Samjo

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Samjo
Other Names
Korean	삼조
General Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Secretary
Affiliations	K Corp.
Relations	Dongrang (Manager) Shrenne (Colleague) Alfonso (Director)
First Appearance	Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken
Status	Deceased
Voice Actor	Lim Hyuk

“	That's why I kept telling you, Mr. Dongrang. When you draft a contract, you have to be meticulous and calculating, and write it in a way that favors us.	”
–Samjo, Canto IV: The Unchanging

Samjo (Hangul: 삼조, Samjo) is an employee of K Corp., working in their Food Resource Development department, and Dongrang's personal secretary.

He is a supporting character introduced in Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken, where he tasks the Sinners to investigate the Distortion Papa Bongy who is wreaking havoc in the Nest of K Corp, meeting with the Sinners once more in Canto IV: The Unchanging after they arrive at K Corp's laboratory.

Appearance

Samjo is a man of average height and build with a pale complexion. He has slanted dark green eyes, and short dark green hair with uneven bangs. He wears black slacks and jacket, with his K Corp. ID attached to the left breast, and leaves his suit jacket unbuttoned, revealing his collared shirt and green tie. Samjo owns rectangular glasses he wears on top of his head, and he's always seen with a lollipop in his mouth and a gray tablet in his right hand.

Personality

Samjo is a dry, straightforward businessman with no qualms about lying in order to proceed with his current job. He tends to be apathetic and matter-of-fact, with Intervallo I featuring him landing the Sinners in hot water with a lot of work to do whilst he himself stands passively on the sidelines. He comes off as audacious and laid back, casually provoking the Bongy-possessed K Corp. guards while hiding behind Dante and forcing Limbus Company to take care of it. He later proceeds to nonchalantly hand over his business card whilst ignoring the group's glaring eyes.

At the end of the event, he shows little remorse for the Bodhisattva's Chicken Manager when Eunbong’s Bar & Fryers is set to begin selling again and threaten to run Bodhisattva's out of business. Samjo continually maintains this kind of industry-first mindset which often comes before concern for others. Though he will engage in other things, his conversations tend to circle back around to business, such as an exchange with Shrenne in 4-10 where his words quickly jump from pitying to finance-based. His placid personality works to create a contrast with the more bubbly Dongrang's.

Despite Samjo's stoic attitude, he feels strongly about his job, and possesses a resolute loyalty towards his boss Dongrang and K Corp.'s Singularity. He states that he applied for K Corp. immediately after reaching adulthood due to one of their ampules mending his broken neck following a diving incident, an event which he took to heart and allowed to shape his current attitude towards the company. Samjo holds a deep, blind trust in K Corp.'s achievements, to the point of jumping straight into the vat of tears, and never questioning the multitude of suspicious happenings around him.

Story

Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken

As the LCB arrives in the alleys of K Corp., they come across Samjo, who brings attention to the numerous roaming Headchickens. He throws a rock, aggravating the creatures and forcing the Sinners into a battle. Samjo then introduces himself, asking the Sinners to take care of the other Headchickens and offering a lifetime voucher to Bodhisattva Chicken as payment. Once the LCB resolves the issue, Samjo relays the events to Dongrang.

Canto IV: The Unchanging

When the LCB enters the K Corp. facility, Samjo gives a tour while explaining that his previous request was to gauge their skills. He asks for the Sinners’ assistance in reclaiming their laboratory after the Technology Liberation Alliance attacked, offering a Golden Bough in exchange. He joins the group on the way to the laboratory, eventually reaching the screening room and coming across Dongbaek in the process. When she states that the tears used in regeneration ampules are harmful, Samjo becomes defensive, stating they saved his life after a diving accident and are his primary reason for applying to K Corp. To prove their safety, he jumps into the vat of unrefined tears, reverting back to his “original state” and dying in the process.

Gallery

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  Story Log Portrait

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  Story Log Portrait (Speaking in unison with Faust)

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  Jacketless

Trivia

• Samjo is based off of the character of the same name from Yoo Chijin's play, The Shack or The Mud Hut (Hangul: 토막, Tomak).
  • In The Mud Hut, Samjo is a man that leaves Korea during the Japanese occupation to seek a better life in Japan, where he plans on meeting with Myeong-Soo, another man who has embarked on the same journey. Following Myeong-Soo's death, Samjo returns his bones to his parents in Korea; in the final scene of the play, Myeong-Soo's mother picks up her son's remains, and welcomes him "back to your birthplace, this mud hut".
  • Samjo's character appears to reference both the main characters, as he shares the literary Samjo's name and backstory as a man leaving his home in search of employment, and he shares Myeong-Soo's fate in his death and metaphorical return to his origins, with Samjo literally reverting back to "the original form of humanity".
• Samjo's character sprites are set up improperly: his base sprite possesses the lollipop he carries around in his mouth in one place while certain face sprites feature the lollipop in a different position, resulting in several of his sprites showing him carrying two lollipop sticks at once.