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* {{Asexual}}: Billie has done a little platonic dating but her shyness,intimidation factor and AllOfTheOtherReindeer issues have so far prevented any serious relationships, which she does not appear to mind in the least. The closest thing she has to a romantic interest is ballroom dancing.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: An apocalyptic cult once tried to control her by kidnapping her parents. By the time she was finished the US Air Force literally nuked the wreckage she left behind to close the rents she'd torn in reality while rescuing them. If any of the cultists managed to survive they probably wish they hadn't.
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* ClothingDamage: A recurring problem for her. Combat frequently leaves her nearly or fully naked because no conceivable supersuit can survive the damage her body can withstand. Unfortunately, she's also quite shy. Her HotBlooded nature prevents DefeatByModesty but that doesn't mean she won't be mortified when the fight is over. Phase eventually gets her underwear of last resort: a bikini made of three disks of pure adamantium barely big enough to spare her an indecent exposure charge.
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** Phase turned Fireball into a monster by trashing her BIT (accidentally), and keeps thinking about it despite the fact that he never intended to do it and despite the number of Exemplars he did the same thing to, none of them got their [=BITs=] trashed.
** When he was a child, he donated millions of dollars to the MCO and supported Emil Hammond, believing that the doctor was a good guy who was being slandered by a lot of people with a grudge. Ayla found out the truth, and now he won't stop beating himself up for it- despite repeatedly being told by his friends that nobody would blame a kid for donating money to a cause that his parents told him was right.
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. He likes Brass Monkey (an alternative band) that the majority of other characters hate. They never stop bitching at him about it.
** Phase turned Fireball into a monster by trashing her BIT (accidentally), and keeps thinking about it despite the fact that he never intended to do it and despite the number of Exemplars he did the same thing to, none of them got their [=BITs=] trashed.
** When he was a child, he donated millions of dollars to the MCO and supported Emil Hammond, believing that the doctor was a good guy who was being slandered by a lot of people with a grudge. Ayla found out the truth, and now he won't stop beating himself up for it- despite repeatedly being told by his friends that nobody would blame a kid for donating money to a cause that his parents told him was right.
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* {{Transsexual}}: Growing up, he was fine with being a girl, but when his body started transitioning, it felt right to him. [[spoiler: A recent RetCon explains that this claim was a bit of whistling in the dark; turns out that Hannah was a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak who resented not being able to form long-term friendships due to her father's frequent redeployments. As she began to change, her parents decided to have her stay home pretending to be sick until they moved again, and she spent two months sulking about the change. After the fight with the Army, he decided to just swallow his feelings and gut through it.]]
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* {{Transsexual}}: Growing up, he was fine with being a girl, but when his body started transitioning, it felt right to him. [[spoiler: A recent RetCon explains that this claim was a bit of whistling in the dark; turns out that Hannah was a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak who resented not being able to form long-term friendships due to her father's frequent redeployments. As she began to change, her parents decided to have her stay home pretending to be sick until they moved again, and she spent two months sulking about the change. After the fight with the Army, he decided to just swallow his feelings and gut through it. While it was not nearly as traumatic as some others, and he's probably the best adjusted of the team, it wasn't as smooth as he implied.]]
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* FlatCharacter: He has no author, so he's not as developed as the others.
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* EnergyBall: Her Chaka Chaka Bang Bang shoots a ki projectile from her finger.
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* JumpedAtTheCall: She was a very unhappy transgender boy who finally got the hot (female) body she had always dreamed of, ass-kicking Ki powers, the chance to finally tell off her two older siblings, and the chance to go to SuperheroSchool and drag her new friends into mishaps and adventures.
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* SuperToughness: She takes hits very well, even before you take her HealingFactor into account. At one point it's implied that she's survived a nuclear explosion.
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* PronounTrouble: Identifies as male, but mostly goes by female pronouns. The out-of-universe explanation for this is that Ayla's gender was retconned in long after other characters and the narration had been referring to him as 'she'. In-universe "Ayla" was supposed to be a SecretIdentity to prevent gay bashing which he ultimately discarded.
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* PronounTrouble: Identifies as male, but mostly goes by female pronouns. The out-of-universe explanation for this is that Ayla's gender was retconned in long after other characters and the narration had been referring to him as 'she'. In-universe "Ayla" was supposed In-universe, he needs to be a SecretIdentity stick with his 'Ayla' identity for legal reasons related to prevent gay bashing which he ultimately discarded.the fact that his family is claiming he's dead.
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* HealingFactor: Don't blow her limbs off, it just makes her mad. And the more damage she takes the faster it works to the point where it looks like a near-instantaneous restoration from an interdimensional backup.
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* AtrociousAlias: 'Team Kimba'. Never going to strike fear in the hearts of opponents. You can thank Jade and Toni for that one.
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* TimeAbyss: Depending on who you ask, Aunghadhail's era was anywhere from 20 thousand to 65 million years ago.
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** This is why she gets excluded from [[spoiler: Kodiak's plans to save the world. The collateral damage potential is too high for some of his key allies.]]
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* SuperheroSpeciation: They're a pack of high schoolers, rather than an established super-team, but they fit this model. Like the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}, they also have a wide range of power levels, ranging from Tennyo (so powerful there's a school rule against attacking her) down to Generator (can animate stuff, and now has regeneration too) and Bladedancer (BadassNormal with magic sword). The team has blasters, a PK superboy, a powerful mage, a [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Vision-like]] density-changer, healers, martial artists, and a fake deviser. And there's only seven of them.
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* AmazonBrigade: Really close, considering that their team has only two boys. One was then given the appearance of a girl.
* AuthorAppeal: Oh, definitely. Most of the {{canon}} authors have written other TG fiction.
* BackStory: Every main character except Lancer has a novella or novel for this.
* BadassCrew: High school freshmen who have already fought The Necromancer and his Children of the Night? And won? Twice? Very badass.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BreakfastClub: They get together because they are put together on their first day since they all have a secret that makes them outsiders. [[ItWasHisSled They are all transgender, most of them against their will.]] Subversion: they rapidly become well-liked and considered heroic, after they happen to defeat a band of superpowered ninjas before the first day of school.
* BusmansHoliday: They can't go ''anywhere'' without getting attacked or fighting villains. This doesn't seem to happen to anyone else.
** Well, nearly everywhere. Phase and Vox managed to go to Miami without any chaos.
* CoolLoser: they live in Poe, which is supposedly the 'loony bin' dorm.
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: they're superheroines, for Pete's sake!
* FailOSuckyname: 'Team Kimba'. Never going to strike fear in the hearts of opponents. You can thank Jade and Toni for that one.
* FightMagnet: They get in fights all the time. Most peculiarly, all three times the group visited Boston, they battle The Necromancer and his Children of the Night. To date (Jan 2012), only one member has left Whateley for a significant length of time and not become involved in a fight or battle.
* FiveTokenBand: Played with in the reason they come together and stay together: they're the transgender mutants in their high school grade. Chaka, the nominal leader, is black, but comes from an upper-middle-class family. Generator is Japanese-American. Shroud? Not even really alive. Phase is a WASP and the disinherited scion of one of the richest families on the planet. Lancer is an Army brat. Tennyo? Her mutation has made her look like an anime character. Fey not only looks like one of the Sidhe, she is. Other characters around them include a hermaphrodite who is Lakota (American Indian), a half-demon, a Hispanic... You get the idea.
* GenderBender: Except Jade, who's finding ways to transition on her own.
* PartTimeHero: Since they're at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy in the webfiction 'verse, and they're not supposed to be getting into superhero fights since they're minors. And they have classes they're not supposed to cut.
* PlugNPlayFriends
* ASharedSuffering: The original six characters (plus Bladedancer, Carmilla, and Heyoka) are all transgender in some way, some of them because of their powers, so they have a commonality.
* {{Superhero}}: Duh!
* SuperheroSpeciation: They're a pack of high schoolers, rather than an established super-team, but they fit this model. Like the JusticeLeague, they also have a wide range of power levels, ranging from Tennyo (so powerful there's a school rule against attacking her) down to Generator (can animate stuff, and now has regeneration too) and Bladedancer (BadassNormal with magic sword). The team has blasters, a PK superboy, a powerful mage, a [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Vision-like]] density-changer, healers, martial artists, and a fake deviser. And there's only seven of them.
* SuperTeam: They're only teenagers at SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy, but they've already beaten superpowered ninjas from the Yama Dojo, the Necromancer and his team The Children of the Night, and Lovecraftian horrors. Plus, they're not supposed to be superheroing, so they keep getting detention for this stuff.
* TrueCompanions: Not only are they brought together by a common characteristic, but many of them have the classic family issues: Phase (disowned), Generator (mother dead, abusive father in prison), Bladedancer (orphaned), Lancer (his brother sicked an anti-mutant military force on him), Tennyo (forced to leave her family because of assassins and worse), Carmilla (mother dead, father a demon), Heyoka (orphaned)... Only a couple of them have a supportive family. This true-companion group ends up shifting quite a bit. Carmilla forms her own, loosely allied team. (Sara's Pack). Also, it is stated in Jade's stories that Poe is designed to specifically create this, and Whateley itself has some elements of it.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: This describes their life in a nutshell, what with the Boston Brawls, the Voodoo Wolves, etc. Still, the emphasis is a bit more on "Go to School" then with other things.
* {{Weirdness Magnet}}s: They got into more trouble in their first six weeks at Whateley than most students do all year. See also BusmansHoliday above.
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Genki Girl martial artist who controls Ki
* TheAllSolvingHammer: When all you have are Ki powers, Ki solves everything. Though she has a very large variety of weapons.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: One of her skills is the ability to see Ki flows, so she has learned several attacks by watching an expert use them.
* Badass: When it came down to a real fight, there are about four people who've been able to beat/nearly beat her: Counterpoint, [[spoiler: simulated]] Majestic, Slab and [[spoiler: Little Bee in her remote-controlled attack robot]].
* BiTheWay: Less a true example than "Hey, I'm a girl now" and "I won't know unless I try."
* BringIt: This is the essence of Toni. She first did this when facing five superpowered ninjas when she was in a nightie.
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: She got power gloves as a Christmas present from a teammate, and they have an activation phrase.
* CallingYourAttacks: "Chaka Chaka Bang Bang!"
* CasualDangerDialog: She and Phase are two of the worst about this.
* CherylBlossom: Sums up her relationship with Thunderbird.
* TheChosenOne: She's the Soke no Do, the future founder of the school of being.
* CombatCommentator: She can't help it. She's the only one who can see the Ki flows.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight against Counterpoint. He would have won if he hadn't passed out, and Toni was really banged up.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: It's still 'Mark', though she altered it to 'Marc'.
* EpicFlail: She's recently been learning how to use meteor hammers.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When she gets dressed at the start of her origin story.
* FirstPersonSmartass: A light-hearted one.
* FunPersonified: She's constantly getting into silly adventures (being attacked by ''Tigger'' while trying to go on a date?). In the serious adventures, she's one of the ones constantly throwing out one-liners.
* GenkiGirl: Although Generator is worse. Much, much worse.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Definitely. It drives several other people nuts that she can learn Ki skills just by observing, mainly those who put a ''lot'' of effort into learning and hate seeing a new kid just picking things up in seconds.
** This backfires whenever she runs into a real master capable of turning her own reflexes against her.
* TheHero: She was at the forefront of the team's earliest adventures.
** TheLancer: Her role nowadays. At one point, some of the Tigers approached her hoping that she'd be the lancer to ''their'' leader.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: When she plays darts, she uses a board the size of a coin, and darts the size of toothpicks. Even then, throwing from the far side of the room will only ''sometimes'' land her anything less than a perfect bullseye.
* ImprobableWeaponUser and ImprovisedWeapon: [[DeathDealer Playing cards]] and [[FlechetteStorm sewing needles]], which she uses as throwing weapons.
* IndyPloy: She lives by this trope, when she's not actually thinking things through enough to be TheChessmaster.
