Drowtales/Characters/Vel Vloz Ress

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Background Information
The newest clan to rise to the Council of Nine. The Vloz'ress was originally a small nether cult under the leadership of Kiel's mother Ven'ndia, but after her death Sene'kha formed alliances with the Sharen that allowed the Vloz'ress to take the seat left vacant after the collapse of the Val'Dutanvir. Besides the Sharen, they are the only clan who identify themselves as Vels instead of Vals due to their association with demonic magic. Despite their Val status, the Vloz'ress are the least liked clan in Chel, and living conditions among most members are second only to living on the street. "Houses" within the clan are mostly defined as which nether summoner one serves under, and exactly who has the power among the summoners is constantly shifting.


 * Always Chaotic Evil (their reputation, though individual members sometimes avert this, and Word of God is that they deliberately play up looking evil as part of their battle tactics)
 * Animal Motifs (their clan mount is the snake, and Word of God is that the large snakes they ride actually belonged to the Dutan'vir originally and were engineered by the Jaal'darya)
 * Army of Thieves and Whores (the Vloz'ress is the last stop for many of the most desperate people in Chel, and the life expectancy of their troops can be measured in weeks.)
 * Bedlam House (essentially what their fortress is)
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder (a prerequisite for anyone who wants to gain power in the clan)
 * Dark Is Not Evil (under Ven'ndia, they were weird but harmless, and despite being demon worshipers sought to learn from them rather than use them as weapons. Thoroughly averted once Sene'kha took over)
 * Eldritch Location (invoked, their fortress is intentionally designed to confuse people who enter it, including golems that reached out and attack you as you enter)
 * Evil Is Visceral (their fortress definitely seems to play off this)
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits (originally)
 * The Unfavorite (nobody likes the Vloz'ress, just check the clan relations chart. Even the Sharen, who were behind the Vloz's rise to power, only like them on the surface, everyone else either hates them or is neutral towards them.)
 * Unwitting Pawn (it's stated several times that the Vloz are really nothing more than a pawn of the Sharen)

Kharla'ggen Vel'Vloz'ress

 * Absolute Cleavage
 * Big Sister Instinct (Seems to have developed one of these for Kiel'ndia. This is Kharla, though, so she still may turn on Kiel at any minute, just like she did to poor Ven'ndia, and Larvova explicitly warns Kiel about this.)
 * Blue and Orange Morality (Kharla is so crazy that regular morality just doesn't apply to her)
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass (crazy or not, cross Kharla and you will pay, as the Sharen sent to attack them found out the hard way)
 * The Caligula (despite her better aspects, she's still this trope through and through)
 * Dark-Skinned Redhead (not naturally, since her hair was originally white)
 * Fan Disservice (everything about her, pretty much, since she has a beautiful body that's shown off with low cut tops but is totally insane)
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals (she loves plushies)
 * The Glomp (to Naal, and yes, Kharla manages to make a glomp terrifying)
 * I Am Legion (it's heavily implied that she has multiple people in her head, and thus refers to herself as "we", and not in the Royal We sense. Kiel even comments that it means that Kharla's probably never felt alone)
 * Living Doll Collector (She's the page image.)
 * Mask Power (sort of, since the mask was actually to keep her from chewing her own fingers)
 * Obliviously Evil (it's been hinted that she doesn't have the mental capacity to understand the full extent of what she's doing. Notably, Kiel doesn't blame her for what happened to her mother, while she does blame Sene'kha)
 * Puppet Ill'haress (but not if Kiel has anything to say about it...)
 * Puppet Permutation (her specialty)
 * Psychopathic Manchild (for some, the childish traits she shows just make her more terrifying, while for others, her playing with a rubber duck while bathing to be absolutely adorable. And the extent she's actually psychopathic is debateable, since it seems that a lot of her actions were just her doing as Sene'kha told her to)
 * Rage Against the Reflection (The first time she saw her face in a mirror, she had a Freak-Out and tried to tear her own face off. Her mask is the only thing that keeps her calm)
 * Shout-Out (possibly, since her hairstyle and mask make her resemble Washuu)

Kiel'ndia Vel'Vloz'ress

 * Bi the Way (though bisexuality is the norm in drow society, she directly states that while she'd like a harem of princes, she'd also take at least one princess, just for fun's sake. She's also expressed interest in both Nau'kheol and Chry'stel.)
 * Big No
 * Break the Cutie: She's undoubtedly gone through this, between watching her mother get turned into a puppet, whatever else she's seen in the Vloz'ress, and )
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall (her habit of talking to her "imaginary friend" who just happens to be in the same place as the reader is seen by the other characters as a symptom of madness)
 * Later manifests as a Tear Jerker after when she tells the "audience" to leave her alone and throws a belt at them.
 * Don't link to it. What part of leaving her alone don't you understand?
 * The Chessmaster (one in training)
 * The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right (it seems she really was right about )
 * Despair Event Horizon ( nearly causes her to cross it, to the point that )
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas (the "bad" is up for debate since she's one of the more decent Vloz'ress, but she certainly loved her mother and was devastated by what happened to her)
 * Five Stages of Grief (immediately after she shows classic signs of stage 1, denial)
 * Now seems to be quite fully into stage 2, anger, and later seems to have bypassed 3 to go right to 4, despair.
 * Hostile Show Takeover (she's taken over the Drowtales Twitter account and promptly demanded a tribute of princes, though she'd also accept princesses)
 * She also has her own Facebook account now.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Kid Hero (played straight and then horribly deconstructed when )
 * The Ladette (despite being only 24, or physically 12 by human standards, she fits this among the other female characters in terms of personality)
 * Lampshade Hanging (in chapter 32 she breaks the fourth wall and addresses how reckless is)
 * Loveable Sex Maniac ([[media:20100504c24p002_6794.jpg|"Princes, I tell you. Lots of them. Just. Waiting. For. Me!"]])
 * She's already claimed Nau'kheol.
 * And Chrys'tel.
 * Messy Hair (not immediately obvious, but just compare her hair when it's down here to when Naal manages to brush it out at the cost of her hairbrushes. Not washing it for a long time will do that.)
 * Rapunzel Hair (not immediately obvious since it's usually in a ponytail, and in one chibi page Naal even says that Kiel's hair is longer than hers)
 * Replacement Goldfish (played for laughs in one chibi page where she makes a then not so much when we see that she actually did it.)
 * It's also stated that one reason she likes Nau'kheol is that
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship (with Naal, see this)
 * Yeah. Really. Now seems to be Les Yay.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely (courtesy of Naal)
 * Shotacon (played for laughs, but not as squicky as some examples since it's more innocent than anything and they're not too far apart in age)
 * Tomboyish Ponytail
 * Trauma Conga Line (chapter 27 has and then chapter 28 has )
 * Your Mom (seems to like this tactic)
 * Your Mom (seems to like this tactic)

Mir'kiin Vel'Vloz'ress

 * A Plague on Both Your Houses
 * Delinquents (he eventually gets kicked out of all his classes at Orthorbbae, forcing him to leave the school )
 * Groin Attack (he tries this on Ariel, and when he finds there's nothing to grab he figures out that she's female)
 * Fail O'Suckyname (it's not known if it was intentional, but his name is a homophone for Merkin, a pubic wig)
 * He-Man Woman Hater (he's definitely this, but it was never explained why. In fact when he  he can be seen happily murmuring that "there will be one less female in the world" as he makes his getaway. Might have something to do with his experience with the Vloz'ress nether summoners, all of whom are female and prone to Chronic Backstabbing Disorder)
 * Jerkass (his first words are complaining that he doesn't want to be in a class with a bunch of "girly freaks" and he gets progressively more jerkish, attempting to kill Ariel and later attacking her when they're on the same team)
 * Jerkass (his first words are complaining that he doesn't want to be in a class with a bunch of "girly freaks" and he gets progressively more jerkish, attempting to kill Ariel and later attacking her when they're on the same team)

Sene'kha Vel'Vloz'ress

 * The Chessmaster
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder (comes naturally with the Vloz'ress, but Sene'kha seemed to be especially good at it to not only get her position, but hold it for as long as she did)
 * Complete Monster (One of the few characters the very vocal fanbase is in absolute agreement about, and even Kiel seems to think this . Under Kiel's mom the Vloz'ress were a bunch of weird but harmless people and Kharla had the chance to recover from her trauma. Then Sene'kha manipulated Kharla into turning Kiel's mom into a living door knocker. The results: Kharla's condition got worse, the Vloz'ress turned into a clan of power hungry maniacs and Sene'kha's control over Kharla allowed her to rule the clan. Also there's her plan to takeover Chel by turning Kharla into an Eldritch Abomination.)
 * The Dog Bites Back
 * Manipulative Bastard (is heavily implied to have purposely arranged Kiel's mother's death, and a sidestory shows that she actually went looking for Kharla and found her in her insane state)
 * (see above)
 * Shout-Out (her name is likely a reference to Seneca the Younger, an advisor to Emperor Nero who was executed for supposedly being complicit in an assassination plot)
 * The Starscream (it's heavily implied that she pulled this on Kiel's mother)
 * (she tries this after . Unfortunately for Sene'kha, Kiel's already left.)
 * (she tries this after . Unfortunately for Sene'kha, Kiel's already left.)

Kes'sen
Sene'kha's mate and Soul Seeker, he led the quest to bring back Discordia.


 * Badass (look what it takes to !)
 * The Dragon (to Sene'kha)
 * Dual-Wielding
 * Scars Are Forever (has several scars on his face)
 * Unholy Matrimony (we never see them really interact, but it can be inferred he had this relationship with Sene'kha, though the gender roles were flipped due to drow society)
 * Scars Are Forever (has several scars on his face)
 * Unholy Matrimony (we never see them really interact, but it can be inferred he had this relationship with Sene'kha, though the gender roles were flipped due to drow society)
 * Unholy Matrimony (we never see them really interact, but it can be inferred he had this relationship with Sene'kha, though the gender roles were flipped due to drow society)

Larvova
A nether summoner in the clan. She has ambitions of leading the clan after.


 * Enemy Mine
 * Facial Markings (has what are probably tattoos that resemble stitch marks all over her face)
 * In the Hood (almost always has her hood up)

Nyo'ka
A nether summoner within the clan.


 * Chekhov's Gunman (the scourges with her in this scene appear later )
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones (what Kiel realizes . See also Not So Different.)
 * Not So Different (Kiel realizes this when her children come out and is reminded of her own mother)
 * Pet the Dog (the way she talks about her children)
 * Put on a Bus (she did this to her kids by sending them to the Illhar'dro city of Nuqrah'shareh, though she had referenced earlier that she was going to do this, and the two of them later appear in chapters 33 and 34, where their names are revealed to be Tamiir and Kys'sae, with Tamiir probably being the girl and Kys'sae probably being the boy)
 * Snakes Are Sexy (she's seen with a snake wrapped around one of her arms a couple times)

Ven'ndia
Kiel's mother and the former leader of the group that later became the Vloz'ress, Ven'ndia's aura was sealed in a puppet body by Kharla.


 * A Fate Worse Than Death
 * And I Must Scream (her puppet body is implied to still be conscious)
 * Deal with the Devil (she tainted herself knowing the risks, and )
 * Deceased Parents Are the Best (Demon worshipper or not, she's one of the best parents in the series. And dead. We think.)
 * Spell My Name with an "S" (Is it Ven'nedia, as she is called in Chapter 11, or Ven'ndia, as in Chapter 24 and after? It appears to be the second, and like Snadhya'runes vs. Snadhya'rune, has been quietly changed in the later chapters)
 * The Farmer and the Viper (poor, poor Ven'ndia, she was just trying to help Kharla)
 * Woman in White (her preferred style of dress suggests this)

Kuso and Baliir
A soldier and berserker respectively in the Vloz'ress clan. They appear to be friends as they are almost always seen in the company of one another. Baliir seems the most interested in his duty in the clan whereas Kuso is often the comic relief.


 * The Big Guy (Baliir)
 * Blue Eyes (Kuso, and how he's managed to avoid getting tainted in the Vloz'ress is anyone's guess, since he's one of less than a handful we've seen that are untainted)
 * Gentle Giant (Baliir, when he's not curb stomping people who challenge him)
 * Heterosexual Life Partners
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold (possibly Kuso, who despite his mouth doesn't seem that bad in general)
 * Punch Clock Villain (Kuso, at least, just joined to have some place to stay and work. Baliir on the other hand seems to genuinely believe in Sene'kha's cause)


 * Estrogen Brigade Bait (Kuso, as of this page, which caused many to express surprise that he's so pretty under the helmet)
 * Punny Name ("Kuso" is a Japanese curse roughly equivalent to "damn" or "shit", and Kuso has quite the short fuse and foul mouth)
 * Sir Swearsalot (Kuso)
 * Those Two Guys
 * The Un-Reveal (at one point Baliir takes off his mask, and it disturbs the other customers enough that Kuso asks him to put it back on, but we don't actually get to see his face. Probably a good thing, if you consider what Larvova's berserker looks like.)
 * Warrior Poet (Baliir)
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist (Baliir)

Ni'bai
A former Sharen of Nishi'kanta's bloodline, now a Vloz'ress nether summoner. Her twin, Ni'ju, is now a demon that serves her.


 * Angsty Surviving Twin (considering that her sister is a demon, or at the very least a possessed summon, this trope is pretty easy to infer. As both have an apostrophe in their names (signaling Val status) its implied that they were actually biological twins rather than a protector-twin set up, making Ni'bai's angst status even more telling.)
 * Dark-Skinned Blond (like Nishi'kanta, though hers is obviously dyed since you can see her roots.)
 * Defector From Decadence (she left the Sharen after the Nidraa'chal War)
 * (After )
 * Facial Markings (like Kiel, has red lines that look like tear marks under her eyes)
 * Ignored Epiphany (not Ni'bai herself, but when she tries to tell Desmonde Kyorl'solenurn the truth about the War she's ignored)
 * Noble Fugitive (as seen above, Ni'bai was a former Sharen Val. Why she left the Sharen after the Nidraa'chal War isn't ouright stated but its easy to infer that )
 * Number Two (was evidently something like this to Sene'kha, )
 * Stripperiffic (not by human standards save for her Impossibly Low Neckline, but by drow standards walking around with a bare neck makes her even naughtier than Mel with her dental floss)

Nainai
An old human woman, she seems to be Kharla's caretaker.


 * But Not Too White (averted, since she may be a Rift Halme who was born underground, and thus has no natural coloring)
 * The Caretaker
 * Cool Old Lady
 * Milky White Eyes (on account of being blind)
 * Never Mess with Granny (fans have decided that she must be this if she's survived in the Vloz fortress)
 * Parental Substitute (to both Kiel and Kharla)

Umpus Vloz'ress
An intelligent demon (aka a Vel'Akar) possessing the body of a drow/naga symbiote and serves as Sene'kha's attendant. Much like Khaless for Snadhya'rune, Umpus is very loyal to the Vlozress ideals set out by Sene'kha and later.


 * Anime Hair (has short and spiky hair not seen on any other male character)
 * Blank White Eyes (save for red schlera, this signifies that he is fully demon, not merely a tainted drow)
 * Distaff Counterpart (this appears to be the case with him and Khaless, though its unknown how their respective power levels match up)
 * Facial Markings (he is noticeably tattooed all over his upper body)
 * Fluffy Tamer (was visibly sympathetic to Discordia whilst the latter was being captured, stroking her arm and referring to her as "a poor thing", while the other characters just comment on how easy it was to capture the shard. He also attempts to reason with her in chapter 12.)
 * Hidden Agenda Villain (it is too early to tell if he is a villain, but as of yet readers know nothing about his true motives)
 * Tattooed Crook (as seen above, he is covered in body markings)

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