Line #292 Characters/AMagicalRoommate


1	!Aylia of Umbria
2	Our heroine- the daughter of a royal Duke of Umbria, who is sent to the world of her mother (i.e. ours) to go to college. She's not too happy about that.
3
4	* AbusiveParents: Her mother is delusional and refuses to believe that her children are not what she thinks they are, and instead of trying to be a good husband, her father just resorts to backing his wife under all circumstances, even if he knows she's wrong.
5	* AuthorAvatar: WordOfGod states that a great deal of the things Aylia has done while at college were things she really wanted to do herself, but didn't dare to (mainly because unlike Aylia, ''she'' actually cared about her GPA).
6	* BlueBlood: Her father is the youngest of three royal sons, so she's technically in the line of succession, but that's about it.
7	* BrokenPedestal: She thought the wizard school would be a place of pure study and that when she started [=TAing=], she'd be in the company of people who really cared about the subject matter. Instead, most of the other [=TAs=] turn out to be catty and snide, who only care about who is better at magic than whom.
8	%%* DeadpanSnarker
9	* ADegreeInUseless: Actually, it's her opinion toward the degree she's doing- she doesn't care about it, doesn't want to study it, wouldn't if she had a choice- but she ''doesn't'', and so she's just whiling away the time waiting to turn twenty.
10	* EurekaMoment: When Aylia turns twenty, she realizes that she doesn't have to obey her parents any more (under the laws, noble children must obey their parents up until they turn twenty (unless they A, get married, or B, have parents who abuse their authority in some way, like trying to get them married without their consent)). She subsequently tells them both to get stuffed and goes to the school she always wanted to.
11	* FishOutOfWater: When she first gets to our world.
12	* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Aylia's the smart one, Alassa's the pretty one. Unfortunately, there's two complications: one, their mother believes that they're actually the opposite and operates on this belief while ignoring everything they say, and two, Alassa is a genuinely unlikeable sociopath.
13	* {{Hypocrite}}: When Alassa [[spoiler: tries to murder her sort-of-boyfriend by turning him into a cat and placing no safeguards on him,]] Aylia is shocked and horrified. Her aunt then points out that Aylia's been turning people into animals without their consent too, and while Aylia first protests that she meant them no harm, she finally admits that it was wrong.
14	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Aylia doesn't want to be the Child of Prophecy. Unfortunately, until the vital part turns up, it looks like she's the only valid option.
15	* IncompletelyTrained: By her magical genius of a grandfather, who died. She's forced to teach herself until she turns twenty, but without a teacher, she winds up being sadly behind in her magic level.
16	* {{Pride}}: Something of her biggest flaw. A lot of her actions seem to be fuelled by the belief that since she's the one doing it, it's obviously OK (turning people into animals without their consent, forcing her mother to attempt to reunite with her abusive parents without considering that maybe there's a reason why they don't talk) and this often backfires. Hard.
17	* TheSmartGuy: WordOfGod has stated that Aylia is something of a magical genius.
18	%%* TeenGenius
19	%%* WeirdnessMagnet
20
21	!Duke Joralan
22	Aylia's father, the youngest child of the Umbrian royal family.
23
24	* AbusiveParents: He's this to Aylia- he won't back her up, doesn't recognise that his daughter's a genius and takes his wife's side in everything, even when he knows she's wrong.
25	* HiddenDepths: He sucks at magic, but he's actually good at magical artifacts- he makes a wolfbane pendant for Albert that holds off his lycanthropy, and it works perfectly well.
26	* NoAccountingForTaste: Dear God, look at his wife.
27	* TheUnfavorite: As the third son, he was neither heir nor spare, and never really gifted.
28
29	!Duchess Letitia
30	Aylia's mother, who is from our world but has been happily living in the magical world for several years.
31
32	* AbusiveParents:
33	** Her parents were ''horrible''.
34	** She unintentionally acts like this to her own children. She means well, but her CloudCuckooLander nature makes her incapable of realizing that her children have their own interests and resent her arbitrary and ill-planned micromanagement of their lives - such as her decision to have Aylia, who wanted to be a wizard, being held back from going to the wizard's academy for two years, and then be sent to a college in the non-magical world - and arbitrarily signing her up as a ''home economics'' major.
35	* CloudCuckooLander: And not in a good way. She's genuinely delusional.
