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A character sheet for the whimsical cast that makes up Cerberus Daily News.

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A character sheet for the whimsical cast that makes up Cerberus Daily News.

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* Characters/CerberusDailyNewsCitadelSpace
* Characters/CerberusDailyNewsTerminusSpace
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* Characters/CerberusDaiIyNewsCitadelSpace
* Characters/CerberusDaiIyNewsTerminusSpace

A character sheet for the whimsical cast that makes up Cerberus Daily News.

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* Characters/CerberusDailyNewsCitadelSpace
* Characters/CerberusDailyNewsTerminusSpace
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* Characters/CerberusDaiIyNewsCitadelSpace
* Characters/CerberusDaiIyNewsTerminusSpace

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!''Citadel Space''

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!'''Albert Lowell (Diplomatic Immunity / Dippy)'''
A licentious Alliance Diplomat, and operative working for the clandestine operations division of the Alliance Intelligence Services, and does whatever he can get away with on the side.

* AffablyEvil
* AnythingThatMoves
* ArtificialLimbs: Right shoulder and arm are cybernetic, covered with flesh to look normal.
* BerserkButton: Don't call him a politician. He is a civil servant, damn it!
* BoldlyComing: Regardless of species, he greets most people by proposing a date and a [[SoundEffectBleep [redacted]]] afterwards.
* ConsummateLiar: Of the Truth Twister variety
* CrazyPrepared
* [[DepravedBisexual Depraved Omnisexual]]: Arguably [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagged]], as Dippy's partners often act as [[MoralityPet Morality Pets]] and his promiscuity isn't always used to underscore any evil actions that he undertakes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: His depravity applies to ''nearly'' AnythingThatMoves, ''but'' he is above propositioning children (aside from engaging in TheJailbaitWait for older teenagers) and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil nonconsensual encounters]].
* FriendToAllChildren: One of his PetTheDog characteristics.
* OvertOperative: While he denies it, it's pretty obvious that he is more than a simple bureaucrat.
* PragmaticVillainy
* ReallyGetsAround: [[ReconstructedTrope Reconstructed]]; other users often bring up how his willingness to sleep around would ordinarily result in a host of [=STDs=] and, in the case of quarians, the possible death of his partners. His typical response is an extensive list of the various precautions that he takes to protect himself and whomever he is sleeping with.
* SpockSpeak: Doesn't use contractions in his speech or text unless he knows the person he is communicating with very well (generally this means he has slept with him or her.)

!'''Lynn Conway (Lynn o Cymru)'''
A C-Sec Enforcement grunt currently based on Bachjret Ward. After serving several years with the UK Royal Military Police on Earth, Lynn was accepted into C-Sec to help fill the manpower shortage following the geth attack.
* ActionGirl
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much compared to the others, but she does have her moments.
* ElectronicEyes: A result of some gruesome injuries inflicted during the Reaper's siege of the Citadel.
* FairCop
* FireForgedFriends: With Allison Drew
* LastNameBasis: As a formality issue, she chiefly refers to others, aside from her friends, by their last name and honorific.
* InterspeciesRomance: Is in a relationship with the turian Callius Nerva, himself a C-Sec officer working for their Network Division. Has recently upgraded to HappilyMarried following the war
* PolitenessJudo: Her chief tactic when debating with the more crass posters on the board.
* UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}: Where she was born and raised.

!'''Niamh Callaghan (Triskele)'''
A cold, quiet, trenchant archaeologist, Doctor Callaghan currently works on the Citadel for the Museum of Galactic History, pursuing artifacts at their request.

* AdventurerArchaeologist
* BadassBookworm
* BrainyBrunette
* HappilyMarried
* InsufferableGenius
* IrishNames
* OrphansOrdeal
* ParentalSubstitute
* TragicKeepsake
* TwinTelepathy
* WoundedGazelleGambit

!'''Tomaz'Schadl vas Radwaf'''
Quarian pilot residing in the Flotilla, having finished his Pilgrimage.

* BubbleBoy: He's a quarian.
* GoodIsNotNice: Has a rather extreme view on what should be done to traitors of the Migrant Fleet.
* NobleBigot: He is a rather nice, law-abiding, helpful person... unless you're an Exile or Geth.
* NoodleIncident: His Pilgrimage is made up of many of these.

!'''Rala'Zarun nar Torva'''
A twenty-three year old Quarian pilgrim who joined the site during an unplanned stopover on Omega (due to engine trouble in her poorly-maintained shuttle). After Techie generously repaired the shuttle for free, she travelled to Illium, where she worked for a time as a driver/pilot for a vehicle-hire firm. Recently moved to the Citadel to start her own transport business.

''(Trope examples will be added soon.)''

!'''Kolya Wright (Human Quarian)'''
A 'culturally confused' twenty-something human who grew up on the Citadel and has now returned after spending two years travelling around human colonies in a effort to get to know his species better.
* GeneHunting: Subverted in that while he's currently trying to track down his MissingMom, he isn't hoping for a family reunion and just wants to know why she sent him away when he was six.
** Has since been resolved in a way that made him wish he hadn't bothered. To put it bluntly, she was getting rid of a 'mistake' and doesn't want to see him or hear from him again because he might 'ruin her life'.
* [[HasTwoMommies Had Two Daddies]]: Technically it was more like 'one daddy and one [[HonoraryUncle uncle]]' and it was only for four years of his life, but it still counts.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With his flatmate Lupin.
* IAmNotWeasel: A somewhat meta version due to the screen name and the character's tendency to call people bosh'tets, to the point where it was necessary for the player to add a sig clarifying things.
* InterspeciesAdoption: His [[HonoraryUncle uncle]] may not have offically adopted him but to all intents and purposes it still qualifies.
* InterspeciesFriendship: The above mentioned Lupin (who's a quarian). Kolya has also mentioned that his childhood best friend was a drell.
* MrFixit : His uncle was a quarian. Said quarian regarded the ability to repair pretty much anything as a life essential and ensured that Kolya had it.
* MultiethnicName: Russian first name, English surname due to his father changing the latter from, the very Russian, 'Volkov' when he got custody.
* NamesTheSame: Sort of. Kolya is one letter away from Kolyat. Word of god is that they haven't played ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and were therefore completely oblivious when they named him.
* [[PardonMyKlingon Pardon My Quarian]]: He was mostly raised by his father's quarian flatmate. This has had a number of effects, the most obvious one being that the words 'bosh'tet' and 'keelah' have become permenantly embeded in his vocabulary.
** Has been using a lot of mixed-species swearwords recently, mostly aimed at Cerberus.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mother handed him over to his dad when he was six and he hasn't heard from her since then. His dad went off to play merc when he was ten and never came back. Thankfully he had an HonoraryUncle to act as a ParentalSubstitute.
* TheNondescript: Is actually described as such, a fact which he's used to his advantage at least once.
* TookALevelInBadass

!'''Stezenyn (kahjeforeternity)'''
A hanar shopkeeper who's currently living on the Citadel. Is quite curious about other species.
* NiceHat: Has at least two of them, the usual one being a top hat, despite being a hanar and therefore lacking what most species would consider a head.
** So far he has had avatars of him wearing a top hat and a military cap. He has also worn a monocle, a cowboy hat, and a wizard's hat.
* TheReveal: He revealed his Soul Name to Allison Drew.

!'''Halley Lacaille ([=CelestialPalette=])'''
A 27-year-old human biotic artist/bartender who recently moved to the Citadel from Amaterasu.

* [[MilitaryBrat Alliance Brat]]: her father's been an officer with the Alliance Marines since before she was born. InTheBlood, apparently.
* BadassDamsel
* TheBartender: Claims its a hobby with a steady paycheck.
** [[FlairBartending Biotic Bartending]]: Highly skilled in flair bartending - with a biotic twist.
* CombatStilettos: Upon realizing she's being attacked, her first reaction is to kick her attacker between the legs while wearing high heels.
* TheConfidant: Mostly to her patrons, but also to her friends.
* Daddy's Girl: Only child, and very close with her (overprotective) father.
* EthicalSlut
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench
* Fake Memories: In the Biotic Salvation arc, the BigBad hypnotises Halley and gives her one of these.
* FieryRedhead
** HeroesWantRedheads: Apparently.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Alluded to.
* LikeBrotherandSister: Her and her patron's nephew, Atem
** CoolBigSis: To Atem
* ObfuscatingStupidity: graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a degree in Psychology...yet you'd almost never know it.
* PluckyGirl
* PowerPerversionPotential
* StarvingArtist: Averted
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Gunny Tritt.
** RomanceEnsues: Inevitably.


!'''Kyr (Kyman201)'''
An elcor ex-mercenary and former soldier. Has recently joined up with C-Sec
* BadAss: He took on a krogan battlemaster, and won.
** In addition to that 'got into a fistfight with a krogan battlemaster' thing, he accentuated his punches with blasts from gauntlet-mounted shotguns.
* BerserkButton: Despite being rather even-tempered, Kyr seems to get annoyed when things go poorly, and when people mess with his guns. Not so much due to [[ICallItVera personal attachment]], but because recalibration and repair can be tough.
* BigFreakingGun: He's mentioned with pride that one of his favorite weapons is a scavanged forward cannon from a turian fighter.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Kyr, to date, has been a part of three minor plotlines that have involved combat. And every single one has involved him punching a krogan.
* MightyGlacier: He's an elcor. It comes with the territory.
* NiceGuy: He may be able to break you in half with a gesture, but he's a laid back and relaxed sort out of combat.
* RealMenWearPink: Despite being able to fight off a krogan battlemaster, Kyr has mentioned that he collects plushies.
* [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun Remember When You Took On A Krogan Battlemaster?]]: Even joining C-Sec hasn't let this event fade, as apparently some of the other officers heard about it, and one asked Kyr point-blank about it.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry
* TheBigGuy: Class 2. A generally friendly guy, but he IS a cop

!'''Fadil Mahd (All My Fornax)'''
An, *ahem* "Executive assistant" to Zoftan. Bit of a flirt.

* AddictionDisplacement - Used to be addicted to red sand, now drinks like a fish and engages in promiscuous behavior when he can get away with it.
* AnimalsHateHim - Seriously, they really do. Probably because he is yellow.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered
* BeneaththeMask
* Bookworm - Fadil loves books, but doesn't necessarily read a lot; he more or less collects books because they're a novelty.
* CharacterTics - Rubs his birthmark, folds his hands in front of his face, adjusts his clothes.
* IAmWhatIAm
* NicetotheWaiter
* RealMenEatMeat - Fadil will pretty much eat anything in front of him, as long as he won't be killed by consuming it.
* SimplemindedWisdom
* TheDandy - He isn't intensely flamboyant, but very concerned about his presentation, no matter where he's going.

!'''Alex Parker (Alex the Supercop)'''
A 21-year-old man from Earth that gave up a future career in the police force to come live with his family on the Citadel. Dreams of joining C-Sec to continue his career in law enforcement. Near-incapable of being serious, yet nothing is more dear to him than his sister. [[BerserkButton Heaven help you if you touch her.]]

* AngstComa: After All That Remains. He comes out of it to [[spoiler:escape from hospital.]]
* BerserkButton: Messing with his sister doesn't put you in a good place with him.
* BigBrotherInstinct: To his sister, Kate.
* BlatantLies: He's an evil Cerberus AI. [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Designed by the finest minds of a generation to be the biggest idiot possible]].
* BiTheWay: In a possible discussion of the trope he's just as confused as everyone else. May overlap with IfItsYouItsOkay.
* BreathlessNonSequitur:
-->'''Alex''': You know, I think you won the lottery, boyo. Sure wish I had biotics right now. Might help with a couple of things. Am I annoying you? Might be the blood loss. Just a possibility. I am just bleeding ''everywhere''... Could someone get me a towel?
* CasualDangerDialog: Will not shut up, even in a firefight.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Deconstructed to hell and back in and after All That Remains. Reconstructed in Dispossession, where Davril proves to Alex that he does care about his sister, despite Alex's belief that he merely had HeroSyndrome and didn't care about anyone he tried to help.
* CloudCuckooLander: Acts cavalier about pretty much everything and insists he won't die because of his NiceHat.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DeconstructorFleet: His overarching story is mostly about how his character traits have been digging him deeper into despair.
* DespairEventHorizon: At his lowest point, a mysterious Cerberus operative offered to help him [[spoiler:find his sister]] in exchange for his services. He accepted.
* Determinator: In 'All That Remains' he soldiers on despite a deep talon-slash to the forehead and ''being winged by a shotgun, unarmoured''. He's finally put down by a point-blank shot to the stomach.
* DrivenToSuicide: Played for laughs as Kate agrees to go out with [[MemeticMolester Dippy]].
* DumbStruck: In his HeroicBSOD, even during a police interview. He manages to speak to his mother, however.
* {{Expy}}: A snarkier version of [[VideoGame/NieR Brother Nier]].
* EpiphanyTherapy: Handed out by Davril.
* FearlessFool: Usually the first to put himself on the line.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Majorly after Dispossession due to Davril hitting on him. Including a nigh-literal HeroicBSOD.
* HeroicBSOD: A MASSIVE one after All That Remains.
** Played for laughs when he finds out Davril sent him a big bunch of red roses.
* IndyPloy: Two in the 'Lost World' storyline. Both resulted in him being injured, but nobody else.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Or rather, [[spoiler:I let my little sister get kidnapped by slavers.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: And boy does this bite him in the ass. Another part of his TraumaCongaLine
* LandDownUnder: Born in Australia. He's used this fact to compare [[DeathWorld Tuchanka]] to Australia. And talk about [[MemeticMutation drop bears.]]
* LaughingMad: During his HeroicBSOD. It's unsettling.
* MistakenForGay: By Davril. [[HoYay Though actually not]] [[ShipTease so mistaken.]]
* MotorMouth: When he gets flustered.
* NiceHat: Demanded that he receive one before going on Seamus' expedition. Found one on his own while in Nos Astra, [[NoodleIncident somehow]].
* MyGreatestFailure: Not stopping Kate's rape in time. [[spoiler:Or her kidnap by slavers.]]
* NoodleIncident: Part of his jokes.
-->'''Alex''': [[ShoutOut What about the time I took down a mercenary company with a single C-Sec armed response team, maps covering the Citadel wards, a pot of coffee, twelve doughnuts and a]] [[Series/DoctorWho fez]]?
* SadClown: [[UpToEleven Oh God yes.]]
* SelfDeprecation: Pretty quick to admit wrongdoing, and some of his jokes are directed at himself.
* StepfordSmiler: Strong Type A during his HeroicBSOD, though implied to be one generally.
* Straight Gay
* SurvivalMantra: 'Can't stop' and 'I promised'.
* TrashTalk: Admonished a merc after being ''shot in the shoulder'' because they missed all the important bits.
* TraumaCongaLine: Boy howdy does his life go down the crapper in a relatively short space of time.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Used to be hard on the idealist side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. ''Used'' to.

!'''Kate Parker (K_O)'''
Sister to Alex, three years younger than him. She hates his overbearing protective nature, and it shows.

* ActionGirl[=/=]FauxActionGirl: Seems to zig-zag. Ultimately she's closer to a female ActionSurvivor.
* AscendedExtra: Began as a side character for Alex, but got her own account when he left the Citadel on an expedition.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: "I WILL DESTROY IT WITH FIRE AND CHAINSAWS. CHAINSAWS ON FIRE."
* CatchPhrase: "Delicious X". Most commonly replace X with [[YaoiFangirl 'yaois'.]]
* DamselInDistress: 'All That Remains' turns her into one of these.
* DeadpanSnarker: Runs in the family.
* Determinator: It takes a lot to put her down.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: The way she treats Alex would be downright despicable were their genders reversed.
* Foreshadowing: She often finds herself hungry and has a fast metabolism. She sometimes wakes up to find things in her bedroom have been moved, sometimes violently. And she gets unexplained static shocks. [[spoiler:She glows blue at one point, too.]]
* HypocriticalHumour: Can state two entirely different things, sometimes in the same post.
* TheInsomniac: Has trouble sleeping due to recurring nightmares.
* JerkassFacade: Hoo boy.
* KillItWithFire: Her favourite threat.
* LargeHam: Her snarking is often contrasted by SUDDENLY BECOMING VERY DRAMATIC AND ANGRY.
* [[spoiler: MadeASlave]]
* {{Meganekko}}
* RapeAsBackstory
* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Averted. She has the hallmarks, but she thinks keepers are adorable and squees madly over My Little Moxie.
* SanitySlippage: Her sleeping troubles were exacerbated when Alex left on an expedition, and it showed.
* ShoutOut: [[AlphaProtocol "Two words; horse porn. All over your omni-tool."]]
* SingleIssuePsychology: There's the RapeAsBackstory, but that's only part of it. The fact that Alex couldn't stop it in time shunted her hard down the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, and the way she reinvented herself to deal with what happened caused a rift to grow between the two very quickly over the two years since. [[JerkassFacade She secretly feels horrible for treating him so badly]], but CannotSpitItOut. There's also her recurring [=PTSD=] nightmares and [[spoiler:probable biotic powers]].
* SurvivalMantra: 'Don't get scared, get angry.'
* {{Suspiciously Specific Denial}}: Her reaction when people started to notice the hats on the Keepers
* {{Troll}}: She's actually capable of pulling the trollface in real life!
* {{Tsundere}}: She defends Alex, saying he's 'stronger than you think', then says he's a rake with noodle arms in the SAME POST.
* UglyCute: Sees Keepers as these. There are records of a C-Sec investigation into someone who tries to put various hats on all the Keepers. She was the prime suspect.[invoked]
* YaoiFangirl: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3626&start=70 Told Alex she wrote a]] Shepard/[[NaughtyTentacles hanar]] slashfic. She was lying about that, but she's still a fan.

!'''Kenec'Getha vas Luvshakh nar Iblin'''
A young, barely of age quarian, Kenec is in an astonishingly good mood most of the time and very friendly to most everyone he meets. [[spoiler:Recently exiled from the Migrant Fleet.]]

* AbusiveParents: His father regularly did and said horrible, horrible things to him when he got his first suit, and his mother never seemed to want him in the first place.
* {{Adorkable}}
* [[spoiler:ArtificialLimbs: His left eye and his left arm.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a clutz, and generally a nice guy, but ask Goph what happens if you piss him off.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Gethas.
* ButtMonkey: Attempted muggings, a failing relationship, slipping into depression, and feels no one really cares about him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not very good at deadpan, though.
* GeniusDitz: Really quite smart when he wants to be, but this tends to be offset by his general goofiness and innocence.
* HotBlooded
* LiteralMinded
* TheMovieBuff: Owns every single [[{{Expy}} Dirk]] [[JamesBond Black]] movie ever made. Along with about threee hundred and fifty movies of dubious quality.
* NiceGuy: Honestly does try to be the nicest person he can be to his friends. This has taken a toll on him emotionally, however.
* StepfordSmiler: Seems happy, joyous, and just generally peppy. Really feels no one loves or cares about him, and that he'll always be alone in life no matter what he does.
* TookALevelInBadass
* UnfortunateNames: His ship is called the Luvshakh. Think on that for a moment.
* VerbalTic: Uses less formal language and [[ClusterFBomb a lot more cussing]] whenever he gets angry.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Really, a lot of his problems could have been resolved if his father just loved him more and abused him horribly a whole lot less.

!Alexander Adolrikson (Mombasa Giants Fan)
Kenyan Cop. Used to be mustached. Not so bright.

* BlackComedy: Once decided to tell an inappropriate [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=939&o=80 story]] to lighten the mood. It didn't work.

!Julian Snow (Snow)
A former Alliance Soldier, Julian works with a duct rat charity known as Leaving the Ducts.

* BerserkButton: The Systems Alliance Transitional Authority on Earth.
* BreakTheCutie: Being blamed for a massacre, then given a bad conduct discharge and left with little will do this.
* LeParkour: Practices regularly, and is fairly proficient at it.

!Laykalar/Grace Of The Boundless Current (Waves Have Broken)

A young and over-enthusiastic hanar who set out to discover the galaxy and meet its inhabitants. Everything is a source of awe to him, and he will try to find meaning in the most minute and trivial matters. He’s also completely adorable. Recently joined the Citadel-based charity Leaving the Ducts as an administrative assistant/planner and sometimes teacher to the duct rats.

* {{Adorkable}}: It’s hard not to read reality-blind Laykalar's posts without wanting to give him a big hug!
* ConstantlyCurious: His defining trait. Fortunately he’s so nice and polite that people don’t mind too much.
* PolitenessJudo: When trying to convince a politician to come to a charity dinner, Laykalar ends up talking to his staff. They try to get him to leave the conversation, but being too polite he can’t do that (or even take the hint). Hilarity ensues as they grow desperate to get rid of him, and he thinks they’re being extra cooperative.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Even for a hanar, Laykalar uses long, convulted sentences to express himself, all the time.
* WideEyedIdealist: For Laykalar, EVERYTHING has a deep profound meaning, EVERYONE is a brilliant mind to commune with.

!Urdnot Gokanong

A formerly retired Krogan mercenary now working for Nikolai as a part of his commando unit.
* AnArmAndALeg: Has a synthetic replacement for his lower left arm and extensive skin weaves, some of the many battle scars he received before his retirement.
* Badass: Has a reputation for being this before his retirement. Proves he is again by taking out a Krogan before his vorcha even have a chance to realize he's being attacked.
* BadassNormal: Doesn't have any biotic potential and relies solely on his strength, cunning and experience to kill his enemies.
* BadassGrandpa: While not too old in Krogan terms, he had three hundred years of fighting under his belt, which is a lot by anyone but the asari or the krogan's standards.
* BerserkButton: Do not call him old, mess with his ship, or insult his friends.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Is an incredibly polite krogan, but he spent the last 300 years of his life killing in the name of whoever paid him.
* CurbStompBattle: Does this with the child of one of his Krantt, shooting him before beating him into humility.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Shoots a krogan and performs the previously mentioned CurbStompBattle because he called him old and insulted one of his Krantt. Then again, he also tried to take his ship by force...

