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Patricia "Peridot" Paula Diamond

A fake psychic (that apparently makes things also related with technology) and the star of the Tent of Technomagic. She obessively clinges to Frisk's friendship and when Chara tries to break it up, she reveals her true colors as a crackling, devilish child willing to use anything to dominate the town.

• Abhorrent Admirer: Non-romantic variation; her obsession with being Frisk's friend makes Frisk umcomfortable, but she doesn't hate her...until she tries to murder her big sister Chara.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Justified, sort of. Since she is in Gideon's place, she debuts pretty near the beginning.
• Adaptational Villainy: Peridot, originally just a funny heavy villain, becomes a immediate antagonist hellbent on domination. Subverted during "The Woman-Pearlian Candidate", after we learn spending time in adult jail did a number on her villainess.
• Age Lift: Inverted. She is changed from a thousand-years old rock alien, but still a child/toddler in comparision to other members of her race, to a more genuine child.
• Alliterative Name: Her first and middle names are Patricia Paula.
• Ambiguously Gay: Her attempts to get closer to Frisk can make her dwell a bit into the Les Yay territory.
• Artifact of Doom: It's shown in her debut chapter ("A Great and Lovable Gem for Frisk") that it's her forest green colored glasses that holds her psychic abilities, since she adjusts them while pleading for another hangout from Frisk and burns the Chara half of a photo while furiously clenching on them. Also, in the fight between her and Chara, her firstest move is hold on her glasses and toss Chara aside with telekinesis, showing that the glasses work just like Canon!Gideon's amulet (but it's never used for this function again in the following chapters).
• Berserk Button: Poking her.
• Big Bad: Of the first arc; she wants to steal the Crystal Shack because she knows about their secrets and, most importantly, wants to know the book's locations. However, a little after "Nightbandits", this role of hers seems to mellow out, being transported to the Zodiac Demons.
• Blush Stickers
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the first part of Terrorcalypse, Chara's speech helps Peridot break free of a mind control inplanted by the Zodiac Demons, and actually fulfill a Heel–Face Turn.
• Break Them by Talking: She uses alot this trope agains't Chara in "Peridot's Ascension", but while it initially seems to work...it ultimately fails, as Chara comes back to fight Peridot anyway, once she threatens to make Frisk a queen.
• Broken Pedestal: The town is not pleased about finding out her true nature.
• Brought Down to Normal: Played with. When Frisk destroys her plasma pistol, she stops resorting to psychic forces agains't the Dreemurr's. She still has her glasses, which may have some psychic functions, but she doesn't use them anymore for those.
• Catchphrase Insult: Like her canon self, she tends to call people she hates "clods".
  Chara Dreemurr...your CLOD! You have no idea of what you did!!
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She feels only her deserves Frisk's friendship.
• Deal with the Devil: Accepts to deal with the Zodiac Demons in order to get the Crystal Shack's deed, just for they to lose the safe's code and she break her ties with them, deciding to use a dynamite instead.
• Deliberately Cute Child
• Dirty Coward: She giggles and laughs off the Dreemurr's faces while the situation is favored toward her. She chickens out and beg for mercy when Pearl finally reveals the truth for the town and they start destroying her pins.
• Dumb Blonde: Inverted. Her hair is described as light blonde and she is a cunning, smart Manipulative Bastard.
• Enfant Terrible: Only 9-10 years old and a pretty competent villain on the first arc.
• Entitled to Have You: Non-romantic variation (or maybe not?). She thinks she is the only one who deserve's Frisk friendship even when Frisk herself verbally breaks her ties with her forever.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She is horrified over the Zodiac Demons offering items covered in blood as gifts.
• Evil Counterpart: She shares some similarities and oppositions to all the three core characters.
