The creature who started it all in the Mythos. An inhumanly tall and skinny figure apparently dressed in a black suit, whose face is either completely blank or appears different to anybody who sees it, depending on who you ask. His goals, and sometimes his methods, are shrouded in mystery, but he tends to leave a wake of madness, destruction, and death behind him.
The Blank: More often than not portrayed like this, these days.
Blue and Orange Morality: It's difficult to tell if the Slender Man is even sapient, let alone capable of morality as humans see it.
Breakout Character: He began as a pair of photoshop manipulations with creepy captions. His legend has grown quite a bit since then.
By the Eyes of the Blind/Perception Filter: Often, it's impossible to perceive the Slender Man unless you're his target (or, alternately, have viewed a photograph, video, or other media in which he's been picked up).
Child Eater: Perhaps. Whatever he does with them, he's been very fond of children since his earliest appearances.
Combat Tentacles: The Slender Man is sometimes depicted with tentacles supplementing or replacing his arms.
The Fair Folk: One of the earliest stories of what Slendy may be; a malevolent fairy that lives in the forest and preys on naughty children.
The Kindnapper: Is often theorized to be kidnapping children who are about to die in accidents.
Lean and Mean: The leanest and the meanest you'll ever meet.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Some of the stories state that Slendy only goes multi-armed when he's about to go in for the kill. So basically, if you see him with more than 2 arms, you're screwed. See Combat Tentacles above.
Noodle People: The Slender Man's most prominent identifying characteristic.
The Bad Guy Wins: Frequently, if not entirely, as the closest you'll ever get to "defeating" the Slender Man is by boring him enough to leave.
Urban Legend: A deliberately manufactured attempt at one.
When Trees Attack: The Slender Man has been identified with trees on several occasions. Before the tulpa theory gained prominence, a popular concept was that he was some kind of Dryad.
Here. Now.
Redlight
A mysterious figure who originated on White Elephants. He captured, tortured, and wiped Robert's memory clean of any knowledge about Slender Man. Then took over White Elephants to try to break the slendercommunity by taunting them with Robert's defeat, then flaunted how powerful his master is and that the bloggers need to learn their place.
Tropes:
Bad Boss: Slender Man to him. Redlight once even stated that when people stand up to slim, he takes it out on his agents and proxies.
Bad Liar: No one really believed him when he said he could give anyone who wanted out of the Chase of Fight an easy way but considering what happened to Robert just about confirms what most already thought of him and promises.
Despair Event Horizon: Tried to enforce this on the bloggers to knuckle them "into their place". It doesn't generally work.
Jerkass: No matter the interpretation, there is no denying this trope. He's a rude, nasty, superior, mocking, arrogant, dog kicking fellow who loves to pour salt in open wounds. He's done just about everything he can to make the slendercommunity wish a horrible Karmic Death on him.
Karma Houdini: Can be seen as this, since it is unlikely he will ever be made to answer for any of his actions.
Until Robert stabbed a stake from the Bleeding Tree in him. It goes downhill for Redlight from there.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Is able to give people this concerning knowledge of ever being chased by Slender Man. His method is unknown.
Only it turns out that people he "releases" from the Chase can become reintroduced to Slender Man all over again, as demonstrated by the latest entries of White Elephants, which means we may yet see a return of both Robert and Nessa. So yeah, that "easy way out" Redlight offered up doesn't even work that well.
Considering who he might be, there's a precedent for being reintroduced.
Ax Crazy: Just about everything ever uttered by her is a promise of a horrible demise. She's also brutally attacked several slenderbloggers.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's good at pretending to be nice and pleasant to get up close to people, but as Zero finds out the hard upon meeting her that it's just an act.
Hannibal Lecture: Attempted on more than one occasion in various Comment's Sections, but the fact that she's nowhere near intelligent enough to make an effective one is made abundantly clear leading to hilarious levels of Epic Fail.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Not so much on the sympathetic part, but she is definitely a second rate villain among the agents and proxies of the slendercommunity. Hell, one could argue she only exists to make one appreciate Redlight more.
Troll: When not actively trying to kill Runners or people who have taken more offensive stances against Slender man, she's this on the Comments Sections of the slendercommunity.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Zero in one entry tells he to shut it before she even has a chance to post.
Troll: Not as much as the last person to hold her title, but still.
