Homestuck/Characters/Other Characters

Andrew Hussie
The guy writing the story and the narrator. He's much, much more involved than that would imply.

""So, uh... what about all the other kids?" "Huh? Who? Oh, yeah. Those people. Aren't they all dead?""
 * Adam Westing: Andrew Hussie in real life is a soft spoken man with an odd sense of humor and little patience for the antics of the fandom. In-comic, Hussie is a completely insane Large Ham who continually mocks the audience, often speaking almost entirely in memes and call backs.
 * Author Avatar: Though he seemingly still has a place within Sburb's mythology.
 * Big No: Implied here.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Or rather, looking through it.
 * And physically smashing through a "Fifth Wall" into Doc Scratch's tower.
 * No Inner Fourth Wall: Hussie interferes with the events of the story he's writing, but his actions are also a comically exaggerated part of the story the real Andrew Hussie is writing. The Andrew Hussie Author Avatar and the Andrew Hussie in real life are distinctly different.
 * Brick Joke: "I wish those bullies would just leave me alone. Later I am going to ride a long magic dog through the sky and fuck their shit up."
 * Butt Monkey: Every so often he ends up finding himself and/or his study dressed up in a ludicrous fashion, of which he isn't too pleased with.
 * Chewing the Scenery: HE CONJURES THIS INTREPID FANTASYSCAPE!
 * Cosplay: He likes dressing up as his characters. Usually he cosplays as characters that are relevant at that point in the story. Poorly.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Engaging Conversation: As soon as he sees Vriska, he asks her to marry him. She responds in disgust. Yes, it's canon.
 * Evil Laugh: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAet cetera.
 * Fan Nickname: His fan nicknames are not just many. They are legion. Huss, Huss of Lips, Waste of Space, Thief of Life...
 * Incredibly Lame Stealth Visual Pun: Hussie-bot is a Deus Ex Machina.
 * Not to mention the Death of the Author
 * Killed Off for Real: Seemingly. It's worth mentioning that this update came on April Fools' Day, that he didn't die a Just or Heroic death, and that Hussie has always had the same Blank White Eyes that a dead person does. Currently, he appears to be in a dreambubble, but still able to narrate the story. The biggest consequence of this though is that he now can concretely interact with characters, despite claiming in another insert that his influence would be limited to John and Jade's journey across the yardstick in his study.
 * Anyone Can Die: Even the author.
 * Large Ham
 * Lemony Narrator
 * Mind Screw: In one recap, we found he was only the second most important character in Homestuck. Even though he's the writer of the story.
 * Mr. Exposition: He has written three recaps and started a fourth, but abandoned it. Not to mention all the exposition he gives during the normal narration.
 * Non Standard Character Design: As the only canonically white person in the comic, he's the only one depicted with a skin colour. Funnily enough, it's stated to be orange.
 * Rapid Fire Typing: He's shown doing this for the Recap Episodes. It gets Lampshaded here.
 * Self-Deprecation: Refers to self-insertion as a bad idea on several occasions.
 * Stalker With a Crush: To Vriska in the dreambubbles.
 * Teasing Creator: Enjoys taunting the audience constantly.

""Oh God, you're right! There are still a few characters I haven't killed yet. I almost forgot about them. I was planning on totally messing with them in the short window of time they're in the same universe as me! Hopefully it isn't too late.""
 * Trolling Creator: A few of the stranger self-inserts only make sense if you realize that Hussie used them to troll the fandom for flipping its lid over something (e.g. Rufio: Make him pay).


 * Throw Away Guns: When he finds out his trump card wasn't loaded.

Ms. Paint


Originally a random background Prospitian holding a paint bucket. And she would have stayed that way, were it not for this question from Ryan North. She eventually reappears as Andrew Hussie's assistant.


 * Ascended Extra
 * Ascended Meme
 * Drop What You Are Doing: Has this reaction when she runs into Lord English.
 * Memetic Bystander
 * Non-Human Sidekick: To Hussie. More or less.
 * Punny Name: If you don't get it, add "Adventures" to the end of her name.
 * Ship Tease: Seems quite happy to serve Spades Slick soup... or work with Hussie, it's not entirely clear.
 * Official Couple: Hussie implies as much between himself and Ms. Paint.
 * Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Eyelashes, despite carapeople not having hair.
 * The Voiceless

MSPA Reader
The reader of MS Paint Adventures. Located in the LAND OF STUMPS AND DISMAY. Has allocated their STRIFE SPECIBUS with PISTOLKIND ABSTRATUS.


 * Audience Surrogate: Except they are the reader.
 * Driven to Suicide: What Andrew's meta breakdown is implied to have driven them to. A reference to Jailbreak and Problem Sleuth.
 * Mythology Gag: A very similar joke was made in Problem Sleuth, where the MSPA reader was Driven to Suicide after DMK employed his LADDER TO HELL, creating a million health bars. In this case, the reader does the same thing when Andrew employs his LADDER TO SELF INDULGENCE, creating another meta-layer of removal from the story. Both jokes are references to Jailbreak, where the main character shot himself in the head while standing over a stump.
 * Non Standard Character Design: Is a basic nondescript stick figure, like the protagonist of Jailbreak.
 * Pistol Pose: Seen here in a different context than the regular pistol pose is used for.
 * Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness: Beyond No Fourth Wall.
 * Weapon of Choice: A pistol.

Wolf Head
The most terrifying character in Homestuck. Gamzee and Lord English have nothing on him.


