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    Kazu Decker 
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A kind and optimistic 14-year-old imp with a love for science and making friends. He's a student at Hemlock Heart Academy.


  • Absurdly Youthful Father: As Pandora's creator, he's effectively a father at the age of 14 and frets and dotes on her like an actual father would. Unfortunately for him, Pandora rapidly reaches her rebellious teen phase.
  • Berserk Button: Do not doubt science or learning.
  • Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: He's very clearly trying to be a proactive parent in Pandora's development despite his obvious inexperience and young age, which is more than can be said for his own father, who was woefully inattentive when it came to actually looking after his son, even during the period of time when he brought Kazu along for his televised excursions. Unfortunately, he has a tendency to go the opposite way from his parents, being overprotective of Pandora and having a tendency to not let her speak for herself, which she's grown increasingly annoyed with as the story's progressed.
  • Cute Little Fangs: He has two tiny fangs that show up whenever he talks.
  • Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He's got mostly black hair and pure white skin. He's a hell of a lot nicer and more cheerful than most examples though.
  • Eye Scream: He lost his right eye during his last expedition with his parents. It's why he doesn't accompany them on their film shoots anymore.
  • Genki Guy: He's an enthusiastic ball of energy who's always open to helping everyone around him.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His hair covers the right side of his face. It also hides the fact that he's missing his right eye. Evidently, no one else knew about this and thought it was just his hair style.
  • Known Only by Their Nickname: According to the cast page, "Kazu" is just a nickname.
  • My Beloved Smother: In contrast to his own neglectful parents, he has a tendency to be a very overbearing parent to Pandora, always trying to accompany her wherever she goes and outright spying on her anyways during the occasions when she refuses. Pandora begins expressing increasing annoyance with this as her sense of self develops.
  • Nice Guy: A very friendly and accepting guy.
  • Parental Issues: The subject of his parents are one of the few things that can sap the energy out of him. It's revealed he has issues with his father specifically for always prioritizing his work helping other people over actually being an attentive parent.
  • Parental Neglect: His parents are a sole sore spot for him due to them being constantly absent from the house because of their careers as TV celebrities. The sad part is that they repeatedly express their love towards him at the end of their program, but he never gets to see it because he never watches the show. He used to go with them in the past, but stopped after he lost his right eye. It's later revealed that his father had problems acknowledging Kazu's needs even when he was travelling with them.
  • Pointy Ears: On account of being an imp.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: Subverted on the supernatural front. Besides his vast medical knowledge, there isn't anything supernatural about him.

    Nemo Musterman 
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Kazu's lifelong friend, a 14-year-old devil of unknown type. He's actually half-grindylow half-some invisible creature. Kind of deadpan and gloomy. He's a student at Hemlock Heart Academy.


  • Big Damn Heroes: Nemo shows up to bail out Pandora and Kazu in chapter two.
  • Body Horror: The right side of his body has invisible skin, exposing some of his bones, muscles and organs.
    Pandora: Gross.
  • Chick Magnet: The majority of the female characters his age express an attraction towards him. Pandora visibly blushes when she sees him fully opaque (and wet) and Echo's book club members all express an attraction to him...even Ringo, the only guy in the club.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Ringo, the only male member of Echo's book club, gives him a symbol of his love via a fruit duplicate of his severed head.
  • Fish People: Not noticeable, but being part grindylow shows signs for this. He has ear fins under his hair and can breathe underwater. His aquatic traits are more apparent when he's wet.
  • Foil: Nemo could be considered one to Kazu. He's a gloomy, apathetic Gadgeteer Genius without much moral fiber, while Kazu is a friendly, optimistic biologist who believes strongly in the value of life.
  • Made of Iron: Shrugs off being thrown through a window pretty easily.
  • Morph Weapon: His bat, which can turn into various weapons and other objects.
  • Mundane Utility: His bat has the ability to chew game cartridges and transform into weapons, and he can also transform into a bag to carry his stuff.
  • Only Sane Man: Specially towards Kazu and Elliot. This causes Kazu to neglect to mention that Yahgie's rock-off might get everyone killed, since Nemo would just call the police. This also annoys the Literature Club when he refuses to solve a murder by following popular mystery cliches, prompting some intervention on their part.
  • Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Nemo wants absolutely nothing to do with the fashion show.
  • Ship Tease: Pandora noticeably becomes flustered when he first turns opaque and Nemo himself appears shy that he's completely visible to her.
  • Sociopathic Hero: Nemo, in direct contrast to Kazu.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Although it's certainly not fanservice - the skin on the right-hand side of his body is invisible. That and he's kind of scrawny. Justified since Nemo breathes through his skin, and wearing too much clothing could suffocate him.

