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Vanilluxe Sandbox

This is just a place where I hone my skills here, and toy around with the tropes.

Heroes:

Luz Noceda

Eda Clawthorne

• Adaptational Badass: The Harpy form gets major points, not only does it grant her significant durability, even able to tank an explosion, but gains access to other abilities such as Razor Wind. All this makes her much more powerful to the point where she even lands serious blows on Dialvas, that is until he decided to get serious as well and reveal his Dark Angel form to even the odds.
• What's Up, King Dude?: First greets Azdar (when his soul is residing in Zarin's body) this way. Lilith is annoyed at it, though Azdar is outright confused.
  Eda: What's up, my king dude liege, my apprentice has been longing to see such a famed witch like yourself.
  Lilith (annoyed): Edalyn, that is no way to greet ancient history!

Bruno DeBandet

• The Big Guy: Downplayed, he's roughly Luz's height albeit a bit bulkier, but provides the heavy firepower.
• Butt-Monkey: Soaks up some abuse to it, whenever he does a bit rash, he gets punched in the face. Notably, Willow decks it out on him and later Eda.
• Confusion Fu: His thing, Bruno doesn't have a specific magic class to know, but he can be unpredictable when going up against foes. Heck, even his magic is not known to the Owl Gang as it ranges from bombs, to a boomerang.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Well, more Hot-Blooded than crazy. Heck, when Gus tries to ask him the first time, he nearly slices him.
• Large Ham: He often poses in a more ridiculous manner, says he's the best and not afraid to hold it down. Eda compares him to a mix of King's arrogance and Luz's lust for adventure.
• Running Gag: Getting punched for doing something dumb.
  Bruno: Does everyone want to punch me?
  Hunter: Welcome to the club, pal.
• Shout-Out: According to the author, Bruno's design is basically a Sneasel, but with blade horns.

Azdar's Kingdom:

King Azdar

• Baritone of Strength: A deep voice for an omnipotent benevolent being. Word of God even said it's almost as deep as Arin Hanson's Papa Titan voice. Being voiced by Henry Cavill in Hypothetical Casting helps.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: Unlike the monstrous sociopathic Philip, Azdar helps those who need him the most, even having aspects of A Father to His Men.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to his brother, Dialvas' Cain. But the latter wasn't by his choice as he was corrupted into evil by The Dark Progenitor.
• Magic Knight: Not only he's a witch, but he also has access to various weapons like his sword.
• My Greatest Failure: Dialvas' corruption under the Whispers of Madness is seen as this, and to this very day, it haunts him, considering he lost the one person that wanted to be saved. As Luz states;
  Luz: Azdar...the hardest thing about your position is that you can't always save everyone.
• Mystical White Hair
• Named Weapons: He calls his sword, "Hope"

Zarin

The Zodiacs:

In General

• Ambiguously Related: Despite being named after the zodiac constellations, their relation to the Archivists and the Collector is up in the air if they are indeed Archivists. However, Word of God said that they're not related to the Archivists.
• Theme Naming: Their last names each with their Meaningful Appearance matches up with the Zodiac constellation and what it represent. For example, Victor and Virgil Gemini are named after the Gemini Zodiac, which represent twins and their Conjoined Twins motif.

The Legion of Sorrow:

