History Characters / Bastion

* VagueAge: His exact age is never given, and although he is referred to as a kid, he seems to at least be in his late teens or a young adult.

* GutturalGrowler: Rucks has a very deep, gravelly voice, courtesy of Supergiant mainstay Logan Cunningham.

* WeaponOfChoice: According to Rucks' narration, during his 'fighting days', he favored the [[DropTheHammer Cael Hammer]] and the [[ColdSniper Army Carbine]].

* {{Determinator}}: Monument's broken? Get the shards. Broken again? Get more.

* BerserkButton: He really flips out when [[spoiler:he finds out that the Cael Mancers designed the Calamity weapon that destroyed Caelondia, killed the woman he loved, and blew the Tazal Terminals sky high. Especially notable given the fact that, before it happened, he was a voice of peace and reason for both parties.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Raised by a Cael man, he moved to Caelondia and worked, with apparent success, to promote a peace based on mutual respect and coexistence. The Calamity [[DespairEventHorizon breaks him]] and [[spoiler: the awful truth about it and the futility of his past work [[BerserkButton breaks him again]]]].

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's the Kid.

* CategoryTraitor: [[spoiler;While Zia willingly goes with the Ura after their attack on the Bastion, at the end of the game she reveals that she tried to convince them to work with or at least forgive the Kid and Rucks; they responded by calling her a traitor, and she was starting to fear for her safety by the time the Kid rescued her.]]

* MultipleChoicePast: Just what does Rucks do? [[spoiler: He was, for certain, a Mancer.]] His narration also indicates he was at one time part of the Masons and the Triggers.

Characters for ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}''

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[[caption-width-right:350:"No matter what he's gonna face out there, it'll burn."]]

* BadassNormal: He's just an ordinary human who wields weapons, and yet has faces no trouble defeating anyone (and anything) he fights against with ease.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He went to fight to earn money for his mother, but when he returns, his mother has passed away and the money is gone.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's The Kid.

%%* GutturalGrowler
%%* LemonyNarrator

* WorldHalfEmpty: His view on the Calamity. [[spoiler:He wants to reset the world in his ending.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:In the ending, the Kid finds Zulf in the process of being beaten to death by the Ura and can choose to either save him or leave him to his fate. However, presumably they were not trying to kill him simply for being a traitor to the Ura's enemies but because his actions for the Ura ended up bringing the Kid down upon them in his mission to regain the Shard that they took.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Her would-be boyfriend sold her and her father out to the authorities, saying they were Ura spies. This after more or less insulting her father indirectly and planting the idea of escaping to the Terminals in her head which led to her arrest in the first place.

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast

* LethalChef: A variation when the Kid uses her stockpot in the Bastion. While the Kid seems happy enough to eat the food, it slams the door hard on its way out, as it ''[[AcidRefluxNightmare functions as a portal]]'' to Who Knows Where, and Rucks comments on it when you keep hitting the outhouse.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8M5IeaAkmQ "Mother, I'm Here"]]

* AudienceSurrogate: Of a sort. [[spoiler: Turns out she's the one Rucks is narrating the story to,]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SZee4YZX8 "Build That Wall"]]

* WorldHalfEmpty: His view on the Calamity. [[spoiler:He wants to reset the world in his ending. ]]