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    Nina 

Nina Delacroix

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The main character (sort of). A young vampire born on Easter, she feeds on chocolate instead of blood.
  • A-Cup Angst: For awhile, she was convinced that she needed boobs like her sister's for guys to be interested in her, but gets over it when her body starts maturing.
  • Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Kade for the first three books and Ace, starting in volume 4. Neither returned her affections, since Kade failed to notice Nina's crush on him because he was dating her big sister, Layla. Nor does Ace, due to being annoyed by Nina pestering him.
  • All-Loving Heroine: Nina doesn't hate anyone, and likes to see everyone she meets as a potential friend, even the villains. Justified because she usually doesn’t even understand that they are bad guys.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: While she obviously respects and loves Layla a lot, Nina is nevertheless a handful, whiny, borderline spoiled little sister.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Annoying as she can be, Nina will put it all on the line for Layla.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: Didn't take long for her to get drunk after consuming some "Liquid chocolate" Layla gave her (it was actually Bailey's).
  • Character Development: Nina starts out extremely childlike and innocent for her age, for good and for ill, and gradually becomes more mature as the series progresses. Though much of the humor still comes from her Comically Missing the Point due to maturing faster physically, than mentally.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: To say that she doesn't have a fair grasp on reality is beyond an understatement.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Many of the comic's gags come from the fact that she doesn't understand the most simple things and freaks everybody out with them.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Seen at all times, unless she's pouting.
  • Deal with the Devil: She made a bargain with Tia, out of fear that she was losing her sister, Layla to Queen Lamia's possession. So she asks Tia to help her, in exchange for Blair.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: When Nina went to Layla to ask about her boobs, she poked fun at her. How did Nina respond? By hijacking her sister's body, then using it to go on a date with her sister's boyfriend. According to her, it was totally justified. The fandom disagreed, as did her parents.
  • Everyone Can See It: It's glaringly obvious to everyone watching that Nina is in love with Ace. Even people who have only known her for an incredibly short time (such as Tia) are quick to pick up. Of course, it takes her a lot longer to realize what everyone else has known from the beginning.
    Tia: It's a shame that handsome werewolf boy isn't here to see you be "the bigger woman".
    Nina: P-puppy? H-how do you know about...you said you weren't spying on me!
    Tia: I don't really need to. You're not that hard to figure it out.
  • Genki Girl: Very much so.
  • The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Nina is an extremely childish and oblivious Kiddie Kid who is clueless about everything while her older sister Layla is a prideful Alpha Bitch who is extremely prtotective of those she loves. While Nina finds her overprotectiveness annoying and is jealous of her sister's more mature body, she'll still do anything for her, such as trying to save her from Queen Quintessa in the final volume.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Due to her naivety, as seen in All-Loving Heroine above. For example, she's oblivious to Ace's initial aversion towards her and accidentally helps Cess and Laura to humilliate Layla by "outing" her as a lesbian in front of the school. She does recognize bad people (like Tia), but it only happens very rarely.
  • I Gave My Word: Vol.4 concludes with Nina keeping her agreement with Tia by giving her Blair, as payment for helping her save her Layla.
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Nina is mischievous and bratty but never malicious, has a kind and pure heart, loves everyone, and sees the good in everyone.
  • Innocently Insensitive: She is generally very sweet and caring, though she does have a habit of not realizing when she's causing problems for other people.
  • Kiddie Kid: While she's supposed to be around 14 years old (at the start of the series), Nina looks and acts like a child half that age, and her favorite hobby is eating chocolate.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: She is a very naive, childish girl with a total lack of common sense but clearly she is a being with a pure heart, always sweet and kind who is more than willing to help others.
  • Literal-Minded: To the point that she thought getting to "second base" was about baseball and actually bought tickets so Ace could take her to a game.
  • Magnetic Hero: She is able to make friends with anyone and her charisma captures almost everyone. Also, although she can be annoying at times, she is certainly loved by almost everyone, to the point Ace warms up to her despite initially not wanting anything to do with her.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she gets her first taste of blood (well technically second, but she was in Layla's body the first time) her demeanor suddenly changes and she swats away a chocolate bar Ace brought for her.
  • Operation: Jealousy: Thanks to Tia's manipulations and getting Laura's size and bust size (long story), she decides to try making Ace (who was dating Brooke at the time) jealous, but it didn't work.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: See the Vegetarian Vampire entry.
  • Red Herring: She only had part of Quintessa's spirit sealed inside her, but Layla was her true reincarnation.
  • Relationship Upgrade: Her feelings eventually shift from Kade to Ace, starting toward the end of volume 3. But she didn't begin actively pursuing him until volume 4, during her 15th birthday party. It took a bit of coercion from Neige and Sorbet, but Ace finally asked her out.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Energetic Girl to Ace's Savvy Guy. She's a hyperactive Genki Girl, while he is gloomy and sensible.
  • Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Blair suspected her to be Queen Lamia Asra-Pa Quintessa's reincarnation, but he was monitoring the wrong sister.
  • She Is All Grown Up: In Volume 3, Tia switches Laura's breast and height sizes to her and she becomes attractive enough to catch other boys' interest, like Ace and Dio. She eventually returns to normal....only for puberty to finally hit her in Volume 4.
  • Spoiled Brat: At her worst, she falls into this.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Chocolate. It can be used to motivate her and she can and will go out of her way for especially high-quality chocolate.
  • Vegetarian Vampire: Nina's preference for chocolate, rather than blood, makes her an oddity among vampires, supposedly because she was born on Easter Sunday. The truth comes out in chapter 15 when Blair explains that he purposely conditioned her that way in an effort to prevent Queen Quintessa's reincarnation. Except he'd been wrong about which of the Delacroix children it was to be: it was her older sister, Layla.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ace. Even though he can't stand her idiocy, she's the only person who'll be at his side through thick and thin, as he's ditched by Brooke and Melissa once he regains his plain appearance.

