Robert Schroeder
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Professional Status
Affiliation	PANDORA
Occupation	Physicist
Behind The Scenes
First Appearance	Episode 21

Doctor Robert Schroeder is a scientist working for as a member of PANDORA. He is the leading expert on high energy physics inside Hell's Gate^[1] and also researches a means to destroy all Contractors.

AppearanceEdit

Dr. Schroeder has long, fuzzy white hair and a bearded chin. He has wrinkles around his eyes and wears spectacles. His typical attire consists of a shirt, tie trousers, shoes and a lab coat.

PersonalityEdit

Dr. Schroeder is a very smart and energetic figure who often comes across as comical. He asks visitors not to be strictly formal^[2] and states that he does not hold grudges.^[3] He can also go off topic when discussing something.^[4]

Part in the StoryEdit

The Black ContractorEdit

In episode 21, Robert Schroeder creates a weapons that has the ability to destroy all contractors, and the PANDORA are seen trying to use it in episode 25, but they are stopped by Hei. Robert Schröder still invents anti-contractor weapons.

Shikkoku No HanaEdit

Late one night, Misaki Kirihara and Ōtsuka Mayu visit Dr. Schroeder in PANDORA. Misaki states that it has been a while since they last saw each other, but Robert states that it hasn't been all that long. When Ōtsuka introduces herself, he tells her not to be so formal. He notes that he is under house arrest, stating that his experiments ended in vain due to Hei but states that he does not hold a grudge against anyone. Misaki asks him if he has ever heard of a Contractor that can dissolve matter and leaves behind a black dandelion. Robert states that he is aware of such an individual, but that he died months previously with a lot of people watching.^[5]

Robert explains that he was experiment on a particle accelerator which would build a wall to enclose Hell's Gate and came close to destroying the Gate, but he was prevented from succeeding by EPR. He also notes that there were a number of other experiments ongoing at the time, including the "Black Flower", an experiment involving a parasitic plant that resembled a black dandelion found within Hell's Gate. He reveals that two years ago, it attached itself to an investigator that came back from the Gate and subsequently triggered a violent change in the person, who killed his co-workers with unheard of strength despite not becoming a Contractor. He died before security arrived, leaving a number of black flowers sprouting from his body. He introduces them to Mina Kandaswamy and Sergei Vectrof, who was in charge of that research as Misaki and Ōtsuka are ushered out before talking with them in private.^[6]

Robert later sneaks out of PANDORA to tell Misaki that "the two of them" want to talk to her.^[7] He gives Misaki an experimental "Contact-type Anti-Gate Particle Irradiation Device" to use cure the Black Dandelion, telling her to think of it as a minature Saturn Ring. He notes that Sergei began to make it, but he finished it at Sergei's request. He tells Misaki that he has not seen Sergei since she was in PANDORA. He tells her to look into the Nishijama Group, which has labs comparable to PANDORA.^[8]

Gemini of the MeteorEdit

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 4 page 22
2. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 4 page 22
3. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 4 page 23
4. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 5 page 13
5. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 4, pages 21-24
6. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 5, pages 11-18
7. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 17, page 28
8. ↑ Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana; Chapter 26, pages 3-8

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