| 1 | [[center: [-[[Characters/LifeIsStrange Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeTheProtagonists The Protagonists]] ([[Characters/LifeIsStrangeMaxCaulfield Max Caulfield]] | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeChloePrice Chloe Price]]) | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeMainCharacters The Main Characters]] | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeOtherBlackwellStudents Other Blackwell Students]] | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeBlackwellFaculty Blackwell Faculty]] | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeArcadiaBayResidents Arcadia Bay Residents]] | '''Season 2 Characters''' | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeHavenSpringsResidents Haven Springs Residents]] | [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeComicSupportingCharacters Comic Supporting Characters]]]]-] |
| 2 | |
| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!Introduced in Episode 1: Roads |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:Diaz Brothers]] |
| 8 | !!'''Click [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeTheProtagonists here]] for the Protagonists page.''' |
| 9 | [[/folder]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[folder:Esteban Diaz]] |
| 12 | !!'''Click [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeMainCharacters here]] for the Main Characters page.''' |
| 13 | [[/folder]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:Lyla Park]] |
| 16 | !!Lyla Park |
| 17 | [[quoteright:343:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lyla.png]] |
| 18 | [[caption-width-right:343:"Shit changes so fast... I get so emo sometimes, wondering what'll happen to us once we graduate."]] |
| 19 | ->'''Voiced by''': Mei Pak |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Sean's best friend of several years, with whom he shares a very close relationship. After Sean and Daniel are forced to go on the run, Lyla is shown to be very concerned, with no doubt of her friend's innocence. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | * BigSisterInstinct: Shown to have grown this towards Daniel, as she calls Sean an asshole when he kicks him out of his room when all he wanted was to show his zombie costume. |
| 24 | * BreakoutCharacter: She initially was only going to appear in Roads. However, she appears in 3 out of the 4 next episodes because she was popular with fans. |
| 25 | * BreakTheCutie: In the event where Sean doesn't call her, Lyla has a huge emotional breakdown over her best friend and his little brother's disappearances that puts her into a psychiatric clinic. In the event where Sean does contact her, she's still broken, but at least knows Sean is okay and get to say a proper goodbye. |
| 26 | * BullyHunter: Downplayed. She isn't afraid to tell Brett to "shut the fuck up" when he's being a douche to her and Sean. She also doesn't hesistate to call out Sean when he is being mean to Daniel. |
| 27 | * CoolBigSis: Is shown many times to act this way towards Daniel (who has a [[PrecociousCrush crush on her]]). In her and Sean's texts, when Daniel stole Sean's phone and texted Lyla, she played along and called him her "favorite Diaz". In the ''Wastelands'' flashback, she's shown to have gave him wooden letters that spells "Dan" for Daniel's bedroom, and Sean mentally notes that Daniel "was ready to propose to her just now". She also took his side when Sean kicked him out of his room, and in Sean's dream/flashback sequence she's babysitting Daniel. |
| 28 | * DeadpanSnarker: Seems to be exclusively reserved at Sean, though it's more of a playful example. |
| 29 | -->'''Sean''': What should I wear tonight [at the party]? |
| 30 | -->'''Lyla''': A condom. |
| 31 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Implied. All she talks about is getting wasted and high at Eric's party. |
| 32 | * HeroicBSOD: Suffers from one off-screen if Sean doesn't call her, which puts her into a mental clinic so much she's distressed. |
| 33 | * TheInsomniac: Reading through Sean and Lyla's texts showcases that Lyla suffers from insomnia due to her depression episodes. If Sean contacts Lyla at the end of Episode 1 and does it again in the next episode, Lyla reveals she takes medication to help her sleep as the whole situation with Sean and Daniel is too much for her mental health. |
| 34 | * LadySwearsALot: Just like her best friend Sean, Lyla should wash that foul mouth with soap. |
| 35 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: Both Lyla and Sean make it pretty clear that they mean a lot to each other. [[spoiler:So much that if chosen to say goodbye, Lyla is the first and only person that Sean will risk calling while on the run.]] |
| 36 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:Depending on if you kept in contact with her, she is the only person besides Daniel and Karen who shows up after Sean gets released from prison if both brothers surrender at the border. The huge hug both give to each other and what appears to be them holding hands afterwards might imply that they became a couple during the time skip.]] |
| 37 | * MeaningfulName: Lyla means "night" or sometimes "daughter of the night". Lyla is revealed to be [[TheInsomniac suffering from insomnia]]. |
| 38 | * NiceGirl: Lyla is sweet, funny and a good loyal friend to Sean as well as a CoolBigSis towards Daniel. |
| 39 | * OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:In the ''Redemption'' ending, if she waits for Sean to get out of jail, she's shown to have the same baby face than when she was a teenager]]. |
| 40 | * PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to be this with Sean, with the two of them maintaining a deep and strong relationship that seemingly has no romantic undertones. Lyla will tell Sean that she [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove loves him]] several times throughout the first episode. [[spoiler:In the Redemption ending, if Sean tried to make contact with Lyla during his journey, their interaction in the ending scene could be interpreted as romantic.]] |
| 41 | * RomanticWingman: Gladly and eagerly this for Sean towards Jenn. |
| 42 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:If Sean decides to call her before he throws away his phone, she’s the only one who he gave any updates to.]] |
| 43 | * ShipperOnDeck: Lyla approves Sean’s crush on Jenn and has helped him with getting Jenn to notice him. |
| 44 | * TheStoner: Conversations with Sean has shown that she’s pretty heavy with weed. |
| 45 | * UndyingLoyalty: Never once doubts Sean after he and Daniel are on the run for a crime they didn't commit. [[spoiler:Deconstructed when it's shown the toll and stress she endures defending them against the angry masses has her seeking therapy, especially if Sean never contacts her. It does get Reconstructed if you made an effort to contact her as much as you can as she managed to gain more followers on Facebook to help the Diaz brothers be seen as innocent and she's the only person besides Daniel and Karen to show up at Sean's release from prison and what is implied to be a RelationshipUpgrade]]. |
| 46 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:During the time skip between Episode 1 and 2, she and Jenn had a falling out and by the time Sean calls her in Episode 2, she states that they don't talk to each other anymore. They regain their friendship in Episode 5 once Jenn joins up with supporting Sean on Facebook.]] |
| 47 | * WhatTheHellHero: She rightfully calls Sean out on his attitude when he rudely kicks Daniel out of his room and even calls him an asshole for it. |
| 48 | * YouNeedToGetLaid: Teases Sean about it to explain why he's so grumpy and uptight with his brother. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Brett Foster]] |
| 52 | !!Brett Vaughn Foster |
| 53 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brett_foster_headshot4.png]] |
| 54 | [[caption-width-right:270:"You and your whole fucking family are going to jail! Losers!"]] |
| 55 | ->'''Voiced by''': Robert Shearer |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Sean and Daniel's next door neighbor. He clearly doesn't get along well with them, which culminates in a violent confrontation that essentially kickstarts the whole plot. |
| 58 | ---- |
| 59 | * AssholeVictim: His fight with Sean caused him to hit his head on a rock and struggle to breathe. |
| 60 | * TheBully: He violently threatens Daniel for a simple accident. |
| 61 | * CrankyNeighbor: And a racist one, on top of that. |
| 62 | * FlippingTheBird: He flips Lyla off after she rightfully calls him a dickhead for insulting her and Sean. |
| 63 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: He's a racist bully with a scar on his nose. |
| 64 | * HateSink: He's a racist, ableist {{jerkass}} with no redeeming qualities, and he's indirectly responsible for the game's main conflict. |
| 65 | * {{Jerkass}}: He acts antagonistically to the protagonists every time he's on-screen and constantly throws insults, whether at Sean and his brother or Lyla. |
| 66 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Sean can find letters around his house from a "Scott Foster" who's most likely Brett's father. The letters imply that Scott antagonizes Esteban in a manner similar to how Brett antagonizes Daniel, except Scott passive-aggressively complains about insignificant property violations and loud parties rather than resorting to open bullying. |
| 67 | * PaperTiger: He tries to make himself look tough, but he goes down pretty easily with his fight with Sean. |
| 68 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He uses racial slurs against Daniel and Sean and calls Daniel a "fucking retard". |
| 69 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: If he hadn't picked a fight with Sean, the plot never would've happened. |
| 70 | * TapOnTheHead: Victim of this during his fight with Sean where he hits his head against a rock. Though this trope seems to be played rather realistically, as he's not unconscious, struggles to breathe and groaning in a lot of pain. |
| 71 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The entire events of season 2 probably wouldn't have happened had he not picked a fight with the Diaz brothers. |
| 72 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While the incident in Seattle mentions the death of Esteban and the police officer, there are no mentions of Brett. Since he is not mentioned among the victims, he seems to have survived his severe head injury. The "survivor" of the incident quoted and pictured in some news articles is most likely him, but he's not referred to by name. |
| 73 | * WouldHurtAChild: He harshly grabs Daniel by the arm and threatens him for spilling fake blood on his shirt. Thankfully, Sean arrives on the scene just before he could do anything worse. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:Officer Matthews]] |
| 77 | !!Officer Kindred Matthews |
| 78 | [[quoteright:277:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/k_matthews_headshot_9.png]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | A jumpy police officer who arrives on the scene after the Diaz brother's fight with Brett Foster. Due to the scene [[NotWhatItLooksLike looking a lot worse than the situation actually was]], and possibly due to the fact that [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the "suspects" are Mexicans]], he ends up pulling his gun and ''actually'' making the situation worse. |
| 81 | ---- |
| 82 | * AssholeVictim: A guy that just points his gun at two kids especially a nine year old, without even giving them a chance to explain, then shooting their unarmed father. It’s hard to feel bad for him, even Sean doesn’t. |
| 83 | * ContinuitySnarl: He is referred to as "K. Matthews" by himself and his dashcam in "Roads" but is referred to as "Philip Matthews" by his sister in a statement during "Rules". This was eventually fixed in a patch which changed the name "Philip" to "Kindred". |
| 84 | * DirtyCoward: If immediately calling for backup upon seeing two Mexican children doesn't qualify Matthews as this, then what likely does is him [[HarmfulToMinors pulling out his gun and aiming it at the clearly unarmed 16 and 9 year olds.]] |
| 85 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Not really "evil" at all, but "Rules" reveals he has a sister at home who shares a few kind words about her deceased brother and shares her condolences for the Diaz family's loss in a statement. |
| 86 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While he was obviously careless and needlessly escalated the situation, he ''did'' arrive at a fight with one person on the ground seemingly seriously injured, and two people covered in what appeared to be blood. An abundance of caution was clearly warranted, despite him going about it wrong. |
| 87 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He clearly shot his weapon in a moment of panic, and shows shock when he realizes he gunned down Esteban. |
| 88 | * NervousWreck: He was clearly not meant to be alone with this situation, as he handles it terribly, jumps to conclusions, points his gun at ''children'' and shoots an innocent man who simply wanted to talk. |
| 89 | * OhCrap: He clearly didn't mean to shoot Esteban Diaz, as his reaction shows. [[LaserGuidedKarma Not that he had much time to reflect on his actions afterward, however.]] |
| 90 | * PoliceBrutality: The fact that he was pointing a gun at two kids and ended up killing someone, even if it was accidental, shows that he has this trait. |
| 91 | * ShoutOut: Both of his pre and post-patch names "Philip" and "Kindred" respectively are references to Creator/PhilipKDick, who wrote the novel ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep''. This seems to be in itself a reference to the [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange first]] [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm two]] ''Life Is Strange'' games which referenced the film ''Film/BladeRunner'', an adaptation of the novel. |
| 92 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He barely has a couple minutes of screentime, but him [[spoiler:shooting Esteban Diaz]] is what helps kick off the plot. |
| 93 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Despite how jumpy he is, there really was no way he could have foreseen his actions causing Daniel to [[spoiler:level half the neighborhood with his mind powers.]] |
| 94 | * WouldHurtAChild: No matter his motive, he still pointed his weapon at a Mexican boy. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Brody Holloway]] |
| 98 | !!Brody Holloway |
| 99 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brody_8.png]] |
| 100 | [[caption-width-right:310:"You may not see it but... What you and your brother have is the most important thing. He needs you. And you need him."]] |
| 101 | ->'''Voiced by''': Bolen Walker |
| 102 | |
| 103 | An "online traveling journalist" that Sean and Daniel meet at a gas station. Despite coming off as a little odd at first, he quickly proves himself to be very friendly and helpful to Sean and Daniel once the plot kicks off. |
| 104 | ---- |
| 105 | * AnimalMotif: A bear was used to represent him in the flashback to episode one, being big, very fuzzy, and friendly. |
| 106 | * BespectacledCutie: A male example. He wears glasses, which emphasizes his teddy bear build and his kind-hearted nature. |
| 107 | * BigBrotherInstinct: The instant he sees Sean and Daniel run to his car for help, he does not hesitate a second to let them in and immediately believes them after they tell them about what Hank did to Sean. |
| 108 | * BigFun: A bulky, amicable and kind person. |
