Line #56 Characters/ErinDiesAlone


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2	[[foldercontrol]]
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4	!Main Characters
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6	%% by Word of God ( https://twitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/807607983332933632 ) EDA!Erin's name isn't Stout
7	[[folder:Erin]]
8	[[quoteright:137:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_09_19_at_102357_pm.png]]
9	[[caption-width-right:137:Do I look crazy to you?]]
10	Our heroine, who has not left her home in two years. She suffers from some sort of mental illness that causes her to see hallucinations of video game characters, and experience games as if she was in them.
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12	* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In ''Critical Miss'' Erin had her downer moments but still enjoyed gaming and her friends. Here she has completely given up on the world and everyone in it.
13	* [[AteHisGun Ate Her Gun]]: Played for laughs as she attempts this when she learns that ''Gunlord'' is nothing but CaptureTheFlag. Fortunately her weapon is broken.
14	* CovertPervert: When Althea said she was going to flash Gunny, Erin immediately [[HaveAGayOldTime thought of one of the modern uses of the term]]. She actually meant she was going to blind him with a flash of light.
15	* TheHermit: Erin hasn't left her apartment for at least two years.
16	* PlayingPossum: Does this in order to sneak into Shard Corporation during ''Ultimate Saga VII''.
17	* TheStoner: Weed is Erin’s sustenance apparently.
18	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Because she's female Erin is force to wear skimpy outfits while playing ''Vampire Fortress'' and ''Ultimate Saga VII''. She is not amused when this happens.
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21	[[folder: Rad Panda]]
22	[[quoteright:169:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_09_19_at_102434_pm.png]]
23	[[caption-width-right:169:Are you having a radical day?]]
24	The main character of a popular 1990s video game franchise. He was Erin's imaginary friend when she was young and wants to help her get out of her funk.
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26	* AllLovingHero: Rad is the kindest and most trusting character around and always tries to be friendly to everyone, to the point of naïvety as he believed that an evil organization would send the group a coupon for soda and not attack them if he told them their exact location.
27	* BerserkButton: He does not like being called a raccoon.
28	* BlackMage: Selects this class in ''Ultimate Saga VII'' despite Erin suggesting that he try a simpler class.
29	* CatchPhrase: "Hey Babe. Are you having a radical day?"
30	* CuteLittleFangs: His default expression includes them.
31	* TheDitz: Rad isn't very smart.
32	* {{Expy}}: Of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''.
33	* HandwrapsOfAwesome: Tries wearing these to update his image to appeal to the more edgier modern gaming audience. Unfortunately, [[HilarityEnsues he used duct tape on his fur]].
34	* HiddenDepths: Despite his role as TheDitz he knows a great deal about crystal chemistry.
35	* {{Hypocrite}}: Poking fun at the attitudes about violence in the 80s and early 90s, Rad hates picking fights with other people but thinks it's fine to shoot other sentient species as long as they're not humans. All while ignoring the fact he's not human himself. Lampshaded by Erin.
36	-->'''Erin:''' That seems inconsistent, perhaps even bigoted when you think about it.
37	* NonHumanSidekick: To Erin.
38	* PuppyDogEyes: Rad Panda's persuasive technique. It keeps Erin off the pot for at least a day.
39	* TheMcCoy: Rad is totally dedicated to doing what is right even if it means ignoring the very rules of the game he is playing. This creates friction with Gunny being, TheSpock, who will initially abandon a friend if it means completing a mission.
40	* TotallyRadical: Rad Panda just oozes the 1990s.
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43	[[folder:Gunnery "Gunny" Sergeant]]
44	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erindiesalone_gunnypic.png]]
45	The protagonist of ''[[Franchise/{{Halo}} Gunlord: Combat Enhanced]]''.
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47	* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his left hand in a DeliberateInjuryGambit against Daedalus.
48	* BadassInDistress: After fighting Daedalus in ''Ultimate Saga VII'' he is captured by Shard Corp.
49	* {{Brainwashed}}: By Shard Corp. after his capture.
50	* TheComicallySerious: Due to using military terminology and logic for every situation, no matter how mundane. He comes into this role even more after he moves into Erin's apartment and starts commenting [[TheSlacker on]] [[TheStoner her]] [[TrashOfTheTitans lifestyle]].
