Line #30 Characters/NoGodsOnlyGuns


1	Characters for the fanfic ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns''. Because some characters are [[CompositeCharacter composites]] of their ''Borderlands'' or ''Mass Effect'' incarnations, many canon tropes also apply. See ''Characters/{{Borderlands}}'', ''Characters/{{Borderlands 2}}'', and ''Characters/MassEffect'' character pages for canon tropes, and this page for tropes unique to the fic.
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5	[[folder: Main Protagonists]]
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7	!! Lilith Shepard
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9	Notorious human Siren, daughter of Admiral Hannah Shepard, and one of the main characters. The story opens with her arriving over Eden Prime as the geth invade, seeking the Eridian beacon left on the surface.
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11	* NoodleIncident: There are frequent mentions of her having set a gunship on fire, and it's referred to as the "Oh God, everything's on fire, what did you do, Lily?!" incident.
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13	!! Roland Taylor
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15	Former Crimson Lance Sergeant who deserted upon receiving orders he refused to follow. Became a freelance mercenary who partners with Lilith.
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17	* TheHero: The leader of the main protagonists.
18	* OnlySaneMan: The most down-to-earth and grounded of the characters.
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20	!! Maya
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22	Another human Siren who shows up hunting for information relating to Sirens on the Citadel, and rapidly brings down a whole lot of violence as a direct result.
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24	* FightMagnet: And ''very'' aware of it too.
25	* PlayingWithFire: Her Phaselock ability sets fire to nearby enemies, as per her Helios skill in-game.
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27	!! Brick
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29	A human bruiser who arrives on the Citadel hunting Fist, and gets caught up in the chaos surrounding Tali and Maya's encounters with him.
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31	%% * TheBerserker:
32	* ExtremeOmnivore: His stomach can somehow process Dextro-amino meat, and he may or may not be joking when he says he's eaten Quarians and Turians before.
33	* ExtremeOmnisexual: Reads interspecies porn in Fornax, up to and including Elcor porn.
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35	!! Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
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37	A quarian on her Pilgrimage, and part of Migrant Fleet Manufacturing. Stumbles across high-value information that ends with her being pursued by Fist's men, though she proves quite capable of handling herself, with the help of her RobotBuddy Chittika Vas Paus.
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39	* RobotBuddy: Chittika, which in this universe is a robotic Skag.
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41	!! Angel [[spoiler: Harper]]
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43	A human Siren with powers relating to machinery. First appears helping Handsome Jack with his plots surrounding the various Vault Hunters, and becomes more involved - and more independent - as the story progresses.
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45	* CompositeCharacter: She shares traits of both Angel from Borderlands as well as EDI.
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47	!! Axton
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49	Human commando and mercenary who barges his way into the plot when a mission to rescue the sister of one Nassana Dantius turns out to be a covert assassination...and Nassana tries to have Axton and his team wiped out rather than pay them.
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51	* EveryoneHasStandards: For all his flaws, he values a good partnership with his teammates.
52	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToKillYou: Has this relationship with Zaeed Massani, for unknown reasons.
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54	!! Garrus Vakarian
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56	A turian sniper and a member of Axton's team of mercenaries. Has an animal companion in the form of a cybernetic bird of prey names Bloodwing. May or may not be taking Mordecai's place in the story.
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58	!! James Vega
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60	The third member of Axton's team, a human bruiser who specializes in heavy weapons and cheerful battle commentary.
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62	* TopHeavyGuy: Justified in this case as he's a bruiser mutant.
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64	!! Gaige
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66	Human engineer and fugitive, on the run from accidentally killing a classmate, but who keeps finding trouble everywhere she goes due to the massive bounty on her head due to the aforementioned accidental murder.
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68	* ActionGirl: Through sheer inexplicable ''awesome'', she manages to basically bulldoze the Virmire base.
69	* InexplicablyAwesome: How does a 18-year-old schoolgirl basically run over everything she comes across with so little difficulty? Our best guess is "Because awesome.".
70	* InstantWebHit: Gives up counting her subscribers around the point where she estimates she has the population of a planet subscribed. Then Sovereign does so.
71	* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: She has a habit of leaving destruction and chaos at her wake as well as updating the universe about it.
72	* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: What she effectively does to Virmire, putting it through ''such'' a CurbStompBattle she doesn't even notice the experiments before destroying them.
