Archipelago Exodus/Characters

Characters are listed roughly by their association with various alliances and organizations in the RP scene, although the many cases of characters with dual, fluid or ambiguous alignments should be noted. Each character's name is accompanied by the name of the RPer who created them; if there's another RPer who has also contributed heavily to that character's development through autoing, despite not formally having the rights to the character, that member will also be named.

Cherrygrove Alliance
The Cherrygrove Alliance are the at least semiofficial "main characters" of ORP and the go-to heroic group. They range from far-seeing idealists like Zebedee and Sly to more present-focused pragmatists like Natalie and Ender, but all share a basic understanding of the right thing to do and a drive to do it. Zebedee has two houses and Sly has a mansion in the same neighborhood in Cherrygrove, so other members can often be found putting up there as tenants.

Zebedee Taylor (Lee)
 * A Bloody Mess: On several occasions, he's faked out opponents by stealing blood from blood banks. As he became more mature, he stopped using this trick and started using outright illusions.
 * Ambiguously Jewish: What with the blatantly Hebrew first name and technique names like "Kefitzat Haderech".
 * Word of God actually sets him as a Seventh-day Adventist, which according to Lee is "pretty close to outright Judaism".
 * Battle Aura
 * Beard of Sorrow
 * Blade Across the Shoulder: With his racquet.
 * Blade Below the Shoulder
 * Blow You Away: Gabriel's Trumpet.
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Celibate Hero
 * Deadly Upgrade: Full Holy Zebedee, at first. It's improved with time.
 * Do Not Call Me Paul: Inverted. He doesn't like being called "Lee", a pseudonym he went by for a few years. (A handwave to help detach a Self Insert from the author.)
 * Elemental Punch
 * The Fettered
 * Gratuitous Foreign Language: Hebrew plus a little Latin and Aramaic for spells.
 * Green Lantern Ring: His angel feather.
 * Holy Halo: Other than his Battle Aura, the only really noticable sign of his going into Full Holy mode.
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Improbable Weapon User: Zebedee probably isn't any RP's "wackiest party member", but let's face it: he wields a tennis racquet.
 * The Messiah: Okay, maybe not the universal love part, but the unshakeable idealism and holy overtones sound about right.
 * Multi Melee Master: A bladed racquet, a mace, and a holy "blade". Justified in that he can teleport weapons in when he needs them, so doesn't have to lug all the baggage around.
 * Real Men Love Jesus
 * Rummage Fail: Before he revealed his powers, he typically would do battle by weaponizing whatever was in his backpack at the time. Occasionally, this didn't work so well, such as beaning his opponent with a bar of soap.
 * Situational Sword: Zebedee's holy blade, the Maranatha, takes a toll him on him and deals damage proportional to the righteousness of his cause, and the need for him to use it. So naturally, it's a last resort weapon.
 * Stoic Spectacles
 * Teach Him Anger: Zebedee with Kioshi, in one of the last R Ps before the Exodus. Basically, trying to force the always mopey Kioshi into being capable of focusing his stress and pain outwards. This was implied by Loogs to be moreso the second type, but her connectivity suffered soon afterwards, possibly leading to an Aborted Arc.
 * Theme Deck: Zebedee can pretty much do anything that involves the manipulation of matter or energy. However, he pretty much sticks to illusions, gusts of wind, and holy energy attacks. Justified somewhat in the nonlethality/selective lethality of his preferred tricks.
 * Winged Humanoid: Subverted. Despite having an angelic motif, using several attacks with "Wings","Pinions", etc. in their names, and deriving his powers from a device disguised as a feather, he's never had even the illusion of wings.

(Sylvia) Natalie Ulima (Lee)
 * Action Girl
 * Adventure Duo: With Emily. Natalie's the serious Hero variant here, of course.
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Berserk Button: She, um, has a few. Mostly other characters. You know, like the Summoners. And Terrian. And... I could go on.


 * Flash Step
 * Healing Factor: When she changes form, her body recovers some damage in vital areas.
 * Hey, You
 * Hot Chick with a Sword
 * The McCoy: Conspicuously, she seems to be this without necessarily being The Heart of the Cherrygrove Alliance.
 * Primal Stance
 * Professional Killer: On occasion.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Rie. Best seen in their reactions to Ender's vanishing, where Natalie starts destroying furniture and chewing out everybody.
 * Shapeshifting
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Whip Sword: Natalie’s Sceard blade is usually this. It gets around the issues by sacrificing flexibility (it’s more bicycle chain than whip), and her powers allowing her to control it more precisely/repair it when it’s damaged.

Ender Kimoned (Choobs)
 * Achilles Heel: Those damn headaches.
 * Badass Longcoat: The board's standout example, for sure.
 * Big Eater: Justified by his enhanced metabolism.
 * Brilliant but Lazy
 * Cool Shades: He never, let me reiterate, NEVER takes them off except to sleep and to add drama to a scene. Or for Rie to wear.
 * Cool Sword: Made out of lightning! Demonic lightning!
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dry Docked Ship: With Rie. They tried dating years ago, but settled as friends.
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Hand Cannon: His weapon of choice.
 * Invisibility: By refracting light around his body. Neato.
 * Magitek: More like Psytek. His laptop can interface directly with the mind instead of the fingers. Only Ender’s mind though.
 * Meaningful Name: Spell his last name backwards.
 * (okay spell it with a c not a k you stutid fuckass)
 * Messy Hair: The can't be bothered variety.
 * Neutral Good
 * Pass the Popcorn
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Rie.
 * Playful Hacker
 * Psychic Powers
 * Ring of Power: The headache-soothing ring Valon gave him.
 * Shock and Awe: In his rarely-seen electricity demon form.
 * Teleport Spam: This one time he shot someone from six different places at the same time.
 * The Slacker
 * The Smart Guy
 * This Is Gonna Suck: Here.
 * Sunglasses At Night: And you know it ain’t ‘cuz his eyes are sensitive.
 * Unstoppable Rage: High anger or stress levels can release his ordinarily-denied dark powers. And That's Terrible.

Sly (Salon-Learwie-Yardic) (Bulbs)
 * Alien Among Us
 * Blood Brothers: With Valon.
 * Crouching Scholar Hidden Badass
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Gentleman and a Scholar
 * Healing Factor
 * Science Hero
 * Shapeshifting
 * The Smart Guy
 * The Spock: Sly is certainly not incapable of emotion but tends to play the superego.
 * Superior Species: In Sly's own view, at least. Even though he isn't a dick about it, Bulbs has indicated that he regards most humans as lower lifeforms. Zebedee is one exception.
 * Super Senses
 * Team Dad: To the Cherrygrove Alliance.
 * Of course, he's more than a spiritual father figure to Rick.
 * Techno Babble
 * Token Non-Human
 * The Wise Prince

Rick (Bulbs)
 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome
 * Black Magic
 * Enemy Without
 * Full-Contact Magic
 * Half-Human Hybrid: The other half is Andalite.
 * Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad
 * Man Hug: With Valon, here.
 * Missing Mom
 * Neutral Good
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Thyra Russell (Lee) "Used right, she's a subtle but powerful leader who can run events and play people without ever visibly seizing control of the situation. (I guess you could say her style is the ideal Biblical wife. Though not as overt as the male leader, she uses thrift, cunning, charisma, and raw talent to govern and protect her domain, all without abandoning her dignified nature.)"
 * Anchored Ship: Zebedee and Thyra are one of those "painfully slow" couples, who clearly think of the other one as their "one", but neither is very forthright about it, and they've had a total of one hug.
 * Angst? What Angst?: Thyra has surprised several readers with the fact that she typically doesn't gripe about her past. (Of course, it HAS been at least six years now since the incident.)
 * Barrier Warrior
 * Brats with Slingshots
 * Comm Links: Nice phone there, Thyra.
 * Doomed Hometown: Slateport.
 * Improbable Use of a Weapon: Her sling is apparently indestructable, leading to her using it as a garotte, a snare, and even for blocking swords.
 * Meganekko
 * Required Secondary Powers: Thyra’s forcefield powers cut off airflow when she uses them, providing a hard limit to an otherwise powerful defensive tool.
 * The Woobie
 * Silk Hiding Steel: From Lee's Formspring:

Mia (Bulbs)
 * Control Freak

Eragon (Prime)
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Unfortunate Names: This one has... certain associations.
 * You Gotta Have Azure Hair

"Rogues & Brogues"
An incumbent alliance to be solidified at the end of Ishkabibble. The organizer, Terrian, can duplicate himself and held items, including money, which in particular has made him a very hot topic in the underworld of the Archipelago. He's assembled these allies on the expectation that duplicates aren't going to cut it as far as protecting him from the more monstrous presences in the Archipelago, and that having some friends with their own supernatural powers and other skills would kinda help. Note: The name "Rogues & Brogues" is OOC-only, a handy way to refer to the group in RP discussion, but not used in-character.

Terrian Brogue (Pohatu)
 * Abnormal Ammo: Well, the Mage Masher loads normal bullets; it’s the gun itself that’s supernaturally enhanced. The effect is the same, though.
 * Action Survivor
 * Adventure Duo: With Nopcsa. They go back and forth on who's who, though.
 * Casual Danger Dialogue: Casual Danger Inner Narrative is equally common.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Reveals this mentality in his first formal battle. First he refuses to play along when Summer throws down seeds onto a glass floor; then, when the plants manage to sprout anyway, his duplicates fight back by throwing shoes at them.
 * This is likely to settle as Terrian's approach to combat, since he doesn't have the strength or skill to fight in a straightforward manner, and his power kind of amounts to an archetypal form of fighting dirty (ganging up) anyway.
 * Con Man
 * Doppelganger Attack
 * The Drag Along: In Whisper.
 * Fake Defector: In Triannual.
 * Hey, You: He and his duplicates address each other in thoughts this way.
 * I'm Having Soul Pains: From creating too many duplicates.
 * Lovable Traitor
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Magic Pants: It had to be handwaved at the outset that Terrian’s duplicating power reflexively extended to objects covering a certain amount of surface area of his skin, so that all the duplicates wouldn’t be naked. Now that he can duplicate anything he’s holding, the explanation isn’t so necessary.
 * Memetic Badass: Inverted. Terrian is treated as being pitifully weak and incapable of anything other than banter and negotiations in the discussion community. This is despite facing some pretty horrifying enemies and fighting Summer while getting whipped with a gigantic thorn covered vine.
 * Me's a Crowd
 * Money for Nothing: A huge development as of the Ulima Tournament. Pretty much starts half of Ishkabibble.
 * New Meat: In Triannual, along with Garth. Despite the jokes from other Fascere members, though, both are valued a little more highly than the trope suggests.
 * Omniglot: Alpha's sole raison d'etre is to move Terrian in this direction.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: "This."
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad: So much that he has a fad referencing his tendency to overwhelm topics.
 * This Is Gonna Suck: “Any time that Terrian has to make more than say, five duplicates at a time or so.” -Lee
 * True Neutral: A mix of Types 1, 2, and especially 7.
 * Twin Telepathy
 * Weirdness Magnet: He thinks of himself as this, but in all fairness, he isn’t exactly normal himself.
 * Zerg Rush

Blaise Euler (Lee)
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Crouching Scholar Hidden Badass
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Hot Scientist: Seriously, god damn.
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Meaningful Name
 * Memetic Sex Goddess
 * No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Since Blaise was forced to keep all of her most recent research exclusively on her uplink to stave off plagiarism, the destruction of said uplink set her back quite a long academic way... and down quite a few pegs in the eyes of her organization.
 * Of course, she does justify this with her claim that knowledge cannot be dispersed across too many media in her field of work, without creating the possibility of inadvertently empowering outside agents.
 * Pride Before a Fall
 * Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
 * The Smart Guy
 * The Spock
 * Sufficiently Analyzed Magic

Rie Nepas (Choobs) "Rie shifted in her makeshift bed. Good thing no one tried to wake her up for the Mage festival. She sure did hate magic."
 * Action Girl: A specialty of choobs.
 * Big Eater: Justified by her enhanced metabolism.
 * Black Cloak
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Combat Stilettos: Not her usual footwear, but she has a pair of high heels which she claims she's more than capable of employing for stabby purposes.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Does Not Like Magic: Because magic can hit her no matter what she does.

"A moment passed. Then the girl's hand shot up at the bottle of beer, snatched it out of Death's cold hands, and put the top through the back of her neck. She pulled out the bottle, now noticeably emptier but still just as closed, before popping up like nothing had happened."
 * Dry Docked Ship: With Ender. They tried dating years ago, but settled as friends.
 * Emotionless Girl: Subverted in End Game, but otherwise usually played straight.
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Healing Factor: Whenever she shapeshifts, any dislocated bones and overall structural damage gets fixed. However, she can't fix wounds, tears, or breaks in this way.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword: Not invoked as much as other RP ladies do, though. She has a sword, but she finds rifles to be more practical and knives to be more concealable, so swords are just inconvenient in every way.
 * Intangible Woman
 * Knife Nut: The amount of knives she keeps on her person has now reached 24. In her cloak is another story.
 * The Ladette: Kind of. She's not sexually charged at all. In fact, she tends to (violently) nip any flirting that someone else instigates in the bud.
 * Meaningful Name: It's French!
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Never Gets Drunk: Well, she can. She just has to try really hard.
 * Never Gets Drunk: Well, she can. She just has to try really hard.


