Undocumented Features/Characters

This sheet is for the central and recurring characters of Undocumented Features; because of the scope of UF, listing all its characters is neither practical nor possible if we don't want to break the wiki. Also note that UF is a very dynamic setting; all its characters continuously grow and change. These bios may simultaneously be both spoilers for earlier stories and obsolete relative to those written afterward.

Let us repeat that, as it bears repeating: ''These biographical sketches will in many cases constitute spoilers for readers new to UF. In some cases simply the category they are listed under will be a spoiler.'' Peruse them at your own risk.

That said, go and enjoy.

''This page is a stub, under construction at the moment. Yes, a page with more than 100 characters is still a stub.''

Wedge Rats and Their Contemporaries
Practically all the Wedge folk, and many of their friends and neighbors, became immortal in the late 20th century; they (and their children) all have Living Forever Is Awesome. They're also proven Eternal Heroes.

Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins

 * The Ace
 * Adrenaline Makeover
 * Ancestral Weapon: Ryuu-no-tsume was the weapon of Tetsuo Asagiri.
 * Author Avatar
 * Big Good
 * Clear My Name: During the Exile, after his Evil Twin frames him for mass murder.
 * Chick Magnet
 * Evil Laugh: When possessed by the spirit of The Shadow.
 * Four-Star Badass: As leader of the IPO.
 * Red Baron: He was known as The Butcher of Musashi during the exile.
 * Samurai: O-sensei of the Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu kenjutsu style by the Future Imperfect era.
 * Triang Relations: Is "A" in a stable (and fully informed) type 7 relationship with Kei and Skuld.
 * Wander The Universe: The Exile

MegaZone

 * Adrenaline Makeover
 * Author Avatar
 * The Captain
 * Cyborg: Adding new parts was a hobby of his during the Exile.
 * Emergency Transformation: MegaZone is given Detian nigh-immortality as the only way to wake him from a coma.
 * His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Even IRL!

John "Truss" Trussell

 * Intrepid Reporter for Network 23
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Write Who You Know

Kei Morgan

 * Action Girlfriend
 * Action Mom: In the Future Imperfect era. Don't call her a Hausfrau, though.
 * Fake Memories: Played with. Kei and Yuri remember their life as the, um, Lovely Angels before being created in the HoloDECStation, but also know that those memories can't be true from the very beginning. They're not at all bothered by this, and go on to establish the 3WA that they "remember".
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Functional Addict: During the Exile, at least part of the Idiot Ball carrying was done by stims.
 * Idiot Ball: During and after Gryphon's court-martial at the end of Manhunt she effectively admits to carrying the idiot ball during her entire Inspector Javert phase.
 * Inspector Javert: She becomes Gryphon's most determined, unforgiving pursuer during the Exile.
 * Line-of-Sight Name: Took her last name from Morgan Hall at WPI.
 * Refugee From TV Land: Subverted; the universe becomes much more like their world, and the Wedge Rats become the fish out of water.
 * Triang Relations: Is "B" in a stable (and fully informed) type 7 relationship with Gryphon ("A") and Skuld ("C").

Yuri Daniels

 * Action Girlfriend
 * Action Mom: In the Future Imperfect era.
 * All There in the Manual: In Twilight, Yuri points out that she's gotten really good at not dying, above and beyond even a Detian physiology. This is because, if you read the forums, she apparently had been turned into Mysteron agent by the Future Imperfect era (and then broke free of their control).
 * Fake Memories: See Kei's entry above.
 * Line-of-Sight Name: Took her last name from Daniels Hall at WPI.
 * Nigh Invulnerability
 * Refugee From TV Land: See Kei's entry above.
 * Triang Relations: Is in, well, some sort of relationship with both MegaZone and Larry Mann.

Rob "ReRob" Mandeville

 * Author Avatar
 * What a Piece of Junk!/More Dakka: his Thundergod: not pretty to look at, but armed to the teeth

Deedlit Satori Mandeville

 * Awesome McCoolname: She's not really that Deedlit -- ReRob just liked those names.

Maximillian Largo

 * Batman Gambit: His Operation Gotterdammerung, which brought the end to the Golden Age, essentially only worked by exploiting the personality weaknesses of the central Wedge Rats.
 * Big Bad: Of the Core series.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: Made R-Type remove the Thermal Exhaust Port from the AT&T.
 * Ridiculously Human Robot

Vaughn Gross

 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Expy: Appears as Destiny of the Endless in one scene.
 * Physical God
 * Write Who You Know

John Todd a.k.a. Macquivr/q

 * Like Is, Like, a Comma
 * Write Who You Know

Derek Bacon

 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Instituted Taco Night on a Klingon battlecruiser.
 * Due to the Dead: In Real Life, he died in 1996.
 * The Most Interesting Man in the World: according to Word of God.
 * Most Writers Are Writers: Who's the coolest dude in the universe? The one who has published hundreds of "So you just..." self-help guides, runs an in-universe comic book company.
 * Write Who You Know

