History Characters / CandelaObscura

__>'''Leo:''' If it's a problem money can solve, it's not a problem.

* PhonyPsychic: Her job with the Foggs is to pose as one of these, spinning stories of the supernatural about the fake artefacts and items they attempt to sell to their gullible customers. Although, considering the supernatural abilities she employs for Candela, Grimoria is more of a NotSoPhonyPsychic.

* ConArtist: Her backstory's mention of "clever scams" implies that she is or was once this prior to joining Candela.

'''Leo:''' It-it ticked.

--->'''Specialty''': Soldier

!!!Played By: Creator/Taliesin Jaffe

--->Specialty: Journalist

!!!Played By: Creator/Alexander Ward

--->Specialty: Doctor

-->Role: Wierd
--->Specialty: Medium

* FunctionalAddict: Rajan uses [[FantasticDrug a narcotic called Scarlet]] just before a mission, with a casualness that implies regular use and that doing so will not significantly disrupt his ability to function.

* FunctionalAddict: Rajan is implied to need [[FantasticDrug a narcotic called Scarlet]] to cope with what he's become.

* MeaningfulName: Oscar is one of Sam Riegel's middle names.

* TheGlovesComeOff: After things go pear-shaped in the second session, Nathaniel loads a pair of pistols into the empty holsters he's been wearing from the start of the campaign, signalling his shift from TheFace who relies almost entirely on words to the more combat-ready role of the Detective.

* ChainPain: Oscar's WeaponOfChoice is an approximately four-foot-long piece of chain that he uses quite effectively.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Manages to outlive Cosmo when the latter finally dies of old age by the end of Episode Three. It is also implied that he has outlived other children as well]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: He clearly views his immortality as a curse (having it forced upon him by something from the Flare), having to see his own son as a 97-year-old man while he stays young. And it's implied he's outlived other children too.]]

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Elsie has contracted a terminal illness called "Cullet," which is described as feeling like broken shards of glass in the lungs.

* SoleSurvivor: In a manner of speaking. [[spoiler:He and Elsie are the only ones who survive to the end of the session, but by virtue of his ResurrectiveImmortality and the fact that Elsie has a terminal illness that will eventually kill her soon, makes Oscar effectively the last surviving member of the Circle of Tide and Bone]].

* SoleSurvivor: In a manner of speaking. [[He and Elsie are the only ones who survive to the end of the session, but by virtue of his ResurrectiveImmortality and the fact that Elsie has a terminal illness that will eventually kill her soon, makes Oscar effectively the last surviving member of the Circle of Tide and Bone]].

* OldFlame: Rajan is this for her.

* TheArtfulDodger: He's quite cheerful despite being a homeless young man and he manages to go by juggling between legal works and petty criminal activities.

* TheFace: Literally her role in the party. She is quite charismatic and can easily sways her target either through acting, seduction or simply persuasion.
* HandicappedBadass: She loses the control of her right hand after taking a scar during chapter 2. It doesn't stop her from learning to use the ''Ghost Blade'' to take on the Snatcher in chapter 3.

* ProphetEyes: She gains a pair of black, pupiless eyes after [[spoiler:taking her third scar as her result of her final ''Forbidden Ritual'' against the Snatcher. It spreads the greyed part of her skin to her face, granting her vision within the Flare.]]
* TheRightHandOfDoom: Her right hand is entirely grey and cracked. She usually wears a glove to conceal it. After she used her ''Forbidden Ritual'' in the sewers, [[spoiler: her scar manifested by expending the surface covered by the grey skin.]]

* AbsentMindedProfessor: He gets easily distracted by his interest for the supernatural and doesn't really pay attention to what people say about him.

* NoSocialSkills: He's known as loner by his colleagues at the College. It is implied that he has no relationships whatsoever beyond his fellow circle members.

* CowardlyLion: Nathaniel calls himself a coward, wholeheartedly agreeing with Beatrix's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech critic of his character]] but as she recognize herself, his actions speak louder than than his words and he always rose up to support his circle member.

* TheGlovesComeOff: After things go pear-shaped in the second session, Nathaniel loads a pair of pistols into the empty holsters he's been wearing from the start of the campaign, signaling his shift from TheFace who relies almost entirely on words to the more combat-ready role of the Detective.

* MercyKill: In the second session, she suffocates [[spoiler:Draven Kingsley]], who has been horrifically maimed by a shapeshifter beyond Jean's ability to help. As she prepares to do so, she notes she's had to do this before, presumably for fatally-injured soldiers during the war.
* ShootTheDog: Bee twice takes it on herself to kill in order to spare other members of her Circle the burden. In the second session, she delivers the MercyKill to [[spoiler:Draven Kingsley]] when it becomes clear there's no way to save him but Jean can't bring herself to accept it; in the third, she's the one who delivers the fatal blow to [[spoiler:Sean]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Her art makes her looks like she's well into her 70s but she's in fact only in her mid-50s. This may be the result of a rough life aging her prematurely, as she's been through quite a lot over the years and currently has to scrape to make ends meet.

