History Characters / DiningInTheVoid

* KnifeNut: Mars remarks that "Jo probably has a knife on them all the time" in Episode 9, when Gi and Mars discover Jo's lair (and the knife used to [[spoiler:remove Galatea's finger and eye]] in Episode 3). Considering Jo conveniently has a completely different knife to taunt Waverly in the same episode, Mars might be right.

* ShootTheDog: Her secret in a nutshell, revealed in Episode 7. While reporting in a war zone, Aveline was forced to [[spoiler:shoot her photographer Nova Viddix]]. This affects her so deeply that "every time [she sees] a dead body, all [she] can think about is her." It also explains why [[spoiler:dead bodies]] are an apparent [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Squick squick]] of hers. Jo almost reveals Aveline's secret in Episode 10 by saying, [[spoiler:"Time to say hello to Nov."]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Squick Squick]]: She has a few that we know of so far: dead bodies (Episode 5) and needles (Episode 10). Aveline’s definitely not prepared for the first one but manages to not vomit. Thankfully, Mars gives her a heads up before they [[spoiler:inject Jo with two vaccines]] and she looks away. Too bad [[DramaticIrony she didn't listen to the content warning at the top of each episode.]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Epigraph Epigraph]]: R provides this at the top of every episode. The poem they recite often serves as a [[TitleDrop Title Drop]].
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Narrator Narrator]]: R's narration consists of an original poem with melancholy, existential statements that set the tone (and, later, the plot) for the episode.

All character descriptions are adapted from [[https://zebulonpodcasts.wixsite.com/ditv-characters the character page on the show's website]].

All character descriptions are adapted from [[https://zebulonpodcasts.wixsite.com/main/ditv-characters the character page on the show's website]].

* Main/CatchPhrase: She says "stars" a lot. Some of the other characters also say it, but she says it the most frequently when she's stressed.
* Main/ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun: Happens twice in Episode 10, when she accuses [[spoiler:Mars]] and [[spoiler:Sawyer]] in turn of being the host, based on circumstantial evidence--she then wonders if the two are [[Main/TwoDunIt working together]]. Both characters (mostly) refute her points, defending each other (and themselves) from her accusations.
* Main/IWantThemAlive: When she realizes that Mars plans to [[spoiler:kill Jo]] in Episode 10, she argues that they're still "useful" to the guests.
-->"If they stop being useful, then you can [[spoiler:kill them]], but...please. [[Main/IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim Don’t stoop to their level]]."
* Main/IntrepidReporter: It would seem she's at the initial dinner party to cover the meeting of such prominent figures--no one seems to have heard of her before then.
* Main/LightEmUp: Her ability to activate her "tattoos," as Katie Belle calls them. It's a trait apparently [[Main/BizarreAlienBiology common to her species]]. Revealed in Episode 2. She activates them again in Episode 8 to venture into a dark corner of a room she's exploring. She mentions in Episode 2 that she can't turn off her glow once it's on.
* Main/OffTheRecord: She figures out [[spoiler:Katie Belle]]'s secret by working with Mars, but how she jumped to that conclusion may be better explained by her doing extra sleuthing that we don't get to see.
* Main/ShootTheDog: Her secret in a nutshell, revealed in Episode 7. While reporting in a war zone, Aveline was forced to [[spoiler:shoot her photographer Nova Viddix]]. This affects her so deeply that "every time [she sees] a dead body, all [she] can think about is her." It also explains why [[spoiler:dead bodies]] are an apparent [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Squick squick]] of hers. Jo almost reveals Aveline's secret in Episode 10 by saying, [[spoiler:"Time to say hello to Nov."]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Squick Squick]]: She has a few that we know of so far: dead bodies (Episode 5) and needles (Episode 10). Aveline’s definitely not prepared for the first one but manages to not vomit. Thankfully, Mars gives her a heads up before they [[spoiler:inject Jo with two vaccines]] and she looks away. Too bad [[Main/DramaticIrony she didn't listen to the content warning at the top of each episode.]]
* Main/TheWatson: Most obvious in Episode 1. She identifies Waverly and (mistakenly) Mars as Dr. Luell. Of course, Galatea exposits Waverly's backstory and Katie Belle's occupation.

