Characters from the ninth season and fifth sidequest of Dimension 20.
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The Magical Misfits
In General
- Foreign Exchange Student: All four are Americans who have been accepted to attend a Wizarding School in England.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Sanguine: Whitney is brash, empathetic, Hot-Blooded, supports his team, and loves his friends no matter what.
- Phlegmatic: Sam is friendly, elegant, a bit of a slacker, and would rather talk than fight.
- Melancholic: Evan is practical, analytical, socially awkward, and easily annoyed by the magic world's shenanigans to the point of harshly tearing them apart verbally.
- Choleric: Dream is passionate, strong-willed, sometimes insensitive, and struggles with her magic and her identity being out of her control.
- Gameplay and Story Integration:
- Sam's highest stat die is her Charm, which explains how she could have gotten her online following.
- Whitney's a very supportive and protective friend, and whenever he gives adversity tokens to help his teammates with a check, each one he gives counts as two.
- Dream was obsessed with Harry Potter and believed for a long time that she should get magic powers, which explains why out of the new wizards, she's the one who knows how to best use her best ability score to cast magic and picked her broom to give it a great boost to it
- Evan's dark powers are overwhelmingly powerful for most people, and increasingly dangerous. Mechanically, this translates into him having a +8 to his fight rolls, which means that he'll succeed more easily when fighting, but higher rolls mean that the possibility of him killing somebody is high.
- Hufflepuff House: They end up being put into Chimeron, the literal Hufflepuff House of Gowpenny, because they were difficult to neatly categorize into the other houses. Ironically, because they're the protagonists, this house gets most of the attention, and a good portion of the show is them breaking out of this role and encouraging their housemates to do the same
- Mad Libs Catch Phrase: When hyping themselves up before doing something, Jammer will get them in a circle and have them shout "1-2-3, GOAT HOUSE! 4-5-6, FAMILY! 7-8-9, Z!" with Z being specific to their current situation.
- Mages Born Of Muggles: All of their parents are non-magical, but they learn at the top of the series (except Evan, who knew well before Gowpenny contacted him) that they're wizards and have been elected to be the new students at Gowpenny. It's Subverted later on when they learn that there is nothing special about being able to cast magic since everyone is able to.
- Naïve Newcomer: All of them are new to the world of magical Britain, and more generally to magic.
- Only Sane Man: They seem to be the only persons to realize how insanely and counterintuitively the magical world works.
- Share Phrase: They've got the rest of their house to shout "GOAT HOUSE!" with them when they do it, and even some people outside it.
- Trademark Favorite Food: The McRib from McDonald's, as befitting a group of Americans. It's so important that they teach the sentient kitchen how to make them, and Evan uses the name to cast a spell.
Dream
Karen Keiko Tanaka, aka xXBrokenDreamXx, aka Dream, aka K
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Played by: Erika Ishii
Child of Darkness
A young goth girl who desperately wishes to be special and sees Gowpenny as her ticket out of her boring, humdrum life.- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Though half of her hair is dyed blood red, her natural hair color is black, and she's definitely aloof.
- Asian and Nerdy: She's a Japanese-American teen and spends all her time on the Internet.
- Butt-Monkey: She really wants to be a cool, dark queen of shadows, but the magical world seems determined to only give her embarrassingly adorable magic. The final form of her wand looks like "the gender aisle at Target."
- Expy: A blatant parody of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way.
- Genre Savvy: She's a hardcore Harry Potter fan and is able to correctly guess several aspects of the wizarding world.
- Goth Girls Know Magic: Unfortunately for her said magic is pink and cutesy, which irritates her to no end.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Her contempt for normies and her obsession with getting into a Wizarding School throws her into this.
- Innocently Insensitive: Gets very excited when it's revealed that Evan has an evil entity inside him as his familiar. Evan is significantly less excited.
- Internet Jerk: She's way more aggressive on the Internet than in real life.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a cyberbully, incredibly dismissive of "normies", and can act like a thoughtless jerk, but nonetheless, she's pretty friendly towards the rest of the Magical Misfits and avoids antagonizing people more than what she thinks is necessary.
