Obbligato Musicians

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The **Obbligato Musicians** are a group of composers gathered under the Virtuadoll Regret. In order to strengthen Redo, they charm its residents and build their faith in Regret through music. They serve as The Caligula Effect 2's main antagonists.

## History

Some time before the events of the game, Bluffman gathered the Obbligato Musicians, starting with MU-kun. The eight of them compose songs, though they rarely seem to communicate with one-another aside from with Bluffman.

They have a headquarters in the Metaverse-Es known as the Tower of Epimethus.

## Members

### *Caligula 2*

* Machina: An Obbligato Musician who requested Regret to grant him a mechanized form. His loyalty to Regret is resolute, acquiescing to her every command without hesitation. He routinely patrols Redo to enforce public order.
* Pandora: One of the Obbligato Musicians. A woman of few words, even fewer things are capable of disrupting her composure. She prefers devoting her attention to her beloved plants over human interaction. When she's not tending to the botanical garden, she's quietly composing music in her favorite spot, which also happens to be in the garden.
* MU-kun: Another Obbligato Musician, MU-kun is iconic for his eccentric outfit and hair. He has stolen the hearts of younger audiences with his music, fashion sense, unorthodox showmanship, and his self-proclaimed ability to communicate with the cosmos.
* #QP: One of the Obbligato Musicians and classmate of the Protagonist. Keeping her identity as a Musician hidden, she attends school every day in plain sight. She's always scouring the campus for her next fling, chatting up any guy she happens upon. Her one and only reason for concealing her identity as a Musician is because she fears it would intimidate and dissuade potential suitors.
* Doktor: One of the Obbligato Musicians, and a doctor at a hospital on the outskirts of Okitama City. He's often sighted pushing Kranke around in a wheelchair. Poised and brusque, he lends his talents, both medical and musical, for the prosperity of Redo, although he prefers to limit his interactions with the other Musicians.
* Kranke: A third-year at Tatefushi Academy, and an Obbligato Musician. Kranke is a paraplegic who can only traverse via wheelchair with the aid of Doktor. Nobody can tell what she's thinking due to her distant disposition and her empty smile. The music she writes is dreary and dark, which is unexpected, given her ephemeral personality. Even so, the droves of fans are a clear indication that her peculiar perspective profoundly embedded in her music has smitten the world.
* Kudan: The PR mastermind of the Obbligato Musicians responsible for the marketing and public image of Regret and the Musicians. Her innate ability to fabricate lies and manipulate people is as habitual to her as breathing, and her oratory talents are a valuable asset to Regret's otherwise soft-spoken personality. She enjoys quoting well-known people, historical and fictitious alike.
* Bluffman: The kingpin of the Obbligato Musicians, and a man of mystery who masks his face. He is Regret's second in command, acting as both her advisor and her manager. In fact, Bluffman recruited all the Musicians in lieu of the taciturn virtuadoll. To top it off, he's also a veteran songwriter held in high esteem by the rest of the younger Musicians. To him, Regret is a flawless entity, superior in every way to every virtuadoll that has ever existed. This loyalty is the foundation for his staunch modus operandi.

## Trivia

* "Obbligato" is a musical term that describes an instrumental part as essential, emphasizing that it should not be omitted.
* Each member of the Obbligato Musicians has a parallel in a member of the Go-Home Club and vice-versa, excluding the Protagonist.
	+ **Machina and Sasara Amiki** - Machina is a young man who wished for a robotic body after the death of his grandmother, which triggered a massive fear of death. Contrasting him, Sasara is an 86 year old woman who no longer fears death because she believes she has had a good life.
	+ **Pandora and Kiriko Miyasako** - Pandora was an idol-obsessed fangirl, who was betrayed by her beloved idol after he had an affair with another fan. This caused her to hate all idols. Contrasting her, Kiriko was an idol by the stage name of Momona Kurahashi. The pressure from her fans and her label was killing her, so she quit after ten years.
	+ **MU-kun and Gin Noto** - MU-kun was an ordinary office worker who gave up on his dreams. He wished desperately to be unique, rather than be unsatisfied with his life. He regret not putting more effort into his childhood dreams. Contrasting him, Gin is a transmasc non-binary person who felt trapped by gender essentialism. He regret never coming out of the closet in reality, living as a woman even while it was destroying his mental health.
	+ **#QP and Kobato Kazamatsuri** - #QP was a 29 year old dental assistant who never focused on romance until she believed it was too late. She had no idea what she wanted in a boyfriend, and she struggled too much with trying to figure that out, which brought her to Redo, where she believed she could find her soulmate. Contrasting her, Kobato is a 27 year old NEET who lost his teenage years to Astral Syndrome and Mobius. He believes this is his second chance because this time he has nothing to go home to in reality, so he lives his youth here. However, he begins to wish to go home because Regret has still trapped him here and Mobius gave him an intense dislike for Virtuadolls.
	+ **Doktor and Ryuto Tsukishima** - Doktor is a 40 year old man who regrets performing surgery on Kranke, and after her spine was injured, he began to focus on no one but her because of his guilt, closing all of his possibilities and focusing on nothing but relieving his guilt. Contrasting him, Ryuto is a 15 year old prodigy who is terrified of the possibilities closing around him as he grows older, and being suffocated under the pressure he’s been put under since birth.
	+ **Kranke and Shota Tsurumaki** - Kranke is a woman who had no hope from birth. She had a degenerative disease that wasn’t fatal, but she wouldn’t be able to live normally. However, she had a single light in the form of Doktor. That light was snuffed out after he messed up her surgery and destroyed her legs. She was almost relieved at first, because she was scared that Doktor would leave her if her legs were to be healed, but Doktor was wracked with guilt, and she truly regretted having her surgery. Contrasting her, Shota was a police officer who was a rising star on the force. He was even engaged to be married, but one day there was a suspect that he fired on and accidentally killed. His entire life was ruined, his superiors turned against him, the media crucified him, and his fiancée even left him. He quickly regret taking that shot.
	+ **Kudan and Niko Komamura** - Kudan had so many thoughts, but no way to get them out of her head. Born with a debilitating stutter, she watched her family crash and burn as her father was the victim of a fabricated scandal. She couldn’t stop it, and actually sped it up accidentally. Kudan came to Redo and was finally able to speak properly, and she now believed that since the masses turned against her father so easily, that lying to them was justified. It was for the good of all. In contrast, Niko is not actually Niko. Iori Komamura lied and pretended to be her sister because she believed it was the best way to keep her family together, since in reality her family shattered apart after Niko died and she asserted herself as Iori.
	+ **Bluffman and Marie Amabuki** - Bluffman was a genius engineer. He was never a family man, he loved his work above all else. But when his daughter began struggling, and his wife left, their relationship fell apart. He pretended to be Thorn, stealing the songs that remained unreleased after the Mobius events. Contrasting him, Marie Amabuki was the Ostinato Musician Wicked. She forgot her past as Wicked, but she was truly an Ostinato. Bluffman pretended to be Thorn, but Wicked still lives on, even though she’s forgotten who she is.