History Characters / DumbingOfAge

** Some people have commented that she seemed to be stuck in a 80s Teen Movie given her obsession with CatchPhraseNERDS...

* AmbiguousDisorder: {{Fanon}} with a side of ShrugOfGod.

* HollywoodAtheist: Downplayed.

* WrongGenreSavvy: She hasn't yet noticed that college is not high school.

* ClingyJealousGirl

* Tsundere: Towards [spoiler: Billie].
** Deconstructed: [Spoiler: It's because of her anti-social tendencies and bad home life. And it backfires massively on her when Billie tells her to fuck off and runs away.]

---> Sal: It's not a surprise. Alcoholism is yer '''defining characteristic'''.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Joyce is the only character in the cast to be drawn with colored eyes instead of just black dots.

** Willis lampshaded the MindScrew with a poll about Joyce's dream in which the only possible response was a FlatWhat. Not that any other choices were really necessary.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold : Talks a good game about not wanting to be friends with the rest of the cast but still spends all her time with them, helps set-up Walky with Dorothy, looks out for Joyce and even shows concern for Ruth, her tormentor. She also tries to pay off Raidah after Sarah hits her without much success.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Got her very-popular freshman-year roommate [[SecondhandStorytelling Dana]] expelled after she went on a [[MissingMom death-of-mother]]-fueled drug binge, endangering both her health and Sarah's ability to maintain her scholarships.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold : Talks a good game about not wanting to be friends with the rest of the cast but still spends all her time with them, helps set-up Walky with Dorothy, looks out for Joyce and even shows concern for Ruth, her tormentor. She also tries to pay of Radiah after Sarah hits her without much success.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: African-American father, Caucasian mother.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Like his sister, he has an African-American father and a Caucasian mother.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold : Talks a good game about not wanting to be friends with the rest of the cast but still spends all her time with them, helps set-up Walky with Dorothy, looks out for Joyce and even shows concern for Ruth, her tormentor.

* AmbiguouslyBrown

* LovesMyAlterEgo: now in a TwoPersonLoveTriangle with Danny.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen

* WeightWoe

* Gayngst

* EthicalSlut

* ShallowLoveInterest: Dorothy dumps him because she's afraid he's going to turn himself into her SatelliteCharacter.

* FanNickname: InUniverse. It's not known what she actually refers to herself as.

* AllWomenAreLustful

* EverythingsBetterrWithDinosaurs

** IDidWhatIHadToDo: And it should be pointed out that, by and large, the fandom is on her side here. But since Dana was a StepfordSmiler and none of her friends caught on, ''they'' all consider it Sarah's MoralEventHorizon.

* GamerChick: ''WorldOfWarcraft'', specifically. Also a Computer Science major.

!!Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth

* EmbarrassingName: Evidently Billie doesn't like to be called by her real name. which is why she goes by "Billie" instead. (Walky bestowed the nickname on her during their childhood.)

* RaceLift: In ''RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'', Billie was just white, but apparently got asked enough if Billie was Asian during its run that he decided to make her half-Asian here.

* Adorkable

* EverythingsCoolerWithDinosaurs

* HollywoodAthiest: Downplayed.

* UptightLovesWild: Her romance with Walky has some shades of this.

* Adorkable

* IJustWantToHaveFriends
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Both in positive and negative connotations, as she is, by her own admission, seeking her MRS degree.

* LighterAndSofter: While he still goes out of his way to say things in the most negative way possible, he is far more involved in the emotional affairs of other characters, and his Heart Of Gold is a lot more overt.

* Yandere: And not just towards love interests, ''towards everybody''. (See AxCrazy.)

* EmbarrassingName: Evidently David Walkerton doesn't like to be known as David Walkerton, which is why he goes by "Walky" all the time.

* HollywoodAthiest: Played for laughs.

'''Leslie:''' It's probably because he likes you.

* OddFriendship: With Joyce, and one of the oddest ones she's developed because on the surface they have nothing in common, and deep down they... still have nothing in common.

This is the character sheet for ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', the "UltimateUniverse" extension of the Walkyverse. ''Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'' and ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' have (or should at some point have) their own character sheets. Please do not confuse the two, as there are serious {{Alternate Character Interpretation}}s stemming from the difference in continuities.

* CharacterDevelopment: stood by Ethan while he came out, and evidently matured a great deal from the process.

* IncompatibleOrientation
* LastHetRomance: was Ethan's.

!!Billie

* AlphaBitch: her position in HighSchool.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: an ongoing theme of her adventures.
* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: her parents. Her father is British, her mother Chinese.
* BiTheWay: drunkenly hits on Sal.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: claims her dad showers her with money because he doesn't know how to show affection.
* BreakTheHaughty: almost every strip she's been in involves this.

* EmbarrassingName: Evidently Jennifer BillingsWORTH doesn't like to be called "Jennifer BillingsWORTH," which is why she goes by "Billie" instead. (Walky bestowed the nickname on her during their childhood.)
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: being pegged ''by the staff of Indiana University'' as an alcoholic.

** LikeBrotherAndSister: their actual relationship, vouched by them both.
** VitriolicBestBuds: this too.
* SelectiveObliviousness: the only way she's managed to avoid a HeroicBSOD thus far.

* WrongGenreSavvy: she hasn't yet noticed that college is not high school.

* AboveTheInfluence: to Joe's disgust.

