Drowtales/Characters/Val'Sarghress Clan: Difference between revisions

 

* [[Amazonian Beauty]] (after the timeskip. Just check out [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1816 her bicep] in a shower scene.)

* [[Badass Adorable]] (as the story goes on she increasingly becomes this)

* [[Berserk Button]] ([http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=373 Monster!])

* [[Plucky Girl]] (and how)

* [[Rapunzel Hair]] (even more so after the timeskip)

* [[She Is All Grown Up]] (after the 15 year timeskip Ariel is now 30, or 15 physically, and shot up like a weed. Unsurprising, given her family.)

* [[She's Got Legs]] (much of her height seems to be because of her very long legs)

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] (with {{spoiler|Diva}} after the timeskip, [http://www.drowtales.com/wordpress/?p=3724 confirmed] by [[Word of God]])

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] (her signature ability, though she's warned that if she's not careful she could accidentally put a vital organ in the wrong place)

 

=== Syphile Val'Sarghress ===

* [[Epic Fail]] (her ''entire life'' {{spoiler|possibly excluding her death, see above}})

* [[Fail O'Suckyname]] ([[Word of God]] is that the origin of her name, back when the story was an RP, is the word syphilis.)

* [[Maternally Challenged]] (much like Quain'tana, but not played for laughs ''at all''. She thinks leaving Ariel with a dictionary to study constitutes "teaching" her.)

* [[Moral Event Horizon]] ([[In-Universe]], the brutal and completely unnecessary way she killed Fuzzy in front of Ariel after locking them in her room for a week without the means for Fuzzy to even to the bathroom properly seems to be the moment when Ariel [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=89 decided she needed to die], and for the audience it made a lot of people lose sympathy for her)

* [[Secret Keeper]] (Subverted. Syphile knew that {{spoiler|Ariel's parents were really Mel'arnach and Zhor, not Quain'tana}} and she was expected to keep this secret. Once she helped Chrys'tel escape, however, practically the first thing she did was spill the secret to her, and by extension to Zala'ess, and Zala has more than taken advantage of this knowledge to try and shame Quain'tana)

* [[Troubled Abuser]] (Kel'noz at the very least seems to think so, but he notably doesn't excuse Syphile for any of her treatment of Ariel even knowing this)

* [[Used to Be A Sweet Kid]] (subverted, since she appears to have always been something of a brat according to one side story, where she alienates one of her friends, who was trying to convince her that tainting herself is a dumb idea, with a low blow about her fallen clan and pretty much turns her only ally against her)

 

Ariel's older sister ({{spoiler|or not}}) who was disowned and imprisoned within the Sarghress fortress and is seen as a dangerous psychopath.

 

* [[Broken Bird]] (With good reason. According to Kel'noz she "lost her mind a long time ago" {{spoiler|which is only half-right}})

* [[Dark Mistress]] (she may wind up playing this role to {{spoiler|Snadhya'rune}} as indicated [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1359 here])

* [[Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu]] (Ariel and Mel's first interactions are this, since Ariel has been {{spoiler|falsely}} told by Syphile that Mel is a monster)

** This could also apply to her relationship with {{spoiler|Snadhya'rune}}, who's the closest thing the comic has to a [[Big Bad]]. The other Sarghress certainly feel this way about their relationship.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]] ([http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=106 this entire scene])

* [[Love Makes You Dumb]] ( {{spoiler|towards Snadhya'rune}}. Less on the "dumb" aspect and more on the "naive" aspect however. The fanbase feels that Mel'arnach is so in love that she is blinded towards {{spoiler|Snadhya'rune}}'s faults and have begun to think the less of her for it.)

* [[Love Martyr]] (see above, for {{spoiler|Snadhya'rune}})

* [[Ironic Echo]] (her first reaction to {{spoiler|1=[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=6846 being told she was Kalki's father]}} was to ask if it was a joke. Later, the first words out of {{spoiler|1=[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7851 Ariel's mouth] when told that Mel is her mother}} is to ask effectively the same thing.)

