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In General
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Its membership comprises of Miller's Rangers, an old mechanic named Yermak, a wandering Gadgeteer Genius named Krest, a nurse named Katya and two children including Nastya and Kirill.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: Inverted and heroic version. The Aurora Crew is splintered from the original Rangers after they were outed as "criminals" by Hanza for uncovering their deceit. Its members are all True Companions from one another.
Yermak
Yermak
One of the few surviving Moscow Metro personnel from before the war, he is the permanent helmsman of the Aurora.
- Badass Normal: As a member of the Aurora crew, he becomes essentially an honorary Ranger. Still, he is just a normal, untrained locomotive engineer. Even when helping you escape Hansa, he doesn't do more than offer guidance as well as distract the guards.
- Defector from Decadence: After discovering Hansa had been killing innocent people, calling them spies, he is utterly horrified and readily assists Arytom and Anna to sabotage the radio jammer and escape the metro.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He while not as mechanically gifted in adhoc repair as Krest, he still knows more than anyone about how the Aurora operates.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His wife and son died during the bomb, then his daughter died of tuberculosis a few years later. Even the Hansa soldiers feel bad for him.
Idiot
Idiot
Voiced by:
English: Boris Kievsky
Japanese: Tomoyuki Maruyama
Russian: Alexey Myasnikov
The team's philosopher
- Big Damn Heroes: When Artyom, Anna, and Miller had been captured by cannibals, Sam and Idiot manage to sneak up on and ambush the enemy to rescue the rest of the crew.
- Both Sides Have a Point: Idiot always brings both sides of the argument in any conversation and his philosophy is that the only way to not be wrong is to not say anything.
- Cultured Warrior: A Spartan like the rest and the most educated of them. His nickname is partly a reference to a Dostoevsky novel of the same name.
- Foil: To Sam. Idiot is Miller's Right-Hand-Man, while Sam is his Left. Idiot supports Miller via his more analytical thinking, opposed to Sam who focuses on more direct/violent means of support. Their preference in weapons are also directly opposite, with Sam preferring More Dakka and Stuff Blowing Up, while Idiot prefers to be a Friendly Sniper and make his shots count.
- Friendly Sniper: He carries a Valve rifle, the game's sniper rifle, complete with a sniper scope; and an Ak set up as a DMR. Like the rest of the Rangers, he is also very friendly.
- Ironic Nickname: He's actually the most well-educated member of the group. He speaks rarely but is very eloquent when he does so. He apparently adopted the moniker out of a sense of humble humor.
- The Lancer: He is ranked only under Miller in the command chain. After Miller's death, he becomes this to Artyom.
- Motor Mouth: Idiot speaks rarely but when he does he can talk someone's ear off. Artyom lampshades it in his diary.
- The Smart Guy: Idiot can best be described as a tactician, long-term planner, and something of a philosopher. He's also very well-versed with technology and military intelligence, being able to single-handedly extract all of the vital intelligence from the Yamantau bunker's database and crippling the system so the cannibals can no longer use it.
Alyosha
Alyosha
Voiced by:
English: Ari Rubin
Japanese: Sôichi Abe
Russian: Ilya Isaev
The Aurora crew's Scout specialist. Served as a Polis guard, then joined the Rangers sometime before the Battle of D6.
- Amazon Chaser: While he definitely has an eye for the ladies, the one that he falls in head-over-heels, schoolboy, flowers-and-chocolate love with is Olga, the hard-ass, no nonsense Child of the Forest.
- Badass in Distress: Averted. During the Taiga mission, he is captured by the less than friendly Pirates. By the time Artyom catches up to where they should have been holding him, he had already escaped and moved ahead towards the dam.
- The Casanova: He claims to be one anyway, boasting that the ladies find him irresistible and looking forward to making the acquaintance of many that they might meet along the way. He shows this off, if the player doesn't kill any Pioneers during the Taiga mission. He falls for, and likewise swoons Olga, promising to return for her after completing his mission to find a good place to settle.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Admits he wants short romance which is why he never gets with the women of the Metro, they want a husband and provider. He also doesn't make a move on Katya because Stepan already has a thing for her. While crude he is a romantic at heart.
- Facial Markings: He has a tribal tattoo above his left eye - to the side of his head.
- Handicapped Badass: During the escape from the metro, Alyosha is shot in the shoulder by Hansa's troops. He seems to recover quickly, but during the mission in Volga, Anna mentions that he seems to have an issue with his hand. This is likely an indicator of nerve damage from the earlier wound. Luckily it doesn't seem to affect his combat effectiveness.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Alyosha chews Artyom out if he killed any of the Pioneers, pointing out that they're just innocent kids trying to defend themselves.
Damir
Damir
Voiced by:
English: Leonid Mendel
Japanese: Masaaki Itatori
Russian: Radik Mukhametzyanov
A Ranger of Kazakh descent.
- Big Damn Heroes: Artyom is attacked by several Humanimal mutants while trying to commandeer a bandit's car, que Damir showing up out out of left field and tearing into the beasts to save Artyom.
- But Now I Must Go: If Artyom didn't rescue enough slaves or kill a lot of them, Damir will stay behind to help his people.
- Combat Medic: He's a medic by specialty and, as a Spartan Ranger, he is quite proficient in combat.
- The Smart Guy: Damir fills this role along with Idiot. Damir's focus is more scientific, being the Combat Medic of the team.
- Beyond this, he displays his intelligence via accurate observations of the post-nuclear world. Such as when he correctly deduced that the Tsar-Fish was a catfish, and that its mutations were greater due to the nuclear fallout washing off the shores into the surrounding water, settling into/collecting in the sediment, causing the bottom-feeding catfish to absorb more radiation than the other local fauna.
- Most helpfully, he figures out that the Tsar-fish is attracted to noise, so staying quiet will keep it from attacking you.
- Token Minority: Damir is the only Asian among the Rangers. In fact, his ethnicity comes into play as his motive of boarding the Aurora is to see if his relatives in Kazakhstan survived the apocalypse.
Tokarev
Tokarev
Voiced by:
English: Matt Riedy
Japanese: Kissei Kumamoto
Russian: Nikita Prozorovsky
A weaponsmith and a maintenance specialist. Responsible for the keeping the crew's gear in check.
- Awesome, but Impractical: He tells a story to Artyom about how he made the most powerful gun he ever made, however the gun could only hold six bullets which turned out to not be enough when a band of bandits showed up and he failed to protect all the civilians.
- Dub Name Change: He's referred to as "Тэтэшник" (Teteshnik) in the Russian dub of the game, which is a slang name for the Tokarev pistol. Not once does anyone actually call him "Tokarev".
- Expy: Of Andrew the Blacksmith, having the same voice actor and being a brilliant gunsmith who personally designed/maintains several of the iconic weapons and vehicles used in the game. To an extent, he's one of Vladimir as well, being an older fellow who serves as the Rangers' armourer.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Makes a Tikhar rifle for Artyom and regularly upgrades it as he develops new designs. He also repairs and maintains all the Ranger's wargear.
- Meaningful Name: The resident gunsmith who happens to share a name with one of the most famous Russian gun designers to ever live.
Justified as it turns out "Tokarev" is just the name he gave himself after the war, in reference to his favorite pistol. - Only Known by Their Nickname: Almost everybody refers to him by his nickname only. In the Russian dub of the game, Miller refers to him as "Kolya" just before arriving at Novosibirsk, however, which implies his full given name is "Nikolai".
- Out of Focus: He is the only member of the Aurora who doesn't have his own focus chapter at any point in the game.
