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== ''10%+'' (Ten Percent Plus) ==

 

=== Meander (Maned Wolf) ===

The protagonist of ''10%'' and a student of Rule.

* [[Canis Major]]: It's mentioned on one page that Meander is big for a maned wolf, {{spoiler|which is how he ended up as Rule's student}}.

* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: Noetic Chiasm's Meristogenous Transgression.

* [[Loss of Identity]]: {{spoiler|When Meander's halo brain is destroyed by Rule, the construct that was Meander dies, even if his body and its base animal instincts survive him.}} The court case that follows factors this heavily.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: "It means to worm around kind of leisurely." Turns out Meander chose that because his mind is constantly wandering.

=== Quintet (Cat) ===

Meander's friend and a fellow student.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Subverted.

* {{spoiler|[[Eyepatch of Power]]}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|Subverted! "Quintet" refers to the "main cat" and the cats created by her metanoia... but in fact, those cats are four different reflections of herself. So she's actually a "Quartet".}}

 

=== Rule (Wolf) ===

Meander's teacher. Works with Polarizing to exploit "wild" animals for things like slave labor and meat, an extreme taboo in their society.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: For no apparent reason, Rule is ''purple''.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The guy gets an entire monologue about how he's old, but something like age isn't going to slow him down.

** [[Badass Teacher]]

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: And not necessarily the meaning you'd think of. [[Or So I Heard|Apparently]] it refers to "partitions of scale".

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: To Polarizing's blue.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Threatens (''possibly'' in jest) to kill Meander over an assignment, among other things.

* {{spoiler|[["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Not only was Rule a teacher, he was also a father figure to Meander.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

=== Polarizing (Tamandua) ===

A former doctor, and another of Meander's teachers.

* [[Badass Teacher]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Rule's red.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Sort of. He seems to be more willing to go all out with his "mask", a pair of leaves that cover his eyes, on. [[Berserk Button|At first.]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

=== Syncope (Kinkajou) ===

A law clerk and good friend of Meander.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]] to Fiat's Red Oni. This is very clearly illustrated on page 189, which shows how they use the same fighting style differently.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: He fell for Fiat right away. This was amusingly lampshaded in the exact same panel.

=== Fiat (Kinkajou) ===

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Hero of Another Story]]: On page 183, Fiat mentions that she was born with dextrocardia. When asked about why she mentioned this detail, Braun said that it's actually important to her own story (if it ever does get told). And by story, he means, well... this:

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] to Syncope's Blue Oni.

 

=== Keratin Junior (Rabbit) ===

One of the many children of the crime lord Keratin. He (alongside a long tract of land) was sold to Rule and Polarizing in exchange for wild coyote slaves. A major source of comic relief for much of this arc's conflict.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: His father has so many kids, he didn't think twice about offering one in exchange for valuable servants.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|the pile of coyote pup corpses and the death of Rule will likely haunt his dreams forever.}}

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: At first.

* [[Royal Brat]]: he constantly refers to Meander and the coyotes as "bugs", due in part to the way he was raised. {{spoiler|his father asks him not to say anything to Rule's detriment, but it's clear he'd no intention of doing so, anyway.}}

== ''Secretary'' ==

 

=== SV / Marigold / {{spoiler|Malice}} (Degu) ===

The protagonist of ''Secretary''. An ambitious and impatient student out to prove he has something of worth to add to the world.

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* [[Deadly Upgrade]]

* [[Feed Me]]: SV gets some ''very'' hammy lines after gaining the power of malice. None of which can out-ham {{spoiler|the page where he names himself.}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: He suffers a couple over the course of the story: the first follows a major defeat after his first serious sparring match; The second, suffered when {{spoiler|XZ informs him that she is quitting the college in order to raise a family}}, is dramatic enough to [[Art Shift|shift a character's art style]] and [[Painting the Fourth Wall|lighten up the website's background.]]

* {{spoiler|[[Knight Templar]]: Of his malice style.}}

* [[Parental Favoritism]]

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: He is at least a ''biased'' narrator. Exactly how unreliable is left up to interpretation.

* {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist]]}}

=== XZ / Nutsedge (Long-Eared Jerboa) ===

Fellow student and sparring partner of SV. They jointly develop the Dust Bath fighting style.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: ''"You! Come at me! With the most best! The most serious! The most ultimate dust bath style!"'' Possibly doubles as a parody of shounen animé/manga.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|She curb stomps SV in their first fight. A few deadly upgrades and a change in ideals later let SV do the same to her.}}

** [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: {{spoiler|Not so ridiculously so after [[Art Shift|page 248]], but she's still pretty cute even than.}}

=== NT / {{spoiler|Umbra}} (Degu) ===

Older brother of SV, goes to college at the same time as SV, but in the advanced class instead of beginner.

