Line #25 Characters/WakeTheDead


1	Characters from the VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay story ''VisualNovel/WakeTheDead''.
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3	[[foldercontrol]]
4	[[folder:Main Characters]]
5	!!Your Character/Ash Archer
6	The protagonist of the story
7
8	* TheLeader: Becomes leader of the colony after the death of Brynn.
9	* HelloInsertNameHere: Their first and last names are customizable, with the defaults being Ash Archer.
10	* HeroicBSOD: They go into this at the start of Chapter 17 after [[spoiler:seeing Brynn as a zombie, feeling that they could have done something, ''anything'', to prevent this]].
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12	!!Troy Hassan
13	Ash's childhood friend, and black market dealer.
14
15	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Having grown up with Ash in The Tower, he becomes this should you choose to romance him.
16	* FakeDefector: In Chapter 11, he pretended to abandon the group, before busting through the window and knocking one of the Raiders out.
17	--> '''Ash:''' You came back!\
18	'''Troy:''' Wait, did you really think I was leaving?
19	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Subverted. In Chapter 11, he accepted Sledge's offer to walk away and leave Ash, only to ambush the Raiders.
20	* StepfordSmiler: Implied to be this, keeping a lighthearted attitude even when he’s not feeling the best.
21
22	!!Shannon Fox
23	A scientist trapped in a laboratory Ash explored during their birthday
24
25	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite her lack of fighting abilities and somewhat timid and insecure personality, she displays complete fearlessness when dissecting and analyzing gruesome zombie corpses that made even veteran zombie killers gag or throw up. Her analysises and investigations if you decided to pay for them would be extremely crucial to uphold the base for the zombie war.
26	* DamselInDistress: Twice. Ash first discovered her in a sealed room in her laboratory. In Chapter 8, [[spoiler:she and Minna Arbogast are cornered by zombies, and you have to first rescue one over the other. If you choose Minna, Shannon will be traumatized by the event.]]
27	* HappilyAdopted: Shannon was taken in by the Tower Research team as a baby when her family was killed by zombies. She feels more connected to her adopted family than her birth family.
28	* TheSmartGuy: Is the intelligent scientist of the main scouting team.
29	* SoleSurvivor: She was the only living member of her science team when she was discovered.
30
31	!!Elijah "Eli" Sipes
32	A lone inhabitant of a cabin in the forest who joins Ash and co. shortly after meeting them
33
34	* AloofArcher: His primary weapon is a bow and is emotionally distant towards others.
35	* BigDamnHeroes: In Chapter 2 he saves Ash and their group from zombies with his trusty bow.
36	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: If you choose to go with Eli in a premium scene in Chapter 3, Ash saves him from a drone and makes it clear that he will never let him forget it.
37	-->'''Eli:''' Never gonna live this down, am I?\
38	'''Ash:''' Nope.
39	* TheStoic: He doesn't emote much, and is a loner by nature.
40
41	!!Angel Savage
42	A lone resident of an abandoned mall outside of Red Meadows/Olympus
43
44	* BurnTheUndead: She sets fire to a bunch of zombies with a flamethrower in Chapter 14.
45	--> '''Angel:''' Ahahahahaha! Burn, you bastards! BURN!
46	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: If you accept her request to bring her zombie parents to the colony, [[spoiler:they'll kill Mack in Chapter 14, causing her to feel guilty.]]
47	* TrapMaster: Being by herself in an abandoned mall for years has allowed Angel to become one. Unfortunately, the group falls into one of her traps at the end of Chapter 3.
48	[[/folder]]
49
50	[[folder:Tower Escapees]]
51	!!Brynn Archer
52	Ash's older sister
53
54	* BigSisterInstinct: Upon discovering that Ash was targeted for execution by Marcus Blackstock, she quickly brought them out of the Tower along with several others.
55	* EliteZombie: [[spoiler: At the end of Chapter 16, she has been turned into a Zombie Queen]].
56	* HelloInsertNameHere: Her first and last names are customizable, with the defaults being Brynn Archer.
57	* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices herself in Chapter 2 so the rest of the group can escape the Tower and zombies.
58	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: Chapter 20 involves Ash trying to convince her that deep down she's still their sister even after being turned into a Queen Zombie. Succeeding has her join Ash for the final battle against the Queen.]]
59	* TakingTheBullet: Is shot multiple times in chapter 2 after covering Ash from being shot by Blackstock’s guards.
