History Characters / GreatDespairLodge

->''Finnegan Duff is a well-known host of several popular comedy gameshows featured in Japan. He is set apart and distinguishable by his fresh and unusual position as a child TV show host, starring in various TV shows since the age of eleven. In the years before he earned his current place in stardom, Duff lived in rural Scotland and claims that life there was quite uneventful. “My interest in gameshows”, he states, “only started right before I left for Japan.” Duff currently lives in Japan with his uncle, aunt, and cousin, and attends school like any other child might. He hopes that, even after graduating, he will be able to keep up with his love of learning and running gameshows.''

* DropTheHammer: Her weapon of choice.

* WrenchWhack: With a [[DropTheHammer hammer]] instead or proper wrench against Edwin in the race in chapter 1, and [[spoiler: against a kid in her childhood, as her secret shows.]]

->''Tsubame Aira is not necessarily a household name, yet to hobbyists of the vehicle industry, she is an ubiquitous presence well known by her epithet - “Supersonic Aira”. With the unique distinction of being the first person to break several world speed records, including one that has stood for nearly 60 years. At such a young age, the aeronautical industry has high hopes for the youngster’s future.''

* {{Does Not Like Shoes}}

* PeekABangs

* PeekABangs

* PeekABangs: [[spoiler:After Edwin dies, they throw their eyepatch into the void, though thankfully their hair covers their empty eye socket.]]

* DarkSkinnedRedhead

* KnifeNut: Despite previously having one, Mal doesn’t actually own a gun anymore. They substitute this for a switchblade. Even in the mutual killing game they carry tons of knives.

* NiceShoes: They have gold zippers AND a vaguely fire pattern. What more could someone want?

* SupernaturalIsPurple: Although she has not done anything provably supernatural, it is a common reaction among the people she meets to believe she's not quite human, and she certainly writes about the paranormal a great deal.

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]

* FingerlessGloves

* {{Adorkable}}

* VoiceTypes: While Nanashi has a wide vocal range, her ability to sing high notes is perhaps her strong point.

* HairDecorations

* {{Odd Friendship}}: With Levi.
* [[spoiler: OfficialCouple]]: [[spoiler: With Edwin.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: Speaks English, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Latin, French and Spanish. [[spoiler: Later also learns a decent amount of Wrwwwlwdian.]]
* {{Pay Evil Unto Evil}}: Their methods of dealing with criminals are said to be particularly brutal, and they had an unusually high body count for an FBI agent. [[spoiler: As the Streetlight Killer they would literally dismember other murderers.]]
* {{Peek A Bangs}}: [[spoiler: After Edwin dies they throw their eyepatch into the void, though thankfully their hair covers their empty eye socket.]]
* {{Photographic Memory}}: Good enough to perfectly recite a long sentence in a new and confusing language while flustered, apparently.
* {{Please Wake Up}}: [[spoiler: Begged Edwin to do so as they embraced his corpse.]]
* {{The Profiler}}: Their SHSL Talent
* {{The Promise}}: Swore to Edwin that they would save him. [[spoiler: In the end they failed quite miserably.]]
* {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}: Delivers one to Cora
--> Mal: You're annoyed. I am getting on your nerves, aren't I? Asking the wrong questions…or perhaps the right ones. Did I strike a nerve there? Have your friends NOT told you all these things? Do you even have friends, Ms. Voclain? Or are you so horrifically intolerable that the only people who enjoy your company are your parents and whoever you pay to tolerate you?
* [[spoiler: SanitySlippage]]: Seems to be experiencing it right now.
* [[spoiler: SerialKiller]]: [[spoiler: They are also known as the Streetlight Killer, a vigilante serial killer who hunts down and dismembers criminals with switchblades, leaving proof of their crimes and their carefully removed right hands underneath streetlights.]]
* {{Shout Out}}: Their thread names are [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Criminal Minds episode titles]]

* {{The Stoic}}: They initially seem like one, reacting to things coldly and analytically as one would expect from a detective.
** {{NotSoStoic}}: However, certain social situations can quickly make them lose their composure entirely.
* {{Sugar And Ice Personality}}: Acts cold and distant around most, but completely opened up to Edwin.
* {{Super Speed Reading}}: Mal reads ludicrously fast, including reading and [[PhotographicMemory memorising]] a Wrwwwlwdian-to-Japanese dictionary in less than a day.
* {{Survivor Guilt}}: Has a severe case, which only gets worse after [[spoiler: Kuki’s suicide]]. And even worse than that after [[spoiler: Edwin and Yukiko’s deaths, which they are convinced they could have prevented.]]
* {{Take Me Instead}}: After the first trial begs Monootter to punish them instead of [[spoiler: Marina and Nanashi.]]
* {{Tragic Keepsake}}: [[spoiler: Edwin’s coat cape and notebook.]]
* {{Try To Fit That On A Business Card}}: Supervisory Special Agent Harper O’Malley, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Behavioral Analysis Unit-3, Super High-School Level Criminal Profiler.
* [[spoiler: VigilanteMan]]: [[spoiler: As the Streetlight Killer]]
* {{Walking Spoiler}}: Most everything about them and their past is mysterious.

