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For information on Angela in Lobotomy Corporation, see Angela on the Lobotomy Corporation Wiki.
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| “ | Let me introduce myself properly. My name is Angela, the director and head librarian of this Library. | ” |
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Angela (앤젤라, Anjella) is the main female protagonist/character of Library Of Ruina. Formerly the assistant of the Manager of 
Lobotomy Corporation, she is an AI who has since become the creator and director of The Library, in the hopes of ultimately becoming human and finding freedom in the outside world. The player follows her story in the Library from the view of Roland, a Fixer who becomes her servant/assistant after trespassing into the Library uninvited. She possibly resides in the first 
Floor of General Works, Keter.
Appearance
Angela has short light-blue hair, yellow eyes, and pale skin. In her Librarian attire, she wears a dark outfit with a long coat, a white and black cravat, and heels. Her pendant attached to her cravat is an amber color with the orbs on her heels sharing the same highlight color. She always carries a large book with her.
Her alternative outfit seen from Canard Episode 1, originating from the True Ending of Lobotomy Corporation, is a complete dress of black feathers, covering her from neck to feet. Angela's hair is slightly longer and more unkempt in this form, due to immediately cutting it after untying her ponytail she had in the ending of Lobotomy Corporation.
Personality
Angela has a serious, logical, and concise attitude that she reflects through her cordial manners, also expressing visible distaste for rudeness and brutality. She has only interests in her own goal: to live a life not bounded to a place, and she will use all the methods available to achieve those objectives.
She knows when to take a situation lightly or seriously when there are tense topics or questions that remind her of the past. Angela is curious about the world outside of the facility she was in when it was underground, and she uses Roland as well as The Library's Guests to learn more about The City.
Angela is initially strict, cold and sarcastic when facing her former colleagues and Servant in the beginning, but as the story progresses, her attitude towards them become nicer and closer, she will even express thanks for them sometimes, and has built up a close relationship with Roland.
Throughout the story, Angela carries trauma from her millions of years of physical and emotional isolation underground in Facility X-394 of L Corp., manifesting in her pursuit of vengeance against her creator, Ayin, and the rest of The City so that they could feel the pain she felt as "payback".
Story
Some events here reference other cutscenes in Receptions, Suppressions, and Floor Realizations. For more context, see the individual pages of Guests and Patron Librarians for their individual stories.
Past
Angela's story follows up from the main plot of Lobotomy Corporation and the True Ending of the White Nights and Dark Days. After the goal of 'A', her creator; was finished and the Seed of Light sprout, she managed to acquire a portion of that light to create The Library. She started to wear her alternative outfit from that point.
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| Angela is an AI constructed by Ayin and Benjamin in Carmen's image after Lobotomy Corporation's ascension into the Wing known as L Corp. Despite created with Carmen's brain mapping, which included her past memories, Angela was treated as a failure by Ayin, who refused to even look at her. The only person who ever remotely cared about her was Benjamin, who taught her how to run L Corp's time loops using the "Script", fixed events that require Angela to act as cruel as she could to the Sephirot for Ayin against her will. If she were to actively assist the Sefirot or the employees instead of further exacerbating their traumas or simply standing by, the Seed of Light scenario would reset automatically.
This led to her deeply resenting Ayin for having her in a robotic body in order to force her to commit heinous acts for millennia, pushing her to seek her revenge at its completion, successfully halting the Seed of Light midway and making a deal with the Sephirot to see if she could change for the greater good. Before the Realization of the Floor of Religion, Hokma reveals to Angela that the person who created the invitations and told Angela the idea of receiving guests with the Library was Carmen, now an omnipresent Light being who instigates the Distortions. |
Chapter 1 - Canard
Angela was preparing The Library for its opening when Roland suddenly wandered into The Library. She manages to subdue and question the intruder, who cannot answer properly, but says he just entered without noticing. After Roland does not answer Angela's questions properly, she punishes him by taking his limbs and after the interrogation is over, he faints. Angela later changes her attire to the librarian suit and reconstructs Roland's body. She makes Roland her servant/assistant, explaining to him that he will be fighting Guests, people that she lures into The Library by using Invitations, to then convert them into Books when defeated, to allow her to reach the ultimate book in order to 'release' her. Since Roland doesn't have any options, he decides to make the best of his situation.
