Gaius Antiphon

"Wait, you can't be serious... now?!"This page contains story spoilers for the NOISZ series as a whole; proceed with caution.

## Gaius Antiphon

* re:VERSE
* STΔRLIVHT
* episode G

### Also Known As

Father (Beyond and Arietta), Papa (Arietta)

## Biographical

### Relationships

* Miria: Wife
* Beyond: Daughter/heir to his company
* Arietta: Daughter
* Stornel: Employee
* Remora: Employee

## Bio

> *A cold-hearted genius whose talent for developing unorthodox technology has made his Antiphon Corporation one of the world's leading defense contractors and shady megacorps. Is the NOISZ one of his latest creations?*
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> *A central figure in the story, but...*
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Gaius Antiphon is the CEO of the Antiphon Corporation. He is known for being rather reclusive, preferring to work in the lab over representing his company. He has ensured that his daughters, Beyond and Arietta have avoided the public eye altogether.

Some time before the events of NOISZ Ignition, Gaius died. Advanced artificial intelligence has been running the company in his absence, with Beyond serving as the company's acting chairperson.

## Story

### NOISZ Ignition

Gaius was trapped in the Void, and his mind and body were lost there. All that remained of him was his giant suit of armor and his remorse.

Gaius sees the immense energy trapped within the main character's NOISZ and reaches out to it. This causes the main character to be suddenly transported to the World of Music. Gaius' armor appears in the city and starts rampaging. Beyond, exhausted and weak, runs away from the armor. Meanwhile, Arietta commands her NOISZ Beasts to fend off the armor.

In Story C (and Story Long A), the main character confronts the armor to protect their friends. In Story C, they are victorious. The armor fades away, and they absorb its energy. In Story Long A, they fail to defeat the armor and subsequently die.

### NOISZ episode G

Gaius travels to the World of Music using the ARIA and Sonic Blade. Upon arrival, he runs into Miria. Gaius is believed to be the subject of a prophecy about the first human to visit the World of Music bringing ruin to it, so she attacks him. However, she stops seeing him as a threat after the fight. She accompanies him as the two explore the World of Music together. Throughout their adventure, Gaius and Miria grow closer. Eventually, after a trip through Tacet Forest, Kristoph brings them to the castle. Marziale confronts them. She assures Miria she will send Gaius back to the human world after removing his memories.

After Miria performs the memory erasing procedure and kisses Gaius in the process, Marziale seals him in the Void. There, Gaius meets Alpha, who gives him the Void Crystal. Miria rescues him and returns him to the human world.

In the game's post-credits scene, Gaius Antiphon has been impaled by a massive blade. As he is dying, he remembers what was important to him. He asks Arisa to tell her sister that he's proud of both of them. Arisa says she'll think about it, then says goodbye. Gaius tumbles into infinite darkness.

### NOISZ STΔRLIVHT

Gaius' presence slowly grows throughout the story. His first appearance is in Chapter 2.IV. Sera sneaks into his office and points a handgun at him. He laughs this off. After Gaius' taunting, Sera shoots, and Stornel catches the airsoft pellet.

Sera tries to ask Gaius a few questions, mainly about Beyond, but Gaius scoffs at her ignorance. When Grace tries to link, Gaius promises to let Sera go if she leaves him alone. Reluctantly, she agrees to this.

"Beyond" reveals to the Producer her plan to have STΔRLIVHT kill Gaius Antiphon. "Beyond" explains her reasoning to the Producer, namely to protect music from disappearing because of Gaius' callous solution to the Silencing.

In Chapter 6, STΔRLIVHT heads into the basement of the Antiphon building to confront Gaius and protect music. After her fight with Gaius, Grace is impaled by Gaius' swords. She wishes goodbye to Sera. Gaius then taunts the remaining STΔRLIVHT members, to which they respond by declaring their intent to attack him once again.

## History

After the events of NOISZ episode G, Gaius returned to the World of Music a second time with ill-intent. With an army of his subordinates, he invaded, destroying the landscape and killing many of its residents, including Karin's parents. The Noise Beasts were able to fend him off and stop his invasion from completely destroying the World of Music.

In Blue Route flashbacks, he scolded Beyond for getting the N Project shut down and Stornel's firing.

In Red Route flashbacks, he asked Stornel and Remora to come clean about the falsified data on the report. Remora admitted to generating fake safety data. Gaius had the NOISZ prototype constructed anyway, and he forced Stornel to test it. Gaius trapped him in place and forcibly put the prototype onto him. Gaius threatened to sue Remora unless she completed the NOISZ.

## Gallery

NOISZ re:||VERSE character art.NOISZ STΔRLIVHT character art.episode G character art.Gaius as he appears in combat (NOISZ STΔRLIVHT).Insomnia (NOISZ Ignition).Insomnia (MonstDeath Remix) (NOISZ STΔRLIVHT).Miria kissing Gaius (NOISZ episode G).Alpha holding Gaius by the neck (NOISZ episode G).

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/noiszgame/status/1158390169810198531