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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Has a severe aversion to shoes, and always walks around barefooted.



* DoesNotLikeShoes: He finds shoes uncomfortable and doesn't understand how humans can tolerate them. Even when he attends a formal ball, he's barefooted.


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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: He finds shoes uncomfortable and doesn't understand how humans can tolerate them. Even when he attends a formal ball, he's barefooted.
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* YouNeedABreathMint: After Doug gets too close to Rast in chapter 4, he outright tells Doug to back away because his breath stinks.

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* YouNeedABreathMint: After Doug gets too close to Rast in chapter 4, he outright tells Doug to back away because his breath stinks.
stinks. Rast himself is no paragon of oral hygiene, so this is saying something.

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One of Rast's gecko friends who attends the same college that he does.

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One of Rast's friends, a gecko friends who attends the same college that he does.


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* LovableLizard: He's a gecko, and probably the only genuinely decent character in the whole story.

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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:While Rast is busy torturing Seamus, he eventually begins to beg Rast to spare him, telling him he can't kill him because they're "friends" and Seamus "made him."]]



* CripplingCastration: [[spoiler:His penis is cut off by Rast as he's being tortured]].



* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:His penis is cut off by Rast as he's being tortured]].


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* LargeHam: Figuratively ''and'' literally. Seamus is a very noisy, obnoxious anthro who love letting everyone know whenever he's in the room. He also just so happens to be a plump pig.


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* AintTooProudToBeg: After Rast rapes both of them and threatens to torture them to death, they confess to making the sex tape and plead for Rast to spare them after he swears he'll release them. [[ILied He doesn't]].


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* CripplingCastration: Tomas' penis is sliced in half with a box cutter off-screen.
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[[folder: Dante Meadows & Tomas Richardson]]

Two students who go to the same college as Rast and humiliate him with a sex tape.
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* AssholeVictim: Absolutely ''no one'' misses them after they're killed. No one even bothers looking for them because several students were so disgusted with what they did.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Both of them treat Rast with kindness and don't shame him when they discover he's a virgin and is about to have sex for the first time. But they're really just two horrible pranksters who only had sex with Rast so they could film it and humiliate him in public.
* InterspeciesRomance: Both of them are human beings who willingly have sex with Rast, an anthro.
* MauveShirt: They're introduced in chapter 2 as manipulative pranksters who convince Rast into having sex with them so they could humiliate him in public. Besides this, and being the cause of Rast's StartOfDarkness, they have little characterization, and they're killed off in chapter 3.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They're both killed at the beginning of chapter 3. However, if it hadn't been for them, Rast never would've started making snuff films and getting into a life of crime.
* StraightGay: They're homosexual and show no overly campy or stereotypical gay mannerisms.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two of them are always seen together.
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The cast of ''Literature/TailsOfFame''.

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[[folder: Rast Racklyn]]
-->''Smile. People like smiles.''

