| 1 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 2 | !Main Characters |
| 3 | |
| 4 | [[folder:Angela Hawthorne]] |
| 5 | [[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angela_hawthorne.jpg]] |
| 6 | [[caption-width-right:400:[[labelnote:Angela Palmer]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tftt_profile_angela.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 7 | '''LawfulGood Human''' \ |
| 8 | '''Paladin, Oath of Devotion (Formerly Fighter, Battlemaster)'''\ |
| 9 | |
| 10 | A heroine from Waterdeep, the daughter of the Waterdhavian captain of the City Guard, who embarks on a journey to form an adventuring party whose name brings to mind protectors and saviors of the Sword Coast, in hopes of finding her convicted father one day.\ |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Angela Hawthorne is played by [[AsHimself Angela Palmer]], who spent much of her childhood playing with the other kids at the neighborhood while her father worked at sea as one of the admirals of the Royal Canadian Navy. She grew a colorful and imaginative mind, and had dreams and fantasies of embarking on adventures and taking on dragons, which she decided to fulfill when she joined one of Zack's games as a player. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | * ActionGirl: Naturally. Most of her swordfighting skills was learned from her father before his arrest. |
| 15 | * AllThereInTheManual: Outside of the comic's first Who's Who? Intermission, the description of [[https://www.deviantart.com/jonboy2312/art/Angela-Hawthorne-sheet-915787818 Angela Hawthorne's Sheet]] covers her backstory in great detail, from her birth all the way to the present. |
| 16 | * AlternateSelf: Both Angela Hawthorne and Angela Palmer are just about one and the same person, with the only difference being their place of birth, their upbringing, and their [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking last names]]. |
| 17 | * AtrociousAlias: A part of her {{Backstory}} reveals that Angela had forgotten to come up with a fake name before disguising herself aboard a pirate ship, and ended up improvising one when questioned by the ship's captain. She called 'himself', [[spoiler:"[[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]]! Mighty pirate!"]] |
| 18 | * BetaOutfit: Before putting on her signature plate armor made by her father's blacksmith friend, Angela wore a splint armor at that time. |
| 19 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Angela's generally a nice girl, but even she has her limits: |
| 20 | ** The first episode plays it for laughs, where after she gets bullied by a trio of Tiefling rogues about her class, race and choice of armor, Angela ''burns down the Session Zero Tavern''. |
| 21 | ** After Kiruto gets on her nerves one too many times, with the final straw being killing a guy she was interrogating about her father's whereabouts, Angela straight up [[SmiteEvil smites]] the prick dead. |
| 22 | * CelibateHero: When the party is hired to take care of a dragon that hungers for virgin flesh, it turns out that Angela refuses to have premarital sex. Apparently even Eriawynn, a ''priest'', has had sex before. |
| 23 | * ClearTheirName: The most important objective behind her adventuring aside from finding her falsely convicted father. If she cannot rescue him, the very least she could do is to do good and help the people of the Sword Coast in hopes that this will clear his name. |
| 24 | * CoolBigSis: In the real world, Angela Palmer is this to her cousin, Katie Kendall. |
| 25 | * DisproportionateRetribution: PlayedForLaughs in the first episode, where after being bullied by a trio of Tiefling rogues in the tavern, the next panel shows the outside of it on fire, implied to be her doing. She apologises in the next episode and was forgiven by both the bruised-up Tieflings and the keeper of the tavern... Then this trope happens again when CasanovaWannabe Spoony tries to hit on her. Cue her and the rogues going into PervertRevengeMode on the bard. |
| 26 | * HolyHalo: An angelic Halo briefly appears above her head whenever she performs a smite. |
| 27 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. On one hand, she is able to rightfully deduce a wizard's evil nature with her divine senses. On the other hand, she apologises to the [[Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes Antipaladin]] for judging him by his appearance, nevermind the fact that he was trying to explain to her he was about to ''sacrifice his puppy in a dark ritual''. |
| 28 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Upon becoming a paladin, Angela tries to figure out how the class' spells work. And then she summons a horse with 'Find Steed', which ends up unintentionally sparking a bar fight. |
| 29 | %%* TheIdealist: Being Angela Palmer's first player character, Angela Hawthorne is %%ZCE |
| 30 | * ItWasAGift: Angela's iconic plate armor is a gift from her father; before he went missing, he commissioned a blacksmith friend of his to have it made for her to wear once she was old enough. |
| 31 | * IWillFindYou: Tracking down the whereabouts of her DisappearedDad is one of the main driving forces behind her taking up adventuring. |
| 32 | * KnightInShiningArmor: A fighter who wears a knight-like plate armor, and later on follows an oath that encourages her to be an IdealHero. |
| 33 | * MartialPacifist: She prefers diplomacy over fighting, but when forced into the latter option, she'll make sure to finish off her foes with a well-placed Divine Smite. |
| 34 | * MeaningfulName: Being a paladin who strives to bring forth goodness to her world while subjecting evil to their deserved retribution, her name befits her. |
| 35 | * MilitaryBrat: Her father was a well-respected captain of the Waterdeep City Guard, and she idolize him to the point of begging him to teach her swordfighting. |
| 36 | * ModestyShorts: She wears black shorts underneath her blue dress, though her player counterpart {{Subvert|edTrope}}s this in episode 30 where a panel shows a rather generous view of her backside ''without a skirt'', her [[PaintedOnPants form-fitting bike shorts]] doing little to hide it. |