    Pandora 
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Kazu's biology project, a Frankenstein's Monster he brought to life. Really taciturn and a bit violent.


  • Artificial Human: For a certain definition of "human". She's a devil like everyone else in this series, but apart from her freakish strength she's the most human-like. Her artificial nature is actually something of a sore spot for her, and she gets discomfited when people refer to her as something abnormal or artificial.
  • The Berserker: When thrown into a fight. After her disastrous first fight with Pia, she simmers down to being in a state of Tranquil Fury whenever a fight starts.
  • Big Eater: If there's food nearby she's guaranteed to be munching on it. She has no table manners, either.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: In Chapter 17 it's revealed that, even without ever doing her homework, she's currently getting better grades than Kazu.
  • Death Glare: Borders almost on being her default expression.
  • Fingore: In Chapter 2. They're reattached by the chapter afterwards.
  • Frankenstein's Monster: Has shades of being one.
  • Godiva Hair: During her bath in Chapter 3.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Pandora wields an oversized safety pin during her fight with Horatio.
  • Lightning Bruiser: She's absurdly strong while also being quite nimble thanks to her relatively small physical profile, as seen in the Eggscram match.
  • Lightning Can Do Anything: Is brought back to life by a lightning strike.
  • Magic Skirt: All of her skirts fail to turn upwards regardless of how much jumping she does.
  • The Quiet One: Even after she develops enough to form full sentences that aren't her just parroting something she saw on TV, she hardly ever talks.
  • Screaming Warrior: Pandora roars a lot whenever she fights, though this aspect lessens as her personality develops more.
  • Smarter Than You Look: Chapter 17 shows that despite her The Quiet One and The Berserker tendencies, she's actually getting better grades than Kazu by that point, even without ever doing her homework.
  • The Stoic: Doesn't emote much, talks less.
  • Super-Strength: She shown lifting and tossing monsters and objects four-times her size if not larger.
  • Undeathly Pallor: While a lot of characters are very pale, Pandora's skin is outright blue.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Her approach to every fight is to just use her speed and strength to bulldoze her opponent. This actually proves to be a major weakness against several of the more skilled combatants. However, following her nearly dying to Pia, she actually wises up to this fact and begins developing actual fighting techniques, which she proceeds to put to use against Pia during their rematch chapters later, pushing the fight far further in Pandora's favor.
  • When She Smiles: Twice in chapter 3 and another one in chapter 4.

    Hitomi Ookumo 
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A self-conscious 15-year-old cyclops who likes to sew. She has a crush on Kazu, and is a lot stronger than she makes herself out to be.


  • Berserk Button: Seeing Kazu get hurt sends her into a terrifying rage, so much so that the referee had to knock her out preemptively before she tried anything. Considering her Super-Strength her defining quality is also a consistent way to get on her bad side.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Very quiet and shy, but can also suplex Lavi and has strength that can rival Pandora's.
  • Cute Bruiser: Hitomi launches a monster tens of times her size into the air by slapping it.
  • Cute Monster Girl: An adorable, fashion-centric cyclops girl.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Among her collection of stuffed toys there is a life-sized Kazu doll, much to Pandora's surprise.
  • Freakiness Shame: She hates the fact that she possesses Super-Strength, mostly because a lot of other devils seem to consider it her defining quality rather than any of her more girlish features and abilities.
  • Girlish Pigtails: In some of her appearances.
  • Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her room is filled with all kinds of (moving) toys that she made herself.
  • Girly Bruiser: She'd rather not be involved in a fight, but she is utterly untouchable when she does get involved thanks to her Super-Strength. And that's while still being an unapologetic girly-girl obsessed with her crush and fashion.
  • Innocent Blue Eye: Her one eye is blue in the colored illustrations, and she's generally a shy Nice Girl.
  • Meaningful Name: Hitomi is Japanese for "pupil" or "eye".
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: She's a fairly thin girl, but that doesn't stop her from hurling monsters ten times her size through the air with absolute ease.
  • Shrinking Violet: She's generally a quiet girl who prefers to not be the center of attention. After she wins the school's fashion show, she runs to Kazu for help because she can't handle being popular.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: Obviously admires Kazu very much (maybe too much).
  • Super-Strength: Being a cyclops. She's rather ashamed of this.

    Ricket Pantano 
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A 14 year-old daemon first introduced as a player in the Hemlock Heart Nightmares.


