Joshua Strasin

A young synchroniser from the world of Aut Neve, Joshua first arrived under orders from his then boss in order to recapture Shard, but it sort of backfired when he got his butt kicked and then joined the group.

He's a good guy and very brave, if a bit arrogant and cocky. He's been possessed by numerous different things in a very short space of time, first by Dracula, then most recently by 'Jason', an AI created by the Master AI and imprinted on to him. Joshua's still in control, though. Very much in love with Jennifer, who's skill and loyalty he admires.

He left for a while in order to practice and train his skills, with the intention of fighting The Darkness on the frontlines, in order to find Shard. On the plus side, he figured out a way to banish it from the Multiverse entirely, destroying it forever (which he has yet to put into action). Unfortunately, it nearly killed him several times and used his data to create 'Syphon'.

• The Atoner
• Badass Longcoat: And it actually does cool stuff to!
• Cool Sword: His warblade, a valgirai weapon that absorbs UV radiation and then upon activation goes all 'lightsaber-y'.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Enemy Within: Jason, though he's much nicer than before.
• Enemy Without: Syphon, born from the Darkness and based on Joshua's data.
• Honour Before Reason: Hey, great idea! Purposefully try to stop the others attacking Dracula so you can fight him yourself!
• Implausible Fencing Powers
• Eerie Paleskinned Brunette
• Really One Hundred And Forty-Eight Years Old: Due to being a mage.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Too both Jason and Syphon. To Jason, he's the blue, while to Syphon he's the red.
• Technopath

Shard

An ancient valgirai weapon left behind for some reason, he got captured by a power-hungry aristocrat before escaping (and coincidently finding the rest of the group) due to a temporary rift in time & space. After imprinting on Dee he eventually became something of a Gentle Giant, eventually getting his original programming erased, leaving behind the much nicer and more trustworthy 30 foot tall crystalline lizard monster we all know and love.

After a recent adventure, he was retaken by the valgirai, presumebly to be used on the frontlines of the war against The Darkness... and then Joshua found him. For a while Syphon told the heroes Shard was dead, but it turned out to be a lie, and so he has been rescued.

• Big Eater: Not as much as before, though.
• Dumb Muscle
• Gentle Giant
• Hulk Speak: Sort of...
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Averted.
• The Unintelligible: Prior to Bartimeaus giving him the power of speech.
• The Worf Effect: Seems to be occuring more and more frequently these days... >_>

Awad Fida, the Swift

A young salamander warrior of a small tribe, Awad was born a mutant, and as a result has green skin, is physically frail and incredibly short by salamander standards (though by our standards he could still wipe the floor with most foes). Lastly, he's also a 'brains over brawn' kind of fellow, and all of these factors combined made him an outcast amongst his people, a curse upon his family name... and then, one day, they'd had enough: they dragged him up to an ancient valgirai machine known as the 'Eye of Worlds' and tossed him in.

Hilarity Ensued.

He's currently on Angel Island, practicing his survival and combat skills with Knuckles with the hope he will one day return to his world and prove his worth. He has, since then, decided he will stay on Angel Island and help Knuckles.

• The Archer
• Cosmic Plaything
• Lizard Folk
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• Refuge in Vulgarity: Undeniably swears a lot, but it's always bleeped out... o_O
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Averted, again.

Syphon/The Darkness

An entity created by the Darkness after a particularly difficult battle against Joshua. Syphon has all of Joshua's equipment, skills and memories, but turned Up to Eleven and with the addition of the various powers available to all 'Spawnlings'... but at the cost of the Darkness's weaknesses, which may well prove to be his undoing.

He showed up about a month or so after Joshua left, claiming to be Joshua, albeit injured and changed after a difficult battle. He made up other lies as well, saying that Shard was dead and that the Darkness could easily be controlled, and for a while at least, virtually everyone believed him. However, a recorded distress signal sent by Joshua during one of their earlier battles revealed his true nature, and in a short but brutal battle he was defeated, being forced to retreat.

