History Characters / LavenderJack

%%* BigBad: Of Season Two.

** The first is [[spoiler:Tom Broadfoot, whom Cecil killed himself so that [[MercyKill his old friend wouldn't see what Cecil was about to become]], or at least that's how he saw it]].
** The second is [[spoiler:his father Endo Gall, who he also killed personally (albeit more justifiably). He assumes the then-mayor's identity and uses it to re-direct the science of Gallery back onto to a more peaceful path (undoing a lot of his Gall's changes in the process, as another bit of revenge against his father). The heroes know this, and make it clear that they will take him down if he ever backslides back into villainy]].

* MakeSomeNoise: One fo the Black Note's most fearsome tools is his sound technology, which he uses ''masterfully'', doing virtually everything imaginable with sound. This includes altering his voice as a disguise, cancelling out the ambient sounds in an area, using sub-sonic frequencies to mess with a victim's head, creating concussive sound blasts, and [[spoiler:using sonic vibrations to demolish buildings, which was a key part of the final step of his master plan in Season 2]].

* UnbreakableBones: Takes punches, kicks, and falls without injury [[spoiler:due to the metallic pieces grafted onto his skeleton as part of his resurrection.]]

* StrawCharacter: InUniverse, he's just parroting the anti-immigration message of his patron for the sake of gaining votes, with it being implied that even ''he'' doesn't buy into it but goes along with it because he's told that it will help him win the election (and worryingly, it seems to be working).

* FakeAristocrat: As Lord Hawthorne isn't a real Lord (see below), neither is his wife.

* PetTheDog: In season 3, in an effort to appease the masses somewhat, she has a statue commissioned and built of the late Lord Mayor Monmouth, who was still a beloved figure in the eyes of the citizens of Gallery even after his corruption was exposed. Of course, being Lady Hawthorne, she combines this easily with KickTheDog by making the statue a subtle insult to the man himself (as it portrays the Lord Mayor shielding his eyes from the sun, much like he looked away from the corrupt actions his spinelessness permitted) and to [[spoiler:then Mayor]] Endo Gall, who she implies is doing something similar in regards to how much (or how little) power he actually has in Gallery compared to her.

* ForScience: Her explicit motivation. She doesn't want money and ''especially'' doesn't want to create weapons.

* TheWormGuy: She's consulted for scientific advice first by Mme Ferrier in Season 1, then by Sir Mimley in Season 2.

* EvilFormerFriend: Used to be a friend (and indeed more) of Mimley's, before Mimley learned of the shadier dealings of Giddy's company, news made worse by Giddy's treatment of Ducky. This resulted in Mimley breaking off their friendship (and Giddy's nose) while siding with Ducky and taking her with him to work for him.

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%%A former fling of Mimley's, the son of a man whose company makes military uniforms. He introduced Mimley and Ducky during a rather unfortunate incident which resulted in the former breaking Giddy's nose for him. [[spoiler: He shows back up in Season 3 as a business partner of Lady Hawthorne.]]
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%%[[folder:Marco]]
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%%Giddy Garrett's former driver, Ducky's ex-boyfriend and previous partner in crime. [[spoiler:He returns in season 3, inexplicably still working for Giddy Garrett.]]
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[[folder:Sister Rex]]
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A colleague and underling of Lady Hawthorne's, and a sinister worker in forbidden science.

* EyeScream: Lady Hawthorne is responsible for Sister Rex's eyepatch -- [[spoiler: she attacked Sister Rex's face with a scalpel after finding out about the experiments the old woman was doing on Lord Hawthorne's corpse.]]
* MadScientist: The most archetypal example in the comic to date, despite the prevalence of superscience.
* NunTooHoly: A Holy Sister who dabbles in brainwashing and the revivification of the dead.

%%* TheDragon: To his wife in Season One.

* FromRagsToRiches: Started out as an orphan, who later became a boxer of some talent (though even he realized he was beginning to hit a wall in his career, which was mostly reliant on his good looks to draw the crowd to begin with). He was later picked up by the Unnamed Fraternity to be used as a puppet in politics, which he went along with for the sake of being somebody important in life.

