Drowtales/Characters/Vel'Vloz'ress

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The Clan as a whole

Background Information

The newest clan to rise to the Council of Nine. The Vloz'ress was originally a small nether cult under the leadership of Kiel's mother Ven'ndia, but after her death Sene'kha formed alliances with the Sharen that allowed the Vloz'ress to take the seat left vacant after the collapse of the Val'Dutanvir. Besides the Sharen, they are the only clan who identify themselves as Vels instead of Vals due to their association with demonic magic. Despite their Val status, the Vloz'ress are the least liked clan in Chel, and living conditions among most members are second only to living on the street. "Houses" within the clan are mostly defined as which nether summoner one serves under, and exactly who has the power among the summoners is constantly shifting.

Exclusively Evil (their reputation, though individual members sometimes avert this, and Word of God is that they deliberately play up looking evil as part of their battle tactics)
Animal Motifs (their clan mount is the snake, and Word of God is that the large snakes they ride actually belonged to the Dutan'vir originally and were engineered by the Jaal'darya)
Army of Thieves and Whores (the Vloz'ress is the last stop for many of the most desperate people in Chel, and the life expectancy of their troops can be measured in weeks.)
Bedlam House (essentially what their fortress is)
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder (a prerequisite for anyone who wants to gain power in the clan)
Dark Is Not Evil (under Ven'ndia, they were weird but harmless, and despite being demon worshipers sought to learn from them rather than use them as weapons. Thoroughly averted once Sene'kha took over)
Eldritch Location (invoked, their fortress is intentionally designed to confuse people who enter it, including golems that reached out and attack you as you enter)
Evil Is Visceral (their fortress definitely seems to play off this)
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits (originally)
The Unfavorite (nobody likes the Vloz'ress, just check the clan relations chart. Even the Sharen, who were behind the Vloz's rise to power, only like them on the surface, everyone else either hates them or is neutral towards them.)
Unwitting Pawn (it's stated several times that the Vloz are really nothing more than a pawn of the Sharen)

Kharla'ggen

Kharla'ggen Vel'Vloz'ress

Absolute Cleavage
Big Sister Instinct (Seems to have developed one of these for Kiel'ndia. This is Kharla, though, so she still may turn on Kiel at any minute, just like she did to poor Ven'ndia, and Larvova explicitly warns Kiel about this.)
Blue and Orange Morality (Kharla is so crazy that regular morality just doesn't apply to her)
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass (crazy or not, cross Kharla and you will pay, as the Sharen sent to attack them found out the hard way)
The Caligula (despite her better aspects, she's still this trope through and through)
Dark-Skinned Redhead (not naturally, since her hair was originally white)
Fan Disservice (everything about her, pretty much, since she has a beautiful body that's shown off with low cut tops but is totally insane)
Girls Love Stuffed Animals (she loves plushies)
The Glomp (to Naal, and yes, Kharla manages to make a glomp terrifying)
I Am Legion (it's heavily implied that she has multiple people in her head, and thus refers to herself as "we", and not in the Royal We sense. Kiel even comments that it means that Kharla's probably never felt alone)
Living Doll Collector (She's the page image.)
Mask Power (sort of, since the mask was actually to keep her from chewing her own fingers)
Obliviously Evil (it's been hinted that she doesn't have the mental capacity to understand the full extent of what she's doing. Notably, Kiel doesn't blame her for what happened to her mother, while she does blame Sene'kha)
Puppet Ill'haress (but not if Kiel has anything to say about it...)
Puppet Permutation (her specialty)
Psychopathic Manchild (for some, the childish traits she shows just make her more terrifying, while for others, her playing with a rubber duck while bathing to be absolutely adorable. And the extent she's actually psychopathic is debateable, since it seems that a lot of her actions were just her doing as Sene'kha told her to)
Rage Against the Reflection (The first time she saw her face in a mirror, she had a Freak-Out and tried to tear her own face off. Her mask is the only thing that keeps her calm)
Shout-Out (possibly, since her hairstyle and mask make her resemble Washuu)