| 109 | * TheCameo[=/=]TheBusCameBack: Despite not appearing on-screen past Season 2 Episode 1, he returns to the franchise in the fourth comics arc. He meets Max, Chloe, and [[spoiler:Rachel in the alternate timeline]] while they're taking a stop on their roadtrip. |
| 110 | * CoolBigBro: Acts this way towards the Diaz brothers, believing them right away after learning Hank kidnapped Sean, gives them a ride and helps Sean with his issues by giving him wild advice and comforting him when he breaks down in tears. |
| 111 | * CreepyGood: Sean sees him as a bit of a weirdo at first but he turns out to be a friendly guy [[spoiler:who helps out the Diaz brothers by taking them to a motel and giving them his bookbag to help them out.]] |
| 112 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: His hair and eyes are the same shade of brown. |
| 113 | * FriendToAllChildren: Implied by how he acts like a CoolBigBro towards Daniel. |
| 114 | * GentleGiant: He's basically a human teddy bear, who's friendly and wears his heart on his sleeve. |
| 115 | * GoodSamaritan: This man knows nothing about these two kids, except that they are wanted for the death of a cop in Seattle. Yet, he listens to Sean telling his story, comforts him, pays them a motel room and gives them supplies and money for their trip to Puertos Lobos. Sean is taken aback and touched by the kindness coming from a total stranger. |
| 116 | * TheHermit: Brody comes from a family with "money", as he puts it. However, as he did not identify with them or their culture he left and has since been living on the road, with no company other than his car, laptop and the people he may meet while traveling. |
| 117 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: This man is the good in the world that we need more of. |
| 118 | * IntrepidReporter: He goes out far enough to find interesting topics for his blog. |
| 119 | * NiceGuy: Brody doesn't seem to have an unkind bone in his entire body. |
| 120 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: Daniel's first impression with Brody is seeing him looking at nude pictures on his computer. Turns out he's just doing an online report about nudists. If Sean reads the article, he notes that it wasn't as bad as he first thought. |
| 121 | * RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: He reveals that he comes from a wealthy family in Utah, which he left in order to live on the road away from them. He seemingly isn't on good terms with them, [[spoiler:though he does care about them enough to travel back home to visit his dying mother]]. |
| 122 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Thanks to Brody's kindness and encouragement by giving them money and a new book bag, Sean and Daniel were able to have a fighting chance on going to Mexico, managing to make it far enough to reach their grandparents and go even further than they would have on foot. |
| 123 | * WalkingTheEarth: He travels on the road. |
| 124 | * WhiteSheep: He describes his family as having money, but no soul. From the sound of it, he was the only person from his family who wanted to use his privilege to make the world a better place. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Doris Stamper]] |
| 128 | !!Doris Stamper |
| 129 | [[quoteright:307:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doris_stamper_headshot2.png]] |
| 130 | [[caption-width-right:307:"Hmm... You don't look like everybody else who stops by."]] |
| 131 | ->'''Voiced by''': Elaine Partnow |
| 132 | |
| 133 | The elderly shopkeeper who works at the gas station that Sean and Daniel visit. |
| 134 | ---- |
| 135 | * AmbiguousSituation: Is she as racist as her husband? Or is she too meek to step to him? |
| 136 | * CharacterTic: Raising and waving her left hand when she talks. |
| 137 | * ChildHater: Can potentially come off as this. Depending on your behavior in the store, she can explain to Daniel that he can't adopt her dog either gently and sweetly or cold and harshly. |
| 138 | * CoolOldLady: If you are on your best behavior and make pleasant conversation with her, she warms up to the boys and talks to them much more sympathetically. Sean writes in his sketchbook that she could be a little cool, and even acknowledges later on that ''she's'' nice even if her husband's a cruel monster. |
| 139 | * ExtremeDoormat: Even if she does learn to like Sean and Daniel while they're in her store, [[spoiler:she will still nervously allow her husband to assault the boys and tie them up in the back of the store]] without much more than a single meek questioning. |
| 140 | * GunNut: According to Hank, she collects guns, still showcasing they live in a rural all-white region. |
| 141 | * HappilyMarried: To Hank. |
| 142 | * IceQueen: She can be harsh and cold if Sean acts suspiciously or disrespectfully in her store. |
| 143 | * IronLady: She carries a similar disposition to Chloe's mother Joyce. She is stern and glib and keeps a steely eye on her shop. |
| 144 | * MoralityPet: Even if Hank is racist and a huge {{jerkass}}, he clearly loves Doris and is in a happy marriage with her. |
| 145 | * NiceGirl: If Sean is careful about his and Daniel's appearances, does not act suspicious, and is respectful towards her, Doris shows herself to be a kind woman. |
| 146 | * PetTheDog: |
| 147 | ** She gives you a bear keychain for free after seeing how Daniel thought they were cute. |
| 148 | ** A slightly more literal example involves the stray puppy that she takes care of in her store. |
| 149 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Lampshaded by a captive Sean about her racist husband: |
| 150 | -->'''Sean''': [''to himself''] Sorry, but you married an asshole. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Hank Stamper]] |
| 154 | !!Hank Stamper |
| 155 | [[quoteright:312:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hank_stamper_headshot_4.png]] |
| 156 | [[caption-width-right:312:"Hey kids. Looks like you're out camping. Seems dangerous to be out here all alone... [[WhamLine But maybe you're the ones who need to be watched.]]"]] |
| 157 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DonDurrell |
| 158 | |
| 159 | An older man that Sean and Daniel meet at a gas station that he works at. He ends up confronting the two boys for what happened earlier in the plot and makes things much harder for them later. He's married to Doris Stamper. |
| 160 | ---- |
| 161 | * AssholeVictim: If the player has Sean beat him and steal a camping set from his store, old bastard had it coming. |
| 162 | * BadSamaritan: He comes off as a kind man who worries over two kids without parental guidance, but once Sean tries to get away when he sees his true motives, he then kidnaps him (after possibly slapping Daniel) and calls the cop on them. |
| 163 | * BeardOfEvil: He's a racist redneck with a garnished beard. |
| 164 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as friendly and worried about seeing two kids alone, but this goes away the bat of an eye when he reveals himself to be a die-hard racist asshole who assumes Sean stole from him simply because of his race. He is also seen as a good citizen in the press and in the region, despite the fact he kidnapped a minor and assaulted him and his younger brother. |
| 165 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's a racist asshole, but he's HappilyMarried to his wife Doris, who he adores. |
| 166 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with. He does point out that it's not safe for a pre-teen to be by themselves in the wild and criticizes Sean for dragging Daniel around...not long after he hits Daniel. |
| 167 | * EvilOldFolks: An old racist who slaps Daniel, kidnaps Sean, kicks and hits him when he's tied and helpless and plans to hand him to the police for no other reason than him being Latino. |
| 168 | * HappilyMarried: To Doris. While tied in his office, Sean can find a carved wooden bear that Hank made for her. |
| 169 | * HiddenDepths: For a rude racist bastard, he enjoys carving wooden bears (a bit too much, to his wife's annoyance). |
| 170 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He claims that he wouldn't hurt a little boy, yet he smacks Daniel for stopping him from apprehending Sean [[spoiler:as well as tries to capture them in order to hand them over to the police.]] |
| 171 | * {{Jerkass}}: A prejudiced racist who hits two innocent kids for their racial background. He was also rude to Brody in the past for no apparent reason. |
| 172 | * KarmaHoudini: Receives no lasting punishment for his attack on the Diaz brothers. If Sean opts to beat Hank up, Hank will later claim to the media that the Diaz brothers attempted to kill him, and the media will portray him as a hero and victim. But you gotta admit it was so WorthIt. |
| 173 | * KnightTemplar: His racism is pretty blatant, and he mixes this with his behaviour acts if he's a patriot dealing with a couple of cop killers. |
| 174 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Downplayed. He's a KarmaHoudini who's seen as a victim in the press and no one knows what he did to Sean no matter what happens, but if Sean chooses to assault him, he definitely had it coming. |
| 175 | * PetTheDog: A minor example, but if Sean doesn't assault him, Hank will tell the media he was concerned about the brothers and their safety, and they ran away from him when he approached them. While his cover story is BlatantLies, he at least doesn't pass the boys off as criminals, and presumably doesn't try to charge or accuse them of anything despite Daniel wrecking his store. |
| 176 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He accuses Sean and Daniel of stealing from his store even if they didn't, accuses them of not being citizens, and even uses a racial slur against one of them. He likely only targets the two boys in the first place because they're Mexicans. |
| 177 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Hank is a violent racist who has won awards for being a good citizen and has close friends in the police force. A newspaper article Sean can find in Episode 2 shows that the media is treating him as a hero who was almost killed by the Diaz brothers, with Hank's knocking out and kidnapping Sean going unmentioned by the press. |
| 178 | * WouldHurtAChild: He has no problems striking Daniel. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Mushroom]] |
| 182 | !!Mushroom |
| 183 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mushroom_2.png]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | A female puppy dog that Doris was caring for at the gas station. Following the events that happened there, Daniel decides to take the dog for himself, naturally without telling Sean first. He decides to call her Mushroom. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | * CanineCompanion: Towards the Diaz brothers, mostly Daniel. |
| 188 | * DecoyProtagonist: Once she gets adopted by Daniel, it seems as though she will be the brothers' CanineCompanion for the entire game. Sadly, she's killed off early into ''Rules''. |
| 189 | * DiesWideOpen: Her eyes are still opened when Sean picks up her lifeless body. |
| 190 | * DroppedABridgeOnHer: Her unfortunate death is a bit abrupt. |
| 191 | * EvilDetectingDog: A downplayed example, but during the motel scene where Daniel's power goes haywire (due to his breakdown over learning the truth about his dad's fate), Mushroom is terrorized in a corner and doesn't stop barking while everything spins in the room. |
| 192 | * GratuitousAnimalSidekick: A tragic example. She's believed to become the new TeamPet to the Diaz brothers after they adopt her in "Roads", yet she is attacked by a puma and loses her life in the next episode. |
| 193 | * InnocentBlueEyes: A small, defenseless and adorable puppy with blue eyes. |
| 194 | * KillTheCutie: Poor puppy had no luck against a wild cougar. |
| 195 | * LightIsGood: She's a white puppy with brown spots, and is an adorable dog who loves the Diaz brothers. |
| 196 | * MoralityPet: A literal example. Her death showcases what happens when Daniel's grief mixes up with his powers. If Sean doesn't intervene, Daniel can kill the cougar responsible for her death. And it all goes downhill for the Diaz brothers after Mushroom dies. |
| 197 | * PreciousPuppy: Just look at her. She's as adorable as any puppy can be. |
| 198 | * PuppyDogEyes: Comes with being an actual puppy. |
| 199 | * SacrificialLamb: Is killed by a cougar early into ''Rules'' to further demonstrate how grief affects Daniel and the use of his powers, as well as have Sean influence Daniel on whether or not using his powers is okay in certain situations. |
| 200 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath: While Mushroom was outside, she was suddenly killed by a mountain lion. In real life, Mountain Lions are known to eat unprotected, domestic animals due to the loss of their natural habitats and desperation for food since the other wild animals (i.e. deer for example) have been driven away. To the Diaz brothers, Mushroom was their pet and source of comfort in difficult times; to the mountain lion, she was an unprotected source of food during the winter. |
| 201 | * UndyingLoyalty: She ''is'' a dog after all. She always stays by Daniel's side, and listens to him more than she does with Sean. |
| 202 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Joins the Diaz brothers at the end of Episode 1, then gets killed at the start of Episode 2. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | !!Introduced in Episode 2: Rules |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:The Cougar]] |
| 208 | !!Cougar |
| 209 | |
| 210 | The Cougar is an animal that resides in Willamette National Forest. |
| 211 | ---- |
| 212 | * AmbiguousSituation: Judging by its behaviour (eating small animals), the cougar is more likely to be female than male since females are known to eat small animals. Cougars bury their food for later consumption as part of an instinct called "cashing", but females are known to bring their food to their 2-4 kittens. Suggesting that the cougar may have simply been trying to provide food for her kittens during the winter season. |
| 213 | * NecessaryEvil: Since the events of ''Rules'' take place in the winter, the cougar may have been hunting for food in order to survive the winter since its natural prey has either migrated or gone into hibernation. If you buy into the idea that the cougar is trying to provide for its kittens then you have another reason why she's hunting in the first place. |
| 214 | * PredationIsNatural: The cougar was simply a hungry, wild animal who found an unprotected source of food during the winter. |
| 215 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in the first act of ''Rules'' but her presence kills off Mushroom, Daniel and Sean's puppy. If Daniel kills the cougar, then it reintroduces him to death and loss except he's personally responsible for it this time. |
| 216 | * TruthInTelevision: As sad as it is, cougars are known to hunt domestic animals but it's more complicated than outright evil. Cougars usually hunt deer and small animals (from coyotes to woodrats) but due to humans taking over their natural habitats, they've had to resort to hunting unprotected domestic animals since their natural prey has been driven away, or hunted down. Since the episode is set in winter, then the cougar's natural prey has gone into hibernation as well and made the cougar desperate for food. As harsh as it is, Mushroom was just in the wrong place at the worst possible time. |
| 217 | * VillainExitStageLeft: If spared then the cougar will run away with Mushroom's body to either eat it, bury it for later consumption, or feed it to her cubs. |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Claire Reynolds]] |
| 221 | !!Claire Reynolds |