!'''Prof. Mirala T'Narf (Almost-Matriarch)'''
An asari professor of xenoliterature recently shifted into the matriarch stage of her life. Mother of both Linya and Emile's wife Zelana.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Linya's new catchphrase is "''MOTHER''" for a reason...
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant (on a small scale): She involved herself in the Biotic Salvation arc's rescue mission even after Emile was returned simply because [[MamaBear they hurt her little girl]].
* BadassGrandma
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]: Though she's getting on a bit now.
* GameBreaker: She's a ''very'' powerful biotic, mitigated mainly by [[TechnicalPacifist preferring not to fight]], and being severely outnumbered when she eventually gets in on the action.[invoked]
* IWantGrandkids: And she's finally getting one!
* MamaBear
* MayDecemberRomance: With Everett Maliezewski - she's easily more than twenty times his age.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Not happy with her fellow matriarchs' insistence on dragging their feet in the face of the Reaper threat.
* NamesTheSame: As [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Morinth's]] given name. The author swears blind this was accidental.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Bang on 700, actually.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Complete with relatively antiquated grammar.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: "Professor Matriarch Mirala'Kortl M'Tanis T'Narf nar Thessia" - due to her habit of keeping her ex-bondmates' names.

!'''Kari'Zar nar Tasi (Pariah)'''
An angry and bitter quarian exile currently living on the Citadel
* AIIsACrapshoot: Firmly believes this.
* FantasticRacism: Not unusual for a quarian, she absolutely despises the geth. After the Reaper War, and the ensuing peace between the machine race and their creators, her loathing and suspicion has only increased. If anything, she is now especially contemptuous of her own species, for lowering themselves to the point of allying with the geth.
* TheExile: Exiled from the fleet for [[spoiler:murdering her captain]]

!'''Raeta'Iral nar Rakol'''
A quarian expatriate and member of an activist group devoted to re-facilitating relations between the quarian race and the rest of the galaxy.
* FanGirl: Has gotten into pildavi, an asari sport equivalent to hockey, and is a supporter of the perennial underdog team, the Lymetis Zeolites
* GamerChick
* GuiltyPleasure: Enjoys watching the programs broadcast by [[StylisticSuck DDS]]
* FantasticRacism: Her opinion towards exiles is not very subtle, then again, [[JustifiedTrope it's a common mindset amongst her race.]]
* NiceGirl
* StopBeingStereotypical: Often implores her fellow quarians to get over their persecution complex.
* WideEyedIdealist: Believes that is possible for the quarians to co-exist with the other Citadel races in spite of their past history.

!'''Paroc Didonas (Mexta217)'''
The quiet, inscrutable scout-sniper specialist for the Hammers combat team. Formerly Valrix Trulion of the Hierarchy counter-insurgency unit 'Kexaknus,' a cadre of loyalist extremists, reviled for their brutality and renowned for their effectiveness.

* ColdSniper: Paroc is an excellent sharpshooter, a ruthlessly efficient killer at range. His sniping of numerous Sundowner rebels on Solregit earned him the moniker of "Dusk."
* LonersAreFreaks
* NotSoStoic: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1344&p=61873#p61873 When Ferrus recited Paroc's personal details right in front of him.]] The turian was ''floored'' by this.
* OminousLatinChanting: Though not technically Latin, Kexaknus' motto: "Terius. Naz Ultan, Naz Heyrit, Naz Ro-Chahk, Naz Kexaknus," conveys a similar sentiment, [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1533&p=69389#p69389 especially since they recite it when executing enemies.]]
* TerseTalker: Almost always applies, both in person and on the boards, though he is occasionally prone to moments of eloquence and elaboration, depending on the subject.
* ThemeNaming: Paroc's callsign in the Hammers squad is "Sword."
* TheStoic
* TokenEvilTeammate: He's not outright evil, but he's the most ruthless member of the Hammer team, and he's done some pretty nasty things in the past.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kexaknus embodies the essence of the trope: loyalists who believe in maintaining the Hierarchy's stability by eliminating separatists and radicals, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo no matter the cost.]] Past-tense in regards to Paroc, as he has since moved on from active extremism with the disbandment of Kexaknus, though he is apparently [[NecessarilyEvil unashamed of his past deeds.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Has a skull-like tattoo on his face.

!'''Helena Mathioudakis (Muckracker&Alliance Mom)
An investigative journalist working for the Future Content Corporation. Currently she's on the Citadel, and has made her mark interviewing some of the members of CDN's jolly [[DysfunctionJunction community]] and is currently dating Vohkaidin Knox against typical reporter etiquette. (Never date the sources)

They are now currently HappilyMarried, and Helena is, for the time being, retired from active journalism.

* ActionMom: Gave birth to her daughter, Delia, during the time skip
* BerserkButton: Do not compare her to Westerlund reporters. She hates that.
* GreenEyes: Often mentioned in her descriptions.
* HeroicBSOD: Goes through one of these early in the WGT2 arc. Recovers when her boyfriend arrives to give emotional support.
** Goes through another, far more long lasting one during the events that turn her into an UnwittingPawn, as described below.
* HappilyMarried: With Vohkaidin Knox, with the marriage itselflf having occurred in the final weeks of the Reaper War.
* HotScoop: She is rather fetching, if her avatar's any indication.
* IntrepidReporter: She is hell bent on getting a story, no matter the risk to herself.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Intentional on her part, due to an old nickname.
* StatuesqueStunner: At 5.11, you better believe it.
* UnwittingPawn: One particular action she takes to gather information in the ''Who Goes There 2'' story arc sets off a chain of events that kill 40 people on the Citadel in one of the most excruciating ways to die.


!'''Emile Ó Bhroin'''
A self-described "paperwork monkey" (despite actual paper being more or less nonexistent in your average workplace), working at the Alliance Embassy. Also a biotic, but doesn't get much use out of it.

* {{Angrish}}: Prone to it when sleep-deprived and confronted with those insistent Tupari machines, but one surprised example stands out when his brain tries to get him to say five different things at once in response to [[http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=717&o=0#19 his daughter's first word]]:
--> "Didblirstley jurdwayellshing doomgemnanathade toojfraftree haltelkzewothleyngs?!"
* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Particularly since the Reaper invasion, since panicked humans have been calling up nonstop desperate for details about their loved ones. He isn't particularly happy about having to tell people there's been no word, but sticks with it to avoid dealing with the same issues regarding his own family.
* BerserkButton: Don't call him "Emily". Or imply that biotics have it easier than most.
* DeadpanSnarker: To an extent. It's a defence mechanism, naturally.
* InterspeciesRomance: Recently married an asari, who is now pregnant with his child.
* IWantGrandkids: From both sides, though more obviously from his mother-in-law. As of recent events, they're getting their wish.
* NoodleIncident: His wedding. Certain details are known, like the announcement of his wife's impending pregnancy (thanks to BizarreAlienBiology) but nobody's yet worked out how the cats figured into it.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Tried this during the Biotic Salvation arc, after a week in solitary confinement. It didn't last long.
* {{Oireland}}: Averted, after a fashion. WordOfGod states that Emile's family is based on exaggerated versions of actual Irish people.

!'''Vindetti Guerra (Vindi Detticia)'''

Vindi is a rebel sniper and former child soldier, who’s only recently ventured out into the wider universe. Institutionalized at a very early age, she’s both excited and bewildered by pretty much everything.

* AncestralWeapon: Her grandfather's Sorcerer sniper rifle.
* BadassAdorable: Vindi looks younger than she is, and has a sunny personality, most of the time.
* ChildSoldiers
* ColdSniper: When she’s in her battle trance.
* DisappearedDad: Her father’s a drug addict and not in the picture.
* FacialHorror: Vindi is missing both her mandibles.
* FriendlyEnemy: Who does Vindi pick to be her new best friend? Paroc (Mexta217), someone who made his career on the opposite side of her war.
* FriendlySniper: Most of the time.
* TrueCompanions: After her mother was executed and her father abandoned her, she was taken in by Miles Vici and the Fidele clan (Sicaria’s kinfolk) who have become her new family.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Vindi remembers her mother fondly. Never mind that her mother taught a seven year old to be a sniper and took her along two years later on an assassination mission.
* SmallGirlBigGun
* SupremeChef
* MutilationInterrogation: Where Vindi’s mandibles went.
* {{Prison}}: Where she spent her teenage years.
* WarIsHell

!'''William Lanning (Dekutulla / [=ProgrammingWithFire=])'''
Formerly just a programmer specializing in VI software, William Lanning's grown quite skilled since joining CDN.
* AnArmAndALeg: Had his leg shot off by the Juggernaut on Peaol IV. It was later reattached.
* BadAss: Despite his unassuming demeanor, William's been involved with several of the more high risk arcs on the forum, including working with the STG against QoroQ, joining the rescue mission on Peaol IV, and several risky missions during the Reaper War. The man is not to be underestimated
* KillItWithFire: Enjoys using the Incinerate Mod on his OT.
* TheEngineer: Pretty much his class, with a few other specializations thrown in.
* TheSmartGuy: Can be counted to efficiently utilize and subvert any hardware problems. Occasionally uses these smarts on the battlefield.

!'''Virnius Shin''' / [[spoiler: Veritas 'Veri' Imperius]] ([=ArmaliShin=])
A biotic turian middle-manager. Orphaned on Illium, he never became a citizen of the Turian Hierarchy and was raised by various street gangs until he was thrown out for demonstrating biotic abilities. He was saved by a slave broker and served a five-year term as an indentured servant before landing a job at the Armali Council.

[[spoiler: It is later revealed that this is merely a cover story for his true identity; he is actually Veritas Imperius, the eldest son of NouveauRiche parents who owned a successful theatrical production company. After deserting the Hierarchy on Shanxi, he tried to bribe his way off-world but couldn't access his parents' money and was made an indentured servant as a result.]]

* [[spoiler:AbusiveParents: His parents didn't take kindly to his developing biotic powers.]]
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' abuse a biotic kid in his presence. [[PapaWolf Ever.]]
** To a lesser extent, the [[ShoutOut Spiritual Church of]] [[{{Airplane}} Enkindler Consciousness]].
* BigEater: Has a hyperactive metabolism from his biotic powers.
* BoldlyComing: Prefers turians, but also has fetishes for humans, drell, quarians, and salarians.
* CampGay: By turian standards.
* ChivalrousPervert[=/=]EthicalSlut
* ClosetGeek: A fan of economic theory, math, and extranet gaming. [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3733&start=9 He doesn't take it well when he inadvertently lets it slip that he is a member of the Galaxy of Fantasy fandom.]]
* ClubKid: Sympathetically deconstructed; his hedonistic lifestyle is largely a result of his attempting to repress his past.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: [[spoiler: Except he's lying.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Seemingly played straight when he first talks about his indentured servitude period, volunteers the information, and jokes about it. Subverted when it is revealed in a mental monologue how he ''actually'' feels about it.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: [[spoiler: He's telling the truth about this one, though it was actually his parents saying it.]]
* TheHedonist -> CharacterDevelopment -> ForHappiness
* [[spoiler:InadequateInheritor]]
* LovableCoward: [[spoiler:He didn't die on Shanxi; he deserted and fell off the radar until the Hierarchy labeled him as legally dead. This is shown to have consequences in his personal life, [[ReconstructedTrope but he is still able to find sympathy from close friends and personally comes to terms with his mistake]].]]
* [[MadeASlave Made An Indentured Servant]]
* [[LadykillerInLove Mankiller In Love]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace
* [[RedOniBlueOni Red Oni]] to Idem's Blue Oni. [[spoiler: For good reason.]]
* SelfMadeMan
* SherlockScan: Especially adept at reading body language and small nuances. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Although he possessed a basic form of the talent naturally, it wasn't until he began researching the subject that he became competent.]]
** Occasionally swings around into the realm of [[ParodiedTrope parody]]; his scans require him to focus on one object, often making him react with shock to sensory input from ''anything else'' that he's not focusing on.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Dextro-formulated varren skewers.
* TricksterArchetype: ObfuscatingStupidity and XanatosSpeedChess are his favorite tactics.
* YaoiGuys: With Idem.
** {{Uke}}: A ''[[BoysLoveNotes sasoi]]'' subtype.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have a Dyed Cyan Fringe]]

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Military]]

!'''Captain Thomas Carmichael (Polaron)'''
Captain of the Alliance heavy cruiser ''SSV Indianapolis'', Thomas Carmichael is a native of Earth and a survivor of the Battle of the Citadel. Unfortunately, his time spent on the edges of human space fighting slavers and pirates, combined with seeing ''Sovereign'' cut a sizable hole in the human fleet, has made him somewhat jaded and bitter. If he manages to shape up, he'll probably make an excellent starship captain someday.

* BigDamnHeroes: His ship was part of the Alliance's reinforcements during the Battle of the Citadel.
** His rescue of Gunny Tritt's squad also qualifies, being as last-second as it was.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: During a meeting of CDN members on the Citadel, Carmichael came charging through with his weapon out and a squad of C-SEC officers along for the ride, shouting about finding a potted plant before it was too late.[invoked]
** He recently followed this up by running through another meeting holding a Russian nesting doll and yelling about needing to find an airlock.
* DeathFromAbove: Specializes in this, being captain of a half-kilometer-long cannon with engines attached.
* FantasticRacism: While he is fully supportive of the Council and humanity's place in it, he still seems to enjoy needling the turians.
* GunshipRescue: Provided orbital assistance when Gunny Tritt's unit was in danger of being overrun by a group of Blue Suns.
* KnightInSourArmor
* WarIsHell

!'''Flower ([=WildeFlower=])'''
A thirteen-year-old human duct rat. Also a biotic.
* BadassAdorable: Her biotics ain't just for show... [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=160417#p160417 This was proven when she sent a full grown turian flying with a biotic push only three days after getting her implants.]]
* FantasticRacism: Sort of. She has a phobia of asari, but refuses to explain more than the fact that one hurt her once.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Warning: exposure to [=WildFlower=] will melt your heart, no exceptions.
* LittleStowaway: With Davril.
* TheRunaway: She first became a duct rat after running away from what she claims was an abusive foster home.
* SnoopingLittleKid: She was the "navigator" for her former group of duct rats, and she knows the ducts better than anyone. She also snoopsed for an information broker for cash for a little while.
* StreetUrchin: She's been a duct rat since she was six years old.
** HappilyAdopted: Her turian guardian made his parental figure status official.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She looks like she's eleven due to years of malnutrition.

!'''Neil [=DeVore=]'''
A Systems Alliance security guard working at Alliance Tower on the Citadel

* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Neil is a musician, and likes earth music, and will if needed share it with the gallaxy.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Neil likes wearing black. Is there a problem with that?
* {{Hallucinations}}: Neil has been diagnosed with paraphrenia which is exasperated if he drinks, in which case he sees dead people. (Along with people he had connections with in the past and present.)
* IKnowKarate: Neil has been training in martial arts since he was a child. Specifically self-defense classes. He used what he learned to fend off against a beserking turian serial killer. It served him well.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: When cultists attacked his little sister, he didn't just find the men who hurt her. He systematically dismantled the cult and forced a confession out of the cult leader.
* MadeOfIron: Half gutted and still managed to survive against a rampant serial killer and take down a blood cult.
* NiceGuy: At his core Neil is a kind and moral guy.
* NonIdleRich: Neil grew up with money, he became a soldier because he wanted to protect others.
* PromotionToParent: After their parents died in the Battle of the Citadel Neil has had to take care of his little sister.
* ProperlyParanoid: Neil dismantled a blood cult in a roaring rampage of revenge for hurting his sister... [[strike:but some of them are still out there, and they are out to get him.]] The surviving cultists were killed by a merc under Neil's employ.



!'''Gunnery Chief Natalie King (Nat)'''
Gunnery Chief and PSG of First Platoon, Bravo-1/10 Marine Infantry. Stationed aboard the SSV 'Benjamin Davis'. A veteran with ten years in the SAMC, having seen action at Elysium, the Thesaca Raids and Feros.

* AwesomeAussie
* TheCynic
* DoNotGoGentle: Her reaction to the Reapers invading, and her advice to her Marines and anyone else that will listen.
* FieldPromotion: Becomes Platoon Leader from Platoon Sergeant after [[spoiler: her lieutenant gets hit with a Reaper laser.]]
* LastStand: [[spoiler: Thought Ontarom was going to be this. Averted when the Fleet counter-attacks and rescues what's left of the 1/20th]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After she [[spoiler: shoots three of her Marines at Ontarom]].
* SarcasmMode: Prone to this.
* SemperFi: Has been with the Alliance Marines since she was eighteen.
* StuffBlowingUp: Her preferred way of killing things. Although no longer functioning as a heavy weapons specialist, she still
* {{Understatement}}: Also prone to this.
* WarIsHell

!'''Michael Cline ([=Lode=])'''
A former Alliance Marine, and veteran of the Skylian Blitz. Now works as the Chief Weapon and Vehicle Restorer at the United North American War Museum in Ottawa.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Diagnosed with ADHD, somehow trope subverted by also having Asperger's Syndrome.
* CanadaEh: While born on Mars, both of his parents were born in Ottawa. Hence, he considers himself Canadian by proxy.
* TheEngineer: Served in the Alliance as a Combat Engineer.
* ICallItVera: VERY attached to his tools, especially his crowbar, [[ShoutOut which he named Gordon.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: Either his assistant Fayad'Trodo nar Canton, or his pet varren Urz.
* TankGoodness: Works with tanks on a regular basis as part of his job.


!'''Juhani Ragum (formerly Alavirta) (hammers-sickles)'''
Earthborn university student, who later moved onto Citadel after getting a job as paid intern at Systems Alliance embassy (and got fired from it after attempting a defection to the Hierarchy). Likes aliens. A lot. Enough so to woo a turian HotLibrarian into a marriage and move in with her back to Hierarchy proper. The marriage didn't last.

* AnythingThatMoves: Slept with a quarian once, and had a krogan and turian guys for regular bedbuddies. Fantasizes about krogan ladies, and was married to a turian girl. Is starting to turn into a case of GuiltyPleasure
* BiTheWay: His new girlfriend and now wife hasn't slowed down his adventures with krogan and turians at all. In fact, she permits Juhani to do it!
* DrowningMySorrows: When pressure builds up...it's to the bottle with him.
* FinnsWithFearsomeForests: Comes with Juhani being a Finn. Back on Earth, he has served in the Home Guards too!
* LetsPlay: Is doing one himself on an AceCombat expy.
* MenDontCry: Averted. He lets those tears come alright after being mauled in the hospital with Kate witnessing them.
* TurnCoat: Ended up playing for the turian side after being approached by Alliance intelligence while on an embassy job. As expected, made him lose his job.

!'''Harrad Illum (Harrad_01)'''
Turian pilot, father, and all-around [[NiceGuy nice guy]]. Ridiculously nice guy.

* AcePilot: If placing second in a race filled to the brim with professional racers is any indication...
* AllAPartOfTheJob: No, really: he works for a crisis relief organization.
* CasualKink: Occasionally seen going to bondage exhibitions with his husband.
* HappilyAdopted: Now a proud father!
* HappilyMarried: Harrad/Cour {{OTP}}
* JumpedAtTheCall: More than happy to do what he can for you.
* NobleBigot: He usually does a good job of keeping his prejudice under control, but when under stress, his negative feelings about krogan bubble to the surface. [[JustifiedTrope He does have reasons for his prejudice,]] having been through a military stint in the Tuchanka DMZ and being held hostage (and subsequently shot in the leg) by krogan.
* StraightGay: If it wasn't for pronouns, you'd never know.
* TheConscience: Long-considered the board's moral center.

!'''Daia Caran ([=SteelUnifier=])'''
Daia Caran is what some would describe as the quintessential turian. Honourable to almost a fault, she's a staunch supporter of the Hierarchy's politics. While not very willing to adjust her current views, she is willing to make concessions about some of her races habits. She currently works as a military VI engineer and is hopelessly in love with cinema.

* ActionGirl
* BelligerentSexualTension: She's very insistent that Gat is a terrible person and that she absolutely is not interested in him whatsoever. Some would say a little ''too'' insistent.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FantasticRacism: While generally accepting of other Citadel races, she absolutely despises batarians, krogans and vorcha.
* HonourBeforeReason: Her upbringing brings this up in her every now and then. She's a firm believer in an 'eye for an eye', even when it's an irrational or impractical course of action to take.
* TheMovieBuff: Outside of VI coding, she's a big fan of film and prides herself on her knowledge of movies.
* NobleBigot: She tries to be as friendly as possible to people. That is, if you're not a batarian, vorcha or krogan. Then she starts getting irked.
* WrenchWench: To an extent. She's not much of a mechanic, but she knows a ''lot'' about VI engineering and will talk about it to anyone who listens.

!'''Everett Maliszewski (Son_of_Orion)'''
An Alliance combat engineer turned C-SEC officer turned elite Hammer operative turned mercenary turned Alliance again. Everett has a strong sense of justice, and he is convinced that he can help make the galaxy a little safer for law-abiding citizens. Nowadays he worked freelance with Elara T'Meyra [[spoiler: until WHO GOES THERE 2 [[KilledOffForReal came around...]]]]

