History Characters / WhatHappenedInEdmonton

* MulticoloredHair: Kokichi, usually with pairs of contrasting colors.

%%* {{Transgender}}: She's a trans lesbian.

%%* {{Transgender}}: They're nonbinary.

* TheTrickster: Their power literally routinely break the laws of physics for a joke.

* BookDumb: They were kidnapped in first grade, meaning they don’t have that much of a formal education. Still, they’re precocious and learned to read from the handful of comic book pages they managed to keep safe. The fact one of these comics was ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' helped lead to their somewhat unusual sense of humor.

* HairDecorations: When their hair is purple, they add pure gold clips to accent it.

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* GriefSong: I Miss You by Blink 182 started out as a song Courtney and her liked to listen to together whenever they were apart from each other. It became this when Courtney disappeared— with the song in the background. Given all that, it’s easy to see why it became her weakness.
** When the two sisters listened to "I Miss You," they'd sing along, Courtney taking the first verse and Jade taking the second. When you hear or read the lyrics with Calamity's corruption and the associated nightmares in mind, it becomes a strange sort of {{Foreshadowing}}:
--> Where are you?/And I'm so sorry/I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight/I need somebody and always/This sick strange darkness/Comes creeping on, so haunting every time…

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a server at a Newcago casino catering to Epics, his past definitely has its share of trauma, as he essentially had a terrible customer service job taken UpToEleven.

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* AbusiveParents: In ''What Happened in Oregon'' flashbacks, it is hinted that, prior to becoming an Epic, she was emotionally abusive toward Jade and Courtney.

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* KarmaHoudini: His death was supposed to be karmic punishment. That didn't exactly work out very well, given his return

--> ''He leaned back and watched the man´s fear rushing back to him. This time Nighthound's smile was genuine. I love it when their hopespot gets crushed.''

%%!!Arabella:

%%* Transgender: She's a trans lesbian.

!!Taya:
%%* ConMan: More or less played straight, except female.

* TooCleverByHalf: Is extremely good at what she does, can get pretty arrogant about it, and her plans have a strong tendency towards [[GoneHorriblyRight gone horribly right]].
* PowersViaPossession: She’s healed from an incurable poison an Epic inflicted on her, but at the cost of [[spoiler: sharing her body with Nighthound]]

%%* TheCynic: A natural reaction to the above.

%%!!Ray:

%%!!Jacklyn:
%%* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her power.

* BlessedWithSuck: Being very beautiful in a world of horrible people with superpowers is often this.
* TheDulcineaeffect: One of the two/three benefits her powers have. Also the only reason she isn't dead yet.

!!Red:

* BadassLongcoat: It’s red, to match her name, and most people identify her based off of it. She throws it off to fight, though.
* SiblingMurder: She murdered Dawn during her Rending.
* CombatTentacles: Made of blood. They’re part of her upgraded combat capabilities, which she realized she was capable of after reading Tokyo Ghoul at some point in between the end of Oregon and now.

* KnifeNut: She doesn’t even need to cut herself to use her power, she can make her blood burst out of her skin. She just likes them.

* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Her jealousy over her sister’s perceived success spiraled into obsessive levels even before gaining Epic powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: Off screen, she decided to stop wasting her potential by using her power subtly.

!!Kokichi:
* AttentionDeficitDisciple: The poster child for not paying attention. The moment their interaction with [[spoiler: Phytomagnet]] stops looking like it’ll be a fight, they wander off.

* BerserkButton: Misgender them or threaten them. Just try it. You’ll get a truly horrifying NightmareFace

* BookDumb: They were kidnapped in first grade, meaning they don’t have that much of a formal education. Still, they’re precocious and learned to read from the handful of comic book pages they managed to keep safe. The fact one of these comics was Deadpool helped lead to their somewhat unusual sense of humor.

* CuteAndPsycho: Well, the cute part is a matter of opinion, but the psycho definitely isn’t. If you hurt their friend or are their friend and try to leave them, they WILL go into rage mode. Needless to say, a pissed off reality warper is more than slightly terrifying.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: They were kidnapped as a child by Agor, only being freed when the building they were held in is destroyed and he’s brutally killed during Crimson’s Rending.