| 222 | [[quoteright:341:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/claire_reynolds_s2_headshot.png]] |
| 223 | [[caption-width-right:341:"How about if we say a little prayer and, and give thanks?"]] |
| 224 | ->'''Voiced by''': Nancy Cronig |
| 225 | |
| 226 | Sean and Daniel's maternal grandmother. Claire is a very religious and charitable woman who lives in Beaver Creek. |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | * AnimalMotif: Wolves, indicating that Sean really does see his grandparents as their family despite being distant from them. He also refers to them as "Old Wolves", who are wise and caring of their young. |
| 229 | * AscendedExtra: Has a more prominent role during ''Rules'' after her brief appearance in ''The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit''. |
| 230 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a nice lady, but she's not fun to be around when she's mad, as Sean and Daniel see after they break into Karen's old room. |
| 231 | * ChekhovsGunman: She was first introduced as a minor character in ''The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit''. She's a major character in ''Life is Strange 2'''s second episode. |
| 232 | * ControlFreak: She wants thing to go her way and is dead set on wanting everyone who lives under her roof to respect her rules. Sean blatantly tells her it's the reason why Karen couldn't stick around. |
| 233 | * CoolOldLady: She might be strict and works by her own rules, she's kind, motherly and loves children. |
| 234 | * DotingGrandparent: She's very loving of her grandsons and makes sure they have everything they need when they stay over at her place. |
| 235 | * FriendToAllChildren: Is loved by Chris and Daniel. |
| 236 | * GoodAllAlong: Her faith and Stephen’s comment about her not possibly being tolerant about Daniel's powers make you think that she'll sell out the Diaz brothers [[spoiler:and her reaction after seeing them in Karen's room doesn't help. Turns out when she sees Daniel's power, she takes it as a miracle from God and wastes no time to help defend Sean and Daniel from the police.]] |
| 237 | * GoshDangItToHeck: She dislikes bad language, and would rather uses terms such as "sugar" to express frustration. |
| 238 | * HappilyMarried: To Stephen, for more than 40 years. |
| 239 | * IHaveNoDaughter: She disowned her daughter Karen after she abandoned her family. Even 8 years later she still refuses to acknowledge Karen as her daughter. [[spoiler:It does get better in Episode 5, particularly in the Parting Ways ending where they are finally on speaking terms again.]] |
| 240 | * InnocentBlueEyes: She's a kind woman with blue eyes, though it mixes up with IcyBlueEyes whenever Karen or her past is mentioned. |
| 241 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be strict, but she's a loving woman who doesn't hesitate a single second to take her orphaned fugitive grandsons in, despite it putting her and her husband in danger of being incarcerated for being accomplices. |
| 242 | * MamaBear: She doesn't get violent, but she has a strong maternal instinct towards her grandsons, and also to Chris, whom she constantly worries over due to his father's alcoholism and fears for his safety. If Chris fails to not make her suspicious in ''The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit'', she will tell Chris she'll call social services and help him with his father's situation. |
| 243 | * MyBelovedSmother: More of a grandmother variant towards Sean and Daniel, but it's also stated that her strict rules contributed in her daughter Karen feeling trapped in what society expected her to become. |
| 244 | * NosyNeighbor: A good-natured variant, as Claire often checks on the Eriksens due to being aware of Charles' alcohol problem and grief over his wife, and worries over his nine year old son Chris. Charles even calls her a "nosey bitch" during one of his drunken rants. |
| 245 | * ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:In the ''Redemption'' and ''Parting Ways'' endings, she and Stephen get custody of Daniel and give him the normal life he deserves]]. |
| 246 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:She and her husband decide to lie to the police and distract them while their grandsons escape, not revealing their whereabouts]]. |
| 247 | * WeNeedADistraction: [[spoiler:She distracts the police while Sean and Daniel escape by the back door]]. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Stephen Reynolds]] |
| 252 | [[quoteright:329:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stephen.png]] |
| 253 | [[caption-width-right:329:"This is your home now. Keep your heads low around here. Beaver Creek is small and... nosy."]] |
| 254 | ->'''Voiced by''': John O'Connell |
| 255 | |
| 256 | Sean and Daniel's maternal grandfather. He was Beaver Creek's fire chief before he retired. |
| 257 | ---- |
| 258 | * AnimalMotif: Wolves, indicating that Sean really does see his grandparents as their family despite being distant from them. He also refers to them as "Old Wolves", who are wise and caring of their young. |
| 259 | * ConspiracyTheorist: Sneaking a peek at Stephen's laptop shows that he believes that Esteban's death was part of a government superweapon conspiracy. |
| 260 | * CoolOldGuy: He's a friendly old man who builds model trains in his spare time and is considerably less strict than his wife. |
| 261 | * DistressedDude: A minor example, but he gets stuck underneath his broken wardrobe towards the climax of ''Rules''. Daniel can either help him thus reveal his powers to Claire, or do nothing while Sean pulls him out and injures him more. |
| 262 | * DotingGrandparent: He bonds quite rapidly with his grandsons, especially Daniel over his model train tracks. |
| 263 | * HappilyMarried: To Claire, for more than 40 years. |
| 264 | * HenpeckedHusband: Downplayed, as Stephen doesn't seem to let himself be pushed around by Claire, but he's way more reasonable and laidback than she is, and she's the one who makes the rules when the Diaz brothers stay over at their place. |
| 265 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Just like his wife, his kind nature is reflected through his blue eyes. |
| 266 | * LazyBum: He calls himself lazy over the tasks his wife ask him to do, though it's downplayed considering Stephen doesn't let his wife do all the house work and is pretty invested in his model trains. |
| 267 | * NiceGuy: He's a kind old man who does not hesitate a single second to take his estranged grandsons in. |
| 268 | * PapaWolf: He's protective of his grandsons, despite being estranged from them, and proposes right away that they stay with him and Claire after everything they've been through, not caring the slightest if it can make him and Claire accomplices. |
| 269 | * ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:In the ''Redemption'' and ''Parting Ways'' endings, he and Claire get custody of Daniel and give him the normal life he deserves]]. |
| 270 | * PrecisionFStrike: Says the word "hell" on two occasions. |
| 271 | * RetiredBadass: He's a retired fireman, who was rewarded for his work and amazing career. |
| 272 | * SecretKeeper: |
| 273 | ** He notices Daniel's superpowers, but agrees to keep them secret from Claire because her religious views might cause her to take the revelation that her grandson has supernatural powers badly. [[spoiler:Turns out later on if you rescue him by using Daniel's powers that his fear was unwarranted.]] |
| 274 | ** He later [[spoiler:hides from the police that Sean and Daniel were with them and doesn't tell them where they are going]]. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:Charles Eriksen]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | !!Click [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeMainCharacters here]] for Charles' page |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Cassidy]] |
| 283 | !!Lucy Rose "Cassidy (Cass)" Jones |
| 284 | [[quoteright:322:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cassidy_1.png]] |
| 285 | [[caption-width-right:322:"Ha! Finally, someone who dares speaking with me! Hope you're vaccinated..."]] |
| 286 | ->'''Voiced by''': Sarah J. Bartholomew |
| 287 | |
| 288 | A traveling musician that Sean befriends in Beaver Creek. |
| 289 | ---- |
| 290 | * AbusiveParents: Her father is a meth-addict and beat up her ex-boyfriend for not being white, while her mother didn't intervene. This prompted Cassidy to leave home and never look back. |
| 291 | * AnimalMotif: Along with the rest of her hippie group, Sean uses a hound as her animal portrayal in his story. She, like the brothers, is very close to her family, but while they had a close relationship with their father and are cordial toward their maternal grandparents, Cassidy sees her group as her {{family of choice}}. Unlike wolves, hounds are domesticated, so a group of hounds would represent being abandoned by their families, unlike the Diaz brothers who were forcefully separated from their own. |
| 292 | * TheBard: Because she's a decent musician and the only person with a guitar, Cassidy is the group's primary source of live entertainment. |
| 293 | * BigNo: She screams this in the event where [[spoiler:she witnesses Merrill kill Finn]]. |
| 294 | * BrokenBird: Hannah mentions Cassidy was at rock bottom when they found her. Luckily, finding the hippie group helped her a lot. |
| 295 | * CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Sports a punk-esque appearance and is not impressed by the Christmas market booth owner, who calls her and Finn [[PrecisionFStrike "fucking parasites"]]. |
| 296 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She grew up in a racist family, and witnessed her drug addict father beat up her non-white boyfriend with her brother also threatening to shoot him if he comes again. She then ran away from home and became a lost, angry BrokenBird. |
| 297 | * DeadpanSnarker: Showcased when she and Finn sass the rude shop keeper at Beaver Creek. |
| 298 | * DelinquentHair: Cassidy is a girl with dark purple dyed hair who lives off the grid in a hippie commune, working for an illegal marijuana farm. |
| 299 | * DysfunctionalFamily: Her father is a meth-addict, her mother is implied to be a meek woman afraid of standing up to her husband, and her brother is racist to the point where he threatened to shoot ''his own sister'' if she kept dating her non-white boyfriend. |
| 300 | * HasAType: According to Finn, she has a thing for "suburban boys". She may also have a preference for men of colour, judging by the fact that the reason she left home was her racist family objecting to her dating a guy who wasn't white (to the point of her dad ''beating her boyfriend'' when he found out about them). |
| 301 | * HeroicBSOD: She definitely breaks down when she witnesses [[spoiler:Finn's death]]. In the next episode, Sean notes how broken she is in her letter. |
| 302 | * HeroesLoveDogs: She and Finn adopted a stray mutt who follows them in their journey through train-hopping. |
| 303 | * {{Hobo}}: She calls herself one, preferring a life without a stationary home. |
| 304 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Despite her attraction to Sean she'll be ''delighted'' if he and Finn hook up; in fact, one of the few ways to turn her down without offending her is to reveal that Sean and Finn kissed. [[spoiler:Her elation will turn sour again pretty quickly if Sean reveals that he's agreed to Finn's heist plan, though.]] |
| 305 | * LoveInterest: A potential one for Sean. |
| 306 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: If romanced, she won't appear in the Blood Brothers ending, but it's entirely plausible that she joined the Diazes in Mexico as she did in the Parting Ways ending, albeit off-screen.]] |
| 307 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 308 | ** Cassidy means "clever", which fits with her being more mature and reasonable than any of the Trimmigrants and disagreeing right away with Finn's idea to steal from Merrill. |
| 309 | ** It can also mean "curly", which fits with her hair and how she's depicted as a [[AnimalMotif curly-haired dog]]. |
| 310 | ** Cassidy was also stated to be named after Butch Cassidy, an American train and bank robber. It fits with her being a train hopper but also counts as an IronicName, since she's the first person to refuse to steal from Merrill. |
| 311 | ** She shares her name with David Cassidy and Eva Cassidy, who are musicians like she is. |
| 312 | * MellowFellow: While everyone in her commune is this in some way, Cassidy is the most relaxed and positive. It is said by Hannah, though, that Cassidy used to be a much angrier person regarding her troubled family and has mellowed out over time. |
| 313 | * MsFanservice: As a potential love interest for Sean, she has a skinny dipping scene (and, if so chosen, a sex scene) where she shows off her toned naked body in Episode Three. |
| 314 | * NiceGirl: Overall, Cassidy is a warm and caring individual who always looks out for her friends. |
| 315 | * NotGoodWithRejection: She gets rude and prissy if Sean kisses her but refuses to join her in her tent to have sex. |
| 316 | * OfficialCouple: With Sean, if romanced. |
| 317 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: ''Faith'' reveals through Agent Flores' files that Cassidy's real name is Lucy Rose Jones. |
| 318 | * OutsideRide: She and Finn like to travel this way, jumping on freight trains to hitch a cheap ride. Sean and Daniel end up adopting this idea at the end of Episode Two. |
| 319 | * ShipTease: With Sean. The player can make them an item if they choose to. |
| 320 | * ShipperOnDeck: Cassidy shows herself to be supportive of Sean and Finn if they form a relationship, telling Sean that Finn's crush on him is obvious and reacting with glee if Sean admits to kissing him. |
| 321 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She's normally in the "sugar" side, but if Sean reveals agreeing to commit the heist with Finn or he rejects her advances, Cassidy can showcase an angrier, more vicious side. |
| 322 | * ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: If you listen to her in Episode Two, she sings a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83-QaVJwvrk song with some meaningful lyrics]], playing her acoustic guitar as she does. |
| 323 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Hannah. The two are shown to bicker occasionally, but they ultimately enjoy each other's company. |
| 324 | * WalkingTheEarth: Cassidy mentions to Sean that she needs to move, and being stationary for too long makes her feel trapped. |
| 325 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 326 | ** She gets angered if Sean [[spoiler: agrees to the heist. Even more so if he does so and lies to Cassidy about it, which causes her to sever ties with him the following episode, blaming him for breaking up the group]]. |
| 327 | ** If Sean instead [[spoiler: refuses to do the heist, she will lash out at Finn for leaving with Daniel to commit the heist anyway once she and Sean catch up to him at Merrill's place]]. |
| 328 | * WhenSheSmiles: She sports a warm smile when looking at Sean. It clearly impacts the latter, prompting Cassidy to ask Sean if he has a crush on her. |
| 329 | * WomenAreWiser: Cassidy is shown to be more level-headed than her peers, particularly Finn. Especially so when [[spoiler: Finn proposes they steal the money from Merrill's safe]]. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Finn]] |
| 333 | !!Finnegan "Finn" [=McNamara=] |
| 334 | [[quoteright:322:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finn_6.png]] |
| 335 | [[caption-width-right:322:"I'm just saying you can't change the past, you just gotta focus on what's next. Memories are just lessons for the future."]] |