Angela continues the progress of the Library thanks to Roland helping during Receptions, and between Invitations, Roland and Angela talk with each other about themselves, The City, the individual groups that operate throughout The City, and the Guests themselves, thanks to the Invitation showing the situation of the guests before they come to The Library.
Since then, Angela takes the role of one of the game's expository characters alongside Roland, discussing about the Guests and welcoming them. Since she hasn't experienced much about the outside world, Roland explains The City's inner working to her, although his statements are sometimes contradictory or paradoxical.
Chapter 2 - Urban Myth
After dealing with a number of guests, Roland notes that he's gotten used to sorting out books by now, something that makes Angela ask why is he helping her so submissively, to which Roland sarcastically remarks how she dismembered him on his arrival, adding that can't leave on his own either. Angela, however, points out that Roland doesn't seem to be fearful of her, having already seen people crawl with terror in their faces, deducting that he's not just compliant out of fear of death. He jokingly wonders what did she do in the past, before replying that there's some things he also wants to know about the Library, hoping he'd get an answer by helping her goal, and guessing it's probably better than being a washed up Fixer, scraping at the bottom of the barrel for a living.
While Angela appreciates the coincidence of interests and although she tells him he's "free to make use of her as long as she exploits him", she also warns him to not pry into her past any further, with a careless attempt possibly being enough to have him killed. He jokingly asks what made her use such vicious words, to which Angela adds that she feels like slowly melting his limbs this time. Retracting his question, Roland sarcastically asks for permission to make another, adding "ma'am" at the end of every sentence. Angela grants it to him with another warning, which makes Roland ask about the Librarians, noting they don't "feel" human, but not like machines or artificial creatures either. Angela explains that they're entities previously known as Abnormalities and Employees, similar to her in the sense that they originated from humans, taken advantage of by the facility that once stood on The Library's place, and were abandoned once they were no longer useful. Roland mentions that the way Angela uses them still sounds like exploitation, which Angela justifies by adding they couldn't hold a stable physical form and are barely kept together by being bound to a book, along that they'll all be freed along with Angela once she find the one perfect book. This surprises Roland, with Angela adding that's the only way any of them, herself included could leave.
Chapter 3 - Urban Legend
Roland cheerily notes that The Library will soon be exalted to the rank of Urban Legend. He explains that most Urban Myth rank cases are mostly false or underwhelming, but the really interesting ones are moved to Urban Legend. Annoyed at his roundabout explanation, Angela asks if that higher grade means they'll attract guests with more valuable information, something that Roland confirms, since Urban Legends are acknowledged as a phenomenon worth their attention, shortly recalling the times when his grandmother told him tales of Urban Legends as a kid, before beating himself down for remembering his own past. Angela expresses curiosity about Roland's family, but he adds that he lost all of them, having been raised by her grandmother, his parents passing away without him knowing how and his grandmother disappearing one day, before adding it's nothing special. Angela wonders what was Roland going to say, but he moves on to ask about the one perfect book that'd give Angela her freedom, specifically, if freedom is the only reason why she's gathering books. Angela replies he's only partially correct, since during the time she was trapped underground, she could only collected fragmented information about the outside world, which were repeated over and over again. She wanted to hear new stories and see new faces, along with the freedom to live as herself, the freedom to forget, and "a little bit of revenge". Roland wonders what does she mean by getting revenge, with Angela elaborating that she's taking it on the "abominable person" and the world that made her into the way she is, believing she will only attain freedom once he completely destroys every trace of his dream.
Roland then asks if she'd really get her freedom and vengeance by following the Invitation, to which Angela further explains that it will guide her to the book that will let her achieve them, but she doesn't know how exactly will those wishes come true. In spite of that, she is sure that the one perfect book will complete her and The Library, containing everything she needs to know. This surprises Roland, who can't really believe her entire plan is just finding that book without knowing exactly what will happen next. Angela justifies it as only knowing that she will become whole at the end of the Invitation's journey, and even she could fill the infinite space of The Library with infinite books from countless guests, it'd be an inefficient way to collect the information she needs compared to the Invitation's guidance. Roland further asks that if she gets the one perfect book, would she know what it'd exactly do to her to become "whole" in her terms. Angela replies that she doesn't care what happens to her, as long as she can get the results she's hoping for, something that makes Roland note her tenacity as almost frightening.
