Characters / 72 Hours

SABRE

La Résistance within the third annual American Battle Royale event. Founded by Anna Rourke, the original eleven members with later additions try to defy the rules of the game and escape the island.

Anna Rourke

Founder and leader of SABRE. Senior class president, lead editor of the school’s newspaper and captain of the swim team. Anna is a force to be reckoned with. While an Ice Queen, Anna uses her brains and leadership to give her friends the strength they need to rebel against Battle Royale.

• Class Representative she’s the Senior class President, and lead editor of the schools newspaper. As well as being president of a political student rights club
• La Résistance: Is the founder of the group, She even compares its formation to a Weather Underground Meeting
• Rousing Speech: Gives one during the formation of Sabre explaining how to they are going to escape
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality while one side of her is cold, militant, and political. Her other side shows great warmth and loyalty to her friends and followers, not to mention being a leader of a clique of members of her swim team.
• To Absent Friends: Her funeral. The surviving members of Sabre give their last words to their fallen leader and cover her with a sheet.

Carter James

A red-headed kid who eventually becomes The Hero of the fanfic. Openly protests against Battle Royale, and has a longtime crush on Katherine.

• Beware the Nice Ones Carter is a peaceful reserved pacifist however, during the game a latent rage that has been building inside of him for years and eventually comes out.
• Cultural Rebel: Openly hates Battle Royale.
• Driven to Suicide: Subverted since he and Ashley, refusing to kill one another, participate in Russian Roulette to see who lives and who dies.

Ashley Vasquez

The Lad-ette of the group, Ashley has a bit of a bad streak, taking drugs and sleeping with numerous boys. However, when she joins SABRE she has a Heel–Face Turn, coming to appreciate her friendships, particularly with Carter and Katherine.

• Anti-Hero has no problems with killing and playing the program but stays with Sabre due to wanting to escape
• Battle Couple: With Paul. Made even more so after Paul confesses his love to her, and and subsequent love session.
• Becoming the Mask: Ashley started of as a Jerkass but after finding Carter and joining the group she had a Heel–Face Turn despite killing two people already, becoming an Anti-Hero.
• Eye Scream: Loses an eye to Damien. Replaces it with a glass eye.
• The Lad-ette Ashley loves to drink, smoke, fight, take ecstasy, and party.
• Sole Survivor The winner of the program.

Katherine Farraday

The Heart of SABRE, an incredibly beautiful, kind and popular girl in school, Katherine likes to be independent but helpful after her detached past and a certain incident.

• Off with His Head! Damien decapitates her with his machete.
• Rape as Drama: Katherine was raped a year before the game, prompting her to change her personality and become popular.

Doug Rodgers

The Smart Guy of the group, Doug is a genuine genius and computer hacker, able to understand the workings of the explosive belts and how to disable them.

• Catchphrase: I am invincible!
• The Cracker: Hacks the Battle Royale mainframe, shutting down their movements, delaying their cameras and infecting thier servers
• He Who Fights Monsters His fight with the solders makes him realize on how far he has fallen
• I Did What I Had to Do: After executing Gus for Murdering Anna.
• Nerd Glasses he is described as wearing thick glasses
• The Short Guywith Glasses give him a computer and he’s got a plan

• Teen Genius skipped two grades and got a full ride scholarship to MIT
• Techno Wizard is an expert hacker and computer whizz

Paul Holt

A horror film buff and Lovable Nerd. Wields a chainsaw in the game, becoming a badass fighter protecting others, particularly girls.

• Big Damn Heroes: Paul is a master at this, saving Lexie from Brian by chainsawing him in two, and again helps take down Joel.
• Chainsaw Good basically a walking trope of it, he carves up two people and a boar during the story with it.
• Dying Moment of Awesome gets shot 6 times and attacks Joel with his chainsaw
• Genre Savvy Paul is an expert in movies and cinema tropes.
• Lovable Nerd it’s hard not to love Paul with his funny wit, positive energy, and movie references.
• The Movie Buff: Paul is a movie geek that quotes and references many movies during the story.

Jenny Reese

Anna's best friend and a bit of a Genki Girl.

