanese charater
restriction for hero names.

So, when people went to use him as a character, they
had to call him アンデッドナイ, dropping the last letter,
resulting in Undead Knigh. This stuck as a name.

CONVENIENTLY similar restrictions in English 2k3 make
it so that trying to name a character "Undead Knight"
is ALSO one letter too long, resulting in "Undead Knigh."
One of the rare moments where the translation writes itself.

Entertainingly, his sword suffers from a similar naming
thing (アンデッドソード->アンデッドソー) which itself STILL works in
English.... sort of.

(Undead Knigh's sword is a Rapier)
Undead Rapier -> Undead Rapie

Japanese simply calls it "Undead Sword" which would be
"Undead Swor" and, while that is more entertaining,
is not the same at all since shortening that word
would be arbitrary rather than forced.

Amusingly, the Undead Rapie does, in fact, appear as a
weapon you can obtain in Enchant Farm.
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--- Harpagon ---

Harpy + Dragonath

JP Name: ハーナス (Ha-nasu)
Abbreviated/Fused form of HArpy + DragoNATH
English name rendered as fused form of HARPy + DrAGONath

If you can think of a better way to render this in
English, I'm all ears, so please let me know in whatever
thread you found this game.

Don't ask how this works, but in various VIPRPG works
Dragonath and Harpy are depicted a couple, and this monster
is the resulting baby.
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--- Mr. Batty ---

Yes, same name as those from the Mother series games.
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--- Cheer Penguin ---

JP Name: もちべぺんぎん (Mochibe Pengin)
Mochibe = Motivation

People who don't possess sufficient Mochibe don't make it
in time/at all to submit their VIPRPG Festival Entries.
Insufficient motivation is the #1 cause of games going
Eternal.
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--- Nishiwaki Scizza ---

JP Name: シーザー西脇 (Shi-za- Nishiwaki)
Name could reasonably be rendered as "Caesar" but given
that it's a crab with scissor-like claws, and a lack of
evidence supporting that its name is Caesar, it's hard to
justify such an angle. "Scizza" is meant to be prounounced
like "scissor" in any case.

A once-common and recurring ASCII art crab shitpost in dying
VIPRPG dev threads. Though ASCII art hasn't fallen completely
out of fashion on JP forums like it has on Western ones, its
appearances aren't as frequent as it may have been before.
Its appearance in VIPRPGs is also pretty infrequent, but
this depends entirely on the creator's taste.

(V) ∧_∧　(V)
　　ヽ(＾ヮ＾)ノ　 "I'll snip ya to ribbons!"
　　　ノ￣ゝ             
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--- Aubergonath ---

JP Name: ドラゴなすーん (Doragonasu-n)
Dragonath + Nasu (Nasu = Eggplant/Aubergine)
Hence: Aubergonath = AUBERgine + DraGONATH

Yeah, that's the best I could come up with for the
name.
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--- Canael ---

JP Name: カナエール (叶えーる) (Kanae-ru)
Kanaeru = to grant/fulfill (a wish/request)

English name rendered as it is to evoke that sort of
Biblical, angelic sense. It's a god, after all.

The polar opposite of Kotowaru.

Originally found at the following website:
http://ganbaruzo.fc2web.com/kanaesetu.html

The website explains that Canael is a granter of
wishes and goes into significant details about
wishing guidelines.

Per the website, the name/design are based on:

>The name and meaning of Canael is based on the phrase "Negai wo Kanaeru (Canael)" (grant a wish)
>The yellow star represents the power of success, development, and growth
>The red heart represents the power of love and marriage
>The blue V mark represents the power of victory
>The smiling face represents the power of peace, cooperation, health, and harmony 
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--- Kotowaru ---

JP Name: コトワール (断ーる) (Kotowa-ru)
Kotowaru = to deny (a wish/request)

A straight up transliteration of the JP word "Kotowaru."
Sadly sounds less biblical than it could, but the only other
alternatives I could think of sounded kind of like crap and it's
hard to swing making "denial" sound similar without making it look
and sound strange. (Deniael? Just looks odd)

