Character Sheet for The Reason Why.
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Allura McCoy
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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Alternative Character Interpretation: She's the Allura, albeit greatly changed from those days long ago. For one thing (as mentioned in "Darkness"), she was forced to watch her parents being murdered. - My Girl Is a Slut: She can't even seem to rein in her own daughter, although this is nowhere near being her fault.
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: What people think Allura thinks, since she seems unable to pull her daughter in.
- Really 700 Years Old: Looks to be in her mid-40s (mid-20s in her costume), but is really much older.
- Took a Level in Badass: She's been through quite a bit, which has battered and hardened her.
Chrissie MaCockenshipiel
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.
- Broken Bird: 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 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.
- Curse Cut Short: Several times, a particularly dirty phrase or word will be cut off.
- Semi-averted once the Boss' face is revealed, at which point she launches into a long string of profanities (offscreen).
- Drowning My Sorrows: Implied that this is how she copes with her myriad problems - or at least the ones her mother doesn't know of.
- Medium Awareness / Fourth-Wall Observer: 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.
- Ms. Fanservice / Fan Service With A Smile: If she's giving Fanservice, chances are pretty good she knows about it.
- My Girl Is a Slut: 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 the Venus Butterfly. And she has no reservations about talking that way...at least not until this story.
- Really 700 Years Old: Chrissie adds up her age in bunches during "Home", arriving at 982. She then rocks back and forth, sobbing and murmuring about how "I wasn't meant to live this long".
- Too Kinky to Torture: To the point where Allura can't administer motherly punishments because Chrissie likes it.
Nadimia T.K. Davola
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...
- Only Sane Woman: She approaches the whole situation very calmly. Perhaps too calmly...
Richard Dawkins
A guard who works for the Boss, appearing in Chapter 4 and the Epilogue.
Wo
One of the Boss' other employees, though she doesn't seem to have any emotions at all.
- Just Following Orders: 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.
The Boss
The person Allura, Chrissie, Dawkins, and Wo answer to. First appears in-person during Chapter 4, where his sadistic side is first seen.
- The Faceless: 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 - he's an Auton.
Mew
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.
- Alternate Character Interpretation: It's the Pokémon, just rather different.
Susan Wise
The Man Behind the Man, trying to harness the powers of Nadimia and her parents for her own selfish ends.
Grace Goldwood/Miss Glowbug
A young woman who reluctantly works for the Boss, hoping to take him down. Reveals her true self shortly after The Man Behind the Man (see previous folder) does.
