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* {{Badass}}: He ''is'' the sword-wielding, acrobatic Thargor. He just happens to be stuck in the body of a dying 14 year old boy. How badass is he? At the climax, [[spoiler:the Other, an EldritchAbomination, SealedEvilInACan, brings him BackFromTheDead so that he can fight the closest thing to an embodiment of evil this universe has.]]
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* YouCanBarelyStand: He spends much of his time in Otherland barely functional due to his progressing illness in real life. During his moments of lucidity, he engages in {{Badass}}ery to make up for it.
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* YouCanBarelyStand: He spends much of his time in Otherland barely functional due to his progressing illness in real life. During his moments of lucidity, he engages in {{Badass}}ery badassery to make up for it.
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* TheObiWan: Getting cut off from Sellars' guidance is an important plot point for the Otherland party at the end of the first novel, forcing them to decipher its mysteries on their own. Sellars goes on to subvert part of the trope later, since although his physical body dies, he survives thanks to BrainUploading.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: His motivation since surviving WorldWarOne is to live forever. He regards death as a foe to be defeated at any cost.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: His motivation since surviving WorldWarOne UsefulNotes/WorldWarI is to live forever. He regards death as a foe to be defeated at any cost.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys
ThoseTwoBadGuys: They act like this when chasing Paul Jonas.
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* TheCracker
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* TheCrackerTheCracker: Her job.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Her {{backstory}} details an upbringing at the hands of drugged-out, social-phobic parents whose ennui enables the events leading up to her blinding.
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* HotBlooded: This frequently drives her into conflict with the equally HotBlooded Renie.
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* HotBlooded: This frequently drives her into conflict with the equally HotBlooded Renie.
* SpikesOfVillainy: In his PoweredArmor sim. Inverted, since he's a protagonist, and {{lampshaded}} several times.
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* SpikesOfVillainy: In his PoweredArmor sim. Inverted, since he's a protagonist, and {{lampshaded}} several times.
* JerkassFacade: He is almost violently standoffish when asked to share his history with the group; it's later revealed that this is out of shame.
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* JerkassFacade: He is almost violently standoffish when asked to share his history with the group; it's later revealed that this is out of shame.
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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: She was pretending to be a boy, and then got too deep into friendship with Orlando for any sort of natural segué into revealing her gender, so found herself trapped in an unwinnable situation vis-a-vis her crush on him. Then he up and ''dies''.
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: He joins Sellars in viewing his own funeral, thanks to BrainUploading.
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: He joins join"s Sellars in viewing his own funeral, thanks to BrainUploading.
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* CatchPhrase: "Confident, cocky, lazy, dead." "Hello, sweetness."
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* CatchPhrase: "Confident, cocky, lazy, dead." and "Hello, sweetness."
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* CaptainObvious: Partially intentional. It drives Orlando insane.
* TheChick: Despite her efforts to avoid being treated this way, she fulfills the role rather well, with a few notable exceptions.
* TheChick: Despite her efforts to avoid being treated this way, she fulfills the role rather well, with a few notable exceptions.
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* CaptainObvious: Partially intentional. It drives A part of the relationship dynamic between Sam and Orlando insane.
is that she'll deliberately point out the obvious in a situation because she knows it drives him crazy.
* TheChick:Despite her efforts Defied. She very much does ''not'' want to avoid be considered "just a girl" and fights the stereotype vigorously, but is nevertheless not cut out to be a true action hero, so she settles for being treated this way, she fulfills the role rather well, with a few notable exceptions.Orlando's sidekick.
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* TheLancer: She tries this in the Trojan War simulation when Orlando is too ill to fight. It doesn't go very well when she runs into Hector; ironically echoing the actual Achilles/Patroclus story.
* SweetPollyOliver: It's virtual reality, after all.
* {{Sidekick}}: To Orlando, promoted to LoveInterest by the end of the story.
* SweetPollyOliver: It's virtual reality, after all.
* {{Sidekick}}: To Orlando, promoted to LoveInterest by the end of the story.
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* TheLancer: She tries this in In the Trojan War simulation simulation, when Orlando is too ill ill, Sam dons Achilles' armor to fight. It doesn't go very well fight in his stead, accidentally imitating the genuine story when she runs into Hector; ironically echoing the actual Achilles/Patroclus story.