Cynthia
Author of the eleventh hour. She's the daughter of Cathy, the protagonist of Time to Talk and under the Slender Man's control. She's a devout believer in his cause and sees him as her daddy.Though nowadays it seems she's fighting back, and winning.
Anti-Villain: Doesn't do much except hack into blogs and announce their owners have died. He also has a sympathetic motive for working for Slender Man. Ultimately subverted
Deal with the Devil: He works with the Slender Man so that his brother will be left alone. Later, when he becomes the Oracle he's told he has to pay a price; he gives up his sight.
Only Sane Man: Not only does he fit this role in his own blog, but he's one of the most mentally stable characters in the entire mythos. Especially considering who his employer is... Ultimately subverted; after hitting the Despair Event Horizon he's now the Mouth of Sauron.
Properly Paranoid: Exceptionally so, given the mythos. He was sent a series of tapes about his roommate Nee-chan. One of which was filmed from her room in their apartment.
Token Good Teammate: He's not THAT much of a good guy, but compared to the likes of MorningStar, Cynthia, and, well, the Slender Man? Definitely. Subverted after he becomes Justice.
Chess Master: Pretty much had the situation in Boston handled. The only thing he overlooked was that Black Leaf underwent a Heel Face Turn when his friend, Clyde, was killed.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Much like Conaghan before him, he was a successful businessman and landowner Slender Man made us of.
A former businessman and the primary human antagonist during Seeking Truth's run. He ultimately perished the night of the Warehouse Fire, though the exact circumstances remain unknown.
Tropes
Evil Genius: One of the first proxies to show some degree of intelligence. He has shown that he is able to plan out elaborate traps to deliver the detectives into Slender Man's grasp.
Villain with Good Publicity: Unique in that he is a Complete Monster but in that his business dealings ultimately provide relief to a good portion of the world. Zeke himself states that to the rest of the world, he is a complete saint.
Villainous Breakdown: Conaghan remains calm, cool and collected, even when he is getting the ever-merciful crap beaten out of him by Zeke, until it is implied that he went psycho and repeatedly stabbed Lizzie to death.
Morningstar
Author of The Morning Hunter Characterized by a startling shift between horror, placidity, and Looney Tunes style violence.
Was openly disdainful of Tom, the abusive-ex-boyfriend-turned-proxy of Kay, due to the fact that Tom was ham-handed and made a mockery of the art of inflicting pain.
Called out the proxies who were celebrating upon the death of Reach, believing it to be disrespectful.
Evil Inc.: Hard to believe an Eldritch Abomination has an entire organization filled with red tape at his disposal, even harder to believe Morningstar gets anything done with it as bureaucratic as it's been alluded to.
Heel Face Turn: Actually befriended Elaine, and even considered defecting during his lucid moments. Eventually he broke free of his Hallowing and went on the run with Elaine.
Face Heel Turn: ...but after a couple more meetings with Slendy, he's back to being crazy.
Up to Eleven: Morningstar's schemes lives off of this trope. The latest example would be his recreation of the killdozer.
We Have Reserves: His main strategy for pursuing a target is "throw proxies at it until it dies." Interestingly enough, Morningstar views himself to be just as expendable as those under his command, and uses this as his defense whenever he is called out on his Zerg Rush tactics.
Nee-chan
An upbeat lover of all things Japanese who seems to have a tenuous-at-best grasp on reality. Her real name is Erika Lyons, though she insists on "Nee-chan" or at least "Eri." A prominent character in Don't Shoot The Messenger.
A former SWAT demolitions expert, he was a former partner of Zeke Strahm's and ultimately the secondary antagonist of The Mystic blog.
Complete Monster: He went completely insane and destroyed a building, killing everyone inside, good and bad, with no remorse.
You're Insane!: Although he mainly stays calm and collected, there are times where he shows how crazy he really is like breaking an agent's toes and lighting a proxy on fire with an air sol can and a lighter.
Old Friend: Wren knew Zeke back when he had just joined the police force. It's revealed later that Wren taught Zeke everything he knows about hand-to-hand and interrogation.
Knight Templar : She's willing to sacrifice other bloggers, shows no intention of playing by a proxy's rules, and has done some very morally sketchy things like sacrificing Jeff, all in the name of continuing the war against the Slender Man.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Yes, she wants to kill the Slender Man. Yes, her plans do involve copious amounts of murder. No, she still holds the moral high ground.