| 37 | * ThePaladin: Angela attained her paladinhood when Kiruto killed a soldier she was interrogating before he could reveal the holding place of her missing father. |
| 38 | * ReducedToDust: This is what happens to those on the receiving end of her smite, as Kiruto and [[spoiler: Tsiflam]] can attest. |
| 39 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Turns down an offer of gold from someone due to her oath. And considering who that [[EvilSorcerer 'someone']] was... |
| 40 | * SmiteEvil: Angela's Divine Smite, which she's used on Kiruto and [[spoiler:Tsiflam]]. |
| 41 | * SurvivalMantra: PlayedForLaughs when she learns Eriawynn has spent most of the party's gold on a useless weapon. |
| 42 | -->'''Angela:''' Must uphold my oath... must uphold my oath... must uphold my oath... |
| 43 | * SweetPollyOliver: Before sneaking on board a pirate ship in search of her mother's killer, Angela cut her hair short and wrapped cloth around her chest to hide her breasts in order to pass off as a young boy in a crew full of male, grown-up pirates, though the captain sees through the disguise anyways since she is female as well. |
| 44 | * TokenHuman: She's the only human in a party that consists of an Elf, a Tiefling, a Dwarf and a Firbolg. |
| 45 | * TomboyishPonytail: Angela always wears her hair in a ponytail, and only unties it whenever she is sleeping. |
| 46 | * YouthfulFreckles: Being a tomboy who is brimming with idealism and energy, freckles complements those traits nicely. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Eriawynn Jhaeros]] |
| 50 | [[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eriawynn_jhaeros.jpg]] |
| 51 | [[caption-width-right:400:[[labelnote:Sara Shirakawa]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sara_shirakawa.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 52 | '''NeutralGood Wood Elf''' \ |
| 53 | '''Cleric (Lathander, Life Domain)''' \ |
| 54 | |
| 55 | A naïve but well-meaning elf who was chosen as the representative of her home village among the order of clerics at the Temple of [[Characters/ForgottenRealmsGods Lathander]] in Myth Drannor.\ |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Eriawynn is played by Sara Shirakawa, a half-Japanese who had recently moved to Canada and became best friends with Angela. |
| 58 | ---- |
| 59 | * FailedASpotCheck: Despite her high Wisdom, Eriawynn sometimes has some inattentive and frankly dumbassed moments, such as failing to spot a mimic while searching for a treasure, and blowing most of the party's gold on a classic scam (see NiceJobBreakingItHero). |
| 60 | * MentalHealthRecoveryArc: For Sara, playing Dungeons and Dragons with her friends is one way to help her cope and recover from... [[NoodleIncident whatever traumatic event]] that befell her after she got along with Angela. |
| 61 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Eriawynn ends up sinking most of the party's loot into the [[JokeItem powerful but intangible Non-Fungible Trident]]. For her trouble, she makes Rumples distraught at the uselessness of the item, gets strangled by Redwen and pushes Angela to the edge of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. |
| 62 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: She's a cleric of Lathander, the Faerûnian sun-god, and a lot of her spells take the form of bright light. |
| 63 | * RomanticWingman: invoked upon her by Filia who asked to bless her marriage with Spoony, though Eriawynn did not mind. |
| 64 | * TokenReligiousTeammate: She's the only member of the party who's explicitly religious, worshipping Lathander. Angela is a paladin, but is not stated to worship any god, and many paladins draw power from more abstract concepts than literal gods. |
| 65 | * WhiteMage: She knows how to cast Cure Wounds as well as other spells learned by Clerics within the Life domain. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Redwen]] |
| 69 | [[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/redwen.jpg]] |
| 70 | [[caption-width-right:400:[[labelnote:Agatha Gauthier]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/agatha_gauthier.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 71 | '''[[ChaoticNeutral Chaotic... Questionable?]] Tiefling (Asmodeus Ancestry)''' \ |
| 72 | '''Rogue (Arcane Trickster)''' \ |
| 73 | |
| 74 | A StreetUrchin who turned towards crime after fleeing from the home of a Waterdhavian noble. She desires to build a reputation for herself in order to get a lot of food and gold.\ |
| 75 | |
| 76 | She is played by Agathia Gauthier, a grade school teacher who is overwhelmed by the demands of her new job. Agatha vents her frustration by dressing up like a {{Goth}} during the weekends as well as partaking in recreational hobbies, one of which includes playing as an edgy, dark Tiefling rogue in a game of ''Dungeons and Dragons''. |
| 77 | ---- |
| 78 | * AbusiveParents: While we did not see much of how her real parents treated her (since they already abandoned her when she was a baby), her adoptive father definitely counts for this trope, treating her like a maid and calling her a ''[[FantasticRacism filthy demonspawn]]''. It is no wonder why she decided to kill him before leaving his house to make a new life for herself. |
| 79 | * AdoptAServant: Her adoptive father treated her more like a house servant than a beloved daughter. The dress he made young Redwen wear invokes this image. |
| 80 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: It is hard to pinpoint where she lies on the good-evil alignment axis. Even her alignment is described as "Chaotic Questionable". |
| 81 | * BerserkButton: Gets upset whenever a situation comes up that results in the party not getting paid. Or worse, causing a loss of their loot for nothing, like Eriawynn's investment into the Non-Fungible Trident did. |
| 82 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Redwen's eyes glow in the dark, and she spooks Angela with them when she speaks to her in episode 4. |
| 83 | * CerebusRetcon: Redwen's PunnyName [[spoiler:turns out to be a variation of the nickname, [[HeyYou "Red One"]] that her abusive adoptive father used to address her with.]] |
