Twilit Overture/Characters

Twilit Overture, as a long-running tabletop rpg campaign, has an insane variety of characters, with several tropes for each.

Niccolo
""Holy Special!""

Dreamaniac's first character, Niccolo joined the party after a bizarre shipwreck left him stranded in the future.


 * The Atoner : Sold the souls of his corrupt noble father's family, believing them to be irredeemably evil. Realized afterwards that this was a grade-A idiot move, and seeks to somehow redeem the souls he condemned someday.
 * Badass : He's nowhere near as tough as most of the characters, and he's still a badass.
 * Badass Longcoat : Had one for a while, dumped it during the group's trip to the desert. If his Future Badass self is any indication, he finds another one eventually.
 * Blasting It Out of Their Hands : One of his class abilities, useful when party members are at each others' throats.
 * Combat Pragmatist : Equipped his boots with alchemical silver spikes specifically for the purpose of kicking vampires in the nads.
 * Deal With the Devil : A remarkably decent one at the cost of his entire living families' souls. He desperately seeks to undo it. However, as of 2.0 it may have finally caught up with him.
 * Depleted Phlebotinum Shells : "Silver Express" bullets: Silver-tipped bullets hollowed out and filled with garlic and holy water. Perfect for your vampire, undead, and lycan killing needs.
 * Face Heel Turn : At some point in the five years between 1.0 and 2.0, this happened to him.
 * Fallen Hero : By 2.0, Niccolo has fallen far from whatever heroic ideals he had.
 * Faustian Rebellion : Subverted. He has the ability to condemn souls, and has one hundred souls-worth of favors from the devil. Instead of trying to use them against the devil, he simply refuses to use them at all.
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water : Of the PCs in the old campaign, Niccolo had the weakest case of this.
 * Future Badass : Niccolo meets himself at one point. And comes away with a Ranked Ability.
 * Future Me Scares Me : Meta example. Upon hearing the description for what is probably the future version of Niccolo, Dreamaniac was... freaked out, to say the least.
 * The Gunslinger : It's his prestige class!
 * Guns Akimbo : Dual-weilding revolvers is his specialty.
 * The Heart : Of the old party's Five-Man Band, he was the most empathic. It helps that he was also Bishonen.
 * Heroic Bastard : His father was a corrupt, philandering English nobleman, and his mother was an Italian whore who was quite pious in most other regards.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills : Part of his class abilities. However, he's not as insanely accurate as some examples of this trope.
 * Limit Break : "Rank One! FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!"
 * Love Epiphany : Realized around the end of the Old Campaign that he was beginning to fall for M.
 * Marty Stu : If you go by his Backstory, he appears to be a blatant one, but for all practical purposes he was actually one of the weaker party members.
 * Marked Bullet : His "Unholy Special" bullets condemn the souls of their targets to hell. He never actually takes advantage of this effect, though.
 * Motive Decay : He was supposed to be serving his queen and country. Now he's just trying to keep his party members from killing each other.
 * Neutral Good : He's a nice guy, and is certainly the most moral of the party he joins.
 * Overt Operative : Before joining the party, he worked for Her Majesty's Secret Service. With an outfit like this.
 * Put On a Bus : Along with the rest of the party.
 * Quick Draw : One of his specialties with his revolvers.
 * Revolvers Are Just Better : Mostly because nothing better has been invented yet.
 * Wham! Line / Establishing Character Moment : In 2.0, it's "I only said I'd explain. I never said you'd leave here alive."

Zeike von Seiren
""There's much more burning where you're going.""

Pronto's first character, Zeike tore through everything in his path with zeal and skill was devoted to the Anheim organization.
 * Badass : Hell yeah.
 * Badass Longcoat : Made out of fur. With metal attachments.
 * The Big Guy : His character was a combination of this and The Hero in the old parties Five-Man Band.
 * Chainsaw Good : Which is why he has one mounted on his cross.
 * Chaotic Good : Generally his motives are altruistic, he just doesn't mind fighting the power while working towards them.
 * Chaotic Evil : His Werewolf self... just look at the next one.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome : Stuck on a ship, on a full moon, with a vampire that it is insinuated may be a piece of Dracula. What does Zeike do? He tears through the ship, opens the coffin, makes a Shout-Out to The Giver, then in Werewolf mode, does battle on the ship with the vampire, using only claws and chunks of wood, whilst yelling "I...WILL...MURDER YOU!" over and over.
 * Flaming Sword : Overlaps with BFS: eight feet long and flying.
 * The Hero : His character was a combintation of this and The Big Guy in the old parties Five-Man Band.
 * Hot-Blooded : When he's fighting. Dear god, when he's fighting. So much that he once turned a being made of sand into glass.
 * Impossibly Cool Weapon : Giant cross? Check. Giant cross with a chainsaw mounted on the side? Check. Giant cross with a chainsaw mounted on the side and two small firearms, a grappling hook and a Gauss cannon built into the frame, on fire? Check.
 * Incendiary Exponent : Zeike even lights himself on fire, just to increase his combat effectiveness and look more intimidating.
 * Kill It With Fire : Zeike's general solution to most problems.
 * Large Ham : When he gets into a fight... yeah.
 * Limit Break : "Rank V! HELL'S FURNACE!"
 * Names to Run Away From: Ezekiel Vey Sairen, Chosen One of our lord of fire and destruction
 * Our Werewolves Are Different : They're called Lycans. However, they're fairly similar to the "standard" werewolf.
 * Put On a Bus : Along with the rest of the Old Party. Recently showed up in a blatant AWESOME cameo role.
 * Pyromaniac : Zeike in a nutshell.
 * Shout-Out : Hmm where do we start?
 * His first name is a reference to the the prophet Ezekiel
 * His Weapon is a shout out to Nicholas D Wolfwood though beyond the shape it doesn't have much in common
 * When he killed patch he read Ezekiel 25 17
 * And for the longest time his motto as a Chosen One was ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER!
 * Took Another Level In Badass : Sometime between the old campaign and the new one, he became even more badass then he was before.

