League of Nine Littérateurs

Overview

Trivia

League of Nine Littérateurs
General Information
Status	Disbanded
Members
Individual - Position	Young-ji - Founder Sang-heo - Member Dongrang - Member Yi Sang - Member Dongbaek - Member Rim - Member Aneung - Member Yurang - Member Gap-ryong - Member Gubo - Member Nul-in - Member Aseah - Member
Individual - Position	Young-ji - Founder Sang-heo - Member Dongrang - Member Yi Sang - Member Dongbaek - Member Rim - Member Aneung - Member Yurang - Member Gap-ryong - Member Gubo - Member Nul-in - Member Aseah - Member

The League of Nine Littérateurs (Hangul: 구인회, Guinhoe) was a society of technology enthusiasts and scientists from District 19's Backstreets who migrated to Nest T to develop new inventions as a hobby. Mirror Technology, including the Glass Window and Yeonsim, were first developed by the League members.

After being betrayed by Dongrang, the group fell apart in a raid by T Corp. collectors and was separated, with most of the members going their separate ways.

In recent years, a group taking the name of a new League of Nine was established in N Corp. under Hermann, including former members Gubo, Aseah, and Yi Sang. This group was tasked with further researching the Mirror Worlds that had first been discovered through the Glass Window. Yi Sang defected shortly afterward and was invited to join Limbus Company.

History

Beginnings in T Corp.

The League of Nine Littérateurs was established by nine researchers from S Corp. who were brought together by Young-ji and Dongrang after political corruption and economic turbulence left the members unable to pursue their research interests in their hometown. Having learned that T Corp. had been seeing remarkable technological growth and that the Wing was financially backing competent inventors, the members immigrated there in search of better opportunities. There, they worked menial jobs in factories and sold their inventions to fund their "illuminators' conferences", where they presented technologies developed as a hobby between them.

T Corp. League Members

The League of 9 Littérateurs (original group)
Gubo	Yi Sang	Dongrang	Dongbaek	Rim	Aseah	Young-ji

Gap-ryong	Sang-heo	Aneung	Yurang	Nul-in	??? (played by Meursault)	??? (played by Ryoshu)

The Glass Window

The Glass Window

Young-ji developed a way to see across parallel worlds: the Glass Window. As this technology was still unstable, he suggested that Yi Sang take the concept and develop it further. Yi Sang refined it into the Glass Mirror, a device that allowed one to see into any number of possibilities that the viewer's life held.

Word eventually spread about Young-ji's Glass Window, capturing the interest of many firms from other Nests. Young-ji eventually received an offer to join an unknown Wing, leaving the group behind. However, the increased attention eventually backfired; the group soon received a notice that their gathering, as well as new inventions, had to be publicly registered and permitted by T Corp. Rather than allow the Wing to take advantage of their knowledge and research, the group decided to burn most of their research in a Concept Incinerator, erasing all knowledge of it from the group and the world. This did not deter T Corp., who pressured Aneung into revealing the location of the group and forcefully broke it apart, deporting most of the members from their district and claiming whatever technology they could.

Dissolution

Under the Collectors' pressure, Dongrang eventually sold out the location of the Glass Window to T Corp., and was rewarded with a job opportunity at K Corp. in return. Dongbaek set off a bomb in the ensuing raid, destroying the laboratory, while Gubo and Yi Sang escaped through the Backstreets and fled towards N Corp., where Gubo began a collaboration with Director Hermann.

Yi Sang was kept in a private laboratory and requested to research the Glass Mirror; Aseah was retrieved by Gubo after having been kidnapped by The Ring, where he'd been refining the Glass Window in a partnership with a Maestro, Jumsoon. The three were intended to be part of a new League of Nine backed by Hermann, who sought a way to destroy all of the possibilities reflected in the Mirror.

Yi Sang, unwilling to see his technology be used in such a manner, eventually defected from N Corp., and abandoned the laboratory. He was found by Faust, who invited him to join Limbus Company.

Dongrang took what knowledge he had of the Glass Window to K Corp., using it to assist in the production of tears from their Singularity, while Dongbaek began rallying researchers to join the Technology Liberation Alliance, seeking to undo the damage done by the group's Glass technology and return the world to a state without technology.

