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Two Fantrolls that exist because their creators paid a whopping $10,000 for the Kickstarter for the ''Homestuck'' GaidenGame. Though Hussie originally intended the option to have fan characters appear as a joke, he ultimately followed up by making them appear briefly just before [[WhereItAllBegan Calliope and Caliborn are born]].

* DoingItForTheArt: The people who paid for these characters were more interested in funding the game than having their characters show up onscreen.

Characters from a Saturday morning cartoon show Rose and Jade watched when they were younger. Entirely irrelevant to the plot. For now, at least.[[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/squiddles They have their own album.]] They are, in part, a subconscious representation of the Gods of the Furthest Ring, created by humanity.

%%* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife

%%* TheCaptain

%%* [[EgomaniacHunter Egomaniac Fisherman]]
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* LiesToChildren: "Mister Bowman Tells You About The Squiddles:"

%%* ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=]ThePowerOfLove: Always.

* ShoutOut: Skipper Plumbthroat steals a line from the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989 80's Zelda cartoon]], with the addition of "Beryboo" at the end of it."

%%* AntiHero: Is referred to this by Roxy, though evidence seems to suggest that s/he's closer to a VillainProtagonist. * TheCorrupter: Manages to turn other pupils against the Complacency.
%%* DeathByIrony: Seemingly obsessed with them.
* MeaningfulName: ''Cal''masis
** It's also similar to "kismesis".
** Also similar to [[http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheSalmakis.html Salmacis]], the nymph who was merged with Hermphroditus to become the first hemaphrodite.
* VillainProtagonist: Torments and kills the Complacency for no real explored reason.
* VillainSue: In universe example. S/he wins a game of wizard chess even after being ''checkmated''.
** Most wizards use wands. Calmasis has a '''revolver'''.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's so good he's apparently beaten '''gods'''.

* DoomedProtagonist
* NominalImportance: Averted so far. We only know of them through a small excerpt of Rose's wizardfic.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Completely averted, as he tends to resort to shooting things much more quickly than is probably warranted.

-> Originally uses orange, and talks like Dirk, but switches to red later.

* {{LARP}}: Apparently does stuff with Roxy that Dirk wishes he wouldn't.

HE ALSO USES STEREOTYPICAL RAPPER SLANG LIKE DOGG!!\\

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dave's sword is called Caledscratch. It's later revealed that Doc Scratch was created by the Black Queen alchemizing Cal with Vriska's magic cue ball.
** Remember all those jokes about Lil' Cal being Lord English? It turns out English spawns from Doc Scratch's body at the end of the universe. He has Lil' Cal's facial structure.
*** As do the cherubs, both of whose names contain Cal's. And he's not called ''Lil''' Cal for nothing: he's the host for Caliborn's soul.

** SealedEvilInACan: It turns out it's this way because Dirk sealed Caliborn's soul inside the Juju himself. However, unlike most instances of this trope, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero this only makes it easier for Lord English]] [[LeakingCanOfEvil to spread his influence.]]
* StableTimeLoop: Caliborn calls Lil' Cal a "juju." Later, Calliope explains that "juju" are said to have origins impossible to trace, emerging out of the void, and cannot truly be copied or destroyed.[[note]]What these words mean for the "copy" of Lil' Cal created by the Scratch has yet to be explained, though Caliborn has said that the B2 version seems "dead" somehow, and it was later (presumably) destroyed.[[/note]] Lil' Cal is a fine example of this. He was created by Gamzee as a nightmare to haunt Dave's dreamself based on Bro's puppet. That nightmare eventually was sent through a Skaian portal to ''become'' Bro's puppet, and then that puppet through elaborate shenanigans ended up following Jack into the troll's session and eventually wound up in Gamzee's hands, inspiring his own creation.
** It gets even more complicated: Gamzee's creation is not entirely of his own volition; Dirk's Dream Cal is found by Gamzee and given to Caliborn, and after Caliborn stores his soul inside Dirk's Dream Cal, it becomes, in Caliborn's words, "ENTANGLED WITH THE VOID" and is then transferred by Gamzee into the Cal he "creates." As a result, Lord English is created, and he inspires Gamzee's "chucklevoodoo" abilities and, with help from Kurloz, ensures he travels far enough in the void to get to Caliborn. Without Gamzee, Caliborn would have never discovered Cal.