* TheUnReveal: Nanashi has yet to reveal to the cast why she keeps her real identity a secret or wears a mask.
--> TheReveal: During the Chapter 1 trial, Nanashi removed her mask [[spoiler:before getting punished]]. It's revealed that there's nothing underneath there for her to be hiding. So, why ''does'' she wear it?

* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Their yellow eyes definitely add to the fact that she's super mysterious.

* CuteMute: [[spoiler:After Chapter 1's punishment, Nanashi loses their ability to speak.]]
* HairDecorations
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]

* PetitePride: Nanashi's the smallest of the bunch, at 5'1".
* TheBerserker: It’s hard to find a time when Nanashi ''isn’t'' itching to fight everyone in the cast.
* UselessProtagonist: According to Ayako, at least.
* BreakTheCutie: Nanashi broke down crying after the first trial and in front of Mal and Takeo on one occasion.

[[spoiler: One of chapter three's victims, poisoned by Coralie Voclain]]

[[spoiler: Executed for the murder of Yukiko Fujimura in chapter two.]]

* [[spoiler: ConsummateLiar]]: [[spoiler: Capable of lying to even [[LivingLieDetector Mal and Yukiko.]] ]]
* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath]]: [[spoiler: He had a bomb strapped to his head, and was forced to defuse it by performing surgery on a cartoonish model of Monootter. Every time he made a mistake he would receive an electric shock. He managed to finish the surgery and was fully convinced he could escape, before a wooden stake stabbed him through the heart.]]
* [[spoiler: DarkSecret]]: [[spoiler: Kidnapped the prince of Wrwwwlwd. He kills Yukiko because of his secret.]]

* [[spoiler: LastKiss]]: [[spoiler: The last thing Edwin does before being taken to his execution? Kiss Mal.]]

->''This bio has been redacted by the NSA… or was it the Illuminati? It’s Levi Simms, SHSL Conspiracy Theorist’s job to find out! Got a government official you think is involved in some form of coverup? Got a historical event you think was a coverup for a politician to make money? Is Area 11 real? He’s your guy to find out how that works and who was involved, and then post that online to unearth the truth and share it with the world. And when the world knows, so does Hope’s Peak Academy…''

* [[spoiler: HonoraryUncle]]: [[spoiler: Edwin asks Levi to take care of his kidnapped kid after he dies. He tells him he's going have Miles call him Uncle Levi.]]

* MissingMom: [[spoiler: His mom was publicly killed by an organization his father paid to do so.]]
* * {{Odd Friendship}}: With Mal, Edwin and Ayako
* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: He's starting to approach that territory as more of his friends are evil and die.]]

* {{All Loving Hero}}: He hasn't even disliked any of the cast members, including the mascot character, murderers and the [[spoiler:mastermind]]. Well, maybe one...
* {{Dark Skinned Redhead}}
* {{Dumbass Teenage Son}}
* {{The Empath}}: In a way. The reasons are [[spoiler:too high evel of spoilers to go under a spoiler tag.]]
* {{Every Scar Has A Story}}: The [[spoiler:lightning scar on his chest]] was obtained after a very interesting chain of events.
* {{Fear Of Thunder}}: To the point he [[spoiler:screamed and curled up on the ground when the second chapter's event ended up with him listening to a cd full of storm sounds.]]
* {{Fingerless Gloves}}
* {{Friend To All Living Things}}:
* {{I Just Want To Have Friends}}: Takeo sincerely wants to befriend everyone, and by jove will he try.
* {{Nice Shoes}}: They have gold zippers AND a vaguely fire pattern. What more could someone want?
* {{The Power Of Friendship}}
* {{Think Nothing Of It}}: His attitude towards most situations.
* {{Physical Scars Psychological Scars}}: His fear of storms is... severe.
* {{Red Headed Stepchild}}: [[spoiler:Also is, in fact, a stepchild.]]
* {{Scarf Of Asskicking}}: Somehow, he manages to obliterate any cool his scarf would have by wrapping it around his neck five times.
* {{Sensory Overload}}: Happened bad in the first and second trials, to a lesser extent when he saw the first victim.

