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Freelance Good Guys
In general
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In Fairy Tale Rejects, Evan, Lukas, and Glenvar are Evangelite soldiers, while in Looming Gaia Evan never joined the military and Lukas and Glenvar are from entirely different continents.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The original three Freelance Good Guys (not counting Zeffer): Evan is big, Lukas is thin, and Glenvar is short.
- Cast Full of Gay: Almost all members are LGBT in some way. Evan is gay, Lukas is pansexual, Alaine, Jeimos, Linde, and Zeffer are bi and Jeimos is nonbinary, Isaac and Mr. Ocean are asexual and Mr. Ocean is panromantic, Elska is aro-ace, and Javaan prefers women, but would be willing to have sex with a man if offered.
- Hitchhiker Heroes: The crew gets new members in different stories: Evan and Zeffer in "Monster by Moonlight", Zeffer leaves, Lukas joins in "The Perfect Shot", Glenvar in "Flopper and the Whopper", Alaine in "Chains of Melody", Jeimos in "The Shadow Sector", Isaac in "Trial of Titans", Linde, Skel, Balthazaar, and Javaan in "The Wretched Forge", Elska in "To Fight the Fog", Mr. Ocean in "Troubled Tides", Zeffer in "The Edge of Second Chances", and Zacry in "Resistance is Futile".
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're a bunch of mercenaries from all over the planet who couldn't really go anywhere else.
- Town Girls: Out of the three female Freelance Good Guys, Linde is a feminine fashionista who prefers to fight with magic (Femme), Elska is a strong and stoic warrior with not that many feminine features (Butch), and Alaine is a skilled physical fighter, but also a musician and collects jewelry (Neither).
Evan Atlas
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In Fairy Tale Rejects, he used to be a marshal in Evangelite military, and lost his leg in a battle against Folkvar Kingdom. In Looming Gaia, he lost his leg to a werewolf and fled the kingdom at an young age, never joining the military.
- Adaptational Name Change: In Fairy Tale Rejects, his last name is Volk, and in Looming Gaia it's Atlas.
- An Arm and a Leg: He lost his right leg to the werewolf who gave him lycanthropy.
- The Atoner: The reason he became a "Freelance Good Guy" in the first place was because he wanted to do righteous things for the world after he unintentionally caused the deaths of his family's former slave, the man who gave him lycanthropy, and his own father.
- The Big Bad Wolf: His werewolf form is named Bigbad in reference to this trope. He tells Isaac to beware "the Big Bad Wolf" when he asks things like why the trapdoor to his room is so small to keep his lycanthropy a secret from him, though Isaac eventually finds out.
- Hated Hometown: He no longer considers himself an Evangelite because of the kingdom's oppressive laws and slavery.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He's the captain of the Good Guys and is initially the only one to have a sword as their main weapon, though Jeimos also acquires a sword later on.
- Hypocrite: He has a tendency to tell his crewmen off for doing things that he also does, most commonly swearing and having inter-crew relations.
- Interspecies Romance: He's a human and was in a relationship with Zeffer, an elf.
- Knightly Sword and Shield: He's a self-proclaimed "Good Guy" and fights with a sword and shield.
- Manly Gay
- Orange/Blue Contrast: He wears a lot of blue while his best friend/boyfriend Lukas wears orange. He's friendly and good-natured, while Lukas is stoic and cynical.
- Plot Allergy: Being a lycanthrope, he's allergic to silver. In “Evangelites Skip, Matuzans Sway" Jelani invites him for dinner, and all the untensils are made of silver. This leads to him only eating finger food and cracking his tooth on an ekumela pit, which leads to him going to the dentist and Dr. Asha finding out about his lycanthropy.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Him being gay is first brought up in the first story, "Monster by Moonlight", where he buys roses for a man named Matthias and fantasizes of a happy life with him.
- Refused Reunion: He refused to get in touch with his mother and sister after cannibalizing his father as a werewolf, and Lukas had to fake a mission to get him to reunite with them.
- Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: He was a frail and sickly child who needed crutches and leg braces to walk and spent most of his childhood in bed. Then he contacted lycanthropy, which significantly improved his muscle mass and health. However, we later see that his heart condition didn't completely get cured.
Lukas Fanaka
- Adaptational Name Change: In the Freelance Good Guys comics, his last name is Jambo, and in Looming Gaia it's Fanaka.
- Adaptational Nationality: In Fairy Tale Rejects, he's Evangelite, but in Looming Gaia he's Matuzan.
- Aloof Archer: He's a "perfect shot" with the bow, and has been stoic and gloomy since he accidentally caused Itanya's death.
- Calling the Old Man Out: After dealing with a lifetime of abuse from Moswen, when he finds out that she sold Itanya away, he chews her out:Lukas: I will never appreciate you. And I will never forgive you. You’re a despicable queen and an even worse mother! You’re the most vile, sadistic, sorriest excuse for a person I’ve ever met! I’m ashamed to share your blood! If ruling Uekoro means becoming anything like you, I’d rather die in exile!
- Hates Their Parent: He hates his mother due to both her abuse towards him, his brother, and Itanya, and eventually selling Itanya to Kaconenans. When she dies in "Evangelites Skip, Matuzans Sway", it turns out he poisoned her.
- Interspecies Romance: He, a human, was in love with Itanya, an elf.
