History Characters / WestOfLoathing

->'''Player:''' Well Doc, it's time to sort this Necromancer out once and for all. Are you ready for this?
->'''Alice:''' I'm takin' a break from my Hippocratic Oath for a spell. [[DramaticGunCock [Alice cocks her shotgun.]]] Let's go do some harm.

* KnightOfCerebus: While his {{Cult}} is pretty wacky and incompetent at times, Roberto himself is played almost entirely seriously. The effects of his BrownNote are responsible for many of the most nightmarish scenes in the whole game, and the threat he represents to the planet is ''very'' real: [[spoiler: if the player doesn't attempt to repair his containment field, or fails to do so, Roberto ends up bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in the epilogue]].

** The pool ghost's method of death is only mentioned [[spoiler: in the pacifist run and summoning them all at the end]], in which he was shot for cheating at pool.
** The two exceptions are Felicity and [[spoiler: Mrs. Gun.]] Felicity was killed in trial by combat, [[spoiler: and Mrs. Gun simply never realized she had died a long time ago.]]

* PacifistRun: It’s possible to simply kill them all, but all have requests that can be filled so they’ll pass on peacefully instead. [[spoiler: And your efforts will be rewarded by all of them teaming up to kill Chet.]]

!! Chet Bullet

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* AllWebbedUp: There's a few supply caches [[spoiler: and one museum gift shop employee]] wrapped in their silk.

* HarmfulToMinors: The ghost girl was attending a party when a gunfight broke out, and she was killed by a stray bullet.

* WhatAnIdiot: If you choose the non-violent option, you can convince them to toss their weapons and you won't do something to them. They comply and you do it anyway.[[note]]Depends on your class; a Cow Puncher will rough them up, a Beanslinger will ???, and a Snake Oiler will arrest them[[/note]]

* SkewedPriorities: More often then not, their response to how they died is more or less, "Eh, it happens."

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:She's a ghost. Boo!]]

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[[folder: Chet]]
Chet Bullet, the mastermind behind the mansion's haunting. Since all of the ghosts were killed, not by guns, but by ''bullets,'' he's actually the one they're mad at, not Mrs. Gun. They themselves don't understand this at first.

* MagicFromTechnology: He uses a Seance Machine and an Anti-Ghost Field to summon, and protect himself from,the ghosts.

* VengefulWidow: Spent years DrowningHerSorrows after the cows killed her husband and their children. She follows the player character for a chance at revenge.

* NiceHat: Each one has a stylish black hat, as the name implies.

** You do not appear to be fully immune, there are some caves marked with spiral drawings where if you look at too many of them your character will refuse to proceed into the next room and you start receiving the message "you have to get out of here" over and over unless you retreat back to a previous room where they appear to instantly recover.

* GeneticMemory: Goblins grom from spores and retain the memories of, and to some extent identifiy themselves as, the TrulySingleParent who spawned them. For his part, Gary remembers things like a garden he once had, even though the Gary you know technically grew in the basement in Boring Springs where you find him.

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* {{Necromancer}}: Duh.

* GracefulLoser: The hunter, poacher, pool player, and lawyer's pacifist methods all involve either beating them in a game (hunter and pool player) or proving them wrong about something (poacher and lawyer). Once you've done so, they're fairly content with how it went (though the poacher is still befuddled).

* KnifeNut: His circus act is throwing knives.
** KnifeThrowingAct: You get "volunteered" as the lovely assistant.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Nope. He's the mastermind behind the Cows Coming Home.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Felicity, the lawyer. Her subquest is immensely longer than the others, follows its own subplot rather than just being a simple task, and her boss fight is basically just her surrendering to her fate. Completing it even requires [[spoiler: finding the grave away from Gun Manor on the map.]]