A black rat in college who desperately wants to be famous and is secretly unhinged. After he's suspended from college, Rast decides to descend into a life of crime, feeling that he can only become famous by being infamous.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It's heavily implied he has antisocial personality disorder. Rast seems to loathe being around people, right down to a point where he insults a random civilian just because he's wearing shoes. He constantly has to tell himself to smile and be nice, because he mentally can't do it on instinct.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's murdered by one of Doug's hitmen in the final chapter. Given the sheer amount of innocents he murdered throughout the story, he absolutely deserved it.]]
* BeYourself: Deconstructed. After spending his whole life pretending to be a nice, selfless person, Rast decides to behave the way he wants to. The problem with this, is that deep down Rast is a violent, egotistical murderer who finds happiness in raping and killing innocent people.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Rast acts nice and friendly in public, but only because he has to force himself to do so. In reality, he's an egotistical AttentionWhore, a {{Jerkass}}, and a sadist who will murder anyone if it'll help him achieve infamy.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Gets shot in the back of the head by Doug's hitman]].
* BreakTheHaughty: He's humiliated in chapter 2 after a sex tape is leaked online showing him fornicating with two humans--something considered taboo in Stercullo. Given that he's a BitchInSheepsClothing, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
* BringMyBrownPants: After Doug comes very close to killing him in chapter 4, Rast pisses his pants with fright.
--> '''Doug''': "Suppose I should be glad you didn't shit yourself."
* DepravedHomosexual: Rast is gay, and after he rapes and kills Dante and Tomas, he becomes a full-on SerialRapist.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In chapter 16, a teenager calls Rast a "faggy ratty." Rast decides to follow the teenager's family to their home, and later that night, he ''rapes and murders the entire family''.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Has a severe aversion to shoes, and always walks around barefooted.
* EvilIsPetty: Rast steals twenty dollars from a homeless person just because he could, and passively-aggressively insults a random human being just because he wears shoes.
* FameThroughInfamy: His entire motivation. After realizing how hard and pointless it is to get famous, and after he notices that society only seems to care about criminals, Rast decides to become a brutal serial killer/serial rapist in hopes of being one of Stercullo's most infamous murderers.
* FreudianExcuse: Deconstructed. His hatred of society and his desperation to become popular is understandable. But various characters (including Linkard Reid, who actually supports Rast) point out that nothing justifies raping and murdering innocent people, even though Rast claims it's the one thing that truly makes him happy.
* HateSink: Rast is a deconstruction of a VillainProtagonist, ''and it shows''. Nothing about his character is made to be remotely sympathetic.
* InterspeciesRomance: Rast has absolutely no problem when it comes to fornicating or raping human beings, despite it being taboo in Stercullo.
* {{Narcissist}}: His FatalFlaw. Rast thinks he's entitled to being famous, believing he deserves after spending his whole life being "nice." He also thinks he's one of the worst criminals the city has to offer, despite being incredibly incompetent and not reaching the same levels of infamy that Doug reached in the criminal underworld.
* ThePigPen: Rast rarely showers, has atrocious oral hygiene, and lives in a trash-filled, roach-infested apartment. Even Rast's sister Carla is surprised when she has lunch with him and notices he ''doesn't'' stink.
--> '''Carla''': "You actually smell kinda nice today. [[LampshadeHanging Since when do you shower?]]"
* SerialKiller: In addition to filming himself raping innocent people, Rast also murders his victims so he can make multiple snuff films.
* SerialRapist: Turns into one after he realized how much joy he experienced from raping Dante and Tomas.
* SmugSnake: Acts like he knows everything about the criminal underworld, but he's really inexperienced and unable to handle himself without Doug and Seamus' assistance.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:He's murdered with absolutely no buildup inside of a gas station]].
* VillainProtagonist: Deconstructed. ''Nothing'' about Rast makes him sympathetic, and you're supposed to be rooting for him to fail. He's a relentless rapist and murderer who willingly assists Douglas and Seamus in their criminal activities and makes snuff films all for the sole purpose of getting famous.
* YouDirtyRat: Rast Racklyn is a disgusting, smelly, anthro rat.
* YouNeedABreathMint: Multiple characters openly tell Rast he has bad breath. Dante in particular tells him it smells like cheese and garlic.

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[[folder: Seamus Osgranov]]
-->''"Sooner or later, all that shit's gonna come out yer ass, pup, and you gonna make a big ol' mess!"''

