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!!The Gang
[[folder:TM]]
!!TM (spoiler:Tom Major)
->"That's us humans. Nothing special."
The viewpoint character of the story. A twenty-something inventor fresh out of a bad breakup.
----
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Gets to hit [[spoiler:Orion]] with a knee to the face.
* FinishingMove: Most of the times he hits someone with emphasis, it's a knee or kick to the head.
* HomemadeInventions: Developing these is TM's living. At the beginning of the story it seems that most of his creations are useless, but he gets to show off some of his tinkering abilities later on.
* MeaningfulName: Tom Major is an obvious allusion to [[Creator/DavidBowie Major Tom]], and TM (for trademark) is also a suitable name for an inventor.
* ShutUpHannibal: Delivers an interrupting knee strike twice, first to [[spoiler:the Swede]] and second to [[spoiler:Orion]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Turn and face the strange, bitch."
* TookALevelInBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: he's in somewhat better shape after the TimeSkip, which he plays off as being inevitable since he and Veggie became the owners of a gym. He always [[IKnowMortalKombat knew how to fight]], though.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Veggie]]
!!Veggie ([[spoiler:Jonathan Vega]])
->"If everyone was the same as me, society could never survive. I mean, we’d all constantly be having tons of sex. But also, you know, it takes two to tango, and three to make a carrier bag repair kit, and a few billion to make a society that can come up with stuff like lasagne and Windows Vista without murdering each other."
TM's business partner and HeterosexualLifePartner (well, not heterosexual, but not romantic).
----
* AnythingThatMoves: Gender doesn't really factor into it for Veggie.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:His final act, allowing Orion to take him so as to protect other starpeople and those around them.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ziggy]]
!!Ziggy ([[spoiler:Theta Aquila]])
->"I'm me. I'm a ''staaaahhr'', bay-bay."
A literal star from space.
----
* BiTheWay: Expresses the view that 'everyone's hot'. She just thinks that humans are awesome, with gender being a far too arbitrary thing to base any decisions on.
* ExpressiveHair: A mild case - her purple-tinted hair becomes more or less iridescent in states of high emotion.
* FinishingMove: Borrows the High Fly Flow, finisher of Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi, in epic fashion.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Comes across as this at times, but is more often an angsty deconstruction.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Significantly changes her appearance shortly after meeting Veggie and TM, going from an [[Creator/DavidBowie Aladdin Sane]] cosplayer to a less ostentatious young woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marty]]
!!Marty Rook (Benjamin Miles Parekh)
->"This one is called ''I Got My Buster Sword'' and it is full of tons of references to, like, video games and anime and stuff, and if you get them all you’re a nerd.."
Lead singer of the Inciting Incident, a punk band whose songs are dosed to the brim with pop culture references.
----
* FaceOfTheBand: Very much so - while the other members of the Inciting Incident do have names and appear in brief sections, they only get about three spoken lines between them.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: He's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin got blue hair]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Derrida]]
!!Jack Derrida
->"Now then. We just equip a stat-raising sorcery in the right hand, set our primary weapon to the secondary equip slot, queue the animation then roll and swap equipment mid-action and, ta-da, tumblebuffed."
A non-binary polymath with no real direction in life, but seems to be doing OK just cruising on the philosophy that Jacques Derrida did pretty well so they probably will too.
----
* DeadpanSnarker: In a WorldOfSnark, Derrida is probably the snarkiest.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The butt of a lot of the gang's jokes, usually due to their own tendency to play themselves up as the InsufferableGenius. There's no malice there, though.
* Transgender: Non-binary: not boy Jack, but not girl Jack either.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dominika]]
!!Dominika Doležal
->"..."
[[TheQuietOne Rarely speaking]], Dominika is TheAce of the group, able to turn her hand to almost anything with alarming proficiency.
----
* TheAce: Astonishingly good at a range of unusually specific things, including [[spoiler:breaking and entering]].
* ElectiveMute: Veggie doesn't know whether she can speak at all. [[TheQuietOne She can, but doesn't unless she's certain that something ''needs'' to be said]].
[[/folder]]
!!Celebrities
[[folder:O'Ryan]]
!!Riegel O'Ryan ([[spoiler:Orion]])
->"Yeahhhh, wowie zowie, super cool space rock."
Host of ''Surviving O'Ryan'', a TV show about surviving in wild environments. A skilled hunter; never too far from her dog Keelut.
----
* BigBad: She is [[spoiler:Orion, the Huntress: the constellation in human form, responsible for chasing down lost stars]].
* EvilIsSexy: Nobody disagrees that O'Ryan is hot.