  • Ascended Extra: She's introduced as a minor character in Chapter 4 only to have the following four chapters devoted to one long story arc centering around her and her brother. Following the story arc, she's become a part of the regular cast.
  • Bifauxnen: She has a very slim boyish build, wears her hair short, has a name that isn't exactly feminine-sounding, and gravitates more towards masculine-looking clothing.
  • Butch Lesbian: Heavily implied at least in Chapter 10, where she very clearly becomes absolutely smitten by Hitomi. She also doesn't express any interest in men.
  • Hopeless Suitor: She develops a crush on Hitomi, who only has eyes for Kazu.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: Her choice of clothing and initial pair of glasses make her look rather unimpressive and beady-eyed. The moment she removes her glasses, revealing her comely eyes, and starts wearing something more stylish reveal that she can be quite the looker when she wants to be.

    Clarence R. Nosphoros 
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A 14 year-old nosferatu who is friends with both Ricket and Yahgie. He's from a powerful family but is rather laidback.


  • Odd Friendship: He gets along well with Yahgie despite the latter's colossal ego and blunt insensitivity.
  • Non-Idle Rich: His family is apparently quite powerful and wealthy, but he would rather pursue his own career as a professional chef.
  • Spoiled Sweet: A friendly and laidback guy who happens to be the son of one of the setting's most powerful families.
  • Supreme Chef: If Yahgie's listed likes are any indication, Clarence is quite a good cook, being that he has aspirations of becoming a professional chef.
  • Willfully Weak: As a nosferatu, he actually has power that exceeds Pandora and even many of Methia's underlings. However, he's physically unimpressive most of the time because he refuses to drink another person's blood, which is what unlocks his full capabilities. After being given blood ramen, Clarence shows off just how untouchable he is at full power.

    Yahgie Cabra 
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A 15 year-old satyr who is friends with Yahgie. He fancies himself an awesome musician and seems to be perpetually stuck in his own head.


  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's got a huge ego and is incredibly insensitive, but he's good friends with Clarence and where it counts shows that he can care about people besides himself if he knows them well enough.

Hemlock Heart Academy

A general-admittance high school that's become something of a magnet for all kinds of mayhem.

    Elliot Hemlock 
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The principal of Hemlock Heart Academy.


  • Cowardly Lion: He shirks away from conflict usually, but Chapter 15 reveals it's more for everyone else's sake rather than his. When he has no choice but to retaliate, the results are haunting.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Elliot makes his first appearance here and is properly introduced in the next chapter.
  • The Glasses Come Off: With the glasses on, he's a weak-willed coward. The first time we see him without them on, he's managed to forcibly subjugate Methia's henchmen, who were previously trying to vivisect him, without a scratch on him.
  • Horned Humanoid: Like all daemons, he has a pair of horns.
  • Lovable Coward: Weak-willed and often asks Kazu for help, but he has the best interests of the school at heart. It's revealed that he actually has a incredibly dangerous side to himself, which he seems to be incredibly reluctant to release.
  • Ocular Gushers: Cries a flood of gratitude when Kazu expresses confidence in beating Scarlet Heart Academy.
  • Willfully Weak: He's a coward who always seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown and freaks out at the sign of trouble, but it turns out that it's not because he's fearful of his life. He actually possesses an as of yet unknown power than allows him to forcibly subjugate others, which he ends up having to resort to using against a group of Methia's henchmen when they try to dissect him. Judging by the state he's found in afterwards, he really hates what he's capable of.
  • Winged Humanoid: Again, like all other daemons, he has wings. They look pathetic when he's typically his meek self, but they spread out to a massive span whenever he gets dangerous.

    Skeleton Ninja Sensei 
The Skeleton gym teacher.
  • Dem Bones: An animate skeleton, caused when someone dies with some great Unfinished Business.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Skeletons give up their names when they come back. The school knows him as "skeleton sensei", "skeleton ninja sensei" (based on a rumor that he was a ninja in life), or Mr. 51. When he was alive, he was known as Rowan Redhorn.
  • The Speechless: Skeletons literally have no voices, he has yet to communicate outside of body language.
  • Unfinished Business: Required to be a skeleton, but nobody actually knows what his deal is.
  • Was Once a Man: Well a Devil. He's very heavily implied to have been the actor who played Kazu and Pandora's favorite TV Superhero, Devilizer

    Gyro Laemanctus 
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A 15-year-old Mad Scientist basilisk.


    The Science Club 
Consisting of Horatio Hex, Madhu Morgan, Bebe Pushmi, Bibi Pushmi and Toby Azhorra-tha, with Gyro as the leader.