Chapter 4 - Urban Plague
Angela calls out Roland's name, asking to confirm if they'd have to prepare for guests from major Syndicates and even Wings. He notes that what just happened was the "third most surprising thing to happen to him" on The Library, specifically, Angela calling him by his name. She replies that it's simply his name after all, but he adds that she had never referred to him by his own name before, which Angela explains that her trust for him has increased, and wanted to refer to him in more relatively intimate terms to reinforce their amity. Roland teases her by calling her explanation a boring answer, since it had been long since anyone had called him by his name, the last time he heard it having been from his family. Angela asks what he means, considering his grandmother disappeared long ago, with Roland simply adding that he used to have a wife, something that peaks Angela's interest. Roland jokes that she's surely more interested about "the concept of this inefficient practice known as marriage", rather than his own, before she openly asks for him to tell her more about his marriage. He warns that it's a banal story with some sad moments, which he thinks Angela wouldn't like. Nonetheless, Angela insists, stating she's open for new stories, which makes Roland poke fun at her for not even telling her own life to him. Angela sternly replies that she's simply sick of it, being a boring and trifling story looped over for ten millennia, comparing it to reading the same book for a million years, to which Roland sympathizes by saying he'd have choked himself by the fifth time he'd be forced to read a boring book over and over before telling his story.
He recalls his days working as a Fixer, saying he had nothing better to do and he wasn't a bad fit for it, coming from a rough background. Eventually, he got enough money for a house in a decent spot and meeting a soulmate. He remembers her as a tough woman, getting the feeling of comfort of finding a place he belonged to whenever he looked at her. Before telling more, he stops for a moment, asking Angela if he had been dragging for too long, who asks him to continue. He mentions he had a bunch of opportunities to see her, with both of them working as Fixers, herself being a pretty high-grade one. He skims through most of his jobs as "countless up and downs" before they got married, explaining that even though put simply, the heartache he felt on those twist and turns was real, and once they had both gained a good amount of money, they quit their jobs and decided to settle down in peace. Although he warns that it'd come off as corny, he describes himself as happy during that time, finally having somebody he could rely on and only having to worry about what to have for lunch, where to take a stroll together, and what to name their child. He moves on to a time when he got an urgent call from a friend for a request far away, adding that Angela could probably guess where this is going. Since the job wasn't a big deal, the pay was alright and his wife approved, he decided to take it. Having been dispatched to a District famous for pajeon, his wife's favorite food, he decided to surprise her by buying a stasis box from U Corp to present her with a warm pajeon straight from the kitchen. Unfortunately, a huge incident happened in their District while he was away, their house collapsing and his wife dying along with their unborn child. He recalls he cried for a long while, cursing the world and The City, having struggled his entire life to attain that happiness before slipping away from his hands.
Once Roland finished his story, Angela is left speechless. He adds that it could happen to anyone in the City, being simply a matter of endurance, which makes Angela ask if he could endure that trial, which he explains he's still trying to settle it in his own terms. Angela moves on, asking about what's the second most surprising thing that happened to him. He responds by mentioning that working there suits him better than he thought, along with that he's saving the biggest surprise for last, jokingly adding it's not fun to spoil everything at once.