• Break the Cutie: Suffers one after Anna's death, and asks Michael to save her.
• Chekhov's Hobby Jenny loves to take pictures and photograph people, Her Polaroid camera is used to gather information and take pictures of important objects, like the controls to the boat.
• Genki Girl in her clique, Jenny was always the girl who would try anything new with abundance of energy.
• Misery Builds Character: Jenny becomes much more cut throat after her mental breakdown in the freezer, helping execute Gus, and killing the soldiers.

Michael Baxter

Openly gay, Michael becomes Jenny's guard during the game.

• Camp Gay his hair is described as dyed half purple and half pink.
• Sour Supporter becomes one after Anna’s death and the execution of Gus his views of peace and empathy clash with Sabre’s fall into violence.

Francisco Marquez

A badass Latino with Catholic beliefs. He is the only guy in school to fight and beat Joel in a brawl.

• Church Militant during his sacrifice, he prays to his cross necklace asking for the strength to help his friends.
• Dying Moment of Awesome after being shot, he sacrifices himself and beats Joel with his police baton until getting shot again.
• Heroic Sacrifice sacrifices himself to fight Joel to allow Carter and Kathrine time to escape.
• Knight In Shining Armour Rescues Jenny from certain death from AJ. has a certain hate to those who abuse woman.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse He’s only 5.5’ but strong as an ox and the only one to ever beat Joel in a fight.

Gus O'Ryan

A redneck who is a fan of Battle Royale, but is good friends with Ashley.

• Genre Savvy an expert in Battle Royale, mentions watching illegal cable hook ups of actual games.
• Face–Heel Turn Murders Anna and locks the remaining Sabre members in a meat locker after deciding to give in to the program.
• Lower-Class Lout Described as a California redneck who grew up in desert towns around Barstow, he boozes, fights, and shoots stuff with guns, he’s also known as being a bit of a druggie.
• Maskingthe Deformity wears a makeshift mask after being horrifically scarred by chemical burns.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them his 357 Magnum revolver he was assigned with was used in his own Execution.
• Vigilante Execution Took out to the back of the mess hall and shot in the back of the head on his knees after killing Anna.

Matt Hunter

A skaterboy, Matt spends much of the game looking for the love of his life Lexie, and goes through a great number of stresses and pains in his quest.

• The Chew Toy: Suffers quite a lot in the game, attacked by numerous others and even knocked out by Lexie whom he loves in their brief five seconds together. Take a stand by the time he joins the remaining SABRE members.
• Heroic Sacrifice lands on one of Marie’s grenades to save his friends
• Jumping on a Grenade Matt realizes what his place was in the program and he Sacrifices himself to save his friends from Marie.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye Lexie dies before Matt could confess to him

The Antagonists

Damien Myers / Charles Lee "Charlie" Voorhees

After being disfigured in an accident, Damien is tormented by the Brat Pack, and uses the Battle Royale to get his revenge on them. It's eventually revealed that he was the winner of the 1st Battle Royale, now under a different identity.

• Bulletproof Vest steals one from Maxine.
• Evil Cripple missing his left arm but that doesn't stop him from killing.
• Disabled Means Helpless: Averted, not only does he thrive in the game but he directly kills 5 people, he also indirectly caused the deaths of 7 more, he can fight toe to toe with the strongest students and makes it to the endgame.
• Freudian Excuse: Having to live with surviving the 1st Battle Royale while being severally bullied in high school, not to mention the Brat pack sabotaging his relationship with Lenore.
• Handicapped Badass he’s Missing his left arm and but more then makes up for it.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: To Katie, makes her death extremely painful and drawn out.
• Pet the Dog: Realising that Grad Night would lead to one bus being selected for the next Battle Royale, he hurriedly tells Lenore, an ex-girlfriend who has at this point every right to be suspicious and scared of him, to make other plans.
• Split-Personality Takeover His previous identity takes over and becomes somehow even worse then he already was.
• Woobie Destroyerof Worlds: He was a survivor of the first Battle Royale game and because of his injuries, was either jeered or shunned by the majority of his class.