* Main/ActionGirl: Galatea often threatens to kick ass, but there's so far only been a few times it's actually happened. There's a scene of her beating the shit out of Jo in Episode 10, and she tries to run at Aveline in Episode 5 but instead crashes into the wall (almost as a [[Main/DynamicEntry Dynamic Entry]]).
* Main/AlienBlood: She encounters a message written in her species' blood on a wall in Episode 2. Upon seeing it, she goes into some kind of trance where she first passes out, then wakes up and is decidedly aggressive/almost animalistic to whoever decides to piss her off.
* Main/BizarreAlienBiology: When Galatea gets particularly pissed off, her eyes turn blood red. She also [[spoiler:faints after seeing a message written in her species' blood]] in Episode 2. Her species also procreates between three people, as she explains in Episode 6 to a slightly confused Aveline.
* Main/EyepatchOfPower: Avoided, pretty deliberately. After Galatea [[spoiler:gets one eye stabbed out by Sawyer]] during the game in Episode 3, acquiring an eyepatch doesn't mean she becomes magical or stronger as a result. She asks Sawyer in Episode 9: “I don’t need you to lead me around or anything, but if I have to do something that requires depth perception, would you [[spoiler:be my eyes]], so to speak?” Sawyer agrees. She references this again in Episode 10 by offering to help him walk after [[spoiler:Jo throws him into a wall]]: "I'll be your legs if you be my eyes."
* Main/EyeScream: Episode 3. Sawyer has to [[spoiler:stab her eye out]] in order to evade punishment, and her reaction is pretty loud.
* Main/ILied: Explicitly said in Episode 10.

* Main/IgnoreTheDisability: Subverted when she references her [[spoiler:missing eye and finger]] at the end of Episode 3, and several more times throughout the course of the show, not always proudly. She also calls out Mars for using "blindly" as a pejorative term in Episode 8.

* Main/InspirationNod: When she gets [[spoiler:frozen by a laser]] in Episode 9, Sawyer comments that “now she’s truly a work of art,” a nod to [[Main/PygmalionPlot her namesake.]]
* Main/NotInMyContract: Galatea invokes this (in spirit) when the six guests realize they have to survive onboard the ship. But of course, she becomes a sleuth anyway.

* Main/OneLiner: In Episode 12, Galatea claims: "I may not have a series of cool catchphrases, like all the movie stars have, but I do have" enough resources to prevail. Cut to the last line of Season 1, where she says: "Game's over, darling," and [[spoiler:shoots the host]].
* Main/OneTrueThreesome: In Episode 6, we learn that Galatea [[spoiler:is pregnant]] and that [[spoiler:"both of [the other parents] went missing within the same day"]], according to her.

* Main/TheOnlyOneITrust: Although she says that Tala "might be the only person on this ship we can trust" in Episode 10, it probably comes from their budding friendship/allyship.
* Main/PreAssKickingOneLiner: She mutters, "This is for your host," before [[spoiler:punching Jo]] in Episode 10.
* Main/PygmalionPlot: Not so much a plot as a reference to the original Pygmalion myth. As a model, Galatea was "made" into what she is, partially by her manager, named after the eponymous sculptor.

* Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Episode 12.

* Main/ShoutOut: Although Galatea herself doesn't get the reference, she calls Jo a "fucking freak" in Episode 10, a nod to [[https://youtu.be/YrIDxtWw_Fk?t=11m6s a rather quotable moment from the Game Grumps]].
* Main/ThirdWheel: Episode 9. She’s the only single character in the room when [[spoiler:Sawyer and Elory]] are being cute about handholding, when they’re supposed to be avoiding a trap.

