Characters for the Original Character Tournament, Ascend.
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Judges
King Bluff
- Artist: Flamekitjunior:
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Gray skinned.
- Bratty Half-Pint: His invitation letter pretty much tells everyone who get it all they need to know about him. Many can't even take him seriously, and are skeptical of the tournament because of his childish attitude.
- Pungeon Master: Loves to make mountain related puns.
Clancy and Talift
- Artist: Razzifur
- Cool Shades
- Forest Ranger: Sort of, Clancy seems to serve the role around the mountain.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Talift is interesting.
Prosa
- Artist: SolventGrandma
- Brawn Hilda: 6'8" and strong enough to lift entire tree logs.
- Scars Are Forever: Has a nasty gash on the right side of her face.
- Statuesque Stunner: A lot of entries portray her as this.
Cliff
- Artist:MischiefJoKeR
- Only Sane Man: Many of the auditions portray him as this since he feels Bluff is attracting a lot of unwanted attention to the mountain, some of it even dangerous.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can turn into a regular mountain goat to scale the mountain easier.
Millena
- Artist: LazyNinjartist
- Cute Monster Girl: Her bio states she a demon so this fits, especially when she's not in armor.
- Eldritch Location: She lives in one. The place is even sentient!
- Hates Everyone Equally: Unlike Prosa, she hates all the climbers intruding near her home. In one accepted audition, she practically attacked one of them as they were arriving near the mountain.
Contestants
Aiden
- Artist: louderthenwales
- Horned Humanoid: Being a Cernunnos, he sports some antlers on his head.
- Parental Abandonment: Lost his parents when he was younger.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: He's been late to his job one too many times and it eventually gets him sacked.
Ann
- Artist: spaceflip
- Animate Inanimate Object: In her audition, she tried to use her magic to make a sentient rock to have someone to talk to as she started climbing. It didn't seem to work, but when she put it with other rocks, it suddenly gained a body...and wasn't happy with her for giving it life either.
- Cute Witch: A very lovely looking girl.
- Functional Magic: Doesn't always seem to work as intended but it does. Her main ability is to transform objects into other object, usually depending on the mass of it (for example, changing a fridge into 800 frisbees).
Aethis
- Artist: Aternova
- Aura Vision: One of their powers is the ability to sense magic.
- Last of Their Kind: Trying to prevent this. Their home is running out of magic and their race has resigned itself to its fate, save for them.
- Our Gryphons Are Different: Can use magic, for one. Also able to talk telepathically.
Alpherius
- Artist: DarkestSlumberART
- Demonic Possession: Not a main ability but comes to the climb in the body of a man who's soul he has taken. He can also do this to anyone who makes a contract with him.
- Holy Burns Evil: Well he is a demon so it's not surprising.
- Playing with Fire: One of his powers.
- Living Shadow: Can make himself into one, but mostly just used as a scare tactic.
Auchnein S.
- Artist: Axolmotl
- Tempting Fate: Laments his peaceful days drifting through space and then sudden portal and he finds himself involved in a tournament.
Baba & Yaga
- Artist: Cabtoonist
- Action Girl: Yaga somewhat. The second entry shows she can be one given the right circumstances.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Yaga due to her witch blood. Baba had it too when she was younger but it apparently faded into a normal skin color over time.*
- Brought Down to Normal: Baba who's advanced age has depleted her magic. She can still fight physically however.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Flat out stated in their bio that Yaga is one.
- Cute Witch: Yaga. Baba as well when she reverts to her younger self.
- Heel–Face Turn: Baba who's trying to leave behind her days as a legitimate Wicked Witch and be a loving grandmother to Yaga.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Baba certainly was when she was younger. She can even revert to for ten minutes thanks to her strong water.
- Never Mess with Granny: Baba can still kick some butt despite no longer having magical power in her old age. Least as long as she has her staff.
- Not Herself: Baba states that, while her Strong Juice reverts her age and gives her a power boost, it likewise robs her of her current morality and can be hard to control herself until it wears off after ten minutes. As such, she only uses it as a last resort if things get too desperate.
- Pointy Ears: Baba has them though oddly Yaga doesn't despite being her granddaughter.
- The Dreaded: Baba was one back in her younger days. Committing many atrocities for the sake of her power.
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Baba is pretty chill for the most part, but if her granddaughter is threatened, she won't hesitate to start getting rough. Likewise Yaga can be this if her grandmother is threatened.
Claudia & Megasoma
- Artist: EMPJ
- Gadgeteer Genius: Claudia as she quite capable of using scraps of tech to fashion them into for something, such as bombs.
- Magitek: How Megasoma pretty much operates, on magic and technology.
