| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:'''[[Characters/PiratesSMP Main Characters Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''Herons and Kestrels''' | [[Characters/PiratesSMPKitesAndNightingales Kites and Nightingales]] | [[Characters/PiratesSMPNPCs NPCs]]]]]] |
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| 4 | Due to the nature of this work, some spoilers will be unmarked for the duration of the work, and may be retrospectively marked once the series has reached its conclusion. |
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| 6 | '''Note:''' Unless otherwise specified, all tropes pertain to the '''characters''', not the '''content creators''' that play them. |
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| 9 | |
| 10 | !!The Herons |
| 11 | [[folder:General Tropes]] |
| 12 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/herons_banner.png]] |
| 13 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 14 | ->''"Anchor down and swim to shore, exploration lies in store\ |
| 15 | Chants are blarin' 'bout the Herons and their legacies"'' |
| 16 | -->-- '''[=InTheLittleWood=]''', "The Faction Isles" |
| 17 | The Herons' greatest desire to to make an impact and leave behind a legacy of some sort, usually by discovering and unearthing rare monuments and being credited for their findings, though some may find their calling in scholarship and academia.\ |
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| 19 | The Herons are on relatively good terms with both the Kestrels and the Nightingales, and allegedly hate the Kites for "making murder their only personality trait". Their [=NPCs=] are Gabriel the scribe and archivist, and Christian the tavern-keeper, later to be joined by various Patreon additions. |
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| 21 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the series' lineup of Herons, Water has dirty blonde to light brown hair (blonde for the purposes of the trope), Scott and Cleo are redheads, and Eloise has reddish brown hair (somewhere between redhead and brunette). The brunet group is further divided between those with medium brown shades of hair (Sniff) and those with dark hair (Owen and Olive). |
| 22 | * BoldExplorer: Their schtick is discovery and exploration, so many of them fall under this category. |
| 23 | -->'''Scott:''' All great discoveries out there out there were probably found by a Heron. |
| 24 | * BystanderSyndrome: The day after Aimsey's disappearance, the Herons mostly decide to brush it all off as a "Kite issue" that they can deal with by themselves. It's {{subverted|Trope}} later on as they still eventually join the search party for Aimsey on Day 36, and Scott and Water are clearly concerned for Aimsey's well-being after finding their Corrupted phantom lingering on various islands. |
| 25 | * ColorMotif: Their [=IGN=] are a bright shade of green. |
| 26 | * ItsAllAboutMe: At their worst, the Herons can be quite arrogant and haughty; Acho describes them as "stuck-up snobs", and considering his past, it is likely rooted in personal experience and not an unfounded claim. |
| 27 | * LegacySeeker: Described to be one of their primary motivations for discovery. |
| 28 | * SeekerArchetype: If not a BoldExplorer, many Herons alternatively fall under this category to seek out knowledge about the world around them, whether they choose to align with scholarship or not. |
| 29 | * TheSmartGuy: If not {{Bold Explorer}}s, some Herons have chosen to take the path of academia and record-keeping, i.e. exploring the breadth and depths of human knowledge. The Recruitment Officer also describes them to be lovers of "discovery and history", and one of the quest series is known as "Heron Literature". |
| 30 | * WrittenByTheWinners: On Day 52, Kuervo accuses the Heron faction of rewriting historical records to befit their own agendas, or to paint themselves in a better light. [[DiscussedTrope Whether or how much this is actually true is unknown]]. |
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| 33 | [[folder:[=OliveSleepy=]]] |
| 34 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olivesleepy.jpeg]] |
| 35 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 36 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see their skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olivesleepy_2.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 37 | ->'''IGN:''' olivesleepy\ |
| 38 | '''Preferred name:''' Olive\ |
| 39 | '''Personal pronouns:''' They/Them |
| 40 | A curious researcher from a family of scientists, Olive came to the Faction Isles to keep records of the local flora and fauna, but quickly falls in to investigate the life of pirates in the region. |
| 41 | ---- |
| 42 | * {{Bookworm}}: Olive has carried several large stacks of books and sketchbooks with them during their month-long voyage to the Faction Isles. |
| 43 | * CannotKeepASecret: In spite of being told to keep Cruppy's presence on the main island a secret on Day 1, Olive repeatedly and openly mentions it in the in-game chat mere minutes later, to Cleo's annoyance, though she also quickly gives up on keeping the secret after this. Of course, [[DramaticIrony it wasn't that Cruppy's presence was a secret on the Isles in the first place]], as other factions had already encountered it before it followed Owen to the Heron base. |
| 44 | * CutenessProximity: Olive reacts this way to Cruppy on Day 1 and eventually befriends it, enough for it to follow them home to the Herons' base. |
| 45 | * ImprovisedWeapon: {{Discussed|Trope}}. On the Day 1 Heron quest, Cleo checks to make sure everyone else is armed in case the quest requires more than digging up treasure. |
| 46 | -->'''Cleo:''' Okay, who's actually got a weapon?\ |
| 47 | '''Scott:''' I have a rapier.\ |
| 48 | '''Owen:''' I've got a pistol.\ |
| 49 | '''Olive:''' …I have a cello? |
| 50 | * NiceGuy: Keen on retaining friendships with and reaching out to people from other factions, and one of the few to [[NiceToTheWaiter try to befriend the factionless Recruitment Officer]]. |
| 51 | * PungeonMaster: In the aftermath of the Day 1 disappearances, Olive rattles off a HurricaneOfPuns about pirates during the Herons' return trip home from a treasure quest. |
| 52 | -->'''Olive:''' Where does a pirate go to school? [=HARRRvard=]!\ |
| 53 | '''Cleo:''' …[[LamePunReaction You're out of the faction]].\ |
| 54 | ''(Both burst into a fit of laughter)''\ |
| 55 | '''Olive:''' Oh, no! Not on my second day! H–how does a pirate protect themself? [=ARRRmour=].\ |
| 56 | '''Cleo:''' …I'm gonna run a vote…\ |
| 57 | '''Olive:''' No, it's fine, I'll go join the Kites or something, it's fine.\ |
| 58 | [...]\ |
| 59 | '''Cleo:''' Oh… dear.\ |
| 60 | '''Olive:''' What do you call it when two pirates are in a draw? A stale-MATEY.\ |
| 61 | '''Cleo:''' [[GetOut OUT]]! OUT OF THE FACTION! |
| 62 | * PutOnABus: Has been out sailing on a voyage since after Recruitment Day. [[spoiler:WordOfGod states that they are suffering from a BusCrash and have been TakenForGranite, but this is never seen or addressed in canon proper.]] [[invoked]] |
| 63 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite having only ever appeared on SMP Launch Day, it's Olive befriending Cruppy that motivates it to come to the Isles to find them and interact with everyone else, which proves to be critical to the climax of the entire overall storyline. |
| 64 | * SurprisinglyNormalBackstory: While Olive hasn't appeared since Day 1, what we know of their backstory is significantly less dramatic (and in most cases, traumatic) than the other denizens on the Isles -- they're a scientist raised into the field who got curious about the pirate life, and they never tried alcohol before coming to the Isles at age 22, as their parents had told them not to drink. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:[=OwengeJuice=]]] |
| 68 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/owengejuice.jpeg]] |
| 69 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 70 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/owenge_juice_5.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 71 | ->'''IGN:''' [=Owenge_Juice=]; [=OwengeJuice=]\ |
| 72 | '''Preferred name:''' Owen\ |
| 73 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Her\ |
| 74 | ''"Knowing when to beat a hasty retreat is a valuable skill of mine, I like to think."'' |
| 75 | Having fled from a constricting life of wealth, Owen hopped on a trading vessel to the Isles, receives offers from all four factions, and ultimately chooses to join the Herons on Day 1. Despite this, it's not a life in the world of piracy that drives him, especially not within the faction system.\ |
| 76 | \ |
| 77 | His previous life on the run and love for freedom ends up causing much conflict between him and many others, culminating into him renouncing his Heron status and fleeing from the Faction Isles on Day 112 out of self-preservation, [[spoiler:but he decides to come BackForTheFinale.]] |
| 78 | ---- |
| 79 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: From the introductory segment of Owen's 1st episode: |
| 80 | -->"'''L'''ife is for the '''l'''iving! And '''b'''eing '''b'''uttoned up '''p'''rim and '''p'''roper and '''p'''laced in '''p'''erfected '''p'''oses is as much as being dead than the gallows." |
| 81 | * AmbiguousCriminalHistory: In a flashback at the start of his 7th episode, Owen gets arrested for [[spoiler:the alleged theft of the Saber Marauda]] about three years before the events of the episode. Since Owen [[spoiler:isn't seen in possession of this item]] in the series proper, it's unconfirmed if he even committed such a crime, but whatever happened, [[spoiler:he manages to convince the judicial authorities to let him have a go at TradingBarsForStripes]]. |
| 82 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Owen uses both masculine and feminine pronouns and titles (e.g. "lady") to refer to himself, and mentions stealing "[his] mother's finer clothes due to [his] father's not fitting [him] nearly as well as [he] would have liked", but never puts an explicit label to what he identifies as. |
| 83 | * AnimalMotifs: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. After trying to bounce back from the cursed treasure and claiming to always land on his feet, Eloise compares Owen to a cat, but not much else has come from this so far. |
| 84 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Decides to sail back to the Faction Isles on Day 134, in time for the series finale. His 14th episode reveals that Luanne manages to convince him to go back because [[ThePowerOfFriendship the pirates of the Isles genuinely cared about him as a friend]] and are willing to fight by his side to the end out of loyalty, not out of obligation to orders from a "higher power".]] |
| 85 | * BigEater: Briefly PlayedForHorror on Day 76, but to a less noticeable extent. After reclaiming the gold from the Captain Golden Beard quest (from being captured), the curse eventually and briefly inflicts Owen with insatiable hunger to the point his full Hunger bar can drop to zero in mere moments. However, this is alleviated as Owen's backpack has an upgrade mechanism that automatically feeds him whenever his Hunger bar drops sufficiently, and his backpack is well-stocked enough that it doesn't affect him as much as it did Shep (see below). |
| 86 | * ByronicHero: Is quite the looker and was born and raised into higher society, and her determination to live free from rules and convention by ''all'' means has created friction between her and… just about everyone who has held dear to her. It doesn't help that her DarkAndTroubledPast, revealed through a FlashbackBPlot in the [=YouTube=] episodes, continues to echo and parallel into her present day. |
| 87 | * CarpeDiem: Seems to believe in this and live it out like a life motto. |
| 88 | * TheCasanova: Has had quite the track record of flirting with and rizzing up the [=NPCs=] on the Isles, even by the standards of the SMP, and at least one of the other creator-characters.%%Possibly Played For Drama? Backstory still has blurry details |
| 89 | * CommitmentIssues: This apparently comes with the package of Owen's desire to live a free life, preferring not to be tied down by anyone or anything. PlayedForDrama in that it ends up causing a lot of conflict between him and some of his friends on the Isles when he decides to skip town after Day 112, and several of those he leaves behind denounce him throughout Chapter 4 as a traitorous DirtyCoward or are left to grieve over his departure. [[spoiler:He manages to come through in time for the finale, though.]] |
| 90 | * DefectorFromDecadence: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Yes, Owen did run away from a wealthy life, but was already disinherited and about to be kicked out when he did so.%%May be further edited |
| 91 | * {{Determinator}}: Most evident on Day 14 -- get into a fight with a Warped Mosco alone and severely undergeared, with armour and weapons that break halfway (or run out of ammo) through the fight, a broken boat, a dwindling food supply, and only a lasso that he just got from the Sun God as a curiosity to help? Spend about ''20 minutes'' in a respawn loop, die 36 times (and lose about 360 gold), make an impromptu fortress for defense (due to a lack of armour and ranged weapons), and kill the damned bug. |
| 92 | * FlashbackBPlot: Owen's [=YouTube=] episodes for the series chronicles the main bulk of events livestreamed on Twitch, but also intertwines flashback sequences of his experiences before making his way to the Faction Isles, particularly [[ResolvedNoodleIncident elaborating on a few incidences mentioned in his character intro sequence]]. |
| 93 | * ForcedOutOfTheCloset: {{Implied|Trope}}; while he's canonically pan in modern-day terms, he also mentions being disowned for being ''caught'' being "really good friends" with the household's stable master in his character intro cinematic. |
| 94 | * HowWeGotHere: Owen's character intro is framed as him telling his life story before the Faction Isles to someone else, followed by the rest of his [=YouTube=] adapted series. [[spoiler:His [=YouTube=] finale implies that he told the story to Luanne, who goes on to encourage and convince him to return to the Isles to be BackForTheFinale.]] |
| 95 | * IHaveNoSon: Gets disowned at "the ripe old age of 20" for having an intimate relationship with one of the estate staff. |
| 96 | * ImStandingRightHere: On Day 1, the Herons speculate on whether Olive, a potential new recruit to the faction at the time, would join them. Then, the conversation quickly turns awkward when Cleo forgets one crucial detail about a different new recruit… |
| 97 | -->'''Cleo:''' Yeah, they [Olive] said they'd got invitations from the Herons and the Nightingales, I think?\ |
| 98 | […]\ |
| 99 | '''Scott:''' Yeah, it was… Herons, Nightingales, and Kestrels; they didn't get Kites.\ |
| 100 | '''Cleo:''' Who ''does'' get Kites unless you're, like, a psychopath?\ |
| 101 | '''Scott:''' Owen got all four.\ |
| 102 | '''Owen:''' Yeah… umm…\ |
| 103 | '''Cleo:''' Oh… |
| 104 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: In the flashback at the start of his 13th episode, Owen suggests to [[spoiler:Samuel]] to [[spoiler:flee the battle when the fleet is outnumbered 5-to-1]]. [[spoiler:Samuel]] refuses, insisting on [[spoiler:GoingDownWithTheShip in line of duty and denouncing Owen as a disgraceful DirtyCoward of a Lieutenant for choosing to do so]]. That being said, it's stated in his 14th episode that they were LuredIntoATrap, with the implication that Owen made the right call to run for it that time. |
| 105 | * LadykillerInLove: {{Implied|Trope}}. Owen has charmed half the [=NPCs=] and even at least one creator-character on the Isles, while leaving a trail of past relationships behind her from before the start of the SMP, but decides to invite Luanne to flee the Isles on a new adventure with her on Day 112, something she admits she's never done before, and [[spoiler:is implied to be have only ever trusted Luanne with her backstory in his final episode]]. |
| 106 | * MeaningfulName: He went by the alias 'Owen the Romeo' in the past, an obvious nod to his… [[TheCasanova romantic history]]. %%There might be more to this but we're either yet to find out, or I really need to read the play myself |
| 107 | * MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Jokes about 'Homewrecker' being his middle name on Day 53 in response to Eloise saying ''she'' [[AttemptedHomewrecker couldn't romance Finn because he was married]], and that one could romance any of the [=NPCs=] if they were "capable" of doing so. |
| 108 | * MirrorCharacter: To Acho. In their respective backstories, both of them chose to flee an affluent environment in which they did not feel welcome and joined up with a sailing crew, [[spoiler:developing a close bond with a crew member]] in the process. However, when [[spoiler:faced with a dire situation and an ensuing argument, while said crew member insisted on continuing in their mission to their death]], both [[spoiler:chose to flee]] and ended up on the Faction Isles. While they initially [[CommonalityConnection form a connection about feeling like outsiders who don't fit into the faction system]], their dynamic drifts towards being {{Foil}}s as when [[WhamEpisode things get down to the wire on the Isles]], Owen chooses to flee again [[spoiler:(though she eventually decides to come back)]], while Acho stays and remains bitter ''about'' Owen's decision [[spoiler:and never learns about her decision to come back on account of dying before that]]. |
| 109 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Her shirt, in both the official artwork and Minecraft skin, is unbuttoned enough to expose her chest. |
| 110 | * NoFullNameGiven: Owen's family name, if he has one, is never mentioned in the series. It stands out in that the letter addressed to him in the finale about the liquidation of the Snapdragon Casino refers to him as just 'Owen', while equivalent letters refer to Ros as 'Roscumber'[[note]](her out-of-universe screen-name and username, thus the equivalent to a full name in creator spaces)[[/note]] and Scott by his in-character full/family name, respectively. |
