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!!Braxus/[[spoiler:Mammot]]
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->''"I will do what I should have done centuries ago! Reduce this mewling world to dust!!!"''
The antagonist of the "Legends and Lore" sessions. An evil god summoned by the Cult of the Final Days, his ultimate goal is to destroy the world.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: He's symbolic of Reed's growing anxiety of the impending asteroid. In the same way that the asteroid begins as something talked about in passing to becoming an imminent threat to the characters' lives, Braxus is only mentioned in the first session, but starts becoming active at the end of the second and is an inevitable confrontation in the final.
* AngelicAbomination: [[spoiler:His OneWingedAngel resembles a dinosaur-like biblical angel.]]
* BigBad: Of the "Legends and Lore" games.
* EarlyBirdCameo: If the player has high affinity with Reed at the end of the first session, the unlocked photo shows Braxus [[spoiler:in his true form]] on Reed's gamemaster screen.
* EldritchAbomination: An anxient god of the apocalypse, and looks the part, especially in his true form.
* EntitledToHaveYou: He sees himself as entitled to have [[spoiler:Fey]] as his follower because of everything he's given them. When he's rejected, he throws a tantrum, kicking off the second half of his fight.
-->"You dare betray me? Your magic, it comes from ME. Your past? Comes from ME! Everything you are! Everything you will ever become! ME!"
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: According to him, [[spoiler:Fey]] was his favorite disciple and wants them to join him again.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: He has a pair of eyes on the wings on his lower hips. [[spoiler:Even worse in his true form, where he has eyes on his arms, wings, and the halo carried on his back.]]
* FinalBoss: He's this to the "Legends and Lore" games, fought in two phases.
* TheGlovesComeOff: He feigns defeat early into his boss fight in order to try to convince Fey to join his side, by revealing that [[spoiler:Keph is their brother and Fey was once his disciple]]. When this fails, Braxus takes on his OneWingedAngel form and stops holding back against the heroes.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Speaking his true name, [[spoiler:Mammot]], grants Fey the power to be able to defeat him.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's only mentioned during the first session, but once he becomes more active at the end of the second session by [[spoiler:showing Fey a vision of the apocalypse]], this sets the tone for the final session's dark, bleak tone.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:When his disciple Fey turned on him, he erased both their and Keph's memories, making the siblings forget each other, and then left Fey for dead. He restores Fey's memories in the final session in a bid to convince them to join him again.]]
* LightIsNotGood: He has a shining white body, and he's also the main antagonist.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Once he's defeated, the portal he came from turns in on itself, sucking in him and the heroes to their deaths.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: His only goal is to destroy the world.
* OneWingedAngel: After Fey speaks his true name and gains the power to beat him, he reveals his true form: [[spoiler:a monstrous, angelic, dinosaur-like abomination with extra limbs, eyes, and teeth]].
* TantrumThrowing: Once he changes to his true form, he throws a tantrum at Fey's betrayal and throws bolts of lightning at the party. Reed points out how immature he's behaving.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: [[spoiler:His true form has ''four'' pairs of arms, two in front and two on his back.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: He offers Fey a chance to abandon their friends and join him in destroying the world after revealing [[spoiler:Fey was once TheDragon to him, and his favorite disciple, before they turned on him]].
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!!Braxus/[[spoiler:Mammot]]
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->''"I will do what I should have done centuries ago! Reduce this mewling world to dust!!!"''
The antagonist of the "Legends and Lore" sessions. An evil god summoned by the Cult of the Final Days, his ultimate goal is to destroy the world.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: He's symbolic of Reed's growing anxiety of the impending asteroid. In the same way that the asteroid begins as something talked about in passing to becoming an imminent threat to the characters' lives, Braxus is only mentioned in the first session, but starts becoming active at the end of the second and is an inevitable confrontation in the final.
* AngelicAbomination: [[spoiler:His OneWingedAngel resembles a dinosaur-like biblical angel.]]
* BigBad: Of the "Legends and Lore" games.