* InstantExpert: She has the power to [[SupernaturalMartialArts manipulate chi]] instinctively without the sort of training that anyone else requires. When her powers manifest, she does the sort of thing that takes a master 50 years to learn ''by accident'', in her ''judo class''. In the ninja fight, she watches the leader do a really complicated chi technique that is supposed to allow a paralyzing strike, then blocks it and does it back to him, perfectly, the first time. Oh, and she paraphrases his [[CallingYourAttacks attack name]] (Coiling Viper Fang Strike) as "Something something strike!"
** Despite all this, she still needs to keep working on basics -- so in a sense, she has to learn ''backwards''.
* IShallTauntYou: In fights, her taunting is somewhere between SassyBlackWoman and SpiderMan.
* JiveTurkey: Often talks like this in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, or just to annoy Ayla.
* JumpedAtTheCall: She was a very unhappy transgender boy who finally got the hot (female) body she had always dreamed of, ass-kicking Ki powers, the chance to finally tell off her two older siblings, and the chance to go to SuperheroSchool and drag her new friends into mishaps and adventures.
* KamehameHadoken: Yet another secret Ki technique she's stolen.
* KiAttacks: Though she can't do the flashier ones from anime. Yet.
* MagneticHero: She pulled Fey and Lancer along in her wake when they first met, and then helped pull Team Kimba together. Since then, she's also pulled in more boyfriends and girlfriends than any 14-year-old could possibly handle.
* MakeMeWannaShout: She has a {{Kiai}} shout that projects her Ki like a weapon.
* MartialArtsAndCrafts: She has the superpower of Ki control, and has invented new Martial Arts and Crafts at the drop of a shuriken. When given detention, she invented (on the fly) martial arts mopping (instant cleaning by attuning her Ki with the mop), martial arts linen folding, martial arts grime scrubbing... She has used her martial arts skills for healing problems beyond medicine, like Doctor Heavy's inability to turn off his local 8-G gravity field (she turned it into a local 0-G field by accident). And she has developed all kinds of martial arts weapons for herself, including sewing needles, forks, playing cards...
* MundaneUtility: She's constantly using her Ki powers to do things like dry off after a shower, or mop the floor faster. She later finds them ideal for therapeutic massage.
* ObnoxiousSnarker
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome and NoodleIncident. Her fall combat final, against a brick, a giant, and a deviser/wizard, with a tornado and an earthquake thrown in for good measure.
* OhCrap: Her fight with Slab. She couldn't do anything except get thrown into the wall.
* PluckyGirl: According to her author, she was envisioned as "the anti-angst girl".
* {{Polyamory}}: She's dating Thunderbird (male) and also Riptide (female). Thunderbird doesn't know about Riptide yet. Riptide is lesbian and ''not'' happy about Thunderbird.
* PowerCopying: She can copy a lot of martial arts and ki techniques just by observing them.
* PowerFist: That's what the Christmas present is for.
* PsychicBlockDefense: She can use her Ki powers to close her brow chakra, blocking psychic attacks.
* RedOni: To Chou's Blue, as well as to Nikki's -- except when Nikki loses her temper.
* SaltAndPepper: Toni and her roommate Nikki.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Toni was extremely transgender, and greeted her actual GenderBender with unbridled joy.
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Girl]]: Especially to mess with Ayla.
* SheFu: Specializes in this style of fighting. Justified in that her ki powers make it extraordinarily easy for her to do so. In her first superhero fight with a bunch of ninjas, she drives her opponent up the wall by dodging his attacks with unnecessary flips.
* SpiderSense: Her Ki ability lets her know when someone is focusing on her.
* SpiritedCompetitor: She's always looking for anyone who can give her a good fight and stretch her abilities. She mostly keeps it to her martial arts classes.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes
* SuperSenses: Ki. It's always Ki with Chaka.
* TakeOurWordForIt: Chaka's fall Combat Final, which won't be written because it's just too awesome to be accurately depicted.
* {{Transsexual}}: Until she manifested and got [[GenderBender exactly what she wanted.]]
* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a black female bisexual formerly-male mutant with hyperactivity issues. Is there any other six-fer on that page?
* WaifFu: She's 14, female and slender, but her superpower is control of Ki, and the ability to pull extra Ki out of the Earth. In the short story "Duel Damsel", she challenges a superstrong upperclassman who looks like a blond Sasquatch, because of what the guy did to her friend. She pummels him without even using her most powerful techniques. She's also beaten an unstoppable super-werewolf, clobbered people wearing power armor, taken out a superpowered ninja..
* WallCrawl: She also figured out how to use her Ki to stick to a wall.
* WarriorTherapist: using her Ki powers. She also teaches Tai Chi.
* WeaponOfChoice: Her manrikigusari (a type of chain weapon). And her meteor hammer.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Her solution to everything is ki. This bites her in the arse occasionally when she's facing someone who [[NoSell isn't susceptible]] (like Slab or N'Dizi) or who outclasses her by far (like Counterpoint).
* WorfHadTheFlu: Over Christmas, Chaka had to help Bladedancer fight off ninjas. While recovering from broken hips and confined to a wheelchair.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fey]]
!!Fey (Nikki Reilly)
Elven Wizard of unusual power, possessed by an ancient sidhe queen. Subconsciously makes people attracted to her.
* AlienBlood: It's silver.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Fey is possessed with the spirit of an incredibly old Faerie, and yet she consistently pooh-poohs Phase's idea that some of the (far younger) Greek Gods have come back and are now at Whateley Academy. To be fair, her objection wasn't that it couldn't happen, but more that Phase had no solid evidence to support any of his theories. Until 'Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy, Part Six', nothing was proven.
* AttemptedRape: By a superpowered ninja psychopath.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Magic requires time, Essence, ingredients and (usually) uninterrupted silence and focus. While Fey is incredibly powerful and versatile, she can be easily taken by surprise.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The crystal wavers found this out the hard way.
* BiTheWay: A much straighter example than her roommate, which is not surprising considering her glamour and powers.
* BloodBrothers: [[spoiler: She makes a blood pact with Carmilla.]]
* BloodMagic: More than once, but most nastily in ''Christmas Elves''.
* BlueOni: To Toni's Red. Well, [[BewareTheNiceOnes usually.]]
* TheChosenOne: But she's OK with her destiny.
* DarkestHour: The end of chapter 2 of ''Christmas Elves''.
* DisappearedDad: Her father and brother live in another state, because of her dad's important job with DARPA.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Fey has a faerie glamour that at first she couldn't turn down or turn off. Even the gay guys in the dorm were gaping at her.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Fey's boyfriend Stalwart, and his pursuit of her.
* TheEmpath: She's one of the most powerful mages around, has merged with an ancient [[TheFairFolk Sidhe]] queen, but also has the ability to read emotions around her. [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace Since she's also the most beautiful girl on earth ''and'' has a Faerie glamour that makes her even more all that]], this has a downside, since every guy who sees her has the emotions you could guess.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: It's that darn glamour.
* TheFairFolk: She was changed into her current appearance by an ancient Faerie spirit who now resides in her head. While she is inhumanly beautiful, in "Ill Winds" her true form is a luminescent energy form that isn't remotely human.
* FastballSpecial: Done with Fey as the 'fastball' once, before she learned how to fly on her own.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Has nearly befallen her twice so far, once at the hands of Nex, and once when trapped by Hekate.
* FieryRedhead: Usually pretty moderate as far as temperament goes, but she can get pretty scary when she's angry.
* FunctionalMagic: ley lines are a popular energy source for mages
* {{Glamour}}
* HealingHands: She can cure serious wounds with magic.
* HelloNurse: Not only possessed of the beauty of the Sidhe, but also having a Faerie glamour that (at the start of the series) she ''[[PowerIncontinence cannot turn off]]''—though she later damps it down. Slightly.
* InsistentTerminology: She's Sidhe, not an elf. She's also rather insistent about calling Malachim's Feather a scimitar, as opposed to just 'sword'.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Fey's InstantFanClub, which utterly embarrasses her.
* LadyOfWar: Fey may only be a teenager but her spirit Aunghadhail is one of the original nine Queens of the Sidhe.
* LifeEnergy: She can pull Essence from almost anything natural.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She can pull life energy from almost anything natural. [[spoiler: And kill it, or knock it unconscious. She wiped out entire ecosystems without knowing it by drawing too much Essence from them.]]
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: She's light, Sara is dark.
* MagicalGesture: She's done some hand movements so magical that it hurts other people to look at them.
* MagicalIncantation: She's used the language of the Sidhe
* MagicKnight: Fey is currently training to move from SquishyWizard up to this.
* TheMedic: She's the Healer of the team.
* MenstrualMenace: Her first period at Whateley Academy is the stuff of legend. There were ''thunderstorms''. ''In the hallways''.
* MsFanservice: Especially after that photo shoot for that Sierra Club poster.
* MundaneUtility: Fey has enough Essence that she can waste it on things like magically drying her hair.
* {{Nerf}}: In "Ayla and the Mad Scientist", it's discovered that her powers [[spoiler: have been killing entire ecosystems around the country with the energy she's always pulling from ley lines.]] Because of this, she can no longer use power willy-nilly and has to come up with energy-saving alternatives.
** [[spoiler: and then Aunghadhail's spirit is apparently [[DeaderThanDead destroyed entirely]] when battling the remains of Mythos magic in two mind control victims. Whether this sticks, how much of her knowledge remains, and if she is still immortal, remain to be seen.]]
* MyNaymeIs: Her full name is 'Nichole', not the more commonly-spelled 'Nicole'.
* [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands New Spells as the Plot Demands]]: Justified because Aunghadhail knew hundreds if not thousands of spells.
* OddFriendship: With Razorback.
* OhCrap: When [[spoiler: caught in Hekate's circle in ''Christmas Elves'' and separated from Aunghadhail in ''It's All In The Timing''.]]
* OurElvesAreBetter
* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* PardonMyKlingon: She sometimes curses in languages that haven't been spoken in millennia.
* PlayingWithFire: She once seduced the element of fire and had it do her bidding. She doesn't do this again, since the process is pretty embarrassing and the one time was an extreme emergency.
* PointyEars
* {{Polyamory}}: Stalwart/Fey/Bugs. Stalwart doesn't know about Bugs, though.
* PurpleEyes: As part of her otherworldly Sidhe beauty.
* RedHeadedHero
* ShrinkingViolet: When she first arrived at Whateley.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Fey exemplifies the justified version of the trope, as ancient forces are at work to make her accept her new gender.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: It's a curse, since WordOfGod says her glamour is due to the ancient Faerie wards that still provide protection.
* SquirrelsInMyPants: The first magic that Nick (accidentally) does.
* SquishyWizard: She was considered a pushover in a close-up fight. After she was nearly beaten to death by a mutant ninja, she's been learning Tai Chi and learning how to use a scimitar. It appears to have worked rather well, considering her fight against Mule.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's one of the most powerful Wizard-type mutants on earth, and she has the spirit of an ancient Faerie Queen to teach her spells.
* WeaksauceWeakness: To cold iron and, to a lesser degree, synthetic materials. Yes, she can be defeated by ''lingerie''. Now that's a KryptoniteFactor.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lancer]]
!!Lancer (Hank Declan)
Super-strong invulnerable Flying Brick hero who uses a form of personal-ranged psychokinesis to enhance his physical abilities.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: He can create these by covering paper swords with his PK field.
* TheAllSolvingHammer: He's a three-trick pony (his PK field, his swords and his trick of absorbing energy blasts), and while his tricks are very good, they don't change. Without his team, he's not hard to take down.
* BigEater: Like everyone with energizer based powers.
* ChivalrousPervert: He went through this stage early on.
* DualWielding: With his paper shortswords.
* FlatCharacter: He has no author, so he's not as developed as the others.
* FlyingBrick: Being a 'telekinetic brick' with super-strength, flight, and a forcefield that he's learned to extend a bit to cover weapons he uses, but no ranged powers other than picking things up and throwing them thus far.
* GrayEyes
* MilitaryBrat: And it shows. He's the most likely candidate for Team Kimba's leader and their strategist, and he's damn good at it.
* NiceGuy
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He discovered the ability to absorb and redirect energy blasts at a ''very'' opportune moment.
* OnlySaneMan: He's the most reasonable and rational member of Team Kimba (possibly excepting Ayla, but Hank has a point of view more aligned to average people.)
