Heroes: The Guardians | The Chan Clan | The Rebellion | Section 13
Villains: Phobos Court | The Dark Hand | The Oni | Unaffiliated Villains
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Other characters who don't directly belong to any of the above groups. Yan Lin
Hay Lin's grandmother and Uncle's cousin, as well as the former Air Guardian.
- Cool Old Lady: Is always ready and willing to help out the new generation of heroes, no matter what.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Screams defiantly at the air after Uncle dies, calling out to Himerish and demanding an answer for how much suffering the heroes have to undergo.
- Related in the Adaptation: In the new Merged Reality, she and Uncle are cousins.
- Retired Badass: A former Guardian, now past her prime.
Nimue
An ancient sorceress who has dedicated herself to destroying all nonhuman evils in the world, no matter the cost.
- Animal Motifs: Butterflies.
- Composite Character: According to her, this happened in-universe to her and the Lady in the Lake. It annoys her greatly.
- Enemy Mine: Works with the Tracker against the Oni out of mutual hatred, despite their very different goals.
- Fatal Flaw: She is completely unable to see human villains as a threat when compared to demons, giving her a massive blindspot.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Helps herself to a bottle of wine after the subway fight doesn’t go the way she wanted.
- Knight Templar: She is determined to wipe out all demonic threats to humanity, no matter what has to be sacrificed to do so.
- Mysterious Watcher: This is how she's introduced.
- Our Mages Are Different: She knows the rare art of being able to use both Chi and Raw magics, which are two different forms, with it being usually impossible to learn one after already knowing the other.
- Pet the Dog: Suspends her surveillance of the heroes after Uncle's death, letting them grieve in private.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her magic, which is stronger than most others, is purple.
- Really 700 Years Old: While an exact date for Arthurian times hasn’t been given, other comments suggest she's at least 600 years old.
- Walking Spoiler: Her name alone is a spoiler, since it hints as a big shift in the mythologies involved in the story.
- We Will Meet Again: She says this to the Guardians and Chans when parting ways after their first face-to-face meeting.
- Wizards Live Longer: Presumably her magic is how she's lived so long.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Apparently she has fought groups trying to unseal the sorceress Nihila over twenty times throughout the past 600 years, and every time the incantation is completed and Nihila unsealed before being defeated and sealed again.
Matt Olson
A schoolmate of Jade and the Guardians, who Will develops a crush on before beginning to date him later on. Later, he learns about the Guardians' powers and adventures.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: He wants to help people, no matter what. Which is why he's so determined to help on Meridian after learning about what's happening.
- Hope Bringer: He wants to do this with his life, dedicating himself to helping others as best he can.
- Secret-Keeper: For the Guardians and Chans after stumbling onto one of their fights.
Elyon Brown
Cornelia's lifelong best friend, who is secretly the long-lost heir to the throne of Meridian. When the latter is revealed to her, she allows herself to be deceived into siding with Phobos.
- Armor-Piercing Question: When she's denying Phobos' evil by bringing up all the people he's been allowing her to heal and help with her powers, Alchemy counters by asking if she ever stopped to ask why these people needed her help in the first place. That stops her cold.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Chapter 20 ends with a quote from her, in which she states that she used to always long for someone to come and tell her that she's actually a long lost princess, just so that she could feel special. She admits that the worst thing that ever happened to her was it actually happening.
- Cassandra Truth: She refuses to believe the truth about Phobos, because it ruins the perfect fantasy she believes she's living out.
- Changeling Fantasy: As per canon, she gets swept up in this. It get deconstructed when Alchemy points out that she purposefully abandoned her friends and Happily Adopted family for the sake of being a princess.
- Childhood Friends: With Cornelia and Alchemy.
- Condescending Compassion: Alchemy feels that she is doing this, given that she's healing the people of Meridian without bothering to ask why they need the help in the first place.
- Fatal Flaw: Her desperate need to be special blinds her to Phobos' blatant tyranny due to him making her the center of everyone's loving attention. Even when forced to face the facts, she clings to denial and refuses to hear the truth.
- Healing Hands: Can use her magic to heal.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Her Fatal Flaw, which is what allows Cedric and Phobos to so easily manipulate her.
- It's All About Me: Though not to the same extent as her brother, she shows that she's more concerned about her own happiness than anything else.
- Medical Monarch: She uses her powers to heal the people of Meridian of physical ailments.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Is horrified when Phobos reveals his true colors to her and steals her magic, realizing that the ones who told him that he was a monster were right and that she shouldn't have left Earth for him.
- Naïve Everygirl: After coming to Meridian, where she obliviously lets herself be duped by Phobos and his minions.
- Really Royalty Reveal: Has one of these as per canon, though here Cedric is able to manipulate events to do it in a more controlled environment, allowing him to sink his claws into her even further.
- The Resenter: As it turns out, she has spent years feeling bitter towards Cornelia for the haughtiness and arrogance she constantly has on display as part of hiding her Hidden Heart of Gold (feelings not helped by Elyon not realizing that it's a facade). This later fuels her decision to turn on her friends when Cedric reveals the existence of Meridian to her.
