Here's a list of characters from the Web ComicMisfile.It's an ongoing story about an young man who woke as a woman, except the plot is treated with much more emotional depth and serious character consideration than is the norm.If you haven't read the comic first, there you go.
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Humans
Ash Upton
The girl who was a boy.Associated tropes:
Attractive Bent Gender: In full effect, to Ash's constant chagrin. In his/"her" own words, "What I wouldn't have given to be a flat chested no-looker that no one noticed."
Justified in that Ash's mom is a former lingerie model.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Played with: Ash relies on Don't Think. Feel for her driving techniques, but Ash's racing technique is to constantly analyze the situation until she finds an advantage she can capitalize on. Ironically her reflexive driving skills leave her mind free to to concentrate on the race itself.
Becoming the Mask: Ash fears that pretending to be a girl all the time will result in becoming one in mind as well as body.
Ash has rather feminine body language and reactions, although she doesn't notice unless it goes over the top (like the swooning incident)
Butt Monkey: Ash. So far he's been changed into a girl, shanghaied into several races he'd rather not take part of, or in which the odds were artificially inflated against him, and gone through a whole lot of emotional hurt without being able to do much about it. Ash was also threatened none-too-subtly with rape by two men.
Men Don't Cry: Firmly believes this, along with a lot of other masculine stereotypes, and is distressed when he starts crying because he thinks it means he's becoming accustomed to his new gender.
Transsexual: Ash acts more like a real transgendered teenager than most Gender Benderwebcomic protagonists. Emily even suggests gender reassignment surgery as an option at one point.
The possibility was addressed in Ask Ash, where he/she/it is worried that girlAsh getting gender reassignment surgery prior to Rumisiel fixing everything would result in guyAsh retroactively getting gender reassignment surgery.
Not to mention F-to-M surgery is pretty damn crappy at this point in time.
Would Not Hit A Girl: Minor BSOD when Ash punches a girl in the face, something boy-him would have never done and something Emily had already lampshaded as being tantamount to surrendering his manhood.
Wrench Wench: Girl-Ash was called "Crazy Car Girl".
Yaoi Fangirl[/]Yuri Fanboy: Girl-Ash was apparently the prior, so logically boy-Ash is the latter.
Emily Mc Arthur
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Awesomeness by Analysis: Emily's basic MO throughout the comic but really comes to the fore in the arc centered around her first race where she reads up on psychology in order to rattle her opponent.
She reads a psychology text book, but it's probably just to aid her own self confidence. What she really ends up doing is channeling "Bitch Emily" from the time before Ash and Emily met.
While there is psychological research that could be extremely useful for screwing with peoples heads, it's not likely to be in any textbook, introductory or otherwise.
Badass Driver: Gets her own moment when she beats Heather.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: When colored, Emily's hair is depicted as a dark blue. It's unknown whether this is a dye job, her natural color via a small tweak to reality (as in El Goonish Shive), or simply a bit of Artistic License.
Dr. Edward Upton
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: It's not enough that he memorizes women's vaginas, due to his job as a gynecologist... it's the fact that he'll describe them for everyone in earshot at the drop of a hat.
Blackmail: Of sorts - to make sure that Ms. MacArthur doesn't prohibit Emily from spending time with Ash, he notes that he could really help Emily get into Harvard, as he knows several people there. But he'd really only go that far for his daughter's friends.
Control Freak: The reason that Ash's mother left him. Matured out of this for the current timeline.
He matured out of it in both timelines; the difference lies in how he treats his child. As a boy, Ash was given the cold shoulder by his emotionally distant father; as a girl, she gets a Doting Parent out of the deal. Besides the relationship element, Edward probably sees even more of Marie in girl-Ash, hence his more affectionate manner.
Indeed: he seems quite upset about how distant he and Ash have been since the misfile (which is no less than they were when Ash was male), and openly comments on it. Ash, of course, is too uncomfortable to really reply.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He might not have known that Ramael's an angel, but standing up to the guy (mysterious stranger with shady look about him, anyone?) was still pretty Badass of Dr. Upton. Ash, and even Vashiel, were both gobsmacked and awed by it.
Dirty Old Man: Though he doesn't seem to be older than thirties.
Secret Test of Character: His actual intent behind giving Rumisiel a bunch of manual labor chores during summer break.
Ultimate Job Security: He might be creepy, but he's apparently just that damn good at gynecology.
Molly
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Calling The Old Woman Out: Though it's Emily's mother, not her own, that's on the recieving end. She then reveals that she was going to do it anyway before leaving for college, and Ms. McArthur's recent ABRASIVENESS toward her own daughter has provided her with an opportunity to let loose what she REALLY thinks of Emily's beloved smother.
Badass Driver: Acknowledged to be the best in the cast. It was considered an incredible performance when Ash had a chance at winning their second race.
Hidden Depths: Which are gradually unveiled over the course of the story.