Dialvas Shachath

• Adaptational Origin Connection: Due to the Archivists, and by extension the Collector being Adapted Out. Dialvas has caused Philip to become Belos after stealing his dark magic albeit unknowingly for Dialvas.
• Albinos Are Freaks: His skin is described as ghost-white, making him paler than Eda and Lilith's skin.
• Ax-Crazy: Underneath his calm and regal behavior, he's outright violent and will not hesitate to kill.
• Badass Boast: This frightening line;
  Dialvas: They laughed at me, they abused me, they shunned me and exiled me and now, You will now feel my wrath of the pain I've suffered for too long for I, Dialvas Shachath have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
• Black Blood: Leaks these whenever he is gravely wounded.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of Gale of Darkness.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to his older brother, Azdar's Abel. But it's not by his choice.
• Cape Wings: His black cape can become this.
• Character Tics: His Kubrick Stare. Heck, it even extends to his forms whenever he does a Fighting a Shadow, such as in Hunter's nightmare, he takes the form of him but does his own tic than Hunter's
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Belos, as Lilith once stated, that Emperor Belos has major shades of The Caligula with a Titan Complex along with being prone to being outright violent and egotistical, but he cannot use magic and has to rely on Magitek. Dialvas on the other hand is a living cataclysm that sets out to destroy the entire Demon Realm and cloak it in absolute darkness, and can use magic of his own under the term "Darkness Magic". The differences only get stronger considering the former is a genocidal monster of a human who wishes to kill all witches out of sheer pettiness, but Dialvas is a Tragic Villain who wanted to cloak the world in darkness as retribution for what they treated him.
• The Corrupter: His Dark Magic can be this. The biggest victim would be Philip as he takes a dose of it, which has already devolved his mind from unstable to borderline Ax-Crazy to the point where even as Belos, he never bothers to hide said insanity.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
• The Dreaded: And for good reasons. In his first physical appearance in a Nightmare Sequence with Lilith, she goes under a massive panic attack in his presence.
• Empty Shell: What Dialvas became after getting corrupted. He lost all of his feelings and only feel sadness, anger, and hatred for all with very little trace of his former self.
• Evil Counterpart: Word of God stated that he is meant as an Antithesis to Eda. While Lilith is like that, until her canonical Heel–Face Turn, Dialvas plays it much more straight than her. Even Eda thinks they may be both alike, but not in their actions.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Defied, unlike The Collector, Dialvas practically sees everyone as an enemy to him. Belos knows that he can't be used since it could result in a swift death, so he attempts to work around it by summoning him while he makes his escape so the demon realm would die under Dialvas. Unfortunately for him, it didn't work.
• Evil Sounds Deep: As an Evil Counterpart to Azdar, his voice is just as deep.
• Eye Color Change: Before Dialvas' corruption, his eyes are dark purple, but then it was changed to Supernatural Gold Eyes upon getting corrupted.
• Expy: Of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII
• Fallen Angel: His design invokes this, right down from the black wings.
• Fighting a Shadow: In Retold, the Dialvas that was fought at Belos' castle was a projected avatar the real one created. But unlike The Collector, it extends to what he can do.
  Dialvas: What you destroyed...was nothing more than a projected avatar I created just to derail my future demise. Child, when you truly face me, I will not hesitate to destroy you and your kind. Until then...farewell for now.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: As a child, Dialvas was ignored by people and even gets major physical abuse from them with the exception of his adoptive father to exiled and outcasted into the cruel world. But after getting power from The Dark Progenitor, all Hell has unleashed on the entire Demon Realm.
• God-Emperor: Sort of, as he's often called Lord Dialvas, but it is still the same trope nonetheless.
• God of Darkness: Revered as a Destroyer Deity and can cover the world in absolute darkness where no stars shall shine.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Compared to Eda's Harpy form. It looks far more sinister, like a cross between a demonic dragon and a crow. This is especially once Art Evolution comes in where his wings get much more decayed and look nearly corpse-like.
• Hated by All: A rare case where it's not his actions that caused everyone to despise him, but his condition. As a child, Dialvas' ghost-like skin and troubled behavior were hated by the people due to him being considered a horrific omen and bad luck to all. Then he decided if he would be treated like this, then so be it.
• Hellish Pupils: Gains these after getting corrupted.
• Hero Killer: It has been stated by many, that those who cross paths with him, shall never see the light of day ever again. This comes to a head wherein Chapter 20, he was on the precipice of killing Eda and would have succeeded had Zarin not interfered.
• Horns of Villainy: His crown is shaped like a pair of black devil horns.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Dialvas is derived from the Spanish word, Diablo which means Devil alluding to his status as the Dark Lord, one of the many names for Satan himself.
  • His last name, Shachath is Hebrew for "To Destroy/Rot/Ruin/Corrupt" giving a double meaning since he lived as a child that has a Dark and Troubled Past and after becoming the Dark Lord, vows to destroy all who wronged him.
• Monster Progenitor: All the Sins that plagued Luz and the others all came from Dialvas.
• Person of Mass Destruction: And during his battle with Azdar just before the latter sealed him, it ended up destroying the Titan they're above
• The Power of Hate: His unfettered hatred towards Azdar and by extension, those who see him as a pariah is what fuels his dark magic. Even The Dark Progenitor enforces that for as long his hatred is intact, it can get outright devastating.
  The Dark Progenitor: "Do not fight it, you must remember one thing when using my power. Hate... just hate and I promise... I promise the pain will go away... I can do that... we can make it happen... if you just... hate!"
• Shadow Archetype:
• Start of Darkness: Chapter 22, Sorrow of a Witch explains the entire backstory of how Dialvas ever became the cold-hearted Dark Lord
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Combines with Black Eyes of Evil, similar to Eda's Harpy form.
• Tragic Villain: Oh so much, it's tough to feel sorry for him on the sheer abuse he went through before becoming what he is now.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before, Dialvas was seen as a more cheerful person as a child, but now, he's a cold-hearted monster.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Dialvas was once like Eda, but the fact he was shunned due to his unusual paler color and disorder and then exiled by the people out of fear of his unknown power. Even the Owl Gang teared up over this with Luz saying that, even by Demon Realm standards, Dialvas didn't deserve all this.

