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* GutturalGrowler
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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: No one really has anything bad to say about Papa.




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* UniversallyBelovedLeader: No one really has anything bad to say about Papa.

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* HandicappedBadass

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* JadedProfessional

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* ShesGotLegs: As Nino mentions
* SlaveToPR

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* ShesGotLegs: As Nino mentions
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* UncannyValley: He is described as moving in a stiff and jerky motion like clockwork.
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* BourgeoisBumpkin: He sees himself as an honest, working class hero and an inspiration to his workers. In reality, he’s just another out-of-touch rich asshole that’s been handed everything he owns.
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* FamousLastWords
** “Take that horrible, deceptive parasite of a woman and throw her from the tower” - [[spoiler: Ryyselda Octalius]]
** “It’s all resting on your shoulders now…can you bear that weight?” - [[spoiler: Harrow Bell]]

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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: He is disintegrated along with Veruca when Markuth loses control of the laser and hits their ship]]

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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: He She is disintegrated along with Veruca Humboldt when Markuth loses control of the laser and hits their ship]]


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* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: He is fatally stabbed by Olga during the climax]]


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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: In her last moments, we see that deep down, she’s still just a meek little kid]]


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* KidHero: A dark subversion. [[spoiler: The responsibility of saving the world placed her when she was a little girl was what drove her to madness and eventually villainy]]


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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: He has a major breakdown trying to comprehend why the players don’t operate by his logic, that his mind breaks, and he is rendered brain dead.]]


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* FatalFlaw: His jingoism. He is so convinced that his culture is the only one that matters that he refuses to even understand how the people of the Argus operate, which leads to him failing again and again.


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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: When Olga kills the High Controller, the Atlantean’s artificial minds deactivate, and their machinery fails. This means that they all become sentient as their previous selves again, fully aware of what has been done to them. They all die screaming in agony and horror]]


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* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: The last confrontation of the campaign is a verbal battle with Ivie against him, as she negotiated with him to save Grimia and Spiral]]

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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: He ends up falling to his death inside the mech]]



* LethallyStupid: [[spoiler: On a worldwide scale]]

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* LethallyStupid: [[spoiler: On a worldwide scale]]scale. His foolish choice to destroy the wheel kills millions of people in multiple timelines]]



* RapidAging: He randomly gets attacks of this as a result of a genetic condition related to his half-elf lineage. [[spoiler: It eventually ends up causing his death]]



* TheSociopath

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* TheSociopath
TheSociopath: His general disconnect from reality results in him feeling little empathy
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: He is disintegrated along with Veruca when Markuth loses control of the laser and hits their ship]]



* AffablyEvil
* AntiVillain



* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: He blames Grimia for Medium Jimmy’s death]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After he is defeated, he jumps into the Abyssal Combine]]
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: He blames Grimia the players for Medium Jimmy’s death]]his brother’s deaths]]



* PunchClockVillain: He’s only killing people to earn some extra Serotonin for his family
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: In the end, he is revealed to be Julian Kalander from Goldspire]]



* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: How Petra kills her]]



* DepravedDwarf



* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: He is shot dead by Grimia seconds after murdering Starr]]



* HateSink

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* HateSinkHateSink: She’s an annoying, passive aggressive bully that gets by on ripping off other, more talented people’s acts




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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: He is disintegrated along with Veruca when Markuth loses control of the laser and hits their ship]]




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* SparkOfRebellion: Starr abandoning Belladonna’s lifestyle is what finally provokes the people of the Argus to turn on Belladonna [[spoiler:…and then he immediately dies]]



* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Grimia knocks her off the edge of the God Captain’s control center, and she is disintegrated on the way down when Markuth’s machine explodes]]



* HateSink

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* HateSinkHateSink: Olga spends all of her screentime being as horrible, insulting, and unlikable as possible


