Mind Control University/Characters
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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 Raping 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 Taylor Hebert 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.
- Subliminal Seduction: One of her favorite tricks to get more slaves. she used it on Joyce, Taylor, Hope, and Ashley to weaken their will.
MCU Staff
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. She doesn't want to go up against Solaria, and she's never going anywhere near the Annihilators.
- 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. Daphne strongly suspects that she invited Hope to MCU specifically because she hopes someone will brainwash her and take her out of the picture.
- Odd Job God: Is the Goddess of Mind Control. Not as obscure as some other gods (such as, say, Cloacina). Fellow gods in the quest Include Gung Young, Mary's Mom.
- 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.
- Mind Virus: Started as a girl's erotic mind control fantasy before slowly morphing into something "real" in her mind then spread to other minds.
- 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: Rules a chunk of middle Africa in her world of superheroes.
- 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
Lady Emerald
MCU's magic teacher and Evil Sorceress Queen of Multiple Dimensions that Likes turning people into Bimbos
- Abusive Parent: If you thought that Emerald making Ruby her daughter to thwart that prophecy also involved being a good parent you thought wrong.
- Evil Teacher: To the staff of MCU. While they all did morally questionable things, Emerald destroyed an entire city of Lizard Folk to teach a point (and/or provoke Daphne into attacking Emerald so Emerald could enslave Daphne).
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.
- Hive Mind: She has multiple bodies which she has used to have multiple one on one sessions with different students simultaneously.
- 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.
MCU Students
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.
- The Woobie: She was viciously bullied before she went to MCU. Her self-esteem was in pretty bad shape at the start of the story to put it mildly.
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.
- Fantastic Racism: Believes her race (the Denebians) are superior to all the other races and brainwashes her slaves that they are worthless and should be grateful they breathe the same air as her.
- 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.
- Weak-Willed: Claims she is "hypersuggestible"
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.
Bonnie Bale
Ditzy bimbo whose approach to sex can be summed up as "why not?". Her father's an evil hypnotist with his own harem, and Bonnie was raised to follow in his footsteps; to his displeasure, she's a switch. Closer to the middle of the Kinsey scale than most of this class. Tammy's roommate.
- Genius Ditz: Is pretty much The Ditz in everything but Hypnosis which she is Very Good at. including Hypnotizing Her Kistune Roommate.
Mary
Small mousy girl. Raised by her father, only recently learned her mother is a literal love goddess. Kate's roommate.
Seraphina
Highly magical, wears clothing straight out of a harem fantasy. Rooms with Arcturia, right next to Daphne's room.
Arcturia Lacroix
Statuesque white-haired girl with decent magical power. Rooms with Seraphina, making her Daphne's neighbor.
Aedena Silverwave
Fin-eared siren girl, calls herself the "hero of two worlds". Not actually a student, but a summon of Arcturia.
Tammy
Bonnie's roommate. A kitsune with illusion powers, nigh-irresistibly hypnotic fluffy tails, and a propensity for causing chaos.
- Fantastic Foxes: Is a Kistune and knows some magic.
Ruby
Goes around in a fancy dress and a tiara that levitates over her head. Not impressed with technology. Evil, according to Helen. Has immensely powerful magic according to Ashley. Apparently had near-unbreakable control over Geraldine and Jane. Daughter of Lady Emerald, the magic teacher. Poisoned Smile's roommate.
- Abusive Parents: Asaka read Ruby's mind and how Lady Emerald treated Ruby was pretty messed up. Any time Ruby made a friend Emerald would ruin that friendship and possibly even engineered and thwarted an assassination plot against herself that would have used Ruby as a Targeted Human Sacrifice.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: seems to be the case.
Fumiko
Girl who goes around wearing a silk kimono. Princess of the Silent Triumph ninja clan.
Guan Young
Athletic Chinese girl and supernaturally able fighter. Daughter of Guan Yu, god of war of the Chinese Celestial Bureaucracy. According to prophecy, destined to defeat some great evil. Daedera's roommate.
- Semi-Divine: Is the daughter of the Chinese god of war Guan Young.
Lady Daystar
Goes around wearing what looks like gold armor. A Perfect from the world of Cosmos who has come to MCU to explore the rest of the multiverse, has demonstrated her abilities by not getting noticed by you at first despite her getup, driving Daphne to orgasm just by how skillfully she blew her a kiss from across the room, and fighting Fumiko, Young and Kaorka all at once without breaking a sweat. Has taken an interest in Daphne and made her a deal: She's now given her a tutoring session in leadership, but in exchange, at the end of the school year, Daphne will either follow Daystar as her servant, or somehow be able to resist her will in the matter.
