Characters which appear in the webcomic Lavender Jack. Beware unmarked spoilers for Seasons 1, 2 & 3.
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Lavender Jack and Allies (AKA The Lavender League)
In General
Sir Mimley in the Lavender Jack outfit.
- Caper Crew: Lavender Jack started out as a (super)heroic version, with Ducky as the Mastermind and the Controller and Sir Mimley as the Gadget Guy, the Burglar, and the Muscle.
- Character-Magnetic Team: The League started with just Ducky and Sir Mimley. Over the course of the comic, they gained the aid and alliance of Ferrier, Crabb, Johnny Summer, and the Nightjar.
- Collective Identity: Sir Mimley wears the suit, but all of Lavender Jack's schemes are cooked up by Ducky. In a very real way, they both are Lavender Jack.
Sir Mimley Cedarbrook Bastrop
Mimley is half the team behind the vigilante Lavender Jack. Specifically, he's the one actually out in the costume performing the derring-do, as well as the engineer behind the technologies Jack uses in his feats.
- Blue Blood: One of the bluest; he's the last scion of an old and respected noble family.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Even discounting the fantastic technology, some of his feats of athleticism and endurance are nigh-superhuman.
- Clothes Make the Superman: There's an intricate microwave apparatus hidden beneath that dapper suit, allowing Jack to perform his most superhuman-seeming feats.
- Cultured Badass: Very cultured. Very, very badass.
- The Dandy: This is his public appearance. It's not precisely a lie, but there's certainly more to him than appearances.
- Gentleman and a Scholar: High class, high intelligence, and a heckuva guy.
- Gentleman Thief: Lavender Jack's MO tends to include a lot of burglary.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Among the upper crust and the corrupt, certainly. In Season Three, Jack becomes this again due to the efforts of Lilac Jack.
- Heroic Build: A relatively slim example of the phenomenon, but he's broad-shouldered and muscular.
- Heroic Fatigue: Starts to set in during Seasons 2 and 3, as Jack faces greater and greater threats.
- Hidden Depths: As noted below, his persona is that of a frivolous, foppish aristocratic scion. He's also a brilliant inventor, an incredible fighter, a deeply wounded soul, and a compassionate advocate for the common man.
- Millionaire Playboy: He used to be one in his youth.
- Platonic Life-Partners: How his relationship with Ducky winds up. They're not sexually compatible, but they share a deep respect and love for one another regardless.
- Quintessential British Gentleman: Despite not being British, but Gallerian culture clearly has some similarities.
- Revenge: His reason for acting as a vigilante. His first love was taken advantage of and driven into crushing debt by a company of nobles led by Lady Hawthorne, then committed suicide. After seeing Ducky's blackmail scheme, Mimley decided to use similar methods to make things right.
- Science Hero: Mimley is a brilliant inventor, and uses plenty of technological tricks in his guise of Lavender Jack. Some examples include his microwave snap-explosion gloves, magnetic climbing gauntlets, sonic filters, and resonance detectors.
- Secret Identity: A complex case. Sir Mimley wears the Lavender Jack suit, but Ducky's planning and guidance is at least as important to the hero's success, if not more so.
- Sharp Dressed Gentleman: His costume is a lavender-colored tuxedo, for heaven's sake! Sir Mimley is definitely this, in mundane life or in heroics.
- Shooting Superman: You'd be astounded how many people attack the hero who can blow up firearms... using firearms. Becomes a Subverted Trope later on, when the powers that be start equipping their guards with crossbows instead of pistols.
- Superheroes Stay Single: Notably defied. Between his Platonic Life-Partners relationship with Ducky and his flirtation and eventual romance with Johnny Summer, Sir Mimley doesn't lack for romantic company.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Feels this very strongly. When he has no choice but to kill Lord Hawthorne at the end of Season 1, it affects him deeply enough that he's still dealing with the psychological fallout two seasons later.
- Victor Gains Loser's Powers: Downplayed. Several times in Season 3, Mimley uses some of The Black Note's leftover technology.