| 111 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 112 | ** In the 3 or so years between being disowned and sailing for the Faction Isles, Owen mentions in his introductory segment to have "rescued some princes, fled the Navy, [and] got into a healthy portion of trouble". While the latter two have been [[ResolvedNoodleIncident at least partially addressed in later episodes]], the part about rescuing princes is never mentioned again. |
| 113 | ** On Day 42, while sorting out the gold distribution after their first Fortress (or second in Acho's case), Owen makes a passing mention to having worked as a secretary before becoming a pirate, but when asked, says that ItsALongStory and dodges the subject afterward. This has never been brought up again. |
| 114 | ** At the end of his 9th episode, a flashback has Owen recall once getting into a romantic tryst between a countess and her husband, both of whom were cheating on each other… with the same person. |
| 115 | * RapidHairGrowth: On Day 75, Owen and several others escape from imprisonment by Cultists using a rope made from her hair, which apparently grows fast enough for ''108 metres of rope'' to made after two to four weeks of being trapped in a pit. |
| 116 | * RebelPrince: While [[MerchantPrince presumably not royal]], Owen received an education fit for the upper class and is implied to have been the heir to his parents' trading business. He finds the upper class life planned out for him stifling and gets himself disinherited for… what is arguably an act of rebellion. |
| 117 | * ResolvedNoodleIncident: At the start of her character intro, Owen mentions having fled the Navy at some point after running away from home pre-disownment and before coming to the Faction Isles. The FlashbackBPlot in the [=YouTube=] episodes cover precisely that, on [[spoiler:how she decided to invoke TradingBarsForStripes, becoming close to her commander, and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm deserting a battle she knows they can't win]]]]. |
| 118 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After learning that [[spoiler:the Faction Isles were built to foster lambs to the slaughter for the Cultists]] on Day 112, Owen decides it's about time to get out of dodge to protect himself, settling his final matters and goodbyes and inviting Luanne to sail to explore the northern waters with him. Having spent most of his adult life prior to the Isles on the run, he believes it's the most viable option for him as it hasn't failed before. [[spoiler:Despite this, Luanne convinces him to come back around to check on the Isles, just in time to be BackForTheFinale.]] |
| 119 | * SkewedPriorities: On Day 36, Owen gets distracted by the unique lighting in the underground city and takes the time to collect a lamp… in the middle of an earthquake, while everyone is ''fleeing'' the city ruins. To everyone else's credit, a few people [[LampshadeHanging yell at him that it's not the time]]. |
| 120 | * StartingANewLife: The night before she's [[ForcedFromTheirHome kicked out]], Owen stole her mother's clothes and jewellery and ran away to become a pirate, thus setting the scene for her storyline. |
| 121 | * StepfordSmiler: Despite Owen's normally mischievously nonchalant demeanor, the whispers from his past from being cursed mention him having a "broken heart" and allude to some ''serious'' abandonment issues that remain skirted over at best for most of the series. |
| 122 | * TemptingFate: PlayedForDrama. After the rescue mission on Day 76, Owen says that outside of the other pirates, she didn't think there was anyone on the Faction Isles that can "get got" whom she'd be particularly upset about. [[spoiler:Barely a day later, the cast find out Hook, Owen's best friend on the Isles, has been kidnapped by the Cultists off-screen and are ForcedToWatch it be [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]], and Owen [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye doesn't take it well]].]] |
| 123 | -->'''Owen:''' ''(quietly; in private)'' …It was just meant to be a… I didn't think that we'd actually lose anybody… |
| 124 | * TradingBarsForStripes: [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}}. The flashback at the start of Owen's 8th episode reveals he talked his way out of execution by hanging off-screen and convinced the judicial authorities to send him to the Navy ''that just arrested him''.]] |
| 125 | * TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:The gold fishing rod that Hook gave him.]] It's PlayedForDrama in that to enter the depths of the Golden Isle on Day 93, everyone is supposed to "you must lose the thing [they] hold close" to "control the nightmare"; [[spoiler:Owen initially contemplates throwing the fishing rod in, but ultimately refuses to do so, [[BlatantLies claiming he doesn't really hold anything with sentimental value]].]] |
| 126 | * TraumaCongaLine: Between Day 59 and 77 alone, Owen gets kidnapped and imprisoned for several weeks (with few going out to look for him at all and extended periods of time spent in isolation); almost as soon as he gets out, he gets cursed and [[spoiler:almost trapped in nightmares of his already not-so-great past, and nearly freezes to death in the process]]; once he gets out, he finds his roommate was on her way to taking over his part of the house in his absence, winds up going into battle against his (and his friends') kidnappers, and [[spoiler:is ForcedToWatch as his best friend on the Isles gets ''killed'' by said kidnappers]]. Let's just say he's not in the greatest of mental states after all that goes down. |
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| 129 | [[folder:Scott Denholm]] |
| 130 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scott_denholm.jpeg]] |
| 131 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:caption text]] |
| 132 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smajor1995_2.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 133 | ->'''IGN:''' [=Smajor1995=]\ |
| 134 | '''Preferred name:''' Scott\ |
| 135 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Him\ |
| 136 | ''"I'm not losing my brother again. Once was more than enough."'' |
| 137 | One of the original Herons, Scott was born and raised in one of the faction's most acclaimed families. Because of this, he has a lot of expectations and a familial legacy to live up to, though he's not particularly uppity about discovery himself.\ |
| 138 | \ |
| 139 | After reestablishing a bond with his estranged younger brother, Scott has tried to settle down in favour of a more peaceful life, only to be dragged into the whirlwind of dark pasts faced by those he cares for. |
| 140 | ---- |
| 141 | * AllGuysWantBadBoys: He has ''something'' going on with Sausage and Martyn[[note]](canonically, it's ''at minimum'' flirtation, but given some of the… ''questionable'' comments, one may wonder)[[/note]] throughout the series, neither of whom are particularly morally upstanding -- see Sausage's joke-classism and alleged fearsome reputation, as well as Martyn's ProtectionRacket bounty on Ros early in the series -- and are the only known Kestrels to have [[spoiler:gone rogue]] in the series for any reason. |
| 142 | * AnimalLover: Has a soft spot for most animals which aren't directly hostile, and not even being initially disturbed by giant wasps when they're flying can stop him from considering befriending one -- the only reason he didn't is because he forgot to bring out the spider-eyes required to tame one. |
| 143 | * TheBeastmaster: Is more than happy to tame and befriend ''all sorts'' of animals to defend him and his territory, from a gorilla to a ''mob'' of kangaroos (the latter of which he would have brought to battle if it weren't for extraordinary circumstances), to even hatching and raising baby ''crocodiles''. |
| 144 | * BearerOfBadNews: Is forced to be this for [[spoiler:his brother's death]] in the finale, as the only witness and effectively SoleSurvivor. It, combined with the preexisting trauma from the incident, takes its toll on him. |
| 145 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 146 | ** On Day 3, Scott's first reaction to Tubbo pointing a gun at Acho (in an attempt to test out said gun) is to dissuade Tubbo from shooting that one particular Nightingale and, when Tubbo doesn't back down, to ''[[GoThroughMe jump in front of the gun]]''. |
| 147 | ** On Day 36, when Acho gets dragged into the Whirlpool from being lassoed by Owen, Scott is one of the first to jump in after them, loudly declaring he's not losing his brother again. |
| 148 | ** On Day 132, after finding out Acho [[spoiler:has left the Isles again on a quest star might never come back from]], Scott's immediate response is to [[spoiler:track star down so that star doesn't have to do this alone, then prepare to make a HeroicSacrifice so that star can get out of the quest alive. Unfortunately for Scott, Acho decides to pull a MoreHeroThanThou at the last second]]. |
| 149 | * BrokenAce: Is charismatic, practical, savvy, and has a desire to become the "#1 Heron", yet displays enough Kestrel and Kite traits (in the form of business prowess and being good in a fight) to get along well with them too. However, it's strongly hinted from one of his younger brother's throwaway comments that the ambition part might have been at least partially drilled into his mind from childhood, and being on the better-treated end of ParentalFavoritism also means he's receiving the full brunt of parental ''expectations'', with all the [[WellDoneSonGuy mental health issues]] that may entail… and that's not getting started on the abandonment issues or the TraumaCongaLine he's dragged on for the last quarter of the series. |
| 150 | * CagedBirdMetaphor: {{Implied|Trope}}. After the finale, cc!Scott describes the magpies to be [[spoiler:free to explore the world beyond the Ice Walls]], much like his character… who has also decided to [[spoiler:break free from his toxic family in memory of his late brother]]. |
| 151 | * CassandraTruth: On Day 26, Scott is the first person to notice and point out Ivy's presence, possessing a Corrupted phantom of Aimsey at the time; his observation is brushed off by Owen and Water during their adventure, where Owen is convinced that he's just gaslighting himself. He's proven right over the course of the next ten days, when several other server-members also catch sight of the phantom even before going on the search party to the Whirlpool. |
| 152 | * TheConfidant: To his brother; he's the only one Acho trusts with the fact that star joined up with rogue pirates for the year or so star was away from home, which is generally considered a social taboo on the Isles, and eventually learns about the details from star on Day 132. |
| 153 | * TheDutifulSon: The so-claimed "golden child" who stays behind and tries to live up to parental expectations, in contrast to his runaway brother who goes rogue from the terrible parenting. It's somewhat {{deconstructed|Trope}} in that while not as apparent as Acho, staying has taken its psychological toll on him as well, and a few throwaway comments hint at some lingering abandonment issues, if not more. [[spoiler:After surviving the finale, he decides to leave the Faction Isles and sail beyond the Ice Wall to get away from their parents in Acho's memory.]] |
| 154 | * FiveStagesOfGrief: Alludes to having gone through the stages on Day 2, [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated assuming his brother to be dead]] after running away and leaving the family behind. |
| 155 | -->'''Scott:''' I don't know what to do. I mean, we're gonna need to talk ''eventually''… but… what do you talk about? "Hey, sorry you abandoned us and disappeared for a year and a half without any communication!" When someone's been out of your life that long with zero knowledge of where they are, you… you go through all stages, eventually… the mourning and then accepting stage… or at least I did. |
| 156 | * {{Foil}}: A four-way instance. |
| 157 | ** To Shep. Both of them are "golden children" figures trained to follow in their terrible mentors' footsteps and who [[WellDoneSonGuy want said mentors' approval]], and both amass a large and extensive exotic pet collection during the canon era. However, their respective relationships with their "scapegoat" counterparts are the polar opposite -- Scott desperately [[BigBrotherInstinct tries to look out for]] Acho to the point of [[spoiler:being willing to pull a HeroicSacrifice so star can live]], while Shep is mostly indifferent to Will and thinks he's "weird", if not outright disliking him, and [[spoiler:has him PushedAtTheMonster when things get too hairy]]. This is also contrasted in their respective fates -- both [[spoiler:decide to leave the Isles to sail and explore the lands beyond the Ice Wall]], but while Scott [[spoiler:is doing so in Acho's memory to get away from their toxic parents, i.e. acting in defiance to them]], Shep [[spoiler:is trying to invoke KarmaHoudini knowing there might be "a target on his back" for the third-degree murder he committed, all the while keeping Captain Merton on an unshakeable golden pedestal]]. |
| 158 | ** To Will. Both of them are the older "sibling figure" in the golden child/scapegoat dynamic growing up, are the first to reach out to their estranged younger "sibling figure", and at least somewhat try to look out for said younger "sibling figure" (to varying degrees and levels of success). They're also both optimists despite their circumstances, bordering on idealism at times. However, their opinions on their respective mentors differ -- Will's thoughts on Captain Merton are overwhelmingly negative, while Scott is more neutral about his parents and never displays open dislike of them. They both also [[spoiler:get pushed by their younger "sibling figure"]] in their respective character lore finales -- [[spoiler:one [[HeroicSacrifice to his survival]], and the other [[PushedAtTheMonster to his death]]]]. |
| 159 | ** To Acho, [[SiblingYinYang his younger brother]]. Both are brought up in the same household, but due to ParentalFavoritism and different life experiences, have gained contrasting outlooks on life by the time the series starts, with Scott's open curiosity and concern for his loved ones contrasting Acho's more reserved caution from SafetyInIndifference… and for more obvious contrast, [[spoiler:only one of them survives the series]]. That being said, both spend much of their known lives in canon [[spoiler:dealing with insurmountable guilt about their pasts and especially grief]] and have mutual struggles relating to their shared upbringing, especially concerning conforming to parental expectations. |
| 160 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zig-zagged. |
| 161 | ** On the surface, from their parents' perspectives, Acho is the rebellious Foolish sibling who never lived up to their expectations and eventually ran away from "home" (but returned while they were away and joined a different faction when star could); in contrast to Scott being their favoured and TheDutifulSon, i.e. the Responsible sibling, who stayed a Heron because his parents were already in the faction. |
| 162 | ** Throughout most of the series proper, the line blurs as Acho spends most of stars days questing or Fortressing enough to be the wealthiest person on the Isles, but still retains a strong reckless streak (e.g. the lasso into the Whirlpool incident); meanwhile, Scott is more laid-back and prioritizes unconventional ventures like business, decorating, and zookeeping, but still retains the responsible BigBrotherInstinct. |
| 163 | ** In the end, however, [[spoiler:it's still Acho who fell victim to the SunkCostFallacy to go on a potentially deadly quest, prompting Scott to go after star, not wanting to lose star again… which then causes the line to blur again, as ''both'' of them would rather die for each other than go for the coward's way out]]. |
| 164 | * TheGadfly: On Day 36, Scott readily jokes about obtaining his "tentacle powers" and his GrapplingHookPistol from committing acts of indecency with a squid purely to see everyone's reactions. He also adopts and breeds his Kangacrew of over two dozen marsupials strong because it would be funny. |
| 165 | * GenreSavvy: During the rescue mission for Gabriel on Day 16, after hearing of a clue to the treasure being hidden under the Kestrel base, Scott instinctively knows to look under the well for the secret passageway, lampshading how there's almost always something at the bottom of a well. |
| 166 | * GrapplingHookPistol: The Grappling Squok, which is made from, among other materials, three Giant Squid tentacles. It's a crossbow which can shoot up to four tentacles as grappling hooks, which are strong enough to resist the pull of a lasso when all four are in use. Scott uses his to [[MundaneUtility speed up travel around the Faction Isles]] rather than just walking places, as well as some occasional trolling. Now, if only Bek would stop referring to them as his "[[InnocentInnuendo fleshy appendages]]" and everyone else would stop making [[NaughtyTentacles jokes]] about it… |
| 167 | * HasAType: All the creator-characters he's shown non-platonic affection for are Kestrels. |
| 168 | * TheHeart: Scott is widely considered to be the person who keeps the Heron faction together; his joke about [[spoiler:running for Nightingale faction leader]] on Day 77 after [[spoiler:Marnie's petrification]] is instantly shot down by Eloise because his home faction still needs him. His general [[NiceGuy niceness]] and status as one of the {{Team Chef}}s of the Faction Isles also solidifies him as this for the cast in general; in the finale, he expresses surprise that despite him being fully prepared to unleash his Kangacrew on anyone who tries to take a bounty on him, ''no one'' has ever done so in the series. |
| 169 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. When faced with the ultimatum that only one of them can make it out of the Kishi quest alive, Scott decides to make a PreSacrificeFinalGoodbye and fully prepares to do so, only for Acho to [[MoreHeroThanThou shove him out of the way at the last second]].]] |