* Main/WhatDidIDoLastNight: Basically her secret, but not as funny as the trope usually is. She admits that she doesn’t remember all of what happened [[spoiler:the day her lovers disappeared]]. She does make a reference to it in Episode 11, when she says her “memory’s more accessible than [Tala’s]. Eh. Slightly.”
* Main/YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: She's got a pretty angry speech towards the end of Episode 3.

* Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive: With regards to his secret, Sawyer [[spoiler:got funds for a secret project]] that, in his words, "[weren't] exactly legal."
* Main/DeadpanSnarker: He gets a lot of these, mostly when he's done with another character's drama.

* Main/IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sawyer [[spoiler:compromised some morals to get funding for a project,]] but he doesn't say exactly what. However, since Jo thinks it's enough cause to force him to spill it as a secret, it can't be good.
* Main/ManlyGay: Mostly in vocal pitch, compared with his husband Elory.
* Main/TheOneGuy: Sawyer, as he's the only person who's referred to with he/him.
* Main/TheRival: Sawyer has a stronger self-preservation instinct than Mars and, as such, knocks heads with them frequently. Although Sawyer is a natural leader, Mars will often do what they like anyway.
* Main/UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sawyer in Episode 3 reveals his secret to prevent Galatea from sustaining more torture.

* Main/BiTheWay: Not exactly bi, but pansexual. When Galatea flirts with them in Episode 8, they mention they're not interested because they're busy, not because they're uninterested.
-->MARS: Galatea, get off my desk, ''please.'' I don’t need you lounging around all over my work.
-->GALATEA: Mm. That’s odd. Usually works.
-->MARS: Look, full disclosure, I’m pansexual, so if we weren’t playing this game, I might be interested. But right now, I’m in too deep with this vaccine.
* Main/DeadlyDoctor: Although they’re not exactly a fighter, Mars’ choice in Episode 10 to [[spoiler:try and kill Jo]] is not exactly a moral one.
* Main/NauseaDissonance: Upon discovering [[spoiler:a corpse]] with Aveline in Episode 5, they’re more interested in cracking jokes than, you know, being disgusted. They're probably no stranger to this as a doctor, but the fact that [[spoiler:the corpse’s face is melted off]] doesn’t bother them.
* Main/NotThatKindOfDoctor: Mars Kobe admits in Episode 2 that their medical expertise has limits.

* Main/TheRival: Mars has a stronger moral compass than Sawyer and, as such, knocks heads with him. The two appear to respect each other's skills, but they sometimes argue over the right course of action.
* Main/TechnicalPacifist: Mars is deeply affected by their inability to save [[spoiler:Phoenix]] and the countless others they couldn't save with their cure research. They also respond to Aveline's [[Main/IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim appeals to their humanity]], so to speak.

* Main/TokenHuman: Everyone's got some kind of funky species and different skin colors, but Mars is just a regular ol' human. Thankfully, they invert the trope where all the aliens are gay and the humans are straight by being either non-binary or gender non-conforming (using they/them pronouns).
* Main/YouCanBarelyStand: Inverted. They try to get back to work in Episode 6, but Aveline invokes this ''to them'' rather than the other way around.

* Main/AChildShallLeadThem: Self-explanatory--young queen, instilled with the hope of her people, but feels insecure about it. [[spoiler:It's self-imposed, given that she [[Main/SelfMadeOrphan murdered her parents]].]]
* Main/BigNo: Waverly counters Katie Belle's "Katie Belle yes!" with a big, firm NO in Episode 3.
* Main/CryIntoChest: After revealing her secret in episode 9, she runs over to Katie Belle and cries in her arms.
* Main/DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Episode 2, while looking out a window. She [[DoubleTake double-takes]] at her own musings.

* Main/IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: She paraphrases this when Katie Belle [[spoiler:grabs Jo’s knife and makes for them, evidently to kill them]] in Episode 11.

* Main/LoveConfession: Shortly after [[spoiler:Katie Belle]] confesses their love to her, she returns it.