* ChekhovsGift: John receives all three versions of the Bunny on his birthday. He does not realize it at first, but each one is very important -- the first two must be sent [[StableTimeLoop back in time]] to create the third, which ends up saving his life when cornered by Jack.
** This also logically means, of course, that John has regifted the poor thing twice. Talk about unappreciative!
* TheCavalry: "The toy has taken a new master. The tactician, a misstep."
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Unceremoniously killed offscreen during the creation of the Green Sun.
** Averted later in Act 6, where Terry gets a whole flash dedicated to its life and death as Liv Tyler after Jake sends it to Jade.

* TimeyWimeyBall: However, due to the duplication of items between the Scratch, Jane technically has 3 different instances of the exact same bunny now, which doesn't have to undergo a StableTimeLoop anymore.

Consorts are amphibious or reptilian inhabitants of each player's planet in The Medium.

* CivilizedAnimal: Salamanders, crocodiles and turtles can communicate with human characters (the mini-game with John on Land of Wind and Shade shows this especially well). They also have their own cultures — and in the Act 6, we see a lot of cultural artifacts made by them. But they looks like animals and usually don't wear clothes. Other characters (except for Caliborn, who is a bad guy) don't kill and usually try to protect them, but see them as the most stupid creatures in the universe.

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* ThatOneBoss: The most powerful Denizen with the most extreme Choices by far.

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** Yaldabaoth/Demiurge is often portrayed as posing as a sun deity. It fits well for a denizen whose aspect's theme is a fractured soul.
** It's likely actually the other way around, since Yaldabaoth here looks very similarly to his traditional depictions in mythology.

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Possibly the Denizen of '''Breath'''. He has appeared on the Land of Wind and Shade during John's travels.

* ChekhovsGunman: Though remaining irrelevant for a large amount of time since Act 4, Typheus' choice seems to be the key to solving all of the glitches in the space-time continuum as of Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 4.

* NiceGuy: Explained to a doomed John exactly what would result from the timeline shift before killing him.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Forced John to master his reality warping powers by trapping him inside a pit that rapidly filled with oil, a situation where either warping himself out or the oil somewhere else in LOWAS would be pointless. John overcame this by warping the oil across multiple universes.
%%* SnakePeople

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Possibly the Denizen of '''Light'''. She has appeared on the Land of Light and Rain during Rose's travels, on the Land of Maps and Treasure during Vriska's travels. Very little is known about her. Vriska killed her iteration, who attempted to explain something to Vriska before she died.

%%* KrakenAndLeviathan

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%%* TheBlacksmith

* {{Jerkass}}: Comparatively amongst the Denizens. He attacked Davesprite without provocation, but once the Forge was lit by Jade, he seemingly calmed down a lot, and helped Davesprite reforge the Caledfwlch into the Royal Deringer.

* ManOnFire: His icon shows him wreathed in flames.

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* BigBad / BigGood: More or less is the leader of the Denizens.

%%* SnakePeople

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The Denizen designated for the most naturally gifted warriors. He appears on Dirk's Land of Tombs and Krypton and resides inside of Earth's core during Caliborn's session.

* EldritchAbomination: Comes across as one. Caliborn does manage to kill him, for what it's worth.
* EyeBeam: Capable of firing multiple rotating beams from each of his eyes at once.

* OddNameOut: All of the other Denizens (aside from Abraxas) are named after Greek and Roman deities and creatures. Yaldabaoth takes his name from the creator of the material world in the Gnostic tradition, which may also be a reference to Jade and Roxy's chumhandles.
** Though the concept of Demiurge stems from Plato and was subsequently appropriated by the Gnostics, meaning the connection isn't entirely gone. Plato's conception of Demiurge and the Gnostic conception of Yaldaboath are distinctly different though.

