Line #17 Characters/TheReasonWhy


1	CharacterSheet for ''Literature/TheReasonWhy''.
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5	[[folder:Allura [=McCoy=]]]
6	An old woman with a troubled past and a vendetta to settle. She's uncomfortable with keeping Nadimia with her, especially due to Chrissie.
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8	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: She's ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} the]]'' Allura, albeit greatly changed from those days long ago. For one thing (as mentioned in "Darkness"), [[spoiler:she was forced to watch her parents being murdered]].
9	* MyGirlIsASlut: She can't even seem to rein in her own ''daughter'', although this is nowhere near being her fault.
10	* MyGirlIsNotASlut: What people think Allura thinks, since she seems unable to pull her daughter in.
11	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Looks to be in her mid-40s (mid-20s in her costume), but is really much older.
12	* TookALevelInBadass: She's been through quite a bit, which has battered and hardened her.
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15	[[folder:Chrissie [=MaCockenshipiel=]]]
16	Allura's daughter. Although on the surface she appears to be a sweet, kind girl, she has a ''very'' foul mind and is prone to saying something provocative at any moment...although by this point life in general is taking a toll on her.
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18	* BrokenBird: While Chrissie has had a super-dirty persona for at least 200 years (a highly-unusual torture gave her said personality, although the change wasn't made clear until she was rescued afterward), she [[spoiler:believes she wasn't meant to live for as long as she has (982 years)]]. According to the author, these feelings can be traced back to ''The Grand Eulogy'', where she appears extremely briefly and never interacts with the author himself.
19	* CurseCutShort: Several times, a particularly dirty phrase or word will be cut off.
20	** Semi-averted once the Boss' face is revealed, at which point she launches into a long string of profanities (offscreen).
21	* [[spoiler:DrowningMySorrows: Implied that this is how she copes with her myriad problems - or at least the ones her mother doesn't know of.]]
22	* MediumAwareness / FourthWallObserver: Chrissie nearly calls herself a character during "Home", getting as far as "cha-" before correcting herself and saying "person". Allura doesn't seem to notice this, though that's probably because she has more important things to think about at the moment.
23	* MsFanservice / FanServiceWithASmile: If she's giving FanService, chances are pretty good she knows about it.
24	* MyGirlIsASlut: She will talk innocently and sweetly about butterflies, then (in the same voice!) ask someone a ''really'' dirty question, such as whether they've done [[Series/LALaw the Venus Butterfly]]. And she has no reservations about talking that way...at least not until this story.
25	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Chrissie adds up her age in bunches during "Home", arriving at 982. She then [[spoiler:rocks back and forth, sobbing and murmuring about how "I wasn't meant to live this long"]].
26	* TooKinkyToTorture: To the point where Allura can't administer motherly punishments because Chrissie ''likes it''.
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29	[[folder:Nadimia T.K. Davola]]
30	A young girl, age eight, who appears to be naive and unassuming (although she is, to an extent) - but in fact has a very strange set of parents...
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32	* OnlySaneWoman: She approaches the whole situation very calmly. [[spoiler:Perhaps ''too'' calmly...]]
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35	[[folder:Richard Dawkins]]
36	A guard who works for the Boss, appearing in Chapter 4 and the Epilogue.
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39	[[folder:Wo]]
40	One of the Boss' other employees, though she doesn't seem to have any emotions at all.
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42	* JustFollowingOrders: Uses this as justification for Allura's killing of the Super Stadium attendance shortly into Chapter 5, as "Sir Delucco" (Marber Delucco, a local drug king) had paid the Boss to set it up. Allura, disgusted at all of this (particularly because she had been forcibly injected at the end of Chapter 4 and had killed these people unknowingly), shoots Wo in the head...which doesn't work.
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45	[[folder:The Boss]]
46	The person Allura, Chrissie, Dawkins, and Wo answer to. First appears in-person during Chapter 4, where his sadistic side is first seen.
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48	* TheFaceless: Only one light is in his office, positioned in such a way that his face can't be seen from any angle. It's later revealed that he ''literally doesn't have a face'', and for very good reason - [[spoiler:he's an Auton]].
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51	[[folder:Mew]]
52	A talking pink cat who was pulled from a place called "the Void" by the poison injected into Allura near the start of Chapter 5. Appears until the next-to-last chapter.
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54	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: It's the Pokémon, just rather different.
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57	[[folder:[[spoiler:Susan Wise]]]]
58	TheManBehindTheMan, trying to harness the powers of Nadimia and her parents for [[spoiler:her]] own selfish ends.
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61	[[folder:Grace Goldwood/[[spoiler:Miss Glowbug]]]]
62	A young woman who reluctantly works for the Boss, hoping to take him down. Reveals her true self shortly after TheManBehindTheMan (see previous folder) does.
63	[[/folder]]

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