Rise/Characters

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The Universe of Rise has a large and usual cast of characters. These are just some of them.

Axel's Gang

Our Heroes. Most of the time.

  • Badass Crew: Eventually became this.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: By the Oasis rescue most of them became this.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A wolfman, a princess, a dying alcoholic, a communist, a failed poet and more. Almost impressive for them to be taken seriously.
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: It's hard to believe there is actual action and no infighting between them.
    • Hard to believe because infighting is a well documented past time for the cast. For as far as they've come lately, with all the narcissism, antagonism and ideological conflicts that one's come to expect out of such an eclectic group of characters, getting them to seriously agree on things outside the bigger picture happens once in a blue moon.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: A common problem of the team.
  • True Companions The rescue of Axel showed how far they've come since the first mission.


Axel Percival Erachin

Something something Axel said.

Everyday Space Cowboy and former heir to the wealthy Erachin Industries corporation. He left the life of comfort at a young age to escape his boredom, and has worked as a mercenary ever since.

Terrence

Haken Wastia

A failed poet who was forced into mercenary work.

Guildenstern

Haken's self-aware mech.

Kanade Orihara

A Kitsune League princess. She has a huge superioty complex.

Haruka Yoshimitsu

Yvonne Dafoe

  • BFG: Rogue Paladins learned about it quite fast.

Abraham Keyes

Gyver Edged

Ghost Rider

Krystal Desmond

Clyde Mc Connelly

A veteran mercenary.

  • Clueless Chick Magnet: To Krystal, until she kissed him.
  • Ineffectual Loner: Was one of these, until he discovered The Power of Friendship. He has since slowly begun opening up, albeit at a very slow rate.
  • Old Soldier: While being in his mid-thirties, he's quite older than the rest of the crew, and already took on a fatherly figure.
  • Private Military Contractors: Used to work for one, until it's collapse, leading him to the world of freelancers.
  • The Stoic: Due to his age and experience, he is considerably set apart from his comrades.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: He's the hardened badass of the team. And he can bake delicious cookies. Justified in that reading books about such mundane activities helped him to get out of shell-shocked state.
  • Walking Tank: His mech.

Invana Sidorova

Aerion Freeman

  • Meaningful Name: The Jawhen species was put into slavery, he's one of the fee who fled.

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Julius Valken

Lara Rymond

Rex Ryoken

Tara Bei Fong

Max Enkaria

Horton:

Ray's Mercenaries

Archenemies of Axel's gang. Though not the most powerful group out there, they are the Gang's most personal enemies.

Ray Desmond Shishigami

Earl James

"Are you in for that last fight, or do I have the honor to spray their blood alone ?"

The leader of the Hellknights. A very dangerous man with a definite taste for blood.

  • Anti-Villain: He planned his escape from the Hell mostly to save the people he considered his family. The reason he is still fighting is for them.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: His training for twenty years were almost exclusively this.
  • Blood Knight: While he rarely seeks a fight, he enjoys them.
  • Complete Monster: Played with. He was ready to blow up a hospital with children, as noted by Ray, in order to gain information. However, he would never sought useless casualties.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He calls out Largo for using a human shield. He also never spill the blood of someone unarmed, but this doesn't mean he won't kill said unarmed person.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Subverted. He does understand, but he knows he can't do it.
  • Gray and Black Morality: His time in the Hell left him with a strange vision of life.
  • Hero of Another Story: One that took twenty years and has an enormous death toll.
  • Knife Nut: To unsettling levels. Justified as he spent twenty years in the Hell training with knives almost exclusively. Ray even notes he's probably better with them than him.
  • Like a Badass Out of Hell: Almost literal example. He escaped from the Hell by fighting his way out.
  • Those Three Bad Guys: Though really, the team's core is him and Ray.
  • Noble Demon: Definately a Blood Knight, though not entirely without a conscience, as Ray notes.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: His training with the Warriors/Hellknights involved lots of honor code and respect to be learned, but also selflessness when protecting the familly.
  • Psycho for Hire: Appears as such, acts as such. However, he still has a mind and a hearts, and uses them when needed.
  • Start of Darkness: Once an unstable young adult who acts violent on occasion. Twenty years spent in the Hell, now a brutal killer who's also one of the most dangerous men of the Empire. He also has an army of similar people.
  • The Big Guy: Took this position when he used the Demented.
  • Whip It Good: Uses a whip during training, with a bladed end for extra damages.
  • Worthy Opponent: Thought as such of Karl Vladick.

