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* TheHero: Of the[[spoiler: Revolution]] Mega-Arc.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He's ultimately done in when Lenora launches his own discarded cybernetic parts into him.]]

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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He's not always in full drill sergeant mode, it seems to be something of an act so his soldiers respect him more.
** According to his daughter, he went into demolitions rather than the military proper so he didn't have to personally hurt people.

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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He's not always in full drill sergeant mode, it seems to be something of an act so his soldiers respect him more.
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more. According to his daughter, he went into demolitions rather than the military proper so he didn't have to personally hurt people.



* CluelessBoss: Not when she's personally in the office, but she took a vacation to Lorelei, giving Team Loser ''incredibly'' broad powers with the vague objective to "acquire other branches of Crown". The result is that she's unwittingly given the party the exact tool they need to [[spoiler:bring down Crown Corp.]]
** Also currently clueless as to the goings-on in Administration; Ed did so well in taking charge that the Administration employees started tossing around a rumor that Alistair is actually dead and Ed is their new boss.

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* CluelessBoss: Not when she's personally in the office, but she took a vacation to Lorelei, giving Team Loser ''incredibly'' broad powers with the vague objective to "acquire other branches of Crown". The result is that she's unwittingly given the party the exact tool they need to [[spoiler:bring down Crown Corp.]]
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]] Also currently clueless as to the goings-on in Administration; Ed did so well in taking charge that the Administration employees started tossing around a rumor that Alistair is actually dead and Ed is their new boss.



* ParentalNeglect: Thinks his son is an idiot, particularly for his interest in hollodeck, and doesn't hide that fact at all.
** It's also revealed that he wrote Algernon out of his will (also keeping him from inheriting the Financial branch).

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* ParentalNeglect: Thinks his son is an idiot, particularly for his interest in hollodeck, and doesn't hide that fact at all.
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all. It's also revealed that he wrote Algernon out of his will (also keeping him from inheriting the Financial branch).



* BigBad: He's the leader of Valentine and is thus responsible for almost every problem in the season. [[spoiler: played with since he's actually just a brainwashed mouthpiece for Saint Luna]].

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* BigBad: He's the leader of Valentine and is thus responsible for almost every problem in the season.season, though he doesn't come into direct conflict with Team Loser until near the end. [[spoiler: played with since he's actually just a brainwashed mouthpiece for Saint Luna]].




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* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: It turns out he's the latest in a long line of these who have been used as proxies for Saint Luna]].



* NobleDemon: He's ''literally'' a demon.

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* NobleDemon: He's ''literally'' a demon.demon, and a rather chill one at that.



* KarmaHoudini: After [[spoiler:using Ed as a patsy, which is apparently something he does regularly with Warforged in Ed's position]], he still holds enough cards to force Team Loser to pay him for information. He even gets [[spoiler:Frank's wedding ring as part of the deal, despite Frank's best efforts to con him with a fake.]] The closest thing he has to comeuppance is losing part of his company to Aeron, but he seems to be running his casino as if nothing's changed.
** [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted. After the campaign, Ed buys Harker's casino out from under him.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: After [[spoiler:using Ed as a patsy, which is apparently something he does regularly with Warforged in Ed's position]], he still holds enough cards to force Team Loser to pay him for information. He even gets [[spoiler:Frank's wedding ring as part of the deal, despite Frank's best efforts to con him with a fake.]] The closest thing he has to comeuppance is losing part of his company to Aeron, but he seems to be running his casino as if nothing's changed.
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* FlunkyBoss: Since he's immobile, he fights Team Loser with an army of Krakenbane clones while occasionally shooting HighPressureBlood at them.



* WalkingSpoiler: He isn't even mentioned until near the end of the season and the reveal of his true identity comes with many revelations about the events of the season and the history of Valentine.



* StalkerWithoutACrush: ...Maybe without a crush. There was that instance of him caressing Ed's unconscious face. Either way, he wants to ''free'' Ed, because he sees him as a symbol of the best possible fate of the Warforged, sees him as "chosen by the universe".
** He later says he feels ''something'' towards Ed but, not knowing what it was, always tried to repress it. It's still unclear if this feeling was romantic, though.

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* StalkerWithoutACrush: ...Maybe without a crush. There was that instance of him caressing Ed's unconscious face. Either way, he wants to ''free'' Ed, because he sees him as a symbol of the best possible fate of the Warforged, sees him as "chosen by the universe".
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universe". He later says he feels ''something'' towards Ed but, not knowing what it was, always tried to repress it. It's still unclear if this feeling was romantic, though.
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* SinisterSurveillance: He can track Conduits and is aware of everything they do which greatly unnerves the players. [[spoiler:Downplayed since, while he is evil he doesn't use this power to hurt anyone.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: He's the only Crown Head to walk away with everything she wants by the end, she gets to escape from the cutthroat scheming of Crown while still maintaining all of the benefits of his position.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: He's the only Crown Head to walk away with everything she wants by the end, she gets to escape from the cutthroat scheming of Crown while still maintaining all of the benefits of his her position.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Zig-Zagged: [[spoiler:The "original" Beatrice died when he first used Project Eternity and the person we've been seeing is the latest in a line of new bodies he's uploaded his mind into. He's effectively the same person but has undergone some personality changes as a a side effect.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Of the named Branch Heads he has the least screentime and dies shortly after his introduction.]]



* HateSink: While he isn't the most evil Crown Head, he's certainly the most unlikable, being an abusive, violent, prick who think's he's better than everyone else.

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* HateSink: While he isn't the most evil Crown Head, he's certainly the most unlikable, being an abusive, violent, prick who think's thinks he's better than everyone else.


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* KarmaHoudini: Zig-Zagged. [[spoiler:He gets to keep his position in Crown but he's forced to undergo HeelFaceBrainwashing which makes him a much better person.]]


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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:While he's a lot less evil than the other Branch Heads, he's still a drug dealer and part of Valentine's corruption and is allowed to simply sell the Hospitality Branch and walk away safely.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: While all of the Branch Heads of Crown are bad people, he's a lot less shady and is a NaiveNewcomer who isn't as involved with the shadier parts of what Crown does for the most part. He's also notably the only one LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding [[spoiler: Project Eternity.]]


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* NaiveNewcomer: He only became a Branch Head relatively reccently and is thus way less experienced in corporate espionage. This causes some trouble as [[spoiler: he's been LockedOutOfTheLoop about Project Eternity and his first job for Team Loser ends up exposing it's existence to them.]]
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:She grew up abused by her guardian and is barely able to earn a living wage working her dream job. When she's pulled into The Game she ends up quitting her dream job to try and work towards a position of power in Crown Corp. Learning that everything that has happened since the start of the season breaks her and causes her to start killing the board members of Crown Corp so she can "win" the game and never want for anything or be under anyone's thumb again.]]

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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:She grew up abused by her guardian and is barely able to earn a living wage working her dream job. When she's pulled into The Game she ends up quitting her dream job to try and work towards a position of power in Crown Corp. Learning that everything that has happened since the start of the season was just more manipulation from her guardian breaks her and causes her to start killing the board members of Crown Corp so she can "win" the game and never want for anything or be under anyone's thumb again.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: She ultimately fails in her plan to kill the Crown Corp board and take over, being killed while half of them are still alive.]] Worse still [[spoiler:it turns out her rampage was orchestrated by [[BigBad Saint Luna]], who she had no way of locating if she survived, meaning all she did was help him consolidate power.]] Later on [[spoiler:this is somewhat Subverted as Team Loser takes advantage of the shift in power, and the status they gained for killing her and uses it to take over Crown Corp and make Valentine a better place.]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Her turn to villainy is caused by her selfish desire to take control of Crown Corp in order to "win' The Game.]]


