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Twenty-Fifth Bam, also known as Jue Viole Grace during the Workshop Battle arc, is a young man with a complex and tragic history. Before entering the Tower, he lived a solitary existence in a dark cave, knowing nothing of the outside world and having virtually no contact with other people except for a girl named Rachel, who was his entire world. His sole reason for entering the Tower was to follow her. After being betrayed by Rachel at the end of the first part of the story, Bam was forced into the clutches of FUG, a shadowy and violent organization seeking to overthrow the kingdom of Zahard. To protect his friends from being harmed by FUG, Bam was blackmailed into becoming a Slayer Candidate, taking on the identity of Jue Viole Grace.
By the time of the Workshop Battle, Bam’s personality has undergone a dramatic shift from his naive and empathetic former self. As Viole, he has become far more violent, introverted, and cold, rarely displaying emotion and interacting with others only out of necessity. This distant and calculating demeanor is a protective mechanism, intended both to keep others at a safe distance and to shield himself from the pain of further betrayal. Despite this hardened exterior, his core nature has not vanished. He is fiercely loyal to his friends and will not hesitate to fight if it means protecting them. He retains a high degree of empathy and often feels guilt or depression when forced to eliminate other Regulars, recognizing the grim reality that not everyone can be happy in the Tower's testing system. Throughout the Workshop Battle, as FUG’s hold on him begins to weaken, glimpses of his original, more expressive and talkative personality resurface.
Bam’s primary motivation throughout the Workshop Battle is to protect his friends at all costs. He accepts his role as the Slayer Candidate Viole and goes along with FUG’s plans to ensure the safety of those he cares about from his first days on the Second Floor. However, his friends, old and new, are unwilling to abandon him. They enter the Workshop Battle with the goal of freeing him from FUG’s control, creating a central conflict where Bam tries to sacrifice his own freedom for their safety, even as they risk everything to rescue him. He also begins to struggle with his own identity, and in rare moments when he can let his guard down, he introduces himself by his real name rather than his FUG-given title, showing a desire to be his true self.
Within the story of the Workshop Battle, Bam is positioned as the central figure around whom the entire conflict revolves. He is the prize in a struggle between FUG, who want to use him as a weapon, and his friends, who are trying to win him back. For much of the event, he is separated from his team, unaware of the game unfolding around him. His role is that of a captive who must ultimately decide his own fate, culminating in a long-awaited reunion and a climactic battle against the arc’s main antagonist, Reflejo, where he fights alongside his original teammates once more.
Bam’s key relationships are the driving force of the narrative. His bond with Khun Aguero Agnis is paramount; Khun masterminds the plan to free Bam and is one of the first to suspect that the fearsome Viole is actually his lost friend. His relationship with Rak Wraithraiser, another member of his original team, is similarly strong, and their reunion after years apart is a moment of genuine happiness. Rachel, the woman he entered the Tower to find, remains a source of deep pain as the one who betrayed him. His relationship with Androssi Zahard is complicated, as she develops romantic feelings for him, and she enters the Workshop Battle intent on killing Viole, unaware that he is the Bam she cares for. Within FUG, his relationship with his guide, Hwa Ryun, and his mentor, the High Ranker Ha Jinsung, is tense, as they are both his captors and, in their own way, teachers who have helped shape him into the powerful fighter he has become.
Bam’s development throughout the Workshop Battle arc is marked by his gradual shedding of the Jue Viole Grace persona. He starts the arc as a cold, closed-off figure, but as he is reunited with his friends, his true personality begins to resurface. A key moment is his emotional embrace with Khun and Rak when they finally meet face-to-face, signifying his return to his former self. By the arc’s end, he is no longer simply a weapon of FUG but a young man who has reconnected with his purpose and his support system, ready to climb the Tower on his own terms.
In terms of notable abilities, Bam is considered a prodigy and a monster by the standards of the Tower. His most dangerous innate skill is his phenomenal rate of growth and ability to instantly learn and copy techniques, such as when he mastered the Ranker-level technique Fast Skip in a matter of seconds. He has an exceptional resistance to shinsu, the Tower’s ambient energy, allowing him to move freely where others cannot, and is a genius at controlling it, capable of using shinsu abilities without a formal contract. By the Workshop Battle, he has become a highly adept martial artist, trained by Ha Jinsung in various fighting styles. He is also in possession of a powerful, fragmentary weapon known as the Thorn, which hovers near his right shoulder and vastly amplifies his power. This combination of raw talent, copied skills, martial arts training, and the power of the Thorn makes him a force far beyond a typical Regular.
