Characters from the fifteenth season of Dimension 20.
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Destiny's Children
Princess Rosamund du Prix
Princess Rosamund du Prix
Played by: Siobhan Thompson
"Hello! Nevermind!"
Click here to see her starting in Episode 4
Click here to see her starting in Episode 18
- Race: Human (Variant)Class: Ranger (Swarmkeeper) / Druid (Stars) / FighterOrigin: Sleeping Beauty
A princess cursed to be infested with briars and trapped in a tower until she is rescued by a prince.
- The Beastmaster: Can apparently summon Woodland Creatures to assist her at will. Unfortunately, this includes Neverafter's more outlandish wildlife. This eventually becomes part of her class, as she takes on the Swarmkeeper subclass following her resurrection in episode 4.
- Body Horror: Rosamund's body is infested with thorny vines, and Brennan pulls no punches in describing how unpleasant this is. Even after escaping the kingdom of Reverie, in both iterations of her story, she still carries the infestation.
- Guardian Entity: The briars are semi-sapient and dedicated to protecting her to Yandere levels, including killing every prince that has come for her and trying to make her go back to sleep.
- The Ingenue: Despite all the Body Horror in her introduction, she still maintains the innocence of a young princess convinced her true love will come for her.
- Older Than They Look: The enchantment prevented her from aging, so Rosamund still looks 18 at over a century old.
- Princess Protagonist: The princess of Reverie, and one of the members of the party the story follows.
- The Swarm: As of Episode 4, she appears to be a Swarmkeeper Ranger, accompanied by mice and sparrows.
- Took A Level In Cynicism: Although she's still cheery and loving, finding out how thoroughly her life has been manipulated has given her a healthy helping of cynicism and convinced her true love isn't real.[to Pinocchio] We're all alone in the dark, little boy![to Ylfa and Gerard] True love isn't real! I'm gonna die alone and so is everyone else!
- Wound That Will Not Heal: She offhandedly mentions that some of the wounds inflicted by the briars won't heal, and are still bleeding weeks later.
Prince Gerard of Greenleigh
Prince Gerard of Greenleigh
Played by: Brian Murphy
"No. No no no, we fixed this, though."
Click here to see him starting in Episode 4
Click here to see him starting in Episode 18
- Race: Humanoid Frog (Hobgoblin reskin)Class: Fighter (Battle Master)Origin: The Frog Prince
A frog who was turned back into a prince after finding true love, he now finds his transformation starting to reverse.
- Alliterative Name: Or title - Gerard of Greenleigh.
- Blatant Lies: Despite him currently reverting back into a frog, he insists his marriage with Elody is going fine. Their relationship is not fine.
- Forced Transformation: He was originally turned into a frog for being a spoiled prince, and now he's turning back into one again.
- Frog Men: Starting in Episode 4, Gerard is "fully just a big frog", although he remains bipedal.
- Mutual Kill: When he lands the killing blow on the Fairy Godmother, he ends up stabbing himself with the glass shard he wrenches from her chest.
- My Instincts Are Showing: Part of his involuntary transformation is an instinctual urge to eat insects. When he comes back even more froglike, he openly eats spiders during the descent into a spider-infested mine.
- The Power of Love: Elody's love broke Gerard's frog curse and turned him back into a human. As their relationship began to sour, Gerard started turning back. As we get to know Gerard more, we learn that he truly does care for Elody, and often voices concern for her safety. They mostly grew apart due to their differing opinions on how to address the war ravaging the Neverafter.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. He has large red eyes in his portrait, but he's not that scary of a person.
- Upper-Class Twit: In his opening flashback, Gerard doesn't seem to understand the most basic things about statecraft or war, placing the burden of ruling Greenleigh on Princess Elody.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio
Played by: Lou Wilson
"I'm the prince of Shoeberg, motherfucker!"
Click here to see him starting in Episode 4
- Race: Puppet (Warforged reskin)Class: Warlock (The Archfey) / Warlock (The Destiny)Origin: The Adventures of Pinocchio
A boy cursed to take the form of a puppet.
- Blood Magic: In a dark inversion of Powered by a Forsaken Child, the Stepmother grants his request for more power by using the blood of his father, to his dismay.
- Consummate Liar: He lies constantly, and this is the primary cause of his problems. Lying about his father's name, to save his father's life, is what cursed him to become a puppet again in the first place.
- Grand Theft Me: Unintentional example imposed by his stepmother when he's reincarnated: his spirit rockets to an alternate version of himself, painfully turning that version into a puppet and shunting his consciousness out into a drawing.
- Pinocchio Nose: Noticeably absent on him. It's actually his warlock staff.
- Pragmatic Hero: Though not evil, he openly disregards the advice of companions such as the Talking Cricket because from his point of view, lying is necessary to survive. He snapped his own nose off because it would be too much of a liability.