* DiseaseBleach: Their hair turned white during their kidnapping, before they used their powers to keep their hair a constantly shifting kaslediscope. They’re willing to turn their hair any color or combination of colors except black— their original color- and white -the color forced upon them by circumstance.

* DualityMotif: Color vs white, shown in a variety of ways.

* GenderBlenderName: Somewhat unusually, their original name, [[spoiler: Atsuki]], was one but the name they chose is actually masculine.

* HeightAngst: PlayedForLaughs. They don't actually mind it that much, but over reacting to the relatively common comments about their heights can give them the ability to drop kick people into the sun. Or, as they like to say, 'yeet them into space.'

* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: Although most of their scars were healed when they gained their powers, the [[spoiler: butterfly that Agor carved into their back, more specifically the middle of their shoulder blades,]] with a sharp knife hasn’t faded a bit, a physical representation of their weakness and biggest PTSD trigger.

* PowerIncontinence: Usually they’ve got pretty good control over their reality warping, but given it’s an emotion based power, their moments of BSOD translate into them completely losing their physical ability to fight back, as their strength requires them being able to joke.

* TeensAreMonsters: A 19 year old with a body count.
* TheCoatsAreOff: They throw off their hoodie whenever preparing to fight for real because of this trope.
* TheGlomp: They preform this rather frequently. Lampshaded:
--> ''Anyway, they could see the faintest outline of his back, so they crouched down and jumped towards them, wrapping him with a glompy tackle hug.''

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Before they figured out how to change their hair color but after becoming an Epic.

!!Agor Parker:

!!Quietus:

* SoftSpokenSadist: A big one. He’s introduced torturing rebels and likes trying new varieties of inflicting pain.
%%* TheSociopath: Also definitely applies.
%%* TortureTechnician: In parts his job, in parts his hobby.
%%* ReleasedToElsewhere: The official explanation when Quietus takes an ERA citizen.

%%* DespairEventHorizon: Regularly finds novel ways of [[HopeCrusher pushing others across it]].
* EvilVirtues: Possibly his sole redeeming quality is that he is genuinely a loyal person. [[spoiler: Which doesn't last forever.]]
* CheshireCatGrin: Frequently invoked. Similar to the [[SlasherSmile slasher smile]], but with enough levity to put it in Cheshire Cat territory.
%%* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Half of why Quietus does anything.
* ItAmusedMe: The other half of why Quietus does anything.

!!Epoch:
%%* TimeMaster: His power to a limited degree.
* HatesBeingAlone: In addition to loneliness-related past trauma, this is the only thing that can permanently kill him.
* PragmaticVillainy: Epoch frequently uses legitimate means to further evil/selfish ends, in part because his weakness encourages him to do so. Generally plays the part of a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable authority figure]], albeit a self-interested one.

* TheEmpire: Downplayed. ERA is a [[RepressiveButEfficient repressive, but efficient]] epic regime with an [[TheEvilArmy evil army]] and very expansionistic goals, which controls a fraction of a city.
* WeHaveReserves: Potentially the largest army of formally trained and equipped non-powered humans in Edmonton.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He immediately assumes that Jacklyn must be a [[TrojanPrisoner trojan prisoner]] just because she is a person of interest that actually allowed herself to be arrested.
* EvilPlan: Has one of these to take over the city. Suffers from a mild case of [[ComplexityAddiction complexity addiction]].

%%* {{Expy}}: She's one for Azula from Avatar the Last Airbender.

%%* {{Expy}}: She's one for [[Characters/Avatar the Last Airbender Ty Lee]].

* {{Expy}}: She's one for Mai from Avatar the Last Airbender.
* HatesBeingTouched: Her weakness is [[physical platonic affection]], so it stands to reason she'd prefer to avoid all versions of this.

!!Liam:

%%* Tsundere: To Backtrack
%%* NotQuiteFlight:

!!Karabiner:

* SuperSupremacist: Neo nazi plus superpowers equals... this guy.