| 84 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Redwen's parents left her on the [[DoorStepBaby doorsteps of an orphanage]] when she was a baby, she grows up in the orphanage unloved, then gets adopted by a noble who orders her around like a slave before being murdered by her in his sleep before her escape, spending the rest of her childhood subsisting on whatever scraps she could steal. |
| 85 | * DealWithTheDevil: Redwen's birth is implied to be the side effects of this. [[spoiler: Her real parents, Eleanor and Cedric made a deal with a mysterious benefactor who could turn their worthless mine into a motherlode of gems, in exchange for nothing but their most precious gem, one that they'd come by in the future. When it turned out that "precious gem" was actually ''their daughter'', they left her at an orphanage tenday before the collection, in hopes that the devil would not come for her and [[HeroicSacrifice take them instead]].]] |
| 86 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: After Angela thrashed them and the Tavern off-screen, Redwen compliments her strength, and ends up joining the main party on nearly every episode onwards. |
| 87 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:When Tsiflam attempts to bribe the party with a treasure chest, Redwen walks over to his side much to the shock of her allies. {{Subverted|Trope}}, when Redwen backstabs him in the middle of his EvilGloating, allowing Angela to finish him off.]] |
| 88 | * {{Foil}}: Serves as this to Angela, who also has ParentalAbandonment issues like her. Whereas Angie is an honourable CelibateHero who adheres strictly to her oath, Redwen is a thieving [[TheTease Tease]] who defies the law. |
| 89 | * HappilyAdopted: {{Averted|Trope}}. Although the Selûnites that took her in as a baby were nice to her, she still felt unloved in the end. Then she finally gets adopted by a Waterdhavian noble... who turns out to be an abusive man who only used her as means of [[LoopholeAbuse skirting around Waterdeep's anti-slavery laws]]. |
| 90 | * HumanDemonHybrid: Naturally, all Tieflings are humans whose ancestry either got mixed with that of extraplanar beings from the lower planes or were cursed to be born the way they are. Redwen [[DiscussedTrope discusses]] the social stigma part with Angela, implying that her parents abandoned her because they probably did not want others to look at them wrong for having a Tiefling baby. [[spoiler:It turns out that they sent her away in order to protect her from Alexander, the devil that they unwittingly [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with]], in hopes that he would take them instead]]. |
| 91 | * ImmuneToFire: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in episode 10, where slight burns and a loss of consciousness were the only worst injuries she received after being scorched by a fire trap she set off accidentally. Tieflings are ''resistant'' to fire, not immune. |
| 92 | * InnateNightVision: She has Darkvision as Tieflings usually do. However, it doesn't allow her to perceive colours in low-light conditions, which comes to bite her in the ass when she steps into a dark room filled with traps that are marked by red tiles. |
| 93 | * TheHedonist: She loves money, good food, money, a comfy bed with a side of [[ReallyGetsAround sexy company]], [[RuleOfThree money]], and all other pleasures of life. Is it also mentioned that [[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy she loves money, too]]? |
| 94 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She may be jaded about the world around her, steal from people and even strangle her own party member for wasting gold, but she would never betray her own party for a bribe, and would even give up gold (albeit reluctantly) to save a child's life. |
| 95 | * KleptomaniacHero: She can hardly keep her hands off shiny objects when visiting other people's residence, best shown in Episode 32 where she tries to steal gem statues while Angela and Laeral Silverhand are holding a conversation. |
| 96 | %%* LovableRogue:%% |
| 97 | %%* LovableSexManiac:%% |
| 98 | %%* OnlyInItForTheMoney:%% |
| 99 | * MasterOfOneMagic: In Episode 17, Redwen demonstrates her innate cantrip Thaumaturgy by MilkingTheGiantCow, with blue flames flaring up around her as she shouts in a [[LargeHam loud, hammy voice]]. And the worst part is, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she can cast it as many times as she wants]]. |
| 100 | * OrphansPlotTrinket: The locket that she was left with when her parents abandoned her eventually turns out to be this in Episode 35, where it is suddenly pulled towards the MagicMirror that the party just found, inserting itself into a slot before the mirror shows a {{Flashback}}, [[spoiler:of her real parents leaving her on the doorsteps of an orphanage just tenday before the devil collects his due]]. |
| 101 | * ParentalAbandonment: She was left on the doorsteps of an orphanage as a baby, and has only pictures of them in her locket to remember them by. |
| 102 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite being furious at Eriawynn for blowing all their gold on a useless item, Redwen decides to use the treasure they found from Tsiflam's store to resurrect the MissingChild at the temple of Lathander]]. |
| 103 | -->'''The Forever DM:''' So...about your alignment... |
| 104 | -->'''Redwen:''' Shush. I don't give a damn. |
| 105 | * ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:Redwen shuts [[EvilSorcerer Tsiflam]] up as he [[EvilGloating gloats]] to her party by stabbing him in the back. When pressed with the consequence of his research sinking with him, she tells him to keep it before letting Angela smite him.]] |
| 106 | --> [[spoiler:'''Tsiflam:''' [[YouFool Fools]]. If you kill me... Vast knowledge dies with me...]] |
| 107 | --> '''Redwen:''' [[spoiler:[[PreMortemOneLiner You can keep it,]] [[YouMonster you monster.]]]] |
| 108 | * StreetUrchin: This became her primary background when turned towards burglary and pickpocketing in the streets once she escaped from the Waterdhavian noble who 'adopted' her. |
| 109 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Her mother looks a lot like her, right down to the hairstyle she currently possesses in her adulthood. |
