Killy ( 霧亥, Kirii ?) is the main character. Main article: Blame! characters and structures They are pursued by the Safeguard, who view any human without Net Terminal Genes as a threat to be extinguished on sight. The Net Terminal Genes appear to be the key to halting the unhindered, chaotic expansion of the Megastructure, as well as a way of stopping the murderous horde known as the Safeguard from destroying all humanity.Īlong the way, Killy meets and joins forces with a resourceful engineer named Cibo and a tribe of human warriors called the Electro-Fishers. The City is inhabited by scattered human and transhuman tribes as well as hostile cyborgs known as Silicon Creatures. The City is an endless vertical space of artificially-constructed walls, stairways and caverns, separated into massive 'floors' by nearly-impenetrable barriers known as ' Megastructure'.
He is searching for Net Terminal Genes, a (possibly) extinct genetic marker that allows humans to access the 'Netsphere', a sort of computerized control network for The City. Killy, a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful weapon known as a Gravitational Beam Emitter, wanders a vast technological world known as 'The City'.