 * Partial Transformation
 * Phantom Zone
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Ender.
 * Professional Killer
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Natalie. Best seen in their reactions to Ender's vanishing, where Rie goes borderline catatonic.
 * Shapeshifting
 * True Neutral: And how!

Jonas (Sly) "“Ello! You’re Terrian right? Come on in,” Jonas said as he moved his ample amount of body out of the doorway, “Ya remember me right? I’m da fella ya met da night dat… yeah…”"
 * The Big Guy: Class 2 variety, maybe bordering on Class 3.
 * Bruiser with a Soft Center: Not that there's any concealing that center. He's an intimidating force in a fight, but when the mood is peaceful, Jonas' warm and outgoing nature is immediately apparent.
 * Funetik Aksent: It's pretty hard to place with Jonas, though. Lower-class... something.


 * Large Ham
 * The Messiah
 * Neutral Good
 * Rubber Man
 * The Watson: For Sly and Merlin, here.

Rhys Sylas Whitticker (SV)
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * Living Shadow
 * Perpetual Poverty: May change post-Ishkabibble.
 * The Piano Player
 * The Quiet One
 * True Neutral
 * Stoic Spectacles

Alyssa Morrose (Blood)
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Does Not Like Shoes
 * Doomed Hometown: She sees it more as Where I Was Born and Razed, but there’s no evidence yet that she’s right.
 * Green Eyes
 * Knife Nut
 * Moe
 * Neutral Good
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Shrinking Violet

Flora Isobel (Lee)
 * And I Must Scream: Her fate after the Humanus Tournament, and the reason for Whisper In My Ear.
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: She wished for omniscience, and hoo boy, did she get it.
 * Blessed with Suck: Omniscience, without any filter. As of her last appearance, she had gone thoroughly catatonic.

South Pole Summoners
Miko (Lee) "Giant worm steaks with peanuts.
 * Anti-Villain
 * An Axe to Grind: Miko's primary weapon (until Summoner Style) was a hatchet. Now he's more into Good Old Fisticuffs.
 * Badass Decay: Was the case for a while, though between his fights with Rick and Vincent, he may be in recovery.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: An odd subversion. He's technically a villain, and technically blonde, but really neither.
 * Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: One of his summons, Dogolas.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Lethal Chef: Lee's response to the Formspring question "If Miko were on Iron Chef what would his dishes be like? Let's say the secret ingredient is peanuts":

Mushrooms stir fried with peanuts.

Peanuts with a side of fresh peanuts.

Peanut ice cream. With chopped peanuts."

"Miko's not exactly a great chef."


 * Limited Wardrobe
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Yoshimitsu (Elliot)
 * An Ice Person
 * Anime Hair
 * Author's Saving Throw: Yoshimitsu was panned for having too many powers in the Popularity Poll. One quick streamlining later, and the character is much more popular.
 * Blade Below the Shoulder: Seen in Sea God.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Cool Mask
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Dual-Wielding
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
 * Hair of Gold: Happens sometimes when he uses his powers, as here.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Playing with Fire
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Voice of the Legion: With the mask on.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Helen Mercury (Lee)
 * Anti-Villain
 * Beam Spam: In Light And Darkness Collide.
 * Calling Your Attacks: Not quite as straightforward with Helen as with other examples, of course.
 * Cute Witch
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Judging from the 2009 Character Popularity Poll results, Helen may easily be the darkhorse of Lee’s roster. She was ranked the third most popular of his characters (after Natalie and Zebedee, of course), beating out even the likes of Miko and Thyra, and tied with Ender and Rie for sixth most popular character overall (out of more than sixty). And this in spite of the fact that, at the time the poll began, she hadn’t appeared in any RPs since Chords and her fight with Rhys. Not bad for a character who started off as a minor Summoner.
 * Per the 2010 poll results, however, she's slipped a bit, and Nopcsa and Blaise look more like Lee's darkhorses. Even so, Helen still managed a more than respectable score.
 * Hot Witch: Depending on the portrayal. Pohatu's drawing dials it up as far as it's ever gone.
 * Magical Incantation
 * Magic Warrior
 * Neutral Good
 * Sublime Rhyme
 * What Have We Ear?: Chains, Lips, Voices concludes with this.

Tsubota (Lee)
 * Adventure Duo: With Joseph. Tsubota's the lighter-hearted Lancer type.
 * Anti-Villain
 * Barrier Warrior
 * Giant Spider: His summon.
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni when opposite Joseph.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Joseph Rednael (Lee)
 * Adventure Duo: With Tsubota. Joseph's the stoic Hero type.
 * Anti-Villain
 * Chaotic Neutral
 * Made of Iron
 * Molotov Cocktail
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni when opposite Tsubota.

Illiana Silna (Elliot) ""I was versatile. I picked up on both basic combat magic and basic healing magic, so I learned them both. I'm not as good as summoners fully trained in either, but I'm more useful sometimes. Everyone needs a bit of healing on the battle field.""
 * Combat Medic

"And because she was Illiana, she couldn't let an injured person stay injured while she was able to fix it."
 * Dragon Rider: Her summon (and sometime method of transport) is the wyvern Gi.
 * Good Lawyers, Good Clients: Played with in Obscured Truth. Illiana is the heroine, she's all good all the time, and she's the defense attorney. Her client, Antonio, is innocent... of the murder that kickstarts the story. He's just guilty of other things. Pretty important things, like being the Butterfly and stuff.
 * Magic Knight
 * Neutral Good: Illiana isn't here to enforce or break the rules, she's here to do the right thing. Exemplified in LTR when she finds Cesare bleeding from nose and foot injuries and promptly heals him with no pomp or circumstance.


 * Obscured Truth sees her tending toward Lawful Good, though, in that she's trying very hard to play by the rules and observe the proper procedures out of a desire to prove to Williams and his ilk that just because she's a Power doesn't mean she thinks she's above society's mores. (Especially with an important matter at hand like the murder of a policeman and framing of an innocent.)
 * Rebellious Middle-Class Girl
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Summer (Kevin)
 * Green Thumb
 * Man-Eating Plant
 * Sweet Tooth: Justified in that her species needs to consume a lot of sugar for energy.

Hector Avian Ryora Cruz (Lugiasian)
 * The Big Guy: Might not necessarily fit the spirit of this trope, but he is six foot five.
 * Elemental Punch
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Good Bad Bugs: In an attempt at an RPG, a misplaced file made Hector lie down to shoot fireballs at the enemy.
 * Good Flaws, Bad Flaws: Pretty much all of the good ones.
 * Idiot Hero
 * Latin Lover
 * Memetic Sex God: By hearing that Hector exists, you now are on his "To Do" list.
 * Outdated Outfit
 * Overly Long Name
 * Perpetual Molt
 * Playing with Fire
 * Winged Humanoid
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Cobra (Choobs)
 * Arch Enemy: To Ender.
 * Beta Test Baddie
 * For the Evulz
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Instant Knots
 * Meaningful Name
 * Not Brainwashed: At least, not completely.
 * Whip It Evil

Obsidian Hearts
George Buckland (Lee)
 * Batman Gambit: Manages one in Shattered.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Lawful Evil
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Man of Wealth and Taste
 * Subordinate Excuse: George seems to collect mostly female minions, for some reason...
 * Portal Cut: George’s signature non-burning technique. Natalie, Mark, and Zebedee are all capable as well, but tend not to use it.
 * War for Fun and Profit: After all, he’s an arms dealer.
 * Wicked Cultured

Emily (Clicker/Lee) ""No, no, I'd think I know if I was friends with a tick. But I never would be friends with a tick. It just wouldn't work out. I'd go 'Hey, wanna do each other's hair?', and he'd be all like 'Nah, I'm just gonna hang here like a forty year old living in my parents' basement while running a Transformers fan site, sucking blood off of the more active and useful people' and I'd be like--""
 * Adventure Duo: With Natalie. Emily's the quirky Lancer variant here, obviously.
 * Badass Normal
 * Carrying a Cake: Subverted in Triannual in that the cake she carries into the plot doesn't end up damaged or eaten or anything. She just leaves it on the side of the road and never mentions it again.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Triannual yields gems like this.


 * Combat Pragmatist: What do you do against a guy who’s got you in a full nelson but is sporting some open wounds?
 * The Ditz
 * Fake Defector: In Triannual.
 * Friend to All Living Things
 * Improbable Weapon User: Emily throws daggers... And toothpicks.
 * Knife Outline: Considering her cheerful nature and her competence with thrown weapons, it's only natural.
 * Neutral Good
 * Perky Female Minion
 * Plucky Girl

Bethold Verdigris (Lee)
 * Ace Pilot
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Real Robot

Lacianus "Lacy" Garrelcette (Lee)
 * Ace Pilot
 * Artificial Human
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Robot Girl
 * Those Wacky Nazis: She was constructed using a model Nazi pilot's genetic material preserved since 1940. Needless to say, this doesn't factor too heavily into her personality.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Drakengrad
Valon Lorsha (DL)
 * The Atoner: He massacred Neo Tech City while possessed, and now seeks to repent for it.
 * Bling of War
 * Blood Brothers: With Sly.
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Changing Clothes Is a Free Action
 * Cool Mask
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Dude wears a lot of black.
 * Dragon Rider
 * Extra Ore Dinary: Silver Magic grants control over precious metals.
 * Kamehame Hadoken: Grandeur Wave.
 * Man Hug: With Rick, here.
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Smug Super
 * Super Senses
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome
 * Warrior Prince
 * What's Up, King Dude?: Courtesy of the Cherrygrovers.
 * The Wise Prince

Marius (DL) ""By Aou'n, what's happened to her?""
 * The Beast Master: Snakes, specifically.
 * Bling of War
 * Empathy Pet: His Tracker dragon.
 * Foreign Cuss Word


 * Number Two

Avery (Iron Mouse) "This would be interesting. Avery frowned. Interesting things usually sucked for her."
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Weirdness Magnet

Sakura Alliance
Characters that generally dwell outside the Archipelago, in Japan and the neighboring islands. They're a diverse group with many varying ideologies, but generally tend towards the same goals. Characters who gravitate toward this group tend to have an anime-inspired pedigree (though not Rho & Hig and Vieve, who are pretty much just here by association with others in the group).

Achenes (Lee)
 * Action Girl
 * Cute Bruiser: Forms the Cute Bruiser / Lady of War dynamic with Masumi.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Good Old Fisticuffs
 * Hey, You
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse
 * Plucky Girl
 * Vacuum Hurricane Kick

Masumi (Kevin)
 * Action Girl
 * Bandage Babe: At the beginning of Kaida and the Amarante.
 * Big Badass Bird of Prey: Kaida.
 * Dragon Lady: Has the looks and the combat skill. Not sexually aggressive, though, from what we've seen.
 * Empathy Pet: Kaida again.
 * Everything's Better with Samurai: Justified as she does live in Japan.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Hot Chick with a Sword
 * Lady of War: Forms the Lady of War / Cute Bruiser dynamic with Achenes.
 * Marysumi: She's a Kevin character, so "unbelievably gorgeous, graceful, deadly warrior with no personal flaws" is par for the course... But we'll see what threatens this status in the future.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Kuro (Kuroboom)
 * Anime Hair
 * Black Eyes
 * Cool Shades
 * Deadly Upgrade
 * Long-Lost Relative: Wudge.
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Psychic Powers
 * The Unfavourite
 * Wild Child: He was raised by a pack of Abra and Kadabra.

Kara Kinkaryoh (Kara)
 * Alliterative Name
 * Ninja
 * Nostalgia Filter

Serpentei Kinkaryoh (Kara)
 * Baleful Polymorph: A curse transfigured him into "an extinct Pokemon that he bore the same name as, only able to assume humanoid form temporarily via ghostly powers". He got better.
 * Ninja
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Rhometer & Higgledy-Piggledy (Pohatu) "With one hand obscured behind a ridiculously overlong sleeve, he tipped his hat back. For a moment, his left pupil seemed to focus only on the bubble, instead of spiralling in and out from a central point to his widest ring of vision. ... Then he poked it. The bubble, I mean."
 * Ambiguous Innocence: Coming through more and more lately.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Happens twice in short succession in Mirror of Urakuni:

and "Then he slammed the pencil straight down through the katana onto the point where it was stabbed through the carpet. ... Or actually I guess he would have if the katana had kept occupying space in its previously established way but it didn't, really."

