History Characters / HouseParty2017

** Of course, given that she's clearly freaking out and riddled with guilt at the time it's a clear MomentOfWeakness. And being that it's at the expense of [[{{Jerkass}} Madison]] it really comes off more like KickTheSonOfABitch or TheDogBitesBack. Even the game seems to agree that accusing Madison is the preferred option, since it's the only way for the player to complete the Mission Impawsible opportunity and give Derek closure about his beloved pet.

* FriendsWithBenefits: At the end of [[spoiler:Ashley's route]], he becomes this [[spoiler: with Madison]] after you encourage him to reconcile with her. Even after what transpires afterwards, he doesn't really hold it against the player character since they're back on speaking terms.

* GreenEyedMonster: Pursuing Madison's art opportunity will make Derek extremely competitive with you. [[spoiler:as Madison intended.]]

** In the ''Mission Impawsible'' opportunity after [[spoiler:you stop him from burning down the house]], he reflects that it ''may'' not have been his proudest moment.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: He'll be this to the male player character should certain events play out, like if you sleep with Madison in her art storyline or forget too many of the stories Derek tells you (''especially'' if [[KickTheDog you tell him that you don't care about them because you moved on from high school unlike Derek]]).
* WouldntHitAGirl: Even if he becomes your bouncer, he won't step in if the women decide to fight you. This also applies to the female player character, [[DownplayedTrope assuming you don't step too far out of line]]. If the male player character decides to sleep with Madison, Derek will attempt to beat him up until the Hyperall he took wears off and tries to get the player on Amy's bad side by telling her he's racist. For the female player character, he forgoes the beating and just tells Amy she's racist.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Definitely has his moments when he's not being aggressive towards alcohol. When he's [[spoiler: being chased by you in Leah's dark path]], one of his strategies is to try to play dead. While telling you to get lost because he's already dead. Needless to say, it doesn't work.

* DirtyCoward: Situationally. While he doesn't have a problem beating up Patrick or YOU for drunken indiscretions, he'll back down from Derek when told he's on Hyperall and won't even intervene when he's attempting to burn the house down. He's also ''terrified'' of Darkside Leah. If you beat him in fight either straight-up or with the hidden Darkside techniques, his greeting dialogue will be far more submissive with him suggesting the two of you just leave each other alone. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation He'll still go after you regardless if you try to touch alcohol, however.]]

* RapeAsBackstory: Has ambient dialogue mentioning he quit drinking after waking up next to his Scoutmaster. If you fail the ''High And Dry'' opportunity by confessing to Derek you don't care about art and you're just doing it to fuck Madison, you'll end up in her room with Frank while both of you are naked. He freaks out and shouts ''"No Coach Gunderson! Showertime is just for me!"''

* FullFrontalAssault: Leah will get naked during the hunt for the snake. If you push her down her Darkside path, she'll actually stay naked for the rest of the party regardless of how your final confrontation with her & Frank goes down. She doesn't even really seem to care about being naked even if you snap her back out from her Darkside mentality.

* KickTheDog: Leah is pleasant enough despite ostensibly being an antagonist to the Player. However, if she witnesses Derek losing a fight with Frank, she'll mock the fact that his brother is currently in prison. [[spoiler: It's not clear if she knows that Derek's brother was jailed for possessing drugs sold to him by Frank.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: During a conversation with Frank [[ItMakesSenseInContext after you ask her whether big dicks are better than big balls]], she gets irritated with him and asserts that men should be faithful and most self-respecting women don't find it sexy when men go whoring around. This can come after she potentially sleeps with you, Derek, and Vickie on the same night.

* CanadaEh: Has a slight Canadian accent. Most noticeable whenever she says sorry.

* BoobsOfSteel: Subverted. Despite her wrestling background, she's [[GameplayAndStorySegregation no more formidable in a fight than any other woman Madison invited]].

* NaughtyTentacles: A trademark of her...works...elsewhere and teased in her upcoming trailers.
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* OutOfFocus: Meta. Initially Madison was prominently displayed as the face of the game and even presented an in-game tutorial. The latter was completely scrapped (''along with her Opportunity "Simon Says" for being...unpleasant'') and she's not really a big factor in most of the other partygoers' stories, while in the marketing her spotlight has largely been redirected to other characters like Vickie or, amusingly, her sister-rival Ashley.

