Heat
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| Heat | |
| ヒート | |
Artwork from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner | |
| Occupation(s) | Member of the Embryon Tribe |
| Affiliation(s) | Embryon |
| Voice Actor(s) | Hikaru Midorikawa (JA) Crispin Freeman (EN) |
Heat is a main and playable character in the Digital Devil Saga series. He is a member of the Embryon, one of the six core Tribes of the Junkyard.
Profile
Brash, bloodthirsty, and hotheaded as his name implies, Heat is a skilled combatant with a tendency to disobey orders. His behaviors and emotions become increasingly volatile throughout the game's events, and he struggles to both control and comprehend them. He develops a fixation on protecting Sera, as well as the competitive urge to prove he is stronger than Serph, which often compels him toward insubordination. Often leaving the party abruptly and returning later on, Heat demonstrates a recklessness that his comrades find troubling.
Heat's physical appearance matches his fiery personality; he has a toned build with pronounced biceps, broad shoulders, a sharp jawline, and shoulder-length, wavy scarlet hair with matching eyes. His Atma Brand is called Fireball, depicted as a sharp-toothed, burning head branded into his right arm. His Atma Avatar itself, Agni, is a two-headed demon with hard, scarlet skin, highly-defined musculature, and golden spikes lining its shoulders, chest, and thighs. Its long retractable claws are capable of carving through flesh and bone.
Gameplay
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
- See also: Agni (Atma)
Heat transforms into Agni at the start of every battle, unless the party is ambushed, in which case he may start the battle as a human, and he may also spend a turn switching between forms during battle. His human form nullifies Expel, takes extra damage from all attacks and wields a grenade launcher, which deals Gun damage to all enemies. As Agni, Heat instead resists Fire and is weak to Ice.
Heat's stats focus on Strength and Vitality at the detriment of Magic. As with every party member, his skills must be set outside of battle, where any skill from any Mantra that Heat has mastered can be equipped. He starts with the Shura Mantra mastered and the Fire Spirit Mantra equipped.
Heat starts with 4 skill slots, gaining an additional 2 slots on level 10 and another 2 on level 20.
Heat, as Agni, is fought prior to the battle against Rahu. See the Agni page for full information on that fight.
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Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
Heat is fought twice: once as Agni and once as Vritra. See those pages for full information on those fights.
If data from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner was transferred and the correct dialogue choices were made, Heat will replace Roland in the Sun, inheriting his stats and Mantras. His human form behaves as in the previous game, though he shares the added weakness to Gun with all humans.
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Manual
| Manual Descriptions | |
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Once a loyal and unquestioning member of the Embryon, Heat begins to disagree with Serph once his Atma awakens. As his personality changes, he becomes increasingly prone to violent outbursts. He's constantly frustrated by his inability to control his actions and deep-seated feelings- except when he's alone with Sera. |
Game Appearances
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Heat is one of the Embryon present at Ground Zero when the Junkyard is infected with the Atma virus, immediately transforming into Agni and devouring the Vanguards there, which scares Harley enough to make him hide in Svadhisthana. The Embryon fall unconscious with little recollection of the event, and they are drawn to the black-haired girl, Sera, in the crater left behind by the mysterious object that detonated there. Heat especially expresses an unusual fixation with her, wanting to learn more about her and saying that he can't get her out of his mind when the Embryon corner Harley for answers. Heat is also comfortable with his Atma and enjoys devouring his enemies, being significantly more ruthless and pragmatic than Argilla.
Following Angel's commandment in Sahasrara, Gale proposes a plan to temporarily ally the Embryon with the Maribel against the Solids. Heat is in favor of betraying the Maribel once they have served their purpose in the Embryon's plan to win the Junkyard war, though Argilla prevents him from devouring Bat after he is defeated. Later, once Bat betrays the Embryon-Maribel alliance to the Solids and are forced to defeat Jinana, Heat is slapped by Argilla for suggesting that she should devour her. Once the Embryon return to Manipura, which is under siege by the Solids, Heat is the only one to escape the Maribel Base, though he is unable to reach Muladhara in time to stop the Solids from taking Sera. He lashes out at Cielo for failing to protect her, and at Gale for asserting that Heat does not know why he is obsessed with her.
Atop Coordinate 136, the Embryon meet Mick the Slug and Bat holding Sera hostage. Heat approaches them with his hands behind his head as to not escalate the situation, but he is stabbed by Bat. Bat then proposes that Heat should betray the Embryon and kill Serph so he can stay with Sera, and Heat appears to accept their terms, though he secretly asks for Serph to pretend to lose so he can recover Sera for the Embryon. This plan is interrupted when Sera slips from Mick's grasp and tries to jump off the roof, then uses her powers to stun everyone and force Mick to drop her. She is caught by Bat, who plans to take her to the Brutes, but he is shot by Cielo, who catches her. After defeating Mick, Heat is noticeably jealous of Sera's attachment to Serph.
Heat later takes Sera to Embryon Base 2 while the remaining Embryon rig the Deserted Ship to explode, killing Bat and a number of Brutes. Heat demands to know why Sera is so attached to Serph, as he sees himself as better than him, going so far as to forcefully kiss her, making her run from him in tears. When the other Embryon arrive at the base, he says that, were Serph to be killed, he would take his place, which goes against the Junkyard laws that had been inviolable up to that point.