Dialvas' Avatar

• Ax-Crazy:
• Body Horror: Due to the summon being incomplete, the avatar appears as a black melted corpse-like being that constantly leaks out inky blood of sorts (think Belos except with a pitch-black color than green). Luckily, Bishōnen Line kicks not long afterward.
• Fighting a Shadow: This could be figuratively and literally since this is not Dialvas, but a summoned form Belos brought.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: The scariest part is that according to Word of God, even if Belos did succeed in summoning the avatar, it's still not complete. No matter what happens, Dialvas' Avatar would still be a rotted gooey corpse-like being.

The Council of Darkness:

In General

• Arc Villain: Starting with Arc 4, each member has a big prominent role. Bellatrix Mevieu in the 4th, Talbot in the 5th and Aleister in the 6th. The Black Death is the only one that subverts this due to his status as The Heavy.
• Elite Four: They're this, even at the final stretch, they face off the heroes before going up against their master.
• Evil Counterpart: Besides being an eviler version of the Head Covens (besides Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf), they're this to the Zodiacs.
• Evil Sounds Deep: All of them, but especially Aleister, who sounds even more deeper and demonic than Tarak.
• Viler New Villain: Compared to the Head Covens, or at least until their Heel Realization on Philip. they're far more frightening and more formidable. Even Talbot Graves who despite the least dangerous of the generals does Cold-Blooded Torture to his slaves and even killed several people.

The Black Death Spoilers Unmarked

A mysterious black knight has been said to roam on The Boiling Isles for 400 years. However, this black knight is known as "The Black Death" and served under the Dark Lord, and now he has appeared again to help bring forth Dialvas and cloak it in darkness. Has a connection to not just Belos, but Hunter as well.

