History Characters / Unsounded

* {{Fingore}}: Starting in Chapter 17 during the khert fire, claws (or perhaps thorns) have started growing out of her hands.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Live in your best world". The story explores both the positives and negatives that this mindset can bring through Sette. On one hand, it can mean being true to yourself and finding opportunity in any scenario where others see only negativity, a mindset even Duane sees some value in. On the other hand, it also sometimes leads her to outright deny reality, visually portrayed by having things she's seen literally scribbled out in what looks like crayon to show her avoiding harsh realities that she otherwise struggles to cope with. [[spoiler:Taken to a horrifying extreme in Chapter 17, where she ''rips out and destroys'' her own memories that she can't cope with.]]

* KidWithTheLeash: Specifically to Duane, at night, when he's in zombie mode. [[spoiler:She possesses a necklace made by Bastion Winalils that lets her pacify him and seemingly control him to a certain extent.]]

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!!Jacaranda

Sette's twin brother. Essentially the inverse of Sette, while she is a human looking girl with some lion traits (her teeth and her tail), he is a lion boy with humanoid traits (his front paws are human hands). He died shortly after being born with Sette, but that isn't the end of his story...

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: His existence was foreshadowed pretty heavily, but it isn't until the final chapter of book 1 that Jacaranda makes his first proper appearance.
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[[folder: Arcwright Tesa Moli]]

[[folder: Maur]]

[[folder: Ruck]]

[[folder: Uaid]]

* DeadpanSnarker: [[IncrediblyLamePun Tee-hee]].

* HiddenBuxom: Spends most of her screen time wearing a metal breastplate. When out of it, she's revealed to be absolutely stacked, even lamenting that her [[IncrediblyLamePun "antibreast plate"]] was restricting her full power.

* TheHeavy: [[IncrediblyLamePun All lame puns aside]], his crimes drive the comic's plot despite hints that Starfish is a small fry in the grand scheme of things. [[spoiler:Later, it turns out the Two-Toe Lizard, Cutter, is his boss, and the mastermind behind the First Silver weapon.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: To everyone ,really. See BadBoss for the best display of this trope.

* FatalFlaw: Patriotism. Duane's worst qualities, especially his bigotry and self-righteousness, are borne from his life as a persecuted minority in the intensely regressive Alderode, but he clings so fiercely to his identity as an Aldishman that he refuses to accept his country's faults, [[spoiler:even when it becomes increasingly clear that it orchestrated his murder]]. What's more, he'll double down and retreat into his prejudiced nationalism whenever he finds himself morally challenged, with increasingly disastrous results for himself and those around him.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: She's not an untalented wright, but she's not a prodigy and next to Duane "finest wright in centuries", plat battlemage Quigley, and abomination-crafting Black Tongue Deliciou she's decidedly outclassed.

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[[caption-width-right:280:The Brat]]

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[[caption-width-right:280:The Runaway]]

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[[caption-width-right:280:The Innocent]]

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[[caption-width-right:280:The Queen]]

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[[caption-width-right:280:The High Priestess]]

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[[caption-width-right:280:The Chancellor]]

[[caption-width-right:280:the smith]]

* BodyHorror: The price of being an object of Ilganyag's attention. The torc he wears burrows into his neck if he so much as touches it, and is so closely entwined with his body he can no longer remove it; and there are barely stitched up cuts in his chest which, in a dream, open up into her eyes.

[[folder:Private Elan]]
!!Private Elan Aled

A Peaceguard private serving in Ethelmik.

* AlmostDeadGuy: Poor Cara lives just long enough to drop some breadcrumbs about Bastion, the "Black Tongue Doctor", before expiring from her wounds.
* InterruptedSuicide: Bastion dragged her away from the pyres her family was burning on when she tried to join them, telling her she had to live. She ended up running away from her uncle Seth's house because it smelled bad, being kidnapped, vivisected alive by [[spoiler:Bastion's friend]] and left to bleed out.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Stockyard's set him up as something of a local hero in town, since his bartering system has found a way to work around the unpopular economic systems Cresce has forced on them. Many in Ethelmik

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_41.html Subjects]] [[spoiler:Sette when she's being held at Stockyard's]] to this. Thankfully interrupted before it goes too far, though he does get away with a lock of hair and starts [[PervertedSniffing sniffing it]].

* SelfServingMemory: Sette "lives in her best world", and a big part of that is that she lies. Constantly. ''Especially'' to herself. [[spoiler:PlayedForHorror in Chapter 17, where it becomes clear she can ''rip out and destroy her own memories'', and will do it to ones that make her feel especially bad; she destroys her own memories of [[AttemptedRape Starfish]], and had Jivi not intervened, would've destroyed her own memories of meeting her FirstFriend Sara... because Sara died, and the trauma of facing the fact her first true friend drowned today is just too much to bear.]]

One of the heroes of the comic, Duane is a unique sort of zombie who has retained all of his intelligence, skills, and memories. He'd meant to make a quiet unlife in Sharteshane, copying legal documents and reading and writing letters for commission. However, when his condition was uncovered by the leader of the Frummagem crime family, Duane was given an ultimatum: either he escorts Boss-King Frummagem's daughter Sette to her cousin’s place to collect a debt the man owes Nary, or he can have his secret exposed to the whole town. Reluctantly he accepted, though he’s making an effort to try and make Sette a better person along the way.

* HorrorHunger: For flesh, which he is all too happy to indulge. Being sealed away from anything edible has made him very, ''very'' hungry. He'd like living flesh, but [[Autocannibalism he'll take what he can get]].