History Characters / FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway

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* {{Expy}}: Her appearance in 873--her hood-like red hair and predominantly white garb--calls to mind the classic White Mage design, befitting her status as the hideaway's expert physicker.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: His past as a [[spoiler:scholar from the Holy Empire of Sanbreque, and a tutor to Prince Dion Lesage]], is obliquely referred to in his dialogue with Clive, in which he can bring up locations within [[spoiler:the Empire's original territory]] that Clive never visits in the game.

* PetTheDog: She has a soft spot for Torgal and was his primary caretaker in the years before Clive came around; even then, she still takes the time to feed him, and lets Clive know when Torgal starts behaving unusually. She also took Goetz under her wing some time ago, buying him from his parents who mistreated him and watching over him from then on. Judging from speaking with Goetz, Charon lost a lot of gil to do this, yet saw Goetz as worth far more than that amount.

* MommasBoy: He ADORES Charon, who practically raised him after taking him from his abusive parents.

* TheAlcoholic: When first meeting Blackthorne, Clive is told to offer him liquor any time he needs something crafted.

** After clearing his personal sidequests, he's able to make the game's InfinityPlusOneSword, the Gotterdammerung. In NewGamePlus, he makes the sword an Infinity Plus Two by evolving it into the Ultima Weapon. {{Downplayed}} in that these weapons were actually formulated from Blackthorne and Zoltan talking about how to make a weapon better than the Ragnarok they were making at the end of the quest chain.

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* JerkassToOne: In Otto's quest, he's shown to be rather brutal and strict with Gaute, for whom he has very little patience due to the latter's incompetence. Admittedly, it's because Gaute potentially overlooked debt of 15,000,000 gil from three of its most trusted allie; and Otto is unhappy that Gaute tried to get help from Clive, "the man in charge of the place you've been cheerfully trying to bankrupt", instead of coming clean to Otto to begin with.

* {{Expy}}: Her hood-like red hair and predominantly white garb in the first part of the game calls to mind the classic White Mage design, befitting her status as an expert physicker.
* TheMedic: She's the most skilled medic among the Bearers, taking on the responsibility of running the infirmary.

** Charon is the questgiver for ''Echoes of the Fallen'', informing Clive of the dusk crystals that are circulating in the black market following Twinside's fall. Instead of trying to make any kind of profit off of these weak shards (as Famiel is), Charon decides that it's not worth letting any unknown Mothercrystals go unshattered.

* OldShame: She has a background as a war profiteer, playing both sides in order to maximize her own profits. Cid came across her one day and offered her a place in his hideaway, and since then she has abandoned her corrupt ways.
* ParentalSubstitute: She is a substitute parent to Goetz, who was mistreated by his parents until she decided to look after him herself.
* PetTheDog: She has a soft spot for Torgal and was his primary caretaker in the years before Clive came around; even then, she still takes the time to feed him. She also took Goetz under her wing some time ago, buying him from his parents who mistreated him and watching over him from then on. Judging from speaking with Goetz, Charon lost a lot of gil to do this, yet saw Goetz as worth far more than that amount.

* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Since the hideaway is located in the Deadlands where there is little to no aether in the air, no one can use magic in there, instead relying on manual labor or various inventions created by Cid or Mid. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this isn't enough to stop Hugo from priming, as he uses Titan to destroy the original Hideaway.]]

* JerkassToOne: He's rather brutal and strict with Gaute, for whom he has very little patience due to the latter's incompetence.

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The Hideaway's blacksmith, a surly man originally from Dhalmek who is dedicated to the art of his craft, proud of his role and the trust that the Hideaway's fighters have in his work.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: This is the spark for the first three quests he has. He comes across a piece of gear that is beyond what he is capable of making, which causes him to enter a slump until Clive helps him learn more about it. In the first two cases, Blackthorne eventually realizes that whatever went into the piece of gear isn't practical for him to replicate (in the case of the cuirass, the leathersmith hunts down the animals needed for his leather personally to get the perfect fit, and the result needs extensive maintenance to keep viable; and in the case of the sword, the method that gives it its sharpness [[AwesomeButImpractical also makes it extremely brittle, making it useless for killing more than one person before needing repairs]]), though he is able to apply some of what he learns to his own craft. In the third instance, [[spoiler:he learns his old rival Zoltan felt this way about him in regards to smithing weapons and armor, which is why Zoltan switched focus to crafting with fine metals instead]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: He considers his focus on making extremely expensive but powerful weapons to be horribly impractical for actually running a village like Dravozd, which is why he left it in Zoltan's care.