- Puppet Permutation: Although he was turned back into a real boy at the end of his story, lying about his father's name killed him, and he woke up as a puppet again.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: When questioned on his claims of being the "Prince of Shoeberg" he starts swearing, which throws off people like Timothy Goose.Pinocchio: I'm the prince of Shoeberg, motherfucker!
- Those Two Guys: He and Pib are introduced together duping Lord Bandlebridge, and are the most familiar with each other out of the party. Apparently, they came across one another during times of misfortune and have been taking "care of each other for a while".
Puss in Boots aka "Pib"
Puss in Boots
Played by: Zac Oyama
"I think it seems fun and it seems correct to just fuck it all up."
Click here to see him starting in Episode 4
- Race: Cat (Tabaxi reskin)Class: Rogue (Mastermind)Origin: Puss in Boots
A roguish cat who walks on two legs.
- Cats Are Mean: Zigzagged. He's a rogue and a scoundrel who takes every opportunity he can to snoop and pickpocket, but he genuinely cares for the party enough to fight the Fairy Godmother with them despite not knowing many of them long. Being a cat, he seems more concerned with what's fun or interesting to him than genuine malice or altruism.
- Contagious Heroism: He defends his old friend Tomas' body from being eaten by the Fox, leading to an accusation of this.The Fox: This is what I was talking about exactly! This cat...! You are more the hero than you think, less the trickster, I say!
- Furry Reminder: He's a non-anthropomorphic cat, so he often makes meowing and purring sounds. He also displays many feline quirks, such as the instinct to chase smaller creatures, making the "stinky smell" face, and playing with small items that catch his fancy.
- Pib is also the only fully non-human player character. All of the others are either humans or used to be humans at some point in their lives.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He's usually referred to as "Pib".
- Riches to Rags: After he and Tomas duped the kingdom of Marienne into becoming royals, he lived the good life until giants destroyed the kingdom.
- Static Character: Lampshaded by the Baba Yaga, who comments that neither of them learn anything or change in their story.
- Sticky Fingers: After telling someone they are his best friend, he hugs them... and attempts to steal coins off of them.
- The Trickster: Introduced duping Lord Bandlebridge with Pinocchio into thinking they're royals, and later revealed to have served as advisor to a false king. After his death, he revisits his fellow trickster compatriots, revealing they are all something like cosmic versions of this: reincarnating constantly and Walking the Earth.
Mother Timothy Goose
Mother Timothy Goose
Played by: Ally Beardsley
"I'm a cursed man!"
Click here to see him starting in Episode 4
- Race: Human (Variant)Class: [Wisdom-Based] Bard (College of Lore)Origin: Mother Goose
A storyteller with a mysterious book.
- Didn't Think This Through: Timothy has only one of his Three Wishes left. The first was on accident, as the Gander asked "Do you wish to know what happened?", while the second was an impulsive wish for a way to bring his son back. He acknowledges in hindsight that this was done before he really considered the consequences of making wishes.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Quite literally. As he dies in Episode 3 and sees the Gander in his dying moments, Timothy flips him the bird.Timothy: I got my third wish right here. (flips him off)
- Friend to All Children: He is extremely protective of children, even ones who are clearly in the wrong like Pinocchio.
- Gender Flip: Mother Goose is traditionally a female character, but Ally Beardsley interprets him as an older gay man who, like many older queer men in real life, embraces feminine terminology.
- Great Big Book of Everything: He carries one with the twist that most of the pages are blank. He has to write things into it himself, at which point most of the words will fade away and the relevant ones remain. Writing stories of existing Neverafter residents actually grants him new spells.
- Happily Married: They may argue, but Timothy's relationship with his husband Henry seems to be quite good.
- Parental Substitute: He seems to be one for Ylfa, after her family betrayed her and she blew them all into the sky. Ylfa has some very parent-child interactions with him, pulling on his sleeve to get his attention in the first episode. At one point, he accidentally calls her Jack, his son's name, and when in danger, her first instinct is to cry for him seemingly confirming the parental element.
- Protected by a Child: Ally jokes that Timothy believes he is protecting Ylfa, when it's actually the opposite dynamic.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Timothy has until he makes his final wish, at which point he will die.
Ylfa "Red" Snorgelsson
Ylfa "Red" Snorgelsson
Played by: Emily Axford
"I'm a monster, and I'm embarrassed about it!"
Click here to see her starting in Episode 4
Click here to see her starting in Episode 15
- Race: Lycanthrope Human (Beasthide Shifter reskin)Class: Barbarian (Path of the Totem Warrior) / Druid (Circle of the Moon)Origin: Little Red Riding Hood
A young girl whose grandmother was eaten by a wolf.
- Baby Of The Bunch: She's only 11 years old, which means most of the party, but in particular Timothy and Rosamund, are very protective of her. Of course this is frequently contrasted against the fact she is also a werewolf, and thus The Big Guy of the party.