| 170 | * HonoraryTrueCompanion: {{Implied|Trope}}. On Day 1, as Martyn leads the charge to shoo the Herons away from the Kestrel side of the island, most of the faction just leaves Scott alone to strike up a conversation with them. Although it's initially suspected that he simply looks and carries himself like someone of a wealthy background, later livestreams show that he genuinely gets along with most of the Kestrels (albeit not-so-platonically in some cases), with some even saying on Day 53 that he should have been part of their faction instead. |
| 171 | * InASingleBound: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; carrying a magical silver amulet[[note]](there were some technical difficulties surrounding it on Day 3)[[/note]] for a while early in the series, Scott temporarily had the Jump Boost II effect and could bounce around much higher than the average player. Even after ''losing'' the amulet, he still somehow sporadically gets persisting boosts in jump height whenever he gets a new Jump Boost accessory. He eventually jokes about this ability being {{foreshadowing}} for his adoption of the Kangacrew. |
| 172 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: His dynamic with Shelby is inspired by the one between sibling pair David and Alexis Rose from ''Series/SchittsCreek''. |
| 173 | * LoopholeAbuse: Is quite prone to doing so at the start of the series, like compensating Ros for her bounty and killing fish with a sword rather than using a fishing rod, purely because there is no rule against doing so. |
| 174 | * MyGreatestFailure: As of the finale [[spoiler:and tying into his BigBrotherInstinct]], failing to [[spoiler:support his younger brother when star needed it the most]], despite ''not knowing'' of the circumstances in question, and failing [[spoiler:to give said brother a second chance at living a happy life via HeroicSacrifice… or [[SurvivorGuilt any life]], for that matter]]. |
| 175 | -->'''Scott:''' It's just like every time someone asks me… I'm reminded of how much I failed. I have to relive that moment ''again''. |
| 176 | * {{Nepotism}}: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Jokes have been made about this being the reason Scott's in the faction in the first place, but outside of having a leg up at the start, he expects to carve out his own place in the world and [[BerserkButton is offended if anyone acts condescending to him because of this]]. |
| 177 | -->'''Scott:''' It's the life I always wanted, or at least, the life that I was given. |
| 178 | * NeverBeHurtAgain: On Day 134, Scott ultimately decides to keep the Kangacrew out of the battle on this basis.[[note]]The ''out-of-universe'' reason is because during Take One of the battle, the Kangacrew's presence caused a server crash.[[/note]] |
| 179 | -->'''Eloise:''' Scott, I see you've put the kangas in time-out in the museum.\ |
| 180 | '''Scott:''' Yeah, I moved them all to safety. I had a vision that they might have died in a horrible death, and I couldn't risk losing them as well, so…\ |
| 181 | '''Cleo:''' What do you mean, "as well"?\ |
| 182 | '''Scott:''' ''([[MirthlessLaughter despairing chuckle]])'' I've lost enough, Cleo. |
| 183 | * PersonaNonGrata: Gets temporarily banned from the Bounty Hall on Day 20 for LoopholeAbuse, namely [[HitmanWithAHeart compensating Ros with gold after killing her]]. The ban was supposed to last just a week, but it winds up going on for up to a month. |
| 184 | * PrettyBoy: Self-described as such on Day 6, Minecraft limitations aside, and joked to be the reason he's such a Kestrel magnet. |
| 185 | * ThePromise: Repeatedly swears to himself throughout Chapter 1 that [[BigBrotherInstinct he's not losing Acho again]] after their reunion at the start of the SMP, and once declares it in front of half the server before jumping into the Whirlpool after star. [[spoiler:[[MoreHeroThanThou It doesn't work out as planned]].]] |
| 186 | * RoyalRapier: His main weapon, a [[AncestralWeapon family heirloom]] from an illustrious family in the faction and thus the closest the Isles has to nobility, with him carrying himself well enough to get along with the infamously elitist Kestrels. [[spoiler:He [[SymbolicWeaponDiscarding switches out for a different rapier]] Acho found from the Kishi quest and gave to him [[TragicKeepsake before stars death]] on Day 132.]] |
| 187 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The calmer, more subdued [[TheHeart Heart]] to Shelby's enthusiastic ValleyGirl. |
| 188 | * SelfAppliedNickname: "The Kanga King", in reference to the Kangacrew he has amassed. |
| 189 | * ShelteredAristocrat: ''Very'' {{downplayed|Trope}}. While Scott has only ever lived on the Faction Isles, he goes about the series without much issue and gets along with everyone else just fine, aside from questioning how the new arrivals managed to get to the Isles despite the Ice Walls' presence on Day 53. |
| 190 | -->'''Apo:''' I think there's other people that live inside the Ice Wall besides us.\ |
| 191 | '''Owen:''' Yeah, it's not just us, there's like, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people across this world.\ |
| 192 | '''Scott:''' Just in the Ice Wall?\ |
| 193 | '''Owen:''' Yeah! […] Oh, wait, you've only ever lived on this island.\ |
| 194 | '''Scott:''' Yeah.\ |
| 195 | […]\ |
| 196 | '''Owen:''' ''(to Apo)'' Oh, [[LampshadeHanging he's lived a sheltered life]]. It's okay.\ |
| 197 | '''Apo:''' Yeah, nepotism baby, it's just how it is.\ |
| 198 | '''Owen:''' There's no judgement.\ |
| 199 | '''Scott:''' It feels like judgement.\ |
| 200 | '''Owen:''' There's ''no'' judgement.\ |
| 201 | '''Apo:''' It's okay, nepo baby.\ |
| 202 | '''Owen:''' Mummy and Daddy will be back soon and then you won't have to meet any new people.\ |
| 203 | '''Scott:''' [[TranquilFury You two are lucky I don't set the Kangacrew on you]]. |
| 204 | * SkewedPriorities: While on a server-wide quest to investigate the Whirlpool on Day 36, Acho asks Scott to lasso star while star goes down to investigate and loot it, so that star can be pulled back up. Scott's first reaction? |
| 205 | -->'''Scott:''' I feel like I would lose my lasso. And my brother.\ |
| 206 | '''Acho:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging That's]]'' what you're concerned about?! |
| 207 | * StepfordSmiler: If not before [[BrokenAce then]], Scott is ''definitely'' this by the finale, where he brings his entire Kangacrew to town so that no one else on the server [[spoiler:asks him about his younger brother's death that he witnessed and has severe SurvivorGuilt over, and thus hit his TraumaButton over and over again]]. |
| 208 | -->'''Scott:''' I mean, no one asks a man with about fifty kangaroos following him [[spoiler:where his brother is]], you just ask, "Hey! Why do you have fifty kangaroos?" |
| 209 | * StepfordSnarker: When confronted with the more bitter parts of his past and experiences, Scott's introspection gains a notably more sarcastic streak. |
| 210 | -->'''Scott:''' I've spent the last week just… sticking to myself, thinking… I was ready and… now I don't know if I am. But I mean, I can't ''blame'' them, what do they want me to do? Put on an ad in [=QuestBuy=]? Hey, [[spoiler:my brother's dead]]! Don't ask questions! |
| 211 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Is practically a splitting image of his mother, except with short hair and as the opposite gender. |
| 212 | * SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:On Day 134, during the finale, whenever Scott has to be the BearerOfBadNews about Acho's sacrifice, he repeatedly reiterates that it should have been him that died, regarding it as MyGreatestFailure.]] |
| 213 | * SweetTooth: On Day 3, Acho decides to get Scott both a pumpkin pie and a cake because he "never seemed to make up [his] mind with sweet things". |
| 214 | * SymbolicWeaponDiscarding: A subtle case; while [[spoiler:on the Kishi quest]], Scott swaps out his [[AncestralWeapon family heirloom sword]] for [[spoiler:a diamond rapier Acho found and gave him in the ruins of the lost kingdom, shortly before stars death in said ruins]]; by the finale, Scott is seen exclusively using this new weapon, with the old sword absent from his inventory for the entire livestream and only a couple of cursory mentions that he changed weapons at all. Given his later decision to [[spoiler:leave the Faction Isles to get away from their parents in stars memory]], it's evident that even if he's supposed to be [[TheDutifulSon the dutiful "golden child"]] of the family, [[spoiler:the BigBrotherInstinct is always going to trump that]], and it's this subtle "choice" that allows him to [[spoiler:break free from the [[ParentalFavoritism otherwise toxic]] familial dynamic at the end of the finale]]. |
| 215 | * TeamChef: Since its establishment, Scott and his dumpling stall have been keeping most of the Isles well-fed, to the point [[SupremeChef the stock can be cleared out in just a couple of days]] if he's away for extended periods of time. |
| 216 | * ThroughHisStomach: Scott is well-rehearsed enough in the Farmer's Delight mod to spend much of his time making food for everyone, from selling it in town (and making bank from it) to making it for his loved ones. For the latter: |
| 217 | ** On the platonic side, he [[YourFavorite makes Acho an apple pie]] on Day 3 in an attempt to reconcile. It works. |
| 218 | ** On the romantic side, he's more than willing to supply Kyle with food in the early days. He lays off once he finds that Kyle's already taken and definitely uninterested, having also set his eye on a different Kestrel. |
| 219 | * TraumaButton: The reason Scott decides to bring out his entire Kangacrew for a run at the start of the finale on Day 134 is to distract everyone from asking him about [[spoiler:how his brother died]], so he doesn't have to relive the moment in his head every time he mentions it. |
| 220 | * TraumaCongaLine: Scott's had it rough for all of Chapter 4. For one, he finds out that [[spoiler:a good chunk of his familial identity is built on a lie]], and one of his closest friends bails on him and the Isles in response to the revelation later the same day [[spoiler:(although she comes BackForTheFinale)]], only exacerbating on some implicit abandonment issues… then [[spoiler:his little brother leaves the Isles to go on what's essentially a suicide mission]], and when he tries to interfere, he ends up having to [[spoiler:watch said brother sacrifice starself to save his life ''[[MoreHeroThanThou when he was trying to do the same thing for star]]'', which ends up being a TraumaButton, MyGreatestFailure, and SurvivorGuilt all rolled up in one]]. |
| 221 | * TykeBomb: {{Implied|Trope}}. Acho makes an offhand mention to being trained to fight since learning to walk on Day 128 from being raised into piracy from birth; with another mention of the brothers training together when they were younger on Day 29 and as stars older brother carrying the weight of familial expectations, it's likely that Scott was treated similarly growing up. |
| 222 | * UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: On Day 20, Scott befriends a GentleGorilla; within the week, he has also begun taming and breeding kangaroos to make a secret army of them, and has even hatched not one but two baby ''crocodiles''. In the following days, he even adds a gaze of raccoons, several capuchin monkeys, and an entire aviary to the menagerie. |
| 223 | * WallPinOfLove: Does so to Sausage [[InvokedTrope at his request]] on Day 36, using his GrapplingHookPistol… which is immediately followed by creator jokes about this being fanart fuel. |
| 224 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Strongly {{implied|Trope}} from the introductory segment of Scott's 1st episode, especially given his apparent resignation in the matter: |
| 225 | -->'''Scott:''' I'm gonna discover so many things, I'm gonna make everyone proud, just like I was… born to do. Just like I was meant to do, 'cause I'm a Heron and that's– it's all I've ever been, and it's all I'm… was ever gonna be. |
| 226 | |
| 227 | %%-->'''Scott:''' I've spent the last week just… sticking to myself, thinking… I was ready and… now I don't know if I am. But I mean, I can't ''blame'' them, what do they want me to do? Put on an ad in [=QuestBuy=]? Hey, [[spoiler:my brother's dead]]! Don't ask questions! It's just like every time someone asks me… I'm reminded of how much I failed. I have to relive that moment ''again''. […] I mean, hey, I'm pretty sure if I show up with an army of kangaroos, no one is gonna ask me about [[spoiler:Acho]]. I mean, no one asks a man with about fifty kangaroos following him [[spoiler:where his brother is]], you just ask, "Hey! Why do you have fifty kangaroos?" |
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| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Snifferish]] |
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| 233 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see their skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sniff.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 234 | ->'''IGN:''' Snifferish\ |
| 235 | '''Preferred name:''' Sniff\ |
| 236 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/They/She/Any |
| 237 | While Sniff recalls little of his own past, he knew he was sailing to look for something when he washes up on the Corrupted island with Shelby and Shep on Day 52. With the Kestrels acting like greedy jerks and Cleo taking him under her wing, Sniff joins the Herons soon afterward. |
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| 239 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: His last appearance is on Day 57 and is spent completing quests, after which point he is not seen online again. [[spoiler:He is also not seen among the petrified in the finale, leaving his final fate ambiguous in canon proper, though WordOfGod states that he is TakenForGranite and KilledOffscreen.]] [[invoked]] |
| 240 | * ExtremeOmnivore: One of the first things Sniff does after escaping the Corrupted island is to eat a maggot out of hunger. The Kestrels, including Sniff's two fellow rescuees who end up joining the faction, are disgusted by this, with Martyn deriding it as "typical Heron behaviour". |
| 241 | * MysteriousPast: Due to having some form of memory issues, little is known about Sniff's past before his landing on the second Corrupted island. All that is known is that he carries his dead lover Charles' skull around with him. |
| 242 | * NoSocialSkills: While showing Sniff around the Heron base, one of the first things Cleo tells him is that she thinks the reason the Nightingales value TrueCompanions so much is because they didn't receive enough love in their childhoods. Later the same day, Sniff quotes this to Acho, the first Nightingale he meets… [[InnocentlyInsensitive to whom]] the quote [[ParentalFavoritism very much applies]]. |
| 243 | * OpenMouthInsertFoot: After Sausage demanded her to give her two flying fish to him, and claiming to only have given them back because they were "stinking" and "rotten", Sniff mouths off to him and says [[YourMom that's what his mom smelt like]]. [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Sausage almost kills her for saying this]], and she does admit to Cleo afterward that her mouth sometimes just runs off without her. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:[=SoupForEloise=]]] |
| 247 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soupforeloise.jpeg]] |
| 248 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 249 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soupforeloise_8.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 250 | ->'''IGN:''' soupforeloise\ |
| 251 | '''Preferred name:''' Eloise/El\ |
| 252 | '''Personal pronouns:''' She/They |
| 253 | Hailing from one of the far-off mainlands as an aspiring reporter, Eloise joins the Herons on Day 1 [[GoingForTheBigScoop in search of a big scoop]] that would wow the people at home [[ShowingUpChauvinists enough to overlook the fact that she's a woman]]. Despite being undercover, she takes to life on the Faction Isles like a duck to water. |
| 254 | ---- |
| 255 | * BecomingTheMask: Eloise starts off the series as an undercover journalist ''claiming'' to have been a pirate all her life, but has eventually grown to love the adventure that comes with living on the Faction Isles. [[spoiler:It's {{deconstructed|Trope}} in that when she realizes this on Day 113, she starts having an identity crisis over whether she even wants to continue with journalism anymore, worrying that no one will accept her as a bona fide pirate since she didn't come here with the intention of being one, though she [[{{Reconstruction}} reconciles with it]] by her epilogue in maintaining her friendships while still living her best journalistic life.]] |
| 256 | * ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Eloise's cover story for her background is that she used to be part of a crew named "the Taking 'L's" after herself, but all of the crew had died after they took too many 'L's in battle. She also claims to be born into piracy[[note]]which in itself is this trope too, since ParentalAbandonment runs rife in the dangerous world of piracy[[/note]], but only really started to take it seriously 10 years before the start of the SMP (around age 14). |
| 257 | * DarkSecret: The fact that she's not actually a pirate, and essentially everything about her past; Eloise swears the viewers to secrecy about this at the start of the series. However, this means she's had to constantly lie about her past and cover up her "inadequacies" whenever she lets it slip, and she sends herself into a panic upon hearing the nightmare whispers claim Owen and Water know she wasn't always a pirate (in reality, even if they had suspicions, they never said anything). |
| 258 | * DragonRider: Depending on how you define 'dragon', Eloise has occasionally been seen riding her pet Komodo dragon 'Kachow' around town. |
