This is the character sheet for the fictional investigative web series/podcast Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye containing tropes that relate to the characters both specifically and in general. Be careful of spoilers below.
- The Twins
- Connor Creek Character List
- Town Council & Candidates Character List
- Miner Mole Inc. Character List
American Podcasting Network (APN)
Lesly Stone
- Portrayed by: Sean Astin
The Head of the American Podcast Network (APN) and the twins' boss.
- Absurd Phobia: Identical twins creep him out because "they're basically the same person," but fraternal twins do not.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Calls himself impulsive, and often cuts himself off mid-phrase when he has an idea.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: His primary quirk.Lesly: I hate it.Artemis: Right? It's terrible that the Boy Scouts of America, this long-standing, honored, wholesome—Lesly: No, I hate the idea.[After Paul pitches Ryan's story]Lesly: I hate it.Paul: But it's—Lesly: No, no, no. No, I hate that he's made to feel unsafe in his own hometown. My God, this story - this story has got everything.
- Clueless Boss: Keeps forgetting that the Ryan Reynolds from the case is not the actor Ryan Reynolds.
- Control Freak: Calls the twins often to keep track of their progress. He even calls the Dead Canary without them knowing to ask the barkeep how they're doing.
- Da Editor: As Head of APN, he's the one who approves the stories, so he counts as this.
- Manchild: Often shown playing with the stress balls in his office.
- Mean Boss: Though he's gracious to Artemis, he is notably dismissive of Paul and harsh to Rebecca. He is not afraid to be blunt with his criticism either.
- Parental Favoritism: While not Artemis and Paul's father, Lesly expects a lot from them and notes that he loves Artemis like a dad. But based on his dismissiveness of Paul, this only applied to Artemis.
Rebecca
- Portrayed by: Jacqueline Emerson
The Beleaguered Assistant.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Her main job seems to be tending to Lesly's needs until she can run an idea past him and get her big break. Unfortunately, Lesly rejects her idea so badly it causes her to burst into tears.
- Boss's Unfavorite Employee: Rebecca's idea is rejected so badly she runs out of the office sobbing (it's Played for Laughs, though). While Lesly is also pretty forgetful of Paul, he doesn't yell at him the way he does at Rebecca.
- Your Makeup Is Running: In her first appearance after making her pitch to Lesly, signaling that Lesly is not in a good mood.
America's Favorite Podcast Host
- Voiced by: Spencer Devlin Howard
The host of Season 1 of the Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye podcast, who leaves some big shoes for Artemis and Paul to fill.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Spencer Howard is obviously doing an impression of Ira Glass from This American Life.
- No Name Given: He's credited only as "America's Favorite Podcast Host".
- Retroactive Legacy: The Show Within a Show Wayward Guide has already finished its first season and what we see is actually Season 2 — the idea being that Artemis and Paul have a ton of pressure on them as newcomers with a
Tough Act to Follow, rather than being the ones who actually started the Wayward Guide franchise. -
Short-Lived, Big Impact: He apparently hosted an extremely popular and well-reviewed inaugural season for the Wayward Guide podcast before immediately announcing his retirement, launching a feeding frenzy of aspiring podcasters seeking to take his place. - Shrouded in Myth: We hear absolutely nothing about who he is, what his relationship to Lesly, Artemis or Paul is like, or what Season 1 of Wayward Guide was even about.
- The Voice: He's only "appeared" briefly as a voice in the first episode of the series.
Other
Gas Station Attendant (Andrew)
- Voiced by: Jon Matteson
- Character Overlap: Getting to meet the Gas Station Attendant from The Solve-It Squad Returns!'s unseen boyfriend/partner Andrew is the first indication of a potential TCB Shared Universe.
- Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: While he's not as creepy as this trope usually implies, he fills the role well, directing the twins to Connor Creek and warning them there's only a single-lane, winding road into town.ARTEMIS: I could've done without him.
Liam White
- Voiced by: James Tolbert
- The Blind Leading the Blind: Paul consults him as a "professional expert" on werewolves, but most of his information is based on films or unproven conspiracies and doesn't completely line up with what the twins know about the werewolves of Connor Creek. Justified by Paul, who says Liam’s "as legitimate as it gets when you’re talking about such fringe ideas."
- Conspiracy Theorist: Believes in werewolves, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster, and thinks the lack of evidence is because "society doesn’t give people the space to explore the truth."
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: While most of his information is based on hearsay and doesn't apply to the Connor Creek wolves, he does get one thing right: only a silver bullet or the claw of a werewolf can kill a werewolf. The bullet is proven by Truman's death, while the claw theory was proven by Odie's death.
- Mr. Exposition: Drops a bunch of information on the history of werewolves in folklore.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Implied, considering he's the head of a paranormal society and his main source of werewolf lore is the Underworld (2003) movies ("But not the ones without Kate Beckinsale").
- Stock Legal Phrases: Somehow brings "legal precedent" into a discussion about werewolves.PAUL: So, is it true that werewolves only transform during a full moon?
LIAM: Well, would I say that argument holds up in a court of law? No, there’s no legal precedent regarding beasts of the night. But the monthly lunar cycle is a staple of our historical findings. - Tuckerization: Liam's name is a Creator In-Joke about filmmaker and friend of Team Starkid Liam White (who has appeared in a Tin Can Brothers sketch As Himself in the past as the TCBs' fourth roommate). Specifically, it may be a reference to the song "Liam's Got a Phone Call", a song Liam's former roommates Darren Criss and Matt Lang wrote about Liam frequently getting phone calls at the apartment — since the character Liam only appears in the podcast when Paul calls him at the apartment.
- You Owe Me: Downplayed. While Liam doesn't force Paul to pay him for his information, he does take the opportunity to remind Paul about his unpaid utility bills (partially because he owes money to some intimidating LARP'ers).