By the time of the Workshop Battle, Bam’s personality has undergone a dramatic shift from his naive and empathetic former self. As Viole, he has become far more violent, introverted, and cold, rarely displaying emotion and interacting with others only out of necessity. This distant and calculating demeanor is a protective mechanism, intended both to keep others at a safe distance and to shield himself from the pain of further betrayal. Despite this hardened exterior, his core nature has not vanished. He is fiercely loyal to his friends and will not hesitate to fight if it means protecting them. He retains a high degree of empathy and often feels guilt or depression when forced to eliminate other Regulars, recognizing the grim reality that not everyone can be happy in the Tower's testing system. Throughout the Workshop Battle, as FUG’s hold on him begins to weaken, glimpses of his original, more expressive and talkative personality resurface.
Bam’s primary motivation throughout the Workshop Battle is to protect his friends at all costs. He accepts his role as the Slayer Candidate Viole and goes along with FUG’s plans to ensure the safety of those he cares about from his first days on the Second Floor. However, his friends, old and new, are unwilling to abandon him. They enter the Workshop Battle with the goal of freeing him from FUG’s control, creating a central conflict where Bam tries to sacrifice his own freedom for their safety, even as they risk everything to rescue him. He also begins to struggle with his own identity, and in rare moments when he can let his guard down, he introduces himself by his real name rather than his FUG-given title, showing a desire to be his true self.
Within the story of the Workshop Battle, Bam is positioned as the central figure around whom the entire conflict revolves. He is the prize in a struggle between FUG, who want to use him as a weapon, and his friends, who are trying to win him back. For much of the event, he is separated from his team, unaware of the game unfolding around him. His role is that of a captive who must ultimately decide his own fate, culminating in a long-awaited reunion and a climactic battle against the arc’s main antagonist, Reflejo, where he fights alongside his original teammates once more.
Bam’s key relationships are the driving force of the narrative. His bond with Khun Aguero Agnis is paramount; Khun masterminds the plan to free Bam and is one of the first to suspect that the fearsome Viole is actually his lost friend. His relationship with Rak Wraithraiser, another member of his original team, is similarly strong, and their reunion after years apart is a moment of genuine happiness. Rachel, the woman he entered the Tower to find, remains a source of deep pain as the one who betrayed him. His relationship with Androssi Zahard is complicated, as she develops romantic feelings for him, and she enters the Workshop Battle intent on killing Viole, unaware that he is the Bam she cares for. Within FUG, his relationship with his guide, Hwa Ryun, and his mentor, the High Ranker Ha Jinsung, is tense, as they are both his captors and, in their own way, teachers who have helped shape him into the powerful fighter he has become.
Bam’s development throughout the Workshop Battle arc is marked by his gradual shedding of the Jue Viole Grace persona. He starts the arc as a cold, closed-off figure, but as he is reunited with his friends, his true personality begins to resurface. A key moment is his emotional embrace with Khun and Rak when they finally meet face-to-face, signifying his return to his former self. By the arc’s end, he is no longer simply a weapon of FUG but a young man who has reconnected with his purpose and his support system, ready to climb the Tower on his own terms.
In terms of notable abilities, Bam is considered a prodigy and a monster by the standards of the Tower. His most dangerous innate skill is his phenomenal rate of growth and ability to instantly learn and copy techniques, such as when he mastered the Ranker-level technique Fast Skip in a matter of seconds. He has an exceptional resistance to shinsu, the Tower’s ambient energy, allowing him to move freely where others cannot, and is a genius at controlling it, capable of using shinsu abilities without a formal contract. By the Workshop Battle, he has become a highly adept martial artist, trained by Ha Jinsung in various fighting styles. He is also in possession of a powerful, fragmentary weapon known as the Thorn, which hovers near his right shoulder and vastly amplifies his power. This combination of raw talent, copied skills, martial arts training, and the power of the Thorn makes him a force far beyond a typical Regular.