* TheOneGuy: Him and Ayla, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
* StockSuperpowers: TK supermen aren't at all rare, but most find them hard to take down.
* TheSmartGuy: He's Team Kimba's tactician and the closest thing they've got to a leader.
* StraightMan: in both senses of the term.
* TeamDad: Especially in the sims.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Generator]]
!!Generator (Jade Sinclair)
A seemingly eleven year old girl who 'generates' psychokinetic copies of herself by animating inanimate objects for a limited time. When the effect wears off, the copies' memories merge with Jade's. The copies are named Jinn, Jann, Jeanie, etc. in an order known only to Jade but which never varies. She is collectively known as the "J Team. The singular/plural confusion is canon.
Shroud (Jinn Sinclair) is Jade's invented persona when her first copy (Jinn) takes human shape. Using props, she can appear as everything from an ordinary teenage girl, to a spooky eeriness and chains undead, to an empty black cloak. She pretends to be the ghost of Jade's elder sister.
* AbusiveParents: Her father.
* {{Asexual}}: A side effect of being stuck at the physical age of eleven. While she does have a lot of romantic fantasies they're mostly of the preadolescent, non-sexual "pretty princess" variety.
* BerserkButton: Don't threaten Tennyo. Jade will kill you.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:She will nail you to a tree. With railroad spikes. Even if you're twice her size. Then she'll burn a message into your flesh.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A prank war between her and Beltane could conceivably end all life as we know it.
* BigStupidDoodooHead: She's prone to using these sorts of insults. "Poopyhead" is one of her favourites.
* ChainPain: One of Shroud's weapons.
* TheChick: In part due to her immaturity, but also a role she plays to discourage physical attacks
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While parts of it are just her having fun with her 'wacky devisor' persona, she has her genuine moments as well.
* CuteAndPsycho: An image she deliberately cultivates, and one her friends fear may become reality.
* CombatPragmatist: Anything is fair game, and she's the first Kimba to escalate to lethal force.
* DealWithTheDevil: She has a demon mark from the Star Stalker, and her link to said being is what granted her regeneration. Interestingly neither Jade nor Tennyo know about this, though Sara has figured it out and told Fey. The upshot is that she'll do anything for Tennyo, to the point that she's thought that if Tennyo killed her the thing she'd be most worried about is making sure Tennyo didn't feel guilty. Then again, the only reason she was marked in the first place was because of her undying loyalty and devotion to Tenyo, so it's a mostly benevolent form of MoreThanMindControl.
* {{Flanderization}}: Her love of Hello Kitty.
* GadgeteerGenius: She's pretending to be one (with Bugs' assistance) in order to hide the details of her powers.
* GrandTheftMe: A variant when Tansy used her avatar powers to steal one of the copies of Jade. Since she can cast herself into living things as well, it's likely that she could also do this to people.
* HappyFunBall: Her Kitty Compact. Shroud is also somewhere between this and SwissArmyWeapon: she looks like a girl, who suddenly sprouts chains, blades, and liquid nitrogen.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: She gets this from Tennyo -or rather, the Star Stalker- while they're inside the BIT-Splicer together. Along with a demon mark from Tennyo that neither of them know about.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: With Thuban, who usually looks like a humanoid dragon. As she will readily tell you, his scales are soft when they kiss.]]
* JapaneseHonorifics: She uses these sometimes, addressing Tennyo as '{{oneesama}}' for instance, or Chaka as 'Chaka-sempai'.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: deliberately played up, bordering on self-flanderization
* KillerRabbit: She's turned Tennyo's toy cabbit into this. She's also something of a killer rabbit herself.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She can put copies of herself into, say, a piece of wire... that could fly off by itself and strangle anyone. Or a grain of sand that could hear everything being said and transmit it back to Jade proper. Or a cloud of dust that could coalesce inside someone's lungs. She's actually one of the most horrifyingly lethal members of the team, because so many people underestimate her.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Towards [[spoiler: Thuban.]]
* MissingMom: Who died.
* NighInvulnerable: As Shroud, or any of her other combat bodies, she's only vulnerable to Avatars and Psionic attacks. Inverted in her real body, where she's just as vulnerable as any other little girl but for her regeneration.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's physically stuck at eleven, but she's actually fourteen.
* ThePrankster: Jade's powers lend themselves to it, the fact that she's slightly deranged makes it inevitable.
* PronounTrouble: That's what happens when you can have up to five of you at once, in various bodies.
* PuppyDogEyes: Noted to be weapons grade
* TheRunaway: Her father was abusive and a minor criminal
* TheSneakyGuy: Her powers allow her to spy on things, get into small places, and snap back at a moment's notice, so she often does recon.
* SociopathicHero: She's displayed some worrying tendencies towards this. Overlaps with CreepyChild at times, and borders on psychotic when someone triggers one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.
** Most characters who have had to kill someone were upset about it to HeroicBSOD levels. Jade has killed dozens of people in fairly horrific ways and she's fine with it. She also has a rather worrying fondness for weaponry and routinely carries dozens of varieties of high explosives.
*** Jade's sociopathy is due to a combination of the abuse in her background, her demon mark, the psychic shock of possessing a well-used sacrificial dagger, and her own lack of emotions when she's in her psychokinetic form. She's also well aware of her own sociopathy and it bothers her that killing people ''doesn't'' bother her.
** HeroicComedicSociopath: Most of her odd behavior is played for laughs.
** Diane admits that when she writes Jade, she purposely emphasizes the Heroic part less than the Sociopath.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Most notably in "Christmas Elves".
* SwissArmySuperpower: Jade can "possess" objects using "spirit-selves". After a radiation accident, she can regenerate. However, within the "possessing objects" thing, she has a variety of applications of her power.
* TagalongKid: [[OlderThanTheyLook She's actually the same age as most of the others]], but naturally comes across as one of these, especially since she lacks raw power and usually plays supporting roles in combat (not counting her 'other selves' like Shroud, since they pretend that they're completely separate beings).
* TechnicalPacifist: Also referred to as 'NRA pacifism': She alternates between wearing a pacifist armband and an Ultraviolent armband. Randomly. Her point is that you should avoid violence whenever you can. But if you can't, [[NoKillLikeOverkill deploy overwhelming force.]] She considers it MamaBear training.
* {{Transsexual}}: Of all the Kimbas, she's the only one who didn't get the physical change. [[spoiler: She gets it later, but not through mutant powers.]]
* {{Yandere}}: A (probably) nonromantic version towards Tennyo. Between her initial UndyingLoyalty to Tennyo, her later [[DealWithTheDevil demon mark]], and her mildly sociopathic traits it's more or less inevitable. She considers an earnest threat of [[DisproportionateRetribution decapitation]] to pranksters interfering with Tennyos date to be a restrained response...[[CrazyAwesome and then instead strips them naked]] [[MistakenForGay and covers them in pink glitter.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tennyo]]
!!Tennyo (Billie Wilson)
Flying blasting slicing regenerating Warper extraordinaire who looks rather like Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo! as a result of how she gained her superpowers. She's so powerful Headmistress Carson has invoked Section 33 of the Whateley Charter: No student is to engage her in combat under any circumstances outside of formal instruction.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She's ostracized because people hear 'Section 33' and think 'dangerous, homicidal, wantonly-murdering psychopath'. Those who get to know her usually quite like her.
* AndIMustScream: Fey locks her in another dimension during a sim, and after the flashback caused by the Waters of Memory, she recalls having been put somewhere she didn't want to be, implying that it'd happened before.
* AnimeHair: It follows its own personal gravity. Her flight powers work on a similar principle by telling both gravity and inertia to take a hike.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: She can make her energy blasts and punches strike ''past'' a force field.
* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: in her origin story.
* BerserkButton: She's quite protective of Jade. And god help you if you try to harm her family.
* BigEater: It's implied that this is to compensate for a lack of proper nutrition, since her real diet is supposed to be demons.
* TheBigGuy: The main powerhouse of the team and the member with the most feared reputation.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Her organs and even her cells are different from a human's.
* BloodyMurder: Her blood has antimatter in it... But only sometimes.
* CaptainErsatz: Invoked. One character even dismissed her as a CosplayOtakuGirl before it became known that is her true appearance
* ClothingDamage: A recurring problem for her. Combat frequently leaves her nearly or fully naked because no conceivable supersuit can survive the damage her body can withstand. Unfortunately, she's also quite shy. Her HotBlooded nature prevents DefeatByModesty but that doesn't mean she won't be mortified when the fight is over. Phase eventually gets her underwear of last resort: a bikini made of three disks of pure adamantium barely big enough to spare her an indecent exposure charge.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands finding new things she can do]]. Flight, ability to ignore gravity and inertia, super-strength, the ability to move through force fields, the ability to produce some form of ''antimatter'', the ability to cast spheres of plasma, the ability to [[HealingFactor heal frighteningly fast]] from incredible injuries, the ability to form some sort of plasma "light saber", resistance to temperature extremes, she doesn't need to breathe air, etc. She also has thrown some sort of energy ball that temporarily acted like a neutron star, she may be able to teleport (although she was unconscious at the time), she may give off deadly levels of radiation when she's straining hard in a fight, and in one battle against over a hundred armed badguys, she [[RealityWarper warped reality]] all around her and opened up a rift in space-time. Oh, and she may be the avatar of some extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional demon. We don't know yet.
* CoolBigSis: Jade sees her this way.
* CulturedBadass: She's the Section 33 nightmare, who can take down anyone without raising a sweat... who works in the library and likes ballroom dancing.
* CuteLittleFangs: She's been told several times that her fangs are 'cute'.
* ExtremeOmnivore: She's eaten ectoplasmic spider-rats, [[EldritchAbomination voodoo wolves]], and the souls of demons. Averted when it comes to actual human food.
* EldritchAbomination / HumanoidAbomination The Stalker of the Stars/The Scourge/The Destroyer was one before it bonded with Billy to escape...something.
* FlyingBrick: She may have this as a subset of her powers, though it's easy to overlook underneath her flashy energy blasts/sword and reality-rending 'death blow'.
* FlyingFirepower: Flies, hurls plasma blasts, and more
* GlowingEyesOfDoom / RedEyesTakeWarning: Her irises sometimes go red when she's very angry. But actually, it's when they glow ''green'' that you ''really'' need to start worrying- that's when she's channeling the Star Stalker.
* AGodIAmNot: has this reaction when she discovers a cult worshiping the Star Stalker on a distant alien world: despite having both the [[PersonOfMassDestruction power]] and [[TimeAbyss provenance]] to qualify, she doesn't want to be worshiped. Eventually has a talk with [[PhysicalGod Sara]] about it, who tells her that divinity is what you make it.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: several very graphic examples.
* HealingFactor: Don't blow her limbs off, it just makes her mad. And the more damage she takes the faster it works to the point where it looks like a near-instantaneous restoration from an interdimensional backup.
* HeroicBSOD: In "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy"
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Many students are terrified of her and even the ones who aren't consider her the superheroic equivalent of a Hydrogen bomb: a weapon too powerful for any sane person to even contemplate using. That's probably a reasonable position given that the Star Stalker was created to deal with Galactic Level threats, not mere planetary ones.
* HotBlooded: As befits her anime-inspired origin, Billie is actually the calmest and gentlest of the Kimbas - but once you get her dander up all hell is out for noon.
* HotLibrarian: right down to the reading glasses.
* HumiliationConga: She got her job at the library after several previous student jobs went disastrously wrong, culminating a "haze the newbie" incident that accidentally ignited all of the flammable gases in the campus sewer system.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Tennyo has kept her teleportation powers secret from everyone, even Jade, because she wants to use it as an ace in the hole.
* LaserBlade: She can generate a "laser blade" made of anti-matter. How she makes anti-matter at will is a whole 'nother problem. The devisors and gadgeteers can't make working lightsabers, even though they all try, sooner or later.
* MarsWantsChocolate: Paid a fortune for a smuggled Hershey bar.
* MundaneUtility: Billie uses her gravity-warping "flight" powers constantly, she hardly even walks anymore. Phase has come up with a list of mundane utilities for Billie's powers, including repairing satellites in orbit and operating nuclear power plants from the inside.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Star Stalker/The Scourge/The Destroyer.