Xivlan
""AHAHAHAHHAHAAH! DO IT, PATCH! SHOOT ME AGAIN AND PROVE THAT I'M RIGHT!""

XIVcaliber's first character. The source of much inner-party strife due to his absolute hatred of humans.


 * Axe Crazy : This is obvious in the fact that he wants all humans dead. He will also kill anything that seems like an obstacle to him. Including his own party members.
 * Annoying Laugh : See Laughing Mad.
 * Backstory : Raised in a Malphas town in Poland, an Inquisition raid took the lives of his parents and townspeople, forcing him to live with his cousin and start hating humans for branding him as a "heathen". From then on, he started practicing medicine to make humans look up to him. This eventually deteriorated into mania as he started seeing weird shit while traveling.
 * Badass : A must.
 * Berserk Button : "HUUUUUUUUUMAAAAAAAANS!"
 * Blood Lust : For humans.
 * Break the Haughty : His entire life. He hates humans a lot.
 * Chaotic Evil : For the second half.
 * Chaotic Neutral : For the first half of the old campaign.
 * Cloudcuckoolander : He often daydreams about ways to kill humans, especially Patch.
 * Collector of the Strange : Bodies. There was one instance where he murdered two hobos in their sleep and put them in his coffin, saying that "They were no longer contributing to society".
 * Dartboard of Hate : Patch. He hates him with such a passion that it's unhealthy.
 * Evil Laugh : See Laughing Mad and Annoying Laugh.
 * Fatal Flaw : Insanity.
 * Freudian Excuse : "HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMAAAAAAAAAANS!!!"
 * Heterosexual Life Partners : With Zeike. He's really the only friend he has in the party, and he's not a human. Of course, that was to be expected.
 * Jerkass : Towards humans, and towards Patch.
 * Jerkass Woobie : Because he has a reason for it, and it's sad.
 * Lack of Empathy : He enjoys watching humans scream. Other people, not so much.
 * Laughing Mad : Coming from his player, this troper can tell you that my throat was sore more often than not while playing as him. His shrill "GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" was a staple part of the campaign, to everyone's distaste.
 * Licking the Blade : He does this numerous times before he fights.
 * Loves the Sound of Screaming : See above.
 * Limit Break : "Rank II! Extended Procedure!"
 * Madden Into Misanthropy : "HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!!!"
 * Mad Doctor : This is fairly obvious. His first class was Mortician, a support/melee healing class that can do some weird shit with corpses. His prestige class was Gravedigger, a class that allowed the usage of giant coffins to carry around undead constructs.
 * Evilutionary Biologist : He believes that killing and maiming innocent humans will lead them to a better world because they would have to rely on other people.
 * Names to Run Away From : Xivlain is a scary name
 * Nightmare Fetishist : His response to the Alien Geometries of the hell dimension? "This place is wonderful!"
 * Not That Kind of Doctor : The Gravedigger class. They're more of an undead-summoning tank than a doctor.
 * Put On a Bus : His suspension from the campaign, between the Old and the New ones. It's unknown what's happened to him.
 * Selective Slaughter : Humans.
 * Smarter Than You Look : He actually had the highest Intelligence score in the entire party, despite being crazy.
 * Swiss Army Appendage : His coffin. This only counts because it's essentially a part of him, and because you can fit all sorts of cool stuff in it.
 * The Smart Guy : Was definitely this in the old parties Five-Man Band.
 * Took a Level In Badass : Gravedigger. Their skills include freely teleporting coffins out of space and unleashing undead horrors, taking the effects of rigor mortis onto themselves, and upgrading corpses with weapons and supernatural powers.

Patch
""Hmph...""