    Layla 

Layla Delacroix / Queen Quintessa

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Nina's older sister, who's determined to make her into a proper vampire by getting her to drink blood.

    Chloe 

Chloe Love

A succubus, who considers herself to be ugly by succubus standards (though she acknowledges that she's pretty by human standards), despite her many admirers. Much to the surprise of readers, she now has her own webcomic Spin-Off — Dangerously Chloe. See that character page for her entry.

    Brooke 

Brooke Lynn

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A melusine. She can turn into a snake monster, but, true to the tale of Mélusine, resents her monster form and tries to hide it. Generally laid-back and cool, but confused and shy when it comes to romance.

    Kade 

Kade Whiteclaw

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A catboy who's Layla's sometimes boyfriend, and the object of Nina's affections.
  • Abhorrent Admirer: To girl-Ace.
    • First seen during the time Ace was stuck as a girl as a result of the Tiresias Orb incident (Vol.0-1). Despite repeatedly rejecting Kade's advances, he remained undeterred and continued to pursue Ace regardless.
    • During the post-comic extra stories, Ace begins to wake up in girl's clothing whenever there's a full moon and turns to Kade and Dio for help. They soon discover that Ace's girl persona has resurfaced and takes over his body during full moons, leaving Ace with no memory of what occurs during that time. Rather than tell Ace the truth, Kade and Dio both conspire to cover it up so they can continue to have sex with Ace's girl form without Ace's knowledge, or his consent.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: Kade had just as many romantic interests as a girl, as he did while in male form. Enough that Brooke demanded Ms. Twigget do something about it before Kade wound up going too far.
  • The Casanova: He's an incorrigible playboy type, who'll hit on any cute girl that catches his eye. Which is why Layla kept dumping him.
  • Characterization Marches On: Kade started out as a nice guy who was ditzy and philandering to a fault. He was more romantic in his pursuit of Layla and in Ace's first appearance, he tries befriending him because he seemed lonely. Within a few chapters though, he made the transition to full-on playboy and Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
  • Chick Magnet:
    • Pretty much every girl in the school wants him.
    • And as this page shows, his gender bended self might be a Dude Magnet.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: Is this Played for Laughs. How far he falls onto the chivalrous or pervert side, usually depends on Rule of Funny. He typically is much more pervert than chivalrous when dealing with Layla or "the short-haired beauty", recurringly glomping them out of nowhere or asking them for dates.
  • The Ditz: Several instances have emphasized that Kade isn't very bright. Despite the glaringly obvious signs, he is never able to figure out that the "short-haired beauty" he loves and his friend Ace are one and the same. He'll ask the wrong questions, woo girls at innoportune moments, and is dumb enough to believe in obvious lies (he even accidentally releases Blair at one point).
  • Dogged Nice Guy: Kade is more submissive compared to the short-tempered Layla, to the point he enjoys being bossed by her. He even admits in Chapter 15 that he had to beg for a long time until she returned his feelings.
  • False Friend: The only way to describe someone who'd lie about Ace's blackouts just so they can take advantage of the situation for free sex (noted in the second Abhorrent Admirer example).
  • Gender Bender: It's not like he didn't deserve it.
  • Ladykiller in Love: He may ogle other girls, but none of them are half so important to him as Layla.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: His wandering eye comes back to bite him in the ass.
    • But then, Kade quickly learned to enjoy this. Very much. He even managed to stay comfortable enough to joke about his reaction on Ash after turning back.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Kade is the guy with the longest hair of the cast, and isd clearly to meant to be very attractive.
  • Loves My Alter Ego: He loves "the short-haired girl", lusting after her hugely, but is completely unaware that she is actually Ace's female form.
  • A Man Is Always Eager: This applies to Kade regardless whether he happens to be male, or female, at the time.
  • Nice Guy: Zig-zagged. Kade initially qualified, during the comic's first three volumes which presented him as quirky and well-meaning, despite his habit of repeatedly two-timing Layla. But by the extra stories, he's perfectly willing to lie to Ace about what happens to him during a full moon so he and Dio can take advantage of him.
  • Relationship Revolving Door: He and Layla broke up and made up several times, until she finally ended their relationship for keeps. At the end of the strip, it seems that they'll get back together again.
  • Something Else Also Rises: We don't normally see his cat ears, but...
  • You Remind Me of X: Following Layla becoming fully incarnated as Queen Quintessa she mentions that Kade reminds her of Mr. Boodles and muses that's might be why she's kept him around after so long.