* HasAType: after being dumped by Dorothy, he immediately goes for Amber.

* JamesBondage: has to be rescued from a bunch of {{Jerk Jock}}s, including Beef, by Amazi-Girl.
* ThePowerOfLove: subverted.

* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: with Amber / Amazi-Girl--on the [[WildMassGuess assumption]] that they are one and the same. They are in ''Shortpacked'', and [=DoA!Amber=] acts in corresponding ways, but WordOfGod is that Amazi-Girl's alter ego will never appear in the strip, so it could all be {{Red Herring}}s.

* AmbiguousDisorder: {{fanon}} with a side of ShrugOfGod.
* AscendedExtra: she's seen in the background of a number of panels before she's formally introduced. Readers of ''It's Walky'' picked her out immediately, of course, but to newcomers she would seem to have evolved out of the woodwork.
* BeneathNotice: often finds herself trapped between the door and the wall of the room she shares with Amber.

* IconicItem: her NiceHat. {{Defictionalized}}.

* TagalongKid: takes this role in a lot of social groups. By which we mean that the social groups accidentally pick her up and carry her along.

* AmbitionIsEvil: subverted. Dorothy plans to be President of the United States, and the strip doesn't judge her for that.
* HollywoodAthiest: downplayed.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends, NotSoAboveItAll: to a much lesser extent than some of the other characters here, but she keeps finding herself distracted from her pre-law studies by, well, having a social life.

* UptightLovesWild: her romance with Walky has some shades of this.

* ComingOutStory: part of this comic's BackStory, since it was an active plotline in ''Shortpacked''. Evidently it happened at prom. [[TheirFirstTime In a hotel room that he had booked for himself and Amber]].

* IncompatibleOrientation: to Amber. Now also to Joyce, who is oblivious of his true nature.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: knows a ''lot'' about the opposite sex. Not as knowledgeable about much else.

* BerserkButton: the fact that AllMenArePerverts.

* CloudCuckoolander: despite being the best-socialized member of her home-school group. She at least isn't one of the "NoSocialSkills" characters.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: her best friend Becky's last words to her she heads out with Joyce's parents: "[[StaticCharacter Just don't let anyone change you, okay?]]"

* IJustWantToBeLoved: both in positive and negative connotations, as she is, by her own admission, seeking her MRS degree.
* InnocentBigot: like the best examples of the trope, when others call her on her UnfortunateImplications, she ''listens'' and [[CharacterDevelopment tries to adjust herself]].
* MoralityPet: to Sarah and Sal.

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/06-strange-beerfellows/know-2/ no, seriously]]. Combines with the DateRapeAverted to create a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality--not to mention a NightmareSequence.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: is explicitly attending college to get her MRS degree.

* LighterAndSofter: while he still goes out of his way to say things in the most negative way possible, he is far more involved in the emotional affairs of other characters, and his Heart Of Gold is a lot more overt.

** DisappearedDad: he's dead.
** PetTheDog: helped Dorothy figure out what to do about Danny.
* NotSoDifferent: to Billie, a semi-alcoholic girl with daddy issues and a willingness to use force to get her way.

* Yandere: and not just towards love interests, ''towards everybody''. (See AxCrazy.)

* DarkAndTroubledPast: held up two convenience stores as a teenager, and was sent away to a Catholic boarding school in Tennessee. Walky claims he has barely spoken to her in five years.

* PolarOppositeTwins: with Walky.
* SiblingRivalry: with Walky.

* TheUnfavorite: perhaps understandably, considering her track record, but she just as understandably resents it.

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: with Joyce.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: got her very-popular freshman-year roommate [[SecondhandStorytelling Dana]] expelled after she went on a [[MissingMom death-of-mother]]-fueled drug binge, endangering both her health and Sarah's ability to maintain her scholarships.
** IDidWhatIHadToDo: and it should be pointed out that, by and large, the fandom is on her side here. But since Dana was a StepfordSmiler and none of her friends caught on, ''they'' all consider it Sarah's MoralEventHorizon.

!!Walky

* HollywoodAthiest: played for laughs.

* OddFriendship: with Joyce, and one of the oddest ones she's developed because on the surface they have nothing in common, and deep down they... still have nothing in common.

* MistakenIdentity: invoked. Danny immediately becomes attracted to Amber when he first meets her. However, Amazi-Girl is depicted in such a way that she could have a lot of hair, and her ''modus operandi'' is very similar to that of {{Batman}}. You know who else resembles Batman? ''Sal'', who was Danny's FirstLove in ''Roomies!''. There's a reason the Fan Catch Phrase for the Walkyverse is "Damn you, Willis!!"

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: is a lesbian.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: handing out prophylactics. Just after having casual sex with Joe.
* EthicalSlut: in her own mind.
* TheMatchmaker: trying to set up Robin and Leslie.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: calls out Char for mocking Dina for her (perceived) mental retardation.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: shows UndyingLoyalty to Dana.
* NoPronunciationGuide: averted. Joyce enunciates "'''Rah''-ee-dah" for Billie's benefit.

* CloudCuckoolander: of the "space cadet" variety, contrasting with her rooomate Dorothy.

* EmbarrassingName: Evidently Jennifer Billingsley doesn't like to be called "Jennifer Billingsley," which is why she goes by "Billie" instead. (Walky bestowed the nickname on her during their childhood.)

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* DoesNotLikeShoes