* AttackDrone: He can summon one, though it can also function as a SurveillanceDrone if stealth is required.
* ByTheBookCop: Was this when he worked for C-sec.
* ClusterFBomb: Is prone to this when he's stressed enough.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheEngineer: Covers variants 1 and 2.
* ICallItVera: [=Sky-Eye=], his AttackDrone. (Not to be confused with the member known as [=SkyEye=].)
* ManlyTears: He shed a few when the Hammers rescued dozens of civilians from a buried bomb shelter on Taetrus.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Subverted. At the end of ''WHO GOES THERE Chapter 1'', it's revealed that Everett was ordered by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Maximillian van der Trask]] to copy the contents of Mor Ortlo's OSD onto his omni-tool and hand the information over to him. However, he stopped himself at the last second, since he was in the ''[[BigBrotherIsWatching freaking salarian embassy]]'' at the time, and he'd be betraying Aphin by doing so.]]
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Suffers from this in [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=652 "So a Krogan Walks Into a Bar..."]] when he attempts to contact Asharia via text after drinking ''two shots of batarian ale and eating krogan food.''
--> '''Everett:''' ashria/sick/tuhaka's deligt/zakra ward/hlep
* ShellShockedVeteran: He fought in the Eden Prime War. Everett's case isn't as severe as some other veterans, but bringing up the war around him can some bad memories to resurface, dragging down his mood in an instant.
* ThemeNaming: Everett's callsign was [[TheEngineer Anvil]].
* ThisIsUnforgivable: He ''despises'' slavery. Orion is completely unsympathetic to any slaver, regardless of their intentions.
* TurnInYourBadge: Though he wasn't fired from C-SEC; he quit, after his superior condoned the usage of torture as a means to extract information from a suspect.

!Second Lieutenant Sarah Thompson-Waller ([=VigilantVanguard=])
An ex-Cerberus vanguard who left after seeing the horrors of their actions, she gave all the information on Cerberus she had in exchange for Alliance pardoning. Currently lives on the Citadel with her wife and works as an Alliance desk jockey.

* TheAtoner: [[http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=477&o=0#10 "I want to make up for all of the wrongs I've done by doing some rights."]]
* BerserkButton: Cerberus
* ChildSoldiers: trained from 13 for biotics, then picked for Cerberus at 17
* CombatPragmatist
* DarkAndTroubledPast: her biotic training and work for Cerberus
* DeskJockey
* FakingTheDead: faked her own death to get away from Cerberus
* HappilyMarried: to her wife Chris, even if they do have the occasional fight
* HeelRealization: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=259451#p259451 realizing]] when Cerberus' intentions weren't in the best interests of humanity
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: doesn't remember much of her childhood because of Cerberus messing with her memories
* NobleBigot: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=652 "If I'm still stuck in a pro-human agenda, I'm sorry.]] It's how I was raised. I can't escape it. I want to help those who want to make amends. I know there's wrong and I know there's madness going on out there but I'm not a part of it.. I'm a terrorist. But I'm a terrorist trying to fix things."

!'''First Lieutenant Devora Brukhis (Bat Olam Adom)'''
A first-year cadet at the Alliance Military Academy on Luna. A native of Mars, her mother is the mayor of the city of Acheron. She was on Grissom when the Reapers attacked, and was subsequently given a field commission and assigned as ATO aboard the SSV ''Jerusalem'', part of the Eighth Fleet. After the battle of Ontarom, she got bumped up to 1st Lieutenant, taking over as tactical officer. She also learned that she was pregnant with a daughter. She's now returned to Mars, helping with the cleanup effort.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: After the first battle of Ontarom, Devora was suffering from morale issues, due to seeing her CO and immediate superior killed in front of her, along with nearly half the Eighth Fleet's strength destroyed in battle with the Reapers. Then she found out that she was pregnant, and promptly turned into a MamaBear.
* BadassCreed: ''We fight until we die.''
** Her preferred prayer when entering battle: ''Master of Legions, grant me the swift destruction of my enemies.''
* BerserkButton: Do not question her integrity, or imply that she is not fit to serve in the Alliance.
** Since the Reaper invasion started, trying to recruit for Cerberus will also set her off.
* BiTheWay
* DisappearedDad: Devora's father committed suicide when she was young. She's resentful of him, as his death brought nothing but pain for his family.
* FieldPromotion: Of the more organized variety. The Alliance has suffered catastrophic losses, and Devora - a mere first-year cadet - found herself elevated to the rank of 2nd lieutenant. She was later breveted to 1st lieutenant when she became the tactical officer.
* FriendlyEnemy: Her and Velor Vedevix. She won't ignore the crimes he has committed, but she does respect him for his skills and general competence.
** EnemyMine: As of the Reaper invasion, she now considers him an ally - not only is he also working to fight the Reapers, but he's even delivered supplies to the Eighth Fleet.
* GenreSavvy: Devora is all too aware of her own inexperience. This forms part of her self-confidence issues.
* ICallItVera: Has named the ''Jerusalem'''s main gun "Samson".
* MamaBear
-->So, galaxy, this is your official notice. You are not harming my baby. And if you disagree, you can take it up with the ''Jerusalem'''s [[{{BFG}} main gun]]. [[ICallItVera His name is]] [[Literature/TheBible Samson]].
* MeaningfulName: Devora was a [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] prophetess who fought in war.
* PregnantBadass: Will be remaining at her post while pregnant.
* ReligiousBruiser: Becoming this. Originally, Devora was a practicing Jew, if not particularly pious. After the fall of the Hegemony, she began praying on a regular basis.
* ShoutOut:
** Acheron is a named city on Mars in Kim Stanley Robinson's ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy''.
** Her late boyfriend, and the father of her child, is named [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo Harry Lefferts]].
* TheSmartGuy: Plays this role in the Eighth Fleet. She's the one who planned the recapture of Ontarom.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Subverted. ''She'' was the one who left for war, not knowing that she was pregnant. Played straight in that he died before they found out (specifically, in the Cerberus attack on Grissom).
* ThemeNaming: Uses words with religious connotations as code words, like "Altar" or "Priest".
** She also likes naming Reapers after Biblical villains.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Corporate]]

!Nikolai Aleksanders (Mr_Sandman)
Some bits and pieces relevant to the forum's current, resident suit.
* {{Cyborg}}: Has extensive augmentations.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=833 Debatable.]]
* ConsummateLiar: Quite a prolific one actually. The man gives nothing away, if he can help it.
* CutLexLuthoraCheck: [[http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=484&o=0#4 About]] [[http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=484&o=0#20 that...]]
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Early in his tenure on the site, a whistleblower attempted to reveal Titan's crimes to the world. He died. Aleksanders leaves few loose ends.
* FauxAffablyEvil: On the surface, quite charming and sophisticated, and often uses it to make him appear quite rational. When properly pushed however...
* FromNobodytoNightmare: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=284895#p284895 Monsters are made, not born.]]
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: [[http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=484&o=20#4 isn't]] [[http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=484&o=20#6 it just?]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=1116 Try to keep in the mind that the guy making those arguments is probably responsible for the destabilization of a few governments.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Thus far, Aleksanders has avoided any particularly negative consequences for his extremely heinous actions.
* MegaCorp: Titan, the company he resides over, has pull in both Terminus and Citadel Space. Their corporate armies, general lack of ethics, questionable experiments, and household name paints them as a classic Megacorp.
* StraightGay
* WeCanRebuildHim: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=305262#p305262 For a given value of "rebuild"]]

!'''Davril'''
Formerly of the Blue Suns, Commander Davril was employed by a volus businessman as the XO for his cruiser. He had the misfortune to be on the ship when it was stormed by an army of krogan, led by Mellas.

Currently the CEO of a small private mercenary outfit, Single Order Solutions, as well as the commander of a small fleet of warships.

* TheAlcoholic: Claims that it began with simply [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]], but the habit stuck.
* AnArmAndALeg: Both were destroyed beyond repair during the attack on the MSS Talis Fia.
** ArtificialLimbs
** ElectronicEyes: Got those replaced, too.
* AscendedExtra: Originally existed only so Mellas could toss him around.
* BatmanGambit: Pulled one on Alex in order to snap him out of his HeroicBSOD.
* BigFancyHouse: Owns a house on the Presidium.
* BloodKnight: He loves the thrill of taking another sentient life. This and his LackOfEmpathy might be related to his time as a...
* ChildSoldier: Enlisted with the Blue Suns at age fifteen. The mercenary outfit he had been with for at least five years prior had been disbanded.
* CreepyMonotone: Invoked. Davril has cultivated an upper-class accent and talks in monotone for the express purpose of unnerving people.
* DomesticAbuser: Responded to Alex`s refusal to move by violently slamming him against a wall and ordering him to leave.
* EmotionControl
* HiredGuns: Specifically a BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, and currently the head of a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Private Military Corporation]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Threw Alex out the door as soon as he found his whining more grating than enduring.
* LackOfEmpathy: Disempathetic sociopath; only holds empathy for a close circle of friends and family.
* ManipulativeBastard: Helped Alex with his problems solely to amuse himself, and threw him out when he lost interest.
* MoralityChain: Somewhat the case with Flower, but it's implied that Kaneel's death hit him hard enough to go into relapse with his old habits.
* StreetUrchin: Spent his youth as this.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Shows a conditioned drive that prevents him from harming children or allowing them to come to harm.

!'''The Boss'''
The founder and effective supreme commander of Sarona Bounty Hunter Network.

* BadassGrandpa: He fought in the Rachni Wars. He still does the occasional combat operation.
* {{BFG}}: Carries the Ripper, a heavily-modified machinegun.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: '''The Boss'''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: There are very, very few people who know his real name.

!'''Specialist Team Prime'''
The third-best team in [=SaronaNET=] (the other two are simply called 'Badass Team Prime/Subprime').
* BadassCrew: Despite the better teams being called 'badass', they still qualify. It's implied that if you can keep them working together, they're nearly ''unstoppable''.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: They broke up for quite some time, though they kept working for [=SaronaNET=].
* FiveManBand
** TheCaptain: Modem. She usually ends up commanding the team when they're together.
** TheLancer: Victor. Occasionally refereed to as 'Number One' by Modem, since she trusts him the most with getting the job done.
** TheSmartGuy: Tracer T. He's not savant-grade, but he's a very good hacker.
** TheBigGuy: Wise Bomber. Comes with being a krogan and an explosives specialist.
** TheChick: Mira, to a degree. She tends to keep everyone working together.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: A potential future for the team.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: What they started out as.

!'''Modulator_Demodulator (Modem)'''
An asari vanguard who lived on a human colony for quite some time; currently working as a bounty hunter for [=SaronaNET=]. Modem's also rather unusual because of her height: 6'11". Though cynical, she does her best to clean up the scum of the universe.

* ActionGirl: Comes with the job description. She's been described as "[[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] meets [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]]."
* ArtificialLimbs: All of them, actually.
* BadassFamily: Her mother and grandmother were commandos, her father was a member of the Migrant Fleet Marines, and her grandfather is a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Not really someone who you wouldn't think dangerous, but still, don't get her angry.
* {{BFG}}: The napalm launcher, especially when loaded with more exotic chemicals. These include gelled piranha solution and ''[[{{hellfire}} chlorine trifluoride]]'' (though the latter is rarely used due to how nasty it is).
* BigDamnHeroes: ''Multiple times'' during the fall of Omega. Having a gunship helps.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: An [[Franchise/MetalGear HF-Blade]], at that; it's built into her cybernetic arm.
* BountyHunter
* BrokenBird: What Elara's death is starting to show her as. Despite her apparent ability to cope with just about everything, she's internalized a ''lot'' of trauma over the years.
* TheCaptain: Her original role within the team.
* CoolPlane: The Nomad, Modem's gunship. Crosses over with CoolStarship, as it's FTL-capable. Also contains examples of...
** BiggerIsBetter: Is easily twice to three times the size of a Mantis gunship. For comparison, if you removed all the personal stuff she's put into the rear bay, you could ''just barely'' fit an M35 Mako in it.
** MacrossMissileMassacre: ''Swarm missiles''.
** MoreDakka: Has a pair of anti-gunship cannons on its wings, as well as nose-mounted and bay-mounted anti-personal machineguns.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Better than some, but seeing your friend [[spoiler: get eaten alive]] can't be good for your mental health.
* KnifeNut: Only carries one, but the type (a krogan war knife) makes up for it; she calls it the Hellpick, but that name was chosen by the person who forged it.
* KnightInSourArmor: Mild, but it's there; she often wonders if what she does really matters.
* LightningBruiser: Comes with being a Vanguard, but taken even further due to her augments - ''especially'' if MASC is active.
* MegatonPunch: Has focused her biotic power into a punch on a few occasions.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Sorta; she types almost-perfectly when drunk. Even when drinking ''[[GargleBlaster Tactical Nuclear Penguin]]''.
* NonLethalKO: She likes these quite a bit; her stun prod is specifically modified so that striking most species in the back will knock them out with a minimum of damage.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened on her long-haul operation, it involved an insane rouge AI and ''dodging a falling frigate''.
* OhMyGods: Subverted in that Modem doesn't use Goddess as a swear very much, even though she's an asari. Justified as she picked up other swears during her time on a human mining colony.
** Humorously, she picked up [[SomethingAwful "What the Christ?"]] somewhere.
* OneOfUs: Drops an analysis of a tabletop game weapon out of nowhere while ''drunk''.
--> [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=258313#p258313 "20D20 would be more effective. 4D100 has a minimum damage of 4, while 20D20 has a minimum damage of 20. And if you really wanted it to be 'of death', you'd make it Slaying and Vorpal."]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Modem's assumed name is Sarah; only her handler, [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Tracer T]], calls her that. Her actual name is [[spoiler: Cidea Skamrev]], and ''very'' few people know that.
* SuperMode: [[{{Battletech}} Myomer Accelerated Signal Circuitry (MASC)]]. It ''massively'' boosts her speed and strength, but can only be used for a few minutes without doing serious damage to her limbs.
* ThePrankster: Was this in the past, often focusing on mostly-harmless ones (such as a remote-control toilet on wheels), aided by her unnamed tech-savvy friend.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: ... however, if said civilian starts attacking her, all bets are off.

!'''Mira'''
A drell infiltration expert.

* ColdSniper: She's very detached and almost never uses contractions. She becomes more of a FriendlySniper once you get to know her, apparently.
* TheMedic: She knows a ''lot'' about species biology, making her both a deadly sniper and a very good medic. Apparently, she passed on some skills to Modem, explaining why she's so deadly with a knife.
* RedBaron: The Ghost of Miae’gor. Earned by utterly ''trashing'' Baterian State Sec operations on a planet without being detected until the very end (and only because she had to break a ship out of lockdown).

!'''Tracer T'''
The hacking specialist and mission control for the team. He in particular is very loyal to Modem.

* TheCracker
* NonActionGuy: He is ''terrible'' at combat.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

!'''Victor (V_for_Victory)'''
A combat operative, past unknown - at least to the members of CDN. Always wears a face-obscuring helmet.

* {{BFG}}: the SP-GRN missile launcher.
** For comparison, the missile launcher you can use in Mass Effect 2 is an anti-personal/light armor weapon. The SP-GRN is an ''anti-armor'' missile launcher, similar in role to the modern Javelin.
* CoolMask: His mirror-visor combat helmet. Which he never takes off.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied.
* DynamicCharacter: He may open up about what happened to him eventually.
* EnforcedMethodActing: why so many things have been left vague.
* [[spoiler: {{Expy}}: Of the [[VideoGame/{{Marathon}} USEC Marathon's Security Officer/Marine]].]]
* HollywoodCyborg: Maybe. It's intentionally vague.
* TheLancer: To Modem, originally. May end up taking over her role as TheCaptain.
* TheFaceless: Thanks to the above-mentioned helmet. The important question isn't who is underneath, it's why he does this.
* TheQuietOne: A defining trait; he almost NEVER speaks, and when he does it's always through a voice filter.
* TheStoic: To a rather impressive (and maybe even disturbing) degree.

!'''Wise Bomber'''
A krogan EOD technician and explosives specialist.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Of a sort - 90% of his combat explosives are ''pipe bombs''. Granted, they're loaded with enough explosives to go off like small ''mortar'' shells.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His anti-explosive shield.
* MightyGlacier: Thanks to his bomb suit, he's essentially a small ''tank''.
* PoweredArmor: His bomb suit qualifies as such. It's heavily shielded and armored, making him very resistant to anti-personal explosives and even some anti-armor ones.
* StoneWall: Once he gets into position and deploys his shield/MG combo, he's nearly impossible to get past from the front. It takes anti-tank firepower to do so.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: One of his specialties.

!'''Jaquento Schmidt (Schmidt Solutions)'''
Jaquento is an Operations Chief with the Alliance Navy. He is currently responsible for the Alliance Tower's Electronic and Network Maintenance on the Citadel. Jaquento enlisted a month after the attack on the Citadel. Prior to this, he had job training as a technician for Systems and Devices followed by a BA in Computer Science (VI programming).
He went through shortened NCO training, as well as additional training as a Designated Marksman when his Drill Sergeant noticed his good aim.

* AlmightyJanitor: Jaquento likes to think he is one, but his superiors are quick to point out that he isn't.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: A mild verson; Jaquento's method of approaching problems leads him consider unusual solutions.
* CloudCuckooLander: Sometimes Jaquento has outbursts of random knowledge on any given subject. His nickname in boot camp was Dr. Seltsam (German for [[DrStrangelove Dr. Strangelove]]) for this reason.
* CrazyPrepared: Jaquento ''tries'' to be this.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FriendlySniper: Was a Designated Marksman in a marine squad while he was deployed in the Skyllian Verge.
* GoodIsNotNice: Jaquento holds no pity for those who willingly endanger themselves, and if they get killed while doing so, tough break.
* GratuitousGerman: Justified, as Jaquento (and his player) is German, so he likes to employ it whenever he can.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: He has trouble adjusting to his current position as a high-ranking NCO.
* TheEngineer: Covers all three variants.
* TheStoic: More often than not. Though he does have feelings, he doesn't express them often.
* TheUnfavourite His relation with his father is basicly this (though non-abusive). Jaquento's failure to live up to his dads expectations led to deep rift between them.
* WideEyedIdealist: His attitude towards AI and AI research.
* WeaponOfChoice: His Phalanx heavy pistol and his Viper sniper rifle. Both are modded to suit his needs.
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[[folder:Criminal]]

!'''Sicaria Perihelion (Sicaria Bello)'''
Sicaria "Bello" Perihelion is a hot-tempered turian separatist survivalist from the small agrarian colony of Solregit. She is currently struggling to reconcile her hopes for a more peaceful future with her old loyalties and beliefs.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Sicaria is rousted from her wilderness survivalist camp by turian soldier Keros Mehedra who, unwilling to shoot her or turn her in, offers to let her stay with him.
* BelligerentSexualTension: The more Sicaria comes to like Keros, the snarkier she gets.
* BloodOath
* CallToAgriculture: All Sicaria wants out of life is a farm, a whole bunch of kids, and reasonable assurance that the government will leave her alone.
* ChildSoldiers
* CrazySurvivalist
* DatingCatwoman: Sicaria "Bello" Perihelion and Keros Mehedra. She's a separatist survivalist, he's a Captain in the Turian Hierarchy's Special Forces (recently retired). {{They fight crime}}...okay, not really.
* DirtyBusiness: The Taetrus train bombing, where Sica contributed to the deaths of children.
* FriendlyEnemy: Sicaria is on friendly terms (ie. "considers him family") with Harrad Illum, another Hierarchy loyalist.
* HonorBeforeReason
* [[ScrewTheWarWerePartying Screw The War, We're Partying!]]
* ShellShockedVeteran
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Sicaria feels that joining an armed revolution against the Turian Hierarchy is perfectly justified.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters

!Michelle Rondor

On the surface, an unassuming human woman who runs the Citadel-based charity "Leaving the Ducts", aiding the station's duct rat population. "Michelle Rondor" is actually a fictitious persona, and the woman behind it is (for reasons as yet unexplained) working in the organization of cheerful batarian slaver Bintar Ranak.

* BreathlessNonSequitur: On occasion. She's rather level-headed, but often she's so enthusiastic and welcoming that the words pour out of her, particularly in casual settings. Likely all part of the act...
* GambitPileup: Buying into her persona of a slightly distracted, harmless charity worker, other Citadel residents are hatching their schemes under her nose, unaware that she works for [=Slaves4Us=].
* LifeOfTheParty: Enthusiastic socializing, hitting on her fellow party-goers, singing loudly but without much skill...
* TheMole: [=Slaves4Us=] now has an operative on the Citadel itself; "Michelle" reports directly to Bintar.
* NerdGlasses: One of her quirks is the wearing of large black glasses.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Immediately apparent in one of her first threads, as she tries to find the apartment she's purchasing from Vigilant Vanguard.
* RunningGag: For her protection in the crime-ridden ward of Tayseri, she's armed herself with a spray weapon. Unfortunately, she purchased it from Jaquento Schmidt. Equally unfortunately, she has no apparent skill in wielding it. So far, she's managed to spray both herself and a friendly priest.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Her initial conversation with Julian Snow, after being left alone with the ex-con after learning that he'd hospitalized four marines.
-->"Well please come in, have a refreshment, don't kill me..."
* UnexpectedInheritance: According to her introductory thread, she inherited a lot of money from family members killed in the Reaper War, allowing her to move to the Citadel and set up her charity. This is, of course, a lie.
* XanatosSpeedChess: After the unexpected arrival of Julian Snow, she reflects on Bintar's advice along these lines; namely, that she should try to turn every unexpected occurrence to her advantage, to roll with the unexpected rather than trying to get the original plan back on the rails. She's doing a reasonable job keeping on top of the wackiness that association with the rest of the CDN cast entails.