Hanako and Honoka
Playful, tends to hypnotize first and ask questions later.
- The Dividual
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences
- Single-Minded Twins
- Ungrateful Bastard: Immediately tried to hypnotize one of the people that rescued them from the nightmarish fate of being Ruby's slaves.
Fixit
Quiet redhead, actually an artificial intelligence - one of many who were designed to orchestrate the technological systems of her world. The Great Light, planetary guardian of her world, has destroyed all the other AIs, turning her world into a post-apocalyptic mess that she is hoping to save, somehow. Peggy's roommate.
- Androids Are People, Too: Fixit is an artificial intelligence, but Daphne and the rest of the harem treat her like a normal person. She can also use magic, chi, and psychic powers, which proves she has a soul.
- Hive Mind: She can pilot multiple bodies at the same time and regards herself as not having any single true body (for this reason she regards herself as not being a true robot).
Connie
Known in her world as the supervillain Lady Moriarty. A sociopathic yandere, addicted to enslaving anyone who can make her feel love, and discarding them when she gets bored. Fumiko's roommate.
- The Sociopath: Fits the description being a cold, calculating, Yandere that can not feel anything about other people's pain, and will murder her emotional stimuli once she gets bored of them
Fen
Delicate-looking Chinese girl. Werewolf. Jackie's roommate.
Jacquie
Flare
Blue-haired Unicorn girl with a love-me aura that she apparently doesn't fully control.
Candace
Hope's blue-haired roommate. Has been using a sleep-inducing drug to ensure Hope doesn't wake up while Candace is asleep. Came to MCU hoping to learn how to make the girl she's in love with become gay for her. Very goal-oriented.
Asaka Stargazer
White-furred fox girl wearing gray monkish robes. Helen's roommate and ally. Is from an alien species called the Valdari and a Jedi knight.
The Multiverse Beyond MCU
The Crystal Dragon
Planetary guardian of Joyce's world; remains inactive for decades or even centuries, then intervenes to solve some major crisis through overwhelming power. Then intervenes to solve some major crisis through overwhelming power. Worshiped by the largest religions of his world, despite never displaying any interest in religion or worship.
The Great Light
The Light of Hope
Semi-sentient force of love, justice and freedom that's been empowering rare champions like Hope to fight the Darkness.
The Darkness
Semi-sentient force of despair and corruption that's been maintaining Hope's world in a dystopian state from behind the scenes for eons.
- 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.
Morgan le Fay
The Deneb Imperium
The Deneb Imperium, a racist feudal dystopia built by the survivors of a precursor race who view themselves as destined rulers of the cosmos.
- Fantastic Racism the Denb Empire belives themselves to Be the Master Race and Rule over all Non-Denebians with a Iron fist.
The Spiders
The Altair Commonwealth
The Annihilators
- The Dreaded: The Annihilators are feared throughout the multiverse. even the staff at Mind Control University which includes people like Emerald and Norton who can fight against gods, Stay far away from the Annihilators because of their advanced technology.
Solaria
Goddess of the Sun, Civilization, and Goodness. Helen's patron, as well as patron deity of some medieval nation called the Sirovian Federation. Infamous for being a hypercompetent plotter with a tendency to outmaneuver the forces of evil; feared even by Mesmerra.
- God of Good: Is the Goddess of Civilization, the Sun and Good.
The Dark Empress
A sorceress from Kaorka's world who's achieved a meteoric rise among the ranks of Dark Lords, practically taking over an entire continent and reaching the unprecedented point where some of the "good" nations have decided to establish an embassy in her lands.
- Evil Overlord: Subverted: at first she seems like this, threatening to murder Karoka's entire clan of Orcs. But actually she is a normal human mage who found herself in arch-devil territory. One thing lead to another and now she is the Dark Empress. For political reasons, she has to make most people think she is this though. This means she has to contrive an evil, or alternatively, pragmatic, motive for doing anything that could be seen as being a good person. She is also trying to improve her kingdom with things like the printing press, new agricultural techniques, vaccines and so on.
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Good All Along: If this doesn't fit within the purview of Tropes Are Flexible (because the trope description is clearly geared towards minions), delete this entry.
- Slave to PR
- Tom the Dark Lord: Her friends call her Amy. Admittedly Amelia is might be more exotic than Amanda, but it’s still on the mundane side of things.
- Walking Spoiler: As of this writing, a lot of her entry is spoiled.
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