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Main Characters
General
- Color Motif: Each one has a specific color associated with them. Rex is purple, Desmond is green, and Lyss is blue. Their clothing aligns itself with those colors, and so does their Speech Bubbles.
- Famed In-Story: After taking down Charlie Mathers they become known as the Pack and quickly climb up the Blank Hunter ranks.
- Two Guys and a Girl: The main cast consists of two men (Rex and Desmond) and a woman (Lyss).
- With a Friend and a Stranger: Rex is the stranger to Lyss and Desmond's friends. Rex is a newcomer to Glory City, while Desmond has been Lyss' roommate for some time and her bodyguard for a while before that.
Rex Kelman
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The main character of the story. He comes to the city in search of answers regarding his brother's death. He has the ability to touch blanks because his father was a blank developed enough to have children. Many people aim to kidnap him in order to obtain his brother's memories, which he gains as he develops.
- An Arm and a Leg: After being publicly outed as a Blank, he has his right arm cut off by Stella. The Scion takes over for him and grows him a new one.
- Butt-Monkey: His life is not an easy one, which is often hilarious. Other times, not so much.
- Cain and Abel: Maybe. Jericho accuses his brother Mikiah of plotting to murder both Jericho and Rex for being red Blanks. While Rex obtains a memory of Mikiah supporting Jericho's claims of Mikiah trying to kill Jericho for that specific reason, Mikiah's actions on his deathbed don't quite stack up with the accusation of a plot to kill Rex, implying there's another piece to the puzzle Rex lacks.
- Celibate Hero: Indicates that he doesn't really think about physical attraction in general after Bell all but throws herself at him. It's quickly subverted when he decides that even if he doesn't understand sexual love, it's not going to stop him from trying to form a romantic bond with her, and he starts kissing her.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Being a half blank means that he grew up isolated from society. He had no control over his face-stealing urges before getting one, so if someone came over when the weather permitted them to not wear masks, he'd have to chain himself up just to keep everyone safe. The fact that he got his face from his dying brother does his mental health no favors either.
- Disappeared Dad: His father has yet to appear at all, even in flashbacks, as of chapter 125.
- Distressed Dude: Season 3 ends with him waking up chained to a bed by Jericho.
- Dual Wielding: Wields a pair of daggers.
- Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. He's not dumb so much as really naive and inexperienced with the outside world, while also having a lot of bad luck.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Over the course of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4, he discovers that Mikiah secretly resented him, Lyss murders Blank Christoph, his roommates and dog throw him out after his Superpowered Evil Side comes to the fore, his new friend Nia turns out to have been manipulating him, and he takes Desmond's support of Finzé as another personal betrayal. This ultimately drives him to commit a Face–Heel Turn.
- Face–Heel Turn: At the beginning of Season 4, he is convinced to defect to Jericho's terrorist cause.
- Half-Human Hybrid: He is the half-Blank son of a Blank copy of Mikiah's father.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has nearly white hair and is a very friendly and empathetic person.
- Heel Realization: After spending most of the season understandably resenting Lyss for reporting him to the police, in chapter 151 he begins to understand that most of what she did was pretty reasonable given the circumstances. What's highlighted is Rex's perspective right after having regained control of his body, with Lyss brandishing a gun at him next to an injured Desmond. From her perspective, Rex randomly started displaying dangerous blank powers and tortured Desmond unprovoked. Of course she would respond by calling the police.
- Hunter of Their Own Kind: He is convinced by Desmond to become a Blank Hunter to defend the trio against Blan Co. despite being a Blank himself.
- Hypocrite: It's hard not to blame Rex for being mad at Lyss over her killing Christoph's blank, but he also resents her for betraying him and selling him out to the police. This was right after his Scion possessed him and mutilated Desmond; no matter how you cut it, Lyss can't be blamed for not realizing that Rex was possessed and thinking that he posed a threat to the public. It isn't until chapter 151 that he realizes that Lyss was doing the best she could in a really unfair situation.