He's shown up a lot since then, but keep's losing... however, he seems to be plotting something big. He might have been, but Joshua finally finished him before it came to fruitation.

Recently he returned, claiming to have killed Joshua, having been revived by 'The Lord of Nightmares'.

• Anticlimax Boss: He went down surprisingly fast once the others actually knew his identity... and (normally) every single time since then.
• Back from the Dead
• Berserk Button: Don't call him pretty.
• Dark Is Not Evil Dark Is Utterly And Completely Evil: He tried to convince everyone else that he was good, but it didn't work.
• Eldritch Abomination: He's part of a creature that EATS STARS.
• Emotion Eater
• Evil Twin: To Joshua.
• Killed Off for Real
• The Chessmaster: Well, so he says.
• Smug Snake
• Stepford Smiler: He's surprisingly good at covering over the fact he's anything other than a mindless and emotionless monster.
• The Heartless
• The Virus
• Weaksauce Weakness: Against LIGHT and POSITIVE EMOTIONS. That said, if you've got neither you're pretty much screwed.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

The Four Lords

A group of interdimensional beings who seem to spend their days pestering travelling adventurers... and our heroes seem to be their prime targets. They're a fairly standard Four Temperament Ensemble... heck, it's quite likely that they're the personification of those very concepts, just as the Grim Reaper is the personification of death or Cupid is the personification of love.

In a nutshell, Sholryk's an always angry, violent control freak (with a slight scottish accent), Lankolyk's a depressed & apathetic misery guts, Zanguyn's an irresponsible, self-centered Cloudcuckoolander and Flegamtyk's a stoic wimp with no self-esteem whatsoever.

So in case you're wondering, they get on together like a house on fire.

They've since joined the heroes, but in a temporary 'might be friends, might be foes' sort of way...

The tropes that apply to them, one at a time...

For Sholryk, the Lord of Anger/War/Fire...

• Attack! Attack! Attack!
• BFS
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Extra Ore Dinary
• Jerkass
• Kill It with Fire: His response to pretty much anything he doesn't like... which is everything.
• Large Ham: All the friggin time.
• Leeroy Jenkins
• No Indoor Voice
• Playing with Fire
• Pyro Maniac
• Ted Baxter: I'M REASONABLE! No you aren't...
• Testosterone Poisoning: MANLY!
• True Neutral: He hates everyone equally, at least

For Lankolyk, the Lady of Misery/Science/Earth...

• Badass Bookworm
• Black Magician Girl
• Dark Is Edgy
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Emo
• Green Thumb
• Lawful Neutral
• The Eeyore

For Zanguyn, the Lord of Happiness/Music/Air...

• Blow You Away
• Chaotic Neutral
• Cloudcuckoolander

• Serious Business: His music... don't mess with his music. It'll hurt. A lot.
• Shock and Awe
• The Ditz
• Totally Radical

For Flegamtyk, the Lady of Calmness/Healing/Water...

• An Ice Person
• Apologizes a Lot
• Light 'Em Up
• Making a Splash
• Neutral Good: She only helps Sholryk out of fear, it seems...
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Nearly everyone calls her Tyki most of the time
• Shrinking Violet
• Verbal Tic: He-her stu-stutering...

The Chessmaster

A mysterious fellow on Aut Neve who's kidnapped several reoccuring (read: all of E.H.Graysons characters) characters, using Freddy to torture them in order to power some sort of device... he's quite smart, though he's also slow speaking and quite fragile, overall.

He's dangerous, and whatever he's planning, it can't be good. He's gotten his hands on numerous different villains that he uses as pawns in his plans, including Syphon, Zexion and the Rahkshi.

Marx

A jester from the planet of Pop Star, Marx came to the Whateververse after a bout of space travel.

