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Englishmen as a whole
Residents of the nation of Great Britain, which, due to a Spark-related mishap centuries prior, has gone from an island nation to an archipelago with a number of underwater cities.
- Atlantis:
- It's revealed when Agatha and co get to England that the island-nation was somehow set to sinking by a band of Sparks some 300 years ago. Rather than let this bother her, Albia simply rebuilt England as an aquatropolis, and the nation is thriving, even as it continues to sink ever-deeper into the sea.
- This has caused them to be Crazy-Prepared when it comes to sparks, too: They have a large dome where the best are collected and kept, not really so they can inspire and work together, but because that makes it conveniently easy to take them all out if things go awry. One of the labs allotted to Agatha is called "abominable" (as in, abominations unto science) and comes with all sorts of safety measures and a prepaid electrical bill.
- Character Tics: Questioning the social status quo too much, such as suggesting they leave the increasingly unsustainable sinking cities of England, is met with a variant on "Her Majesty would never permit it."
- Common Tongue: Due to England's trade fleets, English is the lingua franca of much of the world.
- Determinator: Even with their island sinking under the ocean, the English absolutely refuse to abandon it, and accepted the challenge of living underwater. In fact, they consider the challenge of living underwater to be one of the reasons why they are one of the most powerful nations on the planet.
- More than Mind Control: Albia is capable of controlling the minds of many of her subjects directly, including overriding Slaver Wasps affecting her soldiers, but the vast majority of her subjects appear to have a genuine devotion to her. Of course, she is a Mad Social Scientist. That's only to be expected.
- Tattoo as Character Type: the more nautical characters appear to be heavily tattooed, and there is the "Queen's Tattoo" which appears to serve as a mark of special distinction.
- Undying Loyalty: To their queen, Albia. Whenever an outsider suggests doing something differently, such as abandoning their sinking city, they simply say a variant of "Her Majesty would never allow that," and the matter is considered settled.
Queen Albia of England
Queen Albia, Her Undying Majesty
That's the amazing thing about humanity - so much potential! Almost infinite!
The mysterious and seemingly immortal Queen of England.- Altar Diplomacy:
- Is attempting to pair Agatha off with Hadrian Rakethorn, and Gil with Trelawney Thorpe, which would effectively kill two birds with one stone — by preventing the Hetrodyne uniting with the remaining might of the Baron's forces and creating a superpower big enough to threaten her rule, and ensuring that she has influence over two of the most powerful Sparks in Europa. Time will tell how effective this is.
- Her daughter Princess Neena also has a crush on Tarvek, but this seems less likely to be due to her, especially as she's not sent to accompany him to Europa as is the case with Trelawney and Gil.
- Ambiguously Evil: At the end of her first appearance, she mentions wanting to add Agatha to her 'garden', but so far has been nothing but helpful to the young Heterodyne and her allies. Perhaps she's "playing the long game".
- Berserk Button: According to
the Klaus-overlay in Gil's mind, she doesn't like it when other people describe her seemingly-supernatural abilities as "magic". - Brawn Hilda: One of her older forms, possibly her original, is a stout, bulky, redhead.
- Clarke's Third Law: Even by the setting's standards, her technology seems magical, to the degree that she can make things happen without any visible interfaces or machinery. According to Klaus Wulfenbach, her technology still follows the normal laws of nature, it is simply far more advanced than what most of the world has access to.
- The Collector: She maintains a "garden" of interesting individuals, the exact size of which is not yet clear; it may even be all of Londinium or even England. She hopes to lure Agatha and (some of) her companions into "voluntarily" becoming permanent residents.
- Color Failure: After dealing with the strain of helping finish off Clank!Lucrezia and repairing the gang's escape blimp, a spent Albia goes literally greyscale, a demonstration that she was well and out of power.
- Compelling Voice:
- She cannot easily break the Other's mind control outright, but she knows enough about how it works to override existing orders.
- When Violetta and Zeetha fuss over getting Agatha ready for a new day, Queen Albia tells them she wants a private chat and they blank out. They suddenly decide to fetch breakfast, while Queen Albia reassures Agatha no harm was done to them.