- Beast Man: A young girl with a poorly hidden case of lycanthropy. Becomes even more apparent after her first death, as she gets more wolflike.
- Blind Obedience: One of Ylfa's flaws, though she is very self aware of it. If she perceives someone as having authority over her, she immediately breaks. One of the best examples is when Gerard tries to level with her on their mutually monstrous forms, and she reacts as if she's being chewed out. Both of them verbally acknowledge that she ISN'T in trouble, and even if she were, a self professed coward like Gerard has no right to be the one to dress her down, but she can't quell the reflex and spends the entire conversation apologizing to him. She gets better at defying authority after consulting with the Wolf in Episode 11.
- Blow You Away: In a flashback after being attacked by her family she accidentally summons an enormous breath of wind that blows them into the sky, a gift she inherited from the Wolf.
- Entertainment Above Their Age: Because her Only Friend was her grandma, she thinks games like bridge and gin rummy are normal kid activities.Ylfa: That's what me and Grandma played all the time.Mother Goose: And that had to do with the fact that you were a kid and not that she was a grandma.
- Et Tu, Brute?: After being lured into her home and stabbed with a silver knife by her own family, she loses grip on her powers and blows them all into the sky.
- Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Has trouble cussing, even after she dies.
- Hulking Out: Her barbarian powers manifest in tandem with her lycanthropy, giving her massive strength.
- I Want My Mommy!: When in danger, her first instinct was to cry for Parental Substitute Timothy.
- Little Red Fighting Hood: Her part-wolf nature has left her very strong; early on, after meeting the other party members, she performs a Bare-Handed Blade Block in order to protect Pinocchio. After resurrecting in episode 4, she bolsters this strength by taking on a Druid subclass - now, she can shapeshiftnote into different forms that give her bonus health and varying skills related to the form she takes.
- Meaningful Name: "Ylfa" is the Old Norse word for "she-wolf".
- Ship Tease: It's hinted throughout the series that she has a crush on Pinocchio. Ten years later at 21, she acts on it and they become an Official Couple, in the last two minutes of the series.
- Starstruck Speechless: Typically becomes this around princesses.
- Super-Strong Child: Being a berserker and a small child, Ylfa plays up to this trope with the muscles to back it up. This means she outmatches Timothy Goose, a full-grown adult. in terms of strength.
- Transformation Horror: She eventually gains several other wild forms like wolf-spider. However this apparently involves her bones breaking and bending in places they really shouldn't in order to vaguely match her desired form.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Red appears to be able to shift into wolf form at will in the present day, at least. After being reincarnated, she gains the ability to transform into other shapes, although this is less animorphism than it is straight up body horror.
Powerful Beings
The Gander
The Gander
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
A honk beyond time and space
A malevolent being that grants wishes and takes the form of a goose, and Mother Timothy Goose's nemesis.
- Big Bad Ensemble: While the fairies are responsible for keeping everyone trapped in their fairytale, the Golden Goose implies that the Gander is the true cause of the Time of Shadows.
- Evil Counterpart: Serves as this to his sister, the Golden Goose.
- Foul Waterfowl: A fifteen-foot-tall goose with evil intent.
- Jackass Genie: If he doesn't grant a wish in a literal way, the likelihood of him granting it in the way the wisher intended - with no drawbacks - is still miniscule.
- Literal Genie: A classical example. Even responding "yes" to "do you wish to know what happened?" will count as a wish.
- Signature Headgear: A red bonnet.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Has sickly yellow eyes.
- Three Wishes: Grants this to his victims, though the victim is cursed to die once they make their third wish.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Invokes this in his victims, though he cruelly lets them chose the day themselves. Once someone makes their third wish to the Gander, they go through Rapid Aging until they are nothing but a corpse.
The Golden Goose
The Goose
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
What's good for the goose...
An enormous goose that greets Timothy Goose after death, introducing herself as a Good Counterpart to the Gander.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Simply called "The [Golden] Goose".
- Big Good: Unlike the Gander, the Goose's stated motivation is bringing as much light and joy as possible to the world she inhabits.
- Dissonant Serenity: Is unerringly calm in all situations, even in the midst of battle.
- Signature Headgear: A blue bonnet.
- Self-Sacrifice Scheme: A short-notice example. In some stories, "the Golden Goose" and "Mother Goose" are the same character; the Goose exploits this fact during her meeting with the Gander, allowing her to both make Timothy's third wish on his behalf and spare him from the lethal consequences.
The Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
The ending of the story
- Origin: Little Red Riding Hood, all fairytales with wolves in them, the concept of death
The wolf that ate Ylfa's grandmother; in this version of the fairytale, he also turned Ylfa herself into a werewolf.
- Ambiguously Evil: In all noted versions of the Neverafter, the Wolf does eat Red's grandma and terrorizes her, but the degree to which the Wolf is actually malevolent or is just playing a role he was assigned is up in the air. Every time he appears to Ylfa there is always an adversarial yet civil tension to their interactions. And there is the question of Ylfa's death vision where the Wolf falls helplessly into a large cauldron, which suggests the Wolf is prey to something far more wicked and malicious.