• Berserk Button: Any mention of Kirby is likely to earn someone a laser upside the face.
• Bishōnen: His gijinka form is very pretty and very girly.
• Chaotic Evil: Through and through.
• Cute Little Fangs: At least, until someone gets on the wrong end of them...
• Elemental Powers:
  • An Ice Person: He can create chunks of ice.
  • Green Thumb: A variation - he can sprout rose vines, complete with giant thorns.
  • Shock and Awe: He can split himself in two and create two giant (slow-moving) balls of sparks.
• Mismatched Eyes: One red eye, one blue eye.
• Glass Cannon: Both in normal and gijinka form - in the former due to being so small, and the latter due to having a slender frame. A few solid smacks would down him easily.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: When around people who've never met him, but sooner or later, people always find out.
• Omnicidal Maniac: The Soul form.
• Power Gives You Wings: Marx did not have those funky wings before he made his wish.
• Super Powered Evil Side: More like eviler. His Marx Soul form, though he can't enter it willingly, and this form will only show itself if he's heavily wounded - as in, on the brink of death. It is a zombie, after all.
• Winged Humanoid: With his gijinka form.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: He's a little loopy anyway, but his Soul form is batshit insane.
• Xanatos Gambit: He pulled one off, which is what gave him all that power.

Mega Man

"...For Everlasting Peace!"

The titular character of the video games of the same name, he's ended up outside of his world and has been traveling The Multiverse.

• Berserk Button (He hates Cyberspace with a passion due to being addicted to it, he's resolved never to be near the damn thing again unless someone needs it)
  He also has little fondness for Complete Monster-type villains due to dealing with them so much, to the point that dealing with Him took a heavy toll on his power.
• Calling Your Attacks (Shouts them when piloting Kotetsu Jeeg mk. 2.)
• Chronic Hero Syndrome (He will help anyone in need, it's just who he is. It has, of course, gotten him in trouble several times, though.)
• Cloud Cuckoolander (Has a few moments, but is otherwise levelheaded)
• Continuity Nod (Frequent about these)
• Deadpan Snarker (He has his moments, when he heard that Pride had glowing eyes, he said something along the lines of "Nothing suspicious about that.".)
• Freaky Is Cool / Nightmare Fetishist
• Genre Savvy (This Mega Man is quite savvy of his games and other worlds, to the point when Evil Tails pulled the ol' Wily Gambit, Mega Man didn't fall for it)
• The Heart
• Knight Templar Big Brother (Outgoing, friendly, will possibly harm anyone who so much as hurts Miles)
• Nice Guy
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero (He bargained with Kasei that, if they let Luca go, they could look through him, they held their part of the deal, but as a result, Kasei got the schematics of Mega Man's weaponry)
• Super Robot (pilots the Kotetsu Jeeg mk. 2)

Bass

Mega Man's rival who ended up traveling the Multiverse with him.

• Author Avatar (Comes off this way sometimes, due to sharing some things in common with his player, but other than that, he's pretty different)
• Breaking the Fourth Wall (It was frequent, but was downgraded to twice a day, then not at all, due to it becoming overused, returned briefly a few times... Then in an attempt at an Author's Saving Throw, the ability was mostly retconned away)
• Butt Monkey (His helmet is often insulted, and is often told to "Shut up")
• Cloud Cuckoolander (He's very loose when it comes to reality, really, and at times, it's confirmed that he's insane)
• Flanderization (He's fixed this behavior, though)
• Hidden Depths (His temper is a bit on the short side, he snarks a lot, and he can be a bit rude... But he's apparently a pretty damn good therapist)
• Pet the Dog (Frequent)
• Pinocchio Syndrome (Subverted. He briefly tried being a human with the assistance of Bartimeaus, only to find things such as eating and using the bathroom too much of a hassle)
  • He's tried again, and found it a lot better when you get down to it.
• Yuri Fan

Duo

...

