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| 5 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 6 | * BigBrotherIsWatching: [[spoiler:Pandora reveals to Sarah that Edward has been reporting every detail about her friend group to his agency. This is for a benevolent reason though since the full disclosure protects them from people who would otherwise demand a closer watch on them. Still, as Pandora warns, this ''does'' mean every ability they have that Edward knows about is in a file that those with access or the right skills can read]]. |
| 7 | * CastFullOfGay: Pretty much all of them are Queer of one type or another. Justin and Nanase are homosexuals. Ellen identifies as a bisexual homoromantic. Susan, Ashley, and Diane are attracted to both men and women though their sexual orientations aren't quite explicit, and Susan doesn't like getting involved in the actual physical acts herself. Tedd is genderfluid, while Elliot has come to enjoy turning into a woman, suggesting his gender identity isn't quite cis-male. Sarah is primarily attracted to men but has on occasion shown an attraction to women. Grace was described as a Tedd-sexual in the early comic, but there are hints of an attraction to Sarah. |
| 8 | * CastHerd: Starting from the ''Sister'' arc, there are eight main characters, however, they are split in half based on which school they went to. Elliot, Tedd, Sarah, and Susan all go to Moperville North. Grace, Nanase, Justin, and Ellen all go to Moperville South. The addition of Ashley and Diane to the main characters does not change this dynamic, as both have their own friend groups they hang out with more. |
| 9 | * FireForgedFriends: What cemented the main eight friend group as a friend group is that the eight of them worked together to take on the Goo in its second attempt to kill Tedd. |
| 10 | * TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: After the establishment of the main eight, some of them hang out more with certain members of the group than others. Sarah and Ellen for example hardly ever spend time around each other, something Grace noticed by the events of the NP storyline ''[=MV5=]''. |
| 11 | * HomeBase: Tedd's house, aka his VIP father's house, is the default location where the main characters get together to discuss supernatural things. Tedd's dad put a lot of security into their house, so it is safer to have such discussions there than at any of the others' homes. It is also where they choose to have their parties if they decide to use magic or alien tech for fun without risking the wrong people knowing about it. |
| 12 | * StupidSexyFriend: Outside the actual romantic relationships, the main characters feel physical attraction to each other and generally consider such attraction an inconvenience, if they manage to acknowledge them to begin with: |
| 13 | ** A common occurrence with Elliot and Tedd is that they feel attracted to each other when one or both are female, more rarely when both are male. |
| 14 | ** Susan is attracted to both Justin and Elliot, and acknowledges this, but doesn't want to even consider acting on it. |
| 15 | ** Justin once demonstrated an attraction to Tedd when he showed up at the comic shop with a new look, which made him decide he really needs to find a boyfriend. |
| 16 | ** Sarah is attracted to Grace but vehemently calls herself at most a 1 on the Kinsey scale and is in denial about her attraction. |
| 17 | * TrueCompanions: Starting from the Goo incident and everything else that happened since then, the main cast developed strong bonds with each other and push comes to shove, they have each others back. |
| 18 | * TheWatson: As of ''New and Old Flames'', because of all the incidents that they get involved that requires the intervention of TheMenInBlack of which Mr. Verres is a part of, Mr. Verres becomes willing to explain certain things to them on a need-to-know basis. |
| 19 | * WeirdnessMagnet: The friend group as a whole has a particular tendency to get involve in magical or otherwise paranormal incidents. It's bad enough that when Elliot calls Edward about fighting a monster during the events of Sister 2, Edward goes OhNoNotAgain. |
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| 22 | [[folder:Elliot]] |
| 23 | !!Elliot Daniel Dunkel |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/da8f044e6a7437ad8f5fd2d4cc6c51d8.png]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | ->''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-01-28 "Because it sounds like one big, awkward moment."]]''\ |
| 28 | \ |
| 29 | |
| 30 | One of the first characters introduced in the comic, Elliot started off as an everyman and foil to Tedd's devious antics. Since then he developed into a well-meaning, if somewhat inhibited, sufferer of ChronicHeroSyndrome who would do anything for his friends and loved ones. He attends Moperville North with Tedd, Susan, and Sarah. He's Tedd's best friend and [[OppositeSexClone Ellen's]] brother/father/mother. |
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| 32 | * AllMenArePerverts: |
| 33 | ** ''Major'' aversion. He ''was'' at the very beginning of the comic, but then [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marched On]]. |
| 34 | --->'''Elliot:''' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-13 I fail at perversion]]. |
| 35 | ** He does [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1743 have a libido]], it's just that his [[UsefulNotes/IdSuperegoAndEgo Superego]] is very good at thwarting it because he now has a very good idea of what it would feel like to be the object of any of his own fantasies. |
| 36 | * AmicableExes: Remained on good terms with both Sarah and Nanase after their respective breakups. |
| 37 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Does this to [[spoiler:Magus]], asking him "If the only issue is strength, can't you just make default physical forms stronger without making them male?" His "That's just the way we do things" response is rather telling. |
| 38 | * BadLiar: As both [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-12-15 Damien]] and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-11-17 Mr. Verres]] noticed. |
| 39 | -->'''Elliot:''' It's the price I pay for being one of the good guys. |
| 40 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 41 | ** Towards Ellen, despite her being his HalfIdenticalTwin[=/=]OppositeSexClone who technically has more life experience (thanks to her dream life) than he does. And there is the fact of Ellen possibly being considered [[PapaWolf being his daughter]]. |
| 42 | ** As the title of [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-06-02 this strip]] puts it, Fraternal-Paternal-Maternal Instinct. |
| 43 | ** Actual quote from Dan Shive: "Do not threaten or otherwise endanger Ellen. Elliot will break you." |
| 44 | ** Elliot himself describes it in the simplest terms [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-15 here]]. |
| 45 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With Ashley. They're both {{Extreme Doormat}}s who have a lot of trouble voicing what they're actually feeling. |
| 46 | * BlessedWithSuck: Elliot's original shapeshifting powers only allowed him to turn into a catman, which hurt. Then he developed the power to change into a girl, which he dislikes, and all of the powers he's developed since are girl or girl-related transformations as well. [[spoiler:At least the super heroine can fly]]. Tedd theorizes that Elliot's magic will keep giving him girl-related transformations until he convinces himself he's satisfied with the girl forms he already has. However, this is not the only theory in play. See HiddenDepths below. |
| 47 | * BloodKnight: According to [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-235 these]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-236 two]] strips, he believes himself to be one. He openly admits to enjoying [[BullyHunter fighting people who attack other people]], and being [[NiceGuy Elliot]], he thinks that this makes him ''evil''. |
| 48 | * BerserkButton: |
| 49 | ** Gay-bashing. He gets worked up about it to the point that Grace needs to [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1758 glomp him to keep him from losing his cool.]][[note]]The blonde in the strip is Elliot, just shifted to burn off magical energy.[[/note]] |
| 50 | ** Bullies in general. Which led him to become a... |
| 51 | * BullyHunter: He mostly abandoned this habit, with a few [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-04-16 exceptions]] like [[RescueRomance Justin's case]] -- though he's still [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-04-29 ready to jump in]]. Goes part and parcel with his Chronic Hero syndrome (see below) |
| 52 | * ButtMonkey: He gained the ability to turn into a girl, then had to start doing so several times a day or risk it happening on its own. [[spoiler:He gained a super-powered alternate form, but it's ''female''. He gained secret identity forms (tying in with the superhero form), and at least one of those is attracted to his gay friend (who, by the way, is attracted to male Elliot)]]. The author is on record that he enjoys tormenting Elliot. |
| 53 | * ChickMagnet: Let's see: |
| 54 | ** Sarah: They had a relationship lasting quite a while [[spoiler: before they broke up]]. |
| 55 | ** Nanase: Despite the fact that she's a lesbian, albeit in denial at the time, she liked Elliot for his personality. Later, she forms an OfficialCouple with his OppositeSexClone. |
| 56 | ** [[spoiler:Susan: She got attracted to Elliot through their various interactions]]. |
| 57 | ** [[spoiler:Diane: Just watching Elliot on the reviews he does with Susan was enough to make her fall for Elliot]]. |
| 58 | --->[[spoiler:'''Diane''']]: You will be mine. Oh yes. You ''will'' be mine. |
| 59 | ** [[spoiler:Ashley: Like Diane, watching Elliot on the reviews he does with Susan was enough to make her fall for Elliot. [[CasualKink Seeing him transform into a girl didn't hurt either]]]]. |
| 60 | --->[[spoiler:'''Ashley''']]: I guess this means that Elliot guy is available. ''[[{{Tsundere}} Not that I'm interested in some funny athletic minor celebrity guy who's openly sensitive in his movie reviews]]''. |
| 61 | ** He has a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1766 lucid dream]] portraying himself as this. |
| 62 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: |
| 63 | ** Susan once pointed out that Elliot would save his own worst enemy. Elliot denies it after envisioning himself allowing Damien to fall off a cliff, then promptly protects the worst bully in the school from a supernatural creature. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because even though Elliot hates Tony for his bullying, Tony is still just a regular guy and [[{{Muggle}} not a part of the magic world]] the main characters are finding themselves in. [[spoiler:It's later established that they were friends in 3rd grade, so that may have also played a part.]] |
| 64 | ** His selfless personality is slightly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in later story arcs. It's noted that this makes him ignore his own wants and not make decisions. |
| 65 | ** Note that the end conclusion of these tendencies getting ''more extreme'' can be seen in the form of, for sake of example, [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou Emiya]], who ''doesn't have wants'' aside from helping other people. And Elliot already has shades of his character. One can understand why people would want him to get over this trope at least to some degree. |
| 66 | ** When explaining to Tedd that Elliot is a very bad example of what ''most'' people would do if they had magic, Mr. Verres said "Seriously, that kid's ridiculous. I think he was born wearing a Boy Scout uniform." |
| 67 | * ClarkKenting: His three secret identities are also based on superhero comics; mainly mild-mannered (Superman, again), angsty goth (Symbiote-era Spider-Man), and party-girl (Iron Man). |
| 68 | * CluelessChickMagnet: Has attracted the attention of several girls, ''without'' realising it. His own sister has this to say: |
| 69 | -->'''Ellen''': I'm betting the day Elliot actually ''tries'' to attract women will be the day that they collectively lose interest in him. |
| 70 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: After breaking up with Sarah, he starts to have a lot of {{Erotic Dream}}s. His subconscious [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1770 (in the form of Tedd)]] make him realize that he just wants a girlfriend [[spoiler:who's not like a sister to him]]. |
| 71 | * TheDitherer: When he sees someone in danger he's swift and resolute, and if given a specific task he works diligently on it until he's seen it through to the end... but he's ''terrible'' with making decisions or taking initiative. If left to his own devices, he usually puts decisions off for so long that he forgets he was supposed to make them in the first place. |
| 72 | * EmbarrassingSuperpower: Almost all his spells involve turning into a girl in some fashion. |
| 73 | * EroticDream: After a long time, he gets a dream of him and Susan and started to freak out. Ellen calms him down, telling him to see if it was just "teenage hormones" or it really meant something. Elliot goes for the hormones...[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-14 at first]]. After he and Sarah break up, he ends up having [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-12-10 more dreams]] until he meets Ashley. |
| 74 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: With [[spoiler:Susan]]. Not only do each of the main characters have at least some inkling of it, but [[spoiler: the [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2013-04-23 in-universe fandom for their movie review show ships them.]]]] |
| 75 | * FamedInStory: |
| 76 | ** His Cheerleadra identity is well-known throughout Moperville and beyond, even if very few people realize he's Cheerleadra. |
| 77 | ** Revealed to be well-known at his school, due in no small part to his ChronicHeroSyndrome and the stuff he gets up to with [[MadScientist Tedd.]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1731 Wall running]] probably doesn't help him keep a low profile. It's implied he does this kind of thing a lot without noticing. Also [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1732 that thing]] with the [[NoodleIncident griffin asking for directions]]. |
| 78 | ** Much more mundanely, he has a review show with Susan, which is how a lot of people know him. |
| 79 | * FirstLawOfGenderBending: Leads to PowerIncontinence, InvoluntaryShapeShifting, VoluntaryShapeShifting, you name it. |
| 80 | ** SecondLawOfGenderBending: Played with. Tedd theorizes Elliot's magic will continue to provide him with girly transformations until it finds one that satisfies him, putting Elliot in the awkward position of having to accept some aspect of femininity in order to escape the rest. |
| 81 | ** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Elliot's female transformations usually affect his clothes as well, apparently because he just can't help visualizing girls in "girly" clothing. |
| 82 | * FlyingBrick: [[spoiler:As "Cheerleadra"]], he gains a set of standard superhero abilities. |
| 83 | * GenderBender: Almost all of his spells involve him turning into a woman. |
| 84 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Routinely shown in the way of naivete, such as when he doesn't understand either the idea that [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2017-05-22 a person would trick a superhero into revealing themselves by preying on their heroic idealism]], or that [[http://egscomics.com/comic/party-033 a cop would go into law enforcement for any reason other than to help people]]. |
| 85 | * GoshDangItToHeck: When in his mild-mannered girl form, he finds himself suddenly unable to use crude swearwords. [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2010-11-03 Although he can still swear if he makes a conscious effort.]] |
| 86 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Magus takes over his body which [[TransformationOfThePossessed turns his hair white]]]]. |
| 87 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Elliot is more willing than anybody in the cast to defend others (see ChronicHeroSyndrome), but doesn't actually notice this himself. Instead, he worries that he does [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1576 the right things for the wrong reasons]]. Perhaps the most noticeable when Ellen (who has only a day to split off from Elliot) is surprised at everything he's willing to do for her. |
| 88 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 89 | ** It is implied that Elliot's "wooden reserve" is due to his fear of losing control of an extremely [[HotBlooded violent temper]]. |
| 90 | ** The actual plan was for Elliot to have a SuperpoweredEvilSide that would emerge if he did go all-out. However, WordOfGod has said this has been dropped. |
| 91 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-07 A little introspection]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-08 reveals a lot]]. |
| 92 | ** Elliot's depths have even been known to surprise ''Ellen'' on occasion. Depths can't get much more hidden than that. |
| 93 | ** Also worth mentioning: Ellen (his opposite-gender clone with his memories) [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2346 has never suffered from gender dysphoria.]] |
| 94 | * HotBlooded: though he ruthlessly suppresses it, resulting in his notorious "wooden reserve", because he considers it a character flaw |
| 95 | -->'''Elliot''': Have I ignored non-violent solutions because I wanted a fight? |
| 96 | * HumanShifter: He can transform into almost any person he can imagine, along with his clothes. It only works to become a girl, though. |
| 97 | * IncompatibleOrientation: With Justin. Possibly subverted with Elliot's [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2348 later]][[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2349 revelations]] concerning both gender identity and sexuality. |
| 98 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Thanks to Elliot's improper Awakening, he suffered from magic buildup. If he didn't use magic frequently, the buildup would force him to turn into a girl at inopportune times. He gets past it eventually. |
| 99 | * KamehameHadoken: True to the Anime and FightingGame roots, his first magical power is "Tamashii Gekido" ("Soul Fury") -- a short-range force blast [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom hurling the opponent away]]. Accompanying it by [[CallingYourAttacks screaming]] may or may not be necessary, but the gesture is, as Elliot discovered while bound. |
| 100 | * KungFuWizard: As a result of Anime-Style Martial Arts training, Elliot can use magic in conjunction with martial arts in combat. |
| 101 | * LastHetRomance: He was the last of a [[ReallyGetsAround long]] [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces "Nanase's boyfriends list"]]. |
| 102 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: [[spoiler:Elliot, while describing to Tedd how he feels about Sarah when he is questioning his relationship with her, realised that this was the case with Sarah, paralyzing him with shock]]. |
| 103 | * ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Averted, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except for one mirror scene early on]]. Tedd even theorizes that Elliot's failure to "embrace" any of his girl forms is why his magic keeps giving him new ones trying to find one he will accept. |
| 104 | * MistakenForGay: After breaking up with ''two'' girlfriends (not at the same time) and remaining on friendly terms with them -- particularly after his breakup with Sarah is mentioned on his web series -- rumors start flying. Those rumours [[spoiler:had their credibility diminished [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1745 here]]]]. |
| 105 | * MostCommonSuperpower: Elliot's female forms tend to be well-endowed because his default female form was [[MaleGaze designed by Tedd]], and others differ only as much as he [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-23 concentrates on the differences]]. |
| 106 | -->'''Elliot:''' What does 'exorbitant breadth' mean and what does it have to do with my chest? |
| 107 | * MotorMouth: He gains one in his [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-06 party girl]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-08 form]]. |
| 108 | * MuggleMageRomance: He and Sarah, before they broke-up and before Sarah gained magical powers of her own. Happens again when he starts dating Ashley, although ironically, like Sarah, Ashley eventually stumbles into becoming magical herself. |
| 109 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Elliot has a talent for sensing things, capable of sensing when the Goo found steroids as early as the beginning of the story. |
| 110 | * NiceGuy: A few EarlyInstallmentWeirdness moments aside, Elliot is kind, generous and accepting to a fault. |
| 111 | * OnTheRebound: What his relationship with Ashley seems to boil down to. He starts dating her very shortly after his break-up with Sarah, claims after only two dates to love her even though he doesn't know her all that well, and his subconscious pointed out to him before that what he wants is just to date ''someone''. |
| 112 | * PainfulTransformation: He generally avoids using his catman form since transforming into it hurts like hell. He does get a pain-free version of the spell sometime off-panel, though. |
| 113 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Judging by [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=739 his choice of pajamas]], he's finally gotten used to sleeping in his female form. |
| 114 | * PowerIncontinence: For a long time after his Awakening, Elliot had to shape-shift several times a day to keep his powers in check. |
| 115 | * SecretIdentity: In addition to Elliot not liking the idea of everyone knowing he is [[spoiler:"Cheerleadra"]], the spell turning him into [[spoiler:a stock {{Superhero}}ine]] includes for this purpose three other (and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-15 also cliché]]) forms that provide an efficient disguise not dependent on his acting ability. He has a mild-mannered Clark Kent pastiche, a gloomy {{Goth}} girl, and a [[GenkiGirl party animal socialite]]. |
| 116 | * SeenItAll: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-02-11 Sort of]]. Most definitely. [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1732 And it never occurred to him that people might find him interesting because of it.]] |
| 117 | * ShipTease: [[spoiler:With Susan. Their friendship started to develop after he got hired in her job and started to spend more time together reviewing movies]]. |
| 118 | * ShoutOut: to the Superman mythos. |
| 119 | * SuperGenderBender: [[spoiler:His alter ego Cheerleadra, a FlyingBrick stock superheroine and one of the most powerful spells in the comic.]] |
| 120 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: He goes to a dojo which teaches a martial Arts style based on ''anime''. |
| 121 | * SuperPoweredEvilSide: |
| 122 | ** The comic initially planned for Elliot to be able to empower himself via "inner demons", but this was retconned due to being cliche and not fitting into the story very well. |
