Line #55 Characters/Jazztronauts


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3	!The Jazztronauts
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5	[[folder:The Band as a Whole]]
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7	An all-cat Jazz Band that scours Source Engine maps for money and food. Each of the four members of the band has their own HiddenDepths, and the player's interactions with them help mediate subsurface tensions between them.
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9	* FunnyAnimal: All of the Jazztronauts are cat people, but this isn't too remarked upon or explained.
10	* RealityWarper
11	* Really700YearsOld: The cats offhandedly mention having lived for hundreds of years. This affects how they think a lot.
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14	[[folder:The Bartender]]
15	[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jazztronauts_bartender.png]]
16	[[caption-width-right:192:''"Welcome back. What can I get you?"'']]
17	Owner of the Bar Samsara and "leader" of the group. Enigmatically, copies of her are reference posed throughout the void. Her quests for the player are related to the upkeep of the bar and home base.
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19	* OddNameOut: Her name isn't related to musical talent whatsoever.
20	* PhysicalGod: A revelation at the end of their arc related to her [[spoiler:DarkAndTroubledPast.]]
21	* StraightMan: The Bartender has the most no-nonsense personality of all the Jazztronauts; contrasting with the Singer's mute enthusiasm, the Pianist's barely-restrained violent urges, and the Cellist's complete disregard for sobriety.
22	* TimeAbyss: Even more long-lived compared to the others.
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25	[[folder:The Singer]]
26	[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jazztronauts_singer.png]]
27	[[caption-width-right:192:''"HI!!! WELCOME TO THE MEWSEUM!!"'']]
28	A WideEyedIdealist who preserves copies of things stolen for the bar in their pet project "Mewseum", a side area that provides Source Engine [[EdutainmentGame Edutainment]]. Ironically to their name, they are mute and talk with a keyboard based device.
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30	* AmbiguousGender: Is officially Nonbinary.
31	* CompanionCube: Emily, a plush Brontosaurus that a previous guest gave them.
32	* CollectorOfTheStrange: They act as the curator for the Mewseum, a massive gallery of Source Engine exhibits. Definitely strange in comparison to a typical museum.
33	* CuteMute: The Singer has a very enthusiastic personality that's expressed solely through body language and texting.
34	* MoralityPet: The Singer acts as this to both the Pianist and Cellist, frequently de-escalating any conflict the latter two bring up.
35	* SuddenlyVoiced: [[spoiler:Actually sings in both their final scene and the GoldenEnding.]]
36	* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Singer cares a great deal for any [=NPCs=] that find their way into the Mewseum, treating them with as much kindness and respect as possible. The Pianist and the Cellist... do not share their mindset, to put it lightly.
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39	[[folder:The Pianist]]
40	[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jazztronauts_pianist.png]]
41	[[caption-width-right:192:''"What? Did you think I was actually broke? I'm morally bankrupt, not destitute."'']]
42	A cynical DeadpanSnarker with traces of BloodKnight, the Pianist is initially distrustful of guests and generally disdainful for antics from the other members of the Band - but is also an excellent planner.
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44	[[spoiler:As it turns out, her calculation skills are a [[BlessedWithSuck Blessing With Suck]] - Her band profession requires improvisation, and overplanning has bled into her everyday things, leaving her unable to do ''anything'' without forethought.]]
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46	* TheBigGuy: The Pianist is the largest member of the band and is also the most prone to throwing hands.
47	* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:In her final scene. While pouring her heart out to the player, she pounds her piano in frustration, accidentally producing a chord. This shocks the Pianist, and gets her to finally let loose and improv for the first time in recent memory.]]
48	* FashionableAsymmetry: The Pianist's right sleeve is always rolled up much higher than her left.
49	* HeroicComedicSociopath: Loves violence and bloodshed. Since the targets of her violence are usually Garry's Mod [=NPCs=] or players, the consequences of her murderous tendencies are downplayed. [[spoiler: She's forced to rethink her behavior when it begins to hurt The Singer]].
50	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's abrasive, prone to anger, and picks a lot of fights, but she legitimately cares about her friends.
51	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: [[spoiler:The Pianist is prone to overthinking, but this hampers her ability to improvise, leading to a huge case of creative block.]]
52	* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Cellist.
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55	[[folder:The Cellist]]
56	[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jazztronauts_cellist.png]]
57	[[caption-width-right:192:''"oh thank fuck i was beginning to perceive time as a linear series of cause and effect that shits terrifying"'']]
58	The Cellist would rather have his paws on a lit bong and a full pint glass than on a bow and cello, and has been high so long that sobriety is a detriment to him and his body is "biochemical pachinko." Most of his quests involve fetching him substances he needs for drug experiments.
