History Characters / TheSexyBrutale

* TheRedBaron: The artbook calls him The Golden Enigma.

-->"The Sinful Preacher"
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-->"The Clockwork Baron"
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-->"The Brute In A Suit"
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-->"The Moth by Moonlight"
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-->"The Flame In The Dark"
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-->"The Southern Siren"
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-->"The Lightfingered Locksmith"

-->"The Gentle Goliath"

-->"The Midas Giant"

-->"The Blueprint Prince"

-->"The Butlers Brutale"
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-->"The Marquis"

-->"The Red Dove"

-->"The Nightmare Guide"

-->"Deutoronomy Bounde"

* PoisonousFriend: He offers the chance to relive old adventures, but is constantly tempting Boone to resume his self-destructive gambling habits.

* RapunzelHair: Which she deliberately lets touch the floor. It must be hell to maintain, but ''damn'' does it look pretty. It ends up biting her in the ass (quite literally) when it gets stuck in the spider's web.

* TheGoodShepherd: Was a close friend of the Marquis and his wife. He conducted their wedding, and tried to bring out the best in the man. But his "Sinful Preacher" moniker and various hints from other characters suggest he may not be all he appears to be. [[spoiler:He was a drinker and a gambler himself, once, before he cast it away.]]

* NotSoDifferent: He asks Boone to tell their mutual friend (presumably the Marquis) they're alike.

* Fiction500: He owns a huge mansion/casino filled that's filled to the brim with rare and priceless items. [[spoiler:It becomes subverted, as [[RealityEnsues he goes bankrupt]] due to his excessive spending and the casino failing to generate enough income to compensate. He ends up committing various acts of fraud to keep up the appearance of being endlessly wealthy, ultimately culminating in him deciding to burn the mansion down to try and collect on the insurance.]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Turns out in reality, he was an unusually colourful but otherwise normal fish. The Marquis only acquired him because of the stories surrounding him, not because the tales of voodoo were true.]]

He dies in the chapel around 3:45 p.m. Almost everyone in the house hears the shot that kills him, but none of them realize it's a gunshot.

He's the sixth to die, at 10:10 when the lights flicker, though nobody seems to notice the electrical problem. Notable for being one of the two guests other than Lafcadio who saves another guest, the second being his brother Clay.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Harbors feelings for Greyson Grayson, but it's never stated outright.
* GentleGiant: The game points out that he's considerably stronger than his big, muscular brother Clay, but Clay ended up as the Sexy Brutale's bouncer while he was a croupier in the casino and a brilliant pianist.

* SuperStrength: He's much stronger than his brother and will easily open the giant cage and rip out Greyson's restraints given the chance.

He's the eighth to die, at 11:00. He is still alive at the top of the elevator shaft, but falls to the floor right after stumbling out of the elevator.

He's the last to die, at 11:10. The elevator descends with him still in it and his mask is on as he rolls out of the elevator.

* ProperlyParanoid: He's the only one of the guests to get suspicious about the fact that the Marquis and his wife are mysteriously absent, and that all the old staff have been replaced. However, he isn't paranoid enough to consider the idea that the furnace has been hooked up again until it's too late.

* GasMaskMooks[=/=]MalevolentMaskedMen: They all wear card-themed gas-masks, though they have their own personalities rather than being identical. [[spoiler:Though ironically, they're even ''more'' identical when they take their masks off, as they're all the elderly version of Lucas.]]
* [[ExpressiveMask Expressive Masks]]: Despite having gas masks that encase their entire heads, the eyeholes emote just as well as eyes.

[[spoiler:A wild and erratic gambler, Lucas's addiction brought him to the brink of ruin and madness before fortune smiled on him, making him rich beyond his wildest dreams. He created the Sexy Brutale Casino Mansion, but as costs mounted and his priorities changed, he sought a way to escape, resulting in the criminal deaths of those he held dearest and destroying everything he was or dreamed of. Over the decades that passed, Lucas has relived the consequences over and over, unsure whether death or life in torment was the correct punishment.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Although he will never be able to atone for his friends' deaths, because, well...they're dead.]]

