History Characters / TheOuterWorldsDeserters

** [[spoiler:Installing Adelaide as leader of Edgewater and then siding with the Board means she will KillEmAll with you as the person to pull the switch.]]

* StrikeEpisode: The whole plot dealing with them and Edgewater is one of these taken UpToEleven as Spacer's Choice is not just their employer, but also their landlord, law enforcement, healthcare, etc.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is this for the most part, except {{Subverted}} when it comes to Edgewater. She is decidedly ''not'' reasonable there. She wants the whole town to fail because Reed didn't [[spoiler:single out her son for the town's limited supply of medicine -- a choice that would have seen someone else die in his place. Essentially, she wants the whole town to suffer because Reed ''didn't'' play favorites]].

* BaitTheDog: She attempts to browbeat the player for trying to turn off her community's power, but will pivot and claim that a "hero" would do the same [[{{Hypocrite}} to Edgewater.]]

->''"Greenthumb. Grandmother. The strange old lady who keeps flowers. But yes, Adelaide will do just fine."''

* CoolOldLady: Getting on in years but smart as a whip, and despite her flowery speeches, she's one of the better scientific minds in the colony, and practically the only person in the whole Vale with any scientific knowhow whatsoever.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is this for the most part, except {{Subverted}} when it comes to Edgewater. She is decidedly ''not'' reasonable there.

->''"Reed will never understand. He has been too long inebriated on the wine of corporate culture. All he sees is productivity. Output. Profits."''

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Has a mild case of this with her "war" against Edgewater. Reed did indirectly kill her son -- but medical supplies were so tight that he was literally forced to choose between one life and another.

** Is offended if you side with Edgewater and then claim it's ''not'' personal.

* ActionGirl: She's the only one in the entire Deserter settlement with any gun skills and is charged with protecting the town from Marauders and dangerous wildlife. When the UV first arrives at the Botanical Labs they can find a few dangerous animal carcasses that she presumably killed.

! Botanical Labs

The Deserter community composed of workers from Edgewater.

* {{Cult}}: Adelaide calls the Deserters her "flock" and preaches them a nature-worshipping religion. [[spoiler: While hiding her use of corpses as fertilizer.]]
* DoomedHometown: If you side with Edgewater, the Deserter community will be forced to return as their sustainable lifestyle is only possible with electricity provided by the geothermal plant.
* InHarmonyWithNature: Subverted as the reason they can survive in the wild is because of their extensive access to biological sciences [[spoiler: and use of human corpses for fertilizer]].
* MagicVersusScience: More specifically Biology vs. Industrial sciences.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing:
** [[spoiler: Siding with the Deserters results in them turning away all but a handful of Edgewater's citizens and leaving the rest to starve to death. This is due to Adelaide's extreme hatred of anyone with company loyalty. They also will refuse to help in the rebuilding of Halcyon.]]
** [[spoiler: Installing Adelaide as leader of Edgewater and then siding with the Board means she will KillEmAll with you as the person to pull the switch.]]

* {{Utopia}}: Compared to Edgewater where the populace is starving to death, has ThePlague [[spoiler: except not really]], and more. The population here is a bunch of farmers free from disease and possessed of a self-sustaining colony.

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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Adelaide is correct that her settlement has far more sustainability than the city of Edgewater [[spoiler: where they're dying of eating nothing but saltuna, which isn't even real saltuna anymore in the first place,]] and has a great deal more intelligence about how to build a self-sufficient colony. However, her personal beef with Reed means she's willing to turn an entire city into homeless refugees.

* RevengeByProxy: She essentially wants to destroy Edgewater because she holds Reed responsible for [[spoiler: the death of her son.]] She says she hates Edgewater for what it does to people, but that takes a backseat to her personal motive.

* YoureInsane: Her reaction if you state you planned to make her leader of Edgewater all along [[spoiler: by killing Reed then destroying her community's power supply.]]

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[[folder: Adelaide McDevitt]]

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Has a mild case of this with her "war" against Edgewater. {{Justified}} since Reed indirectly killed her son.

[[folder: Thomas Kemp]]

* IncompatibleOrientation: Has a romantic crush on Parvati, and used to follow her around like a puppy when they were kids.

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[[Characters/TheOuterWorldsTheCrew The Crew]] | Factions (Corporations: [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsTheBoard The Board]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsAuntieCleos Auntie Cleo's]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsSpacersChoice Spacer's Choice]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCPBoarstFactory C&P Boarst Factory]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsMSI MSI]]), [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsSubLight SubLight Salvaging & Shipping]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsIconoclasts Iconoclasts]], Other Groups: [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsGroundbreaker Groundbreaker]], '''Deserters''', [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsGorgon Gorgon]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsMarauders Marauders]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsOutlaws Outlaws]] | [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]