History Characters / TheOuterWorldsGorgon

* VerbalTic: She answers at least three questions in succession with Yes and No. Even if you ask her if she can answer a question without beginning with "yes and no."
** She justifies it in that keeping vague answers keeps you out of trouble.

* TalkativeLoon

* TooBrokenToBreak: Thanks to the horrors she oversaw at HIA, nothing surprises her, and while she doesn't want to die, she won't flinch from threats or judgments about her character, or a heavily armed UV and their crew cutting their way through her mercenaries and automechs.

A large asteroid that was once home to Spacer's Choice's Project Gorgon. Spacer's Choice cancelled the project and abandoned the asteroid for reasons unknown and now Gorgon is mostly inhabited by salvagers working for [=SubLight=].

* {{Antivillain}}: [[spoiler:She wants to restart Project Gorgon with Spacer's Choice, but she wants to do it "safely" and "more humanely" than it was conducted the first time around. She does it mostly as a misguided attempt to improve the life quality of the working class through her wonder-drug, and she can be convinced to put her efforts behind something genuinely helpful instead: a care for the marauders.]]

* {{AntiClimax}}: He's talked up by Gorgon's sane population, but a stealthy Unplanned Variable can sneak around his goons and kill him while he's busy scavenging around his base camp.

* IronicNickname: The DLC '''opens''' with his severed arm being mailed to the player. "Lucky" is not a very accurate descriptor that comes to mind in that kind of situation.

* GreenEyes: Signifying his Adrena-Time addiction.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unknown whether his paranoia concerning the Moon Man is entirely from the drugs he's been taking, or if he's had a run in with some of the marauders on Gorgon who wear vandalized versions of the Moon Man masks.

* CallBack: Their silhouette resembles Thomas Reed's, a leader of a Spacer's Choice outpost, which also hints that the Ghost was likewise in a position of authority in Project Gorgon.

* RedHerring: The [[https://preview.redd.it/71citnujwom51.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15c404fd8ae80726e4579d807878a3346e35ffbf promotional poster]] depicts a woman's eyes [[EvilOnlooker leering villainously over the asteroid.]] [[spoiler:They're not Minnie's.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Nastily subverted. He cared so about his lost staff on Gorgon that he's been working overtime to create a drug that will allow him to care about them ''less'', which [[GoneHorriblyRight ends up working so well]] that he's still working on it when Auntie Cleo's invokes pink slip protocol and kills off his ''new'' staff.

* AntiClimax: The most immediate mysteries presented by ''Peril on Gorgon'' concern Lucky's fate and just how his hand and phonograph got mailed to the Unreliable. The player can solve these questions almost immediately when they arrive on the asteroid. The package containing his severed arm? [[spoiler:The bartender of the Sprat Shack was the one who sent it when she just happened to find a stray canid ambling outside her bar with the limb in its mouth.]] What ultimately became of him? [[spoiler:He was, as many suspected, killed by a wild animal, and his half-eaten corpse can be found near Charlie from Accounting's Marauder stronghold.]] There are also no story or side missions that encourage the player to investigate his whereabouts, no one on Gorgon is really interested in his survival (including Minnie, his employer), and besides his phonograph and [[spoiler:Mostly's eye]], Lucky contributes very little to the DLC's plot.

* AnimalTesting: The CHEM Lab was testing on primals. Low explains that this should never have been part of his job, but under a severe time crunch, he was forced to resort to more primitive methods in order to produce what corporate wanted in a fraction of the time, hence brute-force testing in the hopes of producing immediate results in the hopes of buying further time.

* AFatherToHisMen: Nastily subverted. He's haunted by the loss of his staff, first the ones who were rounded up and fired, then the ones who died when the primals got loose and the Marauders descended on the Project. This does not prevent a similar disaster on his next posting, where he became so obsessed with creating Sky-High to numb the pain of his previous losses that he ignored Auntie Cleo's ultimatums until it was too late, and they invoked [[DeadlyEuphemism pink slip protocol]], siccing the station's automechs on the staff, and leaving just Low and one very lucky receptionist as the {{Sole Survivor}}s.

* TooBrokenToBreak: Thanks to the horrors she oversaw at HIA, nothing surprises her, and while she doesn't want to die, she won't flinch from threats or judgments, or a heavily armed UV and their crew cutting their way through her mercenaries and automechs.

* {{Jerkass}}: He's a typical Byzantium snob who's convinced the guilt he has over Project Gorgon is an unacceptable weakness.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Used as characterization. While hardly heroic or even likable, he is perhaps the most sympathetic Project Gorgon executive you track down. He might be a snooty, arrogant prig, but he loves his pet canid Anubis, and believes in the humane treatment of tamed canids in general, which puts him a step above most of his fellow Byzantines.

->''"If I'm going to go through this ordeal, I'm not doing it sober."''

* SequipedalianLoquaciousness: Prone to spouting off [[MotorMouth motor-mouthed]] flights of PurpleProse at the drop of a hat -- his password for the CHEM lab is a lengthy, carefully elocuted Spacer's Choice slogan, half vocal warmup and half poetic ode.

* IdiotHero: He means well, but was in way over his head, WrongGenreSavvy and TheFool.

->''"Gorgon is mine."''

[[header:Gorgon]]

!!Ambrose Family

* ShipTease: Calls you "gorgeous" and remarks that she'd rather hire someone charming and pretty. [[spoiler: She's manipulating you to get your sympathy.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Well, girl. She has massive mommy issues - her mother was a disapproving perfectionist who kept her out of the Gorgon business at all costs. Minnie largely used her time in Byzantium to study and gather enough clout to help out with Project Gorgon, but Olivia rejected her help. [[spoiler: This actually gave her a lot of guilt - while Minnie is quite arrogant, she admits her belief that if her mom accepted her help, the inhuman disaster of Gorgon could have been averted. Making her realize that the project failed long before she tried to get involved is instrumental in getting the DLC's GoldenEnding.]]

[[folder:Olivia Ambrose]]

[[folder:Jasper Low]]

[[folder:Marion Blakeslee]]