The first character of a player who is no longer with the group. His mere presence was the bane of Xivlain's existence, and the hatred was completely mutual.
 * Backstory : Averted.
 * Berserk Button : Witches.
 * Death Is Cheap : No matter how many times he was killed, he didn't seem to stay dead.
 * Fusion Dance : Zekaiv somehow gained Patches old body and memories. No one knows how.
 * Good Angel, Bad Angel : Variation: Whenever Patch died, he was confronted by a successful version of himself and a hobo version of himself. In a twist, the hobo urged Patch to avoid turning into him, while the successful version warned Patch that every failure brought him closer to the hobo.
 * The Lancer : Was this in the old parties Five Man Band. Eventually replaced in this role by Zekaiv, at least until they... combined.
 * The Power of Friendship : Averted in every way possible.
 * Teeth-Clenched Teamwork : Even when Patch and Xivlan weren't actually at each other's throats, they got along like a house on fire.
 * Took a Level In Badass : The players believe they've met Patch in 2.0 in the guise of "The Employer." He's gotten much, much, much more powerful.

Zekaiv
""I don't care about getting involved in your shit, I go my own way, and this does not concern you.""

The second character played by aforementioned player. Attempted to get along with Xivlain more than Patch at first, then threw all pretense of amiability out the window.


 * Catch Phrase : "This does not concern you." To the point of Memetic Mutation amongst the players.
 * Everyone Is Related : Is somehow connected to Patch. No one really knows how. Or why.
 * Fusion Dance : Did... something like this to regain Patch's body. The entire situation is a low-level Mind Screw.
 * Mind Screw : Why the hell does Zekaiv have Patch's body and memories now?!
 * Rage Against the Heavens : Asked a god who the fuck he thought he was. And was immediately 1-upped by having his gouged-out eye returned by said god.
 * Shout-Out : Wields a wrist blade, and his name is Zekaiv.
 * Sixth Ranger : Although he shows up after Patch has left/died. But then...

Laika
""What are you waiting for?! Lets go kill some shit!!!""

The second character played by Dreamaniac. A lycan swordsman, trained in the way of the blade by a Master Swordsman from the far east.


 * Absurdly Sharp Blade : It can cut through anything that isn't at least as hard as adamantium. And it gets even sharper the stronger Laika gets.
 * Badass : It's a requirement to survive in this world.
 * Back From the Dead : He ended up getting killed by Card Shark when the latter deduced that Laika's training of the Istanbul city guard was the only thing keeping the city safe from invasion. Laika ended up going to what appeared to be heaven (which was noticeably empty) and finding a way back to the middle world.
 * Big Brother Instinct : When he was still with his gypsy caravan, he was quite protective of Solace (his younger sister by ten years).
 * Blood Knight when he's first introduced, at least. He's concerned with getting stronger and killing stuff.
 * Blood Lust : He has a form of this when he shifts into his Lycan form.
 * Chaotic Neutral : When first introduced, he's mainly this, although he's also slightly more good than neutral.
 * Character Development : The offer to train the Istanbul Guard and gaining a point in intelligence caused Laika to shift from Chaotic to Neutral. He was mostly good-aligned already, as well.
 * Cool Sword : Even when it isn't being held by Laika, it still has the poem Invictus carved along it's edge across both sides.
 * Crippling Overspecialization : As long as he's holding his specially attuned longsword, Laika is deadly. If he isn't holding it... well, he's screwed.
 * Empathic Weapon : Like all myrmidon weapons, Laika's longsword can instinctively communicate with him and praises him for doing well in combat. On the flipside, if he doesn't get into any lethal combat for an extended period of time, like when he was training the Istanbul guard, the blade goes dull and sword seems heavier and harder to lift.
 * Glass Cannon : Laika can choose to make any attack that manages to hit an opponent a critical hit, and he can attack up to six times in a single round. If anything actually hits him, he's toast.
 * He's Back : After training the Istanbul guard for a while, Laika's back and ready to kill stuff!
 * I Call It Vera : He refers to his weapon as "Invictus." And spends a good thirty minutes every morning sharpening and cleaning it.
 * Implausible Fencing Powers : He has these thanks to the Myrmidon's class abilities, although most of those abilities are focused on making his sword even more absurdly sharp.
 * Know When to Fold'Em : Quite thankfully, he does.
 * Neutral Good : Became this around the time he left the new party due to Character Development.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different : They can retain the ability to hold swords, for one.
 * Put On a Bus : Last the party heard he was headed to Istanbul to join and train the city guard... but now he's back.
 * Roma : Was born in a gypsy caravan.
 * Super Senses : Increased sense of hearing, smell, and sight, and a sixth sense which essentially gives him radar out to 60 ft.

Artemis Vulcan mk.XIV
""Scanning for point of origin. Commencing combat protocol.""


