This is a character sheet for the Fireman Sam fanfiction Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy.
For information about the canon versions of these characters, see here.
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Rescue Service
Sam Peyton
Samuel Peyton
Sam Peyton (also known as Fireman Sam) is a team leader for the fire service.- Adaptation Name Change: In the canon series, his surname was Jones, not Peyton.
- Badass in Distress: In "Sarah's Mermaid Adventure", Sam and the rescue service are kidnapped by Count Slither and held captive in his lair. The Mermaid Girls work together to rescue them.
- Color-Coded Characters: Sam is associated with blue.
- Nasal Trauma: He suffers a nosebleed as a side-effect of getting a concussion in "Heads Up".
- Oblivious to Love: Despite how many signs he gets, Sam just never realizes that Elvis is in love with him.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Sam's is a cheese and chutney sandwich from Bella's cafe.
Elvis Cridlington
Elvis Cridlington
Elvis Cridlington is a firefighter for the rescue service.- Adaptational Intelligence: Unlike in the canon series, here Elvis is more emotionally intelligent and knows multiple languages (English is his first language, he can read French, and later stories have him learning British Sign Language).
- Cool Big Bro: When he becomes friends with Gabby, he acts as a fun-loving, goofy older brother figure to her.
- The Heart: Elvis' unbridled enthusiasm and kindness is what glues the fire service together.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He's twenty-nine, and best friends with eighteen-year-old Gabby.
- Out Sick: In "Lightning Flu Blues" and "Sam's Promise", Elvis is unable to deal with any of the episodes' emergencies due to being in bed with the flu.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Elvis' is a plate of fish and chips from the Wholefish Cafe. Gabby makes them special for him.
Penny Morris
Penny Morris
Penny Morris is a firefighter for the rescue service.- Action Girl: She's the designated muscle of the fire service.
- Official Couple: With Briar.
- Does Not Like Spam: Downplayed; it's not necessarily a dislike, but her item reactions in the game manual show that she doesn't care much for sweets.
- Drink-Based Characterization: Penny enjoys organic fruit juices, as she's quite particular about what goes into her body.
Briar Phillips
Briar Phillips
Briar Phillips is a firefighter for the rescue service.- Adaptational Gender Identity: From a cis woman to nonbinary.
- Adaptation Name Change: Ellie to Briar.
- Color-Coded Characters: Briar is associated with purple and blue. They have purple bedding, a blue fire coat, and their favourite flower is the bluebell.
- Official Couple: With Penny.
Station Officer Steele
Station Officer Basil Steele
Station Officer Steele is the leader of the firefighters for the rescue service.- Adaptational Name Change: Of a sort; in the CGI seasons of Fireman Sam, Steele's first name is Norris. Everyday Craziness reverts it back to Basil, his name from the stop-motion seasons.
- Does Not Like Spam: His item reactions in the game manual mention that he doesn't like liquorice shoelaces.
Tom Thomas
Tom Thomas
Tom Thomas is a helicopter pilot for the rescue service.- Color-Coded Characters: Tom is associated with orange.
- Cuddle Bug: Tom's love language is touch, as evidenced by his very physically affectionate relationship with Ben.
- Official Couple: With Ben.
- Out Sick: In "Runaway Raft" and "Sign of the Maze Monster", he is unable to attend to the episodes' missions due to being sick with pneumonia.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the stubborn, energetic Red Oni to Ben's Blue Oni.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Tom's is barbecued shrimp.
Ben Hooper
Ben Hooper
Ben Hooper is a coastguard for the rescue service.- Does Not Like Spam: The game manual mentions that he doesn't like jam tarts.
- Growling Gut: In "To Melt This Aussie's Heart", the first sign of his illness is his stomach rumbling.
- Official Couple: With Tom.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the soft-hearted, reasonable Blue Oni to Tom's Red Oni.
Jodie Phillips
Jodie Phillips
Jodie Phillips is a marine biologist for the rescue service.- Color-Coded Characters: Jodie is associated with blue.
- Does Not Like Spam: The game mentions that she doesn't like beans.
Krystyna Kaminski
Krystyna Kaminski
Krystyna Kaminski is a helicopter pilot for the rescue service.- Color-Coded Characters: Krystyna is associated with orange.
- Does Not Like Spam: The game mentions that she doesn't like whipped cream.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Krystyna's is wild cherries.
Adults
Bronwyn Jones
Bronwyn Jones
Bronwyn Jones is the owner and head chef of the Wholefish Cafe.- Damsel in Distress: In "Bronwyn's Helper", Bronwyn gets stuck on her cafe's roof and needs the fire service to get her down.