- Matricide: In "Evangelites Skip, Matuzans Sway", he poisons Moswen.
- Murder by Mistake: In "The Perfect Shot", he tries to shoot the soldier trying to kill Itanya, the elf he loves, but accidentally shoots her instead.
- Orange/Blue Contrast: He wears orange while his best friend/boyfriend Evan wears blue. He's stoic and cynical, while Evan is friendly and good-natured.
- Plagued by Nightmares: He often tries not to sleep and only takes short naps because he has a lot of horrific nightmares.
- Polar Opposite Twins: He's stoic and cynical, and his twin brother Jelani is outgoing and less open about his problems.
- Sibling Triangle: First he and Jelani were both in love with Itanya, and later they both fell in love with Evan.
Glenvar Thunderhorn
- Adaptational Nationality: In Fairy Tale Rejects he's Evangelite, but in Looming Gaia he's from Kirkmar.
- The Alcoholic: He began drinking when he was 13 and is a self-proclaimed alcoholic.
- Height Angst: He's rather short, especially for a Gildfolken human, and gets very angry when someone mocks him for his height or compares him to a dworf.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He feels responsible for his mother's death because he was the one who burned down the Silvertrunk Glen, which led Queen Kultajaa to kill her.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: While working in a ship, he saves Alaine from getting scaled by the other crewmen, which results in him getting thrown overboard for mutiny.
- Pardon My Klingon: He uses the word "kirk" as a swear word a lot, which is Volkaspek slang for male genitalia.
- Protection from the Elements: His mother gifted him a flamcor, a ring from a kaldvurm's stomach, which kept him warm anywhere. After he saved Alaine, Salina and Marina rewarded him by fusing it to his chest, making him immune to the cold.
- Still Sucks Thumb: He sometimes sucks his thumb when he's upset.
- Team Chef: He's the best cook in the crew and the one who cooks for them when they're on a journey.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: He's in an on-and-off relationship with Alaine, who's about a head taller than him.
- Token Religious Teammate: He's a Sylvanist and practises his religion daily, while the others don't seem to care much about religion.
Alaine Fontaine
- Catchphrase Insult: She has a tendency to call people "dummy", even in relatively serious situations.
- Child Soldiers: She was captured by the Aquarian Alliance when she was only eight and brainwashed to be their soldier for ten years.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": She gets violently angry when someone calls her "Jun", which is what the Alliance named her.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She spends a lot of her free time partying and drinking. In "The Shadow Sector", Jeimos first meets her drunk and calling her crewmates lightweights.
- Nom de Mom: Her parents gave her her mother's last name to avoid her being targeted by the law due to her father's criminal history.
- Plagued by Nightmares: Her trauma from her time in the Aquarian Alliance gives her nightmares, and she often kicks and screams in her sleep.
- Supernatural Angst: Being turned into a mermaid has caused her a lot of grief. Even after she breaks free from the brainwashing, many Terrians hate mermaids.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's in an on-and-off relationship with Glenvar, who's about a head shorter than her.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: In her childhood, her friend Deanne had long hair and wore embroidered dresses, while she was more tomboyish, wearing simple clothes and short hair and not afraid to get dirty while helping her father scrounge the muddy rivers for sunken objects.
Jeimos Paramonimos
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In their first appearance in the Freelance Good Guys comics, they're a lot ruder and even try to leave the Good Guys trapped in a slime dungeon while they run off with the treasure.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In the Freelance Good Guys comics, they act a lot more bold and confident. In Looming Gaia they go though a lot of trauma and are kind of an anxious mess.
- Descent into Addiction: The middle part of "The Shadow Sector" details how they became addicted to pyre dust in an attempt to feel happy despite their gender dysphoria, insane mother, neglectful father, stressful schoolwork, and loss of their family's caretaker and best friend Felice.
- Elemental Hair Colors: They have red hair like all red elves, and they're skilled in fire magic.
- Embarrassing Tattoo: In "Body Hopping" Tojum switches bodies with them and gets a tattoo of a rat and a cockroach mating on their butt. They manage to remove it with their fire magic, though.
- Fire/Ice Duo: The specialize in pyromancy and get along well with Linde, who specializes in floemancy, and eventually they start dating.
- Huge Schoolgirl: They're taller than most female elves, their mother getting them clothes from the adult section when they were the equivalent of about twelve human years, and were bullied at school for it.
- Important Haircut: After escaping from Damijana to the Zareen Empire and leaving their old life behind, they shave their head bald due to their long curly hair being too much to maintain.
- Middle Name Basis: They go by their gender-neutral middle name instead of their gendered legal first name.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: They're a nonbinary elf. Downplayed though, as elves have the same concept of gender binary as humans, though they naturally look more androgynous by human standards.
- Playing with Fire: They're specialized in fire magic.
- Recovered Addict: They were addicted to pyre dust in their youth, but quit it long before they joined the Freelance Good Guys.
- Sickly Neurotic Geek: They're definitely a nerd, with an interest in science and machinery, and according to Greys they even write fanfiction for an old Damijani TV show. They're also lactose intolerant, suffer from stomach ulcers, have irritable bowels, and tend to get seasick.
- Trans Tribulations: They've dealt with a lot of sexual harassment and bullying over their female body and a traumatic experience with puberty, leaving them disgusted with their body and now wanting to transform it to a male one.
