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Aleph, initially referred to as "Hawk", is a gladiator and amnesiac man living in the Valhalla district of Tokyo Millenium. He is praised and noticed for his exceptional fighting skills, and is equipped with a COMP with the Demon Summoning Program installed, enabling him to summon and command demons. He has long black hair, has two gun holsters, and wears yellow and black armor across all of his designs.

In his original design, he wears a white scarf and blue-tinted goggles that connect to his white COMP. In his Playstation redesign, his goggles are swapped with a visor. His COMP is now black and, along with his armor, has a sleeker look to it. His footwear is curled at the end, and he is noticeably wearing a lot less straps. "Aleph" is named after the 1st letter in the Hebrew alphabet, whose name means "ox".

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Game Appearances

Shin Megami Tensei II

Before the start of the game, the Protagonist is wandering around Valhalla in a daze when a demon attacks him. A gladiator trainer named Okamoto stumbles upon him and saves him from the demon, though he is impressed with how he managed to fend the demon off. Seeing his potential and how he cannot remember anything, Okamoto names him Hawk and recruits him to his gym to make him a gladiator. Hawk further impresses him by going through a Virtual Battler unscathed and earning himself the high score. Once the game begins, Hawk is awoken from his sleep by Okamoto who recalls the circumstances that led him to be a gladiator there and demands that he train for the upcoming tournament finals to be held at the Colosseum. After getting some training done, Okamoto sends him off to use the Virtual Battler of the other gym, and on the way, is told by a civilian that someone is looking for him, which prompts him into a flashback involving an unknown man asking him to name someone. If Hawk chooses not to name the person, he will be told that their name is Zayin, the same person the man says is looking for Hawk after the flashback ends. Hawk also comes across a Fortune Teller, who searches his soul and finds the name of a woman who she describes as very important to him. He is asked to provide a name for the woman, and if he opts not to, he will be told her name is Hiroko. When he finally enters a Virtual Battler, he meets Stephen inside, who installs the Demon Summoning Program onto his COMP. When he enters it again, he receives another flashback where he is asked to name someone. If he refuses to name them, the unknown man will say their name is Gimel.

When the day of the tournament finals comes, Hawk is set to fight Red Bear in a dungeon match, where both opponents must go through the dungeon to pick up items and fight off demons as they reach the ring in the middle. Right as Hawk enters the ring to commence his fight, he is hit with another naming flashback, where this time refusing to name them will have their name be Daleth. As their match begins, Hawk is snapped out of his reverie by Red Bear. Aleph wins the fight, and so becomes the newest champion of Valhalla, which finally allows Hawk to use shops around town and lets Okamoto take over Haneda's gym.

While celebrating with Okamoto in his new gym, Hawk is approached by a Holy Knight named Hiroko, who requests his help in finding a child she lost in the confusion of an explosion that occurred at the Center 6 months prior. Believing that the ones responsible for the explosion, the scientists Hanada and Mekata, were also responsible for the child's disappearance, she tracked the former of them to Madam's mansion in Valhalla, and as Madam usually invites new Champions to her mansion, she wishes for Hawk to take her with him as a guest, which he agrees on doing. Coincidentally, Hawk receives the invitation from Madam's butler at that same moment, so the two head to the location immediately. There, Hawk receives another flashback featuring a woman who, if he decides not to name, will be called Beth. When the flashback fades, Hawk is greeted by Madam, who requests that he find and bring in the same scientist that Hiroko was speaking about, Hanada, who had been recently working for her before fleeing. Madam offers them assistance in the form of her pet Cerberus, after which they track Hanada down to the Slum. When the party confronts him on the bottom floor, Hanada opens a portal to the Makai, the demon world, and tries to order the demon that comes out of it to attack them, but it quickly kills him before turning it's attention onto Hawk's group.

Hawk's party defeats the demon and returns to Madam, who while disappointed, brushes it off to inform him that a messenger from the Center arrived looking for him. The man looking for Hawk comes forward and tells him to remember his real name, prompting Hawk into a final naming flashback where the man vaguely wonders what path Hawk will choose to take before asking that he give himself a name. If Hawk chooses not to, then he will be told that his name is Aleph, the same name that the man says when the flashback ends. The man introduces himself as Zayin and tells the now-named Aleph that he was originally a resident of the Center, and tells him and his party to come with him.

Arriving at the Center's HQ, Aleph is taken to the command room to meet the Center Bishop, who firstly separates him from Hiroko to question her on why she left the Center on her own. He then welcomes Aleph back and tells him that because Mekata had kidnapped him and erased his memories, he does not remember his purpose; That he is meant to become the Messiah that will guide the people to create the Millennium Kingdom. He then introduces who he claims to be Aleph's destined partner, Beth, who promises to never leave his side. The Bishop then gives out a set of tasks to Aleph involving defeating demons that are threatening the safety of Millennium, including defeating a Basilisk and King Frost in Holytown who have been spreading poisonous gas and freezing the area respectively, and then defeating a Betelgeuse and a herd of Demi-Nandi that have been causing havoc at the Factory. When Aleph returns from these missions, he is greeted by Zayin who recommends that Aleph visit Gimel in Arcadia in an attempt to jog his memory.