  • With Chara: Both are children who are more smart and mature than they look like, own one of the book's editions (until Peridot loses hers), have green as a trademark color (the symbolism for Chara is growth and rebirth while Peridot's is ambition and jealously), put girls three years older than them on a very high pedestal (Peridot puts Frisk while Chara puts Lapis), sometimes enlist paranormal help without thinking of the consequences, and want to find answers for the mysteries in Inside Falls, albeit for opposite reasons.
  • With Pearl: Both are intelligent con-woman that fake out the supernatural while having connections to the REAL supernatural and seem alot more aware of their surroundings than they look like to be. Their "show" personalities and genuine personalities also invert each other: Pearl puts on a facade of a melodramatic woman while Peridot puts a facade of a cute and kind psychic star. Pearl is actually a lovable and rarely angry mother figure while Peridot is a big, devilish brat. This is boosted even further when it's revealed they both have one of the gemstones books, and later, that both of them wanted to unite the three for a greater objective: Peridot, to rule the whole town, and Pearl, to save her older adoptive sister.
  • With Frisk: Both are creative girls, pretty short considering their ages (but Frisk certainly beats up Peridot in height), social butterflies (Frisk, however, tends to Zig-Zag a little bit around the archetype), lovable personalities and a problem of selfishness. However, while Frisk's lovable personality is genuine, and her selfishness is just something deeply unconscious that she feels very bad and regretful learning about, Peridot's lovable personality is a facade and her selfishness is something very conscious she doesn't have regrets about.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Is Hammy: She loves to take control of any scene she is in.
• Evil Is Petty
• The Fake Cutie: Oh yes.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: In fact, the glasses made her have a zero soul.
• Green and Mean: Her color motif is green, and she is pretty evil for a 9-10 years old child.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Subverted. Her public image is of a lovable and cute child, but when in private...
• Heel Realization: The stinger of "The Woman-Pearlian Candidate" shows her asking to herself without the glasses if it all that she did was worth it.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Completes one in "Terrorcalypse - Part 1".
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Invoked and Downplayed. Chara lies to the Slendytubbies that Peridot is a boy with triangle hair and, while it's not said in-dialogue, it's possible that in the spur of the moment, it was quickly cleaned up Peridot was actually a girl.
• Little Miss Con Artist
• Mind over Matter: A plasma-charged pistol she created and used on her debut chapter had this function, but Frisk briefly got a hold of it to save Peridot and Chara and then destroyed it by tossing it at a tree.
• Psycho Lesbian: If you are willing to interpret Peridot's feelings for Frisk as some form of emotionally repressed lesbianism hiding behind a explanation of mere intense admiration, she can become this.
• Stage Names: Peridot (aka her canon self's name) is her stage name, and the one the narration and the protagonists use to refer to her the most. Her actual name is Patricia Diamond.
• That Man Is Dead: Inverted. In "Terrorcalypse - Part 4", Peridot (who's noted to wear a different pair of glasses over the Artifact of Doom ones that were destroyed in the first part) proudly proclaims that for now she'll go with her real first name, Patricia, as the cementing of her Heel–Face Turn.
• Took a Level in Kindness: It's very minor and still not enough to pardon her, but she at least began to recognize what she did in the past was wrong.
• Villain Decay: In "The Woman-Pearlian Candidate", Peridot becomes scared of the prison she's caged in, mainly because everyone is scary and she only got five genuine friends there, and is just a sidekick on the plan of her mother, Yasmin Diamond, to set her free. In fact, all this time, she somehow began to grow guilty of her past actions, as shown in two of her lines.
• Villainous BSoD: Developed one between the time of "Peridot's Ascension" and "The Woman-Pearlian Candidate", as the latter chapter shows.
• Youthful Freckles