* TheRival: Zoltan is his rival from his younger days, apprenticed to the same master. They differed in that [[QuantityVsQuality Blackthorne could spend days crafting one work to make it perfect while Zoltan churned out one imperfect creation after another in order to generate profits]]. When their master, the previous chief of Dravozd, passed away, he chose Blackthorne to be the new chief. Instead of doing so, Blackthorne ran away from the responsibility and subsequently forced Zoltan to take it, ending with both men holding a bitter grudge toward each other for years.

* UltimateBlacksmith: After clearing his personal sidequests, he's able to make the game's InfinityPlusOneSword, the Gotterdammerung. In NewGamePlus, he makes the sword an Infinity Plus Two by evolving it into the Ultima Weapon.

* MugglesDoItBetter: Her entire goal as a practitioner is developing non-magical medical techniques in a world that rarely had need of them, so as to spare Bearers such as herself from being forced to use their powers for curative magic [[CastFromLifeSpan at the cost of their own health]].

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her role as the [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] GrumpyOldWoman with a fake eye who is, nevertheless, a stalwart ally of the protagonists, brings to mind Matoya from the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', as well as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: This is the spark for the first three quests he has. He comes across a piece of gear that is beyond what he is capable of making, which causes him to enter a slump until Clive helps him learn more about it. In the first two cases, Blackthorne eventually realizes that whatever went into the piece of gear isn't practical for him to replicate (in the case of the cuirass, the leathersmith hunts down the animals needed for his leather personally to get the perfect fit, and the result needs extensive maintenance to keep viable; and in the case of the sword, the method that gives it its sharpness [[AwesomeButImpractical also makes it extremely brittle, making it useless for killing more than one person before needing repairs]]), though he is able to apply some of what he learns to his own craft. In the third instance, [[spoiler:he learns his old friend Zoltan felt this way about him in regards to smithing weapons and armor, which is why Zoltan switched focus to crafting with fine metals instead]].

* HiddenDepths: He's actually quite proud of what he does, so when he comes across some work of another master craftsman, he finds himself doubting his own skills, which he recognizes as a problem when others are trusting him to make sure their weapons and armor are in working order.

* QuantityVsQuality: He believes that his own obsession with quality made him a terrible choice to lead Dravozd as village chief, as he feels that the town needs to focus on producing cheaper, more practical goods in larger quantities to stay solvent. Working for the Hideaway allows him to instead focus his energies on making quality goods for a relatively small community without needing to worry about turning a profit.
* TheRival: Zoltan is his rival from his younger days, apprenticed to the same master. They differed in that [[QuantityVsQuality Blackthorne could spend days crafting one work to make it perfect while Zoltan churned out one imperfect creation after another in order to generate profits]]. When their master, the previous chief of Dravozd, passed away, it was time for one of the two to become the new chief, leaving Blackthorne to run away from the responsibility and keeping Zoltan saddled with it, ending with both men holding a bitter grudge toward each other for years.

A scholar interested in the story of Valisthea, he's gathering as much knowledge as he can to record it for future generations. Having arrived in Valisthea as a youth, Harpocrates' studies have led to him becoming one of the key experts in Valisthean geography, history, folklore, and religion.

* TheSmartGuy: A role she shares in the hideaway with Harpocrates. Vivian is the one who knows all about the realm's politics and current events, explaining any historical context needed for Clive and the others to understand why leaders are acting the way they are.

* TinMan: Clive believes Vivian is one of these until he gets to know her better and sees a more sentimental side to her.

* ReplacementGoldfish: It's implied that he sees Mid as a replacement of sorts for his own child, who [[spoiler:was killed for being a Bearer]].

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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Tarja perfected the surgical procedure to remove the ''extremely deadly'' facial tattoo Bearer brand on herself before removing it from others.

* PetTheDog: She has a soft spot for Torgal and was his primary caretaker in the years before Clive came around; even then, she still takes the time to feed him. She also took Goetz under her wing some time ago, buying him from his parents who mistreated him and watching over him from then on.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Charon is likely the oldest person in the hideaway, and never cuts anyone slack.