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74	!! John Shepard
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76	The first human Spectre. Not much is known about him, as he has only made two appearances and has spoken even less.
77	* InformedAttribute: He has some quirky habits according to Peptuck, though we haven't seen much evidence of this yet:
78	-->'''Peptuck''': Except that he has this weird quirk where he ends every conversation with "I should go" and is insistent on asking the same question several times in each conversation.
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80	-->Also, after every mission he walks around in the ship and stops to stare at everyone for a second, as though he's looking for a sign that he should ask them a questions.//
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82	-->And then there are those really awkward pauses where he spaces out and stares at you for a minute or two for no apparent reason.//
83	* MediumAwareness: asks "Can we get on with this story?" after killing Face [=McShooty=].
84	* OnlySaneMan: Appears to be shaping up as this.
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86	!! Salvador
87	A hairy, heavily-armed human dwarf who dual-wields guns and has "terrifying" hygiene issues.
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89	* OneManArmy: Singlehandedly fought off the ''entire batarian invasion of Mindoir''.
90	* RedBaron: On Omega, he is referred to as "the Mountain King" because that's the song he hums while killing everything.
91	* ShroudedInMyth: For Omega, he's just a mysterious midget who showed up one day and started killing mercs for no apparent reason.
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93	[[/folder]]
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95	[[folder: Secondary Protagonists]]
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97	!! Ashley Williams
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99	A former Crimson Lance officer who deserted alongside Roland.
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101	!! Reiss
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103	Another member of Roland's Lance team who deserted when receiving flat-out evil orders.
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105	* AscendedExtra: In Borderlands 2, Corporal Reiss dies practically as soon as you meet him. He lasts longer than that in this story.
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107	!! Richard L. Jenkins
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109	The last member of Roland's Lance team to stick by him when they received their last, unacceptable orders.
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111	!! Kaidan Alenko
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113	Alliance marine and biotic who was sent to recover the Eridian beacon and got roped into the greater plot when the geth attacked.
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115	!! Jeff "Joker" Moreau
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117	Hyperion experimental test pilot who flew advanced, cutting edge ships. Emphasis on "flew" because he's out of work when Roland shows up with a job offer.
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119	!! Claptrap
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121	A CL4-TP steward bot Lilith stumbled across on Eden Prime, who assists her and her team by unlocking doors, flying ships, and in the difficult moments drawing gunfire. He does not appreciate the treatment, but he doesn't have much choice.
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123	!! Nihlus Kyrik
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125	Turian Spectre who assists Maya when she is attacked on the Citadel.
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127	!! Doctor Conrad Verner
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129	A Maliwan scientist Lilith meets on Illium, who promises her the key to the Vault, but only if she can get him inside the Dantius Towers.
130	* AdaptationalBadass: Holds his own against two asari assassins with a green-quality Dahl pistol, and keeps the thing all the way through the [[MeleeATrois shootout in the Dantius Towers]]. [[spoiler:Doesn't save him from dying later on]].
131	* StraightMan
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133	!! Seryna
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135	An asari ex-Maliwan security specialist who offers to get Lilith and Roland into the Dantius Towers, if they help her get rid of her former lunatic boss, Nassana Dantius.
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137	!! Feron
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139	Drell agent for the Shadow Broker, sent to assassinate Nassana Dantius.
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141	!! Zaeed Massani
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143	Human mercenary. Professional badass. SeenItAll. No, really.
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145	* BadBoss: According to Axton, he doesn't have teammates so much as ablative meat shields.
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147	!! Geth-Buddy/Gethtrap
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149	One thousand, one hundred and eighty three geth runtimes loaded onto a specialized platform sent by the Geth Consensus to monitor the hostile heretic geth. Encounters Gaige on Virmire, and subsequently gets blown up, rebuilt, and dubbed Gethtrap.
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151	* CompositeCharacter: He's a combination of Deathtrap and Legion.
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155	[[folder: Antagonists]]
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157	!! Handsome Jack Harper
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159	CEO of Hyperion, colossal jackass, and resident ManipulativeBastard behind the entire plot.
160	* BadassNormal: Stages annual "Dinners" that always end up as massive free-for-all fights between him and his 3 children. 2 of which are biotic, one of which is a Siren. He's still the one on top for a good part.