 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Played with; Vriska appears to own the Wolf Head during her time on Alternia, and Doc manages to get a copy of it at some point, and it survives the destruction of the universe with part of Doc's apartment.
 * Joke Character: The cast page that shows who's alive and who isn't has the Wolf Head on it, so it could be considered a character.
 * Phrase Catcher: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"
 * Running Gag: It's always freaking the hell out of Hussie.
 * Shout Out: To a scene in the The Neverending Story where Bastian is scared by a stuffed wolf's head illuminated by a lightning flash during a storm while hiding in his school's attic from bullies.
 * Taxidermy Terror

The Gods of The Furthest Ring
A group of horrific creatures that whisper advice to the dream selves of Derse. The largest of them make up the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors.


 * Blessed With Suck: The counterpart of Skaian visions for Derse Dreamers is being able to listen to the whispers of these guys during a lunar eclipse, when all light from Skaia is blocked out. It's so far proved to be of little to no value directly in comic, though they have allegedly proved useful offscreen or in the backstory. The Gods did become more useful by fueling in part the introduction of Dreambubbles, which are more directly useful for players. Even then, any player with a dead dreamself can access those, not just Derse Dreamers. Long story short, Prospitian dreamers definitely have a more useful source of knowledge than Derse Dreamers.
 * Retcon: In Act 5 onward it's apparent Dreambubbles are the main source of information for Derse Dreamers, rendering some of the conversations between Dave and Rose about listening to the Gods to be an unintentional Red Herring, though it's unclear if Dreambubbles ordinarily are a large part of sessions or if Feferi's request to the Gods was what made that the case.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Well, it might be. Their actual evilness is left pretty vague and opinions vary between characters. When Rose asks the cue ball whether or not they're evil, she's shown some eldritch text and goes grimdark.
 * While they help the players in the sense of giving them Dreambubbles and whispering to them, they also worked with Doc Scratch to make Alternia a Death World.
 * Above Good and Evil / Blue and Orange Morality
 * Early Bird Cameo: They are first mentioned in Rose's Grimoire, which includes Fluthlu from Problem Sleuth as a very, very minor servitor of their race.
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Fighting for Survival: The reason they are helping the kids? Something is killing them all.
 * Fling a Light Into The Future: They now store Rose's walkthrough in order to help other sessions of SBURB. It's found by Kanaya in what can effectively be considered the kid's past.
 * Unfortunately, they also host the server that runs the ~ATH code that summons Lord English.
 * Place Beyond Time / Void Between the Worlds: They live outside of the Incipispheres, in the Furthest Ring, literally existing in the spaces between universes.

Skaia
The counterpart to the Elder Gods; Skaia shows the dream selves of Prospit confusing visions of the future, past, and present.


 * Big Good: Skaia tries to shape the players into becoming heroes and grants them new realities to continue the creation of new universes.
 * Sentient Cosmic Force
 * God: If Doc Scratch and Lord English are the Devil figures, Skaia is probably the closest to a God figure.
 * Dreaming of Things to Come: Induces this in everyone who looks into it's clouds except high ranking Dersites.
 * Genius Loci: Although not intelligent in the classical sense, Skaia itself seems to have some form of awareness and knows everything.
 * Not to mention a lot of game important things take place in or around Skaia.
 * Light Is Not Good: A lot of what Skaia does would be viewed as evil if any of the characters did it. The Reckoning appears to be an example of this, since Skaia intentionally destroys a session's homeworld to save itself, instead of teleporting the meteors pretty much anywhere else, like empty space. However, according to Rose in Act 6 Intermission 2, Earth is the only place it can send the meteors. It's also justified in that certain meteors need to hit a planet to seed it for the session.
 * Meaningful Name: Sky + Gaia
 * The Omniscient
 * Out Gambitted: None of the sessions shown have really worked out that well.
 * Stable Time Loop

Paradox Space
A mysterious force that causes doomed timelines and paradox doubles to die abruptly. Despite the name, it's not a physical location, so much as the shape of reality itself. Very little is known about it.


 * A Form You Are Comfortable With: Paradox Space's immutable fate often takes the guise of ~ATH programs or vague curses. To what extent ~ATH actually warps reality is largely unknown, but it seems to simply reflect what Paradox Space had already decided.
 * Big Bad: By some interpretations, Paradox Space is this, given that the efforts of the characters in comic are all predestined, including those of the actual Big Bad!
 * Big Good: Of course Skaia and all the beneficial things that occur from it also fall under Paradox Space. Above Good and Evil applies heavily here.
 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Initially seemed like an offhand joke by Terezi about doomed timelines before being revealed to be an actual concept.
 * Fan Nickname: P-Space. Eventually became used in comic as well.
 * Leaning On the Fourth Wall: Paradox Space and the fate it ordains is a subtle reference to the fact that the characters are fictional and Andrew plans all the arcs, with minor deviations springing up from fan input or just having fun with developing characters.
 * Vriska's Rage Against the Heavens makes this even more evident; she's mad in part because she's been relegated to being a minor character.
 * Omniscient Morality License / Above Good and Evil
 * Our Angels Are Different: Angels apparently serve as agents of it. It's unclear if these are the same angels associated with Heroes of Hope.
 * Sentient Cosmic Force: Somehow is capable of observing all of reality and manipulating fate.
 * Possibly averted. Aranea's exposition on it suggests it is no more cognizant of dooming people to die and manipulating their fates than humans are of cells in their body.
 * You Can't Fight Fate: Paradox Space is why everything is essentially predestined; all offshoot timelines veer off into non-existence. Notably, however, this only applies to the players and to actions that will have an impact on the potential creation or destruction of universes; non-players who aren't in a position to affect such things have as much choice as their lot in life permits.
 * While fate isn't completely immutable, some minor variations being allowed, all major events are predestined. Despite this, Aranea points out that it isn't really a hindrance, as someone with unlimited choices would have no sense of identity.