""The barterer said 'We don't serve seeking summers here' and the hooded man said 'I can't hear you' and the mirror said 'He says we don't serve abduckled children here' and the abducklinged children child said 'Help help, I'm being abduct-taped.'""
 * Chaotic Neutral / Lawful Neutral: Rho is the former, Hig is the latter.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Only Emily can give Rho a run for his money as RP's standout example.
 * Confusion Fu
 * Crazy Awesome
 * The Fool
 * Limited Wardrobe: Rho definitely fits this trope, wearing the exact same patched zoot suit in every RP.
 * Living Shadow
 * Nice Hat: A fedora full of bullet holes. Sweet.
 * Puppy Love: Rhometer/Vieve is a favorite ship, though nothing in the text yet indicates that they're more than friends. Both being cheerful, innocent spirits with shadow-based powers who take the form of human children despite being Really Seven Hundred Years Old, they're basically meant to be.
 * Reality Warper
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Shaggy Frog Story: Rhometer loves these!

""It's gonna be have will was been awesome""
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Time Travel Tense Trouble: Although it doesn't seem to bother Rhometer that much.

Vieve (Jennavieve) (Choobs) "She jumped backwards, her dress making it look like she floated, and landed next to Masumi. She squatted next to the ground and put her hand on her right hand on the tattoos on her left arm. With practiced ease, her fingers slid from symbol to symbol, weaving an intricate pattern, and leaving all that she touched glowing with what seemed to be a black aura. When she finished, she reached her right hand into her shadow and pulled up a black dagger with sky blue patterns engraved in it."
 * Cheerful Child
 * The Cutie
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Girl with Psycho Weapon

""It's not my weapon of choice, but it should do better against those clawy things," she said to Masumi, as if the woman actually cared or something."


 * Living Shadow
 * Parasol of Pain
 * Power Tattoo: Tattoos cover her left arm. As seen in the quote above, they're tied into her powers somehow.
 * Puppy Love: See Rhometer.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old

Giarrettiera Family/Ecruteak
The Giarrettiera family is a Mafia branch centered in (and, for the most part, controlling) Ecruteak City. The titular brothers have commanded the organization since the as-yet-unelucidated death of their father, the austere Lucio Giarrettiera. Eldest son Massimo is now the don, with younger brothers Cesare and Nico as his capos. This section also includes others who work and/or live in Ecruteak, many of whom interact with the Giarrettiera family, though obviously excluding the Rogues & Brogues (who are also based in the area).

Massimo Giarrettiera (Pohatu)
 * Big, Thin, Short Trio: Massimo's the short one obviously. But he is definitely not the "grumpy" one as the trope suggests.
 * Cain and Abel: Massimo half-jokingly ponders murdering his irresponsible and destructive younger brother Cesare many times.
 * The Dutiful Son: So dutiful he had no problem ratting out his younger brothers' misdeeds to father Lucio when they were kids.
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
 * Lawful Evil
 * Man of Wealth and Taste
 * Mister Big
 * Power Trio: The G-Bros fit this to a tee. Massimo is the engaging, extroverted ego.
 * Shorter Means Better-Read And More Articulate
 * Wicked Well-Read And Articulate

Cesare Giarrettiera (Pohatu) "Cesare chuckled. He didn't know why. Just seemed funny all of a sudden. Even the part where he and Nico'd gotten a beating and lived on bread and water for three days. Even how Nico wouldn't so much as look at him for a week after that. He took another sip and grinned. That was dad. See maybe Cesare was supposed to have some Edible complex or whatever now, getting beaten as a kid and all, but f* ck, that was just his dad. Lucio Giarrettiera'd been a bastard all right, but he'd known how it was, the whole thing. He'd understood. And he might not have taught Nico, and he definitely hadn't taught Massimo, how it was, but he'd taught Cesare. Life lesson number one, father to son: rule by goddamned force. How did you run a ship? By being the hardest sonofabitch on board. If that meant knocking a couple teeth out when your sons stepped out of line, so f* cking be it. Massimo'd never figured that out. Massimo thought he could rule the organization by talking his way through everything. There you go. That explained what a shitty don he was. Right there in a nutshell."
 * Abusive Father: All three obviously had this, but Cesare is suggested to have been the main recipient of the late Don Lucio's disciplinarian methods. Oddly enough, though, Cesare now only seems to admire him more for it.


 * The Big Guy: Class 1 variety.
 * Big, Thin, Short Trio: Cesare's the big one obviously. But he definitely is not the "good-natured" one as the trope suggests.
 * Cluster F-Bomb
 * Drives Like Crazy
 * Even Evil Has Standards: By all appearances, Cesare's the most violent and brutal member of his mafia family. For whatever reason, though, once Nopcsa tricks him into thinking Prime is slaughtering innocent people aboard the King Thomas, Cesare goes into full-on (completely misguided and mostly ineffectual) hero mode.
 * Expy: The Giarrettieras in general recall the Gandors from Baccano, but Cesare's resemblance to Berga is the most pronounced.
 * Face of a Thug
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Jerkass: And how!
 * Middle Child Syndrome: Might have influenced Cesare's upbringing, although he was clearly something of an active troublemaker, not a mere passive target of neglect.
 * Neutral Evil: That he's the only non-lawful Giarrettiera accounts for much of the friction between him and his siblings.
 * Power Trio: The G-Bros fit this to a tee. Cesare is the insolent, impulsive id.

Nico Giarrettiera (Pohatu) ""You want to put that little theory to the test, fatass?" Cesare growled, bringing up his gun for the first time. ... Without missing a beat, the youngest brother said to Jonas, "Cesare's simply curious how it was that Vinnie, Phil and Dom's visit degraded into a shootout. He'd like to know how the scene played out. He also considers you disastrously overweight.""
 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Big, Thin, Short Trio: Nico's the thin one obviously. Unlike with the other two, there doesn't seem to be any "thin guy" pattern for him to subvert.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Ordinarily Nico meticulously averts this (he's got the deadpan without the snark), but he isn't above slipping in a jab or two, and not even only at Cesare's expense:

"To say this would not do wasn't quite putting it in enough detail. This would be undone. Nullified. Stricken from the record . . . There was simply not a man capable of getting the better of the Giarrettieras, not like this. By plotting, by calculation, by preparation, yes, perhaps some temporary victory could be scored; Nico had no reason to pretend to himself no enemy had ever thwarted their family in such a way. But not this crude animal act of larceny, this simple movement of the hand. There was no man who could profit off the Giarrettieras with such a gesture. And if he dared flatter himself that he'd managed it, such a man thought so only because he could not yet apprehend the full picture and his imminent correction."
 * Death Glare
 * The Determinator: He starts showing very faint signs of this when reflecting on the fact that :

"The bespectacled man said, quite clearly: "I don't give a shit about your money.""
 * Evil Debt Collector
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Lawful Evil
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Perpetual Frowner: Though it mostly takes the form of a faintly judgemental glower.
 * Power Trio: The G-Bros fit this to a tee. Nico is the soft-spoken, secretive superego.
 * Precision F-Strike: Played for contrast to Cesare's much more liberal approach to swearing. Onscreen, Nico has only sworn once so far:

""Mr. Gaussier, drink and drunkards sicken me. The smell of alcohol already festers in every corner of my life and I see no reason to add your poison of choice to the stench.""
 * The Quiet One: Oh, boy.
 * However, the short story Muddy Season demonstrates him actually being fairly talkative and eloquent, in the car with Cesare . It seems, at least, that when Cesare's around but Massimo isn't, Nico feels the need to handle most of the talking, as he's much more articulate than the middle brother.
 * Right-Hand Hottie
 * Soft Spoken Sadist
 * Straight Edge Evil: Nico despises any alcohol stronger than wine and dismisses anyone who drinks it as a "vulgar animal". It's safe to say he probably feels similarly on the issue of drugs.


 * When He Smiles: Thoroughly subverted in Muddy Season. Nico (along with Cesare) actually does laugh aloud, and it's unexpected, and it's genuine... and it does nothing at all to soften his countenance from then on.

Yoon Mangjeol (Pohatu) An information broker who spends her nights in the Passione Rossa, a favorite bar of the Giarrettiera family. She's very polite and very charming and you should not be fooled. Yoon has the dirt on everyone of interest in Ecruteak, and her knowledge extends quite far outside that range. When criminals, the local police, or any of the shifty characters in between want to buy or sell some information on each others' activities, Yoon's the one they go to first.
 * Because I'm Good At It
 * Broken Bird
 * Damsel Errant
 * I Was Quite a Looker
 * Jerkass Woobie: Although Stepford Woobie would probably be a little more accurate.
 * Knowledge Broker
 * Lady Drunk: At her darker hours.
 * Manipulative Bitch: Hinted at faintly in the text, but much more strongly on Formspring, where Pohatu has suggested that
 * She also Yoon is not really the nicest person ever.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Probably when she was younger.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Let's brush up on Yoon's history so far. In Ishkabibble, she buys some information off Nico. Pretty soon she'll sell some (unrelated) information to Natalie, and at the end . So far, so normal. In Burgled Boullogne, she categorically denies Renard's claim that she was at the Gallery, tampers with his evidence that proves otherwise, and just generally brings his whole investigation to a standstill and makes the detective seriously question his own sanity... while subtly mocking him the whole time. And all just because Renard wasn't careful enough to make it clear before asking any questions that he didn't suspect her of stealing Le roi Midas.
 * True Neutral
 * Two Shots From Behind the Bar: The bartender, Howard, is prepared with a rifle to defend Yoon should any of her clients lose their tempers. In fact, he also has a private arrangement to defend waitress Allison from her own potential threats.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Renard Rouletabille (Pohatu): An Amateur Sleuth of French descent and nineteenth-century sensibilities who bumbles his way through solving mysteries in Ecruteak City despite his services having been thoroughly disavowed by the police department. You can't really blame Commissioner Williams for feeling better off without Renard's help, but the detective has just slightly more brains and tricks than he generally lets on. ""Oh my god seriously you are the worst liar ever," Channery observed, cutting him off. "Wait, so, did they -- did they actually go in and like, drill the lying parts out of your brain, or what? Are you some kind of truth cyborg? 'Cause it looks like you're really going against your programming, here, slinging all this bullshit my way.""
 * Alliterative Name
 * Amnesia Danger: In Burgled Boullogne, the danger of being (GASP).
 * Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
 * Badass Moustache
 * Bad Liar: Very strongly portrayed as such throughout most of Boullogne. Channery sums it up:


 * Bubble Pipe: Except when it's filled with bubble juice, it produces smoke, and when it's filled with tobacco, it produces bubbles. And this is true of every pipe and brand of bubble juice and tobacco Renard's ever tried. Were you wondering whether there's any logical explanation for this? Sorry.
 * Clueless Detective
 * Genius Ditz: Hoo boy.
 * Good Old Ways
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
 * Gratuitous French
 * Hero with Bad Publicity: Renard exiled himself from Europe because his overzealously publicized manhunt for a certain criminal backfired after other investigators started suspecting that Renard might secretly be the criminal in question.
 * My Car Hates Me: Actually, despite all of Renard's narrative assurances that his small black automobile is temperamental and often refuses to work, it never breaks down of its own accord in Burgled Boullogne.
 * Photographic Memory: Once he's actually tried to memorize something.
 * The Rainman
 * Rummage Fail: He's actually surprisingly good at averting this most of the time, but he'll occasionally pull too much out of his pockets.
 * Smoke Out: Renard cleverly exploits the bubble juice/tobacco duality, tossing his bottle of bubble juice onto the floor to act as a makeshift smoke bomb.

Channery Keigler (Pohatu) ""Actually I guess you could take someone's eyeball out with this," Channery said upon further reflection, holding the knife up to the light. "I mean, you couldn't. You're a pushover. I could. Maybe. Never tried it but I feel like it's a pretty simple concept. Kind of..." She stabbed the butter knife forward in the air and made a scooping twist. Renard pressed himself as far back into his seat as possible. "Kind of like that. I don't know. Whatever.""
 * Action Girl: To the point that she verges on an Affectionate Parody of similar characters on the forum.

""[Williams] doesn't really do the whole subtlety... thing.""
 * Batter Up
 * Buffy-Speak: She might be playing this up deliberately for effect, though.