The polar opposite of Canael.
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--- Eternal/Nega-Eternal ---

JP Name: エターナル (Eta-naru)
Eternal

The physical embodiment of the concept of "eternal."
Derived from the VIPRPG verb エターなる which is a fusion of
>eternal エター (Eta-)
>become なる (Naru)

When a game does not get completed, it goes eternally unfinished.
Many submission pages for VIPRPGs do not feature download
links to games, but instead read ETERNAL to denote that
there was an attempt, but no finished product. Avoiding
going eternal is the #1 goal of all VIPPERs.
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--- Dragon ---

Often speaks in a hip-hop/gangster style with
Japanese full-width capitalized ＹＯＵ/ＹＯ as well as
Japanese sentence-end particles (Na, Ne, Sa, Ze etc).

This is crudely approximated in English with
S P A C E D  typing,  Y O !

Dragon is USUALLY the male RPG Maker 2000 RTP Dragon
enemy in appearance, but often transforms into
a diminutive girl dragon for various reasons.
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--- Draco ---

Derived from ドラ子 (Dorako -> Draco)
Dora = Dragon, abbreviated.
子 = Ko, Kanji for "child" but often a component of female
names. Unfortunately some of this feminine image is lost
on its way to English as Draco is traditionally a masculine
sounding name, but what can you do?

This is the female form of Dragon. Depending on the
game, this can be a stand-alone character, or Dragon
may transform into her.
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--- Dragon Knightess ---

JP Name: ドナ子 (Donako)
Dona = Dragon Knight, abbreviated (DOragon NAito)
子 = Ko, Kanji for "child" but often a component of female
names.
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--- Daero/Dark Elf ---

Dark Elf who is a hentai/pervert.
Dark Elf + Ero -> Dark Ero -> Daero.

Those with background in other VIPRPGs are well aware
of Daero's obsession with certain female characters,
especially Helen.
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--- The Fake 5th Reaper ---

Japanese name: "偽死神五世" (Nise-Shinigami Gosei)
The 五世 bit can be likened to a Roman Numeral V.
5th is what I have chosen because it seems to work
better in a name and avoids potential ambiguity
(Reaper VEE? Reaper 5? Reaper THE FIFTH?).

Nickname: "Kiri"
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--- Trish ---

Is best girl. Not originally from anything in particular,
just kind of sprung up as a recurring character in the
mid to late 2000s. I couldn't even tell you which game
she first appeared in.

Probably puts in more work than ANY of the other underworld
characters combined, but who's keeping track?
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--- Hell ---

Queen of the Underworld.
Her love of potato chips is a recurring character
trait in various VIP works.
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--- Mebius ---
JP Name: メビウス (Mebiusu)

The Dark Lord's daughter.

Despite this, is often depicted as friends with
Alex and Linux.

Interchangeably called Mebius/Dark Lord's Daughter
throughout VIP works. Shortened nickname in certain
works (especially when hanging out with Linux)
is "Meeby."

Occasionally rendered as "Moebius," "Mobius," or
"Möbius" depending on the work/creator. Indeed,
the JP word メビウスの輪 (Mebiusu no Wa/Möbius Ring)
is the correct technical terminology for this
mathematical phenomenon.

Also, I just prefer the "Mebius" rendering because of
that god awful GBA Zone of the Enders title which
features a character of the same name.
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--- Moshimo Force ---

JP Name: もしもの力 (Moshimo no Chikara)
Moshimo = If...
Chikara = Power

Moshimo is a common VIPRPG game title component which
means If... And so common, indeed, that it is
nearly synonymous with VIPRPGs. There is, after all,
a long-running series of games/story collections which are simply
"Moshimo X ga Y dattara" (If X was Y).

Moshimo Force is the ultimate power, the realized form of
Moshimo. It is the power to blow away a foe with
a single touch. Many a DL;OK ends with the hero simply
touching the Dark Lord once and sending him careening
off-screen, never to be seen again.
