Characters / Carl Stevens Universe

Character sheet for Carl Stevens Universe, covering the tropes that apply to this story's incarnations of the Hellsing/Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals crew and the Steven Universe cast.

Hellsing

Tropes either exclusive to Hecksing or present in both stories will go to Characters.Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals, as these are kind of but not really one-and-the-same with their HUC counterparts.

• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: As a whole, teal. Individually, Carl, Seras, and Rip have green, yellow, and azure respectively, with nothing assigned to the Captain as of yet.^note His yellow text in Sweet Jade and Hella John does not count, as that was only for his role as the "9" member of the Millennium.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: They're fast learners and generally not the group you would want to screw with. Even the Pikmin are really good fighters in spite of looking like carrots with limbs and eyes.
• Winged Humanoid: The three vampires sprout wings near the end of the story to fly away from Steven. This would make Carl's jetpack earlier useless, if it wasn't for the fact that Carl basically runs on Rule of Cool.

Carl

Carl Stevens

• Alien Blood: Averted. He is confirmed in this story (and HUC by Word of God) to have red blood.
• The Ditz: He's implied to be an idiot. In fact, one of the reasons why Steven thinks it's best if the other members of Hellsing were eliminated first was because he thought Carl was the only one who would follow any plan set up for him; the others would have caught on and bailed him out.
• Final Boss: Essentially. Invoked though; Steven wanted the other three members of Hellsing eliminated before Carl so that Steven's specific plan would be less likely to be interrupted by them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He may be shown to be a life saver after an intro of annoying his own girlfriend with his music, however he still plays loud enough to annoy an entire city, seems to not care about property, loves overkilling his enemies in the paintball games, steals and ruins a book from a girl, and almost kills Amethyst.
• Jetpack: Weilds this for practically no reason. The "no reason" coming from his ability to fly.
• Karma Houdini: After all of the crap he pulls, the worst that happens to him is that he's forced to move back to London. Or at least out of Beach City.
• Manchild: Even compared to Rip. Because of this, he sticks out of Hellsing like a sore thumb.
• Official Couple: With both Seras and Rip. No, nobody mentions how absurd that is.
• Red Oni: To Steven's blue.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Although at the very least he did have a big name in Mars and London, but his fame died down in the latter and the former isn't really elaborated on.
• Villainous Breakdown: While he isn't exactly a villain by traditional means, he still undergoes a huge breakdown after Steven gets him eliminated, and it takes Rip to calm him down.

Seras

Seras Victoria

• Butt-Monkey: Of all of Hellsing, she's subjected to the most conflict, is the most affected by Carl's loud music, and gets the most brutal beatdown in the third match. Her proper introduction to the Gems is her clinging on the motorcycle they ride to the city in complete and utter fear, whereas Rip gets off gracefully and Carl just sort of falls off.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: In-universe, her poor attempt at replicating Mario's voice.

Rip

Rip Van Winkle

• The Dragon: According to Carl, she serves this role to him. Oddly, she's eliminated before Seras in the third match, who has been implied to be Carl's "sloppy second."
• Freak Out: Her reaction to seeing a replica of Alucard, that at the time seemed real. She quickly snaps out of it upon realizing that it was a fake.
• Morality Pet: To Carl, if her calming him down after he loses the game is any indication.
• Motor Mouth: She seems to have trouble shutting up, especially when bragging about the Captain.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: In the second match.

Captain

Hans "The Captain" Gunshe

• Ascended Extra: In HUC, he was just a Villain of the Week who had to share that role with Walter. And Walter himself got more screentime than he did, both in that particular chapter where they go in action and the fic in general. Here, however, starting from the first match he becomes a semi-regular character.
• Guest-Star Party Member: To Hellsing. While he acts as the fourth player to them, he gets much less screentime, isn't introduced until the first match, is de-summoned back into Rip offscreen after the third, and is eliminated much earlier and quicker than the rest of Hellsing. He doesn't even appear in the final scene, while Seras and Rip do.
• Hidden Depths: He's apparantly a really good sport, if his reactions to being eliminated in the first and third games are any indication. He smiles at Amethyst while she bombards him with paint.