Kiel'ndia

Kiel'ndia Vel'Vloz'ress

Bi the Way (though bisexuality is the norm in drow society, she directly states that while she'd like a harem of princes, she'd also take at least one princess, just for fun's sake. She's also expressed interest in both Nau'kheol and Chry'stel.)
Big No (upon seeing Naal get stabbed)
Break the Cutie: She's undoubtedly gone through this, between watching her mother get turned into a puppet, whatever else she's seen in the Vloz'ress, seeing her best friend taken over by her seed and being poisoned)
Breaking the Fourth Wall (her habit of talking to her "imaginary friend" who just happens to be in the same place as the reader is seen by the other characters as a symptom of madness)
- Later manifests as a Tear Jerker after Naal's death when she tells the "audience" to leave her alone and throws a belt at them.
  - Don't link to it. What part of leaving her alone don't you understand?
The Chessmaster (one in training)
The Cuckoolander Was Right (it seems she really was right about there still being something left of Naal in Demon!Naal)
Despair Event Horizon (Naal's seed taking her over nearly causes her to cross it, to the point that she's willing to let Demon!Naal eat her, but luckily there's enough of Naal's mind left that she pushes Kiel out instead)
Emergency Transformation (subverted, it was All Just a Dream, much to fans' relief)
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas (the "bad" is up for debate since she's one of the more decent Vloz'ress, but she certainly loved her mother and was devastated by what happened to her)
Five Stages of Grief (immediately after Naal's horrific demise she shows classic signs of stage 1, denial)
- Now seems to be quite fully into stage 2, anger, and later seems to have bypassed 3 to go right to 4, despair.
Hostile Show Takeover (she's taken over the Drowtales Twitter account (^[1]) and promptly demanded a tribute of princes, though she'd also accept princesses)
- She also has her own Facebook account now.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Kid Hero (played straight and then horribly deconstructed when she almost gets killed by poisoning, has a nightmare where she gets a doll body and Larvova scolds her to emphasize how stupid it is to try to do it all on her own)
The Ladette (despite being only 24, or physically 12 by human standards, she fits this among the other female characters in terms of personality)
Lampshade Hanging (in chapter 32 she breaks the fourth wall and addresses how reckless opening the morgue where Demon!Naal is trapped is)
Loveable Sex Maniac ("Princes, I tell you. Lots of them. Just. Waiting. For. Me!")
- She's already claimed Nau'kheol.
- And Chrys'tel.
Messy Hair (not immediately obvious, but just compare her hair when it's down here to when Naal manages to brush it out at the cost of her hairbrushes. Not washing it for a long time will do that.)
Rapunzel Hair (not immediately obvious since it's usually in a ponytail, and in one chibi page Naal even says that Kiel's hair is longer than hers)
Replacement Goldfish (played for laughs in one chibi page where she makes a Naal'ga then not so much when we see that she actually did it.)
- It's also stated that one reason she likes Nau'kheol is that he reminds her of Naal.
Romantic Two-Girl Friendship (with Naal, see this)
- Yeah. Really. Now seems to be Les Yay.
She Cleans Up Nicely (courtesy of Naal)
Shotacon (played for laughs, but not as squicky as some examples since it's more innocent than anything and they're not too far apart in age)
Tomboyish Ponytail
Trauma Conga Line (chapter 27 has Naal's death and then chapter 28 has her break down because of Naal's death, then be poisoned and have a nightmare where her body has become a doll and only live because one of her rivals was forced to save her life by Kharla, and then she's reminded of her own mother when she bursts in to kill Nyo'ka and sees her kids, and then break down again)
Your Mom (seems to like this tactic)

Mir'kiin

Mir'kiin Vel'Vloz'ress

A Plague on Both Your Houses (his last words are promising that Kharla will kill all of them)
Asshole Victim (he may have had it coming, but the way he goes out is still pretty gruesome)
Delinquents (he eventually gets kicked out of all his classes at Orthorbbae, forcing him to leave the school where Ariel nabs him)
Groin Attack (he tries this on Ariel, and when he finds there's nothing to grab he figures out that she's female)
Fail O'Suckyname (it's not known if it was intentional, but his name is a homophone for Merkin, a pubic wig)
He-Man Woman Hater (he's definitely this, but it was never explained why. In fact when he stabs Ariel he can be seen happily murmuring that "there will be one less female in the world" as he makes his getaway. Might have something to do with his experience with the Vloz'ress nether summoners, all of whom are female and prone to Chronic Backstabbing Disorder)
Jerkass (his first words are complaining that he doesn't want to be in a class with a bunch of "girly freaks" and he gets progressively more jerkish, attempting to kill Ariel and later attacking her when they're on the same team)

