History Characters / RemedyConnectedUniverse

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Melanie Liburd, Saga's actress, is British, and her accent slips into Saga's lines here and there. Particularly in how she pronounces her own name.

* WalkingArmory: Even her default inventory space allows her to carry a questionably large amount of ammunition and weaponry, and the small pouches that upgrade this inventory are visibly too small to hold her guns, or even her larger healing items. By the end of the game, she can be toting ammo, flares, several charms, and up to ''five guns'' at a time, which other than her handgun in its holster and the one she has equipped, which SticksToTheBack, simply appear from {{Hammerspace}}.
* WhatTheHellHero: She is furious at Alan for [[spoiler: unwittingly allowing Scratch to drag her daughter into the story, and for seemingly allowing an innocent child to be killed off in the name of dramatic stakes.]] Alan never tries to argue this, given that [[spoiler: he briefly stopped writing because he was concerned about the damage he was doing in the real world]].

* NightmareFetishist: Loves ''Night Springs'', an anthology which regularly features dark, cerebral, or downright depressing themes and endings. Saga also suggests she would enjoy a scary book for her birthday.

* CommonalityConnection: Bonds instantly with Agent Estevez over complaining about their ex-wives.

* CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Agent Estevez over both of them being divorced from their respective ex-wives.

* WomenAreWiser: While Charlie is a talkative, coffee-obsessed weirdo, his sister Charline plays the StraightMan to his antics and seems far more on the ball, mirroring the relationship Ilmo and Jaakko have with each other in a sillier way.

* CountryMouse: By his own admission, and to his detriment in Bright Falls, he is very much a man of the city. While he claims he could successfully make it through a ''city'' drunk and blindfolded, the [[NoSenseOfDirection opposite]] is true in the forest surrounding the small town.

* CripplingOverspecialization: By his own admission, and to his detriment in Bright Falls, he is very much a man of the city. While he claims he could make it through a ''city'' drunk and blindfolded, the [[NoSenseOfDirection opposite]] is true in the forest surrounding the small town.

* VagueAge: It's left ambiguous how old he's meant to be, other than the implication he has at least a few years on his 35 year old partner Saga. He has a fairly youthful appearance, but the disposition of a GrumpyOldMan, and a voice actor in his mid-60s at the time of ''Alan Wake II'''s release. Saga cracks a few jokes about his age early in the game, but he defends himself each time as not being ''that'' old.

* OneWomanArmy: Fights off at least a hundred standard Taken and a dozen Taken wolves, as well as all four of the [[KingMook Overlap Guardians]] and [[HumanoidAbomination Scratch]] himself, almost exclusively on her own throughout her crusade to solve Bright Falls' ritual killings.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Defied As the Dark Presence's power grows, it begins to warp reality, spreading outward from Cauldron Lake. And to torment Saga, it tries to rewrite Saga's daughter out of existence. At first, this just has locals of Bright Springs recognize Saga and believe that her daughter died when they moved to Watery (something Saga never did). However, by the end of the game, the effect has spread so far that even Casey and Saga's husband (who is in an entirely different part of the country and theoretically with Logan) are convinced that Logan drowned years ago. Saga and Alan try to write an ending that will bring Logan back to life (or perhaps better stated as back into existence), and the DLC shows that they successfully undid the warp, Logan simply remembering as a bad dream.]]

* LifesavingMisfortune: [[spoiler:In the long run, being possessed by Scratch is what saves his life. While it threatens to let Scratch win for a time, Casey would have surely been Taken during his shootout with the Cult of the Tree. Being possessed means he is still himself when Scratch is forced out, and is the final loophole that allows Alan to win at all, as Scratch could control his mind indefinitely like he could Alan.]]

* CorrectiveLecture: In the memory Saga has of visiting him at the hospital, he gently, but firmly tells Anderson she needs to learn to stop [[GuiltComplex blaming herself for things she couldn't have changed]]. While it is in reference to his stab wound, [[spoiler:It also helps her work her way past the Dark Presence trying to make her succumb to her guilt over Bright Falls several years later when she recalls the memory.]]
* CripplingOverspecialization: By his own admission, and to his detriment in Bright Falls, he is very much a man of the city. While he claims he could make it through a ''city'' drunk and blindfolded, the [[NoSenseOfDirection opposite]] is true in forests surrounding the small town.

* WrongAssumption: When he gets the chance to talk to Wake one on one, he accuses him of being the mastermind behind the game's events, using the power of Cauldron Lake to give him an endless well of "killer stories" to draw from. [[spoiler:This is actually fairly accurate assessment of ''Scratch'''s character and motivation, but he makes the assumption, consciously or otherwise, to lump Alan and his double together.]]

* FairCop: An FBI agent with striking, attractive features

* HappilyMarried: He and Saga are mutually loving and supportive as a couple.

* WhatTheHellHero: She is furious at Alan for [[spoiler:unwittingly allowing Scratch to drag her daughter into the story, and for seemingly allowing an innocent child to be killed off in the name of dramatic stakes.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: In an example of the ChickenAndEggParadox, did Alan write him into existence during his time in Cauldron Lake, or did his parautility reveal to him the existence of a detective name "Alex Casey" and base his book's hero off of him, unaware that he was a real person? Even the FBC -- who's been keeping tabs on him because of this weird coincidence -- doesn't know for certain. Based on his dialogue at the end of ''Alan Wake II'', Alan seems to think that it's a StableTimeLoop situation: Alan had visions of Casey in the future, then due to the time-bending nature of the Dark Place, they were sent back to his past self in the real world, who mistook them for inspiration. While this is consistent with how The Dark Place works, it's ultimately just Alan's speculation.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: While Alan is still the driving force of the game and one of the playable characters, Saga is the playable character for her own concurrent major storyline as she investigates the Cult of the Tree.

* DropTheHammer: Tor, at least. Considering [[Myth/NorseMythology who he named himself after]], it's not really surprising, even if it's just a simple steel hammer he uses to knock the nurse unconscious.

* TragicKeepsake: After Balder's death, Odin evidently hung on to his guitar as a memento of his fallen bandmate. [[spoiler:During the Dark Ocean Summoning, modern Odin can be seen using it to preform instead of the guitar he and his young self otherwise use.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:As the Dark Presence's power grows, it begins to warp reality, spreading outward from Cauldron Lake. And to torment Saga, it tries to rewrite Saga's daughter out of existence. At first, this just has locals of Bright Springs recognize Saga and believe that her daughter died when they moved to Watery (something Saga never did). However, by the end of the game, the effect has spread so far that even Casey and Saga's husband (who is in an entirely different part of the country and theoretically with Logan) are convinced that Logan drowned years ago. Saga and Alan try to write an ending that will bring Logan back to life (or perhaps better stated as back into existence), but the story cuts to credits before we see if Logan has returned to reality or not.]]

* DitzyGenius: Genuinely clever and resourceful, but he often lets his imagination run wild with his entrepreneurial concepts, to severely AwesomeButImpractical levels. [[spoiler:The culmination of this is the plan he thought up to fight the Taken: "[[OperationBlank Operation: Bigger is Better]]", a massive aimable flashlight on top of the Watery lighthouse, noted by Jaakko to be completely wasteful as a hypothetical weapon, and implausible to make a reality with their limited resources.]]