1000xRESIST Characters

This page outlines how I see the characters that have stuck out to me most and my favorite quotes from them.

Many of the images will change on click to show character development or hide some spoilers.

Watcher / Sister Blue

The Shapen Sister of the Watcher function, she walks through the ALLMOTHER's memories. Doomed by the yuri narrative.

"Imagine someone holding your hand whenever you're scared. Carry you home whenever you're weary...Imagine waking up from the best dream, only to realize it is your life... This is what it was like to love the ALLMOTHER. I had lived for this moment. To stand before her. To deserve her love"

"We'll never get anywhere by tampering with history."

"Isn't it strange? I've never actually been here before. But everything in my body tells me ... It's home."

Fixer / Sister Green

The Shapen Sister in charge of maintaining the Orchard. Bzzt.

♪ "We're all just flowers in a garden of her making

Soon we'll grow beautiful enough to be worth taking

The ALLMOTHER she shines so bright

But Mother's glow is not as warm as it once seemed to be

And it feels very far from me."

Healer / Sister Pink

The Shapen Sister who supervises medical matters in the Orchard. Unethical experiments and briefcases full of eyeballs galore.

"Where would we be without trust? These shells trust me... To heal them, to comfort them...that if they close their eyes, they'll open them again. Do they always wake up? Sometimes I fuck up. Sometimes they can't be saved. All I can do is care. To honour their trust. So they die, I cry, and I keep going. The day I stop caring is the day I'll fire up the incinerator myself."

"I want you--I need you--to admit you had a choice. And that you made the wrong one."

"Our jobs require us to separate our heartbreak from our hand."

Knower / Sister Purple

The Shapen Sister who oversees the Orchard's archive. Resident cockroach. Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss.

"There is no feeling worth being incinerated over."

"There are records on almost every single thing, Watcher... Pages missing, certainly, but endless pages nontheless. Records of animals, too.. But this 'horse' I know absolutely nothing about... I came here a lot when I was younger. Wondering why the ALLMOTHER left this here without explanation. I don't come here much anymore."

"It's a perpetual dance of grace, you know? When to hold your tongue. When to look away."

"You Watchers are all the same... I lied to you. About your predecessor. Yes, she was quiet. Yes, she kept to herself. But she would FEEL so many thing, all the time. She didn't leave on the train. I found her dead one night in her room. She killed herself. In a bout of useless passion and protest. Has anything changed? No. Except she's dead now. And I have you. Instead of her."

Bang-Bang Fire (BBF) / Sister Orange

Shapen Sister who supervises the defense of the Orchard. Too good for this world, too pure.

"Knock, knock."

"Well, a dull knife is no knife at all... The way a pack must cull its sick... The way a prey must eat its kin... Hestitation--we know too well, and even weller now--hestitation is the second-in-command to extinction."

Principal

Oversees all administrative duties in the Orchard. In a game about almost entirely about mommy issues, she somehow has the worst case.

"Now tell me you missed me... I'm a good girl... You forgive me."

I'm going to show mom what I'm really capable of. And then... I'm sure everything is going to change.

"I dream of places I've never been. Of people I've never seen and sensations I've never had. What is this curse?"

Iris Kwan

Hong Konger-Canadian teenager to immune immortal in a world of her own echoes.

"They stole my body, my hair, my mouth... They stole everything of ours and called it theirs."

"Iris... No one has called me that in a long, long time."

Jiao

Deserved better.

"Tell them everything about me. Tell them whatever you want! As long as I can keep leaving you letters in your locker... If i can keep watching you dance... making videos of you... As long as you will come to sleep over... And we can stay up all night... Then NO WORRIES."

"I...can't be a picture...like dad."

Mimi the 50

✌️😘

My wife is a bitch and I like her so much.

"If we do a good job here, no one will have to die again... It's our little secret... between us gals."

""It's not like she has a choice... we're just being polite."

Source

Uh oh, I don't think this thing like Bach.

"We are speaking their language now. Is this not death, too?"

"You cannot even understand. You were branched into a world with plenty."

"The transfer was lossless. And I remain."

"Long after this local star erupts, this planet will remain and its memories will remain. And that is thanks to us."

Secretary

He/they icon.

" ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ "

"Neighhhh."

"Iris must be allowed to die. Or nothing will change. We can't hold on to everything... Sometimes, you just don't fit in the backpack."

Blue

Watcher 2 Electric Boogaloo

"I don't know where you end and I begin."

Bartender

Your secrets are not safe with her.

"Everyone's whispering about a juicy piece of literature someone pulled from the archives... It's about some windswept stud named JoHNNy FiVe-OH. He's a buttoned-up boss guy with the weight of the world on his shoulders, duty-bound as a Principal. But under all that pressure, he buckles! Gets caught up in a steamy tryst with a high-powered hottie named MEEMI... Sparks FLY. Promises MADE. But will they live HAPPILY EVER AFTER?"

"No one is beyond forgiveness."

Observant Shell

So horribly down bad for Knower.

"The more one commits to Watching... The more one commits to being watched."

"I LOVE SISTER PURPLE SO MUCH, I'D BURN ANYTHING FOR HER."