- Living on Borrowed Time: As it turns out when he stole Mikiah's face, he also stole his injuries, including the one he died from, and once he becomes fully flesh, he'll probably die.
- Living MacGuffin: As both a red blank and the holder of Mikiah's memories, Blan Corp are willing to go to extreme lengths to capture him alive.
- NEET: He spends his first two weeks in Glory City on Desmond's couch mooching off of him and Lyss.
- Secret-Keeper:
- To Desmond, being one of the only ones who knows he's a Blank.
- To Stella, being one of the only ones who knows she was working with Charlie Mathers. Her knowledge of his status as a Blank places them in a position of mutually assured destruction should one out the other.
- Superpowered Evil Side: When he's badly injured, his personality changes and the font for his speech in the comic also changes to signify that his voice is different too. When Charlie realizes that his personality has changed, he demands to know who the new Rex is. He says that he is "like a king" to normal blanks, and has the power to control faceless blanks and even can get them to touch things.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He is not happy to be forced to work with Charlie Mathers to protect a bunch of blank refugees.
- Verbal Tic: He says "Oi" a lot. It's a cultural thing from his hometown.
- The Watson: As a new arrival in Glory City, Rex asks questions that the audience might and enables other characters to deliver exposition to him.
Desmond Grey
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Lyss's best friend, roommate, and bodyguard. He decides to take Rex in after realizing that he has no place to stay in Glory City.
- Big Brother Instinct:
- It doesn't take long for him to start treating Rex as a member of the family.
- When his biological sister Rosie shows up in Glory City and makes it clear she doesn't resent him for being a Blank version of her brother, he immediately takes her under his roof, he tries (pitifully) to dissuade her from searching for a boyfriend, and Mayor Martella is able to use her to threaten him into selling out the underground Blanks in Glory City.
- The Big Guy: The tallest of the group.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Notes in Ep. 142 that he only lights up when he's stressed. Having to identify his former friend Rex as a terrorist sure fits the bill as far as stressors go.
- Easily Forgiven: When his face's sister Rosie tracks him down in Glory City, she promptly refuses to hold him accountable for taking her brother Reese's face and treats him like Reese 2.0.
- Hunter of Their Own Kind: He decides to become a Blank Hunter to defend the trio against Blan Co. despite being a Blank himself.
- The Medic: He can attend injuries due to his face formerly belonging to a former field medic.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- It's implied that this was his response upon developing and gaining his host's memories.
- After being forced to throw the city's unregistered Blanks under the bus to keep his sister safe, he calls Gabriel in a haze and makes it clear he's horrified about what he just did.
- Only Sane Man: He's the only member of their group who has learned to keep his trauma under control and who didn't have a sheltered upbringing.
- Right Man in the Wrong Place: Him taking Rex in was the result of his altruism and happenstance, not any manipulation by outside forces. This now puts him and Lyss in the crosshairs of those aiming to kidnap Rex, and ultimately leads him to deciding that the best way to stay safe is to become a team of Blank Hunters who only take in dangerous blanks.
- Secret-Keeper: To Rex, being one of the only ones to know he's a Blank.
- Taking the Bullet: When Jericho uses his red space to attempt to kill Lyss during the face exchange, Desmond shields her at the cost of getting run through himself.
- Team Chef: He's the member of the group who always does the cooking. He makes sure to burn Rex's, unless he's in a particularly good mood with him for some reason.
Elyssabeth "Lyss" Martella
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A young woman who has a much stronger fear and hatred of blanks than most. She is Desmond's roommate, and he's dedicated to protecting her.
- Action Girl: She takes to Blank hunting quite well.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: If it means protecting her friends, she'll swallow her pride and beg Kingly not to kill them.
- The Atoner: In Season 4, she seeks to make up for betraying Rex and murdering Blank Christoph.