| 123 | ** [[spoiler: Elliot eventually figures out that he can boost his "Cheerleadra" superhero form by "going villain". As in, giving up self-restraint, which is also the difference between normal Elliot being a hero or just a bigger bully. The results are an EvilCostumeSwitch with RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver and nearly 2 times the stats of his base Cheerleadra form.]] |
| 124 | * UnfortunateName: Not by default, but [[spoiler:his superhero form]], "Cheerleadra", was unfortunately [[MemeticMutation named by the internet]] in-universe. |
| 125 | * VerbalTic: "Za?", generally said when he is nonplussed. |
| 126 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Thanks to a side effect of the Dewitchery Diamond, he can turn into a girl or a catman at will. The shapeshifting tends to be pretty imperfect since he has to imagine all the details, but once he's taken a form he can return to it without incident at any time. He eventually gets other forms too, most notably [[spoiler:Cheerleadra]]. |
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| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Tedd]] |
| 131 | !!Tedd Drew Verres |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d6e1f6e5e0d233890eea236ed6854ec6.png]] |
| 134 | [[caption-width-right:165:[[labelnote:Click here to see their post-''Squirrel Prophet'' arc look.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teddy_3.JPG[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | ->''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-08-18 "Those gaming peripherals were for SCIENCE!"]]''\ |
| 137 | \ |
| 138 | |
| 139 | One of the first characters introduced in the comic, Tedd is a self-avowed pervert and mad scientist. Despite being one of the least magically capable characters in the main cast, their extensive research on the subject makes them the resident expert on the finer workings of magic. Originally written as a sex maniac, their relationship with Grace and exploring their gender identity have caused them to mellow out. They attend Moperville North with Elliot, Susan, and Sarah. |
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| 141 | |
| 142 | * AccidentalPervert: [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=205 Has seen Sarah naked]]. Multiple times. |
| 143 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: While their enchantment glove [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-07-03 didn't actually let anyone but a Seer create wands]], it ''did'' [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/balance-071 let Tedd precisely program spell effects on a computer]]. |
| 144 | * ACupAngst: They're left feeling [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/layers-033 a little inadequate]] with their default female form after meeting Lavender and not being sure that her ImpossibleHourglassFigure isn't all natural. The next page shows them hanging out in a much curvier form than usual. |
| 145 | * AntiMagic: As part of their [[spoiler:Seer powerset, they have ''extremely'' high spell resistance and an innate ability to disenchant themself. Their spell resistance is so high, they subconsciously caused a wand that was supposed to measure their magic potential to give a false negative, ''as a baby''.]] |
| 146 | * AsianAndNerdy: Downplayed; they're ''definitely'' a nerd, but a lot of that seems to come from their non-Asian dad's side of the family. |
| 147 | * AuraVision: [[spoiler:They can see magic if they concentrate hard enough. Unlike Luke's abilities, they can figure out more than just someone's magic potential, but that person has to be using their power at the time. They can figure out how the magic works, but they can't use it themself like a wizard. It's so effective, that it even works on ''itself''.]] [[spoiler:It is later revealed that this is part of their status as a Seer. They can see how spells work and then apply that to wands, allowing other people to cast those same spells.]] |
| 148 | * BadassLongcoat: They have their own labcoat that they use to count as whether or not something is "Labcoat Worthy" |
| 149 | * BlindWithoutEm: Tedd [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-22 tries to use this]] as an explanation for why they wore glasses. The truth is that they [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-23 made them feel more masculine]], along with having [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-24 built-in night vision, x-ray, zoom, and video recording capabilities]]. |
| 150 | ** While this is averted when they get ''[[http://egscomics.com/comic/party-085 actual]]'' glasses, as they're just slightly nearsighted, avoiding this is part of why they ultimately decide not to try and use magic to correct their vision, they have a hypothesis that doing this too often over the long-term could result in their eyesight being ''worse'' when not enchanted. |
| 151 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Huge pervert. Repaired the TF Gun with little help and has subsequently been examining the fields of magic with a science twist. |
| 152 | * ButNotTooForeign: Tedd is half Japanese, half white (at least as far as we know). |
| 153 | * CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: {{Inverted}}. By the Sisters 2 arc, Tedd finds he can't act perverted towards anyone ''except'' Grace. |
| 154 | * ChekhovsGag: In one of the earlier strips, [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-02-26 Tedd yells "Aaaa! My eyes! My beautiful eyes!"]], but we later [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-21 discover that they really do have beautiful eyes]]. |
| 155 | * ChivalrousPervert: |
| 156 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-17 So much]]. As [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-05 acknowledged]] even by Susan, they're generally a nice guy, but... |
| 157 | --->'''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-01-27 Elliot]]:''' Whether or not Tedd takes interest in something is a good way to determine whether or not it should be censored. |
| 158 | ** As you can see from "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-04-23 A Disturbing Look into the Mind of Tedd]]", thry're secure in the knowledge that their girlfriend isn't against it. She even ''catalogued'' their fetishes (and access to the TF gun obviously allows her to personally implement a considerable part of this): |
| 159 | --->'''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-08-07 Grace]]:''' ...and [[FreakyFridayFlip couples switching bodies]] is #37 on your [[{{Fetish}} list of weird things you like]]. |
| 160 | * ClockOfPower: He uses toy watches to "program" a single transformation spell for a human wearer to use, i.e. one to lengthen hair, one to become a humanoid cat person. They effectively work like highly-specific wands, supposedly drawing from the wearer's energy. However, it is later revealed the watches only work in Moperville due to the town's ambient magic, [[spoiler:and that Tedd was only able to do this because they are a seer with the ability to create wands.]] |
| 161 | * ClosestThingWeGot: [[spoiler:Arthur offers him a lab and funding to help research and develop magic in order to make it safer for people to use. Arthur admits he doesn't really want to use Tedd, but he needs a scientist who is a seer, and their only other choices are Arthur himself, who is not a scientist and wants to retire, and Van, a foreign child]]. |
| 162 | * CloudCuckooLander: They have [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-02-02 their moments]]. |
| 163 | * CongruentMemory: This is why they claim they're better at cooking while female. Tedd only cooks for themself when their dad is out of the house, and they're usually a girl when their dad isn't around. |
| 164 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Purple hair and purple eyes, as seen in [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=720 this]] colored panel and {{lampshaded}} in its commentary. |
| 165 | * DoingInTheScientist: ZigzaggedTrope; Tedd's technology has been changed from their own homebrew pseudo-science, to being from aliens, to running on magic, to running on energy that's essentially magic but still studied like a science. This has resulted in Tedd's TeenGenius status disappearing after the early comic, only to return in full force much later. |
| 166 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: For a long time, they were very self-conscious of their girly face, not to mention their (apparently) androgynous voice. It's to the point where their friends sometimes can't tell whether they're a girl or not. They also had long hair originally because, at least according to them, people would blame the hair for their girliness and assume they'd look more manly without it. |
| 167 | -->'''Tedd:''' [[RunningGag Either I'm a narcissist, or I'm just that girly]]. |
| 168 | * EmbarrassingMiddleName: They consider "Drew" to be one. As Dan points, out, [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-03-06 Middle Names are Always Fun!]] |
| 169 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:While they're superficially magically impaired, Tedd's slowly discovering that they have very abnormal magical abilities after all. And, using their {{Magitek}} gauntlet, they can power themself up into a SuperMode]]. |
| 170 | * EvilMeScaresMe: For all that Lord Tedd hasn't done anything in a while, the shadow he casts looms large over Tedd as he considers what kind of person he ''could'' become. Tedd thinks that Lord Tedd is who he is without friends or restraints. |
| 171 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Tedd [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1846 cut their hair and changed its color to pink]]. They affirm it's a way to own and [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1847 embrace their own girliness]] (meaning that they no longer are ashamed of their androgyny) but also because they're rebelling at their dad's negation of exposing magic to public eye. |
| 172 | * EyesOutOfSight: The character is introduced with OpaqueLenses that hide their eyes. When their eyes are revealed, they explain that they doesn't actually need glasses, they just used them to hide their girly eyes from bullies. |
| 173 | * FamedInStory: |
| 174 | ** The magical community, at least, is surprisingly aware of Tedd. Jerry could identify them just from Susan's brief description. He claims it's only because he's the son of BigGood Mr. Verres, though this doesn't come across as completely convincing. [[spoiler:It's implied strongly it's because of their mother's status, not their father's. Jerry noticeably pauses before claiming Mr. Verres as the reason. Their dad also is very clearly hiding any info about their mother from him, even demanding Nanase not tell Tedd the reason Not-Tengu attacked her was because she's Noriko's niece, saying to claim it was because she's related to him instead]]. |
| 175 | ** It turns out that they're also well known among [[spoiler:the Uryuoms on Earth, in part because of their development of clone forms that they could use, and more recently because of the [[TheMagicComesBack Uryuoms regaining access to magic]] due to the aftereffects of Tedd's talk with the Will of Magic, albeit unintentionally on Tedd's part.]] It should be noted that Tedd currently has ''no idea'' about this, due to Edward hiding it out of concern about how Tedd would react (the [[spoiler:Uryuoms]] only know about it due to an Immortal revealing it to them), but Tedd will find out inevitably due to [[spoiler:Edward and Lavender's upcoming wedding, which will have a lot of Uryuom guests attending]]. |
| 176 | * FirstLawOfGenderBending: Played with. Thanks to their magic mark, Tedd can now have both male and female default forms. [[DudeLooksLikeALady Only they and Grace notice the difference.]] Other enchantments affect them relative to their current default form, but can change their default form if they really want them too. |
| 177 | * FreakinessShame: They're upset by their father's reactions to their constant gender bending. |
| 178 | * GenderBender: |
| 179 | ** Likes to become a woman for certain tasks, like cooking [[PowerPerversionPotential or showering]]. Literally ''all'' the [[GenderBender gender bending]] in the series that doesn't involve Dr. Germahn's office or the Uryuom is ultimately their fault; according to WordOfGod, he's the only person (other than villains) Ellen will [[TransformationRay zap]] without permission. |
| 180 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-01-24 At times it's hinted]] that Tedd may be a full-blown (albeit self-closeted) [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans person]]. [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1896 Eventually,]] Grace brings up that Tedd might be gender fluid (confirmed by WordOfGod in the commentary the following day). They didn't know that transness (or any gender identities outside of cisgender) even ''existed,'' due to never hearing it properly discussed outside of references to their TF gun, and assumed that their own feelings were the result of the magic influence in their life. |
| 181 | ** Due to Pandora's involvement, Tedd can now [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1941 alter the gender of their default form based on which one they wish to be most at any point in time.]] The more they want to be one gender, the easier it is to become it. |
| 182 | * HeroicBSOD: |
| 183 | ** Their mom leaving when they were a kid had this effect on them, to the point that Nanase thought Tedd was mute for a time. |
| 184 | ** [[spoiler:They also don't take finding out that magic is a SentientCosmicForce that wants to keep TheMasquerade up and running very well, to Voltaire's delight]]. |
| 185 | * HiddenDepths: During Grace's birthday party, they are revealed to have a pretty decent singing voice when genderbent, due to practicing in the shower. |
| 186 | * IAmWho: Turns out Lord Tedd is enough of a threat in his own universe that he conquered the planet. [[spoiler:It's been heavily implied that Tedd could go the same way]]. This seems to be because Tedd [[spoiler:combines AntiMagic abilities with unique {{Magitek}} technology]]. |
| 187 | * IfItsYouItsOkay: Grace as a male Tedd seems to be the only guy female Tedd will allow themself to be attracted to. This was frequently accompanied with the phrase [[RunningGag "Either he's a narcissist, or he's just that girly."]] [[spoiler:Though there have been hints that, meanwhile, they more comfortable around male Grace, and also that Tedd in their female form might be subtly attracted to Elliot.]] |
| 188 | * IJustWantToBeBadass: Due to a mutation, Tedd can't gain any magical abilities. They're left somewhat jealous of their friends, especially Nanase. In part, this is why they designed their {{Magitek}} items. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that Tedd ''does'' have magic, but just a very different kind.]] |
| 189 | * InSpiteOfANail: There is always a Tedd in every universe. [[spoiler: Given that at least two Tedds have independently built {{Magitek}} gauntlets, this may not be a good thing]]. |
| 190 | * ItsAllMyFault: Blames themself for their parent's divorce. [[spoiler: Raven says it's not their fault though]]. |
| 191 | * LGBTAwakening: Tedd didn't know being genderfluid was a thing until Grace taught them about it. |
| 192 | * LoopholeAbuse: |
| 193 | ** [[spoiler:Tedd does generate basic levels of magical energy, like most living things. Their gauntlet siphons small amounts of this off at a time, which is useless to Tedd normally since they can't use magic. But [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-01-21 when it gives all the energy siphoned back]] [[SuperMode in one burst...]]]] |
| 194 | ** [[spoiler:They can also get magic marks, since it technically doesn't count as their own spell and he doesn't need as much magic energy due to the overload in ambient energy.]] |
| 195 | * {{Magitek}}: The prime source of it in comic. The TF Gun runs on it, [[spoiler:as does their gauntlet]]. |
| 196 | * MadScientist: |
| 197 | ** They began with mixing human and Uryuom technologies, but now conducts their own research on their possible {{Magitek}} applications. |
| 198 | --->'''Tedd:''' [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2010-09-28 How did I accidentally turn myself into a girl?]] I was fixing a ''toaster''. |
| 199 | ** As they've gone on, they've moved away from transformations mostly and is instead investigating magic in general. |
| 200 | * MissingMom: Exactly the hows and whys of Tedd's mother is one of the biggest ongoing mysteries of the strip, although it's been hinted that Tedd believes she left because of them. |
| 201 | -->'''Tedd:''' Nobody is leaving for Europe and then never visiting because it's too expensive even at Christmas. |
| 202 | * MuggleBornOfMages: Tedd's parents are Noriko Kitsune and Edward Verres, two powerful wizards. A child of two wizards is guaranteed to be another wizard, but Tedd registered as completely magically inept. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-07-20 "It just doesn't make any sense"]]. With time, the problem became worse as their circle of friends includes more of powerful folk and they meet more powerful troubles. After [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-12-24 an object lesson]] on why they could ''need'' power, the quest for [[{{Magitek}} an alternative solution]] is [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-07 well underway now]]. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a subversion. The magic-detecting device they used gave a ''false negative'' because Tedd is a Seer with high magic resistances and ''resisted'' the device]]. |
| 203 | * MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: Despite being one of the least magically capable characters in the main cast, their extensive research on the subject makes them the resident expert on the finer workings of magic. [[spoiler:Subverted later on with the reveal that Tedd is in fact magically-gifted and specifically has gifts to make it easier to understand magic]]. |
| 204 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Via RuleOfFunny, Tedd has the ability to sense whenever Grace and Sarah have moments of sexy awesomeness or nearly have that kind of moment. |
| 205 | * NerdsArePervs: Tedd Verres is a bespectacled AsianAndNerdy MadScientist who has a huge transformation kink (helped by their working TransformationRay) and proudly calls themself [[HornyScientist a pervert]]. But CharacterDevelopment through their love interest Grace eventually makes them only pervy towards her and no one else (which she is perfectly okay with). |
| 206 | * NiceGuy: In spite of their massive perverted tendencies, Tedd is mostly pretty friendly. |
| 207 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 208 | ** It's implied in pre-CerebusRetcon strips that they've done '''weird''' stuff to Elliot over the years, to the point that Elliot learned a [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-11-24 self-hypnotic suggestion]] so he wouldn't FreakOut whenever he went to Tedd's house. |
| 209 | ** Sarah and Tedd have apparently accidentally seen each other in their birthday suits. On multiple occasions. |
| 210 | * OfficialCouple: With Grace. |
| 211 | * PatchworkKids: Their father has blue hair, and their mother's niece Nanase has red hair, so Tedd's purple hair is genetic. |
| 212 | * PhraseCatcher: Whenever they get mistaken for a girl when presenting as male, someone will almost always comment that they are "just that girly." |
| 213 | * PrettyBoy: Much to their dismay. Doubles as Bishoujo due to their constant [[GenderBender gender bending]]. |
| 214 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: Wore them to look more masculine. Ironically, when they actually get prescription glasses, they're first shown wearing them while female. |
| 215 | * RunningGagged: In comparison to some later characters like Noah, Tedd really just isn't that androgynous and the old gag has been retired. Then brought back with a redesign. [[spoiler:Then killed when Tedd is officially declared GenderFluid.]] |
| 216 | * ShrinkingViolet: They barely spoke when they were younger. That changed when they received the TF Gun and started experimenting with their gender, which gave them a lot more confidence. |
| 217 | * SilenceOfSadness: When Tedd was younger and traumatized by their mother abandoning them, they were [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-08-27 so withdrawn that Nanase thought they were mute]]. |
| 218 | * TheSmartGuy: Is knowledgeable in science and magic to the point of being able to create magic watches that can cast spells for the user. |
| 219 | * StepfordSmiler: In a cast of a ''lot'' of people who've undergone tragic pasts, Tedd is the most upbeat and heavily suggested to be the most miserable, at least before meeting Uryuoms. |
| 220 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Tedd [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-07-13 with shorter hair]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-07-16 looks very similar]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-06-29 to short-haired Nanase]]. |
| 221 | * StupidSexyFlanders: Grace seems to think that the reason Tony picks on Tedd is because he's secretly attracted to them, which seems to be confirmed when Tony sees Tedd (really Grace in Tedd's form) without their glasses and freaks out. |
| 222 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Him being a Seer is due to having the right ancestors in his family tree]]. |
| 223 | * TheTease: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-09-06 When Elliot is asking Tedd]] why they want to be seen as sexy at Grace's birthday party, to which they explain that others treat you differently when they want to be with you. Elliot translates that to Tedd being a tease, to which their only response is "Yes!!!" |
| 224 | * ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Discussed and averted. Tedd claims that they're a better cook when female. [[JustifiedTrope They justify this]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-07-28 in this strip]], explaining that they're just [[CongruentMemory used to cooking as a girl]] rather than this being some exclusive female trait. |
| 225 | * ToUnmasqueTheWorld: One of their big goals is to safely bring magic to everyone. [[spoiler:Finding out that magic itself is opposing him hits him hard]]. That said a few pages later [[spoiler: He manages to convince magic that due to internet and humanity's large population, everyone's going to eventually find out in the next couple years even if it changes how it works, that it's pointless to hide. This has a side effect though of reactivating various old magical systems]]. |
| 226 | * TransTribulations: |
| 227 | ** Comparatively downplayed as they haven't encountered outright hostility. That said, while they're comfortable in their genderfluidity around their friends, he held off on telling their father because of his [[WantedAGenderConformingChild vague disapproval to Tedd's previous genderswapping]]. |
| 228 | ** When Diane comes to visit, Tedd (in female form) is worried about what she might think. They even [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-074 think about swapping to male form]] before [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-075 Elliot comforts them]]. Even after that, Tedd is still nervous. |