Isaac
- Artificial Family Member: Karenza forged him out of the bones of her unborn child trying to resurrect her son. She even gave him her soul, making him the only monster capable of feeling love.
- The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest and most childish of the Good Guys. Mentally, at least.
- Death Is a Sad Thing: The first scene in "From the Ashes" shows a flashback from when he was just found by the Good Guys adopting a hurt bird, only for it to die soon after, and the crewmen comforting him.
- Divine Parentage: He's a monster forged by Karenza, the Divine of Love, out of the bones of her unborn child and given her soul.
- Friend to All Living Things: He loves animals, which in turn never harm him because his mother's soul that he inherited was blessed by a beast nymph.
- Identity Amnesia: He was found in a sarcophagus as a child with no memory of his past.
- Only One Name: He's only known as "Isaac".
- Orphan's Plot Trinket: His mother left him with a golden bird pendant containing her blood.
- Raised by the Community: Though Evan is his legal guardian, Lukas, Glenvar, Alaine, and Jeimos all took part in raising him, and he considers them his family.
Linde Lumina
- Action Fashionista: She's skilled with powerful frost spells and designs clothes in her spare time.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: In Fairy Tale Rejects she has orange hair and yellow skin, in Looming Gaia she's albino.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: She has short hair in Fairy Tale Rejects and long hair in Looming Gaia.
- Albinos Are Freaks: She was born with albinism in Matuzu, a hot region where it was seen very unfavorably. Her parents put her in private school to spare her a lot of bullying, but Linde still knew she looked different and has body image issues because of it.
- Elemental Hair Colors: She has white hair due to her albinism and is skilled in frost magic.
- The Fashionista: She's the most fashion-forward of the Good Guys.
- Fire/Ice Duo: She specializes in floemancy and gets along well with Jeimos, who specializes in pyromancy, and eventually they start dating.
- An Ice Person: She's specialized in ice magic.
- Nom de Mom: As is traditional for many elves, she took her mother's last name.
- Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: She was born to wealthy parents and had a snobby and stuck-up attitude, but having her parents killed and getting trafficked by mercenaries through the desert hardened her and gave her a strong sense of justice. She doesn't tolerate injustice and always looks out for those less fortunate than her, even to her own detriment.
- True Blue Femininity: She's the most feminine of the Freelance Good Guys and is often pictured wearing blue to go with her ice magic.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: She stores her magic wand in her cleavage.
Balthazaar Valentino
- Accidental Murder: After he took over an old goblin warlock's farm after his death, he kills a chicken for food, only to discover that it was a gorgon that the warlock had turned into a chicken and that he had now killed.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In Fairy Tale Rejects he had a full head of hair and no beard, but in Looming Gaia he's bald with a beard.
- Interspecies Romance: He's a human and was married to an elf named Feredil.
- Power Fist: He fights with a pair of giant steel gauntlets which he took from a dead ogre slaver.
- Sink or Swim Fatherhood: He unexpectly gets appointed to raise his niece Azadora by Allmother, and panics because he has no idea what to do and at that point he doesn't even have a house. So far he seems to be doing well, though.
- Tragic Keepsake: He keeps one of his dead wife Feredil's earrings on one of his ears.
Skel Lin Del
- Boomerang Bigot: He's bigoted towards other goblins despite being one himself due to how the Barhatian royal family treated him compared to the other goblin slaves.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Because of his snooty attitude and acting like he's better than others, the other Freelance Good Guys don't like him that much.
- Happiness in Slavery: He was a slave to the Barhatian royal family, but due to Princess Jasenia's love for him, he was treated like a noble and didn't even consider himself a slave.
- Interspecies Romance: He's a goblin and was in a relationship with Jasenia, an elf.
- Mind over Matter: He specializes in telekinesis.
- Platonic Prostitution: He visits a goblin bar wench once a month and pays him to pretend to be his slave, but in a completely non-sexual way. He tells him to do things like spin in circles and stand on his head, much like Jasenia and the Barhatian royals once did to him.
- Spoon Bending: He uses a golden spoon as a wand, as the spoon's shape is said to conduct telekinetic energy efficiently.
- Terrified of Germs: He's been using his telekinesis to avoid touching anything so much that he sees everything as filthy and is terrified of dirt and germs.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: His former lover Jasenia was a lot taller than him, since elves are generally taller than goblins.
- Unmanly Secret: He secretly wears dresses he anonymously orders from Linde in his free time and roleplays as an elven princess.
Javaan of Chidibe
- Afraid of Needles: He has a fear of needles due to a childhood incident with an overworked doctor who poked him over and over with a needle trying to find a vein.
- Child by Rape: He was born after his mother Olandrah was raped. At first she hated him and even considered eating him, but did come to love him.
- Harmful to Minors: He saw his mother get cannibalized when he was only five.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: He's known for being rather promiscuous, but he means well.
- Street Urchin: He grew up homeless on the streets of Chidibe.
Elska of Loreham
- Adaptational Late Appearance: She's the very first character we see in Fairy Tale Rejects, but doesn't appear in the Looming Gaia series until the 11th story.
- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: She's tough and quick to resort to violence, and fights with a simple stone hammer.
- Determinator: She refuses to give up on her quest to find her clan and get revenge on Kelvingyard, even years later.
- Hates Being Nicknamed: When other characters call her by a nickname, she always just answers that her name is Elska. In "Blue Boy", when she brawls with Javaan and kicks him so hard that he nearly dies, she reasons that he called her "Pancake".
