History Characters / Digger

* BadassAdorable
* BadassNormal

* BlackBeadEyes
* CharacterTitle
* DeadpanSnarker
** SnarkKnight: Depending on what she's snarking about, she can overlap with this.
* {{Determinator}}

* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: In regards to [[spoiler:Ed's Death]].

* BadassAdorable

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]

* [[spoiler:[[SacrificialLion Sacrificial Hyena]]]]
* [[ProperLady Proper Gentleman]]: Due to the gender-inverted roles, Ed fits into this trope. He was born lucky, a respectful and talented painter, devoted to his family even though [[spoiler: his wife was mentally unstable and abused him, and managed to kill his wife after she began to abuse their daughter.]] Even after seventeen years of exile in which his social skills degrade, he remains kind and loving. Although he ''is'' devastated when [[spoiler:Grim Eyes]] rejects him, he's never bitter.

* TheSmartGuy

* TheBigGuy[=/=]CuteBruiser

* ChildrenAreInnocent
* ConstantlyCurious

* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu

* [[spoiler:GrowingUpSucks]]

* LivingShadow
* NoBiologicalSex
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* [[RaisedByNatives Raised By Digger]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A statue of the Hindu god Ganesh.]] Digger pops out of a hole in his temple. The Veiled worship him and other gods.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

* LivingStatue
* OmniscientMoralityLicense
* OurGodsAreDifferent

* [[spoiler:HoldingTheFloor: She knows enough about Jhalm to know he will at least hesitate to attack a lone, injured, if armed girl.]]

* DisabilitySuperpower: Played with. "These stones I wear. Perhaps I can see you through them. Do you believe that?"

* ActionGirl
* BadassNormal

* GoodIsNotNice

* [[spoiler:LukeIAmYourFather: Grim Eyes is the daughter of Ed and Blood Eyes.]]
* [[spoiler:OrphansOrdeal]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGirl

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Blood Tail was [[StalkerWithACrush infatuated]] with [[BigScrewedUpFamily her sister's mate.]] So she goaded her sister into madness, then campaigned to have her former crush exiled for putting her down.]]
** Boneclaw Mother opines that it wasn't love that made her evil, and that she was so poisonous by nature that a madwoman with violent tendencies still made a better mate by comparison.

* SanitySlippage: And HOW.
* [[ThereAreNoTherapists There Are No Grief Counselors]]: Blood-Tail probably made sure of that.

* InspectorJavert

* WellIntentionedExtremist

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin An oracle who is a slug.]] Pretty much the only creature who can keep a tab on Digger's future.

* DeadpanSnarker

* EasterEgg

* DeadpanSnarker
** SnarkKnight: Depending on what she's snarking about, she can overlap with this.
* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Her The Hag]]: Though she's not actually old. It just sort of comes with the position.
* TheMedic

* AllTrollsAreDifferent

* TheBeastMaster

* BoisterousBruiser

* DeadpanSnarker
* PintsizedPowerhouse
* TalkLikeAPirate

* AndIMustScream
* TheAtoner

** [[spoiler: MercyKill: At the end of the story.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* OnlyMostlyDead

* BigBad

* CompellingVoice
* TheCorrupter
* DemonicPossession
* LivingShadow
* ManipulativeBastard
* MeaningfulName
* NoBiologicalSex
* OurDemonsAreDifferent

** MercyKill: At the end of the story.

* IfICantHaveYou: She encouraged spousal abuse by her sister because she was envious after Ed chose the sister over herself, with an added TakeThat implying that he was still better off with the madwoman who beat him than he ever would have been with her.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Blood Tail was [[StalkerWithACrush infatuated]] with [[BigScrewedUpFamily her sister's mate.]] So she goaded her sister into madness, then campaigned to have her former crush exiled for putting her down.

Former mate of Ed.

* FromBadToWorse: Her firstborn child died, and she has nobody to take out her rage/grief on aside from [[DomesticAbuse the spouse]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy she still deeply loves (when she's sane)]]. Meanwhile her sister is taking advantage of her vulnerable state, eventually driving her mad enough to start beating her daughter as well.