| 229 | -->'''Tedd''': Diane is just one girl I've never met who's going to be in my home and might judge me for being who I am!\ |
| 230 | '''Grace''': That's still scary, isn't it.\ |
| 231 | '''Tedd''': ''Like a dragon with a chainsaw.'' |
| 232 | * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Their alternate version in Ellen's universe, at least. |
| 233 | %%** VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Beta!Tedd with Female!Elliot. |
| 234 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Susan. Until [[spoiler:the school uniform arc, where Tedd and Susan became normal friends in a touching scene]]. Not that it prevented other "sissy slap fights" [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-03-16 later]]. |
| 235 | * WardrobeMalfunction: [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=205 This is a possible result of dynamic morphs]], which has happened many times to them. |
| 236 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: Taking off their glasses usually elicited this reaction from the people nearby. |
| 237 | * {{Workaholic}}: Tedd sometimes gets obsessed with his experiments to the point of neglecting everything else. However, his friends and especially girlfriend make sure he doesn't overwork himself and do other things like relaxing. |
| 238 | |
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| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Sarah]] |
| 242 | !!Sarah Brown |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c471de35c4469b199fc3407ad4d04771.png]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | ->''[[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=288 "I react to paranormal stuff in one of two ways: curiosity or sass.]] [[FantasticallyIndifferent You hurt my eyes. You get sass."]]''\ |
| 247 | \ |
| 248 | |
| 249 | Sarah was the third character introduced in the comic, a childhood friend of Elliot and by proxy Tedd, as well as Susan's best friend. She's sweet and EndearinglyDorky, but also can be more than a little mischievous. Sarah is [[TheTeamNormal the most "normal" one]] of the group without the flashy magical talents of her friends, something she's quietly jealous about. She attends Moperville North with Susan, Tedd, and Elliot. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | |
| 252 | * AccidentalPervert: [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=205 Has seen Tedd naked]]. Multiple times. |
| 253 | * ACupAngst: Sarah's about average by any objective criterion, but her big sister Carol and then associating with people who have the MostCommonSuperpower as a ''literal'' superpower apparently [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-06-13 makes her feel]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-23 a bit inadequate sometimes]]. |
| 254 | * AmbiguouslyBi: There have been a few allusions and comments that point toward Sarah not being fully straight. |
| 255 | ** In "Squirrel Prophet," she imagines an aspect of herself as a sexy vampire intent on "seducing" her into building a vampire-themed deck for a CollectibleCardGame tournament. Vampire Sarah even lampshades the double meaning of "seducing": |
| 256 | ---> '''Vampire Sarah:''' After all the time you've spent as a bisexual boy, you ain't exactly "straight" anymore, either.\ |
| 257 | '''Sarah:''' Not ''that'' thought again. |
| 258 | ** In the [=NP=] arc "[=MV5=]," Sarah, reflecting on Grace's complete [[InnocentFanserviceGirl lack of body shame]], goes moony-eyed and thinks, "She's amazing." When Ellen interrupts her train of thought, Sarah blurts out, "Baseball!", the same topic Nanase and Ellen had once claimed to each other they'd been thinking of while actually fantasizing about Grace. |
| 259 | ** The arc in general is full of her finding Ellen and Grace distractingly sexy for various reasons, enough that she actually pauses to assess her feelings. [[IgnoredAesop And comes out in denial,]] [[IfItsYouItsOkay despite her consistently finding Grace very attractive.]] The ImagineSpot she has of [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=419 Grace stripping naked in her form - complete with a more accentuated art style and seductive expression - speaks volumes.]] |
| 260 | ** Her counterpart from the "Grace-a-Monsters" [=NP=] story is in a relationship with that world's Diane. |
| 261 | ** A Q&A comic confirms that she is bisexual, preferring men, though it is a bit more complicated than that apparently. |
| 262 | * ADayInTheLimelight: She gets a lot more focus in later arcs, and developed her own personal arc about being jealous of her friends with magic. |
| 263 | * AscendedFangirl: She's apparently a fan of [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]], and picked up his snarky attitude to the supernatural nonsense she gets involved in. [[spoiler: And eventually is given a magic mark.]] |
| 264 | * BadassNormal: Only normal person in the group, pretty much. [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=288 Does surprisingly well.]] |
| 265 | * BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Kind of. Pandora gave her a magic mark for a subtle but powerful ability, and pointed out that it's the kind of magic people kill over because of the secrets it can reveal. And THEN she goes on about how she'll need to use it a lot if she wants a chance of ever awakening, and that she has to keep it secret from Mr Verres.]] |
| 266 | * CantCatchUp: To the magical cast or her very successful sister. [[spoiler:Now that she has a Pandora-given mark and magical spell that lets her freeze time in a perfect simulation of her surroundings for information gathering, she's on her way there!]] |
| 267 | * CovertPervert: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-04-15 She once wants to make out with Elliot in a janitor's closet at school]], after she transforms at Grace's birthday party [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-01-09 she ogles he naked male body]], she is [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-06-05 interested]] in KinkyRoleplaying with Elliot, she [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-05 fantasizes]] about being Franchise/{{Superman}}'s girlfriend Lois Lane, and she [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1805 enjoys imagining Elliot and Tedd accidentally transform while kissing]]. And look at where Sarah imagines staring [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2014-04-24 when she pictures herself and Tedd naked due to transforming back from werewolf forms]]. |
| 268 | * DeadpanSnarker: More so in the early days, but took a back seat to Susan when she showed up, though now she often serves as a foil for Susan. |
| 269 | ** She has reached Dresden Level Snark. |
| 270 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She hit Jerry for attacking Susan; Dan admits it was needless, but still... |
| 271 | ** DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu[=/=]PalsWithJesus: After the events of [[spoiler:Question Mark, she's on friendly terms with Pandora... although she doesn't know who she's actually dealing with. Technically closer to 'Did You Just Impress Cthulhu With Your Sheer Snark And Convince Cthulhu To Tutor You'.]] |
| 272 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: She ends up with a Magic Mark that allows her to create a perfect simulation in her mind of the world around her for several miles. In this simulation she can switch between bodies freeze time and really do anything she wants, if she does nothing it becomes an OP secret gathering power.]] |
| 273 | * GoThroughMe: Tried to defend a helpless Elliot from Hedge, but was smart enough to go for help when Hedge gave her the opportunity. |
| 274 | * GreenEyedMonster: For a while, her begrudging Elliot's and Nanase's magic gets really bad -- to the point where she imagines magic backlashing on Nanase (in a harmless but unflattering manner), accuses Elliot of being a showy jerk even though he ''has'' to use his magic at times so it doesn't get out of hand, and all but forbids him to use one particular magic form because it displeases her personally. She realizes this about herself though and tries her best to not actually show that envy. |
| 275 | %%* GroinAttack: Used it in "Painted Black". |
| 276 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde, and she's willing to help whenever she can, deeply loyal to her friends, and empathetic enough to offer even an unstable, potentially dangerous Immortal comfort and encouragement. |
| 277 | * {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: She wants to break up with Elliot, but is upset when [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2013-04-11 he decides to breaks up with her first]]]]. |
| 278 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: |
| 279 | ** Envies the magical cast, especially Elliot for both his magical powers and his MostCommonSuperpower when he's in female form. |
| 280 | ** Gets to the point that she's willing to be [[NoOSHACompliance Tedd's lab assistant]] in effort to gain said powers. |
| 281 | ** Later after finding out about Magic Marks she adds checking herself for one to her morning routine, and has a major {{Squee}} moment when she realizes that one has appeared. |
| 282 | * JumpedAtTheCall: She spent weeks checking herself every morning for a magic mark, and when she finally got one she immediately did everything she could to figure out what it did. |
| 283 | * MoralityPet: [[spoiler: After a strange start, it's implied that she's becoming one to Pandora]]. |
| 284 | * MuggleMageRomance: She and Elliot, before they broke-up and before Sarah gained magical powers of her own. |
| 285 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 286 | ** Sarah and Tedd have apparently accidentally seen each other in their birthday suits. On multiple occasions. |
| 287 | * NotAMorningPerson: Fond of sleeping late on weekends and occasionally shown to grouse and mutter about getting up early. |
| 288 | * OddFriendship: [[spoiler:With Pandora. One is about as average and ordinary a person as you can get whose main weapon is sass. The other is a powerful immortal who's lived countless centuries and was for a long time one of the series' primary villains. Yet in a short time the two became very close with Sarah being devastated when she heard about Pandora's reset and wanting to help Sarah awaken being one of Pandora's motivations to try and retain as much of herself as possible.]] |
| 289 | * PowerTattoo: One shows up on her back and is discovered during her routine morning check for magic marks, and it's in the shape of a "?" |
| 290 | * TheRoleplayer: During the [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Magickal Cards]] tournament, Sarah is more interested in [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1853 creating a narrative]] with her deck than just using the most powerful cards (although when she gets a ''really'' powerful card, [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1870 she's torn]] until she comes up with [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1871 a narrative that lets her use it]]). She goes on to play Sam, who shares her attitude enough to [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1968 use it against her]]. |
| 291 | * ShipperOnDeck: At times teams up with Grace to "play cupid" with other characters, notably setting up Ellen with Nanase and Justin with Luke. |
| 292 | * SiblingRivalry: Sarah is very jealous of her big sister Carol; it appears to be a one-way rivalry based on what we've been shown so far. |
| 293 | * {{Squee}}: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-05 Does this when she finds out that Elliot's a superhero]]. |
| 294 | * StraightMan: Was this early in the comic but as more characters have gained development it becomes less prominent. |
| 295 | * StrawFeminist: See DeadpanSnarker |
| 296 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:She has a bloodline affinity that is difficult to detect, but allows her to create a mental simulation]]. |
| 297 | * TheTeamNormal: The only member of the main cast without any sort of magical ability. It's a considerable source of angst for her, and only get worse as time goes on. [[spoiler: This trope is finally (and spectacularly, complete with a {{Squee}} that can be heard from space) {{averted}} at the end of the ''Pandora's Box'' arc, when she gains a [[PowerTattoo magic mark]] courtesy of Pandora.]] |
| 298 | * ThreesomeSubtext: With Tedd and Grace. |
| 299 | * {{Tsundere}}: In the beginning of the comic, she acted rather shrill. But she soon softened into the rather normal person she is now. |
| 300 | * UnfazedEveryman: She only felt uneasy [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-11-25 about transforming herself]], and that was mostly due to an earlier bad experience. How unfazed? [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=288 This unfazed.]] |
| 301 | * WardrobeMalfunction: [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=205 This is a possible result of dynamic morphs]], which has happened many times to her. |
| 302 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: At first glance her power mark is this. She can create a perfectly accurate simulation of her surroundings for several miles, but only in her head. All in all there doesn't seem to be any practical use other than having your very own sim world where you can make anything happen. |
| 303 | ** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: But if you don't change anything, the perfectly accurate recreation can become very handy when you wish to gain information. If someone had a secret file in their house, you could go there in the simulation and read the file with no one being the wiser because you never went anywhere. It's also hinted that you can simulate people's personalities and reactions, get a sense of their powers, and similar. Then there's the fact that [[YearInsideHourOutside it speeds up her perception by a good bit]], which if nothing else gives her more time to think. There is also the added bonus that if Sarah uses the power mark once or twice a day, the chances of eventually awakening are good... [[spoiler: Oh, and 'Box' has promised to help Sarah awaken if constant use of the mark doesn't do the trick.]] |
| 304 | * YaoiFangirl: Starts to show hints of such tendencies [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1805 in]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1809 later]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1901 comics]]. She's not even above shipping [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1897 Elliot and Justin]]. |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Grace]] |
| 309 | !!Grace T. Sciuridae |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[quoteright:138:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b1ae2dc7c36fb9abeb007a2c7cdfbd50.png]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | ->''[[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2010-11-19 "This is one of those things I'm apathetic about that everyone else finds creepy, isn't it?"]]''\ |
| 314 | \ |
| 315 | |
| 316 | Grace is a part-human, part-alien, part-squirrel shapeshifter who lives with Tedd and his father. Entire story arcs have been dedicated to her DarkAndTroubledPast. Despite her history (and possibly being the most powerful character in the main cast), she maintains a positive, bubbly attitude and a strong belief in pacifism. She attends Moperville South with Ellen, Nanase, and Justin. |
| 317 | ---- |
| 318 | |
| 319 | * ActionGirl: ''[[SuperpowerLottery Hell. Freaking. Yes]].'' Just because Grace is a big ball of {{Moe}} in ''no'' way stops her from kicking ass when she gets going. |
| 320 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Grace's gene-mother was unambiguously African-American, but Grace's features are rather more mixed (particularly her long straight hair), probably because of the admixture of other genes (including those not even of this world). WordOfGod is that [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=249 he doesn't have any plans to clarify further]] and intends to keep it ambiguous. |
| 321 | -->'''Nanase''': What... ethnicity ''is'' Grace, exactly?\ |
| 322 | '''Tedd''': Mixed. Very, very mixed. |
| 323 | * AntiRegeneration: Her claws in Omega form have a venom that counteracts Damien's {{Healing Factor}}. |
| 324 | %%* TheAtoner: She's getting better, but still has episodes. |
| 325 | * BadassAdorable: Grace is a cheerful girl whose cute in all her main forms, and she's so powerful that Shive has to jump though narrative hoops to prevent her from having a StoryBreakerPower. |
| 326 | %%* BeastAndBeauty: Inverted. |
| 327 | * TheBerserker: When well and truly pissed off, she defaults to her SuperSoldier conditioning and morphs into this, ferociously and relentlessly attacking whatever's causing her stress until it's completely obliterated. The climax of ''Painted Black'' is essentially Grace entering a literally UnstoppableRage against Damien after the latter threatens her friends one too many times. |
| 328 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 329 | ** She doesn't like to fight, but if [[BerserkButton her friends are threatened]], you're ''dead meat.'' Her vehemence on this subject is enough to worry three [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-06 uber-powerful anime-style martial artists]]. |
| 330 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=262 Her zombie survival strategy]] is simply "give me a [[{{BFS}} claymore]] and stand back as I kill things." |
| 331 | * BigEater: Fueling her superhero-caliber powers requires [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-12 lots of calories]], apparently. |
| 332 | * BizarreAlienSenses: Grace's antennae give her [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tsos-16 enhanced awareness]] of her surroundings, letting her "feel" things without seeing them. It mostly helps with her shapeshifting, but can cause SensoryOverload in a crowd. |
| 333 | * BreakTheCutie: Being confronted with her past throughout the ''Painted Black'' arc was ''not'' kind to her emotional state. She's recovering gradually, but is visibly shown to still be struggling with residual issues long afterwards. |
| 334 | * BreastExpansion: As a shapeshifter, altering her chest size is no big deal, and she discusses with Greg whether it would be a good idea to just go completely flat during fights. Greg is too uncomfortable with the conversation to give her an answer, and next time she's fighting, her chest is still at its normal size. She later admits she alters her bust just to mess with the boys at the comics shop. |
| 335 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Is very ditzy and eccentric and has little idea of proper social norms, however, she is very smart and capable of stuff like programming the [=TF=] Gun. |
| 336 | * CainAndAbel: Defining her physical relationship with Damien is... complicated, but their dynamic closely resembles that of an older brother and younger sister, making him the Cain to her Abel. Ironically, ''Grace'' was initially created to kill ''Damien''. |
| 337 | * CannotConveySarcasm: The combination of her naivety, bubbliness, and DitzyGenius moments sometimes makes it hard for people to tell whether she's being sarcastic or genuinely suggesting something. In the storyline "Jestful Statement" she experiments with [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/jestful-03 prefacing what she says with her intended tone]] like the elcor from [[Franchise/MassEffect]] in order to avoid being [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/jestful-01 mistaken]] for being LiteralMinded. |
| 338 | * CastFromStamina: Early on, tapping into her powers exhausted Grace quickly to the point of falling unconscious when she overworked herself. Training under Greg's tutelage has greatly improved her stamina, but she still struggles to match the endurance of fighters with more training (like Ellen). |
| 339 | * ChivalrousPervert: Of a sort. Grace is perfectly capable about frankly discussing aspects of shapeshifting that make even Tedd uncomfortable. |
| 340 | * CollectorOfForms: Grace gains new forms that she can access and even mix-and-match together anytime she's transformed by an outside force. Thanks to the TF Gun, she has enough varied human forms that she can alter her body in pretty much any way she wants and could make a decent facsimile of anyone's face with enough concentration (or help from her antennae) without needing their specific form. |
| 341 | * ComboPlatterPowers: [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Complete control over her physical form]], [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], SuperStrength [[FlightStrengthHeart and]] [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talking to animals]]. Some of her combat forms add immunity to fire to the deal. |
| 342 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 343 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-03-10 In-universe]], she's a composite of the SuperSoldier Shade Tail that the scientists were intending to create as well as the original Grace Sciuridae who had her DNA swapped in for the intended human donor by Dr. Sciuridae. |
| 344 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-07-16 From a meta sense]], Grace is a composite of two characters from the earliest drafts of EGS. Originally, Grace was the name of Sarah's cynical best friend, but wasn't developed much since she had little to do in the Painted Black arc. Shade Tail was at the time a separate character and needed a civilian identity, so Dan reused Grace's name and some of her appearance. Funnily enough, the original Grace eventually evolved into Susan. |
| 345 | * CuddleBug: Graces loves to hug her friends and will frequently help a friend in a sad mood with a [[TheGlomp quick warm hug.]] |
| 346 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She was created as a LaserGuidedTykeBomb in a laboratory, then was forced to watch as Damien slaughtered pretty much everybody she knew before abducting her. After spending years enduring God knows what hardships under his guardianship, she spent some time homeless and on the run before finally finding the Verres household and a place to live. |
| 347 | * DeadGuyJunior: [[MotherlyScientist Dr. Sciuridae]] named her Grace after his own deceased daughter, who's one of Grace's genetic mothers. |
| 348 | * DitzyGenius: What can you say about a brilliant but unworldly girl who mops herself into corners? |
| 349 | --> ''"Mopping is Tricky!"'' |
| 350 | * EmergentHuman: Although she was never quite a blank slate, her proper education was abruptly cut short, leaving her with NoSocialSkills and some rather major gaps in her history knowledge. |
| 351 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Three of her four female friends have shown that they find her incredibly attractive. |
| 352 | * {{Flanderization}}: Her bubbly innocent side was gradually cranked up while her role in the story was reduced until she appeared to be little more than a PluckyComicRelief character. Later arcs revealed she was putting up a bubbly front to cover some serious inner conflicts. |