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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:She grew up abused by her guardian and is barely able to earn a living wage working her dream job. When she's pulled into The Game she ends up quitting her dream job to try and work towards a position of power in Crown Corp. Learning that everything that has happened since the start of the season breaks her and causes her to start killing the board members of Crown Corp so she can "win" the game and never want for anything or be under anyone's thumb again.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's an abusive, manipulative creep who basically ruined Catarina's life for his own ends so no one sheds a tear when she kills him.]]

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* BigBad: Not only is he the leader of the Crown Corporation, he created the damn thing in the first place, making him responsible for the sorry state of Valentine as a whole.

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* BigBad: Not only is he the leader of the Crown Corporation, he created the damn thing in the first place, making him responsible for the sorry state of Valentine as a whole. More directly, he more or less orchestrated Team Loser joining "The Game" and later Caterina's rampage.


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* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: Due to his extreme age combined with a lack of immortality, he's hooked up to a bunch of tubes and devices to stay alive.
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* ExtravertedNerd: Dresses in ostentatious styles and colors, and enjoys publicly dueling Frank.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}\{{Bishonen}}: He is androgynous, taking from both Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie in terms of looks.



* {{Bishonen}}: The picture Austin uses to depict him is [[Characters/InuyashaSesshomaru Sesshomaru]].
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* DoingItForTheArt: Nothing is more important to Beau than creating new trailblazing art, not even the Game.

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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler: Far and away the most popular member of Team Loser following her landing the killing blow on Ash and The Valentine Devil.]]

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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: LovedByAll: [[spoiler: Far and away the most popular member of Team Loser following her landing the killing blow on Ash and The Valentine Devil.]]



* BrainsEvilBrawnGood: He prefers for wrestlers to be old fashioned strongmen like him.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Described as the John Cena of Valentine.

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* BrainsEvilBrawnGood: He prefers for wrestlers to be old fashioned old-fashioned strongmen like him.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Described as the John Cena of Valentine.
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* LovedByAll: Described as the John Cena of Valentine.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She honestly believes that dragging the party into The Game was a good thing for them despite them risking their lives and livelihoods for her, since it gave them a chance to move up in the world. Interestingly [[spoiler: she's totally right about that last part, since they effectively take over Valentine in the end. The difference is they did so as a way to escape The Game and change Valentine so what happened to them can't happen again, which is selfless unlike what Beau expected.]]


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* BadBoss: He's essentially the boss of everyone in Valentine, since he created it as a Corporatocracy with him in charge. That said, he made the system explicitly so he could exploit his citizens for his own ends and ends up getting dozens of Crown employees, including 3 Branch Heads, killed to expand his own power.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: By the time he dies he's been fired from his job, and is a paranoid alcoholic living in the desert to protect his family.]]


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* TheDragon: He's Luna's "player" in "The Game" meaning he's the guy chosen to get things done for Luna. Unlike most examples of this trope, he's pretty weak and Luna tries to [[YouHaveFailedMe kill him for his failure]] pretty early on.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He loves his kids and hopes that he can get them comfortable lives when they grow up. [[spoiler: The reason he becomes a hermit living in the desert is because he thinks Luna will kill them if he stays with them.]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite initially being a one dimensional RabidCop, he's later shown to have kids he loves, and despite his sadism, he's deeply pessimistic about his job and is only doing it to provide for his family.


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* RussianRoulette: His go to way of messing with his enemies is to play this.
* {{Sadist}}: Get's a serious kick out of his games of RussianRoulette.

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* OnlySaneMan: He's the most put together and stable of the party and is generally the one to try and reign the other in.

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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: She's a deconstruction of TheDragAlong and UnluckyEverydude. Unlike the rest of Team Loser she never choose to get involved in Crown's internal politics instead being forced into it by Catarina and then [[spoiler:pressured into becoming a corporate superhero for Crown. In the end all the stress causes her to undergo SanitySlippage leaving her as a BrokenBird by the end.]]
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->'''Played By:''' Chris Larios

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* HeroicBuild: Chris insists that she has "actual physique".

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* HeroicBuild: Chris Quinn insists that she has "actual physique".



-->'''Chris:''' I'm gonna take my gun and I'm going to use my Conduit of Victory and, holds on... (calculates) does... [[BeyondTheImpossible 10,003 hit?]]

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: During the ColdOpen of episode 18, Chris begins to play her as she meets Graves for the first time.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She's much more combative and snarky at first, but when Chris plays her she becomes a neurotic mess without a bad bone in her body.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: During the ColdOpen of episode 18, Chris Quinn begins to play her as she meets Graves for the first time.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She's much more combative and snarky at first, but when Chris Quinn plays her she becomes a neurotic mess without a bad bone in her body.



* PromotedToPlayable: As of episode 18. [[spoiler: Becomes Chris's main player character after Cat's death.]]

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* PromotedToPlayable: As of episode 18. [[spoiler: Becomes Chris's Quinn's main player character after Cat's death.]]



* CharacterizationMarchesOn: For most of the season he keeps a lid on his violent tendencies and is pretty calm. [[spoiler: When Chris plays him he becomes a LargeHam BloodKnight always screaming about hurting others.]]

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: For most of the season he keeps a lid on his violent tendencies and is pretty calm. [[spoiler: When Chris Quinn plays him he becomes a LargeHam BloodKnight always screaming about hurting others.]]



* PromotedToPlayable: [[spoiler: Chris takes control over Bloodmaw for the final heist, when Reese stays behind to cement their control over Crown Corp. He obtains the Conduit of Carnage when entering Valentine, Itself.]]

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* PromotedToPlayable: [[spoiler: Chris Quinn takes control over Bloodmaw for the final heist, when Reese stays behind to cement their control over Crown Corp. He obtains the Conduit of Carnage when entering Valentine, Itself.]]



* UnexplainedAccent: Austin doesn't really give her an accent. But in the one scene Chris voiced her, he decided to give her a very thick Minnesotan accent.

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* UnexplainedAccent: Austin doesn't really give her an accent. But in the one scene Chris Quinn voiced her, he decided to give her a very thick Minnesotan accent.
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* ArcVillain: He's the main antagonist of the Sharp Financial heist, trapping the party in a video game and trying to kill them. [[spoiler:He later becomes the Arc Villain of the Valentine Devil arc since he created said creature]].

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The hidden companion and source of Ed's powers.

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The Mardis Valamin, or rather the form of Mardis. He's the hidden companion and source of Ed's powers.


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* WalkingSpoiler: Just knowing that he's in this season is a huge spoiler.
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* BritishAccents: Has a gruff south London accent, which intentionally or not makes a nod to the fact that the main setting is South Valentine.

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* TeleportSpam: A frequent maneuver of his is to combine Benign Transposition with Misty Step which allows him to cover massive distance when he needs to.
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* OneHourWorkWeek: An in-universe example. She has trouble getting shifts as a barista, and her dream job of DJing doesn't cut it in terms of financing her lifestyle.

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* OneHourWorkWeek: An in-universe example. She has trouble getting shifts as a barista, and her dream job of DJing [=DJing=] doesn't cut it in terms of financing her lifestyle.




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* VillainKiller: She's notably the one to land the killing blow on [[spoiler: Catarina, Solomon Luna, Saint Luna, and Aeron.]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Her chronic freeloading caused problems even during downtime. [[spoiler:Turned UpToEleven when her actions make Crown declare war on them.]]

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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Her chronic freeloading caused problems even during downtime. [[spoiler:Turned UpToEleven [[spoiler:Exaggerated when her actions make Crown declare war on them.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: In the Post-Mortem Austin explains that [[spoiler: he is the only character that Luna can't predict with his algorithm and is thus the main reason they were able to beat him]].
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* ManipulativeBastard: Because of his Algorithm that allows him to predict the actions of others, he's very good at manipulating people to get what he wants. [[spoiler: Near the end of the season, Graves explains that he was actually pulling the strings of the party from the very beginning, using Nucky to rope them into The Game then having Catarina kill the other Crown Heads for him.]]


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* SlimeBall: Ridiculously slimy and unpleasant, almost every word he says is manipulative, self serving, or a lie and he doesn't seem to care about anyone but himself.

