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* The "Yefreitor" portion of Harry's rank is likely taken from the real-world Soviet military rank ''Yefreytor'' (Ефрейтор, from the German ''Gefreiter''), which was the highest enlisted rank in the Soviet armed forces. |
* The "Yefreitor" portion of Harry's rank is likely taken from the real-world Soviet military rank ''Yefreytor'' (Ефрейтор, from the German ''Gefreiter''), which was the highest enlisted rank in the Soviet armed forces. |
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Revision as of 12:57, 26 May 2021
Harrier "Harry" Du Bois is the main and sole player-controlled character of Disco Elysium.
Background
Harrier Du Bois was born in ‘07, the last year of the Commune of Revachol, before the Coalition's attack, at a time when the Antecentennial Revolution was still going strong. He was born in a Old Military Hospital, on the ground floor where "people usually came to die,"[1] during a snowstorm.[2] As a child, he suffered a bout of partial infantile paralysis caused by polio, and though he would for the most part physically recover from this condition, it permanently gave him a slight twinge in his jaw that causes him to pronounce certain words in a notably awkward manner.[3]
In his adolescence, Harry was a member of a eight-man street-gang of delinquents from Faubourgh and North Jamrock calling themselves The Fifteenth Indotribe.
By the events in-game, the year '51, he is 44 years old.[4] In-game, Harry may pick of the pseudonyms Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau, by failing to come up with a convincing name when first meeting Kim Kitsuragi, and "Tequila Sunset," a nickname he had before Martinaise.[5] He can also refer to himself as "Firewalker", adopting it while calling Precinct 41 from Kim's radio,[6] as well as "The Icebreaker", if he internalizes fascist ideology.
Harry was once a gym teacher in Grand-Couron,[7] located in Jamrock. Kitsuragi and Cuno point to this when explaining why Harry had little to no knowledge of homo-sexuality,[8] why he has a tendency to run from place to place rather than walk,[9] and his affinity for FALN brand athletic wear,[10] among others.[11] At some point he met his future fiancee, Dora Ingerlund, who inspired him to join the Revachol Citizens Militia at the age of 26. Over 18 years of service[12] he solved 216 cases[13] and racked up 3 kills,[14] an extremely low number for a member of Precinct 41.[15] His statistics put him at the top of the RCM's ranks both in terms of effectiveness (simply clearing 10 cases a year is enough to put a policeman in the 90th percentile)[16] and humanism (too many RCM officers enjoy shooting people). His exploits earned him the title of lieutenant double-yefreitor[17] and the position as head of the Major Crimes Unit at Precinct 41.
Harry's mental state began to deteriorate in '45, six years before in-game events, when Dora abandoned him and moved to Mirova in Graad,[18] citing Harry's self-destructive, impulsive behavior. Since then, Harry's leadership of the Major Crimes Unit became increasingly erratic and the unit suffered accordingly. Many officers left, including their reporter Guillaume Bevy.[19] By '51, only Harry, his partner Jean Vicquemare, Trant Heidelstam, and Judit Minot remained.
Directly preceding the in-game events, Harry and the Major Crimes Unit were called to Martinaise to investigate a report of a hanging. When they arrived, Harry drove off the rest of the unit, screaming at them to "fuck off" because they were "cramping [his] style. He was the "Detective God." The rest of his tirade were variations on "Fuck everything. All will burn. Detect or die!" He then went on a several-day suicidal bender across the district. He harassed the patrons at the Whirling-in-Rags, waving his gun in their faces and making graphic suicide jokes.[20] He trashed his room and broke the Whirling's taxidermy skua, finally driving the waitress Sylvie Malaìika to resign on the spot just to escape him.[21] He sold his gun to Bird's Nest Roy, wrecked his Coupris Kineema, and on the final night before he lost his memory, he could be heard in his room at the Whirling screaming "I DON'T WANT TO BE THIS KIND OF ANIMAL ANYMORE" while listening to The Smallest Church in Saint-Saens on loop.
It's a mystery what happened to cause Harry's amnesia. Serious drinking has caused episodes like this before,[22] but it also might've been a coping mechanism[23] or a side effect of pale exposure from the two-millimetre hole in the church.[24] Joyce theorizes that Harry was affected with a serious case of encephalopathy. Jean thinks it's all just an act.[25]
Rank
As mentioned before, Harry's Rank in the RCM is "Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor". According to Kim Kitsuragi, the Lieutenant is a rank above Sergeant and below Captain. It's the highest rank in the RCM that still does field work. The title of "Yefreitor" is added to your rank when you decline a promotion to a higher rank--in Harry's case, the rank of Captain. There are many reasons why one might refuse to be promoted. sometimes promoted officers do not want to replace their superiors, and most likely in Harry's case, they prefer the type of police work available to their current rank.
