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Slackjaw
Slackjaw
He deals in flesh, weapons, strong drinks. They've always called him Slackjaw.
Voiced by: Al Rodrigo
The leader of the Bottle Street Gang.
- Affably Evil: His gang rules its turf with an iron fist, but on a one-to-one basis, he's pretty polite and always honors his agreements.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: His wanted poster lists his crime as "Larceny, Assault, Mendacity, Disobedience of Public Ordinance, Unlawful Management of Prostitution, and Public Urination."
- Chain Pain: After the injury which resulted in his nickname, Slackjaw murdered the attacker with a chain covered in big hooks.
- Combat Pragmatist: Defeated a rival once by using a chain covered in fishhooks. Large ones.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He is clearly disgusted by the Pendleton Twins for their lifestyle. Also, Slackjaw himself is corrupt and in it for the money, but he always keeps his word and never tries to screw Corvo out of anything he'd promised. It's one of the reasons why he calls you out, if you bring him the safe combination once you emptied out the safe yourself.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": It's implied in Crowley's note that the reason he's called Slackjaw is because of the fact that his jaw was badly broken before he rose to his current status, while he was still warring over territory. He got his revenge for it.
- Expy: Of Bill "The Butcher" Cutting from Gangs of New York.
- Extreme Mêlée Revenge: When Slackjaw was still an up-and-comer, a boss named Mike the Fish broke his jaw with a ceramic spitoon. Slackjaw retaliated the very next day by brutalizing and killing Mike with a knife and a heavy chain lined with large shark hooks and nailing an open recruitment offer to the Mike's face for his underlings to find.
- Genius Bruiser: Slackjaw is hardly a common thug. He clawed his way to the top using a considerable amount of brains, and proves more than once that he's not an idiot, showing considerable business savvy. Not to mention the fact that no one holds onto a veritable criminal empire with an influence felt all across the Isles of Gristol without some brains.
- I Gave My Word: Slackjaw prides himself on always keeping his end of the bargain.Slackjaw: So now you see, Slackjaw's word is just as good as the men who run this city. Maybe even a little bit better, yeah? Think about that.
- Leeroy Jenkins: After all of his men are either killed or badly wounded by Granny Rags, he runs after her on his own rather than retreat and regroup. It gets him caught, and potentially (depending on Corvo's actions) killed and eaten.
- Lost Orphaned Royalty: The Heart says that his father was actually a prince. The Tarot Deck that came with pre-orders or the Collector's edition lists his card as "The Urchin Prince".
- Loveable Rogue: In contrast to several characters, especially the Corvo's corrupt noble targets, he comes across as reasonable and at least vaguely trustworthy. That's definitely more than can be said for maybe half the named NPCs encountered in Dunwall.
- Named After the Injury: He's been called Slackjaw ever since a rival thug broke his jaw. The jaw has long since healed and doesn't present any noticeable handicap or disfigurement, but nobody calls him by his real name, whatever it is.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: If you choose to have Corvo take the option, Slackjaw abducts, mutilates, and sends the Pendleton brothers to be slaves in their own mines.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: The man is a bootlegger, thug, thief, gang leader, petty extortionist, and the son of a whore. Yet he still comes off as a better person than Corvo's targets and the backstabbing Loyalists. Since he's actively concerned about the plague, distributing a (watered-down) cure elixir, and is willing to help Corvo restore the city... mostly so he can keep extorting money from it.
- Royal Blood: Using the Heart on him reveals that he's actually the son of a prince, but he'll never know it.
- Third-Person Person: Occasionally slips into talking like this.
Lizzy Stride
Lizzy Stride
Voiced by: Rochelle Greenwood
The leader of the Dead Eels. She is currently rotting in Coldridge Prison after being betrayed by her second-in-command, Edgar Wakefield.
- Archnemesis Dad: It has been confirmed that the Geezer is Lizzy's father. They've been in rival gangs for years, though the Geezer no longer has control over his, and doesn't have the power to stop them from antagonizing hers. Regardless, the Geezer is quite fond of her, while Lizzy's tough exterior briefly cracks if she learns of his death.
- The Dreaded: In her cell in Coldridge, she's chained to the wall so heavily she can barely move because the guards were terrified of what she'd do if they got within her reach. Once she was in chains, they took the opportunity to beat her so badly she's only semi-conscious when Daud finds her (which didn't stop her biting a chunk out of one anyway).
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Her gang is the only one that has both men and women in the ranks.
- Expy: She has a lot in common with Ma-Ma from the film Dredd. They both run gangs, have Hair Trigger Tempers, bear similar facial scars, are heavily tattooed and both are known for biting pieces off people.