- Broken Pedestal: Kingly insults the newcomer Lyss for trying to be a Blank Hunter just like her, because she doesn't have what it takes to thrive in a cutthroat business. Lyss instantly shifts from Kingly fangirl to an angry rival.
- Facial Horror: She lost her right eye and nose to the Blank that would eventually become the Bag Girl. While she was able to get her nose reconstructed, she is still blind in that eye.
- Fiery Redhead: As it turns out, she dyes her naturally orange hair blonde and she's a rather hot-blooded young woman.
- Freudian Excuse: While it's quite normal to despise Blanks, Lyss's hatred is considered much even by blank hunter standards. She's had traumatic run ins with blanks tied to organized crime before - namely, she was abducted by Charlie Mathers and lost half her face to a Blank. After learning the truth about Desmond and Rex, she becomes more reasonable but still has a rather bleak outlook on the life of a Blank that's stolen a face.
- Generation Xerox: Played with. While her father was a Blank Hunter, he was a very corrupt one, and Lyss wants to do better. At the same time, her brother also lost part of his face to a blank.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: While Rex and Desmond have close range weapons, Lyss picks a gun.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has (dyed) blonde locks, and she tries her best to do right by her hometown and friends.
- Handicapped Badass: She's half-blind due to losing her right eye to a Blank. It doesn't slow her down in the least.
- Innocently Insensitive: A truly tragic example right after she kills Christoph's blank, when she explains that killing him was the kindest thing they could do since he'd spend the rest of his life on the run and cursed with the knowledge that he technically killed someone. Rex does not take kindly to those implications once uttered.
- It's Personal: Lyss wants to take down Charlie for hurting her father, and he's the one responsible for the partial loss of her face.
- Mercy Kill: She views this as the best fate for some blanks, especially ones that only recently got a face and the public are desperate to kill. She inflicts this on Blank Christoph, with disastrous results for all involved.
- Milholland Relationship Moment: After Charlie outs Desmond as a Blank, she admits to him that hypothetically speaking, if one of her best friends were to secretly be a Blank, it wouldn't stop her from caring about them.
- Ms. Fanservice: Lyss is a mild example, often wearing shorts and short dresses but never things that are ridiculously impractical. She only ever puts on a genuinely revealing outfit when infiltrating a club.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- When she tells the police about Rex, it's because she just witnessed him torture Desmond and didn't realize he was being possessed. She only did so because she had legitimate reason to believe that Rex was a danger to the public, and was unaware that standard protocol for Red Blanks is to kill them and not even bother trying to take them in alive.
- She also comes to regret killing Christoph's blank.
- Revenge Before Reason: She's willing to go to any lengths to claim Charlie Mathers' head, no matter how reckless. As soon as she gets her Blank Hunter license, she charges into a restaurant owned by one of Mathers' minions with no one but her roommate's dog for backup, in the process provoking Glory City's best Blank Hunter into coming after her personally.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Her signature weapon is a heavy revolver that fires custom anti-Blank incendiary and explosive rounds.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She gives up being a Blank Hunter and goes back to live with her parents at the end of season 3.
- Tragic Bigot: She developed a hatred of Blanks after one crippled her father and then tossed her and a bunch of innocents into an arena to have their faces munched off. She lost her right eye to a Blank.
- True Blue Femininity: Her main color is blue.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Giving Blank Christoph a Mercy Kill proves to be a massive mistake on her part, driving Rex away and eventually causing his Face–Heel Turn.
- White Mask of Doom: She rocks a blank white mask that resembles a Shy Guy's. According to her, she made it herself rather than wear her family's mask.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: After Charlie reveals that Desmond is a blank, she takes it remarkably well and starts to understand his perspective on the issue more.
Shnee
- Canine Companion: Shnee gets a belly rub for every like on an episode. He's also trained to warn Rex about Blanks before they bump into him.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: He's been trained to detect blanks so that Rex's ability to touch them doesn't get discovered by accident.