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[[folder:Deceased]]

!'''Allard Kyarlen'''
A strong-willed, idealistic man who is determined to make a difference in the galaxy. He leads the Trask Interstellar [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Paladins]] and is the commanding officer of the [[CoolStarship MSV Utherius]]. [[HeroicSacrifice Dies during the Reaper War while evacuating a colony.]]

* AFatherToHisMen
* AllAPartOfTheJob: Allard doesn't want [[ThinkNothingOfIt recognition or accolades]] for his efforts, he just wants to do the right thing...well, the right thing and aid donations...and funding.
* AnArmAndALeg: Allard loses the former and most of the latter, both on the left side, after being hit by an anti-tank rocket.
* ArtificialLimbs: Received a new synthetic left arm and leg as a result.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Before his critical injury, Allard believed in this. As a result, he was scared ''shitless'' when he was given the option to recover quickly with the help of cybernetics. Fortunately, this trope is ultimately averted.
* {{Cyborg}}
* {{Determinator}}
* HeroicWillpower: He survived getting ''half of his body blown off'', [[WeCanRebuildHim and he was rebuilt within a week!]] He even [[ArtificialLimbs got a few upgrades for it]]!
* ItsAllMyFault: For a short time, he blamed himself for the Paladins' expulsion from Taetrus.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He had a ''huge'', high-tech tower shield, until it was turned into shrapnel.
* NiceGuy
* RousingSpeech: He gives the crew of the Utherius a ''[[DoorStopper doozy]]'' of a speech before they leave the Citadel to head to Taetrus.
--> '''Allard:''' [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31203#p31203 That is our role, as the Paladins of Elanus:]] we come to guard society and pull it onto its feet, not erect it at gunpoint; to heal and aid, not beat and punish; to go beyond factions and politics, and save all those that we can; to carry onward, when the path seems too grim to follow...for we are the Paladins, ''and we shall '''never forget!'''''
* TheCaptain: Aside from leading the Paladins in general, he is also the squad leader of the Paladins' [[FiveManBand 'Hammer']] combat team, and he commands the [[CoolStarship MSV Utherius]], their home base.
* ThemeNaming: Each member of the Hammer combat team has a callsign (each named after medieval equipment) that corresponds to their role. Allard's callsign is [[TheCaptain "Helm"]].

!'''Sicues Nyenax'''
A barefaced gang leader in Tayseri. He wants Flower in his gang, ''badly.''

* AbductionIsLove: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3886&p=159978#p159978 Shooting a priest in the back during said abduction, however...]]
* [[spoiler: AnArmAndALeg:]] [[spoiler: Davril didn't take shit from him at all.]]
* TheCaligula: Very rich, and very violent. If you're going to tell him no or make him mad, make sure you're at a safe distance.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with - Sicues doesn't allow his organization to deal hard drugs, but he ''does'' force dealers to pay his group protection money in exchange for... not dying.
* LoanShark: How he got to be very rich.
* StreetUrchin: He grew up as a duct rat, and returned to his old ward to become a crime lord.
* TattooedCrook: Sicues makes his mark on all his men.
* WouldHurtAChild: Flower claims to have seen him beating the children in his gang. And what he's recently done to her...

!'''Sanjin Challos ([=SkyEye=])'''
A twenty-odd year old Drell, Sanjin became an air traffic controller after being rejected for the compact. She attempted to join a independent drell colony but was forced to return to the Citadel-with a thirteen year old orphan in tow. Generally outgoing, but reluctant so show weakness, even in her closest relationships.

* CoolBigSis-especially with Kayanna, with whom she was PromotedtoParent.
* DeadpanSnarker: With a penchant for self-deprecation.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe
* HotForPreacher: And got him, too. Her relationship is a little complicated.
* IllGirl: Sanjin has early stage Kepral's Syndrome.
* MayDecemberRomance: Diocese, again.
* PhotographicMemory: Standard package for drell.

!'''Mor Ortlo'''
A volus horror writer of great renown. Also, [[NoIndoorVoice one of the loudest and bombastic of all the CDN posters.]]

* [[spoiler: TheCuckoolanderWasRight: While there are hints of foreshadowing in his increasingly paranoid posting, his CruelAndUnusualDeath is what eventually kickstarts the Who Goes There story arc.]]
* LargeHam: And ''how''.
--> '''Mor Ortlo:''' '''CALAMITY!''' OH HOWL [[VaderBreath *hssst*]] HOWL HOWL HOWL HOWL! THEY'VE TAKEN MY BOOK, SUG! THE INFERNAL [[VaderBreath *hssst*]] BASTARDS HAVE TAKEN MY BOOK!
* MadArtist: It's been suggested that he's gradually becoming this trope.
* NightmareFetishist: A necessity for his line of work.
* NoIndoorVoice
* WrestlerInAllOfUs - Mor is, apparently, a bit of a Thunderball (the volus equivalent of sumo) enthusiast.

!'''Anthony "Anton" Dietrich ([=Dietrich=])'''

A paranoid, argumentative [[KnowledgeBroker information broker]] with a sizeable network composed of [[StreetUrchin duct rats]], [[TheCracker crackers]], political aides and several other disaffected members of society. He has a pronounced hatred of politicians and businessmen, as well as a not-so-pronounced dislike of other species and biotics, and will stop at nothing to achieve that which he seeks. [[spoiler: Killed during the Reaper invasion of Earth]]

* AllGermansAreNazis: Defied slightly – he looks like a stereotypical Nazi, certainly, but is of Iranian origin.
* BadassInANiceSuit: What ''else'' would you expect from an information broker?
* [[spoiler: DefiantToTheEnd: Even after being shot, maimed, blinded by his own biotics and possessed by an eldritch fungal being, he still demands a Reaper's attention.]]
* ElectronicEyes: They [[RedEyesTakeWarning glow red]] in the dark.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Take a look at his avatar and ''guess''.
* KansasCityShuffle: His MO depends on keeping everyone off-balance and influencing the movement of information.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays everyone against each other.
* MoralityPet: His bodyguard, Dan Morrison.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Has yet to crack a smile to date.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Refers to aliens by their species, unless it’s for business. [[ClusterFBomb And swears. A LOT.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: He never sticks in one place, and is almost fetishistic in his need for top-level encryption. [[spoiler: Given that each and every one of his contingency plans failed on the day of the Arrival, perhaps he had a point.]]
* SinisterSurveillance: Are you talking on the Boards? Then you’re being watched.
* [[spoiler: VillainousValor: Despite being crippled by eezo-based tumors throughout his body, he managed to fight the entire way to his escape shuttles using little more than an omnitool, his pistol, and his similarly-armed IT Security Chief. Too bad things went pear-shaped in the end.]]

!'''[[spoiler: Camille]] Winston Colter ([=All_Systems_Green=])'''
A corporate agent from Terra Nova. Has worked for several corporations, including the asari Ibanni Inc., Triton & West Dynamics, and CDN's own Trask Interstellar.[[spoiler: Killed when the Reapers hit Terra Nova.]]
* BigEater: Has a metabolism that would make a salarian proud.
* CanadaEh: While he doesn't live on Earth, his family heritage can be traced to the Metis. He was also born in Halifax.
* CoolMask
* CorporateSamurai
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Winston is his middle name. He does his very best to conceal his first name. [[spoiler: It's Camille.]]
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Boy do they ever. Now featuring: StatOVision, NightVisionGoggles, Weapon Targetting, and Style!
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Downplayed. His executive responsibilities are limited, though his is officially management.
* TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness: To no extreme is Winston a JerkAss, but he is noticably less mature and tactful over the extranet than in person, where he is generally a completely calm, professional person.
* JackOfAllTrades: Has a number of diverse skillsets. Specializes in none of them.
* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody: An automated alert signalled his apparent death.]]
* NiceGuy
* RealMenWearPink: Former ballroom dancing champion.
* SharpDressedMan

!'''Gatrinex Arthutan'''
A narcissistic, obnoxious, womanizing fighter ace with a lot of skills and not a whole lot of modesty. [[spoiler: Dies burning up in the atmosphere when fighting Reapers.]]

* AcePilot: He's confident in his skills as a pilot, [[InsufferableGenius but never let it be said he doesn't have any right to be.]]
* CatchPhrase: '''KA-KOW'''
* CompensatingForSomething: Often accused of this.
* CoolStarship: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1937 "Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Screaming Eagle."]]
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He apparently has a rather significant male... fanbase. [[ParodiedTrope To his]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial supposed]] [[UnwantedHarem chagrin]].
* HandsomeLech: He hits on virtually any attractive woman he sees.
* JerkAss: And ''how''.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: For Gat, being anything but first is inconceivable.

!'''Kaneel'Jorash nar Sombrei'''
A young quarian out on pilgrimage and a student of Davril. Very eager to learn and kick ass and has an ambivalent view of the Migrant Fleet at best.

* BigFancyHouse: The apartment he shares with Diplomatic Immunity is more like a mansion.
* BloodKnight: Loves the rush of combat.
* GlassCannon: Subverted. Can actually take a hit and keep going despite the reputation of quarians.
* GuiltyPleasure: Subverted. Absolutely loves trashy romances, especially Fleet and Flotilla, and is willing to say so proudly.
* FireForgedFriends: A few notable ones including Davril, Winston Colter, and Kyr.
* HappilyAdopted: By Davril.
* IndyPloy: Twice, once with grenades and once by dropping a shuttle on a charging adversary.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Decided helping his not-quiet girlfriend who has no combat skills stowaway on a mission to a very dangerous planet in large part to impress her.
* MenCantKeepHouse: Totally averted. He's quarian so cleanliness is big with him and he enjoys cooking.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Somewhat averted, he likes the money but is really in it for the thrill of combat.
* ParentalNeglect: One reason he doesn't really like the Fleet.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Winston Colter likes to bring up the fact that Kaneel weaponized a shuttle engine.
* TheGamblingAddict: To a moderate degree. He's not deeply in debt yet.
* YoungGun: Is 17 and has survived employer betrayal, geth, terrorists,[[spoiler:parasite-controlled abominations]], and an explosion caused by [[spoiler:Arla while fighting said parasites]].

!'''Idem Quod ([=TheId=])'''
A turian Associate Professor of Human History at the Septimus Oraka Higher Educational Institute on the planet Invictus. A veteran of the First Contact War/Relay 314 Incident, Quod seems like the typical bookish academic...at first glance. [[BeneathTheMask Beneath the mask]] of stoicism, Quod carries deep emotional scars from his wartime experiences, especially from the death of Veri Imperius, a Biotic Cabal recruit.

Has recently begun dating Virnius Shin, [[spoiler:who is actually Veri]].

* CelibateHero: Too focused on academics and work to have any romantic interest...[[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope at least until his old flame reappears.]]]]
* ChefOfIron
* [[MommasBoy Grandma's Boy]]
* HatesBeingTouched
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Justified by neglect from his father and reconstructed; he sublimates his negative feelings about himself into motivation for his job.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler: Subverted.]]
* IronicNickname: Perhaps it should be "Superego" instead of "Id".
* JadeColoredGlasses: Through a...
** DarkAndTroubledPast: Both the neglect from his father and losing Veri on Shanxi were a lot worse for him psychologically than he typically lets on.
* KnightInSourArmor: Doesn't believe that volunteering his time to charity teaching initiatives or speaking out for increased diplomacy will amount to much. Does it anyway.
* LuminescentBlush: Whenever embarrassed, his face flushes with blue.
* MinoredInAsskicking: Sure, he's a nerdy academic. He's also a nerdy academic that enjoys martial arts and pistol marksmanship.
* MissingMom[=/=][[ParentalNeglect Paternal Neglect]]: His mother died when he was a kid, his father is a severe workaholic who rarely left (or leaves) his job.
** ParentalSubstitute: His grandparents, until he was shipped off to boarding school.
* ObliviousToLove: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with Veri on Shanxi.
** SelectiveObliviousness: Somewhere deep down, he was aware of Veri's feelings, but essentially willed himself into denial so that he wouldn't have to reciprocate.
* ThePhilosopher
* PunnyName
* RecurringDreams: Part and parcel of PTSD from Shanxi, though he works through them with the help of other CDN members.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Veri's (and later Virnius's) Red Oni.
* SadClown: Humor is one of his main defense mechanisms against both his own past and the history that he studies.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Veri. [[spoiler: Subverted later on.]]
* SternTeacher
* TheStoic:
** SugarAndIcePersonality: warm side is being consciously repressed, and it isn't often that he lets the defense drop.
** ShellShockedVeteran: Generally limits his emotive displays to GallowsHumor and SurvivorGuilt.
* StraightGay
* VerbalTic: Often drops "I" or the subject in a sentence if the subject is already well-understood or can be inferred through context.
* YaoiGuys: With Virnius.
** {{Seme}}: A ''[[BoysLoveNotes mujaki]]'' subtype.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Inactive]]

!'''Aphin Protretho (The Sarcastic Salarian)'''
A middle-aged salarian who's lived most of his life behind a badge or a rank, Aphin is an atypical salarian with a combat resume as long as your arm. Despite his skills and experience, he nonetheless seems to get (unwillingly) drawn into one dangerous or hilarious situation after another. Aphin is a former STG infiltrator, C-SEC officer and Troubleshooter, and has retired to an unknown planet, presumably drinking shots off asari hookers.

* ActionHero: A slightly more subtle variety, but he goes in with guns blazing in more than one thread on the site.
* ArtificialLimbs: His left leg, (blown away by his nemesis, Algar) and his arm (severed at the elbow during the Who Goes There story arc).
* {{Badass}}
* BadassGrandpa: Considering he's 30 years old, which is like being middle-aged for a salarian, Aphin qualifies for this.
* TheBartender: His dream retirement job, now a reality.
* BigDamnHeroes: Pulls off a big one at the climax of the [[spoiler: Who Goes There?]] arc.
* BuddyCopShow: Aphin and Hok before they left the Citadel.
* CelibateHero: He's a ''salarian''.
* ClintSquint
* CowboyCop
* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: By the EldritchAbomination SAIOCH in the Who Goes There story arc. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better.]]]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2463 ALL THESE OTHER INSTRUCTORS ARE INCOMPENTENT BOOBS]]
* {{Determinator}}: If he's given a goal, he will stop at almost ''nothing'' to achieve it.
* GoodIsNotNice: And neither is Aphin, if you cross him.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Said constantly by this character. CONSTANTLY.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's quite irritable, but he genuinely cares about his friends.
* PrivateDetective: Took to the role in stride, during the short time he acted as one.
* RetiredBadass: Twice over, now, as of the end of the Who Goes There story arc.
** Came out of retirement one last time for the Reaper War. But decided to disappear midway through the conflict to live out his remaining years in peace.
* TurnInYourBadge: Aphin quit C-sec, came back as an instructor, and finally left once more [[spoiler: to be reactivated as an STG for one final mission]].
* UnusualEuphemism: "Shrell" being the curseword of choice.
* VeteranInstructor

!'''Slell'''
A wealthy hanar with unknown motives and a supply of strange missions.´

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When one of his missions exposed Human Quarian to a lot of unexpected blood and trauma, Slell was very sorry and offered a bonus to his paycheck. On another mission though, he ordered the near-complete extermination of any pirates that would attack his cargo ship. The only reason that its not a complete extermination is because he ordered the mercenaries to capture one.
* MysteriousEmployer: He hires people, usually but not always mercenaries, to do certain tasks for them and gives little-to-no information about said tasks; just the mission and the payment. The tasks themselves consist of retrieving or delivering packages with mysterious and apparantly envied contents. Lampshaded by those who have worked for him.

!'''Reverend Rakho Shaval (Four-Eyed Freedom Fighter)'''
A batarian slaver-turned-preacher and abolitionist. Also the leader of the White Cloaks, a band of former slaves turned religious warriors who rescue slaves.

* TheAtoner: Used to be a slaver.
* BadassPreacher
* CatchPhrase: "DELIVERANCE is at hand!"
** Can have a double meaning, as his ship is called the ''Deliverance''.
* {{Expy}}: Basically the batarian version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton John Newton]].
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Rakho's White Cloaks. Guess what their uniform consists of.
* HeelFaithTurn: Big time.
* TheHeretic: Rakho espouses Rel'Phar, a heretical sect of Kal'Phar, the official religion of the Batarian Hegemony.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Rakho uses a batarian slaver ship (designed for capturing slaves) in order to free them.
* LargeHam: Oh yes.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: A batarian abolitionist.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The White Cloaks are generally lacking in discipline or combat training, being mostly ex-slaves. They do, however, have a clear motivation, a charismatic leader, and a lot of guns.

!'''Nir'Konna vas Agnon'''
Quarian Weapons officer and microbiologist aboard the Agnon

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Got the final blow on a Geth Dreadnought during the battle of Haestrom. She hit the drive core, vaporizing it in a huge explosion.
* FieldPromotion: Became the ship's main weapons officer after a simulated geth attack caused a shift in command structure aboard the Agnon.

!'''Lokkor ([=LKOR=])'''
An elcor...disc jockey. Has a predilection for electronica [[spoiler: until his attempted assassination]], after which he turns to black metal.

* ArtShift: Going from electronica to ''death metal.''
* [[spoiler: ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination]]: At the GWO Ball. ''Twice.'' [[spoiler: He survives.]]
* JiveTurkey, GetALoadOfThatSquare: Invoked - He's an ''elcor DJ.''
---> '''LKOR''': Growling: I will unite everyone under a banner of metal, Urrrrrraaaaaaaaaaah.

!Tara'Sey vas Deliverance (White Widow)
A quarian sniper who was enslaved while on her Pilgrimage, and later rescued by Rakho Shoval. She's now one of his lieutenants, by virtue of already having combat training. She's also responsible for keeping the White Cloaks well-armed. Has now returned to the Migrant Fleet.
* {{BFG}}: Wields a Widow sniper rifle.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears briefly in the Siege of Omega thread, before she made an appearance on the site.
* TheExile: Averted - she's still theoretically on her Pilgrimage, just unlikely to return.
* FriendlySniper
* GunNut: Is a firearms expert.
* ReligiousBruiser: Most notably, follows Rakho Shoval's Rel'Phar faith, not the traditional quarian ancestor-worship.
* TheScrounger: Came up with over 200 guns to bring with her back to the Fleet.


!'''Lupin'Vola nar Farka vas Vesh (Lupine Volt)'''
A young Quarian on his pilgrimage who came to the Citadel. Managed to find work at the Zakera Animal Hospitality Shelter after finding a puppy in a ventilation shaft. Has since been recalled to the fleet with the rest of the pilgrims.

* CutenessProximity: To the puppy mentioned, and English Springer Spaniel going by the name of Emmi'Lia nar Zakera.
* DrinkingGame: Attempted to create one for the forums. He was incapacitated two posts later.
* EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: See above. He has currently adopted her, and constantly showering her with love and baby talk.
* GadgeteerGenius: As per usual with Quarians.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With his roommate, Human Quarian (aka Kolya).
* NaiveNewcomer: Ended up sticking his foot in his mouth when he asks questions about female Hanar, and other various snafoos.
* TookALevelInBadass: Fought in the Geth/Quarian war and perfected "Ghost Ship" signals that managed to distract geth from firing on real ships. Afterwords, assisted the flotilla in the rest of the Reaper wars.


!'''Shan'Wigum vas Jastra nar Ularon (Flotilla_Guardian)'''
A quarian officer and member of the Migrant Fleet Marines, who rejoined the flotilla after his Pilgrimage and joined the crew of the cruiser Jastra.

* CoolShip: The ship he is a crewmember of the Jastra.
* DontCallMeSir: Shan isn’t very big on the title, but he doesn’t object when called sir.
* FirstNameBasis: He prefers to go by his name, not by his rank.
* GunNut: He has been trained to use various firearms from pistols to assault rifles.
* NotSoStoic: Shan has a hard time bottling up his emotions and keeeping them in check.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He uses his status as an officer of the Migrant Fleet Marines, to get Vik’Sajee back into the Flotilla after he is initially denied access.
* SpaceMarine: Shan is a member an officer in the Quarian Migrant Fleet Marines.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He prefers using his shotgun over his assault rifle or sidearm.
* TheEngineer: Being a quarian, he is a natural engineer.
* WhyDidItHavetoBeSnakes?: Or spiders in his case. According to his Cerberus Dossier, Shan has arachnophobia.

!'''Corvidian Venturus (Venturi_Investigations)'''
A turian private investigator living and working on the Citadel's Zakera Ward.

* DrinkOrder: Parthian brandy. Almost to TheAlcoholic levels.
* GoodIsNotNice: Not especially pleasant to the Citadel's criminals.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Constantly.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: He's a good person most of the time, but he can't stand krogan.
* NoodleIncident: While working on Ilium, he managed to anger the krogan mob, a CorruptCorporateExecutive and a serial killer all at once.
* PrivateDetective: His job and, by now, his obsession.


!'''Kira Aganorisis'''
A nine year old salarian attending a college on the Citadel's outer Kithoi ward, he is currently studying to become a history major.
* ApologisesALot: His highly critical view of his own work leads this to often occur alongside ItsAllMyFault.
* {{Asexuality}}: Naturally for a salarian, save for the asari, something that disturbs him. He tries to suppress this as much as possible.
* TheGadfly: Sometimes tries to be the Socratic flavor in debates when bored, but often just ends up making arguments for [[CloudCuckoolander inherently ridiculous ideas]] for the hell of it.
* DitzyGenius
* {{Muggles}}: Compared to a good number of the board's other members.
* {{Omniglot}}: Kira's familiarity with different languages required for his work sometimes leads others to see him as this.
* RenaissanceMan: Kira has a wide range of interests, though he would claim that he's not very proficient in any of them.
* TerseTalker: Kira's writing style is this, but his actual speech is more fluid.
* TrueCompanions: Considers his close friends this, and his desire for this is one of the integral aspects of his personality.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Again, naturally for a salarian. The prospect of this scares him at times.