The owner of the Porky's diner and a series of butcher shops. Seamus is also secretly part of an organ harvesting ring, and has had frequent run-ins with Douglas Kevro.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's brutally tortured to death by Rast. Given how he kidnapped and murdered innocent humans for a harvesting ring, and shot up an amusement park, he had it coming]].
* BadBoss: Exaggerated. [[spoiler:Seamus single-handedly murders his entire crew in his organ harvesting ring, along with his remaining two allies during the Universal Gardens massacre, all so he could hog all of the money he would receive for himself]].
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Rast catches Seamus masturbating to his sex tape after he barges into his office at the Porky's diner.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Seamus made most of his money chopping up and selling body parts. Fitting that Seamus himself is chopped up and sold to one of his butcher shops]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: In chapter 5, Wayne, one of Seamus' associates, thoroughly lectures him on how he's an incompetent, disgusting idiot. Seamus responds by bashing his skull in with a metal lamp.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Has his left eyeball gouged out with a spoon and Rast's claws]].
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Some of Seamus' fingers are cut off when Rast tortures him]].
* {{Gasshole}}: Seamus is very flatulent, and isn't shy about passing gas around other people.
* {{Greed}}: His FatalFlaw. Seamus will stoop to ''any'' levels in order to get rich, whether it's working alongside Douglas, kidnapping humans and selling their body parts, or even conducting a mass shooting inside of an amusement park.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:His penis is cut off by Rast as he's being tortured]].
* HateSink: Seamus is an annoying, gross, idiotic {{Jerkass}} who will kill anyone if he can get rich in the process.
* IdiotBall: Seamus plays with this constantly. The two biggest cases are when he murders one of his own employees because he insulted him, and then covers up the murder by ''burning down his apartment building'', and later participates in a mass shooting at an amusement park based solely on a message left by someone [[spoiler:(who was in fact Douglas)]] on the dark web. [[spoiler:This eventually gets him killed in chapter 13]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Annoying, rude, and constantly enjoys pissing off people for the sole purpose of being amused by their anger.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Seamus is murdered by Rast, one of the few people who kept telling him to embrace his dark side]].
* ManlyGay: He's a masculine, obese anthro who isn't the slightest bit effeminate, and proudly admits that he's homosexual.
* PigMan: He's a corpulent, greedy, anthro pig.
* ThePigPen: Seamus smells horrible, lives in a disheveled apartment, and shamelessly admits that he hates showering and brushing his teeth--none of which is helped by how he is prone to shitting himself. It's saying something if ''Rast'', who is also listed as this, cannot stand his body odor.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Double subversion. Seamus isn't racist against black people; he just calls them "niggers" because he can, and because he knows it'll irritate the people around him. That being said, Seamus ''is'' racist against humans in general, black people included.
* PottyFailure: He soils his trousers--or recalls events where he did so--multiple times in the story, mostly out of laziness or because he intentionally wants to gross out others.
* SmugSnake: He acts like he's better than Rast and Douglas, but his greedy actions frequently get him in trouble, and he never owns up to any of it.
* StressVomit: [[spoiler:Throws up all over himself shortly after Rast gouges out his eye]].
* ToiletHumour: He adores farting and constantly grossing out his associates with bodily fluids and waste.
* {{Troll}}: Seamus frequently tries to get a rise out of people, and seems to enjoy making people angry just for the sake of it.
* YouNeedABreathMint: When Seamus get too close to Rast's face in chapter 2, Rast (unintentionally) tells him his breath reeks of onions and beer.

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[[folder: Douglas Sentiino Kevro]]
-->''"I never got to where I am now without fucking people over."''

