Line #99 Characters/GoldTongues


1	The characters from ''Literature/GoldTongues''.
2
3	'''Some spoilers are unmarked.'''
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
6
7	!!The Three Drifters
8
9	[[folder:In General]]
10	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: None of their real names are ever revealed. They aren't even referred to the nicknames given to them until Cham gives them all one.
11	* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:All three of them are callous murderers, even Buzz.]]
12	[[/folder]]
13
14	[[folder:Buzz]]
15
16	-->''"Do you think it was wrong for us to become sapient?"''
17
18	An aging, lazy drifter struggling to maintain his optimism and chivalry.
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20	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Buzz struggles with wondering whether or not what's left of humanity should just go extinct, considering everyone around him is dead or dying, and those who are in great health don't care about humanity.
21	* DrowningMySorrows: Implied. After Buzz [[spoiler:murders Kozarr]], he shrugs it off and acts like he's okay. But then he finds a stash of beer and starts drinking ''heavily''. Whether he was drinking because he secretly felt guilty or simply because he felt like it is up for interpretation.
22	* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:He admits to having murdered Kozarr for absolutely no reason than because he could.]]
23	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Buzz suffers no repercussions for murdering a mutant and stealing his belongings.]]
24	* LazyBum: Buzz tends to spend his time meandering around and sunbathing, treating the apocalypse and even the hostile BigCreepyCrawlies as nothing but a nuisance.
25	* NiceGuy: Deconstructed. Buzz starts off giving people a lift in his van purely out of kindness, but one person pees in his van and acts disrespectful to him, while the other [[spoiler:steals his van and leaves him to die]]. As the story progresses, Buzz gradually stops caring about people because most people in the world take advantage of others, and he secretly wishes he wasn't around them anymore. It eventually reaches a point where Buzz becomes just as selfish as the people he despises when he [[spoiler:murders Kozarr in cold blood and steals all of his belongings, simply because he felt like it and knew he wouldn't be punished for it]].
26	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:He's the only main character who lives to the end.]]
27	* TookALevelInCynic: Buzz starts off being mostly positive and nice in the story, but as the story progresses, he grows much more cynical and apathetic like the rest of the world. Eventually he ends up [[spoiler:murdering a mutant for no reason and shows little emotion upon finding out that Petrol raped three girls]].
28	* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Eventually, he murders Kozarr because he felt like it.]]
29	[[/folder]]
30
31	[[folder:Stix]]
32
33	-->''"Make your own happiness."''
34
35	A spiky-haired pragmatic drifter with a tendency to steal from others.
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37	* AmbiguouslyBrown: His skin is tan, not pale or peach-colored. However, since he doesn't wear a shirt, and he lives in a desert, it's possible he's Caucasian and the sun darkened his skin over time.
38	* TheAntiNihilist: Stix knows full-well that life is pointless and there's no reason to care about anything because the world's officially ended. So he spends his time stealing from others, getting high, and enjoying himself whenever he possibly can.
39	* CatchPhrase: "Beggars can't be choosers!"
40	* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's notable disgusted when he finds out that [[spoiler:Petrol raped three girls]], and even more disturbed when [[spoiler:Buzz shows absolutely no reaction either and admits he killed a mutant just because he felt like it]].
41	* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:After he's mortally wounded by a merchant he tried to steal from, Stix congratulates the man on beating him at his own game and shakes his hand, shortly before his throat is slashed.]]
42	* MoralSociopathy: Stix is fine with killing people, but only when he absolutely has to. He also doesn't go around raping people since he finds it tasteless, even though he physically could if he wanted to.
43	* ThePigPen: Stix isn't fond of hygiene, and multiple people have noted that he smells overly-musky and needs a bath.
44	* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How a merchant kills him in the final chapter.]]
45	* TheSociopath: Downplayed. Stix only cares about himself, but he has his own standards, and he keeps himself restrained.
46	* StraightGay: He's homosexual, but shows no hints of it up until chapter 4 where he confronts another gay man and has sex with him.
47	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bagels. He literally risks dying just to acquire ''one'' of them.
48	* VillainProtagonist: He is a violent, selfish drifter who kills innocent people throughout the story to get their stuff and shows no concern for them.
49	* WalkingShirtlessScene: He never wears a shirt in the story.
50	* YouNeedABreathMint: Cham and Buzz openly tell Stix that he's got bad breath. Even Stix acknowledges that he doesn't care about oral hygiene.
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Petrol]]
54
55	An obese, mute drifter who constantly preys on others for his own amusement.
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57	* BadassBiker: He wanders the roads on a motorcycle, and is a conniving killer more than capable of handling himself in a fight.
58	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Petrol acts like a loyal bodyguard, a compassionate confident, and even a surrogate big brother throughout the story. All of it is just an act to hide his murderous behavior and to give others a false sense of security.
59	* BringMyBrownPants: [[spoiler:Petrol pisses his shorts when a mutant drifter starts choking him to death]].
60	* FacialHorror: He has no nose, his cheeks have been sliced off, and what's left of his face is gradually decaying.
61	* FatBastard: Besides Five Strikes, he's the fattest character in the story, and the most depraved one.
