History Characters / HarebrainedSchemesBattleTech

* GoodScarsEvilScars: She has a line of them across her face; conspicuous but not disfiguring and jagged, as if cleanly but not perfectly healed.

The head of an Aurigan noble house, whose engineers are renowned code breakers. Following the horror both of his children endured (his daughter Lina[[MakeAnExampleOfThem made an example of]] by the Espinosa family for vocally supporting Kamea, and his son Otto thrown into Weldry's Icebox), he is reluctant to support the Restoration, but is willing to do so if their forces also support his endeavors.

* AWorldHalfFull: He expresses a sentiment close to this at the end of The Long Hunt if you tracked down Colonel Lee. Yes there are far worse people out there that got away with far worse. But, Colonel Lee is in his brig screaming in rage. He will face Justice for what he's done. And he got justice, or at least vengeance, for all of his victims. It's a small victory but a victory nonetheless

* NaiveNewcomer: Note the above. Then note that she's just recently joined a mercenary outfit. That said
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her Naive and Idealistic ways, she has shown satisfaction at some of the targets meeting their end. All of them being people the galaxy is much better off without.

* ShowDontTell: Dr. Murad is a devout Muslim

* TokenGoodTeammate: Well more like Token Idealistic Teammate. She's a well educated Engineer from the Inner Sphere who's on the Argo for the chance to work with something that would be considered LosTech to the Star League in it's Prime. Which means that a lot of the realities of working in the Peripheral horrify her.

* LastOfHisKind: He and his son Otto were the sole survivors of Hpuse Karosas. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, due to his son being BrainwashedAndCrazy, both of them died because of Victoria and Ostegaard, extinguishing the house.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her Naive and Idealistic ways, she has been shown satisfaction at some of the targets meeting their end. All of them being people the galaxy is much better off without.

* NaiveNewcomer: Note the above. Then note that she's just recently joined a mercenary outfit.

The head of the Arano Royal Guard, and your former teacher in the ways of being a [=MechWarrior=]. After you split from, or depart from, your family, he eventually finds you when you're down on your luck and offers you a place in the Arano Royal Guard, in the service of which the story begins. His signature mech is the Centurion [=CN9=]-A medium mech.

* NoManShoudHaveThisPower:[[spoiler:He destroys the Outpost Castle Nautilus with explosive charges to keep its Lostech arsenal away from Taurian and Directorate hands.]]

* ItMustBeMine: When he discovered the crash site of the ''Argo'', a one-of-a-kind SuperPrototype [=DropShip=], he spent the rest of his life trying to retrieve it nd restore it, so it could bear the Cormorant of House Arano in its hull. Unfortunately, he did not live to see it happen. He also believed the ''Argo'' had something important hidden within it, which was later proven true when Kamea found the coordinates to Castle Nautilus, a Star League Defense Force cache.
* NamesTheSame: His father was Tamati I, hid predecessor.

* AcePilot: The Argo is hardly a regular dropship, yet Sumire manages it well enough, to say nothing of the tricky flying she does in your crew's Leopard during certain campaign missions.

* TheHedonist: Her suggestions on what to do next in the post-game all involve snazzing up the Argo with luxury items and wood panelling and spending your money on good food.

* AsianAndNerdy: A Chinese giant robot engineer. And an enthusiasit in the weirdest 'Mechs out there.

* NoManShoudHaveThisPower:[[spoiler:He destroys the Outpost Castle Nautilus with explosive charges to keep its arsenal away from Taurian and Directorate hands.]]

** Liberating the Icebox and witnessing the horrors within broke her naviete and led her to begin fighting to liberate the people from the Directorate's tyranny, rather than for a mere selfish desire to reclaim her birthright.
** The events at the [[spoiler:SLDF cache]] taught her humility and punished her over-eagerness to gather power.

* MidSeasonUpgrade: she goes from her ancestral Kintaro medium mech to a [[spoiler:SLDF Royal-grade Atlas II [=AS7-D-H=] Assault mech after the events that transpire at the SLDF cache]].