 * Age-Appropriate Angst : All he wants to do is go home...
 * Badass : Sensing a pattern here?
 * Bad Dreams : Artemis continually has flashbacks from before the Masquerade stole him and took his memory.
 * Beware the Honest Ones : "Words like that can get you killed around here." -The Employer, often brought up by Artemis.
 * Beware the Nice Ones : He's such a cutie. Until you mess with his prime directive.
 * Bishounen : So much. An innocent robot built like a beautiful teenage boy? All the bad guys want him.
 * Character Tics : His Anheim tracking device. He will periodically flip off the sky in the direction of the city.
 * Children Are Innocent : Definitely.
 * Does Not Understand Sarcasm : For a while. He eventually gets the gist of it.
 * Everyone Is Related : Artemis is part of the big, happy Anheim family.
 * I Can Still Fight : During his encounter with the "Betting Guy". Usually, he kills everyone in fisticuffs. That is, if you don't get sand shoved in your joints and pinned effortlessly.
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness : So much of this. Often, Artemis will adopt gestures and phrases from his party members.
 * Friendship Moment : He's had a few of these with Laika.
 * Lawful Neutral : He's morally ambiguous, but always follows Anheim's directive.
 * Holy Hitman : He was built by Anheim solely for killing Vampires. How ironic that he got stolen by one.
 * Miles to Go Before I Sleep : For a while, it seemed like there was nothing Artemis could do to get Anheim to finally bring him home.
 * No Sense of Personal Space : Upon meeting Doctor Jenks and getting violated with a Faustes tracking device, Artemis' mental process was immediately "HOSTILE HOSTILE HOSTILE HOSTILE HOSTILE!"
 * Not So Weak : So true. People often overlook the fact that he's made of metal.
 * Perpetual Expression : He never smiles. Never.
 * Tin Man : Yep, he's a robot. A Clockwork Doll, actually.
 * Magnificent Bastard : Sort of. Flipping off most people he meets, crushing skulls and calling in air raids on libraries. But he's still so lovable!

Seven E. Amalgam
""How many times do I need to remind you that I'm '''MADE OF AIR!?""


 * Animal Motifs : Snakes. Lots and lots of snakes. Presented in a vaguely biblical fashion.
 * Badass : I think the trend is fairly obvious.
 * The Chew Toy : The universe staunchly refuses to give him a break. See Jerkass Woobie below for details.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold : Frequently acts like a total jerk and screws with people by acting insane. However, when returning to a city that was just bombarded by airship artillary, his first course of action is to help make bandages and look after the wounded.
 * Jerkass Woobie : He was the seventh child of a mother determined to have lots of children. Said mother was cold and bitter from almost all of her other children dying during or shortly after birth, and thus she considered him as good as dead for most of his childhood. She then died the day after she finally told Seven she loved him. The rest of his life was spent refelecting on this agony as he mastered the Nightsong's art, before being absolutely butchered by Card Shark. Not wanting to lose its favorite Chew Toy, the universe proceeded to ressurect Seven as a ragamuffin, leaving him with amnesia that slowly dissipated to reveal his most painful memories over a long period of time. This has made him bitter.
 * The Lancer : At least, if the party ever fully reunites.
 * Limit Break : Like many members of Anheim, he possesses a Ranked Ability.
 * Musical Assassin : The powers of a Nightsong involve death and/or negative energy.
 * Our Ghosts Are Different : He isn't even a real "ghost." He's a "ragamuffin," a sentient collection of objects held together by a constant whirlwind.
 * Revenge : Implied to be his sole purpose for even existing.
 * It makes sense;.

Solace
""They saved our lives. We owe them more than not killing them.""

Dreamaniac's third character, and easily the most idealistic character to exist in the entire setting. The setting responds accordingly.


 * Action Girl : While not necessarily strong or tough, she's certainly skillful enough to qualify.
 * Badass : Maybe not in comparison to some of the characters, but she can more than hold her own in battle.
 * Being Good Sucks : Of the entire cast of characters, she's the only one who tries to be unambiguously good, in a setting that mercilessly tears apart such intentions.
 * Break the Cutie : Von Gentleman has joked that he had a list several pages long detailing ways to further break Solace down.
 * Charm Person : A kiss from her can have this effect. She doesn't like using it though. Aside from this ability, she's actually extremely personable.
 * Closer to Earth : Certainly one of the most sensible, practical, and reasonable of the party.
 * Dark and Troubled Past : Lady Merideth, the Duchess of Wellington, member of the Inquisition and the first of Solace's teachers in the art of the Daysong, did horrible things to Solace that haunt her nightmares to this day.
 * Guile Hero : She completely decimated an army of trolls with four spells and a violin. None of those spells did direct damage, and only two of them had any kind of direct effect on said army.
 * The Heart : She was the moral compass of the party, the emotional center, and the one that kept everyone patched up.
 * Light Is Good : One of the few examples of this in the setting. Quite possibly the only example.
 * Light'Em Up: Many of her spells utilize searing or healing light.
 * Long Lost Sibling : When Laika left his gypsy caravan around 15 years ago, Solace, his younger sister by 10 years, tried to follow him. It didn't turn out well.
 * Meaningful Name : Two layers: "Sol" is a reference to the sun, and "Solace" means peace, something she wishes she could bring to the world. It's worth noting that Dreamaniac loves doing this when he can get away with it.
 * The Medic : She's stuck cleaning up/after the rest of the party.
 * Music Can Do Anything : She can use it to inspire her teammates, cast multiple spells at once, use it to make undead cower in fear, and various other fun effects!
 * Neutral Good : She doesn't care about power, law, or personal satisfaction. She just wants to help people.
 * Put On a Bus To Hell : After finally coming to terms with the fact that Solace was far too idealistic for the setting, Dreamaniac handed control of Solace over to Von Gentleman to go back to playing Laika. The party speculates that, whatever may befall Solace, chances are it won't be pretty.
 * : See the entry for The Woobie below.
 * Squishy Wizard : She can fend for herself, just not for very long.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl : White hair from being a Lehran, pretty girl from 22 Charisma. Here's a reference.
 * Winged Humanoid : Lehran grow wings if they grow old enough or find themselves in unusual grace. Notably, Solace has them, and she's only in her twenties.
 * The Woobie : She spent ten years under the tyrannical control of a member of the Inquisition's intelligence division. What happened then was... unpleasant.
 * Iron Woobie : ... but like hell she's going to let that get in her way.

