This sheet is for the central and recurring characters of Undocumented Features; because of the scope of UF, listing all its characters is neither practical nor possible if we don't want to break the wiki. Also note that UF is a very dynamic setting; all its characters continuously grow and change. These bios may simultaneously be both spoilers for earlier stories and obsolete relative to those written afterward.
Let us repeat that, as it bears repeating: These biographical sketches will in many cases constitute spoilers for readers new to UF. In some cases simply the category they are listed under will be a spoiler. Peruse them at your own risk.
That said, go and enjoy.
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Wedge Rats and Their Contemporaries
Practically all the Wedge folk, and many of their friends and neighbors, became immortal in the late 20th century; they (and their children) all have Living Forever Is Awesome. They're also proven Eternal Heroes.
Action Mom: In the Future Imperfect era. Don't call her a Hausfrau, though.
Fake Memories: Played with. Kei and Yuri remember their life as the, um, Lovely Angels before being created in the HoloDECStation, but also know that those memories can't be true from the very beginning. They're not at all bothered by this, and go on to establish the 3WA that they "remember".
Idiot Ball: During and after Gryphon's court-martial at the end of Manhunt she effectively admits to carrying the idiot ball during her entire Inspector Javert phase.
Inspector Javert: She becomes Gryphon's most determined, unforgiving pursuer during the Exile.
All There in the Manual: In Twilight, Yuri points out that she's gotten really good at not dying, above and beyond even a Detian physiology. This is because, if you read the forums, she apparently had been turned into Mysteron agent by the Future Imperfect era (and then broke free of their control).
Batman Gambit: His Operation Götterdämmerung, which brought the end to the Golden Age, essentially only worked by exploiting the personality weaknesses of the central Wedge Rats.
Most Writers Are Writers: Who's the coolest dude in the universe? The one who has published hundreds of "So you just..." self-help guides, runs an in-universe comic book company*
Kris Overstreet runs a comic book company In Real Life
Catch Phrases taken from Darkwing Duck: "I am the terror that flaps in the night" and "Let's get dangerous".
Cool Old Guy: Becomes this during the Golden Age after he refuses to take Omega-2.
Does Not Know His Own Strength: Just after becoming a Transformer, he breaks several video game controllers before finally custom making one out of lots of metal. He becomes more competent at controlling his strength after learning to accept it.
Emergency Transformation: Gets horribly mutilated in the wreckage of his Cool Hovercraft after a battle on Cybertron, and is only saved by making him into a techno-organic Transformer.
Genius Bruiser: Space fighter designer, check. Strong enough to lift said fighter in normal gravity, check.
Homage: In addition to his own homage to Darkwing Duck, one of the sample characters in GURPS Shapeshifters ("L. Martello Rosenblum") is clearly an homage to Hammer.
I Am A Monster: Reveals his Super Strength to Noriko by casually crushing a part of a bench, who becomes immediately terrified of him, if only temporarily. See also I Am A Monster under Eiko, below.
Calling Your Attacks: Explicitly noted that she doesn't have to do so, because of a neural interface, but she does so anyway because Gunbuster was voice activated.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Everything that could go wrong in her life already has, and she still ends up in charge of the WDF Navy.
Iron Woobie: Survives an astounding amount of emotional damage, but there's a point at which iron itself will break.
Mayfly December Romance: Part of the reason she and Martin Rose's avatar part ways is because of the spectre of this trope, since he refuses to become a Detian and he didn't want her to start aging for his sake.
Sexy Mentor: She was assigned as PCHammer's trainer once he joined the WDF.
Sole Survivor: Unlike Gunbuster canon, she and Kazumi had their Buster machines separated during their final mission — and Kazumi didn't escape the black hole bomb's blast.
The Chosen One: Her homeworld had a chosen one born during times of trouble with either great strength, great genius, or great charisma. She, Biiko, and Siiko were the first time all three chosen ones were born at once. It wasn't enough.
Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Lost several boyfriends to injury; Hammer's similar level of strength makes intimacy much less risky.
Hot Mom: the only one of the protagonists from the Wayward Son days who really took to domestic life in the Future Imperfect era.
I Am A Monster: Subverted. Eiko guiltily admits to Super Strength by lifting a bench with Martin sitting in it; nonplussed, he proceeds to lift her by said bench.
Incompletely Trained: His Jedi Master, Jaicyen, abrubtly ended Redneck's training because of Redneck's conflicting visions of a dark side and light side future.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Although under some circumstances he is known as "Admiral Overstreet", he is almost always referred to otherwise as just "Redneck".
