Characters / The Grand Heist II

Characters in The Grand Heist II

Main party portraits are here.

Player Party

Clem Bumbleflick

• Cool Uncle: To all the kids in the Bumbleflick Home for Children.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Obviously.
• Gambit Pileup: Rather good for Clem's alignment, as brain-draining Caspian prevented him from using the poisoned hairbrushes that would have killed him.
• Genderbender: Clem doesn't mind any pronouns.
• Happily Adopted: Along with Bjorn II.
• Humanshifting
• I Just Want to Be Badass: The kids at the orphanage think he is (at least the little ones who haven't heard his stories a dozen times...)
• Impersonation Gambit: All the time.
• Indy Ploy: Obviously need to take the baby intellect devourer home. No need for maps or plans. And just possibly brain drain Caspian as a consequence.
• Just Woke Up That Way: How Aster and Clem learned that Clem was a changeling—Clem came to breakfast one morning wearing someone else's face.
• Master Actor
• Mr. Fanservice: Zigzagged between this and Ms. Fanservice. As a shapeshifter, they exhibit a strong preference for /attractive/ forms of any race or gender.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Bjorn II's twin, Zane. Clem is very glad they had a hot brother.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing
• Shapeshifting Seducer
• Shapeshifting Trickster
• The Charmer
• The Gunslinger: Carries two guns, Eleanor and ... Ridley...(if Clem forgets, they make up a new name on the spot)
• Voluntary Shapeshifting

Lenna Ramison

• An Ice Person
• Blow You Away
• Disappeared Dad
• Lightning Bruiser: Pun intended
• Magnetism Manipulation: How we explain Lenna's ability to create light
• My Parents Are Dead
• Promotion to Parent: For her brother Tevi. 
• Shock and Awe
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Electrocution during a thunderstorm
• Weather Manipulation

Morgan "Ghosteye" Fair

• Accentuate the Negative
• All for Nothing: Attempting to kill Aletheia Ondolirë ended up with nobody harmed (except Morgan landing in prison)
• Anti-Hero
• Aside Glance: If this was The Office, Morgan would be breaking the camera's 4th wall at least 50% of the time
• Assassin Outclassin': Morgan completely fails to kill Aletheia Ondolirë due to a combination of panic and illusion magic
• Boom, Headshot!: Right through the Neckbreaker's neck
• Bounty Hunter
• Broken Bird
• Cold Sniper
• Cynicism Catalyst
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Defective Detective
• Despair Event Horizon: You know, just the death of everyone she ever loved by a monster who spared her
• Dirty Business
• Dispense with the Pleasantries: Morgan cuts off the First Disciple's religious talk, since she really doesn't give a shit about the gods
• Doomed Hometown
• Downer Beginning: Morgan's prologue opened with her recurring nightmare and ended with possibly the biggest failure of her career as a bounty hunter/hitman
• Dysfunction Junction
• Evil Stole My Faith: Stopped believing that gods cared about people when her brother died to some monster for no reason
• Hates Small Talk
• Life Isn't Fair: Mildly amusing given her surname
• Magical Eye: Complete with Eyepatch of Power
• Murder Is the Best Solution
• Nay-Theist
• Nom de Guerre: Ghosteye
• No Social Skills: More just chooses not to use them and stays an antisocial grump
• One-Hit Kill: Kills Kal Neckbreaker with a shot to the neck
• Professional Killer
• Safety in Indifference
• Sole Survivor: Her whole village was killed except for her
• Stealth Expert
• Survivor Guilt
• Troubled, but Cute: Suggested by the GM
• You Can't Go Home Again

Rowan Pineshadow

• Action Girl
• Arrow Catch: After the Guard tried to shoot her
• Bad Ass Normal: No magic. No guns. Just her fists and a stick.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Childhood Friend Romance: With a girl named Cass, for whom Rowan is now searching
• Cool Teacher
• Emotions vs. Stoicism
• Fee Fi Faux Pas
• Love Hurts: Poor Rowan
• Skilled, but Naive
• Socially Awkward Hero
• Technical Pacifist
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Subverted because it's actually a bonus action to shift
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Not really true shapeshifting, but turning into a more wolfish form with an elongated jaw, short fur, longer ears, sharper teeth, and claws
• Wide-Eyed Idealist

Ryizch-lihr "Riley" Zhe

• Ambiguous Gender: Some have problems gendering the 6'3" dragonborn
• Breath Weapon: Ice
• Cool Car: Demon Mom van
• Fish out of Water: Culturally and also literally came out of the ocean after a shipwreck
• Guile Hero: Wit, planning, and paranoia make up her arsenal as much as healing magic
• Half-Human Hybrid: Sort of. Dragonborn are humanoid dragon-like beings
• Naïve Newcomer
• The Paranoiac: Casts Detect Poison and Disease on a lot of things
• Pragmatic Hero
• Sentient Vehicle: Same Int as Val
• White Magician Girl: The main healer of the party. Also a white dragonborn.