* {{Determinator}}: If Lucas put half as much effort into making an honest living as into wallowing in his own guilt, he would likely never have 'needed' to commit fraud in the first place. Even after a NearDeathExperience and 20 years in prison, he never doubts that he ''can'' move on — only whether he should.

* Fiction500: He owns a huge mansion/casino filled that's filled to the brim with rare and priceless items. [[spoiler:It becomes subverted, as [[RealityEnsues he goes bankrupt]] due to his excessive spending and the casino failing. He ends up committing various acts of fraud to keep up the appearance of being endlessly wealthy, ultimately culminating in him deciding to burn the mansion down to try and collect on the insurance.]]
* ForHappiness: He has a knack for helping people relax and enjoy themselves, which is one reason he's such a good host. His HappyPlace is [[spoiler:all his friends dancing in an elaborate ballroom]].
* TheGadfly: He obtained the Moloch Egg simply because he knew searching for it would drive Greyson mad.

* TragicVillain: He meant to commit insurance fraud. [[spoiler:Not to kill his friends.]]

* HappyPlace: The little house at the back of the mansion's gardens, [[spoiler:though it's questionable whether that house ever really existed or it's just a representation of Lucas's dream]].

* MagicMirror: Her mask unlocks an ability called "Eleanor's Mirror Walk" which allows you to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin walk through mirrors]] so you can traverse the mansion more easily.

* ClosedCircle: There's only a blank space of wall where the front door should be.

* HopeSpot: Invokes the trope; he lets Lucas' victims initially enjoy the casino's luxury so that the realization of their impending deaths will shock them more.
* MeaningfulAppearance: His mask resembles the "Golden Skull" painting in the Hell Room showing the skeleton of a young child with beautiful golden hair, likely as a reminder of his dead unborn child.

The cast of VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale and associated tropes. Beware spoilers as details of deaths will be unmarked. Without further ado, let's meet our party attendees!

* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler:He lost his casino to the Marquis in a bet, but the casino was heavily in debt and he'd just received his confirmation of priesthood, so the loss may actually have provided the fresh start he was looking for.]]

* SympatheticPOV: Technically, a lot of the guests are criminals. But they're also a), Lafcadio's friends, b) [[spoiler:his true self's victims]], and c), [[BlackAndGreyMorality not half as bad as the guy murdering them all]], so that fact has no relevance to the game other than providing backstories and joke fodder.

He dies in the chapel around 3:45. Almost everyone in the house hears the shot that kills him, but none of them realize it's a gunshot.

* FailedASpotCheck: After being rescued, he immediately forgets knocking out a homocidal staff member with a candlestick and assumes the man is simply sleeping off some drink.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's the first Guest you save, and before you even get the full stopwatch that lets you play a full day, so you don't get much time to know him. Additionally, since he's in a location far from where you start the game following his tutorial, you won't interact with him nearly as much as with the other guests, who generally mill about more. His death also comes at around 4:00, a third of the way into the day, whereas most of the deaths happen much later, to the point hearing the gunshot across the mansion is something all the staff have to cover for when the guests ask about it. [[spoiler:Despite this, he aided the Marquis in his plans to burn down the Casino in the first place and helped with the creation of the timed incendiary bombs. Were it not for his aid and the Marquis' error in timing them, the mansion would have never burned down with the guests in it and the Marquis wouldn't be so wracked with guilt as to relive and remix the day to the point he has.]]

He's the sixth to die, at 10:35. Notable for being one of the two guests other than Lafcadio who saves another guest, the second being his brother Redd.