- Hates Being Touched: She has always been averse to touch.
- The Outside World: She grew up in a small centaur village surrounded by fog and was always told that if someone left it, they'd fall in an endless void. Only after her villagers had been captured by slavers or killed was she forced to leave it and see that there's a whole world outside.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: She's disgusted by dishonesty and refuses to tell anything but the truth.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: In "To Fight the Fog" Evan makes her fight his crewmen to see if she's Good Guy material. In the end, he makes her fight Frederick, who she intentionally lets win as she refuses to fight children. Thankfully, it turns out that Evan didn't want her to fight him, as he was testing her heart instead of her strenght.
Mr. Ocean
- Adaptational Badass: In Fairy Tale Rejects, he has been staying in his cave for centuries and not seeing much action. In Looming Gaia, he's spent the past few hundred years running a military group and is definitely a force to be reckoned with.
- Adaptational Name Change: Kind of. In Fairy Tale Rejects, Ginger names him "Mr. Ocean", but here he names himself just "Ocean" and the "Mr." is just a title which comes later.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In his first appearance in Fairy Tale Rejects, he's clearly gone very mad with isolation. When Ginger ends up trapped in his cave, he refuses to help her get out and lashes out at her when she presses him. In "Ocean Returns to the Sea", Solveig is in a similar situation, but he only keeps her in a cave because she has no other choice, and he never yells at her.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Though he's friendly to most people he meets and hates violence, he still has his limits:
- When he meets Hemming, who Solveig told him used to beat and rape her, he doesn't hesistate to leave him to drown.
- When Roach tries to kill Alaine, he immediately turns him into liquid. Though he does know that Roach is a divine and will eventually resurrect.
- Boomerang Bigot: He was abused by other cecaelia in Tekee, leading him to not like others of his species. While he is friendly towards almost all people he meets, he is much less friendly towards cecaelia, and believes to some degree that he turned into a Terrian himself when he grew legs and moved to the surface.
- Festering Fungus: His greenlite infection is so severe that the mushrooms have grown all over his organs and spread out of his pores, contaminating everything he touches if he doesn't take his medicine.
- Forced Addiction: After the death of his parents, he became severely depressed and lost the will to live. Sovereign implanted a greenbrite-consuming hankerleech in his brain, which would give him such an addiction to greenbrite pods that the next dose of them would be something he wanted to live for. But Sovereign didn't actually want to help him, he wanted him to become unable to rule alongside him so he could have Tekee for himself.
- Interspecies Romance: He was in love with a human named Solveig, while he's a cecaelia.
- Intrigued by Humanity: He's fascinated by humans and Terrian life despite being a cecaelia born in the ocean.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Cecaelia live for over a thousand years, and his relationship with Solveig, a normal human, ended with her death of old age.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In "Troubled Tides", when Alaine finally makes him realize that he's becoming just as corrupt as his brother in trying to keep his promise to Solveig, he's devastated and decides to quit the Oceanic Resistance.
- Never Given a Name: Tekeetian cecaelia traditionally don't have names, and he was only known by nicknames like "Sick One" or "Pest" until he met Solveig, who inspired him to name himself Ocean.
- Poisonous Person: The greenlite fungi grown inside his body make him sweat toxins that make people who touch it addicted to it and magically bound to his mind.
- Unplanned Crossdressing: In "Nymph's Hollow", he finds a wedding dress that ended up in the sea and puts it on, unaware that dresses are meant for women since cecaelia don't typically wear clothes. Some sailors mock him for it, but Olof lets him wear it while they rummage through the trash.
Zeffer Vengelor
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: He tries to be, but since his vampirism forces him to drink people's blood, he eventually runs away from Evan, not being able to call himself a "good guy".
- Green Thumb: He learnt botanical spells from his mother in his mortal life, which he later taught himself to weaponize.
- Hunter of His Own Kind: He hunts other vampires to break the cycle of vampirism.
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad: At first, he despises Lilian for tricking him and turning him into a vampire, and tries to kill her. But after finding out how messed up her life with Dario is, he kills Dario instead and makes Lilian eat his heart to cure her, and takes her to Drifter's Hollow.
- Interspecies Romance: He's an elf and was in a relationship with Evan, a human.
- Mouth To Mouth Force Feeding: In "Eat Your Heart Out", after killing Dario Dusk, he chews his heart and forces Lilian to eat it from his mouth to cure her vampirism, as she still believed Dario only loved her and didn't want to be cured.
- Supernatural Angst: He contacted vampirism unwillingly and absolutely hates it, having sworn revenge on all vampires.
- Vampire Hunter: He has taken to hunting down other vampires as revenge for what happened to him.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Though he's used to feeding from innocent people to survive, when the Dusks tell him to feed the baby of one of their victims to pigs, he refuses to do it and secretly goes to give the child to a family of goblins.
ZACRY- 3585
- A.I.-cronym: Its name stands for Zareenite Acrobat Combat variant ‘Rifleman’ Y-series 3585.
- Bell-Bottom-Limbed Bots: The shape of its legs is why it's called a "bucketheel"
- Chicken Walker: It has backwards-bending legs like a faun or satyr.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Jeimos takes note to always refer to it as "it", which the others aren't as consistent on.Jeimos: Please, don’t refer to Zacry as a "he". It’s a machine, not a person! An artificial intelligence, a miracle construct birthed not from Gaia, but from the most genius minds of allkind! Zacry is no mere "he", it is a brilliant marvel of technology!