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: He's the only Crown Head to walk away with everything she wants by the end, she gets to escape from the cutthroat scheming of Crown while still maintaining all of the benefits of his position.]]




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* SilverFox: [[spoiler: During the final battle with Aeron, he uses the Einsoft to summon the original Beatrice from before she went through project eternity, Beau is described as an older person who's so hot he's the conduit of Beauty and inflicts [[DistractedByTheSexy charm]] on people just by looking at him.]]



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He pays a train full of people to get off in order to speak with the party alone, and then offers them a job with him if they murder Inspector Graves. This shows off how much power and influence he has as well as how ruthless he is.
* KnightOfCerebus: Things tend to get darker whenever he gets involved.



* DirtyOldMan: Without the sexual connotation, for the short time we meet him, he is incredibly slimy.

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* EvilOldFolks: He's the oldest Crown Head and one of the most evil.
* HateSink: While he isn't the most evil Crown Head, he's certainly the most unlikable, being an abusive, violent, prick who think's he's better than everyone else.




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* MadwomanInTheAttic: He was locked up by Luna, who considered him a failed experiment.



* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Killed off by Lenora, who hijacked the body of Saint Luna and stomped him flat.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Of the "could be the BigBad if not for a more dangerous Big Bad" variety. While he's posed as the main villain for most of the season, in actuality he has a ManBehindTheMan in the form of [[PhysicalGod Saint Luna]] and Aeron takes the role of FinalBoss.]]

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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Killed off by Lenora, who hijacked BadBoss: He tries to get Team Loser to work for him, on the body condition that they kill Graves.
* BigBad: He's the leader
of Saint Luna Valentine and stomped him flat.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Of
is thus responsible for almost every problem in the "could be the BigBad if not for a more dangerous Big Bad" variety. While season. [[spoiler: played with since he's posed as the main villain actually just a brainwashed mouthpiece for most of the season, in actuality he has a ManBehindTheMan in the form of [[PhysicalGod Saint Luna]] and Aeron takes the role of FinalBoss.]]Luna]].



* MadwomanInTheAttic: Skel was essentially this to him, and his release makes Luna ''furious''.

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* MadwomanInTheAttic: Skel was essentially this NonActionBigBad: He's a regular person with zero combat abilities, he doesn't even talk to him, and his release makes Luna ''furious''.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: He has a very different view of "survival" than his father did [[note]] Semuanya teaches survival as living long enough to have children [[/note]] and is driven to achieve true immortality and power that the old gods had.



* [[spoiler: SuicideByCop]]: Despite putting up a fight, he was perfectly fine with [[spoiler: getting killed by Team Loser. When Reese moved to heal the (fatal) wound she'd made, he deliberately used her sword to eviscerate himself.]]

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* [[spoiler: SuicideByCop]]: SuicideByCop: Despite putting up a fight, he was perfectly fine with [[spoiler: getting killed by Team Loser. When Reese moved to heal the (fatal) wound she'd made, he deliberately used her sword to eviscerate himself.]]




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* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to help Warforged and Modron break away from what he sees as an oppressive existence working for other species.

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[[folder:Lenora Desmond]]
->'''Played By:''' Lauren Morgan
-->"What's a cuck?" (Episode 6, 1:10:50)

Lenora is a Tabaxi DJ, comparable in personality to Elle Woods if she was a club kid and liked drugs. [[spoiler:Conduit of Magnetism. Magnetism as in personal charm and magnetism as in manipulating metal.]]
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* AddictionPowered: Her repeated use of Equinox mutates her cellular structure and gains her additional drug-related superpowers. Austin had intended this to be unstable and extremely hard to control, but Lauren rolled so well on her constitution check that she gets [[CursedWithAwesome all of the benefits and none of the consequences.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from being a self-centered drug addict, to a drug addict [[spoiler:willing to open an affordable mental health clinic.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She spends the last couple of boss fights throwing insults. It gets to the point that the ''final boss'' starts [[DrawAggro focusing his attacks on Lenora]] because she'd pissed him off so much.
* TheDitz: One of her listed flaws, which may be related to her recreational activities.
* TheFashionista: If she can avoid it, she will never wear the same outfit twice. Which may be why she's broke.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Mentions shoplifting from Valmart.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Lenora hustles to move from party to party.
* OneHourWorkWeek: An in-universe example. She has trouble getting shifts as a barista, and her dream job of DJing doesn't cut it in terms of financing her lifestyle.
* PerpetualPoverty: While Lenora works hard to earn money, she does also like to have nice things, which means she's always on the brink.
* SocialClimber: Lenora is already at a better place than she was in her childhood, since she grew up in the slums, but she's aiming for an even more affluent neighborhood.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's 6'2, which Lauren notes is her first tall character ever, and thus may be out of her range.
* SunglassesAtNight: She wears them to hide that she's perpetually stoned.
* SwissArmyWeapon: She wields a swiss army glove or gauntlet of sorts.
* ValleyGirl: Speaks with this inflection. It causes her to lament that people assume she's dumber than she actually is.

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[[folder:Frank Westerly]]
->'''Played By:''' Laura Kate Dale
-->"My hate's at you. Capitalism, I'll deal with on Wednesday." (Episode 6, 0:34:33)

Frank is a human duelist in his early forties who turned his passion for Hollodeck cards into a means to wield magic. However, as the Hollodeck world moved on without him, he ruined his family financially to stay relevant and is now desperate to get back on top. [[spoiler:Conduit of Protection.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: His character sheet indicates he is Arkaiun, which corresponds with this trope. However, [=Roll20=] does default humans to Arkaiun, so this might not actually be what Laura had in mind.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: After reconnecting with his family, he tries to earn his son Forrest's approval. Awkwardness ensues.
* BritishAccents: Has a gruff south London accent, which intentionally or not makes a nod to the fact that the main setting is South Valentine.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:After saving Algernon and settling their feud, his priorities shift back to protecting his family and the party, especially Lenora.]]
* TheGamblingAddict: It's not one-to-one, but Frank's addiction to purchasing new Hollodeck cards resembles this trope a lot, especially through the way it ruins him financially, and destroys his relationship to his family.
* GeekPhysiques: Described as somewhat chubby.
* HandicappedBadass: While he was never particularly physically strong, he was still pretty good in a fight with his conduit powers. Until [[spoiler: Ash drops the ''corpse of a God'' on him and crushes his legs, which while not leaving him unable to walk has left him with a permanent mobility penalty. In the finale, Bloodmaw has to give him a piggyback ride up the final flight of stairs.]]
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Frank has a lot of trouble accepting that his chosen career just didn't work out.
* InSeriesNickname: Ignoring Algernon's insults, his ex-husband Alexander calls him "Scoops". While it's probably affectionate, it's derived from scooping up your cards when you lose a card game, so there's a bit of an insult there.
** Lenora comes to refer to him affectionately as [[TeamDad "Card Dad"]]
* JadedWashout: Frank couldn't accept not being celebrated for his innovations, and his struggle to be number one only sank him further to the point his husband left him and kept their two kids.
* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler:When Skel calls to warn the party about an otherworldly threat in the epilogue, he opts out of returning to the frontlines, citing "different priorities".]]
* ShutUpHannibal: He has very little patience for villainous monologuing.
-->'''Frank:''' You sound like a bit of a villain right now.
* SitcomArchNemesis: After the first heist during downtime, Frank runs into Algernon at the card shop described by Laura as "the Yugi to his Kaiba", the guy who aims to beat Frank at all costs and can easily afford to theme all his decks as [[TheRival anti-Frank counters]].
* StealingTheCredit: There apparently was a sort of Murder on the Orient Express of credit stealing. Frank's magical card playing got so popular, everyone effectively forgot who started it, and any royalties Frank might have been owed are air.
* TeamDad: What he becomes for the party as a whole, especially for Lenora.
* ToBeAMaster: Ultimately, Frank just wants to be on top of the dueling world again.
* VancianMagic: Instead of preparing spells like a wizard (the class that Duelist is based off of) he selects cards to take into his deck.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Algernon after their last duels and he helps him gain his father's trust. After the last episode, Frank invites him to be a co-host on a television debate show.
-->'''Algernon:''' (on the phone) Wait, you want to pay me to yell at you on public television?!? Why didn't you call me sooner? ''I'm coming over right now!!!''