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• 24-Hour Armor: Never takes off the armor. But that makes him all the more enigmatic and scarier.
• Adaptational Abomination: While in canon, we see very little of what Caleb is. But thanks to a dose of dark magic from Dialvas. It grants him otherworldly magic, such as the ability to revive the dead, explode in swarms of black witch moths, and can steal souls, among other horrific things. That makes him much more of an eldritch horror compared to his brother.
• Adaptational Badass: In the mentioned above, this take of Caleb is far stronger than what canon has shown. Word of God even notes that Yvelor is almost strong as Dialvas himself. Even in a what-if scenario with a fully powered Eda, she staggers him at worst. There's a good reason why Yvelor tends to take the Willfully Weak route.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In Canon,(or at least from Belos' perspective via the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment in "For The Future". But in Gale of Darkness, knowing what happened after his death, the now resurrected Caleb/Yvelor is now out for blood for Belos.
• Animal Motifs: The Moth, or specifically, the Black Witch Moth. In Real Life, there has been a myth in Mexican and Dominican saying that this species of moth is seen as a harbinger of impending death, which very much fits Yvelor's Grim Reaper motif.
• Black Knight: With The Grim Reaper elements to boot.
• Boss Subtitles: "Fallen Warrior" in the first three encounters, but for the final time, he dons the title, "Grim Reaper of Wrath"
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Or moth, since he's associated with the Black Witch Moth mentioned above. This fits with what he truly was.
• Canon Character All Along
• Came Back Strong
• Climax Boss: On the third encounter, he is fought just before Dialvas is released.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: When unmasked, Yvelor has these which are meant to emulate Hunter's Exhausted Eye Bags but much more disturbing due to the dark magic infused.
• Design Preservation Villain
• The Dragon: Dialvas' second-in-command, the one who takes orders from him and commands other members of The Legion of Sorrow.
• Evil Is Bigger: Looks around "7'6" to "7'9" Consdiering that Caleb after getting dark magic has caused his original height to more inhumanly larger.
• Expy: Although Yvelor is meant to be a cross between Death, Black Knight and Meta Knight. He has similarities with Count Bleck.
• Foil As an Evil Counterpart to Hunter, there are several contrasts between the two.
  • While Hunter is a teenager with a somewhat scrawny build, Yvelor is an adult but with a more muscular physique.
  • Hunter acts immature until his Character Development, but Yvelor lacks humor and acts very stern.
  • Hunter uses artificial magic before getting Flapjack, Yvelor uses actual magic.
• Hell Is That Noise:
  • His Soul Steal, aside from the victim's scream of agony, it also makes this creepy laughter from children.
  • Whenever the helmet emits Glowing Eyes of Doom, it makes this cacophonic screech. It only means one thing; Run.
• I Need You Stronger:
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Until The Black Death's gender was revealed, everyone refers to him as an "it". Considering that no one wasn't sure if he was a witch underneath all that armor, unlike Belos.
• Knight of Cerebus: The Black Death is an unstoppable force of death. He also has a shockingly good kill count where he kills a good amount of characters (though they're villains rather than heroes). Not to mention, there is no humor in him whatsoever. All of that is something not even Belos can't do in canon despite his sheer sadism toward everyone.
• Lancer vs. Dragon: It would be inevitable that Hunter would face off against Yvelor before the final battle with Dialvas.
• Necromancer: His power and ability to resurrect the dead add to his grim reaper motif.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: When part of your name is basically old spelling for "Evil", that's something you should high tail it out of here.
• Pupating Peril: The armor is heavily implied to be the cocoon of his true self, only coming out when his rage peaks.
• Pre-Final Boss: The last of the Generals faced right before Dialvas.
• Rage Helm
• Recurring Boss: While the other three generals is fought twice. Yvelor is fought four times throughout the story.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Though his helmet obscures his face, similar to Belos when appropriate enraged, hellish bloodred eyes comes out. This is actually a major hint to his connections to Hunter.
• That Man Is Dead: "Caleb Whittebane, is no more! I! AM! YVELOR!"
• Tragic Villain: Unlike his brother who is an absolute monster of a human, once you know his backstory, it's really hard to feel sorry for him. Considering that even Zarin admits that he would forever be a rage-fueled monster that lost everything due to Philip's pettiness.
• Villain Killer: Surprisingly, despite being an antagonist, he is this. Given that he was the one who killed Belos in a gruesomely fantastic way and even some of the Titan Trappers.
• Willfully Weak: Due to his sheer power, he tends to hold it back. One very good example is that if he were at full power, he would outright kill Belos, rather than give him an outright brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

Talbot Graves

• Animal Motifs: The wolf. Fittingly enough, his first name is an homage to The Wolf Man (1941) where it's named after Lawrence Talbot, one of the influential werewolves in media.
• The Evil Genius: The smartest of the higher forces. Talbot's genius works on brand new weapons for his dark master.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Possesses an unknown power known as "Ferromancing" where he can create and bend metal at will.
• Nightmarish Factory: He owns one under the name, Graves Industrial Inc. The place where all slaves go to work under him to create horrific experiments for his dark master. It's somehow even worse than Blight Industries when the gang realized that they also use slaves also as experiments.
• Ominous Pipe Organ: Very fond of playing these instruments. It's even part of his Leitmotif