- Control Freak: When Lucrezia, masquerading as Agatha, remarked that anything can happen, Wooster replied that's not the case in England: "Her Majesty wouldn't allow it." Gil also comments to Zola that going against her whims is "literally unthinkable". Although this appears to be an exaggeration. When the action finally reaches England, we witness all sorts of things happening that Albia definitely would not approve of, and that she cannot directly fix even after learning about them. There have been hints that her power may be waning in some fashion.
- The Dreaded: Doctor Sun was horrified to learn that Gil threatened to destroy her and England to get her spy Wooster to submit to him, indicating that provoking her is a very bad idea. Later on, it's shown that pretty much everyone is terrified of the idea of crossing her. Even the Lucrezia copy in Agatha's mind is absolutely terrified of her.
- Due to the Dead: She is capable of speaking someone's name such that it will never be forgotten by anyone who hears it. She uses it as a high honor for soldiers who die in her service.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: Albia very much implies that this is responsible for at least some of her otherworldly abilities when she meets Agatha. Trelawney Thorpe says that she started out as a Mad Scientist no different from any other, and then broke through a second time.Albia: Oho! Yes we thought so! We can always tell. You are one who has peeped into the infinite!
- Everyone Has Standards: As furious as she is at Dr. Vapnoople for his past crimes against England, she's absolutely horrified to see what Klaus' lobotomy procedures have done to his brilliant mind.
- Extradimensional Power Source: Implied to be the true nature of second breakthrough, being powered by a special form of energy she absorbs from a different dimension.
- Eye Color Change: Blue most of the time (and briefly brown), but at one point they turn gold...the whites included.
- Fake Memories: She has the power to edit a target's memories, though according to Klaus, there are ways to detect it. According to Trelawney Thorpe, it is a power she is reluctant to use and will only do so when necessary.
- Flaming Hair: Foglio drew a sketch of her for a fan which depicts her as a scantily-clad woman equipped with what appears to be this. When she is finally met in person, her hair appears normal...until a massive bout of Sparky glee over an experiment idea causes her hair to burst into flames for a single panel.
- Flashy Teleportation: Capable of teleporting both herself and others at will, with some orbs of light effects, apparently, and apparently without consent, as seen when she briefly warps Agatha into the air during their first meeting.
- The Fog of Ages: A normal person has trouble with one century's worth of memories. A Spark can handle more, and Albia is the next step past a Spark, but even she can't handle the countless millennia she has been alive. In order to deal with this, the first thing she built upon her second breakthrough was a building designed to archive her memories.
- Giant Woman: When Agatha and Zeetha finally come into her presence, she's busy pruning the top of a fir tree. It's quickly revealed she can "compress" herself down to human size. Which, if either, is her default height is unknown.
- God-Emperor: She was once a member of an entire sisterhood of secretive and immortal god-queens. She is one of the very few to make her status openly known to the world at large, and one of the very few that is even still alive. She lost contact with most of them when the technology they used to communicate was (probably) sabotaged, and she has spent the past few centuries seeking out the surviving queens or their remnants.
- Good Parents: She's got several kids, and unlike pretty much every other parent we've seen, is absolutely loving and doting to her "pookies".
- Gorgeous Garment Generation: Her unexplained shapeshifting abilities extend to her outfits. She often shifts her clothes based on who she's talking to, or even what they're talking about.
- Historical Domain Character: Her original form, a brawny Amazonian Beauty with a spear and shield, seems an awful lot like a Race Lifted incarnation of Boudica, who was also a powerful monarch in Ancient Britain. Perhaps one who did defeat the Romans, or the GG-verse equivalent thereof.
- Holy Halo: Her Undying Majesty has little constant about her appearance outside of her hovering halo of glowing stars. Even this is slightly altered when she reveals a bit of just how dangerously sparky she could be with her very magic-like abilities and power.
- Immortality: She is known as "Her Undying Majesty" and is (far far) older than Simon Voltaire, who is well over two hundred years old. And, unlike the elderly cyber-assisted Master of Paris, Albia appears as a young and beautiful woman.
- Instant Costume Change: Can go from gardening clothes to mourning garb to a Skifandrian outfit over the course of five panels. The changes appear to reflect her thoughts and/or the current topic of discussion.
