History Characters / SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix

* WikiWalk: Turns out to have a bit of a knack for digging up obscure information in ''20020'', and mentions doing this off-panel. [[spoiler: This ends up coming back to bite them, as they burn through their limited battery while doing so.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first few lines in the story have him exuberantly mocking Nine's camera quality.

* EskimosArentReal: He was once convinced that Delaware never existed, until he talked to a guy from Delaware. Now he thinks [[HereWeGoAgain that]] ''[[HereWeGoAgain Maine]]'' [[HereWeGoAgain never existed.]]

* FrenchJerk: As shown in the quote above, he considers himself French due to being constructed by the ESA in France. Also shown in the quote above, he has a habit of being very juvenile and petty

* AmbiguousGender: In 17776, with only a few weeks of being awake, Nine didn’t have a gender identity yet, and throughout both 17776 and 20020 is referred to with they/them pronouns. [[note]] Ten has on two occasions referred to Nine as female, but comments from Bois indicate these are mistakes rather than canonical and the first instance was edited out. WordOfGod [[https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/secret-base/21557878/20020-questions-and-answers says]] that Nine actively identifies as nonbinary in 20020 as opposed to defaulting because of just waking up, but it isn’t explicitly mentioned in 20020 [[/note]].

--->'''Juice:''' and as one of the de facto leaders of this squad, it’s his turn to call his defense's next play. he calls everyone’s favorite:\\

--->'''Manny:''' Yeah see, every time you’re like "I know," and then fuckin' nothin' happens, and then I gotta spend the next month living in this apartment with you all pissed off like Oscar the Grouch. You know? And I need us to be Bert and Bert.\\

* InSeriesNickname: Manuel Baez is almost always referred to as "Manny," both by other characters and by the label MANNY: that appears before his dialogue. Likewise for Nicholas Navarro, almost always referred to as “Nick” by characters and the label NICK: that goes before his dialogue.

it’s debatable but arguable that she’s the best all-around player in the country

* AmbiguousGender: In 17776, with only a few weeks of being awake, Nine didn’t have a gender identity yet, and throughout both 17776 and 20020 is referred to with they/them pronouns. [[note]] Ten has on two occasions referred to Nine as female, but comments from Bois indicate these are mistakes rather than canonical and the first instance was edited out. WordOfGod [[says https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/secret-base/21557878/20020-questions-and-answers]] that Nine actively identifies as nonbinary in 20020 as opposed to defaulting because of just waking up, but it isn’t explicitly mentioned in 20020 [[/note]].

* AmbiguousGender: Having only a few weeks of being awake, Nine doesn't have a gender identity yet, and is referred to with they/them pronouns [[note]] Ten has on two occasions referred to Nine as female, but comments from Bois indicate these are mistakes rather than canonical and the first instance was edited out [[/note]].

* InSeriesNickname: Manuel Baez is almost always referred to as "Manny," both by other characters and by the label MANNY: that appears before his dialogue.

* TeamMom: She explains a lot to Nine and occasionally has to keep Juice under control.

* TheAce: According to Juice, she's an ideal quarterback: great at making reads good pocket mobility, strong arm, extremely mistake-averse, terrifying accuracy. And that's not all.

---> "Please answer me.\\

-->It’s difficult to feel so old, to BE so old, and feel like I have so little wisdom. A lot of things keep me happy, though.
-->Ten and Juice, I don’t know what I’d do without them.
-->I don’t know what I’d do without all of you, either. I love you all for building me, for sending me here, even though you didn’t know what I would become. I love you for being yourselves, and for welcoming me like you have.
-->Sometimes I hear some of you wonder whether this is Heaven. I think it is. It’s in Heaven I’ll grow up and grow old.
-->I can’t believe my fortune.

-->'''Ten''': People sit in the stands and watch this ... this fucking crap? This garbage dump where ''nothing fucking ever happens''?
-->'''Juice''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint oh yeah broncos fans are crazy]]

--> "Sometimes I wonder if you're really a scientific instrument."

