History Characters / LifeIsStrangeArcadiaBayResidents

* WouldHurtAChild: Likewise, they don't let the fact that Chloe is only 16 stop them from attacking her.

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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Absolutely nobody in the game considers Prescott a good person or is on board with his plans to take over Arcadia Bay.

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: In ''Before the Storm'', should Chloe call him out on abusing Nathan he just brushes her aside and tells her to mind her own business, believing that Nathan deserved his harsh treatment.]] He's also dismissive of his son's blatant insanity and has the guts to say that ''Nathan'' is at fault for all his mental problems when he himself is causing them to grow worse, whether direct or indirect.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: They appear to menace Chloe in Episode 1 of ''Before the Storm'' and are completely interchangeable (just being known as "Skeevy Guy" and "Other Skeevy Guy" in the overlay and when Chloe writes about them in graffiti). Their names only appear in James Amber's list of Damon's associates.

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[[folder:Damon Merrick]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"No one steals from me! No one!"]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Kyle Williams

Owner of the old mill and a friend of Frank Bowers.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Absolutely nobody but Frank gave a crap about his death. Heck, nobody around the whole town even bats an eye over his disappearance.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: If him severely injuring either Drew or Mikey wasn’t evidence enough that he’s this, he later stabs Rachel, nearly killing her, after she attacks him, even though this would jeopardize Damon's deal with James. When Frank intervenes and allows Chloe and Rachel to get away, he lashes out and stabs ''him''.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: When Frank tries to prevent him from murdering Rachel, Damon responds by slashing his cohort and abandons him to die.]]
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: He's pretty much a thug hired by [[spoiler: James Amber]] to commit evil deeds for him.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a thuggish beard and is a total monster.
* ChekhovsGunman: In "Awake", his name gets dropped several times, but we apparently never see him in person. [[spoiler: The Episode 2 trailer reveals that he was one of the two nondescript men having an argument outside the concert at the beginning of episode 1]].
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Mark Jefferson. While Jefferson at first seems to be a [[BitchInSheepsClothing trustworthy and friendly guy]], Damon doesn't bother hiding his true nature. While Jefferson has an unhealthy obsession with Max and wants her as one of his subjects, Damon has no interest in Chloe, and only tries to kill her once she gets into his business. Finally, while Jefferson kills his [[TheDragon Dragon]](Nathan Prescott), Damon is killed by his [[TheDragon Dragon]](Frank Bowers).
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Sort of. [[spoiler: While he was obviously a brutal thug long before, the fire Rachel starts burns down his mill and ruins his business, making him more unhinged and desperate for money.]]
* DevilInPlainSight: His name is just one letter away from "Daemon". Chloe even draw horns on him in some of her journal entries.
* DragonInChief: [[spoiler: To James Amber. While Damon functions as the de-facto main antagonist, James is the main source of drama in the game and the one who hired him out for a job in kidnapping and trying to drug Sera. That said, even when they do work together, it's pretty clear that Damon is more in control of the situation than James, and blatantly obvious that Damon is using James for his own means.]]
* TheDreaded: Most characters react in fear or unsettlement whenever his name is dropped.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Had is more accurate. He was close friends with Frank, and gave him Pompidou as a gift. After Rachel's fire burns the mill down, he becomes more unstable, and even stabs Frank in a blind rage when he tries to protect Chloe and Rachel from him; Frank ends up being forced to kill him to save Chloe and Sera.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He can act quite cordial when he wants to, but it's a blatant facade that barely conceals the psychopath he really is.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has little to no patience whatsoever and is very easily pissed off. When Rachel starts asking him some questions he reacts pretty violently, [[spoiler: which leads to him stabbing her in blind rage.]]