Martin "PCHammer" Rose

 * Affectionate Nickname: Eiko has laid claim to "Diggy", and she's not going to let anyone else call Martin that.
 * Author Avatar
 * Catch Phrases taken from Darkwing Duck: "I am the terror that flaps in the night" and "Let's get dangerous".
 * Cool Old Guy: Becomes this during the Golden Age after he refuses to take Omega-2.
 * Does Not Know His Own Strength: Just after becoming a Transformer, he breaks several video game controllers before finally custom making one out of lots of metal. He becomes more competent at controlling his strength after learning to accept it.
 * Emergency Transformation: Gets horribly mutilated in the wreckage of his Cool Hovercraft after a battle on Cybertron, and is only saved by making him into a techno-organic Transformer.
 * Expy: Of Darkwing Duck, crossed over with Transformers.
 * Genius Bruiser: Space fighter designer, check. Strong enough to lift said fighter in normal gravity, check.
 * Homage: In addition to his own homage to Darkwing Duck, one of the sample characters in GURPS Shapeshifters ("L. Martello Rosenblum") is clearly an homage to Hammer.
 * I Am a Monster: Reveals his Super Strength to Noriko by casually crushing a part of a bench, who becomes immediately terrified of him, if only temporarily. See also I Am a Monster under Eiko, below.
 * Is This Thing On?: Paraphrases Ronald Reagan's sound test about making Soviet Russia illegal during his own mic check on Funkotron.
 * Motif Merger: After becoming a Transformer, he uses an Autobot logo superimposed over a Wedge Defense Force logo on his clothing.
 * Out, Damned Spot!
 * Punny Name
 * Second Love: After a long-lasting, long-distance flirtation with Noriko, ends up with Eiko.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can turn into a small hovercraft at will thanks to that Emergency Transformation.

Noriko Takaya

 * Affectionate Nickname: PC Hammer calls her "Riko"
 * Break the Cutie
 * Calling Your Attacks: Explicitly noted that she doesn't have to do so, because of a neural interface, but she does so anyway because Gunbuster was voice activated.
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: Everything that could go wrong in her life already has, and she still ends up in charge of the WDF Navy.
 * Fish out of Temporal Water: The entire plot of Gunbuster happened on some other planet, including the rather sizable Time Skip.  After that, she doesn't belong at home any more, and instead joins the WDF.
 * Iron Woobie: Survives an astounding amount of emotional damage, but there's a point at which iron itself will break.
 * Mayfly-December Romance: Part of the reason she and Martin Rose's avatar part ways is because of the spectre of this trope, since he refuses to become a Detian and he didn't want her to start aging for his sake.
 * Sexy Mentor: She was assigned as PCHammer's trainer once he joined the WDF.
 * Sole Survivor: Unlike Gunbuster canon, she and Kazumi had their Buster machines separated during their final mission -- and Kazumi didn't escape the black hole bomb's blast.
 * Trauma Conga Line

Eiko Magami Rose

 * Affectionate Nickname: PC Hammer calls her "Little One"
 * Badass Teacher: At Crescent Heights Elementary.
 * The Chosen One: Her homeworld had a chosen one born during times of trouble with either great strength, great genius, or great charisma. She, Biiko, and Siiko were the first time all three chosen ones were born at once. It wasn't enough.
 * Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Lost several boyfriends to injury; Hammer's similar level of strength makes intimacy much less risky.
 * Effortless Amazonian Lift
 * Hot Mom: the only one of the protagonists from the Wayward Son days who really took to domestic life in the Future Imperfect era.
 * I Am a Monster: Subverted. Eiko guiltily admits to Super Strength by lifting a bench with Martin sitting in it; nonplussed, he proceeds to lift her by said bench.
 * The Mole: She was originally a GENOM undercover agent, convinced with the hope of being reunited with her friends.
 * Super Speed: Korren is afraid to ride the Eiko Express again -- which is just holding on for dear life while she runs.
 * Super Strength: Wears Power Limiter bracers
 * Waif Fu

Dund Wollern

 * The Big Guy: Fills this role in Thunder Force, even though Hammer is actually bigger and stronger.
 * The Speechless: Well, he talks through sign language.

Larry "R-Type" Mann

 * The Atoner
 * Author Avatar
 * Capulet Counterpart
 * Honest Corporate Executive
 * Just Following Orders: Though he realizes how bad that sounds.
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * Redeeming Replacement: He takes the reins of GENOM after Largo's defeat.
 * Reluctant Mad Scientist

Kris "Redneck" Overstreet

 * Author Avatar
 * Incompletely Trained: His Jedi Master, Jaicyen, abrubtly ended Redneck's training because of Redneck's conflicting visions of a dark side and light side future.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Although under some circumstances he is known as "Admiral Overstreet", he is almost always referred to otherwise as just "Redneck".
 * The Power of Rock: Sound Goldfish Warning!
 * Rebel Leader
 * Spell My Name with a "The": Sometimes called "The Redneck", as though he were the only one in space.

Washuu Hakubi Overstreet

 * Green Eyed Red Head
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Spurned into a Suicide Mission

Asrial Arconian of Salusia

 * Badass Princess
 * Lady of War
 * Tomboy Princess
 * Petting Zoo People in her furry, skunk-like native form; Nekomimi primary ears in humanized form.

Jeremy Feeple

 * Ridiculously Average Guy: To the extent that it's almost a superpower, because people just don't pay attention to him.
 * The Nondescript: But without the creepyness or negative connotations.

Leeanna Zard'al

 * Tomboy Princess: Doesn't get much more tomboy than roaming the streets as a Judge.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Pearson "Doc" Mui

 * Author Avatar
 * Catch Phrase: "Great Scott!"
 * Cool Car: A time-traveling DeLorean
 * Expy: His Catch Phrase, nickname "Doc", and time-traveling DeLorean were lifted from Doc Emmett Brown of Back to The Future.
 * Retroactive Preparation: Is more or less forced to go back and save himself to protect the timeline.
 * Time Travel

Chris "Mako" Meadows

 * Author Avatar

Danilia Santova M'krelth'nyr'knet

 * Horned Humanoid
 * Nerf Brand: Frequently throws Nerf bricks on the on the bridge of a starship for comedic effect.

Baron Lord Wolfgang Amadeus Fahrvergnugen

 * Awesome McCoolname
 * Badass Cape
 * Department of Redundancy Department: Baron Lord
 * Sufficiently Advanced Alien. Maybe.

