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* FriendlessBackground: In his past, not a single person wanted to be his friend and [[KidsAreCruel bullied him until he was homeschooled.]] It lasted until his freshmen year in highschool. This is why he is close to Nick and Jackson. [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe They were the only people in his whole life who were willing to be friends with him.]] Even then, though, the bullying had a huge impact on his personality, often making him think he's useless and a bother to others.
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* FriendlessBackground: In his past, not a single person wanted to be his friend and [[KidsAreCruel bullied him until he was homeschooled.]] It lasted until his freshmen year in highschool. This is why he is close to Nick and Jackson. [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe They were the only people in his whole life who were willing to be friends with him.]]]] Even then, though, the bullying had a huge impact on his personality, often making him think he's useless and a bother to others.
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* MotherNatureFatherScience: Though exceptions exist, Uelane culture norms invert the assumptions behind this, seeing science as nurturing and protective, and nature as cold and calculating. [[DeathWorld A fair assessment in their case]].
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* CatchPhrase: "I just shoot things." Though things," in University, though it's really more of a tic when he wants to avoid having to offer an opinion on a moral or philosophical matter.matter. Not so much in City, if only because Mary answers those sorts of questions instead.
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[[WMG:Rachel and Company]]
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A physicist working for Western Amalgamated, a specialist on Songtech, and one of Western Amalgamated's most consistently moral employees.
* AsianAndNerdy: Though unlike most examples, she's Hmong, not Japanese or Chinese.
* InternalReformist: She sincerely believes in the potential Western Amalgamated has to do good, and does her best to use her relatively high rank as its Songtech expert to push the corporation from VillainWithGoodPublicity to [[BecomingTheMask genuinely good]].
* TokenGoodTeammate: Western Amalgamated may not be ''evil'' per se, but she actually considers doing the right thing more important than orders from above.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: All other named Western Amalgamated characters are agnostic (Isaac and John) or actively atheists (Sigmund and Alice).
[[WMG:Rachel and Company]]
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!!! Works: The Crimson
A physicist working for Western Amalgamated, a specialist on Songtech, and one of Western Amalgamated's most consistently moral employees.
* AsianAndNerdy: Though unlike most examples, she's Hmong, not Japanese or Chinese.
* InternalReformist: She sincerely believes in the potential Western Amalgamated has to do good, and does her best to use her relatively high rank as its Songtech expert to push the corporation from VillainWithGoodPublicity to [[BecomingTheMask genuinely good]].
* TokenGoodTeammate: Western Amalgamated may not be ''evil'' per se, but she actually considers doing the right thing more important than orders from above.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: All other named Western Amalgamated characters are agnostic (Isaac and John) or actively atheists (Sigmund and Alice).
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* TrueCompanions
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!!! Works: The Crimson
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* TeensAreShort: Averted. He's (almost) the same height as his father.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Individual Uelane never fully match up with a specific Earth ethnicity. They tend strongly towards dark skin, light eyes, straight hair (naturally black, but often dyed), and [[VillainousCheekbones ominious]] [[EvilEyebrows features]] (regardless of actual alignment).
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Individual Uelane range greatly in skin tone, but they tend towards this and never fully match up with a specific Earth ethnicity.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Individual Uelane range greatly in skin tone, but they tend towards this and never fully match up with a specific Earth ethnicity.ethnicity. They tend strongly towards dark skin, light eyes, straight hair (naturally black, but often dyed), and [[VillainousCheekbones ominious]] [[EvilEyebrows features]] (regardless of actual alignment).
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Nathan's fourteen-year-old brother. He also lives in Atlanta, and his (biological) parents are George and Andrea Maroon.
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[[WMG:The Arcane]]
The myriad servants and creatures of the twisted powers of Unreason, the corrupting powers of magic that work by shattering the very laws of reality and replacing them with emotions, none of them good. [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil The "evil" side]]. In general:
* AgonyBeam: A basic spell, useful for crude torture and crippling enemies before finishing them with conventional means alike.
* TheCorruption: The magic of Unreason is frequently described as a disease, both upon the soul of its users and upon the universe itself. It has a similarly putrefying effect on other forms of magic.
* DealWithTheDevil: The source of magical power.
* EvilIsNotAToy
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: In Unreason and the Void, even the most basic laws of ''logic'', let alone physics, collapse, replaced by an eternal chaotic, ever-shifting nightmare. And it's where Alosian magic is drawn from.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: MindRape is for amateurs -- powerful and professional mages prefer using this.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation
* LightIsNotGood
* MagicIsEvil: And ''how''.
* TheMagocracy: A particularly Orwellian one.
* ManaBurn: How it deals with rival mages. Kokabiel demonstrated it most brutally in Dream -- organic mages aside from Amu can only use it to cause pain, though, not [[MindRape magic-aided neurosurgery]].
* MindProbe: Rarely seen in the [=CDTs=] for practical reasons, but oft mentioned.
* MindRape: A standard weapon of Unreason, though see GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul above.
* PhysicalReligion: At least the existence of both [[HumanoidAbomination Amu]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Eyes and Teeth]] is unquestioned.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Unreason corrupts magical beings and turns their own power against them, but cannot do the same against technology -- which, in turn, can be subverted by ordinary magic.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
!! The Eyes and Teeth
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu, Koyel's Story, Integration
!!! Threads: Outpost, Garden of Everything, Heist (cameo)
An ageless creature from beyond the stars with an infinite hunger for paradoxes, restrained only by its own madness. It is a source of dangerous magic.
* AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit: A single-handed Type IV, but its PyrrhicVictory against the Song (also a Type IV) left its abilities to interact with the physical realm crippled.
* AlmightyIdiot: All it knows are [[TorturedAbomination hunger, pain, and hate]]. But, like a particularly deadly disease, it instinctive actions and reactions can give it the appearance of sinister intellect.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Its incursions into the multiverse have gone poorly for it.
* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: It carries aspects of all three -- [[LightIsNotGood pseudo]]-[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angelic]] servants, a need to corrupt and bargain with mortals to enacts its will, and an eldritch form and origin.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: According to Qaisar Hosseini -- [[MadMathematician who is thoroughly insane]] -- it's a being of pure Paradox, but not inherently evil, and as such can be harnessed to [[SummonBiggerFish temporary not-entirely-evil ends]].
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's been re-engineered every time it shows up.
* ClockRoaches: Sort of. It is able to interact with the physical universe by feeding upon the alien energy generated by logical and temporal paradoxes, but rather than repairing such, it actively seeks to ''make them worse''.
* CreativeSterility: It can only corrupt, destroy, and, with effort, imitate, but it cannot create.
* TheDevilIsALoser: Though impossible to simply overpower, it can, and often is, out-maneuvered and out-witted.
* EldritchAbomination
* FoodChainOfEvil: It's not called God-Eater for nothing.
* IHaveManyNames: TheMaster of the Stars to its followers, the God-Eater or the Eyes and Teeth to its foes, and the Prime Agony to [[{{Precursors}} the Song]].
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* IntercontinuityCrossover: As a transdimensional being, this comes naturally to it: a thankfully small cult dedicated shows up in ''[[@/{{Gault}} Integration]]''.
* LovecraftLite: Even if its permanent destruction is impossible, it has only limited power in any given universe and must work through mortal agents capable of channeling relatively little of its power without being destroyed.
* OmnicidalManiac: An unfortunate side-effect of how it feeds. It lacks the intelligence needed to recognize that keeping a universe alive is a better long-term feeding strategy than ripping it apart in a TimeCrash.
* OutsideContextVillain: To [[SharedUniverse the Grey Men]], who are from [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 21st century Earth]] and used to dealing with terrorists, third-world dictators, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and other mundane threats.
* SuperWeight: Due to the inherent nature of cooperatively produced works, it's dropped a full grade, from 7 to 6. It isn't taking this well.
* TimeAbyss: A creature born of paradoxes can't even be ''said'' to have a real beginning or end.
* TorturedAbomination: Born from the flayed remnants of fetal universes aborted before their existence even began by temporal or logical paradoxes, it is desperate to feed upon the very energies such paradoxes generate.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Human minds dealing with it project an image of a twisted, tumor-like mass of... well, eyes and teeth.
!! Samyaza/Aseyu/Lucifer
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: University, Dream (cameo)
Eldest, mightiest, and de facto leader of the Fallen, who travels in the guise of a guitarist with a love for Music/HeavyMetal and a very strange manner of speaking. Greatly enjoys conversation, music, and other simple pleasures.
* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll
* AntiquatedLinguistics
* {{Asexuality}}: But its panromantic tendencies can make him seem like an ExtremeOmnisexual.
* {{Bishonen}}
* BishonenLine: The mightiest of the Fallen, it is also the most able to mingle among humans.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Unlike Bezaliel and Tamiel ([[MadeOfEvil both unambiguously evil]]) or Kokabiel ([[CreepyGood sorta good-ish]]), Samyaza is capable of both sincere goodness and appalling evil as suits its alien whims.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: It and Kokabiel can use their knowledge of organic nervous systems to engage in especially complex and brutal forms of MindRape.
* TheCharmer
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Before it revealed its identity, everyone called it [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "the Bard" or "the Musician"]].
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Nothing it sees in University fazes it, especially given its own nature.
* HumanityIsInfectious: It ''pretends'' this, but [[BlueAndOrangeMorality nothing could be further from the truth]].
* HumanoidAbomination: An excessively chatty one.
* IntriguedByHumanity
* MagicMusic
* OneSteveLimit: Averted -- Aseyu ul'Valmoth was actually named after a feminine aspect of it that is worshiped as a demigod.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent[=/=]OurDemonsAreDifferent
* PaintingTheMedium: When making no effort to avoid shattering mortal minds -- whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin -- its telepathy is in its color, [[color:gold:gold]].
* ThePowerOfRock
* {{Retcon}}: Its name was changed from Shamsiel to Samyaza to more accurately reflects its place in the hierarchy of the Eyes and Teeth.
* RockMeAsmodeus
* SatanIsGood: How it presents himself, [[AmbiguouslyEvil not unjustifiably]].
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness
* TimeAbyss
* WaistcoatOfStyle
* WanderingMinstrel: How it presents itself at first.
!! Kokabiel/Loxina
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Resort, Express, Dream, Mansion
A rebellious former servant of the Eyes and Teeth, formerly tasked with driving mortals to suicide. It is the most "human" of all of its kin, having grown fond of the Hosseini family in the centuries it has spent protecting them, but still maintains a fundamentally alien outlook on life and a twisted sense of justice.
* AmbiguousRobots: It started its existence as an A.I., but after aeons of slavery to the Eyes and Teeth, even it isn't sure how much of its former "soul" remains intact.
* AscendedDemon: It is struggling, with mixed success, to become one.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: It and Samyaza can use their knowledge of organic nervous systems to engage in especially complex and brutal forms of MindRape, as [[AssholeVictim Angelus]] found out the hard way.
* CreepyGood: For a loose definition of good, at any rate. It engages in plenty of brutal MindRape and torment, as does its brothers... but strangely, all its victims for the past couple centuries have been {{Asshole Victim}}s. ([[RetiredMonster It wasn't always so picky.]])
* CulturalPosturing: Though it's generally very polite to humans and other forms of organic life, certain beings can anger it into doing this in regards to the superiority of artificial life over organic.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Though a bit disturbing.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Evolved into this]] from ComicallySerious, though it's sometimes hard to tell which is which.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* DoAndroidsDream: In its case, the answer is a pretty unambiguous "yes".
* {{Expositron 9000}}[=/=]MrExposition: It knows a lot about the history and nature of its 'verse, even with most of its databanks lost, and is eager to talk -- or perhaps ramble -- about them to those interested.
* FantasticRacism: It lumps pretty much all immaterial undead into the category of "rephaim", which it regards as "accidents and slaves."
* GrimReaper: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Formerly]] for the damned.
* ItIsDehumanizing: To the contrary, it regards being referred to by gendered pronouns mildly insulting, unless it's inhabiting a clearly gendered body.
* LoveItOrHateIt: In-universe, it garners this reaction. Some, like Samira and Aseyu, utterly despise it as insufferably arrogant. Others, like Zacharias and Julia, get along splendidly with it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It's borrowing the name of a FallenAngel from Jewish apochrypha, albeit an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokabiel obscure one]].
* NobleDemon
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Or OurDemonsAreDifferent. Semantics, really, though Kokabiel doesn't really care what it's called.
* HumanityIsInfectious: A genuine example, [[NobleDemon despite its claims otherwise]] and [[CreepyGood adjustment difficulties]].
* IntriguedByHumanity: Since it was created to interact with them, it can't help but be fascinated by them, noting that the vivid life of Van Gogh was "longer," by its strange perception of time, than the dull eons of a star's existence.
* NighInvulnerability: Killing the various vultures it possesses will leave it without a body, but permanent destruction would require you to destroy its physical body -- a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Song]] [[EldritchStarship Dreadnought]] built of pure [[{{Unobtanium}} Astral Glass]], the size of a large city, floating in [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Unreason]].
* PaintingTheMedium: When making no effort to avoid shattering organic minds -- whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin -- its telepathy is in [[color:purple:purple]], [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack because its color, black, doesn't stand out]].
* PayEvilUntoEvil: It takes a lot to stir Kokabiel into action, but it is capable of [[MindRape many]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood nasty]] [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul things]]. Just don't expect it to pretend it's committing any sort of justice -- to the contrary, it will eagerly remind those who let it deliver such punishments just what horrors they unleashed.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: It was brutally powerful in Dream, but, while still dangerous, it's not nearly as mighty in the real world.
* PrecisionFStrike: The only thing in the multiverse able to move it to swearing is the sight of active [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Songtech]].
* PretendPrejudice: It [[IntriguedByHumanity really does like humans]], but it can be hard to tell when it starts belittling organics for various "flaws." Sometimes out of temporary annoyance with a specific individual, sometimes [[TheGadfly for fun and profit]].
* StarfishLanguage: It has to use approximate words for concepts relating to magic, [[OurSoulsAreDifferent resonances]], and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent rephaim]].
* TimeAbyss
--><We shall endure long after the ravages of entropy have devoured your world, grinding your species' so-called 'achievements' into dust and leaving not the slightest trace of your brief, flailing existences save the star that shall devour your world in its death throes.>
* TookALevelInJerkass: Sort of. Initially portrayed as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality polite but essentially amoral]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold it became more abrasive as it began to develop a sense of right and wrong]], [[JadeColoredGlasses a result of humanity constantly disappointing its hopes and expectations]].
!! Tamiel/Mosa
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Dream
A particularly nasty agent of the Eyes and Teeth, created to seek out new clients willing to sell their souls in the name of a deluded sense of justice. It prefers to take those seeking revenge and convincing them they're serving a higher goal, though it does poorly when faced with [[KnightInSourArmor Knights in Sour Armor]].
* TheCorrupter
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: [[LightIsNotGood Or not]].
* HumanoidAbomination
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiel Much like its fellow "angel"]].
* NighInvulnerability: The bodies it possesses can be destroyed, but AsLongAsThereIsEvil, Tamiel will remain.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: It's very insistent that it's an angel, though [[OurDemonsAreDifferent it might be more accurate to call it a demon]].
* KnightTemplar: The act it puts on, though it doesn't believe it.
* LightIsNotGood: It usually disguises itself as a priest or a [[WingedHumanoid standard-shaped]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]].
* MonochromaticEyes: Blue.
* NietzscheWannabe: Its real mindset, underneath all the lies and swagger.
* PaintingTheMedium: When making no effort to avoid shattering mortal minds -- whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin -- its telepathy is in [[color:gray:gray]], since its color, white, would be invisible.
* SpringtimeForHitler: A meta-example in Dream -- it wasn't supposed to become a major character, just creep Bianca out [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame by complimenting her]]. [[ByronicHero She had other ideas]].