Avrick de Varro
""Whaddaya mean I've been assigned to this bunch of IDIOTS?!""


 * Badass : Must this be mentioned again?
 * Bookworm : He's quite an enthusiastic reader.
 * Badass Bookworm : The natural result of the previous two tropes.
 * Brilliant but Lazy : It seems this way. His artificial head is so jam-packed with Gios training, but he doesn't seem to utilize it. He finds much more entertainment in impaling people.
 * Catch Phrase : "Get out of my library!"
 * The Chains of Commanding : He was placed in control of a legion of coward soldiers. He hates it and really wishes they would shape up, but they don't have the morale.
 * Collector of the Strange : Grimoires. He adores them.
 * Dark and Troubled Past : He was tortured by his creator. Being a homunculus isn't at all pleasant, especially if you're one of the first.
 * Dirty Cop : To an extent. He's quite the vicious Gios knight, even though he may not back up his words a whole lot.
 * Fatal Flaw : Avrick's sharp tongue.
 * Good Is Not Nice : Especially with Avrick. He'll insult his party members, then go and save a peasant village. At the same time.
 * Muscles Are Meaningless : He may be made out of an organic water composite, but he's been known to punch through barred doors with his fists.
 * Jerkass : Avrick's defining character trait.
 * Impaled With Extreme Prejudice : Avrick's retconned combat style involves impaling his opponents on his spike-covered armor.
 * Out-of-Character Moment : "You know what, Seven? I envy your past life. Sometimes I wish I was a doctor."
 * Phony Veteran : "I'm a 'commanding officer' of the Gios Sacred Order." By this, he means a mook to lead other mooks.
 * The Exile : Subverted a little bit. Avrick is held in contempt of his superiors due to his failure in protecting the Angelus, a book of supreme power.
 * The Smart Guy : Out of the current party's Five-Man Band, yes.
 * The Snark Knight : Very much so.

Ulrick

 * The Hunter : His class is actually just "The Hunter." It's angled towards hunting undead.
 * Sixth Ranger : Let's all give a big hand to this brand new addition to the party! *applause*
 * Multi Ranged Master : He uses both a pistol and a rifle in combat.
 * The Musketeer :

Seor von Bismarck

 * Magic Knight : His class, the Warmage, in a nutshell. They're fairly bulky and have lots of spellcasting opportunities.
 * Defector From Decadence : He used to be a mage for Masquerade, until he realized how corrupt it was, and how the tale of Dracula is a bunch of crap.
 * The Kirk : He's extremely reasonable; the only reason he isn't a Reasonable Authority Figure is because he isn't an authority figure. Right off the bat, he believed Avrick. Score for both of them, especially since they both managed to evade danger using their common sense.

"A"
""What's that? Oh Fuck - ""

One of the first Anheim letters the party encounters. Unfortunately, he lasts just long enough to demonstrate one of the many horrific deaths available in the setting.


 * Badass Preacher : Mixing profanity into his prayers and taking on an entire Faustes Strike Force solo.
 * Catch Phrase : O' lord, grant these heathens the deaths they have wrought with their unclean and blasphemous ways.
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe: See Religion Is Magic below.
 * Cruel and Unusual Death : He dies from getting
 * Family-Unfriendly Death: He gets killed by.
 * Famous Last Words : Averted. His last words are obscenities.
 * Not quite; they are cool obscenities.
 * Religion Is Magic : A lot of A's ability to kill things comes from his faith that god is helping him.

"New A"
""Yeah, I was brought on after their last guy who used guns vanished.""

The character who has obtained the title of A sometime between the two versions of the campaign. A bit snarky, loves his gun, and really laid back.