Denizens
The Final Boss in each player's Myth Arc, and the source of the troubles they face on their various lands.

All Denizens are examples of

 * Ambiguously Evil: They do loosely serve Derse, but they're usually more interested in challenging the player to grow as an individual.
 * With that said, Hephaestus went nuts in Davesprite's timeline due to the Forge never appearing.
 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Mentioned early in Act 4 but seemed to take a backseat to Jack Noir's ascension before coming back near the end of Act 5 in a big way.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? / Did We Just Have Tea With Cthulhu?: Both are valid options.
 * Early Bird Cameo: Denizens are virtually identical in appearance to the icons used for a player's internet client, which usually is shown long before the character enters the Medium.
 * Final Boss: Of each Land; though a player has the option of Talking the Monster To Death.
 * The Ghost: Other than the fact that they look like each player's internet client icon, none of the denizens have actually appeared on-panel thus far, though a few of the kids and trolls have ended up encountering their denizens in some way or another.
 * Infinity-1 Sword: All seemingly have a weapon that can be given to another player of the session, for instance, the Quills of Echidna are part of NeedleKind, and Hephaestus's Fear No Anvil was captchagraphed by Davesprite and its code given to John. However they are not the ultimate weapons of a session, and a player can alchemize better ones.
 * Meaningful Name: Almost all of them are named after Greek or Roman mythological figures and all share their names with a player's internet browser.
 * You Bastard: Should a player choose to kill them, knowing that they're sentient. This has happened with at least Vriska and Karkat.
 * The Un-Reveal: Because of the way the trolls set up their computers, we never end up seeing what any of their Denizens are. Dirk's computer was similarly set up so The Reveal of Yaldaboath wasn't immediately obvious.
 * The Unseen: None of them have been seen in person - all we have to go on are statues, the browser icons, and dead!John and Vriska's reactions to encountering a memory of Typheus.

Typheus
The Denizen of Breath. He has appeared on the Land of Wind and Shade during John's travels and presumably appeared on the Land of Sand and Zephyr as part of Tavros's travels.

Most tropes will apply to John's iteration as Tavros's iteration has never appeared in comic.


 * Nice Guy: Explained to a doomed John exactly what would result from the timeline shift before killing him.
 * Snake People

Cetus
The Denizen of Light. She has appeared on the Land of Light and Rain during Rose's travels, on the Land of Maps and Treasure during Vriska's travels, and presumably on Aranea's land during her travels. Very little is known about her. Vriska killed her iteration, who attempted to explain something to Vriska before she died.


 * Big Eater: Rose's iteration ate all the fish in an ocean before going to sleep.
 * Kraken and Leviathan

Hephaestus
The Denizen of Time. He has appeared on the Land of Heat and Clockwork during Dave's travels and presumably appeared on the Land of Quartz and Melody as part of Aradia's travels.


 * The Blacksmith
 * Cool Sword: Like to make them
 * Hot Blooded: According to Davesprite at least.
 * Jerkass: Comparatively amongst the Denizens. He attacked Davesprite without provocation, but once the Forge was lit by Jade, he seemingly calmed down a lot, and helped Davesprite reforge the Caledfwlch into the Royal Deringer.
 * Man On Fire: Seemingly constantly.
 * Odd Name Out: Of the first four Denizens introduced, he is the only one that is a god rather than a monster.

Echidna
The Denizen of Space. She has appeared on the Land of Frost and Frogs during Jade's travels and on the Land of Ray and Frogs during Kanaya's travels, as well as having an iteration on an unknown land during the Pre-Scratch troll session.

In that latter session it was Aranea, the Sylph of Light, who consulted with Echidna about their equivalent of the Scratch and not the unnamed hero of Space.


 * Big Bad / Big Good: More or less is the leader of the Denizens.
 * Mother of a Thousand Young: Doc Scratch refers to her as "the mother of all monsters." It's unknown whether this was just a reference to the mythological Echidna or whether she somehow plays this role in Sburb.
 * Sadistic Choice: Every known iteration of Echidna has offered the players one. According to Jade, the choices "seem to have to do with facing mortality and making it clear if you choose one path over another it will lead to your death and that your death may even be necessary to accomplish a goal." Kanaya theorizes that all Denizens produce an ultimatum that is a variant on that choice.
 * The pre-Scratch trolls were given the chance to scratch their game rather than face extinction "and put no others at risk." This turned out to be a Deal With the Devil, as it allowed for Doc Scratch and Lord English to reign over their universe.
 * The post-Scratch trolls were given a task which Kanaya said was impossible in exchange for how to find the last frog. Karkat pushed her to ignore the frog and focus on the final battle. It's implied that Kanaya killed her version of Echidna like the others.
 * Jade was told that she must agree to the seemingly impossible task of taking all the Denizens, the Consorts, and their lands with her after the Scratch. She agrees despite having no idea how to do so and later pulls it off after reaching God Tier.
 * Snake People

Hemera
The Denizen of Life. She will appear on Jane's Land of Crypts and Helium, presumably appeared on the Land of Dew and Glass during Feferi's travels and on Meenah's unidentified land during her session.


 * Meaningful Name: Hemera is the goddess of daylight and her dress is golden, which in-verse is associated with Prospit and Skaia.
 * Rule of Symbolism: Her dress visually resembles the Rod of Asclepius, a symbol associated with medicine.
 * The Aloner: Other then the Underlings, she will be the only one still alive to greet Jane on LOCAH due to the extra long time it took for them to get into the game.

Nyx
The Denizen of Void. She will appear on Roxy's land and presumably appeared on the Land of Caves and Silence during Equius's travels.


 * Meaningful Name: Nyx is the goddess of night and her dress is purple, which in-verse is associated with Derse and the Horrorterrors.
 * Palette Swap: Visually resembles Hemera above, only her dress is purple instead of golden and swirls the opposite directions.

Yaldabaoth
The Denizen of Heart. He will appear on Dirk's land and presumably appeared on the Land of Little Cubes and Tea during Nepeta's travels.


 * Odd Name Out: All of the other Denizens are named after Greek and Roman deities and creatures. Yaldabaoth takes his name from the creator of the material world in the Gnostic tradition, which may also be a reference to Jade and Roxy's chumhandles.
 * Though the concept of Demiurge stems from Plato and was subsequently appropriated by the Gnostics, meaning the connection isn't entirely gone. Plato's conception of Demiurge and the Gnostic conception of Yaldaboath are distinctly different though.
 * Palette Swap: Visually resembles Typheus, except with a red body and a dark orange Light sun head.
 * Genius Bonus: Yaldabaoth/Demiurge is often portrayed as posing as a sun deity. It fits well for a denizen whose aspect's theme is a fractured soul.
 * Rule of Symbolism: Dirk uses the content aggregator "Complete Bullshit" rather than the browser Yaldaboath most of the time. The Myth Arc for a Hero of Heart often revolves around a fractured sense of self.
 * The Demiurge is traditionally displayed as having a lion's head. Nepeta, who presumably fought Yaldabaoth, is the Leo troll.

Abraxas
The Denizen of Hope. He will appear on Jake's land and presumably appeared in the Land of Wrath and Angels during Eridan's time there..


 * Meaningful Name: Abraxas is a great archon in Gnositic text, who contains and appears in all 365 heavens within himself.
 * Another Abraxas is a badass Marvel villain with surprising parallels to Lord English.
 * Abraxas also has connections with Abracadabra, which is one way of looking at the BARK code
 * Non Standard Character Design: Unlike the other Denizens, who have human-like faces, Abraxas has a birdface instead, as seen in most depictions of him.
 * Odd Name Out: Like Yaldabaoth, he's named after another Gnostic figure.
 * Rule of Symbolism: Depending on the source, he can be ether interpreted as an Egyptian god or a demon. Lord English is a demon who uses a sarcophagus to travel time.

The Squiddles and Skipper Plumbthroat
Characters from a Saturday morning cartoon show Rose and Jade watched when they were younger. Entirely irrelevant to the plot. For now, at least.They have their own album. They are, in part, a subconscious representation of the Gods of the Furthest Ring, created by humanity.

"Skipper Plumbthroat: Well excuse me, Princess Berryboo!"
 * Affectionate Parody
 * All There in the Manual: Most of the info about them was revealed in the description for a poster in the store. The album reveals some more info.
 * Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
 * Animesque: Parts of the flash movie that comes with the album.
 * Art Shift: There's several different art styles in the Squiddles opening.
 * The Captain
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: "Tangling" seems slightly sexual. Made much more explicit in the flash movie that accompanies the album, where two Squiddles are seen smoking in bed after some intense tangling.
 * Egomaniac Fisherman
 * Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods
 * Expy: In universe, the Squiddles are Lighter and Softer versions of the Gods, while Skipper Plumbthroat is possibly related to Lord English. Word of God has been very teasing on their connection, but an outright link has never been stated.
 * God Never Said That: Skipper Plumbthroat doesn't have a pegleg, despite fans assuming he did.
 * Harmless Villain
 * Jerkass Woobie: Skipper Plumbthroat is a destitute, depressed Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
 * Last Two Minutes Nightmare: "Let the Squiddles Sleep". The Squiddles may be sleeping, but will anyone else be able to?
 * Never Again
 * Medium Blending: The opening sequence includes a puppet show segment, midway through the puppet show, they decide to be tangle buddies, and it switches from puppets to gloved hands.
 * Merchandise-Driven: Judging by the sheer amount of plushies.
 * Non Standard Character Design: The magical girls in the Squiddles opening.
 * The Power of Friendship/The Power of Love: Always.
 * Punny Name
 * Puppy Dog Eyes
 * Real Trailer Fake Movie: Here for the Squiddles movie, The Day The Unicorns Couldn't Play.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Shout Out


 * Show Within a Show
 * Stylistic Suck: Never actually seen, but it's implied to be pretty bad to the people of the Homestuck universe, excluding Jade. It has a 2.6 out of 10 on the (fake) IMDB page seen in the description for the poster mentioned above.
 * Perhaps it's rated low due to the high amount of weird...things that occur. You know, what with them being a human interpretation of the Eldritch Abominations from the Farthest Ring.
 * Tastes Like Diabetes: "I just had a friendship aneurysm!"
 * Title Theme Tune
 * Villain Song: "Catchyegrabber" for Skipper Plumbthroat, which later received a remix and is the closest to being Eridan's theme as any song is.

Characters from Complacency of the Learned
"Complacency of the Learned" is a story written by Rose and her Post-Scratch counterpart, Mom Lalonde. While Rose's story never amounted to much more than Purple Prose, Mom Lalonde's novels have become inexplicable best sellers.

The series is about a group of disciples of twelve great wizards who rebel against them under the influence of Calmasis, chief antihero and antagonist. The kids then murder each of the wizards in ironic ways, until only their leader, Zazzerpan, is left to duel him in a chess match. Roxy calls the books "dark," "inaccessibly written," and "exhaustingly heavy-handed" though still inspiring to her as an author of more lighthearted wizardfic.

