Lean Joker

Lean Joker, real name Lean Hampelmann , and also known as simply Joker, is a guest character from Final Fantasy Type-0 working with Tiz in overseeing the events on Orience's history. His full story was revealed in Final Fantasy Agito.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
According to the Rubicus, Joker's birthdate and age are unknown, and he is 182cm tall. In Final Fantasy Type-0 his face cloaked from view, but he wears the dominion legionaries' cloak, and at one point also a Militesi soldier uniform. Final Fantasy Agito reveals he has light brown hair in an asymmetrical haircut, and golden eyes. Though his face is hidden in Final Fantasy Type-0, hacking his character model reveals that he looks almost identical to Machina Kunagiri.
===Personality===
Joker comes across as more extroverted than his companion Tiz, having a blunt and informal way of speaking. Despite not understanding her fully, he supports and shares a strong connection with Tiz. Like the rest of Class Zero, he refers to Arecia Al-Rashia as "mother".
==Story==
===Final Fantasy Type-0 Side Story: The Ice Reaper===
Lean appears in the Extra Chapter: "If Only...", as a student of the Imperial Academy.
===Final Fantasy Agito===
During the first cycle of history in Orience, "Joker" worked under the name of Lean Hampelmann, a prodigy scientist from the Militesi Empire. He is described as being enthusiastic and devoted to Cid Aulstyne's plans for Orience. He remains an observer of events, seeing the results of the war and the coming of Tempus Finis. The second spiral sees Lean being contacted by Arecia along with Tohno, and the two become immortal servants who exist outside the spiral's influence.
The spiral is a mechanism the world of Orience is placed into by the immortal servants of the deities Pulse and Lindzei: Arecia Al-Rashia, servant of Pulse, Gala, servant of Lindzei, and Diva, a neutral observer. The goal of the spiral is to locate Etro's gate and open the way to the unseen realm, the realm of the dead human souls pass into. Orience thus exists within a cycle of repeating events to find Agito, a powerful group of souls referred to as the "Locus of Ten and Six" that would potentially find the way to the unseen realm. When Tempus Finis is invoked and there is no Agito, the world is destroyed, the spiral revolves, and the cycle of history resets. Only Arecia, Gala, Diva, Orience's Crystals, and a few select individuals in Orience, remember the previous spirals.
Upon seeing the continued effect of the spiral, Lean and Tohno decide to find a way to preserve the memories of Orience's people and free Orience from Arecia's experiment.
===Final Fantasy Type-0===
During the 600,104,972nd revolution of the spiral, Joker and Tiz meet Machina Kunagiri as a White Tiger l'Cie and introduce themselves. They ask him to clear a path for them through the battlegrounds so they can reach Militesi Marshal Cid Aulstyne. Afterwards, they thank Machina for his assistance, and Tiz remarks the pair is like him. She predicts they will meet again, and Joker says that if Tiz says so, it must be right, before bidding farewell to his "other self".
Machina and his friend Rem turn into crystal and Class Zero perishes in the battle against the Rursan Arbiter during Tempus Finis. Joker and Tiz request Arecia to release Machina and Rem from their crystal stasis and convince her to remove the Crystals from history to prevent the war from occurring. Arecia abandons the experiment to find Etro's gate with the Agito and departs, and Orience is freed from the spiral.
In a hidden cutscene that takes place at an unspecified time, Joker and Tiz spend time in the woods. Tiz talks about how the current cycle of the world being changed, and Joker finds it unusual. She wonders what she should do and he mentions he has something to report. Tiz is puzzled, but Joker says "that person" is not as "sensitive" as Tiz, so he is going to tell her. She agrees, and asks him to reveal what he has to say. He replies that telling her now would be difficult and she knows that. Tiz laughs in agreement, then says, "Let's go, Lean. Lean Joker." Joker nods and they leave.
==Gameplay==
Once the player has obtained the item "Tiz's Prayer" (through accomplishing the special order when facing Nimbus in Chapter 3), if the "Support Personnel" is selected in the Assist Options at the beginning of a mission, Joker can randomly join the party as a guest, appearing as "???". He wields the "Unknown" and is dressed in a Dominion of Rubrum legionary's uniform, and is under constant Invisible status.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Lean makes an appearance ion a Lightning-elemental card.
Lean TCG.png|Lean's trading card.
==Behind the scenes==
Tetsuya Nomura came up with the idea of having characters numbered 1–13 after playing cards and a "Joker" when the project was kicked off as a mobile title within the Final Fantasy XIII series. Final Fantasy Type-0 team liked the idea and continued to use it for the PlayStation Portable version. In the final game, Joker is not directly playable, but rather, appears as a secret assist.
At the rough draft stage Tiz and Joker were going to play a big role following the ending in the new world. However, at final stage of deciding the game's scale, the developers decided to focus on the other 14. Tiz and Joker's role as parts of the chosen were left as part of the Nameless Tome to avoid their story "hanging in limbo". Arecia initially thought Tiz and Joker were needed for Agito, but later deemed otherwise and the two became her aides, able to retain their memories of past spirals. (translation)
At one point, Joker refers to Machina as his "other self". Director Hajime Tabata has explained the two are not the same person, but Joker said it because their circumstances and roles are similar: supporting the growth of Ace and the other twelve's souls. Joker has Tiz for support, just like Machina has Rem.
===Voice===
Joker is voiced by Kōki Uchiyama in the Japanese version of Final Fantasy Type-0. He shares his Japanese voice actor with and from the series, Soul from Soul Eater, and Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends With You and .
In the English version, Joker is voiced by Adam McArthur.
==Gallery==
FFT-0_Joker's_Face.png|Joker's Face.
Lean-Tiz2.jpg|Joker and Tiz.
Lean-Tiz.jpg|No.00 Joker and No.10 Tiz.
Lean_stats.jpg‎|Joker's stats.
FFAgito Lean Hampelmann.png|Lean Hampelmann.
FFAgito Lean SS.png|Lean.
FFT-0 Sword (Joker) Icon.png|Sword icon.
==Etymology==
The name Joker in Japanese, "Jōkā", is a homonym for "Jōka" (浄火, "pure fire"), which is also the name of one of Dominion of Rubrum's theme songs, titled "Divine Fire" in English.
According to the Prophecy of the Nameless Tome, Joker is said to bear the rejected power of suffering. Though long considered existentially intertwined with cruelty, misery, and unfairness, suffering helps to realize one does not live in a perfect world or life, and can prompt one to know pain to learn how to survive in the world. How one survives from this is a matter of choice- One may help to cease and ease suffering, another may choose to survive off of or at the cost of other's suffering. In a grand sense, suffering helps to teach what is good and evil in the world. As a scientist, and as a quiet observer from afar, Joker's profession and role to Arecia underlines his foci. 
Within Buddhist precepts, suffering is fundamentally acknowledged as a mark of existence, being spurred when the Buddha witnessed the suffering, sickness, and death of the impoverished outside of his palace walls before his journey to seek enlightenment. Suffering is also considered crucial to experience in one's life to realize enlightenment and understand life's depths.
==References==
pt-br:Joker (Type-0)
ru:Лин Джокер
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy Type-0
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy Agito
Category:Guest characters