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* JacobMarleyAppeal: Though not actually a ghost, Phillis appears in Rose's visions usually in the uniform she was wearing when she was shot, with a (realistic or stylized, depends on the vision) wound at her left shoulder where the bullet hit her.

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* JacobMarleyAppeal: JacobMarleyApparel: Though not actually a ghost, Phillis appears in Rose's visions usually in the uniform she was wearing when she was shot, with a (realistic or stylized, depends on the vision) wound at her left shoulder where the bullet hit her.

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* BlindingBangsBerserkButton: For all her character flaws, 8 is a capable agent, so don't ''ever'' patronize her. Even on Roger, on whom she has a crush, she gets very pissed when he treats her in a condescending manner.
* BlindingBangs: Especially in the beginning, when most she does is [[TheTease flirting]] and giving Roger more-or-less helpful explanations about the work of Majestic. The more she's presented as a person who is vulnerable, gets angry, has her own opinions and things that are important to her, the more ofen her eyes are shown.
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* JacobMarleyAppeal: Though not actually a ghost, Phillis appears in Rose's visions usually in the uniform she was wearing when she was shot, with a (realistic or stylized, depends on the vision) wound at her left shoulder where the bullet hit her.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Well, his StayInTheKitchen attitude could be explained by the 1940's setting, but him [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-16--524 saying that Phillis shouldn't complain]] when he's getting "a little rought with her" is just not funny anymore and kicks the so-far seemingly NiceGuy Walter straight into {{Jerkass}} territory.
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* HeadbuttOfLove: Had one with Longus before departing for war.

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* EveryScarHasAStory: Longus has three large parallel scars on his back that he usually covers with his jacket. When Don asks about them in chapter 21, Longus tells him how he got them. [[spoiler:Magnus clawed his back open when he found Longus crying over Brevis' corpse.]]




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* SubordinateExcuse: He hoped that Brevis would take him into his service so they could stay close to each other. Brevis promised him that he would do so after the war, but never made it back alive.




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* TragicKeepsake: Longus' jacket was a present from Brevis, who told him to keep it until Brevis came back from war. Naturally, he didn't come back alive.


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* GenkiGirl: Her default mode, to an extent that annoys both Hue and Rose.
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* TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn: Why she locks Hue out of the Greys' spaceship when she catches him visiting Rose again without permission.
--> '''Shade''': If he wants to play as a human, he can survive as a human.
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* PuppyDodEyes: believe it or not, he can [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-14--449 pull these off]] on Gracelis.

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* PuppyDodEyes: PuppyDogEyes: believe it or not, he can [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-14--449 pull these off]] on Gracelis.
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* HumanAliens: They are more advanced than humans and have several abilities humans don't, but going by appearance, they can pass for tall, slender humans with long blond hair.
* RapunzelHair: Both male and female Nordics have long, wavy manes of blonde hair. In case of females, it can have red patches, as their hair grows red during the imes they are fertile (which are short and in wide intervals).

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* HumanAliens: They are more advanced than humans and have several abilities humans don't, but going by appearance, they can pass for tall, slender humans with long blond blonde hair.
* RapunzelHair: Both male and female Nordics have long, wavy manes of blonde hair. In case of females, it can have red patches, as their hair grows red during the imes times they are fertile (which are short and in wide intervals).

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited

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* AllLoveIsUnrequitedAllLoveIsUnrequited: She has a big crush on Roger and hits on him on a daily basis, but he makes it very clear that he wants to be with Rose, not her.



* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Well, her morals appear to be a bit off these days, but back when she worked as a street walker, she appeared to be just a girl who genuinely wanted what was best for her baby son.
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* EthicalSlut: 8 has no problems using her sexuality to get her way; besides of sleeping with Dr. Glasner, she blatantly flirts with Roger despite knowing he has a girlfriend. However, she also takes Roger under her wing when he's new at Majestic 12, is a proud and loving mom, even though she had to give her son to a foster family, and she doesn't take well to Roger's newly violent outbursts.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Well, her morals appear to be a bit off these days, but back when she She worked as a street walker, she but appeared to be just a girl who genuinely wanted what was best for her baby son.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpaceNoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She's always getting up into someone's personal space, be it 6, Roger, or Dr. Glasner. However, she reacts very sensibly when it's her personal space that's being intruded by Magnus.



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* SleepingWithTheBossSleepingWithTheBoss: She has an ongoing affair with Dr. Glasner, though neither of them appears to care about the other in any more deep way.



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* InterspeciesRomanceInterspeciesRomance: He and human Don have one of the most solid and least problematic relationships in the comic. However, as [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-15--507 Quazky points out]], by standards of Majestic 12 their romance is illegal.

