Line #44 Characters/DestructiveHarmonics


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3	[[folder: Maenad]]
4	! The Band
5
6	!! Band Tropes
7	* ArtistDisillusionment: They don't ''hate'' their fans, exactly, but sometimes they find them irritating and a bit disturbing even by NightmareFetishist standards (not without reason - it's not as if the amount of SeriousBusiness in their fandom encourages sane and temperate behavior.)
8	* BunnyEarsLawyer: For all their other failings and eccentricities, they're all talented musicians.
9	%%* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Crouching Ditz Hidden Badass]]: They're surprisingly good at handling [[WeirdnessMagnet bizarrely dangerous situations]] even without [[BattleButler Artemisia]]'s help. (It's the mundane dangers they have more trouble with.)
10	* CutenessProximity: to greater or lesser degrees. Given their NightmareFetishist tendencies, this is sometimes provoked by unlikely creatures.
11	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Maenad is popular with women of all orientations.
12	* Fiction500: "according to the IRS, we officially have too much money."
13	* FreakyIsCool: all of them, to varying degrees, sometimes to the point of [[NightmareFetishist Nightmare Fetishism]].
14	* MultinationalTeam: American, Canadian, Swedish.
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16	!! Valerian Nightshade (Teuila) (lead vocals, lyricist)
17	* BerserkButton: Brutalist architecture, mostly because she thinks the name is false advertising considering the lack of portcullises, dungeons, spiky metal bits, and poles on which to impale the heads of one's enemies.
18	** And don't question her gender or femininity.
19	* BigGirl: Very much a Type 3. She's a bit of a marshmallow for a very tall, perpetually black clad former dominatrix turned heavy metal vocalist.
20	* BrawnHilda: She's a 6'2" plus-size contralto profundo who can carry both guitarists at the same time. (Although to be fair, Yanang is tiny and Lilja is quite thin.)
21	* DarkMessiah: speculated to be so by those who think Maenad are people of metaphysical significance, but Val herself denies it.
22	--> "For God's sake, people, ''I am not the Messiah''!"
23	--> "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian She's a very naughty girl]]."
24	%%* EverybodyHatesMathematics: she does, at least. Her outstanding suckitude at matters mathematical probably contributed a lot to her lack of respect for her own intellectual prowess.
25	* FaceOfAThug: Her naturally intimidating appearance is an advantage in her current job, but caused her problems in high school.
26	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She likes the beer.
27	* HeroicBastard: her parents' relationship ended when her mom went back to South Africa, and they never did wind up getting married. Val has her father's last name because he's the one who raised her.
28	* MakeMeWannaShout: Unintentional variant. She gave up on DeathMetal because her lower register tended to break things and make listeners [[BrownNote acutely uncomfortable.]]
29	* StatuesqueStunner: She's 6'3" in her socks.
30	* StoutStrength: She deliberately cultivates this.
31	--> "For one thing, toned fat looks better than flabby fat, in my opinion, and also, if people still insist on giving you crap about your looks, it's easier to fling them across the room."
32	* VerbalTic: She, uh, tends to use a fair amount of, y'know, speech fillers.
33
34	!! Lilja Lakebetonika (lead guitar)
35	* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: She has worse tolerance than Violet, who is ''tiny.''
36	* ChubbyChaser: It isn't made a big deal of, but she tends to be attracted to women who are curvier than is fashionable.
37	* DefrostingIceQueen: While she doesn't lose all her arrogance, she gradually becomes a little friendlier and more emotionally open with her bandmates.
38	* ForgetsToEat: She tends to lose her appetite when she's under stress. Excellent for maintaining her slender figure, not so great for keeping her energy up on long, demanding tours.
39	* LethalChef: She's managed to ruin ramen, toast, and tea. Fortunately, she knows her limits.
40	* LipstickLesbian: She prefers women for the most part. Oddly enough, she doesn't actually wear makeup offstage except for media appearances, but she spends enough time on hair care to make up for it.
41	* PetitePride: At the very least, being on the flat side hasn't ''hurt'' her body image any.
42	%%* PickyEater: justified, since she has a lot of allergies and food intolerances.
