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Sean Dudley
Sean "Dud" Dudley
Portrayed By: Wyatt Russell
"You know, when I'm out there I feel like I'm all alone. And all these things chasing me, it's... it's dragons and dickheads. But it's different in here. I can see what this place is. I can feel it."
A disarmingly optimistic ex-surfer who joins the Order of the Lynx after finding a ring on the beach.
- Awful Wedded Life: After getting married to Beth while suffering from a concussion, he tries sincerely to make it work, but Beth quickly loses her enthusiasm, and things go downhill fast.
- Butt-Monkey: The universe seems to love crapping on poor Dud.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Shaves his beard in the season finale as part of an attempt to get his life on track. By season 2, he has grown it back.
- Generation Xerox: Resembles his dad, both physically and in terms of attitude.
- Genius Ditz: He may be lazy and directionless, but he is astonishingly literate, and is the only other person in the cast who can understand what the hell Blaise is talking about most of the time. His experience as a pool boy has also given him unexpected skills; when he seeks a job at West Coast Super Sales, Bob practically hires him on the spot, because years of unclogging pools means he understands the basic fundamentals of hydronic engineering.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Ernie.
- Money Dumb: Dud is thousands of dollars in debt as a consequence of his bad decisions and inability to plan ahead or live within his means. The fact that he keeps trying to clear his debts by pawning anything of value to his loan shark doesn't help things.
- Nice Guy: Though he certainly has his flaws, Dud is a sweet, kind, and caring person.
- The Pollyanna: Despite how crappy his life is, he is extremely optimistic.
- Trauma Conga Line: In the course of one year, he suffered a debilitating leg injury, lost his dad, lost his house, lost his job, lost his car, and suffered another debilitating leg injury.
Ernie Fontaine
Ernie Fontaine
Portrayed By: Brent Jennings
"Why would anyone want to live forever? I just want to live for real, for a little while, right here."
A plumbing salesman and Luminous Knight at Lodge 49.
- Amicable Exes: Ernie is on good terms with Trish, his ex-wife, and he is pleased that she has remarried and started a family.
- The Good King: A decent guy, beloved by the other Lynxes and Larry's choice to succeed him as Sovereign Protector.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Dud.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": A huge fan of L. Marvin Metz, and is appropriately excited on meeting the writer.
- The Mentor: Explicitly called this by Dud in the season finale. Ernie is quick to point out that anyone with a guy like him for a mentor is screwed.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Ernie lost his daughter Amaya when she was a baby, an event that haunts him into the present day. He also mentions to Dud that it was his grief over the loss that first led him to the Lodge.
Liz Dudley
Elizabeth Dudley
Portrayed By: Sonya Cassidy
A former paralegal now working at Shamroxx to pay off the sizeable debt her dad's death left her with.
- The Alcoholic: If she doesn't keep busy, she drinks. Heavily.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Whenever she drinks, she does stupid things. This is how she ended up stuck working at Shamroxx; after finishing law school, she decided to get loaded and somehow ended up committing a bad enough felony that she can't pass a background check for most full-time jobs.
- Big Sister Instinct: In "The Slide", after Booie beats up Dud, she tracks him down, and goes apeshit on his car, creating enough of a ruckus that he and his indulgent parents are forced out of the neighborhood. In "Zugzwang", she confides that she refuses to leave Dud because in her mind, he's still the little kid who cried for days when she disappeared for two days.
- Death Seeker: It's repeatedly implied she doesn't want to live anymore. In the first-season finale, she threatens to kill herself in order to convince the bank to cancel her debts.
- Only Sane Woman: Deconstructed; On the surface, she seems to be an intelligent, hard-working woman saddled by an idiotic brother and a sexist ass of a boss. As the first season goes on, it quickly becomes clear that many of her problems are the result of her own self-destructive tendencies.
- Promoted to Scapegoat: Towards the beginning of season 2, she suddenly finds herself promoted to manager at Higher Steaks. She tries to convince herself that it's because her new boss recognized her potential leadership skills, but soon learns the truth: Higher Steaks is failing because their parent company is run by a madwoman, and they put Liz in management because they figured that her history of erratic behavior would make her a convenient scapegoat.
Larry Loomis
Played by: Kenneth Welsh
The Sovereign Protector of Lodge 49 in the first season.
- Disappeared Dad: He had to deal with this twice. His biological dad was never in the picture, and his mom's longtime lover, Wallace Smith, disappeared (he actually committed suicide and hid himself in the Lodge.)
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Larry spent much of his adult life struggling with PTSD after serving in the Vietnam War. The Lodge helped him for a long time, but he started experiencing symptoms again in his final days.
Connie Clark
Connie Clark
Portrayed By: Linda Emond
A journalist and member of the lodge. Married to Scott but has been having an affair with Ernie, her former high school sweetheart, since joining the lodge a year ago.
- The Mentor: The season 2 finale implies she could become this to Liz.
- Secretly Dying: Revealed to be suffering from some form of brain disease, with only a few years to live.
Blaise St. John
Blaise St. John
Portrayed By: David Pasquesi
An apothecary and member of the lodge.
- Agent Mulder: One of the few members of Lodge 49 who is actually passionate about alchemy and esoterica.
- Camp Gay: Downplayed. Blaise is rather flamboyant, but it has more to do with his eccentric tendencies than his sexuality.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Mentions that he did not have a happy home life in his youth, eventually being kicked out of his family's house. Whether this is because of his beliefs, his sexuality, or both remains unknown.
- Heroic RRoD: After many days of extensive research and no sleep, Blaise collapses in hysterics in the middle of a supermarket and, at the end of the episode, decides to check himself into a mental hospital.
- The Insomniac: A problem he has suffered from throughout his life, and a partial contributor to the Heroic RRoD described above.
Scott Mills
Scott Mills
Portrayed By: Eric Allan Kramer
An officer for Long Beach Harbor Patrol and member of the lodge.
- All Drummers Are Animals: The drummer for Don Fab and the Longshoremen.
- The Chains of Commanding: An entirely self-inflicted case; he stresses himself out trying to run the Lodge in strict accordance with traditions that most other Lynxes ignore.
- Chekhov's Skill: His background in college football comes in handy in Mexico, where he defends Ernie and the scrolls from hotel security.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After finally accepting that he's not cut out to be Sovereign Protector and that his marriage to Connie is over, he is able to develop a friendship with Ernie.
- Gracefully Demoted: Willingly gives up the Sovereign Protector title to his longtime rival Ernie.
- Promoted to Scapegoat: He gets promoted to Sovereign Protector mainly because the London office needs a local member who would sign off on the unpopular policies that they need to pass in order to make Lodge 49 solvent. This ends up backfiring for the Home Office, as Scott goes on a power trip, banishing Jocelyn from the lodge and trying to reinstate long-forgotten Lynx traditions that just alienate other members.
- Serious Business: Wants to be Sovereign Protector considerably more than either Larry or Ernie.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He is a Harbor Patrol officer and a drummer in a local band. He sees himself as the most prestigious member of the lodge, particularly after bumbling his way into becoming the new Sovereign Protector, whereas the others all see him as a pompous ass on a power trip.
L. Marvin Metz
Portrayed By: Paul Giamatti
The author of the Europa Nights series of thrillers, and Lynx based in Gainesville.
- Broken Ace: Beneath his lively and gregarious persona, he's a basket case prone to having sudden freak-outs that often lead to self-injury.
- Celibate Eccentric Genius: Claims to be abstaining from sex until he completes the Europa Nights series.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's the self-proclaimed "Greatest Living American Writer". He's shocked when Blaise doesn't recognize him, and dismissive when Connie calls his books awful.
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Write Who You Know: Apparently the inspiration for all of Tom Stone's intellectual, martial and lovemaking prowess was... himself.
Jocelyn Pugh
Portrayed By: Adam Godley
A Knight from the Home Lodge in London. He is sent to Long Beach to help sort out its financial problems and ends up advising Scott when he takes over.
- Butt-Monkey: He experiences constant mishaps in Long Beach, like getting harassed by kids and having his identity stolen by Avery.
- Extreme Doormat: He lets everyone push him around.
- Only Friend: The only Lynx willing to put up with Scott as Sovereign Protector.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: After coming to love Long Beach and Lodge 49, he swaps out his suit for more casual, beach appropriate clothing.
Janet Price
Portrayed by: Olivia Sandoval
"I think it, I make it, I take it."
The CEO of Omni, the company that owns Shamroxx and a number of other restaurant chains. Her underlings see her as a brilliant corporate visionary. She's actually a neurotic, egotistical con artist.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: She and reality are not on speaking terms most of the time.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She becomes obsessed with Liz after the latter punches her in the face.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She promotes herself as the future of food services in America, when the reality is that she is barely a regional player.
Tarquin
Portrayed by: Vik Sahay
Janet Price's second-in-command, and Liz's superior at Higher Steaks.
- Bad Boss: He's a bully who regularly degrades and humiliates the staff at Higher Steaks and then tries to con them into accepting worthless shares in the failing company in lieu of paychecks.
- Smug Snake: He lords his power over the rank-and-file employees, but the truth is he's little more than a puppet for Janet. When she goes to jail, he suffers a complete emotional breakdown.
Clara
Portrayed by: Pollyanna McIntosh
Connie Clark's guide at Lodge 1 in London. Also secretly Melinda, the Sovereign Protector of Lodge 1.
- Almighty Janitor: On the surface, she's just a Knight in Lodge 1. She's actually the Sovereign Protector of Lodge 1, and thus the head of the Order of the Lynx.
Daphne Larson
Portrayed by: Mary Elizabeth Ellis
A struggling adjunct professor-turned-con artist working for Avery. Later the Sovereign Protector of Lodge 55.
- Heel–Face Turn: At the start of season 2, she's gathering information about the scrolls on Avery's behalf, since he can't return to Long Beach. She starts to feel guilty about it, though, and thus ends up joining El Confidente in his quest in Mexico, and then later teams up with the other Lynxes to retrieve the scrolls.
Lenore
Portrayed by: Bertilla Damas
A flight attendant and former flame of Dud and Liz's dad. Also a victim of a pyramid scheme.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: By her own admission, she has a wicked temper.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Her excuse for her behavior is that she had to become an asshole to survive on her own.
- Jerkass: She feels no compunction about all the people she cons into buying Fydro.
- Never My Fault: She blames Dud and Liz for her problems, believing that if they never existed, their dad would have left their mother, married her, and had children with her.
- Ponzi: She is mired in a scam involving Fydro, a supposed energy drink that's actually just water.
Alice Ba
Portrayed by: Celia Au
One of Dud's surfer friends, and an employee at the local donut shop.
- Only Sane Man: She is one of the more down-to-Earth members of the cast.
Jackie Loomis
Played by: Cara Mantella
One of the few female Lynxes back in the 1950's, and the mother of Larry Loomis.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: Subverted; She was responsible for most of Wallace Smith's great achievements; Smith himself was a neurotic wreck who could barely function on his own.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She inadvertently created Long Beach's economic woes when her experiments with theoretical currency got stolen by Werner and instituted by Parabola in the form of Orbit coins, which spread among Orbis' low-level employees, then got into Long Beach's economy. When the Orbits became unsustainable, Long Beach's economy crashed.