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[[folder:Catarina "Krakenbane" Brooks]]
->'''Played By:''' Chris Larios
-->"Sail on, bitch." (Episode 7, 1:06:31)

Captain Catarina "Krakenbane" Brooks, besides being a triumphant warrior who has conquered every challenge the ocean has to offer, is an indie wrestler looking to make it big after a childhood on the streets as an orphan. [[spoiler:Conduit of Victory. Was killed after a failed attempt to win the Game by killing all of the heads of Crown.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:She loses an arm when her Conduit of Victory-infused bullet was redirected back at her by Frank and Lenora.]]
* BareFistedMonk: The wrestler homebrew class was based on the Way of the Four Elements monk style.
* BigEater: Understandably, as she grew up with food insecurity and is very physically active.
* BookDumb: She wasn't formally educated, and this shows through her intelligence stat.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Used to implant her memories into the bodies of the Solomon Luna clones, imbuing them with her combat prowess.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Despite seemingly reappearing as [[ReforgedIntoAMinion an assassin under Luna's employ]] after the courtroom battle, it's later revealed that Cat has been dead since the TimeSkip, having been killed by Solomon Luna in order to plunder her memories for his "Krakenbane" soldiers.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:If Reese Hickenbottom is TheHero, then Catarina is this, if a VillainProtagonist flavor of it. Her actions spark off the events that push Reese into The Game and make her revolution possible, and acts as a constant shadow hanging over her former friend.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: With her core demographic aimed at young children, her wrestler stage performance gets her the admiration of all kids in the audience.
-->'''Austin:''' Every time you wrestle, internet searches for marine biology majors spike up.
* HeroicBuild: Chris insists that she has "actual physique".
* ICallItVera: After stealing Graves' massive handgun, she uses it with a new given name of "The Authorization."
* ImprobableAimingSkills: When she infuses her bullets with her Conduit of Victory, her shots ''cannot miss.''
-->'''Chris:''' I'm gonna take my gun and I'm going to use my Conduit of Victory and, holds on... (calculates) does... [[BeyondTheImpossible 10,003 hit?]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: While she lacks the ego associated with this trope, she's ultimately a very selfish person who's willing to hurt others to get ahead and has a LackOfEmpathy for most other people.
* JackOfAllTrades: All her stats excepting intelligence are solid, though not mind blowing.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The third playable character in Dice Funk to not survive until the season finale, as she dies offscreen following the courtroom battle.]]
* LargeHam: Mandatory for pro-wrestlers.
* LesbianJock: Or bi jock.
* MoralityPet: Cat's best friend Reese is the only person who she wouldn't screw over for her own advancement.
* PrettyFreeloaders: Everyone has a story about Catarina mooching off of them.
* ProfessionalWrestling: She is a nautical themed wrestler. [[spoiler:Until she quits in order to kill all the Crown board members.]]
* PursueTheDreamJob: Catarina puts all her energy into her dream of becoming a pro wrestler.
** [[spoiler: Later ditches this in favor of her new dream of assassinating the Crown Corp board of directors.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Fed up with being used by the games of the Crown Corporation, she goes on a killing spree to hunt down all the heads of Crown. She successfully kills several of them before being taken down while going after the head of the justice branch.]]
* StreetSmart: Due to her upbringing. Although her taste in disguises isn't the best.
* StreetUrchin: Explicitly compared to Oliver Twist, in her relationship to a Fagyn figure in the person of Nucky who took her on various grifts before disappearing when she was 13.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:She pulls the pin on a hand grenade after the rest of the party defeats her, hoping to kill as many people in the blast as possible. Thanks to Eddi and Mardis, she fails.]]
* TheAce: By far the most accomplished combatant in the party.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Her chronic freeloading caused problems even during downtime. [[spoiler:Turned UpToEleven when her actions make Crown declare war on them.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:Shifts into this as her crusade to murder all the Crown Corp leaders inflicts misery on the party. After Fort Splendor, none of them trust her, especially Frank.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: As it turns out, her decision to kill the Crown Heads was actually the result of Solomon Luna's machinations.]]
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Becomes one after the Fort Splendor heist, where she decides to start killing off all the Crown Corp heads in order to win The Game.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:René Eddi]]
->'''Played By:''' Michael Schiciano
-->"I'd comment on how nice that feels against my thigh there, but my sensory array doesn't work that way." (Episode 4, 0:25:20)
Ed is a Warforged rogue and sorcerer with a mysterious past, who was found by a GoodSamaritan Kobold named Kundey in several piles of trash. He has since tended his bar, the Quarter Round, and become a professional musician, but with the landowners pressuring Kundey, hopes to be able to save the bar. [[spoiler:Shares his body with the Form of Mardis Valamin from Season 3.]] [[spoiler:Conduit of Synergy.]]
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* AmnesiacHero: He remembers very little from before Kundey rescued and repaired him.
* CareerEndingInjury: His previous life ended with his dismemberment, which even after being reassembled means his joints are deeply damaged and limited in motion. He won't let it happen again.
* EatingOptional: While he ''can'' eat if he wishes to in order to be social, he has no nutritional requirements and can sit through a meal without taking a bite in stark contrast of his cohorts who fill their pockets with bread sticks for later.
* FriendToAllChildren: As an employee of the Quarter Round, he gains elements of this trope by proxy, as Kundey keeps the bar open at day to keep kids off the streets.
* LovableCoward: While he's not worthy of ridicule for a legitimate concern and trauma, it is a stated possibility that he may desert the party out of fear of injury.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Ed is determined not to avoid the trauma he's faced before, and if that means he fails his friends, he just might do it anyway.
* OnlySaneMan: He's the most put together and stable of the party and is generally the one to try and reign the other in.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: While Warforged were built for service at first, at the time of the story no one no longer has any doubts of whether they're sentient. This includes Ed.
* TimeMaster: His Sorcerer magic is temporal in nature. We have yet to see to what degree he can affect things.
* WrongContextMagic: He is one of the only people in the world who doesn't need to go through a corporation to use magic, and no one knows why. [[spoiler:It's because Mardis is lending him his magical prowess, and he loses the ability to spellcast after the two are separated.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: One of his core beliefs is that there is the potential for good in everyone, even if it isn't obvious or they don't believe it themselves.
* SharingABody: [[spoiler:It is revealed near the end of episode 16 that Ed has been sharing his body with Mardis Valamin for approximately 8 years. Both Ed and Mardis are capable of taking control of Ed's body to speak and move; the indication of who is presently speaking is a shift in their posture. Additionally, they appear to be comfortable with their situation, with Ed expressing in a later episode that he would not want his connection to Mardis to be severed. However, they end up being separated by Beau in the finale.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Reese Hickenbottom]]
->'''Played by:''' Chris Larios
-->"Can we stop at Rickdonald's first?"
Catarina's best friend and only true connection, who always has a couch for her to sleep on. An artist bard who became a bank teller, she gets sucked into events when [[spoiler:Catarina starts killing Crown board members.]] Collects socks. [[spoiler:Conduit of Art.]]
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* AmicableExes: She's Cat's ex girlfriend and remained her friend after the break-up.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: During the ColdOpen of episode 18, Chris begins to play her as she meets Graves for the first time.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She's much more combative and snarky at first, but when Chris plays her she becomes a neurotic mess without a bad bone in her body.
* CowardlyLion: Constantly wracked with fear and regret, but presses on regardless.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler: Far and away the most popular member of Team Loser following her landing the killing blow on Ash and The Valentine Devil.]]
* MoralityPet: To Catarina.
* MotorMouth: When distressed.
* NervousWreck: She's very neurotic and prone to panicing.
* NoMedicationForMe: [[spoiler:Graves flushes her anti-lycanthrophy medicine down the toilet, as her were-rat powers might prove useful in their fight for survival against Crown.]]
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: A were-rat. She takes medication to keep from turning. [[spoiler:Graves flushes that down the toilet.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: As of episode 18. [[spoiler: Becomes Chris's main player character after Cat's death.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: As a Conduit of Art.]]
* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler:When Skel calls the party to warn them of an otherworldly threat in the epilogue, she refuses to even answer the phone.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:As shown in the epilogue, she's begun hallucinating about Catarina as a result of being haunted by her actions and eventual death.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:The epilogue reveals that she leaves Valentine as soon as she's able to.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:When she finally finishes off taking over Crown Corp, she peaces out of the final heist. She'd just got done with killing over 100 twisted Catarina clones, and didn't want to have to go right back into the killing. She's also seen having suffered considerable SanitySlippage in the epilogue.]]
* TheHero: Of the[[spoiler: Revolution]] Mega-Arc.
* TookALevelInBadass: Goes from being a terrified bank teller to a [[spoiler: revolutionary hero.]]
* UnluckyEverydude: Unlike the rest of the party who struggle to hold down normal jobs and willingly became criminals, Reese never choose to get involved in everything and is thus significantly less comfortable with the things they have to do to get ahead.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Cat start discussing Cat's feelings. It devolves fairly quickly into threats of violence.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:[[spoiler:Mardis, Himself]]]]
->'''Played by:''' Skitch
''Spoilers for everything leading up to the military base arc.''
The hidden companion and source of Ed's powers.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: A strange example. Just as Gorfinax was Hunger given form, and Zavala was Sacrifice given form, Mardis is the form of the platonic ideal of Mardis as a concept. He is the most Mardis anything could possibly be.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Presumably, it's through an accident of original Mardis' planeshifting that this version of himself was created.
* GuardianAngel: Mardis is the reason Ed was brought back from the brink, after being thrown from a roof.
* TheGunslinger: He was the first of them, after all.
* HauntedTechnology: Mardis isn't quite a ghost, and certainly isn't malevolent as a haunting implies, but he does inhabit Ed's robotic body.
* SharingABody: Ed reacted to Mardis' arrival with curiosity, and they quickly became friends to each other.
* SymbioticPossession: It qualifies as possession only in that Mardis occasionally takes over, with Ed's eyes turning blue as a result. The possession, in fact, is so symbiotic that it leads to Ed becoming the Conduit of Synergy.
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:He starts traveling the world to investigate the effects of the Forms on a worldwide scale in the epilogue. However, when Skel calls the party to warn them of an upcoming threat, he states that he can return.]]