* Fauxshadowing: Her wrestling gig and fellow competitors are mentioned in several dialogues, with one ambient line even having Brittney consider possibly calling her wrestling ladies and inviting them over. They never actually show up at the party, however.

-->'''Madison:''' (after the Player "accidentally" spills beer on her) ''Yo, who the fuck do you think you are?! Dude, I'm soaked! Asshole, now I gotta go dry off.\\''

-->'''Madison:''' (after the player "accidentally" spills beer on her) Yo, who the fuck do you think you are?! Dude, I'm soaked! Asshole, now I gotta go dry off.\\
'''Player:''' You can give it but not take it?

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Even if you've untied her top or assisted Madison in pranking her, Ashley will still tolerate your presence and be helpful enough should you seek her advice. If you repeatedly untie her top or show her that you had the bathroom key during Madison's prank, she'll be outright disgusted and have an openly hostile demeanor towards you for the rest of the night, even if you give her the flower and joint. From that point asking her advice will result in SchmuckBait while some conversation options will get her mad enough to attack you.
* UnusualEuphemism: Refers to her bust as "30 pounds of chest ornaments". You won't have enjoy that remark for long though, since the only time she'll ever say this is [[PreAssKickingOneLiner right before she beats your ass]].

-->'''Derek:''' Amy just texted me. Told me about the shit you put her through. Thought you got away with it? Surprise, motherfucker!

-->'''Derek:''' Buddy, not only can you definitely not talk to Madison like that, that was weaponized cringe. I hate to do this but, I'm going to have to heavily sanction your face.

* SophisticatedAsHell: In one of Brittney's ambient dialogue lines, she writes a verbose letter back to her mom and dad about how difficult it's been for her to make friends, then caps it off by remarking that her "tits are too fucking big."

* IKnowKarate: Patrick will remark on Rachael's Krav-ma [[VerbalTic Brah]] training after getting smacked by her, while groping Rachael will prompt her to warn you that her body is a weapon. However, she's also no more formidable than any other woman Madison invited.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Upon discovering a katana in the backyard, she can prompt you to get someone at the party to verify its authenticity. Specifically: Amy. [[InterchangeableAsianCultures Who is Chinese]]. Thankfully, she takes it in stride.

* PlayfulHacker: Has a genius level intellect and is capable of easily hacking into nearly anything. What's Kat do with these abilities? Assist you in spoofing text messages, re-direct the Game Grumps into landing at the party or help out with a Doja Cat liveshow. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration If you haven't already unlocked Ashley's laptop, Kat using it will do it for you.]] She even has some unique dialogue mocking Ashley's very obvious password!

* EasilyForgiven: Zigzagged. As the host of the party, she can ''and will'' try to kick your ass out of the house if you step too far out of line, like [[TooDumbToLive deciding to piss on her]]. However, she can be surprisingly lenient with the player given what can happen to her, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality most likely for gameplay reasons]]. You can [[spoiler: spill beer on her and help Ashley, lie to Derek that she killed Purgalicious and almost get her house burned down, humiliate her with Ashley's help]] all in one playthrough and the worst that happens to you is Madison giving you the cold shoulder for the rest of the night.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: One of the wrong dialogue options to get her to sign a petition is that it's for pranking Ashley. She immediately refuses and says only ''she'' gets to prank her sister.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Upon discovering a katana in the backyard, she can prompt you to get someone at the party to verify its authenticity. Specifically: Amy. [[InterchangeableAsianCultures Who is Chinese]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Alcohol? No can do, he's straight edge and he'll beat your ass over it...unless you do him a couple favors. Weed? Perfectly fine and he'll gladly give it to you in exchange for some money. [[spoiler:He also has a line where he openly admits to sniffing cocaine from a stripper's asscrack. [[HypocrisyNod He'll admit to being this too.]]
-->'''Player Character:''' Wait, so you won't let anybody drink, but you're completely ok with drugs?\\
'''Frank:''' I tried to do the full-blown straight-edge thing, but it was hurting my drug dealing business because people saw it as a sign of weakness that I wouldn't sample my own product. So now I'm only straight-edge when it comes to drinking.]]

