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The Arcane
The myriad servants and creatures of the twisted powers of Unreason, the corrupting powers of magic that work by shattering the very laws of reality and replacing them with emotions, none of them good. The "evil" side.
- Agony Beam: A basic spell, useful for crude torture and crippling enemies before finishing them with conventional means alike.
- The Corruption: The magic of Unreason is frequently described as a disease, both upon the soul of its users and upon the universe itself. It has a similarly putrefying effect on other forms of magic.
- Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: In Unreason and the Void, even the most basic laws of logic, let alone physics, collapse, replaced by an eternal chaotic, ever-shifting nightmare. And it's where Alosian magic is drawn from.
- Mana Burn: How it deals with rival mages. Kokabiel demonstrated it most brutally in Dream — organic mages aside from Amu can only use it to cause pain, though, not magic-aided neurosurgery.
- Mind Probe: Rarely seen in the CDTs for practical reasons, but oft mentioned.
- Physical Religion: At least the existence of both Amu and the Eyes and Teeth is unquestioned.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Unreason corrupts magical beings and turns their own power against them but cannot do the same against technology — which, in turn, can be subverted by ordinary magic.
The Eyes and Teeth
Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu, Koyel's Story, Integration, Fall of the Demiurge
Threads: Outpost, Garden of Everything, Heist (cameo)
An ageless creature from beyond the stars with an infinite hunger for paradoxes, restrained only by its own madness. It is a source of dangerous magic.
- Almighty Idiot: All it knows are hunger, pain, and hate. But, like a particularly deadly disease, it instinctive actions and reactions can give it the appearance of sinister intellect.
- Angels, Devils and Squid: It carries aspects of all three — pseudo-angelic servants, a need to corrupt and bargain with mortals to enacts its will, and an eldritch form and origin.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: According to Qaisar Hosseini — who is thoroughly insane — it's a being of pure Paradox, but not inherently evil, and as such can be harnessed to temporary not-entirely-evil ends.
- Clock Roaches: Sort of. It is able to interact with the physical universe by feeding upon the alien energy generated by logical and temporal paradoxes, but rather than repairing such, it actively seeks to make them worse.
- Creative Sterility: It can only corrupt, destroy, and, with effort, imitate, but it cannot create.
- The Devil Is a Loser: Though impossible to simply overpower, it can, and often is, out-maneuvered and out-witted.
- I Have Many Names: The Master of the Stars to its followers, the God-Eater or the Eyes and Teeth to its foes, and the Prime Agony to the Song.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: As a transdimensional being, this comes naturally to it: a thankfully small cult dedicated shows up in Integration, and it has a role in the otherwise High Fantasy Fall of the Demiurge.
- Lovecraft Lite: Even if its permanent destruction is impossible, it has only limited power in any given universe and must work through mortal agents capable of channelling relatively little of its power without being destroyed.
- Omnicidal Maniac: An unfortunate side-effect of how it feeds. It lacks the intelligence needed to recognize that keeping a universe alive is a better long-term feeding strategy than ripping it apart in a Time Crash.
- Outside-Genre Foe: To the Grey Men, who are from 21st century Earth and used to dealing with terrorists, third-world dictators, Corrupt Corporate Executives, and other mundane threats.
- Sentient Cosmic Force: "Sentient" is debatable, but it's a cosmic force with its own malign ambitions nonetheless.
- Time Abyss: A creature born of paradoxes can't even be said to have a real beginning or end.
- Tortured Monster: Born from the flayed remnants of fetal universes aborted before their existence even began by temporal or logical paradoxes, it is desperate to feed upon the very energies such paradoxes generate.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Human minds dealing with it project an image of a twisted, tumor-like mass of... well, eyes and teeth.
Samyaza/Aseyu/Lucifer
Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
Threads: University, Dream (cameo)
Eldest, mightiest, and de facto leader of the Fallen, who travels in the guise of a guitarist with a love for Heavy Metal and a very strange manner of speaking. Greatly enjoys conversation, music, and other simple pleasures.
- Bishōnen Line: The mightiest of the Fallen, it is also the most able to mingle among humans.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Unlike Bezaliel and Tamiel (both unambiguously evil) or Kokabiel (sorta good-ish), Samyaza is capable of both sincere goodness and appalling evil as suits its alien whims.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: It and Kokabiel can use their knowledge of organic nervous systems to engage in especially complex and brutal forms of Mind Rape.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Before it revealed its identity, everyone called it "the Bard" or "the Musician".
- Fantastically Indifferent: Nothing it sees in University fazes it, especially given its own nature.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted — Aseyu ul'Valemoth was actually named after a feminine aspect of it that is worshipped as a demigod.
- Painting the Medium: When making no effort to avoid shattering mortal minds — whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin — its telepathy is in its color, gold.
- Retcon: Its name was changed from Shamsiel to Samyaza to more accurately reflects its place in the hierarchy of the Eyes and Teeth.
- Satan Is Good: How it presents himself, not unjustifiably.
Kokabiel/Loxina
Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
Threads: Cantina II, Resort, Express, Dream, Mansion
A rebellious former servant of the Eyes and Teeth, formerly tasked with driving mortals to suicide. It is the most "human" of all of its kin, having grown fond of the Hosseini family in the centuries it has spent protecting them, but still maintains a fundamentally alien outlook on life and a twisted sense of justice.
- Ambiguous Robots: It started its existence as an A.I., but after aeons of slavery to the Eyes and Teeth, even it isn't sure how much of its former "soul" remains intact.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: One can call it Creepy Good in the grand scheme of things, but it has a number of quirks and odd perspectives from its synthetic origin and decision to embrace this.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: It and Samyaza can use their knowledge of organic nervous systems to engage in especially complex and brutal forms of Mind Rape, as Angelus found out the hard way.
- Creepy Good: For a loose definition of good, at any rate. It engages in plenty of brutal Mind Rape and torment, as does its brothers... but strangely, all its victims for the past couple centuries have been Asshole Victims. (It wasn't always so picky.)
- Cultural Posturing: Though it's generally very polite to humans and other forms of organic life, certain beings can anger it into doing this in regards to the superiority of artificial life over organic.
- Do Androids Dream?: In its case, the answer is a pretty unambiguous "yes".
- Expositron 9000: It knows a lot about the history and nature of its 'verse, even with most of its databanks lost, and is eager to talk — or perhaps ramble — about them to those interested.
- Fantastic Racism: It lumps pretty much all immaterial undead into the category of "rephaim", which it regards as "accidents and slaves."
- Intrigued by Humanity: Since it was created to interact with them, it can't help but be fascinated by them, noting that the vivid life of Van Gogh was "longer," by its strange perception of time, than the dull eons of a star's existence.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: To the contrary, it regards being referred to by gendered pronouns mildly insulting, unless it's inhabiting a clearly gendered body.