[[/folder]]
!!North Val Inhabitants
[[folder:Algernon Sharp]]
Frank's rival in Hollodeck and the son of the head of Crown's Financial branch, Richard Sharp. [[spoiler: Conduit of Skill.]]
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* CruelPlayerCharacterGod: He modded pain animations into his Hollodeck VR game.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:After getting saved by Frank, he cools off significantly and tells the party about Beau's betrayal.]]
* ExtravertedNerd: Dresses in ostentatious styles and colors, and enjoys publicly dueling Frank.
* LonelyRichKid: One parent is dead, the other dislikes him, and while the kids in the card shop seem impressed by his beating Frank, he doesn't seem to have any real friends.
** This is part of why he singled Frank out; he saw Frank as someone who had what he wanted, and ruined it for himself.
* {{Medusa}}: He takes medication to avoid turning random people (and possibly himself) to stone.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mother died before the start of Valentine and his father shows very overt disdain for him.
* TheRival: To Frank, in as stereotypical anime fashion as possible.
** It's been suggested by both Laura and Austin that he doesn't even try to keep up with the professional decks so much as he just builds direct counters to whatever deck Frank happens to be playing at the moment.
* RoyalBrat: Son of the head of Crown Corporation's financial division. Due to the aforementioned parental abandonment, he spends most of his time harassing Frank specifically.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Pretends to arrest Frank and Ed in part to help get them out of the building but more to impress his dad.
** Taken to something of an extreme when he uses his newfound [[spoiler: conduit abilities to bring a demon to life and kidnap his own father... so that he could ''save'' his father, hoping to earn his approval and be written back into the will.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Beatrice Beauregard]]
A chairholder of Crown Corporation and chief executive of the Fashion branch, Beau is the team's first boss after their heist in Solomon Luna's home. Beau is non-binary, and is referred to with he and she pronouns interspersed. [[spoiler:Conduit of Miracles.]]
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* BadBoss: She's quite open about not caring about his employees' lives.
* {{Bifauxnen}}\{{Bishonen}}: He is androgynous, taking from both Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie in terms of looks.
* DoingItForTheArt: Nothing is more important to Beau than creating new trailblazing art, not even the Game.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She tends to present his plans and himself in the worst possible light, before it is unveiled that she had a back-up. He's still ''quite'' selfish, though.
* TheFashionista: Her aesthetic influences and day job should be an indicator.
* FluffyTheTerrible: His pet bear, which she takes everywhere on a leash, is called '''Bird'''.
** Apparently, this is because [[spoiler:Bird was originally an actual bird, turned to several other animals and eventually a bear by Project Eternity.]] So the name used to make a bit more sense.
* [[RichBitch Rich Binch]]: About as rich as it gets, rather uncaring, but with the sass and basic moral standards that befit the trope.
* GracefulLoser: After Team Loser [[spoiler:defeats the Valentine Devil, obtains the Sephirot, takes control of Hospitality and Manufacturing, and even poaches Beau's personal assistant/bodyguard/enforcer by quadrupling his pay,]] he still doesn't seem to hold too much of a grudge against them and even offers Reese a job working on art for Fashion.
** Somewhat explained by the fact that, after going through [[spoiler:several 'lives' thanks to Project Eternity,]] she decided to move away from some of his more ambitious tendencies to focus more on fashion.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:General Heller]]
The head of Crown Corp's Military branch. Friends with Richard Sharp.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: His death, courtesy of Catarina. Although the fatal wound was actually Ed shooting him in the neck.]]
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He's not always in full drill sergeant mode, it seems to be something of an act so his soldiers respect him more.
** According to his daughter, he went into demolitions rather than the military proper so he didn't have to personally hurt people.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Acts like a stereotypical gruff military type, partially for respect, but it turns real in combat or when he's angry.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: A grenade launcher.
* SnakePeople: A yuan-ti, the snake part being a king cobra.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Justice Alistair]]
Head of the Administration branch of Crown. Also an actual judge. Currently on vacation in Lorelei.
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* CluelessBoss: Not when she's personally in the office, but she took a vacation to Lorelei, giving Team Loser ''incredibly'' broad powers with the vague objective to "acquire other branches of Crown". The result is that she's unwittingly given the party the exact tool they need to [[spoiler:bring down Crown Corp.]]
** Also currently clueless as to the goings-on in Administration; Ed did so well in taking charge that the Administration employees started tossing around a rumor that Alistair is actually dead and Ed is their new boss.
* LizardFolk: An alligator lady to be precise.
* {{Retcon}}: Austin initially referred to her as a man but when she is seen in person, he explains that he changed his mind and she's a woman.
* UpperClassTwit: She speaks in an exaggerated posh British accent that emphasizes her high standing in Valentine, as well as her being a CluelessBoss.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Richard Sharp]]
Head of Sharp Financial, which is to say the Financial branch of Crown Corp.
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* AbusiveParents: While he's initially just neglectful and verbally abusive, he progresses to full on physical abuse when, [[spoiler: he learns that Algernon is trying to subvert his authority and Algernon later implies that he was always physically abusive.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Sort of. [[spoiler: Reese, trying to stop everyone from killing each other, uses her newfound Conduit of Art powers to make Sharp remember the good times he shared with Algernon (actually implanted memories from Reese's powers), leading him to suddenly love his son]]. It's unclear how much he's changed aside from that, although Algernon says he hits people less and seems happier. [[spoiler: Algernon does also point out that Reese is right to think her actions were ''really'' unethical, but personally thinks it's an improvement.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Arguably the biggest asshole in the entire season, he's rude to everybody, threatens people who piss him off, and he's one of the heads of a corrupt MegaCorp.
* ParentalNeglect: Thinks his son is an idiot, particularly for his interest in hollodeck, and doesn't hide that fact at all.
** It's also revealed that he wrote Algernon out of his will (also keeping him from inheriting the Financial branch).
* {{Medusa}}: Used to take medication to keep from turning himself and others to stone, but it interfered with his regular medication so he wears a blindfold instead.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Skel]]
->'''Played by:''' Johnny Maloney
A former head of Crown Corp, now effectively a rogue AI. Whether he's actually Skel or just an AI based on his consciousness is up for debate.
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* AndIMustScream: When Solomon realized that his BrainUploading process made Skel lose his desire to do anything but write poetry, he closed up Skel's house with the AI still inside, unable to do anything for a long time.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Twice, actually. He first uploaded himself to a computer system and later ascended from that by broadcasting himself into the internet.
* HauntedTechnology: At first, a server room in a private residence. Afterwards, the entire internet. He also seems to be able to access drones directly, even ones belonging to the military.
* MadArtist: He was part of the Crown Corp board of directors, but decided he was more interested in poetry than business. After uploading himself to the internet, he's been putting his poetry on every website he can.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Solomon Luna]]
Head of the Media branch of Crown, but uses Media's all-encompassing influence to effectively personally govern Valentine.
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Killed off by Lenora, who hijacked the body of Saint Luna and stomped him flat.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Of the "could be the BigBad if not for a more dangerous Big Bad" variety. While he's posed as the main villain for most of the season, in actuality he has a ManBehindTheMan in the form of [[PhysicalGod Saint Luna]] and Aeron takes the role of FinalBoss.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: One of the most crucial chairmen of Crown Corp. Effectively runs Crown (as all other branches need some interaction with Media) and therefore Valentine.
* LizardFolk: We do not see him directly, but we hear him and we see Lenora [[spoiler:and Ash]] disguised as him. He's a bearded dragon lizardfolk.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Skel was essentially this to him, and his release makes Luna ''furious''.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Inspector William Graves]]
A silver Dragonborn cop from North Valentine who frequently crosses paths with Team Loser.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Dies by getting a harpoon through the skull courtesy of one of the "Krakenbane" soldiers.]]
* CompensatingForSomething: His taste in firearms.
* HumiliationConga: Graves was meant to be a threat to the party, but ends up getting his face broken twice by Lenora and Catarina, had his gun stolen (again, by Catarina), then [[spoiler: loses 50 or so heavily-armed SWAT team officers to Ash, leading to Solomon Luna to try and kill him, which in turn gets him sucked into Catarina's plan to effectively go to war with Crown Corp due to his lack of better options.]] To top it off, he never got his gun back.
** After [[spoiler:Catarina's plan ended in her apparent death, Solomon effectively exiled Graves to the wreck of the airship Catarina took down when she killed the head of Agriculture. This means on top of everything else he lives in a booby-trapped metal shell that smells heavily of urine and alcohol.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:By what is apparently Cat's harpoon, or a copy of it, on Solomon Luna's behalf.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:His reaction to Cat's murder of General Heller.]]
* StarterVillain: Is this for the party's first two heists. [[spoiler:He gets sucked into VillainProtagonist Catarina's plan to kill the Crown Corporation board members instead.]]
* StraightMan: [[spoiler:To both Catarina and Reese Hickenbottom.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mary Heller]]
General Heller's daughter. More interested in art than the military.
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* SheepInSheepsClothing: The party initially thinks that she may be out to get them due to them, [[spoiler: killing her father, however it turns out she believes the narrative that Catarina killed him and the rest of the team stopped her.]] She's actually a good person who wants nothing to do with the corruption of Crown.
* SnakePeople: Like General Heller, she's a yuan-ti.
[[/folder]]

