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In General
- Author Avatar: Becca De La Rosa and the creator Mabel Martin both show up in Infinity Mirror, where it's revealed that they actually are their characters. This, of course, is never spoken of again.
- Boarding School of Horrors: Well.
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Bonus Material: Mabel: A Year of Letters, the puzzleboxes, and the blogs offered on Patreon. - Bury Your Gays: Subverted. Most of the characters in Mabel are gay, and most of them are dead— but they're all living on in hell, and in some cases ruling it.
- Cool People Rebel Against Authority: The gang.
- Curiosity Killed the Cast: Anna, especially; also possibly Janet, Tressa, the investigators, Sally, Lily, Juniper.
- Faerie Court: Well.
- Hate Sink: Sally Martin, Aurora Silver.
- The Hedge of Thorns: The Underhill.
- I Have Your Wife: The House, to Anna, all the time.
- Lady and Knight: Anna and Mabel.
- One True Love: Anna and Mabel / Veratrine and Luna / Juniper and Lily, though unrequited.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Mostly because no one really dies.
- Playing the Heart Strings: Most of the monologues in the show.
- Sapient House: Seriously, I'm not explaining this one.
- Sleep Cute: Inverted; while Mabel does regularly end up asleep on Anna, it's usually because she's unconscious.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Anna, Mabel, and Veratrine; also could include Luna, Ekaterina, and Janet.
- Together in Death: Anna and Mabel kept switching worlds, never able to be together, until Anna chugs the poison and dies to go get her girlfriend.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Anna, Mabel, and Veratrine / Luna and literally anyone she has ever interacted with / Clara and Yola from episode 9 / Lauren and Justine.
- World of Symbolism: "Why," you may ask yourself, "does it take FOUR SEASONS for Anna and Mabel to get together? How come Anna's not literally dead? What the absolute hell even is Luna Thorne?" Look to this trope. Mabel is a faery tale; sometimes things aren't going to make Logical Sense. Let it happen.
- You Are Worth Hell: Mabel and Anna are this for each other.
Anna Limon
Anna Limon
First Mentioned: Episode 001, The Letters
Portrayed by: Becca De La Rosa
A home help nurse who works for an elderly woman in a house on a hill.- Ambiguously Human: After episode 14, she dies and goes to hell, eventually becoming a literal god. She still refers to herself as nothing but a dead girl walking.
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: The coronation.Mabel: : Do you accept me as your consort? For all eternity, and through the darkness after that?Anna: Yes. I do. For always. [BREATH] Do you accept me as your king?Mabel: : Yes.
- Awful Truth: When she tells Mabel what she did during college.
- Break the Cutie: While not a child, Anna was introduced as a very sweet, dorky, lovable protagonist who lost everything to get her lover back; eventually subverted as she stops caring about pretending to be human.
- Compelling Voice: Called the "voice of god" in-canon, Anna has the ability to control aspects of matter. She also has control over The House and of Mabel herself before episode 32.
- Dream Walker: She communicates with Mabel in her dreams before she finds her in real life.
- Ethereal White Dress: Anna in her nightgown.
- Girl of My Dreams: Mabel and Anna communicate in dreams before Anna's time in the Martin House.
- The Leader: Takes this spot with Mabel as The Lancer.
- Love at First Punch: The first time Anna and Mabel kiss, Anna has Mabel up against a wall and is screaming at her. It's quite a bit more romantic than it sounds.
- "Shut Up" Kiss: Anna does this to Mabel.
- Survivor Guilt: During Season 2.
- Took a Level in Badass: Over the seven seasons she's in, she goes from a wide-eyed, curious nurse to the literal king of hell.
Mabel Martin
Mabel Martin
First Mentioned: Episode 001, The Letters
Portrayed by: Mabel Martin
A missing woman and the granddaughter of Anna's charge.- Big Sister Instinct: With Veratrine and Ekaterina.
- Break the Badass: Throughout the thirty-four years of Mabel's life, she was estranged from her father, abused by her mother, taken by her grandmother after her mother died (presumably in front of Mabel or near her), abused by said grandmother to the point that Anna says she was treated worse than an animal, then sent to a boarding school where she was medically abused and poisoned and dehumanized before being kidnapped by the King of Hell. She's gotten shot, beaten to the point of near death, set on fire, poisoned several times, been stuck in isolation for years, starved, and came to believe for a time that she was little more than Anna's attack dog and was not loved by the only person she cared about. Someone get this woman a hug.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: No, really, she physically can't. She's a faerie; what did you expect?