* EarlyBirdCameo: If the player has high affinity with Reed at the end of the first session, the unlocked photo shows Braxus [[spoiler:in his true form]] on Reed's gamemaster screen.
* EldritchAbomination: An anxient god of the apocalypse, and looks the part, especially in his true form.
* EntitledToHaveYou: He sees himself as entitled to have [[spoiler:Fey]] as his follower because of everything he's given them. When he's rejected, he throws a tantrum, kicking off the second half of his fight.
-->"You dare betray me? Your magic, it comes from ME. Your past? Comes from ME! Everything you are! Everything you will ever become! ME!"
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: According to him, [[spoiler:Fey]] was his favorite disciple and wants them to join him again.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: He has a pair of eyes on the wings on his lower hips. [[spoiler:Even worse in his true form, where he has eyes on his arms, wings, and the halo carried on his back.]]
* FinalBoss: He's this to the "Legends and Lore" games, fought in two phases.
* TheGlovesComeOff: He feigns defeat early into his boss fight in order to try to convince Fey to join his side, by revealing that [[spoiler:Keph is their brother and Fey was once his disciple]]. When this fails, Braxus takes on his OneWingedAngel form and stops holding back against the heroes.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Speaking his true name, [[spoiler:Mammot]], grants Fey the power to be able to defeat him.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's only mentioned during the first session, but once he becomes more active at the end of the second session by [[spoiler:showing Fey a vision of the apocalypse]], this sets the tone for the final session's dark, bleak tone.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:When his disciple Fey turned on him, he erased both their and Keph's memories, making the siblings forget each other, and then left Fey for dead. He restores Fey's memories in the final session in a bid to convince them to join him again.]]
* LightIsNotGood: He has a shining white body, and he's also the main antagonist.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Once he's defeated, the portal he came from turns in on itself, sucking in him and the heroes to their deaths.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: His only goal is to destroy the world.
* OneWingedAngel: After Fey speaks his true name and gains the power to beat him, he reveals his true form: [[spoiler:a monstrous, angelic, dinosaur-like abomination with extra limbs, eyes, and teeth]].
* TantrumThrowing: Once he changes to his true form, he throws a tantrum at Fey's betrayal and throws bolts of lightning at the party. Reed points out how immature he's behaving.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: [[spoiler:His true form has ''four'' pairs of arms, two in front and two on his back.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: He offers Fey a chance to abandon their friends and join him in destroying the world after revealing [[spoiler:Fey was once TheDragon to him, and his favorite disciple, before they turned on him]].
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* BlackSheep: Fang goes against her family's more traditional, professional aesthetic in favor of their punk rebel look.
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Calling them hate sinks seems to contradict the above and below tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15476140760A75581300&page=214#comment-5335
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* HateSink: They're deliberately cocky, sleazy and unpleasant, with Nick belittling Worm Drama's successes by dismissing them as just "kids", while Trent [[spoiler:tries to recruit Fang to sing for them for "exposure"]].
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I don't think we need to dance around the deadname of a fictional character.
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* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Sabah openly refuses to accept Fang's identity, intentionally deadnaming them and using the wrong pronouns. [[spoiler:She does, finally, refer to them as 'Fang' in their final phone call.]]
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* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Sabah openly refuses to accept Fang's identity, intentionally deadnaming them and using the wrong "she/her" pronouns. [[spoiler:She does, finally, refer to them as 'Fang' in their final phone call.]]
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The main character. A nonbinary pterosaur and the lead guitarist and vocalist for Worm Drama. They wish to be a professional musician and go on tour. To that end, they've been trying to get an audition for the upcoming Battle of the Bands.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:They pursued their dream to win Battle of the Bands and perform at [=CalderaFest=], even risking alienating Trish and Reed, only for the festival to be canceled due to the impending apocalypse.]]
* DoingItForTheArt: In-universe. Even though winning [=CalderaFest=] is a huge career-making moment for musicians, Fang's pursuing it more for the love of music than fame and fortune. They even relate this to Sage in episode 7, saying music was always fun for them, even when they sucked.
