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This is the character sheet for ''[[Roommates 2009 (Fanfic)|Roommates]]'', ''[[Roommates: GiansGian's First (Fanfic)|Gian's First]]'' and
''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''.
 
 
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'''Major:''' Art<br />
'''Sport:''' Trk&Fld - Distance Running<br />
'''Likes:''' Drawing, painting, reading, video games, astrology, trad. fencing, [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Magic:TG]], [[Foot Focus|cute toes]], charmers, [[Everything's Better Withwith Chocolate|chocolate]], showering, tidiness, Bowser Jr., Santino<br />
'''Dislikes:''' Lectures, cliques, loud people, dishonesty, [[Does Not Like Men|misandrists]], public speaking, disappointing others, messiness, boredom, conflict, bad critiques<br />
'''Favorite food:''' Spaghetti and Meatballs<br />
'''Favorite game:''' [[The Legend of Zelda: aA Link Toto Thethe Past|Zelda - A Link to the Past]]<br />
'''Favorite movie:''' [[Spirited Away]]<br />
'''Favorite music:''' Classic rock<br />
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Giancarlo Rosato (pronounced /dʒaŋˈkar.lo roˈza.to/) is a [[Digimon|flamedramon]] who immigrated to [[Useful Notes/The United States|The United States]] from [[Useful Notes/Italy|Italy]] with his family when he was 10 years old. He has a slightly older fraternal twin brother, Santino. His family usually calls him Giancarlo, but [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|he prefers everyone else to call him]] "Gian" /ˈdʒɑn/.
 
At 14, Gian had his first romantic relationship with his best friend Nathan, an [[Useful Notes/Australia|Australian]] [[Super Mario Bros.|yoshi]]. But it ended in [[Love Hurts|grief]] when a school [[The Bully|bully]], Thomas, learned of their relationship and told Nathan's [[Heteronormative Crusader|homophobic]] mother who immediately [[Locked Away in Aa Monastery|sent Nathan off to a distant Catholic school incommunicado]], effectively snatching away Nathan both as a boyfriend and as a best friend. [[It Got Worse|To add insult to injury]], Thomas brutally beat Gian at school the next day, but Santino [[Big Damn Heroes|rescued]] his little brother. Giancarlo was [[Coming Out Story|out of the closet]] to Santino, and soon to their parents as well, but they all loved and respected Giancarlo and accepted who he is. Still, this series of traumatic incidents gave Gian [[Broken Bird|heavy emotional baggage]] for years, and he preferred to [[Gayngst|stay closeted]] to the general public out of fear of more pain and abuse.
 
As young adults, Giancarlo and Santino attended [[California University|Aubrey State University]], where Gian is an art major. In their sophomore year, the twins were assigned separate but close dorm rooms, while Gian was assigned a roommate, Bowser Koopa, Junior. The [[Title Drop|roommates]] first met not in their room, but in the locker room of the track team of which they were both members. Junior openly flirted with Gian, and a sequence of events saw the two having sex for the first time only ''four hours'' later. But they soon [[Shallow Love Interest|fell in love]], and [[Character Development|grew]] to become a close and happy couple.
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* [[Broken Bird]]: Junior has been helping him through it.
* [[Coming Out Story]]: To the general public ''[[Roommates 2009 (Fanfic)|Roommates]]''. He already came out to his family at 14 in ''[[Roommates: GiansGian's First (Fanfic)|Gian's First]]''.
* [[Gayngst]]: Gian is initially deep in the closet in public and angsts over being openly gay.
* [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]: Gian is not ''that'' innocent, but his eyes frequently have that youthful funloving expression.
* [[Making Love in All Thethe Wrong Places]]: In their dorm room with the door open and someone standing in the hallway, much to Gian's horror. It's his brother Santino, who is less surprised at what happened than that it was on the very first day back to college.
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: The ear piercing Junior got for Gian. After their violent encounter with Olly and Mondo (''over'' the "gay" piercing), it became a symbol of their love and courage.
** [[Mythology Gag]]: The piercing actually has the same design as the [[Digimon|Digiegg of Courage]].
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* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]/[[Not So Harmless]]: When Olly attacks Gian in the locker room shower, Gian quickly flashed back to memories of getting beaten up by [[The Bully|bullies]] as a teenager, and alarm quickly turns to rage as Gian headbutts Olly, managing to fend him off.
* [[One of Us]]: Has many of the signs of being a geek.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Practically everyone calls him Gian, pronounced identically to "John" or "Jon" in American English. Only his parents and Santino call him Giancarlo. Gian didn't even want Nathan calling him Giancarlo. Nathan and Junior both always call him Gian.
* [[Raging Stiffie]]: In ''[[Roommates: GiansGian's First (Fanfic)|Gian's First]]'', when Nathan gave Gian a surprise foot rub. Gian was quite embarrassed at the effect it was having on his shorts.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: When he met Junior, they had sex first, and their love gradually blossomed over time.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
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Bowser Koopa, Junior is the eighth and youngest child and seventh son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]]. He grew up wealthy, living in Koopa Manor along with his father and seven siblings. He is closest to his brother Roy, and to Roy's [[Platonic Life Partners]] Hanbei Kagami, who were both [[Big Brother Mentor|mentors]] and protectors to Junior growing up. He is also Bowser's favorite son and namesake, not to mention [[Identical Grandson|the spitting image of his father]].
 
