History Characters / NeoScum

* WhipItGood: She buys a monofilament whip pretty early on. It mostly replaces her sword, although it still sees some use.

* HasTwoDaddies: Exaggerated. The first is her biological father, Darius Pendor. [[spoiler:When Dak makes her and Tech his honorary sister's kids, she mentions this makes him her ''third'' father; her second was the man she met at the airport who spent a few hours teaching her how to use a sword.]] Zig-zagged since none of these three people actually know each other, Darius isn't exactly fatherly, and [[spoiler:she only knew her sword teacher for as long as they were at the airport]].

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number 26]]: [[spoiler:The Legacy of Adam system says that if he doesn't know his ID number to just say the first number that comes into his head. He says '26', which is his ID number and his name as far as the Legacy of Adam are concerned.]]

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Three Daddies]]: The first is her biological father, Darius Pendor. [[spoiler:When Dak makes her and Tech his honorary sister's kids, she mentions this makes him her ''third'' father; her second was the man she met at the airport who spent a few hours teaching her how to use a sword.]] Zig-zagged since none of these three people actually know each other, Darius isn't exactly fatherly, and [[spoiler:she only knew her sword teacher for as long as they were at the airport]].

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: She's a ghoul who drives a van.

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: In the [=HotDoggers=]' headquarters, Tech realizes they've walked into an ambush. Not being able to directly contact the crew, he runs back upstairs, kicks over a table, pulls out his grenade launcher and shouts, "It's time to '''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]''', gentlemen!". It's followed immediately by widespread panic from the people setting up the ambush.

A snowboarder Dak once had sex with in a ski chalet restroom. Has a house in Aspen the crew decides to stay at. [[spoiler:Secretly a hitman, and also dead.]]

* BiTheWay: He has pornography of women, men, and robots in his truck. His previous (confirmed) relationships also include men and women.

* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Cuts off his pinky to appease the rats.]]

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Three Daddies]]: The first is her biological father, Darius Pendor. [[spoiler:When Dak makes her and Tech his honorary sister's kids, she mentions this makes him her ''third'' father; her second was the man she met at the airport who spent a few hours teaching her how to use a sword.]] Zig-zagged since none of these three people actually know each other.

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: She makes it clear that, if her sister is being kept where Pox ''thinks'' she is, at least one person will have to die.
* WhipItGood: Buys a monofilament whip pretty early on, mostly replacing her sword (although it still sees some use).

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:His attempts to help the [=NeoScum=] crew get him in hot water with the technomancer network in Denver. He seems to end up working in some kind of surveillance facility.]]

* NaiveNewcomer: She's not ''completely'' naive but her reaction upon seeing a tired, emotionally compromised [=NeoScum=] is "these people look like good role models".

* AmbiguousSituation: First when his [[spoiler:plane is destroyed.]] He survives this, but [[spoiler:is caught in a tree by his parachute. Blister shows up and pulls out a knife before he blacks out again, and he now seems to be imprisoned by the dragon worshippers near Denver]].
* BusCrash: He gets one more scene flying away from Aspen, reunited with his wife. [[spoiler:And then a dragon destroys his plane.]]

* PutOnABus: The [=NeoScum=] crew left him in Aspen with Good Boy.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: He is described by Eleni (who was voicing him) as being very attractive, but Gannon revealed that he actually has the trait of looking incredibly generic. This led to everyone else's characters remarking that he looks handsome but forgettable, and coining the phrases 'firebland' and 'blandsome'.

* ProperlyParanoid: Part of his secret basement is full of weapons. The other part is full of symbols for just about every religion you could think of. Considering how religion works in Shadowrun, that's not a bad idea.
* PunchClockVillain: He's apparently an actual snowboarder [[spoiler:outside his job as a hitman.]] Dak thought he was a pretty nice guy.

* NaiveNewcomer: In the OneShot crossover, he definitely hasn't been shadowrunning for very long and it shows. He also appears to have this role in the main series, albeit downplayed. [[spoiler:Eventually retroactively averted; he's been through traumatic events his entire life, he's just been repressing them.]]