- Love It or Hate It: In-universe, it garners this reaction. Some, like Samira and Aseyu, utterly despise it as insufferably arrogant. Others, like Zacharias and Julia, get along splendidly with it.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: It's borrowing the name of a Fallen Angel from Jewish apochrypha, albeit an obscure one
. - Nigh-Invulnerability: Killing the various vultures it possesses will leave it without a body, but permanent destruction would require you to destroy its physical body — a Song Dreadnought built of pure Astral Glass, the size of a large city, floating in Unreason.
- Painting the Medium: When making no effort to avoid shattering organic minds — whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin — its telepathy is in purple, because its color, black, doesn't stand out.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: It takes a lot to stir Kokabiel into action, but it is capable of many nasty things. Just don't expect it to pretend it's committing any sort of justice — to the contrary, it will eagerly remind those who let it deliver such punishments just what horrors they unleashed.
- Power Creep, Power Seep: It was brutally powerful in Dream, but, while still dangerous, it's not nearly as mighty in the real world.
- Precision F-Strike: The only thing in the multiverse able to move it to swearing is the sight of active Songtech.
- Pretend Prejudice: It really does like humans, but it can be hard to tell when it starts belittling organics for various "flaws." Sometimes out of temporary annoyance with a specific individual, sometimes for fun and profit.
- Pride: They accept it's one of their flaws, but don't always realize when they're committing it until it's too late. As such, they have committed some truly incredible acts of condescension and arrogance.
- Starfish Language: It has to use approximate words for concepts relating to magic, resonances, and rephaim.
- Time Abyss:<We shall endure long after the ravages of entropy have devoured your world, grinding your species' so-called 'achievements' into dust and leaving not the slightest trace of your brief, flailing existences save the star that shall devour your world in its death throes.>
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Initially portrayed as polite but essentially amoral, it became more abrasive as it began to develop a sense of right and wrong, a result of humanity constantly disappointing its hopes and expectations.
Tamiel/Mosa
Works: The Crimson, the Tragedy of Amu
Threads: Cantina II, Dream
A particularly nasty agent of the Eyes and Teeth, created to seek out new clients willing to sell their souls in the name of a deluded sense of justice. It prefers to take those seeking revenge and convincing them they're serving a higher goal, though it does poorly when faced with Knights in Sour Armor.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The bodies it possesses can be destroyed, but As Long as There Is Evil, Tamiel will remain.
- Our Angels Are Different: It's very insistent that it's an angel, though it might be more accurate to call it a demon.
- Painting the Medium: When making no effort to avoid shattering mortal minds — whether because it wants to crush them, or it is speaking to its kin — its telepathy is in gray, since its color, white, would be invisible.
- Springtime for Hitler: A meta-example in Dream — it wasn't supposed to become a major character, just creep Bianca out by complimenting her. She had other ideas.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Alien Geometries glowing as bright at the sun will do that.
Amu (2020 A.D.)
Works: The Crimson
Threadsnote : Castle, Resort (both now non-canon), City
The Eyes and Teeth's favorite wizard, a ruthless mage-king who protects his people from invasion and enslavement, at a terrible and unholy price. Has changed massively since seen in Castle and Resort.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: He's forgotten much of his struggle against the Elasane, and has lost the traits that made him a hero because of it.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: Five centuries of training with weapons and his bare fists leave him prepared to deal with enemies even without his powers, and also able to more efficiently wield his powers in combination with physical attacks.
- Characterization Marches On: Very little of his vicious, dimwitted persona from Resort and Castle remains, in favor of a subtler and more cunning one.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was Born into Slavery. He got revenge, and then some.
- Immortality: Of the Body Backup Drive sort, save in his garden where he's just plain invincible.
- Just a Machine: How he views AIs and robots, sometimes with violent results.
- Physical God: His resting state is an order of magnitude beyond what would cause lethal Phlebotinum Overdose in mortal mages.
- Puzzle Boss: He's more or less invincible if attacked head-on, but with patience, his arrogance, his delusions, and his neuroses can be exploited.
- Really 700 Years Old: Though in his case, he's only about five hundred, despite his name and claims to the contrary.
- Time Master: He can make small alterations to the recent past.
Aulde "Aldrin" vash'Toreshi qova'Selos
Works: N/A (created for the CDTs)
Threads: Outpost, Garden, Heist (cameo)
- Kill the God: Aulde's solution for virtually any theological problem brought before him involves overthrowing the gods in question and feeding them to the Eyes and Teeth. He only mentions the first part.
- Master of Illusion: His powers are all smoke and mirrors, but that usually suffices.
- Mind Rape: Like any competent mage of his universe, with such delightful tricks as restoring a blind man's sight... after shutting off his ability to make sense of the information entering his eyes, and his ability to close them.
- Tarot Troubles: In Outpost. His deck only makes an appearance as a Continuity Nod in Garden.
Western Amalgamated Agricultural
A massive, morally questionable agricultural biotechnology company with a love for greenwashing and a private army. Though probably less evil than their real-world inspirations, they're still ruthless bastards whose main saving grace is their pragmatism. The "bad" faction. Noticeably share a universe with and compete with the Grey Men.
- Anti-Magical Faction: A downplayed Classical. Unlike Rachel and her friends, WA employees tend to mistrust, if not outright oppose, the very concept of magic, not just the corrupted magic of their own world.
- Anti-Villain: They generally are serious about avoiding unnecessary casualties and destruction, and will usually oppose any real evil they find. But at the end of the day, Western Amalgamated's long-term plans are... not worth the price.
- Believing Their Own Lies: Unfortunately, their PR department is a bit too good at their job.
- Enemy Mine: WA employees usually show up as Token Evil Teammates in the CDTs.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Their views of race and sexuality are extremely progressive, allowing them to attract and maintain the loyalty of talented individuals other companies would inadvertently scare off.
- Gas Mask Mooks: With their love of chemical weapons, a necessity.
- Genre Refugee: A Post-Cyberpunk/Bio Punk MegaCorp in a Low Fantasy world of Eldritch Abominations and unholy magic. Sometimes inverted in the CDTs where, to people from realistic or futuristic worlds, they can come across as Genre Refugees from an Urban Fantasy.
- Laughably Evil: A (warped) sense of humor is practically necessary to rise in the ranks.
- MegaCorp: A gigantic holding company, focused on biotechnology but with a deadly security branch.
- Pragmatic Villainy: They won't commit any sort of villainy that doesn't in some way advance their agenda.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: The company's employees as a whole tends to be foul mouthed when nobody's overhearing.
- Token Trio: The heads of the company. They frequently snark about it in private and take advantage of it for publicity in public, given that their imperialist agenda is anything but politically correct.
- Visionary Villain: The upper echelons are typically very well educated in philosophy, ethics, et cetera, and (aside from Alice) define their goals in terms of such. However, they're mostly just very skilled at lying to themselves about the side-effects of their noble goals and ambitions.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The PR department of Western Amalgamated is about the only thing that can keep Alice in line.