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After returning to the Center, however, Aleph finds out that demons have invaded the area, and according to the Center Bishop, a false Messiah is running about disparaging Aleph's name, claiming that Aleph himself is the false Messiah. This false Messiah turns out to be Daleth, who publically challenges Aleph to fight to the death at the Colosseum to prove who the real Messiah is. During the fight, Daleth momentarily gains the upper hand and is about to strike a fatal blow on Aleph, but Beth intervenes and jumps in the way, taking the blow for him. Aleph proceeds to win the fight and can try to either spare or kill Daleth, but if he tries to do the latter, Beth will plead for him not to, allowing Daleth to escape with his life. After the Bishop comes forward to announce that Aleph is the Messiah to the crowd, Aleph is approached by a child who gives him a letter from Mekata asking for him to go to the Slum. There, Mekata vaguely hints that he knows the truth behind Aleph's past. Still, before he is willing to elaborate on it, he requests that Aleph rescue Hiroko, who was imprisoned at the Internment Camp after she was separated from Aleph. To get there, Aleph goes through the elevator in the Valhalla-Center Passage, where he once again encounters Daleth, who he defeats and watches as he escapes again. After, he goes through the old aqueduct, where he can optionally encounter a Nadja who, thinking he is cute, joins his party and teleports them to a locked door that allows them quick passage to the Internment Camp. If he doesn't recruit the Nadja, Aleph must fight the demon guarding the elevator leading to the camp.

When Aleph arrives at the Interment Camp, he is stopped by Zayin who maintains that the law is absolute, but after a brief fight, Zayin changes his mind about the law and allows Aleph to go through to Hiroko's cell. When he tries to free Hiroko however, she acts strangely uncooperative and refuses to leave her cell. If Aleph recruited Nadja in the old aqueduct, she will fuse with Hiroko so that she can be part of the one he cares for, which restores her mental state, allowing her to leave with Aleph. If Aleph never recruited Nadja however, he must force Hiroko to go with him, with her returning to her right state of mind once they leave the Factory's vicinity. When the two try to head back to see Mekata however, they are stopped by Zayin, who hurriedly informs them of the Center ordering Abaddon to swallow Valhalla. When they try to enter Valhalla, all that greets them is a black void, though once they leave, they find Madam's Cerberus who had managed to escape and joins Aleph's party.

After listening meeting with Zayin to discuss his rebellion against the Center, Aleph heads to the Underground under the assumption that Abaddon is there. On his way to the Grand Church's elevator that leads there, he is ambushed by Daleth again, though the encounter ends the same as the last one, with Daleth fleeing once again.

When Aleph gets to Shinjuku, Daleth blocks his way once again and orders a fairy named Puck to throw something at him. Hiroko gets hit with it instead however and becomes enamored with Daleth, chasing after him and leaving Aleph's party. Aleph is informed by Hanoun, another fairy working with Daleth, that the item used on Hiroko was the Infidelity Sap, a love potion that Daleth had intended to be used on Aleph to make him fall in love with Hanoun as a way to get the better of him. Hanoun directs Aleph to the fairy king Oberon for assistance, who in turn asks that Aleph locate Puck and take the Infidelity Sap from him. Once Aleph finds him at Higashi-Shinjuku, he chases him through the dungeon, enduring ailment-inflicting items thrown at him until he finally corners the fairy and gets the Infidelity Sap from him. Once Aleph returns to Oberon and gives him the Sap, the fairy king breaks the spell placed upon Hiroko, returning her to her right mind and making her rejoin Aleph. Aleph is also asked by Hanoun to give her the Infidelity Sap, which he does, allowing her to use it on Daleth to make him fall in love with her.

Making his way to Roppongi, Aleph comes across some Mutants guarding someone from view. The person in question is Hiruko, who allows Aleph to approach him and asks that he gather up Masakado's body parts scattered across shrines in the Underground. After freeing the Kunitsukami dwelling in the shrines and taking the body parts they held, Aleph assembles Masakado's body and brings it to Hiruko so he can put Masakado's soul back into it, completely restoring him. Hiruko and Masakado then go to unseal the entrance of Sealed Iwato and ask that Aleph free all the Amatsukami imprisoned inside. If Aleph agrees, he proceeds to free each of the Amatsukami and will be thanked by Amaterasu before she leaves with Hiruko to go to the Diamond Realm.

