Reaching Salvation/Characters

Reaching Salvation is filled with many diverse and different characters - as such, ranging from the mysterious adults who have come to be known as the Big Five- a title given to them by Dobi Boushi -after the filler villains from the Digital World Arc of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series- to the wide amount of contestants battling it out for a chance to reach Utopia. The number of contestants within the Acer Tournament is never officially stated, for obvious reasons, which allows for new contestants to pop every so often as those that survive to partake another day begin to interact more with one another.

For various reasons we've created three character pages. This page is the one dedicated the Acer Tournament Contestants themsevles - note all past and present contestants worth noting will be found here unless they have defected at some point in time, in which chase they'll have be relocated to the correct page to reflect their new loyalties.


 * If you're looking for the Big Five and their underlings go to Reaching Salvation.
 * If by chance you you seek Tropes that relate to Shima and his lot, then Reaching Salvation is where you want to go.

Joey Hadden/
""People think...that the world is over...But it isn't...the world isn't over until the last being dies...and unless that happens, we have the capability to rebuild civilization."

Joey Hadden, showing how big of an idealist he really is."

Joey is an idealistic, solid manipulator, who was Born Unlucky. Currently, his only actual friends are Erika, his girlfriend, Delmer, his teammate, and Percival. Uses melee weapons.

Tropes:

 * Berserk Button: If it even looks like you just harmed someone close to him (even if they were just an illusion), he'll ignore all common sense, and every fiber in his being to destroy you. The only way to stop him is for Percival to force control over his body.
 * Blessed With Suck: The day luck was handed out, Joey overslept. Poor bastard...
 * Butt Monkey: He personifies the Trope quite well, actually.
 * Dishing Out Dirt / Extra Ore Dinary
 * The Fool
 * Genre Savvy: Percival was agreed to currently be the most Genre Savvy character in Reaching Salvation. How long he will remain this has yet to be seen. Maybe he'll make the jump to Dangerously Genre Savvy at some point or someone else will steal the spot from him.
 * Good Is Dumb: Inverted. While most believed this to be the case, without even interacting with him much, he is actually...
 * Good Is Not Dumb
 * Leaning On the Fourth Wall: Percival seems to do this everyone four or five pages, at least.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: To his other personality of all people...
 * It makes more sense in context. Though from the way they're portrayed Joey would be the Red Oni whilst Percival is the Blue.
 * Ship Tease: Joey has a quite a bit with Erika.
 * Does that technically even count considering they're already a couple? So, Ship Tease behaviour between the pair should be pretty common seeing as they are a couple.
 * Note: this maybe be moved to the YMMV page upon further discussion.
 * Shipper On Deck: Percival ships JoKa, and, although it hasn't been mentioned in the RP, both ship Lukira as they both find Nathan obnoxious.
 * Split Personality: Percival.
 * In a discussion which took place on the official Reaching Salvation discussion thread, we actually had a discussion about who we would have voice our characters. Guess who was picked to voice Percival? Oddly familiar, though I myselfnever would have made the link...
 * Split Personality Makeover: A few characters like Erika and Delmer note certain differences when Joey or Percival is in control.

Erika Knight
""You are not pathetic. You're human."

To Heidi, after the first Chimera Challenge."

An Illusionist. In a team with Heidi and Adeline and beginning to question The Big Fives plans for them.

Tropes:

 * Berserk Button: If you hurt her teammates or friends, expect something bad to happen.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Does This Remind You of Anything???: He's only absorbing her Flow. Really!
 * Expy: Character was based on Alice in Wonderland. As seen here. Yep, it's a Rabbit on her head.
 * Foe Yay: And then some with Nathan.
 * I Am Your Opponent: Once or Twice.
 * Knife Nut: Her weapon of choice besides her Flow is a Hunting Knife
 * Les Yay: With Heidi and Adeline. Mostly.
 * Little Miss Snarker: Has her moments.
 * Mama Bear: To Elena and teamates.
 * Master of Illusion: Could form into this...
 * At least it's not Complete Hypnosis...
 * Meaningful Name: Her name means "Eternal Ruler", maybe the nickname "Princess" is appropriate after all.
 * Shipper On Deck: Neo/Adeline (Neoline?), and surprisingly Nathira.
 * Ship Tease: With Joey
 * See above entry in Joey's character sheet.
 * Your Mind Makes It Real

Kira Ryneheart
Kira is quiet, shy, and pretty much afraid of everything and anything. She doesn't like fighting all that much, and her teammates' training battles against each other bother her a lot. She has severe issues with fire and explosions, confined spaces, and moving too quickly (like a roller coaster).

Her Flow is the ability to control and grow plants. At the moment, they are like an extension of her limbs, and if they're destroyed, she feels pain, too.

Her teammates are Nathan and Luke. Despite what others seem to think, she loves them both equally, just in different ways. It's more of a romantic thing with Nathan, while Luke is like a big brother.

Tropes:

 * Action Girl: She can kick ass when she feels it's necessary. And if she can muster up enough courage.
 * Berserk Button: Leaving her friends heavily injured is a pretty good way to piss her off. She only really gets angry if she's feeling pretty confident. If you piss her off when you can barely understand her, you're screwed. To what extent, I'm unsure of, since no one's managed to do that yet.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: You saw what happened to Daniel. And that wasn't even "angry" on normal people standards, just "annoyed."
 * The Chick / The Heart: She doesn't really like fighting. She's not really good at it either.
 * Shrinking Violet: She can barely talk without stuttering. If she talks at all.
 * Shrinking Violet: She can barely talk without stuttering. If she talks at all.

Luke Evans
""Why won't you burn?!""

- Luke Evans having an Ax Crazy moment during the Breakout Arc.

