History Characters / TormentTidesOfNumenera

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He has decidedly few scruples, but he's a dashing con man and soldier of fortune who dislikes needless violence, and as he points out if you put Rhin in the party, even ''[[PetTheDog he]]'' [[PetTheDog wouldn't]] [[WouldNotHurtAChild drag a child]] into danger like that. He will also object if you [[spoiler:send her back to the slaver]] and goes so far as to [[spoiler:seduce the slaver as "payment" to buy Rhin's freedom. You even get an achievement ("[[IncrediblyLamePun Buckle Down]]") for it!]]

* TeamNormal: Out of the recruitable party members. Everyone other than Tybir has some strange talent or piece of the numenera that's unique to them, but Tybir is an ordinary human with no castoff enhancements, nanites, magic tattoos, otherworldly siblings, nor even a possessed pet rock. He holds his own regardless.

* BonusBoss: If you choose to confront them with the Fifth Eye, you do so on a [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind Psychic Battlefield]]. [[spoiler:Malaise splits into eight featureless, shadowy humanoid bodies, each of which grows progressively stronger as the others die. Depending on your party makeup and how much experience you have when you attempt this fight, it can be either extremely difficult, or fairly trivial. It is, nevertheless, one of only a few crises in the game which is entirely combat-based.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: A sntient being with no agency, it literally has no choice but to teach the Last Castoff the Tides. The Last Castoff can abuse it at every turn, up to and including lending it to [[spoiler:a pair of mad surgeons who vivisect it]], and the most it can do to defy you is refusing to let you pet it... until the very end of the game, when it [[spoiler:allows the Sorrow to kill it if you mistreated it enough]].

* GodGuise: If you pretend to be the Changing God to gain the allegiance of his cult. It's actually not that hard to do (and you even get an achievement for it) since they are pretty eager to believe it. It's possible to slip up and reveal the deception, but unleashing a Tidal Surge will "convince" them that you're the real thing. [[spoiler:It also shifts your Tidal domains to more closely match The Changing God's Blue and Silver, since abusing the Tides to force people to serve and worship you is ''totally'' something he would do.]]

* MindRape: Unleashing the Tides against people to force them to cooperate has this effect. This usually shifts your Tidal domains to Blue and/or Silver[[spoiler:, the same as the Changing God's. Assaulting someone's mind with the Tides to extract information and/or to force them to do your bidding suits The Changing God perfectly.]]

* {{Expy}}: For T3-M4 from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''. Both are knee-high CuteMachines who are remarkably personable despite being TheUnintelligible, with each having a major connection to a central, enigmatic figure from the setting's past[[labelnote:Note]]the Changing God for Oom, Revan for T3[[/labelnote]]. Even Oom's skittish demeanor echoes T3's nervous, eccentric personality.
* ExtremeDoormat: A sentient being with no agency, it literally has no choice but to teach the Last Castoff the Tides. The Last Castoff can abuse it at every turn, up to and including lending it to [[spoiler:a pair of mad surgeons who vivisect it]], and the most it can do to defy you is refusing to let you pet it... until the very end of the game, when it [[spoiler:allows the Sorrow to kill it if you mistreated it enough]].

* OppositeSexClone: [[spoiler: The Last Castoff meets their "prototype", who's one of these, in the Labyrinth in the endgame. Apparently the gender is usually the last thing the Changing God commits to a decision on before jumping into a new body.]]

* SuperiorSuccessor: There are a number of ways the Last Castoff can surpass the Changing God himself, accomplishing things he never had the ability to do (or, in some cases, the courage to attempt). [[spoiler: These include helping Callistege ascend to the Datasphere to become a virtual god, successfully binding the Bloom to your will to become the new Memovira, becoming the host and user of the Words of Q'ra, learning to use the merecasters to [[MentalTimeTravel actually change history]] and not just relive it, and, in the ending, finding a way to destroy the Sorrow outright rather than merely staving it off.]]

* FearlessFool: Being afraid would require Erritis to stop and ''think'', which -- for him -- is completely off the table. [[spoiler: He literally cannot reflect upon his actions since it dampens his power, as it betrays that he's not actually in control of his body.]]

'''Erritis:''' ... Of course it is. I'm the hero, here. I know, I know. You're a hero too. No one's disputing that you're almost as important as me.

* RealityWarper: By virtue of being able to "shape" gods -- [[spoiler: it's even how she wound up in the Ninth World, as she'd "cut" a hole in space-time while fleeing soldiers]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Treat it cruelly enough, and it will let the Sorrow kill it if you bring it into the Labyrinth. If you try to stop it this becomes the only time Oom directly defies you.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: A sentient being with no agency, it literally has no choice but to teach the Last Castoff the Tides. The Last Castoff can abuse it at every turn, up to and including lending it to [[spoiler:a pair of mad surgeons who vivisect it]], and the most it can do to defy you is refusing to let you pet it... until the very end of the game, when it [[spoiler: allows the Sorrow to kill it if you mistreated it enough]].

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Of a sort. If you are cruel enough to it, it will disobey you at the very end of the game, by [[spoiler: letting the Sorrow kill it]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: During the Sorrow's assault on Miel Avest, as mentioned above.]]

