History Characters / MidnightSleuth

All names are left ''unmarked''. However, for the ones who have only read ''Midnight Sleuth'' and have not yet started reading the other two parts, the images of the [[spoiler: Meddlesome Company]] are spoilered out. And for who have not even read ''Midnight Sleuth'' entirely, we were lenient to also spoiler out the images of the [[spoiler: Twilight Scoundrels]].

!! Tropes they all share:

* HotterAndSexier: Well...they're in human form. Helps the thing.

[[folder: Problem Sleuth]]
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[[caption-width-right:228:The one and only.]]
!!!!!![[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1ref.gif[[/labelnote]] to see [[spoiler: his Sepulchritude dress]]. '''SPOILERS''']]

The main protagonist of the first part in the trilogy, ''Midnight Sleuth''.

[[folder: Pickle Inspector]]
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* ScienceHero

[[folder: Ace Dick]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown
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[[folder: Hysterical Dame and Nervous Broad]]
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!! Midnight Crew

[[folder: Spades Slick]]
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We know him. He's the ''de facto'' leader of the Midnight Crew, but in this comic, he's somewhat different. He can still boss his crew around, but it seems like he genuinely cares about them, in contrast to him not giving much attention to them dying at the end of the ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' intermission.
* TheNapoleon
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[[folder: Diamonds Droog]]
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* WillfullyWeak: He, like the others, have shadow magic. They rarely use it, and DD even has a reason for it.
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[[folder: Clubs Deuce]]
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* TheMedic: According to [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14237259/chapters/32945364#workskin this]], his specialty is healing.
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[[folder: Hearts Boxcars]]
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!!!!!![[caption-width-right:317:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peccant_scofflaw_initial.png[[/labelnote]] to see him.]]

!!!!!![[caption-width-right:291:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/betterview.png[[/labelnote]] to see [[spoiler: his ink form]]. '''JUST AS SPOILERY''']]

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]: In ''Apocryphal Antithesis'', but he...
** [[spoiler: CameBackWrong]]

* [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil Being Ill Makes You Evil]]: Leader of the Twilight Scoundrels + [[spoiler: dying from an almost inevitable illness]] = [[spoiler: being convinced the Scoundrels are suffering = becoming a horrorterror]].
* BigBad: Takes over this role from Mobster Kingpin. [[spoiler: How much of it is genuine is anyone's guess]].

* DemotedToExtra: As in ''Dead Shuffle'', [[spoiler: or is he]]?

--> Because you know that Scofflaw would do anything, go to any length, to keep going. To cheat [[spoiler: death, to come back to you]]. Because Peccant Scofflaw does not give up. Not ever.

* {{Expy}}: Is evil? Check. Has a sheme of black and greens? Check. Grey skin? Check. Has magic powers? Check. [[spoiler: Is killed]]? Check. Are we talking about him or [[WebComic/{{Homestuck}} Grimbark Jade]]?

* EvilCounterpart: Naturally. This becomes especially obvious when at the end of ''Midnight Sleuth'', you can see he's one to Problem Sleuth, [[spoiler: making him access Sepulchritude in the process]].
** [[https://mspfa.com/?s=1351&p=54 This link]] evidences their supreme kinship. They even have the same handwriting.

** FanDisservice: One can notice he's quite attractive. By the time [[spoiler: he falls ill, he gets ink stains on his clothing]]. And then, enter his [[spoiler: [[https://mspfa.com/?s=12747&p=500 final moments]]]]...

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Ink!Scofflaw sports a laurel crown, which he even retains in demon form. As is made clear at the end of ''Midnight Sleuth'', he died, failed and lost]].

* MadGod: [[spoiler: Ink!Scofflaw isn't very...all there. He can't spend two minutes without breaking out a NightmareFace ''and'' a creepy speech pattern]].
* NightmareFace: [[https://mspfa.com/?s=12776&p=250 Oh god]]… ('''Heavy spoilers in link!''')

* SicklyGreenGlow: Making him resemble Grimbark Jade - and, indeed, [[{{Expy}} they share the same charactistics]], as mentioned above.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His [[spoiler: motivation in the third part]].

* VoiceOfTheLegion: As [[spoiler: [[https://mspfa.com/?s=12776&p=81 an ink demon]]]].
* WalkingSpoiler: While he was already one of the greatest [[WalkingSpoiler Walking Spoiler]]s in the original story, the second part and '''especially''' ''Apocryphal Antithesis'' takes it up a notch and turns him into the centerpiece of many game-changing twists, making it very hard to get into that parts depiction of him without getting spoiled.

* BlackMage: And quite the powerful one.

* [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Magical Guy]]: Like his leader, maybe even more.
* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Gangster Of Black Magic]]: But with the demureness of a lady, now and then.
* [[GothGirlsKnowMagic Goth Gangsters Know Magic]]

!! Meddlesome Company

* GoodIsNotNice

[[folder: Snooping Scout]]
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[[caption-width-right:133:♤]]
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[[folder: Deadeye Detective]]
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[[folder: Cheerful Demoman]]
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[[folder: Heavy Brawler]]
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[[caption-width-right:183:♡]]
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