- Formerly Fat: He's a total fatass for the first three seasons due to Rex spoiling him rotten. Once Desmond takes control of his diet, he noticeably slims down.
- Team Pet: He's Rex's pet dog who accompanies the group on their adventures.
Blank Hunting Organization
General
- Creature-Hunter Organization: Their purpose is to hunt down Blanks.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: No matter how developed a Blank is, they are hunted down and arrested. Or killed.
Stella Kingly
- The Ace: At the start of the story she's the top Blank Hunter in the city and a minor celebrity as a result.
- Action Girl: Even though she doesn't deserve her stellar public reputation, she definitely deserves to be feared as a strong fighter.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Luis Martella. The two serve collectively serve as the main human antagonistic force of the comic, driving a wedge between humans and blanks.
- Big Bad Ensemble: She and Luis Martella turn out to be just as dangerous to the dream of human-blank coexistence as opposing antagonist Jericho is.
- Broken Ace: In season two Rex and co's arrest of Charlie results in the loss of her main sources of fresh blanks to turn in, resulting in Lyss's brother taking the number one spot.
- Child Hater: After being made to speak at an elementary school, she privately mutters that she hates kids.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: Played with. Her absurd Blank body count is due to selling out innocent civilians to be murdered and converted into Blanks, but even without this she's still a fearsome fighter.
- Monster Protection Racket: As it turns out, she pays off Charlie to murder innocent people by turning them into Blanks so that she can reap the rewards.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: She allows institutions that support newer, harmless blanks in her territory to remain, but only because it gives her a steady supply of easy targets.
- Secret-Keeper: To Rex, being one of the only ones to know he's a Blank. His knowledge of her working relationship with Charlie Mathers places them in a position of mutually assured destruction should one out the other.
- Villain with Good Publicity: She's not a good person. She works with Blank gangs in order to reap rewards from newer blanks.
Gabriel Finzé
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Lyss's brother, but an illegitimate child of her family. He's the number two Blank Hunter in Glory City. He specializes in subtler forms of Blank hunting that revolve around intelligence gathering, and making sure that the blanks of powerful people never reveal any of their sensitive information.
- Bastard Bastard: Not only is he an illegitimate member of the Martella family, he can also be quite mean and doesn't have a good relationship with Lyss. He also doesn't hesitate to turn in Blanks who aren't hurting anyone. Later subverted: He's the first person in the show to come out and publicly declare his support for helping nonviolent blanks.
- Big Brother Instinct: When he agrees to mentor the new Blank Hunter, Christoph, it at first looks like he's just taking advantage of an innocent newbie, but later events in the story make it clear that he does care for the kid.
- Big Good: At the end of Season 3, he becomes the lead figure in trying to ensure that Blanks and humans can finally coexist peacefully.
- Eye Scream: He got into Blank hunting after one took his right eye.
- Good Is Not Nice: He initially comes off as an asshole and a Big Brother Bully, but later events make it clear he's one of the more idealistic characters in the setting.
- Hidden Depths: While he thinks a Mercy Kill is the best option for a blank, especially a famous one, even if they're nonviolent, he recognizes that it's only like that because society is structured in a way that's supremely unfair to them. And he publicly declares his desire to change the system and have humans and nonviolent blanks unite against more dangerous blanks.
- Hypocrisy Nod: Admits to the hypocrisy of condemning Stella for being a Blank Hunter first and foremost while being a former Blank Hunter himself.
- Last-Name Basis: He primarily goes by his surname.
- Lightning Bruiser: His fighting style relies on blinding speed and quickly disabling his opponents using electrified weapons.
- Mercy Kill: This is ultimately how he views his first takedown of a Blank. Because said Blank had his personality, he knew they wouldn't want to live in such a horrific world.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: It's unclear if it even counts as passive-aggressive or just aggressive. His way of telling Rex and Lyss they aren't welcome is by politely asking Rex if he wants tea and, after Rex tries it and spits it out, explaining, "I boiled cough syrup. Choke on it."