    Ace 

Ace Wolfhart

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A werewolf, who's Nina's unwilling friend, though generally nice and well meaning.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Had a crush on Melissa before meeting Nina and her friends. She rejected him because he was too short and young for her, but briefly dates him in Chapter 10 after he becomes taller.
  • Anger Born of Worry: Although most of his anger at Nina is due to annoyance with her, a significant part of it is genuine concern for her wellbeing.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: Becomes this in Chapter 9 due to Blair messing with the Tiresias Orb. Notorious girls-lover Kade tried to seduce him, and resident pervert Blair harassed him like any other attractive girl he met.
  • Black Comedy Rape: In the I Was a Teenage Weregirl he becomes Acina during full moon, where she uses her free time to have fun with boys. Aware that something is happening to his body, but unaware of Acina's hijinks, he asks Kade and Ash for help....only for them to have their way with her once full moon strucks.
  • Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Breaks up with Brooke due to Tia and Melissa's manipulations and his own believing that Brooke still likes girls. They decide they should see other people, until eventually they reconcile. However she breaks up with him for real because she's still confused about her sexuality.
  • Butt-Monkey: He's always gotten the short end of the stick ever since he's met Nina and her sister, Layla.
  • The Chew Toy: If there's ever a chance of anything bad happening to anyone, 8 times out of 10, you can expect Ace to be the victim; especially if Nina's involved.
  • CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: When Mel (who doesn't know how to do CPR) or Brooke (who doesn't have lips) can't do this for a not-breathing Ash, Ace must.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Occasionally, usually in regard to Layla.
  • Distracted by My Own Sexy: Seen during Nina's slumber party, after Chloe gave "her" a makeovernote . Ace was so taken by his own appearance, that he couldn't help admiring "herself".
    girl-Ace: "I should be looking for a way to change back into a— Boy. Oh! Oooooh boy."
    girl-Ace: (smiling and posing) "Hmm... ooo, yeah..."
    Layla: (wry grin) "Are you and that mirror gonna need some time alone?"
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Back when the comic was in color, he had a slimmer build and softer facial features. He also wore gloves to hide his furry hands. But once it changed to black-and-white (and stopped being a girl), he looks the same as the more muscular grown-up look he had before Tia reverted it, only shorter.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Gets it from both of the Delacroix sisters, who refuse to refer to him by his name. Nina insists on calling him "Puppy, despite knowing how it upsets him. While Layla refers to him as mongrel, or more commonly, "the mutt".
  • Enemy Within: In Volume 4, Blair's consciousness was forcibly released from the doll by Nina, who was possessed by Quintessa at the time, and has wound up in Ace's body. Now, not only is Ace stuck with him for the foreseeable future, he's threatened to take him over if he falls asleep, to satisfy his perversion.
    • And as it turns out in I Was a Teenage Weregirl, his female self Acina was never gone, but simply takes over his body during full moon to have her way with boys.
  • Freakiness Shame: Has furry hands and feet, due to puberty being slower on male werewolves and Ace being a late bloomer in general. He's understandably ashamed of them, although Nina finds them cute.
    • However, I Was a Teenage Weregirl shows that he doesn't have furry feet anymore in college.
  • Friends with Benefits: The Wolf Harts one-shot shows he and Brooke have become casual sex friends by the time they're in college.
  • Gender Bender: Ace was stuck as a girl from Chapter 0 until the end of Chapter 4, when the effect was finally reversed.