* {{Peek A Bangs}}

* {{Peek A Bangs}}
* {{Scary Teeth}}

->''Harada Kamiya? Who? You’re more likely to learn about Harada Mitsuru, the Super High School Level Talent Scout who graduated from Hope’s Peak so long ago. It seems that now, in her older years, she’s remained wealthy and is still at it, using her sharp skills to recruit more students to the esteemed academy. Many would expect her to find at least one thing in her own son… but no, he’s by all accounts an ordinary kid, moderately popular on several social media sites as a skilled image manipulator going by the username “k@mira”.''

* {{Book Dumb}}
* {{Cheerful Child}}
* {{I Just Want to Be Special}}: Being surrounded by kids with actual talent inevitably causes this.
* {{InadequateInheritor}}
* {{Nice Guy}}
* {{Online Alias}}: "k@mira," a moderately popular image editor.
* {{Tender Tears}}: On several occasions.
* {{Understanding Boyfriend}}: Despite knowing Ayako's secret, dates him anyway.

[[spoiler: The murder victim of chapter two, dying after having her head bashed in with a piano lid by Edwin Black.]]

[[spoiler: executed for the murder of Jeremy Jaqueira in chapter three]]

* {{Blind Without Em}}: [[spoiler:Cora actually has horrendous eyesight and cannot see a thing without her contacts.]]
* {{Everythings Better with Sparkles}}: A lot of her designs are incredibly sparkly.
* {{Lonely Rich Kid}}: Has never had any real friends prior to arriving at the lodge.
* {{Rich Bitch}}
* {{Spoiled Brat}}: Before arriving at the lodge, she had everything handed to her on a silver platter.
* {{The Fashionista}}: Dressed in all of her own extravagant and expensive designs.

[[spoiler: killed by O'Malley in chapter three]]

--> Kyoki: "What a polite murderer. Rarely do killers have the grace to point out to the general public that the people they have murdered are, in fact, dead, in case the fact has been passed over in the kerfuffle."

* DrowningMySorrows: Her depression is the reason for her [[spoiler: addiction to painkillers]]

* FascinatingEyebrow: Has a tendency to raise one of these when [[DeadpanSnarker making sarcastic remarks.]]

* [[spoiler: FunctionalAddict:]] To a certain degree [[spoiler: of 'functional;', anyway.]]

* {{Shipper On Deck}}

--> Svetlana: "I'm aware my concept of what's really violence and what others find violence is different. This is why I asked if I could force answers out of Nanashi on trial, and well. The soda is simple. She was sleeping and wouldn't wake up when I shook her. So.... [[NotQuiteTheRightThing Instead of slapping her, I thought dropping a liquid on her would be less drastic]]."

-->Edwin: "....Do you really think of me so... disgusting. As to hide. From a mere.. stranger."
-->Svetlana: "No, you simply seem like a coward."

--> Levi: "It is not your business."
--> Svetlana: "No, and I don't really care, but there's a couple of people who do, and they don't seem like they'll stop worrying about your poor self anytime soon, so you could show some consideration to them."

* {{Scary Teeth}}

->''Googling “Hifumi Ayako” gives you nothing but a headache. You don’t know why half these pages are popping up when they don’t seem to be at all related to the name of your new classmate. Some things about an anime, video games, giant robots… Uh, isn’t this guy supposed to be a barista? All the public records you find of him seem legit, but… why is his family name written with the kanji for numbers? Does February 30th even exist to be born on? Using image search winds up linking you to a blog, bytethebarista, that has a few odd, rambling posts on it (all about various anime) that all seem to have been made within the past year. Random coffee and tea recipes are strewn all over this blog.''

* IJustWantToBeNormal: The reason for [[spoiler: going to school as the SHSL Barista under a fake name.]]

* [[spoiler: ManchurianAgent]]: [[spoiler: He's perfectly aware he has a [[TriggerPhrase code phrase]] implanted that, when said to him in any altered mental state, will get him to kill. He also knows what this phrase is. Now [[PowerOfTrust Lana does, too]].]]

* MoralityPet: His boyfriend, Kamiya, functions as one of these. After [[spoiler: Yukiko's death]], Kyoki becomes one as well [[spoiler: thanks to Yukiko's will having mentioned she wanted Kyoki to live]], winding up with Ayako suddenly caring deeply about her beyond the friendship they'd already established. It helps both of them remind him of his old friends back home.

