Line #100 Characters/Uhu


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3	[[folder:Polter]]
4	--> '''Played by:''' Rune Hekkelstrand
5	The official leader and host of the HauntedHouse, and the only character who appears in all the episodes. Polter's the only one who knows everyone's missions, as it's his job to take all newcomers to the Oracle so they can receive said mission. His own mission remains a mystery until the very last episode -- when we learn, not surprisingly, that his mission was to make sure all the other ghosts managed to leave the house.
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8	* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of only two ghosts to do this. Roughly OnceAnEpisode, Polter will address the audience, [[FourthWallGreeting say hello (or "uhu!")]], explain to them what's going on, remind them of anything from previous episodes they might have missed, or otherwise share his thoughts on a situation.
9	* CannotSpitItOut: With Ridder Reddik. He ''likes'' her, and is pretty sure she likes him back, but can't ever bring himself to actually tell her -- not until the very last episode.
10	* NiceGuy: Polter is a kind, sympathetic and cheerful sort; though he's supposed to be a sort of leader he tries his best to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who rarely takes authority over the others unless he has to. He does have his limits, however.
11	* OnlySaneMan: He frequently plays this to the other ghosts, trying to act as the voice of reason when they get too carried away with their antics. Though occasionally he will pick up the IdiotBall, like when he was trying to stage a theatrical production of ''Literature/ThreeBillyGoatsGruff'' and it took him until a good while into the rehersal to realize that he'd only cast two out of the three billy goats.
12	* SecretKeeper: Apart from the Oracle, Polter is the only one in the HauntedHouse who knows everyone's missions. He often has to help them keep their secrets from each other, because sometimes they get a little carried away with what they say.
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15	[[folder:Napoleon]]
16	--> '''Played by:''' Åsmund Huser
17	The baker's ghost. Napoleon used to be a baker in Copenhagen, and as a ghost he still has a passion for baking. He seldom leaves the kitchen, partly because he's a little anxious about what might be outside it, and partly because his mission is to bake the world's best chocolate cake. Frustratingly, though, however much he tries to bake a chocolate cake all he ever manages to make are Napoleon Pastries. At the end of the second season he and Blitzabeth get married, and in the third season they have a daughter named Delfia.
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20	* BerserkButton: While Napoleon is a peaceable sort who doesn't like to argue, one thing can get him angry: Insulting his baking, or saying bad things about baking in general.
21	* TheDeterminator: Napoleon has been at the HauntedHouse the longest of all the ghosts, and all this time he's barely done anything but try and fail to accomplish his mission. Despite constant setbacks, he never gives up... he may be upset about the setback, but after moaning for a bit he'll be back at it, making another attempt. Even when all the ghosts in the house sink into a depression because they think they'll never manage their missions, Napoleon mopes along with the others... and then decides he might as well give it ''one more try.''
22	* HenpeckedHusband: After marrying Blitzabeth, there are moments where it looks like he'll turn into this... but surprisingly, for the most part it's averted.
23	* LovableCoward: Napoleon is a bit of a wimp who scares easily and prefers to avoid confrontation whenever he can. On occasion he can step up and become more of a CowardlyLion... or he might briefly lose his temper if you [[BerserkButton insult his baking]].
24	* SweetBaker: He's friendly, sympathetic and caring -- a little timid and conflict-shy, but a NiceGuy to the extreme. He's also very passionate about his baking, even if he suffers constant disappointments when the chocolate cake he wanted to make turns out as a Napoleon Pastry ''yet again''.
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28	[[folder:Geir Gatsby]]
29	--> '''Played by:''' Espen Reboli Bjerke
30	The rascal ghost. Geir Gatsby is Polter's best friend; a trickster and a clown who's just a ''little'' too fond of pranking everyone, particularly Blitzabeth. He's got the easiest mission of all the ghosts; he's supposed to hang a picture up on the wall. However, he never gets around to doing it, mostly because he likes living in the HauntedHouse. In the third season he finally does hang up the picture and goes to Hermetika, but turns out to be able to still pull the occasional prank even if he's not physically there anymore.