Edison Bell

 * Deus Ex Machina: Source of the Omega-2 retrovirus
 * The Older Immortal: From the first generation of Detians.
 * Sufficiently Advanced Alien. Maybe.

Eve/Enhanced Video Emulation

 * Artificial Intelligence: Main computer intelligence of the WDF Wayward Son.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Iczer-2 / Selene

 * Artificial Intelligence
 * The Atoner
 * Love Is a Weakness

Priscilla "Priss" Asagiri

 * Samurai: Teaches Gryphon the Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu

Nene Romanova

 * Playful Hacker

Tali'Shukra nar Kythera/Tali'Shukra vas Archangel

 * Action Girl
 * Chastity Couple (with Gryphon): By necessity, due to her quarian physiology.
 * Mirror Chemistry
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: She appears in Star-Crossed, so yeah...
 * What Could Have Been: Hutchins has speculated that Gryphon and Tali would have roamed the galaxy as "as the galaxy's most wanted cross-species couple, the Butcher of Musashi and his quarian moll" if UF had been written chronologically.

Mordin Solus

 * Beige Prose

Nadia Davion

 * The Engineer
 * Precursor: One of the two last survivors of Atlantis. The other is her brother, Darth Vader.
 * There is no indication yet that either is aware that the other is alive.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Nearly 6 feet tall, dark skin, and beautiful
 * Tsundere: Almost an Informed Ability (don't mess with her engines!), but honestly we got quite enough of her Jerkass side in the anime's Filler Arc.
 * Wrench Wench

Hanson Davion

 * The Engineer
 * Punny Name: The surname is pulled from BattleTech's Hanse Davion.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Korren

 * Petting Zoo People: A natural-form Salusian
 * The Medic

Vision

 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Expy of Reika Chang.
 * Interface with a Familiar Face: Compiled by CLULESS when Gryphon was thinking of Reika.
 * Pinocchio Syndrome: Calls herself Pinocchia at one point, though, it's really just her desire to be treated as a person by others. Well, that and wanting to be more intimate with her creator.
 * The Reliable One: To the extent of finding him when he's shipwrecked on a unknown Halo.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: She has a Spengler flux rating of 3.39, where average humans only measure 1.0.

Sumire Kanzaki

 * Blade on a Stick: Expert with the naginata, both in and out of her Powered Armor.
 * The Prima Donna

Li Kohran

 * Gadgeteer Genius: She ends up mostly replacing R. Dorothy's body.
 * Meganekko
 * Nekomimi: Yep! Another Salusian.

Kanna Kirishima

 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Fiery Redhead

Sakura Shinguuji

 * Country Mouse
 * Dojikko
 * Samurai

Dr. Raoul Duke

 * Erudite Stoner: More emphasis on the erudite and less on the stoner, but still...
 * Fantastic Drug: Has a bag full of them, but they all have legitimate medical uses. Of some sort.

Valeris

 * Granola Girl: Although she started out a standard, maybe even extreme, Vulcan, an encounter with Raoul Duke and the contents of his medical bag in the wake of a personal emergency left her with a rather... different outlook and philosophy, as well as a radically altered personality.
 * Mushroom Samba: Her time under the care of Raoul Duke.
 * The Stoner. If you can imagine a Vulcan stoner.

Aki and Jilehr

 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Split Personality: by design. She's two personality cores running off a single AI driver.

Ayami Nakajima

 * Genki Girl
 * Military Maverick: Court-martialed from the Federation and hired by the Freespacers in the same day for her antics.
 * Not a Morning Person: Oh so averted. Aya has her Genki Girl persona at full bore at 6 in the morning (ship time, at least).
 * Trigger Happy: Mainly of the needs More Dakka type

Rianna Santova
""I can get away with horn jokes. You can't. Remember that, okay?""
 * Horned Humanoid
 * N-Word Privileges: with regards to jokes about her horns, after being teased with the name "Horny" as a child.

Mayl Popp'fl

 * Dojikko
 * Pointy Ears: As a native of Hyruul.
 * Pardon My Hyruulian

Geoff Depew

 * The Atoner
 * Author Avatar
 * Tyke Bomb (Raised by as an assassin. A rude awakening during one job shakes off the conditioning.)
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Chad Collier

 * Author Avatar
 * Cat Boy (Kilrathi)
 * Staring Down Cthulhu: Gets into a growling match with Sivar War-God

Janice Barlow

 * Author Avatar
 * Action Girl
 * Non-Human Sidekick: Mitra, a flying drone-thing that looks like a "chitinous football", and which seems to be something halfway between a robotic tool and a genuine pet.
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: Owns a Varista photon weapon and assorted other potentially hostile equipment, as a legacy of being a Hunter on her home world, Ragol. (And she's not all that small, so the gun is proportionally bigger.)

Anne "Juniper" Cross

 * Author Avatar
 * Flaming Sword: Just add pyrokinesis!
 * Forging Scene: When she finally earns a "real" katana.
 * Kiai
 * Kid Samurai
 * Playing with Fire
 * Power Incontinence: She has some control problems which her Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu training helps her with.
 * Precocious Crush: On Juri.
 * Right Girl In The Wrong Place, which leads to her slaying a dragon with a wooden sword.
 * Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Justified by being made from a branch of the World Tree.

Future Imperfect Characters
These are characters active in the Future Imperfect era, but older than the Ragnarok Wave generation.

Ayanami Rei shar Atrados tal Vader

 * The Ageless: Permanently stuck at a physical age of 14.
 * Artificial Human: A (failed) Big Fire genetic engineering experiment, rescued by the WDF and raised by Marty and Eiko Rose for several years before she struck out on her own.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Apprentice (and judging from the name she uses, possibly heir) to the UF version of Darth Vader.
 * Samurai: Trained in Gryphon's Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu kenjutsu.