- Large and in Charge: She tends to take on the giantess form when dealing with matters of State.
- Living Mood Ring: She can reflexively change her size, appearance, and wardrobe to match the conversation, like manifesting Widow's Weeds when she learns of a death or literally igniting with excitement.
- Kaleidoscope Hair: Normally a grayish-blue color, it also appears as red, emerald, and brown at different points.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Albia has over a dozen daughters, from adolescent to elderly. It's implied that as each dies of old age they are replaced by Albia with a new Princess.
- Confirmed to have 74 daughters by Neena, including herself. If she has any sons has yet to be confirmed.
- Mama Bear: She comes to the rescue of her daughter Princess Neena when she cried for help as she, Agatha and the rest of their company are surrounded on all sides by giant monsters and hostile ascendant god-queens - armed, and decked out in full wargear, literally size of a mountain and radiating with her full power.
- Manipulative Bitch: She's a Mad Social Scientist, and her fingerprints are all over England. While the question of if she will ultimately be an antagonist or not remains to be seen, she is conspiring very effectively to split up Gil Agatha and Tarvek so that Agatha will remain in England as part of her collection. And the degree of fanatical devotion her subjects display tapdances on the line between Undying Loyalty and something far more sinister.
- Paper Tiger: She is treated with godlike reverence as an absolute power within England. At full power, she is genuinely a demigod, only a few steps short of being a real god, but at the time of the story, she is suffering a bad case of Worf Had the Flu. As such, she is resorting to flashy tricks to keep up her image as The Dreaded. Actually solving the current crisis is beyond her, even defending her territory is putting her under strain.
- Physical Goddess: An immortal, nigh-omnipotent shapeshifting being who attracts the undying devotion of an entire country. Seems to fit the bill. Although the island arc shows that she's clearly not invulnerable, and her power may even be waning.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's the only known (semi-normal non-Jäger) person in Europa who is older than the 200+ year old Simon Voltaire. And even he doesn't know the secret to her longevity. It's eventually revealed it's due to her being a "second-stage" Spark. In truth she is old enough to be from Doggerland, making her a minimum of 8000 years old.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- Has the sense during a massive Sparky rant to admit that it would be much better to let Agatha fix things with her and Gil's minds, as Albia's plan and methods involve much more potential for damage, even if Albia thinks it would be fun. Although see above under The Collector.
- Unlike Voltaire, she is also more willing to give Agatha a chance, as she is quite friendly to her, even providing advice. Considering Agatha's family history and both Klaus' and Voltaire's hesitance to give her a chance to prove her moral character, this is a major contrast. Though it helps that Agatha is quite respectful to her, as she is aware that being in the presence of a ruler in their domain is not something to be taken lightly.
- Royal "We": Utilizes this manner of speech, which is appropriate, since she is the Queen of England. Although an occasional "I" still slips in there.
- Sizeshifter: She can shift sizes, apparently at will, though doing so too quickly makes her burning hot to the touch.
- The Social Expert: Even among Sparks, who are all charismatic and can turn their genius to social engineering in a pinch. Even beyond her second breakthrough this is her specialty, since back when she was a normal Spark in Doggerland she was a master of the art of knowing people's hearts and motivations.
- Statuesque Stunner: Even at human size, Her Undying Majesty still has a good foot or two over Zeetha in height. This may be a deliberate intimidation tactic; as previously noted, it's not at all clear what her "normal" size is.
- Stripperiffic: Some of her outfits embody this trope, others are more conservative.
- Technically Naked Shapeshifter: When she suffers a Power-Strain Blackout, most of her outfit disappears, leaving her naked except for her earrings and Holy Halo.
- Telepathy: She can examine other peoples' minds.
- Time Abyss: Has been a Spark since before the English Channel existed, which depending on your interpretation could put her at four hundred and fifty thousand years old.