* PhysicalGod: 'The God of All Monsters'

* RuleOfSymbolism: Dirk uses the content aggregator "Complete Bullshit" rather than the browser Yaldaboath most of the time. The MythArc for a Hero of Heart sometimes revolves around a fractured sense of self.

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** Another Abraxas is a badass {{Creator/Marvel}} villain with [[OmnicidalManiac surprising]] [[MultiversalConqueror parallels]] to Lord English.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Unlike the other Denizens, who have human-like faces, Abraxas has a birdface instead, as seen in most depictions of him.
* OddNameOut: Like Yaldabaoth, he's named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas a Gnostic figure]].

* AdamWesting: Creator/AndrewHussie in real life is a soft spoken man with an odd sense of humor and little patience for the antics of the fandom. In-comic, Hussie is a completely insane LargeHam who continually mocks the audience, often speaking almost entirely in memes and call backs.
* AuthorAvatar: Though he seemingly still has a place within Sburb's mythology.
* BigNo: Implied [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/3387 here.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Or rather, looking through it.
** And [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall physically smashing]] through a "Fifth Wall" into Doc Scratch's tower.

* EngagingConversation: As soon as he sees Vriska, he asks her to marry him. She responds in disgust. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, it's canon]].

* EvilLaugh: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/2497 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA]][[OverlyLongGag et cetera]].
* {{God}}: He did create Homestuck and everything in it...
* KilledOffForReal: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4813 Hussie is shot to death by one of his own characters]]. Currently, he appears to be in the afterlife of the dreambubbles and narrates the story from there. The biggest consequence of this though is that he now can concretely interact with his characters, despite promises not to, since now he isn't stuck in his own home dimension.

--> "So, uh... what about all the other kids?" "Huh? Who? Oh, yeah. Those people. Aren't they all dead?"

--> Oh fuck it. Who am I to stand between you two? You obviously make an adorable couple.

!!The Gods of The Furthest Ring

* BlessedWithSuck: The counterpart of Skaian visions for Derse Dreamers is being able to listen to the whispers of these guys during a lunar eclipse, when all light from Skaia is blocked out. It's so far proved to be of little to no value directly in comic, though they have allegedly proved useful offscreen or in the backstory. The Gods did become more useful by fueling in part the introduction of Dreambubbles, which are more directly useful for players. Even then, any player with a dead dreamself can access those, not just Derse Dreamers.
** However, the Gods have proven quite useful for the two tyrian blooded trolls. Not only did Gl'bgolyb provide Feferi with information about the game before it began (similar to how Kanaya and Jade were provided with info from the clouds of Skaia long before they entered their sessions) but they also provided Meenah with a plan that would allow her and her fellow teammates to exist as ghosts after they had scratched their session.

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: They now store Rose's walkthrough in order to help other sessions of SBURB. It's found by Kanaya in what can effectively be considered [[InvertedTrope the kid's past]].
** Unfortunately, they ''also'' host the server that runs the ~ATH code that summons Lord English.

!! Skaia

!! Paradox Space
A mysterious force that causes doomed timelines and paradox doubles to die abruptly. Despite the name, it's not a physical location, so much as the shape of reality itself. Very little is known about it.

* BigBad: By some interpretations, Paradox Space is this, given that the [[YouCantFightFate efforts of the characters in comic are all predestined,]] including those of the actual BigBad!

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Paradox Space and the fate it ordains is a subtle reference to the fact that the characters are fictional and Andrew plans all the arcs, with minor deviations springing up from fan input or just having fun with developing characters.
** Vriska's RageAgainstTheHeavens makes this even more evident; she's mad in part because she's been relegated to being a minor character.

* YouCantFightFate: Paradox Space is why everything is essentially predestined; all offshoot timelines veer off into non-existence. Notably, however, this only applies to the players and to actions that will have an impact on the potential creation or destruction of universes; non-players who aren't in a position to affect such things have as much choice as their lot in life permits.
** While fate isn't ''completely'' immutable, some minor variations being allowed, all major events are predestined. Despite this, Aranea points out that it isn't really a hindrance, as someone with unlimited choices would have no sense of identity.