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60	[[spoiler:Things start to take a dive for him in his fourth scene, and in his final scene an ironically sobering truth is learned about them: The Cellist delved into substance abuse to try and escape his own self-loathing, causing him to unintentionally achieve HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs - and ever since he crashed, he's been chasing that high with increasingly insane mixtures ever since, leading him into self-destruction.]]
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62	* AllLowercaseLetters: Speaks like this, with little punctuation as well; the main exception is when the Pianist gets on his nerves, which inverts it into CapsLock. [[spoiler:This is put on hold in his final scene.]]
63	* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: His behavior in almost every part of the game, once you complete his arc.]]
64	* EruditeStoner: The Cellist knows quite a lot more about art history than you'd expect from him. One scene has him going over the history of the Sistine Chapel, specifically about the beef Michaelangelo had with papal officials during its commissioning.
65	* {{Expy}}: His [[AllLowercaseLetters manner of speaking]] and rather creative implementation of the English language is very similar to [[Characters/HomestuckKids Dave Strider]], including [[spoiler:an excess of self-loathing hidden underneath a "cool" exterior.]]
66	* FantasticDrug: Played with: most of the "drugs" are actually existing things like explosive fluids, cleaning chemicals, etc. What's "fantastic" is that the Cellist ''uses them as drugs'' in the first place: he should not survive consuming these substances, much less ''getting high'' off of them.
67	** Ambrosia was also one of the things he slammed in the past, and apparently was so bad about it that the Bartender had to ban it from the Samsara. The Cellist is still sore about this.
68	* FunctionalAddict: For [[BunnyEarsLawyer a given definition of "functional"]], yet despite his near-perpetual trip, the Cellist manages to remain competent. [[spoiler:He's only barely keeping it all together, though.]]
69	* GargleBlaster: The 'Good Shit.' [[spoiler:Players aren't as susceptible to it as cats.]]
70	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Feels this after he unleashes a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech cruel verbal tirade]] on the Singer.
71	* RummageSaleReject: His choice of outfit makes him look like a walking collection of wrapping paper. The Pianist chews the Cellist out when he starts going on about cool outfits, as she thinks he's the ''least''-qualified person on the subject.
72	* TheStoner: For most of the game. [[spoiler:It backfires in his last two scenes.]]
73	* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Pianist.
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76	!Spoiler Characters
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78	[[folder:SPOILER CHARACTERS]]
79	!!The Bortles
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81	A band at the Center of the Universe that may or may not exist, visited during your Shard Juice powered trip. You can ask them either one of two philosophical questions, or if they know any good recipes.
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83	* GISSyndrome: They're static, 2-d images of musicians, and stick out like a sore thumb even more than the Jazztronauts themselves in the Source engine.
84	* StylisticSuck: All of the band members are 2-dimensional cutouts of Stock Images.
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87	[[folder:'''NG+ SPOILER CHARACTER''']]
88	!!"???" / The Eclipse / [[spoiler:Ash]]
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90	A mysterious and powerful LivingShadow cat who has seen, done, and made "everything". Their appearance in NewGamePlus is linked to the appearance of a grave in the Samsara, along with the Black Shards.
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93	* AllThereInTheScript: The code for the GoldenEnding refers to them as [[spoiler:Ash.]]
94	* ArtifactOfDoom: Black Shards, cubic shards that make unholy noises and ANNIHILATE MAPS. You must activate ten for the Bad Ending and GoldenEnding, and the sixth onward is a PointOfNoReturn that locks out the normal ending.
95	* EldritchAbomination: Is essentially a walking Black Shard, [[spoiler: and as Ash, a walking Shard.]] They imply that Shards are parts of their body scattered across reality.
96	* INeverToldYouMyName: Name-drops the player in their first line.
97	* KnightOfCerebus: No humor is ever present in a direct interaction with them apart from one optional sarcastic comment from the player. They also [[spoiler:destroy the Samsara and Voidway 66 and very nearly succeed in killing off the band and erasing everything.]]
98	* OmnicidalManiac: Wants everything to "Stop forever", finding the silence satisfying.
99	* RealityWarper: Like the Band.
100	* StrawNihilist: Believes nothing of the "everything" they have experienced has mattered.
101	* VictoryIsBoring: Is still unhappy and empty after [[spoiler:annihilating Home Base with a Black Shard.]]
102	* VillainousBreakdown: Flips the fuck out if you [[spoiler:sic the Trolley on them]], almost killing everyone.

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