161	* CompositeCharacter: He possesses Handsome Jack's personality as well as The Illusive Man's nature as a DiabolicalMastermind. His name is a combination of both characters (Jack Harper being TIM's real name). As the father of both Miranda and Oriana, he's also the setting's equivalent of Henry Lawson
162	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: When asked whether he looks like either Creator/MartinSheen (TIM's InkSuitActor) or Creator/CharlieSheen, the author answered [[MathematiciansAnswer "yes"]].
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164	!! Higgins
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166	A Crimson Lance officer who commands Roland's unit, until an attempt to either force Roland into compliance or kill him for insubordination turns bad...
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168	* AscendedExtra: Higgins was originally a character in the ''Borderlands: Origins'' comic that was heavily implied to have been killed by Roland by the time of the first game. In this story, he survives, only to be taken in by Saren.
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170	!! Saren Arterius
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172	Turian Spectre who controls Sovereign, a massive warship of unparalleled fire power and commands an army of geth.
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174	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Whenever Sovereign seizes control of his body, turning him into a turian equivalent of a Psycho]].
175	* AxeCrazy: When [[spoiler: Sovereign takes full control]].
176	* CompositeCharacter: With [[spoiler: [=Sane!Krieg=] and Psychos in general]].
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178	!! Sovereign
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180	[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Psycho Reaper Siren]][[spoiler: and [[ManBehindTheMan Ship behind the man]] to Saren.]]
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182	* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: Especially notable when taking control of Saren.]]
183	* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: [=Psycho!Krieg=] and Psychos in general]].
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185	!! Nassana Dantius
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187	Asari CEO of the Maliwan Corporation's Illium branch. Totally batshit crazy.
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189	* AdaptationalBadass: In Mass Effect 2, she was simply a corrupt businesswoman who was easily killed by Thane. In this story, she's not only a Psycho, but rides around in a custom MiniMecha. She's so badass that an entire chapter is mostly devoted to everyone trying to kill her, and she even manages to [[spoiler: overpower '''NIFTU CAL, BIOTIC GOD''']].
190	* AxCrazy: Gene-manipulation has rendered her into an Asari Psycho.
191	* BadassBoast: "I AM NASSANA DANTIUS, AND I AM FUCKING INVINCIBLE!"
192	* BossBattle: Basically a raid boss, from the not-quite-subtle mentioning of "Invincible" to the endless waves of enemies to the ''painfully'' raid-boss like tactics of "Bull rush them tanking everything, make big nova explosions".
193	* MiniMecha: Rides around in a custom battlesuit.
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196	[[folder: Other]]
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198	!! Donnel Udina
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200	Systems Alliance ambassador to the Citadel. Has apparently seen enough violence that he's got multiple cybernetic upgrades, and is no slouch in combat.
201	* AdaptationalBadass: He has a cybernetic arm and an eyepatch. The first time we hear him, he humiliates the Batarian ambassador in front of the Council with very little effort. His first proper introduction involves him killing what is effectively a boss by uppercutting him into the air, followed by nailing him dead-center in the chest with a Torgue pistol, while said enemy is still falling.
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203	!! Warlord Okeer
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205	Krogan warlord who seeks revenge against Nassana for attacking his lab on Tuchanka, and is deep in research on Sirens. Smashes into the plot by crashing into the Dantius Towers with a small army of krogan.
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207	!! '''NIFTU CAL, BIOTIC GOD'''
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209	A volus who was experimented on by Maliwan scientists, the resulting experiments inadvertently turned him into a tiny OneManArmy who spends most of his time tripping balls.
210	* AdaptationalBadass: In case that character description didn't make it abundantly clear.
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212	!! Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington
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214	THE MOTHERF*ING CEO OF THE TORGUE-URDNOT CORPORATION, THE MOST BADASS CORPORATION IN THE F*ING GALAXY.
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216	!! Miranda Harper
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218	One of Handsome Jack's daughters, a genetically-perfect biotic who thoroughly hates her father and is protecting her younger sister Oriana from him.
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220	!! Junior
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222	A child of Handsome Jack, who thoroughly ''loathes'' dear old Dad, to the point that s/he (gender unknown) only attends the yearly family dinner because its the best chance to kill him. Also an incredibly powerful biotic.
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224	* AmbiguousGender: So far, his/her gender hasn't been fully confirmed
225	* {{Expy}}: Seemingly of Jack/Subject Zero, with the nickname "Junior" being used to avoid confusing names with his/her father.

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