* NiceGuy: Billie's actually one of the nicest people you're likely to meet at Whateley, second only to Aquerna in that regard. She probably had the least amount of personal issues on Team Kimba after Lancer and Toni, until the incident that sent her into a HeroicBSOD.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bill's brother gave him what he thought was a food that induced hypnosis. It set the kitchen on fire, nearly killed Bill and ended up drawing the Star Stalker to him.
* NighInvulnerability: Thanks to her incredible HealingFactor.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Her higher end powers generate hard radiation as a side effect. And if the Star Stalker starts to come out, just existing causes her to start damaging reality.
** Eventually it's revealed that the Star Stalker was originally created as a magical WMD to fight Eldritch Abominations, in the form of an ArtificialPerson. The idea of this weapon loose on it's own and having developed a conscience is enough to terrify those who know about it.
* PsychicBlockDefense: She has developed an immunity to most, if not all forms of psychic influence, including prying telepaths, the voodoo-wolves' insanity aura, and Sara's lust aura. Especially in regards to the last two, this probably has to do with the Star Stalker being made to fight (and sometimes eat) demons and other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* RealityWarper: While most of her powers are ultimately based in this (for example, flying by ignoring gravity and manipulating her acceleration), they don't normally go into reality-rending territory unless she loses control of them.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Billie apparently lacked a strong male gender identity because becoming a girl was no big thing after the initial confusion. Either that or it was wiped out in her transformation.
* ShrinkingViolet: Billie is actually quite shy until she gets to know you, which other people see as aloof and feeds her "All Of The Other Reindeer" problems.
* StoryBreakerPower: Or she would have, if she weren't so psychologically vulnerable. And even she has opponents she's weaker against via [[TacticalRockPaperScissors rock-paper-scissors]][[note]]see her fights against Matterhorn and Jabberwock in Boston Brawl 2; Matterhorn's power had the side effect of deflecting her usual plasma blasts, and she couldn't even lay a finger on Jabberwock. Memeo, meanwhile was simply able to utilize her powers better than she could do to long experience with power copying and an extensive background in Power Theory.[[/note]].
* SupernaturalGoldEyes
* SuperToughness: She takes hits very well, even before you take her HealingFactor into account. At one point it's implied that she's survived a nuclear explosion.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Billie barely survived her powers awakening, though if you want to get technical, she actually didn't. The 'Billie' we see is the Star Stalker endowed with Bill's personality, and its implied that the Star Stalker may have actually [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilated his soul]].
* {{Tsundere}} shy, retiring, bookish, and God help you if you mess with Jade.
* UnusualEars - anime style.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Phase]]
!!Phase (Ayla Goodkind)
An intersexed density-changer who can become intangible, super-dense, or anything in between. Comes from a very rich family of notorious mutant haters who reacted very poorly to his mutation.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A huge number of people ostracise him for being a Goodkind, or for being intersexed.
** 'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has even more people ostracise him after rumours spread that he personally kicked Chou off the team. It gets better, though.
* BadassBookworm
* BenevolentBoss: He spends a lot of time criticising unfair and unkind work policies, and it's made clear that he'd be a great boss to work for.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Get him angry enough, and all bets are off. He has so many weapons at his disposal that you'd be lucky if he ''just'' killed you.
* BlessedWithSuck: At some point, he's going to be Circe's apprentice. And every single apprentice Circe has had died. Horribly. And Circe has always had the paperwork arranged ''before'' the death.
* BlueBlood: breeding tells, even though his family kicked him out
* BreakTheHaughty: His origin story.
* CharacterDevelopment: Early on he is often disturbed by his fellow Kimbas due to his anti-mutant indoctrination. The implications of Jade's powers in particular disturb him greatly until he learns their limits. He hides it well and he gradually gets over it as they win him over.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: A variation. There's the Ayla before Diane Castle started writing for him and the Ayla after. Chronologically though, they exist ''simultaneously'', because the Diane Castle version is a {{Retcon}} via AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Jadis and Mal. Inverted with Tansy, who bullied him.
* ChivalrousPervert: He looks so much like a girl (because of his mutation) that he can shower in the girls' bathroom... and look at everyone else in there. On the other hand, he's really considerate of his girlfriend and his female friends, even if he's only about 15 and the girls in the bathroom haven't asked him to leave (yet).
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Has some degree of claustrophobia. This is pretty reasonable, since he's: been experimented on (i.e. tortured) by a MadScientist while trapped in a box the size of a coffin; nearly suffocated underground; been trapped in a pitch-dark sewer with no flashlight while being attacked by a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie army]]; and his own powers mean he can pass through solid objects ''but he can't see or breathe while he's doing it''. Ouch.
* CrazyPrepared: Though it isn't always crazy enough.
* CrimefightingWithCash: Only 14, still a freshman at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], and already doing this. He's paying Whateley inventors to build weapons for him, including a utility belt that has nearly zero external volume but is chock full of HammerSpace, a specialized throwing dart made out of ''depleted uranium'', and the latest thing is a collapsing tactical baton. Made out of adamantium. With osmium for weight in the tip. It cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars. He is planning such things as courses in marketing and patent law to allow inventors (as opposed to corporations) to profit from their work. Apparently, many villainous gageteers are [[CutLexLuthorACheck just in it for the money]]. Then there's the job creation work he's planning, including work based on MundaneUtility. He's realized that persecuted minorities are more likely to commit crimes when they're persecuted (and thus poor).
* CulturedBadass: Raised from an infant in the wealthiest family on earth, he's intelligent, urbane, well-read, and loves opera and classical music. He's a gourmet, and a brilliant businessman. This makes him utterly unprepared to be a high school girl in a SuperheroSchool.
* DeadpanSnarker: Does this with references most of the rest of the cast doesn't get. [[SmallReferencePools They return the favor]]. Girlfriend [[StuffedInTheFridge stuffed in a fridge]], anyone?
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As an appearance trope, it's more suited to pre-Diane Ayla, who was characterized by a 'punk' look.
* FakeWeakness: Phase deliberately included a fictional vulnerability to dark chocolate in his file on the theory that if anyone tried to "poison" him with it he'd know that his medical records had been hacked.
* {{Fallen Prince|ss}}: Once a member of the richest family in the world, he becomes a mutant and gets kicked out. He ends up at Whateley Academy hanging with the RagTagBunchOfMisfits that is Team Kimba.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Phase is a superpowered mutant rather than a PI, but in the stories in which he is the narrator, he is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] commentator, very intellectual, well read, even for a teenager who has been to all the 'right' private schools, far too knowledgeable about food (even if he's spent his life as the heir to billions eating the finest food anywhere), and still associates with the other rich kids at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy.
* FoodPorn: A big part of his stories.
* GreenEyes: Though the 'spitfire' aspect of this trope mostly applies to pre-Diane Ayla.
* GuileHero: He is genuinely concerned for people and sincerely wants to help them, and at need is ready to fight toe-to-toe with demons, monsters and supervillains, but Phase is at heart a {{Chessmaster}} whose preferred realm is espionage, trickery, manipulation, bribery and financial pressure. As a ''friend'' puts it: "No one else quite has that ''when I rule the world I will not permit such behavior'' attitude".
* HeroicBSOD: In "Ayla and the Tests".
* HonorBeforeReason: While he's a really reasonable person, sometimes he goes off on tangents.
* HurtingHero: Even more than the other Kimbas, Ayla suffers nightmares, PTSD, panic attacks, and sometimes goes into week-long depressions. His powers scare him and he blames himself for his screwed up appearance.
* IHaveNoSon: His parents disown him after he manifests.
** His siblings (except Heather) still care about him, though.
* IntangibleMan: when he wants to be.
* InternalizedCategorism: refers to himself as "a revolting freako intersexed mutant" though he does get somewhat better as time goes on.
* Irony: Ayla's transgender sister and her friends act like reverse HeteronormativeCrusaders until Ayla calls them out on it.
* ItIsDehumanizing: his mother started calling him "it" the minute he manifested.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Mutants ''are'' dangerous, do a lot of damage and need to be curtailed in certain cases. While the methods of curtailing need close examination and refinement, Ayla's not wrong when he says that the Knights of Purity are a needed force, though their crypofascist appellation is worrisome.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Having been raised by bigots, he had incredibly harsh things to say about his sister's choice to transition. About five minutes later he takes off the jumpsuit he was imprisoned in and finds out he's in a similar situation.
** On a meta level, his transgender Body Image Template is a direct result of his bigoted upbringing, combining the two things he was raised to hate.
** On yet another level, it turns out that his mutation resulted from a supervillain running a deliberate LaserGuidedKarma gambit on his family and his younger brother is the next target.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: Walking through objects? How boring. Being able to disintegrate matter by phasing back to solid within it? Not boring! Being able to fry electricity and knock people out by being partially solid? Definitely not boring! Being tough enough to slough off most attacks? Really not boring! Being able to trash the [=BITs=] of Exemplars and Shifters and turn them into monsters? Argh! To emphasize how "harmless" Phases' powers are, the only other person who has a similar powerset is Tinsnip, one of the deadliest assassins in the world.
* LonelyRichKid: Surprisingly averted; despite the high workloads the Goodkinds have, they all make it a point to eat dinner as a family and do things together.
* TheOneGuy: Him and Hank, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Constantly grumbles about being the OnlySaneMan on Team Kimba, but really doesn't seem to mind playing the straight man to their lunacy. He's also genuinely hurt when he has to play the designated bad guy in the "Kimbas expel Chou" gambit, though he hides it well.
* OddFriendship: with Harvey "Mega-Death" Calloway, the school's worst victim of [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Diedrick's Syndrome]].
* ParentalAbandonment: When Ayla manifested his parents promptly handed him over to the Whateley's universes' equivalent of Dr. Mengele for experimentation. His mother calls him "it". You could say he has issues.
* PrideBeforeAFall: He describes his experiences as being "hit with a double-barrelled shotgun loaded with irony", and now realizes that on some level, he deserved it.
* PronounTrouble: Identifies as male, but mostly goes by female pronouns. The out-of-universe explanation for this is that Ayla's gender was retconned in long after other characters and the narration had been referring to him as 'she'. In-universe "Ayla" was supposed to be a SecretIdentity to prevent gay bashing which he ultimately discarded.
* ProperlyParanoid: between the Goodkind haters and the Gay Bashers, Ayla gets attacked twice as often as anybody else on campus.
* SelfDeprecation: Ayla constantly puts himself down, especially in the field of fighting- the rest of Team Kimba are so good he feels he's at a major disadvantage. Never mind the fact that he beat Chaka, nearly beat Lancer, beat Tennyo, and has managed to either win, get even if he didn't win, or get out of every fight he's been in. He's also one of the most potentially destructive members of Team Kimba. But he just can't get past that "revolting freako mutant" thing.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Born into the richest family on earth, and used to having his own way all the time. When he turns into a mutant and gets kicked out of the family, he finds out he doesn't know how to do anything, including use a can opener or a microwave. He has a coronary seeing what a real grocery store is like.
* TheSmartGuy: Probably the smart one, even if Chaka seems to be best at coming up with ideas in the middle of a fight. Phase is over-educated for a freshman in high school, is most likely to use the big words, and is a smart aleck too.
* StraightMan
* TeenGenius: Naturally; he's a teen financial genius, having been learning the ways of business and high finance roughly since he was able to talk.
* {{Transvestite}} Ayla has a large lingerie collection. He admits it's twisted, but he really loves the feeling of high-quality silk.
* UnclePennybags: He thinks nothing of spending money on his friends (when they allow it), or on anything he sees as a good cause. Justified, especially after 'Ayla and the Birthday Brawl', when he's the richest teenager on the planet minus some who are going to inherit fortunes.
** Still justified beforehand, as Ayla has money in the millions, and most of the expenses are in the thousands. He's spending interest from the bank account.
* UnreliableNarrator: Semi-intentionally. He's got a pretty good opinion of the Goodkinds and their works, but canon has proven that they definitely aren't what Phase thinks they are- and he knows it. Take everything he says about them with a grain of salt. It's justified because they are his family, and he's only spent about a year discovering the differences.