Christoph
- Ascended Fanboy: He idolizes the top Blank Hunters, and Finzé even takes him under his wing.
- Naïve Newcomer: He has a very rosy view of Blank Hunters and their work.
- Nice Guy: He actually became a hunter because he wants to help Blanks that aren't dangerous. Also, his reaction to finding out that Rex only had a granola bar for breakfast is to insist on getting him pancakes.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Jericho rips off his mask offscreen and shows his body to the people of the city in order to test them by seeing how they'd treat his new Blank.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Right after explaining to Rex about how he is doing his best to help nonviolent Blanks, he is abducted and murdered by Jericho.
Blan Co.
General
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: They "help" new blanks that have no support network and charge them debt that's nigh impossible to get out of for their troubles.
Jericho
- And I Must Scream: In his backstory, the doctors experimenting on him submerged him in water, melted him, and then evaporated what was left of him, all while he was still fully conscious. He notes that it wasn't a pleasant experience.Jericho: Do you have... any idea what it's like to be aware... to be conscious... to be so afraid... but to have no body to do anything about it with? I don't think anyone can comprehend that sheer lack of autonomy... the helplessness of being reduced to a puddle of molecules with nothing but the awareness of how utterly scared you are.
- Berserk Button: He grew up in a religious community where the town priest regularly preached that blanks don't have souls, so bringing up God tends to trigger him.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He is set up as one of the main antagonists of the comic, desiring Rex for unknown sinister purposes and ultimately seeking to tear down Glory City to create a haven for blanks. By the time Season 4 rolls around, he shares the position of main antagonist with Stella Kingly and Luis Martella.
- Big Brother Instinct: He develops a rather nurturing relationship with Rex, his half-brother.
- Cain and Abel:
- Abel to his step-brother Mikiah's Cain. Mikiah attempted to kill him for being a red Blank.
- Abel to his half-brother Martin's Cain. Martin was an abusive Big Brother Bully during his childhood, and was seriously contemplating murdering him before a public offer of amnesty in exchange for turning in half-blanks convinced him that it was a cleaner method of disposing of him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His family was decidedly less kind to him than Rex's was. He was stuck with an alcoholic and neglectful mother and an abusive Big Brother Bully. Said brother handed him over to half-blank researchers, who performed absolutely horrific experiments on him and his kind.
- Disappeared Dad: The blank who sired him left to go find the family of the man whose face he took after he regained his memories.
- Evil Counterpart: His backstory is quite similar to Rex's, right down to having taken his brother's face. He grew up to be much crueler, however.
- Foil: Claims to be Claude's opposite. According to him, Claude is the type of man who will let the world burn to help the people he cares about, while Jericho will sacrifice any individual if it means making the world a better place.
- Half-Human Hybrid: A fellow red half blank like Rex.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Half his body is blank space. This is notable because he used to be fully developed.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- His idea of a test for humanity is to murder a young Blank Hunter who unbeknownst to him was very sympathetic to nonviolent blanks, display his corpse in front of a crowd that was very riled up before he even got there, and shout at them about how the blank is actually said Blank Hunter to see how they'd react.
- He also admonishes Claude for not providing enough to the group knowing full-well that Claude is the main reason their organization has the resources and money it needs to operate.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's Rex's paternal half-brother.
- Only Friend: He's one of the only two people whose company Claude has ever genuinely enjoyed.
- Queer Establishing Moment: The first time we meet him he’s at a party with one arm around a young woman and the other around a young man.
- Shirtless Scene: In one chapter he’s shown without a shirt on after waking up so the audience can see the extent of his blank space. And not for any other reason. Yep, totally plot relevant.