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: In the Hot Doggers' headquarters, Tech realizes they've walked into an ambush. Not being able to directly contact the crew, he runs back upstairs, kicks over a table, pulls out his grenade launcher and shouts, "It's time to '''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]''', gentlemen!". It's followed immediately by widespread panic from the people setting up the ambush.

A sasquatch. Dak's adoptive brother since his parents found a young Dak in a plane wreck and took him in. Now a lieutenant in the Hot Doggers gang.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: While he was probably the least morally evil of the Hot Doggers, he still felt bad enough about their crange production [[spoiler:that he blew it up with himself inside. Dak insists he's fine, but he might just be in denial.]]

* PunchClockHero: While she's perfectly jovial and friendly, the reason she's helping [=NeoScum=] is because her benefactor told her to, and her salary pays better in the long run than a one-time bounty.

A half-elf (the other half being bear) with a contact on Dark Movers who pays her a salary for special jobs.

* OneLastJob: She used to be a shadowrunner and still has access to Dark Movers. Thinking taking in [=NeoScum=] would be easy, profitable, and fulfill Scott's dream of being a shadowrunner, she decides to take one last contract.

* AmbiguousSituation: First when his [[spoiler:plane is destroyed.]] He survives this, but [[spoiler:is caught in a tree by his parachute. Blister shows up and pulls out a knife before he blacks out again]].

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: He has a chat with Beans in his hospital room about [[spoiler:whether or not he should accept Dak's apology]]. Unlike most examples of the trope, he doesn't actually have any personal connection to Beans; [[spoiler:he just wants to feel like he's talking to ''someone'' and knows that Beans has more of a right to hate Dak than just about anyone.]]

* RejectedApology: Dak calls him before the Living Race to try and make amends [[spoiler:before his (he assumes) death]]. Marco accepts his apology... then says 'psych'.

** [[spoiler:Later clarified by the Sons of Adam. He's a human - with biological parents and everything - but he was 'improved' with cloned physical memory and cybernetics.]]

* EveryScarHasAStory: The scar over his left eye forms a 'Z' shape. It seems to be related to how he got his ocular drone. [[spoiler:Judging by Z's flashbacks, this particular scar is related to people who come out of the Sons of Adam.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:After Sons of Adam deemed him inefficient for further combat due to PTSD, they reformatted his memory to make him a civilian. The conditioning apparently broke after they lost him in transit.]]

* SuperSoldier: [[spoiler:He's a product of Sons of Adam, a super soldier program operating under C&C Logistics. His physiology was improved with clone muscle memory and cybernetics as a child.]]

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number 26]]: [[spoiler:The Sons of Adam system says that if he doesn't know his ID number to just say the first number that comes into his head. He says '26', which is his ID number and his name as far as the Sons of Adam are concerned.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:The representative of the Sons of Adam gives him an estimate of eight months to one year to his death. It's not clear if this is a prediction based on his current lifestyle or if people who come out of the Sons of Adam have some kind of biological expiration date.]]

* Geek: We first meet Z in a BTL den surrounded by junkies... playing a [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft WoW]] clone on the free wifi.

* EvilIsPosh: He speaks with an upper-class accent and vocabulary, and from what Pox has said of her childhood he's ''very'' well-off.

!!Side Characters

[[folder:Kannabis Jak]]
One of Big Marco's death racers. He's meant to teach the [=NeoScum=] crew how death racing works but is interrupted by [[spoiler:an impromptu mercenary assault on the building.]] Keeps getting shot in the jaw, which is a cover for Gannon forgetting what he's supposed to sound like.

* ButtMonkey: Whenever he tries to help he screws everything up, and at one point even managed to [[spoiler:trip on some stairs and ''shoot himself in the jaw''.]]
** Also a bit of an IronButtMonkey since he managed to survive all the things he went through [[spoiler:during the mercenary attack, following the [=NeoScum=] crew on their trip across the country, a helicopter crash, and getting shot in the jaw again.]]
* IronicName: It's actually just for PR. Kannabis Jak takes basically every drug ''except'' cannabis; he has the smell of secondhand pot pumped into the building to keep up the illusion.

[[folder:Piven]]
A cat-person and magic user. Wanted to be a Christian clown, whatever that means. Worvo's wife and business partner, taking clients on wyvern hunts. [[spoiler:Attempts to take down [=NeoScum=] with Worvo and Scott.]]

