History Characters / PixieTrixComix

* GayBravado: Aaron is prone to ridiculously heavy proclamations of how secure he is in his own heterosexuality [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/too-manly ("I'm t-too manly to be ho-homophobic!"), despite being actively bisexual.

* AmbiguouslyBi: It turns out that Aaron has bisexual tendencies which he himself hadn't noticed before the comic starts -- but the impressively hunky Julian soon triggers twinges in his loins. This leads to them having sex, so the ambiguity disappears, except in Aaron's head, where he continues to delude himself that he's totally straight and the sex he has with Julian is just "two straight guys being bros".

* CassandraTruth: His sister really is just as awful as he says she is, but his claims are simply dismissed as the delusions of a geek who has issues with women and thus are ignored.

* FanServiceWithASmile: When the shop starts serving coffee as an additional source of profit, Sharon lands the job of serving the coffee (which serves the plot purpose of allowing her to be around when the plot needs her for events taking place in the shop), and adopts a "uniform" that is essentially a FrenchMaidOutfit. This could count as a fairly mild instance of the trope, in that the outfit isn't very tight or ''too'' revealing, but, well, it ''is'' a FrenchMaidOutfit, and this ''is'' Sharon.

* TokenMinority: Umar may have a Middle Eastern family background -- an ethnicity not previously present in the comic.

* TransparentCloset: According to Kiley [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/therapeutic-solution his mom has been taking bets that he's attracted to men.]]

* AscendedExtra: Not initially ascended very far, it's true, but Aaron is originally a nameless comic-shop geek, occasionally glimpsed in the background or delivering minor dialogue, before he proves somewhat useful to Zii that one time. He then vanishes again for many volumes, apparently having been just a one-shot character, before [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/the-job-listing he reappears again]] in the very first ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix'' strip, and he becomes a significant character in that comic.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Eventually begins to accept that Julian ''might'' be gay... because he's so irresistible that he ''turned'' Julian gay. [[spoiler:It's actually closer to the other way around]].

* {{Geek}}: When ''Jung'' calls on you for expert advice on geek matters (specifically relating to ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' in this case), you have some geek credibility. Aaron turns out to be an obsessive enough comics fan that Jung can bribe him to wear female anime cosplay outfits with modest amounts of shop credit. He also turns out to write {{Fanfic}} and to be a YuriFan; it's not clear if he combines the two.

* ImplausibleDeniability: Zadie and Roxie catch Aaron making out with Julian while both men are shirtless. Cue Aaron claiming that he is most emphatically ''not'' gay and that the sex he has with Julian is just two straight guys "bro-in' out", to the disbelief of everyone else involved.

* AmbiguouslyBi: It turns out that Aaron has bisexual tendencies which he himself hadn't noticed before the comic starts -- but the impressively hunky Julian soon triggers twinges in his loins. This leads to them having sex, so the ambiguity disappears, except perhaps in Aaron's head.

* SituationalSexuality: [[spoiler:What his relationship with Julian seems to be, at least from his perspective. He and Julian are two totally straight dudes (so he thinks) that are engaging in sex purely for relief purposes. So he thinks.]]

Zadie Sullivan is a recent university graduate who applies for (and gets) an editorial job at the new publishing venture.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Zadie initially identifies as entirely straight, and when she realises that she’s been on a date of sorts with Roxie, with another promised, her instinct is to back out. But she fails to do so at the last moment, apparently admitting to herself that she may have a bisexual side -- which becomes increasingly clear as she anticipates the second date with enthusiasm. She even wonders if [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/you-hungry she might just be lesbian,]] for about five seconds until [[{{Hunk}} Theo]] crosses her line of vision.

See ''Characters/StickyDillyBuns''.

* ObliviousToLove: It seems Zadie's gaydar is straight-up nonexistent and not merely prone to malfunctioning around guys she thinks are hot, since she remains oblivious to Roxie's barely-concealed attraction towards her for some time. She only makes it worse by dropping InnocentInnuendo and thinking nothing of stripping down in front of the other woman, giving Roxie the impression that the attraction is mutual. She figures it out eventually, leading to the two women dating and eventually in a happy relationship.

* ObliviousToLove: It seems Zadie's gaydar is straight-up nonexistent and not merely prone to malfunctioning around guys she thinks are hot, since she remains oblivious to Roxie's barely-concealed attraction towards her for some time. She only makes it worse by dropping InnocentInnuendo and thinking nothing of stripping down in front of the other woman, giving Roxie the impression that the attraction is mutual.

* JustJokingJustification: How she sees her harassment of her brother, seemingly more out of ignorance than outright malice. To her, setting up an funding page for Aaron to have gender reassignment surgery is simply "teasing" because she honestly doesn't believe it could actually happen. It takes someone chewing her out and outright telling her that unwanted surgery ''does happen'' to make her realize that its not [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone something to joke about and is outright cruel to even entertain the thought of.]]

Her characterisation undergoes something of a 180-degree reverse when [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/a-better-idea she seemingly develops a conscience and even apologises to Aaron]] after being chewed out by Ramona in a VerySpecialEpisode, but it remains to be seen how well this has stuck. A worst-case cynical reading might even assume that this was a sociopath faking a conscience to avoid personal inconvenience.

* TheSociopath: Sharon has a thin veneer of niceness that rapidly falls away when she is around Aaron or something she wants, and has little care for the consequences of her actions. For instance, she and Kiley require a third roommate to make rent, but every one they've had up until this becomes a plot point moved out shortly after moving in. Why? Because they all had boyfriends Sharon found attractive and thus proceeded to seduce and sleep with. She literally only cares about what she wants, so much that she is ''risking homelessness'' just because she wants to get laid. Although, given the ease with which she can ''get'' laid, she probably isn't too worried about ''herself'' becoming homeless since she could most likely easily convince one of her conquests to let her move in with them, and it's only Kiley who will really be in trouble.

* ShoutOut: [[Creator/GiseleLagace Her creator]] has [[invoked]] [[WordOfGod acknowledged]] that [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/throw-myself-into-the-job#comment-4802337118 Sharon is a doppelganger of Chloe from her earlier supernatural comics]] line (''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' and ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'') -- a fact emphasized by the fact that she models for "Infernica Sinn", a character in Aaron and Felix's comic who, like Chloe, is a succubus. (For that matter, Aaron refers to her as "a succubus") when she is first mentioned in the comic.) She's not an {{expy}}; in fact, her personality is markedly different to Chloe's sweet naivety. The fact that she can also look plausible as a twin sister for Aaron while resembling Chloe is just a fortunate accident.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Sharon is a very selfish and callous person, but even she is horrified when Ramona points out the very real existence of unwanted transition surgeries.

-> ''"A friend request from... Li'l Julian Wood?"''