- Villain Override: Non-villainous variant. This turns out to be the reason why it's "literally unthinkable" to go against her: she is able to broadcast her will to all of her subjects in the surrounding area (how far this effect reaches is unknown) to the point that she can even temporarily override The Other's slaver-wasps. And beyond that, some her subjects (Trelawney among them) are able to voluntarily summon her to possess their bodies and channel her powers directly through them. This power is reseverved for emergencies where they desperately need to use her Enlightenment Superpowers for themselves; Albia cannot maintain this connection for long, as it soon begins to damage the subject.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Seems to have a pretty liberal degree of control over form, including Sizeshifter, Eye Color Change, Kaleidoscope Hair and Gorgeous Garment Generation.
- Weather Manipulation: Capable of conjuring tiny storm-clouds in the palms of her hands. She ramps it up to a giant one while confronting Krosp and his legion of bears.
- We Used to Be Friends: According to the print novels, Albia was one of Klaus's biggest supporters during his conquest/cleanup of Europa. However, as their two empires began to butt political and commercial heads, as well as the tendency of Sparks to seek hierarchical control over each other, their relationship fell apart and Klaus (and later Gil) are barred from entering England as long as she rules, and both sides are waiting for the other to start something so they can invade. Assuming that Lady Astarte wasn't just winding Gil up, they apparently used to be more than just friends...
- It's unclear whether or not the feelings were mutual, but Albia expressed liking Lucrezia Mongfish, before she became The Other.
- Worf Had the Flu: She's pretty much a demigod, but the power source that makes her that way has a cycle of flowing and ebbing. At the time of the story, she has nearly used up her emergency reserves, and she doesn't have the knowledge or courage to use alternative methods to power herself.
Princess Neena of England
One of England's many princesses and an old friend of Tarvek's from their time studying in Paris.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Her area of study and current profession.
- Ambiguously Brown: The queen shifts her appearance constantly and it's not even clear if her princesses are biologically related to her but Neena has dark skin, black hair and blue eyes.
- Geeky Turn-On: Flirts heavily with Tarvek over the subject of rare books.
- Oh, My Gods!: She uses an "Oh my mom!" variant, what with Queen Albia being a God Empress.
- I Want My Mommy!: When caught up in a battle between two rampaging God-Queens and a horde of enormous monsters, she calls out for "MAMA!". And since she's the daughter of Albia, she shows up immediately.
Trelawney Thorpe
Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm
An agent in Albia's intelligence service.
- Action Girl: Who carries around explosives.
- Ambiguously Bi: Nothing explicit has been said about her tastes, but, whilst she and Wooster show signs of some attraction to each other when they meet at the start of Second Story Volume 5 and she very deliberately tries to seduce Gil, she also much more openly flirts with the female pirate(ish) captain who ferries Tarvek and Gil to Londinium, with the latter being a much more strongly implied Ambiguously Gay character. However, she has been hinted here that she may genuinely like Gil.
- And after Wooster is killed by Lucrezia-in-Agatha, she breaks down weeping.
- The Berserker: Not to suicidal levels, but she's been shown to rather impulsively spring into action.
- Crazy Sane: Trelawney is able to remain relatively calm and focused even when she falls into the Madness Place like other Sparks. Lucrezia is impressed by her self-control.
- Famed In-Story: A number of novels have been written about her exploits, similar to those of the Heterodyne Boys. There's been disparaging comments in-story (from knowledgeable witnesses) as to how accurate they are.
- Hero of Another Story: While her novels are said to be exaggerated, she really does have a very busy life.
- Honey Trap: Queen Albia sends her to capture Gil's heart to ensure Agatha has fewer reasons to leave England. Klaus-in-Gil has not only caught onto this, but encourages it, if more so as to keep Gil away from Agatha.
- Instant Costume Change: She is able to casually rip off her elaborate full-length dress, leaving her wearing a far more practical catsuit.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Most of the time her speech patterns suggest a refined, upper-class British accent, however on one occasion that Wooster teases her on the subject, she replies "Watch yer gob, ya ratbag!".
- Secret-Keeper: She serves as this for Albia, and chooses to share some of them with Gil.
- Spy Catsuit: As noted, this is her chosen outfit when she's in action. It's green.
- Willing Channeler: As one of the Queen's sacred guardians, she can pray to her for help and be possessed by her. However, it puts a serious strain on her body, making it one of her last resorts.
Lady Ariadne Steelgarter
The Smoke Knight caught me in their rooms she was better than we'd been told.