If It's You, It's Okay: Deconstructed; the fact that Ash does interest her romantically (alone among all girls) is the cause of quite a bit of heartache for her.
Wrench Wench: She doesn't have her license yet, and yet she's already capable of putting together quality racing vehicles (she was the one responsible for all of Tom's cars).
Eponine
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Ascended Extra: Originally just a friend from Ash's Gym Class, who showed up every once in a while. Now, she's become a fairly important plot character character.
Morality Pet: Ever since befriending Cassiel, the angel has been getting less and less selfish.
Pals With Jesus: Although she doesn't know Cassiel is an angel, her friendship with Cassiel is genuinely a friendship, in contrast with Ash and Emily's 'friendship' with Rumisiel, where Ash is just waiting for Rumi to correct the Misfile.
Token Black: Kind of, seeing as there aren't any other dark-skinned characters of importance. Still, given the centralized cast, it's not really very jarring - especially since she's not a stereotyped character.
Don't have the reference handy, but it's been said that she is actually of Indian, not African, ancestry.
What the Hell, Hero??: Gives one to Ash for not trusting Logan about the pictures, and not talking to her about it.
James
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Badass Driver: Ash is better, but he did teach Ash to race and drive.
Relationship Upgrade: Played with, it seems that girl-Ash's 'fun' with him that one night in the car caused James to interpret that as such. Unfortunately for him, the Misfiled Ash we know wants to keep him as her best friend.
Unlucky Childhood Friend: Not only was James the best friend of boy-Ash, it's revealed that girl-ash even lost her virginity to him. Unfortunately, the misfiled Ash is squicked out by this.
Logan
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Anime Hair: His spiky hair was even the source of his fan nickname!
Aura Vision: Logan can tell the difference between humans and angel, without the angel needing to reveal themselves.
Badass Driver: Despite never racing before, he's very naturally gifted and proved a challenge for Ash, a more experienced racer.
Badass Pacifist: Logan manages to save Ash and Missi from their near rape experience, not by beating the pulp out of the two would be rapists, but by taking a picture and threatening that he'd run and tell the cops if they wouldn't leave... He just moments later reveals to the two his phone battery was dead, and he wasn't all that fast a runner.
Missing Mom: Male Ash lived with his father, his mother leaving when she was little, and had to be told a certain picture was of his Mom. Girl Ash, however, had more contact with her Mom. The discretion is that both had written a letter to her, but Girl-Ash sent the letter, while Boy-Ash ripped it up because it made him feel 'like a sissy boy'.
Ms. Mc Arthur
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Education Mama: Ms. McArthur pretty much has an obsession with seeing Emily go to an Ivy League school. She prefers Harvard, although she's more than willing to consider other options.
Hidden Depths: She shows some unexpected appreciation and insight about cars, as she reveals when she sees the classic Mustang Emily received from Ash's winning against Burt - her father actually owned a car of the same kind when she was a girl. Emily states the next day that they talked for a good while, her mother giving Emily insight into her grandparents.
Hidden Depths: When he explains how he really felt about his job and why he screwed up, he becomes somewhat more sympathetic both to viewers and to Ash (as much as he can be, at any rate).
Mundane Utility: Rumisiel is an angel, and you'd expect him to have some kind of awesome holy weapon for smiting the heathens, right? Wrong. He works in filing, so he gets a "filing multi-tool" that "does all sorts of neat records-keeping stuff. It scans, records, photographs. The newest upgrade even has web access." Wait... So THAT'S where Jack Bauer got his cell phone!
Ash: You probably just use it to look at porn. Rumisiel: No way! Ash: Let me see your bookmarks! Rumisiel: No! I'm sending it back to the ether! It's not for mortal eyes!
Obfuscating Stupidity: While he can generally be a bit of a moron, much of the time he acts like a nuisance when Ash is in a sour mood, he's actually hoping for Ash to vent his/her frustration on Rumi as a coping mechanism.
Rumisiel's ex, who has taken some time off to pop down and see how he's doing with his punishment. But not in a good way; things apparently went south between the two, and she seems quite eager to make sure his sojourn to Earth becomes a bit more permanent. She's also Satan's neice.Associated tropes:
Master of Illusion: While all angels can appear as normal humans, Cass is the only one to bother to. Rumi is just bad at it, and it's hinted that Vash's compulsive honesty prevents him from doing so.
Morality Pet: Eponine is quickly becoming one to her.
Power Perversion Potential: Heavily hinted to have explored this with Rumisiel; her usual disguise is confirmed to be the one she used to use when role-playing with him.
Shape Shifter Default Form: Type B; even though she is said to be capable of many different illusiory forms, she sticks to the one, even when it'd make more sense to try another (such as when she tried to fool Rumisiel the first time).
Reasonable Authority Figure: Consider that he chose to be lenient with Rumisiel for eliminating the body of a dead Archon - despite it being crucial evidence for a case being investigated - because Rumisiel's motive was well-intentioned defence of his brother.
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