- Mini-Mecha: Megasoma is one for Claudia, pretty big but no bigger then a car really.
- Pointy Ears: Claudia's species has these.
- She Is the King: Ultimately becomes Claudia's goal to become the new king so that she can save her world.
Darrian & Shine
- Artist: Brunited
- Bad Powers, Good People: Neither are very malicious but their powers make it tough to really interact with anyone.
- Subverted in a later entry when they begin to give into their more destructive instincts and purposefully start harming people.
- Evil Feels Good: Shine in the second entry start falling into this when she unwittingly burns a climber that hugs her and finds that she took pleasure in it.
- Love at First Sight: When the two first laid eyes on each other the first time, their instincts pretty much told them they were made for each other.
- Playing with Fire: Shine is able to do this. She doesn't have the best control over it however.
- Never the Selves Shall Meet: A non-time traveler example. Their bio makes it clear that they should never, ever meet each other again or something disastrous will happen.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Darrian eventually can't hold back his instinct anymore and decides that he'll start "properly using his powers" if he can't see Shine.
- Walking Wasteland: Darrian's main ability. He can't interact with people for very long due to this. Heck in his audition, one unfortunate bar patron tried to punch him and ended up with most of his hand skinned to the bone.
Dexter
- Artist: VividThought
- Mysterious Past: He has a past he rather not relive.
- Perpetual Smiler: His expression is always that smile, even when he's scared or angry.
Dr. Lyssa
- Artist: Sckookum
- A Twinkle in the Sky: A Running Gag of his. It happens in the middle of his audition entry which got him stuck in the competition in the first place and again in his entry in the fight against Thayar via Millena's house.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's a bit...off, to say the least.
- Mad Scientist: He was doing...something to the wildlife and judging from his dialogue it won't be pleasant.
- Resigned to the Call: He knew about the tournament but wanted no part of it. However Clancy eventually manages to coax him into it.
- The Faceless: Wears a mask over his real face, though it is rather expressive in some cases.
Ezekiel
- Artist: definitelynotannie
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: In his audition, the dragon spirits inside him practically force him to join the tournament while he's asleep after hearing what the invitation said.
- Demonic Possession: A willing case, he let dragon spirits posses him in order to help them find peace.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Introduced in his audition hunting a rabbit before changing back completely naked.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Due the dragon spirits in him, he can change a part of himself into a dragon (called "channeling") or into a dragon itself (called "mounting"). However the latter comes at a risk of corrupting the dragon that takes over and causes them to go berserk, making it harder to regain control.
Forced Wanderer
- Artist: TiredTom
- Companion Cube: The box he carries with him. It compels him to do whatever it wishes.
- Only Known By His Nickname: Doesn't have a proper name, it's just Forced Wanderer. Subverted later in that he does, but doesn't give it out willingly.
- Our Zombies Are Different: A revenant of sorts.
- The Undead: His bio mentions that he's barely holding together.
Ginela & Brooke
- Artist: Retro7
- The Atoner: Ginela is trying to do this after her host helped her reform.
- Aura Vision: Brooke has an ability call Aura Eye which allows her to sense the energies of her opponents.
- Battle Aura: Brooke when she really goes all out thanks to her ki.
- Casting a Shadow: Ginela's power which allows her to make any body part into a shadow and morph it into a weapon.
- Daywalking Vampire: Ginela, her bio states this was always the case with vampires, media depiction just erased this fact for their fiction. The only ill side effects is that their powers are not as strong as it they are at night.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Ginela has become one since reforming. She still likes to mess with people but never to the point of harm (unless you tic her off that is).
- Our Vampires Are Different: Ginela's bio states that she's a trozei, or living darkness who was created from her host's magical properties along with the desire for the world to suffer.
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Ginela if you start harming her friends or family.
Harja
- Artist: VeloJello
Ilano & Major Cyterian
- Artist: LeatherPocketWatch
- Beware the Silly Ones: Ilano may come off as childish but she can be quite competent when she gets serious.
- Cyclops: Ilano is shown to have only one eye. Her species is even called Cycloids.
- Cyborg: The second round entry revealed that Cyterian is one. Having lost most of her original body in an attack by Surge.
- Friend to All Living Things: Ilano rather not fight if she can help it and is willing to make friends with people.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: The both of them are definitely cute lookers.
- Human Aliens: Cyterian certainly looks human but the bio makes it clear she isn't.
- Mega Manning: Iiano's main ability, she can "copy and paste" someone's powers and uses them as her own. The problem however is that if she holds onto the power longer then normal it'll become too potent and she'll lose control. She likewise can't control powers of the Ominversal Presence. The two times she tried, it started warping her body into a monster.
