"OCs":
Lightning the Hedgehog: evil hedgehog known for making bad mafia games. the source of everything evil in my life. current whereabouts unknown
Mater the Fox: A friendly fox who fell into bad company, Mater was Lightning the Hedgehog's best friend. He initially teamed up with Lotta Hart to take down the mafia in Pokemon Masters Mafia, before returning to Chaos Town to work as Lightning's personal hitman. He died during the events of Lightning Mafia, choosing to sacrifice himself to try and stop Lightning's rampage of death and destruction (his sacrifice was in vain).
Dr. Hudson: A retired world-renowed racer turned blooper race coach, he submitted his tailed "blooper" Bloppy into the Shroom's Blooper Race, where he made it to the final round. He used to babysit Lightning and friends when they were younger.
Gooightning: Lightning's twin brother. He is much more quiet and reserved, leading him to suffer a lot from his more obnoxious brother, being roped into Mario Award presentations and mafia game narratives against his will. Outside of things related to his brother, though, he is happily married and generally has a pretty good life.
Cornelius C. Cornifer: High ranking member of the Kellogg's conglomerate, he is known for his love of wrestling and crushing his enemies under his heal. He is also known to partake in a little bit of corporate sabotage from time to time. The eldest child of the 3 siblings.
Cornelana C. Cornifer: High ranking member of the Kellogg's conglomerate, she takes a keen interest in the administration and finance side of the company, overseeing their distribution of Kellollars. She is constantly annoyed by Cornelius and his expensive schemes, but since the rest of the company is doing fine, she lets it slide. The middle child of the 3 siblings.
Corneluigi C. Cornifer: High ranking member of the Kellogg's conglomerate, though only due to nepotism. Unlike his older siblings, he is a bit timid and naive, but also generally much friendly and more likely to stick up for the little guys in the world. The youngest child of the 3 siblings.
Flash Bandicoot: Freelance journalist who spent years trying to track down the criminal underworld's biggest fiend, Guildmaster Fronk. After coming to a dead end during Shroom Mafia 4, his investigation led him to the Chaos Realm, where he helped players by giving them hints and scoops he found about the realm's various happenings. He is currently working on a new investigative piece about the price of eggs in New Wikisburg, and their broader implications for the Yoshi community.
lightning the amogus / xignthling / smogaux soul / smogaux: ok, so, this guy is lightning the hedgehog but as an among us bean. pretty funny, right? he died in Lost in Space mafia, only to split into two beings: lightning, seeker of deadness and xignthling, who both needed to die in order to be recompleted into one body, planning to take control of an empty vessel to return to being "smogaux", their original name before they stole lightning's. uh oh, the ritual fails, with their potential new vessel falling into darkness at the end of Lightning Mafia: Welcome to Chaos Town. BUT! the character's soul survives and, thanks to Ambush Bug, is reincarnated as Smogaux Soul during the events of Living Game, and obtains some precious Lazarin, a mysterious substance that allows people to return to life. during the events of Nexus of Chaos, Smogaux Soul enlists the help of the players to restore him to a new body, made up of various bits and pieces lying around the various splintered worlds, and he is finally "restored" to being some form of what could almost be said to vaguely resemble "normal". he is currently baking gingerbread cookies in preparation for his annual Christmas get-together.
Mr. Griffson: Loving husband and father of 3-ish, he spends his free time joining mafia games and not doing anything in them.
Chaos Town and Realm characters:
Mayor Stronghart: Former mayor of Chaos Town, who was ousted during Lightning's rampage. Currently the mayor of Order Town, which is a better fit for him.
Ms. Assistant: Long-suffering assistant to Mayor Stronghart who was just a little bit over all the annoying things happening in Chaos Town. She is currently on long-service leave in the Alps.
Mister Xehanort: Old man from the neighbourhood whose life purpose is to host the greatest barbecue party ever.
Bobbi Fulbright, Ruler of Everything: Former ruler of the Chaos Realm, who used her mechanical hands to try and instill Order into the realm. She willingly surrendered herself to the Temporal Authority to atone for her crimes, and is currently out of time prison on bail due to good behaviour.
Dr. Wilson: Middle-manager for the Temporal Authority, whose job is to monitor anomalies across dimensions and the space-time continuum. He's a friendly boss but constantly finds himself dumbfounded by things that are happening around him.
F.R.E.D. (Fused Reality Extradimensional Diety): Creator of the Chaos Realm and narrator of most of Nexus of Chaos. I'll be real, I blocked this part of the game out of my head and lost my notes so I don't remember all the details.
Dooplead: Award-nominated character who hails from the Gartic Wastelands, where funny goes to die. He is currently living off royalties from his deal with Discord to offer the popular :plead: emote as a Nitro exclusive.
Borrowed Portrayals:
Luke Atmey: Ace Detective who spent 5 years stuck in a jungle and then helped solve the many mysteries of Evershade Valley during the events of AKG2, with a detective's instinct so good that he stumbled upon a dead body almost every night of the game. Used to be prejudiced against wolves, but has come around to them thanks to the power of wrestling.