| 353 | * ForgotAboutHerPowers: An unfortunate example occurs during the ''Death Sentence'' arc. Grace convinced Mr. Raven that she would be able to fly out of the boar's way if it turned violent. When it actually does start charging at her, she panics, tries to run, and trips, forcing Raven to shoot it. |
| 354 | * FlightStrengthHeart: Her powerset includes SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, flight, telekineses, VoluntaryShapeshifting, super-math, immunity to fire, a photographic memory... and talking to animals. |
| 355 | * GamerChick: She takes very quickly to the video games on Tedd's computer, and is frequently seen playing a [[ProductPlacement Nintendo DS]] to pass time. Several EGS:NP strips and storylines center around her playing various video games, or starring in a story that parodies a video game. |
| 356 | * GenkiGirl: Sometimes, but especially in the absence of angst. |
| 357 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Grace has a stuffed squirrel, hedgehog, guinea pig, and bat that represent her and her siblings. |
| 358 | * GoodWithNumbers: Apparently it's part of her Uryuom heritage, as they've evolved to be good with math so they can correctly proportion themselves when shapeshifting. As she says in [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1926 this comic]]: |
| 359 | -->'''Grace:''' Is this one of my [...] powers? Like being super good at math? ''The cube root of 857.375 is 9.5! KA-BLAMMO!'' |
| 360 | * HairAntennae: They're ''literally'' antennae used as a focus for her telekinesis and to [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-11-07 communicate with animals]]. They also help her sense faces and such in order to help her shapeshifting abilities. |
| 361 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Thanks to an alien race with a ''very'' strange breeding mechanism, she's technically a first-generation ''One Quarter'' human hybrid. ''And all four parents are different species''. She's most comfortable in part-squirrel shape and takes it whenever she's in private at home. Although she tends to be in full human form; not because she prefers it, but because of three reasons: |
| 362 | ** [[HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail Human furniture isn't made with tails in mind]] ([[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-01-19 see for yourself]]), |
| 363 | ** Her antennae come with additional senses that are convenient to "turn off" at times. |
| 364 | ** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Clothes on fur feels weird]]. |
| 365 | * HiddenDepths: It's been implied that Grace's bubbly, innocent exterior is a facade she maintains to repress the horrors in her past. And it's been [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-26 plainly]] [[WordOfGod stated]] that one never knows when she's genuinely bubbly and when she uses bubbles to mess with people for fun. |
| 366 | * HourglassHottie: In one panel, demonstrating her rather blase attitude towards transformation and body types. |
| 367 | -->'''Grace:''' Today feels like a "hippy" day. |
| 368 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: She had shades of this at first but quickly let go of this, and once she did start a normal school life with Ellen, Nanase, and Justin, she actually found it a little restrictive. [[spoiler:A later arc reveals that she wants to be free to be transformed om public]]. |
| 369 | * ImmuneToFire: Given to her to counter Damien's PlayingWithFire abilities. |
| 370 | * InformedSpecies: Her half-squirrel form doesn't really look anything like a squirrel aside from the tail, with CuteLittleFangs and giant pointy ears that aren't at all squirrel-like. {{Lampshaded}} in [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2011-12-16 this comic.]] |
| 371 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: At least until she's clued in to exactly the sort of impression she's been giving. Then it doesn't take her long to turn into a [[TheTease Calculating Fanservice Girl]], at least [[SingleTargetSexuality as far as Tedd is concerned]]. She [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1169 her tendency sometimes]]. |
| 372 | -->'''Grace:''' This is one of those things I'm apathetic about that everyone else finds creepy, isn't it? |
| 373 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Accidentally [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2014-07-15-2 suggests]] [[spoiler: Sam]], a trans man, is a BeardedLady.She learns about the issue after [[spoiler: Sam]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/tsos-01 tells her to look it up]]. [[spoiler: She later realizes how her knowing at all might be causing him stress]]. |
| 374 | * KeepingSecretsSucks: [[spoiler: Not only does she wish she could tell Sam about Sarah and Tedd, and vice-versa, but she's developed a strong desire to be able to be her hybrid form in public that even ''she'' wasn't fully aware of]]. |
| 375 | * LaserGuidedTykebomb: She was created specifically to defeat Damien. It worked, [[GoneHorriblyRight but the emotional fallout wasn't exactly healthy for Grace]]. |
| 376 | * LightningBruiser: When she really tries and is more or less in [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm her natural form]], she moves too fast even for [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-18 experienced]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-12-17 martial artists]] to track. She fights much like a [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-22 rubber cannonball with claws]]. |
| 377 | * MagicalGirlfriend: Grace is literally everything Tedd has wished for in a girl and more. |
| 378 | * MartialPacifist: She's developing into one as she tries to reconcile her pacifist nature with the unfortunate fact that, sometimes, there really is no peaceful way to resolve a situation. She's also taking martial arts lessons to learn how to subdue an opponent while inflicting the bare minimum of harm. |
| 379 | * MeaningfulName: Her last name is the Latin word for the family squirrels belong to. |
| 380 | %%* TheMessiah |
| 381 | * MindOverMatter: She has telekinetic powers, which first manifest [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=49 to fight off a mugger]]. They're stronger in her Legion forms, which is a problem early on since she has trouble controlling the latter. |
| 382 | * MundaneUtility: She often uses her incredible shapeshifting powers to play around with change blindness at work. Oh, and a side benefit of her transforming is that she doesn't have any body hair. |
| 383 | * NiceGirl: An extremely kind, pleasant, cheerful, and empathetic person. A [[PhraseCatcher common refrain]] from her friends is "[X] is one of the nicest people I know, and I know ''Grace''." |
| 384 | * NotBloodSiblings: Approaches this from the opposite direction as normal [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2005-04-27 here]], where she claims Mr. Verres as an adoptive father despite already dating his son/daughter. |
| 385 | * NotQuiteFlight: Approximating flight is one application of her telekinesis. |
| 386 | * {{Omniglot}}: As part of her Uryuom heritage, she can pick up any language in a matter of seconds. |
| 387 | * OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: She's a were-''squirrel''. |
| 388 | * PartialTransformation: Her status as a Uryuom/lespuko seyunolu lets her "mix and match" forms, combining aspects of different forms into various new forms. |
| 389 | * PingPongNaivete: In part, she still is a bit naive (she apparently doesn't know about Santa Claus); in part, she likes to play this even when she isn't. |
| 390 | * PowerCopying: Any shapeshifting effect used on her automatically gets added to her roster of selectable forms. This is another power she inherits from the Uryuom, who use it to better assimilate among alien cultures. Notably, wizard PowerCopying doesn't work on her. |
| 391 | * RaisedInALab: Grace is a classic example - a genetically-engineered human/alien/[[BeastMan squirrel]] hybrid created by a shady corporate lab. She was supposed to be trained into a badass ShapeShifting assassin that is prophesised to KillTheGod, but proved not to have the [[TechnicalPacifist temperment]] for it. What happened next is... complicated. Enough said, by the time she actually made good her escape, it wasn't really a laboratory anymore, and she is still only slowly learning to pick up on the cues and references of normal society. |
| 392 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Is currently the ''only'' character InUniverse, save for Pandora, who might not remember it after her "refresh", who knows about Sam's gender identity and magic mark]]. |
| 393 | * SingleTargetSexuality: Grace is exclusively devoted to Tedd (regardless of whatever gender or form the latter is currently in) and has been basically since the moment she started living at his house. The feeling's very much mutual. |
| 394 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She takes on this archetype as she becomes less naïve about sex and nudity, such as teasing Tedd with her former innocence and casually pointing out she and Raven could legally have sex. |
| 395 | * ShipperOnDeck: At times teams up with Sarah to "play cupid" with other characters, notably setting up Ellen with Nanase and Justin with Luke. |
| 396 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal: Her {{Omniglot}} abilities extend to non-linguistic purposes, including talking to animals. |
| 397 | * StepfordSmiler: Type 1. Her cheerful, bubbly exterior is partially (though not entirely) a way of pushing away the insecurities and emotional trauma brought on by her troubled past. Jerry gently reprimands her about that sort of behavior during the ''Hammerchlorians'' arc, reminding her that bottling up negative emotions is only guaranteed to go poorly in the end. |
| 398 | * StupidSexyFriend: Many of Grace's friends have either hinted or internally admitted attraction to her, but none of them pursue it since they know she's only interested in Tedd. |
| 399 | * SuperSoldier: Created to kill Damien. |
| 400 | * TheTease: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-05-19 Oh, yes]]. And uses her innate [[TheEmpath empathic]] ability, brains, and dedication to [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-05-14 know Tedd's tastes]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-08-07 better than Tedd knows himself]]. |
| 401 | * ThatCameOutWrong: Sometimes just doesn't realize the possible implications of what she's saying. Cue flustering her teacher[[note]]For context, he doesn't want to take a minor with him on a potentially dangerous excursion to a boar-infested forest[[/note]]: |
| 402 | --> '''Grace:''' I'm eighteen! I'm a ''major''!\ |
| 403 | '''Raven:''' As though ''that'' makes you an adult.\ |
| 404 | '''Grace:''' ''*enthusiastically*'' Legally, it ''does''. You can do all ''sorts'' of stuff with me!\ |
| 405 | '''Raven:''' You shouldn't say it like-- |
| 406 | * UnskilledButStrong: It has been acknowledged in-universe that her two only real options in a fight are [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath "Talk opponent down"]] and ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown "Tear opponent to freaking shreds"]]''. A running subplot since ''Painted Black'' has been the ongoing efforts of the rest of the cast [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman to rectify this]]. This [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-09-07 seems]] to be a major part of her behaviour patterns. |
| 407 | -->'''Grace:''' ...I am ''not'' horrible at volleyball!\ |
| 408 | '''Ellen:''' Grace, you either dive for cover or launch the ball into orbit.\ |
| 409 | '''Grace:''' That's how I deal with most of my problems. |
| 410 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: To a degree notable In-Universe. She starts out with human, squirrel, and human/squirrel forms, but can gain new forms with the transformation gun. Furthermore, after being hit with the gun for the first time, her flawed shapeshifting is perfected, and she gains the ability to not only (effectively) alter her mass, but to mix and match different forms into "Legion" forms. Over the summer, Tedd uses the gun to give her countless new human forms with minor variations; by combining them in a variety of ways, she can approximate pretty much any form. Not only could she pass as pretty much any human on the planet if she's careful, but she can alter her body on the fly, such as shrinking her chest (big boobs are annoying in combat), increasing her muscles (obvious benefits, though her telekinesis will be more useful once she practices), and just adjust other features because she feels like it (apparently she once turned herself into an HourglassHottie because it felt like a "hippy" day). |
| 411 | * WideEyedIdealist: Is this in all things including [[InnocentFanserviceGirl nudity]]. |
| 412 | * WillfullyWeak: Tends to hold back from bringing the full brunt of her powers to the fore on the fear that she'll lose control and hurt somebody by accident. This trope ironically gets ''worse'' for Grace after she finally taps into her full potential while fighting Damien, as the experience of doing so scars her so badly she actually cuts herself off from her magic entirely for a while. BoxingLessonsForSuperman with Greg eventually manages to ease some of her mental limitations. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Nanase]] |
| 417 | !!Nanase Kitsune (狐七瀬, ''Kitsune Nanase'') |
| 418 | %% Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16942755500.21711300 |
| 419 | %% Please don't change or remove without starting a new thread. |
| 420 | %% |
| 421 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/230828_partyofnanase_5.png]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | ->''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-02-18 "It's hard to look bad-ass when you're using fairy powers."]]''\ |
| 424 | \ |
| 425 | |
| 426 | Nanase is Tedd's cousin. Martial artist, magic user, all-around badass. Coming from an extremely strict and traditional household, she tends to over-think the potential problems until she makes a mountain out of a mole hill. Still, it's hard to find anyone less hard-working or dedicated than she is. She attends Moperville South with Ellen, Grace, and Justin. |
| 427 | ---- |
| 428 | |
| 429 | * AcademicAthlete: Nanase is an all-star student getting straight A+s while also excelling at martial arts and gym. For an example, look at the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]] of [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/tlod-014 this comic]]. Granted, she does have magical SuperStrength backing her up, but she's still more than capable athletically when her access to magic is cut off. |
| 430 | * TheAce: Discussed in-universe by Tedd. |
| 431 | -->'''Tedd:''' She's athletic, smart, trilingual, can kick the ass of anyone who messes with her, is ''theoretically'' good looking enough that most people are nice to her by default ([[NoYay I wouldn't know because she's my cousin]]) and when she's not burned out, she's an ''insanely'' potent magic user. |
| 432 | * ActionGirl: Apart from Grace and Super!Elliot, Nanase is by far the strongest out of the main cast, due to both her physical and magical prowess. As of the end of ''Sister II'', she temporarily burnt out her magic, but is still a very strong fighter without it. |
| 433 | * AllLesbiansWantKids: ...[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-03-02 someday]]. Not that it would be a really big problem given that her cousin developed a [[TransformationRay TF Gun]]. |
| 434 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Tedd, who admits during the ''Hair'' arc that he's jealous of her for a variety of reasons (her intelligence, DudeMagnet status, and martial arts skills, among others), but nothing more than the fact that Nanase has [[TheGift incredible raw magical talent]] while Tedd... [[MuggleBornOfMages doesn't]]. There's also tension between her and Sarah for many of the same reasons, with the added caveat that [[LoveTriangle Nanase used to date Elliot]]. |
| 435 | * AmazonianBeauty: Downplayed. She has noticeably larger biceps than other females, but Dan wants to avoid drawing her as overly muscular. |
| 436 | * BadBadActing: [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/wie-025 One NP strip]] reveals that she cannot act to save her life. |
| 437 | * BigEater: Capable of eating entire meals in mere minutes. She's noted to become highly irritable on an empty stomach. |
| 438 | * BrokenAce: Tedd's description of her under TheAce is only some of the things Nanase is good at, and all of it seems to come to her practically effortlessly. On the other side of the coin, though, she deals with serious self-confidence and honesty issues brought on by her mother's less-than-stellar parenting, and her initial attempts at proving her self-worth and becoming independent really only succeed in pushing away and hurting the people around her (Ellen especially). After ''Sister II'', she starts to rectify the "Broken" part, ironically as part and parcel of temporarily losing access to her magical powers. |
| 439 | * BroughtDownToNormal: During ''Sister II'', she seriously overuses her magic power while trying to save Ellen from Abraham, and ends up "burned out" for several months. She regains her powers while taking on Not-Tengu only to immediately burn them out ''again'' thanks to making use of her Guardian form to fight him, though that time it only lasts a day. |
| 440 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Even without her magic powers, she's still the top student at the dojo (a question of skill), and she can still bench press 160 pounds (she was pushing well over 200 when she had her magic). She didn't have any powers during the height of her "Meddling Teenager" adventures with Ellen and it's implied that she didn't have any problem kicking ass. |
| 441 | * ButNotTooWhite: Dan has darkened her skin color as of the ''Pandora's Box'' arc, more accurately reflecting her Japanese heritage. |
| 442 | * ColourFailure: She goes all white upon learning Ellen knows she's the one who picked her outfit for Grace's party. |
| 443 | * ComboPlatterPowers: She has an extremely varied cadre of spells at her disposal. Some examples include levitation, illusion-making, summoning clones, minor cosmetic {{shapeshifting}}, a strength boost, altering her clothes, and her [[SuperMode Guardian form]]. Even her most famous spell, the fairy doll, has its own combo-platter of flight, enhanced punches, creating glitter, and using marbles as a CrystalBall. [[spoiler:This is tied into her apparently being a princess by the standards of the griffins' world.]] |
| 444 | * CoolBigSis: Maybe not to the cast as a whole, but Akiko sure [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-03-17 seems to think so]]. |
| 445 | * CovertPervert: [[https://egscomics.com/comic/party-119 She covers her eyes when Grace goes nude at the party]], but is obviously peeking through her fingers. Ellen's sly, knowing grin makes it clear that Nanase isn't fooling her. |
| 446 | * CuteBruiser: A five foot four girl who can bench press 160 lbs -- and complains about it because she used to be able to press 200. |
| 447 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Assuming her Angel-form is this. While in it, Nanase's a FlyingBrick who can outfight the seemingly-unstoppable Abraham without even trying. Making use of it, though, ensures losing access to her magic for at ''least'' a day, potentially much longer if she's already weak beforehand. |
| 448 | * DeclarationOfProtection: She starts with trying to keep Ellen sane. Later her desire to save Ellen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-09-27 gives]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-10-03 her]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-10-08 a]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-10-09 new spell]]. |
| 449 | * DestroyingAPunchingBag: She destroys a punching bag at the Anime Style Martial Arts dojo while working through the stress of losing a fight with Grace's brothers and being attracted to [[ClosetKey Ellen]]. |
| 450 | * EffortlessAmazonianLift: Can shove around couches unassisted when asked for it. |
| 451 | * EmbarrassingSuperpower: {{Downplayed}} in the "Sisters II" arc. While the new spells she's getting (a spell to let her sense how many people are looking at her, a spell to let her swap out the clothes she's wearing with another set, and a semi-autonomous "decoy summon") are not particularly embarrassing in and of themselves, she's a bit unsettled to note that all her new spells seem designed for someone who needs to hide things and sneak around. |
| 452 | * EverybodyKnewAlready: By the time she actually comes out to her friends, Tedd is the only one who doesn't know. |
| 453 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Starts out having red hair, which [[PowerDyesYourHair turns black]] as a symptom of her [[BroughtDownToNormal burnout]] at the end of ''Sister II''. Subsequent arcs see her learning to accept herself as a person in the light of the loss of her magical abilities. After regaining her powers (and red hair) during the climax of the ''New Year's Eve'' arc, she settles on a mix of red and black, symbolizing her character growth. Although by the time of "Title Pending", she's back to her old undyed hairstyle. |
| 454 | * FamedInStory: She and Ellen are minor celebrities due to them solving a lot of local Sooby-Doo style mysteries. |
| 455 | * FieryRedhead: Formerly, for [[CharacterizationMarchesOn both]] [[PowerDyesYourHair parts]] of the trope. Nanase was much more HotBlooded before she burnt herself out dealing with Abraham. The resulting CharacterDevelopment coincided with her hair turning black. She's gained her magic since then, as well as her natural hair color, but she still seems a bit more mellow than she was. |
| 456 | * FlyingBrick: One of her first spells allowed her to fly, and she's also superhumanly strong and tough thanks to magic strengthening her physical body. Guardian form cranks these traits up to eleven, albeit [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique at a cost]]. |
| 457 | * FreudianExcuse: Her overbearing mother is the reason for her closeted behavior (even though this is somewhat of an InformedAttribute). |
| 458 | * {{Gayngst}}: Clueless about her own orientation until Ellen acted as her ClosetKey, she promptly dove headfirst back into the closet because she feared her mother's reaction. She gets over it when it turns out her mother isn't so much upset as dismissive of what she sees as just a [[GayRomanticPhase phase]]. |
| 459 | * TheGift: Several characters comment on Nanase having a ''lot'' of inborn magical potential, even aside from her martial arts training under Greg focusing her abilities to be harnessed easier. Being the niece of Noriko Verres, who Not-Tengu describes as one of the most powerful wizards in the modern world, may or may not have something to do with it. [[spoiler: Tara's AuraVision labelling her as "royalty" lends further credence to there being ''something'' special about Nanase]]. |
| 460 | * GodzillaThreshold: Her "Guardian Form" seems to be specifically built for this trope. It makes her a LightningBruiser FlyingBrick with enhanced combat skills, but she can only enter it if someone's in immediate peril and it guarantees burnout for at least a day (potentially much longer if she's already low on power). |