| 259 | * ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: Quoted this on the job, and still occasionally [[BusmansVocabulary slips into this]] while passing on messages on the Faction Isles; a few characters have questioned her having a newsboy voice because of these slip-ups, but those that do usually find it endearing. |
| 260 | * GenkiGirl: Very energetic and enthusiastic while going about the world. |
| 261 | * GirlfriendInCanada: {{Discussed|Trope}} [[PlayedForLaughs for Laughs]] in regard to why Eloise has named her ship the "HMS Ladykriller". |
| 262 | -->'''Eloise:''' 'Cause I get all the women; you just can't see them because they go to another Faction Isles! |
| 263 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: A great artist, likes pink, prefers treasure quests to ones that involve killing hostile creatures, and once even prioritizes a life-saving rescue mission for a visit to the hairdresser's. However, she would still be considered masculine [[DeliberateValuesDissonance by her misogynistic hometown's standards]] for [[SweetPollyOliver cross-dressing]] and aspiring into a journalistic career typically only reserved for men there, and she can sometimes be reckless and is usually very outspoken. |
| 264 | * GoingForTheBigScoop: Her motivation for travelling to the Faction Isles in the first place is to seek out news in a world of danger to wow the people back at home. |
| 265 | * IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: {{Invoked|Trope}}; Eloise sets out on her pirating adventure to write about her experiences in news articles, [[spoiler:and succeeds in doing so in her epilogue.]] However, it's also a variation in that the viewers/stream chat, as her ship rats, are there to experience the adventure with her rather than reading about it in a newspaper or watching it play out live on-screen. |
| 266 | * IntrepidReporter: Has the ambition to become a world-renowned journalist, and is willing to throw her previous life away and [[GoingForTheBigScoop navigate her way into the ruthless world of piracy to get to the news herself]]. [[spoiler:In her epilogue, [[EarnYourHappyEnding her risk pays off and she does manage to make headlines as she dreamed of]].]] |
| 267 | * LoopholeAbuse: On Day 15, Eloise gets frustrated at Martyn for being an all-round "pain in the arse" to her for being a troll and a blobfish-napper (among other things), and decides to take a bounty out on him for this. Since there isn't a bounty on Martyn already present in the Bounty Hall and she can't take any bounties she sets herself, Eloise finds an easy way around it on Day 18 -- getting her faction-mate Water to help her set a bounty so she can take it. She doesn't end up ''succeeding'' in the bounty, but it's the thought that counts. |
| 268 | * MeaningfulRename: By WordOfGod, Eloise [[https://clips.twitch.tv/GorgeousExpensiveAnteaterItsBoshyTime-VQ9D83reTLffMFm5 chose to use 'Jones' as a surname pseudonym]] as an undercover journalist as a reference to Davy Jones. Her actual surname has never been revealed, though. [[invoked]] |
| 269 | * NoodleIncident: During the Revenge Raid on the Cultists' base on Day 77, Eloise describes being immobilized by Altair's ice attack as "just like the time [she] got pepper-sprayed, but the opposite feeling". |
| 270 | * OddFriendship: Often goes exploring and questing with Bek, a cunning, snarky Kite to Eloise's own excitable and spunky Heron; especially notable as Herons usually don't get along with Kites. |
| 271 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While Eloise normally has very little self-preservation while out questing even by pirate standards, she gets freaked out enough by the curse on Captain Golden Beard's treasure to throw the gold out before it can affect her too strongly, and is the only known quester who didn't bring any cursed gold back to the Isles with her. |
| 272 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Customizes her ship with pink cherry trim as a "girlypop" aesthetic, and has both an artistic and flirty streak. |
| 273 | * PluckyGirl: An IntrepidReporter determined to get the big scoop. |
| 274 | * SignatureHeadgear: Her cardboard box hat. She wears it claiming that she lost her old hat in a fight and had to improvise; in actuality, it is a nod to how she's trying to fit in with the seafarers of the Faction Isles as an outsider. |
| 275 | * SoleSurvivor: Claims to be this for her old crew, "the Taking 'L's", as part of her ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory, where said crew took one too many 'L's in battle. |
| 276 | * StayInTheKitchen: She was subjected to this treatment at home, where "they won't let women have any of the cool jobs". As a result of this, she's had to [[SweetPollyOliver dress up as a boy]] to get her first job as a newspaper seller and work her way up; even then, she's remained unsatisfied and has since sailed out to sea to get the scoop of her dreams. |
| 277 | * UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: On Day 22, Eloise considers taking a leaf out of Scott's book to make an army of capuchin monkeys, though she only ever gets one. She has also adopted a blobfish while sailing with Bek, then tamed a grizzly bear, a Komodo dragon ([[MaliciousMonitorLizard to many others' horror]]), and a raccoon. |
| 278 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Has a seemingly one-sided dynamic in this style with Owen, her roommate -- she's constantly annoyed about the shared storage space and tries to move into his side of the apartment while he's kidnapped (as she didn't know at the time). Despite this, she takes him leaving the Faction Isles hard, and [[spoiler:her first reaction upon him being BackForTheFinale is to smack him with a maraca for leaving]]. |
| 279 | * WrittenInAbsence: Eloise's absence from the rescue mission on Day 76 is brushed off as her having a haircut, both in real life and in-character. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:[=WaterMunch=]]] |
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| 285 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watermunch_5.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 286 | ->'''IGN:''' watermunch\ |
| 287 | '''Preferred name:''' Water\ |
| 288 | '''Personal pronouns:''' She/Her\ |
| 289 | ''"Today, I find myself leaving the dreams of old behind, but if you remember me, then I don't care if the world forgets."'' |
| 290 | One of the original Herons, Water is a musician and storyteller at heart, and while she tends to fade into the background in the big picture, she certainly has her own story to tell. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Water bonds with and falls for the NPC Jeffery over their [[ElegantClassicalMusician shared love for music]]. |
| 293 | * DudeNotFunny: On Day 115, Water is horrified by the headlines of "the Noisy Parrot" Issue 3 because they pun on the late [[spoiler:Hook's]] name. |
| 294 | -->[[spoiler:'''WHAT DA HOOK?!'''\ |
| 295 | Hook, line, stinker for failed revenge mission on travelling island…]] |
| 296 | * ElegantClassicalMusician: She plays the guitar and the lute, and her stream chat manifest as mainly music notes. |
| 297 | * FlowersOfFemininity: Wears a flower crown in place of her usual tricorn hat on her wedding day to emphasize her status as the bride. |
| 298 | * FourthDateMarriage: Water proposes to Jeffery less than three weeks into the series (on Day 20), and he accepts it. She winds up lampshading the short time they've known each other, admitting out-of-character that she didn't think it was possible to romance the [=NPCs=] beyond simple flirtation. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in-universe as [[GameplayAndStorySegregation the timeline doesn't run one-to-one with real life]]. |
| 299 | * LeeroyJenkins: On Day 26, while encountering a Tarantula Hawk, Owen is hesitant to do anything to it, knowing he'll probably get attacked if he doesn't kill it right away. Water's response to this? Punch the wasp and immediately get herself stung. |
| 300 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Expresses this sentiment towards Owen on Day 115 after reading his farewell letter saying he's leaving in light of the revelations [[spoiler:in "Sandro Caravel"'s journals]]. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} as they are reunited later on when Owen comes BackForTheFinale.]] |
| 301 | -->'''Water:''' Everyone leaves in the end, I guess. |
| 302 | * RunawayBride: Owen attempts to invoke this in his final letter to Water, advising her to dump Jeffery at the altar because she's "way too hot" for him. It's ultimately {{defied|Trope}} as Water doesn't follow this advice… [[spoiler:[[WidowedAtTheWedding not that the wedding goes well]] in the end.]] |
| 303 | * SickeninglySweethearts: Shares this dynamic with Jeffery, her fiancé for much of the series, often stopping by to chat or flirt. |
| 304 | * SignatureHeadgear: Is almost never seen without her tricorn hat, which she received years ago from an unknown character from her past. |
| 305 | * TagalongChronicler: Water reveals to Martyn on Day 17, and later to everyone else at her wedding speech, that her reason for becoming a Heron is to be this rather than to do any discovery and exploration herself, but later finds ''she'' has to write her own story before writing everyone else's. |
| 306 | -->'''Water:''' Not so long ago, I sailed these very Isles in search of a certain something -- a muse, a passion, something to make my writing memorable. I wanted to write legacies. Truthfully, that was the only reason that I joined the Herons; if anybody needed to be near these great discoverers and adventurers, it had to be me. These discoveries could fuel my work in ways unimaginable. I was naïve to the truth -- I needed to live a life worth writing about before I could ever put pen to paper about my dear friends. All I've ever dreamt of is having my works remembered. I wanted to be published, I wanted to string the perfect words together to form the stories of incredible captains and daring journeys. |
| 307 | * TeamChef: She regularly works on maintaining the farms of the Heron faction, both her own and the faction-wide one, and keeps the Heron kitchens stocked up and the faction well-fed. |
| 308 | * TemptingFate: On Day 125, Water ends her wedding vows with [[spoiler:"Till death do us part." ''Literally'' three seconds later, she's WidowedAtTheWedding when Jeffery succumbs to a [[DeconstructedTrope severe]] case of AnvilOnHead]]. |
| 309 | [[/folder]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[folder:[=ZombieCleo=]]] |
| 312 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zombiecleo.jpeg]] |
| 313 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 314 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zombiecleo.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 315 | ->'''IGN:''' [=ZombieCleo=]\ |
| 316 | '''Preferred name:''' Cleo\ |
| 317 | '''Personal pronouns:''' She/They\ |
| 318 | ''"Gotta get the alcohol. Otherwise, I'm gonna kill someone. It's fine."'' |
| 319 | Cleo is the resident brewer of the Isles and one of the original Herons. |
| 320 | ---- |
| 321 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Her skin has a greenish tint to it, if only by virtue of [[RidiculouslyAliveUndead her username]]. Despite this, she seems to have a regular human diet and metabolism, and doesn't burn in the sun like a normal zombie. |
| 322 | * ChekhovsSkill: Her talent at brewing comes in handy in the finale when [[spoiler:her chorus ale, which gives the Slow Falling status buff, allows the pirates to float down safely from the rafters of Iris' temple to confront her]]. |
| 323 | * DeadpanSnarker: Even with many on the server having a sarcastic streak, Cleo definitely stands out, especially in conjunction with a dark sense of humour: |
| 324 | -->'''Cleo:''' ''(regarding parkouring across a broken bridge to a Crypt)'' Y'know what, what's the worst that could happen? Instant death. That's fine. |
| 325 | * TheDrunkenSailor: It's stated that every time cc!Cleo's livestream glitches out, crashes, or ends (which is quite often), her character counterpart goes blackout drunk, is throwing up in the corner, etc. She also only agrees that Cruppy can stay with the Herons after it drinks a mug of her beer. |
| 326 | * EyeScream: Cleo claims on Day 1 that her right eye was stolen by a monkey, somehow. |
| 327 | * HearingVoices: What [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall their stream chat]] manifests as. |
| 328 | * OnlyOneName: On Day 13, in response to a chat question, Cleo points out how most pirates are known by both their first and last names, but they're just 'Cleo' and prefer it that way. |
| 329 | * SoleSurvivor: Recounts to Jojo on Day 107 that she was this after her old ship wrecked in a storm, and now essentially [[DrowningMySorrows drinks to self-medicate]]. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | |
| 333 | !!The Kestrels |
| 334 | [[folder:General Tropes]] |
| 335 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kestrels_banner.png]] |
| 336 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 337 | ->''"If you'd up and trade your health for a little extra wealth\ |
| 338 | Kestrels all will take a fall to snag up more doubloons"'' |
| 339 | -->-- '''[=InTheLittleWood=]''', "The Faction Isles" |
| 340 | The Kestrels are a materialistic pirate faction, believing the key to happiness is wealth and preferring to "live lavishly and enjoy the finer things in life". It has the most starter members of all four pirate factions -- Guqqie, Kyle, Oli, and Sausage -- with Martyn and Scar joining on Day 1, and Shelby and Shep joining on Day 52.\ |
| 341 | \ |
| 342 | The Kestrels are generally antagonistic towards the Kites and Nightingales, finding the former wasteful, the latter boring, and both too poor to be worth anything. They are on relatively good terms with the Herons, but still generally consider them to be inferior in terms of wealth. Their [=NPCs=] are Alison and Finnegan, who are eventually joined by Ausbie and later various contributions from Patreon. |
| 343 | ---- |
| 344 | * TheBeautifulElite: Sausage claims that the faction consists of the most "handsome" and "beautiful" and all-round "best" pirates on the Isles while introducing them to Shelby on Day 52. Played with in that while some of the Kestrels do have their share of admirers, individual wealth isn't necessarily determined by faction in-game and plenty of non-Kestrels are very well-off too. |
| 345 | * ColorMotif: Their [=IGNs=] are [[GoldIsYellow golden orange]] and their base is decorated with golden yellow curtains and carpets. |
| 346 | * FreudianSlip: Several among their numbers are quite prone to mispronouncing 'macaque' (actually "muh-KAK") and 'macaw' (actually "muh-CAW") as "mah cawk". You do the math from there. |
| 347 | * {{Greed}}: They are described to be willing to "do anything to earn a few more doubloons", and scorn upon "scoundrels" who can't take a fight for more cash money. They also think it's a waste of time to talk to anyone who is either poor or doesn't know how much they're monetarily worth, unless they have the ambition to become rich. |
| 348 | * InformedAttribute: There have been various mentions of serving staff working for members of the Kestrel faction, but this is never shown on-screen. |
| 349 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 350 | ** At the start of the series, despite being the luxury-oriented faction, the Kestrels have a tendency to forage for food rather than purchasing it from Claud the trader NPC. Kyle justifies it with the "low" quality of unmodded food sold there, as Claud mainly sells ''raw'' meat, which naturally requires cooking either on a campfire (inefficient) or in a furnace (fuel is expensive), and baked goods which restore relatively mediocre levels of Hunger or Saturation. |
| 351 | ** A similar irony persists in that the Kestrels are far from being the wealthiest of the factions -- while Kyle takes the lead in earnings at the start of the SMP, by the end, he's far surpassed by Acho, a Nightingale, who makes it to ''six figures'' in gold [[spoiler:and later leaves stars fortune to Scott, stars Heron brother, after leaving on a quest star does not expect to (and ultimately doesn't) return from; Scott is then in turn surpassed by ''Ros'', another Nightingale, after she liquidates the Snapdragon Casino to six figures as well and gives away her earnings to her friends freely]]. Meanwhile, although Shep is also one of the richest pirates on the Isles for much of the latter half of the series, he blows it all away by becoming TheGamblingAddict, and Kyle is very much bitter about being financially outdone by non-Kestrels in private. |
| 352 | * KillThePoor: At their worst, their scorn for "the poor" goes as far as to hire the Kites as mercenaries to "rough them up" (sometimes inclusive of decapitations), even though violence is nominally illegal on the Isles without a bounty. |
| 353 | * LackOfEmpathy: Most of the Kestrels [[ItsAllAboutMe show little concern for those outside their social circle]] and may even make fun of those outside it when they suffer misfortunes. However, they are, [[DownplayedTrope on some level]], generally capable of caring about others whenever things get down to the wire and may threaten their own lives as well, especially pertaining to the Corruption and the Cultists. |
| 354 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: {{Implied|Trope}}. In a pre-canon livestream reacting to the cast announcements, Sausage refers to Guqqie as a member of his "family" as part of the same faction and Kyle as his "Kestrel brother". |
| 355 | * ProudMerchantRace: Those who are not IdleRich tend to work in mercantile fields to maintain their wealth. |
| 356 | * RunningGag: The Kestrels claiming that the true extent of their wealth is located in offshore bank accounts. |
| 357 | * SlobsVersusSnobs: Played with. Most of the Kestrels' elitist pride and scorn of "the poor" is toned down for the bulk of the series, where they get along with everyone else for the most part, but during the recruitment events where it ''is'' played up, it's generally [[PlayedForLaughs for exaggerated hilarity]], e.g. singing about being wealthier than everyone else and quite literally spitting on "poor" people for the bit. |