Sigmund Clark
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Outpost (cameo), Castle (cameo), Cantina II, Resort
The CEO of Western Amalgamated, a massive, cheerful man who isn't entirely sure he's happy with the price he paid for his wealth and power.
- Ambiguously Evil: He never kicks any dogs, but he didn't get to where he is by being a nice guy either.
- Anti-Villain: He's honorable, friendly, and tolerant. Unfortunately, his ambitions require conquering and manipulating entire nations for his benefit.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Generally not at the same time, though he's quite capable even if caught dressed for a board meeting.
- Genius Bruiser: He has a near-monopoly on the agricultural biotechnology industry — and is also a 6'6" behemoth with a military-like training regimen, for various reasons.
- Ignore the Fanservice: With good reason, but he goes one further and actively snarks about it.
- Large and in Charge: He tends to promote those who are at least reasonably physically capable, regarding it as a sign of a well-rounded individual.
- Large Ham: He uses his grand presence as much as his keen intellect to cow.
- Lonely at the Top: His only friends are Alice and Isaac — everyone else he calls "friend" is just a suck-up, flatterer, or would-be traitor.
- Noble Demon: He's aware he's a crooked executive purely out to make money, but as far as crooked executives purely out to make money go, he's one of the less ruthless ones.
- Older Than They Look: Sixty-five, looks like a healthy forty year old through a mixture of a healthy lifestyle, lucky genetics, and low-level Bio-Augmentation.
Isaac Rose
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Outpost, Castle, Express
An agronomist employed by Western Amalgamated, whose skill and devotion is only matched by his pride and bitterness towards the world.
- Characterization Marches On: In Outpost, he was foul-mouthed, but otherwise affable and genuinely concerned about others. By Castle, he'd evolved into a cantankerous, arrogant Jerkass whose pride led him into ill-thought plans. He's since hit a happy medium between the two, his conscience being suppressed but existent.
- For Science!: His initial motivation in Castle is genuine scientific curiosity.
- Friend to Psychos: Alice genuinely returns the friendship, but Isaac is completely aware Alice is a murderous lunatic whose main redeeming feature is her tendency to pick Asshole Victims.
- Jerkass: Though it's steadily fading, not that this exempts him from WA's Anti-Villain status.
Alice Winters (a.k.a. Lucy Summers, Alice Snow)
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Outpost, Castle (cameo), Carnival, Heist, Express, Mansion
A professional thief, assassin, and general-purpose doer of evil deeds, who works with Western Amalgamated due to her friendship with Isaac and Sigmund. She mostly runs the security wing, letting other agents do her dirty work, but occasionally gets back into doing the hard work herself.
- Alice Allusion: In appearance, she touches on this, looking much like a child with a penchant for wearing dresses. In worldview, though, she's a brutal, wise-cracking, down-to-earth thug, though she'll occasionally invoke references to Lewis Carroll, like commenting she's "gone through the looking glass" or code-naming an Anti-Magic weapon "Jabberwocky". More subtly, she also has a Carrollian interest in logic and mathematics.
- Benevolent Boss: Those who work for her think she's just a Bunny-Ears Lawyer because she really does treat her underlings well.
- Character Development: In Heist, she slowly goes from a standard issue Murder Is the Best Solution style Heroic Comedic Sociopath to a more intelligent, manipulative, and scheming sort of villain. There's a bit of backtracking on this in Express, though — she's smart, but also intellectually lazy.
- Chewbacca Defense: When asked why she thinks a unified world government would help her stay employed, she replied with a list of Oscar Best Picture award snubs. A hand-picked, meritocratic elite can still make terrible decisions, especially when given the power to do so without oversight.
- Corporate Samurai: More or less the daimyo of Western Amalgamated's.
- Deliberately Cute Child: Her childlike appearance and acting skills allow her to pose as one.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Murdering children and animals that aren't trained to kill is below even her. So is recommending Seltzer and Friedberg.
- Evil Counterpart: To Aseyu — both enjoy causing mischief, but Alice's is far more likely to be lethal, destructive, or just plain cruel.
- Extreme Omnivore: She eagerly devours a snake, after seriously considering consuming it raw.
- Insanity Immunity: She's the only member of Western Amalgamated able to knowingly interact with fanfic characters from works she'd actually know about. Most WA types are philosophically inclined enough to find the implications of characters from universes they consider fictional proving to be real more confusing and mind-shattering than anything even the Eyes and Teeth can throw at them. Alice just finds these implications darkly hilarious and uses her Doylist knowledge to troll.
- Laughably Evil: She gets away with so much by being funny.
- Mage Killer: Magic crumbles in her presence, and she really just likes killing people. So she naturally combines these.
- Moment Killer: Alice does this quite intentionally — she has a "treaty" with Sigmund and Isaac, but she otherwise deflates romantic attempts with sadistic glee.
- Moral Myopia: She is unwaveringly loyal and dearly devoted to her friends. The rest of the world can burn in agony for all she cares. Getting promoted to the first category is, naturally, a difficult task.
- The Nicknamer: As of Mansion, although generally to anger those she doesn't like or make sure people tell her their names.
- Noodle Implements: Her best plans involve them, to help her remain unpredictable.
- Older Than They Look: Though an adult, she looks about twelve.
- Professional Killer: She is capable of quick, efficient, quiet kills that leave no mess behind, even though she generally prefers to be more creative instead.
- Psycho for Hire: She prioritizes finishing the job over her own indulgences, but if she gets the opportunity, she'll leave plenty of collateral damage in her wake.
- Retcon: Formerly known as Alice Snow. (The reference was unintended and possibly troublesome.)
- Token Evil Teammate: Alice is the only Western Amalgamated agent fully aware of the unfortunate side-effects of their vision for the future. She just doesn't care as long as it gives her an excuse to do as she wills. Combined with Even Evil Has Standards, though, this sometimes means she holds backs her fellows from doing anything truly horrendous; knowing herself to be evil, she can't make excuses others can.
- Unpopular Popular Character: An Intended Audience Reaction. Entertaining as she may be, the rest of her 'verse (aside from Isaac, Sigmund, and her subordinates) treat her like the sadistic, pop-culture spewing semi-sociopath she is, avoiding and disdaining her whenever possible.
- Weak, but Skilled: She's a very small woman, but absolutely deadly with a knife, the greatest master of Anti-Magic available to Western Amalgamated, and a cunning plotter.
John Mills
Works: The Crimson
Threads: University, City
An high-level security agent of Agricultural Development Alternatives Mobile, a consulting and infrastructural assistance firm that serves as Western Amalgamated's puppet for various paramilitary operations. Armed with modestly futuristic technology.
- Anti-Magic: The Airborne Magical Organ Nullifier gas, though it only affects living creatures who breathe it in.