- The Teetotaler: He claims that it's dangerous when he drinks booze, so he sticks to soda.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Not for Blanks but for Red Blanks. His stunt convinces Finzé that with a common enemy, nonviolent blanks and humans can unite against Red Blanks. We have yet to see the full consequences of his actions, but it's entirely possible that his stunt will set things in place for blanks to finally be given some rights under the law but at the cost of his and his allies' freedom.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to advance Blank rights, but is willing to go to any lengths to do so.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He went through absolute hell in his childhood and early adolescence, what with being abused and experimented on. In his adulthood, he wants nothing more than revenge on humanity, to the point of destroying the biggest moment of hope towards peaceful co-existence between blanks and humans.
Claude Castner
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An unpleasant man who serves as Jericho's nominal right-hand man.
- An Arm and a Leg: After Blan Co. is exposed, he ends up sawing off his own right leg in order to attach red blank space to it and remain useful to Jericho.
- Disc-One Final Boss: As it turns out, he is the man who killed Mikiah and Rex's target when the latter arrives in Glory City. By the time this is revealed, things have escalated far beyond one murder.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's generally a heartless prick, but he is genuinely loyal to Jericho and he does care about his father, deep down.
- Foil: Jericho claims Claude to be his direct opposite. According to Jericho, Claude is the type of man who will let the world burn to help the people he cares about, while Jericho will sacrifice any individual if it means making the world a better place.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Jericho points out that he doesn't really offer much to the team in terms of combat ability and nobody respects him. This later turns out to be a bit unfair given that he's actually very wealthy and connected and uses his resources to keep their organization running, but he's still a relentlessly obnoxious and unpleasant man.
- Hate Sink: Between his hostile personality, his abuse of Bag Girl, and the author jokingly offering to make him suffer misfortune in exchange for likes, it's clear the audience is intended to despise him and take pleasure in his pain.
- Hidden Depths: He turns out to have a conversational understanding of sign language. The Bag Girl finds this out the hard way.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: To Jericho.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: When he privately muses on his own life, he notes that he can't stand other people and finds fulfillment outside of his connections to others.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In Ep 154, he goes on a screaming rant towards Rex for allowing Desmond to retain knowledge about Blan Co. that Desmond ultimately hands over to the authorities, endangering thousands of blanks (Desmond was coerced into betraying them, but they have no way of knowing that at the time). The recipient of this rant acknowledges that Claude has every right to be angry in this situation.
- Lack of Empathy: His backstory implies he is physically incapable of feeling compassion and empathy for others.
- Never My Fault: He refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions and often blames Bag Girl for his mistakes.
- No Sympathy: Upon hearing of a blank safe house being raided and several blanks being arrested, he responds with an indifferent "Sucks for them." and privately muses that even though he knows he should care, he really doesn't.
- Straight Gay: Completely uninterested in women, and with a huge crush on Jericho.
- The Team Benefactor: It turns out he is using his family's wealth to finance Jericho's ambitions.
- Too Dumb to Live: His plan for abducting Rex was to at first have Bag Girl try to do the dirty work armed with nothing but a small knife when at least one of the two people she'd be threatening is a developing blank, meaning he has a natural resistance to knife wounds. When that fails he tries to verbally coax him into joining them by promoting Blan Co. as an organization that helps blanks, knowing full well that they have a reputation for saddling their clientele with insurmountable debt.
- Torture Technician: One of his duties for Blan Co. is to interrogate leaks through torture, as some poor sap finds out the hard way in Ep. 27.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Narrowly subverted after Blan Co. is exposed. Jericho's Scion points out that his only real contribution to the team (his money) just lapsed, and threatens to murder him. However, Rex and Jericho are able to talk it down.
Bag Girl
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Bag Girl is a partially developed blank who works for Blan Co. She has a connection with Lyss.
- Action Girl: After she gets a special drug that lets her manipulate her blank space, she becomes the strongest fighter in her group.
- Brown Bag Mask: Wears a brown paper bag with a hole cut out for her right eye as a crude mask.
- Butt-Monkey: At first she's constantly belittled and mocked by Claude, but she learns to stand up for herself after getting the enhancing drug.