* UtilityBelt: The first character to buy one. The creator, "Mobius", had made a belt that had pockets that worked like [[BagOfHolding Bags Of Holding]]. Phase paid Mobius several times the asking price, pointed out how much the uber-UtilityBelt was really worth, and offered to help market the device for a small percentage of the huge amounts of profit he would be making for Mobius.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: '''''Averted'''''. Phase is incredibly aware of the problems with his powers and how they can be countered, so he spends a ''lot'' of time buying or asking people to make new weapons for him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Bladedancer]]
!!Bladedancer (Chou Lee)
Handmaid of the Tao, superb martial artist, and wielder of the legendary sword Destiny's Wave.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Destiny's Wave.
* ActionGirl: thought she's just getting used to the "girl" part
** ActionGirlfriend: To Molly.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Not really, she's an agent of balance, but history tends to dwell on the spectacularly bloody incidents.
* BlueOni: To Toni's Red.
* BreakingTheFellowship: 'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has Team Kimba pretend to ditch Chou so she'll appear to be more vulnerable.
* TheChosenOne: And is not happy with what the Tao requires
* ClosetKey: for Gateway
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Convenient for the Tao, maybe. Chou still has not gotten over her father's death.
* CulturedBadass: The immortals are specifically grooming her for this role.
* DifferentForGirls: The most prominent example as the least transgendered member of Team Kimba.
* GreenEyes
* HealingHands: Can use Taoist "chi" healing techniques through "laying on of hands".
* HeroicBSOD: In "To The Mountain".
* KiAttacks: She mostly uses her Ki for mobility: moving a great distance with a single stride, jumping, and sometimes WallCrawling. She's starting to use it for [[HealingHands healing]], and once she used it to induce a heart attack.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Demons kill your family, you may have to kill your friends
* LimitedWardrobe: Most of her clothing consists of mandarin tops and yoga pants, for practical reasons
* MissingMom:
* OrphansOrdeal: After she was turned into a girl and her father was murdered by a demon she had to make her way to Whateley on foot, walking all the way from Tennessee to New Hampshire, and she was attacked several times along the way.
* [[spoiler: {{Polyamory}}: She, Molly, and Dorjee eventually decide to try this out.]]
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Of the reluctant admission variety. Chou has the hardest time with her GenderBender aside from the self-loathing Ayla, probably because she's a baseline human transformed through magic instead of a mutant altered by their BIT.
* SixthRanger: Becomes one to Team Kimba until she leaves to set up her own team.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: When the Tao decides to step in.
* TalkingWeapon: Destiny's Wave.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: gradually evolving into one.
* UpgradeArtifact: Destiny's Wave.
[[/folder]]
!Team Kimba
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder: In General]]
* AmazonBrigade: Really close, considering that their team has only two boys. One was then given the appearance of a girl.
* AuthorAppeal: Oh, definitely. Most of the {{canon}} authors have written other TG fiction.
* BackStory: Every main character except Lancer has a novella or novel for this.
* BadassCrew: High school freshmen who have already fought The Necromancer and his Children of the Night? And won? Twice? Very badass.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BreakfastClub: They get together because they are put together on their first day since they all have a secret that makes them outsiders. [[ItWasHisSled They are all transgender, most of them against their will.]] Subversion: they rapidly become well-liked and considered heroic, after they happen to defeat a band of superpowered ninjas before the first day of school.
* BusmansHoliday: They can't go ''anywhere'' without getting attacked or fighting villains. This doesn't seem to happen to anyone else.
** Well, nearly everywhere. Phase and Vox managed to go to Miami without any chaos.
* CoolLoser: they live in Poe, which is supposedly the 'loony bin' dorm.
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: they're superheroines, for Pete's sake!
* FailOSuckyname: 'Team Kimba'. Never going to strike fear in the hearts of opponents. You can thank Jade and Toni for that one.
* FightMagnet: They get in fights all the time. Most peculiarly, all three times the group visited Boston, they battle The Necromancer and his Children of the Night. To date (Jan 2012), only one member has left Whateley for a significant length of time and not become involved in a fight or battle.
* FiveTokenBand: Played with in the reason they come together and stay together: they're the transgender mutants in their high school grade. Chaka, the nominal leader, is black, but comes from an upper-middle-class family. Generator is Japanese-American. Shroud? Not even really alive. Phase is a WASP and the disinherited scion of one of the richest families on the planet. Lancer is an Army brat. Tennyo? Her mutation has made her look like an anime character. Fey not only looks like one of the Sidhe, she is. Other characters around them include a hermaphrodite who is Lakota (American Indian), a half-demon, a Hispanic... You get the idea.
* GenderBender: Except Jade, who's finding ways to transition on her own.
* PartTimeHero: Since they're at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy in the webfiction 'verse, and they're not supposed to be getting into superhero fights since they're minors. And they have classes they're not supposed to cut.
* PlugNPlayFriends
* ASharedSuffering: The original six characters (plus Bladedancer, Carmilla, and Heyoka) are all transgender in some way, some of them because of their powers, so they have a commonality.
* {{Superhero}}: Duh!
* SuperheroSpeciation: They're a pack of high schoolers, rather than an established super-team, but they fit this model. Like the JusticeLeague, they also have a wide range of power levels, ranging from Tennyo (so powerful there's a school rule against attacking her) down to Generator (can animate stuff, and now has regeneration too) and Bladedancer (BadassNormal with magic sword). The team has blasters, a PK superboy, a powerful mage, a [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Vision-like]] density-changer, healers, martial artists, and a fake deviser. And there's only seven of them.
* SuperTeam: They're only teenagers at SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy, but they've already beaten superpowered ninjas from the Yama Dojo, the Necromancer and his team The Children of the Night, and Lovecraftian horrors. Plus, they're not supposed to be superheroing, so they keep getting detention for this stuff.
* TrueCompanions: Not only are they brought together by a common characteristic, but many of them have the classic family issues: Phase (disowned), Generator (mother dead, abusive father in prison), Bladedancer (orphaned), Lancer (his brother sicked an anti-mutant military force on him), Tennyo (forced to leave her family because of assassins and worse), Carmilla (mother dead, father a demon), Heyoka (orphaned)... Only a couple of them have a supportive family. This true-companion group ends up shifting quite a bit. Carmilla forms her own, loosely allied team. (Sara's Pack). Also, it is stated in Jade's stories that Poe is designed to specifically create this, and Whateley itself has some elements of it.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: This describes their life in a nutshell, what with the Boston Brawls, the Voodoo Wolves, etc. Still, the emphasis is a bit more on "Go to School" then with other things.
* {{Weirdness Magnet}}s: They got into more trouble in their first six weeks at Whateley than most students do all year. See also BusmansHoliday above.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Chaka]]
!!Chaka (Toni Chandler)
Genki Girl martial artist who controls Ki
* TheAllSolvingHammer: When all you have are Ki powers, Ki solves everything. Though she has a very large variety of weapons.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: One of her skills is the ability to see Ki flows, so she has learned several attacks by watching an expert use them.
* Badass: When it came down to a real fight, there are about four people who've been able to beat/nearly beat her: Counterpoint, [[spoiler: simulated]] Majestic, Slab and [[spoiler: Little Bee in her remote-controlled attack robot]].
* BiTheWay: Less a true example than "Hey, I'm a girl now" and "I won't know unless I try."
* BringIt: This is the essence of Toni. She first did this when facing five superpowered ninjas when she was in a nightie.
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: She got power gloves as a Christmas present from a teammate, and they have an activation phrase.
* CallingYourAttacks: "Chaka Chaka Bang Bang!"
* CasualDangerDialog: She and Phase are two of the worst about this.
* CherylBlossom: Sums up her relationship with Thunderbird.
* TheChosenOne: She's the Soke no Do, the future founder of the school of being.
* CombatCommentator: She can't help it. She's the only one who can see the Ki flows.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight against Counterpoint. He would have won if he hadn't passed out, and Toni was really banged up.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: It's still 'Mark', though she altered it to 'Marc'.
* EpicFlail: She's recently been learning how to use meteor hammers.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When she gets dressed at the start of her origin story.
* FirstPersonSmartass: A light-hearted one.
* FunPersonified: She's constantly getting into silly adventures (being attacked by ''Tigger'' while trying to go on a date?). In the serious adventures, she's one of the ones constantly throwing out one-liners.
* GenkiGirl: Although Generator is worse. Much, much worse.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Definitely. It drives several other people nuts that she can learn Ki skills just by observing, mainly those who put a ''lot'' of effort into learning and hate seeing a new kid just picking things up in seconds.
** This backfires whenever she runs into a real master capable of turning her own reflexes against her.
* TheHero: She was at the forefront of the team's earliest adventures.
** TheLancer: Her role nowadays. At one point, some of the Tigers approached her hoping that she'd be the lancer to ''their'' leader.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: When she plays darts, she uses a board the size of a coin, and darts the size of toothpicks. Even then, throwing from the far side of the room will only ''sometimes'' land her anything less than a perfect bullseye.
* ImprobableWeaponUser and ImprovisedWeapon: [[DeathDealer Playing cards]] and [[FlechetteStorm sewing needles]], which she uses as throwing weapons.
* IndyPloy: She lives by this trope, when she's not actually thinking things through enough to be TheChessmaster.
* InstantExpert: She has the power to [[SupernaturalMartialArts manipulate chi]] instinctively without the sort of training that anyone else requires. When her powers manifest, she does the sort of thing that takes a master 50 years to learn ''by accident'', in her ''judo class''. In the ninja fight, she watches the leader do a really complicated chi technique that is supposed to allow a paralyzing strike, then blocks it and does it back to him, perfectly, the first time. Oh, and she paraphrases his [[CallingYourAttacks attack name]] (Coiling Viper Fang Strike) as "Something something strike!"
** Despite all this, she still needs to keep working on basics -- so in a sense, she has to learn ''backwards''.
* IShallTauntYou: In fights, her taunting is somewhere between SassyBlackWoman and SpiderMan.
* JiveTurkey: Often talks like this in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, or just to annoy Ayla.
* JumpedAtTheCall: She was a very unhappy transgender boy who finally got the hot (female) body she had always dreamed of, ass-kicking Ki powers, the chance to finally tell off her two older siblings, and the chance to go to SuperheroSchool and drag her new friends into mishaps and adventures.
* KamehameHadoken: Yet another secret Ki technique she's stolen.
* KiAttacks: Though she can't do the flashier ones from anime. Yet.
* MagneticHero: She pulled Fey and Lancer along in her wake when they first met, and then helped pull Team Kimba together. Since then, she's also pulled in more boyfriends and girlfriends than any 14-year-old could possibly handle.
* MakeMeWannaShout: She has a {{Kiai}} shout that projects her Ki like a weapon.
* MartialArtsAndCrafts: She has the superpower of Ki control, and has invented new Martial Arts and Crafts at the drop of a shuriken. When given detention, she invented (on the fly) martial arts mopping (instant cleaning by attuning her Ki with the mop), martial arts linen folding, martial arts grime scrubbing... She has used her martial arts skills for healing problems beyond medicine, like Doctor Heavy's inability to turn off his local 8-G gravity field (she turned it into a local 0-G field by accident). And she has developed all kinds of martial arts weapons for herself, including sewing needles, forks, playing cards...
* MundaneUtility: She's constantly using her Ki powers to do things like dry off after a shower, or mop the floor faster. She later finds them ideal for therapeutic massage.
* ObnoxiousSnarker
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome and NoodleIncident. Her fall combat final, against a brick, a giant, and a deviser/wizard, with a tornado and an earthquake thrown in for good measure.
* OhCrap: Her fight with Slab. She couldn't do anything except get thrown into the wall.
* PluckyGirl: According to her author, she was envisioned as "the anti-angst girl".
* {{Polyamory}}: She's dating Thunderbird (male) and also Riptide (female). Thunderbird doesn't know about Riptide yet. Riptide is lesbian and ''not'' happy about Thunderbird.
* PowerCopying: She can copy a lot of martial arts and ki techniques just by observing them.
* PowerFist: That's what the Christmas present is for.