* OnlineAlias: bytethebarista and [[spoiler: bitchibyteme]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Yukiko's death, he brought Kyoki and Mal along on one of these.]]
* [[spoiler: RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething]]

* [[spoiler: SinisterSurveillance]]

* [[spoiler: TheCracker]]
* TheHedonist
* TheInsomniac: Becoming this after [[spoiler: he fell asleep about an hour before [[MoralityChain Yukiko's]] death, despite trying to constantly use the cameras to watch over her.]] While he was already often going for a few days without sleep, he now refuses to sleep at all unless Kamiya and Kyoki are there with him, so he'll be sure to keep them safe.
--> Ayako: [[MadnessMantra "Can't sleep, murderers will get them."]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Something he genuinely believes in and tries to reinforce whenever possible.

* [[spoiler: WarriorPrince]]

!!Harper O'Malley [[spoiler: Piper Hargrave]]
!!!Super High School Level Criminal Profiler / [[spoiler: The Streetlight Killer]]

[[spoiler: executed for the murder of Kyoki Fujimori in chapter three, they were also the mastermind before being fired.]]

* {{Alone With The Psycho}}: Many times, if Mal is to be believed. Especially notable is their encounter with the Kitchen Knife Killer. [[spoiler: And with Edwin, as he was originally planning to kill them.]]
* {{Apologizes A Lot}}: And will apologize when it's pointed out.
--> Edwin: You...don’t need to apologize for apologizing.
--> Mal: But you don’t like it when I apologize, so the logical next step is to be sorry for being sorry...
* {{The Atoner}}: [[spoiler: One of their reasons for being so devoted to justice is trying to atone for their supposed sociopathic tendencies.]]
* {{Badass Bookworm}}: A talented behavioral analyst and avid novel reader as well as capable of killing adult psychopaths with small knives.
* {{Beneath The Mask}}: Mal is not nearly as stoic or composed as they pretend to be.
* {{But Not Too Foreign}}: Despite their clearly non-Japanese name, Mal is actually half Japanese.
* {{Close Range Combatant}}: Despite being trained to use guns, their weapon of choice remains a tiny switchblade.
* {{Crazy Jealous Guy}}: Gets into a fight with Marina, partially motivated by fear of her stealing [[spoiler: Edwin.]]
* {{Dark And Troubled Past}}: While their past is entirely shrouded in mystery, it's clear from the way they act that it wasn't exactly pleasant. At the very least they were constantly kidnapped and threatened by criminals. [[spoiler: They discovered their mother’s body, fought their serial killer father in close combat, were raised by their adoptive father to be an emotionless justice-delivering machine and after his death resorted to desperate attempts at reviving the dead and later vigilantism.]]
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Occasionally.
--> “Sir, are you attempting to intimidate me with a banana?”
* {{Declaration of Protection}}: To [[spoiler: Edwin, not that it does any good.]]
* {{Defective Detective}}: So devoted to their job that they cease to care about their own safety in the slightest.
* {{Despair Event Horizon}}: Crosses it after [[spoiler: Edwin dies]], to the point of having no objections to [[spoiler: Ayako slitting their throat and bashing their head into a wall until they passed out.]]
* {{Enhanced Interrogation Techniques}}: They have no problem waving around knives, and only stop once it’s clear this method is actually woefully ineffective.
* {{Expository Hairstyle Change}}: They let their bangs cover the left side of their face entirely after [[spoiler: Edwin dies, to hide their now exposed eye socket.]]
* {{Eyepatch of Power}}: Worn over their left eye.
* [[spoiler: FallenHero]]: [[spoiler: Went from being a successful FBI agent to a serial killer.]]

--> "The pleasure is all mine, Fujimori-san. Um, I was wondering…" they reach into the magical FBI hammerspace that is their pocket and pull out a book. "Could I…have your autograph?"
* {{FBI Agent}}: [[spoiler: Or rather, former FBI agent.]]
* {{First Name Basis}}: With Edwin and later Levi.
* {{Friendless Background}}: Their job doesn’t allow for much social interaction, after all. Edwin was the first person in their entire life to call them a friend (or at least, so they claim). [[spoiler: As they told Lana, this is because of the fact that they were always paranoid and convinced that people were lying to them about liking them, and thus pushed them away.]]
* {{Good Is Not Nice}}: Mal can be a downright jerk sometimes, and is generally cold and abrasive.
* {{Guile Hero}}: Just as skilled in [[BattleOfWits psychological warfare]] as they are in actual combat.
* {{Guilt Complex}}: [[spoiler: To the point of blaming themself for Edwin and Yukiko’s deaths due to not being able to reform him.]]