- Cursed with Awesome: As a blank who has only partially developed and will never fully develop, she's the perfect subject for the enhancing drug that lets her use her blank space as a weapon. It also means that she has the most difficulty blending in and communicating. For the most part. While it's never commented upon in-story, since blanks almost always start off with a mouth, her being mute may help her pass for human in some situations.
- Cute Mute: Unlike other partially developed blanks, her mouth is blank space, meaning she can't speak.
- Evil Twin: Downplayed. She is the Blank who consumed half of Lyss' face, and has some of her physical appearance. While Lyss is a human Blank Hunter who hates Blanks because of the incident that created the Bag Girl, the Bag Girl is a terrorist who joined Jericho's cause because she genuinely had nowhere else to go.
- Hobo Gloves: In her initial outfit, she wears brown fingerless gloves that contribute to her overall shabby appearance. They are destroyed when she uses the enhancing drug for the first time, and she goes barehanded from that point forward.
- Meaningful Rename: Rex gives her the name Bell, derived from the letters BL (as in Blank Lyss).
- Never Given a Name: As a partially developed blank who has spent most of her early life under Claude's abusive watch, she doesn't have a name and is only referred to by her bag mask. In Season 4, Rex gives her the name Bell.
- The Scapegoat: Claude tries to scapegoat her for the clusterfuck that is the final battle of Season 1, but Jericho sees right through him.
Nia
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Nia is a quarter Blank whose father works as a scientist for Blan Co.
- Action Girl: She's a competent fighter with a baseball bat.
- The Corrupter: Soon after joining the story she tries to convince Rex to give up on humanity by talking to him instead of forcing him to join up with Blan Co.
- Dark and Troubled Past: While her childhood seems to have been fairly happy, with all signs pointing to her having a loving relationship with her parents, the incident that lead to her joining Blan Co. was anything but.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Her mother is one.
- Freudian Excuse: Everything she does is because of her fury over how her mother was thrown in jail for being a Half-Blank.
- Hair-Raising Hare: She is a major antagonist who wears a full-head rabbit mask.
- The Immune: Being a quarter blank means that she is one of the very few people in existence who never has to fear having her face stolen but who never had to steal one in the first place.
- Intangibility: Being a quarter blank means that she can phase through solids at will and with some effort can also help people she's touching do the same.
- Transhuman Treachery: Despite being 3/4 human, she identifies much more strongly with her blank heritage.
- Trauma Conga Line: Ooof, where to begin. Well, she didn't know about her heritage until her mask fell off in public, forcing her mother to out herself as a half blank to keep Nia out of jail. In a highly publicized court case, she was determined to be legally human. At the same time, her father was forced to lie under oath and say that he didn't know his wife was a half blank and that he would have sold her out if he'd known to avoid getting sent to jail. Then she saw her mom shipped off to a prison island all for things none of them had any control over.
Others
Charlie Mathers
- Arch-Enemy: Lyss wants his head on a pike, and for damn good reason.
- Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist of Season 2, which focuses on Lyss' efforts to hunt him down and get revenge on him for his past transgressions against her.
- An Arm and a Leg: The Bag Girl rips off his right arm as an act of personal revenge for the events leading to her birth, and so he can get a red Blank arm to serve Blan Co.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Charlie is only "respected" by the Blan Co. group because he's useful to them. Bag Girl specifically despises him because she has part of Lyss's face, and thus understands how awful her conception was for Lyss.
- He Knows Too Much: He used to be friends and partners with Luis Martella, but when Luis was hailed as a hero for handing in some rival Blanks he had Charlie disposed of by conversion to Blankhood to prevent him from leaking the secrets of his criminal past.
- Hypocrite: He despises the Martella family for being headed by a Villain with Good Publicity, but eagerly works with Kingly.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If he'd only knocked out Rex without badly injuring him, Blan Co. would have probably kidnapped him without issue. Instead, he awakens Rex's Superpowered Evil Side.