Darth Anakyn shar Atrados tal Vader

 * The Atoner
 * Cyborg
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Human Popsicle for thousands of years; revived during the Future Imperfect era by a Sith who thought he was waking up a compliant servant of evil.
 * Precursor: One of the two last survivors of Atlantis. The other is his sister Nadia Davion.
 * There is no indication yet that either is aware that the other is alive.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: subverted. Darth Sidious thought he was going to get a great ally in his conquest, but Vader had sealed himself away in the middle of his Heel Face Turn.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: once desuited. Possibly an Expy of Nemo, his father.

O'bi-Wann Kyn'o'bi / Obi-Wan Kenobi

 * Back From the Dead
 * Jedi Mind Trick: Naturally, as the Trope Maker
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: His same-sounding rename and loss of Pointy Ears wouldn't fool anyone if he hadn't been gone for 2000 years.

Roger Tremayne

 * Big Bad: One of the early ones in Symphony of the Sword. Initially appears as the Psi Cop in charge of capturing Devlin Carter, but later we find out.
 * Reassigned to Antarctica: After his WPI operation to capture Devlin Carter failed spectacularly, he was demoted and transferred to a post on the Moon. ("Worse pay, better hours... worse pay, better fellow workers.")

Ephrem Broadbank

 * Corrupt Corporate Executive of AzTechnology
 * The Resenter: According to Word of God, cannot believe that Gryphon and the other immortals are as good and heroic as they appear, and expends a great deal of energy on deliberately trying to make their lives harder -- to the point that all three of his daughters were conceived solely so that Gryphon's children would have their own nemeses as they grew up.

Zargh Thalekh

 * Ambadassador: Naturally, as the Klingon Ambassador to Babylon 6
 * No Sense of Humor: Managed not to have a good time with Derek Bacon

Lore Soong

 * Artificial Human
 * Cloudcuckoolander

Charles Kallon

 * Cincinnatus

Don Griffin

 * Alternate Universe
 * Badass Teacher
 * Time Lord

Durandal

 * AI Is a Crapshoot: A Deconstruction as he was in Marathon, he achieves a stable rampancy with Ed and Ein's help -- or was he rampant all along?
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * The Chessmaster: Motoko Kusanagi is Durandal's Arm; Ed and Ein are "his people".
 * Guile Hero: Er, well, heroic enough, for a AI that wages war against sentient beings. He certainly helps the heroes.
 * Xanatos Gambit: We still don't know what the hell he was doing with Major Kusanagi in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, but there had to have been some reason he got himself installed at WPI. (All There in the Manual: on the forums, if you missed it)

The Ragnarok Wave, "Second Generation" Characters, and Their Contemporaries
Strictly speaking, the "Ragnarok Wave" are those children of Wedge Defenders conceived in the days and weeks immediately following the averted Ragnarok, and born in and about 2390. However, as a category on this page it also includes pretty much anyone else from Midgard who is within a few years of their age and who plays a major role in Symphony of the Sword or Warriors of the Outer Rim. Also, as noted above, the children of Wedge Defenders and certain others are all immortal, of the Living Forever Is Awesome variety.

Kaitlyn Hutchins

 * Animal Motif: Tigers. Much of her clothing is tiger-striped or black with orange accents.
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her threadbare stuffed tiger, Seven.
 * Heir to the Dojo
 * The Leader
 * Minored in Asskicking: First exhibited when she stomps the ever-living daylights out of Saionji in a live-steel duel in the WPI quad. Later taken to truly epic levels in the Duelists' Society.
 * Not What It Looks Like: Used verbatim in a note to her lover, when sleeping next to someone else. Though it was obvious to everyone that the relationship was heading towards what it looked like anyway.
 * The Power of Rock: Jamming enemy communications with a live version of "Rockin' in the Free World", along with the rest of The Art of Noise.
 * Samurai
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Kaitlyn when she confronts Garcia in Hunter Rose.
 * Speech Impediment: In the UF "present day" she no longer has it, but since she could speak Kaitlyn had a truly epic stutter whose severity depended on how well she knew and trusted whoever she was talking to.
 * Training From Hell: The promotion ceremony to master of the Asagiri style, a long series of Rose Duels, was a little on the extreme side (while still being, of course, awesome). Justified in that it's her very last action as a student, and she'd face much harder real battles in the future. It works under essentially the same theory as Ph.D. oral exams -- you don't have to win every time, you just have to show your skill and survive.
 * Triang Relations: by the end of the Symphony is in a type 8 relationship with.

Amanda Dessler

 * Badass Princess, later serving as Ambadassador to Babylon 6.
 * Blue Skinned Space Babe
 * Brother-Sister Incest
 * Lady of War