It is they who turned on us. They who promised us a cut from the past. Yet here we are--commemorating some ancient god. Old sisters mix with the new and before you know it, we're all ordering an Inside Sunrise like nothing ever happened. The Ministers--so many of them, cut from rotten cloth. The High Minister- a shadow of her former self."

"What are you trying to cover this time?"

Mother / Clara Kwan

Kind of a milf. Reblog.

"我放棄一切係因為你呀, 去擺脫你呀 (I threw everything away because of you. To be free of you)"

"How did I balance the work hours with the thanklessness of parent at the same time as the insomnia and severe post-traumatic paranoia? ...Easy. 爸 (dad). He kept me going. We kept each other going."

"We are poor technology. The human body and brain? Too capable of storing clutter. Too desperate to hold onto things. You just have to move forward."

Father / Ba

He made Moodles ;-;

"So if we stayed silent? didnt stand up for ourselves? They would say...this is how it always was. They would say...this is what the people wanted. But no. They can't say that. Because it has gone down in history... That we resisted fiercely. That we fought for a different future...until we couldn't. That legacy lives in us."

Johnson the 50

Where the hell did that RPF of him and Mimi come from.

"Humanity needs you to endure"

Melody

"I know you get pulled back and forth a lot. By Kris. By Bartender. They care about you...we all do. But have you ever stopped to ask...what you want?"

Kris

Even though we didn't see much of Old Town, I really love how much worldbuilding you get from characters like Kris. Of course there would be syndicates operating to make life as a Miscellaneous a little better and looking out for their sisters.

"Whenever they let you up—if they ever do—just remember who first made a place for you. And never asked for anything in return."

Athena

She wants Kris soooo bad.

"Traitors first."

"I didn't mean to give you a hard time. Maybe I was just jealous."

Jiao Prime

"When you're better, you will incinerate every last person who did this to us. I can't wait."

"I'll take care of everything... like I always do."

Candy

I'm so glad she was the first we were meant to talk to. The juxtaposition from her forced cheery demeanour to the below line set the tone so perfectly.

"Ohhhh. Are you Miscellaneous finally growing a spine? ...You know, a fucking spine."

Toffee

Free her!!!

"Us Jiao-Types live to accompany Iris-Types! To follow in the footsteps of the Ancient Jiao!"

Cherry

I've only had Cherry for 2 minutes and if anything happened to her I'd k--oh no.

"There is a Jiao-Type that lives here all the time... The first one! ...That bitch betrayed us"

"Do you want to hold my hand? ...Kidding! That would draw too much attention... I'm just nervous... It's not every day I...die, hahaha."

Purple Sister / Eldest

Parentification 2 electric boogaloo!

"We all know by now the Youngest is her favourite. There's no fighting the truth."

Pink Sister

I love how you can see some of Healer's attitude in her and that she and Eldest seemed somewhat close.

"I can’t stand it anymore. All she does is stand around and watch."

Orange Sister

"Mother, please don't escalate."

Green Sister

"We'll play even nicer next time. I promise."

Conspiracy Shell

Principal absolutely killed her after she found that bone fragment. She could've made either an excellent pawn of a Watcher or the most suspicious one alive in the wrong direction.

"It's as if there's something...or someone... in the soil..."

Jackie

Your girlfriend turned into a plant? That's rough, buddy.

You...you delivered to me before. Ran it to me straight from the rooftops. Jackie, wasn't it? [You've got the wrong person.] Well, send her my way, if you see her. She's the best

Blue: Hey Jackie. I'm here...finally. Sorry I forgot to water you this morning. A simple job. And I still couldn't do it... It's hard to think these days... I don't mean to disappoint...it just happens, again and...again. I can't shake the feeling that nothing turned out right. You know? Like...you're not supposed to be...a fucking flower..and I'm not supposed to be so...so... I don't know. I feel trapped. Like I need to go up for air. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll remember. I promise, okay? I'll come by first thing in the morning...64 64...and try to focus more on what's in front of me... I don't want her to be disappointed in me. I'm going to do better. Thank you for being here...and listening... I'll see you, Jax... and keep your chin up! One of us has to... Oh shit, right, the water."

Youngest's Jiao

Trauma jumpscare.

Youngest: I remember her insides. There were already rotting. I had pulled her out too soon. That much was clear.

Cocoa

I'm so curious to know who she had been in the years before.

You see, this plant and Old Town are one and the same... They will both wilt without you.

Bobo

:(

Amelia the 50

Come on... We all had to cheat, lie, and steal our way onto this ship... What, you didn’t lie?

Isabelle the 50

Isabelle: You seem very fond of her.

Mimi: Well, she's a fine subject. You know, that radiant skin and hair that comes with youth.

Isabelle: But will she cooperate?

Mimi: It'll take a bit of persuasion.

Isabelle: Your forte.

Mimi: Exactly. You remember.

Isabelle: Girl, I'm always trying to forget.

Amelia the 50

"It's good that [my daughter is] gone... That she didn't have to see all this... It would have broken her little heart."

Emma the 50

Doreen