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The Multiplicity
YISUN
I
"Let there be no Genesis, for beginnings are false and I am a consummate liar."
God. YISUN may or may not actually exist, but it doesn't matter much as they committed holy suicide to create/become the cosmos. They are talked about extensively in the Liturgy, usually involving their apocryphal interactions with Un-Hansa, the God of Cynics.- Anti-Nihilist: An important bit of scripture. YISUN is questioned about the nature and purpose of reality, and replies that there is none and it's all meaningless. When asked how we should live, YISUN replies that we should ignore his answer to the previous questions.
- Consummate Liar: Word for word a core tenet of YISUN's being and the first Psalm YISUN gives us.
- Deadpan Snarker: In legends they're often this, subtly mocking people like Ogam.
- Divided Deity: YISUN committed "holy suicide" to split themselves into two Gods, who then went on to repeat the process until there were 77,777 of them, who then killed themselves to create The Multiverse.
- I Have Many Names: 77,777 of them, in fact. Their true name, however, is I.
- Non-Linear Character: YISUN exists outside causality — or, more accurately, causality is an illusion perpetuated by YISUN's holy suicide. Certainly in liturgy YISUN has no problem appearing in the universe that they killed themselves to create.
- The Omnipresent: YISUN is not power. YISUN is everything that exists, and everything that does not exist. "YISUN is the weakest thing there is and the smallest crawling thing, and the worm upon the earth and in the earth."
- Posthumous Character: In a very ultimate sense, since everything came into existence as a result of YISUN's holy suicide. Nonetheless, stories generally have YISUN speaking to and interacting with those who existed long after, even though this is impossible.
Ys-Voya
Ys-Voya
Either a goddess who thinks she is a collection of birds or a collection of birds who think they are a goddess, it isn't quite sure but the answer is most likely both. She usually comes to ask for reader input and appears to be the one recounting the events of the comic.
- Cloudcuckoolander: BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS. BIRDS?
Hansa
Un-Hansa
God of cynics and the elderly and YISUN's thirty-first disciple, featuring alongside him in several stories in The Lithurgy. In the stories, Hansa serves as YISUN's sounding board and critic; he had no desire in his heart for domination or Royalty and, as such, obtained Royalty with very little effort. Had a daughter named Prim, who became another important member of the gods after his death.
- Abusive Parents: To Prim, basically keeping her a prisoner in his house until the day he died. Even in death he kept negging Prim about being a bad daughter until she finally abandoned his corpse.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: His final admonishing of Prim's burial journey has him say that he wished both of them died in their house. Finally at her wit's end, Prim constucts a replica of their house intending to die with him in it... but she finally gets fed up and leaves him in the house to get buried alone.
- The Cynic: He was the god of them, and an example himself. Like Diogenes, much of his cynicism went into critiquing the ideas of others.
- Foil: To Aesma. Aesma embodied ambition, thoughtless action and self-improvement, Hansa self-restraint, questioning everything and caring little for what others thought of him.
- Iconic Item: His long pipe. Insisting on keeping and smoking it eventually led to the faux pas that killed him.
- Non-Linear Character: Being Royalty, he existed outside of time. He knew the point of his death and kept the item that would kill him close to him as a reminder of it. He also kept on existing beyond it anyway until Prim finally buried his corpse.
- The Philosopher: He was well-known amongst the gods for his philosophical musings and often had guests seeking his wisdom.
- Phrase Catcher: Most of his tales interacting with YISUN ends with the sentence "Hansa is observant".
- Ungrateful Bastard: Despite being a literal corpse on his faithful daughter's back and her bleeding for him on the journey to properly bury him, Hansa shows no gratitude to Prim. Every place suggested by his fellow Gods and nobles meets his rejection, and with it constantly putting down Prim as the worst daughter one could ever have.
Aesma
Ys Pree Ashma
Also known as Aesma, she is the Goddess of aspiration, greed and self-sufficiency, and the creator of humanity. She was YISUN's thirty-second and greatest disciple and the focus of numerous stories drawn from the scripture and mythic history of the setting.
- Achievements in Ignorance:
- How she defeated the masters of Space, Ethics and Aesthetics — she was too impatient to listen to their teachings, too ignorant to understand their value and too violent to allow silly things like physical impossibility get in her way.
