History Characters / DominicDeegan

* {{Catchphrase}}: '''"SEE THE TRUTH!"'''

* {{Catchphrase}}: "''Never'' take your eye off the interceptor."

* NobleBigot: Started as this... then it [[IncrediblyLamePun all went down to hell]].

* TheStoic: [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-04-15 As he explains once]], he ''has'' to be: otherwise, the pain of everything he's lost over his ''extremely long'' existence would be unbearable.

* ResistantToMagic: He can neither be harmed nor healed with magic. It's treated as a rare disability since it's nearly impossible for him to get health insurance.

* FanNickname: Some call him...TIM.

* NoNameGiven: Hence the FanNickname. WordOfGod is that TIM's actual name will never be given, since who he was is irrelevant compared to what he ''is''; the Infernomancer.

* FanNickname: The snarkers call him Snuggly.

One villain who's hard to classify. Began as Dominic's EvilCounterpart in the Storm Of Souls, he's also a WellIntentionedExtremist. Is also a demonstrated badass. He's not ''quite'' a villain anymore because he's working to prevent an EldritchAbomination from gaining a foothold in the world, and he's not ''quite'' an ally because his methods... Let's just say there's a very good reason he's [[FanNickname known as "Collateral Damage Man"]].

* FanNickname: Many have taken to calling him "Collateral Damage Man" and with good reason. [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans He has arguably noble goals but he bulldozes through anyone and anything in his way in order to attain them.]]

* BadassBeard: It comes and goes, but helps Dex distinguish himself from Dominic.

* TheClouduckoolanderWasRight: He could tell Gregory's first band was not likely to do well long before Gregory did. Sadly, his attempts to invoke this with his "detective skills" are rarely as helpful.

-->Over time, knowledge of The Beast has diminished it. From a disembodied, eldritch god-fiend from an unknowable place... to the discarded eyes of a mad king, given parasitic life in a planar garbage dump.

* StockSuperpowers: White Magic gives the entire FlyingBrick set plus some ComboPlatterPowers for spells. He even turns himself into a CaptainErsatz of ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvel'' in the Snowsong arc.

* NotSoDifferent: With Siegfried.

[[folder: Main Characters]]
[[WMG: '''Dominic Deegan''']]
The title oracle for hire, Dominic is a pessimistic and grouchy but ultimately heroic seer as well as the (primary) viewpoint character.

* CatchPhrase: '''"SEE THE TRUTH!"'''

%%* ChosenOne

[[WMG: '''Miranda Deegan''']]

%%* TheArchmage

* [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination: While she's not one herself, her fellow Archmagi are all friendly ones, as the recent story arcs have revealed. And she can send people who piss her off to a dimension crawling with them...]]

[[WMG: '''Luna Travoria''']]
Dominic's sidekick, girlfriend, eventual Fiancee, and finally Wife, Luna is a girl from the wealthy Travoria family that was hated by her mother for being born with unsightly tusks. Dominic saved her life in the comic's first real story arc and helped her through her suicidal and depressed phase. Luna's CharacterDevelopment has been a major element of the comic's run.

* ChosenOne: Entirely by accident, but [[spoiler: Her tusks are the sign of an orcish curse that needs to be returned to Maltak for it to be reborn.]]

[[folder: Supporting Characters]]
[[WMG: '''Donovan Deegan''']]

* IWasQuiteALooker: Very much a cutie in his younger days.

* RuleOfCool[=/=]RuleOfFunny: Why else would a bard do ''anything''?

[[WMG: '''Gregory Deegan''']]

* [[spoiler: BroughtDownToNormal: The Infernomancer permanently depowered him in their last fight, leaving him with only his musical talents. WordOfGod says it sticks forever and so far it has.]]

* CatapultNightmare: [[spoiler: The loss of his White Magic allows the Blight-induced nightmares he had when he was a kid to return. He often wakes up from them bolting upright with a gasp. He starts using them as inspiration for ''Facebath'''s HeavyMetal songs.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Greg's more kind-hearted and innocent side has grown less distinct since [[spoiler: He was BroughtDownToNormal]], and he's gotten a lot more self-absorbed since then.

[[WMG: '''Spark''']]

[[WMG: '''Lady Jayden''']]

[[WMG: '''Lord Milov Danovich''']]

* [[spoiler:HeartbrokenBadass: He's hurting a lot since his relationship with Jayden fell apart.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: He gets ''pissed'' when he realizes Dominic kept Siggy's damnation a secret for an entire year, yelling at him for not even trying to help in that whole time. Later in the arc, he gives one to ''himself'' when his rage very nearly leads to Jayden being killed.]]