Azalynn dv'Ir Natashkan

 * Barehanded Blade Block: Does this to Saionji the first time she meets him.
 * Bi the Way
 * Darkskinned Blonde: Wiry gray hair, actually.
 * Does Not Like Shoes: But will wear them when necessary -- such as to trudge through the snow of a Massachusetts winter.
 * The Empath: It's not a psychic power, though -- just being unusually sensitive to her friends' moods and feelings.
 * Ethical Slut: This seems to be the Dantrovian religion. And as a devout practitioner, she never hesitates to use sex to improve the lives of her friends.
 * Expy: Not exactly. Azalynn's appearance is based on a picture of Kaolla Su from Love Hina, before Gryphon actually saw the anime.
 * Foe Yay: With Liza Broadbank; after Liza undergoes her Heel Face Turn, they become a couple.
 * Four-Fingered Hands: But not because she's a cartoon. Oddly, this seems to be the first thing about her -- instead of her hair, her eyes, her copper skin, or her tail -- that clues people in that she's an alien.
 * Genki Girl
 * The Matchmaker: Gleefully shipping everyone with everyone.
 * Motor Mouth: Azalynn has on occasion been described as talking too fast for anyone to understand her.
 * Natural Weapon: Dantrovians are an arboreal species, but those claws aren't just for climbing.
 * The Nose Knows
 * Prehensile Tail
 * The Sleepless: She only sleeps two hours a night; this is apparently a Dantrovian racial trait. To make matters worse (for her roommates and friends, at least), she is apparently able to "bank up" by sleeping for longer, and then stay awake for days without ill effects.
 * Speed Blitz: The Dantrovian "fight-or-flight" adrenaline overdrive, which basically turns her into the Tasmanian Devil for several minutes, after which she falls over, exhausted and unconscious.

J. Maurice "Moose" MacEchearn the Fourth

 * Bald of Awesome
 * The Big Guy: Moose is from the planet Hoffman, whose inhabitants were genetically engineered to withstand its high gravity.
 * Gentle Giant
 * Religious Bruiser: He just changes religions every so often in a search for spiritual truth.
 * Scary Black Man
 * Super Strength: In Wounded Rose, Moose effortlessly picks up a crated upright piano and carries it on his shoulder; later he carries it for an extended distance held out in front of him at arm's length.

Devlin Carter (or Carter Devlin, take your pick)
""I'm not very smart, but my memory's good."
 * Catch Phrase: "I'm not very X, but I am Y", with X and Y being situationally-determined qualities; this is often self-deprecation, as Devlin frequently displays both qualities. A few examples:

"I'm not very good with computers, but locks like me."

"I'm not very rich, but I am a gentleman."

"I'm not very strong, but I'm dext'rous."

"I'm not very brave, but I am loyal.""


 * Cowardly Lion: Repeatedly insists he is a coward, but his actions argue otherwise.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: With regard to his psionic abilities, which he's kept hidden for years to avoid the Psi Cops.
 * It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Tries to play this with Amanda. Fails spectacularly.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: It's noticed that once Dorothy joins the group at WPI, Devlin's "comic-opera Lord Peter Wimsey" accent tends to lighten around her.
 * Upperclass Twit: As his cover story

Kitarina Dragonaar

 * Fiery Redhead
 * Legacy of Service: The Dragonaar family has served the Dessler family for generations. "For every Dessler, a Dragonaar."
 * Subordinate Excuse: Seems to run in the family.

Liza Broadbank / Liza R'tas Shustal

 * Alpha Bitch/Blondes Are Evil before her Heel Face Turn. Referred to by the Duelists as "Liza Broadbitch".
 * Daddy's Little Villain: At least until she became a Fallen Princess.
 * Fallen Princess (which leads to her That Man Is Dead moment)
 * Foe Yay: With Azalynn; after Liza undergoes her Heel Face Turn, they become a couple.
 * Healing Thoughts: Liza discovers that she's an anodyne, who can heal injuries psychically. Repairing particularly bad injuries seem to be Cast From Hit Points.
 * Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her plan to harass Kaitlyn by  went spectacularly wrong; she only got out by Kaitlyn's Save the Villain moment.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Spoiled Brat (before her That Man Is Dead moment)
 * Swashbuckler
 * That Man Is Dead
 * The Spartan Way (Which Liza chooses on purpose, working as a deckhand on a trading ship to distance herself from her Rich Bitch past.)
 * Tyke Bomb: Liza was deliberately conceived and raised by her parents to torment Kaitlyn, as part of her father's obsession with proving that Gryphon wasn't as good and heroic as he appears to the galaxy at large.

Clarissa Broadbank

 * Alpha Bitch
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Daddy's Little Villain -- and how!
 * Hidden Villain: Although the reader is aware of it, the main cast don't find out that she is until much later.
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Rich Bitch
 * Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up
 * Smug Snake
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Tyke Bomb: Clarissa was deliberately conceived and raised by her parents to torment Gryphon and MegaZone's children, as part of her father's obsession with proving that Gryphon wasn't as good and heroic as he appears to the galaxy at large. Unlike her sisters, she not only fully embraced the role, she expanded on it.

Marietta Broadbank

 * Daddy's Little Villain: Averted. See Tykebomb, below.
 * Lonely Rich Kid: Because she refused to act as a nemesis/tormentor for the youngest Hutchins/Morgan/Daniels children, her parents ignored and isolated her, and eventually all but disowned her. Fortunately,.
 * Spoiled Sweet: despite the best efforts of her parents to turn her into a clone of Liza and Clarissa.
 * Tyke Bomb: Averted. Although Marietta was deliberately conceived and raised by her parents to torment Gryphon and MegaZone's children, as part of her father's obsession with proving that Gryphon wasn't as good and heroic as he appears to the galaxy at large, she refused to go along with her father's agenda.

Len Hutchins

 * The Atoner: Runs away and joins the Jedi Order after nearly killing Achika Shannon by accident during a sparring session.
 * Cool Sword: A white lightsaber
 * Heir to the Dojo
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Samurai

Achika Shannon

 * Ambadassador
 * Badass Princess
 * Emergency Transformation (Similar to MegaZone's case above, Achika's Detian nigh-immortality is forced to activate early after she suffers accidental cranial trauma at the hands of Len Hutchins.)
 * Samurai
 * Tsundere: Says "You idiot!!" and "I'll be all right. Len is with me," in the same paragraph.

