The characters of The Property of Hate.
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Main Characters
RGB
RGB
First Appearance: The Hook (Page 1)
Last Appearance: N/A
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A mysterious individual who wants to find a hero to stop the end of his world. It's implied he's done this several times before. Really, really hates his cousin.
- Alternate Identity Amnesia: He seems to have no memories of what his Superpowered Evil Side does, and isn't even aware of it until Hero tells him in "Double Exposure".
- Ambiguously Evil: Since he's kind of shifty and his exact intentions for Hero are still unknown. Though since he does seem to care for her safety, he's probably at least relatively good. Even Hero herself calls him "Neutral" when asked if she thinks he's evil.
- British Accents: Jolley fashions him with British received pronunciation similar to Patrick McGoohan or Colin Firth, which emphasizes his somewhat pompous personality.
- Chameleon Camouflage: RGB can adjust his set, so to speak - make himself any colour or combination thereof, and he does use it for this trope.
- The Chooser of the One: His role ever since failing as a Hero is to find the Hero who will save the world. He's tried an unspecified number of times and none of his chosen ones, so far, suceeded.
- Classy Cane: He can throw it and call it back with a snap of his fingers.
- Color-Coded Emotions: According to Jolley, RGB's color bars drip in order to express his emotions, with blue representing sadness, red being anger, green being happiness, yellow being fear, and pink curiosity. They have also said that multiple colors drip for more varied emotions. This is later stated in the comic (during the trek through the Sands of Regret).
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Physically, he's supposed to be a mix between Buster Keaton and David Bowie. You can't see it very well because of his lack of a visible body, but his height is a small tell. It's much more obvious in his old human body.
- Commitment Issues: While he genuinely does have feelings for both Madras and Magnus, the fact that both are fully realized characters implies that RGB dated them because he knew the relationship wouldn't last for long. Jolley later confirms this.
- Dead All Along: During "Composition", Madras states that RGB was never alive and that he was dead inside from the start before putting in a heart-shaped glass bottle with pink liquid inside his shirt, where his chest ought to be.In addition, his various nightmare sequences imply that he died but he's adamant that none of them were the reason he died as a human.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: RGB comes off as cold and uncaring towards Hero during the first few chapters. It's only once they make it to the first tree that RGB gradually starts to warm up to Hero and start treating her with more respect instead of expecting her to do as he says.
- Dark and Troubled Past: We have only been shown tantalising flashes, but given that he's apparently dead... The story gradually implies that RGB may've worked in the film industry back when he was human and suffered from extreme self-loathing and anxiety due to what was implied to be stressful if not dangerous work.]]
- Expressive Mask: The test card bars on his face change to show his expression.
- Floating Limbs: Interestingly, he does seem to have something where his wrists and ankles would be. You just can't see it.
- I Was Quite a Looker: You don't get too many instances of this in-story, but flashbacks to RGB's old life make him out to be a very handsome man with curly hair, and there are passing references to him having model-tier looks. The head will often be partially obscured, though. An old piece of merch displays this quite well.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acts suave most of the time, but he quickly reveals his jerk side and can be callous to others' discomfort. In the end he's helped the Hero out of the difficult situations they've faced, and at least has made an effort to look after her. He is also touched that she sees him as a father figure (at least unconsciously, since she says it in her sleep).
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: RGB actually traded a large part of his memories off to Time to buy more time for his quest.
- Limited Wardrobe: A variation. He wears the same outfit at all times, but its colours and patterns change.
- Logical Weakness: He's got an electronic device for a head, so logically he doesn't take well to water. Especially salt water, like tears.
- Lovable Coward: Only fights when he's forced to; he'd rather run away.
- Meaningful Name: RGB means Red Green Blue after the additive color model used in the first color television broadcast, as well as the CRT and LCD monitors and TV sets that followed it.
- Mr. Exposition: He says it's a coping habit.
- Mundane Utility: One can actually use RGB's head as a television, but he's asleep and cannot wake when used this way.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: RGB himself is an affectionate homage to classic slapstick movie stars, especially to Buster Keaton. He shares his height, porkpie hat, and his movie self's magnetic draw to pratfalls and extreme stunts.
- Non-Human Head: Has a floating television for a head and no actual physical body otherwise; he animates a set of clothes that appear to be empty below the television.
- Parental Substitute: RGB gradually develops into a father figure for Hero, teaching her some of the ins and outs of the world he's taken her to and developing a protective streak much bigger than simply protecting his latest hero. He is notably taken aback when he realizes that Hero does think of him like a father, and given that she can't go home or remember her old name, he may as well be.
- Persona Non Grata: He ends up exiled from the Market after the incident with Click.
- Piggy Back Cute: RGB doesn't quite "get" how to handle children, so the way he usually carries Hero is more akin to someone holding a beloved stuffed animal. Occasionally, he will carry her on his shoulders, though.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's 5'5'' and very well built. He's even strong enough to lift a child like a stuffed toy an eighth of her weight and size. For the most part, RGB avoids getting into fights when he can help it, though in cases such as his fight with the Butterfly in Elastic Valley, he has no qualms about letting loose in combat.
- Protectorate: Hero, more and more as they travel together. He's especially pissed off when a certain character steals her eyes.
- Pungeon Master: When he's in the mood, or deliberately trying to be obnoxious, he lets loose a Hurricane of Puns.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The introverted, neurotic blue to Hero's enthusiastic, heart-on-her-sleeve red.
- Reluctant Hero: Page 299 reveals that saving the world isn't really his thing and he's only doing it because if his world dies, all of them do.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Displays Doctorish levels of it on occasion (see the quote below).
- Stealth Pun: RGB is a man with a TV for a head who guides Hero. He's literally a TV guide.
- Taking It Well: When Hero is finally able to tell RGB about his Negative form, he takes the revelation rather well and is even impart some knowledge to Hero about how photo negatives are used, before showing interest in learning about Negative.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Click's outburst at the Market, RGB has this to say:RGB Ahh, poor Click; always the henchman, never the honcho.
Click: What does that mean?
RGB: Precisely what it means; You're a sap, a stooge! A common thug for hire. You see dear boy... You can be as vociferous and violent as you like but there's something that distinguishes the monsters from the mundane... something that you lack. - TV Head Robot: Well, he's not a robot, presumably. But he looks the part.
- Twisting the Words: And juicing them for maximum snark. As for him, he tends to avoid giving straight answers (
the author won't say whether it's just him or he's doing this because he doesn't want any lies around). - Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization: An early reader pointed out that RGB wears clasp suspenders (which are easier to put on) instead of the more typical button suspenders; and while he wears a dapper suit, his collar is always wrinkled and popped up, and his spats are connected to his shoes. His slightly messy and simple outfit is supposed to represent a posh facade over his shabby real personality.