At 15, Junior abruptly lost his virginity to Jonathan S. "Jojo" Johnston III, his school tutor who had also been mentored by Hanbei. The two soon became a secret couple, Junior still deeply in the closet. It was Junior's deep fear of losing his family's love and respect and his relatively comfortable social standing at school, that drove his desire to stay in the closet. And this led him to make [[Idiot Ball|a series of extremely poor choices]] that [[Gay Aesop|instead almost destroyed his life]]. He started dating new "[[The Beard|girlfriend]]" Barbara T. "Babs" Wallace under false pretenses. He didn't bother to tell his actual boyfriend Jojo, which soon led to a highly acrimonious breakup and estrangement between them. Then, capping it all, Junior was beaten within an inch of his life at his own senior prom. But Junior eventually got his act together, [[Coming Out Story|came out]] to his family and the world, salvaged his life, and matured into a proud openly gay young man.
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* [[Armored Closet Gay]]: In his high school years, when his imagination was haunted by the implications of becoming unpopular. He even [[The Beard|dated]] Babs for ''a year and a half'' to keep up the charade.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]
* [[Byronic Hero]]: In ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''. He's definitely a good person, but he makes a ''lot'' of [[Idiot Ball|stupid]], ''[[Love Hurts|painful]], '''[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|destructive]]''''' decisions.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Junior as a young adult is ''very'' sexually forward with hot men. But when things get serious, he cares about the important things.
* [[Closet Key]]: To Gian.
* [[Coming Out Story]]: In ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: As a teenager, Junior relished [[Male Gaze|catching a peek]] of Hanbei's rump in the shower rooms wearing only a [[Fundoshi]].
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Played with. This is an [[Alternate Universe Fic]], where Bowser Koopa, Jr. ''isn't'' the same [[Overlord, Jr.]] commanding airships in deep space. In this universe, Junior was prone to [[Gayngst|Gayngsty]] moments of cowardice as a teenager. But he is principled and courageous as an adult.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: In ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: His family sometimes calls him "Rerun". Junior '''hates''' that.
* [[Erotic Eating]]: In ''These Are My Reflections'', Junior demonstrates that he can deepthroat by inserting six inches of an entire hot dog in his mouth before biting it off.
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* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Consistently an honor student.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?]]/[[Sorry, I'm Gay]]/[[Straight Gay]]: By the time he's 21 and in college, Junior is openly gay, completely out of the closet ''everywhere''. But his track teammates keep mistaking it for [[Gay Bravado]], not actually realizing that Junior actually ''is'' gay. {{spoiler|When Olly and Mondo are beating on Gian for daring to appear conspicuously gay (because of an earring, of all things), they react with genuine shock when Junior beats on them in Gian's defense, and tells them that Gian is his boyfriend.}}
* [[Head Desk]]: In ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]'', Junior does this in private when he realizes the stakes have been drastically raised on the consequences of breaking up with [[The Beard|Babs]].
* [[Hunk]]: Especially as an adult.
* [[Iconic Item]]: Unique to Bowser Koopa, Jr. in ''Roommates'' is his large conspicuous nose ring -- or, as Hanbei insists on calling it, his "hoop". This ring was never worn in [[Nintendo]] [[Canon]], and ''Roommates''!Junior only started wearing it as a teenager. The one time he takes it off is when getting ready to attend his senior prom, and feels bare without it.
** [[Mythology Gag]]: In addition to the aforementioned hoop, Junior still has his crayon-drawn scary-face mask, but if he's wearing it at all, it's as a neckerchief. He's even wearing it when he and Gian first have sex. As a character-establishing [[Iconic Item]], it is absent from his everyday appearance since the second chapter of the [[Web Comic]].
* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Son]]: Now 21 years old, Junior is looking more and more like a younger clone of Bowser.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Invoked in ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''. He made some wince-worthy decisions as a teenager. Some came to bite him in the ass, though [[Karma Houdini|some didn't necessarily affect his life for the worse]]. But he ended up paying pretty royally for the ones that did.