The Zodiac Demons

A group of ten demons that wander inside the dreams. Their first meeting with the Crystal Shack gang involved them being tasked by Peridot to steal a memory involving the deed of the Crystal Shack, but a cryptic message left behind by one of them makes it suspicious if it really would be the last time they would see them all.

• Achilles' Heel: Unless any of them manages to get a physical body trough a deal, like Zalgo did in "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical", they are essentially trapped in the dreamscape. At least Zalgo has expressed disdain about this fact.
  [...] Now you understand what I and my fellow demons daily go trough.
  • The Beldam's hair can work as a barrier against their influence.
  • The Memory-Illusion gun, with the memory function, is apparently capable of kicking them out of the mind they're invading. And if they can't get out in time? As "Terrorcalypse - Part 4" reveals, it results in their deaths.
  • As powerful as they are, they're incapable of penetrating the natural weirdness barrier of Inside Falls.
• Adaptation Species Change: Played straight with Sally, Jeff, Laughing Jack, Lost Silver, Ben Drowned, Eyeless Jack, and Kagekao, since all of them change from, respectively, a human ghost, a human Serial Killer, a cosmic entity of sorts, a video game character, a ghost possessing a video game, an unclear creature and a Japanese demon, to Eldritch Abomination's. Since Zalgo, Slenderman, and Sonic.exe were already eldritch abominations of their own, this trope is Averted for them.
• Adaptational Villainy: Sally Williams switches from a sad ghost of a little girl to an Eldritch Abomination. Even then, she comes the closest to be the group's Token Good Teammate, since she asks Slenderman to do something to make Frisk happy after the former eats and then spits the latter.
• Ambiguous Situation: Downplayed with Zalgo shedding a tear of sympathy for Chara's initial struggle to solve the mysteries related to the author. As the narration and Chara's inner monologue point out, the tear he shed looked too fake and he might've faked his sympathy for her (see Break Them by Talking below to see he's not really above abusing and toying with her emotions, even if he has a weird Villainous Crush on her). However, it's left open the question if it is exactly what it's implied to be, or it's simply a case of Bizarre Alien Biology and he was really doing a creepy, but honest display of sympathy.
  • Their collective, well-earned demise inside Pearl's mind. Were they finally killed, or they are in a weak state? The story heavily lends to the former, especially because of their bodies exploding, but the fact their major articles of clothing are left unscratched and Pearl's mind is not completely erased is suspicious.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • They're not fans of Athena, Eros' superior during "Terrorcalypse - Part 1". It gets nasty enough that they insult her verbally before killing her.
  • The Dreemurr family. Garnet hates them for manipulating her into building a gateway from their world to Earth, Chara and Frisk hate them for invading Pearl's mind, and the Grand Finale proves Pearl hates them for being a danger not only to her family, but to Inside Falls as a whole.
• Ax-Crazy: They do not hit well on their heads, to put it simply.
• Baddie Flattery: Zalgo compliments Chara's determination to solve the mysteries of Inside Falls in "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical".
• Bait the Dog: Sure, they're noted in-Universe to look unsettling at best and terrifying at worst, but they initially feel like a goofy gang. That doesn't last long.
• Berserk Button:
  • Losing a deal is enough to set them on a murderous rage. Best shown when Peridot breaks her deal with them and when Garnet promises to shut down the portal. They threaten the latter with death.
• Big Bad Ensemble: They are ten creepypastas that take the role of Bill Cipher at the same time, together.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Sally and Lost Silver are the closest to the Token Good Teammate trope...but their insanity and bloodlust are on their way.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Lost Silver is the complete awkward meek of the group. Doesn't mean he isn't a sadist like them.
• Beware the Silly Ones: A group of demons that are not hitting well in their head and probably are perpetually smiling in a pretty goofy way... And dangerous assassin monsters that will abuse and use anyone they can to achieve their objectives.
• Break Them by Talking: Zalgo points out to Chara about Frisk's unconscious All Take and No Give behavior, which breaks Chara enough to make her shake Zalgo's hand in a deal and, as a consequence, suffer Demonic Possesion.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Try to call them out on their evil ways (whenever they're just aiding another villain or acting on their own volition)? Too bad. They're aware of their insanity and even proclaim they're made of it.
• Carnival of Killers: But different of the overall trope, they're not targeting a single character (unless someone who is brave/a fool decides to get in the way of their plans). They're only targeting a single goal that , for now, is unknown.
• The Chessmaster: They've been manipulating story to try and conquer the universe as long as it existed. Garnet's attempt is, by far, the closest they ever got to.
• Dark Is Evil/Evil Wears Black: All of them (excluding Sally) end up invoking this trope in a way or another.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • They agree to help Peridot in finding out the deed to the Crystal Shack, and as a price, she has to help them with their plans. Unfortunately for them, Peridot breaks the deal and escapes without consequences.
  • Zalgo bargains Chara into one, eventually resorting to Break Them by Talking, taking over Chara's body and destroying the computer while the latter was unconscious..
  • It was revealed in "Frisk and the Secret World" that they did a deal with Garnet under the guise of helping her research, while they wanted a gate to their world.
  • They do another deal with Garnet in "Terrorcalypse - Part 4"... Except it's actually Pearl. This, soon enough, results on their Karmic Death.
• Decapitated Army: It's hinted by Garnet at "Terrorcalypse - Part 1" that if Zalgo gets handicapped, the group won't function without him.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: Their demise inside Pearl's erasing mind is sealed with their bodies exploding, only leaving behind their trademark articles of clothing.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: After being called a "bastard monster" alongside the rest of his group, Slenderman transforms Frisk in a Technically-Living Zombie version of herself. Thankfully it's not permanent.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Even trough they worked for Peridot in "Nightbandits", the fear they inflict on her, and the hints of a bigger plot they give off, make them look even more dangerous.
• The Dreaded: The author of the third book straight out warns against summoning them and, especially, beware of them all when they are together.

Beware the Ten Demons of the Zodiac, mainly when they are together, and avoid at any cost the possibility of them entering in your mind.