43	* StatuesqueStunner: she's a little over 5'10" in her socks, and quite pretty if you like thin, leggy, flat-chested blondes.
44	* TheUnfavorite: Her parents were preoccupied with her [[LittlestCancerPatient chronically ill]] twin brother (both before and after his death) and didn't pay much attention to Lilja unless they needed a blood donor.
45	* VanityIsFeminine: Although, to be fair, fame tends to make people self-conscious.
46	* VerbalTic: She very rarely uses contractions and occasionally falls into mild PoirotSpeak, although her overall grasp of English is pretty good.
47
48	!! Musa Hawthorne (drummer, lyrics)
49	* CoolBigSis: She's a few years older than the other girls, has the most [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll worldly experience]], and winds up listening to a lot of their personal problems that they don't consider urgent enough to take to Artemisia. However, she resists being thought of as the TeamMom.
50	--> "How about I'm the 'cool aunt who's a bad influence?'"
51	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl / LadyDrunk: sits somewhere between these two, as she's more jaded than the stereotypical HardDrinkingPartyGirl but more playful and less bitter (usually) than the usual LadyDrunk. She is, however, the heaviest drinker in the band under normal circumstances.
52	%%* ImmuneToDrugs: which has its downsides, like the reduced efficacy of most painkillers.
53	%%* OccidentalOtaku: with a particular fondness for MindScrew anime.
54	* OhMyGods: She tends to invoke the deities of Ancient Egypt in various creative ways.
55	* OneNoteCook: She's not bad in the kitchen, but she has a hard time wrapping her mind around the idea of recipes that contain no alcohol in any form. (Pasta sauce: vodka. Potato soup: white wine. Brownies: coffee liqueur.)
56	* SadClown: in a way, she's a bit of a mess underneath the amiably cynical sense of humor.
57	* TheSmartGuy: She's the most book-smart person in the band proper, although this doesn't keep her out of trouble.
58	* StepfordSmiler: She's got a lot of issues relating to her family and her old band that she does her best not to think about. When they come up anyway, DrowningMySorrows tends to come into effect.
59
60	!! Yanang Bai (rhythm guitar)
61	* {{Bifauxnen}}: The only one in the band with short hair, and was mistaken for a boy more than once before she got famous.
62	* TheBigGuy: she's a tiny Hmong woman, but has the [[BoisterousBruiser attitude]], and she's strong for her size.
63	* BookDumb: She's prone to EskimosArentReal moments (such as her belief that mistletoe is a myth) and isn't much of a scholar, but she's a talented musician and has a lot of odd skills.
64	* CordonBleughChef: She's not as technically incompetent as Lilja, but her recipes tend to be excessively spicy even by most Southeast Asian standards.
65	* CuteLittleFangs: In-story, they're unusually prominent [[http://www.julieinjapan.com/2009/05/yaeba-cute-crooked-teeth-in-japan.html yaeba]]. Her immigrant entrepreneur family didn't have the money for cosmetic dentistry, and by the time she could afford to have them straightened they'd become part of her image.
66	%%* FagHag: more during her days in LA than now, given the lack of males of any orientation in the main cast.
67	* FriendToBugs: she has a pet tarantula.
68	%%* TheGadfly: particularly towards Violet, in an effort to test the boundaries of her usual niceness.
69	* PetTheDog: she's been putting her younger siblings through college since she made it big.
70	* ShonenHair: she developed her particular variation during her punk days, as a result of having hair that was naturally about sixty percent cowlicks.
71	* UnknownRival: to [[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]], temporarily, after discovering that Ms. Maddow came out ahead of her in an [[SeriousBusiness online "Hottest Butch Women" list.]]
72
73	!! Violet Aciano (bassist)
74	* AuthorAvatar: Not exactly, but she does have the most interests (marine biology, baking) and personality traits (vegetarianism, love of animals, odd sense of humor, highly-strung nervous system) in common with her creator.
75	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally, she's a kind and cheerful young woman, but she can be a little emotionally volatile at times. Her bandmates have exaggerated this tendency and live in fear of Violet ''really'' losing her temper and bringing on TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
76	* ChasteHero: She's the only band member who's still a virgin, and if she ''isn't'' oblivious to Yanang's occasional crude flirtation, she hasn't said anything.