  • He's All Grown Up: When he is restored to a male body, he gets taller and loses his furry hands. At least until Tia reverts him to his original appearance.
  • In-Series Nickname:
    • Nina almost always calls him Puppy, no matter how times he tells her to stop.
    • Brooke calls him "Acey".
    • His father calls his genderbend form "Acina", though Ace goes with it for convenience's sake.
  • Insecure Love Interest: Due to his low steem, he's very shy when it comes to his feelings towards girls. When he's dating Brooke he's often wondering if he is worthy of being with her or if she loves him.
  • Lampshade Hanging: He outright tells Layla that Nina liking chocolate just because she was born on Easter doesn't have any sense. Turns out he's right, as Blair conditioned her that way in an effort to prevent Queen Quintessa's reincarnation.
  • The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: The time spent as a girl appears to have had a lingering effect on part of Ace's psyche. When he admisters CPR to resuscitate Ash, his girl half is beside herself with glee.
    girl-Ace (squeeing) "EEEEEE! He's such a cutie!"
    guy-Ace (irately)''' "Sh-shut up, girl-me!"
  • Nice Guy: Despite all the crap he goes through, Ace is generally a nice guy, and even HELPS the same friends who humilliate him on a daily basis when they are in need.
  • No Periods, Period: Averted by girl Ace here.
  • Oh, Crap!: A rare comical example, when Ace couldn't help laughing at the sight of Brooke yoinking the pads out of Layla's bra and the resulting pillow fight... until they decided to join forces and come after her.
  • Only Sane Man: He occasionally shares this role with Brooke, as the rest of the cast are usually off their rocker.
  • Prone to Tears: While he's prone to sulking, his female version is very sensitive and it doesn't take much to make her cry. In fact, that's the first thing she does after being turned into a girl.
    I don't wanna be a girl! I liked being a boy...AND MY CLOTHES DON'T FIIIIT!
  • Sharing a Body: With Blair, due to his spirit being launched at Ace after his doll was broken. But he's eventually returned to his proper place, thanks to Tia.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: At first he wants nothing to do with Nina and is annoyed with her antics and constant reaching. However, after she tries to protect him from the Tiresias Orb he becomes noticeably kinder towards her, finally acknowledging her as a friend.
  • Unlucky Everydude: He was a victim of low self-esteem, short height and terrible luck with girls, but his life has never been the same since the Delacroix sisters moved into his life. Getting involved in their antics, every day has become an ordeal for him.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Nina. She's easily been the biggest source of frustration in his life since they met. However, the fact he tries to put up with her foolishness shows that deep down, he really does care about her and wants to help her.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: If anything good happens to Ace, expect him to lose it soon.
    • When he's restored to a male body, he grows taller and loses his furry hands. This makes him more confident, enough to make a pass on Brooke. Only for Tia to revert him back to his original appearance in Chapter 13.
    • Ace's longest stint of good luck was his relationship with Brooke, which ended when Brooke dumped him due to Tia, Mel, and Nina's meddling at separate times. Eventually subverted by the Wolf Harts one-shot which reveals he Brooke have settled into being Friends with Benefits, during their college years.
    • His first date with Nina turns into a disaster due to running into Brooke and Nina going berserk after accidentally drinking his blood.

    Blair 

Blair

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Nina's doll, possessed by the spirit of a man; absolutely shameless pervert. Nina gives him to Tia at the end of vol.4.