A Detective whose partner Lizzie set up his blog, Seeking Truth, to cope with the recent disappearance cases he's dealing with. He eventually discovers that he is dealing with the Slender Man and decides to take him down.
Tropes
Archive Binge: Invoked. He asks his readers to send him as many blogs possible for research.
Badass: Undeniably. Is also something of a Memetic Badass within the mythos as well
A college student from New Zealand. Also known as Viv, Vieve, Vivi, Vi, or any variant on those. A troper who works at a restaurant. Primary author of Exilis Veritas, although her boyfriend Chester also makes frequent posts on the blog beginning in mid-December. Currently (thankfully?) no longer 'infected' by the knowledge of the Slenderman via Laser-Guided Amnesia
Genevieve's boyfriend, and the secondary author of Exilis Veritas. Also (thankfully?) no longer 'infected' by the knowledge of the Slenderman via Laser-Guided Amnesia
Becoming the Mask: A very interesting take on this trope; Rachael was trained by her boyfriend Maurice to seamlessly assume identities for his plans. When Maurice was killed by Slenders, she had a breakdown, resulting in her assuming Maurice's identity.
Breakout Character: Maurice is one of the more popular proxies of the verse.
Dealwiththe Devil: When Elaine set up Hope as a safehouse for Runners she made a deal to turn over other Runners' information to ensure the safety of those inside. It fell apart when Shaun revealed the deal on her blog
M
Author of The Tutorial, veteran Runner and progenator of the Three Rules.
Tropes:
The Ace: Yes, a rare instance where the ace is a Non-Action Guy, since being The Ace in a Slender Man story is not about being a great fighter who can best any opponent (in fact, M outright discourages any thoughts of taking on slim in a straight on fight), but by being an intelligent, level-headed, and Genre Savvy person.
Proprietor of the "compileTRUTH" Youtube channel and blog. Has spent most of his time "compiling" other blogs and vlogs, creating summaries of important events in other stories. Despite the alias, it's well known that he's merely a college student.
Tropes:
Arc Words: "truth seekers" and "TRUTH". In a few instances it's even been unnecessarily capitalized like that.
Dressed To Heal: As part of his doctor routine, he is often seen wearing a lab coat in his videos.
Genre Savvy: Considering how much "research" he's done on the other cases, it would be out of place for him not to be. He even suspects spyware on the disc Benefactor left for him after pointing out the same thing happening to Noah before, and attempts to have an computer expert trace it.
Hidden Villain: Benefactor claimed Cairo had been a willing agent of The Slender Man from the start and attempted to turn his followers against him. The jury is out on whether it worked. Even more so on if it's true or not.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Only when you combine it with some major Fridge Logic. After both Josh and Alana died in "Angel's Game", Cairo discusses the case and mentions that he contacted both Josh and Austin back in January. He got a disturbing message back from Austin that hinted at his instability and possible possession. And he forgot to tell Josh or Alana before Austin went Ax Crazy on them. Whoops.
One of Us: One of the many mythos characters to reference/link to TV tropes.
Shout Out: A great many, with varying degrees of subtlety.
The music from the compilation videos is recognizable from a number of different soundtracks, with music thus far from:
Face Heel Turn: Against her will, but now she's killing Runners at Slender Man's bidding.
Friendly Enemy / Affably Evil: She doesn't display any noteworthy hostility towards any of the other bloggers, most of the time, and has on at least one occasion joked around briefly with Ava.
Heroic BSOD: She really cares about a lot of the other bloggers, and often slips into one, such as when she believed one had been Hallowed, or when one of her younger followers was Taken, but still alive.
You See, I'm Dying: Played with, both Ava and her Mom are in remission for Terminal Cancer, they've both said that they're planning on dying of natural causes just to spite Slenderman.
Not Using the Z Word: Eric never refers to him as the Slender Man, instead calling him the Wicked Gentleman.
Peter Biggs
Protagonist of The World That Never Was, a student who initially found cryptic messages directing him to M and later found out to his horror, that he apparently never existed.
Tropes
Badass Unintentional: Peter initially responded to every direct threat by running the hell away, proceeds through fighting single Proxies to directly attacking Slender Man himself.
Author of Slender School, his blog is unique in that Slender Man doesn't stalk him, but he goes to school with dozens of Slendy's people. Until He does show up. Is now setting up his OWN group, the National Associaction in the Pursuit of Proxies and Agents.