| 358 | * TrueCompanions: Oddly, the Kestrels are this to each other, being more tight-knit among each other than anyone else on the Faction Isles, though they still often have individual friendships with non-Kestrels. Sausage goes as far as to refer to the Kestrels as a {{family|OfChoice}} several times throughout the series and to adopt new recruits by declaring them to be part of it, especially if their original families, however one may define that, are no longer around. |
| 359 | -->'''Scar:''' We all bought each other as friends; it's wonderful. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:[=GoodTimesWithScar=]]] |
| 363 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goodtimeswithscar.jpeg]] |
| 364 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 365 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goodtimewithscar.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 366 | ->'''IGN:''' [=GoodTimeWithScar=]\ |
| 367 | '''Preferred name:''' Scar\ |
| 368 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Him\ |
| 369 | ''"You can't be poor and be a pirate; it just– it's just not the way."'' |
| 370 | Formerly the captain of the ship the Flying Jellie, Scar is a pirate salesman and hat collector who joins the Kestrels on Day 1 alongside his beloved cat, Captain Jellie. [[spoiler:Day 134, the finale, reveals that he was TakenForGranite and KilledOffscreen.]] |
| 371 | ---- |
| 372 | * AffablyEvil: 'Evil' is a strong word by the series' standards, but for a scam artist who claims to enjoy threatening others, Scar is generally polite and friendly to others. |
| 373 | * BloodKnight: By Kestrel standards; Scar is almost always willing to draw a knife in conversations, claims to enjoy threatening others, and openly expresses his goal of sinking Tubbo's boat (or racing him, whichever comes first). He's also described himself to be more of a "fighter" than a "lover". |
| 374 | * CommonalityConnection: Scar and Puffy quickly bond while complaining about Finn's prices (e.g. charging 100 gold for honeycomb) on Day 1, saying that pirates have to stick together in the face of inflation. |
| 375 | * ConMan: As characteristic of many iterations of character-Scar; [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the moment he meets Martyn]], Scar tries to sell him a banana (actually a banana peel) for the two raw fish Martyn has on him upon arrival. He continues this scam throughout many other newcomers on the Isles, even after Martyn starts to warn everyone else of his antics; however, while attempting a variation of this scam with Owen on Day 5 for her ship, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she manages to scam him back in the process]]. |
| 376 | * TheDitz: He claims that he doesn't have a lot of brains under all those hats and can be a bit absent-minded, having placed down an anvil on a stall shelf once without a pickaxe to pick it back up on Day 1, and later licked some weird purple goo that has taken over an island without ever considering any potential consequences. |
| 377 | * ExtremeOmnivore: PlayedForLaughs; on Day 1 alone, the Recruitment Officer has advised Scar against eating his atlas just because it looks like a peanut butter sandwich, and he later licks the Corruption at Sausage's request and claims it was salty in taste. |
| 378 | * GoingDownWithTheShip: {{Inverted|Trope}}. According to his recountings, when the Flying Jellie started to sink, Scar was the first one on the lifeboat despite apparently being captain. |
| 379 | * TheHilarityOfHats: Scar is first introduced wearing about four hats stacked on top of each other -- [[WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}} a familiar red top hat]] on top of a cyan top hat, on top of a bottle green tricorn hat, on top of a brown pirate's tricorn hat. That being said, he also claims to have obtained each of the hats from a captain he has slain and ship he has sunk. |
| 380 | * LastSecondWordSwap: Right after scamming Martyn at the start of Day 1, Scar almost bumps into Olive and Puffy, but quickly moves to avoid them. |
| 381 | -->'''Scar:''' I'm wary of people. I'm wary of people. I need to– I need to get people to one-on-one so I can rip them– I mean, I can trade, I can trade, I can trade. |
| 382 | * MythologyGag: On Day 1, Scar claims to have stolen his red top hat from "[[WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}} some guy with a wagon]]", and jokes about the Kites being obviously not trustworthy because "[[WebVideo/LifeSMP they have red names]]". Later in the day, when he fails to tame a Scarlet Macaw, he comments, "Never trust a [[WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}} pesky bird]]." |
| 383 | * PutOnABus: Has not been seen online since Day 5. Sausage and Oli have discussed that Scar has been too busy [[WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}} dungeon-crawling and sailing on "another deck"]] to return to the Isles. [[spoiler:The finale reveals he's on the unfortunate end of a BusCrash sometime before that point.]] |
| 384 | * PyrrhicVictory: By his own account on Day 1, Scar lost his ship, crew, and treasure during a big battle, but still won said battle. |
| 385 | * ShoutOut: His character design is inspired by a character from the ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' ride at Disneyland. |
| 386 | * SkewedPriorities: According to Sausage's recounting of Scar's backstory, he cared more about saving his hat collection (and Jellie) than his crew when it came down to fitting one or the other into the lifeboat. |
| 387 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the sinking of the Flying Jellie, alongside Captain Jellie herself. [[spoiler:It doesn't last.]] |
| 388 | * StepfordSmiler: {{Implied|Trope}}. For all his amicability and charm, Scar doesn't seem to like mentioning how he chose the Kestrels over the Nightingales because their emphasis on FamilyOfChoice reminded him of his own lost "family". |
| 389 | -->'''Scar:''' Yeah, I let my family go down with the ship, I'll go with the money. |
| 390 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Is noticeably disturbed upon finding out snakes exist around the Faction Isles, so much that he barricades himself in his room for a while. |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Guqqie]] |
| 394 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guqqie.jpeg]] |
| 395 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 396 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guqqie_4.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 397 | ->'''IGN:''' guqqie\ |
| 398 | '''Preferred name:''' Guqqie\ |
| 399 | '''Personal pronouns:''' She/They\ |
| 400 | ''"You guys are gonna help, right? You're gonna get them out… and deal with it?"'' |
| 401 | Guqqie was considered to be an expert on crystals, but was also prideful in her privileged upbringing on the Isles as one of the original Kestrels. On Day 1, she is chosen to investigate a snowy temple and never returns from the quest, and is listed as "fallen" on the official [=POWCreations=] Twitter. |
| 402 | ---- |
| 403 | * BrutalHonesty: Guqqie tends to be quite blunt when it comes to their opinion on others. |
| 404 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Guqqie's outfit has minor changes in official material. Her in-game skin has a longer skirt, a blue pendant, and sandals. In her introductory photo and the Day 1 animatic, her skirt is shorter, she lacks a pendant, and she wears brown boots. [[https://twitter.com/POWCreations/status/1725970116502823207 In the official posters]], she still lacks a pendant and is given ProperTightsWithASkirt. |
| 405 | * GotVolunteered: One of the mysterious Hooded Figures (later dubbed the Cultists) on the Corrupted Island chooses Guqqie as a "volunteer" to investigate a snowy temple on another island. [[spoiler:The "Final Wishes" event reveals that this was a regular tactic of the Cultists, and the past victims also never returned from their voyages.]] |
| 406 | * IronicFear: In spite of being a pirate, Guqqie is hesitant to go out to sea due to [[IronicAllergy getting seasick sometimes]] (which is "unladylike" according to her mother), so she usually prefers to stay on the Faction Isles and only leaves when she has to. |
| 407 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although they are described to be "elitist" even by Kestrel standards, Guqqie is cordial to many of the newcomers to the Isles, even offering to take some non-Kestrels under their wing, and they deeply care for Aimsey. Her last words before the Day 1 animatic was asking the Cultists if they were going to help Aimsey with genuine worry. |
| 408 | * KilledOffscreen: Guqqie is last seen climbing up to the snowy temple in the animated segment of Day 1. Afterwards, the official Twitter announces her death. |
| 409 | * LastRequest: Before going on her final quest, Guqqie asks the other pirates still present to make sure that Aimsey, her love interest, gets out safe. They don't. |
| 410 | * NoSocialSkills: Whenever she meets someone new, the first thing Guqqie asks them usually relates to how much money they have in their bank account, to Aimsey's dismay. |
| 411 | * RichBitch: Guqqie boasts about being from a wealthy family and [[IdleRich never having had to work a "peasant" job a day in their life]]. They also think Owen's choice to ''leave'' a life of wealth and luxury behind is a mistake on his part. |
| 412 | * RoseHairedSweetie: Heavily {{downplayed|Trope}}. Guqqie has pink hair and has shown that she ''can'' be nice to others, especially towards Aimsey and people of wealth. However, she's dismissive of poor people and expresses anger about the fact that Martyn is recruited into the Kestrels. |
| 413 | * SickeninglySweethearts: With Aimsey. Whenever they're alone together, they always flirt and tease each other, despite [[{{Tsundere}} Guqqie's]] claims of not being fond of Aimsey. |
| 414 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only known non-male Kestrel player from the initial line-up. |
| 415 | * StarCrossedLovers: Guqqie and Aimsey's relationship was bound to have obstacles from the start with the former being affiliated with the luxurious Kestrels and the latter being affiliated with the bloodthirsty Kites, with both factions not being fond of each other. If that wasn't enough, both of them die on Day 1 without even going on a proper date. |
| 416 | * SurprisinglyNormalBackstory: From what little we know about them, Guqqie lived a very luxurious life, albeit very sheltered from the other factions because they were "dirty", and her parents seem concerned about her appearing to be "ladylike" and proper. She did also form a relationship with Aimsey, despite the fact they were from the Kites. [[spoiler:PlayedForHorror when the "Final Wishes" event implies it's ''because'' of her normal upbringing that the Cultists chose her to be a sacrifice.]] |
| 417 | * TakenForGranite: Guqqie's death announcement poster on Twitter {{implie|dTrope}}s that she was turned to stone in the snowy temple. The finale confirms her demise this way when her statue is shown. |
| 418 | * TerrifiedOfGerms: A variation; despite being raised on the Isles as a Kestrel, Guqqie didn't leave the faction base much due to a belief that the Isles were dirty, and didn't know or interact with many non-Kestrels before Day 1. |
| 419 | * {{Tsundere}}: Guqqie is notably prickly to most non-Kestrels and even those who haven't proven themselves yet, and claims to not be fond of Aimsey. Despite this, whenever they're alone together, they're practically SickeninglySweethearts. |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:[=ImaShep=]]] |
| 423 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shep.jpeg]] |
| 424 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 425 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shep_49.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 426 | %%Add art of Shep from the backstory animatics |
| 427 | ->'''IGN:''' [=ImaShep=]\ |
| 428 | '''Preferred name:''' Shep\ |
| 429 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/They\ |
| 430 | ''"It's called 'self-preservation'. It's a ''fantastic'' little thing."'' |
| 431 | Shep was mostly raised on the rogue ship the Luscinia; not long after leaving its crew, he crashes on a Corrupted island with Shelby and Sniff on Day 52. Following their escape by dinghy to an uncorrupted island, Shep finds that his priorities in life align with the Kestrel faction and chooses to join them, but also soon finds he's not the only ex-Luscinia crew member on the Isles… whom he finds he's not exactly a fan of. |
| 432 | ---- |
| 433 | * AffablyEvil: He's quite amicable when he wants to be to everyone else on the Isles in general, and often teams up with Water and/or others to take on Fortresses and Crypts. He's still a self-centred, remorseless murderer, though, and one of the more morally questionable people on the Faction Isles during his time there. |
| 434 | * BigEater: Briefly PlayedForHorror on Day 64; after taking on the Captain Golden Beard quest, the curse inflicts Shep with insatiable hunger to the point his full Hunger bar can drop to zero in less than ''five seconds''. This happens mere minutes after he brushes off an ominous curse-message about this, [[TemptingFate saying he's packed extra food]] -- he ends up chugging 27 baked potatoes in-game ''within a minute''. |
| 435 | * BlamingTheVictim: Declares that [[spoiler:Will is "more trouble than [he's] worth" before having him PushedAtTheMonster]], and follows up by having ''this'' to say: |
| 436 | -->'''Shep:''' Do you think it matters in the moment? They were poking their head where it shouldn't have belonged. |
| 437 | * ChronicPetKiller: Shep has a notoriously bad track record when it comes to pets, with well over 20 pets having died for various reasons. One of the most notable incidences of this is that after trying to set up a blobfish-selling business on Day 92, he decides to let loose all 20-or-so blobfish in the Kestrel waterfall pool; all but three of the deep sea fish end up swimming up the waterfalls, falling out of them, and dying from the subsequent fall damage. |
| 438 | * TheDitz: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Shep has been described to have the personality of "a teenage himbo emo" (despite being 21) and has made his fair share of unwise decisions, but he has some degree of business savvy and prefers to gain his Kestrel wealth by investing in the banana stock market, which still requires at least some brain cells to rub together. He's also pretty good with puzzles, if his Crypt-busting abilities are of any indication. |
| 439 | * DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:When face to face with a group of Cultists on Day 130, Shep decides his best course of action is to [[PushedAtTheMonster almost literally throw Will to the wolves and run for it]]. After the incident, he's sure that Will can handle himself and is going to be fine… which he is very much not, on account of dying from the stunt Shep pulled.]] |
| 440 | * DissonantSerenity: Shep is fully content to stay in Cultist captivity if it means he gets free booze. He's also completely unbothered by the fact that [[spoiler:the Faction Isles were created to raise free souls for the slaughter]], simply saying he's just going to leave before it gets to him and that he'll either find an opening in the Ice Wall or constantly stay on the run if he has to. Will is [[LampshadeHanging baffled by this lack of reaction]] in the latter case. |
| 441 | * DragonRider: Depending on how you define 'dragon', Shep has occasionally been seen riding his pet Komodo dragon Coda (formerly named 'Missile') around town. |
| 442 | * DumbassHasAPoint: After some discussion on Day 112, Will is forced to concede that Shep using wax crayons to mark out the maps instead of charcoal is a good course of action for making lasting maps that don't have their notes washed away by the seas. |
| 443 | -->'''Shep:''' You know, I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, ''but'' I might know a thing or two. |
| 444 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: 'Evil' is a strong word, but despite his own morality issues, Shep does care about his fellow Kestrels and expresses concern for his roommate Shelby's whereabouts at the start of the finale, and [[spoiler:is indeed shocked and saddened to find her among the petrified]] in the climax. |
| 445 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While he adopted his Kestrel-like outlook on life from Captain Elyas Merton of the Luscinia, Shep refuses to partake in headhunting to earn gold, a practice that the captain apparently loved. |
| 446 | * FlatEarthAtheist: In a world where the Ice Wall exists and Fortresses spontaneously summon vengeful souls as monsters, Shep somehow refuses to believe that the gold from Captain Golden Beard's hoard is cursed, ''even when he's being actively affected by the curse's effects''. |
| 447 | * {{Foil}}: A four-way instance. |
| 448 | ** To Scott. Both of them are "golden children" figures trained to follow in their terrible mentors' footsteps and who [[WellDoneSonGuy want said mentors' approval]], and both amass a large and extensive exotic pet collection during the canon era. However, their respective relationships with their "scapegoat" counterparts are the polar opposite -- Scott desperately [[BigBrotherInstinct tries to look out for]] Acho to the point of [[spoiler:being willing to pull a HeroicSacrifice so star can live]], while Shep is mostly indifferent to Will and thinks he's "weird", if not outright disliking him, and [[spoiler:has him PushedAtTheMonster when things get too hairy]]. This is also contrasted in their respective fates -- both [[spoiler:decide to leave the Isles to sail and explore the lands beyond the Ice Wall]], but while Scott [[spoiler:is doing so in Acho's memory to get away from their toxic parents, i.e. acting in defiance to them]], Shep [[spoiler:is trying to invoke KarmaHoudini knowing there might be "a target on his back" for the third-degree murder he committed, all the while keeping Captain Merton on an unshakeable golden pedestal]]. |