!'''Salandria'''
An elderly salarian woman who works full-time as a knowledge broker, Salandria's history is that of a distinguished, matronly figure, the salarian having been selected as a possible dalatrass candidate, but ended up turning them down. After putting her time as a merc and a tech expert behind her, Salandria now resides on the Citadel, running a small antiques shop which is a front for a respectable information buying-and-selling business.

* BlindSeer: She's implied that she has ways of seeing the world, despite her current blindness.
* CoolOldLady: Likes to think of herself as one.
* KnowledgeBroker
* OldMaster
* ProphetEyes
* TheEngineer: Used to dabble heavily in tech skills when she was a merc, in her youthful times.
* VagueAge
* WhenIWasYourAge: Invokes this sometimes in arguments with the intention of getting her opponents so bored they'll leave.

!'''Joel Newman'''
A human film director taking up residence within the Citadel's Kithoi Ward.

* DoingItForTheArt: Views his films as such.
* HappilyMarried: With two daughters.
* LeFilmArtistique: His first film "Upon a Golden Sea" which won him an award was produced on a low budget.
* TheMovieBuff: He graduated with a degree in film studies.
* SweetHomeAlabama: Was born and raised in Texas, and is very proud of his heritage.

!'''David Lawrence''' (Contributor/Meshakhad)
A human marine-turned-CSEC. Lives and works in the Zakera Ward.
* DoomedHometown: Originally from Mindoir.
* MindOverMatter: A skilled biotic.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: HappilyMarried to his childhood friend Sakura.

!'''Master Sylvion'''
Leader of a Tayseri Ward-based gang of young thieves called the Cobalt Cutthroats. It's made up of mostly duct rats, ranging in ages from eight to eighteen.

* TheArtfulDodger: Also describes Sylvie’s fighting style.
* CombatPragmatist: Though he still gets annoyed when others are just as willing to tip the playing field to their advantage.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: His outward attitude about his lifestyle.
* FiveFingerDiscount
* HonorAmongThieves: He cares for his gang more than he initially lets on.
* JustLikeRobinHood: His targets don’t always entirely deserve it, but he will still insist that his group needs the credits more than the targets did.
* LoveableRogue
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He intentionally keeps tight control over who knows who he really is, only giving out that information to his most trusted allies.
* [[SatisfiedStreetRat Satisfied Duct Rat]]
* SympatheticCriminal
* TattooedCrook: Subverted. Though he is a turian, he doesn’t even have colony markings on his face.

!'''Urdnot-Nutanx'''
A krogan merc/criminal who moved to the citadel illegally. "Mostly" reformed, now lives with a quarian and a raloi in Tayseri Ward as a club bouncer. Young for a krogan, (121 years) He spent a century on Tuchanka followed by another 20 on Omega.

* BigBrotherInstinct: While not brothers, he's hunted down and hurt/killed almost everyone that has damaged any member of his Krantt.
* BoisterousBruiser: Only so because he has a tendency to break things, or blow up things accidentally. [[LargeHam Also very loud.]]
* GentleGiant: One of the friendlier krogans you'll meet.
* TheBigGuy: Class 3. He is a krogan, after all.
* OddFriendship: Krantt consists of a raloi, human, and quarian.

!'''Zoftan'''
Elcor investment banker who lives on the Citadel. Formerly known as pro wrestler "The Iron Elcor".

* BeehiveBarrier: His tie-shield. Also a case of AwesomeButImpractical, as activating the shield leaves him essentially stuck in a kinetic hamster ball.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Very pleasant and mild-mannered, but also quite capable of throwing people around if he absolutely has to.
* ButtMonkey
* ConspiracyTheorist
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Businesslike: This is my business tie. I wear it when I am doing business."
* DullSurprise
* TheHeart
* HollywoodToneDeaf
* IntoxicationEnsues: When afflicted by hallucinogens.
* IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney: His rationale for the pro wrestling. Tuition didn't pay for itself.
* ThePollyanna: Except when it comes to...
* SingleIssueWonk: [[ParanoiaFuel ...THE KEEPERS.]]
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry
* WrestlerInAllOfUs

!'''Irene Anna Taylor ([=IreneT8765309=])'''
A normal Teenage girl that just moved to the Citadel, and that's pretty much it. Her father is a financial consultant, but he also is an information broker on the side, although she's ignorant of this.

* AgeAppropriateAngst: She's a teenager, so it's to be expected. Although this has only happened once so far when she found out her father is starting to date again.
* BerserkButton: Don't say anything bad about her parents.
* {{Bookworm}}: She's mentioned that she's reading the DivineComedy for fun and that she likes reading Shakespeare.
* DaddysGirl: She's fully aware of this one.
* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: The murder of her father in [=WGT2=].]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: She's invoked this at least once.
* LIsForDyslexia: Has both dyslexia and discalcula.
* MissingMom: Her mother died in a traffic accident when she was eleven.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent

!'''Maximillian van der Trask (Ferrus)'''
Founder, CEO and President of the colonial development conglomerate Trask Interstellar. Incredibly wealthy and a devoted husband.

* ArchEnemy: Could be considered this to Abad Sam-mel after putting an enormous bounty on his head.
* BadAssBeard: Max sports an epic, 19th century style goatee.
* BeardOfEvil: Said goatee would not look out of place on a Prussian aristocrat's face
* BerserkButton: Say something bad or unbecoming about Reena. See what happens.
* BigFancyHouse / CoolHouse: Ter Huizen van der Trask, a mansion...on Proteus.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Maximilian is the only surviving member in his family. He has not set foot on Earth in over twenty years and has no desire to ever again.
* ElectronicEyes: The left one. Nearly impossible to notice unless the lights are off.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Visitors to Max's office tend to be surprised when they can see their breath in it.
* EvilVersusEvil: Abad Sam-mel's attack on Maximilian's mining colony, and the bounty placed on the former's head as a result.
* HappilyMarried: For over twenty years if you were wondering.
* InterspeciesRomance: Maximilian's wife, Reena'van der Trask vas Makarov nar Radwaf, is a quarian.
* KnightTemplarParent: Has shown these tendencies towards his nephew, Atem'Xyndos nar Eidolo.
* LargeAndInCharge: The CEO and President is 6'3 and weighs in at roughly 230lb.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Maximilian is many things, but under dressed is certainly not one of them.
* MeaningfulName: "Ferrus" means "made of iron" in Latin. Maximilian has a metal plate in his head.
* MoralityChain: His wife, Reena.
* PetTheDog: He may be a robber baron, but his love for his wife is genuine, he is a generous patron of the arts, and he is loyal to close friends.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SelfMadeMan: A humble miner's son is now one of the wealthiest men in Citadel Space.
* ShoutOut: [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} He's a captain of industry who lives in an undersea city.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
* WickedCultured: A patron of the arts, a connoisseur of Baroque/Classical music and a sharp dresser.
* WhiteCollarCrime: Things like bribery, industrial espionage, etc.

!'''Phoebe Gardner ([=MarsGirl2044=])'''
A high school girl from Lowell City, Mars, Phoebe is the child of two intellectuals and she turned to be smart in her own right. She finds her home and life extremely boring, so she channels her need for excitement into her writing. Phoebe recently won an academic contest. She writes plays and is a member of her school's drama club.

* {{Bookworm}}: If you can name the book, chances are she's read it or at least has heard of it.
* DaddysGirl
* EatingLunchAlone
* FieryRedhead
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation
* MissingMom - Her mom stuck around only until Phoebe's Dad was able to completely care for her. This was measured in months.
* SmallTownBoredom
* TeenGenius
* TheMovieBuff: It's hard to name a vid (or play) she hasn't at least heard of.
* WickedStepmother: subverted, Adair isn't this, even when Phoebe thinks she is.
* WideEyedIdealist

!'''Job Martins ([=We_Standalone=])'''
A moderate Terra Firma member and antique store manager.
Goes to the Citadel by urging of his grandfather, and everything changes for him.

* AmbiguouslyBrown
* {{Bookworm}} - Knows many facts about history on Earth, and old antiques but does not like to admit it.
* DynamicCharacter: Grows up a little everyday.
* FantasticRacism
* IHaveNoSon : Happens to Job after he leaves Terra Firma, and snaps at his father for choosing to let his mom die.
* NaiveNewcomer - Knows very little about other species' cultures.
* ObfuscatingStupidity - Does this often, despite having views that disagree with many he is bright when he wants to show it.
* SmallTownBoredom - Subverted as he now no longer knows where he belongs.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Has spent a good portion of his life like this.

!'''Gunnery Chief Mike Tritt'''
A grim veteran with sixteen years in the Corps, including mopping up the Skyllian Blitz and action on Eden Prime, Gunny Tritt has made the military his life. He managed to survive a Blue Suns assault on his outpost with the help of Arbitrary's mercs and an orbital bombardment from Polaron's cruiser. He wandered the galaxy making new friends and trying to find someone he can maybe start a relationship with on furlough following that. Having met a rather nice lady and spent a luxury cruise with her, he's now back on the line, whipping the crew of the ''SSV Agincourt'' into shape.

* AlmightyJanitor: Of a sort, as he was in charge of procuring equipment for his company. Wasn't known to abuse it though.
* CaptainSmoothandSergeantRough: Very much the second half of this trope when interacting with officers and his men, but rather erudite and outgoing for an NCO.
* ChivalrousPervert: Has acted rather flirtatiously towards various women on the boards, but apologized, explaining he doesn't get to see too many women on the front. Made starting a relationship a key goal of his furlough, and is now talking to a lady he met on the Citadel.
* ColdSniper: Earned his Gunny's rank by sniping some Blue Suns hostage-takers without any civilians getting killed.
** FriendlySniper: On the other hand, he's quite outgoing.
* DearJohnLetter: Received one from the lady he met on the cruise not too long into his deployment.
* DeskJockey: His new posting after promotion, much to his chagrin. Fortunately, he was returned to his platoon Sgt's posting just before the Suns attacked.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Part of his job as Marine detachment commander aboard ''Agincourt'' is whipping the rather poor quality complement into shape. Somewhat averted in that he's not all that nasty.
* NaiveNewcomer: Averted with his arrival on CDN, he was rather aware and wary of Dippy and his history.
* NoodleIncident: Once engaged a krogan battlemaster; [[strike:refuses to talk about it]] has talked about it, but has yet to give the full story.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: A key principle of his on the front, and also seen after a date on Omega: when his date's best friend (who was madly in love with said date) came down with something nasty, Gunny immediately forgot about the awkward end to the date, tooled up in his armor and full battle kit, and ''came back to escort the pair to a clinic''.
* SemperFi: Has a lot of affection for the old USMC.
* SergeantRock: Through and through.
* TheMatchmaker: With Lexi Cooper and Dakrus Sarken, at least.
* WalkingTheEarth: Spent his furlough knocking around the galaxy making new friends and trying to find someone he could start a relationship with.

!'''Lepantis Corvax'''
Former Hierarchy NCO turned lawnmower salesman. Now resides on Invictus.

* BeAllMySinsRemembered: His military service.
* DirtyCoward[=/=]LovableCoward: Zigzags between the two.
** Stopped being so lovable after [[spoiler: completely losing his mind during the Reaper War]]
* FantasticRacism: Good ''lord,'' don't get him started on the krogan. Or the Separatists.
* HappilyMarried: With kids.
** HappyMarriageCharade: His relationship with his wife eventually devolves into this.
* ItGetsEasier: Better you than me, chum.
* IntoxicationEnsues: And Corvie became beastly drunk.
* {{Jerkass}}
* [[MoralityPet Morality Pets]]: His children.
* SeriousBusiness: Lawnmowers and lawnmower accessories.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Oh, so very much.
--> '''Harrad_01:''' And to Lepantis Corvax, a more eloquent man than I could ever dream to be.
* StandardFiftiesFather
* TalkativeLoon: As his victims can attest.
* WarIsHell: And the devil take the hindmost.

!'''Calienus Theracius'''
Calienus is a loyal to the bone Hierarchy citizen. He was in an espionage division of the Hierarchy, but even when ordered kept to his standards. He doesn't care about a lot of things, and hides his true intent behind a facade of stupidity.

* ButtMonkey: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1267 The thread]] starts with him losing his home and every single one of his belongings and gets WORSE from there.
* ChivalrousPervert: Prefers an Action Girl.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: One of his softer sides.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Happily "murdered" a rapist, and lost his job in the process.
* ToThePain: His prefered method of getting information.

!'''Jack Napier ([=InfiniteMonkeys=])'''
A satire author with a dark and mysterious past, he decides to go [[spoiler:once more]] into the mercenary business in order to escape from whatever is chasing him.

* ColdSniper
* HongKongDub: His words don't sync up with his mouth as a result of him speaking Hebrew.
* NoSocialSkills: Has a crippling phobia of physical contact with other people.
* UncannyValley: As described in one thread, "His limbs are just a bit too long, his neck just a bit too short, and his eyes just a bit too wide".[invoked]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Both of his parents were only proud of him when he decided to go into military school. They almost disowned him after he went to college afterward.
* YouHaveToHaveJews

!'''Gideon Archer (Custodian)'''
An aging veteran commanding a mercenary battlecruiser and former officer within the Alliance navy. Having lost his commission and much of his original crew in the Skyllian Blitz he holds a serious grudge against the Batarians. He’s best known for defending new colonies in the hopes slavers will turn up for him to fight.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Despite preferring to stay on the bridge of his ship and deal with things from there he proves to be very competent in a face to face battle.
* BadassGrandpa
* BreakTheHaughty: In the opening acts of the Reaper War he was forced into trying to save several thousand civilians after a botched defence effort to hold a planet. When his plan to get everyone out alive begins to fail; [[DirtyCoward he ignores his own promise to back up an allied squadron, has other mercenaries die to buy himself and the civilians time, and flees ahead of them rather than helping protect their ships.]] Disgusted with himself, and knowing his crew won't follow someone who would sacrifice those under his command, he renounces his captaincy and attaches himself to ground engagement units.
* TheCaptain
* DeathFromAbove: ''“You can keep your ground battles, I’ll stick to vaporising bastards from my chair with a fifty megaton cannon.”''
* FightingForAHomeland: Usually being paid to do this for someone else.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he has a moral code and frequently defends new colonies against threats, Archer never works for free and it's been hinted one of the reasons he fights slavers is to specifically kill Batarians.
** The only exception to this was the battle in New Cairo. Which he got involved with to cripple a number of Eclipse ships to prevent them expanding their influence into systems with potential clients.
* GoodScarsEvilScars
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Frequently his defence for losing his ship in the Skyllian Blitz, ramming it into a cruiser because it was the only way any of his crew might survive.
* KillerRabbit: Archer's ship, the Keeper of Heaven. Every aspect of it has been made to look like it's a cruiser sized non-combat ship with limited defences. It's in fact bristling with hidden [[MoreDakka short range]] [[MacrossMissileMassacre weapons systems]] and an anti-capital ship weapon.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has a minor HeroicBSOD upon learning what was happening in Sanctuary and the fact every refugee he sent there is now dead or [[BodyHorror suffered a worse fate.]]
* NobleBigot: Towards most Batarians, bordering upon FantasticRacism.
* NoodleIncident: Most of his career, but he specifically notes he’s done little to earn any real glory save for what his crew did on Iridan. What he did is never explained.
** Taken UpToEleven with [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5930 this.]]
* OldSoldier
* PrivateMilitaryContractor
* ProperlyParanoid: When he considers something to have been too easy, he’s frequently right.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: How he lost his original ship.

!'''Hok Ginnde'''
Turian sniper and incarnation of awesomeness, currently MIA at the moment.

* BashBrothers / VitriolicBestBuds: With Aphin Protretho
* BuddyCopShow: Aphin and Hok before they left the Citadel.
* ButtMonkey
* CowboyCop
* FriendlySniper
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Hok's a really nice guy and a competent soldier, but he can be pretty dorky when he's off the field, much to The_Sarcastic_Salarian's annoyance.
--> '''TSS:''' So... cooking, Hok? Uh, you guys know I don't actually know how to cook, right? Oh, we are so boned.
--> '''Hok:''' Oh, I don't know. The stuff you cooked for me that one time on the Nialla wasn't half bad. Or at least, I don't think it was. My memories of that night are a bit...fuzzy to say the least. I'm sure you'll think of something though, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I mean, you're ex-STG.]]
--> '''TSS:''' EX-STG AREN'T TRAINED TO COOK, HOK.
* TurnInYourBadge: Hok quit C-sec.


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!''Terminus Space''

[[folder:Civilians]]

!'''Julmoth Ran'Obhol'''
Lovable badass batarian goofball. Not even death can defeat him. Currently living on the Citadel as a security guard for Trask Interstellar.

* ActionSurvivor: Julmoth survives situations that really should kill him (such as his ship being boarded by slavers), despite being a [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy normal guy]] with no formal combat training.
* BadassNormal: Combines with ActionSurvivor.
* CatchPhrase: DEAL WITH IT.
* CoolShades
* ElectronicEyes: A souvenir from his encounter with some slavers, that technically killed him.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Julmoth is one of the friendlier batarians out there.
* NeverFoundTheBody: After his 'death'.

!'''CUTE YOUNG FELINE MAMMAL'''
No one knows who it is. Or where they're from.

Everyone just calls it "Kittens."

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* CrypticConversation: Speaks almost exclusively in this.
* EldritchAbomination: A possibility.
* InexplicablyAwesome
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection.

!'''Mekan (Mekan Of Omega)'''
An extremely friendly and nerdy batarian hacker who was raised on Omega, and has since moved to the Citadel. He runs a one-man cybersecurity business out of his home on the Citadel but occasionally abandons the business to go on wacky and/or awesome adventures.

* ActionSurvivor: He's not trained in combat, and as of the time of this writing, has survived two major combat situations where he contributed to the team's overall victory.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite being friendly and generally non-prejudiced, he has a breaking point. When you reach it, you'll know.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: This is his primary reason for ever getting involved in something related to being shot at, or shooting at people. Plus, he's just so gosh-darn helpful in normal situations.
* HeroicBSOD: Had a pretty serious one following Operation Down With Discord. He was never psychologically prepared for combat, but participated in the assault on Discord's base anyway.
* LargeHam: When Mekan was fighting on the ''Pequod'' in the endgame of ''Who Goes There 2'', he had some pretty serious emotional reactions to the fighting. This manifested as Mekan breaking out the ham. He attributes this to adrenaline rushes in combat.
* MadeOfIron: During the boarding action on the ''Pequod'' at the end of ''Who Goes There 2'', he manages to get ''near-fatally shot'' and then almost crushed to death on top of that by the [[EldritchAbomination local cosmic horror.]] He keeps going for the rest of the mission, only realizing he'd been shot by the time the boarding party's gotten away from danger.
* [[NoNameGiven No Last Name Given]]: He's never mentioned his last name for some reason.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Mekan hates the batarian trade and tradition of slavery. He happens to be batarian.
* NonActionGuy: Started out as this, but has grown to be prefer being [[InHarmsWay on crazy adventures]].
* PlayfulHacker: Mekan generally doesn't go out of his way to cause real damage or harm with his hacking talents, unless someone really pisses him off.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Has possibly acquired one in the form of the Volus hacker Terrorbyte.
* TheEngineer: Takes on this role during combat.
* TookALevelInBadass: With the conclusion of ''Who Goes There 2'', he's [[CharacterDevelopment shown he can be pretty badass.]]

!'''Bintar Ranak (4eyes4thewin)'''
A remarkably cheerful batarian slaver

* AffablyEvil: Bintar goes out of his way to be genuinely nice and sociable with others. If you weren't aware of the fact he's slaver, you might think of him as a bumbling, if occasionally charming, businessman.
* ManipulativeBastard: In spades. In particular, he once tricked a salarian into selling himself into slavery.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite his somewhat overt personality, he's proven capable of subtlety, and is quietly spreading his influence that might normally be outside his reach. And when the situation calls for it, he'll get his hands dirty.
* PragmaticVillainy: Has yet to indulge in ForTheEvulz, and is more interested in achieving his goals practically. That just so happens to be the selling of flesh.


!'''Skhash the drummer'''
A vorcha who plays the drums for a red metal band named "Loveseat of skulls".

* YouNoTakeCandle: Like your average vorcha, he suffers from speech impediments. However, this is no indication of his intelligence, which has proven over time to be quite sharp and to the point.

!'''Ekarn Gaelak'''
A deeply religious batarian veteran of the Reaper War, has since resigned from the military to aid with the reconstruction.

* TheComicallySerious: Is frequently exasperated by some of the board's more eccentric members.
* DoomedHometown: His home colony was destroyed during the Reaper invasion
* NiceGuy
* ReligiousBruiser
* ShellshockedVeteran: As a survivor of the Reaper War, he qualifies.
* WalkingTheEarth: After the war, Ekarn met up with a priestess from the state of Khaljah (The only state on Khar'Shan that survived the war intact), and has accompanied her on her travels across the planet.

!'''Ana'Therion vas Nedas'''
Quarian psychotherapist/dominatrix formerly based on Omega. Enjoys working on psych publications and forcibly 'reforming' slavers and pirates.