* [[Aloof Big Brother]]

* [[I Just Want to Be Badass]]

 

== ''Lycosa'' ==

 

=== ''Lycosa gulosa'' (Wolf spider) ===

The protagonist of ''Lycosa''. At the start of the arc, she's searching for her lost eggsack. When she finds out that Venom 8 have taken it, she goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. And that's the basic plot of the arc... {{spoiler|1=but it wouldn't be NofNA without a twist at the end, now would it?}}

* [[Badass]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Dull Surprise]]: She channels [[Keanu Reeves]] after {{spoiler|impaling the 8th and possibly final member of Venom 8}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Healing Factor]]: [[Truth in Television|Gulosa molts so that she can regrow her lost limbs,]] and, for a small while, at least, has to deal with stubby little appendages in place of her full-size ones.}}

* [[Mama Bear|Mama Spider]]: Gulosa is ''not'' happy to learn that her eggsack has been stolen.

* [[One-Man Army|One Spider Army]]: She takes on the ''entire'' Pisaurina clan by herself. ''And wins.''

=== Venom 8 ===

The antagonists of ''Lycosa''. The Venom 8 team is a group of eight {{spoiler|(actually nine)}} spiders who aim to [[It Makes Sense in Context|create a spider equivalent to the internet that all spiders are always connected to]]. This requires egg sacs from every spider species, which kicks off the arc. One by one, we meet them, and one by one, Lycosa kills them off.

 

The members of Venom 8 are, in order of appearance: ''Deinopis spinosa'', ''Antrodiaetus unicolor'', ''Argiope aurantia'', ''Scytodes thoracica'', ''Mastophora cornigera'', ''Patu digua'', ''Theraphosa blondi'', and ''Nephila clavipes''.{{spoiler|.. with the ninth being ''Gladicosa gulosa''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Beast Master]]: two of their number are adept at controlling praying mantises and hornets, respectively.}}

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: All of them {{spoiler|except for the ninth, Gladicosa gulosa}}. They are spiders, after all.

* [[Giant Spider]]: Theraphosa blondi. That species is called the '''Goliath''' Birdeater for a reason.

* [[Master of Illusion]]: Argiope Aurantia, AKA the Black and Yellow Garden Spider.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* {{spoiler|[[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Patu digua, a species of spider believed to be the smallest in the world. }}

* [[The Stoic]]: Argiope Aurantia, again.

=== ''Pisaurina mira'' (Nursery web spider) ===

Not actually a member of Venom 8, but "an appendage". Repeatedly fights Lycosa.

* {{spoiler|[[Let's Get Dangerous]]}}

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Over the course of their battles, she comes to understand (and respect) Lycosa, perhaps better than anyone else.

 

=== Yuri Sergiev ([[Insistent Terminology|Mankind]]) ===

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Deliberately; [[Word of God]] has stated that he's supposed to look a little bit like every race. That said, judging by the name, he's probably Russian (or of Russian descent).

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]

 

=== Evander Oneir (Mankind?) ===

Yuri's friend and a consciousness specialist. He works with Acheff and Hector.

* [[Ambiguously Human]]: He's got pointy ears, but otherwise appears completely human.

 

=== Diana (Mankind?) ===

* [[Ambiguously Human]]: She's got pointy ears and purple hair, but otherwise appears completely human.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

 

=== Strelka (Dog) ===

* [[Amazing Technicolour Wildlife]]: Ever seen a green dog before? (Even her nose is green!) Given that this arc is set so far into the future, it's possible that genetic engineering had a hand in this.

* [[Wrench Wench]]: Albeit of the non-[[Fan Service]] kind.

 

=== Able "Abe" (Chimpanzee?) ===

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: An engineer, a gamer, and a martial artist.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]

 

=== Acheff (Guinea Pig) ===

Part of the development team that Yuri's company contracts to work on their spacecraft. Acheff is the software engineer and Hector's adoptive father.

 

=== Hector (Mouse) ===

Part of the development team that Yuri's company contracts to work on their spacecraft. Hector is a secretary and the art director, and is a firm believer in the power and relevance of art.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: It's implied that Hector's birth father was one of these. {{spoiler|Removing your son's tail because he "didn't deserve a 'tale'"}} is ''harsh''.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: At least, Acheff seems to be a better father than Hector's biological father.

* [[Inexplicably Tailless]]: Type I. {{spoiler|Specifically of the "formerly tailed" variety}}.