--->'''Juice:''' and as one of the de facto leaders of this squad, it’s his turn to call his defense’s next play. he calls everyone’s favorite:\\

'''Ten:''' It’s my favorite. I’m sorry. If you pull the trigger at the right time, sending your entire team on a blitz is effective and it’s beautiful.\\

'''Ten:''' If I were UAB and I wanted to actually take my awful chances, I’d probably just take my chances and call a zero blitz.\\
'''Juice:''' lol lady you can’t call a zero blitz EVERY TIME\\

-->'''Ten:''' Sometimes it’s kind of a fun puzzle to try to discern what the fuck you’re talking about.\\

-->'''Ten''': Ooh, look at you! You're using apostrophes! You're ''punctuating!''

-->'''Mimi:''' He always asks me, what’s in the sandwich? How’s it taste? Does this reheat well? Does that pair well with this? I guess for him that’s the closest he can get to eating, other than sucking up the sunbeams.

[[folder:Aaron, Micah, and Danny]]

* HollywoodSpelling: Averted. Jason was born Jason Durazo, but sometime between then and getting on his first football card, his last name was written as "Durabo” on some official document and it stuck. Emily took the name “Durazo” when she married Jason and later switched to “Durabo” too.

--> '''Lacrecia:''' And the thing is, I do that while completely knowing that this game is dumb. I could wake up tomorrow and catch a ball worth 500 points. So okay, and? [[AndThenWhat And then what? Maybe I get in the Hall of Fame and I get on TV. And then what after that?]] But it's like, on some level, I still have to grab on to that. I still have to have a mission, any mission. The harder, the better. And that's why I count myself lucky that it's turning out to be so hard.

--->'''Manny:''' Yeah see, every time you’re like “I know,” and then fuckin’ nothin’ happens, and then I gotta spend the next month living in this apartment with you all pissed off like Oscar the Grouch. You know? And I need us to be Bert and Bert.\\

'''Manny:''' Fuck Ernie. You know? No Ernies on this fuckin’ team.

-->'''Coach E:''' Y’all really sat around on the field for, what, 2,000 years so you could pull that? […] All these days we spent marching out here, I kept telling my players it’s all about who wants it more. Who wants it more, who wants it more. There’s so much about y’all I don’t understand, but I know nobody on Earth wants it like you do.

* InSeriesNickname: Manuel Baez is almost always referred to as “Manny,” both by other characters and by the label MANNY: that appears before his dialogue.

-->'''Juice:''' on paper, Chuck wasn’t the fastest guy on the field, but he hauled ass all the way to Oklahoma without getting caught. when it comes to long-distance football, whatever’s on paper often goes out the window. it comes down to who really wants it the most. who’s willing to run for 19 hours a day, and who prefers to call it in and ask for another squad on your team to run ‘em down.\\

-->'''[[https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21557878/20020-questions-and-answers Jon Bois]]:''' When Graham first read that chapter, the first thing he told me was, “I fucking hate chess guy.” Mission accomplished.
* NoNameGiven: The character tags only refer to him as "Chess Guy". According to Bois in the ''20020'' Q&A, "I never bothered to give him a name because he didn’t deserve one."

* TheAce: According to Juice, she’s an ideal quarterback: great at making reads good pocket mobility, strong arm, extremely mistake-averse, terrifying accuracy. And that’s not all.
-->'''Juice:''' even still she’s great at [being a safety], you’d never even know she used to be a quarterback\\

-->'''Valentine:''' Well your stride is all fucked-up lookin’. You run like you were born with a dozen dicks. Get some new fuckin’ boots!

* AllLowercaseLetters: His text is written like this.

* BirdsOfAFeather: They're a married couple of {{determinator}}s who tackle the seemingly impossible.
-->'''Manny:''' I like to say that him and me are so damn crazy, of course we married each other. Nobody else would take us.

[[folder:Nancy [=McGunnell=] ]]

A friend of Emily and Jason.

* TheWatson: A non-football player asking her friends the questions the audience might have that lead to Jason explaining the Koy Detmer game.

[[folder:Mimi Mackenzie]]
A player for Georgia Southern, who has a secret identity as "the Sharks".

* TheDreaded: She creates a lot of fear as "the Sharks". Opponents believe that as many as 12 players stalk Lake Auburn, flipping boats with football players aboard. In reality, it's just her.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: When not playing "the Sharks", Mimi is a vet tech, and is pretty nice to Nine when they speak. She especially displays concern for Nine when the latter loses energy.

