The Characters, as they appear in Everywhere & Nowhere.
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Main Pair
Both
- Adaptation Expansion: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never really get any backstory, or even proper first names, in the original Shakespeare play. Here, they're the main characters, and their names are William and Anne.
- Complete Immortality: Anne Guildenstern and William Rosencrantz are unable to age and can't be killed by any means.
- Last-Name Basis: William and Anne tend to refer to each other by their last names rather than their first names, a reference to the Shakespeare play in which they did not have first names.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Anne is the energetic girl to William's savvy guy.
- Ship Tease: Oh so much. Their Bad Future counterparts are an official couple, but it isn't a healthy relationship.
Anne Guildenstern
The female lead of the comic. A seemingly flighty girl with an adventurous heart, there's more to her than meets the eye.
- Gender Flip: Guildenstern is typically presented as male in Hamlet productions, but here, she's all woman.
- God Guise: She disguises herself as a Kami to earn Oda Nobunaga's trust and enlist his help in finding Rosencrantz.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and is a fairly good person, though she does have a dark side, as seen in both Hamlet itself (when she and Rosencrantz get tricked into betraying Hamlet to King Claudius), and in this comic, where she and Rosencrantz have the potential to become the brutal dictators of all reality.
- Lady of Adventure: Embodies the spirit of the trope.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Essentially is this for Rosencrantz.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: She's a lot smarter than she seems.
- Plucky Girl: Oh, definitely.
- Spirited Young Lady: Seen as this by Castle Hamlet in her native time.
- The Watson: In a way. In the earlier chapters, she asks William to explain concepts like democracy to her so the reader can follow.
William Rosencrantz
The male lead of the comic. The grounded and responsible one, Rosencrantz is concerned with the potential toll immortality could take on the human mind.
- Evil Me Scares Me: He's terrified by the possibility of turning into his evil Future Self.
- Future Me Scares Me: See above.
Crownright Academy
Tiffany
- Alternate Self: Future Rosencrantz and Future Guildenstern travel to an alternate timeline and attempt to repeat their past selves' adventures at Crownright Academy, creating an alternate Tiffany. However, there are noticeable differences; for example, the alternate Tiffany does not like Rosencrantz at all.
- Ambiguously Gay: She's very affectionate with Guildenstern.
- For Want Of A Nail: Played With. She does not like Future Rosencrantz one bit, which surprises him because the original timeline's Tiffany liked the original timeline's Rosencrantz. He chalks this up to the butterfly effect, but it's implied to be because the Future Rosencrantz simply isn't a nice person, which Tiffany can sense.
Cedric
- Alternate Self: In an alternate timeline created by Future Guildenstern and Future Rosencrantz, they meet an alternate version of Cedric instead of the original Cedric from their present counterparts' past. He's almost exactly the same as the original Cedric, right down to his habit of shirtlessness.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's always trying to take his shirt off, because it's uncomfortable for him.
Britney
- Alternate Self: Future Rosencrantz and Guildenstern create an alternate timeline when they attempt to relive their past selves' adventures at Crownright, creating an alternate Britney. Ironically, while the original timeline Britney made Anne the target of her bullying, here Britney takes a liking to Future Guildenstern because Future Guildenstern is cruel and vindictive, like her.
- Serious Business: Chess is this to her. If you lose to her at chess, she'll make sure to utterly destroy your life.
Dr. Charles
- The Corrupter: He wants to do this to women, to add them to his "collection".
- Corruption of a Minor: His favorite pastime.
- Ephebophile: He just loves high school girls.
- Evil Teacher: The perverted, sexually abusive kind.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: His modus operandi is to have Jake beat up women (or a man that particular woman is interested in) to prove to them that they need his "protection," and then offer said "protection" (presumably in exchange for sexual favors). Guildenstern doesn't buy it for a second.
- Lecherous Licking: When he spies a hot teenage girl.
Lucas
- Alternate Self: He has one in the alternate timeline created by Future Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, but he's almost exactly the same as the original and tries to flirt with Future Guildenstern (to his peril).
- Casanova Wannabe: In contrast with the much more dangerous Dr. Charles.
