History Characters / DumbingOfAge

* CluelessDudeMagnet: Oh, yes. In his wing, the only people who have interacted with him on-screen and ''not'' found him hot were Jacob and Walky, but he thinks being his nerdy interests and ethnoreligious status makes him unattractive, to the point that Mike has to spell it out for him that they truly do not.

* SherlockScan: Booster is able to accurately pick up on the emotional issues and hang-ups of ''everyone'' at the floor meeting in great depth, despite being introduced to most of them only a few hours earlier.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Mike, both visually and in terms of their ability to read people. Their first arc had commenters claiming semi-seriously that they're either Mike with a new identity, or somehow related to him. In-universe, Amber refers to them as "replacement Mike".

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:After Blaine manipulates him into participating into a kidnapping plot, Asher is heavily implied to have waited just long enough to let Blaine fuck things up for himself before alerting his grandfather to the scheme.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: [[spoiler:In the ''Walkyverse'' she and Joe are only close friends, but here they become a couple post-Book 10.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the ''Walkyverse'' she and Joe are only close friends, but here they become a couple post-Book 10.

* AdaptationalRomanceUpgrade: In the ''Walkyverse'' she and Joe are only close friends, but here they become a couple post-Book 10.

* BlackSheep: Of the Browns, though apparently for not doing what his parents told him.

* DressesTheSame: After the above incident where he and Walky wore the same hoodie and jacket, it's revealed [[https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/03-joementum/balls/ he was wearing a butt taco shirt underneath]].

Booster's Twin Sister.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: To an almost crippling extent, to the point where her teacher, classmates, and sibling accept that they need to wrangle her.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: He holds no grudge against Walky for punching him, and even joked with him about how they [[DressesTheSame dressed the same]] for breakfast.

[[folder:Charlie Sanchez]]
Booster's Twin Sister.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: To an almost crippling extent, to the point where her teacher, classmates, and sibling accept that they need to wrangle her.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Where Booster is perceptive and attentive to an almost GenreSavvy degree, Charlie is so distractible that she needs constant redirection.

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* ShadowArchetype: Charles' behavior does bring to mind Walky's, in particuar his passivity and {{Manchild}} aspects, without any of his CharacterDevelopment.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny!: To an almost crippling extent, to the point where her teacher and sibling accept that they need to wrangle her.

* AmbiguousSituation: Amber mentions that she's not sure whether Faz is "just" her stepbrother, or if like in the Walkyverse he's actually her half-brother, mainly because as Yuri isn't that much older than most of the cast, it would mean that Blaine cheated on her mother with someone who was just a teenager at the time. On Blaine's end he's ''quite'' insistent on making sure Faz refers to him solely as his stepfather, even when it's just him, Faz, and Yuri.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts nice to Amber in her first appearance, only to let her open contempt show when she's with her son and husband.
* TeenPregnancy: Implied, she's not that much older than most of the cast but has a 15-year old son.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Appeared in ''three'' strips, one of them Patreon-exclusive, near the tail end of Year 10, but is responsible for [[spoiler:Blaine's death]].

* AbusiveParents: Amber was deeply traumatized by him during her childhood.

* StepfordSmiler: The aforementioned smug smile doesn't go away once the plot begins to point out he's also a victim of Blaine's abuse.

[[folder:Liz Clinton]]
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Sarah's younger half-sister, who shows up to visit and proves oddly slow to go away again.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Sarah finds her very annoying. The more the comic shows of her, the more readers may understand this.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Liz has established a reputation at the university she attends as a good church-going girl. In fact, she has lost her faith, and is downright happy to play up an image of cynical atheism while visiting her sister's friends. She eventually admits that [[spoiler:preserving her reputation among her own friends is tiring and uncomfortable]]. But she's also somewhat hypocritical about her cynical unbelief; she plays up the bad girl style, but as it turns out, she [[spoiler:is still a virgin, and has [[MadonnaWhoreComplex instinctively old-fashioned attitudes]] on that subject]].
* SpoiledBrat: Sarah sees her as the beneficiary of ParentalFavoritism who doesn't even have the grace to acknowledge that she's been given more than her sister.