• Genius Bruiser (He studies a lot, but he'll fight when he needs to)
• Mysterious Past (This Duo doesn't talk about his past, to make up for the fact he's a little low on Backstory)
  • Starting to be elaborated upon, apparently involving Slur.
• Running Gag (He gets blow apart a lot)
• The Stoic (He reacted to switching bodies with Catherine as if it was nothing)
• What Is This Thing You Call Love? (Like Mega Man, Proto Man, and Bass, he can feel emotions, but the one feeling he's never felt is Revenge, a feeling he tries to hold off)

Proto Man

"I don't think there's such a thing as "Destiny", my opinion on those words? They're just there to try and restrict one's decisions, I say screw them."

Mega Man's older brother, used to be an atheist.

• Not so Different (He hates several aspects of Kamina's, but deep down, he's got so many similarities it's not funny)
  • It's often pointed out that, generally speaking, him and Catherine actually aren't all that different, both have had their own secret identities (although Protoman's was temporary), have a tendency to consider fate and anything regarding destiny an annoyance, it's no wonder that both consider each other a Worthy Opponent.
• Screw Destiny (His opinion on destiny is that it restricts free will)
  • Disproportionate Retribution (Got to the point he beat down on Enker because he kept bringing up fate, but also because Enker was giving his brother an existential crisis)
• The Worf Effect (Has been knocked down more than once)
• Worthy Opponent (Considers the Lunara Knight/Catherine this)

Roll

Mega Man's Younger Sister. Recently got demonic powers.

• Crazy-Prepared (She carries Roboenza cure capsules just in case anyone catches it)
• Hammerspace (Where she keeps her broom)
• Improbable Weapon User (She uses a Broom)
• Playing with Fire (Her favorite element with her spells),
• Superpowered Evil Side (Constantly using her new powers will make her go nuts and simply ask for more power, oh, and her hair turns into white fire, but this is curable by throwing water at her, this was undone, so she wasn't psychotically evil, but residual power let her get her powers back, without this side effect)
  • In recent times, do not let her get pissed.

Enker

Leader of the Mega Man Killers.

• And Then What? (When he was asked this question, mainly regarding what will happen after he destroys Mega Man, he could do little more than think about it)
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy (Formerly, though he still has his moments)
• Gender Bender (Residual effects of Gensokyo Springs make it so that whenever he's turned into a human with not much specification, he'll transform into his female human form)
• Jerkass
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold (Developed into this when Yanmie helped him come to terms with the group)
• Kick the Dog (He tried to give Mega Man an existential crisis)
• Pet the Dog (He's gotten better about his bad behavior)
• Pinocchio Syndrome (He had a breakdown when he found that he was transformed into a human, he got better)
• You Can't Fight Fate (He believes that once you're built for a specific purpose, you have to walk down that path forever, not so much anymore)

Punk

Member of the Mega Man Killers, but he doesn't like being a part of it.

• Nice Guy (For a menacing individual, he's a fair character)
• Face of a Thug (Punk's spikes and Mohawk tend to make him look like a punk but he is the nicest member of the Mega Man Killers)

Ballade

Originally, he was just like Enker, but he's less so, now.

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy (He mentions the days, and shows regret about them)
• Deadpan Snarker (Has shades of this)

Pit

From Angel Land, he's gotten into fights with the evil Medusa to save Palutena, he had amnesia, initially, and ended up being called "Sereph", he ended up getting his memories back.

• Laser-Guided Amnesia (Medusa apparently caused it to make sure she didn't have an enemy)

Melody

A demon who basically ended up with the group because of possessing Roll, she's training Roll so she won't go insane with her powers. She's reobtained her powers, recently.

• Big Eater (She eats a lot, mainly because of a Running Gag)
• He Is Not My Boyfriend (See Michael)
• Official Couple (With Michael)
• Running Gag (She becomes fat at some points)
• Theme Naming (Ironically, by accident, her name goes with the Mega Man Naming Convention (I.E: Named after music type or instrument), although there's irony in the fact she's less like a Mega Man character)

Lyric

Roll's evil personified, due to an incident with Catherine and Rogue, she ended up losing the "Evil" parts of her, becoming a Clean Slate.