* TheAlcoholic: One of the first thing he says to you is that he's absolutely wasted. When you ask him for his phone, you have to sober him up first, either by giving him some hot coffee or completing his storyline with Rachael.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Patrick may be a pervert who runs a smutsite, but he's vocally "not down with" revenge porn ([[AdaptationalJerkass in the main story, at least.]]).

* KissingCousins: Patrick's general creeper-ness extends to having an unhealthy interest in his own cousin Madison. A line only triggerd by Lety's ''Hunt the Hunk'' Opportunity even has the Player ask if he & Madison are fucking. Oddly, he doesn't seem to have any lecherous intent towards his other cousin Ashley.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Alcohol? No can do, he's straight edge and he'll beat your ass over it...unless you do him a couple favors. Weed? Perfectly fine and he'll gladly give it to you in exchange for some money. He also has a line where he openly admits to sniffing cocaine from a stripper's asscrack. [[HypocrisyNod He'll admit to being this too.]]

'''Frank:''' I tried to do the full-blown straight-edge thing, but it was hurting my drug dealing business because people saw it as a sign of weakness that I wouldn't sample my own product. So now I'm only straight-edge when it comes to drinking.

* SmugStraightEdge: Frank has absolutely zero tolerance for anyone partaking of alcohol in his presence, and he considers it his civic duty to attend parties and keep it away from the party-goers. It's also an act to deprive them of alcohol so that they partake in his drugs.

* PervertRevengeMode: Groping Leah instantly provokes her into a fight. It's a way for you to distract her while she's pitching her studio to Lety if you don't mind losing some relationship points.

* OutOfFocus: Being a PluckyComicRelief sort who spends most of the night dancing means Stephanie doesn't get much in the way of spotlight. Outside her paths involving Whip-Its or pursuing medicine, the only unique role she gets is offering leads to help you discover what happened to Purgalicious.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Kat has a one-sided case of this with Stephanie who she ''"can't fucking stand"'' by her own admission, but the closest Stephanie ever comes to wronging her is potentially drunkenly stealing her phone and inadvertently taking it with her while skinnydipping.

* StrawFeminist: Katherine can be tricked into signing a petition for Derek to take off his shirt if you tell her it's to chemically castrate all men. [[[FailedASpotCheck Even if she's talking to the male Player.]]

* UnknownCharacter: Her boyfriend never attends the party, but it's his absence that keeps her there. Without Kat attending the Player wouldn't be able to seduce Rachael or invite Vickie, help Stephanie follow her calling, trick the Game Grumps into landing in Madison's backyard or help Doja Cat with her liveshow. [[CaptainObvious Or fuck Kat.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: Gets hit with this in the ''Vickie Vixen Valentine'' side story. Vickie lies to the [=PC=] to get them to help her break into Madison's house in order to steal Ashley's edible weed. She also smashes Ashley's guitar trying to get a key out of it before closing the door and pretending it didn't happen. Although it's vaguely implied by trying to go into a bedroom early that [[CuttingOffTheBranches the [=PC=] is on Ashley's bad side,]] this is still a far cry from Vickie's behavior in the main game, as seen below.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: This being the kind of game it is, the "hooker" aspect is played up immensely, but in the main story, she's close friends with one of the partygoers, is nice enough to give the player some genuinely helpful tips despite having met him only a few seconds ago (including pointing out how badly certain douchey behaviors are going to go), and generally doesn't seem to have a malicious bone in her body. Notably, the one assholish act she can be involved in ([[spoiler:getting Madison's sex tape leaked to the internet]]) requires lying to her to accomplish.

* ThePornomancer. Naturally. Play your cards right and Vickie can help you sweettalk every non-celebrity attending the party into a threesome. Some partygoers will even [[LampshadeHanging remark]] on how uncharacteristic going along with this is for them.