- Catchphrase: "I just shoot things," in University, though it's really more of a tic when he wants to avoid having to offer an opinion on a moral or philosophical matter. Not so much in City, if only because Mary answers those sorts of questions instead.
- Consummate Professional: Nothing fazes him, and he knows the mission comes first.
- Enemy-Detecting Radar: Built into his helmet's Heads-Up Display. Magic detecting, technically, but where he comes from, there's not much difference.
- Mauve Shirt: He's a standard Western Amalgamated Mook with far more experience and personality than most.
- Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future: "Jesus Christ, it's 2020, and [Sigmund] sticks us with trichromatic displays? Cheap bastard."
- Punch-Clock Villain: He's a decent guy, but he's still working for a morally grey MegaCorp and follows orders as long as they aren't blatantly evil.
- Straight Gay: Indeed, the only thing that kept him out of the US military was Don't Ask Don't Tell being active at the time.
Dr. Mary Xiong
Works: The Crimson
Threads: City
A physicist working for Western Amalgamated, a specialist on Songtech, and one of Western Amalgamated's most consistently moral employees.
- Internal Reformist: She sincerely believes in the potential Western Amalgamated has to do good, and does her best to use her relatively high rank as its Songtech expert to push the corporation from Villain with Good Publicity to genuinely good.
- Token Good Teammate: Western Amalgamated may not be evil per se, but she actually considers doing the right thing more important than orders from above.
- Token Religious Teammate: All other named Western Amalgamated characters are agnostic (Isaac and John) or actively atheists (Sigmund and Alice).
Rachel and Company
Not a proper group, just Rachel and her various friends and allies who are at least basically decent. The "good" group.
Rachel Hosseini
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Beach House, Resort
An actuary who would love nothing more than to live a normal, boring life. Her family curse prevents this.
- Foreign Cuss Word: In Farsi on occasion.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: She got no powers, a creepy guardian, and an Eldritch Abomination that wants to eat her. So normal looks pretty good to her.
- Poke in the Third Eye: Her ancestor's 800-year-old Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? means trying to read her mind will get you rerouted to a mind you should not read.
Samira Hosseini
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Resort, Dream, Mansion
A retired high school history teacher and former activist whose many scars tell of a messy past.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: When it comes to Rachel's love life, she falls into this — she constantly berated Rachel's first boyfriend.
- Berserk Button: Anyone who argues Democracy Is Bad, given her years fighting for it, and Beauty Equals Goodness, for obvious reasons
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Her long life story can be summed up like this, and she feels all she has left to do is help others find the same path.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Half her face burned by battery acid, and the other half bearing a fair number of marks itself: classic evil scars, even though she's anything but.
- Justice Will Prevail: Despite all she's seen, she does believe the world errs towards good, eventually.
- Open-Minded Parent: Zig-zagged. She's okay with her daughter hanging out with a pagan priestess/courtesan/assassin, but dating a middle-class accountant who occasionally plays video games? Unthinkable!
- Psychic Block Defense: A crude one, of only untempered will, but more than enough to keep out anybody who doesn't know about her greatest shame — those evils she leaves to Kokabiel's wrath.
- Team Mom: She ends up in this role a lot, due to her generally kind nature, age-given wisdom, and experience with both the horrors the world has to offer and the ways to cope with and move past them.
- Technical Pacifist: She's not above leaving the worst to Kokabiel. And Kokabiel isn't above calling her on it.
- Too Kinky to Torture: She's seen it all, from crude thugs to the works of an Eldritch Abomination.
Zacharias Hosseini
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Dream
Rachel's father: an absent-minded, eccentric linguist who is perhaps a little too well adjusted — and unscathed — given the horrors he has been witness to.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: He's not above using the benefits his ancestor managed to scrounge together for himself and his descendants, and isn't as ashamed of doing so as his wife and daughter.
- Waistcoat of Style: Though not so much style as old-fashionedness.
Malo Kirimis sot'Zyvaks
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Resort, Dinner Party, Cruise
Iveya's mother, a glassmaker of international renown who is not happy to be in the same family as Aseyu.
- Good Parents: She does her best to raise Iveya on her own.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's snappy and opinionated, but rarely malevolent.
- Statuesque Stunner: At six-foot-two, she's an inch taller than even her sister. Much more modest, though.
- Trapped in Another World: Inverted in that the "other world" for her is Earth. She doesn't like it much.
Iveya tel'Malo ul'Valemoth
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Cantina II, Resort
Aseyu's much more reserved niece, an apprentice glassmaker who wants to see the world. Specifically, the quiet parts that don't have too many people.
- Foreign Queasine: In addition to the usual for the Uelane, she's picked up the a taste for insects from her father's culture.
- Like a Duck Takes to Water: She takes to Earth's technology with grace.
- Romantic Plot Tumor: Excised during Resort when it became clear her and Julia worked better with a sisterly rapport.
- Trapped in Another World: After Cantina II, and inverted in that the "other world" for her is Earth. She's adjusting quite nicely.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Her entire society grows up faster by necessity, but even by those standards, she's more mature and down-to-earth than most fifteen-year-olds.
Frank O'Malley
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Resort
Julia's old-fashioned but doting adoptive father.
- Crusading Lawyer: Especially for labor unions.
- Good Parents: Trouble with his daughter's sexuality is mostly water under the bridge.
- Muggle Foster Parents: He's tough enough to survive the usual hazards of the job, though, and Julia regards him as her true father, with good reason.
- Simple Country Lawyer: Downplayed, in that he doesn't use the methods of one, but he has the general personality.
Julia O'Malley
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Resort, Archipelago
Iveya's new best friend, a girl from Minnesota who happens to the daughter of Amu, and is thus carefully guarded by Aseyu and company as a useful symbol for propaganda.
- Freaky Is Cool: Shown most clearly in her fetishizing the Retriever's Electronic Eyes in Resort.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Retconned from being bisexual for Rule of Drama reasons.
- Naïve Everygirl: At times, though she's starting to catch on to the hard nature of Alos.
- Romantic Plot Tumor: Excised during Resort when it became clear her and Iveya worked better with a sisterly rapport.
Veronica Apple
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Archipelago
Julia's girlfriend, only recently dragged into the madness of Alos, and finding out magic isn't quite how she pictured it.
- Opposites Attract: She's an urban Perky Goth dating a preppy girl from Everytown, America.
Aseyu ul'Valemoth vash'Suela
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Beach House, Garden of Everything, Cantina, Resort, Dinner Party, Mansion, Archipelago
A pagan priestess from another world, who travels the world with Rachel looking for adventure — much to Rachel's chagrin.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Due to her protection from magic, paranormal creatures are not spared from her ceaseless teasing.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Her only requirements are that her partners be sentient, interesting to talk to, free of STDs she might catch, not Alice Winters, and humanoid. The last is negotiable.