According to Dongrang, Gubo has been seeking to recruit or kill the remaining members of the old League of Nine.

Members

Young-ji

“ There are simply too many transient things that wilt all too soon, don’t you think? ”

—Young-ji, Canto IV: The Unchanging

Young-ji (영지) was the former leader of the League of Nine Littérateurs where he acted as the big brother figure to the rest of the fold; he was warmly regarded for his immensely kind and gentle demeanor. The majority of the League members affectionately refer to him as ‘Brother’ (형, hyeong) Young-ji, implying him to be the eldest amongst the group.

He was the researcher that invented the glass window (유리창, yurichang), a technology capable of gazing into alternate mirror worlds and overlapping them onto the current world.

It appears to Dongbaek that Young-ji didn’t purely intend this invention to be a mere plaything for amusement, concerned if he was still fixated on an unspecified loss he suffered in the past being the motivation behind creating the glass window. He doesn’t confirm nor deny her worries. Picking up Yi Sang’s curiosity over the tech, he encourages his junior to improve upon his designs and recreate it in his own way for their next illuminators' conference. While Yi Sang was apprehensive over being handed a technology so precious, Young-ji insists because it's so valuable to them.

While Young-ji always had the best intentions towards his fellow League members, he had a habit of sweeping large issues under the rug for fear of worrying his juniors. It was his obfuscation of their laboratory’s absurd rent, his grief that led him to discovering the glass window, and the false assurance towards his fellow members that their inventions wouldn’t lead to their abduction is what ultimately tears his beloved group apart.

Over time, Young-ji would miss the League’s illuminators’ conferences more and more, having been repeatedly invited by other Wings for recruitment. After his second invite, he asked Dongbaek to accompany him but she turned him down so that she could stay behind with the League. He never told anybody which Wing he was invited to, so no one in the League knew which district he traveled to.

After Aneung betrayed the League’s location to T Corp, Young-ji regretfully proposes the idea that he surrenders his glass window to the authorities. Dongbaek outright refuses for risk of the League’s immediate dissolution and the grave consequences of what could happen if the Wings got their hands on the singularity. Anticipating the raid, Dongbaek warned Young-ji to go into hiding as the other League members covered for him in their attempts to hide his tech—ultimately ending in failure as Gap-ryong and Dongrang collaborated with the Wing.

Young-ji’s current whereabouts are unknown, but is implied to still be alive by Rim in Canto V: The Evil Defining.

In the fathoms of the League’s ego, Hong Lu plays the role of Young-ji. Yi Sang remarks how similar to Young-ji, Hong Lu was almost as warm and kind as he was.

Gap-ryong

“ It, it’s trust and faith that binds us together, isn’t it? ”

—Gap-ryong, Canto IV: The Unchanging

Gap-ryong (갑룡), A rather brash sort, Gap-ryong was from the same hometown as Dongrang, Dongbaek, and Yi Sang, having taken care of Dongrang’s yellow calf together. He hated being called by his real name, and was rather an alcoholic that drank so much the bar owner often came to the League’s laboratory to angrily collect his tab.

Due to the pressure of having the League’s property be seized by T Corp. if their laboratory was late on rent—and the higher tax rate for Wing expatriates—Gap-ryong sold one of his inventions made for the League to cover costs. While he was chastised by Sang-heo for breaking one of the League’s nine rules for selling an invention created within their private lab for monetary gain, he ultimately brings to light the harsh circumstance the League is currently in, and the mounting costs it takes to maintain the group.

But because he was nowhere to be found the day T Corp. raided the League, nor the day before, it is suspected that like Aneung and Dongrang, he too sold out and betrayed the League.

In the fathoms of the League’s ego, Heathcliff played the role of Gap-ryong. Like Heathcliff, Gap-ryong too grew up impoverished, was brash, and butted heads with his fellow associates.

Sang-heo

Sang-heo (상허) was a member that strongly believed in Young-ji and the League, acting as the steadfast enforcer of its ideals and rules towards the younger members of the group.