* {{Determinator}}: He stole a ball in a scrimmage with A&M and ran with it, ending up carrying it hundreds of miles by himself.

* AudienceSurrogate: A proxy for the audience from the modern day learning about the drastic changes to Earth and football 15,000 years in the future.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Discussed during ''20020''. As the physically oldest space probe, Nine has a longer subconscious memory of their assembly and passively absorbing of humanity's transmissions, but because they've only been awake for a short time, they have trouble coming to terms with how ''old'' they are and ''young'' at the same time, and comes to view the endless future in front of them as somewhere they will truly grow up in.
--> '''Juice:''' lol you are younger than hell\\

* OutOfFocus: In ''20020'', with the setting established and no more need for an AudienceSurrogate, Nine is no longer the main protagonist of the series, though their questions and developing personality remain one of the major threads throughout the story.

---> "God damn."

---> "You know what, fuck you."

[[folder:Chess Guy]]
An Illinois chess player.

* HateSink: He is written to be obnoxious. He believes in a conspiracy theory that the remains of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra are hidden in Illinois; he tries hitting on Lori in the middle of a match, failing to pick up that she has a less-than-stellar opinion of him; his idea of a date is going to a gas station next to his house; and he is unsympathetic when Lori has to leave for an emergency football situation, derisively saying, "Oh, what? Did a ''sportsball'' happen?"
-->'''[[https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21557878/20020-questions-and-answers Jon Bois]]:''' When Graham first read that chapter, the first thing he told me was, “I fucking hate chess guy.” Mission accomplished.
* NoNameGiven: The character tags only refer to him as "Chess Guy". According to Bois in the ''20020'' Q&A, "I never bothered to give him a name because he didn’t deserve one."

[[folder:Valentine Jones]]
A quarterback for the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB). Very good at making reads. Hates mosquitoes.

* SirSwearsALot: One of the more foul-mouthed characters, even in a cast full of characters who are no strangers to swearing.
-->'''Valentine:''' Well your stride is all fucked-up lookin’. You run like you were born with a dozen dicks. Get some new fuckin’ boots!

[[folder:Mimi Mackenzie]]
A player for Georgia Southern, who has a secret identity as "the Sharks".

* TheDreaded: She creates a lot of fear as "the Sharks". Opponents believe that as many as 12 players stalk Lake Auburn, flipping boats with football players aboard. In reality, it's just her.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: When not playing "the Sharks", Mimi is a vet tech, and is pretty nice to Nine when they speak. She especially displays concern for Nine when the latter loses energy.

[[folder:Valentine Jones]]
A quarterback for the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB). Very good at making reads. Hates mosquitoes.

* SirSwearsALot: One of the more foul-mouthed characters, even in a cast full of characters who are no strangers to swearing.
-->'''Valentine:''' Well your stride is all fucked-up lookin’. You run like you were born with a dozen dicks. Get some new fuckin’ boots!

[[folder:Chess Guy]]
An Illinois chess player.

* HateSink: He is written to be obnoxious. He believes in a conspiracy theory that the remains of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra are hidden in Illinois; he tries hitting on Lori in the middle of a match, failing to pick up that she has a less-than-stellar opinion of him; his idea of a date is going to a gas station next to his house; and he is unsympathetic when Lori has to leave for an emergency football situation, derisively saying, "Oh, what? Did a ''sportsball'' happen?"
-->'''[[https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21557878/20020-questions-and-answers Jon Bois]]:''' When Graham first read that chapter, the first thing he told me was, “I fucking hate chess guy.” Mission accomplished.
* NoNameGiven: The character tags only refer to him as "Chess Guy". According to Bois in the ''20020'' Q&A, "I never bothered to give him a name because he didn’t deserve one."

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[[folder:Mimi Mackenzie]]
A player for Georgia Southern, who has a secret identity as "the Sharks".

* TheDreaded: She creates a lot of fear as "the Sharks". Opponents believe that as many as 12 players stalk Lake Auburn, flipping boats with football players aboard. In reality, it's just her.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: When not playing "the Sharks", Mimi is a vet tech, and is pretty nice to Nine when they speak. She especially displays concern for Nine when the latter loses energy.