Characters found in Lumberjanes.
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Lumberjanes
April
"Because, duh: bearwoman."
The most headstrong member of the Roanoke cabin, who acts as the leader of the girls.
- Childhood Friends: She and Jo have known each other since they were little.
- Crazy-Prepared: April writes down the foxes' prophecy after hearing it, to the bewilderment of the other girls.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She looks like a cute doll and loves feminine hobbies like fashion, sewing, and throwing parties but has Super-Strength, is practically unbeatable at arm wrestling and quickly falls in love with roller derby.
- Fiery Redhead: April may be short and sweet, but you don't want to underestimate her.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Jo, though it's strongly implied in the third arc that Jo has feelings for her.
- Improvised Weapon: April uses a hair scrunchie to slingshot into a river monster’s eye.
- Nonstandard Character Design: April has more realistic eyes than the other girls.
- Pun: April is prone to making these, and even wins her the Pungeon Master badge in the second issue for it.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: April is the red to Jo's blue.
- Serious Business: Earning badges has become this for April.
- Stronger Than They Look: She's one of the shortest of the main cast, but she managed to beat a Living Statue in arm wrestling! On the day she was dropped off for camp her dad's offering to help her with her bags, and April happily declines since she's easily carrying about eight suitcases by herself with no problem.
- Town Girls: April is the femme.
Jo
- Childhood Friends: She and April have known each other since they were little.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Jo is wearing different clothing and has much shorter hair in a flashback photo with April, to indicate that she's been friends with April since before she identified as openly transgender.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Jo can build just about anything if given the time.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With April, though it's strongly implied in the third arc that Jo has feelings for her.
- The Smart Girl
- Taken for Granite: To stop the lightning bugs from attacking her friends, Jo has to place the crystal and golden eye in a slot, which turns her into stone. Fortunately, she gets saved by The Power of Friendship.
- Town Girls: She's the butch, along with Mal and Ripley.Jo: I was being a jerk. I think...you remind me too much of a much younger me. A version of me I didn't like. The me I would've been if I'd had to become a Scouting Lad.
Mal
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Subverted; when Mal drowns, the girls have no idea what to do to save her, and Molly gives up after a minute of mouth-to-mouth. Ripley just gets a running start and kicks her in the stomach, forcing her to eject all the water.
- Face Your Fears: A minor version when Mal confronts her fear of the river to go canoeing with the other girls. In turns up again during the Selkie arc.
- Fastball Special: Mal and Ripley team up for these often. They even call it out by its name.
- Town Girls: Mal is the butch, along with Jo and Ripley.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mal is deathly afraid of the ocean.
Molly
- Abusive Parents: In stark contrast to the rest of the Janes' families, Molly's Mom, who believe she can force her daughter to be straight.
- Braids of Action: Molly wears her hair in a single braid.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Molly is undergoing a transformation due to the forest's power, similar to the one that gave the Bearwoman her abilities.
- Head Pet: Molly's raccoon hat is actually her pet raccoon, Bubbles, which she perpetually wears on her head.
- Luminescent Blush: When Mal kisses her on the cheek.
- Mundanger: In a forest full of monsters and supernatural phenomena, the one Molly truly fears is her homophobic mother, who thinks that the camp is a Cure Your Gays-type place.
- The Smart Girl: Figures out the anagram riddle in the cave.
- Town Girls: Molly is the neither, along with Jen.
Ripley
- Adorable Abomination: Several of the cats that Ripley creates transform into supernatural creatures some of which are fairly nightmarish… in an adorable fashion.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Fastball Special: Mal and Ripley team up for these often. They even call it out by its name.
- Genki Girl: Ripley is extremely excitable.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: When Ripley is infused with the power of the Greek Gods, she uses it to give Bubbles a cute hat, free the boys from Apollo's control, give everyone a kitten and make sure no one can ever use the power again.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: She has eight siblings.
- Never Mess with Granny: Apparently Ripley's abuela kicks all her grandkids' butts at video games, and when she was confronted by a bear (actually the bear woman) she smacked it on the nose with a newspaper. This led to them immediately becoming best friends.
- Theme Naming: Ripley and her siblings are all named after Science Fiction and Fantasy heroes.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She is the only one to earn her ballroom dancing badge, and was excited to wear a dress decorated with glitter. She also adores cute animals (especially kittens) and is shown to have arrived to camp with a unicorn toy.