- Upper-Class Twit: Definitely takes on this appearance when dealing with high society. He's the last heir to the Bastrop name and fortune, and has a certain touch of Bertie Wooster about his personality. Granted, he's also a genius inventor and a champion at both fencing and boxing, but a fellow must have his hobbies, eh?
- Vigilante Man: A fairly standard example of the "good" variety: he fights corruption (and later super-powered terrorism) without the blessing of the powers that be.
- Will They or Won't They?: Several characters speculate about the nature of his relationship with Ducky. They Don't, being sexually incompatible, but they deeply care about one another regardless and get married anyway for practical reasons
- With Great Power Comes Great Opposition: As a consequence of discomfiting powerful members of the city. Not only do Jack's original targets in the Inclement Investment Company oppose him, but when Endo Gall becomes Lord Mayor, he opposes Jack as well.
Maureen "Ducky" DeCecco-Bastrop
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Less physically badass than Sir Mimley or Madame Theresa, but makes up for it with a genius for finding and using information.
- The Family That Slays Together: In Season Three, Mimley gets the pleasure of meeting Ducky's uncle Salazar, and learns some of her planning and ingenuity comes from being part of a family of successful smugglers and con artists who trained her from a young age.
- Girl Friday: Ducky serves as Jack's. She's integral to planning his schemes, and Mimley was inspired to create the persona upon meeting her.
- Platonic Life-Partners: How her relationship with Mimley winds up. They're not sexually compatible, but they share a deep respect and love for one another regardless.
- Will They or Won't They?: Several characters speculate about the nature of her relationship with Mimley. They Don't, but they get married anyway for practical reasons
Madame Theresa Ferrier
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Deeply awesome. Deeply analytical.
- Expy: Madame Farrier takes a number of traits from the characters of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.
- Gratuitous French: Theresa occasionally uses this.
- Lady Hawthorne accuses Theresa of invoking the trope to appear a bumbling foreigner.
- Great Detective: Theresa Ferrier was this in years past, however she's suffered a string of bad cases when she most needs the money for her wife's treatment. She now faces accusations of being past her prime, but shows greater deductive reasoning than most.
- Hero Antagonist: Detective Ferrier seems wary of becoming this, as she doesn't really see Jack as doing much that is wrong. She even lampshades this to the mayor, noting she can only earn her commission, not right any wrongs outside it. Eventually averts it altogether by joining forces with Jack once the Hawthornes start to get serious.
Chief Inspector Honoria Crabb
- Defrosting Ice Queen: A platonic example, with Ferrier. Crabb starts out resenting Ferrier, but grows to deeply respect her, and ends up as a partner with her in a private detective business after resigning from the constabulary.
- Inspector Javert: At first. Honoria Crabb trusted the ruling class completely and refuted any accusations of their wrongdoings, but Detective Ferrier's reasoning and demeanor rub off on her, leading to her helping Jack in fighting the Hawthornes, and by season two she's pretty much become the third member of Lavender Jack’s team.
- Meaningful Name: Honoria Crabb is an honorable, if sometimes crabby, woman to the point of siding with Jack when she realizes what's really going on.
- Token Good Cop: Gallery's police force tends to be hapless at best, and under the thumb of the wealthy elite or the power-hungry Chief Justice Gall at worst, but Crabb is genuinely out to make the city a better place, and gradually comes to realize how the police are just part of the problem. This leads to her To Be Lawful or Good moment, deciding it's better to quit the force to stand with Lavender Jack and Detective Ferrier in actually taking a stand against injustice.
Marguerite Des Melbone
Also pictured: Requin.
Madame Theresa's wife, a skilled artist. She is currently suffering from a brain tumor, and shows dementia-like symptoms as a result.- Delicate and Sickly: Marguerite suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. It’s sadly led to some dementia-like symptoms, and just treatment to keep her stable is extremely expensive. By the time she’s taken into custody she’s speaking to people as though it’s eighteen years earlier. She undergoes specialized treatments during Season 2, and by Season 3 she's greatly recovered.