Sene'kha

Sene'kha Vel'Vloz'ress

The Chessmaster
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder (comes naturally with the Vloz'ress, but Sene'kha seemed to be especially good at it to not only get her position, but hold it for as long as she did)
Complete Monster (One of the few characters the very vocal fanbase is in absolute agreement about, and even Kiel seems to think this . Under Kiel's mom the Vloz'ress were a bunch of weird but harmless people and Kharla had the chance to recover from her trauma. Then Sene'kha manipulated Kharla into turning Kiel's mom into a living door knocker. The results: Kharla's condition got worse, the Vloz'ress turned into a clan of power hungry maniacs and Sene'kha's control over Kharla allowed her to rule the clan. Also there's her plan to takeover Chel by turning Kharla into an Eldritch Abomination.)
The Dog Bites Back (Kiel refuses to help her escape and leaves her to be executed)
Manipulative Bastard (is heavily implied to have purposely arranged Kiel's mother's death, and a sidestory shows that she actually went looking for Kharla and found her in her insane state)
Off with His Head (but not before beating stabbed, beaten up, and then after being beheaded set on fire and having her aura sealed for good measure)
Rasputinian Death (see above)
Shout-Out (her name is likely a reference to Seneca the Younger, an advisor to Emperor Nero who was executed for supposedly being complicit in an assassination plot)
The Starscream (it's heavily implied that she pulled this on Kiel's mother)
Suicide by Cop (she tries this after Kiel refuses to help her break out, and screams after her insults about her mother while her thought bubbles indicate that she wants Kiel to kill her so she can be "set free", i.e. either spared the Kyorl execution, able to release her seed to cause more destruction, or both. Unfortunately for Sene'kha, Kiel's already left.)

Kes'sen

Sene'kha's mate and Soul Seeker, he led the quest to bring back Discordia.

Badass (look what it takes to kill him!)
The Dragon (to Sene'kha)
Dual-Wielding
Eyes Do Not Belong There (when his seed starts to awaken he gains a second set of eyes above his own)
Karmic Death (Kiel intentionally invokes this by using her mother's golem against him)
Rasputinian Death ( Is set upon by nagas, and after fighting through them narrowly survives a manabomb, two stab wounds to the abdomen, and a fire blast. Then he releases his seed only to have his head split by Kiel'ndia's chain weapon. People on the forums agree that this takes the cake for Rasputinian Deaths out of all the characters in the comic.)
Scars Are Forever (has several scars on his face)
Unholy Matrimony (we never see them really interact, but it can be inferred he had this relationship with Sene'kha, though the gender roles were flipped due to drow society)

Larvova

A nether summoner in the clan. She has ambitions of leading the clan after Sene'kha's death.

Enemy Mine (winds up in this situation with Kiel after she's poisoned and forced to save her life)
Facial Markings (has what are probably tattoos that resemble stitch marks all over her face)
In the Hood (almost always has her hood up)

Nyo'ka

A nether summoner within the clan.

Chekhov's Gunman (the scourges with her in this scene appear later to watch Kiel succumb to the poison)
Even Evil Has Loved Ones (what Kiel realizes when she bursts in to kill Nyo'ka and sees her kids. See also Not So Different.)
Not So Different (Kiel realizes this when her children come out after Kiel burst in to kill her and is reminded of her own mother)
Pet the Dog (the way she talks about her children)
Put on a Bus (she did this to her kids by sending them to the Illhar'dro city of Nuqrah'shareh, though she had referenced earlier that she was going to do this, and the two of them later appear in chapters 33 and 34, where their names are revealed to be Tamiir and Kys'sae, with Tamiir probably being the girl and Kys'sae probably being the boy)
Snakes Are Sexy (she's seen with a snake wrapped around one of her arms a couple times)
Unwitting Pawn (Kiel was poisoned in such a way that Kharla thought Larvova did it, but Kharla was smart enough to get Larvova to save Kiel instead. Because Nyo'ka's scourges show up to watch Kiel thought that Nyo'ka ordered it, but they were in fact acting on their own, hoping to turn Kharla against Larvova. It nearly cost Nyoka her life, so needless to say she wasn't pleased with them, and one of them gets killed for his troubles. Kiel later feeds his body to Demon!Naal.)

Ven'ndia

Kiel's mother and the former leader of the group that later became the Vloz'ress, Ven'ndia's aura was sealed in a puppet body by Kharla.

A Fate Worse Than Death
And I Must Scream (her puppet body is implied to still be conscious)
Deal with the Devil (she tainted herself knowing the risks, and it's heavily implied that Snadhya'rune wanted her to help with the Nidraa'chal War, and when she refused they were attacked)
Deceased Parents Are the Best (Demon worshipper or not, she's one of the best parents in the series. And dead. We think.)
Spell My Name with an "S" (Is it Ven'nedia, as she is called in Chapter 11, or Ven'ndia, as in Chapter 24 and after? It appears to be the second, and like Snadhya'runes vs. Snadhya'rune, has been quietly changed in the later chapters)
The Farmer and the Viper (poor, poor Ven'ndia, she was just trying to help Kharla)
Woman in White (her preferred style of dress suggests this)

Kuso and Baliir

A soldier and berserker respectively in the Vloz'ress clan. They appear to be friends as they are almost always seen in the company of one another. Baliir seems the most interested in his duty in the clan whereas Kuso is often the comic relief.