- Token Robot: It's the only robot in the village, as they are hard to find in Noalen.
- With Catlike Tread: In "Resistance is Futile", when Jeimos tells it to activate stealth mode, it loudly announces "ACTIVATING STEALTH MODE", and buries itself halfway in sand. This happens again when Jeimos is approaching an Oceanic Resistance base, accidentally activating its "stealth mode", resulting in Resistance soldiers capturing them. Jeimos and their father Ojio later alter its programming to be more stealthy.
Drifter's Hollow
Flora
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In Fairy Tale Rejects, she is first seen making Itchy chase after her trying to make him break a leg. The worst thing she does to him in Looming Gaia is insult him sometimes (which he often deserves) and accuse him of kidnapping a child when first meeting Cinnamon.
- Adaptational Skimpiness: She wears a dress in Fairy Tale Rejects, but in Looming Gaia she's almost always naked or in just a loincloth.
- Flowers of Nature: She's a limniad with flowers in her hair and a flowery name.
- Immortal Immaturity: She's centuries old, but youthful and mischievous.
- The Prankster: Often plays pranks on the villagers to entertain herself.
Gwyneth Fallbrooke
- Does Not Like Men: She makes comments that men are insufferable and only good for work.
- Marriage of Convenience: Though she and Brogan aren't officially married (very few people in the Hollow are), they call each other "wife" and "husband". Gwyneth isn't actually in love with Brogan, in fact she is a lesbian, but lets him live with her and call her his wife, because that way she can make him work harder for her.
- Shoplift and Die: She carries a cleaver to chop off shoplifters' hands.
Brogan
- Henpecked Husband: Gwyneth takes advantage of his unrequited love for her and works him like a slave.
- Hopeless Suitor: He's hopelessly in love with Gwyneth, who is a lesbian, and wouldn't love someone who captured and enslaved her anyway.
- Never Learned to Read: He was raised by illiterate criminals and can't read.
Olof of Kaldenfel
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses a hand while fighting a skorpius invading the Hollow.
- Extreme Doormat: The guilt over abandoning his wife to slavers turned him skittish and nervous, and struggling to discipline Frederick.
- Grew a Spine: After Disgrace's attack on the Hollow, he decides to become more assertive and not allow others to push him around anymore.
- Papa Wolf: He rarely even raises his voice, but when a skorpius tries to kill Frederick in "From the Ashes", he fights it himself.
Frederick of Kaldenfel
- Bratty Half-Pint: His father is too much of a doormat to discipline him, leaving him free to bully others and terrorize Drifter's Hollow.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In later stories, he starts to realize how mean he is and makes an effort to be kinder.
Dr. Che
- Adaptational Intelligence: In Fairy Tale Rejects, some scenes indicate that he's not as knowledgeable as a doctor should be, such as when he's helping Ginger give birth and doesn't know whether the baby's head or legs should come out first. In Looming Gaia, he's much more competent, and him speaking broken Universa is only due to him being a foreigner.
- Interspecies Adoption: He's a satyr raised by fauns.
- Interspecies Romance: He's a satyr and his wife Philippa is a centaur.
- Stereotype Flip: Satyrs are often stereotyped as sex-crazed in-universe and written as such in other fiction, but he's asexual.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: He's 5'4" and married to "Big" Philly, who's 8'5".
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's terrified of vampires due to the malicious vampires in his homeland, and they're the only people he refuses to treat.
Itchy of Taybiya
- Adaptational Nationality: In Fairy Tale Rejects, he came from somewhere in Evik, but in Looming Gaia he's Taybiyan.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In Fairy Tale Rejects, he was a sleazeball to the point Ginger kicked him out of her house, and he started chasing other girls pretty much instantly afterwards, and even tried to leave Tomato to be eaten by wolves to save himself. Here he's trying a lot harder to be a better person.
- The Alcoholic: He's had a serious drinking problem pretty much all his life.
- Boomerang Bigot: While he doesn't exactly like any species, he is open about his belief that satyrs are thieves and degenerates by nature.
- Childhood Brain Damage: His mother attempted to drown him in a bucket when he was a toddler, which gave him brain damage, resulting in developemental issues as a child and irrational behavior as an adult.
- Does Not Like Magic: He is distrustful of magic and gets angry when Ginger announces that Mr. Ocean made Cinnamon magical. He later accepts it when Cinnamon's telepathy proves useful.
- Ear Notch: He has a notch on his right ear, from when he tried to break into a house and got bitten by a pet raccoon.
- Hates Baths: His fear of water results in him almost never bathing unless he's drunk.
- Interspecies Adoption: After his mother was arrested for attempting to drown him, he was raised by a roshava named Talul Sarfeesha, and later the minervae Patience.
- Rescue Romance: Fell in love with Ginger after rescuing her from Kelvingyard slavers.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has a fear of water due to his near-drowning experience as a child, though he doesn't remember it.
Ginger of Stonebirch
- Absurdly Elderly Mother: Female satyrs normally become infertile in their twenties, but Ginger was thirty-six when she got pregnant with Cinnamon.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In Fairy Tale Rejects, she kicks Itchy out of her house, and though she's come close to doing that in Looming Gaia, she would never call him ugly or smelly.
