History Characters / Namesake

* ArcherArchetype: Sting is this, shooting the arrows Venom makes for him.

* DistressedDamsel: Being in the hands of the Rippers, she seems quite helpless. [[spoiler:Though not as helpless as One would like her to be, seeing as she can control the vines around Bramble Manor to such an extent that they destroy the entire building.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: This had to be specified by WordOfGod, since Emma is required to wear Hercilia in shoe form for most of the Oz arc, but Emma really prefers going barefoot for some reason. Agha actually has to inform her she ''can't'' go barefoot before Emma will put the magic shoes on. It could be that she finds shoes simply uncomfortable to wear, since her feet are pretty heavily scarred.

* {{Changeling}}: As is revealed, she is this, and periodically lapses into the changeling equivalent of CloningBlues when she thinks about it.

* CoolSword: She gets one [[spoiler: after she frees the spirit in order to save her friends' lives]].

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: No, her name really, really isn't Dorothy, yes, she promises...

Tropes relating to the characters of {{Webcomic/Namesake}}. WARNING: There are heavy spoilers past this point.

* AllWorkVsAllPlay: Emma being work to her sister's play.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: This had to be specified by WordOfGod, since Emma is required to wear Hercilia in shoe form for most of the Oz arc, but Emma really prefers going barefoot for some reason. Agha actually has to inform her she ''can't'' go barefoot before Emma will put the magic shoes on.
** It could be that she finds shoes simply uncomfortable to wear, since her feet are pretty heavily scarred.

* MacGuffinGirl [=/=] MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler: She's an ArtificialHuman created to be a SkeletonKey that can open paths to any Namesake's world.]]

* MeaningfulName: Her name means "Universal" [[spoiler: which fits her status as a Skeleton Key that is able to travel to all the worlds. Also, her sharing her name with her mother is ''definitely'' not a coincidence.]]
** [[spoiler:It is revealed that all vorpalsmiths take the name Emma, and that Emma Ramos created her with the purpose of becoming a smith.]]
* MissingMom: Her mother [[spoiler:who has been confirmed to have been a Namesake too]] appears briefly in a flashback, but it's unknown where she is in the present day or if she's still alive. It's also implied that Emma has been taking care of Elaine alongside their father [[spoiler:who turns out to be a Ripper]] since Elaine was an infant.
** [[spoiler:Her mother has left a message for Emma hidden in her mind that's supposed to explain her the state of things and her mission in the big game.]]

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: On occasion. Ben affectionately refers to her as the Tiny Terror.

* CompellingVoice: Default power as a Writer, but she can [[spoiler: literally ''command'' Travis to live, right after a Shadow told him to die. Elaine proves to be stronger.]]

* DistressedDamsel: Since she is less of an ActionGirl than many of the Namesakes and quite young and small to boot, she needs the help of Fred or Emma more than once when she gets into a perilous situation.

* MissingMom: Different than Emma, she never even met her mother since the latter disappeared shortly after Elaine was born.
* RealityWarper: She is a Writer, so she can change things. So far, we've seen her give Fred hair and make him able to speak and understand English.
** [[spoiler: And, apparently, make Namesakes and non-magic people freeze in place, and possibly scrunch up swords before they can kill. According to the djinn, she may create an entire world someday. Finally it's implied her Writer powers helped humanize Emma.]]

* TrueBlueFemininity: Is often dressed in blue.

* TheBigGuy: Taller and certainly heavier than most characters. Rather unfortunate, since he's next to useless in a fight.
** Though he seems to have lost a few pounds after joining Calliope.

--> '''Alice''': ''*explains what Writers are and what their powers can do*''
--> '''Ben''': Is Creator/TerryPratchett one of you guys?

* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He's by no means effeminate or a whimp, mind you (see him wielding his grandfather's axe in battle), but Warrick is a healer, not a warrior, and he looks the part, what with being a skinny, nerdy PrettyBoy. Also, he totally loves cuddly dogs, has a thing for romance novels, and his clothes are rather gender-neutral. Should be noted though that Ozites don't have many gender stereotypes to begin with, neither in clothing nor in occupation or interests.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The more feminine boy to badass ActionGirl Emma.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Being soaked in water will melt him, as the one weakness in his immortality spell. (Which is the same one the old Wicked Witch of the West used.)
** Though in-comic, it's depicted as water burning him like acid, complete with smoke. A spilled glass of wine leaves him with a few burns. [[spoiler:And so does Emma's saliva!]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Her plan to prevent people from [[spoiler: being brainwashed by poppies? Turn them into objects! You can't have a head full of poppies if you don't have a head]]. She even says [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime "It made sense at the time."]]
** [[spoiler: To be fair, Warrick's spell had messed with her head a bit at that point.]]

!! Fred / Keti

* AbusiveParents: Describes them as "gobshite". She was taken to a foster home at age seven.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Alice.

* [[spoiler: TheMole: Like Banshee, she works for The Founder.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 27 and 28 focus on his Namesake journey [[spoiler:and his and Penta's love story]].

* RealMenWearPink: In the giants' castle above the clouds, he had to wear a dress so he could easily be hidden among the princesses, which he didn't complain about for one second. [[WholesomeCrossdresser And he looked good in it, too.]]

--> '''Thumbelina''': If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were harboring feelings for the girl. Need I remind you just how unwise that is?
--> '''Carroll''': There is more than one way to care for a person, Lina.
* MyGreatestFailure: He feels guilty about not having protected Alice / explained her powers to her in time before she travelled to Wonderland and was implied to have a highly traumatic experience.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade / BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The real Alice Liddell was, by all reliable sources, a fairly ordinary woman as an adult. ''Namesake'''s Alice fought Shadows and headed Calliope. Same with her eventual husband Reginald Hargreaves, who in real life was a cricket player but in the story is a weapons instructor for Calliope.

