History Characters / Bobbinsverse

A smart young woman and Lottie and Mildred's closest friend, solving many a mystery with the two. Born into a working class family, unilke the rest of the cast.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Amy.

** Forms one with Blossom in "The Case of the Missing Piece"
** Had an earlier one with Desmond Fishman, even helping him find his long lost father.

* LoveHurts: His relationship with Esther ends badly and leaves him pining for her for the next five years. He later reconnects with Erin only to loose her after [[spoiler:she gives up her soul to save his. He then dies trying to contact her, and goes to Hell, albeit romantically and only temporarily.]]

* ShirtlessScene: Has a tendency to loose his shirt, having had three of these in the span of 12 issues.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Specifically, [[spoiler:Shelley]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: He chooses Esther over Erin, but ends up with Erin years later after his relationship with Esther is long over.

* BrainlessBeauty: She looks this way in ''Giant Days,''. She actually very intelligent, and her "idiocy" is more a matter of a lack of study and motivation than real unintelligence. She even calls herself a "Sexy Idiot".

* HotWitch: while they may not be the hottest MsFanservice types in the comic, both these two are young and generally easy on the eye, and Clotilde goes for plunging necklines while Ludmilla favours skin-tight body suits. They skip the BeautyEqualsGoodness part, though.

* FormFittingWardrobe: When she dresses up a but and not simply show skin, Maggie turns out to own a very well fitted dress or two.

A pair of hipster[=/=]NewAge witches who were at school with Maggie. As shameless, self-centred, sociopathic pranksters, they mostly serve as instigators of chaos in the stories in which they occur. Among other things, they offered to cure Brian's lycanthropy but deliberately did only a partial job of it, and placed a hex on Mrs Clovis' vacuum cleaner that (indirectly and accidentally, but much to their amusement) prompted Billie to switch theological sides.

[[folder:Mrs. Clovis]]
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The loyal housekeeper at the vicarage, absolutely committed to the role and maybe a little bit judgmental.

!!Tropes associated with Mrs Clovis:
* FemaleMisogynist: Mrs Clovis has strong shades of this trope, believing that AllWomenAreLustful and out to distract the Reverend from his holy calling.
* HiddenDepths: Mrs Clovis apparently knows a little bit more about the ways of the world than she likes to let on. For example, she recognised the sesh gremlin on sight, but left him to the girls to deal with because she wanted to relax.
* OldRetainer: Mrs Clovis is practically an archetype of the cranky female version of the trope.

[[folder:Warlock Brian Fitzpatrick]]
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The apparent second-in-command among the Satanists, who makes a living by working as a tattoo artist during summer when Cornwall is full of surfers. Despite his supernatural curse and satanic allegiance, Brian appreciates Billie’s kindness, and also becomes quite TongueTied on meeting Shelley.

!!Tropes associated with Brian:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Brian has a tendency to take to attractive women on first seeing them, or even just their picture — though this may involve as much sentimentality and lust as love. Of course, they’re unlikely to return the feeling.
* IllBeInMyBunk: [[https://steeple.church/comic/dont-fall-in-love-too-fast/ Brian's reaction to a publicity poster of Shelley]] is not subtle.
-->'''''Bloody 'ell.''''' Now there's inspiration for a nocturnal manipulation.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Brian apparently used to be your classic werewolf (although a RagingStiffie isn't among the standard symptoms) but got himself cured by some NewAge witches. However, he still turns into a crazed, preternaturally strong "were-man" who ''thinks'' he's a werewolf whenever there's a super-moon.
* TheNoseKnows: Brian should only have tracking abilities when in his were-form, but it turns out that looking at enough Website/YouTube videos of the full moon can trigger him enough to activate this ability,

[[folder:Gareth]]
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When Penrose needs a new car in something of a hurry, he ends up buying a rather dubious second-hand vehicle. He soon begins to wonder if it's haunted or possessed, but in fact, it turns out to be Gareth. [[spoiler:There is briefly some talk of sending him home, but in the end he takes up a full-time role as Penrose's car.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Tim never realized Amy had a crush on him. This is possibly explained in ''Bobbins.Horse'' as him being uncomfortable with her young age.

* ObliviousToLove: Never realized Amy had a crush on him. Possibly explained in ''Bobbins.Horse'' by him being uncomfortable with her young age.

* ObliviousToLove: She has no idea Ed is into her. When he tells her he loves her (then quickly tells her something else to make her think she misheard him) she looks absolutely shocked, and only develops feeling for him until it was too late.

* BadassDecay: In ''Scary Go Round'', Esther was a snarky, courageous goth capable of taking down almost anyone who crossed her, could handle problems on her own and not taking shit from anyone. However, in ''Giant Days'', she is quite seen less capable of fighting or solving serious issues on her own, and takes a backseat to Susan and Daisy, who do most of the leadership and problem solving, while Esther is relegated to the trio's cheerleader, often requiring guidance from Susan and Daisy to help her function in college, at least at first. She grows more responsible and sensible over the course of the series, but her fighting/zanier traits have vanished/waned down. And in the finale, ''Giant Days: As Time Goes By'', [[spoiler:she has lost all semblance of confidence and dignity and is entirely incapable of speaking up or standing up for herself. During the climatic showdown between her and swarming armies of Cressidas, it is Susan and Daisy who mostly do the heavy lifting.]]
* BrainlessBeauty: She looks this way in ''Giant Days,''. She actually very intelligent, and her "idiocy" is more through a lack of studying and motivation than any real lack of intelligence. She even calls herself a "Sexy Idiot".

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: More so in ''Giant Days'' than ''Scary Go Round,'' where she's just a bit flaky sometimes; in the later comic, she's capable of being quite weird, though that may be a bit of a defence mechanism when things get difficult, and she can also be surprisingly effective when she's being eccentric; when she apparently turns into a sparkly manga-style character while playing cricket, it drives the opposition to distraction.
* CrazyPrepared: While baking some cupcakes for her boyfriend, she made a backup tray figuring Susan, who didn't approve of the relationship or how Esther was changing to suit it, would toss the first one. She was entirely right, though Susan saved one for herself.

* DecoyProtagonist: Initially. While Esther is the poster character in the original cover in issue #1 and was the central subject of the initial 3-issue webcomic that preceded the main series, it is actually Susan who the main lead of the ''Giant Days'', at least in the first few issues, even acting as the narrator of the series. However, this only lasted in few issues as the series remains an assemble cast with the trio getting equal attention.

* BadassDecay: In ''Scary Go Round'', Esther was a snarky, courageous goth capable of taking down almost anyone who crossed her, could handle problems on her own and not taking shit from anyone. However, in ''Giant Days'', she is quite seen less capable of fighting or solving serious issues on her own, and takes a backseat to Susan and Daisy, who do most of the leadership and problem solving, while Esther is relegated to the trio's cheerleader, often requiring guidance from Susan and Daisy to help her function in college, at least at first. She grows more responsible and sensible over the course of the series, but her fighting/zanier traits have vanished/waned down. And in the finale, ''Giant Days: As Time Goes By'', [[spoiler:she has lost all confidence and dignity and is entirely incapable of speaking up or standing up for herself. During the climatic showdown between her and swarming armies of Cressidas, it is Susan and Daisy who mostly do the heavy lifting.]]

* PutOnABus: Exiled to Wales partway through ''Scary-Go-Round'' and only returns for a brief cameo towards the end. He returns to Main Character status in ''New Bobbins.''

When Penrose needs a new car in something of a hurry, he ends up buying a rather dubious second-hand vehicle. He soon begins to wonder if it's haunted or possessed, but in fact, it turns out to be Gareth.

* {{Mecha}}: Gareth is a TransformingMecha, and a refugee from the SuperRobotGenre.

* {{Parody}}: Gareth's backstory is a quite faithful replication of the classic Franchise/{{Transformers}} stories -- but played for comedy, and with gratuitous Welshness.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Two factions of robots on Gareth's homeworld have been at war for ''millions'' of years, but when Gareth had the chance to desert, he did so enthusiastically. He seems relatively well-balanced, but he has spent ''years'' just sitting in a barn staring at a wall, he assumes (with no evidence) that some of his people's ancient enemies are still around on Earth, and he seems to be prone to outbursts of violence.
* SuperRobotGenre: Gareth's backstory is deep in the transforming super-robot genre.

[[folder:Magus Tom Pendennis]]
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The high priest of Tredregyn's Satanists, and definitely the most satanic of them.

!!Tropes associated with Magus Tom:
* BaldOfEvil[=/=]BeardOfEvil: Tom has the "satanic evil" look down pat. If the character who appears in the last panel of [[https://steeple.church/comic/i-romped-w-bob this flashback strip]] is a younger Tom, the baldness has developed from a VillainousWidowsPeak.
* ForTheEvulz: Tom's approach to Satanism, and indeed to life in general, at odds with Billie's more easygoing (and popular) hedonistic-but-nice approach.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Tom's favourite posture appears to be slouching on a couch with a goblet of wine, smirking.

[[folder:The Reverend David Penrose]]
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TheVicar of Tredregyn, with a non-standard approach to caring for his flock. Although he is brusque and sometimes surly, Penrose is absolutely on the side of the angels. However, he prefers to leave the “pastoral care” part of his job to others.

* RatedMForManly: Parodied, but he’s kind of cool with it. Except in issue 51, when his manly stoicism is the deadly serious point of the issue.

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How she goes out]].