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33	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: At first, Geir Gatsby comes across as supremely self-confident and even a little arrogant. But he's actually really insecure and it doesn't take a lot for him to lose confidence in himself or to think that other people don't like him. The second season pretty much confirms that the reason he doesn't want to complete his mission and go to Hermetika is that he's scared to -- what if nobody there likes him?
34	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Geir Gatsby is [[ManChild not the most mature of ghosts]], and a lot of his worst behaviour and comments merely happen because he doesn't realize how hurtful he can be.
35	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Few ghosts cause more trouble or causes more headaches for the other inhabitants of the house than Geir Gatsby does. Either he's pranking, tricking or teasing them, or he plays games with them and cheats in order to win. When he's always forgiven in the end, it's because he's never ''malicious'', he just can't help himself when he senses a good joke. If you catch him in the right mood, he's pleasant and helpful.
36	* ThePrankster: Geir Gatsby ''loves'' pulling pranks on his friends -- particularly on Blitzabeth, because [[TheGadfly it's so funny to rile her up]].
37	* PutOnABus: Geir Gatsby is the second main ghost to leave the series, after Cumulus. When Obus arrives at the house at the beginning of the third season, Geir Gatsby suddenly decides in a hurry that it's time for him to hang up that picture and go to Hermetika. Turns out they had met as humans, and Geir Gatsby had stolen her hat and cane, so he was afraid of the retribution. (They do reconcile just before he leaves, and he gives back the cane, though she says he can keep that hat).
38	* VitriolicBestBuds: Develops this dynamic with Blitzabeth. They're always fighting about ''something,'' usually because he can't resist trying to egg her up, but in the secons season they spend a lot of time together and team up on a number of occasions.
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41	[[folder:Blitzabeth]]
42	--> '''Played by:''' Kirsti Grundvig
43	The angry ghost. Blitzabeth arrives at the HauntedHouse in the very first episode, and all through the series she nags and complains and yells at everyone. Her mission is to stop complaining and start being nice, but even if she softens up a bit over time, especially after marrying Napoleon and becoming the mother of Delfia, she has huge problems admitting to feeling nice or having fun.
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46	* EekAMouse: Blitzabeth isn't afraid of anything... except animals, and especially mice. Seeing a mouse sends her into a panic.
47	* HiddenHeartOfGold: Blitzabeth can come across as a nagging, uptight {{Jerkass}}, but deep down she's not as hard-hearted as she pretends, and she repeatedly demonstrates that she ''does'' care about the other ghosts... she just has problems showing it and prefers hiding her feelings behind an angry mask.
48	* PerpetualFrowner: Blitzabeth doesn't smile, or laugh, or react to anything with more than annoyance. She gets a ''little'' better as the series goes on, especially as she gets married to Napoleon and becomes mother to Delfia, but she doesn't manage to shake her perpetual frown until the very last episode.
49	* PetTheDog: She'll have moments where she acts nicer, though usually she tries to hide it and downplay it afterwards. Napoleon and Delfia are the ones she'll most frequently act nice to, but she has surprisingly many moments with Geir Gatsby as well.
50	* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the third season, Blitzabeth angers the Oracle and gets sentenced to the Slampamper islands. The Slampamper bus arrives and takes her away... and then at the end of the episode returns with her. Turns out she started a row with the bus driver and argued so much that he just gave up and returned her home rather than be saddled with her for the entire journey. In other words, Blitzabeth almost ended up in the bad afterlife but was kicked out because they couldn't stand her there. She summed up the experience thusly: "I've never been so insulted in all my life!"