Being a stickler for the League’s nine rules, they questioned why one of Gap-ryong inventions he made for the League appeared in the market; reprimanding him for violating the League’s vow that their technologies would not be distributed for monetary gain.

After the League received T Corp.’s official notice to cease their unauthorized invention group, Sang-heo was the one to propose the use of the concept incinerator. Knowing that their technologies, either through registration or confiscation, would be used for purposes they would never want by the Wings, Sang-heo concluded that their inventions had be purged from existence and memory completely.

Sang-heo remained loyal towards the League until the very end, aiding the other members' escape when T Corp. arranged the raid against the League’s property.

In the fathoms of the League’s ego, Outis plays the role of Sang-heo. Like Outis, they faithfully upheld their group's leader and were rather strict in reminding the other members on proper conduct.

Aneung

“ ...Anyone would have done the same. ”

—Aneung, Canto IV: The Unchanging

Aneung (아능), who upon being threatened to be forcibly repatriated back to S Corp, revealed the League’s location to T Corp. Their cowardice ultimately resulted in the arrests of members such as Yurang, having them earn the ire of Sang-heo and Dongbaek.

In the fathoms of the League’s ego, Sinclair plays the role of Aneung. It appears that, like Sinclair, Aneung had a softer demeanor with a cowardice streak when subject to pressure.

Nul-in

“ I made precious time in my packed schedule to check out what Young-ji’s group was like… and all I see are children’s playthings. ”

—Nul-in, Canto IV: The Unchanging

Nul-in (눌인) was from the same hometown in S Corp. as Dongrang and the others, but she was the last to reunite with the League, though the fastest to acclimate to T Corp. Nul-in was mostly unimpressed at the inventions the League put together for amusement, as Dongbaek calls her out for not even bothering to attend their illuminators’ conferences mere months ago.

Teasing Dongrang’s kindness of treating animals, she couldn’t understand why he would bother healing such things if they couldn’t give him back any money. She had a rather cynical and materialistic personality, much to Dongbaek’s distaste. Unfortunately, despite her playful prodding, it was her words that pushed Dongrang to the realization that—no matter what was invented, if a technology had no immediate use, no one would care for it.

It is unknown what happened to Nul-in, as it is unspecified whether or not she was apprehended by T Corp., forcibly repatriated to S Corp., or somehow escaped the raid.

It appears Rodion was given her role because of their devil-may-care attitude and shared love of money.

Yurang

Yurang (유랑) was the member whose first invention after joining T Corp. was their identification tags (인식표, insikpyo; translit. ‘dog tag’); invented with the hope that they may help locate lost children to reunite them with their parents. Unfortunately, the technology was twisted by T Corp’s greed and now every worker in the Nest’s factories has their working time monitored with these ID tags. Not even Yurang, the inventor of the tags, is free from the obligation of wearing them at work.

They were eventually apprehended by T Corp. authorities for their unauthorized inventions, even though Young-ji assured them that their technologies wouldn’t be worth confiscating.

Yurang’s role was played by Ishmael, who felt their terror when synchronizing with their memories.

???

Their name is unknown. After Yurang is abducted by T Corp, this unknown member regretfully laments their same, impending fate; they, too, are abducted by the Wing. Played by Meursault, this member was also straight forward and taciturn.

???

Their name is unknown. In the fathoms of the ego, this League member was played by Ryōshū. Although she did receive a script like the other Sinners, Ryōshū never recites any lines as the member she played as.

Trivia

• The League of Nine Littérateurs is based on the Guinhoe, or ‘The League of Nine’, a Korean writers' association that was active during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
  • Defined as a modernist writing group, they ideologically contrasted the Korean Artist Proletarian Federation (조선프롤레타리아예술가동맹), or KAPF (카프, Kapeu). Guinhoe members were regularly pressured by the KAPF and imperialist-controlled government, with colonial oppression affecting many of its members and the nature of their works, either rallying them against the higher powers or crushing them to obey. In Limbus Company, this inspires the League's members' struggle with asserting their ideals over the control of the Wings.

Gallery

Canto IV: The Unchanging

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External Links

• League of Nine Littérateurs (구인회) - Korean page (Namuwiki)