- Starving Artist: Downplayed, but due to her medical treatments and Mme Ferrier's lack of paying work, the pair are in rather desperate financial traits when we meet them in Season 1.
Dame Doctor Agatha Sampat
- For Science!: Her explicit motivation. She doesn't want money (she's already rich enough in her opinion) and especially doesn't want to create weapons.
- Government Drug Enforcement: In season 3, Dame Doctor Sampat is kept subdued with drugs and behavioral conditioning while she's forced to work with the military to create weapons technology.
- Jerk Realization: In season 2, she chews out Sir Mimley for how he's used the microwave technology that Gio helped develop to act as a vigilante, not helped by how it also seems to have inspired the military to try to weaponize the technology on a larger scale to cause enemy munition to combust (likely in a more lethal manner than Jack's signature move). Later, as the situation with the Black Note continues to escalate, she realizes that it's unfair to put the blame on Sir Mimley for the military attempting to use science for more violent means, especially as there's plenty of other geniuses out there who don't have either of their ethics in that regard.
- Kidnapped Scientist: Under duress, at the very least. Dame Doctor Sampat is forced, through drugs and conditioning, to create weaponry for the military.
- Reluctant Mad Scientist: Poor Sampat. She really didn't want her discoveries to be used to make weapons. Then Lady Hawthorne and Sister Rex entered the picture.
- Rich Genius: Downplayed, especially as she already came from a wealthy family, but the creation of Ochre made Agatha, Mimley, and Gio all filthy rich - or would have, had Lady Hawthorne and the Inclement Investment Co not gotten involved. Still, Agatha's comfortably wealthy.
- Scientist vs. Soldier: She's introduced making members of the military wait for an appointment and clearly dislikes them and the notion of her science going toward weaponry. Sadly, by season 3 they've got her under their thumb (though thankfully the heroes are able to save her, and she seems back to normal in the final pages of the season).
- The Worm Guy: She's consulted for scientific advice first by Madame Ferrier in Season 1, then by Sir Mimley in Season 2.
Johnny Summer
- Red Herring: His mysterious nature and a vein of misanthropy have Sir Mimley wondering if he's the Black Note. In fact, he's merely being extorted by the Note to provide living and working space, as well as funds.
Other Masked Individuals
The Black Note AKA Cecil Cragen
Click here to see the other mask (Spoilers for Season 2).
The primary villain of Season 2: A dramatic figure in a black suit and mask who uses powerful and dangerous sonic technology in an attempt to bring the city of Gallery to its knees. He's using the name and identity of Tom Broadfoot with makeup, but his real identity is Cecil Cragen, a former agent of the Unnamed Fraternity. Cecil holds a deep grudge against the Fraternity and believes that Gallerian society is irredeemably corrupted - which is why he wants to tear it all down.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Endo Gall's bastard son, who eventually gets his vengeance on his father in the final chapters of the comic.
- Badass Cape: In contrast to the other masked figures in the story, The Black Note wears an intimidating mantled cloak.
- Big Bad: Of Season Two.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Two examples:
- The first is Tom Broadfoot, whom Cecil killed himself so that his old friend wouldn't see what Cecil was about to become, or at least that's how Cecil saw it.
- The second is his father Endo Gall, who he also killed personally (albeit more justifiably). He assumes the then-mayor's identity and uses it to re-direct the science of Gallery back onto to a more peaceful path (undoing a lot of Gall's changes in the process, as another bit of revenge against his father). The heroes know this, and make it clear that they will take him down if he ever backslides back into villainy.
- Heel–Face Turn: Upon his unexpected reappearance in Season 3, he appears to want to work with Lavender Jack.
- Make Some Noise: One of the Black Note's most fearsome tools is his sound technology, which he uses masterfully, doing virtually everything imaginable with sound. This includes altering his voice as a disguise, cancelling out the ambient sounds in an area, using sub-sonic frequencies to mess with a victim's head, creating concussive sound blasts, and using sonic vibrations to demolish buildings, which was a key part of the final step of his master plan in Season 2.