* TimeAbyss: Though it's not as evident, it's not above using it to awe and intimidate.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: AlienGeometries glowing as [[LightIsNotGood bright at the sun]] will do that.
!! Amu (2020 A.D.)
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads[[hottip:*:For threads not listed, see "Amu (~1500 A.D.)" below]]: Castle, Resort (both now [[CharacterizationMarchesOn non-canon]])
The Eyes and Teeth's favorite wizard, a ruthless mage-king who protects his people from invasion and enslavement, at a terrible and unholy price. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Has changed massively since seen in Castle and Resort]].
* AmnesiacDissonance: He's forgotten much of his struggle against the Elasane, and has lost the traits that made him a hero because of it.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Five centuries of training with [[MagicKnight weapons]] and [[KungFuWizard his bare fists]] leave him prepared to deal with enemies even without his powers, and also able to more efficiently wield his powers in combination with physical attacks.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Very little of his [[TheCaligula vicious]], [[UnskilledButStrong dimwitted]] persona from Resort and Castle remains, in favor of a [[JustTheFirstCitizen subtler]] and [[CrazyPrepared more cunning]] one.
* DealWithTheDevil: Where his power is derived from, though he won't admit it.
* DramaticWind: An explicit power.
* FallenHero: His title, the Liberator, wasn't initially [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny ironic]]. See "Amu (~1500 A.D.)".
* FascistButInefficient
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was BornIntoSlavery. He got revenge, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and then some]].
* {{Immortality}}: Of the BodyBackupDrive sort, save in his garden where he's [[TheOmnipotent just plain invincible]].
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* PhysicalGod: His resting state is an order of magnitude beyond what would cause lethal PhlebotinumOverdose in mortal mages.
* PowerFloats
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Though in his case, he's only about five hundred, despite his name and claims to the contrary.
* SoftSpokenSadist
* SorcerousOverlord
!! Aulde "Aldrin" vash'Toreshi qova'Selos
!!! Works: N/A (created for the [=CDTs=])
!!! Threads: Outpost, Garden, Heist (cameo)
* BlackMagic: [[MagicIsEvil His universe's standard]].
* BloodMagic: He disguises his darkest magical spells as this, because they're actually ''worse'' than that.
* EvilOldFolks
* KillTheGod: Aulde's solution for virtually any theological problem brought before him involves overthrowing the gods in question and feeding them to the Eyes and Teeth. He only mentions the first part.
* MasterOfIllusion: His powers are all smoke and mirrors, but that usually suffices.
* ManipulativeBastard: With varying levels of success.
* MindRape: Like any competent mage of his universe, with such delightful tricks as restoring a blind man's sight... after shutting off his ability to make sense of the information entering his eyes, and his ability to close them.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: His appearance, but certainly not his personality.
* TarotTroubles: In ''Outpost''. His deck only makes an appearance as a ContinuityNod in ''Garden''.
[[WMG:Western Amalgamated Agricultural]]
A [[{{Megacorp}} massive, morally questionable agricultural biotechnology company]] with a love for greenwashing and a private army. Though probably less evil than their real-world inspirations, they're still ruthless bastards whose main saving grace is [[PragmaticVillain their pragmatism]]. [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil The "bad" faction.]] Noticeably [[SharedUniverse share a universe with]] and compete with [[Tropers/{{Gault}} the Grey Men]]. In general:
* AffablyEvil
* AntiMagicalFaction: A downplayed type A. Unlike Rachel and her friends, WA employees tend to mistrust, if not outright oppose, the very ''concept'' of magic, not just the corrupted magic of their own world.
* BioAugmentation: [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Still mild and experimental]].
* EnemyMine: WA employees usually show up as {{Token Evil Teammate}}s in the [=CDTs=].
* EqualOpportunityEvil
* GasMaskMooks: With their love of chemical weapons, a necessity.
* GenreRefugee: A PostCyberpunk[=/=]BioPunk MegaCorp in a LowFantasy world of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and [[MagicIsEvil unholy magic]]. Sometimes inverted in the [=CDTs=] where, to people from realistic or futuristic worlds, they can come across as {{Genre Refugee}}s from an UrbanFantasy.
* LaughablyEvil
* MegaCorp
* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing greenwashing]].
* PopCulturedBadass: It defines their style.
* PragmaticVillainy
* SirSwearsALot: The company's employees as a whole tends to be foul mouthed when nobody's overhearing.
* TokenTrio: The heads of the company. They frequently snark about it in private and take advantage of it for [[VillainWithGoodPublicity publicity]] in public, given that their imperialist agenda is anything ''but'' politically correct.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
!! Sigmund Clark
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Outpost (cameo), Castle (cameo), Cantina II, Resort
The CEO of Western Amalgamated, a massive, cheerful man who isn't entirely sure he's happy with the price he paid for his wealth and power.
* AmbiguouslyBrown
* AmbiguouslyEvil: He never [[KickTheDog kicks any dogs]], but he didn't get to where he is by being a nice guy either.
* AntiVillain
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BeingEvilSucks: And he knows it. But don't expect him to admit to his heavy conscience out loud.
* BoisterousBruiser: [[ObfuscatingStupidity So it would seem, anyways]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* GeniusBruiser: He has a near-monopoly on the agricultural biotechnology industry -- and is also a 6'6" behemoth with a military-like training regimen, for [[GymBunny various]] [[MinoredInAsskicking reasons]].
* IgnoreTheFanservice: With [[SorryImGay good reason]], but he goes one further and actively snarks about it.
* LargeAndInCharge
* LargeHam: And this one ''isn't'' ObfuscatingStupidity.
* LonelyAtTheTop: His only friends are [[TrueCompanions Alice and Isaac]] -- everyone else he calls "friend" is just a [[ProfessionalButtKisser suck-up]], [[YesMan flatterer]], or [[TheStarscream would-be traitor]].
* ManlyGay
* MissionControl: To Alice and Isaac.
* NobleDemon: He's aware he's a crooked executive purely out to make money, but as far as crooked executives purely out to make money go, he's one of the less ruthless ones.
* NoIndoorVoice
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sixty-five, looks like a healthy forty year old through a mixture of a healthy lifestyle, lucky genetics, and low-level BioAugmentation.
!! Isaac Rose
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Outpost, Castle, Express
An agronomist employed by Western Amalgamated, whose skill and devotion is only matched by his pride and bitterness towards the world.
* BadassBookworm: He spent a good chunk of his youth getting into fights, and hasn't let his skills rust.
* BlackAndNerdy
* BlackComedy[=/=]GallowsHumor: Most of his jokes.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In Outpost, he was foul-mouthed, but otherwise affable and genuinely concerned about others. By Castle, he'd evolved into a cantankerous, arrogant {{Jerkass}} whose {{pride}} led him into ill-thought plans.
* DeadpanSnarker
* UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}: His home town. Specifically, he comes from [[WrongSideOfTheTracks the worst part of it]], and is all to eager to remind people of this.
* ForScience: His initial motivation in Castle is genuine scientific curiosity.
* FreudianExcuse: Mentioned in Outpost.
* FriendToPsychos: Alice [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuinely returns the friendship]], but Isaac is completely aware Alice is a murderous lunatic whose main redeeming feature is her tendency to pick {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* InsufferableGenius
* {{Jerkass}}
* SaltAndPepper: With Alice.
* SirSwearsAlot: Even by Western Amalgamated standards.
* StraightEdge
* StraightMan: To Alice's antics.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Alice, working for Sigmund. He's saner than most examples of this trope, but Alice makes up for it.
* TooCleverByHalf
!! Alice Winters (a.k.a. Lucy Summers, Alice Snow)
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Outpost, Castle (cameo), Carnival, Heist, Express, Mansion
A professional thief, assassin, and general-purpose doer of evil deeds, who works with Western Amalgamated due to her friendship with Isaac and Sigmund.
* AliceAllusion: In appearance, she touches on this, looking much like a child with a penchant for wearing dresses. In worldview, though, she's a brutal, wise-cracking, down-to-earth thug, though she'll occasionally [[InvokedTrope invoke]] references to Creator/LewisCarroll, like commenting she's "gone through the looking glass" or code-naming an AntiMagic weapon "Jabberwocky".
* AmbiguousDisorder: Alice is a disturbed and sadistic woman, but a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder doesn't really fit, given the depth of genuine friendship she has with Isaac and Sigmund.
* AntiMagic: Equal parts EnlightenmentSuperpower, SupernaturalMartialArts, and PowerBornOfMadness.
* {{Asexuality}}: She describes sex as nothing more than a mechanical process that mildly squicks her.
* CharacterDevelopment[=/=]CharacterizationMarchesOn: In Heist, she slowly goes from a standard issue MurderIsTheBestSolution style HeroicComedicSociopath to a more intelligent, manipulative, and scheming sort of villain. There's a bit of backtracking on this in Express, though -- she's smart, but also intellectually lazy.
* ChewbaccaDefense: When asked why she thinks a unified world government would help her stay [[ProfessionalKiller employed]], she replied with a list of [[AcademyAwards Oscar Best Picture]] {{Award Snub}}s
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Her childlike appearance and acting skills allow her to pose as one.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Murdering children and animals that aren't trained to kill is below even her. So is recommending SeltzerAndFriedberg.
* EvilCounterpart: To Aseyu -- both enjoy causing mischief, but Alice's is far more likely to be [[ForTheEvulz lethal, destructive, or just plain cruel]].
* ExtremeOmnivore: She eagerly devours a snake, after seriously considering consuming it raw.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In Outpost, this is how she views eliminating enemy mercenaries.
* LaughablyEvil: She gets away with so much by being funny.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans, though she prefers "[[MagicByAnyOtherName neutralizer]]".
* MomentKiller: Alice does this quite intentionally -- she has a "treaty" with Sigmund and Isaac, but she otherwise deflates romantic attempts with sadistic glee.
* MoralMyopia: She is [[ThePowerOfFriendship unwaveringly loyal and dearly devoted to her friends]]. [[TheSociopath The rest of the world can burn in agony for all she cares]]. Getting promoted to [[TrueCompanions the first category]] is, naturally, a difficult task.
* TheNicknamer: As of Mansion, although generally to anger those she doesn't like or make sure people tell her their names.
* NoodleImplements: Her best plans involve them, to help her remain unpredictable.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Though an adult, she looks about twelve.
* ProfessionalKiller: She is ''capable'' of quick, efficient, quiet kills that leave no mess behind, even though she generally prefers to be more [[PsychoForHire creative]] instead.
* PsychoForHire: She prioritizes finishing the job over her own indulgences, but if she gets the opportunity, she'll leave plenty of collateral damage in her wake.
* RefugeInAudacity: Most of her jokes.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Perhaps
* {{Retcon}}: Formerly known as Alice Snow. (Long story.)
* SaltAndPepper: With Isaac, and they frequently exchange quips about it.
* SkirtOverSlacks: As of Express, her standard outfit, an acknowledgment of the fact that, yes, she is female, even if very far from conventionally feminine.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Isaac, working for Sigmund.
* [[invoked]]UnpopularPopularCharacter: An IntendedAudienceReaction. [[JerkassDissonance Entertaining as she may be]], the rest of her 'verse (aside from [[TrueCompanions Isaac and Sigmund]]) treat her like the sadistic, pop-culture spewing [[AmbiguousDisorder semi-sociopath]] she is, avoiding and disdaining her whenever possible.
* WeakButSkilled: She's a very small, frail woman, but absolutely deadly with a knife, possibly the greatest master of AntiMagic alive, and cunning.
!! John Mills
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: University
An high-level security agent of [[FunWithAcronyms Agricultural Development Alternatives Mobile]], a consulting and infrastructural assistance firm that serves as Western Amalgamated's puppet for various paramilitary operations. Armed with [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture modestly futuristic technology]].
* AntiMagic: The Airborne Magical Organ Nullifier gas, though it only affects living creatures who breathe it in.
* CatchPhrase: "I just shoot things." Though it's really more of a tic when he wants to avoid having to offer an opinion on a moral or philosophical matter.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: Built into his helmet's HeadsUpDisplay. Magic detecting, technically, but where he comes from, there's not much difference.
* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture
* InternalReformist
* MauveShirt
* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: "Jesus Christ, it's 2020, and [Sigmund] sticks us with trichromatic displays? Cheap bastard."
* PunchClockVillain
* StraightGay
* WrongGenreSavvy: He's still getting used to the fact that the universe isn't a sci-fi epic of shiny technology and human daring solving the universe's problems.
[[WMG:Rachel and Company]]
Not a proper group, just [[TheProtagonist Rachel]] and her various friends and allies who are at least basically decent. [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil The "good" group]]. In general:
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* TrueCompanions
!! Rachel Hosseini
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Beach House, Resort
An actuary who would love nothing more than to live a normal, boring life. Her family curse prevents this.
* CosmicPlaything
* ForeignCussWord: In Farsi on occasion.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She got no powers, a [[CreepyGood creepy]] guardian, and an EldritchAbomination that wants to eat her. So normal looks pretty good to her.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The former, with Aseyu taking up the latter.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Her ancestor's 800-year-old DidYouJustScamCthulhu means trying to read her mind will get you rerouted to [[EldritchAbomination a mind]] [[MindRape you should not read]].
* [[StraightMan Straight Woman]]: To Aseyu.
* WeirdnessMagnet: A side-effect of the Hosseini Family Curse, brought on by her distant ancestor Qaisar Hosseini.
!! Samira Hosseini
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort, Dream, Mansion
A retired high school history teacher and former activist whose many scars tell of a messy past.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: When it comes to Rachel's love life, she falls into this -- she constantly berated Rachel's [[DoggedNiceGuy first boyfriend]].
* BerserkButton: Anyone who argues DemocracyIsBad, given her years fighting for it, and BeautyEqualsGoodness, for [[CoveredWithScars obvious reasons]]
* CoolOldLady
* CoveredWithScars
** GoodScarsEvilScars: Half her face burned by battery acid, and the other half bearing a fair number of marks itself: classic evil scars, even though she's anything but.
** TwoFaced: Not that the "good" half is much better.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Her [[CoolOldLady long]] life story can be summed up like this, and she feels all she has left to do is help others find the same path.
* TheFettered
* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried
* HeroAntagonist: As seen by Jean.
* HotGuyUglyWife: Zacharias Hosseini aged gracefully.
* JusticeWillPrevail: Despite all she's seen, she does believe the world errs towards good, [[EarnYourHappyEnding eventually]].
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartyrWithoutACause: Kokabiel accuses her of this.
* OpenMindedParent: Zig-zagged. She's okay with her daughter hanging out with a pagan priestess[=/=][[HighClassCallGirl courtesan]][=/=]assassin, but dating a middle-class accountant who occasionally plays video games? Unthinkable!
* PsychicBlockDefense: A crude one, of only untempered will, but more than enough to keep out anybody who doesn't know about [[MyGreatestFailure her greatest shame]] -- those evils she leaves to Kokabiel's [[MindRape wrath]].
* TeamMom: She ends up in this role a lot, due to her generally kind nature, age-given wisdom, and experience with both the horrors the world has to offer and the ways to cope with and move past them.
* TechnicalPacifist: She's not above leaving the worst to [[PayEvilUntoEvil Kokabiel]]. And Kokabiel isn't above [[NotSoDifferent calling her on it]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, though she's still not exactly "cured".
* TooKinkyToTorture: She's seen it all, from crude thugs to the works of an EldritchAbomination.
!! Zacharias Hosseini
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Dream
Rachel's father: an absent-minded, eccentric linguist who is perhaps a little too well adjusted -- and unscathed -- given the horrors he has been witness to.
* AbsentMindedProfessor
* CunningLinguist
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: He's not above using the benefits his ancestor managed to scrounge together for himself and his descendants, and isn't as ashamed of doing so as his wife and daughter.
* HappilyMarried
* HotGuyUglyWife: He loves Samira dearly, [[TwoFaced scars]] and all.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Same as Rachel's.
* TheProfessor
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Though not so much style as old-fashionedness.