* {{Had To Be Sharp}}
* {{He Who Fights Monsters}}: Repeatedly invoked. [[spoiler: Turns out to be entirely true. They are a literal serial killer, after all.]]
--> Ayako: I imagine you not as a martyr but as the /night/. An executioner… those who hunt monsters…
* {{Her Boyfriends Jacket}}: Wore [[spoiler: Edwin’s [[CoatCape cape]] ]] for a fairly long time. [[spoiler: And continues to do so after his death.]]
* {{Heroic BSOD}}: They tend to be prone to this. [[spoiler: Edwin’s death really pushed them over the edge, too.]]
* {{Heroic Self Deprecation}}: Taken way to the extreme - Mal practically has an inferiority complex.
* {{Holding Hands}}: With Edwin, a ton.
* {{Idiosyncratic Episode Naming}}: Their threads are all named after Criminal Minds episodes.
* {{Improbable Age}}: Sure, they’re in a class of prodigies, but FBI at thirteen seems a bit extreme. Supposedly many people suspect that they didn’t react their rank entirely fairly. [[spoiler: And they were RIGHT - their superior officer and adoptive father was likely at least partially responsible.]]
* {{The Insomniac}}: Literally didn’t sleep for their first week at the lodge. [[spoiler: This is mostly due to them having horrible nightmares. After Edwin’s death they can barely close their eyes without seeing his face.]]
* {{Jade Colored Glasses}}
* {{Knife Nut}}: Despite previously having one, Mal doesn’t actually own a gun anymore. They substitute this for a switchblade. Even in the mutual killing game they carry tons of knives.
* {{Knight In Sour Armor}}
* [[spoiler: LastKiss]]: [[spoiler: The last thing Edwin does before being taken to his execution? Kiss Mal.]]
* {{Last Name Basis}}: Not only do they not call many people by first name, they themself refuse to be called by their given name under any circumstances except by Edwin.
* {{Living Lie Detector}}: One of their skills. [[spoiler: Though it never worked on Edwin.]]
* [[spoiler: TheLostLenore]]: [[spoiler: Edwin has started to become this for them. ]]
* {{Love Makes You Dumb}}: [[spoiler: Attacked a trained supersoldier to avenge Edwin.]]
* {{Love Redeems}}: Attempted to redeem Edwin this way. [[spoiler: Failed miserably]]
* {{Madness Mantra}}: “I’msorryi’msorryi’msorryi’msorryi’msorry”
* {{Major Injury Underreaction}}: Gets beat up by a supersoldier and essentially tells Edwin not to worry about it. This is mostly because they've certainly had worse injuries in their life. [[spoiler: After Edwin’s death they are so out of it they literally don’t react to getting their throat slashed.]]
* {{Married to the Job}}: They’ve literally never had a friend, can’t think of anything they enjoy outside their job, and even neglect to sleep.
* {{Must Have Caffeine}}: Even goes into visible withdrawal when the first motive hits.
* {{Nerves Of Steel}}: After the things that Mal has seen they are a very hard person to unnerve.
* {{Nightmare Fetishist}}: REALLY likes Kyoki’s horror novels. The criminal mind also seems to fascinate them, to the point where they claim half the reason they became a profiler was morbid curiosity. [[spoiler: Also, literally made out with a corpse, though it was more out of grief than anything.]]
* {{No Social Skills}}: They only ever interacted with other FBI agents, after all. For all their psychoanalysis Mal can’t talk to a person to save their life.
* {{Nonchalant Dodge}}: Their reflexes border on superhuman, after all, giving them the ability to pull this off - both in fights, where dodging seems to be their primary strategy, and when dodging a thrown Rubik’s Cube from Edwin.
* {{Oblivious to Love}}: It took Ayako pointing it out for them to realize that [[spoiler: Edwin]] had been flirting with them at all.

* {{Purple Eyes}}: They run in the family, since his brother and father both have them too.

* {{Gray Eyes}}: Or rather, eye.

* {{Kuudere}}: Even if it's hard to believe she has a warm side at all.

* {{Kuudere}}

* [[spoiler: BadassPrincess]]

* {{The Empath}}: In a way. The reasons are [[spoiler:too high evel of spoilers to go under a spoiler tag. Ask him.]]