| 461 | * HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: After nearly dying because of Abraham, she decides she doesn't want to die living a lie and decides to be as honest as she can be. This includes being open about her homosexuality, wearing the clothes she like and not lying to those close to her about as many things as possible without divulging government secrets or breaking TheMasquerade. |
| 462 | * IncompatibleOrientation: With Elliot, though she was unaware of it at the time. |
| 463 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Not normally, but she gets consistently weird about how Ashley doesn't seem very impressed by her or her powers. As she's TheAce when it comes to combat ability, magic, and even physical attractiveness (going by Tedd's analysis at least), in addition to being a NiceGuy, being ignored probably isn't something she's used to. Becomes a bit of a vicious loop, as her efforts to impress give Ashley the impression Nanase is flirting with her, causing her to awkwardly change the subject or move on, further reinforcing Nanase's insecurity. |
| 464 | * InvisibleIntrovert: Zigzagged. Nanase Kitsune is introduced as a confident, sexy fighter, and later a powerful magic user. But at home, she is reserved and closeted due to her overbearing mother's expectations. This reflects in her magic: due to magic in this universe giving a person spells based on their desires, Nanase mostly gets spells centered around stealth and deception, such as agility, minor shapeshifting, and creating decoys of herself. She starts to feel unsettled by this in "Sister II", due to her new relationship with [[ClosetKey Ellen]], [[spoiler: and after nearly dying in the climax of that arc to protect Ellen, she gains a Guardian Angel spell, after which she decides to be more open with her mother.]] |
| 465 | * {{Irony}}: She and Justin share the role of the StraightMan, and both of them happen to be the only member of the cast who aren't even remotely attracted to the opposite sex. |
| 466 | * KungFuWizard: Nanase is both the most skilled martial artist and the most powerful magic user of the cast because her magical power stems directly from the physical and spiritual discipline cultivated by her martial arts, and her magic provides her with superhuman combat abilities while also boosting her raw physical strength. |
| 467 | * LightningBruiser: Angel-form, in addition to being [[FlyingBrick steel tough]], flies ''very'' fast. |
| 468 | * LipstickLesbian: She is a Girly Girl and very Feminine. |
| 469 | * LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Before dating Elliot and eventually becoming an OfficialCouple with Ellen, she used to date quite a lot of guys. Enough to get a reputation, as one of her exes brings up. |
| 470 | * MeaningfulName: Kitsune are Japanese werefox tricksters. She nicknames her summoned double "[[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord Fox]]". |
| 471 | * MesACrowd: |
| 472 | ** One of her lesser-used spells summons a rainbow-coloured bunch of clones of her. They're good for a distraction, but they evaporate if they touch anything. |
| 473 | ** She can create a duplicate of herself that runs on her subconscious. |
| 474 | * MostCommonSuperpower: Tedd has suggested that her magic power is giving her larger breasts than she should have considering her athleticism. |
| 475 | * MundaneUtility: In addition to her UtilityMagic spells, she's also been seen using her fairy doll for basic communication, and her "Fox" clone form for cleaning and chores. [[spoiler:Post magic's "not-change", maintaining Fox splits her concentration between the two bodies, making it much harder to use her to multi-task]]. |
| 476 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: As {{Lampshaded}} by the BSideComics, her muscles look normal, and yet she is super strong. This is at least partially due to magic giving her a boost. |
| 477 | * PersonalityPowers: A big problem for her for a while, as non-wizard magic users tend to receive spells that reflect their inner natures- so thanks to her secretiveness, she ends up constantly receiving spells that are mostly designed for trickery, stealth, and deception. |
| 478 | * PowerDyesYourHair: {{Inverted}}. Nanase's hair went black from ''losing'' her magic. |
| 479 | * PowerLossMakesYouStrong: Temporarily losing her magic powers is the crux of most of Nanase's CharacterDevelopment from that point on. It also doesn't slow her down much when fighting crime with Ellen. |
| 480 | * PowerStrainBlackout: Burning out her magic for the first time by activating her Guardian form nearly kills her, since she was already bottomed-out on magic power at the time. |
| 481 | * PragmaticHero: Even after talking Abraham out of trying to kill Ellen, she treats him as a threat until the proper authorities arrive. |
| 482 | * ReallyGetsAround: Dated nearly every boy in school hoping to find at least one she was attracted to. Makes for some awkward moments now. |
| 483 | -->'''Gerald:''' I should have known you'd run out of men in the school eventually. |
| 484 | * RoyalBlood: According to Tara's AuraVision, she [[spoiler: simply ''radiates'' royalty. Tara is surprised that Nanase doesn't introduce herself as "princess" or any other royal title.]] |
| 485 | * RuleAbidingRebel: A "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-03-28 big act of defiance]]?," [[PokeThePoodle sure]]. She didn't expect her mother to take it so well. [[invoked]] |
| 486 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Can be distinguished from the other characters by her red hair and green eyes. |
| 487 | * StraightMan: Between Elliot's boy-scout tendencies, Grace's perkiness, Ellen's impulsivity, Sarah's excitability, Susan's seriousness, and, well, Tedd, she tends to split this role with Justin. |
| 488 | ** Temporarily averted during the ''Playing with Dolls'' arc, where she succumbs to the temptations of Tedd's basement, asks her a "four breasts" watch and a "tall" watch and is the least serious of the three. |
| 489 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: When their hair style matches, Nanase and Tedd look uncannily similar. It is later confirmed that they both look like Noriko, Tedd's mother. WordOfGod declared that, when [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1693 Nanase]] [[DeathGlare glares]], the resemblance with her own mother [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1026 comes to surface.]] |
| 490 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: Even more so than Elliot, and ''also'' trains as a magic user separately. |
| 491 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Nanase is part of a long line of powerful mages through her mother. |
| 492 | * TeleportersVisualizationClause: She can only create fairy dolls in places she's been to before. She also can't create them if she isn't picturing what the person she's trying to link with ''currently'' looks like. She never figured out the second part by herself, and it caused her a lot of grief until Ashley [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-03-09 casually suggested that was the reason.]] |
| 493 | * ThemedHarem: Apparently, before Elliot, she tended to date guys whose names began with 'G'. |
| 494 | -->'''Nanase:''' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-03 It's a coincidence!]] |
| 495 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Nanase ''loves'' pizza. |
| 496 | * TransparentCloset: Many a joke was made (mainly by Justin) about Nanase being a closeted lesbian before it was made official. |
| 497 | * UtilityMagic: Many of her spells are like this. She has a fairy doll spell that lets her keep an eye on her real body, a spell that lets her know exactly how many eyes are looking at her, and a spell that lets her alter her hair style, length and color (with the implication that it might evolve into being able to modify other parts of her body). Ironically, she's disappointed in most of these, but Justin and Sarah think the hair spell is ''awesome''. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower She's also able to use the hair spell to quickly create new fairy dolls, since if the hair is different enough she makes a new one instead of inhabiting an old one]]. |
| 498 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: She's ''thrilled'' to learn that her magic powers may be the cause for her [[MostCommonSuperpower large bust size]]. |
| 499 | * TheWorfEffect: Her guardian form spell is [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-06-20 supposed to be so impressive]] that it requires [[NecessaryDrawback sacrifice]] and can only be cast by people with both rare talent (possibly only by people the other side would call royalty) and selflessnes, and yet it is [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-07-26 no match for Not-Tengu]. |
| 500 | [[/folder]] |
| 501 | |
| 502 | [[folder:Justin]] |
| 503 | !!Justin Tolkiberry |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[quoteright:157:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d7313e36966f35ad6c80e82a6c84338e.png]] |
| 506 | |
| 507 | ->''[[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2014-07-29 "Well, some people told me it was "totally gay", but that's not exactly what I was going for."]]''\ |
| 508 | \ |
| 509 | |
| 510 | Justin is an amiable, level-headed comic shop clerk and Nanase's best friend. Since Elliot is also the one who introduced him to Nanase and the rest of the main cast by extension, Justin feels a huge debt of gratitude and an unrequited crush towards him. He also suffers from a seemingly irresistible compulsion to mess with long hair, though he is bothered by the stereotype. He attends Moperville South with Grace, Nanase, and Ellen. |
| 511 | ---- |
| 512 | |
| 513 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Regarding Elliot, due to IncompatibleOrientation. |
| 514 | * BerserkButton: NEVER mention Melissa or Noah to him, ''especially'' if it's about forgiving her. |
| 515 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Sense a pattern here? Justin's [[SupernaturalMartialArts Anime-style martial arts]] prowess may not be up to Nanase's or Elliot's level (yet), but [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-27 push his amiability too far]] and you'll quickly discover he's still got SupernaturalMartialArts. |
| 516 | * CantCatchUp: Justin [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-18 may feel inadequate]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-20 compared to Nanase, Grace, and Ellen]], but later proves he can be quite badass [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-27 when the situation requires it]]. |
| 517 | * ComingOutStory: Was outed to the whole town by his former best friend Melissa (or more accurately, her sister) and still holds a grudge against her for it. Overlaps with ForcedOutOfTheCloset as it wasn't his choice. |
| 518 | * DislikesTheNewGuy: Initially towards Grace, because his first few meetings with her all take place in extremely difficult and dangerous situations, but he soon has to acknowledge that those weren't exactly ''caused'' by Grace, and that she was an important factor in dissolving them. |
| 519 | * FamedInStory: After he defeats a fire creature, he becomes very famous in universe, though the main consequences were mostly directly after said event. After a while, it peters out, but it comes up again when Luke seeks him out for it. |
| 520 | * TheGadfly: When he isn't angsting about anything, Justin takes great pleasure in messing around with pretty much everyone around him. |
| 521 | * {{Gayngst}}: After he was outed, he lost his best friend and was ostracized/bullied by most of his classmates. He implies to Susan [[spoiler:that [[DrivenToSuicide he was considering commiting suicide]]]]. He felt completely alone until he met Elliot and Nanase. |
| 522 | * GentleGiant: One of the tallest members of the main cast, but as mentioned, prefers not resorting to violence. |
| 523 | * HairTriggerTemper: Though it's not without justification, he becomes... irritable toward anything related to Melissa, including her current pseudo-boyfriend Noah and even Elliot telling him that Melissa's actions were more misguided than he thinks. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets over it later.]] |
| 524 | * HeroicBuild: [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2004 When he takes off his shirt for Luke]], it's revealed that he's absolutely ''ripped.'' |
| 525 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Not all the time, but when he has a casual fantasy about ''[[DudeLooksLikeALady Tedd]]'' of all people, he notes "I have ''got'' to get a boyfriend." |
| 526 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He was devastated by people gossiping about him being gay, but unapologetically gossips about Grace's powers with Luke, even after she tells him to stop. |
| 527 | * IncompatibleOrientation: With Elliot. Ironically enough, Elliot's ClarkKenting form may have this for Justin, while the reverse is true normally. |
| 528 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 529 | ** When Justin was outed, Melissa was herself betrayed in exactly the same way he thinks she betrayed him. |
| 530 | ** In a more meta angle, he and Nanase share the role of the StraightMan, and both of them happen to be the only member of the cast who aren't even remotely attracted to the opposite sex. |
| 531 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Elliot gets transformed into a girl? Justin is offended because he isn't attracted to female Elliot. Elliot and Sarah have a romantic moment? Justin has to interrupt it because he's jealous. Elliot compliments him on his AttractiveBentGender? Justin goes into a bout of angst because Elliot just won't find him attractive when he's a guy. He gets over a lot of this when he grows out of his crush on Elliot. |
| 532 | * LetsGetDangerous: Justin tries to reason with the fire monster, but when it attacks, he instantly switches from amiable to badass. |
| 533 | * KungFuWizard: As a result of Anime-Style Martial Arts training, Justin can use magic in conjunction with martial arts in combat. |
| 534 | * MeaningfulName: A fan of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek'', who happens to have a surname that combines [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]] and [[Creator/GeneRoddenberry Roddenberry]]. |
| 535 | * MoralMyopia: Has this for a good while regarding Melissa - it's true that she made a terrible mistake and hurt him terribly, but he took this further than she deserved. He gets better, though. |
| 536 | * ObliviousToLove: Completely fails to notice that Luke is interested in him. In fairness, Luke was also looking for info on Grace, but he still missed some very obvious signs. He never realized [[spoiler:George]]'s crush on him, either. |
| 537 | * TheOneGuy: The only member of the main cast who wholly identifies as male. Lampshaded [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/balance-089 here.]] |
| 538 | * OutOfFocus: Beats out Sarah as the member of the main eight who gets the least spotlight, with the exception of the Birthday party arc involving his admitting his love for Elliot; the ''New Old Flames'' storyline appears to be his DayInTheLimelight. |
| 539 | * PowerTattoo: There was one on his back that he was unaware of. It's hinted that this may be why [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1153 his blows had more impact than when he was training in the dojo]]. He lost it -- but apparently not the perks it gave him -- when Pandora Awakened him. This caused some confusion, as Justin didn't know he had a mark ''or'' that he was Awakened, while Luke knew he could sense if people have marks, but hadn't learned to recognize the difference between someone who has a mark and someone who ''had'' a mark before Awakening. |
| 540 | * ProudToBeAGeek: An unabashed sci-fi and fantasy fan who works in a comics store? ''Of course'' he's this! |
| 541 | * RescueRomance: With Elliot, [[IncompatibleOrientation kinda]]. |
| 542 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: He correctly points out that George is much more hostile towards Elliot than to any of Justin's female friends, only he thinks it's because the girls are "[his] friends [George] want[s] to sleep with". [[spoiler:Actually, the friend [[GreenEyedMonster George]] would like to sleep with is ''[[AllLoveIsUnrequited Justin]]''.]] |
| 543 | * SecretKeeper: He knows what the main cast is up to and refuses to share details after George started putting things together. Not only that, Justin knows the identity of the mysterious cloaked figure and hasn't told anyone in the main cast. Given his history, is this any surprise? |
| 544 | * StraightGay: From his long list of attributes (including fantasy-geek and martial artist) the only parts of his character that give the impression that he's gay are his pierced ear and love of long hair, and he stops really wearing the piercing after a while, not having gotten the reaction he was hoping for. This backfires on him during ''Squirrel Prophet'' when Luke assumes that he's straight. |
| 545 | * StraightMan: Between Elliot's boy-scout tendencies, Grace's perkiness, Ellen's impulsivity, Sarah's excitability, Susan's seriousness, and, well, Tedd, he tends to split this role with Nanase. Averted after he [[spoiler: starts dating Luke]] and [[TheGadfly actively messes with everyone's head for his own enjoyment]]. |
| 546 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: Though he's not nearly as powerful as Nanase or Elliot, he can enhance his martial arts with fiery punches [[spoiler:thanks to the spell given by his magic mark]]. |
| 547 | * TookALevelInBadass: Justin, after entire arcs of being one of the only main characters not showing [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys wonderful toys]] or superpowers other than his illusion exercises, knocks back a flame golem [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-27 with his bare fists]] then kicks it [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom over a hundred feet]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-08 into a river]]. May have something to do with [[spoiler:his new -- though quickly gone -- PowerTattoo as his blows [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1153 have a lot more power than they did training at the dojo]]]]. |
| 548 | * TransEqualsGay: Discussed and averted. After switching sexes at Grace's birthday party, he discusses how much easier it would be if he were a woman -- he wouldn't have to deal with homophobia, and he might actually have had a shot with Elliot. Ultimately though, being a woman just feels wrong to him. |
| 549 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 550 | ** Ellen [[DeathGlare gave him a stink eye]] and vicious chewing-out after he snapped at Elliot for even ''daring'' to look at things from Melissa's perspective -- she makes it clear that while his grudge is understandable, snapping at his friends when they only have his best interests at heart is unacceptable. |
| 551 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-03-30 Then there's his Yoda t-shirt that basically says that while he had a right to be disappointed in Melissa, he was taking the whole thing a bit to far.]] |
| 552 | [[/folder]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | [[folder:Susan]] |
| 555 | !!Tiffany Susan Pompoms |
| 556 | [[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c14842d16897747285b56fe8fb7235c7.png]] |
| 557 | ->''[[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-07-07 "This change of heart]] [[HatesBeingTouched does not include a desire to be touched."]]''\ |
| 558 | \ |
| 559 | |
| 560 | The group's resident cynic, Susan (as she prefers to be called) was introduced in the comic as Sarah's man-hating best friend who would often give Elliot and Tedd grief. Interacting with the rest of the cast (and exploring her own history) has improved her opinion of the male gender to a strong degree, but she still maintains a high level of snark. She lives with her mother in a three-story house, works in a video store, and is the founder of Moperville North's Feminist Club. |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | * ActionGirl: Not as much so as, say, Grace or Nanase, but Susan's the only member of the main cast who's at all proficient with a weapon, and [[spoiler:she actually ends up being the deciding factor in the abomination fight during her and Nanase's trips to France.]] |
| 563 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has ([[CharacterDevelopment at least at first]]) a distinctly cynical attitude which leads her to habitually set herself apart from most people. In fact, her using her middle name and (again, at first) dying her hair dark blue are a part of her rejection of the EveryoneLovesBlondes template. |
| 564 | %%* AttractiveBentGender: [[EvenTheGuysWantHim A rare male case]]. %%ZCE |
| 565 | * BetterAsFriends: Finds she's that with Justin. |
| 566 | * BirthdayHater: It's on New Year's Day, and she reasons that celebrations will still be going on with or without her, whether her mother spoils her or not. |
| 567 | * BrokenBird: On several levels. As a little kid, she walked in on her dad cheating on her mom, which, combined with some unhelpful parenting from her mother, led to her hating her blonde hair and first name as well as caused her to hate men initially. Then she hit her CynicismCatalyst on the trip to France [[spoiler:where she was forced to kill an aberration]]. Her emotional state is bad enough that she went through an angst-induced Awakening just because she found out that [[spoiler:the hammers were created as a practical joke by an Immortal]]. Over the course of the comic, she slowly heals thanks to her growing friendship with the rest of the cast. |
| 568 | * ChildrenForcedToKill: [[spoiler:She was forced to kill the French Abomination in self-defense after her and Nanase's battle against it went horribly wrong. Susan was, at most, ''fourteen'' at the time, and the experience still obviously haunts her to this day.]] |
| 569 | * ColourFailure: Upon learning Diane does cheerleading, Susan is so shocked at someone who looks like her doing ''that'' that she goes all white. |
| 570 | * CovertPervert: [[spoiler:She actually considered Catalina kissing Elliot ''[[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1749 sexy]]''. Later, when thinking of what scenarios and people she finds sexy, she finds both sexy Elliot and sexy Catalina sexy, ''especially'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2416 when together]], though she has no interest in actually doing sexy things with either of them.]] |
| 571 | * CrazyPrepared: She had Tedd scan her into the TF gun as a backup in case someone transforms her permanently and there's no other way of fixing it. |
| 572 | -->'''Nanase:''' You let ''Tedd'' make a ''clone form'' of you!?\ |
| 573 | '''Susan:''' After New Year's? Of course I did. You ''haven't?''\ |
| 574 | '''Nanase:''' Well, ''yeah'', but I'm his "ugly cousin!" |
| 575 | ** And then she had Tedd zap Grace with her clone form (which adds that form to those Grace can assume from that point on) so that her form can be scanned back off Grace if anything happens to the files on the gun. |