| 336 | ->'''Voiced by''': Matthew Gallenstein |
| 337 | |
| 338 | Cassidy's companion on their train-hopping journey. |
| 339 | ---- |
| 340 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: If the player romances Sean with Finn and Finn [[spoiler:survives the heist at Merrill's]] ''and'' chooses to escape the hospital stealthy in "Faith", Sean can wake up Finn in his hospital room and have a last chat with him before escaping, where Finn will heartfully tell Sean that he loves him. |
| 341 | * TheBigDamnKiss: Can share one with Sean if he agrees to steal Merrill's money. |
| 342 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He gives a DeathGlare to Big Joe when he is about to give a beating to Daniel, and would've definitely tried to stop him if not from Daniel using his power to defend himself. |
| 343 | * BigBrotherMentor: Becomes a non-familial one to Daniel during the latter and Sean's stay with the drifters. It can lead to some friction between him, Sean and Daniel, especially [[spoiler:once Finn intends to use Daniel's powers to steal from Merrill.]] |
| 344 | * BladeEnthusiast: He keeps a collection of knives, either whittling or throwing them. In Sean's journal, he nicknames Finn as "the Knife Master." |
| 345 | * BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Until Sean's possible death in one of the endings, Finn is the only LGBTQ+ character who can die, as you'll lose him if you're not careful with the choices during the heist at Merrill's place.]] Luckily, this can be averted fairly easily. |
| 346 | * CharacterDeath: A possible case. [[spoiler:If Sean either shoots Merrill or tells Daniel not to use his powers and Daniel obeys, Finn will end up being shot and killed by Merrill]]. |
| 347 | * ClosetKey: {{Downplayed}}. It's hinted that Sean was at least somewhat aware of his bisexuality before they met, but it's quite apparent that he'd never really considered acting on feelings towards another guy before the player has the option to have him pursue Finn. |
| 348 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Has shades of this. He's a mellow and carefree stoner, who is open-minded and dreams of living in a beach house in Costa Rica, drinking cocktails with his friends. |
| 349 | * CoolBigBro: Acts this way towards Daniel, being more laidback than Sean and willing to have fun. |
| 350 | * DeadpanSnarker: His deadpan tone comes from being stoned 80% of the time, which makes his snark even more hilarious. |
| 351 | * DeathGlare: Gives a vicious one to Big Joe when he is about to beat Daniel. |
| 352 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:The picture of the crime scene at the farm from Flores' files shows Finn lying dead with opened eyes]]. |
| 353 | * DreadlockRasta: Finn's brown hair is styled in medium-length dreadlocks, which are adorned with several multicolored dread beads, coils, and clips. |
| 354 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:''Parting Ways'' shows Daniel holding a picture of Finn with Sean (if the player romanced them), indicating that Finn earned his Costa Rica trip after all]]. |
| 355 | * EasilyForgiven: That if Sean ''[[ZigZaggedTrope does]]'' forgive him for putting him and Daniel in danger. |
| 356 | * EruditeStoner: Between his dreadlocks, facial piercings, super calm demeanor and long drawl, Finn might as well have the word "Stoner" tattooed to his forehead. |
| 357 | * FatalFlaw: {{Greed}}. He's considerably more materialistic than the other trimmigrants (especially Cassidy); his big dream is a beach house in Costa Rica, and he proposes using Daniel's powers to help rob Merrill in retaliation for Merrill firing Sean and witholding their weekly pay. [[spoiler: Even if he doesn't literally die during the attempt, he does get hospitalized and separated from Sean and the rest of the group, possibly permanently.]] |
| 358 | * FlippingTheBird: Does the two fingers variant to [[{{Jerkass}} Big Joe]] after he drives away from the camp. |
| 359 | -->'''Finn''': Later, Big Joe. [''flips him off''] Smile, asshole. |
| 360 | * FriendsWithBenefits: He and Hannah occasionally have sex, but don't view one another as anything more than friends. |
| 361 | * GayOption: Is one of the potential romance options for Sean, and the only male love interest. |
| 362 | * TheHeart: Although Sean describes him as the trimmigrants' leader, this seems to be his role in practice. He liaisons between Merrill and the workers via diplomacy, and keeps everyone in a good mood with jokes and encouragement. [[spoiler: After he dies or gets hospitalized in Episode 3, Cassidy will send Sean a letter admitting that it's gotten harder for the group to stay together without him.]] |
| 363 | * HeroesLoveDogs: He and Cassidy adopted a stray mutt who follows them in their journey through train-hopping. |
| 364 | * HeroicSacrifice: A non-lethal example: if Sean doesn't speak up when Big Joe asks who threw the ashtray at his head (which was actually caused by Daniel's power), Finn will say it was him and take a punch from Big Joe. |
| 365 | * HiddenDepths: Subtly {{Parodied}}. Sean considers the fact that Finn enjoys reading classic novels to be evidence of this. You can find a copy of ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' in his tent, along with a few other books with unseen titles. However, ''Lord of the Flies'' — while a modern classic — is pretty typical assigned reading for most high schoolers, and the fact that Sean gushes about Finn's sophistication is probably more meant as evidence of him crushing on the guy than to establish an actual attribute of Finn's character. |
| 366 | * IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: If the player has Sean turn down his advances, Finn will apologize for misunderstanding and will even encourage Sean to spend more time with Cassidy. |
| 367 | * {{Irony}}: In his tent, Sean can find ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''. A book that deconstructs the idea of living without adults and authority, an idea which Finn embraces. |
| 368 | * InformedAttribute: Sean describes him as the leader of the trimmigrants, but aside from serving as a bridge between Merrill and the workers, Finn doesn't seem to exercise any actual authority over the group, and nobody defers to his decisions more than they would anyone else's. He doesn't tell them about Daniel's powers, or recruit them to help him rob Merrill. |
| 369 | ** Given that Sean has a pretty obvious crush on him regardless of whether the player choses to hook them up or not, this is probably a bit of deliberate InUniverse CharacterShilling. See also Sean's conviction that Finn is ''very'' smart and sophisticated... on the basis that he likes novels found on most high school reading lists. |
| 370 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Cassidy accuses Finn of being selfish [[spoiler:when he proposes Sean and Daniel (a ''child'') help him to break into Merrill's safe]]. |
| 371 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes advantage of Daniel's superpowers for his own gain, putting him, Sean and potentially Cassidy in danger. Despite this, he grows genuinely fond of Sean and Daniel, and if he survives Episode 3, he'll apologize to Sean in Episode 4 for his actions. |
| 372 | * KnuckleTattoos: Across Finn's knuckles is "FREE PIZA." |
| 373 | * TheLeader: Of the charismatic variety, Finn is the self-appointed leader of the Humboldt marijuana farm workers. |
| 374 | * LadykillerInLove: He's implied to [[ReallyGetsAround have a diverse sex life]] and not look for anything more serious than that, yet he seems to really have fallen for Sean. [[spoiler:If romanced, ''Parting Ways'' shows a picture of Sean with Finn, meaning that after 6 years, they formed a long term relationship and travel together]]. |
| 375 | * LoveInterest: A potential one for Sean. |
| 376 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:If he's romanced and survives the heist, he won't appear in the Blood Brothers ending, but it's entirely plausible that he joined the Diazes in Mexico as he did in the Parting Ways ending, albeit off-screen.]] |
| 377 | * MeaningfulName: His surname, [=McNamara=], means "Son of the Hound of the Sea". Considering his connection with dogs, this is fitting. |
| 378 | * OfficialCouple: With Sean, if romanced and [[spoiler:Finn is not killed by Merrill.]] |
| 379 | * ParentalBetrayal: As a child he worked for his father alongside his three older brothers, stealing, stripping down and selling hot-wired cars. When their father got busted, he pinned the blame on Finn and his brothers, who went to jail as a result. Once free Finn left his home behind and began to travel. |
| 380 | * PrettyBoy: He's a relatively attractive young man. |
| 381 | * ReallyGetsAround: Implied. He claims he doesn't care about the gender of a partner if it means he can "have some". He also has a FriendsWithBenefits relationship with Hannah, and who knows who else in the hippie group. |
| 382 | * ShipTease: With Sean. The player can make them an item if they choose to. |
| 383 | * ShipperOnDeck: If Sean has high intimacy with Cassidy, Finn will encourage him to make the most of his last night and spend time with her. |
| 384 | * ShoutOut: His name is confirmed to be a reference to [[{{Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn}} Huckleberry Finn]]. |
| 385 | * SirSwearsALot: Not as much as Sean, but Finn isn't shy to let out a few F-bombs here and there. |
| 386 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: While he means well, he encourages Daniel to indulge his whims and use his powers for personal gain, which contrasts sharply with Sean's more cautious approach. He can have a similar effect on Sean himself, if he succeeds in convincing Sean to go along with the robbery. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Nick]] |
| 390 | !!Nick |
| 391 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nick_headshot7.png]] |
| 392 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Look. It's up to us to make sure our streets are clean. We, the people, have to take care of the trash, right?"]] |
| 393 | ->'''Voiced by''': Steve Liski |
| 394 | |
| 395 | A resident of Beaver Creek and an old friend of Charles Eriksen. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | |
| 398 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He applauds Sean for his artistic passion but chides Cassidy and Finn for panhandling via the former's musical talent. |
| 399 | * {{Jerkass}}: Despite coming across as nice to Sean and especially his old friend Charles, he’s rude towards Cassidy and Finn for almost no real reason ([[JerkassHasAPoint though he’s right about their dog not being on a leash in public]]). |
| 400 | * KickTheDog: The way he treats Cassidy and Finn who are simply trying to make whatever money they can is overtly cruel and petty. The only real valid criticism he has on them is having their dog out and about without a leash. |
| 401 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Sean can command Daniel to toss a pile of snow on his head for being an asshole. |
| 402 | * PetTheDog: He's genuinely supportive of Sean's passion for art, which makes his disapproval of Cassidy utilizing her music to earn money rather hypocritical but is still pretty sweet coming from him. He is also sympathetic towards Charles and completely understands why that has caused him to drift away from their friendship. To top it off, he is the one who hooked Charles up with his current railroad job after he lost his former one. |
| 403 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's clearly not too fond of Cassidy and Finn's presence on merit of them being drifters. He refers to them as "parasites" and "trash", even [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming accusing them of wasting their talents on the road and blames them for the United States being in poor shape]]. |
| 404 | * RightWingMilitiaFanatic: He gives Sean a flyer for a libertarianism website with a strong stance against taxation, complete with a Gadsden flag. His aggression towards Cassidy and Finn also comes from his contempt towards people he views as contributing nothing to society. |
| 405 | * TheStoolPigeon: [[spoiler:If Sean didn't call Lyla nor access Facebook on Stephen's laptop, it's implied that Nick was the one who called the police on the Diaz brothers. At the Christmas market, he plans to inform a "Gus" about Cassidy and Finn's presence. Beaver Creek's sheriff is named "Angus", and according to game files, Nick is the deputy.]] |
| 406 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Him and Charles used to be very close before Emily's death. Once they run into each other again at the Christmas market, Nick holds no hard feelings and is nothing but sympathetic towards him. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | !!Introduced in Episode 3: Wastelands |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[folder:Hannah]] |
| 412 | !!Hannah Reyome |
| 413 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hannah_3.png]] |
| 414 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You feel us, Sean? Or do we sound like depraved punks to you?"]] |
| 415 | ->'''Voiced by''': Hannah Prichard |
| 416 | |
| 417 | One of Cassidy and Finn's companions. |
| 418 | ---- |
| 419 | * DeadpanSnarker: It's rare she ''doesn't'' snark when she speaks. |
| 420 | * DefrostingIceQueen: She seems aloof and rude at first, but she actually mellows around Sean once she sees how much he cares about Daniel. |
| 421 | * FriendsWithBenefits: She and Finn occasionally have sex, but don't view one another as anything more than friends. |
| 422 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's abrasive to Sean at first, but warms up to him once she realizes that he's just trying to look after Daniel. |
| 423 | * LadySwearsALot: She swears in almost any sentence she speaks. Mostly when she talks to Cassidy. |
| 424 | * TheLeader: Although Sean describes Finn as the leader of the trimmigrants, Hannah seems to take on most leadership responsibilities in practice by serving as a "levelheaded" type. She vets newcomers like Sean and Daniel, assigns chores and work when necessary, and reminds dissenters like Cassidy of the rules they've agreed to. Her years on the road, and the burden of minding the others, have left her with a frosty demeanor; Daniel compares her to a "warrior." Finn leaves her (and everyone else except Sean and Cassidy) out of his plans for the heist, most likely because she doesn't know about Daniel's powers, and would never approve of Finn's actions. |
| 425 | * NakedFirstImpression: Not to the characters, but for the audience, as she's introduced [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl walking across camp topless]]. |
| 426 | * ParentalBetrayal: Her mother had drug problems, and sold the artist equipment Hannah worked hard to buy for her in order to get money for drugs, and ''hid it from Hannah''. When Hannah learned the truth, she decided to run away from home. |
| 427 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Is completely comfortable walking around the camp with a bare chest. |
| 428 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Cassidy. The two of them argue all day, but gladly get high together at night. |
| 429 | [[/folder]] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Penny]] |
| 432 | !!Baptist Dean "Penny" Mickael |
| 433 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penny_e3_headshot.png]] |
| 434 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I just hope [Jinx] is okay. Maybe I'll run into his crazy ass someday, who knows... It's a small world. I'll hand him back the trust that he gave me..."]] |
| 435 | ->'''Voiced by''': Orvalle Williams |
| 436 | |