Hector.
* SweetPollyOliver:It's virtual reality, after all.
In VR, you can be whoever you want to be, and Sam wants to be "one of the boys", so she wears a male sim. Orlando doesn't find out the truth until he looks her up in real life.
* {{Sidekick}}: To Orlando, promoted to potential LoveInterest by the end of thestory.story once the shock of her gender reveal has worn off and Orlando is no longer afraid of dying.
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* MissionControl: For Olga Pirovsky when she infiltrates J Corp.
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* MissionControl: For He's Olga Pirovsky Pirovsky's link to the outside world when she infiltrates J Corp.
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* ChekhovsGunmanChekhovsGunman: After a long, long time of having no obvious connection to the main plot, it is abruptly revealed that [[spoiler:her child did not die, but was taken away from her at birth, becoming the Other]].
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A kindergarden-age girl who lives on the same military base as Mr. Sellars, and whom he recruits to help him escape. Her parents end up finding out about the relationship and, coming to the logical (but incorrect) conclusion, force Sellars to take them into his confidence.
* ChildrenAreInnocent
* ChildrenAreInnocent
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A kindergarden-age kindergarten-age girl who lives on the same military base as Mr. Sellars, and whom he recruits to help him escape. Her parents end up finding out about the relationship and, coming to the logical (but incorrect) conclusion, force Sellars to take them into his confidence.
*ChildrenAreInnocentChildrenAreInnocent: Her point-of-view segments play up her innocence and also the anguish that Sellars suffers by using her. She's utterly shocked when she runs into the far more worldly Cho-Cho.
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* StreetUrchin
StreetUrchin: He grew up on the streets as part of a gang of homeless kids, and encounters Christabel while scavenging for food.
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MentorOccupationalHazard: She is beaten to death for daring to investigate Otherland on Renie's behalf.
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StraightGay: While Long Joseph somehow picks up on his orientation immediately, it is not immediately obvious to any of the other characters.
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Renie and Stephen's father. Emotionally crippled by the death of his wife in a fire, he copes by drinking.
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* DrowningMySorrows
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* DrowningMySorrows
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Renie and Stephen's father. Emotionally crippled by the death of his wife in a fire, he copes by drinking, and his absenteeism forces Renie to become the ''de facto'' head of the Sulaweyo household.
* TheAlcoholic: He copes with a world that he no longer wishes to emotionally connect to by drinking.
*TheAlcoholic
* DrowningMySorrowsDrowningMySorrows: To retreat from the pain of losing his wife.
* TheAlcoholic: He copes with a world that he no longer wishes to emotionally connect to by drinking.
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* LeeroyJenkins: Tends to this sort of behavior in real life, resulting in the badguys discovering their hideout.
* NailedToTheWagon: At the decommissioned military base.
* NailedToTheWagon: At the decommissioned military base.
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* LeeroyJenkins: Tends He tends to this sort of wildly impulsive and irrational behavior -- leaving the military base in real life, resulting pursuit of a drink and attempting to visit his son in the hospital results in the badguys discovering their hideout.
* NailedToTheWagon:At There is nothing to drink at the decommissioned military base.base. When he runs out of the booze he brought with him, he has no choice but to dry out.
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* BigBadBigBad: He starts out as the main antagonist before Dread takes over that role and it is his desire for immortality that drives the plot.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* ImmortalitySeeker
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really Two Hundred Years Old]]: And would do ''anything'' to trick death. Some of his schemes are actually pretty zany.
* TortureTechnician
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* ImmortalitySeeker
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really Two Hundred Years Old]]: And would do ''anything'' to trick death. Some of his schemes are actually pretty zany.
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* TheBully
TheBully: Bullied as a child, his response is to become, in effect, the biggest bully in the entire world.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive
CorruptCorporateExecutive: Based on what Olga Pirovsky finds when she visits J Corp, Jongleur appears to pretty much own the state of Louisiana and brazenly flaunts any law or moral that doesn't suit him.
*ImmortalitySeeker
ImmortalitySeeker: His motivation since surviving WorldWarOne is to live forever. He regards death as a foe to be defeated at any cost.