!!South Val Inhabitants
[[folder:George]]
A Butler Bot from Solomon Luna's house.
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* AmbiguousInnocence: It's a little jarring to hear a cheerful "Beep boop!" followed with a whispered "I hid all the drugs."
* FantasticRacism: They're very nearly killed in the first heist as a result of Catarina and to a lesser extent Frank undervaluing artificial lives.
* RobotBuddy: They used to be Solomon Luna's, but is now Lenora's buddy.
* VerbalTic: Prefaces all of it's sentences with "Beep boop!"

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kundey]]
A South Val Kobold who owns the ¼ Round bar, and is one of Ed's closest friends.
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* IFoundYouLikeThis: He found Ed in a dumpster, half dead, and fixed him up. After, he gave him shelter and a job.
* LizardFolk: Kundey is a Kobold, D&D lizard folk classic.
* SpeechImpediment: In his first appearance, at least, he seems to speak with a stutter.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Memphis Cordovero]]
A chairman of Crown Corporation effectively in charge of the nightlife of Valentine.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a drug dealer and one of the heads of Crown, however he's a pretty chill dude who doesn't really want to hurt other people.
* DrugsAreGood: Memphis is in charge of the "hospitality" industry, which includes the unproblematic sale of drugs. In practice, they do have negative effects still.
* MoleMen: Memphis is a fairly large mole man.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Near the end of the season [[spoiler:he gets spooked by all of the violence in Valentine and decides to sell Hospitality to keep himself safe.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The one chairman of the Crown Corporation who has seemed comparatively caring and considerate of the cost of life. [[spoiler:That being said, he does have assassins on his payroll.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rosen]]
A firenewt counted as one of Lenora's friends and enablers in her drugs and EDM life. Referred to with they/them pronouns. Works as a drug dealer [[spoiler:for Hospitality, actually, but doesn't seem to care too much about the Game.]]
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* TheCavalry: Shows up midway through the [[spoiler:boss fight with Saint Luna along with an army of Hospitality Branch's mole people and starts fighting with Luna's clone army so Team Loser can focus on Luna.]]
* [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Hard Drinking Party Enby]]: They are friends with Lenora, after all.
* SatelliteCharacter: Until Memphis shows up, their appearances revolve only around Lenora.
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Friend]]: After Lenora asks Rosen to ensure her parents' safety, they send a selfie of themself with a gun and two bouncers in front of her parents' house. They're also very protective of Memphis when Catarina [[spoiler:pulls a gun on him]].
** [[spoiler:Leads an army of mole people into Saint Luna's church, pretty much entirely because they were worried about Team Loser.]]
* WriteWhoYouKnow: They're apparently based partially on one of Lauren's real life friends.