* HateSink: There's not an ounce of sympathy for this guy and his sole role is to act as antagonistic as possible. Even his lone redeeming quality - his friendship with Frank - is rendered null and void when [[spoiler: he tries to kill him for protecting Chloe and Rachel.]]
* TheHeavy: Despite not being the true BigBad, Damon serves as the overarching antagonist of the second game and does a lot more villainous actions than the real villain, carrying out [[spoiler: Mr. Amber]]'s dirty work for him.
* {{Jerkass}}: We never see a moment where Damon is not acting like a massive jerk.
* KickTheDog: In episode 2, he'll either [[spoiler: hurt Mikey so bad that it breaks his arm or cripple Drew]] in a violent effort to get his money.
* KickTheMoralityPet: [[spoiler: He stabs Frank for trying to protect Chloe and Rachel.]]
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:The last we see of him is Frank attacking him before Chloe passes out. The ending montage shows Frank sitting near a freshly dug dirt mound. Frank remorsefully looks at a photo of him and Damon and before the scene ends Frank pours his drink on the ground, the implication being that Frank killed and buried Damon.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: While the prequel is fairly light-hearted for the most part, every major scene featuring Damon is played completely dark and seriously.
* KnifeNut: He seems to take more joy in using a knife as his primary weapon, as he [[spoiler: uses it to stab both Frank and Rachel.]]
* MeaningfulName: His name sounds an awful lot like ''demon.''
* ObviouslyEvil: BeardOfEvil, tattoos... yeah, he's a bad guy.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Displays a tad bit of sexism. When Frank attempts to prevent a fight between him and Rachel, Damon whines about how woman hide behind their gender to avoid getting hit by men.
* PsychoForHire: Turns out that he's been working for the true BigBad the entire time, but he definitely gets too much amusement out of tormenting others while on the job.
* ShadowArchetype: He's pretty much a darker version of Frank, but with all sympathy removed.
* TheSociopath: He has no problem hurting others to get what he wants.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: He took Sera to use as leverage against James Amber in an effort to gain power in Arcadia Bay, despite being hired by James in the first place to do his dirty work.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: His friendship with Frank goes downhill when he becomes progressively more violent. Eventually, Frank is forced to kill him.]]
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: He has a certain appreciation for Chloe's tough attitude, as he seems to approve if she fights back against Sheldon in Episode 1 and tries to recruit her into his gang.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: ''And how''. Not only does he [[spoiler: ''stab'' Rachel during a confrontation with her and Chloe at the junkyard, he also kidnaps Sera Gearhardt by the orders of [[BigBad James Amber]] and prepares to drug her to make her relapse. When Chloe arrives to save her, he proceeds to viciously beat her, additionally hits Sera when she begs him to leave her alone, and most likely would've killed them both if Frank hadn't intervened]]. Earlier on he had given Rachel a DeathGlare when she shoved him after he grabs Chloe's wrist. Then complained about the DoubleStandard about men and women hitting one another.
--> '''Damon:''' Why is it that chicks think it's okay to hit me, but if I lay a SINGLE FINGER on them, suddenly it's a whole other thing?
* WouldHurtAChild: Is introduced in "Brave New World" when he [[spoiler: starts beating up Drew, and will also break his kid brother Mikey's arm depending on the outcome of the confrontation (as well as threatening to harm Mikey if Drew doesn't pay up in future)]].
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[[folder:James Amber]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Patrick Finerty