- Jumped at the Call: Is a hundred percent on board with enrolling at Gowpenny and becoming a witch.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: As a brooding, confrontational, moody goth wearing only black, she's the Dark Feminine to Sam's Light Feminine.
- Kawaiiko: Ends up transforming into a very bright, anime-esque getup that matches her sparkly wand. Her voice even bumps up several pitches to reflect this.
- LGBT Awakening: During the tournament, they announce that they're going by K now, and experimenting with they/them pronouns. The next time we see their, character sheet, it lists their pronouns as she/they.
- Meaningful Rename: "K" is not just the initial for Karen or Keiko, but read the same as the Japanese Kei, a gender-neutral name.
- Nerdy Bully: She's proud of her Cyberbullying and puts down other people (especially Evan) without thinking about it.
- Shout-Out: At least visually, she seems based on Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, although personality-wise, the two couldn't be more different.
- Weakness Turns Her On: She's definitely delighted by Evan's tragic life.
Sam Black
Sam Black
Hometown: Portland, OR
Played by: Danielle Radford
Influencer Extraordinaire
A professional streamer who's excited to explore this new world of magic.- Apologetic Attacker: She really doesn't like to hurt the people she fights magically, preferring to talk things out instead, and profusely apologizing when she does substantial damage. Thankfully, she's charming enough that most of her opponents play along.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's the most overtly friendly of the cast, but Jammer is absolutely right when he picks her as one of their fighters for the tournament, as she's only second to Evan in terms of combat prowess. When Evan gets badly injured by Tad, she picks up his broken bottle shard and jams it in the monster's throat almost immediately.
- Black and Nerdy: Was part of the same fan forums that Dream frequented.
- Book Dumb: She's bad academically, needing to take summer classes to pass to the next year and mistaking a dragon for a big bird, and she sometimes has trouble figuring things out as fast as her friends, but she's very socially intelligent, can run a quick distraction when needed, and is sensible enough to instantly choose her friends over a cute guy she met a month ago.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She can have some weird reactions, like confusing a dragon for a type of bird, despite having interacted with one earlier in the series, and immediately wondering about a terrifying monster's penis when she first hears about it in detail.
- The Face: She's got the highest Charm stat (a d20), so she's the most suited for social interactions, and is the first to crack Gowpenny's Chimeron students out of their restricted worldview.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: A minor one. She manages to utterly confuse the entities possessing Evan with her assertive attitude enough to cause some of them to recede control.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She really looks like her player, Danielle, down to having their hair dyed the same way.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Being a cheery, nice, and sociable teenage girl dressed in bright colors, she's the Light Feminine to Dream's Dark Feminine.
- Phrase Catcher: Both Evan's familiar and Tad respond to Sam's casual address with "Hey Sam."
- Please Subscribe to Our Channel: She's a professional streamer.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: Her character portrait has her taking a selfie, and is always thinking of ways to create content for social media.
- The Pollyanna: The most positive and perky of the four.
- Shameless Self-Promoter: Still speaks as though she's streaming despite being nowhere near a webcam.
- Stepford Smiler: Her advice towards Evan whenever someone is being condescending towards him is to smile through it. She's also noticeably less perky and sassier when she's faced with people she hates, like Evan's Demons or the Headmaster.
- Talking the Monster to Death: She actually manages to talk down the blood cobra that sprouted from Evan's leg, though it's more her calm before the situation than her words that did the job.
- She later talks down all five of the demons inhabiting Evan's body, forcing them to retreat for the time being.
Whitney Jammer
Whitney “Sandwich Man” Jammer
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Played by: Lou Wilson
The Sandwich Man
A well-loved athlete who sees his acceptance into a private school as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.- Academic Athlete: Is a seasoned high school basketball player and assumes that Gowpenny must have an athletics program because he applied to many private schools.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Whitney's magical familiar ends up being his own basketball. Which is a relief because he was not excited by the idea of feeding and caring for an actual animal.