An English noblewoman. Has interests in both Science! and fashion. She was the financial backer for the airship expedition that "discovered" Skifander.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: It appears she's got some sort of covert agenda regarding Zeetha and/or Skifander. She later turns out to be working with the Other.
- The Fashionista: Has a very intense attitude when it comes to clothes.
- For Science!: As noted, she's a major supporter of The Queen's Society of Sparks. It's still not clear if she herself is a Spark.
- Instant Costume Change: Is able to shift between outfits from panel-to-panel.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When caught by Higgs and some of Albia's troops while running from Lucrezia and Monahan's brawl, she immediately surrenders. However, this changes the minute she sees a working portal to Skifander.
- Meaningful Name: Along with her more obvious last name, in Classical Mythology, "Ariadne" is associated with thread. The spider-motif also ties in whith her extra arms.
- Multiarmed Multitasking: Has four arms. Also Multi-Armed and Dangerous. Later on it's speculated that, aside from the typical mad science stuff, she may possibly be a Yajeena, an elite priestess from Skifander (who also had four arms before they were apparently all killed off), but Agatha and Zeetha decide it's almost impossible to tell one way or the other at this point. The fact she instantly recognises Skifander, speaks the language, and is so delighted to find a portal there she forgets she's running from two angry near-Queens may be confirmation.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Runs rather than stick around in a fight between Lucrezia and Monahan.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Absolutely cannot stand Monahan's rats, and can only barely contain her disgust in their presence.
Hadrian Rakethorn
Dr. Hadrian Rakethorn, Agent of Her Undying Majesty's Secret Service
- Convenient Replacement Character: He's a British secret agent who looks a bit like a more buff version of Ardsley Wooster and is introduced in the Londinium arc, which just so happens to be when Lucrezia/Agatha zaps Wooster.
- Female Gaze: Induces and invokes this straight out of the gate. His above image is literally his introduction, and judging from Agatha, Zeetha, and Violetta's expressions on the next panel, it works.
- Honey Trap: Albia hopes to replace Gil and Tarvek's positions in Agatha's affections with Hadrian.
- Mr. Fanservice: Seems to end up shirtless quite a lot, if the above image didn't already tell you all you need to know. Justified, as he's been instructed by Albia to seduce Agatha away from Gil and Tarvek.
- The Spark of Genius: The only edge he has on Wooster in what he's able to offer in service to their queen is that he's a spark, in all other aspects Wooster seems to be far more on top of things.
Francisia Monahan
Doctor Francisia Monahan, Ruler of Rats
Click here to see her without the mask (SPOILERS)
Click here to see her ascended as a queen (SPOILERS)
An English Spark and member of the Queen's Society, who is one of Lucrezia's spies in the organisation.
- Bad Boss: She tested the toxic "effluvia" on all of her minions, which turned them all into hideous mutants. This is, of course, part and parcel of being a "classical" Spark.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Downplayed (since all sparks tend to be a little eccentric), but the beaked-mask-wearing, rat-obsessed Monahan is only the second character to give Lucrezia a taste of her own medicine, albeit temporarily. And that's before her ascension to Queendom.
- Blatant Lies: Insists that the variety of outfits Steelgarter has found are from shipwrecks. Mysterious shipwrecks which also happen to have left behind things like a playlist for "Two Gentlerats of Verona".
- Crazy Cat Lady: Replace cat with rat and she is essentially this. She is fairly obsessed with her rats, to the point that they are practically her children.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Being ignorant about rats is a good way to rile her up.Zeetha: Rats, weasels, all those fuzzy little scrungly guys... they're basically the same kind of critters, right?
[...]
Monahan: Ah. How sad. Now your friend must die.
Agatha: NO! - Enlightenment Superpower: Once Lucrezia "helps" her figure out how to use the "cursed waters" as a power source she ascends to Queendom, allowing her to resist the Lantern's time freeze among other things.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely adores her rats, and even feels bad when her attempts at enhancing them cause them to explode.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She may be a Bad Boss, but even she finds Lucrezia's selfish backstabbing narcissm disgusting.