Valkyrie

• Achievements in Ignorance
• Action Girl
• Amnesiac Hero
• Amnesiac Lover: Turns out she's actually Rowan's lost lover, Cass
  • In some eyes, Criminal Amnesiac may also be apt, as vigilantes are notoriously subjected to split public opinion
• Amnesiac Resonance
• Animorphism
  • The DM specifically led Val past some animals so that she would have some to shift into, as druids can't shapeshift into animals they have never encountered
• Cloud Cuckoolander
• The Comically Serious: Pure intensity. All the time
• Companion Cube: The subway token that became her druidic focus and her gun
• Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Averted. Lady Colandra had a very hard time reading Val
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: By virtue of being a druid, she is also a literal hidden tiger
• Determinator: Val is always at 100% and can only go up
• Dynamic Entry: Crashes through the VIP box window into a huge festival, interrupting Aletheia Ondolirë's speech
• Easily Impressed: Val is equally surprised by everything
• Emerging from the Shadows
• Entertainingly Wrong
• Establishing Character Moment: Pounces on a potential assassin, breaking through a window and interrupting a speech
• Forgot About Her Powers: Apparently
• For Great Justice
• Gameplay-Guided Amnesia
• Great Detective
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]
• Homeless Hero
• Identity Amnesia
• Improbably Low I.Q.: Val has the same INT stat as an ape
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?
• Literal-Minded
• Line-of-Sight Name: Val took her name from her gun, which has "Valkyrie" written on it.
  • The first time she introduced herself:
    • Tanna: "I'm Tanna, what's your name?"
    • Val: "...Tanna"
• Loss of Identity: Possibly, given that we know nothing of Val's background
• Person Of The City
• Mundane Object Amazement
• Never-Forgotten Skill: Possibly her shapeshifting and all her skill proficiencies: handling guns, deception, insight, &cetera.
• Only One Name
• Quest for Identity
• Reckless Pacifist
• Recognition Failure: Does not recognize the name Aletheia Ondolirë who was the player's character in the first TGH campaign, among many other people famous within Yale City
• Seemingly Profound Fool
• Small Steps Hero
• Stealth Hi/Bye
• Super Window Jump: Attempted through Tanna's cell. Did not work
• The Comically Serious
• The Cowl: The aesthetic, at least
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Played with, as Val had never seen her face in her own memory until she saw her reflection in the train window
• Too Dumb to Fool
• Voluntary Shapeshifting
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: Val is unimpressed by the money she finds in the mooks' pockets.

NPCs

Heroes' Legacy Characters

Bjorn Bumbleflick II

• Generation Xerox
• Happily Adopted: Along with Clem
• Legacy Character
• Orphanage of Love

Caspian Marsk

• All Take and No Give: One of Tanna's frustrations with Caspian is his constant selfishness
• Beauty Is Bad
• Chick Magnet: Has lots of people of multiple genders surrounding him
• Child Popstar
• Evil Is Petty
• Freudian Excuse
• Generation Xerox: Inverted Almost the exact opposite of Jaima
• Jerkass
• Parental Abandonment: His parents are almost always traveling or on cruises
• Singer-Songwriter
• Spoiled Brat

Skalya Barnes

• The Ace
• Ace Pilot
• Adventurer Outfit: Classic pilot gear. Fancy leather jacket with red dwarven runes, leather boots, and a helmet.
• Blunt "Yes": "Do you know what these tattoos are?"
  • "Yes"
• Combat Pragmatist: Bombs, guns, and tricks
• Consummate Liar
• Even the Girls Want Her: Many seem to be smitten with Skalya
• Exact Words
• Dynamic Entry: Explosions
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Able to shoot a kitten out of Clem's hand without hurting him
• Rebellious Spirit
• Stuff Blowing Up: Bombs with fuses, grenades, her own boots...