- The Big Bad Wolf: Duh. He is not just Little Red Riding Hood's wolf, but is also a Composite Character for the The Three Little Pigs, what with his enormously powerful lungs; possibly he may be all fictional wolves, to some degree.
- Blow You Away: His breath is supernaturally powerful, a nod to the Big Bad Wolf's ability to blow the Three Little Pigs' houses down. This is a gift that he has also apparently passed onto Ylfa along with lycanthropy.
- Canis Major: Whenever he appears to Ylfa, he is always larger than the average wolf, clocking in at the size of a direwolf at the smallest. In one vision Red has before dying for the first time, the Wolf is noted to be "larger than the world".
- Captured Super-Entity: Early in the series Ylfa gets a vision of the Wolf being thrown into a giant boiling cauldron. Later on it turns out that the Baron of Bricks, who is the last survivor of the Three Little Pigs, has captured the Big Bad Wolf and is slowly killing him by boiling him alive in a giant stew pot and feasting on the soup. The heroes manage to free him, and he immediately eats the pig in revenge.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He may be death itself and 'the end of all stories', but he's an ally of the party and seems to deeply care for Ylfa, and rarely expresses malice towards anything that has not inflicted extended anguish on him.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: The Wolf's character art notes him as "The End of All Things", and this version of the Wolf seems to be some sort of avatar of death. Specifically, he characterizes his purpose is to be there at the end of every living thing's life where he will devour them. Though he notes he performs this act without malice or cruelty, and is impartial in that this fate is the same for every being without exception, and that it would be cruel for him to spare some but not others. For all intents and purposes, the Wolf is the manifestation of death itself; outside of the Neverafter he may not appear as a wolf, but he will always be Death.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The Wolf gives up his life to Baba Yaga in order to get her house to stay in one spot long enough for the heroes to catch up to her.
- Killed Offscreen: The above Heroic Sacrifice all happens off-screen. The party doesn't realise until they notice the rug in Baba Yaga's house looks disturbingly familiar...
- Sapient Fur Trade: A victim, albeit a willing one, of this trope. Once the Big Bad Wolf gives up his life to help the heroes, Baba Yaga turns his body into a rug for her living room.
- The Comically Serious
- Worf Had the Flu: Was captured and cooked alive by the Baron of Bricks, although he was rescued by Destiny's Children; as a result of being chained in a giant stew pot and being cooked alive, the Wolf was unable to contribute to the battle that ensued.
The Stepmother
The Stepmother
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Your new mother
Click here to see her true form
- Origin: Pinocchio
- Abusive Parents: Befitting for the Wicked Stepmother, she is domineering and emotionally abusive to Pinocchio, berating him for failing to keep Rosamund safe and using his father's blood to empower his warlock magic. She was also cruel and abusive to Cinderella, per the fairy tale, and wasn't much better to her own daughters.
- Brown Note Being: Her true form is so terrifying that the Wicked Fairy, upon seeing it, screams so hard her vocal chords tear and rips her own eyes out of her head to stop looking at it. When Ylfa looks at her on instinct, she takes three red chips, which had previously only been granted after a character's death.
- Cannibalism Superpower: It's unclear how, but her path towards what she is today began when she killed and ate her own daughters. She also has a tendency to eat other versions of "evil stepmothers", ranging from her own daughters to the Evil Queen from Snow White's tale.
- The Chessmaster: A cold, calculating puppetmaster who seems to be manipulating events for an as-of-yet uncertain goal. The fact that she appears in many people's stories outside her original seems to indicate she's been at this for a while.
- Creepily Long Arms: When asking for Pinocchio's stolen artifacts, her arms stretch unnaturally long down the already too-long hallway she manifests in.
- Eldritch Abomination: Whatever she is now, it's definitely not human anymore; as Brennan puts it, "she has eaten worlds and stories beyond counting." She doesn't even have a name anymore, having sacrificed it at the beginning of her rise to power.
- Faux Affably Evil: When seeing Pinocchio's full backstory in episode 9, she presents herself to a younger Pinocchio as a genuinely caring figure, wanting to help keep his father safe from harm. It's all a front, however. It's abundantly clear that The Stepmother isn't who she says she is when she mentions that she's Pinocchio's real mother.
- Given Name Reveal: Nobody who knew the Stepmother can remember her face or name, due to erasing all trace of her identity. Only Baba Yaga, the witch to whom the Stepmother gave her name has any memory of it. It's Minerva.
- Hate Sink: Deconstructed. Her purpose as written is solely to be as cruel and spiteful as possible so that her downfall and misery would be more satisfying, regardless of the emotional impact that it has on her or the people she cares about. Upon realizing this, she is so consumed by spite and hatred that she becomes an Omnicidal Maniac.
