Mind Control University/Characters

Daphne Miller
The protagonist. Shy, awkward wallflower. Technological genius. Manipulative schemer. Daphne doesn't look like one might expect a villainous brainwasher... which is one of the things that makes her so dangerous.


 * Adorkable
 * Anti-Villain: Of the Type 1 sort. Daphne, as she herself views it, does unjustifiable things, to people who've done nothing to deserve it, for purely selfish reasons. In her own views, she is a monster. At the same time, she is not without her own virtues, and dedicates time and effort toward being "the nicest possible monster".
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Daphne's shyness, adorkableness, social anxieties, and desire to help people are out are all genuine... but she deliberately plays them up to appear harmless, when she is anything but.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Brainwash innocent girls? Certainly. Depower the sole champion of a Crapsack World? Nope, nope, nope. She also doesn't like Ruby Mind Rapeing girls and turning them into empty shells or bimbos.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Even before attending MCU, Daphne was working on prototypes of her own mind-control technology.
 * Manipulative Bitch: She may genuinely want to make others happy, but she is more than willing to lie, mind-control, and manipulate everyone to get what she wants.
 * A Mother to Her Slaves: Daphne will override your free will, make you love and worship her, brainwash you until you are completely loyal and obedient to her... but once you're her slave, she will go out of her way to keep you happy and healthy. She's making attend therapy sessions, and is looking into ways to solve the problems her slaves have back in their respective home dimensions.
 * Properly Paranoid: Takes a lot of security measures, and considers again and again the possibility that things aren't as they seem. In a place like MCU, that's just being cautious.

Dean Mesmerra
The one running Mind Control University... and, literally, the goddess of mind control.


 * Final Boss: Possibly. The possibility that Daphne might go up against her some day has been acknowledged outside the game itself.
 * Know When to Fold Them: Mesmerra is incredibly powerful, but there are fights even she doesn't want to pick.
 * Manipulative Bitch: Mesmerra cares about ensuring that mind-control happens. Whether or not people are harmed is not really a major concern in her eyes.
 * Physical God
 * Really 700 Years Old: She's been around for... a long, long time.

Miss Meme
A self-aware idea that has been brainwashing - sorry, "domesticating" countless humans in her own dimension. She has sent one of her hosts to serve as a hypnosis teacher at MCU.


 * Pet the Dog: An omake reveals that she asked Professor Norton for some tech to help cure diseases on her world.
 * Willing Channeler: Well, more like brainwashed channeler. Miss Meme's "hosts" are human beings who have been indoctrinated until they know exactly what she would think, do, and say in any given situation, and do what they believe she would want them to do - including serving as her mouthpiece.

Professor Norton
Supervillain? Mad scientist? Peacemaker? Whatever she is, Professor Norton has managed to conquer a large chunk of the African continent in a world of superheroes, and serves as MCU's technology teacher.


 * Emperor Scientist
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Queen Yefeyfiya
A former slave in ancient Egypt, now turned immortal queen of her entire planet and MCU's chemistry teacher.


 * Ambition Is Evil: Vehemently disagrees.
 * Emperor Scientist
 * World's Most Beautiful Woman

Xerpentis
MCU's psionics teacher.and a literal Long Lived Dragon Lady


 * Our Dragons Are Different
 * Psychic Powers

Lady Emerald
MCU's magic teacher and Evil Sorceress Queen of Multiple Dimensions that Likes turning people into Bimbos


 * Token Evil Teammate: To the staff of MCU.  While they all did morally questionable things, Emerald destroyed a entire city of Lizard Folk to teach a point.

Empress Tianshang
MCU's chi arts teacher.Chi arts teacher. Strongly believes in the importance of personal effort over natural talent and is Empress of Her World

Counselor Charity
The student counselor of MCU.


 * Happiness in Slavery: Unlike the teaching staff, Charity is not at MCU of her own free will, but because she's brainwashed by Mesmerra. Extensively, to the point where she can be her hyper-benevolent angelic self, support a school that teaches villainous mind-controllers how to enslave people, and not feel any pressure from cognitive dissonance.
 * Nice Girl: Extremely so, being a literal spirit of love and benevolence.
 * Our Angels Are Different

Librarian L.I.B.B.Y. 205
The MCU librarian.


 * Ambiguously Human: Is she a robot? A cyborg? Daphne isn't sure at this point.

Alexis Bensen
Cheerful, friendly, happy-go-lucky green-haired girl with a fondness for botany and the drugs that can be derived from it. Also, a submissive streak a mile wide.