- She also survived her first time viewing the True Shape of the Universe by not paying attention to it while trying to defeat the master of space, remembering it only as 'somewhat wheel-shaped'.
- Almighty Idiot: Reckless, selfish, stupid and violent, acting almost entirely on impulse...and possessed of fantastic amounts of power.
- Ambition Is Evil: Inverted: Aesma was named YISUN's greatest disciple because her ambition meant she was never content with anything and always strived for something better.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. She was considered to be beautiful, but seeing the true shape of the universe was so devastating that it was stripped away from her.
- Beyond the Impossible: Many of her feats. At the end of Aesma and the Red-Eyed King, she defeats the titular king by picking up the multiverse itself and threatening to beat him to death with it. This is after hitting him with the battlefield, the moon, several stars, and a black hole.
- Blood Knight: One of the qualities YISUN liked most about her was her penchant for violence and destruction.
- The Brute: A subversion- her willful ignorance and tendency to react with violence is supposed to be one of her positive qualities.
- The Determinator: Her most positive quality, and why YISUN declared her the greatest of their disciples; Aesma will never stop trying to be better than she is.
- Evil Virtues: She's a goddess of aspiration and greed, and was prone to horrible foolishness, jealousy and violence. However, her constant drive for self-improvement due to her greed and jealousy got her named YISUN's greatest disciple, the Master of Want.
- Eye Scream: YISUN showing her the True Shape of the Universe caused her eyes to boil over. She was known as "Weeping Aesma" for the rest of her life.
- Foil: To Hansa. Aesma embodied ambition, thoughtless action and self-improvement, Hansa self-restraint, questioning everything and caring little for what others thought of him.
- God Is Dead: Like most of the other gods. She tore herself apart in anger during the end of the gods' age, and on the map of Throne
◊, "Aesma's Spine" is a minor landmark. - Humiliation Conga: Inverted in the tale of Aesma and the Three Masters — it's the Three Masters, not Aesma, that are on the receiving end of one of these, although Aesma herself has no idea that she did it.
- Interpretative Character: According to word of god, her worshippers have drastically differing interpretations of what her stories mean.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Aesma's most notable trait is her absolute ignorance and impatience, which, when she falls in love with the Red Eyed King, is only exacerbated by her affection for him. This is exploited by the Red Eyed King, who implores her to go out of her way to give him indestructible armor and immense power in the name of being a dutiful wife, which is bad for everyone in Creation since he's a giant, world-destroying demon who can ravage entire cities in mere days. However, his exploitation of Aesma's feelings inevitably causes him to severely underestimate her abilities and wrath, which bites him in the ass when he turns his annoyance on her and reveals he never actually loved her at all. Once he does, Aesma, in a violent wrath, throws everything she can at him, up to and including the moon, a black hole, and reality itself, until he grows so scared of her that he agrees to go back into his cage and never leave.
- Love Redeems: The (very misogynistic) priests of the sun-disc attempt to invoke this by telling Aesma that she should get married and be subordinate to her husband. Subverted, as while being in love does make Aesma nice and sweet, the person she's being nice and sweet to is the Red-Eyed King, the only creature in the universe as bad as she is—she busts him out of prison, gets him new weapons, and makes him indestructible armor, which causes everyone else no end of trouble.
- The Maker: Of humanity... Which was actually a shoddy, talentless rush-job of Aesma's, created out of sheer jealousy for the praise the Multiplicity's regular creator-god, Koss, was getting. It's for this reason that humans in the KSBD setting can't reincarnate upon death, unlike Koss's creations such as Servants and Angels.
- Monkey King Lite: She lacks a monkey Animal Motif, but she's a Trickster God with a Telescoping Staff and hair-based Self-Duplication abilities who goes on a Rage Against the Heavens fuelled by her wounded ego.
- Mugging the Monster: The Red-Eyed King doesn't know that Aesma is the Master of Want—he just sees an opportunity in her feelings for him and takes advantage, constantly moving the goalposts by promising that he'll marry her if she gets him this or that. This culminates in him hitting and then abandoning her. Needless to say, he soon learns extremely comprehensively just how bad an idea pissing off Aesma is.
- Sociopathic Hero: If not a Villain Protagonist within her own story.