| 576 | * CrushBlush: She's become increasingly prone to these towards [[spoiler: Elliot, now that he and Sarah have broken up.]] |
| 577 | * DeadpanSnarker: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-12-10 Sometimes]] and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-12-16 again]]. {{Lampshaded}} [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-08-05 here]]. |
| 578 | * DefrostingIceQueen: In the beginning, she was aloof and snarky but eventually, she opened up and is more cheerful. |
| 579 | * DoesNotLikeMen: At first, having been led by her mother to believe that her father couldn't resist cheating on her because AllMenArePerverts. She finds herself befriending three males, noting that even the one actual pervert is still likable, and finally abandons this mindset after realizing that transforming into a boy at Grace's birthday party hasn't stripped her of her free will despite having heightened urges. |
| 580 | * DoNotCallMePaul: She hates being called Tiffany, partially because it makes her sound like a DumbBlonde, but also [[spoiler:because her father named her]]. Rejecting her name actually blocked her from having a [[StevenUlyssesPerhero name-based affinity]], since "Tiffany Pompoms" should normally be the exact type of name to end up with cheerleading spells. |
| 581 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Early comics gave Susan a free pass to clobber men with magical hammers as long as she was defending women (or Tedd, who may be just that girly). Justified later when the creator of the hammers explicitly says that they were designed to be a "painful but harmless" way for women to retaliate against inappropriate comments. |
| 582 | * DudeMagnet: Despite her aloofness and later social awkwardness, a lot of guys are attracted to her, e.g. Elliot, Tom, Matt and, when she's transformed into a male, Justin. Then there are the occasional [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer female admirers]]. |
| 583 | * DyeHard: In-universe. She dyes her naturally blonde hair to a dark blue color. [[spoiler:Until her angst-induced awakening that caused dramatically to her hair to be naturally dark blue. Later turns out to be more complicated of that, as previously unknown to her, her hair has started storing excess magic, which manifests as the blue color. When tapped into it, it turns back into her natural Blonde until it recharges]]. |
| 584 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She originally had pulled-back hair and an exposed midriff, but this was changed starting in late 2004. She was also on the shorter side originally, being around the same height as Sarah and Tedd, but a magically-assisted growth spurt shot her up to being one of the tallest characters in the main cast. |
| 585 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: She much prefers "Susan", thank you very much. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-04-25 She thinks]] that "Tiffany Pompoms" sounds too much like a "[[DumbBlonde stereotypical cheerleader]]." |
| 586 | * EmbarrassingLastName: "Pompoms" evokes the stereotype of the cheerleader, which she hates. [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-104 Apparently she tries to forget that she even has that surname.]] |
| 587 | * ExpositoryHairStyleChange: She originally wore her hair pulled back when she was characterized as a StrawFeminist IceQueen. When she started her CharacterDevelopment, she switched to the bangs she still has now to represent her being more open and accepting. |
| 588 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Catalina for sure. Also acknowledged in [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2017-10-16 this (noncanon) sidestory]], when Ashley briefly fantasizes about her. In general, Susan seems to attract a lot of admirers from both sexes, much to her chagrin as [[IncompatibleOrientation she is asexual]] and HatesBeingTouched |
| 589 | -->'''Hanma:''' Seriously, what is it with people and Susan?\ |
| 590 | '''Liz:''' I'm hoping to get to know her [[ExperimentedInCollege in college]]. |
| 591 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: With [[spoiler: Elliot]]. Not only do each of the main characters have at least some inkling of it, but [[spoiler:the [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-04-23 in-universe fandom for their movie review show ships them.]]]] |
| 592 | * FagHag: She's close friends with Justin and even admits that she likes him because he will never feel any sexual attraction for her. |
| 593 | * FamedInStory: Has minor renown due to a review show with Elliot, and a significant reputation as the Hammer Queen. |
| 594 | * FanonDiscontinuity: [[invoked]] In-universe. Susan has ''strong opinions'' about the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' films. |
| 595 | * ForbiddenFruit: [[spoiler: Notes that any attraction to Justin she had was likely the result of knowing that IncompatibleOrientation made sure that it would never happen]]. She also tends to evoke this reaction from others herself, given just how many people are interested in her despite her lack of desire to date anyone. |
| 596 | * FreakOut: In a seemingly mind-boggling -- though [[ItMakesSenseInContext understandable in context]] -- case of overreaction. When she was told that she just didn't get an old joke. |
| 597 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Caught her father with an undressed woman who was ''not'' her mother]]. |
| 598 | * HairColorAngst: Susan was born a natural blonde but started dyeing it blue-black after she caught her father cheating on her mother with a blonde woman. Since {{downplayed|Trope}} because, while she worked through some of her feelings about her dad's cheating, the blue-black hair has become more part of her identity (especially since her Awakening caused the dye to magically bond to her hair [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-12-08 unless she uses the magic stored in it to boost her abilities]]). |
| 599 | * HatesBeingTouched: |
| 600 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-07-07 Very]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-02-02 much]]. |
| 601 | --->'''Tensaided:''' ...I know it's not personal, but you could at least wait until I'm not looking to break out the hand sanitizer.\ |
| 602 | '''Susan:''' I've never had to call in sick.\ |
| 603 | '''Tensaided:''' As you were. |
| 604 | ** [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1773 She's working on it, though]]. |
| 605 | ** [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/ourf-011 Sarah knows it's a big deal with Susan wants to hug her instead of the other way around]]. |
| 606 | * HyperspaceArsenal: It's a physical box, but she can summon magical copies of the contents from anywhere. |
| 607 | * HyperspaceMallet: Her weapon of choice. Even after the artifact that powered the hammers disappears, she gains her own summonable stun hammer as a spell. |
| 608 | * IcyBlueEyes: Her eyes are a pale blue, as seen in [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=730 this colorized sketchbook entry]]. It matches her closed emotions and logic-based demeanour. |
| 609 | * IncompatibleOrientation: First with Justin, later with Catalina. She later tries to rationalize her interest towards Justin as [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-03-30 being attracted to someone who wouldn't be attracted to her]]. |
| 610 | * InsistentTerminology: [[spoiler:It's never that she "likes" or "has a crush on" Elliot; she always says "attracted to", as she considers it nothing but primitive instincts.]] |
| 611 | * IronicName: "Tiffany Pompoms" really doesn't fit her, which is why she goes by "Susan". |
| 612 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She acknowledges that she's attracted to Elliot, but [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2014-02-04 she has still decided to encourage his relationship with Ashley]] because she knows she isn't emotionally ready for a relationship yet, is not sure she will ever be, and doesn't want to make Elliot put ''his'' life on hold while she sorts out her own issues. |
| 613 | * LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Besides Diane, she’s related to Raven through her father]]. |
| 614 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She may be cold, at least at first, but she does care about her friends. |
| 615 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: In a nice subvertion, since she's not as GenkiGirl or CloudCuckoolander as the general examples, but [[spoiler:Elliot]] admits she's a [[PluckyGirl beautiful, strong, intelligent woman]] who's fun to be with, challenge him and introduces him to cool new things. |
| 616 | * MiddleNameBasis: Her first name is "Tiffany", but she goes by her middle name of Susan because she thinks Tiffany sounds too much like a stereotypical cheerleader's name, but also because her [[DisappearedDad absent and adulterous father]] chose her first name. |
| 617 | * MistakenForGay: Fairly often, given how outspoken a feminist she is. It's generally insulting, but an unfortunate case occurred when Catalina tried asking her out. |
| 618 | * MomentOfWeakness: |
| 619 | ** Panicked the first time she saw Nanase use her Fairy Doll spell and, in the process of getting help, blurted out to the others the personal issues they had been talking about. |
| 620 | ** When asked for a date by a ''guy'', Susan marvellously freaked out: waving her hands, spitting out a bunch of lame excuses to ultimately run away. |
| 621 | * MundaneUtility: She uses "Nase," her semi-autonomous fairy companion, for basically everything, from fetching soda to having an extra pair of eyes. |
| 622 | * NeatFreak: Set phasers to ''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-17 sanitize]]''. And [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-07-10 get your ugly butt off her kitchen counter]]. |
| 623 | * ObsessedAreTheListmakers: Made a lengthy list of [[spoiler: ways to avoid [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-25 accidentally seducing Elliot]]]]. |
| 624 | * PowerDyesYourHair: [[spoiler:Her hair becomes ''naturally'' dark blue/black after awakening. We later learn that it's become a sort of hidden external reservoir of power she can draw on instinctively, turning her hair blonde in the process]]. |
| 625 | * PowerTattoo: The [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-05 Venus symbol on her back]] is a [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-26 magical mark]]. |
| 626 | * ProudToBeAGeek: Do you know she likes ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-01-16 very much]]''? |
| 627 | * RealWomenNeverWearDresses: In-universe; she considers skirts nothing more than men's easy visual access to women's panties, and when a uniform code was enforced on Moperville North, she went with the male's uniform so she could keep wearing pants. The only skirt she'd even consider wearing is that of the original Star Trek women's uniform, and even then only so Elliot [[spoiler:[[IfItsYouItsOkay (and only Elliot)]]]] could tease her about it for their web reviews. It's probably a sign of major character development that she is willing to use [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Vanellope Von Schweetz]] as an online avatar. though the image of Susan wearing Vanellope's miniskirt attracted surprisingly little commentary from the fanbase. |
| 628 | %%* RunningGag: Hammers, spontaneous changes in hair color. |
| 629 | * ShipTease: |
| 630 | ** She gets some with a lot of characters, including Ellen (when she got zapped with her V5 beam), Catalina (who actually asked her out), Justin (who [[spoiler:she made out with when they were both gender-flipped]]), Matt Cohen (who also asked her out), and even [[spoiler:''Elliot'']]. |
| 631 | ** [[spoiler: Elliot eventually becomes involved in a relationship with Ashley, and Susan is okay with this. As a result, Elliot is now in the same category as Justin in her mind: attractive, but unavailable. She's now free to work out whether or not she will ever want romantic relationships without any distractions.]] |
| 632 | ** After meeting Jay at a card tournament, Susan wanted a chance to talk to her more without having to worry about the tournament and realized to her horror she was describing a date. |
| 633 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler:Susan's motive to be attracted to Elliot and, let's admit it, Elliot is the best candidate for Susan's love interest. Elliot would never think in hurting her, take advantage of her sexually until they're both ready and they're more compatible than they both thought at first. Even, Elliot's ChronicHeroSyndrome could be the perfect treatment for Susan's BrokenBird situation]]. |
| 634 | * SitcomArchnemesis: Started out as one to [[ChivalrousPervert Tedd]]. By the time the Sister 2 arc ends, they have decidedly moved into VitriolicBestBuds territory, complete with sissy slap fights. |
| 635 | * TheSmartGirl: While maybe not quite in the same way Tedd is, Susan is clearly one of the smartest of the main group due to her attention to details, deductive reasoning, and her tendency to be TheSpock. This is further highlighted [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-171 when the group is discussing their college prospects.]] Everyone seems to be going to Moperville University, though Elliot assumes Susan will be going somewhere better. It turns out she's staying in Moperville because her lower GPA is playing a factor. Her bad grades aren't because she's BrilliantButLazy, but because she's so busy with school club activties, the movie review show, and her job. Basically, she's stretching herself too thin to focus on schoolwork and greater goals. |
| 636 | * SpockSpeak: Luckily [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1774 Sarah can translate her]] to a shorter, simple sentence. |
| 637 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Elliot realizes [[spoiler: he's attracted to Susan after dreaming of her dressed up as Counselor Troi]]. Take a guess at what shows up on Susan's [[spoiler: list of ways to avoid [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-25 accidentally seducing Elliot]]]]. |
| 638 | * StrawFeminist: At first, due to her (Very) FreudianExcuse. WordOfGod [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=129 says]] that she was initially supposed to say things that Dan could disprove. She gets CharacterDevelopment and grows out of the [[AllMenArePerverts man hating]], flag waving, sycophantic, poster girl for female empowerment part. That is, she went from StrawFeminist to [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} regular feminist]]. |
| 639 | * StepfordSnarker: She presents herself as snarky and aloof (although she does [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost a bit over time]]). However, the audience discovers that she's a bit of a mess under that sarcastic shell. The first formative moment we see is her walking in on her father [[PrimalScene having sex]] with a woman who wasn't her mother, and then demanding that she lie about it. While this left her with some issues with men, it wasn't as damaging as [[spoiler:the time she was manipulated into killing a monster that [[WasOnceAMan was once human and still looked the part.]]]] |
| 640 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks a lot like [[spoiler:Diane]], which is implied to be in part because of magic's flair for the dramatic. [[spoiler:She also looks not unlike her ancestor Raven, and he apparently strongly resembles Susan's father]]. |
| 641 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Needed to unwind ''badly''. After admitting her problems and going through a few seances of angst-dialysis, she [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-08-05 began]] to learn how to laugh aloud and drop non-[[DeadpanSnarker acidic]] jokes. The sugar side is best portrayed by the fairy doll from Nanase that acts on her subconscious. |
| 642 | * SummonToHand: Any of the items stored in her [[HyperspaceArsenal Summon Chest]]. |
| 643 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: She has a bloodline affinity for summoning magic weapons. |
| 644 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: She has no interest in dating [[spoiler:Elliot]], which is why she made a list of ways to [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-25 avoid accidentally seducing him]]. |
| 645 | -->'''Justin:''' ...how does one "accidentally" dress up as Counselor Troi?\ |
| 646 | '''Susan:''' Costume parties exist. |
| 647 | * TheseHandsHaveKilled: The major reason she's no longer a WideEyedIdealist. |
| 648 | * ThousandYardStare: Staring down at [[spoiler:a humanoid being she's just beheaded]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1100 going into tenth grade]]; this is juxtaposed with the similar, albeit softer, face she makes thinking back to the event, unnervingly similar to her default expression... |
| 649 | * {{Tsundere}}: Shaping up to be a Type A now that she's [[spoiler: developed a crush on Elliot]]. |
| 650 | * UnevenHybrid: [[spoiler:Is part Immortal]]. |
| 651 | * VitriolicBestBuds: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-03 With Tedd]]. And [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-18 with Nanase]] ([[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-19 back from the trip to France]]). |
| 652 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: To make a point regarding School Uniforms. She does start off believing RealWomenNeverWearDresses, and still hates the idea of skirts in and of themselves. |
| 653 | * WideEyedIdealist: Before [[spoiler:meeting [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-31 the aberration]]]]. Literally so -- her eyes change into her current half-droopy state when she looks down at his corpse, and while she still [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-07-11 has]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-01-22 wide]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-23 eyes]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-02-10 quite]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-30 often]], they do tend towards the "half-droopy." After [[spoiler:the encounter of a weird kind with Jerry leading to FreakOut]], though, she now tends to having wide open eyes as often as not. |
| 654 | |
| 655 | [[/folder]] |
| 656 | |
| 657 | [[folder:Ellen]] |
| 658 | !!Ellen Danielle Dunkel |
| 659 | |
| 660 | [[quoteright:134:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b02e40982d139e5fa7fb39fb73796471.png]] |
| 661 | |
| 662 | ->''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-11-17 "That crazed look could have meant any number of things!"]]''\ |
| 663 | \ |
| 664 | |
| 665 | Elliot's more outgoing OppositeSexClone created through magic. She's considerably more worldly than Elliot thanks to a lifetime of memories from an alternate dimension, and she's loud, brash, and opinionated as a result. She inherited Elliot's magical aptitude, although most of her spells revolved around "spreading her curse", originally by turning her targets into sexy women although she's since gained other zappy spells. She attends Moperville South with Grace, Justin, and Nanase. |
| 666 | ---- |
| 667 | |
| 668 | * BerserkButton: Mentioning her origins as a clone, or anything ''involving'' her origin as a clone. Thanks to her DivergentCharacterEvolution, she has successfully established herself as a person separate from her brother/father/[[GenderBender "mother"]] Elliot. And, until they talked it out some, she had extremely volatile reactions when talking to [[MadScientist Tedd]]. |
| 669 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 670 | ** Do NOT mock Grace in Ellen's presence; the resulting death glare alone was enough to stun two other girls into silence. |
| 671 | ** Even Justin was not safe from her wrath after he upset her brother. |
| 672 | ** Vlad should consider himself lucky Ellen didn't kill him after he nearly killed Nanase. |
| 673 | * BigSisterInstinct |
| 674 | ** Towards Elliot whenever he's feeling down. |
| 675 | ** Elliot's ChronicHeroSyndrome pales before Ellen's behaviour. She's ''very'' uninhibited and shows [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-09-25 extreme]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-12 protectiveness]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-01-08 toward]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-02-28 everyone]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-09-14 close]] to her. |
| 676 | * BroughtDownToNormal: By [[spoiler:copying Nanase's Angel spell]], she's powerless for at least a day. And blonde. |
| 677 | * BrutalHonesty: She calls Elliot out on his [[spoiler: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-12 motives behind his failed relationship with Sarah]].]] |
| 678 | * ConflictBall: Off and on; demonstrated best when completely apropos of nothing she cornered Tedd and started yelling at him about wanting to help Nanase, revealing that she has seriously conflicted feelings about Tedd. Also implied to be related to having a young soul that has never been reincarnated. |
| 679 | * ChivalrousPervert: Ellen is more in touch with her "perverted" side than Elliot is, but she's no more likely to take advantage of anyone. |
| 680 | * CloneAngst: Played straight at first when she believed she only had a month to live, but mostly subverted in the long run where she largely, but not entirely, adjusts to the reality that she is a magically-created female duplicate of Elliot. She does still have a few hang-ups, such as her very confusing opinion of Tedd thanks to her "fake" memories from Elliot and other Ellen of them being friends but also the day they met for real being the worst day of her life. As of ''Who Is Ellen'', over a year after her creation, she still has conflicting feelings over it, such as having Elliot's memories of playing tabletop [=RPGs=] with Tedd and Sarah, but never having actually played it in her own right, which causes her to impulsively purchase a tabletop RPG set. |
| 681 | * ClosetKey: For Nanase. Nanase originally thought that Ellen produced [[SmellsSexy enhanced pheromones]], which is why she was able to accept being attracted to her. But then she finds out that Ellen either only had them very briefly or more likely never at all, forcing Nanase to realise that she's a lesbian. |
| 682 | * DeadpanSnarker: Only second to Susan in the main cast. Most of her snark is directed at Elliot. |
| 683 | --> '''Elliot''': '''I AM HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER!'''\ |
| 684 | '''Ellen''': I'm ''(yawns)'' pretty sure you've got competition for that title. \ |
| 685 | '''Elliot''': I dreamed about a girl who's a friend who isn't my girlfriend! \ |
| 686 | '''Ellen''': You're a teenager who had a naughty dream. ''Truly'' you are an abomination. |
| 687 | * DefrostingIceQueen: She started with the memories of Elliot. After fully expecting to die in a month and then getting over the identity problem she embraced "live today" attitude. |
| 688 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:She is a victim of this by Sirleck]]. |