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: While trying to access the crew's motel room, the wyvern hunters draw the attention of the motel owners. After an argument, Piven casts an area-of-effect stun spell, knocking back everyone in the hallway [[spoiler:and letting [=NeoScum=] run right past them.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: She, Worvo, and Scott all get about half an episode as a playable group of characters after being introduced as background characters.

[[folder:Worvo]]
A stocky orc woman and former shadowrunner. Also Piven's wife and business partner, taking clients on wyvern hunts. [[spoiler:Attempts to take down [=NeoScum=] with Piven and Scott.]]

* OneLastJob: She used to be a shadowrunner and still has access to Dark Movers. Thinking taking in [=NeoScum=] would be easy, profitable, and fulfill Scott's dream of being a shadowrunner, she decides to take one last contract.
* PromotedToPlayable: She, Piven, and Scott all get about half an episode as a playable group of characters after being introduced as background characters.
* Retirony: [[spoiler:Killed along with Piven by [=NeoScum=] during her OneLastJob.]]

[[folder:Scott Free]]
A handsome yet forgettable CFO who hired the wyvern hunters but was sidetracked into [[spoiler:trying to take in the [=NeoScum=] crew to fulfill his lifelong dream of being a shadowrunner. Was abducted by the crew during their escape from the motel.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: First when his [[spoiler:plane is destroyed.]] He survives this, but [[spoiler:is caught in a tree by his parachute. Blister shows up and pulls out a knife before he blacks out again]].
* BusCrash: He gets one more scene flying away from Aspen, reunited with his wife. [[spoiler:And then a dragon destroys his plane.]]
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Is aroused by literally ''everything'' except for paperwork and dogs.
** His lack of arousal towards paperwork is the only reason he took an office job.
** It is implied that his lack of feeling towards dogs could change given enough time around Good Boy.
* PromotedToPlayable: He, Piven, and Worvo all get about half an episode as a playable group of characters after being introduced as background characters. [[spoiler:Eleni still plays him on occasion afterwards, but considering he can't really do anything it's just as a voice role.]]
* PutOnABus: The [=NeoScum=] crew left him in Aspen with Good Boy.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: He is described by Eleni (who was voicing him) as being very attractive, but Gannon revealed that he actually has the trait of looking incredibly generic. This led to everyone else's characters remarking that he looks handsome but forgettable, and coining the phrases 'firebland' and 'blandsome'.
** This may have turned into an accidental story mechanic as the [=NeoScum=] crew are [[spoiler:constantly forgetting they kidnapped him.]]

[[folder:Howie]]
A snowboarder Dak once had sex with in a ski chalet restroom. Has a house in Aspen the crew decides to stay at. [[spoiler:Secretly a hitman, and also dead.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He's the first person in the crew to advocate ditching Chicago and Minneapolis as a means to avoid their problems. It's also implied that this is his solution to any complicated enough situation.

** [[spoiler:After Tech convinces him it was his cousin Johnson who murdered his family, he sets off for Minneapolis to kill him.]]

** At one point she made a dress out of bandages and spun around singing about cops and dragons.

* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]: [[spoiler:Marco retrieved his body and hired several doctors to resuscitate him. Apparently he's 'alive', depending on your definition.]]
* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot]]: Dak surpises Beans (and Beans' backup, and the DM) when he responds to his taunts by [[spoiler:shooting him in the chest and finishing him off with a headshot.]]

** After being [[spoiler:brought back from the dead]] by Marco, he's presumably now part of the main plot and therefore an aversion to the trope.

* [[spoiler:UncertainDoom]]: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Dak shot him in the chest and face with a HandCannon, which is pretty fatal. Even if he survived that, he was left in the parking lot while his friends fled the scene, so he would've bled out. Despite this, people kept joking that he was secretly alive; turns out he ''was'' dead, but Marco brought him back with medical technology. Sort of.]]

* [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter]]: [[spoiler:Turns out he's buried in his backyard.]]

* Geek: We first meet Z in a BTL den surrounded by junkies... playing a [[VideoGames/WorldOfWarcraft WoW]] clone on the free wifi.

