History Characters / Dreamkeepers

* TheHero: The first protagonist viewpoint sort to begin with, before he's hinted to be a legitimate Chosen One.

* TheDreaded: The Troika members freak whenever its scouting form makes an appearance, and Vi alerting everyone that it's marked Mace brings a fight between members to a sudden stop before they accelerate to the next step of their plan.

* MsFanservice

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Is heavily hinted to be Namah's biological mother, and her trying to kill Namah and Lilith certainly makes her this]].

* SmugSnake or TheChessmaster, your mileage may vary.

** [[spoiler: Also TheManBehindTheMan for Tinsel and Wisp.]]

* HiddenInPlainSight: Not only can he make himself look like a Dreamkeeper ([[spoiler: again]]) but he can also take on the appearance of a child, which he is using to keep a close eye on the kid heroes, such as Mace and Bast.

* HumanoidAbomination: Is the most humanoid Nightmare yet seen.

* CassandraTruth: Whilst it's exact nature is unknown, something mysterious and ethereal appeared to him in the archives and told him he possessed the most important power there is. Everyone else just thinks he's delusional, even though they believed him about the Sandman attacking him, and it wasn't for no reason. Supplementary material on the nature of the Spirits strongly implies that his Chosen One status is the real deal.

* BlowYouAway: [[spoiler: Her power, revealed in Volume 4]]

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She has a tendency to carry and use guns bigger than herself, causing many readers to speculate her power was SuperStrength, [[spoiler: before Volume 4]].

* {{Tomboy}}

* {{Yandere}}/ CuteAndPsycho: It depends on ''exactly'' how far her dedication to Nabonidus goes. She's obviously completely loyal to him, but it's unknown if that goes onto a kind of admiration towards him like a father figure... Or perhaps even further.
*** In any case, she definitely gives off CuteAndPsycho vibes. She just seems to slide between being more innocent and being more [[AxCrazy dangerous.]]

* CassandraTruth: Whilst it's exact nature is unknown, something mysterious and ethereal appeared to him in the archives and told him he possessed the most important power there is. Everyone else just thinks he's delusional.
* ChosenOne: Seems to have an unknown, but extremely potent power locked away in him.

* HeartwarmingOrphan

* StrongerThanTheyLook: He may be small, but that doesn't make him weak. He's able to tussle with and bloody the larger Bast, who punches hard enough to crumble steel, as Mace himself found out (and he immediately got back up afterwards with no sign of injury). He's able to tip over a massive pillar in the prototype comic and in the official one, appears to temporarily hold back a massive boulder's downwards slide.

** However, [[spoiler:he at least seemed concerned for the kids, enough to not want to tell them the full situation because it would freak them out. He might have accidentally drank himself all the way around to nice for a second.]]
** Plus, [[spoiler:Igrath probably wouldn't even consider letting Grunn have any part in his operations if he didn't have ''some''thing to redeem himself. I mean, Scinter makes jokes about shooting kids to 'reduce the surplus population', but Grunn actually '''''thinks about shooting kids.''''']]
---> [[spoiler:'''Igrath''': ''Did you give Grunn a '''gun!?''''']]

* ChildHater: No, he beats orphan boys, violently knocks over little girls who try to help their friends, [[spoiler: throws orphans several meters out to sea in fits of hangover-fueled belligerence (See the last Mace & Whip Prelude Arc, near the end)]] and [[spoiler: contemplates shooting random children as soon as he gets ahold of a gun]] [[SarcasmMode so as to teach valuable life lessons about how the world will not take it easy on them.]]
* DumbMuscle: Strong and as big as a house, but dumb as house too.

* {{Jerkass}}: Big time.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Possibly justified, since he's '''over ten feet tall''', but Igrath pulled off quite a feat of strength. [[spoiler:That being when he ripped a full teleportation system large enough to hold three teenagers out of the floor and [[DoorFu tossed it out a door to run over some invading Shock Troopers.]] ''After'' he '''tied grenades to it.''']]
** It probably counts as a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that he can remain aware enough of his surroundings without his sight to prevent from seriously hurting others on accident, considering his size, wingspan, and large claws. Being a blind, eleven-foot-three griffon man is complicated.
*** Volume 3 includes a scene where he starts bumping into things because they'd been rearranged, meaning he couldn't avoid them based on memory. And he knocks some stuff over unfurling his wings in excitement. So he has his limits.
* ChickMagnet

* GentleGiant: He has to be, because with his claws ''and'' blindness ''and'' sheer size, not noticing somebody and making a wrong move could...Well, he might have another person to be blind with. ... Or, possibly crush them by accident.
* ObliviousToLove: Doesn't seem to know that the twins love him.

** [[spoiler:That actually leads to a bit of [[FridgeLogic Fridge Brilliance]] - Since he originally designed the telepad, and he and Igrath have telepads in their safehouse, an old fortress in the mountains, and the orphanage...It seems Lilith was right to be suspect of Igrath.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Lilith''': He doesn't even know how to use an info-scroll. (Which are basically the rough equivalent of cell-phones.)]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:The Indigos' real names are Indi and Digo Marrallang. They both have an immense crush on Igrath. In Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths, the Mar'rallang sisters both married the same man.]]