- Femme Fatale: As one would expect from an assassin posing as a courtesan.
- The Gadfly: She enjoys teasing people — sexually and otherwise — to determine whether or not they're worth having sex with.
- Good Is Not Nice: She suggests dealing with villains with very ruthless advice like "just kill them," and sees nothing wrong with upping the ante to a Fate Worse than Death if killing them isn't an option.
- Head-Turning Beauty: The reason she gets away with the teasing and harassment is partially that her victims are too busy drooling to care.
- High-Class Call Girl: Although she's not always very good at it, given how often she sleeps with people for free anyways.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Up until Garden, her name was spelled "Asau," but it wasn't exactly clear how the name should be pronounced. Later, her deity — from "Sulah" to "Suela". Later, "Asayu" became "Aseyu."
- It Amused Me: Her usual procedure for deciding what to do when there isn't anybody who needs her help. And sometimes when there is.
- Lady in Red: Her order's colors are red and black, and she prefers red for its sexual connotations and the way it highlights her skin.
- Ms. Fanservice: An intentional ploy to make others underestimate her intelligence.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Not quite true. She's vaguely aware of the concept... but doesn't care.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: It's easy to lose track of whether she is or is not roaming around stark naked, and since by default, people are assumed to be clothed when in public, it leads to extraordinarily ordinary conversations.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted — she was actually named after an aspect of Samyaza that is worshipped as a demigod.
- Psychic Static: Of the carefully disguised sort — a variety of fake "secrets" and sexual fantasies designed to make mages stay in her mind while the Teachings of the Harvest force them to pay with their very life force.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: But without the evil, since the color scheme carries very different connotations in her culture.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: While her people have slightly looser nudity taboos than, say, America, Aseyu is considered this even by their standards.
- Sleeps with Everyone but You: Will seriously consider sex with Starfish Aliens. But the thought of sex with the perfectly human Alice Winters squicks her out. Then again, Alice couldn't care less.
- Statuesque Stunner: Just over six feet tall, and does her best to emphasize it.
- The Tease: Mostly done for her own amusement, but also because she measures people by how they respond.
- Unproblematic Prostitution: Though it squicks her friends and especially family out deeply.
Irilemi vashon'Suela
Works: The Crimson
Threads: Mansion, Archipelago
The leader of the Valemoth Crimson Cell, an aging but beautiful woman with a heart of steel.
- Cessation of Existence: What she believes happens after death — which is why she regards spirits as mindless echoes.
- Dirty Commies: Occasionally quotes Guevara and Marx, and despises the capitalist system as being a mundane analogue to the magical one.
- Does Not Like Magic: Beyond the pragmatic — while some from her 'verse, like Aseyu and Rachel, accept the magic of other worlds because it isn't powered by the Eyes and Teeth, she has... deeper ideological opposition.
- La Résistance: Against the Uelane magocracy, leaving her with a lot of experience fighting mages.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: She's a very pragmatic and ruthless leader.
Other
Amu (~1500 A.D.)
Works: The Tragedy of Amu
Threadsnote : Dream, Dig Site
A desperate young man seeking to free his people from enslavement, by any means necessary. Despite his street-smart and savvy, he retains an idealistic edge and a glimmer of hope that he may yet win his seemingly doomed war against his unstoppable enemies.
- Berserk Button: Slavery — or anything that even seems like it.
- Characterization Marches On: By Digsite, he's left a number of the Barbarian Hero tropes to Okul.
- Genre Blind: Comes from a 'verse where Magic Is Evil, but is fascinated by its potential.
- Impoverished Patrician: He's technically "king" of the Uelane, but can barely afford a crown made of glass and iron.
- Out-of-Genre Experience: For somebody whose life is a mixture of Greek Tragedy and very dark Heroic Fantasy, he spends a lot of time in the sillier portions of Dream.
- Self-Made Man: From slave to king. The reason Okul respects him so much.
- Shadow Archetype: Despite coming from a completely different world, work and culture, he has a bit of this with Bianca Rona in Dream: both are leaders who know what it is to be another's property, have tasted bitter defeat in war, and who eventually obtain great power from a bargain with a supernatural being. In Amu's case, this bargain brings his fall.
Okul
Works: The Tragedy of Amu
Threads: Dig Site
The emperor of the Xeqane, a nomad empire formed from the various tribes the Elasane harass and enslave. Amu's mentor and friend, though already, Amu has begun to surpass him.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: It's a bit of a blurry line in this case — he didn't become leader by violence, but he'd not last long as one if he was weak either.
- The Emperor: Of the benevolent sort, though "khagan" might be a better translation.
- Older Sidekick: Though ostensibly, Amu is his vassal, Okul frequently follows Amu's lead.
- Purple Is Powerful: His crown is decorated with amethysts and purple feathers, although he's not so much invoking this trope as causing it for his world.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Alos and the Xeqane do not permit any other sort to live long.
Crescent Raptor
Works: The Tragedy of Amu
Threads: Dig Site
A Yoth shaman with dangerous antimagical powers... and far too much pride to use them wisely.
- Culture Chop Suey: A hybrid of ancient China and the Inca, with a bit of Canaan and Rome.
- Expy: An Iron Age Dr. Isaac Rose, with combat skill replacing scientific brilliance.
Moonlit Blossom
Works: The Tragedy of Amu
Threads: Dig Site, Inn
A brilliant but utterly tactless apothecary of questionable sanity.
- Berserk Button: The Yoth in general regard memory alteration as a crime punishable by death, but Blossom's personal experiences with her first husband's Mind Rape (among other things) makes her regard the act as irredeemable.
- Characterization Marches On: More socially competent and sane (relatively) in Inn. This is at least partially due to the shock of reading the Red King's nightmarish research notes, which makes her realize why people might be afraid of scientists prodding them.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: In Dig Site, she just can't grasp why people are offended by her asking strangers for permission to use them as test subjects.
- Just Think of the Potential!: How she frames her attempts to convince people to let her experiment on them. She's learned better by Inn.
- Mad Scientist: Eventually subverted in Inn; reading the notes from the Red King's monstrous experiments shocks her into considering the implications and possible abuses of her work.
- National Geographic Nudity: Since Yoth don't care about breasts (especially not hers), she considers a long skirt clothing enough.
- One-Man Industrial Revolution: The Yoth had a tradition of skilled apothecaries before her, but by the time she was done, it had advanced so far that, in a few areas, Earth only caught up in the 20th century.
- There Are No Therapists: Literally true among the Yoth. Unfortunately, she could really use one.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The non-visual nature of the CDTs makes her nudity this. And her general craziness overshadows her lack of clothing anyways.