 * Canis Major: Micmac the Caucasian Shepherd. A Big Friendly Dog by default, but he has no problem switching to Angry Guard Dog mode.
 * Chaotic Neutral
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: This is one of the most common applications of her power. She can appear to pull weapons out of nowhere, when in reality she's fetching them from her house. The drawback is that unlike most such uses of the trope, Channery can't use her power to put back anything she's fetched.
 * Improvised Weaponry
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Morality Pet: A literal pet, Micmac.
 * Neat Freak: Justified by the fact that her power requires her to know roughly where an item is in order to retrieve it. This means she's gotten a little obsessive about placing her possessions in tidy, easy-to-remember locations around the house, even though personality-wise she doesn't fit the stereotypical Neat Freak at all.
 * The Nicknamer: To her, Renard Rouletabille is not "Renard Rouletabille", he is "Rules".
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers: She doesn't exactly see much wrong with the whole "theft" bit.
 * Sympathetic Criminal: Strangely, she comes off as this even though she doesn't show any trappings of a Justified Criminal. There's no evidence that she was driven to a life of crime by anything but her own selfish desires, but her chummy demeanor and sincere bond with Micmac make her pretty hard to dislike.
 * Tsundere: Her dynamic with Renard approaches this, although it's staked on friendship instead of romance.
 * Wrench Wench

Commissioner Perry Williams (Pohatu) "The other man, despite his admonishment, was now himself standing up out of his seat. His profile was quite imposing under the flourescent light overhead. "Come on, Rouletabille," he said in a low voice. "It was a Power, wasn't it? More than one? How many? Tell me. I need details. We're gonna turn this city inside-out. We need to send their kind a message: They can't fuck with us like that." He strode around the desk and patted Micmac on the head again. His expression however was not as relaxed as before. "If one of 'em screws me over, I'm gonna take down three of 'em. If three of 'em screw me over, I'm gonna take down twenty of 'em. It's the only way, Rouletabille. You can't make a single Power pay for his crimes. All you can do is discipline the group. Make any infraction a betrayal against their whole kind. There's no other way to keep them at peace, Rouletabille. Because those assholes are not like you and me.""
 * Bald Black Leader Guy
 * Bald Of Antagonistic
 * Berserk Button: Powers and cheaters. Cheating Powers win the triple score.
 * Fantastic Racism
 * Good Cop, Bad Cop: Williams is always the bad cop, whether Davidson or Landsvale is pulling good cop duty. Well, "always" as long as there's actually a criminal, Power, or eccentric like Renard around to antagonize. Faced with normal, innocent civilians like the Odios, Williams is a much more pleasant guy.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Hero Antagonist: To Antonio in Obscured Truth, although that depends on how much you view Antonio as the protagonist in the first place. The role suits Williams less with regard to Illiana and Yoshimitsu, since in relatively short order he stops treating them (especially Illiana) as enemies.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He softened on Renard a little toward the end of Burgled Boullogne, but more importantly, Obscured Truth has already been doing a lot to pick apart his bigoted attitude, emphasizing his sympathy for and protectiveness of innocent civilians who really have had their livelihoods ruined by Powers, and setting him opposite Powers whom he has valid reasons to fear and distrust.
 * Knight Templar
 * Lawful Neutral: No matter how much he'd like to consider himself Lawful Good.
 * Noble Bigot with a Badge
 * Overprotective Dad: at worst, and...
 * Papa Wolf: at best.
 * Properly Paranoid: He's installed multiple hidden surveillance cameras in his own office. He is also the highest-ranking police officer in a city rife with organized criminals and delinquent Powers. Williams probably isn't wrong for guessing there are many out there who'd like to put a few scars in what the people of Ecruteak see as the face of the law.
 * Scary Black Man: His scariness mostly has to do with his vendetta against Powers, but Pohatu is not above also drawing on the fact that he does indeed happen to be a black man of larger-than-average height and width.


 * Superficially Unlikeable Character Is A Doting Father
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Inspector Denham Landsvale (Pohatu) A new arrival in Ecruteak as of Burgled Boullogne, Landsvale has been transferred there to replace Davidson. He carries on in Davidson's footsteps as being the Good Cop to Williams' Bad Cop, but has a quite distinct personality: soft-spoken, world-weary, and very avoidant. Taking down criminals is one thing, but in moments of interpersonal confrontation, Inspector Landsvale is as meek as a lamb. ""He wanted to check it out. Didn't think it was worth telling him no.""
 * Blue Eyes: Sort of class 3.
 * By-The-Book Cop
 * Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
 * Extreme Doormat: Landsvale has a really, really hard time denying any request or command. This doesn't just apply to orders from Williams, either; Landsvale puts up no resistance when Renard treads onto the crime scene to investigate the space where the burgled Boullogne hung.


 * Friend on the Force: To Renard.
 * The Insomniac: Also the third variety.
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Let's Be Slightly Less Of A Pushover: Landsvale carries himself with a fair bit more firmness and resolve than expected in the confrontation with Dacten, even building up to a pretty significant Armor-Piercing Observation that sets a personal record for boldness.
 * Meaningful Name
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Verbal Tic: He almost never speaks in complete sentences. Dropping "I", "I'm", etc. at the beginnings of sentences is particularly common (i.e. "Think Williams sort of misunderstood me", "Didn't feel like arguing though", etc).

Roufus Mayordomo (Pohatu)
 * Angry Black Man: Apparently averted so far, despite him falling in the right age range and economic class for it.
 * Cell Phone: Mayordomo loves him his cell phone.
 * Cool Shades
 * The Heart: A pretty stark parody. Mayordomo just wants everyone -- his employer, Yoon, Kaina'mei -- to get along. They'd all be happier if they had nothing to do with one another, though.
 * Hidden Depths: Intentionally invoked and discussed while he's talking to Yoon during the story "Muddy Season". The hidden depth that Mayordomo chooses to reveal at that time is a from-childhood penchant for Universal Horror.
 * Jive Turkey: Also mostly averted, despite his obvious influence by similar characters. There's the Verbal Tic mentioned below, as well as his tendency to drop "-ing"s into "-in'"s and to never use the word "have" when "got" will do, but his speech is by and large devoid of specifically urban slang.
 * Meaningful Name
 * Mysterious Employer: Though Yoon and Mayordomo make explicit reference to his employer during both An August Luncheon and Muddy Season, they've conveniently failed so far to name this figure.
 * Neutral Evil: But such a swell guy!
 * Soul Brotha
 * Verbal Tic: "Hey,..."
 * Verbal Tic: "Hey,..."

Inspector Seth Davidson (Pohatu): Williams' right-hand man in investigating the Hotel Ansonia affair. A generally decent and open-minded man in comparison to Williams' impatient and Power-hating attitude.
 * By-The-Book Cop
 * Cold-Blooded Torture: At Lucas' hands.

The Curator (Mr. Wood) (Elliot) "Clearly he was upset about something, and it did not take a genius to figure out what. Every member of staff so far had been the unwilling recipient of the Curator's Wrath."
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: As of the 2010 poll, he's Elliot's most popular character by a wide margin after Yoshimitsu, and the most popular walk-on character created for Burgled Boullogne by a respectable margin as well. Overall, he's well at the upper end of the spectrum, and this from two decent-length posts.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper

""No, no, no, no, no! This simply will not do!""
 * Incoming Ham


 * Large Ham
 * The Master The Curator: No one but his secretary calls him Mr. Wood. Even in narrative, he is known by one name only.
 * The Napoleon

Vinnie, Phil & Dom (Pohatu)
 * Alas, Poor Villain: Not invoked too heavily, but


 * The Big Guy: Dom. It seems every Pohatu group requires one of these.
 * Butt Monkey: It really sucks to be these guys.
 * Dumb Muscle: Dom most of all, but all three are functionally this.
 * Face of a Thug: All three.
 * Lawful Evil
 * Mooks
 * : Cesare mentions them in Muddy Season, which takes place two years prior to "the present day" -- probably between half a year and a year prior to Ishkabibble.
 * Terrible Trio
 * Underdogs Never Lose: Oh wait. Averted like hell.
 * Voice Shift: A very abrupt and jarring one after Vinnie's . Compare the spoilered sample above to, well, anything he thinks or says in the rest of the story.
 * Terrible Trio
 * Underdogs Never Lose: Oh wait. Averted like hell.
 * Voice Shift: A very abrupt and jarring one after Vinnie's . Compare the spoilered sample above to, well, anything he thinks or says in the rest of the story.

Delfino Alliance
A group of people (and other species) typically more concerned with the sanctity of nature than with the well being of humanity. They tend to fall on the good side of things, though typically just due to social connections or protecting the land than any kindness on their parts.

Albatross Trevelyan (Kevin) ""Shouting my attacks give me 30% more effectiveness" Al thought to himself."
 * The Big Guy: Class 2 variety.
 * Blade on a Stick
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Elemental Punch
 * Full-Contact Magic
 * Hula and Luaus
 * Making a Splash
 * Neutral Good
 * No Indoor Voice: Mentioned in Sea God.

Maude (Lee)
 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome
 * Western Zodiac
 * Winged Humanoid

Mr. Rabbit (Blood)
 * Base Breaker: One of the more polarizing characters as of the 2010 popularity poll. Mr. Rabbit has both enthusiastic supporters who embrace his offbeat composition, and detractors who consider him a Lethal Joke Character but fail to find the joke funny.
 * Killer Rabbit

Flint (Shoni)
 * Bow and Sword In Accord: Using his powers to switch between the two on the fly, no less.
 * An Ice Person
 * Super-Powered Evil Side

Fascere Order
Nopcsa (Lee) ""Hey, sexy.""
 * Adventure Duo: With Terrian. They go back and forth on who's who, though.
 * Ascended Extra: Nopcsa wasn't originally slated to appear past Triannual, but Lee now considers him a second-tier character. Between Emet, Bows, and Ishkabibble, Nopcsa's easily the most prominent representative of the Fascere Order.
 * Chaotic Neutral
 * Foe Yay: With Prime. Basically Nopcsa loves the yay.


 * The Gadfly
 * Guile Hero
 * Ho Yay: Lee intentionally plays this up in Nopcsa's interactions with Terrian, but it's stated to be just one of Nopcsa's tactics to keep people off balance.
 * Man in White
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships: So, is he paired with Terrian? Or Telrien? Or maybe Garth? How about Rhys? Or maybe Ender? Or Prime? Or maybe even Sikes?
 * Mind Game Ship: Pretty much any relationship he could possibly have falls under this.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Some confusion in Triannual as to whether the name ended in "-csa" or "-sca". An adjustment to the censored words list resolved this problem in one stroke.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He can do these quite well, but only bothers when he knows it'll affect his opponent in the first place.
 * Trash Talk: Pretty much Nopcsa's weapon of choice.

Garth Firbolg (Lee)
 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: Subverted in how not awesome his amulet turns out to be.
 * Butt Monkey: It seems that Garth is only the center of attention when he's on the receiving end of insults.
 * Fake Defector: In Triannual.
 * Glass Cannon: Garth's powers make him an offensive match for almost any Power in Cherrygrove. However, defensively, he's merely a sickly teenager with no combat training. (That's not even mentioning the otherside effects of his powers.)
 * Let's Get Dangerous
 * Neutral Good
 * New Meat: In Triannual, along with Terrian. Despite the jokes from other Fascere members, though, both are valued a little more highly than the trope suggests.
 * Sailor Earth: Garth's Zodiac disc corresponds to Ophiuchus the Serpent, the little-known thirteenth Zodiac sign.
 * Technicolor Fire: A whole spectrum's worth, in fact.
 * Western Zodiac

Telrien Wallen (Cendra) "“I haven't had time to finish this one quite yet, but basically it will hold a strong acid that, once injected into the target, will deteriorate the tissue around it quickly. The green one, here, makes you delusional, as if just the plain impact wasn't enough to startle you. The black one is set with springs, of sorts, and once in the target, lets loose these three prongs that make up the arrow head.” As a demonstration Telrien took her fork and set off the trigger. The sharp sides jumped forward with a snap making it look like a mini grappling hook. She looked pleased with herself as she set it back on the table. Then she turned to the fourth one."
 * The Archer
 * Sticky Fingers
 * True Neutral
 * Trick Arrow: A handful.

"“And the plain looking, white one, well, that's a secret.”"

Auguste Tylor (Lee)
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: Projects this image, at least.
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Man in White
 * Nebulous Evil Organisation: Subverted. The Fascere Order was played up as such in Triannual through speculation on the part of Natalie and other characters, then revealed to be a shifty and amoral but ultimately non-malevolent enterprise.
 * Course, there are definitely at least a few outright villains among its ranks...

Nachoset (Lee)
 * Lawful Evil
 * War for Fun and Profit: Nachoset is implied to be the head of handling this for the Fascere Order.

Basilisk (Lee)
 * Evil Eye
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom

"Cardsharks"
A gang of large-scale robbers who do most of their business in the British Isles and on the continent, but who've recently sojourned to the Archipelago. While most of the members are normal humans, their leader the King of Clubs uses conjuring and memory-wiping arts to ensure their heists go off without a hitch. Needless to say, they're all Evil Brits, although only the King of Clubs qualifies as a Quintessential British Gentleman. ("Cardsharks", like "Rogues & Brogues", is an informal means of referring to the group, not necessarily used in-story.)

