Revolving Door has quite an expansive and burgeoning cast of characters spanning twelve universes, but they are easily organised into many a Cast Herd.
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Orobelle's team
Orobelle Brilliant of the House of Diamonds
Duchess of Diamonds, Bearer of the Knot of Worlds. The most important person in the universe.
Tropes:
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Became the Duchess of Diamonds at the age of 12. She isn't particularly innocent as she was trained to be a shrewd and ruthless leader from a very young age.
- Aristocrats Are Evil
- Barrier Maiden: Keeps twelve entire universes in existence.
- Big Ego, Hidden Depths: She's proud alright, but she's also completely overcome with fear and anxiety about her role and takes it out on others via her overbearing attitude.
- I Have Many Names: Orobelle Brilliant, Duchess of the House of Diamonds, Bearer of the Knot of Worlds, The One Around Whom the Twelve Worlds Spin.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Wears a Pimped-Out Dress everywhere, even while travelling the universes getting her hands dirty.
- It's All About Me
- Blue Blood
- Lack of Empathy
- Load-Bearing Boss
- Lots of Luggage
- Magnetic Hero: She likes to play her hand when her target recruit is in the most dire circumstances, and few can resist joining her then.
- Mysterious Waif: How she appears to most people the first time they meet.
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Princesses Prefer Pink: She's not quite a princess, but her wardrobe is excessively pink.
- Requisite Royal Regalia
- Royal Brat
- Rule of Glamorous: Her Pimped-Out Dress and fancy jewellery makes no sense, especially while travelling through the universes, though it is Lampshaded by Dorian and Honourless, who make occasional comment about the amount of luggage she has and her fussiness about her attire even while on the move.
- Young and in Charge
Dorian the Hopeful (Eirucan Licur-ca)
Orobelle's protector and knight, a servant bought from World 2, who can freeze and burn with a touch.
Tropes:
- Big Brother Instinct: To his actual twin sister, though they're the same age, and to anyone who comes under his care. He's more this than Papa Wolf because his protectiveness tends to be less violent.
- Honor Before Reason
- Human Pack Mule: For Orobelle.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy
Vesper Lee Lovelace
Second-in-command of the A Company of the No. 60 Commando, trained to use her electric powers as an anti-tank weapon.
Tropes:
- The Captain
- Ensign Newbie: She is just as experienced as her colleagues, but she graduates straight into the rank of Sergeant, and then was promoted to a Captain by the age of twenty. This is mostly by design, as the entire company is designed around complementing her powers.
- Shock and Awe
- Stiff Upper Lip: Drastically underreacts to danger, violence and death (at least outwardly).
Chen Hong Yi
Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: Had them.
- Brilliant, but Lazy
- Class Clown
- Gravity Master
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: Defied. Aware that intelligence can be isolating, he obscures it by exaggerating his fun-loving side and pretending to be dumb.
- Obfuscating Stupidity
Junia Paetina Marcia
Tropes:
- Dark and Troubled Past: Abandonment, abuse, war, grief, blood sports, Marcia has it all!
- The Empath
- Hot-Blooded
- Lipstick Lesbian: Well, a woman-preferring pan woman who presents more femme.
- Living Lie Detector
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents sold her.
- Psychic Powers: Empathy and emotion control.
- Self-Made Woman
- Trauma Conga Line: If any character in the story deserves the title, it's her.
- The Empath
Artur Ivanovich Volkov
Tropes:
- Blow You Away
- Hates Small Talk
- Making a Splash
- The Mourning After: Still thinks about Sabina all the time.
- The Stoic
- Weather Manipulation
Felix John Mercer
Tropes:
Adelaide Moore
Tropes:
- Bookworm
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
- Friendless Background: Being trapped in a research facility didn't allow her to socialize much. Or at all.
- Gilded Cage: Her initial living arrangements were this.
- Hates Small Talk
- No Social Skills
Honourless
Tropes:
Liss' team
Liss Legra
Tropes:
- Alliterative Name: She, and everyone in Doganir.