- Better as Friends: He comes to this conclusion about him and Khanh after reflecting on their relationship
- Commonality Connection: Immediately bonds with Sam over wanting to fight the bird.
- The Leader: Of the Charismatic variety. He's incredibly loved by his friends who fully trust his ability to lead them, and he thus pushes himself to win for them. He later adopts this role in the movement for sharing magical knowledge with the outside world.
- Lovable Jock: Immediately establishes himself as this when he helps pull Evan out of a socially stressful situation.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: He's a very supportive and protective friend, and whenever he gives adversity tokens to help his teammates with a check, each one he gives counts as two.
- The Heart: Jammer is the definition of a team player, always playing to support his friends on and off the field. Sam notices that he explicitly has a magical bond that ties all the misfits together.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When Alexis is hit by Tallulah's necrotic energy spell, he decides to throw away his chance to end the tournament right then and there and takes on part of the spell's damage to help her survive it
- Nice Guy: He is shown to be an incredibly empathetic guy: he is able to easily get along with Kelmp and is very patient with a freshman on his basketball team.
- The Nicknamer: He mostly uses nicknames to refer to people he likes, which is how he signifies someone is part of the team.
- N-Word Privileges: Seems to think he has this with "muggle", to the chagrin of everyone around him. He still insists on saying the whole thing, every time.
- Team Mom: Was apparently this to his basketball team, helping them with their playing and reassuring them when he announces he goes to a private school. He's also like this to the Magical Misfits, telling them he's got their backs, going along with and/or indulging their desires and eccentricities, and protecting them whenever they're on the spot.
Evan Kelmp
Evan Kelmp
Hometown: Millersburg, IA
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
So Haunted
A teenage wanderer with a dark, mysterious secret.- Abhorrent Admirer: His reputation as "the Dark One" leads to a moment at the tourney where a number of adult wizards and students from the rival Scorpion House are cheering and egging Evan to kill his dueling opponent, to which he flatly states that he disavows them, tells them to get therapy and that Scorpion House is clearly bad from the jump.
- Animals Hate Him: He has very bad luck with animals, with them regularly wanting to be as far away from him as possible.
- Badass Boast: During the wizard's duels, he casually and calmly warns off his opponent while preparing to fight. His opponent doesn't listen.Evan: This is the kindest thing I have ever done. You got about 60 seconds to concede. If you don't want to concede, what do you want me to tell your family?
- Berserk Button: Suggesting that he's evil is enough for him to snap at Digsby, throwing him backwards and into a rift in space onto a rock in the ocean.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's shy, apologetic, and anxious, and rolled the highest number of the first episode, with an incredible 18, on a Fight check. And that's with half the maximum die value, and without any Magic Die.
- In the tourney, he sends another student to The Underworld briefly, after rolling a 30 on his fight check… and that's with him actively holding back and bringing him back again to teach him a lesson.
- Blood Magic: Seems to be part of his cursed familiar. When he gets cut, his blood turns into a large, aggressive cobra. Usually he has to eat the snake to get it to go back inside him.
- Casts No Shadow: His lack of shadow tips in the fact that he's been chosen by a dark entity.
- Claimed by the Supernatural: It's clear that Evan is at the mercy of whatever is possessing him.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Apparently looks somewhat similar to Adam Driver, especially as Kylo Ren.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He's apparently been chosen by something, and as such, his life has been nothing but tragedy, apparently losing many families and homes, as well as being tormented by the terrifying results of his magic.
- Deadpan Snarker: It doesn't attract that much attention due to his general awkwardness, but he's got a sharp tongue when he's dealing with people being irrational. It's especially noticeable when he's annoyed enough to drop the politeness and anxiety.Evan: Sam, these people are British, they may have never met a cool person before.
- Disproportionate Retribution: His response to Digsby’s Innocently Insensitive remark on calling him evil is to attack and nearly kill him.
- The Drifter: Is introduced as wandering to wherever he can find a roof over his head.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Brennan describes Evan as an Adam Driver-esque kind of person that rides the line between handsome and spooky.