| 689 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: She starts out as a duplicate of Elliot, but partially because of her own desire to not just be his clone, she makes an effort to be different from him. [[http://danshive.tumblr.com/post/15312804406/if-you-went-back-in-time-and-were-starting-egs-again#notes It's gotten to the point that Dan himself would rather her just be Elliot's ''natural'' twin sister]]. Interestingly, in some ways she has more in common with the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early depictions]] of Elliot than Elliot does, which makes her an odd case of a DecompositeCharacter. |
| 690 | * DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: In an odd way she's this to Nanase being a female version of Elliot who she only broke up with because she was a lesbian not because she didn't like him. |
| 691 | * DressedToKill: When she tries to act as Elliot's EvilTwin. |
| 692 | * DuplicateDivergence: She starts out as an exact copy of Elliot in her memories and behaviour, but quickly becomes her own character, partially because of her own desire to not just be a clone of Elliot. The [[AWizardDidIt magical nose boop]] and another life's worth of memories probably helped. |
| 693 | * EvilTwin: ''Tries'' to be one during her initial CloneAngst crisis, but doesn't really manage to pull it off. |
| 694 | * ExpendableClone: Felt like one long after the other characters had accepted her as a person in her own right. Subverted, as she went on to become a major character. |
| 695 | * FamedInStory: She and Nanase are minor celebrities due to them solving a lot of local Sooby-Doo style mysteries. |
| 696 | * FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Does this a few times when Sirleck is possessing her, culminating in her keeping him from possessing Magus. It's apparently possible because of her nature as a being born of magic]]. |
| 697 | * FirstLawOfGenderBending: Both her current status, and that she can inflict it on others. [[spoiler:Deconstructed when Magus points out that the circumstances regarding her birth forced her to stay female so as not to inconvenience Elliot, and might only be saying that she's fine with being female because she had no choice but to accept it. When asked, Ellen denies this, strongly stating that she's happy being female. She even points out that, with the PersonalityPowers nature of magic, if she ''really'' wanted to be male, she'd have gotten spells for it after awakening.]] |
| 698 | * TheGadfly: She likes messing with people for the hell of it. Mostly with Elliot. |
| 699 | * GenderBender: {{Averted}}, at least from a certain point of view. She is, technically, the only member of the main eight to have never spent any time as the opposite gender on-panel. |
| 700 | * GenkiGirl: Not as much as Grace, but she definitely has her moments. |
| 701 | * HalfIdenticalTwin: According to her cover story (she's actually a clone.) |
| 702 | * HotBlooded: She shares Elliot's hot temper but exhibits less control over it. |
| 703 | * HypocriticalHeartwarming: Her typical approach to Elliot ("You're like me if I were being directed by George Lucas.") Elliot actually gets more upset when she ''doesn't'' tease him because he feels guilty she got created (and stuck as a girl) in the first place. |
| 704 | * IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: She said it to Tedd [[spoiler:[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-09-14#comic when he offered to study Nanase]]]]. |
| 705 | * InformedAttribute: Is said to be more introspective than Elliot, but aside from immediately after she came into existence, she isn't shown to do much introspection. Mostly, she just makes assumptions based on Elliot's memories while at the same time insisting that others do ''not'' refer to those when interacting with her. If anything, her hot head and bigger hubris make her seem ''less'' reflected. |
| 706 | * InsistentTerminology: Played with. When talking to most people, she insists that she didn't exist until the second Elliot touched the Diamond, and gets offended when Tedd makes assumptions about her based on what Elliot would do in a situation. When talking to Elliot, on the other hand, they both act more like they were once the same person, now split in two. "''We'' loved Sarah," "''We'' outgrew our bully of bullies phase," etcetera. |
| 707 | * JumpingTheGenderBarrier: As someone on the WMG page put it, Ellen's problems derive more from not being ''Elliot'' than being female, which she doesn't seem to mind terribly. |
| 708 | * KungFuWizard: As a result of Anime-Style Martial Arts training, Ellen can use magic in conjunction with martial arts in combat. |
| 709 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: [[spoiler:She mentions how quickly she got over not being with Sarah. The fact that she considered Sarah a sister was why]]. |
| 710 | * MeaningfulEcho: Elliot explains that he took her creation in stride because his only thoughts were "She's family. Help her." Ellen later repeats the same words to Susan [[spoiler:while encouraging her to meet her half-sister Diane]]. |
| 711 | * MostCommonSuperpower: Her body is based on "Female Variant #5" (designed by Tedd), so she's probably the best endowed of the cast. And since that is her default form, the "Female Variant #5" modification gets applied again ''on top of it'' whenever [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-12-16 she]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-08 zaps]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-11 herself]]. |
| 712 | * MundaneUtility: As a side effect of being a living example of [=FV5=], she doesn't have to shave her legs. Or possibly anywhere else, but that part was left intentionally vague. |
| 713 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Ellen inherited copies of Elliot's power as of the time of her birth, including his talent for sensing things. It comes in handy when the Goo returns and Ellen has to save Sarah from a surprise attack that could have been lethal. |
| 714 | * NoBisexuals: In denial, perhaps to show solidarity with Nanase and perhaps because of an incident in her [[ItMakesSenseInContext dream life]], though she has also claimed that that she feels squicked by the way her admitted attraction to men was artificially grafted onto her personality by the transformation gun. Later on, it's averted, with her actually doing the research. She's bisexual homoromantic. |
| 715 | * OfficialCouple: With Nanase. It has become even more official after the arc ''Sister II''. |
| 716 | * OppositeSexClone: Of Elliot, although she has diverged quite significantly from him. |
| 717 | * PokeThePoodle: After she was first created, she tried to be Elliot's EvilTwin, but failed miserably. |
| 718 | * ProjectileSpell: Most of her spells are beam-based because she was created by an accident with a transformation gun. |
| 719 | * PowerDyesYourHair: |
| 720 | ** Inverted when she has a magical burnout [[spoiler:from copying Nanase's Guardian form]]. Her hair is turned blonde for the burnout's duration. |
| 721 | ** Her natural hair colour is changed to green after [[spoiler:she's exposed to the Dewitchery Diamond exploding]]. She dyes it brown to avoid raising suspicion out in public. |
| 722 | * SiblingRivalry: Ellen ''lives'' to tease Elliot -- but god help anyone who actually hurts his feelings. |
| 723 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: She got it in ready form from Elliot, with some extra power on account of being a magical creature. |
| 724 | * TangledFamilyTree: As seen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-02-17 here]], it's... complicated. And that isn't even close to some of the fans' ideas. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/youmightbearedneck.png Here]] is her family tree. She was created magically instead of being born and can be thought of as having up to four mothers: one of which is also her twin brother, and father, two are mother figures and the fourth is her mother due to being her twin brother/father's mother. By the same logic, she has up to three fathers: one because he's a husband figure to one of her mother figures, one due to her biological relationship to her twin brother, and one due to being her twin brother/father's father. Also, by the same logic, she is dating her aunt, but that is only because of the biological relationship she has with one of Ellen's father figures, so it probably doesn't count. And Magus seems to be ''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-06-06 another]]'' father, since he deliberately manipulated events that directly led to Ellen's creation. This is actually a plot point: apparently, the way her family tree is constructed is integral to Magus regaining his body. |
| 725 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Compared to Elliot. Ellen is by no means a bad person (her attempts at being the EvilTwin didn't work out very well), but even though she was created as a duplicate of the female Elliot, she is notably more insensitive and self-centered than he is. The reason for the change in personality can probably partially be blamed on the traumatic circumstances of her creation, partially on alter-Ellen's dream life, and partially on an intentional desire to make herself distinct from her "twin brother." |
| 726 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:Being born from magic made her able to resist Sirleck's control]]. |
| 727 | * UtilityMagic: One of her first spells is a flashlight beam from her hand. She thinks it's awesome. |
| 728 | * VerbalTic: Has picked up/inherited "Za?" from Elliot. |
| 729 | * WingedHumanoid: [[spoiler:The form that she briefly takes after the Dewitchery Diamond is destroyed appears to have wings]]. |
| 730 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Chronologically, she is less than a year old. Biologically, she is 17. Where it gets complicated is that in terms of memories and life experience, [[OlderThanTheyLook she has both Elliot's 17 years and around 18 years of alter-Ellen's dream life]]. |
| 731 | [[/folder]] |
| 732 | |
| 733 | [[folder:Diane]] |
| 734 | !!Diane |
| 735 | %% Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16646024440.10017700 |
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| 738 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1414767876_075_noah_diane.png]] |
| 739 | [[caption-width-right:220:[[labelnote:Click here to see her post-''Sister 3'' arc look.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1711852342_sb_240401_donotpush.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 740 | |
| 741 | ->''[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-06-19 "Elementary, my dear Lucy."]]''\ |
| 742 | \ |
| 743 | |
| 744 | The Queen Bee of Moperville South. She is often seen with Lucy and Rhoda, the latter of whom she is quite protective. She and Susan share an uncanny resemblance in both appearance and personality, the full ramifications of the relationship between the two only becoming clear much later in the comic. |
| 745 | ---- |
| 746 | |
| 747 | * ActionGirl: According to Tara's AuraVision, she has the ''potential'' to [[spoiler: become a vampire hunter, implying she shares Susan's affinity for conjured weapons. [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1699 This makes sense since they are revealed to be relatives.]] Diane is Raven's daughter and Susan is Raven's descendant]]. Even without that, she's quite fit from cheerleading, able to pull off some impressive flips. |
| 748 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: For some reason, when Diane takes a ''serious'' interest in someone (outside her GoldDigger tendencies), it's usually someone who's not available to her -- her sister's friend [[IncompatibleOrientation Rick]], Nanase (who's with Ellen and initially has a great dislike of Diane), and Elliot (who's dating Sarah, then Ashley, and is also weirded out by Diane looking like Susan). Eventually subverted when [[spoiler:she hits it off with Lucy]]. |
| 749 | * AlphaBitch: Was portrayed like this early on, where her first appearance involved trying to get Nanase to sit with her at lunch so they could lure boys over to spend money on them, but then... |
| 750 | * AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler: Apparently has an IfItsYouItsOkay thing towards Nanase, and is in a relationship with Sarah in an AU [=NP=] storyline. She then has TheBigDamnKiss with Lucy in the "Legend of Diane" story, and kisses her again after they talk after that kiss]]. She also seems to find [[spoiler:genderbent Elliot]] attractive. |
| 751 | * ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler:Before the "Legend of Diane" storyline, she was rather in denial about any attraction to women that she had, [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/tlod-014 framing any attraction to Nanase]] as an IfItsYouItsOkay thing because of how she was both very feminine and very masculine with her athleticism at the same time]]. |
| 752 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Does this unintentionally when talking to Susan, who has just said that while she admits that she can find women sexy, she doesn't want to do "things" with them. Diane then asks if that's different from how she feels about men, causing Susan to realize that it isn't. |
| 753 | ** In the "Legend of Diane" storyline, she gives one to Lucy, asking why she kept going on double-dates with her when she knew of the reputation that they were getting as sluts. |
| 754 | * AscendedExtra: Started out as a minor mean girl and antagonist for Nanase and the other Moperville South characters but years of character development have brought her into closer relationship with the rest of the core characters and bumped her up to being part of the main cast culminating in being the starring character of her own arc. |
| 755 | * TheBigDamnKiss: Gives one to [[spoiler: Lucy]] in the "Legend of Diane" storyline. |
| 756 | * BigSisterInstinct: Diane tries being mad at [[spoiler:Noah]] for telling Lucy that [[spoiler:Mr. Raven is Diane's biological father]] without her consent, but [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/brother-017 when she actually encounters him again]] all she can blurt out is how she's worried that he's not eating well. She even hits "Big Sister Mode: 100%" when [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/brother-018 she finds out she's a month older than him]]. |
| 757 | * BizarreAlienSenses: It's implied [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-221 here]] that [[spoiler: she shares her father's ability to "taste" magical potential through her ears]]. |
| 758 | * BreakTheHaughty: She was quite traumatized after "Sister III" and to make it worse the next day she overheard what everyone at school says about her behind her back. |
| 759 | * CharacterDevelopment: Gained a lot of depth from her initial portrayal as an AlphaBitch, and when ''she'' realizes it, she decides she needs alcohol. |
| 760 | * ClosetGeek: Got so exited about meeting the griffins that she dragged her friends to see ''Film/Warcraft2016'', she's also at least familiar with popular fantasy like ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 761 | * CompellingVoice: She has an innate talent for this kind of magic, which she's been using subconsciously [[spoiler:such as when challenging the rumors that her and Lucy were sluts]]. It doesn't actually control people's minds, but it makes people more likely to pay attention to her and makes her more convincing when she lies (or as Tedd puts it, gives her a [[RPGMechanicsVerse Charisma bonus]]). She still thinks it's a creepy power. |
| 762 | * CovertPervert: She blushes ''very heavily'' when people start transforming each other with a wand at Elliot's party. Additionally, when it's proposed that anyone who misuses the wand has their spell turned back on them as punishment, she votes in favor while admitting internally that she'd otherwise be tempted to misuse it herself. |
| 763 | * DaddysGirl: As a child, at least, she looked up to her father enough that [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-001 she did a paper on it]], since she couldn't just use him ''and'' her mom, and he's the exception to the "boys are jerks" viewpoint that she expresses. |
| 764 | * DayInTheLimelight: During the "Family Tree" storyline, she played a much larger role than usual. This continues in the "Legend of Diane" storyline. |
| 765 | * DidntSeeThatComing: Denying the rumors about her untrue ReallyGetsAround reputation was meant to sow suspicion among the liars who claimed to have done it with her, which would then extend to the rumors of Lucy by extension. She didn't expect people to start coming out and admitting that they ''did'' lie right then and there, and even admit to things ''not'' related to the whole mess, like one girl admitting that she kept the fact that she wasn't a virgin a secret from her friend, who calls a lot of girls sluts. |
| 766 | * TheDitz: ''Averted''. She can certainly act the part, and she's incredibly shallow, but she's quite sharp and observant. |
| 767 | * DoesNotLikeMen: Not to Susan's (pre-character development) extent, but she does assume men are jerks until proven otherwise. |
| 768 | ** This may be the reason why she is fixated on Elliot, who she overheard being described as very passive. |
| 769 | ** When younger she thought the boys in her class were all jerks and told them as much. |
| 770 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: She's the Queen Bee of her group (and probably her whole school), the only blonde of her GirlPosse and has a reputation of having had several boyfriends for GoldDigger reasons. [[spoiler: Another inversion of Susan, who was a natural blonde but refused to fuel the stereotype.]] |
| 771 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: Cuts her hair to chin-length after the events of ''Sister III'', particularly learning that Raven is her biological father. In an ImagineSpot, her younger self (who has the same hairstyle) characterizes doing so as a form of EmotionalRegression to deal with the trauma she experienced during the arc.]] |
| 772 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2415 This]] strip hints (and [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-017 this]] strip pretty much confirms) that some of her behavior was the result of getting a crush on her sister's gay friend when she was younger and not taking the rejection well]]. Diane later [[HeelRealization calls herself out]] on the fact that this wasn't really a good excuse for her behaviour at all. |
| 773 | * GirlPosse: Lucy, Rhoda. Lucy fades into the background for a while, and she treats Rhoda more like a daughter, so she doesn't quite count in later comics. |
| 774 | * GoldDigger: Shamelessly, at least after her MotiveDecay. Originally she wanted to find the "right guy", but after failing so many times, the right guy became a kind, compassionate, rich guy who will obey her every whim. |
| 775 | -->'''Rhoda:''' What if you just fall in love with someone someday and they fall in love with you?\ |
| 776 | '''Diane:''' [[SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids That's]] ''[[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids adorable]]''. |
| 777 | ** Upon realizing she was developing out of it, [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-06-05 she's shocked to the point of wanting to drink]]. She finally lets go of this [[spoiler:before asking Lucy out on a date.]] |
| 778 | * HappilyAdopted: If her relationship with her sister Rhea is any guide. A later flashback strip shows that she's also close to her adoptive father, or at least was, and planned to invoke this by adopting at least two kids when she got older, in addition to having at least two the normal way. Though meeting her biological father causes her some angst as to why he didn't know about her and why her biological mother gave her away. |
| 779 | * HeroicBastard: [[spoiler:Raven was almost certainly not married to her mother]]. |
| 780 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: She's not actively homophobic, but her heartlessly pragmatic approach to boys (they're for [[GoldDigger buying things]]) means that she has little use for gay boys (they won't buy her things, and will scare off boys who would). She's still amicable with her sister's gay friends and has no problem hanging out with Nanase and Ellen even after they've been outed. |
| 781 | ** [[spoiler:She's also a SecretSecretKeeper for Rhoda about her relationship with Catalina, and [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2415 this]] strip implies, with it later being confirmed, that her earlier behavior might have been because she had an IncompatibleOrientation crush on her sister's gay friend Rick, and not really getting over it, and she realizes that how she treated Justin was wrong and apologizes]]. |
| 782 | * HumiliationConga: After changing looks [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode after what happened in the mall]]]], she gets to overhear how people perceive her: |
| 783 | -->'''Shonen Girl:''' Whoever [[spoiler:saved that girl]] was ''selfless'' and ''cool''.\ |
| 784 | '''Curly Curls Girl:''' And that's not Diane? I don't know her really well...\ |
| 785 | '''Shonen Girl:''' Who would ''want'' to? |
| 786 | * IdenticalStranger: Distinguishable from Susan only by personality, fashion sense, and the fact that Susan is slightly taller later on.[[note]] and considering Susan had a slight growth spurt due to her magical awakening...[[/note]] They have the same face, the same build, the same voice, the same natural hair color, and they were apparently born only 20 minutes apart on New Year's. The subtext with her similarities to Susan is even more blatant [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-03-01 after the time skip]]: both girls have shown an interest in Elliot at the same time, although for drastically different reasons. While Susan has developed her friendship with Elliot by bonding over common interests, Diane apparently sees him as something to be used. During the Tengu arc, someone with magically-obtained knowledge on the subject has apparently confirmed (to the audience, at least) that the two are in fact identical twins separated at birth, or at least related in some other way. Justin's even suggested the theory that magic's flair for the dramatic increased their resemblance to each other. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that they're both descended from Raven, Diane more recently]]. |
| 787 | * IfItsYouItsOkay: It was a running gag that she feels this way towards [[AmazonianBeauty Nanase]]. [[spoiler:For a somewhat realistic take on the trope, it turns out that Nanase was actually a ClosetKey for Diane]]. |
| 788 | * ImportantHaircut: Gets one during the epilogue of the Changes arc, after the events at the mall. [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-004 She's still mulling over the exact reasons she got it]], and the reactions from others - both in-universe ''and'' out - have been mixed. |
| 789 | * InTheBlood: [[spoiler:Her father is Adrian, an [[HalfHumanHybrid elf]], making Diane one-quarter Immortal herself. This trait is cited as the reason behind her VampireHunter potential.]] |
| 790 | * IncompatibleOrientation: [[spoiler: Apparently she had a crush on her sister's gay friend, and didn't take learning that he was gay well]]. |
| 791 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Realising that [[spoiler:she may be developing ''real'' feelings for Elliot and ''wanting to have a real, romantic relationship'']] make her want to screw the rules and drink alcohol. |