- Master of Disguise: Part of what makes the Black Note so mysterious and dangerous, especially when he was an assassin for the Unnamed Fraternity, is his ability to assume a roll fully. Not only does he use elaborate masks and props, he takes on the subject's mannerisms and traits so convincingly that he might have trouble separating them from his own identity. He's also not above pulling a Dead Person Impersonation, such as with Tom Broadfoot and Endo Gall.
- Meaningful Name: Invoked In-Universe by the Black Note himself, who deliberately picked the name for both personal reasons and it's in-universe meaning, referring to a sonic frequency that could annihilate an object entrirely:
The Black Note: "...I picked my name very carefully
. "The Black Note" has a meaning that's personal to me, one that encapsulates who I am, and what I have become."
. "The Black Note" has a meaning that's personal to me, one that encapsulates who I am, and what I have become."- Never Found the Body: At the end of Season 2, the Note is buried along with their machine beneath tons of rock and rubble. It's nearly unthinkable that they might have survived. And yet...
- Not Quite Dead: The Black Note returns in Season 3 to fight Lilac Jack and Lady Hawthorne, after having apparently died at the end of Season 2.
- Secret Identity Vocal Shift: Uses sonic technology to disguise their voice - at first the heroes can't even be sure whether the person behind the mask is male or female.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Black Note does outright despicable things, and kills dozens, if not hundreds of people, during his murderous "symphony" across Gallery. But his motivation, specifically of Gallery being ruled by a rotating cycle of corrupt narcissists without end, is notably not incorrect, as he could attest due to being psychologically broken from childhood into being a Secret Fraternity assassin.
Lilac Jack AKA The Reanimated Corpse of Lord Hawthorne
Click here to see the... face... beneath the mask (Spoilers for Season 3).
An imposter wearing a faux Lavender Jack outfit who appears in Gallery and appears to be doing Lady Hawthorne's bidding. For information on the creature beneath the mask, see Lord Hawthorne below.
- Back from the Dead: The face behind the mask died pretty definitively, on-panel. He Got Better.
- Costume Copycat: Was intentionally designed to destroy Lavender Jack's reputation in Gallery.
- Death-Activated Superpower: Lord Hawthorn was enhanced with armored pieces and metal-grafted bones after his death.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Before he died, he was a terrifying combatant, but just a man. Afterward, though...
- Meaningful Appearance: Where the real Lavender Jack's metal eyepiece calls a domino mask to mind, this mockery wears a metal mouthpiece... almost like a muzzle.
- Noble Demon: Not at first, as he's acts as assassin for Lady Hawthorne just as he did as Lord Hawthorne, but in the final pages of Season 3, he seems to break his conditioning and saves Mimley from death by falling, possibly because Mimley was a Worthy Opponent or because Mimley openly recognized that what had been done to Lord Hawthorne was unforgivable, regardless of who the man was before.
- Unbreakable Bones: Takes punches, kicks, and falls without injury due to the metallic pieces grafted onto his skeleton as part of his resurrection, as well as a special plasma used to replace his blood that's extremely shock absorbant.
- Walking Spoiler: Just look at his entry! His nature, identity, and origins are all a mystery throughout most of Season 3.
- We Can Rebuild Him: Went from a purely mundane thug to a terrifying Frankensteinian monstrosity through the power of Mad Science!
The Nightjar AKA Princess Nina Musadora of Pilaf
Click here to see the face beneath the mask.
A mysterious ninja-like vigilante with ties to the labor unions of Gallery.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: A nightjar is a type of bird. The Nightjar marks her communications with an Intrepid Reporter with a picture of said bird.
- Badass Normal: Doesn't have incredible technology like Lavender Jack or the Black Note, nor are they personally enhanced like Lilac Jack. The Nightjar fights with skill, determination, and a weighted rope - and holds their own.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Introduced as part of a throwaway comment back in Season 1. Doesn't appear until Season 3.