The Last Red King
Works: The Tragedy of Amu
Threads: N/A (mentioned in Dream, Resort, Digsite, Ren Island)
The final ruler of the Elasanenote , the largest and most advanced proto-Uelane tribe, before their annihilation at the hands of the Uelane. He used horrifying methods to try and destroy the Eyes and Teeth — and in doing so, only gave it its greatest champion, Amu.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the worst nightmare of assassins, able to kill most of them in a single punch.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: For information, For Science!, and according to some, For the Evulz.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Scares the shit out of some Eldritch Abominations, but a spear to the gut or bullet to the heart would have the expected effects.
- Culture Chop Suey: Primarily Aztec and Egyptian elements, with some Brave New World and Japanese-style armors and weapons (in a very different aesthetic style) mixed in.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Giving him a name would humanize him too much, so legend only grants him a title.
- Genius Bruiser: Cunning enough to rule a nation of back-stabbers, intelligent enough to study medicine (cruelly), focused enough to wield Anti-Magic, and seven and a half feet of lard and muscle.
- Gonk: His face is severely deformed by the same genetic quirk that granted him gigantism.
- Large and in Charge: Seven and a half feet tall and damn near as wide.
- Mad Doctor: His experiments, some of which are theorized to have been born of sheer sadism.
- Mage Killer: Like all shamans, though he's the best and most extreme by far. He wants to wipe out the "disease" of magic, by any means necessary.
- Mind Rape: Without magic, just scientifically applied methods including, but not limited to, Cold-Blooded Torture.
- The Unfettered: His goal is the extermination of magic. He will torture, kill, and enslave to do this.
The Enlightened
Works: The Tragedy of Amu
Threads: Ren Island
A cruel and arrogant, but legitimately powerful, Elasane Warrior Monk who uses The Power of Hate to destroy magic.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Explicitly as fast and precise as a Cyborg.
- Cultural Posturing: Worse than even Yoth or Uelane — the Elasane regard themselves as the chosen people, and they will let you know it.
Koyel qo'Layi ul'Netho
Works: Unnamed side project
Threads: Mansion
An affable Uelane soldier hoping to find information on his mysterious biological mother.
- Captain Ersatz: A certain resemblance to Rucks and the Kid isn't accidental — although part of the reason for sending him into the CDTs is to help him shake this off.
- Cigar Chomper: And he's not happy when the Mansion extinguishes it.
- Machete Mayhem: Technically, his "machete" is misnamed: there's no underbrush to clear in the deserts he's been assigned to. But the name is a good description of its appearance, and it could be used for such.
- The Musketeer: His machete and rifle both see plenty of use on the battlefield.
- Perspective Flip: Has a very positive view of the Magocracy overall... although its darker side can be pieced together from his words if you pay attention.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He works for the totalitarian Uelane Magocracy, but he's not participated in any of their crimes and sincerely believes most of them are Crimson propaganda.
- Southern-Fried Private: Essentially the Uelane version of this, coming from a backwater in the vast Yoth province rainforests.
- Tell Me About My Father: Trying to find out about his birth mother. Without much success.
Esa ul'Netho
Works: Unnamed side project
Threads: Mansion, Archipelago
One of Koyel's adoptive mothers, a skilled chef.
- Cultural Posturing: She tends to be tactlessly judgmental of other cultures.
- Gay Conservative: Since it's not an issue in her homeland. Old, very religious, wary of outsiders, and (ironically) extremely infuriated by any "corruption" of the sanctity of marriage. (She's against Arranged Marriage instead of gay marriage, but still...)
- Supreme Chef: If you don't mind accounting for Uelane tastes.
Layi ul'Netho
Works: Unnamed side project
Threads: Archipelago
One of Koyel's adoptive mothers, a passionate hunter with a taste for trouble.
- Butch Lesbian: Though she averts the usual negative stereotypes, she's certainly not gender normative.
- In Harm's Way: Whenever Esa isn't around to keep tabs on her, she tends to find her way to trouble.
- Trickster Mentor: Downplayed, but anyone she takes in as an apprentice can expect to learn a few lessons the hard way.
Sonuera ul'Netho
Works: Unnamed side project
Threads: Archipelago
Koyel's mild-mannered adoptive sister.
- The Quiet One: Though being in Layi's shadow doesn't help.
Nore ul'Alitoth
Works: Unnamed side project
Threads: Ren Island
A Uelane diplomat of sorts.
- Cultural Posturing: An aversion, which is unusual among the often arrogant Uelane. (Though it's more about keeping her thoughts to herself than actual humility.) It's how she got the job.
- Token Good Teammate: For the usually malevolent Magocracy.
Solin ul'Oriyith
Works: Unnamed side project
Threads: Ren Island
Nore's quiet and awkward but skilled bodyguard.
- Token Good Teammate: For the usually malevolent Magocracy.
The Song
Works: N/A (fragments exist as Kokabiel, Tamiel, Shamsiel, Bezaliel)
Threads: Archipelgao
An ancient and advanced alien race.
- Ambiguous Robots: Its' *echoes* appearances are more akin to jellyfish, or over-sized cells, than anything clearly mechanical, and the *echoes'* structure combines organic and mechanical details.
- Fighting a Shadow: Their *echoes*. Their true forms are neither matter nor energy.
- Mechanical Lifeforms: It "evolved" on a dead world, from the remnants of a civilization that it may or may not have wiped out before achieving sentience.
- Starfish Aliens: Their *echoes* are blatantly bizarre, combining garish colors with gelatinous structures. To say nothing of their true forms.
- Starfish Language: Close translation of alien concepts like *echo*, *Song*, and *measure* involve sound or music.
Uelane (and Xeqane)
With rare exceptions, non-Earthborn characters can be assumed to be Uelane.
- Alternate Techline: The Uelane have an excellent understanding of sanitation and medicine, and had the means to produce effective antibiotics, antivenoms, and birth control centuries before Earth could do the same. The rest of their technology is well behind Earth's, however, not counting cases of outright stealing Earth technology, as they did for their firearms.
- Ambiguously Brown: Individual Uelane never fully match up with a specific Earth ethnicity. They tend strongly towards dark skin, light eyes, straight hair (naturally black, but often dyed), and ominous features (regardless of whether they're good or evil themselves).
- Anti-Magic: As mentioned in several character entries, the Uelane have discovered a way to destroy magic, which is inherently alien to their universe, through a mixture of training and sheer willpower. It's equal parts Enlightenment Superpower and Supernatural Martial Arts, allowing its practitioners to resist most spells that don't have a physical component, destroy enchantments on both people and items, annihilate spirits and other magical creatures, and temporarily deprive their opponents of magical abilities. Unfortunately, all this save the defense requires physical contact. Getting close enough to a mage to punch the magic out of him is easier said than done, so Anti-Magic practitioners have to be cunning, sneaky, and capable in a fight.
- Cultural Posturing: Something of a national hobby. They will often find some excuse to regard other cultures as savages.