[[WMG: '''Melsheena "Melna" Durnaxe''']]

* BerserkButton: Mistreating women or women showing a lack of self-reliance. This is rooted in her own suffering due to the absurdly misogynistic ways of her old tribe.

* RapeAsBackstory[=/=]RapeAsDrama: DeliberateValuesDissonance between Orc tribes meant that Melna would be put to death unless she was able to "satisfy" Stonewater. Since Melna had just watched her parents die in front of her, she was in no shape to give consent before her time was up. This has given her ''serious'' issues in the present day.


[[WMG: '''Pamela Chayler''']]

[[WMG: '''Stonewater''']]

* ChosenOne: Again, among the other orcs, anyway. His unique ice powers are vital to purging the demonic influences killing Maltak.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Evidently his tribe has much more tolerant views on women than the Doma do, hence his plan to rescue Melna from execution by marrying her, but Melna later pointed out that the Doma chieftain decided to enforce the Doma "marriage" laws Stonewater had been unaware of mostly out of spite.

* RapeAsBackstory[=/=]RapeAsDrama: When Melna was about to be put to death as an orphan girl, Stonewater tried to save her life by claiming her as his wife to adopt her into his tribe. Unfortunately, being on Doma land meant that Melna had to immediately satisfy Stonewater or the execution would proceed, and Melna was unable to give consent. This has forever tainted the word "save" with the snarkers.

[[WMG: '''Rachel Hart''']]

[[WMG: '''Quilt''']]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Had TIM been a mortal man, Quilt would have ''gutted'' him at the end of his last attack. No jokes, no fooling around, just a brutal attack.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: He could tell Gregory's first band was not likely to do well long before Gregory did. Sadly, his attempts to invoke this with his "detective skills" are rarely as helpful.

[[WMG: '''Dex Garrit''']]
A [[AntiMagic Resistant]] former athlete turned [[spoiler: also former, at the start of the "Built to Resist" arc,]] Sheriff of Barthis.

* CatchPhrase: "''Never'' take your eye off the interceptor."

* {{Determinator}}: The single biggest one in the series. [[spoiler: He fought The Infernomancer head-on to give Gregory, his wife, and the townsfolk time to escape and managed to survive the unholy mangling he got through pure willpower.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: He has never forgiven himself for hitting his wife while they were together; he became the morally upright character we were introduced to to prove to himself he wasn't that person anymore, but when he thought he was dying, he begged his wife to forgive him.]]
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: ''Inverted'' this. While his wife wasn't able to say she forgave him when he was dying, she realized she should have. However, because he didn't hear this, Dex was able to pull through purely on willpower. Because if he wasn't redeemed yet, [[{{Determinator}} he sure as hell wasn't going to die until he was]].]]

[[WMG: '''Nimmel Fenix''']]
A former student at Miranda Deegan's school, he was the one who told The Infernomancer where she was to save the rest of the students. Adept at seasonal spells, he transferred to the Coldfire Academy, apparently to feel like the "big dog".

* NotDistractedByTheSexy: "Your country has made me immune to boobs."
** [[spoiler:Thus, why it is so significant when, after being nearly totally desensitized to naked women, he sees KATYA in the nude... and realizes that it "affects him."]]

[[WMG: '''Rilian''']]

[[folder: Former Villains]]
[[WMG: '''Ilario "Bumper" Ciarenni''']]

* [[spoiler: {{Determinator}}: Even when he's been savaged by The Infernomancer, to the point his ''hands are both gone'', he is able to temporarily blind TIM and try to escape to get the Treasure back to his friends. Unfortunately, TIM impales him from behind and takes the treasure before anyone can help him.]]
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

[[WMG: '''Lawrence "Stunt" Mondane''']]

* TheAtoner: Becomes this during the pilgrimage to Eldariat with Jayden [[spoiler:to forgive himself for accidently killing his mother in a rage when he was younger.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Has undergone a significant amount as his past was revealed especially in the first part of the "I Do" arc. He has certainly backed off from his tough guy persona and his misogynist tendencies and opens up to trust people more and more.

* HeManWomanHater: He really hates women. [[spoiler: Both because of remenants of his father's harsh religious teachings and because he can't forgive himself for accidentally killing his mother when he was young.]]
* JerkAss: Working on that HiddenHeartOfGold thing, though.

[[WMG: '''Snowsong''']]

* FreudianExcuse: Evidently, her attempts to express herself kept getting shot down rather maliciously, causing her to join The Chosen due to a lack of direction in her life.
* TheBusCameBack: Returns near the end of the series and [[spoiler: becomes Facebath's new lead singer.]]

[[WMG: '''Szark Sturtz''']]

[[WMG: '''Jacob Deegan''']]

[[folder: Villains]]
[[WMG: '''Brett Taggerty''']]

%%* KarmicDeath

[[WMG: '''The Infernomancer''']]

* {{Determinator}}: He's lost his eyes and soul to infernomancy, been devestated by holy magic and chaos infused BlackMagic, banished to an alternate dimension full of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] by an arch-mage, and sent straight to Hell. So far, it has only served to piss him off. [[spoiler: It takes the magic of the first and most powerful necromancer in the world to crumble his body and soul to dust and finally put him down for good.]]

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: While most of the comic sees him getting very close, he graduated to hero killer by murdering Bumper in front of Dominic and the others in the opening of the comics final year.]]

* ImplacableMan: Banishing him to Hell and beyond only slows him down for a while. [[spoiler: By the time he's been blown to pieces by Celesto, it's not enough to stop him.]]
** [[spoiler:Being reduced to dust by Rilian's Blight seems to have finally put an end to him.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* NoNameGiven: Hence the FanNickname.
** WordOfGod is that TIM's actual name will never be given, since who he was is irrelevant compared to what he ''is''; the Infernomancer.
* NoManOfWomanBorn: Thanks to Karnak's power, he cannot die of wounds. [[spoiler: Good thing Rilian's Blight doesn't ''wound,'' it ''rots.'']]

[[WMG: '''Karnak''']]

* ImAHumanitarian: Hell flavor. Really, Karnak is a fanatic believer in "waste not, want not".

* IronicHell: He sneers at Seigfried's desire to "command hell as father and son", explaining to him that all the beings, including the Lords, suffer one way or another.

[[WMG: '''Raf Maliksh''']]
Elf Prince from the distant past, and a KnightTemplar [[spoiler:who decided that if he can't have a universe of Perfect Order, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans he'd destroy it and start over]]]].

[[WMG: '''Serk Brakkis''']]

[[WMG: '''Lord Siegfried "Siggy" Damaske''']]
Arrogant, violent [[FantasticRacism racist]] knight and DracoInLeatherPants. [[spoiler: Made a HeroicSacrifice, but then came back as a demon and got even worse.]]

* FantasticRacism: He loathes orcs and is quite happy to slaughter them left and right, regardless of age or sex. Reason why he ended in hell.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He damn near killed Dominic during one of his rages; the vast majority of Siggy's fights are utterly brutal {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s, either him dishing or recieving

[[WMG: '''The Beast''']]

* ItCameFromTheFridge: On a cosmic scale. Basically, all the planar waste the Elemecca stores rotting and congealing over aeons gave birth to the Beast. [[spoiler: Although, this was catalyzed by the addition of the eyes of someone who went [[PerilousPowerSource gorgon-gazing]] at the Heart of Magic.]]

* [[spoiler: TheDragon: To David Johann, King of Callan and first Archmage of the Fifth Circle.]]

!!'''[[spoiler: King David Johann]]'''
[[spoiler: The King of Callan, recently revealed to be working alongside The Beast. Miranda's predecessor as the Fifth Circle Archmage, and one of the most powerful human mages ever to live.]]
* AbsoluteXenophobe: [[spoiler:Hates all non-human races and even looks down on humans outside of Callan. He eventually tries to use a FantasticNuke to destroy every nation on the planet except Callan.]]

* BigBad: Some have put forth the possibility that he's the one using the Beast instead of the other way around, and now he has sidelined Karnak for the position of main antagonist.
** [[spoiler:Recent flashbacks revealed that he ''created'' the Beast by accident, with ''his own eyes''.]]

* CompellingVoice: [[spoiler:Not so much a voice, but he is a master at mind control, even turning the Archmagi, the most powerful mortals alive into his unwilling slaves. Thanks to The Beast's corruption, he can even enchant Seers, who are normally immune to such things, though as he is starting to realize, not without deadly side effects]].
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Disturbingly enough, with what was once his own eyes. In exchange for the Beast's help empowering humanity with the Heart of Magic, he will allow the Beast to consume all the non-human parts of the world.]] He makes a ''second'' one with it [[spoiler:when he needs its help to harness the Heart of Magic's power. The Beast forces David to acknowledge it as his new lord and master.]]

* ElectiveMonarchy: Apparently the first, by virtue of his sheer popularity [[spoiler:and having quietly mind controlled the previous, heir-less king and queen into committing regicide against one another]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Put out his own eyes since they didn't work anymore anyways and placed them into the Elemecca to study it. But instead, they became the Beast.]]
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:He views humanity as the greatest race. As the elves were tyrants, the dwarves and halflings wasted their magic slaughtering each other, and the Eld squandered its magic, he believes only humanity deserves the Heart of Magic's power. Unsurprisingly, the Orcs were the next race meant to inherit magical dominance as Callan declines. Since he perceives them as violent savages, he went to war in order to retain Callan's magical dominance.]]
* FisherKing: As seen in Ara's flashbacks, everything the King's magic touches becomes warped, corrupted, and putrid. So it's quite fitting that Callahan's government has become infamous for its corruption.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He was probably always a little off, but when he [[spoiler:sees the Heart of Magic for the first time, he pursues it with fanatic devotion. Later, he even outright states that glimpsing the Heart of Magic makes it an obsession, which is why he trusts Dominic, who has also seen it, to help him find it]].

* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:His quest to capture the Heart of Magic has been incredibly ruthless.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His original goal was to give all of humanity access to magic. But if it has to come at the expense of all non-humans, then so be it.]]

[[folder: Misc]]
!!Bort

* TalkingWithSigns : Given his jaw's structure, it's not that surprising he's only [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-09-02 said one word on panel]]. [[spoiler:He's somehow able to speak after he and Celesto are transported to the Elemecca. He's as surprised by this as Dominic.]]

!!Celesto Morgan

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Unlike Dominic, Celesto chose to keep the [[spoiler:massive power boost he recieved during the Storm of Souls arc. While this makes him far stronger than Dominic outside of the mental planes, mere mortals are not built to be wielding that sort of power. As such, Celesto grows increasingly unstable during his tenure as Champion of Chaos, especially as he starts wielding the powers of the Beast]].

!!Gerald

!!Lars Sturtz

[[/folder]]

%%* LargeHam: Dear god.

A misogynistic, womanizing JerkJock and all-around terrible person. [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-01-23 Suffered an appropriate]] KarmicDeath.

* {{Adorkable}}: Oh yes. He's cute as a kitten, and incredibly nerdy. See GeekyTurnOn for a good example.

* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Jacob's Cain.

* ChosenOne
* DeadpanSnarker: One of his defining character traits.

* GuileHero

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MindOverManners: Sometimes falls into this.

* PsychicNoseBleed

* TheArchmage

* ObliviousYoungerSibling

* EatingTheEyeCandy
* FeetOfClay

* HeroicBSOD:

* NobleSavage

* UnstoppableRage: And ''holy shit how''.

* MakeoverMontage: Seems to like these a lot.

* LargeHam: Dear god.

* AnIcePerson

* AloofBigBrother

* DeadpanSnarker

* MadScientist

* JerkJock
* KarmicDeath
* StrawMisogynist:

* KnightTemplar
* SmugSnake

* [[spoiler:YourCheatingHeart: Slept with Siegfried.]]

* Jerkass

One villain who's hard to classify. Began as Dominic's EvilCounterpart in the StormOfSouls, he's also a WellIntentionedExtremist. Is also a demonstrated badass. He's not ''quite'' a villain anymore because he's working to prevent an EldritchAbomination from gaining a foothold in the world, and he's not ''quite'' an ally because his methods... Let's just say there's a very good reason he's [[FanNickname known as "Collateral Damage Man"]].

* BigFun: [[spoiler: He used to be one, back when he was still mortal. He also pretends to be a fat, jolly fellow named Brian on a cruise.]]

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He damn near killed Dominic during one of his rages; the vast majority of Siggy's fights are utterly brutal CurbStompBattle[=s=], either him dishing or recieving

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He damn near killed Dominic during one of his rages; the vast majority of Siggy's fights are utterly brutal CurbStompBattles, either him dishing or recieving

* ItCameFromTheFridge: On a cosmic scale. Basically, all the planar waste the Elemecca stores rotting and congealing over aeons gave birth to the Beast. [[spoiler: Although, this was catalyzed by the addition of the eyes of someone who went [[AdmiringThePerilousPowerSource gorgon-gazing]] at the Heart of Magic.]]

* AdmiringThePerilousPowerSource: Stricken blind after peeking at the Heart of Magic.

* CameFromTheFridge: On a cosmic scale. Basically, all the planar waste the Elemecca stores rotting and congealing over aeons gave birth to the Beast. [[spoiler: Although, this was catalyzed by the addition of the eyes of someone who went [[AdmiringThePerilousPowerSource: gorgon-gazing]] with the Heart if Magic.]]

* HeavyMetal: The InUniverse inventor of the musical genre. Combining his and his bandmate's bad experiences, horrible nightmares, and love of mythology with him "screaming the lyrics," it comes out as something akin to an alternate-reality Metallica. The critics pan it, but it speaks to the people (his song about Callian's corrupt beuraucracy, "Cesspool of Lies," is based off of Pam's experiences, for example).