  • Abhorrent Admirer: To all females, including genderbent males.
  • Animals Hate Him: He constantly gets chased and chewed on by every pet he's ever met.
  • The Casanova: When he get's transferred into Ace's body by accident he rather quickly shows himself able to charm three girls in one day now that he is no longer in a female doll.
  • Creepy Doll: Oh yes.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • Blair lusts after most high-schoolers, but does not take advantage of Nina's "unique" mental state, finding her to be far too much of a Kiddie Kid. It turns out he's the one stunting her growth, to avoid her maturing into Quintessa
    • He also wants nothing to do with Tia. Mainly since said Demon actually wants to be around him.
  • Evil Gloating: Which was cut short, courtesy of Tia's magic, when she came to collect payment for helping Nina save her sister — as they agreed.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Nina tolerates him primarily because he's cute, and (mercifully) uninterested in her, so she's spared his worst behaviors. The same can't be said of Layla and the others who loathe him, due to being frequent targets of his unwanted advances. By the time Tia takes him away in the final chapter, even Nina isn't too sorry to see him gone.
  • The Hedonist: He pretty much only lives to satiate his perversions and considers inhibitions to be "wussy".
  • Hidden Depths: He has been trying to combat the upcoming
  • Hammerspace: When Sharing a Body with Ace, he pulls a stake out of nowhere. Ace Lampshades it by asking where it came from.
  • Named After Somebody Famous: Blair name is a reference to Linda Blair. He does the Exorcist's neck trick in his first apparition in the comic.
  • The Not Secret: Just about everybody knows his so-called "carefully hidden" weakness. So much so, that Twiggit, Chloe, and Layla have all exploited it at different points.
  • Painting the Medium: He uses a slightly different font than everyone else. Which eventually comes in useful to distinguish him from Ace when they end up Sharing a Body.
  • Panty Thief: As if his character image doesn't make it obvious enough.
  • Running Gag: Blair's habit of either saying, or doing, something to annoy others, then getting punt-kicked for it.
  • Spanner in the Works / Wild Card: Blair has two cases of these which stand out. In both he showed he didn't mind interfering with the plans of others if it helped his goals or even jeopardized the good thing he had in the process.
    • He stole the Orb Of Tiresias from the Hellrune Coven to put the whole school into a major gender-bending fiasco that almost turned the school into his own paradise of blonde buxom bimbos, even Nina, who loved him.
    • When told the Doompanties were the rarest panties in the universe, he stole them off of Chloe, not caring if he lost the Heaven he was in with her. Or that he'd be locked in the box with them for a very very long time.
  • Tempting Fate: When Nina gives Tia Blair's doll body sans Blair in it, he proclaims Tia won't be getting him as he has found better accommodations (i.e. Ace's body). Tia pulls his spirit out of Ace and back into the doll with a wave of her finger before he can even finish his sentence.
  • The Unreveal: The series ended without revealing how Blair's spirit became trapped in Nina's doll. Blair actually offered to reveal his "super secret origin story" in a last second bid to save himself from Tia but nobody wanted to hear it,they just wanted him gone. Likewise we never really see what he truly looks like.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Chapter 14 has him as one. Tia boosts a magick on Blair that shrinks anyone he touches down to Blair's size. Unfortunately, while she's collecting the smaller characters, she grabs Blair as well—and suffers the same fate.
  • Voices Are Mental: After Sharing a Body with Ace, Dio mentions that Blair's voice is coming out of Ace's body. He also continues to use the same, slightly different font when speaking than Ace and everyone else.

Villains

    The Hellrune Coven 

The Hellrune Coven

A coven of witches. Got their own spinoff, Magick Chicks, but still make appearances. See the Artemis Academy And Apollo Academy page for their entries.

    Cess and Laura 

Cessily (Cess) and Laura

A pair of minor antagonists, who aspire to become 'queen bees' by overthrowing Layla, but their "plans" usually backfire. As of Vol.4, they've become friends with Nina, and seem to be on good terms with Layla.

Both

Cessily Frostblossum

A Snow Fairy.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She seems more comfortable with having bigger breasts thanks to Tia now than she did when Chloe did it earlier.
  • Inelegant Blubbering: After turning Laura away initially, Cess sees the now-shorter Laura in her Loli-outfit. Seeing this reminds Cess how Laura looked as a kid...and this causes Cess to tear up and hug Laura tightly to her bosom, wailing "I missed you SO muuuuuuch!"
  • Laser-Guided Karma: She talked about having Chloe's E-cup breasts done in school colors, then rigging Chloe's bra to pop open and flash the football team. Cess is shocked when they see Chloe with smaller breasts (Chloe was tired of having to lug around those massive breasts). Eventually, Cess and Laura both get E-cups of their own thanks to Chloe, and Cess realizes how heavy they were.
    • And another piece of it when after she'd gotten used to them, they left once the Doompanties were sealed back in their box.
  • Only Sane Man: Much more sensible than Laura.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifter: Cess can change her hand and part of her arm to be an ice-based hammer to knock some sense into Laura when she thinks Cess should dye her hair red. Later made a lockpick icicle on her finger.