Pinocchio Syndrome: Calls herself Pinocchia at one point, though, it's really just her desire to be treated as a person by others. Well, that and wanting to be more intimate with her creator.
The Reliable One: To the extent of finding him when he's shipwrecked on a unknown Halo.
Granola Girl: Although she started out a standard, maybe even extreme, Vulcan, an encounter with Raoul Duke and the contents of his medical bag in the wake of a personal emergency left her with a rather... different outlook and philosophy, as well as a radically altered personality.
Nonhuman Sidekick: Mitra, a flying drone-thing that looks like a "chitinous football", and which seems to be something halfway between a robotic tool and a genuine pet.
Small Girl, Big Gun: Owns a Varista photon weapon and assorted other potentially hostile equipment, as a legacy of being a Hunter on her home world, Ragol. (And she's not all that small, so the gun is proportionally bigger.)
The Ageless: Permanently stuck at a physical age of 14.
Artificial Human: A (failed) Big Fire genetic engineering experiment, rescued by the WDF and raised by Marty and Eiko Rose for several years before she struck out on her own.
Dark Is Not Evil: Apprentice (and judging from the name she uses, possibly heir) to the UF version of Darth Vader.
Samurai: Trained in Gryphon's Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu kenjutsu.
Human Popsicle for thousands of years; revived during the Future Imperfect era by a Sith who thought he was waking up a compliant servant of evil.
Precursor: One of the two last survivors of Atlantis. The other is his sister Nadia Davion.
There is no indication yet that either is aware that the other is alive.
Sealed Evil in a Can: subverted. Darth Sidious thought he was going to get a great ally in his conquest, but Vader had sealed himself away in the middle of his Heel Face Turn.
Big Bad: One of the early ones in Symphony of the Sword. Initially appears as the Psi Cop in charge of capturing Devlin Carter, but later we find out he's also a Sith.
Reassigned to Antarctica: After his WPI operation to capture Devlin Carter failed spectacularly, he was demoted and transferred to a post on the Moon. ("Worse pay, better hours... worse pay, better fellow workers.")
The Resenter: According to Word Of God, cannot believe that Gryphon and the other immortals are as good and heroic as they appear, and expends a great deal of energy on deliberately trying to make their lives harder — to the point that all three of his daughters were conceived solely so that Gryphon's children would have their own nemeses as they grew up.
Zargh Thalekh
Ambadassador: Naturally, as the Klingon Ambassador to Babylon 6
The Ragnarok Wave, "Second Generation" Characters, and Their Contemporaries
Strictly speaking, the "Ragnarok Wave" are those children of Wedge Defenders conceived in the days and weeks immediately following the averted Ragnarok, and born in and about 2390. However, as a category on this page it also includes pretty much anyone else from Midgard who is within a few years of their age and who plays a major role in Symphony of the Sword or Warriors of the Outer Rim. Also, as noted above, the children of Wedge Defenders and certain others are all immortal, of the Living Forever Is Awesome variety.
Kaitlyn Hutchins
Animal Motif: Tigers. Much of her clothing is tiger-striped or black with orange accents.
Minored In Asskicking: First exhibited when she stomps the ever-living daylights out of Saionji in a live-steel duel in the WPI quad. Later taken to truly epic levels in the Duelists' Society.
Not What It Looks Like: Used verbatim in a note to her lover, when sleeping next to someone else. Though it was obvious to everyone that the relationship was heading towards what it looked like anyway.
Speech Impediment: In the UF "present day" she no longer has it, but since she could speak Kaitlyn had a truly epic stutter whose severity depended on how well she knew and trusted whoever she was talking to.
Training from Hell: The promotion ceremony to master of the Asagiri style, a long series of Rose Duels, was a little on the extreme side (while still being, of course, awesome). Justified in that it's her very last action as a student, and she'd face much harder real battles in the future. It works under essentially the same theory as Ph.D. oral exams — you don't have to win every time, you just have to show your skill and survive.
Triang Relations: by the end of the Symphony is in a type 8 relationship with Miki and Juri.
Does Not Like Shoes: But will wear them when necessary — such as to trudge through the snow of a Massachusetts winter.
The Empath: It's not a psychic power, though — just being unusually sensitive to her friends' moods and feelings.
Ethical Slut: This seems to be the Dantrovian religion. And as a devout practitioner, she never hesitates to use sex to improve the lives of her friends.
Expy: Not exactly. Azalynn's appearance is based on a picture of Kaolla Su from Love Hina, before Gryphon actually saw the anime.