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* AlasPoorVillain: Make no mistake, he allowed the members of the Inclement Investment Company, especially Lady Hawthorne, to run their corrupt operations and bring rot into Gallery, and he needed to face judgement for that. But he was nowhere near as ''malicious'' as any of the other villains of the IIC (often coming across as more oblivious to the depth of the damage they were doing to the innocent than as an active participant), wanting merely to please who he thought were his friends, and having too little spine to say no to anything they said. Even Lavender Jack admitted that Quincy was rather low down on his lift, only moving him up and exposing the Mayor's corruption after Detective Ferrier was brought in to catch Jack, and Honoria Crabb still thought of him as a good man even when his crimes were exposed. Quincy certainly didn't deserve to be murdered by the Hawthornes for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness bringing in a detective that risked exposing their operations]], shortly after they tell him to his face they only involved him because he made a useful, if stupid, puppet until that point.

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%%A land developer who owns a great deal of Gallery's real estate - and who bought it in shady deals. She went to the Mayor after Lavender Jack leaked the details to the press, leading to Madame Ferrier's involvement.
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[[folder:George Van Lund]]
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A member of the Inclement Investment Company... and ''also'' of the Unnamed Fraternity, below. Was named Undersecretary of the Port of Gallery until Lavender Jack leaked his private papers to the press. The resulting scandals drove him not only out of the city-state, but off the continent of Europe entirely.

* ChekhovsGunman: Van Lund is introduced as just another of Lavender Jack's victims. Later, it's revealed that he was behind the Hawthornes' rise to prominence entirely - and before that, [[spoiler: helped hide away the bastard child who would become the Black Note]], thus instigating the entire plot of the comic.

%%[[folder:"Gilded" Eddie Delaney]]
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%%Gall's primary opponent in the election for Lord Mayor in season 2. Delaney is a populist, running on a strongly anti-immigration platform. Eventually, our heroes discover that he's a member of the same Unnamed Fraternity as Gall; no matter who wins the election, the Fraternity keeps control.
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! Other Characters
[[folder:Gio Sakakibara]]
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[[caption-width-right:297:In memoriam]]The third member of the trio who created the thinking engine Ochre (after Sir Mimley and Dame Agatha). Sadly, he was manipulated into selling his stake in the project by the Inclement Investment Company - and then murdered when he tried to get it back.

* DeathByOriginStory: A fairly textbook example. His death is what inspired Sir Mimley to become Lavender Jack in the first place.
%%* FirstLove: For Bastrop.

[[folder:Mr. Masters]]
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A tough fighter. Masters begins the series as the butler and bodyguard of Lady Lackshore. Once she falls from grace, he takes a position as bartender of the Blue Horseshoe pub, where Ducky does much of her gossip-mongering espionage.

* NobleDemon: He's a war veteran and solely determined to protect his Lady at all costs. [[spoiler:Once the Hawthornes begin targeting Lady Lackshore to silence her, a battered Masters begs Jack for help and joins in their plan to stop Lord Hawthorne before he can assassinate her. In Season 2 he ends up running the bar Ducky uses to gather information.]]

[[folder:Abbey Quarrel]]
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The editor-in-extraordinaire of the Gallery Glossary. Abbey is a muckraker who rather gleefully publishes the scandalous and incriminating evidence dug up by Lavender Jack.

* BenevolentBoss: She cares about the workers that help print the Glossary, which [[spoiler:the Black Note uses to threaten her into an interview with him by threatening ''them'']].
* IntrepidReporter: While Abbey's not as active as the usual example, she does care about the truth in the press. The fact that the scandals that Lavender Jack exposes help sell her newspapers are a (very welcome) bonus.

[[folder:Captain first-class Annabelle Peoria]]
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A captain in the military constabulary of Gallery. After Lord Mayor Monmouth's murder, she is called in to serve as the head of Chief Justice Gall's police service - and his primary stooge.

* {{Foil}}: To Honoria Crabb. While Crabb was initially a blindly loyal police officer who grew to realize that [[ToBeLawfulOrGood she needed to think for herself about what the right thing to do it]], Peoria is an unapologetic thug who doesn't care in the slightest about the morality of the situation.