* MrFixit: By [=''BattleTech''=] standards, Yang is a fantastically skilled [=MechTech=] and could probably command a salary way beyond his current employment. He likes the mercenary business because of the freedom it gives him to tinker with non-standard 'Mech designs. Depending on the difficulty options selected, can even repair cored 'Mechs, which is extremely hard to do and usually treated as damaged beyond repair.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Twice. [[spoiler:In his introduction he chases Kamea away from the SLDF base, springs Victoria from jail and helps her kill lord Karosa. Then, after you think Calderon has removed the Concordat from the civil war, he shows up again in an attempt to kill Kamea during the battle for Coromodir.]]

The heir to the throne of the Coalition, Kamea is your main contractor for the majority of the main story. Having been betrayed by her uncle Santiago Espinosa, she's spent three years raising an army to take back her throne - and, remembering your service in helping her escape and the trust Raju showed you, she very much wants you to be part of that army. Her signature mech is the Kintaro KTO-18 medium mech.

* NonActionGuy: House Madeira doesn't appear to have a [=BattleMech=] and nothing in Alexander's backstory suggests he's a trained mechwarrior or a warrior, period.

* WhiteSheep: The rest of House Madeira officially backs the Directorate. Alexander notes grimly that they'll have to be punished when the Restoration wins.

* PlotlineDeath: [[spoiler:Shot InTheBack by Victoria once Ostergaard springs her.]]

* AncestralWeapon: Their ancestral family mech is a BJ-1 Blackjack medium [=BattleMech=].

* FightingIrish: At least one voice set has a distinct (and [[{{Oireland}} terrible]] Irish accent and, true to form, a pretty eager and bloodthirsty personality.

* FightingIrish: At least one voice set has a distinct Irish accent and, true to form, a pretty eager and bloodthirsty personality.

* ShowDontTell Dr. Murad is a devout Muslim

* MiscarriageOfJustice: She was an ordinary middle-class girl from the Federated Suns when a faulty bioscan got her locked up in a maximum-security prison. She was exonerated ten years later, but not before the ordinary girl had turned into a hardened criminal.

* MultipleChoicePast: Literally. The player chooses their backstory, which can affect what decisions they can make during events. Consistently in all cases, they were from a noble house that [[ImmigrantPatriotism moved to the Aurigan Reach]] and were trained in the martial art of [=BattleMech=] combat by Raju "Mastiff" Montgomery, and they eventually fell in with the Aurigan Royal Guard after Mastiff picked them back up after a family departure and previous career path as a [=MechWarrior=].

* MultipleChoicePast: Literally. The player chooses their backstory, which can affect what decisions they can make during events. Consistently in all cases, they were from a noble house that [[ImmigrantPatriotism moved to the Aurigan Reach]] and were trained in the martial art of [=BattleMech=] combat by Raju "Mastiff" Montgomery, and they eventually fell in with the Aurigan Royal Guard after Mastiff picked them back up.

* MultipleChoicePast: Literally. The player chooses their backstory, which can affect what decisions they can make during events.
** They can be [[UnPerson exiled from the family]].
** They could have become bored with pampered noble life and absconded with the family 'mech.
** Their family could have gone bankrupt.
** They could have lost their family to a [[LostAtSea mis-jump disaster]].
** Their family could have been betrayed and they [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge saw to retribution]] as the last scion.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Both of his parents were staunchly loyal to House Espinosa, and Alexander knows that if the Restoration succeeds, they will be tried for treason.

* TheSocialExpert: According to Darius, he was an expert negotiator and very good at making clients feel welcome.

* MrFixit: By [=''BattleTech''=] standards, Yang is a fantastically skilled [=MechTech=] and could probably command a salary way beyond his current employment. He likes the mercenary business because of the freedom it gives him to tinker with non-standard 'Mech designs. He can even repair cored 'Mechs, which is extremely hard to do and usually treated as damaged beyond repair.

* SleevesAreForWimps: She wears a sleeveless vest, showing off some strong arms. In her case this is less about looking tough are more for practicality, no sleeves to get caught on an edge when she is elbow-deep in machinery.
* TokenWholesome: Compared other female characters in the game, she has this design. She wears a hijab all the time, and not to mention she is just as big and muscular as Yang.