- Hypocrite: She apparently blamed Cinderella for not helping her heal her daughters after they were attacked by birds, but as Cinderella points out in a flashback, she was the one who cut off their toes and heels to make them fit into the slipper, so it's a bit rich to be suddenly so concerned about their health. Apparently feet are fine, but eyes aren't? And, as the audience knows, she later devoured those same daughters.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Gruesomely ate her daughters, Cinderella's stepsisters, for power.
- Marionette Master: Pinocchio's powers manifest as her creating ghostly strings to tug his limbs and making him speak in her voice.
- Rage Against the Author: She became an Omnicidal Maniac upon realising the Awful Truth about her existence, with the stated goal of consuming all the stories she can get her hands on in order to confront the Authors directly.The Stepmother: You made me to be evil. You made me to be a monster...I don't think I like your story. I don't think I like any stories.
- Un-person: In Episode 2, Cinderella's mice mention that they can't remember the Stepmother's name anymore after she killed her daughters. She did this to herself, sacrificing her identity and scrubbing all knowledge of her past existence in order to become a true cosmic horror.
- Was Once a Man: Originally, she was just Cinderella's abusive stepmother, and thus a character in Cinderella's story. After encountering Baba Yaga in a forest, though, she did...something which eventually changed her into the creature she is now.
- Wicked Stepmother: Aside from her name, she claims to have married Pinocchio's father and refers to herself as his stepmother, and seems to be holding Pinocchio's father hostage to keep Pinocchio acting as her agent; in Episode 4, she nearly kills his father so that she can empower Pinocchio's warlock magic with his father's blood. Episode 2 reveals that she was Cinderella's stepmother, with all that implies. It's later revealed that in a way she's everybody's wicked stepmother; she's been systematically eating every character even close to that archetype she can get her hands on.
Major Factions
Princesses/Daughters of the Crown
Princess Elody of Greenleigh
Princess Elody of Greenleigh
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Visits ponds, never shallow
- Origin: The Frog Prince
Gerard's beloved wife, and their marriage is definitely going great. Allied with Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and La Bête as of Episode 15.
- Carry a Big Stick: Wields a large golden mace when going into battle.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She's justifiably cold towards Gerard when they meet again and is reluctant to listen when he tries to convince her that the Princesses are dangerous and are planning to erase the Neverafter. It takes a lot of effort on both her and Gerard's part but she comes to trust her husband again just in time to defect from the Princesses' side and aid the party's effort to stopping the ritual that will destroy the Neverafter.
- Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: A realistic portrayal of this kind of relationship. Elody is clearly frustrated with Gerard's ignorance of state matters, and their relationship is suffering as a result.
- Heel–Face Turn: Elody is initially on the Princesses' side due to having been allied with them for much longer than Gerard and his party, and not believing that her friends would be behind such a destructive and omnicidal plan of which Gerard is accusing them. She eventually comes to see reason and turns against the Princesses and joins the party.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Elody is very involved in Greenleigh's military matters, and fights in the frontline. Many of the people who have encountered her mention how skillful she is on the battlefield.
- Token Good Teammate: She and Mira are the only two princesses (aside from Scheherazade, who has been brainwashed) who are not aware of the full plan Snow White and Cinderella are putting into motion. She also defects to the party's side once the Princesses reveal their true colors.
Cinderella
Cinderella
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Heart of steel, slippers of glass
- Origin: Cinderella
The princess of the Kingdom of Elegy. Allied with Snow White, Rapunzel, La Bête, and Elody.
- Action Girl: She's a heavily armored knight who previously stabbed the Fairy Godmother when the latter tried forcing her back into a false Happily Ever After. Revealed to be a Dark Action Girl when her more villainous side is exposed.
- Anti-Villain: In a speech she and Snow White give to Rosamund, she lays out their ultimate plan once they have gathered seven princesses: they plan to enact a ritual with the Canonade's ink well to un-make the Neverafter, completely erasing their stories so no more harm and misery will come to them and other fairy tale characters like them who have had to suffer so much. Their hope in destroying the Neverafter is that something better will be created in the aftermath.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Her armor's invisibility doesn't have an off switch; this makes it inconvenient to remove, since she can't see where she left the pieces.
- Awful Wedded Life: Implied — whatever happened after she married her prince, it wasn't a particularly good time for her.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: Whether she knows it or not, Cinderella has become a lot like her Stepmother, in that both have the goal of destroying the Neverafter. The motives and context of their actions differ greatly, but it's still not great that Cinderella's objective aligns with the parent who abused her for most of her childhood.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Despite her understandable motives for wanting to destroy the Neverafter she, like Snow White, is awfully quick to turn on and start attacking Elody and Mira once the two defect from their side.
- The Dragon: Appears to be this to Snow White, who is in charge of the overarching plan and ritual proper that will erase the Neverafter, while Cinderella enforces her will and keeps their more reluctant allies in line. Ultimately it seems to be more of an equal partnership between her, Snow White, and the rest of the Princesses in on the plan.