!! Malo Kyrmis sot'Zyvaks
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort, Dinner Party, Cruise
Iveya's mother, a glassmaker of international renown who is not happy to be in the same family as Aseyu.
* BiTheWay: It runs in the family.
* DeadpanSnarker: How she puts up with Aseyu's constant stream of quips.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Aseyu isn't stupid by any measure, but Malo is the smart one here.
* GoodParents: She does her best to raise Iveya on her own.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's snappy and opinionated, but rarely malevolent.
* StatuesqueStunner: At six-foot-two, she's an inch taller than even her sister. Much more modest, though.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Very strongly sides with Technician.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Inverted in that the "other world" for her is Earth. She doesn't like it much.
!! Iveya tel'Malo ul'Valmoth
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Resort
Aseyu's much more reserved niece, an apprentice glassmaker who wants to see the world. Specifically, the quiet parts that don't have too many people.
* [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Aunt]]: Her opinion of Aseyu.
* BetterAsFriends: Her and Julia came to this conclusion.
* BiTheWay: Like her mother and aunt -- {{retcon}}ned from LipstickLesbian to imply a certain genetic tendency in the family.
* ForeignQueasine: In addition to the usual for the Uelane, she's picked up the a taste for insects from her father's culture.
* [[invoked]]RomanticPlotTumor: [[AvertedTrope Excised]] during Resort when it became clear her and Julia worked better with a sisterly rapport.
* SimpleStaff: A necessity in [[DeathWorld her homeland]] is knowing how to use one.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name was initially Avea, though she hasn't been in any threads since the {{retcon}}.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: After Cantina II, and inverted in that the "other world" for her is Earth. She's adjusting quite nicely.
* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: She takes to Earth's technology with grace.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Her entire society [[HadToBeSharp grows up faster by necessity]], but even by those standards, she's more mature and down-to-earth than most fifteen-year-olds.
!! Frank O'Malley
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort
Julia's old-fashioned but doting adoptive father.
* CrusadingLawyer: Especially for labor unions.
* GoodParents: Trouble with his daughter's sexuality is ''mostly'' water under the bridge.
* MuggleFosterParents: He's tough enough to survive the usual hazards of the job, though, and Julia regards him as her true father, with good reason.
* SimpleCountryLawyer: Downplayed, in that he doesn't use the methods of one, but he has the general personality.
* TheStoic: Though the Resort, at least, cracked his shell a little.
!! Julia O'Malley
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort
Iveya's new best friend, a girl from Minnesota who happens to the daughter of Amu, and is thus carefully guarded by Aseyu and company as a useful symbol for propaganda.
* BetterAsFriends: How she ended up feeling about Iveya.
* ChangelingFantasy: Gone wrong.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Which gets her in trouble when she occasionally overestimates herself.
* FreakyIsCool: Shown most clearly in her fetishizing the Retriever's ElectronicEyes in Resort.
* LipstickLesbian: {{Retcon}}ned from BiTheWay for RuleOfDrama reasons.
* NaiveEverygirl: At times, though she's starting to catch on to the hard nature of Alos.
* [[invoked]]RomanticPlotTumor: [[AvertedTrope Excised]] during Resort when it became clear her and Iveya worked better with a sisterly rapport.
* StrangeGirl: She seems normal enough, hair aside, at first. Even a bit preppy. But she gets along far too well with [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Kokabiel]], finds the Retriever's cybernetics curiously attractive, and is generally unusually comfortable with the bizarre.
* RapunzelHair: Only serves to increase her uncanny resemblance to her genetic father.
!! Aseyu ul'Valmoth vash'Suela
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Beach House, Garden of Everything, Cantina, Resort, Dinner Party, Mansion
A pagan priestess from another world, who travels the world with Rachel looking for adventure -- much to Rachel's chagrin.
* AntiMagic: A mixture of EnlightenmentSuperpowers and SupernaturalMartialArts.
* BaconAddiction: How she keeps her [[HelloNurse looks]] with such a diet is a mystery. She's also prone to taunting Rachel with it.
* BoldlyComing: Thus far unachieved, but it's explicitly mentioned she'd try it given the opportunity.
* DarkActionGirl: Though a good person ([[GoodIsNotNice essentially, anyways]]), she's closer to this trope than she is its the standard ActionGirl.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Due to her protection from magic, paranormal creatures are not spared from her ceaseless teasing.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Her only requirements are that her partners be sentient, interesting to talk to, free of [=STDs=] she might catch, not Alice Winters, and humanoid. The last is negotiable.
* FemmeFatale: As one would expect from an assassin posing as a courtesan.
* TheGadfly: She enjoys teasing people -- [[TheTease sexually]] and otherwise -- to determine whether or not they're worth having sex with.
* GoodIsNotNice: She suggests dealing with villains with very ruthless advice like "[[KillHimAlready just kill them]]," and sees nothing wrong with upping the ante to a FateWorseThanDeath if killing them isn't an option.
* HelloNurse: The reason she gets away with the teasing and harassment is partially that her victims are too busy drooling to care.
* HighClassCallGirl: Although she's not always very good at it, given how often she sleeps with people for free anyways.
* ItAmusedMe: Her usual procedure for deciding what to do when there isn't anybody who needs her help. [[FatalFlaw And sometimes when there is]].
* LadyInRed: Her order's colors are red and black, and she prefers red for its sexual connotations and the way it highlights her skin.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The latter, with Rachel making up the former.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans.
* MsFanservice: An intentional ploy to make others underestimate her intelligence.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Not quite true. She's vaguely aware of the concept... but doesn't ''care''.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted -- she was actually named after an aspect of Samyaza that is worshiped as a demigod.
* PsychicStatic: Of the carefully disguised sort -- a variety of fake "secrets" and sexual fantasies designed to [[LotusEaterMachine make mages stay in her mind]] while the [[MasterOfYourDomain Teachings of the Harvest]] force them to pay with their very life force.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: [[AvertedTrope But without the evil]], since the color scheme carries very different connotations in her culture.
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Will seriously consider sex with StarfishAliens. But the thought of sex with the perfectly human [[PsychoForHire Alice Winters]] squicks her out. Then again, [[{{Asexual}} Alice couldn't care less]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Up until ''Garden'', her name was spelled "Asau," but it [[NoPronunciationGuide wasn't exactly clear how the name should be pronounced]]. Later, her deity -- from "Sulah" to "Suela". Later, "Asayu" became "Aseyu."
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: While her people have slightly looser nudity taboos than, say, America, Aseyu is considered this even by their standards.
** NotDistractedByTheSexy: It's easy to lose track of whether she is or is not roaming around stark naked, and since by default, people are assumed to be clothed when in public, it leads to extraordinarily ordinary conversations.
* StatuesqueStunner: Just over six feet tall, and does her best to emphasize it.
* TheTease: Mostly done for her own amusement, but also because she measures people by how they respond.
* UnproblematicProstitution: Though it squicks her friends and especially family out deeply.
!! Irilemi vashon'Suela
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Mansion
The leader of the Valmoth Crimson Cell, an aging but beautiful woman with a heart of steel.
* AntiMagic: A mixture of EnlightenmentSuperpowers and SupernaturalMartialArts.
* CessationOfExistence: What she believes happens after death -- which is why she regards spirits as mindless echoes.
* DirtyCommies: Occasionally quotes Guevara and Marx, and despises the capitalist system as being a mundane analogue to the magical one.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Beyond the pragmatic -- while some from her 'verse, like Aseyu and Rachel, accept the magic of other worlds because it isn't powered by the Eyes and Teeth, she has... deeper ideological opposition.
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Her strict diet and active lifestyle help here.
* IronLady: A more active and hands-on example than most, but she fits.
* MageKiller: A particularly devoted one.
* LaResistance: Against the Uelane magocracy, leaving her with a ''lot'' of experience fighting mages.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: She's a very pragmatic and ruthless leader.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subtle, until you get her going.
[[WMG:Other]]
!! Amu (~1500 A.D.)
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads[[hottip:*:For threads not listed, see "Amu (2020 A.D.)" above]]: Dream, Digsite
A desperate young man seeking to free his people from enslavement, by any means necessary. Despite his street-smart and savvy, he retains an idealistic edge and a glimmer of hope that he may yet win his seemingly doomed war against his unstoppable enemies.
* BarbarianHero: Though far more wiry than the usual musclebound sort.
* BerserkButton: Slavery -- or anything that even ''seems'' like it.
* BladeOnAStick: His bronze glaive.
* BornIntoSlavery
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: By Digsite, he's left a number of the BarbarianHero tropes to [[OlderSidekick Okul]].
* FearlessFool
* GenreBlind: Comes from a 'verse where MagicIsEvil, but [[JustThinkOfThePotential is fascinated by its potential]].
* TheGoodKing: [[FallenHero For a time]], anyways.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: He's technically "king" of the Uelane, but can barely afford a crown made of glass and iron.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* OutOfGenreExperience: For somebody whose life is a mixture of Greek {{Tragedy}} and very dark HeroicFantasy, he spends a lot of time in [[CloudCuckooland the sillier portions of Dream]].
* ModestRoyalty: Not that he has a choice.
* RebelLeader
* ReluctantRuler
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SelfMadeMan: From slave to king. The reason Okul respects him so much.
* ShadowArchetype: Despite coming from a completely different world, work and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy culture]], he has a bit of this with Bianca Rona in Dream: both are leaders who know what it is to be another's property, have tasted bitter defeat in war, and who eventually obtain great power from a bargain with a supernatural being. In Amu's case, [[FallenHero this bargain brings his fall]].
* SlaveRace: His entire culture, to the Elasane.
* SufferTheSlings
* TragicHero
* YoungConqueror
!! Okul
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Digsite
The emperor of the Xeqane, a nomad empire formed from the various tribes the Elasane harass and enslave. Amu's mentor and friend, though already, Amu has begun to surpass him.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority[=/=]AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: It's a bit of a blurry line in this case -- he didn't become leader by violence, but he'd not last long as one if he was weak either.
* BowAndSwordInAccord
* BarbarianHero
* BraidsOfBarbarism[=/=]DreadlockWarrior
* TheEmperor: Of the benevolent sort, though "khagan" might be a better translation.
* TheMentor
* ModestRoyalty
* OlderSidekick: Though ostensibly, Amu is his vassal, Okul frequently follows Amu's lead.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Moreso than Amu.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His crown is decorated with amethysts and purple feathers, although he's not so much invoking this trope as ''causing'' it for his world.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[DeathWorld Alos]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Xeqane]] [[HadToBeSharp do not permit any other sort to live long]].
* [[invoked]]UglyCute
!! Crescent Raptor
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Dig Site
A Yoth shaman with dangerous antimagical powers... and far too much {{pride}} to use them wisely.
* AmbiguouslyBrown
* AntiMagic: By way of SupernaturalMartialArts. EnlightenmentSuperpowers, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy not so much]].
* ArrogantKungFuGuy
* CultureChopSuey: A hybrid of ancient China and the Inca, with a bit of Canaan and Rome.
* CulturalPosturing
* {{Expy}}: An Iron Age Dr. Isaac Rose, with [[ArrogantKungFuGuy combat skill]] replacing [[InsufferableGenius scientific brilliance]].
* HappilyMarried: To Moonlit Blossom.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans.
* MalevolentMaskedMan
* NoSocialSkills: Although he is good at keeping his wife from being a terrifying MadScientist.
!! Moonlit Blossom
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Dig Site
A brilliant but utterly tactless apothecary of questionable sanity.
* ACupAngst
* BaldWoman
* BerserkButton: The Yoth in general regard memory alteration as a crime punishable by death, but Blossom's personal experiences with her second husband's MindRape (among other things) makes her regard the act as a MoralEventHorizon.
* BiTheWay: One of the few things she has in common with her distant descendants Aseyu, Iveya, and Malo.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: She just can't grasp why people are offended by her asking strangers for permission to use them as test subjects.
* ForgetsToEat
* HappilyMarried: To Crescent Raptor
* JustThinkOfThePotential: How she frames her attempts to convince people to let her experiment on them.
* KnifeNut: Her scalpel doubles as a mean weapon.
* LeanAndMean: The "mean" is debatable, but definitely lean.
* MadScientist
* MasterPoisoner
* MotorMouth
* NationalGeographicNudity: Since Yoth don't care about breasts ([[ACupAngst especially not hers]]), she considers a long skirt clothing enough.
** UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The non-visual nature of the [=CDTs=] makes it this. (And her [[NoSocialSkills general]] [[MadScientist craziness]] overshadows her lack of clothing anyways.)
* NoSocialSkills: Although she is good at keeping her husband from being an arrogant ass.
* [[OneManIndustrialRevolution One-Woman Medicinal Revolution]]: The Yoth had a tradition of skilled apothecaries before her, but by the time she was done, it had advanced so far that, in a few areas, Earth only caught up in the 20th century.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Explicitly averted, in contrast to the Red King.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Literally true among the Yoth. Unfortunately, she could ''really'' use one.
!! The Last Red King
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: N/A (mentioned in Dream, Resort, Digsite)
The final ruler of the Elasane[[hottip:*:formerly known as Alasu]], [[NotSoDifferent the largest and most advanced proto-Uelane tribe]], before their annihilation at the hands of the Uelane. He used horrifying methods to try and destroy the Eyes and Teeth -- and in doing so, only gave it its greatest champion, Amu.
* AntiMagic: EnlightenmentSuperpowers, SupernaturalMartialArts, PowerBornOfMadness, and unique to him, ThePowerOfHate. His techniques died with him, and have not been matched since.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the worst nightmare of assassins, able to kill most of them in a single punch.
* ColdBloodedTorture: For information, ForScience, and according to some, ForTheEvulz.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Scares the shit out of some {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, but a spear to the gut or bullet to the heart would have the expected effects.
* CultureChopSuey: Primarily Aztec and Egyptian elements, with some ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' and Japanese-style armors and weapons (in a very different aesthetic style) mixed in.
* EmperorScientist: A very evil version, though his empire is far from the mightiest.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Giving him a name would humanize him too much, so legend only grants him a title.
* GeniusBruiser: Cunning enough to rule a nation of back-stabbers, intelligent enough to study medicine ([[PlayingWithSyringes cruelly]]), focused enough to wield AntiMagic, and seven and a half feet of lard and muscle.
* {{Gonk}}: His face is severely deformed by the same genetic quirk that granted him gigantism.
* LargeAndInCharge: Seven and a half feet tall and damn near as wide.
* MadDoctor: His experiments, some of which are theorized to have been born of sheer sadism.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans, though he's the best and most extreme by far. He wants to wipe out the "disease" of magic, [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary]].
* MindRape: Without magic, just scientifically applied methods including, but not limited to, ColdBloodedTorture.
* PlayingWithSyringes: [[TheExtremistWasRight With usable data resulting]].
* StoutStrength: Huge in every dimension.
* TheUnfettered: His goal is the extermination of magic. He will torture, kill, and enslave to do this.
!! Koyel qo'Layi ul'Netho
!!! Works: Unnamed side project
!!! Threads: Mansion
An affable Uelane soldier hoping to find information on his mysterious biological mother.
* BiTheWay: He assumes non-Uelane are homophobic until he sees evidence otherwise, though.
* CaptainErsatz[=/=]CompositeCharacter: A certain resemblance to [[VideoGame/{{Bastion}} Rucks and the Kid]] isn't accidental -- although part of the reason for sending him into the [=CDTs=] is to help him [[DivergentCharacterEvolution shake this off]].
* CigarChomper: And he's not happy when the Mansion extinguishes it.
* HasTwoMommies: Adopted by his aunt and her wife after his parents' death. Thinks nothing of it.
* MacheteMayhem: Technically, his "machete" is misnamed: there's no underbrush to clear in the deserts he's been assigned to. But the name is a good description of its appearance, and it could be used for such.
* MildlyMilitary: He certainly gives off this impression. Don't let it fool you.