The FinalBoss in each player's MythArc, and the source of the troubles they face on their various lands.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: They do loosely serve Derse, but they're usually more interested in challenging the player to grow as an individual.
** With that said, Hephaestus went nuts in Davesprite's timeline due to the Forge never appearing.
* ArtShift: When denizens are actually shown - which is very rare - they are rendered in much more detailed depictions than all the other characters.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu / DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Both are valid options.

* TheUnseen: See TheGhost.

* DeathByIrony: Crushed beneath a book filled with his own mad scribbles.

** Some suggest this is also a probable fate for Gamzee, considering one of his alternates authored a book full of gibberish, especially considering WordOfGod is that the wizards correspond to the Trolls.

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* CharacterDeath: Traveled back to Earth with baby Dave on a meteor, and was killed upon impact. Her hide was made by Bro into a bib.

* NoNameGiven: The narration has implied post-scratch Maplehoof's name isn't actually Maplehoof. Fans have taken to calling her Minihoof.
* MyLittlePhony: Her name and the heart on her flank surely fit. Notably, she was introduced before ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' (and its sizable PeripheryDemographic) came about, but Dirk's iteration of her was made a ShoutOut to it.

* AmbiguousGender: Fans are divided on whether Mutie is a boy or girl. Canon doesn't clarify either way.

* IHaveManyNames: Gets called "Dr. Meowgon Spengler" by John.

* AmbiguousGender: WV has no idea if Serenity is a boy or a girl. He decides she's a girl, but he also has no idea if fireflies can even be girls. They can in some species, but in others, female fireflies resemble larvae. It is never clarified which Serenity's species falls into.
* ArcSymbol: Serenity's light spiral retroactively becomes one, specifically being used for the Cherubs from Act 6 Act 3 onwards.
** This comes into prominence during Collide, wherein Serenity's light gives all the Kids hope to persevere at the battle's midpoint.

* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Averted, to Serenity's displeasure.
--> "How do you people even exchange ideas without luminous rear ends!!!!!!"

* MeaningfulName: Roxy's name for her comes from the name of her ([[MythologyGag and Hussie's]]) wizardfic, "Wizardy Herbert."

* TeamPet: For the Exiles and later, the post-scratch Kids.
* TrashTalk: Tells Jack Noir "You suck!", making her the first person to directly insult him.

* HappilyMarried: To Betty Crocker, of all people.

%%* NiceHat: Both of them.

%%* NiceHat: It's in the name.

* NiceHat: Nektan wears a fancy top hat, though it's hard to see due to the dark background he appears in.

* ShoutOut: Skipper Plumbthroat steals a line from the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda 80's Zelda cartoon]], with the addition of "Beryboo" at the end of it."

*** Their biggest ship seems to be Tagora/Galekh (a [[FoeYay blackrom]]). After the Reader becomes pretty close friends with Tagora in his route, Galekh's route indicates that the former has told them quite a bit about it, and the route concludes with the Reader helping them get together for real. They reference the relationship many more times after this, including in ''Pesterquest'', with a fondness that makes it clear that they very much approve.

%%* StalkerWithACrush: To Vriska in the dreambubbles.

* FinalBoss: Of each Land; though a player has the option of TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: All seemingly have a weapon that can be given to another player of the session, for instance, the Quills of Echidna are part of [=NeedleKind=], and Hephaestus's Fear No Anvil was captchagraphed by Davesprite and its code given to John. However they are not the ultimate weapons of a session, and a player can alchemize better ones.

* ThatOneBoss: The most powerful Denizen with the most extreme Choices by far

** Caliborn seems to think that Lil' Cal is one, though its unknown how specific he's being when trying to warn Dirk to destroy him.