M'yl'ya "Emmy" Kyn'o'bi

 * Ancestral Weapon: The lightsaber of O'bi-Wann Kyn'o'bi
 * Pointy Ears: As a native of Hyeruul.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Priss Morgan

 * Generation Xerox

Sylvie Daniels

 * Generation Xerox

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV

 * Overly Long Name
 * Playful Hacker
 * Third Person Person

Ein

 * Animal Companion
 * Intellectual Animal: Ein is better at AI than Edward

Hiroshi Morisato

 * Can't Stay Normal: Chooses not to embrace his divine heritage in favor of being a normal human, but then goes and
 * Divine Parentage
 * Gadgeteer Genius

Mirai Morisato
"The door swung open to reveal a young blonde woman with a bright smile on her face. "Hi, Logan!" she said, leaping to give the shorter man a hug, then repeated it on Geoff with a cry of "Hello, person I don't know!" before dragging the two men in the door."
 * Divine Parentage
 * Friend to All Living Things


 * Genius Ditz: Although she initially gives every impression of being nothing more than a fashion-obsessed airhead, as of the events of Code-Name Ultra it's clear that Mirai is a genius at public relations and managing media -- to the point where her airhead persona may actually be little more than Obfuscating Stupidity.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: If she's not a Genius Ditz.
 * Refusal of the Call: Like her brother Hiroshi, appears to have declined the benefits of her divine heritage.

Theodora "Buttercup" Utonium

 * Artificial Human
 * Expy (In this "official" illustration of the Utonium sisters as teenagers, Buttercup was explicitly modeled on "a militant Akane Tendo", according to the artist.)
 * Tsundere
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend (Nurtured a secret crush on Corwin, but never said anything about it until after )

Theresa "Bubbles" Utonium

 * Artificial Human
 * The Ditz
 * Expy (In this "official" illustration of the Utonium sisters as teenagers, Bubbles is modeled somewhat on Sasami Jurai Masaki.)

Blossom Utonium

 * Artificial Human
 * Expy (In this "official" illustration of the Utonium sisters as teenagers, Blossom was modeled on Asuka Sohryuu Langley.)

Fuu Hououji

 * Ambadassador (Well, ambassador's bad ass daughter -- her father is the Ambassador to Zeta Cygni from Funkotron.)
 * Blow You Away
 * Eloquent in My Native Tongue: A rare inversion. Her native Funkotroni sounds like Jive Talk, but her Standard is as close to Keigo as possible.
 * The Medic
 * Meganekko
 * The Smart Girl

Uum'y R'yuu-z'ky

 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Nall
 * Can't Argue with Elves
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Specifically, Nall.
 * Lady of War
 * Making a Splash
 * The Ojou
 * Pardon My Hyruulian
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Hikaru Shidou

 * Genki Girl
 * Samurai
 * Nekomimi: Those ears that randomly appeared in MKR? Huh, she must be a humanized Salusian.
 * Has Overprotective Brothers, bordering on Knight Templar Big Brothers. They get better.
 * Playing with Fire

R. Dorothy Waynewright

 * Robot Girl
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * All Drummers Are Animals
 * Ridiculously Human Robot: It takes one of her professors a few weeks of class to even notice.
 * Dorothy can avert this at will, having the conscious ability to make her normally-silent mechanical actuators audible while at the same time changing her body motions from lifelike to inhumanly mechanical. It's stated that she employs this almost useless ability solely to taunt those who already react negatively to her robotic nature.
 * Replacement Goldfish: Dorothy was built to replace her creator's late daughter.
 * Robosexual: Is in a serious relationship with Miki for an unspecified length of time.
 * Sex Bot: Subverted. Although she is "anatomically complete" and capable of sexual relationships, she was not designed nor used by her creator for that purpose. He was probably just trying to design the most complete Replacement Goldfish he could.
 * Step Up to the Microphone: The concert at the Majestic on Kane's World.
 * Super Strength
 * Three Laws Compliant: Definitely averted, though she did pretend to follow the laws to fool the Mooks.

Mia Ausa

 * Half-Human Hybrid: John Trussell's half-Minbari daughter.
 * Hermetic Magic
 * The Mole: At Ohtori Institute in Oriphos, late in the Symphony. Or at least, so it is implied.
 * Simple Staff: Using her collapsible Minbari battle staff, of course.

"Sky" T'skaia Vorokoshiga'ar Ixtixtaaqitl't'chl'Vraihelt Ishkarat

 * Overly Long Name
 * Lizard Folk: A t'skrang, originally from the Earthdawn setting.

Harcourt Mudd "Mac" McKenzie
""First United Freespacer Church", Mac said quietly. "We have a moral aversion to getting killed.""
 * Against My Religion


 * What a Piece of Junk!: Mac's ship, the CFA No Bull

Charles Philip "Chip" Mui

 * First Church of Mecha: Corwin's self-declared first worshiper!

B'Elanna Torres O'Brien (by adoption)

 * Half-Human Hybrid
 * Wrench Wench

Koriand'r of Tamaran

 * Badass Princess
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Pardon My Tamaranian

Alaia ner Ronor

 * Badass Bookworm
 * Canon Immigrant from Anne Cross' earlier works.
 * Dreaming of Times Gone By: Alaia's psychometry can view the past of an object
 * Exotic Eye Designs
 * Power Incontinence: Her power of accessing the past is so strong that she had to cut herself off from the Force to control it, which makes her temporarily useless as a Jedi.