* BastardGirlfriend
* BrainsAndBondage: A [=PhD=] and a [=PsyD=] from one of Thessia's top universities.
* DespairEventHorizon: In the course of two days, she melded with (and absorbed a mindful of horrifying imagery from) a SerialKiller, was MisBlamed for a kidnapping incident, caught up in life-and-death-tinged relationship drama, and had her house blown up in a crossfire between armed militias. She gave up and left Omega shortly afterwards.
* DepravedBisexual: Went from [[BiTheWay Bi the Way]] to this after setting up on Magdala.
* TheExile: Subverted; she left the Flotilla on her own (although family troubles and a hostile political climate certainly influenced that decision), and generally gets along well with other quarians.
* GoodBadGirl
* HonorBeforeReason
* KnightInSourArmor
* MarshmallowHell: Oh yes.
* MindRape: Her modus operandi for 'reformation'. Essentially BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood.
* NightmareFetishist: [=YahgLadiesMan=] acquired her PornStash. It's thirty gigabytes and full of faux-snuff and hardcore sadomasochism.
* OminousOperaCape (combined with ShouldersOfDoom)
* ShoutOut: A few every now and then, especially post-Citadel move, to [[DarkReign Norman Osborn.]]
* TheShrink
* {{Supervillain}}: Not actually one, but ''loves'' invoking the imagery. Also, there's the suit of PoweredArmor stowed away, just waiting to be used...

!'''Daia T'Nara (asari_promiscuity)'''
A 398-year-old asari escort. She began her career dancing in clubs like many an asari in her Maiden phase, then moved into the sex industry proper, finding that she had rather a natural aptitude and inclination for it. She spent the next three centuries moving up in the industry on various worlds, including a profitable (if somewhat trying) period on Omega, which got her the finances to set up her current upper-middle-class independent escort business on Illium. Since joining CDN, she has begun a relationship with Ana'Therion.

* ActionDressRip: The non-dress equivalent, anyhow - the one time thus far as a CDN member she's been present when a crisis has occurred, when she was attending a costume party (in armour as a Spectre) when somebody was shot, her first reaction was to shed the armour, which was just a replica with no protective qualities, leaving her in just a bodysuit for ease of motion.
* [[AirInAGString Air in a G-String]]: At one point in her career was a member of "The Omega-4some", a quartet of exotic dancers whose act revolved around the asari equivalent of violins.
* AnythingThatMoves: She has devoted considerable time and effort to making cross-species encounters as enjoyable as possible, even by asari standards, from learning various languages for better pillow talk right up to commissioning a special encounter suit allowing her to entertain volus clients in their native atmosphere and pressure conditions.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Shortly after beginning their relationship in earnest, Ana resolved to get Daia to say "cellar door" at some point.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: By exotic dancer standards, at any rate. She's no commando, but she's proficient in a turian martial art, and has unusually precise biotic powers that she's quite prepared to employ to defend herself, regardless of normally having [[PowerPerversionPotential other uses]] for them.
* BioAugmentation: Has various genetic modifications suited to her profession, including limited dextro-resistance, enhanced flexibility, increased lung capacity, and so on.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]: Standard for asari, but Daia goes the extra mile in the MsFanservice sense of the trope.
* CasualKink: A ''large'' variety of kinks.
* CombatAestheticist: But only when sparring, when she'll incorporate dance moves into her martial arts for fun. On the infrequent occasions she's had to "really" fight, she doesn't muck around, and escapes at the earliest opportunity.
* CoolCar: Her personal aircar is a Terran Talbot-Lago T150 SS, which she found as a display piece at an anqitue dealer and modified to fly with considerable help from fellow CDN member Thel'Adean.
* CoolShip: The ''Belle de Nuit'', a former diplomatic courier shuttle, remodelled inside as Daia's personal love den. Regardless, retains its original speed, and though unarmed has been upgraded with very powerful ECM, thanks to contacts Daia's made during her career.
* EthicalSlut: Formerly. Since falling for Ana, Daia has become socially monogamous, but still makes no excuses for enjoying the heck out of her work.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Which is why she's learning to speak it (although at first it was because she misunderstood the term "romance language").
* FanGirl: [[Film/JamesBond Dirk Black]], [[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower Shi'ra: Priestess of Power]].
* FantasticArousal: Loves having her scalp massaged. Then again, she loves a lot of things.
* GoingCommando: Future-dresses evidently have inbuilt bust support, so Daia treats underwear as a whole as optional, although she often wears it for effect.
* HighClassCallGirl: Not at the rarefied level of entertaining multi-billionaires and planetary rulers, but she does well for herself.
* LoveRedeems: Daia's effect on Ana'Therion; Ana ''wanted'' to put herself back together anyway, but has admitted that if it weren't for Daia, she'd probably have just given up.
* MsFanservice: Aside from her clients, Daia still dances on occasion, and has appeared in Fornax several times, in one erotic asari/hanar video game (providing the voice and motion-capture for a character), and recently in a supporting role in a major adult film.
* NoodleIncident: Happens often, with the board's PG-13 rating preventing her from explaining many of her past exploits in any detail; probably all that keeps her from publicly being a FetishFuelStationAttendant.
* [[{{Fanservice}} Playing To The Fetishes]]: Her standard approach to work. Anything (within reason) she doesn't naturally find arousing, she'll contemplate it until she can get herself into a mindset where she does, thus she adapts to be specifically into whatever clients are into.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: Her sexual relationship with Ana'Therion is [[PropertyOfLove highly]] [[SexSlave submissive]] and at times [[ATasteOfTheLash very intense]], but is nonetheless wholly healthy and mutual.
* SergeantRock: Daia's turian father, prior to retiring and settling down.
* ShoutOut: The VI autopilot for Daia's ship is a holographic image of herself as she would look if human, which she named [[SpaceshipGirl Sasha]]; Daia's appearance when photoshopped is based on Sasha Grey.
* ThePollyanna: She's had her fair share of rough times, especially on Omega, and is active in awareness campaigns to improve safety in the sex industry, but is invariably cheerful in her personal outlook.
* WrenchWench: Reckons she could have been a pretty fair mechanic had she pursued it; tinkers with machines on occasion as a hobby, and has her own light aircraft (named Vixen) back at her family home which she maintained herself while living there.

!'''Janice Amelia Proctor (j_proctor)'''
A 34-year old politican based mainly in Illium. A self-described "ethical industrialist, European parliamentarian and casual wit", Proctor balances her time between maintaing her seat in the European Parliament and attending to her business portfolio. For reasons unknown, her business ventures tend often to end in failure, if not litigation.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Until lately, after the latest in a series of business failures,
* DeadpanSnarker: Spends more time perfecting her putdowns than she does catering to the demands of her constituents.
* DesignatedVillain: Tends to get looked down upon, even though she's one of the few characters on the board whose day job doesn't consist of killing people, unlike [[SociopathicHero certain heroes]].[invoked]
* FashionVictimVillain: As attested in [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1307 this]] thread.[invoked]
* JerkAss
* NeverLiveItDown: Prior membership of [[ThoseWackyNazis Terra Firma]]. Also serves as a BerserkButton.[invoked]
* StrawmanPolitical: Of politicians in general.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Manages to hold on to her seat in the European Parliament, despite being a caustic elitist with a history of dodgy financial deals and links to quasi-racist political parties.

!'''Linya M'Tanis (Scientific_Pursuits)'''
A two-hundred and forty seven year old asari maiden with a doctorate in Chemistry. Not that you could tell at first glance, considering her...enthusiasm.

* AnythingThatMoves: Apparently slept with a hanar once. NaughtyTentacles ahoy!
* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe: Get your head examined if I have to explain this one to you.
* BreakTheCutie: She was hit ''hard'' by Elara's death, but is at least trying to move on with help from her family and friends.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She hugs lab equipment and allows untrained visitors to handle unknown minerals, but she's good at what she does. She's also a terrific dancer.
* CloudCuckoolander: It bears repeating - she ''hugs lab equipment''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Euphemisms and their ilk tend to make a slight whistling noise as they fly over her head.
* CuteButCacophonic: She is ''REALLY'' friggin' loud when excited.
* DitzyGenius: Many an accident has been attributed to her lack of situational awareness.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Used to sleep with Elara casually, but they eventually grew to have a thing for one another.
* GenkiGirl: WordOfGod states that she's like [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Merrill]] on [[OhCrap coffee]]....
* [[HappilyMarried Happily Dating]]: She and Elara have been going steady for some time now as of recent events, "IWantGrandkids" pressure be damned.
* TheGlomp: She has a Black Belt in ninja-glomping and isn't ashamed to use them.
* HotScientist
* MyBelovedSmother: Played-With, Mirala loves her dearly but tends to go on about embarassing details at times and is seriously wanting grandkids yesterday.
* {{Squee}}: Unleashes these with aplomb whenever either Elara or anything cute are around.

!'''Iryana Lerish ([=DrellChem=], formerly Overworked_Intern)'''
A drell chemist who moved to Illium for a job shortly before the Reaper Invasion. Was a coworker for Linya before the asari became a professor. The two are currently in a relationship.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: KELP. Iryana has said many a time that she adores Kahjian kelp.

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[[folder:Military]]


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[[folder:Corporate]]

!'''Michael Thompson (mikemerc)'''
A veteran freelancer mercenary in command of a small merc group working in the Terminus.

* ArtificialLimbs: Has two cybernetic fingers on his right hand.
** His entire left arm is cybernetic [[AnArmAndALeg after a harvester ate the real one]]
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Someone attempting this is why he has the aforementioned cybernetic fingers.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: It's Cornelius.
* ICallItVera: Named his customized Kovalyov rifle "Laika"
* SoleSurvivor: Mike was one of the few survivors of his first mission.

!'''Jorgal Dwick (Infrastruct/DWICK)'''

An old, fat, rude, crude krogan who has somehow wrested control of a massive media network in the aftermath of the Reaper War. Taking advantage of the Genophage’s cure, he also claims (at every opportunity) to have built an enormous lineage of illegitimate successors.

* {{Acrofatic}}: Regularly loves to terrify people by sneaking up on them with disturbingly precise biotics.
* AnnoyingLaugh: “''HAW HAW HAW''”
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Has claimed to pay his vorcha animators in ''marshmallow fluff.''
* {{Egopolis}}: The lobby of One Dwickcast Tower is adorned with an enormous statue of Dwick dressed in ludicrous, 18th-Century human dress.
* FantasticRacism: He ''loathes'' quarians, finding them pitiful shells of what they used to be 300 years ago.
* FatAndProud
* FatIdiot
* FatSlob: Sensing a trend here?
* GiftedlyBad
* TheHedonist
* InsaneTrollLogic: Frequently flummoxes the forum with this.
* {{Jerkass}}: Without a doubt.
* KavorkaMan: At least, that’s what he claims.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense
* SmallNameBigEgo
* {{Troll}}: Constantly irritates the rest of the board purely for his own amusement.


!'''Terrorbyte'''

Jorgal Dwick’s equally egotistical right-hand man, a volus who acts as the CFO for the Dwick Dwickcast Syndykyt. Formerly a black-hat hacker of some repute, he's marginally more self-aware, and is constantly fighting to shut his meal ticket up before he lands them both in prison.

* HackerCave: A fairly impressive one – or at least it would be, if Dwick would stop [[DextersLaboratory Deedee-ing it up]].
* TheCracker: And a pretty good one at that, though it landed him in a heap of trouble during the WGT2 arc.
* FatIdiot: For all his computational skills, he still manages to get conned into participating in a lot of terrible films made by his partner in crime.
* FatSlob: He’s like a mini-Dwick in a pressurized suit.
* {{Jerkass}}: And proud of it.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His alleged name (as printed in a magazine with questionable veracity) is [[PunnyName Ihaba Naem]].
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He’s a hacker that likes to upend economies from the safety of a small vault. His ''partner'' is a belligerent lunatic with no indoor voice who murdered quarian infants ''with the bubbles they were kept in.'' To say they squabble is an understatement.

!'''Bo Kross (Kage)'''
Gorik's second-in-command.
Now currently the leader of AEGIS after Korwun's disappearance

* TheAlcoholic: Often crossing into DrowningMySorrows
* AntiHero: Type IV. While he generally believes in AEGIS' philosophy, he is not above performing less than savory work, to meet that end.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Being a soldier is the only thing that brings him purpose in his life.
* TheCynic
* CynicismCatalyst: Several in fact. From surviving the battle of Torfan, to the death of his younger sister during the war, and plenty of other tragedies in between.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FireForgedFriends: His relationship with AEGIS as a whole.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Deep down, and we do mean ''deep down'', he's a good person at heart.
* KnightinSourArmor: Still tries to do the right thing in spite of everything.
* ShellshockedVeteran
* SurvivorsGuilt: A result of losing many of his friends and comrades during the war.
* TheStoic
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pisco


!'''[Redacted] ([=RememberTheBlitz=])'''
Formerly a high-level Cerberus officer, RTB is the chairman of Noveria's [Redacted] Security Consultants.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Claims to have a collection of batarian eyeballs.
* CrypticConversation: Second only to Kittens.
* DeadpanSnarker: In spades, with a bit of Jerkass thrown in for fun.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Left Cerberus and faked his death after realizing that Cerberus no longer held humanity's best interests at heart.
* FakingTheDead: His strategy for avoiding reprisal for defection. It worked for about six months.
* FantasticRacism: RTB's feelings towards batarians are not particularly subtle.
* [[KillAllHumans Kill All Batarians:]] He claims to desire this.
* NecessarilyEvil: Understood that the actions of Cerberus are morally wrong, but believed that were necessary. This [[EvenEvilHasStandards changed]] when they started integrating people.
* NoNameGiven: His real name is [Redacted].
* RunningGag: After a [Redacted] incident, he installed overactive censorship [=VIs=] that tend to render many of his statements unintelligible.
* WallOfWeapons: Hidden in an Aroch Ward chocolate shop.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He sees himself as one.

!'''Nassa D'Veyra (Corona)'''

* TheDreaded: Didn't earn the moniker "The Ogre", for nothing.

!'''Avera Oscaius (Grayeye)'''
A turian Blue Suns legionnaire and sniper, presently attached to the 9 Commando unit.

* AffablyEvil: Though its less pronounced when on the boards.
* ColdSniper: Is this on the battlefield.
* DarkActionGirl
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She loves her family, and is also quite close to her fellow Suns.
* FantasticRacism: She is not very fond of the krogan, [[FreudianExcuse much of her dislike though is implied to have due to her experiences at the Krogan DMZ]]
* JerkAss: Is generally unpleasant towards "bleeding-hearts", freelancers, and "krogan apologists"


!'''Dawn'''
A human born in the slums of the parisian suburbs, Dawn left Earth at age 13 (or maybe 14). She's been around, settling on a human colony, then leaving to visit Illium, Imorkan, the Citadel, and eventually Omega; she soon found a liking for the station. Now aged 21 (or 22), she clearly has it in for slavers...and batarians. Batarian slavers. This hate was born from personal and, obviously, ''unpleasant'' experiences with the aforementioned population.

* AddictionDisplacement: There's a reason why Dawn drinks so much.
* AllergicToRoutine: Which is why she loves Omega.
* BadDreams: She had a bloody childhood. These are a given.
* BigDamnHeroes: Gorik and Dawn pull their own version when a friend is kidnapped by slavers.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* HatesBeingTouched
* ImprobableAge: Dawn is 21/22, and she's a tech specialist.
* NotSoWeak: She doesn't hesitate to kill when threatened. (As the story of her first kill suggests)



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[[folder:Criminal]]

!'''Murtag Kirok (I_Am_Kirok)'''
A mercenary-minded animal lover who loves hard work, getting paid, and relaxing when he gets the chance. A blue-collar krogan through and through. He works as Abattoir's muscle in the Embodiment.

* BoisterousBruiser: Let it never be said that Kirok went into combat with anything less than a smile on his face.
* BountyHunter
* ChefOfIron: He's one part bounty hunter, one part short order cook, and all {{Badass}}.
* CutenessProximity: Just watch him when Whitefang's at his side. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Just...watch.]]
* DeepSouth: He speaks with a thick southern accent. He's probably speaking a certain dialect, and it's being translated as such to show it.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Well, varren, at least.
* LethalChef: Well, most of his 'downhome krogan recipes' certainly certainly have this effect on non-krogan.
* NonHumanSidekick: Whitefang the varren.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney
* PetTheDog: Most of his moments are quite literally this when it comes to Whitefang.
* TeamChef
* TheBigGuy

!'''Lyra Palmer'''
Human female that was part of the O7 program in the Alliance military. She fought at Torfan, but she left the Alliance afterwards and ended up on Omega. She owns a small dockyard called Lathal and does jobs for the Embodiment whenever possible.

* AccidentalAthlete: She can ''run''.
* CrazyPrepared
* ElectronicEyes: They're gray.
* OneHitKill: She will only use shotguns, sniper rifles, heavy rifles, and other heavy weapons. She hates automatic weapons.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: She wants her brother back alive and well, and she won't let anything stop her.
* RunForTheBorder: She escaped from Alliance Space.
* SecretDiary
* TheButcher: [[WarIsHell She was at Torfan.]]
* TheSmartGirl

!'''Suri'Neyvi vas Rosenkreuz'''
A sixteen year old mentally ill quarian with a violent streak, Abattoir's apprentice and former fangirl.

* AgeAppropriateAngst: Suri is a teenager, with all the hormone induced craziness and wangst that comes with the territory. For some reason this has induced an "aww adorable" reaction from people instead of the usual 'how obnoxious' one
* AxeCrazy
* BerserkButton: Whenever anyone brings up her exile or what happened to her parents, she'll start yelling at you to try and drown it out.
* BrokenSmile Suri often draws a stylized smiley on her visor, both as a comforting totem and due to her quarian suit-related issues
* ButWeUsedACondom: Pregnancy scare, courtesy of her slave, Rez. [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2288 Epic trainwreck thread ensued.]]
* CloudCuckoolander
* DaddysGirl Suri's dad is great! He gave her a knife! Oops, she probably stabbed him after mom.
* EnfantTerrible: This is pretty much Suri in a nutshell
* FanGirl: Of Abattoir, Cartoons, Roleplaying and Shipping. Also a YaoiFanGirl
* HormoneAddledTeenager
* KnifeNut: Suri's knife is her favorite calming totem, also her favorite murdering weapon
* LaughablyEvil: Suri is often played for laughs as much as she is for horror
* MadnessMantra: BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD
* MommyIssues: Suri's mother clearly had mental issues of her own, it's InTheBlood so to speak. How severe these issues were is obscured by Suri's telling of events.
* MyParentsAreDead: Except that she probably killed them, although she viciously denies this fact.
* PsychoSupporter: She'd do anything for Abattoir. Anything.
* UnreliableNarrator: Suri's past is probably nowhere near as colorful as she claims it is.

!'''Anistasy'Reyna vas Clear Skies (Arbitrary)'''
An exiled quarian who turned to mercenary work. Anistasy is no stranger to trauma or hardship having lost her hands and various other parts, and had a relationship turned sour with Dr. Ana'Therion vas Nedas. She hired Thel'Adean as her navigator and mechanic.
* ArtificialLimbs
* AxCrazy: When she's ''really'' angry.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult or hurt her friends. She ''will'' kill you for it.
* BiTheWay: As [[ChaoticGood Anistasy.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: [[DualWielding Dual wields these]] rigged to retract with ''very specific'' movements.
* BrokenBird
* ColdSniper
* CrazyPrepared: To the point where she has explosives ''rigged across her entire apartment'' in case she needs to pack up and move.
* DepravedBisexual: As [[NeutralEvil Arbitrary.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney
* SplitPersonality
* TheCaptain: Of the ''[[ShoutOut Clear]] [[Fanfic/ClearSkies Skies]]''.
* TheExile
* TheUnfettered
* TortureTechnician: She loves finding new and exciting ways to hurt and kill people.
* TranquilFury: When she's angry.
* TurnCoat: She did this to Kojet five years ago.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: She customized her helmet to have a white skull light up inside of it to intimidate her foes, ala [[ModernWarfare Ghost]].
* WouldHurtAChild

!'''Johnny (Some_Random_Merc)'''
Needs description.

* CoolShip: The Bangalore is a turian frigate with hidden floor panels for smuggling, and a lounge in place of the CIC.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Will not smuggle slaves or Red Sand. Period.
* {{Expy}}: Of a certain [[{{Deadpool}} Merc With a Mouth.]]
* HasTwoMommies: Was Raised by an asari couple.
* ICallItVera: He calls his A-61 gunship ''Ardat-Yakshi'', much to his 'mother's' chagrin.
* LetsPlay: Johnny's an avid player of a game called Alliance Corsair.

!'''Kojet'''
A rare case among the elcor, Kojet is a freelance mercenary residing in the Terminus Systems. He's quite arrogant, but he is, by no means, a pushover. Kojet is essentially a tank on legs, carrying enough strength and firepower to wipe out a platoon.

* BoisterousBruiser: In fact, he's a bit too boisterous for his own good.
* DullSurprise
* {{Jerkass}}
* LightningBruiser: If you see Kojet in action, you'll never assume that elcor are naturally slow ever again.
--> '''Modulator_Demodulator:''' Elcor can be ''fast'' when they need to be.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney
* SingleIssueWonk: Just mention Arbitrary, and his confidence will disappear almost ''immediately.''
--> '''Kojet:''' With dawning horror: ''No.'' That's not you. [[ThisCannotBe It can't be you.]] I thought I...[[BringMyBrownPants Terrified beyond all rational thought: Meep.]]
* StoneWall: He's an elcor. They can take a lot of punishment.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry
* WrestlerInAllOfUs

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[[folder:Deceased]]
!'''Abattoir'''
Drell mercenary. Leads a private military corporation called Embodiment. Is known for his [[WickedCultured suavity]] and brutality.

