History Characters / PsychonautsMainCharacters

* SmartPeopleShoot: While all Psychonauts are intelligent people, he's the one that's designed to explicitly show his intelligence. He's a stoic German spy and scientist, who crafted the Brain Tumbler that allows Raz to travel between the Mental Worlds. His specialty is the Psi Blast, and his own mental world is the Shooting Gallery.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Seeing as he is red-headed himself, it goes both ways with Lili. However it's inverted, in as much as Lili desires ''him'' first.

* BrokenAce: In his prime, he was the one who brought together the Psychic Six, six ([[spoiler:really seven]]) individuals that founded the psychic techniques and technology that would go on to create the Psychonauts. After [[spoiler:subjecting himself to the Astrolathe in order to protect the truth of Maligula's fate]], he was left with a SplitPersonality, [[PhlebotinumDependence keeping himself (relatively) sane with the large reservoir of psitanium under Whispering Rocks]], the rest of the Psychonauts dismissing him as a ScatterbrainedSenior babysitting PsychicChildren at summer camp.

* ConnectedAllAlong: ''Psychonauts 2'' reveals that [[spoiler:Ford actually loved Lucrecia Mux, who turns out to be Raz's great Aunt, known to him as Nona, and the evil mass-murdering psychic known as [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Maligula]] to the rest of the world. Aware that Lucrecia's madness and actions were not entirely her fault, and unwilling to kill her, Ford ultimately subdued her on his own, taking her along with Helmut Fulbear's recovered brain to the Astrolathe where he used the device to seal Maligula inside Nona's mind, restoring her to an amnesiac self and letting her assume the role of her deceased sister Marona, manipulating both her and a young Augustus Aquato's minds to trick them both into believe she was his mother, and implanting them with a deep fear of water lest Maligula accidentally resurface within Lucrecia's personality. This in turn eventually became the family 'curse' and lead to Augustus attempting to toughen up his children to protect them from their 'enemies', in effect making ''Ford'' the psychic who cursed the family. Notably, Ford himself doesn't seem to be fully aware of the extent of his and Raz's connection on a conscious level until Raz manages to restore enough of his shattered mindscape, but is implied to recognise it on a subconscious level, hence why he sought Razputin out to mentor at Whispering Rock.]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: He's in the middle of answering one of Raz's questions, what would happen if Raz were to shut down ''all'' of his Censor outlets, when the mental structure behind him begins to rattle violently. It slowly dawns on him that Raz's question is not hipothetical.

* GermanicDepressives: Invoked by him due to his emphasis on mental discipline and self-control. He's almost always poker-faced and unexpressive, down to him not even laughing if Raz uses the Crow Feather item.