77	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has her moments, although it can be hard to tell how much of the weird stuff she says is an honest reflection of how she sees the world, and how much is her odd sense of humor at work.
78	* ContractualPurity: While she's not officially held to stricter standards of purity than the rest of Maenad - their manager tries to keep her away from hard drugs, but that's more out of pseudo-parental concern than a desire to preserve her image - some of her fanbase does hold her to exaggeratedly lofty standards of innocence for an adult woman in a decidedly non straight-edge rock band. She's been criticized as a Bad Role Model For Young Girls for doing things like wearing skirts shorter than school dress codes allowed and consuming alcohol in public when she was of legal drinking age.
79	* FeminineWomenCanCook: She's fairly feminine compared with her bandmates (although more girlish than womanly) and shows the most interest in the culinary arts, although she concentrates more on sweets than on real meals.
80	* GranolaGirl: She's a vegetarian, loves animals, doesn't wear leather or fur, drinks a lot of herb tea, recycles her soda and vodka bottles, and enjoys walking around barefoot in warm weather. To Yanang, this makes her practically the AnthropomorphicPersonification of hippiedom. She does, in fact, eat a lot of granola, but that's mostly because she ''likes'' it and other kinds of sugary cereal don't react well with her weird metabolism.
81	* TheHeart: lampshaded.
82	--> "Officially, I'm the bass player, but my real job is to keep the two guitarists from killing each other."
83	* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents died when she was young, and she's lived with her aunt and uncle ever since.
84	* SweetTooth: Unfortunately, she suffers from mild low blood sugar on occasion so she can't overdo it.
85	* WomanChild: She wears barrettes, collects stuffed toys, and is the band's "younger sister" figure.
86
87	!! Liana
88	Maenad's original bassist, who left the band in 2007.
89	* CallToAgriculture: She eventually moved to a small organic farm in rural New England after leaving the band.
90	* ThePeteBest: for Violet
91
92	! Maenad employees and associates
93
94	!! Artemisia Mandrake
95	The long-suffering manager. A small, geeky, quietly hypercompetent Norwegian-British woman a little older than Musa. The band knows just enough about her to know that she has HiddenDepths, although they're not entirely sure about the details. Yanang has speculated that she's actually a killer robot lawyer from the future, or at least a cyborg.
96	* ActionGirl: She's a trained martial artist. This comes in handy more often than you'd think in her line of work.
97	%%* AntiHero: probably a Type 4. She can be ruthless, but she needs provocation.
98	%%* BadassBookworm: or as the girls put it, "ninja librarian."
99	%%* IronLady: mostly when dealing with other high-powered businesspeople, although she's not a pushover at any time.
100	* LadyOfWar: Polite, dignified, and can kick your ass in a skirt and sensible pumps.
101	* MamaBear: Do ''not'' threaten any Maenad member's life or long-term welfare. Artie will not be happy.
102	%%* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In a way, although it's oriented towards the impact people could have on Maenad and its members rather than their conduct toward Artemisia herself. Artemisia is fully conscious of this.
103	* RavenHairIvorySkin: Her hair's actually very dark brown, but she fits the high-contrast aesthetic.
104	%%* RedEyesTakeWarning: slightly. Her eyes are distinctly reddish (although more maroon than true red) and she can be pretty ruthless, although she's not gratuitously evil.
105	* ScaryShinyGlasses: She can do a [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]] impression ''regardless of where she is in relation to the light sources in the room.'' Now that is a talent.
106	* StoicWoobie: She's been putting up with Maenad and the associated, sometimes life-threatening craziness for ''years.''
107	* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's not one for showy displays of emotion, which she considers unprofessional and potentially dangerous, but she cares in her way.
108
109	!! Ivy Choi
110	A Chinese-American record producer who's been in the business since the seventies, although due to a few peculiarities of her medical history, she looks a bit younger than she is.
111	* CoolBigSis: Like Musa, is in the position of "older and more worldly, but not really maternal."
112	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She's the only character who can keep up with Musa in the ''Film/WithnailAndI'' DrinkingGame.