- Enraged by Idiocy: While he's usually polite and anxious, he has zero tolerance for stupidity and will start Suddenly Shouting while lambasting another person if they say the wrong thing around him.
- Heal It With Fire: Has had to do this in the past, when the snake in his blood was released.
- Homeless Hero: Being a teenager without any family or structure to support him, he's reduced to drifting across Iowa and scavenging whatever food he can manage.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Unlike Dream, Evan wants absolutely nothing to do with magic and only attends Gowpenny on the promise he's going to see a wizard doctor to have his magical abilities removed.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: His deepest wish, far stronger than his desire to be normal, is to be loved and accepted by his friends, to the point that the only thing that makes him choose to get rid of his magic over being with them is the fear that they'll get hurt in the crossfire of his magic.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Big time. It's abundantly clear that whatever extraordinary power he was gifted has taken a toll on his mental stability and his living situation.
- He Who Fights Monsters: His anger towards the deeply fucked up and inegalitarian system of the wizarding world can make him angry enough to the point of aggression. Seeing Axelby break down in tears from sheer dread when he confronts him in the Holiday Special makes him realize that.
- Kid with the Leash: After the other kids in the Pilot Program use The Power of Friendship to temporarily dismiss what’s possessing him, he begins to harness it to help his new best friends.
- Logical Latecomer: He lampshades the logical fallacies of the wizarding world every chance he gets.
- Loners Are Freaks: Deconstructed. He desperately wants to have friends, but he fears his dangerous powers would put anybody who gets close to him in mortal danger.
- No Social Skills: His solitary lifestyle leaves few opportunities to interact with people.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Sending Digby to an island off the coast of Great Britain. Kids even start to spread rumours that he sent Digby to Hell, which infuriates him.
- The Smart Guy: He's the party's source of academic knowledge, and always has in his priorities elaborating strategies for them to survive or prevail.
- Suddenly Shouting: Whenever he gets excited or upset, Evan tends to start yelling about logical fallacies in the wizard world.
- That Wasn't a Request: During the Holiday Special, the group thinks its very important for the other students to join in the caroling. When they don't (more out of a lack of knowing what carols are than any reluctance to do so), Evan breaks a bottle and threatens to cut anyone who doesn't start singing any random song they happen to know. The only one that everyone present recognizes is Happy Birthday.
- Virtuous Character Copy: He's intended as a reluctant version of the likes of Tom Riddle who doesn't want to be evil at all.
- Weirdness Magnet: A lot of stuff that could be pulled straight from a horror movie happens to him.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Appears to be building up to this, but the love and support of his friends allows him to remain steadfast in his morals.
Misfit's Familiars
In General
The familiars of the main four misfits.
- Familiar: What they all are.
Spalding
Spalding
It's a Basketball
Jammer's familiar.- Animate Inanimate Object: A normal basketball that Jammer used in high school back in Chicago which gains magical sentience and animation when the time comes for him to select a familiar.
- Line-of-Sight Name: It's named Spalding, which is the brand that was printed on the ball.
Theodore
Theodore (Teddy)
Played By: Aabria Iyengar
Not Alvin, nor Simon
Dream's familiar.- Bubble Pipe: Uses one.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears a delightful purple jacket.
- Talking Animal: A talking chipmunk.
Terminator 2
Terminator 2
Played By: Aabria Iyengar
Hasta La Vista, Babe
Sam's familiar.- Named After Somebody Famous: Subverted. Sam names him after her favourite movie.
Evan's Familiar
????
Played By: Aabria Iyengar and Brennan Lee Mulligan
The entity that's possessing Evan.- Body Horror: It's terrifying enough that it can turn into a blood cobra, but when it possesses Evan, it starts to twist his body in a Venom-like manner.
- Casting a Shadow: Is the reason why Evan doesn't project a shadow.
- Dark Is Evil: Whatever this thing is, it's malicious enough that Evan wants it gone.
- Genre Shift: Compared to the whimsical fantasy of Wizarding School, anything involving this entity dives straight into a horror story.