- King Incognito: She's royalty, but the country she's royal in has collapsed due to foreign influence. Rather than living off her title, she became a wandering do-gooder.
- Lost Orphaned Royalty: The rest of her family were assassinated by Herrons, acting to support Gallerian interests.
- McNinja: Okay, she's never actually identified as a Ninja in-universe, but she's got the mask, the stealth and acrobatics, and a hooked blade on a rope, so she counts.
- Non-Powered Costumed Hero: As noted above under Badass Normal, the Nightjar fights with pure skill, not the superscience used by most of the other masked individuals in the setting.
- Really Royalty Reveal: When the cast (beyond Ferrier, who knew already) are told that The Nightjar is actually the Princess of Pilaf.
- Vigilante Man: Well, without the man part, anyway. The Nightjar is explicitly a protector of the common people from their first appearance, and opposes Endo Gall and the city's military police.
The Inclement Investment Company
In General
- Aristocrats Are Evil: While several weren't born as aristocrats, many of the members claim a noble title. All are corrupt, and several are truly nasty pieces of work.
- Secret Society Group Picture: A photograph of the Hawthornes’ Inclement Investment Company members left in the Lord Mayor’s office is what leads Ferrier to uncovering the corruption and Lavender Jack’s motivation.
- Villain with Good Publicity: For the most part, the members of the Company are considered exemplary members of high society by the city at large. Lavender Jack's plan in season 1 is to defy this by airing their dirty laundry to the city.
- Wicked Cultured: They're all nasty pieces of work, and all members of high society.
Lady Sarah Hawthorne
- Big Bad: Of Season One and Season Three, making her the overarching antagonist of the entire series.
- The Dreaded: Among those who know of her. Even after her fall from grace, she's an imposing presence.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a cruel, calculating criminal mastermind, it appears that Lady Hawthorne does care for her husband, even grieving for him when he's killed at the end of Season 1. While she does use his reanimated corpse as Lilac Jack, it was not her idea to bring him back in the first place, and she make her displeasure at the one responsible, Sister Rex, quite clear.
- Fake Aristocrat: As Lord Hawthorne isn't a real Lord (see below), neither is his wife (though in Van Lund's testimony, there's vague hints that she was an aristocrat at some point, but had spent many years as a commoner before she met him and the future Lord Hawthorne).
- Karma Houdini: Largely averted, as her ultimate plans for Gallery are foiled and her name disgraced, but partially played straight in the last pages as she manages to leave Gallery away with most of her freedom, albeit after selling out some of her conspirators and with the implications that she may have to run for the rest of her life after her failed plot left a lot of powerful people angry at her.
- Nun Too Holy: She started out as a humble nun from a charitable order, but she's far from pious or kind. She's ruthless, ambitious, and entirely willing to kill (or more likely, to send her husband to do the job).
- Pet the Dog: In season 3, in an effort to appease the masses somewhat, she has a statue commissioned and built of the late Lord Mayor Monmouth, who was still a beloved figure in the eyes of the citizens of Gallery even after his corruption was exposed. Of course, being Lady Hawthorne, she easily combines this with Kick the Dog by making the statue a subtle insult to the man himself (as it portrays the Lord Mayor shielding his eyes from the sun, much like he looked away from the corrupt actions his spinelessness permitted) and to then Mayor Endo Gall, who she implies is doing something similar in regards to how much (or how little) power he actually has in Gallery compared to her.
- A more genuine example is her treatment of Lord Hawthorne when they first met, being the first human being to treat him with any form of decency in his life. While she's not above using his talents as her personal enforcer and assassin, she does seem to care for him on some level, even mourning him when he's killed and vowing revenge on Madame Ferrier, Lavender Jack and all they hold dear for the deed.
Lord Hawthorne
- Blood Knight: Lord Hawthorne takes a flying dive straight into this trope. The only things he's been shown doing are killing people and loving his wife. He spends months at a time in South American fighting rings until his wife calls for him to come back home and take care of some loose ends. He's very much aware of how shallow his personality is. Considering he was a wild man without a name for most of his life and never had any meaningful interactions with anyone except his wife, this is very much justified.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Uniquely, he's this twice.