    The Fashion Club 
Consisting of Silky, her boyfriend Lavi, and an entourage of boys.
  • Alpha Bitch: Silky, the president of the fashion club. Has a whole cadre of boy hangers-on, including her boyfriend, Lavi, who is just as self-centered as she is. She and Lavi get somewhat better after their defeat, returning in Chapter 11 with a reinvented image to assist Hitomi.
  • An Ice Person: Silky.
  • Exotic Eye Designs: Silky seems to have a snowflake/star pattern in her eyes.
  • Flaming Hair: Lavi.
  • Floating Limbs: It looks like Silky doesn't have hands, just floating fingers made of ice.
  • Groin Attack: Lavi is on the receiving end, with Hitomi delivering. There's even an explosion!.
  • Horned Humanoid: Lavi has two black horns that arch backwards.
  • Innocently Insensitive: After her defeat, the main lesson Silky derived from Hitomi was that strength and beauty were not mutually exclusive and could coexist. Unfortunately, Hitomi despises her super strength, so she's less than pleased when Silky talks about her power like it's a virtue.
  • Opposites Attract: Silky and Lavi are together despite their clashing elements.
  • Playing with Fire: Lavi. He's even too hot to touch!
  • Took a Level in Kindness: When Silky returns with Lavi in Chapter 11, she's much less stuck-up and willing to help Hitomi out.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Lavi's outfit for the fashion show, combined with some tight leather for good measure.

    The Hemlock Heart Nightmares 
A very hastily cobbled together sports team created to answer Scarlet Crown's challenge to an Eggscram match. Originally Drake Sabrewing was the only member, but now the team also includes: Petra Phobos, Walton Stonewall, Nigel Dewsnap, Ricket Pantano, Geraldo Garcia and "Charlie Yamamoto".
  • Accidental Misnaming: Drake can't remember Walton's name, calling him "Doory" and "Doorston".
  • Big "WHAT?!": Everyone's reaction when Drake tells them that the game starts in three hours, when they all just met.
  • Breath Weapon: It looks like Drake can breath fire, which he does when he's fired up!
  • Cute Monster Girl: Petra and Ricket.
  • Horned Humanoid: Ricket and Drake.
  • Hot-Blooded: Nigel. Very aggressive, very combative. He also threatened to eviscerate Walton for seemingly no reason.
    Nigel: Nobody's better at anything than me!
  • Lizard Folk: Geraldo.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Drake means "dragon", and he has a draconic appearance.
    • Petra means "stone", and Phobos is the Greek god of fear. Fitting for a Medusa-type devil.
    • Walton is literally a stone wall.
  • Motor Mouth: Walton goes on a long ramble of random information about himself and things he's uncomfortable with when he's first introduced.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: On the receiving end, as the Scarlet Heart Infernos continue to beat them, both physically and in terms of the game.
  • The Quiet One: Geraldo is quiet for the most part.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Drake, upon realizing the person who saved him from a house fire was a firefighter, not an eggscram player, loses his will to continue playing and just flies away.
  • Ragtag Band of Misfits: The team consists of a bunch of random students that have next to no experience with the sport they're supposed to play.
  • Rodents of Unusual Size: Charlie, which is a giant hamster Gyro created.
  • Winged Humanoid: Nigel, Ricket and Drake.

Scarlet Heart Academy

A prestigious private school that enrolls only purebred daemons.
    The Scarlet Heart Infernos 
The rival Eggscram team.

Scarlet Crown Organization

A wealthy NGO with criminal ties and an apparent daemon-supremacist agenda. Only employs daemons, backs the Scarlet Heart Academy, and funds archaelogical expeditions with the goal of proving that daemons were the Giver's chosen.

    Methia Luciferin 
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A high-ranking executive (if not the leader) of the Scarlet Crown Organization. Also highly accomplished and highly eccentric.


  • The Ace: Parodied. While on the phone with Tremolo she's simultaneously undertaking a very difficult ice skating routine as well as performing open-heart surgery, and then leaves the surgery partway through to accept an award.
  • Ambiguously Evil: She's involved with a lot of… questionable dealings, personally backing Tremolo and having Nicodemus working for her, both of whom are destructive sadists. However, she seems concerned about Elliot for something despite trying to embarrass him with eggscram, implying Methia's actions may be driven by something other than For the Evulz.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: She has a capricious temperament, and see-saws rapidly between being extremely weird and extremely scary without ever losing the smile on her face.
  • Comically Lopsided Rivalry: She has a personal (but unexplained) history with Elliot Hemlock and delights in tormenting him. The power balance between them couldn't be more heavily weighted against Elliot.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Showing up late to a meeting she herself called (because "punctuality is for old people"), wearing a radiation suit for no reason but so she can dramatically unmask herself, in order to announce that the Scarlet Heart Academy will be challenging Hemlock Heart at an eggscram game, specifically because she wants to embarass Elliot. At once, she's established to be powerful, frivolous, and intensely focused all at once.
  • The Wonka: Simultaneously airheaded and absurdly competent, she has a habit of catching her subordinates off-guard at every turn.