Rachel Amber's father and the district attorney for the area.
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* AllForNothing: If you go with the KnightTemplarParent interpretation then all his actions are for naught. [[spoiler:With this interpretation, he has Sera kidnapped and drugged to force her and her bad decision making away from Rachel.]] However, regardless of what ending you get, by the time of the season 1, Rachel will have become a drug addict who associates herself with very shady people [[spoiler:and ends up being murdered during one of her attempts to become a model. So Sera's influence in her life would have had no significant negative or positive impact in the long run, as Rachel is DoomedByCanon.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: Doubling as an ambiguous motive, [[spoiler: it's unclear if he had Sera kidnapped]] because of KnightTemplarParent tendencies or if [[spoiler:he did so to prevent the people of Arcadia Bay from finding out that his baby-momma is a drug addict and thus ruining his reputation.]] Damon seems to think it's the latter, but Sera herself thinks it's the former.
* AmoralAttorney: In Episode 3, [[spoiler:Chloe discovers that James hired Damon Merrick to keep Sera Gearhardt away from Rachel in exchange for disposing of key evidence and naming their mole in his group. Though admittedly, it's ''Chloe'' who ends up actually carrying out those actions pretending to be James to get Damon to talk, so it's possible however slightly that James didn't intend to actually go that far]].
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: His main goal is to prevent Sera from seeing Rachel. Unless Chloe can convince her, he succeeds at exactly just that.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Ultimately, he is this for ''Before the Storm'' when it’s revealed that he's been keeping Rachel's birth mother away from her and even hired the violent and unstable Damon to try and get rid of her.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Rachel does not take finding out her father is cheating on her mother well. [[spoiler: At the end of Episode 3, Chloe has to choose between breaking the pedestal irrevocably by telling Rachel that he had Sera kidnapped and drugged, or conceal that from her and give them a chance to rebuild their relationship.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:He hired Damon Merrick to kidnap his ex-wife with the promise of removing evidence linking Merrick to a murder investigation, identify a snitch and bring him his ransom money]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: The nicest thing that can be said about him is that he at the very least does seem to genuinely care about his wife and daughter.]]
* {{Expy}}: Physically speaking, he looks quite a bit like [[Series/TwinPeaks Leland Palmer]] but with smaller eyes and a slightly better hairline. Given that his daughter wasn't much more than an expy of Laura Palmer in Season 1 this was most likely intentional on the developers' part.
* {{Foil}}: To David Madsen. Both are morally ambiguous father figures who have a strained relationship with their daughter and step-daughter respectively, but there are a few key differences between them:
** Chloe hated David since day one. Rachel loved James until the events of ''Before the Storm''.
** Chloe resents David for entering in a relationship with her mother. Rachel resents James for seemingly entering in a relationship with another woman which is not her mother.
** David is revealed to be [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong by saving Max from Jefferson.]] James is revealed to be [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong by hiring Damon to drug Sera.]]
* HateSink: As Rachel and Chloe (and to an extension the player) learn more about him, James' everyday persona is nothing more than an act and he is actually a selfish man who will do anything to protect his reputation [[spoiler:including hiring a ruthless gangster to kidnap and drug his former-addict ex-wife while promising to remove any evidence incriminating him]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: After being presented as a Jerkass for the majority of the first two episodes, the third episode paints him in a more sympathetic light in that he’s trying to protect Rachel from getting hurt by her mother. He loses all sympathy when it’s revealed that he not only lied (for the most part) about Sera’s backstory, but he basically got Damon to get her re-addicted to heroin.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: If Chloe decides to protect Rachel from the knowledge that James tried to get rid of Sera, he basically gets away with everything.]]
** Even if [[spoiler:Chloe tells Rachel the truth]] all that happens to James is that [[spoiler:his family gets broken apart. Y'know, despite the fact that he tampered with crime evidence, worked with a known criminal, and hired said criminal to not only kidnap Sera but also set her back on an addiction that will likely lead to her death.]]
* KnightTemplarParent: If you go with the interpretation that [[spoiler:he had Sera kidnapped and forced into a relapse so that he could keep her and her poor decision-making away from Rachel, rather than doing it so that no one would take Sera seriously when she came out as Rachel's mother.]]
* KickTheDog: When he gets into an argument with Chloe, he calls her a delinquent from a broken home that doesn't deserve to be anywhere near his daughter because of her horrible influence despite the fact that Rachel can argue that she got them both into trouble in the first place.
* NoSenseOfHumor: When talking to him, Chloe keeps trying to crack jokes to break the tension. Unfortunately, James seems to be puzzled at the very concept of jokes. Albeit more because he's trying to show a poker face.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Displays a tad bit of classism against Chloe when he calls her [[LowerClassLout a delinquent from a broken home]].
* PunnyName: For Creator/JamieBamber.
* UnreliableNarrator: While his statements on [[spoiler:Sera's drug addiction]] are true it's hard to say if anything else he tells Rachel and Chloe is true.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:If Chloe tells Rachel that James had Sera kidnapped and drugged into a relapse of her heroin addiction he's last seen angrily destroying a family photo.]]

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->'''Voiced by:''' Cissy Jones (uncredited)