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[[folder:The Prints]]

A media category defined by their reliance on ink, paper, and printing presses.

%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble
%%** Phlegmatic: Literature
%%** Choleric: Journalism
%%** Melancholic: Comics
%%** Sanguine: Mail
* OutdatedOutfit: Played with for most of them, who dress in clothes that wouldn't look too out of place in the early 20th Century.
** Literature typically wears a sweater vest and dress shirt, something that looks vaguely academic without looking out of style.
** Journalism's outfit is meant to evoke a Depression-era newsboy crossed with a journalist.
** Magazine's is based on a 1990s GAP model.
** Averted mostly with Mail and Comics. Mail is dressed like a modern mail carrier (albeit wearing pants and a tie) while Comics wears a T-shirt and jeans--a look that never went out of style to begin with.
* OldMediaPlayingCatchUp: They've been rivals to media newer than themselves since forever
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Mail, Lit, and Journ have this sibling dynamic.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: They all have shades of this. Except Journalism, [[BeigeProse of course.]]

!'''Print Literature—Sean Macmillan'''
Represents books, both fiction and nonfiction. Oldest of the prints and the patriarch of the print family. He wears a sweater vest and long sleeve shirt, evocative of an intellectual writer.

%% * BigBrotherMentor
%% * BrilliantButLazy: Not so much "lazy" but more on "laid back"
%% * BumblingDad
%% * CloudCuckoolander: His head is in the clouds.
%% * CovertPervert: Not very open about it, though, but whenever he's caught...
%% * ChivalrousPervert
%% * GeniusDitz
%% * HeroicWannabe
* ImmortalImmaturity: He still manages to act like a goof despite his great age.
%% * ImpoverishedPatrician: At points in history, he becomes this.
* MrImagination: He likes to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway imagine]] and [[RealityWarper can materialize]] [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower weapons]] [[PhysicalGod and climate conditions with ease]]
%% * NonActionGuy
* OlderThanHeLooks: Looks like a 40-something that looks young for his age
%% * OnlySaneMan
* ParentsAsPeople: He and Comics do not get along often. He has his moments, though.
%% * TeamDad: To the Prints, [[ParentalSubstitute particularly to Journalism]]. To his [[ParentalNeglect actual son]], however...
* TimeAbyss: He has no stated age and is implied to be very old.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Wears a sweater vest.

!'''Print Journalism—Jimmy Pulitzer'''
Print Literature's brother. Represents newspapers. He dresses as a cross between depression-era newsboy and 40s journalist.

%%* CoolUncle: To Comics, his nephew.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* GrammarNazi: Can't stand grammar errors
%%* IntrepidReporter
%%* NotSoAboveItAll
%%* ParentalSubstitute: To Comics
* OldShame: In-universe. He as the Yellow Kid, a power-tripping sleazebag who spread gossip and BlatantLies [[MoneyDearBoy for money]].
%%* RichBastard: During his yellow kid days. And then Radio came and he lost it all.
%%* SmokingIsCool: He smokes a lot.
%%* StrawmanNewsMedia: His time as the Yellow Kid was basically nothing but this.
%%* WaistcoatOfStyle

!'''Cartoons and Comics—Clark Macmillian'''
Literature's son from Visual Art. Represents comics as a storytelling medium, including He and dad don't get along often. Closer to his uncle and his half-brother, Animation. Wears a heavy overcoat over a gray shirt with a word balloon in it.

%%* {{Antihero}}: Or so he wants to think
* BasementDweller: He lives in his family's basement.
%%* TheCape: Although he is NotWearingTights.
%%* ClarkKentOutfit
* EmoTeen: Emo Young Adult, representing his DarkerAndEdgier phase in the 1990s, which didn't end well.
* FlyingBrick: He has superpowers which he uses for [[MundaneUtility stupid everyday things]] such as:
** EyeBeams to warm the coffee
** Flight to walk in midair.
%%* GenerationXerox
%%* HeroicBastard
* HeroicBuild: [[{{Superhero}} But of course]]. For a skinny dude, he's quite buff.
** FormerlyFit: He lost much of his musculature in the interim between the 1990s and the late 2000s.
%%* HippieParents: Art and Literature.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* MadeOfIron
%%* MrImagination
%%* SequentialArtist
%%* SleevesAreForWimps: He wears sleeveless shirts from time to time.
** FunTShirt: His T-shirts usually have a logo in them; the one he wears the most has a word balloon on it.
%%* TroubledButCute: Supposed to evoke this, [[NinetiesAntiHero for some reason]].
* TheUnfavorite: An illegitimate child barely acknowledged by his distant father.
%%* UsedToBeASweetKid
* WeaksauceWeakness: Deathmate is his kryptonite.