Charles Tanner / The King of Clubs (Pohatu) "Freezing rain battered the manor of dark red stone, a rain so heavy it nearly threatened to cave in the roof of the other tower, much as that of the tower on one end had long since crumbled away. This would have been simple enough to repair, had the inhabitants not held the belief -- for all their desire otherwise for isolation -- that the building had to contain a flaw, a gap, to permit the ebbing in and out of the world's magical forces. So the western tower stood breached, with only a thin black canvas stretched over the aperture to keep out the baser elements. Great drops of rain rolled down the canvas and dripped onto the stone walls and the windows obscured by dark curtains... Tanner blinked the mental image away."
 * Affably Evil
 * Card Sharp
 * Chaotic Evil
 * Establishing Character Moment: His debut in LAR is pretty thorough.
 * Evil Cripple: Subverted. The jewelled cane is his sigil -- an item which channels and supports his magical power in his old age -- but Tanner is able to carry himself and walk around perfectly without it.
 * Freudian Excuse
 * Friendly Enemy: Tanner seems to have a fixation on filling this role.
 * The Gambler
 * Gentleman Thief
 * Man in White
 * Man of Wealth and Taste
 * Meaningful Name: "Charles Tanner" is meant to suggest "charlatan". This may have been deliberately invoked, since it's assumed that "Charles" and/or "Tanner" may be false names.
 * Old Dark House: He grew up in one.


 * Pet the Dog: Awww.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers one to Prime in Shrinking Feeling after he administers Alyssa some Worst Aid.
 * Wicked Cultured



Florence (Flo) Pendlebury (Pohatu) ""It's tacky," she declared softly after a moment. "Look't those sequins. Pick this out of the gutter after Mardi Gras, did 'e? The real Butterfly wouldn't be caught dead wearin'...""
 * Daddy's Little Villain: She's kind of this to Tanner, even though they're not actually related.
 * The Fashionista: Not an extreme example, but she certainly doesn't mind passing judgement on Blaise's lab attire and those silly test tubes in her hair. She doesn't have any reservations about ragging on Antonio's half butterfly mask, either.

""does cutesily Ship Teasing reprehensible criminals strike you as a one-hundred-percent moral and defensible action?"
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Flo and Hugh are a toned-down version of this trope.
 * Minion Shipping: With Hugh. Lampshaded on Pohatu's Formspring with this question he asked himself:

"amazing question! yes it does""


 * Neutral Evil
 * Perky Female Minion

Hugh Oakshott (Pohatu)
 * The Big Guy: Class 4.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Flo and Hugh are a toned-down version of this trope.
 * Jerk Jock
 * Minion Shipping: See above.
 * Neutral Evil

Sikes (Pohatu)
 * Chaotic Neutral: Falls short of being evil. He's just not comfortable enough trying to take a life.
 * Cluster F-Bomb
 * Doesn't Like Guns: But will try his best at shooting them.
 * Fashion Victim Villain: Damn, that's a lot of piercings.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain

Joyeuse Anti-Insurgency Services


Daniel Huckabee (Biscuit)
 * Badass Bookworm: As an English teacher by day and hitman by night, he'd kind of have to be, wouldn't he?
 * Because I'm Good At It

"'Last week I shot a diplomat between the eyes from eight hundred yards and was back home in time to feed the dog and write up my lesson plans for Monday's class. The week before I quelled an uprising of seditious rebels who were poised to topple a major government with incriminating pictures of one of its party heads. I can't say which one, but if you've seen the news, you can probably guess. I left Friday at 3:30 and was back in the door at 8:00 Sunday night. If there's one part of my life I can make work, it's that. I was raised to be punctual.'"
 * Cool Old Guy: At forty-six, it's hard to justify Daniel for this trope. But killing for twenty-five years can age a man, and it certainly has taken its toll on our bespectacled anti-hero. He's got enough wisdom and experience for twenty lifetimes.
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Neutral Evil: I mean, he is a hired killer.
 * Professional Killer
 * Schedule Fanatic: Possibly. See the quote below.
 * Those Two Hitmen
 * Triple Shifter

Rance West (Ninety)


 * Cool Horse: Two, actually. Cope the black Azteca and Dante the American Quarter.
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Neutral Evil: See Huckabee.
 * Professional Killer
 * Smoking Is Cool
 * Those Two Hitmen
 * Young Gun

Albert Rook / Blackbird (Biscuit)


 * Grim Reaper: Tall, clad in black, carries a large metallic weapon, cannot be reasoned with at all. Hm.
 * Hero-Killer: This has never been more true. Whereas many might weave together demigods and demons and every Gary Stu imaginable to create what they consider to be the End All, Be All of supreme characters, Blackbird needs no such luxuries. He is simple and direct - and that, my friends, is what makes him so terrifying. When the Blackbird comes, people WILL die.
 * Knife Nut: A jambiya, to be precise.
 * Professional Killer
 * Scarily Competent Tracker: If you turn around and discover the Blackbird has been following you, you'll also discover that you've been dead for quite some time now.
 * Professional Killer
 * Scarily Competent Tracker: If you turn around and discover the Blackbird has been following you, you'll also discover that you've been dead for quite some time now.

Miscellaneous Good Guys


Prime (Pardas Rafe Idris Magnus Elder) (Prime)
 * The Ace: Before his reboot, at least.
 * Badass Biker
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Normal: Currently.
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Deadly Upgrade
 * Fake Defector: In Triannual.
 * Fun with Acronyms
 * A God Am I
 * Leeroy Jenkins: Came close in Triannual. Natalie's initiating the attack saved him from this label, however.
 * Multi Melee Master
 * Neutral Good
 * One-Man Army
 * Overly Long Name
 * Reality Warper
 * Smug Super
 * Story-Breaker Power: Single handedly almost ruined Chords in an Ethereal Harp. Fortunately, the author's gotten much, MUCH better about this.

Aquara Oceanara (Kevin)
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Elemental Punch
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Meaningful Name: Yep, you guessed it. Aquara is associated with fire! Oh wait.
 * Meganekko
 * Supernatural Martial Arts
 * Vacuum Hurricane Kick
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Nick Taruic (Choobs)
 * Alchemy Is Magic
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Curious as a Monkey
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Half-Human Hybrid: Well, more than half human. He's one-eighth goblin, though.
 * Hollywood Cyborg
 * Nanomachines

Felix (Elliot)
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
 * Hangover Sensitivity

Esther Damrosch (Pohatu) "The girl's next rapid-fire question, without the merest smirk or arched eyebrow, was: "Is she here with you?"
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Blessed with Suck: Her branch of magic, logomachy, derives its power from her vocabulary. That would be awesome for her if she didn't hate heavy reading. She obsessively tears through books for new words while rarely particularly enjoying and understanding the material.
 * Formulaic Magic: Logomachy combines this and Words Can Break My Bones, below.
 * Informed Judaism
 * Innocent Flower Girl: Her first onscreen spell, based on the word "floriferous", causes her debut to carry some shades of this.
 * Messy Hair
 * Motor Mouth: An unusual example: she speaks extremely quickly, but she's not actually talkative -- anything but, in fact. She's usually quite terse and tight-lipped.
 * Neutral Good
 * Petal Power: Subverted by her first spell, based on "floriferous": chains of flowers blossom forth from her hand, but they appear to be completely useless. She plainly isn't too bent up about expending the word once she sees its effect.
 * Shipper on Deck: In her opening conversation with Terrian, a question of hers implies she's taken him and Blaise to be a couple. Terrian's response doesn't do much to clear the air:

Terrian blinked. Then he laughed. "What? Oh -- No! No no. She's in America. The States, I mean. She's not -- here. No. I don't think so, anyway. Maybe she is! I'm not sure. Haha.""

"Well, so what if he looked like a ghost? She wasn't afraid of ghosts. She thought the only people who were afraid of ghosts were the people who didn't believe they really existed. So they were afraid of how wrong it would seem if they actually saw one. The girl had never seen a ghost but she knew perfectly well they existed and so she wasn't scared of them."
 * Ship Tease:
 * Strange Girl: Her younger self portrayed in an LTR flashback echoes this trope, if subtly for the most part. An explicit note:


 * Sweater Girl
 * Words Can Break My Bones: Logomachy combines this and Formulaic Magic, above.

Jacqueline (Kuroboom)
 * Cute Mute
 * Neutral Good

Annanias (Kevin)
 * Fruit of the Loon
 * Hula and Luaus

Dracon (Kevin)
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons
 * Shapeshifting

Detective Ods (Lee)
 * Badass Longcoat

Miscellaneous Bad Guys
Lucas (Prime/Biscuit) "'It wasn't so bad, though, was it? I mean, we had fun,' he nodded his head to Scar, 'and what's a little violence between friends?'"
 * Ax Crazy
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Chaotic Evil
 * Combat Sadomasochist
 * Comedic Sociopathy


 * Depending on the Writer: Lucas seems to only use his powers when written by Prime, which Biscuit admits to being due to a personal distaste of his.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Lucas was already Prime's most popular character by a wide margin in the 2009 popularity poll (his score was 23; Prime's second most popular character was Ryuu with 14) and in the top ten most popular characters overall. This was pretty much based entirely on his exchange with Scar in the first part of Because It's Interesting. Now that Biscuit has taken over the character for the rest of Ishkabibble (and possibly beyond)... the fandom has rejoiced.
 * Expy: It's not overwhelming, but Lucas definitely seems to echo The Joker in a few ways (especially the Ledger version), albeit without the Monster Clown motif.
 * For the Evulz
 * Laughably Evil
 * Slasher Smile

Scar (Kuroboom)
 * The Big Guy: Class 1 variety.
 * BFS
 * Black Eyes of Evil
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * For the Evulz
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: Guess which kind Scar has. Guess! No peeking 'til you've guessed!
 * How Much More Can He Take?: His fight with the immortal Eragon has this in droves.
 * Super Strength

Mandelbrot (Choobs)
 * Ax Crazy
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Abnormal: The only superhuman power Mandelbrot has ever used is the ability to travel through mirrors. Otherwise, the killer goes into a fight with nothing but extensive research, bloodlust, and a knife. It once brought out explosive glowsticks.
 * The Blank: Mandelbrot wears a white cloth mask. The only defining feature is a black mandelbrot meticulously painted on the forehead.
 * Creepy Monotone: And how!
 * Gender Neutral Writing: It's only ever referred to as "it."
 * Implacable Man
 * Mask of Power
 * Meaningful Name
 * Poetic Serial Killer: Mandelbrot really enjoys killing, but tends to pick victims it deems "bad guys." Bad guys are generally defined as "people with too much power" which is basically everyone important.
 * Slasher Smile: The mask has no mouth, but that doesn't stop Mandelbrot from using a bloody knife to draw one on its face when it's feeling "happy." The blood then gets promptly absorbed by the mask.
 * Tranquil Fury
 * White Mask of Doom

Vincent (Elliot)
 * Dark Is Edgy
 * Face Heel Turn
 * Evil Laugh
 * Face Palm of Doom: Destroys Kuro with one in Light and Darkness Collide.
 * "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Light and Darkness Collide.
 * Paint It Black
 * Smug Super
 * Spikes of Villainy
 * Super-Powered Evil Side

Bernard (Bulbs)
 * The Blank
 * Card-Carrying Villain
 * Lawful Evil

Ysane (Choobs)
 * Charm Person
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. She doesn't like killing, but her definition of death requires that the soul must be reaped. It doesn't occur to her that possessing someone and robbing them of independent thought might count as a form of killing them.
 * Familiar: Chaos and Insanity.
 * Instant Armor: Chaos can transform into a suit of armor.
 * Neutral Evil
 * Trickster Archetype: Not in a good way.