- Was Once a Man: If his odd dreams are anything to go by, he seems to be experiencing the memories of an artist, perhaps an actor of some sort, hinting at this possibility.
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Played with, since RGB himself is a TV. After he passes out coming down from his Superpowered Evil Side rampage his clothes gain error textures and messages like "PLEASE STAND BY". This could be considered like the footage cutting out due to something drastic happening.
- White Gloves: Most of the time his outfit has these, though some outfits change his glove colour. If his nightmare sequence in "Flood" in any indication, his human self wore them to cover up his hands because his doctor recommended it as a way to treat what is implied to be some form of anxiety.
Negative
First Appearance: Chapter 6: Negative, Page 103
Last Appearance: N/A
- Bathos: Negative's return during "Cutting Room" is built up throughout the chapter, with it being triggered by Hero's tears of laughter over RGB getting pants-ed by Doubts. Negative ends up rather unamused by this, silently giving a look of disapproval.
- Chance Activation: Negative first appears when a Grief tries to kill RGB with it's burning stream of tears, some of which get into RGB's vents and cause him to transform into Negative.
- Cool Sword: After reactivating and pulling up his trousers in the House of Lead, Negative creates a rapier out of glass shards before using it to get Hero and himself above the Doubts.
- Creepy Good: Despite his malevolent looking appearance, Negative consistently protects Hero from any threats and refuses to harm her.
- Cyclops: Unlike RGB, his television screen is consistently portrayed with a single eye.
- Defence Mechanism Superpower: Negative activates only if tears of any kind fall into RGB's vents, or if RGB seems to be in some kind of critical danger.
- Deflector Shield: After RGB is rendered unconscious during their trip to the destroyed Forest of Wisdom and having Hero cry into his vents, Negative awakens and is able to create a giant blue rose that protects Hero and himself from the raging sandstorm that threatens to erase their physical forms. The individual petal are large and solid enough that Hero uses one as a makeshift boat to get herself and RGB across the remaining stretch of the desert.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Negative's colour scheme consists of black and white, with occasional shades of grey, making him look rather similar to the various monsters such as Fears and Griefs.
- Flower Motifs: Blue roses start growing out of the areas that Negative is physically present in, and blue roses are used symbolize mystery or something/someone who is unattainable.
- Heroic RRoD: One of the downsides to Negative's existence is that once the form wears off or is deactivated by turning the lower dial on his head, RGB is rendered unconscious.
- Meaningful Name: Negative's name refers to photo negatives which in the darkest areas of an image appear light and light areas of image appear dark. This also reflects how Negative is an inverted version of RGB in terms of colour and personality.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's 5'5'' and very well built. He's even strong enough to lift a child like a stuffed toy an eighth of her weight and size. We almost never see him fight, though. Unlike RGB, he's far more aggressive and lacks the usual fears and anxieties that tend to hold him back.
- Shadow Archetype: Hero opening up to RGB about Negative during "Double Exposure" is what allows RGB to realize that Negative is actually this due to Negative being the opposite to RGB in terms of personality and overall disposition.
- Superpowered Evil Side: He first emerges when RGB is attacked by a Grief, which deals heavy damage and would've killed him if Negative hadn't emerged. RGB is completely unaware that this form even exists, and unlike him, Negative tends to stay silent and excels in using violence. Despite that, he tries to help Hero later on in the desert but is shut down due to Hero being traumatized by her first impression of it.
- In "Double Exposure" he and Hero work out this Negative is his Shadow Archetype - silent while RGB is talkative, violent where he's reluctant to fight.
- The Dreaded: Negative is powerful enough that he forces a Grief to retreat during their fight, and ends up traumatizing Hero due to his sheer brutality. During RGB and Hero's run in with Anxiety and a swarm of fully grown Doubts in the House of Lead, Hero becomes desperate enough to consider triggering RGB's transformation into Negative despite being scared of that form normally.
Hero
Hero
First Appearance: The Hook (Page 1)
Last Appearance: N/A
- Ambiguously Brown: Her skin is fairly dark, and it was a little ways into the comic before Mod confirmed that she is in fact half-Indian.
- Ambiguous Gender: Being a short-haired prepubescent kid, a lot of people were asking about her gender before RGB referred to her as a girl on-panel.
- Ambiguously Human: The Land of Make Believe has...changed her, to say the least. She's forgotten her own name, has traded two of her fingers at the Ensemble, and currently has a hole in her chest from the fears' attack. She also loses her nose which is replaced by a button. Her encounter with the Idea early on also shows that her form can be very reactive, changing on a whim depending on her surroundings.
- Break the Cutie: Though she does her best to keep up her spirits, it's clear that some of the events of the story such as having to watch RGB get into near death situations, him turning into Negative, Click trying to make her execute RGB really do scare her. By the time the apocalypse starts, a tired and struggling Hero outright states that she doesn't want to be the "hero" anymore.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Hero mentions in "Composition" after being handed a page by Madras that it only has 18 chapters, the number of pages that make up a single chapter in the comic.
- Cheerful Child: Most of the time she's peppy and interested in the world around her, though the trials that come with her and RGB's adventures do get to her from time to time.
- Constantly Curious: Coaxes RGB into giving Exposition all the time.
- Disney Death: She briefly appears to have died when she falls and gets stabbed through the tree, but it turns out that it just went through the hole made by the fear previously.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Hero is just called Hero, because she can no longer remember who she is so she has to be referred to by what she is.
- Eye Scream: In Chapter 24, her eyes are stolen by the butterfly though RGB manages to get one of them back at least.
- Eyes Out of Sight: After the butterfly steals her eyes in Chapter 24, Hero has her hair cover part of her face. This is just until she gets one eye back, after which her hair covers only half of her face until she can get her other eye back.
- Four-Fingered Hands: She used to have, but in the market she traded two of her fingers to help Assok, so it's three-fingered now, at least until Time gives her her fingers back.
- Friend to Bugs: Is absolutely enamored with Tinker, a large mantis-like character. "I love bugs!"
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Twice. First she's stabbed through the heart by a fear, and later by a tree branch in the exact same spot.
- It Was a Gift: She receives a very generous gift in the course of the story, namely the House of Paint. Madras gives it to her when leaving the world, since she can't take anything with her anyway. Hero loves it.
- Jumped at the Call: Though she made sure to say goodbye to her mother first.
- Kid Hero: It's implied that RGB chose her to be the hero because she's a kid, and therefore more able to accept and understand the nonsensical nature of the world he's brought her to.
- Late to the Realization: After the Butterfly steals her eyes, she only realizes after RGB's fight with her that the foul creature stole Hero's eyes.
- Mystical White Hair: When Time restores her color after she lost most of it in the nothingness sandstorm rescuing RGB, her hair turns white.
- Name Amnesia: At first she seems to be No Name Given, but eventually is made to realise she has Identity Amnesia.