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really Two Hundred Years Old]]:And would do ''anything'' His visible persona, when he chooses to trick death. Some present a face to the world through the 'Net, is that of a middle-aged executive, and only a few people know the truth that he's a shriveled ''thing'' in a life support tank.
* TortureTechnician: He tortures two of hisschemes are actually pretty zany.
* TortureTechnician
employees by invoking their deepest fears in a VR environment.
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* TortureTechnician
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneralAttendingYourOwnFuneral: His real body dies from overstress, but he triggers the BrainUploading program before everything shuts down, so he gets to join Orlando as a digital person and watch the funeral proceedings.
* TheChessmaster: He has ''lots'' of free time to plot and plan, making his schemes nearly as complex as Jongleur's.
* CreatingLife: Sellars was given the most advanced antiviral software available at the time in preparation for a long solo journey. He incubates and sets these programs against one another in a confined environment in order to provoke evolution. When the Other discovers these creations, it steals them, prompting his investigation into and discovery of Otherland.
* TheChessmaster: He has ''lots'' of free time to plot and plan, making his schemes nearly as complex as Jongleur's.
* CreatingLife: Sellars was given the most advanced antiviral software available at the time in preparation for a long solo journey. He incubates and sets these programs against one another in a confined environment in order to provoke evolution. When the Other discovers these creations, it steals them, prompting his investigation into and discovery of Otherland.
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* TheChessmaster: He has ''lots'' of free time now. Another of his hobbies is CreatingLife out of his top-notch internal antivirus software.
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* MissionControl: For the entire Otherland expedition.
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* MissionControl: For the entire Otherland expedition. He's one of the few people capable of breaking through the network's security to communicate with the people trapped inside.
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* WhatTheHellHero: His recruitment of the six-year old Christabel to aid his schemes gets this reaction from her parents.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection
VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Sellars manages the feat of being more anonymous and secretive than is typical for even the 'Net's most reclusive denizens.
* WhatTheHellHero: His recruitment of the six-year old Christabel to aid his schemes getsthis reaction from him royally chewed out by her parents.
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* HotBlooded: It makes her life considerably more difficult.
* MamaBear: To Stephen.
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* HotBlooded: It makes Her anger and tendency to rush to judgement make her life considerably more difficult.
* MamaBear:To Stephen.Her motivation is mainly to protect her younger brother, for whom she is a stand-in parent.
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* TeamMom: Albeit against the wishes of several other members She tries to act as leader and protector of the group.
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An African Bushman and Renie's student, justifies much of her {{exposition}} through his ignorance (at first) of the 'Net. His unique perspective on life gives him unusual capabilities in Otherland.
* [[MagicalNativeAmerican Magical Native African]], Bushman or San, more correctly. His different world perception is a major plot point.
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An African Bushman and Renie's student, student who justifies much of her {{exposition}} through his ignorance (at first) of the 'Net. His unique perspective on life gives him unusual capabilities in Otherland.
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* LastOfHisKind: He believes himself to be the last African Bushman.
* LoveInterest: For Renie.
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* LastOfHisKind: He believes himself to be the last African Bushman.
Bushman, as his tribe had disappeared by the time he went to search for it.
* LoveInterest:For Renie.He becomes Renie's deepest and closest friend throughout their experiences in Otherland and finally becomes her lover at the end.
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* GenreSavvy: More so than She is one of the others, particularly first members of the group to realize that events in Otherland seem to be getting forced into a narrative framework; she also notes the resemblance of the various members to narrative roles -- most especially her journals.own.
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* TheLancer: To Renie.As a parental figure herself, she competes with Renie for the leadership role and acts as a secondary leader when the group splits up.
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* JerkassFacadeJerkassFacade: He acts very "macho" and standoffish to disguise that he's really an insecure teenager. The armor he wears becomes symbolic of this facade, as he becomes more personable when he loses it.
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* RedHerringMole: He pays for it with his life.
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JerkassFacade: He is almost violently standoffish when asked to share his history with the group; it's later revealed that this is out of shame.
* RedHerringMole: As another character who never gets narrative POV, he's among the suspects for being Dread's hijackee. He pays for itwith his life.
by getting killed by Dread.