51	* DisneyDeath: Seemingly [[DeathIsDramatic dies dramatically]] at the end of the ''Gunlord'' arc, only to show up perfectly fine - despite retaining his injuries - at Erin's apartment. He handwaves the experience as simply a "healing coma".
52	* DuctTapeForEverything: How he patches up the hole in his torso, after recovering from his DisneyDeath.
53	* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/{{Halo}} the Master Chief]].
54	* TheFaceless: Is never seen without his dome helmet, and in ''Ultimate Saga VII'' he simply wears his class' hat on top of it.
55	* {{Foil}}: To Rad Panda. Rad is an [[LighterAndSofter idealistic]] and [[TotallyRadical cheerful]] retro character, while Gunny is a [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty]], [[TheStoic stone-faced]] modern first-person-shooter protagonist.
56	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He has gotten a sword put through him ''twice''! Once in his own game and once in ''Ultimate Saga VII''.
57	* ImpaledPalm: As part of a DeliberateInjuryGambit against Daedalus.
58	* NotSoAboveItAll: He initially scoffs at Erin and Rad playing video games all day long. He then starts backseat-gaming Erin, before simply demanding that she hand ''him'' the controller.
59	* OneManArmy: He takes on an army of aliens and the series' equivalent to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Shinra]] single handedly and pretty much beats both until the Boss characters step in.
60	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Takes this role after leaving his game, encouraging Erin to start eating better, exercising, and improving her overall living conditions.
61	* TheSpock: Adheres to logic (or at least his version of it) whenever possible, and is utterly focused on the mission at hand. This creates a brief falling-out between him and Rad Panda, due to Rad being TheMcCoy.
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64	[[folder:Althea]]
65	[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_09_19_at_102523_pm.png]]
66	[[caption-width-right:178:"I'm just the Healer."]]
67	A supporting character in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Ultimate Saga VII]]'' that joins Erin's group when her team in captured.
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71	* ActionGirl: During the group's infiltration of Shard Corp. she does almost all of the fighting.
72	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Most of the people around her when she was growing up avoided her because she was better at fire magic than healing magic.
73	* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Most elves possess an affinity for healing WhiteMagic, and have blonde hair and blue eyes. Althea, meanwhile, was born with a rare affinity for [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]], and instead has pink hair and red eyes.
74	* BadassAdorable: Once she embraces her [[PlayingWithFire true magical talent]], proceeds to take on her game's Sephiroth stand-in ''and an entire army of mooks'' single-handledly with lots of fire and about a dozen fire-elemental summons. By the time Erin and Rad check in on her, she's not even being strained, while putting the enemy hopelessly on the defensive.
75	* BadassBookworm: Her magic training required a lot of reading, and then she gets her hands on an actual {{spellbook}}.
76	* BerserkButton: [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/erin-dies-alone/17296-Chapter-6-45 Do not imply]] that the ancient crystal beings are evil or she will "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill boil your brain till it bursts from your smoldering skull]]".
77	* BewareTheNiceOnes: She may seem sweet and innocent but she also ''really'' seems to enjoy using her fire magic '''on people'''.
78	* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith Gainsborough]]
79	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she accepts her affinity for fire magic she gets these.
80	* HardWorkHardlyWorks: She gets both sides of this. After dedicating her life to it and struggling all the while she's barely passable as a healer. However, she takes to fire magic LikeaFishTakestoWater and becomes a combat monster the minute she finds Rad's book. Whoever placed her in her study program at school apparently did a ''terrible'' job.
81	* JumpedAtTheCall: The second she was offered the position of Landslide's healer she took it because she wanted to live up to her peoples' expectations.
82	-->'''Althea:''' "I listened [to the Elemental Crystal] for hours, but the details were unimportant. I was wanted. I was needed."
83	* LetsGetDangerous: After she accepts she is not suited to be the team's WhiteMage and "borrows" Rad's spellbook. [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/erin-dies-alone/17226-Chapter-6-31 She is ready to throw down.]]
84	* TheMedic: As she is the stand-in for Aerith in ''Ultimate Saga VII'' this is her initial party role. Turns out she's apparently far more suited to ''[[PlayingWithFire fire magic]]''.
