Line #49 Characters/FadeToSilence


1	[[foldercontrol]]
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3	!Main Characters
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5	[[folder:Ash]]
6	!!Ash[=/=][[spoiler: Dr. David Nash]]
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8	''The Leader''
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10	A man with a mysterious connection with the entity responsible for the Blight and the eternal Winter, which continuously torments him as a malevolent Inner Voice.
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12	* BadassBookworm: [[spoiler: Before the end of the world, he was a particle physicist. Now, he's a warrior-leader and a damned good one at that.]]
13	* TheLeader: He's the leader of the Refuge and by the end of the game will have assembled a sizable crew of followers. The game notes his leadership skills must be quite high, given how he's able to keep the group running smoothly despite how strong-willed and harsh many of the people he recruits are.
14	* ResurrectiveImmortality: As long as there are Flames of Hope burning back in his crypt, he'll resurrect there after death. If he runs out of Flames of Hope, however, everything he's built will be erased and he'll be sent back in time to re-live the Cycle of Torment all over again.
15	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Dr. Nash was the scientist present when the Inner Voice came into our world through a breach in the space-time continuum created as part of the research project he was working on. Nash was distracted by the intrigue of encountering an other-dimensional presence and failed to shut the system down before it invaded our world; he also later made a DealWithTheDevil with the Inner Voice to resurrect his family.]]
16	* WarriorTherapist: Besides battling monsters and carving out a path through the harsh Winter terrain, Ash also acts as a therapist towards his followers and helps them overcome their dark pasts and achieve catharsis.
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19	[[folder: Alice]]
20	!!Alice
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22	''The Daughter''
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24	Ash's 12-year old daughter. Providing her with food and warmth is the primary driving force behind Ash's actions in creating and maintaining the Refuge. As she's too young to perform any meaningful labor or combat, she mainly stays behind in the Refuge and observes the actions and behaviors of the other survivors.
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26	* ChildrenAreInnocent: She seems remarkably upbeat, all things considered, and seems to be the only character who hasn't become jaded and harsh due to the end of the world. [[spoiler: This is because she's a hallucination of Ash's mind, the real Alice is an evil Blight zombie.]]
27	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Alice is a hallucination in Ash's mind, which accounts for why none of the other Refuge survivors ever mention her. The real Alice is a Blight zombie hanging out in the crypt where Ash always resurrects.]]
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30	!Followers
31	[[folder:Jin]]
32	!!Jin
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34	''The Undertaker''
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37	* MyGreatestFailure: He failed to burn the bodies of some of his family members who died. The bodies then came back to life as Blighted and killed the rest of his family.
38	* TheStoic: He's noted to be one of your team's most emotionally stable members.
39	* TokenGoodTeammate: Jin's the only member of your team who isn't a murderer of some sort, and is one of your team's least abrasive members. That said, most of them are [[SympatheticMurderer Sympathetic Murderers]] and Alice notes that Jin has his moments of frustration and tension as well.
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42	[[folder:Vic]]
43	!!Vic
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45	''The Looter''
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48	* AccidentalMurder: She caught her lover Stella hugging a man who was also stealing supplies from them. In a rage she shoved Stella to the ground and shot the man through the heart. Stella hit her head on a rock and died, and to her horror Vic realized the man was Stella's brother.
49	* BookDumb: During one of her therapy sessions she confesses to being illiterate.
50	* HairTriggerTemper: Her FatalFlaw, which led her to killing her lover and her lover's brother.
51	* TheLadette: She's violent, foul-mouthed, and tempermental.
52	* GlassCannon: She has high melee and ranged skills, but below-average health and self-healing.
53	* SirSwearsALot: Her character bio mentions she swears like a sailor, and many other characters note that she swears ''way'' more than anyone else in the game.
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56	[[folder:Gani]]
57	!!Gani
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59	''The Ritualist''
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62	* CameBackWrong: After her husband was killed by a horde of Blighted, she used a magic ritual to bring him back to life. However, he came back as a soulless monster and she had to kill him. She's now trying to figure out if the ritual can be done with better results.
63	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She and her sickly husband Isaac were taken in by a group of survivors. After a while, she overheard the other members of her group planning to abandon them because Isaac was a burden to the group. So she slit all their throats while they slept so she and Isaac would be able to retain the group's shelter and supplies. For most of the Refuge survivors, this would be their DarkSecret, but for Gani it's just a case of ButForMeItWasTuesday.
64	* JackOfAllStats: She has the most down-the-middle average stats of all the characters in the game.
65	* LadyLand: Is mentioned as coming from a female-only tribe, which she left in order to be with her husband Isaac.
66	* TheLeader: Alice notes that Gani keeps the camp running smoothly when Ash isn't there, and wonders which of them is the better leader.
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68	[[/folder]]
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70	[[folder:Rhys]]
71	!!Rhys
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73	''The Investigator''
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76	* BadassBookworm: The world's last living scientist ([[spoiler: not counting Ash]]), he also has above-average health and is decent with a sword.