Tanna Luanzan

• Disappeared Dad: Tanna's mom seems to be the only one around
• Gadgeteer Genius: Understands machines much more than humans
• Genki Girl: Generally pretty excited and happy to talk about things she likes
• Homemade Inventions: Of varying usefulness
• In the Blood: Having fun with risks as well as her magical abilities
• No Social Skills: Equally matched with Val
• Proper Lady: Her mom is trying to make her into the best Lady Luanzan she can be
• Teen Genius: 15 years old and has invented a lot of things

Major Players in the City

Lady Sarina Colandra

• Alpha Bitch: Powerful, but not too nice
• Ambiguously Bi: Had a relationship with Jacob and Eury
• The Baroness
• Battle Couple
• Brainy Brunette: Fancy wizard
• Charm Person: Used frequently
• Compelling Voice
• Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Avoided with Val. Apperently, she is very hard to read
• Happily Married: To Eurypyga
• Healthcare Motivation: Off in the East, looking for medicine for Eury
• Ice Queen: Of what little emotion she shows, it's mostly contempt
• Jerkass: At least in comparison to Rowan's cheerful niceness
• Lack of Empathy: Half of her wanted to abandon the ship passengers
• Last Het Romance: Her last male partner was Jacob
• Marry for Love: The Duke of JE insulted her over marrying a "commoner harlot"
• Morality Chain: Her other half would be really mad at her though
• Portal Door: Creates one to transport Rowan to her office
• Queer Romance
• Statuesque Stunner
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Pale high elf skin and black hair
• Woman Scorned: Slightly angry at Jacob
• Working with the Ex: Sent a letter to the Longpack

Eurypyga Colandra

• Battle Couple
• Happily Married: To Colandra
• Healing Potion: Superior Healing Potion
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gave her healing potion IV to Lenna
• Magical Accessory: Locket with her wife's picture in it. Saying her wife's name causes a purple lily which she says offers some sort of protection
• Meaningful Name: Eurypyga is a forest bird. Also a Punny Name with a Double Meaning, as Eury is a homophone of Yuri
• Queer Romance
• Sickeningly Sweethearts
• Super Wheelchair
• Tear Jerker: Evidently
• Wheelchair Woobie

Jacob Dunn

• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Relationship with Colandra didn't end well
• Cool Old Guy
• Dark and Troubled Past: With Lady Colandra
• Mentor Archetype
• Old Master: with a cool old guy beard to match
• Working with the Ex: Sent Rowan instead of going himself

Purity Quelaroth

• Even the Girls Want Her
• Good Bad Girl
• Heroic Seductress: Seems to honestly care about the well being of her employees
• High-Class Call Girl
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold

Jazric "Jaz" Marsh

• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Doesn't listen to Rowan's advice
• Bad Liar: To Rowan about his crush
• Berserk Button: Unfairness, poverty, inaction
• Caper Rationalization: Taking an unnoticeable amount from jerk nobles
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Beaten down by Rowan
• Justified Criminal: Constantly fired due to being a shifter.
• Karmic Thief: Steals from jerk nobles
• Protectorate: Feels like his crush needs defending

Spitzwocket "Mechi" Mechitorque

• Nice to the Waiter: Very nice to the working class of the ship

Dr. Bernadette Laurent

• Charm Person: Casted on Morgan.
• Omniglot: Specializes in the "Comprehend Languages" Spells, specifically for Aletheian Undercommon, but knows many languages
• Stoic Spectacles

Diana Luanzan

• Doting Parent: Constantly primping Tanna and making her wear fancy clothes
• Proper Lady

Charlotte and Varen Marsk

• Affectionate Nickname: Charlotte is partial to the nickname "darling" for her husband
• The Alcoholic: Both are perpetually a little bit drunk
• Happily Married: They love each other almost as much as they love money
• Parental Abandonment: Frequently on cruises or traveling, they take a backseat on raising Casoian
• Parental Obliviousness: Generally oblivious to Caspian's demeanor, likes, interests, and even birthday
• Pushover Parents: Give Caspian plenty of money and freedom

Malvolian Evenstar Fallwarden IX

• Blue Blood
• Overly Long Name: Malvolian Evenstar Fallwarden IX Baron of the Six Moons and Personal Assistant to Failarhen Milyatal