Combat Pragmatist: Not really a dirty fighter, but he certainly seems to put off the kind of vibe suggesting he may KNOW what the enemy's tactics are already. He's the leader of NAPPA for a reason.
Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Not quite the world, but is trying to set up a group to help people who are being stalked, and try to save the people who are His.
Slice
A college student, like Jekyll above. He's generally polite, unless he's dealing with the Slender Man. Operates the blog Live in the Light.
Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Engaged in one which crossed over the blogs Drew's Box 'o' Stuff, Search and Reveal, Copper and Crome, The Land of Black Leaves, and Unchained during the events in Boston.
My Greatest Failure: He teamed up with another blogger called Ron, who was captured and proxified. Slice has twice tried to rescue him. Both the initial capture and the failure of the first rescue attempt had this effect on Slice.
A midwestern kid, who has shoes a bit too big to fill in when he goes looking for Slender Man. The writer for Believe What You See.
Batter Up: His Weapon of choice is his affectionately named "Mamba Bat".
Properly Paranoid: After being attacked in your own home and living with your friend who IS being stalked by Slender Man? You have an excuse.
Tap on the Head: Accidently attacks his best mate, Justin, thinking he was Slender Man. Justified, as Justin DID sneak into his house in the middle of the night...
Another Midwest guy. Runs the blog Drew's Box 'O' Stuff. A boistrous and smartalecy blogger who has been stalked for over a year now.
Aborted Arc: In the blog's early days, there was a plotline in which Ron showcased the notebook writings of a proxified friend and there was a lot of talk of a mysterious mountain man who once drove off Slender Man using a wooden Operator Sign covered in Robert's Substance.
Come Febuary when the blog became active again and that plotline has pretty been abandoned. Though given that Ron had more immediate things to worry at the time, it's kinda justified.
Breaking the Bonds: Subverted. See Damsel in Distress. He does not triumph heroically by breaking free of the Mark and leaving Boston. He was captured and followers of Slender Man removed it, themselves, after it was no longer needed.
Damsel in Distress: Meet Ron, the male damsel. He was "Marked" with a metaphysical item Slender man created called "The Brand", which kept him literally trapped in Boston. It thwarted his every attempt to leave town and he ended up getting captured via Heroic Sacrifice and ended up having to be rescued.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gave up his own freedom for another blogger named Clarice, now the current operator of Unchained, while trying to rescue her from a Pocket Dimension called "The Ruins" which Slender man created as a Hub in Charleston, Boston, Mass. He was proxified as the result.
Hunt The Most Dangerous Game: Ron's escapades in Boston were essentially this, with Ron as the prey! he even lampshaded this by making a fox his on-screen avatar.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Along the same lines as Shaun, he left his love interest behind for her own safety. He ended up getting a Dear John Email later after she apparently gave up on ever finding him.
It Got Worse: He started as a completely free man on the run with his friend, Drew, but ended up running alone. Then he disappeared and eventually just woke up one day trapped in Boston. Now he's been proxified. I'd say that counts.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A Deadpan Snarker, a complainer, and often very blunt, but he often gives advise to new bloggers or points them over to M's The Tutorial. He also supported the idea of the bloggers getting more organized and trying to make information on how to survive being slenderstalked as available to newcomers as possible by advising everyone to make a post where they put down everythiing they know about Slender Man, themselves. He stated that they're in this as much for everyone else as for themselves. He did so and 'labeled' the post so it can be accessed from his front page no matter the passage of time.
He also named another an amnesiac user who previous only had a titled give to him by Slender Man, Prey the 2nd. The name given is Pete, who Ron went on to play Big Brother Mentor to.
Kill 'Em All: Pretty much what Slender Man did all of Ron's friends back home.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: He has no memory of the two months separating when he first disappeared and his reappearance.
Mind Screw: At one point, he blacked out from 11:58 AM-1:39 PM, but during his lost time, he was hanging out with Slice from 10 AM-Noon. Um...
Before that even, he went to the Boston Public Library to find it completely empty, yet Slice, who showed up at roughly the same time, said it was full of people. Yeah, Slender Man just loves screwing with this guy's head...
My Greatest Failure: A few. He views the loss of all his friends as such. He was also the blogger Slice from Live in the Light teamed up with for a while. The two got separated and Slice underwent Laser-Guided Amnesia and did not come out of it until after Ron was proxified.
