Ahab

Overview

Enemy

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“ As long as I can kill the Pallid Whale with my two hands... I care not about what happens next. ”

—Ahab, Canto V: The Evil Defining

Ahab
Other Names
Korean	에이해브
Japanese	エイハブ
General Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Captain
Affiliations	Eight Association (Formerly) Pequod Town (Formerly) Nagel und Hammer (Hermann's Group)
Relations	Starbuck (First Mate) Stubb (Second Mate) Queequeg (Harpooner) Pip (Crew) Ishmael (Former Crew) Hermann (Benefactor)
First Appearance	Canto V: The Evil Defining
Status	Alive
Voice Actor	Lee So-yeong

Ahab (Hangul: 에이해브, Eihaebeu) was the captain of The Pequod, a Whaling ship Office under the Eight Association, before becoming the leader of its successor, Pequod Town. She is a major antagonist in Canto V: The Evil Defining.

Obsessed with hunting down the Pallid Whale, she gathered an entire crew of sailors onto her whaling ship, including Ishmael, as they sailed through the Great Lake and the Outskirts. As the ruthless woman who led Ishmael's crewmates to their doom, she is the "bastard" she swore revenge on and became the reason she joined Limbus Company in the first place.

Appearance

Ahab is a tall elderly woman with curly, mid-thigh length greying hair. Like her namesake, she has a black-and-gold peg leg starting from her left knee. She wears a green captain's jacket over an untucked button shirt and darker green pants, one leg of which is tucked into the prosthetic, a crooked captain's hat, white gloves and a thin belt around her midsection. On her back is a harpoon around her height with a narrow, transparent cylinder behind the tip and a loop at the other end. This cylinder contains a small flame, the intensity of which varies.

After being trapped in the Pallid Whale, Ahab gains Pallidification membranes across her entire body. Her peg leg also adopts a harpoon-like tip.

When using GasHarpoon, Ahab's left eye and arm are completely consumed by Pallidification, producing an oversized, white biomechanical arm with blue and red veins terminating in a harpoon. Additionally, she loses her captain's hat.

Within the shoulder is the flame-bearing cylinder on her harpoon, whereas on her shoulder are seemingly three crooked gas pistons, each bearing a monochrome face and ending in a lantern-like element with a luminous gas. Ahab uses these in battle to change the end of her mutated arm; doing so causes the corresponding piston to retract and the gas to transfer into her shoulder. Following her defeat, these pistons are snapped off and her shoulder displays its original orange flame.

• Topmost: Bears Queequeg's face and a purple light. The last to be used, it gave Ahab a massive harpoon that she can fire.
• Middle: Bears Starbuck's face and a green light. Changes Ahab's arm into tuft of rhomboid blades.
• Bottom: Bears Pip's face and a blue light. The first to be used, it granted Ahab a floor-length bludgeon.

Personality

Ahab is characterized by her extreme and single-minded desire to hunt the Pallid Whale, with so little regard for anything else that she offers her life to Ishmael after the deed is done. Initially, she appears to be highly charismatic, bringing in and unifying individuals from all walks of life for the goal of hunting the Calamity. However, she is highly manipulative, egocentric and selfish, seeing her crew as nothing but a means to an end. Her end-justifies-the-mean mindset extends to making extreme sacrifices, decimating her crew on their voyage to the Whale's heart without a second thought. Even pre-Pallidifcation, she kept an extremely tight hold on her crew and later admitted that she cared not about their reasons or desires, and that they should've devoted themselves to her cause the instant they set foot on the Pequod. During their climactic battle within the Pallid Whale, she repeatedly blames Ishmael for not doing more to save them from their fates.

As her Pallidification intensifies, so does her delusion. She denies sending her crew to their deaths en route to the Whale's heart, referring to it as sending them to greatness. She later backtracks, admitting she sent them to their deaths but that they were fated to die anyways. She elaborates that she gave the crew conviction and meaning in their lives, and their sacrifices are merely recompense for her actions while blaming them for their fate, calling them "flimsy" and their hearts "shallow". Her viewing her crew as tools is reflected in her GasHarpoon E.G.O, where she uses her most loyal crewmates as fuel for her weapon. Ahab's egocentrism further shown when she declares that she is the only one that matters, and that her very existence is the world.