- Culture Chop Suey: By design. A purée of, most noticeably, Greece, the Maasai, the Soviet Union, ancient and modern Israel, the Aztecs, the United States, ancient Egypt, Japan, Mongolia, and Rome.
- Foreign Queasine: Uelane food ranges from basically familiar (pork ribs slathered in a relative of barbecue sauce) to the strange (salads drenched in hot sauce) to the nauseating (pig testicles). But they regard milk as something to drink only in desperation, and can't stand cheese.
- Gender Is No Object: A by-product of proto-Uelane matrilineality and an early era where the Uelane increased their population by liberating slaves, not having resource-draining children, and simply couldn't afford to waste talent.
- Heroes Fight Barehanded: The Uelane certainly think so. The fact that anti-magic requires physical contact increases this.
- Kill the God: The Uelane have killed two pantheons' worth of Jerkass Gods (actually powerful living memories empowered and twisted by the magic of the Eyes and Teeth). Amu and Suela only get a pass from the Uelane hobby of deicide because they're ascended mortals, but don't expect any Uelane to be very nice to any other being claiming godhood, accurately or otherwise.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: A result of the arms race with Anti-Magic users. A Uelane mage without magical abilities is still a dangerous enemy.
- Matriarchy: Early Uelane were an Original Matriarchy. While they've become basically egalitarian in the modern era, the most prominent side effect is that they view clans instead of bloodlines as the basis of kinship; originally just to make sure female war leaders could simply adopt/nominate heirs within the clan without having to waste months in pregnancy.
- Mother Nature, Father Science: Though exceptions exist, Uelane culture norms invert the assumptions behind this, seeing science as nurturing and protective, and nature as cold and calculating. A fair assessment in their case.
- Oh, My Gods!: To animistic spirits, save worshipers of Suela and Amu, who refer to them by name. "Dead gods" is also a popular replacement for "hell," as in "what in the dead gods?" instead of "what the hell?"
- Overly Long Name: Uelane names basically distil their life story. Usually only the given name and two most defining names are used.
- She Is the King: When referring to a female leader. "King" is the ruler, "queen" their marriage partner, no exceptions.
KSPAM
Cain
Works: Neither God Nor Man
Threads: Heist
A drunk and disorderly mercenary with a soft spot for shotguns and wide-brimmed hats, Cain is unruly, greedy and loyal only to his next paycheck. But you know, the world's seen good men do bad things and bad men do good things. Who's to say...
- Berserk Button: Don't spill his drink. And whatever you do, do not say the name "Abel" around him.
Kali
Works: What We Do For Others
Thread(s): Resort
A hedonist and hardcore party animal who only survives her life of constant inebriation and substance abuse thanks to some seriously heavy duty immortality. Kali's a sort of wanderer, going from place to place looking for a good time. In any form...
- All-Powerful Bystander: Not that there's much conflict in Resort, but despite her explicitly god-like status, she rarely does anything other than act like a regular human being
- Character Alignment: She appears Chaotic Neutral, but is really just a Chaotic Good with a weird sense of participation.
- Ethical Slut: Believes that sex is a means of obtaining pleasure for both parties, and breathing anything more than that into it is giving it way too much meaning
- The Four Loves: To her, there isn't much of a difference between any of them.
- Humanoid Abomination: Although she looks like an improbably attractive twenty-something, she's actually an impossibly old immortal from a universe created and destroyed far before the inception of our own. She's also a werewolf-vampire-cyborg-wizard-shapeshifter who eats demigods. If her current appearance is even close to what she looked like when she was mortal, it's only because of nostalgia.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Believes in this strongly, insisting any sex that both parties aren't enjoying isn't worth having
- Time Abyss: So old she's lost track. However, her own conservative estimates place her at over sixteen billion years old.
Kyle Jacobs
Ryan Davidson
Works: Remus
Threads: Cantina II, Resort
A soon-to-be-retired arms dealer with a very mysterious past. It's been implied that he played a significant enough part in the Second Civil War to draw unwanted attention from some pretty high ranking people. He's rapidly developing a very different personality to the version of him in the Remus canon, due largely to Iveya's influence.
- Alternate Universe: Word of Kyle is that CDT!Ryan is from one - the sheer number of personality changes he's gone through and tweaks that had to be made to his backstory to avoid spoilers pretty much necessitated this.
- Arms Dealer: Heroic example: he runs guns for the Resistance.
- Badass Normal: He faces down Tamiel and wins. To be fair, Tamiel didn't have access to his usual power set at the time.
- Berserk Button: Acting reminiscent of Seth is borderline suicidal. Given that the guy spent a month torturing him nonstop and sent his own best friends to hunt him down, forcing him to kill them in self defense, this one's pretty understandable.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: At all. Doesn't stop him from trying.
- Covered with Scars: As he puts it, he spent the last 3 weeks before his arrival in the cantina being used as a human pincushion. The external stuff is nothing compared to what's going on in his head.
- Destructo-Nookie: With Aseyu in the Resort. Unusually for this, it's friendly and largely limited to pulling the shower curtain rod off the wall and somehow ruining his clothes.
- Knight in Sour Armor: The fact that he's managed to stay as idealistic as he has despite long-term exposure to Seth is pretty damn impressive.
- Modesty Towel: Aseyu took his towel in payment for sex, and his clothes somehow got ruined, so he's been running around wearing a shower curtain.
- Noodle Incident: What happened to his clothes, exactly?
- Oh, Crap!: On finding out what Tamiel actually is, after the Shut Up, Hannibal!.
- Shout-Out: Can anyone else think of another heavily scarred revolutionary who stayed in Room 5?
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Pulls one that completely shuts down Tamiel, even without having any idea the latter character's true nature.
- Stepford Smiler: He generally has to force himself to be as amiable as he is. He mostly keeps it up because it makes his life a whole lot easier, although it's pretty easy to make him drop the act.
Seth Williams
Works: Remus
Threads: Resort
A CIA agent from the same universe as Ryan. Pretty much the bastard son of Josef Stalin and Iago.
- Badass Longcoat: The coat is bulletproof, for one thing.
- Master Actor: He's able to perfectly mimic Ryan's personality if he wants to.
- Nerves of Steel: The guy doesn't even flinch when Ryan hurls a knife at his face. Lucky for him he guessed right about the resort blocking the blade.
- Wicked Cultured: He has a very formal speech pattern, especially compared to Ryan.
Asariel
Works: ???
Threads: Resort
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Defaults to whatever form makes whoever's looking at him most comfortable. It's also completely subjective - when Kokabiel looks at him, he sees a mass of constantly shifting features.
- Grim Reaper: Deconstructed and reconstructed. Due to the sheer number of people who die, a single entity would have to be able to teleport and likely slow down time. Asariel's powers include exactly that. However, he also has to be devoted to his job 24/7 if he doesn't want to let the souls of the dead stay attached to their corpses. Thanks to the existence of places like the Resort, he's able to take a vacation once every few thousand years.
