History Characters / TheOrderOfTheStickNonHumanPartyMembers

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Honestly, [[spoiler:Kubota]] had that disintegration coming. However, V had ''no idea'' who he was, or even his ''alignment''. For all V cared, he was just a distraction from the mission to kill Xykon.
** Relatedly, considering how Yukyuk (the third kobold member of the Linear Guild) was an utter {{Jerkass}} who shot at both V and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Mr. Scruffy]] with a crossbow, they have no qualms about [[spoiler:Belkar repurposing a [[HeelFaceBrainwashing brainwashed Yukyuk's mouth]] as [[AndIMustScream Mr. Scruffy's new litter box]]]].

* BrandishmentBluff: Fruitlessly tries to destroy a druid's animated trees with fire and lightning spells complete with CallingYourAttacks in the form of "FIRE!" and "LIGHTNING!" then yells "SONIC!", which ''was'' the one energy form they were vulnerable to...but Vaarsuvius didn't actually prepare the spell, they just yelled the word hoping the druid wouldn't notice.

* CallingYourAttacks: Justified, since in this world, a wizard has to say the spell's name in order to properly perform it. It is subverted on occasion (usually for the sake of comedy), as Vaarsuvius has both shouted out spell names for spells not prepared, and produced the effects of a spell without casting. In an early case, boasting at length about the magical power at their beck and call ended up putting the monsters to sleep, which the rest of the Order mistook for the use of the ''sleep'' spell. In another case, V yells "SONIC!"...but did not, in fact, prepare the spell that day.

** When the party is up against [[spoiler: Serini Toormuck, she uses a beholder to cast an anti-magic field on the party, rendering V helpless. The moment the anti-magic is temporarily disabled thanks to V not being in the cone, they immediately begin raining spells down on Serini and the beholder, forcing them to use the beholder's eye rays to hit V with a Slow effect, allowing Serini to hit them with a poisoned dart to take them out of the fight.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Downplayed. V would much rather be in a more serious HighFantasy story about mighty wizards fighting ancient evils. They're mostly resigned to actually being in a self-aware D&D parody, but they're not happy about it.

* WreathedInFlames: The "Fire Shield" spell V uses when under the Soul-Splice.

* GoodShepherd: A lawful good and honest cleric. [[spoiler:He himself is still this but the vampire controlling his body is most certainly not.]]

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Main/{{Defied|Trope}} when V outright calls the "Familicide" spell "worldwide genocide" [[spoiler: after understanding the full ramifications]].

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: ''Familicide''. [[spoiler:Killing the Black Dragons was not, in retrospect, V's brightest hour]].

* DropTheHammer: His standard weapon is a hammer and shield, because his patron god's favored weapon is a hammer.

* FlashbackNightmare: This is eventually revealled to be why they stopped trancing after Azure City -- they keep having constant nightmares of when they were invisible and forced to helplessly watch as people were slaughtered.

* BeyondTheImpossible: PlayedForLaughs in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0010.html Strip #10]], where Vaarsuvius is [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness so comically verbose]] that they overcome [[TalkingIsAFreeAction one of]] [[RPGMechanicsVerse the fundamental mechanics of their reality]] and bore their enemies, Elan and Belkar to sleep.

An [[InsufferableGenius intelligent and rather condescending]] [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]] [[SquishyWizard wizard]]. Extremely skilled in the arcane arts, and the most powerful member of the Order (as frequently stated in-universe: casters are overpowered). Deeply dislikes Belkar; the feeling is mutual, and the two tend to play near-lethal pranks on one another. V has a spouse and two children back home, but doesn't tend to discuss their personal life. Vaarsuvius made some powerful decisions during a solo arc that resulted in much alignment confusion and CharacterDevelopment.

* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Non-sexual example; Vaarsuvius is quite insulted that a brain-eating monster (a mind-flayer) finds the brain of the fighter Roy tastier than theirs. This is because Roy has balanced mental stats (decent values in Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma) while Vaarsuvius only has high Intelligence. In the eyes of the mind-flayer, Roy is a well-trimmed turkey dinner while Vaarsuvius is a hamburger. He completely ignores Belkar, Haley, Durkon and Elan (shown as an overspiced taco, a tasty but overly sweet sundae, a filling but bland bowl of oatmeal and a can of Diet Coke respectively).

* DumbassHasAPoint: Together, Elan and Belkar, the two least intelligent members of the party, independently deduce that part of the reason Xykon's such a prick is because, as an [[DemBones undead lich]], he's unable to experience the pleasures of the flesh, by speculating idly about whether or not he can taste ice cream and what the point of living would be if someone couldn't.

* FragileSpeedster: More like "Fragile Jumper", but the end result is more or less the same. While Belkar is a GlassCannon thanks to his terrible build, his Ring of Jumping +20 combined with his high Dexterity results in him utilizing an evasion-focused form of combat where he constantly leaps around the battlefield, stabbing any poor sod that gets in his way before he bounces out of their reach and reaches his next target. In other words, Belkar can be taken out of combat (relatively) easily... but it's going to be a major challenge for anyone to manage to hit him in the first place when he's effectively vaulting himself across the battlefield.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Their FatalFlaw is their desperate need to become the world's most powerful wizard -- a need that has destroyed their marriage, alienated most of their friends and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick wiped out 1/4 of all the world's black dragons]]. To be fair though, getting over this flaw involved less giving up on Arcane Power and more learning to value other things in life, so the trope [[DownplayedTrope is closer to]] "Ambition At The Cost Of Everything Else In Your Life Is Evil".

* GuileHero: While V has no problem blasting minor problems into oblivion, V is usually not in position to solve problems with main force, and must rely on their wits and intelligence instead, which V usually does admirably (eventually; no V arc is possible without some serious false starts). There is one [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide notable exception.]]

* IcarusAllusion: Not in the comic itself, but the cover of the 2018 "Stick Tales" calendar portrays them as Icarus. In the comic itself, their disastrous attempt on Xykon's life in ''Don't Split The Party'' results in Vaarsuvius metaphorically flying too close to the sun, almost paying for their hubris with their life.

* AchillesHeel: His low will save means he gets mind controlled a ''lot'', in both one-off jokes and plot relevant scenes.

* {{Determinator}}: While his abysmal Will Save makes it useless for resisting MindControl, he is relentless when spellcasters aren't messing with his mind. Towards the end of ''Utterly Dwarfed'', after his DisneyDeath, he provides a demonstration of this when it turns out that it takes more than [[spoiler:''throwing him off a mountain'']] to kill him. He also later powers through the incredibly painful ''protection from evil'' charm he got in the same story arc, which allows him to [[spoiler:help Durkon kill off the High Priest of Hel once and for all]].

* NonHumanNonBinary: V's an elf and Burlew described them out of universe as genderqueer.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Sarcastically refuses to join in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1098.html when everyone else is saying nice things about Durkon...]] only to bitterly mutter to himself that he [[spoiler:never forgot that Durkon didn't blame him when he was dying at Malack's hands.]]

* HazyFeelTurn: He's still[[invoked]] ChaoticEvil beyond any shred of a doubt, but his VisionQuest has inspired him to start engaging more in PragmaticVillainy in lieu of StupidEvil. Complicating matters is how he's also starting to develop his own sense of empathy for his fellow sapients.