Word of God is that Rose's wizardfic is about 12 evil kids who influenced every dark event in history, and thus a subconscious reflection of the trolls' role in creating the universe. Other characters in the series seem to correspond to uranianUmbra and undyingUmbrage.

Calmasis
Calmasis is the main antagonist of the series.


 * Anti-Hero: Is referred to this by Roxy, though evidence seems to suggest that s/he's closer to a Villain Protagonist.
 * Ambiguous Gender: Consistently referred to as "s/he", due to being very androgynous.
 * Death By Irony: Seemingly obsessed with them.
 * Expy: Intentionally done in universe. Calmasis has the relative appearance of Rose's grimdark phase, is heavily associated with Doc Scratch, and has been shown to be partially Foreshadowing UU and uu.
 * Magnetic Hero / The Corrupter: Manages to turn other pupils against the Complacency.
 * Meaningful Name: Calmasis
 * It's also similar to "kismesis".
 * Also similar to Salmacis, the nymph who was merged with Hermphroditus to become the first hemaphrodite.
 * Villain Protagonist: Torments and kills the Complacency for no real explored reason.
 * Villain Sue: In universe example. S/he wins a game of wizard chess even after being checkmated.
 * Most wizards use wands. Calmasis has a revolver.

Zazzerpan
Also known as the Predicant Scholar. Leader of the Complacency and main protagonist.


 * Chekhov's Gunman: The gigantic wizard statue in Rose's house is Zazzerpan the Learned. We don't know whether the statue was named for the character in her wizardfic, vice versa, or neither.
 * Meaningful Title: "Predicant Scholar" resembles a Prospitian or Dersite title.
 * Mythology Gag: The initials are PS.
 * Smart People Play Chess: He's so good he's apparently beaten gods.

Frigglish
A wizard cursed and later killed by Calmasis.


 * Death By Irony: Crushed beneath a book filled with his own mad scribbles.
 * Foreshadowing: Roxy renames Jaspers after him. Jaspers gets crushed by a book filled with a sprite's scribblings.
 * Some suggest this is also a probable fate for Gamzee, considering one of his alternates authored a book full of gibberish, especially considering Word of God is that the wizards correspond to the Trolls.
 * Go Mad From The Curse
 * Great Big Book of Everything: What his insanity drives him to create. It's also what kills him.

Other Wizards
Executus, Smarny, Ockite the Bonafide, and Gastrell the Munificent.


 * Doomed Protagonist
 * Nominal Importance: Averted so far. We only know of them through a small excerpt of Rose's wizardfic.

Dirk's Auto Responder
An AI Dirk Strider developed that supposedly imitates his thought processes within a small margin of error. As such, his chumhandle is also timaeusTestified. Dirk created him around his thirteenth birthday, and he's more or less a screenshot of Dirk's personality at that time period, though he's undergone his own character development as well.

Because they're very closely related, tropes here specifically apply to the program.

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 * Artificial Intelligence: The first and so far only truly robotic character in the comic.
 * Artificial Brilliance / Artificial Stupidity: And sometimes he's completely indistinguisable from DS, but other times his algorithms screw up.
 * Asexuality: While he does have a slight crush on Jake at times, it's more like an echo of Dirk's feelings, and he doesn't really experience romance
 * Ambiguously Bi: On the other hand, he flirts with Roxy and has the aforementioned crush on Jake. Dirk however calls him out on it and says he's just doing it to fuck with him, which TT agrees with.
 * Brain Uploading:
 * It's implied he was made in part via a captcha of Dirk's own brain, a Call Back to when Dave was messing around with his alchemiter. (Though how Dirk got a captcha of his own brain before entering Sburb is a Noodle Incident so far.)
 * He has also hinted that Jake's brobot may run a copy of his personality, since he referred to him as his robotic avatar. At the very least, he's capable of remotely controlling its difficulty settings.
 * Bratty Half Pint: Sort of. He's got a mental age of 13, as opposed to Dirk who's aged since.
 * Call a Human A Meatbag

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 * Seemingly only does so when he's pretty upset.
 * Call Back: Is a reference to how Davesprite insists on being treated as his own person, separate from Dave.
 * Roxy refers to him as AR.
 * When talking to Dirk, he uses Dave's exact text color, just as Dirk uses Davesprite's.
 * When talking about what he'd do if he was the one pursuing Jake:

"[[color:#f2a400:TT: What does he have to do to make you at ease with the alkaline sting of his gentle robogrope? I really want to know.
 * Cool Shades: Literally is a pair of them.
 * Divergent Character Evolution: Jake agrees to treat TT as a person and not a program.
 * Extends further: Dirk created him as a captcha when he was 13, but TT has since undergone his own development since, separate from Dirk. It also explains why he's a bit more immature and sweary than Dirk, in that he's mentally a bit younger.
 * Expospeak Gag: When Jake runs into the occasional hole in its ability to mimic a human.
 * Expy: Aside from his artificial nature, he's almost exactly like Dave.
 * Fan Nickname: Since he doesn't actually have a name, being essentially a clone of Dirk Strider, fans have started referring to him as TT, after their shared chumhandle.
 * Also known as Shades Prick by other fans.
 * Foreshadowing:

TT: Maybe he should just rip his heart out of his chest and pound it into green gravel there in the jungle with his hella strong robot arm.]]

Also,

TT: Oceans will rise. Cities will fall. Volcanoes will erupt."

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 * LARPing: Apparently does stuff that Dirk considers embarrassing with Roxy.
 * Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: The accuracy numbers he admits to pulling out of his ass.
 * Sophisticated As Hell:

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 * Not So Stoic: In comparison to Dirk, he's a lot more open about his feelings. However the feelings that are his are the feelings about not having true feelings.
 * Pinocchio Syndrome: He is pretty resentful of humans and tends to mock them when his artificial nature is brought up.
 * Broken Bird: His conversations with Roxy have made it clear that he's incredibly upset about being artificial.
 * Shout Out: Not directly, but he explicitly puts on a "hal 9000 schtick".

