Umoga Loinfield

**Umoga Loinfield** is one of the examinees of the 134th Kaipa Promised Land Entrance Exam. Due to his desire to be the only person guaranteed to pass the exam, he serves as an antagonist in *Armistice*.

## Appearance

Umoga is gigantic compared to other humans, being seven feet tall and having a body mass as wide as two people. He has huge muscles, described to be "the size of shotguns". His flesh contains numerous scars, with lightning-bolt type scars on his cheeks and multiple tears and scratches on his ears. He has a crooked nose, which leans towards the left side. His ink black eyebrows are very thick as well, and he has similarly colored hair stretching down to his shoulders. He's described as not wearing much during the entrance exam, wearing a sleeveless plain blue shirt, black cargo pants, and large brown hiker's boots. He is heavy enough to where he needed to be escorted to a separate entrance for Kaipa's Promised Land Entrance Exam, as he would have broken the normal entrance ladder.

## Personality

During Kaipa's Promised Land exam, Umoga shows himself to be a very selfish individual. He is not only uncooperative with other examinees, but his primary strategy is to purposefully make the others fail so that only he can succeed. When given offers of cooperation that could benefit him, he tends to ignore these offers and instead attempt to eliminate whoever made those offers. He openly states that he believes he is the only one worthy of passing the exam as the others are inferior and undeserving of passing. Internally, he also believes that anyone else passing the exam would be a sin. As a result of his behavior, he has made the most enemies out of any participant in the exam. However, in spite of his dismissive attitude towards the other examinees, there is one instance where he spoke somewhat politely when he forced himself past Chris's followers.

Umoga believes that the only worth of entering the Promised Land is to receive fortune and fame, and he disregards any other reason for wanting to get inside such as Mack and Chris's desire to reveal its secrets to the world as foolish. He also considers anyone else who has failed the exam as worthless and ignores their words.

Umoga is also fairly calm and self-confident, never becoming angry or afraid when confronted by other examinees. He also takes great care not to harm other people with his strength and get himself disqualified. When any other contestant manages to outwit him, such as Chris, he makes note of them and prioritizes eliminating them over anyone else. However, his desire to eliminate the other participants of Kaipa's Entrance Exam can blind him from making better strategic decisions, as proven when Chris tricked him into chasing after two of his followers and grabbing a rope, which jeopardized Umoga's chances of preventing the other participants from passing an obstacle course.

## Powers and Intelligence

* **Super Strength:** Umoga is many times stronger than a normal human, being able to push apart crowds of people gently with his bare hands. His body is also strong enough to where he would have broken the entrance ladder for Kaipa's Promised Land Entrance Exam. Despite his great strength, Umoga is never seen harming anybody, implying that he is far stronger than what is seen of him.
* **Intellect:** Umoga is smart enough to perfectly pass the Standardized Kaipa Education Test. He also shows pragmatic cunning by coming up with numerous plans to try and succeed in the exam by failing every other participant. However, there are instances where he does not make the most intelligent decisions. During his run on the obstacle course, Umoga needed multiple other people to attempt the obstacle in order for him to figure out how to pass them. Also, his priority of eliminating other players blinds him towards considering better strategies. Chris and his followers exploited this weakness to trick him into grabbing the rope and force him to complete the last obstacle instead of letting him eliminate the other contestants by blocking them.

## History

On the day of Kaipa's 134th Promised Land Entrance Exam, Umoga arrived at the facility under two hours before the exam's start. When confronted with Chris's followers, who had unified to prevent other examinees from entering the building, Umoga effortlessly pushed them aside so that he could get inside. The exam's officials noted that he was too large to climb up the ladder to the roof's entrance, so a squad of soldiers escorted Umoga towards another hidden entrance to the building. Once inside, Umoga sat down in silence and alone amongst all the other examinees. After listening to Ryan's instructions, he along with the rest of the examinees started their recommended studying of the textbook.

Within the first hour of the examination, Umoga found the locker leading to the next portion of the exam and stood in front of it, preventing people from getting inside. When confronted by an angry Ould and his group three hours into the exam about making it impossible for other individuals to pass, Umoga refused to budge and said that it is their purpose to fail the exam. When they tried budging Umoga, they were unsuccessful in doing so. While preventing people from coming inside, he also studied from his textbook. Not long after, Ould came back with a far larger group. Umoga decided to enter the locker instead of continuing to guard it and sprayed its edge with fast-drying cement so that nobody could open the locker from the outside. This plan was later foiled hours later when a student with a rainbow-colored shirt used a grey chisel to break the cement.

At the beginning of the second portion of the exam, Ould and a plethora of other examinees grabbed hold of Umoga and immediately attempted to disqualify him by throwing him into a foam pit. Umoga showed no fear, however, and when he was dragged to the first obstacle's entrance, he merely stated that he had figured the obstacle out. He then pushed a portion of his assailants into the foam pit instead and slipped past the rest, then rushed through the first obstacle. This caused everyone waiting at the second obstacle's entrance to panic and made them run away from him in order to prevent themselves from being eliminated. The man in the rainbow shirt tried reasoning with Umoga by offering to cross the obstacles for him, but Umoga did not hesitate to throw him into the foam pit. Umoga then addressed the rest of the remaining participants and said that he would only allow one participant at a time to show him how to cross each obstacle.

For the next two and a half hours, Umoga watched other participants trying to traverse the second obstacle. Due to the rainbow-shirted man being thrown off earlier, Mack's group, who were all at the entrance to the third obstacle, panicked about being caught between Umoga and Chris Meedlemeyer. Once Chris attempted the fourth obstacle, Mack's group immediately attempted the third obstacle despite not being fully prepared in order to avoid being thrown out by Umoga. However, while Dave and Mack were still traversing the third obstacle, Umoga crossed the second obstacle and immediately attempted the third without hesitation. He was fast enough to grab Dave right before he could land on the third obstacle's end platform, and Umoga kept him hoisted up in the air. Dave desperately accused Umoga of being a jerk if he decided to throw Dave away since only eight hundred could pass and it was very likely far less than that number would pass the current portion with Umoga acting as a blockade. Umoga, however, reaffirmed that he wanted himself to be the only person to pass and dropped Dave, eliminating him.

Out of fear of being similarly thrown out, Mack and Chelsea fled from Umoga by trying to pass the fourth obstacle without any preparation, which they barely managed to do. Umoga, meanwhile, stayed behind since he was not fully sure of how to pass yet. After Mack and Chris declared their intention to enter the Promised Land and reveal to the world what its secrets are, Umoga thought that they were foolish since he believed that the only purpose for entering the Promised Land was to receive wealth and fame. After he figured out how to pass the fourth obstacle and crossed, he tried grabbing both Tashel and Isam in order to eliminate them as they run away. However, one of the two reached the rope and tricked Umoga into grabbing it, which forced Umoga to keep hold of it so that he did not get eliminated. Umoga became bitter over being tricked and was forced into climbing up the rope under an hour after grabbing the rope so that he wouldn't be dragged off by hundreds of other participants. Due to this being the idea of Chris and his followers, when waiting for the next portion of the exam to start, Umoga decided to prioritize eliminating them since he considered them as threats.

## Trivia

* At seven feet tall, Umoga is currently the tallest character in Armistice.
* Umoga is the fourth character in Armistice who has their inner thoughts read in the story.