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54	[[folder:Albert]]
55	--> '''Played by:''' Harald Stoltenberg
56	The inventor's ghost. Albert lives in the attic of the haunted house, where he performs experiments that are partly scientific and partly magical, and invents all sorts of strange machines, devices and potions. His mission is to invent a brand new color.
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59	* BunglingInventor: He's partly this and partly a GadgeteerGenius. He makes amazing inventions, but they don't always work as intended.
60	* DitzyGenius: He's a brilliant inventor and scientist, but he's not as good with common sense... or with social cues, for that matter.
61	* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: He wears one, but it's splattered with paints and colors from his experiments.
62	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He's just as home with chemistry as he is with machinery, and has at least a working knowledge of most other sciences, including [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic magic]].
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65	[[folder:Ridder Reddik]]
66	--> '''Played by:''' Liv-Unni Larsson Undall
67	The knightly ghost. Ridder Reddik (translated something like "The Radish Knight") is a heroic female knight, always ready to throw herself into danger to fight evil and protect the innocent. Of course, she doesn't have many chances to do either when she's stuck in the HauntedHouse, but the willingness is there. Her mission is to find the Holy Marmalade Jar, which is supposedly hidden somewhere in the house.
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70	* BerserkButton: For much of the series, dragons. [[FantasticRacism She's absolutely convinced that all dragons are evil]], and if she even ''thinks'' there's a dragon nearby, she forgets everything else and only thinks about slaying it. She has several near-encounters with the Mute Dragon before finally discovering that he's there late in the second season -- and then, despite Polter and Geir Gatsby assuring her that this dragon is friendly, grows obsessed with killing him. Luckily, the dragon manages to prove to her that he doesn't mean anyone any harm, and she finally accepts that ''some'' dragons are actually quite nice.
71	* CannotSpitItOut: She's not ''as'' bad as Polter is, though she does seem reluctant to take the first step in turning their relationship romantic... and the one time she tries, gets horribly embarrassed asking him straight out and turns it into an overly saccharine "playing house" game that ends up annoying and confusing both of them.
72	* GreenEyedMonster: She's prone to jealousy, usually if she thinks Polter is paying attention to some other female ghost -- but she also gets jealous if someone else starts doing heroic things, as she thinks ''she's'' the only hero the house needs. It took her a while to warm up to Obus because of this.
73	* KnightInShiningArmor: When she was alive she was a KnightErrant who roamed the land helping people in need, slaying dragons and performing heroic deeds. As a ghost, her attitude is largely unchanged, and her armor is still shininng, even if she doesn't get the chance to perform many heroic deeds.
74	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's a brave knight always ready for action, but she still wears a dress underneath her scale mail and she has a soft spot for children. She's also very much in touch with her emotions and isn't afraid to show it when she's upset or scared. She also displays a very ''feminine'' talent for PassiveAggressiveKombat towards Polter when he's insulted her.
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77	[[folder:Berit Smerit Perit]]
78	--> '''Played by:''' Mia Gundersen
79	The diva's ghost. In the 1930s when she was alive, Berit Smerit was a famous French singer and actress who had earned the title "Europe's second biggest diva." Becoming a ghost hasn't changed her attitude, or vanity, one bit. Her mission is to teach Albert to dance the cha-cha-cha, but she doesn't often manage to convince him to dance with her.
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82	* AccidentalMisnaming: Berit Smerit Perit can never seem to remember that Polter's name isn't "Pjolter." She also has a tendency to misremember Hermetika and the Slampamper Islands as "America" and "the Canary Islands."
83	* AttentionWhore: Berit Smerit wants the spotlight and the adoring attention of the crowd, and doesn't like sharing it with others.
84	* TheDiva: She switches back and forth between being this and ThePrimaDonna. On a good day, she can Diva it up with the best of them, being a classy, self-reliant and confident woman... on a bad day, she can lapse into downright childishness, sulk and throw temper tantrums if she doesn't get her way.