Nakama: One of the bloggers Zero befriended before the Solstice.
Sanity Slippage: Twice. Early, he underwent some effects of proxification before running double time and getting over it. Now he's been full on proxified and slowly recovering.
What Happened to the Mouse?: On the morning after the Solstice event, he went to test to how whether it had any impact on Slender Man at all after posting his intentions. He just plain disappeared after that until Febuary 2011.
Written-In Infirmity: At one point trying to leave Boston got Ron hospitalized thanks to The Mark and he blogged from his hospital bed for a while.
Pete:
An amnesiac blogger who woke up in Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts. He was initially named Prey the 2nd (Ron being the other Prey). Has become something of a Spiritual Successor to Testing123's Shaun in experimenting with ways to ward off or fool Slender Man. He runs Search and Reveal.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Another blogger who knows his previous identity has told him that this got him caught and mind-wiped to begin with.
What Is This Thing You Call Love?: Shows some signs of this as he does not fully understand all the strong emotions being stalked by Slender man is forcing him to feel all at once.
Actual Pacifist: Claims to be a pacifist by both religion and nature; when he's kidnapped and forced to subdue the proxy who kidnapped him by stabbing him in the eye and strangling him into unconciousness, he doesn't take it well.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Both has one that turns out to be a figment of his imagination and considers himself one to Ava.
Australian Aborigines: Not one himself, but has found Slendy's roots in Australia to be connected to a tribe of Aboriginals.
Batter Up: Sleeps with a cricket bat under his pillow.
Bi the Way: Openly bisexual. He admits to having a crush on several girls at his school, though through the blogs history he goes through 2 boyfriends.
Breather Episode: Inverted. Nearly every other post is a breather episode, while the interesting stuff only happens as much as
Cold-Blooded Torture: After being captured by a proxy, he has the tips of his fingers cut off, and several teeth taken out. Without any form of anaesthesia whatsoever.
Driven to Suicide: The first time he bungles it. The second time he succeeds.
Author of Walking the Hallowed Halls. Takes care of the Slender Man's minions in exchange for his life. Is also searching for his twin brother, Ben. That is, until the threat of an impending "promotion" forces him to go on the run, bringing his brother with him.
Tropes
Anti-Villain: So much so that it's hard to figure out whether to put him as a hero or a villain. He works for Slender Man, but he hates him and only took the job to save his own life. It's hard not to sympathize with that.
Deal with the Devil: Took the job so that the Slender Man would let him live.
Heel Face Turn: While technically never a full villain, he's no longer working for
Name's the Same: He shares a name with Andy of the informative "Slenderbloggins." What's more, he and Slice of "Live in the Light" both have a twin brother named Ben.
Author of Deja Vu Dreamer and so he claimsDreams In Darkness. Is a complete skeptic (despite the hundreds of blogging victims warning him) up until The Reveal where his skepticism starts to slip...
Meat Puppet: Except it's not strings that are pulling Alex around. It's tentacles
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Alex's plan to release a biography of Damien O'Connor isn't exactly a good idea when you consider how Slender Man finds new victims
Wrong Genre Savvy: Sometimes bordering on Idiot Ball. If the incident with Brett was as normal as such a thing could be, Alex's reaction would actually be quite logical. Considering the universe he's in, though, he got lucky.
Jekyll
A college student who prefers not to get close to anyone else. He posts advice on how to survive, much like M. Writes Now I Shall Know You Again.
Tropes
The Atoner: Took it upon himself to post advice earlier, but decides that work harder at it to make things up to Robert, who he was about to throw under a bus.
Becoming the Mask: Recommends taking on a persona in the presence of the Slender Man to mentally steel yourself against him, even recommending using a literal mask to help enforce this trope.
Kick the Dog: He was the only one fully prepared to let Redlight kill Robert to put him out of his misery. Depending on his intentions, it could alternatively be....
Rape As Backstory: From her father, no less. And his acquaintances. And farm animals. And...you get the idea.
Happily Married: Not that you'd expect it from her character.
Knight Templar: After waking up. Especially apparent after she bludgeoned Derek to death for his "betrayal", and declared she would kill every Proxy. Turns out he's not actually dead. Many other bloggers refer to her as "another Zero" now.
Jerkass: And how. She seems perpetually disgusted with anyone and everyone she interacts with, aside from Derek.