113	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The combination of very pale hair + bangs + trademark big sunglasses makes her look rather like an older, Asian Music/LadyGaga with a slightly more conservative fashion sense.
114	* SunglassesAtNight: She has enough issues with light sensitivity that she decided to just wear them all the time.
115	* SuperSenses: Relatively mundane version - she has ears like a bat. [[DontExplainTheJoke In terms of capabilities, not]] [[LittleBitBeastly appearance.]]
116
117	!! Doctor Alaria Ajowan
118	Maenad's physician. She's mysterious and eccentric, but undeniably good at her job.
119	* BioAugmentation: She acquired lab-grown prosthetic eyes (which she grew herself) at some point in the past.
120	* BollywoodNerd: She doesn't talk about her past much, but she seems to be South Asian, and she's definitely a science geek.
121	* BunnyEarsLawyer: She has a slight MadScientist streak, but it doesn't interfere with her work.
122	* DarkIsNotEvil: She's not a ''bad'' person at all, just a bit creepy and eccentric.
123	* DefectorFromDecadence: She was rejected by her former colleagues for using her discoveries to do things like [[MundaneUtility create assistive technology for people with disabilities]] instead of making {{Super Soldier}}s.
124	* UhOhEyes: she grew them herself! They work just fine, but their appearance is a bit disconcerting.
125
126	!! Margerit
127	Maenad's chef, a highly skilled, basically unflappable Danish woman.
128
129	!! Employee #00314, aka "Pi"
130	The world's unluckiest roadie, who has been Maenad's loyal employee for several uncomfortably eventful years.
131	* HollywoodCyborg: Let's just say it's a good thing that Maenad's medical plan covers cybernetic prosthetics.
132	* IronButtmonkey: His employers' [[MalevolentArchitecture house has tried to eat him alive]] on more than one occasion, and yet he carries on.
133	%%* MauveShirt
134	%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
135
136	!! Maenad minions
137	%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ruby
138	%%* AmbiguouslyGay: Ruby
139	%%* BlindWithoutEm: Alejandro
140	%%* BrawnHilda: Ruby
141	%%* DarkActionGirl: Ruby
142	%%* GeekPhysiques: Carey is the skinny type
143	%%* GenkiGirl: Roxanne
144	%%* LovableNerd: Carey
145	%%* MauveShirt
146	%%* NerdGlasses: Alejandro
147	* SassySecretary: Layla, at times, although she's choosy about when to bring out the snark.
148	* SemperFi: Ruby served in the Marines at one point. Unfortunately, [[AmbiguouslyGay rumors about her sexuality]] didn't improve her career prospects in the military.
149	* ThemeNaming: after various {{One Woman Song}}s (or the male equivalent)
150
151	!! Doctor Magnolia Oakmoss
152	Band therapist and Southern Lady. She has her [[AxeCrazy little]] [[CuteAndPsycho quirks]], but who doesn't? And she has [[AffablyEvil such lovely manners]].
153	* BunnyEarsLawyer: When her habit of murdering people is out of the picture, she's a perfectly competent therapist, and she does manage to help Maenad.
154	* CatchPhrase: "Why, bless your heart..."
155	* CuteAndPsycho: She's very feminine and always minds her manners, when she isn't murdering people. Fortunately, she's managed to behave herself while working for the band.
156	* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl]]: compared to her, everyone in the band is a bit butch.
157	* TheShrink: Doesn't fit any of the usual stereotypes, since she's competent at her job, but has some fairly serious personal failings of her own.
158	* SouthernBelle: She never wears white before Easter, and you will pry her hairspray from her cold, dead hands.
159	* SweetHomeAlabama: She's ''very'' Southern in some ways (big on the hairspray and sweet tea), but open-minded enough to get along reasonably well with a multiethnic group of bisexual rock stars, even if she does think their fashion sense needs work.
160	[[/folder]]
161
162	[[folder: Other Maenad-verse characters]]
163
164	! Families
165
166	!! Valerian's family
167	Valerian grew up surrounded by the relatives on her father's side (the Teuilas, most of whom settled in Hawaii), but didn't meet her mother or any of the other people on the South African side of her family until she reached her twenties.
168	* ApronMatron: Huihana Teuila (Val's grandmother) is not to be messed with.