!'''Mail—Cody Williams'''
Represents the postal system. The only female among the print siblings, in between Journalism and Literature. Dressed as a mail carrier.

* {{Bifauxnen}}: She looks [[AmbiguousGender very androgynous]] but is actually a woman.
* TheDeterminator
* GenderBlenderName
* AllGirlsLikePonies: She loves horses and used to rely on them for transportation.

!'''Magazine Publication—Daniel Henry Pulitzer'''
Represents [[ShapedLikeItself magazines]] and the magazine publishing industry.

* AdoptivePeerParent: Youngest of his siblings and takes on a semi-parental role to Comics.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling
* CoolUncle: He and Comics are very close.
* TheDandy

!'''Writing—Elizabeth P. [=MacMillan=], Esq.'''
Matriarch of the prints and mother of the siblings. Represented as a GrandDame in Victorian clothing.

* BoringButPractical: Prefers substance to style.
%%* GrannyClassic: Comics' grandma
%%* MyBelovedSmother
%%* TimeAbyss
%%* ProperLady
%%* Really700YearsOld

!'''Printmaking and Sigilography—John Pulitzer'''
Patriarch of the prints and the oldest member of the family. The father of the siblings.

* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Shorter than his children and grandson

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[[folder:The AudioVisuals]]
Characterized by their adherence to the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin simultaneous use of audio and visual equipment]], usually for broadcast or home consumption.

%%* BigScrewedUpFamily
%%* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe, a recurring theme.
%%* OldMediaAreEvil: Many of them are JerkAsses

!'''Television—Walter Logie Farnsworth'''
The de facto leader of the media, representing the television industry and live-action TV shows. He wears a suit and a lapel mic. Video's older brother.

%%* AntennaHair: Duh
%%* BigBrotherInstinct
%%* BigBrotherMentor
* ButtMonkey: He's essentially a huge TakeThat to television networks in general. But not all the time.
%%* ChickMagnet
* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe. Often ends up being controlled by this, but he does this for his survival and it isn't always bad.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has a soft spot for [[FriendToAllChildren children]].
%%* MadnessMantra: RATINGS
%%* NetworkDecay: He's prone to this, to the point that he's called out often.
%%* ParentalSubstitute: To his sister, Video.
%%* PsychopathicManchild: Sometimes
%%* NewMediaAreEvil: He views Internet as this. This is also how he was viewed by those older than him.
* SharpDressedMan: Almost always depicted wearing a suit.
%%* SlasherSmile
%%* StupidSexyFlanders: He does this to a lot of the media.
* ViolentGlaswegian: He's from Scotland, [[TruthInTelevision as television was invented there.]]

!'''Video—Mary Sue Farnsworth-Phillips'''
TV's sister and confidante. Representing video technology. Dressed like a production manager.

* AllThereInTheManual: She and Radio [[Music/TheBuggles share a spiteful rivalry]].
%%* GirlFriday
* NonindicativeName: She isn't a MarySueClassic.
%%* OnlySaneMan: At least compared to the rest of her family.
%%* SitcomArchNemesis: Of Radio

!'''Recording Industry—Vince Raymond Phillips'''
A tall man representing the recording industry and recording technologies. Dressed like a music industry producer or a wealthy rapper.

* TheBigGuy / TheBrute: Depending on whether he's the protagonist or antagonist of the strip, specifically when [[ArchEnemy Internet]] is involved.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* HappilyMarried: To Video
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Radio
* JiveTurkey
* KnightTemplar: Because DigitalPiracyIsEvil
* PapaWolf: To Music Video
* RecordProducer: Made to look like one, being in part an affectionate parody of the music industry.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With TV, his brother in law.
* WellDoneSonGuy / HappilyAdopted: He and his adoptive father have been split with the whole mainstream thing.

!'''Music Video'''
Daughter of the Recording Industry and Video representing music videos as a distinct medium. A teenage girl dressed in party clothes.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: She has a thing for Internet.

!'''Cable—Lyndon Turner'''
Representing coaxial cable distribution and, for much of his history, cable television.

* HiddenDepths: Although he has a blue collar appearance, he has a strong preference for "fancy things."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Inspired very loosely by [[Creator/LarryTheCableGuy a certain blue-collar themed comedian]].
* ProfessionalButtKisser: He's been reduced to being Television's doddering yes-man.
* ScalingTheSummit: Formerly a mountaineer, based on how coaxial cable stations are usually found on mountains.
* SitcomArchnemesis: [[CableSatelliteMudslinging To Satellite communications]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Satellite.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Digitals]]
Representing computer-based media, this groups marker is the almost universal presence of NerdGlasses.