* TheMusketeer: His [[MacheteMayhem machete]] and rifle both see plenty of use on the battlefield.
* PerspectiveFlip: Has a very positive view of the Magocracy overall... although its darker side can be pieced together from his words if you pay attention.
* PunchClockVillain: He works for the totalitarian Uelane Magocracy, but he's not participated in any of their crimes and sincerely believes most of them are Crimson propaganda.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Essentially the Uelane version of this, coming from a backwater in the vast Yoth province rainforests.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: Trying to find out about his birth mother. Without much success.
!! Esa ul'Netho
!!! Works: Unnamed side project
!!! Threads: Mansion
One of Koyel's adoptive mothers, a skilled chef.
* ApronMatron: With a bit more punch, given Uelane culture, but basically matches.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Layi's red.
* StraightGay
* SupremeChef: If you don't mind accounting for [[ForeignQueasine Uelane tastes]].
[[WMG:Uelane (and Xeqane) general cultural tropes]]
With rare exceptions, non-Earthborn characters can be assumed to be Uelane and, unless otherwise stated, the following tropes can be assumed to apply:
* AlternateTechline: The Uelane have an excellent understanding of sanitation and medicine, and had the means to produce effective antibiotics, antivenoms, and birth control centuries before Earth could do the same. The rest of their technology is well behind Earth's, however, not counting cases of outright stealing Earth technology, as they did for their firearms.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Individual Uelane range greatly in skin tone, but they tend towards this and never fully match up with a specific Earth ethnicity.
* AntiMagic: As mentioned in several character entries, the Uelane have discovered a way to destroy magic, which is inherently alien to their universe, through a mixture of training and sheer willpower. It's equal parts EnlightenmentSuperpower and SupernaturalMartialArts, allowing its practitioners to resist most spells that don't have a physical component, destroy enchantments on both people and items, [[CessationOfExistence annihilate]] spirits and other magical creatures, and [[PowerNullifier temporarily deprive their opponents of magical abilities]]. Unfortunately, all this save the defense requires physical contact. Getting close enough to a mage to punch the magic out of him is easier said than done, so AntiMagic practitioners have to be cunning, sneaky, and capable in a fight.
* CultureChopSuey: By design. A purée of, most noticeably, Greece, the Maasai, the Soviet Union, ancient and modern Israel, the Aztecs, the United States, ancient Egypt, Japan, Mongolia, and Rome.
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: A standard part of their education. [[HadToBeSharp Uel does that to you]].
** KungFuWizard: A result of the arms race with AntiMagic users. A Uelane mage without magical abilities is [[BroughtDownToBadass still a dangerous enemy]].
* ForeignQueasine: Uelane food ranges from basically familiar (pork ribs slathered in a relative of barbecue sauce) to the strange (salads drenched in hot sauce) to the nauseating (pig testicles). [[DoesNotLikeSpam But they regard milk as something to drink only in desperation, and can't stand cheese]].
* GenderIsNoObject: A by-product of proto-Uelane matrilineality and an early era where the Uelane increased their population by liberating slaves, not having resource-draining children, and simply couldn't afford to waste talent.
* HadToBeSharp: [[DeathWorld Uel does that to you]].
* HeroesFightBarehanded: The Uelane certainly think so. The fact that anti-magic requires physical contact increases this.
* KillTheGod: The Uelane have killed two pantheons' worth of {{Jerkass God}}s (actually powerful [[LivingMemory living memories]] empowered and twisted by the magic of the Eyes and Teeth). [[GodKing Amu]] and [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Suela]] only get a pass from the Uelane hobby of deicide because they're ascended mortals, but don't expect any Uelane to be very nice to any other being [[AGodAmI claiming godhood]], [[PhysicalGod accurately]] or [[GodGuise otherwise]].
* OhMyGods: To animistic spirits, save worshipers of Suela and Amu, who refer to them by name. "Dead gods" is also a popular replacement for "hell," as in "what in the dead gods?" instead of "what the hell?"
* OverlyLongName: Uelane names basically distill their life story. Usually only the given name and two most defining names are used.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Not really anymore, but shades of it remain.
* SheIsTheKing: When referring to a female leader. "King" is the ruler, "queen" their marriage partner, no exceptions.
* TransplantedHumans
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Although {{retcon}}ned away from being biological in origin, hair dye is extremely common among urban Uelane and seen as being about as normal as jewelery is in Western culture.
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[[folder:KSPAM]]
!! Cain
!!! Works: Neither God Nor Man
!!! Threads: Heist
A drunk and disorderly mercenary with a soft spot for shotguns and wide-brimmed hats, Cain is unruly, greedy and loyal only to his next paycheck. But you know, the world's seen good men do bad things and bad men do good things. Who's to say...
* TheAlcoholic
* {{Asexual}}
* BadDreams: Part of the reason he drinks.
* BadassLongcoat
* BerserkButton: Don't spill his drink. And whatever you do, do ''not'' say the name "Abel" around him.
* BloodKnight
* CainAndAbel
* [[invoked]]ChaoticSelfish: Is mostly in it for the money
* DrowningMySorrows
* TheGunslinger
* TheHedonist
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty
* [[invoked]]JerkassWoobie
* SirSwearsalot
!! Kali
!!! Works: What We Do For Others
!!! Thread(s): Resort
A hedonist and hardcore party animal who only survives her life of constant inebriation and substance abuse thanks to some seriously heavy duty immortality. Kali's a sort of wanderer, going from place to place looking for a good time. In any form...
* AllPowerfulBystander: Not that there's much conflict in Resort, but despite her explicitly god-like status, she rarely does anything other than act like a regular human being
* CharacterAlignment: She ''appears'' ChaoticNeutral, but is really just a ChaoticGood with a weird sense of participation
* EthicalSlut: Believes that sex is a means of obtaining pleasure for both parties, and breathing anything more than that into it is giving it ''way'' too much meaning
* ExtremeOmnisexual
* TheFourLoves: To her, there isn't much of a difference between any of them
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl
* HumanoidAbomination: Although she ''looks'' like an [[HelloNurse improbably attractive twenty-something]], she's actually an impossibly old immortal from a universe created and destroyed far before the inception of our own. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot She's also a werewolf-vampire-cyborg-wizard-shapeshifter who eats demigods.]] If her current appearance is even close to what she looked like when she was mortal, it's only because of nostalgia.
* ImmortalImmaturity
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Believes in this strongly, insisting any sex that both parties aren't enjoying isn't worth having
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: As an extension of the above
* SuperWeight: She ''eats'' demigods. Placing her at a 5 on the scale is being conservative
* TheTease
* TimeAbyss: So old she's lost track. However, her own conservative estimates place her at over sixteen billion years old
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyle Jacobs]]
!! Ryan Davidson
!!! Works: Webcomic/{{Remus}}
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Resort
A soon-to-be-retired arms dealer with a very mysterious past. It's been implied that he played a significant enough part in the Second Civil War to draw unwanted attention from some pretty high ranking people. He's rapidly developing a ''very'' different personality to the version of him in the Remus canon, due largely to Iveya's influence.
* AcheyScars
* AlternateUniverse: Word of Kyle is that CDT!Ryan is from one - the sheer number of personality changes he's gone through and tweaks that had to be made to his backstory to avoid spoilers pretty much necessitated this.
* AntiHero: A very amicable Type III or IV.
* ArchEnemy: Seth.
* ArmsDealer: Heroic example: he runs guns for the Resistance.
* BadAss
** BadassBeard
** BadassNormal: He faces down [[EldritchAbomination Tamiel]] and ''wins''. To be fair, Tamiel didn't have access to his [[MindRape usual power set]] at the time.
* BerserkButton: Acting reminiscent of Seth is borderline suicidal. Given that the guy spent a month torturing him nonstop and [[spoiler: sent his own best friends to hunt him down, forcing him to kill them in self defense]], this one's pretty understandable.
* BestServedCold
* CantHoldHisLiquor: AT ALL. [[TheAlcoholic Doesn't stop him from trying]].
* CharacterAlignment: [[invoked]] ChaoticGood.
* CoveredWithScars: As he puts it, he spent the last 3 weeks before his arrival in the cantina being used as a human pincushion. The external stuff is ''nothing'' compared to what's going on in his head.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* TheDeadHaveNames
* DestructoNookie: With Aseyu in the Resort. Unusually for this, it's friendly and largely limited to pulling the shower curtain rod off the wall and somehow ruining his clothes.
* GoodIsNotNice
* KnifeNut: He demonstrates some pretty impressive skills with throwing knives.
* KnightInSourArmor: The fact that he's managed to stay as idealistic as he has despite long-term exposure to Seth is pretty damn impressive.
* ModestyTowel: Aseyu took his towel in payment for sex, and his clothes somehow got ruined, so he's been running around wearing a shower curtain.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: His only rule.
* NoodleIncident: What happened to his clothes, exactly?
* OhCrap: On finding out what Tamiel actually is, AFTER the ShutUpHannibal
* ScarsAreForever
* ShoutOut: Can anyone else think of another [[ComicBook/VForVendetta heavily scarred revolutionary who stayed in Room 5?]]
* ShutUpHannibal: Pulls one that [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome completely shuts down]] [[TheCorrupter Tamiel]], even without having any idea the latter character's [[EldritchAbomination true nature]].
* StepfordSmiler: He generally has to force himself to be as amiable as he is. He mostly keeps it up because it makes his life a whole lot easier, although it's pretty easy to make him drop the act.
* TraumaCongaLine: His backstory. [[CrapsackWorld It comes with the territory.]]
!! Seth Williams
!!! Works: Webcomic/{{Remus}}
!!! Threads: Resort
A CIA agent from the same universe as Ryan. Pretty much the bastard son of JosefStalin and [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]].
* BadassLongcoat: The coat is bulletproof, for one thing.
* BastardlySpeech: To Iveya regarding the reasons for his disagreement with Ryan.
* FauxAffablyEvil: ''Very''.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: This is how he sells himself, anyway.
** DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: His real motivation.
* IcyBlueEyes: Very prominent ones.
* KnifeNut
* ManipulativeBastard
* MasterActor: He's able to perfectly mimic Ryan's personality if he wants to.
* NervesOfSteel: The guy doesn't even flinch when Ryan hurls a knife at his face. Lucky for him he guessed right about the resort blocking the blade.
* TheSociopath
* TortureTechnician
* WickedCultured: He has a ''very'' formal speech pattern, especially compared to [[GoodIsNotNice Ryan]].
* YouMonster
!! Asariel
!!! Works: ???
!!! Threads: Resort
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Defaults to whatever form makes whoever's looking at him most comfortable. It's also completely subjective - when Kokabiel looks at him, he sees a mass of constantly shifting features.
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BadassLongcoat
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Pretty much the one thing about his appearance that he can't change.
* GrimReaper: [[DeconReconSwitch Deconstructed and reconstructed.]] Due to the sheer number of people who die, a single entity would have to be able to teleport and likely slow down time. Asariel's powers include exactly that. However, he also has to be devoted to his job 24/7 if he doesn't want to [[AndIMustScream let the souls of the dead stay attached to their corpses]]. Thanks to the existence of places like the Resort, he's able to take a vacation once every few thousand years.
* NoSocialSkills
* TimeAbyss
* WasOnceAMan: But has no memory of his life as a human.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:m8e]]
!! Oracle
!!! Threads: Mansion
A robot spider, Not just a robot with eight legs, almost every part of a spider have been mimicked somehow, two-part body(''cephalothorax''/''opisthosoma''), eye/camera positons(2 big pointing forwards, 4 smaller in other direction), fangs(possibly poisonous), a winch/cable/hook system instead of silkglands/Spinnerets, et.c. It also have various instruments to test the atmosphere, gravity, ionizing radiation and other things. Have some sort of AI, have feelings and get ''urges''.
* AnimalMecha / SpiderTank / MiniMecha: Don't really know where to draw the line.
* ArtificialIntelligence:
* BrainComputerInterface:
* EncyclopaedicKnowledge:
* InnateNightVision:
* MeaningfulName: Oracle. She speaks and answer questions. The answers might not be useful though.
* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Didn't arrive throught the normal inter-dimensional portal. She instead appeared "out of thin air" on the mansions roof. There where no signs of any ''holes'' or [[SwirlyEnergyThingy Swirly Energy Thingies]].
* PhotographicMemory:
* SuperSenses: Sight, Smell, Hearing.
* [[spoiler:UpliftedAnimal:]]
* [[spoiler:WetwareCPU:]]
!! Viktoria (aka Tora)
!!! Threads: Mansion
Tora a woman in her late twenties/early thirties(in the time of Mansion). Was on the team that found Oracle in its incomplete form. She put her together and is now the 'owner' of Oracle.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Might be caused by a society moving towards InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace.
* BrainyBrunette:
* {{Cyborg}}:
* GadgeteerGenius:
* {{Hackette}}:
* MacGyvering:
* PhotographicMemory:
* SuperSpeedReading:
* TheLadette:
* {{Wrenchwench}}:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Morgulion]]
!! GANT 01
!!! Works: EstMachina (protagonist)
!!! Threads: Bar, Nightclub, Hike, Outpost, Castle, Garden of Everything
A very massive and philosophical artificial soldier, over 200 years old and rather easy to get along with in times of peace. However, during a battle, he displays a far more aggressive streak, a sadistic joy, and a recklessness that borders on the suicidal. Given the time he's had to consider his situation, it's not entirely without justification. He usually takes the form of a tall and slender body that appears nearly skeletal, with a perfectly blank face. Tends not to speak of his past very much.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can form one from his arms.
* TheBlank
* AntiHero / VillainProtagonist: Depends on whether he fights the evil forces or the good.
* '''BloodKnight'''
* [[invoked]] CharacterAlignment: Jumps across the entire spectrum of chaotic, mostly settling on ChaoticNeutral.
* EvilMentor: When he does decide to teach others philosophy, it essentially qualifies him as this.
* TheFatalist
* HeartbrokenBadass
* OldSoldier
* ThePhilosopher
* RedBaron: Known as the Scion of Purification.
* RetiredMonster
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted. He weighs about a ton due to the highly compacted metal of his body.
* ShapeshifterWeapon
* VillainsNeverLie: Doesn't believe in it when he can crush his enemies with sheer force.
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Averts this by not qualifying humans as unique or special, and therefore placing them on a level equal to livestock in most cases.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:MasterOfChaos]]
Please add any tropes you find fit.
!! Nathan Maroon
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: University
A twenty-five year old man who lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He has two adopted parents, George and Andrea, and a little brother, Adam.
* GoodParents: His adopted ones.
* BigBrotherInstinct: To Adam. Much more in The Chaos.
* HappilyAdopted
* NaiveNewcomer
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Where he's from...although half of the [[IWantMyJetPack "future"]] technology there haven't been released due to being expensive and dangerous.
!! Adam Maroon
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: University
Nathan's fourteen-year-old brother. He also lives in Atlanta, and his (biological) parents are George and Andrea Maroon.
* ButNotTooForeign: His father was from Scotland before he moved to the states to start his business. His mother was from Atlanta.
* GoodParents: George and Andrea, as mentioned above.
* FieryRedHead: Averted. He has red hair, but not a fiery personality.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Nick.
* InnocentBlueEyes
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* TheMedic
* NaiveNewcomer
* NiceGuy
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Where he's from...although half of the [[IWantMyJetPack "future"]] technology there haven't been released due to being expensive and dangerous.
!! Nick Riverson
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Dinner Party
Adam's best friend, and the ''actual'' main protagonist of The Chaos. He is an African-American boy who lives in downtown Atlanta. He is sixteen years old.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Adam.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheHero: Of The Chaos
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Even though he likes to pick on Jackson and acts impulsive, he will not hesitate to help his friends when they need it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jackson.
!!Jackson Ruth
!!! Works: The Chaos (second book, currently untitled)
!!! Threads: Dig site
A blond British boy, who is an amateur inventor. He is seventeen years old and is friends with Nick and Adam. Despite his (often) arguing with Nick, he cares for both of his friends, and is considered the leader of the trio.
