Line #45 Characters/EvilWest


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2	[[foldercontrol]]
3	!The Rentier Institute
4	[[folder:Jesse Rentier]]
5	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jesse_0.png]]
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7	->'''Voiced by:''' Derek Hagen
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9	The son of William Rentier, and one of the Rentier Institute's best agents and vampire hunters. Among the members of the institute, he's something of the baby of the bunch, older only than Vergil.
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11	* BadassNormal: Like all hunters, Jesse goes up against supernaturally powerful mutants, werewolves, and vampires armed only with guns and his gauntlet.
12	* BadassLongcoat: Sports a pretty cool armored-up duster.
13	* PermaStubble: Features a perpetual, manly stubble.
14	* PowerFist: His gauntlet, which has a variety of cutting-edge abilities enabled by electricity. Sadly, it is damaged early on in the game, robbing it of its more impressive capabilities.
15	* LikeFatherLikeSon: His father is both the founder of the eponymous institute and one of its top agents, and Jesse is well on his way to following his path.
16	* YouAreInCommandNow: With the vampire attack on the Institute's headquarters and his father's incapacitation, Jesse becomes the new leader of the Institute's remnants. He becomes formal director of the Institute at the end of the game with President Cleveland's blessing.
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18	[[/folder]]
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20	[[folder:William Rentier]]
21	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_2.png]]
22
23	->'''Voiced by:''' Brian Protheroe
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25	A civil war veteran, head of the Rentier Institute, and Jesse's father. He's an experienced hunter who was badly wounded in a fight against a vampire highborn, crippling his leg and largely putting him out of action.
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27	* BadassNormal: Like all hunters. Even with an injured leg, he's able to put up a good fight when vampires attack the institute.
28	* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler: Once he becomes a full vampire under Felicity's influence, he's positively giddy with his newfound power and hams it up in both the notes that are scattered around the train depot and during his boss fight.]]
29	* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler: Despite Jesse, Emilia, and Vergil's best efforts, he eventually fully transforms into a vampire, killing Vergil and several Rentier agents in the process. Jesse has to track him and put him down for good.]]
30	* ZombieInfectee: [[spoiler: He's infected by Felicity during her attack, and a good portion of the storyline revolves around trying to find a way to reverse his infection.]]
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32	[[/folder]]
33
34	[[folder:Edgar Gravenor]]
35	* FireForgedFriends: With William Rentier, after William saved Edgar's life from a vampire attack during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar.
36	[[/folder]]
37
38	[[folder:Emilia Blackwell]]
39	One of the only women to work for the Rentier Institute, and a fully-licensed doctor with a Ph.D in botany. Naturally, the old boys exiled her due to sexism. But when all those old boys are ''killed'' in the ambush, she becomes the leader of the survivors, directing Jesse where to go.
40	* ReassignedToAntarctica: She was given a promotion to the head of a cell... in bumfuck nowhere, Calico. This ends up fortuitous for her, as she ends up the only surviving senior member of the Rentier Institute and thus its director.
41	[[/folder]]
42
43	[[folder:Vergil Olney]]
44	[[/folder]]
45
46	!Sanguisuge
47	[[folder:Felicity D'Abano]]
48	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/felicity_6.jpg]]
49
50	->'''Voiced by:''' Emma Ballantine
51
52	A former street-urchin whose experiences in the gutter have given her a dim view of humanity and an inflated view of vampire-kind (or sanguisuge, in their parlance), she is the adoptive daughter of Peter D'Abano. Now at least several decades/centuries old, she is megalomaniacal and focused on following her father's footsteps regarding vampire enhancement to maintain their dominance over humans as technology evolves.
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54	* ApeShallNeverKillApe: In one of her notes, she writes that vampires would never leave their own kind to die in the gutter, apparently heedless of the fact she sends literally hundreds of her kind to die fighting the Rentier Institute.
55	* DaddysLittleVillain: Ever since Peter D'Abano saved her from dying on the streets of Kingston, she has eagerly pursued his dreams of vampire enhancement.
56	* DarkIsEvil: Although she is depicted in a portrait with her father as wearing more normal, lighter-colored clothing, when she is encountered in the game she wears an ornate black and dark brown outfit.
57	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely cares for her adoptive father.
58	* EvilCounterpart: In a way, to Jesse. They both follow in their fathers' footsteps, and both [[spoiler: ultimately lose their fathers to the other.]]
59	* FangsAreEvil: Even when she appears relatively normal, she sports a set of fangs.
60	* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a lowly street urchin to a maniacal vampire matriarch.
61	* GameFace: During the final battle, she transforms into her true form - a massive mutant vampire with an elongated neck, bloated pustules, and muscles for days.
62	* OlderThanTheyLook: Although she looks no older than 11 or 12, like all vampires, she hasn't aged since the day she was turned.
63	* PsychopathicWomanchild: She continues to act childish and spiteful even though she's over 90.
64	* RagsToRiches: From dying street urchin to wealthy vampire nobility.
65	* RedRightHand: She sports heterochromatic eyes in both her human form and her true form.
