Category:Resistance

The Resistance is originally a loose multinational coalition of members opposing the Mistism Cultists, and the Special Steel Squad (SSS), separated into various subfactions and each led by a very powerful executive. The organization's agents are numerous, hiding in all five countries for espionage and information gathering.

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The Resistance was founded by Ricardo Trevithick, the former Divine Child of St. Iris. Lower-ranked Resistance members wear black uniforms marked with a light blue "X". Executive outfits are more customized, but are similarly marked with a white or light blue "X" in their outfits.

The Resistance's main goal is to maintain the status quo of the Phantom Mist, stating that the Special Steel Squads' blind and uncontrolled removal of Phantom Mist does more harm than it is good. The Resistance are seen as hostile enemies to both the Mistism cult and the SSS. While they do not view all Phantom Mist as friendly and beneficial as the former, they do not view all Phantom Mist as hostile either, as in the latter. As such, should an executive feels the Phantom Mist and its inhabitants are able to disrupt the SSS's actions without jeopardizing themselves, the Resistance will not hesitate to use them to their advantage, despite being enemies.

While all individuals share the same primary objective, each individual executive of the Resistance have their own motives for doing so. As the Resistance is a loose, decentralized coalition, each group can work independently without another Resistance subfaction's assistance and can still resume operations even if another faction is dismantled. Because of this, the Resistance has been dismantled into several subfactions right after their leader has gone insane towards the end of Arc 1, with the extremist faction becoming prominent from Arc 2 onwards.

By Arc 3, it was revealed that Youko has slowly and successfully hijacked the Resistance under her control, and the new objective is to destroy Iris Cloud to save her home world of Eris Grand.