    Tremolo Bloodstorm Serpentlord 
Tremolo is a rock musician with a silver tongue. An enforcer for the SCO, and composer of the Scarlet Heart school anthem. Known publically as the famous but reclusive songwriter T.B. Serpentlord.
  • Animal Motifs: Snakes.
  • Compelling Voice: He can command people with his voice, thanks to a seemingly-supernatural sigil carved into his (forked) tongue. It might not be his original tongue. When combined with The Power of Rock, he can sing up gigantic laser-spitting snakes. Methia decided he was abusing his power and ripped it out.
  • Right-Hand Cat: In his case, a three-eyed snake usually draped over his shoulders.

    Strazio 
Methia's personal assistant and bodyguard. Composed but beleaguered. Pia's twin.
  • Beleaguered Assistant: Played with. Methia isn't incompetent — he's just really straight-laced and she's just kind of nuts.
  • Butt-Monkey: He's been clowned on basically every time he's made a physical appearance.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Pia's red. Calm, focused, and task-oriented.
  • Tattooed Crook: His cast entry says he gets a new one (or a piercing) whenever he gets stressed. He gets stressed out a lot.
  • Would Hurt a Child: It takes a certain kind of grown adult to threaten a high school freshman with a gun, as he does in Devil's Six-String.

    Pia 
Also Methia's personal assistant and bodyguard. Hopelessly in love with Methia. A Cute and Psycho Blood Knight. Twin of Strazio.
  • Berserk Button: Anything and anyone related to a certain Elliot Hemlock and the school he runs.
  • Big Eater: Her cast entry says she eats nine times a day. Super-Strength must take a toll on her metabolism.
  • Blood Knight: She would rather immediately escalate a confrontation into a brawl than try to resolve things peacefully.
  • The Ditz: Very sweet and cheerful, and not quite on the same page as everyone else. Most of the time.
  • Sore Loser: After Pandora soundly kicks her ass during their second encounter, Pia throws a tantrum, complaining that there's no way Pandora could have gotten stronger so quickly. Unfortunately, this piques Methia's interest in Pandora, and she attempts to capture Pandora to study her more.
  • Psycho Lesbian: Pia loves Methia. Pia loves Methia so much she'll destroy anything that makes her unhappy. Methia, at least, reciprocates.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Strazio's blue: energetic, outgoing, and cheerful.
  • Super-Strength: Demonstrated gleefully in her fight with Pandora. Possibly supernatural, as with Tremolo's tongue. When she gets serious, the pressure waves she generates by cracking her knuckles shatters nearby windows.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: She relies mostly on her supernatural speed and strength to overwhelm her opponents. The moment Pandora figures out how to properly dodge and parry her attacks, she's swiftly beaten.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Without remorse. She establishes her villain cred in Devil's Six-String by beating Clarence unconscious and coming within inches of killing Pandora.

    Nicodemus 
An agent of the SCO. A shady doctor, among other things.
  • Cool Shades: They go over the bangs. You better pray that they stay on.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Underneathe his suit, it's revealed that he has surgical scars covering his entire body.
  • Necromancer: He has the power to resurrect the freshly dead from lethal injuries. While his technique isn't perfect, he can resurrect the same person at least 65 times.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: When set off, he seems to prefer cutting people apart with scalpels.
  • Time Stands Still: He has the ability to stop time. He can also seemingly exclude certain people from being affected by his ability.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He sees no problem with threatening the 14-year-old Nemo just for spying on his group.

    Kaiko 
A tanuki cultural ambassador and bodyguard.
  • Ambiguously Evil: She genuinely likes the Hemlock Heart students and willing to defend them from Nicodemus, yet is also very friendly with Methia and clearly working for her. It's later revealed that she's more of a Punch-Clock Villain. She's legitimately friendly most of the time, but also is completely loyal to Methia and believes she always knows what's best.
  • Conflicting Loyalty: She is legitimately friendly with the Hemlock Heart students, but ends up having to fight them anyways after Methia demands that Kaiko capture Pandora. She spends most of the fight trying to just persuade the students to let her take Pandora, only to eventually be talked down from her mission by Kazu.
  • Dual Age Modes: Sort of. Her usual form is tiny and looks no older than any of the students, but she can shapeshift into a much taller one that more closely resembles her age.
  • Ship Tease: With Methia. While talking about Pia, she describes her as being like her girlfriend's pet.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a tanuki, Kaiko can transform herself at will.

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