- Plucky Girl: Her curiosity and sense of humor have survived some fairly traumatic events.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The energetic, friendly, honest red to RGB's Deadpan Snarker, shifty, secretive blue.
Assok
Assok
First Appearance: P.O.V (Page 115)
Last Appearance: (for now) Chapter 14: Click (Page 251)
A sentient green sock. Likes Hero quite a bit... and RGB not so much.
- Ambiguous Gender: The author has stated that alternating he, she and they is fine when referring to them, or simply just referring to them as Assok.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking sock puppet.
- The Hero: One of the former Heroes, which puts a new spin on his introduction. Before that, it's implied that Assok used to be a Hero when RGB introduces them to Miss Cell.
- Honorable Elephant: Might have been one, if this page is any indication (the flashback segues into Assok waking up, so...)
- Meaningful Name: Assok is a sock. And like a sock, Assok is empty on the inside; they have no voice of their own and can only echo what others say.
- Put on a Bus: Assok is required to stay behind during Page 251.
- Protectorate: Don't mess with Hero.
- The Reveal: Page 305 reveals that Assok is (was?) one of the heroes.
- Speaks in Shout-Outs: They speak only in echoes of what others have said. Given the comic format, it's unclear whether they have a voice of their own, or are merely able to "record" speech and play it back as needed.
- Word of God has stated that they play back speech combined with what they want their voice to sound like.
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- Team Pet: Of a sort, being a cute critter that accompanies RGB and Hero for a time.
Recurring Characters
Madras
Madras
First Appearance: Soft Focus (Page 39)
Last Appearance: ?
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Almost constantly has one.
- Cyclops: She has one eye that seems to drip occasionally.
- Eye Cam: The door to the House of Paint has a camera that allows Madras to see who comes in. Madras herself isn't seen until "Soft Focus".
- Foreshadowing: In "Ex-position", RGB explains to Hero that Madras is a Who, a fully realized character who has yet to leave the World of Make Believe for her own story. Several chapters later in "Composition", Madras states to Hero that she's leaving because she no longer has any reason to stay.
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: Not dying dying, but she's soon to leave this world for the world of her own story and can't take anything with her. So she leaves the House of Paint to Hero.
- No Hero Discount: Subverted, though the price is still high even with the discount.
- ShipTease: With RGB as seen in their interactions. RGB even makes it a point to steal a kiss from the market for her despite their somewhat vitriolic relationship.
- Meaningful Name: Madras is a type of plaid fabric and she wears a plaid sweater.
- Ms. Fixit: It's shown in "Composition" that she's able to repair to repair RGB's head, which would be little different to fixing a TV.
- Proper Tights with a Skirt: Part of Madras' outfit are black tights though she doesn't appear to wear shoes of any kind.
- Unmoving Plaid: Her salmon-coloured sweater-dress. It was like that in the earliest art of the character; Mod doesn't normally render patterns this way. (As can be seen with the patterns on RGB's clothes.)
TOby
TOby
First Appearance: Soft Focus (Page 50)
Last Appearance:N/A
- Blush Sticker: Toby has two chartreuse circles under his eyes that function as this.
- Creepy Doll: He's always smiling and he hates everything. Hero even helps him sit up since he appears unable to do so himself.
- Deadpan Snarker: Well, more of a smiling snarker, but then he has no control over his expression. Or anything else, which explains his attitude.
- Defiant to the End: After Dial tries to convince Toby to relocate or give up and comply with Hate's orders, he seemingly agrees before telling Dial to go to hell, earning him a one way trip to the abyss.
- Fallen Hero: Page 298 reveals that Toby was one of the former heroes. Though since he and Dial are working for the Big Bad...
- Fate Worse than Death: He was ripped into twenty pieces and sewn back together as a doll with his own nerves by somebody called Hate. Left his view in life rather bleak to say the least.
- In chapter 11: Page 203 he is dropped into the abyss by Dial. Chapters later shows he's still falling though he finally hits the bottom on page 381. And he finds the Ferryman whom Hate had previously sunk along with his boat.
- Foreshadowing: In "Soft Focus", ToBy mentions that "She sank it" and that "She tore him to pieces and stitched him back together before wondering what she'll do to him. "She" turns out to be none other than Hate, the main antagonist of the comic.
- Perpetual Smiler: Not that he has any choice.
- Pretentious Pronunciation: His name is spelt Toby though ToBy's pronunciation of it is closer to "To be". ToBy doesn't take too kindly when RGB or anyone else mispronounces it.
- Punny Name: TOby's name is a pun on the phrase "To be". It's very possible that it'll be important later on.
- Reforged into a Minion: It's clear that Hate intended this when she reconstructed ToBy, though it didn't really work out. ToBy doesn't really obey Hate and despite Dial's attempts to spare him from Hate's wrath, he chooses to defy her anyway, forcing Dial to throw him into the abyss.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in Chapter 11 along with Dial. The latter throws him into the abyss below for refusing his offer of relocation.
Julienne
Julienne
First Appearance: Beat (Page 146)
Last Appearance:
Wife to Melody and a former Hero. She does not have a good opinion of RGB.- Anthropomorphic Food: She's made of candy floss and chocolate.
- Armed Legs: Her feet (and beak) are made of knifes and her debut has her try to stab RGB with her knife feet.
- Caged Bird Metaphor: After being cut out, she and Melody are put in a white cage during Page 243.Hate ships her and Melody off to the bottom of the Pool of Tears when they refuse to conform to her demands.
- Forced Transformation: During a conversation with Hate in Page 243, she points out that Hate turned her and Melody into their present forms after Hate is implied to told them that she doesn't like them for what they are.
- Lipstick Lesbian: While neither she nor her wife Melody are really humanoid, her form is much more dainty and feminine compared to Melody's much stouter form.
- Meaningful Name: Julienne is a French culinary term for cutting food into thin strips similar to matchsticks. Fitting, considering parts of her body are knives, which she uses to attack RGB, and the connection to food since she's made of edibles.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She can aptly described as a confectionery ballerina bird with knife feet.
- Ship Tease: She gets a bit of this with RGB before being revealed as Melody's wife.
- Stripped to the Bone: During RGB and Hero's trip to the future, Julienne has not aged well, with her body being rather skeletal due to the exposure to water dissolving her body.
Inhabitants of the Market
A Bazaar of the Bizarre where individuals meet to barter for and exchange body parts, in hopes of filling out the missing parts of their design. Miss Cell
Miss Cell
First Appearance: Wardrobe (Page 212)
Last Appearance:?
The proprietor of Miss Cell Any's Emporium and the curator and appraiser of items, Cell has a variety of stuff to suit the needs of any person and can re-purpose items for new uses.- Granny Classic: She treats Hero like a grandchild, including offering her clothes she finds embarrassing or unappealing, chastises RGB like an errant son, is mentioned to have been around for a long time, wears small glasses and knits.