* LivingMacGuffin: Spends much of his time in both the backstory and the current story of the game as a DistressedDude who's been captured for his knowledge by one powerful figure or another. His tendency to get kidnapped is a big enough part of his personality his epithet "the Lost" comes from it. [[spoiler: Currently he's experiencing a FateWorseThanDeath in one of the Bloom's cysts, as the Bloom tries to figure out what secret he was keeping for the Memovira.]] The overall plot of the first half of the game involves looking for him as the only person other than the Changing God who knows how to repair the resonance chamber; after making it all the way to Miel Avest only to find out there's still no other castoffs there who know where he is, [[spoiler: you eventually stumble upon him by accident in the Bloom when you find out he and Ishen are one and the same.]]

* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler: Mazzof instantly spills the Memovira's secret identity as soon as you rescue him, and then chews himself out for it, blaming it on still being loopy from the Bloom's torture -- although as lampshaded later on, the jig was pretty much up as soon as you saw him and recognized who he was.]]

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Just as the Memovira and the First Castoff turn out to be one and the same, the Changing God and First Castoff's [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]] Mazzof turns out to be the same person as the Memovira's Smart Guy Ishen. "Ishen" turns out to just be a nickname he picked up when he moved to the Bloom, after his resemblance to some of the local wildlife. The tabletop RPG reveals that an "ishenizar" is a kind of enigmatic crystalline creature, and naming Mazzof after one was probably a way of ribbing him for being TheSpock.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: ... As a stationary tour guide? Probably no one, least of all a bloodthirsty champion of a ProudWarriorRace.

->''"You're a ... castoff. A spark of life leftover when your body was otherwise abandoned."''

* SuperPersistentPredator: Once the Bloom decides it wants to eat you it won't give up until it does, even if it takes it decades or centuries to get past your defenses -- unlike a simple animal predator, ItCanThink and it holds grudges. It helps that, while the massive body of the Bloom itself can only move at the rate of about an inch a year, it can open Maws in arbitrary locations across all of time and space following laws only it understands. [[spoiler: One of the endings describes Matkina becoming the Memovira, then trying to avoid the fate of all Memoviras by fleeing across the desert to M'ra Jolios for ten years before the Bloom catches up with her.]]

* AGodIAmNot: ... but you can also deny it, or just freely admit you're not.

* CloningBlues: All the castoffs have this to some degree or another. How much you let it affect the Last Castoff is up to you as a player.

* CloningBlues: He expressly doesn't think of the castoffs as people, so he feels no sympathy for them at all. [[spoiler:Played with when it's revealed that the original Changing God is dead, and the Specter is actually just a neural clone recorded before he died. While the Specter is quite convinced that he's the real Changing God, or at least the closest thing to continuity possible, you can convince him that he's just a copy too -- at which point the Specter [[GracefulLoser admits defeat]], and promptly [[FaceDeathWithDignity gives up the ghost]].]]

* WalkingSpoiler: She's been dead for years, but that's her mask on the cover. The game involves [[BodySurf Body-Surfing]], TimeTravel, and [[CloningBlues clone bodies]]. You know this is going to get complicated. [[spoiler:That she has simply been FakingTheDead all this time and has been masquerading as the Memovira for years comes as something of an in-game MindScrew for Matkina.]]

* AGodAmI: The player character has the option of convincing the cultists that s/he is, in fact, the Changing God...
* AGodIAmNot: ... but you can also deny it, or just freely admit you're not.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Our little Rhin is all grown up, and also a time traveler now.

* SpiritualHeroRebirth: A belly of the whale is the place of the Last Castoff's symbolic and literal rebirth following [[spoiler:the Sorrow's cataclysmic assault on Miel Avest and the revelation that the Changing God is alive in the form of the Specter and determined to reclaim your body for himself. The Bloom's own consciousness serves neatly as TheShapeshifter for this portion of the Castoff's [[TheHerosJourney Hero's Journey]].]]

* BellyOfTheWhale: Both literally and as the place of the Last Castoff's symbolic and literal rebirth following [[spoiler:the Sorrow's cataclysmic assault on Miel Avest and the revelation that the Changing God is alive in the form of the Specter and determined to reclaim your body for himself. The Bloom's own consciousness serves neatly as TheShapeshifter for this portion of the Castoff's [[TheHerosJourney Hero's Journey]].]]

* BadassBaritone: A deep, gravelly voice, and a mace-swinging MagicKnight.

* ContraltoOfDanger: She has a quite a low voice, and most of the people who know her seem to be a little afraid of her.

* BadassBoast: To kindred spirit (and fellow windmill-tilter) Quijana del Toboso:

* BadassCreed: Erritis's blessing, bestowed upon Quijana del Toboso.

* TheFixer: Very effective at procuring items and favors. As long he limits his activities to this, the Memovira seems content to let him hang around.

* RevengeByProxy: He would dearly love to have a little chat with your friend Tybir. [[spoiler:Tybir has been ducking the Dracogen for years, after unspecified favors Dracogen did for him. If he hadn't, however, he would have known -- Tybir's beloved Auvigne came looking for him in the Bloom after Tybir vanished without a word. Dracogen didn't hurt him, but rather, took him for all he was worth, while searching for their mutual friend Tybir. Auvigne eventually died, in poverty and obscurity, having never found Tybir again. The Dracogen's revenge, then, is letting Tybir find all this out for himself, knowing how that he will suffer for it in a way no beating or torture could match, exacting a revenge Auvigne never asked for and would have never wanted.]] BestServedCold, indeed.