Karcharos (Kuroboom)
 * The Big Guy: Class 4 variety.
 * Black Cloak
 * Everything's Even Worse with Sharks
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * Making a Splash
 * Malevolent Masked Men
 * More Teeth Than the Osmond Family
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Shamu Fu

Shouta Minamoto (Pohatu) "He’d take his sweet time with this one, after that. Maybe saw the crest off and then stab the beast through the jugular with its own crest. Were pterodactyls the ones that had those crests coming out the back of their head? Probably. Definitely."
 * A God Am I: Except he doesn't have any powers. Not in the real world. Just the sheer unwavering belief that the world begins and ends with him.
 * Catharsis Factor: Emphasis on "empathy-deprived".
 * Challenge Gamer: In real life.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: Dear god. Worse than Cesare??
 * Giggling Villain
 * Insane Equals Violent
 * Munchkin
 * Murder Simulators: Conceptually, he thrives on this trope.
 * Psychopathic Manchild: ALL THE WAY. Combination of classes C and E.
 * Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying


 * Yakuza

Miscellaneous Neutral
Julia Romanesco  (Choobs)
 * Body Motif: She smiles a lot, but only if she's trying to reassure someone.
 * Hot Psychiatrist In A Badass Suit
 * Informed Ability: Her hypnotic powers.
 * Lawful Neutral
 * There Are No Therapists: Averted. She's a therapist that specializes in paranormal cases because a lot of this stuff happens.
 * The Shrink

Sarosin Narita (SV)
 * Cool Shades
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
 * True Neutral

Antonio Sharpe / The Butterfly (Elliot)
 * Card Sharp
 * Chaotic Neutral
 * Confess to a Lesser Crime: While in custody, he "admits" to Commissioner Williams that he had contracted the Butterfly to steal some unspecified articles for a "respected client". This lie seems to be an effort to get away with nothing but a charge of conspiracy to theft, though it doesn't go over well with Williams.
 * Cool Mask
 * Costume Copycat: Flo and Hugh's comments in Entertain the Masses reveal that there are a lot of teenagers in half butterfly masks pretending to be the Butterfly in order to look edgy and impressive. This saturation of the Butterfly image is exactly what in turn allows Antonio himself to wear the mask into an art museum without getting kicked out at best or arrested at worst.
 * Enfant Terrible: Hard to imagine he wasn't one of these, considering he began his career in burglary at around thirteen.
 * Framing the Guilty Party: In Obscured Truth, where the Butterfly is framed for the murder of policeman Larry Odio, and Antonio is held on suspicion of assisting in the murder. He's innocent of that, but guilty of plenty else...
 * Gentleman Thief
 * Master of Illusion
 * Shrouded in Myth: To such a degree that when Flo and Hugh actually see the real Butterfly, they immediately dismiss him as a fake, having apparently built an exaggerated mental image of him which he fails to meet.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: Illiana seems to fulfill the role of the nicer, less cynical friend in this case.
 * Teen Genius

Jacob Marshall (Elliot)
 * Cowboy: Marshall embodies Western tropes in the same way that Renard embodies antique detective fiction tropes.
 * Cowboy Cop: Before getting fired.
 * Funetik Aksent: A nonspecific Southern U.S. dialect.
 * Lawful Neutral
 * Living Lie Detector
 * Vigilante Man

Kalim & Nugget (Kuroboom) ""I myself am a Demon, though not in the traditional Biblical sense where I want to lead you to darkness and eat your soul or whatever.""
 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Cats Are Mean
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Well, not necessarily. But neither is it good.
 * Familiar: Nugget.
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With
 * Our Demons Are Different: Also our imps.


 * Poisoned Weapons: Razors lined with synthetic basilisk venom.
 * Really 700 Years Old: Nugget is the cat equivalent: Kalim pegs his age as around fifty Earth years, which is more than three times a cat's average life expectancy and a solid twelve years older than the longest-living real-world cat on record. Granted, Nugget is no more a normal cat than most characters who are Really 700 Years Old are normal humans.
 * Left Shoulder Cat: Nugget.
 * Scary Black Man
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome
 * Treasure Hunter: Though Kalim isn't that invested in treasure himself and really just seeks it out to appease Nugget.
 * Violent Glaswegian: More on the menacing side than the angry side.

Ryuu (Prime)
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Ryuu says he isn't technically a vampire because he doesn't make a habit of going after humans.
 * Shrinking Violet: At his best. Aya certainly brings this out in him. Then he started losing the appeal by mouthing off toward Blaise.

Aya (Prime)
 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: A rosary, actually.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Tsundere

Rain (Kuroboom)
 * Evil Eye
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Parental Abandonment

Death (Choobs)
 * The Grim Reaper
 * Joke Character: and, come to think of it...
 * Lethal Joke Character
 * True Neutral

PRP Characters


Dace Balao (Lee)
 * Bilingual Bonus: Turns out that Minnow, Dace's Burmy, doesn't just fit the Theme Naming in the party (Fish names). "Minnow" could be taken as the English version of the first two syllables in Burmy/Wormadam's Japanese names (Minomutchi and Minomadam, respectively).
 * Buffy-Speak
 * Constantly Curious
 * Cute Bruiser: Forms the Cute Bruiser / Lady of War dynamic with Laksha.
 * Death From Above: Minnow's Comet Maneuver.

""The next time I see you, I'm gonna kick your butt! I'll be a ton stronger, and I'll kick your butt all ov--""
 * Genki Girl: So genki.
 * Gosh Dang It to Heck: Here, for instance.


 * Plucky Girl
 * Three Amigos: Dace fills the hero role, in Fallfish at least.
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: Minnow has exactly four moves (Bug Bite, Hidden Power, Protect, and Tackle). That doesn't keep Dace from using them in a wild variety of ways.

Durant Larks (Blood)
 * A Boy And His Bulbasaur
 * Combat Pragmatist: Taraek's creative use of his vines in battle under the blanket term "Vine Whip".
 * Kid with the Leash: As the owner of the Shadow Granbull.
 * Nephewism: He currently lives with his Aunt Julie, with no idea where his parents are.
 * Sibling Rivalry
 * Three Amigos: Durant fills the opposite-gender best friend role.
 * Undying Loyalty: Between Durant and Taraek, but also shown by Durant toward his human friends.

Laksha Karttikeya (Pohatu)


 * Convection, Schmonvection: Sankh, Laksha's Slugma, is always in danger of invoking this trope.
 * Hindu Mythology: Inspires the names of her Pokemon (and provides her own last name).
 * Everything's Better with Spinning: Ganesh.
 * Lady of War: Forms the Lady of War / Cute Bruiser dynamic with Dace.
 * Lonely Rich Kid: More the "few close friends" variety than the "uncaring parents" variety.
 * Ojou: The first type.
 * Mistress and Servant Boy: With Ganesh.
 * Theme Naming: Her party members have names derived from Hindu mythology or Hindi/Sanskrit in general.
 * Three Amigos: Laksha fills the same-gender best friend role.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years

Ophelia Larks (Blood)
 * Alphabetical Theme Naming
 * Delinquents
 * For the Evulz: Her Gengar, Shade. Spitfire and Sludge avert this, however.
 * Freudian Excuse
 * The Runaway: Probably mostly Type 2.
 * Sibling Rivalry
 * Teens Are Monsters
 * Theme Naming: Unintentionally though. Blood claims he never noticed all three of her core Pokemon have names beginning with "S". Right now it's not clear whether he'll keep the pattern up and make the trope intentional.
 * The Unfavorite

Isambard Zonis (Lee)
 * This Loser Is You: That goes for Monaco, too.

Old Gideon McCrowley (Pohatu)
 * Deep South
 * Everything's Better with Cows: Nettie makes reference to "Bessie our mad Tauros" at one point. Maybe Bessie's mad because he's not a girl.
 * Funetik Aksent: Right down to replacing "I" with "Ah".
 * Too Dumb To Taunt: Jedediah the Dunsparce.

APCARP Characters
Revenant (Lee)
 * Blade Below the Shoulder
 * Blade Brake
 * Power Incontinence: Without the magnetic cuffs on his arms, he wouldn’t be able to deactivate his blades.
 * Primal Stance

Lazzaro Orsini / Shrapnel (Pohatu)
 * Action Bomb
 * Bad Powers, Bad People: Type Two.
 * The Big Guy: Class 1 variety.
 * Face of a Thug: Made very clear in his debut. Hard to tell whether this will ultimately be played straight or subverted.
 * Foreign Cuss Word
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Magic Pants: Unlike Terrian, Orsini’s been given no explanation as to why his explosion-and-reconstitution power also applies to the clothes he’s wearing. It just does. Because otherwise we would be looking at naked Orsini and that is not something anyone wants to see.

Stray (Lee)
 * The Krillin: Stray had a vicious case of this in the first time through APCARP. Despite having a power that could be feasibly useful, everything she could do could be done more quickly and cleanly by everybody else on the team, including the rookie.

Househeld Characters


forteHolder / Flynn Sostenuto (Pohatu) The first player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. Arrogant, histrionic, and a little bit out of touch with reality. And yet... strangely charming. "FH: Oh please, I wouldn’t expect you to go to all the trouble of READING things. You might have to take off the shades for that!
 * Biting The Collar: Does so here as a Shout-Out to Eridan.
 * Bubblegloop Swamp / Ominous Fog / Swamps Are Evil: His planet, the Land of Mist and Marshes.
 * Crazy Jealous Guy: See Love Triangle below.
 * A Darker Me: If any of the Househeld players are this, Flynn is. He's essentially Pohatu with the egotism and delusions of grandeur dialed way up. Most other characters either have no direct relation to their RPers or are basically positive adaptations. Note, though, that this isn't really intended to make Flynn "cooler" per se (and certainly not "edgier"), just more compelling.
 * Expressive Hair: In this panel, the wings of his hair are exaggerated to evoke devil's horns.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: In Flynn's first pesterlog with Tweak, he mentions the sunglasses-wearing Kurt Castor (obfuscatedBrilliance), who was at the time slated to appear as a player run by October, but later got replaced due to inactivity. The pesterlog reads quite differently now that the reader has to infer Kurt didn't survive the Reckoning.

FH: Hey! Have you and Bustin and Kurt ever thought about pooling your sunglasses collections and just rotating them weekly??

FH: It’d save a lot of money AND you three would get even closer to your dream of all being the exact same person!"

"And anyway on another note you also cannot bring yourself to smash the CRESTED GECKO STATUE because it belongs to your SISTER and even though you might not think much of her two unrelated OBSESSIONS, and though in fact they might cause you a SUBSTANTIAL DEGREE OF AGGRAVATION AND UNEASE, you’re still her little BROTHER and that means you need to show SUPPORT for her interests no matter your feelings about them because your PARENTS are long gone and all you have left in the world is EACH OTHER now bluhuhuhuhhhhhhhhhhh"
 * The Gadfly: Curiously, even though Flynn is unfamiliar with the practice of systematic Internet trolling, he does tend to employ some Gadfly techniques in conversation with most other characters, teasing them intermittently in an effort to rile them up, as when he characterized Shiro as a hentai-watching, Pocky-munching otaku stereotype. He doesn't usually get much of a reaction, though.
 * Genius Bonus: Since some of Flynn's speech and all of his sound effects are rendered in IPA, there's a steady undercurrent of this. Some words are practically incomprehensible without knowledge of linguistics, such as the sound effects in the two versions of Flynn throwing his portable out the window, which respectively come out to "shatter" and "nonshatter".
 * Other people have Roman alphabet fridge magnets. Flynn's fridge magnets are IPA characters. That would be enough of a Genius Bonus in itself, but the magnet which Flynn's sister uses to obscure her own face is a voiceless glottal plosive, which just happens to resemble a question mark without the dot. Mystery! And later, as Flynn ponders an internal question, what should appear by his head but voiceless glottal plosives instead of question marks. Fridge Brilliance indeed.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Implausible Fencing Powers / Pastimes Prove Personality ("Fencing") / Royal Rapier
 * Jerkass: The first variety mentioned in that page's second paragraph. Pohatu has admitted to channeling some of Vriska Serket's mannerisms for Flynn (the arrogant mannerisms, not the monstrous ones).
 * Most recently, Flynn psyched the hapless Royce up to play Sburb before arranging for him to act as Tweak's server player. Though Flynn made Tweak out to be a needy type who could really use a good friend like Royce, the gesture was actually a pure "screw you" to Tweak: Flynn thinks saddling him with the slow-reacting, indecisive Royce will impede his progress. It remains to be seen whether this will hold true (or even whether Royce actually will end up being Tweak's server), but... yeah, Flynn's a dick.
 * Jerkass Woobie: He dials the emotional theatrics too far up to be a straightforward Woobie (and, you know, he's definitely a Jerkass), but beneath all the over-the-top raging and sobbing, there's some real underlying anxiety and vulnerability coming to light.
 * The Leader: Insofar as he is the leader (which is pretty much entirely his own conviction, with nobody except perhaps Royce treating him as an authority), he's a Type IV: Charismatic. It's true that his status as the most active Pesterchum conversationalist makes him a natural coordinator, a fact which he put to legitimately good use in making sure all the contests winners were notified about the meteors heading for their houses.
 * Love Triangle: He believes that he and Shiro are in competition for Bice, which of course means Flynn suddenly starts hating Shiro. The truth has yet to establish itself.
 * Meaningful Name: Lee suggested the name, combining a likely reference to Hollywood swashbuckler Errol Flynn with a Italian musical term meaning "sustained".
 * Melodrama: Brings the melodrama like none other.
 * Mood Swinger: Oh boy. Most players have maintained a pretty even-tempered emotional key in their respective topics so far. Flynn... hasn't.
 * Parental Abandonment: He lives with his big sister.
 * Pet the Dog: Immediately after reminding the reader of how deluded and conceited he is about his writing talent, as well as scorning Tweak for daring to disagree, Flynn betrays -- of all things -- a rather surprisingly touching sentiment.
 * Pet the Dog: Immediately after reminding the reader of how deluded and conceited he is about his writing talent, as well as scorning Tweak for daring to disagree, Flynn betrays -- of all things -- a rather surprisingly touching sentiment.

"FH: But listen, I'm not kidding, if there turns out to be like a meteor or a tornado or like, a cascade of lava coming your way and I'm not back yet... don't wait for me, okay? Ask someone else to be your server. Okay?? I mean it. Forget about me!"
 * Next in line, unsurprisingly, is Bice. Flynn spends the better part of two pages fretting over his plan to connect as Bice's server in a transparent ploy to win her favor. When she actually accepts, Flynn is pretty psyched, to say the least. Yet after hearing of Shiro's narrow escape from his meteor and realizing that all Sburb players might face the same hazard, Flynn becomes so worried for Bice's safety that he willingly offers to relinquish the foothold he's gained -- going so far as to urge her in no uncertain terms to scuttle their plans and get someone else for her server if he can't make it back inside and find a charger for his power-starved computer in time.

"Lousy goddamn stupid best friend!!"
 * Prince Charming Wannabe
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: His sister is obsessed with reptiles and amphibians, an interest which Flynn does not share.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Flynn's the sensitive guy to Mark's manly man, and the manly man to Royce's sensitive guy. This is no coincidence: when Royce comes to Flynn for romantic advice, Flynn specifically tries to emulate Mark's behavior when he came to Mark to talk girls.
 * Server Player Crush
 * Shipper on Deck: He ships Kitten/Royce.
 * Shirtless Scene: Sexay.
 * Slasher Smile: LOOK AT THAT FACE, GOD DAMN. Of course it's a reference to Trollface, which starts zigzagging when it becomes apparent that Flynn is actually innocent of the concept of trolling altogether.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: He was voted the audience favorite in a writing competition on the message board he keeps up with. This obviously entitles him to act like a conceited blowhard.
 * Stylistic Suck: His online fiction qualifies, being a Shout-Out to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. The tragic difference is that Flynn has no idea his writing is terrible and takes the ironic indulgence from the rest of the message board as sincere support.
 * Tsundere: For the tsuntsun side, observe Flynn in conversation with nearly any other character, where he is at best an amiable but faintly annoying Gadfly, and at worst a conceited, short-sighted, emotionally overreactive Jerkass. To see the deredere side... just toss Bice in his general direction.
 * Universal Poison
 * Verbal Tic: Flynn occasionally renders his words in IPA form as a nod to his linguistic interest. It's usually limited to isolated interjections, or else used to emphasize particular words as an alternative to italics or capitals, but it can get out of control when Flynn's emotionally agitated.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: How Flynn apparently sees himself and Tweak, even though Tweak doesn't seem to think they're that close. Likely, given the former's propensity for exaggeration and the latter's tendency toward understatement, the truth lies somewhere in between.


 * The White Prince: Flynn seems to be blissfully unaware of the concept of an Internet "troll", and was confused when people on the forum decried his story as a trolling attempt. To Flynn, trolls are creatures with "pudgy fingers" that "live under bridges and eat billy goats".

wartimeStrategist / John "Shiro-kun" Whitehearst (Testbug) The sixth player to be introduced and the first to enter the Medium, with Colin as his server. Courageous and cunning, he exhibits many traits of the heroes of his beloved anime shows. Note: His Pesterchum color is actually pure white (modified to light gray here for legibility since it's not a spoiler). "DV: Also is that resentment I'm sensing?
 * Animal-Eared Headband: He alchemizes and equips one shortly after entering the medium.
 * Animesque: He's rendered in this style.
 * Archnemesis Dad
 * Badass Longcoat: He alchemizes and equips two different ones shortly after entering the medium.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Chess Motifs
 * Cool Shades: After entering the Medium, Shiro soon alchemizes a pair of oddly familiar shades, which may not be cool by normal standards, but to any Otaku, it's freaking sweet.
 * Dual-Wielding: He soon equips the 2polekind strife specibus.
 * Dramatic Thunder: Around his castle. No rain, though. Carries over onto his planet, the Land of Time and Thunder.
 * Elaborate Underground Kitchen
 * Friend to Bugs: Shiro is utterly distraught when he accidentally kills a praying mantis. Fortunately, the transgression is easily rectified.
 * Glasses Do Something Unusual: It has been shown that Shiro's new glasses run on Spiral Power as well as translate all video and provide English subtitles, wanted or not.
 * Hacker-Coders Play Chess: Shiro seems to know a lot about computers, and he seems to be more than competent enough to create his own add-on for Sburb, which is programmed in a language he doesn't even know. And in symbols he can't even read.
 * Hell Is That Noise: An unseen character, apparently an exile, attempts to contact Shiro, with this result.
 * The Hero: Although Flynn's was the first topic and he's taken a more active hand in connecting the group, Shiro possesses more of the trappings of a conventional main character -- not least the fact that he's the first to enter the Medium. (Having the first name "John" helps, too.)
 * Informed Self Diagnosis: Shiro has tonitus.
 * Just Friends: With Bice, since childhood. So of course, there's the hint of a Ship Tease when she gently goads him for calling Flynn a "pretty boy":

DV: How now! What news dear Ratcliffe?"

"FH: Yes, get out of here and sate your voracious hunger for Japanese schoolgirls in compromising positions.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Except to Bice, who calls him John.
 * Otaku: Anime, particularly. Exaggerated by Flynn.

FH: Or munch some Pocky, I don't know, whatever you were planning."

"WS: Trying to stay humble with the weapon choice, you know."
 * Platonic Life Partners: He and Kitten are described in the narrative as "adorable moirails" -- not actually the term they would use, but a Homestuck reader will recognize the word as signifying a platonic relationship based on mutual guidance and support, equivalent to human best friendship.
 * Playful Hacker
 * Real Androgynous Anime Heroes Don't Fucking Cry
 * Scarf of Asskicking: Originally he equips two different black scarves, but now he's wearing one with cat-paw endings. Yet it somehow looks cool.
 * Shock and Awe
 * Simple Staff
 * Simple Staff


 * Teen Genius
 * White Haired Not Atrociously Ugly Boy



biomechArtisan / Colin Atreides (Stel) The eighth player to be introduced, the second to enter the Medium, and Shiro's server. An intelligent, creative type whose dreams have shown him a great deal about Sburb. "Seems the game has played you. Ultimately, your observations were useless. Whatever edge they may have given you is clearly nullified by the game re-writing the rules, just for you. You've underestimated it... and it nearly cost you your life."
 * Awesome McCoolname: His chumhandle abbreviates (as in Pesterlogs) to BA.
 * Aw yeh.
 * Balance Between the Organic and the Inorganic: The theme of his planet and at least one of his character arcs.
 * Blade Below the Shoulder: He's seen himself wielding these in the future.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Here.
 * Cosmic Plaything

"FH: Hey, Atreides. Smart one. Mr. Answers. My eye in the sky!"
 * The Engineer
 * Geek: Doesn't seem like a Nerd, though. He gives a pretty cool vibe.
 * Harmony Versus Discipline: Represented by the conflict between the organic and mechanical armies on the Land of Synthesis and Equilibrium.
 * Improbable Weapon User: He has the potential to wield a whole array of weird things - including Spatulas, pens, a whole array of tools, mailboxes and even birds. He's trained in all these specibi. All of them.
 * Also deconstructed, however. Colin considers equipping his BIGGEST FAN, but dismisses it as far too unwieldy and dangerous.
 * Item Get: Also here.
 * Mr. Exposition: Due to his pre-accumulated knowledge of Sburb's workings. Flynn practically invokes the trope by name.


 * Notably, though, counter to the trope page's description of most Mr. Expositions as serving primarily to clue in the audience rather than the other characters, Colin's knowledge is of much more important use to his fellow players, since the reader is presumably familiar with Homestuck and doesn't need to be told how things like grist and kernelsprites work. (Only where Occlum is concerned does the reader need Colin's knowledge as much as the team does.)
 * Organic Technology
 * Otaku: Though he really just happens to like some anime a lot and denies, in his first Pesterlog (with Flynn), actually buying into the otaku lifestyle.
 * Power Crystal: His associated item and an integral part of LOSAE's geology.
 * Shout-Out: The Honeybee Professor from Problem Sleuth makes a cameo early on in his thread.
 * The Smart Guy
 * The Spock: He has his silly moments, but they're very intermittent against his usual proclivity for careful reasoning.
 * Wrench Whack

delphicVoyager / Bicé Calevro (Belle) The twelfth and final player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. She seems to be of calm and badass stock, although not without a healthy sense of humor. "DV: If [my title doesn't make sense], I'll be obliged to beat the sense into it.
 * Action Girl

DV: Or some other stereotypical action-woman response involving breaking something until it works

DV: Not even metaphorical constructs as feeble as titles are safe."

"DV: My real problem is finding a man amongst men who is manlier than I
 * Affectionate Nickname: Inverted -- Bice is the only one who calls John "Shiro-kun" Whitehearst by his real given name rather than his nickname, indicating how long they've been friends.
 * Big Fancy House: So big. So fancy.
 * Blessed with Suck: The romantic equivalent. She's just too cool, is the thing. So it's tough finding a guy who can actually play on her level.

DV: Being a badass is hard, and no one understaaaaaaaaaaands"

"DV: Also is that resentment I'm sensing?
 * Celeb Crush: mmmmmmmmm Pine
 * Classical Mythology: Among her interests, and the inspiration behind her DODEKATHEON MODUS.
 * Darker and Edgier: The player she's replacing, saturnineVirago (run by SV of all people), began her thread with a standard Good Morning, Crono. Bicé's thread opens on her crouching behind a wall and reloading a pistol. Yeah, we're getting into Darker and Edgier territory.
 * Eventually subverted; the early pages of her topic contain some of the silliest and most frivolous actions in all twelve topics, like changing her hairdo and swooning over Chris Pine.
 * Gamer Chick
 * The Gunslinger: Looks to be predominantly of the "Trick Shot" type, with her Improbable Aiming Skills.
 * Hello, Nurse!: She's already got two guys (Flynn and ) pining after her, with another (Mark) quick to acknowledge her good looks.
 * Just Friends: With Shiro (or, as she calls him, John), since childhood. So of course, there's the hint of a Ship Tease when she gently goads him for calling Flynn a "pretty boy":

DV: How now! What news dear Ratcliffe?"


 * Verbal Tic: She has a habit of stretching out her words for dramatic effect.



waterloggedComputron / Tweak Moustache (Choobs) The fourth player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. A self-aware cool guy who leaves his fate in the hands of the universe and his array of awesome tricks. "As the dust settles, Tweak admires the finished product: an semi-conscious werewolf glued to a tree with a boot over its snout. The stick and stone hit him somewhere and bounced off onto the ground, and the arrow seemed to have clattered off somewhere uselessly. Whatever."
 * Brilliant but Lazy: Though his topic so far hasn't overtly gestured toward his intelligence, there's definitely some chops there. For one thing, most people probably couldn't make heads or tails of the HASH BAG MODUS. The lazy part definitely comes through, meanwhile.
 * Cool Shades
 * Crazy Awesome: See below.
 * Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Meet Tweak's guardian, Faygo!
 * Genre Roulette: The style of the narrative shifts as Tweak adjusts his outfit with pieces from his NARRATIVE FASHION collection. For example, he dons the BLACK TRENCHCOAT OF NOIR and all of a sudden, bam.
 * Grievous Harm with a Body: Specifically,.
 * Improbable Weapon User: His strife specibus, awesomeKind, simply requires that his weapon be awesome. If it is not sufficiently awesome, he cannot use it.
 * Indy Ploy: Probably his MO, given that he lists "planning" among his mortal enemies.
 * MacGyvering: Take one MEH ARROW, one BIG STONE, one RUSTY CAN OF GLUE and one GRODY BOOT. Now launch them all out of your sylladex at the same time.

"Yeah. Got that feeling again that something big is about to happen. It's almost like someone sees the big picture and gives me some hints. Frankly, the idea gives me the creeps just thinkin about it, so let's chalk it up to intuition."
 * Meta Guy: Metafictional observations pop up here and there from character to character, but Tweak gets meta hunches all the time.

"Besides, everyone knows that a weapon can't be that awesome if the hero carries it everywhere, unless it's got a special name that's been passed on for at least two generations."
 * Named Weapons: Discussed here, in keeping with his general Genre Savvy vibe.

"Tweak hits the pause button and stands up. It's time to get out of here and snap into some rude elixir."
 * Narration Echo: > Tweak: Pause and get out of there. It is time to snap into some rude elixir.


