Main Characters
Guardians in general:
- Badass Adorable: Applies to pretty much all of the guardians.
- Casts No Shadow: Justified since their dark counterparts are literal shadows.
- Good Counterpart: To the Dark counterparts.
- Pieces of God
Flem
"I wish to be able to help those in trouble-!"
The protagonist of Nabe Universe and one of the fragments of the guardian. A young, energetic child who tends to charge into problems head first. He is sent on a mission to finding the remaining fragments to end the chaos that is occurring from the shadows.- Action Hero: Flem's first instinct when encountering problem is usually to face it with an actionable solution.
- Badass Adorable: Arguably applies to multiple characters.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: Calls his foster father by his name “Yang.”
- Happily Adopted: Flem was adopted by Yang.
- Leeroy Jenkins: He tends to be reckless and impatient.
- Meaningful Name: Flem's name is likely derived from the word “flame” and refers to his fire powers.
- Playing with Fire: Flem has fire powers.
- Unaffected by Spice: Flem's favorite food is Yang's spicy ramen.
Aire
"Now Flem, we have to plan this through..."
One of the fragments of the guardian. A carefree spirit that tends to go with the flow, and lives a minimalist life style. Smart and creative, Aire will always come up with a way to complete a task, although sometimes it can be long winded.- Complexity Addiction: While Aire is good at planning ahead, her plans are often overly complicated and long-winded (pun intended).
- Blow You Away: Aire has air/wind powers.
- Meaningful Name: Aire's name is likely derived from the word “air” and refers to her air powers.
- Power Incontinence: Downplayed, and mentioned briefly by Aire.
- Tornado Move: She can create tornadoes, big and small.
Yang
"Follow your heart, and the rest will follow."
A mysterious stoic father figure to Flem with a big heart. He always seems to know everything about the planet of Nabe Universe. What is he hiding?- I'm Having Soul Pains
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Yang and Flem are complete opposites.
- Mysterious Past
- The Stoic
Side Characters
Torren
"Initiate Panic Mode 2!"
Yang's friend, a clumsy and intelligent scientist who can build robots.- Gadgeteer Genius: Creates robots and gadgets.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: Torren briefly takes off his glasses in Episode 18
. - The Klutz
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Torren is always wearing his labcoat.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist
- Opaque Nerd Glasses
- Science Hero: Helps Flem and friends fight the Shadow by making helpful gadgets.
Mr. Chio
- Brainwashed and Crazy: According to Torren, the Big Bad seems to have corrupted Mr. Chio's soul bell.
Antagonists
Dark Counterparts in general:
- Evil Counterpart: The Split.
- Palette Swap
- Shadow Archetype: Literal shadows.
Dark Flem
"You nabe cats are always sooooo ambitious. Gross."
Flem's shadow. He's lazy, and if he could, he would just play video games all day. Instead, he goes around the city kidnapping firefighters... Why could this be?
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dark Flem is mean, but sometimes he's nice. He comforts Dark Aire after they are kicked out of the Shadow Realm.
- Shadow Walker
Dark Aire
"I bow down to no one!"