Marie Cooper

An emotionless talented yet arrogant ballerina, Marie is utterly devoted to going to Julliard and she isn't about to let a silly game of Battle Royale stop her.

• Abusive Parents: Her mother essentially forced her into becoming who she is.
• Boring Yet Practical: Her strategy in the game is stay in the control tower with a sniper rifle and pick out people whenever they come.
• Cold Sniper assigned with a sniper rifle, she heads for an air traffic control tower and snipes from the airfield.
• Dance Battler: As a ballerina, she falls onto this the few times she is pulled into close combat.
• Freudian Excuse: The brief flashback of her childhood is not very pleasant to say the least. It's been remarked that she lost her "innocence" at a fairly early age as well.
• Kill It with Fire: How she finally dies, Molotov's and grenades.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: She reacts to a graze against her arm very very poorly.
• Woobie Destroyerof Worlds: She has been slowly stripped of any emotion, personality, and innocence in her childhood to the point where she enters the Battle Royale with just a determination of survival so she can become the best ballerina.

Katie Snyder

A Christian who often quietly hangs around the school library, Katie reveals her sadistic streak on the island, gleefully maiming her opponents and getting aroused by the carnage she inflicts.

• Karmic Death: Damien cuts off her fingers, slices into her skin multiple times and sprays mace into the wounds. He then crucifies her to a wall by her hands and finally stabs her with a scythe, her original weapon.

Joel Giovanello

The leader of the wrestlers.

• Smug Snake: He believes that he'll be able to destroy his way through the game. In the end, not only does he have the lowest kill count of the main antagonists but he is also forced to ally with Katie to survive.

Mike "Big V" Vriess

One of the wrestlers; Joel's second in command.

• Human Shield: Katie uses him as one when she attacks the remaining wrestlers. Joel just shoots at Katie through him.
• The Starscream: It's hinted at one point that he and Karen are plotting to kill Joel and seize control together Naturally, this never sees the light of day after Karen's death.

Karen Peterson

One of the wrestlers.

• Too Dumb to Live: Squall said it best – getting shitfaced and hitting golf balls off a roof really is isn’t the best way to survive!

The Brat Pack

The Girl Posse who went around making life a living hell for Damien back at high school.

Brynn Sanchez

• Boom, Headshot!: Was able to shoot Maxine through the head from the infirmary roof. She herself is shot in the head by Dora when she breaks into the infirmary.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: She throws a barrage of insults at and then later on kills Maxine simply because she's a lesbian.

Dora Janovec

Easily the nicest of the group, Dora strives to help anyone out.

• Guilt by Association Gag: Damien does not care one bit that Dora wasn't mean to him, the fact that she associated with the Brat Pack is enough for him to brutally stab her to death. To be fair, she did nothing to stop them from bullying other students.

Serenity Powers

• Gender Flip: Seems to be the Brat Pack's answer to the Wresting Club's Shane Raynor.
• Token Good Teammate: Seems to this. She isn't really a bitch, more of a Brainless Beauty. Though she isn't really as developed as Dora.

Other Students

AJ Takagaki

An overweight nerdy boy who was also harassed by the Brat Pack. One of Damien's only friends in school. He tried to run for student council president, until the Brat Pack shut him down by making humiliating posters.

• Even Evil Has Standards: While the rest of the Brat Pack were fair game, he does however have qualms about Damien killing Dora. He's also unsure how to feel after successfully taking revenge on Ayane, and clearly starts having doubts about the morality of it all midway through their revenge plan.
• Freudian Excuse: Confessed to Ayane in the past and was rejected; after that, the Brat Pack began to taunt and harass him to the point of cruelty.

Blake Morrow

A boy who has some medical knowledge. He is sickened by the game and commits suicide.

• Four Is Death: His full name is Blake Morrow IV. He also happens to die in midst of the game.

Brian Pavell

• Abusive Mom: His mom was physically abusive to him.
• Alcoholic Mom: His Abusive Mom was this as she was an alcoholic.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Brian was the biggest threat during the first few hours, having attacked Tammy, knocked Elena unconscious, and mortally wounded both Cheryl and Sky. He's then killed by Paul with a chainsaw before the first six hours are up.
• Freudian Excuse: His mother was an abusive alcoholic who regularly beat him.
• Matricide: It's implied he killed his mother.