* [[ProperLady Proper Gentleman]]: Due to the gender-inverted roles, Ed fits into this trope. He was born lucky, a respectful and talented painter, devoted to his family even though his wife was mentally unstable and abused him, and managed to kill his wife after she began to abuse their daughter. Even after seventeen years of exile in which his social skills degrade, he remains kind and loving. Although he ''is'' devastated when Grim Eyes rejects him, he's never bitter.

* {{Expy}}: She is basically a mix of {{Discworld}}'s Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg.

* HandicappedBadass: Broke her arm on a quest, which simply increases her determination.
** Not to mention the whole madness thing.

** "Black Mother... [[spoiler:'''[[AxCrazy SHOW YOUR FACE!!]]''']]"
** "[[CrystalDragonJesus The Good Man]] is dead. Who killed the Good Man?"

* TheUnchosenOne: As a wombat, Digger simply ''can't'' be TheChosenOne. Thanks to a loophole and unfortunately being a possessor of common courtesy, Digger is roped into helping out anyway.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Her employment history before becoming a Bridge-troll was "Pirate queen, assassin, and dishwasher."

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Her employment history before becoming a Bridge-toll was "Pirate queen, assassin, and dishwasher."

* MurderArsonAndJaywalking: Her employment history before becoming a Bridge-toll was "Pirate queen, assassin, and dishwasher."

* HeroicBSOD: A very understandable one. ItGotWorse when Blood-Tail started screwing with her head.
* ItGotWorse: Her firstborn child died, and she has nobody to take out her rage/grief on aside from [[DomesticAbuse the spouse]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy she still deeply loves (when she's sane)]]. Meanwhile her sister is taking advantage of her vulnerable state, eventually driving her mad enough to start beating her daughter as well.

[[WMG: Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels Of Clan Quartzclaw ([[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Digger]]) ]]

* OnlySaneEmployee: Somebody's got to keep the little group of dubiously-sane, questionably-competent weirdos in line, and as the only ''fully'' sane and ''completely'' competent person around, Digger's drafted.

* TheDogBitesBack: After long years of abuse, when he finally decides to act, it's... decisive.

* BrokenBird

* TheChosenOne
* {{Determinator}}

* NiceGirl: She's gentle and polite to everyone she speaks to.

* WaifFu

* CoolOldLady: Totally badass and occasionally terrifying, and very, very cunning - but ultimately kind.

** Shamelessly taken advantage of when telling Grim Eyes to go with Digger on her initial quest. Whether Grim Eyes won or lost the fight threatened in the BadassNormal entry, she would still lose face with the tribe.

* MaskPower: She uses this and her blindness for political advantage by [[ByTheEyesOfTheBlind claiming (probably falsely) to be able to see through the pebble eyes of the mask.]] [[CoolOldLady She is sufficiently badass that other hyenas fear it may be true.]]

* IOweYouMyLife:To Digger.

* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Her The Hag]]

* MurderArsonAndJaywalking: her employment history before becoming a Bridge-toll was "Pirate queen, assassin, and dishwasher."

* ChekhovsGunman

* CoolOldLady: Totally badass and occasionally terrifying, and very, very cunning - but ultimately extremely kind.

* HeroicBSOD: Digger seems to currently be going through a version of this [[spoiler: after Ed's death]]: she's reacting to other people, but just barely enough to get by.

* LizLemonJob
* MamaBear: Don't you dare mislead Shadowchild.
* MinoredInAsskicking

* NayTheist
* OnlySaneWoman

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: [[AvertedTrope Uh, no.]]
* AmazonChaser: He certainly thought so of Blood Eyes. She ''WAS'' one of the strongest warriors of her time, in any case.

* PhraseCatcher: A meta version, in that it's the ''fans'' who say it: "Oh, ''[[TheWoobie Ed]]''." It is said precisely once in the comic proper, [[spoiler: right after Ed's death]].

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Since Ed had been exiled, he hadn't talked to anyone before Digger came along (presumably because no one but the hyenas would know where to find him, and they consider him to be unclean since [[AFateWorseThanDeath his name was eaten]] when he was exiled). After seventeen years of silence, he simply ''forgot how to speak'', and the syntax he uses is his best guess at how it works.