[[/folder]]

!!Wrestling Scene
[[folder:Argent and Aurum]]
The ruling champions of the local wrestling scene at the start of the season, respectively a silver and a golden dragonborn.
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* TheAce: They're impressive in the ring, at the very least, enough to warrant being pushed to the top.
* BountyHunter: One of their many day jobs, it seems.
* TheBully: They haze Frank and Lenora when they enter the ring as jobbers.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:By the time that the party reaches Aeron in the finale, he's already killed both of them.]]
* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe HalfTheManTheyUsedToBe]]: [[spoiler:The party finds Aurum snapped in half, folded backwards.]]
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:When the party finds their bodies, Argent is found with his head twisted in a 180-degree angle.]]
* SingleMindedTwins: More out of practicality than anything, Austin sometimes makes them speak with the "voice of legion".
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: They have to keep picking up odd jobs to make ends meet, as Spöre explains at the beginning of episode 18. By the end of that same episode, [[spoiler:we see them attempt to take Team Loser in to Crown Corporation.]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bloodmaw the Invincible]]
A "heel" wrestler and actual demon from hell. [[spoiler:Conduit of Carnage.]]
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* BattleButler: For Beau. He's first seen doing personal assistant things like walking Bird, but his specialty is violence, and Beau sends him to investigate the Valentine Devil at one point.
** Becomes this for [[spoiler:Team Loser after Reese quadruples his pay.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: For most of the season he keeps a lid on his violent tendencies and is pretty calm. [[spoiler: When Chris plays him he becomes a LargeHam BloodKnight always screaming about hurting others.]]
* ComicallySmallBribe: When he investigates the Valentine Demon, he runs into Team Loser who convince him to give them a five minute headstart on their discovered lead in exchange for a couple of sandwiches.
* DeathOrGloryAttack: [[spoiler:His Conduit of Carnage powers manifest as this, giving him the power to turn any attack of his into a critical hit, while allowing his opponent a free turn if they manage to survive. His final attack against Aeron is one of these on top of being one of his Carnage attacks, knowing that Aeron will definitely kill him if he fails to kill him first. It fails to kill Aeron, resulting in his own {temporary} death.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: As a demon, he can't be KilledOffForReal on the Material Plane. Instead, he's reborn in the Abyss, although he will have to buy a ticket back to Valentine. [[spoiler:This is shown when Aeron punches his heart out of his chest in the finale.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Bloodmaw allows Ed one final ultimatum to pay his debts, instead of immediately taking Kundey's bar apart for Crown Corporation.
* EvilDebtCollector: Being a demon, he is technically evil, but as far as we know his debt collector gig could be more of a PunchClockVillain thing. He apparently ends this gig when he goes to work for Beau.
* FoodAsBribe: He's pretty easily bribed with the promise of sandwiches. Lenora promises him some in exchange for letting Team Loser get a head start on the hunt for the Valentine Devil, and Rosen pays him two sandwiches and a soda in exchange for Team Loser's whereabouts.
* HighPressureBlood: His namesake. One of his wrestling gimmicks is to cut the inside of his mouth and vomit out a massive torrent of blood.
* NobleDemon: He's ''literally'' a demon.
* NotSoStoic: Outside the ring, he's pretty deadpan (as deadpan as a demon from hell can be, anyway) until he is tasked with researching churches at which point he becomes genuinely incredibly irritated at the fact that every paper about them seems to have completely conflicting theories. He's also easily bribed by sandwiches.
* PromotedToPlayable: [[spoiler: Chris takes control over Bloodmaw for the final heist, when Reese stays behind to cement their control over Crown Corp. He obtains the Conduit of Carnage when entering Valentine, Itself.]]
* TimeSkip: We learn during season 5's trivia night that in between seasons 4 and 5, Bloodmaw became a general of the army resisting the invasion of the Illithid forces and [[HeroicSacrifice rammed his ship into an Illithid cruiser, killing himself and every mindflayer aboard.]] But because he's a demon, he just [[ResurrectiveImmortality came back to life]] [[RespawnPoint in Hell]] and took a portal back.

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[[folder:Diego Rivera]]
The Goliath booker and announcer at the King Coliseum. No relation to the famous Mexican muralist.
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* BrainsEvilBrawnGood: He prefers for wrestlers to be old fashioned strongmen like him.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Described as the John Cena of Valentine.
* LargeHamAnnouncer: He growls his way through the matches like nobody's business.

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[[folder:Spöre]]
One of the stranger wrestlers the team encounters, a myconid who serves as Veltari III's partner. [[spoiler:Conduit of Community.]]
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* MushroomMan: He's a Myconid, and as such is one of the more alien types of people in Valentine.
* NiceGuy: He's certainly sweet enough to Reese, and seems worried that his own merch will take the spotlight from Veltari III.
* TheMedic: Can heal others with his spores, as seen in the final arc. [[spoiler:This is either granted or improved by his becoming a Conduit of Community after making contact with Valentine Itself.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: He emits what he wants to communicate through spores, which are soundless, so effectively it comes across like this.

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[[folder:Veltari III / Sara]]
A Bozog wrestler, fairly reviled by the audience. Her real name is Sara. [[spoiler:Conduit of Kicks.]]
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* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[spoiler:During the battle for Valentine, her conduit of kicks allows her to perform this on one of her opponents.]]
* EthnicScrappy: In-universe, her stage persona is an offensively stereotypical Bozog.
* KickChick: Boy does she ever love kicks. [[spoiler:Becomes the Conduit of Kicks after making contact with Valentine Itself.]]
* LoveInterests: She goes on a date with Lenora, and Spöre later refers to Lenora as "Sara's girlfriend".
-->'''Austin:''' Do you want to date this tall raptor lady made entirely out of kicks?
-->'''Lauren:''' ''YES.''

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[[folder:Wendy Wendigo]]
A yeti wrestler, who like most of the wrestlers, panders to ethnic stereotypes onstage and struggles to pay rent.
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* SecretIdentity: Works at Sharpe Industries as a day job, because her professional wrestling job pays very poorly.
** Additionally, her personality off-stage is ''very'' different from in the ring.
* VocalDissonance: Her bosses ask her to speak in a high pitched voice which makes Catarina ''very'' uncomfortable.

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!!Family
[[folder:Alexander LaVey]]
Frank's ex-husband, an investigative journalist (and employee of Media, although he seems to stay out of the Game), and [[spoiler:unintentional Conduit of Truth]].
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* {{Bishonen}}: The picture Austin uses to depict him is [[Characters/InuyashaSesshomaru Sesshomaru]].
* HeroicNeutral: He personally benefits from the Game and Crown Corporation continuing their incredibly shady activities, but he also agrees to help Team Loser [[spoiler: take down Crown indirectly, by using journalistic spin to gain the support of the people]].
** He explains why he'd [[spoiler: go against administration despite the benefits of working for them]] after an interview with Reese.
-->"All I know is there's enough food that no one has to go hungry. There are enough houses that no one needs to be homeless. There's enough medicine that nobody needs to be sick. And yet all of those evils still exist. So it has to be a choice, and so far nobody is making the choice to make things better except for you, so I guess that makes you braver than I will ever be."
* {{Kitsune}}

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[[folder:Forrest LaVey-Westerly]]
Frank and Alexander's socially-awkward teenage son.
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* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Most of Frank's recent downtime scenes involve trying to win the affections of Forrest.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Gets so flustered at being in the vicinity of a girl he likes that even with the assistance of magic he screws up while trying to show off to her.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[spoiler:After the events of the season finale, Forrest becomes the conduit of complicated dad feelings.]]

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[[folder:Diane LaVey-Westerly]]
Frank and Alexander's very young daughter.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Literally.
* GenkiGirl: She's incredibly hyperactive due to being very young.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[spoiler:After the events of the season finale, Diane becomes the conduit of duck bats.]]

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[[folder:Cecil Joe Desmond]]
Lenora's father. A caracal tabaxi like Lenora.
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* InSeriesNickname: Apparently goes by Joe, his middle name, because Cecil is "too nerdy". Really, this is because Austin was given the go-ahead by Lauren to come up with the parent characters without her input, and wasn't expecting Lauren to have a name in mind for him. The compromise was that Cecil is his given name and Joe a nickname.
* OpenMindedParent: Like Norma, has no apparent problems with Lenora's job as a DJ or her dating a Bozog wrestler.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Very specifically based on Lauren's real-life father.

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[[folder:Norma Desmond]]
Lenora's mother. A lioness tabaxi.
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* OpenMindedParent: Like Cecil, has no apparent problems with Lenora's job as a DJ or her dating a Bozog wrestler.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Very specifically based on Lauren's real-life mother.
* UnexplainedAccent: Austin doesn't really give her an accent. But in the one scene Chris voiced her, he decided to give her a very thick Minnesotan accent.

