Friend

Friend (ともだち Tomodachi) is the maximum leader of the "Friendship Clut" He is an enigmatic cult leader. He is depicted as a mysterious and influential figure who holds a lot of influence over people, convincing others to do his dirty work in order to pursue his hidden agendas.

Friend wears throughout the series a suit & tie comprising a grey vest, a white shirt and a red tie. The main variations of his appearance are related to his masks. Friend is the mysterious, charismatic leader of an unnamed religious cult in Japan. Gaining the trust of many Japanese citizens, his influence even reached police officials and political figures and kept growing more and more. It is revealed that Friend's goal is to control the world.

Friend's cult began its expansion by eliminating various rival cult leaders and bothersome individuals to the group, using the term "purify" when having to neutralize someone at the behest of Friend. Then, several cases of mysterious deaths occurred all around the world, each of them being caused by the aforementioned virus; it first stroke in Tokyo, then San Francisco and London.

His real name is unknown, but many assume various names to him, such as: Nikolai Stavrogin, Hattori Katsumata and Hattori Fukubei. His nationality is unknown, he is believed to be Japanese or Russian or American.

He is extremely intelligent, influential, manipulative, with social skills, emotional understanding and very high IQ, being one of the most intelligent beings known to humanity.

Their cult is called "Friendship", a super organization dedicated to dominating the world and uniting it for a single goal: surviving the apocalypse. The Friendship organization has a leader (Friend), a Queen (Aglaya) and 12 apostles, among them David Argyle.