- The Unfettered: What she wants, she takes; this unrelenting drive leads YISUN to declare her the greatest of their disciples.
- Unholy Matrimony: In Aesma and the Red-Eyed King, the priests convince her to seek a husband. This turns out to be a mistake when she turns around and releases a giant world-destroying demon in order to marry him.
Het
Ys-Het, the Watcher at the Door
Goddess of watchers and peacekeepers, Het was the doorguard at the house of YISUN and also serves as the centrepiece of several stories where she serves as an ordinary, mortal, policeman.
- The Drifter: She served this role in several of the tales in which she's the principal character.
- God of Good: She is one of several gods commonly invoked by Root Knights during their Prayer for Forgiveness, with 6 Vigilant Gaze invoking her name during King of Swords. In Prim Leaves Her Father's House, Het is the only god to recognize Prim and shames the other gods into letting her stay.
- Martial Arts Staff: Het's weapon of choice was a staff, which was a good weapon for a thief-taker and which she was very good at wielding. Het is described as being "poor with a sword" as opposed to being "a poor swordsman", which is a very important distinction within the setting. It also functioned as a Staff of Authority, letting her bang the floor with it to grab attention.
- The So-Called Coward: "Het and the Three Companions" paints her as one of these. Het knew fear, and she never denied her fear, which means she could work with it when the situation called for it rather than acting as a Fearless Fool or denying the physical effects of being afraid.
- To Be Lawful or Good: Makes this decision in "Het and the Rakshasha" and is firmly on the side of Good. Indeed, Het seems to function as a cautionary tale for why Good should be picked over Law for watchmen and peacekeepers.
Sword Saints
Meti
Meti ten Ryo
In her old age.
"I heard it said you must be tender with your sword grip, as though with a lover. This is patently false. A sword is not your lover. It is a hideous tool for separating men from their vital fluids."
A swordswoman of incomparable skill, Meti wrote one of the most famous manuals on swordsmanship. It declared that the sword was an ugly piece of metal and its adherents idiots, and attempted to convince the reader to take up farming instead. She had two students but only one apprentice, the girl who would become fallen general Maya.
- Accomplice by Inaction: An interesting take on it. She placed a rat in front of her two students and asked them to kill it. Maya hesitated, since there was no reason for an innocent being to die. Incubus killed it immediately. When asked who had lost the exchange, Maya stated the other student had since he killed without thinking. Meti agreed, but also said she had lost, because while she had not done anything to harm the rat, she should have killed Incubus if she had wished for it to live.
- Always Someone Better: One of her first lessons as a master. She trained for years to become both strong and skilled, a deadly fighter. None of which mattered at all when fighting a mighty colossus that left her broken. She only achieved victory through single minded Killing Intent, applied via her thumbs to his breathing vents, and never forgot the lesson.
- And Then What?: "What then?" These two words completely broke her student, Maya, who realized that despite the power of a Demiurge, despite being ready to take the throne of God... Maya didn't have a goal past "winning".
- Blessed with Suck: Views her Charles Atlas Superpower with the sword this way. Despite it making her capable of toppling gods and emperors single-handedly, it's also made her a miserable constantly penniless drunk whose only skill in life is murdering people in the most efficient ways possible.
- Boring, but Practical: Her sword art was entirely based around the act of Cutting Down Your Opponent. Apparently it doesn't matter what else you can do in combat if your opponent simply cuts you down first before you get to do any of it.
- Break Them by Talking: When Maya met her again once she attained the power of a Demiurge, Meti asked her a single question. It was enough to cause her to abandon all her power, titles, and key and retire as a farmer.
- Cassandra Truth: Outright tells Maya that following the sword is an idiotic idea that will just make her (just like everyone else, including Meti herself) completely miserable, and she should just become a noodle vendor like her parents instead. Maya refuses to listen and becomes Meti's disciple, only to years later be just as miserable as Meti warned, wishing she had become a noodle vendor instead.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Her training consisted of three years of following a "strict vegetarian regimen, and harsh training of barefoot sprints (five) between cities, squats and breathing exercises (two bells), and sword drills and resistance training (three bells)." This made her powerful enough to fight ten thousand men at once. While naked.