60
61	!!Dirk
62	A resident of the Tower who escaped with Ash and co.
63
64	* AccentuateTheNegative: No matter what Ash chooses for the Hard Choices, he will continue to complain and always has a negative thing to say about what Ash does.
65	* DrivenByEnvy: Hinted at to be part of the reason why he [[spoiler: betrays Ash.]] He becomes increasingly resentful of Ash and at one point sarcastically calls them the “great Ash Archer who can do no wrong.”
66	* EyeScream: If you save Shannon by smashing the glass window, the noise alerts more zombies, and they claw Dirk's eye and kill Jeb.
67	* FaceHeelTurn: After several chapters of him getting more and more fed up with Ash's leadership, he [[spoiler:overthrows them and replaces them with "someone stronger, someone who can take charge".]]
68	* {{Hypocrite}}: He objected to the Raiders helping Olympus, claiming that they'll betray the colony. [[spoiler:Yet he betrayed Ash later on.]]
69	* InVinoVeritas: In chapter 13, when Ash talks to him, he drunkenly admits he wishes Ash died instead of Brynn.
70	* NostalgiaFilter: A part of him regrets leaving the Tower despite Marcus Blackstock's dictatorial leadership.
71	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:If you spared him after his betrayal in Chapter 18, he sacrifices himself to save Ash from Queen!Brynn in Chapter 20.]]
72	* NumberTwo: Acts as Ash’s second-in-command, being in charge of maintaining the colony in their absence.
73	* RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler: If you are nice enough to him and make enough decisions in his favor, he shows regret for betraying Ash in Chapter 18]].
74	* WhatTheHellHero: He spends the first couple of minutes of Chapter 18 berating Ash for their poor decisions (and optionally for not listening to him). These include bringing ''zombies'' into the colony, allowing the daughter of a man they were trying to ally with to be injured, leaving Shannon trapped and scared (causing her to develop {{claustrophobia}} and possibly even PTSD), sparing the life of a tyrannical king (who is still planning to get back at Ash), bringing Eli back to the colony ''after he was bitten'' (and optionally refusing to turn their gun on him, even when it seemed like the cure had failed), and wandering off to rescue some colonists who were already dead. If you smashed the glass in Chapter 1, causing him to go blind in one eye, he even says that he should have known that Ash would bring him nothing but trouble.
75	* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: In Chapter 13, he says this to Ash, wishing that Brynn was alive instead.
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77	!!Cassidy
78
79	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: A premium scene in Chapter 5 allows you to give her a glorious death after she's bitten by a zombie.
80
81	!!Mack
82
83	* SacrificialLion: His (potential) death in Chapter 14 [[spoiler:at the hands of Angel's zombie parents]] is used to show just how far down the line the choices you make can have an impact.
84	[[/folder]]
85
86	[[folder:The Tower]]
87	!!Marcus Blackstock
88	The leader of the Tower
89
90	* DiscOneFinalBoss: He appears in Chapter 18 to take over Olympus with Dirk's help, [[spoiler:only to be killed by Ash with relatively little effort.]]
91	* {{Expy}}: Of The Governor from [[Franchise/TheWalkingDead the series Wake The Dead is based on]]. Both are authoritarian figures who sacrifice their own people for "the greater good", when really he just wants to get rid of people who question his authority.
92	* GroinAttack: In Chapter 18, while Marcus is strangling Ash, Ash can knee him in the groin.
93	* GunStruggle: [[spoiler: He's killed this way in Chapter 18 while fighting for his gun with Ash.]]
94
95	!!Jeb
96	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He only appears in the first chapter regardless of your choices, and is not seen again. One outcome has him killed off barely ''five minutes'' into the story.
97
98	!!Officer Jeong
99
100	* DevouredByTheHorde: In Chapter 9, Ash can kill her this way in the Tournament by pushing her into a group of zombies who tear her apart.
101	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In Chapter 9, Ash can kill her this way in the Tournament if they have the multi-machete or glaive equipped.
102	* LaserGuidedKarma: She was one of Blackstock's guards who helped him feed Tower dissidents to the horde. She can be killed this way as karmic payback.
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder:Sunflower Creek]]
106	!!General
107
108	* ActualPacifist: They don’t use violence on anyone, [[spoiler:not even zombies]].
109	* HonorBeforeReason: They stripped Feather of his status as elder for [[spoiler:killing a zombie that nearly killed May]].
