Characters / The Gamers: Hands of Fate

Characters featured in The Gamers: Hands of Fate.

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The Party

See Characters.The Gamers Dorkness Rising.

Other Gamers

Natalie Warner

Tough-as-nails Gamer Chick and the object of Cass' misguided affections. She plays the Holden faction.

• Fiery Redhead: Red-headed and passionate.
• Gamer Chick: Natalie is one, although she hates being perceived this way.
• Hey, You!: Natalie has a habit of this.

Jason "Jase" O'Reilly

A cheerful, friendly R9E player who becomes Cass's biggest supporter after playing against him in a qualifying match. He plays the Displaced faction.

• Defeat Means Friendship: After losing to Cass, Jase quickly becomes his main supporter.
• The Heart: Jase functions as this, especially when Natalie and Cass are at odds.

Mark "The Meach" Meacham

An Insufferable Genius elite player who is one of the obstacles on Cass's way to the championship. He plays the Malchior faction.

• Good All Along: He is revealed in the end to be a hardcore storyline player who stayed out of the alliance simply because it's what his isolationist faction would do, and his conditions for backing Cass are also completely in-character. He even uses a hero that looks like him, presumably made after one of his previous tournament victories as they did for Cass.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sort of. He allies with Cass not because he's become a good guy, but because Cass can beat a starvation deck and he can't. He's shown to be a nicer guy at the end of the movie, however, going to get a beer with Leo.
• Insufferable Genius

The Legacy

The main villains of the Real World part of the movie—a Gang of Bullies who plan to win the finals at GenCon and use the influence they'll gain over the story to kill the game for anyone who prefers plots and diplomacy to non-stop combat. They all play the Ixhasa faction, and the starvation deck is their signature tactic.

• Gang of Bullies
• Graceful Loser: For all their Smug Snake behavior throughout the movie, The Legacy are surprisingly graceful with their defeat at Cass's hands. Louis, the leader, even remarks that it was the best game he's ever played.
• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: To the Meach.
• Smug Snake: The leader of the Legacy tries so hard to be seen as a Magnificent Bastard by Cass. Yeah. Cass' total irreverence is not limited to NPCs in an rpg.
  Weaver: A common theme one finds in classical mythology is the belief that all [...] outcomes have already been decided by gods weaving together the strands of fate. On a related note, you can call me... Weaver.
  Cass: No. I'm gonna call you Louis - you look like a Louis to me.
  Weaver: I see that we are evenly matched...
  Cass: Not really, no. Is this going somewhere?
• Straw Misogynist: The Legacy intentionally play this up to help make themselves hated, although a few other players are shown as just as bad and Leo kicks one particularly offensive player out of his store in the very beginning. Cass (and Lodge in the extended cut) getting over their own sexism and double standards is also a major subplot.
• Villain Song: The Legacy has quite a catchy one.

Mark

See Characters.The Gamers. Has another cameo as a servant of... The Shadow? The Shadow! The Shadow.

Penelope

Played by same actress as Female Luster, she is one of the writers of the Romance of The Nine Empires storyline. Oversees the finals at GenCon.

Non-Player Characters

The Shadow

See Characters.The Gamers.

Romance of the Nine Empires

Myriad Buxtehude

The main heroine of Cass's deck.

• Arranged Marriage: Ends up in one to cement an alliance with the Melchior faction. She enters into it of her own volition, though, and she and her husband end up having an amicable understanding that they are both in love with other people.
• Interspecies Romance: With Dundareel, a Tuatha.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: After several iterations of the "Groundhog Day" Loop, Myriad starts to develop a sense of déjà vu, but no clear memories of her past battles. This changes and the trope is fully adopted when she gets the opportunity to wish to keep her memories.

Dundareel

Myriad's true love. An Elven hero of the same kingdom.

• Back from the Dead: He is temporarily raised by the Emissary as one of her undead minions. After giving up the Apple of Life to defeat the Ixhasa, Myriad's husband reveals that there are other realms where she might find an Apple to bring him back for real.
  • Back for the Dead: When Myriad uses the Apple of Life on the Emissary, he is fully resurrected along with the rest of her army. Unfortunately, like the rest of her army, this means he immediately starves to death.
• The Exile: His family were dethroned and replaced as rulers of the Tuatha by the Unseelie fey.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Lets himself be killed by one of the Ixhasa so Myriad can live.
• Interspecies Romance: With Myriad, a human.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Being one of the Tuatha, he is much older than Myriad.

The Emissary

The main villain of the fantasy part of the movie. Leader of an Army of The Undead that seeks to destroy Myriad's homeland.

• Big Bad: The primary bad guy for the fantasy half of the movie.

Skafla

The Emissary's Dragon, a big blue undead guy.

• The Dragon: The Emissary's right hand man.

Simm Buxtehude

The great hero of Holden and Myriad's father. Died of radiation poisoning after sneaking the Displaced's atomic bomb into the God-King Shad-Hujem's throne room to end his reign of terror. His card was based on none other than Leo, presumably as a reward for winning a world championship, similarly to Meach and Cass' cards. His death may have been the reason Leo quit the game.

• Famous Ancestor: Myriad is constantly living in the shadow of her heroic dad. Until her victory against the undead lets her join her father in the annals of history.
• Long-Dead Badass: Died a couple of decades ago in-story.
• Posthumous Character

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