* WouldntHitaGirl: Even if he becomes your bouncer, he won't step in if the women decide to fight you. This also applies to the female player character, [[DownplayedTrope assuming you don't step too far out of line]]. If the male player character decides to sleep with Madison, Derek will attempt to beat him up until the Hyperall he took wears off and tries to get the player on Amy's bad side by telling her he's racist. For the female player character, he forgoes the beating and just tells Amy she's racist.

* MoralityPet: For the female Player character, if you choose to pursue her, she'll comment on actions both good and bad you've committed over the course of the party. Too many negatives will fail her storyline.

* TheAlcoholic: One of the first thing he says to you is that he's absolutely wasted. When you ask him for his phone, you have to sober him up first.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Patrick may be a pervert who runs a smutsite, but he's vocally "not down with" revenge porn.

* KissingCousins: Patrick's general creeper-ness extends to having an unhealthy interest in his own cousin Madison. A line only trigged by Lety's ''Hunt the Hunk'' Opportunity even has the Player ask if he & Madison are fucking. Oddly, he doesn't seem to have any lecherous intent towards his other cousin Ashley.

* DirtyCoward: Situationally. While he doesn't have a problem beating up Patrick or YOU for drunken indiscretions, he'll back down from Derek when told he's on Hyperall and won't even intervene when he's attempting to burn the house down. He's also ''terrified'' of Darkside Leah. If you beat him in fight either straight-up or with the hidden Darkside techniques, his greeting dialogue will be far more submissive with him suggesting the two of you just leave each other alone.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Alcohol? No can do, he's straight edge and he'll beat your ass over it...unless you do him a couple favors. Weed? Perfectly fine and he'll gladly give it to you in exchange for some money. He also has a line where he openly admits to sniffing cocaine from a stripper's asscrack.

* SmugStraightEdge: Frank has absolutely zero tolerance for anyone partaking of alcohol in his presence, and he considers it his civic duty to attend parties and keep it away from the party-goers. [[spoiler:It's also an act to deprive them of alcohol so that they partake in his drugs.]]

* PervertRevengeMode: Groping Leah instantly provokes her into a fight. It's a way for you to "distract" her while she's pitching her studio to Lety.

* DancingWithMyself: She'll always be dancing to the music, even if she's completely alone.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Kat has a one-sided case of this with Stephanie who she ''"can't fucking stand"'' by her own admission, but the closest Stephanie ever comes to wronging her is drunkenly stealing her phone and inadvertently taking it with her while skinnydipping.

* {{Jerkass}}: She gives Frank a run for his money. She constantly brags about her intelligence, insults you at every turn and makes it clear that she's only hooking up with you to make her boyfriend mad after he ditched her to go to the Game Grumps Live party. Why did he do it? [[DisproportionateRetribution He was too enthusiastic about his biking hobby for her liking]] and she started a fight with him over it. At the end of her route, she's not concerned at all that he might beat you up for hooking up with her [[spoiler: even after calling him so he could hear the two of you doing it]].

* StrawFeminist: Katherine can be tricked into signing a petition for Derek to take off his shirt if you tell her it's to chemically castrate all men. Even if she's talking to the male Player.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: If you push her to go along with Rachael's purge, knocking out any partygoer will result in the final hit sending them flying and will even permanently KO the likes of Derek & Patrick. You can even do it to Rachael & Lety if you decide to attack them!

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite it being her party, she's not especially popular with many of the guests: Ashley of course has their sibling "rivalry", Patrick openly admits to not particularly liking her either, while Stephanie & Rachael will both admit to drifting apart from her after being friends in school. [[{{Jerkass}} Katherine of course doesn't really seem to like her.]] Even Vickie doesn't seem too fond of Madison, despite only meeting her that night.

* SiblingYinYang: Ashley's generally a kind, friendly person concerned with the wellbeing of others. Madison is...not.

-->''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner "You're dead, asshole!"]]''

* KickTheDog: Leah is pleasant enough despite ostensibly being an antagonist to the Player. However, if she witnesses Derek losing a fight with Frank, she'll mock the fact that his brother is currently in prison. [[spoiler: It's not clear if she knows that Derek's brother was jailed for possessing drugs sold to him by Frank.]]