- I Am Legion: There appear to be multiple entities possessing Evan.
- Five, to be exact. One of them is a dominant personality, and the other four seem to be significantly less competent.
Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts
Faculty
Headmistress Boudicca Philtrum
Boudicca Philtrum
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
Magical Matriarch
Headmistress of Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts- Attention Whore: Tells the Misfits that they should be affected when she runs off to continue her work.
- Big Bad: She's revealed in the finale that she's very reluctant to let people outside of their wizard community, and has chosen our Magical Misfits and sabotaged their experience at Gowpenny in order to prevent that.
- Composite Character: She's Minerva McGonagall with Albus Dumbledore's position of authority.
- Condescending Compassion: Downplayed. She seems to view the Misfits in a rather poor light, but does at least try to help them as best she can when it comes to answering their questions.
- Fantastic Racism: Subverted. She looks like she's disdainful of Muggles for their inability to cast magic, but it's revealed later in the show that there are no differences between them and wizards, as everyone can cast magic, and her prejudice is rather about elitism and classism than racism
- Fur and Loathing: Her outfit in the Holiday special has a black lace coat with fur trimmings, and she's still the stuffy, antagonistic headmistress she's always been.
- Karma Houdini: Downplayed. While she was able to hang onto her job as Headmistress and avoided legal reprecussions for her attempts to sabotage the Pilot Program at Gowpenny, she did suffer irrepreble damage to her personal and prefessional reputations.
- Manipulative Bitch: She continuously implies that the Magical Misfits are exceptions among Muggles by being potential wizards (which they're not, everyone can do magic), never tells them anything useful in order to stop them from being able to thrive in the magical world, and before the start of the series, she proposed the creation of a pilot program to be the decisive argument for Muggles because she planned to sabotage it from the start, all the while passing herself as a Reasonable Authority Figure that's simply out of touch with reality.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Doesn't understand any of the real world references our protagonists make.
- Smarter Than You Look: She acts incredibly oblivious to the outside world, when in reality, she knows enough about it to easily understand robots and cyborgs
- Technologically Blind Elders: Seems to have no concept of technology beyond the Industrial Revolution, even when compared to other citizens of the wizarding world.
Doctor Norman Boodle
Norman Boodle
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Cool Teacher: The first faculty member that actually treats the misfits with any amount of decency and respect.
Professor Viniscus
Viniscus
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Animate Inanimate Object: She stresses again and again that she is a cauldron and thus, her life experience begins and ends with her immediate surroundings, so she shouldn't be expected to understand the going-ons of the larger world.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Literally. Her fire flares and the potion within her bubbles in flux with her emotions.
The Frunthwinkle
The Frunthwinkle
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Hippie Teacher: Her magic focuses on emitting positive vibes all around. She also doesn't seem to be all there.
Nurse Stitchnit
Nurse David Stitchnit
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Good Parents: Went out into the NAMP world to get his daughter puberty blockers and other trans-related healthcare, as the magical world didn't have what he needed to help her.
- Only Sane Man: One of the few people around Gowpenny to have spent any time in the NAMP world and therefore has a lot more common sense than most other wizards. He bonds with Evan about how great toilets are.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Was one of the staff members who advocated strongest for the pilot program, and is doing everything in his power to make sure Evan knows what he's getting into if he wants the demons inside him exorcised.
Students
Tallulah Jillymont
Tallulah Jillymont
Played By: Aabria Iyengar
The Top Talent
A student in Hercinil House.- Alpha Bitch: Is immediately condescending to the exchange students.
- Corrupted Character Copy: She's Hermoine Granger but with Malfoy's attitude.
- Stealth Insult: The players themselves note that every time she appears to say something nice, she follows it up by not-so-subtlety insulting them.
- Terrible Trio: The assertive leader of the gang.
Fergus Ponst
Fergus Ponst
Played By: Aabria Iyengar
The Brawn
A student in Hercinil House.- The Big Guy: Stands eye to eye with Whitney.