- Revenge: Cyterian's true goal against Surge. As she was responsible for the death of her sister. So much so that she faked a mission report just to get Ilano to help her.
- Robotic Reveal: Cryterian after she's hit by a fire attack that burns away her clothes, showcasing her partially robotic body.
Kamara & Nepthys
- Artist: Alcube51
Lex & Muse
- Artist(s): MonoLore (Lex) & MasterMinx (Muse)
- An Arm and a Leg: Muse loses one of his arms when a bomb is kicked toward Lex and him during the "Frenzy".
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Lex on the night of "Frenzy" along with the rest of her people which causes them to fight each other.
- Cute Monster Girl: Lex certainly is one for a goblin.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Lex is an inventor and opened a shop in her village though most of her kind don't really find much of a use for her inventions. When actually on the mountain, she manages to make a stun gun entirely from scrap.
- Jumped at the Call: Cliff tries to tell her to stay in the cave after he finds her on the mountain, but she pretty much say "nuts to that" and follows after him.
- Pointy Ears: Lex has some pretty big ones.
The Mecha King
- Artist: Sarconis-the-Artist
- Mini-Mecha: Mudball pilots a humans shaped one for his fight. It also doubles as his castle.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Mudball thanks he a major king despite his "kingdom" being nothing more than a putt putt golf course. In the grand scheme of things, he's just a major small fry with a huge opinion of himself.
Mikaelos
- Artist: saikopomp
- Death Seeker: Feels he has nothing to live for and wants to find a place that could potentially kill him.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: His bio mentioned his country was at war when he was younger and he wanted to do his part, joining the army. But due to being raised in an abbey, he was unprepared for the hardships that came with war and what's worse, his side didn't even win. By the time he was released from duty, he was a shell of his former self.
Miyo & E-go
- Artist: The-Common-Commander
- Challenge Seeker: E-go, to Miyo's constant annoyance.
- Funny Animal: Miyo who, as stated, is an anthropomorphic Fennec Fox.
- The Nose Knows: Much to her chagrin, E-go has Miyo use her sense of smell to track to the mountain.
Nemeth & Blueberry
- Artist: Mamanga
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Nemeth's pink and Blueberry's....blue. So yeah.
- Chupacabra: Nemeth is a more humanoid one. She missing her horns (she files them down) and her fangs (pulled them out) in order to hide herself from the authorites. But her bio states that they'll grow back eventually.
- Handicapped Badass: Nemeth missing an arm (judging from her ref pic it was very recent), hasn't slowed her down much.
- Odd Couple: Seriously, a chupacabra and a humanoid fruit. Pretty much speaks for itself.
Neven & Renning
- Artist: One-eyeHitomi
- Dark and Troubled Past: Neven has one he's not really keen on sharing or reflecting on.
- Deadpan Snarker: Renning in most conversations with Neven.
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Goatcheese" for Renning which Neven calls him near constantly.
- Only in It for the Money: Their bio states that this is pretty much Neven's reason for joining, planning to sell the throne for more cash if he wins.
Odette
- Artist: aurapower101
- Deal with the Devil: Downplayed, she did this willingly with a wolf spirit and it doesn't seem malicious at all and actually seems to care for her.
- Heroic RRoD: Her bio states she needs a mask to talk with the wolf spirits but it puts strain on her the more the keeps it on.
- Interspecies Romance: With a wolf spirit.
- Take Up My Sword: Continues her grandfather's work of looking after the mountain.
Petite Pink
- Artist: Bombkirby
- Being Good Sucks: At the end of Entry 1 Pink says that she felt "physically ill" after forcing herself to apologize to Collateral Girl. Entry 2 likewise has her telling Cyberbyte that she "never felt further from her comfort zone" by having to say "please" to someone.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: The reason she enters the contest. She wants to be more powerful so she can finally get some in her team.
- Forgot About His Powers: During her first fight, she remembers that she can bring trees to life to fight for her, chalking it up to living in the city for so long.
- I Control My Minions Through...: One of her abilities is mind-controlling animals, and forcing them to do her bidding. She can also animate trees and fungi and can convince them to fight by her side, although they seem to retain enough free-will to decide whether they actually want to stay and fight by her side or not. It turns out she just simply has to be nice and say "please" if she wants it to work.
- Jerkass: Her bio mentions she is one.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- In her entry against Shambles, she helps him out in the end by getting him a new job and later apologizes to her teammate Collateral Girl, for her words earlier.
- In the 2nd entry, Pink uses the "favor" Cyberbyte granted her to summon help for Ilano and Cyrterian after she defeats them.