- Glass Weapon: Wields a glass polearm.
- He Who Fights Monsters: After suffering through countless reincarnations, she and the other Princesses have become a lot more aggressive and willing to resort to swift and brutal measures in dispatching their enemies. This is to the point where they arguably can no longer be labelled as wholly good, and becomes especially true when her and the rest of Princesses' omnicidal plan comes to light.
- Invisibility Cloak: When wearing her glass armor, it refracts light in such a way she effectively becomes invisible.
- Rags to Royalty: She is Cinderella, after all.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: As she reveals to Rosamund, she and the other awakened princess gained awareness of their narratives, and used it to hone their abilities through different iterations of the Neverafter.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: As drastic as her and Snow White's plan is to erase the Neverafter is, their desires for doing so stem from them wanting to end the traumatic cycle she and other fairytale characters like her are forced to live through.
Snow White
Snow White
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Princess of the dead
- Origin: Snow White
A princess who had to break herself out of her glass coffin, when her prince never came to awaken her. Haunted by the deaths of her friends, she has teamed up with other princesses to take control of her story. Allied with Cinderella, Rapunzel, La Bête, and Elody.
- Actually Pretty Funny: She's impressed by Ylfa's one-liner and finds Pinocchio's dark joke funny.note
- Anti-Villain: In a speech she and Cinderella give to Rosamund, she lays out the Daughters of the Crown's ultimate plan once they have gathered seven princesses: they plan to enact a ritual with the Canonade's ink well to unmake the Neverafter, completely erasing their stories, so no more harm and misery will come to them and other fairytale characters like them who have had to suffer so much. Their hope in destroying the Neverafter is that something better will be created in the aftermath.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: That being said, despite her understandable motives for wanting to destroy the Neverafter she, like Cinderella, is awfully quick to turn on and start attacking Elody and Mira once the latter two defect from their side.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Naturally - being Snow White, she's a fair-skinned girl with raven-black hair. This trope is taken to its extreme in that she's really pale due to being an undead corpse.
- Hero Killer: Manages to kill Rosamund during their final confrontation with a critical necromantic spell.
- He Who Fights Monsters: In the grueling cycle of reincarnation and constantly fighting the likes of giants, the Snow Queen, and other dangerous factions, she and the other Princesses have grown desensitized to violence and more willing to resort to swift and brutal measures against their enemies. The fact that they are so bellicose and aggressive clues the heroes into the fact that the Daughters of the Crown are not as good as they claim to be.
- Man-Eating Plant: On the receiving end of this trope when a revived Rosamund shoots an arrow that turns into a nest of briars... that envelops Snow White and eats her (un)alive.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Breaks down weeping when she realizes that Timothy's plan to fix the Neverafter actually works, and had her plan succeeded, she would've killed everyone for nothing.
- Necromancer: Summons the spirits of her dwarves and incarnates them into physical forms.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Like the other princesses, Snow White is aware of the nature of her existence.
- Undeathly PallorBrennan: I think what you see is that there is no rot here. I think that she may be, if not undead, in some sort of deathless state.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: As drastic as her and Cinderella's plan is to erase the Neverafter is, their desires for doing so stem from them wanting to end the traumatic cycle she and other fairytale characters like her are forced to live through.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Due to her experiences, Snow White wants to destroy all existing versions of her story and everything it includes, in the hope that something better will be created in the aftermath.Snow White: I think as long as I'm around, the old stories of me will be around, and as long as they are around, nothing can be good.
The Little Mermaid
Mira
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Daughter of the Mer-King
- Origin: The Little Mermaid
The runaway daughter of the Mer-King. She made a deal with the Sea Witch for legs, but the prince she fell in love with married another woman; refusing to kill said prince, she has been hiding on Toy Island.
- Agony of the Feet: Mira exists in severe pain, and tries to make every step count.
- Archnemesis Dad: Her father has been searching for her so aggressively that, through a spell he had cast for him, he knows when any princess touches the ocean. Mira, with no interest in returning to his side, has been hiding out on Toy Island.
- Cute Mute: Sold her voice to the Sea Witch, and so at first can only communicate through Timothy Goose's use of the Message spell.
- Token Good Teammate: She along with Elody are the only two princesses who are hesitant about the plan Snow White and Cinderella have in store. She only goes along with their plan because her life was so awful that she didn't see any better options. It doesn't take much convincing from Timothy to get her to switch sides.
Rapunzel
Rapunzel
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Hair-raising
- Origin: Rapunzel
A princess with incredibly long hair. Allied with Cinderella, Snow White, La Bête, and Elody.
- Big Brother Is Watching: Rapunzel is capable of using *all* her hair as an extension of herself, as far as awareness goes.
- Break Them by Talking: Attempts to do this to Gerard when she scries on him near Baba Yaga's hut. She points out how cowardly Gerard is, and how hurt and betrayed Elody feels about his actions.