• Big Eater (Like Catherine, but she hasn't had the problem of the Balloon Belly Trope)
• Made of Evil (Roll's, but this is strangely subverted, as she's made of it, but she's more or less on the heroes side)
• Mind Screw (Her first appearance, in a way)
• Shipper on Deck (She has shipped Michael and Melody, despite the two saying that they're just friends)
• Theme Naming (Music pun, although it was more intentional this time around)

Chun Li

One of the most Iconic fighters in the Street Fighter series, she's ready to beat down the bad guys... After she gets better training, anyway, this Chun Li is an Other of the original one, this one's father was never killed by Bison, she went to Monsteropolis to get a job as a newsreporter, only to have issues with the Government, and Executives, she's traveling the Multiverse to get away from that, oh, and Bison.

Lordgenome

This Lordgenome is from a world where the Anti Spiral Wars never erupted, he's rather curious.

• Character Exaggeration (Because not much was known, several parts of the eighth Parallel Works Video, such as being with animals and no humans in sight, Lordgenome's personality is dominated by his loneliness and love of animals.)
• Cloudcuckoo Lander (He's... Off, sometimes.)
• The Ditz (He's so so much of ditz that he didn't know half the nicknames he had back home were insults.)
• Strong Family Resemblance (He looks like his daughter, oh, and he kind of acts like her too.)

Apala/Copy Rock

"...Oi."

A Mega Man clone that considers himself without purpose.

• Cloning Blues
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience (Not exactly, but he has a purple scarf to tell the difference)
• Composite Character (He's essentially "Mega Man?" and the clone from the first and third games merged together)
• Deadpan Snarker

Joseph (Joey) Carter Jones

From Central City, using his powerful robot, Heroman, he fought the Skrugg and others like Dr. Minami, seems a bit more meek than usual.

• Deadpan Snarker (Starting to show signs of this)
• Empathic Weapon (Heroman, he's the only one who can control him)
• The Kid with the Remote Control
• What Could Have Been (He was to interact with Catherine as a foil, contrasting her somewhat negative behavior, and even reverse the process of how Catherine's life went, but arcadiarika mentions being tired of the character, refusing to develop her)

Red (Little Red, Little Red Riding Hood)

Coming from a world that is a composite of the lighter and darker fairy tales, she's traveling the verse now.

• Deadpan Snarker
• Genre Savvy (At times, makes sense, considering she comes from a world of fairy tales)
• Grimmification/Lighter and Softer (A power of hers)
• Eldritch Abomination (Her cloak has the consciousness of at least three)
• Empathic Weapon (Her cloak, may have shades of having the consciousness of an Eldritch Abomination)
• Establishing Character Moment (While she was acting like a bit of a jerk, when the group was poisoned in her first appearance, she said that the others should be healed before her)
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold (She's a big jerk at points, but she's very honest, and honestly only does the scathing comments to make sure people actually learn to improve, not to mention that she can be nice at times)
• Super Powered Evil Side (When her sentiments match her cloak, they'll often cooperate, but Red is in the backseat of control, which is to say, none)

Yasmin

From Kordzokanz, Yasmin was trained by Commandant, who taught her how to survive, comprehend things, and, overall, how to fight, originally basking in the excitement of fighting, she eventually grew tired of it, not exactly out of repetition or boredom, she doesn't know exactly why herself, though she will help anyone who asks, free of charge.

• All There in the Manual: Currently, most of her backstory is explained here.
• Grey and Grey Morality: Her viewpoint, she does mention that she won't hesitate to fight anyone with very poor reasoning, though.
• Healing Factor: She can heal incredibly quickly, to the point that she's incredibly apathetic toward pain.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Most of her arsenal comes from her sleeves, she pulls it out, a lot of the time.
• Irony: For someone who hates fighting, she talks about it a lot.
• Nanomachines: The dictated reason for why her healing factor works.
• Throw It In: A few details about her life are being thought up, her concept is more or less complete, most of her backstory, though, has not been thought up, certain concepts suggested by other players may make it into her.
• What Could Have Been: Originally would have been an Anti-Villainous Counterpart for Ajb's Yuri.