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* MotiveDecay: Her motives are very unclear, and seem to change every time she talks about them. By the end, it just seems like she doesn’t really have any, she just wants to spite everyone else
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: When he is confronted, he fully admits to Belladonna’s corruption as well as the countless rapes and murders he’s committed in front of a live audience
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: When the riot caused by Starr’s death breaks out, there’s no one left to protect him from Ivie and Grimia]]
* EntitledBastard: He believes Belladonna is entitled to do whatever they want to their entertainers since they still make them stars



* CollapsedMidSpeech: [[spoiler: Inverted. He bleeds out while Grimia is monologging to him, and doesn’t notice he’s dead until later]]



[[folder: Captain Seward Rhombus]]
The captain of the Company Police

* CondescendingCompassion: He claims to be sympathetic to the poor, but based on the way he talks about them, he doesn’t even see them as people
* DepravedDwarf
* DirtyCop
* FauxAffablyEvil
* LawEnforcementInc: His entire brigade serves Belladonna first, not the people

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[[folder: Veruca]]
Grimia’s rival performer

* AlphaBitch
* HateSink
* ObfuscatingDisability: She fakes numerous different conditions for attention, swapping them out periodically
* SugaryMalice

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[[folder: The Chiropractor]]
A serial killer that somehow became a celestial

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: No one is particularly sad to see him go when he is incinerated by the gateway fires]]
* DastardlyDashingDerby
* ForTheEvulz: He doesn’t have any kind of overarching goal, he just wants to break women’s backs.
* Jerkass
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never learn his name before [[spoiler: his abrupt death]]
* SerialKiller
* SmugSnake

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[[folder: The Chiropractor]]
A serial killer that somehow became a celestial

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: No one is particularly sad to see him go when he is incinerated by the gateway fires]]
* ForTheEvulz: He doesn’t have any kind of overarching goal, he just wants to break women’s backs.
* Jerkass
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never learn his name before [[spoiler: his abrupt death]]
* SerialKiller
* SmugSnake

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* HollywoodNerd


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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: After his ascension]]


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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: He gets his eyes stabbed out, is set on fire by Ivie, and run over by a tank]]

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* TerrifiedOfGerms



* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler: He becomes a living creature as a side effect of being a celestial]]



* FirstGirlWins: He is the first of Grimia’s potential love interests introduced, and the one she ends up with



* RightWingMilitiaFanatic




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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Becomes this when he takes over the lower floors
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* TheDragon: To [[spoiler: Olga]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Almost everything



* HateSink: The Argus is full of absolutely loathsome people
** [[CorruptBureaucrat Spiver Thoraz]], the corrupt, hypocritical lord of the Lowbloods. He is a cowardly, power-drunk bully that obsessively pursues meaningless grudges and overall makes life harder for everyone around him
** [[SpoiledBrat Skifalion Parann]], a bad-tempered Kingtaker enforcer. He is a nihilist and a bigot that whines and complains endlessly despite being handed everything he ever wanted. [[spoiler: He also sells out the Kingtakers to ensure his own safety, which leads to the complete downfall of the organization.]]
** [[SmugSnake Solano Bernardina]], the arrogant, cold-hearted “customer relations manager” of Belladonna, an arrogant, egotistical psychopath that takes immense glee in finding creative ways to ruin the lives of Belladonna’s enemies
** [[BadSamaritan Olga Chitterly]] is an abusive con artist that the party are forced to take along with them due to her knowledge. She constantly harasses bullies them, and threatens them whenever they dare to stand up to her.
** [[TheGodsMustBeLazy Vethos, God of the Sun]]. In all of his appearances, he is a condescending asshole to the lower gods, and an irresponsible ruler that puts humanity in danger so he doesn’t have to put in the effort of dealing with them.