Lady Bellatrix Mevieu

• Absurdly Sharp Claws: Like her inspiration, her fingers turn into 3-foot-long finger blades enough to slice abominations like a hot knife through butter.
• Blob Monster: Her true form. As a result of turning into the darkness, she becomes this more amorphous ink like abomination. However, the cost is that she devours stuff in order to maintain her form.
• Dogged Nice Gal: At a young age, she was one of the nicest students at school and treated Alador with kindness. That is until Odalia came in and proved to be better than her. She desperately tried to convince Alador that Odalia is a horrible cruel witch that only cares about control. Sadly, Alador refused and dump Bellatrix.
• Evil Is Bigger: Described as somewhere between 11-13 feet tall, and enough to hold Amity like a ragdoll.
• Expy: To Lady Alcina Dimetresque of Resident Evil Village.
• Genius Loci: Throughout her mansion, there is dark abomination goo everywhere. While that seems disturbing, then Amity realized, they're her body oozing out of it. This is how she's able to get the jump on her and Lilith.
• Mood-Swinger: Mevieu at one moment, acts calm, motherly and nice to Amity, but then gets outright violent and psychotic to Edric and Emira.
• Ominous Music Box Tune: Her Leitmotif.
• One-Winged Angel: Aside from her real body being a slimy Blob Monster, once she reached her Rage Breaking Point, she turned into a gigantic Abomination storm. She didn't whip it up, She is the storm.
• Woman Scorned: Let's just say Alador dumping her for Odalia is a bad idea. A really bad idea. Unsurprisingly, Alador regretted that decision hard.

Aleister

There have been stories of demon warriors that only served for protection. However, one demon named Aleister felt that the warriors had been going soft recently and decided to aim for status as "The Apex Demon". However, despite his attempt at usurping, he perished under the fires they set for him.

That would've been the end for one of the most feared warriors in all of The Boiling Isles, that is, until Yvelor resurrected him into a skeletal demon who needed some brute force in the Council of Darkness.

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• Always a Bigger Fish:
• Arc Villain: Usurps Bill for Arc 6.
• Back from the Dead: Ended up killed during his staged attack and usurping his kin, but brought back as a skeleton.
• Badass Boast:
  Aleister to Tarak: And...did you bring these mongrels here....just to watch you....die?
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: Bill may be the Arc Villain of the 6th Arc, but once Aleister comes into the scene, Luz and the others now have to worry about a much greater threat.
• Breath Weapon: His Fire Scream.
• The Brute:
• Ceiling Cling: Often does this; Word of God said that this is an homage to Star Wars: Clone Wars where General Grevious does the same thing to get the attack on some Jedi warriors.
• Dem Bones: A skeletal demon that has been resurrected by Yvelor.
• Evil Is Bigger: He's nearly 10 feet tall.
• Evil Sounds Deep/Evil Sounds Raspy: He has a much more gravely voice that almost sounds like a hollowed, rattled voice, given his undead status.
• Expy: According to the author, Aleister is inspired by Raven Beak, Shao Khan and General Grevious. Even having the motives of the first one, coming from a race of benevolent beings that wanted to usurp them as he thinks power is everything.
• Foil: To Kikimora. While both are demons, Kiki is a small living demon dwarfed by the Emperor's Coven, but Aleister is a hulking skeletal demon that towers over the council. This is backed up further when Aleister thinks he can outsmart Dialvas but does it in a more complex way no one can suspect, but Kikimora does it in a reckless manner that not only creates suspicion with the others, but it led to her downfall.
• Hellfire: The fire in him cannot be doused. Not even boiling water can stop him. The only way to defeat him is to use holy water to put a stop to his rampage.
• Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: Complete with Red Eyes, Take Warning, and The Unblinking.
• Living Mood Ring: The flames inside his ribcage indicate his mood. Green is neutral, red is angry, purple for happy, grey for uncertain, and blue for sad.
• Non-Human Undead: An undead bony demon resurrected by Yvelor's necromancing.
• Savage Spiked Weapons: Wields a morning star mace that's nearly as big as he is.
• Technicolor Fire: Depending on his mood, it changes to match.
• Wreathed in Flames: His power bestowed by Dialvas.