| 110 | * TragicKeepsake: Carries a locket with pictures of her real parents ever since she was born. She gets very distressed whenever it gets taken away from her, and it got the noble who raised her killed. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Rumples Rockfist]] |
| 114 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rumples_rockfist.jpg]] |
| 115 | [[caption-width-right:1000:[[labelnote:Katie Kendall]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/katie_kendall.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 116 | '''LawfulGood Mountain Dwarf''' \ |
| 117 | '''Fighter (Battlemaster)'''\ |
| 118 | |
| 119 | One of the fighters in employ of the Forgetenders, a Dwarven organization found by the heroes who stopped the Fire Giant Duke Zalto's evil scheme. He joins Angela, Eriawynn and Redwen on their adventures whenever he is off-duty.\ |
| 120 | |
| 121 | Rumples is played by Katie Kendall, a cousin of Angela's who is entrusted to her care during the weekends. |
| 122 | ---- |
| 123 | * CrossPlayer: The male Rumples is played by the female Katie. |
| 124 | * RecurringCharacter: Unlike the other members of the party, Rumples is infrequently absent in some episodes. Justified both in character and outside of character— his player Katie only attends the sessions on weekends, so Rumples' absences are explained as him leaving the party to fulfill obligations to the Forgetenders. |
| 125 | * TheRoleplayer: Initially, Katie has a hard time roleplaying Rumples, such as hiding in terror because she's scared when they face a monster. Angela evenually gives her a peptalk encouraging her to think not of what ''she'' would do, but of what Rumples, the courageous dwarven warrior, would do. After this, she becomes very comfortable stepping into the role of her character. |
| 126 | * TagalongKid: Being a kid underneath the care of her older cousin, Katie ended up being introduced to ''Dungeons and Dragons'' and became one of Zack's newest players. |
| 127 | * TemptingFate: When Rumples boast about the dungeon being so easy, the others shut him up in an attempt to defy this trope, though unfortunately the Forever DM has already caught on and let this trope play straight by introducing the party to an Adult Red Dragon. |
| 128 | * TheOneGuy: Until Rudolph joined later on, Rumples is ([[CrossPlayer technically]]) this to the otherwise all-female party. |
| 129 | * TokenMiniMoe: Outside of the game his player, Katie is the youngest out of all partaking in Zack's games. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:The Forever DM]] |
| 133 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fdm.jpg]] |
| 134 | [[caption-width-right:1000:[[labelnote: Zackary Fairmont]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zacharyfairmont.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 135 | '''Questionably Good Unearthly Dungeon Master''' \ |
| 136 | '''Path of The Forever DM'''\ |
| 137 | |
| 138 | A mysterious figure who is responsible for running everything that happens in the webcomics. He is one of the few {{Game Master}}s who have taken up the mantle of the Forever DM, dedicating himself to creating worlds and weaving tales and stories around them and the characters which the players cast themselves as, and makes it his responsibility to ensure that the players enjoy the games in the process.\ |
| 139 | |
| 140 | Behind the Forever DM persona is Zack Fairmont, a club {{Bouncer}} who became a huge fan of D&D after playing it with his mother as a kid one day. He has run CYOA-style games of his own with other friends and the group he created with Angela, Sara, Agatha and a few others have received most of his attention and love. |
| 141 | ---- |
| 142 | * AuthorAvatar: Is this to [=DoodlePoodle's close friend=] who runs a real-life D&D campaign he's in as the DM. |
| 143 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Takes on the appearance of a malevolent and mischievious figure who seems like he takes a liking to tormenting the adventurers with his traps and trickery. Despite this, he is there to make sure that the players are all having fun during his games. |
| 144 | * GameMaster: The Forever DM is responsible for running the world the party are in, giving them quests to take up as well as [=NPCs=] to converse with while setting up dungeons and pitting monsters against them. |
| 145 | * TheNarrator: He fills in this role, describing the environment, the results of party's actions and the appearance of a new party member. |
| 146 | * RocksFallEveryoneDies: Not so much as that as it is [[DownplayedTrope Rock Falls, Someone Dies]]. When the resident Munchkin Kiruto spends the whole game stealing the party's loot, not helping out in fights and derailing a story by killing an important NPC, the Forever DM decides to turn blind-eye to the rulebook as he changes Angela's class to paladin before letting her smite him. |
| 147 | * RuleOfFun: Makes sure that his players are having a good time as they overcome the challenges he set for them. He is also not above ignoring the rules if [[{{Munchkin}} one of the party members]] excessively spoils the fun for the others. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Rudolph]] |
| 151 | [[quoteright:490:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rudolph.jpg]] |
| 152 | [[caption-width-right:490:[[labelnote:Mark Powell]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/markpowell.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 153 | A Firbolg barbarian who joins the party as one of its latest additions.\ |
| 154 | |
| 155 | He is played by Mark Powell, who is currently in a relationship with Angela. |
| 156 | ---- |
| 157 | %%* GentleGiant:%% |
| 158 | * {{Gonk}}: Downplayed. Rudolph is actually fairly handsome, but his Firbolg race gives him a very large and red nose, which disappoints Angela since she had expected Mark to play a handsome paladin. |
| 159 | * LoveInterest: His player, Mark Powell is the boyfriend/fiancé of Angela Palmer. |
| 160 | * PunnyName: Named after Franchise/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer for having a red nose as Firbolgs typically do. |
| 161 | * OneManArmy: Rudolph singlehandedly clears out an entire horde of bandits that guards the burned mansion belonging to Eleanor and Cedric. |