When her life's purpose, killing the Pallid Whale, was stolen from her by Ishmael, Ahab suffers a mental breakdown and roars for her crew to set sail for the Pallid Whale, despite the Calamity already being dead and her crew gone.

Background

Before the events of the game, Ahab had a ravenous obsession with the Pallid Whale, believing it to be "the source of all evils". Ahab's charisma allowed her to gather a devoutly loyal crew, including Ishmael who had just quit her job at U Corp's Nest. Together, she would force the crew of The Pequod into the Great Lakes, with Ahab never even resting in her mad search for the thing. However, the beast would soon prove too much for the crew and swallows all but Ishmael, the survivor vowing revenge on her. Then she and the survivors of The Pequod would soon be slowly pallidified, only stopped thanks to Ahab gaslighting the crew into being wholly devoted for her. Eventually, she would form a community named after her ship, known as Pequod Town with as many other survivors as she could find and brainwash into servitude. All so she could locate and slay the Pallid Whale's weak point; its heart.

Main Story

Canto V: The Evil Defining

Part 3

When Ishmael's plan to enter the Pallid Whale to locate the Golden Bough works, members of Pequod Town bring them to their community, where she welcomes the Sinners with open arms. When Ishmael tries to attack her, only to cause a riot with the Sinners against the town, Ahab calls them off and convinces them into her office, where she convinces the Sinners that following her plan is the best course of action, much to Ishmael's agitation. When Ishmael again tries to kill her, she promises that so long as the Sinners help her reach the heart, she'll offer herself up to Ishmael. She then states to reach the heart, she divides the whole group in two; Her group would traverse the pancreases, a labyrinth full of mermaids and acid, while the other travels a blood vessel with had become infested with Abnormalities that the Whale had swallowed beforehand to the heart.

As revealed by Dante's new power, she would then sacrifice all of Pequod Town in her odyssey to reach the heart. Once the remains of her group meets with the Sinners again, she reveals those infected by pallidification are unable to attack the whale, and only the Golden Bough can reverse the effects. She then demands Dante gives her their head so she can slay the beast, but the manager refuses, and the two groups fight. However, once beaten, she begins to hear the Voice trying to temp her into distorting, only for Ahab to manifest her personal EGO; "GasHarpoon", based on how she sees her crew as extensions of herself and takes control of the pallidification. Using Pip, Starbuck, and finally Queequeg as ammunition for her battle, she continues to lambast Ishmael for falling the crew. Once GasHarpoon is broken by Ishmael's Snagharpoon and is left vulnerable, she then takes delight in Ishmael's bloodlust. However, she soon falls apart when Dante is able to convince Ishmael into killing the Pallid Whale instead. Left without purpose, she collapses into sputtering nonsense about finding the Whale again as the Sinners leave her within the dying beast.

Hermann's grasp

Ahab miraculously survived the whale’s destruction; drifting on the remains of the foe she was robbed of slaying. Muttering her hopeless delusions as she aimlessly floated on The Great Lake, Ahab was eventually rescued by Hermann and her fleet of battleships.

Hermann perking Ahab's attention.

Questioning if Hermann was here just to mock her, the N Corp. director gave her a proposition: if Ahab joined her, she would allow the captain to kill any and every Pallid Whale across the countless mirror worlds. Reasoning that it was simply just a ‘single’ Pallid Whale out of potentially countless others, Hermann would give Ahab her purpose again.

All Hermann asks of Ahab was her “staunch determination and conviction”.

Gallery

• Assets
• Cutscene Art

Story Log Portrait

Trivia

• Ahab is based off of the character of the same name from the 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale written by Herman Melville.

External Links

• Ahab (에이해브) - Korean page (Namuwiki)