They were there Before us. note
The group that had entered the Location before the featured group entered it. They have escaped, but their traces are still to be found in there, and they might have something to do with the plot at large.
Tropes they share
- Aerith and Bob: In the PMMM AU, names like 'Kalidas' note and 'Lauren' note exist next to eachother.
- Badass Adorable/Cute Bruiser: This description
: 'I mean, they also have some of the most dangerous (and indeed straight up powerful) powers out of the whole “pre-Chiasmata” group. But that doesn’t make them less cute'. - Badass Normal: In the sense that all the images shown here (except the one in the labelnote) are of their civilian form.
- Boyish Short Hair: All girls excepting Illusory Miasmic.
- Five-Token Band: For as far as we know:
- Holly and Maquette/Haematic Demiurge, Asian (note ) ladies
- Animus Gatherer, Brisk Peregrinator and Knight Vitreous, western white ladies (German, Scottish and Canadian) note
- Face Changeling, Bright-Eyed Luminary, white male characters
- Algific Knave, Element Fragmenter, and Ibrahim, who are respectively a dark male (Indonesian) and two who're Costa Rican and Bengal)
- Flanderization: Most of them take the interpretation of a character and run to the logical conclusion of it. One of the few things we know about Element Fragmenter (interpretation of Sam) is that they're likely a complete idealist, Bright-Eyed Luminary (interpretation of Anders) is an Evil Genius, Knight Vitreous (interpretation of Daniel) is a jerk, Brisk Peregrinator (interpretation of Jacqueline) is obsessed with being a coolkid, etc. More about that here.
- Foil: Something they logically become through that to 'our' characters:
- Bright-Eyed Luminary and Anders. While Anders was merely hindered by his inability to turn his power off and seem like a Smug Snake to the others, Bright-Eyed Luminary is genuinely villainous and an actual Smug Snake.
- Also, Omar and Algific Knave. The former is a paranoid, neurotic guy setting things on fire, the latter seems to be calm, relaxing and a cryokinetic.
- Generation Xerox: They have the same symbols as the LUCA group. The Location likely needs one of every symbol.
- Hotter and Sexier: Their references were drawn way later than the LUCA group was drawn, in the evolved style (longer eyelashes, less cartoony limbs, shading which made it seem the girls 'suddenly' had a chest size), making it seem like this. The fandom tends to see the LUCA group as 'kids' even when they were drawn in the same style, further contributing to this fact.
- Multinational Team: Here too.
- Palette Swap: What the symbols are of the Chiasmata main characters' ones. See here for more information note . However, this is not traited as a bad thing because the symbol system works that way - there are twelve symbols and they can applied to various powers.
- Satellite Character: Aside from Ibby and Holly, most of them don't really do anything, partially on account of having escaped the Location before the story started.
- You Are Number 6: Yeah, but their numbering system works differently, present in both the reference sets and in the list Forest Viewer presented. The image presented above shows this.
open/close all folders
Cenozoic
Bright-Eyed Luminary
Luminance
- The one who rules what they survey
FLARE
- AU Name Change: "Maelisa Peralta" in the PMMM AU. It might be a pun on 'malicious peril'.
- Embarrassing First Name: Not for him, but in this memo in the PMMM AU, Ibrahim says that he 'still can't get over that note name'.
- Expy: He and Meenah share a lot of traits, and his goal is given as 'money and power'. He's even sharing his symbol with a Plucky Girl to boot!
- Foreshadowing: See the quote at his reference.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: Well, at least in his literal yellow eyes.
- Greed: He's not in the Location anymore, so acquiring more wealth is a primary goal for him.
- Light Is Not Good: Played straight, supposedly. He appears to be rather aggressive, even, possibly making him the meanest.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Though it's unknown what his powers do exactly except for giving him these.
- Token Evil Teammate: With Illusory Miasmic.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Just look at him. There's a reason he's called the Bright-Eyed Luminary.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 1
Illusory Miasmic
- The one who twists that which is accepted
MIASMA
- Addictive Magic: Well, not exactly, but her fumes cause hallucinations.
- AU Name Change: "Kara Merritt" in the PMMM AU.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: She's...rather nasty.
- Devil in Plain Sight: She looks evil, continually schemes, and is a member of the Disharmonies. And is the only character with long hair in the Location ever.