%%* CreepyDoll: In and out of the Homestuck Universe.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: ''Especially'' his dream counterpart, which moves around on its own. Then it turns out that he ''is'' his dream counterpart through [[TimeyWimeyBall weird time shit]], so he was alive and capable of moving all along... (unless Dream Cal only moved due to Dave's subconscious influence) Also, Gamzee [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4031 thinks Cal can talk, and is telling him that it's time to kill him all]], is he just an AxCrazy maniac who thinks his puppet talks to him, or is he an AxCrazy maniac whose puppet really is talking to him?

* BigNo: Implied [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005287 here.]]

* BrickJoke: "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004387 I wish those bullies would just leave me alone.]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004970 Later I am going]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004971 to ride a long magic dog]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004972 through the sky]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004973 and fuck]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004974 their shit up]]."

* ChewingTheScenery: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003578 HE]] ''[[InsistentTerminology CONJURES]]'' THIS INTREPID FANTASYSCAPE!

* EvilLaugh: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004397 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA]][[OverlyLongGag et cetera]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006713 Hussie is shot to death by one of his own characters]]. Currently, he appears to be in the afterlife of the dreambubbles and narrates the story from there. The biggest consequence of this though is that he now can concretely interact with his characters, despite promises not to, since now he isn't stuck in his own home dimension.

* RapidFireTyping: He's shown doing this for the [[RecapEpisode Recap Episodes.]] It gets [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005137 here.]]

* TrollingCreator: InUniverse; A few of the stranger self-inserts only make sense if you realize that Hussie used them to troll the fandom for flipping its lid over something. Take [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005286 Rufio: Make him pay]], where Hussie mocks the exaggerated reactions of his fans to recent character deaths by having his self-insert kiss a minor character from the movie ''Film/{{Hook}}''.

* ThrowAwayGuns: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006704 When he finds out his trump card wasn't loaded.]]

** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008330 It]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008331 keeps]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008332 happening.]]
** Likewise, they uncover the gun under the stump in the Land of Stumps and Dismay at the end of [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=009348 this flash]] before someone stops the record. Since they don't make any more appearances in ''Homestuck'' after that, it's possible they actually did go through with it that time.

* DarkReprise: The Squiddles theme suffers a pretty severe version of this. The version used in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004748 [S] Jade: Wake Up]] (and as a hidden track in "Squiddles!") starts out sounding more and more like the product of a defective tape machine before falling apart completely, and has a pretty severe case of LastNoteNightmare.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002258 The gigantic wizard statue in Rose's house]] is Zazzerpan the Learned. We don't know whether the statue was named for the character in her wizardfic, vice versa, or neither.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Roxy renames Jaspers after him. Jaspers gets crushed by a book filled [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006400 with a sprite's scribblings]].

* MythologyGag: Drawings of both Herbert and Beatrix can be seen on the walls of Rose's room on [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002117 this]] page.

** It's implied he was made in part via [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006159 a captcha of Dirk's own brain]], a CallBack to when Dave was [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003743 messing around with his alchemiter]]. (Though how Dirk got a captcha of his own brain before entering Sburb is a NoodleIncident so far.)

** When talking about what he'd do [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006392 if he was the one pursuing Jake]]:

* HypocriticalHumor: From [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006937 here.]]

Squarewave has spoken in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006441 a flash]] and speaks\\

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: ''Especially'' his dream counterpart, which moves around on its own. Then it turns out that he ''is'' his dream counterpart through [[TimeyWimeyBall weird time shit]], so he was alive and capable of moving all along... (unless Dream Cal only moved due to Dave's subconscious influence) Also, Gamzee [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005931 thinks Cal can talk, and is telling him that it's time to kill him all]], is he just an AxCrazy maniac who thinks his puppet talks to him, or is he an AxCrazy maniac whose puppet really is talking to him?

* SecurityBlanket: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006421 To Dirk]], strangely enough.