- Faux Affably Evil: She puts on a cheery and friendly persona that a number of the party clock as largely something put on for show. A lot of it can be attributed due to being locked away in a tower for most of her life and being cut off from all human contact, which is understandable. But once the party flees from the Snow Queen's castle and turns against the Princesses, she sends a message to Timothy claiming how eager she'll be to choke the life out of him with her hair.
- Eaten Alive: Gerard does her in by eating her whole during their fight in the Canonade, hair and all.
- Hate Sink: Is the least likeable princess amongst her group. Her creepy, off-putting nature and lack of sympathetic backstory compared to the other princesses have both the character and their players eager to have Rapunzel get what's coming to her.
- Prehensile Hair: Prehensile enough to make dinner, safely and efficiently, without her even needing to be in the room.
The Beast
La Bête
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Monstrous maiden
- Origin: Beauty and the Beast
A princess who is both the beauty and the beast. Allied with Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Elody.
- The Brute: Seems to be this amongst the Princesses' faction, due to her towering stature and overall brawn.
- Disney Villain Death: In the Canonade, Ylfa throws her off a platform of books into a chaotic, roiling mass of pages below that annihilate her utterly.
- Evil Counterpart: Well, an anti-villainous mirror to Ylfa. Both see a lot of similarities in each other and find a mutual catharsis when they have an illuminating conversation about their beastly natures in the Snow Queen's castle. It comes to a point where they face off against each other in the Canonade during the Princesses' ritual.
- Face Death with Dignity: In response to Ylfa's attempt to convince her to stop fighting, La Bête simply responds with "Do what you must" and does not struggle against Ylfa hurling her into a deadly mass of book pages.
- I'm a Humanitarian: As her first meaningful choice in her story, when her Beast fell in love with her and offered to let her forgive him for his captivity, she killed and ate him.La Bête: I made a choice for the first time, then, and I said, I have an offer for you. You can kneel down on this floor and let me devour you, or I can just do it anyway. We all like to make offers, don't we?
- Noble Demon: Pun aside, while La Bête is completely in on the plan to destroy the Neverafter she is nothing but forthright and chivalrous towards the party, especially Ylfa, even during their physical confrontations.
Fairies
Fairy Godmother
Fairy Godmother
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Bibbidi bobbidi... boo!
- Origin: Cinderella, The Frog Prince
Cinderella's fairy godmother, and the fairy who originally turned Gerard into a frog.
- The Fair Folk: A fairy who has transformed a whole fleet of furniture into agonized humanoid abominations.
- Fairy Devilmother: Even the "happily ever afters" she gives are false, and she deals far more in curses.
- Flunky Boss: Fought surrounded by a whole fleet of Animate Inanimate Objects she's brought to life.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Cinderella impaled her with a spear of glass.
- No Ontological Inertia: Painfully averted. Her minions are not affected by her death.
- Undeathly Pallor: Looks "neither alive nor dead", and has turned a sickly shade of green.
- Would Hurt a Child: She turned Gerard into a frog when he was only ten years old. He spent years almost dying at the hands of multiple uncaring animals and humans before meeting Elody. She either knew what fate she was inflicting on him and didn't care, or genuinely thought that subjecting a child to an uncertain future of survival and fear would change him for the better. At ten years old.
The Fairy with Turquoise Hair
Turquina
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
The arbiter of what is real... and what is wood
- Origin: The Adventures of Pinocchio
The fairy who transformed Pinocchio into a real boy, and an avid believer in the importance of truth.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Willing to speak in half-truths and leave out information, but so far has not been known to directly lie; given her nature as a fairy, it's likely she either can't or won't.
- The Fair Folk
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She is terrified of The Authors, and believes that the fairies' way of doing things, while perhaps not ideal for everyone, is the only way to be safe from them.
Witches
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
The great witch
An ancient witch of unfathomable power, and one of the few beings that frightens the Big Bad Wolf.
- Affably Evil: Baba Yaga may be an amoral and extremely dangerous witch but when you get on her good side she can be good-natured and humorous (but still very unstable).
- The Dreaded: Is this to the Big Bad Wolf, the anthropomorphic personification of death.
- Flying Broomstick: Hers is a gigantic mortar and pestle, as is true in her original myth.
- Medium Awareness: Completely aware that she is a story; not only that, but she revealed the nature of the Stepmother's existence as a Hate Sink to said woman, so she's aware of how perhaps all stories work.
- Wicked Witch: The wicked witch. Baba Yaga is the most influential and powerful witch in the Neverafter, standing miles above any lesser witches.
- Wild Card: In the words of Ally Beardsley, she is on no one's side and is incredibly powerful. Her first move in the final battle is to indiscriminately attack both the princesses and any party members who happen to be nearby, before declaring that everybody except for her will die.