** Starting a formal relationship with Jojo immediately after they have sex, which was soon after they ''first met''. This in and of itself did not sour his karma, but...
** Dating a girl under false pretenses for a year and a half just for her to be your [[The Beard|Beard]], ''while'' you actually have a boyfriend who loves you. That was a selfish and inconsiderate move. And then...
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* [[Large Ham]]: Like his father.
* [[Last-Minute Baby-Naming]]: When Junior was born, Bowser mulled over a variety of potential names for his seventh son. When Junior was delivered and he looked like Bowser's [[Identical Grandson|Identical Son]], the only name he ''could'' accept would be Bowser Koopa, Jr.
* [[Making Love in All Thethe Wrong Places]]: Not that Junior necessarily cares. He ''used'' to care, as a teenager, when he was still in the closet. But as a young adult, he's a great big [[Shameless Fanservice Guy|exhibitionist]].
* [[Male Gaze]]: Junior first meets Gian by staring at his ass in the locker room.
** In ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]'', he did this a lot as a teenager too. He used to [[Covert Pervert|covertly watch]] Hanbei in the locker room shower. And when he first met Jojo, Junior couldn't stop staring at his ass even while being tutored.
** Also in ''Reflections'', when Junior and Jojo first met, Junior couldn't help but constantly be distracted by Jojo's arse. [[Gaydar|This did not go unnoticed by Jojo]].
* [[Manly Gay]]: Unabashedly in his young adulthood.
* [[Non-Mammalian Hair]]
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Bowser Koopa, Jr. is known variously within his own family as Junior, J, Bow J, BJ or Beej. Jojo called him Bowsie.
** [[Ironic Nickname]]: BJ [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blow%20job also means something else]. {{spoiler|Olly and Mondo [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] this when they learn that Junior is actually gay.}}
** People almost never call him simply "Bowser". Jojo did, [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious|which highlighted how furious he was with Junior at the time]].
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* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Sex first, love gradually blossoms later. This is how his relationships with both Jojo and Gian started.
* [[Shameless Fanservice Guy]]/[[Naked First Impression]]: Junior seems to have ''no'' qualms about walking [[Male Frontal Nudity|naked]] in front complete strangers practically anywhere. This is actually how he first meets Gian's brother Santino, who spotted the two in their room from the dorm hallway.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: As a teenager, through most of the personal train wreck that is ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''.
* [[Tears of Remorse]]: After Jojo dumped Junior, Junior got home, reached his bedroom, and let it all out.
* [[A Threesome Is Manly]]: In Junior's official ''Roommates'' profile, one of his favorite things is double penetration.
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'''Major:''' Biology<br />
'''Sport:''' Traditional Fencing - Italian Rapier (specialty)<br />
'''Likes:''' Board games, trad. fencing, looking out for Gian, Mexican food, [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Magic:TG]], Metal, [[B-Movie|B-movies]], abstract painting, dancing<br />
'''Dislikes:''' Prejudiced people, [[The Bully|bullies]], sport fencers, country music, crowds, being too social, mornings, chick flicks, cowards, body builders, spammers, trolls<br />
'''Favorite food:''' Tamales<br />
'''Favorite game:''' [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Magic:TG]]<br />
'''Favorite movie:''' [[Lake Placid]]<br />
'''Favorite music:''' Black metal<br />
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'''Santino:''' (glancing at Giancarlo's bare body with a smirk) "...Track's been doing good for you, eh, Giancarlo?"
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: In ''[[Roommates: GiansGian's First (Fanfic)|Gian's First]]'', Santino rescues Giancarlo from [[The Bully|Thomas]] and his friends. Santino is ''fierce''.
* [[Gratuitous Italian]]: More so when he was a teenager than now. He and Giancarlo were preteen immigrants from [[Useful Notes/Italy|Italy]], after all.
* [[Icy Blue Eyes]]
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=== Bowser ===
 