Cephirans
Most of these have some color of You Gotta Have Blue Hair, by virtue of being from Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Utena Tenjou

 * Action Girl (And how!)
 * Badass
 * The Captain, IPS Valiant
 * The Chosen One: Certain factions late in Symphony of the Sword think that Utena is "the One" due to how much change she tends to instigate. She did win the power to revolutionize the world, after all.
 * Cool Sword: Four! The Sword of Dios, renamed The Heart of the Rose, a sword that appears to be made of her Heroic Spirit alone. The Thorn of the Rose, a Valkyrie blade of deeply blued steel bearing the runic inscription: "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty." And finally, a red lightsaber. And now, Cortana, forged of the same steel as Durandal and Joyeuse. Given her unpredictable fighting style, it's hard to tell which is the better weapon.
 * Determinator
 * Eternal Hero: By the nature of the recurring role of the Rose Prince.
 * Feminine Women Can Cook: Utena subverts yet another gender trope.
 * Heroic Spirit: In spades. She is practically made of this. (And awesome and win.)
 * I Will Find You
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
 * Martial Pacifist
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Warrior Prince: The reason for having the Rose Prince in the first place.
 * Who Wears Short Shorts?: Her metabolism is high enough that she's comfortable wearing shorts above 20°F (-7°C). Which is nice, because She's Got Legs

Anthy Himemiya

 * Badass Princess
 * Flower Motifs: Special mention for the Rose Bride, who keeps her greenhouse full of roses and casts rose-based magic spells.
 * Friend to All Living Things: At one point she befriends, of all things, a badger.
 * Good Witch Versus Bad Witch: As in Revolutionary Girl Utena, played with. She can heal with a touch, and buff the Sword of Dios, and fights with a staff, so she might seem like a White Magician Girl. But then there are her offensive spells, like her truly terrifying death of dreams, that put her into Lady of Black Magic territory.
 * The Hecate Sisters: Related to the above; this trope is zig-zagged, subverted hard, deconstructed, and finally reconstructed. Anthy's character spends so much time crossing the line between being a princess that needs to be protected, and a old and scheming witch that it's hard to tell how to classify her. This is intentional, and part of the Deconstruction from the original source. But as she goes forward in Symphony of the Sword, the Reconstruction enhances both her witch and princess aspects as she finds her prince and trains to be a sorceress -- and then she decides to be a mother. By the end of the Symphony, she's an exemplar of all three aspects of Hecate: maiden, mother, and witch.
 * Human Pincushion: In a Fate Worse Than Death way. She gets better.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
 * I Will Find You
 * Lethal Chef/One-Note Cook: The shaved ice is safe. Only the shaved ice...
 * Magic Kiss: The buff thing she does with the Heart of the Rose, Utena's sword, which is still as symbolic as ever.
 * Meganekko
 * Non-Human Sidekick: The Ridiculously Cute Critter Chu-Chu, though we don't see him much after the Second Symphony.
 * Petal Power
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Teach Me How to Fight: Asks to teach her how to use her magic.

Kyouichi Saionji

 * Ax Crazy:
 * Deadpan Snarker: Probably the first one gated to WPI so that Gryphon could use the word "sardonic" more.
 * Defeat Equals Friendship: Played with. After getting his keister handed to him by Kaitlyn, he becomes... the fry cook at WPI's student dining hall. And eventually one of Utena's closer friends.
 * Insanity Immunity: Psi Cop Roger Tremayne's psionic attacks have no effect on Kyouichi "Crazy Train" Saionji.
 * Insult of Endearment: The Art of Noise is fond of calling him "Crazy Train", and performing the song in his honor.
 * Kendo Team Captain: During his time at Ohtori Academy.
 * Pride Before a Fall: Happens a second time in the early part of the Symphony, but the Aesop seems to stick this time.
 * Sex Face Turn (To a certain extent.)
 * Samurai
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Teach Me How to Fight: Played with, since he was already an experienced kendoka when he asked Kaitlyn. Still, he had been on quite the losing streak, losing to Utena, Touga, and finally Kaitlyn before his self-esteem issues finally caught up with him.
 * Troubled but Cute

Wakaba Shinohara

 * Curtains Match the Windows: Brown, the exact same shade of brown
 * Genki Girl: Less so than in the original series, but still qualifies.
 * The Glomp: First thing she does after arriving in Midgard.
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Plucky Girl: Go to another plane to protect Lady Utena? Sure, why not!
 * Took a Level In Badass: The anime makes a point of how ordinary she is (though, like everything else in Utena, this is subject to Subversion and Mind Screw). So then Skuld goes and makes her a Lensman, and she becomes The Green Lensman.

Juri Arisugawa

 * Action Fashionista
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Deadpan Snarker: She doesn't even need to speak, just raise an eyebrow.
 * The Ojou
 * Princess Curls
 * Triang Relations: by the end of the Symphony is in a type 8 relationship with.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend of Shiori, due to Shiori's Incompatible Orientation.
 * Unstoppable Rage

Shiori Takatsuki

 * Brainwashed and Crazy when we first see her, thanks to.
 * Incompatible Orientation: Poor Juri. Eventually settles down to a close friendship.
 * Playful Hacker

Miki Kaoru

 * Bishonen
 * Curtains Match the Windows
 * Ethical Slut: It's rather subtly hinted that as a result of his relationship with Azalynn, Miki has come to follow, to some degree, the Dantrovian religion.
 * Friends with Benefits: His relationship with Azalynn before moving on to more serious involvements with others.
 * Half-Identical Twins with sister Kozue, although not to the point that they're indistinguishable from each other.
 * Iconic Item: Miki's stopwatch gives him the nickname "Time Lord".
 * Nice Guy
 * Robosexual: Is in a serious relationship with R. Dorothy for an unspecified length of time.
 * Teen Genius
 * Triang Relations: by the end of the Symphony is in a type 8 relationship with.
 * Twin Telepathy: A limited version with Kozue; they can't really communicate, but they mesh into essentially a single four-armed organism during certain tasks -- like playing piano duets or piloting starships in battle.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Kozue Kaoru

 * The Ace
 * Ace Pilot
 * Curtains Match the Windows
 * Ethical Slut: What she resolved to be after Miki disappeared from Cephiro, but circumstances have ended up forcing her to be (mostly) celibate since then.
 * Fille Fatale: What she was before Miki was transported to Midgard from Cephiro.
 * Half-Identical Twins with brother Miki, although not to the point that they're indistinguishable from each other.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
 * Twin Telepathy: A limited version with Miki; they can't really communicate, but they mesh into essentially a single four-armed organism during certain tasks -- like playing piano duets or piloting starships in battle.
 * Worthy Opponent to Hans von Hammer, the Enemy Ace.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Raven

 * Badass Bookworm
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Goth
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo (Well, for sufficient value of "tall".)