- No Indoor Voice: Often roars at all and sundry. If you hear her, you'd better get moving.
- Punny Name: The name of her store Miss Cell-Any's Emporium would mean that her full name is Miss Cell Any, a pun on the word "miscellaneous" which refers to consisting of a mixture diverse items or objects that are unrelated to each other.
Tailor
Tailor
First Appearance: Wardrobe (Page 213)
Last Appearance:?
A mannequin, a worker of Cell's and another acquaintance of RGB's as well as a previous hero.- Ambiguous Gender: Is actually genderfluid, meaning that they don't commit to a single gender and often change pronouns. When she's introduced, she uses female pronouns. When they're last seen, they're addressed gender-neutrally.
- Bandaged Face: Gives this appearance but that's actually how their face and the rest of their body is.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
- Eyeless Face: Has a mouth but no eyes. It turns out they have eyes or at least eye sockets and it's just covered by their wrapping.
- Fate Worse than Death: Similar to TOby, she makes a offhanded mention that her current form is due to literally being cut into ribbons. She doesn't seem too bothered by it, retaining the ability to move at the very least, but the way she mentions it and how she mentioned "the privilege of having arms at all" earlier makes it clear it's a sore point for her.
- Nightmare Face: Briefly uses when mentioning that she should RGB's arms from their sockets. Hero is mildy unnerved by this
Tinker
Tinker
First Appearance: Wardrobe (Page 214)
Last Appearance:?
A mechanical mantis who's another one of Cell's workers and a previous hero.- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Resembles a mantis as big as RGB but is good-natured and hardworking.
- Bilingual Bonus: Speaks Morse Code.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: To readers who aren't familiar to Morse Code, what Tinker says makes no sense but the other characters can understand them just fine. Also to Hero, who doesn't know Morse Code and comments that Tinker "sounds like typing".
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Much of Tinker's dialogue is very polite, though the polite tone takes a snarkier turn when they're nailing horseshoes to RGB's shoes and being a bit rough about it. This includes continuing to call RBG "... .. .-." (sir) after he asks not to be.
Magnus
Magnus
First Appearance: Ensemble (Page 207)/ Art Trade Doodle Comic
Last Appearance:
RGB's friend and ex-boyfriend who seems to know a lot. Time will tell if he ever meets RGB again or if he'll become a hero of his own story.- All in the Manual: His relationship with RGB has been mentioned a lot in modmad's tumblr.
- Badass Longcoat: Is first seen wearing a longcoat. Outside of the comic, it's his default outfit.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He later appears to save RGB's life from Click's laser attack.
- Hero of Another Story: Magnus started life as a witchsona of his creator 0chromat and after eventually being shipped with RGB outside the comic, he became part of a collaboration comic exploring his and RGB's relationship before they broke up. His creator is intending to give him his own standalone comic, though it won't have the same scope as The Property of Hate.
- Non-Human Head: Mangus's head is shaped like a prism.
- Noodle Incident: Something happened in his past with RGB which the latter doesn't want to be forgiven for.
- The Cameo: Magnus is a character who belongs to 0chromat, a friend of the comic author who allowed her to have Magnus appear in the comic as a minor character.
The Guardians
The Guardians
First Appearance: Target Audience (Page 284)
Last Appearance:
A horse-like creature and a bird-like creature who see to the safety and order of the market and its denizens.- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: The two sometimes alternate when speaking.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: They believe that misdeeds should be repaid in kind, following the barter system the market abides by. While they agree that Click has a right to his revenge against RGB, considering RGB's transgression, they point out that Click has caused a lot of damage to the market pursuing RGB and Hero. Considering this, they can't let him have free reign since he's now guilty as well.
- They also let RGB and Hero go, recognizing that they aren't entirely at fault in the current situation, but recognize RGB as potentially dangerous and request that he leave and never return.
- Tarot Motifs: They're references to the High Priestess card, more specifically the two pillar present in the card image, as the black one is always on the left and the white one always on the right. The High Priestess card reflects wisdom, hidden knowledge and the need to think before acting.
Antagonists
Hate
Hate
First Appearance:
Last Appearance:
- Big Bad: Though mostly unseen, her presence is felt throughout the story and it's clear she's a force to be reckoned with. She's first mentioned during Chapter 3: Page 53, though she doesn't attack the protagonists directly until Page
- Cruel Mercy: Page 473 has Hate give RGB a second chance to be a hero, because his pleas for mercy were so pitiful that she found them amusing.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Her reaction to Dial's pun about Time clocking out during Page 247 has her briefly turn him into a drawing with intent on erasing him. He apologizes, asking if it was too soon.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Given Dial's reassurances to her as he sets off after Hero and RGB again on Page 331, she apparently expressed some concern about his welfare.
- Fate Worse than Death: Judging by what she did to Toby, it's possible that she's capable of inflicting these.
- He Who Must Not Be Heard: Not immediately apparent since its a webcomic, but apparently she doesn't even use speech bubbles. Most of the time you only know what she is saying by how others react to her dialogue.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Considering that Hate is out to destroy this world (destroying all the others in the process), she's effectively this through her effects on this world. During Casting, she decides to lay waste to the world herself with the sky glowing red and stars falling from the sky, and the water rising.
- Reforged into a Minion: It's implied that this is how Hate controls other characters in the story. ToBy and Click are merely the end results of her power and she tries (and fails) to do the same with Melody and Julienne.
- Shear Menace: Page 473 effectively confirms that scissors are one of many methods Hate uses to cut her enemies out of the picture. Earlier in the story she uses them in Page 166 to cut Melody and Julienne out of the story before trying to do something to them in Page 263. During their conversation with Time, Hate tries to cut Hero, RGB and Time's interaction short, forcing Time to kick Hero and RGB into the future.
- The Ghost: She's first mentioned in Chapter 3 though she has yet to actually appear in person. Aside from that, everything we know about her is from other characters reacting to her or mentioning her in some way.
Dial
Dial
First Appearance: Diegesis (Page 62)
Last Appearance:
- Affably Evil: Though working for Hate, Dial's behaviour is still the same overly kind attitude he normally has. To this end, he's still quite cheerful even when he throws ToBy off the bridge despite him noticing that Dial is acting strangely.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: During "Chiaroscuro", his dialogue references the comic's schedule by noting that it felt like RGB and Hero had been in the market for a year due to several of the chapters taking place there. He also treats his dialogue in this scene as if he's reading off a script.
- Busman's Vocabulary: Dial's dialogue tends to occasionally incorporate references to old school radio and film.
- Dem Bones: Dial's body is implied to be quite skeletal which is most noticable on his ungloved hand and his arms.