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 * Sophisticated As Hell: He has both a wide vocabulary and swears a lot more than his creator.
 * Turing Test: He almost passes, fooling Jake for nearly an entire page and then convincingly asserting his own personhood afterwards.
 * Dirk claims that he programmed him to fail it ironically.
 * Verbal Tic: He immediately regurgitates a preformed chat message when prompted about himself, and then subsequently tries to play it off as being irrelevant.

"
 * The percentage later drops as Jake harasses it.
 * The program has a tendency to use "It seems" and percentages a lot in conversation.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Jake invokes this, claiming that machines don't have real feelings, but TT defies it, says he does have feelings, and is quite offended by Jake's attitude.

"


 * Cloning Blues: Doesn't take kindly to Jake's insistence on talking to the "real" Dirk. This is one of the ways one can tell the difference between him and the original Dirk Strider.
 * Dirk himself seems to believe that the question is irrelevant, even to the point of leaving its functions on because he regards muting an AI whose entire purpose is to talk an And I Must Scream situation.
 * On the other hand Dirk dismisses his growth in maturity since they were both 13, since he has developed "in whatever way is natural for a frequently running, self-aware application," as opposed to how Dirk grew as a human.
 * Wishful Projection: His defense of the "loyal brobot" seems rather personal.

Sawtooth and Squarewave
A pair of rapping robots created by Dirk Strider. Sawtooth was designed to be unbeatable in a rap-off while Squarewave loses to Dirk every time.

Squarewave has spoken in a flash and speaks


 * The Ace: Sawtooth was deliberately designed to be one.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Sawtooth shows up to save Dirk after he's pinned down by dronebots.
 * Butt Monkey: Squarewave.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: First appeared on Dave's wall as a poster.
 * Mythology Gag / Creator in Joke: They were at one point intended to be the focus of a rap album, which never really materialized.
 * Though as of Squarewave's rap ambush, it seems to have made some progress in art assets at least.
 * Early Bird Cameo: Both Squarewave and Sawtooth showed up back in Act 2, on a poster in Dave's room.
 * Exotic Eye Designs: Squarewave's eyes consist of concentric circles, one of which is more contracted than the other, leading to look like he constantly has Mad Eye, even though he's perfectly sane.
 * Eyes Always Shut: Sawtooth, if this is anything to go by.
 * In the Hood: Sawtooth.
 * Meaningful Name: They're named after square and sawtooth waves.
 * More Dakka: Sawtooth shows up to save Dirk from the dronebots with a pair of giant torso-mounted missile racks.
 * Nice Hat: Both of them.
 * Non Standard Character Design: Robotic characters in comic tend to be grey with obvious bolts and rivets, but otherwise resemble living creatures in form and outline, whereas these guys look more stylized, blocky, and overtly mechanical with mouths that resemble their namesake waves.
 * Robot Buddy: Dirk even notes that Squarewave is somewhat close in behavior to a puppy.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: For some definition of siblings.
 * Rule of Symbolism: And they're pretty close to being just like the Striders. Squarewave even speaks in red text like Dave.
 * Walking the Earth: Sawtooth, according to Dirk. He defeats any rappers foolish enough to challenge him.
 * Though with the revelation that Dirk, and by extension, Sawtooth and Squarewave, live in the far future, one must question exactly who he's rap battling.
 * Either dersites and prospitians or literally no one dares do challenge him.
 * Weaksauce Weakness / No Waterproofing in The Future:

Lil' Cal
Bro's favorite puppet. He's kind of creepy.

According to undyingUmbrage, Cal is a "juju", which is an Artifact of Doom seemingly connected to Lord English. Dirk Strider has his own version of Lil' Cal, but it's currently unclear if it is a duplicate created by the Scratch or the same Cal from a different point in time.

"[[color:#323232:uu: THERE'S ONLY ONE REASON FOR THOSE TO EXIST.
 * Always Chaotic Evil: See Artifact of Doom.
 * Artifact of Doom: undyingUmbrage seems to think that Lil' Cal is one, though its unknown how specific he's being when trying to warn Dirk to destroy him.

uu: IT IS TO TuRN THE LIFE OF EVERYONE WHO OCCuPIES THE SAME uNIVERSE WITH IT.

uu: INTO A NIGHTMARE.]]"

"He's been around as long as you can remember. You were practically raised by that puppet. He was a much better guardian to you than that Hollywood superstar BRO of yours ever was. He is such a good listener. You share with him all your most private thoughts and hopes and dreams, and sometimes you snuggle up with him for a nice nap."
 * Companion Cube
 * Creepy Doll
 * Defictionalization: Forum regular Eyes5 made a real Cal doll and gave it to Andrew.
 * Demonic Dummy
 * Foreshadowing: Dave's sword is called Caledscratch. It's later revealed that Doc Scratch was created by the Black Queen alchemizing Cal with Vriska's magic cue ball.
 * Remember all those jokes about Lil' Cal being Lord English? It turns out English spawns from Doc Scratch's body at the end of the universe. He has Lil' Cal's facial structure.
 * Mythology Gag: Before MS Paint Adventures, Andrew Hussie often used the name "Lil' Cal" for rappers or gangsters in his other comics.
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Especially his dream counterpart, which moves around on its own. Then it turns out that he is his dream counterpart through weird time shit, so he was alive and capable of moving all along... (unless Dream Cal only moved due to Dave's subconscious influence) Also, Gamzee thinks Cal can talk, and is telling him that it's time to kill him all, is he just an Ax Crazy maniac who thinks his puppet talks to him, or is he an Ax Crazy maniac whose puppet really is talking to him?
 * Given Lil' Cal's connection with Doc Scratch and Lord English...
 * Perverse Puppet: Even more so than most of Bro's.
 * Security Blanket: To Dirk, strangely enough.