[[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa, Senior]] is the patriarch of the Koopa family and head of [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]], a hotel business he inherited from his estranged father Rufus. With his [[Posthumous Character|late]] wife [[Super Mario Bros.|Peach]], Bowser had eight children -- Ludwig, Lemmy, Roy, Iggy, Wendy, Morton, Larry and his [[Identical Son|spitting image]] Bowser Jr. But Peach died when Bowser Jr. was still little, and Bowser has had to do his best to raise the Koopalings as a single father while still running a business that has since grown into an international conglomerate. He's a good businessman, and tries to look after his children's needs and happiness, but [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|he's not usually at home with them]] as often as he'd like to be.
 
When Bowser does manage to be home, family time comes first. He is a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] in this area, at least when the choices to be made are truly important. But casually, Bowser is better known for his [[Up to Eleven|breathtaking]] [[Adult Child|immaturity]], such that his household relationship with his children more resembles that of a big brother in a family of rowdy immature brothers. It should come at no shock that the most mature member of the immediate family is not Bowser, but Bowser's only daughter Wendy.
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* [[The Casanova]]: [[Informed Attribute]]. He claims not to have been in a romantic relationship since his wife Peach died, though he has been considering one.
* [[Challenge Gamer]]: As an [[Informed Ability]], Bowser's prowess at ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' cannot be matched.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Bowser is a wealthy hotel tycoon who inherited the business from his father Rufus, running [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]] as a legitimate business. This is a variation on the trope in that while Bowser is the primary antagonist in [[Nintendo]] [[Canon]], he has never been villainous in this particular [[Alternate Universe Fic]].
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Compared to Bowser's relatives and Rufus.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]
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* [[Uncle Pennybags]]
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Bowser is very often traveling on [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]] business, and isn't at home with his kids as much as he'd prefer.
 
=== Peach ===
 
Claudia Koopa is the long-deceased wife of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]], and mother of Ludwig, Lemmy, Roy, Iggy, Wendy, Morton, Larry and Bowser, Jr. Originally nicknamed "Peaches" by Bowser, she became primarily known as "Peach". She died when Junior was still little, leaving Bowser a single father of the Koopalings.
 
This Peach has many characteristics in common with [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]], but she is a koopa rather than human -- the ''Roommates'' [[Alternate Universe Fic|universe]] has no real humans, not even Mario or Luigi, and no Mushroom Kingdom either.
 
* [[Hair of Gold]]: A trait that Bowser noted ''none'' of the children inherited.
* [[Happily Married]]: To Bowser.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Died soon after Junior was born.
* [[Mythology Gag]]/[[Name's the Same]]: Clawdia Koopa ([[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|with a W]]) was mentioned as the name of Bowser's wife and the mother of the Koopalings in a single issue of ''[[Nintendo Power]] UK'', and never mentioned anywhere else -- it is considered of questionable [[Nintendo]] [[Canon|Canonicity]]. Peach is the name of a different character, Princess Peach Toadstool, who is the woman Bowser infatuates over in the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series. ''Roommates'' merges the two into one character, whose first mention is as Claudia Koopa, but thereafter is almost always referred to as Peach.
* [[Non-Mammalian Hair]]
* [[Posthumous Character]]
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=== Ludwig ===
 
Ludwig von Koopa is the eldest child and son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]]. He helps his father run [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]]. He loves Bowser as his father, and Peach as his mother, but is [[Black Sheep|extremely distant]] from all of his younger siblings. When Ludwig does acknowledge them, it is usually with [[Smug Snake|great coldness]] sprinkled with [[Creepy Monotone|monotone]] disdain and abusive remarks. The rest of the time, Ludwig [[Workaholic|buries himself in work]], never making room in his schedule for the family unless Bowser wants him to. And being the Koopaling furthest apart in age from Junior, the two brothers' relationship is practically nonexistent. Not that that makes Junior all that different from the way Ludwig treats the rest of his siblings...
 