- The Medic: Is one on her superhero team. It frustrates her however since she's not a Combat Medic.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: How she feels towards her power, finding them useless because she can never really control them. Turns out it's because she never bothered to find out the true extent of her power. It took an opponent who can had copying power, copied Pink's and using them much more effectively then she could that it made her realize the true potential she wielded.
- Winged Humanoid: Petite Pink is a small humanoid fairy with wings.
- You Are What You Hate: Pink hates fairy culture. Fairies sing and dance in the forest all day which is not her style at all. She hates pacifism, but her main purpose is staying out of fights and healing her comrades. She hates the color pink, but everything she wears automatically turns pink. She hates everything about fairies, but she still is one no matter how hard she tries not to associate with them.
Prince Errent & Princess Cadence
- Artist: Sword-Demon
- Arranged Marriage: Errent is from a area called The Tower and managed to pass it's test enough that he was deemed worthy of marrying Cadence. Cadence...doesn't seemed too thrilled with the arrangement.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Errent's power is to make object entirely from rocks.
- Musical Assassin: A variant, Cadence's power is to make people sing out of the blue. However she can't really control it due to her unrestrained magic.
Psyche Juriek
- Artist: The-Magical-Ma
- All of the Other Reindeer: Psyche in his birth home...
- Deadpan Snarker: C.C
- Loyal Animal Companion: C.C to Psyche—Psyche actually hatched her out of an egg.
- Winged Humanoid
Shambles
- Artist: Ikatere
Tallagag the Hag
- Artist: Black-Cresent
- Anti-Hero: Going by her bio, she want to fix the problems of the world and teach other magic, but her methods are based sorely on impulse and pettiness.
- Large and in Charge: Certainly one of the bigger contestants of the group.
- Wicked Witch: Somewhat, she certainly has the motif but isn't completely evil
Tawny
- Artist: Ixtaek
- Casting a Shadow: The extent of his powers. With intense effort, he can solidify and physically throw shadows.
- Forced Transformation: Stuck in this situation due to being stuck as a groundhog who can only interact with things via his shadow.
- Living Shadow: This is his main power as he can only pick up thing by interacting with their shadows.
- Love Interest: Tawny has a crush on a girl named May, which is part of his motivation to find a cure for his curse.
- Weakened by the Light: Inverted. Because Tawny needs clear shadows to manipulate, he is weaker in the dark and stronger when he has a light source.
- A Bloody Mess Fools his opponent into thinking they mercilessly murdered him by using red berries to create fake blood.
Terin
- Artist: LainEiram
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Apparently, it's what lead to his exile in the first place when he got into an argument on how to treat a child and burned down a hospital in response.
Thayar & Arbrok
- Artist: Phatmouse09
- Curse: Thayar is stuck with this for trying to steal from a magical being. It's the reason why Arbrok follows him around.
- Deadpan Snarker: Arbrok whenever Thayar does something stupid.
- Hammerspace: Thayar has a hat which is apparently part of his curse. It allows him to pull whatever he needs from it. But the catch is that he can't actually use it, just give it to someone who can. If Thayar tries use the object himself, it'll just turn to dust in his hands.
- Living Lie Detector: Arbrok whenever Thayar tries to lie. He'll always sprout out that Thayar is lying, especially if he's talking to anyone.
- Mysterious Past: Thayar's past is never brought to light, even in his bio, and if asked about it he'll always lie.
- One-Winged Angel: Arbok can turn into a shadow creature if attacked. However he doesn't seem to do it when Thayar is in harm's way.
- Percussive Pickpocket: Thayar attempts this a few times in his entries. It never seems to work.
- Sticky Fingers: A chronic pickpocket who won't hesitate to steal what he can. In fact it was his kelptomania that got him cursed in the first place.
- Talking Animal: Arbrok, the crow that travels with him. Somewhat subverted in that he doesn't speak completely but will often say word that are related to the situation.
- You No Take Candle: Thayar can't speak English very good, so he talks like this.
Xing
- Artist: SEVMD
Others
Motley a.k.a. Pink & Green
- Artist: Interimnity
- Animate Inanimate Object: It's a plush cat that's being moved by the mind of two people.
- The Cameo: Have showed up in a number of entries during the first round interacting with the contestants or reacting to what's going on around them.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Green is the Blue, friendly and more outgoing while Pink is the red, rational and un-trusting.
- Samus Is a Girl: You wouldn't be able to tell from first sight, but they're both female.
- Sharing a Body: Though exactly how it happened is unknown, Pink and Green are struck together sharing the body of a plush cat.
Rollo
- Artist: Flamekitjunior
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Not exactly the most competent guard.
- Swiss-Cheese Security: He's suppose to be guarding the mountain but the contestants manage to either distract or get around him easily.
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