Luke is the hot-blooded team mate of Nathan and Kira. Whilst he is powerful in his own right, he tends to be overshadowed by the likes of fellow band-mates; Nathan, Tom, and Eithne. He's also severely hampered by losing control of his Flow, which not only made him vulnerable, but sick. He's since learned to control his Flow, again, but he is still sickly and spiralling steadily towards the Rebound Effect, where his powers will rebound back on him, for an unknown effect, ranging from breaking his control over the Flow to death and everything in-between. Doesn't get along with Nathan as much as he used to, but over time he has become fiercely protective of his female teammate; Kira.

Tropes:

 * Anti-Hero: Type II, grumpy but good people.
 * Attack Attack Attack
 * Ax Crazy: Briefly during his fighting with Carly and Kim in the Breakout Arc.
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: With Kira during the Breakout Arc.
 * Badass Normal: Was this during the chimaera challenge, where he brought down several of the beasts using just a can of petrol and a lighter.
 * Battle Couple: Many people see Luke and Kira as this, though Kira is currently going out with Nathan.
 * Berserk Button: Do not harm Kira if you don't like being deep-fried.
 * Boisterous Bruiser: At times.
 * Character Development: Gets a lot more jaded in his view of the tournament after the obstacle course challenge, and grows closer to his team mates after the maze challenge.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: A few of his training bouts with Nathan.
 * DeadpanSnark: On occasion towards Nathan.
 * Determinator: Luke definitely fits this trope.
 * Fire-Forged Friends: Initially didn't trust Nathan, but grew to trust him, though this gradually wearing down.
 * Guns Are Worthless: Uses a sword though using a gun may be more appropriate.
 * Hot Blooded: Luke definitely fits this.
 * I Can Still Fight: Does this during the Breakout Arc when Kim points out he has no Flow, and when he is downed by Carly's attack.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Is cocky on occasion, and often rude to new people.
 * Kill It With Fire: And how!
 * The Lancer: To Nathan, obviously.
 * Leeroy Jenkins: Luke enjoys running into fights.
 * Papa Wolf: Acts this way towards Kira.
 * Playing With Fire
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Nathan's Blue.
 * Sword Sparks: During his spar with Nathan.
 * Unskilled but Strong: Gradually getting more skilled and in control.

Tom O'Conner
Tom is the huge blind team mate of Jayden and Kriska who has power over the earth. He's generally seen as one of the more powerful contestants, mainly by Nathan and Shima. Nathan believes he is the only one powerful enough to give him a good fight, and Shima refers to him as a member of the 'Power Triangle' that exists between all the contestants in the tower.

Tom lost his team-mates during the maze challenge, spending hours searching for them in the disqualification room, unable to tell because of his blindness whether they were still in it. He has since found another friends in Eithne, who has become like another team mate, the two helping each other through the chimaera challenge.

Tropes:

 * Achilles Heel: Relies on the earth to see, as Eithne used to his advantage by destroying the ground around him. It takes him a while to read just to new terrain. He's also completely blind in the tower.
 * Anti-Hero: Type II, Tom is grumpy and occasionally violent, but is definitely a 'good person'.
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: Tom does this with Eithne during the chimaera challenge.
 * Blessed With Suck: His Flow made him blind, and his new vision isn't perfect. He's unable to know what any of his friends look like, as shown by his shock when Shima showed him visions of his friends and he was shocked by how he himself looked.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy: Seems to be fighting his brainwashing, though as the brainwasher was Shima, it is debatable how long he can keep this up.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Tom uses the environment to his full advantage with his power.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Tom does this a lot.
 * Disabled Snarker
 * Dishing Out Dirt: Definitely.
 * Does Not Like Shoes: Can't wear shoes if he wants to see.
 * Elemental Baggage: Not that this means much with his power over earth.
 * Expy: Of Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender, to the point of being ridiculous. To be fair, the creator had this in mind while making Tom.
 * Five-Man Band: Fills in the Big Guy role usually, though he is interchangeable with Eithne as the Smart Guy.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Moves the earth beneath his feet, or even pops underneath it to move extra fast, and he can definitely kick ass.
 * Milky White Eyes
 * Never Learned to Read: Subverted, he was able to see before the Apocalypse and his Flow left him blind.
 * Power Levels: Is said by Shima and by Nathan to be among the most powerful contestants in the tower. This didn't show much until the Breakout Arc, though, as his fight against Chris was the only one he really won, since he drew against Eithne, and beat Nathan cleanly only when Nathan was trying out his Ice powers. To be fair, he was stated to be at Luke's level at that time, so that may or may not be a big accomplishment.

Adeline Dela Cruz
A Necromancer. She keeps possessed voodoo dolls with her, Lance (her dead little brother) and Alex (her dead best friend).

Tropes:

 * Broken Bird
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Dead Little Brother: He's still there (kinda).
 * Hime Cut
 * I See Dead People: Well, yeah.
 * Kuudere
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Heidi's Red.
 * Ship Tease: With Neo.
 * Soul Power: Her Flow.
 * Tragic Keepsake: Her pocket watch, which used to belong to Alex.
 * Weak but Skilled
 * Woman in White: She had a white nightgown before she entered the tournament.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * Weak but Skilled
 * Woman in White: She had a white nightgown before she entered the tournament.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

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Zackary Wolfen
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Sabina
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Simon (No last name given)
A child who snuck into the Tower near the start of the Acer Tournament. His Flow causes him to lose energy/lifeforce whenever someone has skin to skin contact with him. Forms a close relationship with Heidi, viewing her as an older sister, along with Tom and Eithne. Before the Storm was a piano prodigy.

Tropes:

 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Innocent Prodigy

Elena (No last name given)
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