110	* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite being so opposed to violence that they view killing a zombie to save a child's life as a cardinal offense, they still allow the Raiders to kill zombies for them.
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112	!!Feather
113	A former elder of Sunflower Creek
114
115	* MartialPacifist: Feather doesn’t like to use violence[[spoiler:, however, he killed a zombie in order to save a child, May.]]
116	* WhatTheHellHero: He rightfully shames the rest of the Sunflower Creek elders for stripping him of his title for doing the right thing.
117	--> '''SC Elder''': You broke a cardinal rule[[note]]killing a zombie, regardless of circumstance[[/note]]. You're lucky you're allowed to stay here at all.
118	--> '''Feather:''' And you'd rather I had let a child[[note]]May[[/note]] die. Despicable.
119
120	!!May
121	A child Ash befriends in Sunflower Creek
122
123	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:She's the only person hypnotized into the Reno hive queen's lair who didn't die.]]
124	[[/folder]]
125
126	[[folder:Skyweld]]
127	!!Walt Arbogast
128	The foreman of Skyweld
129
130	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Chapter 19 has Walt throw himself into battle with a Soldier zombie, taking it out at the cost of his own life.]]
131	* PapaWolf: He's protective of his daughter Minna and becomes furious if [[spoiler:she gets amputated as a result of not saving her first during a warehouse raid]].
132
133	!!Minna Arbogast
134	The daughter of Walt Arbogast
135
136	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: In Chapter 8, if you save Shannon instead of her, she gets bitten by a zombie, and ends up needing her arm amputated. In future chapters, she sports a [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical arm]]]].
137	[[/folder]]
138
139
140	[[folder:Ironmount]]
141	!!General
142	* GenreRefugee: Compared to the militaristic Tower, the hippie commune of Sunflower Creek, the ScavengerWorld-like Skyweld, and the ''Film/MadMax''-esque Raiders, the knights and citizens of Ironmount would fit more in Choices' more fantasy-based stories like ''VisualNovel/TheCrownAndTheFlame'' and ''VisualNovel/BladesOfLightAndShadow''. Justified, in that they're descended from a Renaissance faire that was going on when the plague started.
143	* SimpleYetAwesome: In their charter, they realized noise draws in zombies, so they eschew firearms in favor of medieval weapons like maces, flails, and polearms.
144
145	!!King Trent
146	The self-proclaimed king of Ironmount
147
148	* AssholeVictim:
149	** Zigzagged in Chapter 9. If you choose to hand him over to his people, they behead him on the spot for all he's done. Aliyah, however, is upset at losing her childhood friend and is more grateful if you choose to spare him.
150	** Played straighter in Chapter 18, when he's revealed to be part of the group of traitors that sold Ash out to Blackstock. If you choose to have the traitors executed (Trent included), only Feather protests (and that's more to do with his pacifist nature in general than anything).
151	** In Chapter 19, he gets killed by a group of zombies while trying to flee the battle (after he was spared twice, no less).
152	* DirtyCoward:
153	** He hid at a stable when zombies attacked Ironmount.
154	** Should he be spared all the way to Chapter 19, he tries to run from the battle, only to trip over his cape, and be DevouredByTheHorde. The achievement you receive if this happens has the description "He died as he lived... a coward".
155	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: If you spare him in Chapter 9, [[spoiler:he joins Dirk in betraying you to Blackstock]].
156	* ManipulativeBastard: He forces people to fight in the arena for his amusement, then lets zombies in to make it interesting.
157	* OffWithHisHead: He is beheaded by his people if you choose to hand him over to them.
158	* RedShirt: No matter what choices you make in the story, he ''will'' die. Handing him to his people in Chapter 9 will cause him to get beheaded then and there. Sparing him causes him to join up with the traitors and will die with them in Chapter 18 if you choose to execute them all. Spare him again, and he'll become zombie breakfast during the Solstice in Chapter 19.
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160	!!Aliyah
161	The reigning champion of Ironmount
162
163	* YouAreInCommandNow: After the zombie attack on Ironmount in Chapter 9 that renders Trent unfit to lead, she assumes the position of its leader.
164	[[/folder]]
165
166	[[folder:The Raiders]]
167	!!In general
168
169	* ThemeNaming: All of them got their nicknames based on the weapon they used during their trials.
170
171	!!Sledge
172	The leader of the Raiders
173	* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite her [[SocialDarwinist philosophy]], she still comes to her group's aid when they need help (one of their members got bitten by a zombie, and was cured by an experimental drug), even though said philosophy dictates that it's their own loss if they can't fight for themselves. Ash can call her out on it in Chapter 12.