Jake
- Japanese Delinquents: He's not Japanese, but he fits all of the stereotypes associated with the trope. He's the leader of a delinquent gang, under the employ of Dr. Charles, who wants to use him to coerce girls into giving him sexual favors.
Kevin Lehmann
A mysterious boy that Anne takes an interest in.
- For Want Of A Nail: He was supposed to kill Eva in the original timeline, but for some reason, he didn't. Future Anne and William want to find out why.
- Stalker with a Crush: On Eva.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Eva.
- Yandere: He murdered Eva in the original timeline.
Eva
The target of Kevin's affections.
- We Used to Be Friends: A long time ago, Kevin and Eva were best friends.
Adam
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: He's actually William Shakespeare in disguise.
- Love Triangle: He's not happy about Kevin's advances towards Eva.
Historical Figures
Alcibiades
- The Casanova: Never seen without beautiful women (and men) hanging on him like decorations.
- Depraved Bisexual: He's interested in both men and women, and is a traitorous sleazebag.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Easily Forgiven: After starting a war between Athens and Sparta, betraying Athens to Sparta, and then betraying both of them to the Persians, all the Athenians have to say to him is that they missed him.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Anne teleports him to the present day in order to save him from an assassination attempt.
- The Hedonist: He loves drinking, sex, and throwing lavish parties. Personal pleasure is the reason he does anything, really.
- It Amused Me: He steals all the penises from every statue of Hermes in Athens as a gag, and this is the thing that gets him put on trial rather than the fact he sold out Athens to both the Spartans and the Persians.note
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He does care about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, despite his traitorous ways.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Well, to the people of Greece, anyway.
- Welcome Back, Traitor: The welcome he gets when he returns to Greece.
Cleopatra
- Been There, Shaped History: Anne and William are, of course, responsible for the famous carpet story.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Like the real Cleopatra, she is married to her little brother.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She acts like this to get Caesar to do what she wants.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's pretty damn hot.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: In a similar fashion to Guildenstern, which Anne notices.
Julius Caesar
- Adaptational Attractiveness: The real Caesar wasn't exactly a looker, at least during his reign. This Caesar is a handsome young man.
- Age Lift: The real-life Caesar ruled in his fifties. This Caesar appears to be a young man, or at least Older Than He Looks.
- Older Than He Looks: Either this Caesar has been given an Age Lift, or he's this.
Albert Einstein
Socrates
Oda Nobunaga
- Cain and Abel: The story presents him as the Abel to his brother Oda Nobukatsu's Cain, but in real life, neither one of them were much of an Abel.note
- God Test: He has Guildenstern shot to test if she is a god; she passes, not because she is a god but because of her Complete Immortality.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Charles Darwin
Marie Antoinette
- Alpha Bitch: Worse than Britney.
- Burn the Witch!: Guildenstern realizes she's messed up when she tries to show Marie a tablet, and is mistaken for a witch. She bails and teleports herself to Leonardo da Vinci's time period instead.
William Shakespeare
- Ambiguously Evil: At first. He wants to kill the future Anne and William, but it's not clear why. Given what the future Anne and William have become, it's not clear if he wants to stop them or just wants them out of the way. Later on, however, it's subverted, and he's definitely the latter option.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: He's a time traveler just like William and Anne, and can change his Age as well as Time Travel.
- Dual Age Modes: Unlike William and Anne, he's capable of changing his age as well as time travelling, while Anne and William are permanently locked in the forms they were when they became immortal. Thus, Shakespeare can disguise himself as a little boy, a young man, and an old man, taking on the alias "Adam" in his young man form.
Spoiler Characters
Future Rosencrantz
A version of Rosencrantz from a possible future in which he and Guildenstern went insane and now rule all of time with an iron fist.
- A God Am I: He thinks so, and he wants present-day Rosencrantz to think so too.
- Complete Immortality: Like Present Rosencrantz, although he's let it go to his head.
- The Emperor: Of a dystopian Bad Future. He seems to be setting himself up as the Big Bad.
- Eternal Love: With Future Guildenstern, but it's not pretty.
- Evil Costume Switch: He now wears all black and has white hair.