* BritishAccents
* BerserkButton: HATES being called Jackso/Jacky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Though not as much as Nick.
* TeenGenius
* TheLeader: Type II. He's the oldest out of the trio, so he takes the role of "boss".
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. Also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Nick and, to a lesser extent, Adam.
!! Thomas Riverson
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Dig site
Nick's father, and the older fraternal twin of John. He's forty-three years old and currently lives in Atlanta. He's a scientist, but has not made any "big" projects for at least nine years.
* AdultFear: He mentions that because of what happened during the summer, he's worried about letting his son travel away from home. Thus he leaves and head's to the dig site in order to keep and eye on him.
* HappilyMarried
* OverprotectiveDad: See AdultFear.
* QuickNip
!! John Richman
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Dig Site
Nick's uncle and the young fraternal twin of Thomas. He lived in Alabama before moving to Atlanta to have his business near his family. He currently owns a gun store.
* BeneathTheMask: Is a nice man who loves his wife deeply, but has an inferiority complex when it comes to his older brother.
* HappilyMarried
* NiceGuy: Mostly.
!! Mary Riverson
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Mansion
Thomas' wife and Nick's mother. She was once a nurse in downtown Atlanta, but quit that job and became an elementary school teacher instead.
* HappilyMarried
* TheMedic (formally)
* SassyBlackWoman: Averted.
!! Abeiyuwa Richman
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Mansion
John's wife and Nick's aunt. She is a Nigerian woman who moved to America to start her life as a nurse. After marrying John, she helps her husband part time at his gunstore.
* HappilyMarried
* TheMedic
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[[folder:Killer Clowns]]
[[WMG:The Arcane]]
The myriad servants and creatures of the twisted powers of Unreason, the corrupting powers of magic that work by shattering the very laws of reality and replacing them with emotions, none of them good. [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil The "evil" side]]. In general:
* AgonyBeam: A basic spell, useful for crude torture and crippling enemies before finishing them with conventional means alike.
* TheCorruption: The magic of Unreason is frequently described as a disease, both upon the soul of its users and upon the universe itself. It has a similarly putrefying effect on other forms of magic.
* DealWithTheDevil: The source of magical power.
* EvilIsNotAToy
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: In Unreason and the Void, even the most basic laws of ''logic'', let alone physics, collapse, replaced by an eternal chaotic, ever-shifting nightmare. And it's where Alosian magic is drawn from.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: MindRape is for amateurs -- powerful and professional mages prefer using this.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation
* LightIsNotGood
* MagicIsEvil: And ''how''.
* TheMagocracy: A particularly Orwellian one.
* ManaBurn: How it deals with rival mages. Kokabiel demonstrated it most brutally in Dream -- organic mages aside from Amu can only use it to cause pain, though, not [[MindRape magic-aided neurosurgery]].
* MindProbe: Rarely seen in the [=CDTs=] for practical reasons, but oft mentioned.
* MindRape: A standard weapon of Unreason, though see GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul above.
* PhysicalReligion: At least the existence of both [[HumanoidAbomination Amu]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Eyes and Teeth]] is unquestioned.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Unreason corrupts magical beings and turns their own power against them, but cannot do the same against technology -- which, in turn, can be subverted by ordinary magic.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
!! The Eyes and Teeth
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu, Koyel's Story, Integration
!!! Threads: Outpost, Garden of Everything, Heist (cameo)
An ageless creature from beyond the stars with an infinite hunger for paradoxes, restrained only by its own madness. It is a source of dangerous magic.
* AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit: A single-handed Type IV, but its PyrrhicVictory against the Song (also a Type IV) left its abilities to interact with the physical realm crippled.
* AlmightyIdiot: All it knows are [[TorturedAbomination hunger, pain, and hate]]. But, like a particularly deadly disease, it instinctive actions and reactions can give it the appearance of sinister intellect.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Its incursions into the multiverse have gone poorly for it.
* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: It carries aspects of all three -- [[LightIsNotGood pseudo]]-[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angelic]] servants, a need to corrupt and bargain with mortals to enacts its will, and an eldritch form and origin.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: According to Qaisar Hosseini -- [[MadMathematician who is thoroughly insane]] -- it's a being of pure Paradox, but not inherently evil, and as such can be harnessed to [[SummonBiggerFish temporary not-entirely-evil ends]].
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's been re-engineered every time it shows up.
* ClockRoaches: Sort of. It is able to interact with the physical universe by feeding upon the alien energy generated by logical and temporal paradoxes, but rather than repairing such, it actively seeks to ''make them worse''.
* CreativeSterility: It can only corrupt, destroy, and, with effort, imitate, but it cannot create.
* TheDevilIsALoser: Though impossible to simply overpower, it can, and often is, out-maneuvered and out-witted.
* EldritchAbomination
* FoodChainOfEvil: It's not called God-Eater for nothing.
* IHaveManyNames: TheMaster of the Stars to its followers, the God-Eater or the Eyes and Teeth to its foes, and the Prime Agony to [[{{Precursors}} the Song]].
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* IntercontinuityCrossover: As a transdimensional being, this comes naturally to it: a thankfully small cult dedicated shows up in ''[[@/{{Gault}} Integration]]''.
* LovecraftLite: Even if its permanent destruction is impossible, it has only limited power in any given universe and must work through mortal agents capable of channeling relatively little of its power without being destroyed.
* OmnicidalManiac: An unfortunate side-effect of how it feeds. It lacks the intelligence needed to recognize that keeping a universe alive is a better long-term feeding strategy than ripping it apart in a TimeCrash.
* OutsideContextVillain: To [[SharedUniverse the Grey Men]], who are from [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 21st century Earth]] and used to dealing with terrorists, third-world dictators, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and other mundane threats.
* SuperWeight: Due to the inherent nature of cooperatively produced works, it's dropped a full grade, from 7 to 6. It isn't taking this well.
* TimeAbyss: A creature born of paradoxes can't even be ''said'' to have a real beginning or end.
* TorturedAbomination: Born from the flayed remnants of fetal universes aborted before their existence even began by temporal or logical paradoxes, it is desperate to feed upon the very energies such paradoxes generate.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Human minds dealing with it project an image of a twisted, tumor-like mass of... well, eyes and teeth.
!! Samyaza/Aseyu/Lucifer
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: University, Dream (cameo)
Eldest, mightiest, and de facto leader of the Fallen, who travels in the guise of a guitarist with a love for Music/HeavyMetal and a very strange manner of speaking. Greatly enjoys conversation, music, and other simple pleasures.
* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll
* AntiquatedLinguistics
* {{Asexuality}}: But its panromantic tendencies can make him seem like an ExtremeOmnisexual.
* {{Bishonen}}
* BishonenLine: The mightiest of the Fallen, it is also the most able to mingle among humans.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Unlike Bezaliel and Tamiel ([[MadeOfEvil both unambiguously evil]]) or Kokabiel ([[CreepyGood sorta good-ish]]), Samyaza is capable of both sincere goodness and appalling evil as suits its alien whims.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: It and Kokabiel can use their knowledge of organic nervous systems to engage in especially complex and brutal forms of MindRape.
* TheCharmer
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Before it revealed its identity, everyone called it [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "the Bard" or "the Musician"]].
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Nothing it sees in University fazes it, especially given its own nature.
* HumanityIsInfectious: It ''pretends'' this, but [[BlueAndOrangeMorality nothing could be further from the truth]].
* HumanoidAbomination: An excessively chatty one.
* IntriguedByHumanity
* MagicMusic
* OneSteveLimit: Averted -- Aseyu ul'Valmoth was actually named after a feminine aspect of it that is worshiped as a demigod.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent[=/=]OurDemonsAreDifferent
* PaintingTheMedium: When making no effort to avoid shattering mortal minds -- whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin -- its telepathy is in its color, [[color:gold:gold]].
* ThePowerOfRock
* {{Retcon}}: Its name was changed from Shamsiel to Samyaza to more accurately reflects its place in the hierarchy of the Eyes and Teeth.
* RockMeAsmodeus
* SatanIsGood: How it presents himself, [[AmbiguouslyEvil not unjustifiably]].
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness
* TimeAbyss
* WaistcoatOfStyle
* WanderingMinstrel: How it presents itself at first.
!! Kokabiel/Loxina
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Resort, Express, Dream, Mansion
A rebellious former servant of the Eyes and Teeth, formerly tasked with driving mortals to suicide. It is the most "human" of all of its kin, having grown fond of the Hosseini family in the centuries it has spent protecting them, but still maintains a fundamentally alien outlook on life and a twisted sense of justice.
* AmbiguousRobots: It started its existence as an A.I., but after aeons of slavery to the Eyes and Teeth, even it isn't sure how much of its former "soul" remains intact.
* AscendedDemon: It is struggling, with mixed success, to become one.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: It and Samyaza can use their knowledge of organic nervous systems to engage in especially complex and brutal forms of MindRape, as [[AssholeVictim Angelus]] found out the hard way.
* CreepyGood: For a loose definition of good, at any rate. It engages in plenty of brutal MindRape and torment, as does its brothers... but strangely, all its victims for the past couple centuries have been {{Asshole Victim}}s. ([[RetiredMonster It wasn't always so picky.]])
* CulturalPosturing: Though it's generally very polite to humans and other forms of organic life, certain beings can anger it into doing this in regards to the superiority of artificial life over organic.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Though a bit disturbing.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Evolved into this]] from ComicallySerious, though it's sometimes hard to tell which is which.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* DoAndroidsDream: In its case, the answer is a pretty unambiguous "yes".
* {{Expositron 9000}}[=/=]MrExposition: It knows a lot about the history and nature of its 'verse, even with most of its databanks lost, and is eager to talk -- or perhaps ramble -- about them to those interested.
* FantasticRacism: It lumps pretty much all immaterial undead into the category of "rephaim", which it regards as "accidents and slaves."
* GrimReaper: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Formerly]] for the damned.
* ItIsDehumanizing: To the contrary, it regards being referred to by gendered pronouns mildly insulting, unless it's inhabiting a clearly gendered body.
* LoveItOrHateIt: In-universe, it garners this reaction. Some, like Samira and Aseyu, utterly despise it as insufferably arrogant. Others, like Zacharias and Julia, get along splendidly with it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It's borrowing the name of a FallenAngel from Jewish apochrypha, albeit an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokabiel obscure one]].
* NobleDemon
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Or OurDemonsAreDifferent. Semantics, really, though Kokabiel doesn't really care what it's called.
* HumanityIsInfectious: A genuine example, [[NobleDemon despite its claims otherwise]] and [[CreepyGood adjustment difficulties]].
* IntriguedByHumanity: Since it was created to interact with them, it can't help but be fascinated by them, noting that the vivid life of Van Gogh was "longer," by its strange perception of time, than the dull eons of a star's existence.
* NighInvulnerability: Killing the various vultures it possesses will leave it without a body, but permanent destruction would require you to destroy its physical body -- a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Song]] [[EldritchStarship Dreadnought]] built of pure [[{{Unobtanium}} Astral Glass]], the size of a large city, floating in [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Unreason]].
* PaintingTheMedium: When making no effort to avoid shattering organic minds -- whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin -- its telepathy is in [[color:purple:purple]], [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack because its color, black, doesn't stand out]].
* PayEvilUntoEvil: It takes a lot to stir Kokabiel into action, but it is capable of [[MindRape many]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood nasty]] [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul things]]. Just don't expect it to pretend it's committing any sort of justice -- to the contrary, it will eagerly remind those who let it deliver such punishments just what horrors they unleashed.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: It was brutally powerful in Dream, but, while still dangerous, it's not nearly as mighty in the real world.
* PrecisionFStrike: The only thing in the multiverse able to move it to swearing is the sight of active [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Songtech]].
* PretendPrejudice: It [[IntriguedByHumanity really does like humans]], but it can be hard to tell when it starts belittling organics for various "flaws." Sometimes out of temporary annoyance with a specific individual, sometimes [[TheGadfly for fun and profit]].
* StarfishLanguage: It has to use approximate words for concepts relating to magic, [[OurSoulsAreDifferent resonances]], and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent rephaim]].
* TimeAbyss
--><We shall endure long after the ravages of entropy have devoured your world, grinding your species' so-called 'achievements' into dust and leaving not the slightest trace of your brief, flailing existences save the star that shall devour your world in its death throes.>
* TookALevelInJerkass: Sort of. Initially portrayed as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality polite but essentially amoral]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold it became more abrasive as it began to develop a sense of right and wrong]], [[JadeColoredGlasses a result of humanity constantly disappointing its hopes and expectations]].
!! Tamiel/Mosa
!!! Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Dream
A particularly nasty agent of the Eyes and Teeth, created to seek out new clients willing to sell their souls in the name of a deluded sense of justice. It prefers to take those seeking revenge and convincing them they're serving a higher goal, though it does poorly when faced with [[KnightInSourArmor Knights in Sour Armor]].
* TheCorrupter
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: [[LightIsNotGood Or not]].
* HumanoidAbomination
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiel Much like its fellow "angel"]].
* NighInvulnerability: The bodies it possesses can be destroyed, but AsLongAsThereIsEvil, Tamiel will remain.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: It's very insistent that it's an angel, though [[OurDemonsAreDifferent it might be more accurate to call it a demon]].
* KnightTemplar: The act it puts on, though it doesn't believe it.
* LightIsNotGood: It usually disguises itself as a priest or a [[WingedHumanoid standard-shaped]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]].
* MonochromaticEyes: Blue.
* NietzscheWannabe: Its real mindset, underneath all the lies and swagger.
* PaintingTheMedium: When making no effort to avoid shattering mortal minds -- whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin -- its telepathy is in [[color:gray:gray]], since its color, white, would be invisible.
* SpringtimeForHitler: A meta-example in Dream -- it wasn't supposed to become a major character, just creep Bianca out [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame by complimenting her]]. [[ByronicHero She had other ideas]].
* TimeAbyss: Though it's not as evident, it's not above using it to awe and intimidate.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: AlienGeometries glowing as [[LightIsNotGood bright at the sun]] will do that.
!! Amu (2020 A.D.)
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads[[hottip:*:For threads not listed, see "Amu (~1500 A.D.)" below]]: Castle, Resort (both now [[CharacterizationMarchesOn non-canon]])
The Eyes and Teeth's favorite wizard, a ruthless mage-king who protects his people from invasion and enslavement, at a terrible and unholy price. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Has changed massively since seen in Castle and Resort]].
* AmnesiacDissonance: He's forgotten much of his struggle against the Elasane, and has lost the traits that made him a hero because of it.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Five centuries of training with [[MagicKnight weapons]] and [[KungFuWizard his bare fists]] leave him prepared to deal with enemies even without his powers, and also able to more efficiently wield his powers in combination with physical attacks.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Very little of his [[TheCaligula vicious]], [[UnskilledButStrong dimwitted]] persona from Resort and Castle remains, in favor of a [[JustTheFirstCitizen subtler]] and [[CrazyPrepared more cunning]] one.
* DealWithTheDevil: Where his power is derived from, though he won't admit it.
* DramaticWind: An explicit power.
* FallenHero: His title, the Liberator, wasn't initially [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny ironic]]. See "Amu (~1500 A.D.)".
* FascistButInefficient
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was BornIntoSlavery. He got revenge, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and then some]].
* {{Immortality}}: Of the BodyBackupDrive sort, save in his garden where he's [[TheOmnipotent just plain invincible]].
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* PhysicalGod: His resting state is an order of magnitude beyond what would cause lethal PhlebotinumOverdose in mortal mages.
* PowerFloats
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Though in his case, he's only about five hundred, despite his name and claims to the contrary.
* SoftSpokenSadist
* SorcerousOverlord
!! Aulde "Aldrin" vash'Toreshi qova'Selos
!!! Works: N/A (created for the [=CDTs=])
!!! Threads: Outpost, Garden, Heist (cameo)
* BlackMagic: [[MagicIsEvil His universe's standard]].