- Sanity Slippage: Played for Laughs in "Potato Queen Bronwyn"; she starts to lose her mind trying to prepare for the Spud Buddies Festival, and gets everything mixed up, including family trees (she mistakenly refers to Gabby as Norman's sister, when they are not related).
- Trademark Favorite Food: Bronwyn's is Bella's homemade spaghetti sauce. She also loves maritozzi.
Gabby McGraw
Gabriella Nancy McGraw
Gabby McGraw is a cook for the Wholefish Cafe.- Ancestral Name: In the game, she mentions that the women in her family get their middle names from their grandmothers, and that her future daughter will have the middle name of Millicent.
Word of God mentions that Gabby's middle name is Nancy, presumably after her maternal grandmother and Millicent McGraw's mother. - Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Inverted; despite being the tomboy to Svetlana's Girly Girl, Gabby's the one to wear a midriff-revealing swimsuit in "Sarah's Mermaid Adventure".
- Canon Foreigner: Exclusive to this series.
- Color-Coded Characters: Gabby is associated with pink and orange.
- Cool Big Sis: She acts as a mentor figure to Norman, usually keeping him in line.
- Damsel in Distress: In "Bronwyn's Helper", she gets stuck on the Wholefish Cafe roof and needs the fire service to get her down.
- Does Not Like Spam:
- Dislikes poultry and lean meats. "Runaway Raft" mentions that she outright switched to a pescatarian diet.
- The game manual mentions she also doesn't like custard chews.
- In-Series Nickname: Very rarely is Gabby called by her full name, Gabriella.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Outside of Svetlana, there isn't anyone else in Gabby's age range around town; as such, there's at least a decade of age difference between her and her three closest friends, Elvis (eleven years), Bronwyn (twelve years), and Norman (ten years).
- Official Couple: With Svetlana.
- Queer Establishing Moment: In "Valentine's Daze", she lets it slip to Elvis that she's a lesbian. Later on, she gets together with Svetlana.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her default hairstyle is a thick ponytail.
- Trademark Favorite Food: "Bronwyn's Helper" mentions that she loves fish and chips. In the video game, her favourite dessert is Bronwyn's homemade fruit pies.
- True Blue Femininity: In "Shop Till You Drop", she picks up a beautiful blue party dress from the Newtown Shopping Centre.
Dr. Moumin
Dr. Saida Moumin, M.D.
Dr. Moumin is a non-emergency doctor.- Deadpan Snarker: As kind as she is, she can still drop sassy remarks like it's nobody's business.
Mrs. Chen
Lian Chen
Mrs. Chen is the local schoolteacher.- Color-Coded Characters: Mrs. Chen is associated with purple.
- Damsel in Distress: In "Runaway Raft", she drifts out to sea on a raft and needs Ben, Jodie, and Krystyna to bring her back to land.
Svetlana Blomgren
Svetlana Blomgren
Svetlana Blomgren is a local university student.- Berserk Button: Yes, she's aware that she's Swedish and she's a bad cook. Do not make Swedish Chef jokes to her, or she will hurt you.
- Canon Foreigner: Exclusive to this series.
- City Mouse: She's not using to roughing it in the outdoors, nor does she like getting dirty. In "How Not to Camp", she's brought along to a camping trip and gets completely filthy, but she enjoys it and vows that she will go camping more often.
- Damsel in Distress: In "Valentine's Daze", she chokes on a scallop and needs Gabby to give her the Heimlich.
- A Day in the Limelight: She's the main focus of "Svetlana Gets a Job", where she becomes a waitress at Bella's cafe.
- Does Not Like Spam: In the game, she dislikes custard chews and scalloped potatoes (as a nod to having choked on them in "Valentine's Daze").
- Foot Popping: In "How Not to Camp", she pops her foot when hugging Gabby.
- Heroes Love Dogs: Svetlana is a kindhearted woman who adores dogs and puppies.
- In-Series Nickname: The older adult characters tend to call her Lana.
- Lethal Chef: The most Svetlana can cook for herself is basic sandwiches; any more complicated, and she's completely hopeless. She even managed to start a fire just while monitoring a boiling pot.
- Meaningful Name: "Svetlana" means "star", and Svetlana wants to be a professional ballerina (or the star of the show).
- Official Couple: With Gabby.
- Regal Ringlets: Svetlana, a feminine and refined ballerina from a wealthy family, wears her hair in ringlets.
- Scout-Out: It's mentioned that she was a member of Lilja Scouts as a young girl.
- Spoiled Sweet: She's a sheltered rich girl without much experience in common society, but she's still as sweet as they come.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Svetlana's is Bella's bomboloni doughnuts.