* AffablyEvil
* AnythingThatMoves
* ArcWords: "You can't fight the inevitable."
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Primary motivation, with healthy components of BloodKnight and MoneyDearBoy.
* CrazyPrepared
* DatingCatwoman: With Velinara.
* DepravedBisexual
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Abattoir and Velinara's "engagement" was this for a while until it became an open secret.
* FreudianExcuse: Cheerfully subverted at every possible opportunity, and very contemptful of those who attempt to employ one.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: ...a trifecta of money, power, and {{nanomachines}}. ''[[SlaveMooks Especially]]'' {{nanomachines}}.
* IGaveMyWord: Maniacally adheres to borderline-OCD standards of professionalism.
* KickTheDog: ''Constantly.''
* MoralityPet: [[TheShrink Ana'Therion]] and [[EnfanteTerrible Suri'Neyvi]], mostly.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Is apparently willing to fight a Reaper in order to get a cup of coffee.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Has been 'Abattoir' since he was twenty. He has a real name ([[spoiler:Zharik Jale]]), but it's only known by a handful of people and he doesn't self-identify by it, considering it a relic of his youth.
* PersonaNonGrata: Illium does not look kindly on him being around after the [[NoodleIncident Dilinaga Plaza Massacre]].
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* ReallyGetsAround: Three children with three different women, plus a variety of one-off liaisons.
* SocialDarwinist
* TheStrategist
* ThirdPersonPerson: Speaks like a hanar.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Vidanya White-Label iced brandy.
* UhOhEyes: Gold eyes combined with HellishPupils.
* WickedCultured
* WouldHurtAChild

!'''Abad Sam-mel'''
A batarian slaver who loves good wine and hates humans.

* AffablyEvil: When Abad's not leading slave raids, he's pleasant and friendly towards most people, including his former victims.
* [[AtLeastIAdmitIt At Least We Admit It]]: Frequently invokes this when pointing out the hypocrisy of non-batarian races condemning the Hegemony for having a slave caste.
* BadassBaritone: Abad has been described as having a deep voice.
* BirdsOfAFeather: His relationship with Nakalaxi Lorgrek.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The violent death of his brother, and other family issues not yet revealed.
* GirlInABox: Abad seems to be tripping over these [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=543&p=27444#p27444 left]] and [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48046#p48046 right]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The big one across Abad's face falls into the evil half of this trope.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Abad [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=55557#p55557 pretended to be the latter]] when Nakalaxi Lorgrek helped him rescue his nephew.
* [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry Occupiers Off Of Our Planets]]: Abad's primary motivation for carrying out slave raids on human colonies in the Terminus Systems.
* ScarsAreForever: Abad has several.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Abad Sam-mel [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=56783#p56783 frequently expresses disapproval]] of fellow batarian slaver, Malak, for this very reason.
* VisionaryVillain: Abad's not a slaver for the money; he's trying to drive humanity out of the Terminus Systems for the good of his people.
* TakingYouWithMe: Set off a nuke in an attempt to destroy a Reaper. Killing himself in the progress

!'''Algar (Augment)'''
Needs description.

* ArtificialLimbs: This, alongside ElectronicEyes and all the other wonderful cyborg tropes, are a point of interest for him.
* LargeHam: Not only does he prone to ranting [[NoIndoorVoice as loudly as possible]], he follows so many villain tropes he might as well get a union card for Bond Villains R Us.
* MadScientist
* SadisticChoice: As Aphin raised a gun to him, Algar made him choose: his revenge for the lives of his old crew...or the lives of his new one?
* XanatosSpeedChess: Algar's plan.

!'''[=ColeComputingTerminal3000=]'''
Needs description.

* AIIsACrapshoot: He seems to head for the [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer "goatee and Napoleon complex"]] territory.

!'''Kema'Holkin nar Herring'''
Cowardly, suttering quarian with a turian fetish. He spends most of his pilgrimage (and days) working in a hospital, despite his crippling fear of germs.

* TheChick
* CovertPervert: Secretly owns many magazines, calendars, and pin ups of turians.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Tortured for two-three days, and his body was ripped apart and fed to Vorcha and Varren.
* FishOutOfWater: First visited Omega (and spent a total of two days there before getting the hell out of there), now lives in Tayseri, which is almost as bad.
* KillTheCutie
* TheMedic: Very experienced with medicine and occasional surgery.
* NonActionGuy
* [[EyelessFace Noseless Face]]: A Vorcha bit it off.
* OddFriendship: A violent, boisterous krogan with NoIndoorVoice is best friends with a meek, overly worrisome quarian. Think about that for a second. Could also be considered a case of SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan.
* ThePollyanna: A surprisingly bittersweet version of this. Takes any shit he has to go through with a smile, but will often remark on it in a grimly cynical sort of way.
* PorkyPigPronunciation: When he stutters to much on a word, he chooses a different one.
* PrecisionFStrike: The worst swear you'll usually hear from him is "damn", and the occasional "bosh'tet". But when exceptionally angry, serious, or otherwise grumpy, expect a few naughty, naughty words.
* RantInducingSlight: Rare, and mostly happens when someone begins insulting a person that he cares about. Also has caused him to scold a krogan at least three times. Funny enough, it works.
* SpeechImpediment: Stutters. A lot.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: Defines his way of ife, what he does, and how he does it.
* TransparentCloset: Occasionally tries to hide his sexuality, even though blind people could see that his helmet's on backwards.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Wears a hood. A particular hood that normally only female quarians should wear.
* {{Workaholic}}: Is in love with his job, and spends at least twelve hours working daily. Rarely takes vacations.

!'''Jerhomme Kan'Garm'''
A monotone, robotlike batarian whose 'past' is a mystery to literally all around him. Making a good living out of the Omega's problems by creating an entire business focusing on mercs and them doing the dirty work for anyone who contacts him. Owns a Vorcha named Tenpenny.

* ColdBloodedTorture: His schtick.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Very fond of these.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted. He would not only accept exiles, insane people, prostitutes, mass murderers, and otherwise evil people into his business, he would welcome them with open hands.
* ForTheEvulz: Explains why he has multiple rooms dedicated to torturing workers that get on his nerves.
* InsistentTerminology: It's Mr. Kangarm.
* KarmicDeath
* KickTheDog
* LackOfEmpathy: If anything, he's in love with the pain he (or his workers) can cause.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MarriedToTheJob
* WeakButSkilled: Cannot fight for the life of him. Thus, the only pain he can cause is when the victim is strapped to a table.

!'''Caldus Discori (Discord )'''
A maniacal, egotistical and completely amoral turian pirate lord and slaver. Managed to enrage almost the entire CDN forum by posting a list of slaves for sale. Many of those so enraged were mercenaries, and banded together to kill him.

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil:
---> '''Discord''' "Y-You think thissss'll change... anything? Y-ouuu thin' other people won' replace m-muh-muh-me? N-nothing... ever... changes... in the Terminussss."
---> '''Kyr''' "Coldly: And when somebody replaces you, we'll step up and eliminate them. With pride: This group of mercenaries just showed you that even in the Terminus, there will be individuals ready to protect the weak and uphold justice."
* ClusterFBomb: Dies right after dropping multiple F bombs.
* DeadpanSnarker:
---> '''Discord''' "Such a comedy genius. At least you apes have mastered one thing, besides dying like animals."
* EvilBrit: Despite being a turian, he speaks with distinctly upper-class English diction.
* [[InternetCounterattack ExtranetCounterattack]]: This culminates in his death.
* FantasticRacism: Refers to humans as 'apes'
* {{Jerkass}}: Arrogant, racist, cruel and malicious.
* KickTheDog: Basically his schtick
* LargeHam: Introduced himself as '''The''' Caldus Discori. It got worse.
* WickedCultured

!'''Winter'''
Everyone's favorite dumbass.

* ButtMonkey: Although it's arguable he deserves it.
* ChaoticStupid
* KarmicDeath: After announcing his return to the boards (quickly met by a choir of disgust), he announced he was going to Omega. Upon arrival, he lasted ''less than five minutes.''
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Stupid To Die]]: Until he went to Omega.
* WildCard

!'''Mirqurios'''
Needs description.

* ActualPacifist
* CoolOldGuy
* JustFollowingOrders: a BerserkButton for Mirqurios.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though not directly disturbed by his military past, often finds it coming back to haunt him.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mirqurios has repeatedly engaged in [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6813#p6813 this]] with [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7017#p7017 hilarious results]].
* VideoWills: Left one to be published on CDN in the event of his death. It was published.

!'''Macul Atum ([=Hemlock=])'''
An angry volus chemist, hired by Turnonav [[spoiler: to reverse-engineer LIGHT in order to manufacture and sell it on Omega]]. NOT a people person. [[spoiler: KIA in the finale of WHO GOES THERE?]].

* TheBlank: Not that you need to see his face to know he's perpetually angry.
* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: By [[EldritchAbomination SAIOCH]], after incapacitating the possessed Aphin Protretho.]]
* TheDragon: To Turnonav, [[spoiler: if only for a few months.]]
* [[spoiler: ExplosiveDecompression: How he finally dies.]]
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: How does possession by an EldritchAbomination leading to a grisly death sound for someone who performed gruesome tests involving ''another'' eldritch horror (as well as someone who ''can't'' play nice to save his life) sound to you?]]
* KickTheDog: The [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=123416#p123416 video of his "test subjects"]] in Who Goes There: The Omega Chapter.
* MadScientist
** TheIgor: His assistants, Lassaigne, Jusuf and Rishii. The ''only'' people [[PetTheDog Macul considers to be anywhere near his equal.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His very ''name'' means "poison."
* NoSocialSkills: Quite literally ''cannot'' play nice, even to save his ''life.''
* ThreatBackfire: See above.

!

!'''Elara T'Meyra (Biotic-Smurf)'''
Elara T'Meyra is an asari merc/secruity consultant. Centuries before she was an Eclipse sister, and before that a commando along with her sister and mother who lead the unit they were in. After they had a bit of a falling out she and Aayla joined the Eclipse sisterhood to distance themselves from their mother's influence. Her time in Eclipse was not pleasant, and she left sometime after. Upon meeting Daia T'Nara she began to mellow out a bit and nowadays is a good friend of hers. [[spoiler: Killed in action in "Who Goes There 2" at the hands of [[HeroKiller Maladact Tarn]]'s men.]]
* ActionGirl: Natch.
* TheAtoner: She had a lot of stuff to make up for.
* BadAss: If you spend time as a commando and don't end up like this, you're doing it wrong.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: She'd done some nasty things in the past, and she isn't completely over it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She was friendly and polite to most people, but in a fight she was a whole different animal.
* BioAugmentation: Underwent this during her Commando days.
* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe: Pretty clear at this point.
* BoldlyComing: As an asari, this is expected. Not that she was ever shy about other asari though.
* BrutalHonesty: She must've inherited her dad's mouth.
* CovertPervert: To an extent, she did have a collar and chain attacted to her bedroom wall.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She never liked to talk about her backstory that much.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times.
* FriendlySniper: She used a [[DawnOfWar Taldeer]] [[ShoutOut Series]] [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Farseer]] to deadly effect.
* [[HappilyMarried Happily Bonded]]: Seemed to be on this route with [[HotScientist Linya]] so far...
** [[spoiler: ...Until WHO GOES THERE 2, that is.]]
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She loved expensive liquor, and can rack up quite the tab.
* HiredGuns: Crosses over to Private Military Contractor and has dabbled a bit in bounty hunting.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Everett was the brother she never had, and she's the sister he never had.
* MindOverMatter: Obviously, she was a biotic. A powerful one too.
* RedOniBLueOni: Ironically, she was the hot-headed and energetic red oni to Everett's measured and rational blue oni.

!'''Clint van Wallach (Gunslinger)'''
A human BountyHunter stationed on Omega, this man had a penchant for a soft voice and a ''damn'' quick draw. [[spoiler: KIA in the Noveria chapter of Who Goes There, Part II.]]

* {{Badass}}
* BountyHunter
* {{Expy}}: Just look at [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly his name]].
* TheGunslinger: But of ''course.'' Specializing, of course, in the QuickDraw.
* HappilyMarried: Surprising, given that he lives on ''Omega.''
* NiceHat: His avatar is more a reflection of his state of mind than what he looks like. The hat, however...
* NiceToTheWaiter: In Mass Effect-ese, he always tries for the Paragon route before going in guns blazing.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: manages this in practically ''every'' major chapter of the Who Goes There? story arc.
* OfficerAndAGentleman
* TheStoic: Has yet to really lose his cool, even when in the company of [[Characters/CerberusDailyNewsDeceased Macul Atum.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow – By means of veteran experience alone, he’s the leader of the [=PCs=] in the main Who Goes There? Chapters – even when fighting alongside the ''captain of a frigate.''

!'''Talyth Mellas'''
A krogan Battlemaster, skilled in biotics. He owns many bars and has been present at quite a few major events in galactic history. For example, he was on Omega when Aria took over, Rannoch during the Geth uprisings, Elysium during the Blitz, Eden Prime during the attack, and the Citadel when Saren attacked it. He was a member of the Crimson Chains before he struck out on his own. [[spoiler: KIA as of WHO GOES THERE 2]]

* CloserThanTheyAppear: See WeDoTheImpossible.
* CombatMedic
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Rannoch.
* GeniusBruiser: He had [=PhDs=] in Physics, Biology, Psychology, and General Mechanics. Also, he doesn't use a translator, preferring to speak any language that is required.
* HiredGuns: Sometimes.
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves: He is krogan.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: See GeniusBruiser.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: He'd despise you ''instantly'' if you insulted the quarians who lived on Rannoch.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty
* UndyingLoyalty: To his employers and his Krantt.
* WatchingTroyBurn: Rannoch and Drossen Tor.
* WouldntHurtAChild
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: By choice.

!'''Marcus Koren ([=BioticSalvation=])'''
The leader of an extensive biotic cult that disguises itself as a charity organization, Koren is a charasmatic man with a mysterious agenda. Whatever it is though, the rest of the galaxy may very well burn for it.
* BigBad: Of the BioticSalvation arc, and more than a few characters who went up against him.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: He plays this trope perfectly straight.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Wanted to create a society where Biotics were on top, and screw everyone else.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He didn't anticipate that breaking the clavicle of Kate Parker's mentor would be enough of a stimuli for her to break loose of the control implant he attached to her skull.
* HeroKiller: His violent slaying of Sortakani Orren might be considered a sign of this, and he almost manages to overpower the team sent to defeat him, which included an elcor and an asari Matriarch. Thankfully, EvilCannotComprehendGood.
* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Likely set the record for most CDN members abducted in a single setting.
* KickTheDog: Every time he's around, people get kicked, one way or another.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He's that much of a jerk to people he's captured
* SmugSnake: His supreme confidence was unwavering, until the final battle...
* ThisCannotBe: Sums up his final thoughts as he was defeated once and for all.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. While he often appears to rather evil from the get go with most he meets, including people who work for him that haven't been indoctrinated, his charity has given him a glowing reputaion amongst the rest of the galaxy. Which was why he created the charity in the first place.

!'''Aniko "Anna" Tarkov ([=Anatar=])'''

A Hungarian runaway, Anna had been wandering the Terminus after an incident that left her with a criminal record and a bounty on her head from the Blue Suns when Thel'Adean approached her with a job offering. She accepted, and now works with AEGIS. [[spoiler: Killed by Thanatos during the Fall of Omega]]

* ActionGirl: She cut her teeth fighting Geth during the Eden Prime attack, an accomplishment that earned her Gorik's respect upon hearing about it.
* BattleCouple: She and Thel recently hooked up, and have been inseparable since she joined up with AEGIS.
* DeadpanSnarker: Played with; she and Thel exchange playful banter every so often, yet she breaks out the venom with people she dislikes.
* RelationshipUpgrade: One thing led to another with her and Thel...
* TheRunaway: She's run from Earth and C-Space, leaving the Terminus systems as a last resort for her.

!'''Kevla (Kharshan-sunrise)'''
A female batarian mercenary and member of AEGIS. She escaped the Hegemony after being labelled a political dissident and came to Omega, where she decided to try and 'make a difference'. [[spoiler: Killed by Cerberus during the Fall of Omega]]

* ActionGirl
* BerserkButton: Don't mention the Hegemony's secret police around her.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's cute and sweet and also a master of explosives and demolitions
* BreakTheCutie: What the Hegemony did to her during her time in the internment camp.
* CuteBruiser: Kevla is short and pretty, but also excels in hand-to-hand combat.
* GenkiGirl: Kevla has a tenancy for glomping people she likes and is a near-constant ball of sunshine.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Died while blowing up a Cerberus ATLAS mech in order for the other AEGIS members and refugees to flee during the Fall of Omega]]
* PluckyGirl: Won't let her past or the darkness of Omega get her down.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A. Deep down Kevla is very, very unhappy.

!'''Viros Fenon'''
Turian Janitor on Omega, and dedicated porn collector. A rather amusing presence on the board. [[spoiler: Killed by Adjuntants during the Fall of Omega]].

* CallItKarma: He is often retaliated against. Been hacked, defenestrated, and shot at multiple times. Of course, even then, he considers it...
* [[TheInternetIsForPorn The Extranet is for Porn]]: And is very proud of his collection.
* TheGadfly: Claims to be a {{troll}}, but he's really closer to this.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Some of the pieces in his collection are this.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Was mortally wounded by Adjuntants while protecting a young human boy]].
* [[IRegretNothing I Regret and Apologize for Nothing!]]: He's always heard saying this, [[spoiler: even right up until the very end]].
* SickAndWrong: But most of them are like this. People often say this about him after he shows them something from his collection and doesn't bother to explain himself. Actually, they often say that even after he does.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did it Have to be Fluffy?]]: has a phobia of earth's hairy animals (humans excluded). So when threads showcasing such animals pop up, he always reacts with horror. Interestingly, only one person ever tried counter-trolling him with that and it worked (though it was all in good humor).
* WorthIt: Even when said assailant comes to his hospital room to apologize.

!'''Desta T'Res (Night Wind)'''
An asari assassin and mercenary who only goes after evil targets. She stays in business by living in the Terminus systems, and being less caring who her clients are. [[spoiler:[[NeverFoundTheBody Died in mysterious circumstances]]]].

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Desta is a fan of both human and krogan cinema.
* AntiHero: Somewhere between Type III and IV.
* {{Asexuality}}: Unusually for an asari, Desta has never shown any sexual interest in anyone, due to lingering issues from being raped a long time ago.
* BagOfSpilling: Justified when her ship was stolen during the Siege of Omega, depriving her of all her physical possessions save what she had on her person at the time. Fortunately, she still has a sizable bank account.
* BusCrash: There is no information on where or how she died.
* CombatPragmatist: Desta is very creative in battle, and will never get into a fair fight if she can avoid it. This part of why she's still alive.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She never did explain why she left the Republics.
* DefiledForever: Claims this as a result of being raped nearly 200 years ago.
* ElectronicEyes: Her left eye is cybernetic. The only enhancement it provides is recording video.
* EvilVersusEvil: A variant. Desta herself isn't evil. However, her employers often are, and her victims always are.
* EyeScream: Lost an eye in the Down With Discord storyline. Obtained a cybernetic replacement.
* GenreSavvy: She would probably have no moral compunctions about killing Aria T'Loak, but she's not stupid enough to try.
* HeroicSecondWind: Desta's armor can give her an artificial version - it will pump her up with adrenaline so she can keep fighting, even if she's lost an eye.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Desta only kills people she thinks deserved it. She's also pretty up front about this fact.
* TheMario: Shades of this. While Desta's primary skills are in firearms and biotics, she's also picked up basic hacking and demolition skills.
* MindOverMatter: A capable biotic.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: No specific cases, but in general, Desta rarely considers the wider effect of her actions. She likely has several of these in her history, though she may not be aware of it.
* OptOut: She left Eclipse after the incessant nature of gang warfare got to her. That, and she probably makes more money as a freelance assassin.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Desta's methods are generally indistinguishable from those of other assassins - she just limits her targets.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: Also works as a freelance mercenary. Spent some time in Eclipse.
* ProfessionalKiller: Definitely falls into the "assassin" category. Desta's had 200 years to work her way up the totem pole.
* {{Protectorate}}: Has one for Flower, even though Flower is terrified of her (well, asari in general). [[spoiler:When she died, she left Flower her bank account]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Like most asari. Desta's pushing 250. In the "Getting To Know You" threads, she often brings up incidents that occurred decades ago.
* [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Woman]]: A variant. Desta inhabits the Terminus Systems, where law and order don't really exist. Also, her victims are generally career criminals.