* ActionHero: He falls back into his old vices a little too easily, but the moment he sees Trinity is in danger, he immediately drops what he's doing and charges into the garden, fully prepared to ''kill a giant spider with his bare hands'' to save his wife. Even the spider was smart enough to run away from him. A note in the portrait room remarks that [[spoiler:Gold Skull]] tried to kill them ''both'' with the spider in previous loops, but eventually had to resort to separating and poisoning Clay because the spider lost the fight every time.

* MeaningfulName: Many sculptors — such as his wife — work in ''clay''.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He makes light of Trinity and Thanos' disabilities, despite his affection for them.

She's the second-to-last to die, at 11:05, but without Clay to rescue her, she's doomed at 10:35. She's notable for being the only guest you don't save yourself, since you save Clay, who saves Trinity.

* BornLucky: Any bad luck she gets only enables good luck further down the line. She's blind, ''but'' she developed super-senses that mean she'll never lack for money. She got caught scamming a casino, ''but'' that meant she met her future husband.

She's the third to die, at 6:50. Everyone in the house hears the bell as she swings from it, but everyone thinks it's just the bell ringing to call for the special event that's announced to happen at 7.

* BrokenBird: Grinmaw's manipulation of her implies that she's lost a lot of people she cared about and the feelings are raw enough that he's able to convince her to join them. [[spoiler:In the Old Habits ending, it seems the best outcome Lucas can imagine for her is simply to feel happy and contented]].

* DrivenToSuicide: Grinmaw brainwashes her into hanging herself in despair.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Her suicide causes the bell she hangs herself from to ring out across the hotel.
* HollywoodVoodoo: She's described as a genuine voodoo priestess and has supernatural powers.

She's the fourth to die, at 7:35. Her body is actually discovered by another guest, who can do nothing to warn the others.

* GlassShatteringSound: Her high high notes are capable of this, and her instructor was supposedly capable of shattering diamond. The staff use this against her by manipulating her into singing in front of a large glass window so the broken shards skewer her.
* TheResenter: A minor example. She loves Lucas and once dreamed about writing a mean, jealous piece of music about being given up for Eleanor, but outside that moment of weakness, she wishes them both every happiness, and will happily sing a love song written by Lucas for Eleanor if saved.

He's the seventh to die, at 10:45 in the magic show that's been announced earlier that day.

* TheOneThatGotAway: An item example. Greyon was arrested while trying to steal the Moloch Egg, so he was fixated on it forever after.

* ManInWhite: His impeccable white suit complements the purity and clarity of purpose he has in contrast to the shabby Boone and ragged Red King.

* SouthernBelle: This seems to be her aesthetic despite not technically filling the trope due to her "modest upbringing."
* SpoiledSweet: Despite international fame for her singing talent, Tequila is for all intents and purposes a really nice woman. She's remained friends with her ex-lover, even having her own private guest room in his mansion, and the room is incredibly simple and modest, per her request.
-->"I used to sing along to my drunk uncle banging cans together, so I'm sure we can make this work."

* GenreSavvy: He's at least smart enough to be hesitant to walk into what used to be a furnace, though Thanos eventually persuades him.

* HeavenAndHell: Has a pair of rooms themed after each location, and the giant Heaven and Hell Staircase dominates one wing of the house, with stairs leading upward to the chapel or downward into the dark basement.

The antique collector of the Marquis's, Willow hails from the South and has, as the game puts it, a drop of voodoo magic in her blood. Her special candles, when lit, allow her to see spirits if any are nearby. Her special mask ability allows Lafcadio to speak with the spirits if one of her candles are lit in the room.

* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: Is an experienced and talented practitioner of voodoo who was able to seal Grinmaw away. She confronts him to finally put an end to him once and for all... and immediately gets [[MindRape Mind Raped]] into suicide.

* RapunzelHair: Which she deliberately lets touch the floor. It must be hell to maintain, but ''damn'' does it look pretty.

The cast of TheSexyBrutale and associated tropes. Beware spoilers as details of deaths will be unmarked. Without further ado, let's meet our party attendees!