- Revenge by Proxy: Played with; he despises the Martellas because Luis betrayed him for power, but when Lyss fell into his hands it was as a target of opportunity instead of a deliberate act on his part. However, he didn't hesitate to rub in the irony of his old enemy losing his own daughter to him to her face.
- Riches to Rags: He goes from a wealthy crime lord to having basically nothing after Rex and his friends manage to arrest him.
- Serial Killer: He murders innocent people for yuks and turns their Blanks over to Stella for profit.
- Token Evil Teammate: He's a self-serving scumbag aligned with Jericho's Well Intentioned Extremists and is far worse than any of them, even Claude.
- Villains Never Lie: In his shared past with Lyss, he informed her about how corrupt her father is and how her father lets him operate in order to provide Blanks for him to oppose and maintain his popularity. Lyss had no explanation for how her father found her so quickly, as Charlie pointed out, and she quickly realized he was telling the truth.
- Villain Reveals the Secret: Twice over:
- He outs Desmond as a Blank to Lyss.
- In his shared past with Lyss, he revealed the depths of her father's corruption.
Mikiah Kelman
- Cain and Abel: Maybe. Jericho accuses him of plotting to murder both Jericho and Rex for being red Blanks. While Rex obtains a memory of Mikiah supporting Jericho's claims of Mikiah trying to kill Jericho for that specific reason, Mikiah's actions on his deathbed don't quite stack up with the accusation of a plot to kill Rex, implying there's another piece to the puzzle Rex lacks.
- Disappeared Dad: Twice over. Firstly from the man who sired him, and then from the blank with his face who would wind up siring Rex.
- Only Friend: He's one of the only two people whose company Claude has ever genuinely enjoyed.
- Parents as People: While Mikiah was Rex's older brother, he became his defacto guardian whenever their mother was absent. Through flashbacks we learn that his relationship with Rex wasn't all sunshine and roses. He resented the fact that he wasn't able to pursue his dreams because he would be expected to take care of Rex after their mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Still, from Rex's own memories it looks like Mikiah took good care of him and never took his frustrations out on Rex.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Everything in the story begins with his murder and Rex's efforts to find the killer.
- Posthumous Character: Most of what we've seen of him is from flashbacks and Rex slowly gaining his memories.
- The Resenter: His memories reveal that on some level he resented Rex for consuming his life.
Luis Martella
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Mayor of Glory City, retired Blank Hunter, and Lyss' father. Has a skeleton or twelve in his closet.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Stella Kingly. The two serve collectively serve as the main human antagonistic force of the comic, driving a wedge between humans and blanks.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He and Stella Kingly turn out to be just as dangerous to the dream of human-blank coexistence as opposing antagonist Jericho is.
- Corrupt Politician: Threw his partner and friend Charlie Mathers under the bus in order to keep his criminal past secret so he could become mayor.
- Mayor Pain: He's the mayor of Glory City, and it eventually turns out he's a corrupt piece of garbage who is willing to threaten Desmond's innocent sister in order to get to Jericho.
"The Scion" (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- Berserk Button: His main trigger is the generally terrible lot in life all Blanks face.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He puts Desmond through this because he finds Desmond's guilt over taking the face of a good man to be abhorrent, especially given the fact that he isn't trapped in a shared body like he is.
- Healing Factor: He ensures that Rex's more serious injuries heal over with blank space.
- Jerkass: After witnessing Desmond display sadness over having taken the body of a good person, he responds by forcefully possessing Rex and torturing Desmond out of jealousy and anger. The Scion hates having to share a body with Rex. Lyss understandably thinks Rex is dangerous and calls the police on him. The Scion ruined Rex's life.
- Not So Above It All: When Jericho invites Rex to go partying at a club, it reacts with approval and even starts wagging its tail.
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: He views Rex as his prison.
- Superpowered Evil Side: He is this for Rex.