* TheBlank: Like John's Dad, he has no facial features except for his nose (although he also has a mustache). At least when he appears in person. His face can be seen in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001969 an illustration inside his book]], and can be seen again [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002456 here]].
* CurseOfTheAncients: "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003816 Land sakes alive, we are cooking with petrol now!]]"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Fieri made his [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006035 first]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006054 cameo]] in the comic some seven hundred pages before Dirk explained his rise to power more fully. It's easy to dismiss those popups as a throwaway gag, until you find out that... well, see below.

* FanNickname: P-Space. Eventually became used in comic as well.

* FanNickname: Shades Prick, after [[Characters/HomestuckExiles Spades Slick.]]

* KilledOffForReal: As it's implied that the Cal from the B1 Universe that Gamzee owned is the last Cal, the puppet, under Caliborn's influence, effectively commits suicide when it persuades post-scratch Jack Noir to [[EyeScream steal its eyes]] and destroy Prospit's prison (and the rest of the puppet with it). His curse, however, lives on inside "[[FanNickname Union Jack]]," until his ultimate death at the hands of Dave Strider.

* EngagingConversation: As soon as he sees Vriska, he asks her to marry him. She responds in disgust. [[WidgetSeries Yes, it's canon]].

You open the last draw of your cast cabinet to see a mess of unsorted papers documenting miscellaneous figures. Upon reviewing them, you're not sure if you'd want to categorize them at all.

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* GiantSquid During [S] Jack: Ascend, Bro Strider is seen battling a giant octopus-like monster that lives in the lave seas of the Land of Heat and Clockwork.

* CombatTentacles: After Rose prototypes the tentacled doll, some Underling types develop tentacles that they use to grapple and whip players during combat. This trait is most visible among the imps, some of which sport tentacles instead of hands, and liches, which instead sprout a pair tentacles from their sides.

[[folder:In-Universe Fictional Characters]]
!! The Squiddles and Skipper Plumbthroat
Characters from a Saturday morning cartoon show Rose and Jade watched when they were younger. Entirely irrelevant to the plot. For now, at least.[[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/squiddles They have their own album.]] They are, in part, a subconscious representation of the Gods of the Furthest Ring, created by humanity.

* AffectionateParody: Of a number of children's shows, especially WesternAnimation/TheSnorks.
* AllThereInTheManual: Most of the info about them was revealed in the description for [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MSPA-SQUIDDLE-PRINT&Category_Code=MSPA-ART a poster]] in the store. Their album reveals some more info.
%%* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife
%%* {{Animesque}}: Parts of the flash movie that comes with the album.
* ArtShift: There's several different art styles in the Squiddles opening.
%%* TheCaptain
* DarkReprise: The Squiddles theme suffers a pretty severe version of this. The version used in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004748 [S] Jade: Wake Up]] (and as a hidden track in "Squiddles!") starts out sounding more and more like the product of a defective tape machine before falling apart completely, and has a pretty severe case of LastNoteNightmare.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Tangling" seems slightly sexual. Made much more explicit in the flash movie that accompanies the album, where two Squiddles are seen [[SmokingHotSex smoking in bed]] after some intense tangling.
%%* [[EgomaniacHunter Egomaniac Fisherman]]
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* GodNeverSaidThat: Skipper Plumbthroat ''doesn't'' have a pegleg, despite fans assuming he did.
* HarmlessVillain: Skipper Plumbthroat never significantly harms the Squiddles, seeing as it is just a kids show.
* LiesToChildren: "Mister Bowman Tells You About The Squiddles:"
-->'''Mister Bowman:''' The Squiddles live in a magical land,\\
Below the waves in castles of sand\\
If you listen close, you can hear them make their plans\\
'''Kids:''' What kind of plans?\\
'''Mister Bowman:''' ...Happy Squiddle plans!
* MediumBlending: The opening sequence includes a puppet show segment, midway through the puppet show, they decide to be tangle buddies, and it switches from puppets to gloved hands.
%%* MerchandiseDriven: Judging by the sheer amount of plushies.
%%* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The magical girls in the Squiddles opening.
%%* ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=]ThePowerOfLove: Always.
%%* PunnyName
%%* PuppyDogEyes
* RealTrailerFakeMovie: [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/squiddles-the-movie-trailer-the-day-the-unicorns-couldnt-play Here]] for the ''Squiddles'' [[TheMovie movie]], ''The Day The Unicorns Couldn't Play''.
%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter
* ShoutOut: Skipper Plumbthroat steals a line from the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda 80's Zelda cartoon]], with the addition of "Beryboo" at the end of it."
--> '''Skipper Plumbthroat''': Well excuse me, Princess Berryboo!
* ShowWithinAShow: The Squiddles are characters from an old, crappy cartoon that Jade likes. She has posters and plush merchandise from it, apparently unaware of the sinister undertones of the series.
* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: In the unofficial ''Homestuck'' Christmas Album, the lyrics to [[http://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/the-squiddles-save-christmas The Squiddles Save Christmas]] seem to [[ParodiedTrope literally]] be "Squiddles, Squiddles, Squiddles, something Squiddles."
* StylisticSuck: Never actually seen, but it's implied to be pretty bad to the people of the Homestuck universe, excluding Jade. It has a 2.6 out of 10 on the (fake) IMDB page seen in the description for the poster mentioned above. [[BrownNote It may be rated low due to the high amount of weird...things that occur.]] You know, what with them being a human interpretation of the Eldritch Abominations from the Farthest Ring. The video that accompanies the ''Squiddles!'' album is made to look like a cheap Flash cartoon that came out of Newgrounds.
%%* TitleThemeTune
* VillainSong: [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/catchyegrabber-skipper-plumbthroats-song "Catchyegrabber"]] for Skipper Plumbthroat, which later received a remix and is the closest to being Eridan's theme as any song is.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: [[invoked]] From what is seen/heard of the show, it's implied that it tended to touch down on themes that, for children's television, were needlessly bleak.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: This cute children's show is actually humanity's subconscious reimagining of the Horrorterrors as adorable little tentacled things.