62	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Before the apocalypse, Petrol was just a music teacher in middle school--albeit, one who [[spoiler:molested two of his students and got arrested for it]]. Now he's a sadistic scavenger who needlessly tortures and kills people whenever he feels like it.
63	* {{Gasshole}}: Downplayed. Petrol doesn't pass gas in every scene he's in, but he does fart a couple times to annoy others around him.
64	* ImAHumanitarian: In chapter 1, Petrol wastes no time feasting on a woman's corpse after he realizes there's no other food source within miles of him.
65	* TheNoseless: It's unclear how it happened, but Petrol's nose was cut off prior to the story.
66	* ThePigPen: Multiple characters notice he has an odor problem. His T-shirt and orange shorts are noticeably filthy, and he hasn't showered in weeks, possibly months.
67	* TheSpeechless: He never speaks in the story and can only communicate with gestures and grunts. It's implied his vocal cords may have been damaged at some point.
68	* VillainProtagonist: He is a sadistic murderer [[spoiler:and pedophile]] who spends his time victimizing everyone he comes across.
69	* WouldHurtAChild: Chapter 3 reveals that Petrol [[spoiler:molested two adolescent girls in middle school]]. In chapter 4, [[spoiler:he kills Billy and Tessa--the latter of whom was also raped by him]].
70	[[/folder]]
71
72	!!Cham's Group
73
74	[[folder:Oslyn "Cham"]]
75
76	-->''"What I've heard is that chivalry gets you nowhere. Dog-eat-dog world, all that shit."''
77
78	A conniving scavenger who frequently wanders looking for more stragglers and supplies for her group.
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80	* AffablyEvil: She's the main antagonist in chapter 2, but she's quite understanding and isn't needlessly ruthless like some of the other drifters in the country.
81	* ArcVillain: For chapter 2. She's the only character who runs into all three drifters, using her skills to rob two of them and attempting to recruit the third.
82	* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts very sweet around strangers so they'll lower their guard around her and give her time to exploit their weaknesses.
83	* MauveShirt: She gets the most amount of characterization out of everyone in her group and lasts longer than one scene. Nevertheless, she isn't important to the plot, and she's killed off at the end of chapter 2.
84	* MirrorCharacter: Stix. Both of them are sociopaths who pretend to act nice around others to get what they want, are implied to be kleptomaniacs, have little reaction to their acquaintances dying, and [[spoiler:are outsmarted by someone they tried to rob and have their throats slit]].
85	* SlashedThroat: How Stix kills her.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Charcoal]]
89
90	-->''"Ah said no fawkin’ stragglas!"''
91
92	An oversized, armored member within the group.
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94	* BigFun: He's a jolly but cautious big man who allows Petrol to join the group after assuming he's a trustworthy person.
95	* KilledOffscreen: According to Oslyn, he was ripped apart by the giant bugs when a horde stormed their campsite.
96	* ManlyGay: He's a big, brutish man who isn't shy about letting others know that he's had other men perform fellatio with him.
97	[[/folder]]
98
99	[[folder:Patch]]
100
101	-->''"We ain’t dead yet, big man. S’all that matters."''
102
103	A one-eyed trader who handles all of the group's supplies and weapons.
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105	* EyeScream: Patch lost his left eye a while before the story began. Petrol kills him by stabbing him in his ''right'' eye.
106	* GuttedLikeAFish: Petrol disembowels him with a knife seconds before he kills him.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	!!Maggie's Group (spoilers)
110
111	[[folder:In General]]
112
113	A surrogate family that used to travel around with various other survivors.
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115	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: All of them willingly let Petrol into their group, not suspecting that he's actually a ruthless killer as well as a pedophile.
116	* WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to talk about Maggie's group without mentioning that they're all killed by Petrol.
117	[[/folder]]
118
119	[[folder:Maggie]]
120
121	-->''"Language."''
122
123	The surrogate mother figure of the group.
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125	* DrivenToSuicide: Subverted. Petrol hands her a gun with one bullet, expecting her to kill herself before the bugs do. She shoots at Petrol instead.
126	* KilledOffscreen: She's last seen bleeding out on the ground with a horde coming after her. If she wasn't ripped apart by the bugs, she most likely died of blood loss.
127	* TakingYouWithMe: When Maggie is mortally wounded by Petrol, she uses the sole bullet in her handgun to try and kill Petrol as opposed to giving herself a quick and painless death.
128	* TeamMom: She acts like Billy and Tessa's mother, keeping them safe at all times and making sure they don't swear. Even as she's bleeding out on the ground after Petrol shoots her, she begs Petrol to spare the kids instead of herself.
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:Kyle]]
132
133	-->''"Cute kids, eh?"''
134
135	The surrogate father figure of the group.
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137	* BoomHeadshot: Petrol kills him by shooting him in the forehead.
138	* PapaWolf: The moment Kyle finds out that Petrol is a pedophile, he threatens to kill him if he doesn't come clean and agree to leave the kids alone forever.
139	* TeamDad: He acts like Billy and Tessa's father, keeping both kids in line and making sure they know how to protect themselves with guns. When he finds out Petrol is a pedophile, he even tells them to go to sleep outside so he can confront Petrol without the kids seeing or hearing anything unpleasant.