- Boomerang Bigot: She doesn't trust most satyrs due to having bad experiences with them while working as a prostitute, but unlike Itchy, she understands that it's ignorant and teaches her kids to not act this way.
- Parental Substitute: Is one for Frederick, even breastfeeding him after he lost his mother.
- Rescue Romance: Fell in love with Itchy after he rescued her from Kelvingyard slavers.
- What Does She See in Him?: Others question why she loves Itchy, a criminal with a severe drinking problem who lies all the time, multiple times.
Tomato of Stonebirch
- Faint in Shock: In "Sugar and Shine", he faints three times in a row while watching his mother give birth.
- Infant Sibling Jealousy: In "Coins for Clowns", he gets jealous of his baby sister Cinnamon, and feels like Itchy doesn't love him.
Cinnamon of Drifter's Hollow
- Blind Seer: She's partially blind and hard of hearing, but can telepathically see and hear through other people's minds.
- Child Mage: Mr. Ocean starts teaching her magic when she's only two years old, first teaching her telepathy to function better with her disabilities.
- Disability Superpower: Satyrs often struggle with magic due to casting spells requiring concentration, which is hard for them because their heightened senses make them hyper-aware of their surroundings and constantly distracted. This isn't a problem for Cinnamon due to her blindness and deafness, and she's noted to be adept at telepathy despite her young age.
Tojum of Wheatfield
- Gonky Femme: Since the body-switching went south, she ended up staying a kobold and using medicine to transition instead, and dresses very femininely despite her species not being considered that feminine-looking.
- Grand Theft Me: Upon learning that Jeimos wants a male body, she reasons that since she wants a female non-kobold body, she decides to just switch their bodies.
- Hulk Speak: She talks in third person and poor grammar, like most kobolds.
- Trans Tribulations: As if being a kobold wasn't hard on its own, her father destroyed a dress she made and told her off when she told him she wanted to be a woman.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She wants to get a husband, but doesn't understand the concept of love that peoples feel since monsters can't feel love.Tojum: Tojum not understands this ‘love’ ye all talks about. Ye wants trust this, loyalty that, blah blah blah...all Tojum wants is handsome mans with big, fat pecker and lots of moneys! Is that so much to asks?
Philippa Sand-Crosser of the First Claycoats, Daughter of Y'tan / "Big Philly"
- Age Lift: She's noticeably older here than in Fairy Tale Rejects.
- Breeding Slave: She was a Kelvingyard brood mother for many children who were sold as slaves for over ten years.
- Determinator: She managed to keep sane for ten years in Kelvingyard after losing her family, keeping track of every day and meticulously planning her escape.
- Dishing Out Dirt: She specializes in terramancy, making an earthquake in Kelvingyard.
- Fat and Proud: She's quite fat and considers herself beautiful. Understandable, as many Kelvingyard slaves are underfed and sickly. However, she later suffers a heart attack and starts a more healthy lifestyle, eventually losing some weight.
- Interspecies Romance: She's a centaur and married to Dr. Che, a satyr.
- Not Used to Freedom: When Evan buys her from Kelvingyard, she freezes to look at the nature around her which she hadn't seen in over ten years. And later when she's free in the Hollow, she's overwhelmed by being able to wake up without being kicked awake.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Her daughters Parissa and Petilla were killed by Kelvingyard, and all her brood children were sold away and she never saw them again.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's over eight feet tall and obese and married to the short skinny satyr Che.
Connor Galanis
- An Arm and a Leg: He tries to give himself lycanthropy by having Bigbad bite off the tip of his pinky. The werewolf instead takes his entire arm.
- Culture Clash: As he grew up in a human supremacist kingdom where fae and gaians are enslaved, seeing them as normal citizens in the Hollow is quite a shock. Same for his reaction to seeing that Evan has women in his mercenary crew. His casually racist and misogynistic attitude earns him the scorn of many of the villagers.
- Girlfriend in Canada: In "Lost and Found", he claims to have a girlfriend named Angeline in Greenhearst. It's pretty obvious he's lying, as he later accidentally calls her Annabel and then tries to claim that Annabel is a nickname.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: In "Hereditary", after he intentionally contacts lycanthropy, Evan tells him to think about something disgusting every time he sees blood so he won't crave it as much. Connor tries thinking about his mother's squash soup, a trough full of pig slop, and a maggot-infested horse carcass, but Evan gets him really disgusted by mentioning that his parents had sex at least once.
- Too Dumb to Live: Despite hearing horrible things about werewolves growing up and Evan telling him that lycanthropy is a horrible disease to have, he decides to give it to himself. He only thinks he has to sacrifice a finger, only for Bigbad to eat his entire arm and nearly kill him.
Lily "Lilian" Dusk
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's described as looking uncanny and like a porcelain doll. Though her hair is naturally white, but Ivy cast an illusion spell to make it appear black so she could pass as Dario's daughter more easily, and her skin is grey due to her vampirism and she uses a magical guise. She becomes more normal-looking after she's cured.
- First Period Panic: As she was raised by infertile vampires for most of her childhood, she thought she was dying when she got her first period.
- Lonely Doll Girl: Her dolls became her only friends when she realized that she couldn't trust the Dusk vampires.