As Abaddon is nowhere to be found in the Underground, Aleph returns to Holytown to assist Zayin in his rebellion. They head to the Factory to liberate the people forced to work there, but when they try to free any of the prisoners at the Internment Camp, all of them refuse to leave and are content with being forced to work. Zayin suspects that the Watchtower is responsible for the people's odd behavior, so Aleph follows him to the Watchtower where he will be unable to enter unless he has 10 points in his intelligence stat. At the top of the tower, Aleph finds Zayin limping, having been defeated by the demon guarding the place, so he beats him in his stead. The demon's defeat unlocks the room Siren is imprisoned in, whose singing is the cause of the Factory workers' brainwashing. As her singing is due to the grief at being separated from her lover, Petersen, Aleph manages to open a portal to the Makai to find him and bring him back to Siren, which stops her singing and liberates Factory workers.

Optionally, in the same area of the Makai where Aleph found Petersen, Tiferet, Aleph can find a spatial distortion that teleports him to a mysterious facility where multiple people with dilapidated appearances are tied to chairs and hooked up to small machines. Aleph discovers these are the true appearance of the residents of Arcadia, and reaching the top floor, he finds the real Gimel, who reveals that everything in Arcadia was just a virtual simulation and then attacks Aleph's party to find the truth hidden. After defeating Gimel, Aleph is given a choice between inputting his name as the new administrator of Arcadia, destroying the console maintaining Arcadia, thereby destroying Arcadia and killing all the residents hooked up to the simulation, or simply leaving it be.

Returning to Holytown, the Center Bishop announces over the Millennium News Network that lest Zayin turn himself in, the air supply in Holytown will be cut off, forcing Zayin to comply and head to the Center HQ, making Aleph follow after him. There, Aleph is told by the Bishop that the Center Elders wish to speak directly to him, so he makes his way through the dungeon, along the way encountering a blue Elder who tells him about how wrong the other Elders are in their methods of bringing about the Millennium Kingdom. Continuing through the HQ, Aleph is stopped by a speaking door that asks him questions that shift his alignment before allowing him to pass through. Once he makes it to the room just before the Elders', Aleph finds a petrified Zayin, and then enters the Elders' room to confront them. There, the Elders angrily call him and Zayin traitors and then transform, revealing themselves to be the Archangels Raphael and Uriel. They both attack his party but are slain, enraging the final Elder who also drops his disguise, revealing himself as the Archangel Michael. He is killed just the same, however, and in his last breaths, he pleads to God to save them and deliver justice to the party. The blue Elder comes forward again to say what a shame it was that they were killed but then warns Aleph that his fight is not over as a being claiming to be YHVH attacks them. After Aleph defeats the perceived god, the blue Elder sheds her disguise to reveal she is the Archangel Gabriel, and explains that the Elders, in their desperation for a Messiah to complete the Millennium Kingdom, tried to create their own Messiah, causing God to abandon them. She then directs Aleph to Zayin, who was cured of his petrification upon the Elders' defeat. He thanks Aleph for his help but then is interrupted by an alarm altering them to an emergency occurring in Holytown, so Zayin sends Aleph to assess the situation for him.

There, near the Grand Church, Aleph finds emerging from the ground the massive tail of a demon that is draining the Magnetite of the residents in the district. Zayin determines that the tail is coming from the Makai, so Aleph places the pillars he has gathered throughout the game at altars around the Underground to create a larger portal to the Makai. This portal sends him and his party to Yesod, where he can find the demon that the tail belongs to, which is Moloch. From there, Aleph explores the Makai, defeating demons guarding passageways and holding keys to progress further into the realm. Once he reaches the entrance of the Beriah Corridor, Aleph is stopped by a demon named Gemori, who forcibly takes him to Keter Castle. There, he is greeted by Louis Cyphre, the man lounging around bars throughout the game providing hints on where to go, who reveals he is the demon lord Lucifer. Lucifer explains that as he knew Elders were working in defiance of God's will, he simply wanted for Him to enact his judgment on them, but was surprised to find out it was Aleph that defeated them instead. He goes on to reveal that the YHVH that Aleph defeated at the Center was not the real God and was simply a fake created from the Elders' fervent belief, but even with that being the case, he is unsure how he could have defeated it and questions if he is actually Satan, God's tool of judgment, with the reason he had ordered Aleph be brought to him being to determine this. Verifying that he is not, however, he still warns that Satan's return is imminent as his other half, Seth, is beginning to awaken. Wishing to test Aleph's strength to see if he is capable of aiding him in his inevitable battle against Satan, Lucifer then sends Aleph away, telling him that if he has the strength and will to defeat Satan, he will return to Keter Castle and join him.

Trivia

• In the Super Famicom version of Shin Megami Tensei II, when Nadja fuses with Hiroko at the Internment Camp, a message will pop up saying that each of Hiroko's stats have been raised by one point. However, this is bugged; Hiroko's stats will not actually increase. Additionally, if Aleph does not have Nadja with him when he rescues Hiroko, his stats will receive the stat increase instead. These bugs were fixed in future versions of the game.
• Aleph received his COMP as a Colosseum tournament prize.