140	* TooDumbToLive: Kyle was fully aware that Petrol was a pedophile and had his sights on Tessa, but instead of immediately killing him or incapacitating him, he tries to get the man to confess to raping children. Petrol ends up stealthily killing Kyle while he's being questioned.
141	[[/folder]]
142
143	[[folder:Billy]]
144
145	-->''"Now who’s stupid?"''
146
147	The young boy that Maggie and Kyle take care of.
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149	* {{Keet}}: Billy is a hyperactive, noisy nine-year-old who always seems to be hopped up on caffeine.
150	* KillTheCutie: He and Tessa are the most innocent characters in the story, and they're both killed by Petrol.
151	* KilledMidSentence: His neck is broken while he's busy talking to Petrol.
152	* NeckSnap: How Petrol kills him.
153	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Petrol kills him ''very'' quickly and disposes of his body before anyone can find it.
154	[[/folder]]
155
156	[[folder:Tessa]]
157
158	-->''"Billy's being all sad because he can't shoot straight."''
159
160	The adolescent girl that Maggie and Kyle take care of.
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162	* KillTheCutie: She and Billy are the most innocent characters in the story, and they're both killed by Petrol.
163	* KilledOffscreen: She's raped and murdered by Petrol off-screen, shortly after he kills Billy.
164	* RapeDiscretionShot: Tessa is last seen sleeping in a tent, moments before Petrol crawls inside of it. Nothing is outright stated or described, but it's obvious that he sexually assaulted her.
165	[[/folder]]
166
167	!!Other Characters
168
169	[[folder:Five Strikes]]
170
171	-->''"Animals do whatever the fuck they want because they can or because it's instinctual. You sit here asking all these questions—why do I have this helmet, why don’t I talk much, why did I micturate in my shorts. And you think because I'm human that there's some deeper philosophical meaning behind ''everything'', when in reality the answer is very simple."''
172
173	A chubby, apathetic, helmet-wearing drifter who sees humans being no different from animals.
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175	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Five Strikes might be a mutant in early stages of transformation, considering his eyes are almost entirely red and his pupils are discolored.
176	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His real name isn't given. The term "Five Strikes" refers to the five tally marks on his red football helmet.
177	* FatSlob: Five Strikes is an obese man who doesn't bathe, is covered in filth, and is content with pissing his shorts and farting around other people.
178	* PottyFailure: He pisses his shorts while sitting in Buzz's van simply because his bladder was full and he was too lazy to ask Buzz to pull over.
179	* TheStoic: He never shouts or shows any emotion in his appearances.
180	* WalkingShirtlessScene: All he wears is a football helmet and a pair of red shorts.
181	[[/folder]]
182
183	[[folder:Bear]]
184
185	-->''"So that's what this is about. You think I'm gonna fuck some street rat."''
186
187	A biker on the run from a hostile motorcycle gang.
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189	* TheBear: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hence his name]].
190	* BruiserWithASoftCenter: It's implied that Bear is secretly lonely and just wants a lover to spend time with. Problem is, most of the people he forms a relationship with have a habit of dying or leaving him.
191	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Bear" obviously isn't his real name, but given his appearance...
192	* ManlyGay: He's a muscular, hairy, aggressive, shotgun-wielding biker who's secretly homosexual.
193	* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:He's shot in the back while he's sleeping and naked from the waist down, just half an hour after having sex with Stix, who then euthanizes him and leaves his body to rot.]]
194	[[/folder]]
195
196	[[folder:Kim]]
197
198	-->''"You a nineties baby too?"''
199
200	A young woman who seems to embrace nostalgia from TheNineties.
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202	* ActionSurvivor: Kim's first appearance is her springing a trap on Stix while his guard is down, all while she's carrying a shotgun. She never uses it, but clearly she knows how to handle herself despite not being a full-fledged badass.
203	* NiceGirl: Kim's definitely one of the nicer characters in the story. She only shows hostility to Stix after he breaks into her house and tries to rob her.
204	* TookALevelInCynic: Implied. Kim used to believe that no matter how bad the world got, she believed she could fix the world, just like her favorite cartoon character ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' would all the time. Then the apocalypse happened, and she saw just how flawed her optimistic dream was.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Kozarr]]
208
209	-->''"Ain't that...ain't it some shit! Back in our day, people killed...what? How-how many people died over all that shit you saw in my cabinet? How much money...how much you think it’s worth now?"''
210
211	A scale-riddled mutant who spends his time doing drugs.
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213	* AddledAddict: He's addicted to several drugs, namely heroin. The moment after he invites Buzz into his hideout, he starts doing heroin, and tries to get Buzz to join.
214	* BoomHeadshot: How [[spoiler:Buzz]] kills him.
215	* HumanoidAbomination: He's covered in scales and has a snake-like tongue. Nevertheless, he's not a full-on bipedal reptile; he's still semi-human, but in later stages of a reptilian mutation.
216	* SirSwearsALot: He can't go more than two sentences without blurting out profanity.
217	[[/folder]]
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