| 792 | * JerkassRealization: When a few people talk about her after she cut her hair and they don't realize that she's there, she is shocked by the things that they say, like that she's a selfish slut. |
| 793 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Comes off as frosty and dismissive at first brush, but her protective nature towards Rhoda goes a way towards establishing that she's not all bad. Later events show repeatedly that there really is a kind person under Diane's crusty exterior- she's just ''really'' bad at showing it. |
| 794 | * LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: To both Susan, her great times something niece, and Raven her father]]. |
| 795 | * LovableAlphaBitch: She has several PetTheDog moments, including comforting Rhoda and Grace when they were upset. Also, it turns out she secretly idolizes Nanase, implying there was more to her actions during her first appearance than she let on. |
| 796 | * LoveRevelationEpiphany: When [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/tlod-025 Lucy reveals that she is in love with her]], Diane [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/tlod-029 realizes that she has the romance she always wanted with Lucy]]. |
| 797 | * MamaBear: She punches out a reporter trying to get Rhoda to interview for a men's magazine. |
| 798 | * MotiveDecay: As her imaginary younger version explains to her, this is how she ended up dating so many guys. While it started out as an attempt to find the perfect guy (for both her and Lucy), failure after failure resulted in her becoming jaded and she only continued dating out of habit and have boys spend money for her, especially after realizing that they were a little young to be thinking that way and that their dates weren't looking for anything so serious. At least, until she latched on the idea of Elliot being the perfect guy. |
| 799 | * NeatFreak: [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-02-01 "OK, you had both better have clean hands!"]] Another coincidence with Susan? |
| 800 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Puts on the act of a DumbBlonde because it attracts guys and because [[BrilliantButLazy it's easier than getting any work done]]. She's actually quite smart (and borderline conniving) when she wants to be, and even the ''very'' academically-capable Nanase thinks highly of her intelligence. |
| 801 | * ObliviousAdoption: Didn't realize that she and Rhea were adopted until she was six, and explains that she "didn't know how ethnicity worked" and just assumed sisters naturally had different skin colors. |
| 802 | * ObliviouslySuperpowered: Diane had no idea about her CompellingVoice until Tedd sensed her accidentally using it and explained it to her. She also doesn't know about [[spoiler:some of her half-elf traits, like the pointy ears she grows when resisting spells.]] |
| 803 | * PersonalityPowers: Being able to grab people's attention and influence their descions is a pretty fitting power for a LovableAlphaBitch. Although, she is a nice enough person that she doesn't want to ''actually'' control people's minds and of course can't actually make people think or do things they wouldn't want to. |
| 804 | * PointyEars: [[spoiler:When exposed to a burst of magic from an enchanted mirror in Tedd's basement, her ears become noticeably pointy, likely as a result of her being 1/4 Immortal, especially given Raven's comments on how Elf ears react to magic. They also seem to trigger based on emotion, since they appear when she tackles Noah and again when she hits Big Sister Mode while interrogating him]]. |
| 805 | * PolarOppositeTwins: Susan and Diane have almost diametrically opposed personalities. Diane is extroverted, impulsive, emotionally open, popular, and has a reputation for getting around. Susan is introverted, logic-driven, emotionally repressed, nerdy, and hasn't ever been on a date. Although they also have a lot in common, including their observational skills and {{deadpan|Snarker}} humour. |
| 806 | * ProneToTears: The Party reveals that there's actually quite a bit of empathy underneath her crabby exterior. Such as openly crying when Justin explained his desire to have a guy think he's attractive, and learning of Tedd's mother leaving due to his perceived lack of magic. |
| 807 | * ReallyGetsAround: It's [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-004 revealed in The Legend of Diane]] that she has a reputation for sleeping around at Moperville South despite still being a virgin. Ironically, she wasn't aware of this despite being one of the most observant characters in the series. She doesn't take it well. |
| 808 | * SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Knows about Rhoda's relationship with Catalina, but Rhoda hasn't admitted it to her yet]]. |
| 809 | * SelectiveObliviousness: While an expert at analyzing ''others'', as mentioned under SherlockScan regarding her ability to tell that Ellen and Grace are new students, once ''she'' enters the equation, things get significantly more difficult for her, at least on a conscious level. She even completely missed the rumors that were popping up about her and Lucy, despite Lucy rightly pointing out that she ''should'' have noticed that there were negative rumors about them as a result of all the dates that they go on (if not as widespread/negative as they apparently are), and Lucy's feelings for her. She actually has to imagine a ''second'' her to get the job done. She doesn't even realize that she's subconsciously emulated her younger version's hair and clothing style out of nostalgia for her pre-MotiveDecay self until it's pointed out to her. |
| 810 | * SherlockScan: Can immediately tell that Ellen and Grace are new students. In doing so, she gives a quick ShoutOut to [[Literature/SherlockHolmes the trope namer.]] |
| 811 | * ShoutOutThemeNaming: Like the other girls in her posse, Diane is named after a famous sitcom character. Her namesake is Diane Chambers from ''{{Series/Cheers}}''. |
| 812 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Her and Lucy's double dates started out as this before MotiveDecay started to set in upon realizing that their dates were just trying to enjoy things. Her interest in Elliot in the present is a sign that it's popping up again. |
| 813 | * StopOrIShootMyself: In the [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2017-12-20 2017-12-20 strip]], When she realizes that Jerry will be in serious trouble if she gets hurt, she uses this to extort information out of him. |
| 814 | -->'''Jerry:''' Well... I have a ''theory'', but she probably wouldn't want me to...\ |
| 815 | '''Diane:''' Gonna go hug vampires. |
| 816 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: She has a bloodline affinity for summoning magic weapons. |
| 817 | * SupernaturalSensitivity: [[spoiler:Like Raven, she can "taste" magic with her ears, or at least can when they briefly turn pointy at Tedd's party.]] |
| 818 | * SureLetsGoWithThat: Basically her reaction to the "truth-session" she inadvertently started. |
| 819 | * TalkingToThemself: Mentally manifests a version of herself as she was when she was twelve for some self-inspection in "The Legend of Diane". |
| 820 | * TeenGenius: In addition to the points mentioned above under ObfuscatingStupidity, Lucy makes [[https://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-007 a comment]] that hints that Diane has been tested and shown to have a genius-level IQ. |
| 821 | * {{Tsundere}}: |
| 822 | ** ''Trying'' to play at this. [[EpicFail She's failing]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1840 horribly.]] |
| 823 | ** She's genuinely this to her adoptive sister Rhea. After Not Tengu's defeat breaks the spell on all the party guests, she warns Nanase that she won't forgive her if she messes with Rhea's memory, because she loves her. Then she warns Nanase that telling Rhea that she loves her is equally unforgivable. |
| 824 | * TraumaButton: She reacts poorly to the knowledge she has a charisma-boosting spell, which she compares to mind-control, just like what the ArcVillain of ''Family Tree'' used on her loved ones and almost got her with. |
| 825 | * UnevenHybrid: [[spoiler:Is part-Immortal, courtesy of her biological father Raven]]. |
| 826 | * VampireHunter: According to both Tara and [[spoiler: the spider-vampire]], she has the potential to become one were she to ever awaken, but isn't anywhere near that point. [[spoiler: Later events reveal that vampire-slaying magic is InTheBlood for descendants of Pandora, which Diane is]]. |
| 827 | * WeirdnessCensor: She sees someone who looks ''exactly'' like her with blue hair... and doesn't even notice. When it's pointed out, she does admit there is some similarity, but doesn't see it as enough to get worked up over. [[spoiler: Although given that she deduces that Susan is her sister later based in part on that observation, it's likely that was denial talking.]] |
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| 830 | [[folder:Ashley]] |
| 831 | !!Ashley |
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| 837 | ->''[[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-021 "What am I, the Devil?!]] [[KarmicTransformation Why am I so good at thinking up disproportionate magic revenge?!"]]''\ |
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| 839 | |
| 840 | Ashley was introduced in the ''Identity'' story arc as a fan of Elliot's review show and Elliot himself. She's a perennial NiceGirl almost to a fault. She has a fondness for magic, transformation in particular. She enjoys writing transformation-based stories rooted in ironic punishments for those she believes deserves it. She has a dislike of labels, but if no other option is available she'd choose bisexual. |
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| 842 | |
| 843 | * AnimeHair: Not as noticeable in her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference first few appearances]], but played straighter as she's become a regular. She has six strands of hair that poke straight out and fall at perfect 90 degree angles and any time she loses her hairband, the strands of hair fall down too. It's not really clear ''how'' they're held up like that, but it is related to her ponytail. |
| 844 | * AudienceSurrogate: Ashley has more personality of her own than the typical example, but before getting entangled in the main cast and learning she's also a wizard, she basically was a just a [[{{Muggles}} normal girl]] more-or-less unaware of magic's existence, with an interest in reading [[TransformationComic transformation stories]], putting her experiences more in line with that of the EGS readership than most of the main cast, who started out knowing that magic was a thing and what it could do, or only became interested in transformation-shenanigans after being exposed to them. Part of her character arc is grappling with realizing that what she once thought of as harmless fantasy now actually is possible, and thus have actual consequences (especially [[spoiler: once she gains Kevin]]). |
| 845 | * BadLiar: While she points out that Elliot only has her word to go on on this for now, her first appearances were transparent {{Tsundere}} reactions towards Elliot ''as a concept'', while alone no less, that made her attraction blatantly obvious even before her CrushBlush started showing. Not to mention blurting out that Elliot's GenderBender situation makes him ''more'' attractive to her. If nothing else, she's very bad at lying to herself. |
| 846 | * BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Is notably less perky after Magus possesses Elliot. It's later shown that she's feeling some angst over her normal fantasies because of the potential to actually ''do'' them in real life with Kevin]]. |
| 847 | * CasualKink: While she's not explicit about it, she ''very'' quickly makes it known she's into the idea of being shrunken as she has an ImagineSpot about being shrunken, asks if there's a shrinking spell during a party, and outright told Elliot she'd like it if she was a fairy in his hands all the while with a blush on her face. |
| 848 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: She comes across as a {{Tsundere}} in her first appearances, unlike the straightforward NiceGirl she'd become. Shive admitted that he tweaked her personality after he decided to give her a bigger role than he'd originally intended. |
| 849 | * CovertPervert: She likes that [[spoiler:Elliot can transform into a girl]] because it reminds her of her favorite manga, ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. And later we get a hint of [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2063 another]] fetish she may have. |
| 850 | ** A later comic makes it clear she is, possibly, as perverted as Tedd! [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=501 But...her central goodness means she won't DO anything with it.]] |
| 851 | ** An ImagineSpot regarding [[http://egscomics.com/comic/party-020 her idea of Sarah's powers]] is rather telling as well. |
| 852 | ** As is her reaction when learning about[[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-007 Nanase's "duplicate" spell]]. |
| 853 | * CrushBlush: [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=729 "I don't have a crush on you."]] |
| 854 | ** Crosses into a LuminescentBlush quite often, as a result of Elliot saying something to get her [[CovertPervert a bit hot under the collar]]. |
| 855 | * CuteBookworm: Obsessively, apparently. |
| 856 | -->'''Liz''': Just ''stay away'' from the book store.\ |
| 857 | '''Ashley''': Why would I need to stay away from the book store books are great they're full of paper and have words in them. (''Liz gives her a silent DeathGlare. Over the phone.'') Okay yes'm I'll avoid the book store. |
| 858 | * TheCutie: She definitely has this in mind for herself when it comes to [[spoiler: [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2028 her date]] with Elliot]] |
| 859 | * DeathGlare: She gives a particularly mean one when she notices Tom tricking Susan. [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=740 Now in color!]] |
| 860 | * DesignatedDriver: She used to be invited to parties back when she lived in California [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-045 just to make coffee and herd drunk kids]], because she didn't drink. |
| 861 | * DisproportionateRetribution: She's ''good'' at thinking up these, usually with some kind of ironic twist... but she's far too much of a NiceGirl to ever actually ''do'' them, so they only appear in fantasy sequences or snippets from her written stories. This doesn't stop her from feeling guilty about having those thoughts and fantasies to begin with, though. |
| 862 | * ExpressiveHair: Her spiky hair things will occasionally bend or flop to match her expression. Sometimes it's [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-184 subtle]], sometimes [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2015-09-11 not so much]]. |
| 863 | * GenkiGirl: She has very big emotions, her face being very expressive. |
| 864 | * GreaterNeedThanMine: Despite finally having a chance to talk with Elliot, she ''had'' to remind herself that she'd been going to warn him about [[spoiler:[[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1781 her ex Tom manipulating Susan]]]]. |
| 865 | * IKnowMaddenKombat: Shows off her soccer skills by kicking a ball [[spoiler: to help Cheerleadra fight/distract the griffin [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2100 here]].]] |
| 866 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2016-08-19 This comic]] shows that although Ashley has an incredible desire to be able to transform others for reasons ranging from [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment ironic punishment]] to [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn personal growth]] to doing it [[ItAmusedMe just for giggles]] or a [[CasualKink sexual thrill]], that she is ''so'' good and pure not even Pandora can empower her, since Ashley instinctually knows using such powers in such a fashion is inherently wrong, and therefore [[spoiler:will never actually use the spell]], since as is said later, [[spoiler:magic wants to be used]]. This kind of conflict between potential spell affinities and other aspects of a person's personality are not that unusual, but what is, and what strikes Pandora, is how ''easily'' she can sense that transformation affinity despite that goodness preventing her from actually giving Ashley a mark for it. |
| 867 | * KarmicTransformation: She's a huge fan of the trope and enjoys writing stories in which people turn into what they are against. |
| 868 | ** [[spoiler:This causes her some angst after she gets Kevin, because she's worried that her fantasies are wrong, especially since she could potentially ''do'' some of that stuff]]. |
| 869 | ** Veers towards DisproportionateRetribution (or at least the fantasy of it), because her ImagineSpot concerning transforming Sarah in an embarrassing way is based on nothing but her personal mistrust towards Sarah because the latter is Elliot's ex. |
| 870 | * KeepingSecretsSucks: [[spoiler:Is obviously not a fan of keeping the events of her second date secret from Liz]]. |
| 871 | * LogicalLatecomer: Unlike the members of the main cast who have been around since the start of the comic's run, Ashley isn't used to the constant stream of magic hijinks and monster attacks that has suddenly become part of her life. As such she tends to do things like [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/sister3-291 break down crying after being kidnapped]] or struggle not to freak out [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-203 after being transformed involuntarily]] when many of the other characters would just shrug and get ready for the next disaster. |
| 872 | * LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Tells Elliot she likes him [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1785 here]]]]. |
| 873 | * MagikarpPower: As of the un-change, [[http://egscomics.com/comic/sister3-285 her magic levels are no higher than those of the average]] {{Muggle}}, which means it will take a lot of time and effort for her to Awaken. But as a wizard, once she does Awaken [[http://egscomics.com/comic/sister3-286 she will be able to learn other's spells]] in addition to those she is granted by the Will of Magic, giving her a much higher potential power level than most of the cast, who are stuck with Will-Of-Magic granted spells. |
| 874 | * MsImagination: Far less of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} than the usual examples of this trope, and really she seems more ashamed of this part of herself than anything... but she's prone to lapse into rather detailed and dramatic {{Fantasy Sequence}}s if something excites her or turns her on. |
| 875 | * NiceGirl: So incredibly pure and good that it actually makes Nanase suspicious. |
| 876 | * NoNameGiven: It took multiple appearances in the comic for Ashley to finally get a name. For a while, it was a bit of a RunningJoke in TheRant for Dan to berate himself for not writing a situation where someone said "Ponytail Girl's" name out loud early on. [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1779 He's finally rectified it]]. |
| 877 | * OurMagesAreDifferent: She is a wizard, albeit a weak one. |
| 878 | * PerkyGoth: With her emotional attitude, friendship with Liz, and attire [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1821 in this picture]], it can be assumed that she is this. |
| 879 | * PowerPerversionPotential: One of the Patreon Pinups features her straddling Elliot and calling him while he's [[spoiler: shape-shifted in his Cheerleadra form, in which his phone and its functionality - including ''vibrating alerts'' - become a part of him.]] Dan even mentions in a comment that the only thing keeping this scene from being canon is that they haven't had an in-story opportunity to do it yet. |
| 880 | * RunningGag: Anytime something weird happens, she gets asked if she has any questions, to which she answers yes... and she doesn't actually ask any questions about it out of politness. |
| 881 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: She not only caught Elliot shape-shifting, but she ''volunteered to be his lookout'']]. |
| 882 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: She was introduced as a total goodie-two-shoes type character, even to the point of ignoring her curiosity and not asking Ellen and Nanase any questions about magic on the grounds that, [[https://egscomics.com/comic/2015-12-30 "I'm not going to pry. We've only just met. And I trust you'll volunteer anything I might need to know."]] This makes Nanase suspicious, but nothing comes of it as Ashley is exactly as nice as she presents herself. |
| 883 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: Happens twice in "So a Date At the Mall". While everyone is suggesting reasons for Andrea's erractic movements, [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2015-11-30 she asks if Andrea just has a bad sense of direction]]. Later on, Nanase is trying to contact Elliot with her fairy doll, but it hasn't been working all night. [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-03-09 Ashley wonders if]] it's because Elliot isn't currently [[SuperGenderBender Elliot]]. Both of these are completely correct. |
| 884 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: A potential subversion. She's a wizard, which means she should be [[spoiler:descended from immortals]], and likely has at least one wizard parent or other relative. Probably, anyway. Arthur seems to think that her wizard-hood is entirely the result of [[spoiler:being near the Dewitchery Diamond when it exploded]], and not from anything about her family tree. |
| 885 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: She's obviously kidding herself when she says she doesn't have a crush on Elliot. |
| 886 | * TheTeetotaler: She doesn't drink alcohol, and suspects she got invited to other parties full of unsupervised teenagers drinking alcohol to be the designated sober person. |
| 887 | * TouchedByVorlons: Arthur believes that her wizard-hood, despite her average at best power, is a result of [[spoiler:her being near the Dewitchery Diamond when it exploded. Either it made her a wizard entirely, or she's a kind of wizard that has gone unnoticed until now, and energy released just woke it up]]. |
| 888 | * TransChaser: Her favorite Manga is ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', and while she already had an interest in Elliot earlier, she crushes on him ''really'' hard after witnessing his transformation into a girl. |
| 889 | * TwinThreesomeFantasy: After learning about Nanase's duplicate spell, Ashley immediately thinks about cloning herself and having both herself and her clone suggestively offer to watch a movie with Elliot. |
| 890 | * UnfazedEveryman: [[spoiler: While she's surprised, she doesn't react negatively to Elliot [[PowerIncontinence accidentally shapeshifting in front of her]], and in fact offers to help him stay under the radar.]] |
| 891 | * WrongContextMagic: Despite her wizardhood, she has unusually low magic power, and unprecedented anomaly to the magic community. |
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