After Varin Omega's death, the Embryon climb up Sahasrara, finding Sera and Jenna Angel at the top. They defeat Angel, inadvertently dooming the Junkyard to destruction, forcing everyone to escape into Nirvana.
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
Heat leaves the Junkyard and appears in reality, but is separated from the other Embryon. He comes into contact with the Karma Society and learns that they have Sera, then is coerced into betraying the Embryon and joining them for her sake. This becomes apparent to the Embryon while they are climbing the Karma Society Tower, where Heat attacks the Embryon under Margot Cuvier's orders, but is overpowered and forced to retreat.
Later, when the Embryon first enter the EGG Installation to recover Sera, Heat appears behind them and attacks Serph against Cuvier's orders, impaling him with Agni's arm. Serph drags both of them into the EGG, and Serph is presumed dead. This is followed by the Sun beginning to download the Earth's data, gradually destroying it in the process. Brahman's own data begins to affect the EGG Installation in turn, slowly corrupting it. Heat himself is corrupted, mutating his Atma into Vritra, which he uses to fight the Embryon once they return to the Installation, though Serph, having recovered due to the EGG's fluid and learned of the circumstances surrounding the Black Sun from Schroedinger, cuts Vritra from the inside, fatally wounding Heat. Heat then reveals that he also knows of the past, including the man he was based on - Heat O'Brien - and the man he unsuccessfully tried to kill - Serph Sheffield. He teleports to the Control Room, where his human counterpart was killed, under the false pretense of fighting Serph, though he dies of his injuries shortly after. Serph agrees to protect Sera in his stead and to say that he killed Heat to spare her feelings.
As revealed to Serph by Schroedinger, Heat was based on Heat O'Brien, a gene therapist working for the God Project alongside Serph Sheffield. O'Brien was antagonistic towards Sheffield due to his poor treatment of Sera and manipulation of the people around him. This was the only side of O'Brien that Sera witnessed, giving her the impression that he was scary, as opposed to how she saw Sheffield as a kind person due to only ever seeing his facade. When Sera created her virtual paradise to cope with the stress caused by the God Project, she created AI dopplegangers of the people around her, O'Brien being one of them. The AI Heat, who acted antagonistically, reflected Sera's perception of O'Brien. Once her paradise was taken from her, the AI Heat was carried over into the Junkyard as the Embryon's Heat.
Later, Heat's data ascends to the Sun alongside the Embryon. If the player transferred data from the first game having selected the correct dialogue options, Heat will take Roland's place. Otherwise, he is content to simply observe them.
Novel Appearances
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"Dog Days"
When the Embryon capture and question Zada, Heat is the one who threatens her physically to force her to answer. He becomes fed up with her whimpering and remains leaned against a wall next to his grenade launcher until he asks what they should do with her. Serph says Zada should be kept confined in isolation until she surrenders, but Heat calls him naive. He grabs Zada and nearly bites her throat, arguing that she will no longer cause problems if she is dead. Serph orders Heat to stop, and Gale reminds him that he should follow the leader's orders. Heat pushes Zada away. Later, Gale suggests to Serph that he should take measures to address Heat's insubordination, which he disagrees to, saying that Heat is a very important member of the Embryon, and even concurring that Heat was not incorrect in his assessment.
Later, Zada initiates a rebellion against the Embryon by using her Arachne's spiders to control their soldiers, though Gale and Heat intercept the ones headed towards the main Embryon base. Once Serph joins the battle, Heat nearly creates a fireball strong enough to wipe out all of the controlled Embryon, though he is stopped by Serph and Gale, as the losses from such an attack would be devastating to the tribe. Serph then develops and executes a plan to paralyze and displace the Embryon protecting Zada with Cielo's lightning and Gale's wind, creating an opening for Serph and Heat to attack. However, they were both also paralyzed by the lightning, prompting Heat to improvise an attack, throwing Serph into the air to drill into Zada's body and freeze her completely from within. The attack is successful, though Zada only nearly dies and has to be finished off with Heat's flames. Heat scolds Serph, saying that the situation could have been avoided if they had just killed Zada before, then leaves.
Manga Appearances
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Digital Devil Saga ~Avatar Tuner 2~ Comic Anthology
Trivia
- In a brief exchange at Manipura, right outside the Maribel's base, Heat mentions that he only listens to metal.[1] In the Japanese version of the game, however, he says that he only listens to blues.
- In the English localization of Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2, Heat's voice lines as a playable character during battle are still in Japanese.
- According to Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner: Extra Files, his name was Homura in the draft.[2] This name was later used in Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner.
Nomenclature
His name reflects his attributes.[3]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 English
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Heat | |
 Japanese
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ヒート Hīto | Heat |
 Korean
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히트 | |
Gallery
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Artwork of Heat as Agni from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner -
Render of Heat as Agni from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner -
Render of Heat as Agni from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner -
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Render of Heat's Berserk Mode from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2 -
Model of Heat as Agni from Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Notes
References
- ↑ "Heat: I only listen to metal. I don't know what that is... but at least that sounds right." Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner.
- ↑ "このシーンではセラとホムラ(ヒート)が出てきてませんが、どうだったのかな。" Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner: Extra Files, Yu Godai. Japanese. Page 42.
- ↑ "里見: サーフたちは、もう名前のイメージ優先ですね。ヒートなら火、ゲイルなら風というように。" Dengeki PS2. Japanese. Vol. 275 Page 12. Cover date July 23.