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Chapter 5 - Urban NightmareRoland asks Angela if she thinks she's getting any closer to the freedom she's been yearning for, who replies that even if she doesn't know, the one perfect book is coming steadily closer to completion. Roland further asks if she really thinks the one perfect book is really gonna "resolve everything magically", with Angela answering that the Library literally holds infinite possibilities, with every possible combination of letters contained in the books, though those fragments are practically worthless on their own, but with the help of the invitation, she could navigate those endless possibilities and reach the ones she needs for the one perfect book containing the answers she needs, weaving the books and the Light following the invitation's lead. Roland doubts her, saying that doesn't sound theoretically possible, which Angela objects that she isn't simply hanging onto theoretical possibilities, having learned from seeing the various sides of the City in the process of creating the one book, realizing that without it there's no way to find an answer from the City. This response puzzles Roland, with Angela explaining that she learned one thing from all the books they had procured: nobody is truly free in the City, everybody is still chained to something. Nothing seems to be done out of free will; Fixers obeying their Offices, the Offices obeying the Associations, even knowing their orders could get them killed, with the same going for the Syndicates. Everybody is heading somewhere, but nobody knows where, and no one can decide where to go. Roland notes how he used to thing money could get anything in the City, including freedom, which makes Angela continue that even if they could be free, they decide not to be, even shunning it, preferring to be part of something that isn't themselves, defining themselves with the organization they belong to or valuations made by others. Their essence being so fragile that they can't define their own identity without somebody else. She cites the "disease of the mind" Carmen talked about, recalling her time in L Corp as having been exploited for the freedom of the people of the City, to "spread his enlightenment to the rest of the City." She states that she wishes she could crush everything to dust at this point, to ruin it all for somebody to hold the responsibility for creating her and leaving her to suffer. She adds that she also sometimes wishes she could forget everything, the Library, the one book, before asking a rhetorical question, if he knew the feeling of being denied from the very first moment he was born, remembering her creator and wishing he could've at least told her what she did wrong, instead only receiving a pair of cold eyes with no expectation and a single quiet remark saying "It's only a machine", cursing her memory for still remembering that moment so vividly as it had happened seconds ago, cursing her body for hearing words she doesn't want to listing to, cursing her head for reminding her of this she doesn't want to remember. Roland simply adds that he sounds like a nasty person, if he needed a machine for repetitive tasks, why did he have to break the AI Ethics Amendment, giving her the capability to feel emotion. Angela elaborates that she wasn't born with the ability to feel emotion, but rather it slowly awakened within her over countless repeats, or maybe he designed her so that emotions would awake within her in due time, perhaps because her tasks needed emotions, something that could form slight variations to an ever-repeating script while enduring millennia, something he could keep in control to not deviate from it. He didn't need a human-like machine, but rather a human with the properties of a machine. Angela remarks that Roland could never possibly know how many desperate struggles she made to stomach the cycle, closing her eyes was the least and most she could do to resist the endless stream of moments she didn't want to see. Roland interject that the role she was forced to play was at least over now, and she could think what she could do next. Clearly offended, Angela asks Roland if he really believes she could simply forget about the past and move on, adding that she could never forget, that even a moron could envision what would happen next and what kind of face everyone would make at any moment after so much time. Every second of it inscribed into her memory, remembering everything she saw even once horribly vividly, unable to forgive her creator for having made her in a whim and leaving without tying any loose ends with her. Roland explains himself by saying he wasn't telling her to forget everything, but rather suggesting her to think about her next move, since it could provide a little support for herself, like a floor to fall back on in her plot of vengeance. Angela is surprised to see Roland care about her that much, but he adds that it's ultimately for his own good. Angela mentions that it's still evident that she's headed somewhere, with her body undergoing changes, with her mechanical exterior turning into flesh, with blood coursing through it as seen in the reception of the Musicians of Bremen, even though she still has a long way to go to reach the one perfect book. Roland wonders if that means she's transforming into a human, to which Angela responds that while it seems like it, it's not quite perfect yet, possibly becoming a real human at the end of the Invitation's journey, finally being free from her countless memories to think about what to do next. Chapter 6 - Star of the CityRoland notes that Angela looks busy writing something, who explains that she's making a list of things she wants to do once she obtains the one perfect book and leaves the Library, including trying out the meat stew he mentioned some time ago. Roland is surprised that she remembered that bit, with Angela reminding him that she can remember everything, which makes him ask what's the point of making a list then. Angela then admits that she made it so that she wouldn't forget later, much to Roland's shock, meaning that she's coming closer to becoming human, feeling her memories fading away slowly, even though she still has many to erase. Roland congratulates her, her earnest wish finally coming true after all, with Angela thanking him and explaining her list of things she wants to do as her dream of a next step.Angela then asks Roland