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* HateSink: The Argus is full of absolutely loathsome people
** [[CorruptBureaucrat Spiver Thoraz]], the corrupt, hypocritical lord of the Lowbloods. He is a cowardly, power-drunk bully that obsessively pursues meaningless grudges and overall makes life harder for everyone around him
** [[SpoiledBrat Skifalion Parann]], a bad-tempered Kingtaker enforcer. He is a nihilist and a bigot that whines and complains endlessly despite being handed everything he ever wanted. [[spoiler: He also sells out the Kingtakers to ensure his own safety, which leads to the complete downfall of the organization.]]
** [[SmugSnake Solano Bernardina]], the arrogant, cold-hearted “customer relations manager” of Belladonna, an arrogant, egotistical psychopath that takes immense glee in finding creative ways to ruin the lives of Belladonna’s enemies
** [[BadSamaritan Olga Chitterly]] is an abusive con artist that the party are forced to take along with them due to her knowledge. She constantly harasses bullies them, and threatens them whenever they dare to stand up to her.
** [[TheGodsMustBeLazy
Spiver, Skif, Vethos, God of the Sun]]. In all of his appearances, he is a condescending asshole to the lower gods, Solano, and an irresponsible ruler that puts humanity in danger so he doesn’t have to put in the effort of dealing with them. especially Olga



* KillSat: [[spoiler: How Belladonna uses the Argus to keep the surface people in line]]



* DirtyCoward: Part of the reason [[spoiler: he betrays the Kingtakers is because he thinks they’re just going to fail anyways and he wants to make sure he saves his own hide]]

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* DirtyCoward: Part of the reason [[spoiler: he betrays the Kingtakers is because he thinks they’re just going to fail anyways and he wants to make sure he saves his own hide]]DirtyCoward



* HateSink

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* HateSinkHateSink: He’s an all-around shitty person that spends all his screentime being an asshole



* CorruptBureaucrat: He shown to accept bribes, and is part of the Octalius family’s schemes

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* CorruptBureaucrat: He shown to accept bribes, and is part of the Octalius family’s schemesCorruptBureaucrat



* HateSink

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* HateSinkHateSink: He’s a pompous asshole that abuses and manipulates everyone around him. This, combined with his hypocrisy, sexism, and refusal to ever admit his wrongdoings makes him one of the most unlikable characters in the story



* NobleSavage: He’s a parody of these types of characters



* AbusiveParents: They are neglectful and cruel towards their daughter

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* AbusiveParents: They are neglectful and cruel towards their daughterAbusiveParents
* FreudianExcuse: Arjan’s parents treated him worse than he treats his daughter, but it’s still hard to pity him
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: How Arjan dies]]



* FatBastard
* TheGodsMustBeLazy



* HateSink

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* HateSink
HateSink: In all of his appearances, Vethos is a condescending asshole to the lower gods, and an irresponsible ruler that puts humanity in danger so he doesn’t have to put in the effort of dealing with them.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: All of her actions are motivated by her extreme selfishness. As it turns out, she doesn’t even really want to become God Captain, she just thinks she deserves it.



* NotSoHarmlessVillain: At first she seemed like just a thorn in the party’s side. In reality, she is a dangerous psychopath that drove her sister to madness, actively assisted in the end of the world in several timelines, and has no qualms about killing innocent people randomly.

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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: At first she seemed like just a thorn in the party’s side. In reality, she is a dangerous psychopath that drove her sister to madness, actively assisted in the end of the world in several timelines, and has no qualms about killing innocent people randomly.wants to take the Wheel from herself



[[folder: Abney Cargan]]

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[[folder: Abney Cargan]]Uncle Abney]]
!!!Abney Cargan



* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He was in love with the God Captain, but he didn’t return the feelings



* ObstructiveBureaucrat



* HollywoodNerd




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!!!Rosa Chitterly
The tyrannical ruler of Atlantis



* HiddenVillain: Their identity remains unknown

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* HiddenVillain: Their identity remains unknownFallenHero: She just wanted to save the world, but failing so many times drove her to madness



* WellIntentionedExtremist

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* WellIntentionedExtremist
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* TragicVillain: She was a sweet girl who could have done great things if it weren’t for her sister
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She thinks that the world will die no matter what, so rather than trying to save it, she wants to make a society that will persevere after the end by [[UnwillingRoboticisation any means necessary]]