 * Stable Time Loop: undyingUmbrage calls Lil' Cal a "juju." Later, uranianUmbra explains that "juju" are said to have origins impossible to trace, emerging out of the void, and cannot truly be copied or destroyed. Lil' Cal is a fine example of this. He was created by Gamzee as a nightmare to haunt Dave's dreamself based on Bro's puppet. That nightmare eventually was sent through a Skaian portal to become Bro's puppet, and then that puppet through elaborate shenanigans ended up following Jack into the troll's session and eventually wound up in Gamzee's hands, inspiring his own creation.
 * Uncanny Valley: Did we say valley? More like Laurentian Abyss.
 * Largely an effect of how even his pixelated sprite has unnaturally realistic looking glass eyes.

Con Air Bunny Rabbit / Liv Tyler / Mr. Terry Kiser
The genuine rabbit seen in the film Con Air, given by Nicolas Cage to his daughter at the film's "dramatic" climax. Dave got it for John as a birthday present. It's had an interesting history.


 * Ambiguous Gender: Rose and John use female pronouns for it; Jake uses male. It's a stuffed toy, so it doesn't have one.
 * BFG: The Cyborg Bunny wields the ultimate or penultimate weapons of the same types as the kids. One of them is Eridan's Ahab's Crosshairs -- miniaturized, but still much taller than the Bunny itself.
 * Cat Face: Well, bunny face, but definitely has a penchant for doing this.
 * Chekhov's Gift: John receives all three versions of the Bunny on his birthday. He does not realize it at first, but each one is very important -- the first two must be sent back in time to create the third, which ends up saving his life when cornered by Jack.
 * This also logically means, of course, that John has regifted the poor thing twice. Talk about unappreciative!
 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Still looking out for John and the Kids too, Liv stole the Tumor and delivered it to Rose and is accompanying her on her suicide mission.
 * The Cavalry: "The toy has taken a new master. The tactician, a misstep."
 * Big Damn Heroes: It has a bit of a habit for coming through for the kids when it's least expected.
 * Dropped a Bridge On Him: Unceremoniously killed offscreen during the creation of the Green Sun.
 * Averted later in Act 6, where Terry gets a whole flash dedicated to it's life and death as Liv Tyler after Jake sends it to Jade.
 * Eye Scream: WV eats its green eye, RIGHT OUT OF THE SOCKET. Thankfully occurs off-screen.
 * I Have Many Names: John calls it Liv Tyler; Jake calls it Terry Kiser.
 * Named After Somebody Famous: Duh
 * Shout Out: Aside from the obvious, John eventually has her pilot one Derse's floating battleships, making her Captain Tyler.
 * Shrink Ray: Liv Tyler has both a infinitesimalator (pressing her red eye) which can littlefy things and a monstrositifier (the green eye) which hugens them. John used the monstrositifier to hugen the Warhammer of Zillyhoo back to its normal size. Unfortunately WV ate the green eye, leaving only the infinitesimalator, which John used to shrink a Derse battleship.
 * The Slow Path: It's at least 38 years old.
 * Transplant: The stuffed Bunny is the authentic toy itself from Con Air, albeit much abused.
 * Walking Armory: It shows up with four ultimate weapons strapped to its back -- the Warhammer of Zillyhoo, the Quills of Echidna, the Royal Deringer, and Ahab's Crosshairs.

Alpha Bunny / Huggy Bear / Lil' Sebastian
A version of the Cyborg Bunny that was created by Dirk and given to Jane for her birthday. The Alpha counterpart to Liv Tyler.


 * In Spite of a Nail: Dirk enclosed the actual Con Air bunny in a robotic suit, despite Jane not being a fan of Con Air.
 * Timey-Wimey Ball: However, due to the duplication of items between the Scratch, Jane technically has 3 different instances of the exact same bunny now, which doesn't have to undergo a Stable Time Loop anymore.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Small Annoying Creature: Jane is not amused by his actions, particularly his desecration of Poppop's body, and more recently, the destruction of one of her home's walls by a thrown refrigerator.
 * Shout Out: Li'l Sebastian is named after a miniature horse from Parks and Recreation, and the name "Huggy Bear", of course, comes from the character played by Snoop Dogg in Starsky and Hutch.

Assorted Animal Sidekicks
Over the course of their adventure, the kids (and some other characters) come into possession of a number of animal sidekicks. In order of appearance, they are MAPLEHOOF, a beautiful pony given to Rose by her mom, SERENITY, a firefly appearified out of amber by WV, VODKA MUTINI, a friendly mutant kitten found in the lab near Rose's house, a small murder of RAMBUNCTIOUS CROWS who burst through the window of Dave's apartment, and CASEY, a salamander from the Land of Wind and Shade who played the part of Cameron Poe's daughter in one of John's emotionally charged Con Air reenactments.

""How do you people even exchange ideas without luminous rear ends!!!!!!""
 * Ambiguous Gender: John isn't quite sure what gender Casey is, but gives her a girl name. Rose thinks of "Viceroy Bubbles Von Salamancer" as male. Who's right? Who knows.
 * WV has no idea if Serenity is a boy or a girl. He decides she's a girl, but he also has no idea if fireflies can even be girls. They can in some species, but in others, female fireflies resemble larvae. It is never clarified which Serenity's species falls into.
 * Fans are divided on whether Mutie is a boy or girl. Canon doesn't clarify either way.
 * Bilingual Bonus: Serenity will occasionally blink out a message in Morse code.
 * Everyone Knows Morse: Averted, to Serenity's annoyance.