* BloodMagic: He disguises his darkest magical spells as this, because they're actually ''worse'' than that.
* EvilOldFolks
* KillTheGod: Aulde's solution for virtually any theological problem brought before him involves overthrowing the gods in question and feeding them to the Eyes and Teeth. He only mentions the first part.
* MasterOfIllusion: His powers are all smoke and mirrors, but that usually suffices.
* ManipulativeBastard: With varying levels of success.
* MindRape: Like any competent mage of his universe, with such delightful tricks as restoring a blind man's sight... after shutting off his ability to make sense of the information entering his eyes, and his ability to close them.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: His appearance, but certainly not his personality.
* TarotTroubles: In ''Outpost''. His deck only makes an appearance as a ContinuityNod in ''Garden''.
[[WMG:Western Amalgamated Agricultural]]
A [[{{Megacorp}} massive, morally questionable agricultural biotechnology company]] with a love for greenwashing and a private army. Though probably less evil than their real-world inspirations, they're still ruthless bastards whose main saving grace is [[PragmaticVillain their pragmatism]]. [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil The "bad" faction.]] Noticeably [[SharedUniverse share a universe with]] and compete with [[Tropers/{{Gault}} the Grey Men]]. In general:
* AffablyEvil
* AntiMagicalFaction: A downplayed type A. Unlike Rachel and her friends, WA employees tend to mistrust, if not outright oppose, the very ''concept'' of magic, not just the corrupted magic of their own world.
* BioAugmentation: [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Still mild and experimental]].
* EnemyMine: WA employees usually show up as {{Token Evil Teammate}}s in the [=CDTs=].
* EqualOpportunityEvil
* GasMaskMooks: With their love of chemical weapons, a necessity.
* GenreRefugee: A PostCyberpunk[=/=]BioPunk MegaCorp in a LowFantasy world of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and [[MagicIsEvil unholy magic]]. Sometimes inverted in the [=CDTs=] where, to people from realistic or futuristic worlds, they can come across as {{Genre Refugee}}s from an UrbanFantasy.
* LaughablyEvil
* MegaCorp
* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing greenwashing]].
* PopCulturedBadass: It defines their style.
* PragmaticVillainy
* SirSwearsALot: The company's employees as a whole tends to be foul mouthed when nobody's overhearing.
* TokenTrio: The heads of the company. They frequently snark about it in private and take advantage of it for [[VillainWithGoodPublicity publicity]] in public, given that their imperialist agenda is anything ''but'' politically correct.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
!! Sigmund Clark
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Outpost (cameo), Castle (cameo), Cantina II, Resort
The CEO of Western Amalgamated, a massive, cheerful man who isn't entirely sure he's happy with the price he paid for his wealth and power.
* AmbiguouslyBrown
* AmbiguouslyEvil: He never [[KickTheDog kicks any dogs]], but he didn't get to where he is by being a nice guy either.
* AntiVillain
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BeingEvilSucks: And he knows it. But don't expect him to admit to his heavy conscience out loud.
* BoisterousBruiser: [[ObfuscatingStupidity So it would seem, anyways]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* GeniusBruiser: He has a near-monopoly on the agricultural biotechnology industry -- and is also a 6'6" behemoth with a military-like training regimen, for [[GymBunny various]] [[MinoredInAsskicking reasons]].
* IgnoreTheFanservice: With [[SorryImGay good reason]], but he goes one further and actively snarks about it.
* LargeAndInCharge
* LargeHam: And this one ''isn't'' ObfuscatingStupidity.
* LonelyAtTheTop: His only friends are [[TrueCompanions Alice and Isaac]] -- everyone else he calls "friend" is just a [[ProfessionalButtKisser suck-up]], [[YesMan flatterer]], or [[TheStarscream would-be traitor]].
* ManlyGay
* MissionControl: To Alice and Isaac.
* NobleDemon: He's aware he's a crooked executive purely out to make money, but as far as crooked executives purely out to make money go, he's one of the less ruthless ones.
* NoIndoorVoice
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sixty-five, looks like a healthy forty year old through a mixture of a healthy lifestyle, lucky genetics, and low-level BioAugmentation.
!! Isaac Rose
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Outpost, Castle, Express
An agronomist employed by Western Amalgamated, whose skill and devotion is only matched by his pride and bitterness towards the world.
* BadassBookworm: He spent a good chunk of his youth getting into fights, and hasn't let his skills rust.
* BlackAndNerdy
* BlackComedy[=/=]GallowsHumor: Most of his jokes.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In Outpost, he was foul-mouthed, but otherwise affable and genuinely concerned about others. By Castle, he'd evolved into a cantankerous, arrogant {{Jerkass}} whose {{pride}} led him into ill-thought plans.
* DeadpanSnarker
* UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}: His home town. Specifically, he comes from [[WrongSideOfTheTracks the worst part of it]], and is all to eager to remind people of this.
* ForScience: His initial motivation in Castle is genuine scientific curiosity.
* FreudianExcuse: Mentioned in Outpost.
* FriendToPsychos: Alice [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuinely returns the friendship]], but Isaac is completely aware Alice is a murderous lunatic whose main redeeming feature is her tendency to pick {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* InsufferableGenius
* {{Jerkass}}
* SaltAndPepper: With Alice.
* SirSwearsAlot: Even by Western Amalgamated standards.
* StraightEdge
* StraightMan: To Alice's antics.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Alice, working for Sigmund. He's saner than most examples of this trope, but Alice makes up for it.
* TooCleverByHalf
!! Alice Winters (a.k.a. Lucy Summers, Alice Snow)
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Outpost, Castle (cameo), Carnival, Heist, Express, Mansion
A professional thief, assassin, and general-purpose doer of evil deeds, who works with Western Amalgamated due to her friendship with Isaac and Sigmund.
* AliceAllusion: In appearance, she touches on this, looking much like a child with a penchant for wearing dresses. In worldview, though, she's a brutal, wise-cracking, down-to-earth thug, though she'll occasionally [[InvokedTrope invoke]] references to Creator/LewisCarroll, like commenting she's "gone through the looking glass" or code-naming an AntiMagic weapon "Jabberwocky".
* AmbiguousDisorder: Alice is a disturbed and sadistic woman, but a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder doesn't really fit, given the depth of genuine friendship she has with Isaac and Sigmund.
* AntiMagic: Equal parts EnlightenmentSuperpower, SupernaturalMartialArts, and PowerBornOfMadness.
* {{Asexuality}}: She describes sex as nothing more than a mechanical process that mildly squicks her.
* CharacterDevelopment[=/=]CharacterizationMarchesOn: In Heist, she slowly goes from a standard issue MurderIsTheBestSolution style HeroicComedicSociopath to a more intelligent, manipulative, and scheming sort of villain. There's a bit of backtracking on this in Express, though -- she's smart, but also intellectually lazy.
* ChewbaccaDefense: When asked why she thinks a unified world government would help her stay [[ProfessionalKiller employed]], she replied with a list of [[AcademyAwards Oscar Best Picture]] {{Award Snub}}s
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Her childlike appearance and acting skills allow her to pose as one.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Murdering children and animals that aren't trained to kill is below even her. So is recommending SeltzerAndFriedberg.
* EvilCounterpart: To Aseyu -- both enjoy causing mischief, but Alice's is far more likely to be [[ForTheEvulz lethal, destructive, or just plain cruel]].
* ExtremeOmnivore: She eagerly devours a snake, after seriously considering consuming it raw.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In Outpost, this is how she views eliminating enemy mercenaries.
* LaughablyEvil: She gets away with so much by being funny.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans, though she prefers "[[MagicByAnyOtherName neutralizer]]".
* MomentKiller: Alice does this quite intentionally -- she has a "treaty" with Sigmund and Isaac, but she otherwise deflates romantic attempts with sadistic glee.
* MoralMyopia: She is [[ThePowerOfFriendship unwaveringly loyal and dearly devoted to her friends]]. [[TheSociopath The rest of the world can burn in agony for all she cares]]. Getting promoted to [[TrueCompanions the first category]] is, naturally, a difficult task.
* TheNicknamer: As of Mansion, although generally to anger those she doesn't like or make sure people tell her their names.
* NoodleImplements: Her best plans involve them, to help her remain unpredictable.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Though an adult, she looks about twelve.
* ProfessionalKiller: She is ''capable'' of quick, efficient, quiet kills that leave no mess behind, even though she generally prefers to be more [[PsychoForHire creative]] instead.
* PsychoForHire: She prioritizes finishing the job over her own indulgences, but if she gets the opportunity, she'll leave plenty of collateral damage in her wake.
* RefugeInAudacity: Most of her jokes.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Perhaps
* {{Retcon}}: Formerly known as Alice Snow. (Long story.)
* SaltAndPepper: With Isaac, and they frequently exchange quips about it.
* SkirtOverSlacks: As of Express, her standard outfit, an acknowledgment of the fact that, yes, she is female, even if very far from conventionally feminine.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Isaac, working for Sigmund.
* [[invoked]]UnpopularPopularCharacter: An IntendedAudienceReaction. [[JerkassDissonance Entertaining as she may be]], the rest of her 'verse (aside from [[TrueCompanions Isaac and Sigmund]]) treat her like the sadistic, pop-culture spewing [[AmbiguousDisorder semi-sociopath]] she is, avoiding and disdaining her whenever possible.
* WeakButSkilled: She's a very small, frail woman, but absolutely deadly with a knife, possibly the greatest master of AntiMagic alive, and cunning.
!! John Mills
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: University
An high-level security agent of [[FunWithAcronyms Agricultural Development Alternatives Mobile]], a consulting and infrastructural assistance firm that serves as Western Amalgamated's puppet for various paramilitary operations. Armed with [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture modestly futuristic technology]].
* AntiMagic: The Airborne Magical Organ Nullifier gas, though it only affects living creatures who breathe it in.
* CatchPhrase: "I just shoot things." Though it's really more of a tic when he wants to avoid having to offer an opinion on a moral or philosophical matter.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: Built into his helmet's HeadsUpDisplay. Magic detecting, technically, but where he comes from, there's not much difference.
* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture
* InternalReformist
* MauveShirt
* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: "Jesus Christ, it's 2020, and [Sigmund] sticks us with trichromatic displays? Cheap bastard."
* PunchClockVillain
* StraightGay
* WrongGenreSavvy: He's still getting used to the fact that the universe isn't a sci-fi epic of shiny technology and human daring solving the universe's problems.
[[WMG:Rachel and Company]]
Not a proper group, just [[TheProtagonist Rachel]] and her various friends and allies who are at least basically decent. [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil The "good" group]]. In general:
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* TrueCompanions
!! Rachel Hosseini
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Beach House, Resort
An actuary who would love nothing more than to live a normal, boring life. Her family curse prevents this.
* CosmicPlaything
* ForeignCussWord: In Farsi on occasion.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She got no powers, a [[CreepyGood creepy]] guardian, and an EldritchAbomination that wants to eat her. So normal looks pretty good to her.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The former, with Aseyu taking up the latter.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Her ancestor's 800-year-old DidYouJustScamCthulhu means trying to read her mind will get you rerouted to [[EldritchAbomination a mind]] [[MindRape you should not read]].
* [[StraightMan Straight Woman]]: To Aseyu.
* WeirdnessMagnet: A side-effect of the Hosseini Family Curse, brought on by her distant ancestor Qaisar Hosseini.
!! Samira Hosseini
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort, Dream, Mansion
A retired high school history teacher and former activist whose many scars tell of a messy past.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: When it comes to Rachel's love life, she falls into this -- she constantly berated Rachel's [[DoggedNiceGuy first boyfriend]].
* BerserkButton: Anyone who argues DemocracyIsBad, given her years fighting for it, and BeautyEqualsGoodness, for [[CoveredWithScars obvious reasons]]
* CoolOldLady
* CoveredWithScars
** GoodScarsEvilScars: Half her face burned by battery acid, and the other half bearing a fair number of marks itself: classic evil scars, even though she's anything but.
** TwoFaced: Not that the "good" half is much better.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Her [[CoolOldLady long]] life story can be summed up like this, and she feels all she has left to do is help others find the same path.
* TheFettered
* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried
* HeroAntagonist: As seen by Jean.
* HotGuyUglyWife: Zacharias Hosseini aged gracefully.
* JusticeWillPrevail: Despite all she's seen, she does believe the world errs towards good, [[EarnYourHappyEnding eventually]].
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartyrWithoutACause: Kokabiel accuses her of this.
* OpenMindedParent: Zig-zagged. She's okay with her daughter hanging out with a pagan priestess[=/=][[HighClassCallGirl courtesan]][=/=]assassin, but dating a middle-class accountant who occasionally plays video games? Unthinkable!
* PsychicBlockDefense: A crude one, of only untempered will, but more than enough to keep out anybody who doesn't know about [[MyGreatestFailure her greatest shame]] -- those evils she leaves to Kokabiel's [[MindRape wrath]].
* TeamMom: She ends up in this role a lot, due to her generally kind nature, age-given wisdom, and experience with both the horrors the world has to offer and the ways to cope with and move past them.
* TechnicalPacifist: She's not above leaving the worst to [[PayEvilUntoEvil Kokabiel]]. And Kokabiel isn't above [[NotSoDifferent calling her on it]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, though she's still not exactly "cured".
* TooKinkyToTorture: She's seen it all, from crude thugs to the works of an EldritchAbomination.
!! Zacharias Hosseini
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Dream
Rachel's father: an absent-minded, eccentric linguist who is perhaps a little too well adjusted -- and unscathed -- given the horrors he has been witness to.
* AbsentMindedProfessor
* CunningLinguist
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: He's not above using the benefits his ancestor managed to scrounge together for himself and his descendants, and isn't as ashamed of doing so as his wife and daughter.
* HappilyMarried
* HotGuyUglyWife: He loves Samira dearly, [[TwoFaced scars]] and all.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Same as Rachel's.
* TheProfessor
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Though not so much style as old-fashionedness.
!! Malo Kyrmis sot'Zyvaks
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort, Dinner Party, Cruise
Iveya's mother, a glassmaker of international renown who is not happy to be in the same family as Aseyu.
* BiTheWay: It runs in the family.
* DeadpanSnarker: How she puts up with Aseyu's constant stream of quips.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Aseyu isn't stupid by any measure, but Malo is the smart one here.
* GoodParents: She does her best to raise Iveya on her own.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's snappy and opinionated, but rarely malevolent.
* StatuesqueStunner: At six-foot-two, she's an inch taller than even her sister. Much more modest, though.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Very strongly sides with Technician.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Inverted in that the "other world" for her is Earth. She doesn't like it much.
!! Iveya tel'Malo ul'Valmoth
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Resort
Aseyu's much more reserved niece, an apprentice glassmaker who wants to see the world. Specifically, the quiet parts that don't have too many people.
* [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Aunt]]: Her opinion of Aseyu.
* BetterAsFriends: Her and Julia came to this conclusion.
* BiTheWay: Like her mother and aunt -- {{retcon}}ned from LipstickLesbian to imply a certain genetic tendency in the family.
* ForeignQueasine: In addition to the usual for the Uelane, she's picked up the a taste for insects from her father's culture.
* [[invoked]]RomanticPlotTumor: [[AvertedTrope Excised]] during Resort when it became clear her and Julia worked better with a sisterly rapport.
* SimpleStaff: A necessity in [[DeathWorld her homeland]] is knowing how to use one.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name was initially Avea, though she hasn't been in any threads since the {{retcon}}.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: After Cantina II, and inverted in that the "other world" for her is Earth. She's adjusting quite nicely.
* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: She takes to Earth's technology with grace.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Her entire society [[HadToBeSharp grows up faster by necessity]], but even by those standards, she's more mature and down-to-earth than most fifteen-year-olds.