- Corrupted Character Copy: He's Ron Weasley with a more brutish build.
- Dumb Muscle: He's big, brawny, and not all that bright, mainly going along with whatever Digsby and Tallulah suggest.
- Heel–Face Turn: After having grown tired of Tallulah and Disgby's assholery, he ditches them for the Misfits who end up being much better friends to him.
- Love Redeems: Because of his crush on Sam ditches his jerkass friends, having been convinced by her kindness.
- Terrible Trio: The brawny henchman.
- Token Good Teammate: He's a fairly nice boy from the few interactions he's managed with the protagonists that don't involve Digsby and Tallulah; his negative traits seem to mainly stem from their Toxic Friend Influence.
Digsby Cooper
Digsby Cooper
Played By: Aabria Iyengar
The Wonder Wizard
A student in Hercinil House.- Corrupted Character Copy: He's a snobbier Harry Potter with long hair.
- Innocently Insensitive: When he learns that Kelmp has dark powers his first reaction is to say that it’s ok to be a evil wizard and that there are plenty of them.
- Jerkass: Played With. While he did insult Kelmp, it is unknown if he was doing out of of malice or if it was just said without thinking.
- Terrible Trio: The lanky henchman.
- Translator Buddy: A low-key version of this. As he used to be living amongst non-magical persons himself, he is aware of the culture and references the misfits make regarding things like basketball and McDonald's.
Lemli Irving
Lemli Irving
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Expy:
Word of God states that Lemli is based on Myrtle from Dimension 20's own "Pirates of Leviathan". - Our Mermaids Are Different: A mermaid who is able to assume human form to attend school and learn magic.
The Oggles
Coggle and Hoggle "Oggles" Undergus
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Always Identical Twins: Aabria tells the players they need to make a Brains check every time they want to tell who's who.
- The Dividual: Referred to as the "Oggles" so people don't have to try differentiating one from the other.
- Expy: Seem to be based on Fred and George Weasley.
Khanh Nguyen
Khanh Nguyen
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
- Deadpan Snarker: She's quite sassy, especially when dealing with the antics and quirks of the protagonists.Khanh: (to Sam, after she mistakes a dragon for a wyrm) Oh my God, you and Fergus just... Makes sense, I get it.
- Naturalized Name: Her British name in Gowpenny is Cleopatra St. Oppolie. This is actually discussed in universe, and she admits she actually prefers her birth name.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She really hates the Hercinil Trio, as do they, but she tries her best to work with them in the tourney because she fears that it will get her killed.
Other Characters
Spoiler Character for the Holiday Special
The Tadeshacourt/Tad
Played By: Aabria Iyengar
Of The Darkest Day
- An Ice Person: "Person" is debatable, but it's described as having freezing cold insides.
- Animalistic Abomination: Its features consist mostly of a bear body, but it also has a deer stripped to the bone and is wrapped in a cloak that seems to made of darkness itself.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: It's the embodiment of many wizards' fears of a person abusing magic to satisfy their ambition and overrunning the world.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Headmistress Philtrum mostly operated from the shadows, never did anything to attack our heroes without plausible deniability, tried to keep the status quo in the wizarding world and stop the entry of outsiders in it, and appeared all throughout the first season while putting on an air of obliviousness and ignorant benevolence. Meanwhile, Tad only appears near the end of the special as a raw force of evil, is a major disruption for the magical society by seeking to awaken more wizards to feed off of, directly attacks the protagonists, and does the dirty work itself.
- Foreshadowing: Before it's lulled back to sleep, it warns the Magical Misfits that there are things more dangerous than it.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: When Aabria describes it slowly appearing, its shadow appears on the wall of the dome the real-life players are in, causing them to scream in terror.
- Knight of Cerebus: Its presence in the special makes it go from a somewhat lighthearted teen drama to a nightmarish hunt, then dire fight against a powerful monster.
- No-Sell: Not only can it disable most wizards by absorbing their magic, but it shrugs off every main character's go-to tactic, forcing them to improvise.