85	* DramaQueen: Of course you don't get to be "Europe's second biggest diva" without having a bit of a DramaQueen in you. Berit Smerit is prone to melodrama and ComicalOverreacting, though less extremely so than you might think.
86	* ItsAllAboutMe: She can be ''incredibly'' self-centered, shrugging off bad things that happens to others while breaking out the melodrama if something happens to ''her.'' Quite often she just assumes she's the center of everyone's attention and is totally oblivious to how they're actually running around and desperately trying to deal with problems that don't involve her at all.
87	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's selfish, self-centered, arrogant, demanding, sometimes childishly unreasonable, and not always the most honest of people. But she's also kind and generous, she's got a bit of a romantic streak, and when good fortune smiles upon her friends she's the first one to congratulate and hug them and be happy for them.
88	* TheMatchmaker: She's perfectly aware that Polter and Ridder Reddik like each other, and will sometimes take steps to push them closer together... though she tends to underestimate how much the two CannotSpitItOut.
89	* SmallNameBigEgo: Berit Smerit was famous and successful in life, and this led to her having a rather inflated opinion of herself. She's not ''quite'' a KnowNothingKnowItAll, as she's a genuinely good singer, dancer and performer, and ''has'' picked up a lot of knowledge while touring Europe as a human in the 1930s, but she tends to think of or at least present herself as much more talented, knowledgeable and clever than she really is. For instance, she speaks three languages fluently, but tells everyone else that she speaks over fifty.
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92	[[folder:Ivers and Avers]]
93	--> '''Played by:''' Anje Isene (Ivers) and Isa Maline Isene (Avers)
94	Twin ghosts. Ivers and Avers are the ghosts of two young twin girls, though we don't get their backstory and don't know why they died so young. Their mission is to sleep for one year -- they almost managed it once, but were woken up when there was only one day left, so they had to start all over... and of course then they couldn't get back to sleep. In the second season they have their own sub-segment going on, as they join Cumulus outside the house and meet human children.
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97	* AscendedExtra: In the first season they're really only in a few episodes, hanging around the house and not being able to sleep. In the second season they join Cumulus in her "meeting children" segments, and for a while they appear in almost every episode, even if they don't interact with the ghosts in the HauntedHouse.
98	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted. They resemble one another, but don't look completely identical. They even explain in their debut episode that twins don't always have to look identical.
99	* CheerfulChild: Apart from a few moments with mischief and quarreling, they're well-behaved and sweet-natured girls with sunny dispositions.
100	* TheDividual: Twindividual variant. They're always together, they share the same mission, and seem to share the same personality as well. In the first season, they came across more as SingleMindedTwins, with one twin always repeating what the other just said, but this was dropped for the second season.
101	* PutOnABus: Ivers and Avers are collectively the third departure from the series, after Cumulus and Geir Gatsby. Having spent the second season going around with Cumulus, they decide to go back to sleep after she leaves, in the hope of completing their mission so they can reunite with her in Hermetika. Early in the third season, they reappear, having managed to sleep for an entire year, and are sent off to Hermetika.
102	* TwinThemeNaming: "Ivers" and "Avers."
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105	[[folder:Cumulus]]
106	--> '''Played by:''' Liv Gulbrandsen (as an adult), Rosa Engebrigtsen Bye (as a child)
107	The "opposite" ghost. Where all the other ghosts turn invisible if they leave the HauntedHouse and can only be seen by humans if they wear a bedsheet, Cumulus is only visible ''outside'' the house and turns invisible if she enters it, and can be seen by humans all the time. She also has quite a bit more spectral energy left, meaning that she still displays a lot of supernatural abilities. Her mission is to travel around and talk to human children, and in the second season she decides to transform herself into a child in order to be more at home around them. She also strikes up a close friendship with Ivers and Avers, who join her on her travels.
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110	* AgeLift: In-universe. In the second season, she transforms herself into a child in order to better interact with the human children she's supposed to help, until she reverts back to an adult to signify that she's completed her mission and can return to the HauntedHouse to be sent of to Hermetika.
