History Characters / MagicalGirlPolicy

* SpiritedCompetitor: Rob is competitive and likes to challenge himself, which is the main reason he played football and enjoys ''Aspect Realms'' PvP. Rob finds that in a weird way, being a Spirit Guard fills a void left by football in that she can physically push herself.

* HurtingHero: Robynne is in constant turmoil over what becoming a Spirit Guard has done to her body, identity, and life, but continues being a hero because it's the right thing to do.

* PeekABangs: Serenity's hair covers one of her eyes at all times. Brushing it away causes the other eye to get covered, and the hair resists being held back to stop this. She finds it annoying, but her strong EKP means it doesn't impede her combat prowess.

* FashionDesigner: A Fashion Design major, she dreams of creating her own label.

* WhipItGood: Ticket Snare lets the lines of tickets from her wrists whip at or entangle a target. The tickets are empathokinetically reinforced until they are severed from Polygal.

* TheChick: The most gentle and kind Spirit Guard.

* ShesGotLegs: Robert catches himself staring at her long, toned legs when he first meets her.

* ShesGotLegs: According to Eli, her legs are quite nice to look at.

This page lists tropes regarding characters in Literature/MagicalGirlPolicy.

* MagicalGirlWarrior

* GirlishPigtails: As Valor.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Angela's girly girl.

* BrainyBrunette

* DramaQueen

* CombatMedic

* EndearinglyDorky

* MuggleBestFriend: To Rob.

* ForeignExchangeStudent

* {{Ninja}}

* BadBoss
** ShootTheMessenger: He'll beat Trace if she delivers particularly bad news.

* AlphaBitch

[[folder:Sanvi]]
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[[folder:[=NightKnight (Connor)=]]]

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[[folder:[=SaltStorm=]]]

[[folder:Zemiron]]
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!! Ardent Empire

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[[folder:The Soldier]]
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[[folder:The Scholar]]
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[[folder:The Mender]]
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[[folder:The Shrine Maiden]]
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[[folder:The Empress]]
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[[folder:The Knight]]
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[[folder:Liff]]
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!! Other

[[folder:Fate]]
A far-seeing deity in charge of preserving order in the multiverse.

* AGodIAmNot: While Fate is often referred to as a god, Kunapipi says that's not quite the case.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Fate's motivations beyond maintaining some vague cosmic order are unknown even to her agents. Considering she is far-seeing yet doesn't seem to care what befalls innocent people caught up in her plans, Fate doesn't appear to operate on any sense of good and evil.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Selects people to become Champions, who work to keep order in the world.
* SentientCosmicForce: Fate is said to be more like an embodiment of order than a living thing.
* StarfishLanguage: For reasons unknown, Fate primarily communicates to her agents using feelings and archetypes.
* TheWatcher: Prefers not to intervene directly, feeling that doing so would oppose free will.
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[[folder:Taylor Dreese (Uncle Taylor)]]
Rob's paternal uncle, who became his guardian after Rob's parents died in a car accident fifteen years ago. Lonely with his nephew away at college on the other side of the country, Taylor calls several times a week.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Robert doesn't want Taylor worrying for his safety, so he refrains from mentioning his encounters with monsters and the Spirit Guard. After [[SuperGenderBender becoming a Spirit Guard]], Robynne continues this charade and goes text-only until she can explain everything in person.
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[[folder:Dale Bridges]]
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Robert, Cory, and Eli's roommate. He's set to share a room with Rob, but his late arrival means he just misses Rob get moved out.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: Said to be a good vocalist of his band.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Doesn't realize that girls find him hot. Cory has to point out to him that Sanvi was checking him out after the fact.
* DoggedNiceGuy: He's a pleasant guy, but he's not as subtle as he seems to think he is in showing his interest in Robynne.
* HasAType: Very fond of scarlettes. Cory and Eli warn Robynne of this, and as expected, Dale quickly falls for her.
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[[folder:Devon]]
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[[folder:Tantrall]]
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[[folder:Rusty]]
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[[folder:Brook]]
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[[folder:Dustin Durfee]]
A football player who played alongside Robert back in high school.
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* AlwaysSecondBest: Was always just behind Rob on the depth chart, finally overtaking him after a huge growth spurt in sophomore year.
* DrivenByEnvy: His bullying of Rob was motivated in part by finally surpassing the rival that had always done better than him.
* DumbMuscle: Said to not be very bright, and also effectively a goon for his girlfriend Evelyn.
* JerkJock: A stereotypical idiotic bully of a football player.
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[[folder:Evelyn Gray]]
A cheerleader Rob knew in high school.
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* KnifeNut: Serenity uses a pair of knives.

* RapunzelHair: Ends up with butt-length hair after transforming. She considers it a nuisance and would rather have her short hair back, but her healing factor maintains its length.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: After transforming, Rob's hair is a blood red color called scarlette.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A sky blue color called bluenette.

* DramaQueen

* MuggleBestFriend: To Rob.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Wise guy to Eli's straight man.

** AFormYouAreComfortableWith, HumanityEnsues: Took up a human form as people became less accepting of a talking wallaby.
** BeingHumanSucks: Finds a human body uncomfortable.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her burgundy hair was considered strange in most of the world, but in Kessia City it's unremarkable.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A green color called emerelde.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A green color called emerelde.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has green hair.

* RichBitch

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A purple color called violette.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A green color called emerelde.

* MulticoloredHair: Felicity has black hair with pink bangs.

[[folder:Robert Dreese (Spirit Guard Serenity)]]

* GuileHero: Likes to use trickery, taunts, and the like in dealing with monsters.

* TheGadfly: Will annoy her friends and perform minor pranks, like rearranging one's personal space.

