| “ | Do NOT interfere with the game. That includes the building, the keys, and any cameras you might find. If you don't follow this rule, I will kill all of you. Clear? | „ |
| ~ Sheol |
| “ | I've done it! Victory is mine! I've gotten away with everything!! The Room and Board... Curt Bishop... I even killed my own partner and got away with it! No one was able to stop me! Not Mia, not Zero, not anyone!! I am invincible! Unconquerable! No one can compare! I am the storyteller! The one who pulls the strings! I am Sheol!! And I win. | „ |
| ~ Sheol's Breakdown |
Miles Murdoch also known as Miles Edgeworth or his villainous identity Sheol is the main antagonist of The Torriental Turnabout. He is an FBI Agent driven by the splendor and gritty nature of murder mysteries and Visual Novels and was inspired to create one himself. He's responsible for creating Sheol's Room and Board, a red room game filmed for the pleasure of a secret audience at the expense of the participants' lives. He is also responsible for murdering his accomplice Judge Harper and the orchestrator of Curt Bishop's murder.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He kidnaps 10 people and places them inside a military bunker where they were forced to participate inside a killing game for 9 days to survive. One of them accidentally died by his injection but Sheol clearly felt no remorse for it, possibly even excited it would throw things off track.
- He was willing to kill all of the participants at once if they were to remove the fun factor of the killing game by breaking his rules regardless of who broke it.
- His actions led to the murders of Patricia Markowitz and Daniel Caruthers caused by Damara Rochelle.
- His game driven Darcy Owens, a clear happy go lucky girl to suicide after realizing she was losing and didn't want to kill anyone herself.
- Murders Noah Colten and attempted to do the same to Erika Van Muellen by letting out the carbon monoxide when they were unable to escape the red room in time. However, Erika Van Muellen miraculously survived the killing game and accidentally shot his accomplice Officer Harper and ran off thinking she killed her. When Sheol discovered the scene, he made the bodies disappear and burned all the evidence in order to hide the survivor's survival.
- His actions made Charlie Klein and Donald Graves live in fear and resentment for the rest of their lives.
- Damara Rochelle who was already suffering from PTSD from her time in the war would be further brought down by insanity using killing and inflicting pain as a coping mechanism to deal with her trauma.
- Nathanial Montclair driven by guilt of his actions to survive Sheol's Room and Board, deteriorated from his stability and spent a daily basis reliving the events of the killing game believing he was there and the people around him were his fellow participants wanting to make amends for what he's done. He developed a drinking habit alongside this, gained a severe mental disability, and was forced to live in hospice care after the events of Sheol's Room and Board.
- Catherine Winters would discover that her own mother died from a "terrorist attack" but was never told why she died.
- When Curt Bishop discovered info that led to the discovery of the survivor's survival, Sheol orchestrated a plan to silence him by psychologically tormenting the survivors into heading to the hospice. Knowing Charlie Klein would tell his best friend Curt Bishop about this, he specifically called him a second time in order to give an official request to have Curt Bishop killed. He would go on to tease Charlie Klein during the conversation about him making a second appearance in his "show". The fear Sheol instilled in Charlie Klein would eventually lead him to kill Curt Bishop after realizing Sheol would never show up and tricked him that he would, showing Klein had no control over the situation.
- Donald Graves attempted to kill Sheol only to accidentally hit Nathanial Montclair with the metal pipe instead. As Donald Graves attempted to flee, Damara Rochelle driven to insanity thanks to Sheol ran him over with her car, mutilating him for the rest of his life.
- Sheol attempted to use the chaos to formulate a plan to pin the blame on Donald Graves for everything and to shut the case quickly alongside his accomplices Judge Harper and Mr. Lincoln. Sheol would eventually try to use Curt Bishop's murder as advertisement for an upcoming red room game.
- Sheol attempted to use every stop to try to rig the trial whenever Mia Fey lets up, keeping his case vague and forcing Mia Fey to take false and desperate avenues to try to keep the case running, even accusing Catherine Winters of murder.
- After Zero formulated a plan to hold the courtroom captive, he murders his accomplice Judge Harper by silently strangling her and disguised her death as anaphylactic shock caused by Zero knowing she'd potentially spill the beans if his opposition would get as far as Curt Bishop did due to having evidence of her involvement as a result of her gun wounds. While he spared Mia Fey from the same fate, he wanted to know if she was responsible for his current situation.
- He attempts to have Mia Fey and Diego Armando scapegoated to Zero for being Sheol by constantly making them look suspicious in order to remove them for good. He even lied about his actions in the trial and pinned them on Mia Fey and Diego Armando due to the lack of proof of what occurred in the trial, convincing a few of his fellow participants to turn against them.
- He constantly discourages any avenues that would bring his peers any hope into uncovering the truth behind his actions, even insulting some of them in attempt to bring their spirits down.
- Is implied to would have killed everyone who partook in Zero's trial due to all of them knowing too much about Sheol's scheme as evident by him rushing the trial's conclusion and Mia having a panic attack over realizing this fact.
- He shows no remorse over his actions, making fun of his victims' current states even under his facade which greatly disturbed his peers. He shows a lack of care over the lives he ruined or killed, calling it meaningless if they survived or not.
- While he does show considerable levels of insanity during his breakdown, believing in incredibly fictional logic as genuine arguments for his case along with believing he won when Mia was unable to break through his nonsense, this doesn't make him too insane to not have agency for his actions. He brought his own delusional views upon himself by letting his love for murder mystery games influence him into becoming the villain he wanted to be. Even if it was true if eventually believe himself into being inside a fictional world, Sheol made a decision in the past using his conscience to create the game for himself with a lack of regard of the eventual consequences his actions would cause. In essence, he chose to fall deeper into his delusions over the lives of other people.
- His comedic nature only makes him more disturbing than played for laughs as it's used as juxtaposition in comparison to the suffering he caused. Everyone else treats the situation and incidents seriously because they have empathy and compassion over the suffering unlike Sheol who treats each situation like a complete joke and isn't bothered by them. His pathetic defeat only makes him more disturbing when it dawns on the characters that they all suffered by his actions simply because he wanted to fulfill his fictional fantasies. While Zero shuts the trunk on him while he was complaining about wanting to go to jail, this doesn't make Zero feel any less disturbed by his actions.
Trivia[]
- Given the nature of his crimes and personality, it's highly likely he himself was inspired by Pure Evil Characters of the Visual Novel Genre such as Junko Enoshima who served as a killing game mastermind. This is evident by the fact he liked games like Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, and Zero Escape. In essence, he was influenced by these characters fictional to his universe.
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