- Also subverted: she claims that while her training regimen did make her powerful, in the end it didn't matter when faced with an opponent who was a monstrously strong colossus. In that moment all that mattered was single-minded killing instinct, applied via thumbs in his breathing vents.
- Combat Breakdown: Her first serious fight (against the Colossus of Pardos) lasted half a day, during which she says that "my sword was shattered into thirty pieces, my right leg was almost torn from its socket, and my honed body was broken pathetically in a hundred and forty places." She won anyway. With her thumbs.
- The Cynic: She thinks everyone is an idiot and that swordsmanship (which she devoted her life to) is worthless. She even lives in a barrel in the marketplace, and wishes that upon her death her body be disposed of by leaving it out for wild animals, both references to one of the original cynics.
- Cynical Mentor: To Maya. Word of God is that Maya's philosophies are mostly a result of her contentious relationship with Meti. Meti even goes so far as to take in a monster like Incubus just because she believes being constantly reminded of the evil people like him represent is the only way Maya will actually complete her Training from Hell.
- Death Seeker: After concluding that swords are worthless and everyone around her is an idiot, she promptly resolved to commit suicide by drowning... in the spilled blood of her many, many enemies.
- Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Used In-Universe in her Sword Manual, which ends on the hope that the prospective reader has, by now, become motivated to become a farmer rather than waste more time on the sword.
- Don't Think, Feel: Emphasised frequently that the most skilled swordsman was the one able to act entirely on reflex, instinct and honed habit. She once killed thirty-five men entirely on instinct and didn't notice for several minutes later.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: In a sense, particularly as in this cosmology enlightenment and mastery of violence go hand in hand. But of particular note is that she teaches utter detachment from the act of killing: to feel no hatred, to not linger, to simply strike them down and move on as naturally as breathing.
- Holy Halo: Briefly manifests one when trying to scare away Maya, complete with a power signature that looks like a scar or a blade. Like with the Demiurges and other people of note, the halo showcases power more than righteousness.
- Killing Intent: A core of her philosophy of violence, that in extremis Killing Intent is all that matters, far more than considerations like weapons or even training.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: She says that she was frequently mistaken for a man, so she took to letting her hair down and unbinding her breasts.
- Lady of War: One of the most powerful swordswomen to ever live, and a power greater than the demiurges through her personal skill alone.
- A Lesson in Defeat: One of Meti's teachings. "Consider: the undefeated swordsman must be exceptionally poor."
- Master Swordsman: She was nearly unbeatable by the time she was sixteen.
- Misapplied Phlebotinum: The way she felt about how the power-mad demiurges were wasting their keys warring with each other like beasts, wielding the limitless power of pure creation in the same way one might use an especially sharp rock.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Large parts of her philosophy and story (such as her cynicism, living in a barrel in the marketplace, and her desire to have her corpse eaten by dogs) are based on that of Diogenes the Cynic. When Maya came to her as a conqueror of the multiverse, Meti even told her to stop blocking the sun, a reference to a common anecdote where Alexander the Great was told by Diogenes to do the same. Though while Alexander found the humor in the situation, Maya is only insulted.
- Her aphorisms over how a true swordsman's thoughts should be entirely devoted to Cutting are also reminiscent of Myamoto Musashi.
- Her aphorisms over how a true swordsman's thoughts should be entirely devoted to Cutting are also reminiscent of Myamoto Musashi
- Old Master: She serves this role to Maya and Incubus, being a withered old lady who lives in a barrel in the marketplace, who is nonetheless strong enough to fight ten-thousand men at once.
- Only Sane Man: In the hyperviolent world of Throne, where everyone ardently believes that violence and murder is the only true path in life, Meti is one of the few who thinks violence is idiotic and causes nothing but suffering. As she tells her students, the demiurges have all the power of God and could use it to accomplish anything... And they chose to use it for further violence.
- Secret Test of Character: She was fond of giving these to her two students. At one point, she told them to kill a rat. Incubus cut it in half immediately, while Maya hesitated, reasoning that the rat had done nothing to deserve death, and Incubus had lost the test by not thinking before acting. Meti agreed, but also told Maya that she had failed; If she didn't want the rat to die, she should have done whatever was necessary to protect it.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Most of her fights ended this way. According to her manual, they should end this way, as swordfighting is an act of continuous annihilation and to linger on any one kill is a grievous error.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Meti viewed her companions and her one student this way, as following the path of the sword only leads to suffering and death.