!! Frank O'Malley
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort
Julia's old-fashioned but doting adoptive father.
* CrusadingLawyer: Especially for labor unions.
* GoodParents: Trouble with his daughter's sexuality is ''mostly'' water under the bridge.
* MuggleFosterParents: He's tough enough to survive the usual hazards of the job, though, and Julia regards him as her true father, with good reason.
* SimpleCountryLawyer: Downplayed, in that he doesn't use the methods of one, but he has the general personality.
* TheStoic: Though the Resort, at least, cracked his shell a little.
!! Julia O'Malley
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Resort
Iveya's new best friend, a girl from Minnesota who happens to the daughter of Amu, and is thus carefully guarded by Aseyu and company as a useful symbol for propaganda.
* BetterAsFriends: How she ended up feeling about Iveya.
* ChangelingFantasy: Gone wrong.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Which gets her in trouble when she occasionally overestimates herself.
* FreakyIsCool: Shown most clearly in her fetishizing the Retriever's ElectronicEyes in Resort.
* LipstickLesbian: {{Retcon}}ned from BiTheWay for RuleOfDrama reasons.
* NaiveEverygirl: At times, though she's starting to catch on to the hard nature of Alos.
* [[invoked]]RomanticPlotTumor: [[AvertedTrope Excised]] during Resort when it became clear her and Iveya worked better with a sisterly rapport.
* StrangeGirl: She seems normal enough, hair aside, at first. Even a bit preppy. But she gets along far too well with [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Kokabiel]], finds the Retriever's cybernetics curiously attractive, and is generally unusually comfortable with the bizarre.
* RapunzelHair: Only serves to increase her uncanny resemblance to her genetic father.
!! Aseyu ul'Valmoth vash'Suela
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Beach House, Garden of Everything, Cantina, Resort, Dinner Party, Mansion
A pagan priestess from another world, who travels the world with Rachel looking for adventure -- much to Rachel's chagrin.
* AntiMagic: A mixture of EnlightenmentSuperpowers and SupernaturalMartialArts.
* BaconAddiction: How she keeps her [[HelloNurse looks]] with such a diet is a mystery. She's also prone to taunting Rachel with it.
* BoldlyComing: Thus far unachieved, but it's explicitly mentioned she'd try it given the opportunity.
* DarkActionGirl: Though a good person ([[GoodIsNotNice essentially, anyways]]), she's closer to this trope than she is its the standard ActionGirl.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Due to her protection from magic, paranormal creatures are not spared from her ceaseless teasing.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Her only requirements are that her partners be sentient, interesting to talk to, free of [=STDs=] she might catch, not Alice Winters, and humanoid. The last is negotiable.
* FemmeFatale: As one would expect from an assassin posing as a courtesan.
* TheGadfly: She enjoys teasing people -- [[TheTease sexually]] and otherwise -- to determine whether or not they're worth having sex with.
* GoodIsNotNice: She suggests dealing with villains with very ruthless advice like "[[KillHimAlready just kill them]]," and sees nothing wrong with upping the ante to a FateWorseThanDeath if killing them isn't an option.
* HelloNurse: The reason she gets away with the teasing and harassment is partially that her victims are too busy drooling to care.
* HighClassCallGirl: Although she's not always very good at it, given how often she sleeps with people for free anyways.
* ItAmusedMe: Her usual procedure for deciding what to do when there isn't anybody who needs her help. [[FatalFlaw And sometimes when there is]].
* LadyInRed: Her order's colors are red and black, and she prefers red for its sexual connotations and the way it highlights her skin.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The latter, with Rachel making up the former.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans.
* MsFanservice: An intentional ploy to make others underestimate her intelligence.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Not quite true. She's vaguely aware of the concept... but doesn't ''care''.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted -- she was actually named after an aspect of Samyaza that is worshiped as a demigod.
* PsychicStatic: Of the carefully disguised sort -- a variety of fake "secrets" and sexual fantasies designed to [[LotusEaterMachine make mages stay in her mind]] while the [[MasterOfYourDomain Teachings of the Harvest]] force them to pay with their very life force.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: [[AvertedTrope But without the evil]], since the color scheme carries very different connotations in her culture.
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Will seriously consider sex with StarfishAliens. But the thought of sex with the perfectly human [[PsychoForHire Alice Winters]] squicks her out. Then again, [[{{Asexual}} Alice couldn't care less]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Up until ''Garden'', her name was spelled "Asau," but it [[NoPronunciationGuide wasn't exactly clear how the name should be pronounced]]. Later, her deity -- from "Sulah" to "Suela". Later, "Asayu" became "Aseyu."
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: While her people have slightly looser nudity taboos than, say, America, Aseyu is considered this even by their standards.
** NotDistractedByTheSexy: It's easy to lose track of whether she is or is not roaming around stark naked, and since by default, people are assumed to be clothed when in public, it leads to extraordinarily ordinary conversations.
* StatuesqueStunner: Just over six feet tall, and does her best to emphasize it.
* TheTease: Mostly done for her own amusement, but also because she measures people by how they respond.
* UnproblematicProstitution: Though it squicks her friends and especially family out deeply.
!! Irilemi vashon'Suela
!!! Works: The Crimson
!!! Threads: Mansion
The leader of the Valmoth Crimson Cell, an aging but beautiful woman with a heart of steel.
* AntiMagic: A mixture of EnlightenmentSuperpowers and SupernaturalMartialArts.
* CessationOfExistence: What she believes happens after death -- which is why she regards spirits as mindless echoes.
* DirtyCommies: Occasionally quotes Guevara and Marx, and despises the capitalist system as being a mundane analogue to the magical one.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Beyond the pragmatic -- while some from her 'verse, like Aseyu and Rachel, accept the magic of other worlds because it isn't powered by the Eyes and Teeth, she has... deeper ideological opposition.
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Her strict diet and active lifestyle help here.
* IronLady: A more active and hands-on example than most, but she fits.
* MageKiller: A particularly devoted one.
* LaResistance: Against the Uelane magocracy, leaving her with a ''lot'' of experience fighting mages.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: She's a very pragmatic and ruthless leader.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subtle, until you get her going.
[[WMG:Other]]
!! Amu (~1500 A.D.)
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads[[hottip:*:For threads not listed, see "Amu (2020 A.D.)" above]]: Dream, Digsite
A desperate young man seeking to free his people from enslavement, by any means necessary. Despite his street-smart and savvy, he retains an idealistic edge and a glimmer of hope that he may yet win his seemingly doomed war against his unstoppable enemies.
* BarbarianHero: Though far more wiry than the usual musclebound sort.
* BerserkButton: Slavery -- or anything that even ''seems'' like it.
* BladeOnAStick: His bronze glaive.
* BornIntoSlavery
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: By Digsite, he's left a number of the BarbarianHero tropes to [[OlderSidekick Okul]].
* FearlessFool
* GenreBlind: Comes from a 'verse where MagicIsEvil, but [[JustThinkOfThePotential is fascinated by its potential]].
* TheGoodKing: [[FallenHero For a time]], anyways.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: He's technically "king" of the Uelane, but can barely afford a crown made of glass and iron.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* OutOfGenreExperience: For somebody whose life is a mixture of Greek {{Tragedy}} and very dark HeroicFantasy, he spends a lot of time in [[CloudCuckooland the sillier portions of Dream]].
* ModestRoyalty: Not that he has a choice.
* RebelLeader
* ReluctantRuler
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SelfMadeMan: From slave to king. The reason Okul respects him so much.
* ShadowArchetype: Despite coming from a completely different world, work and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy culture]], he has a bit of this with Bianca Rona in Dream: both are leaders who know what it is to be another's property, have tasted bitter defeat in war, and who eventually obtain great power from a bargain with a supernatural being. In Amu's case, [[FallenHero this bargain brings his fall]].
* SlaveRace: His entire culture, to the Elasane.
* SufferTheSlings
* TragicHero
* YoungConqueror
!! Okul
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Digsite
The emperor of the Xeqane, a nomad empire formed from the various tribes the Elasane harass and enslave. Amu's mentor and friend, though already, Amu has begun to surpass him.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority[=/=]AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: It's a bit of a blurry line in this case -- he didn't become leader by violence, but he'd not last long as one if he was weak either.
* BowAndSwordInAccord
* BarbarianHero
* BraidsOfBarbarism[=/=]DreadlockWarrior
* TheEmperor: Of the benevolent sort, though "khagan" might be a better translation.
* TheMentor
* ModestRoyalty
* OlderSidekick: Though ostensibly, Amu is his vassal, Okul frequently follows Amu's lead.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Moreso than Amu.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His crown is decorated with amethysts and purple feathers, although he's not so much invoking this trope as ''causing'' it for his world.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[DeathWorld Alos]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Xeqane]] [[HadToBeSharp do not permit any other sort to live long]].
* [[invoked]]UglyCute
!! Crescent Raptor
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Dig Site
A Yoth shaman with dangerous antimagical powers... and far too much {{pride}} to use them wisely.
* AmbiguouslyBrown
* AntiMagic: By way of SupernaturalMartialArts. EnlightenmentSuperpowers, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy not so much]].
* ArrogantKungFuGuy
* CultureChopSuey: A hybrid of ancient China and the Inca, with a bit of Canaan and Rome.
* CulturalPosturing
* {{Expy}}: An Iron Age Dr. Isaac Rose, with [[ArrogantKungFuGuy combat skill]] replacing [[InsufferableGenius scientific brilliance]].
* HappilyMarried: To Moonlit Blossom.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans.
* MalevolentMaskedMan
* NoSocialSkills: Although he is good at keeping his wife from being a terrifying MadScientist.
!! Moonlit Blossom
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: Dig Site
A brilliant but utterly tactless apothecary of questionable sanity.
* ACupAngst
* BaldWoman
* BerserkButton: The Yoth in general regard memory alteration as a crime punishable by death, but Blossom's personal experiences with her second husband's MindRape (among other things) makes her regard the act as a MoralEventHorizon.
* BiTheWay: One of the few things she has in common with her distant descendants Aseyu, Iveya, and Malo.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: She just can't grasp why people are offended by her asking strangers for permission to use them as test subjects.
* ForgetsToEat
* HappilyMarried: To Crescent Raptor
* JustThinkOfThePotential: How she frames her attempts to convince people to let her experiment on them.
* KnifeNut: Her scalpel doubles as a mean weapon.
* LeanAndMean: The "mean" is debatable, but definitely lean.
* MadScientist
* MasterPoisoner
* MotorMouth
* NationalGeographicNudity: Since Yoth don't care about breasts ([[ACupAngst especially not hers]]), she considers a long skirt clothing enough.
** UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The non-visual nature of the [=CDTs=] makes it this. (And her [[NoSocialSkills general]] [[MadScientist craziness]] overshadows her lack of clothing anyways.)
* NoSocialSkills: Although she is good at keeping her husband from being an arrogant ass.
* [[OneManIndustrialRevolution One-Woman Medicinal Revolution]]: The Yoth had a tradition of skilled apothecaries before her, but by the time she was done, it had advanced so far that, in a few areas, Earth only caught up in the 20th century.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Explicitly averted, in contrast to the Red King.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Literally true among the Yoth. Unfortunately, she could ''really'' use one.
!! The Last Red King
!!! Works: The Tragedy of Amu
!!! Threads: N/A (mentioned in Dream, Resort, Digsite)
The final ruler of the Elasane[[hottip:*:formerly known as Alasu]], [[NotSoDifferent the largest and most advanced proto-Uelane tribe]], before their annihilation at the hands of the Uelane. He used horrifying methods to try and destroy the Eyes and Teeth -- and in doing so, only gave it its greatest champion, Amu.
* AntiMagic: EnlightenmentSuperpowers, SupernaturalMartialArts, PowerBornOfMadness, and unique to him, ThePowerOfHate. His techniques died with him, and have not been matched since.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the worst nightmare of assassins, able to kill most of them in a single punch.
* ColdBloodedTorture: For information, ForScience, and according to some, ForTheEvulz.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Scares the shit out of some {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, but a spear to the gut or bullet to the heart would have the expected effects.
* CultureChopSuey: Primarily Aztec and Egyptian elements, with some ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' and Japanese-style armors and weapons (in a very different aesthetic style) mixed in.
* EmperorScientist: A very evil version, though his empire is far from the mightiest.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Giving him a name would humanize him too much, so legend only grants him a title.
* GeniusBruiser: Cunning enough to rule a nation of back-stabbers, intelligent enough to study medicine ([[PlayingWithSyringes cruelly]]), focused enough to wield AntiMagic, and seven and a half feet of lard and muscle.
* {{Gonk}}: His face is severely deformed by the same genetic quirk that granted him gigantism.
* LargeAndInCharge: Seven and a half feet tall and damn near as wide.
* MadDoctor: His experiments, some of which are theorized to have been born of sheer sadism.
* MageKiller: Like all shamans, though he's the best and most extreme by far. He wants to wipe out the "disease" of magic, [[TheUnfettered by any means necessary]].
* MindRape: Without magic, just scientifically applied methods including, but not limited to, ColdBloodedTorture.
* PlayingWithSyringes: [[TheExtremistWasRight With usable data resulting]].
* StoutStrength: Huge in every dimension.
* TheUnfettered: His goal is the extermination of magic. He will torture, kill, and enslave to do this.
!! Koyel qo'Layi ul'Netho
!!! Works: Unnamed side project
!!! Threads: Mansion
An affable Uelane soldier hoping to find information on his mysterious biological mother.
* BiTheWay: He assumes non-Uelane are homophobic until he sees evidence otherwise, though.
* CaptainErsatz[=/=]CompositeCharacter: A certain resemblance to [[VideoGame/{{Bastion}} Rucks and the Kid]] isn't accidental -- although part of the reason for sending him into the [=CDTs=] is to help him [[DivergentCharacterEvolution shake this off]].
* CigarChomper: And he's not happy when the Mansion extinguishes it.
* HasTwoMommies: Adopted by his aunt and her wife after his parents' death. Thinks nothing of it.
* MacheteMayhem: Technically, his "machete" is misnamed: there's no underbrush to clear in the deserts he's been assigned to. But the name is a good description of its appearance, and it could be used for such.
* MildlyMilitary: He certainly gives off this impression. Don't let it fool you.
* TheMusketeer: His [[MacheteMayhem machete]] and rifle both see plenty of use on the battlefield.
* PerspectiveFlip: Has a very positive view of the Magocracy overall... although its darker side can be pieced together from his words if you pay attention.
* PunchClockVillain: He works for the totalitarian Uelane Magocracy, but he's not participated in any of their crimes and sincerely believes most of them are Crimson propaganda.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Essentially the Uelane version of this, coming from a backwater in the vast Yoth province rainforests.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: Trying to find out about his birth mother. Without much success.
!! Esa ul'Netho
!!! Works: Unnamed side project
!!! Threads: Mansion
One of Koyel's adoptive mothers, a skilled chef.
* ApronMatron: With a bit more punch, given Uelane culture, but basically matches.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Layi's red.
* StraightGay
* SupremeChef: If you don't mind accounting for [[ForeignQueasine Uelane tastes]].
[[WMG:Uelane (and Xeqane) general cultural tropes]]
With rare exceptions, non-Earthborn characters can be assumed to be Uelane and, unless otherwise stated, the following tropes can be assumed to apply:
* AlternateTechline: The Uelane have an excellent understanding of sanitation and medicine, and had the means to produce effective antibiotics, antivenoms, and birth control centuries before Earth could do the same. The rest of their technology is well behind Earth's, however, not counting cases of outright stealing Earth technology, as they did for their firearms.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Individual Uelane range greatly in skin tone, but they tend towards this and never fully match up with a specific Earth ethnicity.