* PsychicBlockDefense: She can use her Ki powers to close her brow chakra, blocking psychic attacks.
* RedOni: To Chou's Blue, as well as to Nikki's -- except when Nikki loses her temper.
* SaltAndPepper: Toni and her roommate Nikki.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Toni was extremely transgender, and greeted her actual GenderBender with unbridled joy.
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Girl]]: Especially to mess with Ayla.
* SheFu: Specializes in this style of fighting. Justified in that her ki powers make it extraordinarily easy for her to do so. In her first superhero fight with a bunch of ninjas, she drives her opponent up the wall by dodging his attacks with unnecessary flips.
* SpiderSense: Her Ki ability lets her know when someone is focusing on her.
* SpiritedCompetitor: She's always looking for anyone who can give her a good fight and stretch her abilities. She mostly keeps it to her martial arts classes.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes
* SuperSenses: Ki. It's always Ki with Chaka.
* TakeOurWordForIt: Chaka's fall Combat Final, which won't be written because it's just too awesome to be accurately depicted.
* {{Transsexual}}: Until she manifested and got [[GenderBender exactly what she wanted.]]
* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a black female bisexual formerly-male mutant with hyperactivity issues. Is there any other six-fer on that page?
* WaifFu: She's 14, female and slender, but her superpower is control of Ki, and the ability to pull extra Ki out of the Earth. In the short story "Duel Damsel", she challenges a superstrong upperclassman who looks like a blond Sasquatch, because of what the guy did to her friend. She pummels him without even using her most powerful techniques. She's also beaten an unstoppable super-werewolf, clobbered people wearing power armor, taken out a superpowered ninja..
* WallCrawl: She also figured out how to use her Ki to stick to a wall.
* WarriorTherapist: using her Ki powers. She also teaches Tai Chi.
* WeaponOfChoice: Her manrikigusari (a type of chain weapon). And her meteor hammer.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Her solution to everything is ki. This bites her in the arse occasionally when she's facing someone who [[NoSell isn't susceptible]] (like Slab or N'Dizi) or who outclasses her by far (like Counterpoint).
* WorfHadTheFlu: Over Christmas, Chaka had to help Bladedancer fight off ninjas. While recovering from broken hips and confined to a wheelchair.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fey]]
!!Fey (Nikki Reilly)
Elven Wizard of unusual power, possessed by an ancient sidhe queen. Subconsciously makes people attracted to her.
* AlienBlood: It's silver.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Fey is possessed with the spirit of an incredibly old Faerie, and yet she consistently pooh-poohs Phase's idea that some of the (far younger) Greek Gods have come back and are now at Whateley Academy. To be fair, her objection wasn't that it couldn't happen, but more that Phase had no solid evidence to support any of his theories. Until 'Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy, Part Six', nothing was proven.
* AttemptedRape: By a superpowered ninja psychopath.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Magic requires time, Essence, ingredients and (usually) uninterrupted silence and focus. While Fey is incredibly powerful and versatile, she can be easily taken by surprise.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The crystal wavers found this out the hard way.
* BiTheWay: A much straighter example than her roommate, which is not surprising considering her glamour and powers.
* BloodBrothers: [[spoiler: She makes a blood pact with Carmilla.]]
* BloodMagic: More than once, but most nastily in ''Christmas Elves''.
* BlueOni: To Toni's Red. Well, [[BewareTheNiceOnes usually.]]
* TheChosenOne: But she's OK with her destiny.
* DarkestHour: The end of chapter 2 of ''Christmas Elves''.
* DisappearedDad: Her father and brother live in another state, because of her dad's important job with DARPA.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Fey has a faerie glamour that at first she couldn't turn down or turn off. Even the gay guys in the dorm were gaping at her.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Fey's boyfriend Stalwart, and his pursuit of her.
* TheEmpath: She's one of the most powerful mages around, has merged with an ancient [[TheFairFolk Sidhe]] queen, but also has the ability to read emotions around her. [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace Since she's also the most beautiful girl on earth ''and'' has a Faerie glamour that makes her even more all that]], this has a downside, since every guy who sees her has the emotions you could guess.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: It's that darn glamour.
* TheFairFolk: She was changed into her current appearance by an ancient Faerie spirit who now resides in her head. While she is inhumanly beautiful, in "Ill Winds" her true form is a luminescent energy form that isn't remotely human.
* FastballSpecial: Done with Fey as the 'fastball' once, before she learned how to fly on her own.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Has nearly befallen her twice so far, once at the hands of Nex, and once when trapped by Hekate.
* FieryRedhead: Usually pretty moderate as far as temperament goes, but she can get pretty scary when she's angry.
* FunctionalMagic: ley lines are a popular energy source for mages
* {{Glamour}}
* HealingHands: She can cure serious wounds with magic.
* HelloNurse: Not only possessed of the beauty of the Sidhe, but also having a Faerie glamour that (at the start of the series) she ''[[PowerIncontinence cannot turn off]]''—though she later damps it down. Slightly.
* InsistentTerminology: She's Sidhe, not an elf. She's also rather insistent about calling Malachim's Feather a scimitar, as opposed to just 'sword'.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Fey's InstantFanClub, which utterly embarrasses her.
* LadyOfWar: Fey may only be a teenager but her spirit Aunghadhail is one of the original nine Queens of the Sidhe.
* LifeEnergy: She can pull Essence from almost anything natural.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She can pull life energy from almost anything natural. [[spoiler: And kill it, or knock it unconscious. She wiped out entire ecosystems without knowing it by drawing too much Essence from them.]]
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: She's light, Sara is dark.
* MagicalGesture: She's done some hand movements so magical that it hurts other people to look at them.
* MagicalIncantation: She's used the language of the Sidhe
* MagicKnight: Fey is currently training to move from SquishyWizard up to this.
* TheMedic: She's the Healer of the team.
* MenstrualMenace: Her first period at Whateley Academy is the stuff of legend. There were ''thunderstorms''. ''In the hallways''.
* MsFanservice: Especially after that photo shoot for that Sierra Club poster.
* MundaneUtility: Fey has enough Essence that she can waste it on things like magically drying her hair.
* {{Nerf}}: In "Ayla and the Mad Scientist", it's discovered that her powers [[spoiler: have been killing entire ecosystems around the country with the energy she's always pulling from ley lines.]] Because of this, she can no longer use power willy-nilly and has to come up with energy-saving alternatives.
** [[spoiler: and then Aunghadhail's spirit is apparently [[DeaderThanDead destroyed entirely]] when battling the remains of Mythos magic in two mind control victims. Whether this sticks, how much of her knowledge remains, and if she is still immortal, remain to be seen.]]
* MyNaymeIs: Her full name is 'Nichole', not the more commonly-spelled 'Nicole'.
* [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands New Spells as the Plot Demands]]: Justified because Aunghadhail knew hundreds if not thousands of spells.
* OddFriendship: With Razorback.
* OhCrap: When [[spoiler: caught in Hekate's circle in ''Christmas Elves'' and separated from Aunghadhail in ''It's All In The Timing''.]]
* OurElvesAreBetter
* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* PardonMyKlingon: She sometimes curses in languages that haven't been spoken in millennia.
* PlayingWithFire: She once seduced the element of fire and had it do her bidding. She doesn't do this again, since the process is pretty embarrassing and the one time was an extreme emergency.
* PointyEars
* {{Polyamory}}: Stalwart/Fey/Bugs. Stalwart doesn't know about Bugs, though.
* PurpleEyes: As part of her otherworldly Sidhe beauty.
* RedHeadedHero
* ShrinkingViolet: When she first arrived at Whateley.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Fey exemplifies the justified version of the trope, as ancient forces are at work to make her accept her new gender.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: It's a curse, since WordOfGod says her glamour is due to the ancient Faerie wards that still provide protection.
* SquirrelsInMyPants: The first magic that Nick (accidentally) does.
* SquishyWizard: She was considered a pushover in a close-up fight. After she was nearly beaten to death by a mutant ninja, she's been learning Tai Chi and learning how to use a scimitar. It appears to have worked rather well, considering her fight against Mule.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's one of the most powerful Wizard-type mutants on earth, and she has the spirit of an ancient Faerie Queen to teach her spells.
* WeaksauceWeakness: To cold iron and, to a lesser degree, synthetic materials. Yes, she can be defeated by ''lingerie''. Now that's a KryptoniteFactor.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lancer]]
!!Lancer (Hank Declan)
Super-strong invulnerable Flying Brick hero who uses a form of personal-ranged psychokinesis to enhance his physical abilities.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: He can create these by covering paper swords with his PK field.
* TheAllSolvingHammer: He's a three-trick pony (his PK field, his swords and his trick of absorbing energy blasts), and while his tricks are very good, they don't change. Without his team, he's not hard to take down.
* BigEater: Like everyone with energizer based powers.
* ChivalrousPervert: He went through this stage early on.
* DualWielding: With his paper shortswords.
* FlatCharacter: He has no author, so he's not as developed as the others.
* FlyingBrick: Being a 'telekinetic brick' with super-strength, flight, and a forcefield that he's learned to extend a bit to cover weapons he uses, but no ranged powers other than picking things up and throwing them thus far.
* GrayEyes
* MilitaryBrat: And it shows. He's the most likely candidate for Team Kimba's leader and their strategist, and he's damn good at it.
* NiceGuy
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He discovered the ability to absorb and redirect energy blasts at a ''very'' opportune moment.
* OnlySaneMan: He's the most reasonable and rational member of Team Kimba (possibly excepting Ayla, but Hank has a point of view more aligned to average people.)
* TheOneGuy: Him and Ayla, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
* StockSuperpowers: TK supermen aren't at all rare, but most find them hard to take down.
* TheSmartGuy: He's Team Kimba's tactician and the closest thing they've got to a leader.
* StraightMan: in both senses of the term.
* TeamDad: Especially in the sims.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Generator]]
!!Generator (Jade Sinclair)
A seemingly eleven year old girl who 'generates' psychokinetic copies of herself by animating inanimate objects for a limited time. When the effect wears off, the copies' memories merge with Jade's. The copies are named Jinn, Jann, Jeanie, etc. in an order known only to Jade but which never varies. She is collectively known as the "J Team. The singular/plural confusion is canon.
Shroud (Jinn Sinclair) is Jade's invented persona when her first copy (Jinn) takes human shape. Using props, she can appear as everything from an ordinary teenage girl, to a spooky eeriness and chains undead, to an empty black cloak. She pretends to be the ghost of Jade's elder sister.
* AbusiveParents: Her father.
* {{Asexual}}: A side effect of being stuck at the physical age of eleven. While she does have a lot of romantic fantasies they're mostly of the preadolescent, non-sexual "pretty princess" variety.
* BerserkButton: Don't threaten Tennyo. Jade will kill you.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:She will nail you to a tree. With railroad spikes. Even if you're twice her size. Then she'll burn a message into your flesh.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A prank war between her and Beltane could conceivably end all life as we know it.
* BigStupidDoodooHead: She's prone to using these sorts of insults. "Poopyhead" is one of her favourites.
* ChainPain: One of Shroud's weapons.
* TheChick: In part due to her immaturity, but also a role she plays to discourage physical attacks
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While parts of it are just her having fun with her 'wacky devisor' persona, she has her genuine moments as well.
* CuteAndPsycho: An image she deliberately cultivates, and one her friends fear may become reality.
* CombatPragmatist: Anything is fair game, and she's the first Kimba to escalate to lethal force.
* DealWithTheDevil: She has a demon mark from the Star Stalker, and her link to said being is what granted her regeneration. Interestingly neither Jade nor Tennyo know about this, though Sara has figured it out and told Fey. The upshot is that she'll do anything for Tennyo, to the point that she's thought that if Tennyo killed her the thing she'd be most worried about is making sure Tennyo didn't feel guilty. Then again, the only reason she was marked in the first place was because of her undying loyalty and devotion to Tenyo, so it's a mostly benevolent form of MoreThanMindControl.
* {{Flanderization}}: Her love of Hello Kitty.
* GadgeteerGenius: She's pretending to be one (with Bugs' assistance) in order to hide the details of her powers.