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Ludwig is always distant from all the rest of his siblings.
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=== Lemmy ===
 
[[Word of God|Lemmington]] Koopa is the second eldest child and son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]]. But despite being older than most of his siblings, Lemmy is also the most diminutive of the Koopalings, such that people often confuse him for being younger than he actually is. Lemmy is "[[The Jester|The Clown Prince]]", and the thing he enjoys most in life is being funny and trying to make people laugh. But what makes Lemmy truly special is that he alone seems to fully understand that he's a character in ''Roommates'' as a story, such that his [[Genre Savvy]] is without parallel and he [[Breaks the Fourth Wall]] as easily as he lives and breathes.
 
When Lemmy was young, he really wanted to become a clown and join the circus. But Bowser strongly discouraged this, and tried to find an alternative way for Lemmy to make a living. After many false starts, it became apparent that Lemmy was actually a good artist. Starting on [[Deviant ART|DivergentArt]], he published his artwork, and later started a [[Web Comic]] of his own called ''[[Creator Cameo|Spelunker]]s into [[Creator Cameo|Dreams]]", [[Sequential Artist|which he still maintains]], and has become popular with a large fanbase. Having finally settled into his successful art career, Lemmy avoided the [[Idle Rich]] lifestyle that befell some of his younger adult siblings.
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'''Grandpa Rufus:''' "And well, damn! Been longer than I thought! You all have gotten so big! Or at least, most of you!"<br />
'''Lemmy:''' "Ha ha. *eyeroll* You best get all your 'vertically-challenged' jokes out while you can, author-man! It's bad enough I'm just a [[Bit Character]] in [[A Day in Thethe Limelight|a side-story]] most people won't bother reading! I mean, what are the chances of me getting [[Fan Art]] amongst the ''[[Roommates 2009 (Fanfic)|Roommates]]'' fanbase!?"
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** In chapter 6:
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** Also in chapter 7, Lemmy is trying very hard not to laugh when:
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'''Hanbei:''' "I have long since forgotten, but is there any particular reason why you guys hate [[Super Mario Bros.|two video game characters]] that regularly fight against a giant ox named [[Mythology Gag|Yukke]] that much?" <ref>Yukke was another candidate for Bowser's Japanese name before [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] decided on Kuppa.</ref><br />
'''Roy:''' "I dunno. We jus' do!"<br />
'''Iggy:''' "And besides, that [[Super Mario Bros. (Filmfilm)|live-action movie]] from [[The Nineties|the '90s]] [[Take That|SUCKED]]!"
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** In chapter 11, when Junior comes home from the prom all beaten up:
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=== Roy ===
 
Roy Kelton Koopa is the third child and son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]], and one of Junior's six older brothers. For most of their shared life as siblings, Junior has been his favorite brother, and Roy is regularly involved in his life as the two have aged into adulthood.
 
When Roy was a preteen, he was often assumed to be gay because of his bald pink scalp, his [[Iconic Item|trademark]] [[Sunglasses At Night|red shades]] and his [[Violet Eyes]], and he was often [[The Bully|bullied]] for this. But Roy [[Not So Harmless|started fighting back]], and he eventually became a [[Mythology Gag|bully]] in his school. He also took his bullying at home, where his younger brother Iggy [[Big Brother Bully|got most of his abuse]].
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Roy still managed to limp forward in life, never quite losing the [[Life of the Party|funloving nature]] he was well-known for. He continued helping out Junior when he needed it, never being anything but a [[Big Brother Mentor|fantastic big brother]] to him. But otherwise, Roy [[Idle Rich|did very little in his life]], spending most of his time in his room working out or spending time with some of his friends.
 
Most of Roy's story was told in ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]'', but he has made the leap to the [[Web Comic]], visiting Junior in his dorm in chapter 3.
 