 * Chemistry Can Do Anything: Has already invented drugs for both aiding and resisting brainwashing.
 * Slipping a Mickey: Attempts this on both Daphne and herself as part of a complicated scheme to get hypnotized. Ends up only getting herself high, but (somewhat) fortunately for her  Daphne needs no inducement to hypnotize cute girls.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Daphne hasn't gotten around to asking whether her green hair is natural, a dye, or a side-effect of the drugs.

Joyce Brown
Friendly, upbeat, naive, optimistic, religious girl who believes in the Crystal Dragon, and will tell anyone that she's in MCU to learn how to mind-control people to better convert them to her beliefs (or, as she puts it, "help them admit they believe in the Crystal Dragon deep down already"). May have hypnotic eyes. Has some basic schooling about the theory of magic. Roommate is Taylor Hebert

Taylor Hebert
Taylor Hebert: Tall, lanky girl with long, curly long hair. Tends to act suspicious of others and uncomfortable with other people, due to horrific experiences with loss and school bullies. Intelligent, methodical. Loves books. Her roommate is Joyce

Ashley le Fay
Magic-wielder with a British accent, reluctant scion of a family of magical terrorists who have been attempting to overthrow King Arthur for a millennium and a half. Her grandmother is Morgan (not the original one), the head of the family and reportedly a huge bitch; Ashley came to MCU hoping that she could get her younger siblings out of the family's take-over-the-world business. Has submissive tendencies she's only now coming to grip with. Kaorka's roommate.

Hope Abubakar
Bespectacled Nigerian girl with some degree of magical abilities. Claims she can free brainwashed victims. Is the Light of Hope (or the champion thereof) in a world ruled by the Darkness. Friend of Ashley, founding member of the "Defense Group".


 * Magical Girl: Is one from her own world and fights against the the forces of Darkness.

Peggy Danger
Scion of powerful and influential family of Carolinian psionicists from an Earth where the Confederacy won the Civil War, then promptly fell apart with bloody in-fighting. Fixit's roommate.

Velena
Purple-skinned, white-haired, pointy-eared, extremely attractive, haughty space drow Denebian from the Deneb Imperium, a society of "precursors" that was building Dyson spheres, ringworlds and more before homo sapiens got the second sapiens in its name... and have been rebuilding after their ancient civilization got blasted back to the stone age by the Annihilators. Her people appear to have psionic abilities and pheromone control. Has a budding rivalry with Lilli'Filla. Zitara's roommate.


 * Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Her species is of the conquistadors variety, and likes conquering and enslaving other species purely For the Evulz since theire technology could take care of everything.

Zitara
Bubbly pink-haired girl... when she wants to be, because apparently she's a shapeshifter. Zitara is one of the Spiders, an alien species from the same universe as Velena, with comparable tech levels. Very vulnerable to pheromones; her culture doesn't really see a fundamental difference between mind-control and other forms of communication. Velena's roommate and, until recently, slave.

Kaorka
Buff orc girl. Displays an interest in chi, magic and technology, and some basic ability with the former. Serves the "Dark Empress" from her world. Ashley's roommate. Extremely strong and resilient. Good in a fight, if not on the levels of Fumiko or Young.

Geraldine Linventeur
Classy tech genius from a steampunk French Empire in a world where Napoleon won. Jane's roommate.

Jane Holmes
Scottish ghost. Geraldine's roommate. Shy. Weak-willed and vulnerable to hypnosis.


 * Cute Ghost Girl: Is one; she died tragically in a 19th century insane asylum.

Helen Garland
Blonde, athletic paladin of the goddess Solaria.


 * The Paladin: Is one from her Dungeons & Dragons-inspired world. and follows Solaria as her patron.

Kate
Catgirl. Extremely friendly and likable; a very good person according to Helen. Her story suggests she was lured to MCU without being quite made aware of the mind-control issue until she was already there. Loves video games. Was under the twins' control for a while. Mary's roommate.

Poisoned Smile
Succubus. Possesses moderate magical power according to Ashley. Seems determined to get under Helen's skin. Ruby's roommate.


 * Horny Devils: Is one that can mind control people after having sex with them

Adama Holgerson
Tomboyish with an amazon's build, and superhuman endurance and physical abilities born of genetic upgrades. Was born on a Mars colony. Jade's roommate.

Lili'Fala
Elf. Seems to have some kind of permanent area-effect, seemingly sight-based. Has magical power.

Tammy

 * Fantastic Foxes: Is a Kistune and knows some magic.

The Darkness

 * The Corruption: It is a force of destruction, despair, and misery that has held Hope's world in its Thrall for most of its history.

Solaria

 * God of Good: Is the Goddess of Civilization, the Sun and Good.