| 449 | ** To Acho. Both of them are the estranged younger "sibling figure" in the golden child/scapegoat dynamic growing up, and over the latter half of canon, have amassed a huge self-made fortune from mainly Fortressing like there's no tomorrow. That being said, [[spoiler:both end up losing that fortune -- Acho from leaving it as an inheritance to Scott in case star doesn't make it back from a deadly quest, and Shep does to becoming TheGamblingAddict]]. Both also have vastly different worldviews and values: Shep is [[DissonantSerenity apathetic]] about the dangers of the Ecclesiae Sea and is mainly just there to make money and have a good time, while Acho is heavily invested and loyal to the loved ones star has connected or reconnected with while on the Isles; Shep places his EvilMentor on an unshakeable pedestal and [[spoiler:is willing to commit voluntary manslaughter]] in self-preservation, while Acho shows an overwhelming bitterness towards stars terrible parents, and yet cares so deeply for stars loved ones [[spoiler:to the point of being self-sacrificial]]. |
| 450 | ** To Will, his fellow ex-Luscinia crew member turned Faction Isles pirate, and to whom he serves as a ShadowArchetype. Despite being raised into a similar environment, they are almost polar opposites of each other -- in terms of how they left said environment, Shep left to seek his own fortune, having [[WellDoneSonGuy taken after]] their mutual EvilMentor, while Will was thrown off the ship as a teenager for disobeying said mentor. This also extends to their respective outlooks on life -- an apathetic, self-serving, money-hungry Kestrel who reinforces the cynical status quo of Ecclesia, versus a caring, kindly Nightingale who wants to prove the world and its people can be better. |
| 451 | * FreudianExcuse: His self-centred, greedy side was likely [[ToxicFamilyInfluence fostered from being brought up to value such traits]] by an unsavory ParentalSubstitute of a mentor whom he wanted to earn approval from. |
| 452 | * TheGamblingAddict: After finding his way to the Snapdragon Casino, Shep proceeds to blow his entire fortune he came to seek away on the roulette wheel, then his residence on the Isles and even his sword. By the time he's done, he's gone from being one of the wealthiest pirates on the Isles to having less than 100 gold to his name. |
| 453 | * KarmaHoudini: In the finale, Shep is seen to get away with [[spoiler:the third-degree murder he committed just over a week prior on Day 130]]: |
| 454 | ** At the start, Shep tells Kyle (overheard in Jojo, Owen, Ros, and Seapeekay's perspectives) that he [[spoiler:encountered some Cultists with Will]] on that day and not seeing him since, but conveniently leaves out the part about [[spoiler:''shoving Will at the Cultists'' and running to save his own skin]]. |
| 455 | ** In the end, after [[spoiler:the defeat and deaths of both Iris and Ivy]], Shep makes plans to leave the Faction Isles behind, not just because [[spoiler:the fall of the Ice Wall means he can go out to explore more of the world]], but also that he overhears [[spoiler:Apo and Graecie]] swearing to find whoever caused [[spoiler:Will to be petrified]] and realizes there's a target on his back if they ever find out he bears at least partial responsibility for that happening. |
| 456 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: A supernatural variant. While under the Captain Golden Beard quest's curse, Shep spends much of his time brushing off its effects, even when being indefinitely hit with the Hunger status debuff in full force. When faced with the curse's countdown, he just claims that his sprite chat is overreacting and only throws away the curse gold to calm ''them'' down, thinking there's no inherent issue with the gold just yet to panic, and altogether [[FlatEarthAtheist remains skeptical about there being a curse on the gold at all]]. |
| 457 | * MisplacedRetribution: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; despite being completely uninvolved on a personal level, Shep has been on the receiving end of angry server-members' interrogations for being the only other Kestrel online whenever Kestrel-related drama goes down, notably after Martyn [[spoiler:steals the Sunset Stone]] and later crashes Water's wedding with Sausage. |
| 458 | * NominalHero: Although he fights alongside the other pirates against [[spoiler:Iris]] in the final battle and [[AffablyEvil can be nice to others]], Shep only really cares about his own gold and life, and is generally apathetic to anything that doesn't personally affect him. |
| 459 | * NoodleIncident: From his backstory animatic on Day 105: |
| 460 | -->In hindsight, trying to sell bananas to others on the ship [when he was a teen] wasn't necessarily the brightest idea, but Shep still tried nonetheless. |
| 461 | * ParentalAbandonment: His backstory animatic on Day 105 describes him to be "left on the docks by his family to find work" before being taken aboard the Luscinia, which must have happened when he was aged 7 at most. |
| 462 | * SelfImposedChallenge: {{Invoked|Trope}}. On Days 96 and 99, Shep attempts to tackle Fortresses using only pumpkin pies (or other food items) [[EdibleBludgeon as weapons]], "just for the giggles" and out of curiosity for whether it's actually possible.[[note]]Especially since using a regular item as a weapon carries no more damage than using one's bare fist in-game.[[/note]] After several attempts, lots of running, and many potions, he eventually succeeds on Day 99. |
| 463 | * ShadowArchetype: |
| 464 | ** Shep effectively embodies what Will could have become if he [[ToxicFamilyInfluence listened to Merton and obeyed his orders]], and didn't get kicked off the Luscinia -- a greedy and self-centred murderer, albeit still capable of caring for others. |
| 465 | ** He's also one for Scott if he had taken his WellDoneSonGuy tendencies to the extreme and ditched the BigBrotherInstinct. |
| 466 | * SharkPool: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 87, where he states all great villains have one of these, then clarifies he's only making one because [[RuleOfCool it would be cool]], not because he's a villain himself. |
| 467 | * UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Shep has a pond of hammerhead sharks because he thinks villains' {{Shark Pool}}s are cool, and originally made (now-scrapped) plans to get a pet ''thrasher''. He later also gets himself a Komodo dragon, initially named 'Missile' and later renamed 'Coda', and about ''twenty'' blobfish ([[ChronicPetKiller most of which end up dying]]). |
| 468 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Shep's backstory describes him having relentlessly trying to earn the approval of Captain Elyas Merton, whom he sees as a ParentalSubstitute, and it's confirmed by [[invoked]]WordOfGod that one of his worst fears is being shunned by the captain. It's PlayedForHorror in that [[ToxicFamilyInfluence his outlook on life is warped to be similarly greedy and self-serving]], and it's heavily implied (and confirmed by his content creator counterpart post-canon) that he previously committed murder for Merton in doing so, [[TeensAreMonsters while no older than the age of 21]]. |
| 469 | * YouRemindMeOfX: The more time Will spends with Shep, the more they are reminded of Elyas Merton, the captain of the Luscinia, the ship which both of them were raised on, with Shep having adopted his mannerisms and outlook on life. [[InsultBackfire Shep takes it as a compliment]]. |
| 470 | [[/folder]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | [[folder:[=InTheLittleWood=]]] |
| 473 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inthelittlewood.jpeg]] |
| 474 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 475 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inthelittlewood_8.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 476 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see the skin for his alter ego (spoiler warning).]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pirates_martyn_blondbeard.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 477 | ->'''IGN:''' LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}\ |
| 478 | '''Preferred name:''' Martyn\ |
| 479 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Him\ |
| 480 | ''"You wanna do your little command… You wanna be in cahoots with the Sun God? I was ''made'' to kill gods."'' |
| 481 | Having landed in the seas of the Isles on Day 1, Martyn chooses to join the Kestrels in search for a specific piece of treasure: the elusive L.O.O.T. Shard of the datastream world. Throughout his stay, he has made some business ventures on the Isles, especially in the media industry, but eventually grows weary of the lack of progress he has towards his original goal and chooses to take a more proactive approach in his endeavors, by all means necessary. |
| 482 | %%Everyone but the Nightingales |
| 483 | ---- |
| 484 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: Bursts into a fit of laughter upon first seeing a copy of Eloise's "yassified" anime-style WantedPoster of him on Day 91. |
| 485 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: {{Implied|Trope}} on Day 62; when Martyn starts dozing off from the effects of the cursed gold, one of his boot rats bites him hard enough to wake him up again. It's {{invoked|Trope}} on the rats' part, who'd rather their Captain ''not'' succumb to the curse's effects and become a zombie. |
| 486 | * AnvilOnHead: {{Invoke|dTrope}}s this on a couple of climatic occasions: |
| 487 | ** On Day 106, Martyn is the first to suggest ColdBloodedTorture on Cruppy during the interrogation by dropping an anvil on it, which prompts Apo to pull out a lava bucket for the job. |
| 488 | ** [[spoiler:On Day 125, he drops one from the ceiling of the wedding hall in Ros' castle, killing Jeffery.]] |
| 489 | * BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}}; Martyn decides to put on a fake beard when taking on the persona of "Blonde Beard", and the fake facial hair is seen to be flung clean off during the volcanic eruption caused by the destruction of the L.O.O.T. Shard, showing he no longer has to be TheUnfettered anymore. That being said, the fake beard ends up getting in the way of him trying to kill Water at her wedding.]] |
| 490 | * BerserkButton: PlayedForLaughs; no matter how often he goes out to chart the accessible waters of the Faction Isles, and even if he's one of the two pirates to discover the Ice Wall, and despite his IntrepidJournalist streak, do ''not'' compare him with the Herons. His boot rats have a lot of fun pressing this particular button. |
| 491 | * TheBigGuy: Martyn is recruited into the Kestrels for his muscle power; while consulting the Recruitment Officer, the Officer says Martyn could go far with the Kites using his raw strength, but didn't think he suits their GlorySeeker lifestyle. |
| 492 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: As the "[[DimensionalTraveler Datastream Defender]]" in his V-Tuber lore, Martyn's primary concern is to find and destroy the L.O.O.T. Shard of the world. As a result, his worldview is quite skewed and at-times disconnected from everyone he encounters in the Pirates world, who don't have the knowledge to comprehend their world on the meta-scale. |
| 493 | ** Also because of this, he effectively views the world around him as a video game and the characters he encounters as either other players, [=NPCs=], or C.H.E.S.T. agents, meaning he's willing to partake in VideoGameCrueltyPotential and go "villain arc" and back at the drop of a hat, most notably when torturing Cruppy for information or [[spoiler:stealing the Sunset Stone to empower himself to accomplish his overall goal]], which most others would regard as morally reprehensible. |
| 494 | ** Most notably, on Day 106, Martyn accuses the other pirates of being selfish for allegedly only caring for their own gold and glory when there are greater forces of evil at work, like the Corruption and the Cultists. It is implied that this viewpoint, incorrect and misguided in of itself, is brought about by his own self-serving attitude and lack of awareness to what happens around him to everyone else (again, video game mindset), and a subsequent lack of awareness that his actions on the world have ''consequences''. |
| 495 | * DimensionalTraveler: He shares CharacterOverlap with V-Tuber Martyn and his lore; as a datastream-hopper, he is, on some level, the same character as his ''WebVideo/LifeSMP'' and ''WebVideo/RatsSMP'' counterparts. |
| 496 | * TheDreaded: Claims on Day 125 that even a mention of [[spoiler:his moniker of "Captain Blonde Beard"]] can cause people to BringMyBrownPants, and quickly attempts to intimidate everyone [[spoiler:with his new persona]]. [[SubvertedTrope However]], considering [[spoiler:he falls ''very'' short of assassinating the bride on her wedding day]], those he leaves behind simply think he's being a big {{jerkass}}. |
| 497 | * FallingIntoThePlot: Martyn's series starts with him being shoved through a portal in the datastream, then falling out of the sky and landing in the ocean. |
| 498 | * FryingPanOfDoom: While assembling his last preparations to crash Water's wedding on Day 125, Martyn finds himself short of spare weapons as nearly every NPC is in attendance and away from town. This causes him to purchase a skillet from Claud, one of the only available [=NPCs=] around, as one of his spare weapons… [[spoiler:not that it works out for him in the end.]] |
| 499 | * AGodAmI: References this [[spoiler:after claiming the Sunset Stone for himself]] on Day 89. |
| 500 | -->'''Martyn:''' [[spoiler:Why rely on a god when you can just become one?]] |
| 501 | * ImmoralJournalist: While possessing great talent in media, Martyn isn't afraid to twist the occasional quotation for sensationalist drama or to let his biases show in articles through exaggeration or omission, especially towards Cruppy, or to slander those he deems rivals or enemies. That being said, there's usually at least a nugget of truth in his "Noisy Parrot" articles, and most of them are written with at least some genuine intent. |
| 502 | * InSeriesNickname: His boot rats often call him "Captain". |
| 503 | * LaughingMad: Is practically giggling with glee at the prospect of watching Ros fall to pieces and cry over her blown-up castle on Day 132. |
| 504 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Being from the datastream and travelling between game worlds, Martyn comments on Day 45 that the Sun God appears to be the closest the world has to an admin, which is indeed the case out-of-universe. |
| 505 | * ListOfTransgressions: Upon discovering he has a bounty placed on him on Day 24, Martyn tries to list off everyone he's annoyed or potentially offended in some way to warrant the bounty. It's questionable if he even committed some of the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking minor offenses]] he lists. |
| 506 | -->'''Martyn:''' Who did I annoy? Ah, let me see… uh… I've tried to kill Acho, I've tried to kill Ros and extort her for money, I've tried to steal Eloise's hat and also assisted in the killing of her in another bounty… I've called Bek horrible names, I've judged Michela for being lazy for flint… Owen, I slaughtered out at sea; Apo, I spat on and ran away; Water, I said that their music wasn't very good… uh… Olive, I've told them that they should question their life decisions by joining the Herons… ''(laughs)'' Do you want me to go on? The short answer is ''everybody''. |
| 507 | * LyingFingerCross: Mentions crossing his fingers behind his back while promising [[spoiler:the Sun God]] that he'd [[spoiler:look after the other pirates [[LastRequest after they go dormant]] to recover from destroying the L.O.O.T. Shard for him]]. That being said, given [[spoiler:his status as a DimensionalTraveler and the fact his work in the world is ''also'' done with the destruction of the L.O.O.T. Shard]], it's understandable. |
| 508 | * MisplacedRetribution: On Day 106, while dragging out Cruppy to interrogate it on Monkey Island, Martyn and Apo pass Eloise on the open sea, returning to the Faction Isles. Later the same day, after being called out for his involvement in kidnapping and resorting to [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing Cruppy for information]], Martyn passes by Eloise's ship again on his way back to the Isles. His response to this is to ''attack Eloise and Bek'' (also aboard at the time) for allegedly snitching on the Cruppy Cleaning Crew to Graecie and Kuervo. [[DramaticIrony In reality]], Graecie witnessed the kidnapping, which was what led to the rescue mission, while Eloise is completely clueless to what Martyn is even mad about at the time. |
| 509 | * NominalHero: Although Martyn is nominally part of the Faction Isles and opposes whatever forces which may threaten the pirates, the fact he's in the world to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality fight an interdimensional war]] means his moral compass doesn't necessarily align with that of the rest of the Isles, and out of all the pirates, he arguably gets the closest to crossing the line to villainy of his own accord. |
| 510 | * ProtectionRacket: Takes out a bounty on Ros on Day 15, then orders her to pay him 100 gold a day for him to not act on the bounty. It only lasts three days, after Ros accidentally takes Martyn out [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with his own cannonball]] two days later ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]). |
| 511 | * PunnyName: |
| 512 | ** Spoofed in that his Twitter introduction refers to him as "M-arrgtyn". |
| 513 | ** On Day 1, Martyn decides that if he can dye his boat's sails different colours, he'll name it either "the Tie-Dye" or "the Tide High". [[spoiler:He's able to obtain custom, tie-dyed sails for the finale.]] |
| 514 | * SelfAppliedNickname: [[spoiler:His persona and brief retitling as "Captain Blonde Beard" from Day 121 onward]] is taken seriously by just about no one, no matter [[DoNotCallMePaul how irritated he is whenever anyone calls him by his actual name]]. |