%%* AIIsACrapshoot: In a way, this is what they technically would be.
%%* PolarOppositeTwins: Internet and his twin brother Intranet.
* SiblingSenioritySquabble: Averted. Internet is canonically older per history (if history were to be adhered to strictly, by about 20 years). Cue MST3KMantra.

!'''Internet—[[Theatre/{{RUR}} Rossum]] [[Website/{{Youtube}} Fred]]e[[Music/RickAstley rick]] Bell'''
Represents the modern Internet and the culture therein. Looks like a regular (if nerdy) teenager. Son of Computer Tech and Telecommunication, and the older of a pair of identical twins.

%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling
* BigBrotherInstinct: Very protective of his little sister Podcast/Mobile
* BrattyHalfPint: A teenager, as opposed to the other media who are between 20 and 40.
* CuteKitten: [[WebOriginal/LOLCats He has one as a pet]]
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The "foolish" one.
%%* GeniusDitz
%%* {{Jerkass}}
%%* {{Keet}}: At his least jerkish, he comes off as this.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Not as all-knowing or as smart as he leads others to believe.
%%* MilitaryBrat
%%* MouthyKid
* NewMediaAreEvil: He gets accused of this often; while not unjustified, he sometimes feels it goes too far.
* NonHumanSidekick: The aforementioned cat
%%* TagalongKid
%%* TeenGenius
%%* UsedToBeASweetKid: Then TheNineties [[InternetJerk happened]].

!'''Intranet—Robert Licklider Bell'''
Represents Internet-like localized internal networks. Dressed similarly to his identical twin brother Internet.

* CantStandThemCantLiveWithoutThem: His relationship with Internet in a nutshell.
%%* TheDutifulSon
* SiblingYinYang: A reclusive, level-headed, but kind of limited in knowledge as opposed to his brother who is extroverted, mouthy, and ludicrously knowledgeable.
** FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The "responsible" one.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Not very outdoorsy.
* TwinTelepathy: Representing the interplay between intranets in real life and the Internet.
%%* {{Workaholic}}

!'''Computer Technology—Timothy Babbage Bell'''
Representing all of computer-based media sans networks and mobile devices. Dressed like a nerdy IT dude. Father of the digital siblings and married to Telecommunications.

* GeekPhysique: He's lanky and very short.
* ParentsAsPeople: Keeps Internet, who gives him all sorts of viruses, within arm's distance through a [[VisualPun wall of fire.]]
%%* ParentalFavoritism
%%* ThePatriarch
%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
%%* ShoulderAngels: Mac and PC. Linux appears and is ignored.
%%* TechnicolorEyes: Teal.

!'''ARPANET—Taylor Bell'''
Internet's older sister, based on the Internet's predecessor. Dressed in an American military uniform.

%%* DrillSergeantNasty
%%* TheDutifulDaughter
* OnlySaneWoman: The only one of her siblings that isn't a basket case.

!'''Podcast and Mobile—Miley Bell'''

Represents mobile technology and media accessible through portable devices (cellular phones, iPods, and associated ilk).

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Originally, she was made to represent "sound broadcasts sent over the Internet file that can be listened to over a device, usually an iPod."
%%* CutenessProximity
%%* {{Kawaiiko}}
* ShapedLikeItself: Her dress has an iPod clickwheel on it.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She's just as mouthy as Internet, who happens to be her favorite brother.
%%* YoungEntrepreneur

!'''Video Gaming—Kirby Park'''

A relative to the Audiovisuals and the Digitals. Wears a stylized South Korean competitive Starcraft team jacket.

%%* ButtMonkey: Often, for Internet.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: 1337sp33k and on occassion, Korean.
* ILied: [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} His first joke.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: Up until the advent of VideoGame/PokemonGo, not very fond of the outdoors.

!'''Satellite Communication—Sergei Alexandrov/Alexander Goddard'''

[[ShapedLikeItself Representing satellite communication infrastructure]].

* IHaveManyNames: Has two aliases, representing both [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar Russian and American satellite technology]].
* ProfessionalButtKisser: He's been reduced to being Television's doddering yes-man.
%%* SitcomArchNemesis: [[CableSatelliteMudslinging Cable's]].
%%* ThoseTwoGuys: With Cable.

[[/folder]]


[[folder:The Films]]
Characterized by their erstwhile dependence on semitransparent celluloid film with chemical emulsions to show still or perceivably moving images.

* DifferentAsNightAndDay: Cinema and Photography.