* RedHerringMole: As another character who never gets narrative POV, he's among the suspects for being Dread's hijackee. He pays for it
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* GrandTheftMeGrandTheftMe: She turns out to be the person whose sim Dread hijacks.
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A teenage boy who suffers from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/progeria progeria]], a rapid aging disease, and spends most of his time online as a result. He enters Otherland in the search for Sellars' "golden city", unaware of the risks involved. He is frequently accompanied by an AI companion named Beezle that acts as an ExpositionFairy.
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to BrainUploading, and doubling as a [[{{Awesome/Otherland}} Crowning Moment Of Awesome]].
* {{Badass}}: Seriously. He ''is'' the sword-wielding, acrobatic Thargor. He just happens to be stuck in the body of a dying 14 year old boy. How badass is he? At the climax, [[spoiler:the Other, an EldritchAbomination, SealedEvilInACan, brings him BackFromTheDead so that he can fight the closest thing to an embodiment of evil this universe has.]]
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to BrainUploading, and doubling as a [[{{Awesome/Otherland}} Crowning Moment Of Awesome]].
* {{Badass}}: Seriously. He ''is'' the sword-wielding, acrobatic Thargor. He just happens to be stuck in the body of a dying 14 year old boy. How badass is he? At the climax, [[spoiler:the Other, an EldritchAbomination, SealedEvilInACan, brings him BackFromTheDead so that he can fight the closest thing to an embodiment of evil this universe has.]]
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A teenage boy who suffers from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/progeria progeria]], a rapid aging disease, and spends most of his time online as a result.result to compensate for his physical disability. He enters Otherland in the search for Sellars' "golden city", unaware of the risks involved. He is frequently accompanied by an AI companion named Beezle that acts as an ExpositionFairy.
*AttendingYourOwnFuneral
AttendingYourOwnFuneral: He joins Sellars in viewing his own funeral, thanks to BrainUploading.
* BackFromTheDead:Thanks to BrainUploading, and doubling The Other seemingly idolizes him as a [[{{Awesome/Otherland}} Crowning Moment Of Awesome]].
hero, and rewards him by bringing him back to life to [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes defeat the clones of Finney and Mudd at the Well]]]].
* {{Badass}}:Seriously. He ''is'' the sword-wielding, acrobatic Thargor. He just happens to be stuck in the body of a dying 14 year old boy. How badass is he? At the climax, [[spoiler:the Other, an EldritchAbomination, SealedEvilInACan, brings him BackFromTheDead so that he can fight the closest thing to an embodiment of evil this universe has.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Snarking about He's impatient with "stupidity" -- fair enough given that he knows his "deadness", no less.
days are numbered, and inflicts it on those around him, mostly Sam, in the form of sarcasm.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Due to incurable progeria, he is doomed to die young. Atypically for the trope, he doesn't sit down and take it, instead compensating by being a brawny warrior in hisprogeria.online persona.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Due to incurable progeria, he is doomed to die young. Atypically for the trope, he doesn't sit down and take it, instead compensating by being a brawny warrior in his
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* YouCanBarelyStand: Spends much of his time in Otherland in this state.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Played straight. He is dying from progeria and spends most of his time in VR because he's crippled and barely functional in real life.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Played straight. He is dying from progeria and spends most of his time in VR because he's crippled and barely functional in real life.
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* YouCanBarelyStand: Spends He spends much of his time in Otherland barely functional due to his progressing illness in this state.
real life. During his moments of lucidity, he engages in {{Badass}}ery to make up for it.
* YourDaysAreNumbered:Played straight. He is dying from As a progeria victim, he is doomed to die as a teenager and spends most of his time in VR because he's crippled and barely functional in real life.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He keeps recordings of all the women he has killed on his system. In his final moments, just when he needs all his attention to escape the Other, Dulcinea floods him with those images. Dread is put into a cataconic state from sensory overload, and proceeds to dream about those women now hunting him. [[FateWorseThanDeath Forever.]]
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If there was ever a book in need of a Character Sheet, it would be {{Otherland}}. As this page is a work in progress, assistance is appreciated.
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If there was ever a book in need of a Character Sheet, it would be {{Otherland}}.''Literature/{{Otherland}}''. As this page is a work in progress, assistance is appreciated.