Trivia
- Prior to the events of the game, Harry was shot at four times and hit twice.[26]
- The "Yefreitor" portion of Harry's rank is likely taken from the real-world Soviet military rank Yefreytor (Ефрейтор, from the German Gefreiter), which was the highest enlisted rank in the Soviet armed forces.
Appearances
Gallery
Logician archetype
Brute archetype
Sensitive archetype
Starting portrait
Shaved portrait
Notes and references
Notes
Harry's self-referenced alternate name that he may name himself added.
- ↑ Others officers often used pseudonyms to mock him: Dick Mullen, Supercop, Captain Sober, etc.
References
- ↑ YOU - I was born in a hospital where people usually go to die.
- ↑ Date of Birth Generator
- ↑ Bringing of the Law (Law-Jaw)
- ↑ Date of Birth Generator
- ↑ Esprit de Corps: To his left, his partner Emile Mollins whispers: "You heard what happened to Tequila Sunset? In Martinaise?"
- ↑ YOU - "Operating a radio is easy." (Speak into the microphone:) "Come in Delta-Ten, this is Firewalker, copy!"
- ↑ JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Yes, you *taught gym* in Couron. I believe that's the term? Taught gym at a high school. You were a high school gym teacher."
- ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "The fact that you don't seem to *know* what homo-sexuality is..."
- ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "Harry... it explains *everything*. The running around. The jumping. The *shot-put*. Your inexplicable facial hair..."
- ↑ YOU - "The FALN gear..."
- ↑ CUNO - "Your lame taste in music. Like from -- the Forties. Even the way you *stand* and stretch and shit... Cuno's seen this shit before. In *gym* class."
- ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "The first row represents your years of service. *Eighteen* years? Okay -- not bad at all. What did you do before you volunteered?"
- ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "This next row -- the one that wraps all the way around -- is your number of closed cases. *Closed* is good. it means finished. You've got, let's see..."
KIM KITSURAGI "Wow, more than 200!
"YOU - "Two-hundred sixteen, to be exact." - ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "Right. Those are your confirmed kills. You've got precisely *three* perforations there."
- ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "For an RCM officer -- especially Precint 41, which is in the Jamrock Quarter -- it's rather... tame. I mean that in a good way."
- ↑ KIM KITSURAGI - "It's *quite* a lot, even for someone who's been on the force for nearly two decades. Usually clearing more than 10 cases a year puts you in the 90th percentile of *all* RCM officers."
- ↑ YOU - ""Rank: LTN-2JFR?"
"KIM KITSURAGI - "Lieutenant double-yefreitor." - ↑ DOLORES DEI - "I'm going to Mirova. To live there -- in Graad. It's one million kilometres away, Harry. Might as well be another lifetime."
- ↑ JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Oh, that's an interesting story, actually!" He's not smiling. "Guillaume Bevy is a police reporter who joined our team. He was really good. Then he left, because he lost faith in your ability to lead the unit."
- ↑ SYLVIE MALAIIKA - "You were waving it around in everyone's face, begging them to describe it. You said it 'cams you'. And then you started making suicide jokes. It got pretty *graphic*."
- ↑ YOU - "You mean me? You needed to get away from *me?*"
- ↑ JUDIT MINOT - "But Detective Vicquemare," she interjects. "He *has* blanked out before."
YOU - "I have?"
JUDIT MINOT - "Yes, a couple of times. After some of the more... serious benders." She pauses, remembering. "One was after the Two Drunks case, the other when we looked into that mural." - ↑ YOU - "Something so sad happened to me that I couldn't be me anymore. It was a defence mechanism."
- ↑ YOU - "It might have something to do with an anomaly in the church. A two-millimetre hole in the world."
- ↑ JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Or perhaps it can be cured with mesmerism? But then I think: No, that's unlikely. He's probably just an *asshole*. A drunk asshole who *pretends* to have amnesia to get out of shit."
- ↑ TITUS HARDIE - ""You know what I think?" He raises his finger. "I think he was shot in the head as a kid. And his brain grew around the bullet.""
ENDURANCE - "It *is* possible to live with an injury like that. Makes you touch the back of your skull, wondering if there's one in there?"
PAIN THRESHOLD - "No. You'd remember that. You've been shot at four times. Hit twice."