- Older Than They Look: She's in her forties as of 6008, but being turned into a vampire at age 19 and playing with dolls for her lack of friends makes her appear younger.
Azadora Valentino
- All Girls Like Ponies: Along with taking riding lessons with her father, according to Greys, if Halloween existed on Gaia, she would dress as a pegasus.
- Family Relationship Switcheroo: She's Balthazaar's niece, but believes she's his daughter.
- Nephewism: She's adopted by her uncle Balthazaar, but Allmother wiped her memories of both her biological parents and her, so she believes that Balthazaar is her father.
- Oblivious Adoption: She believes that her uncle Balthazaar is her father, and given how abusive her actual parents were, Balthazaar believes it's best to keep her that way.
Bellezza "Morbus" Morbuscilucious
- Abhorrent Admirer: She's been trying to coerce Dr. Che into having sex with her for years, not realizing that he's asexual. Her mean-spirited personality towards everyone else doesn't help matters.
- Adaptational Species Change: She's a human-elf hybrid in Fairy Tale Rejects but fully elven here, since hybrids between peoples aren't possible in this installment.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Though she wasn't exactly a looker in Fairy Tale Rejects, she only looked like an old, partially human woman. Here, she's fully elven, but has contacted the magical ugliness-inducing Haggomah's Blight.
- Beauty to Beast: She used to be a model famous for her beauty before contacting Haggomah's Blight.
- Crazy Cat Lady: Fitting for an old antisocial witch, she lives with a lot of cats. Deanne catnapping and threatening one of them is what makes her end her deal with the Oceanic Resistance.
- Last-Name Basis: She's most commonly called "Morbus", which is a shortening of her last name.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: When she sees that Dr. Che is in love with Philly, she gives her a cookie laced with sleeping potion and tells Che that she must've went into a diabetic coma, hoping that Che would get tired of taking care of her and let her euthanize her. Thankfully, she has a change of heart upon seeing how miserable Che is and gives Philly the antidote.
Friends and allies
Abigail Galanis (née Atlas)
- Alliterative Name: Abigail Angeline Atlas, until she married Edmund.
- Big Sister Instinct: She used to fight Evan's bullies.
- Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: The chubby mama to Edmund's skinny papa.
- Marriage of Convenience: She married Edmund not because she loved him, but because he had money, and her parents were in debt from Evan's medical treatments.
Jelani Fanaka
- Hates Their Parent: Like his brother, he hates Moswen, to the point that he sends a thank-you card and flowers for Lukas after realizing that he killed her.
- Polar Opposite Twins: He's outgoing and acts cheerful around people, while Lukas is stoic and openly cynical.
- Sibling Triangle: First he and Lukas were both in love with Itanya, and later they both fell in love with Evan.
- The Un Favourite: His parents often neglected him in favor of Lukas due to Lukas being the firstborn and thus the heir to the throne, leaving him starved of affection.
Antagonists
Sovereign of Aquaria
- Adipose Rex: He's Looming Gaia's fattest High Ruler.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: He has a large harem of wives he's kidnapped and forces to have children for him.
- Early Personality Signs: In the side story "Clutchmates", it's shown that he tried to kill Mr. Ocean with a toy sword when they were only one year old. He would then grow up to be a warlord and Mr. Ocean's sworn enemy.
- Evil Twin: He and Mr. Ocean were born from the same egg clutch. While Mr. Ocean loves Terrian life, Sovereign is trying to destroy all Terrians.
- Fantastic Racist: He's leading a genocide towards all non-Aquarians. He also considers cecaelia superior over sirenes.
- Fat Bastard: He is a lot fatter than most cecaelia we see, and a massive racist who is leading a genocide towards all non-Aquarians, tortured his brother with a biological weapon to keep him off the throne, has human girls kidnapped and brainwashed to be his mermaid soldiers, and has a harem of kidnapped scylla that he forces to have countless children for him, who he then proceeds to neglect and banish if they're "defective".
- Green and Mean: He's green all over and one of the most despicable characters in the series.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Like other Tekeetian cecaelia, he wasn't given a name at birth, and named himself "Sovereign" when he founded the Aquarian Alliance.
- Medical Monarch: He's skilled in curative magic and was a healer before becoming the Sovereign.
- Small Parent, Huge Child: Though he's a big and obese cecaelia, he's miniscule compared to his son Mr. Kraken, who has extreme gigantism due to his mother sabotaging her egg cycle, already growing larger than both of his parents as a child, resulting in Sovereign banishing him when he didn't have room for him.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He founded the Alliance because he was disgusted with the Terrian kingdoms polluting the ocean, leading to illnesses and birth defects in Aquarians. But his methods of trying to stop the pollution involves kidnapping children and brainwashing them to be his soldiers, and in one case having thousands of children killed and sending their corpses with a massive wave to a Zareenite city.
Mankind's Disgrace, Divine of Hate
- Abstract Eater: His mask doesn't allow him to eat, so he feeds on the misery of others.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: His cult allows members of all species and genders, which is saying something given how much Fantastic Racism there is on Looming Gaia.
- Evil Mask: His mask grants him false divinity at the cost of forcing him to feed on the pain of others. It's also magically hooked to his skin and causes him constant pain.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: He wears black and red stripes and goes around killing people and spreading misery.
- Red Baron: He is known as the Divine of Hate, Lord of Fear, Champion of War, King of Violence, and Overlord of Torment.