%%!!Armageddon:

!!Blank:

* SorryToInterrupt: Blank when they [[spoiler: accidentally black out the city, including the fight scene]]

!!Karina:

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to live in Houston with her cell. Then it, and everyone inside, was Obliterated. Before that, her boyfriend [[became an Epic and tried to kill her]], which relates to how she ended up joining the Reckoners.

%%* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: See above; simply going to Edmonton is one of her arbitrary goals.

* SuperpowerMeltdown: Played with. Nicroburst's power forcefully activates and overcharges the abilities of other Epics. This can be to the Epic's advantage, or it can be this, like when Mac tried to capture him and got reduced to a skeleton.

* Armsdealer: His powers put him in charge of a black market.

* SuperSupremest: Neo nazi plus superpowers equals... this guy.

* CameBackWrong:

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The embodiment of misogyny.
* {{Sadist}}: To the extreme.
* SealedEvilInACan: The can is the [[spoiler: motivator.]] The evil is him.
* SerialRapist: Never actually shown, but very heavily implied if not outright confirmed.

!!Arabella:
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: To Kokichi.
* DeathByOriginStory: She’s only present in flashbacks.
* MoralityPet: To Kokichi.
* Transgender: She's a trans lesbian.

* ConMan: More or less played straight, except female.
* TheApprentice: To [[MasterOfIllusion Jayce Knight]].

* BornUnlucky: One wonder if this is the case, after everything that has happened and will happen to her.
* TheCynic: A natural reaction to the above.

!!Ray:
* FieryRedhead: She’s got a temper, and she has red hair.

!!Jacklyn:
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her power.
* ClothingDamage: Also her power.

* BlackWidow: If you’re not worthy of her, then you might as well die.

* DarkMistress: She’s this to whoever she sees as worthy.

* EvilIsSexy: !InUniverse, this is her opinion and one of her main motivations.

* Yandere: Honestly, just calling her a yandere isn't really accurate, but it's the closest term that manages to describe her murder happy masochist wannabe slave overcompensating... something.

* AnimalMotif: Butterflies.

* BishieSparkle: This happens to them near constantly whenever someone in their age range realizes thy’re there.

* ConfusionFu: They’re a master of this.

* DespairEventHorizon: When their hidden comics are found by their kidnapper.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Their attention span is as short as they are, and they aren’t very tall.

* InstantCosplaySurprise: They do this when changing clothes, though it’s not with cosplay.

* LeeroyJenkins: Their typical approach to combat situations.

* LuminescentBlush: This happens to anyone embarrassed around them.

* MagicHair: Kokichi. Because they weren’t anime enough already.
* MarkOfShame: They view their [[spoiler: back scar]] as this.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Originally.
* ReactionShot: Their power makes these literallly occur around them.
* RealityWarper: Their power, though it’s limited to making the word around them seem like an anime.

* SlasherSmile: Sometimes they kill people. This doesn’t ever effect their usually fun smile.

* ToonPhysics: Their powers cause this around them.
* {{Transgender}}: They're nonbinary.

* Troll: They introduce themself to Liam by [[spoiler: jumping onto their moving van, unlocking the door by slamming through the glass window to reach the handle, and swinging in through the open door]] in order to mess with him. Their first words are, “I call shotgun! And I have a shotgun.” Which they do.

* UpToEleven: EVERYTHING. THEY. DO.

* AnimalMotif: Spiders, in contrast with Kokichi’s butterfly.
* AssholeVictim: Definitely.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: His motivation.

* TheSociopath: Also definitely applies.
* TortureTechnician: In parts his job, in parts his hobby.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: The official explanation when Quietus takes an ERA citizen.
* FateWorseThanDeath: What actually happens when Quietus takes an ERA citizen.
* MoralEventHorizon: Regularly finds novel ways of crossing it.
* DespairEventHorizon: Regularly finds novel ways of [[HopeCrusher pushing others across it]].

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Half of why Quietus does anything.