| 162 | * TheOneGuy: Outside the game, Mark is the only male player in a group full of girls if one does not count the DM. |
| 163 | * StealthyColossus: Ironically for a class that focuses on the loud, berserker type of playstyle, Rudolph can turn invisible and sneak behind enemy lines to wreak havoc on the brigands that took over the burned-down mansion. This makes sense when one takes into account the Firbolg's innate trait, Hidden Step, which allows him to turn invisible as a bonus action up to a number of times equal to his proficiency bonus. |
| 164 | [[/folder]] |
| 165 | |
| 166 | !Recurring Characters |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Bluriel]] |
| 169 | [[quoteright:467:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bluriel.PNG]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | One of Redwen's former companions before she joined Angela's party. |
| 172 | ---- |
| 173 | * ChildhoodFriends: She once lived in the same orphanage as Redwen and Luv'Ander when they were kids. |
| 174 | * HypocriticalHumor: She tells Angela the human fighter to become more special unique just like her and her friends, and all the other patrons in the tavern who all happen to be Tiefling rogues. |
| 175 | * OutOfFocus: Bluriel is pushed aside to background role once her friend Redwen joins the main party, and at one point is seen beating up Spoony during the barfight that Angela accidentally instigates by summoning her steed at the tavern they're in. |
| 176 | * PunnyName: Shares a color-themed name with Redwen and Luv'Ander. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Luv'Ander]] |
| 180 | [[quoteright:573:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luvander.PNG]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | One of Redwen's former companions before she joined Angela's party. |
| 183 | ---- |
| 184 | * ChildhoodFriends: He's seen living with Redwen and Bluriel in the same orphanage run by Selûnites. |
| 185 | * CrossPlayer: He is played by someone who is a woman. |
| 186 | * GenderBender: His body suddenly becomes more feminine to the point where it has breasts which he covers when he breaks character during Angela and the Tieflings' PervertRevengeMode. |
| 187 | * HypocrisyNod: ...Which Angela calls him out on. He admits that he forgot. |
| 188 | * OutOfFocus: Just like his friend Bluriel, they spend more time in the background once Redwen joins Angela's party as its member. |
| 189 | * PunnyName: Shares a color-themed name with Redwen and Bluriel. |
| 190 | * {{Stripperific}}: Is dressed in nothing but a cape, some long gloves and boots, and a thong. Makes it rather ironic when he calls Angela's armor 'sexist' despite it covering far more than his attire by sevenfold, and even moreso since his player is the opposite of his gender. |
| 191 | * TakeThat: His calling Angela's armor misogynistic because of the boobplate brings to mind the people who [[Memes/TheMandalorian criticise]] [[Series/TheMandalorian Bo-Katan and Kosha's armor]] on Twitter. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Tavernkeeper]] |
| 195 | [[quoteright:518:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tavernkeeper_2.PNG]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | An ordinary keeper of the Session Zero Inn & Tavern where many heroes hang out at. |
| 198 | ---- |
| 199 | * TheBartender: As the tavernkeeper, he serves food and drinks as well as provide accomodations to all weary adventurers. |
| 200 | * InsuranceFraud: {{Implied|Trope}} at least. The Tavernkeeper makes half of his income from insurance money, which he gains every time his tavern gets destroyed. And the dwarf insurance broker he is seen receiving bags of gold from is FlippingTheBird at him. |
| 201 | * TurnTheOtherCheek: Easily forgives Angela for destroying his tavern for first time. Somewhat justified since half of his tavern income comes from insurance. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Spoony]] |
| 205 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spoony.png]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | A Tiefling bard who likes to perform, woo and bed the patrons visiting the tavern. |
| 208 | ---- |
| 209 | * AccidentalMarriage: He becomes subject to this by Filia as she stops her father from frying him with his lightning breath before asking Eriawynn to bless their marriage, much to his confusion. |
| 210 | * TheBard: His stylish costume and the fact that he is playing a lute shouts "he's a bard". |
| 211 | * CommitmentIssues: He runs like hell as soon as he finds out Filia wants to marry him, although this ends up being subverted in the next episode where he and Filia appear in. |
| 212 | * HappilyMarried: Episode 16 reveals he does not mind being in a relationship with Filia at all, and he asks Eriawynn to wrap up the ceremony (though his reason for doing this is so that he can get the +2 AC bonus so as to protect himself from the Orc and Goliath coming to beat the crap out of him for his awful jokes). |
| 213 | * HornyBard: In the first panel where he is introduced, he rolls to seduce Angela, despite the Forever DM pointing out he cannot make seduction checks against other player characters. He is also seen walking out of Filia's bedroom just as the party were practicing on giving relationship advice to her with her father. This turns back on him when it turns out that the dragon he seduced is quite set on settling down in a permanent relationship. |
| 214 | * InterspeciesRomance: Though it is not known who were the other women he slept with, we do know that he's in a relationship with a bronze dragon. |
| 215 | * OddNameOut: He's the only Teifling whose name isn't color related. |
| 216 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Spoony flees as Filia chases him in her dragon form after the latter locks him in a marriage with her. |
| 217 | -->'''Spoony:''' "[[CommitmentIssues I'M NOT READY FOR THIS KIND OF COMMITMENT!!]]" |
| 218 | -->'''Filia:''' "Ooohohoho! You can't escape true love!" |
| 219 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Asks for more as Angela, Redwen and Bluriel smack and stomp him down on the floor [[PervertRevengeMode for trying to seduce Angela]]. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Filia]] |