- Evil Me Scares Me: Present Rosencrantz is terrified by the possibility that one day, he'll turn into Future Rosencrantz.
- God-Emperor: He considers himself one (and calls himself this verbatim), but Present Rosencrantz disagrees.
- Immortality Immorality: Being immortal turned him and Guildenstern evil, eventually.
- It Amused Me: His motivation for doing anything... or, rather, because it amused Guildenstern.
- Love Makes You Evil: He's willing to do anything for his Guildenstern, although it's downplayed since he seems pretty evil all on his own. A flashback reveals to us that he turned evil in the first place out of a desire to please Guildenstern, and it was all downhill from there.
- Slow Transformation: In a flashback, the tips of his hair start to turn white when he decides he'd do anything for his Guildenstern.
- Unholy Matrimony: He and Future Guildenstern are a couple... but it isn't pretty.
- Unreliable Narrator: He tells present-day Rosencrantz that his only options are to turn into him, or else be sealed away in a laboratory to become a test subject until the end of time. Given that he tries to murder Alcibiades when the latter suggests that there's a third possibility, he's probably not telling the truth.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims his ultimate goal is to prevent Present Guildenstern and Rosencrantz from turning into him.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Differentiating him from Present Rosencrantz.
- You Can't Fight Fate: He claims that this is true, but given that he tries to murder Alcibiades when the latter tries to convince Rosencrantz it isn't, he's probably lying.
Future Guildenstern
A version of Guildenstern from a possible future in which she and Rosencrantz went insane and now rule all of time with an iron fist.
- A Good, Old-Fashioned Paint Watching: As she begins to get corrupted in a flashback, she's seen staring at static for hours on end because it is the only thing that's truly random.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite her bickering with William and casual cruelty towards almost everyone else, she does still love William deep down.
- Bad Boss: When one of her lackeys can't find her anyone to torture, she tortures him.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She accuses Future Rosencrantz of cheating on her... with her past self.
- Complete Immortality: Like Present Guildenstern, except she finds it boring.
- Eternal Love: But it isn't pretty.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Now that she's evil, she wears this fashion.
- Evil Costume Switch: She's now dressed in all black, with white hair.
- Immortality Immorality: Over time, immortality drove her and future Rosencrantz mad.
- It Amused Me: She's desperate for entertainment, and her desire for excitement leads her to convince Future Rosencrantz to torture and murder just to get some. He happily obliges.
- Madness Mantra: "I'm bored... I'm bored... I'm bored..."
- Slow Transformation: In a flashback, we see that Guildenstern and Rosencrantz's hair slowly begins to turn white as they become corrupted.
- Tsundere: Type A. She's almost always rude and cruel to Future William (unless he manages to entertain her), but she still loves him deep, deep down.
- Unholy Matrimony: She and future Rosencrantz are the Emperor and Empress of a Bad Future.
- White Hair, Black Heart: It's her Red Right Hand, and it distinguishes her from her good, present counterpart.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: She finds it very boring.
Good Future Guildenstern
An enigmatic, future version of Guildenstern from what is apparently yet another alternate timeline, where she did not turn evil but is without Rosencrantz.
- Alternate Self: A version of Guildenstern from a timeline in which she did not turn evil but now mediates all of time.
- Big Damn Heroes: She saves William from the void beyond time after he is trapped there by Future Rosencrantz.
- But Now I Must Go: After rescuing William, she leaves, telling him that she missed him more than he can ever know.
Good Future Rosencrantz
- Alternate Self: A version of Rosencrantz from a future timeline in which he did not turn evil.
- Big Good: He and Good Future Guildenstern appear to be the collective Big Good of the setting.
Hamlet
- Et Tu, Brute?: William and Anne have visions of him at separate points accusing them of betraying him to Claudius, implying they feel immense guilt for allowing themselves to be tricked in the Shakespeare play.
- We Used to Be Friends: Guildenstern and Rosencrantz used to be Prince Hamlet’s closest friends before they accidentally betrayed him to Claudius. Because the pair can never return to their original time period, they are unable to apologize or make amends, and the thought of Hamlet haunts both of them to this day.