about what he plans to do once he leaves the Library, who after thinking for a moment, decided he wants to quit his job as a Fixer first of all, much to the surprise of Angela, who even though she admits she doesn't know what kind of fixer he used to be, he seems like he's real suited for the job, being not only a skilled combatant but also adept at handling a multitude of situations and having tasks done smoothly, even remarking he could possibly be a "kickass" as he claimed to be. Roland reflect that being a Fixer is the career that fits him best, but he's had enough of it now, having made enough people bleed for causes that aren't his. Angela asks what would he want to do then, with Roland teasing her persistence and pondering for a moment about what to do, but unable to think about anything. Angela happily offers to hire him officially and properly this time, even giving him a proper payment if he insists, with the job simply being helping her do the things written on her list. Before Roland could complain about what he just said, Angela remarks that none of them involve harming anybody, having had enough of that from running the Library. Who after thinking about what to do with her freedom like Roland suggested, she thought it'd be nice to travel around the world without having to worry about anything. Roland once again complains about what escorting her entails, to which Angela adds that she can defend herself just fine, he just needs to be her companion to talk with, since having looked at their previous guests, she doubts she could make a friend who she could get along as well as she does with him. Roland wonders if she really sees him as a friend, which makes Angela ask herself if she's simply being naive once again, since the relationship with the few acquaintances she had was nothing pleasant, each on of them simply having designated roles, being merely a tool and machine to recite the script in her eyes. Roland deducts she's talking about the Sephirot, before Angela adds that if they had met under different circumstances, they could've been good colleagues, before moving on to ask Roland what did he think about her job offer. Roland replies that' he'll consider it, with letting go of all woes and simply wandering the world being a nice proposal. Chapter 7 - Impuritas CivitatisAfter the first part of the Hana Association reception, Olivier arrives and attempts to assassinate Angela using a device that causes her to experience 2000 years of time in a few seconds, something that would prove to be lethal in her semi-human state. However, Roland arrives in time and halts Olivier before challenging him to a duel as The Black Silence. When The Reverberation Ensemble invades the Library as its first uninvited guests, Argalia warns Angela about her naivete and subtly implies that Roland will be betraying later on, as he was dealing with a heavily enraged Roland. After defeating the Reverberation Ensemble, Angela attempts to claim the one true book only for Roland to suddenly reveal his true intentions. He already wanted to enter the Library and kill Angela all along because according to him, she instigated the White Nights, Dark Days that created The Pianist who killed his wife. However, during her pure machine state, Angela was entirely invulnerable, so he was unable to do so just yet. But as her body and mind becomes more and more vulnerable and human the more books she collects, Roland was able to find an opportunity to kill her, kickstarting the reception of the Black Silence. Despite transforming into multiple Distortion monsters, the Black Silence was unable to defeat the Library, and pleads for Angela to kill him, telling her that he will kill her if she falters. The player then can choose to have Angela kill Roland or spare him, with the latter option only available if all Asiyah floors and the Floor of Religion are fully realized. If the player choses to let Angela kill Roland, she will book him instantly, then get the One True Book to turn all the Sefirot into humans, release Abnormalities onto the cityfolk and restore the consciousness of former L Corp employees. She then kills Malkuth, Yesod and Netzach and the remaining Sefirot stand against her but fail, causing their deaths as well. Angela, burdened by the guilt of getting her freedom by killing all of her friends and vanishing the cityfolk into the Library, continues her aimless destruction for 13 years, but due to being a human instead of a machine, the Library was demoted into a Star of the City and she eventually lets a bookhunter end her life.
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Angela is only playable during Keter's Floor Realization, temporarily replacing Roland as the Patron Librarian for the entire Realization. She utilizes her own Key Page solely consisting of modified Combat pages from a select few abnormalities (Today’s Shy Look, Child of the Galaxy, Burrowing Heaven, Happy Teddy Bear and The Funeral of the Dead Butterflies). Additionally, she will gain E.G.O. Pages from each floor (Fourth Match Flame and Regret during the second phase; Red Eyes and Da Capo during the third; Gold Rush, Thirst and Faded Memories during the fourth and Twilight and Penitence during the last phase), alongside with one special E.G.O. page available only after all E.G.O. pages are used and a certain condition is met. She has 106 Angela possesses six
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Gallery
Concept Art
EGO forms
Fourth Match Flame
Regret
Black Swan
Da Capo
Prophet
Wrist Cutter
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The full sprite sheet below comes from the Library Of Ruina Art Book. It is included here to act as an official reference, as all the individual sprites are reassembled from the game's assets and may have slight differences from in-game.
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Trivia
- Angela's new design seems to lack her eye design pattern that she used to have in Lobotomy Corporation.
- Angela's alternate appearance in Canard's opening cutscene was the one seen at the end of Lobotomy Corporation's true ending.
- Looking very closely at the game's main menu, Angela can be seen sitting on top of the book mountain.
- Despite being the Director of the Library, Angela always addresses herself as the "Director and Librarian" when she greets the Guests, but she never participated in a Reception, where all other Librarians fought the Guests.