* Main/MyParentsAreDead: Not exactly a secret. Galatea drops this (awfully casually) into conversation in Episode 1. What ''is'' a secret, however, is that Waverly's actually [[spoiler:the one who [[Main/SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]].]]
* Main/OfficialKiss: Her kiss with [[spoiler:Katie Belle]] in Episode 11. When said person asks, "Do you want to fight about [who's cuter]?" Waverly goes, "Actually, I wanna do ''this,''" and cue the kiss.
* Main/RebelliousPrincess: Formerly. Her relationship with shapeshifter Zell inspired her parents to [[spoiler:"[take Waverly's] best friend, [humiliate] her in front of the entire kingdom, and [[Main/OffWithHisHead [behead] her.]]"]] As such, Waverly's rebellion was to [[spoiler:stage her own death]] to end the conflict between her species (the Quatribraz) and Zell's (the Koprezz). It didn't go to plan, and instead, [[spoiler:Jo killed her parents]], misunderstanding Waverly's desire to "shake things up."
* Main/SarcasticClapping: She does this in Episode 2, right before she congratulates Katie Belle (sarcastically) on getting stuck in a trap.
* Main/SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Episode 11, when Jo calls her and Katie Belle "star-crossed lovers." [[spoiler:Jo later ends up being right; Katie Belle gives Waverly a letter explaining her secret, and the two confess their love for each other. And they kiss. Three times.]]

* Main/VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Waverly is largely humanoid, but she has four arms, as evidenced by Sawyer's instructions in Episode 10: "Hold Katie Belle in one arm and use your other three to pull the two of you back along the rope." Katie Belle also refuses to hold the station map in Episode 11 by saying: "You’ve got four arms, here, take it," while riding on Waverly's shoulders.

* Main/IAmAMonster: Partly her reason for keeping her secret so close to the chest. Although it's literal in that [[spoiler:she's an alien, and a shapeshifter]], she says that she's "just like Jo" and name-drops the trope. When Aveline just listens to her admit her secret, she demands to know: "Why aren’t you afraid of me?! Why aren’t you running away? I thought you were going to go tell the others that I’m [[spoiler:an evil pirate monster]]."
* Main/LoveConfession: Episode 11.

* Main/MediumAwareness: Demonstrated in Episode 3 when Waverly tries to dissuade her from crawling into a dark space.

* Main/TheOnlyOneITrust: She says, "You’re the only person in this ship I feel okay around," to [[spoiler:Waverly.]]
* Main/PossessingADeadBody: In a sense. When the guests discover the dead body of another one of Katie Belle's species, she reveals to Aveline in Episode 7 that, in fact, [[spoiler: she shifted into Katie Belle Silver.]] Her real name is [[spoiler:Katie Belle Snow]].
* Main/PungeonMaster: She's usually got a pun up her sleeve, even when it's not appropriate. However, to her, villains using her puns is in bad taste.

* Main/RoarBeforeBeating: She [[spoiler:shapeshifts into a monstrous form]] in Episode 11 in order to beat up Jo [[spoiler:for threatening to stab Waverly]].
* Main/SawItInAMovieOnce: She name-drops this in Episode 2. Oddly appropriate, considering that she is an actress.

* Main/TryNotToDie: When Sawyer leaves the room towards the end of Episode 10, she says: "Good luck, Sawyer. Don’t die."

* Main/AIIsACrapshoot: Although she proves helpful at times towards the end of the season, it's still a big question mark whether Tala's willing (or rather, able) to help.
* Main/AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Tala is revealed to have lost [[spoiler:the memory of who she used to be]] in Episode 11, so that explains some of her childish behavior.
* Main/BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Tala gives for [[spoiler:offering to help Galatea raise her unborn child]].