- Silent Antagonist: He never speaks, likely because his mask doesn't allow him to.
- Sinister Scythe: He wields a golden scythe called the Divine Executioner, which is the only known weapon capable of permanently killing divines.
- The Spook: Nobody knows anything about who he is, where his mask and scythe came from, or why he spreads hate and misery where he goes.
- Tainted Veins: His skin shows blackened veins as a result of his curse.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: As he operates in the Serkel Desert, he doesn't need a shirt.
Dario Dusk
- Believing Their Own Lies: He calls himself a kind person and "not one of those degenerate pigs". Fae cannot say anything that they don't believe to be true, meaning he has completely deluded himself into believing he's not at all the horrible bastard he is.
- Lecherous Stepparent: He became sexually interested in his adoptive daughter Lilian, which escalated to him raping her.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: His crimes are on a much smaller scale than Sovereign or Disgrace's, and the only Freelance Good Guys who even meet him are Zeffer and Evan. But while Sovereign is a Well-Intentioned Extremist and Disgrace is under the control of his cursed mask (though how much exactly is unclear), Dario kills people solely because he wants to be immortal. And though Sovereign is an extremely neglectful father and Disgrace's cult is known to feed infants to agony cradles, neither of them have raised a child and gaslighted her to believe that them raping and beating her is just their way of loving her, as far as we know.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's tall and dark-haired, and quite handsome when disguised. But that beauty is not even skin deep.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: As a child, he killed animals and started fires for fun.
- Vampire Monarch: He's the leader of the Dusk vampire clan.
- Vampires Are Rich: He and his clan live in a fancy mansion, which is notable as most Taybiyans are rather poor. Dario got a suitcase of money from his family when they banished him, and later the Dusks gained money by taking it from their victims.
- Voluntary Vampire Victim: He willingly became a vampire to become immortal.
Mr. Roach, Divine of Vengeance
- The Older Immortal: Inverted; he's one of Looming Gaia's youngest divines, and the probably-not-divine Mr. Ocean is centuries older than him. He's also less experienced than Mr. Ocean and impatient in learning magic, so his divine powers are no match for Ocean for now.
- Undying Warrior: He devotes his eternal life to commanding a military faction fighting the Aquarian Alliance.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He joined the Alliance wanting to take down Sovereign, the genocidal warlord who kidnapped his wife and children. But once Mr. Ocean leaves the Resistance, he makes it clear he doesn't care about Terria like he does, taking over and exploiting the mermaid soldiers, keeping them addicted to greenlite, and even buying more dorikori from an undine to strenghten his numbers as well as capturing slaves. Once Mr. Ocean makes him promise not to exploit people, he starts forging monsters to be his soldiers, reasoning that they're not people.
Deanne DuPont
- Child Soldiers: She was only a year older than Alaine when she was made into an Alliance soldier.
- Identity Amnesia: Unlike Alaine, who had her memories restored by Salina and Marina, she has no memory of her life before becoming a mermaid, and only knows her birth name because Alaine told her.
- Raised by Grandparents: She lived with her grandparents as a child due to her parents' death.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: In their childhood, she was more feminine than Alaine with her long hair and embroidered dresses while Alaine had simpler clothes and helped her father find sunken items in the swamp.
Other
Itanya
- Beautiful Slave Girl: She was raised in slavery, and Lukas and Jelani definitely thought she was beautiful.
- Eye Scream: Moswen poked her eye out with a letter opener as a punishment.
- I Just Want to Be Free: Her childhood dream was to escape her slavery. She eventually did when Moswen sold her to the Kaconenans.
- The Lost Lenore: Lukas accidentally killing her is a big reason for why he's so gloomy.
Karenza, Divine of Love
- Friend to All Living Things: Thanks to her kindness towards animals, the beast nymph Natoma blessed her soul so that no animal could harm her.
- Legacy Character: She became known as the Divine of Love after the death of Azizala, the previous Divine of Love.
- Prophet Eyes: Her eyes are completely white as a result of her giving her soul to Isaac.
- Rags to Royalty: She grew up as a poor peasant, but ended up the Queen of Alqamah after becoming divine and killing the king.
- Rodent Cellmates: When she was sentenced to the dungeon, she shared her food with the dungeon rats, and in turn they didn't gnaw at her fingers and toes.
Solveig
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In Fairy Tale Rejects, her people sent her to Mr. Ocean's cave to fight him. In Looming Gaia, she met him jumping off a cliff trying to kill herself because of her abusive husband.
- Happily Failed Suicide: She tried to kill herself to escape her abusive husband, but was rescued by Mr. Ocean and lived happily with him for decades.
- Interspecies Romance: She was a human in love with Mr. Ocean, a cecaelia.
- Mandatory Motherhood: Hemming threatened to beat her if she didn't bear him a son, and after escaping him, she's very happy to confirm that she's not pregnant.
- Mayfly–December Romance: She and the millennia-old Mr. Ocean were in a relationship for around 80 years before she died of old age.
- Not Wanting Kids Is Weird: She considered children bothersome and has never wanted them, which the other people of Blackoak Island thought was unusual.
- Posthumous Character: Most of the plot takes place centuries after her death.
- Runaway Fiancé: Her parents forced her to marry the abusive Hemming, leading to her jumping off a cliff to the sea and starting a new life with Mr. Ocean.