- Expy: She's the Kurloz parallel, having messy dark hair and a purple associated color. Someone who has to do with her has a light green as their color (Meulin and Clara, respectively), and the purple powers of both characters are supposedly psychic (Kurloz with his chucklevoodoos, Illusory Miasmic's gas is halluciogenic). They're both members of a villainous organization as well.
- Messy Hair: Yeah. It's long, which makes her the only exception on the shoulder length rule.
- Slap Stick: She's a fan of it. Whether this also applies to real life has yet to be decided.
- Token Evil Teammate: With Bright-Eyed Luminary.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 2
Face Changeling
- The one who need not learn a face
SHAPE
Seems to be a shapeshifter.- Dub Name Change: "Hemeros Zarate" in the PMMM AU.
- Non-Indicative Name: He's not a changeling in the sense that he isn't stuck in the image shown forever.
Brisk Peregrinator
- The one who can walk faster than they all can run
SPRINT
- AU Name Change: "Lauren Piran" in the PMMM AU.
- Badass Adorable: See Youngest Child Wins.
- Expy: Of Latula. They're both colorcoded as teal, and are both skateboarders.
- Tag Along Kid: The youngest Coldlit of the group.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 4
- Youngest Child Wins: Not her, but her power, as used by Archivist, puts Brother Dearest in quite a struggle.
Mesozoic
Algific Knave
- The one who stops and starts
ICE
- AU Name Change: "Raimi Nevarez" in the PMMM AU.
- Expy: He's the Rufioh parallel. Color-wise, Meulin's.
- Pungeon Master: Wants to make a lot of puns about being chill.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 9
Knight Vitreous
- The one who sees the different lens
GLASS
- AU Name Change: "Dina Matthews" in the PMMM AU.
- Expy: A girl associated with a red tint, is linked to their opposite color, who would not get along with her symbol mate and is kind of a jerk? Damara. note
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The first evidence of her presence in the Location we see are the spikes of some sort of stone or glass impaling Architect's corpse.
- Other Me Annoys Me: She and Aidan would not get along.
- Sitcom: Her kind of humor.
- Spike Shooter: Seems to have used her glass like this.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 11
Animus Gatherer
- The one who sees people as they truly are
ANIMA
Her power was described in a cameo. It seems she's able to get the power of another's soul for a moment.- AU Name Change: "Adeline Sadler" in the PMMM AU.
Breach Cutter
Interface
- The one who peels reality apart
PORTAL
A scientist who attends the Chiasm Syndicate. Interface discovers a power that lets him see into other facilities of the Syndicate and spy on anyone else. He mainly 'spies' on other facilities of the Chiasm Syndicate, making it a fact that all buildings of the Chiasm Syndicate are in walking distance of eachother.- AU Name Change: "Carlin Amaral" in the PMMM AU.
- Other Me Annoys Me: He and Daniel would argue a lot.
- Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Invokes this.“If you look through this window here, you can see Antarctica. Out of this other window you can see the Himalayas. Moving on…”
- Portal Cut: Something he utilizes.
- Thinking Up Portals: A power he discovers.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 12.
Paleozoic
Ibrahim Chakrabati/Subject- 002
Forest Viewer
KNOW
- The one who cannot see the forest
Click here to see how Brother Dearest sees him
- Beware the Nice Ones: He may be funny and friendly, but he could crack skulls with his bare hands. He can be more ruthless than he lets on, especially when it's about his niece (click the picture!)
- Big Brother Instinct: The white text (click!) in this image even reads 'No no no no no no no no no no no no you ruined me! Leave them alone! Leave Jamila alone!'
- Big Brother Instinct: The white text (click!) in this image
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's very goofy and childish, apparently to the point where he would forget how many fingers he has without Holly to remind him, but he's also invaluable as a precognitive due to his ability to break the Cammaerts Axiom, and is apparently dangerous enough to potentially hold his own against 564.
- Character Blog: Right here!
- Cloud Cuckoolander: He's... not all there. He tries to eat paint from time to time, and forgets how many fingers he has.
- Dub Name Change: "Ibrahim Corcoran" in the PMMM AU, before his last name was revealed to be 'Chakrabati'.