* LethalHarmlessPowers: [[spoiler:From what can be gathered, it seems that Lilith's Power involves moving life energy. Now, as is suitable to her personality, she can apparently use it to heal allies...Or, in its ''displayed'' usage, '''suck the life out of any living creatures nearby completely.''']]
** [[spoiler:Or even ''technically'' living - ala the Nightmares.]]
** [[spoiler:She accidentally activated her Power on such a scale that, after being eaten by a giant Nightmare beast and activating her Power in self-defense, it was so [[DeaderThanDead far past death]] that its entrails fell out. ''By themselves.'' Either that, or its body was so fragile that it couldn't support Lilith's weight. Oh, and all of the plants for a few meters were dead, too. Also, to put the theory of how it might not have been able to support Lilith's weight in perspective: This beast was bigger than most of the trees nearby. And Lilith is a ''light-framed sixteen year-old girl.'']]
** [[spoiler:Finally, if there was any doubt on the Nightmare being [[DeaderThanDead gone for good]], Nightmares are basically just intelligent energy that have formed physical bodies. So, basically, that thing's entire existence was life energy; very ''evil'' life energy, but life energy nonetheless - And Lilith drains life energy. So...Yup.]]

* LittleMissBadass: The [[BadassLongcoat typical fashion choice]] helps. [[spoiler: Matching an experienced Power user on the very first use of her own Power does, too. So does effortlessly beating two guards, one of whom was MASSIVE, with casual ease.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: Kind of a less-extreme version; she's usually non-combative, just a little bit off-putting... But she deeply loves her sister, Lilith, because Lilith was essentially the only true friend she's ever had. [[spoiler:It was to save Lilith that Namah's Power awakened.]]

* MadScientist: It would be impossible to tell from just the graphic novels, but from reading the info on the site, it becomes clear: Scinter was the one who originally conceived Anduruna's teleportation system, after he was able to catch the elusive and dangerous teleporting squid that power it. However, the Andurunan government arrested him for catching the squids and inventing without the government's approval, which would have probably taken years, and he was thrown in prison. Oh, and they went ahead and used his plans to build the Telepad system. Perhaps not quite mad as in insane, but definitely '''angry.''

* TheSociopath: Bast possesses close to, maybe ''more'' than ''half'' of the listed traits. Or at least, he's shown such attributes most prominently in [[spoiler: his fight with Mace.]]

* UnstoppableRage: It's easy to blow his fuse. [[spoiler:As in, when he was blocking Mace's locker and ignored requests to move, Mace grabbed his scarf and pulled him down to get his attention. Bast's inevitable response was to punch him in the face. Throwing him into a locker. On the other side of the hallway... And after that, he went to ''beat Mace up more.'']]

* DumbMuscle: Strong and as big as houses, but dumb as houses too.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Well, for the time being, it seems... [[spoiler: From the first few pages of Volume Three, it seems that, despite being summoned properly, he has yet to return to full power - After a battle with Nabonidus in which there were many borderline-cataclysmic explosions, the two "agreed to an accord". So, that probably just means that Void is going to sit back and return to full power while Nabonidus heads the Nightmare forces in his place.]]
* EldritchAbomination
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Well...Void. Total nothingness. [[spoiler:The Nightmares seek to destroy all sentient life.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Look under the above. And its said that the Dreamworld isn't the only world he's destroyed...]]

* MarkedToDie: Stage one; it detaches its face to serve as a scout, which tracks down its target and marks them, causing it and the mark to switch eye colour. This results in only the marked target being able to see the Mokoi and the Mokoi ending up invisible/untouchable to everyone but them. Stage 2; the face returns to the main body and it pursues the newly marked target. Stage 3; it kills the target. As of current events, its newest target is Mace, and stage 2 is underway...

* GuileHero: Mace is crafty. He beats a Sandman with just a ''pillow'' and a ''blanket'', then escapes Ravat using pheromone-coated coins.

* TheHero

%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: In the Prelude. She's toned it down by the time of the graphic novels. Some.
%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* RebelliousPrincess
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* BlemishBeauty: Invoked by Nabonidus; as punishment for sabotaging another of his follower's plans, Nabonidus leaves a black spot on Tinsel's cleavage, compromising the seductive ability she knows is her greatest weapon.

* GuileHero: Mace is crafty. [[spoiler:He beats a Sandman with just a ''pillow'' and a ''blanket'', then escapes Ravat using the pheromone-coated coins.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Is heavily hinted to be Namah's biological mother, and her trying to kill Namah and Lilith certainly makes her this]].

** [[spoiler: As seen where Wisp stopped to answer Namah's question of why she was attacking the main characters - Right in the middle of fighting her.]]

** [[spoiler:The pale pink eyes Wisp gets around halfway through Volume 2 suspiciously look enamoured with ''some''one.]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Wisp:''' Well, since you bring it up, it's a long story, actually…]]

* {{Yandere}}/ CuteAndPsycho: It depends on ''exactly'' how far her dedication to Nabonidus goes. [[spoiler:She's obviously completely loyal to him, but it's unknown if that goes onto a kind of admiration towards him like a father figure… Or perhaps even further.]]

* MarkedToDie: Stage one; it detaches its face to serve as a scout, which tracks down its target and marks them, causing it and the mark to switch eye colour. This results in only the marked target being able to see the Mokoi and the Mokoi ending up invisible/untouchable to everyone but them. Stage 2; the face returns to the main body and it pursues the newly marked target. As of current events, its newest target is Mace, and stage 2 is underway...

* MadScientist: It would be impossible to tell from just the graphic novels, but from reading the info on the site, it becomes clear: Scinter was the one who originally conceived Anduruna's teleportation system, after he was able to catch the elusive and dangerous teleporting squid that power it. Scientist. However, the Andurunan government arrested him for catching the squids and inventing without the government's approval, which would have probably taken years, and he was thrown in prison. Oh, and they went ahead and used his plans to build the Telepad system. Perhaps not quite mad as in insane, but definitely '''angry.''

* HateSink: There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this bitch whatsoever.

* HateSink: [[spoiler: Killing Paige and later bragging about to Mace like it was some godamn achievment]] cements him as this.