Ray Beams
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Melissa Fahn (English)
Ray Beams is Charles' fighting partner and wife, and apparently served with him in the SOF. In the past, she was rendered sterile, possibly by the Seven Swell phenomena that occurred during the First Summer of Love, and finding a child to call her own has become a fixation for her. Her day-to-day life with Charles is peaceful, as they perform various jobs for hire, go to raves, cook for themselves and keep their ship, the Swan, immaculately clean.
When Renton temporarily joins Charles and Ray on the Swan, Ray immediately bonds with him. To her, Renton is the child she could not have and with his presence finally makes her feel like she has a true family. Her extreme joy turns to heartbreak when she learns that Renton is not only Adroc Thurston's son but was also a member of Gekkostate. Even though she lets him return to Gekkostate without protest, she is emotionally distraught. Her grief later turns to anger when she learns that Renton is in love with Eureka.
Ray despises Eureka, who was in the typeZERO when it caused the Seven Swell and blames her for her inability to bear children. Her anger towards Eureka is only heightened when she sees Eureka's children, Maurice, Maeter, and Linck. Ray also blames Eureka for 'stealing' Renton, whom Ray had adopted as her son, away from her. After Charles's death, Ray loses her sanity, tearing their ship apart aside from a table with three plates and monogramed mugs for her, Charles, and Renton. Ray attempts to attack the Gekko again only to also be killed by Holland when he destroys the Swan.
Norb
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), Jamieson Price (English) Child Norb Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Sam Riegel (English)
Norb is a powerful Vodarac priest. He can be considered the main influence towards Holland leaving the SOF after Norb explains to him what Dewey is trying to do and the consequences it entailed for the planet and humanity. Despite his occupation as a priest, Norb smokes, eats unhealthy junk food (such as pizza and chips), and barely reflects any religious point of view even when asked to do so.
Norb's past shows that as a boy he was given the task to be the guardian of what the Vodarac believed to be their messiah but was actually the first Coralian girl spawned by the Scub Coral. At first, Norb tried to maintain the solemn duty of simply doing tasks for this being, or Sakuya, as she would later tell him, but later earned her affection when he interacted with her by giving her a lotus flower. Because of the development of this relationship it was believed that they would be the ones to unite both humanity and the Scub Coral. In the end, due to various circumstances, both Sakuya and Norb suffer consequences. Sakuya is left in the form of a giant lotus flower and Norb was left with a Compac Drive embedded into his chest that originally materialized from Sakuya's remains. The Compac Drive in his chest gave Norb strange powers. These powers included the ability to shut-off or disrupt other Compac Drives, manipulate Scub Coral and cause it to rise as barriers, and even manipulate Trapar energy to the point of using it as an offensive weapon.
Sakuya
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Jennie Kwan (English)
Sakuya is Eureka's predecessor, sporting lavender hair. Because she was a girl of mysterious power, the religious authority of Vodarac thought she was some sort of messiah and placed her in the central part of the temple. They banned any disciple from speaking to her, and allowed very few select disciples to care for her in a highly reverent, if sterile, manner.
For forty years since her initial appearance, she had no significant contact with anyone. This changes when Norb is assigned to care for her. Norb and Sakuya fell in love. Though they tried to keep it secret at first, a priest catches them embracing and assumes it to be a sign that Sakuya has chosen someone to travel to the Scub Coral with. They are hurriedly sent to cross the zone, but fail in the attempt. Both Sakuya and Norb suffer some sort of physical deformation but Sakuya is by far the most affected since she is turned into a giant lotus flower.
After her transformation, Sakuya erects a barrier around temple city, blocking out everything, including trapar (which is now poisonous to her). Norb eventually brings the Gekkostate to meet Sakuya, since her help is needed to get Renton and Eureka past the Great Wall successfully. Eureka meets with Sakuya in another reality in the form of a library. There they talk about what they learned and how Sakuya and Norb first met. After sending Eureka back, she and Norb stay in the temple to disable the barrier around it and use the energy to help Eureka and Renton pass through the Great Wall. For Sakuya and Norb, they were taken to the Zone where they could be together while Renton and Eureka discovered Earth.
Morita
Voiced by: Kenichi Ono (Japanese), Terrence Stone (English)
Morita is the head of the Tresor military research complex. He was one of the scientists who studied the first Archetype after its unearthing and worked on both versions of the Nirvash typeZERO. Morita is also acquainted with Axel Thurston through Axel's work on the first LFO ref board for the Nirvash. He also knows Holland, though in the past they don't get along well (for unstated reasons).
Dr. Greg "Bear" Egan
Voiced by: Banjou Ginga (Japanese), Joey Camen (English)
Nicknamed "Dr. Bear" for his physically huge body, Bear is an iconoclastic scientist who was also part of the Tresor research team that initially studied Eureka and her relationship with the Nirvash. He was renowned as an 'out-of-the-box' thinker capable of combining various theories into a workable gestalt. He was previously married to Mischa of Gekkostate, and tends to act as if they were still lovers — for instance, he calls her "pony-chan" and "kuma-chan", the latter meaning "bear". His behaviour often prompts Mischa to take an even sterner tone than usual with him. He is fond of candy, often has a stash of it somewhere on his person, and once told Renton that the candy was part of an important memory in his relationship with Mischa.
Possessing many insights on the Scub Coral, the Coralians, LFOs, and Eureka, Bear is both stunned and overjoyed to learn that from a scientific viewpoint they were found to be almost identical to the Vodarac teachings of Norb; the similarities were revealed in a taped meeting aboard the Gekko. The underground video of this, along with the information published in Ray=Out became one of the main factors for many people, including some military leaders, to reject what Dewey's group was doing. His name is referencing both science fiction writers Greg Bear and Greg Egan.
Adroc Thurston
Renton's father, Adroc, was a military researcher considered a hero by the military. Original author of the Ageha Plan, which he then sought to have buried as being far too destructive to ever be implemented. His team was conducting experiments involving the Seven Swell phenomenon. It's revealed in a conversation between Eureka and Renton that Adroc vanished during an experiment on the Amita Drive. He prevented the full destructive force of the experiment from being unleashed by removing the Compac/Amita Drive from its socket in the Nirvash, interrupting the transdimension rifting that would have led to the planet's destruction, but in the process was himself taken bodily into the rift it created; nothing of him or his uniform remained, save the Compac/Amita Drive. He was later declared dead, and a massive monument, now largely unvisited by a disinterested public, was erected in his home town of Bellforest.
Later, it's revealed that his state of being was transferred to the Scub Coral along with other human beings, some of whom in normal reality were apparently suffering from the seeming catatonia caused by Despair Sickness. These individuals' consciousness apparently exist in a non-temporal state. They were staying in this form by their own will to communicate with and to attempt to understand the true nature of the Scub Coral. When Renton finally met with his father again, there was no hatred; Renton held his hand and was glad to see him without any animosity from his past feelings.
Adroc has no voice actor throughout the series. The only scenes in which he appears are either narrated flashbacks or non-speaking roles.
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