- Firstly, His backstory mirrors that of Tarzan, except Tarzan was raised by a troop of benevolent apes while Hawthorne was alone from birth in a jungle full of dangerous creatures, mistreated by his fellow humans, and had his first taste of real compassion come from an amoral nun who's not above committing murder. Small wonder that he ended up carrying out assassinations for his wife.
- Later, he is resurrected from the dead in a scarred and riveted form that's highly evocative of Frankenstein's Monster.
- Disney Villain Death: When the non-lethal option failed, Jack ends up having to kill Lord Hawthorne by throwing him through a skylight and directly on the stone edging of a fountain. As of Season Three, the "Death" part of the trope didn't stick.
- The Dragon: To his wife in Season One, serving as the brutal enforcer and assassin to her cunning behind-the-scenes rule.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As brutal and bloodthirsty as he may be, Lord Hawthorne does genuinely care about his wife, as she was the first human figure in his entire life that was "soft" with him, and he did not take her arrest at the end of Season 1 well.
- Eye Scream: During the first confrontation between Lavender Jack and Lord Hawthorne, Jack (backed against an open fire and about to be bludgeoned to death) throws some burning coal into Lord Hawthorne's left eye, throwing off the aim of his killing blow. This leaves Lord Hawthorne blind in that eye for the rest of the season.
- Fake Aristocrat: The real Lord Hawthorne died in prison in India during the Platinum Wars. This Lord Hawthorne is a patsy, chosen by Van Lund and Lady Hawthorne for his fighting ability (and ease of control).
- Fight Clubbing: There's an underground arena in South America where landowners bet on property deeds via hand-to-hand fights to the death. Lord Hawthorne is a regular in these arenas, but only for the fighting, not for the titles.
Lord Mayor Quincy Monmouth
- Alas, Poor Villain: Make no mistake, he allowed the members of the Inclement Investment Company, especially Lady Hawthorne, to run their corrupt operations and bring rot into Gallery, and he needed to face judgement for that. But he was nowhere near as malicious as any of the other villains of the IIC (often coming across as more oblivious to the depth of the damage they were doing to the innocent than as an active participant), wanting merely to please who he thought were his friends, and having too little spine to say no to anything they said. Even Lavender Jack admitted that Quincy was rather low down on his lift, only moving him up and exposing the Mayor's corruption after Detective Ferrier was brought in to catch Jack, and Honoria Crabb still thought of him as a good man even when his crimes were exposed. Quincy certainly didn't deserve to be murdered by the Hawthornes for bringing in a detective that risked exposing their operations, shortly after they tell him to his face they only involved him because he had made a useful puppet until that point.
- Corrupt Politician: He thinks he's a good man, but he was put in power by bad people and lets them run rampant. They are not happy that he hired Ferrier, bringing her into their business. Theresa eventually has to spell this out for him after the ball.
- Moral Myopia: The Mayor has this, and it is deconstructed by Theresa after the ball. He's not a fan of her because she's a great detective, but merely because she was the "main character" of her stories and triumphed, just as the mayor sees himself as the main character of his own story.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By calling in Madame Ferrier, he sets into motion the events which bring down the Inclement Investment Company.
- Weak-Willed: Quincy would do anything for his "friends" because he feels he should be grateful for their help in getting him his position, and is too spineless to object to any of their demands, or even look into them in any detail. It's not helped that he still thinks of himself as a good man, regardless of the growing evidence to the contrary.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After bringing down far too much attention on the conspiracy, Lady Hawthorne says something to this effect to Lord Mayor Monmouth before having Lord Hawthorne beat him to death to frame Lavender Jack.
Lady Lackshore
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: It's her insistence that Lord Mayor Monmouth do something regarding Lavender Jack, despite her low opinion of the mayor and insulting his choice of reading material (which was currently one of the stories based on Madame Ferrier's adventures), that inspires him to hire the great detective, leading to the ultimate collapse of the Inclement Investment Company.
