History Characters / DaysGone

* MakeMeWannaShout: Screamers let out a shriek which knocks Deacon off his bike if he's riding, drains all his stamina, summons a small group of Freakers from thin air as well as alerting any nearby and can [[OhCrap get the attention of a Horde]]. Snipe from a distance if possible.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Swarmers and Bleachers don't harm each other, and no one seems to harm Screamers. That about it, actually, as different types of Freakers will happily kill each other. That is, ''furiously'' kill each other. Newts will dogpile Swarmers, Ragers will battle Breakers and you can sit back and see how it all plays out, provided you're in a concealed spot.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Deacon seems to have some by the time you get to play him. He's jumpy, is constantly clenching his right fist to control a twitch in his trigger finger, tends to mutter to himself and has trouble finishing sentences, which only becomes more pronounced when he learns NERO is still around. It's implied that the apocalypse is constantly triggering his PTSD from the war.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: He joined the Militia for food and protection, not to be ordered around or forced to watch public hangings. Shortly after he and Deacon join, Taylor suggests going AWOL.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Played with. On the surface Deacon's a tough biker who never finished school and Sarah's a genius with two PhDs. However, he's more intelligent and sensitive than he appears and she's both tougher than she looks and a bit naïve.

* ChildHater: Mike mentions (when talking about the Newts) that he never 'did'' like kids much as they got on his nerves, which had been always a point of contention between him and his late wife.

!!The Militia

* {{Jerkass}}: A downplayed and justified example. [[spoiler:He gradually becomes more mean-spirited and hot-tempered the worse his arm gets as his judgment is clouded from battling septicemia. He quickly becomes his normal self again after recovering from the amputation.]]

* CaughtInASnare: One of the traps they use is sticking something of interest like a corps in a spot, and then setting a leg-grabbing tree snare near it. If caught, Deacon awakens in a marauder camp with everything but his knife stolen and has to get it back from the box they stuck it in.

* TheHeart:

A new recruit.

* IceQueen: [[spoiler:Sarah cultivated this image after joining the militia. Coupled with her being knows as a genius who was allegedly working on a bioweapon, this led to her gaining the appellation of "Wizard Island Witch"]].

* HookHand: [[spoiler:After losing his arm, he gets fitted with a prosthetic hook that gets switched out with various tools over the game, such as a knife and a scoop]].

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of the accusations constantly thrown at them by Deacon when assaulting marauder camps. While certainly not unlikely in such a lawless world, women are mostly shown to be on pretty much equal footing as men in these gangs, with Deacon and Skizzo even running into a small group being ''lead'' by a woman. The only instance in the game of a marauder shown actually committing said act is during the Lost Lake camp job ''Gone Fishing'', but [[spoiler: his would-be victim stabs him before he can actually do it]].

* EvolutionaryLevels: O'Brian says that Reachers have gone through millions of years of evolution in the shortperiod since the disaster.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Played with. On the surface Deacon's a tough biker who never finished school and Sarah's a genius with two PhDs. However, he's more intelligent and sensitive than he appears and she's both tougher than she looks and rather naïve.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He's not very fond of Mark Copeland or Ada Tucker, but they all have a vested interest in helping people survive.

* TookALevelInCynicism: The zombie collapse and the [[spoiler:presumed]] death of his wife hardened him greatly.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: During his term in the army, the Humvee Deacon and his troop were riding in was hit by a repurposed anti-aircraft gun and flipped upside-down into the Hari River. Deacon was luckily thrown clear, and when he came to all he could do was dive under seven times to recover the bodies of his companions. After this he developed a fear of being in water deep enough to swim in. This is represented in-game by giving him a ''very short'' timer to get back to land if he's in deep water and a game over if it runs out.

** Sure, the government was using some of her research, but they ''totally'' weren't gonna use it to make bioweapons! They signed a contract saying they wouldn't!

* FailedASpotCheck: Okay, maybe it's plausible that everyone ''else'' in the camp didn't notice that Taylor had drug problems, but a ''trained doctor who worked the poorest streets in LA'' couldn't spot a junkie right in front of him?

* CannotSpitItOut: While somewhat justifiably cautious, there are plenty of times in the story where Deacon could probably avoid several problems and arguments with other characters if he would just ''explain himself'' properly, or stop for a minute to provide details on what he's learned or how he knows something. And ''every'' single time, Deacon will avoid doing this, tell a half-truth, or outright ''lie'' about something and make things that much harder on himself.[[spoiler: It becomes especially egregarious when Skizzo is accusing him of being a criminal to get Colonel Garret execute him, and he maintains he doesn't know who Skizzo is instead of explaining that it's Skizzo himself who is a traitor and saboteur.]]

* KillEmAll: Going into a Ripper den means Deacon has to kill each and every last one for it to be considered completed.

* FailedASpotCheck: Okay, maybe it's plausible that everyone ''else'' in the camp didn't notice that Taylor had drug problems, but a ''trained doctor worked the poorest streets in LA'' couldn't spot a junkie right in front of him?

* AddledAddict: Deacon can tell from the way Taylor acts in their first conversation that the guy is high on something and not all there. At first his behavior is a source of humor, [[spoiler:then tragedy]].

* MisterFixit: He talks about having worked as a mechanic before the Apocalypse, and is pretty adept at fixing things with scrap, though it seems he leaves more dedicated repairs and alterations to his bike to practicing mechanics.

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Sarah doesn't take it too well when she learns that her research was used by her company to create the Freaker virus. Or that she ignored the lowly intern who'd break in to expose it and instead became Patient Zero who spread it to the entire world.]]

* WideEyedIdealist: [[spoiler:Despite the world gone insane and surrounded by overly-zealous, almost unhinged militia people, she still believes in curing the freakers, and continues to consider them as people, not monsters.]]

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Swarmers and Bleachers don't harm each other, and no one seems to harm Screamers. That about it, actually, as different types of

* CharacterDevelopment: When Deacon finds her, she's just dedicated to the militia without a thought of leaving with Deacon, but after being with Deacon again and seeing the Colonel's mental state cracking, she wants to escape and do anything she can to stop the true evil of the militia and end up with Deacon once again.

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