!'''Cinema—Friedrich "Fritz" Stevens'''
Represents movies. Dressed like a [[Creator/CecilBDeMille De Mille-esque]] director. A bit of a fop. May be related to television.

%%* CampStraight: He's Visual Art's ex-husband, and tries to win her back, but fails.
%% * CloudCuckoolander: Sometimes.
* CompanionCube: A bullhorn/megaphone that he carries around, plus a haunted {{Yandere}} Oscar.
%% * GoodParents
%%* LeFilmArtistique: Even this doesn't work.
%% * OscarBait: Tries to woo her with drama. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Fails]].
%% * ParentalSubstitute: To TV, to a certain degree.
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To Animation, to an extent.
%% * SitcomArchNemesis: To Theatre.
%% * SummerBlockbuster: What turned her off in the first place

!'''Animation—Charlie Stevens'''
Representing the modern animation industry that traces its origin to the silent era. A wacky, animesque man dressed casually, wearing a [[AwesomeBackpack backpack]]. Art's son from Cinema and Comics' half-brother.

%%* AnimeHair
%%* AwesomeBackpack: Wouldn't be Animation without it.
%%* CrazyPrepared
* FourFingeredHands: Everyone else has five.
%%* FriendToAllChildren: He'd hate to admit this, but yeah.
%%* GogglesDoNothing
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A NiceGuy, but way into BlackComedy.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to his half-brother's red.
%%* TotallyRadical

!'''Photography—Renee Daguerre'''
Represents [[ShapedLikeItself photography]] as a technology and artform. Dressed as a stereotypical photographer. Journalism's on-again, off-again love interest.

%%* {{Bifauxnen}}
%%* BlitheSpirit
%%* CameraFiend
%%* CompanionCube: A camera
%%* IntrepidReporter
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality
%%* {{Tomboy}}


[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Telegraphs]]

Represents technologies dedicated to transferring verbal and written information without the use of physical transportation. Nominally would include Internet.


!'''Radio—Giacomo Marconi'''
Represents radio technology as a whole and radio broadcasting in particular. Dressed a a disk jockey.

%%* AmbiguouslyBrown
%%* LargeHamRadio
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Recording Industry
%%* MilitaryBrat

!'''Telegraphy—Samuel Bell'''
Represents the sum total of telegraphic technology up to wire. Originally a sailor, now a distinguished old gentleman in an anachronistic Victorian suit.

%%* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Well, he does.
* GenerationXerox: The younger version of himself is basically a Victorian version of his grandson Internet.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: He lives off odd jobs.
* IWasQuiteALooker: The only depictions he has thus far depict him before the 20th Century.
* ThePatriarch: Has two children (Radio and Telecommunications) and is the de facto head of the Telegraphs.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He is the only one among the antiquated media [[AgeWithoutYouth to actually have aged.]]

!'''Telecommunications—Samantha Bell'''

Represents telephone and fax communication. Parent to Internet and his siblings and daughter of Telegraphy. Dressed like a telephone operator.

%%* ForInconveniencePressOne
* HappilyMarried: To Computer Tech. They have four kids.
* MyBelovedSmother: She has some degree of control over Internet's financial earnings and tends to dictate a lot of her policy's to her son's chagrin. That she does little to actually control his behavior is probably for the best.
%%* OfficeLady

[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Spatials]]
Represents lofty concepts of human creativity as manifested in the body of works and their creators as distinct from the other media.

!'''Visual Art—Marcela Picasso'''
Represents paintings, sculptures, and mosaics. Is the love interest of Theatre, Cinema, and Literature. Dressed in a long-flowing skirt and a blouse with a sweater vest.

%%* AmicablyDivorced: With Cinema
%%* BelligerentSexualTension: With Literature.
%%* TheDitz
%%* DramaticWind: Follows her around
%%* HippieParents: She's this to her children.
%%* IdiotHair
%%* NewAgeRetroHippie
* ParentsAsPeople: She is very well aware of her own ineptitude and left her children in the their respective fathers' care.
%%* SitcomArchNemesis: Advertising

!'''Music—[[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Wolfgang]] J. [[Music/LouisArmstrong Armstrong]]'''
[[ShapedLikeItself Represents music as a means of communication]] Dresses like a "scruffy musician" stereotype. Art's brother and the parental figure of the Recording Industry.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Played with; His relationship with his ward has been cool at times, although they mutually are fond of each other and look to one another as family.
%%* BlitheSpirit
%%* Expy: Of Evan from Film/AugustRush
* JadedWashout: Tends to grumble and complain about being past his prime. [[Really700YearsOld He has been doing this for millennia]].