- Training from Hell: Considering her first task for Mathangi was to make her shave her head with a rusty sword, it's safe to say she inflicted this on her student.
- Wax On, Wax Off:
- Subverted with her training manual, which instructs you to do all sorts of useful daily tasks. Then it says that now that you have mastered them and built a house you don't need to master the sword and should forget about it.
- Played straight with her training of Maya, which started by demanding that the girl shave off all her hair with a rusty, pitted sword - a task that required that Maya learn how to care for and maintain a sword before anything else, or that swords were good for only pain and ruining lives, as well as teaching her to respect its edge.
Intra
Lord Intra
"I will tell you precisely what Royalty is. It is a continuous cutting motion."
Known as the "Sword-Saint", "King of Swords" and "Sword God", Intra was a Master Swordsman who lived during the opening stages of the Infinite War and is known to have obtained Royalty through his mastery of the sword. Possibly the only other sword-wielder in the universe who could have given Meti a run for her money, his quotations on battle and sword usage are used in The Rant of the comic in several places.
- The Alcoholic: He won his first major battle, against a powerful Ya-at slave-monk, while being at least mildly tipsy. He was also present at the raze of the Blue City, too drunk to save it.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He became so skilled at the hobby of skipping rocks he could eventually even skip them on the air itself. And skilled enough to kill 30 men in half a second with a single rock throw.
- Confusion Fu: Won a battle by striking his foe with a blow so intentionally artless that it failed to register as an attack before it had already struck.
- Hidden Depths: A running theme throughout his stories in the Book of Maybe. People do not think much when they see a someone as unkempt albeit apparently handsome as he is. He nevertheless possesses power and wisdom in spades, being of the few characters in the story to understand Royalty which is equivalent to ultimate enlightenment in the setting. He was also apparently disgusted when he found out that Yem Yeddo had stolen all the food from some villagers, deriding him as cruel and petty. When he chased him and his men out of the village, he asked for no reward. Given how cruel master swordsmen can be in the setting, this is somewhat surprising of him.
- Koan: He was, by all accounts, very fond of these. Most of his entries in the Song of Maybe are koans to one degree or another.
- Master Swordsman: In a universe so filled with powers of various kinds anyone remembered as "The Sword-Saint" is no slouch.
- Pretty Boy: Despite being a Master Swordsman he was said to have quite a beautiful androgynous appearance, with thin and delicate eyebrows and "lashes like a spider lily."
- Stone Soup: Once fed a hungry village using nothing but a rock, which amused the brutal Feudal Overlord enough to let him keep at it. Much to the Overlord's undoing. He used it to build an oven, then a well, and then to kill all the overlord's men who were hoarding the food.
- Training the Peaceful Villagers: The moral of the Stone Soup tale in which he features. There may be another overlord, but there are always more rocks.
- Uncertain Doom: Intra's death is still not known, but he was inside the Blue City of Lam when the Demiurge Yemmod (who would later be killed by Solomon David) laid siege to it.
Historical Figures
Manamum Mana
Manamum Mana
The greatest mortal blacksmith in the wheel.
- Die Laughing: Was laughing at Maya when she made him her first kill with the Maybe Sword.
- Evil Laugh: According to Maya he had a distinctive "hyena laugh".
- Fat Bastard: A gigantic overweight blacksmith who cruelly extorted Maya for sex and refused to honor the terms of their deal.
- Hate Sink: Despite appearing on a grand total of three pages, he manages to establish himself as one of the most viscerally loathsome characters in a comic full of murderers and tyrants.
- Insult Backfire: After growing tired of Maya he spitefully tells her she has, and will always have,"the tender and feeble soul of a peasant." Something Maya in the present confirms with a smile.
- Jerkass: Putting it mildly, during his life he was nothing more than a vile abusive asshole.
- Lack of Empathy: While he cared for his tools as lovers, he only saw other people as tools.
- Moving the Goalposts: After Incubus murdered her husband and daughters, Maya begged him for a weapon strong enough to kill a god. The only thing she had to sell was her body, so he promised her he would forge her a sword after spending three nights with him. He reneged on the deal and kept demanding more. All in all, she spent six years there.