Foe Yay: With Liza Broadbank; after Liza undergoes her Heel Face Turn, they become a couple.
Four-Fingered Hands: But not because she's a cartoon. Oddly, this seems to be the first thing about her — instead of her hair, her eyes, her copper skin, or her tail — that clues people in that she's an alien.
The Sleepless: She only sleeps two hours a night; this is apparently a Dantrovian racial trait. To make matters worse (for her roommates and friends, at least), she is apparently able to "bank up" by sleeping for longer, and then stay awake for days without ill effects.
Speed Blitz: The Dantrovian "fight-or-flight" adrenaline overdrive, which basically turns her into the Tasmanian Devil for several minutes, after which she falls over, exhausted and unconscious.
Super Strength: In Wounded Rose, Moose effortlessly picks up a crated upright piano and carries it on his shoulder; later he carries it for an extended distance held out in front of him at arm's length.
Devlin Carter (or Carter Devlin, take your pick)
Catch Phrase: "I'm not very X, but I am Y", with X and Y being situationally-determined qualities; this is often self-deprecation, as Devlin frequently displays both qualities. A few examples:
"I'm not very smart, but my memory's good."
"I'm not very good with computers, but locks like me."
"I'm not very rich, but I am a gentleman."
"I'm not very strong, but I'm dext'rous."
"I'm not very brave, but I am loyal."
Cowardly Lion: Repeatedly insists he is a coward, but his actions argue otherwise.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: It's noticed that once Dorothy joins the group at WPI, Devlin's "comic-opera Lord Peter Wimsey" accent tends to lighten around her.
Foe Yay: With Azalynn; after Liza undergoes her Heel Face Turn, they become a couple.
Healing Thoughts: Liza discovers that she's an anodyne, who can heal injuries psychically. Repairing particularly bad injuries seem to be Cast from Hit Points.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her plan to harass Kaitlyn by getting Devlin captured by the Psi Corps went spectacularly wrong; she only got out by Kaitlyn's Save the Villain moment.
The Spartan Way (Which Liza chooses on purpose, working as a deckhand on a trading ship to distance herself from her Rich Bitch past.)
Tykebomb: Liza was deliberately conceived and raised by her parents to torment Kaitlyn, as part of her father's obsession with proving that Gryphon wasn't as good and heroic as he appears to the galaxy at large.
Tykebomb: Clarissa was deliberately conceived and raised by her parents to torment Gryphon and MegaZone's children, as part of her father's obsession with proving that Gryphon wasn't as good and heroic as he appears to the galaxy at large. Unlike her sisters, she not only fully embraced the role, she expanded on it.
Lonely Rich Kid: Because she refused to act as a nemesis/tormentor for the youngest Hutchins/Morgan/Daniels children, her parents ignored and isolated her, and eventually all but disowned her. Fortunately, it's noticed, her guardianship is taken away from her parents, and Belldandy practically adopts her.
Spoiled Sweet: despite the best efforts of her parents to turn her into a clone of Liza and Clarissa.
Tykebomb: Averted. Although Marietta was deliberately conceived and raised by her parents to torment Gryphon and MegaZone's children, as part of her father's obsession with proving that Gryphon wasn't as good and heroic as he appears to the galaxy at large, she refused to go along with her father's agenda.
Len Hutchins
The Atoner: Runs away and joins the Jedi Order after nearly killing Achika Shannon by accident during a sparring session.
Emergency Transformation (Similar to MegaZone's case above, Achika's Detian nigh-immortality is forced to activate early after she suffers accidental cranial trauma at the hands of Len Hutchins.)
Can't Stay Normal: Chooses not to embrace his divine heritage in favor of being a normal human, but then goes and builds himself a Mol unit, which leads to him accidentally becoming Ultraman.
The door swung open to reveal a young blonde woman with a bright smile on her face. "Hi, Logan!" she said, leaping to give the shorter man a hug, then repeated it on Geoff with a cry of "Hello, person I don't know!" before dragging the two men in the door.
Genius Ditz: Although she initially gives every impression of being nothing more than a fashion-obsessed airhead, as of the events of Code-Name Ultra it's clear that Mirai is a genius at public relations and managing media — to the point where her airhead persona may actually be little more than Obfuscating Stupidity.
Dorothy can avert this at will, having the conscious ability to make her normally-silent mechanical actuators audible while at the same time changing her body motions from lifelike to inhumanly mechanical. It's stated that she employs this almost useless ability solely to taunt those who already react negatively to her robotic nature.
Robosexual: Is in a serious relationship with Miki for an unspecified length of time.