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:''Something'' happened to kind old Uncle Henry to make him this way. (It is implied it has something to do with the death of Emily Gale.)]]
** Possibly averted. The intermission of Book Seven suggests that [[spoiler:One's original name was ''Jekyll'', as in ''[[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde,]]]]'' and [[spoiler:he may have purchased Henry Gale's name from the Goblin Market]]. And that's only if [[spoiler:he didn't purchase ''Jekyll's'' name ''first!'']]

* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: It's hinted that he has been consumed by a shadow child.]]

* [[spoiler: TheMole: Reveals to Bird that she actually works for a figure called "The Founder" that monitors both Calliope and the Rippers.]]

--> '''Bird''': You are as bad as [[spoiler:One]]!
--> '''Banshee''': Oh? [[spoiler:Runs in the blood, I suppose.]]

* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker: Bird has been suicidal ever since she joined the Rippers and began giving up her memories, which left her depressed and lost. At least at one occasion, she uttered the wish to [[TakingYouWithMe get herself killed while fighting]] something that's worth to be destroyed.]]

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Seems to have made one as of Chapter 21, at least to the extent where she is no longer welcome among the Rippers.]]

!! 37 / [[spoiler:Daniel Crewe]]

A Writer and [[spoiler: the father of Emma and Elaine]], 37 was raised by One from childhood and was allowed to keep his real name. However, once familial matters get involved, he begins to question his role and loyalty to One and the organization.

* JerkAss: Will not hesitate to torment anyone, not even her allies.

** TheBusCameBack: She reappears [[spoiler:as she is getting taken into custody by Calliope]].

!! 27 / Trinket

!! 2 / Lorina "Ina" Liddell

* [[spoiler:SiblingMurder: She ultimately killed Alice.]]

!! Sleeping Beauty aka [[spoiler:Emma Crewe]] / [[spoiler:Briar]]

A young girl who had her name sold to One and Ina as a child and is kept in an induced coma by them due to her importance to the Ripper's plans. It is later revealed [[spoiler: that she is the real Emma Crewe]] and has the ability to talk to [[spoiler: the fake]] Emma in her dreams. The two then form an alliance to set her free and take down One once and for all.

-->'''Sleeping Beauty''':''*to Emma*'' Please save me. I've been in the dark for so long. There's never any dreams. [[{{Broken Tears}} PLEASE SAVE ME.]]

Daniel's wife and the mother of the Crewe sisters who disappeared shortly after Elaine was born. She was revealed to have been a Puerto-Rican Namesake [[spoiler:and vorpalsmith]] in direct contact with One, but so far that is the only information known about her and her current fate is one of the biggest mysteries in the comic.

* EightiesHair: Has noticeably voluminous hair in a flashback and a photograph.

--> '''Emma Ramos''': ''*while dragging the blade across the girl's face*'' You're going to die, Su-Ying. And I get to decide how.
* MadScientist: A magic variation. [[spoiler:It's apparent she's an utter genius who played through thousands and thousands of potential scenarios the universe could undergo and set up her daughters and circumstances to be in the right place to save the universe, making her a WellIntentionedExtremist as well: She ''does'' genuinely want to save the universe so her children will live, but the way she goes about that...]]

[[folder: Oz]]

* EmeraldPower / PurpleIsPowerful: She has green skin on one side, purple on the other, and is a powerful witch.

* [[spoiler:LivingMemory: The witches of the Order of Roses, with whom Adora associated, banned a memory of hers into a vorpal ring so she would act as a guide to the Skeleton Key.]]

A flying... thing that follows Warrick around. He hasn't had much importance in the story, though he is actually [[spoiler: the man who broke Adora's heart, and Warrick and Selva's father]].

The previous Wicked Witch of the East. Selva turned her into a pair of shoes when she took over the East [[spoiler: to prevent her from being poppy-fied]]. Emma picks her up after "defeating" Selva.

* {{Jerkass}}: She is prone to temper tantrums and sulking. In Warrick's backstory, she can be seen making rude remarks towards a dead girl. At her funeral.

* ComatoseCanary: [[spoiler: Has been in a coma for who knows how long, and even after being rescued there is no prediction of when (or if) she will ever wake up.]]
** [[spoiler:Meanwhile, she has woken up. It's strongly implied she chose the magic-induced coma herself and would have preferred to stay like this.]]

* DomesticAbuse: She planted poppies in Anlise's head to control her, risking to destroy parts of her brain.

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* TheChick: Agha takes care of the group and keeps them on track.

* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He's by no means effeminate or a whimp, mind you (see him [[AnAxeToGrind wielding his grandfather's axe]] in battle), but Warrick is a healer, not a warrior, and he looks the part, what with being a skinny, nerdy PrettyBoy. Also, he totally loves cuddly dogs, has a thing for romance novels, and his clothes are rather gender-neutral. Should be noted though that Ozites don't have many gender stereotypes to begin with, neither in clothing nor in occupation or interests.

* DotingGrandparent: Has become this in old age; she loves her granddaughter Maia, the Fairy Queen, dearly and is always at her side with good-natured bickering, encouraging words or good advice.

* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into a pair of shoes by Selva. [[spoiler:Changed back by Selva after Renge's arrest.]]

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mellows out into this as the story progresses.

* NiceShoes: ''Was'' a pair, due to Selva's magic. She sort of filled in for the ruby slippers on Emma's journey through Oz.
** TrickedOutShoes: Still has plenty of magic. She can explode away poppy vines and push Emma higher when she jumps.

* NiceHat: Used to cover [[spoiler:the poppies digging into her brain.]]