- Our Ogres Are Hungrier: While never directly named as such, he resembles a huge monstrous ogre.
- Sex for Services: When Maya came to him to commission a god-killing sword she had nothing to pay him with, so he suggested she pay with her body instead. The arrangement was only supposed to last for three nights, but Mana told her that "the rates have increased", and she ultimately stayed for six years. Mana eventually reveals that he never had any intention of keeping his side of the bargain, dismissing her as unworthy of his work, and tossing her a flimsy practise sword made by an apprentice. She shatters it on his skin, but it becomes the hilt of the Maybe Sword, and Mana is its first (well-deserved) kill.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: The greatest mortal blacksmith the Wheel has ever seen, and unfortunately, the greatest it probably ever will see.
Prim
Hansa Primpiyat
Hansa's daughter, finest of her time and depicted as loyal to her father.- Determinator: After Hansa had been slain and she mutilated, Prim is compelled to wander the road with the corpse of Hansa on her back, searching for a place to bury him. She faces rough weather, the gradual withering of her clothes, incredible pain and fatigue, and scorn from Hansa himself on her journey to give him his preferred rest.
- Daddy's Girl: Hansa's word is law, and for all her life with him she did her best following his orders and keeping him satisfied. Her relationship with him as seen through the eyes of his enemies and onlookers looks less like this trope and more servile, with one of Akaroth's archons confused about her being a daughter, maid, or some girl Hansa treats like a slave.
- The Dog Bites Back: As she lay dying, exhausted by her journey and the perils she faced trying to bury her father, Prim finally realized that she devoted her life, and now seemingly her death, to pleasing him. For the first time, Prim acts on a whim outside of Hansa, running out of the Iron Nail's reconstruction of her house and letting Hansa's corpse be buried alone. Later on in "Ashma and the Three Masters", she makes a small cameo fighting the Archons who destroyed her home near their flensing trees.
- Phrase Catcher: The scriptures and folktales, before her rebirth at least, constantly associate her with the phrase "There was no finer daughter".
- Silk Hiding Steel: The folktale "Prim and the Mendicant Knight" depicts her as such. She is completely submissive to Hansa, cooks, cleans, and tends to their home, has impeccable manners and only leaves once he has died (and even then, it is out of necessity since Hansa was killed and their home ransacked). To the Knight's surprise, she is delicate but not helpless—his attempt to seduce and brutalize her ends with him being sliced into thirty pieces across the worlds, with sword techniques she learned from her nights of listening to the stories of powerful warriors.
- Traumatic Haircut: She is shaved of all of her locks when Akaroth's archons destroy her house, mocked for her submission to Hansa along the way.
Earth
Zaid
Zaid Nazari
Zaid in Kill Six Billion Demons
Click here for his appearance in King of Swords
Click here for his appearance in Breaker of Infinities
Click here for his appearance in Wheel Smashing Lord
Click here for his appearance in King of Swords
Click here for his appearance in Breaker of Infinities
Click here for his appearance in Wheel Smashing Lord
Allison's boyfriend, kidnapped by strange monsters that appeared in Allison's bedroom.
- Adrenaline Makeover: Zaid's appearance evolves during the course of the story, though not quite as much as Allison's. In the first book, he comes across as an awkward, or even implicitly predatory college frat boy, with rather unflattering faces during his attempt at sex with Allison. By the time he reappears as Solomon's prisoner, he's obviously under a lot of stress but has also gotten the She Cleans Up Nicely treatment, with aristocratic clothes and longer hair emphasizing his smoother features. Continued further when he reappears at the end of Breaker of Infinities as a muscular sword-wielding hero, and later again following the timeskip of Wheel-Smashing Lord.
- Amicable Exes: By the time Allison finally reunites with him, neither mentions their initial relationship, and Zaid becomes another one of her friends.
- Character Development: Zig-zagged. At best, it's off-screen development. When first shown, he's trying to have sex with a nervous, 20-something virgin. This and since he's only shown in one scene means most of his characterization comes from what Allison and others say about him. It isn't until he reappears in Book 4 that he's shown as more stoic and thoughtful, with his time as Solomon David's captive bringing him some maturity and thoughtfulness. After the three-year Time Skip in Breaker of Infinities following the Discordance, Zaid has undergone martial arts training and is willing to risk capture or death to rescue Allison from Jadis.