 * The Gunslinger : He uses firearms as his primary technique.
 * More Dakka : His chaingun is... impressive.
 * Rummage Sale Rejects : His outfit is a haphazard mess of crisscrossing belts under a big white overcoat.

"D"
""*flips off* Bang. This is where we're at right now.""

An abrasive, foul-mouthed Anheim letter who hates his job and other people in general. His favorite part of his job as a Letter is occasionally getting to kill these people.


 * Badass Longcoat : It can conceal an entire armory worth of guns.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny : Fires blank, flips off Zeike in a way that made it look like he shot is middle finger out of his gun "This is where we're at right now"
 * Dual-Wielding : D usually feel that one gun is enough.
 * Gatling Good : One of D's favorite guns.
 * Guns Akimbo : Even though one of D's guns tends to be overkill.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills : The ability to hit a bird with a handgun, at night, from behind his back qualifies him for this.
 * Jerkass : Like you wouldn't believe.
 * Limit Break : We've seen a few of his Ranked Abilities:
 * Rank 2, where a metal tendril attached to a chaingun rips out of his back.
 * Rank 3, where a giant beam of light comes down from the sky and purifies everything.
 * Rank 5, where D summons a bigass bazooka. Luckily we never saw him fire it.
 * Put On a Bus : Hasn't been seen since the old campaign.
 * Put On a Bus To Hell : Now we know that he decided to stay in the Lower World for eternity, and got replaced.
 * Sawed-Off Shotgun : That fire incendiary rounds through a heated filter.

"E"
""Come back when you're stronger.""

An incredibly skilled swordsman who seems to be able to delay his sword strikes after he's attacked. He complimented Laika's skills even though Laika was far below him in skill.


 * Combat Compliment : He notes that Laika's stance, technique, and speed are all quite good during their sparring match, but also reprimands Laika for his (Laika's) predictabliity.
 * Master Swordsman : Absolutely trounces Laika in a sparring match without even properly drawing his weapon.

"F"
""I'll make it for you, but only if you mine it with your own hands.""

Anheim's go-to guy for anything that can be crafted in a forge. He frequently references his native people, who are apparently all highly skilled craftsman.


 * Cool Old Guy : One of the coolest and oldest in Anheim.
 * Elemental Crafting : It's assumed he can do this, among other skills.
 * Gadgeteer Genius : Assumed, although he appears to have a soft spot for antiquated weapons (such as bowguns.)
 * Ultimate Blacksmith : He can build magical robots, ridiculously accurate bowguns, not to mention the various Fantastic Nukes he's probably made for Anheim.
 * Chances are he made the 21 Gun Salute artillary, a giant golden statue of seven gunmen, each of which fires three massive shots from their guns.
 * Weapon Porn : Anything he makes will have it's spectacular qualities described in intricate detail by the Game Master.

"G"
""I can assure you that you won't last very long.""

A classy old man with a cool smoking pipe and adroit attitude. He is the father of H.


 * Badass Grandpa : Well, not quite, but he is a father and certainly aged.
 * Cool Old Guy : Right alongside F, although G is more refined.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny : At one point during the old campaign, G ran out of tobacco for his pipe. Out of friendliness or maybe just a loonie moment, Zeike offered a jug of whiskey for him to smoke. The reaction:
 * -G blinks and shakes slightly. "Well. I should try this more often."
 * Good Old Fisticuffs : So good he can use them to block swords. Well, most of the time. It didn't work quite right against Laika...
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking : Morally ambiguous smoking in this case. And with a pipe.
 * Let's Fight Like Gentlemen : He has a friendly duel with Laika, and is surprised when Laika manages to heavily injure him.
 * Limit Break : His ranked ability is actually a...
 * Shout-Out : Five Steps Re-open Wounds technique? Wonder where that came from. Oh, and his overall character is a Shout-Out to Slayer from Guilty Gear.
 * Old Master : He's only somewhat elderly, but is quite obviously a master of hand-to-hand combat.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different : They come in varying levels of feral instinct and wolfishness. G has obviously tamed his.

"H"
""I missed on purpose. You stick out like a sore thumb from that distance.""

The daughter of G, and a skilled warrior in her own right. She seems to have a good relationship with her father, if their friendly sparring match is any indication.


 * Action Girl : Assumed. She's an Anheim Letter and G's daughter.
 * Like Father Like Daughter : She seems to take after her father in terms of Badass.

"K"

 * Guile Hero : He's the guy who gets sent in before shit gets real to make sure that it never does.
 * Teen Genius : Well, he's not quite that young, but his youth and intelligence are both remarkable.

"M"
""Rank Five: Sub-Zero!""

An Anheim letter who tagged along with the old party. An Ice Queen in every sense except for the royalty. We think.