Undying Loyalty: KK and Derek appear to be completely devoted to each other, despite KK's issues. It's also implied that this same devotion was extended to Christine, since KK drove cross-country and committed several crimes in an attempt to rescue her.
They\'re Called Personal Issues for a Reason: KK dislikes talking about her past or anything to do with it. Which pretty much means she doesn't like talking about herself at all.
Uber Mensch: Even before she went crazy, KK followed no moral code, seeing morals as useless and irrelevant, even hypocritical since nobody REALLY followed them. She feels no shame over this.
Unreliable Narrator: KK frequently hallucinates and seems to have problems connecting to reality. Who knows if anything she says is really happening?
Self-Made Orphan: KK murdered her own father by beating him almost to death with a crowbar, letting him suffer on life-support for years, then ordering the doctors to pull the plug. He deserved it, but still....harsh.
All Myths Are True: He certainly thought so. It was his theory that each country has a monster which was made real by people passing the myths and legends on through the generations, and that Slender Man is America's monster.
Dead Man Writing: For a short time, other people posted on his blog to inform the mythos of his notes and such until he fell back into the mess.
Macguffin Escort Mission: Found a knife covered in Substance that he had shown to work against Slim and was convinced it was to be the weapon The Hero would use to defeat Slender Man. No such luck. The knife has disappeared. Or never existed. It's complicated.
Mad Scientist: Second only to the below Jay. Weapons tested against Slender Man for quite a while, as well as experiments on goo which Slender Man left in his wake on one occasion.
Mary Sue: Redlight claimed he was trying to be this.
Power Trio: With the other Sages. Largely a Spock type, but could be argued as a Kirk, given how he spearheaded the charge against Slender Man for a while.
Shaggy Dog Story: Despite having his memory wiped and being freed of being haunted for a time, if Redlight is to be believed, he has become haunted all over again.
Made worse in Robert's update in which he discusses dreaming about an old man who has been driven insane, had it restored, then driven out of him over and over again in an endless vicious cycle. He think he's the old man in the dream and that is his fate. Sleep tight! Pleasant dreams!
That Man Is Dead: How current Robert views the Robert who wrote the original cached version of the blog.
Theme Naming: The Title System. As part of his methodology, he used rules and titles to try to lead up to a scenario in which a Hero would arise to defeat Slender Man.
Kick the Dog: A rare protagonist who kicked as often as our main villain in the time he was active.
Mad Scientist: The most straightforward example in the entire mythos. Human experimentation, needles full of acid to the brain, enforced amnesia, and enforced Amnesiac Dissonance are among his activities.
Pet the Dog: Defending Lizzy to the bitter end is possibly the first act of genuinely attempted heroism out of him.
Left Hanging: For a while, he was ast active in Late November, when Slender Man launched his multistep invasion on the slendercommunity without a clue what happened to him. We only know we met up with with Future Grudge Report's Scott, but has fully returned to the community at Risk Death.
The protagonist of A Hintof Serendipity, One of Us, and Badass, who attempted to sacrifice himself in a gambit to weaken the Slender Man enough for others to be able to kill him. It didn't work, instead driving Zero insane. He now hunts his fellow Slenderstalked in an attempt to create a weapon from the arm bones of people he has murdered.
Author of A Wand and a Prayer. An experiment involving crystals to help ward off the Slender Man in her dreams ends up leading Kay down the road of her past, as her tragic past resurfaces, culminating in a confrontation with her Complete Monster ex, Tom.
Early in the story, she would berate herself constantly. As time went on, she grew more confident, particularly once Tom was gone from her life for good.
Distressed Damsel: Most notably when Tom kidnapped and tortured her, and she had to be rescued by her (then unnamed) fellow Sages. She's grown out of it since then.
Domestic Abuse: Received it in spades while she was still dating Tom
The Smart Girl: Ryuu is able to come up with spur of the moment plans and catch details that go unnoticed by everyone else around her.
Major Characters
Nessa
Author of a now defunct blog, Enter Light, Nessa was never-the-less a major player in the Core Theory, forcing Zero into his Heroic BSOD, and being mindwiped by Redlight.Has returned a year later with a new blog, Clarion Call.
Mad Artist: Shades of this. She loses control sometimes and draws without conscious knowledge.
Waif Prophet: Physically weak, and her drawings border on prophetic- she has drawn the Third Three Sages without even knowing their names or what they looked like.
. She's the daughter of Cathy, the protagonist of Time to Talk