- The Chosen One: Supposedly chosen to be the Successor to the Conquering King Zoss, who in turn was the successor of YISUN. Later subverted: Zoss has been selecting Successors for eons and resetting the entire multiverse when they each fail by repeating the same violent bloody path to Throne that he did. Zaid is heavily implied to have been chosen as Successor immediately prior to Allison, and he failed to break the cycle just like every other prior Succesor.
- Distressed Dude: Kidnapped and held unconscious by the Seven—after her initial, forced trip to Throne, Allison returns to attempt to rescue him. Allison doesn't even particularly like Zaid and finds him kind of a creep, but she's not about to leave him to an uncertain fate in an unknown and dangerous multiverse. He tries to repay the favor to Allison in Breaker of Infinities by springing her from Jadis, though Allison isn't as much a Damsel in Distress as he seems to believe she is—however, his Meaningful Echo of the words she once spoke to him wind up helping her more than she realized she needed.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: After the post-Seeker of Thrones timeskip and becoming Older and Wiser, Zaid has longer hair and stubble, and a second time after the Breaker of Infinities timeskip. By Wheel Smashing Lord, he has long flowing hair with a hint of gray at his temples and a full beard, emphasizing his maturity.
- Hero of Another Story: He's the chosen Successor of Zoss, but spent years offscreen at the court of Solomon David, and after a brief reunion with the main cast in King of Swords, spent the three years following the Concordance developing martial prowess.
- Hostage MacGuffin: He's first abducted by the Angels, but then he's stolen from them by the Seven. Everyone believes he is the heir of the Conquering King, so everyone wants to keep possession of him. For her part, Allison just wants to rescue him. This drives the plot forward, since his being held hostage brings Allison back from her home universe.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: All that being The Chosen One brings him is getting kidnapped by Jerkass Gods, forced to live in the Hell of a Heaven that is Throne, exploited as a pawn in a cosmic-scale conspiracy, and generally traumatized. Made worse by the fact that it's heavily implied he was The Chosen One... and failed like every Successor prior to him, necessitating Zoss resetting the cycle.
- Jerkass: Initially. Allison's friends hate his guts, the story opens with him pressuring Allison into having sex, even when she's clearly uncomfortable (Allison is also trying to pressure herself into having sex, but it's incredibly obvious she's not into it despite what she's saying, which someone with a speck of emotional intelligence would notice), and Allison herself admits he's kind of a creep later on. When we finally see him in person again during King of Swords, however, he seems to have done a lot of growing up in the interim, and expresses obvious worry for Allison's safety.
- Missed the Call: It is presumed that Zoss intended him as the Successor, but Zoss was forced to pick Allison instead due to Juggernaut Star's meddling. This is later implied to be inverted; he was the Successor immediately prior to Allison, and failed like all of Zoss's prior choices.
- Older and Wiser: When he appears again in King of Swords he's been in the custody of the Seven (specifically, Solomon David) for about two years or so; the experience has clearly left him a good deal more mature and thoughtful than the sleazeball college bro he was at the start of the story. The events of Breaker of Infinities drive this home further, as he's able to have a frank but thoughtful heart-to-heart with a despairing Allison that ultimately reignites her will to move forward after Jadis all but crushes her spirit.
- Pair the Spares: Nyave is smitten by him as the gang comes rescue him from Solomon's jail and, following the timeskip of Wheel-Smashing Lord, they have become an item.
- Small Role, Big Impact: At first. He's only been briefly seen following his kidnapping, and asleep at that. But bringing him back home is Allison's primary motivation, and most of the major players in the story assume that he is The Chosen One. He finally gets a speaking role again in King of Swords, where he is revealed to have been taken in as Solomon David's ward, and his appearance in Jadis' domain to try and rescue Allison kickstarts the climax of Breaker of Infinities.
Marisa
Marisa
One of Allison's roommates, the first one to run into her after her first return from Throne. She appears to be Hispanic.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Tells Allison's other friends to "Shut it!"
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears at the end of Book 1 but encourages Allison to return to Throne.
- Supreme Chef: She announces that she's going to cook Allison food, and later tells her that they aren't "white-girl tacos".