- True Blue Femininity: Svetlana is associated with blue.
Kids
Sarah Jones
Sarah Marina Jones
Sarah Jones is one of the Pontypandy children.- Color-Coded Characters: Sarah is associated with pink.
- A Day in the Limelight: In "Sarah's Mermaid Adventure", she takes the starring role as she leads her friends on an underwater rescue mission.
- Does Not Like Spam: The game mentions she doesn't like nuts.
- Fangirl: She's a big fan of the Mermaid Girls book series, and of mermaids in general.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Sarah's is chocolate eggs.
Norman Price
Norman Price
Norman Price is one of the Pontypandy children.- Intergenerational Friendship: Norman, an eight-year-old has an Odd Friendship with eighteen year old Gabby.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Norman's is liquorice shoelaces.
Mandy Flood
Mandy Flood
Mandy Flood is one of the Pontypandy children.- Animal Motif: Butterflies. Mandy knows a lot about butterflies, with her favourite being the holly blue. She's seen chasing after them in "Lightning Flu Blues" and "Sam's Promise", and in "How Not to Camp", she makes a butterfly shadow puppet.
- Color-Coded Characters: Mandy is associated with green.
Lily Chen
Lily Chen
Lily Chen is one of the Pontypandy children.- Color-Coded Characters: Lily is associated with pink.
- Damsel in Distress: In "Runaway Raft", she drifts out to sea on a raft and needs the Ocean Rescue Service to bring her back to land.
- A Day in the Limelight: "A Story for Lily" is told mainly through her perspective.
Hannah Sparkes
Hannah Sparkes
Hannah Sparkes is one of the Pontypandy children.- Color-Coded Characters: Hannah is associated with purple.
- Does Not Like Spam: The game mentions that she doesn't like raisins.
Freya Blomgren
Freya Blomgren
Freya Blomgren is one of the Pontypandy children.- Canon Foreigner: Exclusive to this series.
- Color-Coded Characters: Freya is associated with orange and yellow.
- Damsel in Distress: In "Sign of the Maze Monster", she gets trapped in the burning maze, and needs Penny and Krystyna to air-lift her out.
- Does Not Like Spam: The game mentions that she doesn't like grapes or potatoes.
- Fiery Redhead: Inverted; Freya has red hair, but she's incredibly calm and tranquil.
- Meaningful Name: "Blomgren" means "flower field". Freya Blomgren loves flowers.
- Mellow Fellow: Freya is more quietly introspective and bookish compared to the other kids.
Fictional characters
Mermaid Girls
Mermaid Anemone, Mermaid Flora, Mermaid Shimmer, Mermaid Coral, and Mermaid Sissonne
The Mermaid Girls are the main protagonists of their eponymous book series.- Cool Crown: Each Mermaid Girl wears a pearl crown.
- Green Thumb: Mermaid Flora's superpower is nature-based.
- Light 'em Up: Mermaid Shimmer's superpower is light-based.
- Magical Girl: Each of the Mermaid Girls is a superheroine with magic powers who work together with The Power of Friendship.
- Odd Name Out: Mermaid Sissonne is the only mermaid to lack an ocean-themed name; Mermaid Anemone is named for sea anemones, Mermaid Flora is named for the flora that grows underwater, Mermaid Shimmer is named for the shimmer of sunlight on water, and Mermaid Coral is named for coral reefs. Mermaid Sissonne, however, is named for a type of ballet leap.
- Shock and Awe: Mermaid Anemone's superpower is lightning.
- Super-Speed: Mermaid Sissonne's superpower is speed.
- Transformation Name Announcement:
- Mermaid Anemone: "The greatest shock of lightning! I'm Mermaid Anemone!"
- Mermaid Flora: "Growing better all the time! I'm Mermaid Flora!"
- Mermaid Shimmer: "Shining bright to find my way! I'm Mermaid Shimmer!"
- Mermaid Coral: "The reef's healing touch! I'm Mermaid Coral!"
- Mermaid Sissonne: "Sleek and swift as the ocean's currents! I'm Mermaid Sissonne.
- Transformation Trinket: The Mermaid Wands, which host the Mermaid Girls' powers.
Count Slither
- Big Bad: He's the lead antagonist of the Mermaid Girls series.
- Terms of Endangerment: In "Sarah's Mermaid Adventure", after kidnapping Sam, he mockingly calls him "Little Red".
Marina
- Token Human: She's the only known human character in Mermaid Girls.
Little Forest Fairies
The Little Forest Fairies are a set of trading cards.
Blomma Bluebell
- Alliterative Name: Blomma Bluebell.
Rhianna Redwood
- Alliterative Name: Rhianna Redwood.