| 515 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Martyn's overall dynamic with the Heron faction, always proclaiming to hate them and to be disgusted by their presence as a faction, while trying to push for the other Kestrels to dislike the Herons as well. This is completely and comically [[UnknownRival one-sided]] on Martyn's end. |
| 516 | * SuperToughness: {{Implied|Trope}}; on Day 132, Martyn is able to survive [[spoiler:venturing into the magma chamber of a volcano, then be thrown out of said volcano ''through an eruption'' and survive from landing in SoftWater]]. It's unconfirmed if this is because [[spoiler:the effects of the Sunset Stone haven't worn off on him yet]], since he still [[spoiler:retains the remnant 40 extra hearts]] for the rest of the livestream, or it's because he's [[DimensionalTraveler quite literally not from the Pirates world]]. |
| 517 | * ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:{{Inverted|Trope}} in the finale, where he declares his persona of "Captain Blonde Beard" to be dead and decides to redecorate his ship again to reflect this change. He also [[{{Gaslighting}} tries to justify]] that he's been on vacation at the Sabertooth tavern this whole time.]] |
| 518 | * TokenGoodTeammate: SubvertedTrope. Martyn is considered to be the least money-hungry and greedy of the Kestrels by Graecie, who also correctly suspects that he could have gone to a faction other than the Kestrels during Recruitment Day. However, he ''does'' still have a mean-spirited streak, most notably seen towards Ros in his ProtectionRacket scheme, [[spoiler:and ends up as the first of the current generation of Kestrels to have ever gone rogue.]] |
| 519 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: This is not to say Apo is the nicest guy around, but Martyn has persistently played a role in egging on his worse actions, including teaming up with him to interrogate Cruppy (and ''suggesting'' the torture part in the first place via an AnvilOnHead), trying to convince him to help him [[spoiler:crash Water's wedding to kill her]], and when that falls through, [[spoiler:ordering him to kill Acho to prove himself "worthy" of a rogue crew]]. |
| 520 | * ATwinkleInTheSky: [[spoiler:Being launched out of the volcano after the destruction of the L.O.O.T. Shard at the end of his 18th episode, Martyn is [[MediumBlending depicted]] to be flung into the sky until he's merely a twinkle, before falling back down into the Town harbour, just as he did upon his arrival in the Pirates world.]] |
| 521 | * TheUnfettered: Martyn is willing to stop at ''nothing'' to find the L.O.O.T. Shard he has been searching in this world all this time, including [[spoiler:stealing the Sunset Stone]] to gain more power, then [[spoiler:taking on the persona of Captain Blonde Beard after becoming overly reliant on the Sunset Stone's now-declining power to intimidate everyone]], and later [[spoiler:blowing up Ros' castle]] as a distraction for him to continue his search in [[spoiler:the Faction Isles volcano]]. Even his world-exclusive adventures tend towards him being like this, as exemplified by him kidnapping and torturing Cruppy to interrogate it for information. It's {{justified|Trope}} in that being from the datastream, Martyn effectively [[BlueAndOrangeMorality views the series as a video game]] and isn't afraid to play into the VideoGameCrueltyPotential, even to the other characters' detriment. In the finale, he admits that he's self-aware enough to know he might have taken it a bit too far during his power-trip. |
| 522 | * UnknownRival: Played weirdly. Martyn has a SitcomArchNemesis dynamic with the Heron faction and proclaims to hate them, but mostly just has on-and-off friendship with some (most notably Eloise) and gets along alright with others. The Herons themselves are either unaware of this, don't care, or don't take his alleged hatred of them to heart at all. |
| 523 | -->'''Martyn:''' ''(after splitting up to look for clues in the finale)'' How has this happened again? How am I stuck [with] the Herons?!\ |
| 524 | ''(The Herons cheer)'' |
| 525 | * WantedPoster: PlayedForLaughs on Day 89 when Eloise paints one of Martyn after he [[spoiler:steals the Sunset Stone]], but ends up drawing him in a "yassified" anime style with over-exaggerated makeup and Bambi eyes. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:Kyle Foster]] |
| 529 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyleeff.jpeg]] |
| 530 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 531 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyleeff_5.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 532 | ->'''IGN:''' [=KyleEff=]\ |
| 533 | '''Preferred name:''' Kyle\ |
| 534 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Him\ |
| 535 | ''"Soon, they'll know more about the Foster family. Soon, they'll know more about its chairman."'' |
| 536 | Kyle hails from a wealthy Kestrel-affiliated family; while he came to the Faction Isles for business purposes, he soon fell in with the pirate side of the family business. However, despite his familial ties, he wants to be known for his own talents beyond the field. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * DisappearedDad: His father died a few years before the start of the SMP. |
| 539 | * ElegantClassicalMusician: A renowned, classically trained musician and aspiring composer who has attracted his fair share of admirers, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim regardless of gender]]. |
| 540 | * TheGadfly: Many of his POV livestreams are titled with something in relation to "tomfoolery", and he's been known to engage in a lot of silly behaviour for the lolz, including placing bounties and dragging other players around with lassos. |
| 541 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Despite having flirted with other male pirates, Kyle is stated by [[invoked]]WordOfGod to be very, very straight. After this confirmation, the other creator-characters simply lay off of him to make romantic advances on ''other'' pirates. |
| 542 | * LegacySeeker: Is stated to only aim towards the cash money of the Kestrel faction to fulfill his own musical aspirations. |
| 543 | * PirateParrot: His content creator counterpart's [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall stream chat]] manifests as a flock of parrots. |
| 544 | * SanitySlippage: {{Implied|Trope}}. Starting from around Day 111, Kyle has been hearing some mysterious "music" that no one else, not even his stream chat, can hear, which is seemingly driving him further into obsession. However, [[AbortedArc the plotline mostly fizzles out after that point]]. |
| 545 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Shows shades of being one BeneathTheMask of being an archetypical wealth-loving Kestrel. |
| 546 | -->'''Kyle:''' ''(to his pet macaw)'' You know, Dweet, maybe soon, we can start putting things together; we can really make him proud, even if… he's gone. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[folder:Mythical J. Sausage]] |
| 550 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mythical_j_sausage.jpeg]] |
| 551 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 552 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his first skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mythicalsausage.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 553 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his second skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pirates_sausage_stone_arm.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 554 | ->'''IGN:''' [=MythicalSausage=]\ |
| 555 | '''Preferred name:''' Sausage\ |
| 556 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Him |
| 557 | One of the original Kestrels, Sausage is the ''de facto'' leader of the faction by seniority (excluding Alison, the NPC in charge) and the nephew of Capitán Santana (alias "Captain Graybeard"), an esteemed Kestrel in his own right.[[note]]Jellie the cat is appointed the leader upon her arrival, but the point stands.[[/note]] However, after taking on a quest that results in him getting cursed, Sausage starts hearing strange Whispers that no one else can hear, with doom pending for those in his path. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | * AlternateIdentityAmnesia: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. In the finale, Sausage has hazy memories from [[spoiler:being controlled and possessed by the Whispers]], but not any specific. |
| 560 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Sausage is almost definitely attracted to women, having gone on dates with Alison, the NPC Kestrel leader, and the Enchantress, as well as [[spoiler:the [[https://www.twitter.com/Mythicalsausage/status/1775591256246112292 post-canon description]] of him having his petrified arm "polished every night by a new maiden" he meets on his travels]]; however, whatever he has going on with most of the other Kestrel players (a faction that skews heavily masculine) and Scott is riddled with innuendo. Since nothing has been explicitly stated about what Sausage ''identifies'' as, that part is still up for debate. |
| 561 | * AndIMustScream: Having been trapped for about a week in the Cultists' petrification beam on Monkey Island, Sausage recalls that he could see and hear his surroundings but was unable to move or respond, and that he could ''feel his insides [[TakenForGranite slowly and gradually turn to stone]]'', with the only given description being that "[[PainfulTransformation it hurts]]"; the only reason he manages to delay the effect is because he keeps being sent to the Shadow Realm in between rounds of petrification. Even when he's freed from the beam, [[BodyHorror he still doesn't manage to escape unscathed]], with his entire left arm being [[LivingStatue still stony]] and difficult to move as flexibly as human flesh and bone. |
| 562 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler:Casually murders Pesky Bird, one of the Kestrels' parrots, to absorb its soul into the "Harvester of Souls" sword at the start of the finale, all while being clearly BrainwashedAndCrazy, and is fully prepared to murder Jellie if the Whispers didn't tell him to stop at the last second. That being said, he refuses to murder the dog on the Enchantress' lighthouse, saying he likes dogs too much to kill them.]] |
| 563 | * TheBartender: Of the Kestrels' tavern; he considers the place his "home away from home" because his mother used to work as one, and while he lacks the usual snark of one, he's quite prone to fuelling the rumour mill on the Isles. |
| 564 | * BigBeautifulMan: Described by WordOfGod to be 190 pounds of "pure man meat" [''sic''], considers himself very handsome and attractive, and definitely has his fair share of admirers. [[invoked]] |
| 565 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:After coming into possession with the "Harvester of Souls" sword, Sausage becomes much more in tune with the Whispers' demands and joins Martyn as part of Blonde Beard's crew to rain havoc on the server, notoriously declaring ''omnicide'' on the entire Faction Isles (save possibly the other Kestrels) after the WeddingSmashers plan goes wrong for them to make the sword more powerful. He manages to break out of it in the finale by bathing in the pool at the Sun God's shrine.]] |
| 566 | * BrutalHonesty: |
| 567 | ** On Day 1, right off the bat, Sausage's first reaction to Graecie is to point out she's missing an eye.[[note]]She's not, but she ''is'' wearing an eye-patch.[[/note]] |
| 568 | ** After freeing Katie from the dreamscape on Day 93, Katie asks the pirates where her wife, Captain Golden Beard is; while everyone else is hesitant to be the bearer of bad news as they found out from the cursed treasure quest, Sausage is ''very'' upfront and tactless about it. |
| 569 | --->'''Sausage:''' Katie, your wife is dead!\ |
| 570 | '''Water:''' …Sausage!\ |
| 571 | '''Sausage:''' What– Just break it to her! Come on!\ |
| 572 | '''Water:''' Sausage!\ |
| 573 | '''Sausage:''' You're leading her on, making her go all round the island without [us] telling her–\ |
| 574 | '''Eloise:''' I mean, [[JerkassHasAPoint he's got a fair point]].\ |
| 575 | '''Sausage:''' You're leading her– Just tell her the truth! |
| 576 | * CheatersNeverProsper: On Day 73, Sausage gets frustrated completing the Sundoku puzzle in Issue 2 of "The Noisy Parrot" and asks his ghost parrots for intel. While [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall the ghost parrots give the coordinates of the treasure freely]], they're also well aware that Water and Jojo have already found and split the treasure the previous day, and Sausage does not profit from this at all; he {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this after finding the empty treasure chest. |
| 577 | * CherryTapping: [[spoiler:At Water's wedding, Sausage's attempts to assassinate the bride while BrainwashedAndCrazy are punctuated with a trident-wielding Drowned persistently aiming at him, doing so much damage that Acho is able to knock him out (non-canonically kill him) in one hit without using any weapons.]] |
| 578 | * ChildrenForcedToKill: Killed at least two naval troops at the age of 15 to defend his family and home. |
| 579 | * CutenessProximity: While the Kestrels are initially split on what they feel about Cruppy, Sausage is of the opinion that it's cute and they should keep it. He also comments about [[ExploitedTrope profiting off of it by selling tickets for other people to see it]], though he never gets around to doing so. |
| 580 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: As a teen, his parents died in a navy attack on his home island, of whom [[EverybodysDeadDave he was essentially]] the SoleSurvivor. He first mentions it to Ros on Day 13, swears his ghost parrot companions to secrecy on Day 48, and discloses it to Eloise as well during an impromptu therapy session on Day 50. |
| 581 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: From the little we know of his parents, they were fairly decent people and Sausage remembers them fondly. |
| 582 | * DeclarationOfProtection: On Day 48, Sausage swears to defend Ros from Mufasa the Sabertooth clan. Although he claims to [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only be doing so because he wants their money]] and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not because he wants to make sure she's safe]], his oddly specific plans for a CruelAndUnusualDeath or HumiliationConga to MakeAnExampleOfThem (e.g. to hang Mufasa off of the sword of Sandro Caravel's statue until they starve to death), on top of his mostly established friendship with Ros by that point, make it all sound like greed isn't the reason (or at least the only reason) for him to make such a declaration. |
| 583 | * DueToTheDead: By WordOfGod, before [[spoiler:embarking on his world-hopping treasure hunt with his uncle in his epilogue]], Sausage returns to [[spoiler:the ruins of Iris' temple]] to collect the dead and bring them back to the Faction Isles. Considering [[spoiler:his avid willingness to fight against Iris for killing his fellow Kestrels]], it's evident that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold despite his self-centred exterior]], he's still friendly by Kestrel standards and capable of compassion. [[invoked]] |
| 584 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Has a jerkish streak and proclaims to be almost solely motivated by monetary benefit like an archetypical Kestrel, but dearly loves his late mother to the point even thinking of her can reduce him to InelegantBlubbering. |
| 585 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Mentioned on Day 52, with Sausage allegedly having eaten chocolate-covered gold nuggets in the tavern… and it [[ToiletHumour wreaking havoc on his digestive tract]]. |
| 586 | * EyeScream: At the start of the series, cc!Sausage points out that p!Sausage doesn't have his other characters' characteristic eye scar "[[ForegoneConclusion yet]]". [[spoiler:This comes to pass after Water's crashed wedding, where Acho knocks Sausage out for trying to kill Water, giving him a nasty cut on the eye in the process.]] |
| 587 | * FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Repeatedly throughout the start of the finale, Sausage can be seen trying to snap out of possession by the Whispers via the "Harvester of Souls" sword and seek help from the Sun God to get his PowerIncontinence-induced murderous tendencies under control. At one point, he manages to put the sword away into his backpack, only for the Whispers to force him to take it out again. Finally, though, he does manage to overpower the Whispers for long enough to get help from the Sun God one last time and quiet the Whispers.]] |
| 588 | * FreudianExcuse: Suggested on Day 50, when Eloise asks during their impromptu therapy session if Sausage's DarkAndTroubledPast of having almost all his family killed and his home destroyed as a teen could have been a factor contributing to his current jerkish troll streak, [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex putting down others to raise himself up]]. |
| 589 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a fisher boy from a tiny island, albeit already having familial connections to the Kestrel faction, to being a renowned Kestrel himself. |
| 590 | * HearingVoices: Since his return from the Golden Beard cursed treasure quest, Sausage has started hearing strange Whispers and sometimes eerie music and bell chimes that no one else can hear. [[spoiler:Continued contact with the Whispers and following their whims gradually leads to him becoming [[BrainwashedAndCrazy possessed by them and encouraged to commit mass murder]].]] |
| 591 | * ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:While it never comes to pass in canon,]] he makes an offhand remark in the finale about [[spoiler:seeking out human flesh to eat while BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. |