Izzy

A bit of a psycho, Izzy is a young clone of Yasmin, ending up being one of the few clones that survived initial testing due to somehow getting Nanomachines, as such, he was subjected to, what was basically torture and abuse by the scientists that created him, he ended up escaping, at some point, having distaste for who he was based on...

He was Clone #57942.

• Dark and Troubled Past
• Foil: Sort of one to Yasmin, everything she seems to dislike, he seems to like.
• Freudian Excuse: The aforementioned backstory.
• Guilty Pleasures: Moe Kitty Girl Izzy, and the fact that he sometimes has dreams related to it, he says he hates it, but admits that the dreams are just... Fun.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: He's a young male clone of Yasmin.

Kari

A member of Luminosity, believes in justice.

• Big Eater: She has what Izzy describes as "A bottomless stomach".
• Characterization Marches On: She's a lot more self-aware of her weird behavior, likely due to growing up. Izzy actually pointed out this trope when she mentions not being able to be her bubbly self due to everyone else being tripped out.
• Cloud Cuckoolander
• The Ditz: Seriously.
• Lampshade Hanging: She tends to lampshade the traits of Etheru, the player who created her.
• Nanomachines: Like Yasmin and Izzy, she has Nanomachines (that allow her to harden her skin, ala Greed), unfortunately, hers often fail to filter out certain things (like alchohol), due to being outdated.
• Visual Pun: Her moniker is "Blind Follower", she's, as of now, near-sighted, and needs glasses.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist
• Meganekko: She got transformed into one. She doesn't mind.

Jack

"Hello, my name is Jack, I am a Model/Mark VII Gynoid designed to protect innocents."

A superheroic Gynoid from Silver City, she ended up walking in on the group, bored, deciding to stay for a bit.

• Author Appeal: Shockingly, she's a robot.
• Bifauxnen: Her name and appearance (if you don't notice the bra) make her seem like a boy.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: If she's present when there's trouble, she goes straight after it.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Yes.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Yes.
• Running Gag: People often mistake her for a male (not helped by the androgynous name and Avatar).
• Superhero

Rika

An Assassin, she's not too sure about her job nowadays.

• Anti-Hero
• BFG: Played with, she has a pretty big pistol, called "The Big Gun", bigger than her other gun.
• Hitman with a Heart: May be developing into one of these.
• Katanas Are Just Better: She carries around a Katana, as one of her weapons.
• Mega Manning: She usually takes her opponents weaponry.
• Name's the Same: Shares the same name with another Rika, that of the Author Avatar Arcadiarika. Only for the latter, it's a nickname.
• Noodle Incident: She mentions that she was paid to date people, and vowed never to do that again, one incident apparently involved a "Cannibalistic fat guy".

The Creature/Joseph

Made in a swamp, the creature is out in the world, ready to be another person... Sort of.

• Captain Ersatz: One of the main reasons he was created was to play a character akin to Golem from Castlevania Judgment.
• Hulk Speak: With some words he doesn't even know to make it even better.

Lydia

A rich little brat who mostly thinks that she's above the group.

• Jerkass: Duh. But to her credit, she will apologize when she does something too bad.
• Rich Bitch
• Spoiled Brat

Bartholomew (Bart)

A thief, rather ineffectual.

• Character Development: He's slowly but surely getting the fact that he's not gonna be able to steal from anyone any time soon.
• Chew Toy: He's not that good a thief or pickpocket, this is not just called attention to; people stole from him more than he's stolen from anyone else.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Hard to even call him a villain.
• Too Dumb to Live: Prone to such moments, especially with his compulsion to steal things.

Jitterbee

A Grim Reaper-esque girl with a talking Scythe.

• Dark Is Not Evil: More like really weird.
• Living Weapon: Ruchifer, her scythe.
• Engrish: Ruchifer is a variant on "Lucifer".