• Dream Weaver: As long as any of them are inside a dream, there are no boundaries set against them doing anything.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Lost Silver, Jeff, and Laughing Jack.
• Eldritch Abomination: A group of them.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: They think a heart being ripped off and splattered with bare hands is funny. Chara's reaction is not a surprise.
• Evil Versus Evil: They and the Beldam are all creatures with rotten spirits; yet, the Beldam's hair is necessary to shield the Shack from the Zodiac Demons. Can be considered Evil Versus Oblivion to a degree, since Garnet said that them merging their world with the Earth means The End of the World as We Know It.
• Face Death with Dignity: Initially averted when they are about to die due to Pearl's mind being erased. They panic, attempt to escape only for the Crystal Shack's living room's door to burn down, call Pearl an idiot for allowing her mind to be erased, and try to use their nightmare faces to scare Pearl onto submission, only to realize they're losing their powers. However, when this fails and Pearl verbally shuts them down with a speech combining Shut Up, Hannibal! with "The Reason You Suck" Speech and Break Them by Talking, they accept they are doomed and the only thing they do to try and avert this is a resurrection spell that, at least now, had no results.
• Faux Affably Evil: They all Zig-Zag around this trope. They act friendly and playful towards Peridot, their summoner, and do the same to Chara while first invading her dream in "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical" (Zalgo in particular acts...ambiguously flirty towards Chara). When the deal between them and Peridot is broken, however...they descend into a downright murderous rage. And even though they were angry at first for being outsmarted by the group, in the end, they politely congratulates them and leave behind a warning before going away.
• The Face: Although they do have their dialogue lines, Zalgo is by far the most talkative member of the Zodiac Demons.
• Graceful Loser: At first, it's an Averted Trope, since they start going in a murderous-esque rampage after they lose their deal with Peridot, but ends up being played straight when they decide to leave the heroes alone with a warning.
  • Bizarrely enough, played straight with their ultimate demise. They clap for Pearl in congratulations over her outsmarting and ultimately bad-mouthing them, and chant an inverse resurrection spell before exploding.
• Greater-Scope Villain: They seem to pose a threat even bigger than Peridot ever was.
• Green and Mean: Ben Drowned, both in clothing and in a zombie-like skin. The skin part is Averted when, as shown in "Frisk and The Secret World", while Garnet is in the Earth dimension, Ben's skin turns into a naturally pale skin.
• Human Aliens: Downplayed. Ben, Jeff, Sally, and Lost Silver are the closest to look like humans between their bunch, but are far from being actual humans. However...
• Humanoid Abomination: Zalgo, Slenderman, Laughing Jack, Eyeless Jack and Kagekao just share the bidepal similarity with human race, not counting their depraved personalities.
• Humanoid Aliens: X, being the sort-of oddball of the group.
• Insult Backfire: In their debut chapter, Nightbandits, Slenderman express confusion over Peridot calling him and the others clods.

Slenderman: ...Was that supposed to be a insult?