- Gas Mask, Longcoat: Wears a face-concealing mask revealing only her hair, along with a labcoat.
- Giant Woman: Much like Albia, takes this form upon her ascension to Queendom. Gets dialed up later on as she and a similarly ascended Lucrezia clank became larger than even the island they were on as they fought it out.
- Heel–Face Turn: After betraying Lucrezia and ascending to Queendom, she sides with Albia in the ensuing battle and Albia accepts her as a new "sister", coaching her in gaining full mastery of her new powers. Although the fact that she was secretly aligned with Loremistress Milvistle raises the question of how evil she was in the first place.
- The Mole: A member of the Queen's Society of Sparks for years, with none suspecting she secretly remained loyal to Lucrezia. She was responsible for locking up Agatha's surviving helicopter dingbot carrying the undoctored message from Sturmhalten, which was initally intercepted by Wooster, in order to prevent Albia and the world at large hearing it. She's also a mole for Loremistress Milvistle, the rogue Geister leader working against Lucrezia, and ends up kicking "Luci"'s clank body into the "cursed waters".
- Malevolent Masked Woman: Never takes her mask off, and she's working for Lucrezia, and thus clearly bad news.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Bears the title 'doctor', yet works for Lucrezia, which requires a near-total lack of any sense of morality.
- No-Sell: Lucrezia attempts to Mind Rape and transfer her own personality onto Monahan. Turns out, she was expecting this (and had in fact built the 'upgrade' allowing Lucrezia to do this herself), and it has no effect.
- Pest Controller: Commands an army of giant rats which provide security for her island lab. She seems more attached to them than any of her would-be-allies.
- Petty Childhood Grudge: While fighting an ascended Lucrezia, Monahan takes a moment to gripe at her for stealing one of her projects when they went to school together.
- Red Right Hand: She has Mismatched Eyes, and neither of them is a natural color (one gold, one purple).
- Saying Too Much: Makes the mistake of admitting to Ms. Steelgarter that she can't be of immediate help to her when "Luci" betrays her, causing Steelgarter to side with Lucrezia.
- Smarter Than They Look: She's an eccentric Crazy Rat Lady, yet is the first of Lucrezia's agents we see to recognise her severe case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, fully expecting 'Luci' to turn on her as soon as she decides You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. And when this inevitably happens, she's more than ready for it.
- Spanner in the Works: If she hadn't intervened, one of Lucrezia's personalities would have ascended to Queendom wholly unopposed, which would have led to no end of troubles for the protagonists.
- The Starscream: As it turns out, she's been working as The Mole for Loremistress Milvistle all along, and almost destroys clank-body Lucrezia after an attempted Mind Rape.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a killer putdown to Lucrezia upon betraying her.
- The Spark of Genius: She's a Spark. Where else would all the giant rats come from?
- Villainous Friendship: Appears to be an old friend of Lucrezia's and apparently met her at college. Even goes so far as to call her 'Luci'. But this was all a cover, Monahan loathes Lucrezia and gladly betrays her.
- Youthful Freckles: When she removes her mask, she has freckles covering her face (despite being old enough to have gone to school with Lucrezia).
Kjarl Thotep
Kjarl Thotep, Extradimensional Being
"Oh dear. He was fun. Is? Will be? Ah, it's still all so confusing ..."
He was fun. Is? Will be? Ah, it's still all so confusing ..."Click here to see his body adapted to this dimension (SPOILERS)
An alien from another dimension. He has long lived within the English undersea dome of the Queen's Society and built up a reputation as a ghost due to his invisible nature.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: When fully integrated into Agatha's world, he looks like a human, except with white hair, red skin, and yellow and purple irises.
- Benevolent Abomination: A thousands-of-years old being from a dimension outside of normal space and time — who's actually rather jolly and helpful, once you get to know him.
- Human Aliens: He originates from a completely different plane of existence, but mostly looks like a large and oddly colored human.
- In-Series Nickname: Due to his mysterious nature, the Queen's Society referred to him as the "Boilerghast".
- Invisible to Normals: Most people can't see him. Tarvek and Higgs are among the few who can.
