Your various Skills will attempt to remember or guess as to what happened to your father, but they'll be trying in vain.

Ambiguously Absent Parent: The Final Cut's Fascism quest heavily implies that you were brought up by a single but loving mother.

Always Gets His Man: You are known as a 'human can-opener', because you used to have an absolutely ridiculous success rate at getting people to confess to their crimes.

Depending on how you play, you can descend into the abyss of addiction or try to follow the path of recovery. In principle, the trope's deconstructed to show off the gritty and not-so-glamorous reality of chronic alcoholism.

Agent Peacock: Has no hang-ups about dressing up like an obnoxious eyesore as a cascade effect of trying to find a wardrobe to compliment his impossibly tacky and newly purchased Horrific Necktie.

Of course, everything you say about the Insulindian Phasmid's involvement in the case turns out to be more or less true, and by passing a certain Logic check, it is implied that your theories about the workings of the pale are scarily accurate. Kim's Agent Scully, especially with a relatively high Inland Empire skill, as you will constantly come up with rather fantastical and supernatural explainations to not just the murder, but also some of the weirder situations you and Kim encounter around Martinaise.

Agent Mulder: Unless you choose to deliberately play as a Boring Cop, there is a great chance that you will fall into this role vs.

Even if you get the dream about Dora and talk to the Phasmid about letting her go, one dialogue option can have you claim that winning the case will convince Dora to come back to you, showing that you can’t let go of your obsession. Aesop Amnesia: Can optionally suffer from this.You used to be a high school gym teacher before becoming a detective, which helps explain this. And regardless of your specific skills, if you knock out Measurehead, it's with a pretty impressive spinning kick to the head. Kim is genuinely impressed by how you manage to run without pause every day (though Electrochemistry claims that's just trace amounts of speed lingering in your system). But despite having let yourself go over the years, if your Savoir Faire is high, you remain both stealthy and hard to knock down, and with high Physical Instrument, you possess considerable Stout Strength. You're not excessively fat but do have a gut. You take control of him throughout the game. The protagonist, a washed-up Defective Detective who wakes up one crisp early winter morning in a hotel room with a monster hangover and no memories of his life.

'Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm *in* it.'

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