| 223 | [[quoteright:693:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/filia.PNG]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | The rebellious daughter of the Bronze Dragon As'trasahar who has a rocky relationship with him. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She is a sweet and kind girl who just happens to be a bit rebellious and likes to have fun. She is also ''a dragon'', and thus in a weightclass far beyond any other character in the comic save her father and Laeral. After some thugs threaten her husband, she turns the entire tavern to ash with next to no effort on her part. |
| 228 | * {{Elopement}}: The party's attempt to reconcile the two ends with her running off with Spoony to elope. |
| 229 | * FreudianExcuse: Her mother's death is implied to be the reason why she acts like TheHedonist; she wants to enjoy her life as much as possible before some evil chromatic dragon ends it like it did hers. |
| 230 | * HappilyMarried: She ends up getting wed to Spoony, courtesy of Eriawynn for [[RomanticWingman giving them her blessings]]. |
| 231 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She spends her days and nights partying at the tavern, bedding many boys there. |
| 232 | * InterspeciesRomance: A bronze dragon who falls in love with a tiefling. Most of the partners who slept with her are also implied to be humans by her father. |
| 233 | * MeaningfulName: Her name is simply the Latin word for "daughter". |
| 234 | * MissingMom: She mentioned her mother's life to have at the hands of some evil chromatic dragon. |
| 235 | * ReallyGetsAround: She's stated to have bedded with a lot of men at the tavern before she met Spoony. |
| 236 | * ShotgunWedding: Inverted. It was ''her'', not her father As'trasahar, who forces Spoony into a marriage with her. |
| 237 | * ShockAndAwe: Like her father, Filia can use her lightning abilities as a Bronze Dragon and does so to a destructive effect, leaving behind Session Zero Tavern as a smouldering ruin. [[RunningGag Again]]. |
| 238 | * ShoutOut: She's named after a character in ''{{Literature/Slayers}}''. |
| 239 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She growls at the orc and goliath pair when they approach her new husband, ready to bash his head for making jokes of their races. The result of their confrontation is yet another tavern destruction. |
| 240 | * {{Weredragon}}: She can shapeshift between her dragon form and her human form like most metallic dragons, although she prefers to stay in her human form most of the time. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | !Other Characters |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Arthur Hawthorne]] |
| 246 | [[quoteright:538:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arthur_9.PNG]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | A father of three children who is married to Sabine of House Thann. He is the well-esteemed captain of the Waterdeep City Guard-- well, he was, before that one fateful night when he was put under arrest for allegedly commiting high treason. Angela believes he is still an innocent man, and thus set out on a quest to find and save him from imprisonment, or at least hope that her good deeds will help clear his marred name. |
| 249 | ---- |
| 250 | * DisappearedDad: He is taken away by some guards in different uniforms to an unknown place, leaving behind his wife and their children to scrape by themselves. Angela searching for him is a major part of her StoryArc. |
| 251 | * MentorArchetype: Prior to his arrest, he served as this to his daughter, Angela teaching her swordfighting skills when the little girl begged him to do so. |
| 252 | * ResignedInDisgrace: Up until his arrest, he was a respected military instructor to not just the Waterdeep City Guard, but also other military forces within the Sword Coast. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Sabine Hawthorne]] |
| 256 | [[quoteright:673:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sabine.PNG]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | A mother of three children who is the wife of Arthur Hawthorne. She is a gifted artisan and painter who loved and cared for her children. All that changed when her husband ended up getting arrested and although she tried hard to prove him innocent, the law did not budge. It was not long until her life was cut short by the blades of the assassins who bear Shar's unholy symbol. |
| 259 | ---- |
| 260 | * AllForNothing: Her attempts to acquit her husband end in vain, and cost her her life. |
| 261 | * DeathByOriginStory: Sabine's death, alongside her husband's arrest is what spurred their middle daughter Angela to head out and investigate the causes behind her murder in the first place. |
| 262 | * MissingMom: Shortly some time after her husband's arrest, Sabine met her end one fateful night at the hands of Shar-worshipping assassins. |
| 263 | * PosthumousCharacter: She is already dead by the time Angela gathers other adventurers for the party. |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Kiruto]] |
| 267 | [[quoteright:689:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kiruto.PNG]] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | A new player who temporarily joined the main party as a Warlock. Unfortunately, he turned out to be That Guy. |
| 270 | ---- |
| 271 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "It's what my character would do!" |
| 272 | * {{Expy}}: He is both based on and an amalgamation of both [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] and [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Kirito]]. He has the white hair, [[NoShirtLongJacket red open coat with no shirt]] underneath of the former (though the crossed belts and the steel shoulders also bring [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] to mind). With the dual blades, too many belts, the {{Bishonen}} looks, and half of his name being based on the latter. |
| 273 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Though they're most likely for show as we don't get to see him fighting anything with them, even the aberrations that he left up to the party to defend themselves against. |