Elena Norris

• Red Shirt: She pretty much existed to be Damien's first kill.

Geiger Anton

• Eye Scream: Katie slashes right through it with a scythe.

Gervase Rockwell

• Beauty to Beast: Was once a ladies man before he was mutilated and burned by Marie and Jackson.
• The Casanova: Implied to be a ladies man.
• Fingore Has both his thumbs hacked off by Marie at the very start.
• Man on Fire: Gets set on fire by Jackson.
• Rasputinian Death: From the moment he enters the Program, he is electrocuted by an electric door while trying to escape, wets his pants out of fear, has to be one of the last students to leave the school, fails to kill Marie, accidentally bites his own tongue off while getting knocked unconscious by her, has both his thumbs hacked off, has the words MARIE COOPER DID THIS engraved into his chest, gets his weapon and pack stolen from her, gets set on fire by Jackson, and has his wallet stolen by Brynn before finally being killed off by her.
• Tongue Trauma: Bites his own tongue in half and swallows it during Marie's assault on him.

Jacob Escobar

• A Death in the Limelight: He gets an entire chapter dedicated to his plans to enact vengeance on the wrestlers, delving deep into how they scorned him. It's set up like it'll be a side plot of its own, and then Marie abruptly ends it as Jacob lights a cigarette, giving away his position in the night.

Josh Peters

• Face–Heel Turn: Somehow went from joking around on the bus, to trying to kill Francisco with an ice pick.
• Too Dumb to Live: He somehow thought trying to kill Francisco would be a piece of cake. Even after when Francisco agreed to team up with him, he still tried to kill him.
• Ungrateful Bastard: After when Francisco spared him and offered to join forces with him, he literally tried to stab him in the back with his ice pick.

Lara Drake

• Eye Scream: Both her eyes are destroyed by Marie with a hunting knife.

Lindsay Hill

• Star-Crossed Lovers: Her relationship with Rudy is looked down upon by both their parents and Naomi.

Lisa Pickford

• Laser-Guided Karma: Her racism against Hispanics is responded to with a shotgun blast to the head from Ashley Vasquez.

• Handsome Lech: Also known as school as The Naughty Hottie.

Maxine Summers

• Boom, Headshot!: Is shot through the head by Brynn
• Bulletproof Vest: Her assigned weapon. It serves her no purpose, as she's shot in the head.

Nick Savini

• A Death in the Limelight: He and Tamyra get all the attention in the first chapter of the story. He's then killed off early in the next.
• Sacrificial Lamb: He's the very first death.

Rudy Daniels

• Star-Crossed Lovers: His relationship with Lindsay is looked down upon by both their parents and Naomi.

Shane Raynor

One of the wrestlers; a guy with developmental issues. He's a simple-minded person and obeys Joel unconditionally.

• Gentle Giant: He’s very loyal and follows orders, not possessing the mental capacity to question them which leads to his involvement with Joel. Give him a choice in the matter, though, and he’s not a bad guy.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He screams out for Joel to help with after Jackson sets him on fire. Joel responds by shooting him in the face.

Sky Hawk

• Suicide Pact: Subverted. Brian attacks her and Lexie before they can kill themselves, and Sky is mortally wounded as a result.

Tammy Farrell

Tammy had the unfortunate circumstance of sitting next to Nick on the bus, therefore getting front row seats to his and Tamyra's grisly deaths. That, combined with the sight of her teacher shooting himself in the head, leaves her in a catatonic and barely conscious state for most of the game.

• A Death in the Limelight: Aside from spurning discourse in the Brat Pack she doesn't do much thanks to her mental state, but she gets a decent amount of exploration in her death chapter.

Tamyra Carpenter

• A Death in the Limelight: She and Nick get all the attention in the first chapter of the story. She's then killed off midway through the next.
• Sacrificial Lamb: She's killed before she even leaves the classroom.