* TimeMaster: His power to a limited degree.
* HatesBeingAlone: In addition to loneliness-related past trauama, this is the only thing that can permanently kill him.

!!Impact:
* EvilTwin: She’s this to MV.

* {{Expy}}: She's one for Azula from Avatar the Last Airbender.

!!Sangria
* {{Expy}}: She's one for [[Characters/Avatar the Last Airbender Ty Lee]].

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Unintentionally became this to Kokichi.
* MoralityPet: He’s this to Kokichi.

!!MV:
* Tsundere: To Backtrack
* NotQuiteFlight:

!!Armageddon:
* ApocalypseCult: Apocalypse is literally a synonym.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: His backstory, in a nutshell.

* MysteriousWatcher: Was one, but now is taking a more active role in things.
* NeutralNoLonger: Blank is starting to make their move...

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: See above; simply going to Edmonton is one of her arbitrary goals.

* HeroicBSOD: She goes into this easily, usually when she fails and particularly when someone close to her dies.

* SmallGirlBigGun: While she's about average height, the rifle she wields is much larger than the SKS that was the inspiration for it; it's more than half her height, and she uses it as a walking stick.

* AppliedPhlebtonium: She has a motivator, a piece of technology made to replicate the powers of an Epic, in her pocket, which she unintentionally gives to MV.

* SorryToInterrupt: Blank when they [[spoiler: accidentally black out the city, including the fight scene]]

* DontYouDarePityMe: They don’t tell anyone their full past without heavily editing it because they hate being pitied. When they reveal the truth to Liam, they expect him to pity (or hate) them because of past experiences.

** {{EmptyEyes}} when broken, purple ones when normal.

** Their colorful clothes grow increasingly washed out until they’re completely white the sadder they get. (The world around them fades as well, slower than their clothes, while white roses bloom around them)

* EmptyEyes: When broken.
* FlowerMotif: Red rose petals for the side they present to the world, the thorns for their murderous side, and white roses for their past, sometimes with red spots that grow and shrink based on how close they are to a Heroic BSOD.

* KaleidoscopeHair: Colors revealed so far include, in universe chronology-wise: Black, white, blue&oramge, and purple&gold.

* Yandere: Disapoint her and you’ll die.

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Funtimes/Jade Delancey

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Nighthound

* PragmaticVillainy: Epoch frequently uses legitimate means to further evil/selfish ends, in part because his weakness encourages him to do so.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a server at a Newcago casino catering to Epics, his past definitely has its share of trauma.

* MeaningfulName: Delancey is the last name of Discord’s voice actor.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Well, Kokichi saw her as perfect and given they're the only person in the roleplay who ever knew her, any appearances are incredibly biased.

* SurvivalMantra: The meta-mantra "And then Nighthound died," repeated by players whenever he topped himself with yet ''another'' crime against humanity, is sadly no longer effective, now that [[GoodJobBreakingItHero some genius]] made that motivator.

** When the two sisters listened to "I Miss You," they'd sing along, Courtney taking the first verse and Jade taking the second. When you look at the lyrics there, it becomes a strange sort of {{Foreshadowing}} when you listen with Calamity's corruption and the associated nightmares in mind:

* TilMurderDoUsPart: She killed her husband during her Rending.

* GriefSong: I Miss You by Blink 182 started out as a song Courtney and her liked to listen to together whenever they were apart from each other. It became this when Courtney was killed— with the song in the background. Given all that, it’s easy to see why it became her weakness.

* MoralityChain: To Kokichi.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Well, Kokichi saw her as perfect.

* MoralityChain: First, their now very deceased mother figure, Arabella, and now Liam, with [[spoiler: Megan]] potentially being another.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Not a girl, but they are prone to bouncing around and often needs Liam to calm them down.

* MoralityChain: He’s this to Kokichi.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kokichi isn’t a girl, but he’s the guy to their energetic enby.

* TilMurderDoUsPart: She killed her husband.

* MoralityPet: He helps keep Jade in check, although to a far lesser extent than during Oregon.