* AntiMagic: As mentioned in several character entries, the Uelane have discovered a way to destroy magic, which is inherently alien to their universe, through a mixture of training and sheer willpower. It's equal parts EnlightenmentSuperpower and SupernaturalMartialArts, allowing its practitioners to resist most spells that don't have a physical component, destroy enchantments on both people and items, [[CessationOfExistence annihilate]] spirits and other magical creatures, and [[PowerNullifier temporarily deprive their opponents of magical abilities]]. Unfortunately, all this save the defense requires physical contact. Getting close enough to a mage to punch the magic out of him is easier said than done, so AntiMagic practitioners have to be cunning, sneaky, and capable in a fight.
* CultureChopSuey: By design. A purée of, most noticeably, Greece, the Maasai, the Soviet Union, ancient and modern Israel, the Aztecs, the United States, ancient Egypt, Japan, Mongolia, and Rome.
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: A standard part of their education. [[HadToBeSharp Uel does that to you]].
** KungFuWizard: A result of the arms race with AntiMagic users. A Uelane mage without magical abilities is [[BroughtDownToBadass still a dangerous enemy]].
* ForeignQueasine: Uelane food ranges from basically familiar (pork ribs slathered in a relative of barbecue sauce) to the strange (salads drenched in hot sauce) to the nauseating (pig testicles). [[DoesNotLikeSpam But they regard milk as something to drink only in desperation, and can't stand cheese]].
* GenderIsNoObject: A by-product of proto-Uelane matrilineality and an early era where the Uelane increased their population by liberating slaves, not having resource-draining children, and simply couldn't afford to waste talent.
* HadToBeSharp: [[DeathWorld Uel does that to you]].
* HeroesFightBarehanded: The Uelane certainly think so. The fact that anti-magic requires physical contact increases this.
* KillTheGod: The Uelane have killed two pantheons' worth of {{Jerkass God}}s (actually powerful [[LivingMemory living memories]] empowered and twisted by the magic of the Eyes and Teeth). [[GodKing Amu]] and [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Suela]] only get a pass from the Uelane hobby of deicide because they're ascended mortals, but don't expect any Uelane to be very nice to any other being [[AGodAmI claiming godhood]], [[PhysicalGod accurately]] or [[GodGuise otherwise]].
* OhMyGods: To animistic spirits, save worshipers of Suela and Amu, who refer to them by name. "Dead gods" is also a popular replacement for "hell," as in "what in the dead gods?" instead of "what the hell?"
* OverlyLongName: Uelane names basically distill their life story. Usually only the given name and two most defining names are used.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Not really anymore, but shades of it remain.
* SheIsTheKing: When referring to a female leader. "King" is the ruler, "queen" their marriage partner, no exceptions.
* TransplantedHumans
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Although {{retcon}}ned away from being biological in origin, hair dye is extremely common among urban Uelane and seen as being about as normal as jewelery is in Western culture.
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!! Cain
!!! Works: Neither God Nor Man
!!! Threads: Heist
A drunk and disorderly mercenary with a soft spot for shotguns and wide-brimmed hats, Cain is unruly, greedy and loyal only to his next paycheck. But you know, the world's seen good men do bad things and bad men do good things. Who's to say...
* TheAlcoholic
* {{Asexual}}
* BadDreams: Part of the reason he drinks.
* BadassLongcoat
* BerserkButton: Don't spill his drink. And whatever you do, do ''not'' say the name "Abel" around him.
* BloodKnight
* CainAndAbel
* [[invoked]]ChaoticSelfish: Is mostly in it for the money
* DrowningMySorrows
* TheGunslinger
* TheHedonist
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty
* [[invoked]]JerkassWoobie
* SirSwearsalot
!! Kali
!!! Works: What We Do For Others
!!! Thread(s): Resort
A hedonist and hardcore party animal who only survives her life of constant inebriation and substance abuse thanks to some seriously heavy duty immortality. Kali's a sort of wanderer, going from place to place looking for a good time. In any form...
* AllPowerfulBystander: Not that there's much conflict in Resort, but despite her explicitly god-like status, she rarely does anything other than act like a regular human being
* CharacterAlignment: She ''appears'' ChaoticNeutral, but is really just a ChaoticGood with a weird sense of participation
* EthicalSlut: Believes that sex is a means of obtaining pleasure for both parties, and breathing anything more than that into it is giving it ''way'' too much meaning
* ExtremeOmnisexual
* TheFourLoves: To her, there isn't much of a difference between any of them
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl
* HumanoidAbomination: Although she ''looks'' like an [[HelloNurse improbably attractive twenty-something]], she's actually an impossibly old immortal from a universe created and destroyed far before the inception of our own. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot She's also a werewolf-vampire-cyborg-wizard-shapeshifter who eats demigods.]] If her current appearance is even close to what she looked like when she was mortal, it's only because of nostalgia.
* ImmortalImmaturity
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Believes in this strongly, insisting any sex that both parties aren't enjoying isn't worth having
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: As an extension of the above
* SuperWeight: She ''eats'' demigods. Placing her at a 5 on the scale is being conservative
* TheTease
* TimeAbyss: So old she's lost track. However, her own conservative estimates place her at over sixteen billion years old
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyle Jacobs]]
!! Ryan Davidson
!!! Works: Webcomic/{{Remus}}
!!! Threads: Cantina II, Resort
A soon-to-be-retired arms dealer with a very mysterious past. It's been implied that he played a significant enough part in the Second Civil War to draw unwanted attention from some pretty high ranking people. He's rapidly developing a ''very'' different personality to the version of him in the Remus canon, due largely to Iveya's influence.
* AcheyScars
* AlternateUniverse: Word of Kyle is that CDT!Ryan is from one - the sheer number of personality changes he's gone through and tweaks that had to be made to his backstory to avoid spoilers pretty much necessitated this.
* AntiHero: A very amicable Type III or IV.
* ArchEnemy: Seth.
* ArmsDealer: Heroic example: he runs guns for the Resistance.
* BadAss
** BadassBeard
** BadassNormal: He faces down [[EldritchAbomination Tamiel]] and ''wins''. To be fair, Tamiel didn't have access to his [[MindRape usual power set]] at the time.
* BerserkButton: Acting reminiscent of Seth is borderline suicidal. Given that the guy spent a month torturing him nonstop and [[spoiler: sent his own best friends to hunt him down, forcing him to kill them in self defense]], this one's pretty understandable.
* BestServedCold
* CantHoldHisLiquor: AT ALL. [[TheAlcoholic Doesn't stop him from trying]].
* CharacterAlignment: [[invoked]] ChaoticGood.
* CoveredWithScars: As he puts it, he spent the last 3 weeks before his arrival in the cantina being used as a human pincushion. The external stuff is ''nothing'' compared to what's going on in his head.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* TheDeadHaveNames
* DestructoNookie: With Aseyu in the Resort. Unusually for this, it's friendly and largely limited to pulling the shower curtain rod off the wall and somehow ruining his clothes.
* GoodIsNotNice
* KnifeNut: He demonstrates some pretty impressive skills with throwing knives.
* KnightInSourArmor: The fact that he's managed to stay as idealistic as he has despite long-term exposure to Seth is pretty damn impressive.
* ModestyTowel: Aseyu took his towel in payment for sex, and his clothes somehow got ruined, so he's been running around wearing a shower curtain.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: His only rule.
* NoodleIncident: What happened to his clothes, exactly?
* OhCrap: On finding out what Tamiel actually is, AFTER the ShutUpHannibal
* ScarsAreForever
* ShoutOut: Can anyone else think of another [[ComicBook/VForVendetta heavily scarred revolutionary who stayed in Room 5?]]
* ShutUpHannibal: Pulls one that [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome completely shuts down]] [[TheCorrupter Tamiel]], even without having any idea the latter character's [[EldritchAbomination true nature]].
* StepfordSmiler: He generally has to force himself to be as amiable as he is. He mostly keeps it up because it makes his life a whole lot easier, although it's pretty easy to make him drop the act.
* TraumaCongaLine: His backstory. [[CrapsackWorld It comes with the territory.]]
!! Seth Williams
!!! Works: Webcomic/{{Remus}}
!!! Threads: Resort
A CIA agent from the same universe as Ryan. Pretty much the bastard son of JosefStalin and [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]].
* BadassLongcoat: The coat is bulletproof, for one thing.
* BastardlySpeech: To Iveya regarding the reasons for his disagreement with Ryan.
* FauxAffablyEvil: ''Very''.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: This is how he sells himself, anyway.
** DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: His real motivation.
* IcyBlueEyes: Very prominent ones.
* KnifeNut
* ManipulativeBastard
* MasterActor: He's able to perfectly mimic Ryan's personality if he wants to.
* NervesOfSteel: The guy doesn't even flinch when Ryan hurls a knife at his face. Lucky for him he guessed right about the resort blocking the blade.
* TheSociopath
* TortureTechnician
* WickedCultured: He has a ''very'' formal speech pattern, especially compared to [[GoodIsNotNice Ryan]].
* YouMonster
!! Asariel
!!! Works: ???
!!! Threads: Resort
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Defaults to whatever form makes whoever's looking at him most comfortable. It's also completely subjective - when Kokabiel looks at him, he sees a mass of constantly shifting features.
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BadassLongcoat
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Pretty much the one thing about his appearance that he can't change.
* GrimReaper: [[DeconReconSwitch Deconstructed and reconstructed.]] Due to the sheer number of people who die, a single entity would have to be able to teleport and likely slow down time. Asariel's powers include exactly that. However, he also has to be devoted to his job 24/7 if he doesn't want to [[AndIMustScream let the souls of the dead stay attached to their corpses]]. Thanks to the existence of places like the Resort, he's able to take a vacation once every few thousand years.
* NoSocialSkills
* TimeAbyss
* WasOnceAMan: But has no memory of his life as a human.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:m8e]]
!! Oracle
!!! Threads: Mansion
A robot spider, Not just a robot with eight legs, almost every part of a spider have been mimicked somehow, two-part body(''cephalothorax''/''opisthosoma''), eye/camera positons(2 big pointing forwards, 4 smaller in other direction), fangs(possibly poisonous), a winch/cable/hook system instead of silkglands/Spinnerets, et.c. It also have various instruments to test the atmosphere, gravity, ionizing radiation and other things. Have some sort of AI, have feelings and get ''urges''.
* AnimalMecha / SpiderTank / MiniMecha: Don't really know where to draw the line.
* ArtificialIntelligence:
* BrainComputerInterface:
* EncyclopaedicKnowledge:
* InnateNightVision:
* MeaningfulName: Oracle. She speaks and answer questions. The answers might not be useful though.
* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Didn't arrive throught the normal inter-dimensional portal. She instead appeared "out of thin air" on the mansions roof. There where no signs of any ''holes'' or [[SwirlyEnergyThingy Swirly Energy Thingies]].
* PhotographicMemory:
* SuperSenses: Sight, Smell, Hearing.
* [[spoiler:UpliftedAnimal:]]
* [[spoiler:WetwareCPU:]]
!! Viktoria (aka Tora)
!!! Threads: Mansion
Tora a woman in her late twenties/early thirties(in the time of Mansion). Was on the team that found Oracle in its incomplete form. She put her together and is now the 'owner' of Oracle.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Might be caused by a society moving towards InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace.
* BrainyBrunette:
* {{Cyborg}}:
* GadgeteerGenius:
* {{Hackette}}:
* MacGyvering:
* PhotographicMemory:
* SuperSpeedReading:
* TheLadette:
* {{Wrenchwench}}:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Morgulion]]
!! GANT 01
!!! Works: EstMachina (protagonist)
!!! Threads: Bar, Nightclub, Hike, Outpost, Castle, Garden of Everything
A very massive and philosophical artificial soldier, over 200 years old and rather easy to get along with in times of peace. However, during a battle, he displays a far more aggressive streak, a sadistic joy, and a recklessness that borders on the suicidal. Given the time he's had to consider his situation, it's not entirely without justification. He usually takes the form of a tall and slender body that appears nearly skeletal, with a perfectly blank face. Tends not to speak of his past very much.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He can form one from his arms.
* TheBlank
* AntiHero / VillainProtagonist: Depends on whether he fights the evil forces or the good.
* '''BloodKnight'''
* [[invoked]] CharacterAlignment: Jumps across the entire spectrum of chaotic, mostly settling on ChaoticNeutral.
* EvilMentor: When he does decide to teach others philosophy, it essentially qualifies him as this.
* TheFatalist
* HeartbrokenBadass
* OldSoldier
* ThePhilosopher
* RedBaron: Known as the Scion of Purification.
* RetiredMonster
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted. He weighs about a ton due to the highly compacted metal of his body.
* ShapeshifterWeapon
* VillainsNeverLie: Doesn't believe in it when he can crush his enemies with sheer force.
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Averts this by not qualifying humans as unique or special, and therefore placing them on a level equal to livestock in most cases.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:MasterOfChaos]]
Please add any tropes you find fit.
!! Nathan Maroon
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: University
A twenty-five year old man who lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He has two adopted parents, George and Andrea, and a little brother, Adam.
* GoodParents: His adopted ones.
* BigBrotherInstinct: To Adam. Much more in The Chaos.
* HappilyAdopted
* NaiveNewcomer
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Where he's from...although half of the [[IWantMyJetPack "future"]] technology there haven't been released due to being expensive and dangerous.
!! Adam Maroon
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: University
Nathan's fourteen-year-old brother. He also lives in Atlanta, and his (biological) parents are George and Andrea Maroon.
* ButNotTooForeign: His father was from Scotland before he moved to the states to start his business. His mother was from Atlanta.
* GoodParents: George and Andrea, as mentioned above.
* FieryRedHead: Averted. He has red hair, but not a fiery personality.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Nick.
* InnocentBlueEyes
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* TheMedic
* NaiveNewcomer
* NiceGuy
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Where he's from...although half of the [[IWantMyJetPack "future"]] technology there haven't been released due to being expensive and dangerous.
!! Nick Riverson
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Dinner Party
Adam's best friend, and the ''actual'' main protagonist of The Chaos. He is an African-American boy who lives in downtown Atlanta. He is sixteen years old.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Adam.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheHero: Of The Chaos
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Even though he likes to pick on Jackson and acts impulsive, he will not hesitate to help his friends when they need it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jackson.
!!Jackson Ruth
!!! Works: The Chaos (second book, currently untitled)
!!! Threads: Dig site
A blond British boy, who is an amateur inventor. He is seventeen years old and is friends with Nick and Adam. Despite his (often) arguing with Nick, he cares for both of his friends, and is considered the leader of the trio.
* BritishAccents
* BerserkButton: HATES being called Jackso/Jacky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Though not as much as Nick.
* TeenGenius
* TheLeader: Type II. He's the oldest out of the trio, so he takes the role of "boss".
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. Also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Nick and, to a lesser extent, Adam.
!! Thomas Riverson
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Dig site
Nick's father, and the older fraternal twin of John. He's forty-three years old and currently lives in Atlanta. He's a scientist, but has not made any "big" projects for at least nine years.
* AdultFear: He mentions that because of what happened during the summer, he's worried about letting his son travel away from home. Thus he leaves and head's to the dig site in order to keep and eye on him.
* HappilyMarried
* OverprotectiveDad: See AdultFear.
* QuickNip
!! John Richman
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Dig Site
Nick's uncle and the young fraternal twin of Thomas. He lived in Alabama before moving to Atlanta to have his business near his family. He currently owns a gun store.
* BeneathTheMask: Is a nice man who loves his wife deeply, but has an inferiority complex when it comes to his older brother.
* HappilyMarried
* NiceGuy: Mostly.
!! Mary Riverson
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Mansion
Thomas' wife and Nick's mother. She was once a nurse in downtown Atlanta, but quit that job and became an elementary school teacher instead.
* HappilyMarried
* TheMedic (formally)
* SassyBlackWoman: Averted.
!! Abeiyuwa Richman
!!! Works: The Chaos
!!! Threads: Mansion
John's wife and Nick's aunt. She is a Nigerian woman who moved to America to start her life as a nurse. After marrying John, she helps her husband part time at his gunstore.
* HappilyMarried
* TheMedic
[[/folder]]
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