History Characters / RemnantInferisDOOM

** Then Deconstructed HARD, showing that despite her father, her sister, brother, and mother still care about her and are heavily hurt by her words. Winter ignoring her as she leaves Epsilon gives her the painful realization of what she's done.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Attempted, but ultimately subverted. Taiyang ''tries'' decking William in the face for inadvertently dragging his daughters through Hell. William simply [[PunchCatch blocks his punch]] before retaliating with his own.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Gives an epic one to her father for arranging her sons' kidnapping.

* AintTooProudToBeg: She begs for the Slayer not to kill Cinder.
* ElectronicEye: In chapter 37, Emerald receives a new mechanical eye, replacing the one the Slayer popped like a balloon.
* EyeScream: When she tries to defend Cinder, the Slayer punches her so hard that her right eye was completely mutilated. Chapter 24 shows that she has bandages covering it; she finally gets a robotic substitute in Chapter 38.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Emerald is entirely devoted to Cinder and is confident she could defeat the Slayer. She was wrong; William almost killed both of them, and he punches Emerald's right eye out.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He stomps on the Slayer's face to make sure he's unconscious when he, Emerald, Neo and White Fang manage to (temporarily) incapacitate him. If it were anyone else, this probably would have worked, but this only makes the Slayer ''angrier''.

* TheOlderImmortal: While the Slayer may be several thousand years old at his very youngest, Ozpin is much, ''much'' older due to [[spoiler:him being from before Salem's rebellion against the Brother Gods and by extension, before the existence of Hell]].

* AnAxeToGrind: His blunderbuss features an axe that he can use to cut demons to ribbons.

* NighInvulnerable: His healing factor and cybernetics allow him to recover from almost anything, rendering him pretty much invincible. Not even the Slayer can do any significant damage that's worthwhile enough to kill him for good.

* HornyDevils: Contrasting the rest of demonkind, he has the dubious (dis)honor of being the first introduced in the story, and he quickly establishes himself as one of the most despicable among his own species.
* {{Irony}}: Marv as an Incubus is an embodiment of the HornyDevils trope...but he cannot actually have sex anymore since his lower half was replaced with cybernetics. The Slayer thinks it's no wonder Marv is so AxCrazy.

* SinisterScythe: Her WeaponOfChoice: Crescent Rose.

* RetiredMonster: It's implied that he used to be a ''very'' brutal man, having slaughtered a massive number of Beastkin, something his granddaughter does not look back on favourably. In the present day, he's a kind enough man for both his great-grandchildren to adore him and he takes a stance against sending them to be part of the knight order he was.

* AmbiguouslySituation: He once had a conversation between his granddaughter and her husband recorded in secret, the reason for which is yet to be explained.

* RetiredMonster: It's implied that he used to be a ''very'' brutal man, having slaughtered a massive number of Beastkin, something his granddaughter does not look back on favourably. In the present day, he's a kind enough man for both his great-grandchildren to adore him.

* {{Jerkass}}: This is literally the only ''nice'' thing that can be said about him.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After Jaune fatally wounds her, Ren uses his Semblance to cure her hatred; she tearfully says she doesn't want to die, and it's only when she's freed from her anger that Gretchen [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes what she's done]]. Despite the horrors she's done as a cultist, she was just one of many lives ruined by Hell and demonkind.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Subverted. In Chapter 39, she's initially throwing diatribes at Hazel and Team JNPR in her dying moments. That's until Ren uses his Semblance on her to dissipate her rage/hatred. Immediately following that, she utterly breaks down from an overwhelming mixture of guilt, sadness, and fear. Ren justifies his action by saying that no one deserves to die filled with so much hatred.]]

* FaceDeathWithDespair: [[spoiler:Towards the end of Chapter 39. After getting her hatred snuffed out by Ren's Semblance in her final moments, Gretchen gets overwhelmed by a mixture of sadness, guilt, and fear, reducing her to a sobbing mess in the face of death. She dies tearfully pleading to Hazel her wish to not die and dread of ending up in Nekravol.]]

* NoSell: Her Semblance lets her ignore pain. [[spoiler:She gave Ruby a free shot when she attacked her. Crescent Rose's slash couldn't phase her.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: She's alive here rather than dead. [[spoiler:That's until Chapter 39, where she dies after getting mortally wounded by a berserk Jaune under Ul-Thranx influence.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd:[[spoiler:Subverted. In Chapter 39, she's initially throwing diatribes at Hazel and Team JNPR in her dying moments. That's until Ren uses his Semblance on her to dissipate her rage/hatred. Immediately following that, she utterly breaks down from an overwhelming mixture of guilt, sadness, and fear. Ren justifies his action by saying that no one deserves to die filled with so much hatred.]]