- The Nameless: He remained nameless for two years since his first appearance; on the Girl Genius website, he was called Karl Thotep in the links to the sections of the plot where he is prominent. Finally, the Foglio settled on Kjarl Thotep.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He didn't know just how dangerous Dr. Dimitri Vapnoople was before his lobotomy and heals him.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Gil initially thinks of him as Tarvek's "imaginary friend", but he's real enough.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction after he restores Dr. Vapnoople's Spark and learns that he's a terrifying Social Darwinist and "master of monsters."Kjarl: Oh, dear. He seemed like such a nice man.
- Seers: He has a different perception of time relative to the natives of Europa and can predict the future in broad strokes, ie, "perform Action X and it will somehow get everyone killed."
- Significant Name: "Kjarl Thotep" is a fairly obvious Shout-Out to H. P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.
- This Is Gonna Suck: His reaction when he realizes that he's going to have to talk to the Dreen if he hopes to get home.
- Time Abyss: Time works a bit differently for him than for the natives of Europa, but it is a fact that he was stuck in the temple beneath the dome for tens of thousands of years, predating even Queen Albia.
- Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Due to the nature of his existence, he has trouble deciding what tense to use when speaking with people.
- Trapped in Another World: He originates from Another Dimension. He was accidentally summoned by a civilization of Precursors while building their Portal Network and has been stuck in Europa ever since. He has been trapped for so long that the resident Mad Scientists do not have the means to analyze where he came from and send him back home. He also figures he'll have racked up some serious parking tickets.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Takes pity on the lobotomized Dr. Vapnoople and somehow is able to restore his Spark and sanity... Unfortunately he had no idea Vapnoople is a batshit insane (even by Spark standards) Evilutionary Biologist.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Agatha believes that the way everyone perceived him before was derived from their minds' attempts to cope with viewing a higher-dimensional creature, and that it's entirely possible everyone saw something completely different while looking at him. But by making him fully compatible with their own world, everyone should see him the same way from now on. His ultimate appearance is almost human, albeit much larger and having unusual colors.
Quintillius Snackleford
Quintillius Harmon, Lord Snackleford
An important official in Queen Albia's Society of Mad Scientists. There's more to him than meets the eye.
- A God Am I: Manages to achieve second breakthrough, effectively making him a demigod, and later expresses panic and outrage that his summoned Eldritch Abomination would dare to leave its "god".
- Beware the Silly Ones: His incompetent efforts to fight the protagonists may well make him look like a buffoon, but he is one of the very few Sparks to achieve second breakthrough.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: By siphoning knowledge and energy from an Eldritch Abomination from Another Dimension, he successfully achieves second breakthrough, taking the next step past a Spark and effectively becoming a demigod like Queen Albia.
- Flaming Hair: Gains it upon second breakthrough.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: He always wears a visor which produces this effect. Interestingly, after he levels up Spark-wise, his eyes actually become more normal-looking.
- Klingon Promotion: He is probably responsible for the death of the Society's official head, Lord Bunstable.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He can manifest multiple arms as part of his Voluntary Shapeshifting.
- Pet the Dog: He doesn't kill "minions" or guest Agatha when conducting his purge of his fellow Sparks.
- Spiky Hair: His original haircut before upgrading to Flaming Hair.
- Unskilled, but Strong: This is Vapnoople's assessment after Snacky makes his ascension- he wastes far too much of his new power flashily killing all the other Gray Hoods, leaving himself open to attacks from other quarters.
- Villain Has a Point: Agatha wonders if his lies about creating a new golden age of wonder using an Extradimensional Power Source might have a valid point. Since such a thing could theoretically turn everybody into a spark, she admits that it's an idea that should only be pursued cautiously.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Agatha manages to banish his summoned Eldritch Abomination back to where it came from, he starts panicking. Dr. Vapnoople then tells Agatha, his new "student", that the distraction of a Villainous Breakdown is the best time to strike and casually tosses Lord Snackleford into the closing rift.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: One of the powers he gains upon his second breakthrough.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He formed a Secret Circle of Secrets gathering nearly all of his fellow British Mad Scientists. He promised to bring a new age of enlightenment, delivering demigodhood to his cultists, and eventually the world. But as soon as they help him achieve it personally, he zaps them all to death.