The Sea Witch
Alba Mac Lir
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
The sea witch
- Origin: The Little Mermaid
The witch who gave Princess Mira her legs in exchange for her voice. Carries a grudge against the Mer-King. Immensely powerful.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Put in motion a plan to murder a prince on the basis that his grandfather was rude to her, probably before he was even born.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Of a sort. Alba is experiencing every version of her story at the same time: there are universes where she dies, and universes where she is the villain, and universes where she aids the hero. As a result, she finds it hard to care about what's happening in only one universe.
The Neverafter
Lord Bandlebridge
Lord Bandlebridge
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
A wealthy Lord from Shoeberg, and a target of one of Pinocchio and Pib's scams.
- Character Tics: Tilts his head to indicate that he's joking, though it's clear this is deliberate rather than involuntary.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He and his men book it when the party inadvertently absorbs Cole into Mother Goose's book.
- Upper-Class Twit: Played with. Though he is initially fooled by Pinocchio and Pib, he eventually sees through one of Pinocchio's more obvious lies.
Tomas, the Miller's Son
Tomas, the Miller's Son / The Marquis of Carabas
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Origin: Puss in Boots
A miller's son who Puss in Boots helped become the king of Marienne. As he had no experience in statecraft, he was unable to keep the kingdom from falling when it was attacked by giants.
- Never Learned to Read: One of the many traits of a miller's son that makes him an unfit king. He mentions to Puss that he can "kind of read now", but it's clearly still a large concern to him.
- Rags to Riches: Thanks to a long con run by Pib, Tomas went from a lowly miller's son to the king of Marienne.
Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Curds & whey enthusiast
- Origin: Little Miss Muffet
A poor, lonely little girl who just wanted to eat her curds and whey, but has since been transformed into a hideous, gigantic spider.
- Commonality Connection: She and Ylfa bonded over being little girls turned into monsters.
- Forced Transformation: Something turned her into a horrific, half-human half-spider abomination.
- Not Quite Back to Normal: The party's efforts return her to her right mind and free her from being a huge drider-like monster, but she still has the head of a spider.
Peter, the Baron of Bricks
Peter, the Baron of Bricks
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Not by the hairs of his chinny chin chin
- Origin: The Three Little Pigs
The third little pig, having taken to industry after the death of his two brothers. He carries a dangerous grudge against the Big Bad Wolf.
- The Death of Death: His ultimate goal is to kill the Big Bad Wolf, the personification of death, which would mean nothing could ever die again no matter how old, decrepit, or injured it was.
- Revenge Before Reason: Wants the Big Bad Wolf dead to avenge his brothers. regardless of the consequences that would come with killing death.
- Sole Survivor: Of the three little pigs, his two brothers having been devoured by the Big Bad Wolf.
Beyond The Neverafter
Scheherazade
Scheherazade
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Storyteller extraordinaire
- Origin: Arabian Nights
Yes, that Scheherazade. Mother Goose discovers a journal of hers in his book, which is actually an active record she is keeping in her own magical storybook.Through their correspondence, Mother Goose and the party learn Scheherazade is from the Endless Nights, a realm of fairy tales and myths similar to the Neverafter but one that has also been twisted to their darkest extremes. Like the Neverafter party, she has her own group of heroes who is journeying to try and set their own realm to right.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Sometime in between episode 17 ("The Last Wish") and episode 19 ("The Ending of All Things, Part I") Snow White puts Scheherazade under a Geas spell that charms her into briefly joining the Princesses' side. Baba Yaga is able to dispel the enchantment by literally slapping the magic out of her.
- Hero of Another Story: When introduced, she only appeared via communication through her and Mother Goose's magical storybooks. From what she told the party, she is on her own quest to fix her broken realm and has her own adventuring group made up of at least her and Sinbad the sailor.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The same Scheherazade who married King Shahryar (making her a queen, at least), and her character art depicts her clad in armor with a sword strapped to her back. And, as noted above, she is actively trying to repair the corrupted realm of the Endless Nights. Her royal status is exploited by the Princesses when they forcibly recruit her to fulfill the prophecy of seven princesses needed to combat the fairies.
- There Is Another: The existence of other magic storybooks like Timothy Goose's was hinted at previously, but Scheherazade and her tome is the first proper introduction to another famed storyteller in this campaign.
- Walking Spoiler: Her existence spoils that the Neverafter isn't the only realm of dark, corrupted stories and that she is another owner of a magical storybook similar to Mother Goose's.
Aesop
Aesop
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Fabulous fabulist
- Origin: Aesop's Fables
A storyteller from the Land of Birds and Beasts, he travels with his flock of animals. Known for his morality-based parables.
- Black-and-White Morality: Lying? Never acceptable. Never.
The Librarians
Key & Legend
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Explanatory, of the self and otherwise
Librarians who reside in The Lands Between.
- Those Two Guys: Almost always together, to the point the image for their character introductions covers both of them instead of them having two individual intros. They're also dating.