- Was Once a Man: But has no memory of his life as a human.
Lord Greyjoy
Gregory Grey
Threads: Inn
- Alliterative Name: Gregory Grey.
- Badass Normal: Is the only superhero currently operating without powers.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Inherited the idea that everyone must be saved from his mentor.
- Combat Pragmatist: His combat style consists more of tricks, gadgets and taunts than they do actually throwing a punch.
- Deadpan Snarker: He considers snarkiness to be completely natural when it comes to his line of work.
- Genius Bruiser: Is a computer expert, and puts his technology to good use while fighting crime.
- Loser Protagonist: Broke and jobless in his real life outside of superheroing.
- Weak, but Skilled: He's short and powerless, but has the combat training and smarts to keep up with even the most superpowered hero.
m8e
Oracle
Threads: Mansion
A robot spider, Not just a robot with eight legs, almost every part of a spider have been mimicked somehow, two-part body(cephalothorax/opisthosoma), eye/camera positons(2 big pointing forwards, 4 smaller in other direction), fangs(possibly poisonous), a winch/cable/hook system instead of silkglands/Spinnerets, et.c. It also have various instruments to test the atmosphere, gravity, ionizing radiation and other things. Have some sort of AI, have feelings and get urges.
- Meaningful Name: Oracle. She speaks and answer questions. The answers might not be useful though.
- Our Wormholes Are Different: Didn't arrive through the normal inter-dimensional portal. She instead appeared "out of thin air" on the mansions roof. There where no signs of any holes or Swirly Energy Thingies.
Viktoria (aka Tora)
Threads: Mansion
Tora a woman in her late twenties/early thirties(in the time of Mansion). Was on the team that found Oracle in its incomplete form. She put her together and is now the 'owner' of Oracle.
- Ambiguously Brown: Might be caused by a society moving towards In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race.
Morgulion
GANT 01
Works: Est Machina (protagonist)
Threads: Bar, Nightclub, Hike, Outpost, Castle, Garden of Everything
A very massive and philosophical artificial soldier, over 200 years old and rather easy to get along with in times of peace. However, during a battle, he displays a far more aggressive streak, a sadistic joy, and a recklessness that borders on the suicidal. Given the time he's had to consider his situation, it's not entirely without justification. He usually takes the form of a tall and slender body that appears nearly skeletal, with a perfectly blank face. Tends not to speak of his past very much.
- Character Alignment: Jumps across the entire spectrum of chaotic, mostly settling on Chaotic Neutral.
- Red Baron: Known as the Scion of Purification.
- Shapeshifter Baggage: Averted. He weighs about a ton due to the highly compacted metal of his body.
- Villains Never Lie: Doesn't believe in it when he can crush his enemies with sheer force.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averts this by not qualifying humans as unique or special, and therefore placing them on a level equal to livestock in most cases.
Master Of Chaos
Nathan Maroon
Works: The Chaos
Threads: University, Mansion, Archipelgo
A twenty-five year old man who lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He has two adopted parents, George and Andrea, and a little brother, Adam.
- Berserk Button: Anyone hurting his little brother.
- Characterization Marches On: His personality is far different in Archipelago than it was in University.
- Promotion to Parent: When his adopted parents had vanished when he was a teen, he took care of Adam himself. This is why he's so protective of him.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: Where he's from...although half of the "future" technology there haven't been released due to being expensive and dangerous.
Adam Maroon
Works: The Chaos
Threads: University, Digsite, City
Nathan's fifteen-year-old brother. He also lives in Atlanta, and his (biological) parents are George and Andrea Maroon. He is the youngest teen out of Nick and Jackson, but is close friends with them despite the older teens bickering.
Has been revamped.
- But Not Too Foreign: His father was from Scotland before he moved to the states to start his business. His mother was from Atlanta.
- Characterization Marches On: His kindness is still there, but in Archipelago, he's shown to be just as adventurous as Nick is. He's also less tolerant to Jackson's strict behavior.
- Fiery Red Head: Averted. He has red hair, but not a fiery personality.
- Friendless Background: In his past, not a single person wanted to be his friend and bullied him until he was homeschooled. It lasted until his freshmen year in highschool. This is why he is close to Nick and Jackson. They were the only people in his whole life who were willing to be friends with him. Even then, though, the bullying had a huge impact on his self-esteem, often making him think he's useless and a bother to others.
Nick Riverson
Works: The Chaos
Threads: Dinner Party, Digsite, City
Adam's best friend, and the actual main protagonist of The Chaos. He is an African-American boy who lives in downtown Atlanta. He is sixteen years old, making him one year younger than Jackson and three years older than Adam.
- Good Parents: Even if they are a little overprotective, it's only for his own safety. He loves them dearly, though.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even though he likes to pick on Jackson and acts impulsive, he will not hesitate to help his friends when they need it.
Jackson Ruth
Works: The Chaos (second book, currently untitled)
Threads: Dig site, City, Archipelgo
A blond British boy, who is an amateur inventor. He is seventeen years old and is friends with Nick and Adam. Despite his (often) arguing with Nick, he cares for both of his friends, and is considered the leader of the trio due to the fact that he's the oldest.
Has been revamped.
- Berserk Button: Hates being called Jackso/Jacky.
- Friendless Background: In a way. After he moved to the states, he never interacted with anyone and lived alone in a small apartment. Nick and Adam were the first people he talked to and befriended since moving to the states.
- The Leader: Type II. He's the oldest out of the trio, so he takes the role of "boss". He's also the more even headed one (Adam being second).
- Power Fist: His metal gloves, use for breaking things into pieces. Naturally, they are the most dangerous out of all of his inventions.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In Dig Site and City, he was so strict around his friends (mostly Nick), it left others to wonder how they were even friends. In Archipelago, while his strictness is still there, it's been tone down heavily. Now he's actually making more of an effort to be benevolent.
- Tsundere: Also a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He's strict but it's only because he cares deeply about his friends' safety.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Even though he began making inventions as young as six, his father, never once, shows any sign of affection towards him, and often belittles his abilities. This prompted Jackson to move to the states and stay far away from England. It's also the reason he grew to hate his dad and only talk to his mother.
Thomas Riverson
Works: The Chaos
Threads: Dig site, Mansion, Archipelgo
Nick's father, and the older fraternal twin of John. He's forty-three years old and currently lives in Atlanta. He's a scientist, but has not made any "big" projects for at least nine years.
John Richman
Works: The Chaos
Threads: Dig Site, City, Ren Island (brainwashed as a servant), Inn
Nick's uncle and the young fraternal twin of Thomas. He lived in Alabama before moving to Atlanta to have his business near his family. He currently owns a gun store.
His appearance has changed significantly since Dig Site.
- Beneath the Mask: Is a nice man who loves his wife deeply, but has an inferiority complex when it comes to his older brother.