* Main/CatchPhrase: Hers would be "How can I help?" as well as "stars"/"oh stars."
* Main/DejaVu: At the start of Episode 8, she comes online in an empty room, only to find that there is no one there. When she complains that she’s “just a useless stream of ones and zeroes” with a “dumb voice,” her monotone voice kicks in and “cleanses” and “reverts” her. But when she comes back online, she realizes she’s just been in this place before:

* Main/DemotedMemories: Tala [[spoiler:was once a living being who was immortalized by the mafia-like Family]], and she claims that she [[spoiler:won her own trial]] because she was a “math wizard.” As soon as Galatea [[spoiler:unlocks Tala's memory]] in Episode 11, she suddenly has access to more ship information and is much more competent. She still doesn't remember [[spoiler:being tortured by the host]] until Galatea [[spoiler:hears an audio file play]] of a rather nasty instance in Episode 4, and finds that she was [[spoiler:punished 3507 times]] for misbehaving.
* Main/TheDitz: Tala frequently doesn't know where things are, despite being present throughout the station. You'd think an AI with [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "a brain the size of a planet"]] (as she says in Episode 10) would know how to use it.
* Main/DrivenToSuicide: In Episode 11, after Galatea [[spoiler:unlocks her memory]], Tala reveals her secret: she [[spoiler:was once alive, but was sick with PSV (Prolonged Suffering Virus) and didn’t have much longer to live.]] She waited for [[spoiler:the Family to “make [her] immortal”]] for a year, but since she was [[spoiler:getting sicker]], she ”didn’t want to send them [[spoiler:[her] corpse”]]. So she resolved: “[I]f ‘’they’’ weren’t going to [[spoiler:convert]] me, I’d do it myself.”
* Main/HearingVoices: The precipitating event of Episode 8. Tala enters an empty stargazing room to discover...no one. However, she decides to search further and accidentally decodes a verbal message from someone saying, "You know who it is, you have the memory, just don't let the Fami--" before getting cut off by static. We're not sure yet to whom this voice belongs.
* Main/LiteralMinded: Episode 11.

* Main/LossOfIdentity: When Galatea [[spoiler:unlocks “everything [she] knows or ever knew”]] in Episode 11, Tala reveals that she had forgotten most of her past. However, as she exposits to Galatea, she [[spoiler:used to be alive and had family and friends that she left behind]].
* Main/TheOnlyOneITrust: Tala hears an odd, unknown voice at the top of Episode 8. She resolves to not tell anyone because she "can’t risk the host knowing [they're] there. They might hurt you too. Well, Galatea can know about this, but no one else. I don’t trust anyone but her."
* Main/RepressedMemories: Whether she forgot her secret on purpose, or the host made her forget that they [[spoiler:would physically/mentally abuse her for misbehaving]], she doesn’t remember that this happened until [[spoiler:she discovers a log that details how many times she was punished]].

* Main/RoboSpeak: Tala lapses into this several times, especially when plot is about to happen. At times, this seems like an entirely different character.

* Main/SpockSpeak: When she glitches out in Episode 4, she repeats "System error" and a lengthy error message before rebooting and [[spoiler:playing an audio clip of her fearing for her life]]. A lot of her more monotone lines are very wooden and mechanical as well.
* Main/TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: Depending on the Episode, but more often in the earlier episodes.

* Main/TheVoice: Having no body to speak of, Tala can move her voice to different parts of the station (so her voice isn't usually omnipresent). [[spoiler:She used to have a body before the host ripped her out of it.]]
* Main/YouDidntAsk: Dropped in Episode 2, to Waverly's chagrin.

* Main/CrypticBackgroundReference: Some of R's earlier poems include these. When the things they describe don't occur in the respective episode, it would seem R has knowledge of things beyond the ship (and beyond the audience.)
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Epigraph Epigraph]]: R provides this at the top of every episode. The poem they recite often serves as a [[TitleDrop Title Drop]].
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narrator Narrator]]: R's narration consists of an original poem with melancholy, existential statements that set the tone (and, later, the plot) for the episode.
* Main/TheOmniscient: R seems to not only know what goes on in the station, but they have somehow predicted/foreseen specific plot events in later episodes.
* Main/OpeningNarration: Excluding the content warning, R's poem plays over [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJ9a1UOUlE&ab_channel=BennyJames the show's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM1HbuYXIdk&ab_channel=BennyJames theme]]. R's narration gradually gets more sympathetic to the guests and less existential as the season goes on.