* AntiVillain: A [[TragicVillain tragic exemple]]. He was on a path trying to be TheAtoner for his crimes during the war, but his mother being locked in a sanatorium by a corrupt doctor, his war trauma going untreated and his Candela assignments adding additional pressure eventually made him crack and led to his dawnfall.
* TheBigGuy: The resident Muscle of the Circle of the Needle and Thread. He's adept both with firearms and in hand to hand combat and always reacts quickly to danger.
* BoomHeadshot: How he mercilessly dispose of those who wronged him.
* DeathSeeker: Subtle but his [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] seems to manifest as this. When Sean is fighting the squid dogs to buy some time for his friends, Brennan notes that if it not for Nathaniel’s order to run, he would instead have kept fighting until death ensued.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's already on tracks when we meet him but it's further accelerated by the events of the chapter and comes to a climax when he is confronted to a shapeshifter [[NotSoDifferentRemark recognizing him as a monster similar to himself]]. From then on, his SanitySlippage does the rest.

* CombatMedic: She served as a nurse during the war and is perfectly capable to treat wounds in the middle of a battle.

* DefectorFromDecadence: The opening sequence of the second chapter as her cutting her ties with EONS after they discovered she was a member of Candela as well. Her definite feelings toward the association remains unclear, but if anything, she doesn't like their disregard for human lives.

* FlowerMotif: He is heavly associated with the Starry Sky Petunia, a flower that bloomed is his garden when he was a kid.
* GenderBlenderName: Marion is a french name, diminutive for [[ASaintNamedMary Mary]]. It's commonly a woman name but is sometimes given to men as well.

* MarkOfTheSupernatural: He has a blue lightning like scar on his torso that pulses when he uses his powers.
* MeaningfulName: His name alludes to his nature of empty vessel for possession. Marion as in ''Marion''ette and Collodi like Carlo Collodi, the author of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
* {{Seers}}: He sometimes get glimpse of the immediate future. It manifested for the first time on the battlefield and allowed him and Sean to survive. While useful, [[BlessedWithSuck the visions are especially unpleasant]] because he struggles to differentiate them of reality.
* ShellShockedVeteran: A less extreme exemple as Sean but his time in the war scarred him too.

* BodyHorror: Beneath his fine jacket and shirt, he has a hive full of locusts built into his chest. [[spoiler:By mid-Episode Three, Rajan's body becomes increasingly more insectile with the amount of damage he sustains, most notably his arm which is stripped of dead flesh by his locusts and changes into a clawed, three-fingered insect hand]].

* ChainPain: Oscar's WeaponOfChoice is the long chain he wears around his neck.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: He clearly views his immortality as a curse (having it forced upon him by something from the Flare), having to see his own son as a 97 year old man while he stays young. And it's implied he's outlived other children too.]]

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Elsie has contracted a terminal illness called "Cullet," that is described as feeling like broken shards of glass in the lungs.

* BodyHorror: Beneath his fine jacket and shirt, he has a hive full of locusts built into his chest.

MissKitty: Madame Glask runs a casino and discreet brothel in Newfaire called "The Glass Cat Casino."

* BodyHorror: Beneath his fine jacket and shirt, he has a hive full of locusts built into his chest

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Howard cuts a part of his own skull as the scar resulting of his fourth brain mark. As he puts it, all he needed was [[LiteralMinded "to expand [his] mind".]]]]

* NaiveNewcomer: He is the only character of the first chapter that starts the campaign without being affiliated with Candela Obscura and he had no knowledge of the supernatural side of Newfair before being a direct witness of an accident.

An entertainer from the Red Lamp District. She has the most experience with Candela Obscura from the circle, having worked for them for over ten years.

* TheFace: Litteraly her role in the party. She is quite charismatic and can easily sways her target either through acting, seduction or simply persuasion.

A professor of philosophy at Briar Bank College, in Newfair. He often worked with Candela in the past and is already familiar with some of the secrets of Oldfair.

And old widow working at the Grayslate Sanatorium. She is an old friend of Sean's mother.

* DefectorFromDecadence: The opening sequence of the second chapter as her cutting her ties with EONS after they discovered she was a member of Candela Obscura as well. Her definite feelings toward the association remains unclear, but if anything, she doesn't like their disregard for human lives.

* FlowerMotif: He is heavly associated with the Night Sky Petunia, a flower that bloomed is his garden when he was a kid.