174	* JerkassHasAPoint: In Chapter 15, Sledge rightfully tells Ash that Dirk is useless and that their people need them at Olympus after Ash insists on leaving Dirk in charge while they rescue a handful of colonists who were captured and most likely dead.
175	* PromotedToLoveInterest: Starting from Chapter 12, there are options to earn romance points with her, and she becomes an official LI in Chapter 13 after you sway the Raiders over to your side.
176	* TheSocialDarwinist: She is a strong believer in "survival of the fittest", even saying that people who aren't strong enough to defend themselves don't deserve to have what they have.
177	* TookALevelInCynic: When Sledge was younger, she believed in groups uniting and working together, much like Ash does, until she discovered that a colony she worked for was using her people as cannon fodder against zombies. After they took the colony's supplies and left them for dead, Sledge began operating under her current mindset.
178	* VillainRespect: If you fought well against her in Chapter 11, she concedes that you're a worthy opponent.
179
180	!!Knuckles
181
182	* GoodOldFisticuffs: He punched a Soldier zombie to death (after immobilizing it first).
183	* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Boots' Blue. He's violent, hotheaded, and openly threatening, while Boots is more passive.
184	* StraightGay: He's in a relationship with Garrote and shows no gay mannerisms.
185
186	!!Garrote
187
188	* StraightGay: He's in a relationship with Knuckles and shows no gay mannerisms.
189
190	!!Boots
191
192	* FinishingStomp: Though he doesn't like to talk about it, it's heavily implied that he killed a Soldier zombie in this way.
193	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Knuckles' Red. He's levelheaded and intimidating, while Knuckles is more aggressive.
194
195	!!Hatchet
196
197	* AmbiguousGender: They are one of the few canonically non-binary characters in Choices.
198
199	[[/folder]]
200
201	[[folder:Zombies]]
202	!!Drones
203	Ordinary zombies.
204
205	* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Zombies only go down through cranial trauma. Even a NeckSnap isn’t enough to do the job, as Ash can find out should the player make a wrong choice while fighting in Chapter 4.
206
207	!!Scouts
208	A larger zombie type that scours for targets and signals the others with piercing shrieks.
209
210	* FragileSpeedster: Shannon’s autopsy of a Scout reveals that some internal organs, particularly the liver, kidneys, and parts of the intestine, are gone in favor of increased muscle mass, which allows it to move with frightening speed. However, this leaves some vital organs exposed, and attacks to those areas will slow it down.
211	* OverlyLongTongue: Their long, worm-like tongue is their most notable feature. It presumably helps them signal other zombies.
212	* VaginaDentata: The male variants have vertical mouths lined with sharp teeth.
213
214	!!Soldiers
215	A giant zombie used by the Raiders as part of their initiation rites
216	* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its pustules are its weak point. Attacking this during the Raiders' arena battle will earn you a point.
217	* GiantMook: They're the largest and strongest zombie type.
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219	!!Sirens
220	A humanoid zombie with the power to hypnotize others
221
222	* {{Pheromones}}: They lure their prey in with a sweet scent before attacking them.
223
224	!!Queens
225	The queen of each zombie hive
226	* AttractiveZombie: The Reno Queen looks like a tall, attractive woman and has chitinous skin rather than the typical rot and gore.
227	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: They're still sentient [[note]]Rather than dying, future Queens are put to sleep as they transform[[/note]], but the parasite brainwashes them to believe that the zombie hive is their family and that they want to spread the parasite. Strong humans can fight the brainwashing, but they will become even stronger Queens if it ultimately succeeds. [[spoiler: Brynn]] fought the brainwashing for three whole days, and [[spoiler: she can overcome it entirely]] if you make the right choices in the last episode.
228	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Reno Queen seemed to genuinely care about her "children", especially [[spoiler: Brynn]], talking about them in very fond terms and appearing sincerely hurt by [[spoiler: Brynn overcoming her conditioning.]]
229	* FauxAffablyEvil: They're sentient and capable of holding a conversation, and the Reno Queen is perfectly willing to have a polite chat about her motivations. However, she refuses to negotiate a peaceful solution and is just as much of a violent cannibal as any other zombie.
230	* SpikesOfVillainy: They have spikes on their heads and shoulders.
231	* YouCanTalk: They're the only zombie type that can talk.

Context Characters / WakeTheDead