* [[Adult Child]]
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
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'''Roy:''' (to Hanbei) "Lookie here, ya blue [[Sir Swearsalot|muthafuckah]]! Ya must think we ALL '''[[Nintendo|NINTENDO]] CHARACTERS''' UP IN HERE! Dat why you tryin' to play around like dis?!"
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* [[Large Ham]]
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* [[Red Oni]]: To Hanbei's [[Blue Oni]].
* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Roy swears a shitload of fuckin' expletives, as casually as if he were talking about the weather.
* [[Sunglasses At Night]]/[[Iconic Item]]: Roy's gaudy red shades are part of his trademark look, carried over from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''. They tend to only come off his face when he's having a very serious moment, and needs to look someone in the eye.
* [[Tsundere]]
* [[Violet Eyes]]: When his [[Sunglasses At Night|shades]] come off.
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=== Iggy ===
 
[[Word of God|Ignatius Newell]] Koopa is the fourth eldest child and son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]].
 
Iggy is a [[Nerd]] and [[Occidental Otaku]] with an interest in [[Anime]], [[Manga]], and [[Useful Notes/Japan|Japanese]] language and culture, but often takes these interests to comically unhealthily obsessive extremes. This single-topic obsession irritates Roy, but is politely engaged by Hanbei.
 
Despite Iggy's unkempt homebody lifestyle, he is not [[Idle Rich]], and performs an important task operating and maintaining the servers for [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]].
 
Though socially awkward and as prone to gibe as any of his siblings, Iggy is still an affable koopa who cares about his family.
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=== Wendy ===
 
Wendy Orlean Koopa is the fifth child and only daughter of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]], and as such is Junior's only sister. An accomplished [[The Fashionista|fashion expert]] and interior designer in her own right, Wendy also takes charge of the upkeep of Koopa Manor. And in the absence of their deceased mother Peach, Wendy has tried her best to fill in as motherly influence to her brothers. Along with Roy, Wendy is the Koopaling that Junior sees most on an everyday basis.
 
As the only daughter in a family of boys, Wendy grew up being quite the [[Tomboy]], and could roughhouse and dish out and take abuse as well as any of her brothers. But on her 16th birthday she was given a [[Static Stun Gun|taser]], and everything changed. She matured into a more feminine woman of grace, and enforced this by tasing her siblings if they misbehaved or otherwise treated her with disrespect. Wendy is ''highly'' [[Narcissist|Narcissistic]], more than any of her siblings, and second in the family only to Bowser.
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* [[Gossipy Hens]]
* [[Iconic Item]]: Wendy still wears a pink ribbon, but unlike her [[Nintendo]] [[Canon]] incarnation it is much smaller in size and attached to her hair on the side of her forehead.
* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]: She is like this from her very first appearance in ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''. She ''will not'' take bullshit. Fortunately, she seldom has to risk damage to her fashionable outfits -- she always uses her precious [[Static Stun Gun|taser]].
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Wendy's [[Word of God|characterization]] is largely lifted from ''[[Super Mario Adventures (Comic Book)|Super Mario Adventures]]''.
* [[Narcissist]]: Said to be second only to Bowser in her capacity for narcissism.
{{quote|
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=== Morton ===
 
Morton [[Ascended Fanon|Sean]] Koopa, Junior is the sixth eldest child and fifth son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]], and is named after Bowser's grandfather Morton.
 
In an effort to emulate his elder brother Roy, Morton matured ([[Adult Child|if you can call it that]]) into a [[Really Gets Around|total man whore]]. What Roy [[The Casanova|once made look fashionable]], Morton does [[Handsome Lech|with questionable taste]]. He ''is'' [[Mr. Fanservice|attractive]] though, which has made it possible for him to attract and bed his countless "pigeons."
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=== Larry ===
[[Word of God|Lawrence Harvey]] Koopa is the seventh eldest child and sixth son of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]]. Though closest to Junior in age, Junior and Larry don't have a close fraternal relationship. In particular, Larry is a huge [[Heteronormative Crusader|homophobe]], and Junior has been secretly gay.
 
This hasn't stopped them from spending lots of time together in Roy's room, where they both have an obsession with ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. Larry's character of choice used to be [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Bridget]], whom he used to lust over. Needless to say, learning that Bridget is a ''boy'' was a hugely [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]], and Larry immediately sought out a different character to admire. His later favorite became [[Straight Gay|Venom]]; hilariously, Larry does not know Venom is gay.
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* [[Big Brother Bully]]: Larry picked on Junior a lot when they were kids.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]/[[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: Larry, upon discovering that Bridget in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is actually a boy, makes a shocked outburst to the laughter of everyone else.
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'''Larry:''' "OH GOD! OH GOD! I ACTUALLY FAPPED TO THAT!"
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=== Rufus ===
Rufus Koopa is the estranged father of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser Koopa]], and former head of [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]]. Not a great deal is known about Bowser's childhood with Rufus, in part because Bowser ''[[Noodle Incident|will not talk about it]]''. But when Rufus does appear, Bowser demonstrates his complete detachment from a semblance of a father-son relationship by always addressing Rufus by his first name "Rufus" instead of "dad" or "father". Rufus is not a warm personality -- he is constantly insulting and abrasive, not to mention [[Up to Eleven|breathtakingly]] [[Racist Grandpa|racist]] at every conceivable opportunity.
 
In ''These Are My Reflections'', Rufus makes an uninvited visit to Koopa Manor in honor of his youngest grandson's senior prom. [[Family Disunion]] on steroids.
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* [[Abusive Parent]]
* [[Angry Black Man|Angry Koopa Man]]
* [[Complete Monster]]: Deliberately invoked. Rufus is written to be at least as bad as [[The Boondocks (Comic Strip)/Characters|Uncle Ruckus]] from ''[[The Boondocks]]'', except ''never'' has anything resembling a sympathetic moment. You're supposed to ''hate'' this guy -- everything he says is utter toxic sewage. This makes it [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|all the sweeter]] when Bowser [[Get Out!|kicks him out for good]].
* [[Dirty Old Man]]
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Bowser never calls him "dad" or anything similar. Bowser always addresses his father as "Rufus". This continually demonstrates how utterly broken any semblance of a father-son bond is between them.
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* [[Challenge Gamer]]
* [[Cultured Badass]]
* [[Culture Equals Costume]]/[[Transfer Student Uniforms]]/[[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: For years, Hanbei has preferred to wear [[Useful Notes/Japan|Japanese]]-style formal school uniforms, even when he was living in the United States. He embraced how it made him stand out as ''Japanese'', and it eventually became his everyday style of dress even after finishing high school. At the beginning of ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]'', 25-year-old Hanbei arrives at Koopa Manor wearing a Nehru jacket in this fashion, despite not being in high school anymore.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]
* {{spoiler|[[Embarrassing First Name]]: Diogo. Hanbei is his ''middle'' name. Hanbei ''is'' ethnic Japanese and lives in Japan, but is actually a Japanese-Brazilian. He embraced his Japanese roots, and does not go by his Portuguese first name. Even ''Roy'' didn't know about this until sometime during ''[[Roommates: These Are My Reflections (Fanfic)|These Are My Reflections]]''.}}
* [[Encyclopaedic Knowledge]]
* [[Fundoshi]]
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* [[Bishonen]]
* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: Junior barged into Roy's bathroom to use the toilet, and caught the two 14-year-olds masturbating, which they quickly ceased doing.
* [[Expy]]: [[Double Dragon|Take a wild guess]].
 
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* [[Brown Eyes]]
* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]: Sort of. Sean was one of five character designs voted by readers to appear as the new character introduced in chapter 3 of the webcomic. He won out over other design prototypes including a [[Spyro|spyro]], a [[Star Fox|falco]], an [[Pokémon|arcanine]] and a [[Digimon|guilmon]].
* [[Megane]]
* [[One of Us]]
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=== Nathan ===
 
A brown [[Super Mario Bros.|yoshi]] from [[Useful Notes/Australia|Australia]], and Gian's first boyfriend when they were both 14 years old.
 
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Land Down Under]]: Grew up in Australia with his birth father Richard. After he died, he moved to the United States to live with his birth mother June.
* [[Locked Away in Aa Monastery]]: When [[The Bully|Thomas]] tells [[Heteronormative Crusader|June]] about Nathan and Gian's relationship, she immediately sends Nathan to a Catholic school across the country with no internet or telephone privileges, so that Nathan and Gian won't be able to see each other again any time soon.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Nathan's left eye is [[Blue Eyes|blue]], and his right eye is [[Green Eyes|green]].
 