A novice shadowrunner and the daughter of the Neo-New Mexican businessman Bog Mettinraw.

* NaiveNewcomer: She's not ''completely'' naive but her reaction upon seeing a tired, emotionally compromised NeoScum is "these people look like good role models".

!!One-Shot Crossover

[[folder:Lance Jouster]]
->'''Played By:''' James D'Amato

An elven shadowrunner. He rides a motorcycle and, as his name suggests, he jousts on it. With a lance.

* BrokenPedestal: Lance (and, according to Van Ghoul, many others) became a shadowrunner because of how much he looked up to Dak. When he actually ''meets'' Dak, he initially thinks he's an imposter, and later realizes that the Dak he looked up to was only in his head.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Jousts. With a lance. When he's on his motorcycle, anyway; off of it he's a more orthodox fighter.
* MotorcycleJousting: His namesake. He doesn't get a chance to do it in the episodes, though; the fighting takes place on foot.

[[folder:Van Ghoul]]
->'''Played By:''' Kat Kuhl

A ghoul with a van. It's outfitted for shadowrunning and street racing.

* BadassDriver: Her van is heavily modified for shadowrunning. Plus, she can never turn down an opportunity to race, even when it's a ''really'' bad idea.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: She's a ghoul who drives a van.
* JustLikeRobinHood: She takes shadowrunning jobs so she can buy metahuman flesh. She supplies it to the other ghouls so they don't have to hunt and kill people to survive.
* RummageSaleReject: Her wardrobe is scavenged from an abandoned opera house and modified in some bizarre fashion. She'll take a fur-lined overcoat and turn it into a croptop.
* WackyRacing: Dak challenges her to a race in Xanadu. This leads to a street race between a pyrotechnic van and a 16-wheeler. It's surprising that they only destroyed a couple of buildings.

!!Friends

[[folder:Shirley Guzman]]
A Chicago Lone Star officer who has been romantically involved with Dak.

* ByTheBookCop: Considering how thoroughly corrupt Lone Star is she's basically a paragon of justice.
* DatingCatwoman: The Batman to Dak's Catwoman. Her opposition to his line of work is the primary reason their relationship is off-and-on.
** She's made it known that if it ever gets to the point that she has to arrest Dak, she will.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even with her [[ByTheBookCop sense of justice]] she avoids arresting Dak in Chicago because she knows it would get him killed. Instead she advises him to leave town as soon as possible.

!!Side Characters

[[folder:Beans]]
Member of the League of Honored Truckers. Once helped Dak and Tech get to a job after Xanadu was impounded. After the ride, they parted ways as mortal enemies due to a vomit incident and several threats at gunpoint. [[spoiler:Definitely, definitely dead. Unless not.]]

* KillOnSight: After [[spoiler:killing Beans]], Dak's blacklist from the League of Honored Truckers goes up to a redlist, which means kill on sight.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: At the beginning of the series, he doesn't remember his childhood at all. He also doesn't know where his cybernetics came from.

* IconicOutfit: Stereotypical wizard robes covered in moons and stars, complete with pointed hat. It's his ''only'' outfit; he wears it in honor of the original owners, his parents. [[spoiler:Turns out the outfit's also magical focus.]]

* HitmanWithAHeart: He wants to be a shadowrunner, but of the crew he's the most reluctant to engage in violence despite his first contract being a hit job.

* PromotedToPlayable: He, Piven, and Worvo all get about half an episode as a playable group of characters after being introduced as background characters.

* FiveFingerDiscount: Does this pretty much wherever she goes. At one point she recieved something for free, returned it, and secretly took it again just because she felt weird otherwise.

!!!Guest Players

* NatureHero: She lives in the woods and knows how they work. [[spoiler:She's friends with a wyvern who also drinks gasoline.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: His implants include extendible legs and a gun in his mouth. He can reload by eating bullets.

!!!One-Shot Crossover

A ski instructor Dak once had sex with in a ski lodge restroom. Has a house in Aspen the crew decides to stay at. [[spoiler:Secretly a hitman, and also dead.]]

* PunchClockVillain: He's apparently an actual ski instructor [[spoiler:outside his job as a hitman.]] Dak thought he was a pretty nice guy.