| 274 | * TheKilljoy: Gets easily bored by roleplaying, and will cut it short to get on with the game at the expense of other players' fun. His killing of a guy who Angela needed to talk to regarding her father in the name of this is what gets him killed. |
| 275 | * TheMillstone: Contributed absolutely nothing to the party before taking the boot; he stole the party's loot for himself, refused to help them fight off Grells and even killed a man in the middle of answering an important question regarding Angela's father. To say that the party were unhappy about him being with them would be an understatement. |
| 276 | * {{Munchkin}}: Uses his character's personality as a flimsy excuse to get away with screwing over the party and is quickly bored by RP stuff. And then he cries foul play to the DM when Angela suddenly smites him despite not being a paladin when they played. |
| 277 | * KilledMidSentence: His last catchphrase gets cut off as Angela [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slashes him in half]]. Fitting, given what he did to the man she was questioning for her father's holding location. |
| 278 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Killed a man before Angela could find out where her father is being held, much to her dismay. The Forever DM has enough of him, and so decides to ignore Angela's rule-breaking when she smites him despite not being a paladin. |
| 279 | * NinjaLooting: Is shown keeping the spoils of victory for the party all to himself in the first panel of an episode he appears in, and serves as the trope's current page image. |
| 280 | * ShoutOut: His name is a portmanteau of [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Kirito]] and Franchise/{{Naruto}}. |
| 281 | * StupidEvil: has “no reason to care for his party” and therefore sits out of fights with monsters who will likely kill him if they win. Also fails to realise that his party can and will kick him out if he doesn’t contribute until they do. |
| 282 | * TakeThat: His name, appearance and personality are a not so subtle jab at not only those who are [[OccidentalOtaku a little too enthusiastic about Japanese tropes and media]] but also {{Munchkin}}-type players. |
| 283 | * TokenEvilTeammate: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Being a selfish murderhobo who does not give a crap about his fellow adventurers, the party (and the DM) gladly return his sentiment by kicking him out of the game. |
| 284 | * TooManyBelts: Has not one but *six* belts on his person. |
| 285 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Is a white-haired warlock who has "no reason to care for his party". |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:As'trasahar]] |
| 289 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/astrasahar.png]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | An adult bronze dragon whom the party helps with his issues regarding his daughter, Filia. |
| 292 | ---- |
| 293 | * BenevolentBoss: To the surprise of the adventurers, who expected an evil chromatic dragon with a taste for virgins, the assumed victims of his kidnappings actually reveal themselves to be maids who are voluntarily employed to serve him, the bronze dragon, who treats them well and pays them handsomel for their time. |
| 294 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: Is ''very'' pissed off when Spoony walks out of his daughter's bedroom shirtless, having laid her behind his back. Filia ended up loving him a lot though, and when the two run off to elope (or rather, Spoony runs away from her to avoid being wedded), he could only watch in silence before giving the party a {{Facepalm}} for their help. |
| 295 | %%* PapaWolf:%% |
| 296 | * ShockAndAwe: As a Bronze Dragon, breathing lightning comes naturally for him and his daughter. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Brian]] |
| 300 | [[quoteright:448:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brian_brain.PNG]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | A small intellect devourer that suddenly appeared on the streets while the party were begging for gold. |
| 303 | ---- |
| 304 | * AndIMustScream: Retains the old personality of its host, and is understandably terrified about its ordeal. |
| 305 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The party brings him back to life as a human at the Temple of Lathander after they defeat Tsiflam, using the treasure that the wizard attempted to bribe them with to afford the Resurrection cost.]] |
| 306 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:His real body had the ''top half of his head already sawed off'' by the time the party found him, a result of Tsiflam extracting his brain to transform it into an Intellect Devourer.]] |
| 307 | * BrainMonster: Just like other Intellect Devourers, it is a brain walking on four reptilian-like legs. Though unlike them, it is much smaller in comparison and has no abilities it can use. |
| 308 | * CameBackWrong: Something happened to it in the middle of its transformation that caused it to be smaller than other Devourers, and [[spoiler: retain its memories as a human boy]]. |
| 309 | * ForcedTransformation: Turned out to be the way it is because of [[spoiler: Tsiflam's research]]. |
| 310 | * MissingChild: [[spoiler: The poster of a missing child turns out to be the ChekhovsGun that leads Angela back to Tsiflam.]] |
| 311 | * NonMaliciousMonster: It does not attack the party even as they point their weapons at it, which tips Rumples off that this isn't an ordinary monster. |
| 312 | * PunnyName: Brian is a simple placement of letters off from brain. |
| 313 | * QuakingWithFear: When the party shows it to Tsiflam, it trembles when the wizard shows interest in it. [[spoiler:Justified, since the wizard is the one who pulled it out of its body. ''His'' body.]] |
| 314 | * VisualPun: When Angela tells Redwen to "GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter", Redwen points at it while it is crawling in a literal gutter. |
| 315 | * WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: It was once an ordinary human boy before he got kidnapped by Tsiflam and had his brain extracted and turned into what it is. The party manages to give him back his humanity in the end.]] |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Tsiflam]] |