85	* PlayingWithFire: She is ''much'' better with fire magic than at healing.
86	* PointyEars: As an elf, this is only to be expected.
87	* PsychoticSmirk: As seen [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/erin-dies-alone/17448-Chapter-6-54 here]].
88	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her red eyes are a sign of her affinity for fire magic, and she gains bright red MonochromaticEyes whenever she channels it.
89	* SarcasmBlind: Like most of the cast of ''Ultimate Saga'', much to Erin's frustration.
90	[[/folder]]
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92	!Other Characters
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94	!!''Gunlord: Combat Enhanced''
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96	!!''Ultimate Saga VII''
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98	[[folder: The Elemental Crystal of Light]]
99	The BigGood [[spoiler:and BigBad]] of ''Ultimate Saga VII'', whose race is being slowly destroyed by the Shard Corporation grinding elemental crystals up to make their soda.
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101	* BigGood: Established as this, and it gathers up the various protagonists to fight the Shard Corporation. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted, however.]]
102	* BigBad: [[spoiler: Turns out to be this, as it created the Shard Corporation in a bid to take over the world through the Shard Cola.]]
103	* InsistentTerminology: It insists that it is an ''elemental'' crystal, despite Erin and Althea both pointing out that Light is not a scientific chemical element or a classical element like fire, wind, water, and earth.
104	* MayContainEvil: [[spoiler: Part of its plan, as Shard Cola contains powderized elemental crystals. This allows it to create PeoplePuppets out of anyone who regularly drinks the soda; which encompasses nearly everyone in the world of ''Ultimate Saga VII'' by this point.]]
105	* WhamLine: "Fair Althea. So brave. So loyal. [[spoiler:So stupid.]]"
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108	[[folder:Landslide]]
109	The protagonists of ''Ultimate Saga VII'' are a group of heroic eco-terrorists summoned together by the Elemental Crystal to defeat the Shard Corporation.
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111	* {{Expy}}: Collectively of AVALANCHE, and the group includes expies of Cloud Strike, Tifa Lockheart, Aerith Gainsborough, Vincent Valentine and Barret Wallace.
112	* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The members of Landslide consider themselves a "protest movement", but a captive {{Mook\|s}} quickly points out that they are officially eco-terrorists and that they routinely blow up factories full of innocent workers. This is [[HypocriticalHumor soon supported]] by all of the Tifa-expy's pitched plans amounting to terrorist acts, including bombing buildings, kidnapping/assassinating officials and hijacking airships.
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115	[[folder: Shard Corp.]]
116	The antagonists of ''Ultimate Saga VII''; a soft-drink corporation that is harvesting sentient magical crystals as ingredients.
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118	* EvilInc: Of the Type 3: Cartoonishly Evil variety.
119	* {{Expy}}: The entire company is a less competent version of Shinra Inc.
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122	[[folder:Daedalus]]
123	[[quoteright:321:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_10_12_at_50645_am.png]]
124	Shard Corp's highest enforcer, and TheHeavy of ''Ultimate Saga's'' story.
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126	* AnArmAndALeg: Gets his right arm blown off during his duel with Gunny.
127	* ArtificialLimbs: Said lost right arm is replaced by a skeletal arm made out of crystal.
128	* TheDragon: Is this to Shard Corp. CEO Raymond Shardee. [[spoiler: Or not. Turns out he's actually working for the Elemental Crystal.]]
129	* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] who is an expy of [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIV Psaro the Manslayer]]. Making him an expy of an expy.
130	* TooManyBelts: He wears three.
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133	[[folder:Raymond Shardee]]
134	[[quoteright:107:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raymond.png]]
135	The CEO of the Shard Corporation.
136	* FailedASpotCheck: He tries to lie about his identity in front of a giant titled portrait of himself while in his office.
137	* {{Hypocrite}}: He refuses to drink his company's soda because it contains to much corn syrup while knowingly ignoring the fact the same soda [[MayContainEvil contains mind controlling crystals]].
138	* OhCrap: Between being held at gunpoint by Erin, betrayed by Daedalus, and Althea threatening to light him on fire he has quite a few of these moments.
139	* SarcasmBlind: Chapter 156 shows him trying to figure out the concept.
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