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* {{Badass}}: Seriously. He ''is'' the sword-wielding, acrobatic Thargor. He just happens to be stuck in the body of a dying 14 year old boy. How badass is he? At the climax, [[spoiler:the Other, an EldritchAbomination, SealedEvilInACan, brings him BackFromTheDead so that he can fight the closest thing to an embodiment of evil this universe has.]]
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* EvilIsSexy: Dulcie seems to think so; see AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
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* HoYay: They have a ''very'' close relationship.
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* TrueNeutral: He remains resolutely neutral in the conflict between the heroes and the Brotherhood, reasoning that he sees no value in helping them considering how easily it could jeopardize his position...
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* NightmareFuel: The entirety of the Other's existence.
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* CunningRogue: He's drawn from Jongleur's fantasies as a child that he was really a care-free gypsy adventurer.
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* MeaningfulName: "Dread", of course, but it's a double pun. "More Dread" = Mordred, which ties in with Jongleur's "Grail" project via the legend of KingArthur, and is Dread's way of poking fun at his boss. Further, "Wulgaru" is a shortened name of a monster found in Australian aboriginal mythology, and was given to him by his mother to reflect her desire to turn him into a monster.
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* MeaningfulName: "Dread", of course, but it's a double pun. "More Dread" = Mordred, which ties in with Jongleur's "Grail" project via the legend of KingArthur, and is Dread's way of poking fun at his boss. Further, "Wulgaru" is a shortened name of a monster found in Australian aboriginal mythology, and was given to him by his mother to reflect her desire to turn him into a monster.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted ''hard''.Subverted.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After he gains control of the Otherland system and destroys the various simulations he feels guilty about destroying Toy Land as he despises pedophiles.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After he gains control goes on his orgy of the Otherland system and destroys the various simulations destruction in Otherland, he feels guilty about destroying regrets taking such sadistic pleasure in demolishing Toy Land as Land, since he despises pedophiles.pedophiles and worries that he might be crossing that particular line.
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* EvilIsSexy / EvilIsCool: Seems to be many a reader's favorite character. Also in-universe as seen by Dulcie.
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* EvilIsSexy / EvilIsCool: Seems EvilIsSexy: Dulcie seems to be many a reader's favorite character. Also in-universe as seen by Dulcie.think so; see AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
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* MoodSwinger: Extremely so.
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* TricksterMentor: A mild example, he tantalizes hundreds, if not thousands, of people with hints and riddles and clues to lead them to the Otherland, and only a small fraction make it, with people dying in the process. This is justified in that he's an imprisoned cripple capable of accessing the outside world only after he turned his body into a living antenna and he's fighting an organization that owns, at a guess, roughly two-thirds of ''everything''. Everyone he tried to talk to legitimately was quietly murdered.
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* BodyHorror: His ancient body floats in a dark tank and would be unable to live without machines supporting it.
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* CatchPhrase: "Confident, cocky, lazy, dead." "Hello, sweetness"sweetness."
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* [[WalkingTheEarth Walking Otherland]]
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* EvilIsSexy/EvilIsCool: Seems to be many a reader's favorite character.
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* EvilIsSexy/EvilIsCool: EvilIsSexy / EvilIsCool: Seems to be many a reader's favorite character.
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Mysterious and dangerous sentient operating system of Otherworld.
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Mysterious and dangerous sentient operating system of Otherworld.Otherland.
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* EvilIsSexy/EvilIsCool: Seems to be many a reader's favorite character.
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* RealityWarper: Within Otherland, that is.
* StoryBreakerPower: Literally has this, as it partially shapes [[TheHerosJourney the heroes' journey]] through Otherland according to its will.
* StoryBreakerPower: Literally has this, as it partially shapes [[TheHerosJourney the heroes' journey]] through Otherland according to its will.
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* NightmareFetishist: Once he gains control of Otherland, he begins warping it and torturing its inhabitants because he can, and actively ponders just how far he could make it go.
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* GenderBender: Given her temperament, Martine chooses for Renie to take on the character of a male hero when the group enters the Trojan war. If she were a woman, she'd have considerably less mobility. Renie finds the sensation of having a penis very disturbing.
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