169	* TheClan: at the very least, she has a lot of relatives compared to her bandmates.
170	* TheFundamentalist: Huihana, although she mellows a bit eventually.
171	* GentleGiant: Kamani, Val's father, at least when he isn't in the ring.
172	* {{Goth}}: Valerian's mother. How do you think Val wound up with a middle name like Nightshade?
173	* MissingMom
174	* ProfessionalWrestling: Kamani's primary occupation, although he's also a BMovie and TV actor, and he focused more on acting once he hit middle age.
175
176	!! Violet's family
177	Violet was orphaned as a preschooler, and grew up living with her aunt and uncle in Beaver Tracks, a small town on the British Columbian coast.
178	* JewishMother: Jewish aunt, actually, but a similar shtick.
179	* JewsLoveToArgue: some of her relatives are like this.
180	* MyBelovedSmother: Violet's aunt was annoyingly protective of her, both from her innate personality and out of a belief that Violet was particularly fragile.
181	* {{Nephewism}}
182
183	!! Artemisia's family
184	Artemisia's parents are Magnus Ravnen, a Norwegian supervillain with a cult fan following, and Lily Mandrake, a British accountant Magnus originally hired to help look after his "legitimate" financial interests.
185	* AntiVillain: Magnus, before he retired.
186	* BadassLongRobe: Magnus is a fan of "medieval chic."
187	* BrainyBrunette: Lily
188	* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: like his daughter, he's a fan of swords.
189	* HappilyMarried
190	* HarmlessVillain: Magnus is competent and creative, but isn't psychologically cut out for real evil. His legitimately employed daughter is actually more ruthless.
191	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Magnus is thin but tall (over six feet), Lily is around 5'2".
192	* HypercompetentSidekick: they're both good at their jobs, but Lily has the common sense, attention to mundane details, and financial aptitude to complement Magnus' MadScientist / Mad Artist tendencies.
193	* NobleDemon: Magnus again.
194	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: both of them, although Magnus has blue eyes and Lily's are brown.
195	* RedemptionPromotion: Magnus gets a lot more done when he's behaving constructively.
196	* [[RetiredOutlaw Retired Supervillain]]: Magnus. He's a bit too nice to be a RetiredMonster.
197	* WickedCultured: Magnus writes poetry and is a fan of classical music.
198
199	!! Musa's family
200	Musa's family hails from a smallish, mildly depressing (at least by Musa's standards) city in Eastern Washington. Her immediate family consists of her parents Frasier and Lantana, her older sister Erica, and Musa herself.
201	* CoolOldLady: Great-Aunt Saffron. She's the only relative whom Musa actually ''likes''.
202	* ItsAllAboutMe: Erica is the ''queen'' of this.
203	* MuseAbuse: some of the celebrities in Erica's RomanAClef and VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory novels bear an awfully strong resemblance to the various members of her sister's band. This has not helped family harmony any.
204	* ParentalFavoritism: Frasier and Lantana spent a lot more time and energy on Erica than on Musa. Both sisters acknowledge this, although they both feel that this state of affairs has somehow wronged them. Erica's more vocal about it.
205	* WritersSuck: Erica's not exactly a ButtMonkey, and she has some talent, but she's also monstrously self-absorbed and totally lacking scruples.
206
207	!! Yanang's family
208	While Yanang and her siblings were born in the United States, the older generation are all immigrants. One of Yanang's uncles fought in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War Secret War]] and claims to have CIA connections of an unspecified nature, her parents earned their living in a more mundane fashion by opening a Southeast Asian fast food joint in East LA.
209	* AnImmigrantsTale
210	* {{Open Minded Parent}}s: eventually. They're just happy their wayward daughter is managing to earn a living at something she's good at.
211	* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Yanang's grandmother, after her stroke cost her most of her "brain to mouth" filter.
212	* ThemeNaming: after various Southeast Asian culinary herbs. Bai Horapha (Thai basil), Bai Makrut (lime leaves), et cetera.
213
214	!! Lilja's family
215	* LittlestCancerPatient: Lilja's twin brother Lars.