111	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Cumulus is the only ghost other than Polter to do this, and only in her adult form, when she'll infrequently address the audience with her thoughts on today's subject. When she turns into a child in the second season she stops doing it -- probably because for that season she has Ivers and Avers to interact with.
112	* FriendlyGhost: Most of the ghosts in the series are pretty friendly, but Cumulus is the one who actually likes humans, listens to their troubles, and does her best to help them out.
113	* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Ivers and Avers, though it's played with. Sure, Ivers and Avers are children and Cumulus is an adult, but since all of them are ghosts and have been ghosts for at least a century it's impossible to say just how big the age difference really is. It gets further muddled when Cumulus spends most of the second season as a child herself.
114	* PutOnABus: Cumulus is the first main ghost to complete her mission and be sent to Hermetika. At the end of the second season, after having gone around in child form for most of the season, she reverts to her adult form, indicating that her spectral energy ran out and that she's completed her mission.
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117	[[folder:Obus]]
118	--> '''Played by:''' Helén Vikstvedt
119	The secret agent ghost. Obus is a "quadruple agent"; professional, stylish and utterly fearless (apart from a tendency to freak out and attack at sudden noises). She arrives at the ghost house at the beginning of the third season and sticks around until the finale. She actually has '''two'' missions, one regular and one secret. The regular mission is to perform as many heroic deeds as she can. The secret mission is to [[spoiler: reveal and expose the spy in the HauntedHouse.]]
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122	* ActionGirl: As a Quadruple Agent, she's very much this. She's lived a very action-filled and perilous life, both as a human and as a ghost. Apart from Ridder Reddik, she's the only ghost who shows any sort of combat skills -- though where Ridder Reddik fights with a sword, Obus's specialty is hand-to-hand combat.
123	* FireForgedFriends: With Ridder Reddik. The two did ''not'' get along when Obus first showed up, mainly because neither of them thought there were room for ''two'' heroes in the house. They eventually became friends after saving each other from a mutant pastry dough monster.
124	* InsistentTerminology. She's a ''quadruple'' agent, not just a "normal boring single agent."
125	* OvertOperative: For a ''secret'' agent, she's very open about her profession. Not only does she do around wearing a stereotypical BadassLongcoat and fedora, she introduces herself to everyone as a "quadruple agent."
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128	[[folder:Delfia]]
129	--> '''Played by:''' Maiken Kolle Riskild
130	Napoleon and Blitzabeth's daughter. Delfia was born early in the third season, which came as quite a shock to her parents -- especially when she turned out to be a wild and uncontrollable mischief-maker. Since she was born as a ghost, Delfia has never been human and doesn't remember any other life than in the haunted house. She also doesn't have a mission, since the Oracle decreed Delfia would go to Hermetika when Blitzabeth did.
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133	* BrattyHalfPint: Delfia is a little rascal; always getting into mischief and doing things she's not supposed to. She can also act out in more destructive ways, especially if she feels unfairly treated.
134	* ChildrenAreInnocent: In a glorious mix with ChildrenAreCruel. Delfia can be selfish, self-centered and mean-spirited, but that's because she's a kid who doesn't know any better. She's also filled with an innocent wonder of the world around her, she doesn't have any preconceptions and prejudices, and can also be very sweet and cuddly if she's in that mood.
135	* DreadfulMusician: She's a good singer, but when it comes to musical instruments she's not as good. In one episode, she takes up playing the bagpipes as a hobby and the other ghosts ''really'' want her to find another hobby.
136	* ForbiddenFruit: Her opinion about missions is tied to this trope. Soon after she's born, Polter tells her that she needs to get a mission from the Oracle, and Delfia declares this "the stupidest thing I've heard!" However, when the Oracle tells her she ''can't have'' a mission, she's furious at the unfairness and spends much of the rest of the series demanding that she get one.