->''She was striking on the TV, but that was no comparison to the Huntress in person: [[EvilRedhead long hair like red stone dust blowing down a cliff towards a tumultuous sea]], and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent an accent to match]].''
* FinishingMove: Uses [[Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada the Rainmaker]] to devastating effect.
* ImplacableMan: She's pretty much unstoppable in terms of physical prowess. It's only a combination of [[spoiler:TM's boosted Star Power and Ziggy's Lazarus moment that proves able to take her out]].
* KickTheDog: Expresses little concern about the fate of her dog, which Derrida [[YouMonster finds more objectionable]] than any of the other terrible things she's done.
* NecessarilyEvil: Claims to be only in it for the purposes of restoring cosmic balance, but seems to enjoy it more than she'd like to admit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Al Tyer]]
!!Al Tyer ([[spoiler:Altair]])
->"As above, so below."
Local weatherman Al Tyer is so boring he's almost literally black-and-white.
----
* TheDragon: Sort of. [[spoiler:He and Orion act as if they're a BigBadDuumvirate, but he's clearly second fiddle. He's [[NonActionGuy not as much of a physical threat]] as a typical Dragon, though; Orion has that covered all on her own.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Has one inflicted upon him by [[spoiler:Veggie]] later on in the story.
[[/folder]]
!!Supporting Characters
[[folder:Gary Mackerel]
!!Gary Mackerel
->"I should have called it something about mackerel. I didn’t want to go for the obvious pun, but apparently ''Gary’s Fish'' isn’t marketable enough..."
Owner of ''Gary's Fish'', a fish and chip shop.
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* OneSteveLimit: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]: the owner of the bar in which the Inciting Incident play a gig is also called Gary.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lauren and the Ire]]
!!Lauren and the Ire ([[spoiler:Lyra]])
->"Are you actually going to make me monologue this out for you?"
An up-and-coming band formed of four very similar-looking young women.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:TM's Family]]
!!Thomas Major, Senior & Lily Major
->"You kids and your weird names. I just can't keep up!"
TM's mum and dad.
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* HappilyMarried: There's no indication that Senior and Lily are anything other than perfectly happy together.
* PapaWolf: Senior is a physically imposing man, capable of picking up his son with such ease that he ''forgets he's holding him at all''. He gets a chance to make use of his strength later on, saving his son with a BigDamnHeroes moment.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Swede]]
!!The Swede (Johan Karlsson)
->"It is, I fear, not with the most auspicious of tidings that I now address this electronic communication to yourself."
An ex-boyfriend of Veggie's, and possibly Veggie's only former flame not to be remembered fondly.
----
* DepravedHomosexual: Or possibly DepravedBisexual, but the Swede has definitely been in at least one non-heterosexual relationship and is not a particualrly nice person.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Inciting Incident]]
!!Obbie Kernel, Kurt Eiseldown & The Destructionist
->"''I got my Buster Sword/
And I got my Keyblade/
I got dragon’s balls/
And they’re here to stay/
This goose is here to ruin your day!''"
Marty's bandmates, all of whom go by StageNames.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aster]]
!!Aster
->"I don’t know if there’s an answer to that, but I’m not sure it’s a question that makes sense to ask, either."
TM's ex-girlfriend, only seen in flashbacks. Her presence is still felt in the present, though, with TM's perspectives and decisions influenced by the memory of her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:SPOILER CHARACTER: [[spoiler:Vega]]]]
!!Vega
->"I'm sorry."
The star Orion was after on her second visit to Earth.
[[/folder]]
!!Animals
[[folder:The Cats]]
!!Michel Furcoat & Maurice Meow-Ponty
->"Meow."
TM and Veggie's cats.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Keelut]]
!!Keelut ([[spoiler:Sirius, the Dog Star]])
->"Woof."
O'Ryan's dog, a huge golden wolf-like animal.
[[/folder]]
!!Fictional Characters
[[folder:Mikkels Stormson]]
!!Mikkels Stormson
Expy of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]] or [[VideoGame/SplinterCell Sam Fisher]] and protagonist of [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe fictional video game]] ''Sliver Nucleus''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Barry]]
!!Barry
TM's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:L]]
!!Lina Lanriel
Ziggy's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Atgard]]
!!Atgard
Derrida's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malachi]]
!!Malachi
Marty's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Iveline]]
!!Iveline
Dominika's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rusk]]
!!Rusk of the Leaf
A friendly NPC in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Lanriel Family]]
!!Linske, Lanfal, and A Buncha Other L-Name-People Lanriel
The ruling family in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
!!The Gang
[[folder:TM]]
!!TM (spoiler:Tom Major)
->"That's us humans. Nothing special."