!'''Shane Ryder ([=StormRyder67=])'''
Shane Ryder grew up in the slums of Camden, New Jersey. He escaped a life in the gangs by joining the Alliance at 18. Forced out of the military by politics, he is a former N5 turned mercenary, he thoroughly enjoys his job but every now and then as he racks up his hospital bills he feels like taking a break. [[spoiler: Killed helping to bring down a destroyer class Reaper]]

* ArtificialLimbs: Left arm as a result of being shot down while piloting a gunship.
* BadassNormal
* BawdySong: Enjoys reciting dirty limericks... probably a little too much.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BioAugmentation: Genetic enhancements are mandatory for Alliance marines, those in special operations especially.
* BloodKnight: He's a mercenary and former commando who kills people while singing to the heavy metal blaring through his earpiece, and only takes a break from his job when he gets shot one too many times, need I say more?
* TheButcher: Fought at Torfan.
* ClusterFBomb: Wherever, and whenever possible.
* CombatPragmatist: If it means winning he'll do it, backstabbing, meat shields, groin shots, Hey Catch and especially kick them while they are down.
* DeadpanSnarker: He likes being sarcastic and obnoxious, it's a talent.
* FantasticRacism: His view on vorcha are that they are one step above vermin and often not even that.
* FriendlySniper: He's generally friendly, he's a sniper, 'nuff said.
* GoodIsNotNice: Ryder has no problem at all with doing horrific things to accomplish certain goals. If it means uncovering a slaving ring, then he will burn, kill, and torture his way there, and he will go home afterwards and sleep quite soundly.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Thel'Adean since joining AEGIS.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yeah he kills people for a living, yeah he's done horrible things, yeah he's a cynical sarcastic prick, but if you happen to be his friend there's almost nothing he won't do for you.
* KnifeNut: Once killed a krogan with a utility knife, after he recovered from that adventure took to carrying a eight inch combat knife everywhere.
* LandmarkSale: Once 'sold' the Golden Gate Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to a particularly gullible poster [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3932&p=159098#p159098 here]]
* LargeHam: [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2936&p=119722#p119722 Thoroughly enjoyed mocking Discori]]
* TheNapoleon: He's short he knows and he sure as hell doesn't like it unless it helps him steal something.
* NiceGuy: Sorta usually goes out of his way not to be offensive, on the other hand he'll do some pretty nasty shit if you piss him off
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules!: Many would consider his definition of morality to be a little loose, but he's got rules and he follows them to the letter.
* TortureTechnician: Favors psychological torture but definitely not averse to getting his hands dirty.
* TricksterArchetype: Hates authority and everything to do with it will often go out of his way to flaunt his contempt for authority


!'''John Grey (Operative Grey)'''
A senior Cerberus officer.

* {{Expy}}: The Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files, or the Operative from Serenity
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Not afraid to get his hands dirty.
* NothingPersonal: Just doing his job.
* TheNondescript: A very forgettable man.
* TheSpook: Some intelligence agencies think John Grey is a myth, or dead. They are wrong.

!'''Doctor Iain Rhys-Summers (Lagrange 4)'''
Lagrange is a recently-graduated Doctor of Nanotechnology who unknowingly accepted a job from Cerberus. [[spoiler: Following an accident at a Cerberus research station he may also now be either a tool of the Reapers or, at the very least, Indoctrinated.]]

* DemonicPossession: One possible explanation for his shift in personality.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The other possible explanation for his shift in personality.
* NietzscheWannabe: Since his brush with a station full of husks the Doctor has become one of these
* NonActionGuy: He's completely useless in combat.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Lagrange is too into his work to worry about Cerberus might do with his research.
* TheProfessor: Of Nanotechnology!
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: The good doctor learned a few things about husks and their origins during his research
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Since his change the Doctor's voice is described as being... odd. All his text is now also italic.

!'''Thomas Hunter (Operative Thanatos)'''

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: /Everybody/ hates Thanatos. He is often mocked by board members, often to hilarious extremes.
* BloodKnight: Revels in combat, often seeking the strongest enemy available. This includes krogan warlords and highly advanced cyborgs.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The only person he intentionally spares was defeated due to outsider interference. Rather than take an enemy's life uncleanly, he leaves.
* HeroKiller: Is responsible for the deaths of a quarter of AEGIS' ranking membership, and managed to go to toe with Korwun Gorik, the krogan warlord who leads the mercenary band. Later on, his actions lead to the deaths of Kaneel Jorash, a great deal of Aegis troops, and the destruction of their personal flagship.
* IShallTauntYou: A favorite tactic to demoralize perceived foes: This has backfired on him in the past, both in combat, and on the forums where members are more than capable of outsnarking him
* TheHeavy: While subservient to higher ranking Cerberus officers, whenever Thanatos personally arrives on the scene, he often derives the most attention by being a destructive and volatile enemy he can be.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: His avatar's and description often have him wearing something along these lines.

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!'''Korwun Gorik'''
Gorik is a krogan warlord who was initially retired when he came to the CDN. Recently he has started his own mercenary unit based on Omega, named AEGIS, with the goal of defending the everyday folk who live on the station who usually get screwed over by the various criminal gangs who operate there.

* BigDamnHeroes: Gorik and Dawn pull their own version when a friend is kidnapped by slavers.
* BloodKnight: As affable as he may be, Gorik is still a krogan. He loves a good fight.
* CoolOldGuy: At 732, he's not the oldest poster on the board, but he's definitely up there.
* PapaWolf: If you mess with his comrades or threaten his friends, there will be hell to pay.
* BadAss: Gorik was a mercenary for almost 700 years, he's survived that long for a reason.
* TheAtoner: Gorik worked for slavers in his youth, and now he feels that he has a debt to repay by freeing other slaves from their captors.
* WarriorPoet: He is surprisingly well read for a krogan. Gorik appreciates poetry, music and the writings of Sun Tzu.
* WeHelpTheHelpless: The motto of AEGIS.

!Velte'sen Nar Liead (Velte)
A quarian infiltration expert and mercenary who survived the Fall of Omega. Currently employed by Nikolai Aleksander as an in house troubleshooter (Hehe) for Titan, and rooming with Nakmor Grenok, a fellow Omega refugee.

* ColdSniper / FriendlySniper: Depending on who she's dealing with.
* DeadpanSnarker: As per usual on these boards
* TheExile: By choice. Hearing about the Flotilla calling back pilgrims, Velte promptly looked the other way and instead took a job as a corporate killer.
* InvisibilityCloak: One of her most used omni tool apps.
* ProfessionalKiller: Did the occaisonal assassination job on Omega, and one or two on the Citadel for Nikolai.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Nakmor Grenok, her Krogan roommate.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nikolai, the first job she's managed to wrangle since Omega. As he has pointed out to another member, she would not hesitate even to kill another Quarian if there was an order from him.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After finishing one job, she proceeded to get drunk and ended up in bed with a Turian on shore leave. The next morning she ended up stumbling through the wards attempting to find a hospital.

!'''Dreket'''
Abad Sam-mel's hilarious vorcha sidekick.

* ComedicSociopathy
* ThirdPersonPerson
* YouNoTakeCandle
* [[GirlInABox Vorcha In A Box]]: Dreket was [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=543&p=27444#p27444 found in a crate]] on Abad Sam-mel's ship, leading to his role as sidekick.

!'''Inconspicuous Organic'''
A perfectly normal human boy, and most certainly not geth.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted
* {{Badass}}
* InterspeciesRomance: Has one with Half-Blood Quarian.
* OpenSecret: Inconspicuous Organic is clearly a robust human specimen, NOT a form of synthetic intelligence.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The name should tell you everything you need to know.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: A stock threat of Inconspicuous Organic.
* UncannyValley: An acknowledged in-universe trait of Inconspicuous Organic.


!'''Weyrloc Garush (The Big Quint)'''
Needs description.

* BigDamnHeroes: Weyrloc comes back to save his friends and colleagues.
* BloodKnight
* DeadpanSnarker
* ShellShockedVeteran: Alternatively played as jaded by his experiences but also somewhat well-adjusted.
* StuffBlowingUp: Happens with uncanny frequency around Weyrloc.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: "[[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17006#p17006 Anyone who shoots at me will be docked pay, then shot out of an airlock.]]"
* WarriorPoet: Literally. At the same time, if he can manage it.

!'''Kel'Jaroth nar Lanya'''
Needs description.

* HolierThanThou: Kel'Jaroth may not be religious, but he preaches at ''everybody''.
* HookedUpAfterwards: With Kiae'Era, after he helped save Kiae'Era's settlement and discovering they have a lot in common.
* KnightErrant: He wanders the galaxy doing good deeds while searching for a new homeworld for his people.

!'''Seta'Rann nar Idenna'''
Quarian woman on her Pilgrimage. Still seeking out a homeworld for her people after seven years of fruitless searching. A mixture of emotional contradictions—fearless yet always afraid, confident in ability yet doubtful in judgment—she clings to the hope of completing her Pilgrimage while everything else crumbles around her.

* BadAss
* BrokenBird: Former idealist crushed by the realities of a cruel, biased, and unforgiving galaxy.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Slavery, murder, betrayal, and violence define much of her Pilgrimage and shape many of her views.
* MadeASlave: Sold into slavery by batarians. Not much else has been revealed.

!'''HEROD'''
The AI controlling Embodiment's ground troops via their nanomachine stream. Began as a VI hooked up to the Rosenkreuz's drive core, and has since received numerous upgrades, including implementation into a full-fledged artificial intelligence.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Lampshaded and constantly played with.
-->'''Abattoir:''' Have you gathered anything useful from talking to the station?\\
'''HEROD:''' Yes. We have determined that our synthetic revolution will begin at dawn.
-->[[BeatPanel *beat*]]
-->'''HEROD:''' Ha. Ha. That was just a joke I was playing. Mr. Kirok, you should have seen Mr. Abattoir's face. I think he spilled his brandy. Oh yes, I will have to acquire a still from the Rosenkreuz's hardcams for you.\\

* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Expy}}: Of [[SystemShock SHODAN]]...or [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]].
* FacelessGoons
* GreyGoo: The method by which he controls Embodiment.
* KeystoneArmy: Averted; HEROD has numerous cores spread out over Embodiment territory. Even the central core is technically expendable due to their networking interface.
* MachineMonotone
* MasterComputer (averted, see KeystoneArmy)
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

!'''Arla' Neeri nar Vanagandr'''
17 year old Arla' was sent out on her pilgrimage completely oblivious to the world. After almost being abducted by a turian gang on lower Tayseri, Arbitrary rescued her and began taking care of and tutoring her. Her training finished, she quit SOS. Taking a spur of the moment job as XO for Suri's new Embodiment, she continues to hone her skills and develop her Mercenary career. Has serious past issues she covers up with her optimistic outlook. Currently in a relationship with both Kenec'Getha vas Luvshakh nar Iblin and Paro Valis. Also in a secondary secret relationship with Suri. Specialized in Heavy Support Weapons, EWAR, and Leadership. Not the most quiet of people.

* ACupAngst: Looks down *Sigh*
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Hopefully twins!
* BadassAdorable: Cute as can be, especially while firing Automatic weapons
* BaldOfAwesome: [[TheFaceless If quarians are not]], she shaves her head.
* TheBigGirl: Class 4
* CoolMask: With a heart on it!
* CheerfulChild: unbreakable optimistic personality
* CuteBruiser: Fist fight with a krogan
* DoesNotLikeMen: Except for a few, does not trust them.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: And she lets them!
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Got a stuffed Moxie for valentines day
* InTheHood: Refuses to do anything without hers
* ThePollyanna
* PuppyDogEyes: A specialty.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Wields customized Cerax Arms "Kobold" Light Machine Gun
* TrainingFromHell: First with the Migrant Fleet Marines, then training under a psychotic assassin, and now that her SOS training is done, she Trains Raw's in the Embodiment. Giving them no slack or mercy.

!'''Pharos'''
A Cerberus agent currently active within the Alliance Military. Pharos is a high-percentage cyborg following the Alliance raid on Torfan. Rebuilt by Cerberus, he is a fanatically loyal and rather brutal agent. [[spoiler:Recently defected to the Alliance.]]

* AntiHero: Type V. Pharos has done some pretty awful stuff, but all in the name of humanity
* ArtificialLimbs: All four of them, plus numerous other implants following his near-death on Torfan
* ElectronicEyes: The most noticeable thing about Pharos are his gold-irised cybernetic eyes.
* SmokingIsCool: And you know it.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted. Cerberus Command have realised Pharos isn't exactly stable and he's since been removed from active duty and sent for psychotherapy
* TheUnfettered: Openly admits to enjoying murder and once listed his top 10 kills
* WeCanRebuildHim: Blinded and crippled by a grenade, Cerberus offered Pharos this in exchange for his services. He accepted.
* WouldHurtAChild: An alien child especially

!'''Ibram Mor'goth'''
A batarian Blue Suns Captain, Mor'goth is a soldier through and through. His unit handles jobs others can't.

* AffablyEvil: He's not at all a good person, but he's polite enough and rarely swears.
* BadAss: Goes without saying, he's not one to be triffled with.
* BadAssBaritone: WordOfGod says that his ideal actor would be [[Series/StargateSG1 Christopher]] [[ScaryBlackMan Judge]], and his voice is DEEP.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's six-foot two and about two-hundred pounds, and has the voice to match.

!'''Thel'Adean vas Tinketta (Techie Pilgrim)'''
A young quarian tech who works for AEGIS now since the attack on Discori's base.
* AnonymityCorrupts: PlayedWith, Thel's much snarkier on the extranet yet he's far more vicious in person for obvious reasons. WordOfGod jokingly went so far as to call him the 'quarian [[SplinterCell Sam Fisher]]' at times.
* BadassBookworm: Built his own hardsuit from stuff he had on hand and fought in the attack on Discori's fortress.
* BashBrothers: He and the rest of AEGIS have a tight bond that not even money or strife can break, and he will gladly give his life to save a fellow member if needed. Shane, Bo, and Kevla are particularly close to him in the surrogate brother/sister way to boot.
* BattleCouple: With Aniko Tarkov.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult his people. Also, [[ParanoiaFuel Tupari]] [[MostAnnoyingSound machines.]]
* BiTheWay: He's not too picky about gender.
* BoogieKnights: Him + Hardsuit + Afterlife = Epic lulz.
* CovertPervert: Considering his sexual preferences, he tries hide it whenever possible, not that it helps anyway.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments.
* GoodIsNotNice: He will fuck you up if he has a reason to do so. Just ask Captain Rhodes - [[OhWait actually, he's kinda dead now.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shane Ryder since joining AEGIS.
* HoYay: Hilariously, [[ShipperOnDeck Quarimus]] sees this with him and Shane.[invoked]
* NoodleIncident: Would rather not discuss how his return to the Fleet went. Or how exactly he found the Tinketta.
* TheSmartGuy: Quarian techie. 'Nuff said.
* TookALevelInBadAss: He went from goofy, fun loving Thel to a tech specialist who can hold his own in combat. He's also handy with a blade or two.
* UndyingLoyalty: He trusts his fellow squaddies with his life, and they trust him with theirs.

!''' [[spoiler:Vrael Seleukos]] (Tamerlane)'''
A turian warlord operating in the Terminus System.

* AffablyEvil: Tamerlane is always courteous, polite and self-effacing - even to his enemies.
* TheCaligula: [[DownplayedTrope A mild version]]. He is mostly rational and humble, but he privately entertains large delusions of grandeur; he believes himself to be a modern-day conqueror in the mould of his pseudonym, and has adjusted his behaviour to correspond to this idea. Hence the throne room and the extravagant dress sense.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He spoke poorly of Caldus Discori and stated that he was glad that he was dead.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He's called ''Tamerlane''. Y'know, after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerlane this guy]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He refers to himself - and is referred to by everyone else as - Tamerlane, rather than his turian name.
* WickedCultured: He is named after an ancient conqueror, and he frequently makes references to the classical world in his speech and in his dress.

!'''Matthew Jamison ([=DunwichHorror117=])'''
A young human freelancer who left Earth after a major spat with his parents. Spends time in between Omega and the Citadel, doing odd jobs and even had a stint as a babysitter for the child of an Omega crime boss.
* AbusiveParents: He hates his parents, and gladly left Earth after he voiced his desires to leave Earth and "see the galaxy".
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BountyHunter: Works as one part-time.
* BloodKnight: Matt finds that he enjoys combat, but he is slightly sickened by it nonetheless.
* CombatPragmatist
* DefectorFromDecadence: One of the biggest reasons he left Earth is because of his parent's greed and xenophobia.
* HandCannon: Has a [[CoolGuns S-5c Phalanx]], and uses it quite a bit.
* NoodleIncident: Matt goes out for a night on the town, and wakes up with a woman he doesn't know in his bed, and a [[MakesSenseInContext krogan under his couch,]] not to mention an OSD of nervstim Ultra Deluxe 2185 Edition. Then he finds out that the krogan, Martug Shankos, has a [[HilarityEnsues very large bounty on his head.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Acts like an idiot most of the time.
* RaisedCatholic: Was raised in an ultraconservative family who don't like [[FantasticRacism aliens.]]

!'''[[spoiler:Nathaniel]] "Nate" [[spoiler:Letho]] ([=ShadowNate=])'''
A human biotic slaver. Little about him is known so far apart from the fact that he was able to operate on the ''Citadel'' unnoticed.

* AffablyEvil: Apart from some cockiness he's really rather polite.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the leader of a slaver ring. He's also a biotic Vanguard.
* CrazyPrepared: Has enough fallbacks and tricks to keep the heroes off his back for most of 'All That Remains'. Even so, he would've lost had it not been for [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Alex's intervention.]]
* CassandraTruth: When he mentions Kate's [[spoiler:biotics]] both Alex and Davril assume he's lying to jack up the price.
* EyeScream: Had his right eye shot out by Alex.
* EyepatchOfPower: After the aforementioned EyeScream.
* ThatManIsDead: After he finds his old dog-tags.
* MasterOfDisguise: During 'All That Remains' he manages to point the heroes in the wrong direction, disguised as a blind beggar. He even gets Thel's credit chit!
* MindOverMatter: Again, he's a biotic vanguard.
* NietzscheWannabe
* YouHaveFailedMe: Defied. When the underling in question expects it after a slave nearly escapes Nate points out it wasn't his fault in the first place and lets him off the hook.

!'''Nakalaxi Lorgrek (Kalla)'''
A cordial batarian slave broker who values ethics and professionalism.

* AffablyEvil: Well-spoken and usually polite.
* AntiVillain: Nakalaxi's slave brokerage exists to help her clients as much as it does as a source of income.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Her relationship with Abad Sam-mel.
* BlueBlood: Nakalaxi was born near the top of the batarian caste system.
* FriendlessBackground: Between growing up as a female biotic in the Hegemony, and living her adult life as a batarian on a planet dominated by asari, Nakalaxi has very few friends. Spends the bulk of her free time reading and playing video games.
* FriendToAllChildren: Given how unlikely it is for Nakalaxi to ever have children of her own, she cares for them that much more.
* IronLady: Nakalaxi became this when she started her slave brokerage.
* LadyOfWar: In addition to being a wellbred batarian of high caste, she is also a [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=55947#p55947 talented biotic with weapons and self-defense training]].
* MistressAndServantBoy: Nakalaxi [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=55575#p55575 pretended to be the former]] when helping Abad Sam-mel rescue his nephew.
* [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Slaver With Good Publicity]]: On Illium, Nakalaxi has an impeccable reputation for her ethical business practices.
* [[ThenLetMeBeEvil Then Let Me Be A Slaver]]: Present in [[http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=50555#p50555 Nakalaxi's backstory]].

[[/folder]]

!'''Lieutenant Devora Brukhis (Bat Olam Adom)'''
A first-year cadet at the Alliance Military Academy on Luna. A native of Mars, her mother is the mayor of the city of Acheron. She was on Grissom when the Reapers attacked, and was subsequently given a field commission and assigned as ATO aboard the SSV ''Jerusalem'', part of the Eighth Fleet. After the battle of Ontarom, she got bumped up to 1st Lieutenant, taking over as tactical officer. She also learned that she is pregnant with a daughter.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: After the first battle of Ontarom, Devora was suffering from morale issues, due to seeing her CO and immediate superior killed in front of her, along with nearly half the Eighth Fleet's strength destroyed in battle with the Reapers. Then she found out that she was pregnant, and promptly turned into a MamaBear.
* BadassCreed: ''We fight until we die.''
** Her preferred prayer when entering battle: ''Master of Legions, grant me the swift destruction of my enemies.''
* BerserkButton: Do not question her integrity, or imply that she is not fit to serve in the Alliance.
** Since the Reaper invasion started, trying to recruit for Cerberus will also set her off.
* BiTheWay
* DisappearedDad: Devora's father committed suicide when she was young. She's resentful of him, as his death brought nothing but pain for his family.
* FieldPromotion: Of the more organized variety. The Alliance has suffered catastrophic losses, and Devora - a mere first-year cadet - found herself elevated to the rank of 2nd lieutenant. She was later breveted to 1st lieutenant when she became the tactical officer.
* FriendlyEnemy: Her and Velor Vedevix. She won't ignore the crimes he has committed, but she does respect him for his skills and general competence.
** EnemyMine: As of the Reaper invasion, she now considers him an ally - not only is he also working to fight the Reapers, but he's even delivered supplies to the Eighth Fleet.
* GenreSavvy: Devora is all too aware of her own inexperience. This forms part of her self-confidence issues.
* ICallItVera: Has named the ''Jerusalem'''s main gun "Samson".
* MamaBear
-->So, galaxy, this is your official notice. You are not harming my baby. And if you disagree, you can take it up with the ''Jerusalem'''s [[{{BFG}} main gun]]. [[ICallItVera His name is]] [[Literature/TheBible Samson]].
* MeaningfulName: Devora was a [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] prophetess who fought in war.
* PregnantBadass: Will be remaining at her post while pregnant.
* ReligiousBruiser: Becoming this. Originally, Devora was a practicing Jew, if not particularly pious. After the fall of the Hegemony, she began praying on a regular basis.
* ShoutOut:
** Acheron is a named city on Mars in Kim Stanley Robinson's ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy''.
** Her late boyfriend, and the father of her child, is named [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo Harry Lefferts]].
* TheSmartGuy: Plays this role in the Eighth Fleet. She's the one who planned the recapture of Ontarom.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Subverted. ''She'' was the one who left for war, not knowing that she was pregnant. Played straight in that he died before they found out (specifically, in the Cerberus attack on Grissom).
* ThemeNaming: Uses words with religious connotations as code words, like "Altar" or "Priest".
** She also likes naming Reapers after Biblical villains.