137	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In a CompositeCharacter kind of way, she fulfills the roles of both Geir Gatsby (the rascally troublemaker) and Ivers and Avers (the young child).
138	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Since she's born as a ghost, Delfia neatly skips the "baby" and "toddler" stages of her development and is born able to walk and talk and take care of herself. Not quite BornAsAnAdult, since she looks and acts about eight or nine, but still -- you wouldn't know from looking at her that she was actually less than a year old.
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141	[[folder:The Oracle]]
142	--> '''Played by''' Hege Waagbø
143	A mysterious, semi-shapeless FlyingFace who lives in a special room in the HauntedHouse. It's the Oracle who gives out all the missions to the ghosts who arrive at the house, and also seems to be the one who decides when the ghosts have succeeded or failed at their missions. The Oracle is often in a bad mood and always speaks in rhyme.
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146	* AmbiguousGender: The Oracle's gender, if Oracles even have genders in this universe, is unknown. Polter usually uses "it" pronouns when referring to the Oracle -- this doesn't seem to be a case of ItIsDehumanizing, as Polter has ''huge'' respect for the Oracle.
147	* AscendedExtra: In the first season and most of the second season, the Oracle is only seen in its room and only appears when a new ghost is to receive a mission. Later episodes tend to feature the Oracle a lot more; it becomes far more common to see it outside its room, or for it to actually get involved in the plots. It's even PromotedToOpeningTitles in the third season.
148	* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Oracle is a goofy-looking puppet blob thing who speaks in bad rhyme and generally acts like a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}... but get this a goofy-looking puppet blob thing angry enough and you'll see just how ''powerful'' Oracles really are. Small wonder that Polter always seemed slightly nervous around the Oracle -- it wasn't ''all'' because he feared being sent to the Slampamper Islands.
149	* FlyingFace: The Ocacle is just a weird-looking floating head ([[StylisticSuck which is an obvious paper mache puppet]]).
150	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Oracle often seems callous and can be downright ''mean'' at times, but can also be reasonable and even affable. Some of the missions are weird or difficult, but they're never impossible.
151	* RhymesOnADime: The Oracle ''always'' talks in rhyme. The rhymes aren't always very ''good'', mind.
152	* VocalEvolution: Early in the series, the Oracle speaks in a high-pitched, cartoony voice. As the series goes on, the pitch lowers a bit and the voice becomes less cartoony and more normal.
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155	[[folder:The Mute Dragon]]
156	--> '''Played by''' Unknown
157	A dragon who lives in the attic. He's basically friendly, but doesn't really do a whole lot other than sit around and read magazines. For a long time Ridder Reddik didn't know there was a dragon in the house, and the other ghosts kept it from her because as a knight she'd sworn to slay all dragons... when she finally found out late in the second season, there were a few clashes but she eventually accepted that the dragon was harmless and didn't deserve to be slain. [[spoiler:There is slightly more to the dragon than meets the eye, though... it turns out he's [[TheMole a plant]] from another HauntedHouse, there to find out just how the ghosts in Polter's house managed their missions. He was genuinely apologetic about it when he was found out in the third season.]]
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160	* DelightfulDragon: Though Ridder Reddik insists that dragons are AlwaysChaoticEvil, this one is friendly and helpful, if a bit of a LazyBum. [[spoiler: Even though he turns out to be TheMole that it was Obus's secret mission to reveal, he's not malicious -- he did it as a favor to his friend Poster.]]
161	* LazyBum: He's supposed to be kind of an assistant to Albert, but he seldom bothers to actually do anything to help him out.
162	* PutOnABus: Mid-third season, [[spoiler: after he's revealed to be TheMole. He returns to his original house, though when the other ghosts find out he was only spying on them to help a friend in need, they forgive him and he parts on good terms with them.]]
163	* TheVoiceless: He can't talk or make any other noise. Mostly he gets his point across by gesturing.

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