36	%%* {{Kawaiiko}}
37	%%* MyBelovedSmother
38
39	!Alassa of Umbria, AKA Zangaria
40	Aylia's younger sister, who is studying magic at the school Aylia wanted to go to.
41
42	%%* AlphaBitch
43	* ArrangedMarriage: To a man who has to be bullied into being faithful. She didn't care.
44	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Dear ''God''.
45	* BrilliantButLazy: Inverted. As the author puts it,
46	-->She's also so determinedly convinced of her superiority that she refuses to put forth any work to improve at anything, which is half the reason she's such an idiot; she'd have average intelligence if she didn't work so hard at being ''stupid''.
47	* GreenEyedMonster: Her life is devoted to one-upping Aylia. It doesn't work.
48	* ItsAllAboutMe: When Aylia turned ten, Alassa ''destroyed all of her presents'' because they weren't for her, and that's just the start.
49	%%* TheSociopath
50	%%* SpoiledBrat
51
52	!Jenny
53	One of Aylia's first roommates, who later [[spoiler: marries Albert]].
54
55	* AbusiveParents: Her mother is a dominating bitch.
56	* FishOutOfWater: Has to deal with a whole new world, but also with [[spoiler: becoming a crown princess.]]
57	* HappilyMarried: To Alfred.
58	%%* NiceGuy
59	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: According to her epilogue, her and Albert's first year as rulers goes terribly, and then they get hit by a plague. After their three children become sick, Jenny effectively quits being queen and spends all her time with her kids.]]
60
61	!Nicole
62	One of Aylia's first roommates, who moves out at the end of the semester.
63
64	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Except Jenny.
65	%%* IJustWantToBeNormal
66	* RunningGag: Crazy things always turn up at Nicole's door (like Aylia's father accidentally moving trees to her dorm room)
67	%%* WeirdnessMagnet
68
69	!X
70	Real name Elzandra Ayra [[spoiler: Umbria]] (Alexandra A. Underwood according to her birth certificate), X is one of Aylia's first roommates, and by far the most bizarre one. [[spoiler: She turns out to be Aylia's cousin.]]
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72	* BadLiar: Because of her monosyllabic speech patterns, it's hard to tell a lie from the truth when she says it, but she puts so little effort into her lies that they're easy to uncover if you try. For example, as seen below under BlatantLies, her pretending to be a fairy gets exposed when several other fairy students point out that the teachers at the school should be able to undo the 'magical accident' that caused it, and then she runs into a student whose focus (think major) is shapeshifting, who points out that there is no possible accident that could have done such a thing.
73	* BlatantLies: She pretends to be a fairy who got stuck in a shapeshifting accident to avoid taking a fluency test in a language she doesn't know.
74	* ClingyJealousGirl: Is so afraid of losing her place as the most important person in her sister's life that she tries scaring away her boyfriends with explosives. Alexis is not amused.
75	** This is why Alexis made sure that X didn't learn that she was engaged until the day of the wedding.
76	** Also, related to the 'clingy'- she follows Aylia to the wizarding school because she doesn't like being alone and Aylia is her only other friend.
77	* DeadpanSnarker: Of the monosyllabic kind.
78	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: After she and Alexis grow fairy wings, Aylia suggests that they dress as human-sized black fairies for Halloween. X loves this, as such a costume requires zero effort on her part.
79	* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid]]: Well, more like two percent, but it's enough.
80	* HeavySleeper: She stays awake for months at a stretch, and then hibernates for a few weeks. Once asleep, she can't be woken up without magic.
81	* MadeOfExplodium: More like 'makes the explodium and throws it on whatever she wants'.
82	* OneLetterName: One letter nickname, anyway.
83	%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
84	* TheQuietOne: She has never used a sentence with more than four words or six syllables in it. Maybe the reason she doesn't like the name Alexandra is because it has four syllables in it.
85	* TheReveal: She's Kuralla's [[spoiler: Child of Prophecy]].
86	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: X tries to invoke this during her sister's wedding - with ''explosives''. Alexis, knowing about X's ClingyJealousGirl behavior from incidents with previous boyfriends, had Aylia on hand to stop her.
87	* StuffBlowingUp: She is the ''poster child'' for this trope.
88
89	!Albert Charming
90	Aylia's cousin and Cecelia's brother, the Crown Prince of Umbria.
91
92	%%* BigSecret: He's a werewolf.
93	%%* HappilyMarried: To [[spoiler: Jenny]].
94	* NonActionGuy: He runs away from anything scary.
95	* SpareToTheThrone: Originally this (Cecelia was the Crown Princess) but he didn't mind so much.
96	* TookALevelInBadass: His epilogue states that he eventually becomes a competent and capable king after suffering through the stress of an epidemic and having nobody else around to help.
97
98	!Professor Witzig
99	Aylia's long-suffering Philosophy professor.
100
101	* ButtMonkey
102
103	!Felincia
104	A werewolf from Umbria. Ends up as one of Aylia's roommates (though she doesn't study at the university).
105
106	%%* BerserkButton: Her werewolf form is quite small, and she doesn't like being reminded of it.
107	%%* BigOlUnibrow
108	%%* HappilyMarried: To [[spoiler: Reg]].
109	* InsaneTrollLogic: Initially, she believes that anyone who becomes a werewolf must love everything werewolves do, and actually seems to run on a policy of 'Because I say so' when arguing about it. Reg manages to wear her down with his practicality.
110
111	!Edwardine
112	Jessi and Jenny's mother- also [[spoiler: Letitia's old babysitter.]]
113
114	%%* AbusiveParents: To Jenny and Jessi.
115	%%* ControlFreak
116	%%* MyBelovedSmother: Well, not beloved, but she's a hell of a Smother.
117
118	!Jessi
119	Jenny's confident, outgoing and rebellious sister.
120
121	%%* CoolBigSis
122
123	!Reg
124	An old friend of Loretta's who [[spoiler: ends up marrying Felincia]].
125
126	* AbusiveParents: His mother never takes any notice of him and his father pretty much turned him out after he refused to follow his footsteps.
127	* BadassNormal: He hardly ever gets flustered, no matter what happens, takes everything in stride and manages to sort out any problem he runs into.
128	* LikeBrotherAndSister: He and Loretta, much to their parents' chagrin.
129	%% * OnlySaneMan
130
131	!Alexis
132	Real name Elzaris. X's twin sister.
133
134	* EvilTwin: She likes to think that X is her evil twin.
135	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: After she and X grow fairy wings, Aylia suggests that they dress as human-sized black fairies for Halloween.
136	%%* HalfHumanHybrid
137	%%* IJustWantToBeNormal
138	%%* OnlySaneMan
139	* SecretRelationship: Had to do this with her eventual husband to keep him safe from X until the wedding.
140	* SpareToTheThrone: [[spoiler:She and X are in line for royal succession between Albert and Cecelia, and Aylia and Alassa.]]
141	* TwinSwitch: She and X cover for each other if one of them can't attend a class.
142
143	!King Richard
144	The King of Umbria, Cecelia and Albert's father.
145
146	%%* NiceGuy
147	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
148
149	!Queen Tilia
150	The Queen of Umbria, who pretty much runs the place.
151
152	* BlueBlood: Actually averted- she's a commoner.
153	* ControlFreak: She's bossy and gets everything done her way. This is a good trait for a queen, but [[spoiler: it doesn't make Corinn want to come back any time soon.]]
154	* OnlySaneMan: Nothing takes her out of stride, and she always finds a solution.
155	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
156
157	!Loretta Goldwater
158	One of Aylia's roommates. Is quite rich, but utterly generous and kind. Has a strange obsession with swords. Ends up as Linnea's roommate.
159
160	%% * BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess with Loretta's swords. And for the love of all that is holy, ''don't damage them''.
161	%% * CargoShip: Loretta/sword.
162	%% * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Reg.
163	* MeaningfulName: Her last name is Goldwater, and she's rich.
164	%% * OnlySaneMan: Well, except for the swords.
165	* UnstoppableRage: Which usually leads to her chasing people around with swords. This eventually gets them taken away from her, because ''she's chasing people around with deadly weapons over minor things''.
166
167	!Lionel
168	Loretta's younger brother. Shares her obsession with swords.
169
170	* LoopholeAbuse: He keeps finding ways to visit Loretta even when she puts limits on him.
171
172	!The Gorgon/Hthfthgthssfathssggathsfths
173	One of Alassa's roommates.
174
175	%% * ArrangedMarriage: [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage She quite likes her intended husband, though]].
176	%% * BerserkButton: She doesn't like people who shorten her name or ''get the name of her species wrong''.
177	* CultureClash: Her lack of knowledge about how Aylia's society works (and vice versa) leads to some bad fights- specifically, over the respect she feels children owe their parents (and Aylia's lack thereof) and vice versa (and Aylia's parents' lack thereof).
178	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Because no non-Gorgon can pronounce her real one. In fact, her fiance doesn't address her by name either, instead addressing her by a Gorgon word which means "Female to whom I am engaged". She addresses him by the masculine equivalent of that word.
179	* OverlyLongName: The more syllables you have, the more respected you are.
180	* TheReveal: She's a [[spoiler: spy, sent to the wizard school after our world was discovered to find out if there are Gorgons in our world.]] She eventually leaves the school for fear that she could be used as a scapegoat by the Umbrian government.
181	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Her mother's a priestess, and since her culture is a theocracy, that gives her a very high rank. The Gorgon is directly responsible for [[spoiler: the first wave of diplomats sent to our world by anyone from the other world.]]
182	* TheUnpronounceable: And mispronouncing or shortening the name of a Mountain Clan Gorgon is considered a serious insult. Fortunately, it is acceptable to address one by a title or accurate description (Which is why she is known as The Gorgon).
183
184	!Lullela
185	A pink fairy who is studying to be a fairy godmother.
186
187	%% * TheDitz
188
189	!Relagor
190	One of Felincia's siblings. He is something of a bully.
191
192	%% * BigOlUnibrow
193
194	!Kuralla
195	The Oracle of Umbria, a young, timid teenage girl.
196
197	* BreakTheCutie: Her epilogue states that centuries later, she is captured by a rogue Sage and held prisoner by a warlord who horribly mistreates her.
198	* ExactWords: Kuralla's prophecies need to be taken in their entirety.
199	* LastOfHisKind: Well, alright, Oracles are always turning up, but at the time of the main plot, Kuralla is the only public Oracle (the Oracle of Lycanth is a recluse).
200	%% * NonActionGuy
201	%% * OracularUrchin
202	%% * ThereIsAnother: The aforementioned Oracle of Lycanth.
203	%% * WhoWantsToLiveForever
204	%% * WildHair
205	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: And she hates it, thus leading her to often run away from her shrine.
206
207	!Counsellor Tranin
208	A noblewoman who frequently annoys the hell out of Queen Tilia. Discovered Kuralla.
209
210	* FindersRulers: A variant thereof- Tranin thinks that because she found and brought Kuralla to the Court, she is entitled to much more prestige and respect. Everyone else thinks differently.
211
212	!Victoria
213	A purple fairy, the heir to the throne of the fairy kingdom of Daironya. She wants to marry Mordran but can't.
214
215	%%* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Victoria shouldn't be dating her bodyguard.
216	* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler: She's the princess who X will do 'a great service' for (i.e. helping her pull off the wedding/coup), instead of, say, Jenny or Cecelia.]]
217	* RegentForLife: To her son after he takes the throne, acting as the power behind the throne until he gets sick of it and manages to get her out of the country. She takes this as a sign that he's all grown up.
218	* StarCrossedLovers: They're just not meant to be together... if you look at it from their families' point of view.
219
220	!Mordran
221	A black fairy who wants to marry Victoria but can't. Attends the wizard school.
222
223	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: As a black fairy, Mordran is meant to be protecting Victoria, not dating her.
224	* StarCrossedLovers: They're just not meant to be together... if you look at it from their families' point of view.
225
226	!Cecelia
227	Aylia's cousin, who became a dragon and had the transformation made permanent so she could raise Gavin.
228
229	* ForcedTransformation: Was accidentally turned into a dragon by her father...
230	%% * HappilyMarried: In her epilogue.
231	%% * PromotionToParent: ...then she adopted the child of an actual dragon and had the transformation made permanent.
232
233	!Gavin
234	The dragon Cecelia raised.
235
236	%% * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: "Party!"
237
238	!Bobby
239	An Umbrian boy who sort of dates Alassa.
240
241	* ForcedTransformation: Alassa turns him into a mouse so she can kill him by getting a cat to eat him.
242
243	!Daria Hotfire
244	Gavin's aunt, Daria becomes a roommate of Aylia.
245
246	%% * CloudCuckooLander: Oh, ''God''.
247	* DarkAndTroubledPast: When she was a baby, an Oracle from Andra had a vision marking her as a Child of Prophecy. Andra was at the time a vassal state of Dragoria, and the Oracle was a freedom fighter who wanted to see her country free- so she told the King of Dragoria that Daria would become a military genius who would bring Dragoria to its knees. The King, incensed, went dragon hunting. End results: maybe five or so dragons dead, including Daria's parents- but Daria herself lived, and thousands upon thousands of Dragorians were killed by the dragons in retaliation.
248	%% * GeniusDitz: Should be used as the definite example.
249	%% * {{Magitek}}
250	* TheSmartGuy: WordOfGod says that Daria is actually about twice as smart as Aylia, and even better at magic- she just has the attention span of a speck of dust.
251	%% * StuffBlowingUp
252	* VerbalTic: Daria often repeats a word.
253
254	!Sage Hinkarilin
255	One of the two Sages who search the lands examining those who claim to be Oracles. Ends up being a father figure for Kuralla.
256
257	!Sage Laraneth
258	The second Sage. Becomes a father figure for Kuralla.
259
260	* TheReveal: He was brought up by the Oracle of Lycanth
261
262	!Sissy
263	One of Aylia's more annoying roommates. Refuses to believe in magic whatsoever, under any circumstances.
264
265	%% * BerserkButton: Don't call her Melissa. It's Sissy.
266	* SpoiledBrat: Demands that everyone do everything for her.
267
268	!Stefanee
269	One of Alassa's roommates. Annoys the hell out of everybody.
270
271	* CloudCuckooLander: Has no serious side.
272	* TheReveal: She's a [[spoiler: mermaid]].
273
274	!Elesseran
275	A black fairy who married Corinn. [[spoiler: X and Alexis' mother.]]
276
277	%%* ApronMatron
278	%%* CloudCuckooLander
279	%%* InterspeciesRomance
280	%%* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Ran away to marry Corinn.
281
282	!Corinn
283	Joralan and Richard's brother. He is [[spoiler: the father of X and Alexis.]]
284
285	%% * BerserkButton: Don't ask Corinn to go back to Umbria.
286	* DeadpanSnarker: Corinn was the sarcastic, rebellious son.
287	* TheDutifulSon: What his parents wanted him to be- as the middle child, Corinn was their backup if something happened to Richard. However, the constant reminders and pressure on him made him run off.
288	* InterspeciesRomance: He marries a black fairy.
289	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He marries a black fairy in a world where mixed-species marriages are looked down on.
290	%% * SpareToTheThrone
291
292	!Adelaide
293	One of Stefanee and later Alassa's roommates- a studious fairy.
294
295	%%* BadassBookworm
296	%%* TheSmartGuy
297	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: A literal case, and it annoys Stefanee a lot- she prefers to study theory over practice, and thus doesn't cast spells.
298
299	!Eric
300	Linnea's boyfriend, a nerd who befriends Daria and begins to learn magic with Linnea.
301
302	%% * AgentMulder
303	%% * BewareTheNiceOnes: He zaps his older brothers with a spell that glues them to the ceiling before they can attack him.
304	%% * CloudCuckooLander
305
306	!Linnea
307	Eric's girlfriend, a studious girl who is one of Aylia's classmates. Becomes Loretta's roommate.
308
309	%%* BerserkButton:
310	%%** Linnea will accept and believe in things that can be logically and actually proven. Asking her to believe in something while offering no proof whatsoever is a bad idea.
311	%%** Don't tell her that her relationship with Eric won't last because he's a geek.
312	* TheCameo: [[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/amr1024.html Of]] Alicorn, author of ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'', ''Literature/{{Elcenia}}'', and ''Webcomic/HiToTsukiToHoshiNoTama''.
313	%%* TheSmartGuy
314
315	!Dron
316	One of the founders of the magical school. He's an incredibly old dragon and is very well respected, but he's got a very whimsical sense of humour.
317
318	* BadassBookworm: Dron accomplished some incredibly amazing things.
319	%% * BerserkButton: Don't fall over yourself praising and being respectful to Dron. He won't like it.
320	* DueToTheDead: The school honors his passing by constructing a new school building on campus shaped like a life-sized statue of him. He would have hated it... But he also would have found the fact that the roof leaks hilarious.
321	* ExactWords: In one notable strip, he failed a very good student who learned everything about the subject herself. He explained that he was failing her because he was assessing the students not on what they knew about the subject, but what they ''learned from him'', and since she'd learned nothing ''from him'', the only logical thing he could do was to fail her.
322	%%* OurDragonsAreDifferent

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