* Main/CreepyChild: Jo's first appearance, using the voice of [[spoiler:Gi Green]]. Mars even [[Main/MediumAwareness references this trope by name]] when they try and tell them off.
* Main/EveryoneCanSeeIt: They taunt [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] in Episode 11, saying "you know you want to" and "if you want to waste your last moments making out, don’t let ''me'' stop you." Then again, it's not clear whether any of the other guests have noticed, but they earlier state that "[[spoiler:the Family]] loves the whole '[[Main/StealthPun star-crossed lovers]]' subplot," so perhaps [[spoiler:an unseen audience]] has also noticed.
* Main/ExactWords: Jo tells Sawyer what they know about Sawyer's husband and child, but it's not what Sawyer is expecting.

* Main/FiveSecondForeshadowing: Episode 11. A word to the wise, or rather, to Jo five seconds before [[spoiler:getting their ass kicked by Katie Belle]]: if you're taunting [[spoiler:a shapeshifter,]] ''don't tell them that if they were to [[spoiler:"shift into [their] true form"]] that they'd be "bigger than [you]"''.
* Main/ItAmusedMe: Jo's defined motivation for capturing Galatea and forcing Sawyer and Mars to play their game.

* Main/KnifeNut: Mars remarks that "Jo probably has a knife on them all the time" in Episode 9, when Gi and Mars discover Jo's lair (and the knife used to [[spoiler:remove Galatea's finger and eye]] in Episode 3). Considering Jo conveniently has a completely different knife to taunt Waverly in the same episode, Mars might be right.
* Main/TheNicknamer: Among their many nicknames for the guests are queenie (Waverly), Sawyer boy (Sawyer), and Katie/[[spoiler:Snow]] (Katie Belle). They even taunt Katie Belle by saying they’d actually call her by her name “if [she] were to [[spoiler:shift back to [her] true form.]]”
* Main/OhCrap: They get surprised by Mars and Gi in Episode 9 after [[spoiler:forcing Waverly to reveal her secret at knife-point]]. Famous last words: "Oh ''shit''! I don't have any smoke bombs!"
* Main/PunctuatedForEmphasis: In Episode 10, Jo responds to being interrogated in a very mature, appropriate manner.

* Main/SexualEuphemism: They have a few.

* Main/ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Their main form is voiced by Rhea, and they spend most of their time in this form. It's at least powerful enough that Mars needs both Sawyer and Galatea to [[spoiler:hold them down for interrogation]] in Episode 10.
* Main/ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Jo morphs into [[spoiler:Elory]] in Episode 3 and taunts Sawyer by asking, [[spoiler:"Don’t you tell your husband everything?"]] When that doesn't work, they instead guilt Mars by turning into [[spoiler:Phoenix.]]
* Main/SmokeOut: Jo's go-to for exiting a room or situation. Except when they [[spoiler:run out of them in Episode 10]].

* Main/HomosexualReproduction: Elory is Gi's birth parent--or at least, either he or Sawyer are. It's unclear who actually gave birth to Gi.
* Main/MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Elory and Sawyer, with Sawyer being the working/masculine parent and Elory being the domestic/feminine parent.

* Main/KiddieKid: Is said to be eight but acts more like she's around five.
* Main/KidSidekick: She becomes this to Mars in Episode 9 when they're sneaking around.

* Main/IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy: Episode 3. Mars asks, "Why didn’t you tell me you were sick?" Phoenix replies, "I didn’t want to worry you."
* Main/PosthumousCharacter: Her reason for appearing in the series, really. We hear her voice in flashbacks. She [[spoiler:dies of the disease Mortemlux C]] in the same episode.
* Main/SeparatedAtBirth: Turns out to be Mars' biological sister. Phoenix tracks Mars down to confirm this.

* Main/HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: Glish. For one reason or another, they don't speak, but according to the first interim episode, they do communicate in some fashion, though it's not clear how this occurs. The speaker mentions that Glish nods at one point, and later asks Glish what's wrong and then poses a dark question.