History Characters / TheOrderOfTheStickHumanPartyMembers

'''Elan:'' Roy, I'm a spellcaster.\\

-->'''Haley:''' Am I drunk enough yet that later, I won't remember [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0747.html getting out-logicked by Elan?]]

* EurekaMoment: It’s heavily implied that he finally realized his own romantic feelings towards Haley when he was wrongfully imprisoned by Nale and started to ''especially'' freak out when he had the sudden revelation that she was now at Nale’s mercy as he infiltrated the Order.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Happens a few times.

** In a fit of irony, he's actually starting to end up on the ''recieving'' end of this trope too. [[TheDragon Redcloak]] soldily recognises him as, if not his ArchEnemy, at least one of the most recurring and dangerous heroes working against him ("Greenhilt. Of ''course'' it would be Greenhilt"). By all accounts, ''Roy'' isn't really aware of ''Redcloak'' except as "Xykln's cleric minion"

** One early comic has Roy decapitating a pair of sleeping goblins. Roy is hardly a paragon of honor or pacifism, but future comics wrote him as someone who prefers to only use lethal force if there aren't any clear alternatives: for instance, an arc in ''On the Origin of [=PCs=]'', which takes place chronologically earlier, shows him going out of his way to negotiate peace with a group of orcs rather than simply wipe them out. Later comics would reserve that kind of behavior to Belkar.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early in the comic he called Vaarsuvius very silly nicknames like "dog" and "V-Man". It's hard to imagine Roy doing something like that nowadays.

** More broadly, he resents the "[[DumbMuscle dumb Fighter]]" stereotype, which is implied to be why he hates Thog so much.

** In early strips, she had a girlish giggle ("tee hee!") that was later phased out.

* FatalFlaw: Not paying enough attention to what's going on around him (because of a crappy [[FailedASpotCheck Spot Check]] and lack of Sense Motive), and [[KnowNothingKnowItAll thinking he knows more about a situation than he actually does]]. As illustrated in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0362.html "Grand Theft Identity"]]. [[spoiler:Even worse, crossing into PoorCommunicationKills, with the Vampire Durkon situation. He refuses to listen when Belkar tries to bluntly tell him, "That isn't Durkon. It's something ''possessing'' Durkon," though Vampire Durkon's quick use of his powers whenever anyone ''too'' reliable tries to share the information is at least partially to blame.]]

** [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html "Bad guys not remembering their evil deeds is something of a pet peeve of mine."]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:He ''nearly kills Belkar'' when the halfling reveals that Durkon has been vampirized, completely ignoring Belkar's use on the team as he's so furious at what seems to be TheMillstone of his guild yet again putting everyone in danger. It's only when Haley points out to him that [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Belkar likely wouldn't be able to properly conceive of]] Durkon's HeroicSacrifice that he accepts the truth and nearly shuts down as a result]].

* BeyondTheImpossible:
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0794.html Strip #794]], Elan seduces a ''succubus''. As in, you know, a demon who is, by her own admission, an evil incarnation of illicit sex.
** A more dramatic case happens in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0936.html Strip #936]], where he manages to effectively '''weaponize an AntiClimax''' against his father and make it a genuinely awesome moment through defying his father's wishes to be anything above the ArcVillain he really is.

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: He has never been seen with an helmet, despite otherwise wearing a lot of armor. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Julia, who sardonically asked if he was absent from fighter school the day they were teaching about them.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Julia accuses him of having this, but in truth it's averted as Roy is too pragmatic for that.

* HeroComplex: Julia accuses him of having one, but in truth it's averted as Roy is too pragmatic for that.

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: He has never been seen with an helmet, despite otherwise wearing a lot of armor. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Julia, who sardonically ask if he was absent from fighter school the day they were teaching about them.

** During his [[YouAllMeetInAnInn tavern recruitment]] of the party in ''Recap/OnTheOriginOfPCs'', after meeting with a refusal from some thirty adventurers, Roy begins to thank Haley for listening and saying that he understands, before realizing she just accepted to join.

* TheLoad: At the beginning of the comic, many jokes are made about his uselessness. Until he [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]], Roy compares adventuring with him to adventuring with syphilis. He leans toward TheMillstone when his music keeps making things worse, and especially when he blows up Dorukan's Dungeon. In the prequel book ''Recap/OnTheOriginOfPCs'', Sir François ditched him when he screwed up one too many times (though unlike Roy, at least it was in a populated, if seedy, city where there was no immediate danger) and Elan's reaction to realizing he was just abandoned indicates this wasn't the first time this has happened.

-->'''Haley''' Well anyway, V says Elan has been running around naked, so I'm off to see what his 18 Charisma is worth "under the hood".

* ChaoticStupid: [[invoked]] Averted; Elan is ChaoticGood and Stupid separately (and has been working on the "Stupid" part... more or less). He still illustrates the trope on its page image, though, taken from one of his silliest moments. However, Elan is less Stupid and more Foolish.

** Specifically when dealing with his ArchnemesisDad near the end of the Empire of Blood arc. To see Elan making the '''extremely'' enraged' face (which depicts the eye socket lines in addition to slanted eyebrows) while delivering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and letting his own dad plummet hundreds of feet from an airship with a cold, blank expression are rather jarring, considering he's a NiceGuy otherwise.

* TookALevelInKindness: Becoming kinder to his teammates and learning to work with their quirks is a major part of his development. In the comic's early days, he had little patience for most other members of the Order and frequently doubted, insulted and generally devalued them, treating some of them as little more than annoyances. By the time the Order reaches Kraagor's gate, he's learned to accept their various eccentricities and treats them all with respect, taking care to involve them in his plans and being empathetic to their struggles. This change is most visible with Elan: Roy went from telling Elan he hates him and abandoning him to be killed by bandits, to asking for Elan's imput on important matters, trying out his silly ideas in earnest and apologising to him for every misstep.

* BareYourMidriff: Though the art style makes it hard to tell at times, her top looks a lot like a leather sports bra. She averts it starting with her resistance leader outfit, and later with her "leather armor" in ''Blood Runs in the Family''. She later lampshades that it was a poor idea: