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Ben's Crabs
BC Mentor: The Opportunist
"One hundred doors snap shut when producers choose you. And a thousand more swing wide open."
- Ambiguously Brown: His skin tone is explicitly described as "ethnically ambiguous".
- Covered in Scars: His limbs are, and he also sports a nasty facial scar from his left eye to his right cheek.
- Dark Horse Victory: No one expected this Ordinary High-School Student to emerge as Season 59's champion.
- Famed In-Story: After his victory. On top of the usual fame that comes with winning a season of SOTF, he also streams in his free time under the handle "B3N".
- Fingore: Lost his pinky and part of the ring finger on his right hand during Season 59.
- Formerly Fat: Downplayed. He's still a bulky guy, but that bulk is more muscle than fat.
- I Have No Son!: His actions in the endgame of Season 59 got him disowned by his parents.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: After his victory in Season 59.
BC01: Mateo Ormeño
BC01: Mateo Navarro Ormeño
Designated Weapon: Megaphone
Mentor's Comment: We've got a contender here, but only if he can put his fears behind him and take control of the situation. Especially because we could use some, uh, social lubrication on this team. And that genie's kind of out of the bottle anyways, worrying about what people think. I mean, you sneeze on this show and people will write essays about what you decided to wipe your nose with.
No pressure of course, unless some pressure is needed to draw Mat's full potential out, in which case I say this with an adequate but not overbearing amount of pressure."
- Actually Pretty Funny: Resists the urge to laugh about his Tap on the Head.
- Apathetic Student: Cracked under the pressure to succeed as early as fifth grade, becoming one of these.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Before being cast, Mateo could never imagine being a part of the show, as he believes he'd likely get killed off early. Sure enough, he doesn't even place within the top 60.
- Big Brother Worship: Spent a lot of time around his big brother Ezequiel as a kid. Mateo still remains closer to him than to their parents.
- Book Dumb: A merely average student in elementary school, which eventually led to his apathy with the education system.
- Bucket Helmet: Wore a bucket hat when he was taken for the game and wears it throughout.
- Cooldown Hug: Gives one to Leah early on, but it's played with in that both of them need it.
- Cover Version: Mateo's growing SoundCloud consists of acoustic guitar covers of his favorite songs.
- Darkness Equals Death: When Mateo steps into the dark depths of the cruise ship, he bumps into Pippi, who deals him an unintentionally fatal Tap on the Head.
- Explosive Leash: How Mateo ends up dying. He's knocked unconscious, then left for dead in a Danger Zone. He has just enough time to wake up before he explodes.
- Nice Guy: One of the nicest in the cast, willing to hear out a clearly rattled Leah Hemingway and even give her a Cooldown Hug.
- Nothing Is Scarier: An In-Universe example. He finds the cruise ship's bowels, with all its rust and echoing, a pretty scary place. By the time he walks into pitch darkness, he freaks out enough to bump right into Pippi, earning him a second Tap on the Head.
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: The minute he sees Leah pull a crossbow bolt out of her backpack, he dons one of these.
- Repression Never Ends Well: Bottles up all his fears and anxieties behind a smile until he finds himself in the depths of the cruise ship underbelly, where he promptly loses it.
- Stepford Smiler: Type 1. Mateo tries his best to seem like he's together throughout his time on the show. That is, until Leah asks him an Armor-Piercing Question...
- Tap on the Head: Twice - the first thing that happens to him as he wakes up on the show is a flask dropping down onto his head from a shelf above him, and the last is getting himself hit by Pippi in the dark. The flask knocks him out for a couple of minutes, but Pippi's attack costs him long enough to keep him there while the area turns into a Danger Zone...
- Travelogue Show: Has grown a recent interest in these types of shows, to the point that even though he's never left the United States, Mateo hopes that he could do so once he's finished with school.
- Why Am I Ticking?: His Explosive Leash starts beeping rapidly right before it goes boom.
BC02: Eric Cunningham
BC02: Eric Cunningham
Designated Weapon: Zip 22
Mentor's Comment: "A bit heavyset, not a big follower of the show, and a stubborn streak a mile wide. Now where have I seen this before?
I Googled that gun and found some pretty hilarious suggested search terms, so if he really wants to prove he's better than everyone else, managing to score a kill with it would be a great start."
- Hipster: Prefers classic media from movies and television shows to SOTF-TV, which has played no small part in his elitism.
- Jerkass: If his Pride and over-inflated ego was not enough of a hint, his first action upon meeting another contestant, Gustavo Thicke, is to first rob and then try to kill him.
- Reliably Unreliable Guns: Gets assigned the notoriously unreliable Zip 22 as his weapon, and sure enough in his confrontation and attempted murder of Gustavo Thicke, it jams when he tries to fire it after his first shot doesn't kill.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Has an inflated ego over his fellow students as a result of his elitist views of SOTF, grades, and his successes in various goals he sets for himself. Even though his grades are average and he rarely challenges himself in the goals he sets.
BC03: Matias Juarez
BC03: Matias Juarez
Designated Weapon: Complete Student Roster Including Assigned Teams And Weapons
Mentor's Comment: Hey there! You know, it's actually a little weird filling this bit out when you're actually going to get to read it. Goes for the rest of the team too, I guess. You better be sharing this with them!
Anyways, for those keeping track at home, I think we've got quite an asset to the team here. He knows what's at stake and what it means to take a stand, and has the intel to make it happen. Great designated number, too. There's going to be more than a little buzz about Mat before it's all over."
- Cope by Creating: Makes origami figures as a form of stress relief, and carries some slips of paper with him in case he gets stressed out.
- Jerkass: Noted for his prickly demeanor towards people and for being very willing to retaliate, either verbally or physically, particularly when he's drunk.
- Last Het Romance: Had a few after breaking up with his boyfriend, Liam. None of which lasted long and he avoids the girls he went out with due to feeling awkward about the whole thing.
- Lead Drummer: Suggested to a few of his friends to start a punk band together, and is the drummer.
- Scars Are Forever: Gained the scar across his nose from being bullied in 6th grade.
- Signed Language: Whilst not able to pick up on the nuances of the language, Matias is conversationally fluent in ASL due to being taught by his best friend Jake, who has a deaf younger brother.
BC04: Anthony Golden
BC04: Anthony Giovanni Golden
Designated Weapon: Fake Nautical Beard
Mentor's Comment: Well, well, well. I think another mentor might write this kid off for a quick laugh, but there's still potential there. There always is. I just hope he manages to sort things out with our more, uh, enthusiastic teammates. Just remember: You don't have to like what you're doing. It just has to be slightly more palatable than the second-best option
- Accent Slip-Up: Suffers from this when angered or flustered, his accent becoming more cockney.
- Bookworm: Big enough of one that he is willing to ignore fellow book readers fandom to SOTF-TV if he can chat with them about books.
- Fan Hater: "In-Universe" Anthony's hatred for SOTF-TV runs deep, and it extends to those who watch it extensively. He's known for arguing with people about it at school.
- Groin Attack: Subjected to this by Olivia del Rio on the first day. It eventually becomes a Running Gag, with someone kicking him in the crotch every single day.
- Skewed Priorities: Asks two things of his mentor when they chime in: How to improvise a weapon... and who won between the Tottenham Hotspurs and Chelsea.
BC05: Gabriela Garcia-Campos
BC05: Gabriela Garcia-Campos
Designated Weapon:Jericho 941
Mentor's Comment: Must be nice having a real weapon and an idea of what the fuck you're doing when you get dropped off in the arena. That is to say, I think I'm bullish on this Crab's chances. Of course, she's also got about 60% of the team's firepower, so a little lesson in teamwork might do everyone some good.
- Embarrassing Hobby: Less embarrassment and more resentful to its origin, but Gabriela has a love for science fiction thanks to her father which she keeps a secret from her mother.
- Poor Communication Kills: Almost experiences this during her confrontation with Mariko Whitney in the lower deck of the ferry as Leslie Lowell's collar blares through the area due to his refusal to put on his bandanna. The two fire at each other before Kamille Rémy Martel steps in to defuse the situation and Leslie finally puts on his bandanna.
- The Resenter: To both her parents for their behavior during their divorce, as the two openly argued in front of a young Gabriela, but more so towards her father for his infidelity against her mother and feels personally betrayed because of his actions.
- Troll: She would deny it, but her behavior online can be best described like this.
BC06: Rebecca Roberts
BC06: Rebecca Roberts
Designated Weapon: Gift Basket
Mentor's Comment: We've got more than a couple fans of the show on this team, but Rebecca here thinks she can do one better. And, honestly? I don't doubt her. Someone's gotta step up to the plate, after all. The weapon draw is a bit of a shame but hey, we can't make things too easy, now can we?
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Being as Genre Savvy as she is, Rebecca wishes Junji Yamada had fired on everyone that wasn't her the minute he realized he'd found a teammate. When he does fire, Rebecca gets caught in it thanks to Dale trying to strangle her.
- Combat Pragmatist: When "armed" with only a flashlight, she uses it to signal to Junji, who turns out to have a gun.
- Constructive Criticism: In-Universe, Rebecca gives her peers' writing a thorough critique whether they want her to or not.
- Depending on the Writer: Rebecca as written by Irina tends to be more introspective and focused on logic. Rebecca as written by Aster is still pragmatic, but more focused on racking up her Kill Tally and catching up to previous winners.
- Dirty Coward: Far from becoming a villain, Rebecca spends most of her time on the Deadly Game running and running from anybody she could remotely perceive as a threat. Notably, this trait doesn't change Depending on the Writer.
- Enraged by Idiocy: As things go south with Dale and the rest of the group, Rebecca wonders why Junji didn't just shoot everyone, to her frustration. When he actually does, she ends up biting it too.
- Friendless Background: And of her own volition, at that. Rebecca has been a fiercely introverted person ever since her early childhood. She just doesn't seem to like people.
- Genre Savvy: Thanks to watching so much SOTF as a kid, Rebecca imagines herself becoming a Genre Savvy villain if she's ever cast on the show. She is also a rather pragmatic person in general, which leads to her fleeing at the slightest hint of danger.
- It Gets Easier: Holds this sort of opinion on killing, as seen in pregame.
- Joke Weapon: Her gift basket leaves much to be desired. Being the Genre Savvy character she is, Rebecca is immediately annoyed with the assignment.
- Kick Chick: In a rare moment of courage, she kicks Akeno in the shin.
- Kill Tally: Rebecca keeps track of everybody's kills in her head, and seeks to amass an impressive number herself. Unfortunately, she's too spineless and not armed enough to take the initiative.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Lacking a real weapon, Rebecca quickly decides to steal another student's daypack — though, to her credit, she tosses her some of the things she wasn't going to need or use.
- Most Writers Are Writers: Rebecca is one of the more gifted writers at Mangrove Garden.
- Nightmare Fetishist: As a consequence of watching SOTF since she was in elementary school, Rebecca has become very desensitized to the violence on the show and loves the more morbid parts. Her art is quite gory and morbid, to the point of freaking out her peers and attracting the attention of the school counsellor.
- No Social Skills: She becomes genuinely bewildered when her frightening artwork scares a classmate half to death. After all, it's just a drawing, right?
- Parental Neglect: Rebecca's parents are still very much in love to the point of focusing on their marriage over their daughter. They try to fill the void they can't provide emotionally by spoiling Rebecca with gifts when they can, but she doesn't have the best relationship with them.
- The Power of Apathy: Becoming bored with all the conventional tropes in literature, especially romance novels, was what helped Rebecca unlock her talent for writing.
- Properly Paranoid: She runs from Akeno when she first runs into her, not knowing who Akeno is. Turns out Akeno was planning to kill her, but lost the opportunity.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: A rare female example. Rebecca has a very plain and ordinary appearance, with the kind of upper middle-class background you'd expect from a private school girl.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Not her, but her parents, who apparently never got over their honeymoon phase and tend to spoil her with gifts so they won't seem too neglectful of their daughter's needs.
- The Spock: Prides herself on being a pragmatic, practical, unemotional person, though not to Straw Vulcan extents.
- Weight Woe: Took up dance lessons at the start of high school when she began comparing her pudgier frame to thinner classmates.
BC07: Ashanti Baker
BC07: Ashanti Baker
Designated Weapon: Jetpack
Mentor's Comment: Hell yeah
BC08: Marion Rosales
BC08: Marion Al-Syed Claudio Rosales
Designated Weapon: Decorative Marion Rosales Nameplate
Mentor's Comment: Ooh, I wonder if she's tried tank Ben? I'm sure everyone will be playing it once the secret is out, that max hp% damage is nasty...
But, uh, yeah, adaptability is the name of the game here, and Marion's got that in spades. It's good to be able to win a knock-down, drag-out fight, but it's even better to know how to avoid one.
- Ambiguously Bi: She had a boyfriend in middle school, but she's more than willing to get very cuddly with her female classmates and calls the Daughter of Chaos a "cutie".
- Authority in Name Only: Crowns herself the "captain" of the Ghost Ship. She tries to do it again on the Clipper Ship, but she's met with only a stony silence.
- Beyond Redemption: Her only response to finding out that Laura gave up on teamwork in pursuit of a cocaine high is to disappointedly muse that she'll never change.
- Boring Insult: Gets a lot of these from the people watching the show, thanks to her Heroic BSoD. Some people even told her father this. To his face!
- Cheerful Child: Marion was a very friendly and excitable little girl, and to this day remains an energetic social butterfly.
- Cuddle Bug: She's very keen to hug and snuggle up against Lucille and Alyssa during a pre-game party.
- Cursed with Awesome: Synesthesia is a confusing condition, to be sure, but who knew it could spark a young child's interest in (and skill at) music theory?
- Elegant Classical Musician: Invoked by Marion herself, taking up the violin specifically because of how elegant and graceful she would look.
- Elephant in the Living Room: Loudly explains the cameras inside every participant's collar specifically to avoid discussing the sight of Jasper's corpse. She hates herself for how much of an Attention Whore it makes her look.
- Empty Shell: Has degraded into this by the time of her death. When her friends ask if she has any last words in case the collar-tampering experiment fails, she has no response whatsoever.
- Everyone Hates Mathematics: Goes on an online rant about how much she hates math in one pre-game scene.
- @radradradish: "why is maths so bad"@radradradish: "why are maths so bad"@radradradish: "answer me you cowards"
- Heroic BSoD: Being kidnapped in her own house and shipped off to SOTF broke something inside of her, and she spends the game acting pretty much nothing like her former, excitable self.
- Gamer Chick: Not at first, but as she streamed games more and more, she began taking on more challenging games and genres for her audience. She's also friends with several other examples of the trope.
- Good Parents: Her father Javier, an anthropologist and former saxophonist who wants nothing more than to see his daughter succeed in her musical endeavors. That said, he does find sports a waste of Marion's brilliant musical mind.
- Grammar Correction Gag: She corrects Shoshanna's incorrect spelling of several classmates' names in the midst of an escape plan.
- Last Request: Once Sylvain shoots her in the chest, she begs her allies to experiment on her Explosive Leash in the hopes that they'll be able to learn something from it. Even if it kills her!
- Letting Her Hair Down: Only allows her most trusted friends to see her hair.
- Massage of Love: Fond of giving these to her peers, as giving massages allows her to be intimate without being explicitly sexual.
- Moral Guardians: Has some shades of this trope, disapproving of her friends' choice to watch a SOTF sex scene. Her general attitude towards sexuality seems to be quite negative.
- Older Than They Look: Marion has a height of 5'1", and even for her size she has a round face and especially small hands and feet. It's mentioned that she needs to shop for children's shoes.
- Say It with Hearts: @radradradish, her Twitter handle, seems to really like using emojis.
- The Scream: Screams for two entire posts after being shot through the chest by her good friend Sylvain.
- The Social Expert: Grasped social nuances very well as early as elementary school. As a middle-schooler, she was surrounded by friends and had no shortage of admirers. In her Inner Monologue, she compares social situations to solving complex math problems.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Apparently, some of the people who subscribed to her streams have nothing better to do than call her boring after her death.
- Tastes Like Purple: Has synesthesia, which causes her to hear colors in music and the sounds of people's voices.
- The Teetotaler: Abstains from alcohol at every Wild Teen Party she attends, as she finds it a little too wild for her.
- Translator Buddy: For her mother, since she's much better at speaking English.
- Vocal Dissonance: She may look like a middle-schooler, but her voice is so deep that people comment on it In-Universe.
BC09: Gregory Miller
BC09: Gregory Mark Miller
Designated Weapon: Bolas
Mentor's Comment: Another social butterfly is a more than welcome addition to the Crabs, given the, uh, interesting collection of personalities we've got. Throw in a useful weapon and a physique well-honed by hard days of lifting bees, and Gregory is a solid foundation to tie things all together.
...Wait, did I misread something?"
BC10: Junji Yamada
BC10: Junji Yamada
Designated Weapon: Filetting Knife
Mentor's Comment: Hey kids, do you like violence? Because Junji sure does. Honestly I don't know if I need to add anything else, this kid with this weapon? The conclusions practically write themselves.
- Geek Physiques: Is a gamer and anime fan who also happens to be obese.
- Jerkass: His Establishing Character Moment is writing derogatory comments about the various female students at school in his yearbook. Many of the other students are disgusted by him for a reason.
- Otaku
- Parental Neglect: His parents continually ignore him while paying more attention to his younger brother. This explains, though not justifies, his actions.
- The Pigpen: Junji is noted to have a particularly pungent body odor, which contributes to why he's so loathed by the other students.
- Psycho Knife Nut: His designated weapon is a filleting knife. It doesn't take him long to want to use it.
BC11: Lark Wilson
BC11: Lark Wilson
Designated Weapon: Steel Ball Bearings
Mentor's Comment: Time to bust some balls IRL. Or use some balls to bust some people? That one kinda fell apart. But getting through this game is all about how you spin it, and I'm sure our, uh, adverse communications specialist will navigate that minefield expertly.
- Armor-Piercing Response: Manages to pierce Seo-yun, of all people, as she's staring down the barrel of her shotgun. It's not enough to save her.
- Seo-yun: "Do you think that I like doing this?"Lark: "I do. You're the star of the show."
- Beautiful Dreamer: This trope manages to unnerve her. She doesn't sleep well at all the first night, out of fear that someone might see a side of her that even she doesn't know.
- Candid Camera Prank: Gravitates towards watching prank videos online. While she dislikes the personalities who produce these videos, she enjoys the spontaneity... even when the "spontaneity" is staged.
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": Or, at least, Call a Corpse a "Chunk of Useful Meat". What makes this even weirder is that Lark is 100% flesh-and-blood human.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Lark's thought processes aren't exactly normal, to say the least.
- Contemplate Our Navels: Had an existential crisis of sorts in middle school, where she spent her time wondering what her personality traits were, if any.
- Dissonant Serenity: Forces herself into this mindset as she and her friends prepare to tamper with the deceased Abel's collar. After all, why be afraid of dead people if Anyone Can Die? Best shown when Sarah blows Abel's head off, and her first response is to break the Stunned Silence with a cheery, "now we know what not to do!"
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite Lark's curiosity about the human mind and the depths to which humans will sink, she dislikes SOTF because of its formulaic nature and premise.
- Failures on Ice: Subverted. Lark developed into a capable, though not extraordinary, ice skater since she began in middle school.
- The Gadfly: The main purpose of her Sock Puppet accounts is to get different reactions out of people. Interestingly, Lark does this not for pure amusement, but for a more academic reason.
- G.I.R.L.: Gender Inverted. She frequently pretends to be a guy online. It's a habit she got into after wondering how other people might perceive her.
- Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Inverted. She is only ever asked to play minor roles, but she enjoys the unmemorableness nonetheless.
- Incoming Ham: Lark's opening scenes give us a sense of how strange her thought processes are. Then she opens her mouth...
- Lark: "Sisters! Brothers! Small boats of fire are falling from the sky! RocketBoats, that is!"
- Intrigued by Humanity: A rare example of the trope who's human herself. Her experiments with Sock Puppet accounts and fascination with psychology and anthropology stem from an innate curiosity about human behaviour.
- Invented Individual: "Kyle", a 19-year-old gas station worker Lark made up as a Sock Puppet, has been hanging around music criticism forums and Discords for three years. She can even imagine what he looks like, pimply and wearing a baseball cap.
- Last-Second Word Swap: Catches herself in the middle of an Accidental Innuendo, substituting "sack full of steel" for "sack full of balls" to avoid becoming a meme In-Universe.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Her dialogue gets a bit... morbid.
- Lark: "Hey, we're about to start poking a dead body! Come in if you wanna watch. Or escape. Or volunteer to poke it. It's all good."
- Older Alter Ego: Some of her Sock Puppet accounts are a completely different age from Lark herself.
- The Quiet One: Lark doesn't say much, and hasn't even when she was a little girl. Her mother used to joke that she was "too busy" looking at the world around her to throw tantrums. Fortunately, this hasn't hindered her from making friends. Once she's cast, she tries to shed this trope and winds up going a completely different direction.
- Sock Puppet: Uses these sorts of accounts constantly as part of an ongoing mission to study people's reactions. Her sock puppets can be of any age or gender, and some of them can get quite elaborate.
- Southern Belle: Her fanservice costume, which comes with a wide-brimmed hat and a fluffy white dress.
- Stanford Prison Experiment: Her backstory names this as one of the aspects of human behaviour that fascinates her.
- Statuesque Stunner: Stands at 5'9", with a rail-thin frame.
- Talkative Loon: Lark's initial panic attack when she notices her collar for the first time takes the form of a disconnected series of intrusive thoughts. Topics range from cooking tacos with her dad to not having enough rum to wondering what it would feel like to bash someone's head in with a sackful of ball bearings. Her dialogue isn't much better in this regard.
Claudia's Krakens
CK Mentor: The Sellout
"Hope y'all are ready for the sequel."
- Calacas: After releasing her Sugarskull EP, she updated her face makeup to resemble a calavera.
- Dressed to Plunder: As the mentor of Claudia's Krakens, she has once again retooled her outfit with a bandana and a few pirate-themed accessories. It's downplayed, however, compared to her fellow mentor Stephanie Cahill.
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Dye Hard: Her hair isn't naturally black. - Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Actively cultivates this look with Excessive Evil Eyeshadow.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Because of her Shameless Self-Promoter tendencies, she's not well-liked among the contestants. Two of the Krakens openly insult her, even after learning she can listen in on their conversations.
- I Am the Band: Originally the face for the Born Ghouls, Claudia ended up ousting her previous bandmates and shunting their replacements to the background in pursuit of greater fame.
- Lean and Mean: Very slim and very egotistical.
- Meaningful Rename: Originally born Claudia Stewart, she legally changed to her Stage Name after becoming a star.
- Shameless Self-Promoter: This woman will take any opportunity for more time in the spotlight, even cozy up to the staff of an Immoral Reality Show and write songs about the contestants!
- Statuesque Stunner: Stands at 6'2" normally, and even taller in heels!
- Undeathly Pallor: Claudia is still very much alive, but her macabre makeup is meant to give off this impression.
CK01: Kurt Thorne
CK01: Kurt Thorne
Designated Weapon: Zip Ties
Mentor's Comment: You like Halloween, I like Halloween, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. If you...you know...survive."
CK02: Xander Miles
CK02: Xander Miles
Designated Weapon: Steel Chair
Mentor's Comment: "Okay this is good, two guys who are already teammates and are both in good shape, we can work with this. Cheese club is weird and all but we can work with it. Honestly if we organise this team properly we can have a good chance of victory. Just think about it for a second, this guy is kind of already a leader so we could find a pair of kids by themselves having a nice chat and set up around them and then-wait a minute is that?
Bah gawd! It's Xander with the steel chair!"
- Academic Athlete: On top of his achievements on the soccer field, his grades are near-perfect.
- Berserk Button: Don't talk to him about Emmy if you know what's good for you. He's still hurting inside.
- Celebrity Crush: On In-Universe celebrity and SOTF contestant Kenny Yamana, among others.
- Chairman of the Brawl: His weapon is a good old-fashioned steel chair.
- Closet Geek: Xander secretly reads a lot of fanfiction, especially SOTF-TV fanfiction. Apparently, his favorites
ship contestants with the reader. - Cowardly Lion: Although he's understandably terrified when he sees Ivan strung up like a piñata, he still urges Rhonda to shoot the rope and help him down.
- Disappeared Dad: Even Xander's mother doesn't know who his dad is, since he was conceived while both of them were drunk.
- Gayngst: His early high school years were spent painfully repressed, thanks to his mother and grandmother. Then Emmy Soon came out...
- Gentle Giant: Stands at an impressive 6'4", and he's a pretty nice guy. To drive the point home, his biography name-drops this trope.
- I'm Standing Right Here: He and Rhonda both start trashing Claudia Ghoul the instant she tunes in to their conversation.
- Lovable Jock: He is the current captain of the soccer club, and is quite popular with his peers.
- Love Hurts: Developed an attraction to the then-captain of the soccer team, Emmy Soon, that became complicated when she came out as a trans woman and left the team, leaving him confused and hurt over his feelings as a gay man.
- Manly Gay: A big, muscular, gay soccer player without stereotypical gay traits. It surprised his mother quite a bit when he came out.
- Mentor Ship: Nothing came of it, but Xander developed a crush on his coach, Mr. Black, at the age of 13.
- Perma-Stubble: Likes the way his stubble looks, and so he keeps it.
- The Quiet One: A soft-spoken, secretive, Emotionally Tongue-Tied man. It took him weeks to overcome this trait and become an effective leader once he became the soccer team's captain.
- Racist Grandma: Well, Religiously Homophobic Grandma. Fortunately, now that he's out of the closet, this trope is subverted. She fully supports her grandson, especially since he still wants to have kids.
- Say My Name: Dies screaming Emmy's name.
- School Clubs Are Serious Business: He's the founder of Mangrove Garden High School's Cheese Club, which brings various different cheeses for the group to discuss and rate on a list. Currently, 43 entries have been rated.
- Sketchy Successor: Began as one of these after Emmy quit the soccer team. Ultimately subverted when he works through his quietness and almost leads his teammates to the championship.
- Torso with a View: He's shot clean through the chest with Rhonda's Sawed-Off Shotgun when she tries to stop Giselle from attacking him.
- You Are in Command Now: Became the captain of the soccer team after Emmy quit. He... struggles.
CK03: Leslie Lowell
CK03: Leslie Marinus Lowell
Designated Weapon: Sedgley Glove Gun
Mentor's Comment: Awww yeah, a big ol' farm boy, okay so he's not that big, but he's still a farm boy which means he's gonna be strong. It doesn't matter if he can't talk worth a damn, if anyone tries something he doesn't like he can just punch them and shoot them at the same time and that is pretty fucking cool."
- Abusive Parents: His mother, an emotionally volatile woman who is hyper-critical of her son for the slightest mistakes.
- Alliterative Name: Leslie Lowell.
- All of the Other Reindeer: In his younger years, he was bullied for his short height and his shyness.
- Angrish: Lets out a Cluster F-Bomb when a giant cheese wheel lands on his toe.
- Big Eater: He often overeats, and it's a big reason why he's put on so much weight.
- Death Glare: His reaction when Timothy is too busy staring at girls to move the lunch line forward. Supposedly, he prefers this method to addressing problems directly.
- Death Seeker: Refuses to put on his bandanna at first, forcing the producers to threaten to blow his collar and kill him. He ends up getting what he wants later on when he asks Matias to shoot him on the first night.Leslie: "...Look. I'm out. I'm either offing myself or gettin' someone to do it for me tonight. I'm giving you a golden opportunity that goes with what we all want, but I'm also askin' ya as a friend. If you wanna go home so bad, then help me out. If not... I dunno. I'll wait for someone who will."
- Disappeared Dad: His father is a truck driver who regularly hauls goods across the country, making him this trope by the very nature of his job. After the divorce, their relationship improved considerably.
- Do Well, But Not Perfect: His performance on the Mangrove Garden High School entrance exam was intended to be this, so he could satisfy his mother without having to change schools. This came back to bite him, as he still scored highly enough to enroll with a scholarship.
- Funetik Aksent: His thoughts and dialogue are peppered with a distinctly Southern twang here and there.
- Game of Nerds: Averted. He's a fan of football, not baseball.
- Gender-Blender Name: "Leslie" is also a girl's name.
- Height Angst: A more resigned example than usual, but he's been bullied about his height in the past. His Inner Monologue often grumbles about being shorter than some of the girls.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Laments that even if he wins, he'll never have any privacy, which flies in the face of his humble aspirations. When he realizes he can't get that no matter what he does, he's Driven to Suicide.
- Perpetual Frowner: Through no fault of his own. He just has the Face of a Thug.
- The Quiet One: Doesn't talk much, preferring to keep his thoughts to himself. In the event that he does speak, he often has to repeat himself because he's so hesitant.
- Safety in Indifference: His attitude towards making friends boils down to this trope.
- The Stoic: Even his Body Language is free of all emotion!
- Stout Strength: He's much stronger than his bulk would have you believe, if only because he's spent the past few years working outside.
- Talk About the Weather: How he starts talking to Mary and Verity in one of the pre-game scenarios.
- Tiny Schoolboy: A senior in high school, but he's only 5'3". His biography explicitly notes that he's one of the shortest boys at Mangrove Garden.
- Workaholic: Although he doesn't participate in extracurriculars, he'll take any odd job he can in order to get away from home.
CK04: Cassini Evans
CK04: Cassini Evans
Designated Weapon: Jar of Live Leeches
Mentor's Comment: I mean...well...hmmm...yep. I guess you can throw it at someone and hope it grosses them out so much they die? Maybe she should just try and meet up with the rest of the team and figure it out from there? That's a rough draw fam.
- A-Cup Angst: Cassini often finds herself intimidated by Florida beach bods, and she wishes she could have grown up to look like the buxom Cressida. Unsurprisingly, drawing attention to her figure serves as a big Berserk Button for her.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Bullied at the start of middle school for her unfashionable clothes and her Girl Scout membership. She didn't take it lying down.
- Astrologer: An amateur example. Cassini reads her horoscope every day, blames other people's actions on their zodiac signs, and passionately debates those who claim astrology has no basis in fact.
- Attention Whore: Dresses in bright, flashy T-shirts and bleaches part of her hair. Her biography notes that her fashion sense "strives to be seen".
- The Dog Bites Back: Argued back against her bullies after she couldn't take it anymore, which ended up disrupting class to the point where a guidance counselor had to step in.
- Granola Girl: Has shades of this trope. She's a big believer in the zodiac, and she plans on going into environmental science when she goes to college.
- Handbag of Hurt: Attempts to use her backpack as an Improvised Weapon against Junji. It doesn't really work.
- Hates Their Parent: Hardly ever talks to her Maternally Challenged mother, thanks to her extremely irresponsible and neglectful role in the family.
- Height Angst: Averted. She's much more focused on her lack of outward growth than upward growth.
- Implausible Boarding Skills: She's quite an accomplished skateboarder for her young age.
- Inertial Impalement: In the midst of running away from the Respects, Cassini winds up running herself through with Eric Cunningham's sword.
- Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!: Her weapon is a jar of leeches.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Happens upon Fisk and Vasily after her encounter with Junji. When Seth shows up on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge and dies for it, Cassini wisely decides to get the hell out of there.
- Missing Mom: Cassini's mother was an irresponsible woman and remained largely absent from her life. Instead, she and her siblings were raised by their grandmother.
- The Napoleon: Downplayed, but Cassini has a lot of pluck and attitude for a girl her height.Junji Yamada: "You know, you've got a real fucking smart mouth for such a tiny bitch."
- Older Than They Look: Cassini stands at only 4'11", with a babyface and a rather boyish build. As such, she looks more like an older elementary school student or younger middle-schooler than a high school junior. She wears makeup to try and avert this, but it's still there.
- Paper Cutting: Junji's big, scary knife only ends up grazing her cheek.
- Sassy Black Woman: Has a big voice, with a lively personality to match. There's also her response to the kids who bullied her back in Arkansas...
- Scout-Out: Although forcibly enrolled into the Girl Scouts as a child, Cassini quickly grew to love being a member... until she had to move to Miami.
- You're Not My Mother: She's not the one to say this. It's her big sister Cressida who mentally disowns their mom for abandoning the family. In turn, Cressida gets Promoted to Parent when their grandmother suffers a stroke.
CK05: Seo-yun Lee
CK05: Seo-yun Lee
Designated Weapon: Bag of Powdered Ghost Peppers
Mentor's Comment: You need to throw that shit directly in someone's face then kick them in the dick, it'd be sweet. On top of that is a good suite of advantages as long as she doesn't buckle under the pressure of the game and fall to pieces, which wouldn't be an ideal scenario, but I have faith, I believe in the ghost pepper girl. GPG all day baby.
- Attention Whore: To the point where her first reaction upon being cast for SOTF was being ecstatic that she is on national television.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: A friendly and seemingly cheerful girl who has manipulative and narcissistic tendencies.
- Social Climber: One of the most popular students in the class.
CK06: Dale Hawthorne
CK06: Dale Hawthorne
Designated Weapon: Complete Set Of Team Bandannas From Season 66
Mentor's Comment: "An actor with a full set of team bandannas, I smell characters! But for real though that's a useful draw you could pretend to be in any team you wanted and blend in until the time is right to strike.
Huh?"
"The bandannas are from last season."
"What? Oh, shit. I guess I can't read."
- Badass Boast: Gives Rebecca one hell of a threatening monologue as he tries to strangle her to death...Dale: "It's almost over. Bet you wish you had listened to us talk about Little Shop instead of trying to kill us. If you did, then you would realize that I'm not just an extra in this show. I'm the goddamn Daniel Day Lewis of our class, and you get to be the recipient of my method acting. So pay attention, Becky, because you're seeing just how sadistic I can act when I really dig deep."
- Boom, Headshot!: ...it's a shame that he dies immediately afterwards.
- Break the Haughty: His character arc in a nutshell, going from self-absorbed child actor to a pathetic, freaked-out mess.
- The Dandy: He's obsessed with following fashion trends, and he places great emphasis on his personal grooming. It helps that his mother knows the Miami fashion scene and helps him pick his outfits.
- Deadpan Snarker: Nearly everything that comes out of Dale's mouth is either a Cluster F-Bomb or a snide remark at someone else's expense.Dale: "Sorry, not interested! Not in the mood for Girl Scout cookies or a new religion right now!"
- Depraved Dentist: Gets to play Dr. Orin Scrivello, the Depraved Dentist, in the Mangrove Garden production of Little Shop of Horrors.
- Driven by Envy: Not him, but he worries that Fisk might try to kill him for taking the villainous role in the School Play after he learns about the Respects.
- Everybody Hates Mathematics: While Dale has a decently high class rank, he gets his poorest grades in math, as he finds it too challenging and too uninteresting to be worth the effort.
- Excellent Judge of Character: He manages to predict Anthony Golden's murderous streak long before it happens.
- Former Child Star: Downplayed, as while he wasn't a star, Dale did appear in a few advertisements and a telenovela when he was six. He continues to act in bit parts to this day, giving him the opportunity to play the negative sides of this trope straight.
- Glory Seeker: Pumps himself up in the middle of practicing his monologue by imagining all the doors that might open for him if he can nail the audition. If that didn't seal the deal, his first thought upon being abducted and forced onto an Immoral Reality Show is worrying that his appearance on reality TV will ruin his acting career.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's as stuck-up and arrogant towards his classmates as he is prone to bouts of self-loathing.
- In-Universe Catharsis: Lashes out at Rebecca for encouraging Junji to shoot at him, threatening to strangle her with his scarf.
- It's All About Me: He has a very low opinion of everyone that is not himself, and he's constantly thinking about himself and advancing his career.
- The Nicknamer: He has several insulting nicknames for people. For example, Alaska is "Baked Alaska" or "Dumbasska", and Laura is "The Laura-biding Citizen".
- The Perfectionist: Justified, as he knows full well what it takes to become a famous actor. That said, he does put himself through a good bit of verbal abuse...
- The Prima Donna: He's rather full of himself and critical of others' work due to his prior acting experience. As he matured, he began directing some of his criticism inward.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Makes himself one out of all the bandanas he's been given as a so-called "weapon".
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: His biography notes that he's quite foul-mouthed when he gets into a bad mood. Even in pregame, he's cursing out Laura for spilling her drink on his table and swearing at himself for not living up to his standards as an actor.
- Skewed Priorities: Dale seemingly prizes his future as an actor above his own survival instincts. In the panic that ensues after Gus's death, he starts worrying that the shooter is more popular than him!
- Spoiled Brat: Had shades of this as a kid, as he'd get a reward whenever he landed an acting role and he tended to lord his fame over his classmates.
- Stage Mom: Both of his parents are actors, and they pushed him and his two siblings towards the same career. Dale is the only one who has continued to stick with acting up until his teenage years, so he's the golden child of the family.
- Tears of Fear: His eyes grow watery at the sight of Gus Thicke getting shot in the head. It quickly escalates into a full-blown panic attack that sends tears streaking down his pretty face.
- Teen Idol: While he isn't one, he's auditioning to play one on television by the name of Mateo de la Trinidad. From what we see of the character in pregame, he's quite flirtatious.
CK07: Lucia Cuevas Valdez
CK07: Lucia Cuevas Valdez
Designated Weapon: Meat Cleaver
Mentor's Comment: "Decapitataz means we aim for your neck, axes and machetes used to hack when we attack, crack goes your collarbone, crack goes your spine, head will roll like a bowling ball and your body'll fall behind.
Hope that doesn't get hit for copyright anyway, this girl has martial arts experience and a meat cleaver. That's a match made in heaven."
- Cool Big Sis: Plays this towards some of the younger students.
- Lesbian Jock: Of the martial artist variety.
CK08: James Highchurch
CK08: James Highchurch
Designated Weapon: Marine Corps Officers' Mameluke Sword
Mentor's Comment: "I'm very sad it's not a pirate cutless to be honest. But hey he can put that tennis or golf swing to good use I guess. I assume those skills can be applied to swinging a sword right? It can't be that hard. That said I am loving the amount of sporty kids I'm getting this season."
- Evil Is Petty: Steals one of Ivan's shoes whilst his group is beating him down.
CK09: RJ Blackburn
CK09: Ra Jin “RJ” Blackburn
Designated Weapon: De Lisle Carbine
Mentor's Comment: "I will be ragin' if Ra Jin doesn't get to use that gun. But as long as he sticks to the tropes of the movies he's found of he should do well. Plus plus, he likes the same movies as me and that makes him cool in my book. I'm rooting for you buddy, do it for Jason."
CK10: Rhonda Rollins
CK10: Rhonda Rollins
Designated Weapon: Zabala 10 Gauge Shotgun
Mentor's Comment: "Aww give me a hell yeah, Rhonda here is going to curb stomp the opposition and put them in an armbar to make them rest in piece and that's the bottom line 'cause Claudia Ghoul said so. Also, I am ninety-nine percent sure this girl got assigned the super-shotgun from Doom."
CK11: Gustavo Thicke
CK11: Gustavo Thicke
Designated Weapon: Cutlass
Mentor's Comment: Gustavo is not thick and also likes Weezer, so we're already behind the 8-ball here and wait a minute he has a cutlass! Fuck that, we're gold baby, a winner is us, let's do some pirate shit! Fuck yeah!"
- Blatant Lies: "Soy un árbol."
- Book Smart: He's one of the highest achievers in all of Mangrove Garden, and he's there on a merit scholarship to boot.
- Boom, Headshot!: Gets an Instant Death Bullet to the face courtesy of Eric Cunningham the second time they meet.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: The minute his parents limited him to an hour of Pokémon per day, Gus pulled himself together enough to get straight As. As a high schooler, he's now among Mangrove Garden's top 20 students!
- The Caretaker: When he's not studying or playing Pokémon, he's volunteering at a local retirement home.
- Cavalier Competitor: Has a very friendly attitude towards playing soccer, which ended up alienating him as the games themselves became much more competitive.
- Delicious Daydream: Gets one of these upon seeing a giant cheese wheel, and promptly gives it The Glomp.
- Ditzy Genius: Gus might be Book Smart, but his survival instincts - namely, pretending to be a tree and hoping nobody will steal his things - leave much to be desired.
- Education Mama: Downplayed, but when his parents realized he was failing his classes thanks to too much Pokémon, they limited him to only one hour of gaming per day.
- Evil Stole My Faith: Stopped believing in the Catholic Church when its creationist beliefs conflicted with his belief in evolution. He still attends church with his family, but he remains an atheist in private.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: His eyes are described as having "a tired, sad, empty look", implying this trope.
- Friendless Background: He's a nice enough guy, but Intelligence Equals Isolation, so he's never had any especially close friends.
- Going Commando: Ends up doing this once he gets a change of clothes, because his underwear was unpleasantly soaked.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Assumes that Junji Yamada is a nice person, even after hearing him call Stokes a bitch.
- The Insomniac: Implied. Before the game, he kept himself up late studying for a biology exam... two weeks in advance!
- Just One More Level!: In his youth, he was known to play Pokémon instead of studying, which led to some seriously bad grades.
- Muscle Angst: Tends to get this around boys who are stronger than him, like Eric and Jasper.
- Naked People Are Funny: After losing his tree costume, he's left with only his underwear and a Modesty Towel.
- Nervous Wreck: Gus has a general lack of confidence around others, and when not Playing a Tree, he tends to stammer all over himself.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: Tries this early on with his costume. It doesn't pan out well for him.
- Penny Among Diamonds: Especially compared to some of his classmates, Gustavo comes from a decidedly working-class background. Best illustrated when he accidentally breaks the action figure he was going to give Fernando for his birthday.
- Playing a Tree: Parodied. His fanservice costume has him dressed up as a tree. When he realizes this, his first instinct is to play the role to the hilt and deny he is anything but a harmless tree.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Comedic Ditzy Geniuses like Gus don't generally last long, and true to form, he doesn't even make the top 60.
- Teeth Flying: When he's pistol-whipped out of character as a tree, he loses a tooth in the process.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Curls into this pose for warmth after he's knocked into the water and forced to remove his tree costume.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With his little brother Fernando.
Emmy's Selkies
ES Mentor: The Schoolmate
"I know these guys better than anyone. They're my friends."
- Big Man on Campus: Was the popular captain of the soccer team before coming out as transgender, which cost her much of her popularity at school.
- Coming-Out Story: Came out during her sophomore year at Mangrove Garden High School.
- Forced into Evil: Originally one of the contestants' classmates, Emmy Got Volunteered to be one of the mentors for SOTF, and she's far from happy about it.
- Forced into Their Sunday Best: Her promotional outfit was "heavily begrudged", and she absolutely loathes wearing it.
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Has a well-defined jawline, and she's an otherwise good person, mentor status notwithstanding.
- Strongly Worded Letter:(regarding Papi Rodriguez's podcast) "...I rated him one star."
- Survivor Guilt: As one of the mentors this season, Emmy was spared having to participate in the show. She's a bit torn up about it].
- Trans Tribulations: Lost many of her friends after coming out, which didn't help her struggles with depression.
- Underdressed for the Occasion: Wears baggy sweatpants in lieu of her promotional outfit, which she hates.
ES01: Alaska Ferguson
ES01: Alaska Ferguson
Designated Weapon: Flathead Screwdriver
Mentor's Comment: Alaska is
She'll
Alaska has"
Emmy got up and left so your main man MarWIN is up to the plate. So, Alaska. Knowing the show is always a plus but unless she gets motivated in a hurry, she's a no hoper. Even if she does, it's still uphill from there: she's relying on the right mentality and the right support. Good luck with that!"
ES02: Giselle Filmore
ES02: Giselle Filmore
Designated Weapon: Titanic-Shaped Ice Cube Mold
Mentor's Comment: "MarWIN here. lol imagine getting your best advantage from something you hate. Hey you know what is a great combination? Bad impulse control and a chip on your shoulder while dealing with people who don't like you. She's about as sunk as her weapon draw, in fact, she'll probably be gone before she manages to freeze enough of a ship to sink."
- Bad Guys Play Pool: Well, snooker.
- Cool Uncle: Her uncle Cave would babysit her while her parents were at work. By all accounts, he was a Nice Guy who introduced her to jazz.
- Creepy Jazz Music: A big fan of jazz and swing music who soon becomes a member of the Respects.
- Deadpan Snarker: Oh yes. Just listen to what she thinks of the announcements!Giselle: "Howdilly-doodilly, up and at 'em! Good morning, kidlets! My name is Rhiannon Durrett and I'm your host for this morning, but most of you might know me under my cooler name Ritzy Daggers, a name I chose to pick because I wouldn't be an interesting person otherwise. Don't get me wrong, I am actually super boring! But not to the audience, anymore! My whole image is fabricated by a marketing team to appeal to younger audiences and I'm always talking excited like this, and never get out of breath, yippie! In real life I'm not actually this enthusiastic, I'm actually a super boring person who has no personality whatsoever. I used to run a decent radio show, but decided to switch from DJing to the virtuous job of making tasteless jokes at the expense of dead kids. I got this job by being better than an old senile man, who probably got Alzheimer's, so the standard requirements of getting this job are very, very high. Now I'm a rich superstar who doesn't need to work hard, because all my bad jokes are written by a staff of writers. I'm Ritzy Daggers and I love money over everything! I'm the prime example of the piece of shit person who turns to SOTF-TV for money!"
- Defector from Decadence: Once a fan of the show who happily watched it with her parents, Giselle found her way to anti-SOTF videos online and has since become one of its vocal opponents.
- Dirty Coward: At first, it seems like Giselle joined the Respects in order to join up with her Childhood Friends. As the game goes on, it becomes more obvious that she joined them just to save her own hide.
- Does Not Like Men: Downplayed, but her Inner Monologue notes with disgust that teenage boys would enjoy reading a comic book about a previous contestant's death.
- Everyone Hates Mathematics: Inverted, Giselle loves math. Instead, she finds herself bored by softer subjects like history.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Giselle might hate SOTF on moral grounds, but the way she goes about speaking out against it isn't the best. She's not great at arguing, and winds up hurling insults instead. And then there's what happens in the game itself...
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, she might be an arrogant asshole, but much of what she does before being cast is meant to speak out against a vicious, widely popular Deadly Game.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Much of what she does after being cast, on the other hand...
- Hypocrite: After betraying and assaulting Ivan until near-death, she then has the audacity to say...Giselle: "Hey, Ivan, you idiot. You got the wrong person. Look at my bandana. I'm your teammate."
- Knight Templar: Devolves into one of these almost immediately after she's cast when she helps the Respects beat Ivan senseless. Then she invokes You Will Be Spared, and then she steals his wallet!
- Laser-Guided Karma: Tries to extort a dying Ivan. The next day, she's killed by him.
- Lured into a Trap: Attempts to lure Xander and Rhonda to the cruise ship so the Respects can kill them. Later, she tries the same thing on Ivan.
- Malevolent Masked Woman: She wears a mask as a member of the Respects.
- No Sympathy: When Bacchia runs Calla through in front of her, Giselle's first reaction is to snark about it. The compassion she later shows is condescending at best.Giselle: "Another fan dead on their favorite show. How tragic."
- The Prima Donna: Even though she doesn't have much acting experience, it doesn't stop her from arrogantly criticizing her classmates on the set. The only other person she shows any respect for is the director, and even that is debatable!
- Propaganda Piece: Programs short anti-SOTF games in her spare time. Before she was cast, she was planning to release a more elaborate game, meant as a Deconstruction of the Immoral Reality Show.
- Rationalizing the Overkill: Double Subverted. While she initially takes some pleasure in beating the shit out of Ivan, she has second thoughts after taking a look through his wallet and realizing she might have killed a man who didn't know any better. But when Anthony presses her, Giselle doubles down and tells him Ivan deserved what happened to him.
- Robbing the Dead: Slightly downplayed in that Ivan survives, but Giselle steals Ivan's wallet after he passes out from taking the Respects' No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Sinister Shades: Giselle was cast while wearing a pair of reflecting sunglasses, and while not exactly evil, she quickly joins the Respects.
- Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Girl: One one occasion, Giselle jumps up on stage during a SOTF convention to protest against the convention itself.Giselle: "NONE OF THE WINNERS PROFIT FROM THIS CONVENTION, ONLY THE PRODUC—"
- Small Name, Big Ego: Acts self-righteous to the extreme, just because she's one of the few Defectors from Decadence in her class.
- Smug Snake: As a member of the Respects, Giselle graduates from a run-of-the-mill arrogant jerk to this trope. She even considers some of her own allies idiots.
- Spoiled Brat: A spoiled child who grew up to become an impulsive and rather unpleasant Jerkass, and then an outright villain.
- Starter Villain: She's the first member of the Respects to die.
- The Stoic: Purposefully invokes this trope, because showing any emotion would be giving the producers what they want.
- Turncoat: Attacks Ivan Rodriguez, her own teammate, immediately after starting the game. This is for three reasons: she thinks Ivan really had it coming, her friends Fisk and James were right there, and the only reason teams existed in the first place was because SOTF is Jumping the Shark.
- You Will Be Spared: Tells Ivan she'll give him a painless death if he divulges his father's personal information, so that Papi cannot use his podcast to profit from Ivan's demise.
ES03: Cory Cartwright
ES03: Cory Cartwright
Designated Weapon: Diving Knife
Mentor's Comment: No I—I can do it.
Cory's quiet. I learned more about him from reading all of this than I ever knew about him from school. What I do know is that he's a nice person, and he has a team. I'm not going to let anyone forget about him.
- Bookworm: Cory is an avid reader, with mystery novels being a particular favorite of his.
- Most Writers Are Writers: He writes his own short stories, though he lacks the confidence to show them to others.
- Smart People Play Chess: A member of the Chess Club who scores highly in his classes.
ES04: Leonard "Leo" Kenter
ES04: Leonard "Leo" Kenter
Designated Weapon: Scuba Gear
Mentor's Comment: "I guess if there's any place to try and dive, it's this?
Um. Leo and I played together, but it was only briefly. He's focused and calm, and I don't think he'll want to kill. That's, that's good. I don't want any of us to kill."
- Afraid of Blood: Gets very squeamish at the sight of gore.
- Camera Fiend: Often spaces out while trying to get the perfect nature photo. He even considers photographing his friends.
- The Dandy: He's rather obsessed with his appearance, showering and shaving every day, slicking his hair back with gel, and making sure his outfit matches.
- Embarrassing First Name: He thinks "Leonard" sounds a bit stupid. This trait helps him bond with his upperclassman, fellow writer, and eventual killer RJ Blackburn.
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Leo's father tried to get him to play outside when he was a young, sensitive elementary-schooler. He eventually succeeded in forcing Leo to play soccer, which the boy reluctantly does to keep his father happy.
- Last Grasp at Life: Dies while reaching for RJ's shirt.
- Momma's Boy: Leo is much closer to his supportive stay-at-home mom than his comparatively distant dad. He shows her his nature photographs whenever he can.
- Most Writers Are Writers: Is a writer in his spare time, due in part to his mother and uncle's influence, and had been working on a book for a while by the time he got kidnapped.
- Nature Lover: Once his mom could successfully coax him out of the house, his love of photography blossomed into a love of being outside in nature.
- Never Be Hurt Again: Leo resolves to never let Seo-yun flaunt her power over him again after attacking him in cold blood.
- Poor Communication Kills: He shouts out for his friend RJ when he spots him in the distance. Unfortunately, that distance is... too distant, and RJ shoots at the source of the noise.
- Sheathe Your Sword: Plans to escape SOTF-TV by waiting for the Blood Knights of Mangrove Garden to punch themselves out.
- Shrinking Violet: Was this in elementary school, and he's still rather soft-spoken.
- Sickening "Crunch!": Seo-yun shows her true colors by breaking his arm with a frying pan. The impact makes a distinctive, nasty cracking sound.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Was raised to be a pacifist by his mother, and holds to those beliefs very strongly. He doesn't like SOTF-TV for this reason.
ES05: Dieffenbachia Rubus
ES05: Dieffenbachia 'Bacchia' Rubus
Designated Weapon: Dummy Grenade
Mentor's Comment: Bacchia is a big TV fan, and... and she um, she's good to talk to about music and subculture, and... l-look I know you want me to talk about the game it's just... I just...
Fine. Fine. Bacchia knows a lot, she's smart, she can... do a good job.
Is that enough?
- Ascended Fan: Bacchia loves SOTF, to the point of being incredibly defensive about the show. When she actually does enter the game, she immediately becomes a player.
- Goth: Has the look, and also loves gothic art, Dark Fantasy literature, and horror FX makeup.
- Passive Aggressive Combat: She's generally described as someone who will insult you with a polite smile on her face.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Fits this to a T.
- The Bully: Became more mean-spirited to her classmates when high school started.
ES06: Timothy Torales
ES06: Timothy Theodore Lobangco Torales
Designated Weapon: Glock 18c
Mentor's Comment: This feels really invasive. No I—look I really don't want to know how you find things out. Um. I don't want Timothy to accept defeat, I think that, I hope that I can keep motivation and attention high. Don't give up, okay?
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Is he a closeted trans girl, or is he simply a feminine Cross Player? The fact that he came out to his parents and retracted it only heightens the ambiguity.
- Cloudcuckoolander: His internal thoughts tend to go off on bizarre tangents, like examining the lines of his palms and making up metaphors he ends up messing up.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: An aspiring fashion designer with a strong interest in women's clothing... who dresses like a Rummage Sale Reject.
- Forgetful Jones: Often forgets his appointments and homework assignments, much to his mother's chagrin.
- G.I.R.L.: His MMORPG characters are typically female, and he gets into his role pretty extensively.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Puts himself down near-constantly in his own thoughts.
- Insufferable Genius: Preschool-aged Timothy loved to show off his intellect by challenging peers and adults alike to trivia contests, and he threw fits when he lost. When he failed the Mangrove Garden entrance exam, he took it hard.
- Just Ignore It: His go-to response to most of his problems in high school, from homework to interactions with peers.
- Occidental Otaku: Used to write fanfiction for obscure anime fandoms, and he roleplayed shounen anime like Attack on Titan with his friends in elementary school.
- The Perfectionist: If he couldn't understand something right away when he was little, he was known to become very surly. He's fortunately mellowed out since then, but he's still quick to fall into a creative slump because of this.
- Periphery Demographic: A fan of Strawberry Shortcake, despite being a teenage boy.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Related to these sorts of characters growing up.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Tim doesn't have much of a grasp on how to dress himself. His outfit on Casting Day was an oversized grey and blue windbreaker, a Strawberry Shortcake hat, a pink T-shirt, and jeans.
- Speaks in Shout-Outs: Or, well, thinks in them.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's pushed off the cruise ship by Verity, becoming the very first contestant to die.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Wholesome Cross Player, to be precise. He's an alright person who loves to dress femininely.
ES07: Laurence Clifford
ES07: Laurence Clifford
Designated Weapon: Buckler
Mentor's Comment: You don't really notice how big Laurence is until you're standing next to him. Hopefully he scares anyone off that is thinking of doing anything they'll regret, and then we can get the team together, and... and then... yeah.
- Afraid of Blood: Developed severe hemophobia after witnessing video footage of a goat being slaughtered and processed into meat.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Laurence was bullied mercilessly throughout his childhood for his weight and social awkwardness, to the point where he had to transfer out of his high school and attend Mangrove Garden. Of course, that turns out to be an even worse option...
- All Women Love Shoes: Gender Inverted. Laurence's job at a shoe store has helped him amass a rather large collection of sneakers and other footwear for a boy his age.
- Appropriated Appellation: He calls himself "Sir Laurence", which was once used to make fun of him, as part of a coping mechanism to deal with the stress of being cast.
- Black and Nerdy: He's a huge history buff and a fan of role-playing games. To drive the point home, his hoodie shows a stereotypical Medieval European Fantasy scene featuring heroes, elves, and goblins.
- Formerly Fat: Downplayed, as he's gone from overweight to simply bulky.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Out of admiration for medieval knights and out of a desire to lose weight, he taught himself Historical European Martial Arts and is quite handy with a sword. On SOTF proper, however, he's assigned a shield instead.
- Heroic Wannabe: A more idealistic and less corrupt example compared to Anthony Golden. Laurence idolizes the heroic knights of old and seeks to emulate them, but this doesn't pan out for him on national television. He's killed off before the halfway point of the Deadly Game.
- I Call It "Vera": He names his buckler "Sir Wilson".
- In-Series Nickname: He's sometimes given the nickname "Sir Laurence" as a way to make fun of his hobbies. In the Deadly Game, he takes it for himself to help him rationalize his way through the situation.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Well, he fancies himself one, at least. He's far too awkward to actually pull it off.
- Stout Strength: He's a practitioner of Historical European martial arts, which allowed him to slim down considerably from his old overweight self while keeping some of his physique.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: His mother's family did not approve of her marrying her husband Donovan. As a result, they're far less present in Laurence's life than his paternal relatives.
- Mr. Imagination: As soon as he's kidnapped and forced to take part in the Immoral Reality Show, he motivates himself with protracted Imagine Spots where he dreams he really is a medieval knight. Later on, this delusion escalates, and he starts checking himself on a status screen. He even dies during one, appropriately titled his "Final Fantasy".
- My Beloved Smother: His mother, Rachel, is rather overprotective of him. It's through her influence that he got his current job in a shoe store.
- My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Due to his great love of history, he's taken a dim view of the United States and similar developed countries for their past imperialism and other flaws.
- No Social Skills: Which led to much bullying at the hands of his classmates. In the game itself, he's constantly tripping over his own words, in stark contrast to the knightly persona in his head.
- The Quiet One: As a child, he was mistaken for an Elective Mute, preferring to keep to himself and read books.
- Shrinking Violet: A shy, bookish, introverted boy who Cannot Spit It Out in front of his crushes no matter how he might imagine grand romantic gestures in his head.
- Sudden Game Interface: Parodied, as he's not actually seeing one at all. He's just imagining one as part of his "Sir Laurence" schtick. His encounter with Mariko plays out from his perspective like a Boss Battle in an Eastern RPG.
- Tsundere: "Sir Laurence" wants to "parley" with his fellow students, but not because he's lonely or anything! In practice, however, he's more of a Dandere.
- Twofer Token Minority: He's half-Jamaican, half-Sephardic Jewish, and he identifies himself with both of his heritages.
ES08: Genevieve Erickson
ES08: Genevieve Erickson
Designated Weapon: Colt 1911A1 Air Pistol
Mentor's Comment: It's okay not to stand out. Actually, um, given where you are, I'd prefer it. It's okay to run away, too. If that's how you stay safe, then that's totally fine. Better than the alternative.
ES09: Sylvain Kessler
ES09: Sylvain Nicholas Kessler
Designated Weapon: Car Battery and Jumper Cables
Mentor's Comment: Oh.
No, um.
I... I'll try my best with Sylvain. He's hard to describe. Um. He's Sylvain. If he can keep from getting carried away then...then he won't be shooting himself in the foot, at least?
ES10: Akeno Kudo
ES10: Akeno Kudo
Designated Weapon: Wire Garotte
Mentor's Comment: Akeno's really cool, really dedicated. She should be able to keep herself safe if she needs to, and without doing anyone any permanent damage. Just try to keep a cool head, okay? I'm here, we can talk if you need, and then we can work things out for you, for everyone.
- I Know Karate: Practices karate at a karate studio in her spare time, and participates in karate tournaments that her father drives her to.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Being attacked by Maxine Schwimmer and Sergio Gallo and having a conversation with her mentor afterward convinces Akeno to become a player and go for the ten kill release.
- Sibling Rivalry: Has an undercurrent of this with her brother, who gets praised for his achievements whilst she gets ignored.
ES11: Olivia del Rio
ES11: Olivia del Rio
Designated Weapon: Ten Kills, One Life by Jewel Evans
Mentor's Comment: Everyone could use somebody to help keep their spirits up right now.
Maybe the book will help work as a reminder to not lose her temper? Um. Not, not that she should do what Jewel did, but... oh forget it.
- Genki Girl: Social, cheerful and energetic.
- My Hair Came Out Green: Dyed her hair by herself the day before sixth grade began, and fried the strands so badly that she had to get an emergency haircut and cover it up with a cap.
- Serious Business: Downplayed example; she is very competitive about lacrosse and shows up to practice even when she's sick or injured.
- [Verb] This!: When she faces down Fisk on the final day.Fisk Bateman: Hehehehe... Make a fool of me, eh? Well get ready, coz I’m about to make a horror show of you lot!Olivia del Rio: Horror show this, asshole!
ES12: Ivan Rodriguez
ES12: Ivan Rodriguez
Designated Weapon: Novelty War Pick
Mentor's Comment: Ivan knows most of what there is to know about TV so he should I guess be able to translate that into not making bad moves. Maybe he knows enough to help them get out...
Am I finished? Can I be done? Great. Great... okay."
- Calling the Old Man Out: Ivan bsolutely rips into his dad when he finds out from Emmy that Papi Rodriguez has been pumping out more podcast episodes than ever to exploit Ivan's casting. Ivan is so furious that he spills his dad's dirty laundry and even his passwords live on air.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: On the bad end of one courtesy of "The Respects".
- Jerkass: Has a noted history for treating people poorly, hurling insults at Verity after being bumped into in the school hallway, and reprimanding others for minor infractions whilst cursing them out.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Suffers from an inflated view of himself to the point of hosting a SOTF quiz entirely to soothe his own ego.
- Unwilling Suspension: Strung up upside down and left for dead after his fight with "The Respects."
Jewel's Leviathans
JL Mentor: The Memoirist
"I know a little bit about how this all works, so I think I can be useful."
- Ax-Crazy: Was believed to be psychotic during TV2 for the extremely vicious and perplexing tactics she used to win the game. It's massively downplayed here, but her overall demeanor is still "unnerving and mercurial".
- Card-Carrying Villain: She has fully embraced the role of a "villainous" SOTF contestant following her victory.
- Evil Is Cool: Jewel certainly thinks so. She idolizes former SOTF "villains", and prior to her win was a passionate fan of the show.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: From the daughter of two grocery store cashiers to a notorious murderess, SOTF champion, author, and mentor.
- Gamer Chick: Among her listed hobbies is video games.
- Goth: Loves listening to gothic music, and her fashion sense is appropriately dark.
- The Host: Subverted. Jewel appealed to SOTF staff to run her own show, but her request was swiftly declined.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Jewel Evans, one of two winners of TV2, returns as one of the mentors.
- Product Placement: Her autobiography Ten Kills, One Life appears among the contestants' weapons.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Wears a black military-style outfit with red accents, and she's a Card-Carrying Villain.
JL01: Nura Husain Al-Tarek
JL01: Nura ‘N’ Husain al-Tarek
Designated Weapon: Colt 1851 Navy
Mentor's Comment: Intelligence is of course one of the most important assets, so we're cooking with gas from the get-go. I suppose physical capabilities are nothing to scoff at either, and it's funny but I find the football thing so much less instinctually revolting when the player is a girl. That aside, stubbornness, a questionable social situation among her peers, and a real penchant for wanton destruction? It's all I could ask for. In this instance, I am very optimistic indeed.
- Big Sister Worship: Nura's older sister Farah was the most rebellious of the six Al-Tarek children. Not coincidentally, she served as Nura's role model growing up.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Ye gods. Authoritarian, controlling adults (especially Faizel and Ibrahim) run in this family like Usain Bolt in a race. It's very telling that Farah and Hana try to get out of the family as soon as humanly possible.
- Constantly Curious: Nura was this as a child, especially when it came to science.
- Evil Uncle: Her uncle Faizel is a serious Control Freak who runs the Al-Tarek house with an iron fist. When he finds out she's associating with Farah in secret, he grounds her indefinitely. When she protests, he slaps her hard enough to draw blood!
- Extracurricular Enthusiast: Pushes herself as hard as possible to exceed both in and outside of school. In her bid to be liked by as many people as possible, Nura cycled through lots of extracurricular activities as a middle-schooler, even though she didn't like many of them.
- Extreme Doormat: Her father Husain is this, bending to Faizel's unreasonable demands and generally not being there for his kids.
- The Fundamentalist: Not her, but the rest of her family. Nura's home is much stricter than those of her other friends despite practicing the same religion. When pressed, her mother invokes No True Scotsman and asks that Nura pay her friends' "Americanized" interpretations of the faith no mind.
- Heroic BSoD: After Faizel attacks her, she's left shellshocked and traumatized for two weeks, at which point she breaks down in tears.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Her stated character motivation. Nura works herself to the bone in school to try for the affection she never received from anyone beyond her sisters, Farah and Hana.
- Kill It with Water: Attempts this on her collar by going for a swim. It doesn't work.
- Mad Scientist: Downplayed quite a bit, but Nura's interest in science means she's already learned most of the in-class material. As a result, she ends up doing whatever the hell she wants in the lab. In her junior year, one of her chemical reactions trips the fire alarm.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: She's the second-youngest of six.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: When she doesn't feel sufficiently engaged, Nura's standard response is to start reading in the middle of class or deviate from the goals of an in-class lab experiment.
- One-Letter Name: Nura also goes by "N", which Farah used as an Affectionate Nickname during their childhood. The jury's out on what this means for her Pokémon.
- Say Your Prayers: As she lays dying, the last thing she does is recite the Shahada.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Nura's immediate response to becoming a part of the show is to make an escape attempt.
- Teach Her Anger: Farah encouraged an eight-year-old Nura to stand up for herself against a pair of bullies, which ends up getting them both in trouble when N punches one of the bullies in the stomach.
- Unexpected Character: Wasn't submitted through the normal application process.
JL02: Luciano Ascencio
JL02: Luciano 'Space Cadet' Ascencio
Designated Weapon: Dacian Falx
Mentor's Comment: If you're going to go monochrome with a splash of red, why pick grey? He's so close to something almost approaching a facsimile of fashionable, though a tracksuit always has that I-couldn't-manage-anything-better vibe to it. Ugh.
Well, that aside, I see some things I like. Drive is the most important attribute. I can work with someone who knows what he wants. As to cooperating with anyone else? 'You don't need to work with the team to work for the team, know what I'm saying?'
JL03: Mary Cheung
Jl03: Mary Xueman Cheung
Designated Weapon: Oar
Mentor's Comment: I looked up her Instagram and she is so so pretty. And also a goth, and also a vegetarian? This is, like, she's exactly the sort of person I want to get to know a whole lot better. She's the sort of person I feel like could be, you know, a real actual friend if we met in some other circumstances? She just seems really cool, and, I don't know, that makes me sort of nervous because SOTF isn't about being cool. If it's about anything, it's about holding it together, and that might be harder for her, but I'll do what I can to help. I really mean it.
- Animal Motifs: Rabbits. She has two pet bunnies that she adores, and several of her personal objects are themed around rabbits.
- Goth: Mary's typical aesthetic has elements of this.
- Sad Clown: Her being a Class Clown is essentially a coping mechanism for her being a bullied loner when she was younger, until she reinvented her image. Even now, she still relies on cracking jokes and being quirky to make up for her issues.
JL04: Seth Dunn
JL04: Seth Dunn
Designated Weapon: Small Bag of Cocaine
Mentor's Comment: Well, here's another perfect fit for my ramshackle collection of weirdos and outcasts. Really, I can't think of an assortment I'd feel more comfortable working with. He's not quite as much my type as some of the others, but I think there's room to find common ground—and I think he may have much more of an intuitive understanding of showmanship than even he realizes.
Oh, also, I do wonder if the armorer guy was serious about having a lot more of that cocaine floating around. I've never tried cocaine, and I have to say I'm kind of curious. Is it legal if you're technically not in any country? Questions to ponder at the after-show, I guess.
- Aloof Big Brother: Seth tries his best to act mature and cool for his younger siblings, but this often gets him into fights with his little brother James.
- Annoying Laugh: Well, Seth thinks so, anyway. He's a bit self-conscious of how high his voice gets when he laughs.
- Bullying a Dragon: Which ironically gets him killed by Vasily, Fisk's Dragon.
- Enraged by Idiocy: When someone doesn't understand subjects in school, it really ticks him off. He doesn't do so well in group projects because of this.
- Everyone Hates Mathematics: Math is one of Seth's weakest areas in school. By contrast, History is one of his strongest.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: He doesn't get a lot of sleep on a daily basis, resulting in this trope.
- Geek Physiques: Averted. He's not morbidly obese as would be expected of this trope, only mildly overweight. He's slimmed down since he was in middle school, so it's possible the trope was played straight back then.
- Heroic BSoD: In middle school, where he fell into a deep depression from a bad combination of bullying and puberty. Luckily, his teachers were there to support him through such a trying time.
- It's Personal: Goes after Fisk Bateman after seeing what he and the Respects did to Ivan.
- It's Snowing Cocaine: Assigned as his weapon. Funnily enough, he considers himself Straight Edge.
- Jerkass: Has a low opinion of people outside his friend circle and struggles to hold his frustrations in when dealing with them.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: That doesn't mean he's amoral enough not to avenge Ivan, who's left in a pitiful state after his run-in with the Respects.
- Just One More Level!: Frequently stays up way too late, and it's heavily implied that his addiction to the computer is to blame.
- Most Gamers Are Male: A shining example of the trope, having discovered video games when he was five years old and still playing them right up to the start of the show.
- Most Writers Are Writers: Seth is an aspiring Science Fiction writer, although he also enjoys writing Slice of Life when he's feeling less ambitious.
- Occidental Otaku: Started getting into anime during his middle school years. He now prefers it to Western Animation, even some of its best.
- Too Dumb to Live: After seeing what the Respects were capable of, who in their right mind would expect their leader to travel alone?
JL05: Beau Lively
JL05: Beau Lively
Designated Weapon: Tremendous Spoon
Mentor's Comment: Oh my god, we have the same birthday. That's so weird. I guess it's a point of connection, though? I mean, I have to take what I can get here. This guy is basically my opposite—he's like a little rainbow gnome of positivity and harmlessness. I suppose I like video games too? That counts as common ground, right?
Oh, let's be real: he's totally fucked. This is exactly why I had that spiel about deciding what you want to do with the rest of your life: I can't imagine he's going to want to claw desperately to prolong it, and I think we'll have much more luck making sure his final bow is one to remember instead.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: Asked a friend to help him in committing suicide as he was afraid of being more broken by the show.
- Meaningful Name: As his last name would suggest, Beau is an energetic and enthusiastic person.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: Is very gullible and too trusting of others until he isn't (esp. with Gregory Miller) and then he isn't with others when he goes back to his innocent state of mind.
JL06: Jasper Suárez-King
JL06: Jasper Suárez-King
Designated Weapon: Fishing Gaff
Mentor's Comment: Okay, I have to hand it to him, he's actually hot. Needs to lose the bun, but he's making that whole beach bum aesthetic look more sexy young hotshot and less somebody's drunk middle-aged uncle. And if he's willing and experienced in using that as an asset, all the better. Personally, I'd say he's one of the stronger contenders on paper—knowledge of the show, some martial arts, a deceptive bent, that's all good news.
The thing is, paper potential is only worth what it's printed on. If he comes in strong with the right attitude and a game plan, he may well go far. If he gets distracted fucking around and starts buying his own hype and lets his guard down around some mousy little girl just because she looks harmless, he could easily be the first one out. We're going to have to do our best to make sure that doesn't happen.
- Affectionate Nickname: "Little fish", given to him by his parents as a boy.
- Barbarian Long Hair: If he didn't wear a man-bun, his hair would fall past his shoulders, and it's still rather long. What qualifies him for this and not a different trope is the fact that he's a Hunk, not a Bishōnen.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Jasper might be friendly, calm, and charming, but he manages to nearly take out half of the Respects singlehandedly when he's pissed off.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards his much younger sister, Catalina. He's vowed to protect her ever since she smiled at him as a baby.
- Blood Knight: Likes sports with an especially combative bent, such as rugby... and, of course, SOTF. It's later subverted when he's cast in the game and promptly drops a Cluster F-Bomb... then double subverted as he really gets into his brawl with the Respects.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played for Laughs. When he learns Gustavo knows him, he starts to wonder if he's ever flirted with the other boy before.
- The Casanova: This man will flirt with ANYONE, even when he's in a relationship! Unsurprisingly, things never last long, but he doesn't seem to mind. His father was an example of the trope in his youth - in fact, Jasper turned into one of these through his influence.
- The Charmer: Manages to win Shoshanna and Gustavo over to his side, in spite of his intimidating bulk, with nothing but his natural charm.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Lets out a long string of swears in both English and Spanish right at the start of the game.
- Conveniently Timed Distraction: What gets him killed. Thanks, Akeno!
- Dumb Muscle: His grandmother thought so, which is why he was sent off to America.
- Egocentrically Religious: Promises to start going to church, but only if God will answer his prayers and let him get some advice from Jewel.
- Ethical Slut: Jasper might be The Casanova, but he considers Consent very important and handles his many breakups maturely.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Gus Thicke finds Jasper very handsome and wishes he had the other man's appearance and confidence.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: Ends up so sleepy by the end of the first day that he starts wondering whether he's developed a pair.
- Fisticuff-Provoking Comment: Gets murderously pissed when Fisk calls him "trash" and orders him dead.
- The Gambler: While not a Professional Gambler like his dad (yet), they share a similar love of the game. A lot of his Inner Monologue is spent talking about the various gambles he makes in his attempt to escape.
- Good Samaritan: Offers to give Shoshanna all his earnings if he manages to win, since she needs the money much more than he does.
- Hooks and Crooks: His weapon is essentially a long pole with a hook on the end of it.
- Hunk: Manages to rival even Cristobal in this regard. He's a six-foot-five soccer player, with positively bulging muscles.
- Intimate Open Shirt: His default clothes feature an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt, showing off his muscles.
- Mellow Fellow: Always maintains a cool, casually flirtatious demeanor.
- Mr. Fanservice: Regularly flouts the Mangrove Garden dress code by showing up in the most fanservicey clothes he can. He's also The Casanova.
- Muscle Beach Bum: He's described as having this look in his default outfit, although he's much nicer than you might expect.
- Professional Gambler: Jasper's father is a professional poker player, and his love of the game seems to have rubbed off on him. In turn, Jasper wants to develop into one of these... of course, it never pans out.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: He's sent to America from his native Spain to attend Mangrove Garden High School after his grandmother hears of the school's reputation. However, Jasper would love nothing more than to stay in Spain with his sister and deeply resents the move.
- Shameless Fanservice Guy: To the point where his revealing outfits earned him a month's detention.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: Jasper started showing a lot more skin after he was forced to move to America.
- Slashed Throat: Unexpectedly finds himself on the receiving end of this trope thanks to a Conveniently Timed Distraction.
- Smarter Than You Look: He might dress like a stripper, but he still pulls decent grades in school and has a good mind for strategy.
- Something about a Rose: His shirt has a pattern of roses all over it, and he's The Casanova of Mangrove Garden.
- Spoiled Sweet: Flirting aside, he comes from two wealthy families and is a Nice Guy.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: He manages to nearly wipe the floor with the Respects... only for Fisk to get back up again and slice his throat open.
- Younger Than They Look: Yes, he's only eighteen. According to Word of God, he tries to invoke this trope with the help of his facial hair.
JL07: Leah Hemingway
JL07: Leah Hemingway
Designated Weapon: Little Joe Crossbow
Mentor's Comment: After my convention escapade with the Sidney cosplay, I really do sympathize with her—show a little skin and all sorts of creeps come crawling out of the woodwork to cough up thirsty comments. But really, when it comes to figuring out what's in store for her, I think the best predictor may be a certain other shy girl who got assigned a crossbow not too long ago... which is to say, I see some promise here. As to the potential teamwork problems, I'm not particularly worried. It's not like anybody else I've got can cooperate worth a damn either.
- Cosplay: Likes to dress up as characters, although it is more for her followers than for her own enjoyment.
- Desperately Craves Affection: She lacks any friends and her parents don't show that much affection to her, so she seeks affection and attention online.
- Friendless Background: Didn't, and still doesn't, have that many friends growing up.
JL08: Amy Barrows-Shaw
JL08: Amy Judith Barrows-Shaw
Designated Weapon: Decoy Mannequin
Mentor's Comment: Difficulties working with others? History of being on the wrong end of her classmates? Real actual psychological diagnosis? Yeah, welcome to the Leviathans. Despite some superficial similarities with Seth, I foresee a pretty different trajectory here—one I understand a whole lot better. I think, if the dominoes fall right, she could be a real mover and shaker, but of course you can never say for sure.
...what, you were expecting a crack about how her new assigned friend is more personable than she is? Not my style. Well, not in this context. And besides, weapons don't mean that much anyways.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Not as popular as some examples, but is described as good looking and has attracted unwanted attention from some of the boys at school because of it.
- The Stoic: Has a perpetual poker face.
JL09: Chris Tyrrell
JL09: Chris Tyrrell
Designated Weapon: Dane Axe
Mentor's Comment: This may be rough. It sounds like he's driven, self-centered, and in good shape, and all of that's good news. On the other hand, if you had to pull out the people in class least likely to gel with him in any way, I imagine that group would look a lot like the rest of the team. We've already established that we're not going to be the cooperation squad, so I suppose it could be worse, but I'm not entirely sure how easy it'll be to get through to him, even though I might have more insight than he expects.
JL10: Laura Hakštok
JL10: Laura Beatrice Hakštok
Designated Weapon: Tannerite Binary Explosive
Mentor's Comment: Wait, she does martial arts? Really? Huh.
"Anyways, I looked up some of the stuff she's streamed online, and it's a very good thing the whole teamwork angle is already a wash. Actually, I think there's a selfish core here that pairs nicely with a really vicious cleverness that could take her far... if that's what she wants. But of course, we're talking a wildcard among wildcards, so I'm not counting on anything. Well, maybe I'd put some money on a large and incredibly disruptive explosion before all's said and done. That seems safe enough."
- Gamer Chick: Laura plays and stream SOTF: Champions.
- Jerkass: Dear god, this girl revels in riling people up.
- The Stoner: She smokes weed like a chimney, and frequently gets up to wacky stoner antics.
- Toxic Friend Influence: She and Alaska Ferguson do not at all have a healthy friendship, as Laura frequently insults her and enables her bad traits.
JL11: Mariko Whitney
JL11: Mariko Whitney
Designated Weapon: Greener Harpoon Gun
Mentor's Comment: Focused, creative, and probably more than a little bit self-interested and mean. No teamwork to speak of. I feel like a broken record at this point, but really this is perfect. People are easier to relate to as individuals, and I think self-interest is the best motivator. Cleverness, lateral thinking, and a nice helping of spite can carry far harder than guns and trust. They can't all be winners—I mean, I guess theoretically they could, but it's so unlikely as to not be worth considering—but like so many others on my roster, I think there's a non-negligible chance that she could if she plays it right and gets lucky.
Loner
LONER: Amanda Brooks
LONER: Amanda Brooks
Designated Weapon M55 Reising Submachine Gun
Mentor's Comment: So, wait, hold on. This girl doesn’t have a mentor. Do we even put something here?" — Cooper, our secretary.
...Hmm. I’d say so. We’ve given the girl who needs other people the most no team and no mentor. We can’t take the joke too far." — Mark Davison, SOTF Executive.
So what should we put in here, then?” — Cooper, our secretary.
You figure it out. I've gotta get ready for a meeting with Jewel. — Mark Davison, SOTF Executive.
- The Aloner: Randomly chosen to be the one contestant who had to play solo.
Malcolm's Mariners
MM Mentor: The Freelancer
"If we're being honest, I'd say it was that last round of tequila shots that really sunk my battleship."
- The Alcoholic: Not to crippling extents, but enough to cost him some of his physical fitness.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Malcolm might be constantly cracking jokes, but he's extremely competent in his position as SOTF's post-production supervisor.
- The Driver: Commonly the one driving the staff of SOTF to their outings.
- Formerly Fit: His body was much more athletic in his youth, but a combination of inactivity and alcohol changed that.
- Informed Attractiveness: Apparently, He Cleans Up Nicely, but you'd never be able to tell.
- In Vino Veritas: How he ended up becoming one of the mentors. When he drank too much tequila at a staff Christmas party, Malcolm went on a tirade about how poorly the mentors of previous seasons performed in their duties.
- Let's See YOU Do Better!: SOTF executives asked him to prove his worth after hearing his drunken rant.
MM01: Vasily Ivanov
MM01: Vasily Ivanov
Designated Weapon: Bugles (Snack Food)
Mentor's Comment: If there was literally anyone in this game who I trust to use the bugles as God intended, it was the eye-patch kid. I've watched his YouTube videos; he's got some interesting ideas — we'll have to see if he can put what he knows to any practical use, though if that means staying alive and helping his friends or becoming the closest thing we have to a pirate this year, I'm honestly not sure. At least he won't go hungry.
- Blade Enthusiast: He collects knives and likes to throw and spin them in order to show off. In-game, he settles for a Sinister Shiv.
- Eyepatch of Power: Invoked when he wears his eyepatch, although he does have a medical reason for it.
MM02: Sarah Lillian Whitlock
MM02: Sarah Lillian Whitlock
Designated Weapon: WASP Injection Knife
Mentor's Comment: Well — shit. Aliens? Loved the movies. But actual, honest-to-goodness close encounters? Man, I don't know... at the very least, she's got the equipment to deliver her very own chestburster. The bigger question for me is does she end up identifying more with Sigourney Weaver — or the alien?"
- Alien Abduction: Believes herself to have been a victim of this on one of her family's many hiking trips. This sent her spiralling down into full-blown tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.
- Animal-Eared Headband: Her fanservice costume has an alien antenna headband, in keeping with her Conspiracy Theorist theme. It's enough to make her want to leave an impression beyond that.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: While she wholeheartedly believes she's been abducted by aliens in the past, even she draws the line at Government Conspiracy.
- Badly Battered Babysitter: Averted. Any negativity Sarah might have towards babysitting her little brother is entirely in her own head.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When Gabriela attacks her, she quickly counterattacks with enough ferocity to level her knife at the other girl's neck. It's then Deconstructed when Elliot mistakes her for a Team Killer in her own right and chucks his spyglass at her.
- Blind Without 'Em: She's quite nearsighted without her Nerd Glasses on. It's even noted as one of her weaknesses in her character writeup.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Her obsession with conspiracies has given her a not wholly undeserved reputation as "the weird alien girl".
- Conspiracy Theorist: Has this as one of her hobbies, and she focuses specifically on aliens and other cryptids. Arguably Justified, as she believes she was a victim of an Alien Abduction.
- Explosive Stupidity: Her first attempt to remove the Explosive Leash around Abel's neck ends up blowing his head off and getting shrapnel stuck in her arms.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: She generally wants to be seen as a Nice Girl and a star student, rather than being written off as a one-note Conspiracy Theorist type. Once she starts coming across as "the normal one" in the game proper, though, it ends up making her uncomfortable.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When she first wakes up on SOTF, she notes that the producers have probably written a "mini-biography" of her... which is exactly what one needs to do to get a character accepted into the roleplay.
- Love at First Sight: Not her — her parents, who married each other in less than a year!
- Nerd Glasses: Sarah wears a pair of rectangular glasses, and she's both a regular nerd and a conspiracy nerd.
- Nice Girl: Conspiracy Theorist ramblings aside, Sarah is shown to be a kind and pleasant person who will gladly go out of her way to help strangers.
- Poor Communication Kills: Sarah had no plans to attack Gabriela once she had her at her mercy. It's a shame she couldn't articulate that in the heat of the fight, as this leads directly to her death when Elliot mistakes her for a Team Killer and attacks.
- Practically Different Generations: Sarah is a high school senior, but her younger brother Caleb is only nine years old. Their age difference, far from causing Sibling Rivalry, has led to a more distant and chilly relationship.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Lark warned her about Seo-yun just in time.
- Spell My Name With An S: The H in her name is sometimes dropped, making it "Sara" instead of "Sarah".
- The Strategist: She concocts an escape plan on the Rocketboat by tampering with the collars.
- Teen Genius: Consistently scoring in the top 20% of a highly selective private school's student body, Sarah has her eye on prestigious astronomy programs at elite colleges.
- We Used to Be Friends: She used to be part of a more popular Girl Posse, but her ramblings about Alien Abduction soon got her ostracized from that social group.
- You Have to Believe Me!: As a middle-schooler, she tried many times to convince her family and friends that she really was abducted by aliens, all to no avail. What this did accomplish was, er... alienating her socially.
MM03: Elliott-Blair Østergaard
MM03: Elliott-Blair Østergaard
Designated Weapon: Spyglass
Mentor's Comment: You know, I think a few people — our weirdo resident armourer included — saw the spyglass as a joke weapon, but I think Elliott-Blair might actually be one of the few people who could use it as an advantage. If he's really good with assessing behaviour, having the ability to see people coming is going to be very useful. I have high hopes for this kid; not at all to do with the fact that he might very well be on to something about his disdain for SOTF's front office. Amen, kiddo. Amen.
MM04: Keegan Garcia
MM04: Keegan Garcia
Designated Weapon: Narwhal Tusk
Mentor's Comment: As we all know, there's no I in "team". However, there sure is a "me" in team, and this kid seems like the first one to point that out. I have the sneaking suspicion that whatever I advise him to do, he's going to do exactly the opposite. Can't WAIT, let me tell you."
- Affably Evil: He's not a bad person, and he never really joins in the Respects' more villainous deeds. Keegan is just there out of a lack of better options, and perhaps a crush on Fisk.
- Bad Habits: His fanservice costume has him dressed as a priest, and he's a member of the Respects.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Has Verity Mercy Kill him as he lays dying from Ivan's vengeful onslaught, rather than let Ivan score the kill.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Drinks it straight from the bottle. He's a bit of an elitist when it comes to hot sauce, calling Tabasco sauce "the Lowest Common Denominator".
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Make no mistake, Keegan can put the effort in when he wants to. He gets high test scores when he actually applies himself, but he tends to frame this as a result of hard work instead of his natural smarts.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Gives a pretty impressive one as he encourages Bacchia and Vasily to join him in a game of Truth or Dare.
- Childhood Friends: With Verity, who later ends up shooting him. It gets complicated when Keegan later lets her join the Respects, but he ends up forgiving her.
- Deliberate Under-Performance: While an undeniably bright young man, Keegan loathes homework and projects and generally doesn't do them if he feels he's already mastered the subject.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He's described as having an unusually deep voice for a teenager. The "evil" part kicks in once he's cast, where he becomes a member of the Malevolent Masked Men known as "the Respects".
- For Want Of A Nail: If he actually tried to make sure Ivan was dead, it would have saved the Respects a lot of hardship later on...
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears glasses, and is an unrepentant prankster who'll mess with anyone, friend or foe. And then he joins the Respects...
- The Gadfly: Ever since middle school, Keegan has developed a habit of acting extremely strange in order to convince people he's "weird". For example, he once spent a week as a Third-Person Person.
- Griefer: Piss Keegan off enough while he's gaming and he'll sabotage the entire match, just for the hell of it.
- Ignored Epiphany: You'd think getting into an elite Florida private school would teach a Brilliant, but Lazy student to start turning in his homework and shape up, but if anything, Keegan gets worse.
- Improbable Weapon User: He gets assigned a narwhal tusk as his weapon.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: Keegan was a smart and diligent boy in his younger years, but he mostly preferred reading to himself over social interaction. He was more or less fine with this.
- Lean and Mean: He's tall and thin at 5'11" and 155 pounds, and he joins up with the Respects.
- The Mad Hatter: Wears the label of "weird" like a badge of honor, and goes out of his way to do bizarre things just to confuse people.
- Make Sure He's Dead: Subverted. He follows the order to check if Ivan Rodriguez is alive... by gently prodding Ivan with his boot. His failure to follow through allows Ivan to survive and take his revenge.
- Monster Fanboy: He finds himself strangely attracted to Fisk and his unique scars, which sees him joining the Respects. Later on, he chooses Fisk as the "Fuck" in "Fuck, Marry, Kill", and during Truth or Dare, he's dared to yell this at the top of his lungs.
- Most Gamers Are Male: Some of his hobbies and interests include gaming and roleplaying.
- Nerd Glasses: Keegan's glasses show him to be the nerd he very much is. When he's wearing a Respects mask, they fog up.
- The Prankster: What he's devolved into by the time he enters Mangrove Garden, doing things like swapping out mustard for mayo and reordering the class rank sheet so that it follows the alphabet.
- Putting on the Reich: Keegan wears a military-style jacket with a bright red patch that has the Wolf's Dragoons logo on it. It's handy foreshadowing for him joining the Respects.
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Believes he can trust the Respects after their collective No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Ivan, since they've come too far.
- Taking the Bullet: For Bacchia. Luckily, he survives this, and he soon concludes Bacchia never needed protecting in the first place.
- Unfortunate Character Design: In-Universe, he complains that the Respects' masks make them look like members of The Klan.
- Verbal Judo: When Alyssa and Verity run into the Respects, Keegan reveals his identity and tries to defuse things. It doesn't work.
MM05: Stokely Keeper
MM05: Stokely 'Stokes' Harriet Ophelia Keeper
Designated Weapon: Lifejacket, Water Wings, and Water Safety Manual
Mentor's Comment: When I found out that the producers were going to make one of the students join us as a mentor, I lobbied for this girl. It seemed like such a perfect fit, alas — I wasn't listened to. I can't imagine why. It's such a damned shame, she would have fit in so well as an intern. Everyone has to start somewhere; Stokes has to start as a cast member. Tough break, kid. I'll be pulling for her.
- Defiant to the End: The Respects have Stokes captured and helpless, but she continues to hurl barbs their way, and spits blood on Fisk Bateman's shoes as a final act of defiance.
- "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner:"S'like a b-movie agh-and baby's first cult fucked an' had an idiot kid-"
- Genre Savvy: Stokes has a massive amount of knowledge of the show thanks to being an avid fan and fan creator. Unfortunately, her knowledge leads her to the conclusion that she is probably screwed, and she comes up with a plan to play the field by making herself too useful as a neutral party to attract hostile attention.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Remains behind on the floating restaurant to buy enough time for her best friend Junji to escape.
- Intrepid Merchant: She attempts to be one, starting up a would-be trading post in the middle of the game.
- Only Friend: To Junji Yamada.
- Punny Name: Stokely Harriet Ophelia Keeper operates a store.
- The Nicknamer: Dubs her ally Chris Tyrell 'Junior', and subsequently Gregory Miller 'Twonior'.
MM06: Cristobal Velazquez
MM06: Cristobal Velazquez
Designated Weapon: FN Baby Browning, 25ACP
Mentor's Comment: The striker with a heart of gold — you hate to see it. The feeling in the pit of my stomach — which could be stale beer, let's be real — says that Cristobal is going to be very popular with a certain demographic of our viewers but his story is going to end in heartbreak. He's got protector written all over him, which'll be fine... until he has to do any actual protecting.
- Apathetic Student: He's towards the bottom of the class rankings, but it's partially because he has next to no confidence in his ability to succeed. Especially in math.
- Cool Shades: Has a pair of shades with bright blue lenses clipped onto his shirt.
- Country Matters: In his narration, Cristobal drops the C-bomb on Junji after the guy stabs him and throws him into the sea.
- Domestic Abuse: He's on the receiving end of this trope from his tempestuous and verbally abusive girlfriend, Marielle Delacroix. Despite being an otherwise upstanding guy, he's still firmly under her thumb because he cheated on her in a Moment of Weakness and blames himself.
- Education Papa: His father drilled financial math lessons into him and his brother Mateo as elementary-schoolers in an effort to get his kids into the Family Business. It's later subverted once Cristobal takes up soccer and his father stops pressuring him.
- Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: His biography notes that his teeth are "perfectly white".
- Everyone Hates Mathematics: Cristobal doesn't have the best relationship with math. This stems from his father's financial math lessons, when he realized his brother Mateo was a much more talented mathematician. It quickly bites him back in middle school and beyond, when his struggles with math also end up biting him in the ass in his chemistry and physics classes.
- Extreme Doormat: Despite how poorly Marielle treats him, he's absolutely devoted to her. Even outside of this, his self-esteem is quite low, and he spends most of his time in the game an absolute Nervous Wreck.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: He was cast in a polo shirt that shows off his figure quite nicely.
- Hidden Depths: Even though he's utterly paralyzed when he has to work with numbers, Cristobal has a keen interest in biology. In fact, biology is the one class where he doesn't earn a C or below.
- I Will Find You: His main goal at the start of the game is to reunite with Marielle... unaware that she was never cast to begin with.
- It's All My Fault: He'll do anything to make it up to Marielle for cheating on her, even though she uses it as an excuse to continue treating him like shit.
- Kids Raiding the Wine Cabinet: He's usually the one bringing the alcohol to parties.
- Lovable Jock: A handsome and generous soccer player who disagrees with SOTF on moral grounds. What's not to love?
- Mr. Fanservice: A muscular soccer player with a tight-fitting polo shirt and an easy smile? Cristobal definitely qualifies for this trope.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Once cheated on Marielle with Mary Cheung at a party. She never lets him hear the end of it.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Tries to help Junji up when he lands in the central jetties. He gets a knife in the collarbone for his efforts.
- Painting the Medium: When his voice trails off out of nervousness, the text shrinks to match.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Cristobal doesn't watch SOTF at all, so he's far from familiar with the workings of the show.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Marielle was never a contestant, and it never mattered how hard Cristobal looked for her.
- Stress Vomit: It's one of the first things he does after he realizes he's now a part of the show.
- Training from Hell: Went through a downplayed, intellectual variant of this in elementary school, courtesy of his father.
MM07: Nadine Flores
MM07: Nadine Flores
Designated Weapon: Cordless Electric Nail Gun
Mentor's Comment: It's always the quiet ones! All it takes is one misunderstanding or one awkward confrontation and suddenly the quiet girl in the corner is writing books about how ten kills were worth one life. Am I saying that Nadine is the next Jewel? No. But stranger things have happened! Just remember, when it happens? I NAILED it. Yeah, you'd better believe I went there.
MM08: Carol Hong
MM08: Ji-eun "Carol" Hong
Designated Weapon: Ship in a Bottle
Mentor's Comment: Picard: It is exactly as they left it, Number One - 'in the bottle'.
[Data and Worf, like Riker earlier, look at him rather blankly]
Picard: The ship in the bottle... Oh, good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?
Worf: I did not play with boys—
[Picard, Data, Worf, Riker, O'Brien and the crew behind the cameras all erupt in laughter at actor Michael Dorn's line flub]
Single greatest outtake that I've ever seen on something I didn't work on. I'd hope that she knows enough to use the bottle as a weapon, but I'm not holding my breath. This girl definitely hasn't played with boys, either."
- Accidental Murder: Becomes one of the first killers after Oliver Sheffield attempts to sneak up on her and she pushes him into the water. She didn't expect him to be completely unable to swim.
- Apathetic Student: Doesn't think much about her subpar straight-C academic performance. After all, most of her friends are around the same rank as her, and she works just hard enough not to incur her parents' wrath.
- Asian and Nerdy: Not in the "straight-A student" sense, but this fanfic-writing, anime-loving Gamer Chick is definitely a nerd.
- Death by Irony: Played with. While her death is simply being shot at the hands of Gabriela, her last moments involve her drowning in her own blood, and she wonders if this was how it felt to be Oliver after she pushed him to his doom.
- Death Seeker: Downplayed, but she does briefly consider that she doesn't deserve to go home after what she did to Oliver.
- Deer in the Headlights: Her reaction to encountering Caleb Bloch, who turns out to be completely harmless towards her.
- Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: Accidentally kills Oliver Sheffield by pushing him off a floating cargo crate and into the water. In all fairness, he was trying to steal her supplies...
- Gamer Chick: Thanks to her dad, Carol has grown up surrounded by games of all sorts. Her favourite is "SOTF Champions", an In-Universe video game starring various SOTF contestants.
- Hope Spot: When she finally comes across one of her teammates, she thinks she won't be in any more danger if they can cooperate. Too bad Gabriela had other ideas.
- Howl of Sorrow: Lets out a horrific scream in the aftermath of Oliver's death.
- Huge Schoolgirl: Stands at a very impressive 6'1", but she's only 140 pounds.
- Insistent Terminology: She's not a "streamer", she's just "someone who shares games".
- Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Carol started out trying to write her own stories, but she found she preferred to write fanfics instead.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After she pushes Oliver to his death, Carol suffers a rather impressive Heroic BSoD that lasts the rest of her life.
- Nightmare Fetishist: A huge fan of Psychological Horror and Surreal Horror, starting with the witches' labyrinths in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
- Occidental Otaku: Fell down the rabbit hole, so to speak, after seeing some reaction images from Nichijou. She hasn't left it since.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When she can't find anyone on her team on the Ghost Ship, Carol tries to shake off her Heroic BSoD and runs as fast as she can.
- Seen It All: Averted and how! While her description claims she won't be quite as scarred compared to her peers by all the show's carnage because of all the horror anime she's watched, she spends pretty much all of her time in mourning and in terror after her Accidental Murder of Oliver Sheffield.
- Tears of Fear: Her reaction to encountering so many others aboard the Ghost Ship. As soon as she gets her bearings again, she turns tail and runs.
- There's No Place Like Home: After pushing Oliver to his death, Carol's prime motivation becomes returning home. She doesn't get the chance.
MM09: Alyssa Tibbett
MM09: Alyssa Tibbett
Designated Weapon: Trident (Polearm)
Mentor's Comment: On one hand, Alyssa has an absolutely fantastic weapon draw that coupled with her swimming ability might make her a real useful ally to anyone else on her team. On the other, her mental health looks to be held together with the equivalent of scotch tape and rubber bands. I hope I can help her last longer than I fear she might otherwise.
MM10: Hannah Choi
MM10: Hannah Eun-Ae Choi
Designated Weapon: Scepter of the Supreme Crab
Mentor's Comment: Okay Hannah, here's what we're going to do. We're going to take that low self-esteem and lack of belief in yourself and we're going to throw it out the window. Why are we going to do that? Because you wield the Scepter of the Supreme Crab, dammit! You are POWERFUL! You are STRONG! You are the SUPREME CRAB! Plus, all kidding aside, you're one of the few people around who might actually know how to use it properly.
MM11: Hailey Thompson
MM11: Hailey Madison Thompson
Designated Weapon: ZapCane
Mentor's Comment: I've heard that having and accepting Jesus into your heart is like having a thousand volts of electricity flowing through your body all at once. I'm an Agnostic, so I don't know what that's like, but I do know that if Hailey really feels like it, she can now induce that feeling in others, all with the press of a button. Having someone like her is going to be good for team morale, if nothing else. Such as it is.
- All Women Are Prudes: Calls Olivia "some harlot", though in all fairness to her, the girl had just flirted with someone immediately before delivering a brutal kick to the 'nads.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Her Inner Monologue betrays a lot of veiled judgment towards her classmates, all prefaced With Due Respect.
- Cheerful Child: As a little girl, Hailey was an excitable and curious person, earning her the praise of her friends, teachers, and parents alike.
- Christianity is Catholic: One of the most openly religious characters in the cast, and a member of the Catholic Church.
- Contemplate Our Navels: She's constantly questioning her behaviour to see if it's in line with her religious beliefs. The only reason she's not an out-and-out Ditherer is because it doesn't impede her daily functioning.
- Darkness Equals Death: Like Mateo before her, she's caught in the depths of the cruise ship when it becomes a Danger Zone and promptly sets off her collar.
- Extracurricular Enthusiast: Let's see. Band, school newspaper, softball, Girl Scouts...
- Fun with Acronyms: Wears some rubber wristbands with religious acronyms, like "F.R.O.G." (Fully Rely on God) and "A.S.A.P." (Always Stop and Pray).
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Notes in her Inner Monologue that "she couldn't even dare to think of" the words she could use to describe some of her peers. The worst word she uses is "freaking", and even that never makes it out of her head.
- Indubitably Uninteresting Individual: Both of her parents, who married to get married more than anything else and project a generically nice image.
- Minnesota Nice: She's from Michigan, and she's as polite as you'd expect from the trope... no matter how judgmental she might be on the inside.
- The Pollyanna: A self-proclaimed variation of the trope. When she first wakes up inside the yacht, she sounds so cheerful about the whole situation that she ends up embarrassing herself pretty much the minute she opens her mouth.
- Properly Paranoid: While she wakes up among kind and friendly people, like Leah and Lucia, Hailey immediately goes on her guard for fear that one of her classmates will turn out to be A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. She's quickly proven right when Olivia takes advantage of the situation to steal Leah's crossbow and escape.
- The Scourge of God: Views the Day 1 deaths this way, and she's grateful that she wasn't among the various Asshole Victims.
- Scout-Out: She's been involved with the Girl Scouts since the age of six, and she now serves them as an Ambassador.
- Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: Downplayed, but she's generally well-behaved enough that she can get away with skipping Mass to see her friends once a month or so. Her mother approves of the decision and frequently covers for her.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Claims this is her reason for leaving the yacht after things went From Bad to Worse.
- Token Religious Teammate: The most devout of her siblings, Hailey has a bad habit of preaching to her friends to become more serious in their faith. Even as a teenager, she has to force herself to hold back from espousing too much scripture.
- The Unblinking: According to her bio, Hailey goes an unsettlingly long time without blinking. Unlike most examples, she's a kind and positive person. Her lack of blinking instead speaks to how often she zones out while questioning her own judgment.
- Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: Her father continually tries to push her into more feminine extracurriculars than softball, like fencing and playing the clarinet. He succeeds with the latter.
- Weight Woe: She's not all too thrilled to have the stomach she does, as while not overweight, she averts Hollywood Pudgy.
- With Due Respect: Her use of this trope is frequent enough to be a character trait all its own.
MM12: Maxine Schwimmer
MM12: Maxine "Max" Schwimmer
Designated Weapon: Trident (Gum)
Mentor's Comment: I should have called us 'Team Trident', since we managed to get them all. Maxine's breath may be fresh, but I hold deep concern for her ability to move between areas without re-aggravating her ACL sprain. Such a shame that she didn't get something more useful, like a shotgun. That might have been fun.
- Braids of Action: Has her hair styled into two braids, and she's not only a capable athlete but a contestant on a Deadly Game as well.
- Busman's Vocabulary: She and Sergio talk about their plans to survive the game in terms of "grand slams" and "base hits". In her second and final battle with Akeno, her thoughts are absolutely dripping with baseball metaphors.
- Competition Freak: To the point that she loses most of her motivation entirely if she isn't competing with someone. Keeping her eyes on the prize is the only way she knows how to give herself clear goals to work towards.Maxine: "In baseball, you can't cling to a lead and pray the clock runs out. You can't bet on those magic three numbers - 0:00 - to save your hard-earned points and walk away from everything. In baseball, you have to fight for the win, score more, claw more, remain on your top game until the innings hit bottom 9 and there's a winner declared. In baseball, time is a non-factor. You need to win."
- Daddy's Girl: She's much closer to her father, on account of the fact that his graphic design work means he doesn't have to leave the house as often. Her personality, however, is a lot more similar to her mother's.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Rejects Sergio's offer to help her up the stairs after Akeno attacks her knee, even going as far as to skip up them while hiding her pain to prove she doesn't need his help!
- Dye Hard: Maxine's been dyeing her hair since she was in middle school. It's currently a deep, crimson red.
- Game-Breaking Injury: Tore a ligament in her knee late last season, and she's still recovering from it right up to the start of the game.
- Game of Nerds: Max's Inner Monologue discusses all the meticulously tracked numbers that go into a baseball game as a reason why you need to fight to the bitter end.
- Gamer Chick: Loves to unwind after school by playing platformers and JRPGs.
- Gender-Blender Name: Goes by "Max", which is much more commonly used as a boy's name.
- Improvised Weapon: Flings a drawer, of all things, at a charging Akeno. She tries it again later on in the fight, but winds up grabbing a plastic spatula. It's not enough to save her in the end.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Although she's one of the best hitters and fielders on the softball team, her playstyle is also extremely aggressive and often leads to poor decision-making once she's on base.
- Motor Mouth: Talks a lot faster than normal when she gets upset.
- Younger Than They Look: Maxine's only a senior in high school, but her biography claims she has crow's feet - a condition most women don't see until middle age!
Stephanie's Buccaneers
SB Mentor: The Pirate
"Yar, har, fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright to be?"
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Stephanie is constantly on the lookout for a Goal in Life. Agreeing to become a mentor for this season is just one of the many opportunities she's tried to take.
- Dressed to Plunder: Even more so than Claudia! This trope is enforced by the In-Universe production staff, because she was the winner of a pirate-themed season.
- Dye Hard: Her bright pink hair, while dyed, is an integral part of her overall image.
- Gamer Chick: After her victory, she got a scholarship and ended up majoring in game design.
- Talk Like a Pirate: As part of her Pirate Girl persona, although she ends up making fun of it more often than not.
- There Are No Coincidences: Believes there's a reason behind her victory, although she isn't totally sure what that reason is.
- The Unfettered: Became this after she Took a Level in Badass during season 41, abandoning one of her closest friends and killing the other.
- Walking the Earth: When she's not studying, Stephanie travels around the globe in search of the reason why she survived her season.
SB01: Jodi Hunter
SB01: Jodi Hunter
Designated Weapon: Blunderbuss
Mentor's Comment: Physical weakness is not a liability. Forgetability is not a liability. It’s, um, true that sometimes the most distinct personalities are the ones who populate the end (I think), but every pirate crew needs people who do their work behind the scenes. I’m… admittedly concerned whether she will be able to use — oh wow, that’s. That’s Alex’s gun. That’s… really Alex’s gun...
Sorry. What was I saying? Ah! Yeah! Her weapon’s weight might be trouble if she can't carry anything heavy, but I’m not worried. I’m sure once she manages to find the rest of her team she’ll work out just fine
SB02: Sergio Gallo
SB02: Sergio Gallo
Designated Weapon: Laser Pointer
Mentor's Comment: Oh no…
Well, um, no. I can’t be like that. He’s actually maybe actually a pretty decent get! He’s buff enough that it wouldn’t be hard to plunder a better weapon off of somebody else, and he occupies a team role that I don’t think the majority of my crew can carry, from what I’ve seen. I’m not exactly too happy that I have to take care of a… boink… boy… but I’m sure we can get aside our differences soon enough. For his sake. As well as mine.
SB03: Pineapple "Pippi" Bloodworth
SB03: Pineapple "Pippi" Bloodworth
Designated Weapon: Extendable Baton
Mentor's Comment: Um. Wow. This girl is, like, literally me. Like, I'm more on the geek side of nerd-dom and I’m pretty sure my parents don’t own strip clubs but, um, wow. A kindred spirit. That’s… genuinely nice. I’m a little bit concerned that I haven’t been able to find someone who could properly work as a leader so far, but it’s like I said with Jodi. A great crew always needs someone with a really nice and cute aesthetic working behind the scenes to make sure the captain doesn’t go too crazy. That was me the last time this game had a pirate crew. Maybe my twinnie here can go the same way I did. Hopefully.
SB04: Bethan Gayle
SB04: Bethan Maya Tamara Gayle
Designated Weapon: Pike (Polearm)
Mentor's Comment: What… happened to fashion after I left school? Like, I know I’ve got pink hair, but… wow. I… don’t really know what to say.
Wait, no. I, um, should probably actually evaluate this person. They’re on my team. They, um… wow, there is really nothing in here to be optimistic about, is there they’re sociable enough that I don’t think the early stages of the game will be a problem for them. If she doesn’t… crash and burn, then maybe she can reach her team. I don’t really know if there’s anything she can do once she does that, but…
Sigh. Sorry friends and family of Bethan reading me absolutely trashing on her. I hope she makes it out of this, but I can’t really see anything she has going for her other than hope. Sorry again.
SB05: Lucille Mendoza
SB05: Maria Lucille Tamayo Mendoza
Designated Weapon: Smith and Wesson Model 500
Mentor's Comment: Okay! Yes! Here’s our captain! I was a little bit worried because all these other kids seem to be more type B than type A but I’m so glad we have someone here who can maybe call the shots for them. There’s, um, still weaknesses here, but they either don’t really matter if she does what I want her to or will iron themselves out once she’s out in the ocean. I… um, feel a little leery being this positive about someone — SORRY AGAIN, FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF BETHAN — but I feel confident here. This girl will sail her way through this game, and I will be proud to be her (and everyone else’s) first mate.
Do people really dream of being on this show, though? That’s… geez.
SB06: Kaya Robinson
SB06: Kaya Robinson
Designated Weapon: M1895 Lee Navy
Mentor's Comment: ...Not a lot to say here, but, um, I think I like? I think this is the only time a mentor has wanted their kid to have something other than a gun, but otherwise this is a pretty ace get. She’s strong (and good with swords????) and responsible and possibly competitive enough to think about winning and, um, I think the best part of this is that she’s quiet about it. She’s not exactly the type of person everyone else would look at and think ‘this is someone who has to go if I want to win.’ I, um, don’t really think people value it much, but that trait by itself has produced winners. I should know. I, um, think we can be kindred spirits. Hopefully, at least.
SB07: Luanne Grasset
SB07: Luanne Grasset
Designated Weapon: Wheel of Authentic Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese
Mentor's Comment: "...Where have i heard- OH MAN I KNOW WHERE. NOREEN FOLLOWS ME ON TWITTER. HI NOREEN. SORRY ABOUT ALL THIS NOREEN. I HOPE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH IT OKAY NOREEN.”
- Eccentric Artist: Keeps on thinking about paintings even in SOTF, with the threat of death looming over her. In general, Luanne has an eccentric line of thought and art, from it be collecting quotes from artists to making art herself, practically dominates her life.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Noreen, her promiscuous and wild younger sister, mostly on the account that Luanne doesn't have that many friends or parties to go to and is much tamer.
SB08: Virginia Burns
SB08: Virginia Marybeth Burns
Designated Weapon: Remington 870, Sawed-Off
Mentor's Comment: Hey! The Devil’s Inheritance! My roommate like, full stans that group. Maybe this’ll finally be motivation to finally listen to them lmao
But talking about Virginia here… I think she’s good? I’m a little bit concerned about how many backstage crew members I have at this point, but, um, the more the merrier! I’m sure now that if one of my many minions can’t make it to the are you really making me say this? uuuuuuuugh big red X on the map I’ll have enough to take their place. Another gun is useful too. Can’t have too many of those. Unless you’re Kaya, I guess.
I’ve also heard that she and Bethan are… um, familiar. With one another. That, um, might be useful, I think.
- A Handful for an Eye: She's on the receiving end of this trope, courtesy of Mandy Gross and her bag of powdered ghost peppers.
- All of the Other Reindeer: As a middle-schooler, Virginia was a social pariah thanks to her less wealthy background and tall, thin, flat-chested build. The bullying got to the point where several girls spread rumors of her having an eating disorder.
- Animal Motifs: Scorpions. She has an earring shaped like a large, black scorpion. Interestingly enough, she has a temperament similar to an actual scorpion, being a quiet girl who only fights back when she's about to be shot.
- Berserk Button: Speaking ill of her parents is a very easy way to piss her off.
- Caring Gardener: Took up indoor gardening during her high school years. She talks to her plants every day, hoping they will grow from listening to her.
- Death by Irony: She's killed with her own Sawed-Off Shotgun once Seo-yun gets her hands on it.
- Designated Driver: For her high school friends, who drink and do a lot of drugs.
- Due to the Dead: Tries to separate Oliver from the crates crushing his body in an effort to give him a proper Burial at Sea.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: A minor example, but she loves to mix and match her earrings. In the game itself, her left earrings are a silver stud and ring, while her right earring is shaped like a huge, black scorpion!
- Fiery Redhead: Inverted. Virginia is a shy, soft-spoken girl.
- Friendless Background: Her crippling shyness in elementary school left her this way as she started middle school. Subverted when she's accepted into the "outcast clique" at her middle school.
- Functional Addict: Prefers to compose music while riding a drug-induced high. And yet, she still maintains her reputation as a smart, if inattentive student among her teachers.
- Hands-Off Parenting: By the time Virginia entered high school, her parents were extremely distant. Justified because her dad was focused on his health problems and her mom was focused on going back to college.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: She's usually wearing a pair if she can get away with it, and she's no extrovert.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: And when she finally gets them, she follows them all the way to Mangrove Garden High School just to stay in touch!
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Or, "I Need A Freaking High". After losing Abel, she laments that the bottle of rum in her backpack isn't enough for her!
- Inherently Funny Words: "Antediluvian".
- Ludicrous Gibs: Seo-yun blows a hole through her body. She lives just long enough to try to push her innards back into her skin.
- May–December Romance: Her parents are an example. When they met, her father was almost twice her mother's age!
- Metalhead: Not her, her parents. Her father was the frontman for the In-Universe Heavy Metal band "The Devil's Inheritance", while her mother is an Ascended Fangirl of the band.
- Ms. Imagination: Frequently retreated into her daydreams as a child. It helped her cope with her shyness and her lack of real friendships.
- Never Gets Fat: She's said to be as thin as she is because of an extremely good metabolism.
- Parents as People: Though not exactly neglectful, Virginia's parents left much of the responsibility of taking care of her to a nanny because they simply had no idea how to raise a child.
- Penny Among Diamonds: Went to a wealthy private middle school, and while not exactly poor, her family was considered "trashy" by the richer, more popular girls.
- Quaking with Fear: When Seo-yun and Mandy follow her into the depths of the ferry, Virginia's hands are constantly shaking as she attempts to load Abel's old gun. This trope doesn't stop her from getting one good shot in.
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: Her weapon, given to her by the producers. She quickly loses it in the chaos when Seo-yun and Mandy arrive on the scene, and she's eventually killed with it.
- Scary Scorpions: Subverted. Her right ear has an earring shaped like a scorpion, but she's a nice girl.
- Shout-Out: Her parents' names and background are a reference to a certain Heart-Shaped Box.
- Shrinking Violet: Virginia in her elementary school years was a painfully shy girl. She's less of one now, but the trope still applies to some degree.
SB09: Emmett Purcell
SB09: Emmett Purcell
Designated Weapon: Bang Stick
Mentor's Comment: I… are you serious? Another fuckboy?
Sigh. I don’t particularly feel like talking about… whatever positive qualities this person might bring. I’ll just, um, wait a bit, if that's okay with all of you. Maybe once he finds out his life lies in my hands he’ll learn to respect women a bit more, hm?
SB10: Abel Kuntz
SB10: Abel Kuntz
Designated Weapon: Elgin Cutlass Pistol
Mentor's Comment: BEST BOY. BEST BOY. If I can, um, be honest, that isn’t really a high bar because he’s the only guy on this team who isn’t a… boinkboy, but… team captain potential? A gun? And he likes the Dark Tower? I love him already : ) : ) : )
- Accidental Misnaming: He gets Virginia's name wrong because he can't be bothered to remember such a plain-looking girl. Also on the receiving end of this trope from Virginia herself, but that's because she's bad with names.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: To his sister Valerie, who's four years older than him.
- Big Brother Bully: To his younger brothers, Patrick and David.
- Bookworm: Grew up reading books in the gothic and low fantasy genres, and is a full-on Stephen King fan.
- Can't Take Criticism: Really doesn't like being questioned. It's part and parcel of his jerkassery.
- Casanova Wannabe: Calls Virginia "my dear" even while calling her plain in his internal monologue, and flirts a bit with Lucia and Olivia when they arrive at the cargo floats.
- Control Freak: He has a better hold of it now, but when he was younger, he bossed around his siblings and classmates alike.
- Defiant to the End: Goes down fighting against Seo-yun. His last moments have him kicking her down and giving his backpack to Virginia, purely to spite his killer.
- Desecrating the Dead: He's the dead who gets desecrated when Sarah Lillian Whitlock attempts to tamper with his Explosive Leash.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Due to his Control Freak tendencies, younger Abel went through a recurring cycle of "make new friends, try to assert dominance over them, watch them all leave, repeat."
- Hands-Off Parenting: Mr. and Mrs. Kuntz preferred to have their children settle arguments on their own, without any parental input. Inevitably, this led to Abel getting his way most of the time.
- Honest John's Dealership: Casually discusses selling his fanservice costume to somebody Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense, and on national television, no less!The only monetary worth something had was the price someone else was willing to pay for it, and there were certainly enough wackadoodles out there that'd pay bank just for a soda can that Jewel girl so much as spat in. Someone could certainly call that the art of the deal if they wanted.
- Jerkass: An irascible Control Freak as a little kid, and still a bit arrogant as a teenager. He's gotten better, but he's still not exactly nice.
- Spoiled Brat: As a child, he'd argue with anyone who disagreed with him in order to get his way, and largely succeeded.
- Lowest Common Denominator: Thinks of SOTF as this type of show.
- Meaningful Name: His last name is Kuntz, and he's not a nice person.
- Only Friend: A boy named Jonah, whom he befriended in sixth grade and gradually alienated over the next two years. Despite trying to rein in his usual behavior, this culminated in Abel getting the dressing-down of his life.
- Prophetic Names: Did you really expect a boy named Abel to last very long on this show?
- Small Name, Big Ego: Abel always has a pompous air about him. His Inner Monologue is very needlessly wordy, as if he's rubbing his vocabulary in the reader's face.
- Sophisticated as Hell: On one occasion, towards the end of his life."...You know, there is something rather ironic about how antediluvian this whole production is and the genius network bigwigs dumping us on a boat that sold all this decaying crap from a decade ago."
- The Un-Favourite: Inverted, despite his controlling childhood behavior. He's the "golden child" of his family.
- Used to Be More Social: After getting reprimanded by Jonah at the end of eighth grade, Abel retreated into his books as a coping mechanism.
- We Used to Be Friends: Subverted. Abel did some serious soul-searching after his falling-out with Jonah, and he became so much less insufferable that they became close again.
SB11: Sofia Kowalski
SB11: Sofia Elizabeth Kowalski
Designated Weapon: Bugle (Horn)
Mentor's Comment: It’s fine to be worried. It’s also fine to not really know this game all that much. Lucky for you, you have someone who knows this game very well working to keep you alive, so just let her give you everything you need to know, kay? I, um, won’t lie, I’m a little worried myself about this particular quiet girl compared to all the others — not having a good weapon is, um, a little rough, but I believe in her! She’s fit and she’s focused, and if all the complaining from the other mentor booths is any indication, that’s a little something the other teams lack ;).
SB12: Shoshanna Kowalczyk
SB12: Shoshanna Kowalczyk
Designated Weapon: Webley & Scott Mark III Flare Pistol
Mentor's Comment: Another girl who’s maybe not a type-a character but who still has a great chance of sneaking through the game under the radar? Another girl who’s maybe not a type-a character but who still has a great chance of sneaking through the game under the radar and has a gun? She’ll fit right in. Welcome on board, Shoshanna.”
Shiva's Sirens
SS Mentor: The Transhumanist
"No, no, don’t call me ‘inspiring’. I know what you mean by that. I prefer the term ‘innovative’."
- Accent Slip-Up: When out in public, he's trained himself to speak in Received Pronunciation, but his natural Scouse accent comes through in private or when he talks too fast.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has a thick, dark pair of them.
- Career-Ending Injury: Was on the path to becoming an Olympic fencer until he lost his leg in a motorcycle crash at the age of 19.
- Condescending Compassion: On the receiving end of much of it after his motorcycle accident, and it pissed him off so much that he decided to become a disability rights activist.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Uses his platform as the husband of a tech mogul to campaign for fair treatment of disabled workers, among other things.
- Mellow Fellow: An easygoing, laid-back man in spite of his passionate activism and fierce competitive streak.
- Perpetual Smiler: Even his neutral expression could be called a smirk.
- Transhuman: Fully subscribes to a transhumanist ideology.
- Trophy Husband: His detractors accuse him of being this towards his husband Frank.
- Vicariously Ambitious: Still lives for the thrill of the competition, and he hopes that he can achieve some of his old glory through the actions of his Sirens.
SS01: Verity Stewart
SS01: Verity Stewart
Designated Weapon: Heckler & Koch P11
Mentor's Comment: While it's true that Miss Stewart faces steep odds, so does every other contestant, and she is better equipped than most, both practically speaking and in terms of knowledge. She has the tools to overcome her weaknesses, and with a guiding hand, I am confident that she'll be able to utilize them effectively.
- Foreshadowing: She tells Tim Torales that she'd show no mercy if she became a contestant. She ends up pushing him off the cruise ship, in the first kill of the season.
SS02: Kamille Rémy Martel
SS02: Kamille Rémy Martel
Designated Weapon: Sodegarami
Mentor's Comment: Despite its appearance, the sodegarami was in fact an implement used to capture criminals uninjured so that they could be brought to trial safely. I believe it's based on an instrument originally utilized by Japanese naval officers, though they in turn borrowed the design from the Chinese navy, which-
What? Oh, right, sorry. Social prowess, physical skills which suit the arena, and a thematically appropriate weapon all bode very well for Mr. Martel here. He should be able to organize and direct whichever teammates he is able to meet up with, and his personality and weapon will allow him to deal with opponents in more subtle ways when open confrontation is disadvantageous.
- The Ace: Member of the student council, successful with the ladies, star student and athlete. He's already done very well for himself.
- Academic Athlete: Pushes himself to perform just as well in school as he does on the swim team.
- Amateur Sleuth: Tries to investigate the bloodstains in the cruise ship's banquet hall, and manages to discover that someone attempted to clean them up.
- Broken Ace: Deep down, he's still reeling from his father's death and his parents' poor treatment of him.
- The Casanova: Not quite to Jasper's extent, but he has a reputation for this because his sheer dedication to his studies tends to overshadow the effort he puts into relationships.
- Defiant to the End: When he realizes Seo-yun isn't going to just let him and Mariko leave, he goes out trying to tell her lackey Mandy that Seo-yun is merely using her and will throw her away eventually.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Intentionally provokes Seo-yun, who is holding a shotgun and has every intention of using it, in order to save Mandy from being her Sycophantic Servant and protect Mariko from the both of them.
- "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "Your move."
- Gender-Blender Name: "Kamille" isn't exactly the name you'd expect to belong to a tall, well-built, Sharp-Dressed Man.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: After the chaos of the first day, he and Mariko are stressed enough to drink shots of rum.
- Messy Hair: Winds up with this when he's caught in a hurricane pre-game and gets his hair swept around in the high winds.
- Military Brat: Thanks to his adoptive father, who's in the Coast Guard. He's also interested in joining the military as soon as he graduates, or, barring that, the CIA.
- Nice Guy: Well, unless you're his girlfriend.
- Parental Favoritism: He's The Un-Favourite compared to his half-brother Prosper.
- Parental Neglect: To make matters worse, in the aftermath of his father's death, Kamille was usually taken care of by his grandparents, as his actual parents were not available.
- Prongs of Poseidon: Well, Prongs of Pluto. His weapon is the sodegarami, a traditional Japanese polearm with two prongs.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Wears blazers, button-down shirts, and perfectly pressed slacks to school. In Florida, no less!
- So Crazy, It Must Be True: Believes Seth and Ivan immediately after they warn him about the Respects.
- Stepford Smiler: By all accounts, Kamille is a nice and friendly person.
- Surprise Car Crash: One of these killed his biological father, Ruben.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: His adoptive father is a training instructor for the Coast Guard, and he's frequently called to duty away from home.
- The Un-Favourite: His mother, Simone, tends to pay more attention to her child with Edward, Kamille's adoptive father.
SS03: Caleb Bloch
SS03: Caleb Bloch
Designated Weapon: Morphine Syrettes
Mentor's Comment: It's approved to take people who are in the middle of medical treatments like this? ...Um, another contestant who will be able to use subtlety to their advantage. Their weapon assignment and demeanor should see success in a... support role. Yes."
SS04: Mandy Gross
SS04: Mandy Gross
Designated Weapon: Umbrella
Mentor's Comment: [This conclusion was redacted on the advice of the Survival of the Fittest legal team due to concerns about copyright infringement.]
SS05: Calla Evans
SS05: Calla Evans
Designated Weapon: Caltrops
Mentor's Comment: Another member with a tactical draw and a wealth of knowledge, I believe that Miss Evans's natural demeanor will also serve her well here. Her determination should be a great boon to the team, and I see her being a force to be reckoned with once she meets up with some of her better-armed teammates.
- The Ace: In school, she consistently scored in the top 15% of her class. This is subverted pretty much the minute the game starts, when she starts making a lot of stupid decisions.
- Boring Insult: Loves dishing them out. It even features in her Motive Rant to the Respects.
- Bullying a Dragon: Gee, Calla, do you think that maybe insulting the Respects after the day you've had wasn't such a good idea?
- Caltrops: Her weapon, courtesy of the producers.
- Caustic Critic: Calla's thoughts on some of the former winners can be pretty... vitriolic.
- Cool Big Bro: Her older brother Asher, who let her watch SOTF in secret and play on his video game systems.
- Defiant to the End: Proclaims that she'll be back to kill Bacchia and the rest of the Respects even as she's dying of a fatal stab wound.Calla: "I'm not dying here. I'll kill all of you... and win... I haven't even started..."
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Discussed. Shiva warns her that she'd be setting herself up for failure if she refuses to leave the game after securing ten kills.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Fittingly enough.
- The Gadfly: As a little girl, Calla was a notorious prankster who got in trouble often for acting out in class. In the present day, she casually talks about morbid things just to see how people react and generally tries to act as annoying as possible.
- Gamer Chick: Courtesy of her big brother Asher, she's become a big fan of Survival Horror games. She even streams, but her channel hasn't made waves yet.
- Glory Hound: Has shades of this, especially in her Motive Rant.
- Hey, You!: Mentally refers to Emmett and Xander as "jock boy" and "other jock boy".
- High-Dive Escape: She's forced to do this when she fails to kill Eric, though not before swearing vengeance.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her attempt to get Eric to step on her caltrops ends with those very same caltrops sticking out of her arm.
- Humiliation Conga: The minute Gabriela interrupts Calla's plan to kill Nura is the minute everything starts to go to hell for her. In short order, she's overpowered by Eric, deprived of her caltrops, forced to make a High-Dive Escape, and when she surfaces...
- Loony Fan: She's not quite on Tsumugi's level, but Calla has been, er... outspoken enough to get herself banned on various SOTF-related fora.
- The Mad Hatter: Downplayed. While not insane, she actively encourages people to think of her as weird and creepy.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Ever since childhood, Calla has had a taste for horror and True Crime. She even used to make up scary stories to frighten her classmates!Calla: "SOTF-TV is at its best when it's about tragedy. Remember that, kids."
- No Sense of Personal Space: Does this to Emmy, getting in her face while she grills her about what might have caused the chemistry lab fire.
- Parents as People: Her mom might be well-meaning, but she can be a bit neglectful thanks to Calla's siblings taking up her time. Once she returns to the workplace, the Evans kids basically raise themselves.
- Perky Goth: More so when she was younger, but traces of this trope are still there.
- Psychological Projection: Calls Eric "cowardly" and a "smug asshole" when he survives her traps, two things that describe her and her weapon very well indeed.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tries to break the Respects with the following Motive Rant. It doesn't work.Calla: "You don't get it. You've never gotten it. If it's just boring, mindless slaughter, there's no point to it. If you're not going to be unique, if there's no art or personality to what you do here... then you're nobody. Just some dead kid... And following some faceless group just means nobody will remember your name."
- Recurring Element: This isn't the first time a goth girl with the last name Evans has appeared on this show. Ironically enough, Calla loathes Jewel and considers her the worst winner in SOTF history.
- Skewed Priorities: Early on, she touches herself up with makeup in an effort to make a good first impression towards the audience, rather than focus on surviving.
- Slasher Smile: Flashes one at Timothy purely to get a rise out of him.
- Smug Snake: Thinks she can get Nura to step on her caltrops in the dark. She's so caught up in her delusions of grandeur that she doesn't notice Gabriela arrive on the scene.
- Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: Six-year-old Calla was forbidden from watching SOTF, for obvious reasons. All this did was make her obsessed with it, watching it in secret whenever she got the chance.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Absolutely despises the new ten-kill rule, which she thinks is antithetical to the show itself. She hates the idea so much that she'd rather stay in the game until the bitter end if she kills ten instead of going for the win!Calla: "It's fucking called Survival of the Fittest, not Mass Murderer World Cup!"
- Too Dumb to Live: Insists on staying around to confront the Respects after being warned to stay away by not only Shiva, but by the Respects themselves!
- Trap Master: Calla was given caltrops at the start of the game, and so she favors this kind of playstyle. It ends up working on Eric, but he survives with only some Agony of the Feet.
- Troll: The only thing reining her gadfly tendencies in is the fear of losing a more consistent victim by pissing off her actual friends.
- The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): All her passion and SOTF know-how isn't enough to save her from being one of the first contestants to die, and in the most embarrassing way possible.
SS06: Oliver Sheffield
SS06: Oliver Sheffield
Designated Weapon: Steel Chain, 2 Yards
Mentor's Comment: Theoretical conviction is all well and good, but situations like these are where you discover your true values. People more often than not realize that they value their own lives far more than they thought.
That said, while it's absolutely not true that every team has a weak link, there is always someone who benefits more from someone else choosing their direction. Fortunately, that's the role that I'm here to play."
- Academic Athlete: He certainly didn't start this way, but Oliver joined the basketball team to resurrect his failing grades in phys ed.
- All There in the Manual: Without his biography, all you'd know about him is "SS06, Oliver Sheffield: DECEASED". Unless you mouse over certain parts of the post where he's pronounced dead, you'll never hear his side of things.
- Chain Pain: He's given two yards of steel chain as his weapon... but he never gets the chance to use it.
- Commander Contrarian: Oliver LOVES to argue, no matter what the topic is. He's unpopular In-Universe because of this and his superiority complex.
- Determinator: When he first joined the debate team as a sophomore, he underestimated how difficult it would be. To protect his Pride, he's become this trope in pursuit of becoming the best debater at Mangrove Garden.
- Elegant Classical Musician: He doesn't show his skills off at school, but he's an accomplished pianist.
- Hands-Off Parenting: The Sheffields generally leave their three kids to their own devices. Predictably, they aren't very close.
- Insufferable Genius: An intelligent child from a young age, Oliver started out with good intentions and tried to tutor struggling classmates, but he quickly devolved into this trope after his explanations couldn't get through to them.
- Painting the Medium: An especially egregious example. His narration is rendered entirely in transparent text!
- Precision F-Strike: In his hidden narration.Someone who can't swim? In Florida, you say? Nonsense. Oliver Sheffield would tell you to fuck off.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Oliver never dresses more informally than "business casual", preferring to wear button-up shirts, blazers, and neckties.
- So Much for Stealth: Tries to sneak up on a sleeping Carol Hong to steal her supplies after losing his pack... only to learn she was awake the entire time. He's rewarded for his efforts with a push into the water, leading to his death.
- Super Drowning Skills: Never learned how to swim. It bites him in the ass right at the start of the game.
- Surrounded by Idiots: He certainly thinks so. It's one of the defining reasons why he looks down on many of his less academically inclined classmates.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Oliver doesn't really get along with his teammates, but he still reluctantly works with them because he came to enjoy the game.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's unceremoniously crushed between two crates at the beginning of the game. Unlike Timothy, he doesn't appear in any memory threads. By the time his name shows up at all, he's already dead! You can, however, read his point of view if you highlight parts of the post where he dies.
SS07: Diana McIntyre
SS07: Diana Cassidy McIntyre
Designated Weapon: British Sea Service Flintlock Pistol
Mentor's Comment: When you're young, when you've led a good life, you're invincible. The world can't hurt you.
That illusion always shatters eventually, but I have faith that Miss McIntyre will be able to adequately deal with the fallout, given the support of her team and mentor.
SS08: Zack Harlow
SS08: Zachary "Zack" Harlow
Designated Weapon: Boarding Axe
Mentor's Comment: "Another one with a talent for doing things quietly and a knowledge of the show. I do believe I see cohesive team coming together here, and as long as Mr. Harlow is able to stay focused, I see him being another valuable member."
SS09: Fisk Bateman
SS09: Fisk Bateman
Designated Weapon: American 180 Submachine Gun
Mentor's Comment: "...No? No. You are pranking me. His name is Bateman, and... he has a submachine gun? No. I understand that we're all having fun here and that the goal of the show is entertainment, but... no. I don't believe it. This is a prank. He looks like a cartoon."
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: He dresses like a 1960's Mod for the duration of the game with his fancy striped suit.
- Ax-Crazy: Despite his feigned civility, Fisk is a maniac through and through who revels in the carnage he wrought, and he goes out of his way to draw out his rivals' deaths.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Fisk thinks he's a lot more intimidating than he actually is, though the truth is that he only got as far as he did because he spent the entire game surrounded by loyal henchmen.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Fisk's appearance is Gus Dapperton down to the dance moves.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: A favorite threat of his, and his modus opperandi for anyone who particularly draws his ire. He most notably inflicted this upon Gregory Miller by peeling off his face with a carving knife before tossing him from the highest point of the arena onto a cluster of his rivals as a warning. Also happens to him as a form of karmic death.
- Determinator: Fisk is willing to do anything, from breaking the rules of the game, and killing anyone in his way including assigned teammates to ensure he gets to make it to the end with his friends.
- Faux Affably Evil: Fisk projects himself as a friendly and polite but eccentric individual merely looking out for his friends. That facade drops rather quickly when someone pushes one of his many berserk buttons.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Fisk has a menacing facial scar as a result of a childhood accident. Not long into the game, he and his allies begin hunting down their former classmates.
- Humiliation Conga: The very second Fisk is the last one alive of his homemade team, his enemies make short work of him, surrounding him, taking turns beating him, crippling him, and dragging him across the arena, before brutally executing him for putting them all through so much hell.
- Karmic Death: After spending his tenure on the flotilla terrorizing and torturing various other contestants, on top of just being an in general self-absorbed twat with an inflated ego, Fisk is killed by his would-be first victim and game-long rival, Ivan Rodriguez, when Ivan shoves a running firehose down Fisk's throat and turns it on, blowing Fisk away.
- King Mook: His favorite tactic in game is to swarm the enemy with numbers, with him leading the front and acting as the distraction to buy his friends time to perform an ambush.
- Practically Joker: Fisk is a laughably evil walking freakshow known for his terrible idea of comedy, gruesome kills, and bad dancing. At one point he even dons clown paint to perform a raid on Stokely's trading outpost.
- The Leader: Commands the "Respects", a group of players who have formed their own team.
- Make Sure He's Dead: Orders Keegan Garcia to make sure Ivan Rodriguez is dead after the beating they inflicted on him. His directive isn't followed.
- Shout-Out: Multiple. His blonde hair and face scars bring to mind Kakihara. Deliberately invoked in character in that Fisk borrowed his hairstyle from Zorg and styled his outfit as a shout out to Max Shreck. His backstory is a big one to American Psycho. For added hilarity, his father is named Patrick.
- Villainous Valor: His one positive trait. Fisk legitimately cares for his friends and team members and is willing to take beatings for his friends or even attempt to trade himself for one of his teammates to give them a chance to survive a hostage situation. Notably, this does not make up for any of the various other crimes and attrocities he committed during the game.
SS10: Nate Suchinda
SS10: Nattaworn “Nate” Suchinda
Designated Weapon: Pike (Fish)
Mentor's Comment: As a determined and physically-inclined person, Mr. Suchinda is in an excellent position to benefit from the knowledge and strategy his teammates bring to the table and act as the 'muscle' of the group, so to speak. Honestly, I think the weapon is a boon - not many people are going to see that coming.
- The Alcoholic: Nate is known to use drinking as an outlet for less pleasant emotions.
- Camp Gay: He puts a lot of effort into his hair care routine, he's "nurturing" enough to work as a dog-walker, he does yoga instead of playing sports... oh, and his hair is dyed pink.
- Caustic Critic: Has a tendency to rake his peers across the coals during English critiques, as they don't live up to his standards.
- Constantly Curious: An eager, curious student dedicated to his studies.
- Control Freak: Oh yes. It's one of his biggest character traits, aside from snark.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's described as "fairly sarcastic and guarded", and he makes good on that description even before the game starts.
- Sylvain: "You think I could jump down here without wiping out and spilling everything?"Nate: "You're welcome to try."
- Death Glare: Parodied. He attempts to give one to the camera as a show of defiance, but he can't hold it for long before he starts throwing up.
- Deep Sleep: Nate manages to sleep through Gregory and Cory trying to kill each other until the screaming starts, and even then he conks out immediately after it dies down.
- Felony Misdemeanor: When he sees that Sylvain's yarn is lying on top of his Naga sculpture, he reacts with the kind of thinly veiled rage you'd expect if Sylvain shattered it.
- Freudian Trio: He's the ego to Gregory's id and Cory's superego.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Wore a pair of aviator goggles when he was cast, in the vain hope that it might distract people from realizing he was hung over at the time.
- Goth: Specifically "pastel goth", which lets him add color to his wardrobe.
- Hula and Luaus: He's from Hawaii. To emphasize this, his fanservice costume consists of a grass skirt and a luau... and that's it.
- Idiot Ball: Picks it up when he hastily takes the stairs two at a time in his attempt to escape from the cruise ship. This causes him to take a Staircase Tumble and twist his ankle when the staircase has an odd number of steps, which proceeds directly to his death by Explosive Leash.
- Infant Sibling Jealousy: Briefly mentioned to have had some of this as part of his backstory.
- Narcissist: Nate has several hallmarks of one, like an inflated sense of self-importance and tendency to spin events in his favor.
- Never My Fault: Sure, Nate has a bit of a temper, but it's clearly everyone else's fault that he gets involved in so many arguments!
- Nice Mean And In Between: The In-Between to Cory's nice and Gregory's mean.
- Occidental Otaku: Anime is listed among his hobbies and interests. It's something he watches since he can't talk to his family about SOTF.
- Older Than They Look: Downplayed. While he is as tall and lanky as you'd expect a high-schooler to be, Nate's stated to still have some baby fat in his cheeks, which annoys him to no end.
- Power Trio: Becomes one of the "Three Buccaneers", alongside Cory Cartwright and Gregory Miller.
- Pushover Parents: As long as Nate did his best in school, his parents were happy to ignore what a controlling jerk he was to the other kids. In fact, they outright encouraged it!
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Sylvain.
- Spoiled Brat: Nate was this as a child. Both of his parents were wealthy, and he'd get cranky whenever he couldn't get his way at daycare. He was extremely demanding of his classmates, to the point where teachers were disturbed and tried to notify his parents.
- Staircase Tumble: It's what ends up getting him killed.
- Stress Vomit: Justified, as he's hung over on top of being forced into a Deadly Game.
- Swordfish Sabre: Nate's weapon is a pike.
- Teen Genius: Nate was talented enough with his ceramic art to win admission to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. Too bad he doesn't survive long enough to attend.
- Tranquil Fury: His reaction to seeing Sylvain's yarn lying atop his sculpture. It takes everything in his power not to completely lose it.
- Why Am I Ticking?: Starts panicking when he hears his collar beep inside the cruise ship. In his haste, he ends up taking a Staircase Tumble and twisting his ankle, which prevents him from getting out before his head explodes.
- "You!" Exclamation: Gives a viciously whispered version to Sylvain in the infamous "yarn scene".
SS11: Britnee Joyner
SS11: Britnee Danielle Joyner
Designated Weapon: Hydrogen Sulfate
Mentor's Comment: Social maneuvers aren't to be underestimated, and Miss Joyner is in a prime position to act as the 'face' of the team. I do believe she'll be a joy to have around.
[Mr. Lanthier spent the next two and a half minutes laughing at his own joke.]
Other SOTF-TV Staff
Martin "MarWIN" Winchester
Martin Winchester
"Gee well, maybe it's cause I actually take myself seriously and this show is something other than an excuse to get myself on TV in a desperate attempt not to be forgotten!"
A SOTF-TV super-statistician who was a mentor in Season 65, and here has a stint sitting in the chair for the Selkies.- Chekhov's Gunman: After briefly taking over from Emmy for a couple of team member evaluations, MarWIN then pops up in the game proper as a mentor.
- Cluster F-Bomb: His midgame liveblog sees him curse up an absolute storm.
- Didn't Think This Through: He cusses out his boss after being replaced as a mentor, angrily storming out of her office, kicking the door, and declaring that he's going to ensure his followers hear of this. He forgets that he is on a ship and cannot leave until production wraps.
- Hidden Depths: The bombastic and egotistical MarWIN displays a very gentle and empathic side when a grievously injured Cory Cartwright contacts him for guidance.
- Small Name, Big Ego: MarWIN is extremely self-important about his SOTF expertise. While his knowledge is pretty good, his attitude bites him on the ass in a big way, and his inability to keep his ego in check is a significant contribution to that.
- Take That!: In-universe, he takes aim at Jewel Evans and Stephanie Cahill in his angry rant of a liveblog, claiming that they're both using mentorship to stretch out their fame and that the showrunners are letting them bend the rules due to being returning winners.
- The Bus Came Back: After a minor role as a mentor in TV1, MarWIN was not seen until TV3, suddenly chiming in via the Selkies' collars, filling in for Emmy.
Jonathan
A production assistant, they act as the official minder to Emmy and (briefly) MarWIN.
- Accidental Misnaming: Is constantly subjected to it thanks to MarWIN not really caring enough to get it right.
- A Day in the Limelight: Announcement eight's fluff takes place from their perspective.
- Nice Guy: Their POV fluff makes clear that while their job is difficult, it's something they genuinely enjoy doing and that they feel a lot of empathy for the very difficult position Emmy is in.
- You Are in Command Now: Jonathan received their current job in Season 66, when their boss was unable to cope with Brandon Parker's meltdown, which put them in charge.
