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[bjornwilde]

I have no witty title, sorry. 

So, as far as the structure of the story goes, what purpose or role does your pup fulfill of the almighty plot?

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[feminine_menace]

Being totally awesome. This sassy little punk thrasher helped save the world, you guys.

Ahem. More seriously, YT makes deliveries of both tangible objects and critical intelligence that the good guys need to stop the bad guys. She also subdues the Big Bad's key henchman in a very interesting (spoilery) way.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut is a Serial Villain of a subplot that refuses to die and keeps getting tied into main plot. Lucky me :D Other villains, even those who are at a kind of higher tier than her, keep on dying, but Amascut keeps getting away. There are hints that she might even be a redeemable villain but the majority of the player base isn't interested in redeeming her. Who knows what will happen come July when new canon about her comes out.

[venerable_ibis]

Ooh, interesting question.

Djehuty is generally the Wise Helper Guy. Are you part of the divine status quo, struggling against forces of chaos? He'll set you up with some solid advice, he'll heal you, he'll do some mediation and diplomacy, he's got your back.

Ursula is a nifty mentor in the woods who shows up to help the heroine discover herself.

Bossuet gets to pop up and point out Important Plot a few times, like a helpful village NPC. It's cute. Feuilly...serves the important purpose of making Victor Hugo feel a little less bad about the shit he pulled on the workers in 1848. >_>

Hal/Henry V kind of just is the plot of Henry V. Where he falls in Henry IV, parts 1 and 2...I get kind of grumpy about approaches to Henry IV that are all about Hal, but you can reasonably say that getting him to be the plot is a big part of of the plot.

Gredya is an alarming former-enemy-and-possibly-unreliable ally (who turns out to be quite reliable really).

William Douglas, AUGH. He and Jamie start out as sweet helpless babies protecting each other in a system of violence, and gradually they grow up to actively participate in that system. Sad friend/foil?

And the Chief of ACME Crimenet directs detectives, obvs.

[varadia]

Ysalwen is the protagonist, who fulfills the heroic, difficult-decision-making face that everyone turns to in a crisis and is the Only One Who Can Do The Job. Also an excellent catspaw for larger forces!

X-23 is your emotionless killer robot coming to grips with feelings. She's often the one to rescue people from fights that are above their weight class, and her backstory angst can be called on to give pathos to a ripping fight yarn. Anything she does that smacks of friendship is also another way a lot of writers add some softer emotions to books.

Flemeth is half antagonist, half deus ex machina. Who she is deus-ing and who she is antagonizing shift with the tides and the player's understanding of what the hell is going on.

[sunbaked_baker]

*somehow manages to resist linking to TV Tropes*

Action girl-next-door, reluctant hero, and unreliable narrator of the almighty plot. :D

[just_cant_lose]

Jim's the good old-fashioned villain of this particular fairytale.

[mogget_cat]

*again resists the urge to link to TV Tropes*

Hidden-Agenda Villain, Servile Snarker, and Untrustworthy Advisor turned Deus Ex Machina.

[littlesynthgirl]

Pino is actually the inspiration for this topic. Her role in plot is getting the hero moving. She is the White Rabbit and even has a bunny suit (although I don't think the animators know what bunny ears look like, see icon). She is also Pinocchio for this story, though that is more the side plot.

Amelia functions mostly as a means of exposition on how magic works in her canon. She is one of the heavy hitters in canon, but the plot's goal is for change to happen without might makes right, so she's left with not much to do. The last book suggests this is changing and her role may shift to being more of a puppet master or puppet master in training.

Ahsoka serves to show Anakin as a complex human who has redeeming qualities, or so I think. At least at the start of canon. Later, she ends up being a tool to show how flawed the Jedi Order is and ends up helping to form the Rebel Alliance; so I guess she becomes a backstage builder for the OT?

Touji gets the gang (i.e. the main protagonists) together. He's sort of the Ron Weasley to his group, though much better at making friends and forming alliances. He's the one who talks to the shy talented geek (Neville), and the one to make peace with the scholastic rival (Malfoy), and even to persuade the seemingly evil or corrupt antagonist from the first story arc to work with the group (I don't know, maybe a young Narsissa? I can't think of a HP character that works for her), to learn and save the day. Later he's also the magical battery for his best friend, i.e. one of the main protagonists.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford amazingly started out as the good guy. He was a little morally corrupt, but he started out as the guy trying to bring Slender Man to justice. Then suddenly, he's murdering an entire family, burning down houses, and killing cops. There was literally nothing in between that. Then he went back to being a bit weird, but not overtly crazy. And then he just went back to straight up crazy psychopath murderer again.