* [[It Got Worse]] (largely the course her life has taken. She didn't get along with Quain'tana practically from the beginning, but when Laele'aell was born it seems some of the heat was taken off Mel, but when Laele died things only got worse again, and to top it off {{spoiler|the child she was waiting for for years was taken away before she could even name her, and she wasn't even allowed to see said child for 10 years, and when she did said child was terrified of her, and didn't believe her when told of her true heritage}})

Originally a human slave that Ariel fought with in a series of [[Gladiator Games]], Vaelia joined Ariel as her bodyguard even after being freed. Later she {{spoiler|joined the Highland Raiders, and appears periodically in short stories at the end of chapters chronicling her adventures}}.

 

* [[The Atoner]] (due to {{spoiler|1=[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=858 selling out her home village to slavers], due to her fellow male warriors [[Moving the Goalposts]] on her}})

* [[Badass Normal]] (especially apparent after {{spoiler|she joins the Highland Raiders}})

* [[Blade On a Stick]]

* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]] (despite the difficulty she has with the drow language, her inner monologues show her to be quite thoughtful)

* [[Important Haircut]] (Inverted in a sense. After being freed, she had hair extensions put in to signify she was no longer a slave.)

* [[I Owe You My Life]] (to Ariel)

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] (with Ariel after the timeskip)

* [[Walking Spoiler]] (this character's very existence spoils two major plot points: one, that {{spoiler|Diva'ratrika is dead}} and two, that {{spoiler|she cheated death using Ragini as a conduit}}. Considered a separate character from {{spoiler|Liriel}} and {{spoiler|Diva'ratrika}} for ease of browsing.)

 

 

* [[Meaningful Name]] (''Sang'' means "blood" in French)

* [[One Steve Limit]] (there's also a Sang'oro in the Kyorl)

 

=== Kor'maril Niz'zre Val'Sarghress ===

* [[Gray Eyes]]

* [[Lightning Bruiser]] (as Jer'kol [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4441 found out the hard way])

 

 

* [[Badass]] (fights Koil'dorath to a draw, and according to one observer they were going [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=139 easy] on each other, and later fights off a band of dwarves)

* [[Blood Brothers|Blood Sisters]] ([http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=141 with Quain'tana])

{{quote| She is the Commander of the Highland Raiders, and her house is composed of her own family but also a lot of other troops that come within her groups to visit strange lands and meet strange people and kill them.}}

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] (half of her hair is dyed black while the other is white, additionally, one of her eyes is glass and pure green)

* [[Honorary Uncle|Honorary Aunt]]

* [[Number Two]] (in one of his podcasts, the creator of the comic states that the Yurunhiir house has a special function within the clan; namely that should something happen to the main Sarghress branch, the Yurunhiir would be the ones to rally the survivors into a new clan)

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] (she even agrees to let {{spoiler|1=[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=6689 Vaelia join the Highland Raiders]}})

 

* [[The Skeptic]] (Taking [[The Resenter|Suu'be's]] comments at face value Itan'sha appears to be this in comparison. When Ariel is declared as the new heir, she immediately supposes the Jaal'darya must have had something to do with it; knowing that Quain'tana is barren.)

* [[Token Minority]] (She's the only drowussu dev'ess seen thus far)

 

=== Lulianne Mae'yukir Sarghress ===

* {{spoiler|[[The Plot Reaper]]}} ({{spoiler|1=after hearing the truth from Sha'sana, there was pretty much no way that she'd survive, and indeed Khaless' takeover ensures that she won't be telling anyone about what she found out. [[Word of God]] even [http://www.drowtales.com/wordpress/?p=3760 states] that "Lulianne is gone but served her purposes"}})

* [[Purple Eyes]] ({{spoiler|formerly}})

* [[Retcon]] (a minor one, mainly [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=445 her hair was originally a much darker pink], while her appearance in the new chapter 1 has her with the much lighter hair seen in subsequent chapters)

* {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me]]}} (says this to {{spoiler|Khaless}}, but {{spoiler|Lu survives, albeit possessed by Khaless}}.)