A prominent mob-like figure who has many connections throughout the city and runs his own criminal empire. He's had frequent run-ins with Seamus Osgranov.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He succeeds in finally killing Seamus, his long-time rival, along with Rast, who nearly got him arrested. The ending makes it clear that he's still committing crimes without scrutiny from the police]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Doug doesn't care who he has to betray and/or kill if it'll result in him either staying out of trouble, or if it'll help him succeed in his schemes. [[spoiler:Rast and Seamus find this out the hard way...]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: He finds shoes uncomfortable and doesn't understand how humans can tolerate them. Even when he attends a formal ball, he's barefooted.
* HateSink: [[RuleOfThree Like the two villains preceding him]], nothing about Douglas is redeeming. He's a conniving, overconfident, pragmatic criminal willing to kill anyone who even attempts to mess with his empire.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Gets away with everything he's responsible for throughout the story.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: Doug doesn't immediately resort to killing all the time. Instead, Douglas will spare people or pay them off, because he knows that killing them will only lead to more problems.
* SharkMan: He's a giant, burly, anthro tiger shark.
* [[SharpDressedMan Sharp Dressed Shark]]: He's almost always wearing dress shirts and slacks, even inside of his shoe store.
* SmugSnake: ''Reconstructed'', surprisingly. While he's smarter than both Rast and Seamus, he's also overconfident, and this leads to him underestimating how easily Seamus and Rast can kill him if they wanted to. It's ''because'' of this that Douglas inevitably [[spoiler:has both of them killed in a way that makes it seem like he had nothing to do with either murder. And then he later arranges an immunity deal that prevents him from going to prison]].
* ToiletHumour: While he, Rast, and Seamus are all eating pizza in a restaurant, Douglas silently passes gas, just to prove to Seamus why subtlety is so important.
--> '''Seamus''': "Fuck's sake. Are you trying to say you even ''fart'' better than I do now?!"
--> '''Doug''': "[[BluntYes Yes]]."
* XanatosSpeedChess: Doug is fully aware how easily a plan can go awry, and he's able to swiftly adjust his plans or come up with new ones so he'll end up achieving his goals.
* YouNeedABreathMint: After Doug gets too close to Rast in chapter 4, he outright tells Doug to back away because his breath stinks.

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[[folder: Linkard Reid]]
-->''"I rarely ever change my opinions on people. Just tell it like it is."''

A ex-convict and a fan of Rast's snuff films.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Gets shot in the forehead by Rast]].
* BrutalHonesty: Reid is one of the few people who blatantly tells Rast that he has no right to even ''try'' to make up excuses for what he does.
* ManlyGay: He's a chubby, muscular, hairy, cigar-smoking human being who is also homosexual.
* MauveShirt: He has no connection to any of the main characters' primary plots and doesn't appear until the end of the story. He also serves no purpose in the story besides telling Rast that it's okay to be evil, and to [[spoiler:be his scapegoat after Rast rapes and murders an innocent family]].
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Rast gets him to assist in the murders of an innocent family. And then he kills him and leaves his body at the scene, making it appear like he was the only culprit]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Dies after only appearing in two chapters]].

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[[folder: Lamson]]
-->''"Bump it, bruh!"''

One of Rast's gecko friends who attends the same college that he does.
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* BreakTheCutie: He slowly becomes depressed once he realizes that Stercullo is a WretchedHive as the story progresses--especially because he knows he ''cant'' do anything to fix the state of the city. After [[spoiler:Rast is murdered, and the killer gets away]], Lamson is so distraught that he contemplates leaving the city and letting Stercullo rot.
* NiceGuy: Lamson is only recurring character in the story who isn't evil, isn't a {{Jerkass}}, and genuinely cares about others and behaves affably.
* PluckyComicRelief: Deconstructed. Lamson starts out as a silly character who's indifferent about the horrible things going on in the world, and mostly exists to lighten up the tone of the story. But as the plot progresses, it becomes clear that Lamson is troubled by the state of Stercullo, and he desperately wants to do something to help society. When [[spoiler:Rast is killed in the final chapter]], Lamson enters a state of depression, and seriously considers leaving Stercullo because he can't take how pessimistic his environment has become.
* StraightGay: Lamson is homosexual and openly admits it, but he isn't effeminate or camp, and he rarely ever talks about his gay tendencies with anyone--except with Rast, who is also gay.
* TotallyRadical: He constantly says "dude" and "bruh," along with a few other slang terms, bumps his fist as a form of greeting Rast, and dresses in jerseys while wearing a baseball cap backwards. This has not gone unnoticed.
--> '''Rast''': "[[LampshadeHanging Still dressing like those humans did when it was the nineties on their planet]]."
* VerbalTic: Has a habit of saying "bruh" at the end of his sentences.

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