Khenan

"The Champ is here!"

  • Not Quite Dead: His HMV is destroyed at the end of Rise 1, believed to be dead. He reappears one year later still with Ray during the events of Villa.
  • Crazy Awesome: Jumps on moving HMV, pry the cockpit open and decapitates the pilot. Even by Rise's standards the guy isn't sane.
  • Demoted to Extra: Sort of. His creator left the work, making him more of a secondary character than a point of view one.
  • Dumb Muscle: He knows his trade of fighting and killing, but doesn't go beyond that.
  • Mighty Glacier: His HMV ain't named The Juggernaut for nothing.

The Empire

The Big Bad Orwellian Superpower. Driving out Mjolnir's original inhabitants, the Empire established itself as The Superpower of the galaxy. Human-centric and corrupt from within, the Empire is definitely not something to be screwed around with.

Mathias Longfellow

Kincaid

Alphonse Vinland

Javier

Satan

The director of the Hell. Rarely seen.

Lucifer

Satan's right hand man. Likes to kill prisoners for his own fun.


The Reclaimers

The original inhabitants of the Mjolnir Galaxy. Back, and extremely pissed off. They've somehow managed to cut a deal with the Mi-Go, in exchange for massive technological and tactical support.

Howard

"Patience is a virtue, as the humans say."

A mysterious Mi-Go, and representative of an outside power. Virtually nothing is known about it, or it's motivations for aiding the Reclaimers, but it clearly does not intend nice things for the Empire. For the sake of convenience, is referred to as a 'Him', though it's not known if Mi-Go even have genders.

Stranger

"Just so."

The Reclaimer's main contact with the Hydra League. Even less is known about him/her/it, much less his/her/it's name.


The Hydra League

Human revolutionaries who've grown disgruntled with the Empire's xenophobic tendencies. Formerly led by a somewhat reasonable Council, a recent military coup has established the Heads, Hydra's top generals, as it's new leaders.

Fury

  • Half-Human Hybrid: Thanks to Mi-Go technology, Fury, as well as the majority of Hydra personnel are slowly morphing into monstrous superhumans.
  • Playing with Fire: His HMV is named the Firestorm...

Kurt Norik

Terra Conolley

Largo


The Paladins

Counterpoints of the Hydra League, the Paladins are more in line with your traditional Knight in Shining Armor archetype. Though they likewise wish for better treatment of all Mjolnir's species, they do not share Hydra's more extremist tendencies. They're lead by Karl Vladick, a charismatic old soldier and former employer of Axel Erachin. 

Recently, most of the Paladins turned against Karl Vladick, believing that he'd forgotten his true purpose, and went to Hydra. The rest presumably fled with Axel's crew.

Karl Vladick

"I see that none of you wish to make the first move. A wise decision, but I had hoped that some of you would have had some guts."

Leader of the Paladins. Despite his age, he can still pull his weight around, and is more then capable of commanding the respect of anybody in the vicinity. [[spoiler: A former Imperial Soldier, he left them when he discovered Mathias' true intentions for alien technology, and dedicated his new life to preventing their abuse of the tech. He was killed by the mercenary Earl James during the Oasis Break-In, his remains propped up on the Imperial palace as a warning to their enemies.

  • Armor Is Useless: Averted. He demonstrates it's usefulness to Haken when sparring with him.
  • Big Good: Provides Axel and the crew with shelter in his Cool Ship, and is the leader of one of the few benevolent organizations in Mjolnir.
  • Cool Old Guy: Few are cooler.
  • Cool Ship: The Deity, a massive battleship capable of sheltering more then a dozen HMVs.
  • Face Death with Dignity: He died inside the Jotun while fighting Earl James. The Empire put his head on a pike, and had to open his mouth because he died fearlessly, his mouth shut.
  • Heel Face Turn: Was an Imperial Soldier during the occupation of Homeworld.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Holds off the forces of the Empire to allow Axel to escape.
  • Knight in Shining Armor: Leads an entire organization of these.
  • Off with His Head!
  • Old Master: Teaches Haken, a somewhat wimpy poet, how to properly fight with a sword.
  • One-Man Army: On his own he is already dangerous. His super-HMV's sole purpose is to be a One-Machine-Army.
  • The Captain: Complete with boat.
  • The Paladin
  • Worthy Opponent: It is unclear from his perspective, but Earl James fought him as such.