Gar Logan

 * Animorphism
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Cute Little Fangs

Celestial and Infernal Entities
Includes basically everyone who is not from Midgard, the Tenth World, or Parallel Universe versions of Midgard.

Gods and Devils get Facial Markings, à la Ah! My Goddess.

Skuld Ravenhair

 * Action Mom: And leader of the Valkyrie
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Physical God: Norn of the Future, Goddess of Technology
 * Power-Up Food: Ice cream!
 * Triang Relations: Is "C" in a stable (and fully informed) type 7 relationship with Gryphon ("A") and Kei ("B").
 * Wrench Wench

Corwin Ravenhair

 * Badass
 * The Champion
 * Divine Parentage
 * Forgets to Eat: At least he did when he was younger and working on a big project; he seems better about it as an adult.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Runs in the family.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
 * Messy Hair
 * Mission From God: His Trial of Ascendance, in which.
 * Nigh Invulnerability: He is actually invulnerable to . But he's pretty damn tough to everything else, being a half Physical God and half Detian.
 * Physical God: Son of Gryphon and Skuld Ravenhair. After his trial, God of Mecha.
 * The Prophesied One: Corwin's nickname, as a running joke in the family. Urd said that Corwin was the fulfillment of some ancient prophecy, but doesn't even remember saying it due to being drunk on sake at the time. Yes, the Norn of Memory forgot.

Verthandi/Belldandy Wishbringer Morisato

 * Physical God: Norn of the Present, Goddess of Fidelity
 * Supreme Chef: Much to the delight of Nall.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Urdr/Urd Snowmane

 * Physical God: Norn of the Past, Goddess of Memory and Love
 * Bottle Fairy
 * Love Goddess
 * The Matchmaker: Though she's sworn not to interfere with Corwin and Utena (...directly)

Eris/Peorth Charmsinger

 * Physical God: Goddess of Chaos and patron of MegaZone
 * Canon Foreigner: To Norse Mythology but included in AMG -- so the perfect place to fit Eris in!

Baldr/Balder Goldenlight

 * Physical God: God of the Sun
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Living MacGuffin: In his connection to the Ragnarok, and the location of Corwin's trial.
 * Nigh Invulnerability: Though, as in Norse Mythology, the "nigh" part is pretty important to the story. But it's a lot bigger problem than some mistletoe.

Freyja Lightwalker

 * Fantastic Racism: Against svartelves

Akio Ohtori/

 * Affably Evil
 * Big Bad
 * Eternal Hero: Subverted hard. As the former Rose Prince, his Face Heel Turn was exceptionally bad. For why, see episode 34 of Utena.
 * Fallen Hero: And how!
 * Karma Houdini
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome

Touga Kiryuu

 * Anything That Moves
 * Brother-Sister Incest:
 * Handsome Lech: He even tries hitting on Uum'y while they're in a swordfight to the death.
 * Smug Snake

Nanami Kiryuu

 * Brainwashed and Crazy.
 * Break the Cutie
 * Break the Haughty
 * Brother-Sister Incest
 * The Cassandra: It didn't work with Utena, and Wakaba thought she was crazy. But it planted the seed of doubt in Wakaba, which was just enough to keep her head above water, so to speak.
 * Jade-Colored Glasses: And that's before things get really bad.
 * More Than Mind Control: Not explicitly detailed (thank Aunt Bell!), but implied to be a combination of . Yikes.

Vigdis Brightblade

 * Action Girl
 * The Littlest Valkyrie
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up
 * Valkyrie

Gunnr Brynjelfr

 * Can't Argue with Elves
 * The Gunslinger
 * Valkyrie

Nall Silverclaw

 * An Ice Person
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Uum'y
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons
 * Our Dragons Are Different
 * Through His Stomach: He has plenty reasons to love Belldandy, but the lasagne tops the list. Uum'y cooked for him in, and we know how that turned out.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can switch between winged cat, elf-like humanoid, and full dragon shapes, although the latter seems to exhaust him if maintained for too long. (Then again, he's still quite young by draconic standards; presumably it'll stop being exhausting when he's older.)

Surtur

 * Big Bad
 * He Who Must Not Be Seen
 * The Man Behind the Man
 * Physical God

Teleute

 * Physical God
 * Perky Goth
 * The Grim Reaper
 * Dark Is Not Evil

The Doctor

 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Eternal Hero
 * Iconic Item: sonic screwdriver and psychic paper
 * Science Hero
 * Time Lord
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: As President of Gallifrey

Vinzanthaxatobernel (Tobernel)

 * Death Equals Redemption: Pretty much the only example of this in The Verse, though, being a Time Lord, He Gets Better.
 * Evil Chancellor: More like Jerkass/WellIntentionedExtremist High Chancellor than truly evil, though he gets so close to the Moral Event Horizon that only a moral TARDIS could get him out.
 * Heel Face Turn: with an accompanying regeneration for good measure.
 * The Nth Doctor
 * Time Lord and High Chancellor of Gallifrey
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist