Nature of Nature's Art/Characters

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Meander (Maned Wolf)


The protagonist of 10% and a student of Rule.


 * Canis Major: It's mentioned on one page that Meander is big for a maned wolf,.
 * Deadly Upgrade: Noetic Chiasm's Meristogenous Transgression.
 * Heroic RROD:
 * Idiot Hero
 * It's Personal:
 * Loss of Identity: The court case that follows factors this heavily.
 * Meaningful Name: "It means to worm around kind of leisurely." Turns out Meander chose that because his mind is constantly wandering.
 * Meaningful Name: "It means to worm around kind of leisurely." Turns out Meander chose that because his mind is constantly wandering.

Quintet (Cat)
Meander's friend and a fellow student.


 * Action Girl
 * Cats Are Mean: Subverted.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, she isn't the nicest animal around, what with beating up and yelling at other people more than once. However, when it counts, she's willing to stick up for her loved ones.
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Meaningful Name:

Rule (Wolf)


Meander's teacher. Works with Polarizing to exploit "wild" animals for things like slave labor and meat, an extreme taboo in their society.

"I have a goal, and I have no need of a body when I stand on my principles!"
 * Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: For no apparent reason, Rule is purple.
 * Badass Grandpa: The guy gets an entire monologue about how he's old, but something like age isn't going to slow him down.


 * Badass Teacher
 * Big Badass Wolf
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows
 * Determinator
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Meaningful Name: And not necessarily the meaning you'd think of. Apparently it refers to "partitions of scale".
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: To Polarizing's blue.
 * Sadist Teacher: Threatens (possibly in jest) to kill Meander over an assignment, among other things.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Polarizing (Tamandua)


A former doctor, and another of Meander's teachers.


 * Badass Teacher
 * Blue Oni: To Rule's red.
 * Deadly Doctor: Polarizing's metanoia grants him thorough knowledge of a patient (or enemy's) anatomy, which he uses to paralyze Quintet.
 * Meaningful Name: And this time, it's extremely obvious.
 * Precision F-Strike: In the first posting of the webcomic, this was how he responded to
 * Stern Teacher: He's a lot more reasonable than Rule in general,
 * Super-Powered Evil Side: Sort of. He seems to be more willing to go all out with his "mask", a pair of leaves that cover his eyes, on. At first.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Syncope (Kinkajou)


A law clerk and good friend of Meander.


 * Blue Oni to Fiat's Red Oni. This is very clearly illustrated on page 189, which shows how they use the same fighting style differently.
 * Love At First Sight: He fell for Fiat right away. This was amusingly lampshaded in the exact same panel.

Fiat (Kinkajou)
"Fiat's story would be a full-blown NofNA storyline, since it would have its own plot. She just happened to be enough of a character to have a foot in this story."
 * Action Girl
 * Hero of Another Story: On page 183, Fiat mentions that she was born with dextrocardia. When asked about why she mentioned this detail, Braun said that it's actually important to her own story (if it ever does get told). And by story, he means, well... this:


 * Red Oni, Blue Oni to Syncope's Blue Oni.

Keratin Junior (Rabbit)


One of the many children of the crime lord Keratin. He (alongside a long tract of land) was sold to Rule and Polarizing in exchange for wild coyote slaves. A major source of comic relief for much of this arc's conflict.


 * Abusive Parents: His father has so many kids, he didn't think twice about offering one in exchange for valuable servants.
 * Break the Cutie:
 * Chekhov's Gunman:
 * Head Pet: Technically, Keratin did sell him to Rule....
 * The Mafia: His father is more or less a bunny don.
 * Plucky Comic Relief: At first.
 * Royal Brat: he constantly refers to Meander and the coyotes as "bugs", due in part to the way he was raised.

SV / Marigold / (Degu)


The protagonist of Secretary. An ambitious and impatient student out to prove he has something of worth to add to the world.

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 * Break the Haughty
 * Deadly Upgrade
 * Feed Me: SV gets some very hammy lines after gaining the power of malice. None of which can out-ham


 * Heroic BSOD: He suffers a couple over the course of the story: the first follows a major defeat after his first serious sparring match; The second, suffered when, is dramatic enough to shift a character's art style and lighten up the website's background.
 * Parental Favoritism
 * Red Right Hand:
 * Unreliable Narrator: He is at least a biased narrator. Exactly how unreliable is left up to interpretation.
 * Red Right Hand:
 * Unreliable Narrator: He is at least a biased narrator. Exactly how unreliable is left up to interpretation.

XZ / Nutsedge (Long-Eared Jerboa)


Fellow student and sparring partner of SV. They jointly develop the Dust Bath fighting style.


 * Buffy-Speak: "You! Come at me! With the most best! The most serious! The most ultimate dust bath style!" Possibly doubles as a parody of shounen animé/manga.
 * Curb Stomp Battle:
 * Extremity Extremist: Albeit not by choice.
 * Genki Girl
 * Hidden Depths:
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter:
 * Stay in the Kitchen:

NT / (Degu)
Older brother of SV, goes to college at the same time as SV, but in the advanced class instead of beginner.


 * Aloof Big Brother
 * I Just Want to Be Badass
 * Named by the Adaptation: His nickname only appears in the book ending, where it takes on particular significance.

Lycosa gulosa (Wolf spider)


The protagonist of Lycosa. At the start of the arc, she's searching for her lost eggsack. When she finds out that Venom 8 have taken it, she goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. And that's the basic plot of the arc...

"GIVE ME - MY - CHILDREN BACK!!"
 * Badass
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Determinator: So much so that
 * Dull Surprise: She channels Keanu Reeves after.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Mama Spider: Gulosa is not happy to learn that her eggsack has been stolen.
 * Mama Spider: Gulosa is not happy to learn that her eggsack has been stolen.


 * One Spider Army: She takes on the entire Pisaurina clan by herself. And wins.
 * Talking to Themself:
 * Tomato in the Mirror:

Venom 8


The antagonists of Lycosa. The Venom 8 team is a group of eight spiders who aim to create a spider equivalent to the internet that all spiders are always connected to. This requires egg sacs from every spider species, which kicks off the arc. One by one, we meet them, and one by one, Lycosa kills them off.

The members of Venom 8 are, in order of appearance: Deinopis spinosa, Antrodiaetus unicolor, Argiope aurantia, Scytodes thoracica, Mastophora cornigera, Patu digua, Theraphosa blondi, and Nephila clavipes.


 * Dark Action Girl: All of them . They are spiders, after all.
 * Giant Spider: Theraphosa blondi. That species is called the Goliath Birdeater for a reason.
 * Hive Mind: Such is theirs and any spider that agrees with their ideology's unity that they use "we" as a first-person singular pronoun almost exclusively - and when they die, they revert to using "I".
 * Master of Illusion: Argiope Aurantia, AKA the Black and Yellow Garden Spider.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Non-Indicative Name: If Ornithodoros is to be believed, Venom 8 may actually have nine members. They say it's because there is no I.
 * Omniscient Council of Vagueness: In their first appearance. Then each one appears individually, only to be killed by Lycosa.
 * The Stoic: Argiope Aurantia, again.
 * The Stoic: Argiope Aurantia, again.
 * The Stoic: Argiope Aurantia, again.
 * The Stoic: Argiope Aurantia, again.

Pisaurina mira (Nursery web spider)
Not actually a member of Venom 8, but "an appendage". Repeatedly fights Lycosa.


 * Worthy Opponent: Over the course of their battles, she comes to understand (and respect) Lycosa, perhaps better than anyone else.
 * Worthy Opponent: Over the course of their battles, she comes to understand (and respect) Lycosa, perhaps better than anyone else.

Yuri Sergiev (Mankind)

 * Ambiguously Brown: Deliberately; Word of God has stated that he's supposed to look a little bit like every race. That said, judging by the name, he's probably Russian (or of Russian descent).
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows
 * Perpetual Poverty: Apparently he's seriously in debt and constantly broke.

Evander Oneir (Mankind?)
Yuri's friend and a consciousness specialist. He works with Acheff and Hector.


 * Ambiguously Human: He's got pointy ears, but otherwise appears completely human.

Diana (Mankind?)

 * Ambiguously Human: She's got pointy ears and purple hair, but otherwise appears completely human.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Strelka (Dog)

 * Amazing Technicolour Wildlife: Ever seen a green dog before? (Even her nose is green!) Given that this arc is set so far into the future, it's possible that genetic engineering had a hand in this.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Wrench Wench: Albeit of the non-Fan Service kind.

Able "Abe" (Chimpanzee?)

 * Badass Bookworm: An engineer, a gamer, and a martial artist.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Challenge Gamer: This is a guy who goes for world-record high scores (in Bullet Hell games, no less!) and flips out if he's disturbed while playing.
 * Cool Shades: He gains an insanely cool pair of shades in a game within the comic. Turns out he's got neat shades in real life as well.

Acheff (Guinea Pig)
Part of the development team that Yuri's company contracts to work on their spacecraft. Acheff is the software engineer and Hector's adoptive father.

Hector (Mouse)
Part of the development team that Yuri's company contracts to work on their spacecraft. Hector is a secretary and the art director, and is a firm believer in the power and relevance of art.


 * Abusive Parents: It's implied that Hector's birth father was one of these. is harsh.
 * Happily Adopted: At least, Acheff seems to be a better father than Hector's biological father.
 * Inexplicably Tailless: Type I..