George Van Lund
- Character Tics: Is often seen flipping a coin in whatever scene he's in (including flashbacks), at least in Season 1.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Van Lund is introduced as just another of Lavender Jack's victims. Later, it's revealed that he was behind the Hawthornes' rise to prominence entirely - and before that, helped hide away the bastard child who would become the Black Note, thus instigating the entire plot of the comic.
- Only in It for the Money: In the broad scheme of things, Van Lund is only interested in himself and his own profit, looking for any opportunities to make money and stay alive, up to and including spilling the secret of Lord and Lady Hawthorne's "nobility" to Abbey Quarrel in exchange for a hefty sum of cash. The only time he did something that's not entirely self-interested was when he helped the Black Note with his plans for Gallery, due to feeling slightly responsible for the rough life he had, and even that was mostly out of fear for Van Lund's own life.
The Unnamed Fraternity
In General
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Much like the Inclement Investment Company above, the Fraternity is made up of the rich, powerful, and connected - including many in the aristocracy.
- Masquerade Ball: Their members like to meet up at least once a year at one of these, masks and all. Lavender Jack uses this to sneak in (since the disguises mean few know who the other members are well enough to tell an imposter apart).
- Secret Circle of Secrets: Most of the corrupt political figures presented are members of a secret fraternal order signified by an emerald cabochon ring worn on the left hand. Notably, the Hawthornes and their cabal of the corrupt elite (with the exception of George van Lund and, later on, a begrudging Chief Justice Gall) are not members of this society.
- Wicked Cultured: As befits an evil conspiracy made up of nobles.
Duchess Okoyo
- Greater-Scope Villain: Everything Lady Hawthorne was during the time of the Inclement Investment Company and Endo Gall's time as Lord-Mayor, the Duchess Okoyo was before her. Her subordinates, primarily George Van Lund, Endo Gall, and Sir Gavin Maddox were responsible for the events of the story happening in the first place.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In Season Three, Duchess Okoyo is noticeably absent from the conversation. After Season Two saw the Secret Fraternity's brief resurgence, Lady Hawthorne made sure they wouldn't be able to rise again. It's not known what exactly she did, but Okoyo is reduced to a powerless, paranoid hermit hiding out in the ruins of her old island manor.
Chief Justice Endo Gall
- Karmic Death: Dies at the hands of his illegitimate son, the Black Note, after they're both ejected from the airship that Gall intended to use to stamp his place in history, regardless of the cost. The Black Note would go on to assume Gall's identity and use it to undo the changes and damage his father had done.
- Meaningful Name: By proving himself a cowardly, self-serving hypocrite, the chief justice certainly is galling.
- Totalitarian Utilitarian: By the end of season one, Chief Justice Gall is set on maintaining control over Gallery and turning it into a police state, and believes that as agents of the law his job entails protecting the common people from themselves."We must trust in the systems laid down by our predecessors... for if we are loyal to the law, the law will absolve us of all guilt. Through law, our every deed will be justified. Through law, we will be purified into something greater than ourselves."
- It gets worse when he's eventually elected Lord Mayor and gets Gallery involved in the war against Armoria, as he uses Lady Hawthorne's ownership of Mimley, Agatha, and Gio's creation OCHRE and combines it with the sonic technology the Black Note used to create a Fantastic Nuke he plans on using on enemy nations.
"Gilded" Eddie Delaney
- Lesser of Two Evils: Can appear as this to some people between himself and Gall - a friendly young man parroting the dangerous messages of his benefactors vs an authoritarian control freak - but in reality they're both members of the same Unnamed Fraternity, so Gallery would end up under the control of the same secretive organization (though Eddie himself doesn't seem to wish harm to anyone, but he owes too much to the Fraternity to refuse them).