Laura Morningfire

A fire ifrit.
  • Burning with Anger: Her temper causes Power Incontinence for her.
  • Butt-Monkey: Has run into a lot of misfortune as of late. She loses her breasts thanks to Tia, Cessily leaves her when she thinks Laura was manipulating her as per her species (once again thanks to Tia). And when Nina tries to help her, yet another run in with Tia results in her losing her height. But she might be having a means to deal with it (see Idea Bulb).
  • Buxom Beauty Standard:
    • She was happy with her new breasts. Until she lost them when the Doompanties were relocked into their box.
    • Again when Tia briefly gave them back—then turned around to endow them to Cessily. She was told the only way to GET them back was for Cessily to give them to Laura willingly. And shortly afterwards Tia grabs Cess before Laura can do that.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Laura's plan for getting back at Tia was to be the cutest, most adorable 'lil moeblob ever. It worked.
  • The Ditz
    • Obfuscating Stupidity: Once out of Cess and Evil Chloe's influence, she challenges Tia on a "cute with cute" field and uses her ditziness to cover this up (and have Tia think this extra ditziness might have been a result of her stealing the height and curves from Laura).
  • Dumb Blonde: Previously until Tia did her nastiness to Laura. Then...
  • Fun Size: Tia takes away Laura's height and gives it to Nina. However, this makes Laura realize she looks adorable—and realize she can challenge Tia on "adorability" now. Going to "The Trendy Loli," Laura uses this to win over everyone, and even use her "aura of innocence" to hurt Tia with a hug (as it "Burns" Tia in doing so).
  • Obfuscating Insanity: Tia initially thinks Laura's lost it. However, this is Laura trying to go "full Lolita" to give enough cred to her own plan to take on Tia.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Puppy-Dog Eyes: Uses this on Mr. Purvis to convince him not to punish her due to her non-uniform attire (she also adds that her uniforms don't fit her anymore given her height was taken away by Tia).
  • Spanner in the Works: Tia Darkness claims that this is an ifrit's nature, using it to drive a wedge between Cessily and Laura by pointing out the latter can't HELP but mess up the former's plans. When Laura finally realizes that she can put this to use against ''Tia,'' Tia's machinations begin to collapse hard.