The Big Guy (Baliir)
Blue Eyes (Kuso, and how he's managed to avoid getting tainted in the Vloz'ress is anyone's guess, since he's one of less than a handful we've seen that are untainted)
Gentle Giant (Baliir, when he's not curb stomping people who challenge him)
Heterosexual Life Partners
Jerk with a Heart of Gold (possibly Kuso, who despite his mouth doesn't seem that bad in general)
Punch Clock Villain (Kuso, at least, just joined to have some place to stay and work. Baliir on the other hand seems to genuinely believe in Sene'kha's cause)

Estrogen Brigade Bait (Kuso, as of this page, which caused many to express surprise that he's so pretty under the helmet)
Punny Name ("Kuso" is a Japanese curse roughly equivalent to "damn" or "shit", and Kuso has quite the short fuse and foul mouth)
Sir Swearsalot (Kuso)
Those Two Guys
The Un-Reveal (at one point Baliir takes off his mask, and it disturbs the other customers enough that Kuso asks him to put it back on, but we don't actually get to see his face. Probably a good thing, if you consider what Larvova's berserker looks like.)
Warrior Poet (Baliir)
Well-Intentioned Extremist (Baliir)

Ni'bai

A former Sharen of Nishi'kanta's bloodline, now a Vloz'ress nether summoner. Her twin, Ni'ju, is now a demon that serves her.

Angsty Surviving Twin (considering that her sister is a demon, or at the very least a possessed summon, this trope is pretty easy to infer. As both have an apostrophe in their names (signaling Val status) its implied that they were actually biological twins rather than a protector-twin set up, making Ni'bai's angst status even more telling.)
Dark-Skinned Blond (like Nishi'kanta, though hers is obviously dyed since you can see her roots.)
Defector From Decadence (she left the Sharen after the Nidraa'chal War)
Dragon Ascendant (After Sene'kha's death, Ni'bai announces that she'll finish the job Sene'kha started. Appropriately, as a former Sharen she's also a dragon in another sense as well.)
Facial Markings (like Kiel, has red lines that look like tear marks under her eyes)
Ignored Epiphany (not Ni'bai herself, but when she tries to tell Desmonde Kyorl'solenurn the truth about the War she's ignored)
Noble Fugitive (as seen above, Ni'bai was a former Sharen Val. Why she left the Sharen after the Nidraa'chal War isn't ouright stated but its easy to infer that she found out the truth behind the War and the attack on her grandmother)
Number Two (was evidently something like this to Sene'kha, and uses her notes to continue the project to use Discordia as a summoning conduit after her death)
Stripperiffic (not by human standards save for her Impossibly Low Neckline, but by drow standards walking around with a bare neck makes her even naughtier than Mel with her dental floss)

Nainai

An old human woman, she seems to be Kharla's caretaker.

But Not Too White (averted, since she may be a Rift Halme who was born underground, and thus has no natural coloring)
The Caretaker
Cool Old Lady
Milky White Eyes (on account of being blind)
Never Mess with Granny (fans have decided that she must be this if she's survived in the Vloz fortress)
Parental Substitute (to both Kiel and Kharla)

Umpus

Umpus Vloz'ress

An intelligent demon (aka a Vel'Akar) possessing the body of a drow/naga symbiote and serves as Sene'kha's attendant. Much like Khaless for Snadhya'rune, Umpus is very loyal to the Vlozress ideals set out by Sene'kha and later is seen to be plotting with Ni'bai to revive the old idea of bringing a demon god into the world by using Discordia as bait.

Anime Hair (has short and spiky hair not seen on any other male character)
Blank White Eyes (save for red schlera, this signifies that he is fully demon, not merely a tainted drow)
Distaff Counterpart (this appears to be the case with him and Khaless, though its unknown how their respective power levels match up)
Facial Markings (he is noticeably tattooed all over his upper body)
Fluffy Tamer (was visibly sympathetic to Discordia whilst the latter was being captured, stroking her arm and referring to her as "a poor thing", while the other characters just comment on how easy it was to capture the shard. He also attempts to reason with her in chapter 12.)
Hidden Agenda Villain (it is too early to tell if he is a villain, but as of yet readers know nothing about his true motives)
Tattooed Crook (as seen above, he is covered in body markings)

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