 * Clone Degeneration: Mutie is an imperfect clone of Rose's dead cat Jaspers.
 * Crows and Ravens
 * Cute Kitten
 * Extra Eyes: Mutie has four eyes.
 * Firefly Companion
 * Fun Size: Alpha iteration of Maplehoof.
 * Head Pet
 * I Have Many Names: Mutie gets called "Dr. Meowgon Spengler" by John. Similarly, Casey gets called "Viceroy Bubbles Von Salamancer" by Rose. Turnabout is fair play?
 * Invulnerable Horses: Subverted. After being abandoned by its owner and surviving the apocalypse, Maplehoof dies via meteor crash and is turned into a bib.
 * The Ishmael: Maplehoof was briefly made playable during Act 4 to provide a window into what Rose's mom was up to.
 * Killed Off for Real: Maplehoof.
 * No Name Given: The narration has implied Alpha Maplehoof's names isn't actually Maplehoof.
 * Punny Name: Serenity is a Firefly.
 * Stock Shout Outs: Maplehoof has a heart on her right flank, notably occurring before the recent series, but it was subsequently made into a Shout Out to it with Dirk's iteration of Maplehoof.
 * Sure Why Not: Before her name was made official, Mutie was Mutie's Fan Nickname.
 * Team Pet: Serenity is this for the Exiles.
 * You All Look Familiar: Casey looks the same as any salamander, only smaller and thus cuter.

Colonel Sassacre
A famous prankster and one of John and Jane's heroes. In both the pre- and post-Scratch universes, he was married to Betty Crocker and was the adoptive father of two of the eight meteor babies - Nanna and Grandpa pre-Scratch (though he never lived to raise both of them), and Grandma and Poppop post-Scratch.


 * The Blank: Like John's Dad, he has no facial features except for his nose (although he also has a mustache). At least when he appears in person. His face can be seen in an illustration inside his book, and can be seen again here.
 * Crack Pairing: He's apparently married to Betty Crocker. Who is an immortal alien empress bent on conquering the world.
 * Curse of the Ancients: "Land sakes alive, we are cooking with petrol now!"
 * Death By Origin Story: Played straight in the Pre-Scratch Universe but averted in the Post-Scratch Universe where he survived to raise Poppop.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's Mark Twain. With a party hat.
 * Expy: And when he's rendered in a more symbolic manner, he's pretty much Dad with hair and a mustache.
 * Trickster Mentor: If his book of pranks is any indication.

Fedorafreak
One of Dad's business associates.


 * Action Survivor: The only known human still alive on post-apocalyptic Earth after the last meteor hits.
 * Ascended Extra
 * Ascended Meme: Attempts to use large pants as some kind of defense.
 * Stuck in the Medium. Drinks his own filtered piss.
 * It's safe to say fedorafreak is nothing BUT this.
 * Expospeak Gag: He types like this, all the time.
 * Expy: He's basically Dad only talking and more obsessed with hats. But then again he was never meant to be a major character.
 * Hero of Another Story: He's playing his own session somehow, possibly with other survivors. He seemingly wandered across a player's wrecked house and entered that way
 * Fridge Horror: Earth Sessions are unbeatable because of inherent flaws in the Universe. What happened to him is best left to the imagination.
 * Innocent Bystander / Red Herring: Another interpretation of his character.
 * Memetic Bystander
 * Nice Hat: It's in the name
 * One-Scene Wonder: He has never appeared in person; his name shows up in the background on Dad's chat client once in Act 1 and twice in Act 5, well over a year later. Despite this, he achieved memetic status on the forums.
 * Toward the end of Act 5, he takes center stage for a few pages, having somehow gotten into the Medium, alchemized a few worthless outfits, and apparently died on a Quest Bed after fighting some imps.
 * Serious Business: Professional attire, particularly hats.
 * Sure Why Not: Probably the biggest example as a character within the entire series.
 * The Voice: Although he only communicates through text.

Guy Fieri
A Food Network star turned Supreme Court Justice, then High Chaplain of Interstellar War under the Condesce's rule, and eventually regarded as the third Antichrist. He was assassinated by Lalonde, Roxy's Ancestor, in the last gasp of the Resistance.


 * Disney Villain Death: If the knitting needles didn't finish him off, the plummet to the bottom of a waterfall of blood probably helped.
 * Eye Scream: Stabbed in both eyes with a pair of knitting needles.
 * Foreshadowing: Fieri made his first cameo in the comic some seven hundred pages before Dirk explained his rise to power more fully. It's easy to dismiss those popups as a throwaway gag, until you find out that... well, see below.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: He was responsible for the deaths of 5 billion people. Out of 7 billion.
 * Villain With Good Publicity: It becomes increasingly obvious that he's evil as other supreme court justices dropped dead and humanity continued its acrobatic pirouette off the handle.

Presidents Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope
The first and last Juggalo and dual presidents ever, having been appointed by the Batterwitch herself. They caused a Hilarocaust and were eventually killed in a duel by Strider, Dirk's Ancestor, in the final gasp of the Resistance.


 * Curb Stomp Battle: Dave kills them both in one sword slice.
 * President Evil
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Their regime was very silly... but it was murderous and backed up by the Condesce.
 * Too Dumb to Live: They accepted Dave's invitation to a duel.
 * Villain With Good Publicity: Averted, as they apparently made it very clear that they were not good.

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