- Fallen Hero: Page 298 reveals that Dial was one of the former heroes. Though since he and Toby are working for the Big Bad...
- Foreshadowing: During Chapter 11: Page 200, he mentions working for someone. Sometime later, it's heavily implied that he's actually working for Hate.
- Nice Guy: Definitely comes off as this. He's revealed to Affably Evil during Page 200 during his scene with Toby.
- Motor Mouth: Dial seems to talk a mile a minute when given the chance, to anyone's dismay. In "Ensemble" Dial starts talking rapidly while Toby tries to get him to cut to the chase.
- Non-Human Head: He has a retro broadcasting microphone for a head.
- No Sense of Personal Space: First thing he does when he spots his cousin RGB is give him an unwanted hug before picking Hero up to get a better look at her. Dial later picks up Toby and pulls him into a swinging hug on page 200.
- Radio Voice: Naturally, as he is a radio host.
- Silent Movie: During "Chiaroscuro", Dial complains that the camera footage he's watching isn't even a talkienote , implying that the video footage he's watching doesn't have any sound.
- Red Right Hand: He wears a red glove on his right hand, and is definitely not all he seems to be.
- The Dragon: He mentions "her" during his first appearance. "Her" turns out to be Hate who he closely works for along with Toby. Out of all the antagonists working for her, Dial is the closet to her and is the one who does all the heavy lifting in terms of moving her plans forward.
- The Bus Came Back: After spending a good chunk of the comic out of sight, Dial is the first character we see during "Casting" when Hate decides to destroy the world. He's seen wearing a cowboy hat and some skis, allowing him to get across the sand without being dissolved.
- White Void Room: Dial is seen in a hidden control room that is a featureless white room. During his time in this room, he has Julienne and Melody imprisoned and is watching RGB and Hero's every move. He then has to leave this room during "Chiaroscuro" when the phantom train trailing the duo prevents Dial from seeing where they've gone.
Click
Click
First Appearance: Ensemble (Page 193)
Last Appearance:?
A tin soldier who seems to hold a grudge against RGB over something that happened a long time ago...
- Antagonist Title: Chapter 14 is named after Click, the antagonist of that chapter.
- Arc Villain: The main antagonist of the Market, he's the first of Hate's henchmen to attack Hero and RGB directly. He debuts in Chapter 11 though he doesn't actually interact with Hero and RGB until his self named chapter. During the next few chapters, he's hellbent on ensuring he gets revenge.
- Armour-Piercing Question: He tries to get Hero to execute RGB by asking her what heroes do to monsters.
- Belly Mouth: Click has 3 mouths on his body, each with sharp teeth. And yes, all of them can speak in unison.
- Body Horror: In order to chase down Hero and RGB during Page 278, his arms split into pieces to become long, bird-like legs. His Glowing Eyes of Doom during the middle panel only serves to make him seem really off. As later appearances show, he's no stranger to horrifying anatomy as his time as a hero shows, his left arm has metallic tubes jutting out where the elbows should be and his union with Ratfink has his body parts growing out of Ratfink's body.
- The Brute: One of Hate's more violent henchmen, he attacks aggressively and has a bad temper. RGB even calls him out on being a thug for hire whose always doing the dirty work and lacks style.
- Can't Take Criticism: After Click blows up due to being mistaken for a movie villain, one of the Market citizens accuses him of this.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The glimpse we get of him in the past in "Casting" makes him resemble Martin Freeman circa 2012.
- Determinator: Click isn't the type to give up. When Hero and RGB evade him, he chases them down. Once he has them cornered, he tries to convince Hero to execute RGB. When that fails, he tries to kill Hero and RGB himself. Even when killed off, a piece of him still survives.
- Fallen Hero: It's revealed in "Casting" that Click was the first Hero that RGB selected, only for RGB to recognize Click's destructive mentality and leave him to die. Click is later resurrected by Hate and wants revenge and by "Casting", he's fully embraced this when he tells Ratfink that he's assisting the one true hero of this world.
- Energy Weapon: Click's head is a cannon that is used to fire lasers. He first uses it to shoot RGB in "Target Audience" and later again in the same chapter when his attempt to have RGB executed by Hero doesn't pan out.
- Evil Hero: In his human life, Click was a police officer and as a hero, he was a soldier. Even now, he considers himself the one true hero of the world.
- Eye Cam: Click uses his bottom left eye to see where Hero and RGB are going during Page 270.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Click's eyes aren't on his head as you'd expect, instead the 6 golden buttons on his chest are his eyes.
- Eye Scream: Click tears off his bottom left button (we know that his buttons are actually eyes) and shoots in into a pole in order to track Hero and RGB. This serves him well since he lives on through that eye during Page 295 after his body is thrown into the ocean.
- Foreshadowing: During Casting, there are various things which foreshadow that the policeman RGB has been following is Click such as the association with the Queen's Guards, the clicking sound when RGB is seen with a row of dominoes, the Queen's Guard that the policeman is seen painting and the pictures of war on the man's walls.
- From a Single Cell: Despite Click's body being thrown into the sea, his bottom left eye still remains, allowing him to fuse himself with Ratfink during Page 378.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: After RGB gets his spirits up through song and convinces everyone that he and Click are doing a movie, he doesn't take well to having the Market citizens calling his key "cute" and criticizing his voice, even telling him that he'd scarier if silent, Click blows up and flips out on them. One of the market citizens mentions this trope by name in response.
- Implied Death Threat: When Click sees RGB during Page 255, he makes a finger gun with his right hand before lifting it, implying that he's going to have RGB shot dead the next chance he gets.
- Knight of Cerebus: Once he enters the story, it becomes much more serious. Unlike the other monsters Hero and RGB have faced up until this point, Click is actively out to end their lives and seems to have a grudge against RGB. Dial even describes him as a "hotshot" during Page 246 and that he and Hate won't have to worry about Hero and RGB escaping the market alive.
- Worse still, Page 282 has him fire a bullet made out of █████████, causing several of the market citizens to panic. Yes, the same █████████ introduced in Page 144.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He and RGB are informed by the guardians in Page 290 that those who commit wrongdoing must pay the price. Guess what happens to Click after his laser beam is redirected toward the guardians.
- My Eyes Are Up Here: He inverts this by telling RGB to look at his chest. That's because his head is not only empty but actually a weapon.
- Never My Fault: Click blames RGB for his death, accusing him of murder. While RGB did leave him to die, Click's death was entirely his own fault because he stepped on a Temper and failed to repair it, causing him to be killed by a Grief of his own creation. If anything, Click's accusation is only correct in a Metaphorically True sense.
- Nightmare Face: Click's waterlogged head during Page 297 is not a pleasant sight to behold.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Click is one of the most unnerving characters so far, due to his utter hatred of RGB and his absolute persistence in his goals.
- Oh, Crap!: After Click's attempt to have RGB killed fails, the denizens of the market decide to throw Click in the sea, much to his panic.
- As revealed in a flashback, this may've been Click's reaction when he realizes that the Temper he callously stomped on has turned into a Grief and RGB has seemingly disappeared, painfully ending his time as a Hero.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Upon being fused with Ratfink, Click takes full advantage of his incomplete state to use his body as a vessel. Ratfink however merely sees Click as annoying, not realizing the full extent of Click's madness.
- Red Is Violent: Click is a predominantly red coloured soldier who has no qualms about dishing out violence when things stop going his way. In addition, he's the only character so far whose scenes also make use of Symbolic Blood.
- Revenge: Click's entire stint as one of Hate's henchmen can be summarized as this. He returns to the market to get his revenge on his former mentor RGB for "murdering" him and when fused with Ratfink he intends to flood the market as revenge for them throwing him into the sea.
- The Dreaded: RGB's first reaction to seeing him in Page 193 is to panic before hiding Hero (and himself) to avoid the tin soldier.
- Two Beings, One Body: After Ratfink unwittingly steals Click's eye to make himself complete, Click merges himself with Ratfink, much to the bird's surprise. In "Casting", he then has Ratfink search for his body parts before forcing the bird to eat them so he can regain his form.
- Was Once a Man: Before Click's downfall, he was once an ordinary policeman living in London who RGB made a deal with, setting off a chain of events.
- Wham Line: Click has this to say during Page 284 after the guardians stop him from attacking RGB.Click:You may have your justice but let me first have mine: Upon the one who stole my life- the man who murdered "Me".
- Would Hurt a Child: After Hero refuses to hurt RGB, he shoots out his hand to grab her. Luckily, RGB intervenes.
- Voice of the Legion: A subtle detail regarding Click is that his speech boxes have either multiple lines or multiple tails, implying that he speaks from more than 1 mouth on his chest.
- Wind-Up Key: True to his tin-soldier design, Click sports a golden wind-up key protruding out of his back. One of the market denizens calls it cute, leading Click to get pretty wound up about it.
The Butterfly (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
The Butterfly aka Anxiety
'First Appearance: The Hook: Page 17
Last Appearance:
A grey butterfly that tells the Hero to be wise. Once Hero realizes that she has no reason to trust them, they drop the facade and steal Hero's eyes. Their true identity is Anxiety, a monster who can summon Doubts and erode trust in other people.- Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Butterfly is able to attack by using their wings as blades, causing RGB to have a flashback when they cuts his finger. As RGB points out, only Fears and Hate herself can create schisms strong enough to cut, prompting him to question The Butterfly if they are either one.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: They represent anxiety, trying to erode Hero's trust in RGB during their first few encounters while playing the role of someone who only wants what is best for her.
- Ambiguous Syntax: Some of their dialogue takes full advantage of this, allowing readers to notice multiple meanings from their dialogue. A great example of this would be during the reveal of their true identity, which can can apply to either themselves or to RGB.The Butterfly: What lies between fear and doubt - with pure self loathing strung throughout? Feigning wisdom, floating free - What is my name...? ANXIETY.
- Arc Villain: The Butterfly makes their reappearance in Iris and ends up as the main antagonist of that chapter, Double Exposure and Cutting Room.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Though seemingly good at first, the Butterfly is actually Anxiety, a creature who can create schisms and has been trying to lead Hero astray during her encounters with them.
- Black-and-White Insanity: Appropriately enough for a butterfly whose wings are black and white, their thinking boils down to "Hero is good, RGB is bad" with it becoming "I am good, they are evil" after Hero questions why she should trust them.
- Cryptic Conversation: Upon finally being found in the basement of the House of Lead, RGB decides to be direct and ask them if they are a Fear or Hate. Their response is enough to exasperate RGB into asking them to just spit it out already.
- Do You Trust Me?: After pointing out how fallible RGB is when he's explaining everything to TG, Hero inverts this with this retort:Hero: Because he's trying. And anyway- why should I trust you?
- Evil All Along: At first glance, the Butterfly is a seemingly wise if cryptic figure only for them to be an antagonistic figure who intends to steal Hero's eyes for an unknown purpose.
- Evil Counterpart: They serve as one to RGB. Both of them are considered monsters who interact with Hero. While RGB is a man who dresses in colourful clothing, and tries to get Hero to learn about the world by making her think for herself despite initially being cold and condescending to her; The Butterfly is monochromatic, and tells Hero what to think of RGB while doing nothing to prove their own trustworthiness. Whereas RGB introduces Hero to other people and at least tries to be a better person when faced with Hero's opposition, the Butterfly isolates Hero by appearing during his absence and turns hostile when Hero realizes that she has zero reason to actually trust them.
- Evil Gloating: Anxiety indulges in this once Hero and RGB are surrounded by a horde of fully grown Doubts. Unfortunately for them, Hero and RGB are more focused on trying to not to get swallowed up, and end up ignoring Anxiety, much to their exasperation.
- Evil Overlooker: The cover art for Cutting Room has The Butterfly watching Hero and RGB descend deeper through the House of Lead.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: The Butterfly's has an eye each embedded on the upper part of their wings, in addition to their normal butterfly eyes. After stealing Hero's eyes, they become part of her lower wings.
- Eye Scream: The first thing they do once Hero sees right through their facade? Rear up and steal her eyes.
- Foreshadowing: Upon rereading the comic, the reader may notice that a lot of the Butterfly's interactions with Hero are far more sinister in hindsight, hinting at their true nature:
- Their first words to Hero in "The Hook" are to assume that she doesn't trust RGB and immediately considers this a wise thing. After they leaves, the plant that they were was perched on wilts away, implying that their influence is corruptive.
- During their second encounter with Hero after she bores the Idea in "Suture", their response seems to imply that Hero will take up the mantle of protagonist, and that they were hoping for her to break away from RGB and become consumed by the Idea.
- In "POV", if you look carefully after RGB asks how he and Hero got to the first tree from the Plains of Hesitation, there is a butterfly silhouette near Hero after she remembers Negative for the first time, implying that they've has been following the two this entire time.
- They briefly appears during "Triple-threat" when Hero asks if RGB if its wise to be afraid. They perch themselves on Hero's back and hope to put a wedge between her and RGB by using Negative's visage note to induce anxiety, only to fly away in a huff after Hero concludes that Assok, Dial, Melody, Julienne, ToBy and Madras must've trusted RGB enough to let her go with him despite everything.
- During their meeting with Hero at Elastic Valley, The Butterfly acknowledges that Hero has begun to trust RGB and tries to convince her that she's been deceived. When Hero realizes that she has no reason to trust the Butterfly, it drops the facade and goes straight for Hero's eyes.
- Ignored Enemy: Much to it's exasperation, RGB and Hero barely acknowledge them at all once it becomes clear to them that the Doubts are the bigger threat. They get so mad about this that they try to cut down the ladder RGB is standing on, only to accidently buy them more time instead.
- Logical Weakness: Anxiety's powers tend to become less effective if they're ignored because anxiety is at its strongest when it takes up your entire focus. RGB and Hero are so distracted by the Doubts that Anxiety starts to fade away, causing their physical form to revert to an outline. Naturally this causes them to become desperate to keep Hero and RGB's attention on them to prevent them from fading out.
- Moth Menace: Throughout the story, The Butterfly tests the Hero to see if she's wise. Their first appearance is shortly after Hero and RGB make it to the World of Make Believe. They show up again after Hero bores the Idea to death, and later tries get Hero to abandon RGB and make her own decisions while deliberately trying to play on her anxieties, making her and Assok hallucinate RGB's Negative form in Page 169 only to fly away in a huff the next page once it's clear that Hero is willing to place her trust in RGB. When the Hero proves that she is wise, the Butterfly turns on her and blinds her by stealing her eyes.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Upon realizing that Hero and RGB are more focused on trying to leave the House of Lead than them, they try to cut the top part of the ladder that RGB is holding onto. They end up confused when RGB thanks them for accidently buying him and Hero more time against the Doubts by using the severed ladder parts as makeshift platforms.
- Hallucinations: Despite their small, almost harmless appearance, the Butterfly is able to make Hero and Assok hallucinate RGB's Negative form and then during their fight with RGB, they can use their wing blades to create a schism in his glove, causing him to have a flashback. As it turns out, this is because they are a creature between a Fear and a Doubt known as Anxiety.
- Oh, Crap!: The Butterfly's reaction during their first fight with RGB upon immediately realizing that RGB's cane is hooked to the tree, pulling him toward the cane and by extension, the Butterfly.
- Playing the Victim Card: When RGB decides to get Hero's eyes back, the Butterfly constantly acts as though RGB wronged them, expecting him to care about their plight. When she asks if RGB cares about who they was, he tells her no.
- Pun: This set of dialogue during their fight with RGB in Elastic Valley:RGB: Get back here!Hero: Hey!! Cut it out!The Butterfly: Foolish child - ... I already have.note
- Wham Line:
- From Page 453:
The Butterfly: So... R.G.B. LONG TIME... NO SEE.- The reveal of their true identity during Page 542:
The Butterfly: What lies between fear and doubt - with pure self loathing strung throughout? Feigning wisdom, floating free - What is my name...? ANXIETY. - Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Despite RGB launching himself at them using his cane with full intent on getting both Hero's other eye back, the Butterfly blinks out of existence and he only manages to get one of Hero's eyes back. It tries to pull a second attempt at this during the House of Lead, but Negative ends up preventing them from doing so while using the glass shards to create a rapier.
- Villainous Breakdown: Once they reveal their true name, things begin to go downhill for them. RGB makes a mockery of them by throwing the Doubts on them, trapping them in a suitcase and ignoring them, causing Anxiety to try desperately to get their attention by attempting to cut off their escape routes and angrily ranting at them.
- Walking Spoiler: Due to most of their prominent appearances being halfway through the story, a lot of what is known about them tends to be rife with spoilers.
Ratfink
'First Appearance: Cut to (Page 378)
Last Appearance:
A bird-like creature who is trying to complete himself only to have the misfortune of stealing Click's eye.- Belly Mouth: He develops one once Click merges with him and decides to call the shots.
- Body Horror: Being associated with Click has that effect. After being ordered to eat Click's body parts, a turnkey grows out of his back and it's implied that Click intends to regain his form by using Ratfink as a host.
- Deadpan Snarker: Despite having to share a body with an ornery tin soldier, he still remarks that it's too bad he couldn't steal a better personality for Click.
- Funny Background Event: During Cut To, while the Guardians are deciding to throw The Idea out, one of the panels has Ratfink screaming in panic trying to get Click out of him.
- Grave Robbing: Click has Ratfink steal his body parts before later forcing him to eat them so that Click can regain his form.
- Feathered Fiend: Though Ratfink is only stealing to complete himself, Click has far more antagonistic plans.
- Meaningful Name: Ratfink is a slang term for an obnoxious or undesirable person or can refer to a traitor, informer or spy. It's yet to be determined which definition Ratfink himself falls under.
- Two Beings, One Body: After Ratfink unwittingly steals Click's eye to make himself complete, Click merges himself with Ratfink, much to the bird's surprise. The two share dialogue with each other, though it appears to be mutual disdain.
- Walking Spoiler: Most mentions of him involve his merge with Click and his association with him.
- White and Gold are Divine: Inverted. While Ratfink's body is white with the gold coming from Click's body parts, their union is anything but divine.
- Wind-Up Key: After eating several of Click's body parts and other bits of metal he found, a golden wind-up key sprouts out of his back with a wet sound.
Others
Doctor Doctor
Doctor Doctor
First Appearance: Flood (Page 507)
Last Appearance:
A strange middle aged or elderly man who so far has only appeared in a nightmare sequence of RGB's.- Ambiguous Situation: Is Doctor Doctor a real doctor that RGB saw or was he simply a fictional character made up for RGB's comedy routine?
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Doctor Doctor is seen offering RGB a cigarette before smoking himself, claiming that smoking would do him a world of good by soothing the lungs. Such a detail could only imply that this session took place in a time where smoking was advertised as trendy and fashionable long before the negative health effects were brought to light.
- Mathematician's Answer: When human RGB brings up how looking at mirrors makes him so angry he want to smash them, he's told not to look at them. When he mentions how his hands have developed a terrible shake, he's told to sit closer to a radiator. When RGB clarifies that when his hands shake when he sees them, the doctor recommends that RGB wear gloves and not to look in any mirrors until he feels better.
- Monochrome Past: It's implied by the sepia colouring that Doctor Doctor was either human RGB's doctor or a fictional character for a TV show that RGB was an actor for.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He's seen wearing square glasses along with a suit with a tie.
- Therapy Is for the Weak: He considers therapy to be nonsense and a form of snake oil and scam science. Unfortunately for RGB, Doctor Doctor's idea of helping him with his issues only serve to exarcabate them rather than actually help him.
TG
TG, short for Threshold Guardian is one of the original concepts that existed in The World of Make Believe and is
First Appearance: Iris (Page 450)
TG
First Appearance: Iris (Page 450)
Last Appearance:
- Nightmare Face: Their default form is a black circular bearded face with hollow yellow eyes. Suffice to say, Hero takes the first opportunity RGB gives to excuse herself while he tries to explain everything to TG.
- Protection in Mouth: TG pulls this off several times by transforming into different statues to protect the Tempers from being accidently shattered by an enraged RGB during his fight with the Butterfly.