- Cold-Blooded Torture: By Aurora Silver.
- Creepy Child: Whenever she talks about her childhood, she tends to specify that most people were scared of her, including her mother.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Consistent attitude to anyone who tries to patronize her or the trauma she went through. Sort of subverted with Anna, who does not pity her but still tells her consistently that she deserved better than what she got.
- Flowers of Romance: Flowers grow on Mabel's body; in most artist depictions, they tend to grow onto Anna when she and Mabel hold hands.
- Hates Being Touched: For most of canon, discounting Anna.
- Heroic BSoD: Positive inversion. After Anna kisses her and/or says she loves her, Mabel often stops functioning for a few minutes while she processes that someone cares about her.
- Human Weapon: Nearly became this when she was in boarding school as a teenager, under the power of Aurora Silver.
- I Am a Monster: Reclamation of such; she's the monster and the bull in the maze, and she's having a grand old time with it.
- I Am Not a Gun: Reclamation of her personhood after being 'bartered and beaten' into shape for her entire life.
- I See Dead People: "Mabel only listens to the ghosts inside her head."
- The Lancer: This to Anna's Leader.
- Laughing Mad: She tends to laugh when she's scared; thus, when things that would make any normal person lose their mind occur, Mabel spends most of their time laughing, especially when The King is involved.
- Monstrous Humanoid: "There are flowers growing out of me, Anna." & "I don't look anything like a person... I don't think I ever did."
- Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: (Abuse warning along with normal spoilers). Mabel presumably suffers from PTSD due to being abused for most of her life. She also has a physical scar on her arm due to being shot by a member of the company who helped with said abuse.
- Omniglot: She speaks English, Spanish, French, and Irish at various points.
- Raised by Grandparents: Mabel was 'raised' by Sally Martin, her maternal grandmother. Sally was a terrible guardian, and her bad choices start the entire story.
- She Who Fights Monsters: She's not human— she doesn't run on the same moral standards as humans— but there are various points where Mabel is genuinely terrifying.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Does this with various members of her family, rightfully.
- Sweet Tooth: Mabel canonically used candy and pastries as a reward system for herself in school; she also regularly daydreams about going to a pastry shop with Anna and buying all the desserts.
- Tailor-Made Prison: Mabel mentions being pumped full of snake poison as a teenager. Seeing as her nickname from the court is "snakeling" or "girl-ourobos," it fits.
- Trauma Button: Mabel tends to have panic attacks or flashbacks when stuck back in the House, especially when in the attic.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Does this often.
- You Are Number 6: Her subject identification number is 7825.
Veratrine
Veratrine
First Mentioned: Episode 021, The Mansion of the Lady of Abundance
Portrayed by: Becca De La Rosa
Anna's doppleganger, created after Anna goes to hell and sent to... seduce Mabel. Gross gross gross gross.- Affectionate Nickname: "Vera."
- Artificial Human: Sort of. Veratrine is a changeling version of Anna, created by Luna Thorne to take Anna's place.
- The Atoner: While she never really apologizes for gaslighting Mabel, their interaction in episode 27 is clearly an attempt to say sorry.Veratrine: It was not your fault, Mabel Martin.Mabel: : Right. Not this time.Veratrine: Nor any other.
- Become a Real Boy: After Mabel kills her, she becomes a god herself, rather than Luna's creation.
- Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Subverted. Even though Anna is the love of Mabel's life, Mabel spends the first few days that Veratrine exists trying to kill her, and eventually succeeding. This is largely because Vera is The Literal Worst.
- Meaningful Rename: Does this by naming herself. It's very important to her character arc and her identity as being transgender.
- Insult of Endearment: "Twig" or "changeling."
- The Smart Guy: This to Anna's Leader/Heart and Mabel's Lancer; while she isn't actually smarter than the others, she's very cunning and also physically the weakest.
- Tagalong Kid: Treated as this by Anna and Mabel.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After about a season of being a petulant brat, Vera starts to step up and genuinely care for the other girls, though she's still annoying about it.