[[folder:Stacy Brannon]]

Amber's mother. She loves her daughter dearly, and is looking out for her well being. Sadly, her love life hasn't been great, to say the least.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She gets called out by her own daughter on this, with Amber pointing out she has a tendency to fall for horrible men, such as Blaine and Joe's dad.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: She has dropped her ex-husband's last name and returned to her maiden name, Brannon.
-->'''Mike:''' Good call.
* ParentsAsPeople: Though she clearly loves Amber and tries hard to be supportive and encouraging of her, Stacy isn't really equipped to deal with [[BrokenBird Amber's]] issues, and can therefore be a bit clumsy with her parenting.

[[folder:Linda and Charles Walkerton]]
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Sal and Walky's parents.

* AmicableExes: Linda seems to get along well with her ex-husband, Dean [=McHenry=]. [[spoiler:It's revealed post-timeskip that the reason Sal could ride her motorcycle on school grounds desite being a freshman is because Linda talked him into turning a blind eye towards it.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: While there's no excuse for the things she ends up doing, it's demonstrated that Linda truly does care about Sal and most of her deeds were rather misguided attempts at doing what she thought was best for her, without actually understanding that she was just making things worse. It's really not so much that she's a bad person, but more so that she's a horrible parent.

* OddFriendship: Appreciates Sarah's companionship because of her [[https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/riddles/ "directness"]]. Meanwhile, Dina's non-judgemental personality and quiet, low-maintenence demeanor make her a good match for Sarah's antisocial behavior.

* OnlySaneByComparison: Dina is an implied undiagnosed autistic with NoSocialSkills who is more interested in dinosaurs than people. She also had a comparatively angst-free childhood and ends up playing the OnlySaneMan to multiple more troubled characters, most notably Becky, Amber, Joyce and (sometime, but not always) Sarah.

* OddFriendship: Appreciates Sarah's companionship because of her [[https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/riddles/ "directness"]].

* TallDarkAndHandsome: He's one of the taller characters, and looks like (in Danny's words) "the love-child of Jake Gyllenhaal and Nightwing". Mike, of all people, tells him that his worries about being "undateable" are unfounded for this exact reason.

!!Miscellanious Off-Campus

* LadykillerInLove: Skirt-chaser he may be, he begins developing genuine romantic feelings for [[spoiler:Joyce]] as the comic goes on. He has a hard time processing them because his father's infidelity has disillusioned him to romantic relationships, and he isn't confident [[spoiler:Joyce]] will take his feelings seriously, [[spoiler:especially after how badly their date in the first book went.]]

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Despite how disastrous their first date went, he gets together with Joyce during their second semester.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sarah was forced to inform her last roommate Dana's father about her depression and drag abuse, which led to him taking her out of school. Since Dana was a StepfordSmiler and none of her friends caught on, ''they'' all consider Sarah to have crossed the MoralEventHorizon in order to preserve her scholarship.

** Even though they openly favor Walky, his mother is unflinching on his becoming a doctor, regardless of what he wants. When it's pointed out that he's in telecommunications, she responds that he is, "until he changes his mind."

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Although [[BehindTheBlack no-one noticed]] until she mentioned how a church carpet felt on her feet. When questioned, Sierra figures she hasn't worn shoes since sixth grade.
-->'''Sierra:''' I just don't like shoes. My feet get claustrophobic.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Carla deliberately and actively cultivates an image as a loud, obnoxious jerk who's impossible to ignore and does whatever the fuck she wants. That said, it's trivially easy to get her to help a floormate in need or generally do the right thing--though she's likely to contrive a reason why taking this action still qualifies her as a loud, obnoxious jerk.
** Her storyline in Book Six has her antagonism with [[TheFundamentalist Mary]] reach a boiling point, and Mary misgendering her in response. With Ruth asks if it would be so bad to tone it down, Carla points out that damn near everyone on the floor is kind of an asshole, that she has as much of a right to it as anyone, and that she shouldn't need to be perfect for her gender to be respected.

** Her storyline in Book Six has her antagonism with [[TheFundimentalist Mary]] reach a boiling point, and Mary misgendering her in response. With Ruth asks if it would be so bad to tone it down, Carla points out that damn near everyone on the floor is kind of an asshole, that she has as much of a right to it as anyone, and that she shouldn't need to be perfect for her gender to be respected.

* AdapatationalRomanceDowngrade: In the ''Walkyverse'' he and Joyce are an OfficialCouple, whereas here they could barely be considered friends and at times actively dislike one another, held together only by their mutual (girl)friend Dorothy.