| 437 | A mentally ill friend of Finn and Cassidy. |
| 438 | ---- |
| 439 | * CampGay: He's got a good fashion style and he doesn't hide his sexuality. |
| 440 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His conspiracy theories about government drones is just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 441 | * ConspiracyTheorist: He's 100% sure the buzzing noises he hears aren't from bugs, but from government drones spying on the camp and ready to have them arrested. |
| 442 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[WordOfStPaul According to Orvalle Williams]], Penny grew up in a rough part of Detroit, where his peers often chastised him for his sexuality. He fell in with drug addicts in his late teens, developed hypochondria due to his malnutrition combined with drug use, and couldn't go to college despite being intelligent enough because of his upbringing. He started drifting some time after, and about two years prior to Episode 3, his boyfriend went missing. |
| 443 | * DelinquentHair: Has an undercut with bleached blonde hair. |
| 444 | * DeadpanSnarker: Almost anything that comes out of his mouth. |
| 445 | * {{Hypochondria}}: According to his voice actor, Penny is hypochondriac due to his excessive use of cannabis mixed with the lack of food he had over the past years. |
| 446 | * GenderBlenderName: "Penny" is typically a female name. Then again, in this case it's a nickname that comes from the TragicKeepsake of his missing boyfriend which he keeps on his person at all times, rather than his legal name or a contraction thereof. |
| 447 | * KnuckleTattoos: Has "EPIC FAIL" written across his knuckles. |
| 448 | * TheLostLenore: His boyfriend went missing years ago and still thinks about him. |
| 449 | * NiceGuy: He's a little out there with his conspiracy theories, but he's a funny guy to be around. |
| 450 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name, revealed in Agent Flores' files in ''Faith'', is actually Baptist Dean Mickael. |
| 451 | * TheParanoiac: He's convinced the camp is being spied by drones. It has something to do with his drug use and his mental illness. |
| 452 | * ShoutOut: Hannah nicknames him [[{{Literature/It}} Pennywise]] at one point. |
| 453 | * TheStoner: He smokes so much marijuana, his excessive use actually causes him to become {{hypochondria}}c. |
| 454 | * TragicKeepsake: His "lucky penny" is all he has left from his missing boyfriend, who stated that he never gave it to anyone else he trusted before. |
| 455 | * TwoferTokenMinority: He's a gay African-American man. |
| 456 | [[/folder]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[folder:Jacob]] |
| 459 | !!Jacob "Jake" Hackerman |
| 460 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacob_8.png]] |
| 461 | [[caption-width-right:350:"What if he has those powers for a reason? Maybe it's our job to help him, too. Guide him..."]] |
| 462 | ->'''Voiced by''': David Valdes |
| 463 | |
| 464 | A worker at the marijuana farm who was raised in a religious commune. |
| 465 | ---- |
| 466 | * AbusiveParents: Jacob mentions that his parents encouraged the conversion therapy and saw their son's attraction to boys as a sin. |
| 467 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: Decides to follow Sean's footsteps and go on a road trip with his sister to find Cassidy and rejoin the group until their parents can come to terms with being manipulated by the Reverend. |
| 468 | * AscendedExtra: Plays a bigger role in Episode 4 compared to his presence in Episode 3. |
| 469 | * TheAtoner: Offers his help to Sean to rescue Daniel from the cult, considering bringing him to Heaven Point in the first place was a mistake and wanting to mend his error. |
| 470 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He begs Sean to help him get his little sister Sarah Lee out of Haven Point, as she is sick and her state will only get worse considering Lisbeth won't take her to a doctor. |
| 471 | * CoolBigBro: Appears to be this towards Sarah Lee. |
| 472 | * CrisisOfFaith: Lost his faith after the cult he was part of tried sending him to conversion therapy for his homosexuality. Now he wanders the country looking for a sign of god to believe again. He believes he found his sign after witnessing Daniel's power, which renews his faith for a while. |
| 473 | * CureYourGays: The religious community he was raised in tried to send him to a conversion therapy camp. This, along with his sister being withheld medical treatment was the reason he lost faith in his community. |
| 474 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Brown hair and brown eyes to match. |
| 475 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Used to be part of a cult but left after they tried sending him to conversion therapy for his homosexuality. |
| 476 | * TheGenericGuy: His reserved personality makes him this among the group of trimmigrants. This is also the case in-universe, to the point of [[MeanBoss Merrill]] often forgetting his name. |
| 477 | * MrExposition: Since he grows up in Haven Point, he's got a lot of important informations about Lisbeth Fischer and how the cult works. |
| 478 | * MyGreatestFailure: He deeply regrets bringing Daniel to Haven Point and sending him right into Lisbeth Fischer's clutches. He vows to make it up to Sean by helping to get Daniel out of there. |
| 479 | * OhCrap: Once he hears Nicholas is about to enter Lisbeth's house, he panics, showcasing how scared he is of him and how Nicholas is TheDreaded. |
| 480 | * ParentalSubstitute: Becomes this to Sarah Lee after successfully getting her out of Haven Point and taking her to a hospital. |
| 481 | * ShrinkingViolet: He's quiet for what it's worth, and is still insecure over his past and how he lost his faith. |
| 482 | * StraightGay: His sexuality is implied in Episode 3, yet until it's confirmed, he showcases no stereotypical camp traits. |
| 483 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In Episode 4, he brought Daniel to Haven Point, essentially setting off the main conflict of the episode. |
| 484 | [[/folder]] |
| 485 | |
| 486 | [[folder:Ingrid]] |
| 487 | !!Ingrid |
| 488 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ingrid.PNG]] |
| 489 | [[caption-width-right:350:"The sun has saved us!"]] |
| 490 | |
| 491 | ->'''Voiced by''': Brie Kristiansen |
| 492 | |
| 493 | A Swedish tourist from Malmö, working at the marijuana farm with her husband Anders. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * BilingualDialogue: She can be heard speaking to Anders in English while he answers in Swedish. Her English is apparently better than his. |
| 496 | * BitCharacter: She has less characterization than most other members of the Trimmigrants. She and Anders are the only ones who aren't heard of again no matter what happens after their debut episode. |
| 497 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's a nice blonde-haired girl. |
| 498 | * HappilyMarried: With Anders. |
| 499 | * NiceGirl: She's a sweet, friendly girl. She apologizes to Hannah when she thought she offended her right away. |
| 500 | * OnlyOneName: Her last name is unknown. |
| 501 | * TomboyishPonytail: How she sports her hair. |
| 502 | * WalkingTheEarth: With Anders, though they disagree on their next move once they acquire more money, with her wanting to go to Texas, while he wants to travel to Canada. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Anders]] |
| 506 | !!Anders |
| 507 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anders.PNG]] |
| 508 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I want to go North, Ingrid wants to go South..."]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | ->'''Voiced by''': Lucas Helmersson |
| 511 | |
| 512 | A Swedish tourist from Malmö, working at the marijuana farm with his wife Ingrid. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | * BilingualDialogue: Occasionally speaks in Swedish. |
| 515 | * BitCharacter: He has less characterization than most other members of the Trimmigrants (and ''even less'' than Ingrid). He and Ingrid are the only ones who aren't heard of again no matter what happens after their debut episode. |
| 516 | * GentleGiant: He's tall and bulky, but is a funny and friendly guy. |
| 517 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's a nice blonde-haired guy. |
| 518 | * HappilyMarried: With Ingrid. |
| 519 | * NiceGuy: From what's seen of him, he's an amicable guy. |
| 520 | * OnlyOneName: His last name is unknown. |
| 521 | * SirSwearsALot: When he ''does'' speak English that doesn't sound broken, he usually only knows how to pronounce the swear words. |
| 522 | * WalkingTheEarth: With Ingrid, though they disagree on their next move once they acquire more money, with him wanting to go to Canada, while she wants to travel to Texas. |
| 523 | ---- |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Merrill]] |
| 527 | !!Jonathan Merrill |
| 528 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_141.png]] |
| 529 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I have a family to look after, too. I gotta protect them first."]] |
| 530 | ->'''Voiced by''': Ben Jurard |
| 531 | |
| 532 | The boss of the marijuana farm that Sean and Daniel find work at. |
| 533 | ---- |
| 534 | * ArcVillain: Of Wastelands. |
| 535 | * BaldOfEvil: A mean criminal with a shaved head. |
| 536 | * BeardOfEvil: He's the boss of a pot farm and drug handler who has a beard. |
| 537 | * ChildHater: He makes it clear he only keeps Daniel around since Sean is a good worker. When Daniel sneaks in his living room, he punishes his workers by not paying them and asks Big Joe to [[WouldHurtAChild "give a lesson" to Daniel]]. |
| 538 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:He has a daughter he takes care of, and he mentions a family to look after when he explains how he'd have to pay for any losses in profit.]] |
| 539 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: For a ruthless drug dealer, he's appalled that [[spoiler:Sean got Daniel into the heist (whether Sean agreed to it or not) and that he's teaching a young kid how to steal. He also tells Sean that while he will teach him a (painful) lesson, he won't actually kill him or Cassidy; just Finn, since the robbery was his idea]]. |
| 540 | ** Previously, he expressed concern that a 9 year old had been brought to work at the farm, saying emphatically that it was no place for a child. |
| 541 | * {{Expy}}: He resembles Gus Fring from ''Series/BreakingBad'' a lot, not only in appearance but also in his position as a ruthless man in charge of a drug operation. |
| 542 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and is a cold criminal who's not afraid of getting blood on his hands if it means he can keep his business going. |
| 543 | * GivenNameReveal: Flores' files reveal that his first name is Jonathan. |
| 544 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Finn if Sean either shoots Merrill or orders Daniel to do nothing during the lineup near the end of Episode 3.]] |
| 545 | * HopeSpot: [[spoiler:When Finn tries to apologize to him for stealing and promises to make up for it, Merrill remarks that he "knows he will". Depending on your choices, Merrill might immediately follow this up by shooting Finn in the back with a shotgun.]] |
| 546 | * JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Finn and Daniel ''were'' trying to steal money from him, and according to him, should anything happen to the profit, his higher-ups take it out of his pocket.]] |
| 547 | * LastNameBasis: All of his workers refer to him by his last name. His given name is revealed in Flores' files in the next episode. |
| 548 | * MeanBoss: He's rather pushy and abrasive towards the group. |
| 549 | * PreMortemOneLiner: If things go out of hand during the heist: |
| 550 | -->'''[[spoiler:Finn]]''': I know, I got greedy, I-I was high, stupid... I-I'll make it up... |
| 551 | -->'''Merrill''': I know, [[spoiler:Finn]]... You will. [''shoots him dead in the back''] |
| 552 | * ScaryBlackMan: The boss of a marijuana farm and a dealer that owns ''firearms'' and can even go as far as [[spoiler:killing Finn if the heist goes wrong]]. |
| 553 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:If Sean encourages Daniel to use his power to rescue Finn, Merrill will grab his pistol after being tackled by Sean and shoot Daniel in the shoulder.]] |
| 554 | ** Earlier, he orders Big Joe to "teach Daniel a lesson"; meaning he was willing to let a grown man beat a ''nine year old'' up. |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | [[folder:Big Joe]] |
| 558 | !!Joseph "Big Joe" Costello Jr. |
| 559 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_joe.PNG]] |
| 560 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Look, I know you guys are having the time of your life here, but I am not. So shut your mouth and give me some quiet, for fuck's sake!"]] |
| 561 | |
| 562 | ->'''Voiced by''': Eric Paul Erickson |
| 563 | |
| 564 | Merrill's muscle at the marijuana farm. |
| 565 | ---- |
| 566 | * AxCrazy: He's a violent thug who jumps at any occasion to either beat up someone or threaten them with a gun. |
| 567 | * BaldOfEvil: He's bald and an unpleasant, violent thug. |
| 568 | * BeardOfEvil: He's got a garnished beard and he's TheDragon to Merrill. |
| 569 | * TheBrute: Merrill's personal big muscle who takes out anyone he wants. |
| 570 | * ChildHater: He's an even bigger dick to Daniel, and has no qualms [[WouldHurtAChild trying to beat him up]]. |
| 571 | * CreepyBlueEyes / IcyBlueEyes: His blue eyes are as cold as his heart. |
| 572 | * TheDragon: To Merrill. |
| 573 | * {{Expy}}: He shares a strong physical resemblance to Big Justin from ''Film/GreenRoom'', and shares the same role as him, being TheDragon to a bald man chasing punks. |
| 574 | * GunNut: He threatens the hippie group at gunpoint, and can also [[spoiler:follow the gang into Merrill's place if Sean doesn't put his car tires out of order, and threatens to shoot them]]. |
| 575 | * HairTriggerTemper: It's rare that he ''isn't'' pissed. |
| 576 | * HateSink: He's rude, violent, hits Cassidy for no reason and was about to beat up a ''nine year old'' without thinking twice. |
| 577 | * {{Jerkass}}: Constantly tells Merrill's workers to shut up even when they're having a casual discussion. |
| 578 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He plays Mustard Party on his phone while the group trims weed buds. Also, it is implied that Joe hates Merrill as much as everyone else, stating that "[he] would be long gone if [he] had the chance". |
| 579 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His full name is revealed in Agent Flores' files. |
| 580 | * PerpetualFrowner: He's always in a bad mood and takes it out on everyone else. |
| 581 | * SirSwearsALot: Is perhaps the most foul-mouthed character to be introduced in the second game right after Sean. |
| 582 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unknown what happened to him after the explosion at the farm, though it's implied he was arrested as his file appears in Agent Flores' stuff, but this is only if he was at the scene of the crime. |
| 583 | * WouldHitAGirl: He slaps Cassidy over the head for complaining too much. |
| 584 | * WouldHurtAChild: Would've beat up Daniel on Merrill's orders if not from the latter having telekinesis powers. |
| 585 | [[/folder]] |
| 586 | |
| 587 | !!Introduced in Episode 4: Faith |
| 588 | |
| 589 | [[folder:Karen]] |
| 590 | !!'''Click [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeMainCharacters here]] for the Main Character page.''' |
| 591 | [[/folder]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | [[folder:Joey]] |
| 594 | !!Joey Peterson |
| 595 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joey_3.PNG]] |