=== June and Richard ===
Nathan's parents. June is a [[Useful Notes/The United States|American]] green [[Super Mario Bros.|yoshi]], and Richard was an [[Useful Notes/Australia|Australian]] brown yoshi. June was raised [[Useful Notes/Christianity|Christianity]] [[The Fundamentalist|fundamentalist]], and while she carried very strict moral beliefs, she is also ''extremely'' [[Hypocrite|Hypocritical]]. June conceived Nathan with Richard during a drunken spring break in Australia. When she realized she was pregnant, she tracked down and emailed Richard. She was about to get an abortion, but Richard stopped her, and Nathan was sent to live with Richard soon after being born. Richard and Nathan lived a happy life, until Richard died when Nathan was 11 years old. Nathan was sent back to June in America, where the first thing she did was [[Kick the Dog|destroy Nathan's photographs of his father]] out of hatred for Richard who she felt ruined her life and caused her to become unacceptable to potential husbands. Nathan has little to no respect for June, but must use discretion because she can ''still'' make his life very difficult.
 
June's tropes:
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=== Geraldo ===
 
A [[Pokémon|raichu]], and childhood friend of Gian and Santino. Geraldo has been given a [[Mr. Fanservice|generous amount]] of official promotional art for a relatively minor character who figures into only a few paragraphs of ''[[Roommates: GiansGian's First (Fanfic)|Gian's First]]''.
 
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: A skinny guy usually isn't called a "twink" unless this comes to mind. His artwork alone screams [[Gaydar]].
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* [[The Dandy]]
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]]: From the [[Useful Notes/United Kingdom|United Kingdom]].
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: He prefers to be called Jojo. It's a nickname his [[Big Brother Mentor]] Hanbei gave him.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Red Eyes]]
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: They had sex the first day they met. Just-deflowered Junior immediately wanted to start a regular intimate relationship so they could get to know each other better. They eventually ''did'' become good friends and lovers, but it [[Love Hurts|ended very bitterly]].
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* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]: She's a skilled kickboxer in her own right, even while wearing that [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple|purple prom dress]].
* [[Woman Scorned]]: As soon as she realized that Junior was lying to her for a year and a half ''and'' was gay ''and'' made her his [[The Beard|Beard]], she wasted no time beating the shit out of him.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: She may not destroy an entire world, but in her rage she destroys ''a lot'' in her wake. Beating Junior to a pulp is just the start. Junior is finally out of the closet, ''everyone'' will know what he did to Babs and what Babs did to him, and even [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]] is suffering a jolt of corporate fallout because Babs's father's business pulls out of a very important agreement because of what happened with their kids on prom night. But even if Babs's fury seems extreme, the reader remembers that what Junior did her was still a ''terrible'' thing -- carrying on a fake relationship for ''a year and a half'' that Babs will never get back, just to reveal that it was a lie to [[The Beard|keep Junior in the closet]]. We know ''why'' Junior did it, but it was still a dick thing to do to Babs. Between Junior, Jojo and Babs, the biggest victim is Babs, who did not even have the luxury of having a clue what was going on before the crap hit the fan. Wendy recognizes Babs as a victim of deceit as soon as Junior outs himself to his family, and slaps him in the face.
 
=== Kamek ===
Thomas [[Yoshis Island|Kamek]], a [[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|magikoopa]] (albeit one who [[Alternate Universe Fic|doesn't use magic]]), is Bowser's elderly assistant who takes most of Bowser's phone calls for [[Fiction Five Hundred500|Koopa Suites]]. Kamek also knows Rufus well, since he worked under Rufus before Bowser inherited Koopa Suites from him.
 
* [[Almighty Janitor]]
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=== Kamella ===
[[Super Mario Galaxy|Kamella]], a [[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|magikoopa]] (again, one who [[Alternate Universe Fic|doesn't use magic]]), is the [[The Ghost|never-seen]] head maid of Koopa Manor.
 
* [[The Ghost]]: Is periodically mentioned but has never appeared in-story.
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