“Human Resources” Shouldn’t Be This Literal: A PMMM/ProjectMoon Quest

Page of Chesed


The Patron Librarian of Social Sciences, once head of Lobotomy Corporation's main Facility's Welfare Branch. A genius who would have gone unparalleled in any environment save for the one he chose, whose relaxed and laid-back persona conceal a fierce desire to help others.

Patron Librarian of Social Sciences: As the head of the Floor of Social Sciences, Chesed has the authority to borrow power from the Abnormalities locked within it. These powers are distributed among the Floor's Librarians as is seen to best fit the situation. The Floor's Librarians also have access to EGO taken from these Abnormalities in its purest form. This EGO is incredibly powerful, but can only be used in short bursts.

The abilities granted by the Abnormalities on the Floor of Social Sciences primarily focus on coordination, teamwork, and maintaining group stability. It includes strengthening individuals so long as they have teammates present, siphoning mental stability from opponents, energizing combatants to allow them to continue fighting freely, disabling opponents and draining their vitality, and even preventing or reversing death in a limited capacity.

Scientific Genius: Chesed was an incredible scientist even by the standards of the Wings, to the point where he could have joined A Corp's ranks. This talent was aimed towards the work of L Corp instead, leading to an even further advanced understanding of most psychology-related fields.

Nuovo Fabric: A special fabric worn by members of the Reverberation Ensemble, created by the Carnival under the instructions of the Index. While it does provide superb defenses even to places not covered by the fabric so long as enough is worn, the real benefit is the ability to bind naturally unstable elements into a solid form.

Puppet Strings: Though there were certain irreconcilable ideological differences between Chesed and this ability's original owner, the Patron Librarian has taken quite a liking to this ability.

The Puppeteer produces a functionally limitless quantity of highly-durable strings, which can be attached to enemies, allies, or even the local area. The user and their allies are never impaired or restricted by these strings, no matter how entangled they become. While they can be used to puppet and control the actions of others, willing or not, Chesed far prefers the enhancing effects of the strings. A person coordinated by this ability can act in perfect concert with others, and gains significant additional force and agility in their movements. Most importantly, however, is that actually killing a person connected by the Puppet Strings is incredibly difficult. While the connection does begin to wane and fray when a person is near death, it also allows them to survive otherwise lethal blows.

얀샋ㄷ요무: The power of a Distortion who lost all hope of making a difference and accepted becoming a part of the flow of the world, becoming inured to the misery surrounding them.

얀샋ㄷ요무's powers produce a corrosive ink that stains everything it touches, eating away at the mind and body alike. This ink can be delivered through other attacks, or produce special limbs and weapons to act as vectors for its spread. Esoteric defenses that would normally protect one from harm have no effect on this ink's corrosive properties.

The Messenger: An ability which produces Prescripts to be delivered to allies. While some believe the Prescripts to be a form of future sight, it would be more accurate to consider them a perfect computational engine which can measure all information in existence, even including things that are normally immeasurable, and decides on a course of action according to that data. Access to the Prescript, even in this limited form, in combination with the Library's own surveillance allows Chesed and his team to react in advance to the enemy's movements.

Keeping In Stride: An expensive but basic modification favored by the Zwei Association. Automatically repairs one's body over time, though it scales poorly for higher-level combatants and is far more influential in weaker fighters.

Four Trigrams: High-tier Nanotechnology owned and used by the Hana Association. The nanomachines integrate themselves with the user, responding to their actions at the speed of thought. While weapons and armor are the most simple formations, more complex structures can form for more specific tasks, such as purging one's body and mind of foreign influence or boosting agility beyond what should be physically possible.

Because the Hana Association has made multiple forays into the Library, and because of how versatile and universally useful the Hana nanomachines are, this ability is a common one for Librarians to utilize.