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* DirtyOldMan: His deceased fiancee Abigail is called his "child bride" by Walter, so she might have been a good deal younger than him, he's pretty intrusive towards Phillis before her catatonia, not speak of the creepy way he talks to her when he's [[PeopleJars preserved her in a tank]]. Also, he has sex with 8 in his laboratory knowing fully well that Phillis is conscious and an involuntary witness. She's visibly disgusted.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [=EBE1=] is a rather abrasive and unscrupulous character. Still, his feelings for Phillis are undeniable.
--> '''Phillis''': Do you just live in space now?
--> '''[=EBE1=]''': Yes.
--> '''Phillis''': Do you like it?
--> '''[=EBE1=]''': No.
--> '''Phillis''': Do you like ''anything''?
--> '''[=EBE1=]''': You.
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* WhenHeSmiles: Phillis is very flabbergasted to see him smile, then notes if he were human, she'd be in love by now.



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* PuppyDodEyes: believe it or not, he can [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-14--449 pull these off]] on Gracelis.

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* DontCallMeSir: He [[InvertedTrope inverts]] that with Hue, as he insists on not being adressed as "Father" by him, but as "Sir" or "Commander".



* HumanShifting: In opposite to the Greys, they don't actually need the ''Trying Human'' circuits to appear ( [[HughMan halfway]] ) human, as Reptoids can shapeshift. Keeping up a human form over a long time takes them a lot of concentration though.




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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Gracelis is temperamental and bossy, but nonetheless generous and caring, and using her ''Trying Human'' circuit, she appears [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-5--154 as a beautiful blonde lady]]. Of course, as a Reptoid, she doesn't really have hair.
* PrettyInMink: She always wears a long pelt-framed coat.

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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Well, her morals appear to be a bit off these days, but back when she worked as a street walker, she appeared to be just a girl who genuinely wanted what was best for her baby son.



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* InterspeciesRomanceBeingWatched: He noticed Guinea and Pig watching him and Rose [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-11--351 from a distance]].
* InterspeciesRomance: He has a huge crush on Rose, and when she has a full grasp of her memories, Rose seems to reciprocate. So far, they have an InterspeciesFriendship, but they already kissed once, and the romantic overtones have been there from the beginning.



* ArchEnemy: They are this to the Nordics

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Nordics, as their rivalry for territory on several planets culminated in a war.
* FantasticRacism: Mixed offspring of a Draconian and a Terran Reptoid is considered an atrocity. That could be why the apparent affection between Gracelis and her servant Quazky is frowned upon by Magnus.
* ServantRace: The Terran Reptoids are this to the Draconian Reptoids; as they have been created by the Draconians, they are in their debt and are mostly treated like indentured servants.



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!! Quazky
Hue's best friend, a quirky Terran Reptoid.

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!! Quazky
Hue's best friend, a quirky Terran Reptoid.
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Two slightly varying races of TheReptilians, intelligent, tall "lizard people". They appear to be the most aggressive and / or mischievous of the alien species.



* ArchEnemy: They are this to the Nordics

!! Quazky
Hue's best friend, a quirky Terran Reptoid.
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* HumanAliens: They are more advanced than humans and have several abilities humans don't, but going by appearance, they can pass for tall, slender humans with long blond hair.




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* UnusualEyebrows: The only thing that differs them visibly from humans; their eyebrows look like some sort of sensory antennae protruding from their faces to either side.

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* TheLostLenore: He's this for Longus, and he was strongly implied to have reciprocated Longus' feelings.

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* TheLostLenore: He's this for Longus, and he was strongly implied to have reciprocated Longus' feelings.
* MercifulMinion: Magnus sent him to hunt down and kill the Nordic woman Fatima, but when he'd found her, Brevis advised her to run away and hide.



!! Fatima
A Nordic who used to spend some time on earth when she had to take flight during the Nordic-Reptoid war. [[spoiler: She's Rose's mother.]]

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!! Fatima
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The most human-looking species of aliens, and they claim that earth's humanity descended from them.
A Nordic who used to spend some time on earth when she had to take flight during the Nordic-Reptoid war. [[spoiler: She's Rose's mother.]]peace-loving, very advanced species that's meanwhile going extinct though.



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!! Vereveil
Fatima's partner. Seems friendly, though he's mute due to an injury at his throat.

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RapunzelHair: Both male and female Nordics have long, wavy manes of blonde hair. In case of females, it can have red patches, as their hair grows red during the imes they are fertile (which are short and in wide intervals).

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Fatima's partner. Seems friendly, though he's mute due
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FantasticRacism: [[SubvertedTrope Surprisingly, no]]. You'd expect her to be hostile towards or at least afraid of Reptoids after the war and seeing what Reptoids did to her partner, but she treats Quazky politely, though she insists that he cannot enter the Nordic ship (probably so as not to upset other Nordics).
* InterspeciesRomance: For several years, she lived with a human man, Jacob Williams, with whom she had [[HalfHumanHybrid a child]].

!! Vereveil
Fatima's partner. Seems friendly, though he's mute due to an injury at his throat.
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* HeroicSacrifice: He pushed Fatima into a rescue capsule when their ship was attacked by Reptoids, he himself staying behind. He survived the attack, but was severely hurt and lost his voice in the process.
* TheSpeechless: Lost his ability to speak during the war. Fatima says that a Draconian Reptoid soldier "ripped Vereveil's voice right out his throat", and he has a large scar to prove it. Nordics can communicate through telepathy as well, but Vereveil has chosen not to do so ever since he lost his voice.