!! Characters from Complacency of the Learned
"The Complacency of the Learned" is a story written by Rose and her Post-Scratch counterpart, Mom Lalonde. While Rose's story never amounted to much more than PurpleProse, Mom Lalonde's novels have become inexplicable best sellers.

The series is about a group of disciples of twelve great wizards who rebel against them under the influence of Calmasis, chief antihero and antagonist. The kids then murder each of the wizards in ironic ways, until only their leader, Zazzerpan, is left to duel him in a chess match. Roxy calls the books "dark," "inaccessibly written," and "exhaustingly heavy-handed" though still inspiring to her as an author of more lighthearted wizardfic.

WordOfGod is that Rose's wizardfic is about [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm#andrewhussie1158647790 12 evil kids who influenced every dark event in history]], and thus a subconscious reflection of the trolls' role in creating the universe. Other characters in the series seem to correspond to the cherubs.

!!! Calmasis
Calmasis is the main antagonist of the series.

* AmbiguousGender: Consistently referred to as "s/he", due to being very androgynous.
%%* AntiHero: Is referred to this by Roxy, though evidence seems to suggest that s/he's closer to a VillainProtagonist. * TheCorrupter: Manages to turn other pupils against the Complacency.
%%* DeathByIrony: Seemingly obsessed with them.
* MeaningfulName: ''Cal''masis
** It's also similar to "kismesis".
** Also similar to [[http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheSalmakis.html Salmacis]], the nymph who was merged with Hermphroditus to become the first hemaphrodite.
* VillainProtagonist: Torments and kills the Complacency for no real explored reason.
* VillainSue: In universe example. S/he wins a game of wizard chess even after being ''checkmated''.
** Most wizards use wands. Calmasis has a '''revolver'''.

!!! Zazzerpan
Also known as the Predicant Scholar. Leader of the Complacency and main protagonist.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002258 The gigantic wizard statue in Rose's house]] is Zazzerpan the Learned. We don't know whether the statue was named for the character in her wizardfic, vice versa, or neither.
* MeaningfulName: "Predicant Scholar" resembles a Prospitian or Dersite title.
* MythologyGag: The initials are [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth PS]].
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's so good he's apparently beaten '''gods'''.