- Twin Switch: With Anna.
Luna Thorne
Luna Thorne
First Mentioned: Episode 005, Fairy Hill
Portrayed by: Mabel Martin
The girl in Mabel's mirror.- Pet Monstrosity: Is this to the King.
Aconite
Ekaterina Roskova
First Mentioned: Episode 033, Primogeniture
Portrayed by: Alexandra Serova
A strange girl who wants Anna overthrown.- Cold-Blooded Torture: By Aurora Silver.
- The Dog Bites Back: After being tortured by Aurora Silver for most of her life, Ekaterina joins up with Anna and Mabel to fight against her, allowing the King to be defeated and Anna to take over, stopping Aurora Silver from reaching her goal of finding the King.
- Escaped from the Lab: After dying through the sheer amount of torture Aurora Silver put her through, she ends up in the Underhill.
- Hellhound: Similarly, despite being an amnesiac, Aconite continues the mission her torturer imbedded into her during her time in the cult— find the king. Thus, she fits the "hunter hellhound" trope.
- I Am Not a Gun: "They made me so ugly. Made a monster of me." She's taken to the righteous path, trying to help the girls out.
- Meaningful Rename: From Ekaterina to 6163, and later from Aconite back to Ekaterina.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: After her attempt to take the throne from Anna.
- You Are Number 6: Her subject identification number is 6163.
Aurora Silver
Aurora Silver
First Mentioned: Episode 025, Chimera
Portrayed by: Meg Dixon
A mysterious villain with a penchant for torturing teenage girls, hellbent on finding the King of the Hill.- Mystery Cult: Runs one.
- Villainous Face Hold: Definitely does that to the kids in her power.
- White-Collar Crime: She does what she does in the position of a very rich person with the ability to make any crime disappear.
Brandon
Brandon
First Mentioned: Episode 025, Chimera
Portrayed by: Ty Fuhrman
- Teens Are Monsters: They could care less as long as someone'll bleed.
Janet Kirk
Janet Kirk
First Mentioned: Episode 033, Primogeniture
Portrayed by: Dorrie Sacks
A paranormal podcaster and explorer.- Agent Mulder: Believes in paranormal activity in a fantastical degree.
- Clueless Detective: Janet's in a little over her head here.
- Motor Mouth: As seen in her rambling every time she appears.
- Paranormal Investigation: Who ya gonna call?
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: Canonically a user and kinda-religious-worshipper of tropes and this site in paticular.
Lolo Garcia
Eidolon Garcia
First Mentioned: Episode 041, A Superfluity
Portrayed by: Reina Roman
- Final Girl: SHE'S THE FINAL SURVIVOR AND SHE'S THE ONE WITH THE BRAIN WHO STAYS AWAY FROM DRUGS. I AM BREAKING FORMALITY. BECCA DE LA ROSA DID YOU INTEND FOR EIDOLON TO BE A FINAL GIRL PLEASE
- I See Dead People: She's spent her whole life chasing ghosts.
Tressa Davies
Tressa Davies
First Mentioned: Mabel Infinity Mirror: Part I, Tressa
Portrayed by: Tressa Evans-Salvemini
A woman from the real world who wins a competition to stay in the house that inspired the podcast.- From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Tressa comes from the real world, and thus is aware of what's happening to her— it's the same thing that happened to Anna within the podcast.
Becca De La Rosa
Becca De La Rosa
First Mentioned: Episode 001, The Letters
Portrayed by: Becca De La Rosa
A co-creator of the show who is far more than she seems. (Not to be confused with Mrs. De La Rosa, the actual writer/creator; Becca is an Infinity Mirror character... probably.)- From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Becca is the 'creator of the show' who lives in 'our world.'
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Becca is Anna. Shocker. And now you're stuck in her ghost house, Tressa. Have fun.
Maybell Marten
Maybell Marten
First Mentioned: Episode 007, King in the Labyrinth
Portrayed by: Maybell Marten
A co-creator of the show who is far more than she seems. (Not to be confused with Mrs. Marten, the actual writer/creator; Mabel is an Infinity Mirror character... probably.)- From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Mabel is the 'creator of the show' who lives in 'our world.'
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Maybell is, well, Mabel. Just as overprotective of Anna in this world, too.
