History Characters / WapsiSquare

* Adorkable: Really, really wants to have friends. Just...has no idea how to deal with people.

* GenkiGirl: So very much so. Then again, she's only sixteen.

* GagBoobs: Done surprisingly tastefully for a {{Webcomic}}. Monica often gripes about it, and her height makes it even more apparent.

* GagBoobs: Painfully deconstructed. Atsali's breasts are possibly even bigger than Monica's, and she's very sensitive to the stereotype of sirens as sexual predators, mirroring many of the daily issues faced by real-life busty teenagers.

* InHarmsWay
* TheKlutz

* OverlyLongTongue
* SpicyLatina

* WeirdnessMagnet

* CuteBruiser

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To Owen

* [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They Or Won't They]]: First with Owen, and later with Heather. Didn't either time.

* ActionGirl: Who knew?
** It turns out that as a graduate student, she was the lone survivor of an aerial attack on a dig near the Dead Sea in the early 1990s, which may have been what caused her to become such an introvert.
** It also turns out that [[spoiler:Katherine is actually a composite -- a literal, real-world biological chimera -- of six different Anasazi children that had been kept in suspended animation for who knows how long by who knows who. Although she was found as an infant in 1970, she is much, much older.]]

* TalkingToPlants: Although she doesn't talk to people much.
** She still does it today considering that her youngest daughter is a sentient plant girl.

* CuteLittleFangs

* CuteLittleFangs

* DitzyGenius
* TeamMom [[spoiler: for the Wapsiverse's entire [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] organization.]]

* CuteLittleFangs
* DeathSeeker: She's completely suicidal, but can't die. [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/youreincharge/ It's not pretty.]]
** [[spoiler: Now that she's human and can die again, she seems to be regaining her sanity and enjoying life again.]]
* {{Hallucinations}}

* {{Hallucinations}}

* SanitySlippage

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: An immortal DeathSeeker is not a pretty thing.
** [[spoiler:Is now mortal, and tried to test it with an old flintlock. Bud saved her, but broke her nose and several ribs in the process.]]
** [[spoiler: Knowing that she has a finite life span and is no longer bound to an endless repeating cycle, she is regaining her sanity and enjoying living again.]]

* DeadpanSnarker
* DemotedToExtra: Rarely shows up anymore
* GodGuise: he certainly wasn't an actual deity.

* SuddenlySober: He can invoke this

* CuteLittleFangs

* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: She is, in fact, a collection of demons

* AncientKeeper: Of the Bibliothiki

* RiddleOfTheSphinx: She tends to ask people riddles when they first come to the library. [[spoiler: She won't kill them if they get it wrong, though.]]
** [[spoiler: The riddle she asks is always the same and has multiple right answers to it. The reason why she asks it is because the answer one gives provides insight into their personality.]]

* TricksterGod

* DysfunctionJunction: refers to herself as the "dysfunctional one"
* FakingTheDead: To "help make [Shelly] strong."
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Shelly's]]

* GorgeousGorgon

* JumpedAtTheCall

* ObliviousToLove: Oh, poor Nadette...
** Turns out, the reason she's so oblivious to Nadette's affection is [[spoiler: that she suffers from Social-Emotional Agnosia - an inability to recognize or understand facial expressions (with Castela being the only one she's able to read). It does get through her skull after a while, and they eventually start dating.]]
* RememberedICouldFly

* CuteMonsterGirl [[ManOfKryptonite Of Kryptonite]]: The plants she is made of? They are the KryptoniteFactor of TheFairFolk, who are otherwise some of the most powerful paranormal entities, standing below Elementals.

* CuteMonsterGirl
* HumanityEnsues

* UnderstandingBoyfriend

* ChewToy: literally, it seems...

* [[spoiler:HealingFactor: ...however, most of his ex-girlfriends are not, and love him for this, because they can literally tear him to shreds and he'll be fine almost immediately.]] He really, really does not enjoy this. [[spoiler:It turns out that Justin is actually Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus, the fire-bringer. However, after serving as a cop in Italy, he was severely injured to the point where his original identity was completely wiped; as far as he knows, he's just an ordinary Minneapolis police officer, albeit one who's essentially immune to gunshot wounds.]]

* BareYourMidriff: She wears very few outfits that don't do this.

* HotScientist

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: While it isn't apparent in the comic itself, due to being in black and white, the color art demonstrates that she fits due to her Mexican and Irish ancestry.

* StockYuck.{{Anchovies}}: She actually likes anchovies on her pizza!

* StockYuck.{{Anchovies}}: Even the dog doesn't like anchovies.

* StockYuck.{{Anchovies}}: She does not like anchovies!

* SpotOfTea: Though she is not British, being older than Britain, She does have a British accent when speaking English (WordOfGod says she was inspired by [[Series/{{ER}} Alex]] [[Series/DoctorWho Kingston]]) and she tends to use British slang. Her tea of choice seems to be Earl Gray.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Continuing a theme in the strip...

* SchoolgirlLesbian: Nadette has a painfully obvious crush on Atsali, who consistently fails to notice. [[spoiler: Atsali eventually figures it out, with a lot of help, and they start dating.]]

* NoSell: It turns out that her EnthrallingSiren abilities are ineffective on people who truly care about her.

* EnthrallingSiren: She can be when she wants to.

Owen is a childhood friend of Shelly's and the lead guitarist in the band "Fermented Banana." There was a bit of romantic tension between them, but it never amounted to anything, and he is currently married a woman named Lakshmi.

The sensible one of the two; their superiors charge her with keeping McBride in line. She is of Anasazi descent. [[spoiler:Although it's a bit confusing, in her human life, she seems to have been one of Katherine's biological mothers. It's really complicated.]]

* UglyCute

A young anthropologist who works as a curator at a museum in the Twin Cities, Monica is often hesitant to believe in the supernatural despite the fact that it surrounds her. She has spent some time just this side of a rubber room due to her experiences. On a lighter note, she is a bit of an audio snob and is a huge fan of 80's music. [[spoiler:She is also one of the most powerful human beings on Earth, having been taught the language of magic by Mayahuel as a child (in the guise of her grandmother), and is known to the supernaturals of North America at least as the Demon Shepherd. And has recently added a phoenix-like ability to return from extremely violent death unscathed, and the as-yet-not-precisely-explained power of the "Jaguar Girl" to her resume.]]

* TricksterArchetype

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Lava]]: Normally of course not wanting to be dropped into red hot lava is a perfectly rational fear but since Nudge is a demon to her it's much like a cat's fear of water.

* BiTheWay

* BiTheWay: Not outright stated, but strongly implied during the arc with Heather.

* BiTheWay: Admits to being attracted to both boys and girls.

** [[spoiler: The riddle she asks is always the same and has no wrong answer to it. The reason why she asks it is because the answer one gives provides insight into their personality.]]

Originally introduced in the form of a trio of drunk college girls, they eventually sobered up, developed into complex characters, and played an important role in the plot. Thousands of years before the start of the comic, they were tortured, murdered, and turned into a chimera in hopes of creating the ultimate weapon. As anyone with half an ounce of GenreSavvy can guess, their masters lost control, and they destroyed most of the world. They were eventually separated, and used as guardians. At present they are trying to learn how to be human again.