History Characters / GriffinRanger

* GenreSavvy: Part of what makes Whitehead so dangerous as an adversary, and what catches griffin after griffin by surprise.

* GenreSavvy: Even more than Whitehead - he recognizes Kwap's threat right from the beginning and insists that they find his body before declaring Kwap neutralized.

[[folder: Harrel]]

-->*The door promptly busts down, [[TheCavalry revealing a shielded ranger]]. Cute CurbStompBattle.*

-->*The door promptly busts down, [[TheCavalry revealing a shielded ranger]].*

[[caption-width-right:350:"Everything can die."[[note]]And as they quickly find out, that includes ''them.''[[/note]]]]

* TempingFate: The page quote. "Everything can die." And after Harrell manages to get a shieldsuit on during their assassination attempt, they quite rapidly find out that includes ''them.''

The series has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, so this page is fairly extensive. It also is a work in progress.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harrell does the one truly unforgivable thing for a griffin: '''Kill a hanz'''. Said Hanz was trying to kill Kwap because Harrell had just attacked his griffin companion, but nonetheless Harrell ''could'' have simply restrained him until he ran out of fight. Instead, he as always takes the most expedient solution: Punch holes in them until they stop living. And he pays for that decision forevermore.

* WhatTheHellHero: He has a very nasty tendency to shred potentially useful contacts, but the biggest one comes when he kills a Ranger whose only crime was having his mate and chicks held hostage, then kills his ''Hanz'' when he goes berzerk and tries to kill Kwap. That's a '''''huge''''' no-no for a griffin, and leads right to a HeroicBSOD.

* {{Omniglot}}: In his own world. He can speak Greenie, Griffin Common, Dancer-Griffin, and other languages. Subverted once he arrives on human!Earth: English completely defeats him. He manages to puzzle out most of the alphabet and even some simple words, but a greenie language expert eventually tells him he'd never, ever manage to learn English's weird grammar and syntax in time, and even if he could ''read'' it, his chance of speaking it is zero.

!!A Tropica Griffin and Ranger for the Kaerling territory

* SeldomSeenSpecies: She and the Tropica Griffins are based off Verreaux's Eagles.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: She's so used to beating up on little Prairie Griffins and Red Tailed Griffins that she thinks she can easily take Harrell. He very quickly shows her that size matters - twice. The first time gets her a broken leg. The second time gets her dead.

!Whitehead's Captives [[spoiler:A.K.A. the Missing Griffins]]

* EatingTheEnemy / [[ImAHumanitarian I Eat Greenies For Breakfast]]: Winter is quite happy to tell you how ''she'' fought the griffin-greenie wars.

* WouldHurtAChild: And in an unthinkably awful way: She devours greenie chicks ''[[EatenAlive alive]]'' and gets the [[LaughingMad giggles]] thinking of their agonizing deaths inside of her. She even suggests doing the same to the Herder pup sent to watch them, but she never gets the chance.

!Other Notable Griffins and Hanz

* MakeMeWannaShout: He can force any mammal nearby to drop what they are carrying and even hamper griffins with a jet-engine scream, and it saves his and Harrell's lives early in the story.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Eventually, after it's all over, Harrell agrees with Coro-er - that Russell and the captive humans should all dealt with with ExtremePrejudice. To do otherwise, he says, is to court TheFarmerAndTheViper on a worldwide scale. Kwap disagrees...

-->*Door busts down, revealing a shielded ranger. Greenie is promptly killed.*

* InformedAbility: They're supposed to be Whitehead's deadliest assassins, but sent to kill Kwap and everyone with him, they only manage to kill Cheer's apprentice (and son) Ern before Harrell smashes them.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Everything can die."]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If you're a greenie lawbreaker in her jurisdiction, you'll soon find out why she's called "nightmare". Two greenie assassins find this out the hard way.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She insists on getting physical with ''everyone'' no matter who they are, much to their consternation. Especially disturbing to male griffins!
* RaisedByWolves: She was raised by a greenie and herder mixed family, so she inherited greenie social habits and herder physical affection - and knows absolutely zip about proper griffin etiquette.heir species, which is absolutely nerve-wracking for the small hanz and drives traditionalist griffins like Kwap completely batshit.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She insists on getting physical with ''everyone'' no matter t

[[folder:Ranger Rekken Prairie]]
!!Chief Ranger for Crossline Plains

* DeathGlare: In a world full of giant birds of prey, ''nobody'' can DeathGlare like Vaniss. There's a reason it's her picture that graces the NightmareFuel page. She's good enough at it that she can even shut ''Harrell'' up with one.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh, I've done bad, bad things!"]]

* TheBerserker: Considering she's from griffin!Earth's Iceland, "Viking Berserker" is probably the best way to describe her fighting style, along with a generous helping of {{Sadism}}.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh I've done bad, bad things!"]]

* InNameOnly: Like the rest of Whitehead's Tropica griffins, she's there to see new lands, make a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors passel of credits]] and kill whoever Whitehead wants her to kill. The "Ranger" title is there only because she successfully defends the territory from the Crossline Plains griffins.

* BadBoss: Not as bad as Russell and ''certainly'' not as bad as Whitehead, but he sends a constant stream of lab techs into the griffin enclosure under the assumption they're a bunch of mindless lab animals. They're ''not'', and that gets used against them again and again.

-->Whitehead: You griffins are terrible liars. Not social enough, I guess.