    Tia 

Tia Darkness/ Dementia Oblivion

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A dark-haired, childlike, demoness who first appears in Vol.3, when Cessily, Laura, and Nina try to summon Chloe back. She soon proves to be quite the troublemaker. Eventually got her own A Day in the Limelight called '"Tia & Me"'' that delved deeper into her backstory.
  • Apple of Discord: Delights in causing arguments and feeds off of them.
  • Badass Family: It turns out Tia has two older sisters: Artemis and Hecate, from Magick Chicks!
  • Brought Down to Badass: The "Tia & Me" story finally sheds light on her background history. She was formally a grand chaos demon of such power, that it took Artemis and Hecate's combined might to defeat her. It's implied that her sisters reduced her to her current childlike form, as an added precaution. Despite their efforts, Tia has remained a competent mage, a master manipulator, and a clever prankster. Made moreso, due to possessing near encyclopaedic level intellect.
  • Briar Patching: Seen when she used Laura's desire to get rid of her, to trick Laura into doing her chores around the house instead. Cess saw through it and tried to warn her, but Laura had already taken the bait.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Spent most of the Queen Quintessa arc making dry comments about Layla's and Nina's psyches.
  • The Dreaded: Major Spoiler Warning: as explained by "Tia and Me" Her real name is Dementia Oblivion, a former Grand Chaos Demon of such power that she threatened to warp all reality into pure insanity. It took both her sisters' combined might to stop her from doing it.
  • Emotion Eater: She used the spat between Cess and Laura as a chance for a meal.
  • Enfant Terrible: In appearance, anyway. See Older Than They Look.
  • Entitled Bitch: Demands that Cessily give her lunch and thinks that Cessily should attend her birthday party despite neither being related to her nor nice to her.
  • Evil Gloating: Cut hilariously short as a result of falling victim to her own curse. See below.
  • Evil Is Petty: How dare Nina have a birthday party on the same day as her?? Time to go teach her a lesson.
  • For the Lulz: Amusement is her sole motivation behind her actions.
  • Goth: Though not yet clear, which variety.
  • Hoist by Their Own Petard: After using Blaire to shrink down everyone she grabs him while not paying attention and shrinks herself down as well.
  • I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: ...and I will call you Bessy! And by the end of vol.4, it's for keeps, as per the agreement Nina made with her.
  • Jerkass: See the Necessarily Evil entry.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Quite good at it, she has a way of playing people like violins.
  • Necessarily Evil: She feeds on misery and discord, while displays of kindness, friendship, and happiness can cause her to become physically ill. In extreme cases, it threatens to make her fade altogether. Meaning, in all likelihood, she has to sow discord in order to sustain her existence.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Sure, Tia, take away Laura's chest and give it to Cess, then make sure Cess won't give it back willingly. Then take her height and give it to Nina, and make HER miserable enough to not even think of returning it to Laura. It's not as if Laura can do anything about it, right? What, she can out-Lolita YOU and now Laura's touch can even BURN you? Whoops...
  • Oh, Crap!: Aw, pitch-forks!
  • Older Than They Look:
    • Subtly implied, when Tia refers to Nina as, "little one", despite appearing to be the same physical age.
    • Confirmed at the conclusion of "Tia and Me", which reveals Tia was once a Grand Chaos Demon, who was presumably reduced to child form, after her defeat.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: This piece after she and Cess' sisters, Neige and Sorbet, end up in a closet instead of openly to crash a party:
    Tia Darkness: Who. Drew. The. Circle?
    Neige and Sorbet: [each pointing to the other] She did!
  • The Prankster: Be careful what you wish for, with Tia, as Laura learns in short order. When she demands bigger boobs, Tia takes what Laura has and adds it to Cessily's bust size, leaving Laura flat as a pancake!
  • Spanner in the Works: For Queen Quintessa. Her magic was instrumental in saving Layla from her influence.
  • Tsurime Eyes: Seen in the accompanying folder picture above.
  • Vague Age: On the cast page of Vol.4's print edition, her age is marked "unknown".
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Since she feeds off misery, the opposite leads to her own suffering. Meaning, displays of happiness and kindness hurt her. In the most extreme instance, when Laura spread joy around the school, Tia almost faded from existence.

    Queen Quintessa 

Queen Lamia Asra-pa Quintessa and Mr. Boodles

Ancient vampire queen and her pet cat, infamous for single-handedly ushering in a dark age of carnage and bloodshed for mankind.
  • But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Lamia slaughtered scores of innocents and would-be heroes in her time, without remorse.¨
  • Brain Bleach: Upon realising that yes, she kissed Blair.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She starts off as little more than a minor recurring character in Vol.Ø. But she finally becomes a pivotal character in Vol.4, once it's revealed that Layla is her reincarnation.
  • The Dreaded: According to historical accounts, Lamia and her minions razed entire villages overnight, leaving countless dead. Anyone foolish enough to oppose her was usually decapitated or torn to shreds by her pet, "Mr. Boodles".
  • Femme Fatale: Queen Lamia used her wiles to gather supporters from both sexes and planned to rebuild her empire in the modern era. She began by influencing her reincarnation, Layla, into going on dates with Brooke, Kade, Dio, and has shown a special interest in Ace.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: When Lamia returns to the living world, she has a lot of trouble adjusting to the many differences. She is taken aback to learn that vampires in current times maintain a low profile and avoid killing humans. Phones and Tumblr are strange to her. But most of all, she misses her pet Boodles. When Layla defeats and regresses her to a child, she expresses great fear of her strange new world.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: Quintessa was quite ruthless during her rule managing to wipe out entire towns in one night before moving on to the next.
  • Killer Rabbit: Mr. Boodles may look cute, but he decapitated King Lupus with a single claw swipe.
  • Formally-Named Pet: Mr. Boodles.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Receives one from Layla, for trying to take over her psyche because she refused to accept that her time had long passed.
  • Sealed in a Person-Shaped Can: Blair suspected that Quintessa would be reborn among the Delacroix children, and assumed it would be Nina. He was only partially correct, since part of Quintessa's spirit remained in Maria, 'til it was passed onto Nina through childbirth. However, she wasn't the one. When Nina bit her sister, that part of Quintessa's spirit was transferred into Layla's body; fully restoring her past life memories as Quintessa.
  • Split-Personality Takeover: She attempts this on Layla, attempting to devour her mind in an attempt at Grand Theft Me. Layla ultimately reverses this onto her, regressing Queen Lamia to the mind of a child with only a minor influence over Layla.