- Rightful King Returns: What the Rebellion is aiming for with her, and what Phobos has tricked her into thinking has already happened.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being confronted by Alchemy, Mrs. Rudolph, and Nerissa in her Trill disguise about the truth about Phobos, she panics and flies away rather than have to face facts.
- Secret Test of Character: After Alchemy confronts her, Elyon asks Phobos to see her adoptive parents, hoping to use his reaction to gauge if he's trustworthy or not. Unfortunately, Phobos realizes that she's not telling him everything about what caused her to flee back to the capital, and plans to turn her test to his advantage.
- Selective Obliviousness: She chooses to ignore all the signs of Phobos' tyranny, as acknowledging it would ruin her fantasy of a perfect life.
- The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: She's the rightful heir to the Meridian throne both due to succession laws and due to possessing the Heart of Meridian. However, her selfish views on what makes a princess and her self-delusions about Phobos (whom she continues to trust and support), mean she's currently ill-equipped to actually rule.
- You're Not My Father: She comes to feel this way about her adopted parents after learning her true origins.
Alchemy Ethel
A close friend of Cornelia's and Elyon's, who finds herself slowly shut out of Cornelia’s life after she becomes a Guardian until she and Matt stumble onto the Guardians' secret.
- Armor-Piercing Question: When Elyon is denying Phobos' evil by bringing up all the people he's been allowing her to heal and help with her powers, Alchemy counters by asking if she ever stopped to ask why these people needed her help in the first place. That stops Elyon cold.
- Ascended Extra: In canon, she was little better than a bit character. Here, she has a significantly larger role, due to discovering W.I.T.C.H.'s secret alongside Matt.
- Brutal Honesty: Upon learning of Elyon's real motives for going to Meridian, she calls her out on how selfish she is, stating that it's because she's a friend that Elyon should know she's being truthful.
- Childhood Friends: With Cornelia and Elyon.
- Disappointed by the Motive: She’s outright pissed that Elyon abandoned her life on Earth just because she wants to be a princess.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Elyon, calling her out on how selfish her I Just Want to Be Special motives are.
- Secret-Keeper: For the Guardians and Chans after stumbling onto one of their fights.
Nyx
A mysterious young girl who appears to have a vendetta against the Dark Hand.
- Groin Attack: She gives one to Jackie the first time they meet.
- Original Character
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: She can generate magic that gives people incredibly bad luck.
Queen Weira
The late Queen of Meridian, mother to Phobos and Elyon, who was overthrown and killed by her son.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Deconstructed. She took the throne at a young age, and her youth and naivety led to her making many mistakes which only heightened existing tensions between the nobility and the smallfolk.
- Childhood Friends: With Viscount Servantis.
- Fatal Flaw: According to Servantis, her greatest flaw was that she wanted everyone to be happy, and thus her ability to see the best in a person seemed more akin to a defense mechanism in order to not have to face their flaws and how much harm they could bring.
- The High Queen: Deconstructed. According to what Servantis tells Caleb in Chapter 13, she tried very hard to rule by example as a good and benevolent monarch. However, in doing so she unintentionally created problems which continue to effect the characters in the present.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: According to Servantis, her mother was more pragmatic than she was. And then there's Phobos, who is absolutely nothing like his mother.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She tried to be a good ruler and make everyone happy, but her actions unintentionally raised tensions between the nobility and smallfolk, causing the nobles to eventually side with Phobos, leading to his rise to power.
- Posthumous Character: Is long dead by the time the story starts.
- Parental Obliviousness: Was completely blind to Phobos' Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
The Ben Shui Chosen Ones
The various reincarnations of Ben Shui, a monk who was giving his reincarnation cycle by a Heart of Earth long ago so that his unique magic could help maintain the Balance Between Good and Evil. Jade is the most recent incarnation.
- Anti-Magic: The Chosen One has an ability called Chi Degradation, which can nullify all Chi Magic in its area of effect.
- Armor-Piercing Response: When Murasaki claims that Rasputin is evil by using a metaphor about fruit (saying that it's either good or rotten), Ben Shui points out that "people are not fruit".
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Murasaki Shikibu, Vlad Tepes, Elizabeth Bathory, Rasputin, and Joshua Norton were all among Ben Shui's reincarnations.
- Blood Magic: Bathory was a master of this and later teaches it to Jade.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Norton was the only Chosen One who never did anything of note in his life with his Chi Magic.
- Canon Welding: The concept of the Chosen One is from JCA. The Heart of Earth, who in this story is responsible for the reincarnation cycle, is a concept from W.I.T.C.H.
- The Chosen One: As noted. In one chapter, Norton expresses the theory that they've been linked to the Earth in a way that causes the Chosen One of each age to be born as what is needed for that age instead of just reincarnating into people similar to the previous incarnations. For example, while Murasaki was a force against demons because her country needed her to fight the Oni, Rasputin was a politician and manipulator because that was the age of politicians and manipulators.
- Handicapped Badass: Ben Shui himself was a powerful chi wizard who developed the Chi Degradation technique. He was also completely blind.
- Mental World: Their spirits all exist in one inside the current Chosen One which is currently Jade, which enables them to communicate with each other and the current incarnation, and view the latter's memories.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: They're all technically on the same side of ensuring that their newest incarnation is able to fulfill their potential, but that doesn't change the fact that several of them can't stand each other.