77	* BodyHorror: His right arm appears infected with Blight; in his character portrait, the right side of his face is Blighted as well.
78	* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Looking almost exactly like Creator/WillemDafoe, and is very much the sort of character Dafoe often plays.
79	* DemonicPossession: In the course of his research, Rhys has figured out a way to merge his mind with that of the Blighted. However, this causes him to adopt the Blighted's mindset when he does so. He may or may not have mauled someone to death (though he reasons it might simply be a memory of the Blighted that he's recalling), and he definitely burned down the last research outpost, causing the death of the world's last scientists, while under the effects of the Blight.
80	* InsufferableGenius: Some of the other survivors mention how they find his intellectualism to be grating.
81	* UniqueEnemy: He's the only human opponent in the game you fight, when he attacks you after being corrupted by the Blight when you first meet him. He's not intended to be a difficult fight, either, only having a fraction of his health and going down after only a few hits.
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83	[[/folder]]
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85	[[folder:Ryme]]
86	!!Ryme
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88	''The Sneak''
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91	* LongRangeFighter: She has a high ranged combat skill, an average melee combat skill, and the lowest health out of all the game's survivors.
92	* OffingTheOffspring: Ryme had the misfortune of being pregnant when the apocalypse happened. After her baby was born, she cared for him as best as she could, but ended up smothering him to stop him from crying because the noise was about to alert Blight monsters to their location. She's blamed herself for this ever since.
93	* ShrinkingViolet: She's quiet and shy, in contrast to most of your other followers who tend to be quite strident and opinionated.
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96	[[folder:Ezra]]
97	!!Ezra
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99	''The Alchemist''
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102	* GrumpyOldMan: He's quite curmudgeony and seems to be the oldest survivor in the game.
103	* MeetTheNewBoss: He was a member of a gang whose leader would force the lowest ranking members to drink random concoctions of chemicals, which would often turn out to be fatal. He killed the leader and took over, but found the gang had gotten so used to cruel leadership that they saw his attempts at a more reasonable leadership style as weakness and were ready to revolt. So, he ended up becoming as bad a leader as the former guy, killing dozens of children to test his concoctions.
104	* SupportPartyMember: Ezra's melee skill is the lowest in the game, and his ranged skill is only average, so he's probably the least helpful member to bring along on combat expeditions. Instead he's best used brewing potions back at base.
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107	[[folder:Issa]]
108	!!Issa
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110	''The Sniper''
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113	* FunctionalAddict: She confesses to being a drug addict, with her biggest regret being that she hit her young protege when she found her using some of her stash, causing her protege to accuse her of being no different from her stepfather and run away.
114	* LongRangeFighter: She has the highest ranged combat skill out of all the survivors, but low melee combat skill.
115	* RapeAsBackstory: She was repeatedly raped by her stepfather as a child. Upon growing up, she seduced and then murdered him, and has made a career out of doing so to other men she considers to be bad.
116	* SerialKiller: She seduces men she considers to be "bad", then kills them with a needle through the ear post-coitus. She states they were all [[AssholeVictim Asshole Victims]], and the game never contradicts her, but we do have to take her word for it.
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119	[[folder:Tua]]
120	!!Tua
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122	''The Warrior''
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125	* CloseRangeCombatant: He has the highest melee skill and the lowest ranged skill of all the survivors in the game. He also has the highest health of all the survivors in the game.
126	* DefectorFromDecadence: He used to be part of an Eclipse Cult, but left due to not being able to live with the human sacrifice in good conscience.
127	* TheEngineer: He mentions having served in this role when he was in the Eclipse Cult, and Alice notes that he's always building and maintaining things. He's also one of 3 survivors with the Construction skill.
128	* HeelFaceTurn: He used to be responsible for capturing human sacrifices for the Eclipse Cult, having been convinced by the cult's leader that the victims deserved their fate, but had an attack of conscience and left the cult.
129	[[/folder]]
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131	! The Eclipse
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133	[[folder:The Inner Voice]]
134	!!The Inner Voice
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137	* BigBad: He's the evil force behind the Eclipse, the Blight, and the eternal Winter.
138	* ForTheEvulz: Seems to have no discernable motive for his actions other than the fact he likes making humans suffer.
139	* LemonyNarrator: He'll constantly taunt and mock you throughout the game as he observes your every action.
140	* JerkassGenie: [[spoiler: When Dr. Nash implores him to bring his family back to life, he brings them back as monstrous and evil Blight zombies (albeit more humanoid and self-aware than the usual Blighted creatures).]]
141	* WouldHurtAChild: At one point he fondly recalls how several school buses full of children screamed and died when he ended the world.
142	* TheUnfought: He either has no physical form, or his physical form is the gravitation rift at the center of the Eclipse. In either case you never fight him directly.

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