- Anti-Villain: She isn't a light-hearted villain, but she is a more morally-justified one.
- Driven to Villainy
- Having a Blast
- Freudian Excuse: Her nation was conquered and her people enslaved by the Orsandin. So now she will rid the world of Orsandin people.
- From Nobody to Nightmare
- Genre Savvy: Liss knows she can't fail, because it's "too early in the story".
- Hot-Blooded
- The Leader
- Mad Bomber
- Omnicidal Maniac
- Plot Armor: Lampshaded and maybe even exploited.
- Revenge
- Screw Destiny: Embodies the trope, making her own destiny and shaping the world to her will is her life philosophy.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist
Noma Nekala
Tropes:
- Alliterative Name
- Morality Pet: to Liss.
Pala Amjad Winstead
- Agent Mulder
- Wiki Walk: does this inordinately often.
- [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
Fen Arbora
Lacar en Cantra
Tropes:
Mikeno Kori
- The Smart Guy
- Blind Seer: A priestess who provides vital information about the cosmology of the universe, leading Liss and company on the path to her ultimate solution.
- [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
Wonderland
All
Blackrain Arcane of the House of Spades
Tropes
Chrisodette Crystal of the House of Clubs
Tropes
Gertelina Ineffable of the House of Hearts
Tropes
Adamanta Domina of the House of Diamonds
Tropes
- Aristocrats Are Evil
- Iron Lady: Diamond lady, perhaps?
- Posthumous Character
Amaranthia of the Rocks (Talurn Licur-ca)
Tropes
Freesia of the Rocks (Uri Licur-ca)
The Right Vanguard
Curia the Arid (Eniun Dorna-ca)
- Commanding Coolness
- A Father to His Men: Gender-flipped, and the sentiment is definitely reciprocated.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She actually respects and listens to even her most inexperienced underlings.
Thistle of White Cliff
- The Neidermeyer: A milder version who causes no real harm, but no one really likes her for her harshness.
Anser of the Spire
Hong Yi's circle
Peter Burns
Sceptical of things. Usually the one who volunteers not to drink so he can drive the group home.
Tropes:
Jacob Philemon Bingel
Jock who loves his friends.
Tropes:
Andrea Dariel Ramon Álvarez
Awkward, amateur artist.
Tropes:
Mae Elizabeth Weeks
A music nerd, but more casually. Pastel Goth, fan of obscure bands.
Tana Jefferson
The other music nerd, who actually makes music. Always arrives late.
Hong Yi's parents
Chen Jue Yao and Li Fei, proud parents who nevertheless got the parenting thing very wrong. They are a major factor in Hong Yi's Dark and Troubled Past.
Tropes:
World 6 residents
Emperor Alexius
Lydia Septima Diana
World 7 residents
Sabina Kirilovna Ilyenkova
Ksena Andreyeva
Felix's circle
Jasper William Mercer
Felix's older brother.
Lucille Payne
Felix's ex-partner.
John Mercer
Felix's father, of noble blood.
Tropes:
Catherine Mercer
Felix's mother, who appears to be in an unhappy marriage.
World 8 residents
Lea "Twilight" Johnson
Barista and socialite who loves astronomy and forgets things constantly. Adelaide's childhood friend.
Tropes:
- Hero of Another Story: Blackout, the Twine game where Lea attempts to escape her electronically-locked apartment during a blackout.
David Seeley
The scientist that oversaw Adelaide's incarceration and examination.
World 11 residents
Kalani Mahi'ai
Manager of the Promenade Hotel.
Peyton Leyton Crowley
Ayaka Maruyama-Penep
Assistant manager of the Red Lotus Hotel.
Kerai
Fen's classmate and friend, the one he hangs out with when Pala isn't around.
Hua
Pala's classmate who collects novelty stationery. The person you'd want on your side in any conflict.
World 12 residents
Emperor Milaston
The Emperor of Orsand.
- Big Bad
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: His troops and house are associated with purple on black.
- Evil Overlord
- Take Over the World