* HeroOfAnotherStory
* TheHighQueen
* MsFanservice



* BigBrotherInstinct: His experience with his sister makes him very protective of younger girls, as shown when he sees Yolora’s kidnapping
* BackFromTheDead



* EarthlyBarefootCharacter



* NiceGirl



* DontFearTheReaper

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* DontFearTheReaper
DontFearTheReaper: Despite being the setting’s [[GrimReaper Grim Reaper]], he is a benevolent figure that seeks the best for humanity
* TheGrimReaper
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* PossessingADeadBody: He speaks to mortals by possessing random corpses, usually animals

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* BigBadEnsemble: The Chairman, the High Controller, and [[spoiler: Olga Chitterly]]

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* BigBadEnsemble: BigBad Ensemble: The Chairman, the High Controller, and [[spoiler: Armitage Jan-Markuth, and Olga Chitterly]]Chitterly]]
* TheBigBadShuffle: Pinpointing the actual villain of the story is kind of complicated. The High Controller or the Chairman are the biggest and most persistent threats depending on the arc, but ultimately both of their actions are the result of [[spoiler: Olga’s treachery]]

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** “Can I quote you on that?” - Nino



** [[TheGodsMustBeLazy Vethos, God of the Sun]]. In all of his appearances, he is he is a condescending asshole to the lower gods, and an irresponsible ruler that puts humanity in danger so he doesn’t have to put in the effort of dealing with them.

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** [[TheGodsMustBeLazy Vethos, God of the Sun]]. In all of his appearances, he is he is a condescending asshole to the lower gods, and an irresponsible ruler that puts humanity in danger so he doesn’t have to put in the effort of dealing with them.



* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Things seem to s finally be going when when Mies becomes the new God Captain, and they begin their journey to the surface…Then the ship breaks and becomes stuck at the very center of the universe…and Belladonna invades the material plane]]

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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Things seem to s finally be going when when Mies becomes the new God Captain, and they begin their journey to the surface…Then the ship breaks and becomes stuck at the very center of the universe…and Belladonna invades the material plane]]
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** [[spoiler: Mies’s first announcement as God Captain. They are overwhelmed with joy and excitement the whole time, with Grimia and Ivie helping them out.]]


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** Ivie turning Hax’s twisted logic against him during her epic [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]]
** Grimia gunning down [[spoiler: Skif]], saving Nino’s life


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** Abney breaking down when Papa is unable to recognize him
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** [[TheGodsMustBeLazy Vethos, God of the Sun]]. In all of his appearances, he is he is a condescending asshole to the lower gods, and an irresponsible ruler that puts humanity in danger so he doesn’t have to put in the effort of dealing with them.



[[Damien]]

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[[Damien]][[folder: Damien]]




!!Others

[[folder: The Stranger]]
A mysterious figure that set Ivie on her journey

* BigGood
* {{Determinator}}: They are able to endure their grievous wounds long enough to deliver their message to Ivie
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler: They were Ivie all along]]
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin
* WeHardlyKnewYe: They die shortly after they first appear

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\n!!Others\n\n[[folder: The Stranger]]
A mysterious figure that set Ivie on her journey

Calida]]
Goddess of the campfire

* BigGood
TheDrifter
* {{Determinator}}: They are able to endure their grievous wounds long enough to deliver their message to Ivie
GodIsGood: She is one of the kindest and sympathetic of the gods.
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler: They were Ivie all along]]
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin
* WeHardlyKnewYe: They die shortly after they first appear
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[[folder: Sydar]]
Death himself

* CreepyGood
* DontFearTheReaper

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[[folder: Vethos]]
God of the sun

* GrandpaGod
* HateSink

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!!Others

[[folder: The Stranger]]
A mysterious figure that set Ivie on her journey

* BigGood
* {{Determinator}}: They are able to endure their grievous wounds long enough to deliver their message to Ivie
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler: They were Ivie all along]]
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin
* WeHardlyKnewYe: They die shortly after they first appear

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!!Outsiders

[[folder: Lumturi]]
The Queen of Athar

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[[Damien]]
An old friend of the Queen

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