* YouNoTakeCandle: We initially think he's [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue eloquent in his own language]]. He's not, as it is mostly caused by how he hasn't talked to anyone in seventeen years.

* AmbiguousInnocence: Innocent to the point of no morality. Fortunately, it seems to trust Digger and want to learn. Less fortunately for Digger, it's not easy to present a working moral system off the top of one's head. [[spoiler:It's figured out morality well enough to refuse to kill its companions and (correctly) identify another demon as evil, even when the other demon states that demons are above such petty "rules", though it still mostly argues the point in terms of it being what Digger has told it.]]

* CheerfulChild

* FanNickname: [[spoiler: Shadolescent/Shadowlescent]], after [[spoiler: its encounter with Sweetgrass Voice.]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* WildChild: Digger at one point suggests that Shadowchild is more or less the demon version of this. But then, ALL Demons are, until and unless they get taken in by an older demon. [[spoiler: Shadowlescent is setting out to change this.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He ''IS'' the statue of Ganesh.

->''"I looked upon the face of a goddess. And it broke me. And now some things take me back there. Children screaming, or the darkness shining, or the smell--I really can't describe the smell."''

A former member of the Veiled and a worshiper of Ganesh. Has occasional bouts of insanity. [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits So, of course, she fits right in.]]

* HandicappedBadass: Broke her arm on a recent quest.

* NiceGirl

* BadassNormal: [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=541 "I may be old, but if you think I can't still rip you up one side and down the other, cub, even if I am blind and five times your age..."]] (quoted by Grim Eyes)
* BlindSeer: Digger does not initially realize she is blind as "I keep meeting people wearing strange masks, you see."

* CoolOldLady

->''"A ''friend'' might put a spear in your heart, but only an ''enemy'' will tell you it's for your own good."''

* BigScrewedUpFamily: It is a wonder that Grim Eyes even approaches normal.

'''Jhalm''': I need no gods to deal with ''you''.''

->''"One minute we're oozing along, not a care in the world, and the next, every time you cross a leaf, it's telling you the future. It's hard when you've got a brain the size of a ''pin head'', believe me."''

->''"Ha! Was that a ''threat''? What are you gonna do, beat up a healer in the middle of her village? I can think of a half-dozen gods who'd be very interested to hear about ''that''."''

->''"Kill me? Not even a '''god''' could kill me, dirt rat. Twelve thousand years I've been down here with him, and he's never found a way to destroy me. Twelve thousand years, dirt rat! And when his sanity began to fail and I finally drove him blundering up to the surface, what did he do but find dwarves and men and one of your filthy-clawed kind to bind him! Do you have any idea how long ''twelve thousand years'' is?"''

* IHaveManyNames: Digger, [[OverlyLongName Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels Of Clan Quartzclaw]], Burrower, Honored Digger, Digger-Mousie, Earth-Rat, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Little Mother Of Earthquakes]], Freaky Adopted Daughter.

* CrazyAwesome

* IHaveManyNames: Digger, [[OverlyLongName Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels Of Clan Quartzclaw]], Burrower, Honored Digger, Digger-Mousie, Earth-Rat, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Little Mother Of Earthquakes]].

* MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate: Digger has an [[ShoutOut irrational]] [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/uvernon/irrationalfears/series.php?view=archive&chapter=787&mpe=1&step=1 fear]] of ducks. It's not plot important, but still worth mentioning. [[AWorldwidePunomenon Maybe she should see a quack.]]

* HotAmazon: Ed certainly thought so. She ''WAS'' one of the strongest warriors of her time, in any case.

* ThisIsSparta: '''''[[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome NAME-- IS-- ED!]]]]'''''

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[AndIMustScream He is kept alive against his will,]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel along with the same demon that made him kill his own child.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[AndIMustScream He is kept alive against his will,]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel along with the same demon that made him kill him own child.]]

* YouNoTakeCandle: We initially think he's [[ISoundLikeARetardInEnglish eloquent in his own language]]. He's not, as it is mostly caused by how he hasn't talked to anyone in seventeen years.