216	* ParentalFavoritism: their parents were so preoccupied with Lars's medical issues that they didn't pay much attention to Lilja unless they needed a blood donation. This preoccupation extended to after Lars's death.
217	* SoapOperaDisease: Lars unfortunately suffered from this for much of his childhood.
218
219
220	! Other Characters
221
222	!! Erik Mortiisson (a Norwegian-American lumber baron and the former owner of Maenad's CoolHouse)
223	* AffablyEvil: he thinks of himself this way.
224	* CoolOldGuy
225	* EccentricMillionaire
226	* TheHedonist: he devoted his retirement to (mostly relatively harmless) debauchery and scandalizing his children and adult grandchildren.
227	* ShoutOut: Mortiis is the stage name of a Norwegian musician.
228
229	!! The Assassin
230	* AsceticAesthetic: her apartment.
231	* CombatSadomasochist
232	* DarkActionGirl
233	* FanDisservice: a scarred-up but otherwise attractive woman who runs around naked and brutally murders people.
234	* FullFrontalAssault
235	* PsychoForHire
236	* PsychoLesbian: has a rather squicky obsession/crush on Artemisia.
237
238	!! The Apprentice
239	* GoodThingYouCanHeal
240	* IronButtMonkey
241
242	!! Laugh of the Medusa (Musa's first band, a mid through late nineties feminist AlternativeRock group)
243	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Sage, the drummer.
244	* DysfunctionJunction: towards the end of their career, they were worse than Maenad when it came to mental health and basic functionality.
245	* FloralThemeNaming: Musa (lead vocals, guitar), Yuri (bass), Lotus (guitar), and Sage (drums).
246	* FourGirlEnsemble
247	* TheNineties
248	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lotus's appearance was based on Music/ToriAmos.
249	* TheOphelia: Lotus, particularly on the last tour when the stress started getting to her and her mental health took a serious downturn.
250	* ShoutOut: the band name is a reference to a feminist essay by Helene Cixous.
251
252	!!Ginger Sorel
253	Violet's best friend from high school, a half-Quebecois city girl whose family moved to Beaver Tracks when Violet was fifteen.
254	* DarkIsNotEvil: she's a firm believer in this, and as a good-hearted NightmareFetishist, is an example herself.
255	* NewTransferStudent
256	* NightmareFetishist: she sought Violet out as a friend because Violet gave the impression of being the least "normal" girl at their school.
257	* PerkyGoth: friendly enough to bring Violet out of her self-imposed shell.
258	* SatelliteCharacter: played with. She's only in the story because of her friendship with Violet, but when they were in school together, Violet was Ginger's sidekick.
259
260	!! Robert Candlemass
261	* GuyOfTheWeek
262	* JerkAss
263	* [[AnvilOnHead Meteorite On Head]]
264	* ThemeNaming
265	* WritersSuck
266
267	!! Adrian Negura-Bunget
268	* AffablyEvil: he and Valerian actually got along very well. Too bad he was sent by an apocalyptic cult in order to knock Val up with the {{Antichrist}}.
269	* {{Expy}}: while his personality is rather different, he looks a lot like Vamp from the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series. He's also Romanian and a flamenco dancer.
270	* GuyOfTheWeek
271	* TallDarkAndHandsome
272	* ThemeNaming
273
274	!! Susperia Tristwood
275	* {{Fainting}}: "anemia faint" variety, justified because she's borderline anorexic.
276	* GirlOfTheWeek
277	* GranolaGirl: of a different variety from Violet - a little less "hippie" and a little more "leftist ideological purity."
278	* StaircaseTumble: fortunately, she lands on [[IronButtMonkey Pi]] before she can fall too far.
279	* ThemeNaming
280
281	!! Lycanthia Darkwell
282	* AmbiguouslyBrown
283	* PluckyOfficeGirl
284	* {{Polyglot}}
285	* PunchClockVillain
286	* ThemeNaming
287
288	!! Doctor Love
289	* AmbiguouslyBrown: apparently dark-skinned, but the [[MaskedLuchador luchador mask]] he wears makes it difficult to determine much else.
290	* CasanovaWannabe
291	* ChivalrousPervert: considers himself to be such, although women tend to find him annoying at best.