- Expy: A non-villainous Aranea. Has an omniscient power and eagerness to tell you things.
- Glowing Eyes: They sometimes seem to glow green, particularly when using his power.
- Hero of Another Story: He and his friends were in the Location, but managed to escape.
- Heroic BSoD: Can happen when certain... sensitive subjects are brought up.
- Hidden Depths: The author describes him as one of the few people who would have a chance against 564.
- The Klutz: Trips over his own feet...all the time.
- Literal-Minded: Answered a question about the amount of trees in Wisconsin.
- Loophole Abuse: As being the Logos person. Does things like:Q: 'Which day is it?'A: 'Today!'Q: 'When is a door not a door?'A: 'When it isn't!'
- Madness Mantra: On a certain number of asks he got, 'Disbelieve your eyes' (the motto of Illusory Miasmic) was in white, partially wiped out.
- Mad Oracle: A fairly benign one.
- Medium Awareness: Sort of, he's aware that there are two separate realities and communicates relatively freely with readers via his Character Blog, but also apparently sometimes gets confused about which reality is "real" and tends to get seizures if he thinks to much about it.
- Mind Control: Possibly. Also, here:
- (Sometimes I Internet by using subliminal messaging on people, but that is bad and friend told me to stop hypnotising her. Sorry friend.)
- Psychic Powers: In an unusual way, although he can also use his omniscience in the traditional manner (look at the bullet point above this one).
- Required Secondary Power: Played with, his brain is mostly capable of processing the information from his powers, but too much can still overload him.
- Ron the Death Eater: In-universe. Open the spoiler.
- Shatterpoint Tap: Capable of doing this to shatter enemies skulls.
- Significant Monogram: I.C. Say it out loud.
- Tarot Motifs: I - The Magician
- Theme Naming: He and Holly are the most known characters of this group, and therefore, each name has a double letter (Ibby & Holly).
- Third Eye: Not literally, but figural. In the PMMM AU, this point is driven home, similarly to Anders.
- Who Watches the Watchmen?: Was asked this here. (click on the picture!)
- You Are Number 6: Subject 5
Holly
Unctuous Scribe
- The one who paints with forbidden knowledge
INK
- AU Name Change: "Holly Anderson" in the PMMM AU.
- Beware the Nice Ones: According to Word of God..."How dare you call Holly nonpowerful."
- Body Horror: Her side affect is nasty, even compared to most others in this setting.
- Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: For Forest Viewer, she is his best friend and helps keep him (relatively) grounded in reality.
- Expy: Seems to be one of Porrim, minus the Ethical Slut behavior. Also has shades of Meulin.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Of course! Although, as it is noted, colors are given out completely arbitrarily.
- Mad Artist: Averted, Holly is sane as can be.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: This comment on her reference, describing the quartet as: 'The guy who can break anything with a single touch, a girl who can bring anything to life with her blood, an omniscient young man, and the ghoul who makes them look good.'
- Personality Power: She is one of the rare cases. She was an artist before she ever got the ability to create paint.
- Theme Naming: She and Ibrahim are the most known characters of this group, and therefore, each name has a double letter (Ibby & Holly).
- You Are Number 6: Subject 6
Element Fragmenter
- The one who breaks the fundamentals
BREAK
His power was described in a cameo. It seems he's able to break anything with a touch.- AU Name Change: "Kalidas Vazquez" in the PMMM AU.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Though it's kept in a ponytail and it's not that long (it's shoulder-length - which seems to be the status quo under the other protagonists and in this group excepting Illusory Miasmic).
- The Pollyanna: Possibly. His favorite saying is: 'But these things are sent to try us'.
- Touch of Death: Downplayed. It's unknown if he can kill via this, but he can break things in this way.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 7.
Haematic Demiurge
Maquette
- The one who breathes death and drinks life
BLEED
Click here to see her once she suits up
- AU Name Change: "Melisande Leone" in the PMMM AU.
- Blood Magic: But the less blood the think it's brought to life with, the less independent it is.
- Stealth Pun: Her outfit in her civilian form reads mmHg, which is the meter for blood pressure.
- Swiss-Army Tears: Well, Swiss-Army Blood. She can bring things to life by bringing it in contact with her blood.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Enforcer.
- You Are Number 6: Subject 8