Minor/Recurring Characters

    Tiffany 

Tiffany Winters

An aspiring wannabe vampire slayer who's out to slake Layla, but ends up becoming best friends with her instead. She quickly became popular with the readers and was eventually given a bigger role in he Spin-Off, Magick Chicks. See the Artemis Academy And Apollo Academy page for her entry.

    Maria 

Maria Delacroix

Nina and Layla's mother. She's apparently had 13 children. Not the loner sort of a vampire - she prefers to keep some company around and is unhappy about her daughters being mostly absent, that is in school or asleep.

    Professor Twigitt 

Professor Twigitt

The science teacher at Charybdis Heights, who may, or may not, be human.

    Mr. Wolfheart 

Mr. Wolfhart

Ace's father.
  • Open-Minded Parent: When Ace goes to school as a boy and comes home as a girl...
    Mr. Wolfhart: (Glomps Ace) I've always wanted a daughter!

    Eleanor 

Eleanor

The Delacroix's housekeeper. It's unknown what she is, just that she looks kinda like an owl and is creepy.

    Becky 

Becky

Tiffany's boss at the mall.
  • Bad Boss: Averted. Tiffany thinks she's bossy, when all Becky really wants, is for Tiff to do her job.
  • Brainwashed: She gets subjected to this twice.
    • The first was done by Layla, in order to get Becky off of Tiffany's back (and also give her a raise).
    • It happened again, when Nina overdid it while in Layla's body, after succumbing to her first thirst for blood and enthralled her (under Blair's instruction) to wipe Becky's memory of it.
  • Nerds Are Sexy:
    • Blair certainly thought so, and even took advantage of her tranced state to make her put on a bikini fashion show for him. As seen, when she's out of uniform... WOW!
    • It was further emphasized in one of the postcards that came with the collector's edition of Vol.1, which shows her in a string bikini with Blair resting his head between her breasts.
  • Only Sane Employee: Considering that she's working with Tiffany, it's to be expected.

    Dio 

Diodore Renoir

Layla's fiancee.
  • Arranged Marriage:
    • Formerly, between him and Layla, but it was deep-sixed, when he learned she was in love with Kade. Except his father won't allow him to return home without one of the Delacroix sisters as his bride. So he's stuck hopelessly pursuing Layla.
    • Then again, it may not be so hopeless after all. Though their roles have been reversed, with Layla having feelings for Dio, who's hooked up with Ash, thanks to Melissa's wand!
  • Fantastic Racism: He wastes no time in bragging to Ace how Vampires are the superior race, and tends to call him mutt or any related names.
  • Flat Character: Fans have begun to regard him this way, due to a lack of characterization, compared to the rest of the cast.
  • French Jerk: Dio is French (from Marseille, to be precise), though his nationality is almost never mentioned and never comes into play in his jerkass moments.
  • Jerkass: Dio is full of himself, dismissive of anyone he deems inferior to him, classist and displays Fantastic Racism like it was nothing. His one redeeming trait is that he's not a womanizer, while it would be very easy for him.
    • Break the Haughty: And the universe responds to the above by knocking him down a few pegs in equal measure to his snobby antics. The best example is when he, after Ash slugs him thinking he is going to hurt Tiffany, picks a fight with Ash for "daring to lay a hand on his betters"...and then gets curb-stomped, and also when Layla tells him he got mistaken for a human by Nina on her blood-craving craze, his ego takes a HUGE blow.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After taunting a shrunken Kade, Kade tells him, "Why don't you come down here and say that to my face!" One POOF later, Dio's shrunk down too.
  • Pretty Boy: Certainly enough to make Layla forget about Kade, and make Chloe turn evil.
  • Upper-Class Twit: He comes from a prestigious vampire family himself, and he's very full of himself.

Alternative Title(s): Eerie Cuties

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