 * Olympic Swimmer
 * Running Gag: Well, there are only two instances so far, but Choobs has shown a liking for taking commands that aren't name suggestions and using those to name characters: first "Tweak Moustache" (see below) and then "Faygo" for the name of Tweak's guardian shark.
 * Shout-Out: His name is a shoutout to Renard's signature action in Burgled Boullogne.
 * The Slacker
 * The Stoic
 * Team Chef
 * What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: See above. His strife has to run on this principle.
 * Dialed Up to Eleven when Tweak tenderizes a steak.
 * And then
 * You Can't Fight Fate: This is his philosophy. But he's also sure that in the end, things are guaranteed to pretty much work out okay.

apotropaicReverie / Kitten Quigley (Tangrow) The seventh player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium, but is acting as Colin's server. Hyperactive, ultracute, and seemingly constantly cheerful, but with some underlying emotional vulnerability. "These tendencies may stem from your being raised with the IDEALS of FRIENDSHIP and HAPPINESS. You are so sure of these beliefs, in fact, that you are too SHALLOW to see that your PARENTS HATE YOU."
 * Crayon Between The Teeth: Awesome.
 * The Ditz: She didn't even realize she'd won an award in the writing competition until Shiro pointed it out to her.
 * Everything's Better With Uniqueens
 * Everything's Cuter With Kitten Quigley
 * Fairy Tale Motifs: Unicorns!
 * Friend to All Living Things: Gloriously averted, despite her demeanor.
 * Fridge Brilliance: She uses the sevenKind strife specibus, and her RAINBOW MODUS is based on the seven colors of the rainbow. And she was the seventh character to get a topic. Obviously just a happy accident, but still.
 * Ghibli Hills: Her planet, the Land of Iridescence and Treetops.
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals
 * Girl with Psycho Weapon: Yes, she truly cuts an imposing figure with that knifeKind strife specibus... chopping vegetables.
 * Let's Get Dangerous: A really gentle example, but the way Kitten addresses Tweak in this post suggests an entirely different, much more solemn and focused tone -- a considerable break, for Kitten. Then again, unicorns are Serious Business.
 * Narrative Profanity Filter: A weird inversion. Kitten never swears in conversation with other players, so there's no need to play this trope straight... but she does swear in her private narrative. More than once, at that. Needless to say, it's not filtered.
 * Parental Abandonment: She lives with her aunt.
 * Platonic Life Partners: She and Shiro are described in the narrative as "adorable moirails" -- not actually the term they would use, but a Homestuck reader will recognize the word as signifying a platonic relationship based on mutual guidance and support, equivalent to human best friendship.
 * Shout-Out: She carries a knife called Karma, which the presence of a Tonberry plushie in her room confirms as a Final Fantasy reference. Of course, it's also extremely tempting to read this as a nod to Homestuck, in which Rose refers to Jade, a similarly cute and silly girly girl, with the line "She HAS the karma."
 * Say It with Hearts
 * Spot of Tea
 *  Tastes Like Diabetes 
 * Tech Dumb: She's described as "NOT VERY TECH-SAVVY" in her bio. Possibly caused by Clarke's Law for Girls Toys.
 * Verbal Tic: Her typing quirk consists of occasionally drawing words out by repeating letters six times -- once in each color of the rainbow until she gets back to her normal color of purple.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?: Come for the Tastes Like Diabetes. Stay for lines like "OH GOD. OUT. OUT NOW, YOU UNGRATEFUL SLUTS. YOU TOO, PIMPY MACWHOARBAG."
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Played for some major lulz.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Played for some major lulz.



randomButter / Royce Blitherspoon (Bulbs) The fifth player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. A bumbler and something of a social Extreme Doormat, though he's shown occasional reserves of nerve. "FH: You won Best Comedy, didn’t you! Man, that poem was gold.
 * The Big Guy
 * Gadgeteer Genius / Mad Scientist: His dad.
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: Type B. Royce has spent most of his life essentially trapped in a house with only his dad and Nanny-Bot for company.
 * The Klutz: He broke his server disc by stepping on it.
 * The Messiah
 * Misaimed Fandom: The members of the message board EXOPHTHALMIC ARCHIMANDRITES voted his poetic account of his own nightmares "Best Comedy". Too bad he didn't actually intend it as a comic piece.

RB: Oh... yeah... well that poem was...

RB: It wasn't.... supposed to....

RB: I... Yeah... funny funny stuff...

RB: Ha Ha...

RB: ....

FH: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

FH: SUCH funny funny stuff. I especially loved the part where the kid was reaching up to his father and just kept getting pushed away. Priceless!

RB: I...

RB: ...

RB: ...."

"Sometimes you wonder if he wished you had been born a robot."
 * Missing Mom: Due to death.
 * Parental Obliviousness: His dad names every one of his machines. He cannot remember Royce's name.

"You truly believe there is GOOD in every situation and everyone. This has caused you to mostly follow a path of PACIFISM. Though, you do believe that sometimes PEOPLE need to have the fact that they are inherently good KNOCKED INTO THEM."
 * Resigned to the Call: See the image caption.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Flynn's manly man.
 * Shrinking Violet: In his first pesterlog, Royce starts off relatively strong but almost instantly loses confidence, and his communication drowns in ellipses and self-decried "rambling", such that Flynn quickly takes control of the conversation.
 * Stone Wall
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Nanny-Bot.
 * Technical Pacifist


 * Think Happy Thoughts
 * Throwing Your Shield Always Works: We might see this, considering his strife specibus is shieldKind.
 * Verbal Tic: As mentioned above, ellipses. Constant ellipses.
 * The Woobie: Seriously. His father clearly doesn't care for him, the only love he's ever received is the cold touch of a robot who surfs the internet looking at parenting videos, he randomly blacks out, his ONLY FRIEND is a stuffed panda, and even when he talks to people about stuff? Even the most basic of things? He can't even move past his own humility. Say it with me now: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

prismaticFashionista / Bustin Jieber (Elliot) The second player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. He's pretty fabulous. He's also an alcoholic waiting to happen. But no big deal. Rule of Cool.
 * Art Shift: From sprites to hand drawings.
 * Bottle Fairy
 * Cool Shades
 * Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: His associated item is diamonds.
 * The Fashionista: Well, yeah.
 * Fail O'Suckyname: Okay, arguably an Awesome McCoolname, but his initials (real life, not chumhandle) are BJ.
 * The Gambler: His fetch modus, the DEAL MODUS, is based on gambling card games.
 * An Ice Person: Though this may be replaced by Playing with Fire.
 * Jack of All Trades: Describes himself as such.
 * Likes His Worldview Like He Likes His Coffee: Bitter, dark, and corrupted.
 * Perky Scenester
 * Slippy-Slidey Ice World: His planet, the Land of Frost and Twilight.
 * The Trickster: He talked his friend into cleaning his entire house for him under the pretense of a CLEAN-OFF. He actually plans to drink the entire time. Oh man, guess she's got this one in the bag!



tzolkinRoulette / Reba Winset (Lee) The third player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. A mysterious old woman, apparently gentle and kind, yet with a potentially shady past to which she's only vaguely alluded. "And so, the boa waited. Its time would come. Indeed, in a single brutal and perfect moment, its time would come."
 * Cool Old Lady: Hinted to try too hard to be this. Still, come on. She knows what MMORPGS are. That's a good start.
 * Determined Widow
 * Fan Disservice: Extremely notable when Lee attempted to ship her with another character.
 * Foregone Conclusion: Unless Lee was just messing around, we need to keep an eye on that feather boa.

"Maybe she'd sneak [the Hoffa bust] into the locker of one of the room service lads. It had been a good two days since she'd driven one to quit, and Reba Winset was starting to feel she needed to put the fear of God back into them again..."
 * Gag Boobs: She had originally stuffed her shirt with these. Cue the other kind of gag.
 * Never Mess with Granny
 * Pre-Columbian Civilizations: Maya specifically.
 * Razor Floss
 * Shout-Out: She briefly ponders the first name "Yoon" before dismissing it as "cultureless" and "simplistic", an affectionate jab at Yoon Mangjeol.
 * She also misstates "DVDs" as "VDVs". An appropriate error, considering hers is by far the Househeld topic closest in tone to this RP's spiritual predecessor, Burgled Boullogne.
 * Take Up My Sword: Suggested in some of her Pesterchum logs that she took over for her late husband, a professional poker player. Apparently, she's even better than he was.
 * Unsatisfiable Customer: Going forty-eight hours without driving one of the hotel staff to quit is apparently notable for her.
 * Unsatisfiable Customer: Going forty-eight hours without driving one of the hotel staff to quit is apparently notable for her.

damnableNarcissist / Mark Rohr (Ninety) The tenth player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. Extremely well-off, he's cultivated a smooth but shallow air.
 * An Axe to Grind
 * Big Applesauce / Fulton Street Folly: The only player whose home is bound to a specified location (well, except Mose), Mark lives in Manhattan.
 * Big Brother Mentor: To Flynn, specifically in the field of girls.
 * Big Man On Prospit
 * Cool Car: Word.
 * Eighties Hair: God, yes. Typically interpreted as a Shout-Out to Christopher "Kid" Reid of Kid 'n Play.
 * Hammerspace Hair: Seriously, he uses the Hair Modus.
 * Handsome Lech
 * Idle Rich
 * Jerkass: But winsome enough that it isn't necessarily obvious at first.
 * Millionaire Playboy: He seems on the fast track to becoming one of these.
 * Real Men Type In Pink
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man to Flynn's sensitive guy.



eccentricLibertine / Yulia Afanasy (Loogs) The eleventh player to be introduced, who hasn't yet entered the Medium. Her personality is still up in the air in some ways, but she seems to be an eclectic, expressive type. "You viddy exactly what you have to do. You are a molodoy devotchka on a mission. You absolutely must get your rookers on that eegra. At all costs. Bog help the poor veck who dares stand between you and that box."
 * Bazaar of the Bizarre: She works at Vincent's, a shop that apparently sells all kinds of curios, trinkets and novelty items.
 * Cosplay Otaku Girl
 * Creepy Doll: Well, a few arguably, but especially that one in the black-and-red dress with the bleeding eyes. BRRGGH.
 * Hot Gypsy Woman: She's got a definite Eastern European thing going on, with the Russian name, the MATRYOSHKA (nesting doll) MODUS, the Verbal Tic (see below), and the vaguely Roma trappings of her appearance. Notably, this makes her the only player whose ethnicity is known to be different from that of her RPer (although Mark's got to be at least a little black, with that hairdo).
 * Otaku: Primarily manga this time, it seems.
 * Shout-Out: To A Clockwork Orange, here. Her eloquence in Nadsat slang further cements her Slavic vibe.


 * Strange Girl
 * Verbal Tic: In keeping with her Eastern European theme, she occasionally interjects Cyrillic text into her dialogue, whenever she has a particularly grand pronouncement to make. Sometimes these are simply English phrases spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet, other times snatches of bastardized Russian. Her first chat with Flynn includes examples of both.

chakraHammer / Mose Gilland (Biscuit) The ninth player to be introduced. What's his deal! Well, he's a Jamaican-styled stoner. But he is not quite as blissful as either that archetype or this image suggests. "You suddenly feel like going back to bed. Today is your BIRTHDAY."
 * All Drummers Are Animals
 * Beard of Sorrow: Could be! Probably not intended as such in his character design, but he's definitely not that happy as of the beginning of his thread.
 * Buddhism
 * Drop the Hammer
 * The Eeyore

"[Day] 1148 - Birthday."
 * Funetik Aksent: Rastah, brah!
 * The Hero's Birthday: Not played for joy and fun.


 * Light'Em Up
 * Palmtree Panic: His planet, the Land of Tides and Seas.
 * The Stoner
 * Surfer Dude

Abandoned Characters
Don't expect to see these guys show up again unless their RPers return to the board. In some cases this is a shame! In most cases it is okay

Hex (Prime)
 * Katanas Are Just Better: This is why, for instance, Hex's dimensional sword is described as "much resembling a ninja sword" when there is really no particular reason for it to.

Zabuza (Prime)
 * Elemental Punch

Ace Makenrow (Ocelot) ""The name's Macenrow. Ace Macenrow.""
 * The Ace: 'Nuff said.
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Nobody in Luxury Airship Ride seemed clear on whether it was supposed to be "Makenrow" or "Macenrow". Ocelot himself flipped and flopped, but I think he intended it to be "Makenrow" and the Archive edits have reflected that.
 * Surname First Name Surname: Of course he pulls this at one point.

Six (Pikachu)
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Playing with Fire

Demetri (Kazkame)
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Tethercat Principle: Endgame concludes without him waking up. Some readers have assumed he's now in a permanent vegetative state.

Ernest (Spiffy) ""You good sir have interrupted my dance, YOU HAVE THE WILL TO BESMIRCH MY HONOR, BUT ARE YOU ABOUT TO HOLD YOURSELF STEADY FOR A DUEL WITH A MAN OF MY CALIBER?""
 * The Big Guy: Class 4 variety.
 * Large Ham: Hell yes.

Vaxx (Vaxx)
 * Black Cloak
 * Playing with Fire
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Dente (Pikachu)
 * Blood Magic
 * Poisoned Weapons
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Swingblade (Swingblade)
 * Boring Invincible Hero: If he were a little more vincible, Prime probably wouldn't have felt pressured to push his main character so far.