| 592 | * LatinLover: He's Latino (or its in-universe equivalent), played by a Cuban-American content creator, proudly advertises himself as attractive, and has been variously successful at charming several women and probably at least one man. He {{lampshade|Hanging}}s his heritage after his date with Alison on Day 13, [[BreakingTheFourthWall telling the ghost parrots]] he forced to ThirdWheel the date that his charisma is ''that'' good. |
| 593 | * LaughingMad: Can be heard laughing hysterically while recounting the events of Water's wedding at the start of the finale on Day 134, regarding [[spoiler:his missing uncle's whereabouts and becoming possessed by the soul-absorbing sword of an AncestralWeapon]], and all throughout his time wandering the server looking for potential murder victims before [[spoiler:managing to rid himself of the possession in time]]. |
| 594 | * MythologyGag: A few to ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 2: |
| 595 | ** In his 2nd episode (on Day 1), Sausage starts talking to a random scarlet macaw, and mentions that he can't talk to animals… in stark contrast to his [[Characters/EmpiresSMPSeasonTwo Empires Season 2 counterpart]]. |
| 596 | ** On Day 13, after consulting the Sun God on how to apply his ship decor, Sausage comments that he's never seen or met a god of the Sun before. In Empires Season 2, Bdubs hijacked the Sun religion of the Empire of Dawn and placed himself as its deity during the Hermitcraft crossover, and Sausage built a church for him in Sanctuary. |
| 597 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: According to him, only his enemies refer to him as "''[[SpellMyNameWithAThe El Capitán]]''", which is short for "''El Capitán de la Muerte''"[[note]]"The Captain (of Death)" in Spanish[[/note]]. |
| 598 | * NavelDeepNeckline: By WordOfGod, he goes around with his shirt half-unbuttoned "from time to time" (and going shirtless occasionally), though his Minecraft skin or official artwork doesn't show this. Reportedly, the plan was for him to keep it buttoned-up to stay "classy" at the start, before opening it up more and more by the stream until it more closely resembles NoShirtLongJacket. [[invoked]] |
| 599 | -->'''Sausage:''' I'm just a fancy man wearing fancy clothes as a fancy pirate, with my shirt half-open, showing half my chest. |
| 600 | * {{Nephewism}}: Was taken in by his Kestrel uncle after being orphaned at age 15, whom he treats as a ParentalSubstitute. |
| 601 | * NoTrueScotsman: PlayedForLaughs; he jokes on Day 52 about how Shelby isn't a "real" pirate until one of her parents dies, referencing how ParentalAbandonment runs rampant in the world of piracy even if Shelby herself was born into a pirate ''family''. |
| 602 | * NobleMaleRoguishMale: [[https://www.tumblr.com/wassup-its-e/724738715121057792/greetings-el-capitan-or-mythical-j-sausage?source=share A cross-series example]], where Pirates!Sausage plays the flirtatious and at-times murderous Roguish Male who robs others on the high seas, in contrast to WebVideo/{{Empires|SMP}} Season 2!Sausage's AllLovingHero Noble Male as a blacksmithing apprentice turned woodcutter and protector. |
| 603 | -->'''[=Wassup_im_E=]:''' i think i can post this meme [of quotes Sausage's two characters might say] now |
| 604 | --->'''Empires Season 2!Sausage:''' I'll have her home by 9 o'clock, Sir\ |
| 605 | '''Pirates!Sausage:''' Your daughter calls me Daddy too |
| 606 | -->'''Mythicalsausage:''' This is canon. |
| 607 | * OddFriendship: Has a soft spot for Ros, the friendly and generous Nightingale to his money-hungry Kestrel who enjoys trolling others. |
| 608 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: ZigZaggingTrope. While Sausage constantly claims that his only reason for doing anything is monetary benefit, his more vengeful tendencies tend to be motivated by genuine care for his family and friends, including in the finale, where he repeatedly cites [[spoiler:getting revenge for Scar and Shelby, two of his fellow Kestrels,]] as one of his main reasons for choosing to [[spoiler:fight Iris]]. |
| 609 | -->'''Sausage:''' Do we ''have'' to rescue this guy [Gabriel], or can we just get the money for doing it?\ |
| 610 | '''Eloise:''' I mean, you'll get gold for doing it.\ |
| 611 | '''Sausage:''' Okay, that'll do, that'll do. |
| 612 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy as a result of possession by malevolent spirits]], Sausage appears more "energetic" than usual [[spoiler:and tends to go LaughingMad while being casually enthused by murder]], a change significant enough for the normally-dense Shep to pick up on. [[spoiler:To Sausage's credit, he retains enough self-awareness to acknowledge he should probably seek help for casually and openly threatening his faction-mate's life.]] |
| 613 | * PirateParrot: His content creator counterpart's [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall stream chat]] manifests as a flock of ghost parrots. |
| 614 | * RealJokeName: A Day 1 conversation with Martyn confirms that 'Sausage' ''is'', in fact, his legal name. |
| 615 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: On Day 48, Sausage raids the Heron kitchen for food even though stealing is against the rules of the Isles; other than claiming various Herons owe him, he says that Scott would let him have it. |
| 616 | * ShutUpHannibal: On Day 93, when the Ghost whispers to Sausage about what he fears in the dreamscape, he immediately rebukes them. |
| 617 | -->'''Sausage:''' "You're broke. You're alone. Ugly and alone." SHUT UP, GHOST! Shut up! No, I'm not! I don't know who you are, but I'm not alone; I'm not ugly, I'm handsome and beautiful; everybody loves me and all my friends are waiting for me on the other side of this stupid nightmare. I've been to the Nightmare Zone before! It's every other night when I go to sleep; this is nothing to me! Let's go! [[BadassBoast This is nothing! I've been to Shadow Realm before!]] Let me out! |
| 618 | * {{Troll}}: Sausage has a habit of messing around with people he deems poor, such as stealing or demanding their items for various prices, then later giving it back. |
| 619 | * UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Sausage keeps two peafowl and an owl as exotic birds to show off his Kestrel wealth. |
| 620 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: While Sausage has made a life for himself on the Faction Isles, he refuses to return to his home island due to not wanting to relive the bad memories associated with it… and even if he did, since [[EverybodysDeadDave pretty much the entire island was razed during the naval raid on the place]], he'd have no home to go back to anyway. |
| 621 | * YouKilledMyFather: Although he still has a paternal figure in his uncle after it all goes down, Sausage is adamant that the only thing he'll do without monetary benefit is killing naval troops (and their families) for massacring [[OrphansOrdeal his family]] and [[DoomedHometown home island]] (while in the process of trying to capture or kill said uncle). |
| 622 | [[/folder]] |
| 623 | |
| 624 | [[folder:Oliver Von Steel]] |
| 625 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theorionsound.jpeg]] |
| 626 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 627 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orionsound_0.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 628 | ->'''IGN:''' [=OrionSound=]\ |
| 629 | '''Preferred name:''' Oli/Oliver\ |
| 630 | '''Personal pronouns:''' He/Him |
| 631 | One of the original Kestrels, Oli used live in Sheffield-on-Sea in the far north. He first washed up on the Faction Isles after a yachting accident and was taken in by Sausage, a couple of months before the start of the SMP. Currently, he desperately misses his family and longs to see them again, but is as hands-on as he can to invest in the real estate and hospitality industries and make a profit to bring it all home to them. |
| 632 | ---- |
| 633 | * AccentOnTheWrongSyllable: {{Affectionate|Nickname}}ly refers to Sausage as his "sweet saus-SAHGE". |
| 634 | %%* AmazonChaser: {{Implied|Trope}}; on Day 52, some of the main features he recalls of his wife, allegedly named [[spoiler:'Grunt Hilda']] in the finale, are her "bulging muscles" and a deep voice. %%Need to check if she kicks ass |
| 635 | * AmbiguouslyBi: While Oli is canonically married to a woman and has a child, the way he speaks of his fellow Kestrels, whom predominantly skew masculine, doesn't sound very heterosexual either -- for one, he says in the finale that he only has [[MoralityPet a soft spot for]] his "sweet lady wife" ''and'' [[ThreesomeSubtext the other Kestrels]]. Alternatively, it could just be cc!Oli being [[LargeHam overdramatic]], as he tends to be. |
| 636 | * CommutingOnABus: Oli shows up inconsistently throughout the series, barely making any appearances after the RescueArc on Day 76. He manages to come BackForTheFinale, albeit not livestreaming his perspective, saying he's spent the past three weeks leading up to the finale away searching for Sheffield-on-Sea. |
| 637 | * DrunkDriver: A conversation with Michela on Day 2 suggests that Oli might have been drunk on a few mojitos while steering his yacht, which likely resulted in the accident that led to his arrival to the Faction Isles. |
| 638 | * GirlfriendInCanada: {{Discussed|Trope}}; Oli is very loud and and proud about loving his wife he inadvertently left at home due to his yachting accident, but most of the denizens on the Isles, including other Kestrels, don't believe him and instead think this trope is in play. |
| 639 | * HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle to denote his wealthy Kestrel status. |
| 640 | * InSeriesNickname: Martyn calls him "Ponytail" for his hairstyle. |
| 641 | * InterspeciesRomance: PlayedForLaughs and {{discussed|Trope}}, in that his wife is [[RunningGag frequently joked to be]] a crab. According to Sausage, Oli has slept with it "at least four or five times, in more ways than one"… in ways that may be described as "[[BestialityIsDepraved unholy]]". Oli has denied this whenever it is discussed and repeatedly asserts that his wife is a human. |
| 642 | * NoodleIncident: Makes an offhand comment in the finale that his wedding had "at least five" murders. |
| 643 | * ParentalAbandonment: |
| 644 | ** As mentioned on Day 1, Oli's parents died many years before the events of the SMP, allegedly having drowned "in the Sheffield on Sea". [[invoked]]WordOfGod confirms that his father ''did'' die from drowning, but the jury is still out on whether his mother did too. |
| 645 | ** In turn, Oli is unintentionally this to Juniper, his son, after the yachting accident left him stranded on the Faction Isles in the long term, unable to return to his wife and child. [[spoiler:After finding a map to Sheffield-on-Sea (a day's sail away from the Isles) by the finale, he makes plans to retire from the pirate life and go home to his family.]] |
| 646 | * PretentiousPronunciation: His full name, Oliver, is pronounced "Oli-VAIR", similar to the related French name 'Olivier'. |
| 647 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: PlayedForLaughs. On Day 76, when a second wave of Yetis start attacking the pirates on the rescue mission, Oli can be heard saying, "I'm going to stop helping with the lore now! Bye!" before trying to make a run for it. Seapeekay puts a stop to that, [[DeathIsCheap in the most Kite manner possible]]. |
| 648 | * WealthyYachtOwner: Alluded to have been one in his past, pre-pirate life, having accumulated this wealth from running a FamilyBusiness fishing and auctioning tuna back at home. |
| 649 | [[/folder]] |
| 650 | |
| 651 | [[folder:Shubble]] |
| 652 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shubble_2.jpeg]] |
| 653 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 654 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her first skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shelby_6.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 655 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her second skin.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shelby_2.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 656 | ->'''IGN:''' [=ShubbleYT=]\ |
| 657 | '''Preferred name:''' Shelby\ |
| 658 | '''Personal pronouns:''' She/Her\ |
| 659 | ''"Don't touch me, you can't afford to."'' |
| 660 | Hailing from an affluent pirate family, Shelby somehow got lost on her way to go vacationing in Mexico and winds up crashing on a Corrupted island with Shep and Sniff on Day 52, before escaping by dinghy and being taken in by the Kestrels. [[spoiler:Day 134, the finale, reveals that she was TakenForGranite and KilledOffscreen.]] |
| 661 | ---- |
| 662 | * AllWomenLoveShoes: Alluded to in her first appearances; Shelby explicitly mentions her expensive boots are new in her debut appearance, saying she didn't intend to wear them in the water, and later claims them to be ruined after taking a swim in the ocean on Day 57. One of the first things she does after arriving on the Isles is even to compliment Alison's shoes. |
| 663 | * ArrowsOnFire: Wields a bow enchanted with Flame at the start of the Revenge Raid and manages to kill a Cultist with arrows fired from it before running out of arrows. |
| 664 | * AttemptedHomewrecker: Tries to romance Finn, the gardener NPC who's in his thirties at the start of the SMP, and upon finding out he's married, Shelby decides to go for his wife as well. |
| 665 | * BigNo: Lets one out on Day 77 after finding out her fresh nail polish chipped in the middle of the Revenge Raid… while on her way back to the Faction Isles, long after the battle is over. |
| 666 | * BystanderSyndrome: Before the Revenge Raid, Shelby decides to tag along, but openly expresses that she'll let the others do the fighting while she stands by and watches. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the actual Raid herself, where she later decides to join the battle and even manages to kill a Cultist. |
| 667 | * TheCasanova: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]]; cc!Shelby has reportedly gone through the entire list of [=NPCs=] to see how many she can flirt with in-game, and her character has at minimum tried to charm Saffrie, Finn (''and'' his wife), and a Cultist kidnapping her. |
| 668 | * TheDitz: For all her boasting about being rich, Shelby has her moments where she's not the sharpest tool in the shed. It's best shown when she fires a bullet at the Corruption, revealing the group's presence and earning this remark from Kuervo: |
| 669 | -->'''Kuervo:''' Can you buy a brain cell, perhaps? |
| 670 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: When Shelby was found, she wore an outfit similar to the one on her announcement poster, minus the crown. After she joins the Kestrels, she switches to a white dress and brown boots. She now wears a crown with a brown coat, and keeps the waistband. [[spoiler:She wears her original outfit as a statue]]. |
| 671 | * {{Expy}}: Her characterization is inspired by Alexis Rose from ''Series/SchittsCreek'', down to making [[ShoutOut outright nods]] to the series via quotations. |
| 672 | * GirlyBruiser: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She's a ValleyGirl-type character and would usually rather sit on the sidelines in a fight, but when it comes down to it, she manages to land some solid hits during the Revenge Raid with both a bow and a sword. |
| 673 | * GoldDigger: PlayedForLaughs; it's joked on Day 76 that she is only making a FallbackMarriagePact with Scott to get into the rich dumpling business. |
| 674 | * MirrorCharacter: To Guqqie. They're [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female creator-characters affiliated with the Kestrels]] (long story short, Guqqie was no longer around when Shelby joined the Kestrels), both are {{Rich Bitch}}es who have NoSocialSkills but have a close connection with a non-Kestrel, [[spoiler:and they're both TakenForGranite at the end]]. |
| 675 | * NoSocialSkills: Upon meeting Ros for the first time, Shelby quotes the "Noisy Parrot" article written about her just as Martyn and Ros are arguing if the paper is libel. Ros, having already read the article, takes it graciously. |
| 676 | -->'''Shelby:''' They're calling you "a backstabbing snake", did you know that?\ |
| 677 | […]\ |
| 678 | '''Ros:''' I– I did read that, I did. Just don't trust Martyn– anything Martyn says.\ |
| 679 | '''Martyn:''' […] That was taken verbatim from [[UnreliableExpositor Mufasa's]] journal. |
| 680 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Shelby has the typical associations of a teenage ValleyGirl and goes out of her way to purchase an expensive pink trim for her boat. |
| 681 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The enthusiastic ValleyGirl to Scott's calmer, more subdued [[TheHeart Heart]]. |
| 682 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Brags that her taking down one Cultist with a three-shot is proof that the Revenge Raid couldn't have been won without her, and believes a lot of the [=NPCs=] she flirts with like her back; [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Scott humours her at best and says she's delusional at worst]]. |
| 683 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only known non-male Kestrel player aside from Guqqie, who has been long gone by the time she got to the Isles. |
| 684 | * TemptingFate: While sailing back to the Faction Isles after the Revenge Raid, Shelby mentions how she wants a statue of herself on the Faction Isles, to which Scott suggests that she build one for her planned resort and she answers she'll do so [[spoiler:as long as she doesn't [[TakenForGranite become a statue]] herself]]; they later part ways after returning to the Isles, with Scott telling her [[spoiler:not to get kidnapped again]] and she says she'll try. [[spoiler:This is the last livestream in which she appears in; the next time she's seen, it's the finale on Day 134 and she's a statue in Iris' temple.]] |
| 685 | * ValleyGirl: Has a love for riches and shopping and a distaste for blood and maggots, is a bit of a SelfieFiend, and makes plans to found the first mall on the Faction Isles after hearing they don't have one. |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
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