| 319 | [[quoteright:623:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsiflam_2.PNG]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | An old wizard who runs an emporium in Waterdeep and spends most of his time researching Illithids. |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * ArcVillain: The first non-comedic villain who plays an active role in a StoryArc involving an Intellect Devourer. |
| 324 | * BadSamaritan: When the party presents him with a harmless Intellect Devourer, Tsiflam takes it in, promising the party he'll save whoever poor soul got transformed into it. [[spoiler:Angela's Divine Sense enabled them to act before he was going to do anything heinous to it.]] |
| 325 | * BrainTheft: Has extracted the brain [[spoiler:of Brian which he ends up transforming into an Intellect Devourer. And then the backroom where the party found Brian's body revealed he is not the only one subject whose brain got stolen...]] |
| 326 | * EvilGloating: Gloats to the party that [[spoiler:their Tiefling friend is smart enough to not make a foe out of him when she walks to his side. Then she {{Backstab}}s him while he's in the middle of boasting about becoming the next Blackstaff.]] |
| 327 | * EvilSorcerer: He fits the bill of being a villain who wields magic. |
| 328 | * {{Familiar}}: Tsiflam owns a crow familiar that is actually a quasit that polymorphed itself into one. |
| 329 | * FemmeFatalons: A rare male example. Tsiflam has long, pointy fingernails that hint not-so-subtly at his true nature. |
| 330 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Considers the life of one innocent child insignificant in comparison to what he is about to accomplish with his research. |
| 331 | * KnightOfCerebus: Unlike other objectionably evil characters, ''nothing'' about Tsiflam is PlayedForLaughs whatsoever. The aftermath of his arc is also the point where the girls' backstories start getting some focus, resulting in less focus on comedy and gags than there was previously. |
| 332 | * PlayingWithSyringes: [[spoiler:He has a thing for sawing off his captives' craniums for their brains on which he conducts experiments.]] |
| 333 | * TheResenter: Holds a long grudge against the late Khelben Blackstaff whom he claims has snatched away his "rightful position" at the Blackstaff Tower from him. So long was his grudge that Angela lampshaded it. |
| 334 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Tsiflam has claimed [[spoiler:that some of the Masked Lords of Waterdeep support his research, and that justifies him cutting out people's brains in the name of advancement.]] |
| 335 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He attempted to get the party to turn a blind eye to his inhumane research in exchange for his chest of gold. Most of the party defies this... [[spoiler:except for Redwen who defects to his side, seemingly accepting his bribery... until she winds up stabbing him in the back, defying this trope once more.]] |
| 336 | * SdrawkcabName: Tsiflam turns out to be a backwards alias for his true name of Malfist. |
| 337 | * StarterVillain: The first speaking antagonist of the webcomic who is not a subversion. |
| 338 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Episode 32 implies this might be the case [[spoiler:as Tsiflam's research on Mind flayers, supported by some of the Masked Lords, is presumably done to help find methods of dealing with the [[VideoGame/BaldursGateIII recent emergence of Illithid threats in Baldur's Gate]]. However, Tsiflam is more outward about his desire to be granted the rank of Blackstaff, so this [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist may not be the case]].]] |
| 339 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:One of his latest victims is a boy whom he has no problem with stealing a brain from.]] |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:The Kender]] |
| 343 | [[quoteright:685:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kender.PNG]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | A minute being who serves as the party's guide in one dungeon. |
| 346 | ---- |
| 347 | * BorrowedWithoutPermission: As typical of their race's hat, they ste-- err, I mean... "borrow" some of the party's possessions, which include Rumples' coinpurse, Eriawynn's holy symbol and Redwen's locket. |
| 348 | * TheCatCameBack: After being tied up with rope (that is enchanted to untie itself after some time has passed) and stuffed inside a chest, the Kender somehow manages to follow the party's trail all the way to the inn where they were sleeping at, and reintroduces themselves by entering their room through the fireplace. |
| 349 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Never once does the Kender opens their eyes in any panel they appear in. |
| 350 | * FauxHorrific: Eriawynn and Redwen becomes terrified of the ''three-and-a-half foot tall humanoid'' once they track them all the way to the tavern they were sleeping at. |
| 351 | * FearlessFool: Attempts to pick a fight with an Owlbear while the party tries to sneak past it. Heck, the Kender even congratulates the party on pulling off an 'elaborate prank' whereas anybody else would have been mad at them. |
| 352 | * LetMeAtHim: Just like a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo certain miniature dog]], the Kender says this almost word-for-word when they try to charge at the Owlbear. |
| 353 | * MotorMouth: The Kender talks so much to the point where it looks like their mouth ''grows bigger on each panel''. |
| 354 | * NoodleIncident: Apparently a group of Kenders were dropped onto Toril by a [[TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}} Hadozee spelljammer captain]], and it was a tough decision between that or jettisoning them into outer space. |
| 355 | * TooDumbToLive: Around seventeen Kenders have died, reduced to skeletons from being stuffed inside chests for too long. This one is lucky that the party used self-untying rope. |
| 356 | * UnwantedAssistance: Becomes this to every party they serve as a guide for. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
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