- Fingore: When she reclaims her power, she announces to her gang that she forgives them all, because she's "filled with love" - before listing about a dozen individuals who owe her a finger. And one who owes her two for protesting about the first.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Has a reputation for mutilating people at the drop of a hat.
- I'm a Humanitarian: She bites chunks off her opponents. She doesn't always spit them out.
- Informed Deformity: One story mentions her webbed feet, but her feet look quite ordinary. Said story gets a number of other details wrong apparently to spice up the narrative and make Lizzy seem outright supernatural.
- Man Bites Man: See I'm a Humanitarian above.
- Pirate: By trade, but her ship is currently inoperable.
- Scary Teeth: She filed them into sharp points.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Disguised herself as a boy and got a job as a powdermonkey on a naval vessel as a child. She ended up starting a mutiny by killing the ship's doctor when he found out while treated her injuries.
- Tattooed Crook: In green ink, on her arms, neck, face and chest. It's one of the trademarks of her gang.
- Tongue Trauma: There is at least one story of her tearing a man's tongue out with her teeth. Because he called her "Elizabeth".
The Geezer
Mr. Mortimer Hat aka "The Geezer"
Voiced by: Paul Napier
The nominal leader of the Hatters. He is over 100 years old, and wishes for death.
- And I Must Scream: He's strapped to a chair, too weak to even raise his voice, and has a myriad of side effects from the whale oil keeping him alive. Despite the horrible agony he's in, a Clean Hands run will still be ruined if he's Mercy Killed.
- Body Horror: Quite apart from the horribly emaciated state of his body and the two hoses implanted in his torso, Trimble mentions a whole host of other disgusting symptoms inherent in the Geezer's life-support systems.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He ran a textile mill - which went under after the public became aware of both his criminal background and his using the Hatters as private security to force his workers to comply with sweatshop conditions.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: Not by choice.
- Dead Man Switch: He has one that floods his base with deadly nerve gas should he die. Keep in mind that the Geezer is a very, very old man who is already on life support.
- Deadly Deferred Conversation: Subverted, The Geezer promises to exchange information about the combination to the Engine Room in exchange for Daud pulling the plug on him. However, right before he croaks he makes a digression about giving the combination to Lizzy Stride, making you believe that you are about to be sent on a Fetch Quest from the place you set out. But right before he croaks, the Geezer gives you the first two numbers, which means that you can simply try the remaining 9 combinations on the third dial, which is simple Trial-and-Error Gameplay.
- Death Seeker: He's tired of being Trimble's puppet, so he hires Daud to kill him. Pity that there's not enough antitoxin to save the Mooks from his Dead Man Switch... He justifies his indifference to their fates by saying none of them were the people he chose himself, the "real" Hatters, who are all now long gone.
- Elephant in the Living Room: According to a transcribed interview with an ex-member of the gang, the Geezer is not a topic of conversation among the Hatters - even to former Hatters.
- Evil Cripple: Though in a helpless and thoroughly pitiable condition, he's clearly not a nice person.
- Evil Old Folks: His nickname says it all.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: Try as he might, the Geezer doesn't have the strength to kill himself; even ripping one of the hoses out of his chest is beyond him, hence his appeal to Daud for help.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Lizzy Stride's father was rumored to be a traveling cloth merchant. Guess who fits the bill.
- Mercy Kill: Regardless of his Chaos level, Daud will consider pulling the plug on the Geezer's life support to be this.
- Puppet King: Nurse Trimble keeps him in a drug-induced stupor so he can rule instead.
- The Unintelligible: As long as his Nurse is in the room, the Geezer's never able to speak in anything other than incomprehensible whispers. Trimble exploits this by pretending to know what he is saying and pretends the orders he is giving the Hatters are from the Geezer.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Technically not walking per se, and most definitely not played for sex appeal.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: According to his research notes, Trimble seems to have gotten it into his head that he might be able to keep Mortimer Hat alive indefinitely. Needless to say, the Geezer does not fancy spending the rest of eternity confined to a chair and subjected to even further physical decay, and requests to be put out of his misery by Daud.
- Worthy Opponent: Expresses this sentiment for Lizzy Stride right before he dies, telling Daud that he had actually given her the code to the engine room ages ago and that she Used to Be a Sweet Kid. He's actually her father, and is doubtlessly proud of her.
Trimble
Nurse William Trimble
Voiced by: Enn Reitel
The Geezer's nurse and the actual leader of the Hatters.
- All There in the Manual: His first name, William, is only revealed in the game's code.
- Dragon-in-Chief: To Mr. Hat. An example in which The Dragon has taken charge by force.
- Mad Scientist: From reading his journal, it's clear that he's fascinated by the life-supporting properties of Whale Oil.
- The Rival: To Piero back when they were at the Academy.
- Smug Snake: He's an extraordinarily arrogant douchebag.