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!!Other
[[folder:Aeron]]
The head of Aeron Aeronautics, a rival corporation to Crown. [[spoiler:Conduit of Deserts. Deserts as in the root of deserving, not literal deserts, although that's probably an intentional connection as well.]]
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* AffablyEvil: He's certainly very shady but he's also incredibly well spoken and friendly.
* {{Cyborg}}: Underneath his skin, he's more machine than man.
* EnlightenedAntagonist: He believes a Form imbued him with a mission. The party are somewhat concerned about what form that might be.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Ends up playing this role.]]
* LooksLikeJesus: Found wandering the desert, and Austin actually calls him "Black Jesus".
* SecretTestOfCharacter: He faked unconsciousness when run over to see how the team would react.
* SuperStrength: He can throw cars and tear people apart with his bare hands.
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[[folder:Private Fortune]]
A yuan-ti Private in Crown's Military branch. [[spoiler:Conduit of Service.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Winds up physically and emotionally broken by Lenora's betrayal.]]
* DumbMuscle: He's a decent soldier, but this seems to be more due to his athletic capabilities than his mental capabilities.
* {{FratBro}}: Acts like this, especially with Cat's 'Brody Monk' persona, but drops it immediately during actual military procedure.
* HumanShield: His [[spoiler:Conduit of Service powers]] compel the soldiers around him to take shots meant for him.
* ReplacementMooks: Part of his [[spoiler:Conduit of Service abilities]]. When he runs out of mooks he can call for reinforcements.
* SnakePeople: A yuan-ti, or a 'snerson' according to Lauren.
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[[folder:Harker]]
Ed's old boss. Aeron ousted him from his old company, but he still runs his casino.
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* FantasticRacism: Sees Warforged as expendable resources. In fact, he uses them explicitly so he can get rid of them without (in his mind) losing a valuable asset, as he thinks he can just buy another. [[spoiler:He did this to Ed before the start of the season.]]
* KarmaHoudini: After [[spoiler:using Ed as a patsy, which is apparently something he does regularly with Warforged in Ed's position]], he still holds enough cards to force Team Loser to pay him for information. He even gets [[spoiler:Frank's wedding ring as part of the deal, despite Frank's best efforts to con him with a fake.]] The closest thing he has to comeuppance is losing part of his company to Aeron, but he seems to be running his casino as if nothing's changed.
** [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted. After the campaign, Ed buys Harker's casino out from under him.]]
* PalmBloodletting: Subverted. His blood is required [[spoiler:to enter his vault]], but he thinks cutting the palm is just stupid symbolism; the back of the hand hurts much less, and heals much easier.
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[[folder:The Valentine Devil]]
A mysterious demonic looking entity made of what appears to be black fire. Stole the Sephirot from [[spoiler:Beau,]] destroying a wall in the process. Later shows up trying to [[spoiler:abduct Richard Sharp.]]
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* TheDragon: While its allegiance is a mystery, it's certainly acting in a way that makes Solomon Luna look like he's behind it. [[spoiler:Turns out it's actually a creature created by Algernon in a scheme to win his father's favor.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* SummonMagic: [[spoiler:Turns out to be summoned from a card like all creatures summoned from hollodeck. The summoner being Algernon Sharp, who wanted to gain Conduit powers and impress his father by "saving" him.]]
* SuperStrength: Smashes through a wall in its first appearance. [[spoiler:Punches Lenora with a car in its second.]]
* WreathedInFlames: Black ones, at that.
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[[folder:[[spoiler:Saint Luna]]]]
A [[WalkingSpoiler walking spoiler]] and the last living god. Looks like a giant horned toad lizard full of tubes. He's the god of power; any time anyone works for anything, they pray to Saint Luna, whether they know it or not.
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* BigBad: Not only is he the leader of the Crown Corporation, he created the damn thing in the first place, making him responsible for the sorry state of Valentine as a whole.
* CloneArmy: A nice side effect of the cloning process being imperfect and giving clones their own souls is that he can make clones of himself mixed with desired qualities of others (notably, Caterina's tenacity and drive). Since he's the base, they're all loyal to him.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Team Loser spends most of their fight with Luna insulting him. Lampshaded by Austin, who points out that being taken out by a group of idiots calling you 'tube boy' has got to be frustrating for the last living god.
* HighPressureBlood: Horned toad lizards can shoot blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism against larger predators. Saint Luna uses this as a projectile attack.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Lenora flings a ''church pew'' at him as she was out of her usual attacks but still felt like doing something. It goes through his eye, killing him.]]
* LastOfHisKind: In two ways. He's the only Orphan of Semuanya who's still truly alive, which also makes him the last living god after the mass deicide.
* ManBehindTheMan: To Solomon Luna, sort of. He technically was Solomon in the sense that everything Solomon did in the campaign was as a proxy of Saint Luna, but Solomon Luna himself was just a mouthpiece.
* ParentalAbandonment: They don't call his siblings the Orphans of Semuanya for nothing. Semuanya's last act of survival before their death during the deicide was to generate children, who then had to ''eat their way out of their dead parent''.
* PeopleJars: The other Orphans of Semuanya aren't nearly as alive as Saint Luna. One of his goals in Project Eternity was to create a way to bring them back to life by cloning them while making sure the clone has the original souls instead of new, cloned souls. Until he gets it working properly, he keeps their vegetative bodies in preservation tubes.
* SmugSnake: As much as Solomon was, if not more so. Although it does make sense that the last living god would have a bit of an ego.
* TearsOfBlood: Shares the blood-squirting capabilities of the animal he's based off of, and Austin's picture for him in [=Roll20=] was of a horned toad lizard with blood dripping from the eyes like tears.
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!!Backstory
[[folder:Ash]]
A malfunctioning warforged sent by Aeron Aeronautics to retrieve Ed for unknown purposes. [[spoiler:Conduit of Mercy.]]
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* TheExtremistWasRight: It's pointed out after [[spoiler: his death]] that his plan to have Crown tear itself apart to get the Sephirot actually had some validity to it.
* ImmuneToBullets: Can apparently manipulate metal projectiles to miss.
* MedicalHorror: His new arm, made of acid syringes, is described explicitly as creating this effect.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: ...Maybe without a crush. There was that instance of him caressing Ed's unconscious face. Either way, he wants to ''free'' Ed, because he sees him as a symbol of the best possible fate of the Warforged, sees him as "chosen by the universe".
** He later says he feels ''something'' towards Ed but, not knowing what it was, always tried to repress it. It's still unclear if this feeling was romantic, though.
* [[spoiler: SuicideByCop]]: Despite putting up a fight, he was perfectly fine with [[spoiler: getting killed by Team Loser. When Reese moved to heal the (fatal) wound she'd made, he deliberately used her sword to eviscerate himself.]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: He has disguised himself multiple times to get close to the party.
* TheUnfettered: He follows Ed relentlessly.

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[[folder:Marshall Kennedy]]
Ed's contact back at the Harker's Casino, his previous place of... [[SlaveRace employ?]]
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* TheFaceless: Only known through emails. He could be human, bozog, mole folk for all we know.
* SatelliteCharacter: Obviously, as he can only be contacted by Ed.

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[[folder:Nucky *'''Spoilers'''*]]
Catarina's father figure and conman. [[spoiler:Was working for Crown on Project Eternity until Team Loser showed up at Fort Splendor.]]
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* AbusiveParents: He's the closest thing Catarina had to a father and she describes him as abusive.
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: He's very open about the fact that he pretty much manipulated [[spoiler:Team Loser into forming in the first place with a few well-placed messages on an internet forum. Would have continued in this role if Team Loser had gone with his plan to steal Crown Corp.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Courtesy of Cat]].
* DirtyOldMan: Without the sexual connotation, for the short time we meet him, he is incredibly slimy.
* TheFagin: He used to be this, until he went to pursue Project Eternity.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Was apparently about to tell Cat he was proud of her just before she killed him, but she pulled the trigger just after 'proud'.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: To Catarina.[[spoiler: She kills him for this.]]
* VoiceChangeling: Speaks with a different accent just about every sentence. This probably has something to do with his background as a conman.
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