* FaceDeathWithDespair:[[spoiler:Towards the end of Chapter 39. After getting her hatred snuffed out by Ren's Semblance in her final moments, Gretchen gets overwhelmed by a mixture of sadness, guilt, and fear, reducing her to a sobbing mess in the face of death. She dies tearfully pleading to Hazel her wish to not die and dread of ending up in Nekravol.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: She's alive here rather than dead.[[spoiler:That's until Chapter 39, where she dies after getting mortally wounded by a berserk Jaune under Ul-Thranx influence.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Since Gretchen was never killed here, he never joined Salem and works alongside Ozpin.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After Hazel critically wounds her, Ren uses his Semblance to cure her hatred; she tearfully says she doesn't want to die, and it's only now that Hazel's sister is freed from her anger that Gretchen realizes what she's done. Despite the horrors she's done as a cultist, she was just one of many lives ruined by hell and demonkind.]]
* AscendedExtra: She was a PosthumousCharacter in canon and simply part of Hazel's backstory and justification for hating Ozpin. Here, she's alive and given some screen-time. [[spoiler:Not to mention she's a cultist.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd:[[spoiler:Subverted. In chapter 39, she's initially throwing diatribes at Hazel and Team JNPR in her dying moments. That's until Ren uses his Semblance on her to dissipate her rage/hatred. Immediately following that, she utterly breaks down from an overwhelming mixture of guilt, sadness, and fear. Ren justifies his action by saying that no one deserves to die filled with so much hatred.]]

* FaceDeathWithDespair:[[spoiler:Towards the end of chapter 39. After getting her hatred snuffed out by Ren's Semblance in her final moments, Gretchen gets overwhelmed by a mixture of sadness, guilt, and fear, reducing her to a sobbing mess in the face of death. She dies tearfully pleading to Hazel her wish to not die and dread of ending up in Nekravol.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: She's alive here rather than dead.[[spoiler:That's until chapter 39, where she dies after getting mortally wounded by a berserk Jaune under Ul-Thranx influence.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: She's alive here rather than dead.

* AscendedExtra: Was one of the many Huntsmen sent to their deaths offscreen in canon by Leonardo. Here, she survies and becomes a reluctant ally of the Doom Slayer.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Dies offscreen in canon. Barely survives in this fanfic.

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A Hell Priest and the one originally responsible for the corruption of Argent D'Nur, he arrives on Remnant in search of power in order for Hell to continue his conquest.

* KarmaHoudini: Anti-hero example. The Slayer frequently commits actions that are either either amoral at best, or needlessly destructive at worst. Almost everyone has called him out on it and tried to apprehend him or punish him for it...and none of it matters both because of how little he cares and because he's so powerful that their efforts to try and get him to face judgement for it amount to nothing. Even Yang, after escaping Epsilon, points out that the Slayer's sheer presence practically lords over the fact that he can get away with anything and there's not a thing they can do to stop him.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Gritty name? Check. Murders his enemies in over-the-top and gory ways? Check. Antisocial, angry, cynical, and generally a jerk with a boatload of other personality issues? Check. He also ends up deconstructing this, as besides Ruby (who has seen his [[HiddenHeartOfGold soft spots]]), all these traits just make everyone either fearful of him at best or hateful of him at worst because he [[HeWhoFightsMonsters behaves no different from the monsters he's butchering]]. People, especially those within Ozpin's inner circle, see him as just as much of a threat to Remnant as the demons and ''not'' a hero. Not to mention that his unscrupulous methods ultimately cause him to [[spoiler:alienate himself from his allies and become the most wanted criminal on the planet]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: Since Gretchen is still alive here, he never joined Salem and works alongside Ozpin.

* YouAreNotMyFather: Taken UpToEleven. After seeing and hearing all the horrors that her father unwittingly had a hand in, she denounces her entire family and gives up on wanting to better the Schnee name.

** His [[TheAloner aloofness]]. Really, a lot of the Slayer's psychological issues that lead to the above flaws could either be avoided or mitigated if he just stopped isolating himself and ''let people in''. Even as far back as childhood, his first instinct upon seeing that he was turning out like his horrid grandfather was to run away so he wouldn't hurt his family, which not only ''did'' hurt them (emotionally speaking), but also led to a SelfFulfillingProphecy of him turning out as he has now.

* ReputationApathy: William does whatever it takes to fight the Demons’ invasion no matter how brutal or gruesome, and has made it abundantly clear he couldn’t give two shits about what anyone thinks of him or his actions.