Other Members of the Legion

Count Guerrel

Despite looking like a small demon mascot for Camp Nightmare, what Count Guerrel really was is a bloated monstrosity of a demon that devours things.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Guerrel has a really ridiculous design even by demon standards. But he happens to be a member of the Legion and can devour witches in a matter of seconds.
• Cool Crown: Subverted, despite its shiny looks, it's fake since he won it in an eating contest. Though once defeated, King takes it and admits it's much better than his Burger Queen crown.
• Extreme Omnivore: To count a long list; Unicorns, bats, small demons, animals, other witches,
• Fat Bastard: Very much so.
• Stomach of Holding: Literally. Has a second stomach that serves as a prison to his victims where he takes them to wherever he goes.
• Top-Heavy Guy: No seriously, he's incredibly bloated and his legs just look like sticks.

Toro

• Starter Villain: The first of many opponents of The Legion that Luz faces in Gale of Darkness.

Terra

• Body Horror: Her Forced Transformation into a treant is not very pretty, to say the least.
• Treants:
• When Trees Attack: After turning into a treant, she becomes this trope.

Sins

Sins in General

Thought to be long gone in the demon realm.....until now.

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• Ax-Crazy
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Compared to the Emperor's Coven. Fittingly, their plague-like form is heavily inspired by the Black Plague which makes sense given the Coven has the Plague Doctor motif.
• Creepy Asymmetry
• Foil
• The Heartless: They are born of witches' dark commitments and negativity.
• Hell Is That Noise: While we never hear it directly. But the fic describes their screeches and roars as uncomfortable to listen to. Word of God states if their sounds were real, they would sound like an unholy mix of the Demogorgon and a pig squealing.
• Humanoid Abomination: They are vaguely humanoid, but are made from negativity and hatred.
• Meaningful Name: A sin is an act of malice which these monsters are born from the hatred and malice the inhabitants made.
• Mooks The other kind of mooks beside the witches who turned into the dark.
• Omnicidal Maniac: To put it lightly, they kill whatever moves until it stops moving. And if there are no organic beings in sight, then they tend to tear down the environment.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: What they're made of... though unlike Philip, it's described as a more pitch black ink-like and watery.
• Orifice Invasion: Sins do this to Witches as shelter from light.
• Pieces of God: They're the lingering embodiment of Dialvas' hatred, set out to corrupt other witches.
• Red Baron: "The Great Poison Given Form"
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: With their seemingly humanoid appearance, Ax-Crazy behavior that attack anything on sight, leaking constant ink-like sludge. The Sins are basically Belos' Undead Abomination form.
• The Virus: If one were to get a good wound on any unsuspecting person. They must fight it with positivity or else they'll melt into one of them.

Behemoth

• Giant Mook/Smash Mook: They're gargantuan.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Their legs are pretty small, which forces them to undergo some sort of Primal Stance akin to gorillas.

The Alpha Sin Spoilers

Eda's Sin

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• Split at Birth:

The Queen of Sins Major Spoilers

Lilith's Sin

"Horrific as it sounds, but there are now two of her."

— Zarin

When a sin attacked Lilith Clawthorne, although it died supposedly, but the Sin copied and created into something horrific.

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• Anthropomorphic Personification: As mentioned below, it takes the form of a gigantic Lilith, but it often takes the form of the Owl Beast, implying that it's made from Lilith's guilt.
• Ax-Crazy: The Sins were already bad, to begin with, but this particular one outdoes them as it is a monstrous Sadist that goes out of its way to make everything suffer that's second only to Belos in terms of bloodthirsty and sadism.
• Bad Boss: It really doesn't care if its Sin horde gets destroyed, as it deemed them pathetically expendable.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To both the Owl Beast and Lilith herself;
  • The Owl Beast despite its hostility turns out to be a Non-Malicious Monster. Lilith's Sin however is an all-knowing sadist that goes out of its way to ensure everything suffers under its heel.
  • The Owl Beast is an Enemy Within until what it really was. The sin is an Enemy Without since it was ejected from her after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Creepy Long Fingers: they're much longer and creepier looking.
• Climax Boss: It guards the final Soul Shard of Azdar.
• Evil Knockoff: It's this to the real one.
• Evil Me Scares Me: This thing is what completely scares Lilith as it represents everything she's done, whether directly or indirectly (such as her father suffering a Career-Ending Injury from her cursed sister).
• Giant Woman: It's a copy of Lilith, but much larger than anything else. According to the author, it's the size of a barn when on fours, but if it stands, it's bigger than the Owl House. And the fact it's also a Sizeshifter that absorbs more Sins to get even bigger.
• Glasgow Grin: It has one, which is meant to resemble the Owl Beast's mouth.
• Humanoid Abomination/Animalistic Abomination: Moreso than the Sins. While it takes the shape of Lilith, some attributes make it just off, from its mouth being more Glasgow Grin that replicates the Owl Beast to the more birdlike feet it has.
• Kill and Replace: It's the main goal. Kill the original Lilith and usurp her spot.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Despite being a clone of Lilith. The cast refers to this Sin as "It" to really give it the monstrous thing vibes.
• Knight of Cerebus: Once this monster steps in, everything goes to hell for everyone.
• Magical Barefooter: Unlike the real one, this one lacks footwear, giving it a more feral-looking appearance.
• Monster Lord: The Ruler and commander of the Sins Dialvas created.
• Multiple Head Case: In its true form, it gets 2 more heads. Word of God says Hydreigon from Pokemon was the inspiration.
• One-Winged Angel: It becomes a much more monstrous version of the Raven Beast, but with several Hydreigon elements thrown in.
• Scary Teeth: It sports uneven serrated jet-black teeth, which are meant to resemble's the Owl Beast's Jagged Mouth.
• The Worm That Walks:
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Downplayed, while at times, it poses as Lilith. But there are times when it often shifts to the Owl Beast's form, implying that this Sin represents Lilith's guilt.

Graives Industrial Inc.:

In General

• Body Horror: The Experiments themselves are not very pretty to look at due to a combination of flesh and metal. Experiment AB-01 for example has an freakishly oversized arm
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Blight Industries and Abomatons
• Evil, Inc.: Yep, and it's much worse than Blight Industries.

Experiment AB- 01

• Expy: It takes several cues from Metroid Fusion's Nightmare.
• Genetic Abomination: Ok, maybe not to the literal name, but this thing was created among Talbot's twisted experiments.
• In-Series Nickname: Talbot dubs AB-01 "Ferrity", which is a portmanteau of Ferro and Amity.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Though it only appears in the one-shot (it was encountered later on), it actually influences Odalia to create a similar project being Abomatons.

Others:

The Ghost of Cold Lake

• Fog of Doom: Her implied Dying Curse has created drastically cold water, unlike the boiling water, which colliding with it causes this fog. And she exploits it for unfortunate wanderers.
• Nightmare Face: Her face in Eda's eyes is best described as the same one the Owl Beast have, but much more skeletal human than the barn owl one.
• Shout-Out: She's based on Della, the antagonist of Goosebumps' The Curse of Camp Cold Lake. However, unlike what she actually looks like being a human ghost, she takes heavy cues of the cover art which may or may not be Della but more skeletal. She also takes heavy cues from Hisuian Zoroark.

Azrael

A Palisman given to Yvelor

• Animalistic Abomination: Despite looking like a simple Black Witch Moth and far from the more monstrous Owl Beast. There is something very wrong about this Palisman. Due to getting infused with Dark Magic, it is able to mimic dead people as a means to lure unsuspecting people, eject dark magic, and become a full-on weapon. Even other Palismen are scared of it and the Bat Queen who despite their caretaker for them refers to Azrael as an outrage of Palistrom and as a weapon rather than helping others.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: It's named after the Angel of Death, Azrael.
• Shown Their Work: A Black Witch Moth seems like a way to incorporate a pun for Mage Species, but there's much more to it. This certain species of moth is seen as a harbinger of death in Mexican and Dominican (the latter of which is Luz's heritage) folklore which makes it more meaningful, especially considering Yvelor's status as The Grim Reaper.
• Sinister Scythe: Can morph into one as Yvelor's Weapon Of Choice.