| 596 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You've been out of the garden for three weeks now, we talk every day... I can see that you're a good person."]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | ->'''Voiced by''': Jamal Douglas |
| 599 | |
| 600 | Sean's nurse at Sacred Hope Hospital. |
| 601 | ---- |
| 602 | * TheConfidant: Served this role for Sean during his recovery at the hospital after the loss of his left eye and Daniel being missing. |
| 603 | * CoolBigBro: He developed a strong bond with Sean at the hospital during his recovery, and is the only one person Sean can trust at that moment. |
| 604 | * DressedToHeal: He's Sean's nurse who wears a light blue scrub, and he's the only one person Sean had for emotional support during his stay at the hospital. |
| 605 | * FunPersonified: He's a caring nurse who loves to goof around and make his patient's day a much better one. |
| 606 | * GentleGiant: He's a tall, bulky guy and also a male nurse who cares a lot about his job and his patients. |
| 607 | * HeroicSacrifice: A non-lethal one, but if Sean uses the right choices of words, Joey can accept to have Sean hit him behind the head to give him time to escape. |
| 608 | * HospitalHottie: He's definitely not unattractive. |
| 609 | * NiceGuy: Is pretty cool with Sean despite knowing that he's a criminal suspect. |
| 610 | * TheReliableOne: It's possible to make him convince to let you escape by hitting him behind the head and lie about what happened to have Sean escape. |
| 611 | * SecretKeeper: If he agrees to let Sean escape to join Daniel again, he'll lie to the police about what happened and doesn't tell anyone about his whereabouts. |
| 612 | * TapOnTheHead: He can either ask Sean to give him one in order to help him escape, or have Sean do it when his back is turned after Joey refuses to help him escape. |
| 613 | * WhatTheHellHero: If Sean doesn't use the right choices to convince him, Joey will be appalled at the suggestion that Sean wants to use him and risk his job by helping him escape, though at the very least, agrees to pretend not to know about him escaping if asked by the authorities. |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:Agent Maria Flores]] |
| 617 | !!Agent Maria Elena Flores |
| 618 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flores_1.jpg]] |
| 619 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You might spend the rest of your life in prison... or you can talk to me."]] |
| 620 | |
| 621 | ->'''Voiced by''': Jane Santos |
| 622 | |
| 623 | An FBI agent who is assigned to Sean's case after he got captured after the events of Episode 3. |
| 624 | ---- |
| 625 | * BigBad: The closest thing the game has to one. She's in charge of the cops pursuing Sean and Daniel, and she's the final obstacle to crossing the border. |
| 626 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She can die by Daniel's powers in both the low morality endings]]. |
| 627 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Jefferson]] and [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm Damon]] are both male, criminals and utterly [[HateSink heinous and devoid of altruistic qualities.]] Flores is female, a member of law enforcement and mostly a [[HeroAntagonist decent person just doing her job]]. |
| 628 | * FauxActionGirl: She's seen taking out her gun in the Blood Brothers ending, however [[spoiler:she's no match against Daniel's powers and ends up being killed in the process]]. |
| 629 | * HeroAntagonist: She's a FBI agent and of course looks out for the population by arresting criminals, but she's a threat for Sean as he is innocent of the crime he's accused of. |
| 630 | * IGaveMyWord: [[spoiler:If both Sean and Daniel surrender at the border, then as she promised, lets Daniel go and give him a normal life in exchange for Sean to stand trial.]] |
| 631 | ** [[spoiler:If Daniel surrenders while Sean gets across the border, Daniel still goes to live with his grandparents, albeit with an ankle bracelet to track him (either due to his brother being a fugitive or for the government to track a teenager with psychokinetic powers).]] |
| 632 | * KnightOfCerebus: As soon as she appears, any lighthearted moment are immediately thrown out the window as the law enforcements are catching up to the Diaz brothers and a noticeable timetable to reach Mexico appears. |
| 633 | * LadyInAPowerSuit: She's a skilled FBI agent who's head of the Diaz brothers' case and who wears a tailor suit. |
| 634 | * NotSoStoic: She lets out a PrecisionFStrike when she sees Daniel's powers attack the police troupes at the border. |
| 635 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:In the ''Redemption'' ending, she hugs Daniel as Sean is being arrested and promises he will live a normal life with his grandparents]]. |
| 636 | * PrecisionFStrike: In the ''Blood Brothers'' ending, she lets out a "what the fuck?!" when she sees Daniel unleash his powers. |
| 637 | * TheStoic: She's straight-faced and takes her job very seriously. |
| 638 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: It's clear that she is simply doing her job but she's still a huge hinderance to Sean's goal to find his brother. |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:Chad & Mike]] |
| 642 | !!Chad Michaels & Mike Wilson |
| 643 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/redneckchad.png]] |
| 644 | [[caption-width-right:350:Chad]] |
| 645 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mike_0.png]] |
| 646 | [[caption-width-right:350:Mike]] |
| 647 | |
| 648 | A duo of farmers who give Sean trouble for falling asleep on their property. Chad is more brutish and is the aggressor of the situation while Mike just plays along. |
| 649 | ---- |
| 650 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Mike isn't seen acting racist or attempting to harm Sean like his buddy Chad, and only really gets pissed that Sean is on their property. Chad claims that "[Sean] isn't the first [Mexican] that they fucked with", so it's possible that Mike partook in harassing other innocent people of color, but he could've been similarly just playing along with Chad. |
| 651 | * BeardOfEvil: Chad is a racist, violent jerk with a beard. |
| 652 | * DeerInTheHeadlights: Mike is frozen in shock and can only grab his head as Chad ruthlessly beats Sean to a pulp. |
| 653 | * EveryoneHasStandards / EvenEvilHasStandards: It's not clear if Mike is racist like his friend Chad, or simply pissed that Sean is on their property. Notably, he takes issue with Chad messing with, and is ''horrified'' if the latter beats up Sean. |
| 654 | * ExtremeDoormat: Mike is clearly uncomfortable with Chad's humiliation of Sean, but the most he does is pathetically whine about it, scream for Chad to stop, and helps Sean into the car with his stuff. |
| 655 | * FlippingTheBird: A possible outcome can have Chad flip off Sean as he drives off. |
| 656 | * ForTheEvulz: They harass innocent Mexican people for kicks. |
| 657 | * HateSink: Chad is a racist asshole with no redeemable qualities whatsoever contrary to Mike, only here to add more suffering on Sean and gets away with his inhuman treatment of Sean. |
| 658 | * {{Jerkass}}: Chad fits this to a T. |
| 659 | * KarmaHoudini: Chad gets away with humiliating Sean and/or even beating him up (at worst). |
| 660 | * KickTheDog: This is their harassment of Sean in general, but Chad can literally kick Sean while he's down if he doesn't follow his humiliating orders. |
| 661 | * MeaningfulName: "Chad" is Internet slang for an obnoxious, musclebound, usually white man who's popular with women. There's no word on whether the in-game Chad has had much luck with girls, but he possesses all the other traits in abundance. |
| 662 | * PetTheDog: Mike constantly tries to get Chad off of Sean's back, even pointing out that Sean's hurt[[labelnote:*]]talking about [[spoiler:his eye]][[/labelnote]] and if Chad beats Sean up, he'll help him into the car, giving him back his stuff and telling him to leave as fast as he can, all while looking and sounding genuinely concerned for the poor boy. |
| 663 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Chad ''really'' doesn't like Mexicans, calling Sean racial slurs and forcing him to say humiliating things in Spanish. He even mocks Sean for [[spoiler:losing an eye]], as if he needed to be even more petty. It's unknown if Mike shares these views, and it's even harder to tell when he tries defending Sean when Chad takes things too far. |
| 664 | * YesMan: Mike clearly has no spine and just follows Chad's orders, at least up to a certain point. |
| 665 | [[/folder]] |
| 666 | |
| 667 | [[folder:Anton]] |
| 668 | !!Anton |
| 669 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anton_8.jpg]] |
| 670 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Don't worry, I'm not a fucking weirdo, just a boring trucker."]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | A trucker that Sean runs into while walking the hot Nevada roads. Sean can decide to hitch a ride with him or simply continue walking. |
| 673 | ---- |
| 674 | * CallingYourBathroomBreaks: Played with; when Anton is asked over the radio why he stopped briefly on the highway, he gives the excuse that he stopped to take a shit. |
| 675 | * CoolOldGuy: Anton has greying hair and is incredibly kind and helpful towards Sean. He gives him some much-needed advice about Haven Point and even lets him eat the sandwich his wife made for him. |
| 676 | * GoodSamaritan: If the player allows it, he gives a ride to Sean through Nevada, gives him a sandwhich to eat, hides the fact he took a hitchhiker (due to the law being against it) and drives him to Haven Point, even warning Sean about the people there. |
| 677 | * HappilyMarried: Fondly mentions his wife and the amazing sandwiches she makes for him. |
| 678 | * HiddenDepths: At a glance, Anton looks like he could be another racist bigot intent on causing more trouble for Sean. The reality is that he's one of the nicest people that Sean has ever met on his journey. |
| 679 | * NiceGuy: Meeting a kind soul like him willing to drive him to Haven point is quite a change after Sean's last encounter with a violent racist who beat him up. |
| 680 | * PatrioticFervor: A good version. He has the American flag plastered on the inside of his truck, but he's not a racist. |
| 681 | * ToiletHumour: After claiming he stopped for a shit to cover for the fact that he pulled over to give Sean a ride, Anton then teasingly responds to the radio operator's code with 'actually, it was a number two'. The guy on the other end finds it just as amusing, though claims Anton now owes him a beer. |
| 682 | [[/folder]] |
| 683 | |
| 684 | [[folder:Sarah Lee Hackerman]] |
| 685 | !!Sarah Lee Hackerman |
| 686 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarah_lee.PNG]] |
| 687 | [[caption-width-right:350:"This is our home! Our church and community. The Reverend Mother says we were all chosen by God."]] |
| 688 | Jacob's little sister, and a member of the church in Nevada. |
| 689 | ---- |
| 690 | * CheerfulChild: Despite her illness, she's a kind and friendly girl who loves to draw and being in a community. |
| 691 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: She's of pure heart and was the only good thing that happened to Daniel during his time with the cult. |
| 692 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Brown hair and brown eyes, just like her brother. |
| 693 | * TheCutie: An adorable 9 year old little girl. |
| 694 | * DaddysGirl: Implied. Despite Robert Hackerman's homophobia towards his son, he clearly loves his daughter and thinks listening to Lisbeth is what's best for her health (although he's being tricked like everyone else). |
| 695 | * DefinitelyJustACold: Justified. Lisbeth claims that all Sarah Lee needs to cure her disease is prayer. However, her medial records showcases that Sarah Lee has pneumonia and that Lisbeth ''deliberately'' chooses to ignore the fact that Sarah Lee '''NEEDS''' concrete medial treatment. It's one of the main reasons Jacob is willing to go back to Haven Point, since not intervening could lead to Sarah Lee's ''death''. |
| 696 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Jacob says in a postcard that she owns a ''pet chicken'', that she named Alexander. |
| 697 | * HealTheCutie: Downplayed. She's pretty cheerful for a girl with severe pneumonia, but Jacob's objective is to get her as well as Daniel out of the cult in order for her to get the treatment she desperately needs. |
| 698 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She too sees Lisbeth as a good, reliable person. Then again, she is just a naive young child who only sees the good in people. |
| 699 | * IncurableCoughOfDeath: She's always coughing due to suffering from severe pneumonia, and Lisbeth ignoring medical treatment is stated that it will lead to her death. Thankfully defied thanks to Sean and Jacob's intervention. |
| 700 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: Her relationship with Daniel. They're very close and their friendship was the only positive thing that happened to Daniel during his time at Haven Point. However, Sean does think Lyla may have some competition as Daniel's PrecociousCrush when he reads Sarah-Lee's letter to Daniel, implying there may be more to the relationship in the future. |
| 701 | * LongHairIsFeminine: She has long hair that reaches the the middle of her back. |
| 702 | * MoralityPet: Just like Chris, Daniel treasures the friendship he finds in Sarah Lee. Sean telling him Lisbeth won't take her to a doctor and endangers her life is what makes Daniel start to realize Lisbeth is not who she appears to be. |
| 703 | * MsExposition: She gives Sean key info about Haven Point and Lisbeth Fischer before she takes him to Daniel. |
| 704 | * NiceGirl: A sweet, adorable little girl who's kind-hearted and happily greets Sean and welcomes him to Haven Point. She was also the best thing to happen to Daniel when he was staying at Haven Point. |
| 705 | * OnlyFriend: To Daniel in Haven Point. |
| 706 | * ParentalFavoritism: Her parents care more about her than Jacob, due to the latter being gay, and being homophobic, they don't support him. |
| 707 | * ParentalNeglect: Downplayed and justified. Her parents love her greatly, but don't take her to medical professionals to treat her pneumonia, because [[ManipulativeBitch Lisbeth]] claims all she needs is faith and pray her illness away and they take her every word. |
| 708 | * PassionateSportsGirl: Mentions in a letter to Daniel in ''Wolves'' that she's taken a liking to surfing. |
| 709 | * {{Protectorate}}: To Jacob, who's willing to go back to his old community, which is full of bad memories, in order to save her life. |
| 710 | [[/folder]] |
| 711 | |
| 712 | [[folder:Reverend Mother Lisbeth Fischer]] |
| 713 | !!Reverend Mother Lisbeth Fischer |
| 714 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lisbeth_profile.png]] |
| 715 | [[caption-width-right:281: "That's right. You can't tempt Daniel from this garden. He'll stay with us... his true family. And we'll never leave him."]] |
| 716 | ->'''Voiced by''': Victoria Hansen |
| 717 | |
| 718 | The reverend of a small church in Nevada called Haven Point, where Daniel was taken. She seems to serve as a surrogate mother for Daniel while he's there. |
| 719 | ---- |
| 720 | * AnimalMotif: A coyote is used to represent her in Sean's story. Coyotes are seen as tricksters, whether good or bad. The reverend uses the more negative portrayal of coyotes, creating a cult using trickery to convince others to follow her and even managed to trick Daniel into abandoning Sean. She also represents meddling the lives of others as she caused Sarah Lee to catch pneumonia. |
