First Officer

**Jose Baden**, also known as the **First Officer,** is a Rescue-Type and Difficulty 2 Survivor available for purchase after completion of the prologue. He is one of **43** playable Survivors added to Identity V.

—Jose Baden (Deduction Quest No. 3)

## Appearance

Jose is a tall, slender doll with peach skin, shoulder-length dark brown hair combed back, a matching mustache and goatee, rosy cheeks, arched, questioning dark brown eyebrows, and mismatched button eyes, with the left a dark grey button rimmed wit gold and a gold letter "B", and the right teal and cross-stitched with gold thread. His left hand and forearm is replaced with a leather prosthetic with brass fingers. A thin, bloody scar slashes down the left side of his face.

He wears a worn, crimson military coat with a single epaulette on the right shoulder over a white shirt with a low neckline and a high, frilly collar, a thin leather necklace with a round silver pendant, a gold sash, white breeches with gold cuffs, and black leather combat boots. A white sash wraps around his right shoulder to his waist, and a silver earring is visible in his left ear. Tears are visible in his left shoulder, right arm, and right knee, showing cotton stuffing. He dangles an ornate pocket watch with a bronze chain and a bronze anchor on the dark metal lid from his left hand.

## Gameplay

The First Officer is a rescue-type Survivor who has a pocket watch that allows him to hypnotize the Hunter, causing them to black out and then see illusionary First Officers. He can also disappear from sight when a teammate is placed on a Rocket Chair.

### External Traits

Below is a list of First Officer's intrinsic traits. For more in-depth information, please check the individual pages.

*When a Hunter affected by Hypnosis attacks and hits the First Officer, the First Officer will gain a Trait for 5 seconds, during which the First Officer will not be knocked down and any damage he takes during this time will be taken into account when the time is up.*

### Tips

**Please press "Expand" to see tips.**

* Recommended Persona Traits: Tide Turner, Borrowed Time, potentially Air Walk. Snooze and Will to Survive are useful if the pocket watch fails or runs out.
* Use Poseidon watch behind windows, with some U-turn and jukes to make him become invincible during the attack.
* When chasing first officer, try to bait him into using his watch and then try to get out of his watch range before he hypnotizes you, nulling its effects.

### Character Statistics

**Press "Expand" to see the character's statistics.**

Movements
* Running Speed: 3.8 m/s
* Walking Speed: 2.11 m/s
* Crouch Walking Speed: 1.14 m/s
* Crawling Speed: 0.44 m/s

Decoding
* Duration of decoding Cipher Machines: 101.25 sec
* Regressed decoding progress from electric shock: 1.0%
* Duration of inability to decode from electric shock: 2.0 sec
* Time spent opening Exit Gate: 18.0 sec

Interactions
* Time spent dropping pallets: 0.73 sec
* Time spent vaulting over pallets at high speed: 1.17 sec
* Time spent vaulting over pallets at medium speed: 1.63 sec
* Time spent vaulting over pallets at low speed: 2.07 sec
* Time spent vaulting over windows at high speed: 0.87 sec
* Time spent vaulting over windows at low speed: 1.27 sec
* Time spent going through chests: 10.0 sec

Healing
* Time spent healing injured Survivors: 15.0 sec
* Time spent being healed by others: 15.0 sec
* Self-healing time after knockdown: 30.0 sec

Others
* Duration of footprint: 4.0 sec
* Duration of speed boost after being hit: 2.0 sec
* Duration of struggle while being held up: 16.0 sec
* Rocket Chair countdown time: 75.0 sec
* Time spent being rescued from Rocket Chairs: 1.0 sec

## Change Log

September 26th, 2019
* Adjustment: The Poseidon Watch is changed to hypnotize the hunter map-wide and the hunter affected will see the fake image doing actions with a delay of 1 second for 20 seconds and First Officer receives a 5% movement speed boost during the duration of the item usage. The hallucination disappears if he gets hurt or chaired and First Officer now has 2 Poseidon Watches when starting a game.
* Adjustment: The trait Vanish has been adjusted to work when First Officer rescues the chaired survivor, the survivor copies the appearance of First Officer and this effect will disappear if they use a skill or get downed.

May 13th, 2021
* Buff: The Poseidon Watch now has a three-stage activation mechanism. Each time it is used, Hunters within a radius of 32/10/6 meters will be hypnotized again. The Poseidon Watch will be consumed if it isn't used again within 10 seconds.
* Buff: Hunters who are afflicted with 1/2/3 stacks of Hypnosis will see the image of the First Officer 1/2/2 seconds ago, respectively.
* Buff: Added a new Trait Effect "Lost Paradise" for the First Officer: When hit by a hypnotized Hunter while in stealth, the First Officer gains a Trait effect for 5 seconds. For the duration of this effect, the First Officer won't be knocked down after taking fatal damage, and all the damage he takes during this time will be applied to him after 5 seconds.
* Buff: Added notifications for ability effect ranges and hitting Hunters.

June 30th, 2022
* Buff: For each Poseidon Watch the First Officer uses, his decoding speed increases by 7% for up to 14%.
* Buff: First Officer's hypnotic effect will not be removed when receiving damage. It will only be removed on touching the Rocket Chair or being knocked down.

## Trivia

* He's the 3rd character to have heterochromia next to Kreacher (Thief) and Mike (Acrobat).
	+ Coincidentally, both of Jose's eyes have similar colors like Kreacher's (left blue, right brown), though his are a brighter shade.
* He and his family belongs to the 4th class of nobility, Viscount.
* He was formerly one of the survivors that have a 'secondary role' which classifies them in two categories. (This can be seen on the paperclip when viewing Survivor Profiles.)
	+ He is classified as both a Rescue and Contain role, Rescue appears to be his primary role while Contain is his secondary role.
	+ He was previously a Rescue/Contain Type Survivor until it was changed to solely Rescue on May 19th 2022.
* He is likely Spanish, as his first name is predominantly used in Spain (though with an accent on the e) and his dish in game, Paella, is described as a favorite dish for "Spanish sailors".
* Jose's deduction rumor incorrectly refers to Oletus Manor as Olive's Manor.

## References

1. ↑ Official Japanese Reference Book
2. ↑ In his 2020 and 2021 birthday profile, his likes were listed as treasure, mechanics, and mysticism but all subsequent material lists only luxury goods.
3. ↑ As the in-game voice. A website that confirms the voice actor of **First Officer** and Evil Reptilian - https://zh.moegirl.org.cn/zh-tw/%E5%88%98%E4%BB%A5%E5%98%89