* GrandTheftMe: A variant when Tansy used her avatar powers to steal one of the copies of Jade. Since she can cast herself into living things as well, it's likely that she could also do this to people.
* HappyFunBall: Her Kitty Compact. Shroud is also somewhere between this and SwissArmyWeapon: she looks like a girl, who suddenly sprouts chains, blades, and liquid nitrogen.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: She gets this from Tennyo -or rather, the Star Stalker- while they're inside the BIT-Splicer together. Along with a demon mark from Tennyo that neither of them know about.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: With Thuban, who usually looks like a humanoid dragon. As she will readily tell you, his scales are soft when they kiss.]]
* JapaneseHonorifics: She uses these sometimes, addressing Tennyo as '{{oneesama}}' for instance, or Chaka as 'Chaka-sempai'.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: deliberately played up, bordering on self-flanderization
* KillerRabbit: She's turned Tennyo's toy cabbit into this. She's also something of a killer rabbit herself.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She can put copies of herself into, say, a piece of wire... that could fly off by itself and strangle anyone. Or a grain of sand that could hear everything being said and transmit it back to Jade proper. Or a cloud of dust that could coalesce inside someone's lungs. She's actually one of the most horrifyingly lethal members of the team, because so many people underestimate her.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Towards [[spoiler: Thuban.]]
* MissingMom: Who died.
* NighInvulnerable: As Shroud, or any of her other combat bodies, she's only vulnerable to Avatars and Psionic attacks. Inverted in her real body, where she's just as vulnerable as any other little girl but for her regeneration.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's physically stuck at eleven, but she's actually fourteen.
* ThePrankster: Jade's powers lend themselves to it, the fact that she's slightly deranged makes it inevitable.
* PronounTrouble: That's what happens when you can have up to five of you at once, in various bodies.
* PuppyDogEyes: Noted to be weapons grade
* TheRunaway: Her father was abusive and a minor criminal
* TheSneakyGuy: Her powers allow her to spy on things, get into small places, and snap back at a moment's notice, so she often does recon.
* SociopathicHero: She's displayed some worrying tendencies towards this. Overlaps with CreepyChild at times, and borders on psychotic when someone triggers one of her {{Berserk Button}}s.
** Most characters who have had to kill someone were upset about it to HeroicBSOD levels. Jade has killed dozens of people in fairly horrific ways and she's fine with it. She also has a rather worrying fondness for weaponry and routinely carries dozens of varieties of high explosives.
*** Jade's sociopathy is due to a combination of the abuse in her background, her demon mark, the psychic shock of possessing a well-used sacrificial dagger, and her own lack of emotions when she's in her psychokinetic form. She's also well aware of her own sociopathy and it bothers her that killing people ''doesn't'' bother her.
** HeroicComedicSociopath: Most of her odd behavior is played for laughs.
** Diane admits that when she writes Jade, she purposely emphasizes the Heroic part less than the Sociopath.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Most notably in "Christmas Elves".
* SwissArmySuperpower: Jade can "possess" objects using "spirit-selves". After a radiation accident, she can regenerate. However, within the "possessing objects" thing, she has a variety of applications of her power.
* TagalongKid: [[OlderThanTheyLook She's actually the same age as most of the others]], but naturally comes across as one of these, especially since she lacks raw power and usually plays supporting roles in combat (not counting her 'other selves' like Shroud, since they pretend that they're completely separate beings).
* TechnicalPacifist: Also referred to as 'NRA pacifism': She alternates between wearing a pacifist armband and an Ultraviolent armband. Randomly. Her point is that you should avoid violence whenever you can. But if you can't, [[NoKillLikeOverkill deploy overwhelming force.]] She considers it MamaBear training.
* {{Transsexual}}: Of all the Kimbas, she's the only one who didn't get the physical change. [[spoiler: She gets it later, but not through mutant powers.]]
* {{Yandere}}: A (probably) nonromantic version towards Tennyo. Between her initial UndyingLoyalty to Tennyo, her later [[DealWithTheDevil demon mark]], and her mildly sociopathic traits it's more or less inevitable. She considers an earnest threat of [[DisproportionateRetribution decapitation]] to pranksters interfering with Tennyos date to be a restrained response...[[CrazyAwesome and then instead strips them naked]] [[MistakenForGay and covers them in pink glitter.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tennyo]]
!!Tennyo (Billie Wilson)
Flying blasting slicing regenerating Warper extraordinaire who looks rather like Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo! as a result of how she gained her superpowers. She's so powerful Headmistress Carson has invoked Section 33 of the Whateley Charter: No student is to engage her in combat under any circumstances outside of formal instruction.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She's ostracized because people hear 'Section 33' and think 'dangerous, homicidal, wantonly-murdering psychopath'. Those who get to know her usually quite like her.
* AndIMustScream: Fey locks her in another dimension during a sim, and after the flashback caused by the Waters of Memory, she recalls having been put somewhere she didn't want to be, implying that it'd happened before.
* AnimeHair: It follows its own personal gravity. Her flight powers work on a similar principle by telling both gravity and inertia to take a hike.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: She can make her energy blasts and punches strike ''past'' a force field.
* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: in her origin story.
* BerserkButton: She's quite protective of Jade. And god help you if you try to harm her family.
* BigEater: It's implied that this is to compensate for a lack of proper nutrition, since her real diet is supposed to be demons.
* TheBigGuy: The main powerhouse of the team and the member with the most feared reputation.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Her organs and even her cells are different from a human's.
* BloodyMurder: Her blood has antimatter in it... But only sometimes.
* CaptainErsatz: Invoked. One character even dismissed her as a CosplayOtakuGirl before it became known that is her true appearance
* ClothingDamage: A recurring problem for her. Combat frequently leaves her nearly or fully naked because no conceivable supersuit can survive the damage her body can withstand. Unfortunately, she's also quite shy. Her HotBlooded nature prevents DefeatByModesty but that doesn't mean she won't be mortified when the fight is over. Phase eventually gets her underwear of last resort: a bikini made of three disks of pure adamantium barely big enough to spare her an indecent exposure charge.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands finding new things she can do]]. Flight, ability to ignore gravity and inertia, super-strength, the ability to move through force fields, the ability to produce some form of ''antimatter'', the ability to cast spheres of plasma, the ability to [[HealingFactor heal frighteningly fast]] from incredible injuries, the ability to form some sort of plasma "light saber", resistance to temperature extremes, she doesn't need to breathe air, etc. She also has thrown some sort of energy ball that temporarily acted like a neutron star, she may be able to teleport (although she was unconscious at the time), she may give off deadly levels of radiation when she's straining hard in a fight, and in one battle against over a hundred armed badguys, she [[RealityWarper warped reality]] all around her and opened up a rift in space-time. Oh, and she may be the avatar of some extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional demon. We don't know yet.
* CoolBigSis: Jade sees her this way.
* CulturedBadass: She's the Section 33 nightmare, who can take down anyone without raising a sweat... who works in the library and likes ballroom dancing.
* CuteLittleFangs: She's been told several times that her fangs are 'cute'.
* ExtremeOmnivore: She's eaten ectoplasmic spider-rats, [[EldritchAbomination voodoo wolves]], and the souls of demons. Averted when it comes to actual human food.
* EldritchAbomination / HumanoidAbomination The Stalker of the Stars/The Scourge/The Destroyer was one before it bonded with Billy to escape...something.
* FlyingBrick: She may have this as a subset of her powers, though it's easy to overlook underneath her flashy energy blasts/sword and reality-rending 'death blow'.
* FlyingFirepower: Flies, hurls plasma blasts, and more
* GlowingEyesOfDoom / RedEyesTakeWarning: Her irises sometimes go red when she's very angry. But actually, it's when they glow ''green'' that you ''really'' need to start worrying- that's when she's channeling the Star Stalker.
* AGodIAmNot: has this reaction when she discovers a cult worshiping the Star Stalker on a distant alien world: despite having both the [[PersonOfMassDestruction power]] and [[TimeAbyss provenance]] to qualify, she doesn't want to be worshiped. Eventually has a talk with [[PhysicalGod Sara]] about it, who tells her that divinity is what you make it.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: several very graphic examples.
* HealingFactor: Don't blow her limbs off, it just makes her mad. And the more damage she takes the faster it works to the point where it looks like a near-instantaneous restoration from an interdimensional backup.
* HeroicBSOD: In "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy"
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Many students are terrified of her and even the ones who aren't consider her the superheroic equivalent of a Hydrogen bomb: a weapon too powerful for any sane person to even contemplate using. That's probably a reasonable position given that the Star Stalker was created to deal with Galactic Level threats, not mere planetary ones.
* HotBlooded: As befits her anime-inspired origin, Billie is actually the calmest and gentlest of the Kimbas - but once you get her dander up all hell is out for noon.
* HotLibrarian: right down to the reading glasses.
* HumiliationConga: She got her job at the library after several previous student jobs went disastrously wrong, culminating a "haze the newbie" incident that accidentally ignited all of the flammable gases in the campus sewer system.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Tennyo has kept her teleportation powers secret from everyone, even Jade, because she wants to use it as an ace in the hole.
* LaserBlade: She can generate a "laser blade" made of anti-matter. How she makes anti-matter at will is a whole 'nother problem. The devisors and gadgeteers can't make working lightsabers, even though they all try, sooner or later.
* MarsWantsChocolate: Paid a fortune for a smuggled Hershey bar.
* MundaneUtility: Billie uses her gravity-warping "flight" powers constantly, she hardly even walks anymore. Phase has come up with a list of mundane utilities for Billie's powers, including repairing satellites in orbit and operating nuclear power plants from the inside.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Star Stalker/The Scourge/The Destroyer.
* NiceGuy: Billie's actually one of the nicest people you're likely to meet at Whateley, second only to Aquerna in that regard. She probably had the least amount of personal issues on Team Kimba after Lancer and Toni, until the incident that sent her into a HeroicBSOD.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bill's brother gave him what he thought was a food that induced hypnosis. It set the kitchen on fire, nearly killed Bill and ended up drawing the Star Stalker to him.
* NighInvulnerability: Thanks to her incredible HealingFactor.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Her higher end powers generate hard radiation as a side effect. And if the Star Stalker starts to come out, just existing causes her to start damaging reality.
** Eventually it's revealed that the Star Stalker was originally created as a magical WMD to fight Eldritch Abominations, in the form of an ArtificialPerson. The idea of this weapon loose on it's own and having developed a conscience is enough to terrify those who know about it.
* PsychicBlockDefense: She has developed an immunity to most, if not all forms of psychic influence, including prying telepaths, the voodoo-wolves' insanity aura, and Sara's lust aura. Especially in regards to the last two, this probably has to do with the Star Stalker being made to fight (and sometimes eat) demons and other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* RealityWarper: While most of her powers are ultimately based in this (for example, flying by ignoring gravity and manipulating her acceleration), they don't normally go into reality-rending territory unless she loses control of them.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Billie apparently lacked a strong male gender identity because becoming a girl was no big thing after the initial confusion. Either that or it was wiped out in her transformation.
* ShrinkingViolet: Billie is actually quite shy until she gets to know you, which other people see as aloof and feeds her "All Of The Other Reindeer" problems.
* StoryBreakerPower: Or she would have, if she weren't so psychologically vulnerable. And even she has opponents she's weaker against via [[TacticalRockPaperScissors rock-paper-scissors]][[note]]see her fights against Matterhorn and Jabberwock in Boston Brawl 2; Matterhorn's power had the side effect of deflecting her usual plasma blasts, and she couldn't even lay a finger on Jabberwock. Memeo, meanwhile was simply able to utilize her powers better than she could do to long experience with power copying and an extensive background in Power Theory.[[/note]].
* SupernaturalGoldEyes
* SuperToughness: She takes hits very well, even before you take her HealingFactor into account. At one point it's implied that she's survived a nuclear explosion.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Billie barely survived her powers awakening, though if you want to get technical, she actually didn't. The 'Billie' we see is the Star Stalker endowed with Bill's personality, and its implied that the Star Stalker may have actually [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilated his soul]].
* {{Tsundere}} shy, retiring, bookish, and God help you if you mess with Jade.