In short, I have no idea. It depends on which part of canon.

[i_am_your_host]

The Master of Ceremonies is the master of ceremonies. He breaks the fourth wall and offers commentary on the story that unfolds with songs and banter.

Pam is Eric's loyal sidekick and often an antagonist foil for Sookie. She's antagonistic toward everyone, really.

Floki is the resident weirdo who says and does weird things but is the genius responsible for building the ships that actually get the Vikings out there. He also serves as the wedge between Ragnar and Athelstan.

[harryhotspur]

Ooh!

Hotspur is the foil/antagonist to Hal and to his father. Whether his death is a tragedy or a victory depends on your reading.

Viola is the central character, the (usually accidental) catalyst for almost everything that happens.

Marius is Victor Hugo's self-insert.

[heartbeneathastone]

OH I THOUGHT OF ANOTHER ONE Segundus is the Neville Longbottom of his book. It very briefly seems like maybe he could be The Chosen One (tm), but even though he's not, he can't stop having an influence on the plot, and takes some crucial actions at the very end.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess is the reformed antagonist, the Femme Fatale and eventually, the protagonist's right hand gal.

Kylo is the antagonist, but not the Big Boss.

[ceitfianna]

This is a great question.

Will is the loyal lieutenant, one of two who supports Robin and provides a catalyst for certain interactions. Depending on the version of him, he's also a connection to the poor of Nottingham or to Robin's former life as a noble.

Quentin represents the new generation of Faerie, one of the first of Toby's found family, an example of a child that she saved, someone who will always have her back and proof that Purebloods can change how they interact.

Charles, depends on which version of canon you're looking at, in all of them he represents the most idealistic vision for mutants but he's either the naive dreamer or the weary mentor. That's movie canon, comics canon I don't know well enough to say all of them.

William is one of the reasons that Dan is transporting Ben, the unexpected member of the party, a reminder of how Ben is perceived through one lens-the dime novel, and another sort of foil to Dan.

Sameth is the secondary almost tertiary protagonist, he's the main connecting thread between Nick and Lirael, the maker of Macguffins and probably others that I can't think of at the moment.

Ivan is the reliable friend who doesn't compete with Miles but is always there when needed, he shows another way to be Vor and a different view on the society and culture, also the comic relief.

Jane is the main character of Becoming Jane, a young woman searching for her identity within a society that doesn't know what to do with her.

Moist is the reluctantly reformed villain who ends up becoming a hero, an effective tool for Vetinari.

Demeter is one of the 12 Olympians and doesn't feature in as many myths, but her role in Greek religion was a giver of life.

Tumnus is the complicated introduction to Narnia with his kind serving of tea and then almost betrayal of the Queen. He shows the harm that the Queen does to Narnia and gives Lucy someone to carry about and a reason for the Pevensies to stay.

[cutting_edge_physics]

Holtzy is the tech girl. Erin and Abby know the science, but Holtz is the one to get it into production and set real-world applications.

She's also 100% the love interest, shut up.

[camwyn]

Considering the number of women out there who felt their Kinsey scores go up watching Holtzmann in action, I totally believe it.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

People in fandom tend to say Yamato's the rival character, but really, he's more like the lieutenant or first mate character, who acts as a foil to help other characters (usually Taichi) while also acting as a second-in-command. When the group splits for strategic reasons, too, he tends to lead whoever's in the second group (so -- usually Jyou and Mimi, and sometimes Sora).

Gabumon, meanwhile, seems to serve in the position of something of a respected elder amongst the Digimon partners, and is the one who both tends to direct them when there are no humans around, and the one who they turn to when they need an opinion on a new person. He, Tentomon, and Gomamon kind of share this role between them, with Gabumon being wise, Tentomon being knowledgeable, and Gomamon being a sea lion. The dub makes this more overt, with Gabumon sounding audibly older than the others.


Hawke's the protagonist, although you could (and I possibly would, depending on the day) make the claim that Kirkwall itself is the main character of Dragon Age II. He's the one making difficult decisions and such, as is the norm for DA player characters, although notably he actually has very little influence on how events pan out.


Sherral is a minor character who gives you a quest. You slay a dragon on that quest, and he is like 'cool, thanks' and then never speaks to you again ever, the cad.


Yugo is an object lesson in the nature of the Phantoms. He's seen only in flashback, and he's meant to set up the characters to believe that Phoenix is ultimately redeemable, because he is the shadow of this actually very sweet, gentle person. Phoenix is not redeemable.

Yugo also serves as set-up for Gremlin later on, because he establishes the 'good human, evil Phantom' dynamic that Gremlin later subverts -- because Gremlin is evil, but Sora, his human, is worse.