Pikmin Soldiers

The Pikmin

• Zerg Rush: What Carl does with them. It's capable of taking out an "Eternity Wraith" with almost no effort on the Martian's part.
  Carl: As you can see here, with strategic thinking and the power of numbers, the Pikmin are reducing this ghost reaper thing to nothin' but smoke and air.

Alucard

Alucard Badguy

• All There in the Manual: His last name being "Badguy" isn't explicitly stated in-story, aside from Pearl remarking that Rip treats it as such. Which makes reading HUC some form of getting knowledge ahead for what Pearl's plan to take out Rip is.
• Back from the Dead: Subverted. During the third round, it looked like he came back to try to kill Rip, but it turns out that that was just a puppet made by Pearl in order to help her eliminate Rip.
• Demoted to Extra: Considering the fact that he spends 100% of the story dead... no wait, he appears with no explanation and— no, he's definitely dead and that was a fake.
• Doomed by Canon: In addition to most of the other Hecksing protagonists; read this before HUC, and you'll know in advance who's going to be in the final roster.
• Foil: While not as big of an extent as the other Hellsing members, in this world he becomes this to Rose Quartz, as they are both dead aces. Unlike Rose, however, he gets a nod in the story and even gets an "appearance" in the form of Pearl's puppet... thing, so that is why he gets an entry on the character sheet.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The fact that he dies in HUC is made no secret whatsoever. Same with Integra's death. And the other "heroes" who died, for that matter, but Master Chief/Kamina and Zorin dying isn't that big of a deal.
• Posthumous Character: He's been dead for about two years and ten months.
• The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Pearl got somebody to immitate his voice. Everything the puppet said with those recordings seemed like it was from an ordinary conversation, but as it turns out the message was completely pre-recorded.
• Walking Spoiler: Hooo boooy... there's his death in HUC, which is more of a Late-Arrival Spoiler, and then there's the dummy Pearl made of him — both the dummy's existance and the fact that it's a fake are spoilers, the former implying that he came back to life when taken out of context and the latter both revealing the fact that it was a ploy and spoiling one of the four plans to take Hellsing out.
• The Worf Effect: Ignoring how his own death back in HUC qualified as this, he himself puts Rip to sudden fear when she sees the imitation of him.

Crystal Gems

• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: As a whole, fucshia/tyrian-pink.

Steven

Steven Universe

• Beware the Silly Ones: If you outline it, his plan to eliminate Carl seems very far-fetched. And yet it works.
• Blue Oni: Compared to Carl. Yes, compared to Carl, Steven is the blue one. Interestingly, the associated colors for their respective groups is almost swapped.
• The Chessmaster: His plan to eliminate Carl might not have as much resource as the other Gems, but it's definitely the most complicated, precise, and in some cases luck-based or Batman Gambit-y. And it works. All seemingly based on two traits he got from Carl. Lampshaded when he laments that none of the other Gems will believe that it worked (they were not present; all of them having been eliminated by this point. Pearl never got on the train in the first place, Garnet left a while ago, and Amethyst was shot off of the tracks and into the city.)
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Entirely in-universe as the moment was shown. He doubts the Gems will believe that he managed to get Carl eliminated and won the game for his family. The fact that the cars of the train he was in at the time was mostly empty due to Amethyst having called almost everyone to the football stadium makes it worse.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers this to Carl after the end of the third match, with Connie adding a few things as well.