The viewpoint character of the story. A twenty-something inventor fresh out of a bad breakup.
----
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Gets to hit [[spoiler:Orion]] with a knee to the face.
* FinishingMove: Most of the times he hits someone with emphasis, it's a knee or kick to the head.
* HomemadeInventions: Developing these is TM's living. At the beginning of the story it seems that most of his creations are useless, but he gets to show off some of his tinkering abilities later on.
* MeaningfulName: Tom Major is an obvious allusion to [[Creator/DavidBowie Major Tom]], and TM (for trademark) is also a suitable name for an inventor.
* ShutUpHannibal: Delivers an interrupting knee strike twice, first to [[spoiler:the Swede]] and second to [[spoiler:Orion]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Turn and face the strange, bitch."
* TookALevelInBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: he's in somewhat better shape after the TimeSkip, which he plays off as being inevitable since he and Veggie became the owners of a gym. He always [[IKnowMortalKombat knew how to fight]], though.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Veggie]]
!!Veggie ([[spoiler:Jonathan Vega]])
->"If everyone was the same as me, society could never survive. I mean, we’d all constantly be having tons of sex. But also, you know, it takes two to tango, and three to make a carrier bag repair kit, and a few billion to make a society that can come up with stuff like lasagne and Windows Vista without murdering each other."
TM's business partner and HeterosexualLifePartner (well, not heterosexual, but not romantic).
----
* AnythingThatMoves: Gender doesn't really factor into it for Veggie.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:His final act, allowing Orion to take him so as to protect other starpeople and those around them.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ziggy]]
!!Ziggy ([[spoiler:Theta Aquila]])
->"I'm me. I'm a ''staaaahhr'', bay-bay."
A literal star from space.
----
* BiTheWay: Expresses the view that 'everyone's hot'. She just thinks that humans are awesome, with gender being a far too arbitrary thing to base any decisions on.
* ExpressiveHair: A mild case - her purple-tinted hair becomes more or less iridescent in states of high emotion.
* FinishingMove: Borrows the High Fly Flow, finisher of Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi, in epic fashion.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Comes across as this at times, but is more often an angsty deconstruction.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Significantly changes her appearance shortly after meeting Veggie and TM, going from an [[Creator/DavidBowie Aladdin Sane]] cosplayer to a less ostentatious young woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marty]]
!!Marty Rook (Benjamin Miles Parekh)
->"This one is called ''I Got My Buster Sword'' and it is full of tons of references to, like, video games and anime and stuff, and if you get them all you’re a nerd.."
Lead singer of the Inciting Incident, a punk band whose songs are dosed to the brim with pop culture references.
----
* FaceOfTheBand: Very much so - while the other members of the Inciting Incident do have names and appear in brief sections, they only get about three spoken lines between them.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: He's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin got blue hair]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Derrida]]
!!Jack Derrida
->"Now then. We just equip a stat-raising sorcery in the right hand, set our primary weapon to the secondary equip slot, queue the animation then roll and swap equipment mid-action and, ta-da, tumblebuffed."
A non-binary polymath with no real direction in life, but seems to be doing OK just cruising on the philosophy that Jacques Derrida did pretty well so they probably will too.
----
* DeadpanSnarker: In a WorldOfSnark, Derrida is probably the snarkiest.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The butt of a lot of the gang's jokes, usually due to their own tendency to play themselves up as the InsufferableGenius. There's no malice there, though.
* Transgender: Non-binary: not boy Jack, but not girl Jack either.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dominika]]
!!Dominika Doležal
->"..."
[[TheQuietOne Rarely speaking]], Dominika is TheAce of the group, able to turn her hand to almost anything with alarming proficiency.
----
* TheAce: Astonishingly good at a range of unusually specific things, including [[spoiler:breaking and entering]].
* ElectiveMute: Veggie doesn't know whether she can speak at all. [[TheQuietOne She can, but doesn't unless she's certain that something ''needs'' to be said]].
[[/folder]]
!!Celebrities
[[folder:O'Ryan]]
!!Riegel O'Ryan ([[spoiler:Orion]])
->"Yeahhhh, wowie zowie, super cool space rock."
Host of ''Surviving O'Ryan'', a TV show about surviving in wild environments. A skilled hunter; never too far from her dog Keelut.
----
* BigBad: She is [[spoiler:Orion, the Huntress: the constellation in human form, responsible for chasing down lost stars]].
* EvilIsSexy: Nobody disagrees that O'Ryan is hot.