292	* DrugsAreBad: according to Musa, he's a lot more tolerable when he ''isn't'' tanked to the gills on E and spiced rum.
293	* LargeHam: uses more CAPSLOCK in his dialogue than the rest of the cast put together.
294	* NoIndoorVoice
295	* ThirdPersonPerson
296
297	!! Linnea Hammerfall
298	* TheFashionista: more alternative fashion than haute couture.
299	* {{Open Minded Parent}}
300	* ParentalSubstitute: for Lilja.
301	* ThemeNaming: followings FloralThemeNaming for her first name, and [[Music/HammerFall Musical References]] for her surname.
302
303	[[/folder]]
304
305	[[folder: Seax]]
306
307	!! The band
308	* TrueCompanions
309	* WeirdnessMagnet: not Maenad level, but there was that time they summoned the plesiosaur...
310
311	!! Aryn (lead vocals, Danish)
312	* BoisterousBruiser
313	* LargeHam: he's what would result if the hypothetical biologically-impossible love child of [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Liquid Snake]] were a Scandinavian heavy metal singer.
314	* ManlyGay
315	* TestosteronePoisoning: MANLINESS is a major factor in his decision-making process.
316	* WalkingShirtlessScene: yes, in Scandinavia. Aryn is a ''real man''.
317
318	!! Didrik (guitar, Norwegian)
319	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: to be fair, as a psychic he honestly does perceive the world differently from other people.
320	* ISeeDeadPeople
321	* {{Moe}}
322	* NoSocialSkills: raised by lichenologists in the Scandinavian arctic, Didrik has problems with social skills.
323
324	!! Hallbjorn (drums, Icelandic)
325	* GeniusBruiser
326	* GentleGiant
327	* OnlySaneMan: at times.
328	* PsychicPowers
329	* TokenMinority: his father was a native Siberian, which makes him the only member of the band with recent non-Scandinavian ancestry.
330
331	!! Konstantin (bass, Swedish)
332	* BigBrotherInstinct: his relationship with Amalthea has elements of this.
333	* TheCharmer: it works on everyone but his manager.
334	* DitzyGenius: he's book-smart, but has a tendency to focus on specific details while completely missing the point of a situation as a whole.
335	* StoicSpectacles
336	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Elisa and Amalthea manage to get him into drag at one point. He carries it off quite well.
337
338	!! Matthias (Hardanger fiddle, Norwegian)
339	* BerserkButton: mentioning the BlackMetal scene of his hometown is a good way to get him in rant mode.
340	* TheEeyore: mild example, intended as a reference to the "depressing side" of Scandinavian culture (Creator/IngmarBergman et al).
341	%% * ParentalAbandonment
342	* PreachersKid: his aunt, who raised him after his parents died in a "freak fishing accident," is a Lutheran minister.
343
344	!! Elisa (manager, Norwegian)
345	* AscendedFangirl: became a band manager because she loved music but wasn't particularly talented at songwriting or performing.
346	* ElegantGothicLolita: she normally dresses in Gothic Aristocrat style (similar to EGL, but with longer skirts and more grownup aesthetic), but she tones the frills down for business meetings.
347	* FanGirl: of Artemisia Mandrake.
348	* GuileHero: she has no combat training, but she gets things done.
349	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: she looks a lot like Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko.
350
351	!! Amalthea Lovelace
352	An American singer and pianist who made friends with the band on their first tour of America, and later provided soprano vocals for some of their songs. See Characters/{{Helix}} for more information about her.
353
354	[[/folder]]
355
356	[[folder: Other Characters]]
357
358	!! Naomi Lovelace
359	Amalthea's older sister, a multimillionaire inventor and part-time adventurer. See Characters/{{Helix}}.
360
361
362	!! Delilah Savage
363	An American DifferentlyPoweredIndividual, with an outstanding talent for not dying despite considerable provocation, who has, among other things, worked as an actress (in both off-beat PornWithPlot and legitimate drama), musician, and mercenary. See Characters/{{Helix}}.