Decel Erachin

Axel's father, and leading supplier of the Galaxy's HMVs. A wealthy man, he does not approve of Axel's wayward mannerisms.

  • Gadgeteer Genius: Inventor of the HMV, the most commonly used human weapon of war in this day and age.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen
  • I Have No Son: A lesser example. It's not known if he's actually disowned Axel, but he clearly not a fan of his line of work.
  • The Dreaded: Known as The Architect and the Deathmonger amongst the Mjolnian community, due to his role in their defeat.

Karen Armstrong

"Hey, Guy, is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

Karl Vladick's second-in-command, and lover of Axel. Turns out to by a mole planted by the Hydra League. She manages to kill Ghost Rider before being put down by her former employer during the raid of Oasis.


  • Cold Sniper: Adverted. She's anything but chilly.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Axel goes head over heels on their first encounter.
  • Face Heel Turn: She thinks that Vladick's lost his true vision of fighting the true enemy, the Empire, and joins Hydra.
  • Knight Templar: She hates anything to do with the Empire with a passion.
  • Number Two
  • One Woman Army: Like most Paladin officers. Seeing as how she was a former Black Scorpion, it's a given.
  • Shock and Awe: Her HMV is known for its powerful electrical discharges.
  • The Fashionista: Seems to know quite a bit about dressing etiquette.
  • The Mole
  • The Vamp
  • Villainesses Want Heroes: Lampshaded. She admits she finds Axel 'cowboy charm' appealing, but little more then that.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Ghost Rider shooting her through her cockpit managed to destabalize her mentality enough, but when she realizes that she is indeed about to die, she's reduced to begging Karl to spare her. Karl doesn't.

Marcus Tengbrew

"I'm sure I shall prove to be a more then adept replacement, Lord Commander."

Presumably high ranking member of the Paladins. Current Leader of the Renegade Paladins since Karen Armstrong's death.

The Hellknights

Former inhabitants of The Hell, where they were known as the Warriors. Since their escape, the Gang has moved into freelance mercenary work. They are led by Earl James, one of Ray's mercenaries.

  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Most of them trained as such.
  • Does Not Like Guns: Subverted. They use some, but having spent most of their life in the prison, they are less used to them.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": A staple of their society. They chose a new name fitting them.
  • The Alcatraz: The Hell.
  • Knife Nut: The other half of the Hellknights.
  • The Atoner: Most of them are trying to forget their criminal pasts and create a better future for everyone, especially the children living in the Hell.

Storyteller

Former leader of the Hellknights and mentor to Earl James.

Heimdall

The Warriors' gate keeper.

  • Meaningful Name: He took the name from the Norse God, as both are doing a very similar duty.
  • My Greatest Failure: Not able to take part in Ossyria's defense during the Tyran invasion.
  • The Stoic: He rarely changes his face. But once he knows his beloved homeworld Ossyria was destroyed, he breaks.

Slice

Storyteller's right-hand man. He's much less serious than Heimdall, but that doesn't stop him from being a very competent soldier.

  • The Alcoholic: He's the proud owner of the only working brewing system of the Hell.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Never fights without drinking a beer and shouting random things.

Blue

An alien living with the Hellknights.

Vulture

  • Beware the Nice Ones: She's the main cook, she's the mother of two kids who grew up in the Hell. She's also the most feared of them.

Monk

One of the trainer of the Empire's black ops. He fled, disgusted. He was sent to the Hell for this.

Riley

Former sex-slave of a Human noble, she ended up in the Hell where she trained to be a fighter.

Crunchy


Independents

Autumn Keyes nee Lesedi

Rodrig von Tryassik

"This is Sticker. I carved it from the thighbone of an enemy. It was the first weapon I ever held. I was twelve.' *Sniff* 'Yes, I smile at the memories of beating the stuffing out of him."

A Tzeenosaur mercenary.

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