Amethyst

Amethyst

• Brutal Honesty: She doesn't think Hellsing lives up to their talk at first, and barely hides it. Later on she considers giving up the game — and again, doesn't particularly mask her lack of care for getting blown up by paint.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: What she does to Seras in the third round is rather brutal. After flashing blinding lights in her twice, she holds herself up in a skybox at a football stadium which basically forces Seras to run after her while avoiding the paint from almost everyone in town. Then after entering a hallway, Seras is ambushed by the Fryman family. After surviving that, she makes it to where Amethyst is at only to get a surprise gundown from Greg, allowing Amethyst herself to add to the fire for the hell of it. Considering how obnoxious Carl was earlier in the story, this would have been a good thing... if it was Carl (or even Rip) being subject to this and not Seras, the nicest member of Hellsing.
• Disney Villain Death: While not a villain and (possibly) not a death, she does indeed fall a great height after being beaten in the third game.
• Shipper on Deck: And a rather manipulative one, too. She essentially forces Steven to strike up a conversation with Connie by basically getting the assistance of everyone in town except her or Hank Hill (the latter of whom Steven also gets aid from).
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Compared to Garnet and Pearl. Her plan gets way more screetime than said pair and she gets a few more lines in the story. The fact that she's tagged in the character list basically confirms this (alongside Steven, "OC" (Carl), and oddly Rip).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: As a consequence of the fic having no real epilogue, it's left ambiguous as to how or even if she survives falling into Downtown Beach City.

Pearl

Pearl

• Butt-Monkey: A Running Gag in the third round is that she's essentially forced to do things outside of her confort zone in order to progress on the Gem's plans. Like driving a car through a train station, entering the window first. Or cutting off the head of the Alucard dummy so that she could get the microphone stored inside.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Holds this opinion in regards to Alucard. And if her reaction to the dummy is any indication, Rip shares this belief, at least when it comes to Alucard.

Garnet

Garnet

• The Comically Serious:
  • She gets shot by Rip in the first round, and makes no reaction to it. Contrast Rip herself, who is very cheerful at the development.
  • Averted in the third round, where Carl combards her with paint offscreen. She falls over on her knees and then on her face, either pretending that the shots are fatal wounds or that Carl's guns were that over powered (seeing as one sent Amethyst on an arial tour of Downtown Beach City, the latter isn't too far-fetched). She gets up seconds later and jumps off.
• The Worf Effect: Gets eliminated rather brutally and suddenly by Carl, literally when Steven and Amethyst are not looking.

Other

The Hills

Hank Hill

• The Ace: Mostly from experience, but in the context of this story he knows pretty damn well how to deal with similar loud, rude people in paintball.
• The Cameo: After the Gems lose the second round and Steven goes off trying to find strategies.
• Deus ex Machina: Two thirds of his appaearances are this. In the first, he offers Steven advice that he couldn't find after circling Beach City several times. By the second, he's ultimately the driving force that leads to Carl's elimination; without him hiding behind a newspaper, there was a slight risk Steven's plan wouldn't work.
• Faux Symbolism: invokedHis intro is gone in a way to give him an angelic look, with the sun's light appearing right behind him.
• Mythology Gag: It's implied, specifically in the author's notes, that the only reason why he's in Beach City involves Rip.
• Stealth Insult: Comparing Steven to Bobby might be this, depending on how you factor in King of the Hill's Grand Finale.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that he appears at all is a spoiler, as his cameo is supposed to be a surprise.

Peggy Hill

• Loony Fan: Hank implies that she is this to the Crystal Gems.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Lampshaded by Carl's thoughts when talking to her.
• Walking Spoiler: As with Hank.

Bobby Hill

• The Ghost: Never fully appears in the span of the story, though Hank implies that he and Peggy are around somewhere close. In a grander scheme of all of GPF's works, this so far makes four times that Bobby does not appear in a story that his father does. Sweet Jade and Hella John and so far 496 Reasons Why Multidating is More Complicated than it Seems before and, for now, chapters 15+ of Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals after.
• Loony Fan: See the entry on Peggy.
• Walking Spoiler: As with Hank and Peggy.

Greg

Greg Universe

Lars

Lars

• Everyone Has Standards: He's actually willing to help Steven and slightly work with him to take down Hellsing in the paintball games.

Sadie

Sadie

• Early-Bird Cameo: Would-be example. She, Connie, and Peedee would have appeared in Zorin's illusion before actually entering the story in person, in a what-if part.

Fryman Family

Fryman

• The Ghost: Does not show up at any point in the story.

Peedee

• Early-Bird Cameo: Would-be example. He, Connie, and Sadie would have appeared in Zorin's illusion before actually entering the story in person, in a what-if part.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Seras before she asks him to eliminate her, thinking that she was fighting a losing battle at this point.

Ronaldo

• Continuity Nod: His blog, specifically the theory that the moon landing was to get rid of vampires, is aknowledged here.

Onion

Onion

• BFG: He uses a paint cannon against Seras.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Again, he probably uses one of the largest paint-weapons out of anybody becides Hellsing themselves.

Dewey

Mayor Bill Dewey

• The Ghost: Never makes an actual appearance in the story.
• Mayor Pain: Carl basically bribed him and every other person with power into not doing anything about his music in exchange for soft, sound-proof bedrooms and other luxuries.
• Weirdness Censor: He apparantly doesn't give a crap about Hellsing's presence.

Connie

Connie

• The Cameo: She appears briefly in chapter 13 in Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals but isn't refered to by name. She's buying the exact same book that would later lead to Carl's downfall, two years and ten months in-universe later and gets into a short fight with Porrim over it. Would be an Early-Bird Cameo if not for the fact that Carl Stevens Universe came out before season four of HHC.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? After contributing to Carl's elimination, she proceeds to tell off Carl as if he was her son. She counts as this more than Steven's tell-off, since Carl is a powerful Parody Sue vampire with two years of expericence and Steven is a half-gem warrior, while Connie is an ordinary human being.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? In chapter 13 of Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals, she whacks Porrim on the face with a book after finding out that she was a vampire. (To be fair, Porrim was a little aggressive with her.) Porrim. The same incarnation of the same girl who can turn into a "scary eye form" heavily implied to be much like a jade-colored Palette Swap of Alucard. However, this is only listed as a sub bullet as, like anything that happened in HUC and HHC that wasn't elaborated on in CSU, details as to whether or not she beat Porrim in the more sane story such as this are ambiguous.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Would-be example. She, Peedee, and Sadie would have appeared in Zorin's illusion before actually entering the story in person, in a what-if part.
• Only Sane Woman: Opts against joining most of the town in getting Seras at the football stadium even though Amethyst wasn't going to ask her to. She also holds the biggest reaction of Carl and Steven's... scene at the ending.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers this to Carl after the end of the third match, with Steven adding a few things as well.
• Ship Teasing: Word of God says it's more for shits and giggles than anything, but the hints with Steven when she appears are incredibly obvious:
  • Before the meeting is Hank, who compares Steven to Bobby. Both of them had love interests named Connie.
  • The way they rant at Carl as though he was their son.
  • Both Amethyst and Carl calling her his girlfriend. He reacts to the former by assuring that she isn't actually his girlfriend, but doesn't correct the latter.
  • Another one before she actually appears: When Steven, Amethst, Garnet, and Carl take off on top of the train, Pearl (who had been eliminated by this point) seems to want to have been with him so she can make plans for when he gets to her. She actually had a shot at that, should she have gone on the train after the one the other Gems and Carl got on.

"Carrie"

Carrie-like Girl

• Cloud Cuckoolander: Seems to fit the bill, what with being implied to dress as a Homestuck character (Dave) for no obvious reason, and yelling at people about windows.
• Emo Teen: Her appearance is stated as this outright.
• Mythology Gag: Warning people about windows since Gumball Vs Satan. And the fact that her outfit, from the description, seems similar to a Knight of Time from Homestuck.
• No Name Given: Her actual name is not given, not within the story or even in author's notes.