| 721 | * ArcVillain: Of Episode 4. A fanatical leader of what is essentially a cult, possessively holding Daniel under her wing and [[spoiler:threatening to kill the brother who tries to get him out.]] |
| 722 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: She quotes Mark 3:25 when Sean tries to convince her to let Daniel leave with him. |
| 723 | * AxCrazy: Underneath her MaskOfSanity and soft-spoken demeanor, she's an unstable psychopath who wants Sean dead in order to keep Daniel to herself. If she's spared, all little sanity she had goes straight out the window when she witnesses her church burn down. |
| 724 | * BeneathTheMask: Kind motherly lady on the outside, but selfish, manipulative and murderous on the inside. |
| 725 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She looks like a kind person who wants to guide her followers into the right direction with Christianity and appeared to be a motherly figure to Daniel during his stay in Haven Point. But Sean quickly realizes she uses Daniel for her own gain, and is a twisted cruel figure underneath her Christianity. |
| 726 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A villainous example. All her religious phrases sound delirious, and it's revealed she was actually ''kicked out of her previous church'' so much she was out of it. |
| 727 | * TheCorrupter: She brainwashed the entire population of Haven Point, including an ex-felon Nicholas Durand, into her followers. Eventually she does the same to Daniel and also tries to convert Sean but he's having none of it. |
| 728 | * EntitledBitch: She still expects Daniel to be devoted to her after having Sean beat up and almost killed in front of him. |
| 729 | * EvilCounterpart: To Claire. Both are religious women who act as Daniel caregivers. However, Claire is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who loves Daniel, while Lisbeth is a {{Narcissist}} who only takes him in for her own benefit. |
| 730 | * EvilMatriarch: Acts like a mother subsitute to Daniel, but she uses him for her own personal agenda, and couldn't care less about him, even playing with his head that she's his real family and not Sean or Karen. |
| 731 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Acts like a kind and caring surrogate mother to Daniel. In actuality, she's using him for her own gain. |
| 732 | * FemaleMisogynist: Implied, as she calls Karen a "harlot", which is a biblical term for a prostitute. |
| 733 | * {{Greed}}: She uses Daniel's powers to make money, and doesn't care about him more than a "golden cow", in Sean's words. |
| 734 | * HateSink: A lot of the other hate sinks can at least chalk up to ignorance but not only does she know what she is doing but was able to easily manipulate those who believe that she's doing it for the right reasons. Notably, she's the only one who Sean flat out calls her pure evil. |
| 735 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 736 | ** She claims to believe in faith as a means to heal, as shown by how her method of treating Sarah Lee's pneumonia is simply prayer. Yet, in her own personal bathroom, she has a whole collection of pharmaceutical pill bottles. |
| 737 | ** She makes Daniel believe that Sean is lying to him and playing with his head, but she's actually the one doing those exact same things for selfish reasons. |
| 738 | ** She berates Karen for disregarding traditional ideals of femininity and abandoning her family to pursue her ambitions, but she herself is an unmarried and childless woman who wields immense power over the lives of everyone in her congregation.[[note]]Conservative Christians generally frown on women holding positions of spiritual authority.[[/note]] |
| 739 | * IfICantHaveYou: A non-romantic variant. She manipulates Daniel in order to benefit from his power, but once he sees her true colors and goes back to Sean, she [[spoiler:locks him and his family in the burning church and basically sentences them to ''death'' instead of giving up on Daniel]]. |
| 740 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: She pretends to be a motherly figure towards Daniel, but she manipulates him and sees his powers as a way to make cash, and is willing to kill Sean, Daniel's actual brother, in order to keep Daniel under her control. |
| 741 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:If the game is played on low morality, she can either be killed by Daniel or shot by Sean]]. |
| 742 | * LaserGuidedKarma: No matter what happens, karma gets back at her for her horrible actions and manipulation of Daniel: |
| 743 | ** The least that can happen to her is Daniel shove her out of the way when she [[spoiler:tries to keep him, Sean and Karen locked in the burning church]]. |
| 744 | ** Daniel can [[spoiler:snap her neck and kill her, if Sean lets him to due to their morality being too low for Sean to stop him]]. |
| 745 | ** Alternatively, [[spoiler:Sean can shoot her so Daniel doesn't have to live with having the death of a human being on his conscience]]. |
| 746 | * LiesToChildren: She plays Daniel like a fiddle in order to use his powers to make money, and knows very well Sarah Lee needs a doctor because of her pneumonia yet keeps her from seeing one due to not believing in modern medecine (and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritically]] takes medecine herself). |
| 747 | * ManipulativeBitch: Like any good cult leader, she is very skilled at manipulating people. Within just a couple of months, she's able to convince Daniel to turn against his real family so he can help her rake in more donations. |
| 748 | * MaskOfSanity: She looks rather composed at first glance. However, she's cunning, manipulative, and mentally unstable, as she's not afraid to have someone ''killed'' to get to her ends. |
| 749 | * MeaningfulName: Lisbeth means "oath to God" or "devotion to God", which fits her position as the highly religious cult leader. |
| 750 | * {{Narcissist}}: Her house is full of clippings showering praise on her and her church. One of Haven Point's doctrines is that she's incapable of sinning, which even the most cynical televangelist probably wouldn't claim out loud. |
| 751 | * NeckSnap: [[spoiler:A possible way for her to die, at the mercy of Daniel's powers]]. |
| 752 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Trying to get Sean killed in order to keep Daniel to herself only causes Daniel to go back to Sean and to see how truly wicked and evil she is. |
| 753 | * NotAfraidToDie: She's unfazed by [[spoiler:Sean threatening her at gunpoint as she blocks him and Daniel from leaving the church]], claiming that she embraces death because she knows what awaits her on the other side. |
| 754 | * NotSoAboveItAll: It's revealed that such an intense religious Reverend Mother like her actually smokes. |
| 755 | * NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:Despite her horrible actions, if Sean and Daniel have a high brotherhood but Daniel a low morality, Sean can convince Daniel not to kill Lisbeth because she's not worth it. Because he trusts Sean, Daniel will spare her life.]]. |
| 756 | * ParentalSubstitute: Exploited by Lisbeth, who uses Daniel's vulnerability of his past traumas and his lack of a maternal figure to manipulate him and keep him in her clutch. |
| 757 | * PetTheDog: According to Jacob, she was also genuinely upset by his suicide attempt, and encouraged him to leave the community to find himself. He admits that while she may be hypocritical in some ways, she does believe in what she preaches. |
| 758 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Jacob tells Sean Lisbeth believes in [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]], showcasing her as an homophobe Christian that sees homosexuality as a sin. She also calls Karen a "harlot", or a prostitute, SlutShaming her in the process. |
| 759 | * SanitySlippage: Undergoes through one after she's revealed to be a manipulative fraud to Daniel. |
| 760 | * SinisterMinister: She's the corrupt reverend of a small church and the lengths of how sinister she can be is shown throughout the episode. |
| 761 | * TheSociopath: She is superficially charming, and is very skilled at manipulating others. She also has no genuine regard for the lives of anyone else, as she endangers Sarah Lee’s life by refusing to allow her to get treated for her pneumonia, and doesn’t hesitate to order [[TheDragon Nicholas]] to [[spoiler:kill Sean when Sean breaks her hold over Daniel.]] |
| 762 | * SoftSpokenSadist: She's got a charming demeanor and speaks in a mellow voice tone, but it's a mask to hide how cruel and psychotic she really is. |
| 763 | * SlutShaming: She calls Karen a harlot, a.k.a a prostitute, basically calling her a cheap slut and implying that one of the reasons she abandoned her sons was to have sex with everyone. |
| 764 | * TakingYouWithMe: As a last ditch effort, [[spoiler:she tries to trap Sean, Daniel, and Karen in the burning church. If she's lucky, Daniel just tosses her aside and blows the doors off. Alternatively, Daniel can do worse to her, and/or Sean can shoot her.]] |
| 765 | * VillainHasAPoint: Even if she said that to keep manipulating Daniel, she wasn't wrong on the fact that Karen chose to abandon her sons in order to think about herself and no one else. Sean can't find something to protest to that. |
| 766 | * VillainousBreakdown: If spared, she becomes a ravenous lunatic seeing her church burnt down and being exposed as a fraud to her followers. |
| 767 | * WouldHurtAChild: She risks Sarah Lee's life by not giving her the medical treatment she desperately needs, and once Daniel sees her true colors, she has no qualms [[spoiler:locking him up in the burning church and condemning him to death with the rest of his family]]. |
| 768 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: She falls to the ground when Sean barely touches her to make it seem like he attacked her in front of Daniel. |
| 769 | * {{Yandere}}: Towards Daniel's power. She's ready to everything to keep Daniel and his power under her control and to herself, so much that [[spoiler:she wants Sean, Daniel's biological brother and the one obstacle in her way, ''killed''. She goes as far as to make Daniel and his family to burn in the church when Daniel finally sees how evil she truly is and backs away from her psychological hold on him instead of letting him go]]. |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | |
| 772 | [[folder:Nicholas]] |
| 773 | !!Nicholas Durand/John Nicholas Bowen |
| 774 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nicholas_7.jpg]] |
| 775 | [[caption-width-right:280:"Come on, kid... Don't make me do this. You're not gonna win."]] |
| 776 | ->'''Voiced by''': Shawn Law |
| 777 | |
| 778 | Reverend Lisbeth's right-hand man, essentially the security of her operation. |
| 779 | ---- |
| 780 | * AxCrazy: He's extremely violent and has no qualms beating up a teenager. |
| 781 | * ChurchMilitant: He's a proud member of Haven Point as well as Reverend Fischer's trusty right-hand man who's not afraid to get violent in order to keep Haven Point safe. |
| 782 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He's been a violent thug since he was a teenager and spent time in prison for shooting a man in an armed robbery. He's also a former meth addict. |
| 783 | * TheBrute: He's a large man who shows that he'll hurt anyone disobeys Lisbeth. |
| 784 | * TheDragon: To Lisbeth. |
| 785 | * TheDreaded: If he learns that Jacob and Sean were sneaking around and headed towards Lisbeth's house, he'll come after them. When Jacob hears that Nicholas is coming, he's noticeably frightened, warning Sean that he's "dangerous". |
| 786 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: The longer [[spoiler:Lisbeth has him beat up Sean]], the more uncomfortable he seems. When she [[spoiler:orders him to kill Sean]], he noticeably hesitates. That being said, he still goes along with it anyway. |
| 787 | * FormerTeenRebel: He was a troubled teenager who had drug problems and committed armed robbery that got him to prison. He's known to decided to become a Christian to make up for his past mistakes. |
| 788 | * GunNut: He owns a firearm and threatens to shoot Sean multiple times. |
| 789 | * HeelFaithTurn: Deconstructed. He went to Haven Point in order to make up for his troubled past and horrendous actions that got him to jail, but he's still fairly violent and Lisbeth uses this at her advantage to keep an iron fist over Haven Point. |
| 790 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He fancies himself as a devout christian despite never having read the Bible. |
| 791 | * {{Irony}}: Apparently, he sought Lisbeth out to redeem himself of his violent past. Instead, she made him into her even-more-violent muscleman. |
| 792 | * IOweYouMyLife: The main reason why he's so loyal to Lisbeth is due to her helping him find the right path when he was at the worst point of his life. |
| 793 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Pointing a gun at Sean's head result in Daniel ''snapping'' and brutally throw him away from Sean. |
| 794 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Beating up Sean in front of Daniel causes him to get out of the brainwash Lisbeth put him through and go straight back to Sean. |
| 795 | * PrecisionFStrike: If you make certain choices, he's the first person in the series to use a certain homophobic slur directed at Jacob. |
| 796 | * PistolWhipping: He ends up beating Sean with his gun on Lisbeth's orders. |
| 797 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: As evidenced by the slur he'll hurl at Jacob if he catches him and Sean searching through Lisbeth's house, he ''more'' than shares in Haven Point's homophobia--with this likely being part of the reason why Jacob is so afraid of him. Also, Lisbeth notes that he still supports contact with a number white supremacist groups. |
| 798 | * ReligiousBruiser: Serves as the only security for Lisbeth's church. |
| 799 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Lisbeth. |
| 800 | [[/folder]] |
| 801 | |
| 802 | !!Introduced in Episode 5: Wolves |
| 803 | |
| 804 | [[folder:Arthur and Stanley Peterson]] |
| 805 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stanley_arthur.PNG]] |
| 806 | [[caption-width-right:350:Stanley (left) and Arthur (right)]] |
| 807 | ->'''Voiced by''': David Young Lee (Stanley) and Robert Fleet (Arthur) |
| 808 | |
| 809 | A same sex couple and friends of Karen. They both joined the community of Away to avoid the discrimination of same-sex couples. |
| 810 | ---- |
| 811 | * TheBeard: Arthur used to be married to a woman for over 20 years before he came out as gay. |
| 812 | * CoolOldGuy: Both Arthur and Stanley are described as "real patriots" and a cool hippie gay version of Claire and Stephen by Sean. |
| 813 | * DaddysGirl: Becky, one of Arthur's daughters, is the only one of his children who accepts his homosexuality and keeps contact with him. |
| 814 | * TheMaidenNameDebate: An interesting inversion as Arthur and Stanley have the same last name, which is rare in depictions of same-sex married couples. |
| 815 | * NiceGuy: They're two nice fellows who invite Sean to take coffee with him, and are really saddened and worried when Sean and Daniel has to go. Arthur even kisses Sean on the forehead like a father would to his child. |
| 816 | * OfficialCouple: They've been in a relationship for 10 years. |
| 817 | * OneSteveLimit: A minor aversion: Arthur shares his first name with [[TheGhost Penny's missing boyfriend]], Arthur "Jinx" Lee. |
| 818 | * StraightGay: {{Downplayed}}. Stanley has a slight stereotypical gay lisp but otherwise they don't really display any gay stereotypes. |
| 819 | * ThoseTwoGuys: One comes with the other. |
| 820 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Stanley is Asian-American and gay. |