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* CampGay: [[DownplayedTrope Very downplayed]]. His mannerisms are no different from any other teenage boys', but he wears nail polisher and make-up.



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InterspeciesRomance: His relationship with Longus that only gets really established as such ''after'' Longus has told Don what and who he is.
* TheTwinkTheTwink: Not yet 18, a PrettyBoy, a bit naive and {{Adorkable}}, is gay and deals with (perceived or really experienced) rejection from his family because of it.



* CatchPhrase: Greys usually say "well eve" instead of "goodbye". [[spoiler:Catatonic Phillis [[http://www.tryinghuman.com/comic/chapter-18--677 has taken up]] on this.]]



* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Could be, as [=EBE1=] claims the Greys have no such thing as religion. Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] though, as he associates Phillis, whom he calls Philena, with something he calls "Queen of the Moon", which appears to be a mythological figure.



Commander of the Greys, and Hue's genetical origin. In 1947, he was kept at Area 51, where he met Phillis Lennox and formed an intense bond with her.

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Commander of the Greys, and Hue's genetical genetic origin. In 1947, he was kept at Area 51, where he met Phillis Lennox and formed an intense bond with her.


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* DeadpanSnarker: For a supposedly emotionless alien, he shows pretty blunt sarcasm.
--> '''General Merraine''': This is Roger. He's joining Majestic 12 soon, so you better watch yourself.
--> '''[=EBE1=]''': I'm shaking.

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!! Hue
The black sheep among the Greys - he has feelings, and a lot of them for Rose. The two of them strike up an unusual, difficult, but deep friendship.

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The black sheep among
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the Greys - he has feelings, name says, TheGreys can be identified with the namesake trope of aliens. They are tall, have light grey skin and a lot of them for Rose. The two of them strike up an unusual, difficult, but deep friendship.very large eyes, telepathic abilities and not very expressive emotions.


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* AlienAbduction: They take humans on their ship on a regular basis to examine them and take samples of their DNA [[spoiler:which they need to breed HalfHumanHybrids, a desperate attempt to save something of their dying species.]]
* BigGuyLittleGuy: It seems rather common that one of the tall Greys (about 7 foot) is accompanied by one of the small Greys (less than 5 foot) who assists them.
* NonHumansLackAttributes: [[LampshadeHanging Pointed out by more than one person]], the Greys just have a kinda U-shaped crotch. Males and females can't be differed by appearance in any way.
* PsychicPowers: Greys are both telepathic and telekinetic. The latter can make them appear much stronger than they actually are; indeed, they are physically weaker than humans.
* {{TheStoic}}: Most of the Greys don't get emotional easily, the exception being Hue. There are several hints that they do feel anger, jealousy, worries etc. but don't express it like humans do.

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The black sheep among the Greys - he has feelings, and a lot of them for Rose. The two of them strike up an unusual, difficult, but deep friendship.
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!! Magnus
A highly unpleasant Draconian Reptoid warrior who's usually to find at Area 51, working with Majestic, or around Gracelis.
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Magnus' younger brother, a Draconian Reptoid soldier who died in war.
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!! Donald "Don" Marden
An average NYC 17-year-old boy who just happened to catch the eye of Longus and thus was rescued from becoming a meal for Reptoids.
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!! Fatima
A Nordic who used to spend some time on earth when she had to take flight during the Nordic-Reptoid war. [[spoiler: She's Rose's mother.]]
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!! Quazky
Hue's best friend, a quirky Terran Reptoid.
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Quazky's younger brother, a Terran Reptoid who's been living and working on earth for some twenty years.
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A highborn Draconian Reptoid lady who has taken a shine to Quazky.
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A highly unpleasant Draconian Reptoid warrior who's usually to find at Area 51, working with Majestic, or around Gracelis.
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The head scientist of the Greys, and a professional. She doesn't approve of Hue's shenanigans.

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!! Walter Edwards (1947)
A co-worker of Phillis at Area 51, and one of the first Majestic agents.

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The black sheep among the Greys - he has feelings, and a lot of them for Rose. The two of them strike up an unusual, difficult, but deep friendship.
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Commander of the Greys, and Hue's genetical origin. In 1947, he was kept at Area 51, where he met Phillis Lennox and formed an intense bond with her.
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The head scientist of the Greys, and a professional. She doesn't approve of Hue's shenanigans.
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A small female Grey who used to be Shade's assistant and subject of experiments at Area 51 since 1978. Currently, she's with her partner, "Guinea".
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!! Rose Marie Williams
Our main protagonist in present time. Rose started out having strange dreams an inexplicable nosebleeds. Meanwhile she's dealing with several alien species and her boyfriend's increasingly shady job shenanigans.
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A young woman who worked around aliens at Area 51 in 1947, but seems to have left a message that is to be found by Rose in present day.
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The head scientist in Area 51, and a rather unscrupulous individual.
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Rose's boyfriend, former police officer and now Majestic agent.
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A Majestic agent, colleague of Roger (of whom he disapproves) and 8 (whom he likes ''a lot'').
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