* PervertRevengeMode: Groping Leah instantly provokes her into a fight. It's a way for you to "distract" her while she's pitching her studio to Lety.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While she's at worst a Jerkass, before you arrive she apparently hits Amy with ''"just because you're Asian doesn't mean you're smarter than me."''

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: A haughty pompous {{Jerkass}} who is blunt at best with everyone, including the host of the party! Even [[NiceGuy Derek]] will mutter about how much he fucking hates her after one rude interaction. Unlike with Patrick it's never really explained why Madison even invited her. Amusingly, Kat has ambient dialogue questioning why Frank is at the party.

* FourthWallObserver: Rachael is aware she's an avatar in a game [[spoiler:and has wanted to escape the party for ages]]. Only after [[spoiler:meeting Lety]] and being pushed by the player does she do anything about it, [[spoiler:knocking out everybody at the party in a RageAgainstTheAuthor]]. Talking to Frank during this route reveals that [[spoiler:he's also aware of his HateSink status in the game and resents it as well, even dropping his deep voice]].

* HumiliationConga: The night can really go poorly for Madison. Even before you get there, she's already stressed out from her party not going as planned. You can join in with her relatives mocking her ridiculous "Sky Animals" belief, get her drunk enough to humiliate herself with an impression of a Madame and crash into a sliding door, assist Derek in pranking her by having partygoers walk in on her masturbating, help Ashley prank her by having Madison's idol Vickie Vixen livestream Madison having sex to a porn agent, get Ashley so drunk that she picks a fistfight with her and even provoke Derek into getting so mad he attempts to burn Madison's house down [[spoiler:wherein if you don't intervene, he [[NonStandardGameOver succeeds]].]]

* BoobsOfSteel: Despite her wrestling background, she's [[GameplayAndStorySegregation no more formidable in a fight than any other woman Madison invited]].

* FriendsWithBenefits: At the end of [[spoiler:Ashley's route]], she becomes this [[spoiler: with Derek after you encourage him to reconcile with her]].

* BoobsOfSteel: Is one of the most well-endowed girls at the party, something she's not really happy about and stays upstairs out of embarrassment.
** Despite this and her wrestling background, she's no more formidable in a fight than any other woman Madison invited.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was raised by a doomsday cult, whose leader hunted her and the other children. She still has some PTSD from the experience.

* CasanovaWannabe: Makes passes at several of the women at the party to no avail. The only woman he can successfully hit on is [[CloudCuckoolander Lety]].

* IronButtmonkey: While he's got the least HP in the game, Patrick is also the only character besides Derek who can never be permanently knocked out outside of special circumstances.

* NiceGuy: Despite being a pervert, he's one of the more amiable guests at the party and never really wrongs anyone. [[{{Jerkass}} Frank]] will even call him a nice individual if he's not yet discovered he's been hiding wine. [[spoiler: Patrick's also an astonishingly rich entrepreneur who uses his wealth to help others around the world.]]

* SecretlyWealthy: That drunken fool embarrassing himself at the party? [[spoiler: Made enough money off a porn site to buy multiple other companies and initiate philanthropic efforts on the other side of the world.]]

* TeenyWeenie: In keeping with his ButtMonkey status, Patrick's, um, equipment is nothing to write home about. When he sees your penis, he remarks that it's bigger than his and [[INeedAFreakingDrink says he needs another drink.]] In one of the routes, [[spoiler:you can see it's so small he uses a key ring as a cock ring]].

* SayingTooMuch: If the male Player asks Frank about stories Derek has told him about their school days, he'll briefly mention he knows Derek's younger brother and quickly start referring to "a business associate". [[spoiler: This is your clue that he's involved with Derek's brother's situation.]]

* NonActionGuy: Regardless of how angry she'll get with you, instead of throwing hands she'll call in Frank, then Derek and finally Leah to beat you down if you cross her enough. If all of them are unable to fight and you attempt to speak to her again, she'll just say that she's going to ignore you. The only way to get her to actually fight you is from attacking her first.

* LetsGetDangerous: Patrick is typically incapable of handling anyone in a fight, with minimal health and no skills. Give him a flask of Rachael's DeathMix and he'll become a GlassCannon who throws martial arts high kicks who backs up Derek well enough for them to take out Frank.