Sexbot: Subverted. Although she is "anatomically complete" and capable of sexual relationships, she was not designed nor used by her creator for that purpose. He was probably just trying to design the most complete Replacement Goldfish he could.
Power Incontinence: Her power of accessing the past is so strong that she had to cut herself off from the Force to control it, which makes her temporarily useless as a Jedi.
The Chosen One: Certain factions late in Symphony of the Sword think that Utena is "the One" due to how much change she tends to instigate. She did win the power to revolutionize the world, after all.
Cool Sword: Four! The Sword of Dios, renamed The Heart of the Rose, a sword that appears to be made of her Heroic Spirit alone. The Thorn of the Rose, a Valkyrie blade of deeply blued steel bearing the runic inscription: "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty." And finally, a red lightsaber. And now, Cortana itself. Given her unpredictable fighting style, it's hard to tell which is the better weapon.
Eternal Hero: By the nature of the recurring role of the Rose Prince.
The Hecate Sisters: Related to the above; this trope is zig-zagged, subverted hard, deconstructed, and finally reconstructed. Anthy's character spends so much time crossing the line between being a princess that needs to be protected, and a old and scheming witch that it's hard to tell how to classify her. This is intentional, and part of the deconstruction from the original source. But as she goes forward in Symphony of the Sword, the reconstruction enhances both her witch and princess aspects as she finds her prince and trains to be a sorceress — and then she decides to be a mother. By the end of the Symphony, she's an exemplar of all three aspects of Hecate: maiden, mother, and witch.
Deadpan Snarker: Probably the first one gated to WPI so that Gryphon could use the word "sardonic" more.
Defeat Equals Friendship: Played with. After getting his keister handed to him by Kaitlyn, he becomes... the fry cook at WPI's student dining hall. And eventually one of Utena's closer friends.
Teach Me How To Fight: Played with, since he was already an experienced kendoka when he asked Kaitlyn. Still, he had been on quite the losing streak, losing to Utena, Touga, and finally Kaitlyn before his self-esteem issues finally caught up with him.
Plucky Girl: Go to another plane to protect Lady Utena? Sure, why not!
Took a Level in Badass: The anime makes a point of how ordinary she is (though, like everything else in Utena, this is subject to subversion and mind screw). So then Skuld goes and makes her a Lensman, and she becomes The Green Lensman.
Ethical Slut: It's rather subtly hinted that as a result of his relationship with Azalynn, Miki has come to follow, to some degree, the Dantrovian religion.
Friends with Benefits: His relationship with Azalynn before moving on to more serious involvements with others.
Half-Identical Twins with sister Kozue, although not to the point that they're indistinguishable from each other.
Triang Relations: by the end of the Symphony is in a type 8 relationship with Kaitlyn and Juri.
Twin Telepathy: A limited version with Kozue; they can't really communicate, but they mesh into essentially a single four-armed organism during certain tasks — like playing piano duets or piloting starships in battle.
Ethical Slut: What she resolved to be after Miki disappeared from Cephiro, but circumstances have ended up forcing her to be (mostly) celibate since then.
Fille Fatale: What she was before Miki was transported to Midgard from Cephiro.
Half-Identical Twins with brother Miki, although not to the point that they're indistinguishable from each other.
Twin Telepathy: A limited version with Miki; they can't really communicate, but they mesh into essentially a single four-armed organism during certain tasks — like playing piano duets or piloting starships in battle.
Mission from God: His Trial of Ascendance, in which he is sent to Cephiro, the Tenth World, to figure out what the hell is going on there and report back to Odin and Asgard on what he found.
Nigh Invulnerability: He is actually invulnerable to anything from Cephiro, due to being the Pillar. But he's pretty damn tough to everything else, being a half Physical God and half Detian.
Physical God: Son of Gryphon and Skuld Ravenhair. After his trial, God of Mecha.
The Prophesied One: Corwin's nickname, as a running joke in the family. Urd said that Corwin was the fulfillment of some ancient prophecy, but doesn't even remember saying it due to being drunk on sake at the time. Yes, the Norn of Memory forgot.
Nigh Invulnerability: Though, as in Norse Mythology, the "nigh" part is pretty important to the story. But it's a lot bigger problem than somemistletoe.
Through His Stomach: He has plenty reasons to love Belldandy, but the lasagne tops the list. Uum'y cooked for him in Cephiro, and we know how that turned out.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can switch between winged cat, elf-like humanoid, and full dragon shapes, although the latter seems to exhaust him if maintained for too long. (Then again, he's still quite young by draconic standards; presumably it'll stop being exhausting when he's older.)
