Alcor

Alcor (アルコル) is an exclusive character from the video game Re:Zero Lost in Memories. He is one of the main antagonists in Lost in Memories.

Appearance
Alcor wears a black coat with black fur around the collar and a purple tracksuit inside with a large black scar on the torso. He wears a white mask with a large purple scar across his right eye and black feathers behind the mask. It was later revealed that Alcor was an illusion of Subaru Natsuki created by Lyra. When unmasked, he has black hair and dark circles under his eyes.

Personality
Alcor's personality was the opposite of Subaru's. Alcor has a cold and heartless personality as if any emotions from him was gone. He also claims himself to be the "real" Subaru Natsuki.

History
Unlike the loops that Subaru fought, Alcor was from the failed loop where he had tried to defeat Petelguese. He had died so many times up to the point that he had discarded his original name and adopted the name Alcor and took on a different appearance.

Abilities
Return by Death (死に戻り Shinimodori): Return by Death allows Alcor to return back to an unspecified, unpredictable and uncontrollable "save point" after his death. It happens instantly after his life is taken and there's no lag between the point of death and the point of resurrection. To Alcor, it looks exactly as if someone switched camera angles inside his head and the sudden influx of new information and sensations often makes him feel dizzy and confused. This ability was given to him by Satella as a means to help him save the ones he loves, should he need it. In the beginning, he himself referred to it as a curse but later started to view it as some sort of a blessing though he's still having a hard time fully accepting it and its side effects.


 * Penalties: Alcor is unable to reveal his ability to others. There are three primary penalties for attempting to do so:
 * Alcor will be forcibly and painfully silenced by the Witch's hand, and, in some cases, die.
 * Anyone who is told about Return By Death might potentially die.
 * It will increase the density of Witch Factor at least for a short time, which will draw any Demon Beasts in the immediate area to him like moths to a flame.

Live Mindful of Death (遊びは終わった Asobi Wa Owatta) : When his skill is activated at the time of his death, Alcor will reset everything if it does not end how he wants it to end, even in realms where time is nonexistent. During the reset he is capable of manipulating the next timeline however he desires.

This reset is great enough to bring back the World itself after its destruction, and return people whose existence has been wiped out in their entirety, beyond any chance of recovery.

Due to the repetitious nature of this skill, those with an intense connection to Alcor gain a sensation of Foreknowledge: a kind of Deja Vu, in truth limited awareness of previous iterations of the loop, allowing them to predict what is it that will happen next.

This comes with various side-effects that he uses as attacks against those that he fights, albeit the butterfly effect that his changes produce is out of his control.

Trivia

 * Alcor's name comes from the binary star Alcor, which is a part of the Ursa Major constellation.