364
365	!! Sigyn Solefald aka Queen Beruthiel
366	A talented but notoriously eccentric Norwegian musician. Was friends of a sort with Delilah during the latter's sojourn in Scandinavia, but their relationship became strained when Sigyn stabbed Delilah through several vital organs with a replica Viking short sword during an argument. She's also notable for being a Norwegian ultra-nationalist and racist against almost every ethnic group on earth, including Germans and Swedes (among other things, she believes that "pan-Germanicism" is an effort of stealth Germano-Swedish cultural imperialism bent on erasing Norwegian cultural distinctiveness.) In other words, she's a piece of work, although her music is generally considered pretty good by fans who aren't put off by her persona or her stylistic experiments.
367	* AlliterativeName
368	* BlackMetal: her early works.
369	* BunnyEarsLawyer: she's very talented when she gets her act together.
370	* CuteAndPsycho: she is a cutie. Too bad about the whole "AxeCrazy racist sociopath" thing.
371	* DracoInLeatherPants: in-universe. Despite her talent for spectacularly alienating people, she retains a core fanbase willing to forgive her anything. A few of them even sent Delilah letters in the hospital threatening her with various horrible fates if she pressed charges for the whole "attempted murder" incident.
372	* {{Expy}}: She's loosely inspired by ''Varg Vikernes'' -- or, more accurately, by [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Varg_Vikernes Greven-tan]] -- crossed with an anime-style CuteAndPsycho.
373	* GenreMashup: her later works.
374	* HeavyMithril: her stage name is based on a Tolkien character.
375	* JerkassWoobie: she's kind of a horrible person, but she has rather serious mental problems that have never been treated or even diagnosed - because the people around her tend to dismiss them as either "artistic temperament" or as symptoms of her various moral failings - and, despite her considerable personal charisma, she's no good at maintaining friendships or collaborations.
376	* KindheartedCatLover: she is genuinely fond of her kitty.
377	* LargeHam: even when she takes off her stage makeup and doesn't sing, she never truly stops performing.
378	* MadArtist: she apparently suffers from manic episodes as well as some kind of undiagnosed personality disorder.
379
380	[[/folder]]
381
382	[[folder: Venus Envy]]
383
384	!! Kate Cadaver / Katherine Valentina Mayakovsky
385	Venus Envy's lead vocalist and rhythm guitar player, who also writes or co-writes many of their songs. She's smart, creative, and passionate, but has an unfortunate penchant for romantic self-destruction.
386	* BadassLongcoat: it's a Norwegian Army Coat rather than a trenchcoat or duster, but the aesthetic's still there.
387	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
388	* MoodSwinger: particularly before she gets sober.
389	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: she looks a lot like Brody Dalle with glasses.
390	* RedOni: to Dani's Blue.
391	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll
392
393
394	!! Dani Lilith / Clarissa Danielle Harlowe
395	Venus Envy's lead guitarist, and Kate's {{Foil}} and best-friend-turned-lover. Dani's talented, driven, and in many ways [[RedOniBlueOni the cold to Kate's heat]], although she's not as sensible as she thinks she is.
396	* {{Bifauxnen}}
397	* BlueOni: to Kate's Red.
398	* BrokenBird
399	* MustHaveCaffeine
400	* TheRunaway
401	* TomboyishName
402
403	!! Billie Jiang
404	Venus Envy's bassist, a quirky, dreamy woman with literary inclinations. She's also a werewolf, but there's medication for that nowadays.
405	* AsianAndNerdy - although she's more of a music and literature geek than an academic paragon.
406	* CursedWithAwesome - played with, in that lycanthropy is officially considered to be a bad thing in this setting, and it does have its drawbacks (involuntary shapeshifting, worries about infecting others, contact allergy to silver), but Billie still thinks it has its good points.
407
408	!! Zandra Mackenzie
409	Venus Envy's drummer. A cheerful and resilient UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} redhead.
410	* DyeHard: her hair's really strawberry blonde, but the red's become part of her image.
411	* TheHeart: her non-musical role as "the sensible, motherly, emotionally intelligent one" is what keeps everyone else's personal dysfunctions enough in check that Venus Envy can continue to function as a working band.
412	* SilkHidingSteel: not quite a straight example, as she is a punk rocker, but she's both the most traditionally feminine and the best at holding everything together in adverse circumstances.
413
414	[[/folder]]

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