66	* RoaringRampageOfRescue: [[spoiler: After her father is captured, she goes on one against the Rentier Institute, storming the facility with a small army of vampires in order to reclaim her father's head, wounding William Rentier in the process.]]
67	[[/folder]]
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69	[[folder:Peter D'Abano]]
70	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peter_4.png]]
71	->'''Voiced by:''' John Chancer
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73	A highborn vampire noble who sits on the ruling council, he adopted Felicity as his daughter. Despite the reservations of the other vampire council members, D'Abano has been experimenting with creating new vampire mutations, a project that his daughter is eager to assist with.
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75	* BatPeople: Once he dispenses with his {{Glamour}}, his true form is a six-limbed humanoid bat monster.
76	* MadScientist: Has been experimenting with combining blood to create new varieties of vampire. One note even features a drawing of him in a lab coat mixing beakers.
77	* LosingYourHead: He is defeated and decapitated fairly early in the story, with his still-living head stuck in a jar and placed in the Rentier Institute [[spoiler:until Felicity rescues him.]]
78	* VampiresAreRich: D'Abano has accumulated tremendous wealth through the centuries by buying up property and mines, and re-deeding it to himself every 30 years.
79	* VisionaryVillain: Not just for himself and vampires, but for humanity. He recognizes that mankind's scientific progress is starting to outstrip the vampires' magical powers and will lead to the vampires eventual extinction.
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81	[[/folder]]
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83	[[folder:Chester Morgan]]
84	A vampire informant for the Rentier Institute, and a bit of a self-important social climber who hopes to rise in the
85	sanguisuge hierarchy.
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87	* ArmsDealer: Eventually parts ways with Felicity to make his own way after she goes completely mad, becoming a gun-runner.
88	* ButtMonkey: He's amusingly tormented by Jesse and Gravenor in all of his appearances. [[spoiler:Even after defecting]].
89	* ImpaledPalm: Gravenor pins his hand to the table with his bowie knife at one point, prompting poor Chet to whine "[[spoiler: Aah! What the hell! I was going to tell you everything! I even got you guys some wine! What is wrong with you!?]]"
90	* PluckyComicRelief: Despite technically being a villain, he's a funny guy.
91	[[/folder]]
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93	[[folder:Dominic Calvert]]
94	The leader of the vampire high council. He disapproves of D'Abano's methods, considering them a blasphemous break with vampire tradition.
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96	* GreaterScopeVillain: As the apparent leader of the vampires, he serves as this to the game's setting.
97	* LetsYouAndHimFight: After sentencing D'Abano to death, he simply leaves after seeing the angry vampire hunter barge in to claim the head for him.
98	* TheUnfought: He only appears briefly early on, effectively excommunicating D'Abano from the high council during their meeting.
99	[[/folder]]
100
101	[[folder:Lesser Vampires]]
102	Mutants created by genetic incompatability between their DNA and vampiric blood.
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104	!!In General
105	* BigCreepyCrawlies: A fair few of them are suckled by absolutely enormous leeches or ticks.
106	* {{Gonk}}: They start as emaciated, zombie-like wretches infested with ticks and leeches, and implanted with primitive cybernetics, and get ever-more hideous from there.
107	* NoZombieCannibals: Averted. Some of them are purpose-bred entirely to provide especially nutritious blood.
108	* TheSymbiote: A few have leeches as CombatTentacles, one variant uses ticks as grenades, and one kind has enormous Spitting Spiders that they can command to gob webbing at people the Sanguisuge [[IWantThemAlive want captured instead of killed.]]
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110	!!Infected Vessel
111	!!Infected Waster
112	!!Infected Proteus
113	!!Ghaul
114	!!Jenu Giant
115	!!Carrion Husk
116	!!Nagal
117	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They were cursed by magic to shift between human and beast, and begged the vampires to make it stop. The vampires proceeded to screw them over by making it stop on the beast form.
118	!!Leecher
119	!!Boo Hag
120	* BodyHorror: ''They don't grow skin''. They tend to rip the skin off others and wear it.
121	!!Gowrow
122	!!The Gaster
123	!!Hive Crone
124	!!Screeching Devil
125	!!Bruch
126	!!Stalker
127	!!Vampire Highborn
128	!!The Parasiter
129	A titanic leech feeding off the remains of a dead god.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Familiars]]
133	!Servant Sharpshooter
134	!Servant Gunslinger
135	!Servant Brute
136	[[/folder]]
137
138	!United States Government
139	[[folder:James Harrow]]
140	* CorruptPolitician: He's a former senator, has been using the Rentier Institute as his personal army, and was [[spoiler:planning to embezzle oil fields that legally belonged to the government]].
141	* HateSink: He's an utter cockwomble to be sure. He's racist, sexist, and corrupt, and grows increasingly insufferable to match his brown-nosing into political power. You'll probably cheer when [[spoiler:Emilia punches him off his feet and gives incriminating evidence of his mass-embezzlement to the ''president''.]]
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Jonathon Q. Biddle]]
145	[[/folder]]

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