* GoalInLife: Fang's ultimate goal in life is to succeed as a musician and tour across Pangea with their friends performing music.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite them hating Naser's puns, they can join in on making a pun during the car ride in episode 2.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite them hating Naser's puns, they can join in on making a pun during the car ride in episode 2. They can also optionally do this in episode 4, to Trish's annoyance.
* SmallTownBoredom: Fang's dialog in episodes 1 and 2 implies this to be part of the reason why they want to succeed in music and go on tour: they're bored of Caldera Bay and want to see the rest of the world.
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->''"Believe me when I say that this year will fly by, and you will find yourselves wishing you'd taken more time to prepare."''
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* LastNameBasis: Her first name is never revealed, so she's only referred to as "Ms. Roberts" or just "Roberts".
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->''"It's about community. Nothing's worth doing til the end of all things if you don't have people to share it with."''
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* ShipperOnDeck: It's implied he's this toward [[spoiler: Fang and Naomi getting together]].
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: Fang's singing voice is noted by almost everyone, even [[spoiler:Swamp Babies]], to be incredible.
* EffeminateVoice: Sage has a very feminine voice compared to Reed and Naser, [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to him [[spoiler:being a trans man]].
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* FriendlyRivalry: Trish and Reed both openly dislike Swamp Babies, but Fang never shows them any hostility and admits they are good on a technical level. [[spoiler:Trent at one point tries to recruit Fang into their band as well, showing they respect Worm Drama musically on some level too.]]
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* DelinquentHair: Nick has an undercut and ''very'' long hair on top that hangs over his face.
* FriendlyRivalry: Fang doesn't show outright hostility towards them like Trish and Reedboth openly dislike Swamp Babies, but Fang never shows them any hostility do and admits they are good on a technical level. [[spoiler:Trent at one point tries to recruit Fang into their band as well, showing they respect Worm Drama musically on some level too.]]
* GroupHug: [[spoiler:Trent pulls Nick and Curtis into one of these in the final episode.]]
* HateSink: They're deliberately cocky, sleazy and unpleasant, with Nick belittling Worm Drama's successes by dismissing them as just "kids", while Trent [[spoiler:tries to recruit Fang to sing for them for "exposure"]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite their attitude, they're shown to respect Worm Drama's talents, even if they won't admit it outright. And in the final episode, [[spoiler:they attend Worm Drama's concert together, even crying and hugging each other during "Pretty Heroes", showing they're not as bad as they appeared]].
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:Trent and Curtis shed these during the "Pretty Heroes" performance.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: Fang doesn't show outright hostility towards them like Trish and Reed
* GroupHug: [[spoiler:Trent pulls Nick and Curtis into one of these in the final episode.]]
* HateSink: They're deliberately cocky, sleazy and unpleasant, with Nick belittling Worm Drama's successes by dismissing them as just "kids", while Trent [[spoiler:tries to recruit Fang to sing for them for "exposure"]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite their attitude, they're shown to respect Worm Drama's talents, even if they won't admit it outright. And in the final episode, [[spoiler:they attend Worm Drama's concert together, even crying and hugging each other during "Pretty Heroes", showing they're not as bad as they appeared]].
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:Trent and Curtis shed these during the "Pretty Heroes" performance.]]
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* TheRival: To Worm Drama. With Swamp Babies being one of the biggest bands in town and having won Battle of the Bands several times already, they're the main obstacle Worm Drama has to overcome.
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* TattooAsCharacterType: Both Nick and Curtis are covered in tattoos -- Nick with black snakes and Curtis with flowers -- to show off their "alt-boy" aesthetic.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In episode 5, if Fang apologizes to Naser for the fight in episode 3, he'll come backstage during Battle of the Bands to give Fang encouragement before their performance.
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->''"I'll have you guys over all the time to try my weird food experiments! I applied to, like, 300 culinary programs. I'm pretty sure cooking is'' it ''for me. This feels like make or break."''
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->''"I like to think there's at least a higher order. To make sense of the chaos. There's a lot of stuff that's out of my control. Tarot, mysticism... it lets me work things out."''
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