- Politically Incorrect Villain: His speeches often blame the immigrants for the various woes of Gallery, which certain parts of the population eat up (partly because he's charismatic enough in his delivery). Played with, in that they're not his actual views on the matter, but what he's told to say by his patrons for the sake of gaining the popular vote.
- Rags to Riches: Started out as an orphan, who later became a boxer of some talent (though even he realized he was beginning to hit a wall in his career, which was mostly reliant on his good looks to draw the crowd to begin with). He was later picked up by the Unnamed Fraternity to be used as a puppet in politics, which he went along with for the sake of being somebody important in life.
- Straw Character: In-Universe, he's just parroting the anti-immigration message of his patron (Sir Gavin Maddox) for the sake of gaining votes, with it being implied that even he doesn't buy into it but goes along with it because he's told that it will help him win the election (and worryingly, it seems to be working, at least among the upper class).
Other Characters
Gio Sakakibara
In memoriam
The third member of the trio who created the thinking engine Ochre (after Sir Mimley and Dame Agatha). Sadly, he was manipulated into selling his stake in the project by the Inclement Investment Company - and then murdered when he tried to get it back.- Death by Origin Story: A fairly textbook example. His death is what inspired Sir Mimley to become Lavender Jack in the first place.
- Flaw Exploitation: The Inclement Investment Company saw that Gio was the weak link among the trio of Mimley, Agatha and himself. The first two were already wealthy and wouldn't be swayed easily by the prospect of fame and fortune following the creation of Ochre (not to mention having connections to nobility that would help protect them), but Gio didn't have nearly as much experience with money or fame. The IIC exploited this to run him into debt and coerce him into signing over his share of ownership over Ochre.
Mr. Masters
- Noble Demon: He's a war veteran and solely determined to protect his Lady at all costs. Once the Hawthornes begin targeting Lady Lackshore to silence her, a battered Masters begs Jack for help and joins in their plan to stop Lord Hawthorne before he can assassinate her. In Season 2 he ends up running the bar Ducky uses to gather information.
Abbey Quarrel
- Benevolent Boss: She cares about the workers that help print the Glossary, which the Black Note uses to threaten her into an interview with him by threatening them.
- Intrepid Reporter: While Abbey's not as active as the usual example, she does care about the truth in the press. The fact that the scandals that Lavender Jack exposes help sell her newspapers are a (very welcome) bonus.
Captain first-class Annabelle Peoria
- Foil: To Honoria Crabb. While Crabb was initially a blindly loyal police officer who grew to realize that she needed to think for herself about what the right thing to do it, Peoria is an unapologetic thug who doesn't care in the slightest about the morality of the situation.
Giddy Garrett
- Evil Former Friend: Used to be a friend (and indeed more) of Mimley's, before Mimley learned of the shadier dealings of Giddy's company (who secretly used cheap materials in their products, which in turn fell apart for the poor soldiers wearing them), news made worse by Giddy's treatment of Ducky. This resulted in Mimley breaking off their friendship (and Giddy's nose) while siding with Ducky and taking her with him and employing her.
Marco
- Insane Troll Logic: When we see him again in season 3, he's obsessed with getting revenge on Ducky for not getting him out of prison. Except the reason he was in there to begin with was because he sold her out when he confessed to their shared blackmail scheme to the intended mark when threatened (quite quickly if Giddy is to be believed), removing any incentive for Ducky to bail out his treacherous ass.
- Revenge Before Reason: See Insane Troll Logic above.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: When Giddy confronted him about the blackmail scheme, he apparently sold out Ducky and himself almost immediately if Giddy's account is accurate. Giddy wasted no time in sending him to prison, and Ducky now had no reason to break him out once she left.
Sister Rex
- Eye Scream: Lady Hawthorne is responsible for Sister Rex's eyepatch — she attacked Sister Rex's face with a scalpel after finding out about the experiments the old woman was doing on Lord Hawthorne's corpse.
- Mad Scientist: The most archetypal example in the comic to date, despite the prevalence of superscience.
- Nun Too Holy: A Holy Sister who dabbles in brainwashing and the revivification of the dead.