!!! Frigglish
A wizard cursed and later killed by Calmasis.

* DeathByIrony: Crushed beneath a book filled with his own mad scribbles.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Roxy renames Jaspers after him. Jaspers gets crushed by a book filled [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006400 with a sprite's scribblings]].
** Some suggest this is also a probable fate for Gamzee, considering one of his alternates authored a book full of gibberish, especially considering WordOfGod is that the wizards correspond to the Trolls.
%%* GoMadFromTheRevelation
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: What his insanity drives him to create. It's also what kills him.

!!! Other Wizards
Executus, Smarny, Ockite the Bonafide, and Gastrell the Munificent.

* DoomedProtagonist
* NominalImportance: Averted so far. We only know of them through a small excerpt of Rose's wizardfic.

!! Characters from Wizardy Herbert
"Wizardy Herbert" is a story written by Roxy. In real life, the story actually began as "a very flippantly satirical story about kids and magic" written by Hussie before ''Homestuck'', and many of the jokes in this story provide several of the comic's [[MythologyGag Mythology Gags]] related to wizards. Unlike that endeavor and ''Complacency of the Learned'', however, Roxy's story is of poor quality, and appears to serve the purposes of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' or ''Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff'' for the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Potteresque]] ''Complacency''.

The plot involves four teenagers from the real world who all somehow [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall enter]] a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional story]], one of even poorer quality than the larger story, about a summer camp for wizards. It is revealed that one of these characters, Grant Anonama, the villain, is originally from the story and that his true name is Slinus Marlevort. The narrative appears to make Russet the protagonist at first before accepting the titular protagonist's place in that role. The story is left unfinished at a scene where Herbert and Beatrix are playing an obvious parody of Quidditch involving flying wooden horses.

!!! Wizardy Herbert
%%* AntiHero
%%* TheCynic
* MythologyGag: Drawings of both Herbert and Beatrix can be seen on the walls of Rose's room on [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002117 this]] page.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Completely averted, as he tends to resort to shooting things much more quickly than is probably warranted.

%%!!! Beatrix
%%* StraightMan

!!! Russet Clove
* AllThereInTheScript: His surname is mentioned only in Hussie's original ''Wizardy Herbert'' and its related materials.

!!! Slinus Marlevort / Grant Anonama
%%* BigBad: Of Wizardy Herbert
* ShoutOut: His surname appears to be a lazy portmanteau of the two names for ''Franchise/HarryPotter''[='s=] Dark Lord, "Voldemort" and "Tom '''Marvolo''' Riddle." His first name appears to be in the style of those of other Potter characters (i.e. "Severus," "Lucius," "Sirius," etc.).
** His pseudonym, which he used when he pretended to be the heroes' friend in the real world, is an anagram for "Not an anagram."

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!! Dirk's Auto Responder/Lil Hal
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An AI [[Characters/HomestuckPostScratchKids Dirk Strider]] developed that supposedly imitates his thought processes within a small margin of error. As such, his chumhandle is also timaeusTestified. Dirk created him around his thirteenth birthday, and he's more or less a screenshot of Dirk's personality at that time period, though he's [[DivergentCharacterEvolution undergone his own character development as well.]]

Because they're very closely related, tropes here specifically apply to the program. For tropes related to his merger with Equius as Arquissprite, see the [[Characters/HomestuckSprites Sprites]] page.

-> Originally uses orange, and talks like Dirk, but switches to red later.

* {{Asexuality}}: While he does have a slight crush on Jake at times, it's more like an echo of Dirk's feelings, and he's not sure if he "can be 'into' someone in a way you can [Roxy] understand."

%%* ManOnFire: Seemingly constantly.

*** Also appears to support the ''something'' (possibly pale feelings, as eventually manifested in-canon) between Vriska and Terezi; in the latter's good ending, she brings them together so they can talk about their issues, leading to them repairing their friendship and growing closer than ever.