The Captain

The Captain is Ananta's protagonist and the player-character. Players choose between a male or female version at game start, then customise the name, outfit, and personal vehicle; both variants share the same build, ability set and story role, with only minor dialogue differences. In-fiction, the Captain holds the title 'Infinite Trigger,' a designation reserved for the city's top supernatural investigator and tied to Esper-class abilities. As the leader of the A.C.D. (Anti-Chaos Directorate) Task Force, the Captain commands the other Task Force members (Taffy, Richie, Seymour, Lykaia) and is the anchor of Ananta's seamless mid-mission role-switching system. The official premise opens on a rough first day: the unit all but collapses just as the Captain reports for duty, and an early call — defusing a 'Maniac Chaos' traffic-jam outbreak — turns the newcomer into an overnight internet sensation. From there the throughline is rebuilding the Task Force and growing the team rather than chasing personal fame, with social-media reach treated in-fiction as a genuine tool. Fan write-ups widely describe the Captain as arriving with little memory of their past and their identity as a running mystery — a recurring thread across community sources, though not confirmed in official NetEase materials. The official materials themselves keep the Captain light on hard detail — combat numbers, a named skill kit and the power's exact mechanics are not spelled out. The January 2026 offline Closed Technical Test (CBT1, January 16–20, 2026, PC, 46 GB build, DualSense reportedly supported) put the Captain in players' hands for the first time and showed the shared ability layout — a cooldown-based skill, an attack-charged skill, and real-time team-switching — though no official kit spec has been published.

Balanced action combat. The Captain is the only playable character with the Chaos-tendril grapple-swing — organic, Spider-Man-style appendages used both for skyscraper-to-skyscraper traversal and for combat extensions. The kit blends parkour-based movement, environment finishers, and adaptable ranged weapons. Early hands-on builds showed a shared ability layout — a basic attack, a cooldown-based skill, and an attack-charged skill — used inside team compositions that switch in real time, though NetEase has not published an official kit spec.

Main story progression as the A.C.D. Task Force lead. The Captain investigates anomalies and 'Chaos' incidents across Nova City — the in-fiction term for the supernatural force the A.C.D. exists to suppress. Unlike the other three confirmed Task Force members, the Captain does not have a day-job loop tied to a single archetype (police, delivery, hacker, live-streamer); the Captain is the team's nexus, with progression driven by main-quest beats and seamless-switch anchoring rather than a single role.

Male-variant official art: short dark hair, black coat over a white shirt, blue tie, black trousers, black gloves, blue eyes, blue armband bearing the A.C.D. identifier. Both M and F variants share the same physical build, ability set and story role; only a small number of dialogue lines vary between them.

Outsider, thrill-seeking but responsible. The official site frames the Captain as the new leader of a special task force who arrives unfamiliar with the city and inherits plenty of headaches to deal with: a dutiful leader with a personal taste for risk. The opening also gives the Captain a social-media-native streak — an early viral moment after defusing a public Chaos incident turns internet reach into part of how the job gets done.