Otherland/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Getting cut off from Sellars' guidance is an important plot point for the Otherland party at the end of the first novel, forcing them to decipher its mysteries on their own. Sellars goes on to subvert part of the trope later, since although his physical body dies, he survives thanks to [[Brain Uploading]].

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: A mild example, he tantalizes hundreds, if not thousands, of people with hints and riddles and clues to lead them to the Otherland, and only a small fraction make it, with people dying in the process. This is justified in that he's an imprisoned cripple capable of accessing the outside world only after he turned his body into a living antenna and he's fighting an organization that owns, at a guess, roughly two-thirds of ''everything''. Everyone he tried to talk to legitimately was quietly murdered.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: His recruitment of the six-year old Christabel to aid his schemes gets this reaction from her parents.

 

A teenage boy who suffers from [[wikipedia:progeria|progeria]], a rapid aging disease, and spends most of his time online as a result. He enters Otherland in the search for Sellars' "golden city", unaware of the risks involved. He is frequently accompanied by an AI companion named Beezle that acts as an [[Exposition Fairy]].

* [[Attending Your Own Funeral]]

* [[The Big Guy]]: In his gameplaying sim of brawny barbarian Thargor.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Snarking about his "deadness", no less.

* [[The Alcoholic]]

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Tends to this sort of behavior in real life, resulting in the badguys discovering their hideout.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: "I just wanted to see my son." Yeah, well, you just blew your daughter's cover.

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Confident, cocky, lazy, dead." "Hello, sweetness."

* [[Complete Monster]]: [[Invoked Trope]] by his mother.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: After he goes on his orgy of destruction in Otherland, he regrets taking such sadistic pleasure in demolishing Toy Land, since he despises pedophiles and worries that he might be crossing that particular line.

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Working for Jongleur.

* [[Serial Killer]]: Of young to middle-aged women, particularly ones who remind him of his mother.

* [[Technopath]]: His psychic power, which allows him to take over computer systems.

* [[Ho Yay]]: They have a ''very'' close relationship.

* [[Fat and Skinny]]: In all their forms.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]

 

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Subverted ''hard''.

* [[And Call Him George]]: The Other's attempts to "play with" children online send them into comas. Ouch.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Quite literally. Its initial telepathic burst at its birth ''kills'' several attending doctors and nurses.

* [[Reality Warper]]: Within Otherland, that is.

* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Literally has this, as it partially shapes [[The Hero's Journey|the heroes' journey]] through Otherland according to its will.

* [[Tortured Abomination]]

* [[Tragic Monster]]

Orlando's AI companion, originally a kids' toy but upgraded many times until it's almost as sentient as a real person. It ends up locating Catur Ramsey and acting as a vital surrogate [[Mission Control]] when Sellars goes incommunicado.

* [[Exposition Fairy]]: In-story, Beezle's voice in Orlando's ear reminds him of many things he'd rather avoid or forget.

 

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