John Doe: An "ordinary butler" who then changed professions to an "ordinary ice cream salesman" after a scrape with death and a variety of bad party guests ruining his previous "job". Has a habit of denying his involvement in very specific crimes completely unprompted.
Vera Misham: An art student living in Neo Bowser City. Some people will tell you she is a time-travelling robot from the future who teamed up with the handsomest man in the world, 5 businessmen in a teenager's body and a friendly shopkeeper who always walks around in his briefs to defeat a supercomputer AI that takes the form of Bugs Bunny in a suit, all so that they could return to the distant past after washing a bunch of cars... Please ignore those people... It's definitely not true...
Polly (bird): A parrot who was aboard the S.S. Cetus, it was secretly the ancient being Polymobius, who tried to use a group of people who represented the 7 deadly sins to break the seal holding it in place and allow for it's revival. Fortunately, the great Captain Buggy foiled this scheme, and all affected people were safely returned to their homes.
Buggy the Clown: Pirate extraordinaire, slayer of Polymobius, and self-proclaimed co-captain of the Buggy-Fielder alliance. Thanks to Polly (bird), he joined the shipwrecked passengers of the S.S. Cetus just as they washed ashore, and proceeded to spend the next few months putting himself into a position of authority, mostly by sucking up to the other authority figures. A pathological liar who will say anything and everything if it's what he thinks the other person will want to hear, the only thing that will get him to speak truly honestly is talk of his old shipmate Shanks... usually because it gets him so mad he forgets about the lie he was currently trying to weave. Currently dead, but his story is yet to be continued.
Jackson Weele / Big Wheel / The Circumlocutory Spider-Man: A supervillain from New York and nemesis of Spider-Man, he got bitten by a radio-active Killing Game and was himself given the same powers as Spider-Man. Although he tried to change, this event ultimately taught him nothing, and he is currently back in New York losing to Spider-Man, as usual.
Agent 30: A master of investigation and disguises, this elusive man can be spotted but rarely recognised in a variety of different historical events, usually ones related to girlbosses. So enigmatic that he didn't even have an official name until the end of his final major appearance.
Agent 47: A trained hitman working under the same organisation as Agent 30. Spent a bit of time investigating some happenings on a train, but decided that he's better at causing mysteries than solving them.
Detective Bobby Fulbright: A detective whose number one motto is "In justice we trust!". A beacon of goodwill and truth, he is always willing to help out both civilians and fellow detectives to keep them on the right path. He helped out Shmaluigi with his first breakthrough case, and the two have kept in contact since then.
Space Judge: A mysterious being known for passing divine judgement on people who are convicted of wrongdoing. His favourite thing to do is read stories to his grandchildren, although they sometimes find them confusing and of dubious moral value.
Larry Butz: An artist who wants to make it big in the children's book industry, as well as a hopeless romantic (emphasis on hopeless). Easily manipulated, he has ended up having bad experiences with both Lightning the Hedgehog and Polly (bird), although both of these incidents have elements that call their exact canonicity into question.
Lotta Hart: An aspiring journalistic photographer who's always looking for her big scoop. She teamed up with Mater the Fox to find a scoop about the Pokemafia, and once also tried to get an article published about "two Mr. Edgeworths arguin' about robot and child racers", which proved difficult to sell to any of the papers.
Lana Skye: District prosecutor who recieved a tip from Cornelius about health and safety violations at the Waluigi Time Cereal Factory. Her memory is foggy and she wasn't quite feeling herself during this, so whether or not anything that happened during the day she spent there was real is questionable.
Bones: A skeleton that gets himself into various shenanigans and misadventures with his best friend/therapist Therapist. Known to bully journalists and wax philosphical about metagaming when he drinks Grumpy Gatorade.
Woop Slap: An old man who hates pirates. I think he was killed Night 1 during Pirate Mafia.
Fire Chibi Robo: Notorious clout chaser and Nintendo leaker. Likes to make stuff up to get people hyped, although his information often seems quite dubious.
LEGO Hatsune Miku from Fortnite: It's everyone's favourite character, LEGO Hatsune Miku from Fortnite, now in Mafia form! Enjoys roleplaying as LEGO Neko Hatsune Mikue from Fortnite and shooting people with her Miku-Miku Beam.
Jonesy Fortnite: A field agent for the Temporal Authority who is still alive soley due to time-travel shenanigans. His brash attitude and confidence help him to jump headfirst into danger, which usually turns out poorly for him. Has a rivalry with Donna Quiñones, an agent from a rival agency, although she is quite superior to him in both skill and temperament.
Shia Labeouf: A Hollywood superstar with a fractured psyche, he is a feral being who hears the voices of ghosts and loves nothing more than to tear apart anything he can get close to. His various hobbies and past-times have been well documented by musical journalist Rob Cantor.
Shia Labeouf: A young, bright-eyed actor who believes in the best in everyone, urging others to treat people kindly and to look out for one another. His various hobbies and past-times have yet to be documented by musical journalist Rob Cantor.