- Scenery Porn: Due to TG's forms being based off of various real world sculptures, his forms are very detailed as a result.
- Shapeshifting: TG has the ability to change into various different works of stone art, and deliberately picks the scariest forms to intimidate potential challengers, though he can choose more ordinary forms.
- The Speechless: TG's dialogue is never seen onscreen and whatever he says can only be inferred by the responses of other characters, similar to Hate.
- Threshold Guardians: Is named after the concept and allows RGB to introduce the idea to Hero. While TG may be benevolent, RBG mentions that some can occasionally be something very scary or difficult to overcome.
- Visual Pun: After RGB tries to justify stealing one of his keys in order to find new heroes in the real world, and asks TG if he could let RGB have a key; TG briefly turns into The Thinker before turning into The Gates of Hell. RGB considers this to be very rude and nearly explains to Hero what TG means before cutting himself off.
The Sun
First Appearance: Pitch (Page 180)
Last Appearance:
"Once upon a time, there was a wild and wonderful light."
Known also as "The Light", they are mentioned in an old story RGB tells Hero about how the Sun had it's heart broken and it split into 5 smaller suns.- Animal Motifs: The first sun has harts coming out of it during its healing process, the second is a chinese dragon, the third is a vulture. The other two have yet to be seen in the comic itself.
- Body Motifs: Each of it's pieces when purified have an animal associated with it. The sun encountered in the wasteland resembles a human heart, the one that fell into the sea resembles a pair of lungs and the sun encountered in the Pool of Tears resembles a human brain.
- Death of Personality: After RGB finishes his story about the dying of the light, he mentions that The Sun no longer controls itself or abide by Time, who was upset by this. It turns out that the Voice revived The Sun and became it's heart.
- Despair Event Horizon: After being told by the Voice that it isn't loved, only feared and hated and observing the world below, the Sun ends up shattering it's mask before splitting into 5 pieces and allowing the world to burn.
- Divided Deity: The Sun was once a singular entity before it was split into 5 smaller suns and later resurrected with it's broken heart replaced by the Voice.
- Empty Shell: The Sun ended up being brought back to life by the Voice, who decided to become it's heart, and now it follows only them and not Time.
- God of Light: The Sun is mentioned to be a powerful entity whose light is so strong that it burnt the world until the land and leaves were turned to black. After despairing over the worlds destruction, it created a mask that it wears so that the world could still shine it's light upon the world without destroying it.
- Instant Runes: The mask worn by The Light is a white mask made up of runes that have patterns shaped after a hart, a dragon, vulture, a bull and a fifth animal. During Hero and RGB's trip to the House of Lead, they make it to the basement where white runes resembling it's mask can be found.
- Pieces of God: The Sun split itself into five pieces, and the main part of Hero and RGB's quest is to find all 5 pieces. The first was shattered upon a hard and lifeless wasteland, the second drowned in the sea, the third sank in an endless mire, the fourth was trapped and turned to stone beneath the ice and the last one was lost forever due to falling in a place nobody saw.
- Tarot Motifs: Their card is XIX: The Sun, an arcana representing the self and where one's true self can be encountered in safety without fear of negativity. Ironically in the story RGB tells Hero during "Pitch", the Sun wears a mask because the world cannot gaze upon it's face without burning to ash. When reversed, The Sun represents presenting an inauthentic facade at the cost of supressing your true self.
- Weird Sun: The Sun is depicted as a white ball with a multi-coloured aura. Once it's mask is placed on, it is depicted with white runes that take the forms of a hartnote , a chinese dragon, a bull, a vulture and an unknown creature.
Time
Time
First Appearance: Inbetweens (Page 364)
Last Appearance:
A rabbit-like creature who was one of the original concepts of The World of Make Believe and one of its first inhabitants. He has the power to control time and can grant more time to live if the person is willing to sacrifice their memories to him.- Ambiguous Gender: Hero originally calls him "she" until RGB corrects her. Time himself doesn't exactly make any references to his own gender.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Time does this subtly in his debut chapter when he mentions they believe in Hero and asks if she believes in herself. "They" likely refers to the people reading the comic who perceive Hero as one of the protagonists.
- Body Horror: Half of his face looks like it is melting off due to the wax from the candles on his head, though Time treats it as a different individual.
- Cannot Keep a Secret: Implied by RGB during the story he tells ToBy.
- Hartman Hips: During one page, we see Time upright and he has a small hourglass shaped waist, which fits into his time based motifs.
- Moon Rabbit: First shows up riding a moon down to greet Hero. He can apparently travel through time by spinning the moon through its phases.
- Tarot Motifs: His card is XVIII: The Moon, an arcana representing higher consciousness and test of ones integrity. Time himself is based off the Moon Rabbit, a mythical figure in eastern mythology, and in the story is a being who sees the past, present and future, even helping RGB and Hero by sending them to the future to find the third part of the Sun. When reversed, The Moon represents self delusion and dramatization of personal events, in addition to be caught up in one's emotions instead of trying to stay balanced.
- Transgender: Time is confirmed by by ModMad to be transgender, in his case using male associated pronouns.
- Undying Loyalty: RGB's story to Toby in Chapter 2 implies that he was loyal to Hate at some point, despite her awful behavior towards him.
Train of Thought
First Appearance: Chiaroscuro (Page 326)'''
Last Appearance:
A jet black train that is first encountered in the Sands of Regret, it ends up capturing Hero and RGB for a seemingly unknown reason only to flee.- Always a Bigger Fish: After Hero and RGB escape from it's carriages, it decides to go for a second attempt before changing it's mind and leaving. As it turns out, the very thing it was trying to escape from is The Nothing.
- Chekhov's Gift: A lantern attached to it's carriages comes loose during Hero and RGB's escape. It is later found by Dial during his own trip to the Sands of Regret who uses it to follow the Train's tracks.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite it being the same colour as Negative and various other monsters such as Fears and Griefs, it lacks a malevolent motif and if anything may've actually been trying to help Hero and RGB. It is later seen again during "Flood" where it appears to have rescued several market residents at The Black Market.
- Forced Sleep: Once Hero and RGB end up inside it's carriages, it seems to have some of power that forces RGB to fall asleep, triggering a dream of him getting shouted at by a coworker, causing him to wake up.
- Sentient Vehicle: Unlike the other vehicles stranded in the Sands of Regret, this one seems to have a will of it's own.
- Tarot Motifs: Their card is VII: The Chariot, an arcana representing the heady feeling of freedom and high achievements, signifying the feeling of power as the world opens up. When reversed, The Chariot represents reluctance to take charge of your life and take responsibility for the direction your life is taking.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's appearance in the Sands of Regret prevents Hate's surveillance from being able to track it (and by extension RGB and Hero), forcing Dial to leave the white room to track the heroes himself.