- Town Girls: Ripley is the butch, along with Mal and Jo.
- Wild Child: Ripley is the youngest of the group and the most energetic.
- Youthful Freckles: She has freckles, highlighting the fact that she's the youngest of the Lumberjanes.
Counselors
Jen
- Accidental Misnaming: Rosie, the camp director, constantly gets Jen's name wrong. Until after Jen helps the Lumberjanes stop Apollo and Artemis from ruling the universe.Jen: She knows my name!
- Black and Nerdy: Jen is shown to be knowledgeable about many topics, such as botany and astrology.
- Only Sane Man: Is often the first one to react appropriately to the creatures the girls encounter.
- Town Girls: Jen is the neither, along with Molly.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jen calls Rosie out on trusting the girls to handle the danger around the camp without actually preparing them for it or telling them what's coming.
Rosie
- Accidental Misnaming: It's a Running Gag that Rosie constantly gets Jen's name wrong.
- Ambiguously Gay: It's implied with Rosie and Abigail were falling in love when they were younger, but their friendship crumbled before they could progress it to romance.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Has shades of this.
- Fiery Redhead
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Rosie doesn't punish the girls for sneaking out, and warns them that they're going to encounter even more weird stuff before the summer's over.
- Shout-Out: Rosie's design is a fitting reference to Rosie the Riveter
◊. - We Used to Be Friends: Rosie and Abigail were apparently close friends when they were both Lumberjanes, but because Rosie didn't stand up for Abigail before she got kicked out of the camp, Abigail doesn't want anything to do with her.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jen calls Rosie out on trusting the girls to handle the danger around the camp without actually preparing them for it or telling them what's coming.
Scouting Lads
In General
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When they're possessed by Apollo.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Lumberjanes are messy, disorganized monster-fighting Action Girl types, while the Scouting Lads are peaceful guys who just want to bake cookies and have tea.
Barney
- Pronoun Trouble: Briefly discussed when Barney joins the Lumberjanes.
Antagonists
Artemis/Diane and Apollo
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Apollo and Artemis seem to think their dad is one of these.
- Jerkass Gods: They have little regard for humanity.
- Their father gets in on the act, later, when he gives Artemis/Diane a mission he's pretty sure she'll fail, so that she'll get turned to stone, so he'll have more time to adjust to the fact that she's growing up. He also doesn't really seem to care that Diane's cabin-mates, whom she genuinely cares about, are also turned to stone.
- Physical Gods
- Sibling Rivalry: Both competed viciously against each other for the power of ruling the universe in the first arc.
Abigail
- Ambiguously Gay: It's implied with Rosie and Abigail were falling in love when they were younger, but their friendship crumbled before they could progress it to romance.
- She Who Fights Monsters:
- We Used to Be Friends: Rosie and Abigail were apparently close friends when they were both Lumberjanes, but because Rosie didn't stand up for Abigail before she got kicked out of the camp, Abigail doesn't want anything to do with her.
Allies
Bearwoman
- Cool Old Lady
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: During her days as the counselor, Nellie — later known as the Bearwoman — ran her camp with the stern no-nonsense belligerence of a military drill sergeant.
- Empowered Badass Normal: The Bearwoman used to be human before the forest chose her and gave her mystical abilities.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: She goes by Bearwoman, or "Nellie" for short.
Seafarin' Karen
Creatures
Yetis
- Bigfoot Sasquash And Yeti: they're 100% Yetis, alright.
- Hipster: This is how they act, down to the way they speak.
- Misplaced Wildlife: What are a bunch of yetis doing in an american-like forest to begin with?
Merfolk
- Insistent Terminology: Some prefer to be called 'Merwomyn' instead.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: For starters, they prefer to be called "merwomyn." And, while some have a fully humanoid upper half, others have scales and fins on their upper half of their bodies. Also, music is a huge part of merpeople culture. They also wear regular clothes instead of your standard Seashell Bra, and some of the ones we see have mohawks and piercings.
Grootslang
- Mix-and-Match Critters: A combination of an elephant and a serpent.
- Puny Humans: As the Bear Lady points out, humans are little more than fleas on his back, and he really only tries to kill anybody after Abigail blows open his home on the mountain.