[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Performing Arts]]

Representing live performances, they are characterized by their intensive use of human labor and mechanical tricks to convey narratives before an audience

!'''Theatre—Dionysus Marlowe'''
Represents theatrical productions including conventional plays, musicals, and operas. Dressed like a stereotypical theatre geek complete with scarf and [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} skull]].

%%* CampStraight: As a play on the stereotype.
%%* CompanionCube: Yorrick the skull.
%%* TheDandy: Very much so.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Regardless on how [[JerkAss "nice"]] he could actually be, he always gets friendzoned by Art.
* FriendlyEnemy: He's like this toward both his romantic rivals, Literature in particular.
%%* LargeHam: How could he not be?
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste
%%* MeanBoss: Tends to be very overbearing.
%%* TheRival: To Cinema and Literature.
* SingleTargetSexuality: He and Cinema appear to be attracted only to Art.
* UnknownRival: He absolutely loathes Television, for a number of reasons, including [[LetsPutOnAShow gross miscalculation of the intricacies of his profession and abilities]].

!'''Puppetry and Puppet Theater—[[Creator/JimHenson Henson]] Hearne'''

Representing puppet theater and puppet and animatronic use media in general. Dressed casually much like a professional puppeteer for TV and Cinema.

%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
* ClusterFBomb: When he's given half the chance, he's quite a potty mouth.
%%* ExtremeDoormat
* FriendToAllChildren: Seems to prefer working with children more than all the other media.



[[/folder]]


[[folder: The Motives/"Curtain Crew"]]

A group of brothers that represent communications formats that manipulate public perception. They have curtain hairstyles.

!'''Propaganda—Santiago del Pilar'''
Represents communications meant to sway people toward political or ideological dogma. Dressed as a hipster wearing the symbols of conflicting ideologies. Carries a yoyo.

* ButtMonkey: A lot of the other media have a strong dislike for him.
* {{Doppelganger}}: An identical stranger to [[IntrepidReporter Print Journalism]], albeit without the pesky moral code that goes with him.
%%* {{Hipster}}
%%* OlderThanHeLooks
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* TheWarOnStraw: His specialty
%%* RummageSaleReject
%%* KillerYoyo


!'''Advertising—William Adams Locke'''
Represents advertisements and billboards. Main motive is to sell. Dresses like an ad executive.

%%* BigBeautifulMan
%%* FatBastard
* IWasQuiteALooker: He used to be a gladiator; he let himself go.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* RepeatingAd: [[AnthropomorphicPersonification In the Flesh]]
%%* SitcomArchNemesis: To Art
%%* TheManIsStickingItToTheMan

!'''Public Relations—Devon Bernays'''
Represents press meetings and other communication events meant to improve the image of a person or company.

%%* AstroTurf: His specialty.
%%* TheDandy
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* PrettyBoy
%%* ProfessionalButtKisser
%%* TotallyRadical: This usually is his downfall.

[[/folder]]


[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
!'''Tabletop Games—Caissa [[TabletopGame/{{Chess}} Chaturanga]]'''
Represents board, RPG, and card games. Likes to cosplay.

* AGodAmI: Has control of every aspect of the environment whenever a game is being played. And savors every moment.
* ChessMotifs: Likes to use them.
* KillerGameMaster
* LadyOfWar: Very aggressive and competitive.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks young but is almost as old as Literature.
* RulesLawyer
* SitcomArchNemesis: Video Games.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cartography and Graphic Design]]

!'''Graphic Design—Benjamin Sullivan'''
Represents both charts and infographics as a medium and the discipline of design as opposed to art. Art's oldest son and an older brother to Comics and Animation.

%%* AloofBigBrother
* EccentricArtist: Less so like his [[HippieParents mother]], but it's still there.
%%* TheFinickyOne
* {{Hipster}}: Evokes the appearance of an art school grad
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: American patriot and publisher Benjamin Franklin and architect Louis Sullivan, who coined the phrase "form follows function."
* ThePerfectionist: Focused on creating aesthetically harmonious things

!'''Cartography—Gerard Robinson Sullivan'''
Represents Maps. Art's first ex-boyfriend and Graphic Design's father.

%%* BoldExplorer
%%* GentlemanAdventurer
* TheNavigator: But of course, assuming the place has already been mapped.
** DirectionlessDriver: What he is in unfamiliar locales.
* {{Hipster}}: In the modern day, he resembles an outdoorsy guy on Instagram who spends way too much time bragging about where he travels.
* ScalingTheSummit: Evoked. He looks like a mountaineer or hiker.

[[/folder]]