** HeightAngst: He doesn't like being [=5'5''=], especially since he could've been tall like his six-foot sister.

* ShrinkingViolet

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Appears as either an ordinary wallaby or a human in her twenties or thirties, but she's been working as Guide for Earth's heroes for thousands of years.

* GodsHandsAreTied: Prefers not to intervene directly, feeling doing so would oppose free will.
* SentientCosmicForce: Fate is said to be more of an embodiment of order than a living thing.

* BadassBookworm: Starts as a nerd with the fitness of a football player that can hold his own in a fight. Later loses the body but gets to fight with superpowers instead.

* MeaningfulRename: After transforming, it wouldn't be safe to remain Robert Dreese, so the name Robynne Ellis Darling is chosen.
** SobriquetSexSwitch: Robert was named after his grandmother already, so takes up her name of Robynne. It's close enough to her original name to not bother her too much, and allows her to still be Rob for short.
** EmbarrassingFirstName, MyNaymeIs: Robynne finds the spelling of her name overly feminine. She had forgotten how her grandmother spelled it when she agreed to take up her name.
** EmbarrassingLastName, NomDeMom: Robynne thinks her last name of Darling is cartoonish given her appearance. She'd believed it wouldn't be too bad when she chose to adopt her mother's maiden name, given she didn't have other options if she wanted her surname to remain in her family.

* HeroicAmbidexterity: Is ambidextrous only in Spirit Guard form.

* CosmicPlaything: After learning Fate and is real and has given him a destiny he hates, Rob often wonders if any new contrived hardship is Fate's doing.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: Robynne finds the spelling of her name overly feminine. She had forgotten how her grandmother spelled it when she agreed to take up her name.
* EmbarrassingLastName: Robynne thinks her last name of Darling is cartoonish given her appearance. She'd believed it wouldn't be too bad when she chose to adopt her mother's maiden name, given she didn't have other options if she wanted her new surname to remain in her family.

* NomDeMom: Unable to safely keep the Dreese surname, Robynne opts to use her mom's maiden name Darling.

[[folder:Taylor Dreese]]

* PeekABangs: Serenity's hair is empathokinetically charged to cover one of her eyes at all times. Brushing it away causes the other eye to get covered, and the hair resists being held back to stop this. She finds it annoying, but her strong EKP means it doesn't impede her combat prowess.

[[folder:Eli Drake]]

[[folder:Nick Siekert]]

[[folder:Will Siekert]]

* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: His near death in the Ardentia Civil War has left him dependent on the systems of empathokinetic armor.

* AllPowerfulBystander: Chooses not to directly intervene so as not to trample on free will.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Serenity is only [=5'2''=], but has the power to fight monsters all the same.

* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: Each of the Spirit Guard have a phrase that they need to say to activate their transformation.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Rob would rather be an ordinary college student than a superhero.

* TheStoic: Has tight control over his emotions due to feeling they'd get in the way of decision-making, which is appropriate given Spirit Guard Serenity's tranquility-and-adjacent-fueled powers.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Robert's hair is a standard reddish-brown, but it becomes a blood red color called scarlette after transforming.

A student at SAU and digital artist employed by Kunapipi. He, Will, and Noriko make up the Hush Corps, an obfuscation group that protects the secrets of the Spirit Guard. He can forge evidence and documentation, and also drives a van called the HushMobile to the scene of a monster battle so the Hush Corps can get to work. He and his twin brother Will are collectively referred to as the Twins.

* MissionControl: Keeps a line open to coordinate Noriko's evidence removal and Will's hacking. Since the Spirit Guard don't have the earpieces to hear him from the HushMobile, he'll have Noriko pass info along to them.

[[folder:Kunapipi]]

A football player who played alongside Robert.
* AlwaysSecondBest: Was always just behind Rob on the depth chart, finally overtaking him after a huge growth spurt in sophomore year of high school.

* GenderBender: Due to the Spirit Guard transformation changing one's body to reflect their Ardentia predecessor, becoming Spirit Guard Serenity forces Rob into a female body.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Even though [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair strange hair colors]] are the norm in Kessia City, Robynne's blood red "scarlette" hair and green eyes is considered a striking combination.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Robynne is the Tomboy to Stacy's Girly Girl. Stacy freaks out whenever Rob shows interest in anything even slightly feminine.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's the leader of the Spirit Guard and one most experienced with empathokinesis.

* GemstoneAssault: Valor does this for some of her special moves: Avalanche of Truth has diamond-like spikes fly out of her shield, while Seismic Justice has amethyst spikes thrust out of the ground.

* LightEmUp: Charity's special moves are light-based.

* MagicalGirl
** MagicalGirlWarrior

[[folder:Rob]]

Robert Dreese is an eighteen-year-old freshman at SAU from the small town of Deepwater. A chance encounter with the Spirit Guard sees Robert glow in a way that reveals that he's been chosen to become a Spirit Guard Serenity, making him a target of both the heroes and monsters. He refuses to join the team at first, as he'd rather remain normal and the transformation would turn him female and upend his life, but he relents in order to save Mallory. With the new name of Robynne Darling, Rob has to now deal with not only monster-fighting, but with the complications her new body brings to her life.

* DCupDistress: Robynne is ''not'' happy that her new body has large breasts.

* HeroicResolve: Has a high resistance to mind-altering effects of certain auras.

* SourOutsideSadInside: Robynne complains a lot about the problems her transformation makes for her, but can't bring herself to tell her friends about how close she comes to breaking and the deeper identity issues brought on by the whole thing.

[[folder:Angela Warrant]]

[[folder:Mallory Drake]]

[[folder:Vivian Joy]]

[[folder:Kara Balmer]]