* UnusualEars - anime style.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Phase]]
!!Phase (Ayla Goodkind)
An intersexed density-changer who can become intangible, super-dense, or anything in between. Comes from a very rich family of notorious mutant haters who reacted very poorly to his mutation.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A huge number of people ostracise him for being a Goodkind, or for being intersexed.
** 'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has even more people ostracise him after rumours spread that he personally kicked Chou off the team. It gets better, though.
* BadassBookworm
* BenevolentBoss: He spends a lot of time criticising unfair and unkind work policies, and it's made clear that he'd be a great boss to work for.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Get him angry enough, and all bets are off. He has so many weapons at his disposal that you'd be lucky if he ''just'' killed you.
* BlessedWithSuck: At some point, he's going to be Circe's apprentice. And every single apprentice Circe has had died. Horribly. And Circe has always had the paperwork arranged ''before'' the death.
* BlueBlood: breeding tells, even though his family kicked him out
* BreakTheHaughty: His origin story.
* CharacterDevelopment: Early on he is often disturbed by his fellow Kimbas due to his anti-mutant indoctrination. The implications of Jade's powers in particular disturb him greatly until he learns their limits. He hides it well and he gradually gets over it as they win him over.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: A variation. There's the Ayla before Diane Castle started writing for him and the Ayla after. Chronologically though, they exist ''simultaneously'', because the Diane Castle version is a {{Retcon}} via AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Jadis and Mal. Inverted with Tansy, who bullied him.
* ChivalrousPervert: He looks so much like a girl (because of his mutation) that he can shower in the girls' bathroom... and look at everyone else in there. On the other hand, he's really considerate of his girlfriend and his female friends, even if he's only about 15 and the girls in the bathroom haven't asked him to leave (yet).
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Has some degree of claustrophobia. This is pretty reasonable, since he's: been experimented on (i.e. tortured) by a MadScientist while trapped in a box the size of a coffin; nearly suffocated underground; been trapped in a pitch-dark sewer with no flashlight while being attacked by a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie army]]; and his own powers mean he can pass through solid objects ''but he can't see or breathe while he's doing it''. Ouch.
* CrazyPrepared: Though it isn't always crazy enough.
* CrimefightingWithCash: Only 14, still a freshman at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], and already doing this. He's paying Whateley inventors to build weapons for him, including a utility belt that has nearly zero external volume but is chock full of HammerSpace, a specialized throwing dart made out of ''depleted uranium'', and the latest thing is a collapsing tactical baton. Made out of adamantium. With osmium for weight in the tip. It cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars. He is planning such things as courses in marketing and patent law to allow inventors (as opposed to corporations) to profit from their work. Apparently, many villainous gageteers are [[CutLexLuthorACheck just in it for the money]]. Then there's the job creation work he's planning, including work based on MundaneUtility. He's realized that persecuted minorities are more likely to commit crimes when they're persecuted (and thus poor).
* CulturedBadass: Raised from an infant in the wealthiest family on earth, he's intelligent, urbane, well-read, and loves opera and classical music. He's a gourmet, and a brilliant businessman. This makes him utterly unprepared to be a high school girl in a SuperheroSchool.
* DeadpanSnarker: Does this with references most of the rest of the cast doesn't get. [[SmallReferencePools They return the favor]]. Girlfriend [[StuffedInTheFridge stuffed in a fridge]], anyone?
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As an appearance trope, it's more suited to pre-Diane Ayla, who was characterized by a 'punk' look.
* FakeWeakness: Phase deliberately included a fictional vulnerability to dark chocolate in his file on the theory that if anyone tried to "poison" him with it he'd know that his medical records had been hacked.
* {{Fallen Prince|ss}}: Once a member of the richest family in the world, he becomes a mutant and gets kicked out. He ends up at Whateley Academy hanging with the RagTagBunchOfMisfits that is Team Kimba.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Phase is a superpowered mutant rather than a PI, but in the stories in which he is the narrator, he is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] commentator, very intellectual, well read, even for a teenager who has been to all the 'right' private schools, far too knowledgeable about food (even if he's spent his life as the heir to billions eating the finest food anywhere), and still associates with the other rich kids at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy.
* FoodPorn: A big part of his stories.
* GreenEyes: Though the 'spitfire' aspect of this trope mostly applies to pre-Diane Ayla.
* GuileHero: He is genuinely concerned for people and sincerely wants to help them, and at need is ready to fight toe-to-toe with demons, monsters and supervillains, but Phase is at heart a {{Chessmaster}} whose preferred realm is espionage, trickery, manipulation, bribery and financial pressure. As a ''friend'' puts it: "No one else quite has that ''when I rule the world I will not permit such behavior'' attitude".
* HeroicBSOD: In "Ayla and the Tests".
* HonorBeforeReason: While he's a really reasonable person, sometimes he goes off on tangents.
* HurtingHero: Even more than the other Kimbas, Ayla suffers nightmares, PTSD, panic attacks, and sometimes goes into week-long depressions. His powers scare him and he blames himself for his screwed up appearance.
* IHaveNoSon: His parents disown him after he manifests.
** His siblings (except Heather) still care about him, though.
* IntangibleMan: when he wants to be.
* InternalizedCategorism: refers to himself as "a revolting freako intersexed mutant" though he does get somewhat better as time goes on.
* Irony: Ayla's transgender sister and her friends act like reverse HeteronormativeCrusaders until Ayla calls them out on it.
* ItIsDehumanizing: his mother started calling him "it" the minute he manifested.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Mutants ''are'' dangerous, do a lot of damage and need to be curtailed in certain cases. While the methods of curtailing need close examination and refinement, Ayla's not wrong when he says that the Knights of Purity are a needed force, though their crypofascist appellation is worrisome.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Having been raised by bigots, he had incredibly harsh things to say about his sister's choice to transition. About five minutes later he takes off the jumpsuit he was imprisoned in and finds out he's in a similar situation.
** On a meta level, his transgender Body Image Template is a direct result of his bigoted upbringing, combining the two things he was raised to hate.
** On yet another level, it turns out that his mutation resulted from a supervillain running a deliberate LaserGuidedKarma gambit on his family and his younger brother is the next target.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: Walking through objects? How boring. Being able to disintegrate matter by phasing back to solid within it? Not boring! Being able to fry electricity and knock people out by being partially solid? Definitely not boring! Being tough enough to slough off most attacks? Really not boring! Being able to trash the [=BITs=] of Exemplars and Shifters and turn them into monsters? Argh! To emphasize how "harmless" Phases' powers are, the only other person who has a similar powerset is Tinsnip, one of the deadliest assassins in the world.
* LonelyRichKid: Surprisingly averted; despite the high workloads the Goodkinds have, they all make it a point to eat dinner as a family and do things together.
* TheOneGuy: Him and Hank, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Constantly grumbles about being the OnlySaneMan on Team Kimba, but really doesn't seem to mind playing the straight man to their lunacy. He's also genuinely hurt when he has to play the designated bad guy in the "Kimbas expel Chou" gambit, though he hides it well.
* OddFriendship: with Harvey "Mega-Death" Calloway, the school's worst victim of [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Diedrick's Syndrome]].
* ParentalAbandonment: When Ayla manifested his parents promptly handed him over to the Whateley's universes' equivalent of Dr. Mengele for experimentation. His mother calls him "it". You could say he has issues.
* PrideBeforeAFall: He describes his experiences as being "hit with a double-barrelled shotgun loaded with irony", and now realizes that on some level, he deserved it.
* PronounTrouble: Identifies as male, but mostly goes by female pronouns. The out-of-universe explanation for this is that Ayla's gender was retconned in long after other characters and the narration had been referring to him as 'she'. In-universe "Ayla" was supposed to be a SecretIdentity to prevent gay bashing which he ultimately discarded.
* ProperlyParanoid: between the Goodkind haters and the Gay Bashers, Ayla gets attacked twice as often as anybody else on campus.
* SelfDeprecation: Ayla constantly puts himself down, especially in the field of fighting- the rest of Team Kimba are so good he feels he's at a major disadvantage. Never mind the fact that he beat Chaka, nearly beat Lancer, beat Tennyo, and has managed to either win, get even if he didn't win, or get out of every fight he's been in. He's also one of the most potentially destructive members of Team Kimba. But he just can't get past that "revolting freako mutant" thing.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Born into the richest family on earth, and used to having his own way all the time. When he turns into a mutant and gets kicked out of the family, he finds out he doesn't know how to do anything, including use a can opener or a microwave. He has a coronary seeing what a real grocery store is like.
* TheSmartGuy: Probably the smart one, even if Chaka seems to be best at coming up with ideas in the middle of a fight. Phase is over-educated for a freshman in high school, is most likely to use the big words, and is a smart aleck too.
* StraightMan
* TeenGenius: Naturally; he's a teen financial genius, having been learning the ways of business and high finance roughly since he was able to talk.
* {{Transvestite}} Ayla has a large lingerie collection. He admits it's twisted, but he really loves the feeling of high-quality silk.
* UnclePennybags: He thinks nothing of spending money on his friends (when they allow it), or on anything he sees as a good cause. Justified, especially after 'Ayla and the Birthday Brawl', when he's the richest teenager on the planet minus some who are going to inherit fortunes.
** Still justified beforehand, as Ayla has money in the millions, and most of the expenses are in the thousands. He's spending interest from the bank account.
* UnreliableNarrator: Semi-intentionally. He's got a pretty good opinion of the Goodkinds and their works, but canon has proven that they definitely aren't what Phase thinks they are- and he knows it. Take everything he says about them with a grain of salt. It's justified because they are his family, and he's only spent about a year discovering the differences.
* UtilityBelt: The first character to buy one. The creator, "Mobius", had made a belt that had pockets that worked like [[BagOfHolding Bags Of Holding]]. Phase paid Mobius several times the asking price, pointed out how much the uber-UtilityBelt was really worth, and offered to help market the device for a small percentage of the huge amounts of profit he would be making for Mobius.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: '''''Averted'''''. Phase is incredibly aware of the problems with his powers and how they can be countered, so he spends a ''lot'' of time buying or asking people to make new weapons for him.
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[[folder: Bladedancer]]
!!Bladedancer (Chou Lee)
Handmaid of the Tao, superb martial artist, and wielder of the legendary sword Destiny's Wave.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Destiny's Wave.
* ActionGirl: thought she's just getting used to the "girl" part
** ActionGirlfriend: To Molly.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Not really, she's an agent of balance, but history tends to dwell on the spectacularly bloody incidents.
* BlueOni: To Toni's Red.
* BreakingTheFellowship: 'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has Team Kimba pretend to ditch Chou so she'll appear to be more vulnerable.
* TheChosenOne: And is not happy with what the Tao requires
* ClosetKey: for Gateway
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Convenient for the Tao, maybe. Chou still has not gotten over her father's death.
* CulturedBadass: The immortals are specifically grooming her for this role.
* DifferentForGirls: The most prominent example as the least transgendered member of Team Kimba.
* GreenEyes
* HealingHands: Can use Taoist "chi" healing techniques through "laying on of hands".
* HeroicBSOD: In "To The Mountain".
* KiAttacks: She mostly uses her Ki for mobility: moving a great distance with a single stride, jumping, and sometimes WallCrawling. She's starting to use it for [[HealingHands healing]], and once she used it to induce a heart attack.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Demons kill your family, you may have to kill your friends
* LimitedWardrobe: Most of her clothing consists of mandarin tops and yoga pants, for practical reasons
* MissingMom:
* OrphansOrdeal: After she was turned into a girl and her father was murdered by a demon she had to make her way to Whateley on foot, walking all the way from Tennessee to New Hampshire, and she was attacked several times along the way.
* [[spoiler: {{Polyamory}}: She, Molly, and Dorjee eventually decide to try this out.]]
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Of the reluctant admission variety. Chou has the hardest time with her GenderBender aside from the self-loathing Ayla, probably because she's a baseline human transformed through magic instead of a mutant altered by their BIT.
* SixthRanger: Becomes one to Team Kimba until she leaves to set up her own team.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: When the Tao decides to step in.
* TalkingWeapon: Destiny's Wave.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: gradually evolving into one.
* UpgradeArtifact: Destiny's Wave.
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