• Ironic Echo: In "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical", Zalgo twists up "Ip dip", a cute nursery rhyme that Pearl sings in the first chapter (Trapped Under Crystals), into something that, in-context, disturbing.
• Jerkass: They can be heavily unpleasant in some situations. One example: Zalgo (while possessing Chara's body) calls Amethyst a "little beast" even though she didn't do nothing unpleasant to him.
• Knight of Cerebus: Their debut brings along the story's slow start of a Cerebus Syndrome.
• The Nicknamer: Zalgo refers to Asriel, Frisk and Chara respectively as "Rainbow Star", "Red Heart" and "[his] sweet Buttercup Flower".
• No Biochemical Barriers: Played with. Kagekao is, like his buddies, a bad signal to the town of Inside Falls, but him offering to Peridot a bloody fancy glass suggest enjoying wine, like his original self.
• The Psycho Rangers: To the fic's Zodiac Ten, if the fact that they hold up their symbols on the Wheel's drawing and have said symbols in different forms on their design can be a hint.
• Shadow Archetype: Although it's not directly shown, it's heavily hinted each of the Zodiac Demons contain the worst (and exaggerated) aspects of the Zodiac Ten.
• Taken for Granite: The only thing left after their true selves go to the dreamscape and meet their demise is their physical bodies, transformed into stone statues.
• The Smurfette Principle: Sally is the only woman among the group.
• The Sociopath: The entire group (maybe even Sally, the softest of them all as suggested in "Nightbandits") fits this trope. An example connected to them is a mural hidden in the Rosenqueen Palace, about them looking down at three people being killed in different ways, while sadistically grinning.
• Standard Evil Organization Squad: A variation. Ten dream demons that are working together on their ominous objectives.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Zalgo does abuse of Chara's body while possessing it, but while it's damaging enough for a deconstruction to be invoked in the showdown against Frisk, it's apparently less bad than the abuse Bill inflicted on Dipper since Chara stated that she had to lay in bed and sleep a whole weekend, instead of stating she had to go to a hospital.
• The End of the World as We Know It: Their ultimate goal, as revealed by Garnet in "Frisk and The Secret World", is merge their realm with Earth, starting an apocalypse.
• Vagueness Is Coming:
  • Before the group goes away in "Nightbandits", Ben Drowned warns to Chara and friends about an incoming day in the future.
  • In "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical", Zalgo also invokes this trope, albeit it's something more akin to It Has Only Just Begun.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The story itself is a goofy concept over a fun adventure-with-Slice of Life series. Then, the Zodiac Demons come in and, like the Trickster God they collectively replace, proceed to turn it into hell.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • After Peridot cuts her deal ties with them, they downright decide to murder Frisk and Asriel's dream bodies as retaliation, and would probably be successful if it wasn't for Chara pulling a Big Damn Heroes moment. Subverted when in the end, they choose to accept defeat.
  • In "Frisk and The Secret World", it's shown they didn't take well at all Garnet betraying them. They began to threaten her, claiming they were aware that Garnet would call her sister, eventually bringing her own downfall, and before Garnet could actually wake up, with death.
  • They go NUTS in the second arc's four-parter Grand Finale, unable to accept they'll die until Pearl verbally shuts them off. They humble enough in time to just bitterly clap, congratulating their unexpected "killer".
• Villainous Crush: A hinted, creepy variation that Zalgo may have for Chara, as suggested ever since "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical". He talks softly and politely to her even if she just gives him her rage back, express sympathy for her (although it's debatable if it is or isn't genuine), specifically calls her "My sweet Buttercup Flower" and other Terms of Endangerment, and teases her in a creepily sweet and playful way when not threatening and/or mocking her. ...buuut it's Subverted when Chara refuses his offer to join the Zodiac Demons. Notably, in "Terrorcalypse - Part 1", he chuckles at Chara's attempt to sound threatening enough to go par-on-par with the Demons because he finds it amusing and adorable, instead of mocking her.
  Zalgo: This is. Very. INTERESTING. My sweet little doll is back for a little more. Can't get enough of me, right?~
  Chara: Yeah, but on the ''hatred'' sense!
• Villainous Friendship: Oddly, the Zodiac Demons are it for each other. They get along in perfect harmony, share their agenda as one big common goal, and like to laugh at each other's sense of humor together.
• Villain Has a Point: Yes, Zalgo was pretty cruel to Chara just to gain her trust in "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical". But yes, Frisk, even unconsciously, had some selfish facets on her personality.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: X briefly passes off as Asriel to trick Frisk.
• Voice of the Legion: Hilariously enough, when they speak like this, it's represented as Zalgo Text.
• We Can Rule Together: Zalgo suggests this to Chara in "Terrorcalpyse - Part 1", in hopes of catching her in the despair. But it fails.
• Weaksauce Weakness: One of their weakness is... music from a 30's cartoon remixed?
• We Used to Be Friends: "Frisk and The Secret World" reveals they befriended Garnet while she was still researching the mysteries of Inside Falls and cataloging them in the books, right when she reached an apparent dead end. They suggested her to build the portal to find the answers, only for the Gaster incident to make their mask fall off.
• Worthy Opponent: All of them start seeing Chara, Frisk, and Asriel in this way after the trio beats them in a dream battle.
• Would Hurt a Child: Being a child is definitively not one of the steps to be safe from them. In "Terrorcalypse - Part 4", in special, they chase down Chara and Frisk after being taunted by them, for Pearl and Garnet's horror.
• You're Cute When You're Angry: Oddly Averted with Zalgo in "Friendship Ever After: A Doll Musical". He states that he hates when Chara is mad right after the latter tries to attack him because he and the rest of his group hurt her family.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Demonstrated in "Nightbandits"; after losing their deal with Peridot, the Zodiac Demons stare down Frisk, Asriel, and the Bendy trio, and decide to shed off any remnant of mercy they might've given to them, murdering the cartoonish trio when they got on their way and then zombifying Frisk when she badmouthed them.