->''She was striking on the TV, but that was no comparison to the Huntress in person: [[EvilRedhead long hair like red stone dust blowing down a cliff towards a tumultuous sea]], and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent an accent to match]].''
* FinishingMove: Uses [[Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada the Rainmaker]] to devastating effect.
* ImplacableMan: She's pretty much unstoppable in terms of physical prowess. It's only a combination of [[spoiler:TM's boosted Star Power and Ziggy's Lazarus moment that proves able to take her out]].
* KickTheDog: Expresses little concern about the fate of her dog, which Derrida [[YouMonster finds more objectionable]] than any of the other terrible things she's done.
* NecessarilyEvil: Claims to be only in it for the purposes of restoring cosmic balance, but seems to enjoy it more than she'd like to admit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Al Tyer]]
!!Al Tyer ([[spoiler:Altair]])
->"As above, so below."
Local weatherman Al Tyer is so boring he's almost literally black-and-white.
----
* TheDragon: Sort of. [[spoiler:He and Orion act as if they're a BigBadDuumvirate, but he's clearly second fiddle. He's [[NonActionGuy not as much of a physical threat]] as a typical Dragon, though; Orion has that covered all on her own.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Has one inflicted upon him by [[spoiler:Veggie]] later on in the story.
[[/folder]]
!!Supporting Characters
[[folder:Gary Mackerel]
!!Gary Mackerel
->"I should have called it something about mackerel. I didn’t want to go for the obvious pun, but apparently ''Gary’s Fish'' isn’t marketable enough..."
Owner of ''Gary's Fish'', a fish and chip shop.
----
* OneSteveLimit: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]: the owner of the bar in which the Inciting Incident play a gig is also called Gary.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lauren and the Ire]]
!!Lauren and the Ire ([[spoiler:Lyra]])
->"Are you actually going to make me monologue this out for you?"
An up-and-coming band formed of four very similar-looking young women.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:TM's Family]]
!!Thomas Major, Senior & Lily Major
->"You kids and your weird names. I just can't keep up!"
TM's mum and dad.
----
* HappilyMarried: There's no indication that Senior and Lily are anything other than perfectly happy together.
* PapaWolf: Senior is a physically imposing man, capable of picking up his son with such ease that he ''forgets he's holding him at all''. He gets a chance to make use of his strength later on, saving his son with a BigDamnHeroes moment.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Swede]]
!!The Swede (Johan Karlsson)
->"It is, I fear, not with the most auspicious of tidings that I now address this electronic communication to yourself."
An ex-boyfriend of Veggie's, and possibly Veggie's only former flame not to be remembered fondly.
----
* DepravedHomosexual: Or possibly DepravedBisexual, but the Swede has definitely been in at least one non-heterosexual relationship and is not a particualrly nice person.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Inciting Incident]]
!!Obbie Kernel, Kurt Eiseldown & The Destructionist
->"''I got my Buster Sword/
And I got my Keyblade/
I got dragon’s balls/
And they’re here to stay/
This goose is here to ruin your day!''"
Marty's bandmates, all of whom go by StageNames.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aster]]
!!Aster
->"I don’t know if there’s an answer to that, but I’m not sure it’s a question that makes sense to ask, either."
TM's ex-girlfriend, only seen in flashbacks. Her presence is still felt in the present, though, with TM's perspectives and decisions influenced by the memory of her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:SPOILER CHARACTER: [[spoiler:Vega]]]]
!!Vega
->"I'm sorry."
The star Orion was after on her second visit to Earth.
[[/folder]]
!!Animals
[[folder:The Cats]]
!!Michel Furcoat & Maurice Meow-Ponty
->"Meow."
TM and Veggie's cats.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Keelut]]
!!Keelut ([[spoiler:Sirius, the Dog Star]])
->"Woof."
O'Ryan's dog, a huge golden wolf-like animal.
[[/folder]]
!!Fictional Characters
[[folder:Mikkels Stormson]]
!!Mikkels Stormson
Expy of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]] or [[VideoGame/SplinterCell Sam Fisher]] and protagonist of [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe fictional video game]] ''Sliver Nucleus''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Barry]]
!!Barry
TM's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:L]]
!!Lina Lanriel
Ziggy's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Atgard]]
!!Atgard
Derrida's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Malachi]]
!!Malachi
Marty's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Iveline]]
!!Iveline
Dominika's character in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rusk]]
!!Rusk of the Leaf
A friendly NPC in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Lanriel Family]]
!!Linske, Lanfal, and A Buncha Other L-Name-People Lanriel
The ruling family in ''Hero's Adventure'', the in-universe tabletop RPG.
[[/folder]]