| 821 | * YoureNotMyFather: With the exception of one of his daughters, Becky, Arthur is disowned by his children and everyone else in his old family after coming out. |
| 822 | [[/folder]] |
| 823 | |
| 824 | [[folder:Joan Marcus]] |
| 825 | !!Joan Marcus |
| 826 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joan_5.PNG]] |
| 827 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Listen, if you wanna be an artist... you will be. It's not always easy, but in the end it's pretty fucking cool."]] |
| 828 | |
| 829 | ->'''Voiced by''': Karen Kahler |
| 830 | |
| 831 | A fellow member of Away, and a good friend of Karen. She's an artist who found the community after people around her tried cashing in on her newfound success. |
| 832 | ---- |
| 833 | * AmbiguousSituation: She's bald and has no eyebrows, and states that she "defies death on a daily basis". It's all but stated that she's suffering from cancer. [[spoiler:In the Redemption ending, Karen is wearing her vest, strongly implying that she passed away sometime in 15 years.]] |
| 834 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Karen, who are have been good friends ever since Karen stayed over at Away. When Sean and Daniel leave, she hugs Karen from behind in order to comfort her. |
| 835 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Is seen to have developed a close friendship with Daniel during his and Sean's stay at Away. She's the person Daniel is the most heartbroken to have to leave behind after Karen. |
| 836 | * MentorArchetype: Of a sort, as she encourages the Diaz brothers, especially Sean, to follow their artistic streaks. |
| 837 | * NiceGirl: She's kind and friendly, is encouraging of Sean being an artist and is close to Daniel, whom she's shown to consider like a surrogate son. |
| 838 | * NoBrows: As part of the heavy implication that she's being treated for cancer. |
| 839 | * ViewerPronunciationConfusion: Many players struggle with the canon pronunciation of her name as "Joanne", given that the name Joan is usually pronounced how it's spelled (i.e. as a single syllable). |
| 840 | [[/folder]] |
| 841 | |
| 842 | [[folder:'''SPOILER CHARACTER''']] |
| 843 | !!David Madsen |
| 844 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dd312a15_f2c1_42cc_a8c5_1abb0e6dc6a2.jpeg]] |
| 845 | [[caption-width-right:350:Don’t mean to boss you around.. bad habits die hard.]] |
| 846 | ->'''Voiced by''': D.W. [=McCann=] |
| 847 | |
| 848 | Former head of security for Blackwell Academy. He found himself joining Karen's community in Arizona sometime after 2013.\ |
| 849 | '''For his appearances in Season 1 and ''Before the Storm'', click [[Characters/LifeIsStrangeMainCharacters here]].''' |
| 850 | ---- |
| 851 | * AmicableExes: Should Chloe die, then his marriage with Joyce falls apart. Despite this, they don't have any resentment toward each other and Joyce even calls him from time to time. |
| 852 | * BreakTheHaughty: In Season One, David emphasized rule-abiding, hard-working, blue collar respectability, and showed a corresponding degree of disdain for anyone who was "entitled." After either the death of Chloe or the destruction of Arcadia Bay, his station in life deteriorates until he's eking out a living in the desert with the same kind of people he would've despised a few years prior — counter-cultural drop-outs who are mostly implied to be from middle-class backgrounds. Thankfully, David's become a much kinder and more tolerant person as a result of his hardships. |
| 853 | * CrazySurvivalist: Just about the only thing that still remains of his old life, though nowhere near to the extent of how he was in the first game. Sean makes a couple of comments on how he has enough supplies to outlast a zombie apocalypse. |
| 854 | * EarlyBirdCameo: The password to Karen's tablet in Episode 4 was 112708, the password to David's computer as seen in the first game and the date he and Joyce Price first met in the Two Whales Diner. This is [[https://twitter.com/DONTNOD_Michel/status/1187482098719846400 the nagging detail Michel Koch noted that nobody caught onto]]. |
| 855 | * GoodParents: Talk about a huge contrast to how he was in the past games. If Chloe survives, then it becomes clear during their phone conversation that he has a much better relationship with her; Chloe was the one who initiated the call and David gives her good advice, with both even saying, "I love you," to each other. |
| 856 | * InSpiteOfANail: He joined the community after either the death of his stepdaughter or the catastrophic storm that destroyed Arcadia Bay and killed his wife. |
| 857 | * {{Irony}}: Is fully accepting of Daniel's power and says this is the first time he has met someone who has powers. Anyone who even has a vague knowledge of the plot of the first game knows this is not true, though he had no clue about Max's time travel powers, mainly because Max felt that no one except Chloe would really believe it. |
| 858 | ** In the first game, he looked down on the homeless woman who lived behind the Two Whales, and sneered at her to get a job. By the second season, he's living like a disheveled hippie in a trailer in an off-the-grid commune, without any visible means of support besides what he can get from the land and his friends (though he may get a Veteran disability check, that only goes so far), and he resents that the nearby townsfolk think of them as "sand people." Given how much his life has changed in the intervening years, this bit of irony is almost certainly not lost on him. |
| 859 | * MyGreatestFailure: If the game plays in the "Sacrifice Chloe" outcome, he shows great regret at not being able to save Chloe and mend up with her before her death. |
| 860 | * MyGreatestSecondChance: He sees helping Sean and Daniel as a second chance to do the right thing, after feeling guilt over Chloe's death/the losses of people to the Arcadia Bay Hurricane. |
| 861 | * OddFriendship: Despite sticking out like a sore thumb in the community of Away, he does get along well with the bohemian artist Joan, the hippie same sex couple Arthur and Stanley, and Sean's missing mother Karen. |
| 862 | * RecoveredAddict: As a consequence of the "Sacrifice Chloe" ending, he descends into alcoholism, which ruins his marriage, and nearly his whole life, until his friend Steven helps him get sober and invites him to live in Away. |
| 863 | * TookALevelInKindness: He's mellowed out considerably between games, going from an extremely gruff JerkWithAHeartOfGold to a straight-up NiceGuy. |
| 864 | * TragicKeepsake: All depends on which ending for the first game was picked: |
| 865 | ** If you sacrificed Chloe, he has Chloe's "Parental Advisory" sign in the bathroom of his trailer. |
| 866 | ** If you sacrificed Arcadia Bay, he'll have the receipt of the Two Whales Diner from the day he first met Joyce framed and hanged on his wall. |
| 867 | * TraumaCongaLine: On top of experiencing terrible things in his military service and losing his best friend to it, he's had a rough time readjusting to civilian life, being accepted by his stepdaughter, not being able to crack the missing person case of a beloved student and his stepdaughter's best friend, [[MultipleChoicePast (possibly)]] being the cause of an innocent girl's suicide, and losing either his wife to a storm or his stepdaughter to a rich, snobby kid he suspected before. |
| 868 | * WalkingSpoiler: His appearance reveals what has happened to Arcadia Bay in greater detail. |
| 869 | [[/folder]] |
| 870 | |
| 871 | [[folder:Madison & Luke]] |
| 872 | !!Madison and Luke Wright |
| 873 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madison.png]] |
| 874 | [[caption-width-right:350:Madison]] |
| 875 | [[quoteright:258:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luke_8.PNG]] |
| 876 | [[caption-width-right:258:Luke]] |
| 877 | |
| 878 | A father-daughter vigilante duo who make it their will to stop Mexican immigrants at the border. |
| 879 | ---- |
| 880 | * AffectionateNickname: Luke calls Madison "Maddie" or "babygirl". |
| 881 | * BeautyIsBad: Madison is a beautiful young woman, as well as a racist who doesn't mind shooting a ''ten year old child''. |
| 882 | * DaddysGirl: Madison to Luke, as seen by the nicknames he gives to her. |
| 883 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Madison doesn't care that she almost shot a child to death and is confused on why Sean would choose to free them after what they did to him and his brother. She also brushes off Carla saying that she too wants the best for her future child. There's also the fact she keeps complaining about being locked up, despite ''clearly'' having broken multiple laws and injuring a child. |
| 884 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite their blatant prejudice of Mexicans, they clearly love eachother. Madison also states she has children of her own. |
| 885 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Luke is clearly horrified when Madison shot Daniel and calls her out on it (not for shooting him in general, but specifically because he's a kid). |
| 886 | * HeelFaceTurn: Luke can genuinely thank Sean and Daniel for freeing him and his daughter, indicating the start of one. |
| 887 | * {{Jerkass}}: Madison. Luke is much more sympathetic and appears to have a HiddenHeartOfGold. |
| 888 | * LadySwearsALot: Madison is just as foul-mouthed as she is racist. |
| 889 | * LackOfEmpathy: Let's see: Madison has no qualms shooting a child for being Mexican, doesn't see Mexicans as people and doesn't see how she and Carla aren't so different when it comes to their offspring. |
| 890 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Trying to arrest two Mexican kids when they aren't cops (and having Daniel shot in the progress) causes them to be incarcerated along with the rest of the immigrants. Daniel can potentially get revenge on them by knocking them out with his powers. |
| 891 | * OlderAndWiser: Despite the objective to stop Mexicans at the border, Luke is shown to be ''far less'' racist than his daughter, scolding her for shooting a child and telling her to leave Sean, Diego and Carla alone when she picks up a fight with them at the police department. He even genuinely thanks Sean and Daniel for freeing them in the event where the player chooses to do so. |
| 892 | * ParentChildTeam: A villainous example. They're a father and daughter working together to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border. |
| 893 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Madison is a die-hard racist who sees non-whites as “pests” that need to get out of “her” country. Luke shows himself to have way more common sense than his daughter, even showing the beginning of a HeelFaceTurn if Sean and Daniel frees him and her. |
| 894 | * SealedEvilInACan: They both end up being locked in a prison inside the El Rey police department for illegally arresting (and possibly kidnapping) Sean and Daniel. |
| 895 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Madison is a tough woman who wears a tank top. |
| 896 | * VigilanteMan: Not a heroic example, though. |
| 897 | * WouldHurtAChild: Madison shoots Daniel for being Mexican, despite the fact he's only a ten year old boy. |
| 898 | * WouldntHurtAChild: Luke, for himself, reacts in horror at his daughter shooting Daniel. |
| 899 | |
| 900 | [[/folder]] |
| 901 | |
| 902 | [[folder:Patrick Campbell]] |
| 903 | !!Patrick Campbell |
| 904 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/_161.png]] |
| 905 | ->'''Voiced by''': Ted Jonas |
| 906 | |
| 907 | An Arizona police officer who finds Sean and Daniel, and arrests them. |
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| 909 | * AllThereInTheManual: His first name, Patrick, is revealed in the Life is Strange 2 credits. |
| 910 | * {{Foil}}: To Officer Matthews from Episode 1. It's been stated that Matthews was new to the force and had no experience when doing his job, and was completely ignorant when he falsely believes that [[NotWhatItLooksLike the brothers assaulted Brett Foster]], and ''[[WouldHurtAChild threatened them with a gun]]'' ''and '''shot their own father''''' out of complete impulse. Campbell, however, seems to have more experience on the field and way more sympathetic towards the Diaz brothers and only arrested them from hearing their past actions and tries to be fair with them, not threatening them like Matthews did. Basically, in semi sense, Campbell represents the good experienced aspects of cops while what Matthews did were negative from inexperience. |
| 911 | * ForWantOfANail: Inverted, as he is in fact the nail. Luke and Madison mention a different cop that they've been handing over their victims to, and Campbell reveals that the other cop called out sick and he is filling in for him. Had the other cop been there, the events following this would have gone quite differently. |
| 912 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He may be reasonable enough, but he can be really intimidating when angry. He is FURIOUS at Luke and Madison for shooting a boy, and quickly has them arrested. And even though he is worried about Sean, when he realizes who he’s dealing with, he immediately puts him under arrest, too. And later, when he hears commotion coming from outside, he rises from his seat to investigate. When Sean tries to do the same, Patrick orders him to get his ass back down. |
| 913 | * NiceGuy: When finding Sean with a bag on his head, Patrick immediately takes it off and asks him if he’s alright, clearly worried for him. Once he learns who Sean is, he becomes firm, but not overly aggressive, acting appropraitely for arresting a teenager thought to be armed and dangerous. Also, when interrogating Sean, Patrick is cordial and polite in listening to him and explaining to the boy how the law works, clearing up misconceptions Sean has and assuring him that, due to his age, Daniel would not face any legal trouble for any crimes that he has committed and would not be placed into foster care due to having living relatives that are willing to take him in. |
| 914 | * PoliceAreUseless: Averted hard. He wastes no time arresting Luke, Madison, and Sean when he figures out what’s going on, as they all broke the law. |
| 915 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is shown to be one of the most sympathizing adults in the game. Upon finding out that the two hunters actually shot a nine-year old child, he has them arrested. When arresting Sean, he is shown to be by-the-book and not overly aggressive about it. Even after arresting Sean, when he interrogated him, Patrick is shown to be fair and tries to understand what Sean is going through, and assures that Daniel, due to his young age, will have a normal life with his grandparents in Beaver Creek. |
| 916 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Has receding red hair and dark green eyes. |
| 917 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears in only two scenes, but his actions lead to massive consequences, mainly driving the standup with the four endings. |
| 918 | * SpottingTheThread: He checks on Sean, who sees Daniel and shouts out his name. Upon hearing him say this, Patrick suddenly stops being polite and takes a good look at Sean, presumably having heard of the details reported about him, and he puts two and two together on who he is. He then arrests Sean. |
| 919 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:When playing the game in the bad path, Patrick will be slammed to the wall much harder by Daniel, and massive cracks appear behind him as he lays on the floor without moving. It’s unclear if he’s unconscious or dead, but Sean and Daniel don’t have time to find out, because they have to escape the jail building.]] |
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