 * Action Girl : Most of the time, she prefers to leave things to the party. When she gets involved, PEOPLE DIE.
 * An Ice Person : All of M's combat efficiency comes from this.
 * Badass : Par for the course.
 * Blood Lust : Which she has a surprising amount of control over, for a vampire.
 * Deadpan Snarker : While pretty much everyone in the party snarks at somepoint, M is the only one who does it deadpan, and she does it the most frequently.
 * Elemental Powers: Remarkable manipulation of ice. Seeing as M can freeze blood too, it's speculated she is simply a water manipulator with a preference towards ice.
 * Zekaiv Can See It : Apparently she was eyeing Niccolo quite a bit. According to his player, Niccolo was beginning to develop feelings for M.
 * Ice Queen : She's beautiful, she rarely shows emotion other than biting sarcasm, and she has ice powers to boot.
 * I'm Cold... So Cold... : M spends a lot of time like this. Especially after having used her stronger abilities.
 * Led to a Memetic Mutation Crowning Moment of Funny that currently serves as her quote
 * Kill It With Ice : M's general strategy when in a fight.
 * Limit Break: Rank 5: Sub- Zero. Has threatened to use it more than once, although it's implied that doing so takes a lot out of her.
 * Actually has used it, it killed over 100 Faustes Doctors
 * Put On a Bus : Along with the Old Party. She may have been seen recently, but it is unconfirmed.
 * Work Off the Debt : M is working for Anheim in exchange for them letting her use their massive resources to find her long-lost sister.

"New M"
""By the way, here's your sword back. I wanted to see how long it'd take you to notice it was gone.""

The replacement for the original M, who was coerced into joining Anheim when he impressed them by nearly managing to rob one of their outposts.


 * Fragile Speedster : So fast he can avoid detection from Laika's blindsense.
 * Impossible Thief : He wears a sleeveless shirt, shorts, and sandals, and walks off with, amongst other things, Laika's Cool Sword, multiple wallets, the oil a psychotic priest was trying to use to set a town on fire, etc., where etc. stands in for pretty much anything.

"N"
""And I was just in the middle of my nap, too.""

Quite possibly the sister of M, even though she has blonde hair instead of black. If they are siblings, they seem to share the same detached attitude.


 * Action Girl : Far from enthusiastic about it, though.
 * Cynical Mentor : She gets saddled with being a mentor for the party, and makes it clear that she doesn't care for the job at all.
 * Deadpan Snarker : She has hints of this. Considering her sister, it probably runs in the family.
 * Hot-Blooded : Subverted. Unlike almost every other flame manipulator encountered so far, she's tired and somewhat lazy.
 * Long Lost Sibling : During Version 1.0, M's overarching goal was to find N. As of the most recent session of Version 2.0, N has resurfaced, while M is nowhere to be found.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different
 * Playing With Fire : When the party first meets her, she smells of cinders. She is implied to be a Chosen One of Fire.

"U"

 * Badass : Assumed. Her skills haven't been displayed yet, but she is in Anheim.
 * Hot Chick With a Sword : It's hidden in her umbrella, but she still qualifies.
 * Parasol of Pain : She hasn't exactly gotten the chance to show it off, unfortunately.
 * Ronin : Was part of Kensei's Samurai clan, but abandoned it after she was disgraced after failing a mission.
 * Two Guys and A Girl : The "Girl" part of this trope with Kensei and Tetsu.

"Alpha"

 * Badass : He's the guy Anheim calls in when all else has failed. Why? Because he doesn't.
 * Cultured Badass : He's apparently an artist of some kind when he isn't kicking ass.
 * Money, Dear Boy : Apparently he doesn't actually enjoy fighting, but he's still skilled enough to scare the crap out of both players and NPCs alike.
 * Shout-Out : When the party tries to leave his presence before he reads a letter they've given them, he tosses a wine glass at them with enough force to injure them with the shattered glass.
 * Weapon of Choice : Unarmed combat. With fingerless black silk gloves.

Fausteles
""My brothers, we are one step closer to creating GOD.""


 * Affably Evil : When you get past the lack of a soul, disregard for human life and desire to usurp god, Fausteles is a pretty decent guy.
 * The Atoner : His soul... or, well, something is tremendously regretful of his actions, and he asks the New Party to destroy his work.
 * The Chessmaster : Although he does do it in a remarkably pleasant and well mannered way.
 * Deal With the Devil : Faustes did this. Twice.
 * Faustian Rebellion : Faust sold his soul for power then sold his soul a second time to escape having to deal with his first sale.

High Primearch Tiefold
""Draw your weapon so that you may die with honor.""


 * Knight Templar : "The humble and weak are undeserving of life!"
 * Lawful Evil : Very much so.
 * Memetic Badass : Has become this among the players after they made a version of him in Soul Calibur IV's character creator and he proved to be incredibly broken.
 * Scary Impractical Armor : Played straight and subverted. The armor is scary as hell (the helm looks like a demon's head!), but it proves to be quite practical thanks to ridiculously powerful magic within it.

Guiez

 * Improbable Weapon User : No one has any idea how he's supposed to use the BFS he carries.
 * Knight Templar : As part of the Inquisition, he almost certainly has this trait.

Card Shark
""You never lose when you control the games.""


 * Badass : He took on Fausteles, a recently upgraded Xivlan, and another high-ranking Faustes member on, and kicked their asses.
 * Card Sharp : Heavily card themed, and quite skilled, although it's yet to be seen if he's any good in a con.
 * Death Dealer : He kills people. With cards.
 * The Gadfly : He has no problem insulting people that are capable of annihilating entire cities with little effort. He seems to enjoy it.
 * The Gambler : Of the card-themed variety. Similar to Luxord, without the charm or class and a significantly more badass.
 * Hero-Killer : Encounters with him never end well for the party. Or anyone else, for that matter.
 * Improbable Weapon User : He uses decks of cards. Incredibly deadly decks of cards.
 * Jerkass : Boy howdy, this guy can insult the Inquisition and walk away laughing.
 * Legacy Character : Subverted. During the old campaign, the party traveled backward in time and met a character who used an extremely similar card-based fighting style. When the modern Card Shark was questioned, he scoffed, claiming he had spent years perfecting this fighting style, and as far as he knew it had never been used before.
 * However, during 7's flashback to, Card Shark mentioned he had a true form which implies he may be something distinctly more...Eldritch.
 * Limit Break: "Rank 5: Fifty-two Card Pickup."

The Betting Guy
""Now my odds are 1 out of 100. Time to get serious and win some money.""


 * Awesomeness By Analysis : The party has seen him apply it in two ways: making obscene loads of money by betting on a fighting tournament in Istanbul, and using it to crush his opponents, including Artemis.
 * Badass Bookworm : Obviously intelligent. Obviously badass.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" : The party never learned his name, so they named him after his incredible prowess with probability.
 * Expy : H Is fighting technique and mannerisms are reminiscient of the latest version of Sherlock Holmes.
 * Professional Gambler : He is very, very, very good at playing the odds. As in, he always gets them right.

Kensei
""I fought my way out of hell, and refused an offer from a god of blood to become his champion to do so. I wont be going back anytime soon.""


 * Badass : Quite a bit of this.
 * Badass Creed : Like most Samurai, he follows the code of Bushido.
 * The Big Guy : The outright toughest of the current party. He fell down a hundred foot hole, after fighting with a frost drake, and only broke one leg.
 * Evil Eye : The ability to drive people insane, spontaneously cause wounds and burn people to death all rest inside his eyes. Using said abilities is by no means cheap.
 * Flaming Sword : Flaming Katana. Even better.
 * Hellfire : He can unleash it with his eyes.
 * Incendiary Exponent : As a Chosen One, Kensei can activate a "nimbus," bathing himself in flame to both increase his power and ability to intimidate.
 * Katanas Are Just Better : Kensei's entire justification behind his weapon choice. Well, that, and being a samurai.
 * Killed Off for Real : Killed in a duel with Tetsu.
 * My God, What Have I Done? : Kensei has to fight what appear to be arisen zombies while in the Nova Librarium. He then discovers that this was merely an illusion, and that he was killing Library Guards the entire time.
 * Playing With Fire : Kensei does this a lot.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni : Kensei and Tetsu, respectively.
 * Samurai : Specifically, a member of the Orochi clan.

Tetsu
""I wish not to rule a clan of warmongers.""


 * Aloof Ally : Was this to the party, but not intolerably so. Getting knocked out and narrowly saved by Solace may lead to some Character Development.
 * Blow You Away : He is a Chosen One of Wind.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni : The Blue Oni to Kensei's Red.
 * The Rival : Specifically, Kensei's rival.
 * Rivals Team Up : With Kensei. It doesn't work out quite as well as some would hope, but it wasn't due to rival tension at least.
 * Two Guys and A Girl : With Kensei and U.

Laika's Master

 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" : Only known as "Laika's Master."
 * Master Swordsman : An obscenely powerful myrmidon in life.
 * Old Master : He rarely let age get in his way, though.
 * Spirit Advisor : Laika frequently communes with his master's spirit to seek advice.

Dracula

 * Complete Monster : He transformed into this, literally and figuratively, upon his death as a mortal man.
 * The Corrupter : Upon becoming a god/abomination, he caused his old kingdom to decay into a horrific state by looking at it.
 * Cult : The Masquerade worships him... but not necessarily as a god.
 * Eldritch Abomination : Upon his ascension, he became either this or...
 * God of Evil : Yea and most verily.
 * Rage Against the Heavens : When Dracula was still a mortal man, and about to be executed for slaughtering his own troops to save his own kingdom, he cursed the gods with such venom that he transformed into a godlike being of horrific power.
 * Sealed Evil in A Can : Strongly implied. The pieces of Dracula's true form may be scattered across the world, sealed in coffins to prevent him from rising again.